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THE RICHMOND PLANET NO COLOR LINE TO BE DRAWN. Negroes May Join the German-American Teachers Association. Milwaukee, July 3.—For the first time in its history the National German-American Teachers Association was to-day confronted with the Negro problem. The proposition came in the shape of the question as to whether a Negro would, if making application, be admitted to the ranks and an equal place in the association. Without hesitation President Max Griebach declared that no color line would be drawn in the National German-American Teachers Association. As this is a problem which all national organizations will sooner or later be called upon to meet and to settle, the announcement by the head of the association of German teachers in the United States becomes one of importance. The case is that of a Cincinnati colored girl who teaches German, and she will now join the association. 25th Surprise Silver Wedding of Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Moss. A most delightful surprise was led on Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Moss at their residence, 419 W. Duval on the 27th of June by the following ladies and gentlemen: Mrs. Addle Lemas, Chairman, Mr. and Mrs. Edward Shells, Mrs. Mary E. K. Brown, Mrs. Mary Scott, Miss Mary Evans, Miss Lillie Hardy, Miss Ardella Study, Miss Janie Tonns, Miss Jannie Lemas, Mrs. Francis Swann, Mrs. Emeline Bonapart, Mrs. Mary Brown, Miss Fannie Robinson, Mrs. Julia Jackson, Mr. and Mrs. Abraham Floyd, Mrs. Fannie Sherman, Mrs. Queen Robinson, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Easley, Mrs. Fannie Sherman, Mr. Fleming Yates, Mrs. Laura Johnson, Mrs. Linsia Poythress, Mrs. Eliza Yates, Mrs. Mamie Granton, Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Moss, Mrs. Martha Trice, Mrs. Mary Brown, Mrs. Rebecca Brazington, Mr. and Mrs. Cary. Miss Jennie Wood, Mrs. Ella Booker, Mrs. Lula Nash, Mrs. Martha Seay, Mrs. Callie Brown, Mrs. Maggie Goode. Mrs. Addle Lemas, Chairman; Mrs. Emma Shell, Treasurer. They were all sound asleep when the guests arrived. CALLS BRYAN AN INGRATE Colonel Guffey Issues Hot Reply to Nebraska. Denver, Colo., July 7.—Colonel J. M. Guffey, of Pennsylvania, who was attacked by Mr. Bryan in a speech at Lincoln, issued the following statement in reply: "In the course of his Fourth of July speech to twelve to fifteen out of the sixty-eight delegates from Pennsylvania, Mr. Bryan made certain explicit declarations. He charged that the Pennsylvania delegation was taken from him by 'conspiracy', against the expressed wish of a great majority of the Democratic voters. This statement is false. The state convention voted down a resolution endorsing his candidacy by a substantial majority, and there is no basis whatever for Mr. Bryan's assumption that the members of that convention did not accurately represent the voters who had elected them delegates. Mr. Bryan personally forced the issue before the people when, in flat contradiction of his boasted policy of non-interference, he came to Pittsburg, pleaded his own case before thousands in Exposition hall, and put his own ticket in the field against the regular candidates. The result of his fervid appeals was the election of three and one-half Bryan delegates and twenty-six and one-half anti-Bryan delegates to the state convention. "Mr. Bryan views me with sanctimonious horror as a 'political boss, who shall never be in the party organization, except over my protest,' as a 'bushwacker' who should not be put into my councils to betray me." 'My councils,' indeed. Is Mr. Bryan the whole organization? 'Let the people rule,' he shouts, and forthwith pleads to dictate not only every act, every office and every resolution of this convention, but also to put the ban on every man from any state who is opposed to his candidacy or his platform. Does he turn his vituperation against me because I am a boss? Not at all. I am no more of a 'boss' now than I was during the two campaigns when I won his approbation by trying to elect him. The only 'boss' he hates is the 'boss' opposed to his own arrogant self—the most impudent, domineering, devastating 'boss' the Democratic party has ever known. "I have replied to Mr. Bryan's vtuperative assault upon me with calmness and restraint. The use of expletives is clearly unnecessary. This simple recital of plain facts shall be sufficient to enable any fair mind to determine with certainty at a time when harmony is the chief requisite of party success, who is the self-convicted falsifier, who the hypocrite, who the real and most arrogant 'boss' ever known in the Democratic party, and who, I regret to add, the ingrate." NEWPORT NEWS KNIGHTS PYTHIAS ENCOURAGED. One Hundred Officers Publicly In stalled. Last Tuesday night, the city's chief attraction was the public installation of the various lodges of the Knights of Pythias. The Uniform Rank made a most excellent demonstration under their accomplished leader, Major B. F. Jackson. At 8 o'clock P. M. they were called to order at the Pythian Castle by Deputy J. C. Allen. Prayer was offered by Sir Knight Cox, after which Deputy J. C. Allen lectured to the officers elect and the various members on "the respect they should have for the Grand Laws and how careful they should be to keep from violating the same." He also in a very logical way, appealed to their disloyalty to their obligations relative to the officers of the Grand Lodge, whether elected or appointed. These officers should receive the same honor and respect as the Grand Lodge for they are the representatives of the Grand Lodge. After the lecture, they fell in line according to the order of march and proceeded to the A. M. E. Zlon Church of which Rev. J. C. Edney is Pastor. Devotional exercises were conducted by the Pastor. A paper was read by Sir Knight Richard Ash. It was very inspiring and instructive. Duet by Miss Martha Slaughter and Mrs. Fannie Winfrey, with Miss Lille Davis of Smithfield, Va. as pianist Address by Col. T. J. Pree on "The Business of the Order." The Colonel, as usual, was round on the wings of eloquence and said many good things. Now the stirring, energetic and trustworthy Deputy J. C. Allen with Capt. John Steward, Grand Master at Arms; Sir Knight J. E. Byrd, Grand Prelate, and Col. T. J. Pree with very impressive ceremony installed the one hundred officers in their respective offices. A handsome collection was lifted for the Church. Deputy J. C. Allen deserves much credit for the wonderful way in which he has been able to improve and to cause members to join the order. He has far more success than preceded him and has proven himself to be the right man in the right place. A BY-STANDER A Trip to Europe The Anderson Juvenile Theatrical Association will give its first play "A Trip to Europe" at the True Reformers Hall next Monday, Wednesday and Friday nights. Under the direction of Miss Susie Belle Anderson and Madam J. C. Robertson the 100 players have developed wonderful adaptability and with the brilliant scenery and costumes will present a very fine play. The sailors and tourists will depict a real trip so replete with pleasures and terrors until you will imagine you have taken the trip. Each scene is bright and sparkling to the accompaniment of sweet music. The entertainments are for the benefit of the following charitable institutions: Monday night, July 13. Burying Ground Association; Wednesday night, July 15. Moore Street Church Building Fund; Friday night, July 17. Old Folks Home. Do you want to enjoy yourself and help a worthy cause? Then come, Admission 25 cents, gallery 15 cents, Accompanists: Miss Susie Belle Anderson and Mrs. Olivia C. Bolden, Costumer, Mrs. Lella B. Harris, Managers: Braxton and Frayer. Pastor Exonerated Ashland. Va. Ashton, Va. The Shiloh Baptist Church after carefully considering the report that was circulated by one of its female members, found absolutely no truth in it. Believing it to be simply a malicious attempt to injure the Pastor morally, the Church after due consideration exonerated him. The Church believed him to be the same Christian gentleman and proficient preacher that it found him and which he has proven himself to be during the three years he has so faithfully served this Church. We have never had as Pastor a more proficient and exemplary minister of the gospel and notwithstanding the malicious attempt on the part of some to injure him, finding that the time of his re-election was at hand; the members unanimously elected him for another year as is their custom of election. Done by order of above named Church. HENRY KEY, Church Clerk. W. B. CARRINGTON Pastor. —Sir R. H. Fauntleroy has purchased a home on West Catherine St. through Mr. John H. Braxton, our hustling Real Estate Agent. Keep the ball a-rolling boys. —Mr. Charles Jackson of New York arrived in Manchester, Va. last Monday and he is looking the picture of health. RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, SATURDAY, JULY 11, 1908. KILLED HIMSELF. Tragic Happening in the Virginia Penitentiary. Undoubtedly intending to commit suicide, because of the impossibility of escape, Frank Perry (colored), serving an eighteen-year term in the penitentiary, jumped from the second gallery in the old building last Tuesday morning at 6 o'clock, dying from the effects of his injuries a few hours later. His skull was injured in two places and his left leg was broken by the fail. It is probable that the immediate cause of his death was concussion of the brain, as he fell on his head. SKULL NOT FRACTURED As far as could be determined yesterday, the skull was not fractured. The accident occurred a few moments after the call was issued for the men to form the "breakfast line" at 6 o'clock, when the prisoners are drawn up and marched into the morning meal. As the doors were opened, Perry and Upshir Lewis, a colored man who occupied the cell with him, began to fight. One of the guards, seeing the row, ran along the gallery, separated the men, and ordered Perry to the yard. A FEARFUL PLUNGE Perry started down as if to obey, but after he had gone about ten feet from his cell door he placed his hand on the railing and dived over twenty five feet to the stone floor. He struck heavily, taking the main force of the fall on his head. When pick ed up by the guards he was unconscious, with two bad bruises on his head and his left leg fractured above the knee. The penitentiary physicians immediately went to work on him, but in spite of their efforts he died at 12:30 o'clock, without regaining consciousness. Coroner Taylor view ed the body Tuesday afternoon and summoned a jury to hold the inquest at 9:30 o'clock Wednesday. CORONER TAYLOR'S OPINION Looking over the ground. Dr. Taylor said that so far as he was able to judge, it was a plain case of suicide. At the time Perry jumped over the rail the yard was full of guards. Even had he landed safely there would not have been the least possibility of his escape. Perry was a native of North Carolina, but was convicted in the courts of Virginia. Child Killed; Mother Escapes Laura Austin, a nine year old colored girl, was killed Monday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock by southbound passenger train No. 9 on the Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac Railway, near the Boulevard crossing She was struck by the engine pilot and thrown some distance from the track. Her skull was not fractured but she died of concussion of the brain a few minutes later without regaining consciousness. When struck by the engine, the girl was within a few inches of her mother, who was walking with her. The two evidently miscalculated the distance between them and the oncoming train, as the mother had barely cleared the track when her daughter was hurled past her several yards from the road bed. The engineer had no time to shut off steam, thinking that the people on the track were on the lookout and would get out of the way. The train was not brought to a standstill until after it had run some distance from the spot where he girl was killed. Dr. William A. Deas, the Henrico County Coroner, was called at once and held an inquest soon after his arrival. The verdict was that the killing was accidental. The engineer was exonerated from any charge of carelessness or neglect. FOUND—A parcel of dry-goods on Leigh Street, between St. Peter St. and Brook Ave. Apply to 514 N. Third Street. The Grand Chancellor's Cane Sir N. W. Gordon, Planet Lodge, No. 23 presented the Grand Chancellor with a remarkable specimen of hand carving in the shape of a cane. The handle is in the shape of a man's head, just below it a triangle with the colors in three mottos of Pythianism, below that are clasped hands, underneath of which is Grand Chancellor; below this is a crocodile, then a illy and a leaf, following that is a fish. The whole is handsomely painted and varnished. The cane was carved by James Banks, better known as "Deaty," deaf and dumb. He can neither read nor write. —Mr. Henry Jones of Washington, D. C. was entertained last Sunday at the home of Mr. John Goosby. RELEASED ON BAIL Fred Gies Had Nothing to Do With Wilson Murder. HELD FOR WIFE'S DEATH With the elimination of Frederick Gies, Jr., from the case, the police of Philadelphia have begun tracing the movements of the supposed murderer of Dr. William H. Wilson through Bristol, Trenton, Jersey City and New York toward Boston. Frederick Gies practically proved to the satisfaction of the authorities that he had nothing to do with the sending of the bottle of poisoned ale to Dr. Wilson on June 26. He was arraigned before a magistrate an- held in $600 bail pending an investigation into the death of his wife, Elizabeth Wilson Alexander Gies, on June 19, though no charge was preferred against the prisoner. Detectives simply stated that in investigating the Wilson murder they came across suspicious circumstances in connection with the death of the prisoner's wife and desired to have him held pending investigation. Though no quantitative analysis has been completed, it was officially announced at the corpore's office that Dr. Robinson, the city chemist, and Professor Meeker, in an examination of the ale sent to Dr. Wilson, found in that portion turned over to them sufficient cyanide of potassium to kill twenty men. The chemists also reported that a partial examination of the viscera taken from Dr. Wilson's body show that it was literally saturated with cyanide. Detectives Long and Paul succeeded in tracing the man supposed to be the murderer from here to Jersey City. The first clue in this derection came from the letter supposed to have been written by the murderer and sent to the coroner from Bristol, Pa. The man who is supposed to have mailed that letter got on a Pennsylvania railroad train at Torresdale, a suburb, on Saturday, June 27, at 12.35 p. m. When the train reached Bristol at 12.43 he jumped off and mailed a letter and then got back on the train. From the crew of the train the police secured a description of this man and traced him to Trenton. They found that he got off the train there a few minutes after one o'clock and waited for the connecting train to New York, which he took. The man got off the train at Jersey City and supposedly went to New York, though the work of the detectives ended at Jersey City. The description of the man who traveled on this train to Jersey City corresponds with that of the man who purchased a type letter "S" from the Keystone Type Foundry, and which was used to stamp a seal on the neck of the bottle of poisoned ale. The description also corresponds with that furnished by Fred Buckman, who received the package of ale at a local express office the day it was shipped to Dr. Wilson. The success of the police in tracing this man convinces them that they have been just ten days behind time in taking up the right trail in the matter, and they will continue in their efforts to trace the supposed murderer to Boston, whence a second letter was received by the coroner from the supposed murderer. PERSONALS AND BRIEFES —Mrs. Fannie Billups Kidd of Fincastle, Va. has been attending the Summer Normal at V. N. & I L., Petersburg, Va. After a pleasant visit to relatives and friends in this city she returned home last Tuesday. —Sir J. E. Byrd of Newport News, Va. was in the city last Saturday, accompanied by Mrs. Byrd, who was enroute to the country to spend the summer months. —Mrs. Maria Jackson, 902 N. 7th Street, who has been ill is much improved. Mr. Fennell Speaks Dear Editor: Please insert a few words for me. I have read much about the Negro in politics I can't say much in that way for or against. I say that the Negro as hewers of wood and drawers of water to be in politics. It means something. But it is better for him to be out of it. What honor have we, the Negroes to go and vote for a man or choose a man to muzzle our own heads. The PLANET asks the question, What shall we do? I say not a Negro cast a vote for President in this coming campaign. They don't want our votes you see in the way they act. I say that it would be better for them. Yes, every one of them from the mountain peak to laughing waters of America. The time and money that the colored men spend in trying to tree politics they had better save for their future service. Think about all the delegates from different districts and counties. Yes they went as republicans and not a one of them could be seated as they ought to have been. The vile prejudice was uncorked by the sulphur haired men and the perfume diseased the last one of them against the Negro delegates and there is no help for it. I say that the Afro-American has institutions enough of his own and he can build with honor without building up a political institution and then cant inherit it. Let us move another round higher. A. A. FENNELL P. S.—I saw a few months ago in The PLANET a few words concerning the Ngro trade and where he traded. I will say more about it later on. I say to the colored leaders in this campaign speak to the point and tell us what to do. Don't wait until the plum falls and the hogs have eaten them and then speak of what we ought to have done. What I mean is this. Tell us what to do now. Don't wait until the President is elected. Please let us see now. The time to prepare for war is in time of peace. In the condition that the political situation is in, the men that do the most talking cant get a crumb. More later. A. A. E. Roosevelt's Savior at San Juan Hill is Dead. Cincinnati, O., June 2.6—Lieut. Col. Ammon A. Auger, United States Army who for the past two months has been stationed at Fort Thomas, Ky., died at that post last night after a lingering illness. Col. Auger was afflicted with Bright's disease. He was born in Michigan 55 years ago and graduated at West Point. A widow and three children survive. Col. Auger was promoted from Captain of the Twenty-fourth Infantry for bravery at San Juan Hill. When the rough riders, led by Col. Roosevelt charged up the hill to capture the Spanish blockhouse they were subjected to a murderous fire. A New York regiment which was expected to support them failed to make the charge and the Twenty-fourth Infantry, composed of colored regular troops, commanded by white officers, charged over their prostrated bodies. With this reinforcement the Roosevelt regiment swept up the hill and captured the blockhouse, the strategic point in the first day's battle. The Twenty-fourth Infantry suffered severe losses in the fight. Nearly all of its officers were either killed or disabled. Col. Auger, however, though in the thick of the fight escaped unscathed. In the second day's battle he was given the command of a battalion of the regiment and again led his troops to victory. For gallantry in this action he was promoted to major and later became Heutenian colonel of the regiment. Col. Auger was taken seriously all Indians in the West. He served three terms of service in the Philippines. Following the Cuban campaign he was stricken with yellow fever and was near death. Col. Augur was taken seriously ill in Japan last February while bringing his regiment, the Twenty-fourth Infantry, home from the Philippines. Death was due to a complication of diseases which were caused, it is believed by hardships of service in the tropics. Dinwiddie Agricultural and Industrial School The school located at Dinwiddle, Va. formerly known as The John A. Dix Industrial School has changed its name to the Dinwiddle Agricultural and Industrial School. This change of name does not mean any lowering of the course of study, but the placing of more emphasis upon agriculture. The action of the last Legislature in establishing ten agricultural schools in the State—one for each congressional district—shows clearly the importance of this training. It is no longer necessary to refer to Hampton or Tuskegee as an argument for agricultural and industrial education, the whole South is thoroughly alive to the benefits to be derived therefrom. At last the education of the hand has become popular. The Dinwiddie Agricultural and Industrial School, located on a farm of 250 acres in a community and well-equipped for its work, offers a splendid opportunity to boys and girls who desire to make full preparation for life. The low charges and the elementary course of instruction place the advantages of the school within the reach of all boys and girls eager for an education. The head of the institution is Professor J. M. Colson, a graduate of Dartmouth College and an educator of twenty-five years experience. CONGRATULATES THE PLANET A Few Remarks by an Old Soldier Soldiers, Home, Va., July 3, '08. John Mitchell, Jr., Editor. Richmond, Va.: I think The PLANET is one of the ablest papers published among the colored race. I am glad to say I have read The PLANET and also papers from North South, East and West and I have not found any paper that represents the colored race so well as The PLANET. I am glad to read the names of such men as Booker T. Washington, John C. Dancy, J. Milton Waldron, George H. White, Brown and many others, and the great lodges represented by our able women, teachers, merchants, bankers, lawmakers, doctors, farmers, etc. The PLANET represents and defends the rights of the race of these United States. Mr. Editor, when I read your able paper I look back to 1860 at the figures. Of the 4,449,201 colored people 3,960,531 were slaves in 1860, 1863 to 1866 there were 178,975 enrolled in the United States Army, 68,178 were killed and wounded and died of disease during the Civil War. These facts are shown on the War Record in Washington, D. C. 5096 were not accounted for. They were mustered in the United States Army at New Orleans in 1862. All of these were emancipated and were declared free from the first day of January, 1863. Later on Congress amended the Constitution so as to give every man the right to vote and provided a home and board for all disabled volunteers of the late rebellion regardless of race or color and I believe every old disabled soldier of the race which you are so ably defending in your columns should come to the homes and enjoy what has been provided for them. Now, Mr. Editor, this statement is from the history I read. I remain, Yours. GEORGE W. GRAY OWENS—WINSTON The marriage of Miss Nora Win- ston to Mr. R. L. Owens will take place Thursday, July 23, 1908 at 7:30 A. M at 1109 W. Leigh Street. Friends are invited. No cards. Reception Sunday, July 26, 1908 at 1021 W. Leigh Street from 7 to 10 P. M. FOSTER-JACKSON Mr. Christopher F. Foster was married to Miss Lucy A. Jackson, Thursday, July 2, 1908 at the residence of the bride, 532 Hancock St. The happy couple were the recipients of many presents and congratulations and are now located at 1009 N. 4th Street. Rev. Dr. Corrothers Speaks. Washington, D. C., July 1, '08 Hon. John Mitchell, Jr., Editor of the Richmond PLANET Dear Sir: You will please allow me space to contradict a statement published in last week's edition of the Richmond PLANET that I, in connection with others had decided to enter into no further opposition to the candidacy of Secretary Taft. I desire to state that unless there is something more tangible and considerate of the rights of the Negro offered by Mr. Taft and his advisers, I purpose to oppose him with all the soul and strength that I possess. Register Vernon, Mr. Dancy, Mr. Tyler, Mr. Terrell, Mr. Whiffield, McKinley and other persons referred to in the article for whom I have the most kindly regard may be rejoicing over Taft's victory, as the article stated, but to me, it has been a matter of sorrow and regret. How any Negro can rejoice over the victory of Taft and Roosevelt, while Roosevelt's unreasonable, un-American and unparallel injustice against the Negro soldiers, all of which was indorsed by Taft stands unaltered, is a mystery to me. And when you add to this the President's message to Congress calling special attention to the criminality of the Negro, together with the "Lily White" movement in the South which resulted in the elimination of the colored man from the councils of the "Republican Party" it is unthinkable that any Negro with one spark of race pride in his heart and with the slightest consideration for his manhood could be happy. President Roosevelt and Secretary Taft have participated in the most destructive blow ever made against the liberties or the twelve million colored citizens of this country. Time will vindicate this assertion. There is only one hope for the American Negro, and that is to arise in his strength and defeat Taft at the polls in November; by so doing we will compel a reorganization of the Republican Party and in the reorganization the Negro will come to his proper place. Fraternally yours. S. L. CORROTHERS D. D. Passed Away. Farmville, Va., July 1, '08. George Pickett, died at his home, 312 Ely Street, June 30th, after an illness covering a period of eleven months. He was respected by all who knew him. During his illness, he was patient and bore it with Christian fortitude. At his bedside at time of his death, he was surrounded by the larger part of his family and his devoted wife who for the whole period of his sickness never ceased his anxious vigil. Perfectly resigned to the will of God and conscious to the end. He died at the age of 63 years, leaving a wife six boys, two girls and a host of relatives and friends to mourn their loss. Yet though his dust in earth is laid, His life on earth withdrawn; 'Twill be but as a fleeting shade Of night, before the dawn! For he shall spring beyond the tombs To new immortal prime, Where all is light and life and bloom And no more winter-time. Notice! Notice! There will be an old time Concert at the St. Luke Hall Tuesday, July 14th, by the Jolly Crowd of West-Wood called the Quickstepers. Admission 10 cents and lots of things free. $100.00 Endowment Paid Roanoke, Va., June 27th, 1908. This is to certify that I have received from John Mitchell, Jr., Grand Worthy Counselor of the Grand Court of Virginia, Order of Calanthe ($100.00) One Hundred Dollars in payment of the death-claim of Sister Laura Hendricks, who is a member of Blooming Rose Court, No. 104 of Roanoke, Va. Signed—T. R. Tillett, Administrator. Witness: Mrs. M. H. Burrell. $150.00 Endowment Paid Portsmouth, Va. July 4, 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 deathclaim of Sir George Bess who was a member of Rescue Lodge, No. 4, Portsmouth, Va. Signed—Dinkey Ross, Beneficiary. Witnesses: I. C. Norcom, P. C. James C. Harris, P. C. $150.00 Endowment Paid Portsmouth, Va. July 4, 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 J. A. Lightner, who was a member of Jonathan Lodge, No. 20, of Portsmouth, Va. Signed—Mary A. Lightner, Executrix. Witnesses: Lee N. Colthrop. Clarence Nicholson. $150.00 Endowment Paid Richmond, Va., July 6, '08. This is to certify that I have received from John Mitchell, Jr., Grand Cancellor of the Grand Cancellor of Virginia, Knights of Pythias, A. S. A., E., A., A. and A., ($150.00) On Hundred and Fifty Dollars in payment of the death- claim of Sir James Purton, who was a member of North Star Lodge, No. 52 of Richmond, Va. George B. Robinson. W. H. Newton. J. H. Dodson. S. S. Baker, D. D. G. C. $150.00 Endowment Paid Richmond, Va., July 2, '08. This is to certify that I have received from John Mitchell, Jr., Grand Chancellor of the Grand Lodge of Virginia, Knights of Pythias, XA, S. A., E., A., A and A., ($150.00) One Hundred and Fifty Dollars in payment of the death- claim of Sir Gabriel Iverson who was a member of Blooming Lily Lodge, No. 15 Richmond, Va. Signed—W. I. Johnson. Witnesses: The Merry Widow BY ALBERT PAYSON TERHUNE COPYRIGHT, 1903, BY HENRY W. 5.2 asked. COPYRIGHT, 1908, BY HENRY W. SAVAGE A. B. C. D. E. F. G. H. I. J. K. L. M. N. O. P. Q. R. S. T. U. V. W. X. Y. Z. THE widow just now is the queen of our diplomatic chessboard," sighed the Marsovian ambassador's pretty wife. "She will be here tonight. My husband is hanging over the banisters watching for her." "But what reason?" "Oh, he has exactly twenty million reasons for"— "I don't understand," murmured M. de Jollidon. "No? Then you are probably the only bachelor in Paris who doesn't. She was the daughter of a poor Marsovian farmer—no dowry but her beauty. An enormously rich old banker named Sadowa, wealthiest man in Marsovia, fell in love with her, married her and did her the exquisitely graceful favor of dying a week later. She inherited his whole fortune—$20,000,000." "And now I suppose she has come to Paris to spend it?" "Oh, the money is safe enough for the present, I believe, in the Bank of A DRYER B. THE MERRY WIDOW. Marsovia. But my husband wants it to stay there. So does the Marsovian government. Ours is not a rich country. M. de Jolidon. That's why a new white hair appears in my worthy husband's head every time one of your Parisian lady killers makes love to her. It's all absurdly simple." "Well," laughed De Jolidon, "his hair needn't turn whiter on my account. I'll be the one Frenchman who won't make love to Mme. Sadowa." "You must marry her, at any rate." "Are you mad, Natalie, or is this?" "It is no joke, and I am not mad. I've thought it all out." The ambassador's wife glanced nervously about her. She and De Jolidon were enscenced in an alcove of the salon. It was the night of the embassy ball. From the adjoining ballroom came the strains of a waltz and the soft gliding of hundreds of dancing feet. Guests were passing and repassing along the great hallway and broad stairs at the rear of the salon. But for the moment the two had the room to themselves. "Listen," she said. "My husband suspects nothing thus far, but he is certain to in time unless"— "Unless I divert his thoughts by marrying some one else? I can't, and you know I can't, for I"— "Hush! You mustn't say it. I am a dutiful wife. And—what are you doing?" she queried as he snatched up her fan from the table. With the pencil that dangled from his dancing card De Joliden scribbled three words on one of the ivory sticks of the fan, then handed it to his hostess. Natalie, with a little catch in her breath, slowly read the words aloud: "I—love—you!" "Why did you write this?" she "But what reason?" "But you must." "What?" ```markdown ``` asked. "Because you forbade me to say it," he retorted. "Tell his excellency I have come back," broke in a voice at the door. As a servant hurried off with the message the speaker waddled into the room. He was a stout, ungainly little man, clad in the quintet national costume of Marsovia. Bald of head, popping of eye and with abnormally long red mustache, his was a personality to excite laughter in a mummy. The newcomer was Nish, messenger and clerk of the embassy. At his approach Natalie and De Joldillon slipped away to the ballroom. A moment later a tall, lean, fussy man with hooked nose and mincing gait trotted down the stairway and into the salon. "Well, Mr. Nish," he asked peevishly, "did you find Prince Danilo at home?" "No, your excellency," faltered the little man. "He—" "Did you go thence, as I told you, to the American bar at"— "Yes, sir. But he was not at home there tonight." "Odd. He's usually very much at home there, I'm told. So you failed in your mission? You couldn't find him?" "Oh, yes, your excellency, I found him—that is to say, I"— "Oh, you found him at last? That's better. Where?" "At Maxim's, your"— "Maxim's, eh?" snorted Ambassadee Popoff scornfully. "Tilling away his time, as usual, when"— "Oh, no, your excellency, not exactly 'idling', if I may say so. He seemed very busy. 'There were a number of bottles and'— "Was he sober?" "Not distressingly so, your excellency. In fact, if I may"— "Did you give him my message? Did you tell him?" "I gave it word for word, sir. I told him his country was calling for him and that your excellency desired his immediate presence at the embassy."— "Well, what was his answer?" "He said, 'Give my country my regards and tell it to go to'"— "Where?' snapped Popoff as Nish paused in embarrassment. "I'd-I'd rather not say, sir; no place I'm at all familiar with." "Oh, the ingrate!' walled Popoff, 'the ingrate!' Here he has been employed at the embassy all these months. and I've winked at his loafing and his dissipation, and the very first minute I really need him he refuses to come." "Oh, no, your excellency," pleaded Nish; "scarcely as bad as all that, if I may say so—not 'refused' exactly. He will come. At least he promised to." "Ah, that lifts a load from my brain if he promised he'll come! Diplomatically speaking, Prince Danilo's word is as good as his bond." "Diplomatically speaking, your excellency," affirmed Nish, "he agrees to be here as soon as he has finished the magnum of champagne that was in the ice pall beside him when I left." "How much of it was gone?" "The cork was not yet drawn, but"—"Be on the lookout for him, Mr. Nish. When he comes put ice on his head if necessary. Sober him at any cost." THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. "I fancy it will be cheaper than filling him up. I'll do my best, your excellency." But the ambassador at a whispered word from a servant had already pottered out of the room as fast as his somewhat shaky old legs would carry him, and the voluble Nish ran along in his wake. A commotion swept through the scattered groups in the foyer—a murmur, a rustle, a whisper that resolved itself at last into the excited phrases: "The widow has arrived!" "Twenty millions and unincumbered!" "Widow of Sodawa, the animated money bag!" "A Monte Cristo fortune for some lucky man!" "Her name is Sonia Sadowa; twenty millions-red hair, too, but a beauty!" "Twenty millions!" "The Merry Widow!" Down the stairway from the dressing rooms and into the salon swept a woman—young, beautiful, vivacious. A light of mischief danced in her great dark eyes. Her masses of auburn hair shone like an aureole above her rather pale, delicate face. About her hovered a half score of gallants, all vying for a word, a look, from the beauty (and fortune) of the Paris season. Two men—the Marquis of Cascada and the Count de St. Brioche—were lucky enough to claim for a moment or two her attention. "No, no!" Sonia was saying in protest. "At home, in Marsovia, men don't make such pretty speeches. Courthship there is very primitive and marriage is for life. When a man makes love to another's wife, he is promptly shot. When a wife fists, her husband beats her black and blue—a good plan. Why not try it in Paris?" "Delightful!" exclaimed Cascada. "Do you know, madame, we have been counting the moments until you appeared?" "I can well believe it," assented Sonia. "It must have been just like counting money." "Oh, madame!" protested the group, horrified. "Don't I know?" retorted Sonia, a little bitterly. "It's always like that. People count me like so much money. If it is coarse for me to say so, remember I'm a farmer's daughter and that in my country people call a spade a spade." Popoff and Natalie came hurriedly in to pay their respects to the guest upon whom Marsovia's hopes so depended. At a sign from the ambassador the others drew back. "So you were shocking some of our Paris gallants?" beamed the ambassador. "What a child of nature you are!" "You mean," countered Sonia, "that I am a peasant dressed up. How I wish sometimes that I were a real peasant again!" "Ah!" chuckled Popoff. "Child of nature, true child of nature, always remembering the dear old days on the farm—the bleating of the pigs, the new laid milk, the tomatoes freshly dug up and all the simple joys of the country! But I want you to meet tonight some of our Marsovian nobility—for instance, Prince Danilo, a charming young fellow. He'll be here presently. Danilo is"—But the mischief had died out of Sonia's eyes. Her face was paler than was its wont, and there was a stern look as of pain about the daintily chased mouth. "I have already met Prince Danilo," she said curly. "Really?" cried Popoff. Then, noting her change of expression, he added with apprehension: "I hope it was not on one of his wet days—a charming, lovable youngster in spite of his"— "I am not interested in hearing about him," broke in Sonia in a curiously level, emotionless voice. "It was long ago that we met. He will have forgotten me even as—as I have forgotten him. Let us talk of something else, please." Even Popoff could see something was seriously amiss. WELL, here I am," announced a tall, slender youth, entering the deserted salon a few minutes later with Nish at his side. "I'm here at my country's call, all right, but my confounded country doesn't seem to be on hand to meet me." His graceful walk was not wholly steady, and there was a flush on the handsome young face. The late arrival was Prince Danilo of Marsovia, attache of the Marsovian legation at Paris. As a diplomat he had scarcely scored a success, for he had a delightfully normal aversion to work and a simple, unfailing joy in the amusements of Maxim's and his clubs. "Til hunt up his excellency at once," Nish was assuring the prince. "Are—are you quite in condition to see him, if I may—" Nish "I'm all right enough." yawned Danilo, "only I forgot to go to bed last night. If I could reel off a few yards Gryder THE LATE ARRIVAL WAS PRINCE DANILO of sleep”— “Perhaps I could find you some place to”— “I'd prefer desk, if you can find one. I always sleep best at my desk. But I suppose”— “There is a couch, sir, over in the corner behind the palms. How would that do? You could get a nice nap there, and in a little while I'd find his excellency for you. But, sir, if I may say so, why do you waste your life in dissipation when you might marry and settle down? Just think, now! Would not a dear little wife and a home of your own be better worth while than all your clubs? I leave it to you if”— "You leave it to me?" retorted Daniello. "Then I make it clubs." "But, if I may say so"— "You may not," interrupted Daniello, crossing to the couch and throwing himself at full length among its cushions. "By by! 'If you're waking, call me early?'" He spread a handkerchief over his face and in a moment was sound asleep, leaving Nish to tiptoe out in search of Popoff. For a few minutes no sound was audible in the empty salon save the distant swell and fall of dance music, punctuated by the slumbrous prince's heavy breathing. Then Natalie hurried in with De Joldillon. Both looked anxious. "How careless of me!" the ambassador's wife was exclaiming. "Where can I have dropped the miserable fan? If my husband should pick it up and find on it those words you were foolish enough to write— I wonder if I left it in the niche on the stairs when we were sitting there. Let's go back and see." They turned back, almost colliding with Sonia, who was entering, Cascada directly behind her. "Oh, Mme. Sadowa," asked Natalie. "you haven't seen anything of a white ivory fan? I've looked everywhere and"— "No," replied the widow; "but I'll look in this room if you haven't made a thorough search here already." Natalie, thanking her, hurried back with her cavallier to the stairway. Sonia ill began her search, but Cascada interrupted her. "That can wait," she pleaded, "but I cannot. Won't you hear me?" "Certainly," assented Sonia cheerfully. "You are going to propose, aren't you?" "Ah, you read my secret!" "It required little cleverness. You men are all alike." "Ring off!" grumbled Danflo in his sleep, vaguely bothered by the loud voice. Sonia started. "Some one is here!" she whispered, pointing toward the hidden couch. "You are mistaken," contradicted Cascada, "and even if it were so I am willing for all the world to know how I"— A long, blissful, sonorous snore from the couch. Sonia laughed, her eyes alight with amusement. "Snoring and romance don't go well together, marquis," she observed, "and as the snoring doesn't seem likely to stop the romance must. You say you are in love with me, and I know you are in love with my fortune. Goodby." "You misjudge me cruelly!" Cascada protested. "Oh, no, I don't! Men are all alike, Goodby." As the discomfited marquis made his way wrathfully from the room Sonia mischievously crept across to the "Soat," roared Danilo, giving his head a shake that let the handkerchief fall from his face. "Danilo" gasped the widow, starting back. At sound of his name the prince sat up, dazed and blinking. His wandering eyes fell on the woman, and, with an exclamation of utter amazement, he stumbled to his feet and stood staring incredulously at her. "Sonia!" he exclaimed. "Sonia!" Then, recovering himself, he bowed stiffly and said: "I beg your pardon, madame." "No; I beg yours," she replied. "Pray go on snoring." "You don't remember me?" he asked, surprised. "Not in the very least," she answered, moving away. "Yet you called my name." "You were asleep then. That was different." "And now I am awake—to the joy of seeing you again." "The joy is all your own. Is it so surprising to find me in Paris? I am here enjoying my wealth—and freedom!" "I congratulate you on both, especially the freedom." "Yes, freedom is one of your fads, I believe," remarked Sonla, "especially freedom from marriage. Do you still make a habit of avoiding marriage—at the last moment?" "Sonla, you are unjust. If it had rested with me you should be my wife now, not another man's widow." "If it rested with you?" she mimicked. "Well, let the whole story rest now. It's forgotten." "By you, perhaps—never by me." "Oh, no! I remember it every now and then for my own amusement. But it is hard to think of myself as the little Marsovian peasant maid to whom the dashing cavalry officer, Prince Danilo, was once engaged and whom his rich old uncle at the last moment forbade to marry because of her poverty. How differently that same rich old uncle would look on the match today! Twenty millions is a pretty dowry." "At least it seems you didn't break your heart over losing me," sneered Danilo. "No; my plebeian heart stood the shock excellently. I soon found consolation—an elderly husband who lived just one week after the wedding and left me all his wealth." "Yes; I heard how your father forced you into the match. Next time you can choose a husband to suit yourself." "Why should I marry again? I am rich, free. I have everything." "Including love?" he asked, his eyes devouring her fragile beauty. devouring her fragile beauty. "I don't believe in love," scoffed Sonia. "All men are alike. Dozens of them are after my money and make love to me because they can't get it without me." "Men are not all fortune hunters," he denied hotly. "I for one"— "So they all say. Each says 'I love you!' Each means my fortune." "They do?" cried Danilo, in rage at the strong insinuation. "Well, here's one that doesn't. I for one shall never say to you, 'I love you!'" A strange smile stole across her face. She came very close to where he stood; so close that the faint perfume of her hair was sweet in his nostrils; so close that her breath was warm upon his lips; so close that his bewildered soul struggled in vain to hide from the glory in her eyes. Her voice was a musical whisper as she asked: "You'll never say to me I love you?" There was an infinity of allurement in the tempting words. Danilo, with a mighty effort, shook off the spell and "That's a comfort!" she said coldly, drawing away and seeking to vell her keen disappointment. "But," she added more softly, "why not say it if you really want to?" "I don't want to!" he declared sulkily. "And you promise faithfully you'll never say to me, 'I love you?'" Again she was perilously close to him. Again his eyes tore themselves free from the pleading seductiveness of hers as he reiterated: "I promise! I'm not going to make a fool of myself or be made a fool of." "Is that a declaration of war?" queried Sonia. "No—of friendship. Do you mean to say if I asked you to be my wife you would merely laugh at me?" "Probably. All men are alike." "They are not, and in time I'll prove it to you." Before she could answer the ambassador and several of the guests came into the room. At first opportunity Popoff drew Danilo aside. "Prince," said he impressively, "you have now been attached to this legation nearly four months and—" "Few of my attachments last so long," observed Danilo. "You refer to your love affairs? I have heard of them. They have brought you to the brink of ruin. You are almost penniless. Here is my plan to save you, also to give you a chance to save your country from bankruptcy. I want you to marry." "To what?" cried Danillo. "To marry—beautiful woman, my boy—twenty millions—Mme. Sonia Sadowal Hey." "Never!" returned Danillo, angrily, as he rose to end the interview. "Then a Frenchman will marry her, and her fortune and our country will be ruined." "I won't marry her," repeated Danillo, "and she won't marry me. But for my country's sake I'll keep any Frenchman from marrying her." A CINEMA THE gardens of Mme. Sonia Sa- dowa's villa, just outside Paris, were gayly decorated for a lawn fete. The grounds were 10 A "NEVER! NEVER! NEVER!" dotted with laughing groups of brightly dressed men and women, for Sonia had particularly requested that all her Marsovian guests wear their picturesque native costume, and the result was a veritable kalefdescopic carnival of color, a perfect riot of gorgeous hues and striking figures. Ambassador Popoff, his long, lean figure draped in vivid green, was pacing the alleys of the garden near the entrance gate, pausing nervously now and again to scan late arrivals in search of some one. At length he described the man he sought. Nish was just bustling into the grounds, and the ambassador at once beckoned to him. "Now, then, Mr. Nish," cried Popoff as soon as the little clerk had shambled within earshot, "I told you to bring Prince Danilo here and not to leave him for an instant until"— "He wouldn't let me stay," explained Nish. "He says he won't come. He's giving a party—if I may say so, a very gay"— "And for the sake of a lot of pleasure seeking idlers the prince refuses shouted: "Never! Never! Never!" "To what?" cried Danilo. "You shall see" to obey my orders and come to Mme. Sonla's?" "Yes, your excellency. He positively refuses to come. And when I say 'positively' refuses 1— Here he is now!" Danilo, resplendent in the uniform of a Marsovian captain of hussars, strolled nonchalantly forward, with a careless nod that quite ignored the ambassador's glare of reproof at his lateness. "I understand, prince," began Popoff coldly, "that you positively refused to obey my—" "So I did, so I did," assented Danilo cheerfully. "But at the last moment I changed my mind and my clothes, and here I am. I've postponed my party for an hour or so. You see, I remembered my promise to help you scare away from the widow any Frenchman who seemed inclined to make love to her. That's why I came." "Good!' approved Popoff, rubbing his hands gleefully. "Very good! And where do you expect to begin?" "With the most dangerous sultor. he is who?" "Well," replied Popoff confidentially, "I've had my eye on her, and it seems to me that De Jolldon"— "De Jolldon!" exclaimed Danilo. "Impossible!" "Why impossible, pray? I think I have as good eyes as any man. I think, sr, I can detect love when I see it. And from the way De Jolldon looks at the widow—why, man, I don't know a single thing that doesn't point toward his being in love with her. If"— "If I may say so, your excellency," put in Nish, shuffling nervously, "I think I could tell you of a 'single' thing, or, rather, he added, chuckling, "when I say 'single' I mean 'married.'" "Mr. Nish," interrupted Popoff, "if you can stop wringling around like an inebriated centiped long enough to talk plainly, will you do me the honor to put your blitherings into plain words?" "Well, your excellency," stammered Nish, "I happen to know M. de Jolldon is already head over heels in love with a lady who has a husband. He"—"Mr. Nish," thundered Popoff, "you are demeaning yourself to the contemptible act of talking scandal! Are you aware of that, Mr. Nish? If so, go on talking it and tell me who she is." "You fool!" whispered Danilo in Nish's ear. "Everybody but the ambassador himself knows it is Mme. Popoff whom De Jolldon loves. Be careful!" "Well, Mr. Nish," repeated Popoff majestically as he eyed the squirming clerk with lofty majesty, "I'm waiting to hear the name of the lady that De Jolldon is in love with." "He—he neglected to tell me, your excellency," sputtered Nish. "Then," decided the ambassador, "I shall discover her by diplomatic means, and when I find who she is she shall use her influence to lure De Jolidon away from the widow. Prince, will you help me in this?" "Leave it all to me," suggested Daniio, with startling witness. C try to learn her identity yourself. Let me attend to the whole matter." "All right," consented Popoff. "It will be a good lesson in diplomacy for you. Perhaps I can put you on the right track." The ambassador drew an ivory fan from his pocket. "Last night at the embassy ball," said he, "Nova Kovitch, who used to be one of my attaches, brought me this. He was crazy with jealousy. He'd just picked up the fan; said it was his wife's and that some man had written 'I love you' on one of the sticks. He was going home to beat his wife and make her confess who the villain was when I persuaded my wife to save poor Mme. Nova Kovitch by pretending the fan was her own. Ah, but my wife is a born diplomatist! Nova Kovitch was convinced, and I pocketed the fan for future reference." Danilo took the trinket from Popoff's hands and read the penciled inscription. "Why," he said on impulse, "this is Delidon's handwriting! How does it THE PLANET happen that he”— “Then,” squealed Popoff in triumph, “it is Mme. Nova Kovitch he loves. The whole thing is absurdly simple when a brain like mine is brought to bear on it.” Delighted with his own astuteness, the ambassador patterned off to join the other guests, leaving Danilo, fan in hand, blankly facing the astounded lit- tie clerk. “Nish,” observed the prince, “do you suppose it's possible De Jolidon can be in love with Mme. Nova Kovitch as well as with Mme. Popoff?” “Id—I'd like to think so,” murmured Nish as he started faithfully off in the wake of his chief. “I'd like to think so. It—it would make it less exclusive, less of a monopoly. And to think his excellency never recognized his own wife's fan. Where ignorance is bliss why read up on divorce laws?” Laying the fan on a nearby table, Danilo was turning away when a voice behind him called mockingly: "Still in retreat? So you are afraid of me." Whirling about, the prince faced Sonla. She was bewitchingly pretty in the black and gold Marsovian dress that snowed to fullest advantage every willow line of her figure. "I'm not retreating," he contradicted, "only skirmishning in light cavalry fashion." "And you are going away like that? Oh, you stupid man!" "I can't tell what you mean," he answered, puzzled. "And I shan't tell what I mean," she rejoined. "By the way," she added, "how do you happen to be here? You declined my invitation." "I'm here," he replied bluntly, "because I'm making it my business to get rid of every Frenchman who shows signs of proposing to you." "But why?" she asked in wonder. "For my own amusement; that's all." "You—you don't happen to be in love with me yourself?" she asked, a tinge of wistfulness in the light mockery of her tone. "Certainly not!" he retorted, with suspicious promptitude. "You're very, very rude!" she reproved. "But since you don't love me you ought to be able to give me good advice about accepting a man I really want to marry." "Oh!" growled Danilo, chagrined. "Then there is some one you want to marry?" She nodded. "Whoever the man is, he's after your money," he sneered. "No," she contradicted. "He is not—not this one." "You said all men were allike." "This man is different. He loves me." "Then marry him! What is it to me? Marry any one you want to. I don't care. And I'll dance at your wedding. I'll dance till I wear holes through both my shoes." "You silly boy!" she scoffed. "You're jealous!" "Jealous?" he raged. "Jealous? I jealous? That's a good one!" Words failed him, and he stalked away to a nearby summer house, where he paused, lost in seeming contemplation of the little building's architecture. The neglected fan lying on the table caught Sonia's eye. She picked it up fledly and opened it. The words "I love you" met her gaze. Quickly she glanced at Danilo. "I understand," she murmured to herself. "He vowed he'd never say it to me, so he's written it." Noting that Danilo's back was toward her, she furtively lifted the fan to her lips and kissed the written words. Then as she restored it to the table she whispered: "Just the same, I'll make him say it. He shall!" She crossed to where he stood. "Have you nothing to say to me, prince?" she asked. "Only one thing—goodby!" "Goodby!" she echoed. "You're—you're not going?" "I leave Paris tomorrow morning—by the first train—forever!" "But you promised. And now, I suppose, I shall never see you again, for when I married I shall live in Paris," "I thought you were more patriotic," he sighed. "It seems hard that you should turn your back on your native land, marry a Frenchman and settle here." "Yet it is what I have decided," she answered. "This is probably the last time I shall wear our native costume or dance our wild national dances. Today's fete is a sort of farewell to old times." "No; our dances and costumes would not appeal to a Frenchman. Who is if you are going to marry?" "The engagement isn't announced yet," she evaded. "Then," he returned, with a shrug. "I suppose I shall never know, for I leave early tomorrow." "And you won't dance at my wedding?" We told you I would not. "If you won't," she cried, a sudden inspiration flashing through her mind and lighting her pale face to dazzling beauty, "dance with me now!" She stretched out her slender white arms with an allurement that no mortal man could resist. TO BE CONTINUED. —We are selling old papers at fifteen cents per hundred. MY EDUCATION IN A NUTSHELL. I can say "hic, haec, hoc," and decline any verb in Latin, but I was told the other day that I mispronounced the English language and spoke it incorrectly. I know how many segments there are in a bee's foot, and I can discourse learnedly on the origin of life, but I'm beggared if I understand much about this synthesis of species which I call myself. I could write you a splendid essay upon the Arts of Substitution in former times, and describe to you in detail how our savage progenitors managed to eke out an existence, but I don't believe I could broil a beefsteak nor make a bowl of porridge. Neither can the girl I am going to marry. I can tell you much about the nature of bacteria and other horrible creatures, but I confess that I don't know what the symptoms of the commonest disease are nor how to treat them. I can tell you all about the chemistry of matter, but should my mother take poison I would not know what to give her. I could dazzle you with a dissertation on the Economics of Money, but I am at a loss to know how to earn a cent of it myself. REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR. A woman has lots of sense not to wear sensible clothes. The reason a girl can fool a man is he thinks he is doing the fooling. The time a woman can smile the most naturally is when she wants to try. An easy way not to be bothered by your relations is to be poorer than they are. A man without convictions is uninteresting, but a man with them is insufferable. When a man and a girl are flirting the reason she believes he means it is because she doesn't. The trouble with experience as an educator is it graduates its pupils at the brink of the grave. It's queer how much more expensive a cheap pew in church seems than a dear box at the theater. The best way to test whether a man is a good Christian is for him to try to stop a leak in the plumbing. No matter how proud a man is of being able to do things around the house, it never takes any useful form like chopping kindling wood.—N. Y. Press. JUST THOUGHTS Many a man who knows his place is unable to keep it. Often a man's wife is his only visible means of support. Many a man attempts to stand up for his friends by lying. Little drops of water make big dollars for the umbrella man. There would be less trouble if nobody ever gave anybody advice. When a girl wants a man to kiss her she doesn't want him to think she does. Dare to do right and you will soon have a reputation for being poor but honest. After a woman has been married a few days she begins to think how much better she could have done. Sometimes a man can tell what a woman means by what she doesn't say—that is, if she leaves anything unsaid. MADE IN MICHIGAN. Learning makes a man proud, but wisdom makes him humble. Most men do as they please—after consulting their wives. A monumental lie—under a gravestone. And sometimes on it. Most "smart" people are like a pin, sharp at the point and small at the head. The value of a good husband can't always be estimated by the amount of his salary. A Michigan editor wrote a communication to his rival calling him an ass—and signed it "Yours fraternally." A woman who ordinarily pays no attention to what her husband says will lie awake all night to hear what he says in his sleep. Alded by the moral support of a new suit of clothes, even a weak man may rise to greatness; but it takes a strong man to maintain a respectable average when his trousers bag at the knee. Oscar Velle, a 12 year-old boy evangelist, is holding a revival in Minnesota. Mgr. Falconio will represent the pope at the laying of the cornerstone of the Minneapolis pro-cathedral. Seattle's new First Methodist THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA church, which is nearing completion, will be one of the finest structures of the kind in the United States. St. John's English Evangelical Lutheran church of Minneapolis has no ushers and no choir, but has two clergymen. "Wayfarers" are made to feel at home. One of the notable figures of the Lambeth conference this summer in London will be Bishop Ouiwole of western equatorial Africa, the only black bishop in the Anglican church. Instead of returning to their home in England upon the completion of 50 years' work in China, Bishop George Moule and his wife, now 80 years of age, have determined to remain in the field. The Methodist Book concern in the last four years has shown profits and dividends amounting to $2,024,377, a showing that it is believed is unequaled by any other publishing house of this class. The only complete and unaltered Saxon crypt in Great Britain is that at Hexham abbey, it being built wholly of Roman stones, there being also many Saxen stones imbedded in the new walls of the building. The Episcopal diocese of Rhode Island has shipped a number of barrels of supplies to the Eskimes at Point Hope, Alaska, to be distributed by Dr. John M. Driggs, who has been doing missionary work there for a number of years. There are about 30 ministers living who received their ordination before the Associate and Associate Reformed churches were consolidated in 1858, and it is hoped to have a number of them at the general assembly this month in Pittsburgh. POINTED PARAGRAPHS One cheer is better than a dozen howls. You can flatter any man by asking his advice. In times of peace it doesn't take much to start a quarrel. A fat purse makes a good deal more than a slight difference. The man who talks like a book may be accused of plagiarism. Some men try to dodge the issue when they find what they are looking for. It's so much easier to pray for forgiveness than to fight against temptation. More men would acquire that tired feeling if all their words were backed by deeds. Many a man who imagines he is world-famous is unknown to the people in the next block. A woman doesn't care how much money her husband earns; it is what he gets that interests her. Bluebeard's wives are not the only women who have lost their heads on account of an unworthy man. A girl may threaten to scream if a man attempts to kiss her, but she seldom does it if there is a chance of any one's hearing her.-Chicago Daily News. CHURCH AND CLERGY The first Sunday school in Wales was started at Llanidloes in 1770. The Episcopal Church Laymen's Union is planning a mission training school at Pittsburg. The fund for the building of the Liverpool cathedral now amounts to over $1,400,000. The Old South Church in Boston has been engaged for four Sundays this summer for religious meetings. On Easter Sunday there were 2,103,903 communicants in the Church of England, or 64 per 1,000 of population. The proof of the perfect discipline of the Salvation Army in England was shown when 1,200 officers changed stations without a hitch. A great meeting of protest caused Bishop Van de Vyver to withdraw from the Vatican his resignation as bishop of Richmond, and he will remain with his diocese. The American Tract society in its 83 years of existence has issued 8,908 separate publications outside of the periodicals, the latter aggregating 278,886,868 copies. The synod of the Presbyterian Church of England was able this year to report a membership increase of but 19 while the attendance in the Sunday schools fell off over 1,000. DISAPPOINTED HER "My dear," said Mr. Wagge, "as I came by Mrs. Gazzam's house just now I saw Mrs. Gazzam in the parlor kissing someone who was not—er—was not Mr. Gazzam." "Oh, Henry!" gasped Mrs. Wagge. "Are you sure? Well, did you ever? Oh, my! But I've always suspected Mrs. Gazzam. She's much too sanctimonious, you know. Kissing—why, I must call up Mrs. Jorkins on the telephone and tell her all about it. Kissing a—I don't suppose you could see who it was, Henry?" "Yes," said Mr. Wagge, "I could, quite distinctly." "You could? Oh, Henry, who was it? Anybody we know?" "Oh, yes. It was Mrs. Gazzam's mother." The Merry Whirl "There goes little Johnnle Elsenbelsel," said the fourth-floor woman, leaning on a cushion on the window sill, "rolling hoop with his mutter's Merry Vidow sailor for de hoop and his fader's gold-headed cane what he Bunderberein give him for de stick. It'll be funny when Johnnle's peoples comes from de market, yes." POEMS WORTH PERUSING II. missing those who greatly love such days. The spring could ever be so gay and green As when they walked the lilac-budded ways. To sigh o'er winters, strangely bleak and cold, And see, in smoldering fires that char too soon. No more what may be, shall be, but what was, As one recalls the cadence of a tune. To fancy love to-day a colder thing Than this great love you cherish to the last. To keep the friends grown faithfully old as young. Reluctant, when new hands knock at your door, To open; and if opening, withhold. The heart of which you once gave all and more. To dream in solitude with pipes and books. Born old and sweet and good; to ask for songs. To seek again some calm, forgiving god You smiled at lightly in your other youth; Content to leave the mysteries of life To mysteries of death—and wait the truth. - Emery Pottie, in Craftsman. A Sprig of Heather. Lest you forget, I send a sprig of heather. The happy thoughts of days, that now are o'er. The words of passion, that you did out-pour. That love of loves, with happy souls united. Think but of me, and my love is requiled. Oh, joy of joys, when we two are standing. Hand clasped in hand, no more to part again. Hearts beat together now in unison keeping. No more great shadows sent to rent in twain. So, love, when sorrow comes, just at your door. Think just the loving thoughts you did of yore; Waste not one moment more in vain re- gret. Think of the future, love, that is yours yet. ____ From a "Madrical" Love at a touch will falter, Love at a nod will stay, But armles can not alter One hair-breath of his way. He trembles at a rose-leaf, And rushes on a spear. A thorn-prick and he shows grief, But death he can not fear. He follows shadow faces Into graveyards unawares, He reaps in sterile places, And brings home sheaves of tares. One tear will heal his anger; He will wait and watch all day; He scoffs at toll and danger, His last crust gives away. He will strip off his ralment To make his dear one gay. And will laugh at any payment, Having given all away. When care his heart engages, And his rose-leaf gathers gray, He will claim a kiss for wages, And demand a smile for pay. A. Last Word. The day is overworn, the birds all flown: And we have reaped the crops the gods have sown: Laughter or tears, for we have only known Surpassing vanity; vain things alone Have driven our perverse and aimless band. Let us go hence, somewhathier strange and cold, To Hollow Lands, where just men and unjust Find end of labor, where's rest for the old, Freedom to all from love and fear and lust. Twine our torn hands? O pray the earth enfold Our life-sick hearts and turn them into dust. —Ernest Dovson. Within the Desk. Pull down the rolling top and hide The labeled heaps of tasks undone; The tollsome side Of sure to sun; The cares, wonders, worries, fears; That fill the day with "When?" and "How?" Pull down the top, but who shall say Whose hands shall lift and roll it back? The same hands may If on the track Of life, those feet still tread the road; But what and if the tired heart Puts down the load And goes apart? Ah, well! If locked within there be No orphan's sob nor widow's sigh, Whose tearful plea Meets no reply, No deed from watchful Conscience hid, What need to linger o'er the sight? "Click," says the lid, "Sweet rest to-night." —John L. Shroy. The Spoilsman I care not who shall lead the strife Nor who shall write the song That stirs the world to larger life And moves the listening throng. I shall tell the show As pageantries roll by. This is the thing I want to know: Who's going to cut the pie? Will his resolve be firmly set To make a fair divide, Or will he smile and let me get A portion thick and wide? Most talk of vicious things amiss The thing I want to tell The thing I want to know is this: Who's going to cut the pie? 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Oranges, pears, grapes, cherries, etc., are now being packed in paper boxes containing nitrogen, and the exclusion of oxygen seems to keep the fruit from decay for an indefinite time. Fish shown in Paris in 1900 had been preserved in nitrogen for seven years. To keep lard fresh for several months, stir in about a tablespoonful of honey to every six or eight gallons of lard, after removing the dried fat. Mrs. Russell Evans, Brownville, Tenn., in Home Department of National Magazine. Half the world is on the wrong scent in the pursuit of happiness. They think it consists in having and getting and in being nerved by others. It consists in giving and serving others.—Henry Drummond. An Ohio man claims to have invented an airship that "will stay up for months." It will doubtless make a hit with men who occasionally find it necessary to dodge their creditors.—Whittier News. Caring for His Reputation. The Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle says the fish liar is far in advance of the political list. 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COMMUNICATIONS.—When writing to us to renew your subscription or to discontinue your paper, you should give your name and address full otherwise we cannot find your name on our books. CHANGE OF ADDRESS.—In order to change the address of a ADDRESS, we must be sent the former as well as the present address. Entered at the Post Office at Richmond, Va. as second class matter. SATURDAY . . . JULY 11, 1908. We return thanks for an invitation to attend the fourth annual session of the St. Paul Farmers' Conference at Lawrenceville, Va. July 30th and 31st, 1908. The test vote at Denver upon the adoption of the report of the Committee on Credentials, which virtually ousted Col. James M. Guffey of Pennsylvania from membership on the Democratic National Committee was very significant. Those states that lined up against Mr. Bryan were those which are vitally necessary to bring about his election "to the Presidency. Even Virginia with all of its instructions lined up on the side of the fighter from Pennsylvania. --- We have received the pamphlet of the proceedings of the second annual meeting of the Liberian National Bar Association in the Executive Mansion Monrovia, Liberia, Africa, February 5, 1908. The annual address was by F. E. R. Johnson, President. It was an able, scholarly deliverance and all of the other addresses were up to the high standard. "The Object of a Bar Association," by H. Sylvester Williams, Esq.; "International Law as a Factor in Social Progress," by George W. Ellis, Esq.; "Implied and Delegated Powers of the Constitution," by C. B. Dunbar, Esq.; "The New International Diplomacy and Practice," by T. McCants Stewart, Esq. For literary ability and depth of thought the addresses rank with the best in this country. The selection of Hon. Frank H. Hitchcock, the "steam-roller" man as chairman of the Republican National Committee is a fitting conclusion of the great Chicago event that placed Hon. William H. Taft in the field as the candidate of the Republican Party in the coming contest. It also emphasizes the antagonism to the citizens of color, for he in obedience to the command of his chief recognized the "ily-white" contingent, in the Southland and made the feeling of bitterness an asset to the Democratic Party in the approaching election. It also shows that President Roosevelt named the chairman, rather than Secretary Taft. Hon. Theodore Roosevelt will be the President of the United States by proxy for four years. Whether Mr. Taft can be elected depends upon the attitude of the Democratic Party. The leaders at Denver at this writing are not showing much more judgment in their arrangements than did the Republicans at Chicago. We see but little hope in the outlook and it may be that the election of a President will be entrusted to the House of Representatives. If Mr. Roosevelt's policies are so popular, then Mr. Bryan should be the next President of the United States for he is the greatest living exponent of them. PROF. DuBOIS AND MR. BRYAN. The following letter explains itself: Providence, R. I., July 7, 1908 John Mitchell, Jr., Esq., 311 North Fourth Street, Richmond, Virginia. Dear Sir: In your editorial of the 4th inst. are you in keeping with fair play when you accuse Dr. DuBois of being "rather precipitate in his conclusions"? We have obeyed the Republican Party (slavishly and dogmatically) for forty years until today the party knows it is not necessary to give us anything, as we still consider that party the ship and all else the sea. We should assure the other parties that we be (now) free men and are thinking and are going to right about face. It is now low low twelve for that party that forgets it slaves (as some will always be). Yours for a free people, GEORGE DARBS. We cannot see that we can be charged with not giving fair-play in our discussion of Prof. DuBois' position when we went to the trouble and expense of reproducing his entertaining remarks in their entirety. We even reproduced his poetic quotations. Of course we had a right to our opinion as to his position, just as our readers were given an opportunity to draw their own conclusions. If they disagree with us, it is their right and privilege and we have no complaint to make, for the reason that we have plainly stated that the Republican leaders have given citizens of color ample reasons for knifing the ticket as nominated at Chicago. In Prof. DuBois communication, he declared that the two parties occupied the same ground in their attitude towards the Negro and he proceeds to "swap the devil for the witch" or the "witch for the devil," just as you choose to state it. He does not give the Republican Party time to announce its platform or the Democratic Party time enough to draft one, before he makes his choice. This is all right for Prof. DuBois as an individual, but it is rather poor policy in a leader for the majority of people, both white and colored are not disposed to follow men, who are too precipitate in their actions. This is why Mr. Roosevelt would have never been able to have landed the presidential nomination by way of the ordinary channels. It was the work of the assassin that put the machinery in his hands and enabled him to crush out opposition and to ride rough-shod over the rights of both white and colored men in this country. We still insist though that Dr. DuBois should have based his determination to support Mr. Bryan wholly and solely upon the fact that the Republican National Convention had ignored the protests of the colored leaders and the people they represented by nominating Hon. William H. Taft, who is the living representative of the distinguished occupant of the White House. It was in the light of Prof. DuBois' communication that we voiced a criticism. Again, we say that as an individual, Prof. DuBois has the right to support Mr. Bryan or Mr. Anybody Else. As a leader, he should not be precipitate or unduly hasty in his advocacy of the candidacy of the chieftain of the Democratic Party. A colored man has the same right to vote the Democratic ticket as President Roosevelt has to install Democratic referees over Republican voters throughout the country and he has the same right to support Mr. Bryan as has President Roosevelt to appoint Gen. Luke E. Wright a rock-ribbed Tennessee Democrat to succeed Hon. William H. Taft as Secretary of War. He is to have charge of the colored soldiers now in the army. One thing we believe and that is their treatment cannot be any worse under his administration than it was under his predecessor. Proj. DuBois may be an instructor, but he is not a politician. He may be an economist, but he is not a statesman. As a leader of the movement antagonistic to the "wizard of Tuskegee," Dr. Booker T. Washington, he has already to a large extent discounted his usefulness to the colored men throughout the country, who are looking to him for leadership. The Republican Party should be rebuked and the conservative men of the race conservative mendmnr etaol shrdlu are seeking the best means and methods of doing it. When we say Republican Party, we mean President Roosevelt, for it seems to us that they are both one and the same. Cleveland's Will Filed The will of Grover Cleveland has been filled with the surrogate of Mercer county, N. J., and will be probated within ten days when Mrs. Cleveland will come to Princeton from her mother's home in Tamworth, N. H., where she has been staying since the former president's death. The amount of the estate could not be learned, but it was stated that it was larger than hitherto supposed and would provide comfortably for Mrs. Cleveland and the children. Mr. Cleveland drew the will himself, and arranged that the bulk of his property should go to his widow. THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA W. J. BRYAN IN CONTROL Referred to Credentials Committee After Heated Skirmish. PAID TINBUTE TO CLEVELAND Convention Adopted Resolution of Respect to Memory of the Late President—Gray May Be Named For Vice President—Stirring Scenes In Hall, New Jersey Sticks to Judge Gray. Denver, July 8.—The twentieth national convention of the Democratic party to nominate a candidate for president and vice president of the United States was called to order in S. THEODORE A. BELL. [Temporary Chairman.] the new Auditorium by National Chairman Thomas Taggart. As soon as order was restored Mr. Taggart announced Theodore A. Bell, of California, as temporary chairman. Gray Sentiment For Vice President. The convention hosts chafe over the two-days' delay which must intervene before their great purpose is accomplished—the nomination of a presidential candidate. The tide of Bryan sentiment sweeps on, gathering force as it proceeds, and the chorus of "Bryan, Bryan," is well night universal. With it is a steadily swelling undercurrent for the nomination of George Gray, of Delaware, as vice president, and this movement, at first intangible, has now assumed a definiteness which promises to merge it soon with the seemingly overwhelming current moving toward Bryan. The opponents of Bryan are still seeking to unite their strength against him, with the hope of ultimately accomplishing his defeat. A Stirring Scene. It was a stirring scene which spread before Chairman Taggart when, with uplifted gavel, he sought to bring order out of the confused babel of sound and motion. The splendid amphitheatre, decorated with flags and bunting, was packed to its utmost limits with a dense and seething mass of humanity. Below, in the central arena, sat the delegates, just two more than an even thousand, and back of them the one thousand alternates—those two thousand the real convention, with the destinies of the party in their hands. Flanking them, and sweeping around the hall, were the long lines of eager, expectant onlookers, rising tier on tier and gallery on gallery, solid masses, the brightness of the women in their gay costumes viewing with the splendors of Old Glory, which hung at every hand. Some Notable Leaders Here and there amid this bewildering throng stood out the notable groups of leaders. Immediately in front and under the presiding officer's eye were ranged the Nebraska delegation, bronzed sons of the west, headed by the cowboy mayor, James Dahlman, the personal spokesman of Mr. Bryan. Well in front were the New York cohorts, with Chief Murphy, cold and impenetrable, and Judge Parker, rather serious-faced. Further back Colonel Guffey was the smiling center of his Pennsylvania adherents, and near him James Kerr, who is struggling to displace Guffey and take up the leadership. On the platform sat a notable group—the venerable Senator Daniels, of Virginia, a type of the old-time southwoman, with Towne, the vice presidential candidate and orator, and the tall, blonde, waspy Congressman Sulzer, of New York. With the Virginians could be seen Governor Swanson, Minnesota, with the Johnson lieutenants, was poorly placed in the rear, while Delaware, with the Gray forces, were better off in the right foreground. Off to the left the president's daughter, Mrs. Alice Roosevelt Longworth, smiled from one of the boxes, and from another box looked out the daughter of the Nebraska leader, Mrs. Ruth Bryan Leavitt, beaming as she awaited the naming of her father for the presi- the naming of her father for the presidency. Bryan's Picture Displayed. The initial outbreak of enthusiasm came just as the session was opening, when a silken banner bearing the portrait of Bryan was displayed. Immediately there was a storm of wild applause, which died away after half a minute of explosive demonstrations. The appearance of the temporary presiding officer, Bell, of California, was another signal for enthusiastic outburst. He came forward amid the storm of tribute, tall and sturdy, but rather immaculate for one of the unerrified, with silk-fronted Prince Albert coat, resplendent with convention medals and watch charms, giving the appearance of a decorated diplomatist. In strong, far-carrying voice and easy gesture, he delivered the opening address, a full hour long, with resounding passages, on the righting of public wrongs, punctuated with yells as some phrase tickled the fancy of the throng. It was noticeable that great applause came from the delegates at Bell's impassioned declaration that the writ of injunction shall not be turned into an instrument of oppression. Again there was upoarious applause as he arraigned "Republican campaign contributions without a cash register." After referring to Taft as a "blisted candidate" and demanding "but one man in the White House at a time," he adroitly turned his speech in a panegyric for Mr. Bryan, the reference to the Nebraska leader bringing forth a tumultuous demonstration. The Pennsylvania Row: The appointment of committees was quickly disposed of. For a moment the Pennsylvania row threatened to throw the assembly into wild confusion. That state presented two sets of officers, representing the two contesting factions. Ollie James, of Kentucky, voicing the Bryan sentiment, endeavored to refer the light to the credentials committee. Against this, Col. Guffey and his lieutenants, pale and gesticulating wildly, sought to interpose a protest. But it was of no avail. For a time pandemonium prevailed. And then the smooth running machinery consigned the question to the credentials committee, where Mr. Bryan's adherents are supreme, and the Guffey forces retired, full of wrath and disgust. The presentation of resolutions of respect to the memory of Cleveland brought to the front two notable figures, Judge Parker, of New York. the Democratic candidate of four years ago, and Governor Francis, of Missouri, one of the surviving members of the Cleveland cabinet. The resolutions, as adopted, emanated from Mr. Bryan's friends and were presented by I. D. Junn, of Nebraska, who will make the nominating speech for Mr. Bryan. They were no sooner read than shouts of "Parker, Parker," showed the generous temper of the convention towards the former leader. Judge Parker was prevailed upon to mount the platform, where, with resonant voice, he read his own resolutions of tribute to Mr. Cleveland, closing with a tactful concession to the Bryan forces by seconding the resolutions presented by them. Governor Francis' tribute to his former chief breathed the spirit of personal associan and deep admiration. New Jersey Out For Judge Gray. Denver, July 8.—The New Jersey delegation decided, after a heated argument in their caucus, to vote for George Gray for President. It was also decided to vote under the unit rule. Robert Hudspeth was elected member of the national committee, and James Smith, Jr., was chosen to represent the state on the committee on resolutions. BRYAN READS GUFFEY OUT Calls Him a "Bushwacker," Who Would "Betray Me." Lincoln, Neb., July 7.—For the first time in his political career William Jennings Bryan broke his rule against interference in state politics, and in a speech that was fairly blasting in its fiery denunciation took occasion to read James M. G. Muffey out of the Democratic party as a man who "had wilfully conspired to defeat what he knew to be the expressed wishes of the Democrats of Pennsylvania." The famous Nebraskan found the occasion for his invective in a visit of the Bryan contingent of the Pennsylvania delegates to Fairview. In the party, 150 strong, were nineteen national delegates who are pledged to support Bryan and to wrest the leadership from the Guffey wing, which stands accused of having become an annex to the Republican machine. In the course of his address Mr. Bryan said: "I have notified Mr. Guffey that if I am the party's nominee his presence on the national committee will be an embarrassment to me," said Mr. Bryan, speaking from his front porch to the Pennsylvania callers. "No bushwacker shall be put into my councils to betray me. The man who says he thinks my candidacy will be injurious ought not want to participate in that injury. If he is not ready to put his heart into the campaign, he ought to be willing to let one one else have the responsibility and whatever honor there may be attached to the position." VICTIMS OF THE HEAT Twenty-three Persons Succumbed In New York Tuesday. New York, July 8. — Twenty-three persons were killed and scores prosrated by the heat wave in the eighteen hours ending Tuesday night. The police records do not show those who died from heat under the care of private physicians. Within the last forty two hours the hot spell has claimed forty-four victims. Relief is promised by the weather bureau. Two Dead In Philadelphia Dead in Philadelphia. Phil. spina, July 8. Though the maximum temperature was a few degrees lower than Monday, the weather bureau thermometer registering 91 as the highest mark, there was much continued suffering from the heat here Tuesday and twelve persons reported dead from the heat, either directly or indirectly. One of the most peculiar deaths was that of George F. Green aged 65 years, who sought relief from the heat in the bathtub. He was over come while preparing the bath, and falling into the water was drowned. Edward Tagg, aged 55 years, a dock hand, sat down on the edge of a wharf to rest and, overcome by the heat toppled over into the river and was drowned. A THE PORT OF MISSING MEN THE BEST STORY THAT MEREDITH NICHOLSON HAS EVER WRITTEN ILLUSTRATED BY SWOBODA This Beautiful Story to apper soon in these columns. Watch for it. BIG FLEET SAILS Fifteen Battleships Leave Frisco Or Journey Across Pacific San Francisco, July 8.—The Atlantic battleship fleet sailed Tuesday afternoon. There were fifteen ships in the line, led by Rear Admiral Sperry's flagship, the Connecticut, the Nebraska being detached and sent to the Angel Island quarantine station because of an outbreak of scarlet fever aboard. She will rejoin the fleet at Honolulu. There was no ceremony about the sailing of the fleet. The Connecticut slowly got under way and led the column out through Golden Gate and set the course southwestward for Hono lulu, where the ships will arrive on July 16 for a week's stay. The complete route from Manila to Hampton Roads has not yet been definitely announced, but it is expected that the fleet will arrive at its ultimate destination during the latter part of February, 1909, when it will be joined at Hampton Roads by most of the other ships of the American navy then on the Atlantic coast, and this great fleet of war vessels will again be reviewed by President Roosevelt just prior to his going out of office. Dies From Scratch of Chicken Henry Derrick, a young farmer living near Hogstown, Cumberland county, Pa., is dead as the result of a scratch from the spur of a chicken which he was trying to catch. The wound was sustained June 27, and blood poisoning ensued. A Great Opportunity for Young Men Who Desire an Agricultural Education. Many of the young men who have finished the courses in agriculture at the Tuskegee Institute are commanding salaries ranging from $50 to $100 per month. The graduates of this Department of the school are successfully employed as Instructors, or as managers of important agricultural operations. The school has an agricultural faculty of twenty instructors; men who have received their training in the best agricultural schools of the country. Young colored men and women who desire to take courses in practical and scientific agriculture are now offered the best opportunity to pursue such courses in one of the largest and best equipped schools for practi- Opportunities are now open to 500 young men and women who may wish to take any of the above courses of instruction. The cost of board is $8.50 per month. No charge for instruction. For further information address, BOOKER T. WASHINGTON, Principal. Tuskegee Institute, Alabama. The Demand for an Educated Realizing the demand among the Negro people for an educated ministry, The Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute conducts in connection with its other Departments a Bible Training School. The courses of study are so arranged that, not only ministers and licentates may be benefited, but those also who desire to do better missionary work or become intelligent Sunday School teachers. The chief aim of the Bible Training School is to afford a comprehensive knowledge of the English Bible and to implant in the hearts of those who attend an ambition to dedicate their lives to the elevation and Christianization of their people. Daily supplementary exercises designed to instill habits of sobriety, cleanliness, regularity and accuracy are provided. The teaching is wholly undenominational, the intention being not to oppose or antagonize any theological work being done elsewhere, but instead to assist all denominations. During the past year, the enrollment in the Bible Training School has been satisfactory, but the opportunity is now provided for a considerably larger number. The teaching is free. The cost of board, including furnished room, light, fuel, laundering, etc. is $8.50 per month. The entrance fee is $7 to be paid in cash by each student when he registers. Students will be given the opportunity to work out much of the $8.50 in some cases all of it. Lack of means should not keep any one from entering the Bible School. If the student is not afraid or word and study he will succeed. For further information address BOOKER T. WASHINGTON, Principal. Tuskegee Institute, Alabama. VIRGINIA—In the Law and Equity Court of the City of Richmond, July 1st, 1908. Louis Collins, Plaintiff. vs. In Chancery. Nancy Collins, Defendant. The object of this suit is to obtain a Divorce, a Vinculo Matrimonii, by the plaintiff against the defendant. And an affidavit having been made and filed that the defendant is a non- resident of the State of Virginia, it is ordered that she, said defendant appear here within fifteen days after the due publication of this order and do whatever is necessary to protect her interest herein. A Copy—Teste: P. P. WINSTON, Clerk, J. HENRY CRUTCHFIELD, p. o. To Nancy Collins: You will take notice that I shall on the 19th day of August, 1908 at the office of Phil B. Shleid, room numbered 60, Chamber of Commerce Building, situated S. W. corner of 9th 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. LOUIS COLLINS, By Counsel. J. HENRY CRUTCHFIELD, p. q. 1211½ E. Broad St., Richmond. IT WILL PAY YOU To interest yourself in promot ing the CIRCULATION of th RICHMOND PLANET. THE PLANET SATURDAY.....JULY 11, 1908. CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS hursday, July 2. Rear Admiral Charles H. Rockwell, retired, died at Chatham, Mass., of apoplexy, at the age of sixty-eight years. William Burns, an iron worker, out of employment, dropped dead in his cell at Reading, Pa., from the shock due to his arrest. Lorenzo Dow Harvey, Ph. Dd., superintendent of public schools of Meenominee, Wis., was elected president of the National Education association. Mae C. Wood, the Omaha woman who sued United States Senator Thomas C. Platt for divorce, was indicted by a grand jury in New York on charges of perjury and forgery. Friday, July 3. Denver was selected as the place for holding next year's convention of the National Education association. The Pure Oil company's local plant at Bethelhem, Pa., was completely destroyed by fire, due to the explosion of a gasoline engine, causing a loss of $20,000. Five persons were killed and thirty-six injured near Knobnoster, Mo., when the fast California special on the Missouri Pacific collided with the St. Louis special. Four persons were seriously injured and two dwelling houses partially wrecked when a charge of dynamite was exploded by Black Hand agents at the home of George Deavotoria, a wealthy Italian, living at McKeensport, Pa. Monday, July 6. Recelvers' certificates to the amount of $30,000 may be issued to allow of the purchase of Jamestown Exposition state buildings. The police of Schenectady, N. Y., have arrested Eugene Wilson, colored, suspected of being a mail robber wanted at Kansas City. Wading out beyond his depth and unable to swim, Clement, the seven teen-year-old son of J. R. Montgomery, of Orangeville, Pa., was drowned in Fishing creek. After an illness of more than two years, Mrs. Lida Young, of Judge James S. Young, of the United States circuit court, died at the family residence at Pittsburg. Tuesday, July 7. Minneapolis has been selected as the next meeting place of the National Young Peoples Christian Union, of the Universalist church, July 7 to 14, 1909. The E. I. Du Pont De Nemours Powder company, of Wilmington, Del., was the lowest bidder, at $238,405, for furnishing 2,000,000 pounds of dynamite to the isthmian canal commission. Charged with disorderly conduct in masquerading for nine years as a man Mrs. Augusta Sieg, thirty-six years old of 641 Sixth avenue, New York, has been sentenced to the workhouse for five days. The president has accepted the resignation of Judge William Lochren judge for the United States district court for the district of Minnesota at St. Paul, and has appointed M. D Purdy, present assistant to the attorney general, to the vacancy. Wednesday, July 8. Five persons, all members of one family, were drowned in the Nemahe river, near Unadilla, Neb., during a flood. Algernon Sartoris, a grandson of President Grant, has been appointed secretary of legation at Guatemala, vice William F. Sands. One man was killed, a woman was fatally injured and damage amounting to $50,000 resulted at Monongahela Pa., when a boiler in the water works plant exploded. Jacob Zimmerman, aged seventy-six years, engaged in the coal business at Norristown, Pa., for many years, committed suicide by shooting himself in the mouth with a revolver. Bishop Potter Out of Danger Bishop Potter Out of Danger. Cooperstown, N. Y., July 8.—Not withstanding the intense heat, Bishop Henry Codman Potter, who is suffering from liver and stomach trouble, continues to improve, and there is every reason to believe that he will recover now that the crisis of his malady has passed. His physicians feel that his progress toward recovery has been marked that he may be considered practically out of danger. Fall On Hay Fork Fatal Isaac Taylor, aged sixteen, was in instantly killed at his home at Barnes boro. N. J., by falling of a load of hay on the tines of a pitchfork. The boy 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 work, 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 lad's head hit the top of the door frame. He was thrown from the wagon, his head striking the floor with terrible force, while his body was impaled upon the tines of the fork, which penetrated his abdomen. He died in stantly. Bursting Abscess Strangles Woman. Mrs. Franklin Lafferty, wife of a leading cafe proprietor at Pottstown, Pa., died a few minutes after having a molar extracted. The woman had been in the best of health, with the exception of a large abscess at the root of the tooth. After the tooth had been extracted, the abscess burst and the woman was strangled to death. She was twenty-four years old, and was a member of a well-known family here. 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BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG, BATTLE OF SHILOH, BATTLE OF FIVE FORKS, VA., BATTLE OF ATLANTA, GA., BATTLE OF SPOTTSYLVANIA, VA., BATTLE OF VICKSBURG, MISS., BATTLE OF LOOKOUT MOUNTAIN, TENN., BATTLE BETWEEN THE MONITOR AND THE MERRIMAC, BATTLE OF BULL RUN, VA., BATTLE OF CHANCELLORSVILLE, BATTLE OF THE BIG HORN, (CUSTER'S LAST CHARGE) STORMING OF FORT WAGNER, S. C., (COLORED TROOPS IN THIS FIGHT), BAT OF NEW ORLEANS, LA., CAPTURE AND ATH OF SITTING BULL, THE GREAT INDIAN CHIEFTAIN; FORT PELLOW MASSACRE, FALL OF PETERSBURG, VA., BATTLE OF WINCHESTER, VA., BATTLE OF OLUSTEE, FLA. WE WILL SEND FAMILY RECORD, SIZE 22 BY 28, WHICH CONTAINS SPACE FOR PHOTOGRAPHS OF PARENTS AND TEN CHILDREN. WE WILL SEND SOLDIERS WAR RECORD (CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE IN UNITED STATES ARMY.) FOR ONE YEAR EACH, OR THEIR EQUIVALENT, WE WILL SEND YOU A COPY OF UNCLE TOM'S CABIN, THE MOST INTENSELY INTERESTING BOOK IN THE COUNTRY. WE WILL SEND YOU A GOLD-PLATED BROOCH WITH YOUR PICTURE THEREIN, YOU TO Convict Nominated For President. Candidates for president and vice president of the United States were nominated and a platform was adopted by the national convention of the Socialist Labor party in New York. The ticket named is as follows: For president—Martin R Preston, of Nevada. For vice president—Donald Munro, of Virginia. The nomination of Preston for president was unanimous. The candidate was placed in nomination by Daniel De Leon, who characterized the man he was naming as "an honest workingman, not a professional workingman." De Leon explained that Preston had been sentenced to twenty-five years' imprisonment for shooting a restaurant keeper in Goldfield three years ago during a strike. Preston, De Leon asserted, had acted as the protector of defenseless girls, and by so doing had enraged a restaurant keeper named Silver. Silver, Mr. De Leon said, was shot by Preston while threatening to kill the latter. Potatomato Vine. Alfred Soderman, connected with the Massachusetts agricultural commission, is growing potatoes and tomatos on the same vine at the experiment station at Worcester. This is the culmination of experiments that he has been making for years. In February Mr. Soderman grafted Lorillard tomato plants to potato vines, and now has a number of double plants Above ground are found tomato plants loaded with tomatoes, while in the ground are potatoes the size of an egg Good Road As Memorial to Lincoln A magnificent highway, extending from this city to Gettysburg, Pa., a distance of seventy-two miles, as a national memorial to Abraham Lincoln, is the recommendation made by James T. McCleary, second assistant postmaster general and formerly a member of congress from Minnesota, to the Abraham Lincoln memorial commission. Mr. McCleary's recommendation is contained in a preliminary report to the commission, of which he is a member. --- Drowned With Faithful Dog COLLEGE WITH Patricia Dog. Benjamin Rosenberg, Jr., and his faithful dog, who went to the lad's rescue, were both drowned in the Delaware river at the foot of High land avenue, Chester, Pa. The boy was swimming with the aid of a life preserver, but the preserver broke and he was unable to keep himself afloat. The dog, which had saved his life Monday again went to his rescue, but the boy in his excitement seized the animal with his arm and the two went down together. PRODUCE QUOTATIONS The Latest Closing Prices In the Principal Markets. PHILADELPHIA — FLOUR weak; winter extras, new, $3.50@.65; Penn sylvania roller, clear, $7.70@.38.5; city quiet, new, $1.25@.35; quiet, per barrel, $4.40@.45.9; WHEAT firm; No. 2 red, western, 90%@.91; CORN firm; No. 2 yellow, local, 81%@.81; OLE firm; No. 2 white, clip, 59%@.60; low loaf, 80%@.80; HAY weak, timothy, $14.50@.15; PORK firm; family, per barrel, $18.50 BEEF steady; beef heals, per barrel, 12%@.13c; old rooster, 12%@.13c; steady, choice fowls, 12%@.13c; 91%c BUTTER steady; extra creamy, 26c; EGGS firm; selected, 23c; nearby, 19c; western, 19c; PRESSED steady, new, per barrel, $27.50@. BALTIMORE - WHEAT firmer; No. 2 spot, 93@193%c; steamer No. 2 spot, 87@871%c; southern, 87@91c; CORN strong and mild; mixed, 77@73%c; strong and mild, 75@75%c, 89%c; No. 3 58@581%c; No. 4 455%c; mixed, No. 2, 57@571%c; No. 3, 58@561%c; BUTTER steady; creamy separator extras, 24%@25%c; prints, 2@26c; held, 19@20c; Maryland and dairy, dairy prints, 16@17c; EGGS dairy, dairy prints, 16@17c; sylvania, Virginia and West Virginia, 17c; sylvania, 16c. per dozen. Live Stock Markets PITTSBURG (Union Stock Yards)—CATTLE higher; choice, $6.80@7; prime, $6.60@6.75. SHEEP strong; lambs higher; prime wethers, $4.20@4 lambs and common, $@3; lambs, $@7.50; scalelives, $@7.50 HOUS higher; prime heavies, mediums and heavy Yorkers, $6.85@6.90; light Yorkers, $6.50; plgs, $6@10; roughs, $5@5.00 Ten-Year-Old Boy Held For Murder. Robert Jardine, ten years of age has been taken to jail at Lesueur Mich., 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 said to have lain in wait. Killed By Pitched Ball Elmer Cole, a member of the Ber- wick Base Ball club, died at the City hospital at Wilkes-Barre, Pa., as a re- sult of being hit with a pitched ball in a game played at Bloomsburg, Pa., last Saturday. 0 Didn't Broaden Him. "They say that travel broadens a man," said the dark woman. "Well, I don't know about that," replied the light woman. "My husband has been a conductor on a tollcar for seven years, and see how thin he is!"—Yonkers Statesman. Working for It. "Miss Belle Towne may be a pretty woman, but she has such a fixed countenance." "Of course she has. It takes her half an hour to fix it."—Baltimore American. The Feminine View of it. "Nell, what is a panic?" "It is something, my dear child, which gives your husband a good excuse whenever you ask him for money for new clothes, house fixings or a little outing."—Baltimore American. A Slight Misunderstanding. "Is your occupation a sedentary one?" "Well, it might be, except that I can't get out much while I'm working."—Baltimore American. WE WILL SEND YOU THE PLANET AND THE ST LOUIS, MISSOURI, SEMI-WEEKLY GLOBE DEMOCRAT, ONE OF THE LEADING REPUBLICAN JOURNALS IN THE UNITED STATES FOR $2.25 PER YEAR FOR BOTH. WE WILL SEND YOU THE PLANET AND THE COSMOPOLITAN MAGAZINE FOR $2.25 PER YEAR FOR BOTH. WE WILL SEND YOU THE PLANET AND McCLURE'S MAGAZINE FOR $2.25 PER YEAR FOR BOTH. FURNISH THE PHOTOGRAPHY TAIN PEN, GOLD POINT; ONE ONE BREAST-PIN, GOLD FILLEN LINEN HANDKERCHIEFS, CLOCK, ONE DOZEN NAPKIN DOZEN TOWELS, ONE CHOCO PAIR VASES, ONE PAIR KID HAM, ONE TURKEY. FOR TEN NEW SUBSC OR THEIR EQUIVALENT, WE WILL SEND PICTURES, ONE ONLY, OF PRESIDENT THEODORE ROOSEVELT, DR. BOOKER T. WASHINGTON, BATTLE OF SANTIAGO, LAND BATTLE OF QUASIMAS NEAR SANTIAGO, JUNE 24, 1898, SHOWING THE NINTH AND TENTH COLORED CAVALRY IN SUPPORT OF ROUGH RIDERS, SIZE 20X28 AND 20X24 INCHES, LAND BATTLE AND CHARGE OF THE 24TH & 25TH THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA 1F YOU WILL TALK WITH YOUR NEIGH ```markdown ``` FOR TWO YEARLY SUBSCRIBERS FOR FIVE NEW SUBSCRIBERS REQUISITE NUMBER IS GBTAINED, WE WILL FORWARD THE PRESENT INDICATED. A PERSON WHO TRIES TO GET FORTY SUBSCRIBERS AND GETS TIRED MAY INDICATE HIS WISH AND WE WILL SEND THE PRESENT FOR THE NUMBER HE HAS SECURED OVER FIVE. THE NUMBER WILL BE FOR NOT LESS THAN FIVE NOR MORE THAN TEN AND NOT LESS THAN TEN NOR M HAN TWENTY AND NOT LESS THAN Y NOR MORE THAN FORTY, TO DET THE PRIZE TO WHICH THE WORKER TLED. IF ANYTHING IS DESIRED NOT SPECI FIED IN THIS LIST, WRITE US ABOUT IT AND WE WILL TELL YOU IN WHAT CLASS IT BE LONGS ADDRESS ALL ORDERS TO JOHN MITCHELL, JR., 311 North Fourth Street, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA A LANET WEEKLY READING UNITED BH. T AND R $2.25 T AND YEAR ND PIC- THEO- WASH- D BAT- JUNE 24, H COL- GH RI LAND & 25TH ```markdown ``` REQUEST FOR WAR SHOULD YOU DESIRE ANY COLORED JOURNAL IN THE UNITED STATES, WE WILL SEND IT TO YOU IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE PLANET AT A GREATLY REDUCED RATE FOR BOTH. FURNISH THE PHOTOGRAPH, ONE FOUNTAIN PEN, GOLD POINT; ONE LADIES RING, ONE BREAST-PIN, GOLD FILLED; HALF DOZEN LINEN HANDKERCHIEFS, ONE ALARM CLOCK, ONE DOZEN NAPKINS, ONE HALF DOZEN TOWELS, ONE CHOCOLATE POT, ONE PAIR VASES, ONE PAIR KID GLOVES, ONE HAM, ONE TURKEY. WE WILL SEND ONE CHINA SET, THIRTY-ONE PIECES; ONE NECKLACE; DICKENS, SHAKESPEARE, BYRON WORKS; ONE UMBRELLA, ONE PLAIN GOLD RING, ONE PAIR LACE CURTAINS 1,000 ENVELOPES, 1,000 SHEETS OF PAPER PRINTED AND DELIVERED; ONE TOILET SET, ONE HALF CORD OF SAWED WOOD FOR TWENTY NEW SUBSCRIBERS WE WILL GIVE ONE HANDSOME GOLD RING WITH OPALS, RUBIES OR PEARLS; ONE JEWELRY BOX FINISHED IN GOLD OR SILVER; ONE SILK SHIRT WAIST; ONE READY MADE DRESS, ONE GOLD WATCH, FILLED, WARRANTED FOR TEN YEARS, ONE ROCKING CHAIR, ONE LOAD OF COAL, ONE GROSS OF SOAP, EITHER WASHING OR TOILET; ONE BARREL OF BEST FLOUR, ONE PAIR BLANKETS, ONE MANICURE SET, ONE SEAMSTRESS' WORK BOX, ONE PAIR SHOES, GENTS OR LADIES. FOR FORTY YEARLY SUBSCRIBERS OR EQUIVALENT, WE WILL GIVE ONE SEWING MACHINE, ONE DIAMOND RING, ONE GOLD WATCH, ONE PAIR FINE GOLD EARRINGS, ONE MUSIC BOX, ONE PHONOGRAPH, ONE READY MADE DRESS, ONE SUIT OF GENTLEMEN'S CLOTHES, ONE GOLD-HEADED CANE, ONE GOLD-HEADED UMBRELLA, ONE CHINA SET, ONE DOZEN SILVER-PLATED KNIVES AND FORKS, ONE HAT-RACK, ONE SILK DRESS, ONE WEEK'S TRIP TO THE SEASHORE, RAILROAD FARE AND HOTEL BILL PAID, FOR ANY RICHMOND WORKER. THESE OFFERS MAY BE TAKEN ADVANTAGE OF BY SENDING ONE OR TWO SUBSCRIBER'S NAMES AT A TIME. WE WILL KEEP A RECORD OF THEM; AS SOON AS THE FOR TEN NEW SUBSCRIBERS FIVE ```markdown ``` THE PLANET SATURDAY...JULY 11, 1908 ROAD AND FARM IMPROVEMENT GUIDE FOR DRAG SAWS One Man Only Required to Operate It Instead of Two. A very simple method by which one man can manipulate a drag saw to cut down trees has been devised by a western timber man. In using these saws two men have heretofore been necessary, one at each end of the saw. The arrangement of the drag-saw guide is shown in the illustration Guides the Saw. Resting against the tree is a rod, from which is suspended a cord. At the end of the cord is an adjustable clamp to which one end of the saw is secured. At the other end of the saw is a handle. In operating the saw to cut the tree, the end opposite the handle is supported by the cord in the same position as if operated by hand. With the employment of this guide the necessity of an extra man to manage one end of the saw is eliminated. WHERE THE FARMER WINS No Mistake Made When He Gives Lots of Room to Hens. The cheapest eggs, like the cheapest butter and cheese, are made by the man with plenty of land. The farmer who will pay due attention to care of his poultry and to marketing the product need not fear the competition of the village lot and the city backyard. The farmer lays out no money for fancy buildings or fences. His birds forage part of their own living and improve in vigor. They find for themselves what the town poultry keeper has to buy at much expense, only to find his flock surely losing vitality after a year or two in close quarters. Yet some farmers continue to throw away their advantage by treating their pens as if farm land sold at about $1 a foot. Thus on one farm the 75 pure bred hens brought in over $300, or just about the same as the seven cows on the farm, yet the farmer grudged the hens the small halfacre they received out of the 60. With two acres set with fruit trees, says the American Cultivator, the hens and chickens would have done still better and the cows scarcely have known the difference. HOW TO TAN SHEEP SKINS Method of Handling Them So as to Fit Them for Home Use. The Country Gentleman gives this method of tanning sheep skins which any farmer could easily follow in tanning the skins wanted for home use: Wash the hide in warm water, remove all fleshy matter from the inner surface and loose dirt from the hair side. Now wash in strong, rather warm soapsuds. The old-time soft soap made from wool ashes is best. Either rub by hand or gently on washboard. As soon as thoroughly cleaned and rinsed, press as much of the water out as possible. Add the following mixture to the flesh slide: Common salt and ground alum, one-fourth ounce each, and one-half ounce of borax dissolved in one quart of hot water. When sufficiently cool to work with the hand add enough rye meal to make a thick paste. Spread the mixture on the flesh slide; fold and let it remain in a shady, airy place for two weeks; remove the paste and wash. When nearly dry scrape the flesh slide thoroughly with a dull knife; rub with the hands until skin is soft and pliable. Grading Seed Oats L. D. Clark reports in the Illinois Agriculturist, a little paper issued at the State Agricultural college, some tests on grading seed oats in the summer of 1907. The oats were graded with a fanning mill into three grades—first, second and third. The first grade was large, plump berries; the second not so large and plump; while the third were small. These three grades were sown in an adjoining strip of land at the rate of two bushels per acre. The first grade averaged 98.5 bushels per acre, or 45 bushels more than the other two grades. Leaf Spot. A lady reader wants to know how to overcome leaf spot after the disease once has a hold in the plants. The trouble cannot be corrected, and rarely can it be ever arrested. Spraying should be done as a means of prevention before the plants or trees have bloomed. Time spent in application of remedies now is usually time wasted. GROW TREES Profit by Watching Waste Places on the Farm. Many poor soils, now waste spots on the farm, would become profitable if planted with the right kind of forest trees, and cared for in the right way. Trees will often grow where grain and grass will not. Swamps, stony ridges, exhausted fields, and washed hillsides need not be abandoned. There is money in most of them if they are set to work producing woodlots and forest. But knowledge and judgment are necessary, and a bad guess may be costly. Many trees do well in their soils—cone-bearing trees in particular. The farmer is fortunate whose land has no poor spots. Few landowners are so well off. Fertile acres are usually fairly profitable, but the gravel bars, rocky knolls, marshy swales, and exhausted and eroded slopes are not. Scarcely one of them need remain unproductive. They will grow timber—pine, locust, poplar, osage orange, oak, chestnut, or some other kind. But the soil must be studied, and the species selected to suit it. Failure might follow the planting of walnut on soil suited to white pine, or vice versa. Studies of various regions and trees that suit them have been made by the forest service at Washington. Results and conclusions have been published, and may be had for the asking. The aim of these studies has been to point out how the farm's waste and neglected corners may be turned into woodlots where the farmer may grow his own posts, poles, fences and sawlogs. It is decidedly worth while to keep all of the farm at work, says the Farmers' Review. The owner pays taxes on all his land, and is out of pocket for whatever is not earning him something. Further, by growing a tree crop on land which is too poor to plow, the quality of the land itself is improved. Forests add humus to the soil, bettering its character; and it has lately been discovered that the decaying leaf litter has also power of gathering from the air a certain amount of nitrogen, the most important of plant foods. In this respect the forest does for the soil what leguminous crops, like clover and alfalfa, do. Wood growing on worn-out land thus becomes doubly profitable. The land is made useful and improved at the same time. TRIPOD HAY FORK DERRICK With It Lots of Hard Labor Is Easily Avoided. Three poles 35 feet long are required to make the hay derrick shown in the illustration. They are fastened A Tripod Derrick for Hay Fork. together at the top in the manner indicated at A and can be raised with a team fastening a rope to the end of the single pole and passing it out between the two poles on the opposite side which have been placed in holes. Draw steadily until the desired height is reached. Almost any size or shape of stack can be built under these poles. FARM HINTS. A well kept lawn reflects the good taste and nature of the owner. An ounce of reconciliation over a line fence is better than a lawsuit. line fence is better than a lawsuit. The horse is man's best friend, therefore he is deserving of a friend's treatment. Don't forget that the barnyard manure is the best all-around fertilizer you can obtain. Pasture makes the cheapest hog feed on the farm, and clover makes the best hog pasture. Don't let money act as a padlock on your heart, and shut in all the kindness and happiness. The animal that has a full, bright eye is apt to be healthy. And a moist nose is another indication of health. Every farmer should have a pair of scales. It is the only way for the farmer to know exactly where he stands in his buying and selling. Talk over with the good housewife all the undertakings of the farm. She will have some good advice to offer. Don't borrow too much. It is more satisfactory both to yourself and your neighbors to have tools of your own. —Indiana Farmer. Saved His Horse. A man saved his horse from bleed- ding to death from a wounded artery by a mixture of equal parts of wheat flour and salt, bound on with strips of muslin. He used about three pints of the mixture and left it on for several days until it worked off. Greatest Tribute. The silence that accepts merit as the most natural thing in the world is the highest applause. -Emerson. THE RICHMOND PLANET. RICHMOND. VIRGINIA REFLECTIONS OF UNCLE EZRA. Why is it a manicurist is always a woman? It rained cats and dogs the other day and they had veal stew for dinner at the hutte. You kin tell a carpenter by his chips and, by gravy, you kin tell a poker player the same way. There ain't no style about some fellers. Abner Hanks of our town drives around in his spring wagon until 'way late in the tail. If they ever adopt that elastic currency in this country I suppose a feller will have plenty of money to buy suspenders with. If there is any job more ticklish than climbin' through a barb-wire fence it is that of expressin' your honest opinion of your wife's folks. A picture postal card arrived in our midst from Paris, France, last week and nineteen citizens have announced their candidacy for postmaster. Miss Euphremia Mudge of our village says she is in love with her Art, but, by ginger, we also, been able as yet to find out what Art's last name is. Mrs. J. Frothingham Butts, our society leader, has sent to New York for some of that pink tea she has read so much about in the society columns. One difference between a balky hoss and a balky hoss is that you can unhitch a balky hoss without hirn' a lawyer to prove incompatibility of temperature.—Judge SAYS THE CYNIC It's a good plan to face the back- bitter. It doesn't take an actor to make up for lost time. Patience is a virtue when it isn't simply laziness. You can't always tell when a gun is loaded, but you generally know when a man is. The time may come when the spend-thrift won't have the cents he was born with. Beauty is as beauty does. The derrick isn't handsome, but it has an up-lifting influence. There are people so constituted that they couldn't find happiness with a fine-tooth comb. It's a fine thing to be a leader, but it is better to follow a good example than to set a bad one. If matches are made in heaven, it is evident that they are not to be made light of. It isn't always because they are fond of flowers that people throw bouquets at themselves. MUSINGS OF A BACHELOR. It's cheaper to be married than to be engaged. In the game of hearts when in doubt always lead diamonds. If you are not prepared to diet don't attempt to live on love. A man will try to marry the girl he loves—a girl will try to love the man she marries. The foolish girl sighs to be the first in a man's life; the wise ones seek to be the last. Even though a man thinks the world of a woman he should remember that there are others. A good man often burns the candle at both ends in order to throw more light on the subject. Women rarely know what a contempt they have for society until they find themselves cut by it. When you stand on the doorsteps of Love always get past into the hall before you give the belle a ring. There is only one man to whom women can be crueler than to the one she hates—that is the man whom she loves. CURBSTONE PHILOSOPHY. It is easier to hit a lion than a hare. A bird in the hand catches no worms. An iron will needs analyzing. It may be pig-iron. Even the Kohinoor had to be cut and polished. The fresh consider themselves the salt of the earth. Take care of the pennies and somebody else will take care of the dollars. No man was ever truly wise. Even Solomon took more than one wife. The world is usually willing to step aside for a man who knows where is is going.—Success Magazine. The Main Trouble Most people would be satisfied with the kind of a living they are making if other people were not living better.—Chicago Record-Herald. Feathers and Birds Fine feathers do not always make fine birds; sometimes they make a little goose.—Dallas News. Knights of Pythias, This organization is one of the most powerful in the country and its progress has been phenomenal. The Grand Lodge of Virginia has jurisdiction over all of the cities and counties in this state. Thirty males are required to organize a new lodge. The benefits paid constitute one of its strongest features, but the principles are greater than anything else. Founded on Friendship, based on Charity and established on Benevolence, the respectable, upright people of the state will find it an order worthy of their heartiest support. 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- stitutes 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 PYTHIAKS F.C.B. pays $4.00 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 benefits. The only expense for me a rosette, costing 25 cents for f THE BANDS OF CALA stitutes a feature and persons of circle. The expense is nomine $1.00 to $1.50 sick dues and do Lodge or Court or Band in you For all information concerni For all information concern membership in the lodges and SAGE SAVINGS BY OSCAR. A rolling stone iss no mossback. Efen a crooked voman's hat may be on straight. Dree iss company ven von iss buying. A sea rofer does nod mean a dog fish. A tief in der night iss nod dressed in pajamas. A sight ad der front vindow is bedder as hindsight. Liddle addet to liddle makes der vay we spend our money. Many people who volt radder be right dan bresidend get left. Luff makes der verlt go round becosi id blockates der sitewalk. Fortune hunters haf to huf der name before dey can get der game. Chigens come home to roost, but dey get deir garten seeds negst door. Dere iss room ad der top becos somepody always iss being shofed off. Der great nations of der eart send each odder diblomats to vipe deir feet on. Der man vot takes notes on hiss trafels shouldt be sure dot dey wass negotiable. You haf heard of a cherm of a great discoefery, but id iss not der same as der discoefery of a great micron. EPIGRAMS. The bed of roses withers with the day. Politeness opens many doors—but does not leave them open. Many a man thinks he is a good fellow who is merely a good thing. Talking comes by nature, but silence is only acquired by experience. A lie travels around the world before Truth gets through studying the time-table. The man who drinks to get rid of trouble will soon have trouble to get rid of drink. The candid friend is a person who says what he thinks without thinking what he says. The man who has righteousness but no courage is like a clock with good works but no hands. All things come to him who waits provided he doesn't get hit by an automobile in the meantime. The woman who never stops to think whether she wants suffrage or not is the only one who deserves to have it. There is always something to remind a man of the shortness of life, even if it is nothing but a drug store or a doctor's buggy.—Sunday Magazine. THROUGH ADAM'S EYES. There's a remedy for everything except death—and matrimony. A man who would tell a secret to a dumb woman has a diabolical genius for torture. "Vanity is the vice of fools." This is one of the unkindest things ever said of woman. Happiness is at the end of the rainbow. But in the shower that precedes it some one is sure to get soaked. N. A., S. A., E. A., A. AND A. organization is one of the most power has been phenomenal. The Grand over all of the cities and counties in need to organize a new lodge. The longest features, but the principles standed on Friendship, based on Charity, the respectable, upright people of their heartiest support. An endowment and burial benefit of $0 per week sick dues. The badge of galla. For information concerning courts of Calanty of the Order. It requires a memorial court. Its members are pledged and prove Love one for the other. Benefit of $150.00. It pays $3.00 per regalia is the cost of the badge, 50 funeral occasions. ANTHE or Children's Department cannot do better than to enter the final and the benefits all that could death benefits of from $30.00 to $40 our neighborhood, orgnizu one. ning the Children's Department ad Mrs. ANNA TAYLOR, W. M. 120 W. Hill St., Richmond ERNING special rates of courts, address JOHN MITCHELL 311 N. 4th St. The man who can discern all the secrets of a woman's heart is he who may read messages written upon the surface of the changing tides. "Pride goeth before a fall;" but, in these days of unusual social ac- complishments, a man may slip on a banana peel and make polite capital of it. Never sound the praises of another woman before your wife. The wise and chastened man knows that press work, like charity, begins at home— and ends there.—New York Telegram Boasts of "I have a cousin a duke." "That's nothing, who is divorced from a baron."—Chicago The Old, "So you and you quarreled. How c "In the old way, fell in love and t Baltimore America BOARDING WOMAN AND THE CYNIC The unexpressed woman's proverb is: Man is money. The hair was given to woman long, to give her an occupation. The great advantage to man in marriage is that it protects him from his pleasures. The Englishman's home is his castle; the Englishwoman to-day imagines her house is her prison. The rigid concealment of her imperfections is woman's first law; man has more the courage of his defects. The petticoat in need is a petticoat indeed; however masculine a woman is, she reverts to the woman when necessary. Ancient Font Restored An ancient font, removed years ago from St. James' parish church, Louth, Ireland, has been discovered in use as a flower pot and replaced in the church. An Oratorio of Memory Home should be an oratorio of memory, singing to all our afterlife melodies and harmonies of old-remembered joy—Beecher. "How long does a dream last?" asks a university of Berlin professor. With politicians who never get there a lifetime sometimes.—Richmond Times Leader. When She Marks Them Down. It is only when she and her husband are alone together that a woman says her hats cost less than those which her neighbor wears. "Don't," advises an advocate of short words, "say numerous when you mean many." Why say many when you mean lots? Adding to His Offensiveness. The man who told us so is always doubly offensive if he comes around after the arrival of our troubles and tries to look as if he had forgotten all about it. Evanishing. Yet, the rose is beautiful, and Time he withers it; and fair is the violet in spring, and swiftly it waxes old; white is the lily, it fadeth when it falleth; and snow is white, and melteth after it hath been frozen. And the beauty of youth is fair, but lives only for a little season.—Theocritus. Mother and Daughter A little woman child, a growing girl, is still so much under her mother that to think or speak of the one is to think or speak of the other. And just what the mother is, just that, at all these early stages of her life, at any rate, her daughter is—Dr. Alexander Whyte. Truly Beautiful Life A life need not be great to be beautiful. There may be as much beauty in a tiny flower as in a majestic tree, in a little gem as in a great mountain. A beautiful life is one that fulfills its mission—that is what God made it to be, and does what God made it to do. J. R. Miller. Dreams. Simplicity Evanishing. ment also con- he little ones into this mystic ld be expected. It pays from $40.00. If you have noPythian address. 311 N. 4th St., Richmond, Va Boasts of the Day. "I have a cousin who is engaged to a duke." "That's nothing. I have a sister who is divorced from two counts and a baron."—Chicago Record-Herald. The Old, Old Way. "So you and your sweetheart have quarreled. How did that happen?" "In the old way, I guess. First, we fell in love and then we fell out."—Baltimore American. BOARDING & LODGING Rates Reasonable. All the Comforts of Home Orders received by letter or telegraph MRS. BOOKER LEFTWICH. PROPRIETRESS 816 N. 2nd St., 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, a Hair Dressing can be bought at Jennings and Brown Drug Store, Pittsburgh, Pa. Furnished Rooms, 50c. up. Meals, 50c. up. THE MT. 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 Health and Treatment 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. JOHN FOXEL Dealer in General Line of FANCY AND STAPLE GROCERIES, NOTIONS. FRESH MEATS, CI- GARS, TOBACCO, ICE, WOOD, COAL, &c. 11 8. 4TH ST.. RICHMOND, VA. ```markdown ``` MRS. JOSIE 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 and beautifying ladies faces for parties and public gatherings, 35 cents. Mrs. Graham scampoos the head and puts it in a healthy condition, 25 cents. All ladies who attend parties and other social gatherings should have their finger nails manicured and made beautiful, 25 cents. Mrs. Graham's preparations sell at sight. Ladies living in other cities and towns can make good money by selling these preparations. Write for terms to Mrs. J. A. Graham, No. 108 E. Leigh St., Richmond, Va. SCHOOL SHOES. 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. ALL ORDERS WILL RECEIVE PROMPT ATTENTION. Long Distance 'Phone', 752. STRAUS' SPECIAL Old Yacht Club. Will Satisfy the lover of the right kind of stimulant. Special prices. We have all grades of good liquors, Cigars and Tobacco. Call and see us. ISAAC STRAUS & CO., 422 E. Broad St., Richmond, Virginia. S. W. ROBINSON. NO. 23 NORTH 18TH ST. DEALER IN FINE WINES, LIQUORS CIGARS, &c. All Stock Sold as Guaranteed. PROMPT ATTENTION. Your patronage is respectfully solicited. GEORGE O. BROWN. PHOTOGRAPHER, 603 N. 2nd St., Richmond, Va. Fine Photographs. True to Life. High-class service. Latest improvements in Photograp- h. Outdated. Limited. Reasonable Estimates and Prompt Suggestions. Photos Enlarged from Old negatives or Photographs. THE ECONOMY 303-5 North Third St FINE TAILORING CLEANING, DYEING ANI REPAIRING CHITMAN M. WHITE, PROPRIETOR. A. Hayes First-class Hacks and Caskets of all descriptions. I have a spare room for bodies when the family have not a suitable place. All country orders are given special attention. Your special attention is called to the new style Oak Caskets. Call and see me and you shall be waited on individually. 'Phone, 2778. THE PLANET SATURDAY...JULY 11, 1908 ARE MORE NATURAL CHANGE IN STYLE OF PUFFS FOR THE HAIR. Building a Foundation of One's Own Tresses Improves the General Effect—The Latest Fashionable Dressing. "No, puffs are not dying out in the least," said a city hair dresser when questioned on this all-absorbing problem of the matinee girl. "They've grown more natural, that's all. Women say they don't mind having people know that they wear false puffs, but still they are giving up the stereotyped rows of sausage-like puffs that might as well have had the price mark on them as far as naturalness goes. "One way that this natural effect is gained is by building a foundation of puffs made of one's own hair. "To puff the hair take a small strand and comb it out to the ends; then rough the very tips of the strand and begin to wind the strand of hair around the two forefingers until near the head. This will give a smooth puff if it is done in the correct way, and even a small amount of hair will make a fair sized puff. "Five or six of these puffs are enough to begin to build the outer layer on. There is one thing to remember in dressing the hair in this fashion, and that is, that while the puffs follow a decided line in general, they are not fastened on in tight little rows or in any stiff and regular way. When finished they should look soft and loose and the mass should form a conical shaped knot with tendrils and curls here and there to break up the regularity that puffs alone might make. "The number of false puffs required to make a fashionable dressing depends to some degree on the size of the head they are to adorn. Eight or ten will usually give a good effect with the average amount of hair. In adjusting them great care should be taken to see that they do not look heavy and massed. The end of the knot particularly should have a light and fuzzy appearance. "Pompadours are a matter of taste. The best coiffured women regulate their hair by the hat they wear. A good many women are following the English style lately, low on the forehead and the pompadour wider at the side, while the top is arranged in three slightly marked sections. They like the width this gives to the head, yet avoid that huge effect a high pompadour always imparts. English hairdressers are offering some really charming styles of coiffures, which have all the chic of the Parisian head, yet suit the less pliquant type of women they are intended to adorn. These styles are becoming to American women as well, and they are copied extensively by hairdressers here." Knit Strap for Baby Coach It is quite a clever idea to knit straps for the baby's coach, for they may then be kept clean and the straps may match the cover. Besides this, they take little or no time to make, for they are only about 20 inches long and two or three inches wide. They may be knitted or crocheted, so they really present many possibilities. Finish at each end with a one-inch curtain ring, which hooks on to each side of the coach. The best material for the purpose is a heavy zephyr, which is more elastic than the finished kind and stronger. Sometimes the straps are done in pink and white and blue and white stripes, and sometimes they are done in solid color, but, anyway, the baby should have at least three straps, so that they may always be clean and always appropriate to the color worn at the time. A bone crochet needle of medium size, or a pair of fairly thick - bone knitting needles, should be used, so that the stitches will not be too close together. The Toilet Table Many thin, pallid lips are caused by tight lacing and the incidental impairment of circulation, or the invariable practice which accompanies it of compressing and stretching the lips tightly over the teeth and gums. To cure a double chin, massage daily, using the following movement: From point of chin with open hand press firmly downward, throwing the head backward at the same time. Bathe the chin and throat with cold water. Unless a girl of 18 is extremely tall or matronly, the most becoming colfure is to draw the hair loosely. Lack from the face either in pompadour fashion or parted in the middle, with a braid down the back. If that seems too childish it would be well to coll the hair loosely on the top of the head. - If you wear a compartment try this method after washing your hair before it is dry: Divide the hair across from ear to ear, then comb the front portion back over a coll composed of tissue paper. Fasten securely in place with hairpins. This will give it a nice "set" and a nice full pompadour will be the result. BETTER THAN PIN TRAY Handy Cushion Made in the Shape of a Tree. While pin trays serve a purpose of their own, nothing can take the place to the dainty woman of the real "cushion" in which she may stick all sorts of pins at random, knowing she will not have to search out exactly the sort she wishes every time she needs it. For the small toilet table the flat pin-cushion is apt to take up too much ```markdown ``` room; with the usual litter of bottles and boxes, brushes, etc., a woman feels are absolute necessities, the pinch cushion, if it be large enough to be useful, is too large to look well. Apretty conceit noticed is in white and green, and in the shape of a tree standing in a square box. Any soft green material may be used to cover the box, or it may be covered with white and embroidered on the four sides to suit. The cushion proper is first of all well stuffed; then cords of gold thread brought from the top down, with the stem covered with green velvet. The top of the box may be a fine wire netting, in which hatpins or other long pins may be stuck at will. The whole is a pretty ornament. The Thimble Hat "Thimble" crowned hats are the most becoming style of the season, though they are extreme. These crowns are usually swathed with folds of silk cut on the bias, and then one or two big ostrich tins are set at one side of the crown. The silk contrasts with the color of the crown and shortens it. Loops of satin ribbon either an inch and a half or two inches broad are also used for trimming these high crowns, especially the high crown that does not taper much. The ribbon is arranged in a series of five flat loops, one above the other, the shortest, of course, at the top, and there is a little space between the loops. This ribbon arrangement, however, makes the hat a good deal heavier than with the silk folds. Velvet as a Cleaner Don't throw away your scraps of velvet. They can be used as cleaners for all sorts of things. Anyone who has tried to keep a velvet hat or frock clean does not need to be told it is a dust collector. This trying trait may be turned to account. A bit of velvet is a fine polisher for brass. It quickly removes the dust from woodwork, or shoes soiled from walking which dt not need re-blacking. One housekeeper even uses a big piece of old velvet to rub her stove to a high polish after it has been blacked. For dusting a felt hat there is nothing better than a piece of chiffon velvet. It is also good to keep the bottom of a silk skirt free from dirt. Beehive Hats Are Effective Models. The hat with a beehive crown is new, and as the brim is a sensible width the hat will be more generally becoming than some of the new styles. Only those who are quite sure of the becomingness of such a style should attempt it, for on the wrong person this kind of hat looks like a model wern ten years ago. The trimming that is used is very much the same as those of long ago, for masses of flowers or ribbons are arranged high in topknot fashion. Suspicious The Waiter—Will you have your cheese served out under the trees, sir? The Diner—Yes, yes; there's more air out there! First Boy—I'm going to study French this summer. Second Boy—Well, I can speak two languages now. First Boy—What are they? Second Boy—English and baseball. -Chicago Daily News. THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA Lumps of Fat The humps of camels are mere lumps of fat, and not provided for in the framework of the skeleton. When the animal is in good condition, the humps are full and plump. On a long journey, where food is scarce, the humps are entirely absorbed, the skin covering them hanging over the flank like an empty bag. Keep Brain in Condition Exercise the brain on every subject, and keep it from getting lazy by making it work. There is no danger of exhausting it, if, like the muscle of the arm, it is not strained; Indeed, like the same muscles, it gains strength with exercise, until brain work becomes a pleasure instead of a hardship. Let the soldier be abroad if he will, he can do nothing in this age. There is another personage—a personage less imposing in the eyes of some, perhaps insignificant. The schoolmaster is abroad and I trust to him, armed with his primer, against the soldier in full military array.—Lord Brugham. For Man's Information When a man has spent an evening calling on ladies, they do not spend the first half hour after he has gone talking about him, as he imagines, but in pickling up after him. One man can throw more things out of place in an orderly house than a baby.—Atchison Globe. Gypsies and Animals The gypsies are nearer to the animals than any race known to us in Europe. They have the lawlessness, the abandonment, the natural physical grace in form and gesture of animals; only a stealthy and wary something in their eyes makes them human—Arthur Symons. Biding Her Time A Boston child not yet in her teens and unusually precocious, with exceptional penetration, asked her mother the other day: "How long, mother, will it be before I get old enough for you to say that I am nervous and not naughty when I do so and so?" Rivers and Men. Little rivers seem to have the indefinable quality that belongs to certain people in the world—the power of drawing attention without courting it, the faculty of exciting interest by their very presence and way of doing things.—Henry van Dyke. A Premier's Qualifications "The life of a cabinet minister," said Mr. Bright at Birmingham in 1885, "is one needing very strong health, a very excellent stomach, a conscience which does not trouble him. It is a position which no sensible man would for a moment envy." Did He Go to Church? There has just died, the newspapers tell us, at the age of $9, a gentleman who never slept out of his own house. We trust this does not mean that he never went to church.—London Punch. Where Ivy Is Beneficial Ivy growing over the walls of a house renders the structure cool in summer and warm in winter. It also keeps the walls dry. It is, however, very destructive to woodwork, forcing the joints apart. On a Level. Four hundred million firecrackers are said to have been imported by the Chinamen living in this country. And millions of Americans are just as heathenish as the Chinese about them. Showing Folly of Anger A wise man has well reminded us that in any controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.—Carlyle. Isn't It Funny That your wife will kick like thunder if you overstay yourself downtown a couple of hours, but never says a word if you have to go out of town for a week? A Common Claim Every chronic office-holder claims that he could make more money if he had the heart to quit serving the public and go into business for himself. Air Sailora. The world will not be greatly surprised when an air sailor drifts in its upper face in a craft that answers wind and helm. Thy Wife Thy wife is a constellation of virtues. She's the moon, and thou art the man in the moon.—William Congreve. Apparently Perfection Fishhooks have been made on pre-cool the same design for 2000 years Make for Success. Frugality is a fair fortune; and habits of industry a good estate.—Franklin. Italian Proverb That fish will soon be caught that nibbles at every bait. A Poor Profession No man ever made a good living as a professional pessimist. The Menhistophels Quill Long, spike-like Mephistophelea quilis are a recent addition to the millinery market. These quilis were more or less in evidence in the early winter, but no one dreamed the would be exploited at the new season. However, there have been many surprises during the past few weeks that we are prepared for a most anything. 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. Silk, Stiff and Soft Felt Hats Cleaned. Blocked, 25cts; and 50cts Binding. Bands, Sweat Leathers, also Soft Hats made to order. Everything Everything IN FURNITURE AND FLOOR COVERINGS SYDNOR & HUNDLEY, INC. Leaders. 709 711 713 EAST BROAD STREET. "Brown is an awful joker," remarked Smith to his wife the other day. "We took lunch together to day, and, just as the coffee was served, a fly alighted in the center of Brown's cup. "Calling back the colored waiter, he said, 'Bring me another cup of coffee; this one is insectiferous.' "Yassir, answered the waiter, rolling his eyes and closely examining the contents of the cup. "Placing another before Brown, he cleared his throat a few times, and, with the curiosity born of the inherent love of the negro for unusual words, asked him, 'Boss, what did yo' say was de truble wif dat coffee?' "Insectiferous,' replied Brown. "Is dat all?' he asked, scratching his head. "No,' answered Brown. "Insectiferous hyperdeloram." "Yassir; but all I seed was er fly. Is dat it?" "Lordy, boss! No wonder dat po'l fly done drown hiswitt!"—Judge A Critical Opinion Jinks—That young lady may be a fine pianist, as you say, but there is no warmth to her touch. Blinks—I guess you didn't hear her play the Moonlight Symphony. Jinks—No; but I squeezed her hand. -N. Y. Weekly. Colloquial. Jinks-I am always embarrassed when I want to say the word v-a-s-e. I don't know whether to say vaze, vace, vahz, or vawse." Binks-You might take a hint from our servant girl. She simply speaks of all ornaments as "them there." Automobile Like Patience—Have you seen the new hat called the automobile? Patrice—No; is it anything like an automobile? "Something; you can't tell whether it's coming or going!"—Yonkers Statesman. Double Trouble Patience—This is the coldest flat I was ever in. Patrice—How do you account for that? "I don't know, unless it is because they have two janitors!"—Yonkers Statesman. Him—Miss Peachy has such lovely eyes of brown. Her—Yes; and such lovely teeth of Gray. Him—I beg pardon? Her—Gray, the dentist, you know.—Chicago Daily News. Where We're Strong Church—I see that Italy leads the nations of the world in the matter of theaters. Gotham—But I guess she can't beat us on the number of sidewalk ticket speculators. Yonkers Statesman. Started with Eve ana are teaching mice to dance. Guyer—Well, that is just the reverse. Mice have been making girls dance since the time of Adam.—Chicago Daily News. Hardest of Ordeals The hardest of all ordeals for an honest man is to stand arraigned at the bar of his own conscience. He knows more than the keenest counsel, the most vindictive enemy could urge for a verdict of guilty—J. A. Steuart. The Philosopher of Folly "There is only one thing worse than the professed pessimist," says the Philosopher of Folly, "and that is the professional optimist. By the same token I'd rather be locked up for a month with a live panther than a dead cat." A Word for the Elirt To woman marriage is a much more serious undertaking than to man. Therefore the flirt is not to be wholly condemned; she is merely enjoying herself at another's risk in order to see whether the conditions suit her.—Gentlewoman. In Praise of Good Nature Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, to the persons who possess it, and certainly to everybody who dwells with them, in so far as more happiness is concerned.—Henry Ward Boecher. 60 YEARS' EXPERIENCE PATENTS TRADE MARKS DESIGN3 COPYRIGHTS & C. Anyone sending a sketch and description may quickly ascertain our opinion free whether an invention is by any means, on communities, those strictly confidential. HANDBOOK on Patents sent free. Oldest agency for securing patents. Patents taken through MUNICIPAL & receive special notice, without charge, in the A handsome illustrated weekly. Largest circulation of any scientific Journal. Terma is a 100-year-old journal. MUNN & Co. $61 Broadway. New York Branch Office. CS F S F. 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. HEN RENTING PROPERTY call on the PEOPLE'S REAL ESTATE & INVESTMENT Co REALTY IN ALL OF ITS BRANCHES 707 North Second Street, Richmond, Virginia. Telephone, 4854. The People's Restaurant. 750 North 3rd St., Richmond, Va MEALS at All Hours—Hot or Cold. Board by Day, Week or Month. SOFT DRINKS. Funeral Director, Embainer and Liveryman. All orders promptly filled at short notice by telegraph or telephone. Halls rented for meetings and nice entertainments. Plenty of room with all necessary conveniences. Large picnic or bar租赁 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 patronage throughout this and other States and also enjoy 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 pre- permission to do sc, who have u among the many bearing witness of its correspondence of those expecting a mira- rization is a natural and pure compound, haste to put in print. We will just States Government has placed nation- which it is protected and we are in tur- est methods and square dealings. It will positively remove Dandruf Hair on Olean Temples or Bald Heads Prices: 35 cts. per box; eight Beautifier makes the use of powder en- less. Sale prices: 35, 50cts and $1.00. Order or Express Money Order all out of city orders. unity. In order to convince the masters of the J. V. Hawkins Hair Grow production in print the photograph who have used our photography witness of its genuine qualities expecting a miracle or anything more pure compound, the ingredients of it. We will just here remind the press placed national patent rights on us and we are in turn responsible to the dealings. Remove Dandruff, Oure Scalp of less or Bald Heads, where the roots are, per box; eight boxes, $0.10express of powder entirely unnecessary bots and $1.00. Money can be sent by Order A charge of 10c the immediate community. In order to convince the most skeptical readers of the merits and results of the J. V. Hawkin's Hair Grower and Restorer, we will from time to time produce in print the photographs of those giving us their advice, who have used our preparation and are to-day among the many young witness of its genuine qualities. We do not desire the correspondence of those expecting a miracle or anything unreasonable. Our preparation is a natural and prudent step in the ingredients of which we would not hesitate to put in print. We will just hand the public that the United States Government has placed national patent rights on our hair preparation by which it is protected and we are in turn responsible to the government for honest methods and square dealings. It will positively remove Dandruff, Cure Scalp of all impurities, Restore Hair on Clean Temples or Bald Heads, where the roots are not dead. PRICES;—38 cts. per box; eight boxes, $2.80express prepaid. The Face Beautifier makes the use of powder entirely unnecessary, and is perfectly harmless. Sale prices; 25, 50 cts and $1.00. Money can be sent by Post Office Money Order or Express Money Order A charge of 10 cts. 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. JO Funeral Director Office & Warerooms, 207 HACKS F 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 terooms, 207 N. Foushee S CKS FOR H Telephone or Telegraph filler and Entertainments prompt 186. Residence Orders by Telephone or Telegraph filled. Weddings, Suppers and Entertainments promptly attended. PROF. D. D. BRUCE, M. D. Strange, Wonderful, but True are the awe stricken tests given by The Great Australian Medium. PROF. D. D. BRUCE, M. D. the only Living Apostle of Science of the Mysteries. $5000 in Gold to any one in the World to compete with him. Possessing more power than any four mediums combined. No card, trance or hand humbug Greatest Hindoo Medium in the World. SO GREAT IS HIS POWER that we can tell you while in a Clairevray-ant state, all you wish to know with out a word being spoken. Come, all ye unbelievers, scoffers and jeerers; bring all your skepticism with you—he will open your eyes to the private chamber mystery. Come all ye broken hearted wives, all with low spirits and let him lift the burden from your aching and jealous heart. He challenges the World to compete with him in causing a speedy marriage with the one you love; uniting the separated and bring MARY HARRIS 5 to convince the most skeptical readers of Hawkins's Hair Grower and Restorer, we print the photographs of those giving us used our preparation and are to-day give us genuine qualities. We do not desire theacle or anything unreasonable. Our preparation the ingredients of which we would not here remind the public that the United patent rights on cur hair preparation byin responsible to the government for hous. I, Cure Scalp of all impurities, Restorewhere, the roots are not deadboxes, $2.80express prepaid. The Facefirely unnecessary, and is perfectly harmMoney can be sent by Post Office MoneyA charge of 10cts, extra is imposed on HAWKINS, — RICHMOND, VA ne, 4601. Strictly Confidential. JOHNSON, or and Embalmer, N. Foushee St. Cor. Broad. ATOR HIRE. Telegraph filled. Weddings, ments promptly attended. Residence in Building. back the lost one. Traces lost or stolen goods. Unearths hidden treasures. Removes evil influences Crosses, Spells, ill Luck, cures tricks and Conjurations, gives Luck an ability in all you undertake. Cures the Tobacco and Liquor Habits. Allows the Captive to be set Free. He is the only one that will give a Written Guarantee to complete your business or refrain your money Are you sick? Do you know what the trouble is with you? Come and Consult Nature's Doctor. Rheumatism, Insomnia, Hysteria and all Diseases cured. Points given on Horse Racing and all Games of Chance. No matter what alls you, come and see this wonderful man. Reader have you noticed that some people have a hard time to get along, no matter how they toll, while others have success. Many wealthy men and women owe their success to this wonderful man. He will tell you whom you will marry. Will you be happy? He will tell you who your friends and enemies are. Can you tell? Don't take a leap in e dark, but be advised by this wonderful man. Great ophet in existence. He always Succeeds when others fail. This is the chance of a life time. Don't let it pass you. Office hours: 9:45 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Office hours: 9 A. M. to 9:30 P. M. Sunday; 2:30 to 7:30 D. M. Sunday; 2:30 to 7:30 P.M. M. Your consultation Fee is 50 cents. Settings, $1.00. All let- ters containing $1.00 will be answe- ed in full. MAIN OFFICE: 510 S. 8th St., Philadelphia, Pa. SEVEN A. B. C. D. E. F. G. H. I. J. K. L. M. N. O. P. Q. R. S. T. U. V. W. X. Y. Z. EIGHT THE PLANET SATURDAY...JULY 11, 1908. Sherman Welcomed Home. The homecoming of Congressman James S. Sherman was made the occasion of such a demonstration as has rarely been seen in this section of the state. The welcome to the Republican candidate for the vice presidency was non-partisan affair, and to a great extent personal, for the congressman's recovery from his recent somewhat alarming illness gave added reason for public reholling upon his safe return. Mr. Sherman, accompanied by Mrs. Sherman and Dr. Carter, reached here on the New York express from the west Thursday evening. As his train drew into the station bands played, fireworks were set off and and church chimes rang out. In Baggs square and every other spot adjacent to the New York Central station thousands of persons were crowded. Mr. Sherman stepped from the train slowly, looking pale and worn, but he had stood the journey, his physician said, very well. A monster procession formed in the vicinity of the station escorted the candidate to his home. The line of march covered fully a mile, and the paraders included representative organizations of a civic and military and fraternal nature. The route lay through the principal streets, the buildings of which were decorated with flags, streamers, and mottoes all illuminated by electric lights. A dozen bands furnished music, fireworks added a spectacular feature, and tens of thousands of persons ranged along the route shouted themselves hoarse. At Mr. Sherman's home the formal welcome took place, the principal speech being by Mayor J. D. Kernan. "The Merry Widow." This beautiful story commences on page two. A THE MERRY WIDOW A Harry Orchard Escapes Death. The Idaho board of pardons commuted the sentence of Harry Orchard, who was sentenced to be hanged for murdering former Governor Steenunberg, to life imprisonment. Clemency was granted in spite of the expressed desire of Orchard to have the sentence of death carried out. Neck Wedged Tight By Elevator. Trenton, N. J., July 8.—Harry Brenner, a Trenton workman, narrowly escaped decapitation beneath an elevator. He leaned over an open shaft at the Mott Iron works to call directions to a mate on the floor below and did not see the descending elevator. His comrades saw the danger and their cries caused the man on the machine to stop it in time. Brenner's neck was wedged in tight beneath the platform but when it was lifted not even the skin on his neck was scratched. Woman Murdered; Child Kidnapped Hot Springs, Ark., July 8.—Mrs. Ada Reichars, of Dallas, Tex., was found dead in her apartments. She was aparently murdered. A daughter seven years old is supposed to have been kidnapped by the murderer. The police are looking for a suspect, who is believed to have fleed to St. Louis. Do You Know Them? I wish to locate my brothers Alfred and Solomon Williams, born in Nansae 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. BY J. THOMPSON BROWN & CO. 1113 Main Street. 12 per ct. INVESTMENT TWO STORY DETACHED DWELLING. NO. 1102 MOORE, ST. NEAR MOORE ST., SCHOOL, at FUELIC AUCTION on the premises. Tuesday, July 14, 6 P.M. Has eight rooms. Is well arranged. Will make a good home for people of moderate means on an invest- ment that will pay twelve per cent. Terms: only $200.00 cash balance, easy and announced at sale. J. THOMPSON BROWN & CO. Auctioneers. VIRGINIA—In the Law and Equity Court of the City of Richmond, this 24th day of June, 1908. Louisa Harris, Plaintiff. IN CHANCERY. ALEX, HARRIS, Defendant. The object of this suit is to obtain a Divorce, a Vinculo Matrimonii by the plaintiff against the defendant. And an affidavit having been made and filed that due diligence has been used by and on behalf of the plaintiff to ascertain in what county or cor- poration the defendant, Alex. Harris is, without effect and that she, the said plaintiff does not know his whereabouts: it is ordered that the said defendant appear here within fifteen days after the due publication of this order and do whatever is necessary to protect his interest herein. A Copy—Teste—P. P. Winston, Clk. J. Henry Crutchfield, p. q. You'll take notice that I shall on the 12th 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. LOUISA HARRIS, By Counsel. J. Henry Crutchfield, p. q. Office: 1211½ E. Broad St., Richmond, Virginia. A Wonder Made by Natural Treat Treated and not one EVERY ONE CURED. ness, Indigestion, Neuralgia, Cata- by magic. Never falls to give sp permanent. Cheapest Treatment. Will be a wall of defense to you ment will full instructions, testi return mail. This offer is limited EVERY ONE CURED Headaches, Fevers, Billiousness, Indigestion, Neuralgia, Catarrh, Rheumatism, etc. cured as if by magic. Never falls to give speedy relief. Cures complete and permanent. Cheapest Treatment on Earth. Painless! Pleasant! Will be a wall of defense to you as long as you live. Trial treatment will full instructions, testimonials, etc., absolutely free by return mail. This offer is limited: write to-day. L. C. FARRAR, 501 Brooks St., --- DWELLING To Alex. Harris: Any man who suffers with nervous debility, loss of natural power, weak back, falling memory or deficient manhood, brought on by excesses, dissipation, unnatural drains or the follies of youth, may cure himself *o* bone with a simple prescription that includes the use of a sealed envelope, to any man who will write for it. A. E. Robinson, 3895 Luck Building, Detroit, Michigan. HOWARD UNIVERSITY Wilbur P. Thirkeld, LL. D., Pres. Washington, D. C. Located in the Capital of the Nation, Advantages unassured. Modern scientific and general equipment. Unusual opportunities for self-support. THE COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES. Deserved to liberal studies, such as are given in the best approved colleges. Address Kelly Miller, A. M., Dean. THE TEACHERS COLLEGE. Affords special opportunities for preparation of teachers. Regulates courses, with degrees of A. B. Degree, high grade courses in Normal Training, Music, Manual Arts and Domestic Science. Lewis B. Moore, M. D. THE ACADEMY. Faculty of ten. Three courses of four years each. George J. Cummings, A. M., Dean. THE COMMERCIAL COLLEGE. Gives business and English High School education combined. George W. Cool, A. M., L. D., Dean. SCHOOL OF MANUAL ARTS AND APPLLED SCIENCES. Gives education in Mechanical and Civil Engineering. Six instructors. PROFESSIONAL SCHOOLS THE SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY, Interdenominational. Five professors. Broad and thorough in theology. One professor. The SCHOOL OF MEDICINE-MEDICINAL DENTAL AND PHARMACEUTIC COLLEGES. Over forty professors. Modern laboratories and equipment. One professor. Surrounded in America. Pharmaceutical College. Dental College. twenty-three professors. Robert Rehman. Fifth and Fifth, and ninth and tenth. School of eight. Counces of three years, giving through knowledge of theory and practice of law. Large library, building opposite the Courthouse. Address Boston F. Lighton, LB, B, Dean, 420 Fifth St. N. W. The officers of the Lodges and Courts will be publicly installed Tuesday, July 14, 1908 at the Ebeene Baptist Church at S P. M. The members of the Order and the public Grand Chancellor John Mitchell, Jr. will be assisted by the members and officers of the Grand Lodge in this city. Life from cradle to grave. Gives you the power to choose those you have or will marry; gives you the power to marry to those you desire; provides three preparations (never burn you, you are in doubt as to the outcome of any underestimate, social or domestic life, forces, separations, lawsuits, lost or absent friends, you; if you desire to have your domestic troubles moved, your not lost returned, consult or write to Patron, the best way to noose. Freel $100. Patrons attend the best way to noose. Letters of inquiry answered on receipt of two statements. One year's prediction free. Send birth date. DR. F. PERRY 1402 W. Dauphin Street Philadelphia Straighten Your Hair DREAM START:—I have used only one bottle of your pomade and now I would not be without it for it makes my hair soft and straight and easy to comb and also starts a new growth. —I have used it in Hardcover Trees. Formerly named as Ozonized Ox Marrow. Fifty years of success has proved its merit. It is a beautiful, fragrant, and plurable, so you can comb it and arrange it in any style you wish consistent with its length. Removes and prevents dandruff, invigorates the skin, and helps prevent or break off and gives it new life and vigor. Absolutely harmless—used with splendid results even on the youngest children. A pleasurable, as ladies of refinement everywhere declare. Ford's Hair Pomade has imitators. Don't be anything else alleged to be just as good. If you want to be as good as Ford's Hair Pomade it will pay you. Look for this name If your druggist will not supply you with the gaine send us, express or postal money order, 50 cents for regular size of 52 cents for small size bottle and give us your druggist's name and address. We will forward bottle prenupti to any point in U. S. by return mail on receipt of petec. Address: The Ozonized Ox Marrow Co., 133 East Kensie St. Chicago, Ill. FORD'S HAIR POMADE is made only in Chicago by the above firm. Agents Wanted Everywhere. ful Record tment. 35,000 Cases complaint received. THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA talogue and special information address DEAN OF DEPARTMENT. Public Installation. Life from candle to grave gives to grave those you have or will marry, marriage to these you desire; arrested (pere- rised) (pere- rised) in are doubts to the outcome taking in business social or stickness, di- stickness, di- --- A CHANCE OF A LIFETIME. I HAVE IN Woodville Just out side the limits of the City of RICHMOND 6 LOTS, which I am going to SELL at $100.00 EACH. Any person buying one of these LOTS will build for them at once a SMALL COTTAGE and secure for them a position for them in THIS CITY. PAYMENTS ON THE HOUSE TO BE MADE MONTHLY. STOP PAYING RENT. SETTLE DOWN IN A HOME OF YOUR OWN. IN ONE OF THE MOST BEAUTIFUL SPOTS IN THE WORLD FOR COLORED PEOPLE. Six positions are now open if you want work. And SIX HOUSES will soon be PUT UP. Do you want to be one of the number? HAVE BEEN SELLING THIS PROPERTY FOR YEARS AND MY CUSTOMERS ARE WELL PLEASED WITH THERE INVESTMENT. THIS IS A CLEAN CUT OFFER. PROPERTY IS GUARANTEED TO HAVE CLEAR TITLE. AND CAN FURNISH FIRST CLASS REFERENCES AS TO ABILITY TO SECURE YOU ALL THIS ADVERTISEMENT PROMISES. Write at once. Do not expect to advertise this offer again. This is YOUR CHANCE. P. O. BOX, 104. - - - RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. OPENING OF Fulton Park People's Pleasure Park People's Pleasure Park Co. Inc. AT FAIR OAKS, HENRICO CO., VA. And Notice given to all desiring to attend Outings, ments, Etc. from time to time of the People's Plea Co. Inc., at Fair Oaks, Henrico Co., Va. And Notice given to all desiring to attend Outings, Entertainments, Etc. from time to time of the People's Pleasure Park Co. Inc., at Fair Oaks, Henrico Co., Va. Fulton Park will be opened in full July 13, 1998 and daily thereafter during the entire season for the accommodation and pleasure of the best colored people in the city of Richmond, Va. and its vicinity; and we desire nothing more of the patrons than the very best order and decorum from the time you embark the cars in the City of Richmond to the time you disembark at Fair Oaks, Henrico Co., Va. pleasures carried on there. Now to the rough and outlawed element of this State and community; "Don't deceive yourself, for we have engaged officers in the county of unquestionable reputation to police the entire premises and they will promptly arrest any one guilty of violating any of the rules and regulations laid down by The People's Pleasure Park Co., Inc. for its government and you will do a great act of kindness by We also desire the very best order and respect shown to all persons aboard said cars and during the time you may return at the Park, for upon your good order and deportment as ladies and gentlemen to and from said Park depend your admission and the participation in the Truly hoping that all per Park[will[take[notice and gove Truly hoping that all persons desiring to patronize this Park[will]take[notice and govern themselves accordingly, We remain yours, The People's Pleasure Park Co., Inc., J. B. JOHNSON, President and General Manager. HOWARD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL of MEDICINE. 1907 REV. W. P. THIRKIELD, LL. D., President. 1908 ROBERT REYBURN, M. D., Dearth, W. C. MAYNILL, M. D., Secretary. The Forty-first Annual Session will begin October 1, 1908 and continue eight months. FOUR YEARS' GRADED COURSE IN MEDICINE. THREE YEARS' GRADED COURSE IN DENTAL SURGERY. THREE YEARS' GRADED COURSE IN PHARMACY. AN OPTIONAL FIVE-YEAR COURSE IN MEDICINE IN OPERATING Full corps of instructors. Well equipped laboratories. The New Freedman's Hospital which the Medical College, just completed, offers unexcelled medical facilities. The third year POST-GRADUATE SCHOOL CLINIC will begin May 9, 1999 and continue six weeks for Medical Course and four weeks for further information or catalogue write W. C. McNELL, M. D. Secretary. SUBSCRIBE TO THE RICHMOND PLANET. e Park Co. Inc, ENRICO CO., VA. g to attend Outings, Entertain- of the People's Pleasure Park Co., Va. Now to the rough and outlawed element of this State and community: "Don't deceive yourself, for we have engaged officers in the county of unquestionable reputation to police the entire premises and they will prompt arrest any one guilty of violating any of the rules and regulations laid down by The People's Pleasure Park Co., Inc. for its government and you will do us a great act of kindness by staying away for you are not wanted. Any party reported to us for misbehaving and giving trouble while a board the cars and en route to or from the Park WILL NOT BE ADMITTED AT ANY TIME THERE-AFTER. N. WINSTON CONFECTIONER. HEADQUARTERS FOR WATER SPECIAL ATTENTION Picnics, Lawn Parties, Ex Short Notice. Picnics, Lawn Parties, Excursions, etc Furnished on Short Notice. Special Attention to Dealers and the Wholesale Trade. WINSTON'S 537 Brook Ave. 'Phone, 2253. [Name] Ho! Ho! To Mount Olivet Baptist Church WILL GIVE ITS ANNUAL EXCURSION TO BUCKROE BEACH DINWIDDIE AGRICULTURAL & INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL, Dinwiddie, Va. (15 miles from Petersburg.) Advanced and Elementary Academic Instruction. Courses in Agriculture and Domestic Science. Year begins October 1st. For Catalogue, address J. M. COLSON, Principal. PURE ICE-CREAM. CES, ETC. N TO FAMILY TRADE. cursions, etc Furnished on 'Phone, 2253. A Revelation THE BOOK OF SEVEN SEALS BY LUCINDA YOUNG, Who in the year of 1890 laid on her bed twenty-four days and SAW DREAMS AND VISIONS, was commanded by God to write the wonders she saw into a book. This book tells also about A SEVEN YEAR'S FAMINE. that is to come. It is sold at $1.00. Terms in advance. Address all communications to MRS LUCINDA YOUNG, Lambertville, N. J. SPECIAL RATES TO AGENTS.