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THE RICHMOND PLANET ADVISES AN APPEAL TO THE SOUTHERNER. Railroad Travel in the South=land. Equal Accommodations Wanted A DISTINGUISHED GENTLEMAN DISCUSSES AN IMPORTANT QUESTION VOLUME XXIV, NUMBER 47. ADVISION TO THE Railroad Equal A A DISTINGU Dear Mr. Editor: I saw by the PLANET of September 21st that you made recently a formal complaint to President Stevens of the C. and O. R. against the service given by that road to the colored people who compose such a large percent of its patronage in Virginia. I hope and believe that your effort will result in good, so far as it is possible to accomplish gay such appeals. It does seem however that than the race should be left to the tender mercies of railroads and other public carriers. INSANE RACE PREJUDICES The insane race prejudice that produced all of the "Jim Crow" legislation in the South seems to have found fendish delight in not only sep arating us from the white people in public conveyances but by leaving us unprotected in that separation, so that railroads and other public voyances, can and do, by neglect and other methods heap upon us the most outrageous indignities and injustices whenever we travel. ITS MEANEST FEATURE One of the meanest features of all those "Jim Crow" laws is conspicuous in the reckless manner in which the colored traveler is placed in the power of public carriers. These laws usually provide for "equal" or "as good" accommodations for colored as for white people. Now whose duty is it to see that the accommodations for colored passengers are "equal" or "as good" as those provided for white people? For a car carrier it is all left to the railroad, and the car themselves and the result is a little more in one end of a car called a smoking car and an ordinary day coach partitioned off by a curtain or otherwise for a first-class Negro coach. THE DEVIL WOULD HESITATE Now the devil, who is the father of lies would hesitate long before he would so stultify himself as to call such a coach equal in comfort to a whole, alty, first class day coach yet the railroad people do, and the legi-statures of all "Jim Crow" States acquiesces by their silence and inactivity thus permitting corporations to ruthlessly rob their colored citizens of the privilege of traveling in any sort of comfort after being forced to pay a price equal to the highest paid by white people who enjoy every comfort in travel. A HEARTY AGREEMENT I heartily agree with you in your appeal to this railroad president, and I would go further and appeal to the legislature not for a repeal of "Jim Crow" laws, for that, in the present state of public sentiment in the white South, would be time lost, but for such amendments to the law as would protect the Negro against the outlandish treatment he constantly receives at the hands of those public carrying corporations. NO NEED OF ARGUMENT. It seems that there is no need of argument, just now, to convince any body that railroads and ship companies when unrestrained care but little for the rights of even white folks and "big" white folks at that. How then could anybody imagine that the Negro would receive fair treatment at their hands? It is therefore clear that those "Jim Crow" legislatures have not hitherto cared one farthing how the Negro suffered just so he was shut out of the car where the white man rides. ABIDING FAITH PRESENT. I have however abiding faith in a large class of Southern white people and feel quite confident that if, from time to time appeals were made in the proper spirit to the legislatures of the "Jim Crow" States such amendments could and would be made to those "Jim Crow" laws as would make it possible for colored people to travel in, at least, a small degree of comfort. These laws should provide for a careful state inspection of all "Jim Crow" cars so that the Negro would have a car in which to travel instead of a coop in one end of a car. AN UNFIT PROPOSITION A car that has been used for a smoking car for everybody from Huntington in West Virginia to the State line of Virginia is unfit for decent people, especially ladies, to be pushed into, yet it is done every day; then again the "Jim Crow" cars are always placed in the train next to the mall and baggage cars as close as possible to the engine. Why not put the Negro behind next to the sleeper or even clear behind all, since he is kept, as far as possible behind in everything else. WANTS TO RIDE BEHIND All "Jim Crow" laws should place him at the rear end of each train in the south, so that he would at least escape some of the smoke and cinders from the engine. I hope the Negro press of the South will vigorously contend for improvement in the "Jim Crow" laws; there should be no fear of ever having them reach a state of perfection such as would in any sense tend to justify their existence, for that is absolutely impossible, since all such laws are unfair, 'unjust and fundamentally wrong. CAN NEVER BE MADE RIGHT. They can never therefore be made right, yet they exist and the same spirit of prejudice and race hate that brought them into existence will, in my opinion, sustain and perpetuate them for many years to come, in spite of all that can be said or done. Therefore it seems that the wisest thing to do is to appeal to the raitie of the people for justice in their service and also to state legislatures for relief through legislation. WILL BE ABOLISHED. There is not the slightest doubt in my mind about the ultimate abolition of all those unjust discriminating laws for they are wrong and God stands only for the right and nothing can long endure without God's sanction and support, therefore "Jim Crow" Peonage, Prison labor and all other laws so strongly tinged with infamy must ultimately fall because they are wrong and God and Justice are opposed to them. A WORD ABOUT JEFFERSON The great Jefferson when the Federal Constitution was finished and he had examined it and found the Negro left out of its provisions so far as protection was concerned said "When I remember that God is just, I tremble for my country." Later Mr. Caliboun said, concerning certain legislation which he had induced and which greatly affected the Negro. "I never thought of the Negro's rights in the matter." FAITH IN GOD. God is just and long after Mr. Jefferson was gone the people were stirred up and after an awful struggle the Negro was placed in the Constitution. The mills of the Gods may grind slowly, but they always grind exceedingly fine. Unlike Mr. Calhoun, God did think and has continued to think of the Negro and so far as Federal law at least is concerned his rights are recognized. MUST TAKE COURAGE. Let us the store take courage and seek fair treatment at the hands of the good white folks, keep clear as much as possible of the bad white folks, help those of our own folks who are striving to advance all we can; stop jealous, envious fights against each other; cut short the habit of resoluting against each other and the white folks; learn that RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 26. 1907. a demand is not worth the breath it takes to utter it unless there is power behind it sufficient to insure its enforcement. MUCH TO LEARN Let them learn also that when Negroes appeal to white folks such appeals are never effective when addressed in the spirit and style of a bully and finally jet a good strong, rigid line be drawn between good colored folks and bad Negroes in all matters social, so that a lazy crashshooting Negro must take his place in the Negro social life just where a lazy drunken, crashshooting white man has to take his place in the white social life. It should also be borne in mind that Negroes have two eyes, two ears, two hands and two feet and but one tongue; therefore, he should see, hear, and work at least twice as much as he talks, especially is this true of work. JOHNSON—Died suddenly on the street in New York, September of near trouble, SOLON JOHNSON. Mr. Johnson was formerly of Richmond, W. —Miss Lyndall Drusilla Marks was married to Lieut. Jo. St. James Gilpin, Saturday, October 19th, 1907 at 12 o'clock. They left on a north ern tour. A Joyful Evening. On last Monday eve there was a reception given in honor of Mrs. Clarence J. Lee of Philadelphia. Formerly of Richmond, at the residence of her mother, Mrs. Maria L. Harris, 617 N. 29th St. by her cousin and sisters. The evening was spent in various games and at a late hour the guests were ushered in the dining room where the table was ladened with the delicacies of the season. Later they were served with ice cream, cake and coffee. Those present were Mr. and Mrs. Edward Evans, Mr. and Mrs. Foster Lucas, Mr. and Mrs. Dr. Chas. Wilder, Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Wilder, Mr. and Joseph Montague, Mrs. Maria L. Harris, Mrs. Clarence J. Lee, Mrs. Virginia Taylor, Mrs. Preston Christian, Mrs. Massey Haskins, Master Herman Evans and many others. At a wee sma hour the guest all left for home after spending a joyful evening. What's in McClure's Drawing by A. I. Keller, Frontispiece. To accompany "A Holiday." Portia: The End of My Apprenticehip, Ellen Terry. Illustrations from portraits and photographs. The Bit of Calico, James Hopper. Illustrations by C. B. Falls, reproduced in tint. Ezekiel in Exile, Lucy Pratt. Illustrations by Frederic Dorr Steele. Great American Fortunes and Their Making, Burton J. Hendrick. Illustrations from photographs. The Meagre Life, Perceval Gibbon. Part two. Illustrations by W. Hatherell, R. I. Criminal Government and the Private Citizen, George Kennan. Illustration from a photograph. The Brute, Joseph Conrad. Illustrations by E. L. Blumenschein, reproduced in color. Reminiscences of a Long Life. Carl Schurz. Lincoln's Re-election and the Close of the War. Illustrations from photographs. A Holiday, Ada Melvin. Illustrated by A. I. Keller. Autumn Melody, Willa Silbert Cather. A poem. The Father, Harris Merton Lyon. Illustrations by F. B. Masters. The Confession and Autobiography of Harry Orchard, Illustrations from photographs. BISHOP FERGUSON LEAVES. Now in South Carolina—Left Here When Six Years Old. Bishop S. D. Ferguson of Monrovia Liberia, West Coast of Africa who has been in attendance at the Episcopal General Convention, which has been in session in this city for several weeks left last Wednesday night for Charleston, S. C. We had the pleasure of a conversation with him last Tuesday morning just after he had sat down to breakfast at the palatial Miller's Hotel, where he has been stopping. He is of slender build, browned by exposure and showing the effect of age during his long solitude in Africa. He has a keen eye, pleasant musical, winning voice and a step and a walk that would indicate that he is now a youth in his teens. He is an able member of the House of Bishops, and the only representative of the Negro race in that august tribunal. There is one other Negro bishop, (Holly) of Haytı, but he is not connected with the American Church. Bishop Ferguson was pleased with the treatment accorded him by his white colleagues in this city. He was born in South Carolina but left that state for Africa when he was six years of age. A discussion of conditions of conditions in this country followed. When asked what Liberia needed to effect its development, he replied promptly "Capital." This then told practically the whole story. If money in sufficient sums could be obtained to develop the country, its future would be one of great prosperity. For nearly an hour, we discussed with him important public and sociological questions reaching a basis of agreement that emphasized the fact that with his ability as a church man was linked wisdom as a citizen. Pulpit Vacant. The pulpit of the First Baptist Church, Pocahontas, Va. is now va- cant. All preachers desiring fur- ther information will please address J. E. McCLANAHAN, Clerk William Custalo Estate. Richmond, Va., Oct. 24, 1907. All persons owing the estate of the late William Custalo will please call and settle their accounts at once. All creditors, naving accounts against the estate will file attested bills at my office. JOHN MITCHELL, JR., Administrator of Wm. Custalo's Estate. TAYLOR—The funeral of Mr. A. W. Taylor of 208 W. Leigh Street, Richmond, Va. took place Friday, October 11, 1907 from the Ebenezer Baptist Church. Rev. W. H. Stokes, Ph.D. officiating, W. Mr. Taylor was well known in the community in which he lived. He was an employee of the Commercial Hotel and was highly respected by all who knew him. He was a member of Ebenezer Baptist Church forty years. He was a consistent Christian and was highly esteemed by his fellow churchmen. He leaves a loving wife, one daughter, two sisters, two brothers and a host of relatives and friends to mourn their loss. "Servant of God, well done, Rest from thy loved employ, The battle fought, the victory won, Enter thy Father's joy." CHARLES SCOTT. Drewry's Bluff, Va. —Subscribe to The PLANET. Installation and Fortieth Anniversary at Howard University. Large College Classes. On November 14th and 15th will occur exercises destined to be memorable in the history of the University. The formal installation of President Wilbur Patterson Thirkield, D. D., LL. D., and the celebration of the Fortieth Anniversary of the University will furnish the occasion for a series of addresses by distinguished men. An educational mass meeting on the evening of November 14th will be addressed by Dr. A. H. Bradford and Dr. John Hope of the Atlanta Baptist College. On the morning of November 15th, under the direction of Dr. Kelly Miller, president of the organization, the Alumni Association will hold a reunion with program. On the afternoon of the same day, President Thirkield will be installed. Addresses on this occasion will be delivered by the Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States, the Hon. James Rudolph Garfield, Secretary of Interior; Dr. Brown, U. S. Commissioner of Education and Dr. J. W. E. Bower, Atlanta. On the evening of the 15, at the celebration of the Fortieth Anniversary, Dr. Cornellus Patterson, the Hon. J. P. Napier, and Dr. Geo. Frazier Miller will speak. The present school year has witnessed a large increase in the number of students. Especially noteworthy is the heavy registration in the College of Arts and Sciences, where, under the present administration of the University, the increase has been seventy percent. This becomes all the more significant when there are taken into account the facts that many applications had to be refused because the candidates could not meet the high entrance requirements and that others hoping to enter the College were assigned to the Academy. Upon recommendation of President Thirkield, at a recent meeting of the Executive Committee of the Board of Trustees, Dr. Kelly Miller, professor of mathematics, was appointed Acting Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, vice Dr. F. W. Fairfield, recently placed on the Carnegie Foundation. The Board takes final action at its meeting in January. Interest in athletics runs high. Mr. W. H. Bullock, the former brilliant Dartmouth player, has been engaged as coach of the football team and is now in active charge. On Friday evening last the Y. M. C. A. gave a large reception for the benefit of new students. After the serving of a splendid supper, addresses were delivered by President Thirkield, Hon. John C. Dancy and International Secretaries Hunton and Moor land. The program was enlivened with music by the Y. M. C. A. orchestra. Dr. W. H. Seaman, of the faculty of the Medical School, has recently presented to the University an at- tendency dial, which will adorn the campus. DIED—At 216 South Second St. at 2:30 P. M., October 5th, MARY E. SMITH, aged 20 years. She was a beloved daughter of Abram and Margaret Smith. Funeral took place from Second Baptist Church, Monday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock, October 7th. Interment in Evergreen Cemetery. "Dearest sister, thou hast left us, We our loss most deeply feel; But 'tis God who has bereft us.' He can all our sorrows heal. "Yet again we hope to meet thee, When the day of life is fled. Then in Heaven with joy to greet thee, Where no farewell tear is shed." HER SISTER. Colored Man Wins Mr. Frederick W. Newman, a well known colored citizen of Harrisonburg, recently passed successfully a civil service examination and at the postoffice for the purpose of select, a substitute mail carrier for Harrisonburg. He stood third in the list making 74:30 and has been notified by Postmaster Keezel that the medical examination is all that stands between him and his sister. Mr. Newman, however, wrote to Mr. Keezel declining the position but requesting that his name be retained on the eligible list. —Harrisonburg Va. Daily Times. On October 27th, 1907 there will be a grand rally at Sharon Baptist Church. The following Divines will preach. 11 A. M., Rev. Z. D. Lewis, D. D.; 3 P. M., Rev. W. T. Johnson, D. D.; 8 P. M., Rev. E. D. Lewis, D. D. Friends, come and help us in a worthy cause. REV. A. S. THOMAS, Pastor. PETER T. JACKSON, Clerk. Rev. J. C. Lias, Pastor of the Shiloh Baptist Church, Moderator of the Piedmont District Association is No More. That the deaths of great and useful men should be particularly noticed is the dictate of reason and revelation. The tears of Israel flowed at the decease of Josiah and to his memory the funeral women chanted the solemn dirge. But neither examples nor arguments are necessary to wake the sympathies of a grateful people on such occasions. The death of a public man surcharges the heart and it spontaneously disburds itself by a flow of sorrow. Such was the death of Rev. J. C. Lias of Charlottesville, Va. to embalm whose memory and perpetuate whose deathless fame we lent our feeble services. The man on whom nature seems originally to have impressed the stamp of goodness, whose genius beamed from the pulpit with a radiance, which dazzled and a loveliness which charmed the eye of all his fellow men. To the exclusion of every other concern toward the evening of his life religion claimed his attention. This can be enrolled of him among the archives of eternity. Emboised in the dust, which it encloses, the bodies of the redeemed rest in hope. On its top dwells the Church of the first born, who in delightful response, with the angels of light chanting delighten love. On Thursday, October 17th, Old Sol as he stepped forth from his oriental chamber, everything in nature seemed to have bowed in obedience to the sadness of the occasion. As the bells were being toiled, large crowds could be seen making their way to the First Baptist Church. Long before service time the Church was packed to its utmost capacity to hear the last of Rev. J. C. Lias. The services were conducted by the pastor, Rev. R. C. Quarles, D. D. who lined the first hymn, Servant of God, Well Done. Scripture lesson, 90th Paul was read by Rev. T. D. Atkins, Th. D. A fervent prayer was then offered by Rev. Hillard Johnson. The quartette was then asked to sing, I am Passing Down the Valley. Then Dr. Quarles announced as text 2, Timothy, 4th chapter, 10th verse. All through the Doctor's discourse sparked dew drops of thought, glistening with the orient tinting of an aurora of richest fancy, sparkled here and there and made his effort bask under one gorgeous rainbow of finest dietion. In the matchless symmetry of his well rounded sentences, in the exquisite tintings of those rare flowers of poesy which adorned the sermon, one could but say truly Rev. Llas was a good man. After the sermon the congregation sang. Sometimes We Will Stand Before the Judgment Bar. Then Revs. J. T. Johnson, Lee Jones, R. B. Hardy, B. D. Hillard Johnson, T. D. Atidins, Th. D., and Rev. Goffner were called on to say a word. Each speaker seemed seriously impressed with the occasion. The funeral designs were many and very costly. "But when the Sun in all his state Illuminated the western skies And walked in Paradise." Rev. J. C. Lias was born in Albemarle Co., Va. in 1865. He was educated at Waynesboro, Va. and at the Hampton Industrial Institute, Hampton, Va. From the latter institution he graduated with the honors of his class. He was looked upon as a brilliant student. He was pastor of the Shiloh Baptist Church, Charlottesville, Va. at the time of his death and also Moderator of the Piedmont District Association. He was a member of the St. Lukes, True Reformers and other organizations. He leaves a wife, four children, six brothers and one sister to mourn their loss. When time having held in trust for eternity the joy and the bitterness of Earth, its joy and its sorrow shall render up his dreadful seal and his last shadow eclipse its waning light; when invading ruin shall go abroad in avenging visitation upon the threat of crime; when grave and sepulchre with heart, and the convulsions of expiring nature and the shock of conflicting elements and the dash of ruined systems shall burst upon the ear of surrounding solitude as the funeral dirge of a solitude as the funeral dirge of a dying world, we hope to meet our brother in the great beyond. Respectfully yours. THOS. D. ATKINS, Reported by the request of the Executive Board of the Piedmont Bapist District Association. Resolutions of condolence in honor of the Rev. J. C. Lias, passed by the Executive Board of the Piedmont Baptist District Association of which the deceased was Moderator. In that unceasing march of things which calls forward the successive generations of men to perform their part on the stage of life, we at the Baptist Church of God have Let the eloquent silence of yonder famous heights, let the columns which are there rising in simple ma- PRICE, FIVE CENTS jesty recall his venerable form as he toiled in the hasty hours, through the dreary watches of the night, endeavoring to carry this august body on to victory. RESOLVED, First. That by his removal he will be missed by the constituency composing this Association. As a man he was manly and above little things. As a citizen he was cosmopolitan in soul. As a Christian, catholic. As a friend, true and unswerving. RESOLVED, Second. That we bow our heads in humble submission to our heavenly father who doeth all things well and that we pledge ourselves to carry out the work so nobly begun by our brother. RESOLVED, Third. That we extend to the widow and family our heartfelt sympathy and prayers. RESOLVED, Fourth. That a copy of these resolutions be upon the face of our minutes a copy be sent to the family and that a copy be sent to the Richmond PLANET for publication. REV. HILLIARD JOHNSON. REV. J. T. JOHNSON. Committee. THOS. D. ATKINS, Reporter. —Mr. J. D. Howard of Indianapolis, Ind. the representative of the Indianapolis Freeman called on us. —Mrs. Florence Harrison, (nee Dennis) Philadelphia, Pa., is the guest of Mrs. Sarah L. James. —Dr. J. R. Griffin, Jr. of Church-Hill is making progress along his line of work and has installed a 'phone No. 7119 so that he may be easily reached. CHAVERS----ADAMS The marriage of Miss Dolly Adams to Mr. D. J. Chavers will take place Tuesday, Nov. 5, 1907 at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. John Ewell, 1203 $ \frac{1}{2} $ N. First Street at Noon. Reception at their residence, 616 St. Peter Street, Nov. 12, 1907 from 6 to 10. Friends invited. Two Bishops at Lunchcon. Bishop Potter, of New York, laughed heartily this morning when asked, by a reporter for The News Leader whether or not the report that he had lunchon with Bishop Ferguson, colored, of Cape Palmas, Africa, was true. "Yes, perfectly true," replied Bishop Potter to the query. "There is nothing strange in that." "Fil wager two shillings the bishop of Louisiana would have accented an invitation to meet Bishop Ferguson if I had extended it to him," said the New York dignitary, turning to the Louisiana, "wouldn't you, bishop?" The bishop of Louisiana, with some evidences of embarrassment, replied in the affirmative and Bishop Potter, turning to the reporter, said, "I knew it." George St. Julien Stevens, colored secretary to Bishop Ferguson while here and who has looked after the comfort of Bishop Ferguson during his stay in Richmond, was requested by Bishop Potter, after the adjournment of the house of bishops yesterday afternoon, to show Bishop Ferguson to Bishop Potter's carriage. This was accordingly done, and Mrs. Potter, Bishop Potter, Bishop Ferguson and Dr. Grosvenor, of New York, were driven to the Lindsey house, 600 West Franklin St., where lunchon was served. Anoth er bishop was present at the lunchon, but Bishop Potter to-day could not recall who he was. When Bishop Ferguson left his apartments in Miller's Hotel, Second and Leigh Streets, yesterday afternoon, he left word that he would not return to dinner. It is evident, therefore, that his luncheon with Bishop Potter was prearranged. When asked later concerning his response to the query of Bishop Potter, the bishop of Louisiana replied that he was pre-occupied at the time the question was asked of him and did not realize the great import of his response. "Bishop Ferguson is a member of the house of bishops and I have always, and will continue to treat him with all respect and courtesy. The invitation to dine with Bishop Ferguson has never been extended to me, and in consequence I am unwilling to express my sentiments in regard to the matter." The bishop of Louisiana expressed great tenderness toward Bishop Potter, stating that he loved, honored, and respected him. "I am a Southern man," continued Bishop Potter. "I said the influences there are far different from those in the North." The bishop of Louisiana seemed much aggrieved that his name should have been brought into the matter, and expressed appreciation of the opportunity to explain his position. —Richmond, Va. News-Leader, October 19th 1907. | ) xX : = Z SSS =" BY ARTHUR HENRY VISEY Ieee Baap epicen cies conti Mc ix ROOD LON Two CHAPTER XIV. ‘Tho ttiee's Qhessenner. eee Tere a re ce Presently the woman seated herself at my bedside. Dr. Starva left the room, the door being slightly ajar. I could not resist the temptation to half open my eyes. Madame de Var- nier was praying fervently, regarding ‘with passionate adoration a jeweled cross held before her eyes. A peremp- tory knock at the door of the drawing- Toom opening on the corridor put an abrupt end to these devotions, which seemed to me so incongruous. She clasped her bands; she listened, rigid with anxiety. It may be imagined that I myself Hstened, scarcely less anx- fous. It was the concierge again. “Here is the Englishman's card. He gays be is a king's messenger. Ho brings important dispatches. He tn- gists that were his Excellency at the point of death he must none the less place these dispatches in bis hands to- might.” “But as bis Excellency’s physician { forbid it,” replied Dr. Starva, with de- termination. “And,” entreated the woman gliding to the door, “can you not make bim understand how disagreeable {t would be for me to be surprised in these rooms, and that it would annoy Sir Mortimer beyond measure?” “It 1s useless, madam. Have I not totd him that embarrassing ctreum: stances make !t impossible that his Excellency be officially recognized to- Bight?” “And still he insists?” inquired Star va angrily “As only the stubborn English can insist. He ts outside the door at this moment. He has sent me to you, not to ask permission, but to announce Biz coming. He rofuses to go away until he has seen bis Excellency. If the door fs not opened in five minutes he will call the manager of the hotel.” “His name?” “Lam giving you his card.” “Captain Reginald Forbes,” read Madamo de Varnter. “Well, we will admit this Captain Forbes.” I listened to this dialogue with a trepidation that doprived me of power to think or act. ‘That fatal indecision which, on certainly one occasion, had already brought tts tragic penalty again seized me. The crisis impend ing might leave in tts wake conse quences too grave to be thought of— might loave me a man disgraced and Mable to the extreme penalty of the law. And yet I Jay atill, in a night- mare of mdecision and Inaction. It was the same numbness of will that had paralyzed me on the Stralegs Pass, Heaven grant that the conse quences now be not as disastrous! Theard the click of a revolver. Then Captain Forbes was admitted to the eaton. “Where tx Sir Mortimer Brett?" ho demanded harshly. “T must see him without further delay, May I ask who you are, sir?” “The physician of his Excellency,” replied Starva, bowing. He was no longer attempting to deny that I was Sir Mortimer Brett. “Sir Mortimer 1s serlously UL I refuse to permit him to be disturbed. I have brought Bhim here to Vitznau, hoping that the old surroundings may induce him to sleep, It is a nervous disorder that has prostrated Sir Mortimer. He has euffered terribly from insomnia. There are moments when he {s delirious. To Dring Lim sleep it was necessary to give him an opiate, you understand. If he is awakened he may be sane or be may deny his very identity.” “Which is his room?” “Captain Forbes, I forbid it. It ts Ampossible. I warn you—" Madame de Varnier opened the door of the bedroom quietly. “It the gentleman insists on awak ‘ing Sir Mortimer we are powerless,” she said gently. “But at least let him mot be excited more than necessary, i “I shall endeavor to follow your m- structions, madam," said Forbes stifMty. | He strode to my bedside. I could imagine with what breathless anxiety ithe adventurers watched him. Was ‘he sufficiently intimate with Sir Mor timer Brett to denounce me instantly fas an impostor? | “Your Excellency!” he said gently. jYour Excellency!” | The immedrate danger of discovery [was past. At least he had not de tected the deception so far. He called (Me again; he shook my shoulder re \mpectfully. I opened my oyes. |_ “What is 1t2” I demanded, bewildered. {I am horrified to-day when I think of ‘the facility that was mine to playing this game of intrigue. I looked lan ‘guidly from Captain Forbes to Madaine ‘de Varnier, who had resumed her seat at the bedside. The question was ad ‘dressed to her. | She took my hand. “This is Captain (Forbes, a King’s messenger. He ha: ‘Drought you dispatches of impor “tance.” | TAR, yes," I sald wearlty, and looke ‘at bim with dull eyes. | “I am sorry to arouse you, sir’ Contempt for the man struggled with ‘respect for his office. “But my order ‘at the Foreign Office were to give you 'these papers at the earliest posnibl {moment. The business is urgent. Ma: I suggest that you read them at once? My eyes unconsciously turned t he asked indignantly. For the first time Captain Forbee hesitated. He placed one sunburned band om bis broast as If to guard jeal- ously the dispatches be bore. That he should hesitate at all seemed to me Incredible. But Captain Forbes seemed a fair example of that type of Englishmaa who performs his duty with the stubbornness and obstinacy of a fool as well as a hero. Chance often determines which of the two characters he shall assume. It ts true he had not the remotest suspicion that I was not Sir Mortimer. But surely ho must see that I was in the power of these adventurers. All my fears reached a climax, when, looking steadily at me a mo. Dt 12 ' = Nae pete | ge a | ment, he turned to the others | “I must speak to Sir Mortimer alone. | I saw Starva grasp the revolver con | cealed beneath his coat. Madame de 'Varnter silenced the protests on his | ips with a meaning glance. She real | ined the uselessnoss of further rosist ance. | “You will net exeite him more than| Recessary,” she entreated anxiously. [“And you must net be surprised to find hia mind stil! confused as a result of the opiate given him.” | “Tmball spare bim as far as posst Bie,” Forbes replied with somo stern ness. Drawing bimaelf erect, his arms folded, he waited until the door bad ‘elosed behind thet | My first impulse was to put an end to this farce. But again I hesitated. They wore listening outside that door every suspicion was alert; the alight est cause would fan the suspicion to & fame. And then, what? I should have made myself ridiculous to no purpose. Thad gone far in my reckless venture —too far to risk all by atwmpting to warn Captain Forbes at thie erucial | moment. His brain worked too slowly, —ho was too deficient in tmagtnation —too much lacking tn subtiety and finesse. I refuxed—recklessly, if you will, But deltberately—to risk the suc- oss of my acheme by drumming into the dull brain of Captain Forbes the true state of affairs, It would have taken him a good quarter of an hour to grasp merely the facts. At that time he would understand just enough ef them to be stubbornly convinced that I was equally involved with the other two, but he would think my nerve had failed moe and that I was attempting to purchase my own free- dom from punishment at the expense ot the others, And certainly they would drag me down with them, if |for no other purpose than revenge. |No; this was not the hour for conf! ences; Captain Forbes was not tho man to be made a confidant at such an hour, j He looked down at me with cold re ‘epect. Outwardly I met his steady iook with something of fortitude and ‘composure, but beneath the clothes my two hands were clenched rigid, |. From a silk bag suspended about his ‘neck he produced two envelopes. He weighed them tn his hand a mo- ment; then be placed the bulkier of the two in its silk case. The other he held toward me. | “The Foreign Office, sir, has intrust- ed to me two dispatches. My orders jare to place them in your hands at the earliest opportunity. But one of these | dispatches I know to be of great im- portanee. I shall therefore keep it for the present, unless you demand it." | “No, no,” I muttered hoarsely, “T cannot recolve it now.” | _ “Then to-morrow, sir, I shall hope to ‘nd you in better health. Then I shall give you the second dispatch. This one I leave with you now, and may I suggest that you read it at your earliest convenience?” | I took refuge in silence. I closed my eyes wearily. | “Before I bid you good night, sir, I think {t rignt that you should know that your mother and sister are in this hotel. At the risk that you think me impertinent I dare to hope that your {meeting with them to-morrow may be free from any embarrassment of un- | happiness.” |. He bowed stimy and left the room. ,! stared after him vacantly. | The dispatch he bad lett, gorgeous (and brave with its royal crest and em- | Dosaing, lay passively ia my hand. And now a new dilemma confronted me. I was supposed to be under the influence of an opiate; they would not scruple to take from me the d To allow that might give them such in- con cis ae to ‘THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. eMective Tor restet would te them that I had deen feigning. I must hide the papers, But where? It was @ Dare little chamber; my heart sank as I noted how bare. I Feaped out of bed. Again I threw open the shutters. I could hear Capt. Forbes speaking sternly; if he could Dut hold them half a minute! In the garden below the marble Dasin of a disused fountain at once caught my eyes. I tore the corner of the envelope, Inserted my penknife to wotght the Packet, leaned over the balcony and dropped it. It fell squarely into the basin among the leaves and moss. To regain the room was the work of an instant. 1 heard Captain Forbes wish them & cold good night; and Madame de Varnier answer him mockingly. Then the bedroom door was opened and Starva shuffed into the room. “Who was that man?” I demanded languidly, and regarded him with lst- leas eyes, my hand to my forehead. He shrugged bis shoulders, disdain img to answer. “He has left some papers here by mistake.” “Perhaps,” I muttered indifferently, and pretended to sleep. T heard him moving about the room for some time. Madame de Varnier and he whispered together. I felt so little concerned as to the reanlt of this search that I actually fell asleep. Tho strain of the evening had exhausted me. No doubt the search was extend: ed to me personally; I believe I was vaguely conscious of !t. CHAPTER Xv. The Castle of Happiness. “You sleep soundly, my friend.” Dr. Starva was looking down at me with grim Intentness, It was not yet dawn. His Immense figure seemed even more huge than ft was in thie uncertain light. It ap- Poared to threaten, to menace me. And yet I welcomed lis presence; at least they had not made thelr escape. I looked up at him with cool assur ance. “A light conscience gives deep slum. ber. Do we start 0 eariy? “Yos. Your coffee is waiting for you in the salon.” I dressed rapidly. A certain depres: sion would have been natural. The night Ia the time of follies; with the morning come clear thought and pru dence. But not so with me. It ts trus that I dotested Dr. Starva. His meth: oda were too gross; his eyes were too closely set together; his mouth too cruel and sensual. Icould have wished him out of the game. And yet 1 be Meved that I was a match for him. But this woman who tempted and pitied! This woman whose beauty fascinated and whose treachery re pelled! This woman who lied and prayed in the same breath! As I thought of her I was at once furious an@ eager. I was ashamed to think bow eager. I had pledged myself to the cold Diana of my dreams. Yor her I ran theso risks; for her I might be disgraced and a felon. It was her gratitude I coveted; her for sivencss I craved. And yet for the moment I was seck- tng tho fame and tho glamour of the other woman—thia warm, mysterious ereature of diverse moods. Her fantastic chateau held out a promise. not of happiness, indeed, but of the joy of doing, of daring, So as I dressed my splrita were buoyant. The little garden below, Balt hidden tm the mist that came from the lake, was fresh and charm: ing in the morning dew. Patches of flowers, brave tu saarlet and purple and blue, opened their eyes to the awn. I followed mechanically the graveled paths, geometric and straight, threading the sparkling lawns. T looked eagerly down at the bat. tered fountain choked with refuse. 1 could xe no trace of the long, white envelope, It was completely conceaied by the leaves. I found it Impossible to rescue the Uttle packet from its hiding place. My hostess and her cousin kept too care ful an eyo on me for that. But it was a tolerably secure hiding place; and frankly I was not sorry to leave the proof of my complicity behind me. A taint breeze, cold with the snow of the mountains, fanned my cheek. The poetry of the dawn thrilled me. Before the evening came the placid lake might be lashed Into fury. The trees, now gently swaying, might be bent and broken by the violence of the storm. But now the sky was elear. When the storms came I would try to meet them. But before they did come why should I not enjoy the pres- ent? I threw open the door and stepped into the salon where coffee and Madame de Varnier awaited me. She greeted mo with vivacity. But I was not blind to the cool glance that measured. “The fool has no suspic: fons,” the eyes said, while the lips asked how I had slept. “admirably,” I answered gayly. “and we are to start at once for your ‘Castle of Happiness? “You have a sublime faith to still delieve tt that?” she questioned mock ingly as she poured my coffee. “Why not?" I cried mockingly, in my turn. “Is it not happiness to be with you, madam?” “Pas des banalites, monsieur,” she replied with an impatient gesture “But you really believe that the tire ‘some journey will repay you?” “Since I am resolved to hear your secret, yes.” “Oh, ungractous!” She smiled at me ruefully. “I think I prefer an in sincere compliment té an awkward truth.” “Madam, it ia not I who made the ab, you are « vor. caetions Ete monsieur.” "I generally try to look before | Jeap,” I returned with composture. 1 was not unwilling that she think ft ‘enrlosity that prompted me to acces) the extraordinary tavitation given witt 0 little heed to convention. She had Ainted that we wore to be of mutua Use to each other; but of this T wa | skeptical. 1 accepted the ravitatior ee im the spirit in which tt we: ‘It would be shocking form, to ‘may the least, to be a guest that on: + Dayoad the pale of truce—that was the our relations, and me ‘that word. entered. B "he said geuflly. “The tage te waiting.” Tt was very carly, scarcely past five. ‘The might porter, drowsy-eyed and sul- Jen, took m down on the elevator and Dat our luggage in tho carriage. I confess I breathed more freely when the hotel was some miles behind us and we bad seen neither Helena Brett aor Captain Forbes, As Madame de Varnier had warned ‘me, the journey itselt was long and tiresome; nor did Madame de Vernier and her companion exert themselves much to relieve its monotony. Tt was almost dusk when she pomted @ut to me the pinnacles of her cha tean. Fer the last hour the horses had deem struggling up a dusty road wind- ing about the mountainside. Forests of fir were on either side. From far below came the impetuous murmur of & stream. High above the forests of fir trees there were herds of cattle. ‘We could hear the faint jingle of the cow-bells. Only rarely had there been any view, but the clear and pure at- mosphere’ told me that the altitude must be considerable. But this sylvan ‘scone suggested nothing of the horrors of a few days ago. The mountains, purple and pink im the dusk, were too far away. Suddenly there was a turn in the road. Now wa bad an uninterrupted view of the chateau across a green valley. In this vague light its towers and turrets seemed as tnreal and sbostly as a fairy fabric. At the bao of its white walls a tiny village, crouching close to the ehateau for protection, found a pre- earlous focthoid on the steop hillside. There was 2 maze of redtiled roofs, bigh-gabied and sloping, tier upon tier of them, each plerced by numbera of quaint dormer windows A wild river, fed by the turbulent streams of the mountain snows, flung fteelf fn heatlong rage down tho slop ing valley, straight for the chateau, as it to aweep {t from its base. Reach- tng the castle, it spent tts fury on the rocks, ther, a1 if baffled of its prey, made ans aif circle about the dase and coutinued tte stormy career, seaking @ less powerful foe, “At last.” breathed Madame de Var. aler. “Wel, my friend, does It prom. tae @lversicc for you? “The villace and the castle breathe the spirit of romance,” I cried with animation “Ab, romance! What if T say to you,” she pered, “that your day ef romance has come?" T glance! toward Dr. Starva whose fahaggy heat was nodding. “Evon we Americans. adam, aro not indifferent to tte glamour. But too offen the ro mance of medlevalism suggests dls- honor.” She locked at me startled, then shrugged her shoulders. “One must take the world as one fads it,” sho said laditforently Wo were making the last steep ascent to the village. We crossed the aolay stream; tho driver cracked his Jong whip; we passed under a dilap! @xted arch; we wero rattling over the cobblestones of a winding street Tt was too dark for me to see much of the quaint beauty of this pictur esque village. T caught @ glimpse of the timbered Rathaus, its gilt clock proud! conspicuous on the squat tow er, and of the fountain in front of It, its basin radlant with scarlet flowers | There wore little shops dimly lighted, ae Sy V7 7 x) Gal ae ee wie $ : We i CAVA | eo «i a ae ZZ 8 But | Was Not Blind to the Coo! Was Not Blind to. th their wares heaped about the doors and windows. As we passed, women and children dropped delighted courtesies, and the men tock pipes from broadly grinning mouths and doffed thelr hate. Evi- dently Madame de Varnier was loved by this simple folk. “You seem to be very welcome,” I sald smiling, surprived that the vil- lagers should have greeted her so cor- dially. ‘You are the Lady Bountiful to these simple people, I suppose.” ‘Bho «miled faintly. “I have been here for (wo summers. I am the event of the year in their stupid lives. I try to bring them a little pleasure. When I leave I like to think that they re- momber me with love.” “Thea [ should mot have said that the rlamour of romance {s always as- sociated with dishonor,” I ventured boldly. “I can see nO glamour in this ob- ‘seure village,” she replied, yawning. “Dut the chateau ts @ part of the vil- lage?” I persisted. “Monsieur!” she cried passionately. “You weary mo with senseless ques- tons.” : I smiled quietly. I wished Madame do Varnier to know definitely that st depended on her playing the part of Ciree or Lady Bountiful whether the armed truee was to continue, or whether there was to be open warfare. ene curmed at aa abrupt cea village street. We were ‘& moro passageway just wide enough for the carriage. [t was Ganked om either side by the housgs of the" vit lage; over the arch, too, was a dwell ing, Suddenly wo emerged in a court. yard large enough to permit a squad. Tou of cavalry to perform its evolu: tions. A low wall inclosed it We drew up at the doorway. I was wel ecomed by Madame de Varnier with exaggerated deference. Wo were at her Castle of Happiness. I felt the msincerity of the welcome. ‘They looked on me as a puppet to move only when they pulled the strings. I saw, too, that I had not left tm the hotel at Vitenau the character of Sir Mortimer Brett. But before the uext day was past I determined to know “nce for all the reason of this deception. I was de termined to put an end to this farce. CHAPTER XVI. aun Tene serie Sk ME ne eT Core ee eae] teaux worthy of a pilgrimage. This castle of Alterhoffon gave one the sim- ple impression of sheer strength. It ‘was primitive and savage and bare of pretense to beauty as its founder must have been. A rather squat tower of immense j solidity, the roof steepiy sloping, the windows narrow and few, it would Rave been commonplace and ugly in ‘the extreme had it not been for three smaller semicircular towers placed at each angie of the larger one. The ef- fect of this triangular-shaped tower, with its three supporting towers, was bizarre, but not unpleasing. It pre- pared one for an Interior unique and fateresting. We passed beneath the arched door- ‘way, severe and bare of ornament, into the great hall. At the left was the grand stairway, the balustrades of oak massive and dark with age, but ad- mirably carved. At the end of the hall, on the right, a fire of logs was Ddiazing brightly. The hooded mantel, otitis dens er cise or oak and | blackened with the smoke of cen- tures. A stand of banners stood near | the foot of the stairway. Not far from | the fireplace was a curious spiral atair- | case leading to the gallery that ran ; the length of the room above. Tapes- trios covered the bare walls and filled | the spaces between the narrow win | dows that looked out on the court- | yard. The furniture was of the period ,of the French Renaissance—corered for the most part with stamped leather of gold and dull red. T could not repress a ory of delight as I entered. I had passed in an in | stant from the world of commonplace jhotels and ratlway trains into an at mosphere of charm and beauty. For no matter how industriously the con: | noisseur in America may gather about him exquisite and beautiful things, he railroad train; he cannot transplant ' across the seas the charm of medieval. ,tsm that clings to castle walls. It is Jone thing to see the Cluny with a j Buide book; it fs quite another to find one's self a guest at the Cluny “You ike my Castle of Happiness?” asked Madame de Varnier, pleased at the pleasure I showed. | "it promises its adventures," 1 re piled meaningly. | “I have told you that your hour of j romance has come. But remember, ' romance In these prosaic days is a gift | of the gods given only to children and | poeta, a few women and lovers, and to | the very bold. If you would claim the | gift, monsiour, you must have some- } thing of the nature of all of these. ‘The | sincere trust of the child, you must certainly know what this ts, monsieur. |The poet's tmagination, hia delightful | power of make-believe, you must not | despise that. A woman's tenderness, jand a lover's ardor, these, too, are | mecessary. And last of all, the daring | of the hero.” | She had whispered these rather somprehensive attributes as I walked | across the hall to the stairease, follow. ing the servant with my bag. “A rather large bill, madam,” I sug ested humorously. “Oh, but I am serious, very serious. I assure you that ft is not sentimental talk” “I am afratd I must contrajict you ‘The daring of the hero, for instance, even one so optimistic as yourself @ould scarcely expect that of me.” “Monsiour,” she protested earnestly, “I have already told you that I refuse to believe you a coward. Do you be- Heve tt yourself? You know you do not, The task I am to give you would appall any but the bravest heart. It requires audacity, absolute assurance, and a clever brain. But I believe in you. You will vot disappoint me. We @ine tn half an bour.” Dr. Starva had stood with his back to the fire. He called after me, scowl- ing, as I ascended the stairs: “You will find, as I have said, that madam {s an admirable host. But if ‘the guest fs to be quite happy he must accept the diversions madam offers and when they are offered.” ‘It was not the words so much as the tone that menaced. It emphasized the conviction I already felt: Dr. Starva ‘did not welcome my coming to the cas- | tle. Am I reached the gallery I saw Madame de Varnier address bim al most fiercely. I was not blind to his sullen contempt, though evidently the woman was the ruling spirit here. , The sulte allotted me was at the end of @ gloomy corridor. I threw open one of the narrow windows. The ‘| noisy stream below, beatmg. fatilels ‘Against the walls, almcst deafened the voice of the servant as he asked if he | could be of assistance to me. I looked || out. There was a sheer drop of some 50 feet. | That fact vaguely disconcerted me ‘The words of Dr. Starva were a jarring | note that sobered my excitement ‘When I had dressed I was almost pre .] pared to find the massive door of m3 . Sane locked or barred. I had en tered ‘spider's audactousls | enough. To lye leet be les :| simple. * | The dinner was simply but wel )] served in a small a Ha "| my situation been less serious I mishi | sacs tt soume rae oar eiseonee Jer tn solemn if cynical obedience. ‘me 90 compla '& fool, that, lke ¢ = ae ee ae : I became more and more con ‘Yineed that she did not. Once even referred to the events of | tiersttet eos ae ee condition "i the i Seeosea can were T had been acting a part then, that, ‘would account for her confidence tn ‘expecting me to continue acting that. part. It would give her enéourago| ment that I was the willing tool she| Jooked for. And suppose that she really believed! that, did she think that I expected no} reward? She bad hinted that in sere tag her ends I was to serve myself as} well. But Madame de Varnier was| ‘not the kind of woman to believe that! ® man would be allured by a promise| ®o vague. Then the reward? She had protested that she had not expected me to fall in love with her, She had protested that, but In the| ‘same breath she had confessed a half-| resolve to bring me to her feet. Now, as sbe exerted every charm of coquet-| Ty she was giving the le to her own! ‘words. Ob, the reward was obvious! enough, if I chose to take It. “We will smoke our cigarettes tm my favorite musie room. You must hear Dr. 3tarva play on the ‘cello.| You have jad the plano carefully, tuned, Jacques?” “All ts im readiness,” replied the] servant, as he preceded us with can- dies Dr. Starva tid pushed back his chafr| cexoriy. For tho frat time since T had met him his face lost something of fes hoavy sullen expression, “sly fingers have not the practice,”| he said modestly, “but to play with’ Madame de Varnier—ah, that is worth’ walle.” | We were in the music room that Madame de Varnier had described to me so enthusiastically the day before. Dimly lighted with wax candles, pan: eled in dark oak to the colling, the floor waxed and polished to a dazzling luster, {t was a room almost bare, but ft had its melancholy charm. Thero was little furniture. At one end ot the room was a row of carved scats built into the wall. There were no pictures or tapestries. The one touch of color was the vivid fiame of blaz tng lozs. “The strife of tho world, its lies and {te shams, I leave behind when T enter hero.” said Madame de Varnier sentimentaily. “Look, I throw oven this casement. The noisy Aare drowns my voice, Beyond, you see the moon- light on the valleys, and still beyond, the mountains, This is your seat. Once this was a chapel; in these carved seats the monks chanted ves- pers; in the seat of honor which you occupy drowsed the father superior. When you hear the enchanting melo- dies of Dr. Starya you will not have lived in vain.” ‘This hour at least was Innocent. Perhaps {t was the Iull before the storm, but why should 1 look for clouds when the heavens were clear? ‘The long, darkly paneled room, its shinis floor soeming to rise and fall mynteriously in the flickering fire- Usght, the nolsy murmur of the stream below, the white moonlight that strag- sled feebly through the casement win- dows—all had {ts charm. And these two adventurers, unscrupulous and consctenceless, had abandoned them- /eelves for the moment to the Joy of ‘thelr music. I looked over toward Madame de Varnier. ‘The shiaded light of the can dies fell on her white shoulders. The splendor of her beauty had never seemed more seductive. I asked myself incredulously if this dreaming woman was the desperate adventuress whom Locke had warned me against Slowly she looked where I sat; T seemed to draw her eyes toward me. She smiled vaguely, a smilo that was adorable—yes, I could almost persuade myself that it was the smilo of an innocent girl, For a moment I was content to forget tho unpleasant task that was before me; to iyvest even the monster by her side in the garb of humanity. The servant who had shown me to my rooms appeared at the door, let- ters on bis salver. I held up my hand warningly to him that he should not disturb them, and motioned that he bring the letters to me. He did so without either of the musicians notle- ing bis entrance, The sonata of Beethoven swept to its glorious climax. I started to my feet to take the letters to Madame de Varnier. Byt without a pause Dr, Starva be- gan @ tender romance. The woman sat at the piano, her hands falling idly to her lap. Again she smiled across the room at me. But now it was no longer spontaneous. The lips held something of that indefinable cruelty of that woman of the Renaissance made fa- mous by Da Vinci. I frowned; I re- fused to mect that smile. |_ Then, as I looked down deliberately, I felt myself turn pale. A shudder ‘Whitpered, se as not fo disturb Dr. ‘Starve; and continued to sort her let- ters, s ‘Twas almost convinced of her inno- eenee, but not quite. I had yet my experiment to play. She had opened one of the letters and was engrossed In Its contents. As for Dr. Starva, he was lost to the werld. I took the envelope that bore the mysterious symbol, amd placing it in gueh a manner that the death-mask could be most easily seen by the wom- an, I begam to trace the likeness of Prince Ferdinand, meanwhile watch- ing her tatently. Mer letter was short. Its meaning had excited her strangely. For some time she was regardless of my action. But presently she followed the mo tions ef my pencil. as I traced the eyes closed in death, the drooping mouth, and the gaping wound. BUll my pencil moved slowly but carefully over the features of the doomed prince. I began to think I must be more explicit after all Aad then her hands fell lifeless om the keys. The crash echoed discord- amtly ia the empty room. Dr. Starva a La Ae aa a . aot a) p ey ripe ve a ENE ANI Mey Mee aes im. SO Ze | Se | | SS | His Hairy Hand Closed Over the looked up In angry surprise. Madame de Varner had fainted. Dr. Starva shuffled rapidly to her side; he shook her shoulder. “Sophie! Sophiet” he cried, and then he saw the letter and its stamp. His face was suddenly distorted. His harry hand closed over the letter. She held it rigid even in her uncon- sciousness. He unbent her jeweled fingers with cruel strength. Now he looked at me with the suspicion and hate of a savage beast brought to bay. “How much do you know?" his blaz- ing eyes asked. “And if I do know?* mine answered. Slowly Madame de Varnier opened her eyes. Equally anxious, Starva and myself watched her recover consclous- ness. Iwas quite convinced now that she had not been aware of the significance of rthat stamp. The horror that had deprived her of her reason for the time being proved that. The fierce haste with which Dr. Starva had snatched the letter from her lifeless hand and had concealed ft, bore out my couviction. Then if my surmises were correct, would she communicate to Dr. Starva her newly acquired knowledge? “It waa the heat, I think, and the fatigue of the Journey,” were the first ‘words she spoke. I heard them with ‘relief. Beyond question she wished to conceal from Starva that she had seen the death-mask. | Whether he was satisfied with her reasons was less certain. He paced ‘the length of the room, his head bent ‘in thought; his intertwined fingers, ‘moving agitatedly, betrayed his con- ‘cern. Madame de Varnier carefully avoided my gaze and played idly. But I noticed that if Dr. Starva had been enraged that she had seen the letter with Its death-mask, Madame de Var- uler was anxious that he should not know of the existence of the letter that bad excltod her. It had falign to the floor. When his back was turned she had stooped swiftly and placed it 4m the bosom of her dress, ‘Was the letter she was 80 careful to hide from him merely personal? Or was Its mossage of moment? If 80, if it were concerned with the strange game these two were playing, it meant that elther mistrusted the other. I welcomed such a possibility. That fact might simplify my own action. At least tt showed that Madame de Varnier was not abjectly the creature of this mfamous scoundrel. ‘The strained situation war happily relieved by the entrance of the serv- ant who had brought in’ the letters. Instinetively the three of us assumed 2 certain unconcern, as fs, the manner of the world before servants. He brought a card to Madame de Varnier. She took it from the salver quietly, but her hand trembled as she read the name engraved on it. ‘We had all three heard that name before. Its crisp, Anglo-Saxon nomen- clature gave one the impression of a strong, dogged personality that pur- sued,.and yet pursued. “Captam Reginald Forbes!” That was the name she read in a low voice. CHAPTER XvViIt. Capntain Forbes Intrudes. ‘There was a silence lasting severa? seconds. i’anfc was written on both their faces. Evidently they had looked for no such intrusion as this—above all for no visitor so inconvenient as tho king’s messenger. They had con- fidently edtinted on a clear field for the execution of thelr plans. That they should have been traced to the chateau so easily and so quickly threw them into consternation. Dr. Starva was the first to recover his presence of mind. “Whom does be wish to see this time?” he demanded harshly. “He asks for his Excellency, tho English ambassador,” replied the serv- ant, looking at me askance. “But if he ts engaged, or not well, he is anx- fous to speak with madam.” At first I was surprised that the man had not brought the card direct- ly to myself. It was strange that he IT WILL PAY YOU To interest yourself in promot ing the CIRCULATION of the RICHMOND PLANET. --- HEY PLANET SATURDAY...OCTOBER 26,1907. should ignore me if he had been given to understand that I was Sir Mortimer. But if he were in the confidence of Madame de Varnier he would do precisely that. Frankly, the coming of Captain Forbes at this time was a surprise scarcely less disagreeable for me than for them. To-morrow, or the day after, he would have been perhaps only too welcome. But now the intrusion was premature. It interfered with my own planes as well as theirs. More than that, I could have wished myself in a position to forewarn him, to explain my tactics. It looked as if I were again in danger of being caught red-handed in a criminal deception. More than ever would Captain Forbes be convinced that I was one of the conspirators if he discovered at this moment that I was not Sir Mortimer The man and woman conversed together excitedly in a barbaric tongue. Dr. Starva, it was evident, was vehemently advocating some plan; Madame de Varnier opposing it. But the shock to which she had been subjected previous to the coming of Captain Forbes had left her unstrung, almost apathetic. Hitherto the man had been sulkily subservient to the woman; now his animal strength fought for the ascendency. He was brushing away her agitated protests. It was he who commanded the servant: "Show this Captain Forbes to the armory. I shall see him myself." Again he spoke fiercely to Madame de Varnier. She listened to him in silence, her eyes cast down. He strode to the door stood there a moment hesitating, then left the room, shutting the door behind him. Madame de Varnier remained where he had left her, trembling violently, her hands covering her face. This was my opportunity to appeal to the woman, and not the adventures. I took her unresisting hand and led her to one of the carved seats. "Madame de Varnier, it is a desperate game you are playing." I said, sternly yet gently. "I don't know what the stakes are, but you are not going to win them." A white hand clung to my coat sleeve. "Why do you say that?" she cried, staring at me with affrighted eyes. I pointed silently to the card she still held in her hand. "There is one factor to be reckoned with." She tossed her head in defiance. "Dr. Starva has reckoned with him already, my friend. Perhaps not in the best way, but effectually at least. And the other?" "Well, there is myself." She smiled on me wanly. "If you were an enemy that might be more serious, I admit. But I have reckoned with you. You are to be my friend. You are to help me." "That remains to be seen. But the third and most serious factor is treachery." I added quietly. "My God! Treachery!" "Do you trust Dr. Starva absolutely? Dare you tell me that the death-mask had as little meaning for him as for you, until I showed you that significance?" "But you understood its meaning as well as he. Who are you that you should have this knowledge?" "I know, perhaps, more than you think, Madame de Varnier." "It is incredible," she cried passionately, "that I, the Countess Sarahoff, should be in the dark, while an American tourist—" The name had slipped out in her anger; she bit her lips. "Oh, you need feel no consternation. I might have called you by that name several hours ago." "Since you know so much," she said in bitter disgust, "perhaps you know the service I expect to ask of you." "I might make a shrewd guess at even that." She sank back, her fingers interlocked supporting her head. She remained some time in gloomy thought. "Bah, I think I am a hysterical schoolgirl." She shrugged her shoulders in self-contempt. "Say that you know everything, monsieur, so much the better. It will save the trouble of explaining on the morrow. For I shall go on with my plan. There is danger, yes; but I have expected danger. It is too late to retreat. I have risked all on a single throw. I shall win. Say that there is treachery—I shall know how to deal with it. He is not indispensable. Yes, my friend, I have a plan that cannot fail." "You are mistaken," I sald obstinately. "Your plan will fail because, if Dr. Starva is not necessary to its success, I am. And I—" "You will perform the service I shall ask of you. I hope, I trust, that you will do this service gladly. Not for myself, perhaps, but that you may bring happiness and peace to a down-trodden people." "If you were asking that service of Ernest Haddon it is possible that he might do it. 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Dr. Starva shuffled stealthily into the room. She met his distrustful glance with perfect sangfrold. "And our visitor, this brave Captain Forbes?" she demanded lightly. "Is he as persistent as at Vittana?" "Bah, he annoys me, this brave captain," sneered Starva. "He comes again to ask foolish questions. But I answer him; yes, I answer him this time. For to-night, at least, we shall have peace." Not without trepidation I thought of the shuffling feet and the shout. Dr. Starva, when crossed, would not be nice in surmounting an obstacle. Either he thought me beneath contempt or a great fool. I could have wished that I were armed in this Castle of Happiness. A few hours ago the atmosphere of the Middle Ages had clung to it and had enchanted me. But if its inmates resorted to the violent methods of that period I might be less fascinated. Dr. Starva again seated himself at his instrument. Madame de Varnier accompanied him as if nothing unusual had happened. I looked thoughtfully at this dangerous couple. The morrow promised much. The three of us were at cross-purposes. Each was playing his desperate game. Which of us was to conquer? It was not long before the little concert came to an end. The enthusiasm of Dr. Starva was not proof against the emotions of the past hour. Candles were rung for. I bade them both a quiet good night, and followed the lackey who preceded me to my chamber. I welcomed the hours of sleep. Tomorrow my nerves need to be steady. But the surprises of the day were to be followed by still another. On my pillow was a folded piece of paper. It was a message; I could not doubt that. But when I had read it I was completely mystified in two particulars: Who had placed the message on my pillow? Did the sender really believe that I was Sir Mortimer? "If Sir Mortimer Brett will call at the Grand hotel to-morrow at ten for Mr. Robinson Locke, Sir Mortimer will receive news of importance." That was the message. 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The Episcopal General Convention in session in this city, after much discussion adopted the recommendation of the majority of the committee providing for suffragan bishops with voice and seat in the House of Bishops, but with no vote. This makes the colored communicants' condition in all of the dioceses, where this plan is adopted, worse than it was before. It places the colored people in the same attitude in this country as that occupied by the Episcopal communicants in English colonies. Members living under this form of government will not be able to proudly exclaim in the language of Paul: "I am a Roman." As we understand it, even this decision must be ratified three years hence by the formal passage of a canon to that effect. Still, the discussion seems to have a most favorable effect, if we are to judge by the tone of Mr. Thomas Nelson Page, one of the most brilliant literary writers in this country. He speaks of our race as "colored" people, indicating that he has no desire to offend even the most sensitive of them by using any designation that could be tortured into a reflection upon them. In the Richmond, Va. Times_Dispatch of the 19th inst, he says: Inasmuch as this is my first General Convention, I can say with great truth that it is the best one that I ever attended. I have, however, heard men who have been in many conventions say that in their judgment it was one of the most striking of all the bodies of men that they had ever known assemble, in that they were liberal and yet conservative as to all important matters, and I can certainly say that I have never known any body of men to apply themselves so untringly to the work in hand. Day and night they have been at it from the time the convention assembled. One thing that has struck me particularly is the fact that they had in mind absolutely the transaction of business with the greatest dispatch and with the least amount of talk. No man would have ventured to indulge in anything like rhetoric on the floor of the house, and had he done so he would not have held the attention a minute. And again: A very striking characteristic among them, representing as they did all grades of churchmanship and many conflicting interests has been the universal readiness to make concessions to each other, and to work together with absolute harmony in everything which appeared to them for the good of the church and of religion. There has not been an ill-tempered word spoken during the whole session, nor an acrid criticism made. The fact is, the convention has been composed of a body of gentlemen of a very high order of intellect and, inspired by an unselfish zeal to do all in their power, individually and collectively, to further the work for which they met here. So much for the personnel and conduct of the Convention. He says further: If I were asked what one thing has impressed me most about the convention, I would say that it was the spirit of breadth, of good feeling and of modesty with which its members have approached the delicate and difficult questions touching the adjustment of the church to work among the colored people. Particularly has this been the case among the deputies who have come from the North. Their open-mindedness and earnest desire to reach the best solution of the matter has impressed beyond measure all of us from the South. The question has not been free from difficulties, because we have all felt the church needs to do more than it has done toward carrying its teaching to the colored people. We have all been imbued with the earnest desire to do better in the future than we have done in the past. This attitude of the representatives from the North is noticeable in every gathering where the membership is made up of people from all sections of the country. The general desire is not to offend the South, and this desire is emphasized to the extent of even humiliating the Negro to some extent if such a thing be necessary to keep in the good graces of the white cavaliers from this sunny clime. This feeling is responsible for the unlawful treatment of the Twenty-fifth Infantry at Brownsville, Texas by the War Department and President Roosevelt. Still, the average representative southerner is as cautious and discreet as is this distinguished Virginiaan, now a resident of the District of Columbia. They are all doing the best they can for the citizen of color. In fact they are his best friends. They just want him to know his particular place and keep Mr. Page continues: My own opinion is that the chief reasons that the propositions known and the Arkansas and Pennsylvania plans were not accepted by the convention were, first, that the appointment of colored missionary bishops would result in separating the church into two divisions, and, secondly, that we thought the colored people in the church were not yet ready for such a separation. This is indeed a diplomatic way of stating it. It is the same argument that was used by England in opposing the autonomy of the American colonies. It is the same argument now used by the Administration at Washington against granting autonomy to the inhabitants of the Philippines. He justifies the attitude of the Church as follows: While one element of them were earnestly in favor of such a settlement, another element, including a number of men who were held in the highest esteem by all who know them, did not wish to be separated as was expressed by some of them, and they desire to keep as closely as possible in touch with the whites. It may not appear to some that this contact is very close, but it is much closer than superficial observers would suppose. To mention one distinguished name, Archdeacon Rusell, of Lawrenceville, is a man who all who know him esteem most highly. His work, which speaks for itself, is making its mark among his people to an extent which is attracting wide attention. Dr. Page is right when he says that the contact of the colored people with the whites is much closer than superficial observers would sup pose and he is particularly fortunate in naming the distinguished colored churchman Russell as illustrating this fact, for if there ever has been a white Negro born in this country, Principal Russell is one of them. It is absolutely necessary for him to have the words, "I am a Negro" stamped on his back to be seen of all men in order for anyone to get even an inkling that he is identified with the Negro race. He is a handsome gentleman, of pleasing address and an intellect that is made all the more conspicuous by his transcendent modesty. He is the element to which we referred that make a race war in this country impossible. Arch.deacon Russell is one of the leading industrial workers among the race in this country, being in the class with Dr. Booker T. Washington. We hardly expected though that Dr. Thomas Nelson Page would permit a slip of the pen to place him in such an embarrassing predicament. We admire Dr. Page for many things, mostly for his evident effort to be fair towards the citizen of color on account of old times and the recollection of those childhood days when he romped and played with Negro children under the Christian instructions of his black mammy. He explains his vote in the following language: I, myself voted for suffragan bishops at last, because it appeared to me the best of the several methods that were suggested to meet present conditions, and I deplore, as most persons do, the statements made on the floor of the house that suffragan bishops would be scorned by the colored people because they were not in fact real bishops. Yes, we all regret and deplore THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA that suffragan bishops will be scorned by the colored people for they undoubtedly will be so scorned by the large majority of colored people, outside of the Episcopal Church and this will necessarily affect the Church from the fact that the strength of this great religious organization so far as the colored people are concerned must be drawn from the great mass of colored people on the outside rather than from the small number on the inside. Imitation bishops will not be popular unless such bishops are in the line of promotion to a genuine bishopric. In this respect, it will be well to take note of Dr. Page's words along this line. He says: The Bishop of London, over whom such a fuss has been made, and properly made, here recently, was himself a suffragan bishop, and the appointment of such bishops will give another opportunity to the church to see how far such a step will go towards carrying the ministration of the church among the colored people. The cases are not similar, for if colored priests are elected suffragan bishops it will be with the admitted understanding that it is a case of "thus far shalt thou go and no further." If we mistake not, in Great Britain, suffragan bishops are elected in connection with the communicants of the colonies. These people over whom they preside occupy relatively the same position as do the Indians in this country in connection with any of the religious denominations or Churches. They do not stand on the same footing as do full-fedged communicants, who can exclaim even as the Bishop of Loudon can assert, "I am an Englishman." For this reason, this makeshift arrangement will be unpopular with every citizen of color with ordinary intelligence and a reasonable degree of education. It would have been better had nothing been done and matters had been allowed to drift on just as they have been doing for the last decade. As was the case with the slave owners and is now often the policy of the Negro-haters, Dr. Page proceeds to charge all of this "Jim Crow" trouble to the Almighty, for God was responsible for his color and for his many personal characteristics charged up in the following statement: The suggestion that the church desired to Jim Crow the Negro, to use an expression which has been used in this connection, is absolutely unfounded. If we must use this expression, the Negro was Jim Crowed in Africa, and by the institution of slavery, and by his color and the personal characteristics of a vast body of them. That is, these things made a gulf between him and the white people and the church, and the personal good will and friendship of the church people and of others like them have been operating not to widen this gulf, but to bridge it. Dr. Page is right in his conclusions and it is hoped by the good people of both races that the effort to bridge this seeming chasm will be ultimately successful. For our part, we are of the opinion that much of the effort in this direction should be spent, not on the Negro, but on the white man. God knows there are many of them in "the gall of bitterness and in the bond of iniquity." If the effort was made to stop all of this wholesale abuse of the Negro, the arousing of the worst race prejudices by the parading before the people of this country the crimes of a dozen Negroes out of a population of ten million and the suppressing of facts in connection with the progress of this great multitude of the country's inhabitants, the situation would be improved. It is time for the Church and the leaders of the white race to crystalize a sentiment against the demagogues and politicians, who use the Negro as a "stock in trade" to ride into office. It was only a few weeks ago that so distinguished a personage as the Governor of this commonwealth went out of his way at the meeting of the American Bankers' Association to attack an humble and practically helpless race of people in an effort to vaunt the superiority of race with which he is identified. He was indirectly rebuked there and it remains for the great Episcopal Church to perform a similar service. Dr. Page says further: It is possible that the Episcopal Church will never appeal to the great body of the Negro race, but I believe it will appeal to the better class among Negroes, who by their character, training and education shall as the years go on, come to stand for their upper class. And the ordered worship of the church, will I, no doubt, both appeal to them and have its effect on them in contributing to uplift them. He is right. It is to this better class, so to speak that it has appealed if we are to consider education and refinement as the test. But it is this very class that is expected to have the most manhood and which will balk at humiliating conditions. It is evident though that those inside of the Episcopal Church have failed to measure up to the proper standard if we are to judge from the ringing words of Rev. Dr. Clark of this city. He is quoted as follows: Mr. Clark said that to speak plain ly, the Jim Crow conditions which prevail in civil life prevail in religion, and for his part he could not understand how any Negro man could be a churchman when he was side-tracked. This is our position exactly. No educated man, who has read history can understand such an anomalous condition. People tinged with servility and who "cringe the supple hinges of the knee that favor follow fawning," may not understand it, but men, free men will never submit to it. In this respect, color is no bar, Mannhood will assert itself if there, In a black man as much so as in a white one, in a yellow man as much so as in a brown one. When it does not assert itself, it is because, in the language of President Roosevelt, "he hasn't got the stuff in him." It is difficult for a man of even Dr. Thomas Nelson Page's liberal views to understand that there are "upper class" educated Negroes, who will not submit to indignities and insults any more than will he, and will be just as quick to resent them, even though injury and death will be the result of the exercise of such inherent qualities. Dr. Page states frankly, the cause of the whole trouble, when he says, To speak frankly, the two chief difficulties in the way of bringing the colored men into the conventions of the church in the same way that white representatives are brought are the apprehension that should they come in considerable numbers they might hold the balance of power and might use it by voting solidly together—this being the result of the unfortunate training of the re-construction period, and further, the difficulty of making provision for them at such meetings. I have no doubt in my own mind that the time will come when both of these difficulties will be removed, the last by the frank acceptance of the situation by the colored churchmen and the consequent provision made for them by their own people. This is rather a peculiar plea coming from the representative of a great Church, which professes to be the divine agent of the good and lowly Jesus. It is a frank confession but it is an unfortunate one. Certainly the very best people are in the Episcopal Church. It was alleged that the Negroes permitted themselves to be used by the white carpet-baggers from the North, but in this case, these "God-fearing Christians" fear that they may be used in the House of Deputies or in the House of Bishops against themselves. Dr. Page and his friends lose sight of the fact that in either case, so small would be the minority that a white man's proposition would win in either event. But race prejudice has always been equally inconsistent and unreasonable. Dr. Page displays his own weakness when he says: My own feeling is that there is no inherent right of representation in a concession by those brought in through missionary efforts, as there might be in a civil government, because the work of the church is spiritual and not political, and the machinery for the conduct of the business of the church, of which the conventions are simply the expression, is devised for the purpose of doing this work in the best way as may appear to the majority of those who have it in charge. However, this may be, this convention has endeavored in the most earnest, laborious and faithful way to find the best solution of the difficulties in this as in other questions without the least trace of selfishness or self-seeking on the part of any of its members. The first idea is to get the Negroes in as the result of missionary efforts and on missionary footing and then to deny them representation because they were brought in through missionary efforts. This then brings us back to the original propposition that of suffragan bishops. When that proposition has been engrafted in the canons of the Church, the last condition of the colored com municans of the Episcopal Church will be worse than the first and we can all join in with Rev. Dr. Clark, when the daily press quoted him as follows: The Rev. William Meade Clark of Virginia, said that he had never been so disappointed in his life as in the discussion of this question. He had thought the plan was to help the Negro, but the discussion seemed to be "how to keep the Negro out of the church." AGAINST COLORED SOLDIERS: The politicians of this section of the country never tire in their efforts to force the Negro question to the front as an issue. As an indication of this we reproduce a report from Washington as it appeared in the columns of the Richmond, Va. Times-Dispatch: A determined effort will be made at the coming session of Congress to abolish the four Negro regiments now in the army. Representative Garner, of Texas, introduced a bill to this end at the last session. It is learned now that Representative Shackelford, of Missouri; Hefflin, of Alabama, and Byrd, of Mississippi, will each introduce a bill of this character this winter. The supporters of the movement to abolish the Negro soldiers, which grew out of the shooting up of Brownsville by Negro soldiers last year, are counting upon almost solid Western support. The Aslatic ra. cial troubles of the Pacific coast will strengthen support of the anti-Negro soldier movement. It is said that the Department of War is considering stationing a Negro regiment in New York State on its return from the Philippines in a few months. This, it is confidently expected, will raise a storm of opposition up there, resulting in New York representatives voting to take the uniform off the Negro. It is known the President would approve such a bill in his heart. Whether political expediency would allow his giving open approval and support to such a measure is a question. It is a fact that President Roosevelt would approve such a bill in his heart? If such a bill could pass a Republican Senate and a Republican House, would he approve such a bill with his pen? These are very important questions and the distinguished occupant of the White House is awakening a world of apprehension among the colored people by his enthusiasm for the most rabid elements in this section of the Southland. We are unwilling to believe though that, regardless of his personal opinion any one could induce President Roosevelt to openly give his approval to such a proposition. We are satisfied that the attempt to rid the service of the colored soldiers can have but one result and that is to emphasize the opinion, already entertained in some quarters that the Brownsville affair was a huge conspiracy to accomplish the undoing of the colored soldiers in this branch of the service. If the reports are to be relied upon and white men are not enlisting in the const-wise service, it may be that the Negro haters instead of getting colored men out of the service will be forced to bend their energies towards getting them into it. It is not the first time and it will not be the last one that the colored brother will quickly forget the past insults and rally to the support of the country and flag that he loves so well. "It is the oppressed who forgives; never the oppressor." With President Roosevelt talking on this side of the globe and Secretary Taft talking on the other side of it the Roosevelt policies should be pretty well known throughout the world. Mr. Fred R. Moore is now President of the New York Age Publishing Company and is also editor of the journal. This publication is up to its usual high standard and is setting pace that will be difficult for any other Afro-American journal to follow. The editoria, page teems with brainy discussions of important subjects. Still we know that it is not Mr. Fortune. The last issue shows plainly that it is administration to the core and that Secretary William H. Taft is its choice for the presidency of the United States. The editorial comment of the Richmond, Va. News-Leader, which we reproduce in this issue is to the point and reads a timely lesson to those virulent Negro haters who would stir up race prejudice and keep alive senseless issues that should have no place in this republic. It is indeed fortunate that this article was written. The charge was that Bishop Potter had offended the sensibilities of some of our white people. Certainly then there could be no justification for us to offend him by unkind criticism, while he was our guest or after he had returned to his residence in New York. There was no need of any reference to the incident in the first place and this outspoken opinion of this able editor will awaken an enthusiastic response from every conservative, right-thinking citizen throughout this portion of the Southland. President Roosevelt certainly likes to talk, and he talks well, but it seems to be an act of imprudence as well as bad judgment to be threatening financial institutions and enterprises in view of the panicky conditions now existing in New York. He is after only the dishonest ones he says, but the way he goes after them leads the people to believe that many of the honest enterprises are dishonest ones. Before they discover the difference many of the sound, legitimate institutions will be hopelessly crippled and their stockholders and investors demoralized. President Roosevelt has the same time hunting bear. He notifies all of the wild game in the forest or cane brake that he is coming by moving the White House virtually into the wilds of this country. The animals have "horse sense" and they go in hiding. When he leaves, they come out again. We presume that the Negro hunters in Louisiana will have a better time to kill game from this time on than ever before. Even the birds know that the big huntsman is gone. —Subscribe to The PLANET THIS RAZOR Practically FREE With a year's subscription to the (Name of Your Paper) and The Philadelphia Press The razor is made from the best Sheffield Steel, hardened and tempered thermometrically and guaranteed. It's Particular Merit is its It's Particular Merit is its Shaving Quality $3.50 BUYS The Philadelp ONE YEAR daily, regular Fremont Razor . 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He said the company had been using automobiles in the effort to get the cash to the bank. He could not say when the company would resume payments. An attempt was made to close the doors against the depositors who were waiting outside the office, but they made a dash for the doors and forced their way past the men on guard and into the office. Police were then stationed at the doors. Many depositors soon left the office, but about 150 lingered about for some time. A detail of police was required to clear the Harlem branch. Secretary of the Treasury Cortelyou arrived in this city last night. He was met at Jersey City by Hamilton Fish, assistant United States treasurer, and the two were in earnest conversation during the ferry trip to New York. Upon reaching this city they went at once to the Hotel Manhattan, where several bankers later presented to the secretary the various phases of local financial conditions. FISH CLAIMS VICTORY Ferces of Harriman, He Says, Routed In Proxies Battle, CHICAGO, Oct. 23. Stuyvesant Fish has won the first skirmish in his battle with Edward H. Harriman for the control of the Illinois Central railroad. Harriman's defeat is conceded by his leutenants when the proxy committee met to proceed with its count of the votes. Attorney William Nelson Cromwell of New York, chief of the Harriman forces, went to ex-Judge Farrar, leading attorney of the Fish faction, and told him, that the Harriman people were satisfied that Mr. Fish was far in the lead in his proxy holdings and that the further count might as well be suspended. Mr. Cromwell suggested that all further action be suspended pending the decision of the court as to the legality of voting the 286,000 ence had met the meths were CIN the se ed an Niche son it." BA F. G. water Huds by a OYS Delphia Press regular price $3.00 $2.00 time Newspaper $1.50 value $6.50 FOR Cash upon receipt of your description. day—NOW! shares of Illinois Central stock held by the Harriman faction in the names of the Union Pacific railroad and the Mutual Life Insurance company. Meanwhile, it is understood, the scramble for proxies will continue and the-case in the courts be fought out to a finish. Aged Admiral Married In Boston. BOSTON, Oct. 23 — Rear Admiral Thomas O. Selfridge, U. S. N., retired, was married here to Miss Gertrude Wilds of Jamestown, R. I., at the apartments of Mrs. Herbert Beach, a relative of Miss Wilds, at the Hotel Abbottford. Rev. Edward Flits, former rector of St. Stephen's church, performed the ceremony. Mrs. Selfridge is wealthy, owning five valuable estates at Jamestown and Newport. She is sixty-five years old, while Admiral Selfridge is seventy-two. The couple will reside at Admiral Selfridge's Washington home. Confirm "Little Bright Eyes" Verdict. NEW YORK, Oct. 23—In the supreme court in Brooklyn Justice Abbott refused the application of Edward Ward Vanderbilt, whose belief in the ability of his bride, Mrs. Mary Ann Scannell Pepper Vanderbilt, to talk with the spirits of the dead led to his being judged insane, to set aside the verdict of the sheriff's jury. Justice Abbott at once confirmed the application of Miss Minerva Vanderbilt, who instituted the lunacy proceedings, to have a committee of his person and estate appointed. Sentenced to Talk to Wife. CHICAGO, Oct. 21.—Adolph Felder was sentenced by Municipal Judge Cleland to talk to his wife half an hour daft, but when Felder awoke subsequently he plied out of bed in his cozy home, 14 O'Brien street, cooked his own ham and eggs, ate it and went to work without a word to his wife. Paris Has Home Made Diamonds. PARIS, Oct. 22.—It was announced at a meeting of the Academy of Science that M. Charette, the chemist, had discovered an electro chemical method of making diamonds. Spectrums of M. Charette's workmanship were exhibited at the meeting. Denial by Longworth CINCINNATI, Oct. 22. -- Regarding the statement that he will be appointed ambassador to Berlin, Congressman Nicholas Longworth, the president's son-in-law, said, "There is nothing in it." Gilbert E. Giler Killed BALLSTON, N. Y., Oct. 22.—Gilbert F. Giles of Albany, superintendent of water supply of the Delaware and Hudson railroad, was struck and killed by a passenger train here. THE MYCRIT SATURDAY...OCTOBER 26, 1907. AMERICANS SET FREE Secretary Root's Message Has Quick Result. RUSSIAN POLICE OVERZEALOUS. William E. Walling, His Wife and Sister-in-law Were Put In St. Petersburg Prison Cell as Revolutionists. ST. PETERSBURG, Oct. 23. — William English Walling, his wife and his sister-in-law, Miss Rose Strunsky, who were arrested here charged with aiding Finnish rebels in a plot against the czar, have been released. The discharge of the prisoners followed the receipt of a dispatch from Secretary of State Root. The secretary's message was a short statement of the appeal upon which the American embassy was expected to act for the relief of the persons arrested so far as seemed proper and was prompted by a telegram dated Indianapolis from William E. English, an uncle of Mr. Walling. The police accuse Mr. Walling of furnishing financial aid to the revolutionary movement, but that is not the charge on which he and the other members of the party were arrested. The police found nothing among the papers of the trio to warrant detaining them. No conditions are attached to the release, but Mr. and Mrs. Walling and Miss Strunsky intend to leave St. Petersburg tomorrow. They say they have practically finished their work in Russia. All their papers and manuscripts have been restored to them. The officials expressed deep regret at the arrest, which they say was ordered upon the report of an overzealous spy who had been shadowing the Finnish revolutionists with whom the Americans had been associated. The two women prisoners were confined for the twenty-four hours in a prison overcrowded with young women revolutionists. They were conducted to a small cell S by 10 feet, but they said they had suffered no especial discomfort during their arrest. They told amusing tales of the laxness of Russian prison discipline. As soon as it was rumored in the institution that two American women had been brought in they began to receive visits from the other prisoners. Mr. Walling was assigned to a separate cell in the detention prison. Nominally he was not permitted to communicate with anybody, but he found no difficulty in getting a letter out to the American embassy, making use of the "underground" postal service maintained by the prisoners, who were aided in this practice by several subventioned warders. Tunnel Scared Emperor ST. PETERNSBURG, Oct. 23.—Considerable alarm was caused by the discovery of the tunnel near the Pavlovsk railroad on account of its nearness to the imperial residence at Tsarskoe-Selo, but the investigation made shows that it was not connected with terroristic plans. The tunnel apparently was being constructed by a gang of train robbers, several of whom are operating in Russia. The line of railroad which it was proposed to undermine was not used by the imperial family. Rogers Says He's Not Insane. MIDDLETOWN, N. Y., Oct. 22.—Charles H. Rogers, who was put on trial today at Goshen for the murder of the Olney brothers and Alice Ingerik, their domestic, laughs at the idea that he is insane and appears confident of acquittal. The prisoner has been examined and declared insane by three allenists. An extra panel of 150 jurors will be on hand when the case is called. No Saturday or Sunday Weddings, PITTSBURG, Oct. 22—Bishop Regis Canevin has placed a ban on Saturday and Sunday marriages of Roman Catholics in the Pittsburg diocese. Hereafter marriages may be celebrated on the two interdicted days only by the special permission of the bl-shop. This order is the result of the many scenes of disorder, often ending in bloodshed, at the weddings of foreigners. Republican National Convention, WASHINGTON, Oct. 22.—The Republican national committee will meet in this city Dec. 6 and 7 for the purpose of deciding upon the place and time for holding the next Republican national convention. Formal announcement to this effect was made by Harry S. New, acting chairman of the Republican national committee. Mott, Chief of State Banks, Resigns. ALBANY, N. Y., Oct. 22.—Luther W. Mott of Oswego, the newly appointed state superintendent of banks, has resigned, his resignation taking effect at once. His letter to Governor Hughes states that in accepting the appointment he overestimated the condition of his health. Mountain Rest Hotel Burned. KINGSTON, N. Y., Oct. 23.—Mountain Rest, a five story hotel at Lake Mohawk, owned by K. Smiley, was burned, together with a three story frame annex and all the barns. The loss is $75,000. Press Clubs Congress Opens. BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Oct. 23.—Delegates from all parts of the United States were present at the seventeenth annual convention of the International League of Press Clubs, which opened here today. PUNISH DISHONESTY Roosevelt Given Great Welcome to Tennessee. Declares His Determination For Remainder of His Term to Perserve In Fight Against Crookedness In High Places. NASHVILLE, Tenn., Oct. 23.—Never before was Nashville so elaborately decorated as it was to give welcome to President Roosevelt. Bunting, flags, banners and pictures of the president were on almost every house in the uptown section of the city, which was crowded with people from a radius of a hundred miles. The procession was through streets lined with great and enthusiastic crowds. It was headed by the president's carriage, in which Governor Patterson and Samuel Douglas, president of the board of trade, also rode. Then followed a battalion of the state guard, a company of Confederate veterans in uniform and state and city officials. At one point the president was greeted by thousands of public school, university and college pupils, who sang patriotic songs as he passed. Near the state capitol the parade was stopped to enable the president to view the tomb of President James K. Polk, after which the march to Ryman auditorium continued. President Roosevelt in his speech at the auditorium said: "There has been trouble in the stock market, in the high financial world, during the past few months. The statement has frequently been made that the policies for which I stand, legislative and executive, are responsible for that trouble. Now, gentlemen, these policies of mine can be summed up in one brief sentence. They represent the effort to punish successful dishonesty. I doubt if these policies have had any material effect in bringing about the present trouble, but if they have it will not alter in the slightest degree my determination that for the remaining sixteen months of my term these policies shall be persevered in unswervingly. "If to arouse that type of civic manhood in our nation it were necessary to suffer any temporary commercial depression I should consider the cost but small. All we have done has been to unearth the wrongdoing. It was not the fact that it was unearthed that did the damage. All I did was to turn on the light, but I am not responsible for what the light showed. It is impossible to cut out a cancer without making the patient feel for a few days rather slicker than left before. "I will permit neither the demagogue upon one side nor the reactionary on the other to drive me away from the course or policy which I regard most vital for the wellbeing of this nation." At Roosevelta, La., formerly Stamboul, renamed in honor of the president's visit, Mr. Roosevelt boarded the special which bore him to Delta and bade adieu to the canebrakes. The same train that carried the president away also conveyed the skin of the big bear slain by him last Thursday and the skins of the two smaller animals killed by other members of the party as well as the skin presented by the Osborne brothers. "We got three bears, six deer, one wild turkey, twelve squirrels, one duck, one possum and one wildcat. We ate them all except the wildcat, and there were times when we almost felt as if we could eat it." This was Mr. Roosevelt's summary of the results of his hunt on Bayou Tensas and Bear lake. Marconi Station Isolated GLACE BAY, N. S., Oct. 23.—A terrific gale is blowing here, accompanied by alternating rain and snow storms, so that the Marconi station is completely isolated with respect to the island. It is entirely cut off from the usual land line connections, and communication with New York can only be had by the transmission of messages by wireless telegraphy to Ireland, to be sent thence by cable to America. Frisco Worst City In America. PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 21.—San Francisco, politically and morally, has sunk to a lower depth than any other city in the country, and Christian America is responsible for it, according to a statement made by the Rev. Dr. John B. Thomas of that city to the synod of Pennsylvania of the Presbyterian church here in appealing for funds for the churches of that city. Bubonic Plague at Seattle SEATTLE, Wash., Oct. 23.—Dr. White, the public medical officer here, reports that a fully developed case of bubonic plague, and which proved fatal, has made its appearance in the Chinese quarter of this city. It has not been ascertained whence the infection came. Floral Day at Fair NORFOLK, Va., Oct. 22.—Floral day at the Jamestown exposition, with bright, ideal fall weather, brought out thousands of people to see the magnificent floral parade on the Lee parade grounds and a "Venetian fete" in the John Smith basin at the government pler. A "Little Church Around the Corner." BOSTON, Oct. 22.—The Rev. 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Standard? News Company. SIX AC+YLNET SATURDAY...OCTOBER 26. 1997 THE LOST TRIBES REMNANTS OF ISRAEL IN RE MOTE CORNERS OF WORLD. Types of the Jew Are Found in Almost Every Race of People In There is more to the history of the Jewish race than can be told by the records of that people in Europe and America. To think the the Jews of the present day world are limited to the types familiar in Europe, America and throughout the orient, without including the stage Jew or the Jew of the comic weeklies. That scattered remnants, mysterious and remote in origin, peculiar in appearance and traits, can be found in most distant portions of the globe, and that these are a never-falling subject of interest to the ethnologist and historian, is a fact less generally known. To refer to them as the missing descendants of the long lost ten tribes is comparatively easy, but it is no satisfactory or scientific solution. It is hardly necessary, however, in most instances to presuppose so remote an ancestry, as considerable light has been thrown in recent years on their origia and characteristics. Of these remnants of Israel the Falasah, of Abyssinia, lead the list in numbers and interest. They had long been known under various names, but A Black Jew, Native of the Island of Kiwai, New Guinea. have usually been termed Falashas or emigrants. Various traditions of their origin have been preserved—some trace of them to the time when Menik, the son of Solomon, and the queen of Sheba left Jerusalem; others to the period of Israel's captivity under Shalmaneset, or after the capture of Jerusalem by the Romans. They form an active element of the population, being masons, builders, smiths, traderm and agriculturists. Darker than the people among whom they dwell, their religion is Mosalam, based upon the Ethiopic version of the rentateuch—the they have no knowledge of Hebrew. They keep the Sabbath, the Passover and other holy days, with many Jewish ceremonials, some modified. Of no less striking interest, although limited in number, are the black Jews, or Beni Israel, native Jews of India. These date their origin from 1,600 to 1,800 years ago. Renewed attention has been given the last year or two to the old Jewish colony at Kal Fung Foo, province of Honan, China. A successful effort was made by the Jews of Shanghai to enter into communication with them and to restore the few survivors to Judaism. In Cochin, a state of India in the Madras presidency, is a class of Jews of fair antiquity numbering about 1,300 souls. They are divided into white and black Jews, between whom the lines are drawn as sharply as between Jew and Samaritan of old, but who follow the same customs and speak the same dialect of Tamil. In the deserts of Africa are Jewish tribes. For example, the Daggatuns, several thousands in number, nomads of assured Jewish origin, of which they are very proud, are found in the oasis of Tuaat in the Moroccan Sahara. They resemble the Berber Tuauregs; their settlement dates from the seventh century. Semi-nomadic tribes of Israelites devoted to agriculture dwelt in southern Morocco and Sahara, as well as in Algeria, offering a curious problem to the ethnologist. In central Asia is a peculiar community of crypto-Jews, the majority, 2,000 in number, living at Meshed, about 500 at Merv and some at other points, who were compelled to adopt Islam about 80 years ago. They are called Yadidin, and while outwardly conforming to the faith of Mahonet practice Judaism in secret. The native Jews of the Caucasus, who number fully 100,000, with their traditional claims of descent from the lost ten tribes of Israel, offer much material to the student. In Daghestan they dress in the Circassian mode and are armed at synagogue and when they go to sleep. The Georgian Jews are as warlike. A special type, the Subbatarlans, or Subbotoriki, is supposed to be more Slavonic than Semitic, but they are strict observers of Judaism. Thus, despite the ordinary view, there are Jews of all climes and races. and of variegled color as well—red, yellow, black and brown—products of the mixing of races, which is not rare in the history of Israel and generally ac-complished under stress of circum- PET SOUTHERN PULLET GETS ON DAILY JAGS ACQUIRES HABIT AT CASK WHERE BOTTLES ARE FILLED AND BECOMES A TOPER. New Orleans.—Chickens, though inordinate gluttons, are generally supposed to be quite abstemious in their use of intoxicants, but Herman Elcke, of this city, has a big pet pullet, with a fondness for "red liquor" that leads to its frequent disgrace. A barrel of wine, kept in the yard, was the temptation that led the pullet astray. As bottles were filled the observant fowl noted a few bright red drops trembling on the edge of the spigot. The rest followed in logical sequence. Investigation, assimilation, intoxication. Then it began all over again. The appetite was created, and the chicken has been piling up regular jags ever since. With a rakish cock of its head and a cynical wink, the chicken strode deliberately up to the barrel just after a CHICKEN The Flirtation with the Spigot Went On. bottle had been drawn. It eyed at the pendant ruby first from one side and then the other much like a bon vaint playing the light through his glass, and there was a quick jerk of the curving neck and the drop was gone. The chicken seemed to throw out its chest, then it rubbed its bill on the pavement a time or two, and peeped at the spigot, where another drop was beginning to grow large. "Have another on myself," this immoral fowl plainly spoke in the sign language, and the second drink went the way of the first. The flirtation with the spigot went on until seven or eight drinks had been absorbed and the wine ceased to run. The chicken wandered off, keeping a watchful eye on the big barrel. Another bottle was filled, and again the wine sparkled in the morning sun. The chicken had another bunch of drinks on itself. "Does that pullet ever get drunk?" was asked of Mr. Eicke. "Guess it does; acts that way," was the response, and out in the yard the feathered toper was looking more and more rakish, with its wings beginning to drag, its feathers disarranged and a general air of dissoluteness that was simply shocking. CAT HAS THRILLING TRIP Clings to Pilot on Passenger Engine for Forty Miles. Pittsburg, Pa.—A cat looking as though it called somewhere between Altoona and Gallitzn its home had a ride the other afternoon, and now the feline is located, temporarily, at least, in Pittsburg. The cat left home involuntarily, and the manner in which it arrived in Pittsburg was somewhat thrilling. When train No. 5 arrived at Union station the other night, long before it had come to a stop it was noticed that some black and white object was on the cow catcher. When the train came to a stop the object moved, then mewed, and then, when it had got its breath, it crawled off the cow catcher, and, all shrunk and depressed in appearance, walked across the tracks and lost itself in the darkness of Liberty street. The white spots on the animal were very much bedraggled; escaping steam or water had wet its fur until it looked like a drowned object, and the flight of the locomotive had made the cat wabbles on its feet. Trainmen say that when the train came to a stop it had its front paws wrapped around one of the signal rods like a condemned man clinging to a last hope. They say they do not know where the cat got on, but think that they picked it up on the fly somewhere when the engine had slowed down. Girls Steal Fifty-Mile Ride Sunbury, Pa.—On a dare. Sadie Mullen and Maggie Marr, two Marysville young women, jumped a passing freight train, expecting to ride but a short distance, but were soon horrified to discover it was a special en route to this city, 50 miles away. Night was fast approaching and it was impossible for them to notify any of the crew. Every moment they feared death as they clung to the brake wheel, both standing on the sill. The adjoining car had no end sill and their sole support was the narrow sill and the straps on the box car. The train stopped here in the yard at midnight, when the yard men accompanied the girls to a hotel and early next morning they took a passenger train for home. The Safest Way. Myer—What is the best way to tell a mad dog? Gyer—Well, I never had occasion to tell one, but if I do I'll tell him by long distance phone—Chicago Daily News THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA JAP STRONG MAN COMING TO AMÉRICA TO DO OUR STRONG MEN. Mountain of Fat and Muscle and His Associates and the Feats with Which They Are Credited. The little brown man is not always as little as he is credited with being, either in avoidupids or in muscle power, as Americans will shortly have opportunity of learning, for Hitachiyama, Japan's greatest wrestler, has perfected arrangements for his tour of the United States and Europe. He will have with him three or four other heavy weights, with a corps of attendants, to give a complete presentation of the ancient sumo—one of the most M. J. K. interesting forms of athletics in the world. Hitachiyama is the idol of the sport lovers, young and old, of Dai Nippon. His immense size, his great strength, his perfect skill have made him champion of champions, while the fact that he comes of a samurai family, and therefore ranks in the social order above 95 per cent. of the people, doubtless materially to the size of his halo. Ordinary wrestlers are held in high esteem in Japan; wrestlers extraordinary taste the sweets of adulation. Hitachiyama holds about the same place in the body politic that John L. Sullivan held in his palmiest days. The outward and visible signs of the wrestler in Japan, aside from his size, which marks him a giant in a nation where the average man is undersized, is the peculiar topknot of hair that adorns his head and the inevitable crowd of admiring small boys following his heels. In the wrestling season the contests form the principal if not the only topic of general conversation. The progress of the contests is spread upon the bulletin boards in front of the newspaper offices, where crowds are to be found all day long. Special sporting extras appear every hour. Every boy in Japan, and apparently every man, knows the record of each contestant; demure, slant eyed little women in the shops join in the general discussion, and have even been known to cast furtive and admiring glances at the men of might and fat as they pass by. The great wrestling meet of the empire occurs each year at Tokyo. There for a season of daily contests, covering about two weeks, assemble all the noted wrestlers of the country. Wrestlers usually take fantastic stage names. Hitachiyama, for instance, is Mountain of Hitachi—Hitachi being his home province. In private life he is Mr. Tianyifemon Ichige, the son of an old samural warrior. When a boy at the Mito Middle school his prowess in athletics attracted general attention and led to his casting his lot with the wrestlers. He stands five shaku eight sun high, which is about five feet ten inches, and weighs 37 kwamme, or 306 pounds. His admirers point to him as literally a "mountain of fat and muscle." In the size of some of these wrestlers is found one of the many contradictions which Japan furnishes at every turn. It is easy enough to account for the squat fat ones; but how is it that a race which merits, by comparison with other races, even if it does resent, the classification "dwarfs" given it by the Chinese, is able to produce some men who run six feet four inches skyward? Yet these men are pure Japanese. The explanation is probably a very simple one. In all races some men are naturally taller than their fellows. When a Japanese boy gives promise of being either very fat or very large and strong he is turned over to the wrestlers—this being regarded as a highly honorable vocation. Plenty of muscle making and fat producing food does the rest. Hitachiyama says his is not to be in the nature of a professional tour. It is not his purpose to give performances, but he and his subordinates will carry with them all the necessary wrestling articles to enable them to furnish a complete exhibition of their art should they by any chance be invited by distinguished persons to give a practical demonstration of sumo. It will be a very easy matter to convert the White House tennis court into a sumo ring. Stone Cloth. The Russians manufacture a fabric from the fiber of a filamentous stone from the Siberian mines which is said to be of so durable a nature that it is practically everlasting. The material is soft to the touch and pliable in the extreme, and has only to be thrown into a fire when dirty to be made absolutely clean. knights of Pythias, This organization is one of the most powerful in the country and its progress has been phenominal. The Grand Lodge of Virginia has jurisdiction over all of the cities and counties in this state. Thirty males are required to organize a new lodge. The benefits paid constitute one of its strongest features, but the principles are greater than anything else. Founded on Friendship, based on Charity and established on Benevolence, the respectable, upright people of the state will find it an order worthy of their heartiest support. It pays an endowment and burial benefit of of $200.00 for all ages. It pays $4.00 per week sick dues. The badge costing 75 cents each is the only absolutely necessary regalla. For information concerning the organization of lodges apply at the main office. The Courts of Calanthe Is the Female Department of the Order. It requires a membership of thirty persons to organize a court. Its members are pledged to exhibit Fidelity, exercise Harmony and prove Love one for the other. It pays an endowment and burial benefit of $150.00. It pays $3.00 per week sick dues. The only expense for regalia is the cost of the badge, 50 cents and a rosette, costing 25 cents for funeral occasions. THE BANDS OF CALANTHE or Children's Department also constitutes a feature and persons cannot do better than to enter the little ones into this mystic circle. The expense is nominal and the benefits all that could be expected. It pays from $1.00 to $1.50 sick dues and death benefits of from $30.09 to $40.00. If you have no Pythian Lodge or Court or Band in your neighborhood, orgrnize one. For all information concerning the Children's Department address. KNJICHIS OF PYTHIAVS C.B. 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 re- a rosette, costing 25 cents for f THE BANDS OF CALA- stitutes a feature and persons o circle. The expense is nomin- $1.00 to $1.50 sick dues and de- Lodge or Court or Band in you For all information concerni For all information concer- membership in the lodges and PITY THE POOR ARTIST. An artist gets this right along: "That looks easy." "I suppose you are a genius?" "Who tansht you to draw?" "I can guess what that represents." "You just ought to see what our little boy can draw, and he's only ten years, old, too." "Do they pay you for this?" "Why don't you put a funny face on the moon?" "Don't you know how to spell?" "Don't you know how to spell?" "There's a feller down at the business college who can make the loveliest birds without lifting his pen from the paper. You ought to get him to give you some pointers." "Can you draw your breath? He, ha, ha!?"—Chicago Journal. Society. The little tot in palinafores dropped her Mother Goose rhymes. "And do you know 'London Bridge?' she asked, innocently. The child of high society turned up her nose disdainfully. "How crud!" she exclaimed, moving away. "The idea of mothers teaching their children such nonsense as 'London Bridge!' Why, my mother wouldn't have thought of teaching me anything but 'Newport bridge.' Come around to the nursery and I will ring for some cards."—Chicago Daily News. "There are some pictures at the salon, children, which I don't wish you to see." "Which ones, mamma?" "I'll show you!"—La Sourlre. In the Current. Dolly has a bathing suit Very short and very cute— Shows a lot of stocking! Queser sort of material— "Electric silk," she says they call It—because it's shocking. —Cleveland Leader. The butler looked up with a guilty flush. "James," she asked, "how is it that whenever I come into the pantry I find your work at sixes and sevens, and you sprawled out reading the baseball news?" "Well, ma'm," the butler answered, "I should say it was on account of them old rubber-soled tennis shoes you're always wearin' about the house." "It Was "So Sudden" "Miss Eleanor," said he, as they sat on the beach in the moonlight, "will you marry me?" "This is so sudden!" she cried. "My love?" he asked. "No," she replied; "your nerve."—Life. Unappreciative. Young Man-Your sister sings a great deal, does she not? Small Tommy—Not when I'm around. Young Man—Why, how is that? Young Tommy—Why, how is that? Small Tommy—Because it's me up the back alley when she begins.—Chicago Daily News. Unkind. "George, dear, do you care for another biscuit?" asked the bride. "No, dear," replied the husband, qui- N. A., S. A., E. A., A. AND A. organization is one of the most powerful has been phenominal. The most over all of the cities and counties in need to organize a new lodge. The longest features, but the principles ended on Friendship, based on Charity the respectable, upright people of their heartiest support. An endowment and burial benefit of $0 per week sick dues. The badge, regalia. For information concerning courts of Calanty of 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 $44 your neighborhood, orgrnize one. Using the Children's Department ad in the most powerful in the country and its al. The Grand Lodge of Virginia has juris- and counties in this state. Thirty males w lodge. The benefits paid constitute one the principles are greater than anything based on Charity and established on Be- right people of the state will find it an order port. burial benefit of of $200.00 for all ages. It s. The badge costing 75 cents each is the tion concerning the organizaition of lodges men's Department also con- tan to enter the little ones into this mystic is all that could be expected. 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Anthur—Does 'the new butler know where to keep the wine? Mrs. Mara—from his appearance, he thinks he ought to carry it around himself—Life. "You advertised that you had found a pocket-book, I believe?" he asked the man who had come to the door in answer to his ring. "I did." "You say it contained a sum of money?" "Yes." "A very large sum of money, in fact?" H F Jonathan Fish, Oysters and Proud "And that the owner could have same by naming the sum found and describing the pocket-book?" "Yes. Go on." "That is all I wished to ask." "But you will have to give a description of the purse you lost before you can put in a claim." "Merely to see what a man looks like who will find a very large sum of money and then advertise the fact in the papers instead of hiding it down cellar. Good-day, skr."-Judge. "Look here!" exclaimed the irate suburbanite, as he floundered about in the green water and soft mud, "when I bought this lot didn't I tell you I had just been married?" "You did, sir," replied the land agent, boldly. "Well, do you think this is the proper place to bring a bride?" "I do, sir. Didn't I hear you call her 'Duckie' two or three times?"—Chicago Daily News. ACCEPTED HIS FATHER'S ADVICE. THE WOMAN "Johnny, doesn't your conscience tell you that you are doing wrong?" "Yes, mother, but father said I wasn't to believe everything I heard." —Punch. Corrected. Mary had a little man. He took her out to dine. But Mary had no little lamb; Said she: "No lamb for mine!" She ordered all from soup to nuts, And finished up with wine. —Puck. The Art of Milking. Suburban Resident—Yes, I want a useful man about my country place. Can you milk? Had Sampled It WHY HE CALLED. "Yes. Go on." "That is all I wished to ask." I lost no purse. "You didn't?" "No, Mr." "Then why have you called?" She Could Swim Corrected. PUMP 311 N. 4th St., Richmond, Va Established 1899. JOHN FOXEL. 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BEATLES SATURDAY...OCTOBER 26, 1997 BY THE GENTLE CYNIC. Patience is a virtue, but there are others. Fortunate is he who is taken at his own valuation. You couldn't raise the hopes of some people without a derrick. Few of us get stoop shouldered from carrying the burdens of others. The stock market is where the speculator hopes to clean up the filthy lucre. It is safer to say that all men are liars than to try to prove an individual case. Some fellows seem to hustle so much that they haven't time to do anything. A man may have a fondness for widows, and still feel that a Miss is as good as a Mrs. The best years of a man's life are those that come after his best years have been wasted. In spite of the fact that there is no such thing as the biggest half, most people want it. A woman may be as young as she feels, but she is generally older than she thinks she looks. POINTED PARAGRAPHS Friendship resembles wine—the older er the better. Women with pretty teeth will laugh at a stupid joke. A missing suspender button often leaves a man in suspense. One of the first duties of a Chri- stian is to learn to smile. But the busy miller doesn't kick because life is a continuous grind. Pessimists are seldom as tired of the world as the world is of them. Give a starving sinner a square meal first and pray for him afterward. If you could see the story of your life in print you wouldn't believe half of it. Some men would rather be thought rich than be considered rich in thought. A reputation for wisdom may be acquired by applauding the opinions of your neighbors. After a girl wins a prize for speaking in school she continues to talk forever after. When a man's wife goes away for a month's visit the chances are that he enjoys it as much as she does.—Chicago Daily News. SUNFLOWER PHILOSOPHY Some people buy gold bricks just to have something to kick about. So many people who imagine they are pushing are really standing on the rope. No man believes it is a very serious offense to steal watermelons, unless he owns the patch. Any kind of an excuse goes with mother, but when a boy can fix up an excuse that will go with father he shows rare genius. There isn't as much difference between a croaking laugh and a silvery one, when heard in a business office, as you might imagine. When you see two women on a street corner these hot days looking particularly amused it is evident one is telling the other what little she wears around the house in the morning.—Atchison (Kan.) Globe. MERE OPINION. A wise man never pretends to know all about everything. The happiness that comes over a bar is always very brief. There are no lamp posts along the straight and narrow path. Friendship goes out the window when envy enters the door. Putting confidence in a cheap man is an expensive experiment. Since she cannot put her hands in her pocket it is a lucky thing for women that her back hair needs constant fixing. REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR. A woman can like any kind of hat unless it looks like one. If a girl is fond of swimming it's a sign she thinks she has a good figure. It's not a question whether a man can afford to keep an automobile, but whether his creditors can afford to have him. When a man finds fault with the coffee and his wife doesn't get mad, it's a sign they are away from home on their vacation.—N. Y. Press. EDITORIAL WISDOM. Self-commanding is all commanding. Solitude is better than bad company. In sunny weather prepare for stormy hours. The red flag is the wrong flag in a republic. Continual self-laudation is sure self-slaughter. Depending on another destroys individual effort. Promise and performance are distant relatives. It is easier to break a young colt than an old habit. Strikes and riots are the skirmish lines of revolution. A hint will manage a gentleman, and a club a clown. The great commander never blames another for defeat. Paradise would be lonesome without generous company. Be gentle with inferiors and you show your superior nature. The conquered are considered wrong; the victorious, right. ARYAN WISDOM. Care destroyeth prudence, care destroyeth learning, care destroyeth resolution; there is no error of the mind equal to care. The understanding man grieves not in this world either for the eternal or the transient; for the nature of things is not changed for those who grieve. From little and great books, from all sources, let the understanding man take what is good as the bee from all flowers. What remedy against the blows of sorrow, falling unexpected, and ever renewed, striking between the joints of the harness? One remedy; just not to think of them. The wise man taketh thought for knowledge and wealth as if he were never to grow old or die; virtue he exerciseth as though death had already seized him by the hair. There is knowledge which alone is highest and which of its own power groweth ever great. Who hath discovered this knowledge, he looks down upon Brahma and the troop of gods with India at their head as upon a blade of grass; who hath tasted this sweet, to him lordship over all the world were without savor. O friend, seek not thy pleasure in any other swift joy! WOULD YOU BE LOVED? Be neat. There is a great charm in neatness. Be affectionate and sympathetic, and don't be self-conscious and ashamed to show either quality. Never appear to know more than the people you are with even if you are conscious that you do. Winning women are natural. People are quick to discern affectations of any kind and have a contempt for them. Eschew them. People find it difficult if they do not know where to find you—if they must renew their acquaintance with you every time they meet you. Don't gush, but at the same time don't be too indifferent. People naturally rightly enjoy having their charm appreciated. Be modestly self-reliant. But do not make people feel that you can get along perfectly well without them. In truth, you scarcely can. Be athletic, as that means health, and healthiness means wholesomeness, and wholesomeness of mind and body is an invaluable quality. PUCKERINGS. The fact that someone else does it is society's excuse. - If care killed a cat, remember that it is a 9 to 1 shot you are up against when you tackle it. - Colonies in the tropics never amount to much. It is said that no tropical colony has ever produced a single colonial dame. - It is some consolation to recall the fact that there have been occasions when the raking was done in the mere hope of finding one or more honest men.—Puck. The Loves That Wither. Three little songs he buried. All tears bespread. A song of love and a song of hope. And a song of this dead. They will rise again some dayspring To sunlight red. The song of love, and the song of hope— But not the song of the dead. -Edith Summers, in Smart Set. Collection basket gwine by An' loud de deacon sing. Th'ow back his head an' shut his eye An' holier: "Fly, oh, gospel—fly!" But never give it wing! De preacher say he wish he would Wake up whilst light is nigh; De deacon say he wish he could. But 'ligon do him so much good He got ter shut his eye! —Atlanta Constitution. THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA A FLEET OF BOATS WHICH NEVER FIRES A GUN. Pacific, But Tremendously Important, Mission Which One Hundred and Twenty-Two of Uncle Sam's Ships Perform. For years the United States has been climbing up as a naval power, and now is credited as standing second in the list of the nations whose sea-fighting strength places them in Ensign of the Lighthouse Fleet the forefront of the world powers, and nearly every American is familiar with the long list of names of the warships, together with their fighting equipment, but probably there are but few who know that Uncle Sam maintains another navy which boasts of no engines of death. In all the 122 ships in commission under its flag there is not a single cannon, not a torpedo, not a machine gun or rifle to deal death to an enemy. The ships are built without turpets, powder magazines or fighting tops, and the sheathing of steel upon their hulls is so thin that a bullet from a boy's cat rifle could almost bore through the wood underneath. But weak as it is no bullying pirate would be desperate enough to give battle to its sailors; no enemy of the Stars and Stripes will ever sink its ships. It is, above all others, the navy of peace, for it is the lighthouse navy, and its work is for all mankind. Without it the fighting navies of the world when near shore could never turn a propeller after dark, the commerce of the nation would be crippled if not annihilated, and passenger steamers, mail boats and pleasure craft would be at the mercy of the waves and reefs as soon as the sun was obscured in the heavens by the fall of night or the swoop of storm. Without its navy the warning beacons maintained by the lighthouse board would go out on a thousand dangerous coasts and treacherous lakes and river shores. Navigation would be standing still part of the time, and human knowledge would shrink and shrivel to the proportions that measured it before the peoples of the earth were able to visit one another across the soas that separate their homes. The principal ships of the light-house establishment are, of course, the lightships, which are moored at Lighthouse Tender Hyacinth bn Lake Michigan. Lighthouse Tender Hyacinth on Lake Michigan. various points dangerous to navigation along the ocean coast. But there are scores of other vessels, like the steam tenders, which are employed in delivering to the keepers of the lights such supplies of food, fuel and clothing as they need, and the smaller craft that the keepers, their families and employs use. Lightships of the first class—93 in number, including those now building—are fine seagoing vessels averaging 350 tons measurement, that are provided with lights, bells and fog whistles. Smaller lightships are maintained on the lakes and rivers. The oceangiving lightships cost in the neighborhood of $80,000 each; those in use on the lakes and rivers a little less. Of the vessels on the Atlantic coast the older and smaller wooden ships are stationed in the bays, gulfs, sounds and similar sheltered waters. Some of these, obsolescent as they are, cost the government as much as $50,000 each. The latest improved models have steel hulls. The lightship at Sandy Hook has a revolving lens light, the first ever used on a lightship in this or any other country. Another lightship, at Cornfield Point, Long Island, was the first electric lighted vessel of its kind to be built anywhere. The Sandy Hook lightship costs about $5,000 a year to maintain. Owing to its immense consumption of fuel, the Cornfield Point ship costs more than $1,000 a year to keep running. The lights of one of these ships will burn more than 1,000 gallons of oil a year. To keep the fog whistle of a lightship sounding its warning requires the expenditure of a ton of coal a day, so one can imagine that to maintain this navy of peace is in its way a luxurious necessity that only a nation with an ample pocketbook could afford. Suggestion for Bachelors William—Well, old man, I haven't seen you for an age. And how do you find matrimony suits you? John (sighing)—It's an expensive joy. If I had only known what I had to pay in millers' bills— William—You would have remained single, eh? John—No; I would have married the miller—Chicago Journal. Everthing! Everthing! IN FURNITURE AND FLOOR COVERINGS SYDNOR & HUNDLEY, INC. Leaders. 709 711 713 EAST BROAD STREET. MEALS at All Hours—Hot or Cold. Board by Day, Week or Month. SOFT DRINKS. VERSE WORTH HEARING. Twilight In the Rockies Twight in the Rockies. The towering mountain rears its massive head Against the azure sky; The wreath of snow upon its crest gleams red. An oak cedar, drawn high. As eventide draws nigh. The glitttring peak reflects the last bright ray— Great boulders strive in vain to stem the tide: *A* parable for me. The deep'ning shadows vell the granite walls In somber robes of gloom: Then Erebus, within these canyon halls, Weaves moonbeams in their loom. Far up the mountain-side, on tireless wings. The mountain is not. The eagle seeks her nest. Among the hemlock boughs, the night Concerning Birthdays Concerning Birthdays. I had a birthday not long since, But did not think it fit To give them a birthday so old I quite ashamed of it. It really is too bad, I think, That we should have so few Devices of the proper sort To keep our birthdays on, Or, if that’s happening too much, It surely would be fair To give us something guaranteed To keep them in repair. Perhaps it is exorbitant To ask them to take it But certainly, it seems to me, They wear out very fast. So fast, indeed, that looking back Upon the ones I know I think them less well made these days Than thirty years ago. However, I shall not complain Whatever birthdays be, For it seems more Each year that comes to me. —William J. Lampton in New York Sun. Arab Love. My faint spirit was sitting in the light Of thy knees, my love! It panted for thee, like the blind at noon For the brooks, my love; Thy barb, whose hoofs outspread the tempest's flight. Bore thee far from me; My heart-for my weak feet were weary soon---- Did companion thee. Ah! fleeter far than fleetest storm or steed. In the battle, in the darkness, in the need, Shall mine cling to thee; Nor claim one smile for all the comfort, love, It may bring to thee. Conquest. His love was sheltering, warm and sweet, Yet her soft eyes grew dim with tears; She cled the rains of sorrow beat Up her lonely waste of life; "How can I bear the days," she said, "When I am old and he is dead" But lo' a sharp turn in the way, A freshening breeds clearing sky; To-morrow is as yesterday When hearts are young and hopes are high. My Dearie. She's kissin' of my cars away— My dearie, oh, my dearie! A sunbeam on the darkest day— My dearie, my dearie! And when in storms no stars I see, And all my life grows weary. She comes, and cuddles close to me— My dearie, my dearie! She sees the shadows gathering fast When all the world is dreary. And says she'll love me to the last— My dearie, my dearie! -Atlanta Constitution. Her Wedding Gown. She sits comfortably aliken seams With loving care And many girlish little dreams Are hidden there. Are hidden there. I saw her lay her happy face Caressingly against the lace. With skilches neat The rococo hopes and fears— The rocoches, the smiles—the tears. —Mary Street Whitten in Housskeeper. The Cloud and the Sunshine. Do Sunshine will call the Cloud: "You may never, me, my heart." Everthing! IN FURN FLOOR SCENIC ROUTE ROUTE TRAINS LEAVE RICHMOND, MAIN STREET STATION, EASTBOUND. 6:00 A. M. Fast daily trains to Newport 9:00 A. M. News, Old Point, Norfolk and 4:00 P. M. All trains to pull-Pull- 4:25 P. M. manns or Parlor cars. 7:00 A. M. Daily Locals to Newport 6:00 P. M. News. WESTBOUND—MAIN LINE. 10:00 A. M—Daily-Charleston, Columbus and Toledo. Pullman Sleeper to Toledo via Gauley and Ohio Central Line. 2:00 P. M. Daily, Louisville, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis. Through 11:00 P. M. Pullman Sleeper. RVER LINE. 10:20 A. M.-Daily-Lynchburg, Lexington, Va, and Clifton Forge. 6:15 P. M.-Week Days-To Lynchburg, Sleep- ing Bridge and Clifton Forge. TRAINS ARRIVE RICHMOND From the East-9:10 A. M. 9:30 A. M. 11:45 A. M. 7:00 P. M. 8:00 P. M. 10:30 P. M. A. M. 7:30 A. M. 7:30 A. M. *8:30 P. M. 4:15 P. M. 7:45 James River Line "-S"*4:40 A. M. 7:30 P. M. R.F & P. Richmond, Fredericksburg, and Pote mac Railroad TRAINS LEAVE RICHMOND-NORTHWARD. 6:38 A. M—Daily-Byrd Street. Through. 7:00 A. M—Daily-Main Street. Through. 7:39 A. M—Week Days-Ella. Aahland Ac- communication. 8:40 A. M—Daily-Byrd St. Through. Local 12:01 Noon—Week Days—Bydr St. Through. 12.30—Week Days. Elba, Ashland Ac- commodation. 4:00 P. M.—Week Days—Bydr St. Wash- ington Accommodation. 4:54 P. M.—Sunday only—Elba. Washington Accommodation. 6:30 P. M.—Week Days—Elba. Ashland Accom- modation. 6:45 P. M.—Daily—Main Street. Through. 8:20 P. M.—Daily—Bydr Street. Through. TRAINS ARRIVE RICHMOND—SOUTHWARD. 6:30 A. M.—Week Days—Elba. Ashland Accom- modation. 7:50 A. M.—Daily—Bydr Street. Through. 8:25 A. M.—Week Days—Bydr Street. Wash- ington Accommodation. 10:35 A. M.—Sunday—Elba. Washington Accommodation. 10:40 A. M.—Week Days—Elba. Ashland Accom- modation. 12:20 P. M.—Daily—Main Street. Through. 2:45 P. M.—Daily—Bydr Street. Through. 3:45 P. M.—Week Days. Main Street through Exposition Special. 7:15 P. M.—Daily—Bydr Street. Through. 9:00 P. M.—Daily—Bydr St. Through. Local stop. M—Daily—Main Street. Through. NOTE—Mainland Sleeping or Pair Carons on all walks, except local accommodations. All trains to and from Byrd Street Station stop at Elba. Time of arrivals and departures and connect ties not guaranteed. C. W. CULP. Gen'l. Supt. W. P. TAYLOR. Traffic Mer. ONLY ALL RAIL LINE TO NORPOLK. Leave Byrd Street Station, Richmond. In effect July 14, 1907. FOR NONPOLK - 7:25 P. M. daily; 6:00 A. M. 9:00 A. M. except Sunday; 10:00 A. M. 8:10 A. M. and 10:00 P. M. Sunday; 8:10 A. M. and 10:00 P. M. Sunday; 8:10 A. M. except Sunday; 8:10 A. M. Sunday only; 12:10 P. M. Except Sunday; 12:10 P. M. Except Sunday; AHRIVE RICHMOND - From Norfolk; 11:30 A. M. and 10:40 P. M. Except Sunday; 11:15 A. M. and 9:45 P. M. Sunday only. ATLANTIC COAST LINE TRAINS LEAVE RICMOND DAILY For Florida and South: 3:15 A. M. 7:25 P. M. For Norfolk: *6:00 A. M. *9:00 A. M. *3:00 P. M. and 6:00 P. M. A. N. and W. by. West: "*1:10 and *9:00* For N. and W. by. West: "*1:10 and *9:00* For Petersburg: "6:00 and *9:00 A. M., 12:10 *3:00, *8:28 P. M., 6:00, 9:00 P. M., 7:25 and 12:00 D. P." For Goldsboro and Fayetteville: "*2:18 P. M. Trains arrive Richmond daily; 6:25, 7:40 A. M. *8:35, *10:45 and *11:40 A. M., *1:27, 20:5 *6:50, 8:00, 8:50 and 10:40 P. M. Sunday only. Time of arrival and departures and connection not guaranteed. C. S. CAMPBELL, D. P. A. He projick roul'habout Den roll de kiver fum de sky En let de sunshine out! Den he tell de hill en plain! "Hail the wind' deein' rain!" -Atlanta Constitution. The Spy. This is the silent fortress of her heart: I came unbidden and the gate's ajar. How was it I, who'd never played the part. In Love's disguise could penetrate so far? Repentance grips me as I steal away: O, "tis a very dastard's game I've played!" Better a traitor to my cause, to stay And live forever the sweet masquerade. -James O. Tyron in New York Sun. Everthing! TURE AND OVERINGS Mechanics' Savings Bank OF RICHMOND, VA. No. 511 North Third Street TOTAL $25000. It is paid and interest paid on all amounts above minus 60 days and over. Money loan- satisfactory Security. Business ants Handled Promptly. It is fitted up in the most improved style, built, burglar-proof steel chest, electric lights enlance for safety and the accommodation information concerning Stocks, Deposits, e. e. Cashier. It is arranged for the special convenience of as follows: 9 A. M. to 4 P. M. Satur- to 3 P. M. We close Saturdays at and open again at 5 P. M., re- ing open until 7 P. M. AS YOU COME FROM WORK. BAND BOARD OF DIRECTORS. Pres. H. F. JONATHAN, Vice-Pres. MAS H. WYATT, Cashier. D. D., JNO. R. CHILES, THOS. H. WYATT, H. F. JONATHAN, THOMAS SMITH, NO. T. TAYLOR, R. W. WHITING, J. J. CARTER. Pres. THOS. M. CRUMP, Sec. Richmond, Va. D. PRICE, Embalmer and Liveryman. It is filled at short notice by telegraph or tel- for meetings and nice entertainments. necessary conveniences. Large picnic or at reasonable rates and nothing but first- etc. Keep constantly on hand fine fun- 2 East Leigh Street. Residence Next Door.) BAND NIGHT.—Man on Duty All Night. Hawkin's HAIR GROWER & RESTORER STERED.] Money received on deposit and interest paid $1.00 which remains 60 days and owed on Satisfactory Security. Accounts Handled Promo Amounts of ten cents and upwards in this establishment is fitted up in the having a large white vault, burglar-proof sack and every modern convenience for safety of the public. For all information concerning Loans, etc., apply to the Cashier. Banking Hours have been arranged for the working people as follows: 9 A. M. days, 9 A. M. to 3 P. M. We close 3 P. M. and open again at 5 mainning open until 7 CALL BY AS YOU COME FROM OFFICERS AND BOARD OF JOHN MITCHELL, JR., Pres. H. F. THOMAS H. WYATT, C. REV. W. F. GRAHAM, D. D., JNO. R. CHI E. R. JEFFERSON, H. F. JONATHAN D. J. CHAVERS, JNO. T. TAYLOR, J. J. CARTER. JOHN MITCHELL, JR., Pres. 'Phone. 577. A. D. PR Funeral Director, Embalmer All orders promptly filled at short no ephone. Halls rented for meetings and Plenty of room with all necessary conveni band wagons for hire at reasonable rates class, carriages, buggies, etc. Keep const eral supplies. No. 212 East Leigh (Residence Next Door) OPEN ALL DAY AND NIGHT.—Man The J. V. Hawkin's Money received on deposit and interest paid on all amounts above $1.00 which remains 60 days and over. Money loaned on Satisfactory Security. Business Accounts Handled Promptly. Amounts of ten cent and upwards received on Deposits. This establishment is fitted up in the most improved style, having a large white vault, burglar-proof steel chest, electric lights and every modern convenience for safety and the accommodation of the public. For all information concerning Stocks, Deposits, Loans, etc., apply to the Cashier. Banking Hours have been arranged for the special convenience of the working people as follows: 9 A. M. to 4 P. M. Saturdays, 9 A. M. to 3 P. M. We close Saturdays at REV. W. F. GRAHAM, D. D., JNO. R. CHILES, THOS. H. WYATT E. R. JEFFERSON, H. F. JONATHAN, THOMAS SMITH D. J. CHAVERS, JNO. T. TAYLOR, R. W. WHITING, J. J. CARTER JOHN MITCHELL, JR., Pres. THOS. M. CRUMP, Sec. A. D. PRICE. Funeral Director, Embalmer and Liveryman All orders promptly filled at short notice by telegraph or telephone. Halls rented for meetings and large entertainments. Plenty of room with all necessary conveniences. Large picnic or band wagons for hire at reasonable rates and nothing but first-class, carriages, buggies, etc. Keep constantly on hand fine funeral supplies. No. 212 East Leigh Street. (Residence Next Door.) OPEN ALL DAY AND NIGHT—Man on Duty All Night The J. V. Hawkin's HAIR GROWER & RESTORER Has proved to be a fortune to many of the unfortunate, 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 it must be reissued us of its satisfactory results. We will use it as a large patronage throughout this and other Stages, 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 Restorer, we will from time to time produce in print the photo of the merits of our permission to do so, who have used our creations. among the many bearing witness of its genuine qu correspondence of those expecting a miracle or anyth ration is a natural and pure compound, the ingredi haste 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 Dandruff, Cure Scalp of all impurities, Restore Hair on Clean Temples or Bald Heads, where the roots are not dead. $ 35 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; $ 5.00s and $ 1.00. and are to-day less of its genuine qualities. We do not desire the miracle or anything unreasonable. Our preparation, the ingredients of which we would not just here remind the public that the United national patent rights on our hair preparation by in turn responsible to the government for honour, driff, Cure Scalp, on Clea Temples. among the many bearing witness of its genuine qualities. We do not desire the correspondence of those expecting a miracle or anything unreasonable. Our preparation is a natural and pure compound, the ingredients of which we would not hesitate to put in print. We will just here remind the public that the United States Government has placed national patent rights on our hair preparation by which it is protected and we are in turn responsible to the government for honest methods and square dealings. It will positively remove Dandruff, Cure Scalp of all impurities, Restore Hair on Clean Temples or Bald Heads, where the roots are not dead. PRICES:—25 cts. per box; eight boxes, $2.80 express prepaid The Face Beautifier makes the use of powder entirely unnecessary, and is perfectly harmless. Sale prices; 25.50cts and $1.00. Money can be sent by Post Office Money Order or Express Money Order. A charge of 10cts, extra is imposed on all out of city orders. Address all communications to MME. J. V. HAWKINS, 612 N. First Street, 'PHONE, 4601. Correspondence strictly confidential. W. I. JOHN Funeral Director and Office & Warerooms, 207 N. Foush HACKS FOR Orders by Telephone or Telegraph Suppers and Entertainments pro Telephone, 686. Res JOHNSON, Director and Embalmer, Sussex, 207 N. Foushee St. Cor. Broad. S FOR HIRE. Free or Telegraph filled. Weddings, entertainments promptly attended. Residence in Building. W. I. JOHNSON, Funeral Director and Embalmer, Office & Warerooms, 207 N. Foushee St. Cor. Broad. HACKS FOR HIRE. Orders by Telephone or Telegraph filled. 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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; uniting the separated and bring SEVEN [Picture of a man's face] EIGHT HEY LUET SATURDAY...OCTOBER 26, 1907 UNITED STATES WINS. Big Airship Lands In Canada 620 Miles From St. Louis. ST. LOUIS, Oct. 23. — Scattered through Ohio, with one or two in the vicinity of the great lakes and another last heard from near Chatham, Ont., all nine of the big balloons participating in the second international aeronautic cup race were still in the air at an early hour. A dispatch from Hamilton, Ont., says that the balloon United States, of which Major Hersey of the United States weather bureau at Washington is the pilot, landed about twelve miles south of that city and 620 miles from St. Louis at 6:15 last night. The United States crossed the state of Illinois, thence across Lake Michigan and Lake St. Clair to the middle of Lake Erie, when a change of wind carried it north into Canada to the place of landing. This is a record flight. Reports of balloons at various points in Ohio have been coming in, while Detroit first sent word of the contest, ant which afterward passed the Canadian border. The identity of only four of the balloons has been definitely established. Through telegrams dropped and addressed to the press the balloon America, one of the three American contestants, containing Messrs. McCoy and Chandler, reported from Marion, O. The message said that the America would descend on the borders of Lake Erie, probably near Cleveland. When the German balloon Pommern passed over Cleveland, Pilot Oscar Erbsbello dropped a note saying: "Open water ahead. All well." A note dropped at New Augusta, Ind., near Indianapolis, conveyed the information that the balloon passing was the Lotus II., the only English entrant. The French balloon Isle de France dropped a message for the press at Columbus, O. All of the balloons have gone to the east and northwest. One vagrant car was reported as passing Waukegan, Ill., just north of Chicago and on the edge of Lake Michigan. CALLS IT "A FIX-UP." Counsel Says Mrs. Hurtje Is Worst Woman in the World. PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 23.—J. Scott Ferguson, counsel for Augustus Hartje, at the trial here presented authorities as to the power of the courts and declared that where injustice had been done there was never a court that would not reopen the matter. Mrs. Hartje's attorney, John M. Freeman, after making a brief argument against the court's rights to open the case, diverted to the petition for reopening and was not restrained by the court. He declared that the finding of the letters was "a fix-up" by the other side. He asked the court what tribunal would reopen a case on the testimony procured from Madine, who at the divorce trial took the stand in Mrs. Hartje's behalf. In reply counsel for Hartje defended his client and declared he was a much injured man. He said if the allegations in the petition were true "there never lived a worse woman in the world than Mrs. Hartje." Two Dead From Rabies WILKESBARRE, Pa., Oct. 23—Samuel Burnett, aged seven years, of Malta and John Zoemertis of Dupont, nearby mining settlements, are dead at their homes from rabies, and Isaac Burnett, aged twelve, a brother of Samuel, and George Rega, aged ten years, a neighbor, were sent to Pasteur institute to be placed under treatment for hydrophobia. They were bitter nearly seven months ago by a dog, but no symptom of rabies developed until a few days ago. Parson Dismissed For Reading Bible. STAMFORD, Conn., Oct. 22. — Because he read from the pulpit the thirty-ninth chapter of Genesis, which tells of how Joseph resisted temptation, Rev. Samuel Durham has been dismissed from the pastorate of the Congregational church of North Stamford. The majority of the congregation referred to the sermon as shocking and declared that no such texts should be read in the presence of their sons and daughters. Frisco's Plague. SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 23. The totals to date in the babylon plague situation follow: Verified cases, 73; deaths, 46; death rate, 63 per cent; cured, 17; under treatment, 10; suspects, 38. BRYAN IN NEW YORK. Nebrakan Denounces Certain Metropolitan Newspapers. NEW YORK, Oct. 23—Before an audience that filled every seat and jammed the foyers of Cooper Union, William J. Bryan delivered last night what is generally considered his first plea in the east for renomination in 1908 as the Democratic candidate for president. He ran the gamut of personal and political themes, from sharp criticism of the metropolitan press to a mixture of severe arraignment and unstinted compliment of President Roosevelt, who, he facetiously declared, had "stolen the Bryan feathers with which to make the Roosevelt nest." "One of our great calamities," he declared vehemently, "is that in many instances the owners of metropolitan newspapers are unknown and that some of these papers are run not as legitimate business enterprises, but to exploit special interests. So many of them are owned by wealthy men who employ brilliant editors to chloroform their readers while their owners pick the pockets of the people." BRUTAL COWARDICE, HE SAYS. Rev. Dr. Long Attacks Roosevelt and His Methods of Hunting. STAMFORD, Conn., Oct. 23.—The Rev. Dr. William J. Long, the nature writer, was asked if he had anything to say about President Roosevelt's recent bear hunt in the Louisiana canebrakes. "Oh, yes, a little to say and a lot to think," was his reply. "It's a fine specimen of Mr. Roosevelt's brand of nature study. He went into the canebrakes, according to accounts, and got one poor she bear, with six or eight professional hunters, two surgeons, sixty odd dogs, unnumbered camp followers, camera men and a few dispatch bearers to carry out accounts of his heroism to a breathless world. "As a matter of fact, this chasing a timid animal with a pack of dogs and then shooting him from a safe distance when he can't do a thing to save or defend himself is pure brutal cowardice." Fransia Joseph Better VLENNA, Oct. 23—For the first time since the 1st of October, when Emperor Francis Joseph was taken with his present illness, the information obtained from all sources unites in declaring that the patient is remarkably better. The catarrh and the dry coughing still remain unchanged, but the general condition of the emperor is more favorable. He has no fever, there is less pain in the chest, his strength is fairly satisfactory and there are fewer symptoms of fatigue. —Mr. Robert J. Morris of Manchester, Va., now at the Richmond Hospital is improving slowly. —Mr. and Mrs. John H. Jones of Manchester spent a most delightful stay at Jamestown last week. —Mr. George H. Johnson underwent an operation for appendicitis last Tuesday at the Memorial Hos-pital. His condition is slightly improved. —Mr. W. Henry Jones, the well known collector has recovered from his recent indisposition and is out again looking as well as ever. Notice! Rev. Pope will make his first appearance at the Fifth Baptist Church Monday and Tuesday nights, October 28--3. 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. Two Bishops at Luncheon Let Southern people and newspapers refrain carefully from making themselves ridiculous by throwing fits over the fact that Bishop Potter, of New York, yesterday had Bishop Ferguson, a Negro from the West Coast of Africa, to luncheon with him. All of us in this part of the country rose up in protest when the story came that Presid. nt Roosevelt had invited Booker Washington to his table. That, however, is a different case. The president is supposed to be the representative of the people of the whole country and the White House is a public building, inasmuch as it was built and is maintained by the entire pub'l c. Therefore, the president, as the representative of the people and occupying a house belonging to the people, is required to respect public sentiment and feeling in his conduct while holding office and occupying a building owned by these United States. Bishop Potter is a gentleman living in his own home. He has a right to d as he pleases, to select his own guests without criticism. The attitude and behavior of the white man who tries to live up to the grand old name of gentleman toward the Negro who is trying to do the same thing is embarrassing always and continually presents delicate questions of deportment, etiquette and ethics. The requirements of hospitality and courtesy, respect for character and, sometimes, for position, clash harshly with the color line which we in the South, obeying both instinct and sound judgment, feel bound to draw. These are matters in which general rules and regulations are impossible and in which each man must determine for himself his own action, frequently on the spur of the moment. If the miserable race problem was not so fearful and constantly present, as it is, it would be important to discuss in a newspaper the actions of a gentleman under his own roof and in the privacy of a house which under the law and by custom, during his occupancy, is his castle, therefore sacred. The story to Bishop Potter's reception of Bishop Fergusson, however, has been braved and has become a legitimate subject for cussion. From our standpoint, we have no censure. We are convinced that no offense to racial prejudices was intended. Bishop Ferguson is a man of clean life and high character, an important official of his church, doing work for it where work is needed. Bishop Potter doubtless wished to honor the office and the work and the man. He is not a Southerner and the race question does not press upon him as it does upon us here. The best position for us in the South to take is to regard the incident as an incident and unusual and the result of somewhat peculiar conditions and put it out of our minds as quickly as possible as one of the inevitable consequences of existing conditions. It is not a precedent or a step towards social equality. We happen to know that Bishop Ferguson came here from Liberia. THE RICHMOND PLANET. RICHMOND. VIRGINIA MILLER'S HOTEL W.M.MILLER. PROFRIETOR WITHIN ONE BLOCK OF STREET CAR LINES THAT TAKE YOU TO ALL PARTS OF THE CITY TERMS REASONABLE SECOND AND LEIGH STS. RICHMOND, VA. 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. FIFTY DOLLARS or more can be placed in a way to bring a return of at least TEN PER CENT. For further information, address. ROST. W. TAYLOR. Investment Securities. 35 "IN THE HEART OF THE DINWIDDIE AGRICULTURE SCHOOL INCORPOR ADVANCED AND ELE in the Enlish Branche iculture and Domestic Next Session begins Octo information, address, Investment Securities. 35 Broad St., New York City. "IN THE BEART OF THE WALL ST. DISTRICT." DINWIDDIE AGRICULTURAL & INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL INCORPORATED, Dinwiddie, Va. ADVANCED AND ELEMENTARY COURSES in the Enlish Branches. Special courses in Agriculture and Domestic Science. 12 Instructors. Next Session begins October 1st. For circulars and information, address. in which country he is a pre-eminent social and religious factor, believing that his reception would be hostile and that he would be subjected to many humiliations, but in obedience to a strong sense of his duty to his church and his own work. It is gratifying to know that he was pleasantly disappointed. He found himself among a gathering of American gentlemen and has been met with kindness and courtesy everywhere and at every turn by the Virginia people as well as by the visitors. If Bishop Potter saw fit to step a little beyond the line which we of the South regard as possible in our intercourse with colored people, it is his affair and none of ours. And the less we say and think about it the better. (Richmond, Va. News-Leader, Oct Mullen Refuses to Testify Jacob Welss, father of Amelia Welss, will not be brought to trial on the charge of shooting John W. Mullen, because the wounded man refuses to appear against the father of the girl to whom he was engaged. The daughter, held as a witness in the Alexandria County Jail, was released yesterday by order of Commonwealth Attorney Crandal Mackey. The hearing, which was set for this morning, has been indefinitely postponed. "Mr. Mullen told me that one reason for his decision not to appear against Mr. Weiss," said the Commonwealth Attorney yesterday, "is because he did not believe that any jury would ever convict Mr. Weiss. He also said he did not believe that he would be entirely safe from a charge should he venture into Alexandria County. "The only consideration which will ever make me appear publicly in the matter again," he told me, "would be the arrest of some Negro charged with the crime. In that event I should not hesitate to appear and swear that it was no Negro who shot me." "When I was notified of Mullen's determination to withdraw his support from the prosecution," continued Mr. Mackey, "I knew that without his testimony I could hope to obtain no conviction in the case. "I then entered a nole pros before Magistrate E. F. Thompson, who was to have heard the case to-morrow, and I guess this is the end of the matter." "I want to say, however, that I do not feel kindly to persons who have endeavored throughout the investLation of the shooting of Mullen to fix the crime upon a Negro. There will be no charge made against Mullen, so far as I know, and of course he would have been perfectly safe in coming to Alexandria County to testify." $150.00 Endowment Paid. Lynchburg, Va., Oct. 15, 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 Charles H. Wells, who was a member of New Era Lodge, No 36 of Lynchburg, Va. Witnesses: W. J. Wells, D. D. G. C. Mc G. Higginbotham, M. of F. Pioneer Lodge, No. 28. Beverly Dismond. NOW OFFERED OPPORTUNITIES we can be placed in a way to fast TEN PER CENT. formation, address, Broad St., New York City. THE WALL ST. DISTRICT." NURAL & INDUSTRIAL RATED, Dinwiddie, Va. 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His $100 Twentieth Century Graphophone is a perfect substitute for the orchestra, reproduces the high priced Metropolitan Opera House singers with all the volume of the original in connection with his beautifully illustrated sacred songs and artistically colored steric/icon views which never fail to please the most critical audience. A rare opportunity for churches, schools, lodges etc., wishing to replenish their treasuries or for a church to raise its pastor's salary or coal fund. Do You Know Them 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 $150.00 Endowment Paid. Lynchburg, Va., Oct. 14, 1907. 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