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THE RICHMOND PLANET Horrible Conditions Down in Georgia. The Convict Lease System. An ex-convict, sentenced for life and afterwards pardoned, occupied the stand for two hours at the hearing before the legislative investigating committee on yesterday and told, under oath, a narrative of cruelty and unfeeling treatment that has probably never been surpassed in a court room in this country. This man was J. A. Cochran, now a contractor, living in the city of Atlanta. He told of a Negro being beaten to death at the state farm at Milledgeville for no offense in the world, except that he was sick and could not work. Foster and Captain Slater, whipping boss, and at Chattahoochee, under Captain Casey. He told of a Negro who was ill being given twenty-five lashes and sent to work in the cotton fields, where he fell and later expired. Asked if the Negro's name was Peter Harris, he replied that he could not remember. The witness had been suffering for several days with a carbuncle on his finger of his right hand. He went to the hospital to have it lanced. The physician, Dr. Fisher, cursed him for being there because yard could give the name of the Negro. The witness said the man was employed in the clamps where the brick were burned. The men working in this position stood on barrel heads and pitched brick. The heat was so great and the work so arduous that the men perspired excessively. The sweat from the laborers drenched the barrels and the ground for some distance around. DEAD NEGRO "DRANK TOO MUCH WATER." MAN WHIPPED TO DEATH. At the Chattahooochee Brick Company's camp, on the Chattahooochee river, near Atlanta, he said men were treated with unmerciful severity; given tasks beyond their physical powers of endurance and whipped when they sank under the strain of the ordeal. Here also a man was whipped to death. He said men were forced to work at nerve racking and body-breaking tasks at double-quick pace; driven by the whip to places where the heat was almost unbearable, and made to stay at these posts of torture; and given jobs rolling brick and putting them in place, the amount of work required of them being so great, it kept them on a steady trot all day. This evidence as to the arm and the chest of the Brick Company was corroborated by other witnesses. They told of the heat, the cruelty and viciousness of the guards the exhaustive labors and the severe floggings. They testified that free labor could not have been secured for the same work under the same circumstances at any price. TWO SESSIONS WERE HELD. The committee remained in session from 3 until 6 o'clock. It then adjourned until 8 o'clock, when it reconvened and remained in session for several hours. No member of the legislature was examined during the afternoon, the witnesses being local parties, who testified on oath. On the preceding day the legislators had testified on their honor. C. D. Wortham and Arthur W. Moore both of Atlanta, who substantiated the evidence told by Cochran the ex-convict were formerly employed for wages at the Chattahoochee Brick Company. Moore estimated the number of floggings at from 200 to 300 a month, instead of 25 or 30 as reported by Captain Casey. All the members of the investigating committee were present when the hearing opened a few minutes after 3 o'clock. Senator Fielder presided and was the principal inquisitor during the afternoon, though at the close of his examination other members of the committee asked further questions. The witnesses were mainly outsiders, the further examination of legislators being postponed until later. Among those called were J. A. Cochran, C. D. Worthing, Chub Fleming-D. O. Hamby, J. F. Rodgers and Ephraim Gaines, colored. A. W. Moore, R. B. Turner and B. H. Pears. The first witness was J. A. Cochran, an ex-convict, who formerly lived in Campbell county, and now resides in Atlanta. He is a contractor by trade. He was given a life sentence for whitecapping, and after serving three years and two days was pardoned. During the term of his service he was employed at the state farm at Milledgeville and at the Chat tahooche Brick Yards, near Atlanta. After being pardoned Cochran became engaged in another difficulty. He was shot at by a man and cut his assailant with a knife. For this offense he was wined $150, which he paid. NEGRO BEATEN TO DEATH AT MILLEDGEVILLE. Cochran testified that he was worked on the state farm from August, 1903 to March of the next year, when he was sent to the Chattahooche Brick Yards where he remained until he was pardoned. He testified that there was excessive severity and cruelty practiced at both places; at the state farm under Superintendent Foster and Captain Slater, whipping boss, and at Chattahoochee, under Captain Casey. He told of a Negro who was ill being given twenty-five lashes and sent to work in the cotton fields, where he fell and later expired. Asked if the Negro's name was Peter Harris, he replied that he could not remember. The witness had been suffering for several days with a carbuncle on his finger of his right hand. He went to the hospital to have it lanced. The physician, Dr. Fisher, cursed him for being there because he appeared so strong and healthy. Learning of his trouble, he operated upon Cochran's finger cutting twice to the bone and scraping the bone. Witness was given no anaesthesia, and protested at the third inclusion. Dr. Fisher threatened to give him two lashes. Witness replied that he had the power to do that, but he asked that his finger be not cut again. The whipping was not administered. At the same time there was in the hospital that Dr. Fisher ordered him back to work. The Negro protested that he was ill and interfering. For his pains he was given 25 lashes with his pants down. Dr. Fisher cursed him and ordered him into the wagon with other laborers. He was too weak to get in and was thrown in and driven to the cotton fields, where he was ordered to pick cotton. The Negro fell in the cotton rows and was ordered to rise and resume work. He could not, and Captain Slater, after cursing him, commanded other Negro convicts to raise him to his feet. They declined, declaring they were afraid to touch him, as the man was dying. On going to him Captain Slater saw his real condition and ordered him removed from the field. The next day the witness saw his dead body. He declared the man had not refused to work, but begged and pleaded with the physician and whipping boss to be excused on account of his weakness. Witness picked cotton on the day of his operation with his left hand; his right paining him too much to use. WITNESS DECLARES CONDITIONS HORRIBLE After leaving the state farm Cochran said he was sent to the brick-yard of the Chattahoochee Brick company, near Atlanta. He testified that conditions here were horrible. That the rules were ignored and the men were fearful of reporting infractions, even when they had an opportunity, for fear of punishment. He said the men were worked longer than the rules prescribed, and on Sunday; that some men had not had a full rest day in five years or more; that the food was insufficient, the fresh meat being wormy, and the work under exhausting conditions in the brick kilns and boiler rooms was excessive. He said the men were frequently overcome by the heat, and the hard tasks put upon them. One task given the men was to haul in wheelbarrows and place in the kiln 100,000 brick daily. If they failed, they were beaten with a leather strap. The men were constantly cursed by the guards. On one day, 17 men were whipped for falling short of the required amount of work. Witness said when he entered the company's yard he weighed 218 lbs. and that after two months of work he weighed only 164 pounds. He said that the excessive labor had maimed him for life, and exhibited to the members of the committee his foot showing the toes curled up and crooked out of position. He said so many divers cruelties were practiced on the prisoners he could not recall them. The prisoner was furnished money from home with which he supplied himself with food and other supplies. WORK IN THE BRICK KILNS In testifying as to the exhausting tasks given the men and the whippings given them when they failed to perform a required amount of work, witness said one Negro was whipped so severely that he died. He stated that C. D. Watkins, formerly employed at the Chattahoochee brick- RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, SATURDAY, AUGUST 8, 1908 yard could give the name of the Negro. The witness said the man was employed in the clamps where the brick were burned. The men working in this position stood on barrel heads and pitched brick. The heat was so great and the work so arduous that the men perspired excessively. The sweat from the laborers drenched the barrels and the ground for some distance around. DEAD NEGRO "DRANK TOO MUCH WATER." The Negro in question could not stand the heat and fell short in his work. He was told by Captain J. A. Casey, he would be whipped if he did not do better. The Negro was whipped. It did not improve his work and he was put over a barrel and whipped again. The Negro when released, walked to a lumber pile and fell down. Then he was carried to the hospital. The next day witness saw his body in the cooling vat. Coroner Stamps visited the camp and held an inquest. The jury was composed of the guards around the camp. Their verdict was that the deceased came to his death from drinking too much water. C. D. Watkins, who was present and witnessed the whole performance reported the facts to the prison commission. This was in the summer of 1903. Watkins was later discharged. Witness gave the names of Joe Jett and Bud Downing as having also witnessed the whipping. Downing is now at the camp, and witness fears there may be difficulty in getting his testimony unless he is guaranteed protection. "The convicts fear to talk, as it means almost certain death," said Cochran. He told of a white boy who suffered with lockjaw for three days. It was Christmas eve when he was first seized and no doctor was summoned. In reply to a request for a physician the guard said, "He's enjoying Christmas, and ain't got time to fool with convicts." The witness testified that the hospital was in bad shape, that vermin were in the beds, and he preferred to be sick out in the brick yard rather than in the hospital. He said he did not complain, as it would have meant not less than fifty licks. "Men were whipped just as quickly for telling about these things as they were for not working enough," he explained. He said the side meat furnished the convicts was good, that they had coffee and cornbread every morning and wheatbread once a week. But he said the fresh meat had crawling things in it and was offensive to the smell. Asked about the visits of members of the prison commission, he replied that he had never seen any of them diving his confinement. That one day Jake Moore came to investigate the case of the Negro who was whipped to death. Captain Casey was present while the former prison warden interrogated the prisoners. They were afraid of punishment, and denied any knowledge of the affair. Captain Casey said to them when he heard Jake Moore was coming: "You boys can go ahead, G——d you, and tell all you know. I would just as soon kill you in the presence of Jake Moore." PREPARED FOR GRAND JURY'S COMING. Witness testified that the visits of the grand jury were known for days in advance and elaborate preparations were made for their coming. New sheets were put on the beds and even the yards were swept up. For two or three days the preparations continued until it looked, said the ex-convict as though a crowd of women had visited the camp. In testifying as to conditions in the boiler rooms, he said there were 3 boilers of from 300 to 400 horse power and that they consumed a car load of coal per day. He said three firemen had been whipped for not doing work that no free men could be hired to do at any price. The prisoner said he had never been whipped, but thought one day it would be attempted. He had resolved that he would never be white. ped. While employed wheeling brick in a wheelbarrow up a bluff, his strength gave out. He was sick and weak anyhow, and had that day received a report that his wife was dying. He complained to the guard, and the guard cursed him, and said he had a leather strap that would help him roll his load. At another time, when his mother visited him in the camp, she asked if he were wearing chalons on his leg. He said he was. It was all right. For showing his mother the chalons he was sent to one of the barrel hems and set to pitching brick. After working at this for some time, he was sent for by Captain Casey. Thinking he would be whipped, witness said he was resolved to make a fight, and hnd a knife in his pocket ready for the encounter. He expect ed the guard would use his gun and put an end to him. Captain Casey told him that this would teach him a lesson not to be disrespectful to him in future. Cocran said that liquor was continually brought into camp by the guards and openly drunk by them. The convicts were sometimes furnished liquor privately. He said he had no grievance against any of the guards, and bore them no malice, but added: "After being worked and treated by a man the way they did, it is hard to think of them as a brother. But my mother taught me to return good for evil, and do to others as I would be done by." GAVE HIM A HOME C. D. Worthham was the next witness. He stated that he was at present living in Atlanta, but that he had been employed by the Chattahoochee Brick Company for nearly two years from February, 1900, as yard man, and that he was paid by the State of Georgia. He said that the Chattahoochee Brick Company gave him a house to live in and his board. Mr. Worthham stated that he left the employ of the brick company because no investigation was made of the charges regarding the whipping or the Negro, Peter Harris. He stated further, however that he was discharged the same night of the whipping because he was in favor of reporting the incident. He reported the matter to Jake Moore about two weeks later, giving as his reason for deferring it that long that he first wanted to see his son, a Mr. Pearson, who had gotten him the position. He said that at the time of his reporting there was one other member of the prison commission present, and Mr. Moore told him to report the matter in writing. This he did the next day. He stated further that he got Mr. Moore over the phone every day trying to get him to come out to the camp and investigate, and the latter kept saying that he would, but that he was too busy. He said Mr. Moore finally did come with Captain Casey. They questioned som of the convicts, but the men refused to divulge anything. DIED AT GRADY HOSPITAL Mr. Worthham stated that the Negro Harris was checked out "all right," which meant that he was to get a beating. Captain Casey whipped him in the morning about 7 o'clock, giving him about twenty-five or thirty lashes, and in the afternoon when the Negro gave out, he whipped him again. The Negro was carried to the hospital, where he died about two hours later. Coroner Stamps came out to investigate the case, Mr. Worthham said. Captain Casey picked out five men who lived in that neighborhood but not connected with the camp, to be on the jury and called two Negroes from the stockade to testify. One Negro stated Harris drank too much water after a hearty dinner and died. The other said something about the Negro going to the hospital on several occasions, but this was hushed up. The coroner's jury found a verdict "that the Negro, Peter Harris died from drinking too much water," with out even looking at the body. The trial was held at another part of the camp from where the body was. Worthham says he did not testify at the trial because he was not subpoenaed. No one at the trial spoke of Negro being whipped. (Continued on Eighth Page.) Piano For Sale. On account of breaking up house keeping I have a fine piano that cost $250, but little used. Will sell for $100. —Grand place that! Everybody says so. The White City is the place to go to have a good time. The I. B. C. is guaranteed to keep its word. Monday, August 17th is the date. The price to the White City is $1.25 and the Independent Beneficial Club has charge of the affair. Go with them. The Theban Beneficial Club. We, the above named Club cordially extend to our many friends through the columns of this paper a personal invitation to accompany them to Jamestown Island on Wednesday, August 12, 8 A. M., 1908. This excursion will positively land you on the Island. There will be plenty of good music remember you not only get the advantage of a cool days outing, free from dirt and dust, but on your return you will have a beautiful moonlight while the evening breeze will be sighing "Home Sweet Home." Thus landing you in Richmond, about 10:30 P. M. Steamer "Hampton Roads" leaves the Old Dom" on Wharf, Wednesday morning, A. M. Take any car and follow th. crowd. We go rain or shine. A good time for all who go. Fare for round trip: adults, $1.00; Children (under twelve years) $.50. Thanking you in advance we are most Sincerely yours. THE THEBAN BENEFICIAL CLUB. P. S. We guarantee good order and protection. Refreshments at city prices. Rev. Alexander Gordon's Son Graduates. Special to the PLANET Atlantic City, July 30.—Three hundred and sixty-two medical students became full-fledged physicians to-day when the Pennsylvania State Medical Board completed its inspection of examination papers and announced the list of the successful candidates to whom doctor's certificates will be issued. The Board was in session at Haddon Hall and papers of 295 applicants were examined. There were 33 failures, but the examiners declare that, although the tests were extremely rigid, the examinations were five per cent. better than at any time in the past fourteen years. Among the few colored successful applicants was Dr. Chester Alan Arthur Gordon, oldest son of the Rev. Dr. Alexander Gordon, pastor of Monumental Baptist Church, Philadelphia, Pa. Dr. Gordon graduated from Medical Department of Howard University, May 27, 1908 and took State examination at Philadelphia on June 23, 24, 25 and 26. --- - Mules don't laugh down there, but the people who go there rejoice. Remember the White City Monday, August 17th. Go with the L B, C's. An Evening of Pleasure On last Monday evening, August 3, the residence of Mrs. Mary E. Meade sister of Mr. C. C. Johnson, at No. 908 Abigail 'Street' was a scene of splendor and beauty, the occasion was where the many friends had gathered to extend to her their congratulations in honor of her birth day. She was in her best spirits and received them with a hearty welcome, such as for which she is distinguished. The parlers were beautifully decorated and the guest enjoyed themselves with music and games until a late hour, when they all partook of an enjoyable repast, which was composed of the latest delicacies of the season and all left happily impressed. The presents were many, also letters of congratulation from out of town friends. Among those present and invited were: Mrs. Martha Carter, Mrs. Capt. Wm. H. Bannister, Mrs. Lucy Standard, Mrs. Hannah L. Johnson, Mrs. Catherine Kemp, Mrs. Taylor, Miss Crump, Mrs. Bertie Smith, Washington, D. C.; Mrs. Williams, Mrs. Ella Jones, Amelia Co., Va.; Mrs. Maria Robinson, Atlantic City; Mrs. Brooks Mrs. Capers, Mrs. Lucy Hopkins, Clark, Va.; Mrs. Roane, Mrs. Nannie O. Cobb, Mrs. Sarah Nash, Mrs. Geo, Hays, Mrs. Lillian Ghee and many others. Laid to Rest. Entered into rest Thursday night, July 9, 1908 at 11:55 o'clock after an illness of six hours, Miss Carrie B. Kemp, of 912 Turpin Street. She was a member of the Ebeneze Bapt. Church from which the funeral services were held. Dr. W. H. Stokes preached an eloquent sermon from 1 John 2:17. She was a member of Esther Coun cil, No. 22, I. O. St. Luke, Sisters of Love and the Friendly Aid Society, all of which read resolutions at the church. Three sons, Warner A., William M. and Stephen E. Banning a loving mother, four sisters, two brothers and other relatives and friends are left to mourn their loss. Honorary Pall Bearers—George W. Bragg, George W. Lewis, N. W. Bouldin, William Kemp. Active— C. A. J. Briggs, William J. Ferguson S. J. Gilpin, George Tyler, Richard Briggs and Peter Riley. Funeral Director W. I. Johnson of faciated. Interment in East End Cemetery. —The Common Council of this city has adopted the resolution reducing the price of gas from $1.00 to 90 cents per thousand cubic feet. —Dr. John Merriweather continues the use of his Brush automobile. He has the only one in use among the colored physicians of the city. —Carrier J. Wesley Jones was acquitted of the charge of killing his wife. The evidence was not sufficient to justify even a suspicion of guilt and his discharge was ordered. He is now on regular duty as a carrier. —Mrs. Charles H. Robinson returned from Conway, Va. this week where she had been attending the Summer Normal. —Mrs. Charles H. Jackson of New York City arrived here last week and expects to make Manchester, Va. her future home. —Mr. Charles H. Jackson visited The PLANET Office this week and was much pleased with the progress being made. —Miss Racilia W. Steward, daughter of Sir O. M. Steward, has been rusticating at Westhampton for the past few weeks. Miss Evangeline S. also a daughter of Sir Steward, left the city on Tuesday in company with Rev. Dr. Evans Payne for Charlottesville, where she will spend some time visiting Miss Virginia Hardy, daughter of Dr. R. B. Hardy, pastor of the First Baptist Church of Charlottesville. Dr. Moon Injured. Dr. Q. William Moon, who resides at 806 St. James Street was painfully injured and his wife had her nose broken and was otherwise bruised and injured as a result of a runaway by his horse. One of the bolts in the buggy dropped out while the couple were driving in Manchester. The shaft dropped and the horse became frightened, running away and doing much damage. They are now confined to their rooms and much sympathy has been expressed for the practitioner and his wife, both of whom are so well known in this section. They are im proving however and it is hoped that the doctor may be able to attend to his duties in a few days. Dr. Hughes is attending them. The accident occurred last Monday afternoon. Shot Down In His Own House J. L. Hechler, who lives at 1212 N. 24th Street in this city was shot early last Tuesday morning by Royall P. Ellison, a white lamblighter in this city. It is not certain that all the facts in the case are known to the public or has been told to the police. It seems that Hechler rushed from his own house with three bullets in his body fired by Ellison. Hechler says that Ellison stayed at his house to help keep off burglars, that he awoke in the night and found that his wife was not in bed with him. Investigation of the strange circumstance led him to believe that she was with Ellison. This seems to have led to a fight with the result stated. It is thought that Hechler will recover. Ellison claims to have mis took Hechler for a burglar, but he fired upon him after he had run screaming from his own house Excursion to Buckroe. —Who is that? First Baptist Sunday School and Board of Ushers to Buckroe Beach on Tuesday, Aug. 11, 1908. Train leaves Broad St. Station at 9 A. M. sharp. Be on time or else you are left. Tickets: Adults, $1.00, Children under 12 years of age fifty cents. H. G. Carter, Chair; W. F. White, Supt; Rev. W. T. Johnson, Pastor; Jas H. Morton, Sec.; W. H. Jones $100.00 Endowment Paid Lynchburg, Va., 1908. This is to certify that I have received from John Mitchell, Jr., Grand Worthy Counsellor of the Grand Court of Virginia, Order of Calanthe, ($100.00) One Hundred Dollars in payment of the deathclaim of Sir Pitman Walker who was a member of Helena Court, No. 60 of Lynchburg, Va. her Signed—Edith X Walker, mark Beneficiary. Beverly Dismond. Witnesses: Annie B. Goff, P. W. C. Grace Lucas, W. C. Eliny Glasgow, P. W. C. Bettie P. Dismond, D. D. W. C. —Don't forget the date Monday, Aug. 17, 1908. The I. B. C. will have a grand picnic at White City PRICE, FIVE CENTS $100.00 Endowment Paid. Newport News, Va., Aug. 1, '08. 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 deathclaim of Sister Mattie Jefferson, who was a member of Silver Leaf Court, No. 241 of Newport News, Va. Witnesses: W. S. Hobson, W. C. Mary M. Savage. Emma Norman. Mrs. J. E. Byrd, D. D. G. W. C. J. E. Byrd, Acting. $100.00 Endowment Paid Newport News, Va. July 30, '08. This is to certify that I have received from John Mitchell, Jr. Grand Worthy Counselor of the Grand Court of Virginia, Order of Calanthe, ($160.00) One Hundred Dollars in payment of the deathclaim of Sister Julia Rand, who was a member of Purity Court, No. 78, of Newport News, Va. # DIRECTORS: Eliza Powell, Mollie B. Price. Ella Jordan. Mrs. J. E. Byrd, D. D. G. W. C. J. E. Byrd, Acting. $100.00 Endowment Paid. Richmond, Va. July 28, 1908. This is to certify that I have received from John Mitchell, Jr. Grand Worthy Counsellor of the Grand Court of Virginia, Order of Calanthe. ($100.00) One Hundred Dollars in payment of the deathclaim of Sister Ada Wood Dixon, who was a member of Sylvia's Court Richmond, Va. Signed Iorien Dixon (Admin.) Signed—James A. Dixon, (Admin.) Guardian. Witnesses: Harriet E. Thompson. Mary M. Hodge. Anna Taylor. $150.00 Endowment Paid. Houston, Va., July 27, 1908. This is to certify that we 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 William Reid, who was a member of St. Matthew Lodge, No. 88 of Houston, Va. his Signed—Wilson X Reid mark his Jordan X Reid mark her Nicie X Jackson mark Beneficiaries. Witnesses: J. H. Fitzgerald. H. C. White, D. D. G. C. $150.00 Endowment Paid. Norfolk, Va., July 31, 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 Felix Poole, who was a member of Tidewater Lodge, No. 47 of Norfolk, Va. Signed—Mrs. Annie C. Poole, Beneficiary. Witnesses: John Alexander, C. C. Lee W. Manley, K. of R. & S. Wade H. Plumer, M. of F. M. Isbell, D. D. G. C. $150.00 Endowment Paid Norfolk, Va., July 27, '08. This is to certify that I have received from John Mitchell, Jr., Grand Chancellor of the Grand Lodge of Virginia, Knights of Pythias, N. A., S. A., E., A. A. and A. ($150.00) One Hundred and Fifty Dollars in payment of the death- claim or Sir Dock Alston, who was a member of Friendship Lodge, No. 3 of Norfolk, Va. Witnesses: Geo. W. Davenport, C. C. L. S. Luton, P. C. M. Isbell, D. D. G. C. D. J. Roberts, K. of R. and S. WANTED—(2) two good male cooks. Good pay. Apply at once to H. B. HUCLES, Business Manager V. N. and I. L., Petersburg Va. THE PORT OF MISSING MEN By MEREDITH NICHOLSON. Author of "The House of a Thousand Candles" COPYRIGHT, 1907. BY THE BOBBS-MERRILL COMPANY TWO Chapter VI TOWARD THE WESTERN STARS. ENEVA is a good point from which to plan flight to any part of the world, for there at the top of Europe the whole continental railway system is ENEVA is a good point from which to plan flight to any part of the world, for there at the top of Europe the whole continental railway system is easily within your grasp, and you may make your choice of sailing ports. It is, to be sure, rather out of your way to seek a ship at Liverpool unless you expect to gain some particular advantage in doing so. Mr. John Armitage hurried thither in the most breathless haste to catch the King Edward, whereas he might have taken the Touralne at Cherbourg and saved himself a mad scamper, but his satisfaction in finding himself aboard the King Edward was supreme. He was and is, it may be said, a man who salutes the passing days right amiably, no matter how somber their colors. Shirley Clalborne and Captain Richard Clalborne, her brother, were on deck watching the shipping in the Mersey as the big steamer swung into the channel. "I hope," observed Dick, "that we have shaken off all your transatlantic suitors. That little Chauvenet died easier than I had expected. He never turned up after we left Florence, but I not wholly sure that we shan't find him at the dock in New York. And that mysterious Armitage, who spent so much railway fare following us about and who almost bought you a watch in Geneva, really disappoints me. His persistence had actually compelled my admiration. For a glass blower he was fairly decent, though, and better than a lot of these little toy men with imitation titles." "Oh, my large brother, I have a confession to make," said Shirley. "Please don't indulge in great oaths or stamp a hole in this sturdy deck, but there are flowers in my stateroom"— "Probably from the Liverpool consul. He's been pestering father to help him get a transfer to a less gloomy hole." "Then I shall intercede myself with the president when I get home. They are orchids—from London—but—with Mr. Armitage's card. Wouldn't that excite you?" "It makes me sick!" and Dick hung heavily on the rail and glared at a passing tug. "They are beautiful orchids. I don't remember when orchids have happened to me before, Richard—in such quantities. Now, you really didn't disapprove of him so much, did you? This is probably goodbye forever, but he wasn't so bad, and he may be an American, after all." "A common adventurer! Such fellows are always turning up, like bad pennies or a one eyed dog. If I should see him again"— "Yes, Richard, if you should meet again"— "I'd ask him to be good enough to stop following us about, and if he persisted I should muss him up." "Yes, I'm sure you would protect me from his importunities at any hazard," mocked Shirley, turning and leaning against the rail so that she looked along the deck beyond her brother's stalwart shoulders. "Don't be silly," observed Dick, whose eyes were upon a trim yacht that was steaming slowly beneath them. "I shan't, but please don't be violent! Do not murder the poor man, Dickle, dear!" and she took hold of his arm entreatingly—"for there he is—as tall and mysterious as ever—and me found guilty with a few of his orchids pinned to my jacket!" "This is good fortune, indeed," said Armitage a moment later when they had shaken hands. "I finished my erand at Geneva unexpectedly, and here I am." He smiled at the feebleness of his explanation and joined in their passing comment on the life of the harbor. He was not so dull but that he felt Dick Claiborne's resentment of his presence on board. He knew perfectly well that his acquaintance with the Claiborne was too slight to be severely strained, particularly where a fellow of Dick Claiborne's high spirit was concerned. He talked with them a few minutes longer, then took himself off, and they saw little of him the rest of the day. Armitage did not share their distinction of a seat at the captain's table, and Dick found him late at night in the smoking saloon with pipe and book. Armitage nodded and asked him to sit down. "You are a sailor as well as a soldier, captain. You are fortunate. I always sit up the first night to make sure the enemy doesn't lay hold of me in my sleep." He tossed his book aside, had brandy and soda brought and offered Clalborne a cigar. "This is not the most fortunate season for crossing. I am sure to fall toorrow. My father and mother hate the sea particularly and have retired for three days. My sister is the only one of us who is perfectly immune." Dick Clalborne was a good deal amused at finding himself sitting beside Armitage—enjoying, indeed, his fellow traveler's hospitality, but Armitage, he was forced to admit, bore all the marks of a gentleman. He had, to be sure, followed Shirley about, but even the young man's manner in this was hardly a matter at which he could cavil. And there was something altogether likable in Armitage. His very composure was attractive to Clalborne, and the bold lines of his figure were not wasted on the young officer. Armitage was thinking rapidly of something he had suddenly resolved to say to Captain Claiborne. He knew that the Claibornes were a family of distinction. The father was an American diplomat and lawyer of wide reputation. The family stood for the best of which America is capable, and they were homeward bound to the American capital, where their social position and the father's fame made them conspicuous. Armitage put down his cigar and bent toward Claiborne, speaking with quiet directness. "Captain Claiborne, I was introduced to you at Geneva by Mr. Singleton. You may have observed me several times previously at Venice, Rome, Florence, Paris, Berlin. I certainly saw you. I shall not deny that I in- tentionally followed you nor" A tentionally followed you, not" "John Armitage smiled, then grew grave again—"can I make any adequate apology for doing so." Claiborne looked at Armitage wonderingly. The man's attitude and tone were wholly serious and compelled respect. Claiburne nods his cigar that he attention to what to see. "Nor can I make any adequate apology." Clalburne nodded and threw away his cigar that he might give his whole attention to what Armitage might have to say. "A man does not like to have his sister forming the acquaintance of persons who are not properly vouched for. Except for Singleton you know nothing of me, and Singleton knows very little of me indeed." Clalburne nodded. He felt the color creeping into his cheeks consciously as Armitage touched upon this matter. "I speak to you as I do because it is your right to know who and what I am, for I am not on the King Edward by accident, but by intention, and I am going to Washington because your sister lives there." Clalborne smiled in spite of himself. "But, my dear sir, this is most extraordinary! I don't know that I care to hear any more. By listening I seem to be encouraging you to follow us. It's altogether too unusual. It's almost proposterous." And Dick Clalborne frowned severely, but Armitage still met his eyes gravely. "It's only decent for a man to give his references when it's natural for them to be required. I was educated at Trinity college, Toronto. I spent a year at the Harvard law school. And I am not a beggar utterly. I own a ranch in Montana that actually pays and a thousand acres of the best wheat land in Nebraska. At the Bronx Loan and Trust company in New York I have securities to a considerable amount—I am perfectly willing that any one who is at all interested should inquire of the trust company officers as to my standing with them. If I were asked to state my occupation, I should have to say that I am a cattle herder—what you call a cowboy. I can make my living in the practice of the business almost anywhere from New Mexico north to the Canadian line. I flatter myself that I am pretty good at it," and John Armitage smiled and took a cigarette from a box on the table and lighted it. Dick Claiborne was greatly interested in what Armitage had said, and he struggled between an inclination to encourage further confidence and a feeling that he should, for Shirley's sake, make it clear to this young stranger that it was of no consequence to any member of the Claiborne family who he was or what might be the extent of his lands or the unimpeachable character of his investments. But it was not so easy to turn aside a fellow who was so big of frame and apparently so sane and so steady of purpose as this Armitage. And there was, too, the further consideration that while Armitage was volunteering gratuitous information and assuming an interest in his affairs by the Claiborne that was wholly unjustified, there was also the other side of the matter: that his explanations proceeded from motives of delicacy that were praiseworthy. Dick was puzzled and plied besides to find that his resources as a big protecting brother were so soon exhausted. What Armitage was asking was the right to seek his sister Shirley's hand in marriage, and the thing was absurd. Moreover, who was John Armitage? The question startled Claiborne into a realization of the fact that Armitage had volunteered considerable information without at all answering this question. Dick Claiborne was a human being and curious. "Pardon me," he asked, "but are you an Englishman?" "I am not," answered Armitage. "I have been so long in America that I feel as much at home there as anywhere—but I am neither English nor American by birth. I am, on the other hand". He hesitated for the barest second, and Claiborne was sensible of an intensification of interest. Now at last there was to be a revelation that amounted to something. "On the other hand," Armitage repeated, "I was born at Fontalebleau, where my parents lived for only a few months, but I do not consider that that fact makes me a Frenchman. My mother is dead. My father died—very recently. I have been in America enough to know that a foreigner is often under suspicion—particularly if THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA he have a title. My distinction is that I am a foreigner without one!" John Armitage laughed. "It is, indeed, a real merit," declared Dick, who felt something was expected of him. In spite of himself he found much to like in John Armitage. He particularly deepised sham and pretense, and he had been won by the evident sincerity of Armitage's wish to appear well in his eyes. "And now," said Armitage, "I assure you that I am not in the habit of talking so much about myself—and if you will overlook this offense I promise not to bore you again." "I have been interested," remarked Dick. "And," he added, "I cannot do less than thank you, Mr. Armitage." Armitage began talking of the American army—its strength and weaknesses—with an intimate knowledge that greatly surprised and interested the young officer, and when they separated presently it was with a curious mixture of liking and mystification that Clalborne reviewed their talk. The next day brought heavy weather, and only hardened seagoors were abroad. Armitage, breakfasting late, was not satisfied that he had acted wisely in speaking to Captain Clalborne; but he had, at any rate, eased in some degree his own conscience, and he had every intention of seeing all that he could of Shirley Clalborne during these days of their fellow voyaging. Chapter VII ON THE DARK DECK. AM Columbus every time I cross," said Shirley. "What lies out there in the west is an undiscovered country." AM Columbus every time I cross," said Shirley. "What lies out there in the west is an undiscovered country." "Then I shall have to take the part of the rebellious and doubting crew. There is no America, and we're sure to get into trouble if we don't turn back." "You shall be clipped into irons and fed on bread and water and turned over to the Indians as soon as we reach land." "Don't starve me! Let me hang from the yardarm at once or walk the planks. I choose the hour immediately after dinner for my obsequies!" They were silent for a moment, continuing their tramp. Fair weather was peopling the decks. Dick Clalborne was engrossed with a vivacious California girl, and Shirley saw him only at meals, but he and Armitage held night sessions in the smoking room, with increased liking on both sides. Armitage saw something of all the Clalborne every day in the pleasant intimacy of ship life, and Hilton Clalborne found the young man an interesting talker. Judge Clalborne is, as every one knows, the best posted American of his time in diplomatic history, and when they were together Armitage suggested topics that were well calculated to awaken the old lawyer's interest. Shirley and Armitage talked—as people will on shipboard—of everything under the sum. Shirley's enthusiasm were in themselves interesting, but she was informed in the world's larger affairs, as became the daughter of a man who was an authority in such matters, and found it pleasant to discuss them with Armitage. He felt the poetic quality in her. It was that which had first appealed to him, but he did not know that something of the same sort in himself touched her. It was enough for those days that he was courteous and amusing and gained a trifle in her eyes from the fact that he had no tangible background. Then came the evening of the fifth day. They were taking a turn after dinner on the lighted deck. The spring stars hung faint and far through thin clouds, and the wind was keen from the sea. A few passengers were out. The deck stewards went about gathering up rugs and chairs for the night. "Time oughtn't to be reckoned at all at sea, so that people who feel themselves getting old might sail forth into the deep and defy the old man with the hourglass." "I like the idea. Such people could become fishers—permanently and grow very wise from so much brain food." "They wouldn't eat, Mr. Armitage. Brain food forsooth! You talk like a breakfast food advertisement. My idea—mine, please note—is for such fortunate people to sail in pretty little boats with orange tinted sails and pick up lost dreams. I got a hint of that in a pretty poem once— "Time seemed to pause a little space. I heard a dream go by." "But out here in midocean a little boat with lateen sails wouldn't have much show. And dreams passing over—the idea is pretty and is creditable to your imagination. But I thought your fancy was more militant. Now, for example, you like battle pictures," he said. "That was a wonderful collection of military and battle pictures shown in Paris last winter." She half withdrew her hand from his arm and turned away. The sea winds did not wholly account for the sudden color in her cheeks. She had seen Armitage in Paris-in cafes, at the opera, but not at the great exhibition of the world famous battle pictures, yet undoubtedly he had seen her, and she remembered with instant consciousness the hours of absorption she had spent before those canvases. "I was in Paris during the exhibition," he said quietly. "Ormsby, the American painter—the man who did the 'High Tide at Gettysburg'—is an acquaintance of mine." "Oh!" It was Ormsby's painting that had particularly captivated Shirley. She had returned to it day after day, and the thought that Armitage had taken advantage of her deep interest in Pickett's charging gray line was annoying, and she abruptly changed the subject. Shirley had speculated much as to the meaning of Armitage's remark at the carriage door in Geneva—that he expected the slayer of the old Austrian prime minister to pass that way. Armitage had not referred to the crime in any way in his talks with her on the King Edward. Their conversations had been pitched usually in a light and frivolous key, or, if one were disposed to be serious, the other responded in a note of levity. They watched the lights of an east-bound steamer that was passing near. The exchange of rocket signals—that pretty and graceful parley between ships that pass in the night—interested them for a moment. Then the deck lights went out so suddenly it seemed that a dark curtain had descended and shut them in with the sea. "Accident to the dynamo—we shall have the lights on in a moment" shouted the deck officer, who stood near, talking to a passenger. "Shall we go in?" asked Arnultage. "Yes; it is getting cold," replied Shhrley. For a moment they were quite alone on the dark deck, though they heard voices near at hand. They were groping their way toward the main saloon, where they had left Mr. and Mrs. Claiborne, when Shirley was aware of some one lurking near. A figure seemed to be crouching close by, and she felt its furtive movements and knew that it had passed, but remained a few feet away. Her hand on Armitage's arm tightened. "What is that? There is some one following us," she said. At the same moment Armitage, too, became aware of the presence of a stooping figure behind him. He stopped abruptly and faced about. “Stand quite still, Miss Claiborne.” He peered about, and instantly, as though waiting for his voice, a tall figure rose not a yard from him and a long arm shot high above his head and descended swiftly. They were close to the rail, and a roll of the ship sent Armitage off his feet and away from his assailant. Shirley at the same moment threw out her hands, defensively or for support, and clutched the arm and shoulder of the man who had assailed Armitage. He had driven a knife at John Armitage and was posing himself for another attempt when Shirley seized his arm. As he drew back a fold of his cloak still lay in Shirley's grasp, and she gave a sharp little cry as the figure, with a quick jerk, released the clock and slipped away into the shadows. A moment later the lights were restored, and she saw Armitage regarding ruefully a long slit in the left arm of his ulster. “Are you hurt? What has hap- "Are you hurt? What has happened?" she demanded. "It must have been a sca serpent," he replied, laughing. The deck officer regarded them curiously as they blinked in the glare of A long arm shot high above his head and descended swiftly. light and asked whether anything was wrong. Armitage turned the matter off. "I guess it was a sea serpent," he said. "It bit a hole in my ulcer, for which I am not grateful." Then in a lower tone to Shirley: "That was certainly a strange proceeding. I am sorry you were startled, and I am under greatest obligations to you, Miss Clalborne. Why, you actually pulled the fellow away?" "Oh, no," she returned lightly, but still breathing hard; "it was the instinct of self preservation. I was unsteady on my feet for a moment and sought something to take hold of. That pirate was the nearest thing, and I caught hold of his cloak. I'm sure it was a cloak, and that makes me sure he was a human villain of some sort. He didn't feel in the least like a sea serpent. But some one tried to injure you—it is no nesting matter—" "Some lunatic escaped from the steerage probably. I shall report it to the officers." "Yes; it should be reported," said Shirley. "It was very strange. Why, the deck of the King Edward is the safest place in the world, but it's something to have had hold of a sea serpent or a pirate! I hope you will forgive me for bringing you into such an encounter, but if you hadn't caught his cloak"— Armitage was uncomfortable and anxious to allay her fears. The incident was by no means trivial, as he knew. Passengers on the great transatlantic steamers are safeguarded by every possible means, and the fact that he had been attacked in the few minutes that the deck lights had been out of order pointed to an espionage that was both close and daring. He was greatly surprised and more shaken than he wished Shirley to believe. The thing was disquieting enough, and it could not but impress her strangely that he, of all the persons on board, should have been the object of so unusual an assault. He was in the disagreeable plight of having subjected her to danger, and as they entered the brilliant saloon he freed himself of the uister with its telltale gash and sought to minimize her impression of the incident. Shirley did not refer to the matter again, but resolved to keep her own counsel. She felt that any one who would accept the one chance in a thousand of striking down an enemy on a steamer deck must be animated by very bitter hatred. She knew that to 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 11 8. 4TH ST., RICHMOND, VA speak of the affair to her father or brother would be to alarm them and prejudice them against John Armitage, about whom her brother least had entertained doubts. And it is not reassuring as to a man of whom little or nothing is known that he is menaced by secret enemies. Lecture The attack had found Armitage unprepared and He scrutinized every The attack had name on the passen- found Armitage ger list. unprepared and off guard, but with swift reaction his wits were at work. He at once sought the purser and scrutinized every name on the passenger list. It was unlikely that a steerage passenger could reach the saloon deck unobserved. A second cabin passenger might do so, however, and he sought among the names in the second cabin list for a clew. He did not believe that Chauvenet or Durand had boarded the Kingen Edward. He himself had made the boat only by a quick dash, and he had left those two gentlemen at Geneva with much to consider. It was, however, quite within the probabilities that they would send some one to watch him, for the two men whom he had overheard in the dark house on the Boulevard Frolasart were active and resourceful rascals, he had no doubt. Whether they would be able to make anything of the cigarette case he had stupidly left behind he could not conjecture, but the importance of recovering the packet he had cut from Chauvenet's coat was not a trifle that rogues of their caliber would ignore. There was, the purser said, a sick man in the second cabin, who had kept close to his berth. The steward believed the man to be a continental of some sort, who spoke bad German. He had taken the boat at Liverpool, paid for his passage in gold, and, complaining of illness, retired, evidently for the voyage. His name was Peter Ludovic, and the steward described him in detail. "Big fellow, bullet head, bristling mustache, small eyes"— "That will do," said Armitage, grinning at the ease with which he identified the man. "You understand that it is wholly irregular for us to let such a matter pass without acting," said the purser. "It would serve no purpose and might do harm. I will take the responsibility." And John Armitage made a memorandum in his notebook: "Zmal ---; travels as Peter Ludovie." Armitage carried the envelope which he had cut from Chauvenet's cont pinned into an inner pocket of his waist coat, and since boarding the King Edward he had examined it twice daily to see that it was intact. The three red wax seals were in blank, replacing those of like size that had originally been affixed to the envelope, and at once after the attack on the dark deck he opened the packet and examined the papers, some half dozen sheets of thin linen written in a clerk's clear hand in black ink. There had been no mistake in the matter. The packet which Chauvenet had purloined from the old prime minister at Vienna had come again into Armitage's hands. He was daily tempted to destroy it and cast it in bits to the sea winds, but he was deterred by the remembrance of his last interview with the old prime minister. "Do something for Austria—something for the empire." These phrases repeated themselves over and over again in his mind until they rose and fell with the cadence of the high, wavering voice of the cardinal archbishop of Vienna as he chanted the mass of requiem for Count Ferdinand von Stroebel. ChapterVIII "THE KING IS DEAD; LONG LIVE THE KING!" OHN ARMITAGE lingered in New York for a week, not to press the Claibornes too closely, then went to Washington. He wrote himself down on the register of OHN ARMITAGE lingered in New York for a week, not to press the Clalibornees too closely, then went to Washington. He wrote himself down on the register of the New American as John Armitage. Clutch Tight, Mont., and took a suit of rooms high up, with an outlook that swept Pennsylvania avenue. It was on the evening of a bright April day that he thus established himself, and after he had unpacked his belongings he stood long at the window and watched the lights leap out of the dusk over the city. He was in Washington because Shirley Claliborne lived there, and he knew that even if he wished to do so he could no longer throw an air of inadvertence into his meetings with her. He had been very lonely in those days when he first saw her abroad. The sight of her had lifted his mood of depression, and now, after those enchanted hours at sea, his coming to Washington had been inevitable Many things passed through his mind as he stood at the open window. His life, he felt, could never be again as it had been before, and he sighed deeply as he recalled his talk with the old prime minister at Geneva. Then he laughed quietly as he remembered Chauvenet and Durand and the dark Zouse on the Boulevard Froissart, but the further recollection of the attack made on his life on the deck of the King Edward sobered him, and he turned away from the window impatiently. He had seen the sick second cabin passenger leave the steamer at New York. But had taken no trouble either to watch or to avoid him. Very likely the man was under instructions and had been told to follow the Claibornes home, and the thought of their identification with himself by his enemies angered him. Chauvenet was likely to appear in Washington at any time and would undoubtedly seek the Claibornes at once. The fact that the man was a sounddrel might in some circumstances have afforded Armitage comfort, but here again Armitage's mood grew dark. Jules Chauvenet was undoubtedly a rascal of a shrewd and dangerous type, but who, pray, was John Armitage? The bell in his entry rang, and he flashed on the lights and opened the door. "Well, I like this, setting yourself up here in gloomy splendor and never saying a word. You never deserved to have any friends, John Armitage!" "Jim Sanderson, come in!" Armitage grasped the hands of a red bearded "Jim Sanderson grasped the hand giant of forty, the possessor of alert brown eyes and a big voice. 3 "I'ts my rural habit of reading the register every night in search of constituents that brings me here. They said they guessed you were in, so I just came up to see whether you were opening a poker game or had come to sneak a claim past the watchdog of the treasury." The caller threw himself into a chair and rolled a fat, unlighted cigar about in his mouth. "You're a peach, all right, and as offensively hale and hand-some as ever. When are you going to the ranch? "Well, not just immediately. I want to sample the fleshpots for a day or two." "You're getting soft; that's what the matter with you. You're afraid of the spring zephyr on the Montana range. Well, I'll admit that it's rather more diverting here." "There is no debating that, senator. How do you like being a statesman? It was so sudden and all that. I read an awful roast of you in an English paper. They took your election to the senate as another evidence of the complete domination of our politics by the plutocrats." Sanderson winked prodigiously. "The papers have rather skinned me; but, on the whole, I'll do very well. They say it isn't respectable to be a senator these days, but they oughtn't to hold it up against a man that he rich. If the Lord put silver in the mountains of Montana and let me dig it out, it's nothing against me, is it?" "Decidedly not! And if you want to invest it in a senatorship it's the Lord's hand again." "Why, sure!" And the senator from Montana winked once more. "But it's expensive. I've got to be elected again next winter—I'm only filling out Billings' term—and I'm not sure I can go up against it." "But you are nothing if not unselfish. If the good of the country demands it you'll not falter, if I know you." "There's hot water heat in this hotel, so please turn off the hot air. I saw your foreman in Helena the last time I was out there, and he was sober. I mention the fact, knowing that I'm jeopardizing my reputation for veracity, but it's the Lord's truth. Of course you spent Christmas at the old home in England—one of those yule log and plum pudding Christmases you read of in novels. You Englishmen"—"My dear Sanderson, don't call me English! I've told you a dozen times that I'm not English." "So you did, so you did! I'd forgotten that you're so sensitive about it," and Sanderson's eyes regarded Armitage intently for a moment, as though he were trying to recall some previous discussion of the young man's nativity. "I offer you free swing at the bar, senator. May I summon a Montana cocktail? You taught me the ingredients once—three dashes orange bitters, two dashes acid phosphate, half a jigger of whisky and half a jigger of Italian vermuth. You undermined the constitutions of half Montana with that mess." Sanderson reached for his hat with sudden dejection. "The sprinkling cart for me! I've got a nerve specialist engaged by the year to keep me out of sanitariums. See here, I want you to go with us tonight to the secretary of state's push. Not many of the Montana boys get this far from home, and I want you for exhibition purposes. Say, John, when I saw "Clnch Tight, Montana," written on the register down there it increased my circulation seven beats! You're all right, and I guess you're about as good an American as they make--anywhere—John Armitage!" The function for which the senator from Montana provided an invitation for Armitage was a large affair in honor of several new ambassadors. At 10 o'clock Senator Sanderson was introducing Armitage right and left as one of his representative constituents. Armitage and he owned adjoining ranches in Montana, and Sanderson called upon his neighbor to stand up boldly for their state before the minions of effete monarchies. Mrs. Sanderson had asked Armitage to return to her for a little Montana talk, as she put it, after the first rush of their entrance was over, and as he waited in the drawing room for an opportunity of speaking to her he chatted with Franzel, an attache of the Austrian embassy, to whom Sanderson had introduced him. Franzel was a gloomy young man with a monocle, and he was waiting for a particular girl, who happened to be the daughter of the Irish ambassador. And, this being his object, he had chosen his position with care, near the door of the drawing room, and Armitage shared for the moment the advantage that lay in the Austrian's point of view. Armitage had half expected that the Clalbornes would be present at a function as comprehensive of the higher official world as this, and he intended asking Mrs. Sanderson if she knew them as soon as opportunity offered. The Austrian attache proved tiresome, and Armitage was about to drop him, when suddenly he caught sight of Shirley Clathorne at the far end of the broad hall. Her head was turned partly toward him. He saw her for an instant through the throng. Then his eyes fell upon Chauvenet at her side, talking with livelest animation. He was not more than her own height, and his profile presented the clean, sharp effect of a cameo. The vivid outline of his dark face held Armitage's eyes. Then as Shirley passed on through an opening in the crowd her escort turned, holding the way open for her, and Armitage met the man's gaze. It was with an accented gravity that Armitage nodded his head to some declaration of the melancholy attache at this moment. He had known when he left Geneva that he had not done with Jules Chauvenet, but the man's prompt appearance surprised Armitage. He ran over the names of the steamers by which Chauvenet might easily have sailed from either a German or a French port and reached Washington quite as soon as himself. Chauvenet was in Washington, at any rate, and not only there, but socially accepted and in the good graces of Shirley Clalborne. The somber attache was speaking of the Japanese. "They must be crushed—crushed," said Franzel. The two had been conversing in French. "Yes, he must be crushed," returned Armitage absentmindedly, in English; then, remembering himself, he repeated the affirmation in French, changing the pronoun. Mrs. Sanderson was now free. She was a pretty, vivacious woman, much younger than her stalwart husband—a college graduate whom he had found teaching school near one of his silver mines. "Welcome cace more, constituent! We're proud to see you, I can tell you. Our host owns some marvelous tapestries, and they're hung out tonight for the world to see." She guided Armitage toward the secretary's gallery on an upper floor. Their host was almost as famous as a connoisseur as for his achievements in diplomacy, and the gallery was a large apartment in which every article of furniture, as well as the paintings, tapestries and specimens of pottery, was the careful choice of a thoroughly cultivated taste. / "It isn't merely an art gallery. It's the most beautiful room in America," murmured Mrs. Sanderson. "I can well believe it. There's my favorite Vibert—I wondered what had become of it." "It isn't surprising that the secretary is making a great reputation by his dealings with foreign powers. It's a poor ambassador who could not be persuaded after an hour in this splendid room. The ordinary affairs of life should not be mentioned here. A king's coronation would not be out of place—in fact, there's a chair in the corner against that Gobelin that would serve the situation. The old gentleman by that cabinet is the Baron von Marhof, the ambassador from Austria-Hungary. He's a brother-in-law of Count Stroebel, who was murdered so horribly in a railway carriage a few weeks ago." "Ah, to be sure! I haven't seen the baron in years. He has changed little." "Then you knew him—in the old country?" "Yes; I used to see him—when I was a boy," remarked Armitage. Mrs. Sanderson glanced at Armitage sharply. She had dined at his ranch house in Montana and knew that he lived like a gentleman; that his house, its appointments and service were unusual for a western ranchman. And she recalled, too, that she and her husband had often speculated as to Armitage's antecedents and history without arriving at any conclusion in regard to him. The room had slowly filled, and they strolled about, dividing attention between distinguished personages and the not less celebrated works of art. "Oh, by the way, Mr. Armitage, there's the girl I have chosen for you to marry. I suppose it would be just as well for you to meet her now, though that dark little foreigner seems to be monopolizing her." "I am wholly agreeable," laughed Armitage. "The sooner the better and be done with it." "Don't be so frivolous. There, you can look safely now. She's stopped to speak to that haid and pink justice of the supreme court—the girl with the brown eyes and hair. Have a care!" Shirley and Chauvenet left the venerable justice, and Mrs. Sanderson intercepted them at once. "To think of all these beautiful things in our own America!" exclaimed Shirley. "And you, Mr. Armitage." "Among the other curios, Miss Claborne," laughed John, taking her hand. "But I haven't introduced you yet," began Mrs. Sanderson, puzzled. "No; the King Edward did that. We crossed together. Oh, M. Chauvenet, let me present Mr. Armitage," said Shirley, seeing that the men had not spoken. The situation amused Armitage, and he smiled more broadly than was necessary in expressing his pleasure at meeting M. Chauvenet. They regarded each other with the swift intentness of men who are used to the sharp exercise of their eyes, and when Armitage turned toward Shirley and Mrs. Sanderson he was aware that Chauvenet continued to regard him with fixed gaze. "Miss Chalborne is a wonderful sailor. The Atlantic is a little tumultuous at times in the spring, but she reported to the captain every day." "Miss Chalborne is nothing if not extraordinary," reclaimed Mrs. Sanderson with frank admiration. "The word seems to have been colled for her," said Chauvenet, his white teeth showing under his thin black mustache. "And still leaves the language distinguished chiefly for its poverty," added Armitage, and the men bowed to Shirley and then to Mrs. Sanderson and again to each other. It was like a rehearsal of some trifle in a comedy. "How charming!" laughed Mrs. Sanderson. "And this lovely room is just the place for it." They were still talking together as Franzel, with whom Armitage had spoken below, entered hurriedly. He held a crumpled note, whose contents it seemed had shaken him out of his habitual melancholy composure. "Is Baron von Marhof in the room?" he asked of Armitage, fumbling nervously at his monocle. The Austrian ambassador, with several ladies and led by Senator Sanderson, was approaching. The attach hurried to his chief and addressed him in a low tone. The am- HEAVY PLANET SATURDAY.....AUGUST 8, 1908. Bassador stopped, grew very white and stared at the messenger for a moment in blank unbelief. The young man now repeated in English, in a tone that could be heard in all parts of the hushed room: "His majesty the Emperor Johann Wilhelm died suddenly tonight in Vienna," he said and gave his arm to his chief. It was a strange place for the delivery of such a message, and the strangeness of it was intensified to Shirley by the curious glance that passed between John Armitage and Jules Chauvenet. Shirley remembered afterward that as the attach's words rang out in the room Armitage started, clinched his hands and caught his breath in a manner very uncommon in men unless they are greatly moved. The ambassador walked directly from the room with bowed head, and every one waited in silent sympathy until he had gone. The word passed swiftly through the great house, and through the open windows the servants were heard crying loudly for Baron von Marhof's carriage in the court below. "The king is dead. Long live the king!" murmured Shirley. "Long live the king!" repeated Chauvenet and Mrs. Sanderson in unison. And then Armitage, as though mastering a phrase they were teaching him, raised his head and said, with an unction that surprised them: "Long live the emperor and king! God save Austria!" Then he turned to Shirley with a smile. "Thank you; yes. My father and mother are here somewhere." "And Captain Clalborn?" "He's probably sitting up all night to defend Fort Myer from the crafts and assaults of the enemy. I hope you will come to see us, Mr. Armitage." "Thank you. You are very kind," he said gravely. "I shall certainly give myself the pleasure very soon." As Shirley passed on with Chauvenet Mrs. Sanderson launched upon the girl's praises, but she found him suddenly preoccupied. "The girl has gone to your head. Why didn't you tell me you knew the Clalbornes?" "I don't remember that you gave me a chance, but I'll say now that I intend to know them better." She bade him take her to the drawing room. As they went down through the house they found that the anouncement of the Emperor Johann Wilhelm's death had cast a pall upon the company. All the members of the A The ambassador grew very white, diplomatic corps had withdrawn at once as a mark of respect and sympathy for Baron von Marhoff, and at midnight the ballroom held all of the company that remained. Armitage had not sought Shirley again. He found a room that had been set apart for smokers, threw himself into a chair, lighted a cigar and stared at a picture that had no interest for him whatever. He put down his cigar after a few whiffs, and his hand went to the pocket in which he had usually carried his cigarette case. "Ah, Mr. Armitage, may I offer you a cigarette?" He turned to find Chauvenet close at his side. He had not heard the man enter, but Chauvenet had been in his thoughts, and he started slightly at finding him so near. Chauvenet held in his white gloved hand a gold cigarette case, which he opened with a deliberate care that displayed its embellished side. The smooth golden surface gleamed in the light, the helmet in blue and the white falcon flashed in Armitage's eyes. The meeting was clearly by intention, and a slight smile played about Chauvenet's lips in his enjoyment of the situation. Armitage smiled up at him in amable acknowledgment of his courtesy and rose. "You are very considerate, monsieur, I was just at the moment regretting our distinguished host's oversight in providing cigars alone. Allow me!" He bent forward, took the outstretched open case into his own hands, removed a cigarette, snapped the case shut and thrust it into his trousers pocket—all, as it seemed, at a single stroke. "My dear sir," began Chauvenet, white with rage. "My dear M. Chauvenet," said Armitage, striking a match, "I am indebted to you for returning a trinket that I value highly." The flame crept half the length of the stick while they regarded each other. Then Armitage raised it to the tip if his cigarette, lifted his head and blew a cloud of smoke. "Are you able to prove your property, Mr. Armitage?" demanded Chauvenet furiously. "My dear sir, they have a saying in this country that possession is nine points of the law. You had it—now? have it—wherefore it must be mine!" Chauvenet's rigid figure suddenly relaxed. He leaned against a chair with a return of his habitual nonchalant air and waved his hand carelessly. "Between gentlemen—so small a matter" "To be sure, the merest trifle," laughed Armitage with entire good humor. "And where a gentleman has the predatory habits of a burglar and housebreaker"— "Then lesser affairs, such as picking up trinkets"— "Come naturally; quite so!" And Chauvenet twisted his mustache with an air of immense satisfaction. "But the genial art of assassination—there's a business that requires a calculating hand, my dear M. Chauvenet." Chauvenet's hand went again to his lip. "To be sure!" he ejaculated, with zest. "But alone—alone one can do little. For larger operations one requires, I should say, courageous associates. Now, in my affairs, would you believe me, I am obliged to manage quite alone." "How melancholy!" exclaimed Chauvenet. "It is, indeed, very sad!" and Armitage sighed, tossed his cigarette into the smoldering grate and bade Chauvenet a ceremonious good night. "Ah, we shall meet again, I dare say!" "The thought does credit to a generous nature," responded Armitage and passed out into the house. (TO BE CONTINUED.) HER INGRATITUDE. She sketched and painted up and down the river. I rowed the boat Where willows dip and deepening shadows quiver. And lilies float. Cliff, cottage, sail, and bridge and seasands yellow. Her studies were— And, oh, I thought myself a lucky fellow. She painted on, With now and then a smile—absorbed, elated- Till, daylight gone. She'd raise her eyes reluctantly and mur- mur. And I-I'd only plant my feet the firmer, And start to row. Last night we met. Of art, she prattled sweetly But, when I shyly dared my part to mention As an oarman true, She vaguely smiled and said, with inattention "Oh, was it it you?" —The Argonaut A man is running through a doorway. First Burglar—Well, did yer get anyfunk? Second Burglar (disgusted)—Nah! The bloke woke lives 're is a lawyer. First Burglar—That's 'ard luck. Did yer lose anyfunk? Mary Widough's Hat Mary Widlow had a hat. One piece was wide as anything. And everywhere that Mary went. The hat was sure to go. Surer Grasp. "One objection to your poem," said the editor, glancing through the manuscript, "is that Whittier once wrote a poem embodying substantially the same ideas." "Do you mean to say, sir," thurdered the six-foot caller, "that I—" "But you have improved on them, my dear sir," hastily interposed the editor; "you have improved on them fmmensely!"—Chicago Tribune. Turned Down. Dick—I didn't get much encouragement when I proposed to that haughty beauty. Jack—Well, faint heart never won fair lady, old man. Maybe she thought you had cold feet. Dick—H'm! She must have thought I had cold hands. She gave me the mitten.—Chicago Dally News. THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. HORTICULTURE How One Farmer Made the Garden Work an Easy Task. I made a hand cultivator which does good work in the garden, writes a correspondent of the Farm and Home. Old plow handles, a, may be used, but they will need splicing, as shown at b, to five feet long. The hoe, or scraper, is shown at c. This Handy Garden Tool. should be made of a piece of tempered steel and brought to a sharp edge. I used a plow wheel, but one can be made of two-inch boards fastened together, then cut on a circle, and a piece of band iron put on for a tire. CHERRY TREE SLUG. How It Can Be Easily Killed by Poison Sprays. The Colorado station gives this advice for treating the cherry and pear tree slug: "The slugs feed so freely upon the surface of the leaves that they are very easily killed by any of the arsenical poisons, such as arsenate of lead, arsenite of lime, or paris green applied in moderate strength. One pound of the arsenate of lead to each 25 gallons of water, or one pound of the paris green to 100 gallons of water, will make a preparation of sufficient strength to promptly destroy this insect. Sometimes it is necessary to make an application when cherries or plums are nearly grown when it is not advisable to cover the fruit with an arsenical poison. In this case one can use white hellebore in water in the proportion of one ounce to three gallons. If the hellebore is used, it is a little better to apply towards evening. Try to distribute the spray as evenly and thoroughly as possible to all the leaves of the tree without using enough to cause it to run off to any great extent. Where only a few trees are to be treated, one may use air-slacked lime or fine road dust, throwing the dust very freely over the surface of the leaves. This remedy is not quite so effectual as the preceding, but can often be used with entire satisfaction." TRAINING TOMATOES Method by Which the Fruit Can Be Kept from Rotting. The best method I ever tried is to traina them to a stake. This is a safeguard against rot, as it keeps the fruit off the ground. I cut stakes from saplings $2\frac{1}{2}$ inches in diameter and five to six feet long, choosing those with small branches all the way up. The branches are left about four inches long. Stake the plants as you have time after they are set out. When they are one foot tall tie them to the stakes with good, strong twine, and with some assistance later on they will find support and cling to the branches. Occasionally, continues the writer in Farm and Home, some will not take hold, and you will have to tie them higher on the stake. This plan could not be followed in field cultivation, but in a small family garden it works like a charm. They should be given continuous cultivation all through the season if you want plenty of fruit. IMPROVING A GARDEN HOE It Is Made by Cutting Out Part of the Center. The accompanying illustrates a western farmer's idea of what he regards as a very handy garden tool. As is quite true, he states that it is sometimes necessary in cultivating small plants, to gards as a very handy garden tool. As is quite true, he states that it is sometimes necessary in cultivating small plants to loosen the ground on each side of the row. For this work, says the Homestead, the hoe above, in which is cut out a circular piece of blade, is a first-class tool. GARDEN AND ORCHARD The grape vine that is permitted to develop too much vine and leaf will bear little fruit. Cabbage worms are easily controlled if taken in hand promptly. Mix one ounce fresh Persian insect powder with four gallons water and spray or sprinkle the plants. I find it a good plan to sow cowpeas or a mixture of equal parts red and crimson clover in the garden at last cultivation of corn, potatoes, melons and such crops. They make a great growth and add much humus to the soil. Plant Trees. If you would make your home attractive have an orchard or fruit garden. The man who plants trees gets his pay day by day and at the same time builds a monument which will stand long after he is dead. Why the Fruit Falls to the Ground When Half Grown. Every season in this western country large numbers of plums are lost by the fruit falling to the ground in the half-grown state. An examination of this fruit will show that it is infested with white grubs, which eat into the kernel and cause it to drop. The work is very similar to the plum curculio, which is such a serious pest in the eastern states. This insect, however, is a native western form and finds its way into our plum orchards from the patches of wild plums which grow along almost every creek. It is a very difficult insect to combat, because the work is done inside the fruit, and poisons cannot be applied for the larval forms of the insect. The adult insect can sometimes be killed by spraying the plum trees with arsenate of lead or other poisons of a similar nature in the same way that apple trees are sprayed. The adult beetles eat the young leaves or cut off the stems of the young fruit, and poisons placed in these localities are likely to prove helpful remedies. The adult beetles may be caught by jarring the trees. The insect "plays possum" when a limb is jarred and drops to the ground. If the ground is covered with sheets, the insects may be gathered in them and destroyed. This is best done early in the day and should be continued from the time the plum trees are in blossom until the first of June. The insects are reddish brown snout beetles about a quarter of an inch in length. They are quite easily recognized, and if present, some will be found usually each morning. A few jarrings of the tree will indicate whether or not the insects are numerous and whether this remedy should be continued. Probably this remedy is the most useful one in the home orchard or garden. It is a good plan to permit chickens to run around about the trees, since they often pick up the weevils or the larvae that have come to the ground. During the summer all plums which fall from the trees and even those which show the marks while they are still on the trees should be taken and destroyed. By destroying we mean burning or some other method which will make sure that the insect inside the plum is killed.—S. Arthur Johnson, Associate Professor of Entomology, Colorado Agricultural College. WOVEN WIRE GRAPE ARBOR. Makes a Neater Job Than with Slats. To make a neat grape arbor set four posts and brace them as shown, then Grape Arbor of Woven Wire. stretch woven wire over the top. This top works better than wood, declares the Prairie Farmer. PLANT THE RIGHT TREE. Write and Get Information from the Agricultural Department. In every region of the United States there is at least one forest tree, and generally there are several forest trees which can be planted with a complete assurance of commercial success if the plantation is properly established and given proper care. The government has made a very careful study of most of the forest plantations in the United States. Its publications on tree planting may be had free of charge upon application to the forest service, United States department of agriculture, Washington. The studies on which they were based were made especially for the benefit of farmers and other land owners, and to prevent the waste of thousands of dollars annually lost by planting the wrong trees or by improper care of plantations. From the manner in which our natural timber has been cut it is clear that each region will have to be made as nearly self-supporting in timber growth as possible. The lesson of the past is that the right forest trees grown in the right way will bring a big profit. Making the Garden Pay Speaking of how he arranges a succession of garden crops, J. W. Griffin, the Kentucky gardener says: "Plant beans (bush), dwarf peas, early beets, lettuce and radishes in a block, na they may all be cleared from the land about the same time and another crop planted. This is where I plant my celery, after manuring the ground properly. When the beets are ready to begin using I put a row of cabbage plants right by the beets, then pull the beets next to the cabbage first." No Such Plum. Some people are constantly looking for some variety of plum that the curculio will not touch. When that variety is discovered it will be one that a human being will not touch either. Cultivate Frequently Frequent cultivation is not only best for the young orchard, but also for young evergreens set out for a windbreak. Sod-bound trees of whatever kind bake and dry out in the July and August sun. To Hold Him. Nan—That's a beautiful solitaire Dick gave you. I wonder if you know what a fickle young man he is. Fan—indeed I do; that's why I made him give me such an expensive one—Chicago Tribune. Wrong Figure. "What alls me, doctor, is that I have been burning too much midnight oil." "Not at all, my young friend. It's a candle you are using, and you have been burning it at both ends.—Chicago Tribune. Seemed Like More "How many boarders have you now?" asked the friend. "I only have six," replied the sad-faced woman who kept the boarding-house; "but they eat like slaty!"—Yonkers Statesman. LINCOLN HAIR POMADE MAKES KINKY HAIR SOFT REMOVES DANDRUFF KEEPS HAIR FROM BREAKING OFF LINCOLN HAIR POMADE KEEPS SCALP FRESH CLEAN AND WHOLE- SOME MAKES HAIR GROW LONG AND LUXURIOUS WHICH WAY WOULD YOU RATHER HAVE YOUR HAIR-SOFT AND LONG SO THAT YOU CAN PUT IT UP IN THE LATEST STYLE OR SHORT AND KINKY A WOMAN'S JUST PRIDE IS HER MANUFACTURED BY NECOLN POMADE CO. NRFOLK, VA., U. S. A. here. Write for particulars. If your deal- d 20 cents in stamps or silver to THE LIN- department B, Norfolk, Va. and we will send mail. Agents Wanted Everywhere. Write for particulars. If your dealer does not keep it, send 20 cents in stamps or silver to THE LINCOLN POMADE CO., Department B, Norfolk, Va. and we will send you a bottle by return mail. Only More or Less True. First Bench-Warmer—We want ter look out for dea dog perilice. Second Bench-Warmer—Nuttin' doin'. We ain't got a cent.—Judge. MAKES KINKY HAIR SOFT REMOVES DORNURGE KEEPS HAIR FROM BREAKING OFF JUST BEFORE. Scene—At home. Discovered—A husband and wife. She—Dear! Do you mind helping me? He (all ready 15 minutes before. He has just finished brushing his evening clothes and is now looking over the stock report in the evening paper and smoking a cigarette)—What do you want? (Her mouth full of hairpins.) "Button up this waist, will you?" (Throwing down paper.) "Where is the maid?" "Now, dear, you know this is her afternoon off. Hurry!" (Getting up and walking over back of her. He takes hold of waist at top and starts on top button.) "What's the matter with these buttons, anyway?" (Sweetly.) "Now, don't lose patience. They slip right in if—" "How do you suppose I can get the thing together when you're squirming like an eel?" (Screwing her head from one side to the other, absorbed in getting her hair right.) "You can't do it." (Savgely.) "Look here! You keep still! Now, I've got to begin all over. (He starts in, his face knotted up in agony and working frantically gets three buttons in.) Now! Now! Don't move, I say! There! That's better. Hold on! I've got 'em going! Keep still! Don't you dare move! There!" "Finished?" "Yep." (Standing up.) "Oh, you wretch. Don't you see—" "What the devil is the matter now?" "Why, don't you see, can you see, that you've started wrong? It's all got to be done over." "Darn it! What's the use? We'll stay at home."—Life. Shattering an Illusion. The office was seeking the man. "Not that I care anything about him," explained the office, "but merely as a concession to the popular idea that I ought to seek him." Having thus satisfied the ethical requirements of the case, the office, wearying of the perfunctory search, reached out and grabbed a man who was seeking the office.—Chicago Tribune. An Authority "They say the mole will starve to death in a day," remarked the boarding-house lady. "How do you know?" replied the thin boarder. "Have you had any around here?"—Yonkers Statesman. Kitty—Poor Helen! No girl who is color blind should go to a boat race. Tommy—Why not? Kitty—She is weaving the colors of a rival club and doesn't know it. Sympathetic About the sad sea waves we were told; The pirate is surely not a joke. It must be saddening to behold So many people going broke. The Star Mechanical Motives "Look here!" cried the angry prisoner to the "sweating" detectives, "why are you fellows trying so this hot air pressure on me?" KEEPS SCALP FRESH CLEAN AND WHOLE- SOME MAKES HAIR GROW LONG AND LUXURIOUS "Because," replied the detectives in chorus, "we want to pump you."—Baltimore American. Geographical Facts Inquiring Boy—Some of the towns in my geography is in big letters and some in little letters. What's that for, pop? Pop (a theatrical manager)—The towns in small letters are only one onelight stands.—N. Y. Weekly. Inconsistent "Bilgins is a very inconsistent man." "In what way?" "The later he stays out at night the more he wants to sing 'Home, Sweet Home.'"—Washington Star. At the Springs. Josh Wethersby—Say, boy! dye mean ter tell me that yer kin make me young an' spry ag'in if I stop here fer more'n a week? Hotel Clerk—Sure thing, uncle! Front, show the gentleman to suite sixteen—Judge. Horrible Bacon—I see the Englishmen of Mid-Devon have organized to wage war on wood pigeons. Egbert—I should think they would kick. Just imagine trying to eat a pigeon ple made out of wooden pigeons!—Yonkers Statesman. Too Early. "You'll have to pay your subscription to the paper in advance, hereafter," said the country editor to the caller. "But I hain't got no vegetables up yit!" replied the bearded farmer.—Yonkers Statesman. Looked Like Happiness She—Yes, I left a piece of Swiss cheese outside on the window ledge and I guess the poor bees took it for home!—Yonkers Statesman. The Long Climb. It is said that a man begins to go downhill at 40, but a good many people find that the up-hill climb begins at about that age.—Chicago Record-Herald. The Wrong Feeling. Wife—Isn't Mrs. Pacer a charming hostess? She makes everybody feel as if they were at home. Husband—But I don't want to feel that way—Life. At the Seaside The Reader—The giant Briareus had a hundred arms. Chorus of Maidens—Those were the good old days!—Judge. A Different Proposition Pompous Director (hotly)—Why did you refuse to give my son a fair chance to show what he could do? Don't you believe in introducing young blood in the business? Superintendent—I do—but not young bloods.—Puck. Slow Ball. Pearl—Down on the porch last night Reggy was taken for a burglar. Ruby—Why, I'm surprised. Reggy never stole anything in his life. Different Names. "I understand," said the old-time friend, "that you are gettin' right exclusive." "Well," answered Mr. Cumrox, "that's what mother an' the girls call it." "What do you call it?" "Plain 'lonesome.'"—Washington Star. TURDE Probably Not Mrs. Gushleigh (to steamer acquaintance)—I save all of my husband's old love letters. Do you save yours? The Other Woman—My dear madam, I have had four husbands.—Chicago Tribune. Sane Judgment. "Do you believe in clubs for women?" they asked. "Ugh!" replied the untutored savage; "clubs heap good for squaws. No club, take whip. All good."—Judge. Foolish Jack. Nan—Why are you saving all of Jack's letters? Fan—Because he always adds as a postscript: "Burn this!"—Chicago Tribune. OSHUA BANKS & SONS CATERERS EVERY FACILITY CONSISTENT WITH FINE CATERING. Special Attention Given to Balls, Suppers, Installations and Smokers at the Shortest Notice. Your Patronage Solicited. Refreshment Cars and Boat Privileges Handled in Season. Address all communications to KLAM L. BANKS, 511 N. 3d St. Residence: 1312 N. 26th St. DON'T GET MAD. if your hair ran away from you? Because, you have the remedy NOW to feed it with and keep it at home. 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The ‘courts have Secided. that ‘nulacribere to ‘bewspapers who ov Sct onder thelr paper discontinued ae the expt SStion ‘of tow foe which ie haw. been ‘pall are Beld"husbie for the Payment of the” mubecription Sp te date ‘shes ‘they o'er the “paper dcon: "COMMUNICATIONS Whee weiting tow to renew your aumcription or te” diacontisue Paver, ou should ive your narne and ede PGi therwiae we cast tod pour mane on CHANCE OF ADORESS-—tn order, to change tie naires of a tulmcriber, we toume be seat {ruler an well as the present arom. Fatere at the Port Ofice at Richmond, Va. = at en oe SATURDAY. ..... AUGUST 8, 1908. THE WEST VIRGINIA DEMOCRATS It seems that the Democrats of West Virginia ave more interested in the success of the local nominees of the Party in that state than they are in the trlumph of the Democratic or- ganization in the country at large. What other construction can be placed upon thelr actions when it Is announced that after a protracted struggle, the Negro disfranchisement plank and the “Jim Crow” plank were inserted in the platform? The Republican leaders changed their smile to a grin when they read the following declaration of the be- liet and purposes of the West Vir- ginia Democrats, inserted in a na- tonal contest and at a time, when this very Negro vote will be the de- ¢iding factor in many of the Woubt- ful states, not excepting West Vir- ginla, Here are the planks: “Relieving that the extension of the elective franchise to a race in- ferior in intelligence and without! preparation for the wise and pradent| exercise of a privilege so vital to the maintenance of good government was a mistake, If not a crime, committed by the Republican Party during.the reign of passion and prejudice follow ing the Civil War, for political ends and purposes, we declare that the Democratic Party is in favor of so amending the Constitution as to pre- serve the purity of the ballot and the electorate of the State from the evil results from conferring such power and privilege upon those who are un- fitted to appreciate its importance as it affects the stability and preserva- tlon of good government. “We favor the enactment of a law requiring common carriers engaged in passenger traffic to furnish sepa- rate coaches or compartments for white and colored passengers.” Not satisfied with that, they tele- graphed Mr. Bryan, who, poor fellow evidently had not been at the time advised as to the drastic nature of the platform in question. Published at the same time as the announce- ment of the decision of the conven- ie he is made to hope for the sue- of the effort to disfranchise the Negro in that state and the provid- ing of “Jim Crew” cars for the a- foresaid Negro’s embarrassment and inconvenience. Here is Mr. Bryan's telegram: “I greatly appreciate the cordial indorsement given by your conven- tion, and share with you in the hope that’ the ‘hearty co-operation prom- ised may Insure a Democratic vic- tory In West Virgina and the Na- tional convention. (Signed) “w. J. BRYAN.” It may be that the Negroes in some other northern states may vote for Hon, William J. Bryan and the Democratic ticket, byt there is one thing sure, that non@ of them, out- side of a lunattestsylum will be guil- ‘RESIDENT ROOSEVELT'S BLUN- DER. m We are loth to believe that there is a fairmiuded citizen in the United States, who will now contend that President Theodore Roosevelt would have treated white men under sim- ilar circumstances and like conditions in the same manner as he treated the Negro members of Companies B, C and D of the Twenty-ffth Infontry tn view of his attitude towards the eight white cadets of the United States Military Academy at West Point. Here are the facts as stated in ‘the Associated Press dispatches: | “Oyster Bay, Aug. 1.—Considering| that the dismissal from the United States Military Academy at West Point of the eight cauets found guil-| ty of hazing would be too severe pun-| lahment for the offenses they com-| mitted, President Roosevelt and Seo- retary of War Luke E. Wright de- elded to-day that the eight young men be reinstated in their ctasses, and that other punishment be visited upon them by the superintendent of the academy. These eight young men—William T. Russell, an appointee-at-large, who. stood sixth in the first class, and Harry G. Weaver, of Illinois, also a member of that class; Georke W. Chase, Jr. of New York; William Nalle, Jr,, of Virginia; ‘Byron Q Jones, of New York; William W. Prude, Jr., of Alabama; Isaac Spali- ing of Okiahoma and James Gillespie of Pennsylvania all members of the fourth class—are under suspension resulting from charges made by a board of investigation appointed by Col. Hugh L. Scott, superintendent of the Military Academy. “This board found that hazing tn a mild form was being practised up- on the newly entered cadets, but that there was no brutality on the part of the hazers. Col. Scott suspended the eight cadets and ordered them to their homes to wait the action of the Secretary of War and the President.” the sperintendent and going to their homes the eight proceeded in a body to Washington, to appeal to the Sec- retary of War.” Mr. Wright had Just returned and knew nothing about the charges against them. | He. te- celved them In bis office in the War Department, and listened attentively to what they had tosay. Cadet Rus- sell acted as spokesman for the par- [{y and his franknoss.tn describing all that occurred won the admiration of the Secretary. In the meantime the charges had been forwarded to Pres- iment Roosevelt with the recommon- dation of Col. Scott that the guilty cadets be dismissed.” The President approved thetr dis missal but before the order had been Promulgated by Secretary Wright, the President asked the Secretary to come to Oyster Bay and talk over the matter with him." These cadets then were guilty of hazing, which under the new rules tn the Military Academy 4s akin to a felony in civil life. They were gull- ty also of disobedience of orders, which is equally as serious in the code of military discipline. But Pres ident Roosevelt's Democratic appoln- teo, Major General Luke E. Wright Virtually held up the President's or- der just as Secretary William H. Taft held up « similar order in the Brownsville affair. ‘The difference is that In the white cadets’ cases, the action of the Sec- retary of War was not only sustained but the white cadets were restored to service. In the case of the col ored soldiers, the action of the Sec- retary of War was not sustained, and the colored soldiers were dismissed from the army. This is the way Secretary Wright explains it: “Secretary Wright said to-day that he discussed the matter thoroughly with the President, and that both he and Mr. Roosevelt were of the opin- fon that dismissal was too severe a punishment. He sald that the cadets acted in a very manly way in telling him all about the offenses with which they were charged. Cadet Ruseell declared thimself responsible for the hazing, the Secretary said." ‘Then follows a statement which will hardly cause surprise. Here it is: “The decision of the Secretary of War and the action of the President is expected to cause strained rela- tions between the Secretary of War and Col. H. L. Scott, the superinten- dent at the Military Academy. Not only had Col. Scott gone on record in suspending the eight cadets but he had publicly exprossed his gratifica- tion over the editortais in various hewspapers sustaining his action. In this connection he wrote on July 27: “I take pleasure in informing you that the stand you have taker a- gainst hazing at the United States Military Academy has had marked ef fect in strengthening the hands of the authorities here. In matters 80 deeply rooted 28 this one, an editor- Jal is often more convincing than regulation,’ “The town of Highland Falls ts said to be in thorough sympathy with the efforts of Col. Scott, as the real- dents assert that hazing has been go ing on in secluded parts of the re- servation, and that the hazing has not always been the forcing of men to pick up and count 100 black ants. Recently an under classman was ill for several days from having been| ‘compelled to drink a bottle of tabas- co sauce. Still more recently a par- ty of women in Highland Falls ac- eidently stumbled over a hazing par-| ty. The sight they saw caused them| to denounce the cadets. “President Roosevelt, it was said, had knowledge in a general way of| the condition of affairs, and that it was this fact that led to his approval of Col. Scott's order. His rescind! Nag cad ‘mich Mt SaaS TES ace bea ted sa pliesi THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. dent more interested in lion bunting than in polites.”” ‘This then is another exhibition of President Roosevelt's inconsistency. He is first an ardent advocate of uis- cipline in Negroes’ cases and then he becomes the devoted champion of laxity of discipline in white men’s cases. Ho has attained such heights of eminence in the lattitude of fame that he seems not to be conscious of the embarrassing attitudes he is now daily exhibiting to the country. —o——_ KILLING NEGROES. “Let this be a warning to you nig- gers to let white people alone, or you will go the same way. Hugh Rogers better shut up or quit.” j ‘These were the words in a note pinned upon the body of one of the colored men lynched at Russellville, Kentucky, Saturday August 1, 1908 for the sinple reason that they were alleged to have approved of the kill- ing of James Cunningham, white by Rufus Browder, colored. The ac- cused men were not even given an opportunity to pray and two of them were hanged In thelr night shirts. | As a matter of fact, there is no statute In any state, under which these men, whose lives were taken could even have been convicted of a misdemeanor. It Is difficult to be- Heve that in a land of civilization where the teachings of Jesus Christ are presumed to be accepted that men would be guilty of such a hein- ous crime as this. Human life is too cheap and the violation of fun- damental laws too common, It is useless to ask if the lynebers will be punished. The opportunity was lost when the colored men were placed in jail In some sections of the Southland there is nothing left for a colored man to do when he is charged with crime but to die fighting. In this connection, it may be well to note the following telegraphic report from Pittsburgh, Pa. “Pittsburg, Aug. 2.—W, H. Hall, & youthful cowboy with long flowing’ hair, was watching the Allegheny River regetta yesterday on the wharf Nearby was W. F. Thomas, a a teanister of the Pittsburg Coal Com- pany. The latter stepped up to the Texan and asked: ‘Say, ix that your} real hair?” ‘The youthful Texan an- swered: ‘Down in Texas we shoot alggers for asking fool questions.’ Soon the two clinched. They fell overboard and continued the fight, Policeman Tobin fished them out of the mad and water and took them to a patrol box. “Before the wagon came the cow- boy pleaded for a chance to get a shot at the Negro. He sald: “This {8 @ terrible disgrace to be arrested for fussing with a nigger when T should have piugsed him. Down in Texas when a nigger asks @ personal question we use a 44 and fill him fall of holes and we don't get ar- rested for it either. Pleaso send some one to the show and get me out of this quick.’ “Before Judge Brady at central police station the cowboy again ask- ed why he could not shoot the Ne- To ax he would have done in Texas and teach him his place. Judge Bra dy fined both for fighting and made the cowboy promise that he would not use bis gun.” ‘This will give the average mind an opportunity to realize and under- stand the embarrassing conditions now existing in the Southland. It seoms that there Is no power to check these manifestations of the innate hatred of one of the xindllest races ‘of people on the face of the globe. | Liberal minded white men in all sections, both north and south seem to be doing thelr best in this Mireetion, but the results are often sloomily disappointing. Mitchel! Th New Position. Secretary Ralph M. Easley, of the National Civie Federation in New York, announced that John Mitchel, former president of the United Mine Workers of America, would devote his entire time to the Interests of the trade agreement department of the Federation. Drowned While Fishing. ‘The drowning of James R. Hilton, thirty-five years of age, of Camden, N. J, near Debbs Thoroughfare, has been reported to the police of At lantlc City by Dr. Bayard Knerr, of Philadelphia. The physician and the drowned man went fishing on the former's yacht, and late in the day while hunting for clams and crabs Dr. Knerr saw Hilton struggling in the wa- ter some distance from where he wag wading. Before the physician could reach Hilton he was swept away by the outgoing (ide. Marriage and Baptiem All at Once. At the home of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Schipman, at New Brunswick, N. J, all in one afternoon, there were two births, a marriage and a bap- tism. Rev. W. W. Knox, the pastor of the First Presbyterian church, per. formed the wedding ceremony for Mr. Sehipman’s brother-in-law, Percy Hun- ter, and Miss Bertha Elizabeth Maria Misner. He was also called upon to baptize two babies just born to Mr. and Mrs. Schipman, which he did after performing the wedding ceremony, Pastor's Wife Sues Woman. In the Chester county, Pa, common pleas court, Mrs. Martha Sampson, wife of Rev. Maurice Sampson, pastor of the| German Reformed Church in Spring City, brought suit against Mrs. Mazy| Keeley, a prominent woman of that borough, on the charge of alienating the affections of the preacher. Mrs Sempson asks for damases in $50,000, ie papers in the case were served by| Sheriff Taylor, and bail has been i the sura of $8,000, GEATH CLAIMS | ~—W. B ALLISON Heart Faire Caries ot lowa Statesman, NEWS SHOCKED FRIENDS [ee at eee 4 a a Le & fs Bs) s\ TE’ result of a serious sinking spell, due to &@ prostatic enlargement, complicated with kidmey disease, and during a period of unconsciousness which had lasted since Saturday afternoon, Two weeks ago the senator left his home In the city to escape the heat. He went to the home of Mrs. Fannie Stout, a friend of the family, living on the Asbury road a few miles from town. For a few days his condition seemed to Improve, but he later began to grow worse. Medical advisers urged that an operation be performed to re- Ueve the prostatic enlargement which ‘was bringing his condition to a crisis. Saturday morning the senator was brought back bome. Soon afterwards he relapsed into a condition of seml- unconsciousness. Except for brief per- fods of partial recovery he remained fm this condition until death came. News of the serious illness of the Aged senator was kept from the public as much as possible, and his death came as a surprise to his thousands of frends residing in this city. Only the more intimate friends of the family ‘were aware of his critical condition. Sketch of Senator Allison's Life. Senator Allison was born at Perry, ©, Mareh 2, 1829, the son of John and Mary Allison. His boyhood days be spent on the farm which was his birthplace. Reaching young manhood, he secured hfs education in Allegheny college, in Pennsylvania, and the West- em Reserve college, of Ohio, in both of Which schools he distinguished him- self at winning high honors in all the branches which he studied. | | Senator Allison was admitted to the bar in 1850, He was married to Miss Auna Carter, of Wooster, 0., at Ash Jand, O., in February, 1854, From 1850 until 1857 he practiced law in Obio. In 1887 he removed to Dubuque, where he took up the practice of law. Senator Allison was a delegate to ‘the national Republican convention in Chteago in 1860. He was a member of the governor's staft during the Civil War, and raised troops to fight for the integrity of the nation in 1861. In 1663 he was elected to congress and served continuously until 1871. In 1873 he was elected United States sen- ator from Iowa and represented his state in this capacity until the time of bis death, In 1881 he was offered the position of secretary.of the treasury of the United States by President Garfeld, but declined to accept the office. In 1889 he again refused this office when offered him by President Harrison. For the third time he refused the office when it was offered him by President McKinley in 1897. His ald in the nomination of Abra- ham Lincoln a Republican candidate for president in 1860 was perhaps Sen- ator Allison's first great service for his country. As an lowa delegate to the Republican convention in Chicago in that year he joined the other party Jeaders who had determined upon the nomination of Lincoln, and-by their united efforts their objects were at- tained. On the ways and means committee of the national house he began the career whtch made him one of the best authorities in the country upon the Tevenues and expenditures of the gov- ernment. For more than forty years he has been assigned by the judgment of his colleagues in the house and sen- ate to the responsible task of planning the revenues and supervising the ex- penditures, and no man who ever had part tn this work bed the confidence of both houses more completely. ‘To Senator Allison more espectally cupled'a eat tn that body belongs the cupled a seat in that body belongs fide of “Fetter of ie, Geunte.” Hal was not only one of the oldest mon in that body, but he held the record be- yond all others for length of there. Senator Allison was, at the time! of his death, and had beon for a third) of @ century, a leader in fact as w im name> Gov. Cummins Announces Candidacy. Lake Forest, Ill,"Aug. 5.—Governor Albert B. Cummins, of Iowa, announc- ed bimself as a candidate to succeed ‘United States Senator Allison. The governor paid « glowing tribute to his late political adversary’s services to lowa and the country at large, then frankly declared his ambition to be electnd to the senate by the legisla- ture of his state. He also announced that “some one will be appointed at onée to cecnpy Senator Allison's seat for the remaining months of his un- eapied'eena" Noted Author Passes Away at Avon-by-the-Sea, N. J. New York, Aug. 5.—Bronson How- ard, dramatist and author, writer of several plays which stands land. marks in the American dramatic field, died of heart failure at Avomby-the- Sea, N. J., after an tines of about a year. Mr. Howard went to the coast Tesort on June 25 in the hope that the sea air might benefit him. Mrs. How- ard and several relatives were with him as he died. He was sixty-eight years of age. Bronson Howard began his journal- istic career in 1859, when he came to this city. He was connected at various times with the Tribune, the Evening Mail and the Evening Post. He practi- cally retired from newspaper work in 1872, devoting himself largely thereaf- ter to dramatic work. As a dramatist Mr. Howard was best known by rea- son of the successes of “Saratoga,” “The Banker's Daughter," “Old Love Letters.” “Young Mrs. Winthrop,” “The Henrietta,” “Shenandoah” and “aristocracy.” BURNED HER CHILD'S HANDS Mother's Punishment to Make Littie One Contes Thott, Cleveland, O. Aug. 5.—Confessing that she had bound the hands of her four-yearold child with oll-soaked rags and set them afire, Mrs. Helen Nagy, 2775 East Soventy-frst street, was sen- tenced to serve three months in the ‘work house and pay a fine of $50 and costs. The mother, with a three-weeks- old baby inher arms, stated in court that she had suspected the older ebild of stealing the last quarter they bad for housohold expenses, and hunger and desperation had caused her to en- deavor to make the child confess by this punishment, Neighbors rescued the child before she was very badly burned. BEAT HER CHILD'S ASSAILANT Mother Severely Trounces Man Who. Attacked Her Daughter. Harrisburg, Pa, Aug. 5. — Wilson Jackson, a colored man, was arrested by the police after being half killed by the mother of a nine-year-old girl he had tried to assault. The man boarded at the home of Mrs. Edna Swan, and when the mother heard. the child's screams she broke fm a door. The man polnted a revolver at her, but she knocked {t from,his hand with a club and severely beat him before sending for policemen, The man required a Goctor’s services. Cleaned Out By Robbers and Lover. Pittsburg, Aug. 5.—The house of J. T. Thornburg, at Swissvale, was ran- sacked by burglars, who carried off $500 worth of booty. Then James Da- Vidson, a young man of Butler, entered the Thorburg home and took away the family’s greatest possession, Her- nie, the young daughter of the pair. Mr. Thornburg, whon he arose, discov- ered the house had been robbed, and entered his daughter's room to ascer- tain if burglars had taken any of her Jewelry or disturbed her. On a dresser he found a note from the girl, telling of her flight with Davidson. A tele- gram confirmed the news in the letter. ‘The marriage took place at Cumber. land, Md. Lightning Kills Man at Work In Field. Lewisburg, Pa, Aug. 5. — William Mowery, a farmer living west of town, was instantly killed by lightning while working in an open field. Not returning to the house, his wife sent their little daughter out to call him in. A few min- utes later she came back shrieking: “Pop 1s killed.” There was an ugly gash on his forehead and a red streak across his neck and down his lex. He ts survived by a wife and two children. Ce ee wwAUGUST [SUNT ros Tur WeolvHOT ERE TEA] Lb ctiet tte [2ST sler7is) 1S [10/2 S415) (16) piavieoe lige l2s|24 25/2627 28/29) (SO/Sil fT fF TT Governor Fort Rae Broken Rik. When Governor Franklin Fort, of New Jersey, was thrown from’ his horse two weeks while he was at the military encampment at Sea Girt it ‘was not known that he had sustained any more serious injury than slight bruises. A few days ago he felt a sore ness under his left arm, and upon ex- amination it was found that a rib had been broken. W. G. Schauffler, sur- geon of the Second troop, is attending the governor. Prisoner Tries Suicide In Cell. John Clifford, a prisoner at the county workhouse at Wilmington, Del, awaiting trial on a charge of breach of the peace, made a desperate attempt to end his life. With an eight- penny nail and a piece of glass about an inch square he made vicious jabs at his throat, cutting jagged wounds ‘on each side, which, however, were not deep enough to result fatally. ALL. AIRSHIP RECORDS BROKEN bout Loppale Competiog 500- Mile Journey, MADE REPAIRS | IN RIVER German Navigator On Twenty-four. Hour Flight Above the Valley of the Rhine—Trouble With the Propeller Caused Him to Descend to Make Repairs, After Which the Trip Was Recommenced — Averaged Twenty- nine Miles An Hour—Sailed Over Cities at Night. Friedrichshafen, Aug. 6. — Arising from its floating dock om the dark green waters of Lake Constance, the great dirigible airship of Count Zop- polin was sent away for a twenty-four. hour journey in the air to Mayence and return. Late Tuesday night the apex of the triangular flight had been turn- ed and the monster of the air, with ‘nose pointed southward, was reported ‘speeding along toward Friedrichaha- fen, where it is hoped the journey will end. ‘The airship averaged twenty- nine miles an hour. The filght to May- ence, however, was not an uninter- rupted one, for something was wrong with @ propeller while speeding along above the valley of the Rhine, and Count Zeppelin was compelled to bring the airship down to the surtace of the river at Nackenhelm, eight miles from Mayence, where repairs were effected. ‘The dirigible again was sent on high and the trip that will prove a record one was recommenced. ‘The ship of the air rose majestically to @ height of 400 feet and, crossing the lake, circled the town of Constance, then turning, retraced the path of its fight and, describing a perfect circle, passed over Friedrichshafen and then soared westward over the lake to Basle, on the Swiss frontier. Turning the vessel slightly toward the north- west, Count Zeppelin steered It over ‘Mulhansen and then directed its flight northeasterly to Strassburg, thence following the valley of the Rhine north- ward to Mayence, a distance altogether of over 250 miles. Everything was going smoothly when the trouble to the propeller oc- curred and somewhat impeded the pro- gress of the airship, but when the bal- Joon had beech bronght down Count Zeppelin found the defect so slight that he telephoned his secretary at his office in Friedrichshafen: “We will start again and complete ‘the trip.” His expectations were realized, for in leas than four hours everything had been made perfect. A detachment of military engineers kept a curtous pub- le away from the balloon, to which they had gone out in boats. The people then gathered on the banks of the stream and sang patriotic songs and cheered for Count Zeppelin. ‘The airship rose again from the ‘rapidly flowing Rhine and soared mo- -‘mentarily over the spot where her in- Jury had been repaired and then tutn- ‘ed her bows toward Mayence, where she passed over the gaslighted city almost beyond the view of the popu- lace, which had gathered in the streets expecting to witness the passage of the balloon. Quickly the balloon left the town be- hind, soaring onward for a short dis- tance; then, after executing a few manoeuvres, the alrship was turned homeward. Whether it will follow the itinerary laid down by Count Zeppelin, retracing its outward path to Carls. Tuhe and thence flying southeasterly over Stuttgart to Lake Constance is not known. TREE HALTS MOTOR IN 300-FOOT FALL Saves Lives of Bridal Party in Plunge Over Precipice, Kew York, Aug. 5. — United States Dimtict Attorney Baker, of Washing ton, who successfully prosecuted the government land frauds in the north: west; his bride of two months and sev. eral friends who were accompanying them on thelr honeymoon, had an al most miraculous escape from death. While the automobile in which they Were travelling was running down a sharp hill on Walnut mountain, near Liberty, N. Y., the machine got out of contsoi and plunged over a precipice nearly 200 feet In height. The machine, abig covered car, turned three complete somersaults in the air and lodged in the boughs of a tree thirty feet below the brink of the precipice. There it hung suspended, top downward, with the frightened oc. cupants held prisoners in the enclosed top of the machine, All were badly bruised and frightened, but none was seriously injured with the exception of the chauffeur. His skull was frac- tured, one of his ears was torn off and he sustained other injuries, He was taken to a hospital in Liberty for treatment. ‘Those in the car with Mr, Baker and his wife were Dr. G. E. Jeliffe, the allenist, who testified in the Thaw case, an¢ M. Mangan, of Washington. farman Flies Like a Blea. Rising from the ground like a giant Bird and darting through the air at express train speed, Henry Farman's seroplane, the interesting heavier. thanair flying machine he brought over here from France to demonstrate bis ability to fly, made its Initial fight in this country at Brighton Beach, L. L ‘It rose from an especially pre- pared runway at the will of the invea- tor, and after attaining a height of CWenty-five feet flow straight sBtad on @ direct line, finally Baiees with ex quisite grace when the alr pilot diminished the motor power. During the brief space ef time in which the aeropiaze was skimming over the centrefield of the race track the few hundred spectators, most of whom were friends of the inventor or rival navigators, watched the fileht with breathless interest, The instant the trim-looking machine landed cheers rent the air—cheers far more enthusi- astic and vociferous than those of a race track crowd. Farman was sur- rounded and literally hugged by the jubilant aeronauts. Members of the Aero Club of America, under whose auspices Farman will conduct his pub- lic flights at Brighton, wanted to carry the successful inventor off the field on their shoulders. 'W. K. Vanderbilt's Stepson Killed. In one of the most terrible automo- bile accidents in many years in France, G. Winthrop Sands, a stepson of W. K. Vanderbitt, Ft ees sot outside the grounds of Mr. Vanderbilt's beautiful country seat, the Chateau St, Louls de Poissy, twenty miles from Paris. Mr. Sands was driving -bis ffty- horse-power car along at a terrible clip, in a desire to reach the chaieau, where Mrs. Sands and her infant daughter are staying. He had always been known as a reckless driver, and as he had been delayed at railroad crossings, he opened the throttle wide as he approached the chateau grounds, Almost immediately a tire burst and the machine crashed into a tree, turn- ing turtle and burying Mr. Sands undor the forward part and pinning the chauffeur, Pickins, to the ground. An explosion followed, and in a moment the car was In flames. The chauffeur was not sériously injured. Any man who suffers with nervous debility, loss of natural power, weak back, failing memory or deficient manhood, brought on by excesses, dissipation, unnatural drains or the foliles of youth, may cure himself 2° home with a simple prescription that I will gladly send free, in a plain sealed envelope, to any man who will write for it. AK. Robinson, 3895 Luck Building, Detrolt, Michigan. A Great Opportunity for Young Men Who Desire an Agricultural iin: SSUSSRIOR. Many of the young men who have finished the courses in agriculture at the Tuskegee Institute are command Ing salaries ranging from $60 to $100 per month. The graduates of this Department of the school are successfully employed as Instructors, or as managers of important agricul- tural operations. ‘The school has an agricultural faculty of twenty instruc tors; men who have received their training in the best agricultural schools of the country. perYoung’ colored mes and woken who desire to take courses in practi- eal and sclentific agriculture are now offered the best opportunity te pur- Sue such courses {n one of the largest and best equipped schools for practi- cal and scientific agriculture to be found in the South. The following courses are offered: | Dairying, three years course; Dairy Husbandry, two years course; Swine Raising, two years course; Beef Raising, three years course; Slaugh- tering, two years course; Fruit Rais- ing, two yedts course; Goneral Farm ing, two years course; Truck-garden- ing, two Years course; Care and Man- agement of Cattle and Stock, two years course; Poultry Raising, two years course. In addition there ts a special Post Graduate Course of one or two years provided for graduates of High Schools and Colleges, We are espec- ally anxious to have a large number of agricultural students who have finished high school or college cours- es. Any young man who is ambi- tious enough to ‘finish any of the courses above mentioned can reaitily secure immediate employment at Kood salaries. Opportunities are now open to 500 young men and women who may wish to take any of the above courses of instruction. ‘The cost of board is $8.50 per month. No charge for in- struction. 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 min- Istry, The Tuskegee Normal and In- dustrial Institute conducts in. con- nection with its other Departments a Bible Training School. The courses of study are so arranged that, not only ministers and licentiates may be benefited, but those also who de- sire to do better missionary work oF 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 Christian- ization of their people. Daily sup- plementary exercises designed to in- still habits of sobriety, cleanliness, regularity and accuracy are provided. The teaching is wholly undenemina- tional, the intention being not to oppose or antagonize any theological work being done elsewhere, but in- stead to assist all denominations. During the past Year, the enroll- ment in the Bibie Training School has been satisfactory, but the oppor- tunity 1s now provided for a consld- erably larger number. The teaching is free. ‘The cost of board, including furnished room, ight, fuel, laundering, otc. is $8.50 per month. The entrance fee is $7 to be paid In cash by cach 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 ig not afraid of word and study he will succeed. For turther ‘address BOOKER T. W. iy Tuskegee Institute, alabama. IT WILL PAY YOU To interest yourself in promot ing the CIRCULATION of th RICHMOND PLANET. ```markdown ``` METROPOLITAN SATURDAY.....AUGUST 8, 1908. 125 ARE DEAD IN FOREST FIRES Property Loss in Western Canada $8,000,000. RUSHING RELIEF TO DESTITUTE The latest estimates of the dead in the Elk river disaster by bush fires which have been raging from Michel to Fernie, in Western Canada, is 125 persons. The property loss is $5,000,000 in Fernie, making the total loss $8,000,000, and 600 persons of that city's inhabitants are homeless. The residents have been taken in trains to places of safety and are now destitute. Thousands of dollars have been sent by western Canadian cities to the relief of the destitute. Medical supplies are greatly needed. Fernie, with its lumber mills and railway terminals, is wiped out. The fire is still raging around Hosmer and Sparwood, but Michel is safe, the wind having dropped. If a gale springs up that city will be again in danger soon. Seventy men in the camps of the Elk River company perished. The exact number of fatalities may never be known, and there seems no way in the meantime of procuring an accurate list. Reports are conflicting. Reports received at Michel place the number of dead at Fernie at 102, with sixty-four others burned in a logging camp at Elk river. An unofficial statement said to have come from Fernie places the official list of dead at Fernie and the surrounding camps at 125, with the property loss at $8,000,000. Saturday night was a frightful one of excitement, and many heartrending scenes were witnessed. It was spent in getting many of the women and children on the trains and starting them for Cranbrook. Many harrowing tales were told. One woman of West Fernle had just emerged from her home, which was on fire. She dropped dead of heart disease. Neighbors buried her in her garden, and then ran for their lives. In another part of the city an old woman, an invalid, was carried a short distance, but the heat became too great and she perished. Boy Shoots Sister Dead. While he was playing with a shotgun at the home of his parents in Rensselaer, opposite Albany, N. Y., Cornellus Burdick, fourteen years of age, accidentally shot and killed his sister Helen, aged nineteen years. The young woman was sitting on a chair near the kitchen window, with her baby brother in her lap, at the time she was shot. The baby narrowly escaped being killed. Two Dead In Mine Explosion Two men were killed and three probably fatally injured at the Knickel erbocker colliery of the Philadelphia & Reading Coal & Iron company about one mile east of Shenandoah. The accident was caused by an inrush of gas in the gangway of the Buck mountain vein, which was ignited while the miners were blasting. Fatally Shot While Beating Wife. While he was whipping his wife during a domestic quarrel, Frank Talmer was shot through the abdomen by Mrs. Talmer at Canonsburg, Pa. He was taken to a hospital, probably fatally injured, while the woman is at her home in an unconscious condition from her injuries. Child Ate Belladonna Tablets; Deada A little daughter of Professor Robert C. H. Heck, of Lehigh university, who is visiting his parents at Heckton Mills, near Harrisburg, Pa., found a box of belladonna tablets and ate several of them before being discovered. The child died in a short time. Stricken Blind Chasing a Hog While he was chasing a cross hog on the farm of William Steel, near Port Deposit, Md., John Davis, of Northeast, was stricken blind. A coworker, George Ash, was bitten by the hog in the right knee, almost severing the kneecap. Harrisburg Pastor a College President. Dr. John H. Harms, pastor of Tabernacle church, of Harrisburg, Pa., was elected president of Newberry college, Newberry, S. C., to succeed President James A. B. Scherer, who resigned to accept the presidency of Throop institute, at Pasadena, Cal. Fatally Stabbed Through Hole In Wall. A man cut a hole through the wall of the room in which Leon Wilmz lay sleeping at Hammond, Ind., and, shoving a dagger through the aperture, fatally stabbed Wilmz in the face and ear, and afterward escaped. The cause of the attack is unknown. Cleveland's Estate Worth $250,000. Cleveland's Estate Worth $250,000. It became known at Princeton, N. J., that the personal and real property of the late Grover Cleveland amounts to $250,000. Nothing in the will filed a short time ago indicated the value of the estate, and no public announcement of its extent has been made. Subscribe to The Richmond PLANET. $1.50 per year. BORS AND INTEREST THEM IN THE PLANET. WE WILL HELP YOU TO OBTAIN A PREMIUM. COLORED INFANTRY IN RESCUE OF ROUGH RIDERS AT SAN JUAN HILL, JULY 2, 1898, SIZE 20X28 AND 20X24 INCHES, ADMIRAL DEWEY'S GREAT NAVAL BATTLE OFF CAVITE IN MANILA BAY, MAY 1ST, 1898, NAVAL BATTLE, DESTRUCTION OF ADMIRAL CERVERA'S SPANISH FLEET OFF SANTIAGO DE CUBA, JULY 3RD, 1898, SIZE 22X28 INCHES; LAND BATTLE, CAPTURE OF EL CANEY, EL PASO AND FORTIFICATIONS OF SANTIAGO, JULY FIRST AND SECOND, 1898, SIZE 22X28 AND 22X27 INCHES. 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Fisher, of Norristown, Pa., who died recently abroad, arrived in New York on the steamer Teutonic and was taken to his Pennsylvania home. James H. Budd, former governor of California and long prominent in Democratic politics, died at Stockton, Cal., after an illness of a fortnight, of uraemia, aged fifty-eight years. While seated with her family at dinner at Toledo; O., Mrs. Laura Stickroth, wife of Conrad Strickroth, was overcome by the heat and died before medical attendance could be summoned. Mrs. Estella M. H. Merrill, formerly widely known as a newspaper writer under the name "Jean Kincald," and prominent also as a club woman, died at her home in North Cambridge, Mass. Saturday, August 1. Mrs. Thomas O'Donnell, of Woodbury, N. J., who was horribly burned by the explosion of a gasoline stove, died of her injuries. After suffering for nineteen years from elephantiasis, Mrs. Anna E. Lynch, who weighed 510 pounds, died at her home on the State road, near McKeesport, Pa. Leonard Hendricks, thirty-one years old, of Cranston, R. I., in the absence of his wife, killed himself and his two little daughters, Ann, aged five years, and Lillie, aged three years, by means of illuminating gas. Monday, August 3. Ten policemen with rapid-fire revolvers are killing stray dogs at Chicago. A mob at Terry, S. D., a mining camp, almost whipped to death George Corey, who had beaten his wife while on the street. President Bird S. Coler, of the borough of Brooklyn, will be a candidate for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination in New York. Caught by a mine motor in the Laws shaft, at Moosic, Pa., John Golden, a fifteen-year-old door boy, was nearly cut in two and died soon after reaching the Taylor hospital. At the Bethlehem (Pa.) Steel works last week the semi-monthly pay root was $175,000 or $2000 more than the last pay day, and the largest since last fall. Tuesday. August 4. President Roosevelt will not attend the national encampment of the Spanish-American War Veterans at Boston during the last week of this month, as has been reported. Michael F. Kane, a hotelkeeper, of Mount Vernon, N. Y., died suddenly of heart disease while on his way on a Reading railway train from Atlantic City to Philadelphia. During the month of July 669 babies under one year old died in Chicago, and most of these deaths, the health department believes, were the result of the ignorance of parents. Wednesday, August 5. Chicago reports three deaths and several prostrations due to the heat on Tuesday. Charles W. Westerfeld, aged twenty-two, a clerk in the Produce Exchange bank, in New York, shot and killed himself in the basement of that bank. Joseph D. Horner, formerly a member of the firm of J. D. Horner, Son & Company, straw hats, was found dead in bed with a bullet hole in his breast in his room at Baltimore, Md. Robert H. 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Twas my life she told, and round it Rose the years as from a deep; In the world's great heart she found it Cradled like a child asleep. In the night I saw her weaving By the misty moonbeam cold, All the woft her shuttle cleaving With a sacred thread of gold. Ah! she wept me tears of sorrow, Lulling so mystic sweet; Then she wove my last to-morrow, And her web lay at my feet. Of my life she made the story; I must weep when she gold! But your name did lend it glory, And your love its thread of gold! —Jean Igelow. A Heart for Every One. Ah, there's a heart for every one, If every one could find it; Then up and seek, ere youth is gone, Whate'r the toll, ne'er mind it; For if you chance to meet at last With that one heart, intended To be a blessing, intended Till life itself is ended. How would you prize the labor done, How grieve if you resigned it; For there's a heart for every one, If every one could find it! Two hearts are made, the angels say, To suit each other dearly. But each one takes a different, way, A way not found so clearly! Yet though we seek, and seek for years, The pains are worth the taking. For what the life of home endears Like hearts of Angel's making? Then to find the treasure now, When fondly you've enchanted it. For there's a heart for every one, If every one could find it! The Voice of the Forest My voice cries out of gray antiquity And brands you Slayers of earth's price- line. Ye Devastators of the Forest Kings That held their scepters by this Western sea. Ere ye were born-base ingrates that ye be! Ye brazen Spoilers' lo, the future brings God's gathered wrath, for still the woodland rings With piteous death-throes of the slaughtered Tree. O shameless Vandals of a mammon age He heat ye my words: "Where fruitful Deserts shall stretch, whose lords are Drought and Sand. And on those wastes Famine and Death shall rage. While starving People, blighted by that doom, Shall curse you for the desolated Land!" Lloyd Miflin. A Comparison. I planted some seeds in the garden, They sprang up side by side; Some were bent low by the rain and hail, While others stood high in pride. A wee sprout was crushed by a heavy stone. Another was stunted and torn: But one there was that reached toward the sun. Like a king who great blessings had borne. So men spring up in the wide, wide world. A hundred and more at a time, And some grow straight as a poplar tall, And others are blackened with crime. A genius, a pauper, a royal prince In the self-same city abide; Lo, behold, how the law of Nature In us is exemplified. Unto the End. But laughter-lighted days Through all life's winding ways, Unto the end. I stand beside the sea, And salt waves cover me With spray. I know that I who stand Betwix the sea and land All day. Shall be as yellow dust Blown here and there— Heaven's winds shall carry me, I wist not where. But this one thing I know, Where'er my dust shall blow, The life of love will go. —Frederick R. Marvin The Parting Wall That I shall follow thee through the dark door. But when it comes, O love gone on before, Come back for me! God is not cruel, stern though His decree; Joys He took from us He has still in store! He can not mean that we should meet no more. Come back for me! A task is set me here. When I am free, When the last rites are said and part- ings o'er; Leave me not desolate by that trackless shore. Come back for me! —Mowry Bell, "Winds and Wild Flowers." All In Harmony. "That laundry trust is strictly up-to-date." "Yes, I understand it is going to install itself in a flat-front building."—Baltimore American. Reversed. The leap year girl had just proposed. "And do you think," asked the young man, "that your father is able to keep me in the style that I have been accustomed to?"-Detroit Free Press. "Is a wife bound to obey her husband?" "Well, I must say I haven't seen many who were down to the job." -Baltimore American. A girl is never sure of her religion if she has freckles in spite of it. We are only willing to be related to people who aren't willing to be related to us. An attractive thing about some of the clothes women wear in summer is they aren't. The women who are most careful about their complexions are the ones who haven't any. A college education never hurt anybody if he was willing to learn something afterward. If a woman could have a lot of children without marriage it would be just as much happiness to her. There is no way you can insult a man more than not to take advice from him, except to give it to him. The reason a woman spends her money right away is her husband needn't give her any more till she does. A man can forgive most anything in the woman he marries except singing to him to entertain him so he won't want to spend the nights out. One of the most delightful things about a trip abroad is the way you can lie when you get home about the distinguished people you met.—New York Press. SAID BY THE CYNIC The proof of the bluffer is in making good. It doesn't pay to mortgage your opportunities. We all know a sure cure for the other fellow's fills. To be perfectly happy a woman must also be enviled. The black sheep of the family may really be a blonde. Don't waste your time. You will need it before you die. A man's remarks may be cold even when his tongue is coated. It seems as though only the wealthy can afford to have no manners. It isn't hard to please a woman if she only knows what she wants. The cartoonist who goes on the vaudeville stage doesn't always draw. Many an artist has his picture rejected because hanging is too good for it. If the truth were known, the devil holds a mortgage on many a rich man's property. EVE'S EPIGRAMS. All women are alike except those who are different. Mock not the starving man with advice—before dinner. Each person's face is a mirror that reflects his thoughts. If ignorance be bliss, why this brisk business in diplomas? Everything comes to him who waits until he doesn't want it. We who are fat and forty know that the fun isn't worth the fines. A "deal" represents to man all that a new dress means to a woman. Loads of money somehow never sounds like much of a burden. In the automobile language the punctuation marks are: "Honk! honk!" The doorkeeper in Never-never land is a drooling old man called Procrastination. The only boy in a family of sisters usually registers a vow early in life that he'll never marry a girl. QUAKER MEDITATIONS. An all-round good man should be many-sided. Some men never arrive at a conclusion until they die. The people who go to law don't always find it so easy to get back. Most of us feel that we could bear each other's burdens better than our own. The coward rejoices in the theory that discretion is the better part of valor. It isn't necessarily the man with the red nose who believes in letting his light shine before men. "It takes a lot of nerve to succeed," remarked the wise guy. "Yes, but it takes a lot more to explain successfully why you didn't," added the simple mug.—Philadelphia Record. WITH THE SAGES. Ability is a poor man's wealth.— M. Wren. He who foresees calamities, suffers them twice over.—Porteus. The profit of books is according to the sensibility of the reader.—Emerson. THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. The less we parade our misfortunes the more sympathy we command.—O. Dewey. Labor to keep alive in your heart that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.—Washington. Too great refinement is false delicacy, and true delicacy is solid refinement.—Rochefoucauld. One vicious habit each year rooted out, in time might make the worst man good.—Franklin. A man who finds no satisfaction in himself, seeks for it in vain elsewhere.—Rochefoucauld. Content can soothe, where'er by fortune placed; ran rear a garden in the desert waste.—H. K. White. Ignorance is a blank canvas on which we lay what colors we please, and paint objects, magnify or diminish them at our option.—Hazlitt. That alone can be called true refinement which elevates the soul of man, purifying the manners by improving the Intellect.—Coleridge. SMALL INCOMES It is not wealth, but contentment, which is the true secret of happiness. Make the best of what you have, and you will be surprised to find how good the best can be. Don't try to keep up an appearance which is above your income. That is where misery comes in. You will find you enjoy small pleasures a thousand times more than if you always were able to procure them. You are spared the cares and responsibilities of wealth, and those are heavier than you have any idea of. You will take a double delight in new clothes, new furniture, little additional luxuries, if you have to save for them. Resolve that if you cannot pay for a thing you will go without. It is a degradation to take from others what you cannot afford. Of course, it is a trial to have small means. None of us would choose a limited income if we could have a large one. But even small means have their compensations. Don't think that because you are not rich life is therefore entirely devoid of happiness for you. Some of the happiest people in the world are those who are not overburdened with this world's goods.—Exchange. SOME NUISANCES. The man or woman who gets into an empty elevator and stands right in the doorway. The person who impresses upon you the fact that "they don't have to work." The man who gets on a street car with two suit cases, an umbrella and a golf bag. The woman who only makes up her mind to cross the street after you've made up your mind to drive on. The woman who explains that if it handn't been for the other bad boys her Charlie would be an angel. The fat man who walks stolldly in the middle of a narrow pavement when you are trying to make a train. WOMAN'S EAR. It has been sung by poets. It has been called a seashell. Yet the French women regard it reverently. And never go out without rouging its "soft tip." A very delicate pinching of the lobes will do wonders. It will take away the gray, wrinkled look of the ears. In extreme cases rouge may be permitted on the lobes. PRACTICAL POINTS. Success is the ability to forget failure. You can't play hooky with the School of Experience. The meek may inherit the earth, but the mortgage is held by the other fellow. Don't hide your light under a bushel —use a reflector and make the most of it. The reason that babies are so expensive is because the stork has such a long bill. Bohemian Magazine. An All-Bound Bed. 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In answer to the question if he has seen any whiskey at camp or any of the guards or officials drunk, witness stated that there was always plenty of whiskey at the camp and that Captain Casey and the guards were drunk on several occasions, and this caused much of the hard times the guards was too severe and that the convicts were frequently whipped when they fell down exhausted. "It was as common to hear a Negro holler down there," said Mr. Wortham, "as it to hear a pig holler in the country." He stated that he never saw any members of the prison commission in the camp, but that several committees from either the grand jury on the legislature came to camp. Capt. Casey always met them with buggy and took them around and they there by never learned anything. He stated that on one occasion when Captain Casey met the committee of the inmate he had witness take a gang of Negroes and clean up the bunks and when the committee got there the bunks and walls were still wet with the scrubbing. Captain Casey entertained the committee elsewhere while the bunks were drying. BEDDING WASHED ONCE A YEAR In regard to the food and bedding and clothes, the witness stated that the meals were fair, but that the clothing was not up to the standard, and that the bedding was washed but once a year. Then it was taken to the Chattahoochee river and dipped and wrung out. As to the amount of work the men had to do, Mr. Wortham stated that it was more than any man could do, and that in the brick clamps there was not one man in one hundred who could stand it over an hour. "Jack Casey was afraid to go in there for fear the heat would discharge his revolver," said Mr. Wortham. He said that while there were divine services conducted on Sunday, there was always a gang of men working on Sunday, and that they received $1 for the day's work, but that no money was given them. That they were allowed to trade it out in the commissary, where they only got half value. In regard to swapping convicts, he stated that he had seen something of that kind. Men came there and tools were taken to convicts and left others in their places. ARTHUR MOORE TESTIFIES Arthur W. Moore of 708 Jones Street testified that he and his father had worked at the Chattahoochee Brick Company. He was employed as an engineer on the dummy. He left the company fifteen months ago voluntarily, after eight years' service. He and Captain Casey had frequently had spats. He is now a fireman on the Southern Railway. His father, S. W. Moore is loading foreman at the camp. Witness said he has seen eight men whipped in one day, and estimated that the average was five or more a day. He said he had seen men fall fainting from overwork and heat, and that they were whipped when they failed. Those hauling-brick were forced to move in a run to handle the required number daily. The men worked from before sunrise until after sunset, and were not treated humanely. He spoke of one man having been given thirty lashes because he had not kept the steam in the boiler up to the proper gauge. He said Captain Casey cursed the men all the time and called them the vilest of names. AT THE NIGHT SESSION At the night session of the committee, J. S. Cochran, a brother or J. A. Cochran, who had testified in the afternoon, was put on the stand He told of cruelties at the Durham Coal and Coke Company mines. Here, he said, convicts were worked long hours, some being forced to work in water up to their knees and sometimes up to their waist. Accidents in the mine were frequent. He was a younger man than his brother and rather prepossessing in loot. He was also forced to the stand and had every appearance of sincerity. They told their story without break or falter. The younger Cochran had been sentenced for four years, four months and nine days for whitecapping. Relating his experiences at the coal mine, he stated that Captain Mitchell had ordered men chained up, stripped naked and flogged with strops weighing from three to five pounds. This, and most of the punishments, were violations of the labor regulations. The men were given certain specified "tasks," and if they did not perform this amount of work each day they were flogged. He recalled seeing thirty to forty men whipped at the mine in one day. Four men took an hour to administer the punishment. A Negro named Henry was whipped every morning for a week. Dr. R. H. Tatum was the camp physician at this time. DIED OF TUBERCULOSIS (?) Witness stated that a Negro named Jim had been given 103 licks and said: "You could have heard that nigger holler a mile. All the facts in connection with his condition after the whipping are too dirty to tell. A week or two later he died and his death was attributed to tuberculosis." Witness said that Frank Worthy, colored, who resides at 302 Edgewood avenue, Atlanta, had also been beaten up because he did not dig a sufficient amount of coal to his day's task. He said the state's officers at the camp also received pay from the lessees. Pat Bennett a white man, was reported by witness to have been whipped until he could not yell on account of weakness. Accidents were frequent at the mines. Joe English, a white man, was killed by falling slate. A Negro had his leg broken by falling slate, and witness said he remained in hospital until his leg rotted off. Dr. R. H. Tatum was hospital physician at the time, and witness said he came to the hospital while under the influence of liquor and attempted to perform delicate surgical operations. A convict who had been a physician and surgeon assisted at such times and often performed the whole operation. The hospital facilities, he said, were rather good. He complained that the air in the mine was frequently bad. In some of the air shafts of the mines, he said, the beef furnished the men could be detected by odor for a quarter of a mile. TESTIMONY OF R. A. KEITH R. A. Keith, who operates a saw mill near Baibridge, in Decatur county, and who was convicted in Atlanta of murder in November, 1901 was next put on the stand. He stated that he came from Virginia, had graduated at Dahlonega and after serving a penitentiary term of a little over five years was perdoned on January 17, 1907. During his prison term he had been located at Richwood, in Dooley county, Millhaven, near Savannah, and Milltown. Testifying that state officers received money from lessees at these camps, witness said Jake Moore received $100 a month to secure the best convicts available to work at the Richwood Lumber Company's camp. He did not know whether the prison commission was aware of the case. He reported overhearing a conversation between Col. W. S. West of Valdosta; J. Sid Turner of the State prison commission, and G. V. Gress, in which it was stated that these men had secured 175 Florida convicts, and sub-dued them. This was in 1903. At the Richwood camp, he said, the warden was B. P. O'Neal of Macon. Warden T. E. Gary received $35 monthly from O'Neal. At Gress' lumber camp, witness testified, the warden was named Powell, and that from over indulgence in liquor, he was hardly ever in condition for work. He was succeeded by Warden Mitchell, who received $25 from Mr. Gress. The Millhaven Lumber Company secured a batch of convicts from the Richwood company, the witness and Warden Gary were included in the trial. For the witness, who had clerical ability at a high order five Negroes were exchanged in this unique transaction. After serving awhile at the Milltown Lumber company camp, he went to the Durham Coal and Coke Company's mines. He told of the white boy being beaten to death. He stated the convicts were absolutely controlled by the lessees, and the state's officers did nothing to protect them. Their tasks were set by the company's officers. He said 60 per cent, of the men got out of the mines at sundown, after working from sunup; about 40 per cent, got out between 8 and 9 o'clock having completed their required tasks. He usually left last after finishing up his work of checking, and it was often 10 or 11 per cent. He said he saw 45 men whipped in one day for "shortage and slate," in other words, they failed to complete their tasks or permitted too much slate in their supply of coal in their effort to bring up the weight to the required amount. Many convicts fainted after being whipped. PARDONED MAN BRINGS SUIT. There was no way open to the men to appeal to the protection of the law. Witness knew rules were being violated, but kept silent. After being pardoned he entered suit in Walker county for cruelty and maltreatment and was awarded verdict of $2,000. Case now lies in Supreme Court, having been brought up on appeal by the company. The witness kept the records of the camp. He admitted reporting only tenth of the whippings, and cut down the skis to one-half, as he was instructed. He said the state regulations as to clothing and diet were ignored. No sheets were furnished the men. Blankets were washed only once a year. The buns were filled with vermin. The men were furnished in the morning cornbread and bacon, which they ate raw. The men ate dinner in the mine. In the evening they ate supper in the yard. ONE VISIT BY THE COMMISSION ER. Witness said the only instance he recalled of a visit by a member of the prison commission was when Commissioner Tom Eason visited Milltown. It was during the excitement over Mamie Dechrist, and Mr. Eason had gone to Savannah on that case. He made no inspection at Milltown, and merely walked through the yard. He did not even stop at the mill. Witness saw Jake Moore for first time on January 17, 1907, the day he left the Durham coal mine with his pardon. He was informed that Jake Moore got something out of the lessies in every camp in the state. Keith stated Dr. Brock visited the mine three or four times a year, and made inspection as to the conditions of the mine as to the formation of gas. No attention was usually paid his recommendations. THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA Keith told of whipping men with the sand strap, which took the skin off. In addition to his suit in Walker county, a suit is also pending there on the same line, filed by J. S. Cochran. Both alleged cruelty and inhuman treatment; the ignoring of the state's regulations, and the abandonment of state prisoners to private persons without protection from state infliction. Whenness has a claim to Berrien county for damages against G. V. Gress for a capture received in the latter's employ. NEGRO TELLS OF KILLING Ephraim George Gather, a Negro, was the next witness. He stated that he was sent to the Sugar Hills and the Chumley Hills camps, and stayed there from October 14, 1900 to September 28, 1901. He was sentenced for carrying concealed weapons and, on being questioned, said that this was his first and last offense. When asked if he knew how many times a day the men were whipped, he said on an average of two or three times. He said that the bedding was a black cloth with excelsior or something of that nature in it, and that they had a sole blanket for covering. Ephraim stated that he had not been subpoenaed, but that he came of his own accord, having seen so much in the papers, and he wanted to have his little say also. He saw one man laid across the railroad track with a darkey on each arm and leg, he being one of the darkies, and he was whipped until his yells for mercy came in nothing but whispers, and he was then loosed and told to git, but he had to be carried. The witness spoke of one instance of a man being killed in June 1901. He said the convict left the stockade, walking rather slowly and then start at him from the road and at him from another a tree, and that one or the shots tore away one side of his face. The Negro ran about 50 yards to the woods, and the bloodhounds were put on his trail. They came back in a very short time and the man in charge said that the Negro had gone on over the hills. About a week later, the witness said, there was an awful stench from the direction where the Negro had disappeared, and from all he could learn it was the Ngro who had died from the shot He said that on one occasion he saw one of the bloodhounds with the right arm of the man in his mouth gnawing it. He said that the coroner's jury was held about five days later, but he did not learn what was the verdict. LEGISLATORS ON STAND This was the last witness that had been subpoenaed for the day and following him the committee took the testimony of the members of the sub-committees of the penitentiary committee, who visited the camps last fall. J. R. Lumsden the first witness, testified that he visited the camps in Decatur county, at Reynoldsville, Sireen and Naylor and that he found that with the exception of dirty bed clothing the camps were in good shape. R. E. Davidson testified that he visited Pinson and Williams' camp, in Brooks county, and found it in fairly good shape; that, with the exception of the bed clothing, which was dirty, and the fact that there was no hospital and no records kept the camp was in good shape. He also visited the Thomas county road camp and found that in good shape. Also the Colquitt county road camp, but that this was the worst on his trip, stating that there was no mattresses, very little bedding and only one blanket, and they were dirty. Food however, was fairly good, such as it was. He last visited the Southern Lumber Camp in Tift county, and stated that this was in fine shape; that everything was clean, and that there were no complaints from the contractors; that they were well fed. S. T. Ellis testified that he visited the camp of Pinson and Williams, and practically corroborated the statement of Mr. Davidson. He also visited the camp of Mills and Williams in Thomas county, which was in good shape, and the Tift county road camp which was in fine shape with the exception of the clothing. A. E. Bond visited the camps in Ware and Baker counties, and stated that the only thing that he saw that was wrong was that the bed clothing was dirty, as there was no kick coming from the convicts as to rations, etc. John R. Habbard, who lives thirty miles from the Sugar Hills camp stated that he heard of a killing at the camp there, and that John Buchanan, of Marven Hill, Ga. employed now by the Southern Marble Works, of that place, was the guard at the camp who shot a Negro, supposedly owe that Ephraim Gather testified on her. Habbard stated that the guard threw down his gun then and there and resigned, saying that he thought the Negro was trying to escape when he shot, but that he would have no more of the dirty work in his. The committee is going to subpoena Mr. Buchannan. Mr. Hubbard stated also that he visited two camps in Dougherty county, and that he found bedding filth, the bed too short, and the food only fair. Dr. J. F. Johnson, the last witness, corroborated these facts as he was along with his delegation. The committee adjourned at 11 o'clock, to meet again at 3 o'clock this afternoon. Atlanta Constitution VIRGINIA-In the Law and Equity Court of the City of Richmond, the 31st day of July, 1908. Lucinda S. Doggett Plaintiff. v8. Addie S. Long, Charles S. Long, her husband and Cassander N. Sellers, their Attorney in fact. IN CHANCERY The object of this suit is to compel defendants Add'e S. Long and Charles S. Long, to execute and deliver to the purchaser, a good and sufficient deed, conveying all of their right, title and interest, in that parcel of land with the improvements thereon, lying and being in the City of Richmond, Va., fronting on Williams Street, twenty feet and running back between parallel lines one hundred and thirty feet, the same being an undivided interest in the real es- tate of which George W. Doggett died intestate, seized and possessed. And affidavit having been made and filed, that the defendants Addie S. Long, Chas, S. Long, her husband, and Cassander N. 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