Richmond Planet

THE RICHMOND PLANET THE STORY OF A LONG JOURNEY A MAN KILLED—THE COLORED MAN'S STORY—DR. LEWIS' PREDICAMENT. AN INTERESTING RECITAL. VOLUME XXIV, NUMBER 46.5 THE ST LONG In Mulberry St Leaving t A TRIP TO S A MAN KILLED—THE COLO Mr. Roscoe C. Simmons is a familiar figure in New York just now. He travels much and is in demand at the gatherings of colored people throughout the country. That New York is noisy is universally conceded. In some sections of it only white people are seen and a conglomeration of all languages is a feature. THE NEW YORK AGE. We visited the office of the New York Age and found Mr. Peterson there. He is in the Internal Revenue office and time was precious with him. The firm is now located at 9 and 10 Chatham Square. The entire second floor is at the disposal of the concern and besides type cases the Cottrell was a large cylinder press of the Cottrell make. Everybody was busy. NO MONEY IN IT. We hurried away and after getting dinner started on our return trip. Mr. Peterson gave a side view of his consulship to Venezuela when he announced that the post paid $1800 per year and that it cost him $2500 per year to live there. We did not have the opportunity to pursue the conversation further but we drew our own conclusions. IN MULBERRY STREET. We were told that Broadway was four blocks over. In going towards it, as we thought we found ourselves in the Italian quarter in Mulberry St. There was a jargon of language. There were Italian banks and Italian funeral directors. We saw in the back part of them the recumbent figure of a human image It was brilliantly lighted. We passed on. THE ITALIAN QUARTER. Then we saw the carts on the side-walks or rather in the gutters. Women were buying cabbages, potatoes and all kinds of vegetables. Occasionally a man was seen among the purchasers. There was fruit in abundance. Every Italian woman seemed to be either in the front of the houses or on the side. walk. We got into the middle of the street. BABIES NUMEROUS Every woman young and old seemed to have a baby. If it was not her baby she had secured the loan of somebody else's baby. Still there were women there without babies. We enquired about Broadway and we were pointed the way and told to go 4 blocks over. As we had walked about six blocks, when we found that we had been walking parallel to Broadway, and all we had to do was to turn at a right angle and go four blocks over. WEALTH AND POVERTY. We reached Broadway and boarding a street car we were soon on the square fronting the Fifth Avenue Hotel. But why dwell on Broadway? Stores are here for miles and all are doing a good business. The electric advertising devices are interesting. Here is to be seen the two extremes—wealth and poverty. A white man approached us and asked for enough money to get a cup of coffee. It is a man with an iron will and an empty pocket who can go through Broadway without spending any of his money. We visited the palatial new building of the National Park Bank. Money is plentiful here if one is to judge by the magnificence of this structure. The directors' chairs are all marked with their name plates and each one receives $10.00 at each meeting. PASSENGERS ANXIOUS. It was 12:30 A. M. when the train pulled out from Jersey City. We had secured sleeping car accommodations early in the day. It was a fortunate thing for us as every bert both upper and lower had been taken. We were the only colored person aboard of one of these rolling palaces. We arose early and had the lavatory all to ourselves. An hour later white passengers were struggling for admittance. They stood in the aisles, some with coats and some with shirts in their hands awaiting their turns. Some of them never secured it for the train reached Washington long before the passengers could possibly be accommodated. AT THE CAPITAL. Reaching Washington, we meet Judge E. M. Hewlett, Miss Patterson Mrs. W. H. Brooks and others. We called on Register of the Treasury, W. T. Vernon, but found that he was in the West. Assistant Register of the Treasury Cyrus Fields Adams was in charge. He is a hand some man, speaks German fluently, looks like a white aristocrat, but has aged materially since he gave up his life in Chicago for the confining position he now occupies. He made us comfortable and extended courtesies OTHER ACQUAINTANCES. A few moments later we were dining at the station and later met Mr. S. H. Rose who is in charge of the Porter's Exchange here now. We met Mr. Charles P. Johnson, formerly of Richmond. He was at one time a barber in that city He is doing a prosperous business here. We left Washington at 10: 45 A. M. The train was filled with delegates to the Episcopal Convention at Richmond. It was behind time, but the trip was no less pleas, ant and we were soon standing in our office after a ten days stay in other cities. We left Richmond Monday, October 7th at 11:15 A. M. via Southern Railway for Danville, Va. in company with Dr. J. Alexander Lewis and Mr. S. S. Baker. The trip was uneventful save for the passing scenery and the passengers. Mr. J. Wilson came ab-ard at Ringgold, announcing that he had sent a drove of cattle across the country. He is a butcher. ENGAGED IN BUSINESS Danville is improving. Mr. Geo. W. Rison seems to have a never-ending stream on boarders at his lunch counter in Market Street. Mr. Chas W. West seems to be doing a profitable business. Mr. W. Howlett Jones has a large restaurant on Main Street and is aid ed materially by his Madame who now gives all of her time to the work. His supply of good things was tempting and it wag no surprise to us to know that he is succeeding in business. A LADY FUNERAL DIRECTOR. We visited Mrs. S. J. Holbrook. She stated that she is succeeding well in the undertaking business, conducted formerly by her husband. We met Dr. R. A. Reynolds and thriving town. Our stay was lim-driving town. Our story was limited however and before we realized it, we were on our way to the train. We were surprised to know that Attorney W. S. Blackburn had left Danville and was now located at Keystone, W. Va. ACROSS THE RIVER S. S. Baker had been asked to deliver a message in Danville. Upon enquiry he found that the place was across the river. The object of the message was to keep a white lady from leaving prematurely for Richmond. He went over to the place only to find out that the lady had left on the afternoon train pass- RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1907. ing the one on which Mr. Baker had come to Danville. He had his trouble le for his pains, He returned to Richmond that night. WATCHED, BUT BLUNDERED. In company with Dr. J. Alexander Lewis, we went to the depot at about 1:15 o'clock in the morning and were told that the train was late. Leaving Capt. W. A. Millner and Capt. H. S. Keen to watch out for us, we were astounded to know that they had let both trains come in and pull out because they were all Pullmans. LATE, BUT GOT THERE We felt like being pull-men towards these zeeseous watchers, and then patiently wafted the remainder of the night for the through train that came along at 6:10 in the morning. We reached Lynchburg at 8:40 A.M. and were met by Capt. W. J. Wells. He had been expecting us at 3:45 that morning. We were too much overcome to discuss the subject with him or to even make a proper explanation. THE PARK AVENUE CAR BARNS We were soon at Mrs. Julia A. Watt's residence and a few moments later were in "the land of dreams." It was 2:30 when lunchon was served. We went up to inspect the Park Avenue Car Barns that we purchased last December. With us were Capt. W. J. Wells, Dr. Fawcett and Mr. T. W. Merchant. This is a fine piece of property embracing as it does an entire square The Lynchburg Traction and Light Co. is still occupying the structures as their new barn is not quite ready SOUTHERN AID SOCIETY BUILDING. The Southern Aid Society has pur chased a frame dwelling and lot adjoining the True Reformers' Hall and is erecting a small brick office there. It is nearly completed. We took the 2:30 train that afternoon for Max Meadows. KILLED IN THE YARD Just after we had left Roanoke, two men who were employed on the yard at the place stated that a man had been killed by a shifting engine He was walking between the tracks and had only been unemployed for a bout three weeks. He was about 17 years of age. "It will get you, sooner or later," said one of them. "It will get me after a while. Never say you are going to quit until you are ready to do so. You'll be killed before the time is out." His companion coincided with this view. THE STOP FOR WATER The conductor entered. A glance at their tickets and he stated what they already knew and had discussed. "This train don't stop there except for water. If it stops, you can get off. I can't stop there for you." He was gone. The colored men chuckled. They were glad not to be put off and to wait for the local. "He took up our tickets," said one of them, "and he must stop for us." As it was the train stopped for water and they got off. KEEPING TAB ON THEM. A white man and a colored one came to the door of the smoking apartment and looked in. The white man was carrying a number of colored men to work on the railroad at Johnson City, Teen. He had missed one of them and he was looking for him. He found him sitting down talking to ns. He laughed and said he knew it was all right, evidently ashamed that he had been found distrusting one of the men. It is a fact though that men will (Continued on Eighth Page.) Shall We Go To Africa? (Recapitulation and Conclusion.) Editor, PLANEY: In the foregoing series of papers of which this is the conclusion, I have discussed the following topics: First. Who and what are we? Second. Whence came we? Third. How came we here? Fourth. Why did Providence permit us to be brought here? Fifth. Shall we remain here forever, oppressed by the dominant race and denied every right dear to the hearts of freemen, which rights are freely accorded to every other race though they be allens while we are natives and citizens? Sixth. Shall we not rather return to the land of our fathers bearing the torch-light of the Gospel of Christ and of civilization which God has given us to our benighted brethren who are waiting and praying for our coming? Seventh. Will not true and real freedom in our fatherland, though we be years in reaching it, more than repay us and our children for any deprivations we may sustain in leaving this country? In this discussion, I have endeavored to portray, to the best of my ability the real condition of our people in this country as I see it, both present and prospective. It has been my object to show that, so far as our social, civil and political status in this country is concerned, it will not improve, but will grow worse as time rolls on. And this, I believe is one of God's ways of convincing us that it is not His will and purpose that we shall remain in this country. Now, as to how we shall be removed to Africa and transplanted there. The first thing necessary is for us to be agreed among ourselves—that is the intelligent and leading element. The masses will not move of themselves, neither will they be pushed or driven; they must be led. After full discussion pro and con amongst the intelligent element there should be formed a colonization society or company after the order of the English company formed in England prior to colonial times for the colonization of America. Then let this company work for the moulding of a public sentiment in this country favorable to its project and finally appeal to the governments of the States and of the U. United States. The white people of this country, and especially those of the South, owe a debt to the colored people which they will finally recognize and will never discharge until they replace them safely and well in their own country whence they brought them and enslaved them for over two hundred and fifty years. We served them well while slaves. The impetus given America while receiving the benefits of our unrequiled labor will not be lost in the next thousand years. The United States is now rich and powerful and can well afford to pay this debt with double interest. The people of African descent in all America—North and South America and the West Indies at the present will hardly exceed twenty million. If they are removed at the rate of one million annually, they may be all safe and settled in Africa in twenty-five years. Then the government formed by and for them in their own country should be protected by the great power of the United States until it be able to stand alone. Amid the grasping greed of the powerful nations of the earth, it would not stand a ghost of a chance without such a protectorate to sustain it. The old argument about the world not containing ships enough to transport the Negroes of America to Africa has long been exploded. Statistics show that during the year 1906 over one million, one hundred thousand immigrants crossed the Atlantic Ocean to the United States, and the estimate for the present year far exceeds that of last year. If, therefore, this immense number of people could be moved in one year by their own individual efforts, what could they not do with government aid? Then there must be taken into consideration the tens and hundreds of thousands of persons of another class than immigrants who were transported to this country by the same ships at the same time. Of course the carrying out of this enterprise of planting our people in a government of their own in Africa will cost the United States many millions of dollars. But, the United States owe us many millions. Besides the commerce that would naturally spring up between the two countries will be worth untold millions of dollars to the United States, not to mention the political strength it would gain in the future when this young dark giant of the dark continent will have attained maturity. Territory on the western coast of Africa between the tenth degree of north latitude and the twentieth degree of south latitude would be desirable. The European nations holding land in this region are French, German, Portuguese and English. Immense stretches of territory are also held by natives. If once the United States government is moved in this matter it will find ways and means of securing all the territory necessary. While the European nations spoken of would hardly give even an audience to the Negroes themselves, when Uncle Sam applies, means will readily be found to accommodate him. This new Negro Government in Africa should be kept separate and distinct from any connection or entanglement with the colonization projects of Liberia or Sierra Leone. Each of these have their own separate missions and destinies to work out and so will the new Government. Of course, it goes without saying that the new Negro government will be a republic after the order of the United States of America. —O. M. STEWARD. Dr. Woodward Speaks. Editor of The PLANET: It is impossible for you to know the real worth you are, not only to the Pythians of Virginia, but the Negroes of the whole country as well Through The PLANET you espouse the Negro's cause, which is so able done that the most faint-hearted, if they will but read the many strong defenses made in the interest of our race, will be encouraged to struggle on to higher and nobler things of this life. If the members of the many local lodgings of this State were to take The PLANET as a member of their family circle that the Negro youth may have an opportunity to read and digest the good, wholesome advice give en our people, ere long true manhood and noble womanhood would begin to be manifest in many places, which now is an unknown quantity. To this end then let us all endeavor to put The PLANET into every Pythian home. Yours truly, E. O. WOODWARD, M. D Bristol, Tenn.-Va. Lawyer Chiles Here. Attorney James Alexander Chiles of Lexington, Kentucky was in the city last week. He visited the Jamestown Exposition on pleasure and Baltimore on business. He is looking well and gives a fine account of his success in his adopted state. Many of his friends here have been urging him to return to Richmond for the practice of his profession and it is understood that he has the matter under advisement. Dr. Jordan's Office. Rev. Dr. L. G. Jordan has an admirably furnished office at Louisville, Kentucky. His corp of clerks and stenographers are ever active and prompt in the discharge of their duties. We met Miss Nannie Burroughs there. She is brilliant and a power for good. Dr. Jordan is one of the most enterprising churchmen in the United States. Contract Awarded. The contract for the erection of the new building of the Southern Aid Society of Virginia on the present site, 527 N. Second Street, Rich. mond. Va. has been awarded to Messrs. Moore and Archer. The revised plans brought down the cost to $9,000 which with the furnishings will make the structure cost approximately $11,000. ROBINSON—ROBINSON The marriage of Miss Mary Ellen Robinson, formerly of Richmond, Va. to Mr. Robert Robinson of British West Indies took place in New York City Wednesday, September 25, Bishon Johnson officiated. The Stockholders of The Capitol Shoe and Supply Co. are hereby notified to meet at the store of the Company, 210 E. Broad Street, Thursday, Oct. 24, 1907, at 8 P. M. JNO. T. TAYLOR, Pres. WM. H. HAYES, Mgr. —We met Editor James E. McGirt in Washington recently. He is pushing McGirt's Magazine. He has several clerks employed in his enterprises and is hopeful of his financial success. —Hon. Richard T. Greener, ex-Consul to Vladivostock, Russia was in the city last week and called on us. He was with Prof. Conley and wife. We regretted much our failure to meet them. REV. H. CHARLES POPE. Rev. H. Charles Pope, Thr. of the devil's kitchen and the dancing lady from the ball room to hell. After traveling eight years from Virginia to Texas and from Texas to Colorado, made his first appearance in Norfolk, Va. at the Bute Street Baptist Church to a crowded house. And also had a large audience at the Bank Street Baptist Church and many other leading churches in the tidewater section. Rev. Pope's new exhibition called the Black Hand is said by our leading men in this section of the State to be one of the greatest moral and historical exhibitions of its kind. It is really one that is full of thought and teaches lessons that every one should know. The Black Hand tells a wonderful story of the black man From the Jungles of Africa to James town in 1619, to the Pan-American Exposition at Buffalo, N. Y. down to the Jamestown Exposition of 1907. The Black Hand is a really lesson of the hour and one that every man should see and hear. Every minister of the gospel and all other agents that have for their object the benefit of the Negro race should have Rev. Pope to come and deliver his famous lecture, "The Black Hand." It is the first exhibition I have ever seen which is solely the product of a Negro brain. Among his many pictures which all are good is his famous "Dragging of Dust," The Unwritten Law, The Black Man's Appeal to Reason, His Judgment Turn Backward, His blind folded instinct. If there is such a thing as a race problem, it looks as if Rev. Pope's Black Hand furnishes a key to this great question. It throws light and shadows on this great subject and we say to all that have the benefit the future of the race at heart should see Rev. Pope's Great Black Hand. Rev. Pope will make his first appearance at the Fifth Baptist Church Monday and Tuesday nights, October 28--9. Rev. W. F. Graham, D. D., pastor. Wednesday, October 30th, Sharon Baptist Church. Rev. A. S. Thomas, pastor. Rising Mt. Zion Baptist Church, Monday, November 11th. The Date of Black Hand. For further dates see PLANET. Address all mail, H. C. POPE, Miller's Hotel, Second and Leigh Sts., Richmond, Va. A Rare Opportunity. The Ashburn Brothers closing their series of entertainments here, prior to their returning North to college. The program rendered by these young men is the highest class of literary entertainment now on the American platform. They are both students at Mount Union College, members of the senior class and the Pierce School of Oratory. They come to us from the North where for a number of years they have been entertaining through Lyceum Bureaux with great success, their cash terms ranging from twenty-five to fifty dollars for an evening's program. They have made a specialty of entertaining for colleges, high schools, churches and various societies. They come very highly recommended, their testimonials being chiefly from college presidents, professors, principals of high schools and the leading pastors of the middle west. Their closing engagements will be as follows: First Baptist Church, Dr. W. T. Johnson, pastor, Monday night, Oct. 21st. Third Street Methodist Church, Dr. A. J. Nottingham, pastor, Tuesday night, Oct. 22nd. St. Luke Hall, Wednesday night, October 23d, for Dr. Edwards' church. Fountainte Baptist Church, Rev. PRICE. FIVE CENTS. H. Williams, pastor, Thursday night October 24th. Trinity Baptist Church, Rev. Williams, pastor, Friday night, October 25th. First Baptist Church, Manchester, Dr. A. Binga, pastor, Monday night, Oct. 28th. There will be a change of program each night. Be sure to hear them at one of these places. The opportunity of the season for great est fun, laughter and merriment. —Mr. George H. Johnson is indisposed at his home on Baker Street. —Mrs. India Johnson of Newburgh N. Y., formerly of Richmond, Va. is visiting her nephew, Mr. Harvie Johnson, 1017 Catherine Street. —Mr. J. W. Mosby has returned to the city from Pawling, N. Y. —Many of the hotels in this city reduced the pay of the waiters 25 cents per day and as a result many of them walked out. —Mr. William H. Flood of New York spent his holidays in this city He was looking well and reported his family in good health and himself prospering. —Major D. B. Cornish was in the city last Monday night leading a large trolley party. They made the Pythian Castle their headquarters. —Mr. Hezekiah Jones arrived in the city last week from Brooklyn, N. Y., where he has been for the past two years. Y. M. C. A. Notes. The Y. M. C. A. Conference had a very large attendance last Friday evening and it was a live number. Men stick and you will be helped. A special committee will plan for the debates for the season. Prof J. W. Barco was very pleased to note that class for the explanation on the Sunday School lesson is increasing. Bring another friend. Nothing beats personal work. The work in the jail and alms house for last Sunday is very encouraging. The President of the boys' work conducted the meeting last Sunday, Gen'l. Secty. S. C. Burrell gave them some practical hints. Mr. Mann finds pleasure in playing the organ for the boys. My brother you are welcome. Gen'l. Secty. S. C. Burrell conduct ed the open meeting for men last Sunday. Subject: Looking for a Man. We were happy to have Rev. Samuel Brown with us who gave some very timely thoughts. One man was present who was not a christian. Come to the explanation of the Sunday School Lesson to-day 5 P. M. at the Rooms. Prof. J. W. Barco will gladly receive you. Men wanted Sunday 3:30 P. M. at the True Reformers' Hall. Prof J. E. Jones of the Virginia Union University will speak by special request. Subject: The Dignity of Labor, Free for all men. Come and bring the other man. Do not forget that the week of prayer is near at hand. See that we ask for a special blessing. A Silver Wedding. The home of Rev. and Mrs. R. G. Adams, was the social Mecca for Danville's colored society on Wednesday day evening. The occasion was the celebration of the twenty-fifth anniversary of their wedding. The spacious rooms were filled to overflowing with guest from various parts of the state and city. One of the features of entertainment was a literary and musical program under the direction of Prof. C. E. X. Boisseau. Misses Grasty and Inge presided at the plano. Mendelsohn's Wedding March was played by Miss L. Hutchins Inge. The bridal party was as follows: Mrs. A. H. Lee, Matron of Honor; Rev. M. F. Hughes, best man; Mrs. William Overby with Mr. P. H. Doswell, Mrs. G. W. Goode with Mr. Robert Allen, Mrs. C. W. West with Dr. A. L. Winslow, Mrs. A. L. Winslow with Mr. C. W. West. The bride was attired in a silver gray sicilian, trimmed in applique to match. The groom wore the conventional black. The ceremony was performed by Rev. D. N. Vassar, D. D. of Lynchburg, Va. after which the bridal party and guests repaired to the dining room where they sumptuously partook of an elaborate repast consisting of punch, chicken and potato salad, sandwiches, mied pickles, ice cream, cakes, fruits and candies. Meadanes E. Buford and M. F. Hughes presided at the punch bowl. E. Mackenzie Jackson. Mr. Alfred Jackson superintended the cutting of the wedding cake. CONTINUED ON FOURTH PAGE. The CASTLE of LIES BY ARTHUR HENRY VESEY (COPYRIGHT, 1906, BY D. APPLETON & COMPANY) CHAPTER IX. The Episode of the English Ambassador. We are now ready for the extraordinary episode of Sir Mortimer Brett." Locke resumed. "I think you will find that the narrative grows more interesting." "I trust so." I vawned. "Sir Mortimer is a comparatively young man, I understand. But he has already had 15 years to his experience as a diplomatist. He has been trusted implicitly by the British foreign office. He has been nothing less than a dictator in Bulgarian affairs, so far as England is concerned. There have been repeated attempts to bribe him. But he has been strong enough to resist all pressure—whether it be exerted by the sultan or by Ferdinand. But after an unblemished record of 15 years this Bayard in politics has fallen a victim to a vulgar intrigue with a political adventures. "Countess Sarahoff is the adventures—a woman of marvelous charm and beauty. It is said she is the friend of Prince Ferdinand; perhaps it is he who first incited her to entice Sir Mortimer from the path of recti tude. Certain it is that she has been successful in bringing Sir Mortimer supinely to his knees before her, if the gossip of the embassies is to be believed. "Now I can give you the situation in a nutshell. If Sir Mortimer is recalled, it is all up with Macedonia so far as immediate help from Bulgaria is concerned. Sir Mortimer's successor as consul general will certainly be the present vice-consul, and he is known to be strongly adverse to the Macedonian cause. Our Jewish banker will refuse his loan to Ferdinand; Ferdinand will be unable and unwilling to subsidize an army; Macedonia's struggle will come to nothing for the present." "This banker must have remarkable faith in Sir Mortimer," I suggested, "to think that he can influence the British foreign office when his reputation is already tottering." "My dear Haddon, I have been letting you behind the scenes. Our banker friend in all probability has no inkling of Sir Mortimer's impending fall. There is nothing to damn a man politically because he is in love with a woman. It is true that there have been innuendoes in plenty of the papers. But who believes the papers?" "And a king's messenger has already been sent to Sofia to demand Sir Mortimer's recall?" I asked, thoughtfully. "So they say, and now I come to a really humorous phase of this episode of Sir Mortimer Brett. When the king's messenger arrives at Sofia he will be unable to deliver his dispatches; he will find that his bird has down." "What! Sir Mortimer has left his post, and with this woman." "Less than a week ago Sir Mortimer was seen with Countess Sarahoff here in Lucerne. He had left Sofia suddenly under the plea of sickness, whether real or assumed. And now he has disappeared again from here, and has left absolutely no trace of his whereabouts." "So that when the king's messenger comes here he will still be unable to deliver his dispatches. As you say, it is an extraordinary state of affairs. I suppose that Sir Mortimer continues to be a properly credited ambassador until he receives those dispatches." "Undoubtedly." "And in the meanwhile there is a hue and cry for him." "My dear fellow, I have told you repeatedly that you are behind the scenes. Ostensibly Sir Mortimer has gone to the mountains for his health. But the arrival here in Lucerne of the mother and daughter is significant." "They come to rescue him from the influence of Countess Sarahoff of course. But if she has disappeared with Sir Mortimer—" "I saw you flirting with her at the kursaal about an hour ago," said Locke, smiling at me grimly. CHAPTER X The Death Mask I had raised my glass carelessly to my lips. I placed it slowly on the table. I met Locke's steady gaze not merely in surprise, rather in complete conviction. That was precisely the kind of woman I had determined she must be. But I had no intention of discussing her with Locke. A plan was already seething in my brain—a plan infinitely more thrilling than rescuing a comrade in the battlefield or a traveler lost in the mountain side. I intended to keep that plan to myself. In the meanwhile I must have further details of this escape of the missing ambassador. "We will speak of Countess Sara-hoff presently," I said, returning his smile coolly. "But tell me, why should England adopt the slow and clumsy expedient of sending a king's messenger, as you call him, across Europe, instead of demanding the instant recall of the minister by cable? That is my first question, and my second is this: are you my dear Locke, in the secret councils of the British foreign office that you know so much of their plans?" "A king's messenger," drawled Locke, "is supposed to have a brain between his shoulders and to exercise his discretion. The foreign office would wish to be quite sure that the scandal was not a clever ruse of a secret agent of Russia or Turkey. Even if the scandal exists, there might be mitigating circumstances." "You wish me to infer that this king's messenger is given discretion- ary powers of delivering or withholding his dispatch? But how do you know that? That brings me to the second question. "My dear chap, I can put two and two together, can't I? I can see a church door, as Benedict said, when I am standing in front of it." "Oh, then, you are simply guessing." I cried, disgusted. Locke spread the tips of his fingers together, and regarded me humorously. "You forget I am consul at Lucerne? I, sir, am a personage." Locke laughed, looked about him cautiously, then whispered: "It's something of a secret. Haddon. Before I was consul at Lucerne I was a newspaper man. Yes; don't look shocked. I am not averse to eking out the magnificent income allowed me by the United States government by sending a budget of news occasionally to my old chief." "I understand; you newspaper men are ubiquitous. Before the mysterious knowledge of the press I am silent." "I need hardly say that what I have told you is strictly between ourselves." "Of course." for the finale of the story—the dramatic and perhaps tragic denouement. For the end is not yet." So saying, Locke produced his pocketbook. From its voluminous folds he extracted an envelope. He held it toward me in silence. I took it curiously. I bore an unfamiliar stamp. "It is the stamp in the corner I wish you to examine carefully. In ten years a collector will pay a pretty penny for this stamp. Already it is as rare as strawberries in January. It was issued less than a month ago to mark the anniversary of Ferdinand's succession to the throne. Yes, it is his likeness and that of his son you are looking at. But Ferdinand would pay half a million francs if he could buy up and destroy that issue of stamps. In Bulgaria that is a simple matter. His secret agents are on the lookout in every capital of Europe. But you see they are not wholly successful." As Locke had suggested, I looked critically at this double stamp which had caused Ferdinand so much anxiety. Two heads were depicted. They were placed side by side, a man of middle age and a handsome boy. It appeared to me a rather ordinary sort of stamp. "Hold it upside down," commanded Locke, impatiently, "Cover the left-hand corner with your hand, so. Now, do you see that a portion of the heads of the father and son makes an unmistakable death-mask? And the death-mask is that of Prince Ferdinand." Looked at in this manner the ghastly portent was vividly suggested. The nostrils of the two heads together formed the eyes of the death-mask; the mustache of the father made the eyebrows; and the brow and the eyes of the boy prince formed the nose and mouth. And more horrible than the death-mask itself was a wound in the temple, from which flowed a streak of blood. "This wound," I asked, shuddering, "is it merely a coincidence? The look of agony—the staring eyes—is that meant to be a menace, a threat of a violent death?" "Can you doubt it?" demanded Locke, replacing the envelope carefully in his pocketbook. "That death-mask is regarded by a large portion of Ferdinand's dissatisfied subjects as a heavenly sign." That little stamp, I venture to say, is a death-knell for Ferdinand—it introduces into Bulgarian politics an awful and solemn note." "A heavenly sign?" I asked, shuddering again. "But he still lives?" "Yes; at present he is in Paris. I suppose he is safe there. But when he returns to his capital at Sofia—" "And the woman—this Countess Sarahoff, is she one of the revolutionaries who regard that stamp as a heavenly sign?" You told me that she was supposed to be the friend of Prince Ferdinand. "I did. But is she? She is in a woman of mystery. Is she really in earnest in seeking to entrap Sir Mortimer into influencing England to stand behind Bulgaria in her invasion of Turkish Macedonia? Is she ignorant of the existence or at least the significance of this stamp? Or, posing as a friend of Ferdinand, having ready access to him at any hour, will hers be the dagger plunged into his breast at the fatal hour? Perhaps Sir Mortimer is not the gulleless victim we think him to be. Perhaps the king's messenger does not have two sets of dispatches to be presented at his discretion. Perhaps this death-mask is a ghastly accident and not a menace. Perhaps Countess Sarahoff, alias Sophie de Varnier, is a lamb of innocence. Perhaps! But, my dear chap, don't trust that 'perhaps.'" Locke rose and pulled on his gloves. I stared at him in sudden comprehension. "I understand now. You had more than one object in coming to see me this morning," I said, soberly. He lit a cigarette, looking down at me in deep thought. "In America the game of politics is a fair game and above board. We show our cards; they are on the table for all the world-to see. The very frankness of our methods puzzles the THE RICHMOND PLANET. RICHMOND. VIRGINIA diplomats of Europe. Here in Europe things are managed differently. There are wheels within wheels. No pawn is too insignificant to be made use of. This pawn may be a simple citizen, even a tourist—" I shook the hand he held toward me and retained it bewildered. "But that is absurd on the face of it. In what possible way could I be of use to this Countess Sarahoff?" Locke shrugged his shoulders carelessly, and blew a ring of smoke with precision at the chandelier. "Nothing is quite absurd," he returned, calmly. "Two days ago I read of an unfortunate accident of a fellow-countryman and an old college acquaintance. To-day I am surprised to find this countryman of mine on excellent terms with a woman whom I have every reason to believe is a dangerous adventures. I come to see my fellow-countryman, to offer him my sympathy. I remain to warn him." "But why?" I demanded, still skeptical. "There are three facts that should make you think. Haddon. First of all, you have made the acquaintance of the mother and the sister of Sir Mortimer Brett. Secondly, Countess Sarahoff has made your acquaintance. Thirdly—contradict me if I am wrong—she has already interested you; more than that, I venture to say that you have made an appointment with her." He looked at me keenly. I was silent. "These, my dear Haddon, are simple facts. Perhaps there is no relation between them. Again I say, perhaps." But don't let the mysterious machinery of intrigue catch you in its meshes. Its wheels may crush you. You have had enough trouble, and look out for Countess Sarahoff." "I shall try to remember your advice," I said, struggling to control my excitement, and placed his visiting card in my pocket. "Yes; I shall see you again before I leave Lucerne." "Oh, suit yourself about that," said Looke, coldly. Not until afterwards did it occur to me that I had treated him rather cavallery—indeed, laid myself open to suspicion by my silence. CHAPTER XI. Countess Sarahoff Gives an Invitation, I stood quite still after Locke had left me, lost in thought. A life for a life, Helena had said, But is not honor sometimes dearer than life itself? At least the honor of a loved brother. That I could exert any influence The Dinner at the Hotel Nationale over the mind and actions of a man as famous in affairs as Sir Mortimer Brett was absurd. Even had that been possible Helena would have been the last to intrust his honor in my hands. And yet, as Locke had said, what if I were a pawn in the game of Countess Sarahoff? Then why not be an intelligent pawn, to be moved if you will, carelessly here and there in the game of intrigue, but to be moved with my eyes open? "No pawn is too insignificant to be made use of," those were Locke's words. He had believed that she would attempt to make use of me. Heaven grant it, I thought, with a thrill of hope. We should then see what we should see. Yes; I would look out for Countess Sarahoff. But scarcely in the manner Locke had suggested. Early in the afternoon a message came from her, as I had felt confident it would. A cousin was with her; they were to leave Lucerne that evening, en route to a little village in the Bernese Alps, where she had taken a chateau for the summer. She would be charmed if I would dine with them in her apartment at the Hotel Nationale. And would I pardon the abdour hour of 6:30? I was to come in my morning clothes, since neither she nor her cousin expected to dress. I accepted the invitation with alacrity. That meant privacy—a certain intimacy. A cousin was to be there, it was true. But the presence of the cousin was, of course, a sop carelessly thrown at Mrs. Grundy. The cousin had not arrived when I presented myself that evening. I struggled against a sense of shame. I was accepting her hospitality, and I had come to spy on her. But I reassured myself with the conviction that it was to be a game of tit-for-tat. The apartment de luxe into which I was ushered was dimly lighted, and the air was heavy with the perfume of flowers. In the center of the room the white damask and silver of a table set for dinner gleamed under the soft light of candles. In some vague way, this room, one of a hundred others in the hotel, had lost something of its stiff formalism. It had charm. Charm! That was the word that best described this mysterious woman. Well, I must steel myself against that charm. She had been beautiful the evening before; this evening she was radiant. Her eyes burned with a fire that at once disconcerted and excited. She was the incarnation of what one calls the joy of living. Never for an instant was she still. Now it was to glance critically at the admirably set table; now to rearrange the flowers. Presently she moved to the window, and drew back the heavy brocade hanging, looking at me over her shoulder. "Why does my cousin not come?" she demanded petulantly. "At 11 tonight we go to Vitanau by the boat. Before the birds awake to-morrow we must be off-up, up, up the mountains to my chateau. It will break my heart if we are delayed." "Your chateau has great attraction for you," I said, smiling. She came toward me impulsively, her hands clasped. "Oh, you would like my chateau, monsieur. It is strong and rugged; and so high that to see its towers through the branches of the pine trees, as you climb the hillside, it seems a dream, a fantasy. And below, very far below, there is the noisy little river that rushes around its base, and an adorable village that crouches close to it for protection. And within, there are great shadowy rooms with gleaming bare floors and tapestries. Oh, yes, and there is my beloved piano. When the thunder rolls terribly over the lonely mountains, and the storm beats against the curtained windows, and the fire of huge logs in the hearth does not reach the somber corners—oh, it is then that I live. I am inspired. In the night the passionate soul of Chopin speaks to me. And in the morning when the sun is shining again, and the little river is gay and turbulent, there are my flowers and my books and my poor. And there is peace. My castle is a Castle of Indence, and it is a Castle of Happiness." "That is the castle we are all look "That is the castle we are all looking for." I said wistfully. She moved restlessly to the piano. She struck the opening chords of that prelude of Chopin which is at once a suggestion of a funeral march and a procession in a cathedral. I watched her, fascinated, though I had sworn I would not be fascinated by her. She stopped abruptly in the midst of a phrase. Her white arms dropped to her lap. She looked toward me. Then she leaned her elbows on the keys; she nodded to me, half in entreaty, half in command. I stood opposite her, leaning toward her, across the piano. "But sometimes I am lonely in my chateau," she said in a low voice. "Come with Dr. Starva and myself. Be our guest, Mr. Haddon." I started. A man! I had not counted on that. I had known this was to be an evening of surprises. I had schooled myself to meet them without wonder. But this initation, so strangely and so unexpectedly given, completely astonished me. Who was this convenient cousin, this Dr. Starva? The chance I had expected had come. To accept such an invitation as a matter of course, however, would be too absurd. "You give invitations to all the world!" I asked ungraciously. "No, monseur, only to those who interest me, and who—" "Are of use to you?" I asked indiscreetly. She looked at me with cool, level eyes, still playing. "Absolution." "And in what way do I happen to be "That is a secret." "Then I should probably refuse. I do not accept invitations when there are conditions attached to them." "Then if I say that it is because I "Then if I say that it is because I like you!" "I should not believe you." "Then perhaps I am sorry for you. You are unhappy. I will take you to my chateau to find happiness." "Come. Madame de Varnier, let us stop fencing. Why did you speak to me last night? Why do you pretend to be interested in me—so interested that you ask me, an utter stranger, to visit your chateau? Do you remember my story of yesterday? Am I to think, do you wish me to think—" She looked at me intently, very pale. Her lips were trembling, and yet she smiled—a smile mysterious, tragic, pitiful. "Monsieur, I am not a jeune fille. I am a woman of the world. Fate has called to me. I must follow; I must meet my destiny; sometimes I must walk in the dark places. The world, your world, let it think what it will! Bah, it is not my concern what it thinks of me. Perhaps last night, this morning, I wished you to fall in love with me. Perhaps now I am asking you to give me a little respect, a very little, monsieur. But what does it matter?" I looked at this strange woman in astonishment. It was a curious plea. Perhaps she had wished to make me fall in love with her! She made the frank confession with a childish naivete. And in the same breath she asked for my respect! "You speak in riddles," I exclaimed petulantly. "Tell me your purpose." She looked up at me swiftly, half in defiance. "Tell me yours." "My purpose!" I cried. "I have none." A moment she scanned my face keenly. Apparently she was satisfied that I spoke the truth. But that she should have even a glimmer of a suspicion was startling. "Look, my friend, I speak no more in riddles, but very frankly. Come to my chateau because there you can do me a service, a great service. Volla, I have told you everything." "Not quite everything," I replied quietly. "You have not told me, for instance, the nature of the service that you ask of the first stranger you meet." "When you are my guest I shall tell you," she promised airly. She plunged into a stormy mazurka to drown my protestations. I watched her, irritated and yet half yielding, as she played with the brilliancy and elan of a virtuoso. Then I walked to the window. To reach it I passed a pier-glass paneled in the wall. A man's face was dimly reflected there. Though I did not look, I knew that he must be standing behind a door leading into another apartment. He had been listening, of course. I did not betray my surprise. I stepped out on the balcony, looking down on the street below. This incident banished my last shred of reluctance. These adventurers spied on me; it was equally fair that I play their game. Yes; I determined to meet them with their own weapons. The music reached a stormy climax. There was silence. I did not go back into the room. I waited curiously. Would she again insist? If so, I determined to no longer refuse. The heavy curtains at the window were parted. She stood beside me. Again I noticed the feverish light in her eyes; her bosom rose and fell tumultously; her color came and went. "Then you have no liking for an adventure?" she demanded in a spirit of desperate gayety. "Even when that adventure is to be shared with a woman—yes, a beautiful woman?" "Not when adventures are thrust on me," I repiled coldly. Her emotion repelled me. "Ah, you persist in being ungracious. Then say this adventure brings happiness for yourself." "I should require proof of that." "I should require proof of that." She saw that I was not to be won over by coquery. She became serious, almost anxious. Instinctively I felt that she was about to play her last card. Had she known it, I was already decided. But she was ignorant of that, and risked everything to gain her purpose. "You have set yourself a task. What if I can help you fulfill it?" "Again you speak in riddles, madam." "If I said I were listening last night!" I frowned on her, furious, but I did not answer. She felt no shame in making this confession. One hand rested on her hip, with the other she snapped finger and thumb. "My dear monsieur, you are not attractive when you look like that. Even I have heard the English proverb, 'All is fair in love and in war.'" "And since this is not love, you wish me to infer that it is war? And you ask the enemy deliberately into the camp?" "It is neither love nor war. It is a truce. Does that satisfy you?" "Until you tell me the service I am to do you, it must be an armed truce." I interposed cautiously. I emphasized the adjective. I emphasized the adjective. "Bien! At Alterhoffen you shall know all. Then it will be for you to decide if we are to be allies." "Very well," I assented briskly. "I will go to your chateau with you. When do we start?" Now that I had made my decision she grasped the railing of the balcony, exhausted. Presently I noticed that her lips were moving, and as I looked at her in wonder, I saw her furtively make the sign of the cross. When she spoke again, it was languidly, as with an effort. "Dr. Starva and myself are to go tonight to Vitznau, a little town on Lake Lucerne, an hour's journey from here. To-morrow morning at the dawn we drive en diligence to Alterhoffen." "Is it necessary that I go to Vitznau?" "Yes," she said hesitatingly, averting her eyes. "The last boat leaves Lucerne at 11. Your luggage, can it be ready then?" I nodded absently. An immense man stood stiffly at the window awaiting us. His bearing was slovenly, as was his attire. The spectacles and the puffy face, unnaturally pale, suggested the habits of the student. But the eyes, small, crafty, and very bright, instantly corrected my first impression, and left me baffled and vaguely distrustful. It was the man whose reflection I had seen in the pier-glass. "Ah, my cousin at last! Georges, this is Mr. Haddon, an American. He comes to the chateau at Alterhoffen as our guest." It was impossible to doubt that he had spied on me with Madame de Varlier's consent. But I was certain that he heard of my consent to go to Alterhoffen with positive annoyance. I was not blind to the significant look that passed between them: the eyes of Madame de Varlier dilating in triumph and defiance; Dr. Starva equally defiant and sullen. Evidently there was discord in the camp. Dr. Starva did not welcome the fly that had consented to walk into the web. Well, so much the better. A little discord might prove useful. "Madam is an admirable host," Dr. Starva said slowly in French. "But if the guest is to be quite happy he must be content to amuse himself as madam wishes." The words were almost a threat. I looked with repulsion at this pale, flabby, shuffling giant. It would be well to be on my guard against him. He might be dangerous. But half the battle was won in realizing that. Madame de Varnier met his bold sally, insolently careless. "A diner, messleurs," she cried gaily, and took my arm, leaving the huge Dr. Starva to follow. CHAPTER XII Treachery. Three hours later Dr. Starva and myself were on the little steamboat enroute for Vitznau, a journey of an hour. I had met him at the quay; he was alone. Madame de Varnler, he coolly informed me, had taken an earlier boat. I was not to see her until next morning. Frankly, I scarcely liked that. I could have wished for a more congenial companion. However, I was embarked on an adventure; and must take things as they came. It was to be a game of give and take. I was deliberately permitting myself to be their tool for the moment; I was to serve their purpose. My wages for the service were to be the opportunity of finding Sir Mortimer Brett. Until I had penetrated the mystery of his disappearance I would be as clay in their hands. Perhaps it might be necessary to be their partner for the nonce in their intrigues. They might wonder at my doolity or gulliness, but they should not question it. That was the delicate task I must bend myself to for the present. We had seated ourselves well forward and were quite alone, for at this late hour the boat carried few passengers. The wind coming from the snow-clad peaks was piercing. I shivered, but rather from excitement than from the chilly air. Already the lights of Vitznau could be seen dimly through the thick mists. Dr. Starva, rolling a huge cigar in the corner of his loose, sensual mouth, regarded me fixedly under shaggy eyebrows. "It is cold. We must have some cognac." Without asking for my assent he summoned a waiter. Even in so trivial a matter as the appropriateness of refreshments his tone was more a command than an invitation. The cagnac would be welcome enough, but one less observing than myself might have noticed the alacrity with which he welcomed the excuse for the liquor. "Do you know what it is to have a headache?" he asked, and, fumbling clumsily in his waistcoat pocket, he produced a tiny packet. "No," I sald, yawning, and watching him idly. "Ah, you are fortunate. This little powder is a great benefactor to me. We are close to Vitznau. Through the trees there you can get a glimpse of the hotel we are to stop at." He pointed at a building a quarter of a mile distant from the landing stage we were fast approaching, holding in mid-air the packet of powder preparatory to placing it on his tongue. I looked where he pointed; there was not much to see; the mist enveloped everything. The boy approached with the cognac. My elbows on the table, I fingered carelessly the little glass placed in front of me, while that of Dr. Starva was being filled. As I tipped it to The Packet Was Lifted at His Lips. ward me I caught a gimpse of a white powder in the bottom of my glass. Dr. Starva's headache powder! Here was treachery indeed! But I did not move a muscle. I lifted my eyes slowly. Dr. Starva's great head was tipped back. The packet, empty of its powder, of course, was placed at his lips. But his rat-like eyes were watching me narrowly. I had need to think and act quickly. The powder was a narcotic to deaden my senses. That must be prevented at any cost; and yet he must think that I had taken the drug. He had called my attention to the hotel while he cleverly slipped the powder into the glass. I ought not to be less adrott. As the waiter passed around the table his decanter in hand. I thrust out my leg and tripped him up neatly. He fell against Dr. Starva, the decanter still held carefully aboft. In that moment of confusion I emptied the contents of my glass into my handkerchief. When Starva, furious and perhaps suspicious, pushed the man fiercely from him and looked at me, I was laughing heartily at his mishap, the handkerchief in one hand, the other holding out the glass for the brandy, the fingers closing over it to hide it from his view. "Sante!" he cried boisterously, and drained the contents of his glass at a gulp. I followed his example, and in spite of the powerful liquor, I tasted (or fancied I tasted) the dregs of the bitter drug. "Pah!" I cried in disgust, and was careful to hand the glass to the waiter instead of placing it on the table. "I have tasted better brandy than that in my life." The expression of disgust promptly assured him that I had really drunk the potion given me. But now that I was supposed to have taken it, I wondered precisely what effect it should have on me, and how soon that effect should be felt. Fortunately, he concerned himself with our luggage, for the boat was almost at the dock. When he returned to my side I greeted him in sleepy indifference. He looked at me keenly. I was not blind to his satisfaction. He shook my shoulder. "What is it! Are we arrived?" I rose to my feet unsteadily. "Yes, and it is necessary to hurry." The handful of passengers had already left the boat. We descended the gangway slowly, Dr. Starva's arm grasping mine. We entered the closed carriage that awaited us. I lurched clumsily into the vehicle, and sat crouched up in the corner, my head sunk on my breast. I assumed it safe and fitting that I should appear passably indifferent as to what passed now. Certainly by this time the drug would have taken some effect had I swallowed it. But I need not say that I had my wits with me. My companion unfastened a vallse he had brought into the carriage with him. I confess I watched him out of the corner of my eye in some trepidation. I was thankful when he produced nothing more formidable than a military cloak and a felt hat. To my astonishment he defily slipped from my shoulders the light covart coat I wore, and took my hat from my head, substituting the garments he had taken from his bag. I could have laughed aloud, his con- fidence in my condition was so absol- ate, and his antics so extraordinary. When I left the carriage present, surely the driver must see the change in my attire, and have his suspicions —unless he were in Dr. Starva's con- fidence! And this fact did not escape me: The hat did not ingulf me, as it must have done had it been Dr. Starva's. Then if it were not his own— In an instant I had guessed some- thing of his game. It must have been after midnight when the carriage drew up under the porte-cochere of the hotel. Dr Starva alighted and met the concerge at the vestibule. I heard little of "that was said at first, but the surprise of the concerge was evident. He tossed his arms about, and burst into excited protests. Presently (and I could see that Starva was annoyed at the action) he came to the door of the carriage and peered within. I sat huddled up in the corner, apparently asleep. "He is very ill—his Excellency!" cried the concerge in French. "Listen to me," sternly replied Starva in the same language. "That is not his Excellency, imbecile. That is only a tourist, a Mr. Hadden. You understand," he repeatedly slowly, shaking the concerge by the lapel of his gorgeous coat, "that is only a tourist." The fellow looked at Dr. Starva, bewildered. "Mails, mais, mais—" he stammered in exposition, pointing at me. "Appearances are sometimes treacherous" said Starva grimly, and added with marked carelessness, "Is Madame de Varnier arrived?" "An hour ago," muttered the man, his round eyes still staring at me. "Then you do think, fool, that his Excellency would come to this hotel at midnight, and at the hour that she arrives? Are there no tongues to talk? Are there no eyes to pry? If Mr. Haddon"—he emphasized the name—"prefers to be nursed by a beautiful woman, shall I, his physician, refuse? But for his Excellency to be nursed by a beautiful woman—at least," he added meaningly, "for the world to know it—now do you understand?" He towered over the little concerge, staring down at him fiercely vindictive. At the same time he slipped into the servant's unresisting hand a number of crip notes. The hand of the concerge closed over them lovingly; his broad, good-humored face slowly expanded into a smile of perfect comprehension. "But yes, I see it all as clearly as the nose on my face." The little wretch placed his forefinger on that organ and winked. "Then you will see that there are no inquisitive servants to spy impertently. Take us up on the lift yourself. The porter may leave the baggage below, since Mr. Haddon goes early to-morrow morning with his nurse and his physician. He must not be disturbed in his rest. To-night he is very ill, as you see. There is a long journey before us to-morrow. I shall arrange with you later concerning the diligence. Lastly, you will discreetly keep your eyes away. You will certainly not see his Excellency." Dr. Starva now placed one foot on the carriage step, and leaning toward me, gently aroused me. I opened my eyes slowly and muttered something to the effect that we had arrived. Alighting, I gramped his arm mechanically, and we proceeded slowly into the hotel, across the hall, to the elevator. The little concierge trotted solemnly in front of us. The elevator, as well as the hall and corridors, was deserted at this late hour. We met no one. Arriving at the suite of rooms allotted to us the concierge was summarily dismissed. But before he left us the servant insisted on whispering to Dr. Starva these words, which no doubt started him as much as they did me: "The sister of his Excellency is in the hotel. Shall I tell her that—" Dr. Starva clutched the shoulder of his informant, and held him in a fierce, vise-like grip. "Thrice times stubborn fool!" he growled, "what concern is it to Mr. Haddon that the sister of Sir Mortimer Brett is at this hotel? Certainly you will not tell her." He thrust his spectacles, pallid face close to that of the trembling servant. Then releasing him suddenly, he pushed him without, the little concoarse rubbing his shoulder ruefully. Immediately he regretted this unnecessary violence. He stepped out into the corridor, and I guessed that he had smoothed the injured vanity of the gold-laced official with more of the crisp notes. He had scarcely entered the room again before he admitted Madame de Varnier, and again the key was turned. They lost no time in vain talk or congratulations on the success of their trick, whatever its meaning might be. Dr. Starva half led, half carried me into a bedroom adjoining. There I was put to bed with as little ceremony as a helpless infant is disposed of for the night. For a moment Starva looked down on me grimly. Then he disappeared, closing the door carefully behind him. Now, indeed, I understood why Helena Brett and her mother had been so startled when first they had seen me—why Madame de Varnier had shown herself no less concerned—why I had caught Dr. Starva spying on me—why it was plotted that I should be drugged and brought hither in this melodramatic fashion. In the world's history there have been many instances of men playing the pretender, but certainly none more innocent than myself. I should be dense indeed now did I fail to comprehend everything—from Madame de Varnier's first greeting, to the episode of the cloak and hat. I recalled the woman's ghastly despair when she had read the telegram --- --- THE PLANET SATURDAY.....OCT. 19, 1907. in the kursaal. "He is dead," she had repeated over and over. Sir Mortimer Brett, minister plenipotentiary at the court of Sofia, was dead. The adventurers for some purpose of their own, not yet to be guessed, had deliberately planned that I be mistaken for him at this hotel. That the ambassador was dead was a bitter disappointment to my hopes. The opportunity to fulfill the task that Helena had given me was not to be mine after all. And now that I knew that, what further excuse had I to be as clay in the hands of these people? I was tempted to burst into the room, there, to prick the bubble of their intrigue. But if I did that, though I might battle the execution of their plans, I should be utterly signcrant as to the nature of those plans. The danger to myself in continuing to play the role of accomplice was very great. The officers of the law would not be so touchingly simple as to believe that I was abetting the plans of this precious couple only with a view of bringing them to final justice. But much more alarming than possible danger to myself was the fact that Helena Brett was in this hotel. Before morning a cruel but just chance might bring us face to face, and in her eyes I should stand convicted of the gossest villain. With diabolical cunning, Dr. Starva had insisted that I was Mr. Haddon, and yet he had deliberately planned that I be mistaken for Sir Mortimer Brett. The intent to deceive was obvious. When that were proved, on my head would fall the greatest censure. For who would believe that I was an innocent victim? But I had gone too far to retreat now. Or rather, I had not gone far enough. Granted that Sir Mortimer Brett were dead, and that my elaborate plans to rescue him from the hands of these adventurers were a failure, the fact remained that for some dark purpose of their own the conspirators were either concealing the knowledge of his death, or were using that knowledge for some base purpose. They must be brought to justice. That justice could be obtained surely and swiftly only at risk to myself. How many minutes had passed now? Dared I move, dared I even open my eyes? For night I knew they were watching me, were even in the room at this instant. I lay quite still, breathing stertorously. The handle of the door was turned sharply. I heard the weight of Dr. Starva thrown against it as it jammed and for some moments resisted his efforts. The flare of an electric light fell on my face. He stood at my bedside. I muttered in coherently, tossing about, and turning my face from the glare. Then I was alone again. I was in a room little larger than an American hall bedroom. They were cavalier enough of the dignity of Sir Mortimer Brett's understudy. I must be lying in the chamber of the valet and not of the master. I leaped lightly to the floor. I tip-toed to the closed door. To my constatation it was too tightly closed to permit me to see anything in the room beyond. It had creaked loudly in resisting Dr. Starva's efforts; certainly I was not so rash as to attempt to open it, however cautiously and slightly. To all purposes, I was a caged prisoner. The risk I had run to spy on them would be to no purpose unless I could surprise them at their night's work. I raged at my impotence. Then I thought of the window. Perhaps there was a balcony. There was no blind at the window, but wooden shutters that fastened with a catch. I pushed open the French windows. Yes, there was the balcony, and to my joy I saw that it extended the length of the suite. And now a new difficulty stared me in the face. At any moment they might enter the bedroom, and when I had gained the balcony, outside the salon, would shutters prevent my seeing within? As to the first risk I must take it. The door had jammed before; it would jam again. The noise made in opening it would give me some warning. I gained the balcony; there were shutters, but I could see readily through the interstices. It was the apartment we had first entered; and it bore unmistakable signs of having been minutely ransacked. A large empire desk had been pried open. Papers had been abstracted from the drawers and pigeonholes; they lay about in confusion. In more than one place the carpet had been torn up at the edges. As I peered cautiously within, Dr. Starva was lowering the Venetian blind of another window. Evidently they were searching the room with the knowledge that an article of value was hidden there. I heard Madame de Varnier cry out excitedly. A packet, concealed between the slats of a Venetian blind, had fallen to the floor. Without a doubt it was for this packet of papers that they had been searching. Madame de Varnier tore the envelope in feverish haste. She scanned the contents of the papers with intense eagerness, Dr. Starva looking over her shoulder. As they read, their faces expressed disappointment and cagnim. Dr. Starva questioned Madame de Varnier repeatedly. She put aside his fierce inquiries with impatience. IT WILL PAY YOU COLORED INFANTRY IN RESCUE OF ROUGH RIDERS AT SAN JUAN HILL, JULY 2, 1898, SIZE 20X28 AND 20X24 INCHES, ADMIRAL DEWEY'S GREAT NAVAL BATTLE OFF CAVITE IN MANILA BAY, MAY 1ST, 1898, NAVAL BATTLE, DESTRUCTION OF ADMIRAL CERVERA'S SPANISH FLEET OFF SANTIAGO DE CUBA, JULY 3RD, 1898, SIZE 22X28 INCHES; LAND BATTLE, CAPTURE OF EL CANEY, EL PASO AND FORTIFICATIONS OF SANTIAGO, JULY FIRST AND SECOND, 1898, SIZE 22X28 AND 22X27 INCHES. WE WILL SEND YOU ONE OF ANY OF THE FOLLOWING BATTLES OF THE CIVIL WAR ON THE SAME TERMS. THE PICTURES LIKE THE OTHER BATTLES ARE FINISHED IN COLORS. THEY ARE 22X28 INCHES AND RETAIL AT ONE DOLLAR EACH. WE WILL FURNISH FRAMES FOR ANY OF THESE FINE CHROMOS FOR 2 DOLLARS & 50CTS. EACH ADDITIONAL. BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG, BATTLE OF SHILOH, BATTLE OF FIVE FORKS, VA., BATTLE OF ATLANTA, GA., BATTLE OF SPOTTSYLVANIA, VA., BATTLE OF VICKSBURG, MISS., BATTLE OF LOOKOUT MOUNTAIN. TENN., BATTLE BETWEEN THE MONITOR AND THE MERRIMAC, BATTLE OF BULL RUN, VA., BATTLE OF CHANCELLORSVILLE, BATTLE OF THE BIG HORN, (CUSTER'S LAST CHARGE) STORMING OF FORT WAGNER, S. C., (COLORED TROOPS IN THIS FIGHT), BAT- E OF NEW ORLEANS, LA., CAPTURE AND ATH OF SITTING BULL, THE GREAT INDIAN CHIEFTAIN; FORT PILLOW MASSACRE, FALL OF PETERSBURG, VA., BATTLE OF WINCHESTER, VA., BATTLE OF OLUSTEE, FLA. WE WILL SEND FAMILY RECORD, SIZE 22 BY 28, WHICH CONTAINS SPACE FOR PHOTOGRAPHS OF PARENTS AND TEN CHILDREN. WE WILL SEND SOLDIERS WAR RECORD (CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE IN UNITED STATES ARMY.) FOR ONE YEAR EACH, OR THEIR EQUIVALENT, WE WILL SEND YOU A COPY OF UNCLE TOM'S CABIN, THE MOST INTENSELY INTERESTING BOOK IN THE COUNTRY. WE WILL SEND YOU A GOLD-PLATED BROOCH WITH YOUR PICTURE THEREIN, YOU TO I thought I understood the meaning of this extraordinary plot in coming to the hotel at Vitznaan. I had guessed long since that I bore a sufficiently striking resemblance to Sir Mortimer Brett to deceive at least the first casual glance. Otherwise, why the amazement of the Bretts and Madame de Varnier in first seeing me? How else could I explain the events of the night? They had drugged me, or attempted to do so, that I might be oblivious to inconvenient inquiries or greetings. The hat and cloak of Sir Mortimer, which Dr. Starva had procured in some manner, were unusual enough in character to be readily recognized by the servants of the hotel. Sir Mortimer was known to be ill, and my condition would arouse no suspicion. All the facts as I swiftly reviewed them fitted neatly. The inference was unmistakable: This was the suite of Sir Mortimer Brett. They had come for the packet of papers they were now reading. The presence of Sir Mortimer Brett with them had gained them ready admission to his rooms. And now that they had found the papers? Had I served my purpose? Was the invitation to Madame de Varnier's chateau a ruse cleverly planned simply to bring me to this hotel as Sir Mortimer? In that case I must be alert that they did not slip through my hands, leaving me here in Sir Mortimer's rooms to explain my predicament on the morrow as best I might. Or was this the prelude to other adventures even more exciting? Was the game only just begun? Still I watched them intently, while these perplexing questions demanded an answer. They had finished the papers now. Dr. Starva was seated in sullen gloom; Madame de Varnier glided to and fro in angry indecision. A loud knock on the door opening into the hall startled me almost as much as themselves. Madame de Varnier thrust the papers into the bosom of her dress; then, while Dr. Starva at a sign from her answered the summons, she hastily restored the room to outward signs of order. "What is it? Who is there?" Starva demanded in an agitated voice. "It is Henri, the concerge," replied the intruder. "To-morrow, to-morrow." "But there is an English gentleman who says that he must see his Excellency." It would be difficult to say whether this startling request alarmed them more than it did myself. I listened breathless. Dr. Starva's presence of mind seemed to have quite deserted him. He drew a revolver from his pocket. Madame de Varnier made a contemptuous sign expressive of his folly. He thrust it into his coat again; renewed his expostulations to the concerge. But the man was persistent. At last, at a signal from Madame de Varnier, he was admitted to the room. The presence of Madame de Varnier startled him. For the first time she spoke. "My dear man, be discreet. Behold me, a woman, and at this hour of the night in a gentleman's apartment. Is not that a reason that you exercise your discretion?" It was cleverly done, her perturbation and distraction. She made her appeal dramatically, her hands clasped in her anxiety. "Madam is mistaken if she thinks I am not discreet," protested the little man. "If it were possible I would shield madam. But he stands without, in the hall, this stubborn Englishman. Madam can save her reputation only by retreating to the bedroom. Have no fear, I shall not betray madam." It was time for me to beat a hasty retreat. But my curiosity still held me. "Have I not told you," fiercely interrupted Dr. Starva, "that It is not his Excellency who is here with madam? It is a Mr. Haddon, and madam is his nurse and I am his physician. Tell this stubborn Englishman that, imbecile." "Monsieur will please be reasonable, I cannot help using my eyes." "Use them yourself if you will," deserately replied Starva. "But at least you need not tell this Englishman the truth." "It is impossible to deceive him," persisted the concierge. "All day he has been waiting for his Excellency. A quarter of an hour ago he was smoking in the garden below. He has seen the light shining through the shutters of his Excellency's apartment. He knows that it is the apartment of his Excellency." "You can tell him that you have placed Mr. Haddon in these rooms for the night only," persuaded Dr. Starva, producing his pocketbook. "No, monsieur," replied the concierge sorrowfully, his eyes on the notes held toward him, "it is impossible. He will tell the manager and I shall lose my place." ```markdown ``` "Go to this Englishman," interrupted Madame de Varnier; "demand his business. Say that his Excellency is ill, very ill. There have been days that he has not slept. His physician and his nurse have grave fears for his life if he is a aroused. To awaken him is perhaps to bring on again a crisis of the nerves. But as soon as he awakes we will summon the Englishman." "I go," the servant assented reluctantly. "But it will be useless." I dared not await the result of his errand, I returned deliberately to my bed, deliberately, so that I might not lose my breath. I was in a terrible predicament. To rescue myself from it I must make known my true identity without an instant's delay. The knowledge that I certainly should not be believed made me histrate. No; I had gone too far to repeat now. If my strait proved absolutely desperate and a confession was inevitable, I should be believed as readily later as now. In the meantime chance might favor me; and my ruse be not wholly in vain. TO BE CONTINUED. - Subscribe to The PI ANET. On $1.50 pgr year. To interest yourself in promot ing the CIRCULATION of the IN ORDER TO FURTHER INCREASE OUR STEADILY GROWING CIRCULATION WE WILL OFF WE WILL SEND YOU THE PLANET AND THE ST LOUIS, MISSOURI, SEMI-WEEKLY GLOBE DEMOCRAT, ONE OF THE LEADING REPUBLICAN JOURNALS IN THE UNITED STATES FOR $2.25 PER YEAR FOR BOTH. WE WILL SEND YOU THE PLANET AND THE COSMOPOLITAN MAGAZINE FOR $2.25 PER YEAR FOR BOTH. WE WILL SEND YOU THE PLANET AND McCLURE'S MAGAZINE FOR $2.25 PER YEAR FOR BOTH. OR THEIR EQUIVALENT, WE WILL SEND PICTURES, ONE ONLY, OF PRESIDENT THEODORE ROOSEVELT, DR. BOOKER T. WASHINGTON, BATTLE OF SANTIAGO, LAND BATTLE OF QUASIMAS NEAR SANTIAGO, JUNE 24, 1898, SHOWING THE NINTH AND TENTH COLORED CAVALRY IN SUPPORT OF ROUGH RIDERS, SIZE 20X28 AND 20X24 INCHES, LAND BATTLE AND CHARGE OF THE 24TH & 25TH READ THE GREAT INDUCEMENTS OFFERED BY THE PLANET THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA IF YOU WILL TALK WITH YOUR NEIGH- ```markdown ``` FOR TWO YEARLY SUBSCRIBERS FOR FIVE NEW SUBSCRIBERS REQUISITE NUMBER IS OBTAINED, WE WILL FORWARD THE PRESENT INDICATED. A PERSON WHO TRIES TO GET FORTY SUBSCRIBERS AND GETS TIRED MAY INDICATE HIS WISH AND WE WILL SEND THE PRESENT FOR THE NUMBER HE HAS SECURED OVER FIVE. THE NUMBER WILL BE FOR NOT LESS THAN FIVE NOR MORE THAN TEN AND NOT LESS THAN TEN NOR M HAN TWENTY AND NOT LESS THAN TY NOR MORE THAN FORTY, TO DET THE PRIZE TO WHICH THE WORKER TLED. IF ANYTHING IS DESIRED NOT SPECIFIED IN THIS LIST, WRITE US ABOUT IT AND WE WILL TELL YOU IN WHAT CLASS IT BE LONGS. ADDRESS ALL ORDERS TO JOHN MITCHELL, JR., 311 North Fourth Street, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. A man in a chair DILY GROW LANET WEEKLY READING UNITED BH. T AND R $2.25 T AND YEAR ND PIC THEO- WASH- D BAT- JUNE 24, H COL- GH RI- LAND & 25TH ```markdown ``` REQUISIT FORWAR SHOULD YOU DESIRE ANY COLORED JOURNAL IN THE UNITED STATES, WE WILL SEND IT TO YOU IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE PLANET AT A GREATLY REDUCED RATE FOR BOTH. FURNISH THE PHOTOGRAPH, ONE FOUNTAIN PEN, GOLD POINT; ONE LADIES RING, ONE BREAST-PIN, GOLD FILLED; HALF DOZEN LINEN HANDKERCHIEFS, ONE ALARM CLOCK, ONE DOZEN NAPKINS, ONE HALF DOZEN TOWELS, ONE CHOCOLATE POT, ONE PAIR VASES, ONE PAIR KID GLOVES, ONE HAM, ONE TURKEY. WE WILL SEND ONE CHINA SET, THIRTY-ONE PIECES; ONE NECKLACE; DICKENS, SHAKESPEARE, BYRON WORKS; ONE UMBRELLA, ONE PLAIN GOLD RING, ONE PAIR LACE CURTAINS 1,000 ENVELOPES, 1,000 SHEETS OF PAPER PRINTED AND DELIVERED; ONE TOILET SET, ONE HALF CORD OF SAWED WOOD. FOR TWENTY NEW SUBSCRIBERS WE WILL GIVE ONE HANDSOME GOLD RING WITH OPALS, RUBIES OR PEARLS; ONE JEWELRY BOX FINISHED IN GOLD OR SILVER; ONE SILK SHIRT WAIST; ONE READY MADE DRESS, ONE GOLD WATCH, FILLED, WARRANTED FOR TEN YEARS, ONE ROCKING CHAIR, ONE LOAD OF COAL, ONE GROSS OF SOAP, EITHER WASHING OR TOILET; ONE BARREL OF BEST FLOUR, ONE PAIR BLANKETS, ONE MANICURE SET, ONE SEAMSTRESS' WORK BOX, ONE PAIR SHOES, GENTS OR LADIES. FOR FORTY YEARLY SUBSCRIBERS OR EQUIVALENT, WE WILL GIVE ONE SEWING MACHINE, ONE DIAMOND RING, ONE GOLD WATCH, ONE PAIR FINE GOLD EARRINGS, ONE MUSIC BOX, ONE PHONOGRAPH, ONE READY MADE DRESS, ONE SUIT OF GENTLEMEN'S CLOTHES, ONE GOLD-HEADED CANE, ONE GOLD-HEADED UMBRELLA, ONE CHINA SET, ONE DOZEN SILVER-PLATED KNIVES AND FORKS, ONE HAT-RACK, ONE SILK DRESS, ONE WEEK'S TRIP TO THE SEASHORE, RAILROAD FARE AND HOTEL BILL PAID, FOR ANY RICHMOND WORKER. THESE OFFERS MAY BE TAKEN ADVANTAGE OF BY SENDING ONE OR TWO SUBSCRIBER'S NAMES AT A TIME. WE WILL KEEP A RECORD OF THEM; AS SOON AS THE FOR TEN NEW SUBSCRIBERS THREE ```markdown ``` ```markdown ``` THE YACHT SATURDAY.....OCT. 19. 1907. TAFT IN FAR EAST. Secretary of War Comes at Opportune Time. TO ADDRESS PHILIPPINE ASSEMBLY Colonists Expect Direct Statement as to Policy of the United States In Regard to Fate of the Archipelago. MANILA, Oct. 16.—The visit of Secretary Taft to the Philippines, Japan and China, with his significant utterances in Tokyo and Shanghai, is regarded by American residents as the most important event affecting their interests, themselves and their country in the orient in many years. Prominent American merchants here said: "We have been drifting these last few years. Our trade is growing, but it seemed to many of us that our political and sentimental interests were steadily waning. Secretary Hay made the orient a special field for American diplomacy. Mr. Root appears in the greater interests of South America. Meantime events moved against us. The Chinese boycott hurt. The successes of Japan against Russia, followed by our friction with Japan, affected us adversely. The American position in the orient is now inseparably interlocked with our position in the Philippines, and uncertainty about the future of the Philippines adversely affects all in the far east. "Secretary Taft's significant measuring of our unlimited resources against Japan's scanty means and Japan's hard struggle to carry out domestic and expansion enterprises, his assurances that there will be no sudden cessation of control of the Philippines, his warning that America will oppose the efforts of rivals to secure special privileges in violation of the principle of the open door, show Americans who placed money in the orient where they stand. "These events indicate the growing bond of sympathy between Japan, England and France in political affairs in China. We anticipate they will act in concert in securing certain concessions for themselves. Our country must closely watch these events and be ready to safeguard its own interests and lend a helping hand to China in the event that action is taken on the triangular, which programme we suspect exists. We sincerely hope the plan of consular reform inaugurated by President Roosevelt will be fully carried out. The situation and conditions demand our best men." Great interest is shown in the opening of the first Philippine assembly here today and in the arrival of Secretary Taft, which comes at an opportunity time in the inauguration of Philippine home rule. The action of the assembly on questions relating to the political future of the Philippines is expected to be determined largely by the opinion expressed by Secretary Taft in his address opening the session. This is the view held by Fillipinos as well as Americans. The latter are generally in favor of a specific pronouncement on Philippine policy. The course of legislative action will depend mainly on the result of the fight of the Gomez radicals for control of the National party. The Nationalists when united exercise controlling influence, but their internal divisions give the Progressive Independents the balance of power. It is not likely that party spirit will play much part in the assembly's future owing to personal differences within the parties. Twenty-five Hurt In Trolley Wreck. ERIE, Pa., Oct. 16. Twenty-five persons were injured, a majority of them seriously, but none, it is believed, fatally, last night in a trolley collision on the Buffalo and Lake Erie Traction company line at Moorheadville switch, near here. All the passengers had miraculous escapes from death. The car was late leaving Northeast and was running at the rate of thirty miles an hour. A work car preceded the trolley, and at Moorheadville it was side tracked. It was the switch was not properly locked, and the passenger car struck the switch, swerved for a moment and then crashed into the work car. Old Home Week at Baltimore. BALTIMORE, Oct. 16.—Baltimoreans opened here the celebration of old home week and have as their guests thousands of former Baltimoreans, Marylanders and others. The visitors have been arriving for the past week or ten days, and since the middle of last week the streets have been occupied by steadily increasing crowds, especially at night. The principal thoroughfares are gay with bunting, in which the black, gold, red and silver of Maryland are given equal prominence with the national colors. Because She Told Him to Go. BECAUSE She told him to go. STEUENVILLE, O., Oct. 15—Because his sweetheart dismissed him for smoking cigarettes William Howe leaped down an elevator shaft and was killed. Howe and Miss Eileen Terrell were engaged, having been sweethearts for several years. Howe liked cigarettes, but had promised Miss Terrell to give them up. She caught him puffing at one and gave him back the engagement ring and told him to go. Francis Joseph No Better. VIENNA, Oct. 16—Recording to the most trustworthy information the condition of Emperor Francis Joseph is no better. The fever has returned to a moderate extent, but in spite of this his majesty remains in good spirits and has expressed a desire for physical exercise. WITH POLAR BEARS. Captain Amundsen Will Try For the North Pole In 1910. NEW YORK, Oct. 18.—And now an other reptile explorer plans to make an attempt to reach the north pole. Trained polar bears will be relied on to assist him. He is Captain Ronald Amundsen, who in his diminutive ship the Gloa only three years ago located the magnetic pole and on the same trip proved that there was a northwest passage by navigating his vessel through it. Captain Amundsen returned here on the liner Oscar II. from a trip to his native Norway and was the guest of honor at a reception held by Norwegian societies at the Waldorf-Astoria. The captain said that he will make an attempt to reach the geographic north pole in 1910. For the purpose he is having four big polar bears trained by an expert in Hamburg. He expects to use the bears to haul sleds. He thinks that the pole is surrounded by solid ice. BOTH CLAIM VICTORY. Harriman Party Deprived of Thousands of Votes. CHICA$^{®}$O, Oct. 16.—E. H. Harriman has been by order of court deprived of the voting power of 286,731 shares of Illinois Central stock in the annual meeting of that railroad company, which opens here today. The order of the court was practically identical with the modification asked by the attorneys for Mr. Harriman, Both sides claim a victory, Mr. Fish because the enjoined shares will not be effective at the election and Mr. Harriman because his modification was secured. The shares of stock ruled out are those held by the Union Pacific Railway company, the Railroads Securities Company of New Jersey and the Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York, against which a temporary injunction was issued by Judge Ball in the superior court. WRECK IN ENGLAND. Nineteen Dead and Thirty-nine Hurt Near Shrewbury. SHREWSBURY, England. Oct. 16.—A train made up of passenger coaches bound from Scotland and the north of England to Bristol left the rails as it was entering the station here, and nineteen persons were killed, while thirty-nine others were injured. It is suggested as this is the third accident of a similar kind within a year to a train entering a station on a curve the cause may be found in the failure of the vacuum brakes to respond. It seems certain that somebody blundered, for the engine was going at a tremendous rate of speed when the accident happened. When officials from the station reached the spot the cars were a tangled mass of wreckage, beneath which were the bodies of the dead and injured. Fortunately the wreck did not catch fire. JAP RIOT IN FRISCO Drunken Logger Caused Wreck of Oriental's Laundry. SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 16.—As a result of an attack on a Japanese laundry during the night the proprietor and one of his employees are in the Emergency hospital, many whites are nursing wounds from clubs of the police and the exterior of the laundry is a wreck. The trouble was caused by Joseph King, an intoxicated logger, who crashed into the window of the laundry conducted by a Japanese named Umkekubo. Umkekubo and Omura were taken to a hospital, where it was found the former was cut about the head, while Omura suffered a fracture of the shoulder. King was found asleep in the rear room, ignorant of the trouble he had caused. Minister Coming Home III. GUATEMALA CITY, Guatemala, Oct. 16.—The American minister to Guatemala and Honduras, Joseph W. J. Lee, has left Guatemala City on his way to the United States, having been granted leave of absence by the Washington authorities owing to ill health. William F. Sands, secretary of the American legation, is in charge. Dies From Violent Dancing WATERTOWN, N. Y., Oct. 14. After doing a buck and wing dance for a number of friends here Margaret Rafferty, a prominent young woman of this city, complained of being ill and an hour later died. So violently did Miss Rafferty dance that she ruptured an artery leading to the heart, hemorrhage causing death. Berth For Algernon Sartoris. WASHINGTON, Oct. 16.—The state department has designated Algernon Sartoris of the District of Columbia to be secretary of legation at Montevideo. Mr. Sartoris is the grandson of President Grant. Gustavus L. Monroe, Jr., of Michigan has been designated as secretary of legation at La Paz, Bolivia. SAULT STE. MARIE, Mich., Oct. 14.—The bodies of nineteen members of the crew of the steamer Cypress, which foundered in Lake Superior Friday night off Deer Park, have been recovered and brought to this city. The bodies of Captain F. B. Huyck and two firemen are still missing. Young Roosevelt Hurt at Football. CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Oct. 15.—Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., who was taken out of the Harvard second team's game with Phillips Exeter academy on account of an injury, was found to be developing water on the knee. This injury will probably keep him out of football for at least two weeks. His absence from the second team will be noticed, as he was playing a good game at the end. THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA JOB DEPARTMENT EXCURSION We print Handbills, Quarter-Sheet posters, Tags, Tickets, Placard notes, Visiting Cards, Mourning Stations WE HAVE Our St OF THE LATE WE CAN PRINT A BILL, AS SMALL A Three-Sheet AS LARGE AS A FRO Our street-entrance is retired and fastidious lady being able to enter w EXCURSION WORK OF ALL DESCRIPTIONS We print Handbills, Quarter-Sheets, Half and Whole Sheet posters, Tags, Tickets, Placards, Society Cards, Minutes, Visiting Cards, Mourning Stationery. OUR AIM is to please our patrons and to give them the best service at the lowest prices, consistent with satisfactory work. We furnish "cuts" when desired and we will arrange to complete special work in our line. When in need of any work in our line, call and see us and estimates will be furnished. WE CAN PRINT A BILL AS SMALL AS A DODGER. A Three-Sheet Poster AS LARGE AS A FRONT DOOR. WE HAVE ONE OF THE LARGEST OF WOOD- Our street-entrance is retired and has no objectionable features, the most fastidious lady being able to enter without embarrassment or annoyance. LONG DISTANCE TELEPHONE, 2213. FORD'S HAIR POMADE Formerly known as "OZONIZED OX MARROW" The Ozonized Ox Marrow Co. (None genuine without my signature) Charlie Ford Rest 153 E. KINZIE ST., CHICAGO, IL. Agents wanted everywhere. It is thoroughly equipped to do all kinds of printing on short notice. We make a specialty of Society printing and work for Insurance Companies, such as Financial Man and Girl Crushed to Death. PITTSBURG, Oct. 16.—A fall of slate in a coal mine at Port Vue, near here, crushed a man and a young girl to death. The girl's mother was probably fatally injured. All were foreigners. The mine supplied fuel for the families in the neighborhood. Woman Burglar "Hath a Devil", CHICAGO, Oct. 14.—Mrs. Charles J. Romadka, wife of a Milwaukee millionaire, who confessed she was a burglar, is "possessed of devils," according to Dr. Alex Gustafson, who attended her, and Dr. Sheldon Leavitt. They say so in all seriousness. Dr. Leavitt is a well known practitioner and connected with numerous medical societies and Chicago hospitals. Connecticut Day at Fair. NORFOLK, Va., Oct. 18- Governor Woodruff of Connecticut and the official party from New Haven and Hartford attended the Connecticut state day celebration at the Jamestown exposition today. NORTH GLACE BAY, Cape Breton, N. S., Oct. 16—Mr. Marconi expects to open his wireless station here for the transmission of press dispatches between America and Europe on Thursday. For the present the service will be limited to twelve hours daily. In the last few days messages have passed between the station and Clifden, Ireland, with regularity and accuracy. So STRAIGHTENS KINKY or CURLY HAIR that it is hard to find in any style desired consistent with its length. HAIR that it can be put up in any style Ford's Hair Pomade was formerly Ford's Hair Pomade was formerly the only safe preparation known to us that makes kinky or curly hair straight, as ohrn, harsh, kinky or curly hair soft, ohrn, harsh, kinky or curly hair soft, may be obtained from comb, these results battles are usually sufficient for apart. prevents dandruff, relieves itching, invig out or breaking off, makes it grow and, by vigor, being elegantly perfumed and gentlemen and children. Ford's Hair made has been made and sold continuously MARROW" was registered in the United Ford's as its use makes the hair STRAIGHT. Ford's is made with the signature Charles Ford, Press and package. Because it is driven only 54 o'clock by drugstores and dealers, if your drugstress for you from his jobber or wholesale dealer for $40 for three bests $40 for two bests or $4, 10 for three bests $40 for two bests or change your point of purchase pay message and express send postal or express money order, and write your name and address plainly to Cards, Policies, both straight life and benevolent, Physician's Certificates, Sick Cards, Application blanks, Agents Report Sheets, Rate Cards, etc. HION WORK arter-Sheets, Half and Whole Placards, Society Cards, Min- ing Stationery. WE AN ELSE WHICH WE WILL Stock Roof LATEST STYLE BOND, FIRE AS SMALL AS A DODGER. sheet Poster A FRONT DOOR. OUR PRESENT CORP OF EMPLOYE IS WITHIN EASY REACH OF ired and has no objectionable f enter without embarrassment o 2213 LINCOLN HAIR P MAKES KINKY HAIR SOFT REMOVES DANDRUFF AND MAKES IT GROW LONG AND LUXURIOUS A Woman's Hair Make If your hair is short. If you your scalp is diseased, LINCOLN make it grow, remove the dand LINCOLN HAIR POMADEN the finest toilet preparation o for you to give it a trial and w be so satisfactory that you will Be sure and get the genuine substitutes. For sale at all D PRICE, 1 MANUFACTURE The Lincoln Po IS, Half and Whole Society Cards, Ministry. is to please give them the lowest with satisfactory. AN ELEGANT WHICH WE WILL SHOW A Rock Room Style Bond, Fine Written as a Dodger. Poster DOOR. Present Corp of Employees are within Easy Reach of the Public. has no objectionable features, the out embarrassment or annoyance. LINCOLN HAIR POMA MAKES WINKY HAIR DOFT MOVES DRYRUFF AND MAKES IT BROW ONG AND RIROUS LINCOLN HAIR POMA Woman's Hair Makes or Marries hair is short. If your head is diseased, LINCOLN HAIR row, remove the dandruff and LINCOLN HAIR POMADE is highly toilet preparation on the market. Give it a trial and we feel confident that you will recommend and get the genuine and refuse. For sale at all Drug Stores. PRICE, 15 CENTS OUR PRESENT CORP OF EMPLOYEES ARE COMPETENT AND QUICK-WORKING. OUR OFFICE IS WITHIN EASY REACH OF THE PUBLIC, BEING WITHIN FIFTY YARDS OF BROAD ST. MAKES KINKY HAIR SOFT REMOVES DANDRUFF AND MAKES IT GROW LONG AND LUXURIOUS LINCOLN HAIR POMADE SOFTENS THE HAIR AND KEEPS IT FROM BREAKING KEEPS SCALP FRESH CLEAN AND WHOLESOME If your hair is short. If your head is full of dandruff. If your scalp is diseased, LINCOLN HAIR POMADE will make it grow, remove the dandruff and cure scalp diseases. LINCOLN HAIR POMADE is highly perfumed and is the finest toilet preparation on the market. All we ask is for you to give it a trial and we feel confident the result will be so satisfactory that you will recommend it to your friends. Be sure and get the genuine and refuse weak and inferior substitutes. For sale at all Drug Stores. MANUFACTURED BY The Lincoln Pomade Company. The Lincoln Pomade Company. NORFOLK, VA., U. S. A. If your dealer does not keep it, send will send you a bottle by return mail. for particulars. dealer does not keep it, send his name and a bottle by return mail. Agents w s. Dal If your dealer does not keep it, send his name and 20 cents in silver and we want a bottle by return mail. Agents wanted everywhere. Write for particular JURGEN'S SON Before making your purchase you would do well to call at the most reliable furniture house in the city and see the fine line of REFRIGERATONS, MATTINGS, OIL-CLOTHS And in fact everything that is needed in house furnishings. RUGS AND CARPETS Of every description; also the latest designs in ROCKERS and special CHAIRS. Our goods are the best for the price and the price is very low. C. G. JURGEN'S SON, ADAMS AND BROAD STREETS. --- WORK OF ALL OUR AIM is to please our patrons and to give them the best service at the lowest prices, consistent with satisfactory work. ELEGANT I SHOW ANY ONE DESIRING om Embrace ONE WRITING—FLAT AND JOYEES ARE COMPETENT AND QUALIFIED THE PUBLIC, BEING WITHIN F features, the most or annoyance. FOR FURT Jol COLN POMADE SOFTENS THE HAIR AND KEEPS IT FROM BREAKING KEEPS SCALP FRESH CLEAN AND WHOLESOME es or Mars Her Beauty. Or head is full of dandruff. If COLN HAIR POMADE will druff and cure scalp diseases. It is highly perfumed and is in the market. All we ask is we feel confident the result will recommend it to your friends. and refuse weak and inferior drug Stores. 5 CENTS. PICTURED BY pomade Company, On and after April 1st, 1907, schedule via the popular York River Line will leave Richmond at 4:30 P. M. daily except Sunday, returning leave Baltimore at 5 P. M. daily except Sunday. Very low rates one way and round trip to Baltimore, Philadelphia and New York. It's the best way to reach Northern and Eastern points. Commencing April 19th and continuing daily to November 30, 1907 Southern Railway will sell season sixty day, fifteen day and ten day excursion tickets to Norfolk, Va. and return at reduced rates account the above; and on Tuesday of each week coach excursion tickets, not good in parlor or pullman cars, will be sold at greatly reduced rates, limited seven days. Inquire of Southern Railway Agents. We print Wedding Invitations, and High Class Stationery for Balls, Paris, Picnics and all entertainments of a social nature. We print Church Envel- ALL DESCR ns and to service at consistent work. We furnish "cuts" when des- complete special work in our l in our line, call and see us and T LINE OF S DESIRING TO SEE THEM. oraces a full AT AND LINEN PAPER, ENVELOP WE HAVE ONE OF THE I OF WOOD Of Any Job Printing E NT AND QUICK-WORKING. OUR OFFICE WITHIN FIFTY YARDS OF BROAD ST. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, AP John Mitch 811 N. 4th St. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION. APPLY TO John Mitchell, Jr., John Mitchell, Jr., ```markdown ``` --- Daily to Baltimore. Norfolk, Va. via Southern WE HAVE ONE OF THE LARGEST ASSORTMENTS OF WOOD-TYPE Of Any Job Printing Establishment in the city. 811 N. 4th St.. Richmond Va. SEABOARD SOUTHBOUND TRAIN. SCHED- LED TO LEAVE RICHMOND DAILY. 9:10 A. M.—Local to Norlina, Raleigh, Charlotte, Wilmington, 2:20 P. M.—Sleepers and coaches, Savannah, Jacksonville and Florida points. P. M.—Sleepers and coaches Atlanta, Jacksonville, Memphis, Savannah, Jacksonville, Southwest. NORTHBOUND TRAINS. SCHED- LED TO ARRIVE RICHMOND DAILY. 6:45 A. M., 5:10 P. M., 5:45 P. M. H. S. LEARD, D. P. A. JOSHUA BANKS & SONS CATERERS EVERY FACILITY CONSISTENT WITH FINE CATERING. Special Attention Given to Balls, Suppers, Installations and Smok ers at the Shortest Notice. Your Patronage Sollicited. Refreshment Cars and Boat Privileg es Handled in Season. Address rll communications to ELAM L. BANKS, 511 N. 3d St Residence: 1312 N. 26th St. BLACKWELL & BRO ONE OF THE LEADING PAINTERS Practical House and Sign Painters, Graining and General Contractors. ...ALL WORK GUARANTEED..... Cards, Letters or Orders. ...Give us a trial, you will never regret it... Address, 608 St. Peter Street, PLANET DEPOTS NEW YORK CITY W. H. Warrington, 71 W. 99th St. W. H. White, 328 Columbus Ave. R. Plummer, 100 W. 134th St. Standard, 100 W. 53d St. J. Welch, 324 W. 52d St. Rev. A. L. McKee, 52 E. 132d St. F. Green, 302 W. 40th St. W. H. Jones, 249 W. 35th St. W. B. Bee, 1 W. 134th St. Clarence Bush, 815 Morris Ave., Bronx-Borough. J. H. Parker, 144 W. 26th St. Charles Devan, 1.1 W. 30th St. W. J. Buckkaer, 150 W. 38rd St. W. W. Johnson, 247 W. 47th St. E. H. Mitchell, 152 W. 27th St. Turner R. Robinson, 12-6th Ave. E. A. Williams, 200 W. 38rd St. Smith & Miles, 233 W. 41st St. M. B. Wineglass, 322 W. 59th St. PHILADELPHIA. PA. J. H. Gray, 1233 Pine St. Bishop Robinson, 1234 Melon St. E. P. Mackens, 1116 Pine St. James E. Warwick, 254 S. 11th St. Mrs. B. Homsher, 1040 Pine St. William Parker, 93 Pine St. Mr. Larsen, 1036 Pine St. 12th. Chas. A. George, 4063 Market St. F. A. Stewart, 1730 Federal St. PITTSBURG. PA. PITTSBURG, PA. F. H. Harrison, 1310 Wylie Ave. Jos. Evans, care Jones & Laughlin. E. K. Thumann, 1402 Wylie Ave. FIVE opes, Note and Letter Papers Bill-heads, Monthly Statements, Business Cards, Financial and Order Books Circulars, Check-books, Pamphlets. SCRIPTIONS sired and we will arrange to line. When in need of any work estimates will be furnished. SAMPLES Line PES, ETC. LARGEST ASSORTMENTS OD-TYPE establishment in the city. PLY TO nell, Jr., Richmond Va. BOSTON. MASS. I. D. Robbins, 155 Cambridge St. C. Branum, 657 Shawmut Ave. J. W. White, 832 Tremont St. John Debona, 610 Church St. T. E. W. Perry, 2 Junes Place. CHICAGO ILL. M. H. Faulbner, 704 State St. BROOKLYN, N. Y. Lee Ricks, 782 Fulton St. William A Dabney, 3 Quinney M. CHARLESTON, W. VA. L. C. Farrar, 501 Brooks St. Frank R. Wood, 144 Broadway, ATLANTIC CITY, N. J. L. H. Singleton, 20th and 8th St. Southwestern Drug Co., 732-2d Street, ! W. COVINGTON, VA. Daniel Braxton, Box 91. NEWPORT NEWS, VA. Freddie Smith, 1358-29th St. M. J. Jefferson, 1211-30th St. TARPORO, N. C. V. M. Heward. William H. Moore. STAUNTON, VA. LYNCHBURG, VA. James Wingfield, 422-12th St. Charles Morgan, 702 Taylor St. HAMPTON, VA. John M. Phillips. DANVILLE, VA. O. P. Clark, 233 N. Union St., PORTSMOUTH, VA. H. S. Cooper, 1332 County St., JACKSONVILLE, FLA. John H. Johnsea, 210 Bridge St., PROVIDENCE, R. L. Douglass A. A. P. Agency, DEMOPOLIS, ALA. John W. Anderson. BALTIMORE, MD. Henry Albert, 203 Richmond St. PASSAIC, N. J. Robt Lee Greenwood, 142 Myrtle Ave ASBURY PARK, N. J. Geo w. Moody, 1139 Springwood Ave A. Haynes, 1103 Springwood Ave. ST. AUGUSTINE, FLA. W. A. Fleming. BURLINGTON, N. J. Joseph Anderson, 120 E Delaware ave WICHITA FALLS, TEX. F. L. Lindsey, Box 72. Standard? News Company. SIX THE PLANET SATURDAY.....OCT. 19, 1907 ELEVEN ADRIFT 48 HOURS IN YACHT PARTY OF YOUNG FOLKS HAVE UNPLEASANT EXPERIENCE ON LONG ISLAND SOUND. SUFFER FOR FOOD AND DRINK Women Tore Their Skirts Into Strips to Be Studied into the Open Seams of Their Sinking Craft. Bridgeport, Conn.—Battered and buffeted by wind and waves of Long Island sound, in a leaking boat, without food or water for 48 hours, 11 of the best known young people of the city were towed in the other day in the sloop yacht Mary Bell, overcome by exhaustion and exposure. All were in such condition that they were sent to hospitals or to their homes in ambulances. Women in the party had been compelled to tear their skirts into strips to fill the open seams in the yacht and stop the intrush of water which threatened to swamp them. John Levander, owner of the Mary Bell, had a merry party of young folks as his guests at breakfast Saturday morning. Then he invited them aboard his yacht for a sail. It was his plan to go as far as Black Rock harbor and return, a trip of three hours at the most, so no provisions were put on board, nor did the yacht carry the usual casks of water. Scarcely had the Mary Bell left harbor when a thunderstorm came up and the wind, blowing almost a hurricane, drove the yacht far out of the course. Mr. Levander, an experienced yachtman, had his boat well in hand and it rode out the heavy sea following the squall without difficulty. He no sooner had the Mary Bell headed back toward Bridgeport than another squall, more violent than the first, struck him. Squall after squall each worse than the other followed. They continued all afternoon. When night came the yacht was far adrift on the sound, the sea running heavy, and the party without food or water. To add to the peril there was not a drop of oil nor a lantern aboard. No signal lamps could be set and they were in danger of being run down. The wind died as Sunday dawned and all day the Mary Bell lay calmed off the Long Island coast, unable to make shore. Sufferings for water became intense. Food, too, was missed, but it was water they wanted most. Late Sunday afternoon a breeze sprang up, and the yacht was pointed toward home. When fairly in the middle of the sound the wind died again. Attempts were made to signal passing steamers, but without success, and night again found the yacht drifting in a dead calm. Darkness had set in when Mr. Levander found that the heavy seas of the A Squall After Squall Struck the Yacht, night before had sprung some seams, and the yacht was filling. The women tore up their skirts, which the men forced into the seams, stopping the water. In the night a tug and several steam- ers passed close to the yacht, but halls were unanswered. Shortly after two o'clock Monday afternoon the steam tug Glen passed the drifting yacht and its captain was astonished to see no signs of life aboard. He went alongside and found the entire party overcome by exhaust ion and exposure, lying on the cabin floor. The first cry of everybody was for water, and after they had been cared for as best the tug crew could the Glenn towed the yacht into Bridge- port harbor. Ambulances were telephoned for, and those who were too ill to be sent home were taken to hospitals. The party consisted of the most prominent young society people of the city and all live in the most exclusive section. With His Uncle. Mr. Madison Sueer—I suppose in your grace's family there are a num- ber of historic jewels? His Grace—Yes, indeed. I must get them out some day and show them to you, by Jove! Mrs. Madison Squeer—Ah, then you still have the tickets? GIRLS ENGAGE IN RING BOUT OVER YOUNG MAN GIRLS ENGAGE IN RING BOUT OVER YOUNG MAN IOWA GIRLS JAB AND UPPERCUT UNTIL FRIENDS STOP CONTEST. Davenport, Ia.—Miss Lulu Crawford, a well known music teacher of this city, and Miss Opal Adair, a stenographer, fought a four-round ring battle at night the other morning in the presence of a number of prominent men and their women friends. The two young women had been at "outs" for a long time, and decided to settle their grudge by Marquis of Queensbury rules. Both are of athletic build, and have devoted much time to physical culture and gymnastics. Efforts were made by the friends of the girls just before they entered the ring to have them abandon the fight, but both refused to do so, insisting A Miss Adair Drew First Blood. that the affair had gone too far to be settled in any other way. The mill was fought near the city limits in a 24-foot ring, an old clothes line being used for roping in the arena. It was to have gone the limit, but police interference was feared, as a farmer was seen approaching carrying a milking stool. The referee, a well known man about town, called the fight off and declared all bots off His decision caused considerable dissatisfaction among the backers of the stenographer, as she drew first blood and scored a clean knockdown in the third round, forcing Miss Crawford to take the count of eight before getting to her feet. The music teacher's adherents, however, claimed that she was repeatedly fouled and that the tactics of her opponent in the ring were decidedly unfair. In proof of their claims, they pointed to the fact that when the two girls were carried to their corners Miss Adair had a handful of the other's hair. Nothing was lacking to make the fight as near like a professional prize fight as possible. Each girl had her seconds, with pails and sponges, and selected their corners by tossing a coin. The trouble is said to have started over a young man. CATCHES RUNAWAY CAR Heroic Section Desas, in Pajamas, Pursues the Demon Coach. St. Louis.—Not since the school board introduced the innovation of a woman teacher in the public schools of Millstadt has there been so much excitement in that village as there was the other morning. Men of Millstadt were peacefully sleeping a sleep that was made sound by the pleasures of a Sunday in a town where the lid is not known. From each back yard signs that this was wash day were apparent, and the women of Millstadt were early at work. It was the industrious women, in fact, who formed the audience for a one man performance given by Peter Swinderman, professor of high joints and low centers for the Mobile & Ohio railroad, who, as section boss, reigns supreme over his portion of the roadbed. At Millstadt there is an engine and a coach left nightly to be run to the city in the morning. On this morning the watchman, Christ Lauth, had invited the engine to go up to the water tank and get a drink, preparatory to the morning run. When the engine had been detached the coach started toward High Prairie on an excursion of its own, and Swinderman, knowing that no train should be passing at that hour, jumped out of bed as the coach passed his door, and, with his palamas fluttering in the morning breeze, gave chase. He caught the car and applied the brakes. The journey back up the track to his house was fun for the audience, although embarrassing to the section boss. Well Posted. "I represent the Anti-Billboard league," announced the stranger. "We wish to beautify American landscape. Are there many people against billboards in this town?" "Wal, I should say so," replied the postmaster of Bacon Ridge. "Go over in the public square and you will find a hundred against them now. If it wasn't for the billboards the loafers wouldn't have any place to lean against when they are tired from doing nothing." Poet Rostand's Operation Successful, BAYONNE, France, Oct. 7. The condition of Edmond Rostand, who was operated upon here for appendicitis, is said to be satisfactory. THE RICHMOND PLANET. RICHMOND. VIRGINIA. BAGNALL PHILOSOPHY. A dyspeptic is a man whose meals don't fit him. You can't buy success at the bargain counter. A man may be far-sighted and still be a close observer. Friends and debts should be cheerfully and promptly met. It takes a brave man to face odds that cause others to forsake. Did the notion ever strike you to turn out of the beaten path? Occasionally a small boy keeps clean so he won't have to be washed. Any man who has lots of money can afford to write poetry for a living. Even the man who is looking for a soft thing draws the line at a padded cell. Solomon couldn't help being wise with so many wives to give him advice. To be born a king is no credit; to become a king is more to the purpose. Every man knows a lot of other men that he would like to class as strangers. No man is looking for trouble to the extent that he will refuse to dodge a credit. It may be possible to love two women at the same time, but not if they know it. Break your alabaster boxes on the bleeding hearts of friends. When broken on dead bodies the sweet perfume is jarring mockery. Some for a few pennies, or the sheer chance of keeping in the lime-light, will not hesitate to heap their calumnies on a whole community. Turner's Falls Reporter. SOME OLD SAWS. Charity is expensive. Exposures are odious. Wall street knows no law. A quiet market gathers no panic. He that is with me is against me. Make hay while the ticker ticks. Consistency does not buy jewels. Riches are better than good name. Strive while the public's in the market. In the midst of gain we are in loss. A guilty conscience needs no muckraker. Evil communications require good incomes. The hand that works the ticker rules the world. You never miss the water till the stock goes down. It matters not what you are thought to be, but what you have. Treat your friend as if he were your enemy.—Bohemian. ABOUT PLANTS AND FLOWERS. Oplum is obtained from the pretty poppy. The United States has no national flower. The root of the beautiful hyacinth is deadly poison. The sugar maple is the national emblem of Canada. Brazilian cocoanut palms live to be six or seven hundred years old. On the Malay peninsula is a wonderful blossom without root, stem or vine, which grows on decayed wood as a parasite. Mahogany trees do not grow in clusters but are found scattered throughout forests and hidden in dense undergrowths. A certain South American orchid has a peculiar tube which it lets down into the water when it wants a drink. At other times it is kept curled up. A SPINSTER'S VIEWS. One thing always learned at college is a restless discontent. The happiness of the conceited person always offends the ones who behold it. The man who wears whiskers these days thinks he has some ulterior reason in his mind. When a man is very happy it means that he has been up to something he had not ought to. It does not follow that because a man is smart enough to make money he has brains enough to keep it. At the Zoo. "Mamma," asked Tommy, peering through the iron fence that inclosed the animals, "which is the kangaroo and which is the kangaroooster?" Great Labor-Saving Invention. An engineer in East Java claims to have invented an implement with which two men can cut 18 tons of sugar cane a day. Knights of Pythias, This organization is one of the most powerful in the country and its progress has been phenominal. The Grand Lodge of Virginia has jurisdiction over all of the cities and counties in this state. Thirty males are required to organize a new lodge. The benefits paid constitute one of its strongest features, but the principles are greater than anything else. Founded on Friendship, based on Charity and established on Benevolence, the respectable, upright people of the state will find it an order worthy of their heartiest support. It pays an endowment and burial benefit of of $200.00 for all ages. It pays $4.00 per week sick dues. The badge costing 75 cents cook in the The Courts of Calanthe The Courts of Calanthe Is the Female Department of the Order. It requires a membership of thirty persons to organize a court. Its members are pledged to exhibit Fidelity, exercise Harmony and prove Love one for the other. It pays an endowment and burial benefit of $150.00. It pays $3.00 per week sick dues. The only expense for regalia is the cost of the badge, 50 cents and a rosette, costing 25 cents for funeral occasions. THE BANDS OF CALANTHE or Children's Department also constitutes a feature and persons cannot do better than to enter the little ones into this mystic circle. The expense is nominal and the benefits all that could be expected. It pays from $1.00 to $1.50 sick dues and death benefits of from $30.09 to $40.00. If you have no Pythian Lodge or Court or Band in your neighborhood, orgnize one. For all information concerning the Children's Department address. For all information concerning special rates of membership in the lodges and courts, address KNIGHTS OF PYTHAS F.C.B. only absolutely necessary rega apply at the main office. The Court Is the Female Department of the thirty persons to organize a co- Fidelity, exercise Harmony and an endowment and burial bene- dues. The only expense for m a rosette, costing 25 cents for f THE BANDS OF CALA stitutes a feature and persons on circle. The expense is nomin- $1.00 to $1.50 sick dues and de Lodge or Court or Band in you For all information concernu For all information concern membership in the lodges and WITH THE SAGES. He has most power who has learned to rule himself.—Seneca. The great man is he who never loses his child heart.—Manicus. Every one has a fair turn to be as great as he pleases.—Collier. The most manifest sign of wisdom is continued cheerfulness.—Montaigne. The best reformers the world has ever had are those who have commenced on themselves. Nobody does anything well that he cannot help doing; work is only done well when it is done with a will.—Ruskin. We must not take the faults of youth with us into old age; for old age brings with it its own defects.—Goethe. The wealth of a man is the number of things which he loves and blesses, which he is loved and blessed by.—Carlyle. If honor be your clothing, the suit will last a lifetime; but if clothing be your honor, it will soon be worn threadbare.—William Arnot. Depend not on another, rather lean upon myself: trust to thine own exertions—subjection to another's will give pain; true happiness consists in self-reliance.—Cobbett. To live in the presence of great truths and to be led by permanent ideals—that is what keeps a man patient when the world ignores him, and calm and unspoiled when the world praises him.—Smiles. He who is always hearing and answering the call of life to be thoughtful, and brave and self-sacrificing—he alone can safely hear the other cry of life, tempting him to be happy and enjoy.—Phillips Brooks. PERSONAL. Theodore Roosevelt is not the first to give Oyster Bay presidential distinction. George Washington once spent two days there. J. Marshall Chatterson, a great-grandson of Robert Burns, has recently been acting as a judge of the police court in Louisville, Ky. W. J. McGee, the famous anthropologist and geologist of Washington, is one of the few men in the United States who have no "given" names. Miss Robb, who recently died in Edburgh at the age of 94, has been on the English navy pension roll since birth, as she was the posthumous child of Capt. Robb of the royal navy. A monument has been erected to Anne Holzel in the Schlossgarden, at Mannheim, Germany. She was the wife of a carpenter who in 1784 saved the poet Schiller from a debtor's prison. The duchess of Aosta is passionately fond of riding, loves dogs of all kinds, and is an expert skater. Her royal highness speaks English with just a touch of the French accent, which brightens the charm of her conversation. Mrs. Honor Coleman, who occupies a little cottage at Cleeve, in the county of Somerset, is generally considered the oldest woman in England. She is 107 years of age. Her mother was a centenarian, her grandmother died at 101 and her daughter is 80. QUERULOUS QUICK-LUNCHER Eat in haste and repent in pepsin. Do not eat with your knife; it spills the beans. N. A., S. A., E. A., A. AND A. organization is one of the most powerful has been phenominal. The Grand Jury all of the cities and counties in need to organize a new lodge. The largest features, but the principles handed on Friendship, based on Charity, the respectable, upright people of their heartiest support. An endowment and burial benefit of per week sick dues. The badge of galla. For information concerning curts of Calanty for 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 $4our neighborhood, orgrnize one. Using the Children's Department ad is the most powerful in the country and its al. The Grand Lodge of Virginia has jurisdiction and counties in this state. Thirty males new lodge. The benefits paid constitute one of the principles are greater than anything based on Charity and established on Becright people of the state will find it an order report. burial benefit of of $200.00 for all ages. It is. The badge costing 75 cents each is the nation concerning the organization of lodges men's Department also con- tan to enter the little ones into this mystic is all that could be expected. It pays from on $30.09 to $40.00. If you have no Pythian orgrnize one. Department address, Mrs. ANNA TAYLOR, W. M. 120 W. H. merning special rates of courts, address JOHN $150 PER SURE TO GOOD AGENT greatest seller in America to-day. Nothing does the work. Sells at almost every home on the dollar. Write to-day for full particu Address O PER MONTH GOOD AGENTS, HAIR TONICS. Absolutely the rica to-day. Nothing else like it. No long talk. My plan at almost every home over and over again. $7 clear profit o-day for full particulars, with real chance of a lifetime. address $150 PER MONTH greatest seller in America to-day. Nothing else like it. No long talk. My plan does the work. Sells at almost every home over and over again. 87 clear profit on the dollar. Write to-day for full particulars, with real chance of a lifetime. Address J. F. CLARK, CONWAY, ARK. A penn, saved is a penny earned—by the doctor. No man ever ate himself to death on a meal ticket. Five minutes saved in eating; five hours lost in digestion. Chew your food not at all. It will then stay with you longer. BOARDING & LODGING Rates Reasonable. All the Comforts of Home Ever pick a bit of lamb's wool out of a plate of "real" chicken soup? If the restaurants used "musical" plates those continual crashes could be orchestrated. Do you give the waiter a tip? Sure, else he gives his waiter a tip and soup goes in your lap. Talk about matinee idols! Have you ever noted the waiter who has invented a new phrase, such as "Chicago and Boston Express," meaning "pork and beans in a hurry?"—Peter Pry Shevlin, in Judge. Never look on de dark side er de storm. Halleluia town ain't fur from Tribulation settlement. It's a good idea ter keep yo' lamps trimmed an' burnin' en a better one ter be careful er de blaze. Sometimes ol' satan whitewashes hirsef so dat you kin hardly tell him fum de saints on a Sunday mawnin'. - Atlanta Constitution. Sham tears or hypocritical sorrow, are alluded to as "crocodile tears," in allusion to the tradition that crocodiles mean and sigh to allure persons to their vicinity. It was one of the faces of the wistful rich, unsatisfied from very fulfillment of desire, hungry for hunger.—Margaret Sherwood in the Atlantic Monthly. "I wonder," said the man with the bulbous nose, "why it is that the woman with the ple crust face always wants to wear a peach colored waist." "He never gave a present or treated anyone, but he had a good time himself." "Sort of happy mean, eh?"—Harvard Lampoon. Sugastroke in Egypt is an evil genius which, according to the natives, must be mansaged into the forehead and bitten out. Seedy Party (entering office)—Excuse me, sir, but can you help me out a little this morning? Mr. Busyman—Certainly. You may have your choice of being thrown out or kicked out—Chicago Daily News. Egger: don't the cook like us? I mean—Cust—yes—she said that she liked us. She said that we have to economize so that she couldn't respect us.—Puck. Office Boy—He's already been; he's a nature realist.—Chicago Journal. SAYS BROTHER DICKEY "Crocodile Tears." "The Wistful Rich." Why? Just What He Was. Strained Relations Done by Roosevelt ```markdown ``` 311 N. 4th St., Richmond, Va Established 1899 JOHN FOXEL Dealer in General Line of FANCY AND STAPLE GROCERIES NOTIONS, FRESH MEATS, CIGARS, TOBACCO, ICE, WOOD, COAL, &c. 11 S. 4TH ST. RICHMOND, VA Orders received by letter or telegraph MRS. BOOKER LEFTWICH. PROPRIETRESS H F Jonathan FISH, OYSTERS; AND PRODUCE. PACIFIC TROPHY ALL ORDERS WILL RECEIVE PROMPT ATTENTION. Long Distance Phone. 753. She raised her blond head from his shoulder for a moment. "Do you believe that exercise and lotions and toilet preparations will improve a woman's look," she asked. He pressed her blonde curls back upon his chest. "They couldn't improve the looks of some women," he said. "Whose," she asked. "Well, yours and Violet Cochrane's, for instance," he replied thoughtlessly. "I don't understand you," she said, raising her head for the second time and chilling him with a look. "We are not at all alike." "I mean," he replied, turning her head for the second time and thinking quickly, "that your looks couldn't be improved because they are perfect as they are, and that hers couldn't be improved because no amount of work could make her pretty." She sighed a great sigh of contentment and relief, while he drew a deep breath. How He Did It. "So he proposed to you while you were in swimming together? How did he do it?" "Well, I was wading out where it was beginning to be pretty deep, and suddenly I feared that I was going to be carried off my feet, and I shrieked." "Yes?" "He happened to be near, and reaching over, he asked, 'Won't you give me your hand?' It was very sudden, of course, but I had really liked him from the moment he first looked into my eyes." -Chicago Record-Herald. His Chief Reliance Professor (to graduating class in college) - Young men, there is one more question I would like to ask, and that is, what books have helped you most in your struggles for an education? Young Scadds (promptly speaking up from the foot of the class) - Dad's check-book has helped me about as much as any of 'en so far. - Judge MRS. JOSIE A. GRAHAM, Virginia's Most Successful Hair Culturist. ...PARLORS..... 108 E. Leigh St., - Richmond, 'Phone, 1034. Private Parlors, Confidential Interviews and Correspondence. The largest and most up-to-date Hair Dressing Parlors in Richmond. The very best preparations that can be made for the hair, scalp, face and skin. Graham's Superior Scalp Food for growing hair on bald heads and bare temples, 25cts, per jar. By mail, 35cts. Graham's Superior Orange Flower Skin Fo 'for developing and beautifying the skin, 25cts a jar. By mail 35cts. Graham's Superior Velvet Liquid Powder for giving the face a beautiful fair color, 25 cents a bottle. By mail 35cts. Graham's Vegetable Hair Dye the best on market giving a rich natural color, $1.00 per bottle. By mail, $1.25. Mrs. Graham makes a specialty of massaging art beautifully ladies' faces for parques 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 S John H. Braxton REAL ESTATE & LOANS Private Banker and Broker, Loans negotiated on Real Estate, Interest allowed on Deposits, Estates managed, Rent collected and prompt returns Special attention to repairs. Notary With Seal. Established 1892. SMITH'S BUSINESS COLLEG LYNCHBURG, VA. COURSES: Phonographic, Commercial, Penning English, Electric wiring, Civil Engineering. No Vacation. Instruction Through... Positions Se cured. Correspondence. Sollicited. Send 2c for particulars. Address: T. P. SMITH, A. R. President STRAUS' SPECIAL Old Yacht Club. PURE WHISKEY Will Satisfy the lover of the right kind of stimulant. Special prices. We have all grades of good liquors, Cigars and Tobacco. Call and see us. ISAAC STRAUS & CO., 422 E. Broad St., Richmond, Virginia S. W. ROBINSON NO. 23 NORTH 18TH ST FINE WINES, LIQUORS CIGARS, &c. All Stock Sold as Guaranteed. PROMPT ATTENTION Your patronage is respectfully solicited. —Subscribe to the Richmond, Va. PLANET. $1.50 per year. GEORGE O. BROWN, PHOTOGRAPHER, 603 N. 2nd St., Richmond, Va. Fine Photographs. Trust to Life. High-class service. Latest Improvements in Photographic Out-door Work executed. Reasonable Estimates and Prompt Service. Pictures Enlarged from Md negative or Photographs. $50 THE ECONOMY 303-5 North Third St FINE TAILORING. CLEANING, DYEING AND REPAIRING CHITMAN M. WHITE, PROPRIETOR. A. Hayes First-class Hacks and Caskets of all da descriptions. I have a spare room for boc les 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 wrested or indicted. Phone, 2778. THE PLANET SATURDAY.....OCT. 19, 1907. STORIES OF CAMP AND WAR "JEB" STUART'S LAST BATTLE. Story of a Heroic Commander's Fight with Custer's Cavalry. "The most brilliant charge I ever witnessed was made by Custer at the battle of the Yellow Tavern," said an old confederate cavalryman at the recent reunion in Richmond. "It was near the beginning of what historians now call the Wilderness campaign. "I was with Jeb stuart, Gen. Fitz Lee's division, Wickham's brigade, and Phil Sheridan's troops were hanging on us like a pack of hungry wolves, nipping us at every turn. We had been marching and fighting pretty steadily more than two weeks with mighty little rest. "We left Hanover Junction about one o'clock one night and reached Yellow Tavern about ten o'clock the next morning. You know, Sheridan was not one to let grass grow under his feet when there was any fighting to be done and when he was matched against Jeb Stuart it was nip and tuck. "We hadn't more than halted at the tavern when up comes Sheridan and tries to drive us out. It was a pretty tough struggle, a hand-to-hand fight, and we fell back from the tavern, but held our position on the telegraph road leading to Richmond. I was with the battery on the extreme left wing and it was about two o'clock in the afternoon when orders came for the whole division, excepting the First Virginia, to dismount but hold their positions. "It did seem good, I can tell you, after so many hours in the saddle to stretch out on the ground and take a smoke; that is, all who had anything to smoke. There was just one plipeful among that whole battery,and the boy who owned it passed it down the line, and each man took his turn puffing at it. "When it was gone we all began to speculate on what deviltry Sheridan would be up to next, and how Jeb Stuart would head him off. It wasn't long before some fellow wished for a drink of water. "You know how it is, when one man wishes for water the whole company begins to swear they are dying of thirst. Jack Saunders and I A man running away from a man holding a ball. "We Dashed Back to the Battery on the Dead Run." took a bunch of canteens and started over the hill to a spring that he had seen that morning during our scrimmage with the Yanks. "I was on my hands and knees over the spring when I heard Saunders' grunt of surprise. He was staring through the trees. "There, only a few hundred yards away, was a considerable body of cavalry. Making sure that it was our right wing, I wondered to see them mounted and in ranks. Just then the voice of an officer rang out 'Cavalry! Attention! Draw sabers!' "The entire line moved forward at a quick walk, and as the officer wheeled his horse I saw his face. It was Custer!" The situation came to Saunders and me like a flash. We threw down the canteens and started back to the battery on a dead run. "Trot!' Custer's voice rang out again. The next instant he shouted: 'Charge!' "With wild cheers his cavalry dashed forward in a sweeping gallop, attacking our entire left wing at the same time. We saw out battery taken, our line broken and our men running like sheep. "Saunders and I had but one thought, to join our fleeing company. As we reached the telegraph road above the din of the battle I heard Jeb Stuart's voice. "There he was making a stand with a handful of men around him. Thank God. I had sense enough left to join them. "It seemed but a moment before Custer's troops were coming back as fast as they had gone forward. They had met the First Virginia. We greeted them with the rebel yell and our last round. "Jeb Stuart cheered us on, ah, how he cheered us! I gave them my last shot and was following with my weapon on clubbed when I saw a man, who had been dismounted and was running out, turn as he passed our rally and fire his pistol. "Jeb Stuart swayed in his saddle. It was only for a moment, then his voice rang out cheering his struggling troops. The enemy rallied just across the road and fired a volley into the little band gathered about Jeb Stuart. His horse sprang forward with a scream of agony and sank down on its knees. As we lifted the general off the young officer who was helping me exclaimed: "My God, general, you are wounded! Your clothes are soaked with blood! You must leave the field, sirl." "No,' Gen. Stuart answered, 'I will not leave until victory is assured. Get me another horse.' "When I returned with the horse he was seated with his back against a tree, and when he tried to get up, weakened by loss of blood, he sank back again." "Go,' he commanded us. 'I am done for. Fitz Lee needs every man. I order you to go.' "We cannot obey that order, general," the young officer told him, and I'll never forget the look that came over his face as he faced the general. "We must carry you to a place of safety, however the battle goes." "It must not go against us," Stuart replied, and the thought seemed to put fresh vigor in his body. "You must put me on my horse and keep me there. My men must not know that I am wounded." "We hurried him on his horse, and mounting our own we held him in his saddle. When the tide of the battle turned, supported between us, he made a last effort to rally his fleeing troops. "Go back, men!" he cried. "Go back, men! Go back and do your duty!" "We felt him sway in his saddle. The young officer turned in the horses' heads to the rear and we carried our fainting general from the field, still holding him upright in the saddle. That was Stuart's last battle and Custer's most brilliant charge." THE REAL SPY. Facts Concerning One of the Characters in Cooper's Story. Next month, in Cooperstown, N. Y., will be held a week's centennial literary celebration in honor of James Fenimore Cooper. To those who hold the author's works in beloved memory the following account of one of his characters may prove interesting. The description is taken from an article by Mr. Miller, entitled "A Spy of the Neutral Ground," published in the New England Magazine. The chief interest of the "Spy" centers about the figure of Harvey Birch, who plays his part in the book as one of the prominent spies of the revolution. At the time the novel was published, in 1821, there was much speculation in regard to this hero, and to this day the world at large regards Birch as a creature of pure fiction. The character, however, was taken from the living fact. Enoch Crosby was born in a Massachusetts village in 1750. Soon after his birth his family removed to Carmel, N. Y., where the boy grew up to be a cordwainer, or shoemaker. He was a pronounced Whig, and when the revolution began, took active service. Westchester county, New York, was called "The Neutral Ground," as it lay between the opposing armies. It was a region of disorder, ravaged by renegades and refugees who laid waste the land. As Cooper makes one of his characters say, "The law of the Neutral Ground is the law of the strongest." "It was to capture a party of such marauders that Paulding, William and Van Wart were lurking when they surprised Andre. Enoch Crosby, an intelligent, reticent young man of 27, was crossing this tract at one time when he met a man who took him for a Tory, and invited him to his house, where was gathered a company of royalists. The cordwainer remained until he had possession of a store of Tory secrets. Then he made his way to White Plains, where he told his story to John Jay, who at that time was a member of the committee of safety. This was the beginning of Crosby's career as a spy. Finding that the young man had special aptitude for the service, Washington advanced him, until he became one of the most important agents in secret work. He led a life of sacrifice and danger, and from the various parts he had to play without explanation, was distrusted by his friends. When the war was over, John Jay asked congress for an appropriation in recognition of Crosby's valuable services. This was granted, but to Jay's astonishment, Crosby refused to accept it. "It was not for gold I served my country," he said. "The country has need of all its means. I can gain a livelihood in various ways." Enoch Crosby lived the rest of his days in Carmel, where he became one of the leading men of the town. In 1827 he visited New York city. Cooper's romance of the "Spy" was then filling the theater, and the old patriot went to see the play. He was recognized, introduced to the audience as the real spy, and received a tremendous ovation. Went Hamp Twice NEWARK, N. Y. Oct. 8.-Wayne county Republicans have renominated Edson W. Hamm of Lyons for member of assembly. THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA Fads In Dlet. So many dietetic schemes have been urged on what have been claimed to be scientific reasons, and have proved themselves in practice to be unsatisfactory, that not a few practitioners refuse to listen to any discussion on the specific values of foodstuffs outside the teachings of practical experience.—London Hospital. Considerate. "Brethren," said Rev. Mr. Goodman, bringing his sermon to a close when scarcely half way through it. "it is too hot this morning for me to preach and for you to listen. We will sing 'From Greenland's Icy Mountains,' omitting all but the first stanza, and be dismissed." Loyal. Tommy Atkins (to colonel, who has brought him to see a memorial brass in the church to those of his regiment who fell in a late war)—Well, sr, if I'd a known your name weren't a going to be amongst 'em, blest if I'd have subscribed a penny to the thing!—Punch. The First Trousers Pockets were one of the great sartorial objections urged against trousers, and an English writer on male fashions 80 years ago declared: "No pockets can be tolerated on any account whatever; they make a man look like a Yankee." English Modesty It is not the habit of the average English gentleman to brag of his benefactions, of anything attempted or done, and, as a rule, he is a most disconcerted person when his left hand discovereth what his right hand doeth—Motor World. Savings of Childhood A little girl of three years was given a bag of peanuts by her father. She helped herself to one and being unable to break the shell, she said: "Papa, will you please unbutton this peanut for me?"—Chicago Tribune. Plain Language from H. James It is observable, I think, the world over, writes Henry James in Harper's Bazar, that the poor are kinder to the poor, in proportion, than the rich themselves are, or even than the rich are to the rich. WILL Never Press Like Men "Will women ever dress like men?" asks a New York reformer. No. Even if they wore trousers they would want to put them on by poking their heads up through from under.—Chicago Record-Herald. Keep Out Dust Tack a piece of cheesecloth over the screen in your pantry window and see how much dust you can keep out; wash the cloth when needed. Large Crop from Acre. An acre of rich land in the parts of Central America suitable for raising that fruit will yield about 26,000 bananas in a year. Cruelty of Mothers "Talking about the funds raised to train mothers to take care of their sick children," said the woman, "something ought to be done in the way of showing them how to treat their well ones. Yesterday I saw a woman sit her child down hard on the seat by her in the car and pinch him. He was so little. He tried hard not to cry. It was all I could to keep from getting up right there and pinching her." Good Husband to Have She was telling a circle of sympathetic friends about the burglar scare in her home. "Yes," she said, "I heard a noise, so I got up at once. There, under the bed, I saw a man's legs sticking out." "Good gracious!" exclaimed one of the ladies. "The burglar's legs?" "No, my dear; my husband's legs. He had heard the noise, too!" Knew Little of Geography. In South Africa a Chinese laborer is undergoing imprisonment for theft and desertion from the Johannesburg mines. During his trial he informed the magistrate that he left his work with the intention of walking home from Africa to China, and that he hoped to reach it by following the railway line. Maltese Fish Boys In Malta, a fish boy, who sells the fish his father catches, carries a big basket on his back and in his hands two round flat basins, one of which he balances upon his head. Gradually his burden lightens and finally he tosses his empty basins into his emptied basket and stops to play on his way home. Umbrellas as Magnets. Umbrellas of modern make, said Prof. Silvanus Thompson, in his latest lecture at the Royal Institution, are very magnetic, says Home Notes. A person standing outside the shop window of an optician and holding such an umbrella would see the needles of the compasses begin to move. Man of Many Titles The duke of Wellington leads in the matter of foreign titles, of which he has 15. One-third of them were bestowed on his ancestor, the famous duke, by foreign governments. He is a prince in the Netherlands, a duke in Spain, a count and also a marquis and a duke in Portugal. Value Visits of Americans The Northwestern railway in England has constructed a $100,000 special train for the benefit of Americans. It is a fresh indication that England has become their pleasure ground and their custom a source of national wealth. 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 Honrs—Hot or Cold. Board by Day, Week or Month. SOFT DRINKS. POLITE ATTENTION.....GIVE ME A CALL. Mme. SYLVIA L. MITCHELL, Proprietress. have been originally a religious act. In the turn of the dice was supposed by the primitive peoples to be the answer of the gods to their prayers. There was no element of chance involved. Graduated Plunder The rich ought to pay what it costs to defend their liberty and property— no more and no less. The poor ought to pay the same. Justice for both; favor for neither. Graduated plunder is unjust—London Liberty Review. Criticism of Women of Fashion Bishop Williams, of Michigan, speaking to a New York congregation, said: "The body of many a woman of fashion is often no more to her than the dummy in the milliner's window—merely the lay figure on which display her gowns, fashioned after the latest designs set for the demimondale of Paris." Flowers and Trees Flowers are so small, so easily cultivated, so brilliant, so personal, that they have gained almost more than their share of human attention, while their elder sisters, the trees, keep their unobtrusive estate and minister untidily to our comfort with little praise or recognition.—Carmen Giving Pleasure We never miss an opportunity of giving innocent pleasure, or of helping another soul on the path to God, but we are taking away from ourselves forever what might have been a happy memory, and leaving in its place a remorse.—Frances Power Cobble. Advice Worth the Money Advice is costly. The other day a man with eye trouble paid a fee of $10,000 to the doctor who told him merely to stop smoking. That advice was worth it to the patient, and he paid it gladly, for he recovered his sight. Robbie Had It. Little Robbie, aged four years, came into the, sitting room with his apron turned up in front to show the heads of five half-grown kittens in a row around his walst. "See, mamma, I've got a whole category," he said. The Grace of Memory Let us not lose the savor of past mercies and past pleasures; but like the voice of a bird singing in the rain, let grateful memory survive in the hour of darkness.—R. L. Stephenson. Getting Points "It's just as well before you marry a girl," remarked the observer of events and things. "to take her out on the golf links and see how she can handle a club." -Yonkers Statesman Giving Him a Hard Task Instructor in Public Speaking— What is the matter with you, Mr. Brown? Can't you speak any louder? Be more enthusiastic. Open your mouth and throw yourself into it! Enormous Cost of the British Navy. It is estimated that the total first cost of England's present navy was $670,000,000, and about $380,000,000 have been spent in the last ten years. The Attraction "Brown and his wife seem to be very fond of musical comedy?" "Yes, indeed; his wife goes to see what the women in the audience have on, and Brown goes to see what the girls on the stage have off."—Life Faith Shattered "I don't believe in that doctor." "Why?" "He didn't tell me everything I wanted to eat was bad for me."—Chicago Record Herald. A. Wrong Impression Dr. Slasher—With doctors, you know, it is live and learn. She—Oh! Why. I had an idea it was operate and learn.—Puck. Treasurer Robbed of $5,000. ATLANTA, Ga., Oct. 8. A report from Pell City says that County Treasurer Williamson was held up there and robbed of $5,000. Everthing! IN FURN FLOOR SCENIC ROUTE ROUTE TO THE WEST TRAINS LEAVE RICHMOND, MAIN STREET STATION, EASTBOUND. 6:00 A. M. Fast daily trains to Newport 9:00 A. M. New Old Point, Norfolk and P. M. Expedition. All trains carry Pull- 4:25 P. M. Man or Parlor cars. 10:00 A. M.-Daily-Charleston, Columbus and Toledo. Pallman Sleeper to Toledo via Gaudley and Ohio Central Lines. 2:00 P. M. Daily. Louisville, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis. Through Lines. 11:00 P. M. Pallman Sleeperes. 7:25 A. M.-Week Day-Clifton Forge. Chicago-Charlestville. 5:15 P. M. Week Days-Local to Orange. JAMES RIVER LINE. 10:20 A. M.-Daily-Lynchburg, Lexington, Va., and Clifton Forge. 5:15 P. M.-Week Days-To Lynchburg. Sleeper Natural Bridge and Clifton Forge. TRAINS ARRIVE RICHMOND From the East-9:10 A. M., 9:30 A. M., 11:45 A. 7:00 P. M., 8:00 P. M., 10:30 P. M. Main L. River, 8:30 A. M., 7:30 A. M. $8:30 A. M., 4:15 P. M., 7:45 P. M. River Lines, $8:40 A. M., 7:30 P. M. Daily R. F & P Richmond, Freder icksburg and Pote M—Daily—Main Street. Through. NOTE—Allman Sleeping or Porsche cars on all above streets, most local accommodations. All trains to and from Byrd Street Station stop at Elba. N & W. NORFOLK & WESTERN ONLY ALL RAIL LINE TO NORFOLK Leave Byrd Street Station, Richmond. In effect July 14, 1907. FOR NORFOLK-725 A.M. m. daily; 6:00 A.M. 8:00 A.M. m. daily; 6:00 A.M. 8:10 A.M. m and 7:00 P.M. m. Sunday 8:10 A.M. m and 7:00 P.M. m. Sunday NORFOLK, THE WEST AND SOUTH WEST-9:00 P.M. except Sunday; 8:10 A.M. Sunday only; 12:10 P.M. except Sunday; ARRIVE: RICHMOND—From Norfolk; 11:00 A.M. and 10:40 P.M. m. Except Sunday; 11:15 A.M. and 9:45 P.M. m. Sunday only. Bain Partor and Sleeping Cars. Cafe Dining Cars. W, B, REVIL ATLANTIC COAST LINE TRAINS LEAVE RICHMOND DAILY. For Florida and South: 8:15 A. M. 12:55 P. M. For Florida and North: *8:15 A. M. *2:00 A. M. *3:00 P. M. and 6:00 P. M. For N. and W. Ry. West: *8:10 A. M. For Peterburg: *6:00 A. M. *2:00 A. M. *12:10 *8:00. *3:28 P. M. 6:00, 9:00 P. M. 7:25 and 11:50. For Goldboro and Fayetteville: *8:28 P. M. Trains arrive Richmond daily: 6:25, 7:40 A. M. *8:35. *10:45 and *11:40 A. M. *1:27, 2:05 *8:50, 8:50 and 10:40 P. M. Time of arrival and departures and connec- tions not guaranteed. As Graded. Customer—Give me a pound of butter. Grocer's Boy—What kind of butter? Customer—How many kinds have you? Grocer's Boy—Three—eatin', cookin' and greasin'—Chicago Daily News. Might Be Worse. "I'm in a bad way," wailed the prisoner at the bar to the judge, "I have been deserted by my lawyer." "Cheer up, old man," said the court. "It might be worse. You know he may come back to you."—Detroit Free Press. unfitting the separated and bring the lost back the one. Traces lost or stolen goods. Unearths hilder treasures. Removes evil influences Crosses, Spells, Ill Luck, cures tricks and Conjurations, gives Luck and Success in all you undertake. Cures the Tobacco and Liquor Habits. Allows the Captive to be set Free. The only one that will give a Written guarantee to complete your business and fund your money Are you sick? Do you know what the trouble is with you? Come and Consult Nature's Doctor. PROF. D. D. BRUCE. M. D. Rheumatism, Insomnia, Hysteria and all Diseases cured. Points given on Horse Racing and all Games of Chance. Strange, Wonderful It Tale are the The Great Australian Modum PBOF. D. D. BRUCE. M. D. the only Living Apostle of Science of the Mysteries. $5000 in Gold to any one in the World to compete with him. Possessing more than any four medulla combined. He will tell you whom you will marry. Will you be happy? He will tell you who your friends and enemies can. Can you tell? Don't take a leap in life, but be advised by this wonderful man. Greatest Prophet in existence. No card, trance or hand humbug Greatest Hindoo Medium in the World. He always Succeeds when others fail. This is the chance of a life time. Don't let it pass you. Office hours: &t. M. SO GREAT IS HIS POWER that we can tell you while in a Clairvoyant state, all you wish to know with out a word being spoken. Come, all ye unbelievers, scoffers and jeers; bring all your skepticism with you—he will open your eyes to the private chamber mystery. Come all ye broken hearted wives, all with low spirits and let him lift the burden from your aching and jealous heart. He challenges the World to compete with him in causing a speedy marriage with the one you love: Sunday: 2:30 to 7:30 P. M. N. B. Our consultation Fee is 50 cents. Sittings, $1.00. All letters containing $1.00 will be answered in full. Mechanics' Savings Bank OF RICHMOND, VA. 511 NORTH THIRD STREET. in deposit and interest paid on a which remains 60 days and over. Satisfactory Security. Handled Promptly. ats and upwards received on deposit up in the most improved style, having a large hest, electric lights and every modern conven- tion of the public. ing Stocks, Deposits, Loans, etc., apply to the arranged for the special convenience of the work to 4 P. M., Saturdays, 9 A. M. to 8 P. We seen again at 5 P. M., remaining open; until ? work. Money received on deposit and amounts above $1.00 which remains 60 Money Loaned on Satisfactory Se Business Accounts Handled Prom Amounts of ten cents and upward This establishment is fitted up in the most im- white vault, burlar-proof steel chest, electric light ence for safety and the accommodation of the pub For all information concerning Stocks, Deposit Oashier. Banking Hours have been arranged for the spe ing people as follows: 9 A.M. to 4 P.M. Saturday close Saturday at 3 P.M. Men 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, burlar-proof steel chest, electric lights and every modern convenience for safety and the accommodation of the public. For all information concerning Stocks, Deposits, Loans, etc., apply to the Oashier. Banking Hours have been arranged for the special convenience of the work people as follows: 9 A.M. to 4 P.M. Saturdays, 9 A.M. to 8 P.M. We close Saturday at 3 P.M. and open again at 5 P.M., remaining open until 9 P.M. Call by as you come from work. OFFICERS JOHN MITCHELL, JR., President. H. F., THON, H. WYATT, Gas BOARD OF DIRECTOR REV. W. F. GRAHAM, D. D., JNO. R. CHILD. E. R. JEFFERSON H. F. JONATHAN, J. O. FARLEY JNO. E. A. WASHINGTON, R. W. WHITING, WILLI JOHN MITCHELL, JR. PRES. THON The J. V. Hawkin's Ident. H. F. JONATHAN, Vice-President. S. H. WYATT, Cashier. RD OF DIRECTORS: J. NO. R. CHILES, B. P. VANDERVALL, JONATHAN, THOMAS SMITH D. J. CHAVERE, JNO. C. TAYLOR, WHITING, WILL AM CUSTALO, J. J. CARTER, RES. THOMAS M. CRUMP, SEC'X. JOHN MITCHELL, JR., President. H. F. JONATHAN, Vice-President. THOS, H. WYATT, Cashier. BROOKLYN, NY. The J. V. Hawkin's HAIR GROWER & RESTORER The J. V. Hawkin's HAIR GROWER & RESTORER [TRADE MARK REGISTERED.] Has proved to be a fortune to many of the unfortunates, who are to-day delighted with its wonderful results. The merits of this great hair preparation naturally places it in a sphere all of its own, and the glowing terms in which our patrons speak of it reassures us of its satisfactory results. We can well boast of a large patronage throughout this and other States and also enjoys the commendation of the very best white and colored people in this immediate community. In order to convince the most skeptical readers of the merits and results of the J. V. Hawkin's Hair Grower and Restoreer we will from time to time produce in print the photographs of those giving us permission to do so, who have used our preparation, and are among the many bearing witness of its genuine quail correspondence of those expecting a miracle or anything is a natural and pure compound, the ingredient hesitate to put in print. We will just here remind States Government has placed national patent right which it is protected and we are in turn responsible est methods and square dealings. It will positively remove Bandruff, Cure Scalp of all impurities, Restore Hair on Clean Temples or Bald Heads, where the roots are not dead. Pressure-25 cts. per box; eight boxes, $2.50 express ppaid. The Face Beautifier makes the use of powder entirely unnecessary, and is perfectly harmless. Sale prices; 25, 50 cts and $1.00. Money can be sent by Post Office Money Order or Express Money Order A charge of 10cents extra is imposed on all out of city orders. Address all communications to MME. J. V. HAWKINS, 612 N. First Street, PHONE, 4601. Correspondence strictly confidential. to day less of its genuine qualities. We do not desire the rag a miracle or anything unreasonable. Our prepa- apound, the ingredients of which we won't just here remind the public that the United national patent rights on our hair preparation by in turn responsible to the government for hon- druff, Cure Scalp Clean Tangles among the many bearing witness of its genuine qualities. We do not desire the correspondence of those expecting a miracle or anything unreasonable. Our preparation is a natural and pure compound, the ingredients of which we would not hesitate to put in print. We will just here remind the public that the United States Government has placed national patent rights on our hair preparation by which it is protected and we are in turn responsible to the government for honest methods and square dealings. It will positively remove Bandruff, Cure Scalp of all impurities, Restore Hair on Clean Temples or Bald Heads, where the roots are not dend. PRICES; -$2 cts. per box; eight boxes; $3.80 express prepaid. The Face Beautifier makes the use of powder entirely unnecessary, and is perfectly harmless. Sale prices; 25, 50cts and $1.00. Money can be sent by Post Office Money Order or Express Money Order. A charge of 10cts, extra is imposed on all out of city orders. A. D. PR Funeral Director, Embalmer All orders promptly filled at short notice by Halls rented for meetings and nice entertain- ment with all necessary conveniences. Large p- hire at reasonable rates and nothing but first- etc. Keeps constantly on hand fine funeral su- No. 212 East Leigh Residence Next Door OPEN ALL DAY & NIGHT.—M PRICE, Embalmer and Liveryman. It shortnotice by telegraph or telephone. and nice entertainments. Plenty of room nices. Large plank or band wagons for nothing but first-class carriages, buggies, and fine funeral supplies. 2 East Leigh Street. Residence Next Door. NIGHT.—Man on Duty All Night A. D. PRICE, Funeral Director, Embalmer and Liveryman. All orders promptly filled at shortnotice by telegraph or telephone. Halls rented for meetings and nice entertainments. Plenty of room with all necessary conveniences. Large plasic or band wagons for hire at reasonable rates and nothing but first-class carriages, buggies, etc. Keeps constantly on hand fine funeral supplies. OPEN ALL DAY & NIGHT.—Man on Duty All Night W. I. JOHNSON FUNERAL DIRECTOR AND EMBALMER Office & Warerooms, 207 N. Foushee St. Corner Broad HACKS FOR HIRE: Officer by Telephone or Telegraph filled. Wedding, Suppers and Entertainments promptly attended. 686, Residence in Building, New Phone, M. [Portrait of a man in a military uniform, surrounded by foliage]. MARIA MAYER 'Phone, 577. No matter what asks you, come and see this wonderful man. Reader have you noticed that some people have a hard time to get along, no matter how they toll, while others have success. Many wealth-men and women owe their success to this wonderful man. MAIN OFFICE: 510 S. 8th St., Philadelphia, Pa. Now is the time. Send your advertisement to the PLANET and look pleasant. Capital. $25,000 SEVEN 1860 Richmond, Va EIGHT HEY PLANET SATURDAY.....OCT. 19. 1907 The Story of a Long Journey. (Continued from First Page.) give these employment agents the "slip." Sometimes other employment agents will coax them away offering them more-money. HOW THEY LOSE THEM We have been told that men start out with 15 laborers would find only 5, when they reached their destination. The one in the smoking car with us was in a talkative mood. "Yes," said he, "I am going to Johnson City, Tenn. and if I don't like, I won't stay there. I will hobo my way back even if I have no money. Yes I've had hard luck sometimes. I live at South Boston. I went out once with a labor agent from Danville named Reynolds. He carried the men to West Virginia. RIDING FREIGHT TRAINS I hadn't been there no time before I found out that the place didn't suit me. No, it was not like I expected to find it. I can't say that he deceived us but it ddn't suit, and I took a freight. Riding on a freight isn't so easy, but I can do it. Yes, we ride the rods sometimes. I saw tramps who carried boards until they were right slick. The new cars didn't have those rods anymore. KIND TO HOBOS Where do I ride? I usually get into a freight car if the door is open or on top. Down here, they make you get off. Up in New York, nothing is thought of a man's getting in a freight. They think no more of it than a man does, who gives you a lift on a wagon or dray. But, they'll do you if you beat your way on a passenger train. If you are caught, you'll get six months flat. They'll do that anywhere in the country. ON PASSENGER TRAINS I'm no hobo, you know. I am a working man, but I strike hard luck sometimes. Beating your way on a passenger train is 'dead easy.' I ride on the 'blind' of a Pullman. What do I mean by that? I mean on the steps right at the vestibule. All you have to do is to watch out when the train enters the station and jump off before it gets in as there are policemen there on the lookout. I don't ride passenger trains anymore. I take the freight for mine. LANDED ON HIS HEAD : I was with a friend going to Danville and just as we were entering the yards at North Danville, we spied a policeman. The train was going fast. I called on my partner to jump. He wouldn't. I jumped and my head struck in the frog of the track. I was almost senseless. I laid about there all day, stupid-like and I could barely move. I finally got all right. The other fellow was caught and he got six months in jail flat. I heard that this was so and I met him afterwards and he told me. OF GOOD PARENTAGE I come of good parents. I have two sisters. They teach school. My people live at South Boston, Va. No one who would see them and then see me now would think that I am any kin to them. He was in a meditative mood now and the devil-may-care look gave way to one of sober melancholy. He began dis cussing questions with Dr. Lewis and showed a very active intellect and some culture. What is your name?" was our query. "William Wright," was his reply. He was puffing away at a cigarette now, but long after we left him and his gang of co-laborers, we remembered his interesting recital of a hobo's life. AT MAX MEADOWS Reaching Max Meadows, several miles below Pulaski, we were met by a jovial crowd. Foremost among them was Mr. J. F. Bentley. We were placed in a buggy with Br. Lewis holding the reins, while the owner with lantern in hand piloted us up the mountain side. At times the horse was away above and the buggy swinging behind. Sometimes we felt as though we would be turned upside down. But we finally reached the residence of Mr. Wright and a supper was heartily enjoyed. We spoke that night, as we seldom speak. We forgot the fatigue and we forgot about Dr. J. Alexander Lews' misfortune. THOSE OVERCOATS IN RICH MOND. He left three over-coats in Richmond he said, and had wondered why we went to the trouble to bring ours. No one who saw him drawn up that night with his teeth wellnigh chattering could have but sympathized with him for he had three overcoats—in Richmond. He begged some one to lend him an overcoat and the kind hearted residents responded for that night. He was wrapped up to his ears in some- body's outer garment, and he was happy. ON TO BRISTOL We left Wednesday morning for Bristol, Virginia or Tennessee, just as you like to have it. A good natured, but blustering conductor was aboard. Breakfast was brought aboard for him and the brakeman, and he proceeded to grumble about the repast. He was of the opinion that if the chicken had not been killed this week, it might have died next week of old age. THE CONDUCTOR'S QUERIES Finally an aged colored man came aboard with his two daughters. One lived in Washington and she was carrying the family with her. "Are you going away to get married?" asked the conductor of the old man. He laughed heartily and before a reply could be made his daughter's flashed. "No," said she, "he is not so keen to see him, have he to support him now and one is nough for me." Every body laughed. AN AMUSING SITUATION But still that conductor asked the question as he passed through the coach and the old man gave a furtive glance at his daughter as he laughingly answered, "Naw, sir," to the queries of that conductor. We reached Bristol and Mr. J. J. Franklin met us with a rubber-tired carriage. He with Dr. E. O. Woodward and Mr. Brown constituted a committee for this purpose. We were soon safely and comfortably located at the hostelry of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Hardy. They had only been in business at this place three weeks. We were soon in bed where even dreams did not disturb us. We were fagged out and forgetfulness and complete oblivion were our portion. A CALL TO DINNER The call to dinner aroused us and after much stretching, in company with Dr. J. Alexander Lewis, we went to the dining room and enjoyed dinner with Dr. E. O. Wood- M. Dr. J. Franklin and Dr. Brown. M. Dr. Wood has been indisposed for some time and he has given an house-keeping DR. C. I. WITHROW HERE TOO $W_{0}$ were surprised to see the picture of Rev, Dr. C. I. Withrow at the Hardy Hotel. He boards there. He was formerly located at Staunton. We did not meet him as he had left the night before for the General Conference. A carriage drive was on the programme and we saw all that there was to be seen of Bristol, Virginia and Bristol, Tennessee from a rubber tired carriage. PECULIAR CONDITIONS The state line is in the middle of the main street. At one time, we were told that we were riding in Tennessee, while Mr. J. J. Franklin at our side was taking a journey in Virginia. The prohibitionists have made Bristol, Va. dry and they have succeeded in carrying Bristol, Teenna the same way. The law will go into effect in the last named place Nov. 1st, 1907. MUCH INTERESTED All that one has to do is to cross over into Tennessee in order to get whiskey. At the present time Tennessee is most popular with the "good time" folks who seem to be making the most of the days of grace allowed them. Dr. Lewis was much interested in the Tennessee side and seemed to enjoy spending what time he had within the confines of another state. But then one of his eyes was troubling him and there were drug-stores on the Tennessee side of the street. A CHANGE-AT THE LAST MOMENT. We were to leave for Big Stone Gap, but an answer to a telegram sent that morning made the trip unnecessary. It stopped after we had purchased our tickets and were about to take the train on the Virginia and Southwestern Railroad. Mr. J. J. Franklin remained with us until 5:30 P. M. Wednesday evening and he gave Dr. Lewis a bottle of the best medicine for his sore eye and we were soon enroute to Ridgemont. The trip was without incident and we reached our home city a few minutes before 8 o'clock, tired but much benefited by our long journey which had covered nearly a thousand miles. $150.00 Endowment Paid. Richmond, Va., Oct. 12, 1907. This is to certify that I have received from John Mitchell, Jr., Grand Chancellor of the Grand Lodge of Virginia, Knights of Pythias, N. A., S. A., E., A., A. and A., ($150.00) One Hundred and Fifty Dollars in payment of the death- claim of Sir George Thomas who was a member of Valley Lodge, No. 73, Richmond, Va. Signed—J. Thomas Hewin Administrator. $150.00 Endowment Paid Richmond, Va., Oct. 12, 1907. This is to certify that I have received from John Mitchell, Jr. Grand Chancellor of the Grand Lodge of Virginia, Knights of Pythias, N. A., S. A., E., A. a. and A. ($150.00) One Hundred and Fifty Dollars in payment of the deathclaim of James Morris, who was a member of Olympia Lodge, No. 49 of Clifton Forge, Va. Signed—Lizzie Morris, Beneficlary. $100.00 Endowment Paid. Richmond, Va., Oct. 12, 1907. This is to certify that I have received from John Mitchell, Jr., Grand Worthy Counsellor of the THE RICHMOND PLANET. RICHMOND. VIRGINIA MILLER'S HOTEL W.M.MILLER. PROPRIETOR WITHIN ONE BLOCK OF STREET CAR LINES THAT TAKE YOU TO ALL PARTS OF THE CITY TERMS REASONABLE SECOND AND LEIGH STS. RICHMOND, VA. Hat Repairing. Silk, Stiff and Soft Felt Hats Cleaned. Blocked 25cts. and 50cts. Binding. Bands, Sweat Leathers, also Soft Hats made to order. AMERICAN HATTERS, 404 E. Marshall St. INVESTORS ARE NOW OFFERED GREAT OPPORTUNITIES FIFTY DOLLARS or more can be placed in a way to bring a return of at least TEN PER CENT. For further information, address, GREAT OPPORTUNITIES FIFTY DOLLARS or more can be placed in a way to bring a return of at least TEN PER CENT. For further information, address. ROBT. W. TAYLOR. Investment Securities. 35 Broad St., N "IN THE HEART OF THE WALL ST. DINWIDDIE AGRICULTURAL & IN SCHOOL INCORPORATED. Di ADVANCED AND ELEMENTARY in the Enlish Branches. Special agriculture and Domestic Science. Next Session begins October 1st. For information, address, J. M. COLS Broad St., New York City. THE WALL ST. DISTRICT." NURAL & INDUSTRIAL RATED, Dinwiddie, Va. ELEMENTARY COURSES s. Special courses in Agc Science. 12 instructors. ber 1st. For circulars and Investment Securities. 35 Broad St., New York City. "IN THE HEART OF THE WALL ST. DISTRICT." DINWIDDIE AGRICULTURAL & INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL INCORPORATED. Dinwidde. Va. ADVANCED AND ELEMENTARY COURSES in the Enlish Branches. Special courses in Agriculture and Domestic Science. 12 instructors. Next Session begins October 1st. For circulars and information, address, J. M. COLSON, Supt. Dinwiddie, Va. celved from John Mitchell, Jr. Grand Chancellor of the Grand Lodge of Virginia, Knights of Pythias, N. A., S. A., E., A., A., and A. ( $150.00 ) One Hundred and Fifty Dollars in payment of the death claim of Adolphus Taylor, who was a mem ber of Royal Lodge, No. 26, of Rich- mond, Va. Signed—W. I., Johnson, Assignee. Witness: B. L. Jordan. Notice! Mr. O. H. Murray, formerly in charge of The Richmond office of the Metropolitan Mercantile and Realty Company, has been transferred to the Delaware District. Rev. T. A. Carter has been appointed State Agent for Virginia, with headquarters at 210 East Broad Street, Richmond All payments on stock and bonds, must be made to him, and all agents in Virginia must report to Rev. T. A. Carter. Beneficiary. Witnesses: Lucy Jones. Hattle Smith. o All payments must be made in Virginia mu Carter. (signed) sept164t. (signed) L. C. COLLINS, Secretary. sept164 Nelson's Hair Dressing can be bought at Jennings and Brown Drug Store, Pittsburg, Pa. Special Excursions Via Southern Railway for Occasions Indicated Below. Birmingham, Ala — International League of Press Clubs. Tickets on sale October 19th and 20th. Tickets for the above occasions will be sold at very low rates, open to the public. For details inquire of nearest Southern Railway Agent, or C. W. WESTBURY, District Passenger Agent. I desire to know the address of one Neil (or Neal) Henderson also Pollie (nee) Henderson. Their mother belonged to Bob Fearly (or Fairly) all of Richmond forty years ago. Their sister, Hannah Henderson, (now Neil) is very anxious to locate her people. She left Richmond when a child. Address all communications to H. ALLISON, Box 353, McAlester, Ind. Ter 3t E. M. Canaday,. M. H. Alstou. R. E. Kindred. 3t WANTED—Energetic young ladies to handle Hair-Vim, the best hair grower. No money required Write to-day. COLUMBIA CHEM ICAL CO., Newport News, Va. $8,000 Will be Paid to Colored Heirs. $8,000 awaits relatives who can prove they are the next kin and heirs-at-law of Henry Washington, colored, a body guard in 1860-5 of Ex-Governor Richard Yates of Illinois. Signed—Mildred Johnson, Beneficiary. Witness: John R. Cogbill. $150.00 Endowment Paid. For information, address J. C. ROBERTSON, Attorney-at-Law, True Reformers Building, 604-608 N. 2nd Street, Richmond, Va. --- Grand Court of Virginia, I. O. of Calanthe, ($100.00) One Hundred Dollars in payment of the deathclaim of Mary A. Lane, who was a member of Planet Court, No. 137, of Richmond, Va. Signed—W. L. Taylor, Assignee. $100.00 Endowment Paid. Richmond, Va., Oct. 14, 1907. This is to certify that I have received from John Mitchell, Jr., Grand Worthy Counsellor of the Grand Court of Virginia, I. O. of Calanthe, ($100.00) One Hundred Dollars in payment of the death- claim of Millie Jones, who was a member of Virginia Court, No. 166 of Richmond, Va. her Signed—Sallie J. X Redd, mark Beneficiary. Witnesses: Lucy Jones. Hattle Smith. $100.00 Endowment Paid. Brownsburg, Va., Oct. 9, '07. This is to certify that I have received from John Mitchell, Jr., Grand Worthy Counsellor of the Grand Court of Va., I. O. of Calanthe, ($100.00) One Hundred Dollars in payment of the death claim of Cammie Lyle, who was a member of Star of the Valley Court, No. 87, of Staunton, Va. her Signed—Polly X Lyle, mark Beneficiary Witnesses: R. L. Patterson. Mary S. Patterson. Mrs. R. L. Patterson. Norfolk, Va., Oct. 8, 1907. This is to certify that I have received from John Mitchell, Jr., Grand Chancellor of the Grand Lodge of Va. N. A., S. A., E. A., A. and A. ($150.00) One Hundred and Fifty Dollars in payment of the death claim of Alex McCargo, who was a member of Conway Lodge. No. 25 of Norfolk, Va. Signed—Rosa McCargo Beneficiary. Witnesses: $150.00 Endowment Paid. Richmond, Va., Oct. 10, '07. This is to certify that I have received from John Mitchell, Jr., Grand Chancellor of the Grand Lodge of Va. N. A., S. A., E. A., A. and A., A. ($150.00) One Hundred and Fifty Dollars in payment of the death claim of Sir Edward J. Johnson, who was a member of Royal Lodge, No. 26, Richmond, Va. Richmond, Va., Oct. 11, 1807. This is to certify that I have re- 404 E. Marshall St. Notice! Do You Know Them. KINK·NE 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. Kink-ine Is No Experiment. It was discovered by R. Roberts, a famous English chemist, who has made a study of the scalp of colored people for the past 30 years, and who, after much time and experience, has prepared this great tonic for the colored people. This chemist says that his experience and study have taught him that the scalp of the colored people requires a special treatment and after laboring and testing these many years he has discovered the greatest REMEDY the WORLD has ever known for the HAIR of colored people. KINK-INE will make the hair GROW from one to three inches per month, if the directions and instructions are carefully followed out. We have many cases on record where the above results have been obtained, and we do not hesitate when we make these claims. KINK-INE is the only safe preparation in the world that is guaranteed to make the hair straight and make dry hair smooth and stop it from breaking off and falling out; takes out all the kinks and knots, cures dandruff, makes the hair soft and silky, and by nourishing the roots gives it new life and vigor, restoring it to natural color. Read what Miss Elizabeth Jones of Chicago says of KINK-INE: "My hair was not more than three inches long when I commenced to use Kink-ine, six months ago. I have used it steadily since that date and it has grown on an average of two inches each month and it is now more than fifteen inches long. Besides, my hair has become almost straight and I fully believe by the end of the year I will have the most beautiful head of hair of any colored lady in the world." SPECIAL OFFER—To prove the quality and superiority of our goods over all others, we will sell one full-size bottle of Kink-ine, price 35 cents, one cake of Kink-ine Soap, the best Shampoo and Toilet Soap in the world, price 25 cents, both for only 50 cents, or six bottles and six cakes of soap for $3.00. Special offer good only at the following stores: OWENS & MINOR DRUG CO., Ldt.—Distributors, 1007 E. Main St. Furnished Rooms, 50c. up. Meals, 50c. up. THE M.T. CLEMENS HOTEL AND MINERAL BATH HOUSE AMERICAN AND EUROPEAN PLAN Phone, 245. Has opened its doors for the accommodation of that may come to Mt. Clemens in the future for their It is the only Hotel and Mineral Bath House owned and conducted by a colored man at any of the health resorts in the United States. Write for Special Rates. GEO. I. HUTCHINSON, FROP. 48 Welts St., - Mt. Clemens, Mich. TEACHERS WANTED! We have a large number of applications for colored teachers for rural and graded schools. Six to nine months terms, salaries up to $75.00 per month. Also for private schools matrons, etc. Graduates from Petersburg and Hampton Normal Schools, and those holding First Grade Certificates preferred. Graduates from other schools and those holding Second and Third Grade Certificates will also be accepted. Our applications for teachers, from School Boards are coming in daily.Full particulars upon application. Enclose stamps for reply. Address, Va. Teachers' Co-operative Ass'n. 14 E. 13th St., Manchester, Va. Reference given and required. HOTEL 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. Wants to Find Them I would like to know the whereabouts of some of my people. Lewis Smith, my uncle is of dark brown complexion. When last heard of he was in Arkansas. My aunt, Sallie Anne Thorp married a Spaniard some years ago. I had another aunt named Patsy Thorp. She was sold during slavery and when last heard of was living in Louisiana. Using them information concerning them thankfully received. Address them WANTED-Educated colored woman as matron and instructor of Music and Sewing. Also competent colored girl as Stenographer and Typewriter and colored carpenter to instruct in Carpentry and Build ing. Apply to PROF. W. M. BOLEY, President Lowry Institute, Mayesville, S. C. OSLINE For 12 years the leading preparation on the market for growing, straightening and dressing the hair. READ WHAT OUR CUSTOMERS SAY ABOUT OSLINE! New Haven, Conn. Jan. 19th, 1907. The VENOL COMPANY. Dear Sirs:—Find enclosed money order to the amount of $3.00, for which you one dozen (12) bottles of Oline. Forward to me at once please let I have sold it. I had and have customers waiting for it. Please send at once. Your Agent. MRS. KAY DOLPHIN. 100 Meadow St., New Haven, Conn. Paris Texas, Feb. 9th, 1907. The VENOL Co. Dear Sirs:—I think one dozen bottles in all for the hair. If I will do well I get the order at once for so many have asked for your goods, which I used to be agent for. Be sure to send at once. Yours Kindly, ANNIE T. MOORE. Mannion Colon, Feb. 6th, 1907. To THE VENOL Co., 3104 State St., Chicago, Ill. Dear Sirs:—I send a three dollar order for Oline. Enclosed you will find it. I heard of it through a friend and would like to become an agent for it on one week. MRS. P. A. HUBBARD. OSLINE 50 cents per bottle, 3 bottles $1.25. VENOL SHAMPOO makes the hair clean, soft, pliable and glossy; stops the hair from breaking off; cleans the scalp, opens the pores and starts a healthy circulation of blood in the scalp that it increases the strength of the hair; cure dandruff and restores hair to the scalp. Price 50 cents per jar or 3 jars for $1.25. FACERIES is a compound that is unsurpassed for bleaching the skin, removing blackheads, liver spots and all moth patches from the face and restoring the skin to a clear, transparent complexion. This cream is used on the face and on the skin sore. Price 50 cents per jar or 3 jars for $1.25. We will send one bottle of each for $1.25. FREE circulated sent on application. Special terms to agents. 500 agents wanted at once. Address, VENOL COMPANY, 3104 State Street, Chicago, Illinois Mention this paper when you write. WINSTON'S HEADOUARTERS For Ice-Cream & Refreshments ICE.CREAM FURNISHED IN EVERY STYLE AND IN ANY QUANTITY. SPECIAL PRICES TO DEALERS AND THE RETAIL TRADE. 537 Brook Ave. 'Phone, 2253. A REVELATION. The Book of Seven Seals by Lucinda Young, who in the year of 1890 laid on her bed twenty-four days and saw dreams and visions, was commanded by God to write the wonders she saw into a book. This book tells also about a seven years Ruby Dressine. Ruby Dressine. SCHOOL SHOES. (Trade Mark Registered.) Guaranteed Pure under Pure Food and Drug Act, June 30th, 1906. Makes Harsh, Stubborn Hair Straight and Soft. Removes Dandruff and makes Roots of Hair Healthy and Strong, thereby Adding to its Growth. Contains no Injurious Mineral or Chemical Substances. Sold by Druggists Everywhere at 10 cents a Bottle or Sent Direct Post-paid for 15 cents. Made only by KIRKLEY SPECIAL TY MFG. C., Baltimore, Md. famine that is to come. It is sold at $1.00. Address all communications to MRS. LUCINDA YOUNG, Lambertville, N. J. Agents Wanted. SCHOOL SHOES. Capitol Shoe & Supply Company, No. 210 East Broad Street. A complete stock of Boys,' Misses,' Men's, Ladies,' & Children's Shoes. ALL THE LATEST STYLES.