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THE RICHMOND PLANET A GRAND TIME IN LOUISVILLE. The Supreme Lodge Meets. A Magnificent Parade. FIVE THOUSAND KNIGHTS IN CAMP CORBIN—MAJOR-GENERAL R. R. JACKSON A MARVEL—REMARKABLE EXECUTIVE ABILITY—PRIVATE FUNDS MAKE THE ENCAMPMENT A GREAT SUCCESS VOLUME XXIV, NUMBER 41. A GRAN IN L The Supre A Magn FIVE THOUSAND KNIGHTS SON A MARVEL—REMARK MAKE THE E Louisville, Ky., Sept. 3d, 1907. The Supreme Lodge met at 10 A.M. to-day. Supreme Chancellor S.W. Starks presiding. The Past Grand Chancellor's degree was conferred upon those entitled to the same. For the first time, it was ascertained that the Supreme Lodge, Eastern and Western Hemisphere at its session in North Carolina had failed to ratify the agreement made at New York THE EASTERN AND WESTERN HEMISPHERE. The Grand Lodge of Maryland, Eastern and Western Hemisphere and lodges from Connecticut had withdrawn and applied for membership in the Supreme Lodge, N. A. S. A., E. , E., A. and A. The Supreme Lodge ratified the action of the Supreme Chancellor, Outside of the report of the Committee on Credentials, very little was done. AT THE COLISEUM. The entertainment at the Coliseum at 4th and Avenue A was magnificent. This building has never before been let to colored people and it was a surprise to everybody in Louisville that Sir J. L. V. Washington and his committee secured the place. It occupies practically the whole block. On the front were electric lights. The inside was on the ampitheatre order and was decorated with flags and streamers. DANCING AND DRILLING The floor was fine for both dancing and drilling. The U. B. F. drilled with precision under the leadership of Capt. Ell Bowen. He was a thorough master of tactics and elicited generous applause. The band discoursed lively airs. The grand march was a feature. The following is the address of John B. Snowden, Grand Chancellor of the Grand Lodge of Kentucky: Supreme Chancellor, Officers and members and visitors to the 14th Biennial Session of the Supreme Lodge Knights of Pythias of North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa and Australia. Two years ago there flashed over the wires, which sent a feeling of delight through every loyal Pythian under the grand domain of Kentucky that this august body would be the guest of this grand old Commonwealth. The anticipation of the present realization has so enthused the hearts of that loyal band of less than 2000 Pythias of this state, that I have the extreme pleasure on this occasion to welcome the representative of approximately 4000 as brave Knights as ever claimed allegiance to this Supreme Lodge. Custom is a peculiar master, more exacting than law, and more technical than diplomacy, therefore I come before you in accordance to the demands of custom for the purpose of welcoming you on behalf of the Grand Lodge, Knights of Pythias of Kentucky. As I am known as "the little countryman" to a vast number of city chaps, be as generous as possible, should I make any breech for this is a role I have never played before. If at any time I am unable to speak the truth, I say nothing I wish to assure you that I am not a George Washington, in not having told a lie, but I shall assure you that I will not tell you one to-night. You are welcome to Kentucky, I need not tell you that you are welcome: because we invited you and wanted you to come and be with us. Why are you welcome? Because your fame has preceded you, you have demonstrated to the world that you are gallant Knights in every sense of the word. Knights of Pythias in Kentucky is a synonym of the best deportment, and I know that the fountain head itself must be a degree higher of perfect deportment. You are welcome because the Pythias of Kentucky wish to see all this greatness of which we boast face to face. You are welcome, because the Pythians of Kentucky wish to catch inspiration from you and come up to the proper standard and not be satisfied with a mediocre position among the bright galaxy of Grand Lodges. Your presence means much for Kentucky, we look to you as the Moslems look towards Mecca, and we welcome you for reciprocal good; for as the interest of the Supreme Lodge advances, the Grand Lodge advances, the subordinate lodge advances and individually and collectively, to Kentucky. To what are you welcome? To everything this Grand old Commonwealth affords. Rich in everything, one of the few states that it is possible to fence in and independently produce everything necessary for the sustenance and the requirements of fastidious people. When the Great Chancellor had completed the universe and viewed the great panorama of all creation there needed one addition to make his handwork perfect: it was then that from His great storehouse of infinite possibilities he beheld the one needful and that necessary adjunct to all creation is the beautiful regions found within the confines of Old Kentucky. There is no part of this Grand Commonwealth which does not stand out in bold relief with real beauty and grandeur. From the head of the Big Sandy, coming through the rugged mountains of Eastern Kentucky, sloping gracefully towards the far famed Blue Grass region, we find even the Pennyriial section contains one of the seven wonders of the world, the great "Mammoth Cave" To all of which you are welcome, and as the principles of Friendship, Charity and Benevolence have been carried to the various sections of Kentucky, there hearts beat as all tried and true who have met the crucial test, and you can behold the sparkling welcome in their countenance. Welcome to earth's fairest production, "The Ladies of Kentucky," as lovely as the morning glory and as sweet as the nectar sipped from the same flower by natures master chemist, the bee. You are welcome to the most graceful, the most beautiful and the fleetest of the Equine Tribe the world has ever produced. You are welcome to the magical transformation of a field of yellow grain, so enervating that a few drops will make you feel like a millionaire. You are welcome heartily by 4000 Pythians of Kentucky and you will find K. of P. one of the magic words throughout this Grand Domain. You are welcomed "In old Kentucky, where Blue Grass grows, Magnolias blossom, mint julep flows, Stars sparkle brightly, and horses fly Bewitching maidens, in old K-y." The third day of the fourteenth biennial convention of the colored Knights of Pythias of the United States began this morning at 10 o'clock with a business meeting of the members of the Supreme Lodge, in Liederkranz Hall. At the same time the Supreme Court of Calanthe went into session in Odd Fellows' Hall. Both lodges had important matters to consider and it was stated that the reports made by the officers connected with the administration of the financial affairs of the Order that the organization was in better shape than it has been at any time in its history. Camp Corbin where the uniformed rank divisions of the fraternity are located at 28th Street and Broadway held guard mount at 9 o'clock this morning and at 10 o'clock religious exercises were held. General inspection and dress parade will take place this afternoon. The announcement by the Supreme Chancellor that the faction of the Order known as the eastern and western hemispheres had come back into the fold and hereafter would be (Continued on Eighth Page.) —Mrs. A. Johnson Andrews, Sumter, S. C., has been attending the Exposition. —Rev. William Brown, D. D. Graham, Va. and Attorney J. C. D. Gardner, Bramville, W. Va. are attending the annual session of the G. U. O. of True Reformers. —Mr. and Mrs. Freeman Epps, Montclair, N. J. are visiting friends here. —Mr. G. T. Dillard, New York, N. Y. passed through the city enroute to the Exposition. —Miss Carsie D. Isham has returned to the city after spending a few weeks with her sister Mrs. A. A. Graham, of Phoebus, Va. William Custalo is Dead William Custalo went home Monday night. September 2d from his place of business as well as usual. He ate his supper and later retired. His wife has no further recollection of anything happening until about 2 o'clock, when she heard something fall in the hallway. She went to the door and down the hall steps, when she observed something white lying on the floor. She thought that it was some of her bed clothing that some one had attempted to carry off and had dropped in the hallway. Upon going near, she found that it was her husband. She turned him over and found that he was still breathing. She could not move him further and she hastened out to Deacon John Powell, alarming the neighbors as she went. She was in the house, practically alone as the two were the only ones on the place. A doctor was hastily summoned and it was ascertained that Mr. Custalo had suffered from a stroke of paralysis. And that there was little or no hope of his recovery. He never rallied. On time, after repeated efforts, he answered his wife's appeals by a pressure on the hand several times repeated. He died Saturday, September 7, 1907 and the news was immediately communicated over the entire city, both white, and colored people joining in the expressions of regret at his sudden taking off. He had been indisposed for many years, but managed to conduct the Custalo House as usual. Under the persuasion of his friends and physician, Dr. J. E. Merriweather, he spent a week at Louisa with Deacon John Powell as the guest of Mr. F. G. Perkins. He was apparently much improved. He appeared to be better than he had been for years. Even in the casket he was the picture of health, so to speak. The funeral took place last Tuesday from the Second Baptist Church Rev. W. T. Johnson, D. D. delivered a most impressive discourse from the subject, "Thy Will Be Done." Mr. Custalo had been a faithful member of this church for many years. On the rostrum were Rev. Jacob Turner, Rev. R. R. Graham, Rev. E. A. P. cheek, Rev. A. S. Thomas, Rev. R. T. Mass. The funeral of Mrs. Mayo talk at the same time. The floral designs were numerous and costly. The casket was cloth-covered with heavy silver bar extension handles. The casket plate contained the Knights of Pythias emblem. He was an Odd Fellow also. He was also a member of the Board of Directors of the Mechanics' Savings Bank, being on the Finance Committee of that institution. Funeral Director A. D. Price officiated in both funerals. Interment was in East End Ceemtery. William Custalo was a landmark so to speak and his death will tend to cast a gloom over this entire community. He was upright, conscientious, and faithful. His troubles are over and on the other side of the River, he will "rest 'neath the shade of the trees." WHITE GENTLEMAN SPEAKS. "Remember Brownsville." To the Editor of The PLANET: Sir: I wish to congratulate and thank you for the timely editorial on Secretary Taft's Lexington speech. You have successfully demonstrated that he is a truckling trimmer on the most vital issue of justice for all civilians and soldiers of the United States. You show successfully how Mr. Taft dodges the main issue that discriminations on account of race do exist. What the country wants to know is what-Mr. Taft would do about it if he were President. The country knows what the President promised in his loud preachments about a "square deal" and everybody knows his historic "failure in the performance" so far as the coloured race is concerned. Remember Brownsville will go into history along with "Remember the Maine" and Mr. Taft. It is indelibly tarred with the Brownsville bill attack Mr. Taft's blinking at the problem now solving itself through the colored man's best friends, the white men of the South is not reassuring either to those familiar with "A tools errand" or to the innocent victims of "the bloody trail." I am glad you republished Gen. Butler's splendid eulogy of the colored soldiers at Ft. Harrison in 1864. I only wish all my Northern "dough faced" white brethren could read it. There is still a remnant of white men who believe that justice must be equally administered in the United States if the Republic is to endure. This number is rapidly growing since the adverse advent of my policies. Yours for the Constitution and its enforcement, A. B. HUMPHREY. New York, Sep. 9, 197 The Shriners Here. The Imperial Council, A. E. A. O. Nobles of the Mystic Shrine has been in session at the Pythian Castle, 727 N. Third Street. The building is tastefully decorated and the concert hall is a place of beauty. Imperial Potentate, Jacob F. Wright has been presiding. The Jane Moseley steamer brought a large crowd to the city from Washington and the visitors are being fd in th spacious dining hall of the Castle. Thursday night the grand banquet took place. It was a magnificent affair. The folders and dance-cards were the finest in the country and were obtained on special telegraphie order for the occasion. The visitors were outspoken in their praise of the hospitality of their fellow craftsmen. HOLMES—CLARKE The marriage of Miss Pollie Frances Clarke to Mr. John R. Holmes will take place Wednesday, September 18th, 1907 at the residence, 724 N 9th St., at 8:30 o'clock P. M. Friends are invited. At Sunday September 22, 1907, 1518 P. Leigh Street from 6 to 8 P. M. 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. RANDOLPH—CLARKE On Thursday morning, Sept. 19th, inst. Miss Lucy Clarke, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Clarke, will be joined in holy matrimony to Mr. Randolgh at the groom's residence, at the altar. No cards. Friends are invited. Dr. Miles B. Jones of this city quietly married Miss M. Jane Boyd, one of our popular and accomplished public school teachers. The happy couple are now residing at the residence of the Doctor on Third Street. They have our best wishes. WANTED—A woman to wash and iron on premises, two days in each week. Will pay $1.00 per day. Apply at 2502 Floyd Avenue. ---Subscribe to The Richmond PLANET. $1.50 per year. JOE GANS WINS AGAIN. The Light-weight Champion of the World His Title is Undisputed. He Fights a Great Battle. San Francisco, Sept. 10, '07.—A left swing to the body, cleverly blocked by Joe Gans, cost Jimmy Britt any chance he might have had to win the lightweight championship of the world to-day and brought to a close five rounds of fast fighting before 14,000 persons at Recreation Park. The deciding blow was caught by Gans on the elbow in the middle of the fourth round. It broke Britt's wrist, and, though Britt went on a gain in the fifth round, he was helpless in both offense and defense. It was not until the sixth round that he informed his seconds of the mishap. right-hand smash. He repeated this blow with increased force and then stood Britt off till the bell. Gans round. Third Round—Britt came to the scratch with his left eye discolored and closing. Gans stopped a left body blow with his elbow, but did not escape a glancing punch that landed on his cheek. Gans drew away then and sparred, blocking several wild swings. After that Britt received left and right in the face and retreat when the colored man started a heavy punch for the bread basket. Mrs. Martha Harrell. After the initiation Chanie Brown, Mrs. the work on the knighthood was at one new lodge will be known at Lodge, No. 134. officers were installed Commander, John H Chancellor, Thad Dyson Eckhequer, Gilbert Sog Records and Seal, J. Master-at-Arms James of Work, George Harri informed his seconds of the mishap. BRITT SAYS HE IS HELPLESS "What's the use of my going on? I can't fight. I am helpless." Britt said to Tiv Kreling, Captain of Police Gleason was informed at the ringside, and he stopped the fight. Referee Welch gave the decision to Gans. Three doctors after an examination, announced that the injury was a fracture and dislocation of the lower end of the ulna. Whether it was a genuine fracture or not, Britt showed such intense suffering while the doctors were manipulating his wrist that the tears rolled down his cheeks. "I was utterly helpless," he said, "I couldn't even hold up my left hand after I broke it. I had to guard for Gans' left and had no punch except with my right." The fight while it lasted was a slugging match, but it was evident to every trained observer that Britt had no chance to win from the colored man. For the first time in his life Britt was outmatched. BRITT LACKS COOLNESS Britt's lack of coolness was partly responsible for the miserable ending of the fight. From the first tap of the gong Britt appeared overeager. He was not content to take the advice shouted to him by his seconds to make Gans do the leading, but he rushed headlong into quarters that developed an inevitable slugging match, in which the champion had by far the advantage. In the first round Britt staggered (caused by the neck that had lots of force in it). In the same round he also used left and right successfully to the body and face but took in punishment a straight left on the nose that slowed him down. SECOND ROUND A MIX-UP The second round developed a mix-up at the ropes, in which both men exchanged vicious rights and left, Gans taking the advantage. In the third Gans followed his tactics of crowding Britt into a corner, and the Californian had his hands and feet busy working his way out. Gans drew first blood in the fourth with a lightning straight left that brount out of the corner of Britt's mouth. It was right after this that Britt threw all of his strength into a left swing that proved his undoing. THE FIGHT BY ROUNDS First Round—Gans began by feinting with his left. Britt quickly driving home a couple of light stomach blows. Gans blocked a couple of lefts for the head and then drove Britt to the ropes, where he landed a sharp right on the nose. Gans followed with two more facers and blocked several hard wallops. They got into achinch, but broke out of it readily after which Britt staggered his man with a hard left to the neck. Gans recovered quickly and tapped Britt in the mouth with the left, at the same time getting away from a rapid return. It was Gans' round. Second Round—Britt assumed a crouch, while Gans stood erect and walted. Both missed left-handed swings, but Gans soon crowded his antagonist to a corner, where he got home both hands to the head. Gans was forcing the fighting steadily, and Britt was on the run until he suddenly stood his ground and shot a couple of lefts into the stomach. Gans blocked and ducked with great cleverness after that and finally rapped Britt on the eye with a solid right-hand smash. He repeated this blow with increased force and then stood Britt off till the bell. Gans' round. Third Round—Britt came to the scratch with his left eye discolored and closing. Gans stopped a left body blow with his elbow, but did not escape a glancing punch that landed on his cheek. Gans drew away then and sparred, blocking several wild swings. After that Britt received left and right in the face and retreat ed when the colored man started a heavy punch for the bread basket. The referee broke them out of a clinch, whereupon Gans drove his man to a corner, where he had it all his own way until the gong sounded. It was easily Gans' round. FIRST BLOOD FOR GANS Fourth Round—Gans landed a light jab on the mouth and stopped a left body blow with his elbow. Gans then ducked away from a couple of hard swings and was applauded for his great defensive tactics. They got into a clinch, but broke at the command of the referee. Britt landed a right hard body punch, but Gans was on top of him and drove him to the ropes, getting home a hard right on the jaw and a solid left on the mouth. Gans followed this up with a terrific uppercut, which landed on the jaw. Britt's head was rocking and the blood poured from his mouth when he went to his corner. Fifth Round—Gans caught a left on his elbow and jumped away. As Britt stepped in he got a heavy left on the neck on a right hander on the jaw. Then Gans began to cut loose, sending in countless left-hand jabs to the face and pounding the body with the right. Britt backed away under the assault, but Gans hurried after him and turned him half around with a hard swing on the jaw. Gans ducked a swing for the head and quickly drove Britt to the ropes, where he filled his face full of punches. A great uppercut made Britt practically helpless, and he clinched to save himself. The bell was just in time and Gans looked a sure winner. Sixth Round—Gans came up ready to finish the job, but there was nothing doing in Britt's corner. "My left arm is broken!" cried Britt. "I broke it against his elbow." The crowd stood up in amazement as the referee went over to Britt's chair to make an examination. Britt still insisted that he was unable to go on, so that the referee had nothing left but to give the battle to Gaps KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS A New Lodge There—A New Court Organized There Portsmouth, Va., Sept. 12, 107. The delay of two hours in the train from Richmond caused quite a stir in this locality. A lodge of the Order of Knights of Pythias and a court of Calanthe were organized here at Taylorsville, a suburb of this city and the committee missed the party from Richmond. Grand Chancellor John Mitchell, Jr. was accompanied by Drs. E. R. Jefferson and J. Alex. Lewis and Sir S. S. Baker. The party took supper at the residence of Col. Archer Drew and wife and heartily enjoyed themselves. They were joined by Sir Frank Proctor, and many other local members and in Mr. Judkins' picnic wagon made the journey and arrived at Firemen's Hall about 12 o'clock. The Court will be known as Mt. Ararat Court, No. 131. The following officers were installed: Worthy Counsellor, Mrs. Gertrude Atkinson; Worthy Inspectrix, Mrs. Mary Darden; Worthy Inspector, Mrs. Mary Davis; Senior Directress, Mrs. Catherine Deans; Junior Directress, Mrs. Rosa Tynes; Orator, Mrs. Victoria Clark; Register of Deeds, Mrs. Mary Daughtry; Register of Accounts, Mrs. Ada Hall; Receiver of Deposits, Mrs. Elizabeth Clark; Escort, Mrs. Maggie Smith; Conductress, Miss Mary Davis; Assistant Conductress, Mrs. Bettie Bunn; Herald, Mrs. Katie Parks; Protector, Mrs. Martha Harris. Trustees: Mrs PRICE, FIVE CENTS. AGAIN. n of the World puted. t Battle. HT BY ROUNDS. After the initiation of the ladies, Chanie Brown, Mrs. Ellen Jordan, the work on the candidates for knighthood was at once begun. The new lodge will be known as Mt. Ararat Lodge, No. 134. The following officers were installed: Chancellor Commander, John Boswell; Vice Chancellor, Thad Dyson; Master of Exchequer, Gilbert Southall; Master of Finance, Willie Rogers; Keeper of Records and Seal, J. W. Daughtry; Master-at-Arms James Vest; Master of Work, George Hargrove; Protector, Ell Davis; Inner Guard, John E. White; Outer Guard, W. H. Turnage. Trustees; J. E. Adams, Thomas Deans, Joseph Sligh. After the initiation a bounteous request was served the visitors. The Court organized through the efforts of Mrs. Susie B. Wright, District Deputy Grand Counselor and the Lodge was instituted through the efforts of Sir H. S. Cooper. The Grand Chancellor was spoken in his commendation of both of them. The party left at 5 o'clock this morning for Richmond. They were engaged all night and did not get any sleep here on this trip. PERSONALS AND BRIEFES Mr. Norman Wesley who has been indisposed is out again. Mrs. Cora B. Fisher, Philadelphia, Pa. and Mrs. Marie L. Brown, Washington, D. C. called on us. Mr. Frank Bacchus of Washington, D. C. was in the city this week and called on us. Mrs. Thomas H. Stuetley and her daughter of North Seventh St., have returned to the city after a pleasant stay in Raleigh N. C. Mrs. L. R. Roane of Boston, Mass. is in the city visiting friends and relatives. She has been from the city nine years. She made a very eloquent address at the Fifth Baptist Church last Sunday. She is the guest of Trustee Lewis Brown. Mrs. Robert Sheler of Cambridge, Mass. has been visiting her relatives at Amelia, Va. She passed through the city last week enroute home. Mrs. C. H. Lewis has returned from Reading, Pa., where she attended the session of the Elks. Mrs. Lewis was elected Assistant Grand Daughter Ruler. She also visited her son, who is under treatment of a physician in Atlantic City, N. J. —Mrs. Mary P. Smith, Petersburg Va. and Mrs. Mary P. Smith, New York, N. Y. have returned from a pleasant trip to the Blue Ridge Mountains. They will remain in Richmond until Monday afternoon. John Mitchell, Jr., E. R. Jefferson, Thomas M. Crump, H. F. Jonathan, Supreme Representatives to the Supreme Lodge, Knights of Pythias returned to the city last Monday evening. They were jubilant over the defeat of the new constitution to whish the state was bitterly opposed. The vote against it was well nigh unanimous. Miss M. L. Chiles, Supreme Representative to the Supreme Court stopped over in Lexington, Ky the guest of her brother, Lawyer J. Alexander Chiles. She is expected home to-day. Stockholders Meeting. Richmond, Va., Sept. 9, 1907. The annual Stockholders Meeting of the American Beneficial Insurance Company will be held at Price's Hall 210 East Leigh Street, Wednesday September 25th, 1907. All members are notified to be present at 8:30 P. M. W. F. GRAHAM, Pres. B. H. PEYTON, Secty. THE HOUSE OF ATHOUSAND CANDLES BY MEREDITH NICHOLSON AUTHOR OF 'THE MAIN CURSE' BY OLDSON CHAPTER XX The Return of Marian Devereux. "Sister Theresa has left, sir." Bates had been into Annandale to mail some letters, and I was staring out upon the park from the library window when he entered. Stoddard, having kept watch the night before, was at home asleep, and Larry was off somewhere in the house treasure-hunting. I was feeling decidedly discouraged over our failure to make any progress with our investigations, and Bates' news did not interest me. "Well, what of it?" I demanded, without turning round. "Nothing, sir; but Miss Devereux has come back!" "The devil!" I turned and took a step toward the door. "I said Miss Devereux," he repeated in dignified rebuke. "She came up this morning, and the Sister left at once for Chicago. Sister Theresa depends particularly upon Miss Devereux,—so I've heard, sir. Miss Devereux quite takes charge when the Sister goes away." "You seem full of information," I remarked, taking another step toward my hat and coat. "And I've learned something else, sir." "Well?" "They all came together, sir." "Who came; will you tell me that?" "Why, the people who've been travel-ing with Mr. Pickering came back with him, and Miss Devereux came with them from Cincinnati. That's what I learned in the village. And Mr. Pickering is going to stay-" "Pickering stay!" "At a cottage across the lake for a while. The reason is that he's worn out with his work, and wishes quiet. The other people went back to New York in the car." "He's opened his summer cottage for January, has he?" "It does seem the least bit odd, str," replied Bates, moving away. I had been blue enough without this news. Marian Devereux had come back to Annandale with Arthur Pickering; my faith in her snapped like a reed at this astounding news. Being now entitled to my grandfather's property she was losing no time in returning. She and Pickering had discussed together at the Armstrongs' my flight from Annandale, and her return could have no other meaning than that there was a strong tie between them, and that he was now to stay on the ground until I should be dispossessed and her rights established. She had dared me to follow her, and my forfeiture had been sealed by that stolen interview at the Armstrongs'. It was a black record, and the thought of it angered me against myself and the world. "Tell Mr. Donovan that I've gone to St. Agatha's," I said, and I was soon striding toward the school. A Sister admitted me. Somewhere in the building a music lesson was in progress, and I consigned the inventor of pianos to hideous torment as scales were pursued endlessly up and down the keys. Two girls passing through the hall made a pretext of looking for a book and came in and exclaimed over their inability to find it with much suppressed giggling that added further to my rage. The piano pounding continued and I waited for what seemed an interminable time. It was growing dark and a mald brought lamps. I took a book from the table. It was "The Life of Benvenuto Cellini" and Marian Devereux was written on the fly leaf, by unmistakably the same hand that had penned the apology for Olivia's performances. I saw in the clear, flowing lines of the signature, in their lack of superfluity, her own ease, grace and charm; and, in the deeper stroke with which the "x" was crossed, I felt a challenge, a readiness to abide by consequences once her word was given. Then my own inclination to think well of her angered me, and I dropped the book impatiently as she crossed the threshold. "I am sorry to have kept you waiting, Mr. Glennam. But this is my busy hour." "I shall not detain you long. I came,"—I hesitated, not knowing why I had come. She took a chair near the open door and bent forward with an air of attention that was disquieting. She wore black—perhaps to fit her the better into the house of a somber Sisterhood. I seemed suddenly to remember her from a time long gone, and the effort of memory threw me off guard. Stoddard had said there were several Olivia Armstrongs; there were certainly many Marian Devereuxs. The silence grew intolerable; she was waiting for me to speak, and I blurred: "I suppose you have come to take charge of the property." "Do you?" she asked. "And you came back with the executor to facilitate matters. I'm glad to see that you lose no time." "Oh!" she said lingeringly, as though she were finding with difficulty the note in which I wished to pitch the conversation. Her calmness was madening. "I suppose you thought it unwise to wait for the bluebird when you had begged me into breaking a promise, when I was trapped, defeated,—" Her elbow on the arm of the chair, her hand resting against her cheek, the light rippling goldenly in her hair, her eyes bent upon me inquiringly, mournfully—mournfully, as I had seen them—where?—once before! My heart leaped in that moment, with that thought. "I remember now the first time," I said, more angry than I had ever been before in my life. "That is quite remarkable," she said, and nodded her head ironically. "It was at Sherry's; you were AUTHOR OF THE MAIN CHOICE, TELLA DAVENPORT, FIRE COPYRIGHT 1995 BY DAVENPORT CO. With Pickering—you dropped your fan and he picked it up, and you turned toward me for a moment. You were in black that night; it was the unhappiness in your face, in your eyes, that made me remember." I was intent upon the recollection, eager to fix and establish it. "You are quite right. It was at Sherry's. I was wearing black then; many things made me unhappy that night." Her forehead contracted slightly and she pressed her lips together. "I suppose that even then the conspiracy was thoroughly arranged," I said tauntingly, laughing a little perhaps, in my brutal impulse to wound her, to take vengeance upon her. She rose and stood by her chair, one hand resting upon it. I faced her; her eyes were like violet seas. She spoke very quietly. "Mr. Glenarm, has it occurred to you that when I talked to you in the park, when I risked unpleasant gossip in receiving you in a house where you had no possible right to be, that I was counting upon something—foolishly and stupidly,—yet counting upon it?" "You probably thought I was a fool," I retorted. "No,"—she smiled slightly. "I thought—I believe I have said this to you before!—that you were a gentleman. I really did, Mr. Glenarm. I must say it to justify myself. I relied upon your chivalry,—I even thought, when I played being Olivia,—that you had a sense of humor. But you are not the one and you haven't the other. I even went so far, after you knew perfectly well who I was, to try to help you—to encourage you to prove yourself the man your grandfather wished you to be. And now you come to me in a shocking bad humor,—I really think you would like to be insulting, Mr. Glenarm, if you could." "But Pickering—you came back with him; he is here and he is going to stay! And now that the property belongs to you, there is not the slightest reason why we should make any pretense of anything but empathy. When you and Arthur Pickering stand together I take the other side of the barricade! I suppose chivalry would require me to vacate, so that you may enjoy at once the spoils of war." I stormed with growing heat. "I fancy it would not be very difficult to eliminate you as a factor in the situation," she remarked icily. "And I suppose, after the unsuccessful efforts of Mr. Pickering's allies to assassinate me, as a mild form of elimination, one would naturally expect me to sit calmly down and wait to be shot in the back. But you may tell Mr. Pickering that I throw myself upon your mercy. I have no other home than this shell over the way, and I beg to be allowed to remain until—at least—the bluebirds come." "I quite sympathize with your re "I Quite Sympathize with Your Reluctance to Deliver the Message Yourself," She Said. luctance to deliver the message yourself," she said. "Is this all you came to say" "I came to tell you that you could have the house, and everything in its hideous walls," I snapped; "to tell you that my chivalry is enough for some situations and that I don't intend to fight a woman. I had accepted your own renouncement of the legacy in good part, but now, please believe me, it shall be yours to-morrow. I'll yield possession to you whenever you ask it,—but never to Arthur Pickering! As against him and his treasure-hunters and assassins I will hold out for a dozen years!" "Nobly spoken, Mr. Glenarm! Yours is really an admirable, though somewhat complex character." "My character is my own, whatever it is," I blurted. "I shouldn't call that a debatable proposition," she replied, and I was angry to find how the mirror I had loved in her could suddenly become so hateful. She half-turned away so that I might not see her face. The thought that she should countenance Pickering in any way tote me with jealous rage. "Mr. Glenarm, you are what I have heard called a quitter, defined in common Americanese as one who quits! Your blustering can hardly conceal the fact of your failures. I had hoped you would really be of some help to Sister Theresa, and incidentally to me, but we both sadly misjudged you." Her tone, changing from amused in difference to severest disdain, stung me into self-pity for my stupidity in having sought her. My anger was not against her, but against Pickering, who had, I persuaded myself, always blocked my path. She went on. "Mr. Pickering is decidedly more than a match for wou, Mr. Glenarm,—even in humor." She drew herself up with tragic scorn in every line of her figure, then relaxed, laughed and was Olivia again: THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. and as I watched her,—wondering, par- plexed, chagrined, she turned swiftly away and ran—I am sure she ran— from the room. She left me so quickly, so softly, that I stood staring like a fool at the spot where she had been, and then I went gloomily back to Glenarm House, angry, ashamed and crestfallen. While we were waiting for dinner I made a clean breast of my acquaintance with her to Larry, omitting nothing, —rejoicing even to paint my own conduct as black as possible. "You may remember her," I con- cluded,—"she was the girl we saw at Sherry's that night we dined there. She was with Pickering, and you not noticed her,—spoke of her, as she went out? "That little girl who seemed so bored, or tired or sick? Bless me, why her eyes haunted me for days, Lord, man, do you mean to say—" A look of utter scorn came into his face, and he eyed me contemptuously. "Of course I mean it!" I thundered at him. He took the pipe from his mouth, pressed the tobacco viciously into the bowl, and swore steadily in Gaelic until I was ready to choke him. "Stop! " I bawled. "Do you think that's helping me? And to have you curse in your blackguardly Irish dialect! I wanted a little Anglo-Saxon sympathy, you fool! I didn't mean for you to invoke your infamous gods against the girl!" "Don't be violent, lad. Violence is reprehensible," he admonished with maddening sweetness and patience. "What I was trying to intimate very mildly was the fact, borne in upon me through years of acquaintance, that you are,—to be bold, my, lad, to be bold, a good deal of a damned fool." The trilling of his r's was like the whirring rise of a covey of quail. Dinner is served," announced Bates and he waved his way, mockingly chanting an Irish love song. CHAPTER XXI We had established the practice of barring all the gates and doors at nightfall. There was no way of guarding against an attack from the lake, whose frozen surface increased the danger from without; but we counted on our night patrol to prevent a surprise from that quarter. I was well aware that I must prepare to resist the milltant arm of the law, which Pickering would no doubt invoke to aid him, but I intended to exhaust the possibilities in searching for the lost treasure before I yielded. Pickering might, if he would, transfer the estate of John Marshall Glenarm to Marlan Devereux and make the most he could of that service, but he should not drive me forth until I had satisfied myself of the exact character of my grandfather's fortune. If it had vanished, if Pickering had stolen it and outwitted me in making off with it, that was another matter. The phrase, "The Door of Bewilderment," had never ceased to reiterate itself in my mind; there was a certain fascination and charm in it. We discussed a thousand explanations of it as we pondered over the scrap of paper I had found in the library, and every book in the house was examined in the search for further claws. The passage between the house and the chapel seemed to fascinate Larry. He held that it must have some particular use and he devoted his time to exploring it. He came up at noon—it was the 29th of December—with grimy face and hands and a grin on his face. I had spent my morning in the towers to no purpose and was in no mood for the ready acceptance of new theories. "Ive found something," he said, filling his pipe. "Not soap, evidently!" "No, but I'm going to say the last word on the tunnel, and within an hour. Give me a glass of beer and a piece of bread, and we'll go back and see whether we're sold again or not." "Go ahead and let us be done with it. Walt till I tell Stoddard where we're going." The chaplain was trying the second floor walls, and I asked him to eat some luncheon and stand guard while Larry and I went to the tunnel. We took with us an iron bar, an ax and a couple of hammers. Larry went ahead with a lantern. "You see," he explained, as we dropped through the trap into the passage. "I've tried a compass on this tunnel and find that we've been working on the wrong theory. The passage itself runs a straight line from the house under the gate to the crypt; the ravine is a rough crescent-shaped and for a short distance the tunnel touches it. How deep does that ravine average--about 30 feet?" "Yes; it's shallowest where the house stands. It drops sharply from there on to the lake." "Very good; but the ravine is all on the Glenarm side of the wall, isn't it? Now when we get under the wall I'll show you something." "Here we are," said Larry, as the cold air blew in through the hollow posts. "Now we're pretty near that sharp curve of the ravine that dips away from the wall. Take the lantern while I get out the compass. What do you think that C on the piece of paper means? Why, chapel, of course. I have measured the distance from the house, the point of departure, we may assume, to the chapel, and three-fourths of it brings us under those beautiful posts. The directions are as plain as daylight. The passage itself is your N. W., as the compass proves, and the ravine cuts close in here; therefore, our business is to explore the wall on the ravine side." "Good! but this is just wall here—earth with a layer of bricks and a thin coat of cement. A nice job it must have been to do the work—and it cost the price of a tiger hunt." I grumbled. "Take heart, lad, and listen," and Larry began pounding the wall with a hammer, exactly under the north gatepost. We had sounded everything in and about the house until the process bored me. "Hurry up and get through with it." I jerked impatiently, holding the lantern at the level of his head. It was sharply cold under the posts and I was anxious to remove the moulds. THE DOUBLE OF NATURE ness of his ideas and be done. Thump! thump! "There's a place here that sounds a trifle off the key. You try it." I snatched the hammer and repeated his soundings. Thump! thump! There was a space about four feet square in the wall that certainly gave forth a hollow sound. "Stand back!" exclaimed Larry eagerly. "Here goes with the ax." He struck into the wall sharply and the cement chipped off in rough pieces, disclosing bricks beneath. Larry paused when he had uncovered a foot of the inner layer, and examined the surface. "They're loose—these bricks are loose, and there's something beside earth behind them!" The bricks were set up without mortar, and I plucked them out and rapped with my knuckles on a wooden surface. Even Larry grew excited as we flung the bricks out into the tunnel. "Ah, lad," he said, "the old gentleman had a way with him—he had a way with him!" A brick dropped on his foot and he bowed in pain. "Bless the old gentleman's heart! He made it an easy for us as he could. Now, for the Glenarm millions,—red money all plied up for the ease of counting it,—a thousand pounds in every pile." "Don't be a fool, Larry," I coughed at him, for the brick dust and the smoke of Larry's pipe made breathing difficult. "That's all the loose bricks,—bring the lantern closer,"—and we peered through the aperture upon a wooden door, in which strips of iron were deep-set. It was fastened with a padlock and Larry reached down for the ax. "Wait! I called, drawing closer with the lantern. "What's this?" The wood of the door was fresh and white, but burned deep on the surface, in this order, were the words: Che Door new wilderment "There are dead men inside, I dare say! Here, my lad, it's not for me to turn loose the family skeletons,"—and Larry stood aside while I swung the ax and brought it down with a crash on the padlock. It was of no filmsy stuff and the remaining bricks cramped me, but half a dozen blows broke it off. "The house of a thousand ghosts," chanted Larry, as I pushed the door open, crawled through and dropped down inside. Whatever the place was it had a floor and I set my feet firmly upon it and turned to take the lantern. "Hold a bit!" he exclaimed. "Some one's coming," and bending toward the opening I heard the sound of steps down the corridor. In a moment Bates ran up, calling my name with more spirit than I imagined possible in hm. "What is it?" I demanded through the opening. "It's Mr. Pickering. The sheriff has come with him, sir." As he spoke his glance fell upon the broken wall and open door. The light of Larry's lantern struck full upon him. Amazement, and, I thought, a certain satisfaction, were marked upon his countenance. "Run along, Jack,—I'll be up a little later," said Larry. "If the fellow has come in daylight with the sheriff, he isn't dangerous. It's his friends that shoot in the dark that give us the trouble." I crawled out and stood upright. Bates, staring at the opening, seemed reluctant to leave the spot. "You seem to have found it, sir," he said,—I thought a little chokingly. His interest in the matter nettled me; it was none of his affair, for one thing; and my first business was to go above for an interview with the executor,—a matter of immediate importance, as should have been clear to any one. "Of course we have found it!" I elaculated, brushing the dust from my clothes. "Is Mr. Stoddard in the library?" "Oh, yes, sir; I left him entertaining the gentlemen." "Their visit is certainly most in-opportune" said Larry. "Give them my compliments and tell them I'll be up as soon as I've articulated the bones of my friend's ancestors." Bates strode on ahead of me with his lantern, and I left Larry crawling through the new-found door as I hurried toward the house. I knew him well enough to be sure he would not leave the spot until we had found what lay behind the Door of Bewilderment. "You didn't tell the callers where you expected to find me, did you?" I asked Bates, as he brushed me off in the kitchen. "No, sir. Mr. Stoddard received the gentlemen. He rang the bell for me and when I went into the library he was saying, 'Mr. Glennarm is at his studies. Bates.'—he says—kindly tell Mr. Glennarm that I'm sorry to interrupt him, but won't he please come down? I thought it rather neat, sir, considering his clerical office. I knew you were below somewhere, sir; the trap door was open and I found you easily enough." Bates' eyes were brighter than I had ever seen them. A certain buoyant nose gave an entirely new tone to his voice. He walked ahead of me to the library door, threw it open and stood aside. "Ah, here you are, Glennarm," said Stoddard. Pickering and a stranger stood near the fireplace in their overcoats. Pickering advanced and offered his hand, but I turned away from him without taking it. His companion, a burly countryman, stood staring, a paper in his hand. "The sheriff," Pickering explained, "and our business is rather personal—" He glanced at Stoddard, who looked at me. "Mr. Stoddard will do me the kindness to remain," I said and took my stand beside the chaplain. "Oh!" Pickering ejaculated scornfully. "I didn't understand that your relations with the neighboring clergy were so intimate. Your taste is improving. Glenarm." "Mr. Glenarm is a friend of mine," remarked Stoddard quietly. "A very particular friend," he added. "I congratulate you both." I laughed. Pickering was surveying the room as he spoke—and Stoddard suddenly stepped toward him, merely. I think, to draw up a chair for the sheriff; but Pickering, not hearing Stoddard's step on the soft rug until the clergyman was close beside him, started perceptibly and reddened. It was certainly ludicrous, and when Stoddard faced me again he was biting his lip. "Pardon me!" he murmured. "Now gentlemen, will you kindly state your business? My own affairs press me." Pickering was studying the cartridge boxes on the library table. The sheriff, too, was viewing these effects with interest not, I think, unmixed with awe. "Glenamar, I don't like to invoke the law to eject you from this property, but I am left with no alternative. I can't stay out here indefinitely, and I want to know what's I'm to expect." "That is a fair question," I replied. "If it were merely a matter of following the terms of the will I should not hesitate or be here now. But it isn't the will, or my grandfather, that keeps me, it's the determination to give you all the annoyance possible,—to make it hard and mighty hard for you to get hold of this house until I have found why you are so much interested in it." "You always had a grand way in money matters. As I told you before you came out here, it's a poor stake. The assets consist wholly of this land and this house, whose quality you have had an excellent opportunity to test. You have doubtless heard that the country people believe there is money concealed here,—but I dare say you have exhausted the possibilities. This is not the first time a rich man has died, leaving precious little behind him." "You seem very anxious to get possession of a property that you call a poor stake," I said. "A few acres of land, a half-finished house and an uncertain claim upon a school teacher!" "I had no idea you would understand my position," he replied. "The seriousness of a man's oath to perform the solemn duties imposed upon him by law would hardly appeal to you. But I haven't come here to debate this question. When am I to have possession?" "Not till I'm ready,—thanks!" "Mr. Sheriff, will you serve your writ?" he said, and I looked to Stoddard for any hint from him as to what I should do. "I belove Mr. Glennarm is quite willing to hear whatever the sheriff has to say to him," said Stoddard. He stepped nearer to me, as though to emphasize the fact that he belonged to my side of the controversy, and the sheriff read an order of the Wabana county circuit court directing me, immediately, to deliver the house and grounds into the keeping of the executor of the will of the estate of John Marshall Glennarm. The sheriff rather enjoyed holding the center of the stage, and I listened quietly to the unfamiliar phraseology. Before he had quite finished I heard a step in the hall and Larry appeared at the door, pipe in mouth. Pickering turned toward him frowning, but Larry paid not the slightest attention to the executor, but leaned against the door with his usual tranquil unconcern. "I advise you not to trifle with the law, Glenarm," said Pickering, as the sheriff folded his paper. "You have absolutely no right whatever to be here. And these other gentlemen—your guests, I suppose—are equally trespassers under the law." He stared at Larry, who crossed his legs for greater ease in adjusting his lean frame to the door. "Well, Mr. Pickering, what is the next step?" asked the sheriff. "Mr. Pickering," said Larry, straightening up and taking his pipe from his mouth. "I'm Mr. Glenarm's counsel. If you will do the kindness to ask the sheriff to retire for a moment I should like to say a few words to you that you might prefer to keep between ourselves." I had usually found it wise to take any cue Larry threw me, and I said: "Pickering, this is Mr. Donovan, who has every authority to act for me in the matter." Pickering looked impatiently from one to the other of us. "You seem to have the guns, the ammunition and the numbers on your side," he observed dryly. "The sheriff may wait within call," said Larry, and at a word from Pickering the man left the room. "Now, Mr. Pickering,"—Larry spoke slowly,—"as my friend has explained the case to me, the assets of his grandfather's estate are all accounted for,—the land hereabouts, this house, ten thousand dollars in securities and a somewhat vague claim against a lady known as Sister Theresa, who conducts St. Agatha's school. Is that correct? "I don't ask you to take my word for it, sir," rejoined Pickering hotly. "I have filed an inventory of the estate, so far as found, with the proper authorities." "Certainly. But I merely wish to be sure of my facts for the purpose of this interview, to save me the trouble of going to the records. And, moreover, I am somewhat unfamiliar with my procedure in this country. I am a member, sir, of the Irish bar. Pardon me, but I repeat my question." "I have made oath—that, I trust, is sufficient even for a member of the Irish bar." "Quite," said Larry, nodding his head gravely. He was not, to be sure, a presentable member of any bar, for a smudge detracted considerably from the appearance of one side of his face, his clothes were rumped and covered with brick dust, and his hands were black. But I had rarely seen him so calm. He recrossed his legs, peered into the bowl of his pipe for a moment, then asked, as quietly as though he were soliciting an enunciation of the "Will you tell me, Mr. Pickering, whether you tell yourself are a debtor of John Marshall Glenmarm's estate?" Pickering's face grew white and his eyes started, and when he tried suddenly to speak his jaw twitted. The room was so still that the breaking of a blazing log on the andirons was a pleasant relief. We stood, the three of us, with our eyes on Pickering, and in my own case I must say that my heart was pounding my ribs at an uncomfortable speed, for I knew Larry was not sparring for time. The blood rushed into Pickering's face and he turned toward Larry stormily. "This is unwarrantable and infamous! My relations with Mr. Glen-arm are none of your business. When you remember that after being desered by his own flesh and blood he appealed to me, going so far as to intrust all his affairs to my care at his death, your reflection is an outrageous insult. I am not accountable to you or any one else!" "Really, there's a good deal in all that," said Larry. "We don't pretend to any judicial functions. We are perfectly willing to submit the whole business and all my client's acts to the authorities." (I would give much if I could reproduce some hint of the beauty of that word authorities as it rolled from Larry's tongue!). "Then, in God's name, do it, you blackguards." roared Pleckering. Stoddard, seated on the table, knocked his heels together gently, Larry recrossed his legs and blew a cloud of smoke. Then, after a quarter of a minute in which he gazed at the ceiling with his quiet, blue eyes, he said: "Yes; certainly, there are always the authorities. And as I have a tremendous respect for your American institutions I shall at once act on your suggestion. Mr. Pickering, the estate is richer than you thought it was. It holds, or will hold, your notes given to the decedent for $320,000." He drew from his pocket a brown envelope, walked to where I stood and placed it in my hands. At the same time Stoddard's big figure grew active, and before I realized that Pickering had leaped toward the packet, the executor was sitting in a chair, where the chaplain had thrown him. He rallied promptly, stuffing his necktie into his waistcoat; he even laughed a little. "So much old paper! You gentlemen are perfectly welcome to it." "Thank you!" jerked Larry. "Mr. Glenarm and I had many transactions together, and he must have forgotten to destroy those papers," continued Pickering. "Quite likely," I remarked. "It is interesting to know that Sister Theresa wasn't his only debtor." Pickering stepped to the door and called the sheriff. "I will give you until to-morrow morning at nine o'clock to vacate the premises. Those claims are utterly worthless, as I am ready to prove. The court understands the situation perfectly." "Perfectly, perfectly," repeated the sheriff. "I believe that is all," said Larry, pointing to the door with his pipe. The sheriff was regarding him with particular attention. "What did I understand your name to be?" he demanded. "Laurance Donovan," Larry replied coolly. Flickering seemed to notice the name now and his eyes lighted disgracefully. now and his eyes lighted disagreeably. "I think I have heard of your friend before," he said, turning to me. "I congratulate you on the international reputation of your counsel. He's esteemed so highly in Ireland that they offer a large reward for his return. Sheriff, I think we have finished our business for to-day." He seemed anxious to get the man away, and we gave them escort to the outer gate where a horse and buggy was waiting. "Now, I'm in for it," said Larry, as I locked the gate. "We've spiked one of his guns, but I've given him a new one to use against myself. But come, and I will show you the Door of Bewilderment before I skip." CHAPTER XXII Down we plunged into the cellar, through the trap and to the Door of Bewilderment. "Don't expect too much," admonished Larry: "I can't promise you a single Spanish coin." "Perish the ambition! We have blocked Pickering's game, and nothing else matters." I said. We crawled through the hole in the wall and lighted candles. The room was about seven feet square. At the farther end was an oblong wooden door, close to the ceiling, and Larry tugged at the fastening until it came down, bringing with it a mass of snow and leaves. "Gentlemen," he said, "we are at the edge of the ravine. Do you see the blue sky? And yonder, if you will twist your necks a bit, is the boathouse." "Well, let the scenic effects go and show us where you found those papers," I urged. "Speaking of mysteries, that is where I throw up my hands, lads. It's quickly told. Here is a table, and here is an old despatch box, which lies just where I found it. It was closed and the key was in the lock. I took out that packet—it wasn't even sealed—saw the character of the contents, and couldn't resist the temptation to try the effect of an announcement of its discovery on your friend Pickoring. Now that is nearly all. I found this piece of paper under the tape with which the envelope was tied, and I don't hesitate to say that when I read it I laughed until I thought I should shake down the cellar. Read it. John Glenarm! He handed me a fragment of legal-cap paper on which was written in the unmistakable handwriting of John Marshall Glenarm, these words: HE LAUGHS BEST WHO LAUGHS LAST. "What do you think is so funny in this?" I demanded. "Who wrote it, do you think," asked Stoddard. "Who wrote it, do you ask? Why Jack's grandfather wrote it! John Marshall Glenarm, the cleverest, grandest old man that ever lived, wrote it!" declared Larry, his voice booming loudly in the room. "It's all a great big game, fixed up to try you and Picklering.—but principally you, you blockhead! Oh, it's grand, perfectly, delicious grand—and to think it should be my good luck to share in it." "Humph! I'm glad you're amused, but it doesn't strike me as being so awfully funny. Suppose those had fallen into Picklering's hands; then where would the joke have been, I should like to know!" "On you, my lad, to be sure! The old gentleman wanted you to study architecture; he wanted you to study his house; he even left a little pointer in an old book! Oh, it's too good to be true!" "That's all clear enough," observed Stoddard, knocking upon the despatch box with his knuckles. "But why do you suppose he dug this hole here with its outlet on the ravine?" "Oh, it was the way of him!" explained Larry. "He liked the idea of queer corners and underground passages. This is a bully hiding place for man or treasure, and that outlet into the ravine makes it possible to get out of the house with nobody the wiser. It's in keeping with the rest of his scheme. Be gay, comrades! Tomorrow will likely find us with plenty of business on hands. At present we hold the fort, and let us have a care lest we lose it." We closed the ravine door, restored the wall as best we could, and returned to the library. We made a list of the Pickering notes and spent an hour discussing this new feature of the situation and speculating as to the hiding place of the remainder of my grandfather's fortune. Larry and Stoddard both declared their intention of remaining until my troubles were ended in spite of my protests. Stoddard stayed for dinner, and afterward we began again our eternal quest for the treasure, our hopes high from Larry's lucky strike of the afternoon, and with a new eagerness born of the knowledge that the morrow would certainly bring us face to face with the real crises. We ranged the house from tower to cellar; we overhauled the tunnel, for, it seemed to me, the hundredth time. It was my watch, and at midnight, after Stoddard and Larry had reconstituted the grounds and Bates and I had made sure of all the interior fastenings, I sent them off to bed and made myself comfortable with a pipe in the library. I was glad of the respite, glad to be alone—to consider my talk with Marian Devereux at St. Agatha's, and her return with Pickering. Why could she not always have been Olivia, ranging the woodland, or the girl in gray, or that woman, so sweet in her dignity, who came down the stairs at the Arm-strongs? Her own attitude toward me was so full of contradictions; she "A Lantern Flashed Blindingly In My Face." had appeared to me in so many moods and guises, that my spirit ranged the whole gamut of feeling as I thought of her. But it was the recollection of Pickering's infamous conduct that colored all my doubts of her. Pickering had always been in my way, and here, but for the chance by which Larry had found the notes, I should have had no weapon to use against him. The wind rose and drove shrilly around the house. A bit of scaffolding on the outer walls rattled loose somewhere and crashed down on the terrace. I grew restless, my mind intent upon the many chances of the morrow, and running forward to the future. Even if I won in my strife with Pickering I had yet my way to make in the world. His notes were probably worthless,—I did not doubt that. I might use them to procure his removal as executor, but I did not look forward with any pleasure to a legal fight over a property that had brought me only trouble. Something impelled me to go below, and, taking a lantern, I trumped somberly through the cellar, glanced at the heating apparatus, and, remembering that the chapel entrance to the tunnel was unguarded, followed the corridor to the trap, and opened it. The cold air blew up sharply and I thrust my head down to listen. A sound at once arrested me. I thought at first it must be the suction of the air, but Glenarm House was no place for conjecture, and I put the lantern aside and jumped down into the tunnel. A gleam of light showed far away for an instant, then the darkness and silence were complete. I ran rapidly over the smooth floor, which I had traversed so often that I knew its every line. My only weapon was a heavy hickory club. Near the Door of Bewliderm I paused and listened. The tunnel was perfectly quiet. 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WASHINGTON'S ADDRESS The address of Dr. Booker T. Washington, delivered at Louisville, Kentucky, Friday, September 6, '07 was especially significant in that he openly advised" citizens of color in this country to contend for every right guaranteed by the laws of this country. Coming as it does from the foremost Negro leader in this republic, the advice is especially deserving of attention. He urged, however that this be done in a conservative manner. He was optimistic as to the future of the race and used strong language in dealing with those who exploited the wrongs practiced upon us to the exclusion of the things that are being done in our favor. We can readily see the force and effect of such reasoning. He made a great effort and the vast concourse of people there present were not slow to see it. We are becoming more and more impressed with Dr. Washington's attitude upon great questions. His past record has not been such as to please us when vital issues were under discussion. He has been wise in his day and generation, but we are gratified to note that his attitude now is in consonance with the demands of the times and in keeping with the advanced ideas now generally accepted by every conscientious, self-sacrificing race leader in the United States. Seven Bodier Found Floating JEBEC, Sept. 11.—Seven more bodies of victims of the recent Quebec bridge disaster were picked up yesterday floating a short distance from the bridge. CANADA IS SORRY. Earl Grey Expresses Regret at Vancouver Riots. TOKYO TAKES OUTRAGE CALMLY. Reports Elame Seattle Artintors For Anti-Japanese Demonstrations In British Columbian Island City. OTTAWA, Sept. 11.-The Canadian government has expressed its regrets for the occurrence at Vancouver to the Japanese government and declares it will take steps to prevent further trouble. Governor General Earl Grey has sent the following message to Mayor Bethune at Vancouver: "I have learned with deepest regret of the indignities and cruelties of which the subjects of the emperor of Japan, a friend and ally of his majesty the king, have been the victims. I hope that peace will be restored promptly and all the offenders punished." A Tokyo dispatch says that the government has the utmost confidence in the Canadian administration, as it also has in that of America. Commissioner Ishii says that the disturbance will soon be quelled and that there is no reason to expect its repetition. "Our information is that this outbreak, like that at Rellingham and others, is the result of the Korean league's anti-Japanese agitation created by false and exaggerated reports concerning conditions in Korea and the attitude and sentiment in Japan." Every indication is that the Vancouver (B. Ca. riots were carefully planned to impress Baron K. Ishil, chief of the Japanese bureau of foreign commerce. It is significant that the leaders of the Seattle organization against Japanese immigration were in Vancouver heading the demonstration. In this riot a number of people were bruised and injured by broken bottles and dying brickboats in the hands of a freized mug. Baron Ishil and Consul Hisaidun finally made their escape through the mob, and the affair was immediately cabled to Tokyo. Coincident with the riot was the arrival of a steamship having on board at least 500 Japanese. With a common impulse the mob surged to the water front, and as soon as the Japanese came down the gangplank they were met by the rioters. Seven or eight of the Japanese were unceremoniously picked up and thrown into Bucked inlet. The mob also broke loose on Howell street, where the Japanese live. Here windows were broken, but the Japanese resisted and with bottles and boards attacked their assailants. Several were injured in the counter attacks. The great bulk of the marching and rioting throng was composed of Canadians, and the Japanese officials ignored American participants in the telegram of protest to the Ottawa government. President May Go on Hunting Trip OYSTER BAY, N. Y., Sept. 11—President Roosevelt is considering an invitation to go on a hunting trip into the Louisiana canebrakes immediately after his forthcoming journey down the Mississippi river. The gentlemen who have extended the invitation assure him that he will get some shots at bear and other worthy game, and if he can arrange his affairs at Washington so as to go without detriment to public business he is quite likely to accept. In case he makes the trip farther south he will probably not return to Washington until about the 20th of October. Home of Eagles Destroyed by Fire PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 10. — Eagle temple, the home of Philadelphia Acec 42. Fraternal Order of Eagles, on Spring Garden street, near Broad, was destroyed by fire. Nothing but the walls of the building remain standing, and the loss is given at $100,000, covered by insurance. The building was purchased by the Eagles six years ago for $55,000, and since last April $45,000 has been spent on it. Every floor had been rebuilt and handsomely furnished. Lusitanic Eur Abord QUEENSTOWN, Sept. 11. — The steamer Haverford, which arrived here from Philadelphia, reports that she passed the Luciana Monday morning and the Luciana three and one-half hours later. It is calculated that if the Luciana continues this same ratio of gala she will reach New York between twenty-two and twenty-four hours ahead of the Luciana. Under Blg Steam Roller MILWAUKEE, Wis., Sept. 11.—Charles Farreries of Decatur, Ill., threw himself under a big steam roller on exhibition at the state fair and was rolled out almost flat. Death was instantaneous. Farreries was an innate of a Milwaukee sailor. Peruvian Senator Dies at Sen. NEW YORK, Sept. 11.—A De Forest wireless message announces that Mr. Isaga, a member of the senate of Peru, died at sea on board the Princess Augusta Wilhelm. The ship is due here today. ```markdown ``` Nantucket Bars Motor Cars. FALL RIVER, Mass., Sept. 16.—The town of Nantucket has won the first legal fight against the use of automobiles on the island, through the deedation by Judge Loring of the supreme court. Railways Will Fight Commission. LINCOLN, Neb., Sept. 11.—The Burlington, the Northwestern and the Union Pacific railways secured an injunction in the federal court to prevent the state railway commission from reducing the freight rates on grain and will contest the authority of the commission in the matter. Farmer's peculiar Death NEW CUMBERLAND, Pa., Sept. 11. -Daniel A. Eruey, a farmer of Lewisburg, is dead here from the effects of swallowing a piece of a clinical thermometer which he was holding in his mouth for the purpose of ascertaining his temperature. THE RICHMOND PLANET RICHMOND, VIRGINIA SARATOGA ENCAMPMENT. Grand Army Veterans Gather at Spn For Annual Reunion. SARATOGA, N. Y., Sept. 11.—With the formal welcome of Governor Charles E. Hughes of New York state the forty-first national Grand Army of the Republic encampment was opened in the Convention hall last night. Six thousand veterans, members of the Women's Relief corps, Ladies of the Grand Army of the Republic and other patriotic organizations filled the hall to overflowing. Governor Hughes as well as the Grand Army of the Republic officers was given an ovation. Addressing the assembly, he said in part: "The state of New York welcomes you to this encampment, and on behalf of the citizens of the state it is my privilege to express their greeting, their felicitations and their affectionate regard. Your meeting is at once a memorial, a contrast and an inspiration. "Your meeting points a contrast. We are today a united people, rejoicing in undissolved and indissoluble union. The heroism displayed on both sides of that great conflict has become a common heritage. Past animosities are buried without forgetting past services. No line, north or south, east or west, divides us in our devotion to national ideals. Year by year we more highly appreciate the necessity and value of this unity, and north and south join today in thanksgiving to God that we are marshaled under one flag enjoying the peace and prosperity which union only can secure." SAW WOMEN DRINK. Chicago Pastor Tells of Awful Scenes on Pullman Cars. CHICAGO, Sept. 11.—Challenged to prove his charge that Chicago women were developing a craze for liquor and gambling, the Rev. Frederick E. Hopkins, pastor of the Pilgrim Congregational church, said: "The other night at dinner in the Auditorium Annex there were 100 women in the room, many of whom had some kind of an alcoholic drink before them. "Women drink in public. I mean in the hotels, high class dining rooms and restaurants and the Pullman dining cars of the country. In these places you will find them sipping some mixed drink or taking a straight whisky. "It is the same in other places. They drink in their homes, and many acquire the habit from their husbands. "I have just finished a trip of 15,000 miles on Chautauqua work in the west and the south. In the Pullman cars I had weeks of opportunity to study the drink question among women. "At the College inn I have seen women drinking high balls." ROOT HIMSELF AGAIN. Secretary of State From Muldoon's Farm In Robust Benth. NEW YORK, Sept. 11.—Secretary of State Elihu Root spent a portion of the day in New York, having come to town from William Muldoon's sanitation, where he spent several weeks. Roosevelt Tide Is Strong. WHEELING, W. V. Wa., Sept. 10.—"Roosevelt by acclamation." This is the opinion soberly expressed by United States Senator Nathan B. Scott and all the more important because Scott is a friend of Senator Knox of Pennsylvania. "Make up your mind," said Scott, "that the people of this country are Roosevelt crazy. I find this wherever I go, and there is no use in discounting it. I do not mean to say that the president is a candidate for a second term. He has several times told me that he is not. I don't believe, however, that he can stop the tide that is running his way." Rounded Nicece Over Ear WASHINGTON, Pa., Sept. 11—Following the torture of Henry Perry at the local plant of the Tyler Tube and Pipe company, in which it was feared that the victim was so badly burned by being swung over a furnace that he would die, the police arrested four alleged ringleaders of the squad of fifty mill workers who are said to have "initiated" Perry upon his securing a position in the mill. Murder Death Watchman For $40. NORFOLK, Va., Sept. 11—With the charge of "held for further examination in regard to the murder of Agrirpa Jones" against them, Louis Johnson, F. L. Lynn, W. L. Nichols and W. J. Eldridge, all white, are held here. Jones was found murdered and robbed in the rear of a saloon. He had just received $40 as death watch over the negro William McKintosh, hanged here last week. Siberian Robbers Get $50,000. TOMSK, Siberia, Sept. 11. The Siberian postal train was held up by highwaymen at a point thirteen miles from here. They separated the engine from the freight car and then seized $50,000, with which they escaped. Big Army For Morocco PARIS, Sept. 9.-The Echo de Paris says that France has proposed to Spain to send a Franco-Spanish army of 50,000 men to occupy the Moroccan ports and to go as far as Fez if necessary. Roosevelt Will Not Intervene ROSEVELT WILL NOT Intervene. OYSTER BAY, N. Y., Sept. 10.—President Rosevelt will take no part in the mayoralty contest at Cleveland. This was made plain by Secretary Loeb to inquirers. Advise France to March on Fez. ROME, Sept. 11.—A number of the newspapers of Italy advise France to settle the troublesome Moroccan question by marching on Fez. La Tribuna, La Roma and others refer to "France's precarious situation" and declare she ought to clear herself at any cost. The Populo Romano, the organ of the triple alliance, advises France to march straight on Fez. GANS WINS IN RING World's Lightweight Championship Goes to Negro. Five Rounds decide the Great Sporting Event at San Francisco—Accident Happened In Fierce Melee In the Fourth. SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 11.—Joe Gans, the colored pugilist, defeated Jimmy Britt in the fifth round of their twenty round battle here for the world's lightweight championship. Britt was knocked out and had his arm broken. In the first round Britt put left to stomach. Gans rushed Britt to his corner. Gans landed hard twice on the face. Britt staggered Gans with hard left. Gans' blows lacked steam. In the second round Britt came up smiling and missed a straight left for the body. Gans blocked several wicked blows and sent a hard left to the body. Gans got in a left stinger to face and forced Britt around the ring. Britt blocked a straight left for the face. Gans put a hard right on the jaw, but Britt came back with a left on the jaw. Gans got Britt in a corner and sent two lefts to the face. Gans put two rights on the jaw as the bell rang. In the third round Britt hooked his left on the nose and sent Gans' head back with a straight left on the nose. Gans, however, did not break ground, and met Britt's rushes with straight lefts. The pace was very rapid and round even. In the fourth round Gans swung three terrific rights to the jaw and Britt appeared groggy. Britt fought back gamely, but missed attempts to land. Britt spat blood. Gans had a big advantage. Gans won in the fifth round, as in the fourth round Britt broke his left forearm and could not continue fighting. A left swing to the body cleverly blocked by Gans cost Britt any chance he might have had to win and brought to a close five rounds of fast fighting before 14,000 people. The deciding blow was caught by Gans on the elbow in the middle of the fourth round. It broke Britt's wrist, and though Britt went on again in the fifth round, he was helpless in both offense and defense. It was not until this round that he informed his seconds of the milshap. Gans was awarded the decision, Britt being unable to respond for the sixth round. "What's the use of my going on? I can't fight. I am helpless," Britt said to "Tiv" Kreling. Captain of Police Gleason was informed at the ringside, and he stopped the fight. Referee Welch gave the decision to Gans. The fight was regarded as the most important ever held on the coast. It aroused even greater interest than the Jeffries-Pittsimmons battle. Never in the history of the sport has there been a greater demand for seats, and the arena, filled as it was, yielded $70,000. The fighters had a guarantee of $25,000, but out of everything over $35,000 taken in at the gate the fighters will receive 25 per cent, so the principals will divide, as may please them best, at least $40,000. Joaquin Miller, "Poet of the Sierras," had a ringside seat. There was a fair sprinkling of women in the crowd. Gans came in with his mulatto wife. The betting odds were 10 to 7 with Gans favorite. Her Home on Big Liner NEW YORK, Sept. 11.—Mrs. Elizabeth Rohlback of Evanston, Ill., who dropped dead on the deck of the liner Etruria, had acquired the ocean mania which her mother, Mrs. Carson, possessed for twenty years. Once she attempted by legal procedure to stop her mother from spending her fortune on ocean trips. F. G. Whiting, the Cunard agent, sald: "I knew both Mrs. Rohlback and her mother, Mrs. Carson. Mrs. Carson had practically made her home on the Etruria for twenty years." Old Times on River to Come Again. MEMPHIS, Tenn., Sept. 10.—Should Mark Twain accept the invitation to be present at the waterways convention in this city he may man the pilot wheel of the steamer that will bear President Roosevelt down the river. Captain Bixby, a noted antebellum river pilot, under whom Mark Twain "cubbed," has promised to be in the pilot house when Mark Twain shall again take the wheel. ST. JOHNS, N. F., Sept. 11.—In a statement published in the form of an interview here Sir Robert Bond, premier of Newfoundland, declared that the modus vivendi recently agreed upon by the British and American governments is "a disgrace to British diplomacy and a shameful sacrifice of the interests of the people of the colony." --- Rulers Honor Dead Composer. BERGEN, Norway, Sept. 10.—The funeral of Edward Hagerup Grieg, the music composer, here was attended by an enormous concourse of people. King Haakon, Emperor William of Germany, the Norwegian government and the parliament of Norway all sent representatives to the ceremonies. Raisulil Makes Demands on English TANGIER, Sept. 10.—The British legislation here has received by courier Raisulil's "ultimate" terms for the release of Caid Sir Harry MacLean. These demand British protection for himself, his appointment as pascha of the district from Tetuan to Larachi and an indemnity. D. R. Locher Acquitted at Lancaster, LANCASTER, Pa., Sept. 11.—Upon instructions from the court David R. Locher, president of the defunct City Trust and Savings company of this city, was acquitted of the charge of embezzlement. It was alleged that Locher accepted deposits after he knew that the trust company was insolvent. CONDENSED DISPATCHES. Notable Events of the Week Briefly Chronicked. At Philadelphia Judges Wilson and Audunried in the common pleas court declared unconstitutional the two cent railroad fare law passed by the last legislature. Mrs. Mary Lawless Rorschach, wife of Lieutenant Frank Rorschach, U. S. N., and sister of Joseph T. Lawless, former secretary of the commonwealth of Virginia, was murdered in her home In Portsmouth, Va., by an unknown burglar. Tuesday, Sept. 10. C. Angustine Dockham, founder of the Trade Directory and the oldest directory publisher in America, is dead at his home in North Reading, Mass. Florencio Morales and Bernardo Mora, who were convicted and sentenced to death for the assassination of former President Barillas of Guatemala, were executed in the Belim prison at the City of Mexico. The Korean insurgents are abandoning organized resistance of the Japanese. They now destroy railways and telegraph lines and murder unarmed Japanese, of whom they have killed seventeen, mutilating the bodies. For a long time the enlisted men of the United States navy have complained of their food until Admiral Bob Evans took the matter in hand. To make them happier a cooking school has been established at the naval training station under the direction of experts at Newport, R. I. Monday, Sept. 9. At Kittanning, Pa., following the accidental shooting of his companion, Robert Ramsey, Jr., Howard Riley committed suicide by jumping in front of an express train on the Allegheny division of the Pennsylvania railroad. It is certain, although no official declaration has been made, that Secretary Oscar S. Straus of the department of commerce and labor will have a conference with President Roosevelt at once in relation to the telegraphers' strike in New York. Although he may not know it, the condition of the workingman, not the man on salary, was better in 1906 than in 1905, so the United States bureau of labor, of which Charles P. Nelli is commissioner, has declared in making public the result of its annual inquiry into wages and prices of food. A ray of hope for a possible solution of the vexing Moreocan problem came from the Moorish empire in the shape of an announcement that the tribesmen were ready to negotiate for peace. Vice Admiral Philibert states that a delegation from the warring Arabs had asked General Drude for an armistice. Saturday, Sept. 7. Twelve men were instantly killed and twelve seriously injured when a northbound local train on the line of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific railroad jumped the tracks at Norris, Ia. Mrs Mary Ann Pepper-Vanderbilt, asked in court to give herself into the control of "Little Bright Eyes," invited the commission in lunacy and the jury to attend one of her regular spiritualistic meetings in Brooklyn. Geheimer Baurath Wittfield, Director Frischmuth, Director Jordan, Director Pforr and Professor Walter Reichel of Berlin, officials of the German government sent to America to study electric railroads, are at Niagara Falls. Dr. Rudolph Silverston is completing an airship at a Milwaukee factory of which great things are expected. It has a propeller eight feet in diameter which will, it is expected, send the ship through the air with unprecedented speed and "carry the navigator from Milwaukee to Europe in a few hours." A Milwaukeean is said to be backing the enterprise. Friday, Sept. 6. Fifty-seven counts are contained in a joint federal indictment of the Standard Oil company and the Vacuum Oil company handed in at Jamestown, N. Y. If Colonel Howze, commandant of cadets at West Point, threatened to dismiss the whole class of cadets because the members had sent one of their number to "coventry" he overrated his authority, say the officials of the war department, for the power of dismissal in such cases is not confined to any official of lower rank than the president. Thursday, Sept. 5. Dr. Edward Glasgo, a physician, is dead from three bullet holes through his head, and his wife is slightly wounded in the left breast as a result of a mysterious shooting at Brazil, Ind. Captain Henry Brown, inventor of the bell buoy, is dead at Charleston, S. C. He was eighty years old. He was born in Drobak, Norway, and came to America when sixteen years of age. A school of countless blue crabs is in session in Great South bay, New York, this week. The little crustaceans pave the sandy bottoms of Speckon, N. Y., and overflow into all the little salt creeks near the village. Want Special Flag Day SANDUSKY, O., Sept. 10.—An effort is to be made by the members of the United Spanish-American War Veterans to have Dec. I next generally observed as a special flag day in the United States in honor of the sailing of the fleet of American warships for the Pacific in command of Rear Admiral Evans. Mrs. Phillips Plends Not Gulley. CLEVELAND, O., Sept. 10.—Mrs. Charlotte Phillips was arraigned here before Justice William Brown on the charge of killing her husband, J. J. Phillips, a week ago Monday morning. Mrs. Phillips is ill and feebly pleaded not guilty, waiving examination. WARSHIP FLIES HIGH. British Army Officers Make Successful Trip Skyeward. FARNBOROUGH, England, Sept. 11.—The new army afrship had a trial trip which proved that, like the French and Germans, the British have solved the problem to which they have devoted so many years' work. The dirigible balloon made a most successful It's Particular Merit is its Shaving Quality ONE YEAR daily, regular price $3.00 Fremont Razor $2.00 Your Favorite Home Newspaper $1.50 Mailed immediately upon receipt of your subscription. 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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SEATTLE, Wash., Sept. 11.—Secretary of War Taft and party arrived in Seattle on Chester Thorne's yacht El Primero. Secretary Taft and party will leave Seattle for Yokohama, Japan, tomorrow at noon. Secretary Taft announced the itinerary for his trip around the world as follows: Leave Seattle Sept. 12; due Yokohama Sept. 25; due Kobe Sept. 29; due Nagasaki Oct. 4; due Shanghai Oct. 6; due Hongkong Oct. 11; arrive Manila Oct. 14 (via McClellan); leave Manila Nov. 4; arrive Vladivostok Nov. 11; leave Vladivostok Nov. 12; arrive Irkutsk Nov. 16; arrive Moscow, stopping two days, Nov. 23; arrive St. Petersburg, stopping two days, Nov. 26; arrive Berlin, stopping two days, Nov. 29; take steamer at Cherbourg about Dec. 4; arrive New York about Dec. 10. HOLDS UP PAPERS. Justice Miller Will Not Confer Citizenship on Ignorant Foreigners. ITHACA, N. Y., Sept. 11. — Justice Miller, in opening the September term of the supreme court here, surprised the court attendants by refusing all applications for citizenship. "We have admitted too many ignorant foreigners to citizenship already," he said. "I do not propose to admit to the franchise any person who does not know enough about the constitution of the country to cast an intelligent ballot. "I will not grant citizenship papers to any immigrant who has not a fixed intention of staying in the country and an intelligent knowledge of and patriotic interest in its form of government. An ignorant electorate tends to be a corruptible electorate; an un --- 10 3.50 WYS Delphia Press regular price $3.00 $2.00 time Newspaper $1.50 value $6.50 FOR Cash upon receipt of your description. day—NOW! intelligent use of the ballot is dangerous to the success of a democratic form of government." --- JACKIE FRIENDS Poisoned Candy. RACINE, Wls. Sept. 10.—Miss Adelaide Korizek, who is charged with sending poisoned candy to women friends so as to "see more funerals in Racine," will be committed to the insane asylum at Oshkosh. Her mind became unbalanced following the death of her mother, from whom she had been inseparable. Twenty-four Bodies Recovered. QUEBEC, Sept. 10.—This is the tenth day since the Quebec bridge calamity, and the St. Lawrence began to deliver up some of the victims. Eight bodies were found on Saturday about twelve miles below the bridge, making a total of twenty-four bodies recovered out of the seventy-five who went down to their death. FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL. Closing Stock Notations Money on call firm at 567 per cent; prime mercantile paper, 65% per cent; exchanges, $78,347,125, balances, $110,105,75. Closing prices: Abercrombie. 66% N. Y. Central. 104% Atchison. 86% Norf. & West. 71 B & O. 90% Penn. R. R. 119% Brooklyn R. T. 46 Reading 94% Rock Island. 30 Chess. & Ohio. 33 Chi. & Northw. 144 Southern Pac. 84 D & H. 154 Southern Ry. 16 Erie. 20 South. Ry. pf 57 Electric. 17 Sugar 52 Ill. Central. 136 Pacific 28 Lackawanna. 474 Union Pacific. 129 Louis & Nash. 108 U. S. Steel. 31 Manhattan. 119 U. S. Steel. pf 94 West. West. Union. 76% Missouri Pac. 70 New York Markets FLOUR-Quiet and about steady; Minima patents, $8.50; winter patents, $10.50; winter patents, $12.50; winter extras, $10.50; $3.70, $10.50; fair to good, $4.00, $4.00; choice to food, $4.50; $6.50 WHEN no choice to fancy. $48@ch. more favorable news from the Canadian northwest caused a break of nearly a cent in wheat; $11@ch. November, $1.07 $1.60%1.07%, May, $1.10%1.10% BUTTER-State dairy, common to fina-les; process, common to spa-cles. $18.20%CHEESE-State, full cream, small, color; process, common to color; common to fair, $11.20%c. color; colored, fine, $13%c.; white, $13%c.; common to prime, $11%c.; skims, $13%c. EGGS-State, Pennsylvania and nearby, choice, $24%c.; crown and mixed, fancy, $24%c.; firsts to extra firsts, $20%c.; choice, $24%c.; crown and mixed, $21%c.; seconds, $18%c.; thirds, $16%c.; dirties, candled, $16%c.; uncandled, $12%c. checks, candled, $14%c.; uncandled, $12%c. STRAW-Steady at 55c. WOOLL Firm: domestic fleece. 323.000. WOOLL Firm: domestic fleece. 323.000. barrel, 16.15; 70, culls, per barrel, 75 barrel, 16.15; 70, culls, per barrel, 75 LIVE POULTRY—Steady; fowls, 13½%@ 14½c; old roosters, 12@12½c; spring chickens, 14½c; stags, 12½c. DRESSED POULTRY—Steady; fresh killed fowls, choice, 15c; do, fair to good, 14@14½c; old roosters, 10½c; nearby broilers, 16@20c. THE PLANET SATURDAY. SEPTEMBER 14. 07 For young people EMILY'S SUMMER FRIEND. She Was Ragged. But She Knew the Birds and Flowers and Trees. "If you are really anxious to get away, pet, suppose you go alone to Spencer's, and we'll be there in a few days." Now that her father had given this permission, Emily was not slow in packing her goods for the trip, and the next day she was on the way. The Spencers lived in a little village on the side of a mountain and they had invited the Grahams to spend a vacation with them. Mr. and Mrs. Graham had yet to make arrangements before departing, but Emily had hardly known what to do with herself since school had closed, and was glad of the consent to go at once. Arriving at the little station, Emily was met by Mr. Spencer in a light carriage, for there was still some little distance to go. She had seen him often in the city, and so they were well acquainted with one another. Just before they reached the home of the Spencers they passed by an old shaky-looking barn that seemed to be kept from falling only by stout poles propped against the outside. "Who owns this wretched place?" asked Emily with interest. "We call him 'Peter Tumbledown,'" answered Mr. Spencer; "and that old A Friend in Need. house over there is where he and his little girl lives. The house looked as badly in need of repairs as the barn. As she looked Emily saw dodge out of sight behind the side of it a little girl of about her own age, with a mass of tangled hair and a very tattered dress. Mrs. Spencer welcomed Emily cordially, and she felt at home from the very first. Everything was so new that Emily found much enjoyment in her walks about the place. After awhile she took longer trips from the house, and often passed by the barn of "Peter Tumbledown." Sometimes she saw the ragged little girl, but as Emily was just a wee bit proud because she came from the city, and besides the girl was so very, very dirty looking, she never spoke to her. Near by was a beautiful lake with a tiny island right in the center of it. One day Emily ventured into a boat that lay by the shore and paddled out to the island. Lying down to rest for a few moments she fell asleep, and it was late in the afternoon when she awoke. You can imagine how frightened she was when she found that the boat had gone adrift and that there was no way of getting back to shore. While she was wondering what to do, she saw approaching her another boat, and in it the ragged girl of "Tumbledown Cottage." "If you don't mind coming into my boat," said she shyly, when quite near, "I can take you to land." "I'd be glad to," gratefully replied Emily, "and I'm much obliged to you for your trouble." Emily soon learned that the little girl's name was Ally, that she never went to school, and that her dog, Gyp, was all she ever had to play with. Ally really wasn't so had once you knew her, and, too, you could not but pity her. Emily thanked her again as she left for home, and they parted quite friendly. Mr. and Mrs. Graham came the next day, so she had no chance to see Ally for some time. After that, however, they met often, and Emily soon found that although Ally had not been to school, there was nothing in the country that she and Gyp did not know. Mr. Graham believes that Emily learned more from Ally about growing things than she ever learned in school. Emily thinks so, too, and she has learned, besides, that though a little girl may be ragged, she may still be worth while having for a friend.—Detroit Free Press. Boy Goes Over St. Anthony's Falls. Minneapolis, Minn.—Anthony Aspinalis, a 17-year-old boy, recently arrived from Chicago, shot like a catapult over St. Anthony's falls at a late hour the other day and lived to tell the story. The boy sat down on a log to rest just above the falls. Suddenly the log sled into the water, carrying him with it. Whirling, turning, twisting, now upon the surface of the water, now submerged, the youth held bravely on until he reached a corn paradely easy current, when he swam to Spirit island. Shakespeare at the Seashore. Stella—What was the summer resort like? Bella—A hamlet with Romeo left out—N. Y. Sun. EGGS THAT JUMP A Trick Which Will Entertain and Amuse Your Friends. Your friends will be mystified completely if you do this trick very carefully. Take a number of eggs; remove the yolks and whites, so that only the shells remain. To each of these shells paste one end of a strand of fine silk, attach the other end to one of your fingers. In doing the trick, cautions the Los Angeles Times, be sure that your audience are far enough away to be unable to see the silken threads. Now say that you will be able to make the eggs leap into the air by magnetizing them with your fingers. Or course, as you move a finger upward and downward, the shell at- The Secret of the Trick. tached to the other end of the strand of silk will move up and down. You can gain a pretty effect by making them dance in time to music. TRAPPING RABBITS. Why the Proposition of a Store-Keeper Didn't Pan Out. "There are lots of rabbits in the woods back of the rye field, and I've got six box-traps in the barn. If you'll see to 'em every morning we'll set the traps now." This proposition made to a 14-year-old boy, says Mr. Fred Mather, the author of "Men I Have Fished With," seemed a fine proposition, and the boy instantly agreed. He was to put the captured rabbits in a bag, and the man who owned the traps was to take care of them. The boy tells the story: "The next night was clear and crisp, and oh! how cold that morning was! The first trap was unsprung. The second actually held a rabbit. There was the game crouched in the far end. I let the trap down, and for a few moments enjoyed my triumph. I was a mighty trapper!" "I carefully adjusted the bag over the trap, and then opened it. There was a thud in the bottom of the bag, and then a glimpse of something gray and a sound of 'Zipl zipl' and if that really was a rabbit it was gone. "The third trap held a rabbit, and with the last failure in mind, great care was taken in arranging the bag, but somehow the same thing happened again. The next two traps were empty and the sixth was sprung. "Remembering what Garry had said about a rabbit not biting, I put in a hand and brought the animal out some way, memory falls to record how, but it does bring back the pitiful cries that rang through the woods. But I hardened my heart and dropped the game in the bag, and started for home with my prize, in triumph not unmixed with other feelings." "After pondering for a while on the escape of the other two rabbits, the recollection of those pitiful cries came up in full force. Then I seemed to realize that they came from a poor, terrified and harmless thing that I was taking to be killed without the excitement of the heart. "I peeped into the bag. Two large eyes and a trembling form were in the corner. Somehow the grip on the mouth of the bag was boosened, the bottom was turned up, and a white lump of cotton in a field of gray went bobbing off into the brush. "When I entered Tom Slimmonds' store, I said to Garry 'Here's your bag. I haven't got any rabbits, and don't want any.'" BOOK SHELVES AND STOOL Ladder Design for book-shelves and stool which may be made by the boy or girl carpenter. The wood may be of dressed pine and stained and grained to represent oak.—Los Angeles Herald. One Reason. "Why do they put the nation's flag on top of the schoolhouse?" asked the teacher, who wanted to instil a patriotic lesson. "Please, ma'am," answered the head boy, "it's because the pole is there." Love your neighbor as yourself. If you do that you'll have a high old time in this world as well as in the next—Atlanta Constitution. THE RICHMOND PLANET. RICHMOND. VIRGINIA BURGLAR AT NIGHT YOUNG MAN, POSING A6 STRUGGLING PRACTITIONER, CONFESSES TO DOUBLE LIFE. Coatesville, Pa.—Having led a Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde existence for more than a year, stealing by night and practicing as an oculist by day, Dr. Benjamin Holbrook, of West Brandywine township, has confessed to many small burglaries and is now in the West Chester jail. As the oculist is well connected and seems to be truly penitent, and as he has made a clean breast of his misdoings, the Pennsylvania railroad's detectives who succeeded in drawing the mask from the man have decided to ask for a light sentence. So the doctor will appear before the next quarter sessions, admit his strange double A man sweeping the floor. Went Forth as a Burglar. life, and throw himself upon the mercy of the court. It is said that Holbrook, while ostensibly living a most respectable life as a struggling young practitioner, is known to have committed at least eight burglaries. It may be that he has been guilty of more offences than this, but he says not, and has convinced the officers that he tells the truth. Holbrook kept his own horse and buggy. At night he drove long distances from home, tied his rig in the woods and then went forth as a burglar. The particular thefts that proved his undoing were at Wyebrook on the Downingtown & New Holland railroad, and at Buck Run, a small station on the Pomeroy branch of the Pennsylvania. In each of these small places Dr. Holbrook broke into the railroad station in the dead of night, stealing all the mileage and other railroad tickets, the change in the cash drawers and even such heavier articles as a typewriter and copying press. Dr Holbrook used one of the stolen mileage tickets for two months after it was missed by the railroad. It was not taken up on the trains, although he took several long trips. But finally when he tried to use a second mileage ticket from the stolen package it was "lifted" and sent in to the railroad offices at Philadelphia. A railroad detective went to see Dr. Holbrook, who averted suspicion by declaring he had bought the mileage tickets from a man named Smith, whom he met at Downingtown. Dr. Holbrook next ventured into the general offices of the Pennsylvania railroad in Philadelphia with a unique proposal, considering that he was a burglar. The doctor had with him four mileage tickets which he offered and requested a reward in cash for finding them. He said he had found the tickets lying in the road in Coatesville. He was not paid, but the detectives were notified and again went out on the case. This time the detectives became suspicious of Holbrook and finally forced him to confess. DOG BATTLES WITH SNAKE Seven-Foot Black One Gives Canine the Fight of His Life. Beverly, N. J.—Although he does not possess much beauty, nor has he ever won any prizes at a dog show, Yellow, a small collie owned by Joshua Fenimore, is a terror to snakes. Before Yellow came to live in the country the Fenimore farm was overrun with snakes. The dog soon began to dispute the possession of the farm with the reptiles, and seemed to know the poisonous ones from the less harmful, and would crush out their lives by seizing them back of the head and shaking them as he would a rat. The other afternoon Yellow had what almost was his last fight with a seven-foot black snake. While the farm hands stood by, unable to render assistance, the dog managed to get such a hold that he could not be fanged and maintained it for 20 minutes, while the snake fought fiercely. Finally it was killed by the dog. Kick In "Tummy" Saype Life Akron, O.-Arthur Wagner of Barberton happened to see Harvey Weyrick struggling in the water of the Ohio canal at this place, and dragged him out unconscious. Adopting a style of resuscitation which appears to be entirely original, Wagner kicked him in the stomach while attempting to revive him. Next day Weyrick had Wagner arrested for assault and battery, and his unfortunate rescuer was fined five dollars and costs in the mayor's court. Hands of Men and Women. The average hand of the man is from one inch to an inch and three-quarters longer than the woman's average. Shafte Hard to Avoid The events of fortune are unexpected, and, therefore, can never be guarded against by men.-Axionicus. Knights of Pythias, This organization is one of the most powerful in the country and its progress has been phenomenal. The Grand Lodge of Virginia has jurisdiction over all of the cities and counties in this state. Thirty maler 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. The Courts of Calanthe Is the Female Department of the Order. It requires a membership of thirty persons to organize a court. Its members are pledged to exhibit Fidelity, exercise Harmony and prove Love one for the other. It pays an endowment and burial benefit of $150.00. It pays $3.00 per week sick dues. The only expense for regalia is the cost of the badge, 50 cents and a rosette, costing 25 cents for funeral occasions. THE BANDS OF CALANTHE or Children's Department also con- the 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 RNICHTS OF PYTHIAST F.C.B. pays $4.00 per w only absolutely necessary regalla. apply at the main office. The Courts Is the Female Department of the O thirty persons to organize a court. Fidelity, exercise Harmony and pro an endowment and burial benefit of dues. The only expense for regalia a rosette, costing 25 cents for funerai THE BANDS OF CALANTH stitutes a feature and persons cannot circle. The expense is nominal and $1.00 to $1.50 sick dues and death b Lodge or Court or Band in your nei For all information concerning th For all information concerning membership in the lodges and courts ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS] Advice and Suggestions Furnished by Mime. Merril. Dear Madame Merril: Please send name of book on the niceties of so- clety and oblige. OLD SUBSCRIBER. It is impossible to give names and addresses in the department. If the reader will send a self-addressed stamped envelope to Madame Merril, in care of the paper, the information will be forwarded. Dear Madame Merril: I am going to give a party and want it to be a musi- cale. What should be done to pass the evening besides music, and what should be served, etc.? ROBE Generally the only entertainment necessary is the musical programme. You can have musical quotations on the cards bearing the programme and if you wish to give favors, get the pretty candy boxes which cones in all sorts of musical forms. You can serve elaborate or simple refreshments. I think a bowl of frappe with ice cream or an ice all sufficient in the summer time. For a Cotton Wedding: I am thinking of giving a house party for some girl friends, celebrating our first wedding anniversary, and I am writing for suggestions from you. How shall I word the invitations or should they be informal notes? MRS. HERBERT T. I should write little notes, wrap them in cotton, then place in envelopes, saying nothing that it was in honor of the anniversary. Then at dinner the wedding day have all the decorations of white, using cotton in every available way. I knew of a "first" anniversary dinner where wigs of stuffy cotton were provided; this made a lot of fun. Down south one can buy little cotton bales that would be fine for favors. A Stork Party Some months ago a description of a stork party appeared in Madame Merril's department. I have lost the paper and ask you to kindly repeat and greatly oblige one who is a constant reader of your paper. The above request has been the burden of many letters received lastly. I think the best way to pacify the stork is to reprint the "party" in as condensed a form as possible. In the affair described there were four honored guests and six intimate friends who conspired with the hostess to make the party a success. On "the" four chairs at the dining table four blue wires were tied. The favors were dainty celluloid rattles, while white storks bore the place cards in their bills, but at "the" four plates each bird had a tiny doll baby doo up in a small square of linen. The table centerpiece was a good-sized gilt cradle, with a canopy of dotted Swiss, tied with pink ribbons. Tiny pink rosebuds were scattered over the table with maiden-hair ferns. The napkins were folded like doll babies and fastened with safety pins. Candies, fairy lamps and a number of little night lamps furnished the illumination, while advertisements of all the baby foods adorned the walls. These had been cut from magnifiers and mounted on cardboard. There were also numerous "ade" of go-carts, scribes and high chairs. The menu consisted of celery soup, chicken cutlets, mashed potato in ramikins, tomatoes and spaghetti, a fruit salad, ice cream in round ring molds, with wee bottles of paregoric, angel food and chocolate. The afternoon was spent in working on various articles for the little strangers, and at five o'clock the hootess served what she said was camomile and amisseed "tea" with baby "educator" crackers. On departing the guests received small boxes which contained a minute cake of soap and a doll's hot water N. A., S. A., E. A., A. AND A. organization is one of the most powerful has been phenomenal. The Grand of all the cities and counties in order to organize a new lodge. The longest features, but the principles ended on Friendship, based on Charity the respectable, upright people of their heartiest support. An endowment and burial benefit of per week sick dues. The badge galla. For information concerning courts of Calanty in the Order. It requires a memorial 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 $44our neighborhood, orgnize one. Using the Children's Department ad Mrs. ANNA TAYLOR, W. M., 120 W. Hill St., Richmond mering special rates of courts, address JOHN MITCHELL 311 N. 4th St. $150 PER MONTH SURE TO GOOD AGENTS, handling the greatest seller in America to-day. Nothing else like it. No does the work. Sells at almost every home over and over ag on the dollar. Write to-day for full particulars, with real cha Address $150 PER MONTH SURE TO GOOD AGENTS, HAIR TONICS. Absolutely the greatest seller in America to-day. Nothing else like it. No long talk. My plan does the work. Sells at almost every home over and over again. 7 clear profit on the dollar. Write to-day for full particulars, with real chance of a lifetime. Address J. F. CLARK, CONWAY, ARK. My Dear Madame Merril: Is it proper to have a shower for a bride at a breakfast? If so, what time? Is this shower supposed to be a surprise to the bride? What would be proper for the menu? Should the parcels be sent to the hostess before the appointed time and when and how would be the most appropriate time to give them to the bride-elect? Would it be proper to invite married ladies? BEATRICE. A breakfast is served at 12, half after or one o'clock, not later, and the same menu is served as one would have at a luncheon, with the exception of soup. The bride-elect may or may not know of the shower. I think it is interesting to have it a surprise. The parcels should be sent to the hostess before hand and they should be given after the lunch. It would be perfectly proper to invite married ladies. Automobile enthusiasts have taken an interest in the new chaunda coat with open sides which falls absolutely straight at back and front like the ecclesiastical robe for which it is named. It is made of heavy linen or pongo and so far has been finished with bands of heavy lace around the whole garment. On the fronts and sleeves it is usually finished with cotton passmessierie and brandenburgs. The first qualification of this coat for summer use is the readiness with which it chaps. A Chinese merchant of Peking, who was convicted of murder was sentenced to death by being deprived of sleep. Four warders kept watch over him to keep him awake and on the tenth day he died. Oliver Cromwell, when for the first time he put the English soldier in a red coat, probably did as much as St. George to monopolize red as the national color—London Chronicle. American Missionaries Abroad. The United States maintains 3,778 missionaries in Japan, China, Korea, the Philippines, Barmah, Siam, India, Thibet, Persia, Turkey, Egypt and the South American countries. Ocea in a while you meet an old college graduate who remembers what the words the initials in the name of his Greek letter society stood for were.-Somerville Journal. On rising in the morning the eyes should be bathed gently with cold water—20 passes are said to be decidedly strengthening. While using them closely they should be rested at intervals of an hour or two, for the strain of constant reading, etc., is like that of extending the arms at a certain height immovably. Imagine, then, the taxing of the eyes, which cannot complain, gave after years of neglect. Many a woman has married a fellow to make a new man of him, and then, having succeeded, somehow or other she doesn't care for the new man. Back to Save Sponge Beds Book to Save Sponge Beds. A law has been passed in Florida prohibiting diving for sponges. It is said that the divers have nearly ruined the sponge beds. bottle The "Chauble" Ceat Only Rarely. Though. Care of the Eyes. Labor Lost. the membership of to exhibit it. It pays week sick to cents and ment also con- ture little ones into this mystic and be expected. It pays from 40.00. If you have noPythian address. Hill St., Richmond, Va. N MITCHELL, JR., RRII N. 4th St., Richmond, Va. MONTH handling the world's greatest of NTS, HAIR TONICS. Absolutely the ing else like it. No long talk. My plan me over and over again. 7 clear profit culars, with real chance of a lifetime. JOHN FOXEL Dealer in General Line of FANCY AND STAPLE GROCERIES NOTIONS, FRESH MEATS, CIGARS, TOBACCO, ICE, WOOD, COAL, &c. BOARDING & LODGING Rates Reasonable. All the Comforts of Home Orders received by letter or telegraph MRS. BOOKER LEFTWICH, PROPRIETERSSS. 816 N. 2nd St., Richmond, Va. H F Jonathan FISH, OYSTERS; AND PRODUCE. 120 N. 17TH St., RICHMOND, VA ALL ORDERS WILL RECEIVE PROMPT ATTENTION. Long Distance Pheno. 728. 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 monthly payments, said stock paying 3 per cent interest, guaranteed. Lodging Negro Deputy is wanted in each location. ONCE, to form Lodges, sell Buttons, take Journal Subscriptions, sell Stock and as DISSTRICT 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 mall, $1.25. Mrs. Graham makes a specialty 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., Richmond, Va. 'Phone 2048 112 W. Leigh 5 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 PURE WHISKEY Will Satisfy the lover of the right kind of stimulant. Special prices. We have all grades of good liquors, Cigars and Tobacco. Call and see us. ISAAC STRAUS & CO., 422 E. Broad St., Richmond, Virginia. S. W. ROBINSON. NO. 23 NORTH 18TH ST. FINE WINES, LIQUORS CIGARS, &c. All Stock Sold as Guaranteed. PROMPT ATTENTION. Your patronage is respectfully solicited. —Subscribe to the Richmond, Va. PLANET. $1.50 per year. GEORGE O. BROWN. Fine Photographs. True to Life. High-class service. Latest Improvements in Photographic Outdoor Work. Service. Reasonable Bargains and Prompt Service. Pictures Barraryed from Old negatives or Photographs. $-ms THE ECONOMY, 303-5 North Third St. CLEANING, DVEING AND REPAIRING CHITMAN M. WHITE, PROPRIETOR. A. Hayes OFFICE AND WARE-ROOMS, 727 North Second Street RESIDENCE, 725 N. 2nd St. First-class Hacks and Caskets of all descriptions. I have a spare room for bodies when the family have not a suitable place. All country orders are given special attention. Your special attention is called to the new style Oak Caskets. Call and see me and you shall be waited or cindly. 'Phone, 2778. Slumber Robes S Here we have three pretty night-dresses, specially designed for making in thin materials for summer wear, such as nainaison, lawn, cambric, mull, or maddapollam. The first has a deep square yoke of the material finely tucked in series, each series being divided by lace insertion; the lower part is gathered to the edge of yoke under a narrow band feather-sitched. The opening is down the center-front under a box-pleat. The sleeves are gathered into bands covered with lace insertion, and edged with a lace-edged frill of the material. The second has a pretty tilted yoke of the material cut in deep points at the edge and in a small V at the throat, it is trimmed with rows of lace insertion crossed to form diamonds; the neck is edged with a frill of narrow lace, and a bow of ribbon ornaments the front. The gown is gathered to the yoke, the opening being down the center-front. The sleeves, which reach only just below the elbow, are gathered into bands of insertion, edged with a deep lace-trimmed frill. Illustration shows another small yoke, which is cut square in the neck, it is trimmed entirely of rows of lace insertion, mitred at the corners to form the square. The sleeves are trimmed with deep frills of lace. Material required for each night-dress: Five and one-half yards 36 inches wide. New Idea in Ruffles Parisian Costumers Now Put Them Upside Down—Finished with Ribbon Band. Little bristling plaitings and ruffles put on upside down are the newest things in Paris dressmaking. They are made in silk usually and used on the same or on wool materials. They are set on the bottoms of skirts and in groups half way up, and in this case the bottom ruffle of each group is finished at the lower edge with a ribbon band. They are used especially on the full sleeves and at the top of a high princess skirt. In this case the whole waist is made of the inverted plumage. Narrow kilted lace is used, though it must be quite narrow to stand in place. The prettiest effect is had by buying shaded or omber silk, stripped up and plaited, or to buy equal quantities of five or six shades of the same color of taffeta. The waist then is started with the dark color matching the skirt, and graduated up with two or three rows of each until a delicate shade is reached at the neck. Over-Blouse This is one of the simplest forms of the popular over-blouse with kimono sleeves. The top is drawn in to fit the band by the sets of three tiny tucks about three inches in length, that are placed at regular distances all round. The neck is then set to the double band, that must be ornamented by embroidery, galloon, or lace insertion. The edges of sleeves and sides are turned over to the right side, and are covered by the trimming; this makes the inside perfectly neat. The Colored Edge The colored outlet or edge was a feature of most of the thin gowns, whether of muslin, fleet or gros tulle, says a Paris correspondent. In most cases there was a draped high belt of the same silk as the outlet, and the thin stuff was much "worked," that is, embroidered, inset with lace and so on. These costumes were worn with scarfs or long loose garments, with short or no sleeves at all, and open to show much of the inner gown. The Linan Shower When giving a linen shower send out the invitation on paper which looks like hemstitched linen. It is best for the guests to meet before calling upon the bride-elect and arrange what presents are to be sent. No difference what marked places you give the young woman, the monogram should be with her malden initials. Regaining Lost Confidence Owing to the rattling of chains and other ghostly disturbances at Hitchin workhouse traps are said to be giving the place a wide berth. The authorities, he-ever, are doing their best to lay the ghosts, and by up-to-date methods and strict attention to business hope once more to regain the confidence and kind patronage of their clients—London Tribune. White Linings Worn General Foundation for Transparent Materials of All Colors and Gives Good Results. None of the later developments of the season is more noticeable than the use of white as foundation for the transparent materials of all colors. It is claimed to have had its origin in the favor shown the lingerie skirt, but whether or not that be true, the result is one to be desired. Black and blue combinations are being much favored, and one of the smartest visiting gowns of the season is made of black barge trimmed with bands of Sovres blue liberty silk, while it is worn over a foundation of white taffeta. To be sure, the soft material is made very full and the foundation of white is by no means aggressive, but it is there, and it gives a general effect of lightness and charm to the entire gown. A very lovely rose-colored vello, also noted within the week, is worn over white, and gray mousseline so treated becomes far more beautiful than when worn over a matching color. There is a preference just now for brightening the gray with a little trimming of color, and a very beautiful princesse gown that is to go to one of our leading resorts, is made of the mousseline, or chiffon, in a rather dark shade. The waist portion is cut out to form a very deep V at back and front, and there are no sleeves, while beneath the gown is to be worn a guipme of Irish race. But at the foot of the skirt are several alternating frills of pink and gray point desprit net while beneath the whole is a closely fitted robe of soft, supple white taffeta. Simple and Smart Pretty Dinner and Dance Gowns for Those in the Heyday of Youth and Beauty. Very pretty informal and simple dinner and dance gowns for the young set are of mousseline and batiste in white and pale colors. These are full waistls with high silk or ribbon girdles, fastening with three straps and three pairs of large buttons, covered with the same material as the girdle. The straps being of cord and wide apart, are new and pretty. Bertha frills of lace and ruffles of the gown fabric often trim the decouletage in the various lines, and finish the short sleeves. The same ruffles and lace carry out the three rows of a Greek design upon the skirt. The whole skirt and its ruffles may be plisse for a change. No one may wear with more distinction the extreme of simplicity so well as when youth and beauty go hand in hand. The difficulty lies in the impossibility of convincing those who are young and beautiful of this fact.—Vogue Purse Monograma. Purse monograms this season are smaller than formerly. On the large bag a gold or silver button in dull finish is placed on the top side just below the clasp. On this button is engraved the monogram of the owner, and not infrequently the engraving is outlined in black. Smaller purses, hand purses especially, are seen with corner monograms in the shape of a hollow triangle, inside of which is set a script or old English monogram. Hat Gosclp. Either very small or very large flowers are used on summer millinery. Water illies and jasmine are fashionable among many other famed flowers. "Lamp shade hats" is the name given to the glorified mob cap at present in vogue. The oblong shape is the latest survival of the mushroom hat. Origin of Name "Nicotine" The name "nicotine" is a reminder of Jean Nicot, a French nobleman and ambassador to Portugal. In 1650 he sent a quantity of tobacco seeds from Lisbon to Paris, stating that they were the seeds of a valuable medicinal plant that was just then highly appreciated in Portugal, into which country it had been introduced from America 40 years before. THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA GIRL IS 20 YEARS SLAVE BY ERROR DEATH REVEALS MISTAKE IN COURT SENTENCE THAT LOST A LIFE IN MINES. BLUNDER OF CLERK IS FATAL Inserted "Years" for "Montha" on Alabama Court Slip—Suffering Broke Girl's Heart—Served In Chain Gang. Montgomery, Ala.—Forced to slave for almost 20 years in penal servitude mines in this state, Rheena Rivers, of Houston county, died a victim to a clerk's mistake. The man wrote the word "years" instead of "months" on the commitment papers that sent the girl to the mines. It was not until after her death the terrible error was discovered and a bill was introduced into the legislature to pay the mother for the overtime that the daughter served. Close to the limit of cruelty is the trick Fate played the Rivers girl. She was arrested for an offense the maximum penalty for which is 20 years' penal servitude. The judge sentenced the girl to 20 months. The clerk, however either honestly misunderstood the sentence or was negligent. Penal servitude meant working in a chain gang, and the girl received her sentence. When judgment of the court was pronounced her mother was in the room. She expected to have her daughter back home in less than two years. The girl was crushed by what seemed to her a severe sentence, and promised to earn what commutation she could by good behavior. After 20 months her mother made efforts to learn when her daughter would return home. The girl had lost her identity in a prison number, and it was difficult to find out to what mine she had been sent. When finally the mother did ascertain the name of the mina she asked that her daughter be released. She was told the girl had been sentenced for 20 years, and the prisoner would have to serve her term. Of such trying nature is work in mines that owners are compelled to depend on the state to keep the mines going. Exposure of brutality practiced by keepers of felon gangs have been frequent in the last 20 years and physical sufferings of the prisoners are always intense. Long before the 19 years which the girl remained prisoner had passed, the mother had given her daughter up as lost. The girl, however, protested against her imprisonment many times and she was punished summarily because of her vehemence. The work 3 The Work Was Beyond Her Endurance. The Work Was Beyond Her Endurance. also was beyond her endurance. Ten months before her supposed long term was to have expired she died. Her body was sent home then and the mistake discovered. A newspaper story telling of the girl's death was read by several persons who were in court at the time she was sentenced. They recalled distinctly she had been ordered to serve 20 months, and they began an investigation. They looked up the court record, and found it showed she had been sentenced to 20 months. It looked for a time as if the girl had been kept a prisoner deliberately for 17 years, and a commission was sent to the mines to investigate the case. The commissioners found a mistake had been made in the commitment papers that were turned over to the overseer of prisoners, and this was his authority for holding the girl. Wife Slok; Pawns Leg and Teeth. Des Moines, Ia.—The desperation which sometimes seizes the poverty stricken seldom has had a more thrilling exemplification that in the case of Charles Blank, who, in an effort to secure money to send to his sick wife, whom he elamis is in Chicago, laid two gold teeth and a wooden leg upon the counter of Zacharia Woolf, a pawnbroker, and begged for a loan. Woolf says he knew Blank years ago when he was prosperous and had confidence in his word. Accordingly he handed Blank eight dollars and the latter, minus a part of his masticating and locomotion organs, hobbled to a bank and bought a draft, to send to his afflicted one. Ancient irrigation Works. Remains of irrigation systems 4,000 years old have been excavated in South Africa. VINITA, I. T., Sept. General Pleasant Porter, the noted chief of the Creek Indian nation, is dead here following a stroke of paralysis Everthing! Everthing! IN FURNITURE AND FLOOR COVERINGS SYDNOR & HUNDLEY, INC. Leaders. 709 711 713 EAST BROAD STREET. The People's Restaurant, 750 North 3rd St., Richmond, Va MEALS at All Hours—Hot or Cold. Board by Day, Week or Month. SOFT DRINKS. POLITE ATTENTION..... GIVE MR A CALL. Mme. SYLVIA L. MITCHELL, Proprietress. SAYS THE SAGE OF TO-DAY. Fast friends should be slow to disagree. When a man earns his money he never has any to burn. Business is business for those who mind their own business. In the race for popularity truth is the hare and flattery is the tortoise. If Jonah had been after inside information he certainly would have got it. He jests at family jars who never had a mother-in-law to pry the lid off. Some men would rather lose a dollar on a horse race than win it at honest labor. Perhaps you are right, Corella, in your theory that laundries date back to the iron age. Adam never had occasion to try to explain the presence of a blonde hair on the sleeve of his coat. It's difficult for a woman's neighbors to understand why she has so much confidence in her husband. There can be no effect without a cause. When a thing is offered at less than cost there is a reason for it. WORDS OF WISDOM A life in continual need is half-death. —German. Who builds on the mob builds on sand. —Italian. To form devices quick is woman's wit. —Euripides. The good man will avoid the spot of any sin. —Bon Jonsson. We reason from our heads, but not from our hearts. —Fielding. It is pleasant to look on the rain when one stands dry. —Dutch. Observe the face of the wife to know the husband's character. —Spanish. It is the cause, and not the death, that makes the martyr. —Napoleon. Religion should be the rule of life, not a casual incident to it. —Lord Bea- oonsheld. He is sufficiently learned that knows how to do well and has power enough to refrain from evil—Cicero. Never esteem anything of value unto thee that shall make thee break thy word or lose thy self-respect.—Marcus Aurelius. Surface Friendships Surface friendships are not friendships at all, and do not deserve the name. But if you find the heart of your friend and plant your own love there and cultivate it, you will reap a harvest for a lifetime. You cannot do this with everyone. Long Apprenticeship Term LONG Apprenticeship Form In England the telephone apprentice serves three years. In the shop, six months; with experienced instrument setter, three months; in switchroom, 18 months; textroom, three months, and on instrument faults, six months. Annual Loss of Flesh "My class of 50 pupils loses 100 pounds each examination season," said a school teacher. "Every pupil in the world stands to lose two pounds during this ordeal. Say there are, all told, 50,000,000. Then 100,000,000 pounds of solid flesh melts annually in June away." Back to Bee-Keeping One of the pleasantest vocations leading away from the strenuous life and back to the soil, declares Forrest Crissey in the Saturday Evening Post, is that of bee-keeping, and it is especially attractive from the fact that it is as open to women as to men. Everthing! IN FURNE FLOOR C SCENIC ROUTE TO THE WEST ROUTE TRAINS LEAVE RICHMOND, MAIN STREET STATION, EASTBOUND. 6:00 A. M. Fast daily trains to Newport 9:00 A. M. Newark, Old Point, Norfolk and P. M. Newark, All trains to Pull- 4:25 P. M. marr or Parlor car. 10:00 A. M. Daily-Charleston, Columbus and Toledo. Pullman Sleeper to Toledo via Gaudey and Ohio Central Line. 2:00 P. M. Daily. Louisville, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis. Through 11:00 P. M. Pullman Sleepsers. JAMES RIVER LINE. 10:30 A. M. Daily-Lynchburg, Lexington, Va. and Clifton. 5:15 P. M. Week Days-To Lynchburg, Sleep- ing Natural Bridge and Clifton FORGE. TRAINS ARRIVE RICHMOND. From the East-9:10 A. M. 9:30 A. M. 11:45 From the West-9:10 A. M. 10:30 P. M. Main Line West-6:30 A. M. 7:30 A. M. 8:30 A. M. 4:15 P. M. 7:45 P. M. James River Line-8:40 A. M. 7:30 P. M. R. F & P Richmond, Freder Icksburg, and Pote TRAINS LEAVE RICHMOND-NORTHWARD 6155 P. M.-Daily-Main Street. Through. NOTICE: Pallor Sleeping or Parlor Car on all stairs, except local accommodations. All trains to and from Byrd Street Station stop at Elba. Those of arrivals and departures and connect- C. W. CWILP. C. W. PAYLOR. C. W. CULP. C. W. TAYLOR. N & W. NORFOLK & WESTERN ONLY ALL RAIL LINE TO NORFOLK. Leave Byrd Street Station, Richmond. In effect July 14, 1907. FOR NORFOLK - 7:25 P. M. daily; 6:00 A. M. 9:00 M. 10:00 P. Except Sunday; 8:10 A. M. and 7:00 M. Sunday. FOR LYNCHBURG, THE WEST AND SOUTH WEST. Except Sunday; 8:10 A. M. Sunday only; 12:10 P. M. ARGIVE RICHMOND - From Norfolk; 11:35 P. M. M and 10:40 P. M. Except Sunday; 11:15 A. M. and 9:45 P. M. Sunday only. Fulham Parlor and Sleeping Car. Cafe Dining C. W. B. REVILL. C. H. REVILL. C. H. BOSLEY. Gen. Pass. Agent. Dis. Pass. Agt. ATLANTIC COAST LINE Time of arrival and departures and connec tions not guaranteed. C. S. CAMPBELL. D. P. A. Custalo House. 702 East Broad Street. Having remodeled my BAR, and having an up-to-date place, I am prepared to serve my friends and the public at the same old stand. CHOICE WINES, LIQUORS & CIGARS FIRST CLASS FIRST CLASS RESTAURANT, MEALS AT ALL HOURS. New Phone 1261, WM. CUSTALO, - Prop. Everthing! 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Hats and upwards received on deposit up in the most improved style, having a large chest, electric lights and every modern conven- tion of the public. Using Stocks, Deposits, Loans, etc., apply to the arranged for the special convenience of the work to 4 P. M. Saturdays, 9 A. M. to 8 P. M. We open again at 5 P. M., remaining open until 8 work. Money received on deposit and amounts above $1.00 which remains Money Loaned on Satisfactory S Business Accounts Handled Pro Amounts of ten cents and upward This establishment is fitted up in the most white vault, burlar-proof of steel chest, electric light science for safety and the accommodation of the pr For all information concerning Stocks, Depo Cashier. Banking Hours have been arranged for the sings people as follows: 9 A.M. to 4 P.M. Satur close Saturday at 3 P.M. and open again at 5 P. P.M. Call by as you come from work. Money received on deposit and interest paid on a amounts above $1.00 which remains 60 days and over. Money Loaned on Satisfactory Security. Business Accounts Handled Promptly. Amounts of ten cents and upwards received on deposit. This establishment is fitted up in the most improved style, having a large white vault, burial-proof steel chest, electric lights and every modern convenience for safety and the accommodation of the public. For all information concerning Stocks, Deposits, Loans, etc., apply to the Custodian. Banking Hours have been arranged for the special convenience of the working people as follows: 9 A. M. to 4 P. M. Saturdays, 9 A. M. to 8 P. We close Saturday at 8 P. M. and open again at 5 P. M., remaining open until 9 P. M. Call by as you come from work. OFFICERS JOHN MITCHELL, JR., President. H. R. THON, M. WYATT, C. BOARD OF DIRECT REV. W. F. GRAHAM, D. D., JECO. R. C E. R. JEFFERSON H. F. JONATHAN, T. J. O. FARLBY, T Indent. H. F. JONATHAN, Vice-President. S. H. WYATT, Cashier. ORD OF DIRECTORS: J. JNO. R. CHILES, B. P. VANDERVALL, JONATHAN, THOMAS SMITH D. J. 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WIGHT TT a. wa ao {ite NET. cs Ye A Grand Time in Louisville. & part of the major organization brought out the wildest enthusiasm, evidences of the good feeling evok- ed being displayed at the reception last night. The grand lodge offtcers of the eastern and western hemis- pheres will be reobligated. Last night the most important so- clal event of the conclave was held at the Coliseum. To the strains of the orchestra of the Eighth Regi- ment Band of Chicago exhibition @rills were held and music furnished for the formal reception held by the Officers of the organization. ‘One of the most important events of to-day will be the formation of the “Escort to the Flag” at 5 o'clock at the camp. Mr. Henry Watterson and Col. W. B. Haldeman have been invited to attend the ceremony, Booker T. Washington will be the guest of the Supreme Lodge Thurs- day and deliver an address at the ‘White City at 4 o'clock in the after- moon. Supreme Chancellor Starks appointed the following committee ‘on reception for the occasien of the noted Negro educator's coming: L. M. Mitchell, Texas; Roscoe C. Sim- ons, New York: G. A. Nevells, Pa.; Rev. E. B. Topp, Mississippi; “Maj. Gen. R. R. Jackson, Illinois; Col. J. BR. Marshall, Kansas; Dr. Horace Conrad, Oklahoma. SUPREME LODGE comANITTEES iron iion ine Goce at tn caccpenr weet Teemu wa El Teme Peentatny, Dk: asaiweed: West Mastalppin a, Warten Aten! finer Obler EK. Teternen, Vireils Geer F Siewert Treas Su Latte’ Norte Cetsing Geted tea Sepetta A yee Nag tents soairceay ae iaaeee ave Natt, Undien Territory. kW ont Miso: P, & beacon A: Mileage and Per Dien. J. Woodsen, Ober chaitman! J.B. Fa: fais: Tesnenes: He He Ford, tosis: fina; He. Wallace, Mechs the Rev. E. B. Topp, Miss. Uniform Hank—W.'R. Moree, stn nesota, chairman; G. A. Nevills, Pa, ; | Pst ‘coten Goons : Necroiogy C'S Muse, Calffornta chairman; J. L. V. Washington, Ken. tucky; W. 8. Hunter, Florida; C. W. | Golly, Mvoiss FG. tants taalans H. C. Smith, Kentucky; P. A. Raper, South Carolina. mis ef toe Order A Cars Mivourt, chairman: Weitt’ Porter fedianer a ¥. Revert Ohio. f° Butler, Georgia; H. Brown, Louisiana | Fat Garvey mecteauy? ee wit Supreme Chancellor, the Major Gen-| eral, the Supreme Chancellor. | Printing aud Sapien. Jet ferson, W. Virginia; T. H. Henry,! South’ corollas We G” cartels Virginia. | Order’ of Calanthe—R. F. Dora, Tennessee, chaltman’ Le Me MiCce ell, Texas; Lee Crawford, New York Dave Caneel Storeme Chancellor's Reyort—c.} M. Wade, Arkansas, chairman; J.| B. Macklin, Louisiana; E. P. Clem- ons, Ohio; A. M. Prince, Texas; W. M. Jackson, Illinois. Written Work—-L. L. James, Col- orado; D. Y. Adgers, Florida; J. W. Samson, Alabama; J. B. Scott, Ten- nessee; W. M. McGuire. {Louisville Journal, Sept. 6, 07.1 As was promised, yesterday, a- mong the colored Knights of Pyth- jas, who have been so largely in evidence in Louisville all week was} Miiltary Day, and such a day both for visitors and for Loulsville! | There was a parade like which this! city has not seen in many a year and perhaps the largest and most im- pressive in the history of the Negro race in freedom. There were 5,000 people, including 3,500 soldiers, who marched like veterans behind inspir- ing strains of martial tunes. The streets through which the parade passed were lined with citizens, white and colored, three and four feet deep. The parade was planned and commanded by R. R. Jackson, commanding the Uniform Rank, Knights of Pythias lately a Major in the Eighth Illinois regiment, Na- tional Guard, The parade formed at Thirteenth and Walnut Streets, led by the band of the Eighth Illi- nois regiment of the National Guard which makes the music for the great. military displays of Chicago and Il- linois. ‘The parade moved north on Thir- teenth street to Jefferson, east on Jefferson to Sixth street north on Sixth to Market, east on Market to Jackson, south on Jackson to Broad- ‘way, west on Broadway to Sixth street, where the parade passed in review before Commanding Chief and Supreme Chancellor Starks. MAKE-UP OF PARADE. Besides the soldiers, the _parau consisted of the Supreme Lodge of ficers, Supreme Representatives, Su Preme Lodge members and the Su. Preme Court of Calanthe. Then the two miles of carriages con: Kutamag {hose who came to, visit o tzens of Louisville, who followed ‘On the steps of the old Jewish gyn Agogue at Sixth and’ Broadwa; where the troops passed in review there were baked several thous. ‘and people, and on either side of the streets ten blocks each way a crow: of people watched the parade. There were no end of cheers. One old col- red woman standing against the carriage of Supreme Chancellor Starks, tears rolling down her cheeks exclaimed with perfect joy: “My God, what will dis race do nex’? |The following uniformed officers composed the staff | Staff—Willis H. Holmes, Chief of Stat; Joseph L. Jones, "Adjutant General; B. J. Carruthers, Inspector General; HG. Ward, Chief Muster- ing Officer: F. M. Cohen, Chief En- gineer; H. N. Smith, Chief Signal Officer: J. M. Hazelwood, Quarter- master General; R. C. Carter, Com- missary General; Dr. R. F. Boyd, Surgeon General; the Rey. A. H, New ton, Chaplain-in-Chiet. Aides-de-Camp—R. A. Blount, Al- abama; John Harris, Ililnois; D. G. Adgers, Florida; B. F. Johnson, Ken tucky; ‘John B. Snowden, Kentucky: John W. Strauther, Mississippt; Wil- iam H. Hughes, Missourl; B. B. All mond, New Jersey: Thomas H. Hen- ry, South Carolina; E. G. Gaither, Ohio; William H. Ferguson, Ohio; William Bailey, Iowa; H. C. Chase, Texas. Brigadier Generals Commanding — F. P. Walker, Alabama; J. T. T. Warren, Arkansas; D. Taylor, Flor- ida: C."D. Creswell, Georgia; J. M. Lawrence, Illinois; J. J. Buckner, Indiana; J. H. Wilkerson, Kentucky S. W. Green, Louisiana; William R. Morris, Minnesota: R.'T. Goldsby, Mississippi: William H. | Robinson, Missouri; A. T. Davidson, New Jerse R. Delaney, Ohio; A. M. Burris, Pennsylvania; J. D. Fogala, Tennes- see; E. D. Siliski, Texas, John Mitch- ell, Jr., Virginia; J. A. Campbell, West Virginia OFFICERS IN CARRIAGES. ‘The first carriages in the parade were occupied by Supreme Chancel- lor Starks, Past Sugreme Chancel- lor BE. A. Williams: Supreme Master of Exchequer John Young, and Ros. coe Simmons: Supreme Keeper of Records and Seal, C. K. Robinson, Supreme Lecturer L. M. Mitchell Supreme Attorney” 8. A. T Watkins, Supreme Master at Arm: D. A.” Miller, Supreme Outer Guard, D. Taylor, Supreme Inne1 Guard Henry Strawbridge, Secretary E. E. Green, Grand Chancellor A. W Lieyd, Grand Chancellor John B. Snowden, Cary B. Lewis and the en- tire Supreme representation, among whom were Harris, Wallace and Topi of Mississippi: Curtis and Johnson of Missourl; Duke, Dr. Wade and Warren of Arkansas; Hill and Prince of Texas; Stoney of Georgia; Smith of Loutsiaua, One of the sights of the day in the line of the parade were the thousands of colored schoo ghildren who watched the procession ‘The foremost colored citizens 0 Louiaville, including the business and Professional elements, came out. to fee. It will be a long time before either the Knights will have — so splendid a parade or Louisville will Witness the Ike of It, The session of the Supreme Lodge began promptly at 3 o'clock and last ed until 6. The most important work was the presentation of the Supreme Worthy Counselor's _re- port by 8. W. Green, of Loulsiana, Supreme Vice Chancellor of the Or- der. He read a most interesting and valuable report, going deeply into the affairs of the women's depart. ment, minutely taking up every de- partment of his office. ‘The Courts are rapidly growing In numbers and bid fair early to compare with the remarkable progress of the Supreme Lodge. The Supreme Counsellor pointed out that at the present time there are 25,000 Calanthians, and the Supreme office alone is handling something lke $150,000 biennially, At the conclusion of his report he was tendered an ovation, carrying with him the greetings of the Su- preme Lodge to the Supreme Court of Calanthians, now holding its ses- sions at he Colored Odd Fellow’s Hall S. A. T. Watkins, Supreme Attor- ey read his report, an exhaustive ind able as well as’ eloquent docu- nent. ‘The entire legal work of the olored Knights of Pythias, almost nough to keep one man busily en- raged is entrusted wholly to him. BOOKER WASHINGTON TO SPEAK ‘To-day promises to be a memor- able one in the history of Colored Pythians. Booker T. Washington ts to speak at White City at 4 o'clock as the guest of the Supreme Lodge and the colored citizens. Prof Wash ington will arrive during the after- noon and will be met by a commit- tee from the Supreme Lodge, the Supreme Chancellor, twenty staf vf- ficers from Camp Corbin and a band of forty pieces. He will be escorted to the White City where the exer- cises will begin at the appointed time He will be introduced by Supreme Chancellor Starks, who will act as Master of Ceremonies, eee | Do You Know Them? Ellisville, Miss., Aug. 24, ‘07. I am seeking information about some of my relatives. I was born in Amelia County, Va., near Farmer's Bank. Don't know name of town. My age is about 56 years. I left home about 1858, a slave, belong- ing to Henry Anderson. Left with Ed. Stokes and came to Mississippi. My relatives left in Virginia were my ‘mother, Rachael Banister. After- ward 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 lof 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. | ——Nelson.s Hair Dressing can be Store, Pittsburg, THE RICHMOND PLANET, RieeeMlOND, VIRGINIA. 9 mn? H Ps . SRS WITHIN Se EPET ONE BLOCK OF anit tty sen SRR) STREET CAR LINES il f PEER) = THAT TAKE YOU wd tt Asda i TOALL, | eee: $.PARTS OF THE mil ida F cry, =e ft TERMS FRI ae AND LEIGH ea ele HMOND, Wa.. 1867 1907 Rev. Witeur P. Trirxierp, D.D. Rosert Reyeurn, M. D. President Dean The Fortieth Annual Session will begin October 1, 1907 and continue eight months. FOUR YEAR'S GRADED COURSE IN MEDICINE. THREE YEAR'S GRADED COURSE IN DENTAL SURGERY. THREE YEAR'S GRADED COURSE IN PHARMACY AN OPTIONAL FIVE-YEAR COURSE IN MEDICINE 18 OFFERED. Fall corps of forty-five instructors. Well equipped laborato- ries. The New Freedmen's Hospital just completed at a cost of $500,000 offers unexcelled clinical faciiities The Second Session of the Post-Graduate School and Poly- clinte will begin May 18, 1908 and continue six weeks for Medical Course and four weeks for Dental Course. This School fs connected with a Great University of seven De- partments: one thousand students, and over one hundre: professors. For further information or catalogue, write F. J. SHADD, M. D., Secty.,' 901 R. St., Washington, D.C. DINWIDDIE AGRICULTURAL & INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL INCORPORATED, Dinwiccie, Va. DVANCED AND ELEMENTARY COURSES A in the Enlish Branches. Special courses in Ag. riculture and Domestic Science. 12 Instructors. Next Session begins October Ist. For circulars and information, address, JIM. COLSON, Supt. Dinwiddie, Va. $A ge LOPS PONT ATL INS RIE: RRR; : i “—“ SCHOOL OF LAW. = | 4 FOUNDED 1867. 2 OPPOSITE JUDICIARY SQUARE B Rev. Winnen P, TuteKrELp, D.D., Ld D., President 2 BENJAMIN F, Lracuvox, Ll. D., Dean. § gj .._ Regular Annual Session will begin October 3st, too?” Coane Phas | & Years. School Open to all, without regard to Race, Scx;or Creed, rok | § tion, f25.00. For further information, write or apply t : JAMES F. BUNDY, Secretary, | S Office in Law Schoo! Huilding, ; 420 Fifth St, North-west, Waahington, D.C, | SLRS PARENORS BRAD MAIER RE ERRRRNE Ba a ee eee ¥y. M. C A. Notes. |] a 7 The Y. M. C. A. Conference met last Friday eve. and we were glad to welcome the strangers. Come a- gain. Everybody was happy Reports from the jail amd alms house last Sunday showed that the committees did good work. * Prof. J, H, Rhorer gave the boys last Sunday a very timely address. Subject: Giants. The boys manifest ed much interest . | Every man present last Sunday to the open meeting took an active part Subject: A Brave Man, This meet- ing will not be forgotten very soon. Men be on time Sunday ready for hard work. Mr. John L. Ballard will address the boys Sunday < P. M. at the Y. M. C. A. Rooms. The men will be addressed Sun- day 5:30 P. M. at the Y. M,C. A. Rooms my Mr. Julian Taylor. The Y. M. C. A. is cow getting ready to bum let everybody lend a helying hand. The Night School will open Mon- day, September 234, 8 P. M. Let everybody take advantage of this op- portunity. The ¥. M. C. A. campaign will open at the Fifth Street Baptist Church. Women and men are in- vited. Sunday October 6th, 3:30 P.M. All the work of the ¥. M. C. A. will be explained and a special sermon will be preached. Be a com- mittee. The Y. M. C. A. Lecture Course will open October 7th, § P. M. at the Sharon Baptist Church. The first of the Season. Rev. D. Webster Da- vis will open or lecture. Subject: None of Your Business. Special mu sie by the Choir of the Church. Ad- mission 10 cents. ‘The Bible Class for boys will open Tuesday ( October 8, 7 P. M. ‘The Bible Class for men »ill open Tuesday, October 8, 8 P. M. The Class for the explanation on the Sunday School Lesson will open Saturday, September 28th, 5 P. M. at the Y. M. C. A. Rooms. | Everybody is Invited to join this class. Free. Dr. W. H. Hughes one of our pop- ular physicians will address women only Sunday, September 30th, 3:30 P.M, at the True Reformers’ Hall under the auspices of the Women’s Auxillary of the Y. M. C. A. Sub- ject: Something That Women Ought to Know. All women are welcome. Children will not be admitted. Moth ers see that your daughters attend this meeting. Free. ‘The coronach, or mourning for the ead, 1s still heard in many parts of Scotland as well as Ireland. It is a weird chant, cries of lamentation be- ing mingled with remonstrances ad- dressed to the departed for leaving his friends and relatives, Origin of Peculiar Name. ‘The curious nase of the anesthetic “stovaine™ fs duc to its discoverer, M. Fourneau. M. Foorneau was anxious to perpetuate his own name fn con- nection with tt, but as the anesthetic Was of the nature of cocaine and no compound resembiing that could be contrived out of “Fourneau,” he trans- lated the name tov Its English equiv- alent of “stove” and added the neces- sary termination. Octala of Drintinn Mesiehe. The too common custom of “drink- ing healths” had a most curfous orl- gin. In the days when the Danes lord- ed It In England thoy had @ very com- mon habit of sta\bing Englishmen in the throat when irinking. To avoid this villainy a can when drinking Would request some of the sitters-by to be his pledge, or surety, while tak- ing his draught. lence the custom. Masculine Deceit. Man is more easily allured by the grace of the gown than the grace of the mind, althourh he would have you think otherwise, and will hold forth with considerable emphasis on the text that no man ever knows what costume a woman has on, nor is he at all concerned with the shape of her hat, or the way she does her hatr!— London Madame What Is the Charm? This advertisement appeared in @ Swiss paper: “Hotel in a most ple turesque site, « distance of a hundred meters from a police station. A physi clan fs attached to the establishment, in which an abundantly supplied American bar presents such attrac: tions that very few customers leave it of their own freo will.” , Sieeetecel ee | Work is the true friend and con- -solet of man, raises him above all his weaknesses, purities and ennobles him, saves him from vulgar tempta- tion and helps him to bear bis bur den through days of sadness, and be- fore which even the deepest gricfs give way.—M. Caro, Bound Advice. Step out firm and free. Hold your head up high, and be proud of your self. You are as good @ man as any: ‘one on the field if you will let-yourself be. Think that, and act up to it— “Bobby” Abel, in “Boys” Life.” The Valuevof Ridicule. “A man,” said Dr. Johnson, “should pass a part of his time with the Jaughers, by which means anything ridiculous or particular about him might be presented to his view and “corrected.” re , bes | Great Hair Straightener and Grower Most Wonderful Discovery ever made for curly, kinky and knotty hair. Makes hair grow long, straight, soft and silky; cures dandruff and stops falling hair. Kink-ine acts like magic on the hair. | MinkK-ine Is No Experiment. It was discovered by R. 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MF Write for Special Rates, WR GEO. I, HUTCHINSON, Fror, 48 Welts St., - Mt. Clemens, Mich. TEACHERS WANTED! months terms, salaries up to $75.00 led. Our applications for teachers, tion. Enclose stamps for reply. Address, | Va. Teachers’ Co-operative Asse’. 14 E. 13th St., Manchester, Va Vancouver, NIAGARA FALLS, N. Y¥. First class in all appointments, situated near the Falls, Parks and Depots. Rates, $1.00 and $2.00 per day. For information address R. T. DETT, Prop. Niagara Falls, N. Y. Notice! Having qualified administrator of the estate of Mrs. P. K. Anderson, deceased, I wish all parties having bills against the estate to present them within thirty days to me at 614 Harrison Street. JOS. 8. ANDERSON, Admr. at Richmond, Va., Aug. 29, ‘07. ‘To All Whom ‘it May Concern: This 1s to certity that two certl- lGeates of stock owned by me in the Mechanics’ Savings Bank, by Nos. 234 and 103, have been lost, mis- placed or destroyed. in the city of Atlantic City and State of New Jer- lsey, and that I will make application to the sald Mechantcs’ Savings Bank for an issue of duplicate certificates im the place and stead of the former Jones heretofore tssued. SADIE V. FARLEY, [By Counsel ‘J. THOMAS HEWIN. WINSTON’S HEADQUARTERS For Ice-Cream & Refreshments Ws ICE-CREAM FURNISHED IN EVERY STYLE AND IN ANY QUANTITY. SPECIAL PRICES TO DEALERS AND THE RETAIL TRADE. 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