Richmond Planet

The RICHMOND PLANET. THE NEW STORY "LANGFORD OF THE THREE BARG" is a breezy, stirring story of cattle rustling days in South Dacota. —a story of go and action with the cleverest kind of a romance. The opening chapter begins in this issue on PAGE TWO. Every one should read it. —The Pythian Anniversary this year will take place March 28th. —Rev. Thomas Knight of Newport News, Va. was in the city this week. —Mr. James Cary, Pittsburg, Pa. has been visiting friends in the city. He called on us in company with Miss Mary L. Smith. —Miss Ida C. Miles, New York, N. Y. in company with Miss Viola Grey visited our office this week. —Rev. R. V. Peyton, D. D. will preach at Sharon Baptist Church, Wednesday, February 19th, at 8:15 P. M. for the benefit of Magnaolia Club, Mrs. Sarah J. Ward, President. —Mrs. James Alexander Chiles of Lexington, Ky. is in the city and will remain for some time. —Mrs. Josie A. Graham's hair preparations are giving general satisfaction and she is being well patronized. See announcement in another column. —Miss Mosele C. Robinson has been transferred from Moore to Monroe School. —Mr. George O. Brown is out again at his place of business and looking about as well as ever. —Miss. L. G. King of Manchester, Va. visited Boston, Mass. this week and was the guest of her brother, Mr. Wm. R. Cogbill. —Dr. W. C. Metz is still relieving the ailments of his many patients. If your eyes are troubling you, call and see ihm. —The advertisement of the Prof. Kelly Miller publications deserves attention. Any person interested in the welfare of the race and the questions affecting the same will be well repaid by taking advantage of his liberal offers. MANN—WILLIS. Mrs. Martha A. Willis announces the marriage of her daughter Miss Sadie Liggon to Mr. Isham Mann Monday Afternoon, March 2, 1908 at 3:30 o'clock, First Baptist Church. Reception March 8, 1908 from 6 to 10 P. M., 730 North Fifth Street. WASHINGTON—The funeral services of Mrs. Ellen Washington, the mother of Sir Edward Knight was held at Providence Baptist Church, Henrico County, Va. Sunday, Feb. 9, 1908. Sister Washington was a consistent member of the above named Church. She leaves three children and 19 grand children and a host of friends to mourn their loss. The service was the most impressive that has ever been held at this Church. Rev. Woodson, the pastor officiated. Thanks Returned. This is to thank our many friends and neighbors for their universal sympathy and kind attention to our mother, Lucy A. Jefferson (deceased) during her last illness. Gratefully yours, THE FAMILY. Mysterious Death. Adolphus Forrester, better known as "Doll" son of Mr. Lee Forrester was found dead somewhere near Doswell, Va. Wednesday, Feb. 12, 1908. He left home Tuesday morning and nothing was heard of him until a telegram announcing his death was received Wednesday evening. The remains were brought to Richmond Wednesday night. Just how he came to his death and his being near Doswell remain a mystery. WILL Locate in North Carolina. Mr. H. R. Miller, who has been associated in business in this city with his father, Mr. I. J. Miller has located at Edenton, North Carolina, where he will engage in business for himself. Mr. I. J. Miller went there this week to overlook the field and advise with him in his new venture. He will break up house-keeping upon his return and again be at home to his friends with Mr. and Mrs. W. Isaac Johnson, No. 207 Foushee St. Directors of the Southern Aid Society of Va., Inc. Surprised. On last Monday night the meeting of the Directors was held at the Home Office of the Company, 527 N. Second Street at which the officers for the year 1908 were elected according to the constitution governing the corporation. The meeting was up to its usual standard and the old officers, under whose charge the Company has prospered were re-elected. Just as the business for the evening had been completed Mr. J. R. Hicks. President of the Agents' Association of the Southern Aid Society of Va., Inc. entered the building and extended an invitation to the Officers and Directors to be the guest of the Southern Aid Agents Association at Price's Hall, where there was awaiting their arrival an elaborately arranged and beautifully decorated table in honor of their distinguished guest. The Officers and Directors though completely non-plused at this act on the part of the Agents at once adjourned the meeting and led on by President Hicks married to Price's Hall to partake of the delicacies of the season. On reaching the dining hall President A. D. Price was seated at the head and Secretary Thomas M. Crump at the foot while the other officers and Directors were arranged around the table with the ladies of the clerical force interspersed who were also the Agents' Association's guest but possibly more familiar with what was to take place for they were beautifully attired in costumes to suit the occasion. The table was blessed by the President, Mr. A. D. Price after which an excellent paper was read by Mr. Wm. H. Spurlock of the Association. Then the following menu was served: Grape Fruit, Oyster Patties, Lamb Chops and Green Peas, Coffee, Spanish Mackerel, Roman Pump, Salted Peanuts, Tutti Fruiti Cream with Assorted Cakes. Impromtun speeches were indulged in by Messrs. A. D. Price, B. A. Ceiphan of Newport News Edward Stewart, Thos. M. Crump, Charles N. Jackson, B. L. Jordan, W. A. Jordan, A. Washington, James T. Carter. The reception was indeed an elaborate affair and much credit for same is due to the President of the Association, Mr. J. R. Hicks, together with his corps of associates. There is a tie between the Directors and the Agents of the Company which can not be easily broken. Long live the Agents of the Southern Society of Virginia, Inc. Those present at Agents reception were Misses Maggie Baker, Ethelle Booker, A. G. Burrell, James Crump, Florence E. Jackson, Mrs. Janie White Elam, Mrs. Fannie James, Messrs. A. D. Price, T. M. Crump, Edward Stewart, B. L. Jordan, James T. Carter, W. E. Baker, Charles L. Jackson, W. A. Jordan, A. Washington, W. E. Randolph, Samuel Morgan, B. A. Cephas. Agents Association: J. R. Hicks President; W. A. Jordan, Vice-President; W. H. Banks, Secretary; Moses Ruffin, Treasurer; H. B. Burrell Sergeant-at-Arms; Mrs. P. W. Willis Paul Ervin, James T. Williams Luscius Storsr. W. H. Spurlock, R. H. Harrison, W. E. Randolph, W. H. Banks, W. H. Scout, S. Scott W. Jackson, A. R. Jones, R. West, B. W. Perkins, Robert Washington, V. L. Hawkins, Mrs. Hannah Bray. A "DREAM FAKIR." Colonel Bacon Says Roosevelt Is a Jekyll-Hyde Visionary. NEW YORK, Feb. 11. — President Roosevelt is a dual genius of the Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde sort—a "dream fakir"—says Colonel Alexander S. Bacon of this city in a letter of sympathy to the Rev. William J. Long of Stamford, Conn., the naturalist, whom Mr. Roosevelt denounced as a "nature fakir." "You take the president too seriously," says Colonel Bacon. "He is not half a black as he paints himself. 'Nature fakir', 'mollycodie' and 'ilar' are merely the phrases of a 'barker' alluring the public into an illusive side show. They are not serious. If you would study wild animals in their native woods less and study press agents more, you would understand freaks better. "Above all, the president does abhor a 'soldier fakir', but his abhorrence goes no further than words. A barking dog never bites. The president barks at the wicked trusts, but you will notice that none of them die of hydrophobia." Colonel Bacon quotes from his "Woolly Horse" to show that, as he claims, Colonel Roosevelt did not see, much less kill, a Spaniard at the battle of San Juan Hill on July 1, 1898, and was never within bullet shot of the enemy. RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1908 Lost His Vessel There is a man in Norfolk, who calls himself Capt. John E. Simpson and claims that his oyster vessel was lost in a storm in Chesapeake Bay. He has gotten several reputable persons to write to "John Mitchell, President of the True Reformers' Bank," claiming that he has ($600) six hundred dollars deposited in that institution. We have spoken to the True Reformer Bank officials and they claim not to know any such man and they have no such deposit. The Mechanics' Savings Bank has never heard of either him or his deposit and the indications are that some people in Norfolk are being imposed upon. Y. M. C. A. Notes. The Y. M. C. A. Conference was a live number last Friday Evening. The men manifested much interest. The class for the explanation on the Sunday School Lesson was well attended last Saturday. Continue. You are welcome. The reports from the City Home and the jail for last Sunday show that the results more than pay us for our labor. Prof. J. H. Rhorer made a great hit with the boys last Sunday. Every boy who heard our brother was happy. The open meeting for the men last Sunday was a great blessing. Every man took an active part. Subject: Out of Death Comes Life. Do not forget the explanation on the Sunday School Lesson to-day 5 P. M. at the Y. M. C. A. Building. Come. All men for committee work will please meet Sunday 10. A. M. at the Y. M. C. A. Building. Director N. W. Bouldin will address the boys of Richmond Sunday 4 P. M. at the Y. M. C. A. Building. Bring the other boy. Prof. B. H. Peyton will address the men Sunday 5:30 P. M. at the Y. M. C. A. Building. Tell the other man. Be on time. Live singing. Do not forget to pray for the Y. M. C. A. The men of Richmond need all the help they can get. We see many of them who are without the Holy Spirit. Help us in this great effort (The souls of men) A monster meeting for men only at the Mt. Carmel Baptist Church Sunday, February 23rd, 3:30 P. M. Dr. W. F. Graham will address the men. Subject: Holes in Your Pocket. Special music. Free for all men. Come and bring the other man. Be on time. Mt. Carmel Baptist Church. Rev. Dr. G. B. Howard Declines Rev. G. B. Howard, D. D., pastor of the Giffield Baptist Church of Petersburg, Va. who was recently elected to the presidency of the Virginia Theological Seminary and College at Lynchburg has in view of the discussion caused thereby and although endorsed by over forty of the members of the Trustee Board, constituting an overwhelming majority, has formally declined to accept. The Board is expected to elect a president in May. Among those mentioned is Prof. J. R. L. Diggs of Louisville, Ky. "Langford of the Three Bars" begins this week on Second Page. Sheffield Notes: Billy Kersandl the Minstrel played to a crowded house here January 30th. The show was good in every respect. Mrs. Mollie Lockley departed this life Friday night, January 31st. She leaves five children, a mother and sister to mourn their loss. She carried a policy with the Union Central Relief Association. The funeral was attended by the Rev. B. Crawford Sunday at the Baptist Church. Mr. Will Johnson our popular barber has returned from Corinth, Miss, where he was called on business. Mr. Ed. Johnson is a great admirer of The PLANET and has promised to help to promote the circulation in Sheffield. Rev. G. W. Mitchell, of Greensboro Alabama spent several days in Sheffield last week on business. Mrs. Howard Gilliam continues sick, her many friends hope to see her out again soon. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Harmons own a comfortable home. They are readers of The PLANET. The C. M. E. Church has organized a choir. Read The PLANET and keep posted. Price 5 cents a copy. CALLED A PASTOR Rev. Corrothers in Charge at Lexington—Rev. Dr. Vassar Aided Them.—Grand Church Rally LEXINGTON, VA. Feb. 7, '08.—The First Baptist Church has been without a pastor since October, 1907, at which time the Rev. W. J. Lucas resigned to go to the Virginia Union University. There has been quite a number of ministers who visited and preached until at last a Rev. J. D. Corrothers of Columbia, Pa. passed by and preached. When the Church decided that he must be the man God sent to be their pastor, so at a meeting in January they extended him a call and after a prayerful consideration he accepted. The Church had run behind financially while without a pastor, so the Deacons arranged a little rally for the fourth Sunday in January. They invited the Dr. D. N. Vassar of Lynchburg to conduct a rally for them and at the same time invited Dr. Corrothers to be here if he could. They both arrived on that day and it was good for them to be here. Dr. Vassar preached morning and afternoon. Dr. Corrors preached in the evening. It seemed to give new life to the Church and community in general. The people seemed to be spiritually revived and financially aroused. Money was contributed by the Deacons, Mrs. Kissie Jackson, Mr. and Mrs. John Fleming, Woodson Osborn, Charles Walker, Mrs. Maggie Lowery and a number of others whose names I have not included. Eleven dollars were turned over by Mrs. Adline Abraham and twenty dollars by Mrs. Andrew Gilliam and the Misses Gilliams making a total of One Hundred and Fifteen Dollars raised which set the Church about straight regarding incidental expenses. I am very glad to say the people are well impressed with Dr. Corrors and wish for him a successful future. The Church will start a revival after Feb. 15th. The First Baptist Church of Lexington has been so well formed and well led by such men as Dr. G. B. Howard, W. M. Moss, W. T. Johnson, P. S. Lewis, and W. J. Lucas until it has become very particular as to who shall be their pastor. They feel to be equal with any of the large Churches of the State since their ex-pastors are now pastors of some of the largest Churches in and out of the State. Monument to Colonel E. A. Washington. The Icy hands touched the frame of E. A. Washington and laid him low but the pyramids of Egypt, the massive columns at Karnak, the Acropolis of Athens, the mounds of the Aztecs; all bespeak silently but surely a glory to their builders. These monuments show to the world what man has done and inspire him to do more and greater things in these directions, and the world will forget these architects and cease to emulate them about as soon as this community forgets the work of Col. E. A. Washington. The Sunday School, the Church, the Cashier's Desk are silent but substantial monuments to his memory. No monument of iron, brass or stone can outlive the influence for good which now live and forever will live to his credit. In an exemplary home, in an enlightened and intelligent Sunday School, in a progressive and increasing Church, in a better condition of Church Hill affairs, financially, materially and morally, in fact in all which is tending to uplift our people to a place in life, we can conscientiously say, behold the enduring monuments to Col. E. A. Washington. They stand forever as an inspiration to all Afro-American youth desiring a better to-morrow. AN ARDENT ADMIRER. Astrology. Butler, Pa., Feb. 1, 1908. The new moon takes place on the second day, Saturn being in the first house and the Red Planet in the middle of the first sign in quartite to the mysterious planet Venus in the 12 sign Capricornars, si not good for the weather nor the public welfare. An epidemic of influenza and eruptive fever among children. Also many are soon to follow in London and the large cities in the eastern parts of England and other places ruled by the sign. We may look for railway disasters and fires in the Eastern States, Germany and Austria, politics will run high and in Austria strikes and rioting will cause much fear and trouble. The people of Russia will soon be in the limelight again for an attempt at assassination on a high personage, also prominent officials. No trouble in France but there will be some little discontent on the part of the people. There will be disturbances in Rome, Florence, Naples and other places ruled by the sign and Red Planet. At the time of the new moon Ve- nus will be in conjunction with Saturn, which makes it bad for the fair sex and all those born under Venus in those places ruled by the sign, and the goddess of love (Venus). Places as follows: Portugal, and other troubles may be looked for there) Normandy, Alexandria and other places ruled by this sign, which is Capricornus, the 12 sign. BIRTHDAY INFLUENCES. 13 and 15 are good for people in business for themselves. Those who are employed in iron and sharp tools and for sailors, chemists, and travelers the 10th threatens trouble. In love affairs and to courting couples the 27th brings a busy time with a little or no profit. Jupiter benefits those born July the 28th and 31st. February in the north is the coldest month of the winter and offers new opportunities for catching cold, starting Pneumonia and Consumption. Rheumatism and sleepless nights, so look well to your health this month. Save these clippings and note well my predictions and remember this is the beginning of the three years of trouble and famines. Very truly yours. Emancipation Day April 3rd, 1908. We desire to announce to the colored people in this State that we have organized an associat on known as The Afro-American Emancipation Association, the object of which is to celebrate the emancipation of our fathers on the Third day of April, each and every year. We feel that it is a duty we owe to ourselves as well as to God to turn Him thanks annually for freeing our forefathers and through whose prayers we have been able to enjoy freedom and its blessings these many years of our existence. We, therefore, call upon all members of the colored race to unite themselves for this purpose in every section of our State, and celebrate this day in their respective cities and counties. We also request that on this occasion, you will make special effort to give a free dinner to all aged and infirm colored people in your locality. All other races under the sun have some day to celebrate and we sincerely hope that the rising generation of the Afro-American will not depart from the custom of celebrating April 3rd every year. If there be any organizations which desire to take part in this landable undertaking please notify the officers at once. We want all societies, clubs and other organizations to take part with us in celebrating their freedom April 3rd. In every part of the State where there is a desire to organize for this purpose, do not fail to notify the President. We want every part of the State represented and all States in the Union. This Organization has been doing Mission Work ever since it has been in existence, helping the Aged and Infirm members of the race and any worthy person in destitute circumstances who apply to us and we find worthy. A Public Meeting will be held at Prices' Hall Tuesday night, February 18, 1908 at 8 o'clock. All Clubs, Societies and other Organizations are requested to send representatives. The celebration will be in Richmond, Va., April 3, 1908. G. A. R. and Spanish American War Veterans are invited as an Escort of Honor. Officers of the Association are as follows: J. C. Randolph, R. W. G. C. of G. V. O. of Knights of Damon, President, $1203\frac{1}{2}$ Moore St., Richmond, Va.; Rev. W. S. Jackson, Pastor Asbury Chapel, Secreture, 1302 25th Street, Richmond, Va.; Rev. R. V. Peyton, Pastor of Sixth M. Zion Baptist Church, Chaplain; Rev. W. T. Johnson, Pastor of First Baptist Church, Orator; Edward Gude, Treasurer. Samaritan Notes: National Grand Sire, J. W. Thompson of the Independent Order of Good Samaritans and Daughters of Samarita has just returned from a trip to Washington, D. C., Newark, N. J., New York City, and Philadelphia, Pa. in the interest of the National Grand Lodge. During his stay much good was accomplished for the State and National Grand Lodges. The National Grand Lodge was chartered by him in Washington, D. C. The outlook for the spread of Samaritism was never brighter than now. National Grand Sire J. W. Thompson is elated over this fact, not only on account of the healthy condition of the State Grand Lodge, No. 6, but for the sake of the National Grand Lodge as well. "Langford of the Three Bars" gins this week on Second Page. $100.00 Endowment Paid. Richmond, Va., Feb. 1st, 1908. This is to certify that I have received from John Mitchell, Jr. Grand Worthy Counsellor of the Grand Court of Virginia, I. O. of Calanthe, ($100.00) One Hundred Dollars in payment of the death-claim of Marahia Williams, who was a member of Silver Star Court, No. 65 of Richmond, Va. Signed—Lottie Oliver. W. I. Johnson. $150.00 Endowment Paid. Portsmouth, Va., Nov. 20, 1907. This is to certify that I have received from John Mitchell, Jr. Grand Chancellor of the Grand Lodge of Virginia, Knights of Pythias, N. A., S. A., E., A., A. and A. ($150.00) One Hundred and Fifty Dollars in payment of the death-claim of Raleigh Harrell, who was a member of Pride of the East Lodge No. 33 of Portsmouth, Va. Signed—Mrs. Annie M. Harrell Benefictary. Witnesses: P. C., Samuel Hodges. Claborn Page. $150.00 Endowment Paid Danville, Va., Nov. 23, 1907. This is to certify that I have received from John Mitchell, Jr. Grand Chancellor of the Grand Lodge of Virginia, Knights of Pythias, N. A., S. A., E. A., A. A. and A. ($150,00) One Hundred and Fifty Dollars in payment of the death claim of Green Lewis, who was a member of Golden Link Lodge, No. 83 of Danville, Va. Signed: her Jane X Lewis, mark Elliza Williams Beneficiaries. Witnesses: R. A. Reynolds, M. D. Rev. Robt. G. Adams. Robert Warren. W. A. Millner, D. D. G. C. $150.00 Endowment Paid. Richmond, Va., Jan. 17, '08. This is to certify that I have received from John Mitchell, Jr., Grand Chancellor of the Grand Lodge of Virginia, Knights of Pythias, N. A., S. A., E., A., A. and A. ($150.00) One Hundred and Fifty Dollars in payment of the deathclaim of Richard Bates, who was a member of Royal Lodge, No. 26 of Richmond, Va. Signed—Harrison Bates, Beneficary. $150.00 Endowment Paid. Danville, Va., Jan. 16, 1908. This is to certify that I have received from John Mitchell, Jr. Grand Chancellor of the Grand Lodge of Virginia, Knights of Pythias, N. A., S. A., E., A., A. and A. ($150.00) One Hundred and Fifty Dollars in payment of the death- claim of Will Johnson, who was a member of Nightingale Lodge, No 45 of Danville, Va. Signed—Mrs. Julia Johnson Administratrix Witnesses: R. A. Reynolds, S. R. Williams. W. A. Millner, D. D. G. C. $150.00 Endowment Paid. Lynchburg, Va., Jan. 17, '08. This is to certify that I have received from John Mitchell, Jr. Grand Chancellor of the Grand Lodge of Virginia, Knights of Pythias, N. A., S. A., E., A. A. and A. ($150.00) One Hundred and Fifty Dollars in payment of the death- claim of Pitman Walker, who was a member of Golden Star Lodge, No. 48 of Lynchburg, Va. Signed—Edith Walker. Administratrix Witnesses: Thos. W. Merchant, C. C. Wm. A. Merchant, C. C. Golden Star Lodge, No. 48 W. J. Wells, D. D. C. PRINTER WANTED (Man)—A first class printer is wanted who can do both news and job work. Good wages paid. Write to REV. R. T. SIMS, Editor Mississippi Baptist Canton. Miss. —Subscribe to The PLANET. Only $1.50 per year. PRICE, FIVE CENTS "Langford of the Three Bars" begins this week on Second Page. VIEWS OF FORAKER Ohio Senator Says He Made No Ef- fort at Primaries. In response to numerous inquiries as to his views of the result of the primary election in Ohio on Tuesday, Senator Foraker prepared the following statement last evening: "Nobody should be either surprised or misled by the result of the primaries held in Ohio yesterday. It has been common knowledge for weeks that the call for these primaries was of such character that my friends throughout the State refused to participate. Consequently there was no opposition to the selection of Taft delegates. Under such circumstances he would, of course, carry everything." "That the result of the primaries does not indicate anything conclusive should be manifest from the fact that the total vote polled will not represent more than 10 per cent, of the Republicans of Ohio. There were only two districts in which there was any approach to a contest, and these contests were due to the fact that there were opposing candidates in each district for the nomination to Congress." "In the sixth district the Taft candidate was defeated by 1,025, while in the Fifteenth district, Mr. Dawes, the Taft leader and candidate for renomination, is probably beaten, according to the latest advises I have received. If there had been a primary in which we could have participated, similar results would have been possible. If not probable, all over the State." "Recurring to the State Convention it should be borne in mind that it will be composed of the representatives of only one faction of the party. Not because the people have so decided, but because the course of the managers was such as to bar everybody else out from participation." MORSE'S HIGH FINANCE Banker and Promoter Indicted For Grand Larceny. NEW YORK, Feb. 12.—In covering the path blazed through the financial district by Charles W. Morse, Receiver Hanna, in charge of the National Bank of North America and the New Amsterdam National bank, two former Morse institutions, is incidentally looking into the personal relations between President Wesley M. Oler of the American ice company and the former ice king. Morse arrived at Liverpool from New York last Saturday and on receiving several cablegrams from America immediately took the Etruria back to New York. He is due here Saturday next, when, it is said, he will be arrested on landing. Some of the details of Morse's high finance that have come to light since his indictment on two counts by the special grand jury of this county make it plain that in his brief career as banker he tangled more threads in weaving schemes of profit than may ever be undone again. His transaction with Judge O'Brien's note, which was the basis for the grand jury's presentment, instead of being an isolated example of Morse's handiwork now turns out to be only one step on a long road. A week ago, too, it was said, that $500,000 would cover his maximum liabilities to the Bank of North America. There are those who now, somewhat better informed, say that $1,000,000 would be nearer the mark. For all that anybody knows to the contrary he got thousands of dollars in excess of that sum through the aid of judiciously selected dummies who contracted loans from the bank. He got the cash, and they are getting the notoriety. Albert B. Boardman, counsel for Morse, was unwilling to make any comment on his client's indictment. But he said he would go down the bay to meet Morse when he comes back on the Etruria. Killed by Boyish Pranks. NEW YORK, Feb. 12. — Thomas Thomas, an old man, whose residence was somewhat of a mystery, but who had been a familiar figure around Greenwich village for years, died suddenly on the stoop at 829 Greenwich street. Thomas had become exhausted in attempting to get away from some boys who pursued him with snowballs. His body was taken to the morgue. French Soldiers in Riot. PARIS, Feb. 12. — A serious riot occurred in the Twenty-second colonial infantry regiment at Hyeres. There was rifle firing and bayonetting all night. Several soldiers were seriously wounded. This is the second military outbreak within a few days. LANGFORD OF THE THREE BARS BY KATE AND VIRGIL D. BOYLES COPYRIGHT BY A.C. MCLUIRD & CO. 1907 TWO CHAPTER I The Island With a Mystery. He said positively to Battle Ax, his scraggy buckskin cow pony, that they would ride to the summit of this one bluff, and that it should be the last But he had said the same thing many times since striking the barren hill region flanking both sides of the river. Hump after hump had been surmounted since the sound of the first promise had tickled the ears of the tired broncho, humps as alike as the two humps of a Bactrian camel, the monotonous continuity of which might very well have confused the mind of one less at home on these ranges than George Williston. Even he, riding a blind trail since sun-up, sitting his saddle with a heavy indifference born of heat and fatigue, began to think it might be that they were describing a circle and the sun was playing them strange tricks. Still, he urged his pony to one more effort; just so much farther and they would retrace their steps, giving up for this day at least the locating of a small bunch of cattle, branded a lazy S, missing these three days. Had not untoward circumstances intervened, he might still have gone blindly on; for, laying aside the gamble bolder fever that was on him, he could ill afford to lose the ten or twelve steers somewhere wandering the wide range or huddled into some safe place, there to abide the time when a daring rustler might conveniently play at witchcraft with the brand or otherwise dispose of them with profit to himself and with credit to his craft. Moreover, what might possibly never have been missed from the vast herds of Langford, his neighbor of the plains country, was of most serious import to Williston. "Devil take you, Battle Ax, but you're slow," muttered Williston. "I'd give a good deal to sit down this minute to some of my little girl's flapjacks and coffee. But nothing for us, lazy-bones, till midnight—or morning, more likely. Do walk up as if you had some little standing in the world of cow ponies. You haven't, of a surety, but you might make an effort. All things are possible to him who tries, you know, which is a tremendous lie, of course. But perhaps it doesn't apply to poor devils like us who are 'has beens.' Here we are, Ah!" There were no more hills. Almost directly at his feet was one of those precipitous cut-aways that characterize the border bluffs of the Missouri river. A few more steps, in the dark and horse and rider would have plunged over a sheer wall of nearly 200 feet. As it was, Williston gave a gas of involuntary horror which almost simultaneously gave place to one of wonder and astonishment. He had struck the river at a point absolutely new to him. It was the time of low water, and the river, in most of its phases muddy and sullen-looking, gleamed silver and gold with the glitter of the setting sun, making a royal highway to the dwelling-place of Phoebus. A little to the north of this sparkling highroad lay what would have been an island in high water, thickly wooded with willows and cottonwoods. Now a long stretch of sand reached between bluff and island. Dismounting, with the quick thought that yonder island might hold the secret of his lost cattle, he crept as close to the edge as he dared. The cut was sheer and tawny, entirely devoid of shrubbery by means of which one might hazard a descent. The sand bed began immediately at the foot of the yellow wall. Even though one managed to gain the bottom, one would hardly dare risk the deceitful sands, ever shifting, fair and treacherous. Baffled, he was on the point of remounting to retrace his steps when he dropped his foot from the stirrup amazed. Was the day of miracles not yet passed? It was the sun, or course. Twelve hours of sun in the eyes could play strange tricks and might even cause a dancing black speck to assume the semblance of a man on horseback, picking his way easily, though mayhap a bit warily, across the waste of sand. He seemed to have sprung from the very bowels of the bluff. Whence else? Many a rod beyond and above the ghostly figure frowned the tawny, wicked cut-out. Path for neither horse nor man appeared so far as eye could reach. It must be the sun. But it was not the sun. Motionless, intent, a figure cast in bronze as the sun went down, the lean ranchman gazed steadfastly down upon the miniature man and horse creeping along so far below. Not un til the object of his fixed gaze had been swallowed by the trees and underbrush did his muscles relax. This man had ridden as if unafraid. "What man has done, man can do," ran swiftly through Williston's brain, and with no idea of abandoning his search until he had probed the mystery, he mounted and rode northward, closely examining the edge of the precepice as he went along for any evidence of a possible descent. Presently he came upon a cross ravine, devoid of shrubbery, too steep for a horse, but presenting possibilities for a man. With unerring instinct he followed the cross-cut westward. Soon a scattering of scrub oaks began to appear, and sumach already streaked with crimson. A little farther and the trees began to show spiral wreaths of woodbine and wild grape. Yet a little farther, and doubtless there would be outlet for horse as well as man. But Williston was growing impatient. Besides, the thought came to him that he had best not risk his buckskin to the unknown dangers of an untrified trail. What if he should go lame? Accordingly he was left behind in a slight depression where he would be pretty well hidden, and Willisten scrambled down the steep incline alone. When foothold or handhold was lacking, he simply let himself go and slid, grasping the first root or branch that presented itself in his dare-devil course. Arrived at the bottom, he found his clothes torn and his hands bleeding; but that was nothing. With grim determination he made his way through the ravine and struck across the sand trail with a sure realization of his danger, but without the least abatement of his resolution. The sand was firm under his feet. The water had A man in a cowboy hat stands in a forest, holding a rifle and a knife. He is surrounded by trees and a stream. Turned and Faced Squarely the Spot Which Held the Watching Man. receded a sufficient length of time before to make the thought of quicksands an idle fear. No puff of cloudy smoke leaped from a rifle barrel. If, as he more than half suspected, the island was a rendezvous for cattle thieves, a place surely admirably fitted by nature for such unlawful operations, the rustlers were either overconfident of the inaccessibility of their retreat and kept no lookout, or they were insolently indifferent to exposure. The former premise was the more likely. A light breeze, born of the afterglow, came scurrying down the river bed. Here and there, where the sand was finest and drest, it rose in little whirlwinds. No sound broke the stillness of the summer evening. What was that? Coyotes barking over yonder across the river? That alien sound! A man's laugh, a curse, a heart-breaking bellow of pain. Williston parted ever so slightly the thick foliage of underbrush that separated him from the all to familiar sounds and peered within. In the midst of a small clearing—man-made, for several stumps were scattered here and there—two men were engaged in unroping and releasing a red steer, similar in all essential respects to a bunch of three or four huddled together a little to one side. They were all choice, well-fed animals, but there were thousands of just such beasts herding on the free ranges. He owned red steers like those, but was there a man in the cattle country who did not? They were impossible of identification without the aid of their brand, and it happened that they were so bunched as to completely baffle Williston in his eager efforts to decipher the stamp that would disclose their ownership. That they were the illegitimate prey of cattle rustlers, he never for one moment doubted. The situation was conclusive. A bed of glowing embers constantly replenished and kept at white heat served to lighten up the weird scene growing dusky under the surrounding cottonwoods. Williston thought he recognized in one of the men—the one who seemed to be directing the procedure of this little affair, whose wide and dirty hatrim was so tantalizingly drawn over his eyes—the solitary rider whose unexpected appearance had so startled him a short time before. Both he and his companion were dressed after the rough, nondescript manner of cattle men, both were gay, laughing and talkative, and seemingly as oblivious to possible danger as if engaged in the most innocent and legitimate business. A little to the left and standing alone was an odd creature of most striking appearance—a large, spotted steer with long, peculiar-looking horns. It was quite impossible to mistake such a possession if it had once been yours. Its right side was turned full toward Williston and in the center of the hip stood out distinctly the cleanly cauterized three perpendicular lines that were the identifying mark of the Three Bars ranch, one of those same big, opulent, self-centered outfits whose astonishingly multiplying sign was becoming such a veritable and prophetic writing on the wall for Williston and his kind. Who, then, had dared to drive before him an animal so branded? The boldness of the transgression and the insolent indifference to the enormity of attendant consequences held him for the moment breathless. His attention was once more called to the movements of the men. The steers with which they had been working was led away still moaning with surprise and pain, and another brought forward from the reserve bunch. The branded hip, if it was a brand, was turned away from Williston. The bewildered ani THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA mal was cleverly roped and thrown to the ground. The man who was plainly directing the affair, he of the drooping hat and lazy shoulders, stepped to the fire. Williston held his breath with the intensity of his interest. The man stooped and took an iron from the fire. It was the endgate rod of a wagon and it was red-hot. In the act of straightening himself from his stooping position, the glowing iron stick in his right hand, he fung from his head with an easy swing the flopping hat that interfeed with the nicety of sight requisite in the work he was about to do, and faced squarely that quiet, innocent looking spot which held the watching man in its brush; and in the moment in which Williston drew hastily back, the fear of discovery beating a tattoo of cold chills down his spine, recognition of the man came to him in a clarifying burst of comprehension. But the man evidently saw nothing and suspected nothing. His casual glance was probably only a manifestation of his habitual attitude of being never off his guard. He approached the prostrate steer with indifference to any meaning that might be attached to the soft snapping of twigs caused by Williston's involuntary drawing back into the denier shadows. "Y' don't suppose now, do you, that any blamed, interferin' offcer is a-leafn' round where he oughtn't to be?" said the second man with a laugh. Williston, much relieved, again peered cautiously through the brush. He was confident a brand was about to be worked over. He must see—what there was to see. "Easy now, boss," said the second man with an officious warning. He was a big, beefy fellow with a heavy, hardened face. Williston sounded the depths of his memory but failed to place him among his acquaintances in the cow country. "Gamble on me," returned the leader, with ready good nature. "I'll make it as clean as a boiled shirt. I take it you don't know my reputation, pard. well, you'll learn. You're all right, only a trifle green, that's all." With a firm, quick hand, he began running the searing iron over the right hip of the animal. When he had finished and the steer, released, staggered to its feet, Williston saw the brand clearly. It was J. R. If it had been worked over another brand, it certainly was a clear job. He could see no indications of any old markings whatsoever. "Too clean to be worked over a lazy S," thought Williston, "but not over three bars." "There were six reds," said the chief, surveying the remaining bunch with a critical eye. "One must have wandered off while I was gone. Get out there in the brush and round him up, Alec, while I tackle this long-horned gentleman." Williston turned noiselessly away from the scene which so suddenly threatened danger. Both men were fully armed and would brook no eavesdropping. Once more he crossed the sand in safety and found his horse where he had left him, up the ravine. He vaulted into the saddle and galloped away into the quiet night. CHAPTER 4 "On the Trail." Williston himself came to the door, His thin, scholarly face looked drawn and worn in the mid-day glare. A tiredness in the eyes told graphically of a sleepless night. "I'm glad to see you, Langford," he said. "It was good of you to come. Leave your horse for Mary. She'll give her water when she's cooled off a bit." "You sent for me, Williston?" asked the young man, rubbing his face affectionately against the wet neck of his mare. "I did. It was good of you to come to soon." "Fortunately your messenger found me at home. As for the rest, Sade, here, hasn't her beat in the cow country, if she is only a cow pony, eh, Sadie?" At that moment Mary Williston came into the open doorway of the rude claim shanty set down in the very heart of the sun-seared plain which stretched away into heart-choking distances from every possible point of the compass. And sweet she was to look upon, though tanned and glowing from close association with the ardent sun and riotous wind. Her auburn hair, more reddish on the endges from sunburn, was fine and soft and there was much of it. It seemed newly brushed and suspiciously glossy. One sees far on the plains, and two years out of civilization are not enough to make a girl forget the use of a mirror, even if it be but a broken sliver, propped up on a pineboard dressing table. She looked strangely grown-up despite her short, rough skirt and badly scuffed leather riding leggings. Langford stared at her with a startled look of mingled admiration and astonishment. She came forward and put her hand on the mare's bridle. She was not embarrassed in the least. But the color came into the stranger's face. He swept his wide hat from his head quickly. "No indeed, Miss Williston; I'll water Sade myself." "Please let me. I'd love to." "Please let me. I'd love to. "She's used to it. Langford," said Williston in his quiet, gentlemanly voice, the well-bred cadence of which spoke of a training far removed from the harassments and harshnesses of life in this plains country. "You see, she is the only boy I have. She must of necessity be my chore boy as well as my herd boy. In her leisure moments she holds down her kitchen claim; I don't know how she does it, but she does. You had better let her do it; she will hold it against you if you don't." "But I couldn't have a woman doing my grooming for me. Why, the very idea!" He sprang into the saddle. "But you waited for me to do it," said the girl, looking up at him curiously. "Did I? I didn't mean to. Yes, I did, too. But I beg your pardon. You see—say, look here; are you the little girl who left word for me this morning? "Yes. Why hot?" "Well, you see," smiling, but apologetic, "one of the boys said that Williston's little girl had ridden over and said her father wanted to see me as soon as I could come. So, you see, I thought——" "Dad always calls me that, so most of the people around here do, too. It is very silly." "I don't think so at all. I only wonders why I have not known about you before," with a frank smile. "It must be because I've been away so much of the time lately. Why didn't you wait for me?" he asked suddenly. "Ten miles is a sort of a lonesome run—for a girl." "I did wait a while," said Mary, honestly, "but you didn't seem in any hurry. I expect you didn't care to be bored that long way with the silly chatter of a 'little girl.'" "Well," said Lanford, ruefully, "I'm afraid I did feel a little relieved when I found you had not waited. I never will again. I do beg your pardon," he called, laughingly, over his shoulder as he galloped away to the spring. When he returned there was no one to receive him but Williston. Together they entered the house. It was a small room in which Langford was ushered. It was also very plain. It was more than that, it was shabby. An easy chair or two that has survived the wreckage of the house of Williston had been shipped to this "land of promise," together with a few other articles such as were absolutely indispensable. The table was a big ship box, though Langford did not notice that, for it was neatly covered with a moth-caten plum-colored felt cloth. A rug, crocheted out of part-colored rags, a relief of Mary's conservative and thrifty grandmother, served as a carpet for the living room. A peep through the open door into the next and only other room disclosed glimpses of matting on the floor. There was a holy place even in this castaway house on the prairie. As the young man's careless eyes took in this new significance, the door closed softly. The "little girl" had shut herself in. The two men sat down at the tables. It was hot. They were perspiring freely. The files, swarming through the screenless doorway, stung disagreeably. Laconically Willston told his story. He was no words in the telling. In the presence of the man whose big success made his own pitiful failures incongruous, his sensitive scholar's nature had sat up like a clam. Langford's law was set. His young face was tense with interest. He had thrown his hat on the door as he came in, as is the way with men who have lived much without women. He had a strong, bronzeed face, with dare-devil eyes, blue they were, too, and he had a certain turn of the head, a mark of distinction which success always gives to her sons. He had big shoulders, clad in a blue channel shirt open at the throat. In his absorption he had forgotten the "little girl" as completely as if she had, in very truth, been the 10-year-old of his imagination. How plainly he could see all the unholy situation—the handful of desperate men perfectly protected on the little island. One man sighting from behind a cottonwood could play havoc with a whole sheriff's posse on that open stretch of sand-bar. Nothing but a surprise—and did these insolent men fear surprise? They had laughed at the suggestion of the near presence of an officer of the law. And did they not do well to laugh? Surely it was a joke, a good one, this idea of an officer's being where he was needed in Kemah county. "And my brand was on that spotted steer," he interrupted. "I know the creature—know him well. He has a mean eye. Had the gall to dispute the right of way with me once, not so long ago, either. He was in the coral at the time, but he's on the range all summer. He has may have the evil eye all right, but he's mine, bad eye and all; and what is mine, I will have. And is that the only original brand you saw?" "The only one," quietly, "unless the J R on that red steer when he got up was an original one." "J R? Who could J R be?" "I couldn't say, but the man was —Jess Black." "Jesse Black!" The repeated words were fairly spit out. "Jesse Black! I might have known. Who else bold enough to loot the Three Bars? But his day has come. Not a hair, nor a hide, not a hoof, not tallow enough to try a flapjack shall be left on the Three Bars before he repents his insolence." "What will you do?" asked Williston. "What will you do?" retorted Langford. "I? What can I do?" in the vague, helpless manner of the dreamer. "Everything"—if you will," briefly. He snatched up his wide hat. "Where are you going?" asked Williston, curiously. "To see Dick Gordon before this day is an hour older. Will you come along?" "Ye-es," hesitatingly. "Gordon hasn't made much success of things so far, has he?" "Because you—and men like you—are under the thumb of men like Jesse Black," said Langford, curtly. "Afraid to peach for fear of antagonizing the gang. Afraid to vote against the tools of the cattle thieves for fear of antagonizing the gang. Afraid to call your souls your own for fear of antagonizing the gang. Your 'on the fence' policy didn't work very this time, did it? You haven't found your cattle, have you? The angel must have forgotten. Thought you were tainted of Egypt, eh?" "It is easy for you to talk," said Williston, simply. "It would be difficult if your bread and butter and you little girl's as well depended on a scrawny little bunch like mine." "Maybe," said Langford, shrugging his shoulders. "Doesn't seem to have exempted you, though, does it? But Black is no respecter of persons, you know. However, the time has come A man in a cowboy hat stands in front of a desk, talking to another man who is seated at the desk. The desk has a large hat on it. "Who Could J R Be?" for Dick Gordon to show of what stuff he is made. It was for this that I worked for his election, though I confess I little thought at the time that proofs for him would be furnished from my own herds. Present conditions humilate me utterly. Am I a weakling that they should exist? Are we all weaklings? " A faint, appreciative smile passed over Williston's face. No, Langford did not look a weakling, neither had the professed humiliation lowered his proud head. Langford strode to the door. Then he turned quickly. "Look here, Williston, I shall make you angry, I suppose, but it has to go in the cattle country, and you little fellows haven't shown up very white in these deeds; you know that yourself." "Are you going to stand pat with us?" "If you mean, am I going to tell what I know when called upon," answered Williston, with a simple dignity that made Langford color with sudden shame, "I am. There are many of us little fellows who would have been glad to stand up against the rustling outrages long ago had we received any backing. The moral support of men of your class has not been what you might call a sort of 'on the spot' support, now, has it?" relapsing into a gentle sarcasm. "At least, until you came to the front," he qualified. "You will not be the loser, and there's my hand on it," sad Langford, frankly and earnestly, ignoring the latter part of the speech. "The Three Bars never forgets a friend. They may do you before we are through with them, Williston, but remember, the Three Bars never forgets." Mary Williston, from her window, as is the way with a maid, watched the two horsemen for many a mile as they galloped away She followed them with her eyes while they slowly became faint, moving specks in the level distance and until they were altogether blotted out, and there was no sign of living thing on the plain that stretched between. But Paul Langford, as is the way with a man, forgot that he had seen a beautiful girl, and had thrilled to her glance. He looked back not once as he urged his trusty little mare on to see Dick Gordon. CHAPTER III Louise. It was raining when she left Wind City, but the rain had soon been distance. Perhaps the judge was right when he said it never rained north or west of Wind City. But the judge had not wanted her to go. Neither had the Judge's wife. Full 20 minutes, only day before yesterday, the judge had delayed his day's outing at the mill where the Jim river doubles right around on its tracks, in order to make it perfectly clear to her that it was absolutely outside the bounds of her duty, that it was altogether an affair on the slide, that she could not be expected to go, and that the prosecuting attorney up there had merely asked her out of courtesy, in deference to her position. Of course he would be glad enough to get her, but let him get some one nearer home, or do without. It wasn't at all necessary for the court reporter to hold herself in readiness to answer the call of anything outside her prescribed circuit duties. To be sure she would earn a trifle, but it was a hard trip, a hard country, and she had much better postpone her initial journey into the unknown until the regular term of court, when he could be with her. He had then thrown his minnow seine over his shoulders, taken his minnow pall in one hand and his reel case and lunch box in the other, and walked out to the road wagon awaiting him at the gate, and so off to his frolic, leaving her to fight it out for herself. The judge's wife had not been so diplomatic, not by any means. She had dwelt long and earnestly, and no doubt to a large extent truly, on the uncivilized condition of their neighbors up the line; the roughness of accommodations, the boldness and license of the cowboys, the daring and insolence of cattle thieves, and cunning and dishonesty of the Indians, and the uncouthness and viciousness of the half-breeds. She had ended by declaring eloquently that Louise would die of lonesomeness if, by God's good providence, she escaped a worse fate at the hands of one or all of the many evils she had enumerated. Yes, it was very evident Aunt Helen had not wanted her to go. But Aunt Helen's real reason had been that she held it so dizzily unconventional for her niece to go to that wild and unholy land alone. She did not actually fear for her niece's personal safety, and Louise more than half suspected the truth. She had heard all the arguments before. They had little or no terrors for her now. They were the arguments used by the people back in her eastern home, those dear, dear neo Dies, her people—now far away she was!—when they had schemed and plotted so pathetically to keep her with them, the second one to break away from the slow, safe, and calm traditions of her kin in the place where generation after generation of her people had lived and died, and now lay waiting the great judgment in the peaceful country burying-ground. She had listened to them dutifully, half believing, swallowed hard and followed her uncle, her father's youngest brother, to the "Land of the Dakotahs." Now, that same dear uncle was a man of power and position in the new land. Only last November he had been reelected to his third term on the bench of his circuit with a big, heart-stirring majority. In the day of his prosperity he had not forgotten the little, tangle-haired girl who had cried so inconsolably when he went away, and the unaccountable horror in whose eyes he had tried to laugh away on that never-to-be-forgotten day when he had wrenched his heartstrings from their safe abiding-place and gone forth in quest of the pot of gold at the rainbow's end—the first of many generations. Tradition knew no other since his ancestors had felled forests and built homes of hewn logs. Now he had sent for Louise. His court reporter had recently left him for other fields of labor. There was commotion among her people on receipt of the astounding proposition. She lived over again the dark days of the first flitting. He might well be her uncle had exaggerated the dangers of life in the new land. It was great fun to shock his credulous relatives. He had surely written them some enormous tales during those 15 years and more. He used to chuckle heartily to himself at reading some of the sympathizing replies. But these tales were held in evidence against him now that he dared to want Louise. Every letter was brought out by Louise's dear old grandmother and read to her over again. Louise did not half believe them, but they were gospel truth to her grandmother and almost so to her father and mother as well. She remembered the old spirit of fun rampant in her favorite uncle, and while his vivid pictures took all the color from her sensitive face, deep down in her heart she recognized them for what they were worth. The letters were a strange medley of grasshoppers, blizzards and Indians. But a ten-dollar per diem was a great temptation over a five-dollar per diem, and times were pretty hard on the old farm. More than all, the inexplicable something that had led her uncle to throw tradition to the four winds of heaven was calling her persistently and would not be denied. The dear hero of her childhood was much changed to be sure; his big joints had taken on more flesh and he had gained in dignity of department what he had lost in ease of movement. His once merry eye had grown keen with the years of just judging. The lips that had laughed so much in the old days were set in lines of sternness. Judge Hammond Dale was a man who would live up to the tenets of his high calling without fear or favor, through good and evil report. Yet through all his gravity of demeanor and the pride of his integrity, Louise instinctively felt his kindliness and loved him for it. The loneliness fell away from her and a measure of content had come in its place, until the letter had come from the state's attorney up in Kemah county: My Dear Miss Dale: The eighteenth of August is the date set for the preliminary hearing of Jesse Black. Will you be here, tomorrow, tomorrow, tomorrow, anxious that the testimony be taken by a competent reporter and shall be grateful to you if you decide to come. Let me tell you about our poor accommodations. Let me tell you about your consideration some good friends of mine, the Willistons, father and daughter, the three miles northwest of Kemah. The funeral will be at Williston, George Williston of the Lazy S. They are cultured people, though their mazes is necessarily primitive. I am sure you will be at our shabby little hotel, which is a rendezvous for a pretty rough class of men, especially at court time. Williston will meet you at Velpen. Please let me know your decision. Very sincerely. So here she was, going into the Indian country at last. A big state, South Dakota, and the phases of its civilization manifold. Having come so far, to refuse to go on seemed like turning back with her hand already on the plow, with a stout heart she had wired Richard Gordon that she would go. But it was pretty hard now, to be sure, and pretty dreary, coming into Velpen knowing that she would see no one she knew in all the wide, wide world. The thought choked her and the impish demon, loneliness, he of the smirk and horns and devil's eyes, loomed leeringly before her London Louise. again. Blindly, she picked up her umbrella, suit case and rain coat. "Homesick?" asked the kindly brakeman, with a consolatory grin as he came to assist her with her baggage. She blit her lip in mortification to think she had carried her feelings so palpably on her sleeve. But she nodded honestly. "Maybe it won't be so bad," sympathized the brakeman. His rough heart had gone out to the slim, fair-haired creature with the vague trouble in her eyes. "Thank you," said Louise, gratefully. There was a moment's bewilderment on the station platform. There was no one anywhere who seemed to be Mary—no one who might be looking for her. It was evening, too, the lonesome evening to those away from home, when thoughts stab and memories sap the courage. Some one pushed her rudely aside. She was in the way of the trucks. "Chuck it! None o' your eyes, my lad! There's my fast. Heft it if you don't put no stock in its looks. Git out o' this, I say!" The voice was big and convincing. The man wasn't so big, but some way he looked convincing, too. The truckman stepped aside, but with plucky temerity answered back: "Get out yourself!" Think you own the whole cattle country, jest 'cause you herd a few ornery, pink-eyed, slab-sided citters for your salt? Well, the railroad ain't the range, le'me tell you that. Jest you run your own affairs, will you?" "Thanky. Glad to. And as my affairs is at present a lady, I'll thank you to just trundle this here railroad offspring to the back o' this her lady—the back, I say—back ain't front, is it? Wasn't where I was edicated. That's better. And if you ain't satisfied, why, I belong to the Three Bars. Ever hear o' the Three Bars? Ef I'm out, jest leave word with the boss, will you? He'll see I git the word. Yes, sir, you o' boss thief, I belong to the Three Bars." The encounter was not without interesting spectators. Louise's brake man was grinning broadly at the discomfiture of his fellow employee. Louise herself had forgotten her predicature in the sudden whirlwind of which she was the innocent storm center. The cowboy with the temper, having completely routed the enemy to the immense satisfaction of the onlookers, though why, no one knew exactly, nor what the merits of the case, turned abruptly to Louise. "Are you her?" he asked, with a perceptible cooling of his assertive bravado. "I don't know," said Louise smiling fearlessly at her champion, though inwardly quaking at the intuition that had flashed upon her that this strange, uncouth man had come to take the place of Mary. "The boldness and license of the cowboys," her aunt had argued. There could be no doubt of the boldness. Would the rest of the statement hold good? "I think maybe I am, though I am Louise Dale, the new court reporter. I expected Miss Mary Williston to meet me." "Then you are her," said the man with renewed cheerfulness, seizing her suit case and striding off. "Come along. We'll git some supper afore we start. You're dead tired, more'n likely. It'll be moonlight so't won't matter if we are late a gittin' home." "Court reporter!" I had muttered the brakeman. "The new girl from down east. A pore little white lamb among a pack o' wolves and coyotes, and homesick a' ready. No wonder! I'll be takin' you back tomorrow, I'm thinkin', young lady." He didn't know the "little white lamb" who had come to help Paul Langford and Dick Gordon in their big fight. "Maggot." An hour prior to this little episode Jim Munson had sauntered up to the ticket window only to find that the train from the east was 40 minutes late. He turned away with a little shrug of relief. It was a foreign role he was playing—this assumption of the duties of a knight in dancing attendance on strange ladies. Secretly, he chafed under it; outwardly, he was magnificently indifferent. He had a reputation to sustain, a reputation of having yet to meet that which would lower his proud boast that he was afraid of nothing under the sun, neither man nor devil. But he doubted his ability so to direct the point of view of the Boss or the Scribe or the rest of the boys of the Three Bars ranch, who were on a still hunt for his spot of vulnerability. The waiting room was hot—unbearably so to a man who practically lived in the open. He strolled outside and down the tracks. He found himself wishing the train had been on time. Had it been so, it—the impending meeting—would now have been a thing of the forgotten past. He must needs fortify himself all over again. But sauntering down the track toward the stockyards he filled his cob pipe, lighted it, and was comforted. He had a 45-minute reprieve. The boys had tried most vallantly to persuade him to "fix up" for this event. He had scorned them indignantly. If he was good enough as he was—black woolen shirt, red neckerchief and all—for men, just so was he good enough for any female that ever lived. So he assumed a little swagger as he stepped over the ties, and to make himself believe that he was glad he had not allowed himself to be corrupted by proffers of blue shirts and white neckerchiefs. He was approaching the stockyards. There was movement there. Sounds of commands, bows, profane epithets, and worried bawlings changed the placid evening calm into nolly strife. It is always a place interesting to cowmen. Jim relegated thoughts of the coming meeting to the background while he leaned on the fence, and with idle absorption, watched the loading of cattle into a stock car. A switch engine, steaming and spluttering, stood ready to make way for another car as soon as the present one should be laden. He was not the only spectator. Others were before him. Two men strolled up to the side opposite as he settled down to musing interest. "Gee!" he swore gently under his breath, "ef that ain't Bill Brown! Yep. It is, for a fa.' Wonder what he's THE PLANET SATURDAY...FEBRUARY 18, '08 a shippin' now for!" He scrambled lightly over the high fence of the pen. "Hullo, there, Bill Brown!" he yellied, genially, making his way as one accustomed through the bunch of reluctant, excited cattle. "Hullo yourself, Jim! What you doin' in town?" responded the man addressed, pausing in his labor to wipe the streaming moisture from his face. He fanned himself vigorously with his drooping hat while he talked. "Gal huntin'!" answered Jim, soberly and despondently. "Hell!" Brown surveyed him with astonished but sympathetic approbation. "Hell!" he repeated. "You don't mean it, do you, Jim, honest? Come, now, honest? So you've come to it, at last, have you? Well, well! What's comin' over the Three Bars? What'll the boys say?" He came nearer and lowered his voice to a confidential tone. "Say, Jim, how did it come about? And who's the lady? Lord, Jim, you of all people!" He laughed unapologiously. "Aw, come off!" growled Jim. in petulant scorn. "You make me tired! You're plumb luney, that's what you are. I'm after the new gal reporter. She's due on that low down, ornery train. Wish—it—was in kingdom come. Yep. I do, for a face." "Oh, well, never mind! I didn't mean anything!" laughed Brown, good-naturedly. "But it does beat the band, Jim, now doesn't it, how you people scare at petticoats. They aren't pizzen—honest." Jim looked on idly. Occasionally he condescended to head a rebellious steer shutewards. Out beyond it was still and sweet and peaceful, and the late afternoon had put on that thin veil of coolness which is a God-given refreshment after the heat of the day. But here in the pen all was confusion. The raucous cattle-calls of the cowboys smote the evening air startlingly. "Here, Bill Brown!" he exclaimed suddenly, "where did you run across that critter?" He slapped the shoulder of a big, raw-boned, long-eared steer as he spoke. The animal was on the point of being driven up the shute. "What you want to know for? asked Brown in surprise. "Reason enough. That critter belongs to us, that's why; and I want to know where you got him, that's what I want to know." "You're crazy, Jim! Why, I bought that fellow from Jesse Black' other day. I've got a bill of sale for him. I'm shipping a couple of cars to Sloux City and bought him to send along. That's on the square." "I don't doubt it—far as you concerned Bill Brown!" said Jim, "but that's our critter best the same, and I am along if you've no obj." "Well, I guess not!" said Brown, ha- "Look here, I'll Brown." Jim was getting hot headedly angry, "didn't you know Jesse Black stands trial tomorrow for rustlin' that there very critter from the Three Bars ranch?" "No, I didn't" Brown answered shortly. "Any case?" "I guess yes! Williston o' the Lazy S saw this very critter on that island where Jesse Black holds out." He proceeded to relate minutely the story to which Williston was going to swear on the morrow. "But," he concluded, "Jesse's goin' to fight like hell against bein' bound over." "Well, well," said Brown, perplexedly. "But the brand, Jim, it's not yours or Jesse's either." "Quainted with any J R ranch in these parts?" quilled Jim, shrewdly. "I ain't." "Well, neither am I," confessed Brown, "but that's not sayin' there ain't one somewhere. Maybe we can trace it back." "Shucks!" exploded Jim. "Maybe you're right, Jim, but I don't propose to lose the price o' that animal less'n I have to. You can't blame me for that. I paid good money for it. If it's your'n, why, of course, it's your'n. But I want to be sure first. Sure you'd know him, Jim? How could you be so blamed sure? Your boss must range 5,000 head." "Know him? Know Mag? I'd know Mag ef my eyes were full o' soundin' cataracts. He's an old and tried friend o' mine. The meanest critter the Lord ever let live and that's a fac'. But the boss calls 'im his maggot. Seems to actually churnish a kind o' fection for the ornery critter, and says the luck o' the Three Bars would sort o' peak and pine e he should ever git rid o' the pesky brute. Maybe he's right. Leastwise, the critter's his, and when a thing's yours, why, it's yours and that's all there is about it. By crack, the boss is some mad! You'd think him and that wall-eyed, cross-grained son-of-a-gun had been kind and lovin' mates these many years. Well, I ain't met up with this ornery critter for some time. Hullo, there, Mag! Look kind o' sneakin', now, don't you, wearin' that outlandish and unbeknownst J R ?" Bin Brown thoughtfully surveyed the steer whose ownership was thus so unexpectedly disrupted. "You hold him," insisted Jim. "If he ain't ours, you can send him along with your next shipment, can't you? What you wobblin' about? Ain't afraid the boss 'll claim what ain't his, are you, Bill Brown?" "Well, I can't he'p myself, I guess," said Brown, in a tone of voice which told plainly of his laudable effort to keep his annoyance in subjection to his good fellowship. "You send Lang- ford down here first thing in the morning. If he says the critter's his'n that ends it." Now that he had convinced his quondam acquaintance, the present shipper, to his entire satisfaction, Jim glanced at his watch with ostentatious ease. His time had come. If all the minutes of all the time to come should be as short as those 40 had been, how soon he, Jim Munson, cow puncher, would have ridden them THE WESTERN I've Got a Bill-of-Sale for Him. all into the past. But his "get away" must be clean and dignified. "Likely bunch you have there," he said, casually, turning away with un- assumed reluctance. "Fair to middleman," said Brown with pride. "Shippin' to Sloux City, you said?" "Yep." "Well, so long." "So long. Shippin' any these days, Jim?" "Nope. Boss never dribbles 'em out. When he ships he ships. Ain't none gone over the rails since last fall." He stepped off briskly and vaulted the fence with as lightsome an air as though he were bent on the one erand his heart would choose, and swung up the track carelessly humming a tune. But he had a visse-like grip on his cab pipe. His teeth bit through the frail stem. It split. He tossed the remains away with a gesture of nervous contempt. A whistle sounded. He quickened his pace. If he missed her—well, the boss was a good fellow, took a lot of nonsense from the boys, but there were things he would not stand for. Jim did not need to be told that this would be one of them. The platform was crowded. The yellow sunlight fell slantingly on the gay groups. "Aw, Munson, you're bluffin', jested the mail carrier. "You ain't lookin' fer nobody; you know you ain't. You ain't no folks. Don't believe you never had name. Never heard of 'en'. "Lookin' for, my uncle," explained Jim, serenely. "Rich old codger from the state o' Pennsylvania some'ers. Ain't got nobody but me left." "Aw, come off! What you givin' us?" But Jim only winked and slouched off, prime for more adventures. He was enjoying himself hugely—when he was not thinking of pedicats. TO BE CONTINUED. Sure Cure. "You will never break up automobile speeding by timing the automobiles," bantered the stranger in the big goggles. "Maybe not, neighbor," drawled the rural constable with the huge star, "but we have broken up a lot of speeding by timing the chauffuers." "Timing the chauffuers?" "Yes, giving them sixty days' time in the county jail."—Chicago Daily News. Sounded Familiar Eva—Uncle Tom made millions with his mines. When he went over to Europe he could offord a private cabin for himself. Edna—Gracious! How funny! Eva—What is funny, dear? Edna—Why, it must have been "Uncle Tom's Cabin."—Chicago Daily News. Not for Doggie. Mrs. De Stille—Are you going to take your poodle to the country with you? Mrs. LeGrand—Mercy, no! They have such miserable food there.—Cleveland Leader. The Inevitable Result Stage Manager—I got the leading man to run over his lines in that automobile part. Manager—Well? Stage Manager—He simply mangled them—Baltimore American. Sweets or Meat. She—Before we were married you used to bring me chocolate every time you came. He—Yes, dear, and it cost a good deal less than the meat and potatoes I bring you now. The Landlord—Skeeters nothin' that's my darter playin' the mandolin. Cleveland Leader. The Man He Owed Short—I got behind with my rent this month. Could you let me have ten dollars? Long—Got behind with your rent, eh? What is it owing to? Lack of Foresight "So she married a poor man," said one New Yorker. "Yes," answered the other; "she was so blinded by affection that she never stopped to consider the limited alimony he could afford to pay." THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA A The treat we promised you begins in this number. Read the opening installment of LANGFORD OF THE THREE BARS By KATE AND VIRGIL D. BOYLES A man in a military uniform stands in a forest, holding a rifle. He is surrounded by trees and a stream. In the background, a horse rides through the trees. HER KIND HEART. It makes her sad to hear another sigh; A gentle heart is beating in her breast; Two would pain her if she had to harm a fly. But her dog has lost the tail he once possessed. She has had his ears clipped closely to his head. And looks upon him now with deepest pride: At night she left him sleep upon her bed, And when she driven he readdress at her side. She wouldn't hurt the feelings of a cat, "Twould grieve her if onpusay's tail she rocked; In passing it may be recorded that She recently has had her horses docked, "Twould pain her if she had to harm a fly. Yet while the little feelings through her fit She always has her horses refined as high As agreed bits and leather will permit, -S. E. Kliner, in Life. A Humourist's Epitapn. Here lies a paragrapher--good things her writ. He makes his death by falling down a shaft of wit. Solace for the Many. "What a misfortune it is that the public encourages so much trashy literature!" remarked the man with black-rimmed eyeglasses. "It it isn't a misfortune," answered the practical person. "It is a blessing, it enables people whose books won't sell to imagine they have written classics." Mother—Our girl is very ambitious, Henry. She is very anxious to get in the whirl. Father (gruffly)—Then let her come down to the office and come in by the revolving door when a bunch of messenger boys are going through.—Baltimore American. "Do you think the speeches you intend to deliver will exercise any real influence on events?" "No," answered the statesman; "but I am going to deliver them just the same. They are valuable as rehearsals for my next lecture tour."—Washington Star. Misunderstood "We are victims of the tipping habit," remarked the man who had entertained some friends at a restaurant. "Yes," answered young Mrs. Torkins; "and it's only a little while till the races come again."—Washington Star. Professional Advice "Doctor," said the convalescent, smiling weakly, "you may send in your bill any day, now." "Tut, tut!" replied the M. D., silencing his patient with a wave of his hand. "You're not strong enough yet."—Judge. A Firm Position "What is your position on this question?" asked the man of statesmanlike instincts. "My position," answered the man of legal qualifications, "is one that pays $40,000 a year."—Washington star. A rattling story of the South Dakota ranch life in the days of cattle thieves. Seldom has a book contained so many characters th a t stand for plains life as it actually is in those days, or in many that have a faculty of appealing to the reader. — Fort Worth Telegram. This realistic presentation of life on the ranch holds intensely interesting scenes, dramatic situations and exciting moments, arousing and keep the reader's attention to the end. Grand Rapids Herald. Practical. Valuable THINGS THAT WENT WRONG. A SINGULAR COUPLE. A SINGULAR COUPLE. When Miss Abigail Scranton became engaged to young Hiram Thornbush everybody declared it would be an ideal match. There was not the slightest objection on the part of the Scrantons or the Thornbushes. In fact the mothers of both the young persons encouraged them openly in their courtship. SCENE AT A BOX OFFICE A line of 50 or more persons stood in front of the box office at a theater one day this week, when a stout, refaced, important-looking man came up, opening his pocketbook as he came, extracting a $20 bill and eying the long line of prospective buyers superciliously. "Get in line, you!" shouted a dozen voices. "That's what I was going to do, you blamed chumps," he answered, scowlingly taking his place at the foot—Chicago Tribune. A GREAT INVENTION. Boggs—Was that burglar alarm you invented a success? Joggs—Must have been. The burglars pinched it when they broke in. Philadelphia Telegraph. Little Danger. "Scientists agree that climates are changing all over the world," remarked the English tourist. "Aren't you afraid it will change for the worse in this country?" "Oh, no," replied the New Yorker. "It couldn't."—Chicago Daily News. Didn't Stop There. "Bus Conductor (glancing at the ticket)—Sorry, sir, but we don't stop at that place. Fetherwate—What place? Conductor — Green's, the pawnbroker's. Fulfilling Expectations. "Alas!" moaned the depleted backer of the show, "my cake is dough!" "Exactly," returned the star of the piece. "That is what angel cake is expected to be."—Baltimore American. And Then He Does. Many a man, when being married, has said "I wilt" instead of "I will."— Judge. Judge. A tale full of life and action, and thrilling situations, with none of the characters overdrawn. Con- numerous and well knit together, the novel should take its place with the best fiction founded on life in the wild and west. —Chicago Evening Post. The book abounds with the spirit of the great plains and an eager vitality throbs from its pages. It is brium full of abundant, dramatic action, strength and color. - Des Moines Mail and Times A SAD ENDING. Three couples, once upon a time, All in a friendly way. Made up their minds one evening, that They'd cycling go next day. They started in the early morn, And nothing seemed amiss. And when they reached the leafy lanes They rode in twos like this! They wandered over hill and dale, Beside the murmuring stream; The land was rich with autumn tints, The day was like a dream. They sped through many a woodland glade, And life seemed full of bliss; For when they rested in the shade The sat in twos like this! The day flew by and evening came, "Oh, much to soon!" they said. They tarried long upon the way, The sky grew black o'er head. Down poured the rain—the homeward dawn. Till one unlucky miss. Slipped sideways—crash! Great Scott! the lot -Dorothy Williams, in Royal Magazine. Too Much Cornstarch Little Johnnie doesn't like to be kissed, but sometimes he is compelled by some gushing friends of his mother's to submit to the ordeal. 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It is 5 cents per copy and the indications are that there will be lively times around 4 Cedar Street, New York where Mr. T. Thomas Fortune holds sway. Just now Mr. Fortune is much interested in the success of Mr. Charles E. Hughes as candidate for the Presidency of the United States. ____0____ We have received an invitation to the "House Warming" of Rev. W. L. Taylor, D. D., Grand Worthy Master of the Grand Fountain, U. O. of True Reformers' Feb. 20, 1908. His new mansion is the finest of the kind in this State so far as Negro Ownership is concerned, and we wish him long life and much prosperity. We expect to be there to warm that house. --- MR. WILLIAM MONROE TROT TERS' DEFENSE. Mr. William Monroe Trotter in his letter sent to the Boston Transcript, a copy of which is before us for publication did not lose an opportunity to express his opinion of Dr. Booker T. Washington, while at the same time showing that he had explained to his readers the objections made by Mr. William Lloyd Garrison to the use of his name and utterances in the columns of the Boston Guardian. Mr. Trotter shows that the article of which complaint was made was from the columns of the Nashville Clarion. Mr. Garrison objected to the use of the display headlines, which placed him in the position of being antagonistic both in ideas and principle to the distinguished Tuskegee educator. We have not as yet been informed whether or not the Boston Transcript was more liberal to Mr. Trotter than Mr. Trotter was to Mr. Garrison. Mr. Trotter says: "Let the readers of the Transcript judge whether there is any unfair spirit or personal animosity displayed in this typical criticism of Mr. Washington, and whether this criticism as Mr. Garrison implies fails to be 'intelligible.' "As perfect an understanding as possible between the racial classes of any community of mixed population is desirable, especially between the educated elements. Let me therefore endeavor to make intelligible the opposition to Booker Washington by colored men in Boston. In its third issue the Guardian condemned Mr. Washington for this public statement in Boston uttered in the writer's hearing and reported in the daily press: "'Fundamentally and perma- nently we should not be so much concerned as to whether we are to ride in a Jim-Crow car as with the question whether we will find in the inferior car a superior man, not a beast, but one who in body, mind and soul is a man. "In February 1902 The Guardian condemned those words in a signed letter by Mr. Washington given to the Associated Press: "'Every revised constitution throughout the Southern States has put a premium upon thrift, character, intelligence and the acquisition of property'. "On the question of education the Guardian condemned Mr. Washington for such antagonism as this uttered at the National Capital: "'For an educated Negro to be able to raise 1000 bushels of potatoes is worth more to the race than dozens of orations and tons of newspaper articles.' "On the question of race belittlement and ridicule the Guardian condemned the following public utterance by Mr. Washington before a white audience in Chicago: "When the Negro comes to look upon the toothbrush as a necessity I have no fear for his future development."****In some of the homes I find an organ or silk peticoat and no forks. The Negro will eat with his hands, provided he can make a show. "As to the color prejudice of white Americans The Guardian condemned him for saying publicly in New York October 14, 1903: "We have no reason for complaint. If we do not get on the fault it is with us and not with the white people." As to his methods with colored newspapers The Guardian condemned the practice revealed by a public letter to Mr. Washington dated Jersey City, June 27, 1903 which began with these words: "My Dear Mr. Washington: I have your letter of the 20th inst. with typewritten paragraphs for the Appeal, which I marked 'Refused' on the envelope and returned the same to you; I see your smooth way in subsidizing the colored papers to boom yourself, by sending out editors prepared at Tuskegee." "Mr. Garrison calls insulting The Guardian's assertion that Mr. Washington in his public utterances has improved because of the attacks made on him by it. If The Guardian has waged a fight on him for the above sort of utterances and he makes such utterances no longer, why is it 'insulting' for The Guardian to claim its attack has had beneficial results?" Mr. Trotter continues "The Guardian, however, admits Mr. Garrison is right about colored men becoming subservient when they receive political jobs, but the case of the Boston colored man who helps deport poor Chinamen illustrates its opposition to Mr. Washington, inasmuch as he directs such work for President Roosevelt, the colored man to whom Mr. Garrison aptly refers having somersaulted from the chief and public critic of Mr. Washington as a necessary condition for getting a federal appointment to keep which he even endorsed in toto the Brownsville soldier discharge decree. I agree heartily with Mr. Garrison when he says Booker Washington has the burden of a large school in the South, that he seeks to draw support from Southern whites with inherited prejudices, that his school is in the most inflammable portion of the South, where a whisper may produce an avalanche. I cannot agree as a colored man that these considerations either justify Mr. Washington in speaking for Jim-Crow cars or revised constitutions or in ridding his race, nor can I agree that it would be sensible for the colored people to acquiesce in a false propaganda that the school might become large. His very position makes him impossible as a race or political leader. "There would be little or no criticism of Mr. Washington by colored men to-day if he confined himself to his school work and kept out of politics. Since it could hardly be claimed necessary to the existence of his school, his dabbling in politics, his acceptance of the role of national colored patronage distributor or boss his frequent consultations with President Roosevelt on national politics, which the public press has reported time and again, take away any possible argument based on his Southern school as against criticising him. "When a colored man is so occupied with politics that the Washington papers have reported him as recommending every colored Federal appointee under President Roosevelt, that Senator Foraker, asked about the appointment of a colored man in Ohio to make enemies for the champion of the Black Battalion and to bribe the colored vote, refers to him as the 'Third Senator for Ohio,' when a Washington paper reports that the President has been firm on the soldier discharge in part because this man had informed him that his race's resentment was not deep or general but largely confined to a few political leaders without any following, when in a newspaper interview he has made a political prediction that William H. Taft will get the nomination for President, then can the position of his school in the South be urged as immunity from criticism for the position he takes on public questions? "When such a man has been silent as to the discharge in disgrace and without trial of 167 colored soldiers by President Roosevelt, supported by War Secretary W. H. Taft, when a Boston paper (Boston Herald) reported that Booker T. Washington has been engaged in heading off a movement in the colored National Baptist Conference in Washington condemnatory of the President and Secretary Taft in connection with the Brownsville matter, when the Washington correspondent of a Chicago paper (Chicago InterOcean) on the 11th inst. said, 'Booker Washington is in position to name the 22 delegates from Alabama to the Republican National Convention, he intends to name them, and they will all be for Taft,' is it not 'intelligible' that educated colored men should criticise and assail him? "Now cannot this unpleasant between the white defenders of Mr. Booker Washington who are friendly to the colored people, and the colored opponents of Mr. Washington THE RICHMOND PLANET RICHMOND. VIRGINIA who condemn him as injuring the race in his civil and political rights be amicably adjusted by these white friends of Mr. Washington inducing him to get out of politics and to confine his activities to his great school and by his colored critics thereby agreeing to cease their criticism of him? I am sure his colored critics will keep their part of the understanding. "If the white friends of Mr. Washington will not or cannot do this, I submit the above evidence to the Transcript readers and leave it to them to decide as to which is the 'scandal', if any, the eulogizing of Mr. Washington by white advocates of equal rights for the colored race or the colored champions of that cause insisting upon condemning Mr. Washington as an injurious and unsafe political leader. And should the grief logically be all on the part of the white 'steadfast friends of the race?' " This then is the ultimatum delivered by Mr. William Monroe Trotter. That his conclusion is fair, must be admitted when he insists that Dr. Washington confine himself to his chosen profession rather than engage either directly or indirectly in the selection of political candidates for office. Dr. Washington will no doubt insist that he is a citizen and as such is entitled to exercise all of the political rights and privileges of any other citizen. In this the distinguished educator is right. Still he should not object if he is made the object of attack of those who are in politics as a vocation, and who see fit to disagree with him. We are frank to say that we cannot see the propriety in consulting with politicians and alding candidates for political office, one against the other on the part of an educator, whose efforts are pledged to the industrial elevation of a people and who has discountenanced political activity on the part of the Negroes of the United States to the exclusion of or interference with their legitimate business. Still, we are unable to see what all of this discussion has to do with the refusal of Mr. William Monroe Trotter to publish the letter of Mr. William Lloyd Garrison in the columns of the Boston, Massachusetts Guardian. Mr. Trotter wanted to make his reply in the Boston Transcript in his own language and in his own way. Mr. Garrison wanted to make a reply to Mr. Trotter in the Boston Guardian in his own language and in his own way. It seems to us that Mr. Trotter played for a dose of his own medicine and if the Transcript refused to indulge him, he was served in the same manner that he had treated another. We believe in consistency and in this we cannot see that Mr. Trotter is consistent. --- SECRETARY TAFT AND THE NEGRO. "Whatever sceptic could inquire for, For every why he had a wherefore."—Butler. The speech of Secretary William H. Taft at Kansas City, Missouri, February 10th, 1908 was, so far as his references to the three war amendments are concerned, an unfortunate deliverance. Rightly interpreted and properly analyzed, it will tend to estrange and make impossible the support of every unprejudiced, far-seeing, justice-loving Negro in the United States. Viewed from any standpoint, it is an apology for existing political condition in the Southland and a pledge so far as he is concerned that these conditions will not be disturbed, leaving to time a legacy and to the liberal white people of this section a task which the constitutional provisions of the United States declare that the nation, through its duly elected officers should perform. We are presuming of course that this distinguished Ohioan was correctly quoted. There has been no denial and here is what the press dispatches say: "Secretary Taft spoke of the three war amendments of the Constitution, the thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth. The operation of the fifteenth amendment, that which forbade any State to deprive the Negro of his vote on account of his color or previous conditions of servitude, had not, h said, been as successful as that of the thirteenth and fourteenth. The leaders of the South had, in many States, however, cast about to make the law square with the existing conditions by property and educational qualification which should exclude most of the Negro vote. "This very desire," said the speaker, "to avoid the violent methods which were wont to overcome the colored vote in the South itself indicates a turn for the better. It is said, however, and with truth, that these election laws are intended to be enforced by means of the discretion vested in election officers, so as to exclude the ineligible colored man with rigor, and to allow the ineligible whites, who ought also to be excluded, to the injury of the franchise. Deplorable as this is, still the situation is by no means a hopeless one for the Southern Negro." We have read these utterances again and again and we fail to find one single idea advanced for the bettering of these conditions. He tells us that conditions are not hopeless, which indicates that to the casual observer, they seem to be. His deliverances in this respect are consonant and identical with the utterances of Dr. Booker T. Washington from more than a hundred rostrums He is quoted further: "'The greatest friend the Southern Negro is likely to have is the broad-minded Southern white man who sympathizes with the colored man and knows the value to the South. Nor is it unreasonable to hope that the men who have already sought to come within the law and avoid violence will ultimately see the wisdom and righteousness of the equal enforcement of the law of eligibility against white and black. Secretary Taft said he was confident that, in the end, the fifteenth amendment 'will prove to be a bulwark equally beneficial with that of the thirteenth and fourteenth amendments to an unfortunate, down-trodden, struggling race.'" Here then is a positive declaration. In declaring that the greatest friend the Southern Negro is likely to have is the broad minded Southern white man who sympathizes with the colored man and knows his value to the South, Secretary Taft eliminates not only himself, but President Roosevelt as well. Neither of them, according to this phase of reasoning could be termed or classed as the best friend of the Southern Negro. But what about the Northern Negro, Secretary Taft? What kind of white men are his best friends? There race prejudice is as lacking in many places among the Democrats as among the Republicans. A man is recognized as a man and the platform of the Democratic Party is as silent on the race question as is the platform of the Republican Party. Who is the best friend of the Northern Negro, Secretary Taft? In order to emphasize the truthfulness of what the distinguished statesman says, we desire to call attention to the fact that when the alleged "shooting up" of Brownsville took place August 13, 1906, certain colored soldiers of the United States Army were placed under arrest and turned over to the civil authorities A Texas grand jury composed necessarily of white Texas Democrats failed to find a true bill against the accused men for want of sufficient evidence and the soldiers were discharged from the custody of the State officials. Although the War Department by way of Secretary Taft and President Roosevelt did not have one scintilla more evidence to go upon than did the Texas authorities it proceeded at once to summarily "convict" all of the soldiers of Companies B, C and D of the Twenty-fifth Infantry and without a court-martial, as required by the Revised Statutes, but by executive order proceeded to demand that the soldiers plead guilty, and upon failure so to do "kicked" them out of the army, the alleged guilty with the admittedly innocent. Not satisfied with this the President of the United States proceeded to call them liars, and murderers, men who had disgraced the uniform of the nation and he followed all of them into private life with an executive order barring them from ever re-enlisting in the army or navy of the United States or from holding civil or political office. In this, it may be well to state that Secretary Taft, heartily concurred, and his message is now in the archives of the government at Washington. President Roosevelt is impetuous, but Secretary Taft is a jurist. Further comment as to the relative degrees of responsibility of the two statemen is unnecessary. Now, then, squared by Secretary Taft's previous utterances it would seem that the Black Battailion found more justice in a Democratic Texan grand jury than it did in a Republican President and a Republican Secretary of War. It seems too that there were more friends of the Negro below the Mason and Dixon Line than there were above it. Still, under President Roosevelt's leadership the representatives of the South as allies have come to the support of the rooseveltian clans of the North and as a result if a vote is reached, his policy in this instance will be sustained by the combination of the Negro-hating interests antagonistic to our welfare. Let us presume that Secretary Taft's policy of leaving it to time and the liberal minded white men of the South had been adopted with reference to slavery. Wouldn't slavery now be in existence in this country? We do not need condolences. We need remedies. We need a President who will see as much heinousness in depriving a tax-paying citizen of his right to vote in South Carolina as he sees crime in railroad magnates giving rebates in Illinois. The Fifteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States is as follows: "The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States, or by any State, on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude." To nullify these provisions, sacred guarantees in the Fourteenth Amendment have been violated. Will Secretary Taft direct the Attorney General to proceed against the corrupters of the ballot in the South with the same energy that President Roosevelt is directing the efforts against the corrupting of the ballot by the bribing plans of some of the moneyed men of the North? It seems to us that Secretary Taft will continue his policy of deploring evil and condoning vice that good may come. To our mind it would have been far better if the distinguished Secretary of War had ignored the Negro question as President Roosevelt has lone. "That Brownsville skeleton is in the closet and all efforts to bolt or lock it in has up to this time proven futile. The Negroes of the United States will not be satisfied until justice is done the Black Battalion. "What in me is dark Illumine, what is low raise and support; That to the height of this great argument I may assert eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to men." A LEADER HONORED. The banquet tendered Hon. Charles W. Anderson, Collector of Internal Revenue Thursday evening, January 30, 1908 at Manhattan Casino, New York was a deserved tribute to a popular and worthy leader. We do not know a colored political leader in the United States, who has succeeded in avoiding the embarrassments that confront men of his calibre. The presentation of a handsome silver service was among the features. That this banquet had a significance in another direction must be admitted since leaders from Mass. to Ohio were present. President Roosevelt sent a letter expressing his regrets that he was unable to be present and Gov. Charles E. Hughes of New York expressed a similar feeling. Even Dr. Booker T. Washington contributed to the expense of the occasion and was present. The question in our mind is, what does all this mean? That it has a political significance goes without saying. Is an organized effort already under way to persuade or force the Republican citizens of color in the North into the administration's band wagon? It seems so. Well, one thing we know,—the management could not have chosen a better method for doing it, or an abler man for leading the crusade. If Charles W. Anderson of New York and Booker T. Washington of Alabama cannot corral the Negro vote then the gentlemen at Washington might as well give up the task. We can only read though from surface indications and we feel that we have an idea as to what is going on below. President Roosevelt will need missionaries and its about time he was getting them before the colored people with fervent prayers and deep lamentations. Any Negro leader, who can explain away Brownsville satisfactorily to the citizens of color will be entitled not only to a gold medal, but also to a "high seat in the kingdom." HUNGARY FULL OF COUNTS. Mrs. Cornellus Vanderbilt Silent on Report That She Is to Wed Hindik. NEW YORK, Feb. 12.—Confirmation of the report that Count Alexander Hadik of Hungary is to marry Mrs. Cornellus Vanderbilt could not be obtained from the lady most interested in it. Mrs. Vanderbilt refused to make any statement whatever regarding the matter, and the only member of the family who would discuss it at all had this to say: "This is a matter of which I know nothing. I have nothing to say about it." The Austro-Hungarian consul, Otto Baron Henoung of Carroll, C. G. was A MRS. VANDERBILT. asked to shed some light upon the subject. "How many counts are there in Hungary?" was asked. "Ha, ha," laughed the baron, lighting a cigarette. "That's a funny question. Why, there are plenty of them; plenty." "A hundred?" "Oh, yes; several hundred. You couldn't count 'em all." "Why are there so many?" "Because," said the baron slowly, "it's the custom of the country. You see, if a count marries and has five sons or six or seven or any number they are all counts also. They are permitted to carry the name, you see. It's different from the English custom. Widow Found Murdered. MIDDLETOWN, Md., Feb. 10.—Mrs. Jane Bowers, a widow, living alone, was murdered at Pleasant Walk, Frederick county. Her body, which had been mutilated with an ax, was found in her home. PASS STORMY STRAIT American Battleship Fleet Now Steaming North. DANGERS OF MAGELLAN LEFT BEHIND Evans' Command With Destroyer Flotilla Defies Rock Bound Passage to Pacific—Are En Route to Cali-ino and Telecahuano. PUNTA ARENAS, Feb. 12.—The Pacific Navigation company's steamship Orita, which has arrived here, reports having seen the American fleet steaming out of the strait into the Pacific, having passed Cape Pillar, the most westerly point of the passage. The Chilean cruiser Chacabuco was still leading, and the weather was very stormy. The captain of the Orita said that he sighted nineteen vessels in the fleet, these being the sixteen American battleships, the Chilean cruiser and two others, probably colliers. He did not sight the American torpedo boat botililla, which accompanied the battleships from this port, but which turned north at Smyth channel, thirty miles from the western end of Magellan strait, to proceed through this passage to Telecahuano. Rear Admiral Evans' fleet of battleships left Punta Arenas about midnight Friday, accompanied by the torpedo flotilla. The Chilean cruiser Chacabuco, with Admiral Simpson and a delegation of representative Chileans aboard, led the battleships out of port and through the strait. Leutenant Commander Rozas of the Chilean navy acted as the pilot for the torpedo boat flotilla, but it was intended that bbs services would be chiefly requisitioned in the passage of Smyth channel, the entrance to which lies thirty miles to the east of Cape Pillar, through the inner passage to the Pacific ocean and along the jagged coast to Telcahuano, 2,130 knots from Punta Arenas. The sighting of the American fleet by the steamship Orla indicates that it made a favorable voyage through the strait, having passed Cape Pillar, at the Pacific entrance to the Magellan strait. The battleships, now clear of Cape Pillar and the Evangelists, will steam directly north to Callao, which is the next stopping place. They are expected to arrive at Callao about the 20th. On the way up the coast, however, they will run in close to Valparaiso, and each of the vessels will fire the national salute of twenty-one guns as they pass in the offing. KNOCKS OUT PALMER: Tommy Burns Downs English Champion in Fourth Round. LONDON, Feb. 12—Tommy Burns, the American heavyweight pugilist, last night knocked out Jack Palmer of Newcastle, the English champion, in the fourth round of what was scheduled to be a twenty round contest for the heavyweight championship. The referee might have given a decision in the first minute of the contest, as Palmer was a beaten man from the moment he entered the ring. Burns climbed under the ropes smilingly and showing his customary confidence, while Palmer displayed great nervousness. Without any preliminary sparring Burns went after him, and the first round had hardly begun before the Englishman was on his knees. He took the count twice and during the rest of the round was busily engaged in covering himself. This was repeated in each of the other rounds, Palmer being hopelessly outclassed and apparently without ability either to deliver a telling blow or to defend himself. James D. Laxar Norx H JAMES B. Layng Very III. NEW YORK, Feb. 12—The condition of James D. Layng, the well known railroad man, who is critically ill at his home, 931 Fifth avenue, is unchanged. Mr. Layng is vice president of the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis railroad, with offices at the Grand Central station; vice president of the Lincoln National bank and formerly general manager of the West Shore railroad. He has been railroading ever since he was graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1849. He was once general manager of the Pennsylvania road. Again Report Czerian Crazy VIENNA. Feb. 12.—Though the St. Petersburg press is not permitted to publish the fact, it is positively known through official channels that the czarina is suffering from hallucinations and that her physicians have warned her husband of the urgent necessity for her removal from Russia. 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M. --- IT WILL PAY YOU To interest yourself in promot ing the CIRCULATION of the RICHMOND PLANET. --- THE PLANET SATURDAY...FEBRUARY 15. '08 CONDENSED DISPATCHES. Notable Events of the Week Briefly Chronicled. A cablegram was received at Government House, Ottawa, announcing the death in England of Lady Morley, sister of Lady Gray. Governor Fort of New Jersey sent to the senate a long list of appointments, including that of Milton Demarest to be law judge of the county of Bergen to succeed Judge Zabriskle, whose term is about to expire. Tuesday, Feb. 11. A Trenton (N, J.) report says that President Roosevelt favors Governor Fort of New Jersey for the vice presidential nomination. Twenty-seven persons were injured, two probably fatally, in coasting accidents in Greater Pittsburg during the past twenty-four hours, twenty-one of them in one accident on the north side and five in another accident in the same section. Ell Pigot, a negro, who criminally assaulted Miss Wells near Brook Haven, Miss, was taken from the custody of a Jackson military company and a posse of deputies and hanged to a tree. The military company was overpowered by a mob of over 2,000 citizens. William J. Bryan addressed the Canadian club gt Montreal in the hall of the old corn exchange. Mr. Bryan was welcomed by a round of tumultuous cheering. He said he was glad he belonged to a political system under which he could wish Canadians well without being accused of being unfriendly to his own country. Monday, Feb. 10. On the eve of her marriage to Frederick Courland Fenfield, distinguished author and diplomat, Mrs. Anne M. Weightman Walker, second richest woman in the world, has decided to share her fortune of $63,000,000 with the relatives who unsuccessfully fought for it in 1806 in the Philadelphia courts. A Queenstown report says that when the steamship Etruria, en route to New York, stopped there C. W. Morse, banker and promoter, of New York, who is a passenger, was in his stateroom and refused to be disturbed. He sent word that he had nothing to say regarding his affairs. Morse has been indicted at New York for fraud and perjury. The Russo-Turkish relations have entered upon a menacing phase. Alarmed at the unchecked penetration of Persia and the mobilization in Armenia, the Russian government has executed a formidable military demonstration in reply to the Turko-Persian frontier dispatching there a compact expedition of 60,000 select troops from central Russia, with full war equipment. Saturday, Feb. 8. The impressive funeral services at Lisbon of King Carlos and Crown Prince Luiz, killed by assassins last Saturday, was the final act in the bloody tragedy that has shocked all the world. From the announcement of Vernon L. Davey, superintendent of the public schools of East Orange, N. J., it would appear that there are some rich youngsters in his province on whom he would like to get to work with a stout birch. "The children of the rich," he says, "while generally lovable and well intentioned, are spolled by lack of home training, and their department at school is often very trying on the patience of the teacher." Friday, Feb. 7. The Washington Post publishes a five column article on the presidency in which it is predicted that Governor Charles E. Hughes will be nominated on the fourth ballot in the Republican national convention. King Carlos of Portugal died a poor man. His entire fortune consisted of insurance policies held by the Bank of Portugal as security for advances made. After these repayments have been made it is declared that there will not remain more than $30,000 to be distributed to the heirs of the king. Judge James Hargis, "the king of Breathitt county," central figure in a vendetta which in two decades has cost more than sixty lives and caused the burning of twenty-three homes and many business houses, lies dead at Jackson, Ky., in a $1,500 casket he ordered a month ago, murdered by a son crazed with drink in his own store. Beach Hargis, the parricide, is raving like a madman in jail. Thursday, Feb. 6. Sir Birrell Barnes, president of the divorce court at London, has granted the Countess of Yarmouth, who was Miss Alice Thaw of Pittsburg, a decree nullifying her marriage to the Earl of Yarmouth. The case was heard in private and was undefended. Declaring that for the first time in many years the Democratic party was united and ready to present a solid front to the common enemy, William J. Bryan in an address to a gathering of Democrats in Brooklyn asserted that the Republican party was badly split up. TAFT IN KANSAS CITY. Secretary of War on His Campaign Out West. KANSAS CITY, Mo., Feb. 11.—William H. Taft, secretary of war, last night was guest of honor and chief spokesman at a banquet given in Convention hall to 1,200 persons by the Association of Young Republicans of Missouri. Many of the guests came from Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma and distant Missouri cities. A great BORS AND INTEREST THEM IN THE PLANET WE WILL HELP YOU TO OBTAIN A PREMIUM. COLORED INFANTRY IN RESCUE OF ROUGH RIDERS AT SAN JUAN HILL, JULY 2, 1898, SIZE 20X28 AND 20X24 INCHES, ADMIRAL DEWEY'S GREAT NAVAL BATTLE OFF CAVITE IN MANILA BAY, MAY 1ST, 1898, NAVAL BATTLE, DESTRUCTION OF ADMIRAL CERVERA'S SPANISH FLEET OFF SANTIAGO DE CUBA, JULY 3RD, 1898, SIZE 22X28 INCHES; LAND BATTLE, CAPTURE OF EL CANEY, EL PASO AND FORTIFICATIONS OF SANTIAGO, JULY FIRST AND SECOND, 1898, SIZE 22X28 AND 22X27 INCHES. WE WILL SEND YOU ONE OF ANY OF THE FOLLOWING BATTLES OF THE CIVIL WAR ON THE SAME TERMS. THE PICTURES LIKE THE OTHER BATTLES ARE FINISHED IN COLORS. 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FOR ONE YEAR EACH, OR THEIR EQUIVALENT, WE WILL SEND YOU A COPY OF UNCLE TOM'S CABIN, THE MOST INTENSELY INTERESTING BOOK IN THE COUNTRY. WE WILL SEND YOU A GOLD-PLATED BROOCH WITH YOUR PICTURE THEREIN, YOU TO Temonstration greeted Secretary Taff when he entered the great banquet hall and again when he rose to speak. Besides the 1,200 banqueters, the balconies of the hall were filled by several thousand spectators. Secretary Taff's speech was a general defense of the Republican party, and especially of the policies brought to the fore by the administration of President Roosevelt. Speaking of the recent panic and the president's late special message to congress, the secretary said: "The message contains an answer to the charges made that the administration is responsible for the industrial depression, and the sharpness and emphasis with which this unfounded attack is met have heartened the great body of the people as a bugle call to renewed support of the policies of the administration." THE OPORTO PLOT. Militant Republicans had Planned a Portuguese Republic. MARSEILLES, Feb. 12.—The frustration at Oporto of an elaborate plot to proclaim a republic is announced in a telegram which was received from one of the highest officials in Oporto by his brother who has just arrived here from Lisbon. A large number of conspirators have been arrested, including the leaders. It was also stated that numerous bodies of militant Republicans had been seen about the suburbs of Oporto. The police captured a large store of revolvers and carbines, together with the written plans of the conspirators. These plans indicated that it was the intention to take the city by surprise on Saturday night, invade the government house, imprison the governor and other officials, destroy all lines of communication and establish a republic. Emmanuel Christian Curex BOSTON, Feb. 12—The Rev, Dr. Elwood Worcester and the Rev, Dr. Samuel Macomb of Emmanuel Episcopal church will go to New York to give an explanation of their Emmanuel Christian cures at Christ Episcopal church there. They will remain in the city a week. Dr. Strong, the rector of Christ church, says that the visit does not mean that his church has committed itself to the new cure system, but that it is willing to give the ministers an opportunity to explain their beliefs. COUNT BONI FINED. Former Husband of Anna Gould in Guilty of Assault on Prince Sagan. PARIS, Feb. 12.—Count Boni de Castellane, former husband of Anna Gould of New York, was ordered by the correctional court here to pay a fine of 100 francs and to pay further a franc civil damages to Prince Helle de Sagan on being found guilty by the court of splitting in De Sagan's face recently. Jean, Castellane's brother, was acquitted. The court recognized also that Boni had some provocation. The fight between Count Boni de Castellane and his cousin which resulted in the fine being imposed occurred on the steps of the cathedral in the Rue de Challot. Count Boni went at his antagonist savagely, and the two fought all over the pavement, much to the amusement of a crowd that urged them on. The mixup occurred after a memorial service in honor of Lady Stanley Errington, who was a relative of both contestants, and the main cause was supposed to have been the rumor that the prince was going to marry the count's former wife, Anna, Countess de Castellane, who was Anna Gould. FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL Closing Stock Notations Money on call easy at 7% to 2 per cent exchanges, $33,844,547; balances, $11,571,567 Amal. Copper..... 47% N. Y. Central..... 94 Atchison..... 68 Nort. & West. 62 B. & O...... 77% Penn. R. R. 103% Brooklyn R. T. 38% Reading..... 93% C. C, C. & St. L. 49 Rock Island..... 11% Ches. & Ohio. 39 St. Paul..... 104% Ches. & North. 19 Southern Pac. 67% D. H. & H. Ry. 19 Erie..... 14% South. Rf. pf. Gen. Electric..... 113 Sugar..... 108 Il. Central..... 124 Texas Pacific..... 17 Lackawanna..... 50 Union Pacific..... 137 Louis. & Nash. 51 U. S. Steel..... 27% Louis. & Nash. 123 U. S. Steel pf. 50 Int. Met..... 74 West. Union..... 50 Missouri Pac. 38 New York Markets FLOUR-Quiet and lower to sell; Minnesota patents, $.30.00; winter patents, $.7.70; 5.10; winter straights, $.4.40; 4.50; winter extras, $.3.50; 4.20. RYE FLOUR-Dull; fair to good, $4.75@ $1.15; choice to fancy, $3.25, $3.30. 5.15; choice to fancy, $3.25; 5.20 wheat was thrown on the market on occasion cables and heavy Argentine offerings, and prices gave way fully 1.15c; per bus- hair, 1.15c; hour, May, $1.01; 1.08c; July, $9.20; 1.20c; BUTTER. Creamery, specials, per basket, firsts, firsts, 11; 13; 16; seconds, 22; 26; 30; thirds, 24; 28; clauses, 32; 36; extras, 31; 34; 32; firsts, 30; 32; seconds, 26; 28; state dairy tubs, commercial; process specials, 32; extras, 31; firsts, 11; 13; 16; 22; 26; imitation creamery, firsts, 25; 26; 28; state cream specials, 16; 20; state, full cream cream, 16; 20; white, fancy, 15;c; large, colored, fancy, 15;c; white, fancy, 15;c; good to prime, 15;c; white, fancy, 15;c; made to prime, 15;c; made to prime, winter made, 15;c; common to fair, 10;12;c; skims, 15;c; pound specials, 11c; skims, fine, 8;12; 15;c; pound specials, 11c; common, 32;14; 15;c; full skims, 15;20. ```markdown ``` EGGS—State, Pennsylvania and nearby 26@32c; brown cheese, 3c; good to choice, 26@32c; brown cheese, 3c; good to choice, firsts, 23@24c; dirties, 17@19c; checks, 18@1c; refrigerator, firsts, 1c; lower grades, lower grades, 18@c; good to fancy, 18@c; lower grades, 18@c TALLOW-Qulet; city, 51@4c; country, 5@4c WAY—Fair trade; good to choice, 90@ @31 STRAW—Qulet at 65@71c DEANS-Firm; marrow, $25@2.3; medl, $2.3; peas, $25@3.75; red kidney, $1.6 WOOL—Qulet; domestic fleece, 23@3c; Pennsylvania, choice, per bushel, 8@9c; York and western, 75@3c; do. fair to good, 65@2c POULTRY—Steady and in fair demand; fowls, 13@1c; old roosters, 1c; chickens, 10@14c; ducks, 14@1c; DRESSED POULTRY—Firm and in good demand; fresh killed fowls, choice, 1c; do. fair to good, 13@13c; old roost, 16@1c; western, 10, 14@14; nearby, 16@1c; by, choice to fancy, 10@2c; do. fair to good, 17@18c; do. western, choice to fan, 17@18c; do. western, choice, 14@17c; ducks, nearby, 16@1c Live Stock Markets CATTLE-Supply light; market slow $49.99-$59.99; prime; $40.99-$50.99; slow $49.99-$59.99; HOGS- Receipts light; market active and higher; prime heavies, $4.60; mediums and heavy Yorkers, $4.80; light Yorkers and pigs, $4.60; roughs, $13.50@4. SHEEP AND LAMIS-Supply light: sails and companion. 630 lamps. 870 lamps. IN ORDER TO FURTHER INCREASE OUR STEADILY GROWING CIRCULATION WE WILL OFF WE WILL SEND YOU THE PLANET AND THE ST LOUIS, MISSOURI, SEMI-WEEKLY GLOBE DEMOCRAT, ONE OF THE LEADING REPUBLICAN JOURNALS IN THE UNITED STATES FOR $2.25 PER YEAR FOR BOTH. WE WILL SEND YOU THE PLANET AND THE COSMOPOLITAN MAGAZINE FOR $2.25 PER YEAR FOR BOTH. WE WILL SEND YOU THE PLANET AND McCLURE'S MAGAZINE FOR $2.25 PER YEAR FOR BOTH. OR THEIR EQUIVALENT, WE WILL SEND PICTURES, ONE ONLY, OF PRESIDENT THEODORE ROOSEVELT, DR. BOOKER T. WASHINGTON, BATTLE OF SANTIAGO, LAND BATTLE OF QUASIMAS NEAR SANTIAGO, JUNE 24. 1898, SHOWING THE NINTH AND TENTH COLORED CAVALRY IN SUPPORT OF ROUGH RIDERS, SIZE 20X28 AND 20X24 INCHES, LAND BATTLE AND CHARGE OF THE 24TH & 25TH READ THE GREAT INDUCEMENTS OFFERED BY THE PLANET THE RICHMOND PLANET. RICHMOND. 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WE WILL SEND ONE CHINA SET, THIRTY-ONE PIECES; ONE NECKLACE; DICKENS, SHAKESPEARE, BYRON WORKS; ONE UMBRELLA, ONE PLAIN GOLD RING, ONE PAIR LACE CURTAINS 1,000 ENVELOPES, 1,000 SHEETS OF PAPER PRINTED AND DELIVERED; ONE TOILET SET, ONE HALF CORD OF SAWED WOOD FOR TWENTY NEW SUBSCRIBERS WE WILL GIVE ONE HANDSOME GOLD RING WITH OPALS, RUBIES OR PEARLS; ONE JEWELRY BOX FINISHED IN GOLD OR SILVER; ONE SILK SHIRT WAIST; ONE READY MADE DRESS, ONE GOLD WATCH, FILLED, WARRANTED FOR TEN YEARS, ONE ROCKING CHAIR, ONE LOAD OF COAL, ONE GROSS OF SOAP, EITHER WASHING OR TOILET; ONE BARREL OF BEST FLOUR, ONE PAIR BLANKETS, ONE MANICURE SET, ONE SEAMSTRESS' WORK BOX, ONE PAIR SHOES, GENTS OR LADIES. FOR FORTY YEARLY SUBSCRIBERS OR EQUIVALENT, WE WILL GIVE ONE SEWING MACHINE, ONE DIAMOND RING, ONE GOLD WATCH, ONE PAIR FINE GOLD EARRINGS, ONE MUSIC BOX, ONE PHONOGRAPH, ONE READY MADE DRESS, ONE SUIT OF GENTLEMEN'S CLOTHES, ONE GOLD-HEADED CANE, ONE GOLD-HEADED UMBRELLA, ONE CHINA SET, ONE DOZEN SILVER-PLATED KNIVES AND FORKS, ONE HAT-RACK, ONE SILK DRESS, ONE WEEK'S TRIP TO THE SEASHORE, RAILROAD FARE AND HOTEL BILL PAID, FOR ANY RICHMOND WORKER. THESE OFFERS MAY BE TAKEN ADVANTAGE OF BY SENDING ONE OR TWO SUBSCRIBER'S NAMES AT A TIME. WE WILL KEEP A RECORD OF THEM; AS SOON AS THE FOR TEN NEW SUBSCRIBERS FIVE ```markdown ``` ```markdown ``` SIX THE PLANET SATURDAY...FEBRUARY 18, '08. WITH THE SAGES. What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult to each other?—George Eliot. The fruit derived from honest labor is the sweetest of all pleasures.—Vauvenargues. A fault which humbles us is of more use than a good action which puffs us up with pride.—Bovee. Every branch of knowledge which a good man possesses he may apply to some good purpose.—Buchanan. The active only have the true relish of life. He who knows not what it is to labor, knows not what it is to enjoy.—Jay. The man who has any dignity of character should conquer with honor, and not use any base means even to save his life.—Sertorius. To live for others, to suffer for others, is the inevitable condition of our being. To accept the condition gladly is to find it crowned with its own joys. —Wescott. Try to be something in the world, and you will be something; aim at excellence, and excellence will be attained. This is the great secret of success and eminence.—Bolleau. If we wish to be just judges of all things, let us first permaude ourselves of this: that there is not one of us without fault . . . , no man is found who can acquit himself.—Seneca. Look not mournfully into the past; it comes not back again. Wiseely improve the present; it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a brave heart. Wisdom lies not in attaining gold, silver, nor fame, nor wealth, nor health, nor strength, nor beauty, but is that which can use all these with decorum, and to comfort and usefulness. —Pinterest. IMPORTANT IF TRUE. The annual profits of Monte Carlo amount to $5,000,000. France makes $50,000,000 from its tobacco crop. Smoke up. India is no place for S. Voller, Jr. There are 26,000,000 widows there. In New York city 35 per cent. of the male population wear leathers. Next! Only one person in a thousand lives to be 100 years old. Not that it matters to us. If the wind is right a fox can scent a man a quarter of a mile. A skunk can do it at two feet. The average size of the English family is 4½ persons. Some of the halves come over here and marry our heirresses. If you walk through all the rooms of the Spanish royal palace it means a 128-mile trip, and would take six days unless Weston did it. Pittsburg is the only city in the country which charms toll across its bridges. It pays 38 times more than Chicago for the maintenance of those structures. THE GENTLE CYNIC The skating girl, without a doubt, may scores of lovers win. Sometimes they have a falling out, sometimes a falling in. It cannot help but make us sore to pay for another's fun, and the fatted calf must suffer for the sins of the prodigal son. The football man to college goes, his wisdom to complete. He writes his name on the scroll of fame, but writes it with his feet. The malden with a broken heart finds that her woe increases. Though shattered by Dan Cupid's dart, she always saves the pieces. Reformers now are all the craze, and though the craze is growing, a fellow cannot mend his way without the patches showing. Let's wife was turned into a pillar of salt, but that is no reason to snub her, for it wasn't her fault that the lady did halt, for she thought she would turn to rubber. BECAUSE THEY'RE SHORT. Of the world's lands 14,000,000 acres are in steppes, not including those leading to the "L" platforms. The family wealth in Dutch Gulana is put into jewelry, which the wife wears. Not so different from the little old United States. The figure sharps calculate that if the president had his way, and no one should die in the meanwhile, the whole earth would be peopled by the year 2072. What's your score? An invention has been patented in Holland by which beer can be concentrated into cakes. Dissolved in water a cake two inches square will provide quite a decent soaue. Why They Were Witty In a certain district of Clydesdale the lodgers of an old widow lady have of late had much cause for complaint regarding the meagerness of the food supply. The other evening one of her lodgers made a remark, upon which the Lankshire landlady said to him: "Man Tam, it's curious ma lodgers are aye awful 'wilty'? "Ay, wumman," said Tam, "it's an aul' saying an' a true yin, 'there's noaeth like hunger fur sharpenin' the wits'!"—Duncee Weekly News. Peculiar Old English Names Here are some of the names taken from a jury list in 1658, the year in which Richard Cromwell succeeded his father as protector of England: Falnt-Not Hewitt, Redeemed Compton, Stand-Fast-on-the-High Stinger, Be-Courteous Cole, Search-the-Scriptures Moreton, Kill-Sin Pimple, Be-Faithful Joiner, Fight-the-Good-Fight of Faith White, More-Fruit Flower, Weep-Not Billing, Repentance Avis and so on. A Book for a Meal Sir Gilbert Parker recommends a simple method whereby one may possess the books one would like to possess. "I have often said to myself," he remarked to a London audience, "I cannot afford to buy that book." And I have said again: 'My dear fellow, if you will fast for one day you can buy three of them.' It is a book for a meal.' Fish That Cold Cannot Harm Some varieties of fish can stand any amount of cold without harm. Perch will live in ponds which are frozen practically solid in every hard winter. The whitefish of Canada, caught through holes in the ice, have been picked up frozen so stiff that they would break like brittle sticks, yet when carefully thawed out showed signs of life. The Blood-Stained Equator Human life, I have reason to know, is held cheap at Equatorville, and the place is stained with many crimes. In fact, the whole equator is, throughout its 25,000 miles, a line of ignorance, savagery, and blood. It is a black line which civilization ought to paint white.—The Strand Magazine. Joke of the Middle Ages: In the middle ages it was considered a fine amusement to watch the official jester leap into an immense bowl of custard. But occasionally a bespattered dame would indulge in language which to-day would be called quite shocking, although then proper enough. Antiquity of the Mortgage The mortgage comes direct down to us from the Romans, but its antiquity is much more remote than the Roman nation. The Greeks, Carthaginians, Persians, Egyptians, Babylonians, all knew of the mortgage, and daily used it in their business transactions. Uncle Jerry. "Many a boy," said Uncle Jerry Peebles, "gets a whipping for being merely suspected of doing the things his father was too slick to get caught at when the old man was a boy himself." Cultivate Quiet Mind Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened, but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm—R. L. Stevenson. "You can't do nuffin' with some folks," said Uncle Eben. "If you does yoh level best to mak 'em have a good time, dey simply turns up deir noses an' thinks you is tryin' to show off." Katzenjammer. "The worst thing about taking a day off and having a good time," groaned Budger, bathing his aching head, "is that you need about two 👣 👣 to forget it!" Knowledge When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it; this is knowledge.—Confucius. Cost of Keeping Shoes Shined Cost of Keeping Shoes Shined. It is estimated that the people in Chicago spend $300,000 a year in keeping their shoes polished. Of this amount the profits are said to be $100,000. Up-to-Date Bible History An old Dutch Bible found in the Humansdorp district of Cape Colony has a frontispiece depicting Calm shooting Abel with a blunderbuss. Trouble One of the troubles about borrowing trouble is that the person who borrows it doesn't reduce the stock that is being carried by anybody else. A Word from Josh Wise. "I've noticed no one ever raises th' question when a woman's usefulness ends. It simply doesn't." Born at Sea. The nationality of a child born at sea is that of the flag under which the ship is sailing. No Bisk. No Honor He who has no voice in the volley will have none in the council.—Spanish Proverb. Unprofitable Grief None can cure their harms by walling them. Shakespeare. THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA Yield of a Good Beef Steer. A good steer properly and at the same time profitably cut up will yield the following percentages of dressed weight, given in round numbers so as to be more easily memorized: Lolins, 15 per cent; ribs, 10 per cent; rounds, 15 per cent; chucks, 19 per cent; rounds, 21 per cent; chucks, 19 per cent; plates, 16 per cent; flanks, 4 per cent; shanks, 7 per cent; tallow, 3 per cent; kidneys, 25 per cent; sausage meat, 1 per cent; shank meat, 1.50 per cent; tankage, 2 per cent; loss in cutting, 25 per cent.—National Provisioner. Remarkable Natural Fortress In the northern part of Madagascar is the most remarkable natural fortress in the world. It is occupied by a wild tribe who call themselves the People of the Rocks. The fortress is a lofty and precipitous rock of enormous size, 1,000 feet high and eight square miles in area. Its sides are so steep that it cannot be climbed without artificial means. Within it is hollow, and the only entrance is by a subterranean passage. The Epitaph Deserved "She remained at home and spun wool" is the inscription over the grave of a Roman woman and many another woman is bravely doing the task, performing her duty with the same faithfulness that characterizes the soldier deined to either lead or follow. Fortunately the poor spinners are so constituted that they would do naught else by choice. Work "Whether thy work be fine or coarse, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought; no matter how often defeated, you are born to victory. The reward of a thing well done is to have done it."—Emerson Different Zones While giving a geography lesson, a teacher called upon a precocious youngster named Johnny to tell what he could about "zones." Johnny responded as follows: "There are two kinds of zones, masculine zones are temperate, while the feminine zones are both horrid and frigid."—Lippincott's. Malacia Is Rechristened Malaria, which has in the past been attributed to poisonous gases from swamps and decaying vegetation, has now been officially laid at the door of the mosquito, and is called "mosquito fever." The international sanitary congress changed the name formally and officially. New Use for Seaweed Agaragar, derived from Chinese seaweed, may possibly replace gelatine as a basis for photographic processes. Lecturing before the Royal Photographic society, W. F. Cooper said that it would in time mark a revolution in photographic emulsion making. Deep-Growing Plants The greatest known depth at which any green plant grows in fresh water is reached by a moss called Thamnium lemani, which has been lately discovered by Prof. F. A. Forcel 200 feet below the surface of the Lake of Geneva. Bacteria Carried by Ellies In some cases individual files carry as high as 100,000 bacteria on their legs and in their mouths. The correspondence between the increase of files and the increase of death tells its own story. Life's Sorrows. Bob (to Bessie)—It seems rather strange, Bessie, that when I didn't want to kiss you you didn't mind, but now that you are old enough to make me want to, you won't let me—Life. That Leap-Year Privilege No man has ever acknowledged that he was the victim of woman's leapyear privilege, and no woman ever cared to boast of her success in that line. Woman's Fears Even though a woman may know that she is "his" best girl, she isn't always happy. She fears that he may find a better one. Making Light of Rules "I chafe against the regulations," murmured the college girl as she prepared surreptitious Welsh rarebit at 2 a. m.-Harvard Lampoon. Rachel's Simple Diet Raphael considered that a meat diet was not good for a palate, and therefore lived principally on dried fruits, such as figs and raisins, with bread. Has Further to Travel. A fat man, say New York physi clans, makes the best husband. And yet his wife does not find it so easy to get around him. Their Work Some men were born to invent things and others to try to improve what has been invented. Guns Have Short Lives. Many of the finest long-range guns are completely worn out after being fired a hundred times. Growth of Character Character, like a coral reef, is made bit by bit—Symonds. Sufficient Credentials Careful Parent—Before I can give consent to your proposed marriage to my daughter. I must know something about your character. Sultor—Certainly, sir, certainly. Here is my bank-book. Careful Parent (after a glance)—Take her my son, and be happy—N. Y. Weekly. Knights of Pythias, This organization is one of the most powerful progress has been phenomenal. The Grand Union over all of the cities and counties in required to organize a new lodge. The its strongest features, but the principles. Founded on Friendship, based on Charolene, the respectable, upright people of the city of their heartiest support. It pays an endowment and burial benefit of $4.00 per week sick dues. The badge isary regalia. For information concerning use. Courts of Calant ment of the Order. It requires a memorial a court. Its members are pledged to memory and prove Love one for the other. Burial benefit of $150.00. It pays $3.00 per use for regalia is the cost of the badge, 50 cents for funeral occasions. CALANTHE or Children's Department persons cannot do better than to enter the nominal and the benefits all that could be and death benefits of from $30.00 to $4.00 in your neighborhood, orgriz one, concerning the Children's Department ad This organization is one of the most powerful in the country and its progress has been phenominal. The Grand Lodge of Virginia has jurisdiction over all of the cities and counties in this state. Thirty males are required to organize a new lodge. The benefits paid constitute one of its strongest features, but the principles are greater than anything else. Founded on Friendship, based on Charity and established on Be nevolence, the respectable, upright people of the state will find it an order worthy of their heartiest support. It pays an endowment and burial benefit of of $200.00 for all ages. It pays $4.00 per week sick dues. The badge costing 75 cents, each is the pays $4.00 per week sick dues. The badge costing 75 cents each is the only absolutely necessary regalia. For information concerning the organization of lodges apply at the main office. The Courts of Calanthe The Courts of Calanthe Is the Female Department of the Order. It requires a membership of thirty persons to organize a court. Its members are pledged to exhibit Fidelity, exercise Harmony and prove Love one for the other. It pays an endowment and burial benefit of $150.00. It pays $300 per week sick days. The only expense for regalia is the cost of the badge, 50 cents and a rosette, costing 25 cents for funeral occasions. THE BANDS OF CALANTHE or Children's Department also constitutes a feature and persons cannot do better than to enter the little ones into this mystic circle. The expense is nominal and the benefits all that could be expected. It pays from $1.50 to $1.50 sick dues and death benefits of from $30.00 to $40.00. If you have no Pythian Lodge or Court or Band in your neighborhood, orgniz one. For all information concerning the Children's Department address, on concerning special rates of ages and courts, address INK·II A Beautiful Hair Tonic for the Read what Madam Robinson, the Queen of the Opera, say For all information concerning special rates of JOHN MITCHELL, JR., membership in the lodges and courts, address 311 N. 4th St., Richmond, Va. KINK·NE A Beautiful Hair Dressing and Tonic for the Hair! PROF, ROBERTS, New York City, Dear Sir: I have used your Kink-ine for the past year and my hair is growing very fast. I find it the most delightful hair dressing and tonic I have ever used, altogether different from the many cheap pomades and vaselines on the market. It makes my hair so beautiful, soft, silky, and has entirely removed all dandruff and stopped it from falling out and breaking off. And enables me to do it in any of the many styles that I use on the stage. It does all you claim for it, and I would not be without it. Yours sincerely, MME, ROBINSON. I have used your Kink-ine for the past year and find it the most delightful hair dressing and tonic I have the many cheap pomades and vaselines on the market silky, and has entirely removed all dandruff and stot off. And enables me to do it up in any of the man does all you claim for it, and I would not be without Kink-ine Hair Dressing is a delightful perfume colored people; is guaranteed to be absolutely safe and kinky, curly hair soft, silky and glossy, enables you in any style that you may wish. SSING by supplying the needed oils directly to the root and giving new life and vigor to the hair. SSING is for sale at all drugists for 35c per bottle. n get it. If not, send me 50c. and I will send same to yrove the quality and superiority of our goods over cents, one cake of Kink-ine Soap, the best shampoo, or six bottles and six cakes of soap for $2.00. MINOR DRUG CO., Ldt. —Distributor Furnished Rooms, 50c. up. Meals, 50c. up. THE MT. CLIMENS HOTEL AND MINERAL BATH HOUSE! Kink-ine Hair Dressing is a delightful perfumed tonic prepared largely for the use of 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 it in 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 drugstores for 35c per bottle. If your druggist does not keep it have him order it for you; he can get it. If not, send me 50c, and I will send same to you, prepaid. SPECIAL OFFER.—To prove the quality and superiority of our goods over all others, we will sell one full-size bottle of Kink-ine, price 25 cents, one cake of Kink-ine Soap, the best shampoo and Toilet Soap in the world, price 25 cents, both for only 50 cents, or six bottles and six cakes of soap for $2.00. Special offer good only at the following stores: OWENS & MINOR DRUG CO., Ldt.—Distributors, 1907 E. Main St. AMERICAN AND EUROPEAN PLAN. Phone, 245. that may come to Mt. Clem ens in the future for their Health and Treatment 11 S. 4TH ST., RICHMOND, VA. KNIGHTS OF PYTHAS F.C.B. only absolutely necessary rega apply at the main office. The Court Is the Female Department of the thirty persons to organize a co- Fidelity, exercise Harmony and an endowment and burial bene lues. The only expense for r a rosette, costing 25 cents for f THE BANDS OF CALA stitutes a feature and persons circle. The expense is nomin $1.00 to $1.50 sick dues and d Lodge or Court or Band in you For all information concern For all information cone membership in the lodges and A 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. $ SPECIAL OFFER.—To prove the q bottle of Kink-ine, price 35 cents, one cents, both for only 50 cents, or six h stores: OWENS & MINOR —Nelson's Hair Dressing can be bought at Jennings and Brown Drug Store, Pittsburgh, Pa. Important Discovery "Have you discovered anything important?" asked the novice on the force. "Yes," answered the New York detective. "Then we shall be able to put our hands on the criminal?" "I am surprised to hear you talking this cheap story-book sensationalism!" "But," faltered the novice, "you said you had discovered something." "I have. I have discovered an investment that will pay at least a hundred per cent. profit."—Washington Star. Still Alive "And were her sailors desperate when she refused them?" "Exceedingly. One of them threatened to leave the earth." "And did he carry out the threat?" "Yea." "How sad!" "Not at all. He simply went up in his airship. The second one told her that he would be beneath the waves in an hour." "Gracious! And was the poor fellow downed?" "No, he was a beutonant on a submarine boat."—Chicago News. Uncle Jim's First Caviar Pearl—Poor Uncle Jim embarrassed us all when we dined in the ultra-fashionable restaurant. Ruby—In what way? Pearl—The waiter brought the dear old man a caviar sandwich and guess what he said. Ruby—What, dear? Pearl—He said he didn't care about his blackberry preserves smeared on his bread for dinner!—Chicago News The Art of Milking Suburban Resident—Yes, I want a useful man about my country place. Can you milk? Applicant—Yis, sor. "Which side of a cow do you sit on when milking?" "Wull, sor, Ol never milked but wan cow, an' she was a kicker; an', bedad, a good dale av the tolme Oi was on both sides av her, sor."—Washington Star. N. A., S. A. E. A., A. AND A. the most powerful in the c cal. The Grand Lodge of Vir- and counties in this state. new lodge. The benefits paid the principles are greater based on Charity and esta- right people of the state will port. burial benefit of of $200.00 f s. The badge costing 75 ce tion concerning the organiza Calanthe requires a membership of are pledged to exhibit for the other. It pays pays $3.00 per week sick of the badge, 50 cents and men's Department also con- to enter the little ones in all that could be expected. on $30.00 to $40.00. If you organize one. Department address. Mrs. ANNA TAYLOR, W. M. 120 W. Hill St., Richm JOHN MITCHELL 311 N. 4th St.. K·INI All Hair Dressing for the Hair Robinson, the Famous I the Opera, says of Kink- for the past year and my hair is green passing and tonic I have ever used, alter clinics on the market. It makes my hair all dandruff and stopped it from fall- ing in any of the many styles that I do would not be without it. Yours sincere a delightful perfumed tonic prepared be absolutely safe and harmless. It mite glossy, enables you to comb it with mills directly to the roots of the hair to groom to the hair. for 35c per bottle. If your druggist o will send same to you, prepaid. If our goods over all others, we w the best shampoo, Toilet Soap to soap for $2.60. Special offer good o t. —Distributors, 1907 E. M. MECIMAN JOBTEC Has opened its doors for the accommodation of COLORED PEOPLE on Rheumatism. It is the only Hotel and Mineral Bath House owned and conducted by a colored man at any of the health resorts in the United States. Write for Special Rates. GEO I. HUTCHINSON PROP. 48 Welts St. - Mt. Clemens, Mich Established 1899 Phone 4160 Dealer in General Line of FANCY AND STAPLE GROCERIES, NOTIONS, FRESH MEATS, CI- GARS, TOBACCO, ICE, WOOD COAL. #s ICHMOND, VA. 816 N. 2nd St. JOHN FOXEL ment also con- tinue little ones into this mystic d be expected. It pays from $40.00. If you have no Pythian address. NE Dressing and the Hair! The Famous Black Patti, days of Kink-ine and my hair is growing very fast. I have ever used, altogether different from set. It makes my hair so beautiful, soft, stopped it from falling out and breaking many styles that I use on the stage. I do it. Yours sincerely, MME. ROBINSON named tonic prepared largely for the use of and harmless. It makes harsh, stubborn roots of the hair tones up and nourishes. If your druggist does not keep it have you, prepaid. For all others, we will sell one full-size and Toilet Soap in the world, price 2 Special offer good only at the following: Hill St., Richmond, Va. IN MITCHELL, JR., 111 N. 4th St., Richmond, Va. M. B. FREE! An Astrological Rending sent free to anyone enclosing two cent stamp for mailing charges, etc. Send date and month of birth. Write to day and address PROF. J. H. HOLMES, 15 N. Kentucky Ave., Atlantic City, N. J. SCHOOL SHOES. Capitol Shoe & Supply Company, A complete stock of Boys,' Misses,' Men's, Ladies,' & Children's Shoes. ALL THE LATEST STYLES. For old papers, call on us. We are selling them at fifteen cents per hundred. BOARDING & LODGING Rates Reasonable. All the Comforts of Home Orders received by letter or telegraph MRS. BOOKER LEPTWICH. PROPRIETRESS 816 N. 2nd St. Richmond. Va P Notice! MRS. JOSIE A. GRAHAM Virginia's Most Successful Hair Culturist. ... PARLORS..... 108 E. Leigh St., - Kichmond, 'Phone, 1034. 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, face and skin. Graham's Superior Scalp Food for groving hair on oval heads and bare temples, 25cts. per jar. By mail, 35cts. Graham's Superior Orange Flower Skin Fo ' for developing and beautifying the skin, 25cts a jar. By mail 35cts. Graham's Superior Velvet Liquid Powder for giving the face a beautiful fair color, 25 cents a bottle. By mail 35cts. Graham's Vegetable Hair Dye the best on market giving a rich natural color, $1.00 per bottle. By mail, $1.25. Mrs. Graham makes a specialty of massaging and beautifying ladies faces for parures and public gatherings, 35 cents. Mrs. Graham schampoos the head and puts it in a healthy condition, 25 cents. All ladies who attend parties and other social gatherings should have their finger nails manicured and made beautiful, 25 cents. Mrs. Graham's preparations sell at sight. Ladies living in other cities and towns can make good money by selling these preparations. Write for terms to Mrs. J. A. Graham, No. 108 E. Leigh St., Richard, Va. 'Phone 2048 REAL ESTATE & LOANS Private Banker and Broker, Loans negotiated on Real Estate, Interest allowed on Deposits, Estates managed, Rent collected and prompt returns Special attention to repairs. Notary With Seal H F Jonathan FISH, OYSTERS AND PRODUCE. 120 N. 17TH ST., RICHMOND, VA. ALL ORDERS WILL RECEIVE PROMPT ATTENTION. Long Distance Phone, 752. STRAUS' SPECIAL Old Yacht Club, PURE WHISKEY Will Satisfy the lover of the right kin of stimulant. Special prices. We have all grades of good liquors, Cigars and Tobacco. Call and see us. Richmond, Virginia. S. W. ROBINSON NO. 23 NORTH 18TH ST. DEALER IN FINE WINES, LIQUORS CIGARS, &c. All Stock Sold as Guaranteed. PROMPT ATTENTION Your patronage is respectfully solicited. GEORGE O. BROWN Fine Photographs. True to Life. High-class service. Latest Improvements in Photographs. Out-door Work executed. Reasonable estimates and Prompt Service. Pictures Enlarged from Old negatives or Photographs. 3-ms THE ECONOMY, FINE CLEANING, DYEING AND REPAIRING CHITMAN M. WHITE, PROPRIETOR. A. Hayes First-class Hacks and Caskets of all descriptions. I have a spare room for bodies when the family have not a suitable place. All country orders are given special attention. Your special attention is called to the new style Oak Caskets. Call and see me and you shall be waited on individually. 'Phy.ne. 2778. THE PLANET NEW WEDDING VEIL LATEST FASHION CHANGE IN BRIDAL COSTUME. "Coronet" Idea Has Proved Very Popular—Arrangement That Adds Height to the Wearer—Better Than Old Style. One of the latest fashion changes is seen in the arrangement of the wedding veil to make it a distinctly becoming feature of the bridal costume. Heretofer veils have been worn in rather a set style simply because it was the way they had been adjusted for years. But the new coronet veil is proving a great success with almost every type of bride. The idea of the arrangement is to give height to the wearer. The soft upstanding puffs of tulle add two or three inches to the bride's stature, and they also impart an added amount of dignity to her orange-crowned head. Tulle is used for these vellas as it is much softer than lace and much more becoming than heavier meshes, unless the lace happens to be very tinted with age. Besides, tulle is far more easily draped than heavy lace. First the vell is put on over the head in the usual way, then the front ends are caught in a series of upstanding puffs that encircle the front of the head. These are confined to the hair by a small wreath of orange blossoms worn like a coronet. The traditional flowers do not dominate the head dress, but form a delicate finish as they lie half shrouded in puffs of tulle. The coronet vell arrangement is becoming from all points of view, a thing Coronet Wedding Veil. that could not be said of the old-fashioned way of wearing the veil. It is queenly from the direct front, it is effective from the back and when seen in profile it imparts a distinct charm to the white robed figure of the bride. There is this important point for the prospective bride to bear in mind when she is deciding upon her bridal costume. She will be looked at from an entirely different point of view than when she dresses for an ordinary social function. Her part in the wedding picture will be one viewed in perspective, and her costume should be arranged accordingly. A few inches added to her height will be all the better, and the lines of her gown should be the long, dignified ones which characterized courtly dames of olden times. NEW IDEAS IN EMBROIDERIES. Silver, Gold and Black Threads Used for Embellishment. Lovely embroideries are carried out in floss silk, alone or combined with silver, gold or black threads or with bugles and beads, or both velvet and moussline. The embroidery is seen on the most luxuriant of the evening wraps and gowns and exquisite silver, gold and jet fringes adorn many of the important frocks. Gold and old silver tissue and net are employed as the foundation for both moussline and beautiful overdresses of tunics of lace and embroidered fillet net that are now being lavishly displayed in the shops. Heavily sequined black evening gowns are again very fashionable, also those of net and lace, relieved with application of velvet and chenille, either in self tones or in contrasting colors with the design outlined in jet. Embroidered Irish, chantilly and point de Venise lace are also successfully introduced on many of the black evening gowns. Some New Neck Ornaments Among the really useful trinkets may be counted the flexible metal supports for collars. The newest of these are shown set with diamonds or saphires. In this form they make a decidedly satisfactory substitute for other materials. There is nothing more becoming to a woman than a simple ribbon or band of black velvet around the throat, and these ribbons are now decorated with jewels, spangles and tiny beads. Seed pearls on velvet are lovely and for older women steel beads and paste on black are most appropriate. Making a Bib for Baby Of all the things that handkerchiefs are made into there is nothing prettier than the baby bibs. The handkerchief is folded diagonally in half, not quite through the middle, as one corner should hang a little above the other when done. Then cut out and share the neck band. It itter with a plain French seam or with a dainty edge of fine lace. If the baby's monogram is worked on one corner the bib will be so much prettier. Half of one of the oil silk dress shields is basted underneath the bib to make it waterproof. NICE PRESENT FOR READER. Ribbon Book Mark One of the Most Acceptable of Gifts. It is always useful to know of a pretty design for a book-marker, since a little present of this kind worked by the donor can often be given where something more cozy, bought at a shop, would be altogether out of place. In the accompanying illustration a good idea is given for the making of a ```markdown ``` ribbon book-marker. One of those floral Chine ribbons which are now so popular should be chosen for the marker itself, patterned perhaps with pink roses and green leaves on a cream ground. The lower end should be bordered with a silk fringe either in pink or green to match the flowers and the foliage, while the top should be finished with a ribbon bow to correspond with the color of the fringe. The ribbon might be stiffened at the back with a lining formed of plain white ribbon, measuring the same width exactly; but this is not really necessary to its success. USE OF LOOSE DRAPERIES. Nothing Better in the Renovating Line Can Be Found. Loose draperies are especially helpful in making up little gowns and offer exceptional facilities for bringing out handsome dresses that are out of date and remodeling them in line with present modes. Double tunicies and trimmings that produce such effects are increasingly popular with the well dressed, and these may be worn by the women inclined toward embonpoint if the style is combined with long, straight lines in the front breadth or in some other way; but as a rule the double jue is best adapted to slender, girlish figures. Women who are clever enough to dress very well on a small or moderate expenditure usually confine themselves to a few becoming styles, and vary the details and accessories so that few people recognize their limitations. In fact, such a plan usually results in a woman's achieving a reputation for decided individuality and distinction of style, though the primary aim may have been only economy. Articles in one's wardrobe last better and don't date unpleasantly, as they have a way of doing where extreme styles and those that obtain a too popular vogue are followed. SOME PRETTY SKIRT EFFECTS Buttons and Braid Much Used, Either Together or Singly. There are some very pretty skirt effects, in skirts outlined with buttons and braid, though either can be used alone. The effect of the tunic is always heightened by a border of velvet or saintache buttons, and Paquil glorifies a model in white satin-faced cloth by a trimming of dark amethyst velvet pastilles. The tunic is square front and black, reaching almost to the ground and slashed up the sides almost to the hips. It shows an underskirt of softest crepe de chine with a hem of panne velvet, and all around the tunic are small velvet pastilles, those down the sides being twice as large as the ones around the bottom. Border effects find their highest expression in the tunic, and nothing is more elegant than a tunic of cloth or velvet bordered with heavy cluny or coarse net embroidered with silk and gold or silver threads. Veils Used Over Costumes The fashion for velling is a most pronounced fad. An exquisite evening coat of dull green satin bad a hand-painted border 12 inches deep around the bottom. The whole was completely veiled by an overdrapery of black chiffon set on in full folds, edged down the fronts with a three-inch band of black baby lamb. The sleeves seemed to be a series of loops of green chiffon and the baby lamb, arranged in an indescribable manner, but suggesting the acme of artistic taste. Veila Important. Your veil is an important affair. It either makes or mars the effect of your whole costume, and seriously affects the youthfulness of the face. Particularly is this true in the case of the bordered veils, which accentuate the line from the chin to the back of the collure or hat, and, according as this line is raised or lowered to a proper degree which varies with different faces, just so much is the contour affected. It is an art in itself to be able to adjust the veil to the best possible advantage. Amusement vs. Vice. I am a great friend to public amusements; for they keep people from vice. —Samuel Johnson. THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND VIRGINIA FOR COSY MOMENTS SIMPLE BUT CHARMING LITTLE DRESSING SACQUE. Dainty Garment Presents No Problems to the Home Dressmaker—Silk or Figured Challis the Best Material to Use. As a rule matresses and breakfast jackets are difficult to copy. They have few lines to follow, it must be confessed, but their very shapelessness is rendered artistic only by the skill of a professional. In the accompanying sketch is shown a charming little dressing sacque, or matinee, which is the essence of simplicity and so easy to put together that it ought to prove a temptation to every woman to try to fashion one like it. The material used may be of silk or figured challis. The one illustrated was made of white challis, with large delicate pink roses scattered over it and stripes of pale blue forming a sort of trellis for the flowers. About four or four and a half yards are needed for an average size matinee made in this style. The back is in two pieces, with a bias seam down the center; the front is in two, while each sleeve is in one piece. To make the matinee, cut a piece of the material in the shape of the diagram marked with the letters D, E and B, laying D on the straight edge of the material. Then cut out another section like the one marked A B C, with the line B on the straight edge of the material. The diagram A J G shows only half of the kimono sleeve, the fold of the material coming on the side marked with the letter J. The dotted line forming a triangle on the shortest of the four sides of this piece shows how to shape the ends of the sleeve for the back. The front side is left like 1 HALF OF SLEEVES FRONT BACK the pattern and the back sloped on the dotted line. In putting the matinee sections together great care must be taken to get them in the correct order. It is best to start with the backs and sew the bias seam running down the center. If the material is of fairly light weight this may be managed successfully by a French seam, but if it is at all heavy, then the seam should be covered with silk blinding and pressed open. The sleeve section forms the yoke both back and front, and for a certain distance it is joined to the back and front of the jacket, and then the two edges of the sleeves are put together to make the kimono effect. For example, A, which marks the top of the back joins A, the yoke end of the sleeve. These two pieces are sewn together to a distance marked by a line in the diagram. Then the other side of the sleeve, which is now shown in the cut, but which corresponds to A, is joined to the line designated E. This is the upper part of the front, and fits to the yoke part of the sleeve. When the yoke is sewn to both backs and fronts there should be the same length of material left at G, and its corresponding side of the sleeve. Pale blue ribbon was used for the matinee finish in the above sketch, but any color may be chosen to harmonize with the prevailing shade of the material. Dainty lavender and white matinees made after this style sometimes have lavender ribbon scallops, and again they are finished with white. Rough Elbows. Rough elbows are a greatblemish to a pretty arm, and they should be avoided by every dainty girl. Avoid leaning on the elbows, as this tends to toughen and coarsen the skin. Probably the best remedy known is to rub the elbow with common table salt. The slight friction will stimulate the blood and skin and make it grow firm and smooth. At night rub a small amount of mutton tallow or cold cream into the elbow. BAG FOR THE JEWELRY. Convenient Little Receptacle—Easy to Put Together. Jewelry, if left lying about on a dressing-table, is always liable to get tarnished or mislaid, and it is a great convenience to have some little receptacle for it, into which it may be easily placed. We therefore give a design for a small bag lined with MILLER'S HOTEL W.M.MILLER, PROFRIETOR WITHIN ONE BLOCK OF STREET CAR LINES THAT TAKE YOU TO ALL PARTS OF THE CITY TERMS REASONABLE SECOND AND LEIGH STS. RICHMOND, VA. Everything Everything IN FURNITURE AND FLOOR COVERINGS SYDNOR & HUNDLEY, INC. Leaders. 709 711 713 EAST BROAD STREET. ```markdown ``` wash-leather for hanging at the side of a looking-glass. It can be made out of any small piece of silk, satin or brocade in the shape shown in the sketch, stitched at the edge to give it greater firmness, and embroidered either in a floral design, or with the initials of the owner. The flap which turns over is edged with buttonholes titching worked in thick silk, and the bag is finished with ribbon bows and a long loop of ribbon by which it may be hung up. Such a bag as this might hold a good number of brooches, rings and bracelets. COULD NOT WEAR THE HAT. French Actress Victim of London Restaurant Etiquette. Some of the French ladies do not understand at all the prohibition in London on what they consider dinner dress. There is one little French actress now playing in London who, as one of her first experiences in the British capital, was taken out to supper, and, to do honor to the occasion, put on her largest and most gorgeous hat. Her escort looked at it doubtfully, but hoped for the best. She was stopped at the sacred portals of a restaurant, and was asked to remove her hat. What this means to a lady only those can tell who have been to matinees and have seen the display of temper when a whole row of ladies in the stalls have been told that the people behind can not see the stage. The little actress made a gallant attempt to be allowed to retain her headgear. She announced to the polite gentleman at the door that she was a Mohammedan, and offered to take off her shoes if only she were allowed to retain her hat. The mighty hat, however, had to be removed. Selecting Petticoats. A woman of taste will select with greatest care her silk petticoats, for often they are really the foundation for the sheer gown. But even if not for this purpose alone, there is something truly pleasing in knowing that every garment is the prettiest and daintiest. Perhaps there are no articles of dress so beautifully trimmed as the petticoat, unless, perhaps, it is something found among the dressing robes. The finest petticoats are of silk, satin, chiffon and crepe de chine with trimmings of everything pretty for the purpose. Many lingerie flouncees are seen on silk foundations, much beruffed and finished with countless fluffy ruffle rosettes of soft white ribbon. Some lingerie petticoats are trimmed with numerous chiffon ruffles, decorated with fine valenciennes lace and insertion. A pretty blue silk petticoat is trimmed with triple ruffles of lace and handsome insertion. Skirts of this kind are usually worn with a lingerie gown. Craze for Feathers Can the craze—and the prices, too—possibly soar any higher for the novelty feathers than they now are? The undressed ostrich, the ceg, goura, cassoway and paradias are at the top notch of popularity and almost fabulous prices are paid for them. Imaging what looked to be a delicate piece of seaweed dyed black being marked at $17.79 and three scraggy split ostrich feathers bringing almost as much! The lovely drooping ostrich plumes will cost more, but then they are so fascinating that one cannot be blamed for parting with a goodly sum in order to possess them. Lace Mitts. Long mitts of exquisite lace are taking the place of evening gloves. The finest duchesse and hiont point are responsible for these cobwebby accessories and the prices asked are upon an equality with their beauty. Another novelty is a pair of elbow length black glace glk gloves inset with medallions of fine point lace. That they are extremely striking goes without saying and only women quite sure of being a sectorial success should attempt them. Wine Bath for Hair If it were possible to follow a French fashion and wash the hair occasionally in wine, it is said that the hair would be wonderfully stimulated. The French peasants originated this fashion, and they used white wine for blondes and red for brunettes. That the wine has tonic qualities is certain, but if one can afford this wine bath it is not advisable to use it but occasionally, lest the alcohol take away the pretty luster of the hair. THE PEACEFUL SUBURBS. "Sort of an endless chain war with your neighbor, eh?" said the visitor from the city. "How is that?" "Well," repelled the suburbanite, "his chickens flew over the hedge and ate all my garden seed. I got even by getting a big tomcat and the cat ate the chickens." "Ah, an 'eye for an eye,' eh?" "Yes, but it wasn't long before he got a bulldog and the bulldog finished the tomcat." "Great Scott! I suppose that ended the feud?" "Not at all. I borrowed a catamount from a wandering circus and that killed the bulldog. Now, if he don't get an elephant to finish the catamount before I can return it to the show I guess I'll come out winner." In the Forest. "I must spruce up," said Dame Nature, as she took a glance at the woods about her. "Well," returned the West Wind, "you needn't pine to a waste about it with all those new firs."—Baltimore American. PAT'S LOGIC. Squire—I say, Pat, that's the worst looking horse I ever saw. Why don't you fatten him up? Pat—Fatten him, is it? Shure, the poor baste can hardly carry what little flesh he's got now. The Method of Indolence. De lazy man sits in de sun De bez' part of de day, An' brags of work he hasn't done An' kicks about de pay. —Washington Star. A PROBLEM SOLVING INSTITUTION. TO OWN YOUR HOME MEANS TO SOLVE THE NEGRO PROBLEM. WHEN BUYING, WHEN SELLING, HEN RENTING PROPERTY call on the PEOPLE'S REAL ESTATE & INVESTMENT Co REALTY IN ALL OF ITS BRANCHES 707 North Second Street, Richmond, Virginia. Telephone, 4854. J. J. CARTER, President. W. F. DENNY, Sec. tary 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. 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 picnic or band wagons for hire at reasonable rates and nothing but first-class, carriages, buggies, etc. Keep constantly on hand fine funeral supplies. The J V Hawkin's HAIR GROWER & RESTORER (TRADE MARK REGISTERED) 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 reassures us of its satisfactory results. We can well boast of a large patronage throughout this and other States and also enjoys the commendation of the very best white and colored people in the immensive community. 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Foulke of Richmond, Ind., Regarding Accusations Against His Official Appointments. WASHINGTON, Feb. 12.—President Roosevelt made answer to the recent public statements that he has made use of federal patronage to further the presidential interests of Secretary Taft. The answer is in the form of a letter addressed to William Dudley Foulke of Richmond, Ind., and includes a letter from Mr. Foulke to the president suggesting the need of such a statement. The president begins by characterizing the charges as "false and malicious." He follows this with an analysis of all appointments sent by him to the senate for its action to show that in no case has the proximity of a presidential contest influenced his action. The president says in part: "The statement that I have used the offices in the effort to nominate any presidential candidate is both false and malicious. It is the usual imaginative invention which flows fr-eam a desire to say something injurious. Remember that those now making this accusation were busily engaged two months ago in asserting that I was using the offices to secure my own renomination. It is the kind of accusation which for the next few months will be rife. This particular slander will be used until exploded and when exploded those who have used it will prompt invent another. Such being the case, I almost question whether it is worth while answering, but as it is you who ask why, the answer you shall have." "Since the present congress assembled two months ago I have sent to the senate the names of all the officials I have appointed for the entire period since congress adjourned on March 4 last—that is, for eleven months. Excluding army and navy officers, scientific experts, health officers and those of the revenue cutter service. I have made during this period about 1,356 appointments subject to confirmation by the senate, 1,164 being postmasters. Of these, appointments in the diplomatic and consular services and in the Indian service have been made without regard to politics, in the diplomatic and consular services more Democrats than Republicans having been appointed, as we are trying to even up the quotas of the southern states. "You quote a newspaper as saying: 'We are now getting daily lessons in civil service reform from the White House which ought to attract national attention. The appointment of Taft workers to postoffices in Ohio and of the totality unit George W. Wanmaker as appraiser of this port is now followed by the president's refusal to reappoint a good Hughes man as collector of customs at Plattsburg.'" "This article is a good example of the accusations made by those of our opponents whose partisanship renders them especially unscrupulous and untruthful. Mr. Wanmaker's appointment was recommended by the three congressmen from New York county and by the two senators, the appointment being made precisely as the hundreds of similar appointments of postmasters and appraisers are made." "If such assertions as those of these papers are made in good faith on knowledge of facts and with any other purpose than to reduce a political effect by false pretense or by reckless statement without knowledge, let those making them province the specific cases to which they refer. "I have been informed that certain officeholders in your department are proposing to go to the national convention as delegates in favor of renaming me for the presidency or are proposing to procure my endorsement for such renomination by state conventions. This must not be. I wish you to inform such officers as you may find it advisable or necessary to inform in order to carry out the spirit of this instruction that such advocacy of my renomination or acceptance of an election as delegate for that purpose will be regarded as a serious violation of official propriety and will be dealt with accordingly." Hedden Iron Foundry Destroyed. BLOOMFIELD, N. J., Feb. 12. The iron foundry of the Hedden Construction company, opposite the Lackawanna railroad station, was destroyed by fire. The company manufactures ornamental ironwork, stairways, gates, girders, etc. The main building, a wooden structure, 75 by 100 feet, was destroyed. The cause of the fire is not known, but there was an explosion of some kind that blew out all the windows in the front of the building just as the blaze was discovered. Ex-Senator Davis Not to Wed EX-SENATOR DAVIS Not to Wed. WASHINGTON, Feb. 12.—The engagement between ex-Senator Henry Gassaway Davis, the multimillionaire octogenarian, and Miss Maud Ashford, who was formerly a newspaper writer and social aid to his daughters, Mrs. Arthur Lee and Mrs. Elkins, wife of Senator Stephen B. Elkins, is reported to have been terminated. There is an intimation that Miss Ashford intends to seek damages. Kamp Kill Kare Ablaze. UTICA, N. Y. Feb. 11.—Lieutenant Governor Woodraff's beautiful estate, Kamp Kill Kare, on Raquette lake, in the Adirondacks, was the scene of a $20,000 fire. The commodious structure used as a dormitory and elaborately fitted bathrooms was destroyed and adjoining building damaged. Young Bretell Is Dead. NEW YORK, Feb. 12.—Frank Bretell, clerk in a real estate office at Richmond Hill, N. Y., is dead at the Brooklyn hospital of a pistol shot wound, self inflicted, the police were old. They are now trying to establish clearly the motive which led the young man to send a bullet into his temple in the presence of his brother-in-law, George Guy, who, with his wife, Bretell's sister, dives on the second floor of the Hotel St. George, Brooklyn. Mr. Guy said that Bretell had been drinking of late. KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS TAKE NEWPORT NEWS. Officers Installed.—Deputy Praised. Last Thursday night the First Baptist Church the most spacious auditorium of the city for colored people was crowded to its utmost capacity in honor of the Public Installation of the Khights of Pythias and Courts of Calenthe. The following program was rendered: Paper, Mrs. Johnakin; Duet, Miss Jackson and Miss Slaughter; Report of the Pythian Castle by its President Colonel T. J. Free, which was inspiring and encouraging. Col. Free deserves much credit and is really a Vice Grand Chancellor a SIR T. J. PREE, Grand Vice-Chancellor. worth and credit. Short talk by Col. C. P. Rowlett; Paper, Mrs. C. H. Davls; Solo; Paper, W. H. Sales; Paper, Mrs. Mary Jordan. Each number on the program acquitted themselves with due credit. Mrs. J. E. Byrd, Deputy of the Courts with her Past Worthy Counselors made a most excellent showing with the installation of her officers. All the ladies were enthused over the most unique and chase way that the officers were installed. Maj. B. F. Jackson gave impetus and dignity to the occasion with his uniform Battalion on dress parade. Deputy J. C. Allen with W. F. Clarkson as Grand Master at arms marshalled forth the officers to their places for installation and the Deputy with all that belongs to the royal order of Knighthood with the spirit of chivalry, respect and bravery installed the officers in their respective positions. After the installation the officers and members retired to their newly purchased Hall, by the Pythian Castle Associa- SIR J. C. ALLEN, District Deputy Grand Chancellor. tion, the most desirable place and hall in the city that the race and city feels proud of. The Association feeling able to acquire such valuable property for its service in this Hall, the Auxiliary consisting of Newport News' best and most accepted spirits that give grace, dignity and tone to the city. The Banquet was a delicious up-to-date and pleasant affair. Deputy J. C. Allen deserves much credit for his earnest and faithful service. He is the right man in the right place who is able to succeed through di culties. He, as no other Deputy has caused the Knights of Pythias to become the leading Order of the city, for him we hope many years of service along this line. "Langford of the Three Bars" begins this week on Second Page. Negro Organizers Wanted GREATEST Protective and Beneficial Order ever started. Over 50,000 mem- ber meet the opportunity that helps get EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES with people. 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The governor's message this year was heard with profound attention, and, unlike last year, there was no preliminary attempt to show how matters stood in the senate. A year ago when the message was received it was promptly referred to the judicial committee to adopt a plan of procedure. This time the message, together with the Fleming report, on motion of Senator Raines, was laid on the table. Later a plan of procedure will be adopted, but it will be done with the greatest deliberation. Great pressure is being brought to bear upon Superintendent Kelsey to resign. The men who were with him a year ago are still in the main with him, but the senators who are with the governor in asking for the removal say that senators who are backing Kelsey will hesitate to oppose the governor. Friends of Mr. Kelsey, however, say the insurance superintendent does not propose to resign and will again demand that his friends stand by him. Blow Open Safe and Loot Bank. 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