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THE RICHMOND PLANET ETHIOPIA. When it became the All-divined will To breathe into the world a purpos'd race, So fashion'd as to texture, form and face To please Him in His wisdom, there to fill The honor'd sphere of mother He with grace Look'd on you with the trust that you'd instil A heart and brain and soul of love and truth And light—true weapons that are skill'd to win, Combat, eclipse oppression steep'd with sin. You'd teach "An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth" To "turn the other cheek" to wrong. Within Instil a hope to star despair, forsooth! Lo, Justice will not ever fail to place His laurel'd hand upon your worthy race! One Colored Man Kills Another. Chatham, Va., April 2—Nat Hairston, colored, has been lodged in the county jail here charged with killing Jessie Hairston, colored, on the farm of Samuel Hairston, near Wenonda, Pittsburgh county on Saturday night, March 21st. The killing was the result of a drunken row. The murderer claims that he was pursued by his victim with a shotgun and fired on more than once, when he turned and returned the fire with fatal effect. He was given a preliminary hearing before Justice H. C. Thornton, and remanded to jail to await action of the grand jury at the next term of firearms prisoner bears the reputation of being a possible colored man and Constable Daniel Perkins, who brought him to jail, stated that he thought the killing was in self-defense. In Favor of Fairbanks. Louisville, Ky., Mch. 31, '08. Mr. John Mitchell, Jr., Dear Sir: We are as a unit for Charles H. Fairbanks for President and will use every effort in the State of Kentucky to have him elected in November. We should be careful who we select as our standard bear er and he seems to be the most available candidate. L. G. WHITE, Formerly of the 7th Va. District, now of Louisville, Ky. School League Organized. In the county of Henrico, Virginia there has been a School Improvement League organized at the Westwood Public School of which Miss Virginia A. Taylor is teacher. She is working hard to improve the condition of her school in general. Recently an educational program was rendered at the Westwood Baptist Church under the auspices of the above named League. The participants were as follows: Deacon Jefferson Lewis gave the welcome address; paper by Mrs. Maria Ford of Westwood. Prof. J. W. Barco of the University Union University principal speaker who pictured to the people their duties and responsibilities. The Westwood Church Choir rendered beautiful music for the occasion. Select reading by Leonard Pitts of Westwood School. Mr. John Nixon of Westwood, Organist. Miss Annie V. Taylor of 716 N. Third Street, Richmond, Va. rendered a soul-stirring solo and her paper was excellent. Prof. J. W. Ross of Jonesboro Academy made a lasting impression by his timely remarks. The duet rendered by the Misses Ethel and Rebecca Coles of Westwood was sweet and melodious. The Misses Addie Lee, Alice Nixon, Ethel Coles, Callie Smith and Rebecca Coles of Westwood served as ushers which were highly commendable. The selected and pointed remarks made by President J. H. Johnston of the V. N. and I. I., Petersburg, Va. found a lodging place in the hearts of all present. Miss Virginia A. Taylor, Mistress of Ceremonies. Wife Wanted. A young man is desirous of communicating with young lady, (object matrimony) whose birthday falls on the 30th of November or before December the 21st. None other need communicate. Address, J. D. M. 19 Argyle Avenue, Montreal, Ont. 2t Canada. WANTED—Position as Printer. Several years experience in office work. Address. J. D. UZZLE, 185 Cumberland St., Norfolk, Va. SUPREME CHANCELLOR STARKS DEAD He Passes Away on Short Notice. Pythians Mourn. MOURNFUL AND IMPRESSIVE SCENES AT THE FUNERAL—WAS STATE LIBRARIAN IN WEST VIRGINIA—VIRGINIA DOES HONOR TO HIS MEMORY—HIS SUCCESSOR. Telegraphic information was received Friday morning April 3, 1968 at about 11 o'clock by John Mitchell, Jr., Grand Chancellor of Virginia, Knights of Pythias, announcing the death of S. W. Starks, Supreme Chancellor of the Knights of Pythias, N. A., S. A., E., A., A. and A. after being confined to the bed only one day. His alimant was general peritonitis and his demise was at Charleston, West Virginia, where he held the office of State Librarian. NEGROES THREATEN BOLT FROM TAFT. Denounce His Candidacy and Say They Will Carry Opposition to the Polls. [Philadelphia Record, April 8, '68.] A concerted movement by colored voters against the candidacy of Secretary of War Taft for the Republican nomination for President, which will be carried to the polls should arms about the pillars of the temple we will bring it crashing down upon the heads of the false friends who have betrayed our race." Rev. Dr. George W. Lee of Washington, the last speaker, was constantly interrupted by prolonged cheers. He denounced President Roosevelt in scathing terms as playing into the hands of the South and giving the Negro race the worst blow it had received from our side. CASTLES DRAPED Grand Chancellor Mitchell immediately ordered Grand Master-at-Arms George W. Dandridge to immediately drape the Pythian Castle in this city from bottom to top with white and black hunting. The order was immediately obeyed and many enquiries were made Friday afternoon as to the significance of it. Circulars were immediately issued and sent out throughout this grand jurisdiction notifying every lodge and court in the State of the great loss the Order had sustained and a large floral design known as "the broken column" was sent to Charleston. Words of sympathy were telegraphed to the bereaved widow. MEMORIAL EXERCISES The Pythian Castles in this State will be draped for thirty days, and the subordinate lodge charters will be draped and remain draped for six months. Memorial exercises will be conducted by every lodge and court on its second meeting in April. Supreme Chancellor S. W. Starks was one of the most popular men in the country to-day. He had a sunny disposition and he was by nature a student of men. He was a diplomat by natural ability and could be well designated the great compromiser. When he could not bring order out of confusion, it was a hopeless task for any one else to attempt it. HIS SUCCESSOR His death will result in an irreparable loss to the State of West Virginia and a severe blow to the Order at large. His duties will now devolve upon Sir S. W. Green, Supreme Vice-Chancellor and Grand Chancellor of Louisiana. The Supreme Lodge will not meet again until the Fall of 1900, at which time a successor to him will be elected. This is of course contingent upon circumstances, and provided an extra session is not called, which hardly seems likely. Funeral services were grand, imposing and impressive. Grand Chancellor Mitchell expected to have attended, but other matters here engaging his attention made this impracticable. The remains were interred at Charleston, W. Va., Monday, April 6, 1908. Evangelist Cuddy's next address from his Prophetic Chart on John's Great Revelation to the Church will be delivered at the Sixth Mt. Zion Baptist Church, Duval Street on Wednesday, 15th inst. at 8 P. M. Christians of all Churches will miss a treat if they fail to hear this God's special message for our day. Let saints and sinners attend. $100.00 Endowment Paid. Richmond, Va., April 3, '08. This is to certify that I have received from John Mitchell, Jr., Grand Worthy Counsellor of the Grand Court of Va., Order of Calanthe, ($100.00) One Hundred Dollars in payment of the death-claim of Sister Sarah Heath, who was a member of Verbena Court, No. 61, of Richmond, Va. Signed—William McKenny, Witnesses: RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, SA TURDAY, APRIL 1, 1908 NEGROES THREATEN BOLT FROM TAFT. Denounce His Candidacy and Say They Will Carry Opposition Opposition [Philadelphia Record, April 8, '08.] A concerted movement by colored voters against the candidacy of Secretary of War Taft for the Republican nomination for President, which will be carried to the polls should he be selected, was revealed last evening when Negroes of prominence from twenty-five States assembled in convention at Zion's Bartist Church, Thirteenth and Wallace Streets and placed themselves on record at unalterably opposed to the Secretary. They denounced President Roosevelt as a "Herd who had destroyed the innocent without mercy," and the speakers without an exception strongly asserted that the time had come when the Negro race must assert its independence, or it would be completely eliminated as a political factor. The convention was called the National Political Conference of Colored Americans, and brought together lawyers, editors and clergymen of influence from all parts of the country. At an afternoon executive session Professor William M. Trotter, of Boston, was elected as President and Bishop Alexander Walters, of New York, as Vice-President of the Convention. Among the delegates who took part in the conference were Dr. George W. Lee, of Washington; James M. Summers, of Xenia, O.; Rev. E. L. Gilliam, Dr. W. G. Wren, Capt. W. S. Thomas of Columbus, O.; Dr. J. G. Jordan, National Secretary of the Afro-Baptist Church, and Dr. O. W. Harper of Dayton, O. WOULD PREFER TILLMAN TO TAFT. A public mass meeting was held at the Zion Church in the evening the auditorium being crowded to its fullest capacity, and ex-Congressman George H. White, who presided, aroused the meeting to a white heat in his opening speech by the declaration, "I have been a Republican all my life, but I was a Negro before I was a Republican, and I am proud still to be a Negro. We are not here in a partisan capacity, but I want to say that I would sooner vote for an avowed enemy like Ben Tillman than for a hypocritical friend who had stabbed me in the back." He then pointed out that while the Negro race was enabled by numerical advantage of Congressmen and 11 United States Senators had been deprived of their last Representative in Congress at a time when the Republicans were in full control of both Houses, of the Supreme Court and the Presidency. Rev. J. M. Waldo of Washington, D. C., spoke upon the discharge of the Negro Battalion of the Twenty-fifth Regiment at Brownsville, Texas describing it as an unspeakable outrage. He could find but two parallels in history to President Roosevelt's action, that of Nebuchanezzar when he destroyed the soothsayers, who could not remember his dream, and Herod, who slaughtered all the innocent children of Bethlehem. Roosevelt's action he regarded as entirely without warrant or precedent, and he said the Negroes of the country would never condone the affront until every man of the battalion had been restored to his position with full back pay. Secretary Taft, in his judgment, could have prevented the outrage, but he had the collar of Roosevelt around his neck, "and we way to you, Mr. Taft, that as you could be trusted with the interests of the black soldier, you are not worthy to look out for the white soldier, either." James H. Hayes, an attorney of Richmond, evoked prolonged applause when he said, in stentorian tones, that "if the Republican party does not treat us right at Chicago by repudiating Taft, we will act as did Samson of old, and wrapping our arms about the pillars of the temple we will bring it crashing down upon the heads of the false friends who have betrayed our race." Rev. Dr. George W. Lee, of Washington, the last speaker, was constantly interrupted by prolonged cheers. He denounced President Roosevelt in scathing terms as playing into the hands of the South and giving the Negro race the worst blow it had received from any President. The colored soldiers, he said, had always been ready to fight for the flag, and would not to erate treatment such as would not have been offered to any other race. "I am not afraid to be called a Democrat," he said, "and if Taft is nominated I shall take the stump against him. We should hold indignation meetings in every large city of North and wind up with a week's political revival at Chicago just before the Republican Convention." The convention will hold sessions at the Zion Church this morning and afternoon, for the purpose of preparing an address to the country. It was announced at the close of last night's meeting that a telegram has been sent to Senator Foraker, who is expected to be present at the session to-night. Stole All of the Hats. The American Hatters at 404 E. Marshall Street, Richmond, Va. have made a reputation for fine hats, second to none in the country. A fine display of head-gear in the window caused some burglar to break the expensive plate glass and take away every one of the articles in the window. Any information concerning the guilty parties will be appreciated. —The sudden death of Mrs. Rachel Farrar, widow of Mr. Joseph Farrar was quite a shock to the community. To Pay Freedmen's Bank Depositors District affairs played their part in the Senate yesterday. A number were favorably reported to the Senate, a number were introduced and two were passed, one of which even though not entirely a local bill, is of considerable interest to persons in Washington. This measure was for the reimbursement of depositors of the defunct Freedman's Savings and Trust Company, with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury, pay to all depositors of the trust company, whose accounts have been properly verified or their legal representatives, a sum of money equal to the balance due these depositors at the time of the failure of the company, less the amount of dividends which may have been paid from the assets of the company. One million dollars, or as much of that amount as may be necessary, is appropriated for this purpose. A second clause in the bill provides that any money not called for within two years after the passage of this act shall be used for the education of the colored youth of the South, under such rules and regulations as may be adopted by the Secretary of the Treasury. It is pointed out in the report from the Committee on Education and Labor, made by Mr. Filint, that hundreds of freedmen, soon after the proclamation of emancipation, deposited their money with this trust company, believing that it was vouchered for by the government. They were led to this belief partly by the fact that officers or the army were authorized to receive deposits for the company in many instances. The United States cannot escape honorably the ultimate payment of these wronged freedmen, it was said in the report. Mr. Carter Speaks. To the Editor of The PLANET. Dear Sir:—The commendable editorials in the above named paper of March 28, 1908 cover much ground concerning the civil and political rights of the Negro race. The speech of the Hon. Mr. Taft at Brooklyn, New York upon which you so ably commented is in a sense neither hot nor cold. He gives two measures of milk to the Southern white people, whom he seeks to please and one measure of water at the same time to the Colored race with whom he wants to appear friendly. The distinguished Secretary is no doubt a great man, but he will find it difficult to serve two master principles. The spirit of the white ruling classes in the South as we see it-to-day is opposed to the elevation of the Negro, opposed to his enjoyment of civil and political opportunities, and therefore denies him the right of advancement. It is plain then that when the Honorable Secretary of War, learned, as he is in the lawwinks at the Fifteenth Amendment, sides with the Southern spirit and principle which is opposed to the Negro's civil and political elevation. The majority of leading Southern white men in and out of Congress have no other endeavor than to "Keep the nigger down" or "Make him know his place." In this spirit and under this influence Congressman Heflin of Alabama usurped the authority to shoot a Colored man for taking a swig of whiskey from a pocket nask on a Washington, D. C. street-car. The act of the colored man violated the proprieties but that was none of Heflin's business any more than of other passengers. It was the concern of the conductor of the car and of the police of Washington and not for the Congressman from Alabama to correct. His use of etiquette may suit the constitution he represents but it will not do for the superior civilization of the Northern cline. But when one think of the present encouragement given by the present administration to leading Southern men whose every endeavor is to humiliate the Negro will not wonder at Heflin's criminal act. And it now remains to see whether he will get the penalties of the code which he has violated. But for nearly twelve years the Southern breast has been swelling with a kind of hollow dignity, backed by a usurpation of power. And it is more evident since the unreasonable discharge of the colored companies B, C and D of the Twenty-fifth Infantry, U. S. A., who had with honor and courage served well their country. The Negro race has had many snubs in the life of this Republic, but the unjust discharge of these colored men without honor was the most unkind out of all. It made a wound that cannot be healed by any such bill as the one introduced by Senator Warner for the return to the army nor will such specimen Mr. Taff is now making mitigate the adverse sentiment which the discharge created among the colored people. ROBT, W. CARTER, Brookline, Mass., April. 2, 1908. Shot Man As He Plead For Mercy Disgulsing himself as a policeman, with a proper-looking badge and an officer's whistle, W. J. Glass, a middle-aged white man, tried to enter the home of Annie Johnson, a colored woman, living in the rear of No. 2501 East Broad Street, last night, and twice shot Jerry Moseley, colored who answered the woman's screams for help. Moseley, fortunately, was not seriously injured. One of the balls from a thirty-two calibre revolver grazed his left hip and the other passed through the fleshy part of his hand. Glass, according to the story told by the colored people and by Policemen Atkinson, Kellum and C. B. Matthews, who made the arrest, went to the woman's home and tried to gain entrance. She screamed, and Moseley, who lives in the rear of No. 113 North Twenty-fifth Street, answered her cries for help. When he ran up on the scene Glass flashed his fake badge, and the colored man nearly fainted with terror. The white man fired, and the colored man begging for mercy, grasped at the revolver as Glass fired the second time, the ball passing through the colored man's hand between the index finger and the thump. As he realized what he had done. Glass threw his badge one way and the revolver another, over the fence into an asphille, and then hid under the porch of the woman's home. Policemen Atkinson, Kellum and Andrews answered the alarm of the shooting and searched high and low for Glass before they could find him. He was finally located by a dog longing to another colored man, who sniffed him out under the porch. Glass was brought to the First Police Station, and locked up. His face was blacked with soot, and he gave every sign of having been drinking. The city ambulance was called to attend Moseley's injuries. —Times Dispatch, April 2, '08. Joe Gans Much the Best. Phila. Pa. April 1.—He's the same old master. Time will come when Gans will get his. That is the history of the ring. They all make one fight too many. But judging by his performance last night, when Referee Jack McGulgan, after Spike Robson had been sent to the floor twice, put a stop to the bout after two minutes and twenty-five seconds of the third round had elapsed, it will be some time before the light weight champion will hear the fateful count of "Ten—and out." Granting all the handicaps Robson suffered under—the disparity in height, reach and weight, and his injured knee—there was not an instant of the bout in which he showed the slightest class with Gans. The quick in-and-out work, the jumping up and down, which have non-plussed many of the boys against whom Robson made his reputation in this country, did not faze Gans at all. In fact, the seemed to amuse him. Gans went about his task in such a method of way. He kept boring in steadily, but never rushing. There wasn't a second of the time he was in action that his head was not up and his hands ready to send them where he thought they would do the most execution. Robson, who seemed to think that his one chance to stay the limit would be in his quickness of foot, soon found out that he couldn't stop Gans getting to him. Gans was always over him, and many of the latter's punches, which landed against Robson's glove had enough steam behind them to rock the Englishman. In the third round Gans sent a terrific right to Robson's jaw, and the Englishman went down for nine. McGigan then stopped the bout, as Robson's seconds threw up the sponge. Services in the First Baptist Church Sunday, April 12, 1908 Rev. S. L. Johnson, the Evangelist will breach at 11:15 A. M. and $ P. M. and conduct a special service for men from 5 to 6 P. M. Offering will be lifted at the $ o'clock service for the New Building Fund of the Hartshorn Memorial College. Many happy converts have professed Christ during the meetings now in progress at the First Baptist Church. All are invited. HONOR ROLL-BAKER SCHOOL March. 1908. The following pupils have made A in scholarship, have received no demerits, and have had no unexcused cases of absence or tardiness: 7A—Eugenia Ellis, Mamie Robinson, Florence Taylor, Sarah Sidney, Lottie Lewis, Lillie Walker. 7A—Percy Vaughan, Othello Scott Lula Eggleston. 6B—Joseph Brown, Helen West, Edna Harris. 6A—Maria Jones, Mary Green, William Jackson, Stanley Wilkerson, Mary Brown, Sylvia Jackson, Daniel Davis, Robert Lewis, Marie Brown, Julia Bolling. 5A—Amanda Barcroft, Ethel Lemas, Horace Scott, Lena Mays, Henry Smith, Celestine Nottingham. 4B—Clarissa Smith, James Pierson, James Chiles, Willie Mitchell. son, John Charles, White Mitchell. —Alvyn Lewis, Robert E. Jones Aubrey Chambers, Robert J. Jones, Wilmer Jones, Marie Trent, Ottie Graham. 3B—Belle Boyd, Daisy Hill, Ida Hayden, Jessica Harris, Tanner Nottingham, Lillian Peters, Marian Thompson, Regina Smith, Lillie Overton, Ruth Deane. 3A—Arthur Patterson, Oliver Gaines, James Wells, Benjamin Wool folk, Helen Waddell, Lottie Carey, Bessie Lemas, Lucy Lipscomb, Blanche Holmes, Iola Cosby, Ada Pitts, Marian Anderson, Viola Epps, Essie Mosby. 2B—Irene Barcroft, Emma Daggett, Robnette Lewis, Martha Smith, Eloise Williams. 2A—Esther Boyd, Flossie Winn, Mabel Lockett, Mabel Miller, Carrie Pierson, Laura Smith, Lottie Davis, Sarah Walker. —Mr. Linwood Robinson of East 20th Street, Manchester, who has been sick for several weeks is slowly improving. —Miss Ellen Bacchus of 729 N. 9th Street, who has been so ill is much improved. —Miss Sarah White, who has been so seriously ill is now at the Richmond Hospital undergoing treatment. Easter Photos You are cordially invited to inspect our new collection of Easter Photos including all of the latest and most exquisite photographic fancies. Polite and careful attention. Moderate prices. E O. BROWN, Photographer 603 N. 2nd Street. DEATH OF A GOOD WOMAN. Mrs. Frances Carter the wife of Mr. Willis Carter departed this life Sunday evening, 4 o'clock. She was a faithful member of the First Baptist Church. She was also a member of the Missionary Aid Society and the Eastern Star. The funeral was largely attended from Mt. Pleasant Baptist Church, Monday by Rev. William Carter and G. B. Johnson of Courtland, Ala. She leaves one son who is now in the Philippine islands and a devoted husband. "Asleep in Jesus, blessed sleep From which none ever wake to weep." Mr. H. W. Jackson is still wide awake. He has opened one of the finest Soda Founts and Ice Cream Parlors that has ever been in our city. Give him a call. Mr. Z. B. Jackson and Miss Annie Lee Polk have been visiting the site this week. Mrs. B. Polk has been on the sick list this week and we are glad to see her out again. Mrs. Howard Glillam is quite sick. Mrs. Adline Owens of South Florence was buried Sunday evening. She leaves three children to mourn their loss. Rev. T. J. James of Russellville, Ala. spent Sunday and Monday in Sheffield, Ala. See The PLANET'S Agent and give him your order for a copy of The Colored Women's Magazine. Price ten cents. Rev. J. R. McClean preached at the Congregational Church last Sunday Eve. Rev. B. Crawford attended services at the C. M. E. Church Sunday Evening. Mrs. Susie Bennett of Chattanooga, Tenn. is the guest of her sister, Mrs. Anna Hall on Furnis Hill. Mr. S. W. J. Elliott made a flying trip to Decatur, Ala. last week. The Sunday Schools of Sheffield are preparing for Easter. The Presbytery met Sunday evening to examine applicant for Ministry, Brother Thomas Johnson. The following brothers officiated: Rev. L. Warren, Rev. T. J. James, Rev. William Carter, Rev. R. L. Goodlooe, Rev. F. Wallace and Rev. S. B. Smith. Rev. Thomas Johnson was set apart to the gospel ministry by the laying on hand of the Presbytery. Rev. T. J. James preached the ordination sermon. Mrs. Queen Alexander has been quite sick, but is better at this writing. For the best ice cream and cold drinks call at H. W. Jackson's on Second Street. Mr. Andrew Hayes is in the city. Mr. J. H. Mitchell of Corinth, Miss. has accepted a position with Mr. Will Johnson, the well known barber of Sheffield. Mr. Mitchell is giving perfect satisfaction. The ladies of the C. M. E. Church stormed their pastor, Rev. C. J. Nichols on last Friday night, April 3rd. The contents of the storm: flour, meat and lard, canned goods, fruits, meal, sugar and a lot of good things too good to mention. The storm was headed by Mrs. Carrie Winters, Mrs. Della Nornington, Mrs. Tommie Norton, Mrs. Kittie Paterson Mrs. Florence Nelson, Mrs. Bettie Hammon, Minnie Abernathy. Mrs. Winters just about 9:30 P.M. and it took a slight car ride and finally it settled on Furnis Hill at the C. M. E. Parsonage. The pastor was not at home at the time of the storm. Ladies, come again and enjoy yourselves. Detective Sent On. W. J. Glass, a white man of middle age, went to the grand jury yesterday from the Police Court after being charged with assaulting, shooting and wounding with intent to kill one Jerry Moseley. Glass also has against him the charge of posing as a detective, an imposition which may do much to land him in the penitentiary. When arrested by Policemen Kellam, Andrews and Atkinson he appeared to be under the influence of liquor and could give no coherent account of himself. The testimony yesterday showed that Glass went to the rear of No. 2501 East Broad Street on Wednesday night and tried to force his way into the house of Annie Johnson (colored) the screams of the woman brought by the police who lives at No. 113 North Twenty-fifth Street to her assistance. Glass showed a tin bar and claiming to be a police offer, drew a pistol and fired at Moseley twice, the second ball passing through the colored man's hand. Glass threw his badge away and hid under the woman's porch, from which retreat he was routed by a stray dog. The pistol and badge were offered in evidence yesterday. —Times-Dispatch, April 3, '08. —Sir John H. Thompson, District Deputy Grand Chancellor of Glasgow Va. and Sir W. D. Carter of Natural Bridge, Va. called on us. —Mrs. D. J. Chavers is slowly, but surely improving at the Richmond Hospital. THE PLANET SATURDAY.....APRIL 11, '08. Ber departure for the same haven, and Ellen had had, according to Carrington's calculations, who knew nothing about the sweep to the westward, something like six hours the start of him. Nevertheless, I do not mean to imply that Carrington spared his horse. He felt it imperative for him to get to Portsmouth before night fell, and he therefore punished the mare-severely, but he did not ride with quite the recklessness of his first mad dash. Still he swept over the ground rapidly, and after two hours of terrific going he pulled up at a wayside inn. He sprang from his horse the instant he stepped before the entrance. Lord Carrington was well known in the vicinity, and in a moment a dozen obsequious hostlers and horse boys scrambled about him while mine host came bowing before the door. "A horse, the best you have in the stables!" "My lord," began the host, "I'm very sorry—" "No words," interrupted Carrington, "bring me a horse and a draught of wine." "My best horse has been taken, your lordship, some three hours ago, and I have naught but indifferent ones left." "Bring me the best you have. I don't care what it is," said Carrington. "Don't you see my mare can go no farther and I must have some sort of a horse. How far is it to the next posting station?" "A matter of ten miles." "Well, give me something that can make the distance in an hour, and if I founder him or kill him, I'll pay you well for him." "Here, Dick," said the landlord, "you hear my lord. Bring old Joe. 'This "What is the Meaning of This?" the best we have There's a bay horse in the stable, if he were only fresh. He came in two hours ago, and Lord Strathgate— "Who came, did you say?" cried Carrington, turning quickly. "The earl of Strathgate, your honor." "Was he here?" "Two hours agone sir. He took a bite of breakfast and a draught of wine and our best horse and rode on." "Was he alone?" "Alone your lordship. There's sumat mat strange about it, too, for his head was all bloody, his coat was streaked with mud, he was riding a bay horse, looked like a carriage horse, bareback with bits of harness dangling to it. He had no hat on—" "Where is that bay horse?" cried Carrington, tingling with excitement. "Yonder, in the stable yard being rubbed down." Carrington, throwing the bridle of his mare to the nearest hostler, ran to the stable yard. "My horse Betty! By heaven!" he exclaimed. "What is the meaning of this?" He turned and faced the astonished landlord once more. "Did you say that Strathgate was alone?" "Absolutely alone." "There was no carriage with him, nobody with him, no man, no women?" "Not a soul, my lord." "Could he have left them somewhere, some by road, some—?" "I seen him myself," said the landlord, "coming down hill a mile back. You can see for yourself that the inn commands a view of the road. He was riding like one possessed. I fear your coach horse will never be worth anything again. Lord Carrington." "Damn the horse! What said he?" "He said he was riding to Portsmouth." "Did he ask any questions?" "He asked me if there was a woman and a young man had got horses and ridden on ahead, if anybody had seen anything of any kind of coach, or wagon, or carriage, or people on horseback." "And what answer made you?" "Cep't the coach for Portsmouth, which went up empty, and some farm wagons driven by men, we knew that nobody had passed this morning." "And you say Strathgate was in a hurry?" "I never seed a man more in a hurry, your lordship, unless it was yourself." added moss host. "You're right," cried Carrington. He was utterly bewildered by the situation. His calculations were all at sea. What could be the meaning of Strathgate alone upon the road, with a broken head and a muddy coat, riding on a coach horse and driving the beast even as he had forced Sailor and the mare? Where were Ellen and Deborah? It was more than he could understand. Could Strathgate be flying from Carrington's anger? Had he dealt foully with Ellen? My lord groaned aloud. And yet it could not be. He had every confidence in his wife's ability to protect herself if it came to a battle, even against a man like Strathgate. And he knew too well Strathgate's proven courage, roue, libertine and gambler though he was, to think for a moment that he was fleeing from him, Carrington. It must be that he was pursuing some one, but if so, who? Who, but Ellen and Deborah, and how could they keep ahead of such furious chasing? They had not gone off together, then. In some way they had given Strathgate the slip. Lord Carrington jumped at this conclusion and his heart bounded. The worst was not true of his wife. What was he to do? He could see nothing for it but to try to overtake Strathgate. He could perhaps furnish a clew to the mystery, and Carrington swore to make him tell, or to kill him on the way. It took much less time to think all this than it does to tell it. Throwing the landlord a guinea, refreshing himself with the draught of wine and bidding mine host look after Sallor and the groom when they came on, Carrington mounted the horse which was brought to him. It was a sorry steed, and the landlord's heart misgave him as he saw that Carrington intended to be as good as his word and get to the next posting station in an hour. My lord rode with as heavy a hand as before, but with a considerably lighter heart. Of one thing he was certain, that Ellen was not with Strathgate. He wondered if the earl had come by that broken head and soiled coat from his wife's endeavor. He even laughed aloud in savage glee and pride at that very prowess and strength and masculine ability which had seemed to him so poor a quality when contrasted with the fawning, mincing mawkishness of Lady Cecily, now disconcertate at the hall. And so my lord rode on, his heart growing lighter with every bound of his horse. (TO BE CONTINUED.) Unrequited Genius. The world has never learned the name of the genius who conceived the idea of spreading butter upon his bread, a combination of foed elements more palatable, more wholesome and more universally popular than any that the combined wisdom of all the professors who have ever lived has been able to devise.—The Epicure. A Language Struggle. G— In the Naples hotel, desiring a fresh towel, rang for a chambermaid and made his request in what he supposed was the language of the country. Meeting a blank face, he tried French and then German, but in vain. A little out of temper, he said: "Why don't you speak English?" "I do, sir," was the reply—Travel. An Impertinent Question: "Your wife," impertinently asks a massage cream advertisement, "is she as fair and fresh as the day you were married?" We are out of sympathy and accord with those who scoff at marital felicity, in the first place; in the second place, the word-play is old and obvious. Besides, either answer might precipitate trouble. From Painerism to Riches Bernard Kotch, 66 years old, and partly blind, left the almshouse at Viola, N. Y., where he has been four years, with a fortune of $88,000. The legacy was left him by a friend in Philadelphia, and lawyers searched for him for some time before they found him. Carnival Disguises Stick Fleas, birds and animals painted in green on the faces of scores of revelers as disguises for a carnival at Las Palmas, Canary Islands, won't come off and experts say never will. A chemist named Alonso, who did the work, was almost lynched, and $0 victims have sued him for damages. Heed Not That Call. It is a terrible error to suppose that because you relish "Wordsworth's solemn-thoughted idyl, or Teenyson's enchanted reverie," therefore you have a call to run off to write bad verse at the lakes or the Isle of Wight. I beseach you not all to turn to authorship.-John Merley. Pearls in Australian Waters The pearl is the best known of Australian gems, and for many years thousands of dollars worth have been secured in Queensland. The oyster Sakeries of Thursday island have been the chief source of supply, but pearls are found all along the Queensland coast. Promise of the Future What is a rainbow but just clouds and every-day sunshine, far enough away to be marvelously beautiful? Some time we may see things that seem prosocially common and near at hand now, even thus glorified.—Zion's Herald. Cheerfulness and Health Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health. Repining and murmurings of the heart give imperceptible strokes to those delicate fibers of which the vital parts are composed and wear out the machine.—Culver. French Courtesy We should treat our detractors and calumniators as Maribaeau did. When speaking at Marselles he was called "calumniator, liar, assassin, scoundrel." He said: "I wait, gentlemen, until these amenities are exhausted." Cupid's Opportunity The lights went out in the Dudley street terminal the other night about five o'clock, and everybody evidently kissed his best girl for the air was full of screams of delight and dolls remonstrances.—Boston Record. Shoot Fish with Arrows. Many of the natives of the islands THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA of the South Seas are experts at shooting fish with a bow and arrow. The art is a difficult one, for the reflection of the water has to be allowed for. Take Care of the Eyes Eye strain is certainly a factor in producing disease of every part of the eye. Old age is the time of retribution for those who have sinned against their eyes. - Health. The Ideal and the Real Every time you hear a man poetries about his soul's ideal you can make a safe bet that he will marry a reality with freckles and No. 6s. Decide That Help What we do worth doing in the world only helps ourselves, because nothing is worth doing that does not help others.—William Allen White. First Gummed Postage Stamp. The first gummed postage stamp was issued about 1840. Keep Busy Occupation is the necessary basis of all enjoyment—Hunt. Call for Deeds. Tears in mortal miseries are vain.— Homer. Candor. Candor is one of the world's poorest peacemakers. To Do Away with Envy. Theou oughtest not to know the wealth of thy neighbor—Homer. Successful Men Not Fussy. Peace and happiness cannot exist in the vicinity of an individual who has a mania for setting everybody right. He is generally unfit for office, being one of the exasperating people who are continually saying what they would do while really doing nothing at all. It is usually the sluggard or idler, who stands about and watches others work, who can suggest a dozen ways in which they can do better. Friendly Discussions Avail It would be an important step towards the reconciliation of political opponents if they would clearly signify on what points they agree, and what points they differ. To this end, friendly discussions avail more, far more, than calumnious insinuations, furious invectives, the acerbities of partisan rivalry, the machinations of intrigue and malevolence.—Comte de Mirabeau. Inundation of the Nile The valley of the Nile is inundated regularly every year from the 15th of June to the 17th of September. When the river subsides it leaves a rich deposit of soil for six miles on each side of the stream. Sometimes the overflow is excessive, but if the inundation falls short of crops results. In 1829 the flood was so great as to cause the loss of 30,000 lives and the destruction of much property. Alum for Household Use Alum should never be absent from any household. It has a very good effect if applied to bleeding wounds, as it checks the loss of blood. Boiled in milk is small quantities it is good for toothache. It must be held in the mouth, not swallowed. For bleeding of the mouth or tongue, a wash in cold water in which alum has been dissolved is very effective. To Be Popular. It is astonishing how much you can learn from people in social intercourse when you know how to look at them rightly, but it is a fact that you can only get a great deal out of them by giving them a great deal yourself. The more you radiate yourself, the more magnanimous you are; the more generous of yourself, the more you will get back. Three Men in One A witty writer has observed with much truth that every man is, in a sense, three different men. In the first place, he is the man he thinks himself to be; in the second place, he is the man other persons think him to be; and, finally, he is the man that he really is. Uncle Allen "It isn't the fact that the papers publish so much news about crime," said Uncle Allen Sparks, "that makes me have my doubts about the world growing better. It's the fact that that's the kind of stuff the people seem to want to read." Strength of Sympathy. Sympathy is the grandest word in the world. It overcomes evil and strengthens good; it disarms resistance, melts the hardest hearts, and draws out the better part of human nature.-George Moore. Be Charitable When a man comes around beating that he has never failed to do anything that he has undertaken, don't ask him embarrassing questions concerning the nature of his undertakings. Voice of Despair. In a St. Petersburg newspaper there recently appeared the following advertisement: "The wife of a present member of the douma, having given up all hope of getting intelligent occupation, seeks a place as chambermaid." True Wisdem: Wisdom is habited in the plainest garb, and she walks modestly, unheeded of the gaping and wondering crowd. Her secrets are revealed to the careful, the-patient and the humble.—Bishop Spalding. Love's Flame Still Bright A septuagenarian inmate of Chelmsford, Essex (England), workhouse has proposed to a fellow inmate nine years her junior, and the pair are leaving the institution to get married. Lack of Co-operation "I wish," said the revivalist, "Brother Grimshaw wasn't quite so strong on doctrinal points. As fast as I bring people into the church he tries to put them out of it for heresy." Keeps Him Hustling "Heaven help us," says a Georgia philosopher. "We're getting rid of the world, the flesh and the devil, and it's the devil that keeps us hustling for high water!" The Differences A woman's idea of a bargain is something that's reduced two cents. A man's idea of a bargain is something that costs two cents. A Word from Josh Wise. "Let well 'nuff alone. It is suffient that th' thimblingeriger knows which shell the pea's under." The Best Teacher While so called, experience is never addressed as "Dear Teacher." Wasted Effort Force without judgment falls by its own weight.—Horace. Alarming. Marjorie had never been in close touch with a dog and when the family moved to the suburbs in the spring she found Fido a source of profound study. In a short time they were boon companions, but on the first warm day Fido gave Marjorie a fright that almost deprived her of speech. "O, mother," she gasped, running into the house. "Come quick. Fido's tongue is failing out!" A Man's Life. My life—a man's life—is always, and especially to-day, a poor a thing enough, but this poor thing, consecrated to a great and holy cause, may grow with it; and when a man has made to such a cause the sacrifice of his future, I believe that he ought to shrink from none of its consequences, none of its dangers—Comte de Montalembert. Making Friends A man picked up a stone because he was afraid of dogs—the dogs grewled at him. So he picked up more stones, and the dogs snarled at his heels; then he gathered still more stones. But when the stones became so heavy that he could carry them no longer, he threw them all away. And the dogs came and licked his hands. Keep Your Mouth Shut As for the talkers and futile persons, they are commonly vain and credulous withal; for he that talketh what he knoweth, will also talk of what he knoweth not. Therefore, set it down, that a habit of secrecy is both politic and moral—Francis Bacon. Judge Not. Can a being who is not wholly without sin give thoughts and admonition to others? Test your own heart! What are you yourself? See, my hands are rough with work—I have not merely raised them in prayer. —Auerbach. Holy Wells of Ireland Everywhere in Ireland are the holy wells. People as they pray by them make little piles of stones that will be counted at the last day and the prayers reckoned up, or so it is believed. Advice from the Politician. "My boy," said a politician to his son, "lean a little toward everything and commit yourself to nothing. Be as round as a bottle and just dark enough that nobody can see what's in you." A Question of Faith "Ef de Bible said dat it wuz a ratt tnakesnake d swallered Jonah, I'd be believe it," said the old colored deacons, "but, thank de Lawd, dey wuz no ratt tnakesnakes in dat day!"—Atlanta Consti- tution. The Philosopher of Folly. "Wine is a mocker," says the philosopher of folly. "And even coffee is likely to be a Java. But please don't put this down as one of my sayings. It doesn't mean anything, really." Left Uncle Thinking. "Willie," said the infant's mother, agitated by the sudden appearance of a rich relative, "Willie, dear, kiss your Uncle John, and then go and wash your face at once." There are three modes of bearing the ills of life—by indifference, which is the most common; by philosophy, which is the most ostentations, and by religion, which is the most effectual. Female Superiority. It isn't that women are more sympathetic than men, but that their eyes are keener, their voices sweeter and their hands softer. Hold Stone-Throwing Contests. In parts of Switzerland stone-throwing contests are held, handsome prizes being given to those who throw a fair-sized rock farthest. Triumph of Youth A certain line of exercises is recommended to make children stronger than their parents. This looks like a blow at the wooded ceremony. Early Marriage in Mexico. 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Officers of the law appear to be as helpless as they are powerless. --- If the soldiers of Companies B, C and D are not reinstated, there'll be a slump in the Negro vote in the doubtful States. --- A colored orator arguing from a Roosevelt-Brownville platform will have a hard time this fall before the average Negro audience. --- The re-alignment of parties seems to be taking place and in a few more years, a man who is a Republican in principle will find himself in the Democratic Party and vice versa. O If President Roosevelt's policies are so popular, we do not see why Mr. Bryan's vagaries should not be adopted by the country. They are both about the same and both are expounding platitudes from the same Bible. --- CONGRESSMAN HEFLIN'S BLUNDER. The Negro-hating Congressman from Dr. Booker T. Washington's congressional district finds himself in a most embarrassing predicament. He shot a colored man named Louis Lundy and instead of dying, he is living and now not only threatens to see Congressman Hefflin out but promises to bring suit for damages against him as well. In the meantime the government has a little business with Mr. Hefflin on its own account for he usurped its functions and then deliberately attempted to commit murder. As a result, it is evident that an effort will be made to have the citizen from Alabama serve a term in the 'penitentiary instead of in Congress. Now comes the news from Washington stating that other troubles are about to confront this hot-headed Southerner, whose mission it seems to be to shoot white men as well as to kill Negroes. Thomas McCreary, the white man, whom he accidently shot while trying to kill Lundy has announced that he intends to bring suit for damages against the Congressman, and Mr. Heflin has taken good pains to be at his bedside and minister to his wants. Now the information is given to the public that the Negro, Mr. Louis Lundy is improving enough to appear against Mr. Heflin, that he wants twenty thousand dollars for his damaged head and that McCreary is a candidate for the grave yard, as signs of lock-jaw have developed and his condition is precarious. Congressman Heflin will then be forced to meet a double-barreled charge,—that of attempting to kill and that of murder. He will embarrass his friends and disgrace the district that he represents all on account of his innate hatred of one of the kindiest races of people on the face of the globe and his desire to attain a little cheap notoriety. Race hatred has never profited any people. It has its handicaps and its embarrassments. It is quite a reflection upon the white people of Dr. Booker T. Washington's district to have sent such a character to Washington. He is embarrassing both his party and his neighbors. Certain it is that the Democratic managers in the northern states wish that he was, like McGinty,—at the bottom of the sea. That party is sorely afflicted. As soon as it gets rid of a Tillman, it has a Jeff Davis on its hands, and while the latter is engaged in a fast fight with a white man in Arkansas, Congressman Helfin is shooting a Negro and a white man in Washington. O, the pity of it! --- THAT NEGRO UPRISING. The conference of colored men that met at Philadelphia, last Tuesday representing it is reported thirty seven States is especially significant at this time. All of them are unalterably opposed to President Roosevelt in particular and Secretary Taft in general. This opposition is based on the attitude of both of these gentlemen relative to human rights as shown in the Brownsville case and we confess that we cannot see that they are wrong in their conclusions. Bishop Alexander Walters is evidently the moving spirit in this meeting and Mr. William Monroe Trotter is the star agitator in the whole proceedings. If any mistake has been made at all, it was in electing Mr. William Monroe Trotter, President instead of making him Secretary or Chairman of the Executive Board. He hardly has the discretion essential to the performance of the duties of this office. We hope that we are mistaken however. Bishop Walters should have held this position. Still, the men in Philadelphia on the ground may know their business better than the one in Virginia. Mr. Trotter is earnest vigorous and sincere, but he has not the age on him. This will temper him in time. We hope though for the sake of the cause that he will make no mistake at this critical period of the race's experience. We shall be in a better position to express a further opinion when we see the address to the country. For our part, we are in a mood that makes us feel like going to any length to rebuke the doctrine enunciated by these latter-day Republicans, that there is one law upon the statute books for the white man and another for the Negro. It will be well to find out just how far the colored people of the country, free from compromising environments will sustain us and then go no further. We should emphasize our protests with visible means of enforcement. The idea that a man must prove his innocence, rather than that his accuser must prove his guilt is a doctrine too absurd for a moment's consideration. President Roosevelt has treated those colored soldiers wrongfully and he should be statesman enough to admit it and make amends for his unfortunate blunder. Whether it be North or South, East or West, on this side of the river or the other, the cry will be, "Remember Brownsville." Even those of us who shall die before the election expect to carry our complaints to God in person and tell Him all about our troubles. Colored men of the United States, te'l Mr. Roosevelt all about it and advise him to change his policy and re-arrange his plans in order that those of us who have admired him in the past may be able to say a good word for him after he is gone, both to his children and his children's children. THE NEWS-LEADER'S ADMONITION. The Richmond, Va. News-Leader, in its issue of the 8th inst. says: The Richmond PLANET, colored, denounces Congressman Heflin for shooting a rude Negro in Washington and says that it will watch with interest the result of the trial. 'Colored people are blaming the Congressman,' says the PLANET. 'Republicans are criticising him and many Democrats are condemning him.' True enough, but it is significant that the PLANET has no word of censure for the Negro in the case. He drank whiskey on the public car, he swore and used indecent language in the presence of a woman passenger, and when rebuke by Mr. Heflin, he became abusive. Yet the PLANET has no word of rebuke except for the white man. Blood is thicker than water and racial ties are binding, but as the white race cannot afford to defend Mr. Heflin, no more can the decent men of the colored race afford to stand for the offensive THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA conduct of bad Negroes like this Lundy, of Washington. It is that type of Negro that makes the race problem in the South. Our esteemed contemporary is in error if it for a moment believes that the better class of colored people or the Editor of this journal concludes or apologizes for the conduct of any drunken Negro, who disregards the rules of propriety and breaks the laws of decency. On the contrary, we have repeatedly advised our people to be polite and obliging and especially so to the white people. We did this for the reason that we are to an extent on trial and we need the friendship of the better class of white people to speak a word for us in high places and aid in a measure to champion our cause. The disreputable, lawless Negro is an incubus upon our prosperity and we would to God we could be rid of him. But he is here and we must do the best we can, with the aid of the liberal-minded whites to reform him. It is but fair to say that the same hoodlum spirit ever existen in many sections of this country is uppermost in the brawn and muscle and temperament of Congressman Helfin. Lundy was alleged to be drunk; Mr. Helfin was known to be sober. Yet he attempted to take a human life for a trivial offence that is specified as a misdemeanor in the District of Columbian. One was an educated, polished Southerner; the other a Negro of the dissolute type, if we are to believe the report concerning him. Yet Mr. Helfin placed himself on a level with him when he, banded words with him and shot him. No, we cannot afford to condone Lundy's act any more than the white people can afford to explain away Heflin's mad frenzy. The law has the one and we shall await its action with equanimity, feeling secure that the lesson will be salutary to Congressman Heflin as well as an object lesson to others like him. --- EQUAL ACCOMMODATIONS President Roosevelt has done a commendable thing in sending a letter to the Department of Justice concerning the order of the Interstate Commerce Commission under date of June 27, 1907 directing that the railroads in question furnish equal accommodations for white and colored passengers. President Roosevelt's letter is as follows: "WASHINGTON, Apr. 8.—President Roosevelt to-day made public his letter of April 2 to the attorney-general, directing proceedings by indication to compel certain railroads or the South to furnish equal accommodations to white and Negro passengers. The text of the President's letter is as follows: 'To the Department of Justice: 'I forward herewith report of the Interstate Commerce Commission containing its order of June 27, 1907 and the report of the failure of the railroad company to obey this order under date of March 26, 1908, together with a letter of the commission of April 1, 1908. It appears that the Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Railway Company has not compiled with the order of the commission to furnish the same facilities to colored passengers paying first class fare that are furnished to white passengers paying first class fare. From time to time various complaints have been made to me by reputed colored people to the effect that the accommodations furnished to colored persons on certain railways are filthy and inadequate compared to the same accommodations furnished to white passengers paying the same fare. The commission has taken what is unquestionably the right of grounds: That where separate accommodations are provided for white and colored passengers the accommodations for colored passengers shall be as good as those furnished to white passengers for the same. In other words, while there is nothing in the law which forbids separate accommodation for colored accommodations must be equal. This principle of equality of accommodation is set out explicitly in various State laws. 'For instance, the code of the State of Alabama provides that there shall be 'equal, but separate accommodations for the white and colored races, by providing two or more passenger cars for each passenger train, or by dividing the passenger cars by partitions.' The action of the commission has simply been to insist that the accommodations be equal in convenience and comfort, for the same money, wherever the separation is made. In this particular case where the railway has neglected to comply with the order of the commission it is important that compliance with this order be immediately obtained. I suggest that you proceed to enforce the order by injunction proceedings unless in your judgment some other course is preferable. 'Signed, THEODORE ROOSEVELT This is a step in the right direction and indicates that the mighty protest of the colored people of this country has reached the ear of the distinguished occupant of the White House in a way to cause him to sit up and take notice. We are gratified to know that he has at least a spark of appreciation left for the "brother in black" and hope that this evidence of a latent feeling existing in his breast for colored people and their interests will lead him to make the vital step now needed to bring him back to his former "first love" by making the effort of his life to undo the great wrong perpetrated by him upon the 167 members of Companies B, C and D of the Twenty-fifth Infantry. The question now is as to the ability of the Interstate Commerce Commission to have its own decrees enforced. Viewed impartially, though, it seems to us that the words of commendation are more essential for use upon this commission than upon the President of the United States, who is simply complying with his oath of office. But then we are in favor of commending all of them. REPUBLICANISM IN VIRGINIA. Colored people will read with surprise the report of the meeting of the alleged Republican Convention at Lynchburg last Wednesday, where colored delegates were howled down and ousted and every appearance of a colored man as a speaker excited derision. It can be readily understood by the recollection of the fable of the jack-ass clothed in the lion's skin. The men composing this convention are Negro-hating Democrats in disguise, many of whom have become disgruntled with the Democratic management and now find it more convenient to get even with their former opponents through this medium than by organizing independent Democratic organizations outside of their own parties. To indicate the spirit permeating these newly made Republicans, who do not seem to be acquainted with even one of the fundamental principles of the Republican platform, it is only necessary to quote from the admirable report of Mr. Walter Edward Harris, a gentleman of high standing and unimpeachable integrity. Here is what he says: "Some of the speeches made in opposition to allowing the Negroes to be seated would have aroused applause in a Virginia Democratic convention in the days of Reconstruction. But the convention adopted without dissent the report of the comMITtee seating the contesting Negro delegation / from Lynchburg. This action was undoubtedly due to the fact that the city chairman in the call for a convention directed that separate conventions be held. Naturally, the whites in their convention chose white delegates, and just as naturally the Negroes chose Negroes whose conditions there was nothing to be done by the State convention but seat two delegations. "The platform adopted to-night is very brief. It simply indorses the administration of Roosevelt and instructs the big four to Chicago to vote for Secretary Taft for the Presidential nomination. Just the idea of holding two meetings, one for white men and another for colored men and calling them Republican meetings. The absurdity of such a plan must be apparent to everybody. But here is another exhibition of feeling against the colored voter as manifested in a Republican Convention. Mr. Harris says: "Just after the committees were announced a Negro contesting delegate from the First District arose and addressed the chair, Chairman Noel saw over the darky's head for some time, but finally recognized him. The Negro was proceeding to say that he understood there was no race prejudice in this convention. 'I do hope,' he was saying, when there was a storm of jeers and cat-calls. 'Sit down!' was the business-like exhortation of a husky delegate from the Second District, seated neatly close to where the Negro was standing demanding recognition. "Delegate Carlo from the Fifth District addressed the chair. "Does the gentleman arise to a point of order," suggested the chair. "I do," said Mr. Carco, and calmly proceeded to make a motion concerning the places of meeting for the committees just appointed, something about as far removed from a point of order as could be imagined. The Negro remained standing. A motion to adjourn till 7 o'clock was made and put and carried, and the Negro was not heard from further. Now this is the Republican Convention, so-called operated by white gentlemen, holding federal offices under President Roosevelt and pledged to the support of Hon. William H. Taft, Secretary of War. They consider that they have "elbow room" to do what they please, inasmuch as President Roosevelt has set the example by "kicking" innocent colored men out of the army and barring them from enlistment. This is the logical result of such a course. We have cited the fact so that he, who runs may read. For our part, we are perfectly willing to remain at home on election day or to support some other party or candidates, before we will suffer the humiliation herein portrayed. This will be disheartening news to many, but we suggest that colored folks carry their troubles to Jesus, work hard, save money and vote when they feel like it. Between bourbon Democracy in a Republican convention and bourbon Democracy in a Democratic convention, we will take the genuine article for ours or go fishing on election day. Colored men should lay low and move in that direction that will inflict the greatest degree of punishment upon false-hearted friends. "A SOP TO THE WHALE." The United States Senate has at last awakened to the fact that it should reimburse the depositors of the defunct Freedmen's Savings Bank and has passed a bill appro- prilating one million dollars or so much as may be necessary to accomplish this purpose. This action is highly commendatory and will be received with satisfaction throughout this section of the country. As most of the money will come into the Southern States, the Democrats have interposed no opposition to the measure. As a matter of fact, it was Hon. Grover Cleveland as President of the United States that made this recommendation in his message. The patron of the bill was not able to get it through but one branch of Congress and served only as a means for sharpers to wring money from the confiding colored people, who had been depositors. It now looks as though the measure will become law as it is comparatively easy for it to be forced through the House if Speaker Cannon and his supporters can be induced to favor the measure. To this end colored people should write to him from all sections of the country. There is but little doubt, but what President Röosevelt will sign the bill and be glad to do it just at this time of his remarkable unpopularity with the "brother in black." Colored people should not be sure about the matter though, for already the cry is being made that the drain upon the Treasury of the United States is out of proportion with the receipts by the government. In the meantime, this may mean "a sop to the whale" so to speak as a compensation for the injury done our people in the Brownsville affair. If it will tend to cause some of us to forget that worrisome and embarrassing event, it will be a political effort of transcendent importance. Let the House of Representatives reimburse the depositors of the Freedmen's Savings Bank. INTEMPERATE CONDEMNATION We are of the opinion that our people do not aid our cause or materially injure our enemies by hissing either President Theodore Roosevelt or Secretary of War, William H. Taft. Such practices are inudged in to a great extent in Northern States and to the educated mind, the significance is about the same as spitting in one's face. It emphasizes the lowest contempt entertained for the object of their displeasure. It may be that some colored folks do not know this. We do not feel very friendly towards either of the distinguished statesmen for the reason that they have failed sadly to measure up to the standards set for men of great and lofty principles. They have given commercialism first place and human rights second place and this alone is sufficient to lower both of them in the judgment of the future historian. But then, will it best subserve our interests for us to go beyond the rules of propriety and in the exercise of intemperate speech and bitter invective, may we not drive more people to their support than we will estrange from their following? It may be that the gentlemen in the northern states know their constituents better than we know them and that they are pursuing proper directions for the accomplishment of given purposes; still, we are unable to see it just now in this light. We believe that cool, calm logical argument, fraught with the consequences of such actions and seasoned with the elements of truth will bring not only colored men to our way of thinking, but white men as well. The saddest and most unfortunate part of the whole business is the multiplying evidence that the distinguished modern Pharaoh, President Roosevelt continues to harden his heart and instead of letting the "Black Battailon" go back to its old quarters as before, he insists that his wrong action shall be stamped as a right action and that he shall be upheld in one of the most brutal exhibitions of autocratic power ever noted in modern times. We are ready to discuss this phase of the question with any of the Administration's champions, but we are unwilling to howl down the foremost statesman of this Republic, even though in the innermost recesses of our heart we believe he deserves just such treatment. The rules of propriety and moderation apply here and our friends should take care lest they injure the cause of the colored soldiers more than they benefit it and the cry from them be voiced in the anguish of the heart, "O, that some one would save us from our friends!" New Idea in Millinery One of the very prettiest new things in the millinery market is the big hat of net or point d'esprit, bound with silk and trimmed with a huge butterfly bow, also edged with silk. This hat in itself is enough to kill any small shape scare, for it's sure to become immensely popular, and will have great advantages for the girl who fashions and trims her own hats. The net bows will also be used on straw hats, and the milliners are making them into all sorts of quaint shapes. WILL Coarsen the Hair While lemon used in the egg shampoo is excellent for the scalp, the use of the pure lemon juice on the hair is apt to coarsen it and make it stiff and unmanageable. THE LIABILITY BILL The Bill Makes Railroads Doing An Interstate Commerce Business Liable For Injuries Received By Employees. Washington, April 7. — With only one vote recorded against it, that of Mr. Littlefield, of Maine, the house of representatives, under suspension of the rules, passed the Sterling employers' liability bill after forty minutes' debate. In brief the bill establishes the doctrine that the railroad companies engaged in interstate commerce are liable for personal injuries received by employees in the service of such carriers. It abolishes the strict common law rule of inability which bars a recovery for the personal injury or death of an employee, occasioned by the negligence of a fellow servant. It also relaxes the common law rule which makes contributory negligence a defense to claims for such injuries. A provision, however, diminishes the amount of the recovery in the same degree that the negligence of the injured one contributed to the injury. The bill further makes each party responsible for his own negligence and requires each to bear the burden thereof. The bill as passed by the house was transmitted to the senate, and on motion of Senator Dolliver was laid on the table subject to being called up at any time. Mr. Dolliver explained that the bill is quite similar to the measure reported to the senate from the committee on education and labor. Mr. Dolliver contemplates asking the senate to agree to take up the bill at an early day. He will probably move to substitute the senate measure for the house bill, and after the senate acts will then leave to conferees the task of agreeing upon a compromise measure. The house bill is much more sweeping than the senate bill, as it applies to all "common carriers," while the senate bill applies only to "common carriers by railroad." BANNERMAN RESIGNS British Premier Sent His Resignation to the King. London, April 6.—Great Britain is in a peculiar position, being without either premier or ministry. The long-expected resignation of Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman, the prime minister, was officially announced. According to the court circuit, he resigned on the urgent recommendation of his medical advisers. As the constitution of the country provides no automatic succession, it resting with the king to choose a new head of the government and, in accordance with the custom and precedent, the whole cabinet resigns with the premier, no step to appoint a ministry can be taken until Herbert H. Asquith, the chancellor of the exchequer, who has been summoned to Blarritz for the purpose, has seen the king. It is believed the pre-military will be offered to Mr. Asquith. The position of the country is quite unprecedented, there being no previous example of a change occurring in the premiership while the sovereign was abroad. On this account, the course of procedure to be followed is in some doubt. Sir Henry's condition remains unchanged, according to the physicians' bulletin. The king, in telegraphing his acceptance of the premier's resignation, conveyed an expression of his regret and esteem, with best wishes for Sir Henry's recovery. SUICIDE BY FIRE Demented Woman Saturated Clothing With Oil and Set Herself On Fire. York, Pa., April 8.—Mrs. Joseph Co baugh, aged thirty-three years, residing near Berlin Junction, Adams county, saturated her clothing with kerosene oil and set fire to herself, with suicidal intent. A nine-year-old daughter, attracted to the yard of her home by a light, discovered her mother in flames. An alarm was raised, and neighbors extinguished the fire, but the woman died. She was demented, and made an attempt to take her own life eighteen months ago by taking paris green. Old Engineer Dead Shamokin, Pa., April 7. —Gardner Cobb, one of the oldest Pennsylvania and Reading railroad engineers in the country, died here. During the Civil War he was on the Baltimore division of the Pennsylvania railroad, and rushed a big special train of soldiers and ammunition to the Gettysburg battlefield. He also ran President Lincoln's funeral train part way from Washington to Illinois. Baby Killed in Runaway Harrisburg, Pa., April 8.—William Howard Stair, aged twenty-two months, was killed and William H. Pressler, a retired Pennsylvania railroad engineer, grandfather of the child, was hurt by a runaway team. The child had wandered into the street and the grandfather was injured trying to save it. Senator Tillman in a Sanitarium. Atlanta, Ga., April 8.—Senator B. R. Tillman, of South Carolina, arrived in this city and went immediately to a sanitarium, where he will remain under treatment for several wounds. His condition is said to be satisfactory. A Daring Daylight Robbery A most daring robbery was perpetrated in broad daylight at Wilkes-Barre, Pa., in the heart of the business district, when two large safes were blown open in the Boston dry goods store of Fowler, Dick & Water. Whether the thieves secured $4000 from a chest within one of the safes cannot be learned. The work was so cleverly done that it is believed to be that of professionals. WEEK'S NEWS CONDENSED Dr. Norwood K. Vance, formerly a surgeon in the United States marine corps, committed suicide by shooting in a hotel at Atlanta, Ga. The barge Ashland, from Philadelphia, loaded with 1513 tons of coal for this city and owned by the Philadelphia & Reading Coal company, went ashore on the rocks and sank at Bath, Me. George Taylor was arrested in New York on a warrant charging him with the larceny of $1790 from Forbes & Wallace, of Springfield, Mass., by whom he had been employed as confidential clerk for twenty-two years. Friday. April 3. Captain J. W. Isbister, of Chicago master of the steamer Park Foster was run down and killed by a New York Central engine at Buffalo, N. Y. Three persons were killed, fifteen were injured, some of them seriously, and the lives of nearly 100 persons were endangered by a fire in a five-story tenement house at 44 Hester street, New York. Saturday. April 4. James Jeffrey Roche, American consul at Berne, Switzerland, died after a long illness. Mexico has accepted the invitation of the Japanese government to participate in the world's fair to be held in Tokyo in 1912. Burglaries blew open the safe in the postoffice at Princess Anne Court House, Va., and secured $500 in cash, stamps and registered mail. The dead body of Mrs. Elizabeth Highll, fifty-two years old, a fortune-telling medium, was found in an artificial lake in Lafayette park, she having committed suicide by drowning. Monday, April 6 Alvin Welser, residing near Lyons, Berks county, Pa., has a goose which recently laid an egg that weighed exactly one pound. While returning to his home after delivering produce, Jeremiah Kamper, a Springtown, Pa., farmer, fell in with a trio of men who bounced him out of $200. Their oyster skiff upset by a high sea, Captain W. V. Miles and two sons of Captain James H. Tyler, of Somerset county, Md., were drowned in Willoughby bay, Va. Because of over-production, the mines of the Delaware & Hudson company, at Lyon Mountain, N. Y., have been shut down, throwing out of employment 550 men. Tuesday, April 7. The president sent to the senate the name of John S. Leech, of Illinois, to be public printer. William H. Milton, of Florida, was sworn in as United States senator, to succeed the late Senator William J. Bryan. Burglarrs ransacked the country home of C. Emory McMichael at Devon, near Philadelphia, and escaped with goods valued at $3000. After a shut down of three weeks' duration, the plant of the National India Rubber works, at Bristol, R. L. employing about 1400 hands, resumed operations. Wednesday, April 8. Robbers dynamited the safe at the State bank at Huron, Atchison county, Kan., and escaped with $6500. Benjamin Rosenberger, aged seventy years, dropped dead of heart disease while at work on his truck farm near Norristown, Pa. Congressman Abraham Lincoln Brick, of the Thirteenth Indiana district, died suddenly in a sanitarium at Indianapolis, Ind. Bursting of a tank of molten glass caused a fire that wiped out the plant of the Whitney Glass company, at Glassboro, N. J., entailing a loss of $30,000. Mrs. Ruth B. M. Rea, widow of Judge James D. Rea, and mother of Samuel Rea, third vice president of the Pennsylvania Railroad company, died in Pittsburg from the effects of a stroke of apoplexy. PRODUCE QUOTATIONS The Latest Closing Prices In the Principal Markets. PHILADELPHIA — FLOUR weak; winter extras, new. $3.85@4; Pennsylvania roller, clear. $4.10@4.25; city fancy, fancy. $4.25@4.25; quiet. $4.10@4.60 per barrel. WHEAT weak; No. 2 Pennsylvania. red, 96% @ 96c. CORN quiet; No. 2 yellow, local, 70@72c. OATS steady; to white, clipped. 57.1%c. lower gates, large bales. 57.1%c. lower large bales. $18@18.50. PORK firm; family, per barrel. $19.50. BEEF steady; beef hams, per barrel. $26@27. PoulRYR: Live steak; hens, 46.1%c. Dresse steady; choice fowls. 41.4%c. roosters, 10.1%c. BUTTER firm; extra creamyery, 33c. EGGS firm; selected, 17@18; nearby, 16c. western, 17c. EGS steady, at 80@85c per bushel. TESS steady, at 60c per basket. BALTIMORE—WHEAT steady; No. 2 spot, 96%@96%; steamer No. 2 spot, 96%@91%; southern, 32%@68%; steamer duly expired @68%; steamer mixed, 62%@64%; southern, 64%@68%; OATS firm; white, No. 2, 58%@59%; No. 3, 57%@58%; No. 2, 58%@59%; No. 3, 57%@58%; No. 3, 52%@58%; BUTTER starch cremery separator exxus, 30@30%; held, 20@21%; prints, 3@32%; Maryland and Pennsylvania dairy prints, 18 land, Pennsylvania dairy prints, 18 land, Pennsylvania, Virginia and West Virginia, 14%; southern, 13% Live Stock Markets PITTSBURG (Union Stock Yards)— CATTLE lower; choice, $6.40@6.70; prime, $6.40@6.70. SHEEP steady; lams slow; prime wethers, $5.72@5.72; common, $3@4; lams, $5@7.25; veal calves, $5@7.25. HOGS higher; prime Yorkers, $6.25; light Yorkers, $6.25; light Yorkers, $6.30@4.80; pligs, $5.60; roughs, $5.60. Brodded Child With Snipsers Prodded Child With Scissors. Chillicotte, O., April 8.—Mrs. Laura Burst, of Harpers station, was arrested on complaint of her neighbors and charged with inhuman treatment of the seven-year-old daughter of her sister, Mrs. Godfrey. Mrs. Burst had taken the child to raise. The afdavit charges that she prodded the child with scissors and scars are on the child's body which, the neighbors say, were made by teeth. IT WILL PAY YOU To interest yourself in promot ing the CIRCULATION of th RICHMOND PLANET. ```markdown ``` THE PLANET SATURDAY.....APRIL 11, '08. BOARDING HOUSE GEOMETRY "A scientific friend of mine has drawn up a boarding house geometry that strikes me as being noteworthy," says a youth with a third-story "front." "Some of his definitions run as follows: 1. All boarding houses are the same boarding houses. 2. Boarders in the same boarding house and on the same floor are equal to one another in the matter of price, but not in the matter of outlook. 3. A single room is that which has no parts and no magnitude. 4. The landlady of a boarding house is a parallelogram—an oblong angular figure which can not be described, but is equal to anything. 5. All the other rooms being taken, a single room is said to be a double room. "Among postulates and propositions the following are worthy of consideration: "1. A pie may be produced any number of times. "2. The landlady may be reduced to her lowest terms by a series of propositions. "3. A beeline may be made from one boarding house to another. "4. The clothing of a boarding house bed, although extended indefinitely in both directions, will never meet. "5. Any two meals at a boarding house are together less than one square meal."-Harper's Weekly. DYSPEPTIC PHILOSOPHY Poets are born, not paid. Marriage is the surest cure for flattery. Too many cooks spoil the intelligence office. All things come to those who wait on themselves. Be careful how you grasp a red-hot opportunity. A pretty girl always inspires more envy than a clever one. Sometimes an exploded theory doesn't even wake up the theorist. Many a fellow who isn't a prestidigitor turns day into night. An expert is a man who is able to impress us with how little we know. The philanthropy of some men consists of a willingness to pass the hat. Many a man puts his property in his wife's name, including his happiness. It is not until a man becomes wedded to his art that he feels he can neglect it. It may not be true that women are more fickle than men, but they certainly have more chance to show it. WITH THE SAGES True living is living victoriously the common days of life.—Parkhurst. Fallures, to heroic minds, are stepping stones to success.—Haliburton. Our sweetest enjoyment is in the happiness we shed about us.—Smiles. The first step to virtue is to love virtue in another.—Samuel Mauder. Like a star without haste, without rest, let everyone fulfill his own best.—Goethe. Do not be afraid of your happiness. Laugh and sing and make music.—C. F. Aked. He who thinks his place below him will certainly be below his place.—Saville. To dare to do your duty always, this is the height of true valor.—C. C. Simmons. The great fact is, that life is a service. The only question is: "Whom are you serving?"—Faber. PERT PARAGRAPHS. Worry for worry's sake seems to be the working motto of many people. These are the joyous days when the coal is in the furnace and the ash is in the bin. Many worthy young men are fired with the highest ambition to marry an heiress to reform her. No matter how crowded time may be with events, there is always room for the nimble rumor. A millionaire is not necessarily a hard-hearted creature, but as long as somebody is bound to be poor he is equally determined it should be a million other fellows. 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. THEY ARE 22X28 INCHES AND RETAIL AT ONE DOLLAR EACH. WE WILL FURNISH FRAMES FOR ANY OF THESE FINE CHROMOS FOR 2 DOLLARS & 50CTS. EACH ADDITIONAL. 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WE WILL SEND YOU A GOLD-PLATED BROOCH WITH YOUR PICTURE THEREIN, YOU TO DELEGATES ARE FREE Delaware Republican Delegations Are Uninstructed. Dover, Del., April 8.—The Republican state convention, held here under the control of the leaders of the state organization, who had set their faces against any kind of instructions to the national convention delegates, performed its work with unusual celerity. The convention's work was practically performed by the county caucuses, it being the irrevocable custom in this state, by both parties, to divide the six national delegates equally between the three counties and to permit the county delegates to make their selections in caucus. The same plan is followed in relation to the state central committee, each county selecting its queta in caucus. The state convention simply ratifies the action taken by the county caucuses. The delegates to national convention will be Governor Lea, Senator Henry A. Du Pont, Senator Harry A. Richardson, Walter O. Hofecker, Congressman Hiram R. Burton and John G. Townsend. They are not instructed, but not one of them is considered favorable to Secretary Taft. The platform which was adopted indorses the administration of President Roosevelt and the state administration and also commends the president's recent course in the enforcement of his policies. It also favors revision of tariff duties as applied to trade with the Philippines. The rest of the platform is devoted to local questions. A DOUBLE HANGING Two Murderers Pay Death Penalty in Philadelphia. Philadelphia, April 8.—Max Solifer and Joseph Toltrico were hanged in Moyamensing prison. Solifer, a few weeks after he celebrated his eighteenth birthday, shot and killed Annie Margolis in her home, 223 Christian street. After firing two shots into the girl's brain, Solifer turned the revolver on himself and inflicted wounds that caused his life to hang in a balance for many weeks. The two were engaged to be married. The date had been set, and the bride-to-be had prepared her wedding trousseau. About this time Solifer lost what money he had in a business venture and postponed the wedding. This was the cause of the murder. Joseph Tolrico shot and killed Alfredo Ravello on Sunday evening, April 14. He first shot at and missed the dead man's sister. Adelina Ravello, who was engaged to marry him, As he fired at a girl she fainted. Thinking he h. killed the gri, he turned to flee, but was intercepted by Alfredo Ravello, who attempted to take the weapon away from him. In the scuffle Tolrico fired a bullet through Ravello's heart. VOTE TO ALLOW DANCING New York Methodist Conference Is Against Its Prohibition. New York, April 7.—By an almost unanimous vote, the New York conference of the Methodist Episcopal church recommended to the general conference that paragraph 248 of the church discipline, which advises against dancing, card playing, theatregoing, etc., be eliminated. Much to the general surprise, there was no debate on this question. Only seven delegates voted against the resolution. If the general conference approves the step, it was explained, it will not mean that Methodism alters its historic position in respect to these amusements, but simply makes them a matter of conscience. A proposal that induced much speechmaking, but was adopted by a substantial majority, was the resolution appealing to the general conference to restore the time limit upon pastorates, a custom which was abolished about eight years ago. The conference also went on record as favoring the election of negro bishops. BOY GETS THIRTY YEARS Joe Wood Is Sentenced For Killing Ethel Nevins. Camden, N. J., April 8. — Joseph Wood, sixteen years old, convicted of second degree murder for killing Ethel Nevins, a nine-year-old girl, was sentenced to thirty years in the state prison by Judge Garrison. Joe killed the little girl with a hatchet and confessed his crime. Turning to Sheriff Somers, who was leading him out of the court house, Wood said: "Gee, that's tough! I'd rather go to the chair. Just think of me. Thirty long years! I knew that I was going to get the limit, because when I counted my money this morning I found exactly thirteen cents. I knew this was bad luck, and I threw away a cent to drive away the hoodoo, but it was no use." ```markdown ``` Woman's Neck Broken By Fall. Isabelle Neeland, fifty years of age, the wife of Frank' Neeland, of the Park theatre, fell down stairs at her home in Westmont, near Camden, N. J., and broke her neck. Death was instantaneous. Mrs. Neeland had risen to get a drink and stumbled in the dark. Soothing Syrup Kills Twin Bables. Twin bables, a boy and a girl, children of Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Ackerknecht, of St. Paul, Minn., died victims of soothing syrup poisoning. The parents told a doctor who was called that they had given the bables only five drops of the medicine. The coroner is making an investigation. Boy Kills Stepmother and Himself. A fourteen-year-old boy, Francisco Limonta, killed his stepmother at Guantanamo, Cuba. He then turned the pistol on himself and fired a bullet into his head, dying instantly. Before shooting his stepmother he said that she had been very cruel to him. Two and One-Half Cent Rate In Tenn. The Southern railway and its allied lines put on the two and one-half cent rate in Tennessee, to continue in operation one year, to test whether it will prove profitable. THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA 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. 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WE WILL KEEP A RECORD OF THEM; AS SOON AS THE FOR TEN NEW SUBSCRIBERS FIVE ```markdown ``` X THE PLANET SATURDAY.....APRIL 11, '08 HORTICULTURE ROOT GRAFTING Considered Easier Method Than Other Forms of Grafting. Trees may be propagated by root grafting more easily than by any other method. The main part of the work can be done in winter, assuming that the roots are obtained before the ground is frozen too hard. Roots from nursery trees of medium size about one year old are best. The sclions may be cut any time before the buds swell. The grafting may be done any time in winter in the farm workshop or basement. The sclions should be five or six inches long and cut so that a strong bud will be at the top of each piece. Cut the lower end as shown in the il- How the Root Graft Is Made. lustration. Make a long, sloping cut at the butt end about $ \frac{1 3}{4} $ inches long, tapering to a point. Then cut a slit one-half inch long, parallel to the cut just made, forming a tongue, and with its point a little below the middle of the slope. Then, taking a piece of root five or six inches long, cut it in precisely the same way as the sclon, so that the two fit together and corres- pond. Join sclons and roots of the same size, so that the cut edges will fit well. If a number of sclons are at the same time it will be easier to find one which will fit each root as it is cut. When root and scion are fitted together, says Farm and Home, hold the graft firmly, and with the spilled part between the thumb and forefinger, take a piece of waxed thread in the right hand, put the end of it under the left thumb to hold it fast while the thread is passed around the graft and made to bind down the end. Wind the thread, or roll the graft in the left hand, so as to bind the cut surfaces together, and soap off the thread without tying it, as the wax will hold it in place. The tying is a very simple operation, and children can learn to do it, but cutting and fitting the graft should be done with care. Tie the completed grafts in bundles and store away in sawdust or similar material until planting time, keeping them in a damp, cool place where they will not freeze, and where rules will not get at them. At tree-planting time set them out in rich, melted soil, placing them deep enough to color the point of union. If kept cultivated these grafts should make good growth the driest season. PRUNING FRUIT TREES. Apple Trees Should Allow of Passage of Wagon Beneath Limbs. Apple trees should not be given such low heads that a horse and cart cannot be driven around in the orchard quite close to them. It is convenient to pick fruit standing on the ground, but the inconvenience of low trees overbalances that advantage. If the branches start from the trunk five feet from the ground and the pruning is properly done afterward large horses can be driven along as closely to the trees in plowing the orchard as is necessary, without interfering with the branches. In pounding, keep an open top, and as straight branches as possible. Trim from the trunk or from the branches and lock after the tree closely enough so a heavy pruning knife or a pair of shears will do the work where a saw would be required later. If big limbs are cut one to two inches in diameter, don't forget to cover the stubs with thick paint. HORTICULTURAL NOTES Don't plant too many fruit trees, but enough so that you can give them the right attention. Do away with that ladder leading to the hayloft and put in steps. It will be time well spent. Keep your orchard as near like a garden as possible from the time it is planted to the day of its death. Three fine requisites are necessary to secure early potatoes, viz. early soil, early planting, early variety. Every farmer should take an interest in the forestry question. It vitally concerns the farmer as well as others. In taking up young trees for transplanting they should be marked so they can be put in the ground just as they came out. Hen manure seems to have a special value for the onion crop. If none is at hand 1,500 pounds per acre of a good potash fertilizer will do. Onion land should be plowed in the fall or early winter. Give a shallow harrowing just before planting the seed. Plant early in drills 14 to 16 inches apart. Beautify Your Grounds. It costs practically nothing but labor and not much of that to beautify the home or the schoolhouse grounds. A smooth, nicely-sodded lawn and a few trees, shrubs, vines and flowers about the house add dollars to the value of the farm and untold wealth and comfort to the occupants. FERTILIZING WITH CHARCOAL. Experiment Has Shown That It Im proves the Soil for Plant Growth. A horticulturist connected with the botanical gardens in Washington is quoted as saying that experiments with reference to the use of charcoal as a fertilizer for plants have developed the fact that plants will vegetate and grow in nearly pure charcoal and that plants grown in a mixture of two-thirds coal and one-third of vegetable mold greatly surpasses those grown in the ordinary way. Thickness is added to the stems, richness to the color of the leaves and beauty to the blossoms. In all cases where it is customary to mix sand with the mold in which plants are set the substitution of charcoal dust for the sand will render the vegetation stronger and more vigorous. Pure charcoal acts excellently as a means of curing unhealthy plants. Take, for instance, an orange tree affected by the very common disease in which the leaves become yellow, and it will acquire within a few weeks a healthy green color by removing the upper surface of the earth from the pot in which it is contained and placing in its stead a layer of charcoal of an inch in thickness. The charcoal to use is the dustlike powder from fir or pine coal and the best results are obtained when the coal has been exposed to the action of the air through a winter season. The properties of charcoal are manifested in two ways, says the Epitomist; first, by its tendency to preserve all plants and substances from decay, and secondly, by the carbonic gas it furnishes during the slow decomposition it undergoes and which in a few years, converts it into coaly earth. It yields directly and constantly one of the most essential elements of plants and gives beautiful color and great luxuriance to them. Where large quantities of charcoal are used the plants consume and require more water than ordinarily, as the air is given free access and dries the roots rapidly. STARTING HORSE RADISH Horse-radish is started by setting out roots as early in the spring as started by setting in the spring as the ground will permit. These roots are known as waste roots, cut from the sides of the marketable crop. In taking up horse-radish, there are always several small roots radiating from the main or tap root which is used largely for the ground will permit. These roots are known as waste roots, cut from the sides of the marketable crop. In taking up horse-radish, there are always several small roots radiating from the main or tap root which is used largely for grating. These small roots are cut off and used for starting new beds. Roots as large as a lead pencil, and larger, are taken off and used to good advantage. They are cut into lengths from 4 to 6 inches and taper at the top or thick end, that is, they are cut on a slant as seen in the cut, and not square off. These are put in the ground so that the thick end is upward. They are planted about 2 or 3 inches deep. This is to prevent any water from accumulating on the end of the plant, thus causing decay. Horse-radish delights in a rich soil and is ready for market by October 1. It can be left all winter and marketed early in the spring if desired. I know of but one variety, says a writer in Orange Judd Farmer, and it is as hardy as a dock root when once started. Usually from two to five plants can be cut from each root during harvest, besides having roots for sale. I started with 1,500 plants and in three years set out 40,000 besides selling a considerable number. The cost of horse-radish sets or plants ranges from $2.50 to $3 per 1,000 roots. When set out, the rows should be set about 3 feet apart and plants about 14 inches in the row. Plan Bed for Next Year. To make a success of strawberries, the ground should be well manured the year before planting and should have grown a crop of potatoes that have been well cultivated and no weeds allowed to mature. This ground should be plowed late in the fall; some soils will be better plowed again in spring, some may be disked and well dragged. Clean Out Barn. Remember that this is the best time of the year to clean out the barn lot and the manure pens and cart the manure to the field that needs the fertilizer. In a few weeks the spring work will begin and there will be no time for manure hauling. Get it on the Land. Manure is never more valuable than on the day it is made. It is, therefore, much better to haul it to the fields at every opportunity than to have a large pile in the spring ready to haul out when there is so much other work on hand. Put It Back with Interest Do not forget that you borrowed several dollars' worth of fertility from the soil when you removed last year's crops. This fertility is lying in the manure heap. Cart it back to the soil to which it is due. Uncle Allen "Some men," muttered Uncle Allen Sparks after the tiresome speaker had sat down, "remind me of an old water mill that's running with empty hoppers. Their wheels keep on going, but they don't turn out any grist." THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. CURRENT VERSE. In Lilac Time. No sorrow need to-day approach my door. For the shall find it closed and barred to him. The griefs which I have known shall be no more. And e'en their memory shall be faint and dim. To-day will I revisit Fairyland. Where all the coming years seemed fine and bright; With eyelids closed, a blossom in my hand. The past Mays shall surround me till the night. For when I rose, a fragrance filled the air, Leaving no other any place or room; I came like ghosts of dead Mays dear and fair— I looked—and lo, the lilacs were in bloom! What magic of Arabia vies with this. Which bridges time with but an odor sweet; And leaves you, happy with a mother's like Standing behind the years you still must greet? -Ninette L. Lower, in New York Sun. To the Sea For all things now were not when thou wust strong in thy prime. There was silence first, and then darkness, and under the garment of these. Was the body of thee in thy might, with its infinite mysteries. And God alone was aware of thy presence and power and form; And bade the kingdoms of man to ship thee and bow down. For thee he made duat, for change and defeat in the mass. But thee He made eternal, through acons and acons to last. Unmarked by sun or wind, and supreme are tossed: Not an inch of thy beauty to perish, nor an ounce of thy might to be lost. The Soul Aloof Close, close in my arms thou art clinging; Alone for my ear thou art singing A song which no stranger has heard: But afar from me yet, like a bird, Thy soul, in some region unattired, On its mystical circuit is winging. Thou art mine, I have made the mine own; Henceforth we are mingled forever. But in vain, all in vain, I endeavor. The' round thee my garlands are thrown, And thou yieldest thy lips and thy zone- To master the spell that alone My hold on thy being can sever. Thou art mine, thou hast come unto me! But thy soul, when I strive to be near It— The innermost fold of my spirit— Is as far from my grasp, is as free, As the stars from the mountain tops be, As the pearl in the depths of the sea From the portionless King that would wear it! —Edmund C. Stedman The Watchers. We have grown old, so very old in sorrow He heart and I; A sob tells out to-day; a slow to-morrow Wakes with a sigh. My eyes are tired with too much weeping; They droop, and fain would be a n-sleep- Ael. But still my heart the watch is keeping— I can not let her watch alone. What watch we for? The dawning mor- row May bring us to our own. We may grow young, so young again in hoping, My heart and I Let one star shine—there'll be no more belle groove 'Neath inky sky' My soul would faint, but faith endureth; My faith'right hope she reassureth; Undaunted, still my heart allureth must follow her yet higher. What seek we for? We still are heping To meet with our desire. —Clara Shadday. Let Him Dream. He is dreaming; let him dream! He supposes that the sun With a lesser warmth would gleam If to-day his work were done— If to-day his work were done— And in death's embrace he lay. If his mission were fulfilled And his hands were lifeless clay. He supposes that all men Must have knowledge of his worth; Twilight be hard, the fancies, when He is gone to run the earth; Wheels will cease to turn, he thinks, And the flags will wave no more When within the grave he sinks And his usefulness is o'er. When he sleeps within his tomb And the world, all darkened, grieves, Not another rose will bloom. So he foolishly believes. Hower foolish he may seem? Glory, after all, may be Merely happy dreams we dream. —Chicago Record-Herald. A Joy from Little Things. To press a joy from little things— From feet that fall in fashion From footwear that fashion Of some heart-hidden rhyme. From shapes of leaves and clouds and snow, From others' brighter eyes, From thinking: "I am dull, I know, But some are glad and wise"— From love remembered, though too dim For laughter or for tears, One fragile flame, so pale and slim, To gleam on grayer years— That is one way of Joy, I know, Yet I desire, desire, To go the way a god might go Through Love and Life and Fire! —Fanny Stearns, in Atlantic. Incomplete. I likes to hear de man dat come A-stumpmil 'roun' de state; When he stahts in a-speakin' some De seum' is simply great; His voice it do seem mighty sweet; Dar's only jes' one thing He needs to make it all complete; I wish he'd learn to sing! Dar is sebe beauty in each word Dat it would be sublime If now can 'dn you only heard Some music and some rhyme. Of colbe he's made a mighty name, But when dem echoes ring I can't heep widen into the same Dat he would learn to sing! -Washington Star. Her Record Against Her Mrs. Upmore (to applicant for position as cook)—Have you ever worked for Mrs. Highmus? Applicant—Y!s, ma'am; wan week. Mrs. Upmore—Well, if you suited her for as long a time as that you wouldn't suit me at all. Good morning"—Chicago Tribune. knights of Pythias, This organization is one of the most powerful protests 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 thy of their heartiest support. It pays an endowment and burial benefit of $4.00 per week sick dues. The badgeary regalia. For information concerning use. Courts of Calant ment of the Order. It requires a memorialize a court. Its members are pledged in money and prove Love one for the other.arial 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 is death benefits of from $30.00 to $4.00 in your neighborhood, orgniz one. concerning the Children's Department ad This organization is one of the most powerful in the country and its progress has been phenomenal. The Grand Lodge of Virginia has jurisdiction over all of the cities and counties in this state. Thirty maler 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 only absolutely necessary regalla. For information concerning the organization of lodges apply at the main office. The Courts of Calanthe Is the Female Department of the Order. It requires a membership of thirty persons to organize a court. Its members are pledged to exhibit Fidelity, exercise Harmony and prove Love one for the other. It pays an endowment and burial benefit of $150.00. It pays $3.00 per week sick dues. The only expense for regalia is the cost of the badge, 50 cents and a rosette, costing 25 cents for funeral occasions. THE BANDS OF CALANTHE or Children's Department also constitutes a feature and persons cannot do better than to enter the little ones into this mystic circle. The expense is nominal and the benefits all that could be expected. It pays from $1.00 to $1.50 sick dues and death benefits of from $30.00 to $40.00. If you have no Pythian Lodge or Court or Band in your neighborhood, orgrniz one. 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Where Law Doesn't Reach About 60 feet under the surface of the water, six miles off the coast of Florida, two Greek divers fought desperately for the possession of a big sponge. When one of them attempted to prosecute the other for injuries sustained in the fight he found that no court had jurisdiction over the bottom of the ocean. Great Men Unhappily Mated It is an unfortunate truth that ta- many cases the wives of great men have little or no sympathy with their husband's genius. Haydn's wife was a notable example, for she was a bad-tempereden, extravagant woman, and her husband used to say she did not care whether he was a musician or a shoemaker! Happiness in Helpfulness Happiness is through helpfulness. Every morning let us build a booth to shelter someone from life's fierce heat. Every noon let us dig some life-spring for thirsty lilies. Every night let us be food for the hungry and shelter for the cold and nasty—illfis. The Wicked and the Light The wicked shun the light as the devil shuns the cross—Italian Proverb. If only men bought things nobody would ever have issued trading stamps. A Word from Josh Wise. "Th' book heroine who sweeps haughtily from th' room wouldn't know a broom of she saw one." Obedience a First Requisite. Obedience is the mother of success and is wedded to safety.—Aeschylus N. A., S. A., E. A., A. AND A. is the most powerful in the county. The Grand Lodge of Virginia and counties in this state. New lodge. The benefits paid to the principles are greater than, based on Charity and establishment people of the state will support. Burial benefit of of $200.00 for its. The badge costing 75 centsation concerning the organization concerning the organization. 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 conan to enter the little ones into all that could be expected. from $30.00 to $40.00. If you horgniz one. Department address. Mrs. ANNA TAYLOR, W. M.. K·IN Real Hair Dressing for the Hair Robinson, the Famous B the Opera, says of Kink-i e for the past year and my hair is gre gressing and tonic I have ever used, altog elines on the market. It makes my hair all dandruff and stopped it from fallin up in any of the many styles that I us would not be without it. Yours sincerely a delightful perfumed tonic prepared la be absolutely safe and harmless. It ma glossy, enables you to comb it with o ils directly to the roots of the hair ton gor to the hair. es for 35c per bottle. If your druggist do I will send same to you, prepaid. of our goods over all others, we wi p, the best shampoo and Toilet Soap in soap for $3.00. Special offer good on lt.—Distributors, 1007 E. Ma MIDLAND MILITARY CENTER Has opened its doors for the accommodation of COLORED PEOPLE that may come to Mt. Clem ens in the future for their It is the only Hotel and Mineral Bath House owned and conducted by a colored man at any of the health resorts in the United States. Write for Special Rates. GEO. I. HUTCHINSON, PROP. 48 Welts St., - Mt. Clemens, Mich. JOHN FOXEL Dealer in General Line of FANCY AND STAPLE GROCERIES, NOTIONS, FRESH MEATS, CIGARS, TOBACCO, ICE. DAL, &c. RICHMOND, VA. 816 N. 2nd St., ment also con- he little ones into this mystic uld be expected. It pays from $40.00. If you have noPythian address. 311 N. 4th St., Richmond, Va. For Dressing and the Hair! The Famous Black Patti, says of Kink-ine car and my hair is growing very fast. I have ever used, altogether different from market. It makes my hair so beautiful, soft, stopped it from falling out and breaking many styles that I use on the stage. It hout it. Yours sincerely, MME, ROBINSON. named tonic prepared largely for the use of me and harmless. It makes harsh, stubborn, you to comb it with ease and to dress it the roots of the hair tones up and nourishes tle. If your druggist does not keep it have to you, prepaid. For all others, we will sell one full-size poo and Toilet Soap in the world, price 25 Special offer good only at the following tors, 1007 E. Main St. FREE! An Astrological Reading 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, No. 210 East Broad Street. 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 NES. BOOKER LEFTWICH. PROPRIETERS, 816 N. 2nd St., Richmond, Va. # Notice! Virginia's Most Successful Hair Culturist. ....PARLORS..... 108 E. Leigh St., - Richmond, 'Phone, 1034. Private Parlors, Confidential Inter- views and Correspondence. The largest and most up-to-date Hair Dressing Parlors in Richmond. The very best preparations that can be made for the hair, scalp, face and skin. Graham's Superior Scalp Food for growing hair on bald heads and bare temples, 25cts. per jar. By mail, 35cts. Graham's Superior Orange Flower Skin Fo' for developing and beauti- fying the skin, 25cts a jar. By mail 35cts. Graham's Superior Velvet Liquid Powder for giving the face a bea- tiful 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 speciality of massaging armlighty beautifying ladies' faces for paries and public gatherings, 35 cents. Mrs. Graham shampoos the head and puts it in a healthy condition, 25 cents. All ladies who attend parties and other social gatherings should have their finger nails manicured and made beautiful, 25 cents. Mrs. Graham's preparations sell at sight. Ladies living in other cities and towns can make good money by selling these preparations. Write for terms to Mrs. J. A. Graham, No. 108 E. Leigh St., Richmond, Va. 'Phone 2048 112 W. Leigh S REAL ESTATE & LOANS Private Banker and Broker, Loans negotiated on Real Estate, Interest allowed on Deposits, Estates managed, Rent collected and prompt returns Special attention to repairs. Notary With Seal. H F Jonathan FISH, OYSTERS AND PRODUCE. 120 N. 17TH ST., RICHMOND, VA. ALL ORDERS WILL RECEIVE PROMPT ATTENTION. Long Distance 'Phone, 752. STRAUS' SPECIAL Old Yacht Club, PURE WHISKEY Will Satisfy the lover of the right kind of stimulant. Special prices. We have all grades of good liquors, Cigars and Tobacco. Call and see us. ISAAC STRAUS & CO., 422 E. Broad St. S. W. ROBINSON. NO. 23 NORTH 18TH ST. FINE WINES, LIQUORS CIGARS, &c. All Stock Sold as Guaranteed. PROMPT ATTENTION Your patronage is respectfully solicited GEORGE O. BROWN. Fine Photographs. True to Life. High-class service. Latest Improvements in Photograph. In Out-door Work executed. Reasonable Estimates and Prompt Service. Pictures Enlarged from Old negatives or Photographs. 3-ms THE ECONOMY, 303—5 North Third St FINE TAILORING CLEANING, DVEING ANI 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. 'Theme, 2778. THE PLANET SATURDAY.....APRIL 11, '08. THE DUNRY STABLE STALLS Arrangement Which Will Prove the Best for Cow Barn. Plain concrete, solidly laid and roughened on the surface, is the best floor for a cow stable. The illustration shows the interior of a modern stable in which concrete has been Sunlight and Stable Simplicity. used, showing how simple the stall arrangements may be made. Here the cows have plenty of room to move about, yet in stalls $3\frac{1}{2}$ feet wide they do not tread upon each other when they lie down. Simple chain ties are used, says the Farm and Home, and the manger is level with the floor and can be readily cleaned. There is no woodwork in the way of cleaning out the manure. The rear end of the slanting stall partitions is securely fastened by a single bolt placed in the concrete when it was laid. The entire woodwork can be removed if desired, leaving a perfectly plain floor should the building be used for other purposes than a dairy stable. A GOOD RATION: What the Cow Should Be Fed to Give Good Flow of Milk. Below we give a ration for a 1,200 pound cow giving 30 pounds of 3.5 per cent. daily: Food of maintenance.....84 8.4 12 Milk .....1.12 6.2 35 Prairie hay.....10 .28 .4.1 .12 Podder corn.....15 .28 .5.2 .18 Cornmeal.....2 .16 .5.3 .18 Ground nuts.....4 .16 .1.3 .18 Oil meal.....2½ .73 .1.7 .17 Total.....1.93 .12 .1.7 .71 It will be noted that this ration is a little low in carbohydrates, but is high in fat. All excess of the latter is used for the same purpose as carbohydrates and is 2.2 times as strong in comparison. The excess of fat in this ration will just about make up the deficiency in carbohydrates. It will be noted that $8\frac{1}{2}$ pounds of concentrates are used in this ration. The grain ration should be about one pound of grain to three pounds of four per cent. milk, and the amount of grain reduced or increased as the fat percentage of the milk is lower or higher than four per cent. This is a daily ration and should be fed half in the morning and half at night. DAIRY NOTES. All the stock needs salt, even in the summer time. Flood your stables with sunlight and there will be less opportunity for disease to get in. Don't neglect to strain the milk just because it is going to the creamery. Cows must be healthy and clean in order to produce pure and wholesome milk. The covered milk pail is quite as convenient as the open one, and it keeps out germs and dirt. Don't keep the milk or cream in the barn or any other place where it can take on objectionable flavors. Some farmers cut out the morning milking during the period of scant production in the winter and this is an error. Yes, it pays to feed high-priced grain to the cows if they will make milk out of it and not put it on their backs. That is the whole thing in a nutshell. The bull at best is a treacherous beast. Always keep your eye on him and be careful not to turn your back, unless he is tied. You can treat the good butter-maker about as badly as you know how as long as you take him good sweet milk or cream and he will keep on smiling. Sunshine in the Stables My cow stable is built of concrete nine feet in the clear where the cows are kept, and on the south I have one window 2x4 behind each of the 12 cows that stand on that side, the same on the north, at each end of the stable I have three windows the same size. writes a farmer in Farmers' Review. These windows are on the south five feet up, so as to let in the sunshine on the cows. On the other sides they are six feet for plenty of light, and I find that my stable is always warm and sweet, the main thing. When I bought this farm I found that in the horse burn there were no windows at all; so on the east, behind the horses, I cut a window 2x3 back of each horse, and I find it a great thing. It makes the stable much dryer and is kept clean much easier. I do not believe there is much danger in getting too much sunshine as there is not enough. DUST IN THE COW STABLE. Clean Cows and Clean Stable necessary to Clean Milk. If good milk is to be bad, the cow must be kept clean all the time and must be certainly clean at milking time. This keeping clean includes keeping dust from collecting on her flanks and working into the skin. For the most part, the dust comes from dry manure and this is little by little beaten by the feet of the people walking in the stable and by the feet of the animals into a dust so fine that no man can see it in the ordinary light. This dust is frequently the carrier of all kinds of germs, many of them harmless, but many of them the producers of disease. The only way to keep them out of the milk is to keep them from being produced in the stable by keeping it so thoroughly washed out that it is not possible for any manure to remain to dry up and be beaten into dust. This prevention of dust is one of the very essential points in keeping the cows clean. But whether or not the dust has been allowed to develop, the cow's udder and flanks should be washed before each milking, that the certainty of cleanliness may be made doubly sure. We hear a great deal about dirt in the city milk, says the Farmers' Review, but the experienced milk producer knows that dust is the chief medium by which the dirt gets into the city milk. It is not such an impossible task to prevent manure dust as might seem, but it requires care and the use of a good deal of water. But there is another kind of dust that gets into the milk and makes trouble, and that is the dust that comes from the dry hay used as feed or the straw used as bedding. This, while not so objectionable as the other kind, frequently makes a good deal of trouble by causing unusual growths in the milk. Sometimes these growths take the form of stringiness in milk, and the owner of the cows imagines that one of them must be stick. This kind of milk frequently creates a sensation when it is sold to a city customer. Not infrequently this dust that comes from the hay is produced by molds, in which case it sometimes causes bad flavor in the milk, which unifies it for all purposes. Every farmer that wishes to produce perfect milk should take measures for keeping down dust in the stables. STANCHION OPENER. Plan by Which They Can All Be Opened at Same Moment. The above is a drawing of my stanchion opener, which can be made by almost anyone, says a writer in the Farmer. Take a long board free from OPEN SNUT Easily Made Stanchion Opener. knots and rip a strip one inch square from it and cut off the corners making a long round pole. Two or more can be nalled together as in Fig. 1. Now take a heavy wire and bend as in Fig. 2. These are for the pole to go through. Now fasten a twine in the stanchion and pole, one for each cow, with small staples. Fig. 3 is the twine. Make a small crank like Fig. 4, turn the crank once or twice and the cows are loose. FEEDING THE CALE. Whole Milk Too Valuable to Use In Raising the Raising the Animal. Butterfat is too expensive to feed to the calves. They are not worth it. Two weeks is long enough to feed the calf whole milk. Begin then to add skim milk and by the time it is three weeks old feed skim milk entirely. The greatest danger is in feeding too much. The calf should never be fed until its stomach is distended beyond its sides. Two or three quarts is an out right. The milk should be fed warm, and this is very important, as cold milk is more dangerous than sour milk. The pail in which the calf is fed should be perfectly clean, as filthy pails will cause scours very quickly. As soon as the calf is old enough oats should be added to its ration. Nothing is better. There are many farmers who complain that they cannot raise calves on skim milk. There are many who say that they can raise just as good calves on skim milk as on whole milk. This should be proof positive that the farmer who can't raise calves on skim milk does not use proper methods. The Reason. As Darwin was walking along the golden streets he came face to face with our first parent, who frowned and passed on. When the latter was asked why he cut Darwin, he explained: "That's the cuss who tried to make a monkey of me."—Detroit News-Truthna THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. HOW TO BE HEALTHY. The following ten rules, says French medical authority, must be observed by all who want to be healthy: 1. Rise early, retire early, and fill your day with work. 2. Water and bread maintain life; pure air and sunshine are indispensable to health. 3. Frugality and sobriety form the best elixir of longevity. 4. Cleanliness prevents rust; the best cared-for machines last the longest. 5. Enough sleep repairs waste and strengthens; too much sleep softens and enfeebles. 6. To be sensibly dressed is to give freedom to one's movements and enough warmth to be protected from sudden changes of temperature. 7. A clean and cheerful house makes a happy home. 8. The mind is refreshed and invigorated by distractions and amusement, but abuse of them leads to dissipation, and dissipation to vice. 9. Cheerfulness makes love of life, and love of life is half of health. On the contrary, sadness and discouragement hasten old age. 10. Do you gain your living by your intellect? Then do not allow your arms and legs to grow stiff. Do you earn your bread by your pickax? Do not forget to cultivate your mind and to enlarge your thought. FACTS FROM NEW YORK. One-fifth of the immigrants come from Italy. There are 300 men arrested each week who say they have no occupation. The Bar association, the most influential organization of its kind in the United States, has a membership of 1,944. Outside of the steerage, there were 2,957,328 passengers carried in and out New York harbor last year on steamers. New York city has on its police force 187 men whose business it is to open and close doors and watch the persons who enter and leave. The occupant of a top floor office in 13 Park Row estimates that in going to and from his office he travels 129 miles each year by elevator. Population is increasing, in proportion, faster than that of any other city in the country, and its municipal debt is increasing in a greater proportion than its population. Though the population of London's metropolitan district is 2,000,000 more than the population of New York city, the latter does a restaurant business one-fifth larger than that of the former. PHILOSOPHICAL It is possible for a young man to be so fast that he never gets to the front. Love in a cottage may be all right, provided it gets three square meals a day. If people would only work as hard as they worry they wouldn't have any time to worry. Some fish will only lie on a sandy bottom, but the average fisherman will lie anywhere. A man may have one foot in the grave and still do a lot of kicking with the other one. It is very evident that most women have taken a post-graduate course in the school for scandal. The olive branch is the emblem of peace, but the taste for olives is generally an acquired one. What a disappointment it will be to many a churchgoer when he discovers that his mansion in the sky is nothing but a flat. JUDGE'S SOLILOQUIES. If you attempt to kiss a woman, she generally sets her face against it. A certain kind of a man will only stop drinking—when it's his treat. There's no one so hopelessly rushed as the man who can't find time to do anything. The one advantage in stuttering is that you are not apt to speak before you think. Like a kitten's tail, happiness is hard to catch, but there is lots of fun chasing it. When drunk, men often say sensible things, which sound foolish to them when sober. Many women who believe in the scientific feeding of children never get a chance to try it. It's curious how revival meetings will cause men to be put on probation in the church, and at the grocery store as well.—Judge. Potatoes require an abundance of available plant food to have large yields. Feeding the Cow. Feed the cow which gives milk of average richness one-third as much finely ground grain as she gives pounds of milk. Give her all the rough feed she will eat up clean. MILLER'S HOTEL W.M.MILLER. PROPRIETOR WITHIN ONE BLOCK OF STREET CAR LINES THAT TAKE YOU TO PA TEL. MS. REASONABLE SECOND AND LEIGH STS. RICHMOND, VA. Hat Repairing. Hat Repairing. Silk, Stiff and Soft Felt Hats Cleaned. Blocked, 25cts; and 50cts Binding. Bands, Sweat Leathers, also Soft Hats made to order. AMERICAN HATTERS, 404 E. Marshall St. thing Everything FURNITURE AND FOR COVERINGS R & HUNDLEY, INC. readers. 3 EAST BROAD STREET. Everything Everything IN FURNITURE AND FLOOR COVERINGS SYDNOR & HUNDLEY, INC. Leaders. 709 711 713 EAST BROAD STREET. SAYINGS OF XANTIPPE TO SOCRATES. A man with a hobby should be hobbled. An aristocratic face is usually synonymous with a homely face. If the Devil never got more than his due, he would not be half the maligned martyr he is. Because the girl is a peach now, is no indication that she will preserve well 40 years hence. Losing the latchkey is a woman's trick; but a man's falling is to lose the keyhole. A man is never half so madly in love after he has won the girl as he was when he still imagined her forever beyond his reach. It is not the keeping of late hours that tells so much as the getting up early the next morning. Most people think it not wrong to do anything on the Sabbath that is not wrong to do on week days, except to work. A man's idea of being stylishly dressed is to wear something in which he looks atrociously bad; a woman's to wear something no other woman can duplicate. Some clerks are so nice about it that you can't help saying "Thank you," when they invite you to patronize their store again. The prevalence of the blues is largely due to the exquisite pleasure most people derive in imagining themselves more miserable than anyone else can possibly be. A doctor who cannot find something the matter with a wealthy patient when he drops in for an examination is a reproach to his alma mater.—Henry Wood, in The Sunday Magazine. Do not interrupt another while speaking. Do not find fault, though you may gently criticise. Do not appear to notice inaccuracies of speech in others. Do not talk of your private, personal and family matters. Do not always commence a conversation by allusion to the weather. Do not, when narrating an incident, continually say "you see," "you know." Do not intrude professional or other topics that the company cannot take an interest in. Do not speak disrespectfully of personal appearance when any one present may have the same defects. Do not talk very loudly. A firm, clear, distinct, yet mild, gentle and musical voice has great power. CONVERSATION HINTS. Do not be absent-minded, requiring the speaker to repeat what has been said, that you may understand. Do not try to force yourself into the confidence of others. If they give their confidence, never betray it. Do not intersperse your conversation with foreign words and high-sounding terms. It shows affectation and will draw ridicule upon you. CALIFORNIA NUGGETS. Self-made girls beat hand-painted ones. You can generally cotton to a man who is all wool. Many a man's will is broken down by a woman's won't. Naturally a wine maker chooses the port side on an ocean voyage. Anyway Ananias was never accused of being the author of a tombstone inscription. Even an errand boy, to hold his job, must first show that he can deliver the goods. The tough side of many a rooster's life is not disclosed until he is served up to the boarders.—Los Angeles Express. MEDITATIONS OF A SPINSTER. A kiss is what proves to a girl that cold reason isn't everything. The law against bigamy was invented by some man knowing his own weakness. It is not so strange that a woman likes being made love to better than just being loved. Being engaged is a very educational experience—the pity of it is that so often it ends in marriage. Many a woman is mainly anxious to get to heaven because there is no marriage there. The only difference between speculation and lending money is that in one case you hardly expect to get it back, in the other you doubt it.—Philadelphia Telegraph. The Title. A New York man advertises for a rich wife. The supply seems to be almost monopolized by foreigners with titles. Some of them have little except their titles and bad habits, but the title covers a multitude of sins. Nearer the Soll. An Atchison man is all the time complaining about his stomach. He was seen to go into a restaurant at 3:30 o'clock this afternoon and order a bowl of chili and a piece of lemon pie.—Atchison (Kan.) Globe. Use Some Tact It is not wise to speak your mind nor to be an eloquent apostle of plain truths. Should you do so you will find your path beset with both enemies and many regrets. 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, Se. etary 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. No. 212 East Leigh Street. (Residence Next Door.) 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 immediate community. In order to the merits and results of the J. V. H. will from time to time produce in print permission to do so, who have us among the many bearing witness of its correspondence of those expecting a mira ration is a natural and pure compound, hesitate to put in print. We will just l States Government has placed national which it is protected and we are in turn est methods and square dealings. It will positively remove Dandruff Hair on Clean Temples or Bald Hairs, Beautifier makes the use of powder ent less. Sale prices; 25, 50cts and $1.00. M Order or Express Money Order all out of city orders. Address all con Mme. J. V. 612 NORTH FIRST ST., Telephone Correspondence S W. I. JO Funeral Director Office & Warerooms, 207 HACKS F Orders by Telephone or Tele Suppers and Entertainment Telephone, 686. In order to convince the man of the J. V. Hawkin's Hair Group to produce in print the photograph who have used our preparation ing witness of its genuine qualities, expecting a miracle or anything un- sure compound, the ingredients of We will just here remind the p placed national patent rights on our and we are in turn responsible to the dealings. Dandruff, Oure Scalp of or Bald Heads, where the roots are per box; sight boxes, $2.80express of powder entirely unnecessary, bots and $1.00. Money can be sent by Order A charge of 10ct Address all communications to J. V. HAWK IRST ST., — RI Telephone, 4601 respondence Strictly Confid I. JOHNS Director and E terrooms, 207 N. Foushee S CKS FOR H Telephone or Telegraph filled and Entertainments promptly 186. Residence the immediate community. In order to convince the most skeptical readers of the merits and results of the J. V. Hawkinson's hair Grower and Restorer, we will from time to time produce in print the photographs of those giving us a sense to do so, who have used our preparation and are to-day among the most witness of its genuine qualities. We do not desire the correspondence of those expecting a miracle or anything unreasonable. Our preparation is a natural and prudent use of the ingredients of which we would not hesitate to put in print. We will just hold the public that the United States Government has placed national patent rights in our hair preparation by which it is protected and we are in turn responsible to the government for honest methods and square dealings. It will positively remove Dandruff, Oure Scalp of all impurities, Restore Hair on Clean Temples or Bald Heads, where the roots are not dead PRICES: -35 cts. per box; sight boxes, $2.80express propad. The Face Beautician makes the use of powder entirely unnecessary, and is perf-city harm less. Sale $1.00 and $1.00. Money can be sent by Post Office Money Order or Express Money Order A charge of 10cts. extra is imposed on all out of city orders. W. I. JOHNSON. Funeral Director and Embalmer, Office & Warerooms, 207 N. Foushee St. Cor. Broad. HACKS FOR HIRE. Orders by Telephone or Telegraph filled. Weddings, Suppers and Entertainments promptly attended. Telephone, 686. Residence in Building. Strange, Wonderful, but True are the awe stricken tests given by The Great Australian Medium. PBOF, D. D. BRUCE, M. D. the only Living Apostle of Science of the Mysteries. $5000 in Gold to any one in the World to compete with him. Possessing more power than any four mediums combined. No card, trance or hand humbug Greatest Hindoo Medium in the World. SO GREAT IS HIS POWER that we can tell you while in a Clairvoyant state, all you wish to know with out a word being spoken. Come, all ye unbelievers, scotters and jeers; bring all your skepticism with you—he will open your eyes to the private chamber mystery. Come all ye broken hearted wives, all with lew spirits and let him lift the burden from your aching and jealous heart. He challenges the World to compete with him in causing a speedy marriage with the one you love; uniting the separated and bring 10 S PRICE, Palmer and Liveryman. Not short notice by telegraph or tele- setings and nice entertainments. Mary conveniences. Large picnic or stable rates and nothing but first- Keep constantly on hand fine fun- St Leigh Street. Next Door.) HT.—Man on Duty All Night. in's HAIR GROWER & RESTORER [TRADE MARK REGISTERED] to convince the most skeptical readers of Hawkins' hair Grower and Restorer, we met the photographs of those giving us used our preparations and are today genuine qualities. We do not deserve the circle or anything unreasonable. Our prepare the ingredients of which we would not here remind the public that the United patent rights on our hair preparation by responsible to the government for honour. Oure Scalp of all impurities, Restore where the roots are not dead boxes, $2.80express prepaid. The Face freely unnecessary, and is perfectly harmed can be sent by Post Office Money in charge of 10cts. extra is imposed on communications to HAWKINS, RICHMOND, VA 4601. Districtly Confidential. JHNSON. Hair and Embalmer, N. Foushee St. Cor. Broad. FOR HIRE. Telegraph filled. Weddings, events promptly attended. Residence in Building. back the lost one. Traces lost or stolen goods. Unearths hidden treasures. Removes evil influences Crosses, Spells, Ill Luck, cures tricks and Conjurations, gives Luck any Success in all you undertake. Cures the Tobacco and Liquor Habits. Allows the Captive to be set Free. He is the only one that will give a Written Guarantee to complete your business or ref and your money Are you sick? Do you know what the trouble is with you? Come and Consult Nature's Doctor. Rheumatism, Insomnia, Hysteria and all Diseases cured. 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Z. ‘BIGHT { BIGHT ere es SIRO | SAI acer. ys Sixweniy:7..clabake ds: je: BOYS KILLED WOMAN Two ibe i ae aden in Murder of Mrs, Kade. TRLL CONFLICT! = STORIES Earnegie Gives $5,000,000 More to Pen sion Teachers—Policemen Arrested For Burglary—Letter Carrier Mur dered—Steers In the East River, Herman Haupt, seventeen years ot Sge, and Joseph Banzner, sixteen years of age, who have been locked up at Trenton, N. J., for the past two or three days on a charge of chicken stealing, made statements to the police officials which involved them in the death of Mrs. Frances Kade, who was found dead at her home at Fallsington, Pa, last Satur ay morning. The boys tell conflicting stories, Banmer says that he and Haupt went to Mrs. Kade's house with a purpose of stealing chickens and Haupt climb ed in a window at the Kade home Banzner further says that he stayed utside and after hearing a crash tn: side ran away. Haupt says that he and Banzner went to the Kade home to steal money which Banzner had told him Mrs. Kade kept in her bed Haupt says Banzner went in a window and let him in through a door. Banz Rer according to Haupt hit Mrs. Kade over the head with a club. This| frightened Haupt and he ran away. | It ts understood that the boys do not know that the woman is dead. The boys do not enjoy a good rep utation. Banzner about three years ago struck a small boy on the head with a stick in which there was a nail, ‘The injured boy subsequently ied from lockjaw, but nothing was @one to Banzner at the time owing to his youth. It ts said that the Banzner boy was acquainted with Mra, Kade and had been to her house on former occa oilietaa a Tere Ver Penner. Announcement was made in New York that Andrew Carnegie would ‘Add $5,000,000 to the fund of the Carnegie Foundation, or whatever sum might be necessary to include as pen sion beneficiaries eligible professors Of state universities. No provision was made for this class of educators in the original gift, for the reason, stated by Mr. Carnegie at the time that the doner thought it possible that such institutions might prefer that their relations should continue exclusively with the state from which thelr chief support was derived. Thit View was not taken by the National Association of State Universities, which, in the year following the es tablishment of the foundation, pett tioned the trustees for admittance tc the benefits of the retiring allowance system. It was then found that the earnings of the original fund of $10, 000,000 were exhausted through the outlet already planned, and that if the faculties of all state universities were to be benefited, an additional $5,000, 000 would be required. The additional Gonation will be in 5 per cent bonds, Providing an added annual income of $250,000, and a total for yearly dis, bursement of $750,000. Nile ie Tei ‘The sensation caused in the cit; of Philadelphia by the arrest of fou! policemen, charged with being in « conspiracy to rob properties on the eats which they patrolled, was fol Jowed by the surrender to the city off cials of William A. Frost, who is said to be one of the principais in conspir acy. Frost is a plumber, who has a place of business in the wholesale district where the accused policemen were on duty at night. In uls confes: ston Plumber Frost says that the po Meemen and Harry Rothenberger, nineteen years old, through whose ar- rest the conspiracy was discovered, used his place as a rendezvous. It ‘was there the stolen goods were taken and divided by all hands. Such as the policemen did not want or could not use were left In his hands to be dis- posed of. Frost admits that he ac- tively assisted in some of the robber fee, according to the officials, who say that the goods recovered from the homes of some of the accused, to gether with articles which they have traced, are valued at upwards of $15, oc. Robbed of Teachere’ Waces. Robbed of the funds whick he had fecured to pay the teachers of New Castle township, Alonzo Fox, the son of William Fox, treasurer of the school istrict, was beaten into insensibility and lies in a critical condition at Pottsville, Pa. It was on a lonely footpath between St. Clair and Wade that he was held up by three masked men and sandbagged. Several work. Men found him unconscious on the road, with the teachers’ pay and a number of checks gone. Grabbed $1000 In Notes and Ran. St. Louis, April 7.—While Michael . Hogan was standing in the public banking room of the Mercantile Trust company, Frank Selick, of New York, & bookmakers sheet writer, suddenly seized a roll of $1000 from Hogan's overcoat pocket and ran, pusbing aside men and women who stood in his path. He was captured on the steps of the Dank while attempting to pass the money to a confederate. Receipt Free. Any maz who suffers with nervous debility, loss of natural power, weak back, failing memory or deficient manhood, brought on by excesses, dissipation, unnatural drains or the follies of youth, may eure himself » home with a simple prescription that for age sealed envelope, to any man who will write for itn me aber atte Luck Building, Detroit, Michigan. Senator Hale Deplores Extravagant Appropriations, CIVIL NEEDS WILL SUPPER he as cs en ‘to 125,000 Men. Washington, April 8—A warning against increasing expenditures for the military establishment of the Unit ed States was sounded in the senate by Senator Hale, chairman of the com: mittee on naval affairs, and his alarm Was taken up and repeated by other senators. ‘The discussion was based on a sign €d article printed in a Washington Paper, saying in effect that Secretary Taft favored a reorganization and an enlargement of the army that would bring it up to 125,000 men. The im- mediate occasion for Senator Hale's speech was the passage of the army appropriation bill, carrying nearly $100,000,000, and he used it as showing the tendency of the times. Moving to reconsider the vote by which the army bill was passed, Sena- tor Hale said senators did not real- ize that 70 per cent of the revenues of the government were expended for What has been termed the needs of Present, past and future wars. “I hope,” sald Mr. Hale, “that this enormous, unreasonable snd wicked Program is not the judgment of the secretary of war.” He dectared that any one who talks With the general staff of the army ss senators have done within a few days will be told that the army has got to be doubled. “That,” he sald, “ts the opinion of the chief of the general staff, who is, the head of the operating part of the army, with authority during the pro- longed, frequent and necessary ab- sences of the secretary of war,” a sally which occasioned a smile throughout the senate chamber. “If this program fs carried out,” re- sumed Mr. Hale, “we will have an army costing $200,000,000, and nothing short of that will satisfy the army. I hope wherever the secretary of war shall be we shall not be called upon to make this enormous expenditure. I still have on my mind a residium of hope that that alleged program for army enlargement is not to be carried out, and that the secretary of war has not a program for such expenditures of funds drawn from all the people. 1 wish to call attention to this distine- tive feature of the enormous Increases. of the military establishment of the government to the prejudice and hurt of appropriations that are peaceful, and which deal not with soldiers and sailors, armies and navies, ranks and grades, epaulets and paraphernalia.” Several other senators joined in the debate, and finally the motion was laid on the table. Is News to Taft. Council Bluffs, Ia, April &—Secre tary Taft was shown a report of the senate proceedings, wherein Senator Hale discussed increased appropria tions for the army, and read ft with keen interest. “I certainly have no knowledge of who wrote the article in the Washing. ton paper referred to by Senator Hale,” said the secretary, “nor of its contents. It was not inspired by any person officially connected with the war department. As for the remarks of Senator Hale, I have nothing to say at this time. I could hardly with pro- priety enter into a discussion of such matters through a newspaper inter- view. I trust you will excuse me.” Asked if he would later have some thing to say regarding an increased military establishment, he said he would not. ‘THE DUKE CHEERFUL Abruzzi’s Demeanor In Rome Indicates Success. Rome, April 7—Captain Carellf, the King’s naval aide, who is in constant attendance at the palace, said, when asked about the reported engagement Of the Duke of the Abruzzt and Miss Elkins, that the matter never was al: Iuded to in the king’s entourage, and that absolutely nothing was known about it. Even the duke himself was silent about it. Hence, it was impos- sible to obtain even the slightest hint in the way of either confirmation or denial. The duke, the captain said, Was cheerful, but looked preoccupied, which led to the belief that his visit had been successful. He sent daily to Miss Elkins two long cables in cipher signed simply “Luigi.” ‘There is good but unofficial informa. tion that the only obstacle to the mar- Hage 1s Miss Elkin’s religion. She is unwilling to become a convert. Hence the duke has not yet formally asked the King’s consent. Used $20 Bills to Patch His Clothes. ‘Wise, Va., April 8.—Famous because he always used $20 and $10 bills to temporarily patch his clothes, Alex- ander Colifer is dead here. He was a vender of moonshine whiskey in the Appalachian range, and always bad plenty of money, and was never de prived of his liberty for long, though often arrested. THE RICHMOND- PLANET, RICHMOND. VIRGINIA. Pe ) East Rive, A feet of tugboats pursuing a drove of wild Texas steers swimming 4p ‘the East river was the exciting and unusual spectacle witnessed by bun dreds of persons at New York. A Le high Valley ratiroad float, carrying a earload of thirty steers and several tars loaded with coal, sprung a leak tn the East river near the foot of North Ninth street, Brooklyn, and sank. Be fore it went down the deck hands epened the doors and the steers made dash for safety. About fifteen of the steers got clear of the float before it went down, but the others were drown: ed. A lively chase ensued. Passing tugs Joined in the pursuit and several unsuccessful attempts were made to lasso the swimming steers. Those that were captured were towed ashore where great difficulty was experienced in getting them onto the docks. Sev: eral of the steers swam a long dis tance up the river before they were captured and others were drowned. Crushed By Trolley Car. Henry Shepherd was killed by a trol Jey car on the Willow Grove line of the Philadelphia Rapid Transit company in ‘one of the most peculiar acctdents ever reported. Shepherd was superin tending the conatypction of « building ‘operation on Old York road along the trolley line. In a moment of leisure he was picking dandelions along a rustic wall in front of one of the big country estates, when a trolley car came along and jumped the track. The car ran fairly into him, pinning him against the stone wall. His body was terribly mutilated and death was instanta- neous. The motorman of the car was Slightly Injured, but the passengers escaped by jumping when the car left the rafis. Letter Carrier Murdered and Robbed. ‘The mutilated body of James Flynn, A letter carrier, who is believed to have been murdered and robbed, was feund slong the tracks of the Penn- sylvania Railroad company at Moores. town, N. J. The pockets of the man’s clothing were turned inside out, and about $90 which the man is known to have had was missing. It is be Ueved that Flynn was murdered and his body afterwards placed on the rail- road tracks so that a train would run Over it and obliterate any evidences of crime. The body was found by two colored men and was so 1autilated that ® satisfactory identification was only made by means of the watch which was found in one of the vest pickets. ‘7. E. Watson For President. For president of the United States— Thomas E. Watson, of Georgia. For vice president of the United States—Samuel Williams, of Indiana. ‘The foregoing ticket was nominat ed at St. Louis by the Peoples Party, fn convention in that elty, after two stormy sessions, during which the Nebraska and the Minnesota delega tions bolted because they could not procure a postponement of the conven: tion until after nominations had been made by the Democratic national con: Yention, 60 that the Peoples Party might nominate William J. Bryan for President, if he were defeated at the Democratic convention. Nurse and Patient Dead. James H. Young, a prominent eltizen of Shamokin, Pa, died at the home of J. Q. Adams, a prominent Northumberland county attorney, af. ter a short illness from pneumonia. Adams, who had assisted in nursing Young, took sick from the same dis- ease and also died. His wife, a daugh- ter of Young, was so shocked by the two deaths that she fs in a dying con- ition. Church Makes Strike In Ol, No services could be held in the Reformed church at Petersville, Pa, Because the congregation had struck an oil gusher on Saturday night on the church lot about fifty fect from the building. The strike is a godsend to the struggling congregation, which fs in debt and owes Its pastor back salary. Woman Asleep Sixty-One Days. After a sleep of sixty-one days, Srs. Beulah Hawkins gives no indications of awakening. and Los Angeles, Cal, physicians admit that they are com: pletely baffled in thelr attempts to arouse her. ‘They have come to the conclusion that she is a victim of cataleptic incurable insanity. Died After Eating 28 Plates of Oysters William Steelman, of Chester, Pa. ate fifteen plates of raw oysters one day and thirteen plates the next. After the second instalment he started out to take a walk and dropped dead in the street. Chicken Has Two Bodies. Riverside, N. J. April 6—At the home of Coroner Bisbing a chicken was hatched with two bodies, four legs and. one head: There fs nothing that makes the or- \inary man feel better and be meaner Xhan to give an order and have it ob ‘Aquiously obeyed.—Nashville Ameri can. A Blessed Hope. First Auditor (at the tank drama)— Never saw such miserable acting in my life. Let's go. Second Auditor—Let's wait till the next act. Thére’s a flood scene with real water in that, and maybe some of ‘em will get drowned—N. Y. Weekly. About It, “Mr. Wheedler is not a long stayer, ts he? “No; he only stays long enough to borrow some money.” “Oh, then, with him it is a case of touch and go."—Paltimore American. He Got the Money. A young man, whose father had not answered bis (three last applications for money, recently telegraphed as follows> “Have die@ of starvation. 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Grand Chancellor John Mitchell Jr. arrived here last evening from White Oak and he set up two lodges at this place in about two hours and a half, He was accompanied by Dr. E. R. Jefferson, Dr. J. Alexander Lew- is, Sir S. 8. Baker, Sir Albert Smith, Sir R. J. Jackson and Sir W. F. Weaver. “He instituted Fearless Lodge, No, 141, with the following officers: Master of Work, Granville Mara- ble; Chancellor Commander, Alexan- der Penick; Vice Chancellor Lee Wal ter Hogue; Master of Exchequer, Spencer Marable: Master at Arms, Howard Edmunds; Prelate, J.C. Barksdale; Master of Finance and Keeper of Records and Seal, Abner Marable; Inner Guard, Robert Holt; Outer Guard, Thomas’ James. The initiation took place at the residence of Sir Granyille Marable, who organized the club. NEW ARBOR LODGE. 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