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THE RICHMOND PLANET THE CUSTALO HOUSE FALLS IN. Complete Collapse of the Ancient Hostelry HAD BEEN LEASED TO WHITE MEN—HEAVY LOSS TO OWNER. WILL REBUILD. VOLUME XXV, NUMBER 31. THE C HOUS Complete Collapse HAD BEEN LEASED T With a rumble and roar that could be heard and felt for blocks around, the old Custalo building, at No. 702 East Broad Street, formerly used as a colored barroom and hotel, collapsed shortly before noon Monday, June 29th and was left a total ruin of brick, woodwork and mortar. The collapse was complete, not one brick being left, standing on another. The shock left the building on the corner formerly Doyle's saloon, in a shaky condition, and Building Inspector Beck, who was soon on the scene immediately condemned that place, ordering Mrs. Doyle and her adopted daughter to vacate at once, under peril of their lives. Directly after the collapse of the adjoining building Mrs. Doyle moved out, and several men were employed in removing her household effects and furniture. REFUSED A LICENSE The Custalo building was being remodeled as a saloon, to be occupied by E. L. Thompson & Company, who had been refused a license on the opposite corner by the Court. W. H. Zimmerman owner of the wrecked structure, was repairing the toterting walls and Mr. Thompson had employed Wright and Kurfees to do some wainscoting on the inside. It was while workmen were underplanning the rear wall that it began to settle. Someone shouted a warning, and every one ran out. In a few minutes the wall gave way, and then the entire building crushed in leaving only a bent and twisted cornice projecting from the other building. Police officers quickly roped off the dangerous district to prevent injury to the too inquisitive crowd. No one was hurt. A VERY OLD STRUCTURE The house was of great age. It was owned by Mr. W. H. Zimmermann, who values the property at about $5,000. It had been insured in the Mutual Assurance Society of Virginia since 1837, but, of course, insurance will not be available in this case. The building is a complete loss and no insurance can be collected thereon. Mr. Zimmermann, said he would begin rebuilding at once. Mr. Thompson, who was preparing to move in, has not yet decided where he will locate. He had only secured the unpaid lease on the Custalo Building about three weeks ago from John Mitchell, Jr., Administrator through Mr. W. F. Denny the real estate agent. The unsafe condition of the building has been the subject of comment for some time and it has been condemned. Only last year, repairs were ordered. The colored people consider it a God-send that it had passed into the control of others. Besides closing up the Doyle saloon, Mr. Beck ordered the poolroom next door to be closed in case of further collapse. The front wall of Doyle's saloon threatens to fall in, and may do so at any moment. I'll be razed. It presents no menace to passersby as the whole sidewalk running both ways is roped off securely. Prof. Willie Williamson, the Great Musical Genius Dies on the Operating Table Prof. Willie Williamson who was born in Wilson County, N. C. in 1854 departed this life May 24th at his home in Chattanooga, Tenn. Prof. Williamson was a member of a family of fourteen children of which seven were born blind. Though blind he had developed a great talent for music. He early recognized his ability to sing and with the assistance of his other blind sisters and brother felt that he could go before the public, entertain them and thereby make an honest, honorable living. He did this as his heart directed and for more than twenty-five years he traversed the east and southern portions as well as foreign lands. He was always met with much enthusiasm and his concerts attended by great crowds. You will not hear him any more, nor will you hear the troup as before. Or the quartette which started out in life to give these concerts two have finished their career and have joined the great singers beyond the stream. Prof. Williamson leaves a wife, two sisters, a brother, other relatives and many friends. The blind sister and brother must now travel alone Turn them not from your door. KILLED BY COLORED OFFICER Leader in Attack by Chicago Teamsters is Shot by Policeman. CHICAGO, ILL., June 29.—Because he objected to the arrest of a white man by a colored policeman, and led a number of men in an attack upon the officer, Edward Smith a teamster was shot and killed by Policeman Mitchell Parker at West Madison and Aberdeen Streets tonight. Parker had attempted to arrest Thomas Quigley, driver of an ice wagon, who had broken down a barrier erected before some freshly laid asphalt pavement, and started his team across the street. The foreman in charge of the work appealed to Parker, and the officer pulled Quigley from the wagon, declaring him under arrest. Quigley attacked Parker and at the same time called on several other teamsters for help. Led by Smith, several men attacked the policeman, who was knocked down and kicked. Quigley broke away and ran, but Smith and companions continued to beat the policeman, who drew his revolver and fired two shots at Smith. The shots took effect, Smith dying instantly. Parker is held pending the coroner's investigation. DEDICATE NEW TEMPLE Colored Pythians Lay Corner Stone for $200,000 Building. Colored Pythians from all parts of the State and nearly 2000 colored residents of New Orleans took part in the ceremonies which marked the dedication of the new colored Pythian Temple at Gravier and Saratoga Streets yesterday at noon. The gathering was remarkable in many respects and commemorated an undertaking the result of which is declared to reflect great credit upon the law abiding colored element of Louisiana. In setting the corner stone of the handsome building that represents an investment of $200,000 the colored Pythians have outstripped their brothers of every other State in the South, and the city of New Orleans will boast the first colored Pythian Temple of any size to be found anywhere in the South. Necessarily the ceremonies attendant upon the laying of the corner stone proved of greatest concern to the colored people of New Orleans, and they were out in force to participate in the exercises. Supreme Chancellor S. W. Green officiated as Master of Ceremonies. The invocation by Rev. John Marks opened the programme. Others who took part were: Dr. A. J. Lopez, F. C. Antoine, the first colored Grand Chancellor of the Knights of Pythias in Louisiana; J. Madison Vance, a well-known colored lawyer of New Orleans; S. S. Francisco, the first Grand Keeper of Records and Seal in this State; Frank B. Smith, an attorney; Rev. C. W. Reeves, W. J. Strother, Supreme Vice Chancellor of Mississippi; John W. Cooke of Lake Providence, John D. Brown, of Gray, La., Grand Keeper of Records and Seal and Attorney H. H. Lord of Houma, La. The building of the colored Pythians will be seven stories in height, and will contain besides accommodations for colored bank, a large auditorium, lodge rooms and office for Negro lawyers, physicians and business men. Diboll Owen and Goldstein are the architects on the structure. The new building, it is stated will be something of a monument to the thrift, integrity and business ability of the colored citizens under whose direction the big work is being done. —The District Conference of the A. M. E. Church has been in session this week at the Third Street A. M. E. Church. RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, SATURDAY, JULY 4, 1908 GLANT CONVICTED ON VERY FLIMSY EVIDENCE. "Big Negro" Declares on Going to Jail "I Didn't Steal." Flimsy evidence—no one of several witnesses being able to state an exact time of the crime—to-day sent William Dandridge, a colored giant, to the Henrico county jail for thirty days, Dandridge, who stands six feet seven and weighs above three hundred pounds, was charged with stealing two planks valued at fifty cents. The charges were brought by Frank Ford, a merchant of the county, who stated on the witness stand that he knew nothing of the man's connection with the theft. J. C. Deal from whom Dandridge claims to have gotten the planks, got mad when questioned about the theft, but stated on the witness stand that he had allowed the man to take away some stove wood. Another young white man states that he saw the giant walk off with some planks, but he could give no testimony of their length, and the most damaging evidence was that in which a colored man named Hopkins said that he saw the prisoner with two planks under his arm, one of which dragged the ground. As soon as sentence was passed upon him, Dandridge dived into his pockets for his fine, and frowned when told that money would do no good. He had thirty days flat. The big giant quietly submitted to the sentence with the remark, "I didn't steal nothing, and I've to go to jail for something I didn't do." Some of those who festified against the man made statements that his character for honesty is good, and that he had never in many years been guilty of a questionable act. Ford offered a reward for the capture of the person stalling his wood, and while no one has claimed it, it may be that some person may be heard from now that Dandridge is in jail. James Russell, a lawyer, was engaged to prosecute the colored man, who had no lawyer and whose only method of defense was his feeble method of questioning. Dandridge was once offered a position, he says, by Mr. Pete Barnum." He claims to have been born in Goochland, and is thirty-one years old. He employed a colored man through his cell bars to take his corn while he is at work, and has a wallet full of money to purchase whatever he may need in the way of tobacco and edibles during his stay in jail. "They'll have to feed me by the yard," he remarked, "I'm a big man and a monstrous eater." —Richmond, Va. News-Leader, July 1, 1908. —If you wish your old hat to look like new call on the American Hat Company. See advertisement. Resolutions. Blackstone, Va. June 22, 1908. WHEREAS: It has pleased our Court for the first time since its organization of four years, and take from it to Himself Berta, the loving daughter of Mr. Burrell Cousin, one who from her untiring Christian efforts and examples will ever be remembered by her Court and all that knew her, and. WHEREAS, We are submissive to the workings of our wise Creator, knowing He does not afflict us willingly but lovingly and believing these afflictions are ladders that lead to glory. Be it RESOLVED, That our Court shall ask God's blessings upon the bereaved family who are thus sorely afflicted especially her aged father, realizing that their loss is her eternal gain. RESOLVED, That a copy of said resolutions be sent to her family, spread on our minutes and printed in The PLANET. By order of Evening Star Court, No. 77, Order of Calanthe. JENNIE JACKSON, W. I. BETTIE STOKES, R. of D. SARAH HARRIS, S. D. Committee. -Subscribe to The PLANET Celebration 4th of July. OF COURSE YOU'LL DO THIS AND— WELL, WASN'T GEORGE WASHINGTON A HERO? -GET THIS— IT'S PATRIOTISM HIS ARGUMENT DON'T DUNCH! LOTS OF PUN AT THE TOWN. CELEBRATION —Prof. William B. Ferguson, who has had charge of the Holbrook School at Danville has been appointed to the principalship or one of the Roanoke Public Schools. —Dr. A. E. West of Nandua, Va. has been in the city during the past week attending the sessions of the Medical Board here. He seems highly pleased with the examination and the result will no doubt be gratifying to him. He is a graduate of Leonard Medical College at Raleigh, N. C. —Mrs. Susie Robinson of 215 E. 17th Street, Manchester, Va. left the city Tuesday morning for Port Conway, Va. where she will attend the Summer Normal. —Misses Olive Clarke of Danville, Va. and Edna Lowry of Sumter, S. C., were the guests of Miss Alberta Jenkins, 2311 Decatur Street, Manchester, Va. this week. They were royally entertained. They visited our office on Monday and were much delighted. They left for Petersburg Monday night, and on Friday they returned to their homes. Public Installation The officers of the Lodges and Courts will be publicly installed Tuesday, July 14, 1908 at the Ebe-nezer Baptist Church at 8 P. M. The members of the Order and the public will be present. Grand Chancellor John J. will be assisted by the members and officers of the Grand Lodge in this city. Pulpit Vacant. The pulpit of the Ebenezer Baptist Church, Williamsport, Pa. was declared vacant at the regular business meeting, held in May with a full memb ership present. Deacon George L. Woodfolk, Moderator; Notey Poindexter, Clerk, 630 Erle Ave., Williamsport, Pa. Stops Bullet, Saving a Woman. Newark, N. J., July 1.—Frank Palmer, a resident of Woodside, attempted to kill his wife Lena, living at a house at Warwick and Jefferson streets. Dayton M. Grover, a jeweler interfered and took the bullet intended for the woman's heart in his left arm. Palmer then ran down stairs from the third-story room where the shooting occurred. After shouting wildly, Palmer ran upstairs again and, drawing his revolver, blew out his brains. In sane jealousy over Grover is declared to have been the motive for the attempted murder of the woman and the suicide. Sherman to Go Home Thursday. Cleveland, July 1.—It has been definitively decided that Congressmar James S. Sherman, Republican candidate for vice president, who is recovering from a ten-days' illness here, will leave for his home in Utica, N. Y. Thursday morning. Mr. Sherman has almost entirely recovered his strength and expresses himself as feeling in good health again. DOWN WITH BRONZE STATUES. General Butler Says Future Generations Will Take Heroes for Negroes. NEW ORLEANS, June 26.—Fearing that the use of bronze in erecting Confederate statues will result in future generations believing that the Southern people were a race of "d—d black Negroes," General E. S. Butler of Raymond, Miss., a Confederate veteran of note, has begun a movement to have the statue recently erected that place torn down. General Butler has ignored the fact the Raymond statue, a heroic work emblematic of a private on guard duty, embraces the straight hair and delicate features of the Caucasian race. He sees only the dark metal, which, he says, will turn sentiment against the Sough. "Please have a white man put up at Raymond," pleads General Butler. "That bronze monstrosity is an insult to the Confederacy. Why was such an outrage hoisted on the dead and living veterans? Why was a d—d black Negro enthroned to remind future generations of our deeds? I helped pull down the black devils at Jackson, Miss., during the reconstruction days of 1876, and I do not want the likeness of an African perpetuated." If General Butler would make his statue-busting crusade complete he will have to break the images of Robert E. Lee and Andrew Jackson in New Orleans, for both are of the metal which General Butler says deplets a "d——d black Negro." At Richmond, Va., he will find a whole array of ford, "d——d black Negroes" for George Washington and other revolutionary heroes in the Capitol grounds, and (with) way off two others representing St. Louis Jackson and Jeb Stewart. At Hollywood Cemetery, in Richmond, he will find the very image of Jefferson Davis fashioned in the "dusky" metal. COLDEN—FULLER. Danville, Va., June 25, 1508. The beautiful wedding of Mr. Luther Colden of Suffolk, Va. to Mrs. Eliza B. Fuller took place at the beautiful and palatial residence of the bride, 302 Ross Street, Monday evening, June 22, 1908 at 9 o'clock. The bride attired in a lovely gray volle over blue taffeta came in leaning upon the arm of Mr. S. R. Bufford who gave her away. Mr. C. W. White of Suffolk, Va. acted as best man. Mrs. P. M. B. Hodge was matron of honor. The other attendants were: Mrs. Ada E. Bufford with Mr. R. L. Motley, Mrs. Amanda H. Lee with Mr. E. G. Adams. The ceremony was performed by Rev. Dr. A. A. Galvin assisted by Rev. Dr. W. T. Hall. The groom wore the conventional black. A grand reception followed. The parlor was beautifully decorated with cut-flowers and palms. The porch and yard were well illuminated with Japanese lights. Mrs. Fuller is one of our good and charitable tables of Dumfries and we regret to have her leave us. Yet we know our loss is Suffolk's gain. Mr. Colden is a well known citizen of Suffolk and by no means a pauper thus we feel safe in trusting Mrs. Fuller into his care. We wish for them a long and happy life. Mr. and Mrs. Colden will be at home to their friends, 731 Commerce Street, Suffolk, Va., July 6, 1908. What's in McClure's. —Subscribe to The PLANET. PRICE, FIVE CENTS EMINENT DIVINES HERE. Bishop Coppin and the Council of Presiding Elders—Interesting Sessions at the Third St. A. M. E. Church. The Council of the Presiding Elders of the Second Episcopal District presided over by Bishop L. J. Coppin, D. D., one of the ablest divines in this country and the Executive Board of Kittrell College has been in session this week at the Third Street A. M. E. Church. The following compose the Conference: Baltimore Conference—Rev J. W. Norris, Rev J. H. Robinson, Rev C. H. Murray, Rev John B. Warner, Virginia—Rev George D. Jimmerson, Rev S. M. Johnson, Rev J. B. Tyler, Rev I. Ewer, North Carolina—Rev J. N. Telfair, Rev W. H. Capehart, Rev R. R. Nichols, Rev A. Stroud, Western N. C. Rev R. H. W. Leak, Western N. C. Holt, Rev J. W. Walker, Rev C. H. King. They visited the PLANET office last Thursday morning. They were in carriages, seeing the sights of the city. The meeting has been highly successful. Rev J. E. C. Barham, D. D., State Missionary visited the Bishop's Conference. $150.00 Endowment Paid. Richmond, Va., June 30, 1908. This is to certify that I have received from John Mitchell, Jr., Grand Chancellor of the Grand Lodge of Virginia, Knights of Pythias, N. A., S. A., E., A. A, and A. ($150.00) One Hundred and Fifty Dollars in payment of the death- claim of Sir Jasper Jones, who was a member of Samson Lodge, No. 16, of Richmond, Va. Signed—Florence P. Jones, Beneficiary. Witnesses: S. S. Baker. (Mrs.) Mary P. Brown. A WORTHY HONOR CONFERRED More Degrees Than Any Negro His Age in America. The best known and most honored young Negro in America is John Anderson Lankford. He is an architect by profession, who has a national reputation as having designed and supervised the largest and most beautiful also costly buildings in this country owned by our race and many of the same class for other reasons. A few weeks ago he was unanimously recommended and accepted by the Bishops and General Conference of the A. M. E. Church as the supervising architect to design and supervise the work on all their buildings of that great religious institution. In the Bishops' quadrennial address to the church, they recognized him as the authority among our people along the lines of Christian Art. He has been honored by more of our best and leading Negro colleges and universities than any Negro in America, having received the honorary degrees of B. S. from Shaw University, Raleigh, N. C., M. S. from Wilberforce University and Morris Brown College and a few days ago (M. M. S.) Master of Mechanical Science from the State Agricultural and Mechanical College of Normal, Alabama. He is a strong believer in his race. He employs all Negro mechanics and professional men to do his work. He is not only an architect and supervisor of construction in the highest degree, but a young man who has gone out of his way in developing his race along business and financial lines. He was the promoter and organizer of the Washington Negro Business League. He is Supervising Architect and Engineer of the Great National Negro Fair which will be held in Mobile, Ala., from 1908 to 1912. Was Comer General of the District of Columbia for the Jamestown Negro Exhibition. He has now the largest and best office building in one of the best business locations in Washington exclusively for Negroes. He is public spirited, and we believe that every Negro in America should give him a chance whenever they have work in his line. Write him, 317 Sixth Street, N. W. Washington, D. C. Do You Know Them? I wish to locate my brothers Alfred and Solomon Williams, born in Nansen 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 Palmouth, Va. on the Battle Field. I have forgotten the name of the regiment. Address all information to RICHARD WILLIAMS, 442 Hudson Avenue, Brooklyn, N. Y. The GIRL from TM'S PLACE BY CHARLES CLARK MURN COPYRIGHT, 1906, BY LOTHROP, LEE & SHEPARD CO. CHAPTER I. - Chip McGuire, a 16-year old girl living at Tim's place in the Maine town is sold by her father to Pete Baldus, a lifebreed. She runs away. CHAPTER II. - Chip reaches the camp of Martin Friis, a retired carpenter, his wife, nephew, Raymond Stetson, guides. She tells her story and is cared for by Mrs. Friis. CHAPTER III. - Explains journey of Friis's party into woods is to visit Mrs. Friis, an old hermit, who has resided in the harbor for many years. When camp is broken Chip and Ray occupy same canoe. CHAPTER IV. - The party reach camp of Mrs. Friis's father and are welcomed by him and Cy Walker, an old friend and former townman of the harbor. They settle down for summer's stay. CHAPTER V. - Chip and Ray are in love, but no one realized this but Cy Walker. Strange canoe marks found on lake shore in front of their cabin. CHAPTER VI. - Strange smoke is seen across the lake. Martin and Levi leave McGuire, who is known as outlaw and escaped murderer. CHAPTER VII-Chip's one woods friend, Tomah, an Indian, visits camp, believes he sees a bear on the ridge. CHAPTER VIII-Chip is stolen by Pete Boluo and encapses with her in a canoe. CHAPTER IX-Chip is rescued by Martin and Levi, and they are returned from the settlement. Boluo encapses. CHAPTER X-Old Opy presents to Ray that he remains in the woods with his self and Amzi and trap during the win- and he concludes to do so. Others of the tribe return to Greenvale, taking Chip with them. CHAPTER XI-Chip starts to school in Greenvale, and finds him unpleasant at Aunt Comforta's made so especially by Hannah. CHAPTER XII-Old Cy and Ray discover strange tracks in the wilderness. CHAPTER XIII-The penetrate further into the wilderness and discover the hiding place of the man who had been sneaking about their cabin. CHAPTER XIV-They investigate the cave home of McGuire during his abduction, seeking revenge for being the girl he bought, is also on the trail of McGuire. CHAPTER XV—Beldue finds McGuire and the two fight to the death, finding a watery grave together. CHAPTER XVI—Spring has come and Ray leaves the woods with Levi, leaving Old Cy and the hermit, Amel, at the camp. CHAPTER XVII—Ray returns to Greenville and finds Chip waiting for him. CHAPTER XVIII—Chip tells Ray of her troubles in Greenville. Ray fails to visit her the first of his arrival, and Ray explains. CHAPTER XIX—Xray wants Chip to return to the woods with them, but she, being a comrade with Ray has been broken, refuses. When they part, however, it is as lovers. CHAPTER XX—Chip runs away from Aunt Comfort's and finds another home with Judson Walker. She gives her name as Vera Raymond. CHAPTER XXI—Aunt Abby, Aunt Mandy Walker's sister, visits them, and Chip home with her to Christmas Cove. CHAPTER XXII-Chip goes to school at Christmas Cove. She tells Aunt Abby her father of their family, and she discovers that Cyr Walker is a long-lost brother of Judson Walker, but fear of betraying her hiding place prevents her telling of CHAPTER XXIII-Old Cy investigates McGulve's cave in the wilderness and finds a fortune that belongs to Chip. CHAPTER XXIV-Old Cy returns to Greenvale with the money belonging to Chip. CHAPTER XXV-Old Cy returns to the wilderness camp with the money Chip had disappeared and proposes to start out to find her. He turns over to Martin a bank book showing a deposit of 50,000 in Chip's name. CHAPTER XXVI-Chip returns to home and learns Peaceful Valley, for a summer vacation. She resolves to tell Judson of his brother, Cy. CHAPTER XXVII-Chip tells Judson of Cy and writes a note to Martin which discloses her hiding place. Martin immediately visits the Walkers. He gives Chip a letter, but she says no, she shall send Ray to her, but she says no. CHAPTER XXVIII—Aunt Abby's husband dead. Chip asks Martin to find Cy. He goes to the country to see the new He had been a youthful lover of Aunt Abby, and was supposed to have been lost at sea. Ray wants to go to Chip, but Martin advises him not to. CHAPTER XXIX—The search for Cy corresponds to chip battles with pride and love for Ray. CHAPTER XXX—Chip receives a letter from Ray, asking forgiveness for seeming slight and neglect. CHAPTER XXXI—Ray and Levi return to the wilderness camp and find Cy. They tell him of his brother and the finding of Chip. CHAPTER XXXII—and Martin and his wife visit Chip at Judson Walker's and Cy's Cyp. Chip starts for a visit to Greenvale. CHAPTER XXXIII. Riverton, less provincial than Greenvale, was a village of some two thousand inhabitants. A few brick blocks, with less pretentious wooden buildings, formed a nucleus of stores. A brown-stone bank, four churches, two hotels, the Quanboag house and the Astor house were intermingled among these, and a railroad with two trains in each direction a day added life and interest to the place. Each of the hotels sent a conveyance to meet every train, with a loud-voiced emissary to announce the fact of free transportation. In each hostelry a bar flourished and like rival clubs, each had its afternoon and evening gathering of loafers who swapped yarns and gossip, smoked and chewed incessantly, and contributed little else to support the establishments. Three times daily, at meal hours, each of the rival landlords banged a discordant gong in his front doorway, without apparent result. At about 11 in the foreonen each week-day in summer, Uncle Joe Barnes on his lumbering two-horse stage, arrived from Greenvale, paused at the post office, threw off a mall-pouch, thence around to the Quaboag house stable, and cared for his horses. At two he was ready for the return trip and mounting his lofty seat, he again drove to the front of the hotel, shouting "All aboard!" dismounted to assist lady passengers, but let masculine ones do their own climbing, and after halting to receive a mail-bag, again departed on his return trip. A certain monotonous regularity was apparent in every move and every act and function of village life in Riverton. At precisely seven o'clock each morning the two landlords appeared simultaneously and banged their gongs. At 12 and six, this was repeated. At eight o'clock the three principal storekeepers usually entered their places of business; at nine, while the academy bell was ringing near by, every village doctor might be seen starting out. At ten exactly, Dwight Bennett, the cashier of the bank, unlocked its front door, and the two hotel 'buses invariably started so nearly together that they met at the first turn going stationward. Even the four church clocks had the same habit, and it was often related that a stranger there, a traveling man, on his first visit, made an amusing discovery. "What kind of a fool clock have you got in this town?" he said to Sam Gates, the landlord of the Quaboag, next morning after his arrival. "I went to bed in good season last night an' just got a sleep when I heard it strike 32. I dozed off an' the next I knew it began clanging again, and I counted 44. What sort of time do you keep here, anyway? Do you run your town by the multiplication table?" The half-dozen loafers who met every afternoon in the Quaboag house office arrived in about the same order, smoked, drank, told their yarns, gathered all the gossip, and departed at nearly the same moment. Their evening visits partook of the same clock-like regularity. These of the old guard were also dressed much the same, and "slouchy" best describes it. Gray flannel shirts in winter or summer alike. Collar cuffs, and ties were never seen on them, though patches were, and as for shaving or hair-cutting, a few shaved once a week, some never did, and semi-annual hair-cuts were a fair average. The worst sinner in this respect, Luke Atwater, occasionally called "Lazy Luke," never had his beard shortened but once, and that was due to its being burnt off while he was fighting a brush fire in spring. It was related of him, and believed by many, that once upon a time many years previous he had had his hair cut and on that occasion the barber had found a whetstone concealed in Luke's shock of tangled hair. It was also asserted that he admitted always carrying his whetstone back of his ear while mowing, and so losing it that way. All the news and every happening in Riverton, from the catching of an extra big trout to twins, was duly commented upon and discussed by this coterie. Village politics, how much money each storekeeper was making, crop prospects, the run of sap every spring, drouth, weather indications, rain or snow falls, each and all formed rotating subjects upon which every one of this faithful-to-the-post clique expressed opinions. Chip's arrival there with the Frisbie family, and her later history, learned from Uncle Joe, furnished a fertile topic, her escapade in running away from Greenvale, a more exciting one, while Old Cy's visit and deposit of a fabulous sum in the bank in her name had been a nine days' wonder. That amount, hinted at only by the cashier as a comfortable fortune, soon grew in size until it was generally believed to be almost a million. This was Riverton and its decidedly rural status when late one December afternoon the Quaboag free 'bus (a two-seated pung, this time) swept up to that hotel's front door, where the porter assisted a stylish young lady to alight, and be, stepping like a drum major, led the way into the Quaboag's unwarmed parlor. "Young lady, sir, a stunner, wants room over night, sir," he announced to the landlord in the office a moment later. "Goin' to Greenvale to-morning, she says." On the instant all converse in the office ceased, and the six constant callers hardly breathed until Sam Gates hattened to the parlor and returned. "It's that McGuire gal—lady, I mean," he asserted pompously; then the porter, "Git a move on, Jim, 'n start a fire in Number 6, an' quick, too!" And hastily brushing his untidy hair before the office mirror, he left the room again, followed by six envious glances. Then those astonished loafers grouped themselves, the better to observe the passage between parlor and office. Only one instant sight of this important guest was obtained by them as Chlp emerged from the parlor and followed the landlord upstairs, and then the hushed spell was broken. "By gosh, it's her!" exclaimed one in an awed whisper, "an' Jim was right, she's a stunner!" "What do ye s'pose she's here for," queried a fourth, "to draw the int'rest on her money, or what?" It was precisely four forty-five when Chip appeared before the judge and jury of all Riverton's happenings. At five forty-five they had agreed that she was the handsomest young lady who had ever set foot in the town, that she must be going to get married soon, and that her mission there was to draw out a few thousand dollars for wedding finery. Then they dispersed, and at six forty-five, when they assembled at the Quabang again, half of Riverton knew their conclusions, and by bedtime all knew them. By eight-thirty next morning, this all-observant and all-wise clique had gathered in the hotel office once more, an unusual proceeding, and when Chip tripped out, eight pairs of eyes watched THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA her depart. Then they dispersed. At nine o'clock Chip walked up the stone steps to the bank door, read the legend, "Open from ten a.m. to two p. m." turned away, and once more resumed her leisurely stroll up and down the street while she peered into store windows. At ten precisely by the four clocks she was back at the bank again, and the cashier loot count of the column he was adding when he saw her enter. "I would like $300, if you please, sir," she said, presenting her little book, and he had to count it over four times, to make sure the amount was right. Then he passed the thick bundle of currency out under his latticed window, seeing only the two wide-open, fathomless eyes and dimpled face that had watched him, and feeling, as he afterward admitted, like 50 cents. And now ensued an experience the like of which poor Chip had never even dreamed,—the supreme joy of spending money without stint for those near and dear to her. And what a medley of gifts she bought! Two silk dress patterns, two warm wraps, three winter hats, a gold watch for Miss Phinney, an easy-chair, two of the finest pipes she could find, a trout rod, four pairs of gloves, and finally a gun for Nexer. Then as her roll of money grew less, she began to pick up smaller articles—handkerchiefs, slippers, and the like. "Send them to the hotel, please," she said to one and all of whom she purchased articles of any size, "marked for Vera McGuire." That was enough! Riverton had sensations, mild ones, of course. Now and then a fire had occurred, once an elopement. Occasionally a horse ran away, causing damage to some one. But nothing had occurred to compare with the arrival of a supposed fabulously rich young lady who came without escort, who walked into and out of stores like a goddess, noticing no one, and who spent money as if it were autumn leaves. A few of the Quauabog retinue followed her about in a not-to-be-observed manner. Women by the dozen hastily doned outdoor raiment and visited stores, just to observe her. They crossed and recrossed the street to meet her, and a battery of curious eyes was focussed on her for two hours. When she returned to the hotel, the old guard, recruited by every idle man in town, filled the office, awaiting her. Uncle Joe, who had heard of her arrival the moment he came, was among them, recounting her history once more, and when she neared the hotel, he emerged to meet her. "Why, bless yer eyes, Chip," he said, extending a calloused hand, "but I'm powerful glad to see ye once more. Whatever made ye run away the way ye did, n' what be ye doin' here? Buyin' out the hull town? I've got the pung filled wi' bundles a'ready wi' yer name on 'em." He beamed her into the parlor, like the ancient grantlant he was. He washed, brushed his hair and clothing, and awaited her readiness to dine, without holding further converse with the curious crowd. He ushered her into the dining-room and made bold to sit and ent with her unmasked, and when he assisted her to the front seat in his long; box sleigh, crowded with her purchases, and drove away, he was envised by two dozen observers. "Why didn't ye send as word o' yer comin'," he said as they left Riverton, "so I cud 'n spruced up some an' come down with a better rig, bells on the hoses and new buffer robes?" "There was no need of that," answered Chip, pleased, as well she might be. "I am just the same girl that I always was, only happier now that I have more friends. How is dear old Aunt Comfort, and every one in Greenvale? I am anticipating seeing them so much." And never during all the 20 years in which Uncle Joe had journeyed twice each day over this road had the way seemed shorter or had he been blessed with a more interesting companion. The only regret Chip had, was that she had forgotten to buy Uncle Joe a present. She made up for it later, however. At Greenvale, Chip met almost an ovation. Aunt Comfort kissed her and cried over her. Nezer ran for Angle, who soon appeared on the scene, and Hannah was so "flustered" she was unable to speak after the first greeting. Martin, who had heard of Chip's arrival from Uncle Joe, hastened to Aunt Comfort's, and had Chip been a real "millionairress" or some titled lady she could not have awakened more interest or received half so cordial a welcome. Hannah was the one who felt the most embarrassed, however, and guilty as well. For half an hour, while Chip was the center of interest, she could only stare at her in dumb amazement. Then she stole out of the room, and later Chip found her in the kitchen, shedding corious tears. "I'm a miserable sinner 'n' the Lord'n' never forgive me," she half moaned, when Chip tried to console her. "An' to think ye feel the way ye say, 'n' to bring me a present, arter all the mean things I said. It's a-heapin' coals' o' fire on my head, that it is." And the shower increased. "I have forgotten all about them, Hannah, truly I have," Chip assured her, "and I wish you would. You didn't understand me then, perhaps, or I you, so let us be friends now." The next afternoon Chip, who had learned that Miss Phinney's school was to close the day following, set out to call on her in time to arrive at its adjournment. No hint of her return had reached Miss Phinney, no letters had been exchanged, and not since that tearful separation had they met. And now as Chip followed the lonely by-road so often traversed by her, what a flood of bitter-sweet memories returned—each bend, each tree, each rock, and the bridge over the Mizzy held a different recollection. Here at this turn she had first met Ray, after her resolve to leave Greenvale. At the next landmark, a lane crossing the meadows, she had always parted from her teacher, the last time in tears. And how long, long ago it all seemed! TOYS A Few of the Quaboag Retinue Followed Her About. beyond, and barely visible, was the dear old schoolhouse. She could see it now, half hid in the bushes, a lone and lowly little brown building outlined on the winter landscape and apparently dwarfed in size. Once it had awd her, now it seemed pathetic. The last of its pupils were vanishing as Chip drew near, and inseld, and as lonely as that lone temple, Miss Phinney still lingered. That day had not gone well with her. A note of complaint had come from one parent that morning, and news that a dearly loved scholar was ill as well, and Miss Phinney's own life seemed like the snow just now—cold, desolate and snow-covered. And then while she, thus lone and lonesome, was putting away books, slates, ink-bottles and all the badges of her servitude, Chip, without knocking, walked in. How they first exclaimed, then embraced, then kissed, and then repeated it while each tried to wink the tears away, and failed; how they sat hand in hand in that dingy, smoke-browned room with its knife-hacked bonches, unconscious of the chill, while Chip told her story; and how, just as the last says of the setting sun flashed from the leeches inside its eaves, they left it, still hand in hand, was but an episode such as many a schoolgirl can recall. Of the few friends Greenvale held for Chip, none seemed quite so near and dear as Miss Phinney, and none lived longer in her memory. They had been for many months not teacher and pupil, but rather two sisters, confiding, patient, and teacher. Life swept them apart. They might never meet again, and yet, so long as both lived, never would those school days be forgotten. With Sudday came Chip's most gratifying experience, perhaps, for her arrival was now known by the entire village and the fact that she was an heirress as well. Her fortune (also known) was considered almost fabulous according to Greenvale standards, and when Chip with Angie entered the church porch, it was crowded with people waiting to receive them. Chip, of course, now well clad and well poised, was once more the cynosure of all eyes except when the pastor prayed. At the close of service a score, most of whom she knew by sight only, waited to greet her and shake hands with her in the porch. The parson hurried down the aisle to add his smile and hand clasp, and, all in all, it was a most gratifying reception. And here and now, let no carping critic say it was all due to that bank account, but rather a country town's expression of respect and good will toward one whom they felt deserved it. That it all pleased Angle, goes without saying. That Chip well deserved this vindication, no one will question; and when her visit ended and she departed, no one, not even Miss Phinney, missed her more than Angle. Only one thread of regret wove itself into Chip's feelings as she rode away with Uncle Joe, whose horses were now decked properly for this important event. She had received a most cordial reception on all sides—almost a triumph of good will. Her gifts had brought an oft-repeated chorus of thanks and a few tears. On all sides and among all she had been welcome, even receiving a call and words of praise from Parson Jones. She was a nobody no longer; instead, a somebody whom all, delighted to honor and commend. But the one whose motherly pride would have been most gratified, she for whom Chip's heart yearned for oftenest, would never know it. CHAPTER XXXIV With the birds and flowers once more returning to Christmas Cove, came outdoor freedom for Chip again. Like the wood-nymph she was in character and taste, the wild, rock-bound coast outside and the low, wooded mountain enclosing this village were her playgrounds where she found companionship. Other associates she cared but little for, and a few hours alone on a wave-washed shore, watching the wild ocean billows tossing spray aloft, or a long rumble in a deep, silent forest, appealed to her far more than parties and girlish enjoyments. The wood-bordered road, leading from the village to the railroad ten miles away, was now a favorite walk of hers. It was suited to her in many ways, for it was seldom traveled; it followed the sunny side of the low mountain range back of Christmas Cove, not a house stood along its entire way, and to add charm, a brook kept it company, crossing and recrossing it for two miles. That feature was the most especial attraction, for beds of watercress waved beneath the limpid waters in deep pools, bunches of flag grew along its banks, their blue flowers heading to kiss the current; its ripples danced in the sunlight; its music was a tinkling melody, and these simple attractions appealed to Chip. There was also another reason for now choosing this byway walk. She knew, or felt sure, that Ray would visit Christmas Cove on his return from the woods. He must come in the old carryall,—about the only vehicle ever journeying along the road,—and now, like a brownie of the forest, she watched until she spied it afar and then hid in the bushes and peeped out until it passed each day. A curious and somewhat complex feeling toward this young man had also come to her. At first, like a child, she had loved him unasked. She had known no different. He had seemed like a young god to her, and to cling to him was supreme happiness. Then had come an awakening, a consciousness that this freedom was not right and must be checked. Following that also—a bitter lesson—it had come to her that she was a kind of outcast, a child of shame, as it were, whose origin was despicable, and who was dependent upon the charity of others. This awakening, this new consciousness, was like a black chasm in front of her, a horror and shame combined, and true to her nature, she fled from it like one pursued. But two years had changed her views of humanity. She had learned that money and social position did not always win friends and respect. That birth and ancestry were of less consideration than a pure mind and honest intentions, and that fine raiment sometimes covered a base heart and vile nature. Toward the boyish lover, also, her feelings had been altered. A little of the old-time fondness remained, however. She could not put that away. She had tried and tried earnestly, yet the wildwood illusion still lingered. She had meant, also to put him and herself quite apart—so far, and in such a way that she would never be found by him. That had failed, however, he knew where she was. He had said that he was coming here. Most likely he would expect to renew the old tender relations; but in that he would be disappointed. She was sure she would be glad to see him for old times' sake. however. She would be gracious and, dignified, as Nunt Abbey was. She wanted to hear all about the woods and Old Cy again, but careless must be forbidden. More than that, every time she recalled how freely she had permitted them once, she blushed and felt that it would be an effort to look him in the face again. But she was anxious to see how he would appear now: whether the same boy, with frank, open face, or a commanding, self-possessed man. And so each pleasant afternoon she strolled up this wayway road. When the ancient carriage was sighted, she hld and watched until passed. But Captain Mix, its driver, also had observing eyes. He knew her now as far as he could see her, as every one in the village did, and he soon noticed her unusual conduct. He also watched along the wayside where she left it, and ably observed her peeping out from some thicket. Just why this odd proceeding happened time and again, he could not guess, and not until a strange young man alighted from the train one day and asked to be left at the home of Mrs. Abby Bemis, did it dawn on him. Then he laughed. "Friend o' Aunt Abby, I 'spose?" he inquired in his Yankee fashion, after they had started. "No," answered Ray, frankly. "I have never seen the lady. I know some one who is living with her, however. A Miss Mc—Raymond, I mean." Captain Mix glanced at him, his eyes twinkling. "So ye're 'quainted with Vera, be ye," he responded. "Wal, ye're lucky." Then as curiosity grew he added, "Known her quite a spell, hey ye?" But Ray was discreet. "Oh, three or four years," he answered nonchalantly. "I knew her when she lived in Green-vale." Then to check the stage driver's curiosity, he added, "She was only a little girl, then. I presume she has changed since. "She's a purty good-bookin' gal now," asserted Captain Mix, "but middletin' odd in her ways. Not much on gallivantin' round wi' young folks, but goin' to school stiddy 'n' roamin' round the woods when she ain't. Party big gal to be goin' to school she is. I callate her arly edification must 'a' been sorter neglected. Mebbe ye know 'bout it," and once more this persistent Yankee glanced at his companion. But Ray was too loyal to the little girl he loved to discuss her further, and made no answer. Instead, he began Inquiries about Christmas Cove, and as they jogged on mile after mile, he learned all that was to be known of that quiet village. When they had reached a point some three miles from it, a kindly thought came to the driver, "If Vera ain't 'spectin' ye," he said, "mebbe ye'd like to sip're her. If so be it, ye kin. She's 'most allus out this way,' n. curislice, hides 'fore I get long whar she is. If I see her to-day, 'n ye want to, I'll drop ye clus by 'n 'let ye." And so it came to pass. And so I came to pass. Chip, as usual, had followed her oft-taken walk on this pleasant May afternoon. When the carryall was sighted also, as usual, she had hidden herself. With beating heart she saw two occupants this time, and looking out of her laurel screen, she saw that one was Ray. Then she crouched lower. The moment she had waited for had come. But now something unexpected happened, for after the carryall passed her hiding spot, Ray, brown and stalwart, leaped out. The carryall drove on, and she saw him returning and scanning the bushes. She was caught, fairly and squarely. One instant she hesitated, then, blushing rose-red, emerged from the undergrowth. And now came another capture, for with a "Chip, my darling," Ray sprang forward, and although she turned away, the next moment she was clasped in his arms. In vain she struggled. In vain she writhed and twisted. In vain she pushed him away and then covered her blushing face. Love, fierce and eager, could not be thus opposed. All her pride, anger, resentment, shame, and intended coldness were as so many straws, for despite her struggles, he pulled her hands aside and kissed her again and again. "My darling," he exclaimed at last, "say you forgive me; say you love me; say it now!" Then, as she drew away, he saw her eyes were brimming with tears. "I won't," she said, "I hate—" but his lips cut the sentence in two, and it was never finished. "I did mean to hate you," she declared once more, covering her face, "but I—I can't." "No, you can't," he asserted eagerly, "for I won't let you. You promised to love me once, and now you've got to, for life." "And she did. When the outburst of emotion had subsided and they strolled homeward, Chip glanced shyly up at her lover. "Why did you pounce on me so?" she queried; "why didn't you ask me, first?" "My dear," he answered, "a wise man kisses the girl first, and asks her afterwards." Then he repeated the offense. And now what a charming summer of sweet illusion and castle-building followed for the lovers! How Aunt Abby smiled benignly upon them, quite content to accord ample chance for wooing! How many blissful, dreamy hours they passed on lonely wave-washed cliffs, while the marvel of love was discussed! How its wondrous magic opened a new world whose walks were flower-decked, whose sky was ever serene, where lilies bloomed, birds sang, sea winds whispered of time and eternity, and where Chip was an adored queen! How all the shame and humiliation of her past life faded away and joy supreme entered on the azure and golden wings of this new morning! Even Old Cy was almost forgotten; the spites, Old Tomah, and Tim's Place quite so; and all hope, all joy, all protection, and all her future centered in the will and wishes of this Prince Perfect. "Blind and foolish," I hear some fair critic say. Yes, more than that, almost idiotic; for selfish man never pursues unless forced to do so, and an object of worship once possessed, is but a summer flower. CHAPTER XXXV. Quite different from the meeting of the lovers was that which occurred when Old Cy reached Peacetul Valley. There were no heroes, no falling upon one another's necks, no tears. Just a "Hulko, Cyrus!" "Hullo, Judson!" as these two brothers clasped hands, and 40 years were bridged. Aunt Mandy, however, showed more emotion, for when Old Cy rather awkwardly stooped to kiss her, the long (2) "Say You Love Me." ago of Sister Abby's sorrow welled up in her heart, and the tears came. That evening's reunion, with its two life histories to be exchanged, did not close until the tall clock had ticked into the wee, small hours. All of Old Cys almost marvellous adventures had to be told by him, and not the least interesting were the last few years at the wilderness home of the hermit. Chip's entry into it and her history formed another chapter fully as thrilling, with Uncle Jud's rescue of her for a denouement. The most pathetic feature of this intermingled history—the years while sweet Abby Grey waited and watched for her lover—was left untold. Only once was it referred to by Aunt Mandy, in an indirect way; but the quick lowering of Old Cy's eyes and the shadow that overspread his face, checked her at once. Almost intuitively she realized its unwisdom, and that it was a sorrow best not referred to. Old Cy evidently felt it a subject to avoid, and not until the next day did he even ask how Aunt Abby looked or what had been her life experiences. A little of this reticence wore away in due time, however, and then Aunt Mandy once more referred to her sister. "I kinder feel you blame Abby somehow, Cyrus, the way you act," she said, "and yet thar ain't no cause for it. She'd waited 'most seven years. We'd all give you up for dead, and life in Christmas Cove wa'n't promisn't much for Abby." "I don't blame her a mite." Old Cy answered quickly, "an' no need o' yer thinkin' so. I don't blame no woman fer makin' the best shift they kin. They've got to hev a home n' perfecter, bless 'em, or be nobody in this world. Comin' here and findin' how things are, sorter makes me realize how much I've missed in life, though, an' how much sorrer I've had to outgrow. I don't lay up nothin' against Abby, not fer a minit. Only I hated to hev ye tell me what I knew ye'd hev to, that first night." "But you're goin' to see her, aln'ty ey, Cyrus?" Aunt Mandy asked anxiously. "Ye won't shame her by not goin', will ye?" "Wal, mebbe," he answered slowly, and after a long pause. "I wouldn't want to hurt her knowin'ly. I callate I've done more grievin'n she has, though, ten times over, an' seein' her now's a good deal like openin' an old lomh—a sorter invitin' ghosts o' old heartaches to step out. Abby's out-grown the old times, 'n I'm sartin, too, won't be the happier by seen' me agin. I may be wrong, but I've a notion she'll sorter hate to see me. 'Twas to keep her from feelin' shamed 'n miserable 'n spotlin' her life. I've never 'let her nor nobody that knew her find out I was alive. I'm doubtin' I would now if she hadn't larned it from Chip." He relented a little from this strange and almost cruel whim a week later, and after visiting the Riggsville store and obtaining what really amounted to a disguise in new garments, he announced his plans. "I've got to see Chip," he said, "an see how she n' Ray's gittin' on. I've got to see Abby, I spose. I want to, i don't want to both in one. Then ag'in, these two young folks—Chip 'n the boy—he sorter get tangled up in my feelin's, 'n I can't rest content till I've seen 'em settled in life. I goin' to Christmas Cove for a day. Then back here till they hitch up, n' then—wal, then mebbe I'd better go to the woods ag'in. I ain't fitted by natur for dressed-up folks." No opposition to this unseemly outcome was made by Uncle Jud or Aunt Mandy. They knew, or hoped, the leaven of bygone memories and association would change the hermit-like impulse of Old Cy, and all in good time a better ending of his life would seem possible to him. To argue it now was apparently useless. A man so set in his ideas as to remain a homeless wanderer for almost a lifetime, was not to be changed in a month, or perhaps in a year. Neither did Old Cy seem in a hurry to visit Christmas Cove. "I don't look natural or feel natural in them new clothes," he said to Aunt Mandy one day, "an' while I want to see Abby. I've lived in the woods so long my sinner 'shamed to go 'mongst respectable people. Then I look like one o' them wooden men dressed up in a store winder with that new rig on, an' jest know folks all be laughin' at me. I've got to go, I callate, but I'd like to make the trip in a cage. I'm sartin sure Abby'll laugh at me arterwards." From which it may be seen how hard it was for Old Cy to fit himself into civilized life once more. He nerved himself for the trip to Christmas Cove in a few days, however, and how he met and renewed acquaintance with his old-time sweetheart shall be told in his own words. "Abby hain't changed near so much as I called," he said on his return; "a leetle fuller in figger, but jest the same easy-spoken, sweet sorter woman I always knew she'd be. She was 'lone when I called, an' for a minit arter we shook hands neither on us could speak agin. Then she kinder bit her lip 'n' swallerled her feelin's, keepin' her face away, an' then we set out n' begun talkin'. It was techin', too, the way she acted, for she kept tryin' to smile, 'n' all the while the tears kept startin'. It was like one o' them summer days when the rain patters while the sun is shining. I don't think she noticed my clothes much, either, an' we set up till 'most midnight talkin' over old times. It all turned out 'bout the way I 'spected—a sorter funeral o' old hopes with us two ferr mourners. She's powerful considerate, too. Abby is, for the time we was talkin' she never once spoke o' Cap'n Bemis, 'n' I didn't. It was jest ez if we started in what we left off, o' skippin' the gap between. She 'lowed she hoped she'd see me soon agin, that she felt like a mother to Chip; an' when I bid her good-by, she kinder choked once more. "I didn't see much o' Chip, either, which sorter hurt me. Take it all in all, my visit that upset me more'n I callated, 'n' I guess when Chip's settled, I'd best go to the woods'n forgit all that's past. My life's been a failure, anyway." And Old Cy was right; but it was grim and merciless Fate that made it so, and for that he was not responsible. Love in youth is a sweet song of joy and hope and promise. But love that spans a lifetime, that reaches and caresses our heartstrings once again as we enter the final shadows, has only the pathos of parting and the tender chords of almost forgotten melodies in it. Vainly do we strive to enter the enchanted garden once more. Vainly do our heart throbs beat against its adamant walls. Vainly do we hope to catch just one more of the old bygone thrills. It is useless, for none can live life over, and once age has locked the portals of youth and fervor, they are never opened again. CHAPTER XXXVI With September came a supreme event in the lives of Chip and Ray, when Mr. and Mrs. Frisbie, Aunt Comfort, Miss Philineh and Hannah, Uncle Jud and Aunt Mandy, and Old Cy, all gathered in Aunt Abby's quaint parlor to see her aged pastor join their hands and lives. Then came the kisses, the congratulations, the rice, and old shoe throwing, and then solitude and tears for Aunt Abby. All the wedding guests except Old Cy hled themselves away with the new pair, and he left for Bayport. And thus closes the history of Chip McGuire, waif of the wilderness and slave of Tim's Place. Bless her! Two days later Old Cy returned. Two days later Old Cly returned. No one was in the house when he knocked at Aunt Abby's door, and then, led perhaps by the invisible chord that spanned 40 years, he slowly strolled up the path beside the old-mill pond, which he and she had often followed in the old, old days. His heart had led him aright, for there, at the foot of the ancient oak that had once been their trysting-place, she sat. "I thought I'd come over n' bid ye good-by, Abby." he said gently, as she arose to meet him. "I've been doin' a good deal o' biddin' good-by to-day. I bid good-by to the old graveyard whar my folks is; it's all groomed up to weeds n' bushes, I'm sorry to say. But that can't be helped. It's the way o' nature. 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He conducted his own defense and his earnestness won where abil- ity night have proved a tiandicap, Colored men might as well be pa- tient and wait until election day. ‘They will have an opportunity to de- cide as to what course to pursue and find the best mode and method of administering a rebuke to those pol- iticlans, who so vehemently and per- sistently oppose them. Frederick L. McGhee, Esq., the able attorney of St. Paul, Minn. writes us that he has won the case in which his client was denied Pullman Car accommotations in the State of Ten- nessee upon the plea that it was in Violation of the laws of that State, Mr. Me Ghee contended that this was no defense; that on the law and authority, the Pullman Compeny had no right to establish a rule separat- ing white and colored passengers, and this whether the pjaintiff was an In- terstate or an intra-state passenger. The counsel for the defendant company admitted the soundness of Mr. McGhee's argument. Mr. Me Ghee deserves great credit for the admirable manner in which he han- dled this case which will be of so much benefit to those colored people who travel and have need to secure the accommodations referred to in the communication. HARVARD WON. President Eliot was certainly vin- dicated in his course with reference to those students who violated the rulea of Harvard University, when the team won the boat race without the aid of the dishonored members of the team. President Roosevelt had made his plea that the public would suffer in the loss of the pleas- ure of the sport if men, Bullty of Wishonorable conduct were not per- mitted to take a part in the contest. It seems that those who remained exerted themselves into a pitch that ensured victory. It is becoming more apparent to the public at large that President Roosevelt often preach 5, one doctrine and practices anoth- er. He had dismissed without hon- or one hundred and sixty-seven col- ored soldiers, none of whom had been specifically convicted of any crime and he had their military records marred to such an extent that their wives end children are barred from receiving pensions in case of their deaths and yot he pleads for the. feelings of the public in a boat race upon the plea that the innocent would be made to suffer with the guilty. President Roosevelt's friends may attempt to explain these things away, Dut such explanations are worthless in face of the facts. We are glad Harvard won and we are more than pleased to know that there is ont President of a great educational in- stitution, who defies the “big stick’ and challenges the influences behind ie Sa hae a greek and pea |cause, THE SLAUGHTER IN TEXAS. The report from Houston Texas announcing that five colored men lynched by hanging at Hemphill, Texas June 21, 1908 and that eix more were shot down and uncere- moniously butchered becanse two white men were killed and one wounded by colored men seems to be a bloody revival of the reign of ter- ror in vogue for such a long time tn the Southland. The Democratic Governor seems to be doing all in his power to check this reign of lawlessness and yot we wee that It is asserted that one thousand colored people have been ordered to leave their homes because two white men were killed although eleven colored people have been murdered in a spirit of retallation as a result of it. ‘This is done too in a State which has for ta example the surprising action of President Roosevelt In the case of the “Black Battal‘on.” These are the people that he seemed to be- Heve needed protection at his hands. Something must be done. If the Kovernment cannot protect the col- ored people, then the colored people must protect themselves. ~ Lyneh-law must go. PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT’S BLUN- DEK. It ts almost inconceivable that a man of the Intelligence and promt- nence of President Roosevelt's stand- ing should have so far forgotten the ordinary rules of propriety as to “butt dn’* tho internal affairs of Harvard University and especially to virtually uphoM culprits who had ‘violated the rules governing that in- stitution. He has set such high / deals himself and has become to such an extent the expounder of all great principles that we have been Jed to wonder by what course of reas oning he could take Issue with the distinguished presiding officer of Harvard University He argues about punishing the in- nocent with the guilty and making the innocent suffer and yet this is urecisely what he did and still insists upon doing in the Brownsville case But here is President Roosevelt's letter To President C. W. Elfot, Cam- bridge “Is it not possible and would tt not be more fitting and Just to sub- stitute another punishment for Fish and Morgan, if, as is stated, they merely took away a book which they were permitted to use in the brary? It seems to us, and we fecl sure to the great body of graduates, it Is un- fair and unnecessary to make others suffer for an offense of this kind, for which some other punishment might surely be found. “THEODORE ROOSEVELT. “ROBERT BACON.” And ‘here is President Eliot's re- bly “To President Roosevelt, White House, Washington, D. C. “Each man did a dishonorable thing. One violated in his private interest and In a crooked way a rule made in the common interest, while the other gave a false name and did hot take subsequent opportunity to give his own. The least possible pun ishment was putting them on pro- bation, but that drops them from the crews. “A keen and sure sense of honor being the finest result of college life, I think the college and grad- uates should condemn effectively dis honorable conduct. The college should also teach that oue must nev- er do scurvy things In the supposed| interest or for the pleasure of others. “CHARLES W. ELIOT.” Now here is a case where Mr. Roosevelt woke up the wrong pas- senger, if he expected mild treatment! at the hands of the scholarly presi- dent of Harvard University. It is a rebuke with a handle to It, indicating that there is more of the same kind if he chooses to return to the attack. Mr. Roosevelt is a graduate and Pres-| dent Eliot says that he thinks that the college and the graduates should rondemn effectively dishonorable con duct. This means that Mr. Roosevelt ts virtually upholding dishonorable con- tuct and would use to gratify social appetites and pleasures, men who were dishonorable to satisfy the crav- ng. This places the distinguished statesman upon a plane with those ‘olored men, who he declared to be guilty of the crime of silence. In his case, he is himself convicted »¢ the offense of condoning wrong, loing to gratify animal pleasures. But President Ellot was not satis- led with what down here, we call a| »ack-handed lick for he followed it 1p with the toe of his shoe in a most ‘ital part of his apotomy, when he| oncludes: “The college should also teach that| ne must never do scurvy things * F THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. the supposed interest or for the pleasure of others.” ‘This is a bitter dose, Mr. Roose- velt; but who will say that you did not get what you deserved? PRESIDENCY. ‘The rather remarkable telegram of congratulation, sent by Dr. Booker 'T. Washington of Tuskegee Institute to Hon. William H. Taft, congratu- lating him upon tis nomination and virtually pledging to him not only his own assistance, but that of the race will prove interesting reading and will be regarded as significant in showing the position of the dis- tinguished educator upon political ‘questions. We regard {t as indicating that Dr. Washington is “up to his ears” In politics and that he will prove an Important factor in wheeling into line the rebellious battalion of Negro voters, now quarreling in the doubt- ful states. But here is the telegram: “Most hearty and sincere congrat- ulations, You more than deserve it all. I feel quite sure you will be triumphantly elected to the Presi- dency, and that my race will assist in bringing about the result.” Dr. Washington declares that Sec- retary Taft ts the right man for the right place for he more than deserves ft all. Does he know some of the characteristics of the genial states- man, with which the public at large is not acquainted? Has he received assurances for the welfare of his peo- ple, that will not bear the light of day or stand repeating before an audience of critics? It would seem s0 for Dr. Washington says that Mr. Taft more than deserves {t all. We are guzzling over this state- ment for Dr, Washington carefully weighs his words and he carefully plans his actions. He rarely maxes a-mistake and he knows how to look out for himself and for those affiliated with him, He ts evidently the re- feree for the present administration in its dealing with the citizens of color and from the telegram, it seems to indicate that he has the job “nall- ed down” with the future adminis- tration ax well. But what kind of a telegram will Dr. Washington B able to send Hon. William Jennings Bryan, when he is nominated and how can he enter the White House, If the distinguished O- hioan fs defeated ani’ the man from Nebraska occupies the divans at the White House? But then Dr. Wash- ington has no doubt seen far enough bead to realize that no embarrass- mont will follow as a result of his attitude upon these all jmportant We should Uke to know if Presi- dent Taft will insist upon colored men proving their innocence Instead of the government establishing their guilt? We should like to know it any provisions will be made for the relnstatement of the members of Companies B, C and D of the Twen- ty-fifth Infantry? Dr. Washington says that Mr. Taft wilt be triumphantly elected and it his opinion ts worth anything, and {t usually is not at fault, then the reason for his hearty attitude to- wards the able candidate is apparent. Weill, we are wondering over the rap. td shaping of events, the changed attitude of President Roosevelt, the admission to the Republican National Convention of the “ily-white” dete sates and the “steam-roller” process es in dealing with the colored ones. Dr. Wnshington is a great leader and he has a motive in all of his ac- tions. We confess thoughithat wi are unable to understand these Promising positions now being ¢,- Sumed by some of our great men, The Republican Party should stha true to its principles. The comp) mising attitude now being adoptet will hardly be tolerated by Ne of ability, education and money. Men must be recognized according to worth and not on account of color. It may be that Dr. Washington has assurances that the Party will live up to the plank in the platform, with reference to the Negro. If it will do this and insure justice in the army anid navy as well as in civil life, this distinguished educator's attitude is explained and peace and plenty will be found in all of this land. nergy The nomination of Hon. William H. Taft as the Republican candidate for the presidency has caused specu- lation In some quarters as to what position the distinguished Ohioan would take in the premises. So far 4s we were personally concerned, we have never had any doubt as to his attitude and the following interview emphasizes our opinion. Senator Foraker is quoted as follows: “Until the convention made a nom- ination, every Republican had a right to have his choice, but now it is no longer a questfon of men, but a question of party. In this way Sec- retary Taft becomes my candidate for the Presidency, and while un- der the circumstances I can proba- bly do but little, yot I shall do all I can do help him. Republicans will now quit quarreling among them-| selves and turn all their guns on the enemy.” The above words are —_ ic of the man. He is a Republican, i. eee ee ay seers we a century. ° ; for him to ne any er attitude. The correspondence ° ‘him and the victorious mem- ‘ber of Mr. Roosevelt's cabinet is e- fquatly signigeant and important. Here it ts: Dear Mr. Secretary: Although 1 fear it may be unwelcome and pro- bably misunderstood, it is, neverthe- less, my pleasure to avail myself of the privilege to send you heartiest congratulations and best wishes for suceess In November. Very truly, J. B. FORAKER.” “My Dear Senator: I assure you that your kindly note of congratu- Jation gave me the greatest pleas- ure, and I thank you for it from the bottom of my heart. I have never ceased to remember that I owe to you my first substantial start in pub- Me Hfe, amd that it came without so- Heltation. With very best wishes, believe me, my dear Senator, sin- cerely yours, WILLIAM H. TAPT.” Viewed in any honorable light and gauged by any moral standard, every candidate, who submitted his claims to. the convention was bound by its action. This will have a tendency to ‘strengthen Senator Foraker among all classes) not only in Ohio, but in the country at-large. It may be well to state that Senator Foraker anit his colleagve’ Senator Dick hold the “key to auceess" In Ohio. Still, even the commanding power and trans- cendant Influence of the distinguished Ohio Senator with the colored peo- ple of the country will hardly be suf- ficient to neutralize the effect of the attitude of Mr. Taft in the Browns- ‘vitle affair and the “steam roller” methods employed at Chicago in seating “lily-white delegates and ousting those colored men from the Southland, who have borne “the heat ‘and burden of the day and felt the ena of many winter's winds.” | The outlook 1s gloomy and the slump in the Negro vote this year will be a revelation to the managers of the Republican Party, who seem to be deaf, dumb and blind In thetr attitude to one of the most devoted races of people on the face of the slobe. The suffrage plank with re- ference to the Nexro Is strong and for that reason will bear wetght, but we advise Hon. William H. Taft that he had better stand with both feet squarely on top of that plank. Selah. PROP, DU ROIS LEAVES THE PARTY. Prof. W, FE. Burghardt Du Bois of Atlanta University and one of the brightest scholars of the race makes a sensational announcement In the “Horizon,” published at Alexandria, Va. This is the way he puts it: Gentlemen, it has struck twelve It Is High Noon for the Negro voter lof the United States of America. By the time my readers see this, Willlam H. Taft will In all probability be the Republican nominee for President What are the principles for which he stands? He approves of disfranchisement laws of the South “conceding that the laws now in force in this State (North Carolina) and other parts of the South were intended efther by thetr terms or by their mode of ex- ecution to exculde the ignorant col- ored voter from the franchise with rigor, and to allow the ignorant white voter, though actually unfit- ted for the franchise to exercise it (Greensboro, N.C. speech, Tuly 10, He does ‘not want New Univers- ities founded “to furni# the higher mental edueation tea people not fitted to enjoy it ormake it ‘aseful.”* (Tuskegee, Aprit4, 1906.) He praisge Abraham Lincwin for opposiiyrtegro suffrage (Grand Rap idg-e®bruary 13, 1908.) fle declares that the fifteenth a- mendment has been unsuceessful: that the disfranchisement of the Ne- gro is better than “violent methods” | and that the “greatest friewa!” the; Negro “is Mkely to have” is the; Southern white man who “knows his value to the South!" (Kansas City, Mo., February 10, 1908.) ‘These are not the final words of qr. Tatt, nor all of his qualititations those words. But they do convey thé spirit ef his remarks, mamely, that Industrial Education, wistran- chisenent and: surrender to the de-| mands of the white South is the pro- per pregram for the Negro to-day. In addrion to this, Remember, Brownsvile, Of courséthere is the other side: Recently at Fisk University, Mr. ‘Taft, candidate (or President, slight iy revised his attRyde toward Negro higher edueation, Mud letter after] letter has come to me darkly hint- ing at tremendous mproofs of the righteousness of Mr. Taft's Browns- ville attitude at the proper time. But when all is said and done, the flat fact remains that William ‘Taft Teyresents that class of Americans who believe that: Negroes are less than Men; Few of them ought to vote; oq helt education should be réstrict- ed: Se opportunities should be lim- Their fate must be left to the South; Their “value” is thelr money val- ue to thelr neighbors; On occasion they may be treated like dogs, (vide Brownsville.) This is the platform ‘in plump, plain “English. What is the ‘Altter: ence between this and the Democrat fe Platform? ‘There is no difference. It is High Noon, brethren—the| Clock has struck Twelve. What are| we going to do? I have made up| my mind. You can do as you please: you are free, sane and twenty-one. If between two parties who stand on| identically the same platform you can prefer the party who perpetrated Brownsville, well and good! But I shall vote for Bryan. te, “They are slave ae will not chapse| my : LD <3 eo 2 ee iz F ioe =~ CRN SY DS > tA Zee toy A —Y SPINE ff Dia ah ae SN ip TT SG, GR JL SA | ae rf \ PO ISY EGY “ Pps 5 ‘ “Uf My, aes | Vee MY a oe | /// ala Y) ae oe a aiff le a ik j See) - ep, win Ne aan Rees Gob ip pK cD) ena Misi a4] 1) tae! Nah ao . BS LF UN tat ie ae Ny ee os SB a so The Merry Widow Taken from the World Famous Play of that Name »y the Author of ‘*The Man of the Hour” FWETIC@TPRaATON pnw pwnonm ILLUSTRATED BY RYDER See Next Issue.--2nd Page. From the truth they néeds must think , Dr. DuBois is usually a level head. ed gentleman, but in this case, {1 seems to us that he ts rather pre- cipitate in his conclusions. He de- clares that here is no differencé be- tween the platforms of the two par- ties before one of the platforms tas been drafted and presented to the country and in fact before the Re- publican platform had been adopted by the Convention at Chicago. It is this kind of rash haste that imits ‘the sphere of influence of some of our best leaders and it is why Dr. Book- er T. Washington has such a lead up- ‘on those colored people, who oppose him Prof. DuBois announces that he will vote for Hon. William J. Bryan before he knows whether Mr. Bryan will accept such support. We are ‘not here to eriticise any colored voter who supports the Democratic nomi- nees. It is his right and privilege Jand we concede that the treatment of colored men at Chicago affords ample justification for so doing, if we view it from a standpoint of re- venge rather than from the forum jof logical debate. At present, we are in the middle of the road and we are watching carefully all of the advantages from jone policy and the evils of the other, with the hope that before election day comes around, we shall be able to form an intelligent conclusion rel- ative to the course to be pursued by colored men in the approaching ¢- ection. Certain though, if President Roosevelt can adopt Democratic pol- icles and select a Negro hating Dem- jocratic oMicial as Secretary of War to succeed the able Hon, William H. Taft, then a colored man has the right to use his own judgement in supporting the Democratic nominees }without being ostracised or unduly leriticised for so doing. — . Still Prof. DuBois” may plead Justification for his course, but he ean hardly find logic in support of & course decided upon before he had all of the evidence ybefore him. In meantime, it would be well for the Republican managers to got busy It will need a veritable army of the ablest and best colored leaders in this country to check the disintegrat- ing movement among the colored vot- ers. ‘The danger is more in their not going to the polls to vote than it is in the landslide to the Demoeratte Party, unless Mr. Bryan has inserted fu the platform a plank well-nigh as strong as the one whittled out at Chicago. But how can he do it? Will the Southern contingent stand for It and Will the party leaders lve up to its provisions? This is the question,— the burning question and we can af- ford to sit down on a fence-rail in this neighborhood and await devel- opments. - AT DEATH'S DOOR Li*‘le Hope Held Out Far Recovery of Bishop Potter, HE RALLIES SLIGHTLY Patient Grew Weaker Gradually, and It Was Feared He Would Die Any Moment, When He Took Slight Turn For the Better. Cooperstown, N. ¥., July L—After a day in which the patient visibly lost strength and the end seemed near, Bishop Henry Codman Potter, of the New York Protestant Episcopal. dio ceso, was reported by his physicians to be resting somewhat more comfort- auly with symptoms rather more fay- orablo than at any time during the Past several hours. The condition of the eminent patient Is still critical, however, and no great hopes are built upon the slight rally. Oxygen is being freely administered. Gathered at the bedside of the bishop, at the country place of his wife, Mrs. Elizabeth Clark Potter, are the members of his family, summoned when the serious character of his fll hess became apparent. At more than one time hope was practically aban- doned and the gradual ebbing of the Patient's strength gave rise to fears that the life spark might go out any moment. ! Telegrams of inquiry as to the bishop’s condition and expressions of fopd for his recovery came in a con- stant stream from all over the coun. try, while numerous cable messages of similar purport were received from various parts of the world. Little re- Assurance could be given the anxious inquirers, owing to the admittedly critical condition of the patient, and even the slight turn for the better was not made the basis for any marked ex- pressions of belief that the. issue would bd favorable. Bishop Potter's health has for a Jong time been far from good, but it was not until early in the spring that his condition began to cause anxiety. ‘When, on Easter Sunday, he was un. able to take part in church services, it was announced that he was suffer ing from acute Indigestion. Later it became known that he was experi encing an attack of stomach trouble and liver trouble, and early-in May it developed th=t he was too ill to think of attending the Pan-Anglican con gress in London. The bishop was much affected, too, It was said, by the death of Dr. Morgan Dix, of Trinity parish, on April 20, this serving to aggravate his illness. He made a sufficient recov. ery, however, to allow of his removal here on June 10. During the past few days, however, the heat had a serious effect upon the bishop. He is in his seventy-ffth year, his powers of resistance are im paired by his illness, and he rapidly grew worse. Fall On Hay Fork Fatal. Barnesboro, N. J., July 1—Isaac Taylor, sixteen years old, was in: stantly killed at his home here by falling from a load of hay upon the tines of @ pitchfork. Young Taylor was the son of Mr. and Mrs Edward ‘Taylor, who own and operate a farm here. As Taylor is employed as a rural mail carrier the boy had been doing most of the farm wor, and it was while he was driving into the barn with a load of hay that he met his death. Seated on top of the hay the iad’s head hit the top of the door frame. He was thrown from the wagon, bis head striking the floor with terrible force, while bis body was im- baled upon the tues of the fork, which Penetrated his abdomen. He died im- stantly. ea Bh ‘Ten-Vear-Old Boy Held Far Murder OD eieeigee Mate a. Re ee ee Lesueur, Minn., July 1.—Robert Jar dine, aged ten years, was brought t¢ Jail here from his home at Casota charged with having shot and instantly killed Russell St. John, a boy about his own age, for whom he is sald tc have lain in wait. S7X REA PLANET MOST POPULAR TRIMMING OF THE MOMENT. Vogue of Many Years Ago Has Been Restored to Favor — How Its Freshness May Be Maintained. Fashions and fads move in circles, but not in nearly half a century has braid enjoyed the vogue of the present season. It appeared in small quanti- ties on winter frocks of 1907-8, and by spring it was generally shown in all the shops. Just now, with summer gowns on the work tables and overflowing the wardrobes, it is everywhere the most striking feature of midsummer modes. Cloth and silk dresses are encrusted with it, vests and vestes are almost solidly braided and thinness of fabrics, like habitue silks, mulls, all over laces, batistes and nets, are fairly weighed down with it. In a way this is rather a fortunate form of trimming for the home dressmaker, for if she masters the somewhat simple art of brading flatly and without puckering the fabric beneath, she can secure very elaborate effects 1 Narrow and Wide Braid for Outlining Jacket and Skirt of French Novelty Cloth Suit. at little cost. On the other hand braid illy applied or carelessly combined with other trimmings will ruin an otherwise effective costume. The new braids come in all widths and weights and weaves, from the finest of wash soutaches to the most marvelous of silk braids interwoven with lace or hand-embroidered motifs on silk. The novelty braids show most elaborate patterns and often three or even four colors in combination. Much thin thread is also shown in the newer braids intended for trimming silk or net frocks, while the wash braids are combined with heavy, washable laces. Incidentally, all wash braid should be shrunk before it is applied to tub frocks. Otherwise the trimming will probably shrink and the fabric will not, thus giving the entire gown the appearance of having been drawn out of shape by the application of the braid. Soutache braid either matching or harmonizing with the fabric is first aid to the home dressmaker, and if it is to give best results a simple pattern must be chosen and carefully outlined by the use of perforated paper or accurate measurements with a basting thread. For instance, perhaps you are making a circular skirt with a shaped flounce above which you want a braided pattern. If the material is silk or linen, shape your flounce, baste it under the upper section of the skirt which is to be braided on the edge, and hang the skirt perfectly. Then rip off the flounce section, marking clearly where it is to be attached, and proceed with your braiding. If you want a square scalloped effect on the upper section, cut it in square openings, absolutely even in shape and size, face on the under side, outlining with braid, and then inside of each square or scallop braid an accurate geometrical pattern. This may be a diamond, each successive line of braiding making a smaller diamond until in the center you have just a knot of braid. Or you can interlace or cross your braid. Or you can trace a small Greek key or wall of Troy pattern inside each of the squares. The bodice must be similarly braided. If you have diamonds or braid on the skirt, outline your chemisette or yoke with smaller braid diamonds with two or three fine lines of braid running on either side. If you use an interlacing or crossing pattern, then trim the bodice with buttons made of the cloth and criss-crossed with the braid. The minute that I get awake, 'Bout four o'clock or so, You bet I'll hustle in my clothes An' grab my box an' go A kitin' out behind the barn An' light my punk — an' say, You won't hear nothin' much but noise The rest o' that hull day! To what'll happen when It gets right dark. You jest be there: You'll see some doin's, then. We'll break in Si the blacksmith's shop And get his anvils out An' shoot them all around the town: Then there'll be noise, don't doubt. Afore each house we'll set one down An' pour the powder in, An' set the tother one on top Then jest you hear the din! Some folks'll come a runnin' out An' and raise a nautiful row; But most'll laugh like fun, an' shout: "Jest get along, boys, now." ```markdown ``` A boy's ma never learns As how he has jest loads o' fun A-gettin' all those burns! On the Glorious Fourth WITH many firecrackers in his hand; Some matches in his pocket; A "Hip, hip, burrah!" on his tongue; And one immense skyrocket. Thus little Billy wandered forth Most joyously to try To celebrate in the right way Th' Glorious Fourth of July. He fell in line behind the band That played "Red, White, and Blue;" He sang to help the noise along. Though the words he never knew Then to the Celebration Grounds He marched with gallant tread; And listened while a Wondrous Man "The Declaration" read. Then came the picnic dinner Spread "neath a great oak tree; And little Billy ate his fill While the band played "Liberty." And all the rest the day was spent In making fun and noise; Shooting lots of firecrackers off With all the girls and boys. Dyes for Wood. The new colored wood of a Norwegian firm is produced by forcing the sap from the green logs and injecting dyes. The treated wood has increased durability, will not warp, may be polished in the usual manner and most of the colors are claimed to be as stable as that of mahogany. The material is especially suitable for furniture. cannot live we a w pale in an art can be and if of per be her Notes. THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA uz here! that I get awake, or o'clock or so, hustle in my clothes my box an' go behind the barn my punk — an' say, ear nothin' much but noise o' that hull day I umstance st be there: then. ksmith's shop the town: don't doubt. ouse we'll set one down the powder in, other one on top you hear the din! come a-runnin' out raise a nauntful row; augh like fun, an' shout: along, boys, now." th was here. e! n' burns And when at eve he wandered home, As tired as he could be, He said: "I love the Glorious Fourth, 'Tis the day." THE ONE DAY. Sizz! Boom! Bang! You can't get away, So you may as well stay To the big show. It will positively appear But once this year. Promptly at midnight The red light Begins to burn And no one dares turn It low Until the last firecracker has been ex- ploded. Hark, children, the day is loaded, And you'll know it when you see it Unless your ear muffs fit Pretty quick. It is the reflex action of the big stick The only and original grand aggrega- tion of noise. AN EXPLANATION. "Why is Fourth of July anyhow, Eddie?" "Why—er—you see—Christopher Columbus or George Washington discovered it in 1492, an' so we don't have no school on that day!" ```markdown ``` To Our Girl Readers Girls, you cannot all be pretty, you cannot all be clever, but you can all live well. Before the steadfast beauty of a well lived life, beauty and genius pale into obscurity. Every girl can be an artist in her life, and every girl can be a genius in her daily doings, and if she tries to live up to an ideal of perfection, perfection will surely be hers in some measure. — Home Notes. 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 male are required to organize a new lodge. The benefits paid constitute one of its strongest features, but the principles are greater than anything else. Founded on Friendship, based on Charity and established on Be nevolence, the respectable, upright people of the state will find it an order worthy of their heartiest support. It pays an endowment and burial benefit of of $200.00 for all ages. It pays $4.00 per week sick dues. The badge costing 75 cents each is the only absolutely necessary regalia. For information concerning the organization of lodges apply at the main office. The Courts of Calanthe The Courts of Calanthe Is the Female Department of the Order. It requires a membership of thirty persons to organize a court. Its members are pledged to exhibit Fidelity, exercise Harmony and prove Love one for the other. It pays an endowment and burial benefit of $150.00. It pays $3.00 per week sick dues. The only expense for regalia is the cost of the badge, 50 cents and a rosette, costing 25 cents for funeral occasions. THE BANDS OF CALANTHE or Children's Department also con- THE BANDS OF CALANTHE or Children's Department also constitutes a feature and persons cannot do better than to enter the little ones into this mystic circle. The expense is nominal and the benefits all that could be expected. It pays from $1.00 to $1.50 sick dues and death benefits of from $30.00 to $40.00. If you have no Pythian Lodge or Court or Band in your neighborhood, orgniz one. For all information concerning the Children's Department address. For all information concerning special rates of membership in the lodges and courts, address KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAST. FCB. 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 m a rosette, costing 25 cents for f THE BANDS OF CALA stitutes a feature and persons a circle. The expense is nomin- $1.00 to $1.50 sick dues and do Lodge or Court or Band in you For all information concern For all information cone- membership in the lodges and WHY BUSINESS MEN FAIL. Statistics of business in the United States prove that 95 per cent, of the men who embark in trade turn out failures. Not all of these unsuccessful men are bankrupts in the literal sense, but they are in effect. Their establishments go to pieces, or pass into other hands. Men who do not make both ends meet are failures. Only 5 per cent, of American merchants stand the test. Why? The following questions were put to eight of this country's foremost business men—merchants, manufacturers, bankers—in the April issue of System: Why do 95 per cent. of American business men fall short of success? Do the causes lie in outside conditions, or in themselves? Are the markets available to United States merchants capable of supporting only 5 per cent. of these merchants? Is competition too strong to be overcome? Without exception, the answers indicate that business failure does not come from lack of markets. There is business enough. Success is possible. There is a world of practical wisdom in the answers these eminent merchants have given. It is reassuring to be told that success is not luck, but logic. The man who reasons, and adapts his business to reason, wins. Business failure, in most instances, comes from wanton disregard of principles that are only common sense. Men fall because they do things in the wrong way. To know the right way requires no university education. The laws of success are so simple that they are almost trite. DROPS OF WISDOM. No one is defeated until he gives up. The short cut to happiness is goodness. Industry is a better friend than talent. A man of sense talks little and listens much. It's nobility, not aristocracy, that helps a nation. A wise man always pretends to take his wife's advice. It is sometimes wiser not to see an insult than to avenge it. It's often the things we don't say which cause the least regret. The man who doesn't want to work is generally the one who has to. We are all apt to be prejudiced against what we don't understand. Ambition eggs an actor on, but sometimes the audience eggs him off. Ambition is more successful when unhampered by a tender conscience. "Love makes the world go round"—and sometimes part of it go "broke." Fortunately for their comfort, stupid people seldom realize their own stupidity. A mole will starve to death in a day? The gray buzzard is the heaviest bird that flies? N. A., S. A., E. A., A. AND A. organization is one of the most powerful has been phenomenal. The Grand Dauver all of the cities and counties in need to organize a new lodge. The largest features, but the principles ended on Friendship, based on Chas the respectable, upright people of their heartiest support. An endowment and burial benefit of per week sick dues. The badge galla. For information concerning surts of Calanty of the Order. It requires a memb 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 $40 our neighborhood, orgniz one. using the Children's Department ad Mrs. ANNA TAYLOR, W. M., 120 W. Hill St., Richmond Emering special rates of courts, address JOHN MITCHELL 311 N. 4th St., Fish hooks have not materially changed in style in 2,000 years? England consumes almost two pounds of tobacco for each inhabitant? Two Excellent Menander: Pro- thought are the o is good. Amsterdam and Antwerp have the best health records of European cities? The Salvation Army has a factory where it makes all its musical instruments? FLASHES OF WISDOM The wise man knows when not to be patient. So many people worry about things that never happen. Jealousy is the tribute a woman pays to a man's varity. If we could only be content with what others say is good for us! Wise are those who know what to remember and what to forget. Bear in mind that the higher you climb the farther you may fall. Love is like the wind—no one knows whence it comes or whither it goes. Some folks are so busy trying to get a living that they haven't time to live. F. F. L. Horace—I cannot help telling you again I love you. Can you not hold out any hope? Phoebe (wearily)—I did hold out one hope, but that's gone now. Horace—What was it? I— Phoebe—I had hoped you wouldn't mention this subject again. How She Did It. A young lady said to her beau; "This is leap year, as you neau; Therefore, I guess, If you'll say yes, straight to the person we'll geau." -Chicago Daily News. Knew What Was Coming "George, dear," said his wife, "we're invited to the McDonald's for dinner to-morrow evening." "Which, I presume," interrupted George, "is a preface to the old chestnut about you not having a thing to wear." Later conversation proved the truth of his surmise.—Detroit Free Press. Attendant (in art gallery)—You must leave your umbrella at the door, sir. Mr. Greene—Leave my umbrella here? Young man, I'd think, bein' as you're hired by a art gallery, you might have more sense about art. If I don't have my umbrella how'm I goin' to point out the beauties of the pictures to my darters?—N. Y. Weekly. A BLASTED HOPE How She Did It An Imposition. ment also con- he little ones into this mystic d be expected. It pays from $40.00. If you have noPythian address. 311 N. 4th St., Richmond, Va Two Excellent Qualities. Menander: Prudence and fore- thought are the origin of much that is good. Or Ducked. A rich man who goes around whin- ing ought to be kicked. If the Facts Were Known. Many a shining light has become prominent through shady practices. BOARDING & LODGING Rates Reasonable. All the Comforts of Home Orders received by letter or selegraph MRS. BOOKER LEFTWICH. PROPRIETRESS 816 N. 2nd NL. Richmond, VA BLACKWELL & BRO ONE OF THE LEADING PAINTERS Practical House and Sign Painters Graining and General Contractors. .....ALL WORK GUARANTEED..... Cards, Letters or Orders. .Give us a trial, you will never regret it.... Address, 608 St. Peter Street, RICHMOND VA. 'Phone 5688. Nelson's Hair Dressing can be bought at Jennings and Brown Drug Store, Pittsburg, Pa. Furnished Rooms, 50c. up. Meals, 50c. up. THE M.T. CLEMENS HOTEL AND MINERAL BATH HOUSE AMERICAN AND EUROPEAN PLAN Phone, 245. Has opened its doors for the accommodation of COLORED PEOPLE that may come to Mt. Clem ens in the future for their on Rheumatism. It is the only Hotel and Mineral Bath House owned and conducted by a colored man at any of the health resorts in the United States. Write for Special Rates. GEO. I. HUTCHINSON, PROP. 48 Welts St., - Mt. Clemens, Mich. Established 1899. Phone 4160. JOHN FOXEL, Dealer in General Line of FANCY AND STAPLE GROCERIES, NOTIONS, FRESH MEATS, CI- GARS, TOBACCO, ICE, WOOD, COAL, &c. 11 S. 4TH ST., RICHMOND, VA. ```markdown ``` MRS. JOSE A. GRAHAM Virginia's Most Successful Hair Culturist. ...PARLORS..... 108 E. Leigh St., - Richmond, 'Phone, 1034. Private Parlors, Confidential Inter- views and Correspondence. The largest and most up-to-date Hair Dressing Parlors in Richmond. The very best preparations that can be made for the hair, scalp, face and skin. Graham's Superior Scalp Food for growing hair on bald heads and bare temples, 25cts. per jar. By mail, 35cts. Graham's Superior Orange Flower Skin Fo. 'for developing and beauti- fying the skin, 25cts a jar. By mail 35cts. Graham's Superior Velvet Liquid Powder for giving the face a beautiful fair color, 25 cents a bottle. By mail 35cts. Graham's Vegetable Hair Dye the best on market giving a rich natural color, $1.00 per bottle. By mail, $1.25. Mrs. Graham makes a specialty of massaging art beautifully ladies faces for parques and public gatherings, 35 cents. Mrs. Graham stampsoos the head and puts it in a healthy condition, 25 cents. All ladies who attend parties and other social gatherings should have their finger nails manicured and made beautiful, 25 cents. Mrs. Graham's preparations sell at sight. Ladies living in other cities and towns can make good money by selling these preparations. Write for terms to Mrs. J. A. Graham, No. 108 E. Leigh St., Richmond, Va. SCHOOL SHOES. Capitol Shoe & Supply Company, No. 210 East Broad Street. A complete stock of Boys,' Misses,' Men's, Ladies,' & Children's Shoes. ALL THE LATEST STYLES. H F Jonathan FISH, OYSTERS AND PRODUCE. 120 N. 17TH ST., RICHMOND, VA. ALL ORDERS WILL RECEIVE PROMPT ATTENTION. Long Distance 'Phone, 752. STRAUS' SPECIAL Old Yacht Club. Will Satisfy the lover of the right kine of stimulant. Special prices. We have all grades of good liquors, Cigars and Tobacco. Call and see us. ISAAC STRAUS & CO. 422 E. Broad St. Richmond, Virginia. S. W. ROBINSON. NO. 23 NORTH 18TH ST. FINE WINES, LIQUORS CIGARS, &c. All Stock Sold as Guaranteed. PROMPT ATTENTION Your patronage is respectfully solicited GEORGE O. BROWN. Fine Photographs. True to Life. High-quality service. Latest Improvements in Photogram Estimates and Prompt Execution. Reasonable Estimates and Prompt Execution. Enables from Old negatives or Photographs. THE ECONOMY 303-5 North Third St FINE CLEANING, DYEING ANI REPAIRING CHITMAN M. WHITE, PROPRIETOR. A. Hayes OFFICE AND WARE-ROOMS, 727 North Second Street RESIDENCE, 725 N. and St. First-class Hacks and Districts 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 entitled to the new style Oak Caskets. Call and see me and you shall be worked on individually. Phone, 2773. THE PLANET SATURDAY.....JULY 4, 1908. THE DAIRY Outdoor Cellar Which Can Be Easily and Cheaply Built. A simple method of constructing a cool, outdoor cellar in localities where the common house cellars are too warm for use during the summertime, is shown in the accompanying sketch. It is a cellar made under the pump, so that the water pumped by the windmill has a very cooling effect. In places where it is difficult to obtain ice, it will prove indispensable to the dairyman who keeps a few cows. Another important item is the fact that a man does not find it necessary to Concrete Outdoor Cellar. pull up all of the pipes every time that he finds it necessary to repair the pipes and pump. It is constructed of concrete, says the Farm and Home. The top is re-enforced with one-half-inch steel rods placed one foot apart each way and the concrete is about six inches thick. The sides are made by using a form and the stairs are also made of concrete and are re-enforced by small steel rods. The cost, including the labor, amounted to about $50. In the west and southwest it will also answer the purpose of a storm cave, which is considered a fixture on all farms. MAKE IT GRADUAL Changing from Whole to Skim Milk in Feeding the Calfa The change from whole to skim milk in feeding the calf should be made by withholding a small amount of milk the first day, more the second, and so on. The amount withheld is thus gradually increased from day to day. An amount of skim milk must be added, at least equal in quantity of new milk withheld, until the change has been completed. Some substance should be added as soon as the change begins that will supply an equivalent in the fat contained in the new milk withheld. No substance has been found superior for such use to linseed meal, that is, ground flaxseed. Oil meal will answer the same purpose, and is far more frequently fed than ground flax, for the reason probably that it is relatively cheaper. When the latter is used it is necessary to feed a larger quantity than the former. In some instances the meal thus added is stirred in the milk, but in other instances, as when the calves have learned to take meal before the change from new to skim milk has begun, it is simply added to the meal. Sometimes the flaxseed is made into a jelly, and this fed along with the milk. This practice was common years ago, but it is not so much practiced now, since separator milk has come to be so extensively available. The jelly was usually warmed before it was put into the milk, and this helped to warm the latter when cold. The amount to be fed may be regulated for a time, at least, by the influence that the meal or the jelly exercise on the digestion. If too much is fed the digestion will be unduly lax.—Prof. Thomas Shaw. SHORT DAIRY TALKS A money-making combination is the cow and the sow. Give the latter warm skim milk. Avoid feeding hay or dusty roughage just previous to milking. There is too much dust to drop into the milk pail. Dairying is a ready money business, and no other branch of live stock keeping can compare with it for enriching the arm. Three common faults in butter making are over-ripe cream, over-churning and over-working. The first means strong butter, the second and third soft butter. One New York dairyman sells his milk for seven cents per quart the year round, and with good jersey and Holstein cows his bird produces on an average of $15 worth of milk per month. It requires 85 pounds out of every 100 pounds to pay expenses. The Jersey cow is a highly developed milk-making machine. She has been bred so long for this purpose that her characteristics have become fixed, and the descendants of a well-bred dairy cow can be depended upon. The amount of milk that she will make depends largely on the amount of food that you can get her to use. To separate butter from the buttermilk I will get a yard of cheesecloth, wet it in cold water and spread over the top of a crock. I then pour the buttermilk and butter into the cloth from the churn. Taking it up by the corners and working it back and forth easily I am soon able to drain out all of the buttermilk and have the butter ready to put into a crock and salt. WHY THE COWS FELL OFF. Hired Man's Boot and a Sharp Fork Quickly Reduced Milk Yield. A farmer of my town owns a herd of 15 fine dairy cows, of which he is justly proud, and he treats them with great care and consideration, for which he is amply repaid by an abundant flow of the richest milk. He was taken very ill last summer, and a man was hired to take care of the cows for a month. At the end of that time the owner was able to go to the barn and make a call on his favorites. He was very much annoyed to see that they had grown poor and that their hair was ruffed up as though they had not been well fed or cared for. He questioned the man, who assured him that the cows had been fed and milked regularly, and he knew no reason for the change except on account of files. The farmer went to the house and told his wife about it. She said that there had not been so much milk later, but that she had said nothing for fear of worrying him. The farmer made up his mind that something was wrong, goes on this writer in the Farm Journal, and determined to find out what it was. Accordingly he followed the man to the barn the next morning, and, hiding himself where he could see, without being seen, watched the proceedings. First, the cows were fed, and he noticed that they were given their full allowance. Then the man took up the fork and began scraping the droppings into the box. Immediately the first cow in the row stopped eating and stood switching her tail nervously from side to side, as though expecting something to happen. And something did, right off, for the next moment the tines of the fork were thrust into her ankle, and she bounded to one side, as though she were on a spring, which had suddenly been touched off, and stood trembling with pain and fright. The work of clearing away the droppings went on; each cow in turn being helped out of the way by the same means, and following the example of the first, until the end of the row was reached. The stable cleaned, the man picked up the pail and stool, and walking up to the first cow, with a "Get over there," gave her a kick in the flank. She jumped with such violence that her hind feet slipped backward and she fell sprawling and trembling on the barn floor; two more kicks helped her back on her feet. Just as the man was about to sent himself upon the stool the farmer, no longer able to control his wrath, sprang forward and gave him a kick that sent him headlong under the cow, with the words, "Take a dose of your own treatment!" Taken by surprise the fellow could not utter a word; but grabbing the ten-dollar bill, which was one-half the month's wages, he skulked away without further indulgence. The shortage in the milk and the appearance of the cows were fully explained. The farmer and his wife did the milking that morning; and the sarson day another man was hired who was of the right sort. The cows were soon in their usual order, and giving their regular amount of milk. LOCK FOR COW STANCHION Way In Which the Movable Bar Can Be Secured. Use a piece of two by four in the shape of a triangle as shown in the accompanying illustration at C, to Lock for Securing Stanchion. serve as a lock for a cow stanchion, suggests Prairie Farmer. Bolt the piece at the acute angle to the side of the loose bar three inches above the top rail. Cut a notch in the rail 1½ inches deep as indicated, and when the stanchion is closed the piece will drop into the notch and serve as an effectual lock. Fattening Calves for Veal. As a result of some London experiments it was decided that about a month is as long as it is advisable to feed calves on whole milk on a dairy farm, or until they have reached about 160 pounds live weight, or 96 pounds of veal. This weight may be attained in a month, provided the calves are fattened as quickly as possible, but one cannot expect to do it unless the calves are fed three times a day. An effort should also be made to have the calves fat at the time veal commands a high price; otherwise the returns from vealing calves on whole milk may not be at all satisfactory. Did You Ever Passenger—This is a very slow train, conductor. Conductor—Yes, sir! I think it's the fault of them sleeping cars behind. Evidently a Title in the Family. "Do you think Dustin Stax's career has been a success?" "Not if you judge a man by his son-in-law."—Washington Star. The World's Want The world wants strong men who are not hard, and gentle men who are not sentimental THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA POINTED PARAGRAPHS. Cunning is as plentiful as wisdom isn't. Hard luck and hard work seldom travel together. Legal rights and moral rights are frequently not the same. Perhaps some money talks, but most of it goes without saying. A magician's wife may have occasion to feel proud of his trickery. There's no hope for the man who declines to give himself a square deal. An ignorant person is one who does not know what you have just found out. A plain woman who imagines she is pretty doesn't care to hear the plain truth. A man doesn't think any the less of a woman because her brain power is limited. Many a man tries to get out of paying as he goes because he doesn't expect to come back. Insurance that will insure a busy man against insurance agents would fill a long-felt want. If it wasn't for the calcium light the brilliancy of many a theatrical star would never be noticed. Occasionally a married man manages to save considerable money by selecting his wife's hats. It's all right for a girl to take music lessons, but she should remember that cooking lessons help some. Often the father of a bride who gives her away would be willing to throw in a mother-in-law for good measure. SIS HOPKINS' SAYINGS. No one ever wrote a good play—on words. There would be fewer loose words if people didn't get tight. Pa says that many a well-rounded phrase is not on the level. Labor may not be ennobling; but most men prefer auto-mobiling. Ma says girls living in glass houses should pull down the shades. Silence may be golden, but it is more often an indication of gilt. In the matter of courtship, a man doesn't have to be a tailor to press his suit. Pa says wealth may not bring happiness, but it gathers a lot of smiling faces about you. Nor should a man with mutton chops cast sheep's eyes at some other fellow's "little lamb." With so little execution in 'em, it is some wonder that more financial heads don't come off. Ma says a great city is a place where few people are acquainted with each other—where there is plenty of milk, but no cows.—Rose Melville, in St. Louis Republic. WHEN TIRED. Lie down in a dark place if only for 15 minutes. Don't read anything in which you are not interested. Don't grit your teeth and work harder. Ease up a little. Don't try to improve yourself. Give your mind a rest. Don't talk any more than you can help. Talking takes vitality. Don't feel that everything must be done in one day. There are 364 more. Realize that it is better to leave things undone than overdo yourself. Avoid people and their woes at that time. Seek some one frivolous. And don't forget that a little lemon juice in cold water in the morning is a great help. WRITERS' VIEWS OF WOMAN. Wrinkles disfigure a woman less than ill-nature.—Dupuy. Two smiles that approach each other end in a kiss.—Victor Hugo. To a gentleman every woman is a lady in right of her sex.—Lytton. All the reasons of men are not worth one sentiment of woman.—Voltaire. A woman is seldom tenderer to a man than immediately after she has deceived him.—Anonymous. Women, deceived by men, want to marry them; it is a kind of revenge, as good as any other.—Beaumoir. A woman is happy and attains all that she desires when she captivates a man; hence the object of her life is to master the art of captivating men. —Tolstoy. SIX GOOD HINTS A bag of hot sand relieves neuralgia. Warm borax water will remove dandruff. Tight clothes and indigestion cause red noses. A hot bath taken at night affords MILLER'S HOTEL W.M.MILLER. PROPRIETOR WITHIN ONE BLOCK OF STREET CAR LINES THAT TAKE YOU • TO ALL PARTS OF THE CITY TERMS REASONABLE SECOND AND LEIGH STS. RICHMOND, VA. Hat Repairing. Hat Repairing. Silk, Stiff and Soft Felt Hats Cleaned. Blocked, 25cts; and 50cts Binding. Bands, Sweat Leathers, also Soft Hats made to order. AMERICAN HATTERS. Everything Everything IN FURNITURE AND FLOOR COVERINGS SYDNOR & HUNDLEY, INC. Leaders. 709 711 713 EAST BROAD STREET. refreshing sleep. For a runaround on the finger thick en the yolk of an egg with salt and apply. Persons of defective sight, when threading a needle, should hold it over something white, by which the sight will be assisted. Odor of Sanctity. When in days gone by one honored in the church died it was customary to burn sweet smelling incense in the death room as a token that the memory of the deceased was grateful to God and man. As early as the time of Homer it was customary to wash the bodies of the more illustrious dead with rose water, and in Egypt the practice also obtained from an early date.—New York American. Use Good Salt. Never use coarse salt in salting butter intended for market. It will be impossible to properly distribute the salt through the butter and if the distribution is not perfect the butter can never command anything like a respectable price on the market. Most dairy experts advise salting the butter in the churn when it is in the granular form; however, excellent results are obtained by salting when the working is being done. Corset Covers from Weiiste Cut low in the neck and rip out sleeves; finish edge of neck and arm holes with lace and beading. If worm under arms use sleeves to mend. Look Always for the Best Do not think of your faults, still less of others' faults; in every person who comes near you, look for what is good and strong; honor that; rejoice in it; and as you can, try to imitate it; and your faults will drop off like dead leaves when their time comes.—Ruskin. After the Panic "I thought you expected your daughter to get married this summer." "So I did, but the chorus this year ain't what it used to be."—Detroit Free Press. Answered He—No; we are content to pursue the even fiver now, if we think you have it to lend. Boston Girl—Have any volumes of weight been published in your city lately? Chicago Girl—You just ought to heft our new directory.—N. Y. Weekly. A Wonder. wut his pen? Jill—Very. Why. He can hold his fountain pen behind his ear without getting ink all over his cheek!—Yonkers Statesman. Busy Looking "Are you looking for work, my good man?" "Sure, it keeps me busy keepin' my eyes peeled for automobiles, ma'am!" —Yonkers Statesman. Woman In Society. In society a bright and witty woman not merely shines, but she reigns. Conversation brings out all her faculties, and kindles all her sensibilities, and give expression to her deepest sentiments. Her talk is more than music; it is music rising to the heights of eloquence. She is more even than an artist; she is a goddess before whom genius delights to burn its incense.—John Lord. How Snakes Hear Snakes have no external ears, but inside the head the ear bones are very crude. Snakes "hear," however, by feeling vibration of sounds on their delicate scaly covering, and searching for sound vibrations by protruding the wonderfully sensitive tongue, which is filled with thousands of microscopic nerves. Their sight is very keen in distinguishing movable objects.—St. Nicholas. Love's Bonfire. "Sister wouldn't let me have the cushion stuffed with love letters that she and George kneeled on when they were married." "Why not?" "She and George burned them by mutual agreement." 60 YEARS EXPERIENCE DATENTS DESIGNS COPYRIGHT & C. Anyone sending a sketch and description may quickly ascertain our opinion free whether an invention is probably patented or not. HANDBOOK sent free. Oldest agency for securing patients sent taken through. NM & Co. receive special notice, without caste, in the Scientific American. A handsomely illustrated weekly. Largest circulation of any scientific journal. Terms are a year from now. Send proof of patent to MUNN & Co. 361 Broadway, New York Branch Office, 155 E. F. St., Washington, D.C. JURGEN'S SON Before making your purchase you would do well to call at the most reliable furniture house in the city and see the fine line of REFRIGERATORS, MATTINGS, OIL-CLOTHS And in fact everything that is needed in house furnishings. Of every description; also the latest designs in ROCKERS and special CHAIRS. Our goods are the best for the price and the price is very low. C. G. JURGEN'S SON, ADAMS AND BROAD STREETS. A PROBLEM SOLVING INSTITUTION. TO OWN YOUR HOME MEANS TO SOLVE THE NEGRO PROBLEM. REALTY IN ALL OF ITS BRANCHES 707 North Second Street, Richmond, Virginia Telephone, 4854. MEALS at All Hours—Hot or Cold. Board by Day, Week or Month. SOFT DRINKS. GENERAL DIRECTOR, EMBALMER and LIVYMAN. 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 plenum or band wagon for hire at reasonable rates and nothing but first-class, carriages, buggies, etc. Keep constantly on hand fine funeral supplies. Has proved to be a fortune to many of the unfortunate, who are to-day delighted with its wonderful results. The merits of this great hair preparation naturally places it in a sphere all of its own, and the glowing terms in which our patrons speak of it reassures us of its satisfactory results. We can well boast of a large pairnage 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 prer- permission to do sc. we, who have u among the many bearing witness of its correspondence of those expecting a mira- rion is a natural and pure compound, haste to put in print. We will just States Government has placed nationa which it is protected and we are in tur- est methods and square dealings. It will positively remove Dandruf Hair on Clean Temples or Bald Hauds Prices—35 cts. per box; eight Beautifier makes the use of powder en- less. Sale prices; 25, 50cts and $1.00. Order or Express Money Order all out of city orders. unity. In order to convince the man of the J. V. Hawkin's Hair Group produce in print the photograph who have used our preparation witness of its genuine qualities expecting a miracle or anything un- pure compound, the ingredients of It. We will just here remind the pr placed national patent rights on and we are in turn responsible to the dealings. remove Dandruff, Oure Scalp of less or Bald Heads, where the roots of a per box; eight boxes, $2.80express of powder entirely unnecessary, Dots and $1.00. Money can be sent by Order A charge of 10ct the immediate community. In order to convince the most skeptical readers of the merits and results of the J. W. Hawkinson's Hair Grower and Restorer, we from time to time produce in print the photographs of those giving us permission to use them who have used our preparation and are to-day among the many beauty businesses of its genuine qualities. We do not desire the correspondence of those expecting a miracle or anything unreasonable. Our preparation is a natural and pure composition of the ingredients of which we would not hesitate to put in print. We will just hold the public that the United States Government has placed national patent rights on our hair preparation by which it is protected and we are in turn responsible to the government for honest methods and square dealings. It will positively remove Dandruff, Oure Scalp of all impurities, Restore Hair on Clean Temples or Bald Hands, where the roots are not dead. Prices;-35 cts. per box; eight boxes, $2.80express, prepaid. The Face Beautifier makes the use of powder entirely unnecessary, and perfectly harmless. Sale prices; 25, 50cts and $1.00. Money can be sent by Post Office Money Order or Express Money Order A charge of 10cts. extra is imposed on all out of city orders. Address all communications to Mme. J. V. 612 NORTH FIRST ST. Telephone Correspondence S W I J O Funeral Director Office & Warerooms, 207 HACKS R Orders by Telephone or T Suppers and Entertain Telephone, 686 J. V. HAWK FIRST ST., — RI Telephone, 4601. Respondence Strictly Confid I. JOHNS Director and B werooms, 207 N. Foushee S CKS FOR H telephone or Telegraph filled and Entertainments prompt 186. Residence W I JOHNSON, Funeral Director and Embalmer Office & Warerooms, 207 N. Foushee St. Cor. Broad. HACKS FOR HIRE. Orders by Telephone or Telegraph filled. Weddings, Suppers and Entertainments promptly attended. PROF. D. D. BRUCE. M. D. Strange, Wonderful, but True are the awe stricken tests given by The Great Australian Medium. PROF. D. D. BRUCE. M. D. the only Living Apostle of Science of the Mysteries. $5000 in Gold to any one in the possessing mere power than any four mediums combined. No card, trance or hand humbug Greatest Hindoo Medium in the World. SO GREAT IS HIS POWER that we can tell you while in a Clairvoyant state, all you wish to know with out a word being spoken. Come all ye unbelievers, scoffers and jeers; bring all your skepticism with you—the will open your eyes to the private chamber mystery. Come all ye broken hearted wives, all with now spirits and let him lift the burden from your aching and jealous heart. He challenges the World to compete with him in causing a speedy marriage with the one you love, snitting the separated and bring * K to convince the most skeptical readers of Hawkins' hair Grower and Restorer, we sent the photographs of those giving us our preparation and are to-day genuine qualities. We do not desire theacle or anything unreasonable. Our preparethe ingredients of which we would not here remind the public that the Unitedpatent rights on our hair preparation bya responsible to the government for homel, Cure Scalp of all impurities, Restoreswhere the roots are not deadboxes, $2.80express prepaid. 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The laying bare of a most sensational murder is promised by the Philadelphia police in the case of Dr. William H. Wilson, who died at his home Friday night after drinking a portion of a bottle of ale that had been sent to him through the mails. An autopsy performed by the coroner's physician and an examination made of the viscera taken from the body proves conclusively that Dr. Wilson died of cyanide of potassium poisoning. The ale came to the physician on Tuesday a week ago by express, and in the mail on the same day he received a letter in typewritten form, purporting to have been sent by the Peter Schem Brewing company, informing him that a sample bottle of ale had been shipped to him for trial. Investigation showed, according to the police, that Schem brews no ale and that the company never sent any such letter as that received by the physician. Unusual as are the poisoning features of the case, more extraordinary is the motive which the police assign for what they are certain is a murder. Though Dr. Wilson had been living for more than twelve years in the house where he drank the fatal potion, he never put out a physician's sign and was not known in a general sense as a practitioner. Witual, he had a large clientele, made up mostly of wealthy women, and it is declared by the coroner and the police that he made an affluent living as a malpractitioner. In his practice, it is the theory of the police. Dr. Wilson caused the death of a member of the family of a young man who will be charged with being the poisoner. The death, it is alleged caused the young man to brood until he could no longer contain himself when he sought to put an end to the physician's practices by sending him poison, rather than going into court to have his family history exposed to the world. Banker Confesses Theft. Robert Ohmeiss, Jr., cashier of the Marine Trust company, at Atlantic City, N. J., was arrested, charged with a defaulition of $20,500. He made a confession in which he says that he played the stock market; that one loss followed another until he was hopelessly involved. He is under $11,000 bail for trial in October. Announcement of Ohmeiss' defaulation, which has extended over a period of several months, caused a sensation in local social circles, and the shock to those who have known Ohmeiss and his wife socially is almost as great as the stir caused in financial circles and in other banks which unwittingly have been the vehicles by which his thefts were concealed. On the authority of State Banking Commissioner Watkins, who made an examination of the funds and securities of the company, the bank is in no danger because of the defalcations. The loss sustained in excess of the amount for which he has been bonded will be made good. Boy Caused Costly Fire. Gasoline spilled by a boy, who wiped it off with a rag and then set the rays on fire, nearly caused the destruction of the village of Baumanstown, Carbon county, Pa. Paul, the eleven-year-old son of Paul Bauman, a merchant, was sent to a store for gasoline for his father's auto mobile. He spilled some of the liquid Taking a cloth the lad wiped off the side of the can and then set the cloth on fire. The flames communicated to the boy's clothing. Badly frightened he ran into the barn, setting fire to the structure. Before the flames could be extinguished half a block of structures were destroyed, comprising the ware house of Boyer's hardware store and the stables of Paul Bauman, August Spade, Samuel Straul, Harry Bauman The loss is between $15,000 and $20,000. Young Bauman was so severely burned that his life is despaired of. Drowned Her Four Children. While temporarily insane, Mrs. August P. Johnson drowned her four little children in the cistern at their farmhouse near Ida Grove, Ia. The youngest was about a year old and the oldest about six. They were two boys and two girls. Her husband was in the field at the time. After she had drowned the four children she tried to drown herself, but neighbors and people from town came running in and rescued her Canned Goods Are Pure Dairy and Food Commissioner Foust, of Pennsylvania, in a state ment declared that not one out of sev eral hundred samples of canned foods meats, vegetables and the like, taker by state agents, had been found to be preserved with chemicals. The test was made in about twenty counties not including Philadelphia and Pitts burg, and the reports of the analysis were received Thursday. Drowned in the Delaware. Albert Stiles, an undertaker, of 1417 East Susquehanna avenue, Philadelphia, was drowned while bathing in the Delaware river near Edgewater Park, N. J. William and Harry Crist heard Stiles' cry for help and went to his assistance, but he was drowned before they could reach him. Grover Cleveland Burled Grover Cleveland's body lies buried in the Cleveland plot in Princeton (N. J.) cemetery. Just as the sun was sinking in the west a distinguished company silently watched as the body was lowered into the grave. Then the simple burial service of the Prosbyterian church was read, and before the last of the carriages in the cortege had driven up to the path leading to the burial place, the benediction had been pronounced and the members of the family, President Roosevelt and others who had gathered about the grave, were leaving the cemetery. Many of the personal friends of the dead statesman lingered about the spot which was to mark his last resting place, and each in turn was permitted to cast a sovelful of earth into the grave. Agreeable to the wishes of Mrs. Cleveland, the services, both at the house and at the cemetery, were of the simplest character. An invocation, scriptural reading, a brief prayer and the reading of a William Wordsworth poem, "Character of the Happy Warrior," constituted the services at the house, while the reading of the burial service at the grave was brief and impressive. Although the funeral was of a strictly private nature, those in attendance numbered many distinguished citizens, including President Roosevelt, Governor Fort, of New Jersey; Governor Hughes, of New York; Governor Hoke Smith, of Georgia; former members of President Cleveland's cabinet, officials of the Equitable Life Assurance society, members of the Princeton university faculty and friends and neighbors. Mise Reid Weds. 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 in London. Among those present were King Edward and Queen Alexandra, the Prince and Princess of Wales, the Duke and Duchess of Connaught, the Duke of 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 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. A. Sixty:two:Story Building Plans for a new skyscraper, to over top all New York's lofty buildings, and the flagpole of which will pierce the sky at a greater height than the Eiffel tower in Paris, the highest structure in the world, were filed by architects for the Equitable Life Assurance so cleft with the building department. The projected building for the Equitable will be a sixty-two story structure, 909 feet from the curb to the tip of the tower, on which will be placed a flagpole 150 feet in length. The ball on the flagpole will be seventy-four feet higher than the 985-foot steel Eiffel tower. Hit By Lightning; Sues For Damages John R. Goudy, a Middletown, Pa. pacpenter, has brought suit against the Central Pennsylvania Traction company because he was struck by lightning on April 18. He claims that he was on a car and that owing to the failure of the company to provide lightning arresters a bolt hit the car and knocked him off the seat. In fail- ing he alleges he struck on his left arm and was incapacitated for three weeks. He now claims he suffers from a weakened heart due to the shock. The suit is the first of the kind known in the state. Tried to Slay His Wife and Daughter. Joseph Bennett, of Camden, N. J. tried to kill his wife and daughter, 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 hip 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 dearming Bennett. Mitchell Not a Candidate For Office. Mitchell not a candidate for Office. John Mitchell, who was formerly president of the United Mine Workers of America, has issued an author-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. His Heart On Right Side. During an examination at the state tuberculosis dispensary at Harrisburg, Pa. it was found that Thomas Cusack, 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. Live Stock Markets. PITTSBURG (Union Stock Yards)— CATTLE higher; choice, $7.@75.50; prime, $6.90@7.20. SHEEP lower; hill, $6.80@7.20. SHEEP lower; 4.40; culls and common, $2.@3; lamba $6.50; veal calves, $7@7.50. 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Bryant, the family physician, and President John H. Finley of the College of the City of New York. Mr. Finley's farm adjoins the Cleveland residence at Tamworth Mrs. Cleveland said that she preferred to make no announcements at present but that she would return to Princeton with her children in time for the opening of school in September. Bewitcher Bald; His Hair Only Cure Pottstown, Pa, July 1. — Alleging that she has been bewitched, nineteen year-old Mary Hillman, of this city has worked herself into a state that is considered dangerous by her physicians. She will not take the mediciner prescribed, and has consulted a voodoctor in Reading. This doctor requires that she get some hairs from the head of the person who is supposed to be bewitching her. The person who is accused is a bald-headed negro, and she can't get any hairs. The girl says that several days ago, the negro stood in front of her home and made mystereous passes with his hands. 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HENRY CRUTCHFIELD, p. q. You will take notice that I shall on the 19th day of August, 1908 at the office of Phil B. Shield, room numbered 60, Chamber of Commerce Building, situated S. W. corner of 9 and Main Streets in the city of Richmond, Virginia between the hours of 9 o'clock A. M. and 6 o'clock P. M. of that day proceed to take the depositions of witnesses to be read as evidence in my behalf in a certain suit in Chancery depending in the Law and Equity Court for the city of Richmond, Virginia; wherein you are defendant and I am plaintiff; and if for any cause the taking of the said depositions be not commenced on that day, or, if commenced be not concluded on that day, the taking of the same will be adjourned and continued from day to day, or from time to time at the same place and between the same hours until the same shall have been concluded. J. HENRY CRUTCHFIELD 1211% . E. 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