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THE RICHMOND PLANET HOW MR. TAFT WAS NOMINATED. Reverberations from the Republican National Convention. "The Steam Roller." OMINOUS MUTTERINGS—PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT AND HIS METHODS. VOLUME XXV, NUMBER 302 HOW WAS N Reverberations tional Conven OMINOUS MUTTERINGS (Continued From Last Week) The contests from Tennessee embrace every delegate in the State except two, those from the First District (Brownlow's). The situation is the result of the fight between the two factions of the party in the State headed, on the one side by Congressman W. P. Brownlow, R. W. Austin, formerly Consul at Glasgow, Scotland, now a candidate for Congress against Hale, in the Second District, and William J. Oliver, the great contractor, a candidate for National Committeeman, and on the other by H. Clay Evans, of Chattanooga, former head of the Pension Department; Newell Sanders of Chattanooga, chairman of the State Committee, and Nathan W. Hale, Congressman from the Second District, a candidate for re-election and also candidate for National Committeeman. The lines were finely drawn at the State Convention of March 25, '08, the first day's session of the State Committee the decision put County in the contested column caused three committeemen—two from the First District and one from the Ninth—to leave the hall. The committee work resulted in the seating of 39 Brownlow delegates, 106 Evans delegates and passing 116 to the State Convention for settlement. There were, according to the claims of the committee, 270 uncontested delegates, of whom 182 were Evans men and 61 Brownlow men. The other side claimed by rights a total of 384 out of the total 530 votes in the convention, alleging many fictitious contests. This was the situation on the night before the opening of the convention. CLEVER AUSTIN MEN TOOK POS SESSION For some time prior to the coming of the convention a special train from East Tennessee, known as the "Oliver-Austin Special," to bring the cohorts of the Brownlow faction to the capital was widely talked of, and anticipating a probable attempt on the part of this crowd to invade the convention hall, the Hall of the House of Representatives, under the auspices of the State Committee, a guard of half a dozen men under a United States Deputy Marshal spent the might there to hold the hall against invasion. The special arrived in the early morning, and its six hundred passengers, without stopping for breakfast advanced on the Capitol. Most of the guards in the hall concluded discretion was the better part of valor, and the deputy marshal was overpowered, the new arrivals taking possession of the hall. They were strongly intrenched about the Speaker's stand listening to the oratory of Oliver, Austin, John C. Houk, of Knoxville and others, when a commotion at the door of the hall announced the coming of the members of the State Committee, headed by Chairman Newell Sanders and John Early of Chattanooga, who had been chosen as temporary chairman. WENT THROUGH FORM OF A CONVENTION. Before they reached the rostrum, William I. Davis, of the First District one of the bolting committee of the previous day went through the form of calling the crowd to order. The Sanders-Early party reached the Speaker's stand, but they were pulled down. Davis, Oliver and others mounted the marble sounding board in the rear of the stand, and from that point of safety went through the form of a convention, while Sanders and his immediate following were being pulled down from the speaker's stand every time they attempted to remount it. The disorder continued for something over two hours, when, in a lull it was claimed that Early announced the adoption of a motion to adjourn over to the next day to give the committee on credentials, also claimed to have been appointed, time to act. The Brownlow-Oliver-Austin crowd shortly afterward, having finished their alleged convention programme adjourned sine die. In the course of the so-called convention it adopt- ed, much as it did all its other acts, a motion that the delegation go uninstructed. Hours after the so-called convention resolutions were given out as having been adopted, though they were never read, indorsing Roosevelt and declaring for Taft for his successor. The Evans-Hale-Sanders faction agreeable to the so-called adjournment, convened the following day, held an orderly convention, going through the usual procedure and instructing for Taft for President. They attacked the regularity of the other side on every ground and ignored a proposition passed by the other side that the two sets of delegates-at-large run the race off before a primary on June 16, the expenses to be paid by the Oliver convention. A notable feature of this Convention was the disposition of the body to ignore the Negro. With one exception every one of the ten Congressional districts in the State is the scene or contests by the two factions as to the right of the district delegates to have participated in the State Convention. Nearly all show similar reasons why the contests arose and why they are to be fought out. The Second and the Sixth districts are the only ones showing essential differences as to the basis of contest. TAFT'S OWN STATE TORN BY CHARGES OF UNDERHAND METHODS. Not even in Ohio, Secretary Taft's own State is there an absence of contests. The Foraker forces, who control the two delegates from the Seventeenth District, unopposed, are contesting the right to sit of the delegates from the Third, Sixth, Tenth and Thirteenth Districts. It is interesting to note that disaster has always followed a Presidential aspirant from Ohio who has not gone to a National Convention with the solid delegation from his State behind him. All four of the contests in Ohio illustrate the brand of practical politics in vogue among the bosses of the old parties. In the Third District, for instance the Taft forces in the Congressional Committee not only controlled the anti-Taft man, Charles M. Beiser, but arbitrarily declared Beiser's delegation from Montgomery County, which in itself constituted a majority of the District Convention, named a new delegation to the liking or the Taft people, selected a new hall in which to hold the convention, the Montgomery County delegates having assembled in the hall originally designated for the meeting of the convention and proceeded to nominate delegates favorable to Taft. This convention named N. R. Ramsey and Oscar A. Gale as national delegates. The Beiser following held a separate convention and selected Beiser and D. W. Alleman as delegates to the convention. The convention must choose between them. In the Sixth Ohio District, boyhood home of Senator Foraker the fight is being made on purely legal grounds the Hildebrandt and Scroggy factions being locked in a death grip on the question of regularity and command of the spoils—issues which are placed above party principle, even with a national campaign impending. A similar condition of affairs prevails in the Tenth Ohio District, where a half dozen factions are pitted against each other, while in the Thirteenth District there is a clear case in favor of J. R. Hopley and E. B. King. Foraker delegates who were named at a perfectly legal convention The Taft men, having simply withdrawn from the convention when they found the majority against them organized a rump convention, at which they named Congressman Grant Z. Mouzer and Charles A. Judson, Collector of the Port at Sandusky, delegates. TEXAS OFFICEHOLDERS RAN MATTERS AS THEY PLEASED IS CHARGED. In the Second Texas District Federal officeholders are alleged to have run matters to suit themselves, and in their brief which has been pre- (Continued on Eighth Page.) RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, SATURDAY, JUNE 27, 1908. PERSONALS AND BRIEF'S. —Mr. R. Allen Jackson of the Seaside Press, Atlantic City, N. J. was called to the city this week on account of the illness of his Grand Mother, Mrs. Patterson. —Mrs. W. F. Denny, who was called to Georgia on account of the death of her grandmother reached there in safety and will spend some time with her relatives. —The Old Custalo House is now being refitted for Mr. E. L. Thompson who will open a bar-room there for white people. Thompson's Dining Rooms have been removed to the League Hall, 412 N. Third Street. —Miss Mabel Holmes is ill at her residence, 1000 N. Fourth Street, Mrs. Susanna Holmes was telegraphed for and reached the city last week. There is much improvement in the patient's condition. —Dr. J. A. Lewis is president and the committee will furnish tickets on the Sunday outing June 28, 1908. —The "Millionaire" Johnson wedding is the talk of the city. Presents continue to come in to the happy pair. The ushers are the centre of attraction. —Mr. James T. Fry and Mr. Peter J. Young have opened a fine dining room and quick lunch establishment at 619 N. Third Street. Mr. and Mrs. L. B. Phillips, of 723 N. Fifth Street are erecting a handsome frame bay front dwelling across the street from their present residence. The firm of Moore and Archer is erecting a fine frame dwelling for Mrs. Tilghman on Fifth St., beyond Jackson St. It is nearing completion and is one of the best built houses in that section. Thompson's Dining Room moved from Custalo house to League Hall. No 412 N. Third Street, Clay Street No. 412 N. Third Street, Clay Street No. 412 N. Third Street, Clay Street Car Line one block Airy and roomy dining rooms. Chop suey and other up-to-date dishes served. Give us a call and inspect our place. 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. Baptizing There. There will be a large baptizing at the Mt. Tabor Baptist Church Sunday June 28, at 11 o'clock A. M. At 3:30 P. M. Communion services will be held and the hand of fellowship will be given to fifty new members, which is the result of our revival meeting. R. J. BASS, Pastor. Out Again. Out Again Mrs. Ella Shepherdson of 517 N. Third Street who was accidently shot in the face has so far recovered as to be able to leave the Retreat for the Sick and return home. The ball was not removed. The wound has not completely healed, but outside of a piece of white cotton over the skin is of good odessness of her right eye she is in good condition. The wound is not painful and she suffers most from weakness due to the loss of so much blood. Children's Day. Children's Day of the Juvenile Bands of Calanthe will be observed in the First Baptist Church Sunday, June 28, 1908, 3 P. M. Parents please see that your children be on time and meet in basement of said Church, 2:30 P. M. Members and friends of the Order are cordially invited to attend and help in this great cause. ANNA E. TAYLOR, G. W. G. M. of Children's Dept. WILLIAM H. TAFT Nominated at Chicago by the Republican National Convention for President of the United States. Taft and Sherman TICKET NOMINATED BY THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION. Main Points in Platform. With the appointment of committees to notify William Howard Taft, of Ohio, and James Schoolcraft Sherman, of New York, of their nomination respectively for the presidency and the vice presidency of the United States, the fourteenth Republican national convention at Chicago adjourned. Both candidates were nominated on the first ballot. Mr. Taft's nomination took place Thursday afternoon and CONGRESSMAN SHERMAN OF NEW YORK. Mr. Sherman's Friday morning. The vice presidential candidate is a resident of Utica, N. Y., and has been a member of congress for nearly twenty years. Three features of the great conven tion stand out above the rest in human interest. One was the remarkable demonstration of applause evoked by the mention of President Roosevelt's name in a highly complimentary way by the permanent chairman, Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, of Massachusetts. This demonstration lasted forty-six minutes and is said to have broken the time record for such things in American politics. The cue for the enthusiastic outbreak was Senator Lodge's remark during his opening address as chairman when he said, "The president is the best abused and the most popular man in the United States to day." Another signal feature was the committee fight on the anti-injunction plank, otherwise the proposed plank for the platform which was designed with a view to expressing the administration's disapproval of hasty court in junctions against the presumed rights of labor. The struggle resulted finally in a compromise, both sides yielding in part, that harmony might be preserved and the party go before the people with a plank on this subject calculated to conciliate the labor interests and at the same time not to be construed as an unwarranted attack upon the federal judiciary. The third feature in the group here set forth as markers for posterity for the big Chicago convention was a negative one—something that didn't happen, though it was expected to happen by many persons throughout the country and by not a few of the delegates in the convention. This was the absence of the "stampede" for a renomination of President Roosevelt against the president's expressed declaration that he would abide absolutely by the unwritten law that no president shall serve more than two terms. Mr. Tafte's nomination proceeded along smoothly to ultimation, the nation was preserved from any present peril of the third term bogy and the president's name preserved to future ages as one who with a further extension of power within his grasp, was patriot enough to put aside the proffer for his courtry's good. While as stated, a negative feature, this cannot be passed by as one of the few matters of paramount force in the history of the 1908 convention. East Lynne Repeated Monday night, June 29, 1908 at True Reformers' Hall, 8:30 P. M. by An Amateur Company of Colored Leagues, 15 cents. Reserved Seats, 25 cents. A Great Opportunity for Young Men Who Desire an Agricultural Education. In addition there is a special Post Graduate Course of one or two years provided for graduates of High Schools and Colleges. We are especially anxious to have a large number of agricultural students who have finished high school or college courses. Any young man who is ambitious enough to finish any of the courses above mentioned can readily secure immediate employment at good salaries. Opportunities are now open to 500 young men and women who may wish to take any of the above courses of instruction. The cost of board is $8.50 per month. No charge for instruction. For further information address, BOOKER T. WASHINGTON, Principal, Tuskegee Institute, Alabarva. State Summer School for Colored Teachers at the Christiansburg Baptist (Special to Richmond PLANET.) The State of Virginia is determined to raise the standard of efficiency in her teachers and to this end a series of Summer Schools are being maintained by the State in the various localities for the benefit of teachers actively engaged or those who plan to follow teaching. Such a school for colored teachers has been established at the Christiansburg Industrial Institute for the benefit of teachers in the Southwest section of the State. The selection of Christiansburg is very fortunate, because the equipment there far exceeds that to be found at any other available point in the section. The school is situated in an ideal location and the natural beauty of the scenery surrounding it leaves nothing to be desired. The accommodations at the school are exceptionally good. There is an excellent dormitory containing complete system connected with the school including shower and tub baths, all which be at the disposal of teachers in attendance at the Institute free of charge. No charge will be made for rooms, Board will be $8.00. Washing, if done at the school, will be one dollar for men and one dollar and fifty cents for women. Tuition is two dollars for each teacher. These charges must be paid in advance. Teachers expecting to attend should notify the Manager, E. A. LONG, C. I. I., Cambria, Va., indicating the subjects they propose to pursue. The school opens June 29 and runs until July 31. Do You Know Them? I wish to locate my brothers Alfred and Solomon Williams, born in Nansem mond County, Va. They are the sons of Lydia Williams. If my brothers have any children I would be pleased to hear from them. Alfred is between 68 and 69 years old. The last time I heard of him he was living in Matthews Co., Va. This was about 15 years ago. Solomon is between 59 and 61 years old. I saw him in 1863 at Falmouth, Va. on the Battle Field. I have forgotten the name of the regiment. Address all information to Returns Thanks. We have received a letter from Mr. J. W. Johnson, who is now on a honey-moon trip with his bride and is located near Charlottesville at a country seat asking us to thank his many friends for their courtesies and kind remembrances. Both are well and the location is ideal for a summer outing. A June Day. To-day, the stillness of earth's beauteous calm Stands balanced on artistic toes with wings Outspread, inviting Silence's hush and Fange's calm To permeate the world of waiting space. Nymph-hued the flowers smile effulgent grace On Nature's symmetry. Above, the strings Of corral-beaded mists of sea-foamed clouds Imbibe the whisper'ng zephyrs of the skies. And sport a frolicksome aerial pace, Displaying hues of art-dream tints and dyes Sylph-born. The feather'd host heave gracefully Their plumaged breasts of Nature's excellency In grand and perfect touch, lifting their eyes Heav'n-ward, shaping their merry threats to tune Their carrol'ng symphonies that creep into Life's happy solitudes, and echo through The dream-tossed whispers of the gay festoon That crown the list-ning world—a day in June. —LUCIAN B. WATKINS, —Times are changing, but the cooling breezes will be the same on the Steamer Pocahontas Sunday, June 28, 1908. Magnolias Bloom Now. Editor John Mitchell, Jr. was much annoyed by white boys at the residence, Fifth and Leigh Streets. He caught some of them there one day this week and they were much frightened. They had more time to watch for him than he had time to watch for them. They were after the magnolias and would climb up the tree, breaking the limbs and damaging the same generally. A happy thought struck him and he sent some of his office force with a consignment of news ink, which was spread liberally around the trunk of that tree higher up and also upon the lower limbs of the magnolia tree. Any boy willing to wade through that printer's ink could have the magnolias. As a result, magnolias are blooming in peace and neither a bull dog nor a watchman is needed in that locality. The first boy that attempted to reach them is sadder and wiser and no doubt his mother has been belaboring him on that part of his anatomy, where it will do the most good. Soap and water have never been known to make any headway with news ink. This formula is given free of charge to all who are suffering either with bugs or boys in connection with magnolia and fruit trees. Public Installation The officers of the Lodges and Courts will be publicly installed Tuesday, July 14, 1908 at the Ebeenzer Baptist Church at 8 P. M. The members of the Order and the public present Grand Chancellor John Mitchell Jr. will be assisted by the members and officers of the Grand Lodge in this city. Another Court Organized Chatham, Va., June 23, '08. Chatham Court, No. 137 was organized here last night at the Pythian Castle, by Miss M. L. Chiles, Special Deputy G. W. C., assisted by Mrs. S. J. Holbock, District Deputy Grand Worthy Counsellor of Danville and Dr. R. A.Reynolds. The following are the officers: Worthy Inspector, Mrs. Lucy S. Smith; Worthy Counsellor, Mrs. Lucy W. Carper; Worthy Inspectrix, Mrs. Matilda V. Hopkins; Worthy Orator, Mrs. Lizzie B. Tucker; Senior Directress, Mrs. Lella B. Sims; Junior Directress, Mrs. Dellahil B. Watkins; Escort, Mrs. Sallie Jones; Conductress, Mrs. Victoria Keatts; Assistant Conductress, Janie White; Register of Deeds, Mrs. M. L. Wilson; Register of Accounts, Mrs. Anna B. McBorton; Receiver of Deposits, Mrs. Mattle S. Armstead; Herald, Miss Bessie Crews; Protector, Mrs. Louisa Whittle. Trustees: Mrs. Whitlock Breakley, Miss Roberta Gizetts, Mrs. P. H. Griffin. The members were much pleased. The visitors left this morning for Danville. $100.00 Endowment Paid Richmond, Va., June 19, '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 Martha Coles, who was a member of Queen Esther Court No. 50 of Danville, Va. Signed—Julia E. L. Coles, Beneficiary. he = Lig GANA 0mm | \ ABM BSA Noe 1) DY CHARLES CLARK MURKY COPYRIGHT, 1906, BY LOTHROP. LEE & OHERARD CQ. Two SYNOPSIS. LL. McGuire, @ 16-3 Ss eS ere eae See es Seas inh ics creas cecum ge Ratan Seas See ‘by Mra. Frisbie. eels Tate tee mig ig ER Ean, bes tinh iieroens a SRG oe nee. hetan Fea ee Falls Tee rok are “wee Ss by bim and Cy Walker, aa. oe raed oe ier Ele ats “inks “area cee =. Ge yg ee Bait orto ete tae mo eateee ae ae lake shore in front of their cabin, cwieee trum come oo eSTAFERT, 1 —Srranee, eens coe facta ena ets otis SS ws alid tal See peices yt ons) Gs Bet dere™ ct tate Site See ere a ee ee La ferent ee PAID SESS Sat me! cetera uh Ge Martin and Levi as they’ are soturneh from the settlement. ol@ue aasapes” oxdees se man that be remais in ihe’ woods enh Bane Se Stars os eee oe rutety woes Gaeta oes BAe ae Srsenra eae eae ted ne nCBALTEN, Sahin otnce, te, sonan ASH Comterv's, made se especially by SEATTER 21008 Of ont hay a oSEATTER iO, Gach Bars Sere ete ie gc ther Into the wilderness ant discover the Siaacs Pues aes Eos Pts! sehr CHATTER E1Y they feemtente tg STATES DY ther snveeens fees the pirt he Nad ‘boueke Yo abe os Me PePuaeares oeeke te a APRN at aes oes pecs STATUES EY Beltg ante bepare SSS Beer a ee Ray leaves the woods with Lori ion Ber olt God dee Sana eat ce ik Bee es hs SRE Ss, com eucreeierni ae al a Miche Bea sseates ofa Seas ae Pay ~ CHAPTER xrx — wants sae ame Seah ae Be Boge SS Sie Sorateale ah they part, however, ft is as lovers: Ae —Chip yuns away from SOP ue ras ray from $e imewaaee er eathe, Soms esse Seg. SRS ees ica Chip home Wil’ her to Censuses % XIt.- to ect COE SEs cate Remar German ale aga Ere set ates Saco Wale Ee soe sa ws fe Sal cs Seas ct SES CHAPTER XXIII—O14 Cy investigates McGuire's cave in the wildernens and Bers Geel ‘ QSRAREER, DOUY--OM Cy ietuine tm CRARTER, DOTY <O'y reeurng = CHATTER XXY_—oM Cy return, eSRAEER CV O18, Gy, eter, to Sorirmanr cme Siac Gente rices & egiretiege ce bee So Rn? pt Fite eet tell Fudson of his brother. Sy. Papelera flea BATTER, KXWHL- Chip ot, futeoe Et Sas Bee Srpat srr: sie Ge Sasratiies CHAPTER xxViil. Bad news arrived tn Peaceful Valley & week later, for Captain Bemis had passed on, Aunt Abby was in lonely sorrow, and wrote for Chip to come at once Her fate was now linked with these people. Aunt Abby had been kind and helpful, and Chip, more than glad to return a little of the obligation, bur- ried to Christmas Cove It was a solemn and silent house abe now entered. Aunt Abby, despite the fact that {t was not a love match, mourned ber departed companton. The mill's pertinent stlence added gloom, ‘and Chip’s smiling facqand affection- ate interest was more than welcome to Aunt Abby. * ‘And now that concealment was no longer needed, Chip hastened to tell her story in full. How utterly Aunt Abby was aston- ished, how breathlessly she listened to Chip’s recital, and how, when the clt- max came and Chip assured her that wood Old Cy Walker was still alive, Aunt Abby collapsed entirely, sobbing and thanking God all at once, is but ‘© sidelight on this tale, “I couldn't tell you before,” Chip ax sured her, while her own tears still fiowed. “I was so ashamed and guilty ‘a tn one, I couldn't bear to. I never @id so mean a thing in all my life, and never will again. But when Uncle Jud told me what you didn’t, and how much he cared for me, and how you once cared for Uncle Cy, I went all to pieces and told the whole story and went word to Uncle Cy that day. I feel so gullty now, and so mean, I don't see how you can forgive me.” But Aunt Abby's forgiveness was not slow in coming. The past ten days ‘©f sorrow had left her heart very ten- der. In spite of being “book-larned,” ashe was very humane. Chip’s sad life and misfortunes appealed to her, as they had to Uncle Jud, and true Chris tian woman that she was, her heart ‘opened to Chip. “I bape we shall never be parted while Iiive,” she ssfd, as (he Coars came again. “I have no children, and Ro one to live fer but my sister. Iam #0 wonted to Christmas Cove, I could Rot feel at home anywhere else. If Uncle Jud will consent, I will adopt you legily, and when I am laid away ail I have shall be yours.” And so Chip McGuire, waif of the wilderness, child of an outlaw, once soki to a humam brute, yet fighting ber way upward and onward to a bet- ter life, despite every drawback, now found a home and mother. No light of education had {llumined ber pathway, no Christian teaching EE Ns q r + 5 se OWA liad BA) tee Pe Nes pee FZ! (Ne SS Na ss BEE re Chip, with Pail in Hand, Hurried Awey een and no home example, only the inborn and God-given Impulse of purity, self. Tespect and gratitude; and yet, itke a bud forcing {ts way up out of a muck heap and Into the sunshine, so Chip emerged to win respect and love, But all her history is not told yet. She still lacked even a common edu: cation. There was still an old man seoking to find her, who was yet wan dering afar. A homeless, almoat friendiess old mun was he, whose life had gone amiss, and whose sole amb tion was to do for her and find content fu her happiness. A wanderer and re- clase for many years, he waa still more so now, and out of place as well among the busy haunts of men. More than that, he was an object of curios- {ty to afl grown people and the jest of the young, as he tramped up and down the land in search of Chip And what 9 pitiful quest tt was— this asking the same question thou. sands of times, this lingering In towns to watch mill operatives file out, this peering {nto stores and marts, to go 00 again, and repeat it for months and months, ‘There was stil! another link in this chain—a doy, eo fur as experience Koes, who was only deterred from un- wise baste by a coolheaded man. “You had better not go to Chip now,” Martin said to him on his return from Peaceful Vatlely. “She is an odd child of natura, and you won't lose by waiting. My advice to you Is to for eet her for the present, find some profitable occupation, and then, when you have made a little advancement tn life, go and woo her if you can. To try ft now {s foottsh.” Tt was cold comfort for Ray. One of Chip's first acts of emancipa- tion was to write to Aunt Comfort and Angie, assuring both of her love and dest wishes, and thanking them for all they had done, Both letters .were cramped in chirography, but correct tn spelling, and in Angie's was a note for Martin, aeking that he draw $100 of her money and send {t to her, and as much mere to pay some one to follow Old Cy. The latter request Martin ig- nored, however, for he bad already set the machinery of newspaperdom at Work, and an advertisement for infor- mation of thet wanderer was flying far and wide. Of the money sent her, Chip made oad and quite characteristic uses, only ‘one of which needs mention—the pur- chase of a banjo. Had Ray known this, and that the tender memory it tnvoked was the reason for this tn- Yestment, he would have had jess cause for grief. But Ray did not, which was all the better for him. CHAPTER XXix. Life, always colorless at Christmas Cove, except in midsummer, now be came ehanged for Aunt Abby. For all the years since her one girlish ro manee had ended, she had been « pa tient heipmate to a man she merely respected. Religion had been her ehief solace, The annual visit to her sis ter’s gave the only relief to this mo tloniess life, monotonous as the tides sweeping in and out of the cove; but now @ countercurrent slowly flowed into i. Chip, of course, with her winsome eyes and grateful ways. was its main- spring, and so checkered had been her career and so humiliating all her past experiences, that now, escaped from dependence and feeling herself a val- ued companion, she tasted a new and joyous Ife. So true was this, that bard lessons at school, the regularity of chureh-going, and the unvarying tenor of it all seemed less by com- parizon. Another undercurrent, aside trom Chip’s devotion, also swept into Aunt Abby's feelings.—the strange emotions following the knowledge that ber for mer lover was still alive. For many yeara she had waited and hoped for ‘this sailor boy's return: then ber heart THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. as ote nen race net quite, mow and then been visited by A certain curiously growa cak which ‘Was evcluded near its upper end wae once a tryating-place, and even the old with ita splashing wheel held memories. ‘And now after 40 years, during which ahe bad become gray-hatred and slightly wrinkled, all these memories Teturned like ghests of long ago. No word or hint of them fell from her lips, Rot even to Chip, whe was now near- ‘est to her; and yet bad that girl been © mind-teader, she would bare soem that Aunt Abby's persistent interest in all she had to tell about Old Cy meant something. Where he was now, how soon he would learn that his brother ‘Was still alive after all these years, was the one most pertinent subject oft discussed. How Chip felt toward him, not alone for the heritage he had secured for her, but for other and more valued heart Interests, need not be specified. He had seemed almost a father to her at the lake. He was the first of her new-found friends whose feelings had warmed toward her, and Chip was now Mature enough to value these biess- ings at their true worth. A certain mutual expectancy now entered the Ives of Chip and Aunt Abby. Nothing could be done, how- ever. Old Cy had gone out into the wide, wide world, as It were, searching for the little gtri he loved. No man- ner of reaching him seemed possible; and yet, some day, he must learn what would bring him to them as fast as steam could fetch him. “T know that he loved me as his own child there at the lake.” Chip said once In an exultant tone. “His going after me proves it; and once he hears where I am, he will hurry here, I know.” ‘Whether Aunt Abby's heart responé- ed to that wish or not, she never dis closed But the days, weeks and months swept by, and Old Cy came not. Neither did any message come to Chip from Greenvale At first, rebelling at Ray's treatment of her, Chip felt that she nover wanted to’ see him agin. She bad been so tender and loving toward him at the lake, had striven so hard to learn and to be more lke him, hed waited and watched, counting the days wntil his return, only to be told what she could not forget and to find him #0 neglectful, so cool to her, when her sirlish heart was so full of love, that her feelings had changed almost in one instant, and pride had made her bitter Hannah had told an unpleasant truth, as Chip knew well enough; but truth and confiding love mixed’ fly. and Ray's conduct, leaving ber as he did with scarce a word or promise, was an episode that had chilled and almost killed Chip's budding affection, As 1s always the caso, sucff a fecling fates and flares itke all others. There would now bea brief space when Chip hoped and longed for Ray's coming. and then days when no thought of him came. It was perbaps fortunate for him that Christmas Cove contained no se. rious admirer of Chip the while, else bave been swept away. But that quaint village was peopled chielly by old folk, those of the male persuasion being quite young, with a few girls of Chip’s age. Few young men remained tite CMAPTER xxx, | After Chip had run away from Greenvale, concealment of her name and all else had forced Stxelf upon her. It was not natuce! for her to deceive. She bad kent It up for one unhappy year only unter inward protest, which ended tn ablect confession and tears. Now recatiing that unpleasant eptnode, she made haste to confess her long conversation with this fluent fellow. “Mr. Goodnow followed me over to the point this afternoon,” she ex- plained that evening to Aunt Abby. “and talked for two hours. Ho was aice enough, but he made me sick of him, he flattered me so much.” Aunt Abby looked at her with a slight sense of alarm. “He certainly has the gift of tmpu- dence, at least,” she sald, “in view of the way I declined his invitation yes- terday. I think you'd best discontinue your long rambles for the present, or unt!! he leaves here. He is not our sort. He {s not even a friend of ours, and if people see you together, they will say unkind things.” That wes warning enough for Chip and from that time on she never even walked down to the village store ex- cept with Aunt Abby A curious and almost ridiculous espionage followed, however, for a week, and not a pleasant afternoon passed by but this fellow was noticed strolling somewhere near the old mill OF past the boure, Another amazing evidence of his tn- tent was received a few days later, in the shape of a fivepound box of choicest candies. that came by express with his card. Aunt Abby openod thie and saw the card, and the next day the commissioned the stage driver to deliver the box, car and all, to Mr. Goodnow at his boarding house. A long and adroitly worded letter to Chip came a day later, so humble, #o flattering, and so importuning that ft made her laugh. “I think that fellow must have gone crazy,” she said, handing the letter to Aunt Abby, “he runs om so about how Re can't sleep nights from thinking about me. He says that he must go away next week, and shall die if be ean't see me ones more. What alls him, anyway?” | “Nothing, except evil intentions,” re sponded Aunt Abby, perusing the mis. sive. “He must think you a fool to be eve such bosh,” she added severely, ‘after finishing it. “Honest love doesn’t “grow Uke a mushroom in one night, and the difference between his post: ‘tion and yours gives the Ife to all he Says. I hope he will go away next ‘Week, and never come back.” Whether Chip's studied avoidance of bim, combined with the snubbing. served jts purpose, or he decided his ‘ett Chrietmes Cove, and Chip fal re | Moved. << a z ae th eptia of hen a annoyance, somewbat exciting. It also served an. other purpose of more value—it re. | called Ray to ber by sheer force of Sores bad felt hurt ever sinee the night she left Greeavale. She . bad meant to put bim out of her { thoughts and forget all the atily hours and promises at the lake; and yet she " pever had succeeded. Instead, her » thoughts turned to him in spite of her | pride. And now, ‘contrasting and compar ing that honest, mandy ind, a playmate only, and yet a lover as well, with this _ Polished, fulsome, fiattering, shifty: "eyed fop, who snecred at everything food. only made Ray, with bis tar dif. | ferent ways. ecem ihe more attractive | _ Then conscience began to emite her. | She had yielded to pride and put him | Sway from her thoughts. His uncle | had almést pleaded fur bor to return | to Greenvale, if only for a visit. She | knew Ray bad epent weeks in search- Ing for her: yot not once tm all the two years since they parted had she sent him a Ine of remembrance. More mature now, Chip began to see | her own conduct as it wae, and to real | ize that she had been both ungrateful | and heartiens: but sbe could not com | fese it to any ome, not even Aunt Abby. Chip's life had beon a strange, eom- plex series of moods of peculiar effeet, | and her conduct must be judged ac. cordingly. | First, the dense ignorance of years at Tim's Place, with ite saving grace of disgust at euch surroundings and such a life. Then a few months with people to different and so kind that it seemed an entrance tuto hearen, to de | followed by weeks of a growing real. feation that she was a nobody, and an outcast anft for Oreenvale. | And then came the cllar of all this: the bitter sneers of Hannah, Ray's cool neglect, the consciousness that ahe was only a dependent pauper, and then her flight Into the world and Away from ail that stung her like so many wht.s. | But & revuision of feeling was com Ing. Chip, no ionger a simple child of the wilderness, was realizing her own needs and her own nature, Something broader “gad more. satisfying than school lite’ and the companionship of Aunt Abby waa mended: yet how to find it never occured to her With September came Aunt Abby's annual visit to Peaceful Valley. A fow days before thelr departure, Chip re ceived a letter which was so unexpect ed and no vital to her feelings that t muat be quoted. It was dated at the little villaxe of Grindstone, directed to Vera McGutre, care of Judson Walker, by whom it was forwarded to Chriatmas Cove. “My Dear Chip.” tt began °E feat that you will not care to hear from me, and yet Cmumt write, I hoow Tam more to blame than auyone for the Tiase coliede me a foolish bor, eithent much courage, which I have teen, and T realize 1t anly too well now, when it te too late. But Tam more of & man ton Gay, T hope, and some time T shall come and try fo obtain your formiveneas. for Doing se bind. No one ever has eon, Andi knew no one ever will be, what you are to me. As Ol! Cy eave, “Bless: ings brighten as they vanish. and now, After thie long separation. one wore aad one smile from dear lithe Chip weuld seem priceless to ma and I shat come and try to win It Defore many monte “T aun here with Uncle Martin's odd side, Levl. “We are coing inte the woods lo-morrew te gather gum and trap until spring. T have Mired two other men te et aye sia Se money. thee’ Oia Gy. wal here thie moter Bea was well He does not know that yeu Dave Veen found. and is still hunting for you Lavi told me that the people hece Are_much interested in you. that they Rave Gued up the yard where your moth- or je buried, and he put up a small stony. “T wish I could hear from yeu, Wot, forgive a foollsh bey for valug. pie find think of me an you did during thoes, happy days by the lake. Good-bye. “RAT” How every word of this half-boyish, haifmanly letter was read and re-read, dy Chip; how It woka the old memories ot the wilderness and of herself, a ragged waif there; and how, somehow, fn spite of pride and anger, a little thrill of happinees crept into her heart Deeds no explanation. | But she was not quite ready yet to forgive him, and what he falled to say when he might, atill rankled in her feelings. But Old Cy, that kindly soul, so tke a father! Almost did she feel that to meet him would be worth more than to see any one else in the world. And to think he was still hunting for her, far and near! | And now, quite unlike most young Indies, who deem their love missives’ ‘tacred, Chip showed hers to Aunt “Abby. " | "fs from Raymond Stetson,” she ‘said, rather bashfully, “a boy who was in the woods with those people who “were kind to me, aod we became very good friends.” | Aunt Abby-smiled as she perused ite contents. | “And 90 he was the cause of your ‘running away from Greenvale.” she weld, “Why didn’t you write him a ‘note of thanks after rou learned he ee Toe SORES Be. EGU BEVS A cance fo Hold ands ‘act silly. I was se lonesome, too fer ied that winter in Greenvale and knew ft I walked a mile to meet the stage every night for « Month, to be the first to see him when he came i guess he must have ‘thought he owned me. 1 woulda’t do it now.” Once more Aunt Abby langhed, s go0d, hearty leugh, and then, much te ‘Chip’s astonishment, she took her face in her bands and kinsed it. “You dear lttle goose,” she sald, “and to thipk you ran away from s boy you cared for ihe thet! I only hope he is good enough for you, for I cam see what the outcome will be.” ‘That ulght whon the tea-table had Deen cleared and the lamp lit, Aunt Abby once more began her adroit ques toning of Chip; but this time tt was of Old Cy, aad all about bim. For an hour, Chip, nothing loath, recited bis Praises, repented his od@ sayings, de seribed bis looks and ways and por: trayed him as best she could, while Aunt Abby smiled content. “It makes me feel young again to bear your story and about Cyrus,” she said when all was told. “I was Just 1¢ when he first came to sce me. He was also my first beau, you know. I should Judge he must have changed so i would never know him, and maybe be Wouldn't recognize me. Forty years is @ tong time!” Aud she sighed. And now Aunt Abby closed her eves, let fall ber kaltting, and lapsed into bygones. No longer was she a staid and ma tronly widow—not young, it is. true yet ot old. but with rounded face, few wrinkies, and slightly gray hair. lastead was she sweet Abby Grey ot the long exo, and once more the belle of this quiet village and Bayport, and the leade- at ovory dance, every husk ng. and every party. Once more she primped and curled her bair, and Goaned her best, and waited her sailor boy's coming. Once more she heard the bella jingle and saw the stara twinkle as ther sped away to # winter night's dance—and once more she felt the sorrow of parting the long years of Walting, ‘waiting. waiting. and at last the numb despalr and final com vietion that never would her lover re tara ‘And now he was still allve, though a wanderer, and some day he might surely would come to see ber, Just case, it 26 more “Ab, me.” she sald, rousing herselt at lant and looking at Chip'e amilina sunny face, “life fe a queer riddle, and we never know how to guess tt” Than ata staben aaae at ree et. Mt Nae (3. eee rman or r] <4 bl SN Tt), a ry \Y ie nk A tei 4 bo ve Se /1e Me an | Cee Caan Sertion. It is seldom an actual kick, however, but some motive force quite aa compelling. In Ray's case tt was bis uncle's as. -aertion that if he hoped to win Chip ‘he must first show the ability to pro. vide a home for her, which is exoelient Adviee for any young man to follow } “It won't bo a pleasure trip,” Martin “aald when Ray proposed to go to the | wilderness and, with Teri and a cow ple of other assistants, make a busi } Ress of gum-gathering and trap-set | ting, “but you cen't loee much by it. You are welcome to the camp; Levi : will see that you have game enough to eat, and boss the expedition. I will Joan you five hundred, and with what you bave, that ts capital enough and you ought to do weil. It would be bet. ter if Old Cy could take charge, but as it 14 you must go it alone” And go ‘ft alone Ray did, Levi's services were easily secured. Two young fellows whom he knew were Bired at Greenvale, A batean was purchased, together with more traps and supplice, and after Ray had written Chip his pian, the party start- “edifor Martin's eainp, They had deca established there a month and wore doing well. The first ice had begun forming in shallow coves when one afternoon, who should eater the lake and paddle rapidly across but Old Cy. | “Ye can't git rid o' me whon trap. pin's goin’ on,” he said cheerlly, as Ray and Levi met him at the ianding. “I fetched into the settlement kinder homesick fer the woods ast week. | hoard the good news ‘bout Chip’s betn’ found ‘n’ you'd come here fer the win. ter, ‘n' I didn’t wait freee "tore I Bired a canoe ‘n’ started” And then, in the exuberance of his joy, he shook bands with Rey and Levi once more. That evening. Ray, who had hard work to keep the secret so long, told Old Cy who lived in Peaceful Vailey. ‘It was Ike & thunderbolt out of a clear sky, a shock of joyful news that made Old Cy gasp. “Why, I feel jest Ike a colt once more,” he said after the exclamation stage had passed. “An’, do ye know boys, I felt al! the way comin’ in e1 though good news was waitin’ fer me I s'pose “twas from hearin’ Chip was all right ag’tn.” : ‘That evening was one that none whe were in that wildwood camp ever for | cot, for Old Cy waa the central figure And told as only he could the story o! Mm, ye of Jt was humorous, pathetic and tragic ‘all im one, and a tale that held its lis toners spellbound for three delightful “T bad dogs set on me, hundreds on "om," Old Cy said, in conclusien, “an' I never knew afore how many ‘Xinds ‘a’ sizes o' dogs thar was in this world. I uster think thar warn’ more’n two dozen or so kinds. I know now thar's twe million ‘a’ a few more I didn't wait to count. I got ‘rested a few times on account o” not havin’ vis ‘Bole means o support. I've bean hauled over the coals by doctors tryin’ i siake te out a fail,“ rds done time tn fail if I hadn't had money te show. I tell ye, boys, this is an aw. ful ‘spicious world fer strangers, ‘n' ‘the milk o’ human itndness ts mostly old choese, ‘n’ all rind at that. I bad ‘® Uttle fun, too, mixed with all the trouble, ‘n’ one woman Who owned © Place where I ‘plied for lodgin’ jest “Deut told me she'd be willin’ to marry me if I'd stay ‘n’ work the farm. She ‘had red hair, hard eyes, ‘n’ bossy sort (O° ways, an’ that's a dangerous combi- nation. I watched my chance when she wa'n't lookin’, ‘n’ lit out middie’ lively.” And now life at this wilderness camp, lese restrained than when wom- ankind were here, became one of work. and persistent, steady, no time wasted work at that Martin had said that Levi could boss matters, but it was Ray who assumed management n- stead. Two years had changed him almost from boy to man. His new ambition was the controlling power. He was here to make his mark, as it were, and the half-hearted, boyish in- terest tm work had changed into a tire- leas leadership. Then, too, an un- spoken, tacit interest in his ambition ‘was felt by those who helped. They knew what he was striving for, and that Chip was the ultimate object. Her history, known as it now was to all who came into the wilderness, tn- fluenced the woodsmen. She had been of them and from them, and as an en- tire village will gather to help at a house-raising, so these three, Levi and ‘the two helpers, now felt the same in- centtve. uccess usnally comes to all who strive for it, and now, with four will- ing workers to ald him, Ray was rapid- ly making a success of this venture. Ola Cy, the most valuable assistant, was Indefatisable. He not only kept the larder well supplied with game, Dut tended and set traps, worked in the woods with the rest between times, and his cheerful optimism and Grol humor bridged many a stormy day and shortened many a weary tramp. And he seemed to grow younger in this new, helpful Iite for others. His eyes were bright, his step elastic, his spirits buoyant, bis strength threless. With Chip safe and provided for, with Ray sueceeding In manhood's natural ambition, Old Cy saw his heart's best hopes nearing fruition, and for these two and in these two all his interest centered, Only onee was the bond of feeling between Ray and Chip referred to by Old Cy, and then in response to a wish of Ray's that he might hear from her. “I don’t think ye've cause to worry now, arter ye've sent her word what ye're don’ ‘n’ who for,” he answered. “Chip's true blue, not one o° the fickle wort, 'n' once she keera fer a man, she won't give him up till he's mar ried or dead. I think ye'd orter sent her word fooner—ye know she run ‘way out o' spunk —but when ye go to her like a man ‘n’ say, ‘I've been work- fn’ ‘n’ waitin’ for yo all the time,’ thar won't be ne quarrelia’.” “Em not so sure about that,” re sponded Ray, soberly, “From what Uncle Martin sald, my chance {s gone with Miss Chip, and I don’t blame her for feeling so. Like every young fel- low, I took it for granted that she was ia love with me and ready to fall tnto my arme om call. Then I hadn't any plans in life, anyway, and, like a fool, believed it made no difference to her. To mix matters up still more, Hannah crowded herself into our affairs and | said things to Chip, with the result that Chip got mad, ran away, and you know the rest.” “Wal.” asserted Old Cy, his eyes twinkling, “the time to hug a gal ts when she's willin,’ ‘n’ ye orter spunked wp that night ‘fore ye come away ‘n’ told her ye was callatin’ to make yer fortin’ in the woods, an’ that ye want. ed her to walt ‘n’ share tt—theo hugged ‘n’ kissed her a little more by way o' bindin® the bargain, an'—know- in’ that gal e# I do, she'd fought Han- nah, tooth ’n' nail, ‘n’ walked through fire ‘n' brimetun fer ye. I think, stead @’ hidin® herself for two years, an’ changin’ her name, she'd ‘a’ tramped clear to Grindstone jest to tell ye her troubles, ‘a’, if need be she'd ‘a’ starved fer ye. I tell ye, boy, wimmin like her ig scarce in this world, ‘n' when ye find one young ‘n’ pretty ex abe ia, hang on to her an’ hang hard.” “I know it now well enough,” re turned Ray, ruefully; “but that don't help matters. Then that fortune you found for her makes my case all the worse, and Chip quite independent.” “It do, it do,” chuckled Old Cy, as it tek te ee, ee ee ae OO | Angie ees. “Wo ee eens Stes cecmee ae {ngs bad been exe z re ve waited for you, Mas Rt tO some and visit = turning to Chip, “until idn't walt aay longer and so came to look for you. We have also some news that may in. terest you. Old Cy hax been heard ‘from at last. He spent a year looking foc you. He has now gone into the ‘woods, to my camp, where Ray located for the winter, and whan spring comes, Ican guess where they will head for.” Hoy welcome this news was to Chip, her face fully indicated; but neither Martia nor Angie realize? how much or for what reasoa It interested this soft-voiced, gracious lady when Chip called Aunt Abby, They knew Uncle Jad was Old Cy’s brother and that they had once been sallors from Bayport, but the long-ago romance of Aunt Abby's lfe was unknown to them. And now entued a welcome to the callers such as only Unole Jud and Aunt Mandy could offer. “We sorter feel we robbed ye o° Vera,” Uncle Jud explained, “theugh “twa'n't any Intention on our part, an” so ye must gin us some chance to make amenia. We callate "twa'n't no fault o” yourm, either, only one o° them happenin’s that was luck for us.” ‘That evening was one long to be re- membered by all who were prosent, for Chip’s history, as told by Martin and Angie, was the entertaining topic, and its humorous side was made the most of by Martin. Chip was in no wise an- noyed by Martin's fun-making, elther. Instead, consefous of the good-will ang Affection of the friends who had res- cued her from the wilderness, she rather enjoyed it and Jaughed heartily at Martin’s description of various tnct- dents, espectally ber first appearance in thelr camp, and the language she used. “E couldn't help swearing.” she ex- plained. “I never had heard much except ‘ous’ words. I think also now, as I recall my life at Tim's Place, I would never bave dared that desperate mode of escape had I not been hard- ened by auch a life. T wish I could see Old Tomah once more,” she added musingly, “and I'd like to send him tome Kitt, He was the besthearted Indian I ever saw or beard of, and his queer teachings about apites and how they rewarded us for good deeds and punished us for evi! ones was no harm, for !t set me thinking. The one thought that encouraged me most dur. ing those awful days aud nights alone in the woods was the belief that among the spites which I was sure fol- lowed me was my mother’s soul. I've never changed in my belief, either, and shall always feel that she guided me to your camp.” Uncie Jud also obtained bis share of fun at Chip’s expense, deserthing hie finding of her with humorous addi- tions. “She wae el! beat out that aight I found her on top o Bangall fll, ‘n” yet when I asked her if shed ‘rua away from some poor farm, abe was ready to claw my eyes out, an’ danno's I diame her. I was innocent, too, fer I really s'pored she bad.” Martin's visit at this hospitable home was not allowed to terminate for m week, for visitors seldom eame here, and Uncle Jud, as big a boy as his brother whea the chance came, bisaned all sorts of trips and outings to entertain them, and quite charnc- terlatic affairs they were, too. One day they drove to & wood-bor- dered pond far up the valley, fished a few hours for plekerel and perch, and had a fish fry and picnic dinner. The next day they visited a strange, romantic grotto up in the mountains, known as the Wolf's Den, and here & table was set, broiled chicken, sweet corn, und such toothsome fare formed the meal, with nut-gathering for amusement Squirrel and partridge shooting also furnished Martin « little excitement Wren he and Angte insisted that they must leave, both host and hostess showed genuine regret. A few re marks made by Angie to her former protege, in private, the last evening of this visit, may be quoted. “I must insiet, my dear child,” she said, “that you make us a vialt in the near future, You left us under an en- tirely false impression and ft has grieved me more than you can tm- agine. There) was never a word of truth in anything that Hannah said. She was spiteful and malicious and desired to get even with you for a hurt to her pride. We had no thought of hurrying away to the woods to sep- arate you and Ray for any reason whatever. Of course, as you must know, I had no suspicion of any at- tachment between you, and ff I had, I certainly should not have tried to break it of in that way. That is a matter that concerns only you and him. My own lite experience shows that first love is the wisest and best, Ee = ae 3 A Meee a ) i Y eS as fi an Ce 7 A aN > hie : “ee Bs = > / SS} EA <r ite j\\ = eg NS Load ? 8) KS Visited « Strange Romantic Grotto Up In the Mountains. ang while you were both too vow SATURDAY.....JUNE 27, 1908. then for an engagement, you must be lieve me when I tell you that I had no wish to interfere." This visit of the Frisbiss to Peaceful Valley also awakened something of repentance in Chip's mind, and more mature now. It occurred to her that leaving Greenvale as she did, was, after all, childish. Then Angie's part in this drama of her life now returned to Chip in a new light. Once she began to reflect, her self-acquisition grew apace and her repentance as well. Now she began to see herself as she was at Tim's Place. "I think I treated my Greenvale friends very ungratefully," she said to Aunt Abby one evening after they had returned to Christmas Cove once more, "and what Mrs. Frisble said to me has made me realize it. I know now that few would have done what she did for me. I was an ignorant, dirty, homeless creature and no relation of hers, and yet she took charge of me, bought me clothes, paid all my expenses going to Greenvale, clothed me there, and always treated me nicely without my even asking for it. "The Frisibles certainly ran some risk by keeping me at their cabin when they knew that half-breed was after me. I don't know why they should have done all this. I was nothing to them. And yet when I recall the night I stumbled into their camp, how Mrs. Frisibles dressed me in her own clothes, shared her tent with me, and even prayed for me. I feel ashamed to think of what I have done. I did think that Mrs. Frisibles despised me from what Hannah said. I know now that I was wrong, and running away as I did, was very ungrateful." "I think it was, myself," responded Aunt Abby, "and yet believing as you did, Mrs. Frisible ought not to blame you. I don't think she does, either. She seems a very sensible woman, and I like her. You made your mistake in not confiding in her more. You should have gone to her as you would to a mother, in the first place, and told her just what Hannah had said to you and how you felt about it. To brood over such matters and imagine the worst possible, is unwise in any one. I think from what you have told me, that this person who sneered against you so much must have had a spite against you." "Hannah was fealous, I know," Chip interrupted, smiling at the recollection, "and I hurt her feelings because I asked her why she didn't shave." Abby, wide-eyed; "what do you mean?" "Why, she has whitakers, you see," laughed Chip, "almost as much as some men—a nice little mustache and some on her chin. I told her the next day after I got there I thought she was a man dressed as a woman. I anckered, too. I remember, when I said it, for she looked so comical—like a goat, almost—and then I asked her why she didn't shave. I guess she laid it up against me ever after." "She revenued herself amply, it seems." Answered Aunt Abby. When Christmas neared, and with it a vacation for Chip, new impulses came to her: a desire to visit Greenvale once more and make amends as best she could to her friends there; and her gift-giving desire was quickened by the coming holidays. She now felt that she had ample means to gratify this latter wish. Day by day, since meeting Angle again, her sense of obligation had increased, and now it was in her power at Christmas-tide to repay at least a little of the debt. Others were also included in this generous project: Uncle Jud, Aunt Mandy, her foster-mother, Aunt Abby. A rapid and almost wonderful growth of this yule-tide impulse now swept over Chip, so much so that it must be told. At first it took shape in the intended purchase of comparative trifles, a fishing-rod for Uncle Jud, a pipe for Martin, gloves for Aunt Abby, and so on. Then as that seemingly vast fortune, now hers to spend, occurred to Chip, and her sense of obligation as well, the intended gifts increased in proportion until a costly picture of some camp or wildwood scene for Angle and a valuable watch for Miss Phinney were decided upon. Her plan as to how to obtain these presents also took shape. Riverton was the only place where they could be obtained. To that village she would go first, obtain the money needed, devote one entire day to making her purchases, and then go on to Greenvale and astonish these good friends from whom she was once so eager to escape. It was all a most delightful episode which was now anticipated by Chip. Again and again she lived it over, especially her arrival in Greenvale, and how like a Lady Bountiful she would present her gifts to her friends. So eager was she thus to make some compensation to them that lessons became irksome, the day seemed weeks in length, and she could scarce sleep when bedtime came. But the slow days dragged by at last, and then Chip, bappler than ever before in her life, dressed in her best, bade Annt Abby good-by and started on her journey alone. TO BE CONTINUED. —We are selling old papers at fifteen cents per hundred. THINKS. Bravery is often born of ignorance. Much that is labeled selfishness is self-preservation. Suspended judgment is the only just judgment. An ignoble spur will often incite noble effort. A happy vision to see in every goose a swan! We speak of blind destiny when it is we that cannot see. "Tis better to have tried and failed than never to have tried at all. If a measure of success inflates him, is shows the small measure of the man. It would be proselytic to be entirely sane. "Tis a mad world, my masters." Things that seem unreasonable would often prove reasonable if we only knew the reason. We glance from our own problem to that of our neighbor's and think, "How easily solved!" If our enemy smites us, would it not be charitable to suppose that he is following the Golden Rule? Nature is sure to out; clipped wings will grow. -Cora Lapham Hazard, in Sunday Magazine. FOR MEN TO REMEMBER. Call a woman a hen and she howls. Call an old woman a witch and she is indignant. Call a girl a kitten and she rather likes it. Call a woman a cat and she hates you. Women are queer. If you call a man a gay dog, it will flatter him. Call him a pup, a hound, or a cur, and he will try to alter the map of your face. He doesn't mind being called a bull or a bear, yet he will object to being mentioned as a calf or a cub. PERT PARAGRAPHS. The girl question: "What's his name?" The only way to satisfy hunger is to hand it the whole menu. Speak gently, for there is no telling what your opponent may have up his sleeve. A beautiful country scene to some men is simply a good place to plant a trolley line. When you are indulging your appetites be sure to exercise your judgment at the same time. To a woman the next best thing to having a new dress herself is seeing her neighbor's and being able to criticise it. It is easy for even charitable people to be generous with other people's money.—Nashville American. MEDITATIONS OF A SPINSTER Nearly everybody thinks daringly but acts prunes and prism style. It is really astonishing what long runs of luck some men can have to remain bachelors. When a woman sees two others talking together it's a sign she suspects they are talking about her. A man soon learns it is unnecessary to take careful aim when he kisses a girl, as there is always method in her dodging. SUNFLOWER PHILOSOPHY No man ever sells out at his own estimate. People are never content for the same reason that a sheep never has feathers. Some men are noted as "good fellows," but the folks at home never hear anything about it. The heart is that part of you which leads you into scrapes from which the head has to extricate you.—Atchison (Kan.) Globe. POOR RICHARD JR.'S PHILOSOPHY Many a "mighty intellect" is only a superior memory. Talent is only near-genius; it knows too much for one man and not enough for two. The commonplace sheep follow the bell wether, but the political animal trails meekly after the party wolf.—Saturday Evening Post. DREAMS AND THEIR SIGNS Affliction denotes great care and calamity. Alley—To dream of an alley is bad omen, loss of property. Allegator great trouble and lawsuit. To kill one your troubles will end happily. THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA Acorns denotes loss to the married, long life and power and successes to lovers. Almonds ill success and deceit in love, difficulties to tradesmen, shipwrecks to sailors. Animals—Many kinds is a dream that is good, especially to the lover, for he will marry the one he wants. Beast of prey, escape from a heavy misfortune. Babies—Joy and boundless pleasure. To see many babies, riches. To see a woman nursing babies, trouble; to see them running about the house, loss. Bear—Beware of accidents, if attacked. If you attack them rely on your own judgment, if you only see them prosperity in business. Bees—A lucky omen if under your roof. If they sting you you will be slandered. Beehive—Good fortune to the dreamer. Boat—To see a sailboat happiness is in store for you; to see a rowboat trouble and disgrace. Boots if new, good; if old, failure and quarrels. Bridge—Over the bridge, good fortune; under, loss of good character. Cattle—Success in business and love. Cat—Treachery of friends. If cat sleeps they will not succeed in what they undertake. THE REAL REASON That midsummer days are the longest in the year is because heat expands. That criminals weigh less than moral men, is because they're lighter fingered. That a man swears at a dull razor is because the pesky thing lost its temper first. That roses are referred to as "blushing" is because they are properly ashamed of the prices they bring. That a wave is called a swell is because it arrives at the shore in great style and goes away broke. That the army of the unemployed is not decreasing is because its members want too many afternoons off a week. That the present-day aero clubs are considered so exclusive is because the members necessarily all move in the upper circles.—The Bohemian. ENVY. The mud that inferiority throws at success. Mental dyspesia because some one else is feasting. Bellttling the honors of those we cannot equal. Appreciating a quality, depreciating its possessor. Inability to bear bravely the prosperity of another. The gangrene of unsatisfied desire that eats away purpose and kills energy. The vice that turns one's own clothes to rags at sight of another's ermine.—From the Sunday Magazine. WORD FROM BR'ER WILLIAMS. If I strikes de fireworks after leavin' dis worl' may Satan forgive me fer ever abusin' de coal trust. Some folks don't go ter meetlin' on Sunday kaze dey ain't got religion enough ter keep de rain off or de fire out. I hez always noticed dat folks what kin tell you all 'bout heaven is de fust ter sen' fer a doctor ter keep 'um fum gwine dar. W'never I worked for de bes' I got it; but w'en I sot still an' hoped fer it de yt慧 feller got dar ahead er me, an' charged me six prices fer a corner lot.-Atlanta Constitution. CHURCH AND CLERGY. Some people, before casting their bread upon the waters, ask themselves: "But will it be sure to be mentioned in the papers?" The little boxes which the Church Missionary society of England has in various public places turned into the fund last year nearly $240,000. The old First Baptist church of Kansas City, organized in 1855, has been sold for business purposes and a new edifice to cost $90,000 will be built. HERALD BLASTS A man's neighbor is the exponent of his Christianity. The conscious Christ-life in us all begins at a crucifixion. Faith is never a candidate; it is elected, and there is no second term. The souls of men are to each other directly as the altitudes of their feeding grounds. A man ought to count as a unit in the problem of life, and not as a splotch upon its page. It is almost no trouble to know what God, as we conceive Him, would say in any matter that has a moral character.—Ram's Horn. Ever an Upward Course. The poet, the artist, the saint, say incessantly: Again! Higher! The beyond attracts them ever. What they hold is little to them. The anguish which they suffer marks, if it does not measure, the happiness which they long for. And they struggle and lament and strive and tax their ingenuity for the love of that shore further on, of which Virgil speaks: "Ripae ulterioris amore."—Joseph Roux. For the Music Room. No plano can possibly be heard to advantage in a room which is either heavily curtained or is overcrowded with furniture. A good plan to insure the correct temperature of the room in which the plano stands is to keep a growing plant there. So long as the plant thrives you can tell that any changes of heat and cold there may be are not sufficient to affect the instrument. Obedience to Duty The sphere of duty is infinite. It exists in every station of life. We have it not in our choice to be rich or poor, to be happy or unhappy; but it becomes us to do the duty that everywhere surrounds us. Obedience to duty, at all costs and risks, is the very essence of the highest civilized life. Great deeds must be worked for, hoped for, died for, now as in the past. Tannin for Teothache Neuralgia from unsound teeth is very common at Ischl, Austria, and a local dentist has succeeded in discovering a remedy in tainan, which he applies to the gums as a lotion of two parts of tannic acid in ten parts of rectified spirits. Almost every kind of dental pain is relieved, while loose teeth are made tight and given power for mastication. Let Us Think. Much thinking attenuates the frame, and a hasty temper has the same effect. Those who think little and take things easy are most apt to become corpulent. "Fat paunches," says Shakespeare, "make lean pates." Yet, lest we forget: The biggest eaters are often the most emaciated of men. They eat so much it makes them poor to tote it. What Did He Mean? "The ruling passion," says the philosopher of folly, "is strong, not only in death, but in other circumstances. I told a chorus lady last night that she had a peach of a bun on, and she inquired anxiously if it was on straight." In addition to all the climates, Etna is reported to have trees that rival the giants of California, lakes that never thaw, bottomless caverns and salable snow that kept many an ancient bishop well supplied with tithes. The Difference When a girl tells her girl friends that she is engaged they become gleefully excited. When a young man tells his bachelor friends that he is about to be married they want to fill him with wine so that he can forget it. The Frigate Bird Wonderful powers of flight are possessed by the frigate bird of the tropics. It has a spread of wing of ten feet to 12 feet, can travel 100 miles an hour and is said to be able to remain on the wing for a week at a time. The Origin of Crime. The frequency of epilepsy among criminals may be regarded in many cases both as cause and effect of their condition. It should be the endeavor of medical science to suggest a remedy.—Hospital. Modern Pessimism Then, too, those lamentations of Job were written long before anybody ever struck out with the bases full.—Atlanta Journal. Jealous Man. There is nothing a man of good sense dreads in a wife so much as her having more sense than himself.— Fielding. Be of Good Cheer. Let us be of good cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.—Lowell. If the chickens that are scratching up the things you have planted in your garden could speak they would probably cry out: "Let us alone!" After He Has Tried It Himself. A man who has had to hire other people is not likely to burden himself with unwarranted suspicions that his boss is trying to wrong him. Only a Woman. Only a woman can be happy while wearing half a pound of some dead person's hair. Rebuilt with American Money. Toritto, in Italy, is being rebuilt by money sent back by emigrants in America. Cicero: There are countless roads on all sides to the grave. Can You Explain- Why the sweet girl graduate is so fond of sour cucumber pleckles? The Ruling Passion "The colonel is a very sick man," sympathetically said the attending physician, addressing the auctioneer's anxious wife. "His pulse is now going at 104." "Going at 104!" feebly cried the invalid. "At 104! Going at 104! who'll make it 105? 105, do I hear, for a pulse that has been running steadily for 47 years and never once LINCOLN HAIR POMADE MAKES KINKY HAIR SOFT REMOVES BANDRUFF KEEPS HAIR FROM BREAKING OFF LINCOLN HAIR POMADE KEEPS SCALP FRESH CLEAN AND WHOLE- SOME MAKES HAIR GROW LONG AND LUXURIOUS WHICH WAY WOULD YOU RATHER HAVE YOUR HAIR-SOFT AND LONG SO THAT YOU CAN PUT IT UP IN THE LATEST STYLE OR SHORT AND KINKY A WOMAN'S JUST PRIDE IS HER HAIR. TO STRAIGHTEN OUT THAT KINKY, CURLY HAIR, PUTTING IT IN THE MOST PERFECT CONDITION TO BE COMBED INTO ANY SHAPE JUST TRY A BOTTLE OF LINCOLN HAIR POMADE. 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Pa—A connoisseur, my son, is an eminent authority who admits that anything you treat him to is the best ever.—Chicago Daily News. "His wife is very accomplished, isn't she?" "He says she is. He says that the way she can talk when she's got a mouth full of pins is really remarkable."-Detroit Free Press. "He's head over heels in love with her, isn't he?" Meeker—Just one year ago to-day I led my wife to the altar. Bleeker—You did, eh? Meeker—Yes; and right then and here my leadership ended. DAMAGED IN TRANSIT. Is This the Reason? The Connoisseur An Accomplishment: Anatomical. The Last Lap THE COLLEGE PRESIDENT. Such rawness in a student is a shame. But lack of preparation is to blame. THE HIGH SCHOOL PRINCIPAL. Good heavens! what crudity! The boy's a fool. The fault, of course, is with the grammar school. THE GRAMMAR PRINCIPAL. Would that from such a dune I might be spared! They send up them to me so unprepared. THE PRIMARY PRINCIPAL. Poor Kindergarten blockhead! And they call. That "preparation!" Worse than none at all. THE KINDERGARTEN TEACHER. Never such lack of training did I see. What sort of person can the mother be? Your father's family are all the same. THE PHILOSOPHER. Shall father in his folk's defense be heard? No! Let the mother have the final word. Puck. MERCENARY LITTLE PUSS. A Elder Sister (who has broken off one engagement and is on with another)—Well, Florrie, who do you like best, Mr. Brown or Mr. Roberts? Florrie—Well—er—Mr. Roberts. I find that he has a superior taste in chocolates. Great Lawyer—I am tired to death. Sympathetic Wife—You look tired. What's been the matter? "I've been making my speech for the defense for three days now; and, tired or not, I'll have to go right along with it to-morrow, and perhaps the next day." "Can't you cut it short?" "Not until the jury have had time to forget the evidence against my client."—N. Y. Weekly. "Has my boy been a little defender and been kind to dumb animals today?" "Yes, grandma. I let your canary out of the cage, and when my cat caught it I set Towser on her."—Royal Magazine. Mr. Jones—Would you support my daughter in the style to which she has been accustomed? Cholly—Yes, sir. Mr. Jones—Then you're an idiot, and you can't have her!—Judge. Sword Many Centuries Old. The Japanese were acquainted with iron from very earliest times. A sword that was used by one of the ancestors of the present emperor, about 800 B. C., is still in existence. KEEPS SCALP FRESH CLEAN AND WHOLE- SOME MAKES HAIR GROW LONG AND LUXURIOUS PASS IT ON. Alas! This world, alas, Is filled with kickers. Who scorn the rose And hunt the stickers. —Washington Star. A Hard Week's Work. Kind All Around His Mistake THREE WITH FINE CATERING Special Attention Given to Balla, Suppliers, Installations and Smok ers at the Shortest Notice On at the shortest Notice Your Patronage Solicited Retreatment Care and Boat Privilege Handled in Season Address DON'T GET MAD. if your hair ran away from you? 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Read the sign. N & W. NORFOLK & WESTERN. ONLY ALL-RAIL LINE TO NORFOLK. Leave Byrd Street Station, Richmond. In meet 1, 1907. For Norfolk - 9:00 A. M. 3:00 P. M. and 7:00 P. M. For darkly, the West and Northwest - 9:00 A. M. 12:10 P. M. and 9:40 P. M. daily. ARRIVE RICHMOND - From Norfolk - 11:30 A. M. and 8:00 P. M. and the West - 7:40 A. M. 2:00 P. M. and 8:50 P. M. Café, Pullman, Parlor and Sleeping Cars. Café, Dining Cars. W. H. BRYVIL. Gens. Agent. G. H. BOSLEY. Div. Pam. Arch. Southern Ry TRAINS LEAVE RICHMOND. N. B—Following schedule are figures published only as information and are not presented: 6:20 A. M. D—Daily—Local for Charlotte. 11:00 A. M. D—Daily—Limited—Buffet Pullman to atlanta, Birmingham, New Orleans, Memphis, Charleston, and all the South Through coach for Chase City, Oxford, Durham. 6:00 P. M—Ex. Sunday—Keysville Local. 11:30 P. M—Ex. Sunday—Pullman ready 9:28 P. M for all the South. YORK RIVER LINE 4:38 P. M. -Ex. 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We have received a pamphlet from London, England, entitled "The Three Needs of Liberia," a lecture by Edward Wilmot Blyden, LL. D., the ablest Negro scholar that the race has as yet produced. It is published by C. M. Phillips of 3 Southampton Buildings, London, Eng. A STRONG PLANK. The Republican National Convention made no mistake in incorporating in its platform a guarantee that it will protect and defend the rights of all men, regardless of race, color or previous condition of servitude. The plank concerning the American Negro is the strongest declaration of principles that has appeared in the platform of that Party in forty years. There is no mistaking its meaning. It has met the issue squarely and we cannot help believing that the antagonistic forces that for a week or more kept up a ceaseless agitation upon this question were responsible for its adoption. It will enable the colored leaders to go to their people with a plea upon which to appeal to them for support. As the matter stood before Hon. Charles W. Anderson, Hon. William T. Vernon, Hon. Cyrus Fields Adams, Hon. John C. Dancy, Hon. Ralph W. Tyler and a host of other prominent leaders were hopelessly handicapped by the attitude of the Republican leaders, who endorsed the "illy-white" movement and who had made no secret of their hostility to the Negro and all movements essential to his welfare. So far as the colored people are concerned, Hon. William H. Taft is the weakest candidate the Republicans could have nominated, with the possible exception of the distinguished President, Theodore Roosevelt. But this plank is a revelation so far as it discloses the revival of the interest in the Negro. Whether Mr. Taft will stand squarely upon the platform, his letter of acceptance will disclose. If he follows in the footsteps of his predecessor, he will stand on those planks that suit him and rip up others that meet his displeasure and put others in their places. Still, "we shall see what we shall see." We are much pleased with this plank and the colored man, who cannot see in it evidences of returning sanity on the part of the great Republican organization so far as it relates to its attitude toward the "brother in black" is blind indeed. Here is the plank: "The Republican party has been for more than fifty years the consistent friend of the American Negro. It gave him freedom and citizenship. It wrote into the organic law the declarations that proclaim his civil and political rights, and it believes to-day that his noteworthy progress in intelligence, industry and good citizenship has earned the respect and encouragement of the nation. We demand equal justice for all men, without regard to race or color; we declare, once more, and without reservation, for the enforcement in letter and spirit of the thirteenth, fourteenth and fifteenth amendments to the constitution, which were designed for the protection and advancement of the Negro, and we condemn all devices that have for their real aim his distranchisement for reasons of color alone, as unfair, un-American and repugnant to the supreme law of the land." We doubt if Rev. J. Milton Waldron of the Negro organization had been called upon to write the plank that he could have done better than that. It is strong enough to suit the most rabid partisan on our side of the controversy. Will the Republican congress live up to its provisions and will the Republican nominee for President of the United States stand unfalteringly in the lime-light of its drastic provisions? If he will, then his champions of color can appeal with confidence to the Negro electorate of the country. While we are discussing this phase of the subject, we might as well refer to the observations of Hon. William J. Bryan. In commenting upon the Republican platform, among other things, he says: "The Negro comes in for his quadrennial quota of taffy. He is reminded that the Republican party gave him freedom and citizenship, and in this the implied warning that he must not use his citizenship against the party that gave it to him. The Republican party has made political capital out of the Negro for more than a third of a century. In many or the close States it has won its elections by the Negro vote, and in the States where it has had power it has never treated the Negro any better than he has been treated by the Democrats. "In other words, in the Northern States, the Democrats, without receiving any support from the Negro vote, have been as friendly to him as the Republicans. In the South the Democrats have furnished a large part of the money to provide that education of which the Republican platform boasts. And yet in each recurring campaign the Republican leaders have attempted to appeal to the prejudices of the Negro by parading before him the restrictions placed upon suffrage in some of the Southern States. Why is it that the Republican leaders are only solicited about the colored man when voting time comes?" This taunt, this diplomatic way of saying something, while at the same time saying nothing will hardly add to the reputation of Mr. Bryan for either candor or statesmanship. He should remember that the Republican Party is solicitous about the colored man when voting time comes around for the same reason that the Democratic Party managers and the present Democratic candidate are solicitous about the laboring man's vote when the voting time comes around. It is a characteristic of politicians and statesmen, whether they be Republicans or Democrats. The point at issue now is what is the attitude of the Democratic Party and its candidate upon the question of human rights, regardless of race, color or previous condition? Mr. Bryan chides the Republicans with being too solicitous about the party's interest and their selfish desire to gain votes, how does he stand upon them all important questions? Will he recognize the rights and privileges of the intelligent, educated Negroes and will he accord to them all of the rights and privileges that he is willing to grant to white men of similar calibre and ability? If he will do this, he will clarify the political atmosphere, so to speak and he will be in a position to criticize the platform utterances of the Republican National Convention at Chicago. ANGEL WITHOUT WINGS. "So you have come in answer to my advertisement for office boy?" said the old banker bristly. "Do you smoke cigarettes?" "No, sir," replied the satty youngster in the doorway. "Play juggler with the paper weights or talk nonsense through the telephone when your employer is absent." "Never saw a circus in my life, sir." "How about baseball? Do you take two or three afternoons a week to see the game?" "Don't like baseball, sir." The old broker bit the end off his cigar. "My boy," he said, quietly, "this is the twenty-ninth story, isn't it?" "I think so, sir." "Well, it is not high enough for you." "Not high enough for me, sir?" "No, you belong up in paradise."—Chicago Daily News. Why He Liked It. Mrs. Crimsonbeak—We want a new carpet. Mr. Crimsonbeak—Well, I saw one down town, to-day, I'd like to have. "What was the pattern?" "I don't remember, but it had a sign on it, saying: 'This carpet can't be beaten.'"—Yonkers Statesman. Narrow Escape. Harker—This paper states that the much abused Merry Widow hat will eventually take the masculine eye. Sportwood—I don't doubt it. One of them came near taking my eye in the shopping district yesterday. Just dodged the hatpin in time.—Chicago Daily News. THE RICHMOND PLANET. RICHMOND. VIRGINIA Set Himself Afire. Wedding guests to the number of a score came to the little home at 511 Greenwich street, Philadelphia. They were the friends of in Presser. He was to have been here. Ried Sunday evening to handsome and wealthy Rose Schattenstein. of 639 Grant street, Allentown, and his friends had come in gala dress to wish him god-speed and to go with him to Allentown for the wedding. But instead of a place of festival the laughing visitors came suddenly upon a house of sorrow. The bridegroom-to-be had poured oil over his clothes and set a match to them. A moment later he had been found, a whirling pillar of flame, in his bedroom, and conscious, but shrieking in hideous agony, at the Mt. Sinal hospital, a block away, the man had died. He removed the tank from an oil stove, and after pouring the contents over his clothing, went into the yard, where he set himself on fire. When the members of his family found him he was burned from head to foot and unconscious. At the hospital he was able to tell the physicians he had sought death by fire. Twice before, when on the point of marrying Miss Schattenstein, he lost the money he had saved for the occasion. Saturday night he said he was dishearted and feared he could not marry, because his money was all tied up in his business. Williams Resigns As Minority Leader Congressman John Sharp Williams, of Mississippi, resigned the minority leadership of the house of representatives, to take effect Dec. 1 next. This anouncement is made by Congressman H. D. Clayton, chairman of the Democratic caucus. In resigning thus early he acts actuated, he says, by a desire to give the minority ample time to consider whom they want to succeed him and also for the reason that if the next house is Democratic the new speaker whoever he may be, ought to have the experience which the position of floor leader would give him during the short session next winter. Money Order Clerk Accused Patrick J. Messett, for many years the trusted money order clerk in the Scranton, Pa., postoffice, has been remanded in $5000 bail there to answer a charge of embezzling funds of the office. He was arrested on a specific charge of embezzling a money order for $142 given him by Postmaster Matthew McPherson, of Dickinson City. but it is alleged that an examination of his accounts shows a shortage of at least $5000. Girl Killed By Trolley Car Effie Hirschman, of Eshback, Berks county, a pupil at the West Chester (Pa.) State Normal school, was run over by a trolley car at Milltown and killed. She was accompanied by three school companions, who escaped. The girl's foot caught in the track as she was in the act of crossing the road in front of the moving car. Pickpocket Gets $1275 A clever pickpocket made a rich haul on Center street. In Pottaville Pa., by abstracting a roll of money amounting to $1275, that William Fritz had wrapped up in a handkerchief and placed in his pocket. Fritz is from Caldale and came here to pay for a hotel license. Hears He's An Heir and Drops Dead. Wesley Myers, twenty-seven years of age, of Columbus, O., dropped dead from joy when a letter was delivered to him announcing that by the death of an uncle a large sum of money had come to him and inclosing a check for $207 as a part of it. Myers was a pressman. Killed In Duel On the Street. Two wealthy farmers, Robert Harris and Robert Rotruck, fought a duel with pistols in the streets of Keyser, W. Va. Harris was killed and Rotruck was mortally wounded. There had been ill feeling between the men for a long time. Both had large families. Another Black Hand Communication. "What's Brown looking so glum about? Has he received a Black Hand letter?" "No, but it amounts to the same thing. I understand it's from a lawyer, and it reads: Please pay this bill at once or we shall take harsher measures." —Detroit Free Press. Never Touched Him "John," said the wife of his bosom, "don't you think you ought to save the money you waste on cigars?" "Not me," replied John. "If I did you would get busy and blow it in some other way"—Chicago Dally News. Those Government Seeds "Do you believe in scattering seeds of kindness?" asked the man with the white necktie. "I certainly do," replied the suburbanite; "but it seems our government officials have sat down on it."—Yonkers Statesman. Incapacitated. Stage Manager—The girl that takes the part of the sleeping beauty in the show can't go on to-tight. Business Manager—Why not? "She ate a Weish rabbit and she can't sleep!"—Yonkers Statesman. A Consistent Incident "Shall I tell in this account of the yachting trip how we hugged the shore?" "Oh, yes; the story ought to embrace that incident." — Baltimore American. His Idea of Him. Bill—Did you go to see that boy actor last night? Jill—Yes. "Did he get a hand?" "What he ought to have got was a shingle."—Yonkers Statesman. Sad. "Poor Mrs. Brown! Her husband died this morning." "Dear me, isn't that terrible? And now she can't wear her Merry Widow hat."—Detroit Free Press. SHERMAN IS ILL If His Condition Continues to Improve An Operation Will Not Be Necessary — Wife and Son Are at His Bedside. Cleveland, June 24.—Representative James S. Sherman, Republican candidate for vice president, removed from the home of former Governor Herrick to Lakeside hospital, a sufferer from gall stones, after a somewhat restless night, is reported in an official bulletin as holding his own. If the patient's condition continues to improve, the bulletin said, it is not likely that an operation for the removal of the gall stones will be necessary. The physician state that Mr. Sherman's well-known abstemious habits have given him much bodily strength to resist the ravages of the disease. The following telegram was dictated by Mr. Sherman to his secretary in answer to a message of sympathy from the presidential nominee, William H. Taft: "Hon. William H. Taft, New Haven, "Conn. "My Dear Mr. Taft—My illness is not of a critical nature, and the doctors advised me that I can probably go home in three or four days. I thank you ever so much, indeed, for your cordial telegram. I expect to see you in Washington on Wednesday of nevt week. J. S. SHERMAN." The unfavorable symptom in the case is the continued high temperature. In the bulletin given out it was given as $102\%$, with pulse normal. Mr. Sherman was restless. The extreme heat of the day, running into the nineties, did not add much to the comfort of the patient. Representative Sherman arrived in Cleveland last Sunday from Cincinnati, following a conference with Secretary Taft. He went immediately to the home of ex-Governor Herrick, and remained there until taken to the hospital. Mr. Sherman felt the pangs of pain while coming here and retired to his bed on arrival at the Herrick home. His condition became rapidly worse, until it was thought by the physicians called in to attend him that an operation would be necessary. When received at the hospital Mr. Sherman was very restless, with a temperature of 102 and pulse 92. Drs. Carter and Allen conferred, but postponed action until further developments. His condition has improved to such an extent that the physicians stated their confidence in the quick recovery of their distinguished patient. Mrs. Sherman and son, Richard, arrived in Cleveland from their home in Utica. They hurried to the hospital in an automobile. Upon arrival there Mrs. Sherman was so nervous and weak as a result of her anxiety that she had to be carried in a chair to the apartments assigned to her. She did not immediately enter the sick room of her husband, but remained in her rooms until she had recovered her strength. The meeting of the father, mother and son was under conditions entirely different from those planned at their Utica home, where elaborate arrangements had been made for the home-coming of the vice presidential nominee. Mr. Sherman expressed his profound interest in the plans made for his reception and voiced his keen disappointment at not being able to be at home. Taft at Ball Game. New Haven, Conn., June 24. — As wild a scene of jubilation and as picturesque a mass of humanity as ever had a setting on a base ball diamond was that which the alumni of Yale university presented as a greeting to Secretary William H. Taft as he sat with his class of 78 in the stand on Yale field to see the annual game between the Blue and the Crimson. His cup of happiness was filled to overflowing, for not only was the crowd a record-breaker in his honor and the classes the noisest ever in their dances upon the green sward, but Yale whipped her rival by the score of 3 to 0 in a game which was full of better playing than either team had shown this season. As an omen of good luck, Secretary Taft, marching with Judge Hollister in the front rank of his class and immediately following a band which constantly played the stirring Yale airs, and flanked on either side by the Stars and Stripes and the banner of the class of 78, marched twice around the ball field in full view of more than 14,000 wildly cheering men and women, and followed by the reunion classes numbering several hundred young men in their fantastic and striking garb such as only active schemets can devise and which have made Yale class reunions so notable. Lancaster Man's Horses Win In London London, June 24.—R. P. McGrann, of Lancaster, Pa., swept the board at the international horse show at Olympia at the competition for horses not exceeding 15.2 hands, shown to run about or Bailey wagon. His Newsboy and Shopgirl won first and second prize respectively, while Babette was given a reserve. Mother and Baby Struck By Lightning Chattanooga, Tenn., June 24.—Near Altoona, Ala., Mrs. Miller, while seated on her porch, was struck by lightning and killed. A baby lying on the floor was severely shocked and can not recover. Won't Run With Bryan. Federal Judge George Gray, of Delaware, would not under any conditions accept the Democratic nomination for vice president. A definite announcement to this effect was made by former Congressman L. Irving Handy, who will make the speech at Denver placing the judge in nomination for the presidency, which task he performed four years ago. CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS Thursday, June 18. Joseph Bengele, aged fifty-five years, president of the Cresson Springs Brewing company, at Altoona, Pa., committed suicide at his home at Gallitzin by shooting. Rather than go to jail for having sent Mrs. James Jones, of Wilkes-Barre, Pa., a threatening letter, Thomas Jones agreed to leave this country and started for Wales. Frank Smith, a negro ex-convict, was shot and mortally wounded by W. H. Stewart, a newspaper editor, when surprised in an attempt at burglary in the editor's home, Salisbury, N. C. While her mother was packing away some clothing, Catherine Weiss, aged three years, of Philadelphia, pushed a camphor ball into her nostril, and it was necessary to take her to a hospital to have it removed. Friday, June 19. Charles Bixler, treasurer of the township, committed suicide at Shamokin, Pa., by hanging. The 142d annual meeting of the Medical Society of New Jersey was held at Cape May, with over 400 physicians in attendance. Daniel Jones, Frank Spikes and Haywood Lee, white, all of Raleigh, N. C., were killed at the Caraleigh Phosphate works by the escape of sulphuric gas in one of the rooms. Ten Italian laborers who lived in a car on a sliding of the West Shore railroad, at Fort Plain, N. Y., were held up by armed robbers and forced to hand over more than $500 which they had received in wages. Saturday. June 20. Twenty passengers were injured, one fatally and several seriously, in an accident on the Meadville & Cambridge Springs street car line, near Bakertown, Pa. Mrs. Julia Whitaker, wife of Bishop Ozi W. Whitaker, of the Protestant Episcopal diocese of Pennsylvania died at Philadelphia after a long illness, aged seventy-three. By the explosion of a carload of dynamite, near Sargent, O., a freight train on the Denver & Rio Grande rail road was blown to pieces, two tramps were killed, several trainmen were injured, and a hole forty feet deep was blown in the ground. Monday. June 22. Meeting at Toronto, the Supreme Council, Independent Order of Foresters, decided to raise rates 40 to 100 per cent. $^e$ While Harry Stehman, of Manheim Pa., was picking cherries, the limb he was on broke and he'd dropped twenty feet, breaking his back. Driven to desperation because her betrothed had told her that he would not marry her, Bessie Parnah, a pretty eighteen-year-old girl, at Greenburg Pa., shot herself through the heart, and Rudolf Bombottlah, her lover, also tried to kill himself. $^e$ Tuesday. June 23. Five men were seriously injured by a scaffold collapsing at the National Tube works, at Pittsburg. The International Sunday School convention will hold their next convention in San Francisco in 1911. J. S. Bryant, a prominent pharmaist, and Thomas Littleton, twenty-one years old, were drowned while swimming near Salisbury, N. C. R. M. Sallier and Edward Jones wealthy cattlemen, were killed in a duel at Albuquerque, N. M., caused by a quarrel over a cattle trade. After being idle for the last six months the Plank Ridge colliery of the Thomas Coal company, at Shenandoah Pa. resumed work, giving employment to 300 men and boys. Wednesday, June 24. A hanging lamp fell upon Mrs. Mary Worrol in her home at Norristown Pa., and badly burned her. The fourteenth annual meeting of the Pennsylvania State Bar association was held at Cape May, N. J. The New Jersey state fish and game commission has received exhaustive reports showing that the shad season this year was better by 100 per cent than last year. Mrs. Mary Cassidy, a widow, aged thirty-five years, was shot and killed at her home near Woodhaven, L. L. by Victor Henry, a rejected suitor, who then turned the revolver on himself, dying instantly. PRODUCE QUOTATIONS The Latest Closing Prices In the Principal Markets. PHILADELPHIA — FLOUR weak; winter extras, new, $3.50@3.55; Pennsylvania roller, clear, $3.90 @ 4; city mills, fancy, $5.70@5.85; RYE FLOUR quiet; per barrel, $4.40@4.50; WHEAT weak; No. 2 red, western, 91%@92c; CORN firm; No. 2 yellow, local, 79%@80c; OATS tails; No. 2 white, clip, 79%@80c; OATS tails; HAY DAY tumothy, large bales, $15 PORK steady; family, per barrel, $18.50. BEEF steady; beef hams, per barrel, $26@26; POULTRY: Live firm; hens, 13@13%c, old roosters, 91%c Dressed steady; choice fowl, 13c; old roosters, 06c BUTTER steady; selected, 20@22c; steady; selected, 20@22c; nearby, 70 western, 18c. POTATOES steady; new per barrel, $3@3.50 BALTIMORE - WHEAT firm; No. 2 spot, 95@195%2c; steamer No. 2 spot corr, 95@195%2c; southern 88@75%2c corr, 95@195%2c; steady, 75%2c 75%2c; steamer mixed, 71%2c @126% southern, 79%2c; OATS firm; white 2, 59%2c; No. 3, 58%2c @159%; No. 4 59%2c; No. 3, 58%2c @159%; No. 4 3, 55@195%2c; BUTTER steady; creamy separator extras, 24%2c @25c; held, 19@29c; prints, 25@26c; Mary land and pennsylvania dairy prints. 19@29c; prints, 25@26c; Mary land and pennsylvania dairy prints. Pennsylvania, Virginia and West Virg nia, 17c; southern, 16c. Live Stock Markets PITTSBURG (Union Stock Yards)— CATTLE lower, choice, $7@.72.5 prime, $6.65@6.90. SHEEP lower; prime wethers, $4.65@4.75. culls and common lambs, $6.65@6.50; veal lambs, $7@7.50. SHS Yards; heavies, mediums and heavy Yards, $6.25@6.30; light Yorkers, $6; pligs $5.50; rougha, $4.75@5.25. His Heart On Right Side Harrisburg, Pa, June 24.—During an examination at the state tuberculosis dispensary in this city it was found that Thomas Cusack, a mechanic, living at Steelton, has his heart on his right side. Examinations were made with great care by several physicians and the discovery confirmed. It is not a case of heart shift. MISS REID WEDS Daughter of American Ambassador Marries in London. Bridegroom, Hon. John Hubert Ward, is a Brother of the Earl of Dudley and Equerry In Waiting to King Edward. London, June 24.—The marriage of Miss Jean Reid, daughter of the American ambassador, to the Hon. John Hubert Ward, took place at the Chapel Royal of St. James. Among those present were King Edward and Queen Alexandra, the Prince and Princess of Wales, the Duke and Duchess of Connaught, the Duke of MISS JEAN REID. Daughter of Whitelaw Reid, Who Was Married to the Hon. John Ward. Fife, the Grand Duke Michael and the Countess of Torby. The king and queen signed the register as the witnesses of the marriage. The wedding gifts are valued at over $400,000. The bridegroom is a brother of the Earl of Dudley and is equerry in waiting to the king. The Chapel Royal, where the ceremony took place, was the scene of the marriage of Queen Victoria and several of her daughters. The bride wore a gown of soft white satin. Old rose point lace was draped all over the bodice, and there were panels of the same lace on the skirt caught with tiny bunches of orange blossoms. The lace formerly belonged to the bride's grandmother, Mrs. Ogden Mills. Attending the bride were three little girls, two nieces and a cousin of the bridegroom. They were dressed in white muslin, with pale blue sashes. The pages were two nephews and a cousin of the bridegroom, and these were dressed in coats of blue velvet with white nankeen trousers. The chief bridesmaid, Miss Jennie Crocker is a cousin of the bride. She was dressed in embroidered white muslin with pale blue sash and a large white hat with flowers. The officiating clergymen were Canon Sheppard, sub-dean of the Chapel Royal; Dr. Grosvenor, of New York, and the Rev. Dr. Piers Claughton, rector of Hutton-Brentwood, Essex. Colonel Halford, the owner of Dorchester house, where the Reids live, was best man. The first part of the honeymoon will be spent at Clive den. After the ceremony there was a great concourse of guests at the reception in Dorchester house. The bride's travelling dress was of green chiffon with cream embroidery and a cream-colored straw hat with green and white osprey. Tried to Slay His Wife and Daughter Bordentown, N. J. June 24.—Joseph Bennett, of Camden, tried to kill his wife and daughter, a beautiful girl nineteen years old, because the former, would not return to his home. Bennett was pleading with his wife, when he suddenly slipped out a revolver from his htp pocket. Before he could use it his wife and daughter sprang at him and grabbed his arm. James P. Heron, owner of the house, heard their screams and rushed into the house, and after a sharp struggle succeeded in disarming Bennett. Buffalo Flyer Had Narrow Escape. Bulloh Pryer Had Narrow Escape. Williamsport, Pa. June 24. — The Buffalo flyer, eastbound, on the Pennsylvania railroad had a miraculous escape at Antes Fort, twelve miles west of here. While running sixty miles an hour, the trucks under the tender jumped the track. Engineer James Keller stopped the train within 600 yards. Not one of the coaches left the rails, although the track was badly torn up. Anti Racing Bill Record In 1 Anti-Racing Bill Passed In Louisiana Baton Rouge, La., June 24—After a campaign lasting several months, the close of which was marked by a bitter fight, the so-called Locke anti-racing bill was passed by the Louisiana state senate. The bill passed the house several weeks ago, and now only requires the signature of the governor to become a law. There appears no doubt that Governor Sanders will sign the bill immediately. Shot Wife For Refusing Him Money Passaic, N. J., June 24—Because his wife repeatedly refused to give him $700, which she had before her marriage, Severa Scotoll shot her three times, mortally wounded her, and then shot himself through the brain, dying instantly. Son Born to Spanish Queen A son was born to Queen Victoria of Spain on Monday night. Queen Victoria, formerly Princess Ena of Battenburg, and King Alfonso were married at Madrid, May 31, 1906. Their first son was born May 10, 1907. $200,000 Blaze at Tamaqua. The plant of the Tamaqua (Pa.) Manufacturing company was destroyed by fire. Loss is estimated at $200,000 PERSIANS SHOT DOWN Shah's Troops Bombard Parliament Building. Teheran, June 24. After a bloody fight which was waged around the parliament building the city is comparatively quiet, although the Cossacks were camped in the streets and squares. Cossacks and soldiers surrounded the parliament and demanded that a number of persons, whose arrest the shah had ordered, be forthwith handed over to them. Parliament refused to comply with this demand, and shots were fired at the soldiers, several of the soldiers being killed. Orders were at once issued from military headquarters that the parliament building be bombarded, and the bombardment commenced soon after 10 o'clock. While this was in progress bombs were thrown from the parliament building and the mosque adjoining, disabling one of the guns and wounding the gunners. Eventually the hails of parliament were cleared, but not before many persons had been killed and wounded. The bombardment continued until 3 o'clock in the afternoon, when it suddenly ceased. In the meantime the troops pillaged the political clubs in that neighborhood and numerous residences of influential members of parliament, in which work they were aided by the populace. The number of casualties is unknown, but it will be very large. The parliament buildings are practically in ruins. VICTIMS OF HEAT Eleven Deaths In Chicago and Two In Philadelphia. Philadelphia, June 24.—The excessive heat here Tuesday caused the death of two persons and many others were prostrated and seriously affected. The thermometer at the government weather bureau registered 92 degrees at four o'clock, which is the record point for the year. Only twice in thirty-four years has the city experienced such a sweltering temperature on June 23. On the streets of the city the heat was simply unbearable, and excessive humidity made conditions more disagreeable. Eleven Heat Deaths In Chicago. Chicago, June 24. — Eleven deaths due to heat prostrations or allied causes were recorded in Chicago on Tuesday. The thermometer again climbed above the ninety mark, but a shift in the wind brought relief, and it is believed that the torrid wave has been broken in this section. People Fell On the Streets In Cleveland Cleveland, June 24 — With the thermometer registering 92 degrees, Cleveland suffered the hottest June day on record since June 24, 1874, when the mark was 96. Mrs. Amella Schwab dropped dead, a victim of the heat, and prostrations were reported from various parts of the city. People fell in the streets and were taken to hospitals in ambulances. MITCHELL'S FUTURE Not a Candidate For Any Political Office. He Saves. Chicago, June 24.—John Mitchell, former president of the United Mine Workers of America, issued an authoritative statement refusing to allow his name to be considered as a candidate for governor of Illinois on the Democratic ticket, or as a candidate for vice president with Mr. Bryan. "I am not now, and shall not be, a candidate for any political office of any kind," declared Mr. Mitchell. Friends of Mr. Mitchell said that he had about decided to accept an office in the National Civic Federation's trade agreement department. He desires, they said, to put himself where his services will be of the greatest possible value to laboring men generally throughout the country. In this office his work would be in connection with the efforts to settle disputes between employer and employed without resorting to strikes and lockouts. The office carries a salary of $6000 a year. May Recall New Jersey Legislature. Trenton, N. J., June 24—There is a possibility that the legislature may be called together in special session for the purpose of making appropriations to some of the state institutions. Several of the institutions say that at the last session the two houses cut down their appropriations to a point which does not permit them to properly carry on their work. The matter was the subject of a conference between the governor and the attorney general, and while nothing was decided upon, it is the belief that a special session will be called. Scout Cruiser Makes New Record. Rockland, Me., June 24.—A new record for vessels of her class was established by the new scout cruiser Salem when she made a run over the measured mile course of her screw standardization tests. The best previous record was 26.07 knots, made by the sister ship, the Chester. The Salem's average speed for her five best runs was 25.95 knots, as compared with 25.1 by the Chester. The Salem was built by the Fore Riven Shipbuilding company, of Quincy, Mass., and is fitted with the American style of turbine engines. Hysterica Restore Slight. James Cantillion, of Marionette Wls., who was totally blind, regained his sight at Bellevue hospital, in New York city, during a fit of hysteresis which followed the surgeon's an nouncement to him that his case was considered hopeless and that he probably would remain blind for the remainder of his life. Fatal Burns From Odd Cause While she was burning caterpillars from a mulberry tree in her yard, Mrs. Jane Jones, widow of the late Jacog C. Jones, of Seaford, Del., was fatally burned. A speck of fire fell from the torch and fired her clothing. Neighbors who were attracted by her screams extinguished the fire, but physicians say she will not recover. --- THE PLANET SATURDAY.....JUNE 27, 1908 ROAD AND FARM IMPROVEMENT MENDING SPLIT POSTS. Draw Tightly Together with Chain and Insert Bolt. Those who have post-and-rall fences know that posts are likely to split from a variety of causes, letting the rails drop and making a very poor fence. The damage is usually repaired by nailing an old horseshoe or two across the split in the post below each post hole. Although this answers fairly well, it does not draw the post together. Horseshoes are not always on hand and even if they were they will have to be nailed very se- Mending a Split Post. curely in order to keep the posts from spreading even more. A good method of closing up the cleft is shown in the accompanying cut, says The Farmer. Place a short, stout chain around the top of the post just tight enough to admit a strong lever. The post can then be drawn together by a strong downward pressure and the lever hold there by tying it to the lowest post hole. A half-inch hole can then be bored through the post, a bolt drawn through and the sides drawn tightly together. This post will then last as long as any other in the fence and will not be a cause of losing any sleep for fear your own or some one else's cattle will be getting into trouble. YOU CAN HAVE GOOD ROADS Black Loam Soil Not a Bar to Hard Roads, says H. H. Gross. It is often urged that hard roads in the corn belt of the Mississippi valley are impracticable, first, for the reason that stone or gravel roads cannot be built on the heavy black loam soil of that section, and, second, because there is no road material at hand for this purpose. The fact is there are no difficulties there that cannot be overcome. Only one precaution is necessary, and that is thorough drainage. See that the road is thoroughly drained, which may be done either by side-ditching or by tilting sub-surface drains, and the task will be an easy one. The layer of road material serves as a roof over the road to keep it dry. As to road material, though there are no deposits of stone or gravel in the corn belt, the land in that section is exceedingly fertile and produces large revenues, and its owners are better able to pay road taxes than the farmers in other parts where the road material is at hand and the soil less fertile. Furthermore, the railroads are interested in the betterment of the highways and will carry road material southward into the corn belt at the cost of the service or less. The southern part of the state furnishes the northern part with coal—the coal cars go back empty—why not fill them with stone or gravel? The farmers of the corn belt have still another advantage when it comes to building hard roads. The land is comparatively level, so no heavy grading is necessary. It is true that hard roads can be built in the corn belt with material shipped in for half the cost of roads in Massachusetts, where stone abounds, the difference being that in Massachusetts the hills must be cut down, the hollows filled, and the streams bridged.—R. H. Gross, Secretary Farmers' Good Roads League. HINTS TO HELP. Stop the danger of runaway by getting new harnesses or having the old ones nicely fixed up. There are some people so honest that they never deviate from the truth, except when the tax assessor calls. If weeds begin to show themselves in the corn field before the hills show, a weeder will help to subdue them and bring the corn up faster, too. Begin the season right by cutting off the top of every weed that shows itself. At the same time, root out every unkind word that comes to your lips. It costs 25 cents to raise a bushel of potatoes, and they seldom sell for less than 50 cents. Doubling one's money is considered pretty profitable business. When the mows are emptied, sweep them thoroughly and let in all the air and sunlight possible. We have seen barns with ten-year-old dust-filled cobwebs hanging from ridgepole and erosion-beam. BORS AND INTEREST THEM IN THE PLANET WE WILL HELP YOU TO OBTAIN A PREMIUM COLORED INFANTRY IN RESCUE OF ROUGH RIDERS AT SAN JUAN HILL, JULY 2, 1898, SIZE 20X28 AND 20X24 INCHES, ADMIRAL DEWEY'S GREAT NAVAL BATTLE OFF CAVITE IN MANILA BAY, MAY 1ST, 1898, NAVAL BATTLE, DESTRUCTION OF ADMIRAL CERVERA'S SPANISH FLEET OFF SANTIAGO DE CUBA, JULY 3RD, 1898, SIZE 22X28 INCHES; LAND BATTLE, CAPTURE OF EL CANEY, EL PASO AND FORTIFICATIONS OF SANTIAGO, JULY FIRST AND SECOND, 1898, SIZE 22X28 AND 22X27 INCHES. WE WILL SEND YOU ONE OF ANY OF THE FOLLOWING BATTLES OF THE CIVIL WAR ON THE SAME TERMS. THE PICTURES LIKE THE OTHER BATTLES ARE FINISHED IN COLORS. THEY ARE 22X28 INCHES AND RETAIL AT ONE DOLLAR EACH. WE WILL FURNISH FRAMES FOR ANY OF THESE FINE CHROMOS FOR 2 DOLLARS & 50CTS. EACH ADDITIONAL. 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WE WILL SEND YOU A GOLD-PLATED BROOCH WITH YOUR PICTURE THEREIN, YOU TO When things go wrong on the farm, just think that it might be worse. Hurry around and make the wrong thing right, and lie down to rest at night feeling that every day is a good day, no matter what happens in it. CORN IS KING. Successful Farmer Tells How He Raises Hundred Bushels Per Acre. I have raised more than 100 bushels of corn per acre three times during the last four years, and expect to have more than 100 bushels per acre this year. I did it in this way, explains I. F. Andrews, in Farm Journal. I take my hay crop off and then let the second crop grow unpastured until it is at its best, then I plow it down and sow to rye; in the spring I manure the rye and let it grow until almost the first of May, when the rye is coming into head. I plow rye and manure down, put on 25 bushels of lime per acre, and sow it to corn, putting 125 pounds of rock fertilizer to the hills per acre. I mark out the corn rows three feet eight inches each way, plant four grains to the hill, and later pull out the smaller plants to two to the hill. I cultivate the corn both ways until you can see neither horse nor man over the top of the corn. When the corn is ready to cut I haul it off; and seed the field to wheat and grass. I never leave the grass crop more than one year, so I need only three fields for my rotation. I select the thickest, longest-grained corn that I can find for seed—ears that will shell about one quart of shelled corn per ear. Some critics say that thick cobs are a waste; but grains one inch in length around a thick cob will shell more than twice the quantity that short grains around a thin cob will shell; and I raise corn for the corn, the cob going in the bargain. I always mix my seed corn, that is, I put one peck of the best corn I can buy to each bushel of my own selected seed, and mix well. When the corn comes into tassel I take a broom handle with a knife at the end, and pass through the corn, clipping off the tassel of the weaker one of the two stalks in each hill; and if the difference in the stalks is not too great, the clipped stalk will have the larger ear. I like a strong stalk to furnish the pollen, and one tassel to each hill is amply sufficient to fertilize all the corn. I can clip the tassels off two acres of corn in one day. If smut appears on the tassel or any part of the corn stalk, I clip off with the knife, and those stalks make full ears; while if the smut was left on, they would not produce any corn, or at best only shriveled small ears. I seldom have six hills missing per acre, or I repaint as soon as the blades peep above ground. And if birds or something else destroy some hills when too late to repaint corn grains, I repaint with corn stalks, and raise full ears on such repplanted stalks. Thoroughness pays. SOME FARMS TOO LARGE. Farmers Make a Mistake by Trying to Handle Too Much Acreage. The story is going the rounds of the press of a man that had a 1,200-acre farm and had three daughters. As each got married he gave her a quarter of the farm, or 300 acres, and put all his stock and all his energies on the remainder. To his surprise he found that he made just as much money on the smaller portion as on the larger portion. When he had but 300 acres left he found his profits as large as they had been on the 1,200 acres, and he was being worried a great deal less. There are many farms that are too large. They are too costly to keep up, and their owners cannot manage to advantage. The larger the farm the more skillful must the management be, for the greater will be the proportion of work that must be done by others than by the owner. This is the point at which the big farm is put to a disadvantage. A hired worker can never do the work that the owner can, for he lacks interest. There are a great many large farms, says the Farmers' Review, that would be more valuable to the community if they were broken up into several farms and were sold to different farmers that would live on them and be contented with owning one farm and no more. Intensive agriculture must come more and more into vogue with the increase of population, but this should be under individual owners, rather than under a system of landlordism in which the owners are residing in the cities and working the land by proxies. REMOVABLE BUGGY SEAT. Device by Which an Extra Person Can Be Comfortably Provided For. A convenient, removable third buggy seat is made by tacking a stuffed cushion on one end of a board, the other Removable Buggy Seat. end of which is slipped under the seat cushion. A stick is hinged to the underside, explains the Prairie Farmer, which serves as a leg to the seat, and when not in use this can be folded up and the whole seat slipped under the buggy seat out of the way. The American Hen. There is nothing mean or narrow about the American hen. She cackles for all, and last year she sired Cuba with a million dollars' worth of prime eggs, to say no little of the numerous quantities sent to England and other countries. A peacock All Be To interest yourself in promoting the CIRCULATION of th IN ORDER TO FURTHER INCREASE OUR STEADILY GROWING CIRCULATION WE WILL OFF WE WILL SEND YOU THE PLANET AND THE ST LOUIS, MISSOURI, SEMI-WEEKLY GLOBE DEMOCRAT, ONE OF THE LEADING REPUBLICAN JOURNALS IN THE UNITED STATES FOR $2.25 PER YEAR FOR BOTH. WE WILL SEND YOU THE PLANET AND THE COSMOPOLITAN MAGAZINE FOR $2.25 PER YEAR FOR BOTH. WE WILL SEND YOU THE PLANET AND McCLURE'S MAGAZINE FOR $2.25 PER YEAR FOR BOTH. OR THEIR EQUIVALENT, WE WILL SEND PICTURES, ONE ONLY, OF PRESIDENT THEODORE ROOSEVELT, DR. BOOKER T. 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EN ADVANT TWO SUB WE WILL ON AS THE ```markdown ``` ```markdown ``` SIX PET RYANET SATURDAY...JUNE 27. 1908. HORTICULTURE Cheap Sub-Irrigation Plant Which the Gardener Can Install Himself. The garden plat should be nearly level, and near enough to the force pump or supply tank to be supplied from a hose. The pipes used come in eight-foot lengths, are of galvanized iron and one inch in diameter. They are not soldered, so have an open seam the entire length. These lengths are fitted together like stove pipe, so you can add as many as you need. The supply pipes are two inches in diameter and soldered. I have three boxes, explains the writer in Farmers' Mall and Breeze, made of one by six fencing 16 inches deep, tight at bottom, but loose cover on top. COOK COOK COOK A 8 FEET SUPPLY PIPE HOSE LEADING TO SUPPLY TANK Showing Pipe System. Where the supply pipe enters bore a two-inch hole four inches from bottom and let the pipe fit in closely. Where the small pipe enters boxes bore a one-inch hole two inches from bottom and fit pipe. Dig your trench for supply pipe 11 inches deep, so that when in place only six inches of your box will be above the ground. Dig the long trenches eight inches deep and leave open until you connect the entire sysom, being sure that the open seam is at the bottom of long pipes. Put corks in the end of long pipes (not in the box), then drop the end of your hose in one of the boxes. If your pipes are level the water will trickle out evenly from the bottom of all three long pipes, and you can then fill up your trenches, turn off the hose and plant your seeds. Then turn on the water until you see damp spots on the surface of the ground, then turn it off. The long pipes cost one cent per foot and the two-inch two cents. I bought mine of our dealer, but think it is made at Oakley, Kan. Each long pipe waters the ground for four feet on each side, making irrigated plot 24 feet wide. If you want to shut off one long pipe, put a cork in it at the supply box. This plant is cheap, a ten-year-old boy can make it. It does not cause the top of the ground to bake, and produces excellent results in every way. HILLSIDE APPLE ORCHARD An Ideal Place for the Setting of Fruit Trees. If possible, select a hillside for the new apple orchard. Have it on the side of the hill that gets fewest of the heavy windstorms. This will often save the apple crop. Plow the land deeply, running the furrows across the hill to prevent washing. If the soil is very light, leave an unplowed strip here and there to further act as a check to washing. If the trees are to be set out this spring, manure heavily in the furrows. This will secure the full benefits of the manure and prevent some of it being washed away. If the supply of barnyard manure is short put in phosphorus, potassium and nitrogen in some form or other. Give the trees a good start so they can make good roots the first year. Use varieties that have been demonstrated to be the best for the locality and go slow on the kinds that have not been sufficiently tried. Head the trees low, says the Farmers' Review. This is the more necessary if they are on high locations exposed to the winds. Low headed trees close fewer apples than high headed ones. On the hillside do not plant other crops except grass, if the land is very sloping. The ground should be encouraged to grass over and form a good sod as quickly as possible. GARDEN NOTES. Much of the fruit shipped to market is picked when too immature. The tomatoes need to be started early, so that the plants will have obtained good size by the time they can safely be set out in the spring. Remember, the currant and gooseberry worms can easily be killed by spraying the bushes promptly with one ounce of white heliotrope dissolved in three gallons of water. Pick off all the blossoms from newly-set strawberry beds, thus you send all the plants' strength back into themselves—into growth. It is unwise to let plants fruit the first season. ASPARAGUS CULTURE Some Valuable Hints from One Wha Has Grown the Vegetable. In a recent letter, Mrs. E. E. Grimes, one of the most successful asparagus growers in the nation, has the following to say of the culture of that excellent plant: "There are two methods by which plants can be secured—from seed and from roots. If the roots can be obtained from a reliable firm, this is the quickest way to start a bed, and the earlier returns will more than pay for the plants; but roots should not be over two years old. Stunted roots and two-year-old roots are so nearly alike in appearance that an unreliable firm will sometimes palm the former off for the latter. Some time ago the writer ordered 250 of the two-year-old roots, and, at the same time, planted roots grown from seed from the home garden. Those from the nursery did not show a spear above the ground, while home grown plants have formed a thrifty body, but roots can be purchased from reliable firms with good results. The writer has had good success taking up the young plants that had grown from a fallen seed in an old bed. These plants should be taken up after a rain, being careful to take up enough soil as not to disturb the young plants. If plants form a clump, leave them together; dig a hole large enough to set the roots in as if they had grown there; place in rows or beds in a shady place, where the ground is cultivated. These plants should not be disturbed till two years old. "If one cannot secure plants from an old bed, buy seed from a reliable firm. The seed should be sown early in the spring and when plants are two years old transplant into a bed where the roots can remain permanently. If properly cared for the bed will be profitable for 25 years. The selection of the ground is quite important. If for early use, or for market, and if rapid growth is desired, the soil should be a little sandy and should lie where it can have the direct rays of the sun. The ground should be as free from rock, rubbish and weeds as possible. This soil should be heavily covered with well rotted manure. The ground plowed deeply and well pulverized. The rows should be marked out with a plow, making a furrow six inches deep in which to set the roots. The rows should be four feet apart. Asparagus should not be cut till the second year after planting, and the season's cutting should not be prolonged later than the middle of June, as this would be injurious to the life and vitality of the roots." A POLE LADDER For Many Uses, Especially In Orchard, It Can't Be Beat. Here is a plan for making a ladder from a pole. The accompanying illustration shows how it is made. I used one like it 40 years ago, says a writer in Prairie Farmer and I thought it a "daisy." It is not original A Single Pole Ladder. with me. I took the idea from one of the agricultural papers at the time. The pole is sawed to A where an iron band is slipped on from the top. At C is a wooden step which keeps the foot spread. The rungs, B. 16 inches apart, are one-half inch from I used machine bolts. My plan for testing the safety strength of any ladder of which I am in doubt, is to lay it horizontal with both ends off the ground, stand on the middle, and if it will hold me, it will hold in any other position. Ireland Needs Reforesting Ireland pays $5,000,000 a year for timber imported from other countries. Only 1/4 per cent. of its land is in timber and much of this is of little value. A popular objection to reforestation has been that forest plantations offer less employment to labor than equal areas of agricultural land. It was shown, however, that a certain 50-year-old forest, although planted on poor soil not valuable for agriculture, had employed four times as much labor as has been employed upon equal area of agricultural land and was more profitable to the owner. Within the past year $50,000 worth of timber has been sold from this plantation, and much remains to be cut. Meteors of Various Sizes. Meteors vary in size from mere grains of sand to several tons, and consist for the most part of iron and nickel, but no fewer than 24 terrestrial elements have been found in them. Don't Worry. The immortal words of Rear Admiral Evans: "There are two things I never worry about—what I can't help and what I can." Paris Abates a Nuisance: The Paris prefect of police has decided that in future we no more licenses to play barrel organs in that city will be granted. THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA CURRENT VERSE. The most crept in from the sea. The most crept in from the sea, And bode for a race, and then It heard the imperious all Of the deep, transcending all And it knew itself as the thrall Of the world old master of men, So still as the dreams that flee. The The Lilac. Whence comes this scent within the Square. Where endless dusty traffic roars? A push-cart stands beside the curb, With fragrant blossoms laden high; Speak low, nor star, lest we disturb His sudden reverie! He sees us not, nor heeds the din Of clanging car and scuffling throng; His eyes see fair rights within. And memory hears the robin's song As once it trilled against the day, And a room in a room Where drifted with the breath of May The lilac's sweet perfume. The heart of boyhood in him stirs; The wonder of the morning skies, Of sunset gold behind the firs, In kindled in his dreaming eyes, How far far is this sordid place, He crushes his own sight away He crushes to his fiery face A purple illaic spray. Walter Prichard Eaton, In American Magazine. Longing. I am longing for the open, where the hills are turning green. Where the golden dandelions soon will not bloom. Where the lambus will soon be skipping and the colts will host their heels. But I have no wish to be there doing farm work for my meals. I am longing to be straying where the breezes sweetly blow. While the blackbird blithely searches for the grub that cronches low. Where the bull calf spills his breakfast for the dog dreams on the doorstep where no chilling shadow falls. I am honoring for the freedom of the meadow as the fields. Far from where men serve hard masters or still go the pace that kills. But I may as well be candid and confess I do not yearn. To be out there getting merely what a man who knows well—Chicago Record-Herald To Age. Welcome, old friend! These many years Have we lived door by door? The Fates have laid aside their shears Perhaps for some few more. 1 was indocile at an age When better boys were taught, But thou at length hast made me sage, If I am sage in aught. Little I know from other men, Too little they from me, But thou hast pointed well the pen That writes these lines to thee. Thanks for expelling Fear and Hope— One vile, the other vain; One's scourge, the other's telescope— I shall not see again. Rather what lies before my feet My notice shall engage. He who hath brav'd Youth's dizzy heat Dreads not the frost of age. He whose lauder Lord Singing. Nor gold is mine, nor prospering state Nor the gay soul that laughs at fate; Yet off I deem it good to sing Us in my tumble rafters ring; And joy to laugh with note Leaping from my supple throat. Many delightful airs I know, Of major joy, of minor woe; Many a glad or mournful phrase Immerested in the tempered days; Melodies creeping like faint scents From ghosts of perished instruments; Songs of whose tenderness and fire The living soul can never tire. Immerested in these I gain, The unpremeditated strain Sometimes delightheart me the most- Singing that almost is a boast, Free and capricious as a bird's, Unclogged by any useless words, Unfettered by tears, I sing till I have sung my fill. And thus I will troll forth many a note Ere age hath seized my supple throat. "One Sad Day." One sad day when the sun's gold crown Jewelled the desolate, dreamy west, I came with a burden, and laid it down Under the lilies and leaves to rest; And, weeping, I left it, and went my way, With the Silence whispering: "God knows best." One sad day—it was long ago. And thorny the ways my feet have prest Since with tears and kisses I laid it low— Soul of my soul, and life of my breast! And kneeling now in the dark to pray, There comes with a song from the sun- less west. The same sweet voice that I heard that day— The Silence whispering: "God knows best!" —Atlanta Constitution. The Lesson of the Trees. Master, I learn this lesson from the trees: Not to grow old. The maple by my door Puts forth green leaves as cheerly as I, When I was taller than this self-same Put forth my youthful longings. I have erred. Standing a bleak and barren loafless thing. Among my hopeful brothers. I am shamed. I will not be less hopeful than the trees; I will not cease to labor and aspire; I will not pause in patient high endosore; I will be young in heart until I die. -Richard Kirk, in Lippincott's Mag- azine. Many Daughters. A New York father and mother of nine daughters have placed in each of their rooms the motto: "Learn to Say Yes." Have Little Chance In the long run idols have no chance in this country, whether they be heathen or popular.—N. Y. Mafl. 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 Nevolence, the respectable, upright people of the state will find it an order worthy of their heartiest support. It pays an endowment and burial benefit of of $200.00 for all ages. It pays $4.00 per week sick dues. The badge costing 75 cents each is the only absolutely necessary regalia. For information concerning the organization of lodges apply at the main office. The Courts of Calanthe Is the Female Department of the Order. It requires a membership of thirty persons to organize a court. Its members are pledged to exhibit Fidelity, exercise Harmony and prove Love one for the other. It pays an endowment and burial benefit of $150.00. It pays $3.00 per week sick dues. The only expense for regalia is the cost of the badge, 50 cents and a rosette, costing 25 cents for funeral occasions. THE BANDS OF CALANTHE or Children's Department also constitutes a feature and persons cannot do better than to enter the little ones into this mystic circle. The expense is nominal and the benefits all that could be expected. It pays from $1.00 to $1.50 sick dues and death benefits of from $30.00 to $40.00. If you have no Pythian Lodge or Court or Band in your neighborhood, orruiz 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 PYTHIAAS. 1234 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 concern membership in the lodges and Fruit Commerce It is only within recent years that fresh fruits have become important in commerce. Formerly only lemons, oranges and apples were sent far. Most of the export fruits were dried prunes, dates, rasins and figs. The coming of the demand for transportation brought into existence the great cold storage arrangements in our ocean steamers, by which it is now possible to send even perishable fruits from one part of the world to the other. Both market and competition have been enlarged. Worries of Modern Life Nowadays we must not drink spirits nor eat meat; we must not smoke; the air of cities is poisonous, the air of the country too strong; the light ruins our eyes and the noise racks our nerves; shaking hands is a means of collecting microbes and kissing is pure suicide. Life is indeed growing dull and difficult.—Madrid Diarlo. Value of the Nile The Nile is one of the longest rivers in the world, but it is not especially valuable as a navigable stream. Its chief benefit to the country is from the immense deposits of mud carried down in the annual floods and which have made the region overflowed one of the most fertile in the world. Travel, the Teacher No young man can boast of a thorough education until he has been abroad and learned the ways and ideas of other nations. In superior schools travelling during the holidays should be made compulsory, or at least strongly encouraged—Vienna Familienblätter. Fastidious. "I believe in reason in all things," said the milliner, shifting a gone-crazy hat from a stand to the show window, "but when a woman is so afraid she won't be genteel that she comes in here and asks to be shown Limbhorn hats, instead of Leghorn, it makes me weary." Credit or Cash The man with the high forehead was heard to remark to his companion in the twenty-first story elevator: "It is a positive delight, Sawyer, to meet a man you feel you can trust." "Oh, I don't know," returned Sawyer, who keeps a grocery shop, "I prefer the chap that pays cash." French Literacy Although France has had compulsory education for about 25 years, the percentage of illiterates reaches the high figure of 40 per 1,000 men, and 60 per 1,000 women. In this regard Germany appears to great advantage, as she has only four illiterates per 1,000 of population. Mystery of Seadless Fruit Science so far has failed to furnish any explanation of the mystery of seedless fruits. They are not the outcome of the work of man. Man perpetuates them; he does no more. The seedless orange was found in a state of seedlessness—Vegitarian. The world contains at least four mountains composed of almost solid iron ore. One is in Mexico, one in the United States, another in India and a fourth in Africa just below the Soudan, and there have been reports of such a mountain existing in Siberia. Soiled Paper Walls. The soiling of walls caused by persons leaning their heads against the wall may be almost entirely removed by laying a sheet of blotting paper on the spot and ironing over it with a hot iron. Chance for Much Trouble Chance for Much Trouble. The sultan of Turkey recently paid $400,000 for a diamond. If he doesn't wish to have trouble with his harem he will insist on using the stone himself. N. A., S. A, E. A., A. AND A. organization is one of the most powerful has been phenomenal. The Grand over all of the cities and counties in need 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, regalia. For information concerning burts of Calanty 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 final and the benefits all that could death benefits of from $30.00 to $4 your neighborhood, orguiz one. joining the Children's Department as Mrs. ANNA TAYLOR, W. M., 120 W. Hill St., Richmond cerning special rates of courts, address JOHN MITCHELL, 311 N. 4th St. Spring Lamb. They went into a restaurant— John Jones and Mary Drew; Mary had a little lamb, And John, he had lamb, too. Soporific. Irate wife—But what is the use of my talking when you just go to sleep? Do you hear? (Bang!) What is the use of my talking when you just go to sleep? Tired Husband—On the contrary, Jenny, it was only because I was listening to you that I dozed off—Judge. A New Fang. "There's going to for those new-fangs. Mr. Mumm the other "What now-fang! Mrs. Mumm. Why, that new can keep his wife lute divorce from him At the last acco tening to a lecturer ter her people were Free Press. "I think the country is just sweet," said the town young lady. "I love to see the peasant returning to his humble cot, his sturdy figure outfitted against the setting sun, his faithful collie at his side, and his plow upon his shoulder."—Royal Magazine. A man begins to have true greatness when he can look at cartoons of himself and be amused. Some people hunt for work in about the same way that an optimist hunts for trouble. Govern your prejudices, otherwise they will govern you.—Horace. Nelson's Hair Dressing can be bought at Jennings and Brown Drug Store, Pittsburg, Pa. 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True to Life. High-class service. Latest improvements in Photograph out-to-Door work executed. Reasonable Bees. Includes from Old necessities or Photographs. THE ECONOMY 303-5 North Third St FINE CLEANING, DVRING ANI REPAIRING CHITMAN M. WHITE, PROPRIETOR. A. Hayes OFFICE AND WARE-ROOMS, 727 North Second Street RESIDENCE, 725 N. 2nd St. First-class Hacktie and Oakcups 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 Oakcups. Gall and see me and you shall be waited on individually. Phone, 2778. THE LOVE FOR THE LITTLE GIRL The bonnets, hats and coats of the small girl are nothing short of bewitching this season. The prevailing note of exquisite fineness and daintness which is found throughout fashion's domain is essentially appropriate to children's clothes, and one finds it in childish headwear, from close baby bonnet to wide hat of lingerie material or straw. Plain flapping brims of pique, scalloped and buttonholed round the edges, and little crowns also with buttonholes and scalloped edge, and buttoned down to the brims, form the most practical hats, ones that are entirely durable and readily laundered. The inevitable eyetwelve embroidery appears, too, upon many hats of this sort, and some models have caisles or large dots and sometimes a combination of the two in raised embroidery scattered all over their surfaces. An illustration of this is shown in the dainty lingerie hat. There are innumerable models in similar shape, all fine lingerie stuff and lace and hand work of flouncing and ruffs of yard embroidery or allover. One of the daintiest models in sheerest lawn and lace, with a double frill which droops about the dainty little face like flower petals, has a pinked frill of pink china silk set between the two lace and lawn frills, and, of course, is trimmed with soft pink bows. Picturesque floppy hats of leghorn and various pliable fancy straws are for girls a trifle older, and here, too the wonderfully sort, lustrous ribbons of the season are an important feature and are hardied in some cases with consummate skill. Poppies, hats, roses, forget-me-nots are the flowers most favored for trimming the straw picture hats, and on the leghorn or the burnt straw black velvet ribbon is frequently used instead of silk or satin ribbon in connection with flowers. Of attractive coats for little girls there are no end. The daintiest are perhaps, those of sheer lingerie stuff and embroidery or lace, with a loose lining of china silk in orange or blue; but the pique coats, scalloped, buttonholed and embroidered in English work, are extremely smart. New Collarette One of the newest fancies of fashion is the collarette, or ruff, fastened in the back with long ends of ribbon, which hang down the back. This is the very latest suggestion in the way of spring boas or neckpieces for wear out of doors. The collarette is a large ruff made of plaited ribbon, chiffon, net, etc., and quite high and full—much like a Pierrot collar. At the back there is a large rosette of ribbon to fasten it and from beneath the rosette the ribbons hang quite a distance down the back. Very frequently there is a rosette at the back of the hat to match that on the collar. The collarette and hat should, in fact, be in accord, and if they are so they will give quite a dressy effect to a plain cloth or silk costume. For instance, with a dark blue suit a shaded blue collarette and a shaded blue hat having the same tones might be used. With a gray suit an orange and white boa and a straw color and white hat hight give a touch of springtime gayety. Babies Who Wall While the young mother is apt to think her baby on the point of disease each time it cries, the more experienced one knows that the infant who is dangerously ill rarely cries hard. One old nurse declares she always welcomes the first attack of sobbing after a child has had a dangerous sickness. Here are some cries that when heard should be watched; A hoarse, fretful, rattling cry is often a forerunner of bronchitis. A fretful, sharp cry with an occasional wheeding sound usually means croup; a moaning cry indicates fever; a loud, steamy cry, pain somewhere. A noisy, irritable yell nothing but temper, as a rule, and need cause no alarm. Care of Pets. There is no time in the year when animals need so much care as in the summer. Then they must not only be kept clean, but must be fed and watered properly, for on this depends their health. Dogs should be given little or no meat during the warm weather, and water should be kept where they can get it at any time. Dog biscuits are the best form of food. PRETTY COATS FOR SUMMER. Charming Garments Worn with the Lightest of Costumes. The most charming separate coats of ponge silk and cloth are now shown for wear with summer dresses, the comparatively simple frocks of fine cotton, linen, foulard and ponge. ```markdown ``` which have to some extent supplanted the suits of these materials. These separate coats are, many of them, quite elaborate, but they need not be so, for, as shown in the illustration, it is quite possible to have them entirely untrimmed, save perhaps for a few bands of braid and some buttons, fancy or otherwise, as the taste of two individual wearer dictates. The model here shown is an extremely desirable one. It is almost universally becoming to the figure, for its long lines height and slenderness, while the possibilities of fullness in the fronts take from the too flat effect which sometimes mars the beauty of a pongee garment. This fullness, which is due to the two plaits in the shoulder into which the material is laid, may be held in all the way down on a coat, which is to be worn by a stout woman, while for . . . very slender one it may be let out, as shown in the cut, and then caught in again just a little above the waist line. COMBINE SILK AND VOILE One of the Prettiest Phases of the Season's Fashions. One of the marked phases of this season's fashions is the combining of silk and volle in a curious and interesting way, which makes it difficult to determine which of the two fabrics is considered the trimming of the gown and which is considered its principal material. It is a very good fashion in many ways, for the two materials enhance each other. Moreover, there is something very attractive about the touch of crispness which the silk lends to the volle costume, and the softening qualities of the volle combined with the silk are equally desirable. In the rather dressy jacket suits, which are worn for afternoon in place of the trim tailored costume, which is usually relegated to morning wear, the combination of materials plays its most important part. Nothing could better serve the purpose of a somewhat elaborate costume, which should be all one tone and without obtuse trimming of lace or other entirely extraneous ornamentation. The silk trims the veil and the voile the silk, so that all suggestion of plainness or severity is entirely done away with, while at the same time the costume is kept entirely within the limitations of what is most correct and reserved in street costume. Novel Method of Trimming A novel method of trimming hats by aid of hatkins is one of the most original fashions this season. The hatkins used for trimming can be bought in a variety of designs. Birds, ribbons and flowers can be attached by the aid of these artistic skewers. The first step is to purchase an untrimmed hat in a nondescript shape which will tone with any gown—such as black, white or string color. A judicious selection of the most suitable hatkins follows. In the morning a flight of birds and black velvet bow can be pierced through the crown. This trimming will be discarded in the afternoon and replaced by roses, violets or lilies, whiche or flower tones with the frock. The prettiest combination of blossoms can be contrived by mixing red roses and lilies or violets and pale pink rosebida—Home Chat. Flesh-Colored Stockings Flesh-colored stockings are the latest demand and elaborate afternoon or evening gowns, whatever the color of the shoes or gown. In many such cases the shoes are made of the material of the gown. With the costumes of alleged classical effects that are worn now, stockings of flesh tint with slippers of another shade may, possibly, be intended as a suggestion of the ancient sandal. Stockings that have no reference whatever to the color of gown or shoes is one of the fads for smart street costumes. Patent leather shoes often accompany such contrasting foot coverings. Agony. First Bridge Player—What made Mrs. de Fitt act so strangely during that last hand? Second Bridge Player—She had the ace up her sleeve and couldn't get it out!—Judge. His Usual Course "What do you do," asked the fair bridge player, whispering to the man sitting behind her, "when you have a hand like that?" "I generally swear," he answered.—Chicago Tribune. THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA IN BLUE FINE SERGE Useful and Attractive Dress Designed for Schoolgirl. A pretty shade of medium blue fine serge is used for this useful little costume, the skirt is gathered into the waistband, and is trimmed at the foot King Lilian with fancy galloon forming a band and upstanding tabs. The blouse jacket is cut square in the neck, and fastens down the left side of front, where it is trimmed with galloon, the wrists of the sleeves being trimmed to match. Blue straw hat trimmed with silk the same color. Materials required: Four and one- half yards 46 inches wide, four yards sateen, and about ten yards gallon. CRIB FROM CLOTHES BASKET. Useful Contrivance That Can Easily Be Made at Home. The materials required for this crib are a clothes basket with a wooden bottom, four legs of pine two inches square and 12 inches long, two pieces of pine board one-quarter inch thick, three inches wide, and as long as the bottom of the basket, two pieces off same board as width of basket bottom, and four ball bearing furniture casters, the kind put on with four screws. With a gimlet and screw driver any woman easily can make the crib as follows: Fasten the quarter inch by three inch boards to the outside of the four legs, about two inches from the bottom, with one inch screws, two screws at each end of each board; now fasten basket to top of legs with two inch screws, one screw in each corner of basket; turn basket upside down and screw casters to bottom of legs. This brings the crib to the level of the mother's bed. It is easily moved about by the basket handle without stooping, and, by placing one or two sidirons in bottom of basket to offer the necessary resistance, becomes an excellent contrivance for baby to cling to and push about while learning to walk. Sporting Hats. Sporting hats of fine panama are extremely fascinating and they are in favor, as are the various varieties in fancy straws and chips which answer for summer wear. But the white duck sailor—broad and straight of brim, stiffened to perfection in the pressing process—is the smart wear with the light spring woolens, coat and skirt suits, where white generally enters into the designs of stripes, blocks or pladdings that are in cross-bar lines. These hats are trimmed either with a two-inch silk hatband in white or in single colors, quite as simply as a man's straw hat, or they have a crown twist of soft white satin ribbon with a fetching choux on the side of the same ribbon. Some of the pale-colored ribbons are seen also, as there will always be some one who will insist on a blue or a pink trimming, but the best style permits nothing but white.—Vogue. Frills for Front of Waist A pretty accessory for a plain waist is a double frill that may be sewed on the edge of the opening down the front. The under frill shows almost an inch beyond the upper one, and both are taken into a half-inch band. The frill is widest at the neck and tapers off almost to a point at the waist line. It can be made from cambric, lawn or net and edged with narrow lace. Fifty cents will buy the frill ready for wear, but any odd scraps left over from white sewing will furnish material, if one has time or cares to make it at home. To Sew on Braid Hang the skirt, then baste near the edge. Turn the loose hem and baste on braid, then stich on the braid with a big stitch and it can be easily ripped in case it wears out. This stitching will not show on the right side. After the braid is on the hem can be evened and the skirt finished at the bottom. This saves sewing braid on by hand. Helliotrope Sachet. This sachet requires one-quarter pound of dried rose leaves ground to a powder, one-half pound of powdered arris root, two ounces of powdered tonquin ban, one ounce of vanilla bean, and two drops of attar of almond. Mix the powders by sitting them together. 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If we never show our kind feeling, what guarantee has our friend, or even ourselves, that it exists? Life is made up to most of us of little things, and many a friendship withers through sheer neglect. Hearts are alienated, because each is waiting for some great occasion for displaying affection. The great spiritual value of friendship is the opportunity it affords for service, and if these are neglected it is only to be expected that the gift should be taken from us. Friendship, which begins with sentiment, will not live and thrive on sentiment. There must be loyalty, which finds expression in service. It is not the greatness of the help or the intrinsic value of the gift which gives its worth, but the evidence it is of love and thoughtfulness. Attention to detail is the secret of success in every sphere of life; and little kindnesses, little acts of considerateness, little appreciations, little confidence, are all that most of us are called on to perform, and they are all that are needed to keep friendship sweet. Such thoughtfulness keeps our sentiment in evidence to both parties.—Lillian Whiting. HAVE YOU HEARD THESET It was W. S. Gilbert who said of Beerbohm Tree's Hamlet that it was "funny without being coarse." During an Englishman's lecture in New Haven the usher said to a late comer: "Please, sir, take your seat as quietly as possible. The audience is asleep." A Philadelphia woman said: "Of course there will be no marriage in heaven. There will be plenty of women there and a few men, but not any one would care to marry." When Joseph H. 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WHEN BUYING, WHEN SELLING, HEN RENTING PROPERTY call on the PEOPLE'S REAL ESTATE & INVESTMENT Co REALTY IN ALL OF ITS BRANCHES 707 North Second Street, Richmond, Virginia. Telephone, 4854. J. J. CARTER, President. W. F. DENNY, Se..etary MEALS at All Hours—Hot or Cold. Board by Day, Week or Month. SOFT DRINKS. Phone, 577. Richmond, Va A. D. PRICE, Funeral Director, Embalmer and Liveryman. All orders promptly filled at short notice by telegraph or telephone. Halls rented for meetings and nice entertainments. Plenty of room with all necessary conveniences. Large picnic or band wagons for hire at reasonable rates and nothing but first-class, carriages, buggles, etc. Keep constantly on hand fine funeral supplies. No. 212 East Leigh Street. (Residence Next Door.) OPEN ALL DAY AND NIGHT.—Man on Duty All Night. The J V Hawkin's HAIR GROWER & RESTORER TRADE MARK REGISTERED Has proved to be a fortune to many of the fortunates, who are to-day delighted with its wonderful results. The merits of this great hair preparation naturally places it in a sphere all of its own, and the glowing terms in which our patrons speak of it reassures us of its satisfactory results. We can well boast of a large parrainage throughout this and other States and also enjoys the commendation of the very best white and colored people in the immediate community. In order to the merits and results of the J. V. H. will from time to time produce in practice permission to do so, who have us among the many bearing witness of its correspondence of those expecting a miracination is a natural and pure compound, hesitate to put in print. We will just States Government has placed national notice, it is protected and we are in turn est methods and square dealings. It will positively remove Dandruff Hair on Clean Temples or Bald Heads on Prices; -35 cts. per box; eight Beautifier makes the use of powder enroless. Sale prices; 25, 50cts and $1.00. Order or Express Money Order all out of city orders. 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Gross flatly charge gross fraud of the most unblushing type. The chairman of the District Convention, it is alleged, was a usurper to begin with. Coming down to details, it is alleged that at the Jefferson County convention W. C. Averill was made temporary chairman, though he had not taken the trouble to have himself elected a delegate, and he forthwith made C. R. Bone, postmaster at Beaumont, Texas, who also was not a legally elected delegate, a member of the Committee on Credentials. According to the brief of these contestants, it will be shown to the National Convention that the "certificate above referred to, accrediting the said delegates from Precinct No. 1, was false, fraudulent and untrue and in fact and in truth no such persons were elected as such delegates. "That the persons so purported to be delegates to said County Convention being influential and one of them, C. R. Bone, being postmaster at Beaumont, dominated the said convention in its selection of delegates to the Congressional Convention which named said Morris and Christian as delegates to this National Convention. In Texas, also, it is charged, the Negroes were discriminated against and not permitted to participate in the proceedings. Postmaster Bone refused to act with a Negro on the Committee on Credentials, and the Negro was removed by Averill. Here is a striking picture of a Republican convention in Texas at work. It is taken from this brief of the contestants from the Second District: Contestants show that the delegates composing the said Congressional Convention were sent to the said Congressional Convention through the influence of Federal officeholders, and the majority of said convention were such and the following Federal officeholders, who were delegates in said convention * * * dominated the said convention and directed its action and policy, namely: R. Dunn, Collector or Customs Postmaster at Beaumont; C. C. Postmaster at Beaumont; C. C. Postmaster at Lifkin; Theo. Miller, Postmaster at Rusk; J. C. McBride, Postmaster at Woodville; M. L. Lee, Postmaster at Kirbyville and James P. Sargent, Postmaster at Orange. FLORIDA FIGHT FILLED WITH ACCUSATIONS OF CORRUPT Florida's contest over the four delegates-at-large is strikingly presented by this list of the Big Four named by the Administration forces, J. N. Coombs, National Committeeman; Joseph E. Lee, Collector of Internal Revenue; H. S. Chubb, Register of the Land Office at Gainesville and M. B. McFarlane, Collector of Customs at Tampa. Of the four alternates J. F. Hoos is United States marshal of the Southern Florida District and W. H. Lucas is Collector of Customs at Jacksonville. J. N. Stripling, R. R. Robertson, J. H. Dickerson and J. J. DeV. Hazard are the contestants. They almost unnecessarily maintain that the Florida Convention was an Administration bossed affair. CHARGES MADE IN THE BRIEF FILED. Says the brief: The Florida Republican State Central Committee, which on the 10th of December last convened in the city of Jacksonville and ordered a State convention to be held not later than the 15th day of February following for the purpose of electing four delegates-at-large to represent the State of Florida at the Republican National Convention to be held in the city of Chicago on the 16th day of June, 1908, was composed of twenty-four members, sixteen of whom were white and eight colored. Of the sixteen white members, thirteen were Federal officeholders, one of the colored members, Joseph E. Lee, was a Federal officeholder, making fourteen officeholders out of a total membership of twenty-four. J. N. Coombs, one or the white members who did not hold office, was a member of the National Committee and had been entrusted with the naming of the Federal officeholders in the State of Florida He used his position to place several of his relatives and intimate friends, who had been largely dependent upon him for their livelihood, in comfortable Federal positions. Of the members who attended the meeting above mentioned I am informed, and allege it to be a fact, that all were officeholders except one—Coombs. DOWNRIGHT FRAUD ALSO AL LEGED. Proceeding, the brief charges the officeholders with pernicious activity and downright fraud. This picture is drawn of the governing body of the Republican Party in Florida: This so called committee, which had been recognized at Washington as the official head of the party in this State, may justly be termed a close corporation. 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Daily supplementary exercises designed to instill in the sobriety, cleanliness, regularity and acumen are provided. The teaching is wholly denominational, the intention being to oppose or antagonize any theological work being done elsewhere, but instead to assist all denominations. During the past year, the enrollment in the Bible Training School has been satisfactory, but the opportunity is now provided for a considerably larger number. The teaching is free. The cost of board, including furnished room, light, fuel, laundering, etc. is $8.50 per month. The entrance fee is $7 to be paid in cash by each student when he registers. Students will be given the opportunity to work out much of the $8.50 in some cases all of it. Lack of means should not keep any form of entering the Bible School. If the student is not afraid or word and study he will succeed. For further information address BOOKER T. WASHINGTON, Principal, Tuskegee Institute, Alabama To Destroy Paint Odor Put a kettle full of lighted charcoal, on which have been thrown a handful of juniper berries, in the room and carefully stop all openings, not forgetting the chimney. Leave the room closed for 24 hours, by the end of which time the smell will be gone. Of course, no person or animal must remain in the room while the charcoal is burning—Country Life in America. Fireless Firecrackers. Do you remember how you used to pop leaves when you were a kid? You laid the leaf over the palm of your left hand and then struck it with your right. On the same principle as this, with half a rubber bulb to take the place of the hollow palm, and a piece of newspaper over the top to pop instead of a leaf, a fireless firecracker can be invested. White Peril in the East The "white peril" is threatening to the east as the "yellow danger" is to the west. 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Pull this thread and stroke the gathers to make them even. Roll the edge of the material, and, holding the lace nearest to you, lightly hold the lace and edge together with the thumb and forefinger of the left hand and overcast the two together with firm and even stitches. To let in lace insertion to form a design first baste the insertion on the right side of the material in the desired design and hem it down on both its edges. Cut the material from underneath the lace, leaving a narrow hem or seam on each side of the lace. Crease the seam back from the lace toward the material, and turn as for a hem and overhand it taking stitches close to the line of the hemming. Beading often is used in underclothes for running ribbon through to make gathers and thus form the necessary fullness. Roll the edge of the material and then roll the muslin edge of the beading close to the embroidery and overhand the two together. Beading is often put in with a French seam. The first seam should be taken on the right side and far enough from the edge of the embroidery so that when the second seam is taken it will bring it close to the embroidery edge. This may be done by hand or on the sewing machine. NOVELTY THAT IS ATTRACTIVE. Hammock Cover Devised by Girl of Original Mind. Really the greatest novelty that has been seen this season is a hammock cover; it is backed by lots of practical, good, common sense, too. Many a hammock, faded and dejected looking, is perfectly strong, without a break and altogether too good to be discarded. The cover that an ingenious girl has devised is of natural linen; a piece is cut to fit the top of the hammock, while to this is seamed on both sides a valance about the depth of the discarded fringe. This valance had upon it a semi-conventional design, stenciled in full green and yellow, the whole outlined in brown heavy working cotton. The lower edge of the valance was traveled and the fringe knotted. Pillows were covered to match—a design with the same motif and treated in the same combination of colors being stenciled upon each. The result was not only artistic, but eminently practical, cool and cleanly. The stenciling was done, of course, in "fast" dyes, so that the cover was made washable. There are possible many variations of this idea, so that the girl who is not an artist (this one was) may devise other and simpler decorations for her hammock cover, such as outline work in very coarse cotton or rafa, or applied stripes, or polka dots of dull tinted linen. ULTRA BUT PRETTY. One of the ultra novelties of the millinery world is pictured in above cut, which gives one a good idea of the shape. It is built of white lace, with a shirred band o. black velvet forming a narrow brim. On the left side of high crown is a bunch of dark-red roses and maidenhair fern. Attar of Roses Pick enough rose leaves to make one quart when well pressed down. 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