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THE RICHMOND PLANET SUPREME LODGE CONVENES. KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS AT LOUISVILLE, KY. The Virginia Delegation in Evidence. LARGE ATTENDANCE—MAGNIFICENT DISPLAY—THE INSPECTION. VOLUME XXIV, NUMBER 402 SUPRE CON KNIGHTS OF PY The Virginia LARGE ATTENDANCE— [Editorial Correspondence.] We left Richmond, Saturday, 31st ult. at 2 P. M. for Louisville, Ky. In the party were E. R. Jefferson, M. D., Col. T. M. Crump, H. F. Jonathan and Miss M. L. Chiles. Sir S. S. Baker was there too. The train was crowded and for fifty miles or more we stood up, finally going to the baggage car where we made ourselves as comfortable as possible. Miss Chiles secured a seat. Mr. A. B. Hawkins was enroute to Hot Springs Va. BOX STOLEN. Col. Crump's box of cigars disappeared from the place near the stove where he had placed them. He began a kind of detective investigation enlisting the services of the train porter. One cigar was found on the floor and the suspect was soon cornered. He was a colored man, who wore a straw hat. He finally admitted that he had seen a man with a gun to his face to look for him and returned with the cigars in the box, all being in a more or less disturbed condition. It is needless to say that he had the cigars in his pocket. Col. Crump gave him three cigars for his "trouble." IN THE BAGGAGE CAR. Communion services continued in the baggage car and 'Squire Jonathan's lunch-box of ham and chicken was very acceptable. Reaching the West Virginia line, relieved the congestion for white and colored sengers were permitted to ride in the same coaches. Reaching Huntington, some of the Knights came aboard with the distressing information that a company and the band had been left behind, due to the fact that a round trip rate of $6.85 had been quoted by Mr. John D. Potts, General Passenger Agent, but when they went to purchase tickets a rate of $9.05 was insisted upon and the men refused to come. We saw the telegram with Mr. Potts name signed thereto. At Ashland, Kentucky, we changed cars and we soon were again in the crowded compartments of the "Jim Crow" Car system. The accommodations were the worst imaginable. There was no equality of accommodations on the Virginia end of the line, as had been discoursed upon so long by the patrons of the measure. AT THE END OF THE JOURNEY Reaching Lexington, Ky. we were met at the train by Attorney James Alexander Chiles, his Madame and their daughter, Miss Lillian. All were well. Reaching Louisville, we were met by the local committee, conveyed to the Headquarters of the local committee and the four of us assigned to Dr. Fitzbuttler's residence 1110 W. Madison Street, where we were admirably accommodated. Miss Chiles was domiciled at 1207 1/2 N. Walnut Street. AT CAMP CORBIN We went to Camp Corbin where the military department of the Order was in camp. It looked like a white city for fully 200 tents had already been pitched. In these were cots and there were usually three cots to a tent. We arrived there in time to see the colors go up and to hear the trumpeteres and the band play as the ceremony was performed. Major General R. R. Jackson of Chicago sat on a bayhorse giving orders and no man on the ground seemed happier than he. THE OFFICERS' TENTS Adjutant General Joseph L. Jones had a large tent for his department, while his faithful clerk lost no opportunity to pin a souvenir badge on his visitors and collecting automatically twenty-five cents for the privilge. He had a refrigerator and ice water in this tent and we elicited a cry of surprise as we went through its recesses "looking for orders." We found them and Jefferson, Crump and Jonathan were happy as a result. Then a visit was made to the Hospi- tal Department in charge of Dr. J H. Ward of Indianapolis, Indiana He had a full "kit" of surgical instruments, together with medicine and supplies. IN THE HOSPITAL We placed the Virginia contingent in the hospital at once and they were discharged in ten minutes, and pronounced "cured." They seemed anxious for additional treatment and we carried them over to the grand jury for magninent inspection which was scheduled to take place at 5:30 P. M. MAJOR GENERAL JACKSON'S QUARTERS Major General R. R. Jackson is well prepared. His tent is well-fitted up with all conveniences. Floor ing had been laid and electric lights installed. His amiable and attractive Madame and children were in evidence. But to the inspection. It was grafted. The Eighth Infantry Band I N. of Chicago marched at the head of this display. The drum-major, six feet in height with his fine white shako, about 18 inches high. THE KHAKI UNIFORM Some of the companies wore the khaki uniform of the United States Army. There were two companies of Pythian Cadets. One of the companies wore gray uniform and the other the khaki. Major General Jackson reported that there were 9 companies from Illinois, 6 companies from Indiana, 6 companies from Ohio, 7 companies from Kentucky, 7 companies from Missouri. West Virginia is expected to bring 3 companies and a band of 40 pieces. Pennsylvania is to bring a regiment. OTHER VISITORS Sir C. K. Robinson, S. K. of R. and S. on the ground, quiet but smiling. Col. John R. Marshall was present overlooking the camp. He was there as the great friend of the Major-General. S. A. T. Watkins, Supreme Attorney was there and also William H. Potter. Gen. John J. Buckner, Dr. Wade and Dr. Curtis and a host of others. There were at Dr. Fitzbutlers' Sir Nelson C. Crews, Clerk of Police Court at Kansas City, Mo, David W. Scott, M. D. St. Louis, Mo., Mr. and Mrs. Albert Hoke, of Dayton, O., Mrs. Grant Bledsoe of St. Louis, Mo. and Mrs. J. H. Garvin of Winchester, Ky. Loulsville, Ky., Sept. 3, 1907. The largest number of colored people ever assembled in this city are in attendance on the Fourteenth National Biennial session of the Knights of Pythias, N. A., S. A. E., A. and A. The chief interest attaches to the Uniform Rank under Gen. R. R. Jackson, of Chicago, founder of the military department. The delegates are from the best element of colored citizens and represent every State in the Union The Order of Knights of Pythias is one of the greatest organizations among colored people in this country and has grown remarkably in the past quarter of a century. These men are united by a tie of friendship, seeking each others' welfare and happiness, carrying for the sick and burying the dead, then contributing liberally to the worthy widows and orphans. Nearly all the colored visitors were down at Camp Corbin, at Twenty-eighth and Garland Streets, so named in honor of the late Gen. Corbin. The arrangement of tents and the quarters of the men are most convenient. At the south end are the regimental headquarters, or what is known in camp life as the "staff line." The area of the camp is 2,000 by 400 feet and the parade grounds is the finest the men have ever drilled upon. SKILLFUL DRILLING. During the day the entire regiment was put under a course of drilling RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1907. taxing the endurance of the most hardened. At 5 o'clock yesterday afternoon there was the regular dress parade. It was headed by the famous Eighth Illinois regimental band of fifty pieces. The largest number of the Uniform Rank are from Ohio, Kentucky, Missouri, Indiana and Pennsylvania. The parade was marked by its fine drilling and military bearing. The battle ax companies shared a large part of the aplause as they passed the reviewing stand. The military parade being something new to the colored people in this section caused them to applaud the best-drilled companies frequently. Every day school meets when instructions are given to the recruit. Orders effecting decorum are issued each day. Religious services are held each day by the chap lain. All the food is prepared on the ground for tie uniformed men. D. O. K. K. PARADE. Last night there was a parade of the D. O. K. K. One hundred road mules dressed in Arabian style. A number were in wagons with fire works display. After the parade an entertainment was held at the Old Fellows' Hall Thirteenth and Walnut Streets. At nine o'clock, the welcome addresses were made at Quinn Chapel, A. M. E. Church, Dr. E. E. Underwood, of Frankfort, spoke in behalf of the Governor. His address was very eloquent and was warmly received. Dr. Mickens of Texas, responded. No social equality was the keynote of his address. He said that there were 65,000 men and 30,000 women banded together for better and stronger manhood and womanhood. CHIEF OF POLICE SPEAKS Col. J. H. Haager, Chief of Police spoke in behalf of the Mayor, and promised that he would do everything in his power to make the stay of the visiting Knights of Pythias pleasant. In recognition of the face that the chief made a promise that he would help to better the condition of the colored men in this city, Dr. Boyd made a motion that he be given a vote of thanks. KENTUCKY WELCOMES THE VIS ITORS. The Grand Chancellor, J. B. Snowden, of Lexington, made a splendid address on behalf of Kentucky. The Supreme Chancellor S. W. Starks, of Charleston, W. Va. responded. He made an excellent address and was given rounds of applause. To-day at 10 A. M. the Supreme Session will be called to order at Liederkranz Hall. At night there will be on entertainment at the Coliseum. To-morrow afternoon at 5 o'clock there will be full dress parade and escort to the color, on which occasion Henry Watterson, Col. W. B. Haldeman and his staff will be invited. The city officials will also be expected. At 10 A. M. the military band will serenade the city papers. Fifth Street Baptist Church Services were well attended all day last Sunday. Large congregations. At 11 A. M. Rev. W. A. Parham preached, Text: Matthew 6:23. At 8 P. M. Dr. Gassaway of South Carolina delivered an able sermon. Liberal collections were lifted at both services. On next Sunday Rev. William H. Hill, B. D. of Washington, D.C. one of the ablest ministers of the National Baptist Convention will preach morning and night. —Mr. William Custalo is very ill at his residence, 729 N. 9th Street, at this writing. -Subscribe to The Richmond PLANET. $1.50 per year. MR. BAKER'S DESCRIPTION. Conditions in the Southland—How the. Working. Negro. Likes. [American Magazine.] (Continue) This worthless Negro, without training or education, grown up from the neglected children I have already spoken of, evident in his idleness around saloons and depots—this Negro grovokes the just wrath of the people, and gives a bad name to the entire Negro race. In numbers he is, of course, small, compared with the 8,000,000 Negroes in the South, who perform the enormous bulk of hard manual labor upon which rests Southern prosperity. HOW THE WORKING NEGRO LIVES. Above this low stratum of criminal or semi-criminal Negroes is a middle class, comprising the great body of the race of the workers. They are crowded into straggling settlements like Darktown and Jackson Row, a few owning their homits but the majority renting precariously earning good wages, harmless for the most part but often falling into petty crime. Poverty here however lacks the tragic note that it strikes in the crowded sections. Northern cities. The temperament of the Negro is irrespressibly cheerful, he overhows fro mhis small home and sings and laughs in his streets; no matter how ragged or forlorn he may be good humor sits upon his countenance, and his equal is not unplecturesque. A bardo, a mullet supper from time to time, an exciting revival, give him real joys. Most of the families of this middle class, some of whom are deserted wives with children, have their "white folks" for whom they do washing, cooking, gardening or other service, and all have church connections, so that they have a real place in the social fabric and a certain code of self-respect. I tried to see all I could of this phase of life. I visited many of the poorer Negro homes and I was often received in squalid rooms with a dignity of politeness which would have done credit to a society woman. For the Negro, naturally, is a sort of Frenchman. And if I can sum up the many visits I made in a single conclusion, I should say, I think that I was chiefly impressed by the tragic punishment meted out to ignorance and weakness by our complex society. I would find a home of one or two rooms meanly furnished, but having in one corner a glittering cottage organ, or on the mantel shelf a glorified gilt clock; crayon portraits, inexpressibly crude and ugly, but framed gorgeously, are not uncommon—the first uncertain, primitive (not unpitiful) reachings out after some of the graces of a broader life. Many of these things are bought from agents and the prices paid are extortionate. Often a Negro family will pay monthly for a year or so on some showy clock or chromo or music-box, or decorated mirror—paying the value of it a dozen times over, only to have it seized when through sickness, or lack of foresight they fail to meet a single note. Installment houses prey upon them, pawn brokers suck their blood, and they are infinitely the victims of patent medicines. It is rare, indeed, that I entered a Negro cabin, even the poorest, without seeing one or more bottles of some abominable cure-all. The amount yearly expended by Negroes for patent medicines, which are glaringly advertised in all Southern newspapers, must be enormous—millions of dollars. I had an interesting side light on conditions one day while walking in one of the most fashionable residence districts of Atlanta. I saw a magnificent gray stone residence standing somewhat back from the street. I said to my companion, who was a resident of the city: "That's a fine home?" "Yes, stop a minute," he said, "I want to tell you about that. The anti-kink man lives there." "Anti-kink?" I asked in surprise. "Yes; the man who occupies that house is one of the wealthiest men here. He made his money by selling to Negroes a preparation t. smooth the kinks on of their wool. They're simply crazy on that subject." "Does it work?" "You haven't seen any straight- (Continued on Eighth Page.)" BOOKER—HAMM The marriage of Miss Ida Belle Hamm to Mr. Nelson G. Booker will take place at the residence of the bride, 915 N. 17th Street, Wednesday morning September 18th, 7 o'clock. At home, 915 N. 17th Street, Wednesday, September 25th, from 8 to 10 P. M. Friends and acquaintances are invited to attend. CHEER NAME OF FORAKER. Roosevelt and Taft Decried as False Friends. A public meeting was held last night in Faneuil Hall under the auspices of the Niagara movement in observance of the centenary of the abolition of the American slave trade and the birthdays of Longfellow, Whittier and Agassiz. The hall was well filled, and at times considerable enthusiasm prevailed. A white man, Andrew B. Hamphrey, who was one of the speakers, mentioned the name of Foraker, which was the signal for great cheering. The audience was composed mostly of colored people, although there were at least 100 white men and women present. Only two of the speakers, Prof. DuBols and Dr. Bulkeley, referred to the announced subject of the meeting. The other addresses dealt with the administration, Taft and Foraker. The meeting opened with prayer by Rev. Dr. J. M. Walgrgn. Vocal selections were sung by Miss Grace Majors and W. H. Richardson, with Mrs. William Parker Hare accompanying on the plano. Dr. William E. B. DuBols presided and said in part: THAT NIAGARA MOVEMENT "The Niagara movement was formed by 29 men three years ago for manhood suffrage. We are trying to prove to the world that the American nation ought not to change from the foundation on which it is raised. "The slave trade was a demand for labor. In the centuries to come we are going to have an industrial system, not the making of wealth, but the making of men. The problem of the black or the white workman in the south is the problem of the white workman at the north. Freedom of political rights must be given to all workmen in this country if this country is to be a pure democracy." YALE GRADUATE THERE George W. Crawford, a New Haven lawyer and a graduate of Yale College, was the next speaker. He was followed by Rev. Dr. Charles S. Morris, pastor of the largest colored Baptist church in New York city, who said in part: "Is there any person in this audience who believes the American Negro has all the rights that belong to him as an American citizen? The ballot has been taken from our hands. We have been 'jim crowed' and peonized, and in some portions of this country we have no rights that a white man is bound to respect. "The Niagara movement says that we ballot is what the colored man wants. Every time the Negro loses the ballot he loses his civil rights and his standing before the courts in the south; he loses his public schools or gets a shorter term of education. If in protesting against these wrongs against our race we Niagarais are called 'sore heads', radicals and the like, we are willing to be called such. THE LOYALTY OF THE RACE. "Our race for its loyalty has earned the hate of one political party and the contempt of another. We would be unworthy of American citizenship if we who can vote do not use our ballot effectively. I have seen the bleeding forms of the Negro kicked out of the army by the man whose fame they pricked with bayonets on the sands of Cuba, and now next year they ask us to follow this leader again? (Cries of "Never") The ballot next year will register the black man's will like lightning does the will of God." (Great applause.) HUMPHREY FOR FORAKER. Andrew B. Humphrey, secretary of the Constitutional League of New York, said he had been down in Kentucky where the administration failed to get an indorsement for Taft. He wanted the world to know that between Taft and Foraker he was for Foraker. "Because Taft cringed before the President on that discharged soldier affair," he said, "I do not believe he will ever be President of the United States." ? Dr. William L. Bulkeley, principal of public school 80, New York ING IS ONE OF PROTEST. city, pointed out the steadfastness of Whittier, Garrison and Phillips in the cause as an example to be followed to-day. The last speaker was Rev. Dr. R. C. Ranson, who said: THE NEGRO HERE TO STAY "The Negro is not going to leave this country. Whether we are to be serfs is a very serious question. We ourselves are divided on this question. We are more acceptable in the south than in Massachusetts on the industrial question. The Negro made in God's image must not be less than a man in this country. It is the duty for us to stand up as citizens." Letters were read from Mayor Fitzgerald, Col. Higginson and Frank Sanborn. ADDRESS TO THE COUNTRY Dr. BuBois read an address to the country which cites that this has been a year of wrong and discrimination. It demands federal legislation forbidding exclusion of any person from interstate cars on account of color, and the full exoneration for the discharged colored soldiers. It concludes: "We call on the 250,000 free black voters of the north: Use your ballot to defeat Theodore Roosevelt, William H. Taft, or any man named by the present political dictatorship. Better vote for avowed enemies than for false friends; but better still vote with the white laboring classes, remembering that the cause of labor is the cause of black men and the black man's cause is labor's own." PERSONALS AND BRIEFES —Mr. Robert C. Bullock of Brooklyn, N. Y., was in the city last week. —Mr. Elam L. Banks of Mechanics Savings Bank has returned to the city after spending some time visiting Washington, Philadelphia, Atlantic City and Cape May. —Mr. William H. Hayes, Manager of the Capitol Shoe and Supply Co. has returned to the city after a short stay of a week visiting the Northern Markets. —Dr. and Mrs. J. W. Anderson, Dalles, Texas were in the city last week. —Mr. Bradford Aldridge, Secretary Y. M. C. A., Dayton, Ohio called on us. —Mr. W. J. Harvey, R. M. S., Memphis, Tenn. after an absence of forty-eight years is visiting friends in Virginia. He passed through the city this week enroute to the James-town Exposition. —Mrs. James H. Bivins and daughter Miss Blanche, Philadelphia, Pa. and Mrs. George Thompson, Patterson, N. J. are visiting relatives and friends. They called on us in company with Mrs. Cecelia Smith. Miss Susie R. Baker, daughter of Sir S. S. Baker left last week to visit friends and relatives in German town, Pa. While there she will be the guest of Rev. and Mrs. Winston, returning to the city about the first of October. Miss Helena C. Taylor and Mr. Charles E. Taylor of Montreal, Canada who have been visiting the city, the guest of Miss L. Irene Brown, left for their home last Thursday. Mr. J. W. Barnes, has been visit ing Mr. W. H. Griffin and Mr. John B. Watson of Cape Charles, Va. He was also entertained by his brother Mr. Sidney Barnes. We are told the Richmond School of Elocution, Physical Culture, Fencing, Music and Language will open with a reception on Sept. 16tt. PRICE, FIVE CENTS. E AKER. t Decried nds. FANEUIL HALL MEET- Miss Brown's Debut. On Thursday night, August 29, 1907 the residence of Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Faulk was beautifully illuminated, the occasion being the debut of their daughter, Miss L. Irene Brown. The guests assembled about 8:30 P. M. and enjoyed themselves until about 11:30 when they were summoned to the supper table by the host and hostess. The table was beautifully decorated and ladened with all the delicacies of the season. Everybody retired to their homes well satisfied with their evenings enjoyment. Misses Helena C. Taylor of Canada, Mildred Lawson of Norfolk, Mildred Rolling, Pearle Lightfoot, Martha Ellett, Rebecca Mitchell, Ananda Nelson, Olivia Forrester, Virginia Wilder, Coralease Norrell, Elizabeth Dixon, Lillie Doyle, Ora Johnson, Florence Fenner, Arneta Wells, Lucy Williams, Eva Scott, Tamar Carter, Billiar Lennas, Jessie Scott, Gertrude Taylor, Addie Brown, Gertrude Stanton, Virgie Washington, Susie Baker, Mary Valentine, Susie Glover, Addie Lemas, Florence Taylor, Eva Graham, Fannie Braxton, Katie Brown, Burgess Kemp, Alma Farrar, Hazel Smith, Messrs. Charles Taylor of Canada, Roscoe Mitchell, William Randolph, Douglas Edwards, John T. Allen, Joseph Baker, George Johnson, James Grey, Thomas Fulton, William Robinson, Charles Bland, George Robinson, Alphonso Norrell, Christopher Williams, Horace Grey, Lawyer Graham, Edward Stanton, Thomas Nelson, Robert Cole Frank Riley, Thomas Stuetley, Bailey, Richard Payne, Frank Harper, Joseph Ferguson, Robert Deane, John Fenner, James Robinson, Thos. Gilpin, Benjamin Baker, Samuel Walker, Percy Johnson, Archer Feris, Arthur Chatman, William Lawson, Clarence Hamm, George White, Frank Redd, Willie Williams, Joseph Richardson, Richard Willis. A Band Organized at Lowmoor, Va. The Grand Worthy Governess Matron, Mrs. Anna E. Taylor left on the 15th inst. to organize a Band at Lowmoor, Va. She arrived at Clifton Forge about 9:30 Thursday night and was met at the station by Sir Knight Banks and his wife, District Deputy of that District and was entertained until next morning. She took the morning train to Covington, Va., spending a few hours with Mrs. Brown, Deputy of that District, leaving Covington about 5 o'clock for Lowmoor, Va., reaching there by 5:30 Friday. She was pleasantly entertained by Mrs. Brown while in her home and was escorted to the train by her. On Sunday she was escorted to Church by Mrs. Broady to three services which she greatly enjoyed having the privilege of addressing some of the Court sisters and Pythian brothers and the public in the interest of the Children's Department and the Order in general and causing several to subscribe for the PLANET. The parents of the Children were invited Sunday to turn out in full on Monday afternoon, 2 o'clock to the organization of the Band, which they did and seemed greatly benefited. The Band was organized after which refreshments were served and all dispersed. Monday night about ten o'clock Mr. and Mrs. Broady spared no pain in seeing her safely to the train to Clifton Forge. On being asked by Mrs. Banks to stay over until Thursday the G. W. G. M. did so and had the privilege of meeting with all their Courts in joint meeting delivering an address to them which was quite benefiting, explaining to them where it was of great importance for them to subscribe to The PLANET. Installing these Courts after which she was escorted to the train at twelve o'clock Thursday night starting for Richmond, Va. her home. Mrs. Banks will have her Band ready to be organized within three weeks. THE HOUSE OF A THOUSAND CANDLES BY MEREDITH NICHOLSON AUTHOR OF 'THE NAIN CURAGE' TELDA DAMERON Pty. CHAPTER XVIII. I Meet an Old Friend. When I reached Glenarm House the next morning I found to my astonishment that the window I had left open as I scrambled out the night before was closed. I dropped my bag and crept to the front door, thinking that if Bates had discovered my absence it was useless to attempt any further deception. I was amazed to find the great doors of the main entrance flung wide, and in real alarm I ran through the hall and back to the library. The nearest door stood open, and, as I peered in, a curious scene disclosed itself. A few of the large cathedral candles still burned brightly in several places, their flames rising strangely in the gray morning light. Books had been taken from the shelves and scattered everywhere, and sharp implements had cut ugly gashes in the shelving. The drawers containing sketches and photographs had been pulled out and their contents thrown about and trampled under foot. The house was as silent as a tomb, but as I stood on the threshold trying to realize what had happened, something stirred by the fireplace and I crept forward, listening, until I stood by the long table beneath the great chandelier. Again I heard a sound as of some animal walking and stretching, followed by a moan that undoubtedly was human. Then the hands of a man clutched the farther edge of the table, and slowly and evidently with infinite difficulty a figure rose and the dark face of Bates, with eyes blurred and startling strangely, confronted me. He drew his body to its height and leaned heavily upon the table. I smatched a candle and bent toward him to make sure my eyes were not tricking me. "Mr. Glenarm; Mr. Glenarm;" he explained in broken whispers. "It is Bates, sir." "What have you done; what has happened?" I demanded. He put his hand to his head uncertainly and gasped as though trying to gather his wits. ' He was evidently dazed by whatever had occurred, and I sprang round and helped him to a couch. He would not lie down but sat up, staring and passing his hand over his head. It was rapidly growing lighter, and I saw a purple and black streak across his temple where a bludgeon of some sort had struck him. "What does this mean, Bates? Who has been in the house?" "It was early this morning," he faltered, "about two o'clock, I heard noises in the lower part of the house. I came down, thinking likely it was you, and remembering that you had been sick yesterday—" "Yes, go on." The thought of my truancy was no balm to my conscience just then. "As I came into the hall, saw lights in the library. As you weren't down last night the room hadn't been lighted at all. I heard steps, and some one tapping with a hammer—" "Yes; a hammer. Go on!" Yes, a hammer. Go on. It was, then, the same old story! The war had been carried openly into the house, but Bates—just why should "Mr. Glenarm! Mr. Glenarm!" He Exclaimed in Broken Whispers. "It is Bates. Sir." any one connected with the conspiracy injure Bates, who stood so near to Pickering, its leader? The fellow was undoubtedly hurt,—there was no mistaking the wound on his head. He spoke with a painful difficulty that was not assumed, I felt increasingly sure, as he went on. "I saw a man pulling out the books and tapping the inside of the shelves. He was working very fast. And the next thing I knew he let in another man through one of the casements,—the one there that still stands a little open." He filinched as he turned slightly to indicate it, and his face twitched with pain. "Never mind that; tell the rest of your story." "Then I ran m, grabbed one of the big candelabra from the table, and went for the nearest man. They were about to begin on the chimney-breast—it was Mr. Glenarm's pride in all the house—and that accounts for my being there in front of the fireplace. They rather got the best of me, sir." "Clearly; I see they did. You had a hand-to-hand fight with them, and being two to one—" "No; there were two of us,—don't you understand, two of us! There was another man who came running in from somewhere, and he took sides with me. I thought at first it was you, sir. The robbers thought so, too, for one of them pelled, 'Great God; Glenarm's come back!' just like that. But it wasn't you, sir, but quite another person." "That's a good story so far; and then what happened?" "I don't remember much more, except that some one sused me with water that helped my head considerably, and the next thing I knew I was starling across the table, there at you." "Who were these men, Bates? Speak up quickly!" My tone was peremptory. Here was, I felt, a crucial moment in our relations. "Well," he began, deliberately, "I dislike to make charges against a fellow man, but I strongly suspect one of the men of being—" "Yes! Tell the whole truth or it will be the worse for you." "I very much fear one of them was Ferguson, the gardener over the way. I'm disappointed in him, sir." "Very good; and now for the other one." "I didn't get my eyes on him. I had closed with Ferguson and we were having quite a lively time of it when the other one came in; then the man who came to my help mixed us all up,—he was a very lively person,—and what became of Ferguson and the rest of it I don't know." There was food for thought in what he said. He had taken punishment in defense of my property—the crack on his head was undeniable—and I could not abuse him or question his veracity with any grace; not, at least, without time for investigation and study. However, I ventured to ask him one question: "If you were guessing, shouldn't you think it quite likely that Morgan was the other man?" He met my gaze squarely. "I think it wholly possible, Mr. Glenarm," he replied at once. "And the man who helped you—who in the devil was he?" "Bless me, I don't know, sir. He disappeared. I'd like mightily to see him again." "Humph! Now you'd better do something for your head. I'll summon the village doctor if you say so." "No; thank you, sir. I'll take care of it myself." "Very well. Now we'll keep quiet about this. Don't mention it or discuss it with any one." "Certainly not, sir." He rose, staggering a little from weakness, but crossed to the broad mantel shelf in the great chimney-breast, rested his arm upon it for a moment, passed his hand over the dark wood with a sort of cares, then bent his eyes upon the floor littered with books, drawings and papers torn from cabinets and all splashed with tallow and wax from the candles. The daylight had increased until the havoc wrought by the night's visitors was fully apparent. The maranders had made a sorry mess of the room, and I thought Bates' lip ulcered as he viewed the wreck. "It would have been a blow to Mr. Glanarm; the room was his pride— his pride, sir." He went out toward the kitchen, and I ran upstairs to my own room. I cursed the folly that had led me to leave my window open, for undoubtedly Morgan and his new ally, St. Agatha's gardener, had taken advantage of it to enter the house. Quite likely, too, they had observed my departure for Cincinnati, and this would undoubtedly be communicated to Pickering. I threw open my door and started back with an exclamation of amazement. A stranger stood at my chiffonier, between two windows, calmly shaving himself. He was clad in a bath gown—my own, I saw with fury—and he hummed softly to himself as he seized the brush and applied lather defily to his upper lip. Without turning he address me, quite coolly and casually, as though his being there was the most natural thing in the world. "Good morning Mr. Glenarm! Rather damaging evidence, that costume. I suppose it's the custom in the country for gentlemen in evening clothes to go out by the window and return by the door. You might think the other way round preferable." "Larry!!" I shouted. "Jack!" "Kick that door shut and lock it," he commanded, in a sharp, severe tone that I remembered well, and just now welcomed—in him. "How, why and when—?" "Never mind about me. I'm here—thrown the enemy off for a few days; and you may confess your own sins first, while I climb into my armor. Pray pardon the informality—" He seized a broom and began work upon a pair of trousers to which mud and briers clung tenaciously. His coat and hat lay on a chair, they, too, much the worse for rough usage. There was never any use in refusing to obey Larry's orders, and as he got into his clothes I gave him in as few words as possible the chief incidents that had marked my stay at Glenair House. He continued dressing with care, helping himself to a shirt and collar from my chiffonler and choosing with unfailing eye the best tie in my collection. Now and then he asked a question tersely, or, again he laughed or swore direly in Gaelic. When I had concluded the story of Pickering's visit, and of the conversation I overheard between the executor and Bates in the church porch, Larry wheeled round with the scarf half tied in his fingers and surveyed me commiseratingly. "And you didn't rush them both on the spot and have it out?" "No. I was too much taken aback for one thing-" "I dare say you were!" "And for another I didn't think the time ripe. I'm going to beat that fellow, Larry, but I want him to show his hand fully before we come to a smash-up. I know as much about THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. the house and its secrets as he does—that's one consolation. Sometimes I don't believe there's a shilling here, and again I'm sure there's a big stake in it. The fact that Pickering is risking so much to find what's supposed to be hidden here is pretty fair evidence that something's buried on the place." "Possibly, but they're giving you a lively boycott. Now where in the devil have you been." "Well," I began and hesitated. I had not mentioned Marian Devereux and this did not seem the time for confidences of that sort. He took a cigarette from his pocket and lighted it deliberately. "Bah! these women! Under the terms of your excellent grandfather's will you have thrown away all your rights. It looks to me, as a member of the Irish bar in bad standing, as though you had delivered yourself up to the enemy, so far as the legal situation is concerned. How does it strike you?" "If it's known that I ran away for a night, of course—" "My lad, don't deceive yourself. Everybody round here will know it before night. You ran off, left your window open invitingly, and two gentlemen who meditated breaking in found that they needn't take the trouble. One came in through your own room, noting, of course, your absence, let in his friend below, and tore up the place regrettably." "Yes, but how did you get here?—if you don't mind telling." It's a short story. That little chap from Scotland Yard, you annoyed me so much in New York and drove me to Mexico,—for which he dwell forever in fiery torment—has never given up. I shook him off, though, at Indianapolis three days ago. I bought a ticket for Pittsburgh with him at my elbow. I suppose he thought the chase was growing tame and that the farther east he could arrest me the nearer I should be to a British consul and tidewater. I went ahead of him into the station and out to the Pittsburgh sleeper. I dropped my bag into my section.—if that's what they call it in your atrocious American language, looked out and saw him coming along the platform. Just then the car began to move—they were shunting it about to attach a sleeper that had been brought in from Loulaville, and my carriage, or whatever you call it, went skimming out of the sheds into a yard where everything seemed to be most noisy and complex. I dropped off in the dark just before they began to haul the carriage back. A long train of empty goods wagons,—freight cars?—was just pulling out and I threw my bag into a wagon and climbed after it. We kept going for several hours, until I was thoroughly lost, then I took advantage of a stop at a place that seemed to be the end of terrestrial things, got out and started across country. I expressed my bag to you the other day from a place that rejoiced in the cheering name of Kokomo, just to get rid of it. I walked into Annandale late last night, found this medieval marvel through the kindness of the station master and was reconnoitering with my usual caution when I saw a gentleman romantically entering through the open window." Larry paused to light a fresh cigarette. "You always did have a way of arriving opportunely. Go on!" "It pleased my fancy to follow him; and by the time I had studied your diggings here a trifle, things began to happen below. It sounded like a St. Patrick's day celebration in an Irish village, and I went down at a gallop to see if there was any chance of breaking in. Have you seen the room? Well."—he gave several turns to his right wrist, as though to test it,—"we all had a jolly time there by the fireplace. Another chap had got in somewhere, so there were two of them. Your man—I suppose it's your man—was defending himself gallantly with a large thing of brass that looked like the pipes of a grand organ—and I sailed in with a chair. My presence seemed to surprise the attacking party, who evidently thought I was you, flattering I must say, to me!" "You undoubtedly saved Bates' life and prevented the rifling of the house. And after you had poured water on Bates, he's the servant,—you came up here—" "That's the way of it." "You're a brick, Larry Donovan. There's only one of you; and now—" "And now, John Glenarm, we've got to get down to business,—or you must. As for me, after a few hours of your enlivening society—" "You don't go a stop until we go together,—no, by the beard of the prophet! I've a fight on here and I'm going to win if I die in the struggle, and you've got to stay with me to the end." "But under the will you dare not take a boarder." "Of course I dare! That will's as though it had never been as far as I'm concerned. My grandfather never expected me to sit here alone and be murdered. John Marshall Glenarm was a fool exactly!" "No, but a trifle queer, I should say. I don't have to tell you, old man, that this situation appeals to me. It's my kind of a job. If it weren't that the hounds are at my heels I'd like to stay with you, but you have enough trouble on hands without opening the house to an attack by my enemies." "Stop talking about it. I don't propose to be deserted by the only friend I have in the world when I'm up to my eyes in trouble. Let's go down and get some coffee." We found Bates trying to remove the evidences of the night's struggle. He had fastened a cold pack about his head and limped slightly; otherwise he was the same—silent and inexplicable. Daylight had not improved the appearance of the room. Several hundred books lay scattered over the floor and the shelves that had held them were hacked and broken. "Bates, if you can give us coffee—? Let the room go for the present." "And Rater—" up his room later in the day." He limped out, Larry's eyes following him. "What do you think of that fellow?" I asked. Larry's face wore a puzzled look. Larry's face wore a puzzled look. "What do you call him—Bates? He's a plucky fellow." Larry picked up from the hearth the big candelabrum with which Bates had defended himself. It was badly bent and twisted, and Larry grinned. "The fellow who went out through the front door probably isn't feeling very well to-day. Your man was swinging this thing like a windmill." "I can't understand it," I muttered. "I can't, for the life of me, see why he should have given battle to the enemy. They all belong to Pickering, and Bates is the biggest rascal of the bunch." As we ate breakfast I filled in gaps I had left in my hurried narrative, with relief that I can not describe filling my heart as I leaned again upon the sympathy of an old and trusted friend. I dismissed Bates as soon as possible that we might talk freely. "Take it up and down and all around, what do you think of all this?" I asked. Larry was silent for a moment; he was not given to careless speech in personal matters. "There's more to it than frightening you off or getting your grandfather's money. It's my guess there's something in this house that somebody—Pickering supposedly—is very anxious to find." "Yes; I begin to think so. He could come in here legally if it were merely a matter of searching for lost assets." "Yes; and whatever it is it must be well hidden. As I remember, your grandfather died in June. You got a letter calling you home in October." "It was sent out blindly, with not one chance in a hundred that it would ever reach me." "Certainly. You were a wanderer on the face of the earth, and there was nobody in America to look after your interests. You may be sure that the place was thoroughly ransacked while you were sailing home. I'll wager you the best dinner you ever ate that there's more at stake than your grandfather's money. The situation is inspiring. I grow interested. I'm almost persuaded to linger." Larry refused to share my quarters and chose a room for himself, which Bates fitted up out of the house stores. I did not know what Bates might surprise about Larr, but he accepted my friend in good part, as a guest who would remain indefinitely. He seemed to interest Larr, whose eyes followed the man inquiringly. When we went down Bates was limping about the library, endeavoring to restore order. "Bates," I said to him, "you are a very curious person. I have had a thousand and few opinions about you since I came here, and still I don't make you out." He turned from the shelves, a defaced volume in his hands. "Yes, sir. It was a good deal that way with your lamented grandfather. He always said I puzzled him." "I want to thank you for your heroic efforts to protect the house last night. You acted nobly, and I must confess. Bates, that I didn't think it was in you. I'm only sorry that there are black pages in your record that I can't reconcile with your manly conduct of last night. But we've got to come to an understanding." "Yes, sir." "The most outrageous attacks have been made on me since I came here. You know what I mean well enough. Mr. Glennarm never intended that I should sit down in his house and be killed or robbed. He was the gentlest being that ever lived, and I'm going to "By God, I Will Stand by You, John Glenarm!" fight for his memory and to protect his property from the scoundrels who have plotted against me. I hope you follow me." "Yes, Mr. Glenarm." He was regarding me attentively. His lips quavered, perhaps from weakness, and he seemed distressed and ill. "Now I offer you your choice,—either to stand loyally by me and my grandfather's house or to join these scoundrels Arthur Pickering has hired to drive me out. I'm not going to bribe you,—I don't offer you a cent for your help, but I won't have a traitor in the house, and if you don't like me or my terms I want you to go and go now." He straightened quickly,—his eyes lighted and the color crept into his face. I had never before seen him appear so like a human being. "Mr. Glenarm, you have been hard on me; there have been times when you have been most unjust—" "Unjust, unfair—my God, what do you expect me to take from you! Haven't I known that you were in league with Pickering? I'm not as dull as I look, and after your interview with Pickering in the chapel porch you can't convice me that you were faithful to my interests at that time." He started and gazed at me wonderingly. I had had no intention of using the chapel porch interview at this time, but it leaped out of me uncontrollably. "I suppose, 'tis" he began brokenly. "that I can hardly persuade you that I meant no wrong on that occasion." "You certainly can not,—and it's safer for you not to try. But I'm willing to let all that go as a reward for your work last night. Make your choice now; stay here and stop your spying or clear out within an hour." He took a step toward me; the table was between us and he drew quite near but stood clear of it, erect until there was something solidierly and commanding in his tall figure. "By God, I will stand by you, John Glenarm!" he said, and struck the table smartly with his clinched hand. He flushed instantly, and I felt the blood mounting into my own face as we gazed at each other—he, Bates, the servant, and I, his master! He had always addressed me so punctulously with the "sir" of respect that his declaration of fealty, spoken with so sincere and vigorous an air of independence, and with the bold emphasis of the oath, that I stood spellbound, starling at him. The silence was broken by Larry, who sprang forward and grasped Bates' hand. "I, too. Bates." I said, feeling my heart leap with liking, even with admiration for the real manhood that seemed to transfigure this hireling,—this fellow whom I had charged with infamous conduct, this servant who had cared for my needs in so humble a spirit of subjection. The knocker on the front door sounded, peremptorly, and Bates turned without another word, and admitted Stoddard, who came in hurriedly. "Merry Christmas!" he called heartily, in tones hardly consonant with the troubled look on his face. I introduced him to Larry and asked him to sit down. "Pray excuse our disorder, we didn't do it for fun; it was one of Santa Claus's tricks. He stared about wonderingly. "So you caught it, too, did you?" "To be sure. You don't mean to say that they raided the chapel!" "That's exactly what I mean to say. When I went into the church for my early service I found that some one had ripped off the watcstcoing in a half a dozen places and even pried up the altar. It's the most outrageous thing I ever knew. You've heard of the proverbial poverty of the church mouse,—what do you suppose anybody could want to raid a simple little country chapel for? And more curious yet, the church plate was untouched, though the closet where it's kept was upset, as though the miscreants had looked there for something they didn't find." Stoddard was greatly disturbed, and gazed about the topsy-turvy library with growing indignation. We drew together for a council of war. Here was an opportunity to enlist a new recruit on my side; and after I had told my story fully and conducted Larry and Stoddard through the tunnel, the better to prove that I was not romancing, they declared their purpose to stand by me to the end, no matter what that conclusion might be. The next morning Bates placed a letter postmarked Cincinnati at my plate. I opened and read it aloud to Larry: Annandale, Wabana Co., Indiana: Dear Sir-I, have just learned from what I believe to be a trustworthy source that you have already violated the terms of the agreement under which you entered into residence on the property near Annandale, known as Glenarm House. The provisions of the will of John Marshall Glenarm are plain and unequivocal, as you undoubtedly understood when you accepted them, and your absence, not only from the estate itself, but from Wabana county, violates beyond question your right to inherit. I, as executor, therefore demand that you at once vacate said property, leaving it in as good condition as when received by you. Very truly yours, Arthur Pickering, Executor of the Estate of John Marshall Glenarm. "Very truly the devil's," growled Larry, snapping his cigarette case viciously. "How did he find out?" I asked lamely, but my heart sank like lead. Had Martian Deveruex told him! How else could he know? "Probably from the stars,—the whole universe undoubtedly saw you skipping off to meet your lady love. Bah, these women!" "Tut! They don't all marry the sons of brewers," I retorted. "You assured me once, while your affair with that Irish girl was on, that the short upper lip made Heaven seem possible, but unnecessary; then the next thing I knew she had shaken you for the bloated mister. Take that for your impertinence. But perhaps it was Bates?" I did not wait for an answer. I was not in a mood for reflection or nice distinctions. The man came in just then with a fresh plate of toast. "Bates, Mr. Pickering has learned that I was away from the house on the night of the attack, and I'm ordered off for having broken my agreement to stay here. How do you suppose he heard of it so promptly?" "From Morgan, quite possibly. I have a letter from Mr. Pickering myself this morning. Just a moment, sir." He placed before me a note bearing the same date as my own. It was a sharp rebuke of Bates for his failure to report my absence promptly by wire, and he was ordered to prepare to leave on the first of February. "Close your accounts at the shopkeepers' and I will audit your bills on my arrival." The tone was peremptory and contemptuous. Bates had failed to satisfy Pickering and was flung off like a smoked-out cigar. "How much had he allowed you for expenses, Bates?" He met my gaze imperturably. "He pays me $50 a month as wages, sir, and I am allowed $75 for other expenses." "But you didn't buy English pheasants and champagne on that allowance!" He was carrying away the coffee tray and his eyes wandered to the windows. "Not quite, sir. You see—" "But I don't see!" "It had occurred to me that as Mr. Pickering's allowance wasn't what you might call generous it was better to augment it—Well, sir, I took the liberty of advancing a trifle, as you might say, to the estate. Your grandfather would not have had you starve, sir." He left hurriedly, as though to escape from the consequences of his words, and when I came to myself Larry was gloomily invoking his strange Irish gods. "Larry Donovan, I've been tempted to kill that fellow a dozen times! This thing is too damned complicated for me. I wish my lamented grandfather had left me something easy. To think of it—that all the time I've been cursing and abusing Bates since I came here I've been enjoying his bounty,—and he's been giving me the fat of the land, just because of his devotion to my grandfather's memory. Lord, I can't face the fellow again!" "As I have said before, you're rather lacking at times in perspicacity. Your intelligence is marred by large opaque spots. Now that there seems to be a woman in the case you're less sane than ever. Bah, these women! And now we've got to go to work." Bah, these women! My own heart caught the words. I was enraged and bitter. No wonder she had been anxious for me to avoid Pickering in Cincinnati, after daring me to follow her there! We called a council of war for that night that we might view matters in the light of Pickering's letter. His assuredness in ordering me to leave made prompt and decisive action necessary on my part. I summoned Stoddard to our conference, feeling confident of his friendliness. "Of course," said the broad-shouldered chaplain, "if you could show that your absence was on business of very grave importance, the courts might construe in your favor." Larry looked at the ceiling and blew rings of smoke languidly. I had not disclosed to either of them the cause of my absence. On such a matter I knew I should get precious little sympathy from Larry, and I had, moreover, a feeling that I could not discuss Marlan Devereux with any one; I even shrank from mentioning her name, though it rang like the call of bugles in my blood. She was always before me—the charmed spirit of youth, linked to every foot of the earth, every gleam of the sun upon the ice-bound lake, every glory of the winter sunset. All the good impulses I had ever stifled were quickened to life by the thought of her. Amid the day's perplexities I started sometimes, thinking I heard her voice, her girlish laughter, or saw her again coming toward me down the stairs, or holding against the light her fan with its golden butterflies. I really knew so little of her; I could associate her with no home, only with that last fling of the autumn upon the lake, the snow-driven woodland, that twilight hour at the organ in the chapel, those stolen moments at the Armstrongge'. I presented the pressure of the hour's affairs, and chafed at the necessity for talking of my perplexities with the good friends who were there to help. I wished to be alone, to yield to the sweet mood that the thought of her brought me. The doubt that crept through my mind as to any possibility of connivance between her and Pickering was as vague and fleeting as the shadow of a swallow's wing on a sunny meadow. "You don't intend fighting the fact of your absence, do you?" demanded Larry, after a long silence. "Of course not!" I replied fiercely. "Pickering was right on my heels, and my absence was known to his men here. And it would not be square to my grandfather—who never harmed a flea, may his blessed soul rest in peace!—to lie about it. They might nail me for perjury besides." "Then the quicker we get ready for a siege the better. As I understand your attitude, you don't intend to move out until you've found where the siller's hidden. Being a gallant gentleman and of a forgiving nature, you want to be sure that the lady who is now entitled to it gets all there is coming to her, and as you don't trust the executor any further than a true Irishman trusts a British prime minister's promise, you're going to stand by to watch the bullion counted. Is that a correct analysis of your intentions?" "That's as near one of my ideas as you're likely to get." "Spoken like a man of spirit. And now we'd better stock up at once, in case we should be shut off from our source of supplies. This is a lonely place here; even the school is a remote neighbor. Better let Bates raid the village shops to-morrow. I've tried being hungry, and I don't care to repeat the experience." "I can't imagine, I really can't believe," began the chaplain, "that Miss Devereux will want to be brought into this estate matter in any way. In fact, I have heard Sister Theresa say as much. I suppose there's no way of preventing a man from leaving his property to a young woman who has no claim on him,—who doesn't want anything from him." "Bah, these women! People don't throw legacies to the birds these days. Of course she'll take it," observed Larry. Then his eyes widened and met mine in a gaze that reflected the mystification and wonder that struck both of us. Stoddard turned suddenly from the fire, into which he had been gazing, exclaiming: "What's that? There's some one up stairs!" Larry was already running toward the hall, and I heard him springing up the steps like a cat, while Stoddard and I followed. "Where's Bates?" demanded the chaplain. "I'll thank you for the answer," I replied. Larry stood at the top of the staircase, holding a candle at arm's length in front of him, staring about. We could hear quite distinctly some one walking down a stairway; the sounds were unmistakable, just as I had heard them on two previous occasions, without ever being able to trace their source. The noise ceased suddenly, leaving us with no hint of its whereabouts. I went directly to the rear of the house and found Eates putting the dishes away in the pantry. "Where have you been?" I demanded. "Here, sir; I have been clearing up the dinner things, Mr. Glenarm. is there anything the matter, sir?" "Nothing." I joined the others in the library. "Why didn't you tell me this feudal imitation was haunted?" asked Larry in a grieved tone. "I'm increasingly glad became. How often does it walk?" "This is the third time." I admitted. "It's the wind in the tower probably, the wind plays queer pranks sometimes." "You'll have to do better than that, Glenarm," laughed Stoddard. "It's as still outside as a country graveward." "Only the slaughter side, the people of the faery hills, the cheerfulest ghosts in the world," said Larry. "You literal Sarons can't grasp the idea, of course." But there was substance enough in our dangers without pursuing shadows. Certain things were planned that night. We determined to exercise every precaution to prevent a surprise from without, and we resolved upon a new and systematic sounding of walls and floors, taking our clue from the efforts made by Morgan and his ally to find hiding places by this process. Pickering would undoubtedly arrive shortly, and we wished to anticipate his movements as far as possible. (To be Continued.) His Early Trials George Westinghouse was inventing his air brake. "I see plainly enough," he said, "that in order to make this thing go I've got to raise the wind." Subsequently, with some assistance furnished by the railroads, he succeeded in overcoming even this difficulty. —Chicago Tribune. Want Too Much "Some time ago two surgeons took a ten-pound tumor out of Dave Saunders, an' to-day he got a terrible big bill for the operation." "Is Dave gain' to pay it?" "No; he sez they've got enough out of him already."—Judge AFTER SCHOOL. First Schoolmaster—I had a strange dream last night. Cicero was reciting Latin to me, and I marked him only four!—Simpliceissimus. Begged Leave to Differ "The more I see of dogs," muttered the early milkman, dodging another snapping cur, "the better I like men." The Preventive. A girl is rarely deaf to a man's proposal when a diamond ring accompanies it—at least, not stone deaf—Life. Male and Female Brain. The female brain begins to lose weight at the age of 30, but that of the male not until ten years later. Country of Dog Lovera France has 2,900,000 dogs. Proper Place For Them. "Yes, sir," remarked the self-made man, "brains come in ahead every time." "Of course they come in a head," rejoined the cynical person. "I never heard of any one with brains in his feet."—Chicago Dally News. So Unreasonable "Oh, yes," said a grumbling beggar, "folks always helps them as don't need any help. Why, there's lightnin'; it can get down to the ground fast enough all by itself, an yet folks is all the time a puttin' up rods for it to slide down on." - Royal Magazine Eventually. Stranger (to search of information) —How do the births in this town compare with the deaths? Intelligent Officer—Well, sor, i'rybody that's born here dies some time afterward, sor—Chicago Tribune Just Two Kinds of Men "There are two classes of men," said the close observer. "One knows nothing about woman, having spent years in studying her. The other knows everything, never having studied her." Newspapers in United States The United States has more newspapers than any other country. Every week day there are 19,500,000 copies issued and on Sundays the number is 11,500,000 copies. Recipe for Happiness We can have the highest happiness only by having wide thoughts and much feeling for the rest of the world as well as for ourselves.—George Elliot. When a man gets in trouble we always "look for the woman," but when he succeeds we do not, though we have more reason. Good Advice to Follow Don't keep so busy making money to afford pleasure that you have no time to devote to pleasure.—St. Louis Globe-Democrat. THE PLANET SATURDAY...SEPTEMBER 7, '07 YACHT HELD UP BY TWO BOLD PIRATES COUPLE HAS ADVENTURE WITH WOULD-BE BUCCANEERS ON LAKE MICHIGAN. Michigan City, Ind.—"Get back there into the corner of the cabin, and then don't move, or we'll cut your heads off with this hatchet," was the greeting hurled at Mr. and Mrs. Cyrus Dissell, of Chicago, on board their own yatch off Michigan City the other night. The boat had been boarded in true piratical style by two burglaries, and soon the capture of the craft and its occupants was complete. Tremblingly the victims of the strange holdup submitted to the demands of their fierce appearing visitors. In a moment, however, as a full 0.5mA Don't Move or We'll Cut Your Heads Off. realization of their peril flashed upon them, they showed fight. "Guess, we'd better the 'em, Bill," sputtered the leader of the boarding expedition. "If they move," he added with a Capt, Kidd-like oath, "let 'em have the hatchet right in the head, and hard, tool." With rough movements the interlopers bound Mr. Dissell and his wife and left them helpless on the cabin floor. Dissell fumed in rage, but the amateur pirates only laughed. They had a free hand then, being secure from interference either from on board or from the land. The buccaneers, with deliberate and swaggering movements, went through the boat then and purplined everything worth taking. They did not neglect the persons of their victims, but relieved them of all the valuables they possessed, not forgetting to put in a blow and then for good measure. At length, their mission complete, they prepared to leave. "Good-night, sir and madam," they said. "We'll have to go aahore." "You're not going to leave us tied up this way"" demanded Dissell. "Oh, now, you couldn't expect us to let you go," was the reply, and the men rowed off in their boat. Left to themselves, a night of terror ensued for Mr. and Mrs. Dissell. Finally, after frantic efforts, they managed to sever their bonds and communicate with the shore. The yacht had left earlier in the evening, and it was supposed had been lost. The Dissells' children in Chicago were informed to this effect. At the very moments they were grieving over the supposed death of their parents, the latter were having their strange fight with Lake Michigan pirates. Frank Freyer and Henry Bader, both of this city, were arrested next day, charged with the pirates. Wed. at 14: Parents Consent Knoxville, Teen—Will C. Richards and Ella Brock, children of 14 years, were united in marriage in the presence of their parents by Justice John W. Brown at the home of the girl's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Brock, near Thorn Grove, Knox county. They are said to be the youngest couple ever granted a wedding license in Tennessee. Willie Richards called at the county clerk's office in this city and asked for the license, but it was denied when the ages were told. He went away and returned in a short while with the written consent of his mother and the girl's father. They will live with the boy-groom's mother for a while at least. Pet Lizard Guards Sleeper Middietown, Conn.—The conductor of a freight train that passes through here daily told of a pet lizard four inches long that has lived in the caboose for the last year. Just as soon as one of the crew lies down to sleep the lizard crawls upon his bosom, and when a fly, mosquito, or other insect comes around it is caught by a swift movement of the lizard's tongue. The conductor says that no netting or blinds are ever necessary to keep out such insects when the lizard is about. Man Can't Trip Up Blacksnake. Allentown, Pa.—Samuel Laros, a farmer of East Macungie, had a fierce battle with a huge blacksnake, being seriously injured in the conflict. Cross ing one of his fields, he met Mr. Snake and tried to kill it. The reptile showed fight, and in a moment there was a combat at short range. The snake colled itself about Mr. Laros' legs and threw him, and in falling Laros broke his collar bone. The snake was finally killed. SEES FATHER DIE ACROSS THE SEA REMARKABLE VISION OF NEW YORK THEOLOGICAL STUDENT PROVES TO BE TRUE. PARENT 3,000 MILES AWAY Awakening from a Dream, Rev. Henry Rolling Saw His Sire's Deathbed and Also Heard His Voice. New York—Rev. Henry Rolling, now taking a special course as a medical missionary in the New York Homeopathic Medical college, has had an experience which may result in the postponement of his actual labors after his graduation until he can be induced by several psychical societies in the larger cities to describe the remarkable mental condition into which he fell, when he saw, as in a vision, his father at the point of death when his father was 3,000 miles away. The deathbed scene was corroborated two weeks later in every detail in a letter from England. Dr. Rolling received his theological education in England and was ordained in the established church. He was appointed curate of St. Andrew's parish in Rochester, where Rev. Algernon S. Crapeys was the roctor. Dr. Rolling said: "My father was Goeffrey Rolling of Bedfordshire, England, and between us the tie of consanguinity was strong. After a particularly arduous day I threw myself on the bed exhausted. I fell into a slumber, from which I was awakened by a vivid picture. I sat up in the bed and saw my father as distinctly as I ever saw him in my life, and heard him call out: 'My boy, my boy, I am dying.' Two weeks from that day a letter came from England telling of the death of my father at the exact hour and day when I had seen him and with the additional information that just before he breathed his last he had seen me standing at his bedside." Further describing his experience, Dr. Rolling said: "The picture that was presented to me was that of my father lying in bed in a room I did not recognize. I could tell by the general furnishings that it was England. I saw all my relatives there except my sister and wondered why she was absent at such a moment. "The scene was as sharp and plain as if I had been in the auditorium of a playhouse watching the actors on the stage. I saw my father sink back on the pillows and I knew that he was dead. "Then my second self, or whatever you see fit to call it, seemed to resolve itself back into my material A man in a suit is sitting on a bed, reaching up to the ceiling with his hand. There are three figures in the background, one standing behind the bed and two sitting on the bed. "I Saw My Father Sink Back on the Pillows." body and I awakened, arose from the bed and cried out that my father was dead. I was told that I was suffering from nervous prostration and should return to bed. I obeyed and fell asleep for about eight hours. When I got up the vision of my father came to me in my waking hours with greater vividness than when I saw it in my subconscious state. "The letter announcing my father's death told us that the family had removed from the old homestead to another house in Bedfordshire, which I never had seen. Subsequent inquiry showed that the room as I saw it in my strange mental condition was precisely as it was in fact. My sister's absence, as I learned at the same time, which made a marked impression upon me, was due to illness." Dr. Rolling came to the United States with Bishop Sullivan, whose ecclesiastical title was the colonial bishop of the Church of England. His first experience was among the Hudson bay Indians. He had no superstitions and did not believe in hallucinations except those that came from an impaired digestion, so that his subsequent experiences, attested as they were by documentary evidence, are all the more startling. Made Clever Escape. Galveenet, Tex.—Frank Hiden, a young German immigrant who was ordered deported and was being detained temporarily in the Sealy hospital, escaped by arranging his pillows so that his bed might appear to be occupied. Hiden is afflicted with trachoma. 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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., second class master. SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 7 97 SECRETARY TAFTS SPEECH. The speech of Secretary Taft, delivered at Lexington, Kentucky, August 22d, 1907 is peculiarly significant and we think that in connection with the one delivered by President Roosevelt recently, is without a parallel in the political annals of this country. The speech is especially significant in its almost brutal frankness relative to the position of the distinguished statesman on the so-called Negro question. It is not the kind of address that we would have expected from a man of Mr. Taft's calibre and breeding. It seems that his service in political office has warped his judicial temperament and left him an opportunist, or an apologist for the present unlawful conditions now existing in a large portion of this country. In the past, it has always been advisable for candidates for the presidency to think, what he has said, but not give voice to such thoughts in any place where they could be conveyed to the public. But here is what Secretary Taft is reputed to have said in discussing the race question: "I know that the discussion by a Northern man of this question is apt to call from the Southern Democrat the objection that he does not understand the question; that he does not know the difficulties of it, and that if he cannot take it up with sympathy, with the attitude of the white man of the South, he had better not take it up at all. On the other hand, he is liable to encounter the criticism of the colored man who, with a natural sensitiveness, remembering the wrongs and oppression to which his race has been subjected, resents any attitude which does not involve condemnation of the Southern white man, or which manifests the slightest consideration for his view." Secretary Taft is speaking of a certain element of the white South and he is on the other hand speaking of a certain element of the black South. As a matter of fact the new progressive elements of both races accept advice along these lines and are able to express a conservative opinion relative to all that he has been kind enough to say. He confesses that he is liable to be between two fires and it seems to us that the ordinary judgment and discernment should have warned a candidate for the highest political office in the gift of the people, to avoid all discussion of such a delicate subject. We have not noted any particular criticism of his views on the part of the white press of the South, but we are forced to take issue with him as representing the conservative side of the citizen of color in this sunny land. The logical inference in these remarks is that Secretary Taft has de- cided to give consideration to the Southern white man's view and for that reason expects the criticism of the colored man of this section. He will not be disappointed in this particular. He is mistaken though, if he thinks and believes that the intelligent colored people expect a condemnation of the white people of the South. On the other hand, they expect commendation of the liberal white elements here who are assisting us in our struggle upward in the face of the most adverse conditions. There are two elements of southern white people in the South. The one believes that the colored people should be aided or at least the worthy elements amongst us. Then there are those of the Negro-hating kind, who believe that "no good can come out of Nazareth." It is this condition of affairs that statesmen from the North of the calibre of Secretary Taft seem utterly unable to understand. We know colored men and women too for that matter who will take offense if certain white people are attacked or spoken of in words of disdain. They will do this whether the speaker be white or black. The distinguished Secretary is therefore in error in presuming that the citizens of color, as a rule present any attitude which does not involve condemnation of the Southern white man and in this he does us a needless injury. In parading this alleged fact to the public he prejudices our case, just as much as the rabid, irresponsible, loud-mouthed black politician in some of the Northern communities does in his anwise effort to carry a point before a northern audience. Secretary Taft continues: "I am not a pessimist with respect to the race question. I am convinced that it is working itself out, and I am convinced that nothing has so much contributed to its gradual solution as the thirteenth, fourteenth and fifteenth amendments." He struck the right note that time and if we could keep this distinguishled Ohioan on the same chord, we would have some satisfaction in believing that he would continue to espouse great principles and listen to the voice of truth and justice. He continued: "I shall not stop to give you the statistics showing the great progress that has been made by the Negro race in the South. We are apt to for-get this real improvement in the diatribes that we occasionally hear from men who lack sympathy with the progress of the colored race and who denounce the entire race on account of a comparatively small criminal class that forms the dregs of the Southern population." This is a scintillation in our favor and yet he hesitates to give to the public the very facts that would tend to clinch his utterances and rivet the declarations that have been made in our favor. He stopped to give the alleged facts in the Brownsville affair that tended to brand the entire race as being false to its trust and untrue to its obligations. Why should he not find time to give the facts that he virtually announced to the world that he possessed and which would have shown the great progress of the race in the South? Is this fair play, Mr. Secretary? You have injured us greatly, by way of our soldiery, that Senator Joseph B. Foraker declares never drew a disloyal breath and yet you cannot find time to give the statistics that would tend to place them in a proper light before the people of the world. It may be well to reproduce here the glowing tribute of Gen. B. F. Butler, who is now sleeping beneath "the cloaks of the valley," relative to his opinion of the Negroes upon this all important subject. In speaking of the valor of the Negro soldiers at Fort Harrison, in 1864, he said: "It became my painful duty, sir, to follow in the track of that charging column, and there, in a space not wider than the Clerk's desk and three hundred yards long, lay the dead bodies of five hundred and forty-three of my colored comrades, fallen in defence of their country, who had offered up their lives to uphold its flag and its honor, as a willing sacrifice; and as I rode along among them guiding my horse this way and that way lest he should profane with his hoof what seemed to me the sacred dead, and as I looked on their bronzed faces upturned in the shining to Heaven, as if in mute appeal against the wrongs of the country for which they had given their lives, and whose flag had only been to them a flag of stripes, on which no star of glory had ever shone for them,—feeling I had wronged them in the past, and believing what was the future of my country to them,—among my dead comrades there I swore to myself a sole oath. 'May my right hand forget its cunning and my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth, if I ever fall to defend the rights of these men who have given their blood for me and my country this day, and for their race forever,' and, God helping me, I will keep that oath. "From that hour all prejudice was gone, and an old-time States-right Democrat became a lover of the Negro race. And as long as their rights are not equal to the rights of other men under this Government; I am with them against all comers; and when their rights are assured, as other men's rights are held sacred then, I trust, we shall have what we sought to have, a united country North and South, white and black, under one giorious flag, for which we and our fathers have fought with THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA an equal and not to be distinguished valor." We would not mar the effect of that magnificent outburst by a further reference on our part. There it is. Judge it for yourself and hand it over to President Roosevelt for his mature and soliliquizing consideration. Gen. Benj. F. Butler is gone but there are others here of the same opinion and all of them do not live north of the Mason and Dixon Line. He is quoted further: "After mentioning the various means of distranching voters, and declared that such laws were proper if applied with equal fairness to both white and black, he said that as colored citizens, under the leadership of such men as Booker T. Washington, "become respected business members of the communities in which they live, and when they exercise independence of judgment in respect to political issues, we may be sure that gradually the right to vote will be accorded them and they will exercise a far more useful influence as intelligent and solid members of the community than the ignorant members of their race would have exercised, had they been allowed to vote. Secretary Taft declared that the disfranchising laws are proper if applied with equal fairness to both black and white at the same time ignoring the fact that they are not applied with equal fairness to the two races and no honest Southerner makes any such pretensions. And yet in the face of all of this he gives an apparent endorsement to a method that is not only questionable, but absolutely dishonest. In order to support this position, he brings in the name of that distinguished Afro-American, Dr. Booker T. Washington and other "such men." He endorses the plan of practicing evil that good may come, apparently oblivious of the fact that history records no instance of the success of such a paradoxical proposition. He attacks too the bedrock principle of the Republic, the doctrine of universal suffrage and thereby admits that our forefathers or rather the forefathers of this Republic were wrong in their conception and ideas of government. Secretary Taft, in the following language virtually admits that he is a devotee of the doctrine of practicing evil that good may come. He says: "In this way, through devious ways which cannot be justified or approved, we may still reach a result that will square with the requirements of the Federal Constitution and will give to the Negro every political and economic right." He continues: "The Negro is necessary to the South as a laborer—skilled and unskilled. The world over to-day there is a demand for labor, and were the Negro to be withdrawn from the South, the difficulties under which agriculture would labor can hardly be overstated. "The Negro is an American. He has no other country than this, and called upon to defend it, he lays down his life with the same freedom that the white man sacrifices his. Ours is the flag he loves—the only one he knows. It is our duty to see to it that his path is made as easy as possible and that his progress is as incessant as proper encouragement can make it." The above then is an admission that he is conversant with the capabilities of the Negro as an industrial factor and as a soldier. He knows what Gen. B. F. Butler found out, that they were among the best fighters on earth. Still he says that his path must be made as easy as possible but not as unencumbered as the law decrees that it shall be. We confess that we regard this as a species of "trimming." It is an object surrender to the policy of expediency. This is belittling to a statesman of Secretary Taft's calibre. He continued: "His best friend—the one that can do most for him and the one in many respects who sympathizes with him most—is the Southern white man. He understands his defects. He knows his virtues. And if the Negro responds to the opportunities for improvement as Booker T. Washington points them out, we can be sure that he will grow in the estimation of his white fellow citizens of the South and that the great problem which has burdened the South will be largely solved." If he refers to the conservative, liberal minded white elements of the South, all that he says is true and the Negroes are now and have been for years, acting upon just such advice. So true is this that our people as a rule no longer look to Washington for relief. One who does is placed with the "forty acres and a mule" class. He continued: "The fifteenth amendment does not require that every Negro should vote. All that it requires is that he should not be excluded from voting because he is a Negro. If he lacks educational qualifications, property qualifications, or any other qualification that the State may lawfully impose as a rule of eligibility for its voters then he may be excluded, provided that every one else who lacks similar qualifications is equally excluded. The fifteenth amendment is merely intended to secure him in his political rights from race discrimination by the States. So far as we are individually concerned, Secretary Taft has given no new light upon this all important subject. He told us what we knew already. And yet these Southern States have done and are "still-a-doing" the very things that the law and Secretary Taft admit that they have no right to do. Secretary Taft does not condemn in plain and emphatic language this open nullification of the Constitution of the United States but says that our path must be made as easy as possible and that, through, "devious ways that cannot be justified or approved, we may still reach a result that will square with the requirements of the Federal Constitution and will give the Negro every political and economic right." We should like for the distinguished Ohio statesman to point to an instance in the historical progress of the world where such a result was ever accomplished along the lines laid down by him. This was the argument of the northern copperhead and one of the bloodiest wars in all history was the result. This is the logic of the Supreme Court of the United States and this logic has led to the period of lawlessness now existing in this country, which threatens the connscation of private property and vested rights and has led to the virtual "bunching of the railroad interests" in the Southland. "It is not intended to give him affirmative privileges as a member of his race. Its strict enforcement does not involve an anmalmation of the races; has nothing to do with social association or equality. It does not involve so-called Negro domination, and to permit the question at this late day—forty years after the war—to control the votes of intelligent men in respect to issues that are living is to indicate the lack of sense of proportion, which, I cannot think will continue to manifest itself in the South. It does give him an affirmative right as a citizen of the United States on an equal basis with every other citizen and this is all that he has a right to ask or expect. Secretary Taft is absolutely correct in his other conclusions. He voices the Northern statesman's hope, when he says: "It only under the influence of President Reccovelt's administration some of the Southern States, including Kentucky, could be led into the republican column in accordance with the real sympathies of the voters of those States. It would be a crowning glory of his administration. It will not necessarily work for the benefit of the Republican party in the end, because of the closeness with which the Southern States have united in support of Democratic candidates has introduced a similar cohesion among the Northern States, and we might expect more independence of voting at the North if the voters there were not confronted with the solidarity of the South." This hope has wrecked the administration of every Republican President that has nurtured it, from the time of Ulysses S. Grant down to the reign of Theodore Roosevelt. To attempt it now is like baking bread on short notice. It will be crust on the outside, but dough in the middle. He gives voice to his hopes in the following plaintive language: "As an American citizen and lover of my country, I long for the time when the South shall be received again in the councils of the nation, and when the people of that section shall resume the influence to which they are entitled and which they deny themselves by being frightened at a mere ghost of the past." We have read with amazement this deliverance of the jurist of the administration. It shows to our mind that the colored people of the country have nothing for which to hope by his elevation to office. Grover Cleveland would be just as satisfactory to the average citizen of color, if we are to gauge Secretary Taft's future conduct by his present attitude, relative to these vital questions. We suggest that some member of the United States Supreme Court resign and permit this distinguished Secretary to retire to deserved rest and needed elimination from public life. He can do us no harm as a member of that august tribunal for it is as absolutely anti-Negro as it is possible for a body of that kind to be. His trip to the Philippines will tend to cause the public to forget him and if he will withdraw from the race for the White House, a gratified constituency composed of well-nigh all the Negroes in the United States will send up a shout of approval in recognition of his transcendent judgment in thus effacing himself from the consideration of a patient, but long suffering people. Regardless of the influences brought to bear upon him Secretary Taft should remember the words of Fletcher, when he says: "Man is his own star, and the soul that can Render an honest and a perfect man Commands all light, all influence, all fate, Nothing to him falls early, or too late. Our acts our angels are, or good or ill, Our fatal shadows that walk by us still." Old Soldier Killed by Auto. Old soldier killed by Auto. BATH, N. Y., Sept. 4. — Thomas Kelly, an inmate of the soldiers' home, was hit and mortally wounded by an unknown automobile here. He was a former resident of Buffalo and a property holder in that city. MOURN MANSFIELD. Actor's Body Lies In New London Cemetery. Leading Artists Express Their Sympathy For Wife of the Famous Playwright Who Is Now No More. NEW LONDON, Conn., Sept. 4.—Richard Mansfield, the greatest actor on the American stage, passed away at his summer residence, Seven Oaks, Ocean avenue. Death was directly due to disease of the liver. Dr. A. H. Allen, a local physician, who has been in charge since Mr. Mansfield's arrival here from Saranac Lake, states that death was not entirely unexpected, although this fact had not been made public. Mr. Mansfield's condition had been reported as being excellent. During the great actor's last moments he was in a condition of coma. There were present at the time of his death his wife, Mrs. Mansfield; his brother, Felix Mansfield; his young son, Gibbs Mansfield, and the physician and nurses. A quiet and simple funeral was held at the Mansfield residence here. The Rev. Alfred Poole Grint, rector of RICHARD MANSFIELD. St. James' Episcopal church, officiated at the services. The interment was in Gardner cemetery, on Ocean avenue, directly opposite Seven Oaks, the Mansfield home. The actor had made, some time prior to his death, the request that when death came his body should be lowered to its final resting place in this quaint little spot, familiarly known as the Gardner Yard. There was a large gathering of friends of the dead actor in this city and from out of town. Benjamin D. Stevens, who was Mr. Mansfield's business manager, was one of the chief mourners outside the actor's family. All through the day the body lay in state in a handsome casket lined in broadcloth and silver trimmings. By request there was no address. The choir of St. James' church, led by Director George T. Brown, sang "Lead, Kindly Light," which was also by request. Floral tributes in large quantities, beautiful as they were varied, covered the casket. Many messages of sympathy were received by Mrs. Mansfield and Mr. Mansfield's brother Felix. The messages are all tributes of sympathy for Mrs. Mansfield. Among the messages were those of Richard Harding Davis, Mrs. Joseph Jefferson, Elsie Leslie, John Drew, Mr. and Mrs. Francis Wilson and Margaret Anglin. Mr. Mansfield's will was read after the funeral. His estate is valued at $900,000, and it is believed that the widow and son are the only beneficiaries. Richard Mansfield was born on the little island of Heliogoland on May 24, 1857. His mother was Mme. Mansfield Rudersdorf, a famous prima donna, and it was from her that Mansfield inherited his love for the arts. Among his best known roles were Beau Brummel, Prince Karl, Peer Gynt, Ivan the Terrible, King Richard III, Cyrano de Bergerac, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and an extensive Shakespearean repertory. His range of parts was broad. He maintained the highest artistic ideals, and no questions of expediency or importunities of managers could swerve me. Mrs. Colt's Back Broken Mrs. Colt's Back Broken. NEW YORK, Sept. 4. — Her back broken and suffering internal injuries, Mrs. Cleo C. Colt lies at the point of death at the Gallatin hotel here. In an adjoining room her husband, Olcott C. Colt, a son of the famous manufacturer of firearms, is in a critical condition as the result of the carriage in which they were riding being hit by a swiftly moving Sixth avenue car at Forty-sixth street. As a result of the injuries to her back Mrs. Colt's body is paralyzed from the neck down. Cald MacLean's Head Still Safe $ ^{2} $ Russian Plotters Hanged ST. PETERSBURG, Sept. 4.—Two of the three men who were sentenced five days ago to death for having organized a plot against the life of the emperor were hanged here. Their names were Sinaky, alias Purkin, aged twenty-seven, and Vladimir Naoum-og, aged twenty-six. Big Reception For Taft: SHANGHAI, Sept. 4.—Preparations are on foot to give Secretary Taft a big reception upon his arrival here. Thirty-two Chinese corporations of this city are participating in the movement, which has been approved by the viceroy. The project is not official and is regarded as a distinct evidence of the friendly feeling existing here toward the United States. 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. 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The French cruisers Glore and Gneydon participated in the action, firing sixty shells. The fanatics showed extreme recklessness, but eventually retired under the repeated sweeping charges of the French and the terrific bombardment of the artillery and ships. The Arabs made desperate signals for re-enforcements, which soon began to arrive in such numbers as to threaten to overwhelm the French. General Drude thereupon came out with fresh infantry and artillery, and soon after the advent of these men into the fighting the Arabs grew disprited. By nightfall they had all retired. General Drude says he is entirely satisfied with the outcome. The Arab patrols left their dead on the field of battle. This they never do except in the last extremity, and it is taken as a sign of their profound discouragement. American Autoist In Italian Contest Comes to Grief. BRESCIA, Italy, Sept. 4.—Ellott F. Shepard of New York, while speeding over the fifth circuit in the automobile race here, plunged into the river at Monte Chiarl, broke his collarbone and received other injuries. His chauffeur, Ledmann, and his face cut and bruised. While Mr. Shepard was driving rapidly over the bridge spanning the Chiarl river a tire of his machine slipped, the car lurched, bounded into the air, jumped over the bridge railing and shot down five yards into the river. Shepard and Ledmann were rescued by people in the vicinity and were taken to the hospital at Monte Chiarl. Cagno, driving an Italian automobile, won the grand prize, a gold cup valued at $5,000, the distance being 486 kilometers, time 4 hours 37 minutes 38 seconds. Fourteen cars participated in the contest. Victor Demogeot of France was second in 4 hours 40 minutes 59 seconds. Rougier of France was third in 4 hours 45 minutes 31 seconds. --- RACER IN RIVER A is its Shaving Quality BUYS elphia Press regular price $3.00 $2.00 time Newspaper $1.50 value $6.50 FOR Cash upon receipt of your description. day—NOW! ROOSEVELT'S TOUR. President to End Vacation on the Mississippi. OYSTER BAY, N. Y., Sept. 4.--To prepare a half dozen addresses, each of which will be read very generally by a nation of $80,000,000 people and all to be delivered within the week from Sept. 30 to Oct. 6, is the task to which President Roosevelt is now devoting himself. The president is to terminate his vacation with a dash through the middle west and the south. He will attend the unveiling of the national monument to the late President McKinley at Canton, O., Sept. 30. At Keokuk, Ia., Mr. Roosevelt also speaks on Oct. 1. The president will then begin his cruise of the Mississippi, speaking at Cairo and Memphis. Bonaparte Will Not Quit Cabinet Bonaparte Will Not Quit Cabinet. BALTIMORE, Sept. 4.--The News prints an emphatic telegram received from United States Attorney General Charles J. Bonaparte in reply to inquiries addressed to him by that paper as to whether he has heard of an alleged plot on the part of Wall street financiers to force him out of the cabinet and whether he would resign. The telegram in reply, dated Lenox, Mass., and signed by Mr. Bonaparte, reads: "Telegram received. Know nothing about plans or wishes of financiers as at present advised. Have no intention of resigning. Just before leaving Washington leased apartment for another year from Oct. 1. Confidently expect to occupy it." Chandler Hulled President Chauker Hailed as President. POUGHKEEPSIE, N. Y., Sept. 4.—Lieutenant Governor Chanler was the principal speaker here at the observance of Labor day. The celebration was participated in by the trade unions of Poughkeepsie and other places along the Hudson river. Lieutenant Governor Chanler whose home is in Dutchess county, rode at the head of the union labor parade and was applauded along the line of march. Many Democrats hailed him as "Our next President!" A large throng was gathered at Hudson River park to hear the lieutenant governor speak. Czpr Visits His Capital: ST.PETERSBURG, Sept. 4.—For the second time since "Red Sunday" (Jan. 22, 1905) Emperor Nicholas yesterday entered the capital to attend the consecration of a memorial to his grandfather's tragic death. The date of the trip, coinciding with the conspiracy trial just closed here, plainly was designed to raise the loyalty of the army and the people. It was a complete success, and no untoward incident occurred. THE PLANET SATURDAY...SEPTEMBER 7, '97 CONDENSED DISPATCHES. Notable Events of the Week Briefly Chronicled. Judge Landis in the United States district court at Chicago ordered the postponement of the grand jury investigation of the rebating charges against the Chicago and Alton road growing out of the recent trial and conviction of the Standard Oil company until Sept. 24. That the American people are sur- felted with politics and refuse to be turned from the path of commercial and industrial prosperity by the poli- ticians was the declaration of Vice President Fairbanks in a speech made at the opening of the fifteenth national irrigation congress at Sacramento Cal Tuesday, Sept. 3 At Hartford, Conn., William Ray, a negro who claims to have been born at Lenox, Mass., 101 years ago, is under arrest charged with violation of the liquor law. It is reported from Dublin that Richard Croker, former chieffaint of Tammany Hall, has lost his citizenship in the United States and has become a subject of King Edward of England. The case of the United States against the Standard Oil company was called in the Federal building at New York and postponed. The purpose of the suit is nothing less than the dissolution of the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey. George Cassidy, a policeman, was shot down and killed while endeavoring to arrest two burglaries who had been caught in the act of robbing a store at Lyndhurst, N. J. The burglaries were pursued by a crowd, and rather than submit to capture one of them killed himself in a swamp. The other burglar escaped. Monday, Sept. 2. All the foreign residents of Fez, with the exception of the American missionaries, arrived at Tangier by way of El Aralish. In an interview given out at Portland, Me., ex-Judge Alton B. Parker of New York declared he had no desire ever again to hold public office and that in respect to this his views had not changed since his defeat for the presidency in 1904. President Roosevelt has no intention of taking up a newspaper career when he finishes his term. Secretary Loeb denounced the report that the president was negotiating for the control of the New York Tribune as a "fake, made out of whole cloth." Emperor William in the course of his visit to the Munster museum at Berlin, made a most striking speech, which is regarded as being a direct appeal to the Socialists to work together with the other classes of the population for the good of the fatherland. Saturday, Aug. 31. James R. Keene's unbeaten colt Collins, a prohibitive favorite in the betting, handily won the rich Futurity stakes at New York before one of the largest crowds ever at the course. A pretty romance, having its inception on the Gettysburg battlefield during the civil war, will have its culmination in a marriage during the G. A. R. encampment at Saratoga, N. Y. The parties to the incident are Mrs. Rebecca L. Price of Lancaster and Major August Vignos of Canton, O. Friday, Aug. 30. Sixteen persons were killed in a troley car collision at Charleston, Ill. King Edward walked out of a concert ball in Marlhead when an actor started to sing an indecent song. The Second National bank of New York city paid $1,100,000 for a new site at Fifth avenue and Twenty-eighth street. The new emperor of Korea was crowned. After the ceremony he cut off his topknot as a sign of complete submission to Japan. Thursday, Aug. 29. A shark blit off the leg of John Johnson, a member of the crew of the United States gunboat Scorpion. "Lord" Frederick Seymour Barrington, convicted of the murder of James P. McCann, began his life sentence in the penitentiary at Jefferson City, Mo. "Mrs. Anna Hucke died from the effects of injuries received when attacked by Cédar, the big African lion that escaped from his cage at Luna park, Pittsburg. Canoeist Drowned Near Burlington. PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 4. 4 - John Francis Prenet-Schell, aged twenty-six years, of this city, was drowned during the night in Rancocas creek, near Burlington, N. J., while canoeing. He left from the headquarters of the Rancocas Country club, of which he was a member, and when he failed to return to the clubhouse after many hours a search was instituted. The body was found along the shore of the creek. Schell was well known in Catholic social circles. Peace Week at Portsmouth PORTSMOUTH, N. H., Sept. 4. This week is being observed as "peace week" in honor of the second anniversary of the signing of the treaty of Portsmouth, which officially terminated the war between Russia and Japan, Sept. 5, 1905. The principal observance will be on Thursday, when a solemn evensong will be sung in Christ Episcopal church. Powder Mill Flows Up CLEVELAND, O., Sept. 4.-By an explosion of the powder mill of the Austin Powder company, a few miles south of the city, one man was killed and another fatally wounded. HAPPY AMERICANS. Swedish Prince Thinks Us Joyous Nation. A LAND WHERE EVERYBODY WORKS Wilhelm In Interview Slyly Praises Our Women as Handsome and Stylish-Also Our Navy. "All Great Fun." NEW YORK, Sept. 4.—Prince Wilhelm of Sweden has given to the press his first interview since his arrival in America. Before leaving his hotel for a visit to the North German Lloyd docks in Hoboken and Grant's tomb, on which he had planned to lay a wreath, he called the newspaper men to his apartments and shook hands all round. Then, asking the score or more of scribes to be seated, he remarked: "Now, gentlemen, I am ready for you. "I came over here at the desire of my grandfather, the king, to represent my country at the Jamestown exposition," he began. "I have-been very busy since I arrived, and I notice that everybody in this country is very busy. What struck me most is that everybody works and everybody seems to be supremely happy. Nowhere else will you see people who seem to enjoy life so much. Nowhere else have I seen people dress so well. This means a good deal, for I have been a great deal about the world. I have seen the people in the cities of England and France and many other countries, and nowhere have I seen people so well dressed and happy looking." "How about the American women?" some one asked, and the prince replied, "All the American women I have seen are exceptionally good looking, and they dress charmingly with excellent taste." When some one suggested that this was a delicate topic in view of the prince's engagement he laughed heartily and lighted a fresh cigarette. He was then asked what he thought of the American navy, and he replied, "The American ships of war are of a splendid type so far as I have seen." "How about the newspapers, prince?" was asked. He laughed and observed: "That's the hardest question that has been put to me yet. What can I say? The newspapers of New York are really very clever. They show great enterprise." "Have they told any untruths about you yet?" one of the interviewers asked. "Oh, well, a few," he answered, laughing again. "But so long as they are nice lies it don't matter. But, you see, I have been enjoying everything so much, and I have been photographed so often. It is really wonderful. Then all the papers seem to want to see me, and I want to see them. It is all really great fun, and I am learning a great deal. Really, I never had so much enjoyment in my life. What stories I will have to tell!" Kaiser as Godfather. ESSEN, Germany, Sept. 4.—Emperor William will act as godfather to the heir of Frau Bertha Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach, born Aug. 13. FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL Closing Stock Quotations Closing Stock Quotations. Money on call easier at 3 per cent; primes more of the paper, 6½ per cent; exchange B12.1.1.51, balances, $749.38, closes prices; Amal. Copper. 78% N. Y. Central. 100% Atchison. 87% N.orf. West. 70% B. R. O. 91% Penn. R. R. 119 Brooklyn R. T. 49 Reading. 97 C. C. C. & St. L. 62% Rock Island. 20% Ches. & Ohio. 61% St. Paul. 128% Northw. 154 Southw. Pac. 85% D. H & I. 154 Southw. Pac. 85% Eric. 22 South. R. pf. 97 Gen. Electric. 128 Sugar. 114% Ill. Central. 128 Texas Pacific. 27% Lackawanna. 64 Union Pacific. 128% Nash. 64 U. S. Steel. 33% Manhattan. 64 S. Steel pf. 96% Int. Met. 10% West. Union. 76% Missouri Pac. 68% New York Markets FLOUR - Firn, but quiet; Minnesota patents, 6½; Iowa patents, 8½; 4½; winter straight, 8½; winter extreme, £109.30.70 £109.30.70 - Firn; to good, £40 @4½; choice to fancy, £45.10.80 POOL- Steady; domestic fowl, 323/36c. POOL- Steady; domestic fowl, 153/36c. 153/36c; old roosters, 116/32c; spring chickens, 165/36c; ducks, 124/36c. SSSEE- POULTRY - Firm; fowl, 153/36c; pooultrys, 153/36c; old roosters, 153/36c; fair to good, 154/36c; old roosters, 116/32c; nearby broilers, 172/32c; western POTATOES- Steady; Jersey prime, per barrel, 159/36c; do, scallop, 164/32c '07 SEPTEMBER '07 Su. Me. Tu. We. Th. Fr. Sa. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. A Man's Way. A man who can lose $500 on stocks and forget it the next day will complain for weeks about the loss of a three dollar umbrella. Everybody Has Met Them. The world is full of people who suppose that the art of conversation consists of asking questions. THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA JOB DEPARTMENT EXCURSION WORK OF ALL DESCRIPTIONS EXCURSION WORK OF ALL DESCRIPTIONS We print Handbills, Quarter-Sheets, Half and Whole Sheet posters, Tags, Tickets, Placards, Society Cards, Minutes, Visiting Cards, Mourning Stationery. OUR AIM is to please our patrons and to give them the best service at the lowest prices, consistent with satisfactory work. We furnish "cuts" when desired and we will arrange to complete special work in our line. When in need of any work in our line, call and see us and estimates will be furnished. OF THE LATEST STYLE BOND, FINE WRITING—FLAT AND LINEN PAPER, ENVELOPES, ETC. Our street-entrance is retired and has no objectionable features, the most fastidious lady being able to enter without embarrassment or annoyance. It is thoroughly equipped to do all kinds of printing on short notice. We make a specialty of Society printing and work for Insurance Companies, such as Financial EXCURS We print Handbills, Quail Sheet posters, Tags, Tickets, N utes, Visiting Cards, Mourning WE HAVE Our OF THE WE CAN PRINT A BILL A Three-S AS LARGE AS A Our street-entrance is reti fastidious lady being able to e LONG DISTANCE TELEPHONE, Books vs. Woods. 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COVINGTON, VA. Daniel Braxton, Box 91. NEWPORT NEWS, VA. Freddie Smith, 1358-29th St. M. J. Jefferson, 1211-30th St., TARPORO, N. C. V. E. Heward. WILMINGTON, N. C. William H. Moore. STAUNTON, VA. Wm. C. Johnston, 111 E. Main 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. PORTSMOUTH, VA. H. S. Cooper, 1332 County St. JACKSONVILLE, FLA. John H. Johnson, 210 Bridge St. PROVIDENCE, R. L. Douglass A. A. P. Agency 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. MEMPHIS, TENN. Standard? News Company. 图 SIX THE PLANET SATURDAY...SEPTEMBER 7. '07. CARE OF THE HAIR DRESSING "MY LADY'S" TRESSES AN ACKNOWLEDGED ART. Careful Manicuring and Brushing Are Vital to Proper Appearance— Check May Be Put on Signs of Age. Dressing the hair to day is more of an art than it has been for some seasons past, the arrangement of waves, puffs, and curls reminding one somewhat of Gainesboro pictures. Speaking of curls, was there ever such a riot of them seen before? The drooping mushroom and fading. Choche hat require curls in abundance to fill in their generous curves, in greater abundance, in fact, than nature is willing to supply, and art must of necessity come to the rescue. Well, luckily, one can buy curls of all shades, gently or in clusters and wreaths, little tight ones and big fat ones, and no head need go unadorned. "So are those crisped and snaky golden Which make such wanton gambols with the wind. Upon the facings often known To be the dwindling of a second head." said Shakespeare, and like most of his comments on human nature and customs it is just as true to-day as when he uttered it. Waved hair still remains the mode and there are a number of pretty ways in which a becoming undulation may be arranged. The Marcel at present is possible only in the hands of the expert, but a number of simple devices are sold on which the hair may be done right for a pretty wave next day. While waves are modish, it is smooth, shining ones that are smartest. Glossy hair is the mark of the well grouped woman as much as careful manicure, not the gloss is only obtainable with care and patience. Shampooing with the best of shampoo soaps or liquid preparations is the first step toward obtaining this fashionable gloss, a little oil being rubbed into the scalp after the shampoo if the hair seems ooo dry. If you will use a little oil on the scalp as directed you will never be oblited to complain that you washed your hair yesterday and just can't do a thing with it. Hair oils, brilliantists, etc., impart a softness and the sheen of satin to "my lady's" tresses and are always quite harmless if not distinctly beneficial. Many of the best hair tonics and dandruff curls also produce a wonderful shine and pibiability. Unless one's hair is very short and thin and easily managed it is a mistake to attempt to shampoo it at home, as so much better results are obtained at beauty parkers or baths, where a thorough cleansing is assured and every possible mechanical aid at hand for careful drying and untangling. Brushing is, as every one knows, highly beneficial to the hair, and should not be neglected night and morning. Electrical treatments are also excellent for stimulating growth and curbing a tendency to come out. These have been known to produce results where everything else seemed to have failed. Scalp foods, tonics, and electrical treatments with scientific care of the scalp will often, if the matter is taken in time, check turning gray and restore to the hair roots that vigor which produces a natural color. "An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure," however, and anyone who desires to retain their youth should begin the care of hair and complexion before youth has begun to wane. HEAD CUSHION FOR CHAIR Intended Primarily for Wicker Porch Furniture. Comfortable and delightful In many ways as wicker armchairs undoubtedly are, they have one serious drawback. As headrests they leave much to be desired, since the hard wicker border is anything but restful when one is anxious, perhaps, to enjoy the luxury of an after dinner nap. A soft cushion tied securely to the back of the chair, so that it fits comfortably between the wicker border and the head, makes all the difference in the world; and we give a sketch of one of these cushions, showing very clearly how it should be made, which should prove of interest to our readers. In shape, the cushion somewhat resembles an inverted tea-coy. It is covered with soft serge or silk and daintily embroidered in a floral design. The long ribbons at the top are used to tie the cushion firmly to the frame of the chair, while the other bows are simply ornamental. A hemstitched frill in soft silk gives a pretty finish to this useful head cushion. COLLARS OF BITS OF LACE. Dresses for Little Girls Are Finished with Dainty Berthas. For the mother who has many children, the bertha collars will always prove useful, and the illustrated group of patterns on this page may give you an idea for using up some of the bits. Although the models are here shown as cut in one piece, they could all be made with seams on the shoulders and, if need be, in the front and back. Here is a chance to utilize some small bits of lace, lawn and embroidery. If you have two medallions instead of four, put them on the shoulders and Berthas for Children. leave the front and back of the square collar plain, or it may be that you have two of two different kinds. One of the marks of this season's fashions is that several different fabrics and trimmings are used on one garment. A dress, for instance, will often be trimmed with torchon and Val lace, and batiste embroidery. The collar with the points could be made with every point of all-over embroidery or lace and every other one of plain material, then strapped with narrow lace as shown in the illustration. "LEGHORN" NOW THE THING. Old-Time Millinery Favorite Seen In Many Shapes. In mininery, that perennial favorite, the leghorn, is chosen for a large number of the prettiest flower-trimmed French models, and whether from long association or innate correspondence with the laws of the eternal fitness of things, leghorn seems peculiarly suited for ribbon and floral adornment. The wide soft silken scarfs and huge bows so popular with the designers adapt themselves admirably to the graceful leghorn shapes which are sometimes variations upon the clooche or mushroom shapes and sometimes pictureques shapes with wide drooping brim at the back and at one side, while the other side is turned up sharply from the hair. Or perhaps the new leathern takes on the aureole lines, a wide brim drooping low at the back, but rolled back slightly in the front, exposing the front hair and giving an aureole effect from a front view. On the whole, this hat, rolling back from the face, is one of the most becoming of the new models. It has the new lines, the backward tilt, the droop of wide back brim, but it does not, as so many of the cloche models do, look as though about to scuttle down and snuff out the face below it. Try This for Neuralola If the neuralia is located on the right side of the face the left hand and wrist should be placed for ten or 15 minutes in a basin of water as hot as can comfortably be borne. If the left side is the one afflicted the right hand and wrist should be placed in the hot bath. The treatment can be repeated if the first does not relieve the pain. The explanation given by physicians for this peculiar treatment is that the two nerves which have the greatest number of tactile nerve endings are the fifth and medial nerves. As the fibers of these two nerves cross any impulse carried to the left hand affects the right side of the face, or, if applied to the right, the effect will be the reverse. This is caused by the crossing of the cords. The Linen Frank Linen robes, beautifully hand embroidered, are on view in all the shops, and there are, too, embroidered bordure lineae—that is, linen with a deep embroidered border. This border is most often executed in fine soutache, with French knots and occasional embroidery stitches scattered throughout the intricate design, and the result is often exceedingly effective. Linen lacey dyes to match the material are used upon some new linen frocks and coats, and such dyed lace in cluay, fillet or antique forms most successful trimalay, some soft lace, such as valenciennes or a fine batiste embroidery, being necessary, however, near the face and in the inevitable undersleeves. The New Combination of Layers One of the combinations of lace that seem the most modish this year is that of Valenciennes and fillet. The lighter lace is used to edre patterns in the fillet or, in the form of entdeux, is incrusted in the heavier lace. As a rule a rather heavy Valenciennes and a light fillet are chosen. This seems to replace the Irish and Valenciennes of last season. Freved Curtains Oftentimes your curtains become worn at the bottom, especially when they touch the floor. Cut off as much as is necessary to make the ends even. Swear a narrow hem and crochet scallops, the size of the original, from one end to the other. After the curtains have been washed and stretched you practically have new ones. Housewife's Walk A woman who once wore a pedometer to find out how much walking she did in the house discovered that under the most favorable conditions she traveled 7.38 miles daily in her household tasks. If the 33 1-3 per cent. of unnecessary steps, or 2.46 miles of daily travel, had been added, calculates the Dellneator, she would have walked in one year in doing her housework more than 3,500 miles. THE RICHMOND PLANET. RICHMOND. VIRGINIA CHURCH AND CLERGY. The Lutheran synod has passed a resolution prohibiting ministers from financial speculation. Nine district Epworth leagues in Illinois last year sent money and supplies to the amount of nearly $5,000 to the orphanage at Lake Bluff. Samuel J. Levinson, after a successful year as the superintendent of the Jewish Federation of Indianapolis, has been reelected to the office for the term of another year. Nine graduates of the Chicago training school were appointed to missionary work under the Woman's Foreign Missionary society at the recent executive session of the society. Rev. Walter Franklin Prince of Brooklyn, N. Y., has been called to be the first rector of All Saints' Methodist Episcopal church, Allegheny, Pa., and will assume charge on August 1. The University of Wooeter, O., has conferred the degree of doctor of divinity upon Rev. Samuel Dickey, professor of New Testament literature and exegesis in McCormick Theological seminary. Preparations for the eleventh annual summer assembly of the Jewish Chautaqua society, which will be held in Atlantic City from July 23 to 28 inclusive, promise to make the convention interesting. The Paulist order has been increased by five young priests whose ordination took place recently in New York. They are Revs. Thomas Ryder, Thomas Walsh, James Towey, Charles Bradley and James Crinin. RULES FOR HEALTH. Heart, lungs and muscles may be seriously injured by sudden strenuous exercise. Always sleep with such an amount of covering as to be slightly too cold rather than too hot. Thirty per cent of all the cases that come into the doctors' bands are said to be caused by over-eating. One of the most grievous mistakes people make is in believing that energy of mind betokens physical efficiency. Three things alone are necessary for the preservation of health—regularity of habits, cleanliness and temperance. A cold bath in the morning not only does some people no good, but simply paves the way for rheumatoid conditions in later years. Woolen underclothes should be worn all the year round. Spring chilis are chiefly caused by non-absorbent cotton garments. EPIGRAMS ON WOMAN. Woman is the Sunday of man.—Michelet. The best woman is the woman who is the least talked about.—Old Proverb. It is love that makes time pass, and it is time that makes love pass.—Old Proverb. We should choose a wife with our ears rather than with out eyes.—Old Proverb. Women are a new race, recreated since the world received Christianity.—Beecher. The desire to please is born in women before the desire to love.—Ninon de l'Enclos. A fortress that parleys with you and a woman who listens to you are both ready to surrender.—French Proverb. SIS HOPKINS' SAYINGS. It is perfectly natural for a rubber-tired buggy to creep. In Indiana a lady-buzzer has never been seen to saw much wood. Truth will rise; but when you tell it, it will get one out of most people. The man whose wife is always looking for change never has any in the bank. A man who can't tie his neck-string is often a good hand at binding a bargain. Two good things to look out for are the cars and the man who looks out for himself. Ma says that loving a thin man is about as luxurious as sitting on a barbed-wire fence.—Rose Melyille. SEGREGATED THINKS: When you're sore at yourself it's twice as easy to get sore at other people. The observant optimist is a master of appreciation, while the observant pessimist is the prince of fault finders. Of course you amount to a good deal more than the other fellow does, but not from the other fellow's point of view. They have hope of victory who endure.—Persius. My way is to go straight forward and aim at what is right.—Bishop Asbury. He alone is poor who wastes his time and neglects his opportunities.—Bovee. Knights of Pythias, This organization is one of the most powerful in the country and its progress has been phenominal. The Grand Lodge of Virginia has jurisdiction over all of the cities and counties in this state. Thirty males are required to organize a new lodge. The benefits paid constitute one of its strongest features, but the principles are greater than anything else. Founded on Friendship, based on Charity and established on Benevolence, the respectable, upright people of the state will find it an order worthy of their heartiest support. 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 pays $4.00 per week sick dues. The badge costing 75 cents each is the only absolutely necessary regalla. For information concerning the organization of lodges apply at the main office. The Courts of Calanthe Is the Female Department of the Order. It requires a membership of thirty persons to organize a court. Its members are pledged to exhibit Fidelity, exercise Harmony and prove Love one for the other. It pays an endowment and burial benefit of $150.00. It pays $3.00 per week sick dues. The only expense for regalia is the cost of the badge, 50 cents and a rosette, costing 25 cents for funeral occasions. THE BANDS OF CALANTHE or Children's Department also constitutes a feature and persons cannot do better than to enter the little ones into this mystic circle. The expense is nominal and the benefits all that could be expected. It pays from $1.00 to $1.50 sick dues and death benefits of from $30.09 to $40.00. If you have no Pythian Lodge or Court or Band in your neighborhood, orgnize one. For all information concerning the Children's Department address. For all information concerning special rates of membership in the lodges and courts, address KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAAS F.C.B. only absolutely necessary regu- apply at the main office. The Court Is the Female Department of the thirty persons to organize a co- Fidelity, exercise Harmony and an endowment and burial bene- dues. The only expense for me a rosette, costing 25 cents for the THE BANDS OF CALA- stitutes a feature and persons o circle. The expense is nomin- $1.00 to $1.50 sick dues and do- Lodge or Court or Band in you. For all information concern For all information concer- membership in the ledges and Nothing is more tedious than the pursuit of pleasure as an occupation.—Bovee. The secret of success lies in the man and not in the material he works on.—Bradford. It is always safe to do right; and the trusted expediency is simple justice.—Whittier. Without content, we shall find it almost as difficult to please others as ourselves—Greville. No man's life is too short if he has fulfilled the tasks of virtue in a virtuous manner.—Epictetus. Happiness is the shadow of contentment, and rests or moves for ever with the original—Bucklech. Nothing can bring you peace but yourself; nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles.—R. W. Emerson. When we set up a purpose beyond our own happiness, and follow it, happiness will follow us in its turn.—Wilbur. He is incapable of a truly great action who knows not the pleasure in contemplating the good actions of others.—Young. BEAUTY SECRETS. For perspiring feet, bathe the feet in water in which a little alum has been mixed. Never wash the face with cold water when feeling flushed and warm. Lukewarm water is better. A fever patient should not be sponged while sweating and should never be placed in a draft. Those who are troubled with sleeplessness should try sipping a glass of hot water very slowly after getting into bed. If the fingers are hardened by much needlework, a little petroleum ointment rubbed in at night will soften them again. Stains on hands can be removed by acetic acid or salts of lemon. Ink marks will be removed by pumice stone, fruit stains by oralic acid. The simplest and surest remedy for blackheads is the bathing of one's face every night with hot water, drying it with a soft towel, and then rubbing in gently some cold cream. In the morning wash the face well in tepid water. When the pain of a headache is very severe, dip a handkerchief in very cold water and lay it on the sufferer's forehead, renewing every few moments; or, if the chilly feeling is complained of, let the water be as hot as can be borne. BY THE GENTLE CYNIC A chain of circumstances generally has a weak link. A poor excuse is better than none, provided it works. You can kill time, but it will come back and haunt you. He who realizes his own weakness thereby adds to his strength. He laughs best who realizes that the laugh is on some one else. Many a man dines at expensive places merely to feed his vanity. If the devil is the father of lies, he must have a mighty big family. He who banks on luck should hire some other fellow to take his risks for him. The Mongolians are not the only --- N. A., S. A., E. A., A. AND A. organization is one of the most powerful has been phenominal. The Grand Ducer all of the cities and counties inled to organize a new lodge. The biggest features, but the principles ended on Friendship, based on Charity the respectable, upright people of their heartiest support. An endowment and burial benefit of per week sick dues. The badge of galla. For information concerning surts of Calanthe in the Order. It requires a member court. Its members are pledged and prove Love one for the other. Benefit of $150.00. It pays $3.00 per regalia is the cost of the badge, 50 funeral occasions. ANTHE or Children's Department cannot do better than to enter the final and the benefits all that could death benefits of from $30.09 to $40 our neighborhood, orgnize one. ing the Children's Department ad of the most powerful in the country and its tal. The Grand Lodge of Virginia has juris- dent counties in this state. Thirty male 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 import. burial benefit of of $200.00 for all ages. It es. The badge costing 75 cents each is the ation concerning the organization of lodges men's Department also con- tain to enter the little ones into this mystic s 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. 120 W. Hi merning special rates of courts, address JOHN I $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 rica to-day. Nothing else like it. No long talk. My plan at almost every home over and over again. 87 clear profit o-day for full particulars, with real chance of a lifetime. address $150 PER MONTH SURE TO GOOD AGENTS... shining the world's greatest of HAIR, HEAIR. Absolutely the greatest seller in America to-day. Nothing else like it. No long way. My plan does the work. Sells at almost every home over and over again. 87 clear profit on the dollar. Write to day for full particulars, with real chance of a lifetime. Address J. F. CLARK, CONWAY, ARK. people who have a streak of yellow in them. Lots of fellows feel that you are not treating them right if you take them to a soda fountain. REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR. The interesting thing about a lie is guessing if anybody will be fool enough to believe it. A widow is always willing to learn, specially if she has to forget what she already knows to do it. A disagreeable thing about marrying a rich wife is the way she could dock your pay for staying out late nights. When a man can't tell whether a woman's hat is a new-fangled bany carriage or a fancy lamp shade she knows it is a success. The interesting thing to a woman about being in a sleeping car is it is so perfectly respectable, but would be a scandal anywhere else.—N. Y. Press. A Small Boy's Answer. At a country school in England it is said that one of the examiners in a general exercise wrote the word "dozen" on the blackboard and asked the pupils to each write a sentence containing the word. He was some what taken aback to find on one of the papers the following sentence: "I dozen knew my lesson." The charity of the tailor covers a multitude of shins. The modern financier is shy of any scheme that will not hold water. The queen of Sheba never told what she thought of King Solomon's proverbs. Call this a sordid and unromantic age?—why the poorhouses are full of the children of people who married just for love. Why waste time trying to prove to a woman that you're in love with her? Prove to her that she's in love with you, and her vanity will make her believe the other. The European papers that comment so bitterly on the increase of crime in American cities are silent concerning the increased migration from Europe to these cities—Uncle Remus' Magazine. A man's life is full of crosses and temptations. If he is poor, he is a bad manager; if he is rich, he is dishonest. When he is little the big girls kiss him, but when he is grown the little girls kiss him. He comes into this world without his consent, and goes out against his will, and the trip between the two is exceedingly rocky. The rule of contraries is one of the important features of the trip. If he needs credit, he can't get it; if he is prosperous, everyone wants to do him a favor—Chicago Trade Journal. --- --- A Small Boy's Answer. A GLANCE IN PASSING A FEW DOTS ON MAN. ```markdown ``` 311 N. 4th St., Richmond, Va JOHN FOXEL Dealer in General Line of FANCY AND STAPLE GROCERIES NOTIONS, FRESH MEATS, CI- GARS, TOBACCO, ICE, WOOD, COAL, &c. 11 S. 4TH ST., RICHMOND, 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, Vs H F Jonathan FISH. OYSTERS; AND PRODUCE. 120 N. 17TH St., RICHMOND, VA. ALL ORDERS WILL RECEIVE PROMPT ATTENTION. Long Distance Phone. 755. HIGHER WAGES TO NEGRO WORKMEN Secured by This New Union Order—Grows By Leaps and Bounds—Started Five Years Ago with Nothing But a "Principle"—Now Has Over 400 Subordinate Lodges and 36,000 Members. Over 30,000 homes of our people have been filled with joy, because of the Protection of a great and powerful Union Order, which is using its strength and influence to secure better conditions for our people. This is the first and only great Union Order in this country, holding an International Union Charter from the Courts, which give a full Protection and Benefits to our race. There is no color, race or sex discrimination in this Order. The negro has an equal standing with the white members, and can be elected to hold any office. Every effort is made to advance the condition of the members, by securing equal opportunities to work with other workmen, to learn the trades and to have steady work at high wages and Union hours. The Grand Lodge donates $100,00 for the burial of each deceased member. 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 pay, payments, said stock paying 8 per cent interest, guaranteed. A Leading Negro Journal is owned in each locality, AT ONCE, is owned in each locality, AT ONCE, is owned in Lodges, sell Buttons, take Journal Subscriptions, sell Stock and act as DISTRICT DEPUTY ORGANIZER. This work can be done in spare hours, but many are devoting their whole time and attention to it. Big money is made by good hustlers. Write at once. State name of this paper, and enclose 10 cents for full information and postage. Address THE I. L. U. GRAND LODGE, 34 to 40 Canby Building, Dayton, Ohio. Virginia's Most Successful Hair Culturist. ... PARLORS.... 108 E. Leigh St. - Richmond, / Phone, 1034. Private Parlors, Confidential Interviews and Correspondence. The largest and most up-to-date Hair Dressing Parlors in Richmond. The very best preparations that can be made for the hair, scalp, face and skin. Graham's Superior Scalp Food for growing hair on bald heads and bare temples, 25cts. per jar. By mail, 35cts. Graham's Superior Orange Flower Skin Fo. for developing and beautifying the skin, 25cts a jar. By mail 35cts. Graham's Superior Velvet Liquid Powder for giving the face a beautiful fair color, 25 cents a bottle. By mail 35cts. Graham's Vegetable Hair Dye the best on market giving a rich natural color, $1.00 per bottle. By mail, $1.25. Mrs. Graham makes a speciality of massaging and beautifying ladies' faces for parties and public gatherings, 35 cents. Mrs. Graham shampoos the head and puts it in a healthy condition, 25 cents. All ladies who attend parties and other social gatherings should have their finger nails manicured and made beautiful, 25 cents. Mrs. Graham's preparations sell at sight. Ladies living in other cities and towns can make good money by selling these preparations. Write for terms to Mrs. J. A. Graham, No. 108 E. Leigh St., Ricamond, 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. Have all grades of good liquors, Cigars and Tobacco. Call and see us. 422 E. Broad St., Richmond, Virginia. S. W. ROBINSON. NO. 23 NORTH 18TH ST FINE WINES, LIQUORS CIGARS, &c. Your patronage is respectfully solicited. —Subscribe to the Richmond, Va. PLANET. $1.50 per year. GEORGE O. BROWN. PHOTOGRAPHER. Fine Photographs. True to Life. High-class service. Latest Improvements in Photograph- out. Not executed. Reasonable Edd. and Postage. Free. Expires End from Old negatives or Photographs. THE ECONOMY 303-5 North Third St. FINE TAILORING. CLEANING, DYEING AND REPAIRING CHITMAN M. WHITE, PROPRIETOR. A. Hayes 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 at kindly. 'Phone, 2778. ° ° Banish Wrinkles BN OS. YR”) fle DP aap Oh (7k ie \\ = WES ae | Seam oe eC CSS 96 Sos eo caeeeet 4 OuGi snc \/; fae =) 6S Hie CUE mes picts “? HI ERS 4S 8 Fe Nh | \ See CE a i ai Waa HT i x Oe na ‘ Hi STEAM _THE FACE TO ||| NG emma OPEX’ THE PORES ith a au 2334 EQ— ||| || AF | Earere aS Wee. ae Ce | ee = 7 ee oe NN) Ag UU BOO! HASEAGE THE WRIAKLE a 2 eee Gee eee a ene This may have been true 100 years ago, but in these days of high living and hard-working dimples fy at an early age and wrinkles come before thelr Massaxe 1s the best means of destroying wrinkles and this should be one with the fingertips. The idea is to open the pores of the skin, and to Jet in a sufficient amount of off to replace the natural oils. To practice massage correctly, the pores of the ekin should be open and for this face-steaming Is best. Fill a basin with hot water and add a tea- Spoonful of borax. Take a towel folded square, dip in the water, and hold on the fact. Repeat and keep repeating for 15 minutes. A sponge may bo used instead of the towel, Spread a larer of skin food upon the face and let it soak in. Spread on another layer, and run over it very gently with the fingertips. This should be done once a week. ‘Tho forehead shld be massaged every nicht and there are several Movements for it. ‘The first is aeross the lines that le between the eyes. ‘The Becond is from side to side, stroking the wrinkles that run across the fore- ‘head. This movement should be up and down so as to run counter to the Wrinkles. Remember, in massage, never run in the Ine of the wrinkles, but always across them. ‘Tho third motion ts the double one. The fingers are separated, and are allowed to travel very gently over the wrinkles that lie above and below the eyes. ‘The fourth is the massage at the outer corners of the eyes, ‘The fingers should rub the skin in circular fashion. Then there is the onefinger mas- Sage, which Is for those who have the deep wrinkles running up aud down between the eyebrows. This massage is light but thorough and should be Practiced twice a day till the wrinkles are gone. ee In Back and White For the Little Girl Most Desirable of Combinations for Artistic Costume That Wil! Make Up the Woman Whose Purse and Look Well in Many Kinds Re ante. | of Makariadh. The woman whose position de mands that she should te smartly gowned, and yet whose purse forbids any extravarance in dress, will find {t a good plan to have always at hand @ stylish back or biack and white costume Piack and white always looks well If made up tn good mate- rials and then it ia to a certatn extent inconspicuous, so that the one frock may be worn time sad again without being too distinctly remembered. Of course, {t i & mistake to dress entire ly tm black or black and white, but @ black and white robe of some de- scription {s always a useful invest- ment. In the morning a black cloth or serge with a tiny line of white is ex- cellent, and this black cloth with its line of white tm sean tn all possible degrees, the white varying from an ak most indefinable stripe to a line of equal width with! the black White nen collar and cuffs lald over the velvet or cloth make the suit lighter for this time of year The majority of walking suits thix Keason are made with a short threequarter fitted jacket, single-breasted and rounded with the cutaway effect. The sleeves are full length or a long threequarter as desired The skirts clear the ground well and flare attractively all around For afternoon a black taffeta coat and skirt costume {s most serviceable, and while not new is as fashionabie as ever. Instead of an all white waist for wear with this sult, a guimpe ef fect in ince and chiffon, with a bodice of the sik embroidered in gold or sil Ver, slashed open here and there to show the lace, makes an effective dress A pony or bolero coat of the silk embroidered in black silk or else trimmed with soutache braid is the fashionable jacket just now. Instead of Lining this little coat ts seams are bound with lace edging and insertion, through which narrow satin ribkons are run, and thts Keeps the wrap light while leaving a most attractive finish to be seen when the coat is thrown open or laid aside temporarily. For Fall Wear. From buyers who are in Europe to get next season's goods comes sword that there will be a craae for gold and silver ornaments next fall Hate, gowns, blouses and wraps are to be Adorned with gold or silver lace, brald and tasseln. The choice of metal is determined chiefly by the color scheme. Faint light browns and delt- cate bright greens are the tavorite hues. Sometimes the brown is trimmed with green, in which case gol¢ Is the most harmontous addition. Whea green ts trimmed with brown sliver le regarded as giving the more agree able effect. This fashion will he ex. tremely trying to women who haven't the great dressmakers at their com- mand, for good effects with gold and silver trimming are dificult. The ten- dency seems to be toward gurishness Materist_in Piano. ‘There are 48 differeat kinds of me terial entering into the ‘construction of @ plane aad they are feathered from 16 couatries. Races and Languages. ‘The race of the warld are num dered at 72, maiing use of 4.603 differ ent tongues. There are about 1,000 ‘Telgiona. For the Little Girl Artiatle Costume That Will Make Up ‘and Lock Well in Many Kinds of Material. ‘There are many materials that may be used successfully for maikne thie charming Ute dress: for lusaeg, Roman satin. carhmere. Liberty atte) and a kind of crepe cloth, are ai sult able The litue Empire bodice te Ze | i : Sey Nae AUN) FS Wo TBe IY 4g yf ee om awe / “J ¥; f fs és] A aS fs \ &: \ 94 \ fastened diagouelly, ani fs trimmed with an embroidered collar. the same embroidery being carried down to the foot of skirt The sieves are a wory pretty shape. cut with hardly any fullness at top. but very full below the elbow, where they are gathered into embroidered bands Material required: Three yards 46 inches wide Neckwear Is Daintily Fussy. High turnover collar of eluny and torchon lace over stiff bands are worn with silk ties of s color to match the skirt or suit which they accompany Collar and cut sets, for plato shirt waists of the tailored persuaston and those smart little tailored frocks of Ughtweight striped and checked worsteds, mobairs. linens and. ging: hams which the modish mald will don for morning wear at the fashionable Seaside and montain resorts and tn town also, are smartest when made of fine linen, daintily embroidered in simple desien, and edged with a nar row fluted {rill of the same matertal,, plain or hemstitched Frilis of lace. Are also used. but che fact that they. never look as well afier being Iaun- dered gives them less (nvor Sis Bin.ta Mew.ent O68: | A jewelry novelty which ids fair to enjoy ail the popularity of the horseshoe and the swastica Is the feather pin. This pin has but recently made {te appemrance in the exclusive shops. It is mace of tilver. enamel, Solid gold and tiny briliiants set iu platinum. Some there are which show @ tiny setting In the center of the quill, coral being ured with gold and turquoise with silver In those of Solid gold diamonts ant oiber precious stones are (0 be seen Hard Job. Sir John Franklin was searching for the northwest pacsace. “I find it almost as dificult a task,” he observed, wearily, “as if I were em Sineering that boulevard across the Chicago river.” Partially satisfying the cravings of his appetite by eating 4 tallew candle, he looked saxiousiy to the southeast to wee if any pile expedition was conliag.—Chicago Tribune. THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. WHITE MATERIAL IS BEST FOR THIS DESIGN. Can Be Made by the Home Worker at Comparatively Little Cost—Neat ly Embroidered, It Makes Pretty Trinket. Linen ts coming more and more into favor as a material for small articles, and calendars, desk sets, purses, bags and many other suck things are seon in the art needlework stores and thelr popularity Is due to its strength and its neat and frosh appearance. A design for a linen pocket book is shown in the drawing, which might very easily be carried ont by the home worker at small cost, white Inen being used as material. The pocket book was embroidered with white embroidery cotton In a tre- fotl pattern, round dots also being sot on at regular intervals A double Ine of tho embroidery cotton formed the border. Another style of pocket book ta an ‘exact copy of the popular strap pock- et book, with a handle om tho back, which may be slipped over the fingers. When finished it should be seven Inches wide and four and a quarter deop. The strips should be abont 12 inches long to bring this size when finished. The stripe are folded up much itke an enyolope with the turned-over flap coming to withiu am inch of the bottom of the pocket. ‘The foundation for the purse is made of heavy white canvas, cut just Ike the linen covering except for tho flap. ‘Tho stitched handle was made of canvas, coverod with the linen. and Sat eet hs Rae et o>" o> aoe 4 . *” ° ° 2 S ese set e/a 4 2 te py Se pel) ce bs 5 5 ee ee Ree A Pocket Book of White Embreidered Linen. was sewed to the back of the pura, If @ monogram bas not been used on the fap. the owner's initials may be embroidered in small letters on the handle. The flap was folded down with a hot fron, SMALL ITEMS OF TOILET. Coquettish Fripperies Have immense Vegue Thie Seosca. There ts really no describing tho smartening tnfluence of the myriad little lace and embroidery detatis of the fashionabia woman's tollette, and this fact was never more apparent than this season, when so inany tall ored and semi-tailored frocks are om: bellishod with separate chermisettes, rovers, cuffs, otc, of handwork of all kinds. Fichus of all kinds have won Parisian favor, and coquettish effects are obtained by their clever manipula. tion, even though they be evor so sim- ple and inexpensive. It ts the girl who understands how to make and how to wear these dainty Accessories who appears well dressed. A white duck skirt worn with a hand- made and hand-embroidered blouse and fnished by a good-looking belt and tle or stock Is always tn good taste this time of year, provided it ts all dainty aud fresh, the belt carefully Adjusted, the blouse securely fastuned and no white petticoats dipping below tho duck skirt in the back. A fulllongth glass or a woll-tipped dressing mirror should be consulted before going out. It is very dimcult to have petticoats and undersktrts of exact length for tub frocks, where shrinkage must be considered, and nen or duck skirt particularly Is apt to “hitch” at the back. ests le a Cre? | Music is called the universal Ine ‘guage; and yet when you are strug sling to understand what a composer is trying to say, always remombor that he is speaking a primitive lan guage that frames vaguely a sent! mont, or & mood, or a tangled fabric of sentiments and moods ‘Tho best definition I ever heant of music is that of Taine, “Music is a ery,” and—to my thinking, at least— the best music fa that tm which, to the largest degree, each note repre sents an outery. But them a cry may mean so much or #0 Mittle!—Delimea. tor. Linen Robe Patterns. In the embroidered linen robe pat- terne are to be found many that wil! make up resdity {nto three-piece cos (umes er into princess dreenes with supplementary coat or sleeveless jacket. Some of these pattern gowns have at least one embroidered or lace panei thet will extend from the belt to the hem, and others ® skirt show. tag entredeux of heavy lace or em broldery which is repeated ia the jacket trimming and fn the accom. panying blouse. Priest Cape for Brideemeia. Litto “priests’ capes* of ereamy Venetian lace, which are caught ta the center of the back with a huge buckle and fall in long graduated ends to the bottom of the skirt, reproseat 8 very protty finish to net gowns for Dridesmalds. The laee te repeated again as & covering to @ hat of whito crinoliae, whieh requires no supple mentary adornment seve a huge feathor secured with « large buckle repeating exactly the @ones of the flowers in the bougwet. Civilization In China. ‘The new law om strangling seems to have met the fate of other Chinese lawe—been put by for 3 more conven- jeat veason—aad the curious crowds were giutted with the ueual horrible kiting by the sword on the tith. This was @ young man, and, instead of usiag @ sword, & long pole was wed with a kaife attached —Shang- has Mercury, "ae | SECCDDDS393095995996—¢_ etait aoe « FURNITURE : FLoor CovERINGSK+8 g SYONOR & HUNDLEY, INC. 8 ee a Leaders. ; a 709 711 713 EAST BROAD STREET. y SSCHHECESSHPRTTARGZRDRSGEE Me Che People’s Restaurant, aay ————— 750 North 3rd St., Richmond, Va——-—— MEALS at All Hours—Hiot or Cold. Board by Day, Week or Month. SOFT DRINKS. 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He was a most prolific weiter, His works in clude “The Golden Lion of Granpere, ‘Orley Farm’ ‘The Vortrams.” ‘Bar chester Towers.’ aud other famous novels, while among his historical and descriptive works are “The Life of Cicero,” ‘North America, and ‘South Africa.’ toxether with sany others. In these sample volumes I wish particu larly to call your atteution to the clearness of the print, the durability of the binding, and the oxcetlent qual ity of paper used.” And 0 on, for tea minutes, “No.” said the man at the desk, turning again to bis work, “you haven't succeaded in tutoresting me a bit “That's all right.” rejoined the tall man fn the sult of faded black, re- placing the sample volumes in his valise with mperturbable composure; “I have just started out canvassing with these books, and I was only prac tleing on you. Good afternoon."—Chl- cago Tribune. 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Y., Sept. 4.—Governor Hughes journeyed from the state capital to this city, where at the annual fair of the Fulton County Agricultural society he addressed a great gathering. The governor was accompanied by his son, Charles E. Hughes, Jr.; his military secretary, Colonel Treadwell; Congressman Drury, former Congressman Littauer, Senator Wemple and Assemblyman Mills. In his speech the governor had much to say concerning political integrity and honorable, fair methods in the administration of affairs of the state and the nation. He said in part: "We have administration of law not to secure the enforcement of those rules and regulations which are designed to keep men within a certain bound so that they shall not transgress the rights of their neighbors, but we have the administration of law to dispense to every man according to his needs in order that private questions may be suitably solved and in order that the demand for law and order shall be enforced. "We want to see that the farmers have a market for their products; we want to see that the workmen have plenty of opportunities for useful labor; we want to see commerce extend and industry develop in opportunities for work all over the state, not meddling for the purpose of interfering with any man's legitimate freedom, but insisting that no man shall profit at another man's failure to have an honest chance. Quebec Bridge Disaster QUEBEC. Sept. 4.—Up to an early hour no more bodies were taken out of the wreckage of the Quebec cantalever bridge. The coroner's jury was sworn in and viewed the thirteen bodies at the morgue and adjourned until tomorrow morning. The jury visited the scene of the accident and the morgue, where the scenes are most pathetic, as the relatives of some of the victims saw the latter there for the first time. Most of the bodies are mutilated. One of the Indians lacks a head. His arm is torn off and lies beside him in the coffin. Bugalo's Old Home We BANKHOUSE Old Home Week. BUFFALO, Sept. 4. It is estimated that 150,000 people lived Main street to see the parade of firemen here. Among the prizes awarded were: Finest hose carriage, Protection hose, Throld, Ont. first; company coming longest distance, Parsons hose, Schectady, N. Y.; best drilled company, Alden hose, Alden, N. Y.; best appearing and marching company, Merritt hose, Merritt, Ont.; oldest volunteer fireman, J. H. Collins, Oneonta, N. Y. American Paints Edward's Portrait. MARIENBAD, Sept. 4. L. King Edward has commissioned Mrs. Leslie Cotton, a well known portrait painter of New York, to paint his portrait. Two sittings already have been given, and the results are most satisfactory. Earthquakes In Algeria. CONSTANTINE, Algeria, Sept. 4.—Slight earthquake are reported from the villages of Melonga, Kessabia and Bent-Bimane. Several houses and mosques were either damaged or collapsed. One man was killed. MR. BAKER'S DESCRIPTION. CONTINUED FROM FIRST PAGE. haired Negroes, have you?" he asked Ignorance carries a big burden and climbs a rocky road! OLD MAMMIES AND NURSES. The mass of colored people still maintain, as I have said, a more or less intimate connection with white families—frequently a very beautiful and sympathetic relationship like that of the old mammies or nurses. To one who has heard so much of racial hatred as I have since I have been down here, a little incident that I observed the other day comes with a charm hardly describable. I saw a carriage stop in front of a home. The expected daughter had arrived—a very pretty girl indeed. She stepped out eagerly. Her father was halfway down to the gate; but ahead of him was a very old Negro woman in the cleanest of clean stitched dresses. "Honey," she said eagerly. "Mammy!" exclaimed the girl, and the two rushed into each other's arms, clasping and kissing—the white girl and the old black woman. I thought to myself: "There's no Negro problem there; that's just plain human love!" "MASTER" .SUPERSEDED BN "BOSS." Often I have heard Negroes refer to "my white folks" and similarly the white man still speaks of "my Negroes." The old term of slavery, the use of the word "master," has wholly disappeared, and in its place has risen, not without significance, the round term, "Boss," or sometimes "Cap" or "Cap'n." To this the white man responds with the first name of the Negro, "Jim" or "Susle"—or if the Negro is old or especially respected: "Uncle Jim" or "Aunt Susan." To an unfamiliar Northerner one of the very interesting and somewhat amusing phases of conditions down here is the panic fear displayed over the use of the word "Mr." or "Mrs." No Negro is ever called Mr. or Mrs. by a white man; that would indicate social equality. A Southern white man told me with humor of his difficulties: "Now, I admire Booker Washington. I regard him as a great man, and yet I couldn't call him 'Mr.' Washington. We were all in a quandary until a doctor's degree was given him. That saved our lives! We all call him 'Dr.' Washington now." Sure enough! I don't think I have heard him called 'Mr.' Washington since I came down here. It is always "Dr." or just "Booker." They are ready to call a Negro, "Professor" or "Bishop" or "The Reverend"—but not "Mr." In the same way Negro may call Miss Mary Smith by the familiar "Miss Mary," but if he called her Miss Smith she would be deeply incensed. The formal "Miss Smith" would imply social equality. STATEMENT OF THE FINANCIAL CONDITION OF The Nickel Savings Bank, located at Richmond, in the state of Virginia, at the close of business, August 22, 1907, made to the State Corporation Commission. RESOURCES R. F. TANCIL, President Correct--Attest: State of Virginia, County of Henrico. S sworn to and subscribed before me this 4th day of September, 1907. GEO. N. TWISK GEO W, THOMAS, J. P. My time spent on the 13th day of January, 1908 STATEMENT OF THE FINANCIAL CONDITION OF The Mechanics' Savings Bank, located at Richmond, in the State of Virginia, at the close of business, August 22, 1907, made to the State Corporation Commission. RESOURCES. Loans and. Discounts,.....$5142.07 Overdrafts,.....1866.99 Stocks, bonds and mort- house 758.00 Due from Nat. Banks 3113.070 Specie, nickels and cents 772.47 Paper Currency 1362.00 All other items of resources 2601.08 Total $140735.08 LIABILITIES Capital stock paid in.....$24174.32 Surplus fund.....6250.00 Dividends unpaid.....213.00 Individual deposits subject to check.....29019.16 Time certificates of deposit 80925.62 Cashiers checks outstanding 152.98 Total.....$140735.08 I, Thomas H. Wyatt, do solemnly MILLER'S HOTEL W.M.MILLER. PROFRIETOR 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 The Fortieth Annual Session will begin October 1, 1907 and continue eight months. FOUR YEAR'S GRADED COURSE IN MEDICINE FULL YEAR COURSE IN MEDICINE IS OFFERED. Full corps of forty-five instructors. Well equipped laboratories. The New Freedmen's Hospital just completed at a cost of $500,000 offers unexcelled clinical facilities. The Second Session of the Post-Graduate School and Polyclinic will begin May 18, 1908 and continue six weeks for Medical Course and four weeks for Dental Course. This School is connected with a Great University of seven Departments; one thousand students, and over one hundred professors. For further information or catalogue, write DINWIDDIE AGRICULTURAL & INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL INCORPORATED. Dinwiddie Va. ADVANCED AND ELEMENTARY COURSES In the Enlish Branches. Special courses in Agriculture and Domestic Science. 12 Instructors. Next Session begins October 1st. For circulars and information, address. Howard University 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 swear that the above is a true statement of the financial condition of the Mechanics' Savings Bank, located at Richmond in the State of Virginia, at the close of business on the 22d day of August, 1907 to the best of my knowledge and belief. THOMAS H. WYATT, Cashier. Correct—Attest: State of Virginia, City of Richmond, S sworn to and subscribed before me this 30th day of August, 1907. J. THOMAS HEWIN, Notary Public My commission expires 18th day of April, 1910. Murder at New London 4 Murder at New London, Conn. NEW LONDON, Conn., Sept. 4. James I. Beckham of Germantown, Pa., who has been employed as a waiter in Atlantic City, N. J., came to this city and, walking into the California hotel, shot his brother-in-law, William M. Petty, the negro proprietor. Beckham fired five shots, three of which took effect. Petty died within a few minutes. Beckham is locked up. The murder is said to have been caused by family troubles. Beckham, it is said, believed his wife was being harbored in this city by Petty at the California hotel. Standing of the Baseball Clubs. NATIONAL LEAGUE. W. 90 15 720 Chicago 90 35 720 New York 70 49 590 Pittsburgh 71 50 587 Philadelphia 65 50 556 Brooklyn 65 62 556 Cincinnati 51 71 418 Boston 44 75 370 St. Louis 38 87 304 AMERICAN LEAGUE. W. 72 15 720 Detroit 72 46 605 Philadelphia 72 47 605 Chicago 72 51 605 Cleveland 70 51 578 New York 55 64 452 Houston 54 70 450 St. Louis 59 70 452 Washington 36 81 306 Taft to the Convention's Choice. ST. LOUIS, Sept. 4.—Secretary Taft, it is said, will have the Republican delegation from Missouri, probably solid. Since Taft's recent visit here it has come to light that most of the federal officeholders, including Sub-Treasurer Atkins of this city, assured Taft that the opposition or the Dick Kerens men had grown weak, and that the state organization of the party would be with the Roosevelt choice next year in the national convention. Goss to Washington Sept. 21 GOES to Washington Sept. 25. OYSTER BAY, N. Y. Sept. 4.—President Roosevelt will leave Oyster Bay for Washington on Sept. 25 instead of Sept. 29, as he had planned. He will go to Washington for a day before starting on his western and southern trip on Sept. 29. The president will stop at Vicksburg and Nashville during the tour. THE RICHMOND PLANET. RICHMOND. VIRGINIA J.M. COLSON, Supt. Dinwidge, Va UNIVERSITY OF LAW. ADDED 1867. DIOCIARY SQUARE, LL. D., President. BENJAMIN F. LEIGHTON, LL. D., Dean. Begin October 1st, 1907. Course Three at regard to Race, Sex, or Creed. Tui- on, write or apply to MES F. BUNDY, Secretary, Office in Law School Building, North St., North-west, Washington, D. C. 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 55 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. WANTED - Energetic young ladies to handle Hair Vim, the best hair grower. Necessary required. Write to: COOP, INC. 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