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THE RICHMOND PLANET What the Colored Sergeant Said. And now they say we've shot the town," the colored sergeant said. "I have fought with the Apaches, I have seen 'em face to face. My brother was at San Juan Hill, a kinder dangerous place. "What's that so black agin the sun?" said Fles On-Parade. "Our color; nothin' we've done," the colored sergeant said; "Is it that they hold agin us, then?" said Fles On-Parade; "Well, it colors their decision some," the colored sergeant said. "We have fought beneath Old Glory when it floated brave and free, But the flag we would have dived for doesn't cover you nur me, The Big Stick's hit us heavy, but the Square Deal I don't see, And Old Glory isn't wavin' much this mornin'." ELLIS MEREDITH. Senator Foraker's Speech. Senator Foraker's speech on the Brownville affray makes a strong impression upon the country as we believed it would. The newspapers which are capable of viewing such matters fairly, without prejudice against the speaker, are practically unanimous in the statement that Senator Foraker has performed a great service. He has taken up the case of certain colored soldiers, subjected it to the most searching and painstaking scrutiny, and has made it plain to all fair-minded men that a reasonable doubt remains as to their guilt, and therefore that they are entitled to the restoration of the rights taken from them. The soldiers had no other friend, and the rights or all Americans would have been denied to them if this man had not befriended them. Their case, thanks to Senator Foraker, has been placed fairly and squarely before the American people. All Americans have an opportunity to appreciate the value of an exalted forum, like the United States Senate, where speech is absolutely free and as public as the common air. There, when men have the courage and the ability to make the truth known, it can be made known and there is no power to stifle it or substitute error for it. The demonstration that followed Senator Foraker's speech was a tribute to him as a man of courage and honest purpose. It could not be construed by any one as an unfriendly manifestation toward the President or any other officer concerned in the Brownsville investigation. Indeed, some of the President's warmest friends were among the first to congratulate Senator Foraker upon his effort. They were again impressed most powerfully by the exhibition of qualities which are universally admired among men, and they took pleasure in testifying to the great personal esteem in which they hold the eloquent Ohioan. They realized that such able and earnest efforts as his in behalf of truth have made and kept the Senate great. —Washington, D. C. Post Apr. 18. Illustrated Chart Sermon. An illustrated chart sermon making plain the book of Revelation will be delivered at the Sixth Mt. Zion Bapt. Church, Rev. R. V. Peyton, pastor Sunday, April 26, 1908 at 11:30 A. M. by Evangelist Cuddy. This will probably be the last opportunity to hear this prophetic address. EDITOR MITCHELL'S VISIT. He Pays His Respects to the Distinguished Ohio Senator.--Senator Joseph Benson Foraker's Home. THE COLORED TROOPS AND THE TEXAS SHOOTING—A PEN-PICTURE OF THE SCENE AT WASHINGTON. We were in Washington Saturday, April 11, 1908 and called on Senator Joseph B. Foraker. His palatian residence at the corner of 1600 Fifteenth Street, N. W. would attract the attention of any one. Ringing the bell a white butler responded and ushered us into the spacious hallway, where there were chairs, a settee and a table. Giving him our card, he disappeared to the side of the winding stairway that led to the rooms above. For the moment, we contemplate the magnificence of this truly palatial home of the Ohio Senator. It had a cast of Oriental loveliness and showed that superior feminine taste and judgment had a part in the preparation of this residence a duke might want and a king might envy. was tendered him at the National Capitol, Tuesday, April 14, 1908. THAT PALATIAL MANSION. As we bid him good-bye, we mildly suggested that the magnificence of his home must be due to the existence of feminine taste in his house-hold. He smiled faintly and said that he had purchased the place when he first came to Washington, that others might not say that its purchase was the result of his financial prosperity in the Senate. "When I leave here," he said significantly, "I shall sell it to pay my debts." We heard and understood. An honest man as a vule can only continue his service in the United States Senate at the expense of his private financial interests. The drafts, during the most recent session, were presented. News From Strasburg, Va. We were visited on last Thursday by Mrs. Hattle Holmes of Harrisonburg, Va., who is the District Deputy of the ladies' department of the Knights of Pythias. She came to successful in organizing a club as starting the members of the same work, so that the Courts of Calant might soon be organized here. The ladies of Strasburg royal welcomed Mrs. Holmes and seemed to be well pleased with his trip. We look for Mrs. Holmes be with us often hereafter. AN EASTER CONCERT SERVICE The Sunday School of Mt. Zion E. Church rendered a most excellent WAS VERY BUSY The butler returned to inform us that the Senator was very busy, but would see us in a moment and invited us to have a seat. As we were pressed for time, we told him that we would necessarily have to leave, desiring only to shake the Senator's hand. This had the desired effect for the butler again disappeared and when he came again brought the information that the Senator would see us at once. He was true to his word for in came the Senator. He led the way to the reception room to the left, that partook the nature of a parlor, with all of its magnificent furnishings. J. Alexander Lewis, M. D. and River J. Carter who accompanied us had remained on the outside, but a wave of the hand after a hurried call brought them into the residence and then we sank into the cushioned chair after complimenting the Senator. Foraker upon his great effort in behalf of human rights and in the "Black Battailon." THE SENATOR WAS WEARY He showed signs of the strain to which he had been subjected. His features were care-worn and he explained that he had just been busily engaged in correcting some of the misstatements made in an afternoon paper relative to an address that he had made to the colored people a few hours before at the Metropolitan A. M. E. Church. "I had no idea, he said, wearily, "that anybody would object to giving these men a hearing." It was plainly evident that this great fight had done much to sap the vitality of his great statesman, and yet he gave no sign of a bandoning the position that he had taken. BROWNSVILLE IN THE SENATE He spoke of the facts in the case and in the most impressive language that carried conviction with it, he said, "I do not believe a man of them, fired a gun." He told of the examination of the members of Companies B, C and D, their department and their straightforward replies under the wilting fire of a cross examination. Here we had come, fearful we take the valuable time of the Senator from Ohio and he had thrown off all restraint and was there talking to us he said that indicated that time was not limited to him, although we held our watch in our hand, less we linger too long in the palatial residence of the eloquent Senator from the "Buckeye" State. A RIGHT PRINCIPLE We congratulate him upon having brought his enemies up against a right principle and that right always succeeded in the long run. "Sometimes," he said wearily with the sign of a smile and then he added that he would make his speech in the U.S. Senate on the following Tuesday. It reminded us very much of the time, when Frederick Douglas was worn down, and dejected in the midst of his crusade against human slavery, but buoyed up by the enthusiastic, but helpful exclamations of one his female associates, "God is not dead, Frederick!" We felt like saying then too, "God is not dead, Senator!" That he realized this must have been evident from the reception that RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, SATURDAY, APRIL 25, 1908 was tendered him at the National Capitol, Tuesday, April 14, 1808. THAT PALATIAL MANSION. As we bid him good-bye, we mildly suggested that the magnificence of his home must be due to the existence of feminine taste in his house-hold. He smiled faintly and sald that he had purchased the place when he first came to Washington, that others might not say that its purchase was the result of his financial prosperity in the Senate. "When I leave here," he said significantly. "I shall sell it to pay my debts." We heard and understood. An honest man as a rule can only continue his service in the United States Senate at the expense of his private financial interests. The drafts, during the past months have undoubtedly been heavy upon the Ohio Senator. We filed out of the palatial door-way, down the granolithic path way across the magnificent veranda to the street beyond and long after we had left him, the memory of those earnest, emphatic words played havoc with our contentment of mind as we fancied we heard him saying, over and over again. "I don't believe a man of them fired a gun!" and we thought of his saddened features as he contemplated the financial cost of the effort made to establish a principle and vindicate a right in all of this land. THE SENATOR'S LETTER After his masterly speech in the United States Senate, we sent him a letter of congratulation and this is the reply which we received: "United States Senate. April 17th, 1908. Mr. John Mitchell, Jr. 111 W. 10th St. I appreciate most highly, indeed your very beautiful letter of congratulations. I thank you for the sentiments you have so well expressed. Your words are gratifying and encouraging. I am so hurried, as you can well understand, that it is impossible for me to write except in this brief way. Hoping you will always remember to call when you are in Washington, I remain, with best wishes, Very truly yours, etc., J. B. FORAKER." Fake Detective Got Four Months For 'impersonating a detective and shooting a colored man apparently without provocation, W. J. Glass, heretofore employed as an engineer at the Memorial Hospital, was sentenced to four months in jail by a jury in the Hustings Court yesterday. He was convicted of assault and battery. Dr. Ennion G. Williams and others试ified to the previous good character of Glass. It was shown, however, that he had been drinking, and while under the effects of whiskey went into Jackson Ward to celebrate. He made an officer's badge out of a heavy sheet of tin, and with a knife scratched the words, "Baldwin Detective" on the cover. It was a poor imitation but it proved enough to frighten the colored man, who caught one or two bullets in the excitement. Glass has been in jail for nearly a month, and he hopes to have that subtracted from the four. He expects to shorten it still more by good behavior, for in ordinary times he is a peaceable and harmless citizen. —Times-Dispatch. Apr. 17 BROWNSVILLE A Poem. Foul injustice—unequal fight— One man alone defends the right, Reckless of fate or consequence, Asks no reward or recompence— Knowing the power behind the throne Enters arena—all alone, Restores the wronged ones to their own. News From Strasburg, Va. We were visited on last Thursday by Mrs. Hattie Holmes of Harrisonburg, Va., who is the District Deputy of the ladies' department of the Knights of Pythias. She came in interest of her work. She was successful in organizing a club and starting the members of the same to so that the Courts of Calanthe might seeurgers served here. The ladies of Stratford royally welcomed Mrs. Holmes and she seemed to be well pleased with her trip. We look for Mrs. Holmes to be with us often hereafter. AN EASTER CONCERT SERVICE The Sunday School of Mt. Zion M. E. Church rendered a most excellent Easter Service on last Monday evening April 26, at 8:15 P. M. There was a large attendance at the service. The nature of the service was the resurrection of Christ, the Son of God. The service was conducted by the Superintendent of the Sunday School, Miss Sue Jackson. After the programme three hours were spent in social enjoyment at which time refreshments were served for the benefit of the above named Church. We feel that the Superintendent and members of this Sunday School should feel proud and encouraged and should continue in this good work fitting our young people for usefulness in the world. ITEMS Mr. P. T. Thompson and Miss Florence Nickens spent Easter Monday in Middletown, Va. They were accompanied by Mr. P. S. Hall and Miss Lula L. Ball. We feel that the day was a day of pleasure to them. Mrs. Georgiana Byrd and Mrs. Carrie Curry, who have been very sick for two weeks or more are now much better and will soon be out again. Mrs. Mollie Conaway, who was called to Winchester, Va. to see her sick daughter has returned. Her daughter is much better. G. W. W. A Funeral Director's Enterprise Much excitement was caused on Leigh Street Thursday, April 16th, by the appearance of a funeral car silver gray in color and embellished with gold lear trimmings. It was drawn by a pair of horses specially selected for the purpose and it was conceded by every one that no such expensive vehicle had ever entered this city. The manufacturers took special interest in the delivery sending down one of their most trusted agents to see that everything was all right. In the procession was a funeral Berlin vehicle of the latest style, fitted with electric lights and of the most modern design. Following this was another new Berlin, richly upholstered. Following this was another new Berlin, fitted up in like style and all four of the vehicles drawn by horses specially selected for the purpose. The route was from the freight cars to Mr. A. D. Poe's spacious barns. He occupies a large portion of the square in which his warerooms and stables are located and the cry now is for still more room. The outlay is very large and this progressive business man is now able to furnish either teams for a marriage or a funeral of the very latest style and finest character from his own barns. Securing competent help is the greatest problem confronting him. As it is, he guarantees first-class, up-to-date service and prompt attention. Last week was a "red letter" day for the livery business in Richmond. —Rey, Walter H. Brooks, D. D. of Washington, D. C. was in the city last Monday and preached at the First Baptist Church. He called to see us. He left Tuesday morning. During his stay here he was the guest of Miss Mabel Holmes, 1000 N. Fourth Street. THE NEED OF AN ARCHITECT FOR THE A. M. E. CHURCH John Anderson Lankford, M. M., M. S., the Pioneer Negro Architect of the United States, at the Top of His Profession. That the African Methodist Episcopal Church needs a supervising Architect is a fact which is generally agreed upon throughout the connection by Bishops, General Officers, Pastors, Laymen, etc., almost without an exception, and especially those who have studied the Christian Art through ancient, medieval and modern history, and know that a building of worship should not only be substantial in construction, but be of a churchly design, and well arranged in and out, so when one enters it, or sees it, they will know that it is a temple fitted and arranged for the worship of God. Thousands of unnecessary dollars are spent yearly in our rural and country districts and many of our cities and towns have unnighly and poorly arranged churches. Thousands are also spent yearly with white architects and builders and workmen, which is a loss to our race. When a white architect or builder designs or erects a church edifice for a Negro congregation, it is very seldom that Negro workmen receive anything from this work. The Negroes of the country and especially the A. M. E. Church have spanned a point where they must and will port, uphold and appreciate the talent and ability among themselves. A good example or this was when Dr. C. W. Mossell, Pastor of St. John A. M. E. Church employed J. A. Lankford and Bro. one of our own churchmen and race to design and supervise the building of the St. John A. M. E. Church and Parsonage and the overhauling and decorating of the church where the general conference will convene in May. It has been said by Bishop Gaines, Dr. and Mrs. Collett and many other of our churchmen who have visited the new Parsonage and noticed the other work, that this Parsonage is of a purely classical design, and the best and most beautiful owned by the connection. Mr. Lankford designed and supervised the work and worked all Negro mechanics, workmen, and labor on this job. He is one of our own, having received the Master of Science Degree from Morris Brown College and Wilberforce University. We believe that the church should make Mr. Lankford supervising architect. He can save the church thousands of dollars yearly, as well as put thousands of dollars in its treasury to the credit of some one of the departments. He is the pioneer architect of the Negro race, and a man of ability, common sense and judgment. He has not only in the past ten years designed, planned and supervised the best residences, church edifices, business places, schools, manufacturing and industrial plants owned by the Negroes of this country, but has gone in architectural contest with the best white architects of the country and won out over them on pure merit. A good example of this is less than two months ago, he went in a contest for a white Presbyterian stone church edifice, with 8 architects from eight different cities of the country, before a white democratic committee and the following came out in the associated press of the country: "cotosil, Mo.—J. A. Lankford and Bro., Architects and Builders of Washington, D. C., have just been selected to join in design their new stone church, which will be the finest in the city. There were nine competitors from different sections of the country in the architects contest for this building, all white except J. A. Lankford and Bro., whose names were found to be most satisfactory from a standpoint of beauty, design and arrangement, in every way over those given by his white competitors." Mr. Lankford was a short time ago unanimously elected by the Board of Directors of the National Negro Fair Association of Mobile, Ala., supervising architect and engineer of that National Organization. It will be remembered also that in the architects' contest for the Negro Building for the Jamestown Exposition, the supervising architect of the United States said that "J. A. Lankford's plans rank first in every respect from a standpoint of design, beauty and cheapness." Lankford is from one of the oldest and best families of the State of Missouri. In 1901 he married the refined and cultured grand-daughter of Bishop H. M. Turner, Senior Bishop of the A. M. E. Church. Those who may desire Mr. Lankford's services at any time may write him at his main office, 317-6th St., N. W., Washington, D. C. The Grand Opening The Pythian Castle, 727 N. Third Street will be thrown open to the public on the first week in May, to be exact Monday, May 4, 1908. The Concert Hall has been completed. A new metal ceiling and a maple floor, the best that the mill could furnish, a new piano and other rene- vations make this the most desirable place in the city. Many attractions are scheduled for the week In question and a small admission fee of ten cents is charged. The public is invited to call and enjoy the refreshments and the eatables that the ladies will furnish. Senator Foraker's GREAT SPEECH. Beginning next week we will give our readers and the general public the stenographic report in serial form of Senator Foruker's address delivered in the United States Senate Tuesday, April 14, 1908. --- J. WESLEY JONES ARRESTED His Wife Dies Under Peculiar Cir cumstances Mrs. Nannie Jones, wife of Mr. J. Wesley Jones, who resides at 713 W. Leigh Street died Wednesday morning, April 22d and in a short time thereafter her husband was under arrest in the Second Police Station, charged with being a suspicious character and suspected of murder. Mr. Jones is a well-known letter-carrier. He has been in the service for many years. It seems that his wife attended minstrel show at the True Reformers Hall Friday night, April 10, 190b and upon returning home was badly beaten by her husband. The case was the subject of an investigation by Police Justice Crutchfield and Wesley Jones was fined $20.00. The gossip of the neighbors is largely responsible for his arrest. It is claimed that Mrs. Jones nose was broken and, that she has never recovered from the effects of the beating. —Mrs. Rosa B. Wilson-Humbles, wife of Edward Humbles, died suddenly at her home on Piedmont St., Charleston, W. Va., Thursday, April 16th. —Mr. John H. Johnson of 104 W. Leigh Street who has been sick for some time is now improving. —Madame E. L. Menzarso and Mrs. George W. Moseley of 18 E. Leigh Street, city are in Washington, D. C., visiting Mrs. John J. Parks, 481 Ridge St., N. W. and on Thursday evening April 23d Mrs. J. J. Parks entertained in their honor. Covers were laid for fifty guests. —Miss C. M. Cheatham, Springfield, Mass. visited our office last week. —Miss Henrietta Robinson of Springfield, Mass, is here on a visit to her relatives and friends. She called on us last week in company with Master Moses Jones. "Who are these men, that it should be even suggested that they should be treated worse than common criminals? They are at once both citizens and soldiers of the republic. Aside from these charges, which they deny, their behavior, both in the army and out of it, has justly excited the highest commendation. Their record is without spot or blemish. They are typical representatives of a race that has ever been loyal to America and American institutions; a race that has never raised a hostile hand against our country's flag; a race that has contributed to the nation tens of thousands of brave defenders, not one of whom has ever turned traitor or faltered in his fidelity. "In every war in which we have permitted them to participate they have distinguished themselves for eficiency and valor. They have shed their blood and laid down their lives in the fierce shock of battle, side by side with their white comrades. They are the direct and worthy successors of the brave men who so heroically died at Petersburg, at Wagner and on scores of bloody fields, that this nation might live. Faithfully, uncomplainingly, with pride and devotion, they have performed all their duties and kept all their obligations. They ask no favors because they are Negroes, but only for justice because they are men." —Extract from Senator Foraker's Address. HOPE. Star of life's darkest hour, we turn to thee For meat and drink to stay the sinking heart; And in thy magic beam a help we see To tone the strings of ebbing spirits tart. Yea, in the tempest'd clouds of gloom'd despair, Despondency, discouragement, the night Wouldst surely still our leaden'd breaths were there No optimistic view of thee in sight. The pulse of ennui finds in thee the strength To beat again though faint the effort bea- And ever to thy honor will the length Of thy lit moments bear the touch of thee. O, drooping eyelids heavy with the dew Of languid tears, lift once again—behold The grand reflected beauty of a new And better day to soon replace the old!" —LUCIAN B. WATKINS. In Memoriam. Nw York City, April 20, '08, In loving remembrance of my dear mother, sisters and little niece; SCOTT—Mrs. Charlotte Scott who died April 26, 1906. "Gone, but not forgotten." HILL—Mrs. Emeline Hill, who died June 2, 1905. "Asleep in Jesus, blessed sleep." HOLMES—Mrs. Elizabeth Holmes, who died September 24, 1906 in New York City. "At rest." MORRIS—Little Ethel May Morr ris, who died suddenly April 16, 1907 in New York City. (MISS) ESTELLE SCOTT Subscribe to The Richmond PLANET. $1.50 per year. Something Interesting Ladies and Gentlemen: Do you know that the world is traveling at a rapidity of 100 miles per minute, and those who fail to keep up are liable to get run over and killed? If there are any boys or men folks in your homes we would advise you to go at once to the New Enterprise Store and get your Summer Suit before the rush. We have just received from the Northern market a fine selection of boys' and children's suits in all the latest patterns and styles. You ought to see our knickerbocker suits for your little son Jimmy and John. We can fit them in a nice knickerbocker suit as low as $2.50. We have finer grades up to $5.00. You can also find caps to match suits 25 and 50 cents. Gentlemen, you were not forgotten when we were in the market. We can dress you up as well as the boys. We have received from New York all the latest styles. Imported blue serge suits, ants made in the peg leg style, belt taps and side buckles, fancy worsteds and plaids in abundance. The coats are made with novents and pressed coins on the side ranging from $10 to $20 in price. Our store is loaded down with fine up-to-date neckwear, shirts, collars, cuffs and underwear. You ought to see our hat stock. We handle the "Ironclad" guarantee hat and shapes and colors. This is one of the best brands made in the United States for $2.50. Our stock is so complete until there is no excuse for you. I appeal to the ladies of the city. When you ask your husband for money to buy your Summer hat please tell him to go to the New Enterprise Store on Broad Street, managed by colored people and buy his hat and suit for himself and your little boys. Everything sold under a guarantee for the price, or your money refunded. We also have added to our store a Tailoring Department. We measure, cut and make to order suits from $12 to $45 on short notice. 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CHAPTER II.—Lord Carrington and his wife each made charges of faithlessness against the other in continuation of the curse. CHAPTER III.—First objecting against playing cards with the England, Lord Carrington agreed to cut cards with Lord Strathgate, whose attentions to Ellen become save points with Carrington. He then filled his cup for perishing and her husband then cut for his wife's O. U. and his honor, Carrington winning. The king is like a liking for each other apparently across between Lady Carrington and Lord Strathgate. CHAPTER IV.—Additional attentions to Carrington to Lady Cecily and Lord Strathgate. Lord Carrington compelled the latter to vow that she would leave the castle. CHAPTER V.—Preparing to flee, Lady Carrington and her chum Deborah, an American girl, met Lord Strathgate at the m., he agreeing to see them safely away. CHAPTER VI.—Ellen fled, Strathgate driving. He attempted to take her to catch her but she left him stunned in the road with the carriage hoses with an accident. She and Debbie struck out for Portsmouth, where she intended to sail for America. CHAPTER VII.—Hearing news of Ellen's flight, Lords Carrington and Seton set out in pursuit. CHAPTER VIII.—Seton, locating a fishing village, hit the trail of Ellen and Robert. If then rented a fast vessel and started in pursuit, Carrington pursuing Strathgate. CHAPTER IX.—Strathgate, bleeding from fall, dashed on to Portsmouth, for which Carrington, Ellen and Seton were also headed by different routes. CHAPTER X.—Strathgate arrived in Portsmouth in advance of the others, finding that Ellen's ship had sailed before her. CHAPTER XI.—Strathgate and Carrington each hired a small yacht to pursue the wrong vessel, upon which each supposed Ellen had sailed. CHAPTER XII.—Setton overtok the fugues near Portsmouth, but his craft ran ground, just as capture was imminent. CHAPTER XIII. An Impromptu Affair on the High Seas. It was hardly possible at first, even for so practiced and acute an eye as Carrington's, to determine whether he or Strathgate had the better boat. In the first place, the two cutters were continually on opposite courses, splitting tacks, the wind blowing straight into the harbor, and it was not until they had passed and repassed each other several times that Carrington became convinced that he was gaining on his antagonist. The gain, however, was a slight one. The difference in the rate of sailing between the two boats was not very great. Both of them sailed faster than the Flying Star in the air then prevailing. When the big ship got out into the channel she would probably run away from the two fishing boats without difficulty. The wind being as it was necessitated a hard beat out, and again this gave the smaller vessels an advantage, for they could hold on where the great ship was compelled to tack for fear of shoal water. And with every tack they gained distance. Carrington studied the sea intently and concluded that if the wind did not shift and it did not come to blow harder than it was, there was every prospect that both boats would overhaul the ship. Whether he could beat Strathgate at that game, however, in the time at his disposal was a question. At any rate there was nothing to do but hold on. Master Haight had viewed Carrington's usurpation of the helm with some misgiving at first, but his distrust soon gave place to admiration, for never was a small boat better handled than by the young naval officer. If Carrington had been sailing the cutter in a race for a stake of £10,000, he could not have watched her more carefully or handled her more skillfully. He made everything tell. That worthy fisherman, Cooper, who was sailing Stratgate's boat, albeit he did very well, was a mere tyro compared to Carrington. Indeed, Carrington felt as if he were sailing his boat for love, honor, happiness, revenge, all the passions that can engross a heart and move a soul. Stratgate was no sailor, but after an hour's rapid sailing even he could see that eventually Carrington would overhaul him. He spoke of this to Cooper, wringing a reluctant admission of the truth of his conclusions from the sailor, but the latter promised to put him alongside the merchant ship at least before Carrington ran him down. For perhaps an hour the three vessels—the ship and the two small boats—held on, every moment bringing the little chasers nearer their great quarry. The Flying Star was making no especial effort at speed. Her royals were not yet set. She was proceeding on her voyage rather leisurely, in fact, and the others were in high hope, Carrington, especially. He thought that he at last had Strathgate where he could not escape, and if Ellen and Deborah were on that ship, they could not get away, either. Into this peaceful nautical passage at arms, suddenly a new factor was introduced. That, of course, was Ellen's boat. Sheltered by the island neither Strathgate nor Carrington had noticed it until suddenly shot into view. Now Ellen had a better wind than any of the other three. On broad reach she came down on the big ship, as a sailor would phrase it, hand over fist. Her little boat was heeled over until the lee gunwale was wash and danced over the waves at terrific pace. Carrington saw the boat first. The rockless way in which she was being sailed caught his eye. It was too far for him to distinguish who sailed it, but he could tell that one of them was a woman. Something made him believe that it might be his wife. He gave the titer to Haight, went up forward and stared hard. He would have given anything for a glass but there was nothing of that kind in the fisherman's boat and he had to trust to his unaided eyesight. The longer he looked the more sure he became that it was Ellen. His first impulse was to alter his course and head directly for her cutter, but he realized the moment he conceived the design that he could never intercept her, that his only chance was to overhaul the ship for which she was evidently making. He would thus lose no distance. If she did not intend to try to board the ship he could chase her afterward. The sailors on Strathgate's boat evidently pointed out the situation to him just as it had presented itself to Carrington, so all three held on. Ellen had the shortest distance to sail, and a free wind, while the ship and the other two boats had a hard beat before them. There was nothing Carrington could do in fact but hold his course, yet with what a fever of impatience he continued his steady beat to and fro across the harbor. The only satisfaction he got was that with every tack he gained perceptibly on Strathgate. Indeed the boats passed each other close enough for conversation, but Strathgate had nothing to say to Carrington and Carrington controlled himself waiting for a convenient opportunity to express himself fully and unequivocally. Both of them, moreover, were engrossed in the other boat. As the boats converged upon the ship, there T "I'll Kill You." was no doubt in Carrington's mind, or in Strathgate's, as to the identity of its passengers. The wind was getting stronger as they drew farther out into the open channel and the rate at which they were drawing nearer to the ship grew correspondingly slower. Carrington gritted his teeth in his vexation. Still he held on. It was such a race as he had never sailed before. He held on although he knew that if the wind increased, his case was a hopeless one; held on, although he saw Ellen's boat in a few moments would intercept the ship; held on, when he saw that boat disappear on the lee side of the ship; held on when he saw the ship thrown into the wind to make a half board so that her way was practically checked; held on when two figures appeared upon the deck of the ship, and one, a boyish looking youth, walked over to the weather gangway and stood in full view of the approaching cutters, waved a hand, lifted a cap disdainfully and then disappeared; held on when he saw the boat which the two had abandoned, trailing astern at the end of a long line. It was my lord's nature to hold on doggedly so long as there was the faintest possibility of success and beyond. And he kept up the chase of the big ship even though she suddenly covered with light canvas and, catching the full force of the breeze, greatly accelerated her motion. He held on even though a slant of the wind brought the breeze over the quarter of the big ship as she bore away on her course to the eastward. Carrington marked that with sudden surprise. The ship was not going to America apparently. But it was evident, even to the most sanguine mind, that the game was up. Strathgate's boat was suddenly put about. The earl had abandoned the chase and was going back to harbor. Carrington was not so easily daunted, or perhaps he was more blind to the possibilities, for he strove to persuade the boatmen to continue the chase. He would have sailed to France, or to America, or to the end of the world, in whatsoever boat he was on so long as it would float. But the boatmen were not so minded. They were not provisioned for such a cruise nor prepared for it. Not even the incentive of unlimited financial rewards with which Carrington strove to dazzle them could make them agree to continue the pursuit. They were clamorous for putting back to Portsmouth, seeing plainly that they had failed. It was only the personal authority of Carrington's rank and station which kept them from summarily dispossessing him from the helm. They were not quite ready for that THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. when Strathgate's boat came rushing down toward them. It was Carrington's opportunity. Balked in his chase of his wife, he determined in his wreck his vengeance upon the earl. As the boat drew close to his bows, by a sudden sweep of the helm he sent his own heavier cutter crashing fair into it. The force with which he struck the other boat caused Strathgate's smaller vessel to hang on the bows of Carrington's boat. There was no loss of life, for Strathgate, scarcely worse for the disaster, followed by Cooper and the lad, scrambled aboard Haigh's cutter. White with passion Strathgate rushed aft, shaking his fist at Carrington, who sat laughing bitterly in the stern sheets. At Strathgate's back were Cooper, furious over the delibereate wrecking of his boat, and the boy eager to join in the fray. "By heaven!" cried Strathgate, fiercely, "what did you mean by that?" "I should think that my meaning was obvious even to you," says my lord, indifferently, although he was seething with anger to see his adversary within his reach. "I don't know you, sir," cried Cooper, shaking his fist, "but you sunk my boat. You done it deliberately. It'll cost you a matter of £50." "Tis cheap at the price," answered Carrington. "Don't worry, my man. Just pipe down," he continued, as Cooper opened his mouth to exposulate. "I'm Lord Carrington. You shall be paid for your boat and something for your trouble." "Payment is not enough to compensate me, Carrington," cried Strathgate, furiously. "No," returned Carrington, "there's nothing that I might offer you that would pay you for what you've done, you dastard!" "What do you mean?" "You know very well what I mean, although I confess I have done some wrong to your powers of fascination." returned Carrington. "And what, pray, may be the explanation of that statement?" queried Strathgate. "I thought that you had run away with my wife; I thought so yesterday morning, that is; but now I see that she fied from you as well as from me." "It's a lie!" cried Strathgate. Both men were now so worked up and so blinded with passion that they did not care for the open-mouthed, open-eared audience which crowded around them. "She did go with me," continued the runaway. "It looks like it this morning. If she went with you, how did she come to be on yonder ship while you were here." Strathgate laughed evilly. I am pleased to have arrived early. "If you must know it, my lord, your wife fled in my company." "Damn you!" cried Carrington. But Strathgate went on without heeding. "An accident, a broken coach wheel stopped our journey. I rode on ahead to make arrangements for our passage to some happer land on yonder ship. Lady Ellen elected to go by water." "I don't believe a word of it" returned Carrington. "If it were true, asked my lord again, 'I ask you why you were not on the ship?'" "I overslept myself this morning, with the consequences which you see." "You haven't seen the end of those consequences, my Lord Strathgate," continued Carrington. "No?" "Not by any means. We'll settle the question as to which of us is to live—" "And have Lady Ellen?" interrupted Carrington. Carrington whipped out his pistol. "Another word like that and I'll kill you without giving you a chance for defense." "You th-ratened to murder me on the wharf an hour or so ago," and Strathgate, equally. "What prevents you from doing it now?" "A thing of which you know nothing," answered Carrington. "And what is that, pray?" "A sense of honor." "Indeed," answered the earl, "I had understood that your honor was in Lady Ellen's keeping." The sweat outed on Carrington's face. He locked his jaws until the muscles rose like whipcords. He was under the strongest possible constraint a man may put upon himself. "My honor is in her ladyship's keeping," he said slowly at last, "and I am confident that she will never put it at the hazard of a blackguard like yourself." This time it was Strathgate who gave way. "You have another pistol at your belt. Give it to me. Take you one end of this boat and I the other. We'll see then who has the right to live and love." "I dishonor myself," said Carrington, rising and abandoning the tiller, which was instantly grasped by one of the crew, "by meeting you in this way, but I'll do it. Here!" He extended one of the pistols. "I would prefer a choice," said Strathgate, not extending his arm to take it. "As you will," returned Carrington, extending both of them to carm. "You honor me in doubting my good faith," he remarked as Strathgate took one of the pistols, "Haight," said Carrington, "take your station amidship, out of range, and count three. There shall be no firing done by either of us until after the word 'three.' Are you agreed, Lord Strathgate?" "Entirely," returned the other, stepping forward. But Master Haight did not propose to have his vessel turned into a field of honor, which would be a field of blood. He interposed a vigorous objection. "Gentlemen," he began, "I'll have no murder done here." "There shall be none," said Carrington. "Tis a fair duel with each man a chance for his life." "I don't know about that, my masters," returned the sailor, "but I say this: This boat's mine, I'm the captain of it, and I'll have no fightin' aboard. Savin' yer honors' graces, it can't be done. You agree with me. Cooper? You, Jack? You, Ned? "Ay, ay," returned the others, closing about Haight and interposing between the would-be combatants. "Gentlemen," continued Haight, who was not without a certain decision of character, "I swear to God there ain't goin' to be no fiskin' on this boat. I don't know the rights and wrongs of this quarrel, but this boat's mine and I won't have it. You'll oblige me, Lord Carrington, by givin' me that pistol. And you, sir—" turning to Strathgate, "will do the like. When you get ashore I've naught to say about your actions, but here—" He held out his hand imperiously for Lord Carrington's pistol and motioned Cooper to take that of Lord Strathgate. The boat had shot up into the wind and lay idly rocking, practically drifting. Cooper's cutter had been shaken off and was a floating wreck some distance away. Cooper had a distinct interest in the quarrel, for he muttered: "You're right, Haight, there can't be no shootin' here. Yonder gentleman might get a bullet in his in'ards and then who'd pay me for my sunken boat?" Strathgate interrupted with a laugh, one of those irritating laughs that drove Carrington nearly frantice: "Did you arrange all this with the captain of your boat, Carrington?" queried Strathgate. "Is this a bit of bravado, with the appearance of this worthy sailor at the proper moment?" "Curse you!" cried Carrington, leaping up to windward. "Come up to windward with you." He leveled his pistol full at Strathgate, having spring clear of the huddle of men who happened to be to leeward. Strathgate had followed his movements and two shots rang out simultaneously. Quick as had been the rush of the two men, however, the sailors had followed suit. Halight threw himself upon Carrington and bore him back against the low rail, nearly throwing him overboard, while Cooper struck Strathgate's arm such a violent blow as he pulled the trigger that his pistol was hurled backwards and fell into the sea. Halight was the first to recover himself. "Gentlemen," he said in tones that indicated he had come to a final decision, "you've had it out now and there's got to be no more of it. Unless you give me your word," he said, turning to Strathgate, "and you give me yours, Lord Carrington, to ablade peaceably in the boat until we get ashore, so help me God! I'll lash you down to a ring bolt with a rope, and—" "There's naught for it," returned Carrington whose pistol, knocked from his hand, had been taken possession of by one of the men, "but to give you the promise, for you have my pistol, the other has gone overboard and while I have a sword Lord Strathgate is without a weapon." "Oh, you have my word, too," said Strathgate carelessly. "He'll keep the forward end of the boat and you'll stay aft, my lord," said Halight to Carrington, "and now we'll put back to harbor." My lord Strathgate amused himself during the hours that elapsed before he and Carrington were landed at the same wharf whence they had taken their departure, by humming graceful little tunes, whistling merry little airs and in general disporting himself as if he were having a delightful time. My lord Carrington, who had more at stake, was gloomy and silent. He did not cast a glance in the direction of his brother earl reclining on the deck forward until the vessel was made fast to the wharf. Then he sprang out and touched Strathgate on the shoulder. "We have matters of moment to settle, my lord," began Carrington gravely, "and it were better that we settle them quietly as gentlemen, which one of us at least is." "I agree with you in that proposition," returned Strathgate bowing. "We shall doubtless find friends in Portsmouth and may conclude our arrangements without the unseemly interruptions of brawling seamen." "Brawling seamen!" growled Halgt under his breath. "The only peaceable people aboard the cutter were Cooper and myself and the men." "I am staying at the Blue Boar," said Strathgate gravely. "I also." returned Carrington "Very well, I shall await a visit from your friends as soon as may be convenient." "There are men on the ships yonder," said Carrington gravely, "brother officers of mine. One of them will call upon you forthwith." "Strathgate bowed but made no other reply as he walked away toward the inn. Carrington stayed a moment or two longer to complete arrangements for paying for the boat he had destroyed and then with a heavy heart, turned toward the town. He was in a terrible state. He had had no sleep the night before. He had ridden both day and night. The chase of the morning had not conducted to quiet his nerves, and the insults of Strathgate, whom a punctillo kept him from picking up in his arms and breaking as he would a slick, had not rendered him any more easy. His first duty was to get something to eat and to refresh himself by a bath. He would then send a message to some of his shipmates in Admiral Kephard's fleet who could be counted upon to attend to all the arrangements of the meeting a P outrance between him and his enemy. Although Carrington was as angry as a man could well be and as full of bitter hatred toward Strathgate, he did not intend to throw his life away on that account. He had other things to do, one of which was to chase Ellen wherever she went and find out the truth. He did not believe Strathgate's extravagant assertions about the carl's arrangement to meet Lady Ellen on the ship, but there was a possibility of truth in it and that at least kept him from entire confidence in his wife. As for Strathgate, he was not feeling any too happy ether. He had risked everything, got himself embroiled with a man of Carrington's determined character, had upon him all the odium of having run away with another man's wife, and yet he had lost the wife! His senuous admiration of Lady Ellen was turned to something like hate. He did not want to throw away any points in the game either, and he made up his mind to kill Carrington, if it was in his power, and to wreak such vengeance upon Lady Ellen as would cause her to remember to the very last hour of her life the time in which she flouted him. CHAPTER XIV. Admiral Kephard Joins the Pursuit. We left Sir Charles Seton hard and fast in his boat on the shoal. Sir Charles had nothing to do but study the ocean and observe that which transpired upon it, for a few moments of hard work convinced worthy Master Whibley that only the rising tide would float his vessel. Sir Charles saw the whole drama enacted before him. He saw Ellen run down the Flying Star; he saw that vessel's way checked; he could see Deborah followed by Ellen clamber aboard. He marked the other two boats chasing down the channel and made a shrewd guess that one carried Carrington and the other Strathgate. He saw the collision, although of course he was too far away to know who was responsible or what was happening. He even saw the smoke from the two pistols which were discharged by the belligerents on the boat, and after a time detected the report faintly, but other than that he knew nothing. It was some time before the rising tide coupled with their own tremendous exertion got the boat off the shoal. Sir Charles had had plenty of time to mature his plans. He knew that Ellen was on that ship. He guessed that Carrington and Strathgate had gone back to Portsmouth, if one or the other, or both of them had not been killed in that interchange of pistol shots, and he surmised that the first duty to which they would devote themselves would be to see which one could kill the other. He therefore determined to chase the ship. Not in his own boat, oh, not! He had a better plan than that. A ready and resourceful man was Sir Charles Seton. And while he was deeply in love with Mistress Debbie, the more in love because through Ellen's persistence his sweetheart had been, as it were, dragged out of his arms and therefore added the value of the unattainable to his pursuit of her, yet he was not in addition blinded by passion, jealousy and hatred as were Carrington and Strathgate. He knew that Mistress Debbie despised men of the Strathgate stamp, and although everything in petticoats was fair game for Strathgate, he also knew that the earl was on this occasion bent toward Lady Ellen. Therefore, he was in a saner and brighter mood than the other two. Not far away lay the great ships of Admiral Kephard. The admiral had announced his intention of posting down to Portsmouth by coach. The first thing he would do when he arrived would be to board his flagship which lay at the head of the line of a dozen little ships several miles away from the place where Sir Charles had taken ground. Sir Charles reasoned that the admiral would be in a hurry to get to Portsmouth and that even if he did not press the post boys, he would probably have reached his ship by the time Sir Charles could get there. Therefore, he possessed his soul in such patience as he could until his own boat once more got under way. He had bidden Master Whbley to mark well the course of the merchantman upon which Elen and Deborah T "I Am Sir Charles Seton." had taken refuge. This ship headed stendily eastward and seemed to have settled down for a long voyage. It took but a short time for Sir Charles to run alongside the Britannia. Bidding the men wait for him, he scrambled up the battens to the gangway and stepped aboard. An officer met him at once. "I am Sir Charles Seton," began the soldier, "captain in the Sussex light infantry." "I am pleased to see you, sir," answered the officer, courteously, extending his hand. "I am Lieutenant Collier of the royal navy." As Sir Charles shook the sailor's hand he asked: "Is Admiral Kephard on the ship?" "Yes, sir. He came aboard a half an hour ago and went immediately to his cabin." "May I see him?" "I'll send your name in. Mr. Mortlake," said the officer, turning about. A smart midshipman in across the deck and touched his cap. "My compliments to Admiral Kephard and say to him that Captain Sir Charles Seton of the Sussex light infantry desires the privilege of speech with him." "Ay, ay, sir," answered the midshipman, saluting again and scouring a哭 "Might I ask you, Mr. Collier," said Sir Charles, "if the Britannia is ready for instant service?" The lieutenant smiled. "All his majesty's ships are ready for service at any time." "Yes, yes, I know, of course," returned Seton, "but what I mean is, could this ship be got under way at once?" "On the instant." "And is she prepared for a cruise?" "She could go around the world and take her departure within an hour," returned the lieutenant with a pleased sense of demonstrating the efficiency of his majesty's navy beyond peradventure. "May I ask why you wish to know? he continued turning to Sir Charles. This was an embarrassing question, but Sir Charles was saved the necessity of answering, for the midshipman came running to the quarterdeck once more and saluted. "Well!" said the officer to the expectant boy. "Admiral Kephard's compliments to you, sir, and he begs you will escort Captain Seton to his cabin at once." "You're in luck, captain," returned the officer, "the admiral is not always so easy of access. Will you step this way, sir?" "After you, sir," said Sir Charles, bowing and following the lieutenant until he was ushered past the marine orderly on duty and into the admiral's cabin. The admiral was just completing his toilet. His body servant was helping him on with his coat. He had evidently just had a bath to refresh him after the fatigues of his journey. "Oh, Seton," he cried as the other came in, "glad to see you, man. Sit down. John,"—to the servant—"fetch out a decanter of navy sherry. Whisky, Seton, whisky, although perhaps you army men affect port." "I guess we can follow the navy's lead in something stronger than port." laughed Sir Charles. "What brought you here, Sir Charles?" continued the admiral as he poured out a liberal glassful for Seton and another for himself. "I left you at Carrington. But, no, I remember you rode away before I did, just after my lord. Have you come on any trace of fugitives?" "Admiral," said Sir Charles, gravely, "I know where they are." "And that damned lubberly hound, Strathgate, he—" "He isn't with them. They gave him the slip." "You don't say? Good!" laughed the admiral. "How was that?" Seton rapidly detailed the circumstances as he had deduced them. "Well done, that woman has spirit enough," continued the old soldier, "to command a frigate. You will never convince me that she's taken up with a man of Strathgate's caliber." "She went away with him, though," said Seton thoughtfully. "Ay ay, but she knows no more of the world than a baby. She simply made use of his proffered assistance to escape from an intolerable situation. You take me, Seton." "I do, admiral, and I confess I hardly blame her. How Carrington could tolerate Lady Cecely for a moment beside that splendid woman—" "To say nothing of that other splendid woman, Mistress Deborah Slocum, eh, Seton?" "I admit, admiral—" "Even 'Saints' Rest" becomes heavenly when looked at by the aid of such a pair of black eyes? And the lady, boy? "I confess, sir," answered Seton, somewhat abashed by the frank questioning of the old man, "that I have some reason to believe, in short—" "In short, my boy, you've been chas- "In short, my boy, you've been chasing her all night, have you?" "You're right, sir." "And what now?" "I told you, admiral, that I knew where they were." "Well, where are they? Out with it, lad. Disclose your information and come to the point. All these side issues are unworthy of a soidier." laughed the old seaman, well knowing that for most of them he was responsible. "They're on a merchant ship bound up the channel and going fast when I saw them last." "What?" cried the admiral. "Give me the particulars." Sir Charles rapidly ran over the scene of the morning. The old admiral threw back his head and laughed. "And she outwitted you all, shook Strathgate off the track, led you ashore, watched Carrington and Strathgate fight it out under her very eyes and got clean away?" "She hasn't got away yet, admiral." "What mean you?" "I came here to make a proposition to you." "A proposition to me?" "Yes." "You have a fast ship at your command, I take it." "Do you mean the Britannia?" said the admiral, mentioning his flagship. "I do." "Of course she's fast. The admiralty know me. I wouldn't take a slow ship." "Is she as fast as that merchant-man, do you think?" "Why, my boy, there isn't a merchant ship on the seas that she couldn't overhaul in anything like a wind." "Admiral," said Sir Charles ingeniously, "I lay you a wager." "What is that?" "A hundred pounds that you can't overtake that merchant ship." "What!" roared the admiral. "Me take out one of his majesty's ships to chase after a runaway wife and a foolish girl?" "I beg your pardon, admiral, if you refer to Mistress Deborah Slocum, I must ask you to moderate your language," protested Sir Charles, warmly, his face flushing. "Go to! go to!" laughed the admiral. "I'm old enough to be your father. But the idea of an admiral of the white taking a hundred gun ship-of-the-line out to chase a paltry merchantman for—Impossible, my boy, impossible!" "But," said Sir Charles, "the navy cannot afford to decline a bet, a wager with its sister service. I'll lay you a thousand pounds, admiral, that you can't do it." "My lad," said the admiral gently. after a moment's reflection, "no wagers are needed. I'll do it because I'm fond of the girl and Carrington, too. I can overhaul them before nightfall without doubt and I'll be glad to do it, although just exactly what warrant I have for stopping an American ship on the high seas and taking from her another man's wife I can hardly say." "I can help you in that, admiral. As to warrant, if you'll bring to the other ship and give me a boat crew, I'll go aboard the American and do the rest. Mistress Deborah, I am sure, will come willingly." "Don't be too sure of that," returned the admiral, "don't count upon a woman until she's your own, and don't count too much upon her after that, as Carrington might say." "Nevertheless, I think I speak by the card," said Sir Charles. "Very well, you know best. Having been a bachelor all my life, I know more about ships than women, but bark ye, Seton, this one thing. Don't you come back to the ship after I put you aboard that trader, with only Miss Deborah. The two have to come together, or go together, you understand?" "Yes, sir." The admiral struck the bell on the table beside him. Instantly the marine orderly popped in the door. "My compliments to the officer of the deck," said the admiral to the orderly, "and ask him to beg Captain Beatty to favor me with his presence in the cabin." "Yes, sir," returned the orderly, saluting. A moment after—an incredibly short time it seemed to Seton, who was unaware of the way in which an admiral's requests are obeyed—Captain Beatty, the officer mentionel, presented himself before the admiral. "You wish to see me, admiral?" "Yes, Beatty. By the way, let me present to you Sir Charles Seton of the Sussex light infantry, captain in his majesty's land forces. Seton, this is the Honorable Archibald Beatty, my flag captain. Beatty, will you get the Britannia under way at once?" "Yes, sir," returned the captain. "Are the rest of the fleet to follow us?" "No," answered the admiral, "signal to the rest of them to disregard the movements of the commander-in-chief. Then signal to the Renown for Lascelles to take command until we return." "Very good, sir," returned the captain. "And what course shall we lay?" tam. And what course shall we lay? "That which will get us into the channel quickest, and then as due east as the wind will let us. I'll be on deck, however, before you're ready for that." "There are several boat parties ashore, admiral, do you wish me to wait for them?" "No, sir, you will weigh at once." "Very good sir," returned the captain, saluting and turning away. "And Beatty," the admiral called after him, "a drop of navy sherry with me before you go." "Thank you, admiral," said Beatty, filling his glass. "I'll give you a toast, Sir Charles," said the admiral. "Yes," returned the soldier. "A short cruise and the women at the end of it!" "I drink to that with all my heart!" returned Sir Charles. "And I also," said Captain Beatty, greatly mystified, "although I don't understand exactly." "We're going to chase a Yankee merchant ship, Beatty, and take a couple of ladies in whom Sir Charles is interested off of it." "A couple!" cried Beatty. "I'm only interested in one of them," said Sir Charles warmly. "It's a runaway sweetheart and a runaway wife, Beatty," continued the admiral, "Lady Carrington and Mistress Deborah Slocum." "And which one is Sir Charles interested in?" asked the sailor, smiling. "In Mistress Slocum, of course," laughed the admiral, "Now, captain," he continued, assuming his quarter-deck manner. "I want you to get the ship under way in the quickest possible time. Let's show this land lubber here what his mapesty's navy can do when it's in dead earnest. Imagine there are a dozen Frenchmen out there, all boiling for a fight, and bear a hand!" "Ay, ay, sir," said Beatty, salutings and withdrawing from the cabin. A moment later there came faintly through the bulkheads the shrill whistling of the boatswain and his mates, followed by a deep cry: "All honds up as above!" CHAPTER XV. Captain Jeremiah Tuggle is Insulted. It was a moment of splendid triumph for the heroine of this mad escapade when she drew under the lee of the great ship tremendously above her. Her eyes were as keen as Carrington's. She had recognized, or divined, that the tall figure standing on the rail of the larger boat staring at her was her husband. She knew that in some way they had concluded that she would try to escape on the merchantman and that they were trying to catch that ship. She was experienced enough, also, to know that their efforts would be futile and their trouble in vain. There was only one possible contingency which could prevent the accomplishment of her desires now, and that would be the refusal of the captain of the ship to stop for her when she ran him down. Ellen had a well-filled purse and she hoped to persuade him with that. At any rate, she kept recklessly on, although the little boat came near to swamping and Deborah, between terror and disappointment, was in a state of collapse. Ellen boldly ran down under the lee of the big ship. By skilful handling she brought her boat within hailing distance of the merchantman. A man stepped on the rail to leeward and stared hard at her. "What ship is this?" asked Ellen. "The Flying Star of Boston." Ellen's heart sank. "I thought it was the New Eagle of Philadelphia," she cried. "She sailed yesterday." "Where are you bound?" asked El- THE PLANET SATURDAY.....APRIL 25, 1908. len, fighting against the sinking of 6 "What Could It Mean?" "For Bordeaux and then to Boston." "Take me aboard of you." "We're not shorthanded," replied the other. "I mean as a passenger." "Can you pay your passage?" came from the ship. For reply Ellen held up a well-filled purse. The man nodded to her, disappeared inboard, and presently came back followed by an older sailor. "Who be ye?" cried the older man, apparently the captain of the ship. "My name's Carrington," answered Ellen. "Are ye fugitives from justice?" asked the captain. "No, no, I swear we're not." "Be ye a runaway couple?" "Yes, yes," answered Ellen, grasping at the suggestion presented by the captain's misconception of the situation. And indeed they were a runaway couple, though not exactly of the kind the captain meant. "And them boats yonder, are they chasin' you?" "They are," cried Ellen. "Won't you take us aboard?" "Well, I don't know," said the captain, slowly. "I guess so. I don't want to heave to, them boats to port is chasin' hard." "If you'll make a half-board, I'll run the boat alongside of you and we'll manage to get aboard." "All right," said the captain. He spoke to the helmsman and a moment after the sails slatted in the wind, the big ship swung up toward the breeze and ranged ahead, her way clearly checked. Ellen acted promptly. Before the big ship swing up into the wind she had run her little boat alongside. She dropped sail, ran forward and took a turn with a painter across the forechains. She let the boat drift at until it came abreast the battens on the side, leading up the gangway. Up this she drove Debbie, reluctant, protesting, frightened out of her wits. Indeed it was a hard climb for a girl unused to such performances and encumbered by her skirts. Shoved by Ellen, however, the girl clambered up until hands reached through the gangway dragged her to safety. Ellen followed quickly after her. "And your boat, what of her?" asked the captain. "She's no use to us any longer," answered Ellen, enduring the keen scrutiny of the old sailor as best she might. "You may have her, captain." "Here, Bud," said the captain to an old sailor, "jes' drop down the forechains and make that boat fast. We'll swing her up on deck after awhile, if she's worth it. Now, sir—" he looked harder than ever at Ellen, "what did you say your name was?" "Carrington," answered the countess thoughtlessly, "Ellen—" "Ellen!" exclaimed the captain, "Gee Whilkins! I thought so. And this young lady?" he turned to Deborah. "My name's Siocum, Deborah Siocum of Massachusetts, of Boston. I should like to get ashore." "Young ladies," said the captain—and at that word Ellen knew that all her hopes of concealment were blasted—"what's the cause of this, I don't know. Why you're masqueradin in boy's clothes, ma'am, I can't tell. I take it that the other is a female in spite of her woman's riggin." "Yes, you may be sure of that," whimpered Deborah with difficulty repressing a strong inclination to cry. "Captain," began Ellen, resolutely, "you've guessed the truth. I am a woman." "Lord love you; you didn't expect to disguise it, did you?" said the captain, laughing grimly. "I never thought anything about it," said Ellen, "I was so anxious to get away." "To get away from whom? I thought you was a lover and his lass." "We're not," cried Debbie, indignantly; "she's trying to escape from her husband, and I—" "An' you, miss?" "I'm not trying to escape from anybody. I want to go ashore! Won't you put me ashore, captain?" "Hardly," said the captain, dryly. "You've come aboard and I guess you'll have to stay unless I heave to and wait for one of them other boats." "What is your name?" asked Ellen. "Tuggles," said the captain, "Capt. Jeremiah Tuggles, at your service." "Capt. Tuggle," said Ellen, "did you ever hear of Capt. William Penn Siocum of Philadelphia?" "That I have, miss." "He was my father." "Ooh!" said the captain. "Are you the Pennsylvania girl that married the English lord?" "I am." "And is the English lord in one of them boats out yonder?" "He is." "An' you're tryin' to git away from him?" "Indeed, I am. He has used me cruelly." "Well," said the captain, nodding thoughtfully as if he understood it all, "for the honor of America I'll do all I can to help you. An' you, miss?" turning to Debble. "I'm not trying to get away from any English lord," answered Debble, "but there's a gentleman—" "Well, I'm very sorry for you, miss," said Capt. Tuggles, "but the best I can do is to take you with your friend. You can get off at Bordeaux and go where you please, meanwhile the ship is yours." "Will those boats catch us, captain?" queried Ellen, stepping slowly across the deck to the landward side. "Not if I don't want 'em to," said Tuggles, grimly. "Mr. Manthy," he added, turning to a surly-looking mate who was pacing the quarterdeck, "the breeze is fresh'nin', better give her more sail. An' we've had enough of southin', better set our course for the east'ard until we get well up the channel. You're safe, miss. There ain't no small boat in England that can overhaul Jeremiah Tuggles an' the Flying Star, an' there ain't many ships can do it, either." "Are you sure, captain?" "Sartin," said the captain. Ellen did a strange thing. She ran across the deck to the gangway, leaned far over it, lifted her hat and waved it three or four times at the boats vainly pursuing. Then not waiting for a return of her salute, she rejoined the captain. "If you please, captain," she said, "we'd like to have something to eat and a place to sleep. We've had nothing but hard tack and water since yesterday morning, and what sleep we got we had to take in the cutter." "You shall have everything the ship affords," said Capt. Tugglea, a worthy seaman, "there's only one thing within reason that I can't supply." "And what is that?" "Female toggery," answered the captain. "I don't need that. I like these clothes," returned the girl holdin. couches, retreated the girl, bobily. The captain himself took the two below. He called his cabin boy and set before them a prodigious quantity of substantial fare. They were both hungry enough to have eaten ruder provision with a hearty zest. When their appetite was stayed, the captain showed them to a cabin with two berths in it. Both women were so tired that recriminations which trembled in the air were deferred until they had taken needed rest. Dressed as they were, each crawled into her respective berth and soon was sound sleep. It was dark before either awoke. What disturbed her, Ellen could not tell, but she suddenly found herself sitting up in her berth listening to a faint hall that came down the wind and through the open air port into the cabin. A voice said gruffly: "This is his majesty's ship-of-the-line Britannia. Heave to and I'll send a boat aboard." "The Britannia!" exclaimed Ellen under her breath, "Admiral Kephard's flagship!" What could it mean? She rose to her feet and stepped to the port hole. It was pitch dark outside. She could see nothing. The moon had not yet risen. Over her head Capt. Tuggles was replying. "What do you want with me?" he cried, roughly. "You'll find out," answered a voice from the darkness, "when we send a boat aboard." A moment after Ellen caught a glimpse of the running light of a large ship slowly closing upon the Flying Star. Other lights gleamed from port holes here and there, bringing the huge liner in fair view. "This is the high ses," answered Capt. Tugbles, with great spirit. "I'm a peaceful merchantman from the United States, and I'm damned if I'll heave to for anybody." Brave Capt. Tugbles! Ellen thrilled in her soul, but she knew that the game was up. No merchantman could brave a war vessel, and one flying an admiral's flag at that, with impunity. The next instant a gun flashed from the side of the ship-of-the-line and a deep boom rolled across the black water. "If you don't heave to," cried the voice from the other ship, "the next shot'll go into you." To hesitate longer was madness. Ellen could hear Capt. Tugbles dash his trumpet to the deck and the next minute his hoarse voice bidding the watch swing the main yard. The ship slowly shot up into the wind and presently lay stitched. On the ship-of-the-line Ellen could hear the shrill whistling of pipes and hoarse voices calling away the crew of the cutter. Unless she acted immediately she was lost. The ship-of-the-line could have overhauled the merchantman only for her. She turned from the porthole to find Deborah, who had been awakened by the cannon shot, standing half dazed at her side. "Debble," she cried, "I've changed my mind." "What do you mean?" asked Deborah. "I'm going back to Portsmouth." "Well, I'm glad you've come to your senses at last." "Yes," said Lady Ellen, "there's a ship out there which has just ordered Capt. Tuggles to heave to, to stop his ship, that is. We must escape her." "Whose ship is it?" "I don't know. It may be a Frenchman, or a pirate, or— At any rate, our only chance is to get away while they are busy. They'll never notice us." "How will you do it?" asked Debo- THE RICHMOND PLANET. RICHMOND. VIRGINIA rah. "Ask Capt. Tugglos to set you ashore?" "Never." said Ellen. Seizing Debbie by the hand, she left the room, locking the door behind her and slipping the key in her pocket. Then she stepped into the cabin. Fortunately it was empty. There was a dim light burning from a lantern hanging at the bulkhead. Ellen took it down and opened the door of what she deemed from her experience was the captain's room, and found she had made a correct guess. She took the precaution to take the key out of the door, insert it on the inside of the lock and turn it. The captain's room extended across the after part of the ship. The stern windows were large and she and Deborah could easily pass through them. Her one hope was that her boat had not been abandoned. Sure enough, there it was trailing astern, and fortunately on the side opposite to that on which the line-of-battle ship lay. The Britannia had drifted ahead and had been hove off the starboard bow of the Flying Star. Ellen's boat was drifting astern off the port quarter. From the stern of the merchantman a Jacob's ladder depended. Ellen, bidding Deborah wait a moment, scrambled out of the stern window, got her foot on the Jacob's ladder, descended it until she could reach the boat's painter, and then drew the boat toward her with her foot and fastened it to the foot of the Jacob's ladder. She climbed up a few rungs and bade Deborah try the descent. Deborah was very much frightened, but with the repeated promise by Ellen that they were going back to Portsmouth, she summoned her courage and made the attempt. Ellen steadied her and in a moment more Deborah fell a confused heap in the bottom of the boat. Ellen, with her sailor suit, carried a sheath knife. It was a good thing, for she had left her sword and pistols in the berth, where she had taken them off before going to sleep. It was the work of a moment to sever the painter, and a vigorous push drove the little boat clear of the ship. There were oars in the boat, which was not too large for Ellen to row. She broke them out cautiously and by a few slow, steady but powerful strokes, she soon got sufficiently far from the merchant ship to avoid any powerful risk of observation. Then she shipped the oars, stepped forward, hoisted the sail, drew the sheet aft, seized the tiller and bore away recklessly into the night. She knew exactly what had occurred. Sir Charles Seton, or her husband, or Lord Strathgate—although scarcely the latter—had interested Admiral Kephard and he had brought the Britannia out to take her back. They would be a disappointed and surprised lot when they examined the ship and found her gone. Nobody would be more surprised than worthy Master Jeremiah Tuggless. Ellen's heart exulted at her freedom. She did not know where she was going, what the course, nor anything else, but she knew that they had not caught her yet, and that her disappearance would be a great mystery to them. She could have laughed aloud in glee as the little boat, feeling the full force of the wind, rippled through the black waters under the black sky. (TO BE CONTINUED.) "The President gives no intimation except as already indicated, that his mind has undergone any change. He would therefore become judge of the worthiness of these men to re-illust if we should pass the bill introduced by the Senator from Missouri, firmly possessed of the conviction that few, if any of them were free from guilt. In other words, practically every man of the battalion would have to prove his innocence before one who has over and over again formally and publicly adjudged him guilty and denounced him as guilty in the severest language of censure and condemnation. "Moreover, how would such a procedure be conducted? Would it be public or private? It is a constitutional right of the most important character that all trials upon indictments involving criminal charges and convictions shall be public, to the end that the public may see to it, through the power of public sentiment, that no man shall be unfairly condemned. This trial would not be within the letter but it would be within the spirit of the Constitution, for these men are not now soldiers to be dealt with arbitrarily, but plain American citizens, invested with all the rights of citizenship, who are seeking not only a restoration of their good names, but also of valuable property rights, to all of which they are confessedly entitled, if not found guilty of crime. They should not be dealt with, therefore, in the dark, as though a lot of chattels, for that day for the American Negro has forever passed, but as American citizens entitled to the same rights white men would have under the same conditions." Extract from Senator Foraker's Address. Scorching Smell. She--Don't you smell something scorching? He--Yes; I guess it's that automobile that just passed.—Yonkers Statesman. Nature Fake Talk "Huh!" sneered the swan. "You're nothing but a quack." "Well," rejoined the duck, "I'd rather be a quack than a rubber-neck." —Chicago Daily News. Proof Positive. Brigger—Are you sure that lobster is fresh, waiter? Waiter—Sure! He bit me when I was bringin' him in.—Judra. "And if we are to be further reminded as we have been, that the President is the Commander-in-Chief of the army, it is a sufficient answer that, while it is true, yet also it is true that he does not create the army It is not for him to say who shall enlist or re-enlist. All that belongs to Congress. —Extract from Senator Foraker's Address. MORE THAN HE COULD DO. It was an interesting time at the house of Dobbs, and finally, when the doctor came out into the hall, Dobbs was in a state of excitement equal to an election night. 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COMMUNICATIONS—When writing to us for subscription to the newspaper, you should give your name and address in full, otherwise we cannot find your name on our books. OF ADDRESS—In order to change the address of a subscriber, we must be sent the former as well as the present address. Entered at the Post Office at Richmond, Va. as second class matter. SATURDAY, APRIL 21, 1908. DEMOCRATIC BLUNDERERS. The Democratic Party of the Nation is just now afflicted with an unusual number of blunderers. Congressman Helfin of Alabama handcapped that organization in the doubtful States by shooting a colored man on the streets of Washington and seriously injuring a white one after having introduced a "jim crow" street-car bill and now Congressman Gaines of Georgia is making a similar blunder by talking about white supremacy and the ineffectiveness of education in the solution of the race problem He seemed to have forgotten that if the white race is superior that his services are not needed to proclaim that fact for the records will speak for themselves. All of this is done too when the unrest among the colored voters in the doubtful States was never greater and when with conservative action, the title of the Presidential election might be turned in the Democrats favor. Already, these blunders are being made use of in these doubtful States with telling effect for the purpose of whipping revolting colored people into line. Here is what Congressman Griggs said: "In an argument favoring the disfranchisement of the Southern Negroes, Mr. Griggs, of Georgia in the House yesterday declared that such disfranchisement was necessary to in sure white control and the peace and prosperity of the South. "In consequence of such action, he said the Negro would be no less a factor than he is now. "At present, Mr. Griggs said, 'he is only a mannequin and a scarecrow—not a factor in determining political issues.' The rights of the Negro of the South, he maintained, were guaranteed only through white judges and white jurors, and those rights would not be changed by disfranchisement." Evidently this speech was made for home consumption, for there is no bill under discussion in Congress for the disfranchisement of the Negro and he is using this very argument to strengthen himself at home. If the Negro is no longer a political factor, what was he discussing? If the rights of the Negro are maintained only through white judges and white jurors, what need was there for the discussion in the House of Representatives? He was arguing against the manual training and technical education of the Negro, although no measure was before Congress for any such purpose and it seems plainly evident that he was discussing the entire subject for the reasons herein set forth. He would keep the progressive, intelligent colored people in the background by retarding their efforts in the direction of skilled mechanical training and by stunting their educational and industrial growth. He would thus perpetrate upon them an outrage, second to none practiced in any country. He seems oblivious to the fact that just in proportion as a Negro becomes wealth-producing to the community in which he lives, he adds to the material and financial prosperity of that section. Such talk as this will have no effect upon the class of white people, whose opinions we value and whose influence we prize. Experience and historical teachings have demonstrated the wisdom of the industrial policy now being pursued in the Southland. The drones of the white race cannot and must not expect the industrious elements of the colored race to be held back in order for them to catch up. He gave a far cry and voiced a vain hope, when he is quoted: "Mr. Griggs took issue with those who assert that manual training and technical education of the Negroes of the South furnish a solution of the race question. That in itself he said, is a declaration of the Negro's inferiority. 'For God's sake,' he exclaimed, 'let us not depend upon technical education of the Negro to solve this problem.' It would, he said, either drive the great majority of Southern white men into other States or create the most terrible race war in the history of the world. "He said he does not believe South ern white men would be driven from their homes. "If," he said, 'they should refuse to live in a land under conditions so deplorable and, like their fathers, go out and build homes in the wilderness, we would have left to us a land made up of two classes of people—a professional class of whites and a laboring class of blacks.' The absurdity of such a condition, he declared, was apparent. "In the opinion of Mr. Griggs, there is no danger of the amalgamation of the whites and the blacks. There must be perfect submission from the one, he said, and complete control by the other. This, he said, would result in the Negroes gradually becoming educated and their removal to other States where they could have great privileges. As the Negroes increase in numbers in those States, he asserted, they would be disfranchised 'until finally, having grown strong during these years of wandering in the wilderness,' they would have the manhood to go out and, with the white man's help, establish homes for themselves." As to amalgamation, the gentleman is unfortunate in his references. The mixing of the races that is going on is caused by white men, who in many instances cohabit with Negro women that the average Negro man doesn't want. They are raising up children with the hair and features of some of the most prominent white men in this section and they take their names in many instances, perpetuating them to others yet unborn. There is no law enforced to stop this kind of practice. In fact colored people are most bitterly opposed to this very amalgamation of which this Congressman so glibly speaks. But why discuss this subject further? Congressman Gaines will be dead in a few more years. We doubt not but that he is suffering with alliments that will soon lead to his undoing. The undertaker in his neighborhood has no doubt an eye upon bin and a casket to fit his size. With his demise will come a little more peace in at least one more congressional district in the Southland. SENATOR FORAKER'S GREAT SPEECH. "Truth from his lips prevail'd with double sway. And fools, who came to scoff, remain'd to pray."—Goldsmith. The speech of Senator Joseph Benson Foraker of Ohio on the Brownsville affray will rank among the great efforts of the century. His discussion of the details in an analytical way deeply impressed the country and his citation of undisputable facts made an impression that it will be well nigh impossible for the supporters of the administration to answer or refute. The two points of law around which all other points gravitate were the manifest position of the President of the United States that a person accused of a crime must prove himself innocent, rather than that the accuser shall prove his guilt, and that the question of guilt or innocence of the accused must be passed upon by a hostile judge, who has many times declared the prisoners at the bar guilty. No argument can clear away this glaring inconsistency and no words from any source can explain away this monstrous impropriety. Senator Foraker stands to-day vindicated in his actions before the great American people. His position is impregnable and there is not a fair-minded man in the United States, Democrat or Republican, but what must admit that in the position taken by him he has aligned himself with the greatest legal debaters of the world. He has performed an everlasting service to the colored people of this country by this timely defense of the "Black Battalion." Nothing has had a greater tendency to injure our people in the good opinion of the best citizens of the country than has President Roosevelt's attitude in this matter. It has prejudiced our case in thousands of ways and left us helpless before our enemies. It remained for the great Ohio Senator to leap into the breach and show the manifest injustice practiced upon us by a statesman, who should have known better. These soldiers were declared guilty of a crime upon hearsay testimony and punished without a hearing. An attempt was made to have them tes- THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA tify against themselves in the face of the plain provisions of the law that this shall not be done. The colored soldiers were then told that they must prove their innocence in violation of the constitutional provisions that the accuser is required to prove their guilt. This was done too by the great exponent of the doctrine of a "square deal." The effect of Senator Foraker's speech was electrical and all efforts to discount it have failed. The bedrock principles upon which his argument was based are impregnable and his statement of truths has tended to bring to mind the fact that "Truth crushed to earth shall rise again. The eternal years of God are hers. But error, wounded, writhes with And dies among its worshippers. —Bryant. SENATOR BORAH'S EFFORT. "Words, words, words!" —Shakespeare Senator William E. Borah of Idaho has seen fit to make his malden effort in the United States Senate by delivering a speech in support of President Roosevelt's action in dismissing from the service without honor Companies B, C and D, Twenty-fifth United States Infantry and marring the military records of every Negro member of that battalion. His effort in some particulars is fortunate for the members of the brave, black regiment for the reason that organized labor in this country will be more friendly towards the members of that battalion than it has ever been before for the reason that whatever Senator Borah favors will be most likely opposed and whatever he opposes will be most likely favored by the Western Federation of Miners, well nigh every member of which organization has been placed on the black-list of undesirable citizens by the distinguished occupant of the White House. He failed to convict William D. Haywood, whom he classed with being as guilty as these soldiers, although he made one of the most impassioned logical addresses ever heard before a jury. He succeeded, it seems in convincing everybody of Haywood's guilt, but the judge, jury and those who heard the argument. As a result, Haywood is a free man. It may be then that his attitude in this case will be the forerunner of the result, just as it was in the other Senator Borah deals in many "ifes" but fails to produce the facts upon which to predicate an argument. These soldiers are not required by the law to do more than to deny guilt. They may not even do this for the commonwealth will enter the plea for them upon their failure to declare their guilt. The question is: Did the members of Companies B, C and D shoot up the town of Brownsville? The soldiers say that they did not, but the majority report of the United States Senate Committee on Military Affairs expresses the opinion that some of the members did do the shooting. The report states that there is no evidence to prove which of the members were engaged in the affair and expresses the opinion that not more than twelve out of a total number of 167 took any part in the riotous disturbance. What are you going to do about it, Senator Borah? You are a lawyer, an able attorney and you know as well as we do that you could not convict a bob-tall cur dog or a ring-tail monkey in a court of law upon such testimony. The English law prescribes that better that nine guilty persons escape punishment than that one innocent one should suffer. Here you have a case in point where the President of the United States, sworn to observe the law reverses the whole criminal procedure and rules, better that one hundred and fifty-five innocent persons should suffer than that twelve guilty ones should escape. Yet, here is a great constitutional lawyer from the great woolly West, who knows the law advocating such a ridiculous proposition. He knows too that the allegation that there was a conspiracy of silence has not been maintained and even the report of the committee does not set forth any such thing. We have read carefully the Constitution of the United States and no where do we find that the judicial power, the power to punish crime is vested in the President of the United States or in the War Department. In case of war and in times of peace court-martials perform this task, but we fail to find anywhere that the President has the legal right to visit summary punishment for the commission of a crime. It remained for President Roosevelt and Attorney Borah to announce any such doctrine. But what did Senator Borah say? "A cold-blooded, inhuman, incarnate devil blows to pieces a former governor upon the doorstep of his home, is caught, and confesses, and before the grave of the man who died a martyr to law and order is green, sentimentalism puts a halo upon the brow of the blackest spirit that ever escaped the crumbs of hell. "Men wearing the uniform of a soldier of the Union, the insignia of government and the symbol of law and order, in the quiet of night, while homes are defenseless, assaults are murder, whole families, and finally one murder. To compromise with such an act or such a deed is cow- ardice; it is betrayal of government; it is an insult to every intelligent and right-thinking Negro, for it presupposes he is a traitor to his country and a criminal at heart." It will be seen then that President Roosevelt and Senator Borah have linked these soldiers and the colored people of this country who are supporting them with the "undesirable citizens." He is quoted further: "No more serious charge than this was ever made against a soldier of the United States. For less offenses many a soldier has been condemned and shot at sunrise. To my mind it was treason; if not technically so yet morally treason in a more aggravated form." This then placed the charge against the colored soldiers in the category of infamous crimes. Article V of the Constitution of the United States reads: "No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a grand jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces or in the militia, when in actual service in time of war or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty or property, without due process of law." Senator Borah may indulge in oratorical fire-works, but this is the constitutional guarantee. Has it been respected? Has President Roosevelt lived up to the standard set and has Senator Borah observed its provisions in his argument? The exception set forth in the land and naval forces is provided for in the Articles of War, for where the civilian is tried by a civil court, the soldier is tried by a military tribunal. If the offense alleged was as Senator Borah declares it to have been, there was most certainly less excuse for summary action. Guilteau, who shot President Garfield in Washington was accorded this right; the Russian Hebrew who shot President McKinley at Buffalo was accorded the same privilege. Neither of these men ever fought for the government, but some of the members of the Twenty-fifth Infantry were covered with medals in recognition of their valor upon many battle-fields and they have been ignominiously ridden down by one of the most powerful Chief Executives in all this world. More than eight of these soldiers were arrested in Texas and the legal investigation instituted resulted in their being discharged. By what right and by what constitutional authority then are they being punished? Senator Borah justifies lynch-law and advocates anarchy in the following language: "Finding lawlessness there so close to the vital forces of this government, what was the duty of those entrusted with the power and responsibility of dealing with it? Strike it down. Assert the majesty and strength and relentless judgment of the government in a way to inspire both respect and dread in all who lightly weigh the worth of human life or who trifle with the honor of a good name and of that great army whose patriotism has been the pride of all men in form of action—to hesitate, to compromise to palate, to excuse—would be an injustice and an outrage to the army and constitute trifling consideration of the interest of eighty million people who look up to the government for protection to life." He does not say that this action shall be in accordance with law or within the limits set by the Constitution, but he says, "Strike it down!" This is what the laboring men in the West say about organized government and of the property owned by the Trusts. This is what the anarchists in Portugal, the Reds in France, the Nihilists in Russia and the Boxers in China say, "Strike it down!" This theory led to the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, the murdering of James A. Garfield and the elimination of William McKinley. The cry then was as it is now, "Strike it down!" But granting that the "Black Battalion" as a whole was concerned in this affray and we do not believe anything of the kind, what justification was there to punish the command other than as a whole, if there were an innocent man in the command? By what species of reasoning could the men be singled out as individuals and barred from the service, their military records marred and their wives and children made to suffer for an offense that they could not be proven to have committed as individuals? If Senator Borah can name an instance in this country, where such a policy has been sustained by a Supreme Court, let him specify the case. Insufficient evidence to convict is always a sufficient plea to justify a new trial, if the plea can be sustained. But the sadstest part or the whole affair is that all of this effort to secure simple justice must be made before a Republican Senate and a Republican President, many members of which body refuse to accord to Negroes that justice that they would demand for white men. When we call for a fair deal, we are answered by a blow from the "big stick" and even now it is charged that Senator Borah, who had told Senator Foraker that he was right in his contentions was induced to make a speech against the Negro soldiers after a conference with the President at the White House. It further shows that "Ephralm is joined to his idols" and the Pharaoh's heart is hardened and that the same relentless empathy that has pursued these devoted black men will be continued to the grave. Will President Roosevelt veto the Foraker Bill if it passes both branches of Congress? We do not know, but it would be worth the effort to make the trial. Let every colored man in the United States write to the Senator, be he Republican or Democrat in behalf of these soldiers. Let them go down on their knees to that God, who has always heard them pray. They made appeals to Him, when days were darker and the outlook gloomier, and there is no reason to doubt the power of saving grace now. The administration may bring out all of its machinery in the effort to break down these men who have given their blood for their country, but the fact that the day of vindication is at hand will be cheering information to every true believer in this land. In the silly hours of the night, when the twinkling stars give sympathy and the silvery moon leads one to tears, there comes a whisper that tells a truth as old as the mountains and as immutable as the Holy Writ. It brings consolation and it serves as balm to the wounded heart. In letters of silver with shadings of gold appears the declaration: "Justice may sleep, but never dies." Then as the reverberations of the able Senator from Idaho are yet heard in the Chamber, there is hope in the thought that all of us will soon reach that great and happy land, "where the wicked cease from troubling, and the weary are at rest." A RASH CONCLUSION. "Then I am to understand that this is your final answer, Miss Stubbles?" "My final answer?" "Nothing can move you?" "Nothing." "Then my life will be a lonely one and my fate a harsh one, for my uncle with whom I lived has just died and left me—" "That fact somewhat alters the case, Henry. I cannot be harsh to one who has sustained such recent bereavement. If I could believe that you are sincere—" "Sincere! Oh, Miss Stubbles!" "Sincere! Oh, Miss Stubbles!" "You have certainly made an impression on my heart. Give me time to think of it." "How long?" "After all, why think of it? Henry, I am yours!" "Oh, Genevieve!" "Do not squeeze me so hard, Henry. Your poor uncle! Was he long ill?" "Three days." "It is too bad! You say he left you?" "Yes, he has left me." "How much?" "How much? I said he had left me. He had nothing else to leave. I am alone in the world now, homeless, pennless, but with you by my side—why, she's fainted!" The Noblest Work of God. Burglar Ben—Naw, Bill wan't cut fer de business. Too honest. Johnny the Kid—Dat's so. I was wit' him one day last summer w'en he lifted a wad from a swell-lookin' guy on Twenty-third street. It had fof 'dollars an' a half, a dunnin' letter callin' fer five dollars. Of course, we'en Billy got de matter all settled up he was 50 cents in de hole—Puck. The Problem Solved Newed—My wife has a habit of taking money from my pockets when I'm asleep. Oldwed—Mine used to do that, too, but she doesn't any more. Newed—How do you prevent it? Oldwed—I spend every cent I have before I go home.—Chicago Daily News. More Appropriate Miss Inland—You certainly have a charming country place here, and of course you have given it some pretty name? Mr. Bondholder—Oh, yes! Mrs. Bondholder calls it "Idlemoment-by-the-Sea," but I call it by its right name, "Moneysunk."—Judge. Said of Another. Said He—Miss Neurich is what you would term a butterfly of fashion, isn't she? Said She—Hardly that. She is hand-capped by her taste, which keeps her from getting beyond the butterline grade—Chicago Daily News. The Ideal Sermon The New Minister—What is your idea of the proper length of a sermon, Miss Deering? The Choir Singer—Why, I think it should be long enough to get people interested and short enough to keep them so.—Puck. No One Else Laughed The Author—When the comedian says those funny lines, you must not laugh. The Chorus Gri!—Oh, I thought you wanted somebody to laugh!—Yonkers Statesman. Satisfied. Hotel Chef—Did you hear the report about our last lot of butter, sir? Hotel Manager—No; but I don't care how much they spread it—Yonkers Statesman. Only Wanted a Chance. She—I see where a fellow married a girl on his death-bed, just so she could have his millions when he was gone. Could you love a girl like that? He—Sure, I could love a girl like that! Where does she live?—Puck. THEIR CENTENNIAL Catholic Diocese of Philadelphia Celebrate Pontifical Mass. ARCHBISHOP RYAN PRESIDES Mgr. Falconio, the Papal Delegate Was the Celebrant—Cardinal Gibbons and Over 400 Priests Were In Attendance. Philadelphia, April 22.—Two of the most notable and impressive services ever held by the Catholic church in America marked the celebration of the close of the first century of the Roman Catholic diocese of Philadelphia. A march of the priests of the archdiocese, from the chapel to the main Cathedral auditorium, preceded the solenum pontifical mass. There are 600 priests in the archdiocese, and fully 400 were present. Archbishop Ryan presided, and Monsignor Falconio, the papal delegate, was the celebrant. The assistant priest was the Right Rev. Monsignor James P. Turner, D. D. V., G. chancellor of the archdiocese. The deacon of the mass was Rev. John F. McQuade, rector of the Cathedral and the sub-deacon the Rev. Charles F. Kavanaugh. The master of cere monies was Rev. A. Schulte, of Overbrook seminary. The Right Rev. Eugene Garvey, bishop of Altoona preached the centennial sermon. The chaplains to Cardinal Gibbons were Rev. Luke McCabe and Rev. Herman Heuser, of Overbrook, and the chaplains to Archbishop Ryan were Rev James Monahan, of St. James, and Rev. John McCort, rector of Our Mother of Sorrows. The music of the masses has been liturgically changed by Rev. Father Hugh T. Henry, rector of the Catholic High school, and William Silvand Thunder, organist of the Cathedral, in order to conform to the pope's recent edicts. For the solemn pontifical vespers the celebrant will be Right Rev. Ignatius F. Horstmann, bishop of Cleve land. The assistant priests will be Monsignor Kieran, of St Patrick's the deacon, the Rev. Michael J. Crane of St Francis de sales, and the subdeacon, Fenton J. Fitzpatrick, of St Malachy's. The chanters will be the Rev. Joseph Monville, of the Cathedral, and William McCaffrey, of St Edwards. Monsignor James F. Loughlin, of the Church of the Nativity, will preach the sermon, and the master of ceremonies will be the Rev. William G. Higgins of the Cathedral. A reception to the Most Rev. Patrick John Ryan, archbishop of Philadelphia, and to other dignitaries of the church was tendered Tuesday night by the Society of St. Vincent de Paul. The program consisted first of the grand reception to Archbishop Ryan and other dignitaries, at which Cardinal Gibbons was present. Following this thousands of guests crowded into the huge ballroom at the Bellevue Stratford and listened to a concert in which fifty members of the Philadelphia orchestra rendered orchestral music, and solos were sung by Countess Eleanora de Cisneros and D. A. Bove violinist. Although the reception was attended by Cardinal Gibbons, Apostolic Delegate to the United States Falconic and a score or more of the leaders of the Catholic church in America, the dominant spirit of the occasion was one of reverence and respect for Archbishop Ryan, the central and commanding figure of the jubilee now under way. GOULDS TO PATCH IT UP Mother-in-Law of Frank Declares There Will Be No Divorce. New York, April 21—Mrs. Edward Kelly, mother of Mrs. Frank J. Gould, made the positive statement that a reconciliation will soon be effected between her daughter and Mr. Gould. Mr. Gould is in Hot Springa, Va.; Mrs. Gould is in Lakewood. The suit for separation instituted by Mrs. Gould will be discontinued by the end of the week and the couple will be together again. "I may say positively that there will be a reconciliation," said Mrs. Kelly. "Mr. Gould is not averse to this nor is my daughter. Both are young and impetuous, but both are very much in love, and it is certain that they will be happily reunited. There will be no divorce." Paid $2 for Ten yards of Silk Thread. Monessen, Pa., April 22. — In response to newspaper advertisements to the effect that if $2 were forwarded to a firm in Morgantown, W. Va., there would be sent in return ten yards of silk, a large number of persons in this vicinity availed themselves of what looked like a bargain. A majority of the customers received ten yards of silk thread. The United States authorities and police are making an investigation. Two Bitten By Mad Dog. Millville, N. J., April 21.—A mad dog terrorized the employees of Wheaton's glass factory. Miss Harriet Bartley, who had just begun work, was bitten on the leg, and William Keen was also bitten. Both sufferers were taken to the Emergency hospital, and had their wounds caterized. The animal was unquestionably mad, and was later on shot and killed. Child Eats Pills; Dies Wilkes-Barre, Pa., April 22.—Three-year-old Theodore Donn, son of F. Z. Donn, of Plymouth, is dead after eating a number of pills obtained by his mother, who was suffering from neuralgia. The pills contained a powerful narcotic. Smallpox Doctor Wins $10 a Visit. After being out for nearly a day the jury in the case of Dr. J. C. Knowles, of Seaford, Del., against Edwin Massey, whom he is suing for $10 a visit in a smallpox case, brought in a verdict in favor of the doctor, giving him $250. In 1903, after other doctors had refused to attend the smallpox sufferer, Dr. Knowles left his practice to attend to him. A WEEK'S NEWS CONDENSED Thursday, April 16. George Foster, a prominent and wealthy contractor, was instantly killed by a railroad engine at Pittsburg, Pa. Truman M. Dodson, a prominent Bethlehem, Pa., banker, and president of the Weston, Dodson company, coal operators, died of paralysis, aged seventy-eight years. Mrs. A. L. Boreman, aged seventy-seven years, widow of the late Governor Boreman, West Virginia's first chief executive, died at Parkersburg, W. Va., after an illness of several months. John Tracy, a discharged employee of the Northampton (Mass.) street department, shot and fatally wounded George F. Birge, superintendent of streets, and immediately returned to his home and shot himself. Friday, April 17. William Reiss, who shot and killed his wife at Economy, near Pittsburg, Pa. April S. and then shot himself, died in a hospital. Antonio De Lorenzo, an Italian, was shot and killed by Raphael Darico as De Lorenzo was entering the gate of his own home in Hazle township, near Hazleton, Pa. John Maxwell and Charles Utterbach, trainmen on the Pan Handle railroad, were crushed to death when two freight trains sideswiped at Collier, thirty-five miles west of Pittsburg. Saturday, April 18. Ernest Mornes, nine years old, died at New Castle, Pa., as the result of a bullet wound inflicted by a young companion while playing "cowboy." Ten-year-old Dominico Bello gave up his life in New York for a pet kitten, being crushed under a large electric truck as he tried to rescue his pet. While burning rubbish in the back yard of her home in Philadelphia Mrs. Ellen Ambrose, fifty-five years old, was probably fatally burned when her clothing caught fire. Homer B. Carroll, who for almost forty years had been a horse dealer, was killed by falling from the second to the ground floor through an elevator shaft in the American horse exchange in New York. Monday, April 20. For highway robbery, Edgar Wagner and Jay Zellers, not yet twenty-one years old, were sentenced at Lancaster, Pa., to the Huntingdon Reformatory. The Bethlehem Steel company's semi-monthly pay to its wage-carners last week amounted to $180,000, or $30,000 more than a fortnight ago. J. H. Brandt has secured an injunction restraining the school board of Elizabethtown (Pa.) borough from issuing bonds to pay for a $30,000 school, as the voters had no say in the loan. Tuesday, April 21. The United States senate passed a bill appropriating $100,000 for a public building at Easton, Pa. Two safes in the grain store of Youland & McManus, at Lynn, Mass., were dynamited by burglaries, who escaped with between $1600 and $1800 in cash. About 30,000 miners employed in the Pittsburg district resumed work Monday in accordance with the agreement reached last week at the Toledo joint conference. Despondent at his inability to secure work, George Webb, aged eighteen years, swallowed carbolic acid from a bottle and died while being taken to a hospital at Wilmington, Del. Wednesday, April 22. J. E. Clapper, a prominent civil engineer, shot and killed himself at Pittsburg. Fire destroyed the planing mill and lumber yard of Finley & Campbell, at West Newton, Pa., causing a loss of $50,000. Over 150 postmasters of Pennsylvania met at Harrisburg to formally organize a State Postmasters' association for the betterment of the service. Plans are about completed for the erection of three new coke plants by the H. C. Frick Company in the Connellsville, Pa., region, to cost $4,000,000. F. J. Draper and William Walcott, both of Milan, Mich., were instantly killed when the automobile which they were driving was struck by a passenger train while they were attempting to cross the railroad tracks. PRODUCE QUOTATIONS The Latest Closing Prices In the Principal Markets PHILADELPHIA — FLOUR weak; winter extras, new, $3.75@3.90; Pennsylvania roller, clear, $4@4.10; city mills fancy, $5.00@5.70; RYE FLOUR steady, at $4.40 @ 4.50 per barrel; mills fancy, at $4.40 @ 4.50 per barrel; red, 96%@96%. CURN firm; No. 2 yellow, local, 72@74c. OATS quiet; No. 2 white, chipped, 57%@7c. lower grades, 56c. HAY steady; timothy $18@18.50 for large bales, PORK firm; family, hams, 26%@27 per barrel, POULTRY; live steady; hens, 14%@15c; old roosters, 10c. Dressed steady; choice fowls, 14%@14c; old roosters, 10c%. BUTTER firm; creamy creamery, 32c. EGGS firm; selected, 17%@19c. nearby, 16c. west- ward, 14%@14c. nearby, 16c. per bushel, Sweet Potatoes steady; per basket, 50c. Live Stock Market PITTSBURG (Union Stock Yards)— CATTLE steady; choice, $6.75; prime, $6.40@6.70 SHEEP active; prime wethers, $6@6.25; culls and common, $2.50@3.50 lambs, $4.50@ prime heavies, $6.30; medium, $6.25@ 6.40; light Yorkers, $5.90@6; pigs, $5.40@5.00 roughs, $5.5@5.0 Headache Tablets Kill Child. Mildred, the three-year-old daughter of Lewis Wilson, of Upper Sanduky, O., found some headache tablets at her home and ate about half a dozen of them. Within a few minutes she was taken with convulsions and despite efforts of several doctors to save her life, died within an hour after her mother found her. IT WILL PAY YOU To interest yourself in promoting the CIRCULATION of th RICHMOND PLANET. --- THE PLANET SATURDAY...APRIL 25, 1908. USED TO BEAT BRYAN T. F. Ryan Explains Use of New Traction Fund. Financiers Thought In 1899 That the Nebraskan Might Be Defeated For the Democratic Nomination For President. New York, April 22.—Part of the mysterious $500,000 involved in the Wall and Cortlandt Streets Ferries company deal, which has been under investigation by a grand jury for several months, may have been used in the campaign which preceded the presidential election in 1900, according to testimony given before the jury by Thomas F. Ryan. Portions of the testimony given by various witnesses during the investigation were filed with the clerk of the supreme court by order of Justice Dowling. From this it appears that when Mr. Ryan was questioned about contributions for cam palign purposes, and particularly re garding the payment of nearly $1,000,000 by the Metropolitan company for the Wall and Cortlandt street fran chise, and the subsequent payment of several hundred thousand dollars of this amount to Mr. Ryan and some of his associates, he made the following explanation: "It may not have been for the election of 1900—but during the fall or winter of 1899 there had been preliminary campaigning going on. It was thought perhaps Bryan could be defeated in Kansas City, but it was a foregone conclusion that Mr. McKinley would be renominated, and part of the money may have gone for that." In a signed statement Mr. Ryan said the money repaid to him and his associates, following the Wall and Cortlandt street franchise, was the precise amount, with interest, which had been advanced by Messrs. Dolan Whitney, Ryan, Widener and Elkins to cover expenditures which had beer made for the benefit of the property. Replying to a question by Mr. Jerome regarding contributions in general, Mr. Ryan replied: "I have always found political parties in a receptive mood. We were all ways informed when an election was coming on." TO BOOST RATES Big Railroads Move to Raise Freight Rates New York, April 21.—The executive officers of all the big railroads east of the Mississippi river met in New York and took what is understood to be a preliminary step to a general increase in freight rates. Before a new schedule goes into effect the roads will individually take further consideration on the matter and another general meeting will be called for formal action, after which the required thirty days' notice will be posted. The question of an increase of freight rates has been the absorbing topic among railroad men ever since traffic began to fall off, six months ago, and has been reflected since then by a steady decline in net earnings of almost every railroad in the United States. In support of the proposed advance it is asserted that in the last few years wages have increased fully 20 per cent, that materials are at least 50 per cent higher than ten years ago and that taxes have made a substantial advance. In more recent times there has been passed the nine-hour law, affecting telegraphers, and many of the states have passed two-cent fare bills and ordered reductions in freight rates and the carrying out of certain improvements. LIGHT ON POLITICS McCall Campaign Publicity Bill Favorably Reported Washington, April 22.—The McCail campaign publicity bill was unanticipated recommended to the house for passage by the committee on election of president, vice president and representatives in congress. The bill provides that "all contributions hereafter made to political committees engaged in promoting the election of representatives or delegates to the congress of the United States or of presidential electors at any election at which representatives or delegates shall be voted for, shall be reported by such committees to the clerk of the house of representatives." Booze at Asbury Park Barred. Trenton, N. J., April 17.—The supreme court in an opinion by Justice Reed set aside the liquor license granted the Continental hotel, of Asbury Park, by the Asbury Park authorities and in doing so held to be constitutional the law of 1896 prohibiting the granting of licenses within one mile of any camp meeting ground. The hotel in question is within one mile of Ocean Grove, the famous Methodist camp meeting place. Bean Germinates In Child's Nose. Pottstown, Pa., April 22.—A bean in the nose of four-year-old Mary Noel, daughter of Jacob Noel, of this place, caused the little one terrible agony, and a surgeon succeeded in remorting 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 the obstruction, which was swelling and germinating. The child accidentally shoved the bean up its nose while at play, and the parents were unaware of the fact until the surgeon performed the operation. The bean was sprouting when removed. MOVE TO FREE THAW Order Granted to Allow Him to Apply For Habea Gorus. Poughkeepsie, N. Y., April 21.—The first step in proceedings looking to the release of Harry K. Thaw from the state asylum for the criminal insane at Matteawan has been taken. James G. Graham, of Newburg, formerly sec retary to Governor Odell, appeared at Thaw's counsel before Justice Morse schauer, of the New York state supreme court at White Plains, and ap plied for an order directing the super intendent of the asylum to permit Thaw to sign an application for a writ of habeas corpus. The order was promptly granted, and it will probably be served upon the acting superintendent of the asylum at once. Jerome Will Oppose Release. New York, April 21. — When told that an effort was being made to have Harry K. Thaw released from the Mateeawan asylum for the insane, District Attorney Jermone said that he and Assistant District Attorney Frank Garvan, would go before Justice Morschauer at White Plains if the latter granted the habeas corpus to James G. Graham, of Newburg, of Thaw's counsel. District Attorney Jerome is opposed to Thaw's being released from the asylum. Carlisle, Pa., Bank Teller Short. John V. Harris, teller of the Merchants' National bank of Carlisle, prominent in church work and active in the local Y. M. C. A., was locked up in the Dauphin county jail under $5000 bail, charged with embezlement. According to his own statements he stole $45,000 of the bank's funds. Harris was so anxious to make preparation that he wanted to commit suicide that the bank might realize on his life insurance. Bank Examiner W. J. Robinson believes that Harris has carried on his thefts for twelve years, and says the way in which it was done was so adroit that no suspicion has ever attached to him. The employee was considered a valuable man and had charge of both the receiving and paying teller's windows. By a system of altering deposits and juggling the books there was small chance of his being exposed. His detection came by accident last Saturday, when Cashier George W. Cook ran across a memorandum which he did not understand. He questioned the teller and became suspicious. A close investigation of all the books revealed the thefts. --- Drops Dead When Accused of Theft Herbert E. Heyl, formerly actuary of the Franklin Institute, accused of the embezzlement of $12,000 of the institution's funds, was stricken with apoplexy upon learning of the issuance of a warrant for his arrest and died at his residence in Philadelphia. Dr. Clinton T. Guthrie was summoned when Mr. Heyl collapsed and he was in attendance until the accused man's death occurred. The physician denied a report that Heyl had committed suicide. A warrant for Heyl's arrest on the embezzlement charge was sworn out at the instance of Walter Clark, president of the institution's board of managers. This action was decided upon after an investigation of the accounts, which was undertaken following Heyl's retirement because of illness. Heyl collapsed in the hallway of his home when the constable served the warrant on him. Killed By Runaway Car Jeremiah D. Small, sixty years of age, was killed, and Jesse Dorsey, colored, was probably fatally injured in an accident at the Bittenger lime quarries, near Hanover, Pa. The two men were working at the bottom of a seventy-five-foot deep pit, when a car on the tram railway became detached from its cable and dashed down the steep incline at tremendous speed. Before the operator could utter a cry of warning it struck the men at the bottom. Small, who was performing his first day's work at the quarries, was hurled a distance of seventy-five feet and instantly killed. Dorsey was struck in the face and his skull is probably fractured. He may die. McKinley Home Sold. The home of the late President William McKinley, at Canton, O., was formally transferred to Mrs. Rose C. Klorer, of Canton, the price being $21,000. The sale was effected through Miss Helen McKinley electing to take the property under the appraisement at $20,000. Personal effects of the late president, including many presents received by him during the famous 1890 front porch campaign and later while in the White House, are being divided among the five heirs of the president, and will be widely scattered. Joke Ballot to Cost $100. A single ballot, cast as a joke at the primaries at Pottsville, Pa., will prove a costly act to Souylkill county. One voter wrote names of prominent citizens for county offices on a Prohibition ticket. This makes these persons the candidates of the party, and necessitates an additional column to the ballot, which the county commissioners say will increase the cost of printing ballots next fall by $100. Widows' Pension Increase. Commissioner of Pensions Warner has announced that the widows who are now on the pension roll would not be required to make application for the increase from $8 to $12 a month recently voted by congress. The commissioner has instructed the pension agencies throughout the country to put the law into effect automatically, the first payment of the increase to be made May 4. 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. 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THE NUMBER WILL BE FOR NOT LESS THAN FIVE NOR MORE THAN TEN AND NOT LESS THAN TEN NOR M HAN TWENTY AND NOT LESS THAN Y NOR MORE THAN FORTY, TO DET THE PRIZE TO WHICH THE WORKER TLED. IF ANYTHING IS DESIRED NOT SPECIFIED IN THIS LIST, WRITE US ABOUT IT AND WE WILL TELL YOU IN WHAT CLASS IT BE LONGS. ADDRESS ALL ORDERS TO JOHN MITCHELL, JR., 311 North Fourth Street, RICHMOND. VIRGINIA. A LANET WEEKLY READING UNITED STH. T AND R $2.25 T AND YEAR 3 AND PIC- THEO- WASH- D BAT- JUNE 24, 24TH COL- HIGH RI- LAND & 25TH ```markdown ``` REQUISE FORWA SHOULD YOU DESIRE ANY COLORED JOURNAL IN THE UNITED STATES, WE WILL SEND IT TO YOU IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE PLANET AT A GREATLY REDUCED RATE FOR BOTH. FURNISH THE PHOTOGRAPH, ONE FOUNTAIN PEN, GOLD POINT; ONE LADIES RING, ONE BREAST-PIN, GOLD FILLED; HALF DOZEN LINEN HANDKERCHIEFS, ONE ALARM CLOCK, ONE DOZEN NAPKINS, ONE HALF DOZEN TOWELS, ONE CHOCOLATE POT, ONE PAIR VASES, ONE PAIR KID GLOVES, ONE HAM, ONE TURKEY. 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WE WILL KEEP A RECORD OF THEM; AS SOON AS THE FOR TEN NEW SUBSCRIBERS FIVE COLORED WE WILL WITH THE RED RATE ONE FOUNDED RING, HALF DOZZLE ALARM ONE HALF POT, ONE LOVES, ONE BERS SHIRTY-ONE, SHAKES-HELLA, ONE CURTAINS OF PAPER DILET SET, BERS GOLD RING ONE JEWELER SILVER; ADYDY MADE LED, WARROCKING GROSS OF FILET; ONE BLANK-AMSTRESS'TS OR LASTERS OR LASTERS BERS ONE SEW-RING, ONE GOLD EARNOGRAPH, MIT OF GEN-D-HEADED HELLA, ONE PER-PLATED RACK, ONE TO THE SEA-OTEL BILL BER. N ADVAN-TWO SUB- WE WILL DON AS THE ```markdown ``` ```markdown ``` SIX THE PLANET SATURDAY.....APRIL 25, 1908 ROAD AND FARM IMPROVEMENT HOME-MADE POST DRIVER. It Can Be Used to Drive a Well Also. Posts may be driven with speed and economy on many farms, if well sharpened and the right method is followed. A real post driver is one of the most easily made things and one of the most useful that a farmer can get up. Uprights are bolted across to a sled, or a rough plank sled may be made for the purpose. The standards may be 12 or 15 feet high. To them is bolted a cross bar which supports the hoist for the weight. For this a block of iron or lead weighing not less than 25 pounds must be obtained, and it must have a staple or ring in it so it may be lifted. The post is placed where it is Easy to Drive Posts with This. to be driven and the weight lifted and allowed to fall on it. A little practice will enable one to drive posts in soil that seems too hard. The rig is useful also in putting down driven wells. To drive a well, says the Farm and Home, 14-inch pipe is preferred. The length should not be over six feet. The first pipe to be driven must have a point of iron or steel. Any blacksmith who is an expert at welding can readily make a point solid in the end of the pipe, and then bore numerous one-fourth-inch poles in it for the first 18 inches of its length above the point. Before driving, a coupling must be screwed down tight and fast on the thread that is to connect it to its mate, so the thread may not be injured. Also on top of this coupling must always rest a block of lead or seasoned hickory, to receive and distribute the conclusion, to preserve the pipe from destruction. The pipe is driven the same as a post, another length being attached as fast as one is sunk in the ground. One rule must never be forgotten: Each length of pipe must be threaded so long as it screws into the coupling and rests (outs, they call it), on the end of the pipe beneath it. This prevents splitting the coupling and leaky joints. DRAG THE ROADS. Not Too Late Yet to Do Much to Improve the Highways. An Illinois farmer says of the drag: "The drag is making more good roads than any implement or machine ever invented. The nice thing about the drag is that it is inexpensive, and it utilizes the material at hand for filling up ruts and depressions. I have traveled extensively during the year just passed, over Illinois, Iowa and Nebraska. It is no trick at all to pick out every stretch of road where the plank drag has been used. The secret of making good, hard road-beds, well rounded, is starting the drag on the outer edge of the road, and working the dirt toward the center of the road. In this way all ruts are filled, and the crown of the road is so high that it drains perfectly and the best part of the dirt is in the center, where there is the heaviest wear. Those who have undertaken to keep the roadway adjacent to their farms in condition say that the time required to do the work is practically nothing. Roadmasters in many townships are now using available money to provide drags and keep them on the roads at the right time. Look up the good points of the King drag. Make one and have it ready for business when the proper time comes in early spring." THE BARNYARD Clean It Every Day and Keep It Looking Tidy. The barnyard is often the most unsightly spot on the farm, but it need not be so. If the habit is formed of cleaning the barnyard each day it can be kept as tidy as any other part of the farm. It should be cleaned as soon as the cattle are out of it in the morning. The droppings should be thrown into a portion of the barnyard that is set off from the rest of the yard and which should have a cover over it that can be easily lifted and lowered, says the Farmers' Review. The parts of this receptacle can be made adjustable, so that it can be enlarged on demand. The cover over the manure keeps the latter just moist enough so that the fertility does not get out of it. The drying up of the manure when the latter is left in piles is a very wasteful process, as much of the nitrogen works off into the air unperceived by the farmer. When the droppings in a barnyard are allowed to lie about they dry up and most of their first value is dissipated into the air. CROPS AND MOISTURE. Timely Cultivation Will Save Much of Latter for Former. Much of the moisture taken up by our soils is lost through lack of timeily cultivation. At no time is this waste greater than in spring time. During the fall, winter and early spring the moisture that falls is taken by mother earth only to be sent back by capillary action to the surface when spring opens and the sun begins to shine and the winds begin to blow. This upward action of the soil moisture can only take place in packed surfaces, such as are found in fields that have been plowed the fall before and have been packed by the rains and snow clear to the surface. If nothing is done to check this waste, hundreds of barrels of water are lost every day which the coming crop may sadly need before the season is closed. How may we check this great waste? Simply by early stirring of the surface soil so as to make an earth mulch, says Forest Henry in the Northwestern Agriculturist. Anything that will fine the surface soil to the depth of two or three inches will do the work. A smoothing harrow may perhaps be put at the head of the implement list for this work. Ordinarily two harrowings as soon as the ground works well will do the work. This early surface cultivation has also another important mission. It keeps the surface soil from crusting and from becoming lumpy. How many a farmer in the past has neglected this early work in his cornfield and then later was compelled to plant his corn two or three inches deeper than he wished in order to put it in moist earth. Early surface cultivation will keep the soil moist very near the surface so as to insure germination as soon as the crop is planted. The benefits from cultivation are only just beginning to be realized by a few progressive farmers. Will you be one that will be profited by it the coming season? THE FARM GATES If They Are Properly Made and Hung They Will Not Sag. A good gate properly hung is one of the best equipments of the farm. It will save time and it will save the farm property, too; then, it will just "sorter" help the look of things. A good gate is easy to make and easy to hang also, and I will give here a short description of the kind I have used for a dozen or more years, writes Bernard Quinn in Farmers' Voice, and the same I see in use now on a good many farms around here. We used to be bothered a great deal with gates sagging or getting out of square. I One Type of Gate. tried many different kinds of bracing and at last got my present way from noticing the bracing in a truss bridge. I like to use five-inch bars or boards and three-quarters of an inch in thickness, according to weight of lumber. The bracing is of the truss or double X style, putting two pieces V-shaped on one side of the gate, and on the other side an inverted V, as shown in cut. A gate of this style properly hung not was sag; even a 12-foot gate will hold up well. Of course, in doing a good job of gate hanging the hinge post must be firmly set and strongly braced. The screw of the bottom hinge should not be screwed in the post quite so far as the top screw, and to make a gate open up-hill the bottom screw should be put further back in the post. About a half-inch in either will generally be enough. This makes the gate rise from the ground when opening. MAKING A WELL HOUSE One Which Protects in Winter and Beautifies in Summer. A well house helps to keep the water in the well cool in summer, and also prevents the pump from freezing in the winter. If it is constructed along the lines as shown in the illustration, a well house may be made to add beauty to the surroundings, says the Country Gentleman. The one here shown is built directly upon the usual square well plat- ```markdown ``` form of plank, this being allowed to project some six inches all about the house. The roof is made to curve gracefully out to the eaves that overhang the walls. If the doorway is on the north side, no door need be used during the summer; but this should be in place in the winter, and the latticed windows should then have a sash fitted to them, or one opening can be fitted with sash and the other two covered with board shutters. A few vines or a shrub or two may be planted at the base of the walls to add to the attractiveness. So simple a little building can be easily made by the household mechanic. Hard Dodging. out and it hard to dodge that bill collection now. Jill—Sure, Richard Lian ever. He goes about in an automobile, you know.—Yonkers Stateman. THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. "In short, there is no/excuse whatever for such a bill. To pass it would be but pretending to grant relief, for manifestly none would follow. "Our action would but add insult to injury. It would be without precedent for it may be safely asserted that never before in the history of civilization has a legislative body been invited to require men accused of crime to prove their innocence before a hostile judge, who has already adjudged them guilty; and never before has there been a suggestion that any man worthy to sit in judgment upon the rights of his countrymen would accept such a duty, if assigned him, if conscious of having the slightest prejudice against the accused. "By what right does the Senator from Missouri assume that the President is capable of such a manifest impropriety?" Extract from Senator Foraker's Address. THE VOWEL LIMERICKS An Irishman boasted: "With aaa I kin carry a hod where I plaaaa." But one day he dropped Twenty stories and stopped— The moral is: Boasting ne'er paana. F She made a Welsh rarebit with ece And consumed a supply of old chees The young man she fed Tumbled of his bed— Your inards it's best not to tece. A maid who had wonderful ill And a brain of minimum silli, Led all men a dance By the lure of her glance— Be pretty if you can't be wifif. O A crafty young fellow who whoo A lot more than any one knnoo, Progressed for a spell But he's now in a cell— The prudent man pays as he goooo. U A man said: "Till never more uuuu Any liquor, because I don't chuuuu." But he went out on a spree. It's hard to live up to your vuuu. —William Ganson Rose, in Judge. JUST THE DIFFERENCE. Vorge "He caught the grip from a slight draft." "Pahaw, I lost my grip from a sight draft." Song of the Bunco Man. Lives of easy marks remind us we can make existence pay; Let us then be up and doing every Rube The Qualifications Demanded. "The man who marries my daughter will have to own property in his own right," exclaimed the pompous banker. "Ah, I see," replied the youth. "Otherwise he couldn't very well cast his lot with hers." As he had his hat in his hand and the front door was open, he escaped personal violence. — Detroit Free Press. Set Her Thinking "Bridget," said Dennis, timidly, "did ye liver think of marryin'?" "Sure, now," said Bridget, looking demurely at her shoe, "sure, now, the subject has niver entered me mind." "It's sorry I am," said Dennis, and he started to leave the room. "Wan minute, Dennis," said Bridget. "Ye've set me thinkin'."—Judge A Convert. Socialist—Yes, mees. I dinks de world need change. Dings is not rightd. I hope you agree wiz me, mees. Miss Beauty—Indeed I do. I think it's perfectly abominable the way wealth is distributed—all the mice young men poor, and nobody rich ex- cept gouty widowers and cranky old bachelors—N. Y. World. Bacon—How long did you ever know a man to hold his breath? Egbert—Well, I knew a man who lived to be over 100 years old, once. Yonkers Statesman. Inconvenienced. "I am sq sorry that Mrs. Brightam is moving out of the city. I shall miss her so much." 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THE BANDS OF CALANTHE or Children's Department also constitutes a feature and persons cannot do better than to enter the little ones into this mystic circle. The expense is nominal and the benefits all that could be expected. It pays from $1.00 to $1.50 sick dues and death benefits of from $30.00 to $40.00. If you have no Pythian Lodge or Court or Band in your neighborhood, orgniz one. For all information concerning the Children's Department address, For all information concerning special rates of membership in the lodges and courts, address KINK·NE A Beautiful Hair Dressing and Tonic for the Hair! PROF. ROBERTS, New York City, Dear Sir: I have used your Kink-ine for the past year, find it the most delightful hair dressing and tonic I have the many cheap pomades and vaselines on the market silky, and has entirely removed all dandruff and stot off. 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It makes my hair so beautiful, soft, silky, and has entirely removed all dandruff and stopped it from falling out and breaking off. And enables me to do it up in any of the many styles that I use on the stage. It does all you claim for it, and I would not be without it. Yours sincerely, MME, ROBINSON. Kink-ine Hair Dressing is a delightful perfumed tonic prepared largely for the use of colored people; is guaranteed to be absolutely safe and harmless. It makes harsh, stubborn, kinky, curly hair soft, silky and glossy, enables you to comb it with ease and to dress it in any style that you may wish. KINK-INE HAIR DRESSING by supplying the needed oils directly to the roots of the hair tones up and nourishes the scalp, increasing the growth and giving new life and vigor to the hair. KINK-INE HAIR DRESSING is for sale at all drugstores for 25c per bottle. If your druggist does not keep it have him order it for you; he can get it. If not, send me 50c, and I will send same to you, prepaid. SPECIAL OFFER.—To prove the quality and superiority of our goods over all others, we will sell one full-size bottle of Kink-ine, price 35 cents, one cake of Kink-ine Soap, the best shampoo and Toilet Soap in the world, price 25 cents, both for only 50 cents, or six bottles and six cakes of soap for $3.00. Special offer good only at the following stores: OWENS & MINOR DRUG CO., Ldt.—Distributors, 1007 E. Main St. AMERICAN AND EUROPEAN PLAN. Phone, 245. Established 1699. Phone 4160. JOHN FOXEL, Dealer in General Line of FANCY AND STAPLE GEOCERIES, NOTIONS, FRESH MEATS, CI- GARS, TOEACCO, ICE, WOOD, COAL, &c. 11 S. 4TH ST., RICHMOND, VA. KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAST CR. F.C.B. only absolutely necessary rega apply at the main office. The Court Is the Female Department of the thirty persons to organize a co- Fidelity, exercise Harmony and an endowment and burial bene- dues. The only expense for re- a rosette, costing 25 cents for f THE BANDS OF CALA stitutes a feature and persons o circle. The expense is nomin- $1.00 to $1.50 sick dues and do Lodge or Court or Band in you For all information concerni For all information concer- membership in the lodges and A MADAM ROBINSON in any st KINK-INE HAIR DRESSING by the scalp, increasing the growth and KINK-INE HAIR DRESSING is him order it for you; he can get it. I SPECIAL OFFER.—To prove the qu bottle of Kink-ine, price 35 cents, one cents, both for only 50 cents, or six b stores: OWENS & MINO —Nelson's Hair Dressing can be bought at Jennings and Brown Drug Store, Pittsburg, Pa. Balm for the Aged. The aged parent was greatly, very greatly, in the dumps. "For, look you," he said, "I don't know half as much as my eldest daughter—she told me so a hundred times; and Jim and Bill can simply lay it all over their dad when it comes to arguing; and my wife says that if ever there was a stupid man about the house it's me and no mistake." "But," we said, "remember you have the bulge on them in one way. Limited as your intellect may be you are still the only one of the bunch that can earn the daily soup and salad." The aged parent now smiled and went his way completely reassured by our specious reasoning.—Judge. A New Method. "Well, this IS funny," exclaimed Tommy, when he saw his first trolley car; "I've seen wagons pulled by horses, and I've seen 'em go by steam, but I never seen 'em run by a clothes prop before!" Political Hypocrisy. The politician who, on the eve of an election, knocks at the poor man's door, shakes his hand and kisses the baby illustrates the maxim that hypocrisy is the homage that vice pays to virtue.-Toronto Star. Defects of the Telephone According to M. Abraham, the best telephone does not transmit to the ear more than one thousandth part of the energy which it receives from the line. Most of the witnesses against the soldiers, he said, testified four different times concerning the affray. "Their testimony so given is sufficiently contradictory to show it is unreliable," he said; "but, aside from the contradictions on account of the darkness of the night, many things that were testified to by these witnesses could not possibly have been observed by them." —Extract from Senator Foraker's Address. N. A., S. A., E. A., A. AND A. THE MT. CLEMENS HOTEL AND MINERAL BATH HOUSE MILE CENTER MILK COFFEE BAR Has opened its doors for the accommodation of that may come to Mt. Clem ens in the future for their Health and Treatment 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. ```markdown ``` not also con- lure little ones into this mystic uld be expected. It pays from 40.00. If you have noPythian address, TAYLOR, W. M., Hill St., Richmond, Va. MITCHELL, JR., GRI N. 4th St., Richmond, Va. NE Dressing and the Hair! The Famous Black Patti, days of Kink-ine and my hair is growing very fast. I have ever used, altogether different from set. It makes my hair so beautiful, soft, stopped it from falling out and breaking many styles that I use on the stage. It ought it. Yours sincerely, MME, ROBINSON. Used tonic prepared largely for the use of and harmless. It makes harsh, stubborn, you to comb it with ease and to dress it roots of the hair tones up and nourishes e. If yourdruggist does not keep it have you, prepaid. All others, we will sell one full-size to and Toilet Soap in the world, price 25 special offer good only at the following ors, 1007 E. Main St. M. S. B. 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, 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 MES. BOOKER LEFTWICH, PROFITRESS 816 N. 2nd St., Richmond, Va 108 E. Leigh St., - Richmond, 'Phone, 1034. Private Parlors, Confidential Interviews 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 beautifying the skin, 25cts a jar. By mail 35cts. Graham's Superior Velvet Liquid Powder for giving the face a beautiful fair color, 25 cents a bottle. By mail 35cts. Graham's Vegetable Hair Dye the best on market giving a rich natural color. $1.00 per bottle. By mail, $1.25. Mrs. Graham makes a specialty of massaging and beautifying ladies' faces for parties 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. 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., Richmond, Virginia. S. W. ROBINSON. NO. 23 NORTH 18TH ST. DEALER IN FINE WINES, LIQUORS, CIGARS, &c. All Stock Sold as Guaranteed. PROMPT ATTENTION. Your patronage is respectfully solicited. GEORGE O. BROWN. 603 N. 2nd St., Richmond, Va. Fine Photographs. True to Life. High-class service. Documents in Photographs Out-door Work Excursions. Pictures estimates and Prompt Images. Pictures Enlarged from Old negatives or Photographs. $3-m 303-5 North Third St FINE CLEANING, DVEING ANI REPAIRING CHITMAN M. WHITE, PROPRIETOR. A. Hayes OFFICE AND WARE-ROOMS, 727 North Second Street. RESIDENCE, 725 N. 2nd St. First-class Hacks and Packets of all descriptions. Have spare room for bodies when the family have not a suitable place. All coun- try orders are given special attention. Your special attention is called to the new style Oak Chestnut. Call and see me and you shall be waited on individually. Phone 3229 THE PLANET SATURDAY.....APRIL 25, 1908. THE DAIRY CONVENIENT MILKING STOOL. Another Type Which Combines Com- fort and Utility. Take a board, a, 20 inches long and ten inches wide and to this nail two d to this nail two boards, b, b 10x 10 inches to serve as legs, so the ends are about four inches below the board, a. Nail on the boards, b b, 10x6 inches to serve as legs, so the enda are about four inches below the board, a. Nail on the seat and the board, c, which forms the front. Nail on a board, e, 3x10 inches under d, to serve as a handle. Round off the corners of a, explains Farm and Home, and nail on around the edge a strip of barrel hoop so that it projects about one-half inch above to hold the pail from sliding off. Under a nail a triangular board to serve as a third leg. WATERING COWS Care in the Quality of Water Provided Is Important. The best arrangements for the watering of dairy cows I consider to be individual basins between the cows in the winter time and running water in the summer time. In the winter, says the writer in Farmers' Review, I water my cows out of doors, but that is because I do as I have to do and not as I want to do. Most of the farmers about here water their cows out of doors. Where water is supplied at all in the barns, the force that drives the water comes from tanks of windmills or from hydraulic rams. The troughs of cement seen in some barns, and which run in front of all the cows, I believe to be all right, but I prefer the individual basins. Most of the cows about here get their water at the temperature it happens to be when it comes from the well, but in the winter time it would pay to warm it. I am satisfied that a cow that is given water with the chill taken off will drink more of it and will consequently give more milk than she otherwise would. DAIRY NOTES. The growing stock is carrying your pocketbook. It's intelligence, not luck, that counts in the dairy. The cow with the small udder and the big appetite seldom pays. It's the happy and contented cow that makes the farmer happy and contented. The more we know about the cow, the more probable will be our success in handling her. Linseed meal and bran are two important elements in the ration. They are expensive but they pay. The manure pile on the dairy farm may not represent half the profits, but it is too valuable to be ignored. Beans for Green Manure We know of one farmer that planted beans too early, and the late frost caught them, killing the whole crop. He planted again, but this time so thick that the pods did not form till an early fall frost caught them, and so the whole crop was lost. But the growth of the beans had been a very rank one, and the weeds had been kept from growing. The mass of rank herbage was plowed under and the land left to be planted the next year. The plowed-under beans proved to be great enrichers of the soil, for they added to it a very large quantity of nitrogen. In addition to the humus This in its decay created acids which set loose more plant food in the soil. So the bean crop was not a total loss, after all. Cooling the Milk. A speaker at a Wisconsin institute said: The main thing is to cool the milk quickly to a temperature of 50 degrees or less, and it would pay the dairyman to provide ice for this purpose. In the absence of ice an abundance of well water will enable the patron to quickly cool the milk to a temperature of 50 degrees or below. If the cans are placed in cold water and the milk is stirred until cooled to the temperature of the water, which is usually about 50 degrees, well and good; but the average milker, after performing a long day's work in the field and then another half day's work, called for variety's sake chores, will not stand over the milk long enough to accomplish this. The Dairy House A good large well or dairy house is very necessary to the equipment of a first-class dairy, but its use should be confined to the uses of the dairy. Its conversion into a sort of a store room or receptacle for vegetables, tools, worn out harnesses, etc., does not tend to produce a fine flavored milk or stimulate the dairy appetite of the occasional visitor. Kercesene Emulsion. One-half pound soap, one gallon water, two gallons kerosene. Dissolve the soap in water over fire. Remove from fire and add kerosene. Stir vio lently. Use one part of emulsion to 15 parts water. Burn the Rubbish Old rubbish is more valuable in the form of ashes to the gardener than any other way. Wood ashes make excellent garden fertilizer if applied properly. MILKING CHARACTERISTICS. How They Can Be Successfully Fixed by Breeding. It is believed that if two animals of dissimilar characters are bred together the offspring will assume the qualities principally of the individual that has a dominant character, but the fixed characteristics of either animal are more or less disturbed and in succeeding generations almost any gradation and blending of the cross can be expected. As a matter of fact, when two animals of good milking strain are bred together we generally get an offspring that is quite superior in milk production to either of the ancestors. However, this cannot be absolutely relied upon but is the best way to increase the capacity for milk production. To perpetuate the character in succeeding generations this cross may be bred to a male who has a dominant character for milk production inherited from his ancestors. If no such strain of animals is available it is wise to breed this offspring back to its sire in order to fix this character. For instance, a bull and a cow are mated, both from different strains. The dam and the sire's dam have the character to produce 20 pounds of milk per day well established, but these strains for many generations back are not related to each other. The offspring from this cross may only have a capacity of 15 pounds. However, it is more likely to have the capacity to produce 30 pounds. To fix this character in succeeding generations it would be wise to breed this offspring back to its sire, which has but 20 pounds capacity, while there is a possibility of slightly reducing the capacity of the offspring, yet it fixes the character and makes it more permanent for future generations. But if you desire to run the risk of a still greater increase in milk production it would be well to breed this cow with a capacity of 30 pounds of milk per day to a size of another strain which has an average capacity of 30 pounds per day. The closer a strain is related the more permanent and the more reliable will be the fixing of that character for all future generations at 30 pounds capacity.-Prof. Oscar Erf. DAIRY COWS. Are You Observing State Law and Keeping Them in a Sanitary Way? There are hundreds of creamery patrons to-day who are violating the pure food laws of the state in which they live to a more or less degree and do not realize it. They are ignorant of the provisions of the law on the subject of dairying and carelessly violate these statutes. The laws have been published time and again for their benefit, but it is a deplorable fact that in some localities a good farm or dairy paper is a seldom visitor. They will not take the paper and would not read them if the papers were given to them. What such men need, declares the Northwestern Agriculturist, is a vigorous application of the law. It has been said that the most certain way to reach a man's heart is by way of his stomach; it might also be said that the most certain way to reach most men's mind is by way of their pocketbook. They will not give thought to this question of properly caring for their cows and the milk, until they can be made to understand that it will cost them money if they neglect to do so. CATTLE STANCHION. This One Is Easily Made and Will Stay in Place When Set. A cattle stanchion that is easily operated and will stay in place when set Easily Operated. is made as shown in the illustration, says Popular Mechanics. The post, B, is placed in position by turning the small lever, A, so the square or thin part of the post, B, will enter the notch. The small lever, A, is then turned as shown in the second position, C, and the pin, D, inserted. Name the Farm. Name the stock farm is the advice given by an exchange and we think it is good advice. Nothing looks better in print or sounds better when mentioned than "John Smith, proprietor of the Maplewood farm." Have your printer print your letter heads with the name of your farm thereon. Some few back numbers may laugh at you, but remember that this is the twentieth century and people who laugh are always back numbers. "The case against the soldiers," he said, "fails in another important particular. No adequate motive—in fact, no motive whatever—is shown for such an assault upon the town. "The evidence shows that the soldiers frequented the saloons but little, and that they never made any complaint to their officers or anybody else on account of being debarred by some of the saloons of Brownsville from drinking at the same bar with white people." Extract from Senator Foraker's THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR. Love letters are equal parts hysterics and imagination. A girl wants to have golden hair even if it must be red. A man can fall into any habit except that of having good ones. What children like about school is when it's going to be vacation. The only sure way to reform a man is when his stomach goes back on him. We have children so we'll have to work for them the way our parents worked for us. Some people's minds work so cleverly they will jump into a river to get out of the rain. If a girl doesn't know anything she knows enough to make a fool of a man who knows it all. A woman wants her husband to go to church so as to show what a good influence she has over him. It's less of a trial to eat your wife's meals and tell her you like them than to stand her tears if you don't—New York Press. RULES FOR HEALTH. Don't be afraid of wearing out the bathtub. Skate only where you know the ice to be thick. Shun jails. They are likely to be very unsanitary. When the elevator is overcrowded wait for the next car. Avoid drinking stuff from bottles before you have looked at the labels. Never take medicine for the purpose of keeping it from being wasted. If the man who calls you a liar is big and brawny treat him with silent contempt. Refrain from working in coal mines where there are likely to be accumulations of fire-damp. When you see a crowd of people running madly in any direction turn and go the other way. Wait for the car to stop, even if in so doing you waste three-quarters of a second of your valuable time. MERE OPINION. Spite is usually its own punishment. The man who is thoroughly satisfied with his job seldom gets a better one. The things which come to the man who waits are generally the wrong ones. A glum misogynist asserts that Adam possessed the first talking machine. People who find pleasure only in making trouble for others usually have sour faces. No man ever admitted that his rheumatism was the result of wading around through swamps after duck. When an irresistible force meets an immovable object the damage isn't likely to be any worse than when a boy comes in contact with a box of matches. ONE IN 100,000 IS RICH. Of the average worker in this country—the best country on the face of the earth for the worker: One in 1,000 earns more than a "living wage." One in 5,000 saves as much as his best year's income. One in 20,000 is independent when he "breaks down" or is "let out for old age." One in 25,000 is in a position of responsibility and importance. One in 50,000 "works into the firm." One in 100,000 is "rich," therefore "successful." One in 1,000,000 is satisfied—possibly. THE CURE-ALLS. Are you fat? Walk. Are you nervous? Walk. Or do you gormandize? Walk. Have you lost interest in life? Walk. Maybe your poor stomach won't work. Walk. Or perhaps your liver has gone on a strike. Walk. Cupid may have put a kink in your suffering heart. Walk. In short, walking seems to be the remedy for all ills, save, perhaps, broken legs. Time Had Effected No Wonder. Scrapeigh—I was a confounded fool when I got married! Mrs. Scrapeigh—Well, John, married life hasn't changed at all. "Miss Brown often sings for charity." "Now I know why the poor are so miserable."—Detroit Free Press. MILLER'S HOTF W.M. MILLER. PROPRIETOR WITH BLOCK OF STREET CAR LINES THAT TAKE YOU TO SEL PARTS OF THE CITY TIMES. REASONABLE SECOND AND LEIGH STS. RICHMOND, VA. Hat Repairing. Silk, Stiff and Soft Felt Hats Cleaned. Blocked, 25cts; and 50cts Binding. Bands, Sweat Leathers, also Soft Hats made to order. AMERICAN HATTERS, 404 E. Marshall St. Everything IN FURNITURE FLOOR C SYDNOR & H Lead 709 711 713 EAST thing Everything FURNITURE AND FOR COVERINGS R & HUNDLEY, INC. readers. 13 EAST BROAD STREET. Everything Everything IN FURNITURE AND FLOOR COVERINGS SYDNOR & HUNDLEY, INC. Leaders. 709 711 713 EAST BROAD STREET. The character of the soldiers, he said was good. They had never given their officers any trouble. This record, he said, should greatly strengthen the presumption of innocence. All had expressed themselves under oath, and in no case, he said, is there any contradiction in their testimony. The officers, he added, knew the men better than anyone else, and all of them believed their statements were true. While the colored soldiers could not secure extra ammunition, the citizens of Brownsville, he said, had in their possession an abundance of the kind of ammunition with which the soldiers had been supplied, every cartridge of which they had accounted for on the day following the affray. —Extract from Senator Foraker's Address. Too much love there can never be.—Browning. The ancestor of every action is a thought.—Emerson. He who knows most grieves most for wasted time.—Dante. Virtue alone is the unerring sign of a noble soul.—Boileau. Suffering for truth's sake is fortitude to highest victory.—Milton. He who lives but for himself lives but for a little thing.—Novalis. The greatest truths are the simplest; so likewise are the greatest men.—Helps. He is never without true dignity who avoids wounding the dignity of others.—Lord Lytton. If a man is fit to attain to higher things he will show it by being faithful where he is—H. W. Beecher. A man should make sacrifices to keep clear of doing wrong; sacrifices won't undo it when it is done.—George Elliot. Man's life is so short, and the way to knowledge of ourselves so long, each minute should be precious.—Beaumont. Prosperity's right hand is industry, and her left is frugality; both are extended to him who follows with fortitude.—Granger. If every secret thought of love blossomed into a fair deed, how much more might we make of our friendships and of life.—Miller. To prevent and suppress rising resentment is wise and glorious, and to speak words of peace is more fitting than to wear a crown—Watts. She learns neither to borrow nor ```markdown ``` --- WITH THE SAGES. YOUTH. The youth-seeker worries not. hunt trouble. She meets it with a laugh when it does come. She keeps a well body, knowing that ill health is the surest destroyer of youth. The laugh may come hard, but even a sickly smile is a better youth-keeper than tears. She lives moderately; neither working nor playing herself to wrinkle-making exhaustion. She enjoys the present to the full and does not acquire that age habit of lauding the good old days. She thinks, feels and lives youth—though not to the point of unseemliness. Gray hairs and friskiness but accentuate years. She keeps a well-groomed body, never permitting herself the comfortable slipsodness that too often goes with added years. She keeps her heart young, knowing that therein lies the true secret of a successful fight on age which can daunt even wrinkles and youth-destroying cares and sorrows. JUST A WORD. The condor, it is said, can fast 40 days. The Dutch are the greatest of all coffee drinkers. A little soap is put into certain forms of puff paste. Philadelphia has the longest streets of any city in the world. Man's temperature is 98.6 degrees; a snail's is 76, a chicken's 111. In Morocco the law obliges you to tip the policeman who arrests you. When crows wheel and clamor in great groups, it is a sure sign of a storm. Lady Duff-Gordon, our recent visitor, used to have for a pet a pale green snake. The Tartars have the strongest, the Chinese the weakest voices, of all nations. Alphonse Daudet, the author of "Sapho," often worked 24 hours at a stretch. HOME PAGE. Every home should have 15 children. One apple eaten every day will help the fruit growers. If you want advice on any subject, write to the editor. A delicious pie can be made with cocoanut shells, if you know how. Maud: Oysters do not grow on the half-shell. There is originally another half. A PROBLEM SOLVING INSTITUTION. TO OWN YOUR HOME MEANS TO SOLVE THE MEGRO PROBLEM MEALS at All Hours—Hot or Cold. Board by Day, Week or Month. SOFT DRINKS. --- Funeral Director, Embalmer and Liveryman Gunneral 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.) OPEN ALL DAY AND NIGHT.—Man on Duty All Night. The J V Hawkin's HAIR GROWER & RESTORER [TRADE MARK REGISTERED] 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. Hair 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 miracation is a natural and pure compound, hesitate to put in print. We will just hold States Government has placed national which it is protected and we are in turn est methods and square dealings. It will positively remove Dandruff, Hair on Olean Temples or Bald Haads, Beautifies makes the use of powder entitlement. Sale prices; 25, 50cts and $1.00. M Order or Express Money Order all out of city orders. Address all com Mme. J. V. 612 NORTH FIRST ST., Telephone Correspondence S W. I. JO Funeral Director Office & Warerooms, 207 HACKS F Orders by Telephone or The Suppers and Entertainment Telephone, 686. the immediate community. In order to convince the most skeptical readers of the merits and results of the J. V. Hawkin's Hair Grower and Restorer, we will from time to time produce in print the photographs of those giving us permission to do so, who have used our preparation and are to-day making a bearing witness of its genuine qualities. We do not desire the correspondence of those expecting a miracle or anything unreasonable. Our preparation is a natural and proper response the ingredients of which we would not hesitate to put in print. We would like to inform the public that the United States Government has placed national patent rights on our hair preparation by which it is protected and we are in turn responsible to the government for honest methods and square dealings. It will positively remove Dandruff, Cure Scalp of all impurities, Restore Hair on Clean Temples or Bald Heads, where the roots are not dead. **PRICES:** -$5 cts. per boxseat boxes, $2.80express prepaid. The Face Banker makes the use of powder entirely unnecessary, and is perfectly harmless. Seller will send 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. Correspondence Strictly Confidential. Orders by Telephone or Telegraph filled. Weddings, Suppers and Entertainments promptly attended. PROF. D. D. BRUCE, M. D. Strange, Wonderful, but True are the awe stricken tests given by The Great Australian Medium. PROF. D. D. BRUCE, M. D. the only Living Apostle of Science of the Mysteries. $5000 in Gold to any one in the World to compete with him. Possessing 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, scoffers and jeerers; bring all your skepticism with you—he will open your eyes to the private chamber mystery. Come all ye broken hearted wives, all with 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 --- A. B. PRICE, Palmer and Liveryman. Not short notice by telegraph or te- tellings and nice entertainments. Mary conveniences. Large plenic or enable rates and nothing but first- Keep constantly on hand fine fun- At Leigh Street. Next Door.) HT.—Man on Duty All Night. In's HAIR GROWER & RESTORER [TRADE MARK REGISTERED] we convince the most skeptical readers of Hawkins's Hair Grower and Restorer, we but the photograph of those giving us our preparation and are today genuine qualities. We do not desire the title or anything unreasonable. Our preparation of which we would not remind the public that the United patent rights on our hair preparation by responsible to the government for honour Scalp of all impurities, Restore where the roots are not dead boxes, $2.80express prepaid. The Face rarely unnecessary, and is perfectly harmonious be sent by Post Office Money in charge of 10cts, extra is imposed on communications to HAWKINS, RICHMOND, VA. 4601. Districtly Confidential. JOHNSON, Car 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 and Success in all you undertakes. Cures the Tobacco and Liquor Habits. Allows the Captive to be set Free. 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All letters containing $1.00 will be answer ed in full. MAIN OFFICE: 510 S. 5th St., Philadelphia, Pa. SEVEN Richmond, Va A. B. C. D. E. F. G. H. I. J. K. L. M. N. O. P. Q. R. S. T. U. V. W. X. Y. Z. EIGHT ieee S . NS MINISTER A SUICIDE Rey. G. W. Thomson, of Woodbary, cused of Theft. The dead body of Rev. George W. Thomson, forty-five years old, pastor of the First Presbyterian chureh of ‘Woodbury, N. J., was found upon the oor of his room in Newton's hotel. ‘He had shot himself through the head, and had been dead about eighteen boors, Dr. Thomson, a widower, was to Baye been married on Tuesday to Mrs. Fannie Ro Kenworth, formerly ® Miss Sneyd, a young widow of wealth, a member of the Woodbury burch and a woman of high social Standing in the pretty New Jersey town. Circumstances support the beliet that Mr. Thomson ended his life rather than court the exposure threat- ened by Miss Helen Moore, member of & once prominent Woodbury family, also a member and Sunday school teacher of the church, which the late minister bad served for about ten years as pastor. ‘Miss Moore is sald to have denounc- 4 Rev. Thomson at a meeting of the Gunday School Teachers’ association as a hypocrite, and when pressed to explain by those present, sald: “You had better ask Dr. Thomson.” . It is said that the names of Rev. Thomson and Miss Moore had been as. sociated for several years past and the formal announcement of his en- gagement to Mrs. Kenworthy, a little ‘over a week ago Is naid to have been the compelling motive for the scene which she made in the church. Efforts are now being made to learn {f Miss Moore had written to Rev. ‘Thomson threatening to more publicly @enounce him and to prevent his ap- proaching marriage to Mrs, Ken- worthy. On a desk in his apartments! at the hotel was found an unfinished Easter sermon. The jury empancled in the case by Coroner Hunter rendered the follow- ing verdict:— “We find that George W. Thomson's death was the result of a pistol shot ‘Wound of the brain, which we believe to bave been self-inflicted while the decedent was suffering from tempor: ‘ary aberration of the mind.” ‘The dead minister was buried from the home of his friend, Mrs. Fannie R. Kenworthy, Monday morning. Ser- vices were conducted by Rev. AP. Botsford, of Wenonah. Saves $2,000,000 By Luck. ¥W John A. Drake, who lives at the Waldorf-Astoria, in New York, hai ot stowed away stock in a gold mind which he now values at $2,000,000 ir the pockets of an old hunting coat, be would Seow Gast aocee and the mine today. Sometime ago Mr. Drake ‘was offered $600,000 for the mine which fs located in Montana, and he accepted, but when he searched fo: the stock it could not be found and the deal was declared off. Althougt the mine cost him $6000 @ month tc evelop, with no apparent returns, be could not sell because of the misla‘d stock. A few days ago Mr. Drake was notl fied that a fivefoot ledge, 1000 feet Jong, had been discovered and tha the metal assayed $80 a ton. Search for the missing certificates was re sumed. Mrs. Drake happened upon the old hunting coat, and in shaking Mt the certificates fell out. “i Society Women Fight Fire. Carrying buckets of water across fhe sloping root of Miss Marie B. Rogers’ handsome country residence, ear Rogers Station, in the Green Bpring valley, Maryland, the Misses Mary and Fanuy Bayly ‘and Mildren Dulany, three pretty young society women of Baltimore, held in check for an hour a fire which hed broken out near a chimney. Gradually, however, the blaze gained headway and they were driven back. As the fire spread it was seen by neighbors, who hurried to the assistance of the young fire- fighters. Finally tho fire companies from Towson and Pikesville arrived and the blaze was extinguished after the rear part of the house had been badly damaged. They were alone on the premises when the fire broke out Waded Into River With Babe. Mrs. Claudia Smith, of Morrisville, Pa,, took her four-weeks-old baby and, It ts thought, walked deliberately into the Delaware river. The body of the mother was found by John and Wil- lam Peze, two shad fishermen. It is thought that the body of the baby must have floated down the stream. Mrs. Smith was forty years of age and the mother of eight children. Her mental derangement was probably re sponsible for her act. She is supposed to have left the house after midnight, and waded out into the stream delib- erately. Siamese Milled iw Slarecfa Wick. Levi Smith, a farmer, seventy-eigbt years of age, of Freehold, N. J,, died s his home from injuries which he received by being kicked by a horse. mith wept into the barp carrying a Receipt Free. | i Any man 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 himeelf » bome with a simple prescription that I will gladly send free, in a plain sealed envelope, to any man who will write for it. A. EB. Robinson, 3895 Luck Butlding, Detroit, Michigan. Nes int ee head and chest. The lantern was Sr eee ee ibe Sea Rona SE, ites Geter eee full operation, giving employment te ‘Organs In Man's Body Scattered In Unbelievable Ways. Baltimore, April 22—Surgeons bend- Ing over the opened body of Judge John E. McKeighan, of St. Louis, as it lay on the operating table at the Johns Hopkins hospital soon afwr he had died of a baffling malady, were aston- ished as they looked within the cavity to discover that instead of the ususl setting of the organs, those in the body were scattered about in almost unbellevable ways. ‘His heart was turned in a position the reverse of normal, bia kidneys were united by a Igament im the shape of a horseshoe, and the liver was upside down, with the gall blad- der on top. Many of the smaller or- ans were a chaos of entangling cords and fatty substances. How Judge McKeighan lived with such a strange transposition of the machinery of hin body appears mar Yelous. Surgeops are mystified at It. Judge McKelghan lived to be sixty: six years old, and was considered one of the ablest lawyers of St. Louie. His brain did not seem to suffer through the state of his organs, and he was able to eat heartily until with a few weeks of March 1, when Re was Drought to the hospital in @ critical condition. He had become seriously tI! in St. Louis in February, and his phy- siclans were quite unable to fathom his symptoms. He was finally brought to the Johns Hopkins hospital, where an operation was performed, during, which discoveries were made of sach| a startling nature that the family com- sented to the autopsy, which was per. formed almost immediately after his death. POPE INDIGNANT Sacrilege Committed By Visitors at Easter Mass. Rome, April 21.—The entire Catho He population of Rome is incensed at an act of sacrilege that was committed Sunday tn the pope's private chapel during the celebration of the Easter mass by his holiness. ‘The congress tion numbered about 200. All after ward partook of the holy communion Among them were two women and man who had been admitted on the strong recommendation of the Austro Hungaria ambassador to the Vatican While the pope was administering the sacrament these three were sect to remove the wafers from thelt mouths. One of the women waé stez actually casting {t on the floor. ‘The pope was horrified. The offend ers were immediately expelled from the chapel. They were recoguized by the ambassador, who was present Later they were identified as Professor Felibegen of the University of Vienns and his wife and sisterinlaw, The pope, hiding his deep emotior and amazement with a view of pre ‘Yenting a scandal, hushed the factdent From the chapel the trio of offenders were taken to the majordomo's office where they said they were not Chris tlans and had received the communior through a mistake and spat out the host not believing it to be consecrated ‘The pope Was so grievei that he wept bitterly. He ts convinced that the sacrilege was premeditated. It ts not known whether the Sistine Chapel will have to be reconsecrated in conse quence of it, The Austro-Hungarian ambassador will be recalled, ft 1s sald. MAY END STRIKE | Chester Traction Eriployes May Re- turh to Work As Individuals. Chester, Pa, April 22—a propost- Mon tiiat portends an early settlement of the street car strike in this city was made to a committee of the board of trade by President Rigg. of the Traction company, who agreed @o take the striking motormen and conductors back on the same basis as though they bad” never worked for the com- pany at the scale of wages they were eut to at the time of the strike, 16 2-3 cents an hour. He promised to pay them 17 cents in July, and in the fall, following election, to raise the wages to 18 28 cents an hour. Mr. Rigg said that the improving business con- fitions indicated he could do this, and It Is believed the matter will be set- Hed with the strikers. Behind the Times. First Little Girl—Have you been op- erated on yet? Second Little Girl—No, Mother says T am very backward for my age— Judge. : The Usual Place. Stout Party—Say, young fellow, do you know where I could get a hair cut? Urchin—Sure, guv'nor—on yer head —Judge. Gotham Values. Philadelphian—I suppose everything 4s pretty dear in New York, isn’t it? Nothing cheap there? New Yorker—Nothing cheap, except Ute—N. ¥. Weekly. ‘THE RICHMOND PLANET RICHMOND. VIRGINIA. “The vilest horse thief, the most dangerous burglar, or the bloodiest murderer would not be required eitn- er to prove his innocence or to sub- mit to a trial before a judge who had in even the ssost casual way express- ed the opinion that the defendant was guilty. Such a performan-e would be justly denounced as a de- nial of one of the most sacred rights of citizenship and a lasting disgrace to the judge who perpetrated it —-Extract from Senator Foraker’s Address. SENTENCE SERMONS. Deeds are the footprints of our creeds, You may know any man by what he admires. To dodge diMculties Is to lose the power of decision. Many spot! much good work for the lack of a little more. It fs never safe to look into the fu tare with eyes of fear. No man was ever Jed into truth by the cudgel of dogma. | You never know the joy of living till you try the luxury of giving. In the divine kingdom the place of service 1s the one of sovereignty. Every temptation ts a blessing if we face It Instead of Mirting with It, You often will hear a bray from the head that thinks it looks leonine. “Bear ye one another's burdens” oes not apply to borrowed troubles. We would all rather hear a simple ton praise his friends than a wise man decry them. The pure in heart see more from the bottom of a dungeon than do the evil from the roof, When the enemy can persuade that it is wrong to be cheerful he has done & good day's work Ia not the smile you put on your face but the one you bring to another that makes you happy. He who lets an evil mpulse become a deed must remember that it will be father to many like {t—Chicago ‘Tribune. PERSONAL. ‘The prince of Wales" pet diversions, next to shooting, are smoking and stamp collecting. Hall Caine, Heory James and W. D. Howells are said to write at the rate of 1,000 words a day, Lord Rosebery, long a sufferer from Insomaia, claims to have discovered a cure In the swish of the sea waves. Queen Victoria Eugenia of Spain Is credited with the feminine ambition of being considered the best dressed queen In Europe. Frederick Makmurt, who has become a distinguished violinist after many privations, was a poor Wisconsta boy who made his first fiddle out of two cans, President Eliot of Harvard declared the other day that the purpose of higber education of women should be Yo teach them bow to train thelr ehil- dren properly. SIX IDEALS OF BEAUTY. ‘The Turkish woman Imparts a faint dluish tint to nails and teeth. The Tahiti girl, to acquire a fiat, broad nose, sleeps with a compress on it. ‘The Arab woman paints her eye- brows so as to make them seem to meet above her nose. ‘The ladies of Macassar paint thelr teeth red and yellow; a red tooth, then @ yellow one, in alternation. The Paraguay girl eradicates her eyebrows, declaring that she does not wish to resemble a whiskered man, Belles of certain Amazonian tribes have cone-shaped skulls due to a mold ‘worn on the head from babyhood until maturity. MEDITATIONS OF A SPINSTER. It takes a good many years to find out why there are so many excuses for not being good. What nearly all women lke about religion is the fact that they are not expected to undestand it. | Necessities are what a man thinks he must have, but luxuries are what he expects bis wife to do without. ‘When a girl says flatly she won't be Assed, and it turns out that she spoke the truth, it shows that she sized up her opponent to a nicery. ‘The reason that all men were not made handsome is, doubtless, so that at least a few women could be saved from making fools of themselves.— Philadelphia Telegraph. PROGRESS OF THE DAY. ‘The last census of locomotives in this country showed 51,672. A large hotel in Crand Rapids, Mich, is heaced chiefly uy electricity. ‘The atmosphere of Natal 1s #0 clear that it is sometimes possible to see 30 miles, A toad ip sald to lay 11500 exgs a wr ES Ae e Shosasagesesenesgggagoneseess . a = Why | Advertise. 5 = believe that seven-tenths of headaches have their ¢ @ orlgin in strained vision. I also know that cor- 2 . Tectly-fitted glasses will entirely relieve the head- @ aches by removing the cause. Scarcely a day passes @ % but I relieve some sufferer through my knowledge of § & Making and Fitting Glasses. | am anxious that FE % all sufferers should know there is a remedy so simple. % @ This is one reason why I advertise. s FA < Ae = W. C. METZ, Optician, = Cor. 2d and Jackson Sts.," : % RICHMOND, - - - VIRGINIA. § HAG MG CGI S sg ogeceoseooeee es X \ y y Y S o = SS Remember that an act of charity works both ways. ‘The less a man ‘s abused the more he doesn’t amount to. Necessity is tho mother of @ good many alleged poems. Even a plate of hash looks good if you are pretty hungry. After scraping some acquaintances a man fs anxious to cut them. Many a young man looks upon a dol- Jar saved as a good time lost. : No, Alonzo, famfly jars are not used for preserving domestic peace. | ‘Trouble leads some men to drink, but lots of others beat trouble to it. . as _ A man takes a woman at her word when he says “yes” at the marriage altar. Happy is the married couple who eccupy & housy ja which there's no Toom for doubt. | Insurance is a mathematical prob- Jem. As the policyholders multiply the directors divide. | > Occasionally some young man at- tempts to make the mare go by invest. ing @ lot of money in wild oats—Chi- cago News, | LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS. ‘The myosotis stands for “Remember me.” The recipient !s likely to recall the sender. Te send hyacinths fs to say: “I am very sorry.” By sending roses, you as good as say “I love you.” Don't mind. Just fancy how glad she is to receive them. If they are fine enough the charm er fs certain to indicate “same here.” | An offering of Acacias (mfuosa, if You prefer) says, “Let us be friends.” Why, of course, what girl could re sist bracelets clothed In fairy tuzz of gold. Should you dispatch an azalea to a fair one you are advising her to “Be temperate.” Naturally she will assure you, in her note of thanks, it is impossible to be temperate at sight of such splen dor. NO FAULT OF THE COOK. While visiting Chicago recently New York merchant dropped into a restaurant f@mous for its German cookery. As the waiter was serving the soup ‘from a chafing-dish, the guest thought “he caught the glint of steel. He gave Uttle heed to the matter until he sud- denly found « large needle in his spoon. Summoning the steward, he held aloft the offending bit of steel, ‘and tnquired angrily: | “Do you expect me to eat that, air?” “Ot course not! 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