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HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY DEC 9 1907 CAMBRIDGE, MASS. THE RICHMOND PLANET SENATOR FORAKER IS NOW A CANDIDATE He Formally Enters the Presidential Arena. Declaration of Principles. ACCEPTS THE ENDORSATION OF OHIO REPUBLICANS—A REMARKABLE LETTER-WILL BATTLE TO THE END-GREAT SENSATION IN POLITICAL CIRCLES. VOLUME XXV, NUMBER 1. SENAT IS N He Forma Arena. ACCEPTS THE ENDORS Senator J. B. Foraker made his formal bow to the country last evening as a candidate for the Republican Presidential nomination, by accepting the indorsement tendered him by the advisory and executive committees of the Ohio Republican League of Clubs at their meeting in Columbus on November 20. He thus sets himself up as a rival of Secretary of War William H. Tatt, for the support of his own State, and hence forth intends to compete with him in the quest for delegates to the national convention. The league also indorsed Mr. Foraker for re-election to the Senate, but he says this indorsement aside. His rejection of it, however, is couched in such phraseology that by some politicians it may not be construed as absolutely irrevocable. Yet it is beyond question that he has subordinated it clearly and definitely to his Presidential candidacy. The Senator's announcement of his entry into the race for the Executive succession is contained in a letter he has sent to Conrad J. Matter, of Dayton, vice-president of the Republican League. The letter in full follows: SENATOR FORAKER'S LETTER United States Senate, Nov. 28, 07 Hon. Conrad J. Mattern, Vice President Ohio Republican League, Dayton, Ohio. Dear Sir; I write to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 22d instant with copy inclosed, as stated of resolutions adopted by the advisory and executive committees of the Ohio Republican League of Clubs at a joint meeting held at the Neil House in Columbus, November 20, denouncing the proposition that I should be "eliminated" from public life, and relegated to private citizenship because in the discharge of my duties as a Senator I have been unable in three instances to agree with President Roosevelt, and pledging me their support as a candidate for re-election to be my own successor, and also declaring that I am their choice as a candidate for the Presidency. I am informed that there were ninety-eight members of the committee, out of a total membership of 105 present in person or by proxy, and that the resolutions were adopted by a unanimous vote, and with much enthusiasm. The names and addresses of those present, as published in the newspapers, show that all sections and counties of the State were represented, and that among these representatives are many who have for years been well known to the whole State as prominent leaders of the Republican party. I would not be insensible to such a mark of confidence and esteem if I could be, and I could not be if I would. But I do not want to even appear to be a candidate for two offices at the same time, and therefore forego the double honor proposed, and with heartfelt appreciation accept the support for the Presidential candidacy which the committees have so generously tendered. Nevertheless, I want to say that far beyond anything personal to myself, I am gratified by the action taken because it is a flat rebuke to the suggestion that the office of United States Senator is to be stripped of all the real honor attached to it by making its incumbent a mere agent to register the degrees of some body else instead of the representative of a State charged with the constitutional duty of legislating according to his best judgment for the welfare of a great nation, accountable to his constituency for his acts and votes, but to nobody else. I regard it of far greater importance to uphold and protect the dignity and usefulness of the Senatorial office than that any particular man should be chosen to fill it. As our fathers created it the place is one of the most important in the government, and any man might well feel highly honored to hold it, but if it is to be degraded into a mere agency no self-respecting man can desire to hold it. I not only stand for the broad principles involved, but also stand ready to submit to my constituents for their judgment not only my action in the three instances when I was unable to agree with the President, but my entire record. I may have made mistakes, but no speech or vote or other act will be found that was not in accordance with a conscientious judgment formed by the ald of the best light at the time attainable. THINKS MAJORITY IS WITH HIM My action on the question of joint Statehood and in the Brownsville matter your committees have approved, as I believe the great majority of Republicans do everywhere. There are doubtless yet many who criticise my vote on the rate bill, but if the assurances with which my mail is filled, coming as they do from every section of the country, are not misleading, the number of these critics is rapidly diminishing. In the debates on that measure I took palms to point out that if the government took upon itself the duty and responsibility of making rates, it would of necessity have to determine not only now much a railroad should be allowed to make, but also how much it should be allowed to spend—how much for operation, for extensions, for equipment, and for other item of necessary expenditure, all of which it is impossible for a government to do successfully and satisfactorily, and that the result would inevitably be that just at the time when a rapidly increasing business for the roads was making it necessary for them to raise hundreds of millions annually for increasing their tracks, cars, and general facilities we would impair the confidence of investors in their stocks and bonds and thereby not only make it impossible for the roads to sell the additional securities necessary for such purposes, but lead many of the holders of them, both at home and abroad, to dispose of what were already outstanding, and that in consequence the market would be so largely oversupplied that their values would shrink, dragging down all kinds of securities with them until panic and disaster would take the place of confidence and prosperity. RESPONSIBLE FOR FINANCIAL CONDITIONS. To say "I told you so" is always ungrateful, but it is, I trust, permissible to point out that from the day the rate bill passed the trend COLORED PEOPLE WANTED Ready to Fight Consumption. The Tuberculosis or Consumption Exhibit will be held at the Old Bijon Theatre, 8th and Broad Street December 16th to 23d, 1907 under the auspices of the National Association for the study and prevention of consumption. All colored people are urged to go and see this exhibit and listen to the lectures. Special seats will be reserved for colored people at these special meetings. A dispensary has been opened at the Women's League and Training School at 414 N. Third St. Dr. R. E. Jones is there and patients are welcomed at this place. —Contractor D. J. Farrar and Brick Contractor W. P. Quarles are erecting a three story flat for Mr. A. D. Price at 208 E. Leigh Street. —Rev. J. E. Brown of Fredericksburg, Va. is in the city, the guest of his daughter, Mrs. W. H. Stokes. —It is reported that Mr. I. J. Miller will occupy the store at the North-east corner of Second and Broad Streets, but he declines to confirm the rumor. RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1907. KNIGHTS OF KHORASSAN Mecca Temple of the Improved, Dramatic Order of Knights of Khorassan observed its first anniversary last Monday night at the Pythian Castle, 727 N. Third Street, under the leadership of Royal Vizier John Mitchell, Jr. and the Venerable Sheik W. F. Graham. The electric lights on the front made a most beautiful appearance as the members filed out of the hall with the red fezes and black suits while the degree team wore the spectaculair uniform of the Order. The large tiger heads worn by some of the members were a feature, The Municipal Band furnished music. Nearly fifty youngsters with lighted torches accompanied the Temple and presented a wierd appearance along the route. Blue and red lights were also burned along the route. Col. John R. Chiles, 316 W. Leigh Street had his residence decorated in honor of the event. The route was from the Castle to Baker, to Brook Avenue, to Leigh, to Secona to Broad, to -Sixth, to Baker, to Third, to the Castle, Sahib E. W. R. Glenn was Chief Marshall, while Sir Isaiah Love was chairman of the committee on the supper. The band occupied the rostrum in the Concert Hall and rendered many selections. All were then ushered to the dining hall where a magnificent repast was served. The order was excellent and the parade admitted to be one of the best of the kind ever seen in this city. MUDDLE OVER BROWNSVILLE Three Reports from the Senate Committee Probable. [Washington Post, December 3, '07.] There is a bad mixup in the Senate Committee on Military Affairs in its attempt to reach an agreement on the character and scope of the report which it will make to the Senate of its investigation of the affray at Brownsville, Texas, in August, 1906 which resulted in the dismissal of three companies of Negro troops from the army by President Roosevelt. After a long discussion yesterday the committee adjourned until Thursday. It is certain that its report will not be submitted to the Senate until next week. The membership of the committee is very much divided. Senators Fulton, of Oregon and Hemenway of Indiana, about whose attitude there has been considerable uncertainty, made it plain at yesterday's meeting that they would join with the majority to sustain the contention of President Roosevelt that the Negro soldiers were responsible for "shooting up" Brownsville. But some of the Republicans who will sign the majority report want to qualify their approval of the President's action in dismissing the Negro troops by recommending that all the discharged colliers who can show that they were not concerned in the raid and did not try to conceal the identity of the guilty persons, shall be restored to the army. The four Democrats who will join in the majority report object to any such qualification. They hold that none of the discharged soldiers should be reinstated, and want to make a recommendation that all colored men shall be excluded from enlistment. The five Republicans who will join the Democrats in fixing the responsibility for the raid on the Negro troops will not go that far. Senators Foraker, Scott, and Bulkeley, the Republicans who will submit a minority report, will hold that the evidence does not warrant fastening the guilt upon the discharged soldiers, and may recommend that all the men discharged be restored to the army immediately. It seems to be pretty well established that three reports will be submitted by the committee. — Subscribe to The PLANET. On ly $1.50 per year. Notes From The Sixteenth Street Baptist Church. Huntington, W. Va., Nov. 22, '07. Editor of The PLANET, Dear Sir: Please allow us space in your most valuable paper to say a few words concerning our Church and its people. We are proud to say to the Baptist Brotherhood of this country that we are neither dead nor asleep, but that we are alive and wide awake to the great work of the Evangelization of the world and that peace and prosperity reign supremely within our walls. Rev. S. A. Thurston, a graduate of the Virginia Union University, Richmond, Va., who was called to the pastorate of our Church about twelve months ago has proven himself first of all to be a Christian gentleman in every sense of the word, a wise and efficient leader, a preacher of no mean reputation and a veritable ecclesiastical giant. We love, honor and respect him for his noble worth. He is honored and respected by the population of the city, both white and colored. As a shepherd he is kind, meek, gentle and loving. We have just closed a very successful revival. Christians have been revived, backsliders reclaimed, sinners have been converted and the entire community has been spiritually awakened. Rev. Thurston was ably assisted by his father, Rev. Albert Thurston of Louisa, Va., and by the pastors and members of the sister Churches of the city. Able sermons were preached by the following Divines of the vity, viz.: Rev. I. V. Bryant, Rev R. D. W. Meadows and Rev S. A. Lewis. The Sabbath School under the supervision of Bro. G. W. Winston is in a flourishing condition. Bro. Winston is a very useful young man in the Lord's service. Bro. G. W. Hughes is a man of inestimable value to us. He keeps a good, clear record of all the proceedings of our Church, and sees that nothing goes wrong. Dr. W. R. Franklin is rendering very valuable assistance to our choir. He is a young man of rare scholarly attainments. The Foreign Mission Society under the leadership of Miss S. A. Wilkins, a brilliant young lady of our Church and a teacher in the Douglass High School, is doing a very commendable work. Circles A. B and C, presided over by Sister M. L. Mangrum, Miss Regellar Carter and Mr. Willie Mills are rendering invaluable aid to the financial feature of the church. We have a very strong Deacon Board. They seem to be united in the bonds of love and friendship, and have the interest of their Church at heart, viz.: Hon. W. H. Harris, G. W. Winston Alex. Winston, John Watson, McPherson W. J. Jackson, A. D. Brown, Thomas Wilkins, Bro. Reid and C. S. McLain. Sister A. D. Brown the wife of Bro. A. D. Brown, who is associated with the Bluefield Institute, Bluefield, W. Va., visited us on the third Sunday of this month and showed her appreciation of her Church by bringing us the sum of $8.05. May the Loss to you and crown her efforts with success. Yours for the cause of Christ, ROSA CARTER. Rev. Howard Elected President. Rev. G. B. Howard, D. D., pastor of Giffle Baptist Church has been elected President of Virginia Theological Seminary and College at Lynchburg, Va. We learn that he will accept. —Rev. R. A. Jackson, Missionary to South Africa called on us. His family is now located at Newark, N. J. He gave a most interesting account of his labors there. He is under the Foreign Mission Board of the National Baptist Convention. REV. DR. ATKINS' APPEAL. His Church Destroyed by Fire People Homeless. Charlottesville, Va., Dec. 2, '07. To the Editor of The Richmond PLANET. I have just returned from Pittsburg, Pa. and other cities West where I was invited to deliver a series of sermons and addresses. On our return home we found that the Ebenezer Baptist Church had been destroyed by fire. With a very small insurance. Pittsburg is a city of hills as much as Rome ever was though I think there must be more than seven there. As we passed from one hill top to another our venerable guide was full of the information for which I was eager. We found that the city was growing on every side, new streets and avenues were being opened and the sound of the hammers in many quarters told of the multiplication of dwellings to provide for the increase of the great influx to people. Like other cities in mountainous regions it has a broad expanse, stretching from the mountains to the River with its head lifted in the cloud while its feet are dipped in the father of waters. This is truly an Alpine region. Prof. J. D. Mahonny, the principal of the Avery Trade School gave me the following information. He said there were 19 colored doctors in Pittsburg, 37 colored churches and two years ago the Negroes of Pittsburg were paying taxes on $215,000 worth of real estate. He also told me of two banks where Negroes deposited from $400 to $500 per week. I thought to myself and suggested to my friend to start a bank for the Negroes of Pittsburg. It is said there are 31,000 colored people in this great city who average from $1.50 to $3.25 per day. It was our pleasure to visit the colored Baptist Conference of preachers while in the city. It was at the Conference we saw mind rivalling mind, the kindled eye of aspiration, the rushing opinions of hope, the advancing strides or science, the contest of truth and error, light and darkness, knowledge and ignorance virtue and vice. The clink of machinery, the hoarse whisper of ambition, the thunder tread of civilization. This conference is ably presided over by the Rev. R. R. Jones, D. D. formerly of Roanoke, Va., but now of Homestead, Pa. Dr. Jones is a man with natural ability, modest and affable and a parliamentarian of the old school. God bless Dr. Jones and his Conference. We are now struggling to raise ($200.00 two thousand dollars to rebuild our Church. The members are working with the pastor Hike Trogs to raise this amount. Yours with best wishes. THOS. D. ATKINS, B. D., Th. D. Pastor Ebenezer Baptist Church, Charlotteville, Va. Resolutions. Resolved, That we extend our heartfelt sympathy to the bereaved family. Resolved, That peace and harmony may ever reign in our meetings and that, God may bless us with success in the future. Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be spread on the minutes and a copy be sent to the PLANET for publication. "Gone, but not forgotten." "Gone but not forgotten." Sister Sarah J. Russell departed this Life October 19, 1907 in full triumph of faith. She lived a consistent Christian for many years. She was a member of the Methodist Church at which the funeral services were held on October 23rd. She leaves a husband, one sister, two sons, one daughter and a host of friends to mourn their loss. She was also a member of Pulaski Court No. 69, I. O. of C., holding the office of Worthy Orator at the time of her death. "Peaceful be thy slumber ever, All thy warfare now is o'er; Thou wilt wake to sorrow never, Conflict thou shall know no more. "Peaceful has thy spirit left us, And thy parting gives no pain, Tho' thy gain has bereft us We shall meet to live again." MRS. S. J. MURPHY. MRS. JOSEPHINE MOSLEY. MRS. VICTORIA THOMPSON. Committee. Resolutions. "Teach me the number of my days O! Lord, that I may apply my heart unto wisdom." Richmond, Va., Nov. 10, 07. Like a crouching beast ready to devour its prey so the grim and shadowy form of death stole upon and with one mighty stroke cut down our Sir Knight and Brother, Griffin B. Bagby and while our hearts are sad yet we must bow humbly and sub- missively to the will of him who dooth all things well and say, "Glory to be God, and to the Son and to the Holy Ghost as it was in the beginning is now and ever shall be." He was a faithful member, a worthy Knight and a Christian gentleman. We pray that his wife and children will accept our sympathies in this hour of bereavement and that she may fully recognize that she has in North Star Lodge No. 52, K. of P. a true friend. Resolved. First. That a copy of those resolutions be published in the Riechert MET. Resolved. Second. That a copy be spread upon our minutes. Resolved. Third. That a copy be Resolved. Third. That a copy be presented to the family. presented to the family. Done by order of North Star Lodge No. 52, K. of B. JOHN ALLEN, C. C. W. H. COY, K. of R. & S. WALTER MINOR. W. H. NEWTON. DAVID BRAXTON, Ch. Committee. Baltimore Negroes Forging Ahead. The State Industrial Fair of the colored people of Baltimore and Maryland, being held under the auspices of the Most Worshipful United Grand Lodge of Masons, was formally opened at the Centre Market Hall last night by Mayor Mahool. Some of the foremost citizens of Baltimore were on hand, and they congratulated the colored people on the showing they have made in the industrial and educational exhibits on display. The gathering was called to order by J. L. H. Smith, the grand master of the Masonic Lodge, who made the opening address. The first speaker stated that the fair is being held to show the whole world that the Negroes of Maryland are not standing still, but, on the other hand are making great strides in the race of life. "We want to encourage the colored people of the state to own their own homes, to do well on the money side of this so-called race question and thereby cultivate the best kind of relations without white citizens. By learning to be mechanics and farmers we do more toward assuming our right position in the affairs of the world than by following out a whole lifetime of theoretical quibble which has never gotten us anything." Councilman Harry Cummings, of the Sawenthe Ward, was next presented and on behalf of the Grand Lodge of Masons welcomed Mayor Mahool, Gen. Ferdinand C. Latrobe, Mr. William F. Lucas and the 25 or more of the most prominent of the white residents of Baltimore who had come to see what the colored people of the state are doing. Mayor Mahool was the first speaker, and he congratulated the colored people on what they have been able to do and the showing made with the various exhibits. Gen. Latrobe also spoke, and both the Mayor and former Mayor were enthusiastically received by the large crowd of colored people who gathered around the stand. The exhibits are educational and industrial, and to persons who are unfamiliar with the work they are sources of astonishment. The most pretentious exhibit is that from Cheltenham School, which is in charge of Mr. T. J. Borum, one of the white instructors of that institution. Mr. Boram's exhibit takes up considerably more floor space than any other. Products of the school farm, the work-shops, the kitchens and the schoolrooms make the Cheltenham exhibit one of the most instructive seen in Baltimore for sometime. Mr. Boram was warmly congratulated by Mayor Mahool on the showing he had made with his exhibit. The Industrial Home for Colored Girls, at Malvale, Md., is also conspicuous by its culinary exhibit. The mouths of more than one prominent white man of Baltimore watered last night as he looked at some of the dainties. Isaac Brown of Chestertown, has one of the largest individual exhibits. Brown's work with discarded cigar boxes was a revelation to many. With his homely material he has managed to create all kinds of useful articles for the kitchen and for the household in general. In this exhibit figure a suitcase, a knife box; a hot-plate holder, fashioned like an auto; spiceboxes and many other articles appreciated by a good cook. The officers of the fair are: S. Louisa, Smith, president; Cecelia Taylor, vice president; Mary E. Thompson, treasurer; Sarah J. C. Ralph, Secretary; and Rosa Richardson, assistant secretary. —Mr. John W. Brown of Fredericksburg. Va. called on us. —Mrs. A. L. Lee of Hinton. W. Va. has been the guest of Mrs. C. H. Lewis for the last week or more, where she has been most enjoyably entertained. She left last Wednesday for her home. PRICE, FIVE CENTS. WILL OCCUPY NEW ENLARGED QUARTERS. National Baptist Publishing Board Moving Into Well Built Home. Nashville, Tenn., Dec. 2, '07. In making the eleventh annual report of the National Baptist Publishing Board, located in this city, to the National Baptist Convention which convened in Washington, D.C., September 11-17, 1907, Dr. R. H. Boyd stated that contracts had been made for about $20,000 worth of the latest improved machinery; that new building were being erected, and that altogether about $35,000 would be spent during the ensuing fiscal year, thus adding to the facilities for getting out more work and better work. A visit to this plant by your correspondent reveals the fact that the buildings are now about complete. One three and a half story brick with an eighteen inch wall, double floors, inlaid with fiber, windows on the four sides, is to be used as a manufacturing building. On the first floor is an up-to-date pressroom with nine printing presses. On three of these presses is to be seen the new cross automatic continuous paper feeder. The capacity of the cylinder presses is from 12,000 to 15,000 impressions every ten hours. There is one new Miehle printing presses, a regular book press which will enable the Board at least to keep up with the enormous increase in the demand for its output of Sunday School song books and periodicals. This is an addition in presses to those now in operation. There is not a more complete press room in the Nashville; notwithstanding it is the home of publishing houses. The second floor is occupied by the bookbinding department, complete and well managed. New machinery, consisting of a Dexter folding machine and a Fuller's folder paper feeder has been added to this department, which already could easily boast of being the most complete bookbinding establishment operated by Negroes in the world. The third floor will be the composition of three departments. The addition to these departments is a Washington hand press to be used for taking impressions, printing banners, etc. The two linetype machines, the stereotyping outfit, with the scores of cases of type, will be in place the latter part of this week. There is an elevator in the building and a basement, one new 45-horse power engine that will run the machinery and make the electric lights for the plant. In the second building, which is two story, the mailing rooms, the counting rooms and sales department will occupy the first floor, while the editorial rooms, the field secretary's office and the chapel will occupy the second floor. One of the unique features of this institution is its devotional exercises which are held at 9:30 each morning, it being earnestly requested of every employee, unless especially excused, to be present. Dr. Boyd, the inaugurator and founder of the institution as well as the promoter of the move, pays a high compliment to these devotional exercises, declaring that on this hinges whatever success the institution has attained. When all of the departments shall have moved to their new quarters, the entire Baptist publishing plant will be practically under one roof,—that is, you can go through four of the buildings without going out of doors. Yet six buildings are occupied, namely; one three-story, three two-story and two one-story buildings. The indications are that during the next fiscal year the circulation in the periodicals will reach 12,000,000 while the output as a whole will be about 15 per cent, above that of this year. Nothing has been so surprisings and astonishing as the rapid growth of this institution. Dr. Boyd has been out of the office for more than six weeks. All of his time has been given to the personal management and arrangement of these improvements, giving none of the enormous correspondence any personal attention. He stated to the correspondent that it was absolutely necessary to leave the office work and correspondence to the assistant secretary, in order to superintend the work now so near completion. It is impossible to specify the extensive improvements that are now being made. Rev. Dr. Brooks Here. Rev. W. H. Brooks, D. D., pastor of the Nineteenth Street Baptist Church, Washington, D. C. called on us Friday, November 29th. He was enroute home. He delivered a most able sermon to an over-flowing congregation at the Fifth Street Baptist Church and was the recipient of encomiums from all quarters. Rev. Dr. W. F. Graham, D. D. left last Tuesday morning for Augusta, Georgia where he will conduct religious exercises. The CASTLE OF LIES BY ARTHUR HENRY VESEY (COPYRIGHT, 1906, BY D. APPLETON & COMPANY) BY ARTHUR HENRY VERSEY CORPORATE EDITOR, BY DADAPATH & COMPANY TWO CHAPTER XXXVI. I awoke to consciousness to find myself in the music room. I opened my eyes languidly. Helen was bending over me. "What is it?" I murmured. "Yes, I remember—the fight on the saircase." "I struggled to my feet, but sank back dizzily, my hands to my aching forehead. "Thank God you are alive, and it is all over!" cried Helen, brokenly. "And Fordisland is safe." "And Ferdinand is safe?" "Quite safe and unhurt. Already he has left the chateau. Capt. Forbes will tell you everything presently. "I have been unconscious so long? Am I wounded? I feel no pain, only this headache and dizziness." "A bullet grazed your temple—an eighth of an inch more—" She shuddered. "It wounded you only slightly, but you have been unconscious nearly an hour." "My usual luck." I cried, bitterly. "It was to have been my chance; I hoped to retrieve myself; and I am winged the first shot. Fate is determined, it seems, that I shall stick to my role of coward." "Don't, don't ever say that horrible word again!" cried Helon, passionately. "It was your shot that killed Starva. It is you who have saver Ferdinand; it is you who have saved for me the honor of my poor brother so far as the world can know. How can I ever be grateful enough?" "Helena" I cried, passionately, "you remember at Lucerne, on the terrace, when I told you of Willoughby's death, how he had died calling me coward, it was you that pointed out to me a way of escape--you told me how I could regain the self-respect I thought I had lost forever, It was to be a life for a life, you said. When I had saved a life for the life that was lost through my cowardice, I was to stand once more upright among men. Tell me, you despise me no longer?" "Despise me!" she murmured. "If you knew how I honored you!" "Ah, it is worth while to hear you say that. But you must say more, infinitely more than that now, dear, to satisfy me. Helena, I thought only a week ago that if I could win your respect I should be happy. But now I want your love." "Don't!" she cried in pain. "How can you speak of love at such an hour!" "Forgive me. What a selfish brute I am. But by the by—when time has softened your bitter pain—in happier days may I come to you." "Happier days!" She clasped her hands in quick despair, looking beyond me as if into a future that must be always dark for her. "Yes." I said, passionately, "there shall yet be happier days for you and for me. Do you remember on the terrace the little beacon light in the faroff mountains? That was my star. It comforted me then; it bids me hope now; it tells me, Helena, you love me." "Never!" She withdrew the hand I had held almost fiercely. Her hehemence brought me rudely to my senses. I had been mad to hope. I turned slowly from her, groping my way toward the door; for my head was still throbbing furiously. She stopped me with a cry of distress. She clung to me in her eagerness. "You don't understand," she pleaded. "You have saved my brother's honor as far as the world can know. But this shame that curses me this disgrace, can I forget it?" "I would help you bear it." "Mr. Haddon, we Bretts have been a proud race. Our happiness we share with others. But disgrace we bear alone." "Don't say that; you are bitter now, but—" "If you had known me better," said Helena, quietly, "you would understand that I do not give to-morrow what I must deny to-day." When I told her of Willoughby's tragic death, I had thought it pathetic that a woman should be so strong. It was her calm courage that had first awakened my love for her. I must not complain now if she was not to be moved by my entreaties. But this question I did ask: "If I could have proved that your brother had not, after all, shown himself false to the motto of your house, 'Honor, my Sword,' would you still have refused to listen to me?" "Ah, if. Mr. Haddon!" For almost the first time since I had known her she smiled; and that faint smile opened the gates of paradise to me. She would not be moved to declare her love for me, but she did love me; I was sure of it. And then suddenly I thought of the words of the Countess Sarahoff when I made my escape by the ladder of stones: "Go, and I swear by the cause I hold sacred, that, if you can save Ferdinand, the honor of Sir Mortimer shall be saved." That promise might mean little. It might mean that she would show her gratitude by refusing to make public Sir Mortimer's disgrace. Or had her words a deeper significance?" "I cried eagerly, "nothing is quite impossible. I repeat now what I said to you when in your grief you asked me to meet the banker, I cannot believe in your brother's guilt. I cannot conceive how a man whose integrity has been undoubted during a brilliant career should suddenly stoop to the shame of taking brides." He Fell Headlong Without a Groan A flash of hope shone in roteana's pale face, only to be followed by the deepest dejection. "But there are the proofs," she said, mournfully. "I cannot, would that I could, deny my brother's writing." "I must see Madame de Varnier. A few hours ago she held us at her mercy. But now we have the upper hand; there are many things she must explain. Where is she?" "She left the chateau with Ferdinand half an hour age." "Left the chateau!" I cried, aghast. "Why was she not held?" "Prince Ferdinand insisted that she must go at once to Sofia. He has sent her on some secret mission. I think she must be one of his spies." "And she left no message for me?" I demanded, gloomily. "No," replied Helena, looking at me in wonder. "Why do you ask?" I did not tell her of Madame de Varnier's promise. I knew now that it had been given me quite recklessly to spur me to action. I was mad to expect mercy and gratitude from such a woman. She was too determined on her revenge. I remembered bitterly how she had told me in the tower that she sacrificed friends and enemies if they proved obstacles to her plans. "I had hoped," I answered, vaguely, "now that Ferdinand was saved, that she might in some way be able to show us that your brother's dishonor is not so great as it appears." "But could she explain away his writing?" asked Helena mournfully. "No; even if she feels remorse for her cruelty in torturing me, it is too late. I have eaten of the tree of knowledge. Mr. Haddon, and it is very bitter. Heaven has reversed my fate and yours. It is I who now have lost my self-respect, while you have gained—" "No," I cried, bitterly, "I have failed utterly in my task. I dared hope for too much. I have dared too greatly in dreaming that I should find happiness in this Castle of Lies." "But," she whispered, "I, too, have dared, Ernest, and I shall not forget." "Helena!" I crushed her hands in mine. "Even now I refuse to despair. I will find this woman though I search the earth for her. She shall tell me everything, and perhaps even now—" "Not even your love can bring about the impossible." "But if it could— If by a miracle your brother's honor were shown to be stainless?" "Ah, if you could work miracles—yes," she faltered. The door was flung open brusquely. Locke stood at the threshold, his keen glance b亡cynically on me. "So you are quite yourself again?" He concealed his embarrassment by a gruff demeanor. "So much the better; for you must be off before the dawn, my friend." "And where?" I demanded astonished and not a little piqued at his cool assurance. "En route for America, if you are wise." "You are settling my destiny in a rather highhanded manner," I cried, angrily. "And will you tell me why you dispose of me so summarily?" He became suddenly serious, glancing uneasily at Helena. "Miss Bret, Capt. Forbes and myself will accompany you to your hotel presently. Will you wait here while I say a few words to Mr. Haddon?" "But it is not possible that you still mistrust him after to-night?" she demanded with indignation. "No, no," he assured her. "I would spare you from embarrassment; that is all." "Come, then." I said shortly. When we had reached the gallery I saw to my astonishment that the hall below was empty. I listened and there was complete silence. "What have Forbes and yourself done with your prisoners?" I demanded. In my perplexity I forgot to ask what Locke had meant in saying flippantly that he had promoted me. "They are all gone but two," Locke answered coolly. He lighted a cigarette, and leaning on the gallery rail stared down into the hall. "Starva and Bratinau's bodies are in the dining-rooms, but their souls have been swiftly ferried across the Styx by old Charon. Nothing reminds us of our fight except the dark stain on the stalrcase carpet yonder. It was a good scrap while it lasted. Your shot winged Starva, as you probably know. I settled Bratinau. Forbes peppered away in the dark, and had fair luck. THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA The man called Go on or Geepup, or something like that, got a shattered ankle, and the Servian a rather nasty wound in the thigh. As for the rest of the gentry, three of them rallied to your slogan and joined me at the staircase; the other two were easily settled with. Yes, it was a good fight, but much too short—especially for you, old chap." He shook his head despondently. "But your prisoners?" I demanded again, irritated by his superfluous comments. "It was Prince Ferdinand who insisted on their release." riously. "What incredible folly!" "You remember that Starva and Bratinan were the only Bulgars among the conspirators, and they are dead. The two ringleaders are wounded badly enough to go to a hospital. Forbes himself has accompanied them there to see that they are not discharged until one of us is told. Practically they are prisoners. There remains Kuhn, Piteschti and Gingala, the three men who showed that they had some instincts of humanity when it came to the crisis. The other two were arrant cowards; Ferdinand prefers to consider the three his loyal friends and two others powerless. He has set them at liberty." "By Jove, his magnanimity or his folly will cost him dear." "I am not so certain of that," resumed Locke, thoughtfully. "It is possible that he has made five friends of five enemies. You must remember that even if he wished to punish the conspirators he is powerless to do this without advertising to the world the intended uprising of the Balkan States." "But their release will be the most effectual way of spreading the news." "On the contrary, they cannot make it known without exposing themselves. If they do that, Ferdinand will see to it that their respective sovereigns quietly but effectually remove them. Each of them is so well known that they may be arrested at any time. Ferdinand shrewdly makes them hostages, as it were. The three certainly will exert their great influence to check the rebellion they themselves have fostered. As for Gornji and Gortschakoff, before they are released from the hospital the crisis will have passed." "And are we left to account for the deaths of Starva and Bratinau as best we may?" I questioned anxiously. "If you remember, I told you at Lucerne that I am an old newspaper man. It is impossible to hide the fact that an attack has been made on Prince Ferdinand here to-night. But an attack by his own countrymen that has proved a disastrous failure is quite a different thing from a deliberate gathering here of representatives of each of the Balkan States. Ferdinand has taken my advice to post in hot haste to Sofia. I shall see to it that this night's work does not get into the papers until 24 hours have passed. By that time he will have shown himself safe and sound in Sofia. The episode of the death-mask will have proved a complete flasco. My story will make Prince Ferdinand a hero triumphant over his foes and not a weak king who was lured here unwittingly by his mistress to his doom." "There still remains Jacques." "Oh, Jacques," said Locke, with contempt. "He was only a tool of Starva's and a stupid tool at that. It was he who was to lower the flag at half-mast, it seems—to give the signal to the conspirators who were watching in the village. But when he rushed to the chamber window to lower the flag he found both rope and fastenings wreached away. He supposed that the gale had done this, but seeing the flag at half-mast, the rope being caught in the pulley, he said nothing about the matter to Starva. I suspect that you were responsible for the lowering of the flag, and not the gale." "I needed the rope," I said, shortly, too impatient to make further explanation. "And now for my last question: What the devil did you mean when you said that you had promoted me? And why this haste that I leave Alterhoffen" "Are you so anxious then that it be known that you have been impersonating the British ambassador?" "Scarcely," I said, uneasily. "And, my dear fellow, Kuhn and the rest think that it was Sir Mortimer who came to the rescue of Prince Ferdinand, and not Mr. Ernest Haddon, an American tourist." "But why do you allow them to think this?" "Haddon, at times you are singularly dense. If these men believe that the British ambassador has been killed by one of their number while defending Ferdinand, do you not see that this will keep them even more silent regarding their share in this night's tragedy? For if England's ambassador were really murdered, you may be sure that she would not rest until she had brought the assassins to justice." "You are right, Locke; I must leave Alterhoffen at once." CHAPTER XXXVII I was about to go to Helena in the music room to bid her good-by, when Capt. Forbes returned from his errand. "Well, that's settled," he cried, joining us. "And do you agree with Locke and myself that it is wise that you should leave Alterhoffen before daybreak?" "Perfectly." He heard my decision with evident relief. "You will accept my apology for mistrusting you, Haddon, and I hope we shall be friends," said he offering me his hand with a winning smile. "But you must confess you gave me ample grounds for being a little wary of you. Before long we shall meet, and I shall hope to hear your reasons for going into this extraordinary adventure. In the meanwhile, may I trouble you for the dispatch I gave to you in the hotel at Vittana, or did it fall into Starva's hand that night?" "To prevent that I dropped it from the window into a disused fountain in the garden below." "Where I found it," interrupted Locke. "Here it is, and please observe that the seals are unbroken." "Frankly, Forbes," I said, "I thought you rather an idiot to give me an important dispatch that night. You must have seen that I was more or less in Starva's power, and that he was likely to gain possession of the papers." "Had that dispatch fallen into his hands," replied Forbes, "it is quite possible that Ferdinand would have been saved his bad half hour. Do you remember I told you, my pseudo-ambassador (and you acted the part remarkably well, let me tell you), that I carried two dispatches for Sir Mortimer, and that I gave you the one of lesser importance?" "Yes. And the second dispatch? Was it stolen from you by Starva when he trapped you in the tower?" Forbes nodded. "I took the liberty of taking it from him, just now." "And may a humble American consul ask," drawled Locke, "how tonight's episode would have been averted had the dispatch you gave Haddon fallen into Starva's hands, instead of into the fountain." "My chief at Downing street would retire me, and with no pension, if he knew that I were going to divulge state secrets. However, I am going to tell you. "This dispatch you have returned to me, I happen to know, authorized Sir Mortimer Brett to meet in conference the men who so very nearly snuffed out Ferdinand's life an hour ago. I am referring now to the dispatch which I gave you at Vitznau, Haddon. He was to assure these representatives of the various states that England realized that a harmonious confederation could alone permanently allay the present discontent in the Fennsula. Had Starva seen this dispatch it is not likely that he would have had recourse to violence." "Do you mean to tell me," exclaimed Locke, incredulously, "that your ministers of the foreign office cherish so Utopian a scheme? Are the various kings to abdicate because England nods?" "I am telling you nothing of the sort," chuckled Forbes. "You Americans are infants when it comes to the intricacies of diplomacy. Secret agents and spies at Sofia had warned the government of the intended uprising. It was necessary that England should know more of the conspirators. Therefore, Sir Mortimer was instructed to profess a sympathy for the cause which, of course, was not sincere. This dispatch Sir Mortimer or myself were to allow to be stolen if necessary. Its contents were explained to me before I left London, that I might repeat verbally the message, should the dispatch not reach him." "Since you have already betrayed your government's confidence," said Locke, jocularly, "tell us the purport of the second dispatch." "I will read it to you since the seals are broken," agreed Forbes after a moment's hesitation. "To His Excellency, etc.-Sir: The same messenger who gives you this dispatch will deliver you another which authorizes you to treat with the committee of the various states of the Balkans, who have for their aim a confederation of these states. You will use the aforementioned dispatch at your discretion. It is needless to say that neither this ministry nor the other powers can for an instant sanction a scheme so impossible. But it has come to our knowledge that a dangerous conspiracy exists to overthrow the rulers of the various states. To check this conspiracy it may be well for you to temporize. If you think it expedient, permit the dispatch mentioned to fall into the hands of this committee. Capt. Forbes will follow the same course if necessary. He has full instructions to exercise his discretion in this matter. "It is not without surprise that the ministry has learned of your promise to Ferdinand regarding England's support of his project, namely, the threatened invasion of Macedonia. Fortunately, the ministry is convinced that some such move as your sanction is expedient to free Macedonia from the atrocities of Turkish misrule that have shocked Europe so long. His majesty's ministry therefore is inclined to overlook in this instance any undue bias you have shown in espousing Macedonia's cause. "If you are convinced that the financier of New York city whom you have named is sincere in his offer to give Prince Ferdinand financial support, you are authorized to tell him that his majesty's ministers are heartily in favor of Prince Ferdinand's invasion, and will exert every influence to insure him unrestricted action. Moreover, the foreign office is in full accord with your views as to the sum of money indispensable to Ferdinand's project. "But while his majesty's government agrees with you that lofty principles actuate Bulgaria, it realizes with yourself that lofty principles are not sufficient to insure the success of Ferdinand's cause. "In conclusion, we hasten to assure you of our fullest sympathy in your endeavor to help an oppressed people gain their liberty; and that it is not without satisfaction we find ourselves enabled to further your personal wishes and ambitions in this matter. Nor need you have anxiety that your own interests will run counter to those of England. We view with concern the precarious state of your health; but we trust that it will not prove an obstacle to your contemplated meeting of the financier in conference at Alterhoffen at the chateau of Prince Ferdinand's secret agent. With renewed expressions of our complete confidence in you, "Haddon," said Locke, not a little crestfallen. "I was ruefully wide of the mark in my conjectures concerning Sir Mortimer's relations with the Countess Sarahoff. I told you that morning at Lucerne that I was behind the scenes. I confess myself the veriest amateur." Never has writing thrilled me as did that dispatch. A great light was dawning on me. I clutched the paper. I held it with a trembling hand. "Forbes," I cried, hoarsely, "once, though quite unwillingly, I tricked you out of the dispatch Locke just returned to you. But now I ask you to give me for half an hour the dispatch you have just read. It means everything to Sir Mortimer's sister. Man, there has been more devilry in this Castle of Lies that you are aware of. The honor of Sir Mortimer himself is at stake. This dispatch will help to save it. Give me the paper that I may show it to Miss Brett." "I have been too much astonished at the events of the past 24 hours to wonder at your request. Take your dispatch, but you will return it intact." "You need have no fear as to that. But I have still another request; the papers you saw me take from the "Our Happiness." She Said, Shyly "We Share with Others." safe, which Madame de Varnler wrestled from me—they belong to Miss Brett." He hesitated. "On my honor, they concern no one but her. What! Do you still mistrust me?" "No, my dear fellow." He placed the packet in my hand. I entered the music room to bring to Helena tidings of great joy. CHAPTER XXXVIII Tidings of Great Joy. She stood at the open window looking out on the mountains in the far distance. They were phantoms of despair beckoning to her in the moonlight. They had brought suffering to her as well as to myself; for had I not gone to Lucerne, and told her the story of my cowardice, perhaps she would have been spared the knowledge of her brother's disgrace. "Dear," I said gently, "do you remember the little beacon that shone long after the lights on Pilatus and Higi had flickered out? That little light put heart into me then. It tells you to hope now." "There is no light on the mountains over there to night." "It may burn thoughe you do not see it. The packet I took from the safe, have you destroyed it." "I was about to do so as you entered. Here it is." "Capt. Forbes has just given me the second packet—the one that Madame de Varnier took from me forcibly. It is possible that its contents concern your brother. May I open it?" "Yes," she said listlessly. I tore open the packet with deliberation, though heavens knows my fingers trembled. I spread the paper on the piano where I had shown Madame de Varnier the death-mask the evening before. I read them one after the other. The proof was absolute. Sir Mortimer's honor could no longer be questioned. Fools we had been and blind. "Helena," I said, mastering my emotion with an effort "it is as I thought; these papers throw a flood of light on the letters and notes of your brother that we have so harshly misunderstood." She came swiftly to my side, "Harshy misunderstood!" she repeated with blanched lips. I was sorting carefully the papers Helena had just given me, the letters supposed to have been written by the committee of freedom, and to which Sir Mortimer's comments were pinned. I laughed aloud when I saw that these letters, supposed to be the originals were typewritten, as were the copies. Now I understood why Madame de Varnier had refused to let me see what she called the original papers. It was not so much that she feared I should destroy them; she knew that the fact of their being typewritten would at once awaken my suspicion. "Did it not occur to you as being rather suspicious that these letters were written on a typewriter?" "At first it did," replied Helena, searching my face wonderingly, "But she quieted my doubts by explaining to me that the letters were typed to prevent the possibility of their being traced." "The ingenious Madame de Varnier!" Helena did not speak; her agitation was too great for words. She watched me, at once bewildered and eager, while I read the contents of both packets carefully once more. When I had read them, I sorted them no less carefully. For ten minutes there was silence between us. "Helena," I said with a deep sigh, when I had finished my task, "once to-night I said this was a Castle of Lles, but I did not realize until now how surely I spoke the truth. These letters are forgeries." "IImpossible," she murmured, wringing her hands in anguish. "I know my brother's writing too well." "Follow me carefully, and you will see that I speak the truth. I do not question your brother's handwriting. But listen first of all to this dispatch which was taken from Capt. Forbes when he was trapped in the tower. Tell me if any of the expressions in it are familiar to you." "Yes, yes." she cried eagerly, when I had finished. Lofty principles actuate Bulgaria, but lofty principles are Not sufficient to insure success;" You need have no anxiety that your own interests will run counter to those of England;" the references to the loan, to my brother's indiscretion, to his ambitions—all these appear in my brother's notes in connection with the letters of the committee of freedom." "Now read these letters—the contents of the second packet. They were written to your brother by Priace Ferdinand himself, and deal with the loan to be floated by the banker to finance Ferdinand's invasion of Macedonia. The notes and comments of your brother have reference, not to these typewritten letters, which were never written by any committee of freedom, which were never received by Sir Mortimer, but are the cunning fabrications of that woman—but to these letters of Ferdinand. Look, you can see the pins pierced each of Ferdinand's letters. As I place your brother's notes on the respective letters to which they have reference, the pin marks fit precisely. You may still cherish proudly the motto of your house: 'Honor, my Sword!'" "Ernest, if this be true—" "It is true," I said firmly, and I drew her to me. "I must leave Alterhoffen to night, Helena. It must not be known that I have been mistaken for your brother. I am going to find Madame de Varnier. When I return to you I shall bring with me her written confession. And when I return, sweetheart? You Bretts, you have told me, are a proud race. Disgrace you would bear alone. But your happiness?" "Our happiness," she said shyly, "we share with others." (The End.) Ennul A certain rich young gentleman in New York gave a dinner, and appealed to his guests with the inquiry: "And what in God's name am I to do to-morrow night?" "Go out." suggested some one. "I have been everywhere." "Stay in." "There is no one I want to see." "Try solitude." "That has become insupportable." "Start a journey." "Where could I go? I have been everywhere" "Go again." "But I have been many times. I detest travelling." "Get married." "I know too much about women." "Get drunk." "I have been drunk so often—and on so many things! It extinguishes me to think of it." "Be good" "But how?" Nobody could answer, though they were all willing enough to be witty about it. When the next night came he had blown out his brains. He had to find some new way of spending the evening—The Reader. Rose From the Ranks Sir William White, who till recently was director of naval construction of Great Britain, began life as a shipwright's apprentice, but his genius carried him up the ladder with a rapidity which startled his fellow workers. He nearly lost his life once through taking an experimental trip with a submarine boat which on being submerged stuck in the mud. It was only after furious work with the pumps that he was rescued. FROM THE CLASSICS. They fall, and they alone, who have not striven.—Aldrich. Distinguish each day by one particular act of love.—Lavater. He that lives according to reason shall never be poor.—Seneca. The greatest homage we can pay to truth is to use it.—Emerson. To see what is right and not do it is want of courage.—Confucius. To know what is right, and to fear to do it is cowardice.—Confucius. Words are always actions and actions are a kind of words.—Emerson. Truth is the foundation of all knowledge and the cement of all societies.—Dryden. Bright, cheerful, hopeful thoughts are friends that inspire and ensure success.—Bovee. The end of men is an action, and not a thought, though it were the noblest.—Ruskin. Success in life is the accomplishment of a purpose, without it nothing can be attained.—Ede. The happiest persons are those who throw all their sympathies into the lives of others.—Smiles. Never do anything concerning the rectitude of which you have a doubt.—Pliny the Younger. Have a heart that never hardens, a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.—Charles Dickens. POINTED PARAGRAPHS What most towns need is a curfew for married men. An empty stomach provides a man with food for thought. Even girls who are not superstitious believe in ice cream signs. Operating a lawn mower never makes a man wish for more lawn. An accomplished llar is one who can successfully bluff a bill collector. Every time some men do a good act they manage to get caught at it. No, Cordelia, it isn't necessarily a case of matter over mind when a woman has on a new hat. Give the average man a chance to make money out of the misfortunes of others and he will make it. After a girl makes up her mind to marry a certain man all the advice her friends hand her to the contrary is wasted. ON MARRIAGE The American—Haven't got the time.—Judge. The Irishman—A foretaste of heaven. The Englishman—It's the proper thing to do. The Scotchman—It's aricht, if she's got the siller. The Dutchman—Who vill cook der dinner if you no have got der vraw? The Italian—Marriage gives a man another angel to pray for him, and saves him the trouble of doing it himself. The Hebrew—The cheapest way of getting your quiver full, and a long way the easiest. PROVERBS AND PHRASES Calumny will soil virtue itself.— Shakespeare. Light cares speak; great cares are dumb.—Seneca. How use doth breed a habit in man.—Shakespeare. The good you do is not lost though you forget it.—Fielding. He has three hands—right, left and a little behind hand.—German. You may light another candle by your own without loss.—Danish. That is the best government in which an injury to one is the concern of all.—Solon. REMEMBERED THINGS. Wherever women are honored the gods are satisfied.—Hindu Proverb. Women see without looking; their husbands often look without seeing.—Des Noyers. To live is to suffer, and a brave man always struggles to be master of himself.—Napoleon the Great. A wise man will desire no more than he can get justly, use soberly, distribute cheerfully and leave contentedly.—Bacon. Use not to-day what to-morrow may want; neither leave that to hazard which foresight may provide or care prevent.—Home Notes. LITTLE BITS OF SCIENCE. The life of a North Atlantic iceberg is often 200 years. The wettest hour of the day is at 8 o'clock in the morning. A normal man breaths 20,000 times in the course of one day. Every inch of the human skin contains 3,500 perspiration pores. On the average, the coolest part of the day is at 5 o'clock in the morning. In a census of the world the percentage of blind persons is 64 to every 1,000,000. A light of one candle power is plainly visible at one mile and one of three candle power at two miles. The female brain begins to lose weight at the age of 30, but that of the male not until 10 years later. The wreck record of the Baltic sea is greater than that of any other part of the world. The average is one a day throughout the year. The efficiency of the human heart is greater than that of any piece of machinery, taking into consideration the size. It pumps nearly eight tons of blood daily. FROM THE NOTEBOOK. Be fair even to your enemies. A perfect man is still impossible. Marrying for position generally gets you into a very uncomfortable one. A snob likes a woman who is a past-master in the art of making up. When the voice is calling us to the great beyond, there will still be many things left undone. If physicians did not magnify the little ills of their patients they would lose about half of their practice. Live your life so that when your obituary is written it can tell the truth without doing harm to your memory. When you need a helping hand, and one is offered you, grasp it with all the vigor and vim at your command. Do not be a cad and pretend you do not need it. If our gubernatorial candidates could but remember one-fifth of the people "they are glad to meet" during the campaign, their minds would, indeed, be marvels. A Vast Sum. The amount of money which the government is called upon to redeem in the course of the year reaches an almost fabulous amount. In 1904, for instance, it totaled $912,000,000. This redemption is either for the purpose of securing clean, fresh notes or to get change of some other denomination. HEY LUCKY SATURDAY...DECEMBER 7, 1907. CORNER FOR THE JUNIORS A FACE THROUGH THE STOVE PIPE A Mount the picture of the stove and the disk on heavy cardboard. Then put a pin through the circle in the picture within the dotted lines. Then put the disk in a position which will make the mouse enter the oven door. The cat that is running after the mouse will follow. Turn the disk slowly around and see what has happened to the mouse and cat when they come out of the stovepipe.—N. O. Times-Democrat. mouse will follow. Turn the disk slowly around and see what has happened to the mouse and cat when they come out of the stovepipe.—N. O. Times-Democrat. Miss Edith, aged 14, walked with great dignity into a large draper's establishment the other day. "Please," she said to the stately shopwalker, "I want a pair of gloves." "Certainly, miss," replied that gentleman; "you will find the kids' counter on the next floor." "But I don't want the kids' counter," said Miss Edith, freezingly; "I want the ladies' counter." Nearly 700,000 children are working in the United States in occupations other than agriculture. Of these 700,000 children one in every six is working in Pennsylvania, and the number of working children in Pennsylvania is declared to be growing with alarming rapidity. In 1903 there were 32,000 discovered by the factory department; in 1904, 41,000, and in 1905, 48,000. Schools for Indian Children. The United States government has started 300 schools for Indian chil- The Flying Fig. 1. Fig. 4. The Flying Spiral. Details of Making Spiral. In one end of a spool or bobbin drive two little nails without heads. See that each is the same distance from the hole and directly opposite each other. Cut out a piece of cardboard, using Figure 2 as a model. Make the three holes in the middle to correspond and exactly to the hole in the spool and the two nails. Twist the piece of cardboard all the way round, as shown in Figure 3. Hurt Her Dignity. Children Employed. uren. Nearly 25,000 boys and girls attend these schools. They study books part of the day, and half the day the girls learn sewing, mending, housework, baking and so on, while the boys learn to be carnepters, shoemakers and farmers. They Are Bright, but They Make Funny Mistakes. Indian children know hardly any English when they first go to school but they are so bright and quick they soon learn. The older pupils coach the new arrivals, for even in a government school way out on an Indian reservation in the far west those who have been to school one year feel superior and think they should teach the little ones how to act, says the Brooklyn Eagle. Some of these Sioux children make their teachers laugh with their droll mistakes. When a little one loses a tooth he says, "My tooth come off." If a splinter gets into a finger, it is a "stick," a "board," or even a "lumber." Of their shoes, mittens, etc. it is "the other side," never the "mate." When they have had a particularly good meal the say, "We eat very nice." For "scissors" these little people say "scissor," pronouncing the "i" like long "e." Once there was a girl who was reading her lesson out of the fourth reader. In the lesson there were a few lines from Shakespeare. By and by the girl came to the word By and by the girl came to the word "scissors," and mispronounced it. "You must say 'cissors', not 'scee- sor.'" correct the teacher. sor, corrected the teacher. A minute or two later the teacher heard her murmuring, "We come to bury Scissors, not to praise him." They are quick to see such likenesses in words. A little girl who had lost a button from her dress asked for a pin to "button" it with. When a caster came off a bed in the dormitory a child exclaimed, "Look, a bed wheel!" Putting on her hat one afternoon a little girl announced "I think I will go out and gather some fresh air," while another went out to "catch" some. If they want to know the time they say, "How many o'clock?" At one of these schools in South Dakota they had a little push cart in which wood was brought to the door. One day a troop of children were sent to gather dry willows for kindling the fires. When they returned one was crying, and when asked the cause, she sobbed: "The cart step on my foot." One day the little girl who was waitress for the teacher's table spoke of the dessert as "the deserving." Qualat as are their attempts to speak the English language, they are almost always very expressive, for these little Sloux children are wonderfully apt. Our Johnnie's so proud of his new soldier cap, It has a long peak and a shining black strap. ```markdown ``` And now, since he has it, he's very polite. He's bowing to people from morning till night. —Detroit Free Press. And No Ball Games. Russia celebrates $6 general holidays each year. Making Spiral. Fig. 2 Fig. 3 Fig. 5 Making Spiral. Thrust through the spool a smooth stick. 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Mattern, Vice President of the Ohio Republican League, granting the request of the advisory and executive committees of the Ohio Republican League of Clubs that he become a candidate for the Presidency of the United States will go down in history as one of the most remarkably able documents that has ever emanated from the pen of any statesman. It was, in our judgment a master stroke in the political warfare now raging in this country between President Roosevelt and some of his policies. It is a "call to arms" and its reverberating notes are being heard from the Atlantic to the Pacific, from Canada to the Gulf. It will tend to dispose of Mr. Roosevelt's ambition to name his own successor rather than trust the people of the country to perform the task. Senator Foraker is logical and persuasive and his clear cut deliverances and statements of great principles will awaken a response within the breast of every man who has observed events and who is anxious as to the future welfare of the nation. In Mr. Roosevelt's case, it seems to us to be one of "vaulting ambition o'er leaping itself." He has done much good and he has reached a zenith of popularity unattained by any statesman of this or any other day. He has not been satisfied but has constantly gone from one stage of experiment to another until now, the tide is unquestionably setting in against him. It has been the fate of most of our great men and he is proving no exception to the rule. We have never believed that he was desirous of obtaining or willing to accept a "third term" as President at this time, but we have believed that he was building to follow into the White House the man he might name now to succeed him. Whether Secretary Taft understood this or not, we are not uncharitable enough to say. The Foraker declaration will clear the air, so to speak. It will dispose of Hon. William H. Taft's pretensions in Ohio, for even as a negative quantity it will handicap the efforts of his managers in other States. That the conservative men of both parties will pay attention to Senator Foraker's deliverances hardly admits of a doubt. The distinguished Ohioan has evaded no issues and he will receive the cordial support of the commercial interests of this country. Unless Vice President Fairbanks develops more strength than is now apparent, it would be well to watch Governor Hughes of New York and Senator Foraker of Ohio. It is a difficult proposition to say which will lead the ticket. Both will bring strength and both will offer a combination that it would be difficult to defeat at the polls. Senator Foraker is an uncompromising party man. His military experience and training have taught him how to obey orders and the mandate of the Republican people of Ohio will be respected by him. The attempt to eliminate him as a political quantity was the tactical mistake of his political opponents and he is making the most of it. After reading his manly letter one feels like throwing up his hat and hurrah. It is needless to enquire as to the attitude of the Afro-American contingent—they are with him first, last and all the time. If he can reach the White House at this opportune moment, it will be gratifying. The fact that he has discomfited his enemies by his declarations is glorious. In championing reforms, the distinguished occupant of the White House has built up an oligarchy which brooks no disagreement. This is contrary to the American theory of government and the sooner Mr. Roosevelt is brought to a realization this fact the better. Win or lose we are with Senator Joseph Benson Foraker of Ohio for President of the United States. Now, let the bands play. HON. JOHN SHARP WILLIAMS AND THE NEGRO Hon. John Sharp Williams in his contribution to the November number of the Metropolitan Magazine reserved the best of his remarks for the last. The following statement of facts will serve as a balm to many of the wounds that he has made in his previous utterances. Here is what he said: On the other hand, when we are confronted with criminal Neroes we must deal out justice to the guilty in proportion to the crime and, if the crime be one for which death is the mote and proper punishment death must be inflicted. This is mercy to the race in the long run. The above is a platform upon which all right-thinking citizens, regardless of race or color can stand. He continued: Above ali, remember this; it is not the educated Negro that commits unspeakable crime; he knows the certain result. It is the brute whose avenues of information are totally cut off. Of course, the white people of the South are, to a certain extent, living the life of an armed garrison, as their forefathers did in Indian times. The difference is they lived surrounded by men all raw savages, we by a race fully one-tenth of whom are veneered savages. He said: Let us have racial peace without any interference from the outside and we can hope from the natural evolution of things for a solution of this great problem, as of most others. God rules this world, and not the devil. Things go right in the long run, and not wrong. I am an optimist and not a pessimist. Remember what Jefferson said in his first inaugural address, when he said that we are—and I hope he told the truth—"enlightened by a benign religion, professed, indeed, and practiced in various forms, yet all of them, including honesty, truth, temperance gratitude and the love of man; acknowledging and adoring an overruling Providence, which by all its dispensations proves that it delights in the happiness of man here and his greater happiness hereafter." Remembering with the apostle of American Democracy that it is under this sort of benignant Providence that we all live and have our being—white, black, red and yellow—and that while black and white are not the same animal physically, mentally, or morally, nor in any sense equal, actually or potentially, and cannot be made so by platforms or by laws, they are yet both the creatures of God. Is it too much for me to leave with you the parting injunction that in the face of this great problem it would be well that wise men think more, that good men pray more and that all men talk less and curse less? While we cannot subscribe to all of Mr. Williams' tenets or agree with all of his dogmas, we are pleased to join in a hearty amen to his conclusions. He is undoubtedly permeated by a spirit of fair play. Men of his type will yet blaze the way to industrial happiness and political peace. It matters little to us whether or not Mr. Williams and his associates boast of racial superiority. He is welcome to it either as a fact or as a delusion. It remains for the citizens of color to "make good" and demonstrate to the world along all lines of legitimate endeavor. To the Negroes of this country, we counsel conservatism, soberness and good judgment, remembering that this is the crucial period of our existence and that we are on trial. Our brilliant young men should invade the industrial and commercial fields that have never been entered by men of the race. By so doing even failure will bring experience, and experience is the hand-maiden of success. We must persevere. We must accumulate property. We must engage in bus- THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA iness and we must buy stock, bonds and own the commercial interests in many parts of this country. With the advent of leading men of the race in the fields of finance and the securing of a competency in the marts of trade, respect will come and recognition will be accorded by thousands of white men, who to-day with-hold it from us. In the language of the Scriptures: "Speak unto the children of Israel, that they go forward." JAPAN RECALLS AOKI Mikado Wishes to Personally Consul With His Ambassador. WASHINGTON, Dec. 4.—Ambassa dor Aoki has been summoned to Japan by his government to explain personally and in detail the precise situation in this country in regard to the Japanese immigration problem. "I am going home," the ambassador said, "for the purpose of making a verbal report to my government. There are many things to report on—things that I have heard and seen in this country. They can be made better verbally than in writing. There is no other significance to the visit. I shall discuss immigration in addition to other questions in which my government is interested. My return cannot be construed in any way as an indication of unfriendiness on the part of Japan for the United States. The American government knows very well that Japan is disposed to be one of her best friends and to remain on terms of the greatest unity with her. Any other idea or suggestion is foolish to entertain." It is said that Aoki will be succeeded by Baron Kaneko, a former special envoy to the United States, or Baron Chinda, vice minister at the foreign office. Baron Chinda is well known in Amercien, where he was educated. He is extremely active and very sincere in endeavoring to overcome the immigration difficulty. He is also extremely friendly with Americans and thoroughly conversant with the world. SUICIDE DELAYS FLAGSHIP Connecticut With Admiral Evans Will Not Sail Until Tomorrow. NEW YORK, Dec. 4.—The battleship Connecticut, the flagship of Admiral Robbie D. Evans, will not sail until tomorrow morning for the rendezvous of the Pacific fleet at Hampton Roads. The warship was scheduled to leave this morning, and it is understood the postponement was caused by the suicide of H. N. Piro, a gunner's mate, who shot himself on board ship. The delay will permit of an inquest and burial. The warships Rhode Island, Virginia and Yankton sailed today for Hampton Koads, as scheduled. Piro was a Russian and had been in the American navy for ten years. Recently he received a letter from Russia, it was learned, which informed him that one of his relatives in Finland had been arrested and condemned to die. Piro brooded over the intelligence, went to the afterpart of the battleship, rolled himself in a blanket, plucked a pistol to his head and sent a bullet through it. "Only Dreaming." I wish that I might have a ship, The kind that calls the air, I'd give my creditors the alip- I would, I do declare, -Milwaukee Sentinel. "Good weather is mighty essential to raising a crop," said the Nailkeg Philosopher, "but the best weather ever seen will not grow corn that was never planted." MILL Wheels to Hum Again BOSTON, Dec. 4- Thirty-five mills and factories in New England which have been curtailing production or shut down are expected to resume operations this week. Most of the mills which were closed will start their machinery today. HIS HEADQUARTERS OPENED. Foraker Leaders Begin Active Campaign Against Taft in Ohio. Columbus, O., Nov. 29.—Foraker headquarters, from which the Senator from Ohio is to conduct a national and State campaign for the Presidency, blossomed out as if by magic over night, and to-day found the stage settings for the Foraker boom before the view of the Taft managers whose headquarters is also in this city. In the Foraker national headquarters is Charles L. Kurtz, long a power in Ohio politics, and actively identified with national politics, until Senator Marcus A. Hanna's domination drove him from New York. Kurtz returned at the call of Senator Foraker, and is in charge of the fight to be waged to capture Southern and Western delegates. John R. Malloy, secretary of the Republican State executive committee and the man whose hand has been on the lever of the party machine in this State since his youth, is in command in State headquarters. He will wage the fight for delegates in Ohio in the campaign designated by the Foraker men to split the Ohio delegation. The Foraker leaders insist they will have at least six districts—twelve delegates. The first test will come in Franklin the capital county, in February. The Taft men declare they will name the two delegates, while Malloy is a confident, he says, that Foraker will win out. Malloy will represent Foraker in the national committee meeting in Washington next week, while Arthur I. Vorys, Taft's manager will be there caring for the Secretary's interests. —The New Serial Story "BOB HAMPTON OF PLACER" will commence on page 2 and every one should read it until completed Don't miss this opportunity. SIXTIETH CONGRESS. National Legislature Opens at Washington. BRYAN'S APPEARANCE IS CHEERED. Financial Question Leads All Others In Point of Interest For Senators and Representatives—Roosevelt's Message Today. WASHINGTON, Dec. 4. The national congress was opened here with the usual formal ceremonies, but never at the beginning of any session have congressional leaders of both parties found themselves more at sea concerning legislation than they are at the convening of the sixteenth assembly of the national legislature. Very little except the financial situation is engaging the attention of any member of either house, and all the members of both houses, whether leaders or followers, confess their inability to forecast what may be done on the subject. All of them lament the present situation, but all of them do not believe that the remedy for it is to be found in legislation. Those who believe that such a remedy will prove efficacious are in the majority, but their opinions as to means vary so widely that all admiring the great difficulty of getting together. There is some general division along party lines, but there is also great divergence of view among both Repub IDA SPEAKER CANNON, licens and Democrats. In view of this state of affairs, it is evident that very little attention will be given to other questions until there can be some crystallization of thought on the financial problem. The house began proceedings with the election of Joseph Cannon as speaker, to which office Mr. Cannon had already been nominated by the Republicans, Mr. Cannon is now engaged in formulating the committees, but there are so many applicants for the places of prominence that he is finding the task a difficult and complicated one. He still hopes to complete the work before the Christmas holidays, but will not yet undertake to say when it may be done. The president's message recommends currency legislation and reform, but the president does not suggest any specific form of legislation. He points out that he recommended currency relief in his last message to congress, but, as on the former occasion, the president takes no stand on how to provide the necessary elasticity to the currency problem. That the president takes cognizance of the present strained condition of the money market and the nervousness of bank depositors is evident by his reference to the money boarders. He calls attention to the great natural resources of the country and provides statistics to show how prosperous the nation is. He urges that people have confidence in the banks and that they should not hoard their money. The president again urges further intelligent development of the supervision over interstate commerce and asks for legislation permitting "pooling" under interstate commerce supervision. The most conscientious figure in Washington today is William J. Bryan—that is, if applause counts on a question of this kind. His welcome in the house of representatives overtopped that of Speaker Cannon and Minority Leader Williams combined. Cheers, three times repeated, as he entered through the door at the right of the speaker's desk were the first evidence that members of the house of representatives and their guests recognized a national figure. The designation by the Democrats of John Sharp Williams as their leader was an occasion for a big ovation. In the house Speaker Cannon announced the appointment of the committee on banking and currency and in doing so stated that he had exceeded by one member the number permitted by the rules of the house and asked unanimous consent to his action, which was granted. At a conference held in the White House last night between the president and Senators Aldrich (K. L) and Crane (Mass.) on the subject of currency legislation plans for relieving the currency stringency in the future under such circumstances as have occurred recently were discussed. Former Senator Dead PLYMOUTH. Mass., Dec. 4.—Forer mer Senator William T. Davis, an or ator of note and an authority in pil- grim history, died suddenly of apo plexy at his home in this town. He was eighty six years of age. Harry Thaw's Trial Jan. 6 NEW YORK, Dec. 4.—On motion of District Attorney Jerome the second trial of Harry K. Thaw for the killing of Stanford White on Madison Square roof garden in June, 1900, was postponed until Monday, Jan. 6. Thaw was not brought into the courtroom, but was allowed to stay in the witness room. His wife, Evelyn Nesbitt Thaw, was in court. CONDENSED DISPATCHES. Notable Events of the Week Briefly Chronicled. Mrs. James C. Fillmore is at the Rhode Island hospital in Providence in a critical condition, and her husband is dead, having committed suicide after making an attempt to kill his wife and murderously assaulting George W. Robble, a grocer. An entire village built by the French during their occupation of the isthmus and completely buried by the dense jungle growth of twenty years has been discovered at Caimito Mulato by the engineering force that is locating the center line of the canal in the Chagres division. Tuesday, Dec. 3. Three men were injured in an explosion which destroyed a small building of Pompton Lake, N. J. The victims were Dr. Romaine, a chemist of Brooklyn; his son Emile and William Cook. In a wreck on the Baltimore and Ohio railroad at Shenandoah Junction, Md., three passengers were killed and a dozen injured. The dead are: W. L. F. Hoffman and his daughter Nellie of Baltimore and an unidentified white man. The bodies of Mrs. Casteel, her daughter, aged twenty-four; her son, aged fifteen, and a man named Montgomery, aged fifty, foreman of the ranch, were found in the burned ruins of their home near Macleay, Orel. Just how they were killed may never be known. At Karlsruhe, Germany, the death sentence passed upon Karl Hau for the murder of his mother-in-law, Frau Molitor, has been commuted to life imprisonment. Karl Hau was at one time professor of Roman law in the George Washington university, Washington. He was convicted of having murdered his mother-in-law at Baden-Baden. Monday, Dec. 2. At Catskill, N. Y., Etheredge S. Hay of the Catskill Mountain Billposting company died suddenly in the pressroom of the Recorder. He was forty-one years old. "The Americans won't work any more. They are so busy speculating and trying to live off of each other that they have abandoned labor, and the foreigner collects the wages and sends the money abroad." This is the arraignment of the nation delivered by Senator Reed Smoot of Utah. Saturday, Nov. 30. One dead, seven others more or less seriously injured and a property loss of about $25,000 resulted from a fire that broke out in the Harvard House at Gloucester, Mass. A shocking accident in which five factory employees were killed occurred at the West Main street crossing over the Highland division tracks when an extra Hartford bound freight train crashed into a trolley car containing twenty-five persons which was bound for the pin factories in Oakville, near Waterbury, Conn. Friday, Nov. 20. The steam yacht Kanawah, owned by Hartly C. Baxter of Brunswick, Me., and valued at $65,000, was burned to the water's edge at Jordan's wharf, Gurnet, near Brunswick. The United States National museum has placed on exhibition a specimen "leaf" of a thornless cactus developed by Luther Burbank of California. The perfecting of a cactus without thorns means the providing of a valuable forage plant which will grow as well in arid as in moist regions. A marble fountain bearing the simple inscription "Philo Sherman Bennett Gave This to the City" and erected on the green very close by the old pump, a town landmark, was dedicated and handed over at New Haven, Conn. The gift was provided for by the will of Mr. Bennett, William J. Bryan presented the fountain to the city in his behalf, Mayor John D. Studley receiving the gift. Thursday, Nov. 28. "You can bet your North American life that the battleship fleet will sail from Hampton Roads on its voyage to the Pacific on the morning of Dec. 16," said Admiral Evans at Washington. "The vessels will get under way just as soon as I receive the president's orders to set sail." The governor of Chihuahua, Mexico, acting on memorials sent him by Ambassador Greel from Washington, has decided to commute to twenty years' imprisonment the sentences of Dr. Charles Harle, C. J. Richardson and W. F. Mitchell, who were to be shot on Dec. 6 for murdering two men with a view to collecting insurance upon their lives. Bryan Sure of Nomination WASHINGTON, Dec. 4.—A poll taken here by the New York World of the Democratic senators and representatives who have arrived in the city shows an overwhelming conviction that Bryan's nomination is a certainty. The proportion is about four to one of those who answered the question directly. The poll also shows a still stronger conviction that he should run on a conservative platform Rough Riders Turned Down GUTHRIE, Okla., Dec. 4.-Colonel Clarence Douglas, editor of the Muskogee Phenix, and C. G. ("Gristmill") Jones of Oklahoma City were nominated by the Republican caucus for United States senators, defeating James Harris and ex-Governor Frantz, leaders of the rough rider element. The election resulted from the storm against rough rider dictation. For Pleasure Trips Skyward BERLIN, Dec. 4.—A new aeronautical society has been founded here for the purpose of arranging pleasure trips in the air both by steerable and spherical balloons. It is stated that the society has placed an order for a dirigible in the United States. Vermont Makes Coiling Record. NEWPORT, R. I., Dec. 4. The battleship Vermont of the Atlantic squadron, which is soon to sail for the Pacific, has won the navy's record for coaling ship from barges at the coaling station in Narragansett bay. She averaged 255 tons an hour against the battleship Virginia's record of 253 tons an hour. MOIR GETS KNOCKOUT. Tommy Buras Is Heavyweight Champion of World. LONDON, Dec. 4. — Tommy Burns, champion heavyweight of America, in the ring here successfully defended his title in a battle with Gunner Moir, the English champion. Moir, who had the advantage of height and weight, was outclassed in speed and science by his American opponent. Moir forced the fighting in the fourth and fifth rounds, but there was little power behind his blows. Burns then started to go after Moir and in the TOMMY BURNS. seventh landed another heavy body blow which made the golden wings The sixth round was all in favor of the American, whose footwork completely baffled his opponent. Moir became very wild in his attempts to get in his right. In the seventh Burns sent home a terrific swing which made an ugly gash in the gunner's neck. They came to close quarters, the Englishman clinching and thus avoiding the full force of two well meant rights. Some holding caused Referee Corri to enter the ring and separate the fighters. Moir then looked like a beaten man. Burns came quickly to the center of the ring in the tenth and forced matters from the start. He sent the gunner to the floor with a short right arm jolt. Moir rose, only to be floored again from a hard left on the jaw. He struggled to his feet, but was an easy victim for another cross on the jaw and, going down, was unable to respond to the call of time. Burns had taken his opponent's measure in the early rounds, and, although Moir showed marvelous pluck he was equal to the American in no other respect. FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL. Closing Stock Quotations. Money on call easter at 7 to 8 per cent; prime mercantile paper, 7 to 8 per cent; exchanges, $330,873,612; balances, $13,044,612 Closing prices: Amal. Copal... 45% N. Y. Central... 96% N. West. & West... 64% T. R. & W.... 100% R. B. & O.... 83% Penn. R. W.... 140% Brooklyn R. T. ... 56% Reading... 12% C. C, C. & St. L. ... 50% Rock Island... 15% Ches. & Ohio. ... 27% St. Paul... 100% Chl. & Northw. ... 134% Southern Pac. ... 72% Southern Ry. ... 12% H. R. ... 136% Southern Ry. pf. 19% Gen. Electric. ... 116% Sugar. ... 106 Ill. Central. ... 124% Texas Pacific. ... 19% Lackawanna. ... 410 Union Pacific. ... 115 Louis. & Nash. ... 920 U. S. Steel. ... 36% Manhattan. ... 115 U. S. Steel. pf. 87% West. Union. ... 59 Missouri Pac. ... 48% New York Markets FLOUR-Quiet and about steady; Minnesota patents, $.25@.65; winter patents, $.45@.5.5; winter straights, $.45@.4.75; winter extras, $.25@.4.25. RYE FLOUR—Steady; fair to good, $4.83 $5.15; choice to fancy, $5.50. WHEAT-Weak cables and large north-west receipts caused heavy selling of wheat, with a break of a cent in prices. May, $1.09 1-16@1.09%. BUTTER — Creamery, specials, per pound, 284c; extras, 18c; firsts, 264@27c. seconds, 2@26c; thirds, 22@24c; held, specials, 27c; extras, 20@20@c; firsts, 2@25@c; seconds, 23@24c; state dairy tubs, fresh, finest, 27c; good to choice, 25@26c; common to fair, 11@24c; process, specials, 23@23c; extras, 12@22c; firsts, 20@21c; seconds, 18@19c; thirds, 16@17c; imitation, 1@18c; new, firsts, 12@23c. CHEESE — State, full cream, small, colored and white, September, fine, 154c. October, best, 12c; October, good to prime, 114@114c; small, late made, best, 114@114c; common to fair, 9@11c; large, colored, September, fine, 15c; white, 144c; large, October, best, 114c; common to prime, 9@114c; skims, 144@114c; specials, 11c; fine, 8@9@c; fair to good, 8@c; common, 3%@4%; full skims, 1@20. EGGS-State, Pennsylvania and nearby, seeded, fancy, 48$; 49$; good to choice, 38$; 49$; good to lected, fancy, 36$; 40$; average best, 34$ 8$; frist to first extra, 29$; 32$; dirties, lucky packed, special marks, fancy, 18$; 19$ firsts, 17$; 17$; seconds, 15$; 16$; thirds, 15$; Inferior, 13$; 16$; YA-EY, choice, $1.06; 1.10$ STRAW-Steady at $6$; WOOL—Firm; domestic fleece, 32@35c. LIVE POULTRY—Firm; fowls, 11@13c.; old roosters, 9@94c.; spring chickens, 11@13c.; ducks, 11@124c.; geese, 11@13c.; turkeys, 14@16c. DRESSED POULTRY-Dull and weak, fresh killed fowls, choice, 13½%; do, do, good, good, 14½%; do, old roosters, 10¼; roosting, roosting, 10¼%; do, do, western, 11½%; bclrers, nearby, 13½%; do, western, 14½%; turkeys, nearby choice to fancy, 18½%; do, do, fair choice to fancy, 18½%; do, do, western choice to fancy, 18½%; do, do, fair to good, 18½%. Live Stock Markets Supply light; market slow choice; $5.60/65; prime; $20.60/40; veal talves; $4.50/65 choice, $5.50@5.50, prime, $5.20@40; veal HOGS—Receipts light; market active; prime heavies; mediums and heavy York- ers; prime, Owers, $5.50; plga, $5.40; roughs, $4.50@20. LAMBS—Supply light; market slow; prime, Owers, $5.20; and common, $4.50@20; lambs, $5.20@40. Mark Twain For Sheriff NEW YORK, Dec. 4. — Alderman Doull, as chairman of the board of canvassers for the county of New York, reported to the board of aldermen. The official canvass shows little change from the figures gathered by the police and the newspapers on the night of the last election. In the battle for sheriff Thomas F. Foley received 146,052 votes and Maximillian F. Innshen received 120,479. Mark Twain was in this contest, although he did not know it. Some one in Mr. Clemens' home district cast a ballot for him for sheriff. Hartje's Appeal to Supreme Court. PITTSBURG, Dec. 4.—Attorneys for Augustus Hartje, the millionaire paper manufacturer, are at work on an appeal to the supreme court of Pennsylvania in their efforts to secure for him a divorce from his beautiful wife, Mary Scott Hartje, whom he accuses of indiscretions with Thomas Madine, the coachman. With the overruling of a motion for rehearing by the superior court in Philadelphia the last resource of that court was exhausted. CZAR GREETS TAFT Secretary of War Talks Peace to Nicholas Romanoff. RUSSIANS CHEER THE "GENERAL." Declares at American Banquet In His Honor That Uncle Sam Is Friendly Toward All the World. ST. PETERSBURG, Dec. 4.—Secretary Taft was received in audience by the emperor or Russia here today. He was introduced by Foreign Minister Iswolsky and General Rudiger, minister of war, and greeted by the grand dukes now here. These include Nicholas Nicholaslevitch, Alexander Michaelovitch and half a dozen others. The carriages of the American embassy, in which the secretary and the party drove to the palace, were recognized everywhere. Crowds gathered in spite of the threatening weather, and "General Taft," as the secretary has come to be called here, was cheered again and again. The empress of Russia is indisposed and was not able to receive Mrs. Taft, consequently the secretary went to Tsarskoe-Selo without his wife. This evening the secretary will attend a banquet at Foreign Minister Iswolsky's, which will be followed by a reception of the diplomatic corps and Russian official society. A plea for world peace was the tople of a speech delivered by Secretary Taft at the American banquet here last night, which was attended by several high Russian officials in addition to some sixty Americans. Responding to the speech of welcome delivered by E. M. Corse, who presided, Secretary Taft said that he hoped the traditional friendship between Russia and America would increase and become stronger. The similarity in the development of the two countries, he said, ought to produce a sympathetic feeling, and he drew a parallel between Russia and America with reference to their immense extent and the difficulties arising therefrom. Personally the secretary had a strong feeling of affection and regard for Russia on account of the two years' residence of his father there as American minister. The secretary declared that intimations that his trip was connected in any way with a prospective war in the far east were without foundation. In his judgment there was no possibility of war between the United States and any country, nor was there any reason for it. The world needs peace for its real growth and the happiness of the individual. Civilization, said the secretary, is indebted to Emperor Nicholas for the initiation of international efforts for a permanent peace and the mitigation of war by the organization of The Hague conference. At the conclusion of his speech he toasted the emperor. Count Konitz, who is acting as imperial aid to Secretary Taft, responded with a toast to President Roosevelt which was drunk amid great enthusiasm and the singing of the national hymns of both countries. Keep Politicians Cleaning WASHINGTON, Dec. 4. "I will not deviate one single hair breadth from what I have said." That is what Representative E. H. Hinshaw of Nebraska quoted President Roosevelt as saying in relation to a third term nomination just after leaving the White House. The statement was later authorized at the White House that the president in talking with Representative Hinshaw referred to his policies and not to any question of a third term. Patient Shots Restricted Patient Shoots Doctor and Herself. DETROIT, Mich., Dec. 4.--Dr. J. A. Attridge and his patient, Mrs. John B. Griffith, were taken to hospitals last night from Mrs. Griffith's room in the Roy Court apartments, both shot through the head and in a critical condition. Mrs. Griffith had been in Harper hospital several weeks receiving treatment and had just been removed to her rooms under the direction of Dr. Attridge. It is thought Mrs. Griffith shot the doctor and herself. Fat Bear For President BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Dec. 4. - A black bear, addressed to President Roosevelt, is in the express office here en route to Washington from Mobile. Haas Bros, of Mobile consigned bruin to the president. It appears to have been a year and a half old and is fat. The bear, which should reach Washington by tomorrow, was killed in south Alabama. MURDER GIRL MISSIONARY Miss Agnes Templeton Killed by Maryanne or Judith Mexicans or Indians at Valverde. SANTA FE, N. M., Dec. 4.-Miss Agnes Templeton, the only white woman missionary at the Baptist Indian mission at Valverde, Rio Arriba county, was murdered either by Mexicans or Indians. An unconfirmed report says that Miss Templeton was assaulted before being put to death. David Martinez y Sanchez is under arrest as a suspect. Miss Templeton's body, mutilated almost beyond recognition, it is reported, was found in a grove near the schoolhouse. Sanchez, who was arrested on suspicion, was brought to jail here for safe keeping. He denies all knowledge of the murder, and the authorities refuse to make known what reasons they have for connecting him with the crime. Miss Templeton was working under the direction of the Baptist missionary board of New York city. Her predecessor at the mission, Miss Phoebe Howard, was killed in a similar manner at Embodied several years ago, and her slayers were never captured. In Terror of His Life CHIPPEWA FALLS, Ill., Dec. 4.—Fearful of being shot for a deer, Wenzl Mikesh, who is a farmer near here, appealed to the authorities for protection. He says he is weary of being grazed by the bullets of would be sportsmen. THE PLANET MRS. BRADLEY FREE. Washington Jury Acquits Slayer of Senator Brown. WASHINGTON, Dec. 4. "Not guilty" was the verdict rendered by the jury in the case of Mrs. Annie M. Bradley, charged with the murder of former United States Senator Arthur M. Brown of Utah at a hotel in this city on Dec. 8 last. Amid the applause of a crowd that filled the courtroom Mrs. Bradley, with tear dimmed eyes, was discharged from custody, and a trial that has evoked national attention during the past three weeks was at an end. Throughout its deliberations the jury into whose hands the case was delivered by Justice Stafford in United States criminal court No. 1 practically stood at eleven to one for acquittal until the final ballot, when the lone juror who was holding out for some [Illustration of a woman in a high-collared hat and a long dress]. MRS. ANNIE M. BRADLEY. form of punishment, Julius H. Prigg, gave in, and the verdict of acquittal was agreed on. Mrs. Bradley was immediately surrounded by men and women from among the spectators who pressed up on their congratulations. She returned to the cell from which she had come to hear the verdict, and there she received a few visitors. She thanked them for their congratulations and expressed her relief at the conclusion of her trial. Meantime an automobile was waiting at a side door, and through a lane of curious spectators she was escorted to the car, where, joined by her counsel and several women friends, smiling and bowing to them as they called to her, she left the courthouse. Mrs. Bradley will leave here shortly for Goldfield, Nev., there to join her sister. THE FAYETTE CITY DISASTER. Twenty More Bodies Brought Up From Naomi Mine. PITTSBURG, Dec. 4—Twenty-nine bodies have been recovered in the Naomi coal mine at Fayette City. The mine officials now believe the dead will not exceed thirty, but miners of the vicinity still place the number of killed at between forty and fifty. Nothing definite will be known until every entry of the mine is searched. Shortly before noon the rescue parties began to bring the bodies to the surface. Squads of special police held the crowd in check, and as the bodies were taken from the air shaft they were carried to a nearby building erected for that purpose. Coroner A. C. Hagan was stationed in the building to receive the victims. The scenes about the mine as the bodies were brought forth were pitiful. Receiver For Jamestown Exhibition, NORFOLK, Va., Dec. 4. —A decree signed by United States District Judge Waddill was entered in the federal court here directing all parties in interest to appear before him in Norfolk today to hear application for a receiver for the Jamestown Exposition company by the Con P. Curran Printing company of St. Louis, a judgment creditor for $21,273, who is suing in equity on behalf of itself and other creditors of the exposition similarly situated. Discuss Race Suicide Question. NEW YORK, Dec. 4. —"It is not charity we want; too much is being done now for the poor in New York city," cried Mrs. J. H. Crosman to the Women's Peace circle at the Hotel Astor here. "What we need is the suppression of unnecessary reproduction. When parents cannot support their children, it is a crime to bring them into the world." Death of General Allen Thomas. WAVELAND, Miss., Dec. 4.—General Allen Thomas, United States minister to Venezuela during the second administration of President Cleveland, died at his home here, aged seventy-seven years. He held the commission of a brigadier general during the civil war in the Confederate army. Steamer Coban Hit Black Point. NORTH SYDNEY, N. S., Dec. 4.—The steamer Coban went ashore at Black point, near Cranberry head, during the night. She is owned by the Black Diamond Steamship company of Montreal and bound from Halifax for Sydney. She lies on a ledge in a bad position with several holes in her bottom and leaking badly. The crew is safe. MAXWELL A SUICIDE Deposed Bank President Dead In Brooklyn. HAD JUST BEEN RELEASED FROM JAIL One of New York's Leading Financiers Had Been Indicted on a Forgery Charge In Borough Bank Collapse. NEW YORK, Nov. 27.—Howard Maxwell, deposed president of the Borough bank of Brooklyn, who was under indictment for grand larceny and forgery and was released from jail on $30,000 ball, committed suicide by cutting his throat and left wrist with a razor and pennknife in the bathroom at his home in Brooklyn and died last night at Long Island college hospital. Maxwell, who was locked up last Thursday, had felt his humiliation keenly and during his incarceration had appeared hopelessly despondent. He had, however, given his family no intimation so far as known that he contemplated making away with himself. His wife was prostrated by the tragedy and was under the care of physicians last night. Maxwell was released late at night from Raymond street jail, where he had been held a prisoner since the three indictments charging him with misdouls in connection with the management of the suspended Borough bank were returned. There was some difficulty in obtaining bail, and officers of the jail reported that Maxwell was greatly broken up. For two days he lay on his bed and appeared to be oblivious to surroundings. He declined to receive any visitors except his wife and counsel. Justice Burr signed an order for Maxwell's release when bail to the amount of $30,000 was furnished by Maxwell's four unmarried sisters, who offered their home as security for a $10,000 bond; two friends who qualified in $10,000 and a security company which gave a bond for $10,000. Maxwell, in company with his counsel, L. R. Oeland, was driven after his release to his residence at 182 Congress street, where he was greeted by his wife and seven-year-old niece, Dorothy Doolittle. Maxwell spent the forenoon quietly at his home and announced his intention of taking a bath and going for a walk. Shortly after Hannah Scott, a colored maid, heard a sound as of some one falling on the second floor. Hurrying upstairs, she discovered the banker lying on the bathroom floor half dressed, with gaping wounds in his throat and left wrist. On a washstand near by lay a white bone handled razor half open and a penknife with blades open at each end and both covered with blood. As she turned to summon help the maid stepped upon a second razor which lay half opened in the hallway leading to the bathroom. Maxwell was conscious and tried to articulate, but failed to make himself understood. Dr. C. E. Brown, the family physician, was hastily summoned, and he called in Dr. Horace Greeley. The banker was bleeding so profusely that it was decided to remove him to Long Island college hospital, where an operation for tracheotomy was performed. The windpipe was found to be nearly severed, and his left wrist was cut almost to the bone. Maxwell died within a short time after the operation. Soon after the physicians began to work over him the banker had lapsed into unconsciousness, and during the few brief and half lapsed periods that followed he made no statement so far as known. Coroner Brewer has opened an official investigation. W. B. Chambers Dies at 105 PITTSBURG, Nov. 27.—W. R. Chambers, perhaps the oldest resident of Pennsylvania, is dead at his home in Cecil, Washington county. Mr. Chambers was 105 years old and at the time of his death was in full possession of all his faculties. His death was due to the infirmities of old age. He was born at Derby, Ireland, and came to this country forty-nine years ago. In addition to having a sister in Ireland, who is 108 years old, Mr. Chambers is survived by two sons and one daughter, each of whom is over seventy years old, and by more than a hundred descendants. TAMPA, Fla., Nov. 27.—General Carlos Garcia Velez, one of Cuba's foremost men, who has been in this country several months on commission to investigate American prisons and charitable institutions, sailed last night for Havana. While at Washington he called on President Roosevelt and was authorized to say to the Cuban people that the United States would withdraw from Cuba whenever Cuba feels that intervention is no longer necessary and makes formal request. "This Is the Way They Do It." CHARLESTON, S. C., Nov. 27.—John C. McElmore, aged twenty-one, employed by the Southern railway, was fatally injured here while demonstrating how a suicide wound could be inflicted. He placed a pistol to his head and saying jokingly, "This is the way they do it," pulled the trigger. A report followed, and McElmore fell to the ground with a bullet in his brain. Three Killed in Rear End Smash. PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 27.—Three trainmen were killed and a boy who was stealing a ride was perhaps fatally injured in a rear end collision between freight trains on the Philadelphia and Reading railroad in this city. The dead, all of whom lived in Allen-town, Pa., are Abel H. H. Ebert, brakeman; Elmer Shalor, flagman, and G. W. Loudenslager, fireman. White House Turkey on the Way. WESTERLY, R. I., Nov. 27—The Thanksgiving turkey which Horace Vose annually sends to the president of the United States has been shipped by Mr. Vose to President Roosevelt. This year's bird, however, was raised by Jeremiah H. Brown. It weighs twenty-eight pounds, is of the bronze variety and has a mixture of wild blood. THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA A BRYAN BANQUET. Washington Democracy Honors Noted Leader. GIVES TIMELY PARTY DELIVERANCE Unique Analysis of Roosevelt's Policies-Compares the Administration Measures With What lie Himself Would Inaugurate. WASHINGTON, Nov. 27.—William J. Bryan was last night tendered a banquet and reception by the United Democracy of the District of Columbia here. Five hundred Democrats were present at the dinner, and more than double that number participated in the reception and feast of oratory which followed. While the facility of the Raleigh hotel banquet hall placed a coveted limit on the attendance, the "lid" was completely off as to enthusiasm, and the speech of Mr. Bryan, like the half dozen shorter ones in his praise which preceded it, afforded opportunity for repeated and continued demonstrations of political accord and personal regard for the guest of honor. Mr. Bryan utilized the occasion to set forth at length a closely reasoned analogy between the policies of President Roosevelt and those he believes should be adopted in the administration of the government. From this viewpoint Mr. Bryan's speech was regarded by the prominent Democrats who heard it as a decidedly important and timely party deliverance. Mr. Pryan's analysis of President Roosevelt's political views was unique. Four of the Roosevelt policies, he said, were Democratic, and four of them were un-Democratic, while there were four other Democratic principles which the president did not advocate. Railroad regulation, the enforcement of the laws against the trusts, an income tax and arbitration as the method of settling disputes between labor and capital were all advocated by the president, Mr. Bryan said, but had been advocated by the Democratic party long before the president took them up. As to none of them, he maintained, did the president have the support of the Republican party leaders. The four Democratic doctrines the president will not indorse the speaker gave as tariff reform, the election of senators by direct vote, the promise of ultimate independence to the Filipino and the restriction of the use of the injunction in labor disputes. The four un-Democratic doctrines which the president does advocate Mr. Bryan named as being the national incorporation of railroads and other interstate commerce corporations, the right of the federal government to interfere by treaty with state rights, ship subsidies and asset currency. Added to this, Mr. Bryan said, the president has manifested a decidedly military spirit. STORMED FRENCH CAMP Benis Nassen Tribexmen Benten Off With Loss of 1,200 Men. LALLA MAGHNIA, Algeria, Nov. 27.—Ten thousand of the fiercest Benis Nassen tribesmen swooped down on the French camp and were beaten off, with a loss of 1,200 killed. The fighting continued for a long time and was conducted on the part of the tribesmen apparently with total disregard for their lives. At one time the French infantry were in danger of being surrounded, but finally were disengaged from their perilous position by a most brilliant charge of the Spahls. The rout of the Arabs was completed by vigorous shelling by the artillery. The French loss was eight killed. The Arabs were not discouraged by this severe repulse, but reformed their forces and in addition directed their efforts to rousing other tribes. The fighting has been resumed, and the booming of cannon can be heard throughout here. The results of the battle now on are unknown at present. Taft Train Has Close Call FRASNOYARSK, Siberia, Nov. 27.—It was learned here that the train on which Secretary Taft and his party are traveling over the Transsiberian railroad from Vladivostok to Moscow had a narrow escape from being wrecked near Chita. A switch in front of the Taft train was open when it should have been shut. An employee discovered it just a minute before the train came along. He closed the switch and kept the train on the proper rails. Had the train been thrown on to the sliding it would have crashed into a line of freight cars. NEW HAVEN, Conn. Nov. 27.—A public profession has been made that prayer was invoked for success at a Yale-Harvard atlantic contest for the first time in nearly twenty years. Tad Jones, the Yale quarterback, told his fellow players at the dinner given to the Yale eleven after the Yale-Harvard game that he prayed for strength to play his best to help Yale win and that he believed that his prayer was answered. His talk was generously applauded by the other Yale players. Colonel W. J. Bryan to Get Back Pay LINCOLN, Neb., Nov. 27.—The officers of Colonel William J. Bryan's regiment, the Third Nebraska, have been allowed $5.228 by the national government for time between enrollment and mustering into the government service during the Spanish-American war. Colonel Bryan enrolled in the service June 11 and was mustered into the national service July 13, 1898, and will have about $300 due him in his allowance. Governor Sheldon was notified that the money would be sent soon. TO DEPOSE CANNON. Labor Issues Proclamation Against Speaker of House. WASHINGTON, Nov. 27.—Copies of a proclamation addressed "To All Organized Labor" and designed to defeat the election of Joseph G. Cannon as speaker of the house of representatives in the Sixtieth congress have been sent 60 YEARS' EXPERIENCE PATENTS TRADE MARKS DESIGNS COPYRIGHTS & C. Anone sending a sketch to the patent office may quickly ascertain our opinion free without an invention is probably patented. COMMUNICA- tively confidential. HANDBOOK of Patents sent free. Oldest agency for securing patents. Patents taken through Main & Co. receive audited notice without charge. to trades unions in every section of the country. The proclamation is signed by Samuel Gompers, president, and attested by Frank Morrison, secretary; James Duncan, first vice president; John Mitchell, second vice president; James O'Connell, third vice president; Max Morris, fourth vice president; D. A. Hayes, fifth vice president; Daniel J. Keefe, sixth vice president; William D. Huber, seventh vice president; Joseph F. Valentine, eighth vice president, and John B. Lennon, treasurer. The shortcomings of Speaker Cannon during the three congresses he has served in this proclamation, are set forth at length, and each instance where by his vote or ruling he has acted in a way that seemed inimical to the interests of labor is given in detail. Chief of these is cited his action in regard to the labor amendments to the Sherman antitrust law, the employers' liability bill, the project of creating a department of labor with a secretary in the president's cabinet, the eight hour labor bill, the abuse of injunctions measure and the bill relating to alien labor on the Panama canal. Mr. Cannon is charged with having voted or ruled against the interests of organized labor in the consideration of each of these measures. The proclamation appeals to organized labor to strike for the defeat of Mr. Cannon as speaker of the Sixth congress by requesting all central bodies and local unions to pass resolutions asking the representatives of their respective districts to vote against his re-election and to appoint committees to wait upon these members and present the need of his defeat. "It is well known," reads the proclamation, "that, with the exception of a few members of the house of representatives who primarily benefit by Speaker Cannon's methods, nearly all the members of congress, regardless of whether they are members of his own party or of the opposition, chafe under his methods of administering that office, but who because of the power thus wielded by him are singly important to correct the abuse by which the members have lost their rights as well as their independence and who if given an opportunity would gladly co-operate for its correction, so that the house of representatives might regain its rightful position as a great deliberative assembly and representative of the people's rights and interests." SEVEN IN AIRSHIP. Leo Stevens, Sky Pilot. Landa Passengers at *Anteater* N. H. CONCORD, N. H., Nov. 27.—An immense balloon, the All America, carrying seven persons, made a successful trip from Pittsfield, Mass., landing safely at Canterbury, N. H., near this city, one of the longest journeys ever accomplished in New England. Piloted by Leo Stevens of New York, the balloon started at 11 a. m. Mr. Stevens hoped to pilot the big bag due east toward Boston, but as has been the case in a majority of the fifteen ascensions which have been made from Pittsfield the winds blew from the southwest. Though he drove the balloon to an altitude of two miles, Mr. Stevens said that he was unable to get into any current which would take him to the eastward. He then dropped to within two or three thousand feet of the earth and with the light winds drifted slowly over the Berkshire hills, across the mountains of southern Vermont, up the Connecticut river valley for a way and then across the south central portion of New Hampshire, effecting a successful landing in a field at Canterbury. Mr. Stevens said that they had encountered snow throughout the voyage, but that the fall did not affect the trip except as it hid the view of the country below. Petsold Acquitted of Child Murder. PROVIDENCE, R. L., Nov. 27—A verdict of not guilty was returned by the jury in the trial of Ernest A. Petsold, charged with the murder of Helen A. Brown, a young child, at Pascoag on Aug. 13 last. Petsold gave himself up to the police last August after a search for him following the discovery of the body of the child at his farm. Hold Your Boldness BOSTON, Nov. 27.—The police here were informed of the arrest in Montreal of Russell T. Footman, formerly employed as a clerk at the Boston club, who is charged with the larceny of $1,800 belonging to that organization. Footman left the club two weeks ago, and shortly afterward a discrepancy in his accounts was discovered. Rich Importer a Spicide MOUNT VERNON, N. Y., Nov. 27. Val Hayerdahl, a wealthy importer of New York city, committed suicide here by shooting himself in the head at his home, S3 Rich avenue. Members of the family heard shots fired in his bedroom. Rushing upstairs, they found him dead on the floor. Results of Trenton Canvass Results of Trehton Canvass. TRENTON, N. J., Nov. 27.—The state board of canvassers convassed the vote for governor and found the result to be as follows: Fort (Rep.), 194,313; Katzenbach (Dem.), 186,300; Mason (Pro.), 5,255; Kraft (Soc.), 6,848; Butterworth (Soc. Lab.), 1,568; Fort's plurality, 8,013. The Republicans have a net plurality on assemblymen throughout the state of about 16,000. TRAINS LEAVE RICHMOND, MAIN STREET STATION, EASTBOUND. For Exposition, Monday, No 15th, to Saturday, No 18th, to Saturday, No 7:00 A. M. { forember 15th, to Saturday, No 18th, to Saturday, No 2:00 P. M. Dailyq. Louisville, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis. Pullman 1:00 P. M. sleepers 10:00 A. M.-Week Days-Cincinnati. Daily- Charlotteville 5:15 P. M.-Week Town to Gordonsville. JAMES RIVER LINE From the East.-9:40 A. M. 11:45 A. M. 7:00 P. M. 8:15 A. M. 7:00 P. M. 8:15 A. M. 7:00 West.-7:30 A. M. *8:30 A. M. 3:45 P. M. 7:45 P. M. P. M. 7:45 P. M. A. M. 6:45 P. M. Daily except Sunday. R. F. & P. Richmond, Fredericksburg, and Potemac Railroad. ONLY ALL RAIL LINE TO NORFOLK. Leave Byrd Street Station, Richmond. In effect July 14, 1907. FOR NORFOLK-7:25 P. M. daily; 6:00 A. M. 9:00 A. M. and 3:00 P. M. Except Sunday; 8:10 A. M. and 7:00 P. M. Except Sunday; 8:10 A. M. 7:00 P. M. Except Sunday; FOR LYNCHBURG, THE WEST AND SOUTH- WEST-6:00 A. M. Except Sunday; 8:10 A. M. Sunny; 12:00 P. M. and 9:00 P. M. daily. AURY RICHMOND, THE WEST; 11:00 A. M. 6:50 P. M. and 10:40 P. M. Except Sunday; 11:15 A. M. and 9:45 P. M. only. Fullman Parlor and Sleeping Cars. Cafe Dining W. W. EVENILL. Gen. Pass. Agent. C. H. BOSLEY, Dis. Pass. Agt. Southern Rv. TRAINS LEAVE RICHMOND. N. B--Following schedule are figures published only as information and are not guaranteed. 7:00 A. M--Daily--Local for Charlotte. 11:15 A. M--Daily--Limited-Buffet Pullman to Atlanta and Birmingham, New Orleans, Memphis, Chattanooga, and all the South, Troy, Durham, and Chase City, Oxford, Durham and Raleigh. 6:00 P. M--Except Sunday-Keysville Local. 11:30 P. M--Limited-Pullman ready 9:30 P. M for all the South. YORK RIVER LINE. 4:30 P. M.Limited. To West Point. Connect for Baltimore on Mondays, Wednesday and Fridays. 2:15 P. M.Mountains. Wine-shops and Fridays. 4:30 A. M--Except Sunday. Local to West Point. TRAINS ARRIVE RICHMOND. 6:55 A. M., 3:40 P. M.-From all the South. 4:10 P. M.-From Charlotte, Raleigh, Durham, City and local stations. 8:40 A. M.-From Baltimore and West Point. 9:20 A. M.-From Baltimore and West Point. 10:45 A. M., 5:15 P. M.-Local from West Point. C. W. WESTHURY, D. P. A., 20:30 E. Main St., Richmond, Va. ATLANTIC COAST LINE. Effective July 14, 1907. TRAINS LEAVE RICHMOND DAILY. For Florida and South: 8:15 A.M., 7:25 P.M. For Norfolk: *8:00 A.M., *9:00 A.M., *3:00 P.M. and 6:00 P.M. For N. and W. Ry. West: **8:10 and *9:06 A.M., 12:10 and 9:00 P.M. For Petersburg: *6:00 and *9:00 A.M., 12:10, *3:00, *3:28 P.M., 6:00, 9:00 P.M., 7:25 and 11:30 P.M. For Goldsboro and Fayetteville: *8:28 P.M. Trains arrive Richmond daily: 6:25, 7:40 A.M., *8:35, *10:45 and 11:40 A.M., *1:27, 2:05, *6:50, 8:00, 9:50 and 10:40 P.M. Except Sunday. **Sunday only. Time of arrival and departures and connections not guaranteed. SEABOARD SOUTHBOUND TRAIN. SCHED- ULED TO LEAVE RICHMOND DAILY. 9:10 A. M.—Local to Norlina, Raleigh, Charlotte, Wilmington, 2:20 P. M.—Sleepers and coaches, Savannah, Jacksonville and Florida points. 9:50 P. M.—Sleepers and coaches Atlanta, Birmingham, Memphis, Savannah, Jacksonville and Southwest. NORTHBOUND TRAINS SCHED- ULED TO ARRIVE RICHMOND DAILY. 6:45 A. M.; 5:10 P. M.; 5:45 P. M. H. S. LEARD, D. P. A. JOSHUA BANKS & SONS CATERERS EVERY FACILITY CONSISTENT WITH FINE CATERING. Special Attention Given to Balls, Suppers, Installations and Smokers at the Shortest Notice. 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(Name genuine without any signature) Chaldo. Ford Print 153 E. KINZIE ST., CHICAGO, IL Agents wanted everywhere. FIVE --- THE PLANET RUTH'S WISE CHOICE LESSON TEXT—Ruth 1:14-22. Memory Verses, 16, 17. GOLDEN TEXT—"Thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God."—Ruth 1:18, 1:26 HOME—Ruth belongs to the times of the Judges, possibly in the time of Gideon, B. C. 1223-1232, or in the early part of the judgeship of Eli, when East Israel was oppressed by Amorites, and West Israel by the Philistines (1:134). As she was the great grandmother of David, either date is known in our Bible. Some scholars place David's date considerably later. PLACE—The early home of Naomi and the later one of Ruth was at Bethlehem, around which so many interesting events took place. The next home of Ruth was in Moht, east of the Dead Sea and southern Jordan. Comment and Suggestive Thought. The Two Decisions.—The two widowed daughter-in-law, Orpah, the "Fawn," and Rath, "the Rose of Monah," weat part of the way to see Naomh off, as friends and relatives were accustomed to do, and as is still the custom in the east. When the time came to parl, when they had kissed each other and wept together, they both declared they would not return, but would go with her to Israel, "Like a wise woman, she declined to take advantage of the impulse of passionate regret, which seemed adverse to their temporal welfare, and which their cooler judgment might not sanction, and urged them, by many strong arguments, to return." "God wrestled with Jacob with desire to be conquered; so Naomh, no doubt, opposed Ruth, hoping and wishing that she herself might be foiled."—T. Fuller. She would have Ruth fully understand her own mind, and realize what the decision would cost her. So in the parable of Christ (Luke 14: 26-33). So Joshua, in his farewell address to his people, when urging them with all his soul to be true to their God, even after their declaration—"God forbid that we should forsake the Lord"—tells them, "Ye cannot serve the Lord" (Josh. 34: 21). Orphan decides to go back to her people. There was little to attract her to a new and strange home, with poverty in prospect, with little hope that she would be welcome to the exclusive Jews, to whom, as well as to her mother, she might become a burden—nothing to attract her except love and religion. Neither of these did she possess in a degree sufficient to overcome the obstacles in the way. We do not know whether she returned to the worship of idols or whether she, at least in private, clung to the religion and the God she had learned from Naomi. Ruth, with a deeper nature and clearer insight, with a love to Naomi that would cheer and strengthen her, and a consciousness of her need of God and love to God that made all other blessings as nothing in comparison, clave unto Naomi, and, like Mary, chose the good part which shall not be taken away from her. V. 16. "And Ruth said." "Ruth's passionate burst of tenderness is immortal. It has put into fitting words for all generations the deepest thoughts of loving hearts, and comes to us over all the centuries between as warm and living as when it welled up from that pure, heroic soul. The two strongest emotions of our nature are blended in it, and each gives a portion of its fervor—love and religion."—Maclaren. Orph and Ruth, starting together for the promised land, and one returning to idolatry, while the other goes on to immortal blessedness, are paralleled by the characters in the early part of Bunyan's "Pilgrim's Progress," where Christian and his neighbors start together for the Celestial City. Christian goes on, while Obstinate and Pliable soon return to the City of Destruction. "It might have been" sums up the tragedy of many a life. Choices between good and evil, even in small things, are the most important acts of our lives. They are the creative acts of the soul. Often these fateful crises come in our lives in connection with decisions of the importance of which we do not dream. We know what is right; we do not know the far-reaching effects. The Outcome of Ruth's Choice.—So far we have been reading the introduction to Ruth's romantic love story, a companion picture in common life to the picture in Solomon's song portraying the love of a great king. It is well to have these two pictures in the Bible gallery, because home and holy love are essential conditions of the transforming this world into the kingdom of God. Home and love open the gates to Paradise. The star of Bethelhem for the race stands over the home with Jesus in it. The greatest reward both of Boaz and of Ruth arises from the fact that they were the ancestors of King David, the greatest of Israel's kings, and of David's greater son, Jesus, the prince of peace. "Here we have the eternal appreciation of every-day virtue and service in the midst of little, ordinary things, and the divine recognition of these as powers in making the world what God wants it to be. It is meant to teach that in the timidest breast of timid woman there may reside an energy which affects human life and the destinies of ages more even than clattering arms and clashing armies . . . . . And Ruth, bringing into Judah only a woman's heart filled with a wonderful love, was able to do more for the land of her exile than its soldiers spending themselves in battle." AUTUMNHATSLARGE SOME OF THEM MEASURE TWENTY-FOUR INCHES ACROSS. Trimming and Material of All Sorts and Description—The Fashionable Colors of the Fail and Wine. Only one sort of hat seems to be omitted from the fall models and that is the small hat. There is no place for it whatever in the fashions of today. It is a season of bigness and strangeness, the familiar lines of the mushroom hat being more prominent than any other seen during the summer months. Every imaginable color and shape are shown, yet all of them on the generally round shape, overloaded with elaborate trimmings. The Heroine. You will want to re best serial Bob Ha of P Hero of Custer's Fam You will want to read this, our next and best serial, the story of Bob Hampton of Placer Hero of Custer's Famous Fighting Seventh. By RANDALL PARRISH. From the incidents leading battle of the Little Big Horn his command were massacre Bull, Mr. Parrish has developed and action that will stir the exciting story. The reader who delights in on the rocky trail of the wild dramatic picture of the West spectacular situations, will Placer," a story that will be the very end. The charming romance slave will appeal to every reader story, with a brisk movement. IT WILL BE RUN SERIALLY IN APPRECIATE IT. WATCH Author of "A Sword of the Old Frontier," "My Lady of the North," etc. From the incidents leading up to and culminating in the battle of the Little Big Horn, in which General Custer and his command were massacred by the Sioux under Sitting Bull, Mr. Parrish has developed a story of dramatic power and action that will stir the blood of every lover of a keen, exciting story. The reader who delights in the ring of the horse's hoofs on the rocky trail of the wilderness, and who would see a dramatic picture of the West in that period of large and spectacular situations, will find in "Bob Hampton of Placer," a story that will hold the attention, fixedly, to the very end. The charming romance skilfully woven into the narrative will appeal to every reader who enjoys a well-told love story, with a brisk movement and a lively human interest. IT WILL BE RUN SERIALLY IN THIS PAPER, AND YOU WILL APPRECIATE IT. WATCH FOR THE OPENING CHAPTERS rial is put to use. The only stipula The Newest Long Feather tion made is that the hate complete shall show a soft combination of colors that harmonize one with the other, with no brilliant contrasts. Some of the big hats measure nearly 25 inches from side to side, and many of them are trimmed with what the shopkeepers called a "simple style." That simple style consists of one huge bird of paradise with its long beak towards the front of the hat and its beautiful plumage spreading almost over the entire crown. These birds are perhaps the most expensive form of trimming, owing to their scarcity, but the shops are showing many soft, fluffy feathers made of marabout and cock plumes which answer; the purpose and do not cost one-tenth as much as a bird of paradise. Let the home-sewer remember that these big bell-shaped hats require much trimming. Some of them are very pretty with just a large bow of ribbon on them. To make a bow sufficiently large for the up-to-date hat, it will take at least two yards of tafeta silk, cut on the bias in ten-inch strips. If you trim the hat with ribbon instead of the bias silk, you need at least six yards to make a full bow, and the ribbon should be from eight to 12 inches in width. Reflector Stone Hat Pin. The new reflector hat pin is decidedly extreme and unique. It is set with a large colored brilliant cut stone, beneath which is placed a reflector attached to spiral springs or some similar arrangement that causes the reflector to dangle when vibrated and send schottillations through the stone and through the open work of the ornamental output metal. The reflectors are quite large, and are entirely incased within the metal portion in a manner that they can neither be handled nor easily damaged. These hat pins come in several styles, set with various stones, such as toopaz, emerald, amethyst, rubies, and other transparent varieties through which the scintillations caused by the reflector can be seen. The hat pins are effective and cost three dollars each. Whims of the Hair All women know the queer whims of the hair. There are days when it will not look nice. This happens when the woman is out of temper. The hair feels a quick sympathy and shows it. It will not lie down; it will not stand up; it will not puff and it will not braid. Hair, when one feels ill, always looks thin. It lacks stamina and acts just as the body is apt to feel. Hair has a temper of its own, and it reflects your moods. There is a woman who declares that her hair knows the state of her mind and sympathizer with her. Fanning the hair after it is washed gives a silky effect. It makes it lighter, more fluffy, and it separates the hairs so that they stand forth and From Gen. Chas. King; "Mr. Parrish knows well how to make a story go, and with such a heroine and two such manly fellows as Hampton and young Brant, he has a strong one here. I envy him his power, I rejoice in his descriptions, and I thank him for the spirited picture he draws of the young officer checking that mad lynching bee just in the nick of time. With all my heart I hope the story may be widely read. "CHARLES KING." read this, our next and the story of ampton lacer nous Fighting Seventh. up to and culminating in the in which General Custer and by the Sioux under Sitting hoped a story of dramatic power blood of every lover of a keen, in the ring of the horse's hoofs wilderness, and who would see a ist in that period of large and find in "Bob Hampton of hold the attention, fixedly, to killfully woven into the narra- der who enjoys a well-told love t and a lively human interest. IN THIS PAPER, AND YOU WILL FOR THE OPENING CHAPTERS appear to be more numerous Smart Neckwear. In the stiff standing collars that are so popular with the plain linen shirts those formed of baby Irish lace, which permits the colored tie to show through, are being worn by smartly gowned women. The little plaited tabs, which can be fashioned of edd bits of embroidery and lace, and are fastened to the collar with jeweled pins, are practical as well as smart. Fashions in Sleeves. Sleeves on tailored waists and linen suits should be long to be correct for morning wear—slightly below the elbow for an informal gown, and just to the elbow for elaborate blouses and wraps. The very short puffs seen on this season's waists should never be worn in town, even though long gloves meet the sleeve; this mode is tolerated only for the country or seashore. Healthful Caning: One of the admiralty doctors said to me: "Tell your head master if he wants to keep his boys in good health he should cane them regularly once a week!"—Naval Aspirant, in the Carterion To Quickly Mend Tin: Paste a piece of stiff brown paper across the hole, by means of cold water paste. Pour boiling water into the pan and allow to stand awhile. The pan can be washed in hot or cold water. Examples Hard to Follow "De examples of great men," said Uncle Eben, "is sometimes, dangerous oh little men to follow. Dar has been a heap o' plate glass windows broke by small boys tryin' to play David an' Gollar." Insects Used as Food Besides the locust, the insects which are eaten for food are the bugong moth of Australia and the gru-gru, a fat white moth found among the palm trees of the West Indies. Pink Wood for Piano A newly imported wood, used for high-class cabinet and piano work, is the Tasmanian myrtle. It is a rich pink color, moderately hard, and very close grained. Britons Eating More Meat Britons are eating twice as much meat per capita as they did 20 years ago. Great Britain imported last year over $1,000,000,000 worth of food. THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. 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 regalia. For information concerning the organization of lodges apply at the main office. The Courts of Calanthe The Courts of Calanthe Is the Female Department of the Order. It requires a membership of thirty persons to organize a court. Its members are pledged to exhibit Fidelity, exercise Harmony and prove Love one for the other. It pays an endowment and burial benefit of $150.00. It pays $3.00 per week sick dues. The only expense for regalia is the cost of the badge, 50 cents and a rosette, costing 25 cents for funeral occasions. THE BANDS OF CALANTHE or Children's Department also constitutes a feature and persons cannot do better than to enter the little ones into this mystic circle. The expense is nominal and the benefits all that could be expected. It pays from $1.00 to $1.50 sick dues and death benefits of from $30.00 to $40.00. If you have no Pythian Lodge or Court or Band in your neighborhood, orgniz one. For all information concerning the Children's Department address For all information concerning special rates of membership in the lodges and courts, address KNICHTS OF PYTHIAST F.C.B. only absolutely necessary regu- apply at the main office. The Court Is the Female Department of the thirty persons to organize a co- Fidelity, exercise Harmony as an endowment and burial bene- dues. The only expense for a rosette, costing 25 cents for THE BANDS OF CALA stitutes a feature and persons circle. The expense is nomin- $1.00 to $1.50 sick dues and d Lodge or Court or Band in you For all information concern For all information conce- membership in the lodges and WHAT MOTHER HEN SAYS. A Look!" Says old mother hen in glee, As Mollie comes with the good ground corn, To feed to the chickens wee. "Lack-Lack! Lack-Lack! Lack-Lack! That's all, my chicks—lack-lack! And Mollie has gone with the empty pan, But at bedtime she'll come back." —Augusta Kortrecht, in Youth's Companion. A NEAT ILLUSION. What Can Be Done with a Pin, Bit of Rubber and a Sunbeam. With a bright pin and a bit of elastic cord, aided by the focusing of a few rays of light, you may produce a very pretty illusion. Stick the pin through the elastic and twirl the latter vertically between the thumb and the forefinger of each hand, separating the hands so as to tighten the elastic A hand pulling a string attached to a glass. Manipulating the Pin. and you give the pin a sufficiently swift rotation to make it present the image of a drinking glass. Much depends upon the brightness of the pin, the light it shines in and the darkness of the background. In the illustration the operator is supposed to be in a dark room, with a ray of sunlight falling through the shutters upon the pin. With a little practice various objects may be imitated. If the pin tends toward a horizontal position, says the Chicago News, it should be tied to the elastic with a bit of white thread, which will not interfere at all with the experiment. School Slang Thieves have their own languages and gossipies theirs, but it would seem that the boys attending some of the famous English schools also possess a rich collection of words not found in ordinary dictionaries. Here is a list of some choice expressions said to be in use at Christ's Hospital, better known as the Bluecoat school: Biggey, major; bite! look out; buff, pudding; buff, to swindle; buzz, to cry; chaff, to express delight; cling, bread; flab, butter; hagging, scullery; hags, scullery maids; housey, Christ's hospital; kiff, coffee, littley, minor; mull, to fight; pock, pocket; pocket money, pim out, to tell tales; scratch, maid; shag, share; shuts, disappointment; sicker, infirmary; slog- N. A., S. A., E. A., A. AND A. organization is one of the most powerful has been phenomenal. The Grand Court all of the cities and counties in need to organize a new lodge. The largest features, but the principles founded on Friendship, based on Charity the respectable, upright people of their heartiest support. An endowment and burial benefit of per week sick dues. The badge of gallia. For information concerning courts of Calantia in the Order. It requires a member court. Its members are pledged and prove Love one for the other. Benefit of $150.00. It pays $3.00 per regalia is the cost of the badge, 50 funeral occasions. ANTHE or Children's Department cannot do better than to enter the final and the benefits all that could death benefits of from $30.00 to $40 our neighborhood, orgrniz one. Using the Children's Department ad is the most powerful in the country and its al. The Grand Lodge of Virginia has jurisdiction and counties in this state. Thirty males new lodge. The benefits paid constitute one of the principles are greater than anything based on Charity and established on Beiright people of the state will find it an order import. burial benefit of of $200.00 for all ages. It is. The badge costing 75 cents each is the nation concerning the organization of lodges men's Department also con- tan to enter the little ones into this mystic all that could be expected. It pays from on $30.00 to $40.00. If you have no Pythian organiz. one. 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A model of the little ship Gjoa (pronounced "Yousa," by the way), in which Capt. Ronald Amundsen, as told by him recently in Harper's Magazine, sailed through the northwest passage and located the north magnetic pole—he being the first man to perform either of these achievements—was recently exhibited in New York, and will be preserved permanently by the Smithsonian institution. The ship itself is at the navy yard in San Francisco, and it has been suggested that it be the first ship to pass through the Panama canal, so that it may thus become the first to circumnavigate the North American continent. Why are the clouds like sponges? They both hold water. When are a man and a crab alike? When "devilled." What part of a man's attire is like a worn-out hoe? A darned sock. Think of living! Thy life, wert thou the pitifulest of all the sons of earth, is no idle dream, but a solemn reality. It is thy own. It is all thou hast to front eternity with. Work, then, even as He has done, and does, like a star, unhasting yet unresting.—Thomas Carlyle. Sweet Young Thing—No, Mr. Sprat, I can not accept your invitation. I have learned what kind of a man you are. Mr. Jones told papa he saw you a few moments ago "hitting a horse's neck." Oh, how could you be so cruel to a poor, dumb beast? Brute! —Judge. Paris has created a fund to enable horticulture and arboriculture to flourish like the science of letters. All qualified gardeners and foresters will be able to travel and perfect themselves in their work by studying the parks and gardens of foreign cities. "But," protested the space writer, "perhaps you could use this article if I were to boil it down?" "Nothing done," rejoined the man behind the blue pencll. "If you were to take a gallon of water and boil it down to a pint it would still be water." Literature is enriched by a new word. It is "stereotypy." It is applied to the disease of chronic reiteration. When a person says the same thing over and over, that person has stereotypy. Though a new word, the disease is very old. The earth is pear-shaped, says Prof. Love, of London, instead of "round like an orange," as the geographers say. This is a fruitful subject, and it is surprising that there have never banana puns made on it before. Sawdust is turned into transportable fuel in Germany by a simple process. It is heated under high steam pressure until the resinous ingredients become sticky, when it is pressed into bricks. --- Around North America CONUNDRUMS. When is tapestry like fowls? When it's Gobble-No. Life. The Cruel Man A Fund for Horticulturists Water New Word. Old Disease. good joke very cunning Fuel from Sawdust M 311 N. 4th St., Richmond, Va Established 1899 JOHN FOXEL Dealer in General Line of FANCY AND STAPLE GROCERIES NOTIONS, FRESH MEATS, CI- GARS, TOBACCO, ICE, WOOD, COAL, &c. 11 S. 4TH ST. RICHMOND, N.J. BOARDING & LODGING Rates Reasonable. All the Comforts of Home Orders received by letter or telegraph MRS. BOOKER LEFTWICH. PROPRIETRESS, 816 N. 2nd St. Richmond, Va. The Harder Labor "What did you get the rubber gloves for?" they asked her as she passed them around to show how handsome they were. "You have a girl, haven't you? You don't have to wash the dishes." "No," she answered, "I don't have to wash the dishes, but while she is washing the dishes, I oil the floors." A Remedy. Young Wife (whose husband is a scientist, to a friend)—Yes, I am happy. If my husband gets vexed about anything he sits down and calculates when the world will come to an end, and then he is all right again.—Fleigende Blatter. Handicapped. Austria's fishing industry suffers from the handicap that the fishermen are nearly all in the clutches of usurers. They are compelled to borrow money when the catch is poor and they are never able to get out of debt again. Cordite Walking Stick In a discussion in the house of parliament relative to the danger of cordite Mr. Haldane said that he had a walking stick made of this explosive which he had often carried into the cloakroom of parliament. Doubtless. "Yes, he preached on original sin to-day." It was doubtless a good sermon, he post so full of the subject."—Houston Post. Everybody Laughs A philosopher says: "The man who laughs is the sympathetic man." It is astonishing how many sympathizers a fellow has when he slips down and hurts himself. Daring Engineering California has the world-wide reputation of fathering the most daring engineering projects in the world in the way of electrical generation and transmission. Keep Cheese Moist A good way to keep cheese moist and to prevent it from moulding is to wrap it in a cloth wet in vinegar and cover this with a dry cloth. A Good Customer The United States government is the largest individual purchaser of electric lamps in this country. It buys $60,000 annually. JOSIE A. GRAHAM Virginia's Most Successful Hair Culturist. ...PARLORS..... 108 E. Leigh St., - Richmond, / 'Phone, 1034. The largest and most up-to-date Hair Dressing Parlors in Richmond. The very best preparations that can be made for the hair, scalp, face and skin. Graham's Superior Scalp Food for growing hair on bald heads and bare temples, 25cts. per jar. By mail, 35cts. Graham's Superior Orange Flower Skin Fo' for developing and beautifying the skin, 25cts a jar. By mail 35cts. Graham's Superior Velvet Liquid Powder for giving the face a beautiful fair color, 25 cents a bottle. By mail 35cts. Graham's Vegetable Hair Dye the best on market giving a rich natural color, $1.00 per bottle. By mail, $1.25. Mrs. Graham makes a specialty of massaging and beautifying ladies' faces for parques and public gatherings, 35 cents. Mrs. Graham shampoos the head and puts it in a healthy condition, 25 cents. All ladies who attend parties and other social gatherings should have their finger nails manicured and made beautiful, 25 cents. A Mrs. Graham's preparations sell at sight. Ladies living in other cities and town can make good money by selling their preparations. Write for terms to Mrs. J. A. Graham, No. 108 E. Leigh St, Rlcamond, Va. John H. Braxton REAL ESTATE & LOANS Private Banker and Broker, Loans negotiated on Real Estate, Interest allowed on Deposits, Estates managed, Rent collected and prompt returns Special attention to repairs. Notary With Seal. H F Jonathan FISH, OYSTERS AND PRODUCE. 120 N. 17TH ST.. RICHMOND, VA. ALL ORDERS WILL RECEIVE PROMPT ATTENTION. Long Distance 'Phone, 752. STRAUS' SPECIAL Old Yacht Club, PURE WHISKEY Will Satisfy the lover of the right kind of stimulant. Special prices. We have all grades of good Liquors, Cigars and Tobacco. Call and see us. 422 E. Broad St., Richmond, Virginia. S. W. ROBINSON. NO. 23 NORTH 18TH ST FINE WINES, LIQUORS CIGARS, &c. All Stock Sold as Guaranteed. PROMPT ATTENTION Your patronage is respectfully solicited. GEORGE O. BROWN. PHOTOGRAPHER. Fine Photographs. True to Life. High-class service. Latest Improvements in Photographic Out-door Work executed. Reasonable Estimates and Prompt Service. Pictures Enlarged from Old negatives or Photographs. 8-ms THE ECONOMY, 303-5 North Third St FINE CLEANING, DYEING AND REPAIRING CHITMAN M. WHITE, PROPRIETOR. A. Hayes First-class Hacks and Caskets of all descriptions. I have a spare room for bodies when the family have not a suitable place. All country orders are given special attention. Your special attention is called to the new style Oak Caskets. Call and see me and you shall be waited on individually. 'Phone, 2776. THE PLANET SATURDAY...DECEMBER 7, 1907 ROAD AND FARM IMPROVEMENT THE ROADSIDES. Keep Free From Weeds, but the Trees Are an Improvement. No matter how smooth and well constructed the traveled way may be, if the roadsides are not cared for, the road, as a whole, will not give a good impression. All rubbish should be removed and the excavations and bankmanks smoothed and planted with grass wherever it will grow. Unsightly brush should be cut and grubbed out. Sometimes, however, the brush and small trees, if suitably trimmed, add to the attractiveness of the roadside. All trees that are ornamental or which have value as shade trees should be preserved and protected, unless they grow so closely that they make too dense a shade. In hot, dry climates particularly, and, indeed, in most places, trees are a considerable factor in reducing the cost of maintenance, since they lessen the evaporation of the moisture from the ma- A Nicely Kent Roadside. cadam. In exposed places where the sweep of the wind would be otherwise unbroken they serve to prevent in a measure the blowing away of the binder from the road surface. Unfortunately in such places it is often difficult to make trees grow. Care in the selection of the kinds of trees best suited to the locality is important. In Massachusetts, sugar, Norway and white maples and American elms have been set out to a considerable extent along the state roads with satisfactory results. These trees grow fast and at the same time are fairly long lived. A good arrangement along roadsides for trees with large tops is to set them about 50 feet apart on each side, but alternated so that there will be a tree every 25 feet along the road. BLACK LOCUST FOR POSTS Farmers Can Grow them with Little Trouble and Much Profit. Farmers are beginning to realize that growing timber is the very best way to solve the post problem. From experience and observation I am convinced the black locust excels. The mulberry and the osage are its equal in point of durability, but they are of slower growth. The latter has a very bad habit of spreading. The cedar is not so durable in small posts and harder to grow. Black locust can be grown in some rough, out-of-the-way place, on poor soil or in our best pastures. Many fine vistas of black locust are found in Kentucky and elsewhere. When it is desired to remove the trees they are cut out, and a sprout is allowed to grow from each stump. Young locust sprouts may be bought of nurserymen and set along the roadside or to form a grove. They cost about $16 per 1,000 when two feet high. Protection must be provided when they are first set out, as stock will nip off the main sprouts, causing them to form a head rather than grow tall and alim. In dense native groves nature does the pruning, hence the importance of planting close in groves. Along highways and where scattering it is necessary to do some pruning. The head should be run up very high, says Orange Judd Farmer. Sometimes a post may be cut from a six-year-old tree, but better results are had when the tree is old enough to furnish three posts, two on first section and one on the second. The value of these posts varies. Destroying Rats. The following advice on conquering the rat pest is given in the New York Farmer: "By the persistent use of traps, occasional resort to poison and the exercise of forethought in the construction of farm buildings so as to minimize the opportunities for harborage, farmers and others may prevent the greater part of the loss and annoyance they now experience from rat depredations. The same statement applies in great measure to city and village conditions. Hence cooperation in the warfare on rats is particularly important and cannot be too strongly urged. Currants and gooseberries delight in a deep, rich soil, a little shade and thorough mulching. Plant them in tall as they start into growth early in spring. FALL CARE OF THE PASTURE. Much Depends on Management as to Results Obtained. The care of the pasture lands is one of the most neglected branches of our agriculture, and yet there are a few farmers who are of the opinion that the easiest money that comes from their pasture land. In order to get the greatest profits from the land that is used for pasture we must devote more or less time to the care and management of the lands, so that they will produce the greatest amount of nutritious forage at the time of the year when pastures are short. If we find that some of the grasses are being crowded by weeds, it will be a good plan to mow the pasture in the late summer or early fall and go over the soil with a sharp disk harrow, cutting the trough turf, and sow on a mixture of grass seed that is best adapted for grazing purposes and that will bloom in succession from May until September. In order to have the pasture come on in the best shape the coming spring it will be necessary to withdraw the herd from it early in September and allow the grass to grow and form a mulch for winter protection of the tender roots. Nature can be conquered in no way except by obeying her, and we are fighting nature when we compel our stock to remain in a pasture and crop down all of the fall growth that is needed to protect the roots during the cold winter and spring weather. A careful study of the English system of caring for the grass lands, suggests Farm Life, would aid us essentially in keeping our pastures in a good condition. In England it is common to find from 20 to 30 kinds of grasses growing on one sod, forming a close turf that provides a succession of grasses that comes at all times of the year when the stock is in the pasture. THE TOP SOIL. Its Value Compared with Subsoil Not Well Understood. The value of top soil as compared with subsol is not understood as it ought to be. If the great contrast between the two was sufficiently impressed upon many, they would use every reasonable effort to keep surface soil in place. It may be carried away by wind or water, especially the latter. This explains why in so many soils the low places are so much more productive than the higher land. Soil and humus have been carried downward, leaving the high lands comparatively unproductive. Such denudation may be checked materially, if not entirely prevented, by plowing along the slope, rather than up and down it, by keeping the land well stocked with grass roots, and by refraining from working the land as far as this may be possible during the season when denudation is most likely to occur. KNEE GUARDS Can Be Made From Boot Tops—Good for Kneeling Work. Cut the legs off from a worn pair of rubber boots, or felts, and slit them Knee Guards for Kneesling Work. open to put ever your knees when weeding, picking up apples or potatoes, if the ground is damp. A strap and buckle may be riveted on or fastened on with a cord. Even a piece of offloth is better than nothing, says Prairie Farmer, to protect the clothes and guard the joints against dampness and rheumatism. Aged Eggs. Eggs preserved four years in water glass, were recently examined by an expert of the United States agricultural department and found to have an unpleasant taste or smell and the white coagulated in cooking. At this age there is a slight taste like soda, and the white is pink in color and very liquid. Eggs kept in water glass about six months tasted and smelled like well-knept eggs a few days old. Changes in preserved eggs take place gradually and at one year old are hardly noticeable. Out of 384 dozen eggs put up between April and June and sold between October and December, only five dozen or 1.3 per cent. were bad, and these were cracked and broken. Land Only Counted. Land was the only species of property which, in the old time, carried any respectability with it. Money alone, apart from some tenure of land, not only did not make the possessor great and respectable, but actually made him at once the object of plunder and hatred. Witness the history of the Jews in England in the early reigns after the conquest. THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA The Best Household System The Best Household System. Equip yourself with common sense, cling to your ideas of cleanliness and order and good food, and trust in the Lord (this is said entirely without flippancy)—and you will have about all the system that you will ever get in this whirling mysterious world. Thomas Huxley knew what a difficult thing a system is when he wrote that the chief energy of our lives is expended in adapting ourselves to constantly changing circumstances.—Brooklyn Eagle. Convicts Building Prison At the federal prison at Leavenworth, Kan., 956 prisoners are engaged in building around and over them the very prison in which they will be confined. This institution, when completed, will be the largest and best equipped federal prison in the country. It was begun in 1898 and probably will not be finished for several years. It has a frontage of 800 feet, with a depth of 900 feet in the rear. A Temperance Prescription A British temperance journal recommended a substitute for brandy which could be used in cases of fainting or severe palms. The temperance remedy was composed of equal parts of the strongest tincture of ginger, sal volatile and chloric ether. This mixture contains 83 per cent. of alcohol as compared with brandy, which contains only 50 per cent. of alcohol. Left-Handed Praise. "I don't seem to hear so many compliments on my last poem," said the poetess, "as on its illustration. 'You just ought to see it,' they exclaim, 'it is so beautiful!'" "It's the same way with me," put in the artist. "They come and stand before my pictures and sigh and say, 'Oh, what lovely frames you have!'" A Matter of Taste Cynic Philosopher—You should be careful to address all men in honeyed speech. Student—Why so? Cynic Philosopher—Because then it will not be so hard on you when you have to eat your words.—Baltimore American. Our Dead Our dead are never dead to us until we have forgotten them; they can be injured by us, they can be wounded; they know all our penitence, all our aching sense that their place is empty, all the kisses we bestow on the smallest relic of their presence. A Real Trust Burma is controlled by trusts. There are two transportation lines which always keeps in reserve five per cent. of the importer's last six months' business, which is liable to forfeiture if an independent shipment is received. Legal Right to Pick Clear According to Connecticut law when you go into a cigar store and ask for a cigar, the dealer must place a number of the cigars of the kind you want on the counter to enable you to select the particular one you wish to buy. Crowded If all the tenement dwellers in the lower east side of New York city should be in the streets surrounding their homes at one time they would be so crowded as to hardly be able to move. Physician's Big Fee Mr William Henry Broadbent, physician-in-ordinary to King Edward, whose death was recently announced, received $5,000 a year from Lord Rethusbilid for a visit once a week. Trade With Colonies. The trade of France with her colonies for 1906 aggregated over $200,000,000, of which $128,547,800 consisted in exports of manufactured products from France. Jekyl and Hyde. As there is much beast and some devil in man, so there is some angel and some God in him. The beast and the devil may be conquered, but in this life never destroyed. Old Church. The one thousandth anniversary of the founding of St. Peter's church, Chester, England, finds the structure in good condition, portions of it having been rebuilt in 1440 and 1673. Homes for Old People. Records of the homes for the aged in New York city show that all of the 40 institutions are now full and have long waiting lists. England's Victories. John Bull figures out that his country has been successful in 82 per cent of the battles in which it has engaged. A Big Growth. Callico printing was a new industry in Japan 12 years ago. To-day a single firm has factory buildings covering nearly four acres. Rides in Devil Wagon. Gen. Booth, of the Salvation Army, now in his seventy-ninth year, uses the automobile in his campaigns. National Uncles. France and Italy run national pawn shops. Railroad Capital. The entire capital invested in the construction of the world's railroads amounted on Jan. 1, 1906, to 182,000, $60,000 marks, or $43,310,600,000. It Was Lost. Anyway! It Was Lost, Anyway! Mubby (fumbling in his pockets)— Ish funny—hie—but I can't—hic—re- member in just what pocket—hic—I put zat keyhole. Galter tops should preferably match the serge or broadcloth suit, but in cheviot they will be found a bit too cumbersome, and if the tailor-made be one of the brown cheviot or Scotch serge, it will be easy to match either tone in brown kid boots. Brazil will soon be able to raise all the rice needed for home consumption. Last year's imports at Rio de Janeiro were only 99,305 bags, as compared with 430,031 in 1905. The great Lick telescope will pick out a star so small that it would require 30,000 of them put together to be visible to the naked eye. To Remove Ink Soots Wet the spots in milk and then cover with common salt. It should be done before the garments have been washed. Advice is cheap except with lawyers and physicians. So live that you may avoid them. In Holland the born as a warning signal is reserved exclusively for the use of motorists. Live in the Country. City air contains 14 times as many microbes as that of the country. The Marriage Record. Three thousand marriages a day is the record for the entire world. Bob Hampton of Placer By RANDALL PARRISH. Author of "When Wilderness Old Fro This remarkable story this paper. Read wh Author of "When Wilderness Was King," "A Sword of the Old Frontier," etc. This remarkable story will be run serially in this paper. Read what the critics say of it: St. Paul Dispatch—A compelling interest biases the reader in favor of this tale, which, with a wealth of dramatic power, reaches its climax in a description of the Custer massacre. Injustice makes men restless, and Bob Hampton was no mean specimen, but the love he bears his old commander, General Custer, like a magnet draws him with unfailing fatality, so that, with his old company, he, reinstated, falls with that gallant leader. Houston Chronicle—The story is decidedly the best Mr. Parrish has written, and the popularity of his former volumes in connection with the excellence of this latest will make it one of the widely read novels of the day. In this story he has, perhaps, reached the summit of his art. The Little Rock Gazette—This is one of the strongest, most virile stories of the year. The author has had several successes. This latest eclipse them all. The Portland Oregonian—Mr. Parrish can rest assured that in writing this military tale he has created a true American novel on rational lines. Chicago Daily News—The best and strongest story in the line of succession from Mr. Parrish's pen. The story in complication and characterization is wonderfully clever, the elements of suspense remarkably sustained, while its atmosphere of mystery is as strong and its purpose as deep as any that ever entered the most subtle, calculating mood of Sherlock Holmes. Philadelphia Press—"Bob Hampton of Placer" is another thrilling American novel by Randall Parrish. Like its predecessors, it commands attention from the start and holds the interest absorbed by its continuous action. Furthermore it is a notably well written story, exhibiting the author's rare sense of dramatic values. Grand Rapids Herald—The surpassing power of this new novel, "Bob Hampton of Placer," marks it not only as the best by Mr. Parrish but as probably the strongest in human interest of the season. Seldom has any novel exceeded it in virile strength and the quality that arouses the emotions. ```markdown ``` Correct Gaiters Rice in Brazil Powerful Glass J. Pierpont Morgan belongs to four times as many clubs as does the king of England. His royal highness is a member of 12, while Mr. Morgan has his name on the lists of at least 50. Some of the clubs of which he is a member he has never visited, but once a member he never resigns. The proposition is being discussed to pull down the Bank of England building, which is one story in height and covers eight acres, house it in a seven-story building on a portion of the site and sell the remainder of the land, the value of which is estimated at $23,500,000. Blind Librarian. Miss Jennie Winslow Bubler, who has charge of the "room of happiness" in the Lynn (Mass.) public library, is said to be the only blind librarian in the world. Besides performing the duties of librarian, Miss Bubler teaches the blind patrons of the library to read. Four peers, 11 baronets and 33 knights were created by the king of Great Britian on his last birthday. Nominally the king did it, in reality the liberal ministry did it, the "birthday honors" being one of the perquisites of office. Privilege of a Poet Eugene F. Ware of Kansas, poet, known as "Iroquill," and a friend of the president, is fighting a corporation which is seeking to divert the waters of the Cascade canyon in Colorado, and spoil the scenery. ton of Placer ALL PARRISH, Was King," "A Sword of the tier," etc. will be run serially in at the critics say of it: J. P.'s Clubs. Valuable Land. New Nobility: 1720 Money received on deposit and B $1.00 which remaining 60 d ed on Satisfactory Accounts Hard Amounts of ten cents and This establishment is fitted having a large white vault, burg- and every modern convenience of the public. For all informa Loans, etc., apply to the Cashie Banking Hours have been arran- the working people as follow days, 9 A. M. to 3 P. M. 3 P. M. and open a maining open CALL BY AS YOU OFFICERS AND BOY JOHN MITCHELL, JR., Pres. THOMAS H. W. REV. W. F. GRAHAM, D. D., JN. E. R. JEFFERSON, H. F. J. D. J. CHAVERS, JNO. T. J. J. C. JOHN MITCHELL, JR., Pres. 'Phone. 577. A. D. 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Orders by Telephone or Telegraph filled. Weddings, Suppers and Entertainments promptly attended. Strange, Wonderful, but True are the awe stricken tests given by The Great Australian Medium. PROF. D. D. BRUCE, M. D. the only Living Apostle of Science of the Mysteries. $5000 in Gold to any one in the World to compete with him. Possessing mere power than any four mediums combined. No card, trance or hand humbug Greatest Hindoo Medium in the World. SO GREAT IS HIS POWER that we can tell you while in a Clastryvant state, all you wish to know with out a word being spoken. Come, all ye unbelievers, scoffers and jeers; bring all your skepticism with you—he will open your eyes to the private chamber mystery. Come all ye broken hearted wives, all with low spirits and let him lift the burden from your aching and jealous heart. He challenges the World to compete with him in causing a speedy marriage with the one you love; smiling the manned and bride 1 S Mechanics' Savings Bank OF RICHMOND, VA. 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While there should be efficient supervision and regulation of interstate commerce, and the carriers and corporations of every kind engaged therein, it will become more and more manifest as time passes and results are developed that this supervision must be sane and conservative—consistent with the Constitution and with sound common sense. The moral standing of the business men of this country has always been high. It was never so high as it is now. There is consequently less occasion than ever before to restrict commercial freedom by statutory details of management and surveillance that art apparently framed on the theory that all men are criminals. Such legislation hammers enterprise, retards business activity, and discredits the whole nation. Broad principles should govern in all legislation, and the enforcement of the laws should be left to the appropriate tribunals without unauthorized interference from any source and above all things there should be no toleration of the idea that our Constitution has become in part a misfit and obsolete, and that it must be changed and vitalized by judicial interpretation, or by the more assertion of public sentiment in support of that which may for the moment be desired, although manifestly unauthorized by its provisions. SUICIDAL TO TINKER WITH TARIFF. From the beginning of our government our Constitution has been recognized by all the world as one of the wisest and most nearly perfect organic laws ever framed. Under it we have grown and prospered as no other people ever has. We should be slow to condemn it or to find fault with it, but if we find it inadequate, or that for any reason it should be changed, it contains a provision in accordance with which the people can amend it. No one should think of amending it in any other manner. To change it in any other way would be the beginning of the end. In my opinion no amendments are necessary to enable the government to efficiently exercise all its powers, and that no additional powers are necessary to the proper supervision and regulation of every matter that is the legitimate subject of legislation. I note also that the committees refer to the Republican policy of a protective tariff and to the enforcement of all the rights of citizens. At another time I may take occasion to speak on these subjects at some length, but it is sufficient for present purposes to remark that with our surplus revenues diminishing and our enormous expenditures increasing it would be like adding the last grain of sand to undertake to tinker with the tariff. Under the present tariff laws we have had the greatest prosperity any country has ever enjoyed, and it has been because of the strength thus given us that we have stood up as well as we have under the decline in values amounting to billions of dollars that has at last brought business depression to employers and idleness to thousands of employees. It is to the beneficent results of that policy as expressed in the Dingley law that we must look for one of the necessary factors in the work of restoring prosperity. EQUAL RIGHTS OF CITIZENSHIP There will doubtless come a time when changes in that law can be made to advantage, but that time is not now. So far as the protection of the equal rights of citizenship is concerned, my views are well known. When the Republican Party falters in that high duty, it will fall and go out of power, and it will deserve defeat. What Lincoln and Grant and the great men of their day did not done in vain. Their achievements will endure, and every Republican who honors their memory and glories in their deeds should be proud to uphold their work. When the national committee shall have issued the call for the next Republican national convention, I shall as heretofore announced, formally request the State central committee to embody in its call for the next State convention a requirement that all delegates to that convention shall chosen to direct vote of the Republican electors at tally authorized primary elections, held in accordance with the statutes applicable thereto. The vital portion of the communication is this paragraph: "I do not want even to appear to be a candidate for two offices at the same time, and therefore forego the double honor proposed, and with hostility expressed, to port for the Presidential candidacy." It is the phrase "at the same time" which is interpreted as signifying that he possibly may fall back eventually into the role of a candidate for re-election to his present office. If this construction is correct then he still leaves a loophole for a compromise with the Republican opposition in Ohio. AGGRESSIVELY HOSTILE But, in the meantime, he will occupy the position of a candidate for the higher office and will govern his actions accordingly. He appears to be resolute in his determination to contest with the Taft forces at every point and to compel them to initiate whatever overtures for peace may be made. In view of the aggressively hostile attitude he has assumed, it seems unreasonable to expect that harmony will be restored between the factions. During the last six months several opportunities to re-establish an entente cordiale were permitted to slip by. The Taft forces insisted that the Secretary's candidacy for the Presidential nomination had no relation to the Senatorship and stubbornly held out against any arrangement agreeable to the senior Senator, who was willing to concede the State to Mr. Taft, in condition that he would not be opposed for re-election to the Senate. FORAKER'S REASON FOR FIGHTING Consequently, Mr. Foraker probably reasoned thus: They are resolved to retire me to private life if they can. If I resist, they may not succeed; but if I do not object, they assuredly will succeed. Therefore, I may as well fight it out, for I have everything to gain and nothing to lose by such a course. And should I lose, I will at least have the satisfaction of going to defeat with my boots on. Moreover, if I fight, I may as well fight for the best in sight. Therefore, I will go after the Presidential nomination. If I miss that as well, I may prevent Taft from getting it. Then we will both be "eliminated." Having reached this conclusion, the Senator consulted with his colleague, Gen. Charles Dick, when the latter was here a fortnight ago, and the junior Senator, being also slated for retirement by the opposition coincided with him. Then followed the league committee meeting, and in natural sequence Mr. Foraker's announcement last night. NO NEUTRAL OHIO GROUND From this time on there is to be no neutral territory in Ohio. The Taft forces claim that their candidate is assured of a solid delegation to the national convention next year. They assert that Senator Foraker cannot secure a solitary delegate in any of the twenty-one Congressional districts. They also declare that the "big four" to be chosen by the State convention in the spring will be beyond his reach, for they will control that body. The Senatorial alliance proposes to invade all the Taft strongholds, and the machinery so long engineered by Senator Dick, or such portions of it as still remain intact, will be set in motion to disrupt the Taft organization. Dick has as much to lose or gain as Foraker, and consequently they are standing together in the most spectacular and far-reaching contest in Buckeye political history. The struggle will be concentrated first upon the election of delegates to the State convention. Senator Foraker will ask the State committee to require that all delegates be chosen at a primary, or by direct vote of the people. If the Taft managers secure a majority of the delegates, they not only will instruct the "big four" for the Secretary of War, but they also will endorse a Senatorial candidate other than Mr. Foraker. Foraker, instead, should the Senatorial combination control the convention. Foraker will get the delegates at large to the national convention, and a man friendly to him and Dick will be endorsed for his seat in the Senate. COMPROMISE IMPROBABLE These conclusions are conditional always, of course, upon the failure of any compromise in the meantime which, as already stated, is now almost out of the question. The odds in the Presidential contest are against him now, but they say the situation is not so immutable as not to be susceptible to radical change. By putting aside the Senatorial orientation, Mr. Foraker seems to have made an adroit move, inasmuch as he opens the way virtually for alliance with ambitious Republicans who might want to wear the toga after it falls from his shoulders, should that happen. By instilling such a hope in the minds of a number of prominent party men he doubtless thinks he may be able to draw from the strength of the Taft forces and reinforce his own. Men of influence in various localities now strongly impregnated with Taft sentiment might be induced to combine with him and Senator Dick in their efforts to control the next State convention and this would put the Taft element in the attitude of opposing the entire field. The situation would likely to become considerably confused by starting a free-for-all contest for Foraker's seat, and the senator Senator doubtless has figured out that this would inure to his advantage. FORAKER OUTLINES HIS PLAT FORM In his letter to Vice President Mattern, of the Ohio League, Mr. Foraker, in a general way, outlines the platform upon which he would expect to go before the national convention. It is to be noted that he takes a conservative position as counterdistinguished from the more radical course which has been followed by the President, and to which Secretary Taft almost wholly subscribed in the speech he made to the Buckeye Republican Club in Columbus several months ago. 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