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THE RICHMOND PLANET VOLUME XXV. NUMBER 28. SOP FOR THE ALLIES Republican Committee Seats Both Louisiana Delegations. John Hays Hammond Opens Headquarters and Booms of Other Aspirants Are Launched—Strong Feeling For Eastern Man. Chicago, June 10. — After working for four days, and with five additional days yet to come before the meeting of the convention, the Republican national committee decided two-fifths of its contests. The committee Tuesday decided sixteen contests affecting thirty-six delegates. Of these twenty-seven are Taft men, and the remaining nine, all of whom are "Black and Tans" from Louisiana, have tentatively agreed that they will cast their votes for Taft. There is, however, no binding agreement to that effect. The contests decided compromised the delegates at large in Louisiana and Mississippi, seven districts in Louis- O. B. Iana, six districts in Mississippi and one in Missouri. The Louisiana contest, which was the most important of the day, resulted in a split delegation the committee deciding on a division of twenty to thirty to seat both the "Lily White," or Taft delegation, and the "Black and Tans," with half a vote for each. This agreement was not reached until after repeated conferences and much anxious telegraphing and telephoning between Chicago and Washington. The decision finally reached by the committee was carried out with the full consent and approval of both Secretary Taft and President Roosevelt. The opening of headquarters for John Hays Hammond, of Massachusetts, brought the vice presidential situation to the front. He was the first to show his candidacy in a definite form, but coincident with his activity came the movement in behalf of Governor Curtis Guild, of Massachusetts, who will be strongly urged when the full force of the delegation from his state arrives late in the week. The New York candidates, tentative and otherwise, are numerous. They are George B. Cortelyou, secretary of the treasury, and Representatives James S. Sherman and J. Sloat Fasett. The east also has brought for ward another possibility in the person of Franklin Murphy, former governor of New Jersey, and national commissioner of that state. From the west J. P. Dolliver, of Iowa, United States senator from that state, was most prominently mentioned. Senator J. C. Burrows, of Michigan, who is to be temporary chairman of the convention, and Lieutenant Governor Sherman, of Illinois, also found supporters among the political fans. There was a strong general feeling however, that an eastern man should be given the second place on the ticket. THE PLATFORM Declaration of Principles of Republican Party Practically Completed. That the platform to be adopted at the Chicago convention and on which the Republican party will stand during the next campaign, has been completed with the exception of a few details, which will be left for the committee on resolutions to insert, is the opinion of many who are in the confidence of the Republican leaders. The work has been done by Hon. Wade Ellis, attorney general of Ohio, the draftman of the Ohio state platform; Senator Hopkins, who will be chairman of the com- mittee on resolutions; Senator Long, of Kansas, and a few others, including the president and Secretary Taft, who have been freely consulted. The policies of President Roosevelt will be endorsed unequivocally, and this endorsement will be the central idea of the document. These policies will be set forth as the embodiment of the principles of the Republican party, whose achievements will be lauded as at all times wise and beneficent; as ever in the interest of all the people. These principles, it will be declared, are quite in contrast with the policies of the Democratic party, which as embodied in the public utterances of its leaders, it will be said, promise nothing good that can be assured of accomplishment. Specifically speaking, more attention has been given by the platform-makers to the tariff than to any other subject. There will be an unequivocal declaration for revision, but the disposition is to leave the working out of details to the ingenuity of congress. The declaration will take the shape of a pledge to so equalize the duties as to give the consumer the benefit of the most favorable prices consistent with the protection of domestic industry and home labor. It will be emphatically stated that there must be no innovation that will permit American labor to come into competition with foreign labor, and accordingly it will be specified that in all cases the duty must be equal to the difference between the American and the European cost of production, including a reasonable profit to the American producer. Next to the tariff the financial plank has received most careful attention. Congress and the administration will be congratulated upon the passage of the Aldrich-Vreeland bill as in the interest of sound finance and as calculated to protect the business world against possible panics in the near future, and at the same time provide for the permanent improvement of our currency system through the recommendations which it is anticipated will be made by the commission appointed under the new law. The administration will be also emphatically complimented upon the passage during the fifty-ninth congress of the railroad rate law. The convention will place itself or record as favorable to such an amendment of the Sherman anti-trust law as will enable the railroads to enter into reasonable traffic agreements without taking the risk of prosecution in the criminal courts. Cognizance will be taken of the demands of labor to the extent of recommending such legislation as will insecure labor organizations against snag judgment by the courts in the issuance of injunctions without due notice or necessary hearing. A recommendation for the removal of the triple penalty in conspiracy prosecutions, when such prosecutions are directed against labor organizations, is probable. Among other recommendations that will be made will be the following: For the admission at the next session of congress of Arizona and New Mexico as separate states of the Union; for the protection of American citizens abroad; for the fostering of our commerce in the Orient; for the open door in China; for the exclusion of cool labor, whether Chinese or Japanese strong commendation of the present civil service policy; endorsement of the plan to grant a subsidy in the interest of the ocean mails to South America and Austral-Asia, and for the encouragement of American shipping generally. —Extract from Senator Foraker's great speech in defense of the "Black Battailon." If these men are innocent, as they claim and as I believe, what else could they have said or done? Will some man please tell what word any of them has uttered or what thing any one of them has done inconsistent with the innocence they assert. And yet, because they have said and done precisely what as innocent men they should have said and done, for that very reason they are arraigned as guilty of conspiracy and denounced in terms harsh enough to manifest exasperation because they will not confirm the charges against them and thereby establish an excuse for the crime that has been so inconsiderately committed against them and their rights, if they are in fact innocent, as they claim to be. —The Blackstone Base Ball Team represented by Mr. Stephen Pettis has authorized Mr. Robert Alexander of The PLANET force to issue challenges to any teams in the city or vicinity. The record of this club will compare favorably with any club on the diamond and it will be wise to consult the Richmond manager for terms at any time. RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, SATURDAY, JUNE 13, 1908 PLEDGED TO FORAKER. Obio Colored Men Speak. Resolved, That we commend the Hon. Charles Dick, Junior United States Senator from Ohio, for his unilinching support of the Hon. Joseph Benson Foraker. None could stand these trying times but the bravest patriots, the followers of Republicanism as practiced by Lincoln, Sumner and Foraker, whose names shall illumine the pages of history as among the greatest men of their day; and be it further Resolved, That we regret President Roosevelt's continued silence with reference to the terrible massacre of innocent Negroes at Atlanta, Georgia, during the fall of 1906; and be it further Resolved, That we also regret President Roosevelt stated he would veto Senator Foraker's bill reinstating the "Black Battallion," if passed, and if passed for his veto would fail to enforce the law, thereby refusing to right a wrong which he is responsible for and placing himself in the role of a traitor to his country; and be it further Resolved, That we view with alarm the drastic legislation enacted on account of the President's continued attacks on corporations, the increased cost of many necessities, life, and the falling off of voluntary contributions to our institutions of learning, which said legislation is responsible for; and be it further Resolved. That we believe the enactment of said drastic legislation to be the cause of the panic, which cause like a thunderbolt from a clear sky, and which threw thousands of citizens of the United States out of employment, thereby causing great suffering and poverty, which to a great extent still exists. JOHN S. FIELDING, Pres. EDWARD JOHNSON, Sec. Supreme Chancellor Starks The lithographic portrait of Supreme Chancellor S. W. Starks, deceased is the best and cheapest that has been or can be offered. It will pay every lodge in the country to secure a copy. The price is only 25 cents. It is true to nature and no one who has seen this official can fall to be pleased with the likeness of him. Sold by the Central Regalia Company, N. E. Corner Plum and Eighth Street, Cincinnati, Ohio. Y. M. C. A. Notes. The Y. M. C. A. conference met last Friday evening. Much good was accomplished. Editor N. W. Bouldin had the "Y. M. C. A. A Bee" humming and the fellows were stung. A successful meeting was held in the jail last Sunday morning. The inmates of the Almshouse were lifted up last Sunday evening. All enjoyed the meeting who were present. Bible study for boys last Sunday was helpful. Rev. Morgan of Petersburg, Va. gave the boys some good instructions. A vote of thanks was tendered him by the boys. Rev. J. R. Augustus addressed the men last Sunday. Subject: "The Tragedy of the Soul." All present enjoyed the address. Brother, continue in the good work of the Lord. Prof. J. H. Rhorer will address the boys Sunday 4 P. M. at the rooms. An open meeting will be held for men tomorrow at 5:30 P. M. at the above named place. Chairman E. H. Allen will conduct the meeting. Pray continually for the Y. M. C. A KNIGHTS OF PYTELAS The following are the appointments of the Grand Chancellor of the Grand Lodge, Knights of Pythias of Virginia: Endowment Advisory Board—W. A. Millner, M. Isbell, L. L. Downing, Willis Wyatt, John R. Chies, S. M. Wilson, Albert Smith, J. S. Carter, John G. Smith, E. W. R. Glenn, B. A. Graves, O. M. Stewart, R. J. Jackson, Ed. Wood. Grand Marshall, J. J. Corprew. Grand First Attendant, S. S. Baker. Grand Second Attendant, J. A. Moss. Grand Third Attendant, William A. Thoroughgood. Grand Fourth Attendant, R. B. Mosby. Committee on Business—John T. Taylor, George W. Rison, D. I. Burrell, U. S. G. Patterson, E. F. Scott. Committee on Law and Supervision—William A. Merchant, D. J. Chavers, D. A. Ferguson. Committee on Finance—B. H. Peyton, Thomas H. Wyatt, D. C. Johnson. Committee on Returns and Credentials—A. C. Mabrey, W. H. Jones, J. A. Lewis. Committee on Appeals and Grievances—S. H. Clarke, W. T. Bell, Samuel Johnson. Committee on Dispensation and Charter—Lee Hunt, J. F. Bentley, J. R. Conway. Committee on Printing and Supplies—Thomas M. Crump, C. W. Jordan, G. H. Young. Committee on State of Order—C. L. H. Staples, E. J. Hunt, B. A. Graves. Committee on Obituary—Paul Ervin, Granville Marable, L. R. Woolridge. DISTRICT DEPUTY GRAND CHANCELLORS. Richmond—S. S. Baker. Boldfond · Baker Manchester · Jackson, No. 1712 $11/2 Wall Street Petersburg—Edward W. Wood, 302 West Street. Danville—W. A. Millner, 404 Main Street. Portsmouth—William A. Myers, 640 Carroll Street Lynchburg—W. J. Wells, 1006-5th Street. Newport News—J. C. Allen. Pocahontas—D. C. Johnson, P. O. Box 67. Clifton Forge—E. F. Scott. Charlottesville—R. T. Edwards, 416 Dice Street. Stonega, Wise Co.—William Ransom Norton—H. S. Staples. Covington—S. A. Smtih, P. O. Box 42. Staunton—J. H. Allen, 15 Court- house Square. house Square. Radford—R. M. Pettis. South Boston—H. C. White. Sutherlin—A. B. Betts. Martinsville—J. L. Hill. Blackstone—H. L. Jackson. Pulaski—I. T. Anderson. Roanoke—Dr. L. D. Burrell 510 Roanoke—Dr. I. D. Burrell, 510 Galnesboro Ave. Gainesboro Ave. Chase City—W. E. Davis. Harrisonburg—J. C. Holmes. J. B. Bentley Huckleberry Co. Pea Buckingham Co.-Rev. Caesar Perkins, Buckingham C. H., Va. North Danville—C. M. Smith, 526 Cedar Street, Danville, Va. Hanover County—John G. Smith, 1301 E. Leigh St., Richmond, Va. Waynesboro—Dr. A. J. Simms, Box 15. Prince George County—John Bland, Prince George County. Chesterfield—William White, Centralia, Va. Craigsville—A. C. Mabrey, 127 E. Main Street, Staunton, Va. Emporia—J. J. Avent. Main Meadow—J. F. Bentley. Dorchester—H. S. Staples. Winterpeter—Robert J. Jackson. Glasgow—L. R. Wooldridge. Natural Bridge—John M. Carter. Special Deputy Grand Chancellors U. S. G. Patterson, Lynchburg, Va. C. W. Jordan, Suffolk, Va.; E. R. Jefferson, M. D., S. H. Clarke, W. T. Stokes. —Extract from Senator Foraker's great speech in defense of the "Black Battalion." While these assertions, repeated over and over again in the most extravagant language, show after all, as General Garlington reported, that there was no evidence to establish a conspiracy or silence, and that the charges and assertions that there was such a conspiracy rested only on deductions that there must have been such a conspiracy because nobody would tell of that about which all claimed to have no knowledge, yet that very fact but emphasizes the President's unit state of mind to act judicially in passing upon the applications of these men to reenlist as proposed in the bill introduced by the Senator from Missouri. —Mr. William Dandridge of New York, N. Y. called on us. —Mr. Allen Hobbs left Richmond Sunday for Portsmouth, Va. after a pleasant week's stay with friends. —Times are changing, but the cooling breezes will be the same on the Steamer Pocahontas Sunday, June 28, 1908. —We know you'll be happy and your girl will thank you. Go on the Sunday outing June 28, 1908. —Dr. J. A. Lewis is president and the committee will furnish tickets on the Sunday outing June 28, 1908. —He had his head in the barrel but he took it out in time to see the advertisement of the Sunday outing June 28, 1908. —Miss M. B. Bannister has returned to the city after a stay of eight months at Palls, Va. Alexander's Magazine. Every reader of our paper should send at once to Charles Alexander, 714 Shawmut Avenue, Boston, Mass. ten cents for a copy of Alexander's Magazine which contains Senator Foraker's great address on the Black Battalion and his address before the Baltimore Conference of the A. M. E. Church, and also an historical sketch of the A. M. E. Church with pictures of all the Bishops. Several thousand copies are ready to be distributed wherever wanted. Write to day. Commencement Photos. We are making special reductions in Commencement Photos. With new scenic accessories we are thoroughly prepared to serve "the sweet girl graduates." Come to the "Old Reliable," where you always feel at home. GEO. O. BROWN, Photographer, 603 N. 2nd Street. KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS --- The Trouble in Georgia. The colored Knights of Pythias of Georgia are having much trouble in their efforts to secure a charter of incorporation in that state. The movement was opposed by the Grand Lodge, (white) in Georgia and the body made an appeal to the Supreme Lodge, (white), which rendered support in an effort to deny the colored knights the right to incorporate and to use any of the emblems of the Order. The Georgia courts refused to grant an injunction to perpetually restrain the colored knights from using these emblems and doing business in Georgia and the case was appealed to the Supreme Court of Georgia, which ordered that a question of fact be ascertained by a jury, which jury was to decide whether the use of the name, Knights of Pythias, emblems, and everything of value peculiar to the Order by the colored people was a fraud and an imposition on the white Order. The white jury promptly returned a verdict that it was and the matter now goes back to the Supreme Court of Georgia. Grand Chancellor C. D. Creswill is making the fight of his life in this matter and able attorneys have been employed. This decision was rendered Wednesday, May 27, 1908 and the outcome will be watched with interest throughout the country. As the emblems and the degree work is weighted, it will be a question to be decided on an injunction will hold. Still, the Supreme Court of Georgia is Supreme in that State and adverse decision will handicap and embarrass the Grand and subordinate lodges to a very great extent. $150.00 Endowment Paid. Richmond, Va. June 9, 1908. This is to certify that I have received from John Mitchell, Jr. Grand Chancellor of the Grand Lodge of Virginia, Knights of Pythias, N. A., S. A., E., A., A. and A. ($150.00) One Hundred and Fifty Dollars in payment of the death- claim of Sir Charles E. Wilder, who was a member of Blooming Lily Lodge, No. 15 of Richmond, Va. Signed—Maria A. Wilder, Administratrix, Witnesses: S. S. Baker. Eva G. Davis. $150.00 Endowment Paid. Richmond, Va., June 8, 1908. This is to certify that I have received from John Mitchell, Jr. Grand Chancellor of the Grand Lodge of Virginia, Knights of Pyth- ias, N. A., S. A., E., A., A. and A. ($150.00) One Hundred and Fifty Dollars in payment of the death- claim of Sir Lewis Clark, who was a member of Manchester Lodge, No. 11 of Manchester, Va. Signed—Victoria Clark, Administratrix. Witnesses: R. J. Jackson, John Bland. H. W. Choice. $150.00 Endowment Paid Lynchburg, Va., June 2, 1908. This is to certify that I have received from John Mitchell, Jr. Grand Chancellor of the Grand Lodge of Virginia, Knights of Pythias, N. A., S. A., E., A., A. and A. ($150.00) One Hundred and Fifty Dollars in payment of the death-claim of Sir James E. Isbell, who was a member of Pioneer Lodge, No. 28, of Lynchburg, Va. Signed—Pleasant A. Isbell, Administrator. Witnesses: L. W. Black, C. C. L. W. Black, C. C. Hill City Lodge, No. 90 O. O. Duggan, R. R. and S. Hill City Lodge, No. 90 W. H. Poindexter W. J. Wells, District Deputy $100,00 Endowment Paid Lynchburg, Va. June 1, '08. This is to certify that I have received from John Mitchell, Jr. Grand Worthy Counsellor of the Grand Court of Virginia, Order of Calanthe ($100,00) One Hundred Dollars in payment of the death-claim of Sister Sarah E. Norvell, who was a member of Meridian Court, No. 57 of Lynchburg, Virginia. Signed—Minnie N. Allen, Beneficiary. Witnesses: Eliza Morris. Allie Reid. Bettie P. Dismond. $100,00 Endowment Paid. South Boston, Va., June 5, 1908 This is to certify that I have received from John Mitchell, Jr., Grand Worthy Counsellor of the Grand Court of Virginia, Order of Calanthe ($100.00) One Hundred Dollars in payment of the death- claim of Sister Florence Thomas, who was a member of Boston Belle Court, No. 112, of South Boston, Virginia. Jane Skinner. P. B. Ragland. Nannie Chism. Fannie L. Coleman. D. D. G. W. C. $100.00 Endowment Paid. This is to certify that I have received from John Mitchell, Jr. Grand Worthy Counsellor of the Grand Court of Virginia, Order of Calanthe. ($100.00) One Hundred Dollars in payment of the death-claim of Sister Dolly Chavers, who was a member of Venus Court, No. 47 of Richmond, Virginia. Signed—D. J. Chavers, Beneficiary. Witnesses: Thomas H. Wyatt. Walter T. Davis. $150.00 Endowment Paid. Manchester, Va., June 8, '08. This is to certify that I have received from John Mitchell, Jr. Grand Chancellor of the Grand Lodge of Virginia, Knights of Pythias, N. A., S. A., E., A., A. and A. ($150.00) One Hundred and Fifty Dollars in payment of the death- claim of Willie Miles, who was a member of Independent Lodge, No. 75, of Manchester, Va. her Signed—Hettie X Miles, mark Beneficiary. Witnesses: Robert W. Malone, C. C. E. J. Cunningham, K. of R. & S. $150.00 Endowment Paid Richmond, Va., June 9, '08. This is to certify that I have received from John Mitchell, Jr., Grand Chancellor of the Grand Lodge of Virginia, Knights of Pythias, N. A., S. A., E., A., A. and A. ($150.00) One Hundred and Fifty Dollars in payment of the death-claim of Sir Drury B. Brooks, who was a member of Old Dominion Lodge, No. 8 of Richmond, Va. Signed—Catherine S. Brooks, Beneficiary. Witnesses: —Extract from Senator Foraker's great speech in defense of the "Black Battalion." 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 with out 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 efficiency 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. [Applause in the galleries.] COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA. Dairy and Food Division, W. D. Saunders, Commissioner, Benj. L. Purcell, Deputy. Richmond, Va., June, 1908. Two acts passed by the legislature of 1908. The one an act entitled: "An act to prevent the manufacture or sale of adulterated, misbranded poisonous or deleterious foods or liquors, and to repeal an act to prevent the sale of adulterated and misbranded feeds in the State of Virginia." The other,— "An act concerning the appointment of a Dairy and Food Commissioner within the Department of Agriculture and Immigration and imposing penalties for its violation." These acts are intended to regulate the sale of food products for man and beast, and have for their purpose the protection of the consumer from adulterated, misbranded, impure and unwholesome foods, and the guarding against imposition by the unscrupulous manufacturer or dealer in the sale of feeding stuffs for cattle, and to give to the consuming public the assurance that it is receiving that for which it pays. Provision is also made for inspection of dairies, bakeries, and icecream establishments, the purpose being to protect consumers from unsanitary conditions which might exist about such places. The execution of these laws has been placed with the Dairy and Food Commissioner, whose office is in Richmond, Virginia. The law provides for the payment of a tax or license fee by the manufacturer or dealer offering for sale in the State feeding stuffs, condimental foods and cattle powders for cattle, and a license fee for creameries, dairies, milk stations, etc., doing the State, and provides penalties for failure to comply with its provision, is, therefore, suggested that all dealers and manufacturers of food products and cattle feeds, condimental feeds and cattle powders, and proprietors of dairies, etc., acquaint themselves with the provisions of these statutes, copies of which can be had from the office of State Dairy and Food Commissioner, Richmond, Va. —Extract from Senator Forkaker's great speech in defense of the "Black Battalion." 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 reenlist if we should pass the bill introduced by the Senator from Missouri, firmly possessed of the conviction that very 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. The GIRL from TIM'S PLACE BY CHARLES CLARK MUNN COPYRIGHT, 1906, BY LOTHROP, LEE & SHEPARD CO. SYNOPSIS. CHAPTER I. - Chip McGuire, a 16-year old girl living at Tim's place in the Maine woods, is sold by her father to Pete Boldue, a half-breed. She runs away. CHAPTER II. - Chip reaches the camp on his wife, nephew, Raymond Stetson and guides. She tells her story and is cared for by Mrs. Frisbie. CHAPTER III. - Explains journey of Frisbie's party into woods is to visit Mrs. Frisbie, an old hermit, who resides in the forest, for many years. When camp is broken Chip and Ray occupy same canoe. CHAPTER IV. - The party reach camp of Mrs. Frisbie's father and are welcomed by him and Cy Walker, an old friend and former townman of the herder. They settle down for summer's stay. CHAPTER V. - Chip and Ray are is love, but no one realised this but Cy Walker. Strange canoe marks found on lake shore in front of their cabin. CHAPTER VI. - Strange smoke is seen across the lake. Martin and Levi leave to get officers to arrest McGuire, who is known as outlaw and escaped murder. CHAPTER VII—Chip's one woodie friend, Tomah, an Indian, visits campus. Ray believes he sees a bear on the field. CHAPTER VIII—Chip is stolen by Pete Bolduc and escapes with her in a canoe. CHAPTER IX—Chip is rescued by Martin and Levi as they are returned from the settlement. Bolduc escapes. CHAPTER X—Old Cy proposes to Ray that he留在 the woodies with his self and Amzi and trap during the winter, and he concludes to do so. Others return to Greenville, taking Chip with them. CHAPTER XI—Chip starts to school in Greenville, and finds life unpleasant at Aunt Comfort's, made so especially by Hannah. CHAPTER XII—Old Cy and Ray discover strange tracks in the wilderness. CHAPTER XIII—Thep penetrate further into the wilderness and discover the hiding place of the man who had been sneaking about their cabin. CHAPTER XIV—They investigate the cave home of McGuire during his absence. Bolduc, seeking revenge for the girl he bought, is also on the trail of McGuire. CHAPTER XV.-Boldoc finds McGurtea and the two fight to the death, finding a watery grave together. CHAPTER XVI.-Spring has come and Ray leaves the woods with Levi, leaving Old Cy and the hermit, Amal, at the camp. CHAPTER XVII.-Ray returns to Greenvale and finds Chip waiting for him. CHAPTER XVIII.-Chip tells Ray of trouble in Greenvale. Ray fails to visit the first evening of his arrival, and Ray explains. CHAPTER XIX. Old Cy had builted wiser than he realized when he coaxed Ray to spend a winter in the woods. The long tramps through the vast wilderness; the keen hunt for signs of mink, fisher, otter, and wildcat, with constant guard against danger; the unremitting though zestful labor of gum-gathering; the far-sighted need for winter preparation; and last but not least Old Cy's cheerful philosophy, had broadened the lad and developed both muscle and mind. His success, too, had encouraged him. He was eager to try another season there, and planned for hiring men to gather gum, and saw in this vocation possible future. But the change in Chip puzzled him. He had returned, expecting to find her the same timid, yet courageous little girl, ready to be his companion at all times and to kiss him when he chose—a somewhat better-educated girl, of course, using more refined language, but otherwise the same confiding child, as it were. She was all this the day of his return; and then, presto! like a sudden blast of cold air came a change. Too loyal to her to question any one, he could only wonder why this change. He called again soon after that first, unsatisfying walk home with her, to find her the same cool, collected young lady. She was nice to him, induced him to talk of the woods once more and his own plans; but it was not the Chip of old who listened, but quite another person. "I am going back to the lake with uncle and aunt," he said at last, "and I mean to coax them to take you along. You have been shut up in school so long, it will do you good." "Please don't say a word to them about it," she urged, in hurt tone, "for it will do no good. I wouldn't go, any way." "Not go to the woods if you could," he exclaimed in astonishment; "why, what do you mean?" "Just what I say," she returned firmly, and then added wistfully, "I'd fly there, if I had wings. I'd give my life, almost, for one more summer like the last. But I shall not go again now, and maybe never." It was unaccountable and quite beyond Ray's ken—this strange decision of hers—and her "Please don't say any more about it" closed the subject. Another and even greater shock came to Ray when late that evening, on the porch, he essayed to kiss her. "No; no; please don't," she said with almost a sob, pushing him away. "It's silly now, and—and you mustn't." A week later school closed, and Chip's conduct was then also a puzzle to Miss Phinney. As usual on these occasions, when the hour came, each pupil, young and old, filed past the teacher at her desk, the boys to shake hands, the girls to be kissed, and all hade good-by, after which they trooped away, glad to escape. This ceremony now took place as usual. All departed except Chip, and she remained at her desk. Some institution of pity or sympathy drew Miss Phinney to her at once; and then, at the first word from her, Chip gave way to tears—not light ones, but bobs that shook her as a great grief. Vainly Miss Phinney tried to cheer and consume not, stoking the sound head until her own eyes grew misty. "I didn't mean to give way," Chip said at last, looking up and brushing away the tears, "but you've been so good and patient with me; I couldn't help it. I hain't many friends here, I guess, and—" choking back another sob—"I shall be more lonesome'n ever." It was true enough, as Miss Phinney well understood, and somehow her heart went out to this unfortunate girl now, as never before. "You mustn't think about that," she said at last, in her most soothing voice, "but come and see me as often as you can—every day, if you like, for I shall always be glad to have you. I'd keep on studying, if I were you," she added, as Chip brightened, "it will help you on, and I will gladly hear you recite every day." Then hand in hand, like two sisters, they left the dear old schoolhouse. Little did Miss Phinney, good soul that she was, realize how recently poor Chip had cried her heart almost out on its well worn sill, or that never again would this strange, winsome woman-grown pupil enter that temple. At the parting of their ways the two embraced, kissed, and with tear-dimmed eyes separated. "I can't account for it," Miss Phinney said to herself when well away. It may be a love affair with young Stetson, or it may be something worse." That evening she called on Angle. The result was fruitless, so far as obtaining any light upon this puzzling matter was concerned, for Angle was either blind to the situation, or feigned ignorance. "They were together all last summer, of course," she said, "in fact, they were forced to be like two children, you know. I was glad to have it so, feeling it would benefit the girl. If any love flame was started then, it has had ample time to die out since." "There is something else the matter with Chip, then," Miss Phinney rejoined, "she has been moody and quite upset at times for the past few weeks, and to-day when school closed, she sobbed like a broken-hearted woman. It was quite pathetic, and I had to cry myself." That night Angle took counsel of her husband. "Well, what if it is so," he responded to her suggestion that a love affair might have started between them. "It won't harm either. So far as I've observed, the girl couldn't have been better behaved since she came here. She has never missed an hour at school all winter, no matter how cold it has been. Her teacher says she has made wonderful progress. She has attended church with you every Sunday, and as for Ray—well, if I were in his shoes I'd be in love with her myself." It was clear enough that Angie's fears were not shared by Martin. "But think of her origin and parentage," answered Angie, "and that outlaw father who might appear at any time! The very idea of Ray marrying her is preposterous. It would wreck his life." "But what about Chip?" returned Martin, who had broader views of life. "You brought her here to Christianize and educate her; do you propose to turn her adrift because she has a pretty face and the boy sees it? She isn't to blame for her origin. As for Ray, if he shows that he is able to support a wife and wants her, I honor him for it, and I'll give him a house to start with." At Aunt Comfort's, however, no signs of love troubles were visible; in fact, no signs of any sort, except the malicious "hanging around" interference of Hannah whenever Ray was there. She seemed to feel it her duty to remain on guard at such times, much to Ray's disgust. No annoyance at this was apparent in Chip. She helped at housework, studied at odd hours, and when Ray came she met and talked with him as if he were a brother. The day he was to leave Greenvale was close at hand, however, and the evening before he came early, bringing his banjo, and by tacit consent, perhaps to escape Hannah, they both left the house at once. Just above the village there was a long, narrow pond, wooded upon one side and around its upper end, with partially cleared land and scattered trees along the opposite bank. One of these trees was a monster beech near the water's edge, the trunk of which was scarred by many intwined infallts. To this lovers' trysting tree now came Ray and Chip. The evening was not one for romance, for no moon graced it—only stars were reflected from the pond's motionless surface, while fireflies twinkled above it. The shadow of the near parting also hovered over these two as, hand in hand, they picked their way up and along the bank; and once seated beneath the tree, it seemed to forbid speech. "I wish you'd play some of the songs you used to," Chip said at last hurriedly; "I'd like to think I'm back at the lake again." Glad to do so, Ray drew out his banjo and began to tune it. He started a song also—one of the "graveyard" ones which Old Cy had interdicted, but choked at once and stopped abruptly. "I can't sing to-night," he said; "Tm too blue about going away." There were two in this frame of mind, evidently, for Chip made no protest, and for another long interval they watched the fireflies and listened to the whippoorwills. "I wish you were going back with us," Ray said at last. "It breaks my THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA heart to go away so soon and leave you. Why won't you let me ask my uncle to take you? He might be glad to do it, just for me." "No," answered Chip, firmly, "you mustn't. It would shame me so that I couldn't look them in the face." Then, as if this subject and their own feelings must be avoided, she added hurriedly, "Tell me what you will do when the folks come back—whether you will come with them or stay at the lake." "Stay there, I suppose," answered Ray, somewhat doggedly, for money-making and love were in conflict. "Old Cy says we can make a lot of money if I will. I wish I were rich," he added with a sigh. He was not the first young man to whom that wish had come at such a moment. But converse between them was at ebb tide just now, and the parting moment, ever creeping nearer, overshadowed all else. To Chip—known only to herself—it meant forever. To Ray, another long isolation from all the world and young associates, and all for a few hundred dollars sorely needed by him, yet seeming of scant value compared to the sweet companionship of this maid. Then Chip's feelings and the reason for them were quite beyond him. He could not see why she was unwilling to ask to be taken to the woods again, nor why she held herself aloft from him. She had not done so at the lake, or when they met again, and why should she now? Something of this might have been inferred by Chip, for she suddenly arose. "I think we'd best go back," she said. "It's time and Hannah will be watching for me." What Ray might have said had he been a worldwise man, does not matter. What he did was to pick up his useless banjo, and clasping Chip's arm, led her along the winding walk. Below the falls and near the house they paused, for now the last moment alone together had come, and with it the real parting. "Tell Old Cy I—I haven't forgot him," whispered Chip, her voice quivering, "and—and you won't forget me either, will you, Ray?" That little sob in her speech was all that was needed to break away the barrier between them, for the next instant Ray's arms were about the girl. No words of love, no protestations, no promises. Only one instant's meeting of soul and impulse, flerce as love of life, sacred as the hand of death. Love consecrated it. The shadowing maples blessed it. The stars halowed it. And yet it was a long, long parting. When Ray rode away next morning he watched for her at the first sharp hilftop. It was in vain, for Chip's resolve had been taken, and he never saw the forlorn figure crouching behind that bush-topped wall, or knew that two wistful, misty eyes had seen him depart. CHAPTER XX. For a few more days Chip lived the life that had now become unbearable, and then the end came. It was hastened, perhaps, by Hannah, for that ill-tempered spinster had been ever watchful, and with shrewd insight had seen or guessed all that had transpired. "I's pose ye know why the Frishies hurried away so soon after Ray got back," she said to Chip that last day. "If you don't, I can tell ye. It was 'oas they noticed the goin's on "tween you an" him an" wanted to head it off." Not a word of protest came from the poor child in response to this sneer, and that night she wrote two notes, one to Miss Phinney, the other to Aunt Comfort. Then, making a bundle of the few belongings she could call her own—the beaded moccasins, cap and fur cape old Tom • had given her, and other trifles she waited until almost midnight and stole out of the house. Where to go, she knew not nor cared—only to leave Greenvale and all the shame, sorrow, and humiliation it held for her, and make her own way in the world as best she could. The village street was as silent as midnight always found it. The low murmur of the Mizzy Falls whispered C. H. "I Wish You Were Going Back with Us." down the valley. A half-moon was just rising, and as Chip reached the hilltop where she had waited for Ray, she halted. From here must be taken the last glance at Greenvale, and as she turned about a sob rose in her heart, in spite of her stern resolve, for ties cannot be surrendered easily. all the taint sweet of the rising moon. Only for a moment she paused for this good-by look, then turned and ran. On and on she sped mile after mile, up. hill, down hill, halting now and then for breath until a cross-road was reached, and here she stopped. Here also came the question of direction. To follow the main road was to reach Riverton, between which and Greenvale the stage journeyed. To go there meant being recognized perhaps. In her study of geography, she had found that the village which was her birthplace lay northeast from Greenvale. She meant sometime and somehow to reach that spot and visit her mother's grave once more, and also, if possible, to send word to Old Tomah. And so guided by this vague plan, she turned to the left. From now on the road became narrow. Miles elapsed between houses, and Chip, wearied and heavy-eyed, could only creep along. The way became more devious now, bending around a wooded hill and then crossing a wide swamp to enter a stretch of forest. Direction became lost in these turnings, the road grew hilly and less traveled. The moon scarce showed it; and Chip, almost exhausted, stumbled over stones and felt that she was becoming lost in an unsettled country. And then, just as she emerged from a thicket and ascended a low hill, the light of coming dawn faced her, and with it the need of sleep and concealment. Full well she knew she must avoid all observing eyes and place many more miles between herself and Greenvale to be certain of escape. And then, as the daylight increased, she caught sight of an old, almost ruined dwelling half hid among bushes just ahead. Even if empty, as it appeared, it would serve for shelter, and finding it so, she brewed in, so weared that she fell asleep at once on the warped and moulded floor. It was only a brief nap, for soon the rattle of a passing farm wagon woke her, but refreshed somewhat by it, she again pushed on. Soon a brook, singing cheerfully as it tumbled down a ledge, was reached, and here Chip bathed her face and hands and drank of the sweet, cool water. Hunger also asserted itself, but that did not damn her. She had faced it once before. Then something of a plan as to her future movements began to shape itself in her mind, following which came an increased courage and self-reliance. Not a cent did she now possess. Feel she could not have until she had grade good her escape and could earn it somewhere. But the sun was shining, the birds were singing, her young, supple body was strong, life and the world were ahead; and, best of all, never again would she have to feel herself a dependent upon any one. With these blessings, scant to most of us, hardened as she had been by servitude at Tim's Place, came a certain buoyancy of spirit and defiance of all things human. No wild beasts were here to menace, no spikes to creep and crawl along fence or hedgerow, no hideous half-breed to enwane, and as she counted her blessings, while her spirits rose, a new life and new hope came to her. And now another feeling came—the cartelty that she had come so far that no one would recognize her. At first that morning, when she heard a team coming or overtaking her, she had hidden by the roadside until it passed. When a house was sighted ahead, she made a wide detour in the fields to avoid it. Now this sense of caution vanished, and she strode on fearless and confident. When night came again she crept into an unused sheep barn, and when daylight wakened her, she hurred on once more. During all that first day's journey, her one fear had been that some one she would meet might recognize her and report the fact in Greenvale. To avoid that had been her sole thought. Now that feeling of danger was vanishing, and when people were met, she looked at them fearlessly and kept on. When cross-roads were reached and a choice in ways became necessary, she followed the one nearest to northeast, and for the reason that her school map had shown that her birthplace lay in this direction. How far away it was, she had not the faintest idea, or whether she could live to reach it. Her sole thought was to escape Greenvale and the humiliating life of dependence there, and when she was so far away that no one could find her, obtain work at some farm-house. All that second day she plodded on that same patient up-hill, down-dale journey, never halting except to pick a few berries, or where a brook crossed the road to obtain a handful of water-cress or some sweet-flag buds. Now and then villages were passed, again it was country sparsely settled, where farm-houses were wide apart, and when this day was waning, even these had vanished and she found herself in almost a wilderness once more. Hills now met her already weary feet; they seemed never ending, for as the crown of one was reached, another met her eyes. The roadway also became badly gulled, always stony, with grass growing in the hollows. By now she was faint and dizzy from two days' fasting, and so footsore that she could scare limp along. So far her defiant pride had kept her from begging food, but now that was weakening, and at the next house she would have asked a morsel. But no next house came. Only the same scrub growth along the wayside with now and then a patch of forest, with never a fence even, to indicate human ownership. The sun had now vanished. Already the stretches of forest were shadowy, and as Chip reached the apex of another long hill, beyond and far below she could see another darkened valley. Night seemed creeping up from it to meet her. Not a house, not even a fence or recent clearing—only the unending tangle of green growth and this dark vale beyond. "I guess I'll starve 'fore I find another house," poor Chip muttered, and then as the utter desolation of her situation and surroundings were realized for a moment, her defiant courage gave way. For two days and half a night she had plodded on without food and with scarce a moment's rest. Her feet were blistered, her eyes smarted from sun and dust, her head swam. She was miles away from any human habitation, footsore, weary and despondent, with night enclosing her—a homeless wolf, still clinging to the small bundle that contained her all. But now as she crouched by the roadside, too exhausted to move on, the memory of those three days and nights of horror, one year ago, came to her. Her plight was bad enough now, but nothing to compare with what it was then, and as all the terror and desperation of that mad flight now returned, it renewed her courage. "I ain't so bad off as I was then," she said. "I'm sure of finding a house to-morrow." And now, as if this moment marked the turning point of her fortunes, from far down the hill she had climbed came the faint creak, creak, and jolting sound of an ascending wagon. Slowly it neared, until just at the hilltop where Chip sat, the fired horse halted, and its driver saw her rise almost beside the wagon. "Mister," she said, "I'm nearly tuckered out and "bout starved. Won't you please give me a lift an a chance to earn my vittles for a day or two?" The man gave a low whistle. "Why sartin, sartin," he answered in a moment, "but who be ye? I thought for a minute ye was a sperit. Git up here," he added, without waiting for a reply and moving to make room. Then as Chip obeyed, he chirped to his horse and down the hill they rattled. "Who might be ye, girlie, an 'whar'd ye come from?" he asked again, as they came to another ascent and the horse walked. "My name's Verna, Vern—Raymond," answered Chip, "an I run away from where I was livin'." "That's curis," answered the old man, glancing at her; "what'd ye run away from, some poor farm." "No, sir," replied Chip, almost defiantly, "but I guess I was a sort o' pauper. I was livin' with folks that fetched me out of the woods an 'was schoolin' me, and I couldn't stand it, so I run away. I don't want to tell where they be, or where I came from either," she added in a moment, "for I don't want them ever to find me." "Wal, that's a proper sort o' foolin'," responded the man, still looking at his passenger, "an' I don't mind. I live down beyond here in what's called the Holler. Somebody called it Peaceful Valley once. We'll take keer o'ye to night'n' to morr we'll see what's best to be done. I guess ye need a hum 'bout ez bad ez a body kin, anyway." And so Chip McGuire, waff of the wilderness and erstwhile protege of a philanthropic woman, as Vera Raymond found another home, and began still another life with this old farmer, Judson Walker, and his wife Mandy. But a sorrow deeper far than Chip ever realized fell upon Aunt Comfort when her brimming eyes read her note the morning after her flight. I can't stand Hannah or being a pauper any longer. She as good as told me to go to school. She thought of it. She said I wasn't good enough for Roxy, either, and that was the reason I didn't go to school soon. I know I ain't good for nothin' nor nobody, but I didn't ask to be fetched. I didn't ask to be fetched never to come back. If ever I can, I will pay you and all of my Ive eat them. Good-bye forever. CHAPTER XXI. When the sun rose again and Chip awoke, she scare knew where she was. Outside, and almost reaching the one window of her little room, was the top of an apple tree in full bloom. Below she could hear ducks quacking, now and then a barnyard monarch's defiant crow, from farther away came the rippling sound of running water, and as she lay and listened to the medley, a robin lit on the treetop not ten feet away and chirped as he peered into her window. A scent of lavender mingled with apple blossoms became noticeable; then the few and very old-fashioned fittings of the room,—a chest of drawers with little brass handles, over it a narrow mirror with gilt frame, two wood-seated chairs painted blue, and white muslin curtains draped away from the window. And now, conscious that she was in some strange place, back in an instant came the three days of her long, weary tramp, the nights when she had slept in a sheep barn and in a deserted dwelling, and at last, faint, footsore, and almost hopeless, she had been rescued from another night with only the sky for a roof. Then the quiet old man, so much like Old Cy, whom she had accosted, the rattling, bumping ride down into this valley, and the halt where a cheery light beamed its welcome and a motherly woman made it real. It was all so unexpected, so satisfying, so protective of herself, that Chip could hardly realize how it had come about. No questions had been asked of her here. These two quaint old people had taken her as she was—dusty, dirty and travel-worn. She had bathed and been helped to an ample meal and shown to this sweet-smelling room as if she had been their own daughter. "They must be awful kind sort o' people," Chip thought, and then creeping out of bed she dressed, and taking her stockings and sadly worn shoes in hand softly descended the stairs. No one seemed astir anywhere. The ticking of a tail clock in the sitting-room was the only sound, the back door was wide open, and out of this Chip passed, and seating herself on a bench, began putting on stockings and shoes. This was scarce done ere she heard a step and saw the old man emerge from the same door. "Wal, Pattycake, how air ye?" he asked, smiling. "I heared ye creepin' downstairs like a mouse, but I was up, n' bourd dressed. Hope ye slept well. It's Sunday," he added, without waiting for a reply, "an' we don't git up quite so arly ex usual. Ye can help Mandy 'bout breakfast now, if ye like, n' I'll do the milkin'." And this marked the entry of Chip into the new home, and outlined her duties. No more questions were asked of her. She was taken at her own valuation—a needy girl, willing to work for her board, insisting on it. and yet, in a few days, so hospitable were these people and so winsome was Chip, that she stepped into their affection, as it were, almost without effort. "I don't think we best quiz her much." Uncle Jud (as he was known) said to his wife that first night. "I found her on the top o' Bangall biff, where she riz up like a ghost. She A man fishing in a river. Watched Her Second Old Cy Pulling Towed she run away from somewhat, but where 'twas, she didn't want to tell. My 'pinion is thar's a love 'fair at the bottom on all'; but whether it's so or not, it ain't none' o' our business. She needs a home, sartin sure. She says she means to airn her keep, which is the right sperit, an' long as she minds us, she kin have it." That Chip "arned her keep" and something more was soon evinced, for in two weeks it was "Aunt Mandy" and "Uncle Jud" from her, and "Patty" or "Pattycake," the nickname given her that first morning from them. More than that, so rapidly had she won her way here that by now Uncle Jud had visited the Riggsville store, some four miles down this valley, and materials for two dresses, new shoes, a broad sun hat, and other much-needed clothing were bought for Chip. Neither was it all one-sided, for these people, well-to-do in their isolated home, were also quite alone. Their two boys had grown up, gone away and married, and had homes of their own, and the company of a bright and winsome girl like Chip was needed in this home. Her adoption and acceptance of it were like a small stream flowing into a larger one, for the reason that these people were almost primitive in location and custom. "We don't go to meetin' Sundays," Uncle Jud had explained that first day after breakfast. "We're agorin heatheen, I s'pose; but then agorin, thair n' no chance. Thar used to be meetin' down to the Corners, 'n' a parson; but he only got four hundred a year, an hard work to collect that, 'n so he gin the job up. Since then the meetin' house has kinder gone to pieces, 'n the Corner folks use it now for storin' tools. We observe Sundays here by bein' sorter lazy, 'n I go fishin' some or nickin' jerries." And then Uncle Jud was so much like Old Cy in ways and speech that her heart was won. And besides these blessings, the old farm house, hidden away between two ranges of wooded hills, seemed so out of the world and so secure from observation that she felt that no one from Greenvale ever could or would discover her. She had meant to hide herself from all who knew her, had changed her name for that purpose, and here and now it was accomplished. That first Sunday, also, became a halcyon one for her, after chores, in the performance of which Chip made herself useful, Uncle Jed took his fish-pole, and giving her the basket to carry, led the way to the brook, and for four bright sunny hours, Chip knew not the lapse of time while she watched the leaping, laughing stream, and her second Old Cy pulled trout from each pool and cascade. And so her new life began. But the change was not made without some cost to her feelings, for heartstrings reach far, and Miss Philney and her months of patient teaching were not forgotten. Aunt Comfort and her benign face oft returned to Chip, "and dear Old Cy," as she always thought of him, still oftener. Ray's face also lingered in her heart. Now and then she caught herself humming some darky song, and never once old the moon smile into this quiet vale that her thoughts did not speed back to that wildwood lake, with its rippled path of silver, the dark bordering forest, and how she wielded a paddle while her young lover picked his banjo. No word or hint of all this bygone life and romance ever fell from her lips. It was a page in her memory that must never be turned—an idyl to be forgotten—and yet forget it she could not, in spite of will or wishes. And now as the summer days sped by, and Chip helping Uncle Jud in the meadows or Aunt Mandy about the house, and winning love from both, saw a new realm open before her. There was in the sitting room of this quaint home a tall bookcase, its shelves filled with a motley collection of books; works on science, astronomy, geology, botany, and the like; books of travel and adventure; stories of strange countries and people never heard of by Chip; and novels by Scott, Lever, Cooper, and Hardy. These last, especially Scott and Cooper, appealed most to Chip, and once she began them, every spare hour, and often until long past midnight, she became lost in this new world. "I know all about how folks live in the woods," she said one Sunday to Uncle Jud, when half through "The Deerslayer." "I was brought up there. I know how Injuns live, and what they believe. I had an old Injun friend once. I've got the moc- asins and fur cape he gave me now. His name was Tomah, 'n he believed n queer things that sometimes creep an' sometimes run faster' we can' It was her first reference to her old life, but once begun, she never paused until all her queer history had been related. "I didn't mean to tell it," she explained in conclusion, "for I don't want nobody to know where I came from, an' I hope you won't tell." How near she came to disclosing what was of far more importance to herself and those people than old Tomah's superstition she never knew, or that all that saved her was her reference to Old Cy by that name only. More than that, she had no suspicion that this kindly old man, so much like him in looks and speech, was his brother. With the coming of September, however, a visitor was announced: "Aunt Abby's comin' to stay with us a spell." Uncle Jud said that day: "she's Mandy's sister, Abigail Bemis, an' she lives at Christmas Cove. It's a shore town, 'bout a hundred miles from here. She ain't much like Mandy," he added confidentially to Chip: "she's more book larned, so you'll have to mind your p's and q's. If ye like, ye can go with me to the station to meet her." And so it came to pass that a few days later Chip, dressed in her best, rode to the station with Uncle Jud in the old carryall, and there met this visitor. She was not a welcome guest, so far as Chip was concerned, wonted as she had now become to Uncle Jud and Aunt Mandy, whose speech, like her own, was not "book larned," and for this reason Chip felt afraid of her. So much so, in fact, that for a few days she scarce dared to speak at all. Her timidity wore away in due time, for Aunt Abby—a counterpart of her sister—was in no wise awe inspiring. She saw Chip as she was, and soon felt an interest in her and her peculiar history, or what was known of it. She also noted Chip's interest in books, and guessing more than she had been told, was not long in forming correct conclusions. "What do you intend to do with this runaway girl?" she said one day to her sister, "keep her here and let her grow up in ignorance, or what?" "Wal, we wein't thought much about that," responded Mandy, "at least not yet. She ain't got no relations to look arter her, so far ez we kin larn. She's company for us, 'n' willin' Uncle Jude sets lots of store by her. She is with him from morn till night, and handy at all sorts o' work. This is how 'tis with us here, an' now what do you say?" For a moment Aunt Abby meditated. "You ought to do your duty by her," she said at last, "and she certainly needs more schooling." "We can send her down to the Corners when school begins, if you think we orter," returned her sister, timidly; but we hate to lose her now. We've kniek took to her, you see." "I hardly think that will do," answered Aunt Abby, knowing as she did that the three R's comprised the full extent of an education at the Corners. "What she needs is a chance to mingle with more people than she can here, and learn the ways of the world, as well as books. Her mind is bright. I notice she is reading every chance she can get, and you know my ideas about education. For her to stay here, even with schooling at the Corners, is to let her grow up like a hoyden. Now what would you think if I took her back to Christmas Cove? There is a better school there. She will meet and mingle with more people, and improve faster." "I dunno what Judson'll say," returned Aunt Mandy, somewhat sadly. "He's got so wonted to her, he'll be heart-broke, I'm afraid." And so the consultation closed. The matter did not end here for Aunt Abby, "sot in her way," as Uncle Jud had often said, yet in reality only advocating what she felt was best for the homeless waft, now began a persuasive campaign. She enlarged on Christmas Cove, its excellent school and capable master, its social advantages and cultured people, who boasted a public library and debating society, and especially its summer attractions, when a few dozen city peo solowrung there. Its opportunities for church going also came in for praise, though if this worthy woman had known how Chip felt about that feature, it would have been left unmentioned. "The girl needs religious influence and contact with believers, as well as schooling," she said later to Aunt Mandy, "and that must be considered. Here she can have none, and will grow up a heathen. I certainly think she ought to go back with me for a year or two, at least, and then we can decide what is best." "There's one thing ye ain't thought 'bout,' Mandy answered, "an' that's her sense o' obligation. From what she's told me, 'twas that that made her run away from what she was, 'n' she'd run away from here if she didn't feel she was earnin' her keep. She's peculiar in that way, 'n' can't stand feelin' she's dependezt. How you goin' to get round that?" "Just as you do," returned Aunt Abby, not at all disguised. "We live about as you do, as you know, only Mr. Bemis has the mill; and she can help me about the house, as she does here." But Chip's own consent to this new plan was the hardest to obtain. "I'll do just as Uncle Jud wants me to," she responded, when Aunt Abby proposed the change; "but I'd hate to go 'way from here. It's all the real sort o' home I've ever known, and they've been so good to me I'll have to cry when I leave it. You'd let me come here once in awhile, wouldn't ye? As she seemed ready to cry at this moment, Aunt Abby wisely dropped the subject then and there; in fact, she did not allude to it again in Chip's presence. But Aunt Abby carried her point with the others. Uncle Jud consented very reluctantly. Aunt Mandy also yielded after much more persuasion, BEY YARNET SATURDAY...JUNE 13,1908 and when Aunt Abby's visit terminated poor Chip's few belongings were packed in a new telescope case; she kissed Aunt Mandy, unable to speak, and this tearful parting was repeated at the station with Uncle Jud. When the train had vanished he wiped his eyes on his coat sleeves, climbed into his old carryall, and drove away disconsolate. "Curis, curis, how a gal like that 'un'll work her way into a man's feelin's" he said to himself. "It alm't been three months since I picked her up, n' now her goin' away seems like pullin' my heart out." CHAPTER XXII. Christmas Cove had entered its autumn lethargy when Aunt Abby Bomis and her new protege reached it. Capt. Bomis, who "never had no say 'bout nothin'," but who had cooked his own meals uncomplainingly for three weeks, emerged white-dusted from the mill to greet the arrivals, and Chip was soon installed in a somewhat bare room overlooking the cove. Everything seemed slightly chilly to her here. This room, with its four-posted bed, blue painted chairs, light blue shades, and dark blue straw matting, the leafless elms in front, the breeze that swept in from the sea, and even her reception, seemed cool. Her heart was not in it. Try as she would, she could not yet feel one spark of affection for this "book learned" Aunt Abby, who had already begun to reprove her for lapses of speech. It was all so different from the home life she had just left; and as Chip had now begun to notice and feel trifles the relations of the people seemed chilly as the room to which she was consigned. When Sunday came—a sunless one with leaden sky and cold wind bearing the ocean's moaning—Chip felt herself back at Greenvale with its Sundays, for now she was stared at the moment she entered the church. The singing was, of course, of the same solemn character, the minister's prayers even longer, and the preaching as incomprehensible as in Greenvale. With her advent at school Monday came something of the same trouble met at Greendale, for the master, a wezen, dried-up little old man, who wore a wig and seemed to exude rules and discipline, lacked the kindly interest of Miss Phintny. Chip, almost a mature young lady, was aligned with girls and boys of 10 and 12, and once more the same shame and humiliation had be endured. It wore away in time, however, for she had made almost marvelous progress under Miss Phlinney. Her mind was keen and quick, and once at study again, she astonished Mr. Bell, the master. Something of her old fearless self-reliance now came to her aid, also. It had made her dare 60 miles of wilderness alone and helpless, it had spurred her to escape Greenvale and her sense of being a dependent puper, and now that latent force for good or ill still nursed her. But Christmas Cove did not quit her. The sea that drew her eyes with its vastness seemed to awe her. The great house, brown and moss-coated where she lived, was barnlike, and never quite warm enough. The long street she traversed four times daily was bleak and wind-swept. Aunt Abby was austere and lacking in cordiality; and Sundays—well, Sundays were Chip's one chief aborrence. Another influence — an insidious heart hunger she could not put away—now added to her loneliness in the new life. It carried her thoughts back to the rippled, moonlit lake, where Ray had picked his banjo and sung to her; even back to that first night by the camp-fire when she had watched and listened to him in rapt admiration. It thrilled her as naught else could when she recalled the few moments at the lake men, unconscious of the need of restraint, she had let him caress her. Then the long days of watching for his return were lived over, and the one almost ecstatic moment when he had leaped from the stage and over the wall, with no one in sight, while he held her in his arms. And then—and this hurt the most—that last evening before they were to part again, when beside the firefly-lit mill pond he had the chance to say so much and said—nothing! It was all a bitter-sweet memory, which she tried to put away forever the night she left Greenvale. She was now Vera Raymond. No one could trace her; and yet, so at odds were her will and her heart, there still lingered the faint hope that Ray would sometime and homehow find her out. And so, studying faithfully, often lonesome, now and then longing for the bygone days with Ray and Old Cy, and always hoping that she might some time return to Peaceful Valley, Chip passed the winter at Christmas Cove. Something of success came to her through it all. She reached and retained head positions in her classes. A word of praise came occasionally from Mr. Bell. Aunt Abby grew less austere and seemed to have a little pride in her. She became acquainted with other people and in touch with young folks, was invited to parties and sleigh-rides. The vernacular of Tim's Place left her, and even Sundays were less a torture, in fact, almost a pleasure, for then she saw most of the young people she mingled with, and now and then exchanged a bit of gossip. Her own dress became of more interest to her. Aunt Abby, fortunately for Chip, felt desirous that her ward should appear well, and Chip, thus educated and polished in village life, to a degree at least, fulfilled Aunt Abby's hopes. Another success also came to her, for handsome as she undeniably was, with her big, appealing eyes, her splendid black hair, and well-rounded form, the young men began to seek her. One became persistent, and when spring had unlocked the long, curved bay once more, Chip had become almost a leader in the little circle of young people. Her life with those who had taken her in charge also became more harmonious. In fact, something of affection began to leaven it, for the reason that never once had Aunt Abby questioned Chip as to her past. Aunt Mandy and Uncle Jud had both cautioned her as to its unwisdom, and she was broad and charitable enough to let it remain a closed book until such time as Chip was willing to open it; and for this, more than all else that she received, Chip felt grateful. But one day it came out—or at least a portion of it. "I suppose you have often wondered where I was born, and who my parents wore." Chip said, one Sunday afternoon, when she and Aunt Abby were alone, "and I want to thank you for never asking." And then, omitting much, she briefly outlined her history. "I was born close to the wilderness," she said, "and my mother died when I was about eight years old. Then my father took me into the woods, where I worked at a kind of a boarding house for lumbermen. I ran away from that when I was about 16. I had to; the reasons I don't want to tell. I found some people camping in the woods when I'd been gone three days and 'most starved. They felt pity for me, I guess, and took care of me. I stayed at their camp that summer, and then they fetched me home with them and I was sent to school. Somebody said something to me, there somebody who hated me. She had been pestering me all the time, and I ran away. Uncle Jud found me and took care of me until you came, and that's all I want to tell. I could tell a lot more, but I don't ever want those people to find me or take me back where they live, and that's why I don't tell where I came from. Then I felt I was so dependent on them—I was twisted of it—that it's another reason why I ran away. I wouldn't have stayed with Uncle Jud more than over night except that I had a chance to work and earn my board." "But wasn't it unkind of you—itn't now—not to let these people know you are alive?" answered Aunt Abby. "They were certainly good to you." "I know that they were," returned Chip, somewhat contritely; "but I couldn't stand being dependent on them any longer. If they found where I was, they'd come and fetch me back; and I'd feel so ashamed I couldn't look 'em in the face. I'd rather they'd think I was dead." "Well, perhaps it is best you do not," returned Aunt Abby, sighing; "but years of doubt, and not knowing whether some one we care for is dead or alive, are hard to bear. And now that you have told me some of your history, I will tell you a lifelong case of not knowing some one's fate. Many years ago my sister and myself, who were born here, became acquainted with two young men, sailor boys from Bayport, named Cyrus and Judson Walker. Cyrus became attached to me and we were engaged to marry. It never came to pass, however, for the ship that Judson was captain of, with Cyrus as first mate, foundered at sea. All hands took to the two boats. The one Judson was in picked up, but the other was never heard of afterward. In due time Judson and my sister Amanda married. He gave up a sailor's life, and they settled down where they now live. I waited many years, vainly hoping for my sweetheart's return, and finally, realizing that he must be dead, married Capt. Bemis. That all happened so long ago that I do not care to count the years; and yet all through them has lingered that pitiful thread of doubt and uncertainty, that vain hope that somehow and someway Cyrus may have escaped death and may return. I know it will never happen. I know he is dead; and yet I cannot put away that faint hope and quite believe it is so, and never shall so long as I live. Now you have left those who must have cared something for you in much the same pitiful state of doubt, and it is not right." For one moment something almost akin to horror flashed over Chip. "And was he called—was he never—I mean this brother, ever heard from?" she stammered, recovering herself in time. "Why, no," answered Aunt Abby, looking at her curiously, "of course not. Why, what ails you? You look as if you'd seen a ghost." "Oh, nothing," returned Chip, now more composed; "only the story and how strange it was." It ended the conversation, for Chip, so overwhelmed by the flood of possibilities contained in this story, dared not trust herself longer with Aunt Abby, and soon escaped to her room. And now circumstances came trooping upon her; the shipwreck, which she had heard Old Cy describe so often; the name she knew was really his; the almost startling resemblance to Uncle Jud in speech, ways, and opinions; and countless other proofs. Surely it must be so. Surely Old Cy, of charming memory, and Uncle Jud no less so, must be brothers, and now it was in her power to—and then she paused, shocked at the position she faced. She was now known as Vera Raymond, and respected; she had cut loose forever from the old shame of an outlaw's child; of a wretched drudge at Tim's Place; of being sold as a slave; and all that now made her blush. And then Ray! Full well she knew now what must have been in his heart that last evening and why he acted as he did. Hannah had told her the bitter truth, as THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA she had since realized. Ray had been assured that she was an outcast, and despicable in the sight of Greenvale. He dared not say "I love you; be my wife." Instead, he had been hurried away to keep them apart; and as all this dire flood of shame that had driven her from Greenvale surged in her heart, the bitter tears came. In calmer moments, and when the heart-hunger controlled, she had hoped he might some day find her and some day say, "I love you." But now, so soon, to make herself known, to tell who she was, to admit to these new friends that she was Chip McGuire with all that went with it, to have to face and live down that shame, to admit that she had taken Ray's first name for her own—no, no, a thousand times no! But what of Old Cy and Uncle Jud, and their life-long separation? Truly her footsteps had led her to a parting of the ways, one sign-board lettered "Duty and Shame," the other a blank. TO BE CONTINUED TAKING THE VEIL She took the veil; from earth's rough storm She thus withdrew And all the beauties of her form Concealed from view. Her hair which rippled in the light No eye could mark. Enveloped was her figure quite In habit dark. And yet I know she did not set The world apart. Mere mundane matters charmed her yet, Still beat her heart. She climbed aboard, down hill and dale Away we apunt! I blessed the day she took the veil, My auto nun. —McLandburg Wilson, in Puck. CHEERFUL THOUGHTS. Evelyn—I am in the blues to-day. I never felt so miserable. Myrtle—Why, I can always cheer myself up thinking what beautiful clothes I could buy if I only had the money. 8 Easy. Said Stella to Bella, "When I go to skate I'm perfect at cutting A beautiful S." Said Bella to Stella, That's easy to do. Considering, dearest, The size of your shoe." —McLandburgh Wilson, in Judge. Disappointing. You could read the womanly woman's disappointment in her moist eye and quivering lip. "What is it?" we gently asked, while our hearts went out to her. "My husband's present to me," she faltered. "Is it not what you expected?" "No; only what I told him I expected." Of course we felt for her. Why, we asked ourselves, did such dense men presume to marry?—Puck. The Danger Sign. "When you see a woman with a towel around her head beating a carpet with a broom," remarked the spring philosopher, "do you know what it is the sign of?" "Yes," responded the man who had left home to escape house cleaning; "it means it is time to take to the tall timber unless you wish her to wield the broom against you instead of the carpet."—Chicago Daily News. No Great Curiosity "Over in the Cairo museum," remarked the man who likes to tell about his travels, "I saw the ashes of the Egyptians." "That's nothing," laughed his friend as he emptied a small saucer; "here is a handful of the ashes of the Egyptians." "What!" "Yes, Egyptian cigarettes."—Chicago Daily News. Would Be Needed Assistant (to country editor)—How's this obituary? Editor—Why, it's my own. "Yes. That Haskins chap—the dead shot—was in here yesterday looking for you with a gun and I thought if anything should happen you might like to correct the proofs beforehand."—Life Called Reggy—Bah Jove, I told my tailor I'd like to marry some rich girl and become interested in settlement work. Percy—What did he say? Reggy—He said I'd better get to work and make a settlement on that suit I bought two years ago.—Chicago Daily News. Something Unusual Rounder—I am afraid my liver is getting out of order. Rounder—What makes you think so? Rounder—I was worrying about my debts this morning. In Chicago. Dearborn—Is he following in the footsteps of his father? Wabash—Oh, yes; his father had six wives, and the son has had four so far. -Yonkers Statesman. M'NICHOL ARRESTED M'NICHOL ARRESTED New Political Sensation Stirs Philadelphia. MAYOR'S SECRETARY INVOLVED Declares Contractor's Story That He Fleeced Him Out of $10,000 During Reform Campaign In 1905 Is a Malicious Lie. Philadelphia, June 3. — A political sensation that aroused the entire city was caused by the issuing of a warrant for Senator James P. McNichol, the Republican leader, on a charge of criminal libel preferred by Max Kaufmann, secretary to Mayor Reyburn. Kaufmann's action followed the making public of a letter written to Secretary D. Clarence Gibboney, of the Law and Order society, in which Senator McNichol named Kaufmann as a go-between to whom he had paid $10,000 in the fall of 1905, with the understanding that Gibboney was to raid gambling houses and other resorts and discredit the administration of Mayor John Weaver. The developments which promise to provide sensational food for gossip in political circles for some time to come followed utterances made by Senator McNichol at a banquet last week, in which he told of having paid with others the sum of $10,000 to an agent of Gibboney to have the Weaver administration shown up. Though the money was paid over, Senator McNichol said the promised exposure of conditions in the city in 1905 had not been made and the money had never been returned to him. Secretary Gibboney wrote a letter to Senator McNichol subsequent to the speech, in which he denied knowledge of any transaction involving the $10,000, and called upon McNichol to make public the name of the person to whom the money had been paid. In compliance with that request Senator McNichol sent a letter to the Law and Order secretary naming Max Kaufmann as the man who had received the money. He explained in the letter that the money was paid to Kaufmann in the presence of one of his clerks and another politician, and that before paying over the money he had consulted with United States Senator Boles Penrose, Israel W, Durham and others who knew all about the transaction. He says that he believed that Kaufmann was authorized to represent Mr. Gibboney, because Kaufmann told him so. Kaufmann, who was formerly a political reporter and in close touch with Mr. Gibboney, denies that he ever received $10,000 from McNichol, and declares the story to be a willful, malicious lie. He further adds that prior to writing the letter to Mr. Gibboney, Senator McNichol came to the mayor's office on Monday and made two propositions to him in consideration of his assuming a position to substantiate the story of the alleged payment of $10,000. Kaufmann says he invited McNichol to leave the office and frankly told him he would have to go elsewhere to find a "goat." Kaufmann also points out the fact that he was appointed secretary to Mayor Reyburn with the approval of McNichol a year and a half after the alleged transaction. Former Judge James Gay Gordon has been retained by Kaufmann as counsel in the case against McNichol. Chester Cars Dynamited Chester, Pa., June 3.—The disorder that has marked the strike of the Chester Traction company employees for several weeks was renewed when three of the company's trolley cars were blown up by dynamite. Two cars were wrecked on Saville avenue, Eddystone, and a third at Palmer's corner, on the Media division outside the city. The car at this point was blown to pieces, and when a squad of deputy sheriffs reached the scene they arrested the crew of the car, on which there had been no passengers. The roof was blown off of one of the cars dynamited at Eddystone. One end was rent asunder on the others. There were two passengers on one of the cars, but neither was hurt. The crews of the cars fled across the fields to escape the strike sympathizers. Heavy Cut Made In Price of Steel Bars Cleveland, June 3.—A cut of $4 a ton in bar steel went into effect Tuesday. A rumor that such a cut was authorized at a meeting of a committee of the bar steel manufacturers in New York was confirmed by John R. Scott, manager of the Carnegie Steel company. The new price goes into effect at once, but will effect only manufacturers' stock. The cut is based upon the Pittsburgh rate of $1.60 per hundred pounds. The new price is $1.40 per hundred. Fourteen Dying From Trichinous Pork Franklinville, N. Y., June 3—Fourteen persons in this village who ate of trichinous pork are at death's door. The family of Arthur Melrose is in danger of being wiped out. While the double funeral of Mrs. Arthur Melrose and Mrs. James Melrose was being held, other members of the family fell into a stupor from infection, and one of the children went into convulsions. Just after the funeral Arthur Melrose collapsed and his death is expected. Killed Drunken Husband Wilkes-Barre, Pa., June 8.—Driven to desperation by the taunts of her drunken husband, Mrs. Emma Sendix, a Slavish woman, of Pringle hill, this county, fatally shot her husband. The woman is the mother of seven children. 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New York, June 3.—Reports of a brightening financial and industrial outlook reached this city from various quarters, and although no swift return of prosperity was suggested, there was considerable evidence that the "give-us-a-rest" campaign is already having a reassuring effect. The arrival of twenty buyers from one St. Louis dry goods house was one fact which the dry goods houses of this city considered an unusually favorable sign. In a presidential year and following a period of hard times this rush to buy is regarded as significant. The news that nearly 20,000 men returned to work in St. Louis, after having been out of jobs for several months, was another indication of the returning confidence in the west. Another sign of the success of the National Prosperity association in obtaining an industrial revival was the ordering of $5,000,000 worth of materials and goods in the last few days by St. Louis companies in an effort to stimulate trade throughout the country. There was favorable news from the south as well. At Birmingham, Ala., 8000 men will resume work in the course of the week, and at Bristol, Va., it was announced that 1000 coke ovens would be put in Operation again after a shutdown of several weeks. ENTERED DEATH PACT Wilkes-Barre, Pa., Couple Agreed to Die Together. Wilkes-Barre, Pa., June 3—Sebastian Guyla, a clerk in a wholesale liquor house in this city, and Mrs. Anna Kares, a married woman, whose husband had deserted her, entered into a death pact. Both were found dead in a room in the house of the woman at Kingston, near here. They had made all preparations for the tragedy being dressed in holiday attire and wearing buttonhole bouquets. Both left letters saying they loved each other, but owing to the fact that the husband of the woman was still alive they realized they could not get married and they concluded to give up life. The man shot the woman first and then turned the revolver on himself. SCRANTON MAN MURDERED Body of John Warner Found Floating in Canal at Weverton, Md. Hagerstown, Md., June 3.—The body of John Warner, thirty-five years old, of Scranton, Pa., was found floating in the Chesapeake and Ohio canal at Weverton, this county. Marks on the left side of the face and temple indicate that Warner probably was murdered and his body thrown into the canal. A card found on the bank nearby contained the name of John Warner, member of local 71, Boilermakers' union, Scranton, Pa., registered in sublodge at Elizabeth City, N. J. There was also a membership card in the Rod and Gun club of Allegheny City, Pa. Club Man Acquitted of Murder Washington, June 3.—Gaston P. Philip, civil engineer and club man of New York and Washington, was acquitted of the murder of Frank MacAboy, a cab driver, by a jury in criminal court No. 2 here. Philip was tried on the charge of having shot and killed MacAboy at the Arlington hotel in this city on the morning of May 18, 1907. MacAboy, it is said, claimed that Philip owed him a $150 gambling debt, and importted Philip to throw dice with him in order to "win the money back," as he put it. Finally, the two men went to the Arlington hotel. There MacAboy attacked Philip, it is said, and the latter, fearing serious bodily harm, fired the shot that killed MacAboy. New Heir Soon For Spanish King. Madrid, June 3.—The Official Gazette announced that Queen Victoria is expected to give birth to a baby at the end of this month. KEEPS SCALP FRESH CLEAN AND WHOLE- SOME MAKES HAIR GROW LONG AND LUXURIOUS HE FELT GRATEFUL. The ticket man at the theater had just opened up for business when a fellow hurried into the lobby and passed a cigar through the window with the remark: "Have a smoke on me, old chap." "What's this for?" asked the man in the box office. "For past favors," was the reply. "Those were excellent seats you gave me and a lady friend last night." "Oh, I see." "Yes, sir," he continued, "and I really ought to make it half a dozen weeds, considering what you did for me." "Well, I'm glad you liked the seats," said the ticket man. "Let's see, didn't I place you in F, Nos. 2 and 4?" "No, sir; in R, 10 and 12." "In R, 10 and 12? Then—then this is a bit of sarcasm on your part?" "Not at all, sir—not at all," replied the other earnestly. "There is a thick post between those seats, you know?" "Yes; that's why I thought—" "That's why I liked them," he interrupted. "That old maid with me got sentimental after the third act and started to make me a leap year proposal, but I kept her dodging around the post until the curtain went up again and I was saved. Here, have another."—A. B. Lewis, in Judge The Smell Does It. Mrs. Reed—Do you know we were overrun with moths in our parlor. Mrs. Greene—Yes, I heard so be fore. "Haven't one since we got our auto mobile." "Why, how is that, do you suppose?" 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Lease Byrd Railway Station, Richmond. In effect December 1, 1907. For Norfolk-9:00 A. M. 3:00 P. M. and 7:20 P. M. daily. For Newbury, the West and Southwest-9:00 A. M. 12:10 P. M., and 9:40 P. M. daily. ARRIVE RICHMOND-From Norfolk-11:30 A. M. and 6:50 P. M. daily. From the West-1:40 A. M. and 6:50 P. M. daily. Pullihan, Parlor and Sleeping Cars. Café Dining Car. B. BEVILL. C. H. BOSLEY, Gen. Pass. Agent. Div. Pass. Art. Southern Ry TRAINS LEAVE RICHMOND. N. B—Following schedule figures published as information, and are numbered: 6:20 A. M—Daily—Local for Charlotte. 11:00 A. M—Daily—Limited—Buffet Pullman to Memphis, Birmingham, New Orleans, Memphis, Chattanooga, and all the South Through coach for Chase City, Orford, Durham. 6:00 P. M—Sunday—Keyville Local. 11:30 P. M—Daily—Limited Pullman read 9:20 P. M for all the South YORK RIVER LINE 4:30 P M—Ex. Sunday—To West Point—Go Friday for Baltimore Monday, Wednesday and Friday—2:15 P M—Monday, Wednesday and Friday— 4:30 A M—Ex. 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SATURDAY.....JUNE 13, 1908. We received an invitation to the Eighteenth Annual Commencement of the Manchester Colored High School, June 15, 1908. --- We return thanks for an invitation to the twentieth anniversary of the marriage of Major General and Mrs R. R. Jackson, which took place May 28, 1908 at 245 Thirty-seventh St. Chicago, Ill. --- We received an invitation to the exercisees of the Hartshorn Memorial College, May 26-27th, 1908. This great institution is under the leadership of Rev. L. B. Tefft, D. D., Pres. No better place in the country can be selected for the training and education of young girls. We have received an invitation to the twelfth annual meeting of the Hampton Negro Conference June 18 and 17, 1908, the kindness of the local committee: Messrs. H. B. Frisell, R. R. Moton, W. T. B. Williams, T. C. Walker and Thomas Jesse Jones. Secretary. --- We have received an invitation to the annual commencement of Hofward University, Washington, D. C. May 27, 1908, the kindness of Miss Julia E. Brooks, who graduated in the College of Liberal Arts. She is the accomplished daughter of Rev. Dr. and Mrs. W. H. Brooks. --- Dr. Booker T. Washington announces that next year he suggests that the colored people of the country have a John Brown celebration in memory of his death, which took place December 2d, just fifty years from that date. The suggestion is a good one and we hope that the colored people will proceed to arrange for the occasion. --- We have received an invitation to attend the Commencement Exercises of Cornell University at Ithaca, New York, the kindness of Mr. E. Kinckle Jones of this city, who graduates upon that occasion. He is the son of Prof, and Mrs. J. E. Jones and he has made a most remarkable record at this great institution of learning. He will now devote his energies to the practical side of life. Hon. Harry S. Cummings, member of the First Branch of the City Council of Baltimore, Md. has made quite a record for himself in that body. The Baltimore Sun grudgingly gives him the recognition to which he is entitled. Mr. Cummings is one of the most brilliant men of the race now before the public and the indications are that he will receive deserved recognition at the hands of those who are able to give it in a most generous manner. In this matter, however, he has won encomiums in the matter of securing the enactment of a dog ordinance in Baltimore. REDUCING REPRESENTATION. We have received a copy of an appeal to the southern delegates and to the colored voters north of the Mason and Dixon Line. It is issued by Mr. H. A. Clarke, chairman of the Republican Interstate League, incorporated of Washington, D. C. It calls for the elimination of the plank in the last Republican platform, providing for the reduction of the representation in the Southern States as a result of the disfranchisement of the Negro. Mr. Clarke declares that the enactment of such a law will mean the reduction of representation in the National Republican Convention and will mean the creation and establishment of a political trust. He declares too that it will mean the perpetuation of the Republican Party, the diminution of the strength of the Democratic Party and the elimination of the colored voter in the doubtful states. He declares that it would kill the Democratic Party, the colored citizen and the southern delegate. It seems to us that this is a case of proving too much. If all that Mr. Clarke says is true and the National Republican Party could be made to believe it to be true, the Crumpacker Bill would be a law upon our statute books before the sun rose after the demise of the present Congress. Mr. Clarke is all right in his course so far as it relates to the demand for the enforcement of the Fifteenth Amendment. The Republican Party can give no valid reason for not standing squarely upon this platform, other than the doctrine of expediency and the opposition that would confront the party at the polls. The sentiment of the country at this time is in favor of commercialism as in contravention to human rights and politicians in both parties, who have "their ears to the ground" know this. It is only by the arousing of public sentiment in support of our cause that we can accomplish desired results in this direction The prohibitionists are now enjoying well earned success as a result of this kind of crusading. The William J. Bryan policies have become popular with the Roosevelt brand and it is not at all certain that he will be defeated at his next trial at the polls. The American people are sometimes fickle and what they reject this year, they will approve two years thereafter. We have a notable instance of this in Georgia. The defeat of the Republican Party at the polls next November would do more good, so far as the Republican Party is concerned than all the protests and lectures upon the subject. If it wins in a walk, our condition will be critical for the reason that we shall continue to be the political tin-can tied to the Republican dog's tail, and its only mission will be to worry, while not accomplishing any substantial results. We have been unable to reach a definite conclusion upon this reduction of representation proposition. The Republican leaders seem to want it and the Democratic politicians seem not to want it and so far as we are concerned, we have not been able to care much "which is tother." THE SITUATION AT CHICAGO It is impossible to tell what the result will be of the high-handed proceedings now going on at Chicago in order that Hon. William H. Taft shall secure the necessary number of votes to ensure him the Republican nomination for the Presidency of the United States. The methods now being pursued will undoubtedly return to plague the men now profiting by this mode of procedure. We are afflicted with a bad case of "the man on horse-back," and he is riding down all opposition, apparently forgetful of the fact that there is to be an election at the polls Warning voices are stifled and wisdom is thrown to the winds. Thousands of conservative people throughout the country are having their patience solely tried and that they will be heard from hardly admits of a question. President Roosevelt is making an earnest effort to split the Republican Party and thereby get rid of a certain element that has seriously embarrassed him. He may succeed and should he do so, he will occupy the same position with the Republican Party that Bryan occupies with the Democratic Party. What the business interests now need is rest and they are now "in a strait twixt two." With Bryan in the White House, Roosevelt's attitude will be duplicated. With Taft there, the situation will be almost as bad for Mr. Roosevelt will insist that messages from Mr. Taft shall be sent as often and made just as emphatic as those sent by the commander himself. We are not bolting the Republican THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA ticket before it is nominated and we have not told anybody that we proposed to do so, but already that tired feeling is spreading over our anatomy and making its debilitating effects evident in every nerve and muscle of this faithful body of ours. Most colored people are admitting that they are feeling the same way. HON. WILLIAM E. CHANDLER ON THE OUTLOOK. Despite the fact that it is well-nigh a foregone conclusion that Hon. William H. Taft will be the standard bearer of the Republican Party in the approaching presidential contest, the seven reasons given by Hon. William E. Chandler of New Hampshire as to why he is not available will be carefully studied by conservative people everywhere. Ex-Senator Chandler says first: "On account of the hostility of the colored voters, based, first, upon the Brownsville incident, second, upon the abandonment of the Fifteenth Amendment, the movement for which made by the Democrats in the southern states, Secretary Taft says, is in the right direction; and thirdly, the exclusion of colored voters from the Republican caucuses and conventions in the southern states, the organization of Lily White movements and the practical destruction of the whole Republican party at the south as the policy of the present administration." It will be seen that he regards the hostility of the citizens of color as of primary importance, endangering as it does the success of the Republican Party in the doubtful states. He continues: "The activity of the Federal officeholders, making the whole Taft movement primarily a movement of the present holders of Federal office, backed by the administration, and pushed forward by its direction." This reason is undoubtedly a most potent one and the fact that such a condition exists has tended to disgust conservative voters everywhere. The recent happenings in Chicago, in the contest before the National Republican Committee has emphasized this phase of the situation. The third reason will be information to a large number of people throughout the country and will account for the remarkable expenditure of money in behalf of President Roosevelt's candidate. "The vast expenditure of money in carrying on the canvas, largely that of Charles P. Taft, whose fortune is estimated at twenty-five millions, to be increased by large contributions from organized wealth, the same as in 1904." It took a large proportion of the fortune to nominate him so it is alleged, but it will take a great deal more to elect him. The fourth reason is potent and self-evident: The troubles in Ohio. In order that Taft might be indorsed by the Republican state organization the state nominations were delivered into the hands of the local bosses in Cincinnati, Cleveland, Columbus, Toledo, and Dayton. Such nominations were made that the Republicans are in revolt against them, so that the state ticket cannot be elected, nor the Presidential." It is an open question as to whether Ohio can be brought in line even with the active support of Senator J. B. Foraker, whose friends are not only luke-warm, but openly hostile. It may be to Senator Foraker's interest not to aspire to the senatorship for the reason that the next legislature may be Democratic. The fifth reason is no doubt of a more far-reaching effect to the nation at large than all of the other combined. Here it is: "The abandonment by the administration of the reform legislation (1) for suppressing trusts, and (2) preventing railroad extortion and crime. This is proved by the two messages of the President, one of January 21, denouncing the trusts, and when that had done its work the message of March 25, surrendering to the trusts in return for assistance in nominating Taft, and by an analysis of the Hepburn trust bill (H. R. 19745), modifying the anti-trust law of 1900, and the anti-pooling bill of 1887." This charge is of transcending importance and this alone if the country can be made to believe it, is sufficient to encompass the defeat of the national ticket at the polls. The sixth reason will appeal to the Democratic Party management as being of the greatest importance: "The opposition to Taft of the labor unions of the country, which seems nearly universal. It may or may not be just but it exists and is ineradicable, and it is tempting fate for the Republican party to make Secretary Taft its one great leader in the face of the organized labor unions of the country." Ex-Senator Chandler knows how to deal sledge-hammer blows in a political contest and he seems to have outlined seven fine memorial epitaphs for Secretary Taft's political tomb-stone. Here is the seventh or rather last one of them: "There now copies a new and special objection to Mr. Taft as a candidate, and that is the combination of his supporters in New York State, with the race track gamblers, led by William Barnes. The movement is one to prevent the passage of the anti-gambling bills, to destroy Governor Hughes as a presidential candidate and to place Secretary Taft in nomination as the race track gamblers' candidate for president. This makes it impossible to carry New York for Taft, so that with New York and Ohio hopeless there can be no reasonable ground for expecting his election, even against Mr. Bryan, much less against Governor Johnson or some other stronger candidate, whom the Democrats of the country may unite upon." Can this be true? If it is true, is not the Ex-Senator's deductions logical and forceful? We have felt just the same way about this matter and we are of the opinion that there is a peculiar significance in the almost universal demand for Hon. William J. Bryan's renomination. It is not the work of office-holders, but it seems to be the spontaneous outburst of the Democratic people. If Mr. Roosevelt's policies are popular then Mr. Bryan's policies are popular and if Mr. Roosevelt is popular on account of these policies then Mr. Bryan should be popular on account of his policies for the policies of both are practically one and the same. Moreover, if Mr. Bryan is elected, he will owe more to Mr. Roosevelt than to any one man living for the reason that he has not only endorsed and put into execution many of Mr. Bryan's ideas, but has taken the distinguished commoner into the White House and entertained him as his guest to the amazement and consternation of the financial world. We may be mistaken, but we do not believe that the financial interests of the country would be as much injured by four years official life of Mr. Bryan as it has been by two years official life of Mr. Roosevelt. With Mr. Roosevelt, the business world has expected something and got nothing but jolts of the most disastrous character. With Mr. Bryan it would expect nothing, and would be prepared for any outburst that might emanate from the White House, while Mr. Bryan was its occupant. Moreover, the Republicans in the United States Senate would be a unit as against Mr. Bryan, while it is a divided house so to speak in support of Mr. Roosevelt. But then, we are Republican in politics and we hope for the success of the Republican ticket nominated at Chicago. Selah. FOR NUMBER TWO "George, dear, what kind of a woman would you marry if you married again?" asked the amiable wife. "Well, if I married again"—began the brutal husband. "Then you acknowledge that you would marry again." "I'm not saying one way or the other, but—" "But you don't give me a definite answer, and that proves—" "That doesn't prove anything, because—" "It does, too! So what kind of a woman would you marry if you married again?" "I wouldn't marry again. I couldn't." "Of course you have to say that." "Of course I do, because I was about to say that if I married again it would be the kind of a woman who would not ask me what kind of a woman I would marry if I married again."—Judge. Point of View. Oh, do not get delirious; About your worries numerous; Things which you are serious To others may seem humorous. —Washington Star. Probably the Kind Reporter—I couldn't get anything out of the detective as to where he got the leading cue but that a little bird told him. Editor—Humph! Possibly one of his stool pigeons—Paltimore American. --- — Extract from Senator Foraker's great speech in defense of the "Black Battallon." Another reason why this duty should not be intrusted to the President is that it would be impossible for him to act upon all taeese cases in detail, giving to the testimony of each of the 167 men, if all should apply to reenlist, that careful consideration which fair-dealing would require. It may be assumed that no one would expect him to personally examine the testimony in each case and pass judgment as the bill contemplates. He would of necessity have to call some one to his assistance to examine the testimony and advise him, but who would that be? Possibly the Secretary of War, who has expressed his agreement with the President in all he has said and done in the whole matter, and in every other matter. [Laughter.] But he, too, is a busy man, and would doubtless require the help of a suitable subordinate, and thus in all probability General Garlington, as the Inspector General of the Army, and one of the officers who made a special investigation, would again come to the front and to know his unfitness for such a duty we have but to recall that he testified before the Committee on Military Affairs that he would not believe anything anyone of these soldiers might say about this matter, even under oath, unless corroborated in some satisfactory way. But if none of these should be called upon to assist the President, then somebody else—nobody knows who would become the judicial adviser, to the satisfaction of whose whim the men would have to prove their M'NIGHOL IN COURT Legal Airing of Philadelphia's Municipal Scandal. XAUFMANN DENIES CHARGE President Thrown From Horse Into Creek—Girl Attacked By a Negro. Six Killed By Explosion On Warship—"Devil Chaser" Is Insane. After one of the most remarkable police court hearings in recent years, State Senator James P. McNichol, the organization boss of Philadelphia, was held on his own recognition for trial on the charge of criminal libel, preferred by Max Kaufmann, secretary to Mayor Reyburn, whom McNichol accused of obtaining $10,000 from him under false pretenses. Max Kaufmann was the first witness called at the hearing. He was on the stand for more than an hour and he told of alleged interviews he had with McNichol concerning the $10,000 which McNichol says he gave Kaufmann to give to D. Clarence Gibboney, secretary of the Law and Order society, to show up Mayor Weaver's reform administration. Kaufmann declared that he never received any money from McNichol and characterized the senator's statement as a malicious libel. The apparently insignificant question by Mr. Gordon "Did you ever see Mr. McNichol at your office during the year 1905?" brought out some of the most interesting testimony of the day. Mr. Gibboney declared that Senator McNichol had visited him at the offices of the Law and Order society in 1905. "What did he say about Mayor Weaver?" "He seemed to feel badly at the man he helped to make. He said the organization took Weaver from the gutter and made a man of him. He explained further by means of crooks and gamblers turned loose at the time of the election, and he added that John Weaver knew all about it. "If there ever was an ingrate," McNichon said, "Weaver is the man." "He said further that himself, Durham and the Vares and others had presented Weaver with a carriage and horses, pony and harness, a library and other things which had been done for Weaver; then he berated the man for having done things against him." Gibboney then started to tell what McNichol had said about Mayor Ashbridge. He said: "Senator McNichol said. 'Every man in the city hall has to be dealt with. It is a strange thing that there were so many who were ungrateful and left me, but I had a good example in Ashbridge. I gave him $50,000 at one time and $80,000 at another. When we took hold of Weaver who was a churchman and a Sunday school teacher, we expected him to stay with us, but he turned against us.'" McNichol had warrants issued for Kaufmann and Gibboney on criminal charges. Kaufmann is charged with perjury and Gibboney with libel. Immediately after the hearing Mayor Reybun sent a letter to Kaufmann, in which he ordered him to turn his keys into the office and notified him that he was discharged from the position of secretary. George F. Payne Dead. George F. Payne, of the firm of George F. Payne & Co., builders of the new state capitol at Harrisburg, and a defendant in the capitol conspiracy case, died at his home in Philadelphia aged fifty-five years. Death was caused by a complication of diseases. Mr. Payne, who was one of the best known contractors and builders in this city, was under indictment, together with his business partner Charles G. Wetter, on a charge of conspiracy in connection with the capitol painting, and decorating contracts. George F. Payne & Co., were the general contractors for the captain under the public building commission and so far as the actual construction of the building is concerned there was no complaint against Payne & Co. The structure cost $4,500,000 but the cost of the furnishings, fittings and decorations ran the total up to about $13,000,000. The allegations are that the state was robbed in connection with the awarding of these furnishing and decorating contracts and by the excessive amounts charged. "Devil Chaser" Is Insane The commission appointed to examine Robert Bachman, the religious fanatic who murdered his little niece during an orgie at Nazareth, performed the duty in the county jail at Easton Pa., and filed a report to the effect that the prisoner's mind is unbalanced and recommended that he be removed to an asylum. Young Girl Bold Burglar Maggie Knowlton, twelve years old of Rivington, admitted before Judge Horner at Mount Holly, N. J., that she had committed a number of burglaries, and seemed rather proud of her career. She was committed to the State Home for Girls, where she will have to remain until she becomes of age. Killed By Practical Joke A victim of practical jokers, Morris Gaseberg, twenty-two years of age, died at a hospital at Pittsburg. He had been employed at the Duquesne Steel works, and on May 30, it is alledged, fellow workmen inflated his body by compressed air, causing peritonitis. An investigation is being conducted. President Thrown From Horse President Roosevelt had an exceedingly narrow escape from a serious accident while out horseback riding in Rock Creek park, near Washington. Mrs. Roosevelt was with the president. The president was riding a new horse, a young animal. The party rode down through a cut in a bank, forded a creek, and were ascending the bank on the other side. The president's horse reared, the president leaned for- ward in the saddle, and threw the reins down in loops, so as to avoid pulling the horse backward. Again, on reaching the top of the bank, the horse reared a second time, and the president leaned forward again, but the animal stood up straight on its hind legs and then went over backward into the creek, with the president. Feeling that he was going backward, the president slipped from the saddle, and, as luck would have it, fell into the creek close beside the horse, which landed on its back. The horse fell on the down stream side of the president, who, realizing that he would be in danger from the animal's feet should the horse turn towards him, got out of the way as rapidly as possible. The horse, however, turned over from the president and got up. He was captured at once, the president remounted, and rode for an hour and a half before returning to the White House. The fall from the horse's back to the stream bed was a distance of more than ten feet. The stream was about two feet deep, with an exceedingly rock bed. Neither the president nor the horse received the slightest injury. Six Killed On the Tennessee Six Killed On the Tennessee. A terrible accident took place on the United States cruiser Tennessee while the ship was steaming at nineteen knots on a speed trial off Point Huenene, Cal., when a steam pipe in the starboard engine room burst under 235 pounds pressure, killing four men and injuring ten others, all the men in the compartment at the time. The explosion, the cause of which is unknown, occurred only a few minutes after Admiral Urfel Sebree, Captain F. B. Howard and Chief Engineer Robert nardel had left the engine room on a tour of inspection. The dead are: George Wood, Scranton, Pa.; E. C Boggs, Woodlawn, Ala.; A. Rheinhold machinist's mate, Germany; George W. Meek, fireman, Skidmore, Kan.; S. Stematis, Norfolk, Va., and F. S Maxfield, Toughkenamon, Chester county, Pa. There was no wreckage, but the ex explosion was described by the survivors as frightful. So great was the blast of soot and steam that every man in the room was blackened from head to foot, while those closest to the break were cooked alive. The dead and injured were blackened almost be yond recognition. Eight Killed In Trolley Crash Eight Killed in Trolley Crash. In a head-on collision between two special cars of the Washington, Baltimore & Annapolis Electric Rail road company, near Annapolis, Md., eight persons were killed outright and a score of others were seriously injured, some of them perhaps fatally. The collision was due to a confusion of orders, as the line has been run running several extra cars each way in connection with the commencement festivities at the naval academy. The dead are: J. W. McDaniel George White, Richard Norton, A. H. Schultz, all of Baltimore; Police Patrolman Shriber, employed by the railway company at Academy Junction; Mrs. George W. Green, of Washington; Zach O'Neal, of New York the motorman of one of the wrecked cars; Ruth Slaughter, six years old daughter of General Traffic Manager William E. Slaughter, of the road. Girl Attacked By Negro. Miss Nellie Higginbotham, of North Woodbury, N. J., was attacked and brutally beaten by a negro while returning to her home from Philadelphia. The young woman, who is twenty-four years of age, had alighted from a trolley car, and was walking along Shirer's lane when she was attacked by a negro. Miss Higginbotham screamed and a tollgate keeper named Valentine came to her rescue. The negro, to stop her cries, beat the young woman over the head with a blackjack, crushing her skull. He fled, and a posse was organized and started in pursuit. The blackjack with which he had beaten Miss Higginbotham was found on the path where the young woman was picked up unconscious. The entire community is aroused by the outrage. While his locomotive was running at the rate of forty miles an hour, E. Starling, the engineer of a passenger train on the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy railway, fell from his cab several miles south of Hentons, la. It was not until the train ran by Hentons without whistling that Fireman Jackson missed the engineer. The train was run back and the engineer was found unconscious by the track. He will probably recover. Mitchell Boomed By Miners' Loss Mitchell Boomed By Miners' Locals. A large number of locals of the United Mine Workers in the anthracite coal regions have indorsed John Mitchell for the Democratic nomination for vice president. The endorsements have been sent to leading Democrats to forward to Denver. Arrangements are being made for a marching club of anthracite miners to go to Denver and shout and work for Mitchell. Elephant Pounds Horse to Death Elephant Pounds Horse to Death. Selizing a horse with its trunk, an enraged elephant dashed the animal against the ground until it had pounded the horse's life out. Showmen were loading the animals on a train at New Albany, Ind., when the horse kicked the elephant. BARKS AT $5 PER An Ordinance at Montclair to Squeel the Dog. Montclair, N. J., June 10.—"An ordinance to control barking dogs and dogs running at large," was introduced by Councilman Charles R. Hartshorne, a Jersey City lawyer, and he told the members of the council that he hoped they would pass it. The ordinance provides that every time a dog barks, or howls, in Montclair, after six p. m., the owner shall pay $5 for the first bark and $10 for each bark thereafter. If Montclair dogs are allowed by their owners to bite or attack any one on the public streets, the ordinance specifies that the owner shall be fined $5 for the first bite or attempted bite and $10 for each subsequent bite. Dog owners treat the subject lightly. The Happiest Children the happiest children are those who have happy mothers. The young life which grows up in the shadow of a discontented, repelling and gloomy mother is like a plant unwatered by kindly dews. It is apt to be dwarfed and stunted. Even when things are crooked and temptations to be harsh come, let the mother, for her sons' and daughters' sake, try to be happy. Chivalrous Chicago In Chicago more than in any other place is woman regarded in the light of a thing of beauty and a joy forever. There is hardly a man in Chicago who does not esteem feminine loveliness as something beyond price—something to live for, to strive for, to suffer for, and, if necessary, to die for.—Chicago Inter Ocean. Novel Use for Gum. Help for the small child! If money, ring or any small article is dropped in a crack of sidewalk which cannot be reached by hand, chew a piece of chewing gum and take a long stick and paste the gum on the end. Push the stick down into the crack and the ring or money can easily be drawn out. Maids Now In Sets A new idea in malds is to have them in sets, these to be decided upon some point of resemblance, as, for instance, blondes on the second floor and brunettes on the first. Some one pertinently suggests that if a maid should die it might spoil the set, and it could not be as easily replaced as one of china, for instance. Explanation of Freak Names For queer names of towns Oregon excels any other state in the union. Natural characteristics and freaks of fortune made many names, and the ploneers who settled in that far western state often selected a name for their new location from the first chance occurrences connected with it. Sleighs Used All Year Sleighs are used all the year round in Madeira. The lichens which grow abundantly on the stone-paved streets make them slippery, and at the same time prevent dust. It has been suggested that the dust problem might be solved elsewhere by cultivating these lichens. Entering a Demurrer "Talk about the superiority of mind over matter!" said the argumentative boarder. "It's just the other way. If you want to be sure not to forget a thing you don't trust it to your memory. You take a pencil and a slip of paper and make a memorandum of it." Equal Rights In Nature A woman writer wants to know why it is that a man is beautiful only in his youth, and some one remarks that nature intended him to have equal rights with women to grow ugly as he grows older. It is not often, however, that men realize the fact. Live Lizards In Tree Trunk A black and white spotted and yellow lizard, full grown and alive, were found in the heart of an oak split by Joseph McCloskey, near Bellwood, Pa. The log had been cut from a tree more than 50 years old. The Too Busy Scientist A Philadelphia physician declares that pickling buttercups causes a disease resembling measles, sometimes fatal. Will science leave no corner of the child's world uncovered by a "Don't touch" sign? Their Right to Be Beautiful The outward wearing of pretty things is a delightful habit in a woman, and the constant aim to be beautiful and attractive is what every woman should pride herself on possessing—Exchange. Silver in the Ocean A German technical journal has gone to the trouble of estimating that the water of the whole ocean contains in solution over 2,000,000 tons of pure silver. He Had Other Qualifications Pictures of Napoleon generally show him with a frown on his face, but no historian has ever found any evidence to indicate that his frown was what made him great. Babylon First Great City. Babylon was probably the first city to attain a population of a million. The area of the city was 225 square miles. Nature's Stern Law Idlers cannot even find time to be idle, or the industrious to be at leisure. We must always be doing or suffering.-Zimmerman. The Drawback Resting would be so delightful were it not for the fact that it makes one so tired. Gold Found in Turkey's Crop. Half an ounce of pure gold was found in the body of a turkey killed on a farm on the Tarwine river, Victoria. Tenement Death Rate Heavy. About 2,000 children under five years old die in the New York tenement districts each month. Average Gold Production. The rate of production of gold is approximately a million dollars a day. A Cynical Reason "I wonder why the owl has been chosen as the symbol of wisdom." "Because the owl has sense enough to keep its mouth shut, except only when it opens it to hoot at everything else."—Baltimore American. From Berth. Banks—That scar a birthmark? Tanks—Yep. Pullman upper.—Judge. THE PLANET DEFENGE OPENS Vigorously Attack State's Arguments in Capitol Trial. LAY BLAME ON ARCHITECT It is Contended Lewis Had Authority to Make Agreements For the State, Prosecution Claims That Bills Were False. Harrisburg, Pa., June 10.—Both defence and prosecution addressed the jury in the capitol conspiracy trial. The defence made a vigorous attack upon the arguments of the commonwealth, which indicated that every point will be challenged and that the defence will rely largely upon the sincerity of the men involved in the contract and its execution. This was especially emphasized when ex-Attorney General W. U. Hensel, attorney for Congressman H. Burd Cassell, the contractor, said that if there was no doubt as to the adoption of the agreement upon a "square foot of workable depth" the case falls. There were continual clashes between the lawyers, the defence aiming to confine the commonwealth to the smallest possible compass even in the closing argument to the jury. Some of these differences were pronounced and so interrupted the argument that Judge Kunkel intervened and straightened out the difficulties. Deputy Attorney General Cunningham's speech was remarkable for its grasp of the intricacies of the case, as much so as the two-day speech he made in the first capitol trial in March. He wove together the many strands and directly charged that every man mentioned in the -indictment was guilty of conspiracy. The contractor was charged with making false bills and the architect with approving them, while the others' line of conduct was such that the charge could be inferred from the fact that they passed and paid bills which were fraudulent upon their face and which they could have verified had they referred to the contract on file in the capitol. The experts for the defence were ridiculed, and Mr. Cunningham claimed that even had the right to charge by a cubic foot been allowed by law the defence could not make its figures accord with those in the bill, because there was no distinction made between heavy and light construction, the failure to do which cost the state hundreds of dollars in the invoice in question. Mr. Graham charged once during the speech that Mr. Cunningham was trying to make impressions by innuendoes, and a spirited controversy ensued. Just before Mr. Cunningham closed Mr. Graham objected to his use of matter he considered was not properly in evidence. Mr. Hensel contended that Lewis was invested with authority to make agreements to bind the state, and that his testimony, which had not been attacked or refuted, must be considered. He said that the architect was forced to devise a method of measurement so that the bills could be handled, and the result was a standard, mutually agreed upon, which was favorable to the state. Its application, he asserted, was honest in spite of the allegations of the commonwealth and the so-called "suspicious circumstances" which were "magnified" by the prosecution. HUNG SUSPENDED BY CHEEK Terrifying Experience of a Camden Your State Your T Youngster May Cost Him An Eye. Camden, N. J., June 10. - Hooked through the right cheek and the up per eyelid of the right eye, William Brown, aged five years, an inmate of the West Jersey Orphanage, was suspended for five minutes by three prongs of barbed wire from the top of a six-foot fence on the Mechanic street side of the home. While the smaller children were playing in the yard, the matron, Mrs. W. D. Durisoe, was attracted by the screams of some of the older children and saw the little fellow impaled on the fence. Under the advice of the matron the little boy manfully endured the terrible suffering while two of the employees held his body up and W. D. Durisoe, husband of the matron, with a pair of tinsmith's shears cut out a section of the barbed wire, thus freeing the little fellow. He was taken to the Cooper hospital. Banker a Horse Thief Indianapolis, Ind., June 10.—Pleading guilty to horse stealing, Robert H. Green, of Waynetown, vice president of the Farmers' and Merchants' bank of that place, a trustee of the local Methodist church and a large property owner, was sentenced to from one to fourteen years in the state penitentiary. He was disfranchised for one year and was fined $10. A number of stolen animals were found in Green's possession when he was arrested here under an assumed name. 5000 Tax Dodgers Discovered Pittsburgh, June 10.—Over 5000 persons who are alleged to have been dodging their personal property tax have been discovered and assessed by the board of tax assessment and revision. As a result the valuation of personal property in Allegheny county subject to a tax of four mills on the dollar is $1,818,000,000. This exceeds the return for 1907 by about $1,000,000 Hail Storm in Cumberland Valley. Harrisburg, Pa. June 10. - A severe hail storm swept over the Cumberland valley, reaching this city. Much damage was done to fruit trees and growing graze. STEEL PRICES CUT Manufacturers Agree Upon a General Reduction. New York, June 10.—Announcement was made by Judge Elbert H. Gary, chairman of the United States Steel Corporation, that a general reduction in the prices of finished steel products had been agreed upon by representatives of the large steel interests after an all-day conference. The reduction affects billets, steel bars, plates, structural iron, merchant bars and wire nails. The statement was as follows: "The representatives of the leading steel manufacturing companies have been in session during the day. It is understood that the price of iron ore has been or will soon be reduced to 50 cents per ton base. "Each one of the steel manufacturers expressed the opinion that there should be a readjustment in the prices of their respective commodities, as follows: Billets, from $28 per ton to $26; sheet bars, from $29 per ton to $27; plates, from $1.70 per 100 pounds to $1.60 per 100 pounds; merchant pipe, a reduction of two points, or $ per ton; wire nails, from $2.05 per 10 pounds to $1.95 per 100 pounds. "Sheet and plates were reduced early in the year; therefore no changes were considered in the prices of these products. "It is hoped these changes will not necessitate a general or radical readjustment of wages, which it is desirous to avoid." Smuggled Gowns Sold In Jersey Capitol Trenton, N. J., June 10.—Thomas J. Alcott, United States marshal, sold the smuggled goods of Josephine A. Byrne, of New York, using, the assem- bly chamber of the state house for the purpose, the United States custom house here being torn apart in re- building. Business in the state house was at a standstill while the marshal exhibited the pretty Paris creations and even Governor Fort could not re- sist the temptation to go to the cham- ber where all of the stenographers of the building, as well as Trenton society of fair ones, were gathered admir- ing the fashions. The government realized $652.20 from the sale, almost the duty charges. Why He Kicked. Stella—My dance refused to let me take charge of a booth at the church fair last week. Mabel—What were you going to sell? Stella—Kisses at a quarter apiece.—Chicago Daily News. London Clergymen. In London there is one clergyman to every 2,000 persons. —Extract from Senator Foraker's great speech in defense of the "Black Battalion." Moreover, how would such a proceeding 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 confessed 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. In so far as we are to be governed by the fact that they were soldiers and may be soldiers again, we should remember, as Secretary Taft said of the white soldiers who shot up the town of Athens, Ohio, that they are, in a sense, the wards of the Government, and for that reason entitled, under such circumstances to the protection of the Government in all their legal rights. 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 that 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 reenlist. All that belongs to Congress. In short, there is no excuse whatever for such a bill. To pass it would be but pretending to grant relief, for manifestly, unless there has been a decided change of mind, practically 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. THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA ```markdown ``` IF YOU WILL TA BORS AND INTERES WE WILL HELP YOU IN ORDER TO FU YOU WILL TALK WITH YOUR AND INTEREST THEM IN THE WILL HELP YOU TO OBTAIN A P ORDER TO FURTHER INCREASE WE WILL SEND YOU AND THE ST LOUIS, MISSO GLOBE DEMOCRAT, ONE REPUBLICAN JOURNALS STATES FOR $2.25 PER YEAR WE WILL SEND YOU THE COSMOPOLITAN MAJ PER YEAR FOR BOTH. WE WILL SEND YOU McCLURE'S MAGAZINE FOR FOR BOTH. FOR TWO YEARLY OR THEIR EQUIVALENT, V TURES, ONE ONLY, OF DORE ROOSEVELT, DR. INGTON, BATTLE OF SAN TLE OF QUASIMAS NEAR 1898, SHOWING THE NINT ORED CAVALRY IN SUPP DERS, SIZE 20X28 AND 20 BATTLE AND CHARGE ON ED INFANTRY IN RESCUE OF AT SAN JUAN HILL, JULY 2, AND 20X24 INCHES, ADMIRAL NAVAL BATTLE OFF CAVIT AY, MAY 1ST, 1898, NAVAL BUILTION OF ADMIRAL CEN H FLEET OFF SANTIAGO DE 1898, SIZE 22X28 INCHES; LA CAPTURE OF EL CANEY, EL PA ICATIONS OF SANTIAGO, JU SECOND, 1898, SIZE 22X28 AND WE WILL SEND YOU ONE OF FOLLOWING BATTLES OF T IN THE SAME TERMS. THE P THE OTHER BATTLES ARE FIN LES. THEY ARE 22X28 INCHES AT ONE DOLLAR EACH. WE FRAMES FOR ANY OF THE POS FOR 2 DOLLARS & 50CTS. B AL. BATTLE OF GETTYSBUR SHILOH, BATTLE OF FIVE FOR E OF ATLANTA, GA., BAT RYLVANIA, VA., BATTLE OF MISS., BATTLE OF LOOKOUT FENN., BATTLE BETWEEN THE AND THE MERRIMAC, BATTLE LA., BATTLE OF CHANCELLO E OF THE BIG HORN, (CUSTE LE) STORMING OF FORT WA LORED TROOPS IN THIS FIGHT IN NEW ORLEANS, LA., CAPTU E OF SITTING BULL, THE GR HEFTAINT; FORT PILLOW MA FETERSBURG, VA., BATTLE ER, VA., BATTLE OF OLUST ELL SEND FAMILY RECORD, SIN WHICH CONTAINS SPACE FOR S OF PARENTS AND TEN CH LL SEND SOLDIERS WAR REC OE OF SERVICE IN UNITED STA IF YOU WILL TALK WITH YOUR NEIGH BORS AND INTEREST THEM IN THE PLANET WE WILL HELP YOU TO OBTAIN A PREMIUM. IN ORDER TO FURTHER INCREASE OUR STEADILY GROWING CIRCULATION WE WILL OFF WE WILL SEND YOU THE PLANET AND THE ST LOUIS, MISSOURI, SEMI-WEEKLY GLOBE DEMOCRAT, ONE OF THE LEADING REPUBLICAN JOURNALS IN THE UNITED STATES FOR $2.25 PER YEAR FOR BOTH. WE WILL SEND YOU THE PLANET AND THE COSMOPOLITAN MAGAZINE FOR $2.25 PER YEAR FOR BOTH. WE WILL SEND YOU THE PLANET AND McCLURE'S MAGAZINE FOR $2.25 PER YEAR FOR BOTH. OR THEIR EQUIVALENT, WE WILL SEND PICTURES, ONE ONLY, OF PRESIDENT THEODORE ROOSEVELT, DR. BOOKER T. WASHINGTON, BATTLE OF SANTIAGO, LAND BATTLE OF QUASIMAS NEAR SANTIAGO, JUNE 24, 1898, SHOWING THE NINTH AND TENTH COLORED CAVALRY IN SUPPORT OF ROUGH RIDERS, SIZE 20X28 AND 20X24 INCHES, LAND BATTLE AND CHARGE OF THE 24TH & 25TH COLORED INFANTRY RIDERS AT SAN JUAN 20X28 AND 20X24 ING GREAT NAVAL BAT NILA BAY, MAY 1ST DESTRUCTION OF SPANISH FLEET OFF LY 3RD, 1898, SIZE 2 TLE, CAPTURE OF 1 FORTIFICATIONS OF AND SECOND, 1898, INCHES. WE WILL OF THE FOLLOWING WAR ON THE SAME LIKE THE OTHER BICOLORS. THEY ARE TAIL AT ONE DO FURNISH FRAMES F CHROMOS FOR 2 DO DITIONAL. BATTLE TLE OF SHILOH, BAT BATTLE OF ATLAS SPOTTSYLVANIA, V BURG, MISS., BATT TAIN. 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BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG, BATTLE OF SHILOH, BATTLE OF FIVE FORKS, VA., BATTLE OF ATLANTA, GA., BATTLE OF SPOTTSYLVANIA, VA., BATTLE OF VICKSBURG, MISS., BATTLE OF LOOKOUT MOUNTAIN, TENN., BATTLE BETWEEN THE MONITOR AND THE MERRIMAC, BATTLE OF BULL RUN, VA., BATTLE OF CHANCELLORSVILLE, BATTLE OF THE BIG HORN, (CUSTER'S LAST CHARGE) STORMING OF FORT WAGNER, S. C., (COLORED TROOPS IN THIS FIGHT), BAT- 5 OF NEW ORLEANS, LA., CAPTURE AND ATH OF SITTING BULL, THE GREAT INDIAN CHIEFTAIN; FORT PILLOW MASSACRE, FALL OF PETERSBURG, VA., BATTLE OF WINCHESTER, VA., BATTLE OF OLUSTEE, FLA. WE WILL SEND FAMILY RECORD, SIZE 22 BY 28. WHICH CONTAINS SPACE FOR PHOTOGRAPHS OF PARENTS AND TEN CHILDREN. WE WILL SEND SOLDIERS WAR RECORD (CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE IN UNITED STATES ARMY.) FOR FIVE NEW SUBSCRIBERS FOR ONE YEAR EA LENT, WE WILL SEN CLE TOM'S CABIN, TERESTING BOOK WILL SEND YOU A WITH YOUR PICTU THE YEAR EACH, OR THEIR WE WILL SEND YOU A COPY MIS CABIN, THE MOST INTEN- TING BOOK IN THE COUNT END YOU A GOLD-PLATED YOUR PICTURE THEREIN, FOR ONE YEAR EACH, OR THEIR EQUIVALENT, WE WILL SEND YOU A COPY OF UNCLE TOM'S CABIN, THE MOST INTENSELY INTERESTING BOOK IN THE COUNTRY. WE WILL SEND YOU A GOLD-PLATED BROOCH WITH YOUR PICTURE THEREIN, YOU TO --- ```markdown ``` --- To interest yourself in promoting the CIRCULATION of th READ THE GREAT INDUGEMENTS OF TURPED BY THE PLANET FOR TWO YEARLY SUBSCRIBERS REQUISITE NUMBER IS OBTAINED, WE WILL FORWARD THE PRESENT INDICATED. A PERSON WHO TRIES TO GET FORTY SUBSCRIBERS AND GETS TIRED MAY INDICATE HIS WISH AND WE WILL SEND THE PRESENT FOR THE NUMBER HE HAS SECURED OVER FIVE. 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 BELONGS. A man in a chair LANET WEEKLY READING UNITED SIXH. T AND R $2.25 T AND YEAR ND PIC- THEO- WASH- D BAT- JUNE 24. H COL- HUGH RI- LAND & 25TH ```markdown ``` REQUISITE FORWARD 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. FOR TEN NEW SUBSCRIBERS WE WILL SEND ONE CHINA SET, THIRTY-ONE PIECES; ONE NECKLACE; DICKENS, SHAKESPEARE, BYRON WORKS; ONE UMBRELLA, ONE PLAIN GOLD RING, ONE PAIR LACE CURTAINS 1,000 ENVELOPES, 1,000 SHEETS OF PAPER PRINTED AND DELIVERED; ONE TOILET SET, ONE HALF CORD OF SAWED WOOD. FOR TWENTY NEW SUBSCRIBERS WE WILL GIVE ONE HANDSOME GOLD RING WITH OPALS, RUBIES OR PEARLS; ONE JEWELRY BOX FINISHED IN GOLD OR SILVER; ONE SILK SHIRT WAIST; ONE READY MADE DRESS, ONE GOLD WATCH, FILLED, WARRANTED FOR TEN YEARS, ONE ROCKING CHAIR, ONE LOAD OF COAL, ONE GROSS OF SOAP, EITHER WASHING OR TOILET; ONE BARREL OF BEST FLOUR, ONE PAIR BLANKETS, ONE MANICURE SET, ONE SEAMSTRESS' WORK BOX, ONE PAIR SHOES, GENTS OR LADIES. FOR FORTY YEARLY SUBSCRIBERS OR EQUIVALENT, WE WILL GIVE ONE SEWING MACHINE, ONE DIAMOND RING, ONE GOLD WATCH, ONE PAIR FINE GOLD EARRINGS, ONE MUSIC BOX, ONE PHONOGRAPH, ONE READY MADE DRESS, ONE SUIT OF GENTLEMEN'S CLOTHES, ONE GOLD-HEADED CANE, ONE GOLD-HEADED UMBRELLA, ONE CHINA SET, ONE DOZEN SILVER-PLATED KNIVES AND FORKS, ONE HAT-RACK, ONE SILK DRESS, ONE WEEK'S TRIP TO THE SEASHORE, RAILROAD FARE AND HOTEL BILL PAID, FOR ANY RICHMOND WORKER. THESE OFFERS MAY BE TAKEN ADVANTAGE OF BY SENDING ONE OR TWO SUBSCRIBER'S NAMES AT A TIME. WE WILL KEEP A RECORD OF THEM; AS SOON AS THE FIVE not=th COLORED S, WE WILL WITH THE SECED RATE ONE FOUND DIES RING, HALF DOZZ ONE ALARM ONE HALF THE POT, ONE LOVES, ONE BERS THIRTY-ONE S, SHAKES- RELLA, ONE THE CURTAINS OF PAPER TOILET SET, OLD. BERS GOLD RING; ONE JEW- OR SILVER; ADY MADE LED, WAR- E ROCKING THE GROSS OF DILET; ONE AIR BLANK- REAMSTRESS' NTS OR LA- BERS ONE SEW- RING, ONE GOLD EAR- DNOGRAPH, SUIT OF GEN- LD-HEADED RELLA, ONE PER-PLATED RACK, ONE TO THE SEA- HOTEL BILL KER. EN ADVAN- TWO SUB- WE WILL ON AS THE ```markdown ``` ```markdown ``` THE PLANET M. E. CONFERENCE Twenty-fifth Quadrennial Session Adjourns Finally. MANY LAWS WERE ENACTED James K. Jones Dead—Girl Saved Two Miles at Sea—An Entire Family Drowned—Quake Scare at Allentown, Pa. The twenty-fifth quadrennial session of the general conference of the Methodist Episcopal church, which has been in progress in Baltimore, Md., since Wednesday, May 6, adjourned finally Monday night. Legislation of great Importance to the church was enacted, and more was accomplished than on any day of the meeting. One of the most important matters acted upon was the changing of the time-honored term of "presiding elder" to "district superintendent." After a prolonged debate the conference decided to take the time limit off the probationary membership in the churches and to make it possible for the stewards and class leaders to order the admission of an applicant for full membership on the approval of the pastor. By an almost unanimous vote the body turned down a proposition from the general assembly of the Presbyterian church, now meeting in Kansas City, to set aside a day of the year to be known as mothers' day. An important matter not disposed of was paragraph 248 of the discipline concerning amusements. The board of bishops recommended its modification, but the committee on the state of the church opposed the change. It was presented by the committee, but sidetracked. Other reports were rushed through the conference with the greatest dispatch. The "sifting committee," which began work on Saturday, presented the most important reports and business for consideration. Proposed amendments were laid on the table in most cases with the greatest haste. Questions which a few days ago would have required an entire session for discussion were unanimously adopted after being hurriedly read. A Real War Test. The biggest naval gun, the heaviest projectile and the highest explosive known, combined with close range and deadly aim, were allowed to work their full havoc on the turret plate of the monitor Florida. The result is declared to be a victory for turret construction, this notwithstanding the 11-inch hardened steel plate was blackeneJ, broken, the seams of the turret sprung and the rivets and screws loosench and twisted. It was not five minutes after the terrible impact that the finely balanced mechanism of the turret was being worked with perfect ease, and the 12-inch gun on the left side was trained at will. Inside the turret, where stand the gunners and the gun crew, the havoc was much less apparent than from the outside. Examination showed that of the many delicately adjusted instruments for the control, sighting and operating of the turret, few, if any, were out of working order. "If this had happened in battle the Florida would have been fighting yet." said one of the rear admirals with enthusiasm. Then followed a futile attempt to destroy the newly designed fighting mast erected on the stern of the Florida. After five shots from the Arkansas had gone ripping through it, the mast still stood firm. It was predicted that all new ships will be equipped with battle masts of this design. The story of the "shooting up" of the Florida by the Arkansas, however, is not contained in this technical statement of results. Every naval bureau was represented, likewise the ordinance and artillery of the army. The scene of the real war demonstration was Hampton roads, already made famous by naval events. --- Auto Driver Instantly Killed. Emanuel Cedrino, the noted Italian automobile driver, was instantly killed on the Pimlico race track at Baltimore, Md. He had been preparing for races in which he was to have taken part and was making some very fast miles. One had just been finished in fifty-one seconds, and he had passed the grand stand and rounded the first corner of the track when spectators saw his car shoot into the air and turn an irregular somersault, landing on the track upside down. Headache Tablets Kill Child Mildred, the three-year-old daughter of Lewis Wilson, of Upper Sandusky, 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. $35,000 Stallion Drops Dead Admiral Dewey, a stallion, sired by Bingham, dam Nancy Hanks, owned by Dr. J. C. McCoy, of Kirkwood, Del. died suddenly of heart failure. The horse had a record of 2.041%, and Dr. McCoy recently refused an offer of $25,000 for him. Entire Family Drowned. Entire Family Drowned. An entire family, consisting of William Eldleman, aged thirty-eight; his wife Elizabeth, aged thirty-seven, and their two children, Anita, aged seventeen, and William, aged seven, of West Pensauken, N. J., were drowned in Pensauken creek, below Riverton, N. J., by the capsizing of a small row boat. The family were taking an outing largely as a means of celebrating the fact that they had just cleared off the mortgage on a home which they had purchased. While rowing down Pensauken creek, which empties into the Delaware river near Riverton, their little craft was caught in the swift current and carried against a scow moored in the stream. The boat was overturned and all the occupants were thrown into the water. Eldleman was seen swimming in the swift current with his son, but spectators did not realize there was an accident until Eldleman shouted for help. Before assistance reached him he sank with his son. The Optimist Club From 100 pulpits of all denominations the sound doctrine of religious optimism was preached throughout North Jersey. The sunny philosophy of seeing the best in everything and making the best of everything in the financial, business and social world was expounded by eminent divines. Optimist Sunday in North Jersey was part of the general scheme of the recently incorporated Optimistic Club of New Jersey, organized to combat pessimism and encourage and recreate prosperity in the city, the state and nation. The first motto of the club is "Smile," and its pledge is as follows: "I hereby pledge myself to do all in my power to better existing business and financial conditions; to smile and make others smile, and by so doing to not only see the best in everything, but to make the best of everything." Corner In Corn Nets Patten $2,000,000. The corners on wheat and corn were closed in Chicago on Friday, and J. Ogden Armour and Jim Patten the corn king, are now face to face with the problem of "burrying the corpse." They now have to get their wheat and corn to market. Patten is estimated to have cleared $2,000,000 on his corn deal. This estimate is based on a supposed profit of between twenty and twenty-five cents on the 10,000,000 or 12,000,000 bushels he has handled in the deal. No estimate is placed on Armour's profits in wheat. As a matter of fact, while Armour and Patten were squeezing the shorts they were also squeezing each other, Armour being short on corn and Patten on wheat. James K. Jones Dead. Former United States Senator James K. Jones, of Arkansas, died at his residence in the city of Washington after an illness of a few hours, aged sixty-nine years. The immediate cause of death was heart failure. He was one of the leading Democrats in the senate from 1858 to 1903, and was one of the strongest supporters of William Jennings Bryan, having as chairman of the Democratic national committee, conducted the campaigns of 1896 and 1900. Since leaving the senate in 1903 he has conducted a law practice in this city and has not actively engaged in politics. General Stephen D. Lee Dead Lieutenant General Stephen D. Lee of Columbus, Miss, commander-in-chief of the United Confederate Veterans answered his last roll call at Vicksburg, Miss. Cerebral hemorrhage was the cause of his death. General Lee died at the official residence of the Vicksburg National Park commission, of which he was a member. He was stricken last Friday night, consequent upon an exhaustive speech welcoming four regiments of Iowa and Wisconsin soldiers, whom he had fought upon the Vicksburg battlefield forty-five years ago. Quake Scare at Allentown The entire city of Allentown, Pa., was thrown into a paroxysm on Sun-It was of severe enough intensity to rock buildings, bang shutters, rattle windows, clatter crockery, tumble down two or three rickety chimneys and upset small children. People rushed out of their homes in great alarm. Mothers carried out their children in fear that their homes were about to fall. The shaking was felt all over the city, but not beyond its limits or in any of its suburbs. In the western part of the city, where the quaking was most apparent, the people noticed a muffled noise. Two Miles at Sea Girl Is Rescued. Two riles from shore and all but exhausted after a battle of three hours with the waves, Miss Beside McLaughlin, of Atlantic City, N. J., was rescued by the yacht Olga after Captain Linke Conover had lowered small boats. Twenty passengers aboard cheered as the girl was brought over the rail. When she was restored to full consciousness she explained that she had gone into the surf at Gramercy place and had been carried out to sea by the strong tide. The girl knelt in prayer after her rescue. Ten-Cent Wager Lures Boy to Death Pottstown, Pa, June 3.—For a wager of ten cents, offered by a companion, Leroy Weining, aged fourteen years, tried to swim across the Manatawny creek here, and drowned in midstream. The lad had just taken a lesson in swimming and had been boasting of his ability when dared by his companions to swim the stream. Aeronaut Drowned. Entangled in the folds of an American flag he had waved as he made a parachute drop of 2000 feet from a balloon at Hillside park, near Passaic, N. J., Frederick L. Wood, an eighteen-year-old aeronaut, of New Haven, Conn., fell helpless into the Passaic river and was drowned. Wood made his ascension in the presence of 1000 persons. As the balloon rose Wood unfolded an American flag, which he waved to the people below. THE RICHMOND PLANET. RICHMOND. VIRGINIA DEFENCE OPENS Motion to Take Capitol Case From the Jury Overruled. TWO WITNESSES WERE HEARD One of Defence's Experts Became So Confused That He Had to Be Withdrawn—Claim Contract Was Properly Executed and Measurements Just. Harrisburg, Pa., June 3—Judge Kunkel having overruled the motion of the defense to take the capitol metallic furniture contract case out of the hands of the jury, the defense was forced to continue the trial, and after three addresses in opening, two men of wide experience in the business were put forward to contradict the testimony of the commonwealth's experts. One of them became so confused that he was withdrawn, while the questioning of the latter led to a long battle between the lawyers. The decision of Judge Kunkel was rendered when court convened in the morning, the motion having been left with him when court adjourned on Thursday. Immediately upon the announcement, which was unaccompanied by a written opinion, the defense opened, addresses being made by ex-Attorney General W. U. Hensel, for Congressman Cassell; by George S. Graham, for Architect Huston, and Lyman D. Gilbert, for the three state officials. They contended that there would be abundant proof of proper execution of the contract and that the measurement system was equitable. Mr. Gilbert spoke less than a minute, declaring there was no evidence to show that the officials were connected with the case. The witnesses were J. W. Hine, of Jamestown, N. Y., and E. A. Beck with, of Newark. Hine gave a detailed description of the manner in which metallic furniture is made, and the changes which are required by Houston's revised plans, which are the basis of a charge of duplication in payment. On cross-examination by Mr. Scarlett he was unable to express clearly his ideas, and said that the difference between heavy and light construction was solely a matter of cost, failing to give the difference in gauges of metal which enter into the work. Hine was also unable to make very much progress in distinction of gauges, although in the method of making cases he showed himself proficient. Beckwith had little chance to testify, as Messrs. Scarlet and Graham became involved in a controversy over a question involving the commonly accepted trade measurements, which occupied the last half hour and which Judge Kunkel will determine. RABIES FROM CAT BITE Nebraskan Woman Under Treatment at Pasteur Institute. Palmyra, Neb., June 3—Mrs. John Knox, of this place, is at the Pasteur institute in Chicago, suffering from rabies, caused by the bite of a pet cat. The cat was lying in Mrs. Knox's lap about a week ago, when it suddenly sank its teeth deep into her hand. A few days later the hand commenced to swell. She left at once for Chicago, taking the cat with her. A telegram announced that an examination of the cat's brain showed a well-developed case of rabies. Leaps Off Train to Track: Saves Child Leaps On Train to Track; Saves Child Wilkes-Barre, Pa., June 3—Conductor James Dunlap, of the Ontario & Western railroad, leaped to the track from the rapidly moving locomotive of his train at Carbondale and scooped up two-year-old Frances Walker, who stood terrified in front of the train, and bounded to one side with the child just as the cowcatcher of the engine grazed his heels. It was a daring rescue and was witnessed by a score of persons. Dunlap, who was on the run- ning-board of the locomotive, leaped to the pilot, sprang far ahead as the locomotive almost reached the child and with the same movement picked her up. Another second or a slip and he would have been under the wheels of the locomotive. Lamp Exploded While She Lamp Exploded While She Prayed. Paterson, N. J. June 3—Mrs. Sarah Savage is in St. Joseph's hospital suffering from the effects of burns received when a lamp at her home exploded. She was kneeling in prayer at her bedside when the lamp in the diningroom exploded. While trying to put out the flames she was severely burned. After she had run into the backyard in her blazing night garment, her husband, hearing her cries, went to her assistance and smothered the fire with a blanket. Had $558 Tied to Leg. Newburyport, Mass., June 3.—Three young women of this city who were strolling along Plum Island beach were horror-striken to see the body of a man float ashore. The girls ran away, calling for help. The body was identified as that of Bernado Patrisso, one of five Italians who were drowned off Newburyport bar three weeks ago. Around the right leg of the body was tied a handkerchief in which were bills amounting to $558. The man, like one of his companions, whose body has not been recovered, planned to return to Italy, and when the two went boating with their fellow-workmen fastened the money to their bodies. Cleveland's Wedding Anniversary. Princeton, N. J., June 3.—The twenty-second wedding anniversary of former President and Mrs. Grover Cleveland was quietly celebrated at their home here. A large wedding cake twenty inches in diameter, bearing the inscription "To G. C. and F. F. C., June 2, 1908," being the initials of Mr. and Mrs. Cleveland, was presented to the Clevelands by Princeton friends. Mr. Cleveland is reported to be doing very well, though he has not as yet taken his accustomed afternoon drive about Princeton. Knights of Pythias, This organization is one of the most powerful in the country and its progress has been phenomenal. The Grand Lodge of Virginia has jurisdiction over all of the cities and counties in this state. Thirty males are required to organize a new lodge. The benefits paid constitute one of its strongest features, but the principles are greater than anything else. Founded on Friendship, based on Charity and established on Benevolence, the respectable, upright people of the state will find it an order worthy of their heartiest support. It pays an endowment and burial benefit of of $200.00 for all ages. It pays $4.00 per week sick dues. The badge costing 75 cents each is the only absolutely necessary regalla. For information concerning the organization of lodges apply at the main office. The Courts of Calanthe Is the Female Department of the Order. It requires a membership of thirty persons to organize a court. Its members are pledged to exhibit Fidelity, exercise Harmony and prove Love one for the other. It pays an endowment and burial benefit of $150.00. It pays $3.00 per week sick dues. The only expense for regalia is the cost of the badge, 50 cents and a rosette, costing 25 cents for funeral occasions. THE BANDS OF CALANTHE or Children's Department also con- 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 noPythian 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 KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAST 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- 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 de- Lodge or Court or Band in you. For all information concerni For all information concer- membership in the lodges and Our Attitude. We are not to court trouble, nor are we to shun it as the greatest of all evils. We are not to lie down supinely when it comes but find if we can a way out of it. We are not to consider our troubles greater than those of others. And always and earnestly are we to believe that some rich blessing for our lives and the lives of others lies at the heart of the thing that now worries, depresses, overwhelms us—Rev. H. A. Bridgeman. Queer "Bonds" of Matrimony. Queer "Bonds" of Matrimony. A young couple, natives of Ceylon, appeared recently before a magistrate in Ohio and asked to be married. All the forms required by the state were complied with, but before the law officer could perform the ceremony a witness who came with the couple bound the thumbs of the contracting parties together. They explained that in their country the act of fastening a man to a woman by the thumb was a sufficient marriage ceremony. Transmitted Snake Bite. A vicarious snake-bite is the curious case reported from Shepperton, Victoria, by Dr. Welchman. A small dog was bitten by a snake, and in turn bit his master, who was dressing his wound. The dog died. The man soon afterward became drowsy and on being taken to a hospital developed alarming symptoms of snake poisoning, and only energetic treatment saved his life. Cyclone and Tornado The cyclone is formed by the rushing of air at a high pressure into or toward a center of less pressure, in constantly narrowing circles or spirals, and, through much of the area covered, at a constantly increasing velocity. A tornado has been fitly named a "secondary cyclone." Its extent is less, but its energy is more intense than that of the cyclone. Reason. Reason is that Homeric and golden chain descending from the throne of God even unto man, uniting heaven with earth, and earth with heaven. For all is connected, and without a chasm; from an angel to an atom, all is proportion, harmony and strength. Vibration of Fly's Wings. Recent measurements of the vibrations of the wings of a dragon fly in the Stuttgart university showed that they ranged from 10,000 to 12,000 a second. The common house fly makes 600 strokes of its wings a second when flying at its highest speed. For Study of Birds. An educational feature of the park in Springfield, Mass., is the bird display in aviaries, ponds and other places, the object being to provide opportunity for the children to study the habits of the little brothers of the air at close range. The Philosopher of Folly "They say," observes the Philosopher of Folly, "that it takes nine tailors to make a man. I always acknowledge the truth of this old proverb when one of those dudes boasts that he has patronized the same tailor all his life." Exercise Good for Children. Drilling or dancing, and, in fact, any athletic exercise under proper supervision, is highly recommended for both boys and girls, and if performed in the open air the better for their health. All-Powerful Love Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength, pleads no excuse of impossibility, for it thinks all things possible.—Thomas a Kempis. Hard to Right Fundamental Wrong. It will often happen when a thing is originally wrong, that amendments do not make it right; but more often do as much mischief in one way, as good in another.—Paine. N. A., S. A., E. A., A. AND A. organization is one of the most powerful has been nominal. The Grand over all of the cities and counties in order to organize a new lodge. The longest features, but the principles ended on Friendship, based on Charity the respectable, upright people of their heartiest support. An endowment and burial benefit of $0 per week sick dues. The badge of galla. For information concerning courts of Calantia of the Order. It requires a memorial court. Its members are pledged and prove Love one for the other. Benefit of $150.00. It pays $3.00 per regalia is the cost of the badge, 50 funeral occasions. ANTHE or Children's Department cannot do better than to enter the annual and the benefits all that could death benefits of from $30.00 to $40 our neighborhood, orgniz. one. Using the Children's Department ad Mrs. ANNA TA 120 W. H. morning special rates of JOHN and courts, address 31 Department also con- enter the little ones into this mystic that could be expected. It pays from 00.00 to $40.00. If you have noPythian aiz one. artment address, ANNA TAYLOR, W. M., 120 W. Hill St., Richmond, Va. Beecher: Gifts from the hand are silver and gold, but the heart gives that which neither silver nor gold can buy. Uncle Rastus says: "Dere am让s ob young men what hab de sand to propose, but ain't got de rocks to get married wif."—Harvard Lampoon. The Golf Joke (Revamped). The Parson (as he foozles)—R-r-r-r! The Caddie—Might as well go ahead and say it, boss. I'm a mind reader. They Cost Too Much. A socialist exclaims that titled heads cost Europe more than they are worth. And America, too. Compass of the Desert. The fishhook cactus is the compass of the desert, for it always points to the south. PROF. J. H. HOLMES, 1015 Baltic Avenue.. Atlantic City, N. J. Tombstone Eighteen Centuries Old. A tombstone 1,800 years old has been found in a church at Fordington, England. Capitol Shoe & Supply Company, governned spare fer "Frien'ship among men's governed by th' time they have ter spare fer it." —Nelson's Hair Dressing can be bought at Jennings and Brown Drug Store, Pittsburg, Pa. Furnished Rooms, 50c. up. Meals, 50c. up. THE M.T. CLEMENS HOTEL AND MINERAL BATH HOUSE Orders received by letter or telegraph MRS. BOOKER LEFTWICH. PROPRIETRESS, 816 N. 2nd St. Richmond. Vs Jim Crow Cars DON'T GO IN AMERICAN AND EUROPEAN PLAN. Phone, 245. S. DOUGLAS RUSSELL, Langston, Okla. Dealer in General Line of FANCY AND STAPLE GROCERIES, NOTIONS, FRESH MEATS, CI-GARS, TOBACCO, ICE, WOOD, COAL, &c. 11 S. 4TH ST., RICHMOND, VA. --- Rocks Wanted. The Golf Joke (Revamped) A Word from Josh Wise MERIDIAN MUSEUM Has opened its doors for the accommodation of COLORED PEOPLE that may come to Mt. Clem ens in the future for their It is the only Hotel and Mineral Bath House owned and conducted by a colored man at any of the health resorts in the United States. Write for Special Rates. GEO. I. HUTCHINSON, FROP. 48 Welts St., - Mt. Clemens, Mich. JOHN FOXEL. P 311 N. 4th St., Richmond, Va 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 SCHOOL SHOES. No. 210 East Broad Street. A complete stock of Boys,' Misses,' Men's, Ladies,' & Children's Shoes. ALL THE LATEST STYLES. BOARDING & LODGING Rates Reasonable. All the Comforts or Home A. B. State of Oklahoma The United State's Circuit Court in this State decided that the Jim Crow Car Law passed by the legislature is un constitutional and contrary to federal laws. Henee no discriminatory laws against the Negro race goes in this state. Therefore this is unquestionably the best State in the Union for Colored men. If you are interested, send 25 cents for Booklet and map of such information as you will need. Don't stamps, but send silver or money order. Address. BLACKWELL & BRO Practical House and Sign Palettes Graining and General Contractors. .....ALL WORK GUARANTEED..... Cards, Letters or Orders. .Give us a trial, you will never regret it.... Address, 608 St. Peter Street, RICHMOND. VA. Phone 5688. MRS. JOSIE A. GRAHAM Virginia's Most Successful Hair Culturist. ...PARLORS..... 108 E. Leigh St., - Richmond, 'Phone, 1034. Private Parlors, Confidential Inter 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 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 art beautifully ladies' faces for parries and public gatherings, 35 cents. Mrs. Graham scampoos 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 John H. Braxton REAL ESTATE & LOANS Private Banker and Broker, Loans negotiated on Real Estate, Interest allowed on Deposits, Estates managed, Rent collected and prompt returns Special attention to repairs. Notary With Seal. H F Jonathan FISH, OYSTERS AND PRODUCE. 120 N. 17TH ST., RICHMOND, VA. ALL ORDERS WILL RECEIVE PROMPT ATTENTION. Long Distance Phone, 752. STRAUS' SPECIAL Old Yacht Club, PURE WHISKEY Will Satisfy the lover of the right kind of stimulant. Special prices. We have all grades of good liquors, Cigars and Tobacco. Call and see us. ISAAC STRAUS & CO., 422 E. Broad St., Richmond, Virginia, S. W. ROBINSON. NO. 23 NORTH 18TH ST. FINE WINES, LIQUORS CIGARS, &c. All Stock Sold as Guaranteed. PROMPT ATTENTION. Your patronage is respectfully solicited. GEORGE O. BROWN. 603 N. 2nd St., Richmond, Va. Fine Photographs. True to Life. High-quality services. Latest improvements in Photographs. Instant Shipping. Sizes and Prompt Service. Pictures Enlarged from Old negatives or Photographs. 3-ms THE ECONOMY 303-5 North Third St FINE CLEANING, DYEING 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 Caskets of all descriptions. I have a spare room for bodies when the family have not a suitable place. All country orders are given special attention. Your special attention is called to the new style Oak Caskets. Call and see me and you shall be waited on individually. 1718. THE PLANET SATURDAY.....JUNE 13, 1908. HORTICULTURE POTATO SCAB. Some Suggestions for the Treatment of the Disease. The true potato scab is a skin disease, and develops from a germ. A picture of scabby seed is shown. There will be no scab on the crop unless these germs are either in the soil when the crop is planted or on the seed. Prevention therefore depends upon two things. We should avoid planting in soil where the germs are found. If this is impossible we should handle the soil so that the germs will not be active. It seems to be settled that sulphur acts to destroy the germs. Some potato growers in places where scab is bad put sulphur in the hill or drill. When potato planters are used the sulphur is mixed in the hopper and dropped with the seed into the furrow. It helps destroy the scab and prevents the seed pieces from rotting, especially in a damp season. The scab germs develop best in an alkaline soil. Lime, wood ashes and manure are all alkaline, and will usually cause trouble when the soil is known to be well supplied with the germs. When a green crop is plowed under the soil is soured more or less, and this condition is best for scabby ground or seed. We have known farms ```markdown ``` Scabby Potatoes. where a five-year rotation is followed to show some curious results. One field would show far more scab than another and some seasons seem to favor the growth of scab. On those farms potatoes follow corn, and we think there is less scab when crimson clover is seeded in the corn and plowed under in spring. This seems to show that the theory about a sour soil is sound. There are three methods of treating the seed—dusting with sulphur, soaking with some chemical to destroy the germs, and fumigation. The dusting is easiest, but not always effective. We cut the seed into peach baskets and scatter three handfuls of sulphur over the seed as it is put in. The basket is shaken down at intervals. As it stands on a paper the sulphur which falls through can be saved. For soaking formalin is now generally used. This liquid chemical, also called formaldehyde, can be bought at drug stores. The proportion is one pint of formalin to 30 gallons of water. It can be put in a barrel or large tank, depending on the amount of seed to be soaked. We use two barrels, one with the soaking liquid and the other containing clear water. The potatoes are first rinsed in the water. They are put in a coarse sack and sounded up and down in the barrel. An easy way to do this is to have a pulley fastened over the barrel so that the bags can be easily raised or lowered. After rinsing the bag is lowered into the solution and kept there two hours. Then the potatoes are taken out, dried and cut. The rinsing takes off the dust, thus making the solution cleaner. Farmers have different methods of doing this soaking. The principle is to keep the seed in long enough to kill the scab germs without hurting the sprouts. Fumigation is now used by some large growers, says the Rural New Yorker. At first experiments were tried with sulphur fumes, as they are used for fumigating houses, but this did not succeed. Now the gas from formaldehyde is used with success. Instead of soaking the seed in a solution of this chemical it is turned into a gas and held in a close room with the seed. The process is described as follows: "For a generator a small galvanized washtub about 15 inches in diameter at the bottom was placed in the center of the room about a foot from the floor, midway between the two lines of crates filled with potatoes. When ready to use 311/2 ounces of potassium permanganate was spread evenly over the bottom of the tub, then four pints and one ounce of 40 per cent, formaldehyde poured over this. The tub was given one rapid tilt to entirely wet the potassium permanganate with the formalin and then the door was quickly and tightly closed from without. The almost entire absence of the odor of escaping gas while the treatment was in progress indicated that the room was practically air tight. The door remained closed for 24 hours, and when opened the gas was still so strong that it was impossible to work in the room for from 20 to 30 minutes. In fact, three weeks after the disinfection it finished a dis thick odor of formaldehyde could be detected in the room. The seed for the entire 20 acres was treated in this way, care being taken to place the treated seed in barrels which had never been used for potatoes before. This is to avoid contamination in taking to the field after treatment." PHYSIOLOGY OF TREES. Some Facts as to Their Life and Growth. Roots and leaves are the life organs of trees. A large part of the roots, however, only serve as conductors of water and food material. The young fibrous roots that are covered by fine hairs, are the only ones which take water and minerals from the soil. The trunk and branches simply serve as conductors of food material between the leaves and roots. If the fibrous roots are cut off or exposed so that they dry out, the tree will, in all probability, die. Some trees, like locusts, willows, poplars, etc., have the power of renewing their roots readily. Such trees always transplant easily. Therefore, the first care in transplanting trees is to keep the fibrous roots from drying out, and to protect them from injury during the time which transpires before the tree is planted again. In growing, trees build up a body of cell tissues, make foliage, flowers and fruit. They take up food material from the soil and air, changing it into cellulose and various other compounds. Like all other plants, trees depend upon moisture, heat and light as the means of performing their growth. From the soil trees principally get water by means of the fibrous roots. This water is carried to the leaves, through the trunk and branches, being partly used for wood formation on its way and partly given up to the air by the leaves. Minerals are taken only in small quantities and consist mostly of lime, potash, magnesia and nitrogen. They are carried to the leaves where they combine with part of the water in food preparation. The largest amount of water, however, taken up by a tree, transpires, or in other words, is given to the air in the form of vapor. So most of the mineral substance remains in the leaves, these in turn return it to the soil, when they are shed and left to decompose on the ground. This explains the fertility of soil in timber land. But now we must return to what the tree gets from the air. The solid portions of a tree, writes B. Schwering, in Farmers' Voice, is made largely of cellulose, which consists of carbon with hydrogen and oxygen. The tree gets its carbon by taking carbonic acid from the air, into the leaves. This, under the influence of light, air and water, is decomposed. Oxygen is thrown out and the remaining carbon forms compounds such as starch, sugar, etc., by combining with elements taken from the water. These compounds, which are used as food matter, pass downward through the tree to the very tips of its roots, making new wood all along. This process of food preparation can be carried on only in the green parts which are exposed to light and air. Therefore, the more foliage and light a tree has, the quicker will it grow. The leaf and root systems are both dependent upon each other, for the roots need the food prepared by the leaves just as the leaves require the water sent up by the roots. A leaf consists of cells, lying closely together and covered by a sack known as the epidermis. Between the cells are small spaces known as intercellular spaces. The epidermis has minute openings which open into the intercellular spaces, allowing the air and other gases to come in contact with the cells. These cells take carbon dioxide and give up oxygen. As oxygen is the gas which we need in breathing, and carbon dioxide the poison which we breathe out, it can readily be seen that every plant or tree is an important factor in the health of plants and animals. A DURABLE PLANT LABEL One Which Will Withstand the Action of the Elements. A necessity in gardening is a plant label and the best one I have found is made from sections of lath as shown in the accompanying illustration. Durable Plant Label. writes a correspondent of Prairie Farmer. The cover is fastened with a single clinched brad or shingle nail, so it will swing. It is quickly and easily made and only the part protecting the name need be smooth. The name may be written in pencil or the printed name from the seed envelope may be glued on. The markers may be used many seasons, gluing fresh names over, or erasing and rewriting. What She Did. Mrs. Stingy—Oh, Clarissa, I saw such a sad thing to do; a poor woman with a baby, shivering out in the cold, singing along the street. I never beheld anything so pitiful before in my life. Clarissa (breathlessly)—Yea, aunt; what did you do? Mrs. Stingy (gighting)—Well, my dear, I was so upset that I had to go and have a cup of tea.—Royal Magazine. THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA TIES OF NARROW RIBBON. Most Simple and Becoming Garniture for the Neck. Narrow ribbon tails with lace tassel ends are a becoming neck finish and can be made in an hour and at a very slight cost. Half inch satin ribbon is used and a yard is sufficient for one such neck garniture. Cut the ribbon in half and hem two ends to meet at the back of the neck, either to hook or to fasten evenly with a collar pin. Then knot the front ends sailor fashion to fall somewhat loosely in the front and leave pendant ends of the ribbon two or two and a half inches long. Trim each of these ends with a lace tassel made in the following manner: Take a piece of real or imitation Valenciennes lace insertion two inches wide and use two pieces of it four or five inches long. Sew half inch Valenciennes edging straight across the bottom and up the two sides of each length of the lace insertion, turning the corners flat and then plait the pieces in knife plaits just the width of the velvet ribbon. Fasten the top of the plaiting as it is gathered up into its half inch folds to the joining with a piece of the velvet doubled and sewn on perfectly flat and smooth to look like the top ornament of a tassel. These odd little neck trimmings are really very fetching and give a pretty touch of color to a white shirt waist or blouse. They have a tailor like air, yet the lace makes them more feminine than many of the other neckties which have enjoyed a season of popularity. Bright colored ribbons are liked better than somber ones. Gauze ribbon of a delicate yet firm quality is suitable for such ties and will be used for wear with summer shirt waist suits. IN NOVELTY BORDERED SILKS. Material That Demands Much Care in the Fashioning. It requires some ingenuity to fashion the novelty bordered silks into effective gowns. The average dressmaker is apt to make a failure of them unless she uses judgment in following out the models presented by the best designers. The skirts offer fewer difficulties than the waists, which should have the colored border used without giving it a patchwork effect. Nothing could be more charming along this line than the suggestion ANEILBROOK given here, which shows a clever manipulation of wide bordered foulard. The groundwork of the silk is a solid color, and this serves for the body part of the waist, while the deep Egyptian border trims the top, both back and front, and makes the sleeves. The unique feature of the design is the way the waist part and the sleeves are made all in one piece, giving that long, continuous line to the shoulders which is characteristic of kimono costumes, yet eliminates the broad sleeve part. Between the top of the handsome border running across the front and the back there is space for a white lace guipme. This reaches quite to the tips of the shoulders and is crossed in bracer fashion by straps of velvet ribbon which hold the two bordered pieces together. Happy Inspirations A very desirable hat is of a fine suede brown rice straw, the high crown sloping gently down to the curled brim; mousquetaire bankia roses and foliage provide the main portion of the trimming, the crown being further encircled with Wittteau blue velvet ribbon. The vogue for outre motor hats has passed, and the keen motorist as well as the devotee of fashion demands that above everything her hats must be comfortable, practical and becoming, and as Scott's stitched silk motor hats possess all these qualifications they have met with an enthusiastic welcome. These new modes have a small brim slightly turned up at the edge in front to shade the eyes, their only adornment being a long ninon de soie veil, which is cunningly passed through the ear flaps, thereby fastening the hat firmly on the head.—The Tatler. Striped Shirt Waist: Too many shirt waists cannot spoil one's wardrobe, though they may spoil one for wearing other kinds of costumes. The ease with which they are put on, their trim look and the becoming lines of the new models endear them to the hearts of all women. In linen, and especially in silk, the severe shirt waist has a host of admirers, who are gradually but surely be drawn away from the softer lingerie fashions for morning wear. Striped effects are the favorites for tailor waists. These are shown in such a variety of colors and widths of stripes in washable silks that every taste and every type of woman can find a pattern to suit and become her. An Appropriate Combination. "The English ought to send a baronet as representative at the court of Algiers." "Why so?" "Because then they will strike the natural combination of a knight and a dey." in the Greekian Product. Hashish the product of a plant grown in large quantities in the Pelos ponesus (southern Greece) in the district about Tripoli. MILLER'S HOTEL W.M.MILLER. PROPRIETOR WITHIN ONE BLOCK OF STRLET CAR LINES THAT TAKE YOU • TO ALL PARTS OF THE CITY TURMS 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. Everything Everything IN FURNITURE AND FLOOR COVERINGS SYDNOR & HUNDLY, INC. Leaders. 709 711 713 EAST BROAD STREET. Lima Beans. Lima beans need a long season. By this the pole Lima is meant. There are bush Limas which grow more quickly, but they are not productive. It does not need many hills of pole Limas to supply a family and the beans are delicious. The yield which may be obtained by good treatment is surprising. They may be started early in a cold frame by planting on inverted sods, but this is not always a convenient way of doing. The cold frame is needed for other purposes and it is expensive to provide one for this use alone. Kite Day in China Kite day is a Chinese national holiday. An expert Chinese kite-flier will easily keep six or even eight kites going on one string. Swiss a Temperate People One never sees a bolstered drunk person in a Swiss town, except in the tourist season, and then the offender invariably proves to be a foreigner. "Lack o' great wealth keeps a lot of people out o' th' international divorce courts." Whatever may be the issue, let us look after the motive, and then all will be right.—Dr. Alex Maclaren. Not a Strong Point No man ever won respect through his ability to tell salacious stories. Flees Nude from Fliery Car. York, Pa.—When a Pennsylvania railroad supply car on a train passing Frazer's station near Philadelphia, caught fire from a hot box, Elmer S. Rohrbaugh, conductor, of this city, who had been sleeping on the car, had just time to jump and save his life. He left every article of clothing except his shoes on the car, but friends loaned him an outfit. The car contained 300 gallons of oil, including 150 gallons of kerosene, and it was hastily shoved upon a switch, where it was completely destroyed. Swiss Chard. In many gardens beets are sown thickly so as to supply "greens." That does very well, but there is a better way to supply the desired potherb. Swiss Chard is a variety of beet which produces a large top, but has a small root. It will supply a much greater bulk of leaves than common beets do and of a better quality, too. WILL YOURS? A waiting cottage by the sea, A packed-and-ready Family, In state of glad expectancy Arrayed in smiles. A advantages beyond compare, Not least a Milli-milaire Whom each Fair Daughter plans to snare With malen wiles. A Dampot's adamant decree, A panic-stricken Family, On verge of wild profanity, Or depths of woe. Dejected wall the Daughters Fair, Some other'll get that millionaire! But vain are bribe, invective, prayer,— THE COOOR WON'T GO! A house in Park SAUSAGE COMEDY. 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Receipt Free. | Any man who suffers with nervous debility, ioss of natural pewer, weak jback, failing memory or deficient ‘manhood, brought on by excesses, dissipation, unnatural drains or the foliies of youth, may cure himself # ‘home with a simple prescription that I will gladiy send free, in a plain [sealed envelope, to any man who will write for it. A. E. Robinson, 3895 Luck Building, Detroit, Michigan. | creat speech in defense of the “Black eae | It would seem that we are to be |carried back in the administration of justice to the days when men and women put on trial for witchcraft ound no avenue of escape from pun- fment, brutality, and execution, ex- cept only in confession—to the days | [when if a man but stood mute t | |was la be put to death for it | “SUICIDE QUEEN” CAN'T KILL SELF HANGING, SHOOTING, DROWNING AND POISON HAVE. ALL PROVEN UNSUCCESGFUL. HAS SOUGHY DEATH 26 TIMES aitetial an MED een ciate oat Gira Caraga pone. ot walks Years Han Wade hs ee Cincinnati—Physicians who. have studied the case of Etta Saulters, a young Woman, who attempted suicide 26 times, say suicide is a disease and that ft ts infectious. This theory Is indorsed by others who have given the subject study. The ehse of Miss Saulters, who has been dubbed “the suicide queen” by the police and newspapers, is a re- markable one. Her 26 attempts at suicide cover a period of nearly three years and she has adopted a great variety of meth- ods of selfsiaughter, none of which bas proven successful. ‘That she will Kill herself ultimately those who know her believe. She ts still in the bloom of youth. Her beauty still remains. She is intelligent and capable. Yet she has momenta when, With no apparent reason save melan- choly, life 1s too heavy a burden. She seeks death with the same intensity that some men and women seek drugs and stimiflants. When not suffering from acute mel- ancholy she is reticent about the strug: gles she has made to rid herself of Ife. She has been taken into custody many times on charges of attempting to commit suicide. She recently ad: mitted to Police Judge Leuder, when arraigned, that this practice on het part had resulted in 34 arrests, 1¢ workhouse sentences and four terms all short, in the county Jail. She alsc had been sent to the City hospital as many as 20 times One night, about three years ago @ young woman, her hair blowing ir ED |==8 oy sae 4 MB a n —fe * 24 oN 3 ee % <= SENT (2 KS Tries Suicide 26 Times. curls, dashed along Sixth street. She was sobbing as she ran, and pedes. trians paused. She stopped at a cor ner, lifted a hand’ to her lps, uttered a prolonged moan and lunged forward on the sidewalk Many persons rushed to her. They found her lips seared with acid, and fragments of a halfounce bottle that contained the drug lay scattered about her. An ambulance was called and she was hurried to the hospital, where prompt treatment saved her life. From that evening her attompts to commit sulcide became frequent. Five times since her first attempt she has tried carbolic acid. She has also taken landenum, paris green, arsenic and other poisons One morning pedestrians and rest- dents {n the same neighborhood were terrified as a body shot from a high ‘window. Bruised, ma’med and uncon. scious, it lay on the sidewalk. The ‘policeman thought her dead, and called the patrol wagon. But before it arrived he sent in another call, this Ume for an ambulance. It seemed as if the idea of suicide took possession of her every time she had the “blues.” Trouble or worry, real or tmaginary, seemed, in her state of mind, to call for a revolver, a noose, a vial of poison or the waters of a river. But success always eluded her in the seeking after death. 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At last the pelice had to order the druggists to refuse her poison. A covetous man makes no friends.— Cingalese Proverb. UNKIND. po Beaty SS Bs Bo bE oo ST ee ht oe ‘ f\ Die Sin ey NF ss gee LAD Us: Oo ST sf eet +e HE i V fe OA | Ss eg \e My husband kissed the housemald ele eS OE TRE Oe ee When evening gilts the western sky And ail have gone to rest, When cares have fed nnd fancy roams afar T live again that night I held you fondly to my Brest, And, doing #0, T broke my last cigar. “Judee Not What They Seemed. “Your goose ts cooked,” cried one of two speakers “And your cake Is dough,” retorted the other Tut they were not enemles reerim!- nating with joy at each other's misfor- tunes; they were merely two friendly cooks compariog notes of progress. — Baltimore Atuerican. 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