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HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY DEC 16 1907 CAMBRIDGE, MASS. THE RICHMOND PLANET VOLUME XXV. NUMBER 2. RICHMOND, VIRGINIA SATURDAY, DECEMBER 16 The Noble Seventeen and Their Manner of Electing Dr. G. B. Howard. I confess that the above heading is a title, given a body of scholarly, high-toned, conscientious, christian Ministers and business men, by the erratic, self-appointed censor, Rev. S. A. Moses, because they had the honesty of purpose on the 26th of last month to elect Rev. G. B. Howard, D. D., as President of Virginia Theological Seminary and College. I have no degree of anxiety as to Brother Moses being able to influence any one who is acquainted with him and his method of dealing with men. But as a member and Assistant Secretary of the Board, I make this reply, that those who are not so well informed as to the condition that confronts us in our educational work, may not be misled and that after all the "noble 17" are beyond doubt noble indeed and that our erratic, dyspeptic friend wrote the title better than he knew. A YOUNG GOLIAH Just a glance at the personnel composing the "Noble 17" and the sacrifice which they have made for the advancement of our educational work, even before the young Goliah graduated from school will convince the most obuse mind that they have at least half the judgment as one of the products of their sacrifice. Brother Moses said, that it seems that matters are going from bad to worse. I must confess that his judgment is very questionable. If he expects to bring about better results by attacking 18 of the best men who represent the cause for which our peerless leader lived and died and whose remains rest upon the campus and in the shadow of his noble sacrifice. Brother Moses further says, "If matter continues much longer we will find ourselves in the clutches of the Home Mission Society. NO SURRENDER OF PRINCIPLE What thought, deed, action or suggestion can there be found for such an alarming statement? This I am sure will be news to the Home Mission Society, the General Association and the Trustee Board of the Virginia Theological Seminary. Brother Moses certainly, in all of his blindness cannot conscientiously conceive that the election of Dr. Howard means anything like surrender of the principle for which we have so many years stood. Dr. Howard has always stood for and supported our work and we have no reasons to believe that at this late date he would turn traitor to the cause, which he has so devoutly supported. Those who know him, know well that he is too mush of a high-toned, scholarly, Christian gentleman to have one drop of treachery in his veins. If Brother Moses is going into the business of weaving bolts of common sense, I certainly commend him for his new venture, but unless he is more philosophical in his deductions, his common sense will have little value in a market where logic is in great demand. THE MANNER OF ELECTION. Brother Moses questions the mairier of election. Well, this is surprising indeed for a college graduate. The call was properly issued and signed by the Chairman and Secretary of the Board. Each member was properly notified. The distance from which many had to come, expenses and offer things no doubt hindered many from being present at the meeting. Would it be reasonable for those who went to the expense to answer the call, to have returned to their homes without accomplishing anything? Does Brother Moses put off the business of his Church because all of his members are not present at the Church meeting? This meeting was called at a time that the Baptist family of Virginia was in suspense as to what Dr. Parrish would do. The board had not been officially notified as to his intentions. It was also nearing the time that the brethron should prepare for their May rally and they were anxious to get in a position to make strong appeals to their congregations. WISE AND TIMELY. In view of these and many other facts the meeting was wise and timely. A poll of the trustees absent from this meeting would demonstrate the fact that 99 per cent. of these brethren fully enquired in the actions of this "Noble 17". Our good brother cackles over a mare's nest, in laying su much stress upon the fact that Dr. Parrish's letter was not read in this meeting. The Secretary of the Board had the letter and owing to previous engagement could not be present at the meeting. He sent the Board a letter of regret, at his inability to be present, but overlooked enclosing the letter from Dr. Parrish. Well, what of that the Chairman of the Board had read the letter and therefore informed the Board of its contents. A QUESTION OF SALARY The Board agreed to pay Dr. Howard $1550 per year and residence, instead of "$1200." The discussion of the salary of the Financial Secretary does not claim any consideration, at this late day, we are simply discussing the action of the Trustee Board relative to the President. No one will deny that $1000 was a mere pittance for the labors of a great hero like Prof. Hayes but he built a self-sacrifice and heroic deed in the acts of the Negro Baptists, whose lustre he bedded with the glitter of gold silver. Thus I think that monetary comparison is out of the question. A LITTLE MIS-INFORMATION Brother Moses has been misinformed in saying that we still owe Prof. Hayes $3000. Brother Moses in wailing and sympathetic tones, cries out, "Will Virginia stand for it?" Well Virginia will answer the question and that in no uncertain sound, for the "Noble 17," are not yet without influence and power in Virginia, but there is one thing sure the Trustee Board will not stand for and that is giving the Organizer $400 with which to fight the thing for which they stand. Nota Bene. Respectfully. ROBERT W. GOFF, Assistant Secretary Trustee Board of Va. Theological Seminary and College. REV. DR. BROOKS CALLED A Premature Announcement. The Members Unanimous. The announcement last week that Rev. W. H. Brooks, D. D., had been called to the pastorate of the Fifth Street Baptist Church of this city was premature. A special meeting of the Church was held last Monday night for that purpose and a unanimous call extended to this distinguished pulpit erator. It may be well to state that Dr. Brooks' sermon here Thanksgiving Day made a profound impression and many enquiries were made concerning his probable change of a field of labor. To all of this he replied that it was a matter in which he would first talk with the Master. It is evident that the congregation of the Fifth Street Baptist Church could not have made a better selection and it will result in not only solidifying the present congregation, but will bring many other people to this magnificent church edifice. Baker School Concert. The concert given by Baker School last Monday night at True Reformer's Hall under the management of Principal A. D. Wright and his corp of teachers was a success. It will be repeated next Tuesday night. The admission fee will be 15 cents, balcony, 10 cents. Must Work For Him. [Philadelphia: Pa. Tribune.] To ourselves we can say for the mass of our people, we are more than gratified to know that Senator Foraker has decided to enter the list of candidates for the nomination of President. We know of no one, that has yet been named whose ripe statesmanship, long experience in public affairs, one who believes in exact justice to all classes one better fitted to restore the confidence of the people in their institutions, one who believes in governing the country under the Constitution and not above it, one who will not seek to array class against class, one who will carry on the functions of the Executive in the same lines as Lincoln, Grant, and McKinley, than Joseph Benson Foraker. We sincerely admire the Senator for his manly stand in and out of the Senate, in endeavour to combat prejudice of the present day toward us as a people. We know of no one who can more successfully combat Rooseveltism than the Senator. The time is now ripe from now on until the Nominating Convention meets, for the friends of Senator Foraker to get together and see that no one goes to the National Convention that will meet in a few months but those who will favor Joseph Benson Foraker for the head of the Republican ticket. Talk will not do it. Let those who favor Senator Foraker as President roll up their sleeves and get to work. To sell handkerchiefs. Quick sales, good profit. Sample, 10 cents Write for terms. Address, STERLING NOVELTY CO., 309 Del. Street. Salsbury, Md. RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1907. THE MOB SPIRIT. Lynching and Its Tenden cies. Voice from Chicago. Observations in the Philippine Islands. THE QUESTION OF RACE PREJUDICE—THE NEGRO AS A CITIZEN. A STIRRING APPEAL. While in Manila, Philippine Islands in November, 1906 I was one evening invited by a young man to accompany him to a prayer meeting which was to be held at a certain Presbyterian Church. I went with him. When I entered I looked about me and observed that I was the only Negro present,—the rest of the audience being white. These I understand, were the most learned and select class of the city. I was treated courteously enough; the pastor and others of the Churchmen shook hands with me and spoke pleasantly. There were ladies present also. the artfulness of the spider, the pugnacity of the bull ring, the cruelty of the leopard, the brutality of the goorilla, the unforgiveness of the elephant, the unbridleness of the hyena, the slyness of the fox, the hatefulness of the hornet, the vulgarity of the vulture, the imprudence of the goat, the cut-throat-ness of the weasel, the envy of the dragon—surely, these must be some of the "two thousand" of the legion of devils that Christ cast out of one man. his tenderest affections, refusal education, sufficient food and divine worship,—we can on in the words of Jesus, "Lo give them for they know me they do!" A REFERENCE TO THE Think of a people and desse of a people who with pant stealth, sneaked about dark with cold daggers in their with cruel assassin endeavor. "THE LIFE OF PAUL." They sang my selection as opening song, after which there were a few brief prayers. I soon learned that the rest of the service would be a Bible Class. The subject of their lesson was "The Life of Paul." The pastor, a savant young man, who I have since learned is a graduate of Princeton spoke of the class of people with whom Paul dealt: Acts 17:5 — "But the Jews which believed not, moved with envy took unto themselves certain lewd men fellows of the baser sort, and gathered a company and set all the city on an uproar and assaulted the house of Jason, and sought to bring them out to the people." He spoke of the spirit of the mob, and such as exist in any mob of like nature. As he spoke, in about the following words, I saw here rich food for thought: "The spirit of a mob is one of the most surprising forces known to nature,—in fact no one understands it." AN IRRESISTABLE IMPULSE. It begins with some of the toughest elements of a town, and moves not unlike the momentum of a whirl wind, carrying with it an almost impelling violence, by which many are drawn who are afterward filled with alarming astonishment to realize the fact that they were really there. It has often been a marvel to a community, and even to the whole country around when it tears the startling fact that some of its most prominent and influential men formed a part of a certain notorious mob. One may, while walking peacefully in the street, without evil thoughts of any kind, be suddenly seized with the spirit of a passing mob, and led by it even until he finds himself trying the rope around the neck of some villain that is being hanged to a tree. In fact, he may not even have known the purport of the mob until now. THE MOB SPIRIT RAMPANT. The mob spirit intensifies the very worst evils within one, and he moves with these pent-up savage demons writhing with the utmost excitant eagerness to burst forth upon the victim of their war cry. This rises in supposed vindication of an unpardonable villain. In answer to the question of a woman in the audience who showed that she also had studied the subject, he replied, "Yes there is an individuality about a mob, too. The different characters of each individual composing it are blended into one mean whole." He concluded his remarks and passed on to the rest of the lesson. THE ROOT OF THE TROUBLE But these remarks caused me to think. What is the root of this great, wide and sweeping evil force? Can there be any remedy for it? When we consider the animal natures of man we find: The frivolousness of the butterfly, the thoughtlessness of the grasshopper, the silliness of the opossum, the pride of the peacock, the deceit of the serpent, the hunger of the wolf, the greediness of the hog, the laziness of the alligator, the tear-shameness of the crocodile, the ingratitude of the adder, the ferociousness of the bear, the fierceness of the lion, the stealthiness of the panther, the stubbornness of the ox, the boisterousness of the donkey, the fitfulness of the cat, the saucyness of the parrot, the heartlessness of the tiger, the madness of the scorpion. A STIRRING APPEAL. the artfulness of the spider, the pugnancy of the bull dog, the cruelty of the leopard, the brutality of the gorilla, the unforgiveness of the elephant, the unbridleness of the hyena, the slyness of the fox, the hatefulness of the hornet, the vulgarity of the vulture, the imprudence of the goat, the cut-throatedness of the weasel, the envy of the dragon, surely, these must be some of the "two thousand" of the legion of devils that Christ cast out of one man. A VIVID PICTURE. When we think of these creatures in only one of the smallest physical part of a mob, we can see four hundred, five hundred, six hundred, or perhaps one thousand or more of these menageries rushing in one thunderous body to tear upon one defenseless being! In following this line of thought, one may be inclined to think that one can hardly be responsible for his actions when moved by such evil forces. But, the fact is, these are one's charge. He is the keeper and must be responsible and accountable for the oderiness of his menagerie. The peacefulness and quietude of his life depend upon his own strength and the supernatural assistance that he can implore that these creatures may show a ready obedience and quiet, docile temperament. He who fails in this is a bad keeper, and suffers the remorseful penalty that nature designs for him. The individual, or community must surely be, morally responsible for the deeds perpetrated by its mobs. AN APPROPRIATE COMPARISON As the individual is debased by improper conduct; so the community is degraded by its mobs. As the individual must summon all the good qualities within him in order that the evil ones may be restrained; just so it is the duty of the better or executive elements of a community to coerce its mobs. When the individual falls in this duty he descends to the level with the brute; let the community commit this gross negligence and it sinks to the most unnamable state of flendish heath-end. ENVY THE TROUBLE "But the Jews which believed not, moved with envy"—here is the root of this evil. Envy! To consider this word with all its suggestive shades let us think of the South. Here we find not only the general envy based upon the stinging fact that her past slave now walks proudly her street; reads her books; writes with her pen; speaks fluently her language; has colleges, farms, stores, carriages and autovy often gathers into one concentrated point, the "jealousy that is cruel as the grave," when she believes the Negro has encroached upon the privacy of her prerogatives. Envy is the root of the mob-spirit toward the Negro in the South. Toward the Negro she envises the clothes that warm him, the food that keeps strength in his body, the house that gives him shelter, and even the ground upon which he walks and calls his own. A DEPLORABLE CONDITION "Took unto themselves certain lewd men, fellows of the baser sort"—here we find that the evil did not originate with the "baser sort," but with those who "believed not." A better class took base fellows with them that they might "set the city on an uproar" and no one be blamed for it. This is usually true. The "toughest elements" usually are too intensely occupied with their own "soaked affairs" to think in any other direction, unless incited by a casual "cool head." Continuing to think of the South with her black pages of lynching,—the people and descendants of a people, who so inhumanly trampled upon the heart of the slave, tore him away from his family and dearest attachments unmercifully beat him, demoralized his women,—the wife of his bosom and the daughter of his tenderest affections, refused him education, sufficient food and even divine worship,—we can only pray in the words of Jesus, "Lord, forgive them for they know not what they do!" A REFERENCE TO THE PAST. Think of a people and descendants of a people who with panther-like stealth, sneaked about dark corners with cold daggers in their hands, with cruel assassin endeavors to thrust them into the hearts of the noble Abolitionists who sought to convince them, and the world, of their wrong! Think of the futile efforts of a fire department to drown in five minutes or in half an hour this seething beastly murderous spirit of centuries of intensified growth! All the fire departments in the world cannot drown this spirit in the South as long as there are hearts left there to beat! Nor is it a wonder that such hearts have grown into flint-like petrification, not unlike the dwellers in Souiam and Gomorrah, until we now look in vain for the "fifty forty-five, thirty, twenty and even ten" of the righteous to stay the mob, that the piteous South land may be saved from the curse of this ogre,—Envy! CHRISTIANITY THE PANACEA The Remedy. The greatest need of the South is Christianity. There we find Paganism in a Christian country! They have as many gods as the ancient Greeks and Romans! They burn at the stake to please their god Hephaestus, who they believe is pleased to see the flames, and hear the crackle of the fire and the screams of human voices. They murder with guns and daggers to please their god Ares, who they believe, likes to see human blood! Then they see the smiles of approbation of their gods and hear them say to them "You have done exactly right; such deaths are even too good for the brutes. You are not murderers, but are only 'Destroying Angels!'" STRANGE SILENCE I have read many articles upon lynching since I have known what such outrages mean, but in all of them, written by Northerners and Southerners, it has impressed me as strange that I have not been able to find a sentence, or combination of sentences that I could construe to say directly to the lyncher, "You are wrong." What does this strange silence mean? Why is it when the lynchers draw their bloody daggers from the heart of the defenseless Negro and brandish them before the whole country of the United States they only meet the horrible silence that Brutus and his confederates met when they came out with their daggers hot with the streaming blood of Caesar? Does the whole country think that lynching is right? Is the whole country afraid of the lyncher? Who will go to the South and say to the lyncher there, "You are wrong?" Until there arise in this country more Garrisons, Summers, Phillips, Childs, Stowes, Lincoln and others of the fearless Abolitionist and Reformer type who will devote their noble lives to this cause and will go to the lynchers wherever this outrage has been committed and instill true Christianity, their case is hopeless. NO SALVATION IN SIGHT There is no other salvation for them. They must realize that they are losing their souls,—that essential against which "the whole world" balances as nothing. We would surely say to the rapist "You are wrong! You have sinned deeply, and—but there are none alive that we can designate as such. We can only preach to their dust and ashes. Were there any alive their cases would be individual, while those of their destroyers include an unknown number. The remedy for lynching is Christianity. LUCIAN B. WATKINS. Another Amusement Machine. After two years of concerted effort, two hustling young men of our race, S. H. Jeter, President of the Magnolia City Park Co., and John J. Lucas have succeeded in their effort to bring into existence a machine which would answer in the place of the merry-go-round and at the same time reduce the operating expenses of the attraction. They are now exhibiting in the offices of the Magnolia City Park Company at 615 N. Second Street, Richmond, Va., a model of the machine and also can be seen a sixteen foot machine at the Park of the above named Company which was operated in the present location for about two months in the latter part of the season just closed. It not only proved its worth as a money earner but also attracted greater crowds and earned more money than the Merry-go-round. The machine is similar to the merry-go-round in construction, having its circular motion and also gives to the rider the same upward and downward motion as is experienced in the toboggan slide. The construction is very simple, the propelling power being almost entirely gravity, which is regulated by a motorman who applies the momentum through the swing of a pendulum according to the position of the motorboat in the sweep. The two redeeming features it has are: first, the novel way in which the passengers are entertained while going around over a large basin of water in boats beautifully decorated, they behold while gazing over the inside of the boat many and varied electric lighted scenes, some wierd some landscapes and others causing laughter, and second, that to operate the toboggan whirl costs something less than one-tenth of that of a merry-go-round of a similar diameter. The public is respectfully invited to call at any time, day or evening and inspect the model which is now on exhibition at the above named office. Congratulations From Georgia [Augusta, Georgia Baptist.] Our good friend John Mitchell Jr., the far famed Richmond, (Va.) PLANET man, is also President of the Mechanics' Savings Bank of Richmond, and is the only colored member of the American Bankers' Association, composed of leading banks owned by white men all over the country. Some idea may be had of what this Association is when it is known that their capital, surplus and bonus amount to more than twelve billion, eight hundred million dollars. Upon President Mitchell's return from the annual meeting recently held in Atlantic City, N. J. his Board of Directors, stockholder and friends tendered him a royal reward. Plates for an even hundred and dainties in abundance loaded the tables. The address of President Mitchell was an hour long and was confined solely to his attendance upon the Bankers' Association and matters pertaining to banking. Brother Mitchell has given evidence of wisdom in joining this Association, where he comes in contact with the best brain among the whites of the country along financial lines and where he can learn many valuable lessons that he could learn now where else. The Georgia Baptist extends cordial congratulations to friend Mitchell and his bank. Senator Foraker's Candidacy. Senator Foraker's letter announcing his candidacy for the republican Presidential nomination next year and accepting the nomination port of the Ohio League of Republican Clubs, is a remarkable document in several respects. First because of the clearness and satisfactory way his three differences with the President are set forth, particularly the one having relation to the railroad rate bill; and, secondly, as the result of a just and merited criticism of the President because of his impolitic treatment, not only of men and measures, but of business interests of the country, which undoubtedly had more or less to do with the financial stringency that has oppressed the people for many weeks past. Not the least of its many excellent features are his references to the constitution and the government's failure to exercise all of its powers under the same, which are ample for all purposes. The Senator's position on the tariff and citizen rights has been stated repeatedly at length in recent years, and is so well known that it was hardly necessary for him to say that he would speak on these subjects at another time. The subject of citizen rights, however, will get an even more thorough airing than it did last winter when the Brownsville matter is again taken up in the United States Senate in the very near future. Our people the country over, par- PRICE, FIVE CENTS ticularly those in the South, have an opportunity presented to them in the candidacy of Senator Foraker that they have been begging for for many months. As a nomination is equivalent to an election and as nothing in the present day life of this nation could possibly happen that would have the influence for good upon the progress of the race that Senator Foraker's elevation to the Presidency would have, it is a matter of vital concern that we, the country over. Do everything in our power in season and out from now on until the national convention meets next year in Kansas City, to promote his candidacy. This feeling and such determination among Afro-Americans we believe to be general. —Women's troubles is another name for women's diseases. Madam Monszaro will serve you. Call and see her. She is at 18 E. Leigh St. Two Lessons From Yesterday's Murder. [Atlanta, Ga. Constitution.] Two lessons stand out clearly from the sheer horror of the assassination of Policeman Mander by a Negro criminal yesterday. The first is, that the police department itself can hardly escape partial responsibility for the killing of one of its most beloved officers, the widowhood of his wife and the orphaning of his child, through failure to rigorously and persistently enforce the law against known vagrants and the carrying of concealed weapons. The second is the reported courageous action of the Negro who risked almost certain death to capture and deliver to justice a murderer who belonged to his own race. Johnson, the assassin, was a notorious Negro crook—a chronic criminal. Not an officer in the department but knew his confirmed criminal and vagrant record. There must have been numberless opportunities to convict him, compel him to work or escape him out of the state. Yet this branded vagrant, this placarded criminal, is permitted to roam at large, to carry himself with cheap whiskey and to constitute a known menace to the lives of not only his own race, but of white citizens. This laxity must stop! It is incumbent upon each single man of the department, from chief to newest supernumerary, to do his share in weeding out these fire-brand vagrants, either one of whom may at any moment become a murderer, or to throw up their hands, acknowledge their helplessness and force the people of Atlanta to adopt other methods for protecting the members of the department as well as themselves! One of the chief indictments against the Negro race has been the tendency to shield its criminal refugees from officers of the law. That charge has been the cause of more friction between the races, of the engendering of more bitter and murderous prejudice, than any single factor outside the provoking crimes themselves. That a Negro should have, as reported in this instance, deliberately faced death in an effort to bring one of his race to justice is a splendid inspiration to the race throughout the south. When the good Negroes separate themselves frm the bad and assist in bringing the criminals to justice, as the whites do with theirs, one of the chief sources of racial disturbance will be removed. Special Notice! While money is scarce come to Mrs. M. D. Chamlee for your Xmas hat. You can get it for one-half less than elsewhere. Over 500 to select from. Extra special for Friday and Saturday. 316 E. Broad Street. To Suffering Humanity . Madam El Monszar of Washington, D. C. has been in town with us three months, giving her open air concerts and treating hundreds of suffering people with grand results. As a tooth extractor she stands without a rival. Of roots and shells she makes a specialty, removing them with scientific gift. Also treating those of her sex of various diseases peculiar to their kind. She will spend the winter in Richmond. Those who need her services call and see her soon. OFFICE: 18 E. Leigh Street. Madame El Monszaro will certainly astound and benefit you. Call and see her. —Dr. D. A. Ellet of Excelsier Springs, Mo., formerly of Hampton Va. is seriously ill. BOB HAMPTON of PLACER By RANDALL PARRISH AUTHOR OF "WHEN WILDERNESS WAS KING" "MY LADY OF THE NORTH "HISTORIC ILLINOIS, ETC. It was not an uncommon tragedy of the west. If slightest chronicle of its survive, it must be discovered among the musty and nearly forgotten records of the Eighteenth regiment of infantry. Yet the tale is worth telling now, when such days are past and gone. There were 16 of them when, like so many hunted rabbits, they were first securely trapped among the frowning rocks, and forced relentlessly backward from off the narrow trail until the precipitous canyon walls finally halted their disorganized flight, and from sheer necessity compelled a rally in hopeless battle. Sixteen—ten infantrymen from old Fort Bethune, under command of Syd. Wyman, a gray headed sergeant of 30 years' continuous service in the regulars, two cow punchers from the "XL" ranch, a stranger who had joined them uninvited at the ford over the Bear Water, together with old Gillis, the post trader, and his silent chit of a girl. Sixteen—but that was three days before, and in the meanwhile not a few of those speeding Sioux bullets had found softer billet than the limestone rocks. Six of the soldiers, four already dead, two dying, lay out stretched in ghastly silence where they fell. Then the taciturn Gillis gave sudden utterance to a sobbing cry, and a burst of red spurted across his white beard as he reeled backward, knocking the girl prostrate when he fell. Eight remained, one helpless, one a mere lass of 15. It was the morning of the third day. The beginning of the affair had burst upon them so suddenly that no two in that stricken company would have told the same tale. None among them had anticipated trouble. In all the fancied security of unquestioned peace these chance travelers had slowly toiled along the steep trail leading toward the foothills. Gillis and the girl, as well as the two cattleherders, were on horseback, the remainder soberly trudged forward on foot, with guns slung to their shoulders. Wyman was somewhat in advance, walking beside the stranger, the latter a man of uncertain age, smoothly shaven, quietly dressed in garments bespeaking an eastern tailor, a bit grizzled of hair along the temples, and possessing a pair of cool, gray eyes. He had introduced himself by the name of Hampton, but had volunteered no further information, nor was it customary in that country to question impertinently. Hampton, through the medium of easy conversation, early discovered in the sergeant an intelligent mind, possessing some knowledge of literature. They had been discussing books with rare enthusiasm, and the former had drawn from the concealment of an inner pocket a diminutive copy of "The Merchant of Venice," from which he was reading along a disputed passage, when the faint trail they followed suddenly dipped into the yawning mouth of a black canyon. It was a narrow, gloomy, contracted gorge, a mere gash between those towering hills shadowing its depths on either hand. A swift mountain stream, noisy and clear as crystal, dashed from rock to rock close beside the more northern wall, while the ill-defined path, strewn with bowlers and guarded by underbrush, clung to the opposite side, where low scrub trees partially obscured the view. All was silent as death when they entered, yet they had barely advanced a short hundred paces when those apparently bare rocks in front flamed red, the narrow defile echoed to wild screeches and became instantly crowded with weird, leaping figures. It was like a plunge from heaven into hell. Blaine and Endicott sank at the first fire, while Wyman's stricken arm dripped blood. Indeed, under that sudden shock, he fell, and was barely rescued by the prompt action of the man beside him. Dropping the opened book, and firing madly to left and right with a revolver which appeared to spring into his hand as by magic, the latter coolly dragged the fainting soldier across the more exposed space, until the two found partial security among a mass of loosened rocks littering the base of the preciice. The others who survived that first scorching discharge also raced toward this shelter, impelled thereto by the unerring instinct of border fighting, and finging themselves flat behind protecting bowlers, began responding to the hot fire rained upon them. Scattered and hurried as these first volleys were, they proved sufficient to check the howling demons in the open. It has never been Indian nature to face unprotected the aim of the white men, and those dark figures, which only a moment before thronged the narrow gorge, leaping crazily in the riot of apparent victory, suddenly melted from sight, slinking down into leafy covertsa beside the stream or into holes among the rocks, like so many vanishing prairie dogs. Now and then a sinny brown arm might incautiously project across the gleaming surface of a rock, or a mop of coarse, black hair appear above the edge of a gully, either incident resulting in a quick interchange of fire. That was all; yet the experienced frontiersmen knew that eyes as keen as those of any wild animal of the jungle were watching murderously their slightest movement. Wyman, now reclining in agony against the base of the overhanging cliff, directed the movements of his little command calmly and with sober military judgment. Little by little, under protection of the rifles of the three civilians, the uninjured infantrymen crept cautiously about, rolling loosened bowlers forward into position, until they finally succeeded in thus erecting a rude barricade between them and the enemy. The wounded who could be reached were laboriously drawn back within this improvised shelter, and when the black shadows of the night finally shut down, all remaining alive were once more clustered together, the injured lying moaning and ghastly beneath the overhanging shelf of rock and the girl, who possessed all the patient stoicism of frontier training, resting in silence, her widely opened eyes on those far-off stars peeping above the brink of the chasm, her head pillowed on old Gillis' knee. Twice during the long night volunteers sought vainly to pierce those Hampton Fired Madly Right and Left lines of savage watchers. A long, wailing cry of agony from out the thick darkness told the fate of their first messenger, while Casey, of the "XL," crept slowly, painfully back, with an Indian bullet embedded deep in his shoulder. Just before the coming of dawn, Hampton, without uttering a word, calmly turned up the collar of his tightly buttoned coat, so as better to conceal the white collar he wore, gripped his revolver between his teeth, and crept like some wriggling snake among the black rocks and through the dense underbrush in search after water. By some miracle of divine mercy he was permitted to pass unscathed, and came crawling back, a dozen hastily filled canelets dangling across his shoulders. It was like nectar to those parched, feverish throats; but of food barely a mouth ful a piece remained in the haver sacks. The second day dragged onward, its hours bringing no change for the better, no relief, no slightest ray of hope. The hot sun scorched them pitlessly, and two of the wounded died delirious. From dawn to dark there came no slackening of the savage watchfulness which held the survivors helpless behind their coverts. The merest uplifting of a head, the slightest movement of a hand, was sufficient to demonstrate how sharp were those savage eyes. Another long, black night followed, during which, for an hour or so in turn, the weary defenders slept, tossing uneasily, and disturbed by fearful dreams. Then gray and solemn, amid the lingering shadows of darkness, dawned the third dread day of unequal conflict. All understood that it was destined to be their last on this earth unless help came. For two days Wyman had scarcely stirred from where he lay bolstered against the rock. Sometimes he became delirious from fever, uttering in coherent phrases, or swearing in pitiful weakness. Again he would partially arouse to his old sense of soldierly duty, and assume intelligent command. Now he twisted painfully about upon his side, and, with clouded eyes, sought to discern what man was lying next him. The face was hidden so that all he could clearly distinguish was the fact that this man was not clothed as a soldier. "Is that you, Hampton?" he questioned, his voice barely audible. The person thus addressed, who was lying flat upon his back, gazing silently upward at the rocky front of the cliff, turned cautiously over upon his elbow before venturing reply. "Yes; what is it, sergeant? It looks to be a beauty of a morning way up yonder." There was a hearty, cheery ring to his clear voice which left the pain-racked old soldier envious. "My God!" he growled savagely. "Tis likely to be the last any of us will ever see. Wasn't it you I heard whistling just now? One might imagine this was to be a wedding, rather than a funeral." "And why not, Wyman? Didn't you know they employed music at both functions nowadays? Besides, it is not every man who is permitted to assist at his own objections—the very uniqueness of such a situation rather appeals to my sense of humor." The sergeant, his teeth clinched tightly to repress the pain racking him, stifled his resentment with an evident effort. "You may be less light-hearted when you learn that the last of our ammunition is already in the guns," he remarked, stiffly. "I suspected as much." And the speaker lifted himself on one elbow to THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA peer down the line of recumbent figures. "To be perfectly frank with you, sergeant, the stuff has held out considerably longer than I believed it would, judging from the way those 'dough boys' of yours kept nopting at every shadow in front of them. It's a marvel to me, the mutton-heads they take into the army. Oh, now, you needn't scowl at me like that, Wyman. I've worn the blue, and seen some service where a fellow needed to be a man to sport the uniform. Besides, I'm not indifferent, old chap, and just so long as there remained any work worth attending to in this skirmishing affair. I did it, didn't I? But I tell you, man there is mighty little good trying to buck against Fate, and when Luck once finally lets go of a victim, he's bound to drop straight to the bottom before he stops. That's the sum and substance of all my philosophy, old fellow, consequently I never kick simply because things happen to go wrong. What's the use? They'll go wrong just the same. Consequently, upheld by my acquired philosophy, I'm merely holding back one shot for myself, as a sort of grand finale to this fandango, and another for that little girl] out yonder." These words were uttered slowly, the least touch of a lazy drawl apparent in the low voice, yet there was an earnest simplicity pervading the speech which somehow gave it impressiveness. The man meant exactly what he, beyond the possibility of a doubt. The old soldier, accustomed to every form of border eccentricity, gazed at him with disapproval. "Either you're the coolest devil I've met during 30 years of soldiering," he commented, doubtfully, "or else the craziest. Who are you, anyhow? I half believe you might be Bob Hampton, of Placer." The other smiled grimly. "You have the name tolerably correct, old fellow; likewise that delightful spot so lately honored by my residence. In brief, you have succeeded in calling the turn perfectly, so far as your limited information extends. In strict confidence I propose now to impart to you what has hitherto remained a profound secret. Upon special request of a number of influential citizens of Placer, including the city marshal and other officials, expressed in mass-meeting, I have decided upon deserting that sagebrush metropolis to its just fate, and plan to add the influence of my presence to the future development of Glencaid. I learn that the climate there is more salubrious, more conducive to long living, the citizens of Placer being peculiarly excitable and careless with their firearms." The sergeant had been listening with open mouth. "The hell you say!" he finally ejaculated. "The undieslift truth, every word of it. No wonder you are shocked. A fine state of affairs, isn't it, when a plain-spoken, pleasant-mannered gentleman, such as I surely am, a university graduate, by all the gods, the nephew of a United States senator, and acknowledged to be the greatest exponent of scientific poker in this territory,—should be obliged to hastily change his chosen place of abode because of the threat of an ignorant and depraved mob. Ever have a rope dangled in front of your eyes, sergeant, and a gun-barrel biting into your cheek at the same time? Accept my word for it, the experience is trying on the nerves. Ran a perfectly square game, too, and those ducks knew it; but there's no true sporting spirit left in this territory any more. However, spilled milk is never worth sobbing over, and Fate always contrives to play the final hand in any game, and stocks the cards to win." "A breath of good, honest prayer would serve better than anything else," groaned the sergeant, soberly. The gray eyes resting thoughtfully on the old soldier's haggard face became instantly grave and earnest. "Sincerely I wish I might aid you with one," the man admitted, "but I fear, old fellow, any prayer coming from my lips would never ascend very far. However, I might try the comfort of a hymn, and you will remember this one, which, no doubt, you have helped to sing back in God's country." There was a moment's hushed pause, during which a rifle cracked sharply out in the ravine; then the reckless fellow, his head partially supported against the protecting bowler, lifted up a fuil, rich baryton in rendition of that hymn of Christian faith— "Nearer, my God, to Thee! Nearer to Thee! Eater thought to a cross That rests me Still all my song shall be, Nearer, my God, to Thee! Nearer to Thee." Glazed and wearied eyes glanced cautiously toward the singer around the edges of protecting rocks; fingers loosened their grasp upon the rifle barrels; smoke-begrimmed cheeks became moist; while lips, a moment before profaned by oaths, grew silent and trembling. Out in front a revengeful brave sent his bullet swirling just above the singer's head, the sharp fragments of rock dislodged falling in a shower upon his upturned face; but the fearless rascal sang serenely on to the end, without a quaver. "Mistake it for a death song likely," he remarked dryly, while the last clear, lingering note, recoech by the cliff, died reluctantly away in softened cadence. "Beautiful old song, sergeant, and I trust hearing it again has done you good. Sang it once in a church way back in New England. But what is the trouble? Did you call me for some special reason?" "Yes," came the almost gruff response; for Wyman, the fever stealing back upon him, felt half ashamed of his unshed tears. "That is, provided you retain sufficient sense to listen. Old Gillis was shot over an hour ago, yonder behind that big bowler, and his girl sits there still holding his head in her lap. She'll get hit also unless somebody pulls her out of there, and she's doing no good to Gillis—he's dead." Hampton's clear-cut, expressive face became graver, all trace of recklessness gone from it. He lifted his head cautiously, peering over his rock cover toward where he remembered earlier in the fight Gillis had sought refuge. Guided by the unerring instinct of an old Indian fighter, Gillis, during that first mad retreat, had discovered temporary shelter behind one of the largest bowlers. It was a trifle in advance of those later rolled into position by the soldiers, but was of a size and shape which should have affordedample protection for two, and doubtless would have done so had it not been for the firing from the cliff opposite. Even then it was a deflected bullet, glancing from off the polished surface of the rock, which found lodgment in the sturdy old fighter's brain. The girl had caught him as he fell, had wasted all her treasured store of water in a vain effort to cleanse the blood from his features, and now sat there, pillowing his head upon her knee, although the old man was stone dead with the first touch of the ball. That had occurred fully an hour before, but she continued in the same posture, a grave, pathetic figure, her face sobered and careworn beyond her years, her eyes dry and staring, one brown hand grasping unconceally the old man's useless rifle. She would scarcely have been esteemed attractive even under much happier circumstances and assisted by dress, yet there was something in the independent poise of her head, the steady fixedness of her posture, which served to interest Hampton as he now watched her curiously. "Fighting blood," he muttered admiringly to himself. "Might fall to develop into very much of a society bell, but likely to prove valuable out here." She was rather a slender slip of a thing, a trifle too tall for her years, perhaps, yet with no lack of development apparent in the slim, rounded figure. Her coarse home-made dress of dark callico fitted her sadly, while her rumpled hair, from which the broad-brimmed hat had fallen, possessed a reddish copper tinge where it was touched by the sun. Mr. Hampton's survey did not increase his desire for more intimate acquaintance A. "If I Select Your Bullet Rather Than the Rocks, What Then?" ship, yet he recognized anew her undoubted claim upon him. "Suppose I might just as well drop out that way as any other," he reflected, thoughtfully. "It's all in the game." or throbfully. It is all in the game. Lying flat upon his stomach, both arms extended, he slowly forced himself beyond his bowler into the open. There was no great distance to be traversed, and a considerable portion of the way was somewhat protected by low bushes. Hampton took few chances of those spying eyes above, never uplifting his head the smallest fraction of an inch, but reaching forward with blindly groping hands, caught hold upon any projecting root or stone which enabled him to drag his body an inch farther. Twice they fired directly down at him from the opposite summit, and once a fleck of sharp rock, chipped by a glancing bullet, embedded itself in his cheek, dyeing the whole side of his face crimson. But not once did he pause or glance aside; nor did the girl look up from the imploring face of her dead. As he crept silently in, sheltering himself next to the body of the dead man, she perceived his presence for the first time, and shrank back as if in dread. "What are you doing? Why—why did you come here?" she questioned, a falter in her voice; and he noticed that her eyes were dark and large, yielding a marked impress of beauty to her face. "I was unwilling to leave you here alone," he answered, quietly, and hope to discover some means for getting you safely back beside the others." "But I didn't want you," and there was a look of positive dislike in her widely opened eyes. "Didn't want me?" He echoed these unexpected words in a tone of complete surprise. "Surely you could not desire to be left here alone? Why didn't you want me?" "Because I know who you are!" Her voice seemed to catch in her throat. "He told me. You're the man who shot Jim Eberly." Mr. Hampton was never of a pronounced emotional nature, nor was he a person easily disconcerted, yet he flushed at the sound of these impulsive words, and the confident smile deserted his lips. For a moment they sat thus, the dead body lying between, and looked at each other. When the man finally broke the constrained silence a deeper intonation had crept into his voice. "My girl," he said gravely, and not without a suspicion of pleading, "this is no place for me to attempt any defense of a shooting affray in a gambling house, although I might plead with some justice that Eberly enjoyed the honor of shooting first. I was not aware of your personal feeling in the matter, or I might have permitted some one else to come here in my stead. Now it is too late. I have never spoken to you before, and do so at this time merely from a sincere desire to be of some assistance." There was that in his manner of grave courtesy which served to steady the girl. Probably never before in all her rough frontier experience had she been addressed thus formally. Her closely compressed lips twitched nervously, but her questioning eyes re- mained unlowered. "You may stay," she asserted, soberly. "Only don't touch me." No one could ever realize how much those words hurt him. Not until he had completely conquered his first unwise impulse to retort angrily, did he venture again to speak. "I hope to aid you in getting back beside the others, where you will be less exposed." "Will you take him?" "He is dead," Hampton said, soberly, "and I can do nothing to aid him. But there remains a chance for you to escape." "Then I won't go," she declared, positively. Hampton's gray eyes looked for a long moment fixedly into her darker ones, while the two took mental stock of each other. He realized the utter futility of any further argument, while she felt instinctively the cool, dominating strength of the man. Neither was composed of that poor fiber which bends. "Very well, my young lady," he said, easily, stretching himself out more comfortably in the rock shadow. "Then I will remain here with you; it makes small odds." Excepting for one hasty, puzzled glance, she did not deign to look again toward him, and the man rested motionless upon his back, staring up at the sky. Finally, curiosity overmastered the actor in him, and he turned partially upon one side, so as to bring her profile within his range of vision. Her dark, glowing eyes were lowered upon the white face of the dead man, yet Hampton noted how clear, in spite of sun-tan, were those tints of health upon the rounded cheek, and how soft and glossy shone her wealth of rumple hair. Even the tinge of color, so distasteful in the full glare of the sun, appeared to have darkened under the shadow, its shade framing the downcast face into a pensive fairness. Then he observed how dry and parched her lips were. "Take a drink of this," he insisted heartily, holding out toward her as he smoke his partially filled canteen. She started at the unexpected sound of his voice, yet uplifted the welcome water to her mouth, while Hampton, observing it all closely, could but remark the delicate shapelliness of her hand. "If that old fellow was her father," he reflected soberly, "I should like to have seen her mother." "Thank you," she said simply, handling back the canteen, but without lifting her eyes again to his face. "I was so thirsty." Her low tone, endeavoring to be polite enough, contained no note of encouragement. "Was Gillis your father?" the man questioned, determined to make her recognize his presence. "I suppose so; I don't know." "You don't know? Am I to understand you are actually uncertain whether this man was your father or not?" "That is about what I said, wasn't it? Not that it is any of your business, so far as I know, Mr. Bob Hampton, but as I answered you all right. He brought me up, and I called him 'dad' about as far back as I can remember, but I don't reckon as he ever told me he was my father. So you can understand just what you please." "His name was Gillis, wasn't it?" The rtl nodded wearily. "Post-trader at Fort Bethune?" Again the rumpled head silently acquiesced. "What is your name?" "He always called me 'kid,'" she admitted unwillingly, "but I reckon if you have any further occasion for addressing me, you'd better say 'Miss Gillis.'" "Heaven preserve me!" he exclaimed good naturedly, "but you are certainly laying it on thick, young lady! However, I believe we might become good friends if we ever have sufficient luck to get out from this hole alive. Darn if I don't sort of cotton to you, little girl—you've got some sand." For a brief space her truthful, angry eyes rested scornfully upon his face, her lips parted as though trembling with a sharp retort. Then she deliberately turned her back upon him without uttering a word. For what may have been the first and only occasion in Mr. Hampton's audacious career, he realized his utter helplessness. This mere slip of a red-headed girl, this little nameless walt of the frontier, condemned him so completely, and without waste of words, as to leave him weaponless. Mr. Hampton was a thorough-going sport, and no quality was quite so apt to appeal to him as dead gameness. He glanced surreptitiously aside at her once more, but there was no sign of relenting in the averted face. He rested lower against the rock, his face upturned toward the sky, and thought. It was no spirit of bravado that gave rise to his reckless speech of an hour previous. It was simply a spontaneous outpouring of his real nature, an unpremeditated expression of that su- S. "I Can't Help Him, But There Remains a Chance for Your Escape." preme carelessness with which he regarded the future, the small value he set on life. He truly felt as utterly indifferent toward fate as his words signified. Deeply conscious of a life long ago irretrievably wrecked, every- thing behind a chaos, everything before worthless,—for years he had been actually seeking death; a hundred times he had gladly marked its apparent approach, a smile of welcome upon his lips. Yet it had never quite succeeded in reaching him, and nothing had been gained beyond a reputation for cool, rockless daring, which he did not in the least covet. But now, miracle of all miracles, just as the end seemed actually attained, seemed beyond any possibility of being turned aside, he began to experience a desire to live—he wanted to save this girl. His keenly observant eyes, trained by the exigencies of his trade to take note of small things, and rendered eager by this newly awakened ambition, scanned the cliff towering above them. He perceived the extreme irregularity of its front, and numerous peculiarities of formation which had escaped him hitherto. Suddenly his puzzled face brightened to the birth of an idea. By heavens! it might be done! Surely it might be done! Inch by inch he traced the obscure passage seeking to impress each faint detail upon his memory—that narrow ledge within easy reach of an upstretched arm, the sharp outcropping of rockedges here and there, the deep gash as though some giant ax had cleaved the stone, those sturdy cedars growing straight out over the chasm like the bowsprits of ships, while all along the way, irregular and ragged, varied rifts not entirely unlike the steps of a crazy staircase. The very conception of such an exploit caused his flesh to creep. But he was not of that class of men who fall back dazed before the face of danger. Again and again, led by an impulse he was unable to resist, he studied that precipitous rock, every nerve tingling to the newborn hope. God helping them, even so desperate a deed might be accomplished, although it would test the foot and nerve of a Swiss mountainer. He glanced again uneasily toward his companion, and saw the same motionless figure, the same somber face turned deliberately away. Hampton did not smile, but his square jaw set, and he clinched his hands. He had no fear that she might fall him, but for the first time in all his life he questioned his own courage. CHAPTER III. Between Life and Death The remainder of that day, as well as much of the gloomy night following, composed a silent, lingering horror. The fierce pangs of hunger no longer gnawed, but a dull apathy now held the helpless defenders. One of the wounded died, a mere lad, sobbing pitifully for his mother; an infantryman, peering forth from his covert, had been shot in the face, and his scream echoed among the rocks in multiplied accents of agony; while Wyman lay tossing and moaning, mercifully unconscious. The others rested in their places, scarcely venturing to stir a limb, their roving, wolfish eyes the only visible evidence of remaining life, every hope vanished, yet each man clinging to his assigned post of duty in desperation. There was but little firing—the defenders nursing their slender stock, the savages biding their time. When night slid down the latter became bolder, and taunted cruelly those destined to become so soon their hapless victims. Twice the maddened men fired recklessly at those dancing devils, and one pitched forward, emitting a howl of pain that caused his comrades to cower once again behind their covers. One and all these frontiersmen recognized the inevitable—before dawn the end must come. No useless words were spoken; the men merely clinched their teeth and waited. Hampton crept closer in beside the girl while the shadows deepened, and ventured to touch her hand. Perhaps the severe strain of their situation, the intense loneliness of that Indian-haunted twilight, had somewhat softened her resentment, for she made no effort now to repulse him. "Kid," he said at last, "are you game for a try at getting out of this?" She appeared to hesitate over her answer, and he could feel her tumultuous breathing. Some portion of her aversion had vanished. "Come, Kid," he ventured finally, yet with new assurance vibrating in his low voice; "this is surely a poor time and place for any indulgence in tantrums, and you've got more sense. I'm going to try to climb up the face of that cliff yonder,—it's the only possible way out from here,—and I propose to take you along with me." She snatched her hand roughly away, yet remained facing him. "Who gave you any right to decide what I should do?" The man clasped his fingers tightly about her slender arm, advancing his face until he could look squarely into hers. She read in the lines of that determined countenance a inflexible resolve which overmastered her. "The right given by Almighty God to protect any one of your sex in peril," he replied. "Before dawn those savage fiends will be upon us. We are utterly helpless. There remains only one possible path for escape, and I believe I have discovered it. Now, my girl, you either climb those rocks with me, or I shall kill you where you are. It is that, or the Sloux torture. I have two shots left in this gun—one for you, the other for myself. The time has come for deciding which of these "If I select your bullet rather than the rocks, what then?" "You will get it, but in that case you will die like a fool." "You have believed me to be one, all this afternoon." "Possibly," he admitted; "your words and actions certainly justified some such conclusion, but the opportunity has arrived for causing me to revise that suspicion." "I don't care to have you revise it, Mr. Bob Hampton. If I go, I shall hate you just the same." Hampton's teeth clicked like those of an angry dog. "Hate and be damned," he exclaimed roughly. "All I care about now is to drag you out of here alive." "Well, if you put it that way," she said, "I'll go." J. Never Once Did the Man Loosen His Grasping Grip of His Companion. "Come on, then," he whispered, his fingers grasping her sleeve. She shook off the restraining touch of his hand as if it were contamination and sank down upon her knees beside the inert body. He could barely perceive the dim outlines of her bowed figure, yet never moved, his breath perceptibly quickening, while he watched and waited. Without word or moan she bent yet lower and pressed her lips upon the cold, white face. The man caught no more than the faintest echo of a murmured "Goodby, old dad; I wish I could take you with me." Then she stood stiffly upright, facing him. "I'm ready now," she announced calmly. "You can go on ahead." They crept among low shrubs and around the bowlers, carefully guarding every slightest movement least some rustle of disturbed foliage, or sound of loosened stone, might draw the fire of those keen watchers. Every inch of their progress was attained through tedious groping, yet the distance to be traversed was short, and Hampton soon found himself pressing against the uprising preprice. Against that background of dark cliff they might venture to stand erect, the faint glimmer of reflected light barely sufficient to reveal to each the shadowy outline of the other. "Don't move an inch from this spot," he whispered. "It wouldn't be a square deal, Kid, to leave those poor fellows to their death without even telling them there's a chance to get out." She attempted no reply, as he glided noiselessly away, but her face, could he have seen it, was not devoid of expression. This was an act of generosity and deliberate courage of the very kind most apt to appeal to her nature, and within her secret heart there was rapidity developing a respect for this man, who with such calm assurance won his own way. Then, suddenly, that black curtain was rent by jagged spurs of red and yellow flame. Dazed for an instant, her heart throbbing wildly to the sharp reports of the rifles, she shrank cowering back, her fascinated gaze fixed on those imp-like figures leaping forward from rock to rock. Almost with the flash and sound Hampton sprang hastily back and gathered her in his arms. "Catch hold, Kid, anywhere; only go up, and quick!" She retained no longer any memory of Hampton; her brain was completely terrorized. In inch by inch, foot by foot, clinging to a fragment of rock here, grasping a slippery branch there, occasionally helped by encountering a deeper gash in the face of the prelice, her movements concealed by the scattered cedars, she toiled feverishly up. The first time she became aware that Hampton was closely following was when her feet slipped along a naked root, and she would have plunged headlong into unknown depths had she not come in sudden contact with his supporting shoulder. Faint and dizzy, and trembling like a leaf of an aspen, she crept forward onto a somewhat wider ledge of thin rock, and lay there quivering painfully from head to foot. A moment of suspense, and he was outstretched beside her, resting at full length along the very outer edge, his hand closing tightly over her own. "Remain perfectly quiet," he whispered, panting heavily. "We can be no safer anywhere else." Shots and yells, the dull crash of blows, the shouts of men engaged in a death grapple, the sharp crackling of innumerable rifles, the inarticulate moans of pain, the plercing scream of sudden torture, were borne upward to them out from the blackness. All at once the hideous uproar ceased with a final yelping of triumph, seemingly recooled the entire length of the chasm, in the midst of which one single voice pleaded pitifully,—only to die away in a shriek. The two agonized fugitives lay listening, their ears strained to catch the slightest sound from below. Hampton's ears could discern evidences of movement, and he heard guttural voices calling at a distance, but to the vision all was black. These uncertain sounds ceased, the strained ears of the fugitives heard the crashing of bodies through the thick shrubbery, and then even this noise died away in the distance. Yet neither ventured to stir or speak. It may be that the girl slept fitfully, worn out by long vigil and intense strain; but the man proved less fortunate, his eyes staring out continually into the black void, his thoughts upon other days. His features were drawn and haggard when the first gray dawn found ghastly reflection along the opposite rock summit, and with blurred eyes he watched the faint tinge of returning light steal downward into the canyon. At last it swept aside those lower clinging mists, as though some invisible hand had drawn back the night curtains, and he peered over the edge of his narrow resting place, gazing directly down upon the scene of massacre. With a quick gasp of unspeakable horror he shrank so sharply back as to cause the suddenly awakened girl to start and glance into his face. "What is it?" she questioned, with quick catching of breath, reading that Continued on Sixth Page—2d Gui IT WILL PAY YOU To interest yourself in promot ing the CIRCULATION of the RICHMOND PLANET. --- THE PLANET SATURDAY...DECEMBER 14, '07 For Young people MUSIC-ROLL COVER. How the Shabby Leather Case Can Be Given New Lease of Life. 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WE WILL SEND YOU A GOLD-PLATED BROOCH WITH YOUR PICTURE THEREIN, YOU TO ```markdown ``` Kind Old Gent—What do you mean by saying your occupation's gone? Souleary Samuel—They've pulled down the house I used to lean against. ROVER TO THE RESCUE He Brought the Truant Boat Back to the Shore. The children with their big Newfoundland dog, Rover, lost no time in starting for the sands, the morning after their arrival at the seaside. This was Rover's first visit to the sea; and, to judge by the way he bounded along he evidently meant to enjoy himself quite as much as the children did. What fun they had, building and digging and raving on the sand! Then there was the new boat, the Sauce Polly, to sail, and this was a source of great excitement. And very pretty indeed she looked, riding the waves so gracefully, as Harold and Jack in turn, keeping the tow-string well in hand, guided her along the coast. The morning passed all too soon, and it was narly time to go home to dinner, and Harold was drawing the little yacht slowly inland once more, when suddenly the string snapped, and, before he could realize what had happened a big wave and a strong breeze had carried the Sauce Polly far beyond reach. "Oh, Harold," cried Jack, "it's gone, our dear little boat! Whatever shall we do?" "Bow-wow!" said Rover, and he gave Rover and the Children. his big head a knowing shake, as much as to say: "I know quite well what to do; and, what's more, I'm going to do it!" Then with another deep, reassuring "Bow-wow!" he plunged into the sea and was soon swimming in hot pursuit of the Sauce Polly. The children watched with breathless interest as they saw the dog reach the boat, seize it, and then turn and began to swim quickly back to the shore. How they cheered and encouraged him; and when at last the boat was laid safely at their feet, they simply fell on his neck and hugged him, all heedless of his dripping coat and of the shower baths which he shook over them. And this was not the only occasion during that holiday in which Rover proved himself a gallant rescuer. One day a little girl was playing on the rocks when she suddenly slipped and fell into deep water, and the brave dog, almost before anyone had realized the accident, swam to the child's rescue and brought her safely to shore, very little the worse for her wetting. And then, of course, Rover was made more of than ever, and became the spoiled pet of all the children. A WARNING. Three little boys in a rowboat, And only room for two- Take a little boat in a rowboat, And only room for two— Boat upset and they get wet, And didn't know what to do! One cried: "Oh, my mamma!" Then waded straight to shore. 1 The other two did likewise, And I saw the three no more. —Los Angeles Herald. The Smile Busted. Teacher—Freddy, you must not laugh out loud like that in the school- room. Freddy—I didn't mean to do it. I was smiling when all of a sudden the smile busted. Be wise as a serpent and harmless as a dove and you will get along in life. Work of Tourists. The olive trees on the Mount of Olives have been destroyed by tourists. IN ORDER TO FURTHER INCREASE OUR STEADILY GROWING CIRCULATION WE WILL OFF WE WILL SEND YOU THE PLANET AND THE ST LOUIS, MISSOURI, SEMI-WEEKLY GLOBE DEMOCRAT, ONE OF THE LEADING REPUBLICAN JOURNALS IN THE UNITED STATES FOR $2.25 PER YEAR FOR BOTH. WE WILL SEND YOU THE PLANET AND THE COSMOPOLITAN MAGAZINE FOR $2.25 PER YEAR FOR BOTH. WE WILL SEND YOU THE PLANET AND McCLURE'S MAGAZINE FOR $2.25 PER YEAR FOR BOTH. OR THEIR EQUIVALENT, WE WILL SEND PICTURES, ONE ONLY, OF PRESIDENT THEODORE ROOSEVELT, DR. BOOKER T. 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RENEWALS, ETC.-If you do not want THE PLANET continued for another year after your subscription has run out, you then notify us by Postal Card to discontinue it. The courts have decided that subscribers to newbooks do not order their paper discontinued at the expiration of time for which it has been paid and held liable for the payment of the subscription to date when they order the paper discontinued. COMMUNICATIONS—When writing to us to renew your subscription or to discontinue your paper, you should give your name and address to otherwise we cannot find your name on our books. CHANGE OF ADDRESS—In order to change the address of a subscriber, we must be sent the former as well as the present address. Entered at the Post Office at Richmond, Va as second class matter. SATURDAY...DECEMBER 14, '07 JUST A FEW WORDS ABOUT THEM. Several of our contemporaries have been complaining on account of the lack of race pride shown by Negro leaders, especially the ministers. We do not know that it should occasion any surprise. Our astonishment comes when we ascertain a fact to the contrary. We have Negro ministers who pay their subscriptions promptly. We know government employees, who read race newspapers at places other than the barber shops or in the libraries of the Y. M. C. A. building where they are sent free of charge. We are acquainted with teachers in the public schools who out of their meagre earnings save enough to pay for a year's subscription to a good Negro weekly and we know an army of chamber-mails, cooks, drivers, butlers, laborers and other people in menial employment who not only read our newspapers, but who will walk half a mile to purchase their supplies from a colored person engaged in business. We regard the educated, ministerial class who do this as well-nigh heroes. The others do it naturally because their hearts are right. We do not criticize these people who are drawing salaries from four hundred to eleven hundred dollars per year on account of their short-comings for fear that we may offend some of the patriotic ones who are doing their duty. Still, if you want to find some "beat-you-if-they-can," "slow-pay," "always with an excuse," "never in," fault-finding people who never drew a patriotic breath in favor of any Negro, but themselves, you knock at the doors of these "want-to-see-my-name-in-the-paper" colored folks, whether they be professional men or whether they are drawing a salary from the government and eight times out of every ten times you will find the "article" you are hunting without having to go a long ways to do it. REV. DR. LEWIS AND THE FUNERALS. "Would Heaven this mourning were past! One may have better luck at last; Matters at worst are sure to mend. The Devil's wife was but a fiend." —Prior. Rev. Z. D. Lewis, D. D., pastor of the Second Baptist Church of this city has begun a warfare on expensive funerals. As to how long it will last, deponent sayeth not. Anyway he delivered an impassioned address last Tuesday night at the Sharon Baptist Church to an audience that gave forth many rounds of applause and grunts of approval. He spoke of the expensive caskets purchased declaring that he knew of one instance where the entire coffers of the family were emptied to purchase a $200 casket. This statement met the hearty approbation of every undertaker in the church who had never had the opportunity to furnish such an outlay for his patrons. For the most part Rev. Dr. Lewis was correct in his statements and we are with him in his effort to reform existing conditions. Nearly all of the societies, both secret and benevolent pay for their own carriages by an assessment of about eighty-eight cents upon its members. If any of them do otherwise it is the exception rather than the rule. Dr. Lewis was in error then when he declared that the custom of lodges and orders to attend funerals merely to make a lengthy procession, when that adds to the expense of the family at so much per carriage. But then the divine may have been incorrectly quoted for he belongs to a secret society and he knows better. He is quoted further: "The practice of inviting all the neighborhood to ride to the cemetery making the bill for carriages alone sometimes come up to $100 or more, was also commented on, it being argued that only the family and immediate friends of the deceased should attend, and that if lodges send committees or delegations they should show their respect for the dead by going at their own expense. "An especial feature to which the Rev. Lewis objected, and which he stated was to be found in no other race on earth except the Negroes, was the custom of keeping the dead out of the ground for five or six days in order to have a big, "swell" Sunday funeral. Speaking of the $200 casket and the family, is quoted as follows: "The preacher stated that it was a matter of public knowledge that this couple had been living in poverty, discord and without any use or respect for each other, yet, on the death of the husband the fashion in the best circles of Richmond colored society had decreed a "swell" funeral, with all the trimmings on, and in order to outdo all former events of the kind, a "double-header" was arranged, with two undertakers and two preachers. As an incidental detail, it was mentioned that the undertakers had a fight at the grave over which should have the honor of burrying the body; that the widow had sold her home for the costs of that funeral, which amounted to $525, and that she is now doing work by the day and is in danger of being put on the street for non-payment of her rent." This was an extreme case, and indicates that Dr. Lewis is not only hunting for trouble, but for gone as well. But then there is a trite saying "no name, no blame," and as the divine seemed to have studiously observed the axiom it may be that he will remain on speaking terms with the family and the two funeral directors who evidently were the victims of his merciless castigation. There is one thing certain,—both of them would like to get a chance at burying him. The undertakers must certainly have "ruffled him under the collar," for he made another "dig" at them when he is quoted as follows: "Continuing, the Rev, Lewis took up each detail of such a funeral, stating that there was no Scriptural authority for a sermon; that such eulogies were usually entirely false, and that preachers who delivered them were merely lowered in the estimation of their congregation and of the public at large. He commended the various well-known insurance organizations supported by the colored race, but regretted the policy of having the death benefits payable to the undertaker, rather than to the family of the deceased, 'Whenever a white man dies,' he declared, somebody benefits financially, Some white people never have any money until somebody dies. But with the Negroes it is different. Whenever anybody dies all he leaves is a great big bill to the undertaker, which the whole family works for a year or so to pay off." We do not see that any change can be made in the matter of the beneficiary. Dr. Lewis evidently does not know that insurance policies in which the death benefits are payable to the undertaker are policies on which the premiums are paid by the undertaker. The person who dies has not paid one cent to keep himself benefited and his mourning relatives who sign for this revenue have not paid as much as a copper to lay him in the grave yard. It would seem then that when this Negro dies some one benefits financially, but that some one is the farseeing undertaker. The white man as a rule insures for as large amounts as his income will justify. A colored man insures for just enough to defray the expenses of his funeral. Rev. Dr. Lewis has taken a bold stand, one that will subject him to more underground criticism than to over-head commendation. We believe though that the ministerial contingent will sustain him. They receive from one to five dollars for marriages, occupying a few moments of time and no preparation, while for a funeral requiring them to preach like Saul and prevaricate like Judas, they get absolutely nothing, but sometimes a few commendations and oftimes many "cusses." If the undertaker is to be born THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA this business and the people are to sustain them, let them add five dollars for the minister, and if it is a really bad case, double the compensation. In these days of high prices and expensive living the funeral director and the casket maker are remembered while the leading person in the advertising display of a twenty-five dollar man in a two hundred dollar casket is forgotten. We stand for reform in these methods and until the poor preacher is recognized and his services compensated along with the cemetery keeper and the grave digger, we shall continue to call for more sermons against these expensive funerals. "Why, let the stricken deer go weep, the Hart ungalled play; Thus runs the world away." —Shakespeare. DR. WASHINGTON AND HOWARD UNIVERSITY "This mournful truth is everywhere confess'd. Slow rises worth by poverty depress'd."—Johnson. Some of our contemporaries and promoters of the anti-Booker T. Washington movement continue to bewail the fact that the distinguished "wizard of Tuskegee," the prime minister of the industrial education monarchy has been both selected and elected a member of the Board of Trustees of Howard University. They regard his presence there as being indicative of a radical change in its educational policy by the lowering of its standard as a first-class, high-grade educational institution Whether this position be true or false, it is but fair to say that the souvenir of Howard University, a copy of which is now before us would seem to lend color to this view of the situation. Industrial education is being gradually forced to the front if we are to take note of the picture, "Manual Arts—Wood Working" and "Class in Domestic Science." This then is the starting point and Dr. Washington's presence is expected to accelerate the movement. Webster defines a university as follows: "An institution organized and incorporated for the purpose of imparting instruction, examining students, and otherwise promoting education in the higher branches of literature, science, art, etc., and empowered to confer degrees in the several arts and faculties, as in theology, law, medicine, music, etc. A university may exist without having any college connected with it, or it may consist of but one college, or it may comprise an assemblage of colleges established in any place, with professors for instructing students in the sciences and other branches of learning." Domestic Science as enunciated at Howard means cooking a meal of victuals. Whether Webster had in mind this form of science when he wrote his definition will be answered when it is understood that no university in Europe numbers such a science in its curriculum. The move ment then had begun at Howard and it needed a Booker T. Washington under the masterly hand of President Theodore Roosevelt to give it impetus. It would seem then that there has been a concerted movement to lower the standard of the University, by increasing its usefulness along the lines of an industrial and common school education. It is against this attitude that the protests are being waged. The only recognition tendered the "higher education" contingent was the election of Wilbur Patterson Thirkeldt, D. D., LL. D. to the presidency. He is a scholar and a gentleman, a man of high ideals and a devotee of the doctrine that the highest educational facilities obtainable are none too good for the brainiest of the Negroes. Still, if we are to note the trend of ideas and the march of events, his efforts will be handicapped by those who believe that industrial education is the panacea for all of ourills and that if we give lower education to the rank and file, the leaders will or should secure higher education for themselves. We understand why colleges supported by the beneficent donations of northern philanthropists are adding industrial annexes to their curriculums. It is because these rich men in many instances refuse to contribute to the institutions unless this is done. The absurdity of the proposition might well be understood were an attempt made at the West Point Military Academy to train privates for the army, or a movement inaugurated at the Naval Academy at Annapolis to train sailors for the navy. The effort would be disparaged because it would be improper, out of place. The training for the soldier can be given at any military post in the United States and the training of the sailor can be given on any of the vessels of the navy. Men needed to command must be given a special education at a special place and under certain special conditions. It is equally true of higher education and university and collegiate training. When you attempt to force the rank and file within its doors, you must lower the standard of study in order to meet the changed conditions. We have no doubts, but what the leaders who are advocating this industrial policy are permeated by the best of motives, but they are lowering the standard of excellence, and making it impossible for the race to attain the heights, which can be reached only by the most scholarly leadership. To speak plainly, one highly educated Negro imbued with common-sense, his efforts should be equal to one thousand industrial Negroes laboring within a given radius of action. By his superior education, skill and tact he should be able to control that number. If he cannot do it, he is made of the wrong material, in fact is a misfit and the money spent in his education has been thrown away. It is this fact that has made the Japanese powerful, giving them highly educated leaders, who to-day stand out as the most remarkable characters in the civilized world. We do not mean to undervalue industrial education. Eighty per cent of the race need it, yes, need it badly, but they should obtain it at Tuskegee Institute at Tuskegee, Alabama and not at Howard University; at the Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute and not at Howard University; at St. Paul's Industrial School at Lawrenceville, Va. and not at Howard University; at Normal Institute at Normal, Alabama and not at Howard University and at the scores of other industrial institutions in the United States, many of which, like Jonah's gourd, sprang up in a night, and yet are doing good service. We believe in everything in its place and under the leadership of that masterly man, that prince of educational instructors, Wilbur P. Thirkield, D. D., LL. D., Howard University can start on a new mission and colored men of ability, desiring to reach the top rather than toil in the lowlands of physical labor or the table lands of industrial knowledge may regard it as a Mecca to which they can journey to learn the way to lead ten million Negroes out of the wilderness of despair to the promised land of industrial independence and political freedom. "I hold the world but as the world. Gratiano; A stage, where every man must play a part, And mine a sad one."—Shakespeare BISHOP TURNER AND THE CHURCH. 'But love is blind, and lovers cannot see The petty follies that themselves commit."—Shakespeare. Our able contemporary the Philadelphia Odd Fellows Journal says: "Bishop Henry M. Turner, senior Bishop of the A. M. E. Church, of Atlanta, Georgia, has married a divorced woman, who was his private secretary before the divorce proceedings were had. What is the great A. M. E. connection going to do about it? The whole country will await developments with much interest. When a churchman of the age of Bishop Turner takes a step which in practice contradicts the principles which he has taught during his entire life, laymen and sinners can only look on in amazement." The A. M. E. Church in our opinion will let Bishop Turner alone. He has been in the lime-light for about forty years, and those who know him best have realized that it never pays to cross swords with him. He is eccentric and determined, as bold as a lion and as outspoken as a sailor. The very attempt of church men to keep him from marrying a divorced female would be and no doubt was the strongest incentive to cause him to consummate the nuptial ceremonies. Those who oppose him should go to Africa and be miserable. Please let Bishop Turner alone. THE BROWNSVILLE ENQUIRY. The statement was made last week that the Senate Committee on Military Affairs that has been investigating the affray at Brownsville, Texas, August 13, 1906 is hopelessly divided. Five of the Republican members are in favor of sustaining President Roosevelt and the War Department in their actions in holding the colored troops responsible, but they modify their position by recommending the reinstatement of all of the soldiers, who can show that they were not concerned in the raid and who did not try to conceal the identity of the guilty parties. This attitude is in effect the endorsation of the doctrine that a man is presumed guilty until he proves himself innocent, rather than a recognition of the time-honored declaration of the law, that a person is presumed innocent until he is proven guilty. These distinguished Senators would shift the burden of proof to the accused rather than to the accuser. Such a report as that will hardly get through the United States Senate if talking is an asset in that Chamber. The four Democratic members as usual are behind. They hold that none of the discharged soldiers should be reinstated and emphasize this opinion by recommending that all colored men shall be excluded from enlistment in the United States Army. This position is in keeping with the policy of President Roosevelt,—the punishing of the known innocent with the alleged guilty ones. Certain it is just as plausible to punish men who have never been in the army, by refusing them the right of enlistment, as to punish innocent ones in the army by a similar method of procedure. The attitude of the Democratic contingent emphasizes though the position of Senator Foraker and lends color to the claim of his supporters when they declared that the trouble at Brownsville, Texas was the result of a conspiracy to rid the army of colored troops. The Negro-hating contingent from Texas has gone too far. It is needless to say a word relative to Senator Foraker, Senator Scott or Senator Bulkeley. Their report will hold that the evidence does not warrant fastening the guilt upon the colored soldiers, and will recommend that they be restored to the army. In view of this position, the following telegraphic report is significant: "The expert analysis of the bullets submitted as evidence in the Brownsville investigation has been completed, and the findings sent to the Senate Committee on Military Affairs. It is understood that the analysis shows that the bullets were not of the variety in use by the army at the time of the riot. Gen. Crozier, chief of ordnance, concurs in the belief that the bullets submitted were not fired from army rifles. "The analysis, with correspondence from Gen. Crozler, will be submitted to the committee at its meeting on Tuesday next." This then disposes of the question of the guilt of the colored soldiers and will leave President Theodore Roosevelt no recourse, but to undo this grievous wrong and restore to the service of the nation three of the bravest companies that ever wore a uniform and one battalion of the best soldiers that ever sighted a rifle. The injustice in their dismissal is apparent and the feeling is well-nigh universal that they be restored to the army. We live in a republic, not a monarchy and the protests of the people are certainly entitled to a hearing at the capital of the nation. THE OUTLOOK The Republican National Committee in session at Washington, D. C. has issued the call for the Republican National Convention to be held at Chicago, Illinois, Tuesday, June 16th, 1908 at 12 o'clock noon for the purpose of nominating candidates for President and Vice-President of the United States. It was developed that those antagonistic to Secretary Taft's candidacy were in a decided majority. Whether or not their ratio of opposition will remain, increase or decrease is the question. No one who has paid any attention to the situation can fall to see that both President Roosevelt and his War Secretary are growing weaker instead of stronger in the estimation of the people at large. The action of the Republican National Committee in choosing Chicago as against Kansas City, Missouri the latter place being a Taft stronghold will be taken as an indication by the far-seeing politicians of "the way the wind is blowing," and they will act accordingly. It is now alleged that while President Roosevelt is true to Secretary Taft and sincere in his advocacy of his nomination, he would not look with disfavor upon the selection of Secretary Cortelyou as head of the ticket, provided the distinguished Ohioan should find it impossible to land the prize. For our part we have regarded the Cortelyou boom as a well-organized movement for the carrying out of a specified purpose. It was intended to disconcert and embarrass Gov. Hughes' admirers in New York. It was further designed to lead to the naming of the tail of the ticket that would have Secretary Taft at its head. The people or rather their representatives at Chicago would have little else to do other than ratify the action of the able statesman in the White House who, in this event would have prepared the platform of the party in advance of the meeting of the Republican National Convention. New York is considered absolutely necessary in a Presidential contest and no man with the political acumen of President Roosevelt would think of going into a fight without it. Taft and Cortelyou is the ticket for the White House occupant, or Cortelyou and Taft will be accepted as a compromise. With President Roosevelt, "this is the ship; all else is the sea." First English Savings Banks First English Savings Banks. The adoption of postal savings banks in England was due to inadequate facilities and incompetent management of savings institutions. In 1860 more than half of the 603 savings banks were open only one day in the week, and a few hours in 20 towns in a population were no public the deposit of SCORES ROOSEVELT. Western Federation of Miners Blame Him For Trouble. TROOPS AT GOLDFIELD NOT WANTED Miners, Say Officinals, Had Perfect Right to Refuse Scrip For Wages That Was Not Acceptable at Par In Trade. DENVER, Dec. 11.—The executive board of the Western Federation of Miners has issued the following statement concerning the present controversy in Goldfield, Nev.: "On Dec. 6 President Roosevelt issued a proclamation ordering federal troops to go to Goldfield, Nev., ostensibly to protect life and property. That there was even any danger to personal property is emphatically denied by officers of Esmeralda county and by the merchants and citizens of Goldfield. "The only reason for the present trouble was the decision of the mine operators" force upon the miners a scrip that would not be taken at par by the railroad companies, the Wells Fargo Express company, the stores or the boarding houses. "Neither would the mine owners agree to guarantee that they would redeem this script at any time in the future. "In refusing to accept this worthless scrip in exchange for their hard labor the miners of Goldfield are taking a manly stand against the usurpation of governmental functions by unreliable banking firms which assume the right to set aside the legal money of the nation. "We desire to call the attention of the American people to the disaster at Monongah, W. Va., where 500 coal miners were murdered by the capitalist system in its greed for profits. Had President Roosevelt been as anxious to enforce the mining laws of West Virginia as he is to send the regular army to crush an organization whose only aim is to better the conditions and make happier the lives of the working class 500 blackened corpses would not today be laid on the altar of greed at Monongah, around which weep wildowed wives and orphaned children. "We protest against this action of President Reeveelt, knowing that he was animated by personal hatred against the Western Federation of Miners and its officers. The moving of troops on a peaceable community must be regarded at least as hasty and ill advised, and we call upon the working class of the country to protest against this unwarranted and unprecedented action of minic warfare." CHICAGO GETS IT. Republican National Convention to Be Held There June 10, 1988 Be Held There June 16, 1908. WASHINGTON, Dec. 11.—The Republican national convention will meet in Chicago on June 16, 1908. This decision was reached here at the final meeting of the Republican national committee. The vote stood: Chicago, 31; Kansas City, 18; Denver, 4, after which it was made unanimous. Efforts are being made to give political significance to the decision of the committee in favor of Chicago, but there is little or no such significance involved. Taft men voted for Chicago, anti-Taft men voted for Kansas City, and third term men were to be found among the advocates of both cities. The official call for the convention has been issued. It is signed by Chairman Harry S. New and Secretary Elmer Dover of the Republican national committee. Demand For Bryan's Nomination. NEW YORK, Dec. 11. Norman E. Mack, member of the Democratic national committee for New York, said while here, en route to Washington to attend the meeting of the committee on Thursday, that the national convention would be held either in St. Paul or Louisville. He said that Denver was not central enough and that Chicago had made no bid for it. He declared that William J. Bryan should be nominated for president and said that he had heard many prominent Democrats express a preference for former Governor William L. Douglas of Massachusetts for the second place on the ticket. "The demand for William J. Bryan's nomination is practically overwhelming," said Mr. Mack. Pettibone Trial at Boise, Idn BOISE, Ida., Dec. 11.—The Pettibone murder trial reopened here today with an address for the prosecution by James Hawley. Senator Borah is one of the attorneys for the prosecution. Testimony regarding an explosion in the Bradley residence at San Francisco given at the Haywood trial will be admitted as evidence in the Pettibone trial. Capture King DinzipIg PIETERMARITZBURG, Natal, Dec. 11.-Dinizulu has surrendered to the authorities without resistance of any kind. Dinizulu is the Zulu king who has been held responsible for the threatening situation in Natal arising from the increasing boldness of the natives, who of late have been indulging in murder and other outrages. Colon Hotel Destroyed COLON, Dec. 11.—The Central hotel, an extensive building here, was entirely destroyed by fire last night, and a house adjoining was badly damaged. The loss is $30,000. Indorse Judge Gray For President. DOVER, Del., Dec. 11.—The Democratic state committee passed a resolution indorsing Judge George Gray of Delaware for the presidency. BOSTON ELECTIONS. Postmaster George A. Hibbard, Res publican, Defects Nitro Boston, Defeats Fitzgerald. BOSTON, Dec. 11.—In the closest and hardest fought election contests which Boston has known for many years the city went Republican by about 2,000 votes, Postmaster George A. Hibbard (Rep.) defeating Mayor John F. Fitzgerald (Dem.), who was a candidate for re-election. The revised returns show the following vote cast for the mayoralty candidates: Hibbard, 38,067; Fitzgerald, 36,054; John A. Coulthurst (I. L.), 15,871. The city voted to license the sale of liquor by a large majority, somewhat smaller than in previous years, however, due to a hard campaign on the part of the clergy and others in an endeavor to keep the saloons out of the suburbs. Coulthurst, who was formerly secretary of the Democratic state committee, is exceedingly popular among the younger Democracy, and it was from this source that he drew much of his strength and contributed to the defeat of Fitzgerald. The returns indicate that the council will be strongly Democratic, with the aldermanic board more closely divided. DEATH OF MRS. TAFT. Widow of Alfonso Taft, Secretary of War Under Grant. MILBURY, Mass., Dec. 11.—Death, which had been expected almost hourly for a week past, was announced from the bedside of Mrs. Louisa Maria Taft, mother of William H. Taft, secretary of war. Mrs. Taft was the widow of Alphonse Taft, secretary of war and attorney general of the United States under President Grant and later minister to Austria and Russia. Mrs. Taft was attacked last July with acute indigestion, and a gradual breakdown of her vigorous constitution soon followed. Mrs. Taft is survived by four children, of whom Secretary Taft is the oldest. The two other sons are Henry W. Taft of the New York law firm of Strong & Cadwallader, and Horace D. Taft, founder and head of the Taft School For Boys at Watertown, Conn. The daughter, Fanny L., is the wife of Dr. William A. Edwards of Los Angeles, Besides Miss Torrey, the only near relative is her stepson, former Congressman Charles P. Taft, editor of the Cincinnati Times-Star. PROVIDENCE HITS FERRYBOAT. Full River Palatinal Steamer Narrow- ly Escapes Slingshot, Nevada NEW YORK, DCE. 11.-The Fall River line steamer Providence was in collision with and but narrowly escaped sinking a crowded East river ferry-boat last night. The latter craft lost a portion of her superstructure, and her passengers were thrown into a panic, during which, it is reported, a man and woman jumped overboard and were drowned. The Providence's prow struck the ferryboat a glancing blow on the starboard, and the boats hung together long enough to permit many of its passengers to pass from the ferry's upper deck to the steamer. Others were taken off by tugs, while some remained on board. Both boats drifted down the river until aided by tugs, the ferryboat crippled by the accident and the steamer temporarily unable to get her head. The latter finally returned to her dock, and the ferryboat was helped to a slip. The Providence was not greatly damaged. Rescuers Get 141 Rodler MONONGAH, W. Va., Dec. 11.—The scene of America's great mine catastrophe has lost its fascination for the idlers who have surged about the pit entrances of mines Nos. 6 and 8 of the Fairmont Coal company from the moment of the awful explosion. This crowd had been dwindling ever since rain started, and there only remain the forces employed in rescue work, the newspaper workers and the inconsolable near relatives of victims who remained faithful in their vigil. When darkness fell last night 141 bodies had actually been brought to the surface, while many more were located with every prospect of recovery. Flood at Wilkesbarre, Pa WILKESBARRE, Pa., Dec. 11.—A continued fall of rain throughout the Wyoming valley for the past two days has caused the water in the Susquehanna river to rise nearly a foot an hour. The situation is alarming on the west banks of the river. The street car traffic between here and Nauticoke was practically cut off, due to the overflow of creeks outside of this city. Silk mills and other plants in the southern part of the town were forced to suspend operations. Hawley Assurance Pettibone BOISE, Ida., Dec. 11. — James A. Hawley, chief counsel for the state in the case of George A. Pettibone, outlined the case for the prosecution. Senator Borah occupied a seat at the table for the state. Mr. Hawley first recited the facts concerning the killing of former Governor Steunenberg as the result of the explosion of a dynamite bomb on the night of Dec. 30, 1905, at the gate of Steunenburg's home at Caldwell, Ida. T. F. Porter Maxor of Lyon LYNN, Mass., Dec. 11.—The city declared against the sale of liquor in the voting here by a majority of 1,578. The city has voted for license for eleven years. Thomas F. Porter (Rep.) was elected mayor. Burglar at New London Got $800. NEW LONDON, Conn., Dec. 10.—Burglar blew open the safe in the shoe store of Harry D. Barrow and got away with $800. Boston Has $100,000 Blaze BOSTON, Dec. 11.—A four alarm fire called all the available fire fighting apparatus in the city proper to the Southcove district last night, where fire had broken out on the fifth floor of the York building, a brick and granite structure, devoted to manufacturing and numbered from 97 to 109 Albany street, causing a loss estimated at $100,000. Benuchamp Mayor of Calcone Mayor or Catephee. CHICOPEE, Mass., Dec. 11.-Dr. J. C. Beauchamp was elected mayor here, running on Republican nomination papers in a four cornered contest. He defeated John P. Kirby (Dem.), William J. Fuller, the regular Republican nominee, and Alderman John J. Kelly (Soc.). The license vote stood: Yes, 1,470; no, 952. THE YLUNET SATURDAY...DECEMBER 14, 1977 AHEARN DISMISSED. Governor Hughes Ousts New York Borough President. GRAVE ABUSES IN ADMINISTRATION Ex-Senator, It Is Held, Neglected His Duty In Allowing Disgraceful State of Affairs In Metropolis of Empire State. ALBANY, N. Y., Dec. 11—Governor Hughes has removed from office President Ahearn of the Borough of Manhattan, which comprises practically New York city. The condition of disrepair and neglect which President Ahearn permitted to obtain in the streets of New York, especially those paved with asphalt, is the principal ground upon which Governor Hughes bases his action, but he alludes to "grave abuses in the administration of the bureau of public buildings and offices," one of the departments under Ahearn's jurisdiction. The governor takes pains to call attention to the fact that personal corruption was not alleged or proved against the borough president—"that is," he says, "it is not shown and it is not claimed that he has converted public money or property to his own use or has personally profited in an unlawful manner by his official conduct. Taking up first the charges of mal-administration in the highway department, the governor says in part: "The evidence compels the conclusion that Borough President Ahearn has failed to perform his duty with reference to the streets to a degree that is entirely inexcusable. Until recently, when the sharpness of complaints and investigation led to a reorganization of the department, the streets of New York were permitted to remain in a shocking condition of disrepair." President Ahearn served as state senator continuously from 1889 to 1902. He was elected president of Manhattan borough in 1903 and re-elected in 1905 for a term of four years, expiring Dec. 31, 1909. The charges were made by the City club of New York, and Ahearn was tried before the governor in September and October. Governor Hughes alludes to grave abuses in the administration of the bureau of public buildings. He flays William H. Walker, who was recently removed from the superintendency of the bureau. Operating under the gulse of the Metropolitan Equipment and Supply company, it is alleged that he sold large bills of supplies to the city of New York at high prices. Counsel for Ahearn have secured and served temporary injunctions restraining the county clerk from filing the governor's order of removal and the mayor from presiding at a meeting of the board of aldermen for the election of a successor to Ahearn. Democratic National Convention MEMORIAL NATIONAL CONVENTION. WASHINGTON, Dec. 11. — Thomas Taggart, chairman of the Democratic national committee, has arrived here, and tomorrow the committee will meet to decide upon the date and place of the next Democratic national convention. Mr. Taggart gave out the official list of cities which are after the convention. It includes St. Paul, Atlantic City, Louisville, Chicago, Denver, St. Louis and Cincinnati. He said: "Geography, railroad facilities, hotels and finances will be the combination to win. I have no hesitancy in saying that exclusive of the money question Chicago will get the convention." SWEDEN'S KING DEAD. People Mourn Venerable and Well Beloved Monarch. STOCKHOLM, Dec. 11—Oscar II., king of Sweden, is dead here. The death of the venerable monarch occurred in the royal apartment of the palace, which is called the Castle Royal, where, surrounded by the members of his family, including the aged Queen Sophia and the crown prince, Oscar Gustaf, and high ministers of state, the inevitable end had been awaited, while outside the palace great crowds stood with bowed heads and tearful eyes long after the announcement came of the death of their well loved sovereign. The whole country is bowed in grief, for King Oscar was something more than a ruler of his people and had en- [Pencil sketch of a man in military uniform]. KING GUSTAVE V. deared himself to them as an intimate and personal friend. When the flag on the palace was dipped to half mast there was a moan of anguish from the assembled multitude, and many of them cried, "Our dear old king is dead!" The king's age was seventy-eight years nine months and seventeen days, his death being the result of calcification of the cerebral and cardiac blood vessels. The body of King Oscar has been embalmed, as the funeral probably will be delayed for a fortnight. Queen Victoria, wife of King Gustave, has arrived from England. The succession to the throne of Sweden now passes to Oscar Gustaf Adolphe, duke of Vermland, the eldest son of the late king. At a meeting of the council of state the new king took the oath of allegiance under the title of Gustaf V. and adopted the motto, "With the People For the Fatherland." GIVES TWO MILLIONS Andrew Carnegie Adds to Institute's Big Fund. "WORK HAS BORNE GOOD FRUIT." New York Philanthropist Announces Munificent Gift to Aid Cause of Homicide Erect New Home. WASHINGTON, Dec. 11.—Andrew Carnegie has added the sum of $2,000,000 to the $10,000,000 endowment fund of the Carnegie institution. Announcement of the fact was made at a dinner last night at the New William of the board of trustees of the institute, to which had been invited a number of scientists and men prominent in public affairs. The dinner followed a business meeting held earlier in the day at the institution's offices attended by John S. Billings, chairman; John L. Cadwalader, Cleveland H. Dodge, William N. Frew, Lyman J. Gage, Henry L. Higginson, Charles L. Hutchinson, Seth Low, S. Weir Mitchell, William W. Morrow, Henry S. Pritchard, Elliou Root, Charles D. Walcott, William H. Welch, Andrew D. White, Carroll D. Wright and Robert S. Woodward, president of the institution. The report of the trustees showed that much important scientific work had been done during the past year, and upon their recommendation a large sum, the exact figure being $529.940, was allotted for the prosecution of this work of scientific inquiry next year. The trustees also decided to erect a suitable building here on Sixteenth street for the accommodation of the administrative offices of the institution in place of the present rented quarters. EVANS' FLAG GOES ALOET. Great American Fleet Now Assembled in Hampton Rows. NORFOLK, Va., Dec. 11.—Rear Admiral Robley D. Evans' blue flag with two white stars was run up at the main truck on the flagship of the Pacific fleet, the battleship Connecticut, lying in Hampton Roads, and a salute was fired by all the ships at anchor. Among these were the Louisiana, Missouri, Vermont, Kansas, Rhode Island, Georgia, New Jersey, Ohio, Illinois, Alabama, Kearsarge and Virginia. Thus Rear Admiral Evans formally assumes his position as leader of the greatest naval movement in the history of the American people. This was assembly day for the fleet, which is to set sail on Monday for the Pacific. The admiral arrived from Washington, accompanied by Mrs. Evans, and lost no time in joining his ship. He was received on the quarterdeck by Captain Osthaus, the commander of the ship, and staff. As he stepped aboard his flag was sent afloat, and then, while the bands played, the guns thundered. The ships lie in double column about 600 yards off shore and are watched by hundreds of natives and visitors to Old Point. Until the president inspects the fleet on Monday, the 16th, prior to its departure for the Pacific, the roadstead will be perhaps the busiest stretch of water in the world. FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL. Closing Stock Quotations Money on call stand at 12 to 25 per cent; prime mercantile paper, 7 to 8 per cent; exchanges, $251,273,946; balances, $856,744. Closing prices: Amal. Copper. 46% N. Y. Central. 87 B. & O. 81% Norf. & Wort. 112% B. & O. 81% Penn. R. R. 117% Brooklyn R. T. 38% Reading. 90% C. C. C. & St. L. 44% Rock Island. 140% Ches. & Ohio. 28% St. Paul. 101% D. H. Northw. 150% Southern Pa. 72% D. H. Northw. 150% Southern Pa. 72% Erie. 15% South Ry. pf. 83% Gen. Electric. 112% Sugar. 102 Ill. Central. 123 Texas Pacific. 20 Lackawanna. 490 Union Pacific. 115 Louis. & Nash. 190 U. F. Steel. 22% Louis. & Nash. 190 U. F. Steel. 22% Int.-Met. 51 West. Union. 57 Missouri Electric. 71% New York Markets. FLOUR-Dull and bare steady; Minne- saua patents, $.50.20; winter patents, $.40.60; winter straights, $.45.40; winter extras, $.45.25. RYE FLOUR-Dull; fair to good, $4.85@ 5.15; choice to fancy, $5.25@5.40. WOOL- Steady; domestic fleece, 32@%c% LIVE POULTRY - Dull and lower; lower; chickens, 91@%c%; ducks, 11@%c%; goose, 11@%c%; turkeys, 15@%c%. DRESSED POULTRY - Easy; fresh killed fowls, choice, 13c; do, do, fair to THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA good, irrigate; on roosters; to do; toakling chilens, nearby, 18@15c; do, do, western, 10@14c; broilers, nearby, 18@13c; do, do, western; turkeys, nearby choice 18@12c; do, western, choice to fancy, 18@15c; do, western, choice to fancy, 17@15c; do, fair, to good, 13@15c. Live Stock Markets CATTLE-Supply light; market slow calves; $8.75; prime; $20.40; veal calves; $8.75. HOGS—Receipts light; market active; prime heavies, mediums and heavy Yorkers; $4.85@4.90; light Yorkers; $4.69@4.70; pigs. $4.59@4.60; roughs $4.50. SHEEP AND LAMBS-Supply light: market steady; prime wethers $; culls and common, $1.50/26; lambs, $4.00/36. Tom Watson's idea of Roosevelt. WASHINGTON, Dec. 11.—"The president," said Tom Watson, "is an ideal host, easy and cordial in his manner. He put at ease immediately even so shy and awkward a man as myself. He talks well, and he listens well. He knows much and is willing to learn more. He enjoys your own humor if you happen to have any, and it pleases him to see you enjoy his, and he has a good deal of it. I should say that what impressed me most is President Roosevelt's sincerity, earnestness and breadth of human sympathy. His interest in the common people is that of one who knows what are the struggles and the hardships of honest poverty and who would like to run the government in the interest of all rather than of the few." Logan Mayor No License WORCESTER, Mass., Dec. 11.-On the heaviest vote ever polled at an election in Worcester the Republicans swept the city, electing the mayor, eight of the eleven aldermen, including the alderman at large, and will have twenty-one Republicans and nine Democrats members of the city council. The vote: James Logan (Rep.), 10,950; John T. Duggan (Den.), 9,340; Elliot White (Soc.), 2,640. Worcester votes no license for the first time in sixteen years. The majority for license last year was 1,957. This year for no license it is 962. Watson and President Talk Money, WASHINGTON, Dec. 11.-President Roosevelt and Thomas Watson, the Populist candidate for president in 1904, discussed the currency question today at luncheon at the White House. Mr. Watson set forth his views in favor of the government issuing greenback notes under authority of an old statute passed at the time of the civil war, which, he declares, is still in force. The president was much impressed with his idea. It is said. General Hamilton Dead. TARRYTOWN, N. Y., Dec. 11.—Major General Alexander Hamilton, grandson of Alexander Hamilton, secretary of the treasury under George Washington, died at his home here at the age of ninety-two years. He had been ill from grip since Thanksgiving. General Hamilton was born in New York in 1815 and early in life was aid to Governor Harris and later to Governor Seymour. He served under Lincoln. Lid on Inexperienced SYRACUSE, N. Y., Dec. 9.—The local managers who had arranged benefit performances for last night cancelled them and announced that they will comply with the order of the chief of police to keep their houses closed on Sunday night. Dr. Cleland Run Down by Train. STEUBENVILLE, O., Dec. 9.—Dr. John S. Cleland, aged fifty-seven years, a physician and oil operator of Pittsburg, was run down and killed by a Panhandle freight train here while awaiting for a train for Pittsburg. Cousin of J. D. Rockefeller Dead. PHILLIPSBURG, N. J., Dec. 11.—Jonathan La Rue, first cousin to John D. Rockefeller of the Standard Oil company, is dead here. He was eighty-two years old and worked at his trade, that of a carpenter, until a short time ago. Kaiser Wilhelm at London LONDON, Dec. 11.—Emperor William of Germany, who has completed his "rest cure" at Highlife castle, arrived in London for three days of sightseeing. He lunched with King Edward at Buckingham palace at noon and later took up his residence at the German embassy, where he will stay until Wednesday. His majesty looks to be in spendid health. On Wednesday the emperor will leave here for home. It is his intention to visit Queen Wilhelmina in Holland on h.s. way. Mifflinville (Pa.) Bridge Goes Down. BERWICK, Pa., Dec. 11.—Last night the bridge which is being erected by the state across the north branch of the Susquehanna river at Mifflinville was undermined by the flood and collapsed. Of thirty-six men on the bridge twenty-five escaped. Four bodies have been recovered, and seven are unaccounted for. The river is rising there at the rate of one foot an hour. CONDENSED DISPATCHES. Notable Events of the Week Briefly Chronicled. With prospects for a speedy resumption of business, it was stated that the Knickerbocker Trust company of New York will pay every depositor in full. Alice Abeldt, a six-year-old girl, whose mother is in an asylum in Switzerland and whose father is believed to be at Emporia, Kan., arrived at New York on the French liner Touraine in search of her father. The child came alone, and as she had $7 in cash there was no reason for deporting her. Tuesday, Dec. 10. George H. Richmond of New York, who paid $1,225 for the book known to bibliophiles as "John Milton's Family Bible," has concluded that it is not genuine. At Guthrie, Okla., Robert Latham Owen of Muskogee and Thomas Prior Gore of Lawton were formally elected to the United States senate by the Oklahoma legislature. Both are Democrats. At Boulogne, France, Mrs. William H. Taft joined her husband on board the steamer President Grant. Her trip out on a harbor tender was most exciting, and the party had an exceedingly narrow escape from wreck and 60 YEARS' EXPERIENCE PATENTS TRADE MARKS DESIGNS COPYRIGHTS & C. Anyone sending a sketch and description may quickly ascertain our opinion free whether an communications strictly confidential. HANDSHOOK sent free. Oldest agency for securing patents. Patents taken already. We receive special notice, without charge, in the disaster. Senator Tillman has introduced resolutions directing the committee on finance to investigate the recent proceedings of the secretary of the treasury in connection with the financial crisis and also to make inquiry concerning clearing house certificates. Monday, Dec. 9 The steamship President Grant, with Secretary Taft and the members of his party on board, left Boulogne for New York. Three persons were burned to death and another suffered a leg fracture during a fire at 24 Lagrange street, Boston. The dead are Mrs. Mary Joubert, thirty-eight years old; Charles Joubert, nine, and Emille Joubert, five, her two children. Seventy-five thousand railroad men on sixty-five railroad lines east of the Mississippi river and including eastern Canada are preparing for a strike in January unless wages are advanced approximately 10 per cent and uniform working rules are adopted. Senator Alfred R. Page, regarded as one of Governor Hughes' personal friends, said that the governor would not accept a renomination. He said that if the governor continued in public life after the end of next year it would be because the Republicans elected him president of the United States. Saturday, Dec. 7 The body of Clara Bloodgood, the actress who committed suicide by shooting in her room in the Hotel Stafford, Baltimore, was taken to New York by her husband, William Laimber, the New York broker. He can assign no reason for the deed. Roused from the trance in which he has been lying, unconscious and unresponsive to all efforts permanently to wake him, Edward Shea, who lives in Montclair, N. J., told a reporter for the New York Evening Mall of three visits to heaven and one to hell which he said his soul had made. A terrific and disastrous explosion occurred in mines Nos. 6 and 8 of the Consolidation Coal company of Monongah, W. Va. It is feared that the accident will turn out to be the worst in the history of mining in this country. In the mine were 280 men, and sixty-five bodies have been taken out. Edward Cohen of Lynn, president of the Massachusetts state branch of the American Federation of Labor, who was one of the prominent labor leaders shot by a lunatic in the statehouse, Boston, died at the General hospital there. Dennis D. Driscoll, secretary of the branch, whose condition is considered critical, is slightly improved. Friday, Dec. 6. Baron Kogoro Takahira, minister for Japan to the United States before Viscount Aoki was made ambassador, has been formally appointed ambassador to Washington to succeed Aoki, who has just been recalled. Miss Alicia Condon, daughter of a merchant of Beverley, N. J., has been committed for examination as to her sanity, having, it is said, become insane on the question of clothes. Her mania is to order hundreds of garments, quantities of silks and satins and diamonds and other jewelry. She tries to wear a dozen dresses a day. Thursday, Dec. 5. Nevada N. Stranahan, collector of the port of New York, has resigned on account of ill health. Acting under orders from Mayor Cutler of Rochester, N. Y., Commissioner of Public Safety Gilman has ordered the chief of police to stop all Sunday theatrical performances. New Hampshire Elections CONCORD, N. H., Dec. 11. — Two city elections were held in New Hampshire. In Portsmouth Mayor Wallace Hackett (Rep.) defeated Samuel W. Emery, Jr., 1,170 to 899. The entire council is Republican. Martin V. B. Clark (Rep.) was re-elected mayor of Keene over Albert E. Fish (Dem.) by 355 majority. The city government is Republican. Big Fortune His Undoing. NEW YORK, Dec. 10. — Rendered insane by worry over the management of a $2,000,000 estate left by his father, Augustus Brownling Prentice, formerly a brilliant young lawyer of New York, died in Bloomingdale asylum. John Philip Sensa Better DETROIT, Mich., Dec. 11. —John Philip Sousa has fully recovered from an attack of pтомaine poisoning, from which he has been suffering for the past ten days. He has rejoined his band here. Modern John Bull The stolid John Bull of the eighteenth century, with his imperviousness to criticism, has given place to a most excitable and almost hysterical person who cannot be recognized as his lawful descendant.—Country Life. He Lost Interest in Music "Wyndley doesn't play the cornet any more, does he?" "No, he thought he'd better give it up." "Bad for his lungs, eh?" "It wasn't that. One of his neighbors shot two keys off the instrument while he was playing it." A. False. Premise. According to the logic of empty-headed persons who are perfectly open because they have nothing to tell, people who do not speak of their own affairs must have something suspicious to conceal.-Balzac. TRAINS LEAVE RICHMOND, MAIN STREET STATION, EASTBOUND. 7:00 A. M. { For Exposition, Monday, Nov ember 18th, to Saturday, Nov ember 23d, inclusive. 9:00 A. M. { Norfolk and Exposition. 9:00 P. M. { Fast daily trains to Old Point. 7:40 A. M. { Daily. Local to Newport News. 5:00 P. M. { Daily. Local to Old Point. WEST BOUND—MAIN LINE. 2:00 P. M. { Dailyy. Louisville, Cincinnati. Chicago and St. Louis. Pullman sleepers. 11:00 P. M. { sleepers. 10:00 A. M.—Week Days—Cincinnati. Daily— Chazlettville. 6:15 P. M.—Week Days—Local to Gordonville. JAMES RIVER LINE. 10:00 A. M.—Lynchburg. Lexington, Va. and Clifton Forge. 6:15 P. M.—Week Days—Lynchburg. TRAINS ARRIVE RICHMOND. From the East—9:40 A. M. 11:45 A. M. 7:00 P. M. 8:15 P. M. *10:30 P. M. Main Line. West—7:30 A. M. *8:30 A. M. James River Line. *8:35 A. M. 6:45 P. M., *Daily except Sunday.* Southern Rv. TRAINS LEAVE RICHMOND. N. B.-Following schedule figures published only as information and are not published. 7:00 A. M.-Daily-Local for Charlotte. 11:15 A. M.-Daily-Limited-Buffet Pullman to Atlanta and Birmingham, New Orleans and Atlanta, Chattanooga, and all the South, Toulouse, Oakland, City, Oxford, Durham and Raleigh. 6:00 P. M.-Except Sunday-Keysville Local. 11:30 P. M.-Except Pullman full day 9:30 P. M. for all. YORK RIVER LINE 4:30 P. M. Limited, To West Point, Connect for Baltimore on Mondays, Wednesday and Fridays. 2:15 P. M. Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays 4:30 A. M.—Except Sundays. Local to West Point. TRAINS ARRIVE RICHMOND. 6:55 A. M., 8:40 P. M.—From all the South. 4:10 P. M.—From Charlotte, Raleigh, Durham, Chase City and local stations. 8:40 A. M.—From Jacqueline Local. 9:20 A. M.—From Ritmore, West Point. 10:45 A. M., 5:15 P. M.—Local from West Point. C. W. WESTBURY, D. P. A., W. 202 E. Main St., Richmond, Va. ATLANTIC COAST LINE TRAINS LEAVE RICHMOND DAILY. For Florida and South: 8:15 A. M. 7:25 P. M. For Norfolk: *0:80 A. M. *9:00 A. M. *3:00 P. M. and 6:00 P. M. For N. and W. West: *8:10 and *9:00 P. M. 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: *3:28 P. M. For Trinity Ridge 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, 8:50 and 10:40 P. M. Except Sunday. *Sunday only. Time of arrival and departures and con- nections not guaranteed. SEABOARD AIR LINE RAILWAY 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, Mophilac vannah, 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 Smok ers at the Shortest Notice. Your Patronage Solicited. Refreshment Cars and Boat Privile es Handled in Season. Address all communications to KLAM L. BANKS, 511 N. 3d St Residence: 1312 N. 268 St Black Diamond Development COMPANY. This Company is engaged in developing Gas in Kansas. It was organized over two years ago by ten enterprising colored business men in Chicago, Ill. THIS COMPANY HAS A CHARTER AND HAS MADE GOOD. It has to-day over 500 Stockholders. Its Capital Stock is $1,000,000.00. Shares One Dollar each. Dividends will be paid within one year from Now. This is a Business Corporation and not a Scheme. Every share is fully paid. The Stock is not Assessable. There is no Personal Liability to You. This Company has eight splendid Gas Wells now in operation and the contract has been et to drill 22 more wells. Well No. 9 will be finished by October 30th. The Company is Piping its Gas daily to the Kansas Natural Gas Company, (a twenty million dollar Corporation of the Standard Oil Co.) This Company has 630 acres of Gas leases. There are a few shares to be had at fifty cents per share. Buy stock in this Company, whose Success is made. The smallest number of shares sold to any one is fifty, (which would be $25.00). THE ONLY WAY TO MAKE MONEY IS BY INVESTMENT. ON1 GOOD INVESTMENT IS WORTH A LIFE TIME OF LABOR. For further information write the President. --- ANTED GOOD BUSINESS PARTNER, with small capital, who wishes to invest in good PAYING BUSINESS All High Class Work, 95 per cent of people. Position in business if war. Our reason is to enlarge business customers. Present carrying you are a Tailor, All Right, on or write .... 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KINZIE ST., CHICAGO, IL. Agents wanted everywhere. FIVE Six pr ANS STO 4G CAN ; PENNS. eV ee SATURDAY. ..DBCEMBER 14, “07. THE BOY SAMUEL a etree ee nnn | ree ace at f&r from the time of Ruth and Samson in ‘our lant Iensons PLACE—Samuel was born at Ramah GND, cated nino Ramathalen (the double RAID," four miles northwest of Jerusalem and 38 miles soutt cf Shisoh ‘The house of worship was et Shiloh, the religious capital of Txrael, 17 miles north of Jeruss st halfway between Bethel and Sueclicm, nine or ten miles from each BAMUEL—Twelve years olf ELL—Aboat i years old. high priest and Sots JESSE, the grandson of Ruth and fae Chor of Kine David, was born during the boyhood of samuel Comment and Suggestive Thought. Samuel's Inheritance—Samuel was the son of Elkansh and Hannah of the tribe of Levi, the religious and educa. tonal custodians of Issacl. His par ents were religious 5 attending the great f He was the child of | any 7 Hannah's song in 1 Samuel 2 gives us a good impression of ! ent and spiritual power, He b 1 to a religious home, which, lke the quality of merey “is tw sed: it blesseth him that gives, and him that take His Conseer He was ded! cated to God from his birth, and he knew it. He lived under the Naz rfte’s vow (Num. 6:1-12; 1 Sam. 1 11). The power of devoting our ch dren in their earllest years to the service of God is woll illustrated by the story tcld by Merivale, in his “History of Rome,” of the famous Carthaginian general, Hannibal. When he was nine years of age, his fathe Hamillenr, proposed to take him on one of bis military expeditions, which offer the young Hannibal eagerly ac cepted. His father then bade him devote hit once for all to the with } { upon the altar to swea eternal exmity lo Rome. This dedica. tion in youth determined the course of bis whole His 7 V Samuel min istered unto the Lord before Ell.” “To healalate > erve; a minister tous the house of wor ship the lamps (¥. 3) o doors (v. 15), running of erra: r duties required tor the sac and worship. He was also th 8 t and ald to the aged and 1 Ell, as ts tn sleeping near him and his " d to his call So th ad Timothy mia: tsterod Pai The Call of God Awakening His Migher Nature—According to Jose. phus, Samuel was 12 years olf, the game ace as Jesus when ho first went fo the temple at Jerusalem. V. 10. “And the Lord came and stood.” The Hebrew Is emphatic, “presented himself.” In a vision, or in personal presence as the angel of the Lord (compare Gen. 18:17, 20, 21, 33; Jadg. 6211-14; Rev. 1:1; 22:16) God Celiing the Young—God ts calling every child as he called Sam- uel. It is an individual call, by name, for “he calleth his own sheep by name.” God calls (1) by his word; (2 by his own loving, attractive chat. acter; (2) by what he has done fot us in Jesus Christ; (4) by the influ- ences of the holy spirit: (5) by vari ous providences; (6) by conscience; 2 by Sabbath and religious services; (® by the invitations and Influence of friends; (9) by the living water which satisfies every thirst of the soul; (10) by the attractions of goodness and of heaven; (11) by warning and the frult of @ life of sin Early Piety.—Like Samuel, we should answer God's call by “Here am 1” (1) It fs easier to be a Christian tn youth. (2) ‘Then {t gives us a much longer time in which to serve God. ( We may not live to be old, and thns by putting off our duty we may fail altogether. (4) We escape many evfis end dangers. No one can 80% wild oats in youth aad not reap s harvest of evil. There are some spir ftual blessings which can come only te those who have grown up in the Chris tan life. It is universally recognized by students of the child that mos men decide their future character very early in lite. Samuel's Hard Duty—A___ very heavy burden was laid upon Samuel the first of many yet to come. It wa both a test and a training for bis life work. ¥. 15. “Samuel feared to shew El the vision.” It was a very hard thin; for Samuel to make known to the age: Hit the message God had delivere to him. He was so young to seem t reprove one so old. He would have t éfve great pain to one who loved hir amd bad done much for him. Bat El pressed and even adjured Samuel t tell him all, and Semuel “told bir every whit.” Practical Points, Qne of the best things in thos most useful of later institutions, th poe Endeavor, Epworth leagus other kindred societies, consist fa their training of children an ‘people in work for Christ an ebureh. “Dr. Haslett in his “Podagogics School” sums up the age ¢ lt eile te eee authorities, with this conclusion: ‘Out of 6,641 cases 5,054 occurred between the ages of 12-20, 3,183 oc curred between the ages of 1620 and only 187 occurred at 25 and over. SHEAR NONSENSE. ‘The worst kind of sipping—Gosslp- ing. A loan-some place—The pawhbrok- ors. ‘aah thlp ruled by a woman—Court- ship. cE | Motto for the marrie¢—Never dis- ‘pair. A man of some account—The book keeper. ‘Trying times—Going to the dress- maker's. Where to recover yourself—At the tailor's, In advance of the mail—The engine tender. Slight of hand—Refusing a marriage proposal. A good place for meating—The butcher's, ‘The best {lustrated paper out—A bank note. How to find a girl out—Call when she isn’t in. “Parlor matches"—Courting in the front room. Orange peel is said to make excel- lent slippers. Strange behavior—A vessel “hug- ging” tho coast. Police men assist each other by clubbing together. How to find a chip of the old block —Axe the block ‘The most becoming tie for young tadies—Modesty “A repeating rife—Robbing the same place twice. A LITTLE VARIETY. A studious son is a delight to bis father. Girls know that kisses have a face- value, Imitation of another is limitation of one’s self. Schemes of the naughty should come to naught You may think It Is fun to do the thing your teacher or parents tell you not to do, but while you are being Teproved for it the other boya will think ft is fan | It ecems too bad tat being out late te wrong, bat worse yet, that ane other siz, that of telllag a Me about why you were out lute, has to be thrown tn. 7 Rey. T. 1. Gaswon, president of Ros- ‘tom college, recently conducted a re- ‘treat fer the Pasnarasquoddy Indians of Pleasant Point. Me. in thelr church, which tx under (he patronage of St. Anne, There are nearly 400 members Of the tribe, and alaost all made the mission. Two chants In the policy of the Methodist Fpiceopol churches in that country are being considered for adop- tion by the Hrit'sh Wesleyan Method: iats—natoly: the prolongation of the term of miutsterial service and. the abolishment of the class meeting as & requisite for good standing. EVE LORE. When you bat your eye, try to beat it out, Too many highballs affect the eye balls. Many people got burt slipping on an fey stare. Burning glances are linble to singe the lashes. If the town Is wide open, close the lids oftener. Coal black eyes are susceptible to injury from cinders, People with Iaushiag eyes must be full of aqueous humor. If you can't make your eyes behave you have unruly pupils. Do not strain your eyesight. That @pesn't make it any finer. | If your eyes water a great deal, keep away from the leaks. | MODERN INSTANCES, A Hquid Iangh may be infectious, but ft fs not considered a3 sUiaulating as a liquid smile. It has not yet occurred to the dic- tionary maker to classify “phono graph” as feminine noun simply be- cause it “talks back.” ‘There is a great deal in the papers about light weigths, but we believe the ordinary ton of coal is still the cham- pion light-weight. Walking Is said to be the best exer- cise for brain workers, and it is worthy of note that brain workers can seidom afford to do anything else. Modern Version. . “Get thee bebind me, satin,” said Tessie, as she kicked the train of her Iress out of the way.—Cornell Widow. THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. CURRENT VERSE, Ai aied bie eh enti Across the land at morn she went whom ‘we had watched end kept, So like a lily when she woke, @ rose leat when she slept: Across the land whén night had flown ‘and all the skies were atitl, She passed into the light that lay upon the awakening hill! Across the land at morn she went whom we had failed to keep, So like a glory when awake, a shadow when asleep: No breath of moaning or distress, but soft as step of dawn ‘The rustle of the wings of white her spirit had put ont Across the land at morn she wert, nor hhad we any thought Of such a change, of such a strange, sad difference it wrought: For dumb we look across the land whose glory was our light As if the day had changed to gray end noon were as the night! Across the land at morn she went, and morn i morn no more; ‘The dawn, the dew, the bird, the bloom, not as they were before: Across the land at morn she went, and ‘with her went the gleam That filled our home, that filled our hearts with joy and song and dream! —Baltimore Sun. eehciaeen: thie Mma ‘The voyage draws near its ond; the west- ern sun, Shorn o€ fis noonday heet, yet full of ‘Marks the smooth waters from @ glory bright, Richer than pearly gleams from morning ‘won, ‘The shore, which when our voyage was but begun, Lay so remote beyond even thought's fer ight, Now in the horizon lifts tteelf to sight: Sees it our failure, or our work well Gone? Something perhape of both the voyage has brought, Of our large Venture something must For dreams of youth we have the faith of age. By knowledge chastened, by experience taught! And now the time has come to shorter The trangu!l harbor calls to anchorage! —Samuel Longfellow. Sites nih Wie: T never was much on a rainy day, When the light an’ the lilles are rained away; I think o” the mortgages comin’ due, An’ @ thousand things that are sad te yout Right out in meetin’, I'm free to aay, I never was much on a rainy dayt I keep a-mopin’ around the place— Watchin’ the drops tn. the rainy race: The droopin’, shiverii’ treea—they seem Like skeleton ghosts In a misty dream! An’ I git to ahiverin’ too, an’ say: “They'll rain the soul o° me clean away!" Yit, the rainy dny—it fatla gent right: It makor us baw how we'd mise the iene Jf tt maid a tone 47" lant good-by, To the shatow curiabie of the aky! Still, out in meetin’, I'm free to say T never was much on a rainy day! —AUanta Constitution. (a Cee be Shea aes wl I ery. © Gof, for refige and for rest? (Can the spoke stop the whiaaing of ‘the wheel? Can the cast coal In the red forge pro- teat?) T ery, by my fathers of the west, Who, In.thelr dire travall, yet could feat ‘The wild, clean pulse of Nature In the peal Of storm upon the lontly mountain crest, T ery, by right of my ungotten sons, For respite, for some slacking of the pace, Some quiet in this rage of life that atuns ‘The Soul for slaughter in the Market- place. I cry, in pity for the little ones, ‘Whose shriveled shoulders must bear on the Race. Chester Perkins, in the Atlantic. ; Ce ee OE © sliver sickle of the waning moon, Bending above the wintry desert’s woe. How mighty is the harvest home of dreams, ‘Waving in stience for you here below! The fluttering breath of sudden leaves, of flowers, ‘Of forest streams, watts softly out to No weeping and no laughter breaks the silence— ‘The vastly silence of thine empiry. Oppressed with passion and oppressed with pleasure, ‘The throbbing world sleeps, tossing te and fro; © sickle, what a harvest home of visions Lies dreaming, waiting for you here below! —Transatlantic Tales. Night Flowers. As weary travelers on a train ‘That stops, they know not where, Catch sometimes through the windows borne | Along the still night air. ‘A breath so sweet, thelr tired hearts, Reviving ‘neath its power, ‘Know well that hidden somewhere near, ‘The wild grape vine's in flower,” So, oft m hidden sweetness here Breather through life's pilsrim gloom, ‘And we, too, know that somewhere near God hath @ soul In bloom. William Harvey Woods, in Youth's ‘Companion, ‘The Sudden Shadow. It seems strange Death should come to inn Lite was his heritage, and Love; He never strayed in pathways dim— row found he that far shadowy grove? ow trod he the felda of Asphodel Witen ewas the Bove he loved so well? He neara the brother-call of Earth, He wandered far in foreign lands, And ‘every friend’ hearth was hie hearth: And every friend, two outstretched hands, Was ‘Death his friend, too? That may be Death welcomed him so tenderly! =From the Smart Set. Better as it Is. If all the dreams we love to ¢ream ‘Would mtart to coming true, Td be so loaded down with gold T wouldn't speak to you. If all the wishes that we wish ‘Could really, really be, You'd be so beautiful you would No longer speak to me! Baltimore Sun. j For Success in Life. Be always displeased with what thou art, if thou desirest to attain to what thou art not; for where thou hast pleased thyself, there thou abidest. But {f thou sayest T have enough, thou perishest. Always add, always waik, always proceed. Neither stand still, nor go back, nor deviate.— St Augustine. ; Knights of Pytht nigbts of Pythias, N. A.,S. A,E. A., A. AND A. SS eae cee — SDE This organization is one of the most powerful in the country and it: SYP progress has been phenominal. The Grand Lodge of Virginia has juris fy \ diction over all of the cities and counties in thisstate. Thirty male: FY _\2\ are required to organize a new lodge. The benefits paid constitute one Sa AC of its strongest features, but the principles are greater than anything Noe Bx) | else. Founded on Friendship, based on Charity and established on Be SRS, nevolence, the respectable, upright people of the state will find itau order Wea yy worthy of their heartiest support. Se It pays an endowment and burial benefit of of $200.00 for all ages.- It p pays $4.00 per week sick dues. The badge costing 75 cents each is the nly absolutely necessary regalla, For information concerning the organzaition of lodges apply at the main office. ; The Courts of Calanthe Is the Female Department of the Order. It requires a membership of thirty Pers us to organize a court. Itsmempers 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 per $3 00 per week sick dues. The only expense for regalia is the cost of the badge, so cents and arosette, costing 25 cents for funeral occasions. THE BANDS OF CALANTHE or Children’s Department also con- stitutes 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 beuelits of from $30.09 to $40.00. If you have noPythian Lodge or Court or Band in your neighborhood, orgraiz one. For all information concerning the Children’s Depariuent address, Mrs. ANNA Tayror, W. M., 120 W. Hill St., Richmond, Va, For all information concerning special raies of JOHN MITCHELL, JR., a in the lodges and courts, address zr N. 4th St, Richmond, Va Bob Hampton $150 PER MONTH 6G SURE TO GOOD AGENTS, inte Posies aoe tS ' | greatest seller it America today. Nothing elelikeit. No long tail. My plas | of Plager, ne ja sf ad which che could not clearly tnterpret in his shocked expression “Nothing of consequence,” and he faintly lakReavored to wile. “t wabe pose I must eon dreaming also, and most unpleasantly. No; please do not look down; it would only cause your head to reel, and our upward climb is not yet completed. Do you feel strong enoush now to make an- other attempé to reach the top?” ‘Can we?” she questioned helplessly. “We can, siimply because we must,” and his white tecth shut together firm- ly. “There {s no posstbility of retrac- ing our steps downward, but with the help of this daylight we surely ought } to be able to discover some path lead- ing up." | He rose cautlously to his fect, press | ing her more closely against the face | of the cliff, thus holding her tn com- }from glancing bac the dizzy | chase most disienlt portion of jor t never onge did the man | Steen Re eee t last 4 the opening to a little unk down, faint and trem. b The girl glanced furtively at him, tt z ta hadowing the ext f her lowered eyes. In spite of deep prejudice she felt tm- pelted to this man; he accom- plished things, and he didn’t talk It was nothing more serious than a hard and tollspme elimb after that, a continuous straggle testing every mus- cle, straining every sinew, causing both to sink down again and again, panting and exhausted, no longer stim: ulated by imminent peril. ‘The narrow cleft they followed led somewhere away from the exposed front of the precipice, yet aroze steep and jagged before them. It was bridged finally by a cedar trunk, which Hampton wrenched from out its rocky foothold, and the two crept cautiously forward, to emerge where the sunlight rested golden at the summit. ‘They sank face downward in the short grass, barely conscious that they had finally won their desperate passage. Slowly Hampton succeeded tn up- Ufting bis tired body and his reeling head, until he could sft partio!!y wp- right and gaze unsteadily about. The girl yet remained motionless at his feet, her thick halr, a mass of red gold in the sunshine, completely concealing her face, her slender figure quivering to sobs of utter exhaustion. Before them stretched the barren plain, brown, desolate, drear, offering in all {ts wide expanse no hopeful promise of rescue. With hand partially shad- ing his aching eyes from the blinding slare, the man studied its every ex- posed feature, bis face hardening again {nto lines of stern determina. tion. The irl stirred from her posi tion, fining back her heavy halr ‘with one hand, and looking up {nto his face with eyes that read at once his ‘| disappointment, “Have—tave you any water left? she asked at last, her lips parched and Durning as if from fever. He shook the canteen dangling for gotten at bis side. “There may be s few drops,” he said, handing it to her although scarcely removing his fixe¢ |] 8ze from off that dreary plain. “We |] shail be obliged to make those trees yonder; there ought to be water there [i plenty, and possibly we may strike a trail.” | There was ae aoe suid be [oween them. Like two automatons they started off scroap the parched 2 handling the world’s itest of SURE TO GOOD AGENTS, train Youtes Aeon greatest seller in America to-day. Nothing else like it. No long talk. My plan does the work. Sells at almost every home over and over again. 7 clear profit on thedollar. Write ee for full particulars, with real chance of a lifetime. ‘Address J. F. CLARK, Conway, Arx. grass, the } waves rising and fall | Established 18099. "Phone 4160. ing as they stumbled forward, Neither realized until then how thoroughly JOHN FOXEL, that hard climb up the rocks, the strafa of continued peril, and the long Dealer in General Line of abstinence from food had sapped thelr | PANGY AND STAPLE GMOUMRIRS streneth, ‘yet to Tomain “where Gey |" NOTIONS, FRESH MEATE ol rg regret gery nn meee aged beckoning trees. | WOOD, COAL, &. No one can explain later how such |11 8. 47H ST., RICHMOND, VA. deeds are ever aceatspliahea; how the | tortured soul controls physical weal: |-——————e Perform the miracle of action when | All ambition has died. Hampton sure | BOARDING & LODGING ly must have both seen and known, for | Rates Reasonable, All the Comforts he kept bis direction, yet never after- | 2% oftome #4 wade did be resain any clear memory |ontan Seni Gee ‘TO BE CONTINUED. Veins ‘ef G64 Momenm. You can get a working knowledge of @ language by a half hour's study every day and a method book that teaches by sentences. Trouble Aloft. “Look, papa, look?!” said Uttle Char. Ne, poiniing to the new moon. “There bas been # foss up in the sky, an’ the moon's broke, '. ieiekbie iat eee Genius needs to be advertised to be recognized, but beauty is Its own press agent. Make the Best of it. This may be a cold, cruel world, but it's the best we have at the pres- ent writing. Famous Fiags. ‘The famous union jack which flew ‘from Nelson's flagship. the Victory, ‘and covered the admiral’s body on the Journey by water to Greenwich hos. pital, was sold at auction at Stevens’ rooms in London, recently, for $630. The white ensign which hung at the rear of Nelson's funeral car on ts way to St, Paul's was sold for $125. rr as (ee There ts no man, but for his own Interest, hath gu obligation to be hon- est; there may be somecmes tempta- tions to be otherwise, but all cards cast up, be shall find it the greatest ease, the highest profit, the best pleas ure, the most safety, and the noblest fame, to lay hold of the horns of this altar, which, In all assays, can in himself protect bira. Sailing Days Not Over. Just at a time when every one who fs at all interested in the sea and ships is talking over the Lusitania, her size and her record, it seems curious reminder of old times to catch sight of a new gold sign in the win- dows of a skyscraper down at Bowling Green which announces a “ailing service to Australia and New Zea- land.” Pienty Left. Little Mabel, aged five, who was vis {ting her aunt In the country, tiad de- Yeloped a great fondness tor milk. One day, having drunk as much as her aunt thought good for her, she ‘was told that she could not have any more. “I don't see why. There's two whole cowsful out in the barn.”— ‘Home Magazine. ‘Making of Woody Fiber. ~ { ‘The carbon of the air combines with the hydrogen from the tree roots and by the help of oxygen forms woody fiber. Established 1809. "Phone 4160. JOHN FOXEL, Dealer in General Line of PANCY AND STAPLE GROCERIES, NOTIONS, FRESH MEATS, Cl- GARS, TOBACCO, ICE, WOOD, COAL, &c. 1i 8. 4TH ST., RICHMOND, Va. BOARDING & LODGING Rates Reasonable, All the Comforts 2% otfome «a Orders received by letter or telegraph MES. BOOKER LEPT WICH. PROFRIRTREee, S16 N. 2nd St, Richmond, Vs A very singular clock has been made by an intenious Swivs work: man. It consists of a dozen leaves Ringed Mike au ordinary fan. ‘The number of the hour ts marked from one to 12 at the end of each of these leaves. ‘The fan timepiece starts at six o'clock and expands regularly for 12 hours, whon ® suddenly closes up and starts all over agaia. The halt- hour ts Indicated by the leaf of the fan being only half extended—Mon- treal Standard. Good Name. Pip-a-Pipp ts the name of a Filipino boy who will be educated at Port Hope, Ontario, for the Episcopal min- istry. Dreaded Malaria. Malaria renders nearly a fifth of the land of the globe dangerous to white men. Plague of the West. |. Tons of grasshopers have been Yound imbedded in an ancient glacter ot Montana. For the Children. | It fs said that London produces over 200 new designs in “penny toys” every week. Malay Rubber. Six or seven millions is estimated to be the number of rubber trees tn the Malay States. Shen eek ee at eee Licorice root grows wild in the fields of Asia Minor, and until 50 years ago was practically unused. To day the annual exports of the United States alone were worth about $550,000. Outdoor Fireplaces. A fireplace on a veranda seems an anomaly, yet, on a rainy day or cool evening it makes a delightful addition to the surroundings, and a retreat to ‘the house is rendered unnecessary. Strictly Proper. “Would it be strictly in accordance ‘with the fitness of things,” asked the stickler for consistency, “to call @ mariner, however highly esteemed, the salt of the earth?” Peed ef ates Qemeeiel: ‘| In parts of northern Australia the natives live chiefly on the rats which swarm everywhere and on a diminu- tive species of dog hardly larger than a rat. a aalinalaa Mis. JOSIE 4. GRAHAM Cee Most Success- ful Hair Culturist. 108 E. Leigh St. - Richmong, / "Phone, 1034. Private Parlors, Confidential Inter. views and Correspondence. The largest and most up-to-date Hair Dressing Parlors in Richmond, The very best preparations that can be made for the hair, scalp, tace and sxm. Graham's Superior Scalp Food for stowing hair on bald heads and bare temples, 25cts, per jar. By mail, 35cts, Graham's Superior Orange Flower Skin Fo * for developing and beauti fying the skin, 26cts a jar. By mail Bbets. Graham's Superior Velvet Liquid Powter for giving the face a beau. titul fair color, 26 cente a bottle By mall 85cts. Graham's Vegetable Hair Dye the best on market siving a rich natural color, $1.00 per bottle. By mall, $1.25, Mrs. Graham makes a Specialty of massaging apt beautifying ladies’ faces for parwes and public gather- ings, 35 cents, Mrs. Graham Siampoos 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 manieured aud mate beautiful, 25 cents Mra. Graham's preparations well at sight. Ladies living in other el- ties and towns can make good mon- ey by selling these Preparetions, Write for terms to Mre. J. A Gra- ham, No. 108 B. Leigh St, Rica- mond, Va. "Phone 2048 2 W. Leigh S John H. Braxton REAL ESTATE & LOANS Private Banker and Broker, Loans negotiated on Real Estate, Anteroet allowed on Deposits, * Estates managed, Kent ovllected and Prompt returns ‘Special attention to repairs, Notary With Seal Estab adit aarp H F Jonathan | FISH, OYSTERS AND PRODUCE. 120 N. 17TH ST. RICHMOND, VA. ALL ORDERS WiLu RECEIVR PROMPT ATTENTION. Long Distance ‘Phone, 752. STRAUS! SPECIAL Old Yacht Club, WIIl Satisfy the lover of the right Kind of stimulant. Special prices, We have all grades of good liquors, Cigars and Tobacco. Call and see ISAAC STRAUS & CO., 422 E. Broad St., Richmond, Virginia. S. W. ROBINSOH, NO. 23 NORTH I8TH St DEALER IN FINE WINES, LIQUORS. CIGARS, &c. B@F-All Stock Sold as Guaranteed.-w» *PROMPT ATTENTION ‘Wour patronage is respecttnilly solicited. GEORGE O. BROWN, PHOTOGRAPHER, 008 N, 2nd St, Richmond, Ya. Siisen Odd sonatas Peselgnae Bae: THE ECONOMY, —“ 303—5 North Third St SPIN EY TAILORING. CLEANING, DYEING AND REPAIRING CHITMAN M. WHITE, PROPRIETOR. A. I layes OFFICE AND WARH-ROOMS, 727 North Second Street. + RESIDENCE, 72§N, and St. First-class Hacks and Caskets of all descriptions. I have a spare room for bodies when the family have not a suitable place. All coun- try orders are given special atten- tion. Your special attention is call- @@ to the new style Oak Caskets Call and see me and you shail be Waited om individually. "Phone, 3178. THE PLANET SATURDAY...DECEMBER 14, '07. HORTICULTURE A GRADING BOARD Work of Sorting Apples Made Easy By Its Use. A very useful device for help in sorting apples or other fruit where close assorting is necessary is a grading board as shown in the cut. This is merely a piece of light wood with round holes bored of different dimensions, the size being made according Useful in Sorting Apples to the fruit to be packed. The difference between the various sizes may be either ¾ or ½ inch. The grading board should always be on the sorting table and used frequently, says Farm and Home, but it will not be necessary to put every apple through it. QUICK WORK OF PACKING. System Used by One Successful Hand ler of Fruit. In picking apples in my own orchard and in orchards that I buy, I do not allow an apple picked until I am there to commence barreling same. I never let an apple touch the ground that goes into a barrel. In picking I use half bushel baskets and short sacks hung over a picker's shoulder, says a correspondent of Farm and Home. Use long and short ladders tightly, as pickers climbing in among the limbs bruise the apples that are in sacks and spill apples out of the baskets. I pack entirely from packing tables that are built on a slight slant, the wide end of the table being padded to prevent the bruising of apples as they are being poured onto the table. The narrow part of the table is slatted with lath one inch apart, which allows twigs, leaves, etc., to drop through. At the mouth of the table I have an apron that is tacked to the under side of the table; this we lay over the barrel allowing the apples to run into it. When the apron is full we lower it into the barrel, which prevents the bruising of apples as they are put into the barrel. The cost of picking and packing covers a wide range where trees are heavily laden, the cost being not nearly as large as when there is a light crop. Under ordinary circumstances the picking and packing can be done for 15 to 18 cents per barrel. I work four men at the packing table, one man to face, one to press, one at mouth of table to run the apples, and one to sort out culls. The packing table does away with having cull apples all over your orchard, as all the culls are thrown under the table. When the time comes in the fall to gather your cull and windfalls for making cider, it is a very easy matter to drive from pile to pile to pick up the apples and put them in the wagon. I have my teams ready to haul my apples to cars, where they are put in cold storage in St. Louis in 15 hours from the time they were hanging on the trees. AGRICULTURAL BITS Give plenty of water; laying fowls require it. Applying manure to grass lands during the fall is a good thing to do, providing the manure is not put on so thickly that it smothers the plants. The manure is not a small item of profit from the poultry house. In cleaning up the poultry house the droppings should be put in barrels or boxes and kept dry. Never give fowls sulphur in damp or wet weather, and give it cautiously even in dry weather. If fed, and the fowls get wet, it is said to cause rheumatism and weakness of the legs. The prices of farm implements are to be boosted this season. Why not meet the advance by painting and fixing up the machine on hand now? A few gallons of paint, a new piece of woodwork here and there, will put the machine back in service for two or three years. Young poultry should not be allowed to go hungry, nor should they be given more than they can eat up clean at one time. A patch of rye near the poultry yard for the hens to run upon when the ground is bare, is an egg producer. HORTICULTURAL NOTES. Fertilize the orchard; plow and spray. Fruit crops are often so large that the abundance of one year offsets the smallness of crops in other years. Evergreens are hardy, pretty and make excellent windbreaks. May is the proper month to plant them. Try some and beautify the doorward. disease more easily than a weakly one. The man who cheerfully sets the spade where his wife directs, and tends himself willingly to her desires in the flower garden, has in him the vital elements of good citizenship and is a safe man to trust. HOW PLANTS ARE IMPROVED Principle of Selection Must Be Carefully Observed. Where selection is done with skill and care the improvement of many kinds of cultivated plants effected by its means is invaluable. The large pansies, the huge hybrid gladiol, the large flowered cannas, were all brought from the state of small flowers to their present excellence in our own day by careful observers, who, watching every variation and keeping an exact record of the descent of all their plants, turn to the best account the wonderful action of heredity. That plants are endowed with the power of changing to some extent under altered and varying conditions no one will deny who knows even a little natural history. Such changes will occur in wild nature as well as under cultivation, and by the action of heredity will be transmitted more or less faithfully to the next generations. But an all-important fact must be recognized and remembered. It is that in the wild state only such variations have a chance of enduring as give the plant in which they occur some advantage in its life. Many variations appear every year which soon disappear, because they are a loss not a gain, to the plant. Suppose in the wild state a potato plant with short stems and late-sprouting tubers in a mass at the base of the stem. Such a plant would not have any chance against rank growing and early shooting varieties, and it would soon perish. Still, some such characters belong to some of our best potatoes. This is owing to the action of man, who throws his power into the balance when cultivating plants which are useful or pleasant to him, and who gives the weakest plant, if it is for some reason a favorite with him, all the advantage he can make it thrive and answer his purpose. Most of the variations induced in our garden plants are not in favor of the plant if in a "free light" with its kind in nature. All our improved roots, as carrots, turnips, beets, make an early and succulent growth for our own benefit, but not at all for their own good. If left to their fate to struggle with their own wild forms they would soon have to take a "back seat" and very likely soon perish. It follows, then, that varieties improved from man's point of view must receive kind treatment and richer food than wild forms of the same plant. The cultivated plant, like the domesticated animal, yields in a measure its powers of self-defense to adapt itself to our service. Man must in return provide for its safety and nourishment. In the improvement of plants the action of man, much like influences which act on plants in the wild state, only brings about slow and gradual changes, often scarcely noticeable at first.—Henri L. de Vilmorin. WHEN TO MAKE CUTTINGS. Work Should Be Done After the Plants Have Matured the Shoots. Make cuttings of gooseberries and currants when the plants have matured the shoots of the present year and are dormant and clear of leaves. Cut them about 10 inches long, cutting just under a bud at the bottom and about half an inch above a bud at the top. Insert them in the soil in rows their full length, so that the bud at the top will be about level with the surface. A slight mulching of straw or leaves between the rows to prevent too hard freezing will be of advantage. Cutting of nearly all the spring flowering shrubbery can be treated in the same way. In a cold climate it is hardly practicable to root rose cuttings in the open ground. They can, however, be put in sand in a cold frame with glass sashes and rooted so far as the hardy hybrid perpetual class is concerned. In a shaded frame in late summer and early fall you can root cuttings of tea roses from the half-ripened wood. Make the cuttings of shoots that have just formed a bud and use the lower half of these shoots. Cut right under the lower eye and leave a full leaf of the upper bud and about half an inch of wood above it. Insert the cuttings in rows thickly in the place and place a whitewashed sash over. Keep the sand always wet, and if the wood was in the proper condition they should show white roots in about four weeks, when they should be potted in small pots and can be packed in a frame in coal ashes covering the pots, and the frames protected during the cold nights of winter with straw mats. I have grown and wintered tea roses in this way, and planted them in the spring in the open ground, where they soon made fine plants. But all the tea rose family are better rooted in the greenhouse and kept in a cool greenhouse during the winter. Helps Foliage. The botanist of the Massachusetts experiment station says that Bordeaux mixture exercises a tonic influence on vegetation and that the benefits following its use are not due solely to the prevention of diseases, but in a considerable extent as well to the increased vigor of growth. He also says the lime and sulphur treatment of San Jose scale has a beneficial influence in preventing fungus diseases, and expresses the hope that "the San Jose scale may prove a blessing in disguise." Saves It's Not So. Report to the effect that electric lights are detrimental to the eyesight are pronounced unfounded by an electrical expert in the London Times. He says that the trouble arises from too direct exposure of the eye to the light, and that effect would be the same or worse with any other light. THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND VIRGINIA The Phrenometer A curious electric machine is the phenometer. The sensitive part of the instrument is a huge metal cap, which is brought slowly down upon the head, and clasping the skull gently but firmly. Indicates the size of the "bumps" at 28 different points. The turning of a handle not only registers the size of each "bump," but prints and delivers the record. The Oldest Tunnel Glenfield tunnel, on the Leicester and Swanmington railway, is the oldest tunnel in the world. It is about a mile long, and is the oldest section of the Midland company's system. Only four passenger trains pass through the tunnel each week day, and from Saturday night until Monday morning the tunnel is closed by a padlock door at either end. Flying 3,000 Miles The most wonderful bird flight noted is the migratory achievement of the Virginia plover, which leaves its haunts in North America and, taking a course down the Atlantic, reaches the coast of Brazil in one unbroken flight of 15 hours, covering a distance of over 3,000 miles at the rate of four miles a minute. Tornado Boats of the World An English government report shows that France now has 39 submarine torpedo boats in service and 50 under construction. England ranks next, with 25 built and 15 under way. The figures for other nations are: Russia, 13 and 15; United States, 8 and 4; Italy, 2 and 4; Japan, 5 and 2; Germany, 1 in course of construction. Giant Boy Greene county, Pennsylvania, has produced a prodigy in Stanley Wright, its youngest school teacher, who for height and avoirdupois it is believed stands without a peer in the state. Young Wright is a product of Richhill township, and though only 17 years of age, stands 6 feet 7 inches in his hose, weighs 265 pounds and is still growing. He wears a No. 18 shoe, which he has made to order. Happy By Comparison. "Whenever I get lonely," said the flat dweller who lives by herself, "I go to see two sisters who live in a long flat, one at each end, and who quarrel all the time when they are not speaking to each other. Then I come home satisfied." Wisdom of Solomon. In a dog case at Felixstowe, England, one witness testified that the dog whose loss was being sued for was worth $125, while another swore it was worthless. So the judge awarded $62.50 damages as a fair average Makes Pulling Easy William Bardell, American consul at Bamberg, Germany, reports the discovery by Dr. Radard, a Geneva dentist, that blue rays of light can be used as an anesthetic in the extraction of teeth. Made a Mistake. "Waiter, I find I have just enough money to pay for the dinner, but I have nothing in the way of a tip for yourself." "Let me add up the bill again, sir." —Moonshine. John Brown Juror Williams Abrams Martin, the solitary survivor of the 12 men who convicted John Brown, is still living in Virginia. He has celebrated his seventy-fifth anniversary. To Clean a Steel Knife Cut an Irish potato in half, dip one of the pieces in the brickdust which is generally used for cleaning knives. Rub the blade of the knife and the stain will immediately disappear. Over Seventy. There are three classes into which all the women past seventy, that ever I knew, were divided: 1. That dear old soul; 2. That old woman; 3. that old witch. Almond Meal. Nothing is better than almond meal to keep the skin smooth and white. Use it in place of soap or rub on the hands when almost dry. A New Discovery It is stated that a chameleon which is blind loses its power of making itself of the same hue as its surroundings. Must Be Chic. No woman objects to wearing a halo if she can tilt it up a little and so give style and snap to her saintliness. Weeds on Railroad Tracks For destroying weeds on the track a car has been experimentally fitted by the Illinois Central railroad. The car carries two tanks, each of 4,000 gallons' capacity, from which a perforated pipe under the car is fed. Through this the ground is sprayed with a chemical solution. While one tank is being emptied, chemicals are being mixed in the other. The water which forms the bulk of the solution being obtained from stations along the line. Irish Kings. There were plenty of Irish kings in early history and they were good fighters. Some historians have traced the line of native sovereigns of Ireland back as far as the time of the flood. Heber and Heremon in 1300, B. C., are the first of whom there is any absolute certainty. Following them were 169 kings all of whom except fifteen died in battle or otherwise by violence. Home rule was in existence until 1172. Bicycling Popular in Formosa. Bicycling is very popular with both the Japanese and Chinese residents of Everthing! Everthing! IN FURNITURE AND FLOOR COVERINGS SYDNOR & HUNDLEY, INC. Leaders. 709 711 713 EAST BROAD STREET. The People's Restaurant, 750 North 3rd St., Richmond, Va MEALS at All Hours—Hot or Cold. Board by Day, Week or Month. SOFT DRINKS. POLITE ATTENTION.....GIVE ME A CALL. Mme. SYLVIA L. MITCHELL, Proprietress. Formosa. Bicycle meets in which Japanese and Chinese participate are held twice a year in the capital city. Beaches Chinese, Japanese and foreign spectators lining the circular track upon which the Japanese and Chinese contestants were racing their wheels, there were about 50 tattooed-faced savages of the head-hunter tribe. Dig at Forefathers Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, who had decidedly advanced views about heredity, was once called to treat a mentally afflicted child. After he had examined the patient he said a consultation should have been held some time before. When the mother repiled that such had already taken place Dr. Holmes said: "Ah, the consultation should have been held some 50 years ago!" Apprehension The Lady—Don't be afraid of the dog. He merely wants to follow you. The Hobo—I know dat. But it don't ease my mind. I once saw a locomotive follow a cow up de track—Harper's Weekly. A. Terrible Suggestion "Have you any confidence in the theory that people think with their feet?" asked one scientist. "None whatever," answered the other. "In this era of two steps and ragtime the idea would be horrible!"—Washington Star. New York Restaurants New York city possesses a very small proportion of restaurants between the many first-class ones that have no superiors in the world and the more numerous extremely poor ones that are hardly paralleled in the great cities. The Berlin Way Wealthy Berliners do not turn tourists during the tourist season. They avoid the crowds by traveling before and after the crowded months, thus making sure of more comfort en route, and better rooms and service at hotels. Prosperous Germany New factories are springing up like mushrooms in the Rhine country, and all are built substantially. There is a general complaint, in consequence, of the scarcity of labor. It has been said that no man in Germany is idle unless he chooses. Cromwell's Boots In London the other day a pair of riding boots worn by Oliver Cromwell were sold for $43. They were discovered 30 years ago during some excavations at Canonbury Tower, Islington. A. Good Diver The sperm whale can remain below the surface for about 20 minutes at a time. Then it comes to the surface and breathes 50 or 60 times, taking about 10 minutes to do so. Self-Made Man Edward Yates, who recently died in Walworth, England, leaving a fortune of $5,000,000 in real estate in and about London, began business life as a poor bricklayer. How happy the station which every minute furnishes opportunities of doing good to thousands! How dangerous that every moment exposes to the injuring of millions. Giraffe—How much a thousand feet? Nail Terms A "ten-penny" nail means that 1,000 nails weigh ten pounds. The word "penny" in this sense is a corruption of pound. A New Novelty A relish dish that has four compartments of glass and rests on a pretty silver stand is quite a novelty. Everthing! IN FURNITURE FLOOR C Largest Retail Drug Store. The greatest drug store in the world is said to be found in Russia. It exists in Moscow and is 203 years old. Its title is the Old Nikolska Pharmacy, and since 1833 it has been in the family of the present proprietor. It is a building of imposing dimensions, with many departments, including one of professional education for the staff, which numbers 700 persons. About 2,000 prescriptions are said to be dispensed daily. Wishes. Wishes are held to be omnious; according to which belief the order of the world is so arranged that if you have an implious objection to a squint, your offspring is more likely to be born with one; also that if you happen to desire a squint, you would not get it. This desponding view of probability the hopeful entirely reject, taking their wishes as good and sufficient security for all kinds of fulfilment. His Job. Bishop Potter was staying with a friend in a country house. On Sunday morning as he passed through the library he found a small boy curled up in a big chair deeply interested in a book. "Are you going to church, Tom?" he asked. "No," he replied. "Why, I am," the bishop sald. "Huh!" the boy returned. "That's your job." SENTENCE SERMONS. A strong breath comes out of a weak head. The hypocrite is the devil's best argument. Sermons prepared for the ears never get beyond them. No man ever created anything greater than himself. The Lord will not lift the man who does not try to rise. One day's charity is a poor balance for six days' robbery. There is no solution of any social problem without sympathy. Use the knowledge you have and you will have all you can use. The influence of your life depends on the affluence of your heart. Folks need what is in your heart more than what is in your hand. The poorest man of all is the one who affects to despluse the poor. A man can generally think he enjoys life somehow unless he gets too respectable. The best way for parents to train their children is to hire somebody else to do it. The worst thing about prosperity is everybody thinks he has to live up to it and a little beyond. A burglar ought to be ashamed of himself to go into rooms with all those fluffy clothes displayed on the chairs. The mistake about a honeymoon is a woman can keep reminding her husband all the rest of his life how different he is from then. A WOMAN'S REASON. A woman is wise at first but a fool on reflection.—Burckhardt. And the 929th is a woman's reason —just because.—Mrs. C. N. Williamson. All the reasonings of man are not worth one sentiment of woman.—Voltaire. A woman too often reasons from her heart, hence, two-thirds of her mistakes and her troubles.—Bulwer Lytton. What she will she will, you may depend on't; and what she won't she won't, so there's an end on't.—Old Song. Everthing! TURE AND OVERINGS 22 Money received on deposit and due $1.00 which remains 60 d ed on Satisfactory Accounts Hard Amounts of ten cents and This establishment is fitted having a large white vault, burge and every modern convenience of the public. For all informa Loans, etc., apply to the Cashi Banking Hours have been arran the working people as follow days, 9 A. M. to $ 3 P. M. $ P. M. and open 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. PITAL $250 on deposit and interest paid on bill remains 60 days and over. M. on Satisfactory Security. Busi- Accounts Handled Promptly. Ten cents and upwards receive- ishment is fitted up in the mo- white vault, burglar-proof steel cla- n convenience for safety and t for all information concerning way to the Cashier. have been arranged for the speci- people as follows: 9 A. M. to 4 A. M. to 3 P. M. We close P. M. P. M. and open again at 5 P. M. maining open until 7 P. M. BY AS YOU COME FROM V TERS AND BOARD OF DIRE L. JR., Pres. H. F. JON THOMAS H. WYATT, Cashier. SHAM, D. D., JNO. R. CHILES, T. SON, H. F. JONATHAN, T. NS, JNO. T. TAYLOR, R. J. J. CARTER. ELL, JR., Pres. THOS. I. D. PRICE Director, Embalmer and promptly filled at short notice be- rented for meetings and nlc with all necessary conveniences hire at reasonable rates and buggles, etc. Keep constantly No. 212 East Leigh Street (Residence Next Door.) DAY AND NIGHT.—Man on Dock Hawkin's HAIR RES (TRADE) Money received on deposit and interest paid on all amounts above $1.00 which remains 60 days and over. Money loaned on Satisfactory Security. Business Accounts Handled Promptly. Amounts of ten cents and upwards received on Deposits. This establishment is fitted up in the most improved style, having a large white vault, burglar-proof steel chest, electric lights and every modern convenience for safety and the accommodation of the public. For all information concerning Stocks, Deposits, Loans, etc., apply to the Cashier. Banking Hours have been arranged for the special convenience of the working people as follows: 9 A. M. to 4 P. M. Satur- REV. W. F. GRAHAM, D. D., JNO. R. CHILES, THOS. H. WYATT, E. R. JEFFERSON, H. F. JONATHAN, THOMAS SMITH, D. J. CHAVERS, JNO. T. TAYLOR, R. W. WHITING, J. I. CARTER A. D. B Funeral Director, Embl All orders promptly filled at ephone. Halls rented for me. Plenty of room with all neces- sary band wagons for hire at resoon class, carriages, buggies, etc. I eral supplies. No. 212 East (Residence) OPEN ALL DAY AND NIGHT The J. V. Hawk A. D. PRICE. Funeral Director, Embalmer and Liveryman. All orders promptly filled at short notice by telegraph or telephone. Halls rented for meetings and nice entertainments. Plenty of room with all necessary conveniences. Large plonic or band wagons for hire at reasonable rates and nothing but first-class, carriages, buggies, etc. Keep constantly on hand fine funeral supplies. OPEN ALL DAY AND NIGHT.—Man on Duty All Night. The J. V. Hawkin's HAIR GROWER & RESTORER. Has proved to be a fortune to many of the unfortunate, who are to-day delighted with its wonderful results. The merits of this great hair preparation naturally places it in a sphere all of its own, and the glowing terms in which our patrons speak of it ensure us of its satisfactory results. We can well boast of a large patronage throughout this and other States and also enjoy the commendation of the very best white and colored people in this immense community. In order to the merits and results of the J. V. Hair will from time to time produce in print permission to do sc. who have us among the many bearing witness of its correspondence of those expecting a mira ration is a natural and pure compound, hesitate to put in print. We will just l! States Government has placed national which it is protected and we are in turn est methods and square dealings. It will positively remove Dandruff Hair on Olean Temples or Bald Heads, PRICES;—35 cts. per box; eight Beautifier makes the use of powder entess. Sale prices; 25, 50 cts and $1.00. M Order or Express Monev Order all out of city orders. Address all con Mme. J. V. 612 NORTH FIRST ST., Telephone Correspondence S W. I. JOE Funeral Director Office & Warerooms, 207 HACKS F Orders by Telephone or T Suppers and Entertainment Telephone, 686. unity. In order to convince the man of the J. V. Hawkin's Hair Group to produce in print the photographs who have used our preparation, witness of its genuine qualities, expecting a miracle or anything unintended compound, the ingredients of it. We will just here remind the person placed national patent rights on our land and we are in turn responsible to the dealings. Remove Dandruff, Oure Scalp of Cures or Bald Heads, where the roots are, per box; eight boxes, $2.80 express of powder entirely unnecessary, boxes and $1.00. Money can be sent to New Order A charge of 10c. Address all communications to J. V. HAWK FIRST ST., — RI Telephone, 4601. Respondence Strictly Confid I. JOHNS Director and B verooms, 207 N. Foushee'S BCKS FOR HA Telephone or Telegraph filled and Entertainments prompt this immediate community. In order to convince the most skeptical...orders of the merits and results of the J. V. Hawkin's Hair Grower and Restorer, we will from time to time produce in print the photographs of those giving us permission to do sc. who have used our preparation and are to-day among the many bearing witness of its genuine qualities. We do not desire the preparation of those expecting a miracle or anything unreasonable. Our preparation is a natural purge compound, the ingredients of which we would not hesitate to put in print. We remind the public that the United States Government has placed national patent rights on our hair preparation by which it is protected and we are in turn responsible to the government for honest methods and square dealings. It will positively remove Dandruff, Cure Scalp of all impurities, Restore Hair on Clean Temples or Bald Heads, where the roots are not dead. **PRICES:**—35 cts. per box; eight boxes, $2.80express prepaid. The Face Banker makes the use of powder entirely unnecessary, and is perfectly harmless Bananas cost $1.00. Money can be sent by Post Office Money Order or Express Money Order A charge of 10cts. extra is imposed on all out of city orders. Correspondence Strictly Confidential. Orders by Telephone or Telegraph filled. Weddings, Suppers and Entertainments promptly attended. PROF. D. D. BRUCE, M. D. 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 medlums combined. No card, trance or hand humbug Greatest Hindoo Medium in the World. SO GREAT IS HIS POWER that we can tell you white in a Clairvoyant state, all you wish to know with out a word being spoken. Come, all ye unbelievers, scoffers and jeerers; 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; uniting the separated and bring 'Phone, 577. A. B. M. B. Mechanics' Savings Bank OF RICHMOND, VA. No. 511 North Third Street L $25000. And interest paid on all amounts above 30 days and over. Money loan- ory Security. Business Handled Promptly. And upwards received on Deposits. Metted up in the most improved style, marglar-proof steel chest, electric lights for safety and the accommodation information concerning Stocks, Deposits, Chair. Changed for the special convenience of flows: 9 A. M. to 4 P. M. Satur- M. We close Saturdays at on again at 5 P. M., re- un until 7 P. M. OU COME FROM WORK. BOARD OF DIRECTORS. H. F. JONATHAN, Vice-Pres. WYATT, Cashier. JNO. R. CHILES, THOS. H. WYATT, N. JONATHAN, THOMAS SMITH, T. TAYLOR, R. W. WHITING, CARTER. TES. THOS. M. CRUMP, Sec. Richmond, Va PRICE, Embalmer and Liveryman. And at short notice by telegraph or tel- meetings and nice entertainments. Messy conveniences. Large plenic or reasonable rates and nothing but first- Keep constantly on hand fine fun- East Leigh Street. Face Next Door.) RIGHT.—Man on Duty All Night. Kin's HAIR GROWER & RESTORER [TRADE MARK RESTERED] or to convince the most skep. ... officers of Hawkins' Hair Grower and Restorer. We print the photographs of those giving us used our preparation and are to-day using its genuine qualities. We do not desire the oracle or anything unreasonable. Our prepared, the ingredients of which we would not here remind the public that the United patent rights on our hair preparation by earn responsible to the government for honour, Cure Scalp of all impurities, Restore roots, where the roots are not dead eight boxes, $2.80express prepaid. The Face entirely unnecessary, and is perfectly harm- Money can be sent by Post Office Money A charge of 10cts. extra is imposed on communications to HAWKINS, RICHMOND, VA Stone, 4601. Strictly Confidential. OHNSON,ctor and Embalmer, 07 N. Foushee' St. Cor. Broad. FOR HIRE. Telegraph filled. Weddings, comments promptly attended. Residence in Building. back the lost one. Traces lost or stolen goods. Unearths hidden treasures. Removes evil influences Crosses, Spells, Ill Luck, cures tricks and Conjurations, gives Luck an amu Success in all you undertake. Cures the Tobacco and Liquor Habits. Allows the Captive to be set Free. He is the only one that will give a Written Guarantee to complete your business or refund your money Are you sick? Do you know what the trouble is with you? Come and Consult Nature's Doctor. Rheumatism, Insomnia, Hysteria and all Diseases cured. Points given on Horse Racing and all Games of Chance. No matter what asks you, come and see this wonderful man. Reader have you noticed that some people have a hard time to get along, no matter how they toll, while others have success. Many wealthy men and women owe their success to this wonderful man. He will tell you whom you will marry. Will you be happy? He will tell you who your friends and enemies are. Can you tell? Don't take a leap in e dark, but be advised by this wonderful man. Greatest Prophet in existence. He always Succeeds when others fail. This is the chance of a life time. Don't let it pass you. Office hours: 9 A. M. to 9:30 P. M. Sunday: 2:30 to 7:30 P. M. N. B.—Our consultation Fee is 50 cents. Sittings. $1.90. All letters containing $1.00 will be answered in full. MAIN OFFICE: 510 S. 9th St. Philadelphia, Pa. SEVEN A. B. C. D. E. F. G. H. I. J. K. L. M. N. O. P. Q. R. S. T. U. V. W. X. Y. Z. EIGHT Se TEASUIRVE eae NGT. See {Washington Post. Dec. 11, 1907.) ‘The report of the Senate Commit- mittee on Military Affairs on the Brownsville invesitgation will be delayed until more of the bullets found ant Brownsville can de anal- yeed. The committee met yesterday and reviewed the report on the bul- lets that had been submitted to the Geological Survey analyist. His analysis showed that there were distinct quantities of antimony in the bullets submitted whilé the War Department officials have testined before the committee that the army bullets now In use by the troops at the time of the Browns- ville rlot were supposed to contain no antimony whatever. Some of the committeo members say this finding is significant, while others consider It possible that old bullets of the kind formerly used by the army and national guardsmen, which contained antimony may have found their way into the ammunition supply of the Brownsville company. An analysis of several other buliets which were found m various places about Brownsville has been ordered. 2 ee Special Notice! While money is searce come to Mrs. M. D. Chamlee for your Xmas hat. You can get it for one-half less than elsewhere. Over 500 to select from. Extra spectal for Friday and Sat- urday. par316 E. Broad Street. HARRIS—SEWARD. Miss Ela Harris the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Chas. E. Harris, was married on Tuesday night, Dec. 3rd 1907. to Mr. William Seward. a iment business man of Altoona, Pa. Fire marrirge took place at the residence of the bride's parents, 1207 W. asth St. at 7:30 P.M. Mr. Harry Carter acted as best man and Mr. Daniel Harris, brother of the bride gave her away. The bride was attired in a blue broad. cloth traveling suit with hat and_ gloves to match. The ceremony was performed by Rev. Lewis Dickerson. ‘On the might preceeding the marriage a reception was tendered the iappy cou: ple by Mrs, Charles Carter at Mra, Car. fer's residence, The couple left on the $:20 train for their future home, Altoona Pa. where a delicious banquet was await. ing them. “The presents were numerous costly, 29: COLORED ladies everywhere to sell ’ our high class toilet articles manufactured especially for our race, the colored people of America. Splendid opportucity to make money. lost Hheral ferme. Full sire packages FREE to agents who will use the prep: arations on their own hair and face. FREE premiums to agents and their customers. Devote part or all your time Write for particulars, Secure exclusive territory. Have a pleasant and_profit- able trisimess of your own. Mention Richmond Planet. The Burton Toilet Gonds Co., Room 10 Century Block, ST. JOSEPH, MICHIGAN. Will Line Up Sotidiy. {Baltimore Afro-American Ledger.] Senator Foraker thas launched his Presidential boom and there is con- sternation in the camp of the Roose- veltites and the Taftites, The Sen- ator {s @ fighter, and when he gets down to business will make the fur fly in every direction. It is already conceded that he will have strong forces behind him and it is all ex- pected that the Afro-Americans will also line up solidly behind him, if they do not they ought to. He has prov ~ a friend in the time of need, and ~hould have a strong back- ing fr “ose who have been be- friended 1. "2. May his b. “crease. Astrology. Jupiter becomes stationary De. a- ber Ist in the Sign Leo (1) 13 de grees, 37 minutes which is the sign ruling France, Italy, Rome and the lower meridian of London. At the moment of the new moon on the 5th inst. the great benific planet Jupiter is in a happy trine aspect with the luminaries benefits will soon accrue to London and the latin countries above mentioned and their trade and commerce will be augmented. The British government will initiate some measures of reform , a change in the Personnel of the Colonist and that of the Common Council of the city ccgemacteinatrte eae tt A Uistinguished man in Spain or Hungary will soon succumb to fate about the 15th of the month. Por- tugal will not be in a very happy condition about the 28th of the month. There is lkely to be a scene of a public misfortune Mars with Saturn in pisces is unfortunate for the rulers of Russia, Germany and Spain. ! American uffairs will be entangled and the Cabinet will find its position awkward and somewhat unsafe. A orime in high society by an Ameri- can lady who will be acquitted. The President, Mr. Taft nor Mr. Hughes Sill be siominated in 1808 for the Presidency but men who will Mill the Presidential chair for the next four years will be elected on the Republican ticket. | Birthday influences are good in the first week in December for those who were born when the moon held the 14th degree of the sign Leo. The 12th brings some domestic trou- bles; 13 to 15 days are troublous ten- ding to losses or accidents; 20th, good for professional ppople; 21st, quarrels and disputes; 25th, finan- cial troubles; 23rd, brings friends; 80th, accidents in mines and mills; about the 2nd and the 30th those ‘who work in the mines and the mills ‘should be very careful all this month, “Look around this world of ours, Behold the chain of love; Who can deny the power of the stars The sweetness of Venus and the angriness of Mars.” J. LEO PERKINSON. Box 373, Butler, Pa, STATEMENT OF THE FINANCIAL CONDITION OF The Nickel Savings Bank located at Richmond, in the State of Virginia at the close of business, December 3, 1907, made to the State Corpo- ration Commission. hr, ibe eae) ee | eee ration Commission. . RESOURCES. | Loans and discounts... ...$8608.10 Other real estate. ........11550.00 Furniture and fixtures... 2200.00 Exchanges for clearing house 99.50 Due from National Banks.. 2699.34 Specie, nickels & cents... 310.09 Paper Currency ......... 3210.00) Total....... 0. ..$28677.03 LIABILITIES. Capital stock pald in. .....$9940.00] Surplus fund ....,..-... 3850.93 Individual deposits subject to check ........... 9945.53! Time certificates of deposit 4940.57) Total..........$28677.03| I, R. F. Tancil, President, do sol- emnly swear that'the above is a true statement of the financial condition of the Nickel Savings Bank, located al Richmond, in the State ot Virgin- ia, at the close of business on the 3rd day of December, 1907 to the best of my knowledge and bellef. R. F. 't.-NCIL, President. Correct—Attest: R. J. BASS. J. H. JONES. ELIJAH BERKLEY. Directors. State of Virginia, City of Richmond, Sworn to and subscribed before me this 10th day of December, 1907 INO. T. WELT, Notary Public My commission expires Feb. 6, 1911 $100.00 Endowment Paid. Richmond, Va., Dec. 11, 190.. ‘This is to certify that I have re- ceived from John Mitchell, Jr., Grand Worthy Counsellor of the Grand Court of Virginia, I. 0. of Ca- lanthe ($100.00) One Hundred Dol- lars {fi payment of the death claim of Patsie K. Anderson, who was a member of Virginia Court, No. 166 of Richmond, Va, Signed—J. S. Anderson, Administrator. Witness: Mrs. Ida B. Staves. ——1:__ ~ Omens, Introspection consists of looklag at yourself from a purely impertonal point of view and picking out your faults—4f you have any. You must be Sure, also, that your astral color matches that of your friends, or ts At least harmoniously contrasted, oth- erwise the continuity of your self. analysis will go to smash, you know, and spatter the wallpaper, I never saw an astral color, and nelther did you, but we've all got ‘em—yea, in- deedy!—From the Bohemian, Venezuela Leper Hospital. The new Venezuela national leper hospital on the seashore near La Guira has been completed and {s now ready for occupancy. The old hos- pital in Caracas has been abandoned and the 110 leper patients have been transferred to the new hospital. The new hospital Is a large and commo- dious building and fs in an tsolated Spot on the seashore between Cape Blanco aad Maiquetia. Stlence in Its Majesty. Stlence in all its majesty is found only in the savage. Captured, Tous- saint L’Ouverture died without a word. On his "rock, Napoleon chattered tke & maxpie—he wanted to explain. There is not a criminal who, when privileged to let his secrets fall into the reddened basket with his head, does not feel the purely social need of telling them to some one—Balzac. Hard Fate of Aged Paupers. A census was taken recently of the St John's road workhouse, London, which showed that the number of in. mates Was 1.613, and of these 1,150 were over 60 years old. ‘The particu: Jars: Between 60 and 70, 486: between 70 and 80, 611; between 80 and 90, 159; detween 90 and 100, 11. There was also ap inmate aged 101 Was Built to Last. An elecirical generator in a smelt ing plant at West Jordan, Utah, is Said to have been in constant operation, 24 hours a day, for nearly four years and a half, with a single Interruption, which was due to a broken pulley, for which the generator was in no way re- ‘sponsible. The Limit. “There's no use taiking,” said Mrs. Hewligus. “My husband is the crank- fest man that ever drew the breath of life. There is only one time in the year when he feels lke going to eaurch, and that's when the church is closed for the summer vacation.” A Philosophic Bard. The rose thet smells the sweetest fs the first to fade. The boy that runs the fastest 1s the one to soonest jade, ‘The brightest of the evenings has the gloomiest of dawns. The man with the Diggest yard must cut the biggest lawns.—Albany (Mo.) Ledger. ‘To Forget. 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CHEWNING COMPANY, 4 : Real Estate Auctioneers. $ FVUSISCSSSSesseeseescoccsseasesans Bob Hampton of Placer By RANDALL PARRISH. The strongest serial story ever published. IT BEGINS IN THIS PAPER TO-DAY. { _ Battle Sometimes Necessary. Peace {s not all the theorist would have it. Many of us have fought our way into our closest friendships — Jobn A. Howland. Women and Intuition. Women are so gifted with intuition that they can discover a hundred se- erets where there isn't one. ide ek) wl | “The woman tempted me,” is the ‘oldest excuse in the world, and it bids ca Tests of Work. ‘There are three tests of wise work: ‘That it must de honest, useful and cheerful —Jobn Ruskin. Quite Simple. Lady (to nursemaid)—Caroline, see you don’t let the children sit on the wet grass; they might cateh cold. If they are tired you can ait on it your- self and take them on your knee.” Care of Umbrella. Always unroll gn umbrella when not in use. After tt becomes wet open and dry. When dry stand with handle down. This method prevents cracking silk. ——— ee Save Time in Kitchen. Use fine wire for hanging up such articles as rolling pins, chopping knives, potato mashers and pastry boards. The wire loop is perfectly KINK:‘INE A Beautiful Hair Dressing and Tonic for the Hair ! = ee Ane Sonne SnOk See: | I have used ‘your Kink-me for the past year and my hair is growing very fast. I i j] find it the most delightful hair dressing and tonic { have ever used, altogether different from li ; 4 J] the many cheap pomades and vaselines on the market. Tt makes my hair so beautiful, soft t silky, and has eutirely removed all dandruff and stopped it from falling out and breaking off. “And enables ‘me to do it up in any of the many styles that I use om the stage. I does all you claim for it, and I would not be without it. Yours sincerely, Mack. ROBINSON. |: Kink-ine Hair poe is a delightful perfumed tonic prevored largely for the use of E M| colored people; is guaranteed to be absolutely safe and harmless. It makes harsh, stubborn kinky, curly hair soft, silky and glossy, enables you to comb it with ease and to dress i MADAM ROBINSON iin any style that you may wish, KINK-INE HAIR DRESSING by supplying the needed oils directly to the roots of the hair tones up and nourishes the scalp, increasing the growth and giving new life and vigor to the hair. KINK-INE HAIR DRESSING is for sale at all druggists for 35c per bottle. If yourdruggist does not keep it have him order it for you; he can get it. If not, send me soc. and I will seud same to you, prepaid. SPECIAL OFFER.—To prove the quality and superiority of our goods over all others, we will sell ome full-ats bottle of Kink-tne, price 35 cents, ome enke of Kink-Ine Sonp, the best shampoo and Totlet Soap in the world, price 2 cents, both for only 50 cents, oF atx bottles and six cakes of soap for $3.00. Special offer good only at the following stores: OWENS & MINOR DRUG CO., Lat.—Distributors, 1007 E. Main St. | A] | = | Reac ae Ra PROF. R ores es ee find it the fron aan the many li oe ae silly, anc cas GH off. And ee LL aay E Re BB] colored p kinky, eu MADAM ROBINSON in any st KINK-INE HAIR DRESSING by the scalp, increasing the growth and KINK-INE HAIR DRESSING is him order it for you; he can get it 1 SPECIAL OF FER—To prove the @ Bottle of Kink-tne, price 38 cents, ome cents, both for only 50 cents, or atx t Mores: OWENS & MINO!] es Fumished Rooms, 50c. up. Meals, SOc. up. THE MT. CLEMENS HOTEL AND MINERAL BATH HOUSE AMERICAN AND EUROPEAN PLAN. Phone, 245. Has opened its doors for the accommodation of COLORED PEOPLE that may come to Mt. Clem ens in the future for their Health and Treatment | on Rheumatism. It is the only Hotel and Mineral Bath House own- ed and conducted by a colored man at any of the health resorts in the Un- ited States. MT Write for Special Rates. Wy, GEO. I, HUTCHINSON, Fror. 48 Welts St., - Mt, Clemens, Mich. eer 7 | ‘ea Lx Ps tea ; I d A 4 ye cf FREE! An Astrological Readins sent free to anyone enclosing 2ct stamp for mailing, charges, etc Send date and month of birth. Writ. to-day and address, PROF. J. H. HOLMES, 15 N. Kentucky Avenue, Atlantie City, N. J. ‘ie Shae, es ee” | Im the battle of Waterloo the Eng: fish forces had over 90 drummer boya killed, and the French lost nearly 200. From that date on, the armies ‘of the world began to dispense with drummers in war, and now no army has them. Bugles are used instead of drums, and most buglers are at aenet 20 years ofd. Dignity of Sorrow. Strong and pure natures know how to thrust their emotions deep down in their hearts, feeling a sort of immod- esty in unveling their troubles, when no human word can express’ their depth, and fearing the mockery of peo- Ple who do not wish to understand them.—Baizac. A Japanese Candy Store. Shops in Japan are all go tiny and look so much alike that it is dificult to tell at a glance just what kind of & shop each one is. But all Japanese Doys and girls know the confectioner’s sign—the spiked ball—and just where to go whenever they wish sweets of ‘any sort. ‘The Piratical Fiea. ‘There fs no creeping, crawling or fiying insect which can approach the Pestiferous, piratical flea in strength, | Size considered, he is the Samson of the insect kingdom, and his bites will make a lazy man get a payday move- ment on him. Read what Madam Robinson, the Famous Black Patti, Queen of the Opera, says of Kink-ine ? 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Jennie Neal, Plaintitt against Philip Neal, Defendant. IN CHANCERY. The object of tais suit ts to ob- tain a divorce, a vincvlo matrimonii by the plaintiff from the defendant. ‘And aM@davit having been made and filed that the defendant is a non- resident of the State of Virginia, it is ordered that he appear here with- in fifteen days after due publication hereof ana do whatsoever may be! necessary to protect his interests’ herein. A Copy—Teste: SAMUEL P. WADDELL, Clk.’ N. J. LEWIS, p. a ayers that is to come. It fé gold at 1.00. Address all communications to MRS. LUCINDA YOUNG, } Lambertville, N. J. Agents Wanted. Se ] SCHOOL SHOES, == | Capitol Shoe «& Supply Company, No. 210 East Broad Street. A complete stock of Boys,’ Misses,’ Men's, Ladies,’ & Children’s Shoes. ALL THE LATEST STYLES, SE ; Notice! For old papers, call on us. We are selling them at fifteen cents per huntired. ‘ —$—<—— —Subseribe te The PLANET.