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THE RICHMOND PLANET Senator Foraker in the Lime=light. Mr. W. R. Hearst Attacks Him in Ohio. JUDGE TAFT SHOWS HIS DISPLEASURE—THE GREAT STATESMAN MAKES HIS DEFENSE—NOT IN THE EMPLOY OF THE STANDARD OIL CO. SERVICES AS ATTORNEY ENDED EIGHT YEARS AGO. PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT JUBILANT. VOLUME XXV, NUMBER 43. Senato in the Mr. W. R Hi JUDGE TAFT SHOWS HIS D HIS DEFENSE—NOT IN SERVICES AS AT PRESID A profound sensation was caused by the action of Hon. William R. Hearst of New York in reading during a speech delivered at Columbus, Ohio, September 17, 1908 letters purporting to connect Senator Joseph Benson Foraker with the agents of the Standard Oil Company. As that corporation is now the object of attack by the politicians of both political parties, it will be seen that this declaration tended to destroy the usefulness of that distinguished Ohlan in the present campaign. Mr. Hearst also declared that Gov. C. N. Haskel, treasurer of the National Democratic Committee was also a beneficiary of the coffers of that concern. Gov. Haskel has emphatically denied the "soft impaction," but Senator Foraker stated plainly the connection that he had with the great oil concern eight years ago. Barring public clamor, there is absolutely nothing discreditable to Senator Foraker in the whole affair. In order that our readers may be posted on the affair we reproduce the correspondence as culled from the telegraphic dispatches: COLUMBUS, OHIO, Sept. 17.—Thomas L. Hisgen, candidate of the Independence Party for President, and William R. Hearst addressed a meeting at Memorial Hall tonight, under the auspices of the local organization of the Party. Mr. Hearst read letters which he said had been written by John D. Archbold, of the Standard Oil Company to Senator J. B. Foraker, of Ohio, referring to legislation pending in Congress, and mentioning two inclosures of checks, one for $15,000 and another for $14,000. Mr. Hearst said: "We claim that the Republican Party had been for a long time the beneficiary of trust corruption, and that the Democratic Party has only awaited an opportunity to share its sister's profitable infamy. "We claim that the Democrats are today eagerly competing with the Republicans for trusts' favor." FATTED CALF FOR ROCKE FELLER We claim that when Theodore Roosevelt whipped the Standard Oil out of the Republican Party the Democratic Party welcomed that convicted criminal with open arms. We claim that the Democratic Party killed for Mr. Rockefeller the fatted calf and that there is more rejoicing over this one sinner who has joined the Democratic cause than there is over the hundreds of thousands or honest, faithful citizens who constitute the Democratic masses. "I am not here with empty assertions, but with legal evidence and documentary proof. ARCHBOLD TO SENATOR "I am now going to read copies of letters written by John D. Archbold, chief agent of the Standard Oil an intimate personal representative of Mr. Rockefeller and Mr. Rogers. These letters have been given to me by a gentleman who has intimate associations with this giant of corruption, the Standard Oil, but whose name I may not divulge, lest he be subjected to the persecution of this monopoly. "26 Broadway, N. Y., Mich. 9, 1900, "My Dear Senator: I have your favor of last night, with enclosure, which latter, with letter from Mr. Elliott, commenting on same, I beg to send you herewith. Perhaps it would be better to make a demonstration against the whole bill, but certainly the ninth clause, to which Mr. Elliott refers, should be stricken out, and the same is true or House Bill No. 500, also introduced by Mr. Price, in relation to foreign corporations, in which the same objectionable clause occurs. "Am glad to hear that you think that the situation is fairly well in hand. Very truly yours, "JOHN D. ARCHBOLD. "Hon. J. B. Foraker, "Washington, D. C." "TO YOUR FAVOR FOR $15,000." "‘26 Broadway, New York, ‘March 26, 1900. ‘Hon. J. B. Forney." "Hon. J. B. Foraker, 1500 Sixteenth Street, Washington, D. C. "Dear Senator—In accordance with our understanding, I now beg to inclose you a certificate of deposit to your favor for $15,000. Kindly acknowledge receipt, and oblige. Yours, very truly..." "JOHN D. ARCHBOLD." "February 16, 1900. "My Dear Senator—Here is still another very objectionable bill. It is so outrageous as to be ridiculous, but it needs to be looked after, and I hope there will be no difficulty in killing it. "Am anxious to hear from you as to the situation as a whole. Very truly yours, JOHN D. ARCHBOLD." "Hon. J. B. Foraker, 1500 Sixteenth Street, Washington, D.C." Street, Washington, D. C. "You will see gentlemen, that these letters are not read at random, but they have a natural sequence. Here is the next: "26 Broadway, New York, 'April 17, 1900. 'My Dear Senator: I enclose your certificate of deposit to your favor of $14,500. We are greatly at a loss in the matters, but I send this and will be glad to have a very frank talk with you when opportunity offers, if you so desire. GRATIFIED OVER OUTCOME "I need scarcely, again express our great gratification over the favorable outcome of affairs. Very truly yours. "JOHN D. ARCHBOLD." "Hon. J. B. Foraker, 1500 Sixteenth Street, Washington, D. C." "There my friends, is some documentary evidence of how bills are decided to be unwise and to be unconstitutional, and some intimation of the causes that lead to the defeat of such bills. "I will now read you the conclusion of a letter written by Mr. Sibley who was a representative from Pennsylvania, from the lower house of Congress. Mind you, a representative from Pennsylvania—that is his title. But, in fact, he is a representative, I believe, of the Standard Oil Company. A TALK AT THE WHITE HOUSE "The letter was written to Mr. Archbold, and relates how Mr. Sibley told Mr. Roosevelt that he should be careful how he offended the Standard Oil, and that he could not afford to depend merely upon the support of the people. "This is the conclusion of the letter: "For the first time in my life I told the President some plain unpalatable, truths as to the situation politically, and that no man should win or deserve to wn who depended upon the rabble, rather than upon the conservative men of affairs. "I don't know as he really liked all I said, but he thanked me with apparent heartiness. "Anything you may desire here in my power, please advise. Sincerely yours, "JOSEPH C: SIBLEY." "You, gentlemen, I, Mr. Hisgen, all of us, are this rabble; seekers after office cannot depend on us; they need the conservative citizens, those magnates of the great trusts." CINCINNATI, OHIO, Sept. 18.—That he had been several years ago, an attorney for the Standard Oil Com pany terminating such service before the Federal prosecution of that concern, but such employment had nothing to do with matters pending in Congress or in which the Federal Government was interested, is the substance of a brief statement made to-day by United States Senator Foraker, in answer to the charges made by William R. Hearst in Columbus last night. Mr. Hearst read a series of six letters written by John D. Archbold, of the Standard Oil Company, to Senator Foraker. Two of the letters suggested the Senator's opposition to hostile legislation; two inclosed certificates of deposits. One for fifteen thousand dollars and one for $14, oppose Smith W. Bennett for the Republican nomination for attorney general of Ohio, and the sixth urge the reelection of Judge Burkett to the supreme bench of Ohio. SENATOR FORAKER'S STATE MENT. Senator Foraker's statement in reply to Hearst follows: "I do not know whether the letters given out by Mr. Hearst are true copies or not, but I assume they are, for I was then engaged in the prac- (Continued on Eighth Page.) Hark to the Call Dear brathren and friends of the Virginia Baptist State Convention, listen. President Bowling of the Baptist State Convention and President Graham or the Trustee Board, have made their call to the baptists of Virginia to meet at Lynchburg, October 2nd. Let every man heed this call and be on hand at the time mentioned. Prof. Diggs is an able and scholarly man, with large experience in educational work. He comes to us fresh from the great work in Kentucky. Let us meet him with full hearts and hand, and in earnest prayer for his success as head of our school. Dr. W. W. Brown and Ebenezer Baptist Church of Pittsburg, Pa. are in line. I have their money in hand to present at Lynchburg, Oct. 2nd. Brethren, the work is ours under God. Let us all rally to it liberally Gilfield will be there. Yours truly. G. B. HOWARD. Mr. Lacy Speaks. Editor of The Richmond PLANET. Salt Lake City, Sept. 16, '08. Dear Sir—On my arrival at Salt Lake I found about 2000 colorid population. The Negro here is mak ing a great success. Negro labor is in demand. Five hotels and two clubs are employing nearly 800 colored waiters and porters, barber shop and saloon porters. They have two Churches. The A. M. E. Church membership about 150 The Church is in fair condition having a new building. The Baptists have no Church building at present. Their present Pastor has just paid off a debt of 2600 dollars, which was a mortgage. His administration was two years. They will build early in the Spring. Their membership up to date is 56. Rev. J. H. Allen, the present pastor of Calvary Baptist Church is spending his vacation with his mother-in-law, in San Francisco, California. He will return on Oct. 1st. On the first Sunday after his return they will have a mortgage burning, a day of jubilee. Out of 2000, the total membership is 206. General attendance is about 800. Baptist Sunday School average about 30; the Methodist Sunday School is about 50. A. D. LACY, Salt Lake City, Utah. Miss Pattie Jones, daughter of Mr. Henry Jones of Springfield, Henrico Co., who has been spending a week on a visit to Miss Racilla W. Steward at 2818 P. Street has returned to her home in the county carrying with her pleasant memories of the hospitality of her Richmond friends. Several functions were held in her honor. On Tuesday night, 8th inst. Miss M. Alice Johnson gave her a reception; on the 9th Mrs. Dellie Steward, wife of Capt. C. E. Steward gave a tea party in her honor and on Friday night, 11th, an entertainment was had at the residence of Sir O. M. Steward, where she met many of the young people of the city who were greatly pleased with her charming and graceful manners. KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS. A New Court at Needmore Needmore, Va. Sept. 14, '08 Empire Star Court. No. 139 was organized here last Friday night by Mrs. Margaret H. Burrell, District Deputy Grand Worthy Counselor of Roanoke, Va. She was accompanied by Dr. I. D. Burrell, and he acted Grand Medical Director. Grand Worthy Counselor John Mitchell, Jr., was expected and the people here were much disappointed at his failure to come. Many came expecting to shake his hand. Those who assisted in the initiation were Mrs. Mary Casey, District Deputy Grand Worthy Counselor of New River, Mrs. Mollie Scott, Mrs. Mary E. White Buford, Mrs. Lunile Anderson, Mrs. Lizzie Canady, Mrs. Maggie Canady and Sir Arthur Murphy. The following officers were installed: Worthy Counselor, Mrs. Della A. Clark; Worthy Inspectrix, Mrs. Lennie Austin; Worthy Inspector, Mrs. Mary White Buford; Senior Directress, Mrs. Lennie Lewis; Orator, Mrs. Sarah Corner; Register of Deeds Mrs. Pauline Milliner; Register of Accounts, Mrs. Lucy Corner; Receiver of Deposits, Mrs. Tachel Pease; Escort, Mrs. Lucy Pease; Conductress, Miss. Mary Hicks; Assistant Conductress, Mrs. Maggie Milliner; Herald, Mrs. Mary Hill; Protector, Mrs. Jane Johnson. A repast was served and all heartily enjoyed themselves. Mr. and Mrs. I. D. Burrell left here Saturday morning. This club was organized through the efforts of District Deputy Grand Worthy Counselor Mrs. Casey of New River, Va. and Mrs. E. White Baford of this place. Mary B. White Baford of this place. —Mrs. Winnie Harris returned to her home last week from visiting friends and relatives in Louisa and in Birmingham by her sister Miss Jannie R. Marvall —Rev. Dr. Evans Payne, pastor of Fourth Baptist Church, left the city on Wednesday, 15th inst. on a visit to his daughter, Mrs. Fillisco Hardy of Charlottesville; thence he will extend his trip to New York and other northern points. —Mrs. Martha Willis of 24th St. and Jefferson Avenue, is having her residence renovated and tastefully fully repainted. She is the mother of Mrs. Mary Hudson and Mrs. Sallie Mann, former teachers in the public schools of this city. —The moving picture theatre craze has struck Church Hill and one is building at 29th and P Streets. —The grand Church Hill boulevard which will be an extension of 24th Street, from Chimborazo Park to P Street, is making flue progress. Several colored people own property on the line of this prospective grand thoroughfare between N and P Sts. —Mr. Benjamin Brown of 2816 P Street has gone to New York to make his home with his children who have long been residents of that city. —Rev. W. H. Dean, pastor of Leigh Street M. E. Church has returned from his vacation much refreshed and benefited physically. He in company with Mrs. Alice R. Hewin and Miss Agnes Smith, delegates, attended the District Conference of the Epworth League which met at Charlottesville on the 9th inst. Rev. Dean extended his trip to his old charge in Prince George county, Md. and to Atlantic City. —Rev. Connie Baker, a licentiate of Leigh Street M. E. Church, preach ed his maiden sermon on last Sunday morning. Those who heard it seemed much edified and all agreed that he gave promise of becoming a powerful pulpit orator. Mr. Baker is a student of Morgan Seminary of Lynchburg, Va. —Miss Evangeline S. Steward, youngest daughter of our fellow citizen, Mr. O. M. Steward, has returned from Charlottesville where she has been on a prolonged visit to the family of Rev. R. Brown Hardy, pastor of Mt. Zion Baptist Church of that city. She speaks in the highest terms of her kind treatment by the good people of the home of Thomas Jefferson. She is greatly improved physically and anxiously to enter upon her studies for the ensuing session of the Normal School Fifth Street B. Y. P. U. The B. Y. P. U. of the Fifth Street Baptist Church held a very interesting meeting on last Tuesday night, Vice President Miss Annie V. Chaffin, presiding. Meeting opened with singing led by Miss Annie V. Taylor, Prayer and Scripture Reading by Deacon B. H. Peyton. The President announced the topic for discussion and called upon Prof. B. H. Peyton to open the subject: Psalm 55. He well explained it and the discussion which followed was very interesting and helpful. The B. Y. P. U. of choir rendered sweet music. Prof. R. H. Fauntleroy spoke on the activity of the B. Y. P. U. work in the State. All are invited to be present next Tuesday night at S o'clock. Miss Annie V. Chaffin will open subject from Psalm 53. New York Society The best circles of colored society in New York are somewhat excited over the new chemical discoveries. The Chemical Wonder Company has certainly made good so far. They have one preparation to give a lighter natural color to dark skin; another preparation to make their clients physically acceptable in social and business circles and another preparation to uncurl kinky hair so it will dress to advantage. The interest in these discoveries is spreading into other parts of the United States. Don't Forget The Grand Lawn Party and Bazaar at St. Joseph's Church Grounds First St., between Jackson and Duval Streets, September 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 1908. Three prizes, one ton of coal, one barrel of flour, $2.50 in gold. Good music, Refreshments. Admission, ten cts. Each ticket entitles bearer to a share in the drawing. Gone Before MORTON—Mrs. Nannie Morton died at her residence, 1007 St. John St. Saturday morning, Sept. 19th, after an illness of several months. The funeral services were conducted at the house by Rev. W. H. White. She leaves a husband, mother, two sisters and one brother. "Tis hard to break the tender cord, When love has bound the heart; 'Tis hard, so hard to speak the words We must forever part. Dearest loved one, we have laid thee In the peaceful grave's embrace, But thy memory will be cherished 'Till we see the Heavenly face.' Her devoted husband. JOHN W. MORTON —Rosa J., the little daughter of Rev. and Mrs. R. J. Eass is quite sick at their residence, No. 15 East Duval Street. —Mr. Joseph Evans, our agent at Pittsburg, Pa. desires all his customers whose subscriptions for the Richmond PLANET are past due to call and settle at once. Removal Notice I beg to announce to my friends and the public generally that my Law Offices are now located at No. 210 East Broad Street in the building occupied by the Capitol Shoe and Supply Company. Office 'phone 2573, Residence phone 2903. GEO. W. LEWIS, Attorney-at-Law and Notary Public. Notice! Norfolk, Va., Aug. 25, 1908. To the Baptist Brotherhood — Every member and friend of Virginia Theological Seminary and College is requested to meet at Lynchburg, Va., Friday, October 2nd in special session of the Virginia Bapt. State Convention to install Prof. J. R. L. Diggs as President of the Virginia Seminary and College. Let this meeting mark a new epoch in the history of our school. Don't forget the date. R. H. BOWLING, Pres. W. F. GRAHAM, D. D. Chair. C. E. MULER, Secstarg Rev. Charles Evers, who has been assistant here at St. Joseph's Church has been appointed to take charge of St. Barnabas Church at Baltimore and has been succeeded by Rev. William J. Reichmeyer. The departure of Father Evers will be viewed with general regret by his large number of friends here. Entered Into Rest. YANCEY—Mrs. Judith Yancey departed this life August 25, 1908 at the home of her daughter, Mrs. S. P. Robinson, No. 618 Kenny Street. She was sick for more than a year. She leaves one brother, two sons, one daughter, two grand children and a host of relatives to mourn their loss. Before she expired she said, "I know God will save me, it is well with my soul." "Dearest mother, thou hast left us. We miss thee, we loved thee. But Jesus loved thee best. And he has sweetly called thee To come to him and rest. The Golden Gates were opened, The angels bid her come. As these gentle words were spoken, Weary pilgrim, welcome home. HER DAUGHTER. Hampton and Lynchburg papers please copy. — Mrs. B. B. Trayham of 1104 Pacific Street, Brooklyn, N. Y. has returned home after six weeks visit through the South. Arthur Edward Lankford Dead. Arthur Edward Lankford, the junior member of the Architectural firm of J. A. Lankford and Brother, of the District of Columbia, died Monday morning, September 21st at his sisters residence in Ironton, Mo. and was buried Wednesday at the home of the Lankford's in Potosi, Mo. Young Lankford came to Washington some three years ago and connected himself to the firm known as J. A. Lankford and Brother. He was a young man of firm qualities and ability, having graduated from the engineering department or Tuskegee Industrial School, Tuskegee, Ala. and as an architectural engineer from Scranton, Pa. He was 27 years of age and unmarried. He had made many friends during his stay at the National Capitol. He was an active worker in many of the social, business and religious organizations of the city, and all who knew him, regarded him as a Christian gentleman. His brother, Mr. J. A. Lankford left Monday evening to attend the funeral. B. Y. P. U. Active. The Executive Board of the State B. Y. P. U., located at Richmond, Va., Prof. B. H. Peyton, Chairman, is pushing things for active work. All missionaries and workers are urged to begin at once in order to be in line for great results next year. The following are the local B. Y. P. U. workers in the several localities: Richmond, Miss Annie V. Taylor, Rev; J. H. Stephens; Blackstone, Rev. A. H. Wynn, R. L. Wynn, Staunton, Miss Bessie Bowles, Bro. S. S. J. Bower; Clifton Forge, Rev. T. H. White, Bro. C. A. Smith; Charlottesville, Miss Hattie Newman, Bro. J. W. Gunnell; Suffolk, Mrs. S. Gwathney, Brother B. B. Elliott; Franklin, Mrs. D. I. Hayden, Mrs. Annie W. Hollord; Roanoke, Prof. W. E. Davis, Bro. J. W. Newlin; Lynchburg, Mrs. Caroline Roberts and Miss Nancy Motte; Williamsburg, Bro. J. H. Ashby; Newport News, Rev. R. H. Ache, Bro. C. F. McLaurin; Natural Bridge, Bro. M. H. Diamond, Mrs. Hannah Carter; Wytheville, A. D. Jones; Radford, Mrs. D. E. Miller; Christianburg, Mrs. Harriet Johnson, Rev. Henderson; Bedford City, Rev. J. P. Hubbard; C. B. Kyle; Danville, Miss Williams, Miss Maggie Allen. The following were announced additional organizers for their Districts: Norfolk, Bros. J. W. Fitts and W. Gidding; Glasgow, Mrs. Wooldridge, Luvinia Sayles; Big Island, Miss Hattie Ware and Lizzle Jenkin. GRAYSON—BASS The marriage of Miss Izetta K. Bass to Mr. Charles F. Grayson, Jr. of Fredericksburg, Va. will take place Tuesday, Sept. 29, 1908 at 5 o'clock P. M. at the Ebenezer Baptist Church. Reception from 5:30 to 9 o'clock P. M. at the residence of the bride's parents, Rev. and Mrs. R. J. Bass. No. 15 E. Duval Street. Friends are invited. No cards. The bride and groom will leave on the 8:20 train for an extended trip North, visiting Washington, Jersey City, Atlantic City, Philadelphia and other points of interest, being at home to their friends. No. 508-6th Street, Fredericksburg, Va., October 15, 1908. Miss Eva Evans, and her daughter, Thelma, have returned to the city after having spent a delightful stay in Atlantic City, N. J. PRICE. FIVE CENTS. TURNER—RUSSELL At 5 A. M. Wednesday, September 9th, St. Paul's Memorial Chapel St. Paul N. and I. School, Lawrenceville, Va., Miss Araminta Czarina Russell, oldest daughter of Archdeacon and Mrs. James S. Russell, and secretary to the principal, became the bride of Mr. Anthony Harris Turner, of Jacksonville, Fla., Business Manager and Cashier of the School. The chapel was comfortably filled, considering the earliness of the hour. The decorations, consisting of potted plants and ferns were simple but beautiful. The wedding was devoid of ostentation or display of any kind. Promptly at the hour the Archdeacon, who was the celebrant, appeared at the entrance to the chancel. Prof. A. R. Ware, who is director of music, presided at the organ, and played Mendelssohn's Wedding March. The presenttime the Archdeacon had taken his place within the chancel. The bridal party appeared promptly at the east and west entrances of the chapel, the bride arm of her sister, Miss Otelia V. Russell, who was maid of honor, and the groom with Mr. J. Alvin Russell, brother of the bride, who acted as best man. The two parties met at the steps leading up into the chancel and ascended them with the bride leaning on the arm of the groom and the maid of honor with the best man. The bride carried the "Marriage Vow" in beautiful white morroco, from which the Archdeacon read the ceremony. The Archdeacon awaitted them at the altar rail in full vestments. The young couple knelt and the beautiful and impressive service of the Church, linking their lives together, was read, while the organ softly played. At the conclusion of the brief service the vested choir sang Hymn No. 238, "O Perfect Love." The wedding march from Lohengrin was played as a recessional and the wedding party retired through the west entrance to the chapel to the carriages in waiting and were whirled away to the Southern Railway Station to catch train No. 4 for Norfolk. The polite and obliging superintendent of the Norfolk Division of the Southern Railway, Mr. E. T. Lamb, had courteously agreed to hold this train 35 minutes in order to allow the wedding party to take the train, its scheduled time being 4:45 A. M. The bride looked very happy and charming in her traveling suit of grey volle over taffeta silk, cut coat suit effect with hat and gloves to match. The maid of honor was hand somely gowned in white. The groom and best man wore the conventional black. Mr. and Mrs. Turner will spend their honeymoon in a bridal tour North. They will be at home at St. Paul School after September 26. They were the recipients of numerous beautiful and valuable presents, and at this writing gifts are still and eager. The whole school out at the station to see them off and bade them good-bye with a shower of rice. Another Band of Calanthe in Danville, Va. Danville, Va. Sept. 4, '08. Sister Anna E. Taylor, G. W. G. Matron or the Bands of Calanthe organized Golden Rod Band, with Mrs. Lucy Lockett as Senior Matron and Mrs. Agnes Day as Junior Matron, Monday, August 31, 1908. Thirty-seven happy children were initiated Many parents were present. Sister Taylor spoke at two church es on the Bands and the Pythian Order and accomplished much good while here in our midst, as fifteen more children were also added to Mrs. M. C. Adams Band at Almagro. Sister Taylor was highly entertained by Mrs. M. C. Adams and Mrs. S. J. Holbrook as well as being the special guest of Mrs. Lucy Lockett. She visited several Courts in company with Mrs. S. J. Holbrook, D. D. G. W. Counsellor of this district and appointed two matrons in Hermione Court and left for home highly pleased with the condition of the Order in Danville. Mrs. Anna Taylor, G. W. G. Matron of the Bands of Calanthe Danville, Va., Sept. 4. 1908. Sister Anna E. Taylor, G. W. G. Matron of the Bands of Calanthe arrived in the city on Saturday, August 29th in response to my call to organize my Band. To the joy of children and parents she set aside Golden Rod Band composed of 37 boys and girls Monday, August 31, 1908. Sister Taylor is such a .sweet, motherly lady that all fell in love with her. We visited several Courts and Almagro Band and she had a pleasant stay of a week with me. Our prayers go with her that the Lord spare her many years to carry on the noble work. MRS. LUCY A. LOCKETT, 632 Worsham Street. Let the PLANET do your Job-work. THE SEVENTH DERSON BY BEN M'CUTCHEON COPYRIGHT 1906 BY DOOD NEED COMPANY In the Darkness of the Chamber. The persons who formed the 1898 Cluster of the Gemini at the college had been chosen from 21 possible candidates, all of whom had in mind the possibility of becoming wearers of the Pin of the Twins when they decided to enter the school. As has been the case in former years, they represented some of the most prominent families in the land. Eventually every one of them would come into enough of this world's goods to place him high on the pedestal of independence. With two exceptions, the persons were easterners; and their names, as they appeared in the book of personality—written in the order of their initiation—were Vynne Marshall, Aldrich Bond, Henry Rich Littleton, Butler Noble Martindale, Simeon Pickney Woodring, Henry Walker Yeamans and Gerard Chambers. By virtue of precedent, chiefly, Marshall, the first of the number to be clothed with personality, was elected supreme person. Bond, the second to be infilated, was known as the second person; and so on—down to Gerard Chambers, who was officially designated as the seventh person. Four of the persons had places on the "varsity football team, and three were regular members of the college baseball nine. It had been said that never before in the history of the Gemini had the society held such a commanding position in the social and athletic affairs of the college. Old "Prexy" Spindleton once went so far as to say that the persons of the 1898 Cluster represented seven of the finest specimens of young manhood he had ever seen. This was a high compliment, knowing "Prexy" Spindleton the students knew him. Not one of the seven weighed less than 175 pounds, and four of them tipped the beam at only a few pounds under the 200 mark. The person with the best "prospects" was Gerard Chambers, known at home and at school as "Jerry;" and, if any distinction could be made, he was, everything considered, the most attractive star in the Cluster. He was the son of a great exporting and importing merchant of New York, where he walked with big freedom in the most exclusive social circles. Wallace Chambers was a very busy man, and his mind was hard riveted to his extensive affairs, but he always found time to be glad that his son had been honored with the personality of the Gemini. "Jerry," he once said to his delighted son, soon after the subject of membership in the society had been broached to him. "I consider you to be one of the most fortunate of young men. As far back as I can remember, membership in the Gemini has been a thing much sought after and much treasured. Of course, you owe much to your father and to your mother, and our good fortune in having been born under the influences of Gemini and Aquarius gives both of us a shade of the glory that is yours. We have a right, sir, to demand that you make the person worthy of the personality. You have our full consent to do what ever may be expected of you towards establishing your ownership of this big honor. And, my boy, when it comes to carrying out any instructions, don't hesitate at anything. If it is deemed wise to subject you to hardships, don't flinch. Then is the time to show the Chambers colors, my boy—the time to float them highest. I don't believe you will disappoint point either of us. And, I might add, the white feather would be the greatest of disappointments to me." Back in the old days this mighty merchant had been a sailor on the sea, and if it had not been for his absorbing interest in his vast and fast-expanding business affairs, his restless spirit, stimulated by life on the wave, might have been more strongly assertive. His adventures on the sea, he often had said, would go a long way towards filling a big volume with matter of the most thrilling sort. He seemed to find satisfaction in the knowledge that his son—the seventh person—had a disposition patterned after his own. Jerry Chambers sailed through his senior year with the "Chambers collar" flying at the top of the mast. His record was scrupulously clean, so far a record goes at college, and in many departments he stood at the front. Three days before commencement exercises the supreme person, with solemn formality, notified the other persons that on the following night a meeting would be held in the darkness of the chamber. No detail of notification was necessary to convey the purpose of the gathering. A few minutes before the time set for the destiny meeting, as the final convention of the persons in the chamber had come to be known—11:30 o'clock—the supreme person entered the chamber. For a time he was alone—the doctrine of Rodney Graves ordained that he should be alone—and made the last preparations. From the vault he took the constitution and bylaws of the Gemini and the black sack of destiny. These he placed on a long black table, which stood at the side of the first chair. After donning his official regalia—a long black robe with hood attached—he turned off the gas and lighted a stub of candle, which he placed on the table. Precisely at 11:28 o'clock he opened the door leading to the room of rest, and standing on the threshold in the full and solemn dignity of his office, spoke in subdued tones, slowly, impressively: "Persons of the Gemini, it is the command of the supreme person that ye enter into the chamber. There shall ye know more." In measured tread he reached the first chair. The others slowly fled to their allotted seats, arranged in a semi-circle around the first chair. For a minute there was full silence, then the ruler, slowly lifting his shrouded head until the dim candle light touched it, sald: "Ye believers in the doctrine of the Gemini, ye that are clothed with the personality inspired by our beloved Rodney Graves, ye are here for a purpose. This night, in the full darkness of this sacred chamber, ye shall take into hand that which the mighty and beloved supreme person of last year has deemed wise that ye should have. This far, my brothers, ye have borne your honors well, and ye deserve in fullest measure the approval of your supreme person. "It is the night of destiny. Who among us shall be the first of all Gemini persons to be branded publicly as an unworthy wearer of the Pin of the Twins, as a weakling in character, as a coward, as a traitor to our beloved and honorable fraternity?" With an earnest expression of confidence in the course that each would follow, he arose to his feet and took the black sack of destiny into his hand, continuing: "Now, before your eyes and in the light of the candle that is burning low, I tear away the seal and open the sack. Now we have but to wait." The eyes of all turned to the candle. The tallow now was but little more than a smudge and the light was beginning to sputter. Gradually it burned away until it was only a dying spark of wick. When the room was in total darkness, the supreme person, in more solemn tones, went on: "It is the command of all Gemini that I, your supreme person, now place my hand into the black sack of destiny and take out an envelope." Slowly and impressively he drew out his instructions. "Mine is drawn," he added, "and may the spirit of Rodney Graves inspire me to do all that a true and worthy person should do." The sack was passed to the second person, who, after drawing out an envelope, handed it on to the third person. There was but one envelope left when the sack reached the steady hand of Gerard Chambers, the seventh person. "Mine is drawn," said Jerry, "and may the spirit of Rodney Graves guide me well." "Now let the light be given," said the ruler; "let each know what destiny be his." The gas was lighted and a big black screen was placed directly behind the A man reading a book. "May the Spirit of Rodney Graves Guide Well Ye All." first chair. A lamp was hooked on the wall behind the screen, above the portrait of Rodney Graves. The supreme person, now the first person, divested of his official regalia, was the first to go behind the screen, there to read the contents of his envelope. He was gone less than a minute, and when he came into the view of the wondering persons there was a soft smile on his lips and an expression of relief in his eyes. In turn, the others read their instructions behind the screen. The seventh person was out of view for fully five minutes. His long absence from the semi-circle created unusual wonder and surprise in the minds of the others, who, when he finally reached his chair, subjected him to most searching glances. There was just a suggestion of uncertainty in his face, tempered, no doubt, by the gaze of the others. "Ye have drawn your lots," said Marshall, again in the robe of the supreme person, "and now may ye seek the privacy of your rooms, there to deliberate. May the spirit of Rodney Graves guide well ye all." Within a few minutes the seven persons were enjoying the full freedom of the room of rest. Without exception they exhibited light and happy spirits. "You certainly took your time about it, Jerry," said the wondering Marshall. "There was no loitering," smiled Jerry. "I really think I rushed matters." "Well, you've got us all guessing, I can say that much." "I might say that I'm a little surprised myself." "I'm dog-gone glad I don't have THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. to give up smoking for six months— Ike Hilderbrand had to do last year," said Bond. "Oh, pshaw, that was too easy," laughed Jerry. "How would you like the prospect of being broke and hungry for four times six months?" THE GEMINI There were 1,070 students at the college, all young men ranging principally between the ages of 18 and 24; and among them were represented many of the foremost families of social and industrial America. Tuition at the college was small, and for that reason the school was classed at the head of the country's "representative" seats of higher learning. There had been instances where young men—energetic, ambitious and capable of bearing against the rub that goes the wrong way—had worked their way through the school, but they were hopelessly few. The college had posed as a democratic institution, but it was in reality exclusive almost to a degree of snobbliness, and only the sons of the liberal rich could attend with comfort and independence. The perfumed "atmosphere" was stifling to the less blest. For more than 150 years the college had nestled among the hills that sloped away in gentle, picturesque beauty to the sea. The main hall—the nucleus of the school—in which the affairs were conducted, commanded in old colonial simplicity from one of the loftier knolls, and from it, like the spokes of a great wheel, hedgined avenues showed the way to the other buildings, most of which bore the stamp of latter-day making. Back of the college, less than a mile distant, was the settlement, which skirted the town. Here lived the students and here stood their retreats and lodges. The college owned its origin to the muniidence of an old Virginia planter, who graciously bestowed his gift upon his majesty's most loyal subjects in the colonies. At the founding exercises, the aged benefactor reverently bowed his head, when the banner of his king was hoisted to the staff that topped the squatty, small-windowed structure. This flag fluttered in the breezes that came in from the sea until the new spirit displaced it with another. The years crept on towards the newer era; the institution gradually outgrew the precarousness of its infancy and came into the shaping splendor of its early youth—than into the young glory that was surely American. When the king's flag was lying away among the relics of other days; when the ride of Revere was serving as an inspiration to children that heard stories of valor at their parents' knees; when the pictures of Lexington and Bunker Hill and Yorktown had become firmly fixed in their indestructible frames; when the hands of the sturdy builders beginning to reach out to the west, there came to the college a young man named Redney Graves. This young man, the son of a shipmaster, and a son of the sea himself, soon attained a distinction at the school that, to say the least, was unique. His being fairly breathed that sort of originality which has come so strongly to characterize present-day college life. Rodney Graves had given some comfort to his father's anxious heart by remaining in school throughout the full course. In those times, when students were few and college-building was not the easy matter of to-day, it was difficult to stay in school. Graves had given promise—that was about all; in painful frankness, the giving of promise was all that permitted him to complete his course, albeit he generally was considered to be the brainiest fellow in school. His class records at times brought the blush of humiliation to his father's cheeks, and more than once he felt the weight of parental censure and threat. Scores of his fellow students had attained, without especial difficulty, the stamp of high approval which he, in his devil-may-care independence, had never even seriously contemplated. But Rodney Graves—hopelessly shifttless and no account in the minds of the stald professors—did not leave the college without achievement. When the names of many who had departed with the glory of excellence in their school work had been lost to everything by the registrar's musty records, the name of good-for-nothing Rodney Graves shone out brilliantly. The older and more firmly established the school became the more indelibly impressed became his name. The perpetuity of the name and fame of Rodney Graves rested on the founding of the Gemini. This day a portrait of Rodney Graves hangs on a wall of the Gemini, in an old brick house back of the college. Silks of red and blue and white drape it, and in the massive frame are studs of beryl, aquamarine and dark-blue stones, and inscribed on the canvas is: "Rodney Graves, father of the Gemini." One thousand and sixty-three of the students at the college in the year 1898 cursed their fates, or overlooked their fates and cursed their short-comings. The other seven blessed their fates and thanked the stars that shone in the sign of Gemini of the zodiac. The Gemini were seven; they never would be more than seven at the college. The organization was the most exclusive college society in the land. There were the Spades, the Greek Thirteen, and the innumerable other fraternities whose locks but few keys fit, but they always remained in the shadow cast by the Gemini. It was, let it be said in charity, not the fault of many that they never were permitted to wear the Pin of the Twins, the emblem of the fraternity; it was the fault of Fate. The Gemini was synonymous with courage and loyalty and firmness. It had no place for the weakling. The faithfulness of a member never could be doubted, not even by the bitterest rivals. The constitution of the Gemini never had been subjected to the slightest change or amendment from the time of its framing by Rodney Graves and the six other young men who, with him, composed the original cluster. Safe in the vault of the chamber it rested, being disturbed only once a year. Laws essential to the purpose of this tale were as follows: "A possible person must have been born under the full influence of the sign of Gemini of the zodiac—that is, between May 26 and June 21. His father must have been born under some influence of this sign—that is, between May 26 and June 21. His mother must have been born under the full influence of the sign of Aquarius—that is, between January 29 and February 19. "At the beginning of their senior year the persons shall elect one of their number to the office of supreme person, and the incumbent of that office shall be the only one with authority. His word shall be law; none shall question it; none shall deny its majesty." The foremost purpose of the Gemini was to test the strength and loyalty of its members. In view of this, no student could become a person without consent and sanction of parent or guardian, and none could be invited to wear the Pin of the Twins without first being apprised of the possibilities of membership. Every member was expected to perform any mission that might be determined upon to test his strength and loyalty. It was a rule that at the end of one school year the supreme person should prepare the basis of tests to which the persons of the following year should be put. The persons concurred at such times in the total darkness of the chamber and received their "test" instructions. These instructions were placed in sealed envelopes, uniform in size and shape, and then into a cloth bag—the black bag of destiny—from which they were drawn by the members in order of their initiation. For instance, the person first ordained made the initial selection; the next to put on the Pin of the Twins was the second to take out an envelope, and so on—down to the seventh person. The law ordained that the instructions should not be made known to others than the individual holders until they had been carried out in their entirety. This was the last article as drawn up by Rodney Graves and the others who formed the original cluster. "The persons shall be placed wholly upon their honor at all times. They shall be granted four and twenty hours in which to decide whether or not to carry out the instructions, making known their decisions within that time to the supreme person. Should a person decline to follow the instructions, it shall be the unalterable duty of the supreme person to divest him of his personality and cause to be placarded in public places of the college and of the town sheets of paper branding him as a weakling in character and purpose and as a traitor to the Gemini. An agreement to submit to the tests, based upon an oath of honor, shall be received with warm encouragement; and ever thereafter his name shall suggest flawless honor, loyalty and never-dying grace." CHAPTER II A Message of Dearness Two strokes from the old town hall clock came daily to Jerry Chamber's cars as he entered his sleeping room on the second floor of the House of the Gemini. As he throw up the window to let in the soft, cooling breezes from the sea, the rolllicking strains of an old college air, minced with bits of sleepy laughter, sounded faintly to him from another part of the lodge. Sitting on the window sill, partly hidden by the folds of the curtains, he soon was tilted with his thoughts. At times he caught himself mumbling and mildly emphasizing with his head. His eyes flashing with excitement, he brought his hand down sharply on his knee in determination, and this aroused him with a start. He went to the table and lighted his study lamp; then, after assuring himself that the door was locked, he drew up the big arm chair and took from his pocket an envelope that crackled with its contents. He gave fire to his beloved pipe, and soon was reading: "Person of the Gemini, Greeting; It is the will of the supreme person, and therefore the pleasure of all Gemini, that your strength and loyalty and love be subjected to severe tests. As a disciple of our beloved Rodney Graves and as a believer in the doctrine of the Gemini, ye cannot, be ye faithful and true, fail to establish beyond all question and doubt your enduring right to the honor and glory of your priceless personality. That ye always may wear the Pin of the Twins; that ye always may merit the trust of your brothers; that ye always may carry your head high in the knowledge of duty well performed, ye shall not as follows: "For two years from the last day of the influence of the sign of Gemini of the zodiac in the year 1898 ye shall be absent from home and state, and at no time within that period shall ye communicate by letter or telegraph with members of your family or with anybody else of blood relationship. The first month of the first year of your absence shall be spent on the sea. When this period is begun ye shall have on your person and at your call money not exceeding five and twenty dollars and personal effects not exceeding five and twenty dollars in value. It is the will of the supreme person, whom ye love, that ye earn your way and sustenance. Ye may go to sea in whatever capacity ye may elect, so long as ye depend solely upon the influence and fruits of your own ability. "Within three months after ye go to sea ye shall place your feet on foreign soil and on a continent other than North America. At all times there after ye shall have nothing more than that which ye have earned or may earn by your own hand and mind. "Promptly at 12 o'clock (noon) on the last day of the first year of your absence--that is, on June 19, 1899--ye shall appear at the office of Thomas Wentworth. --- Calle Collseo, City of THE WEEKLY PRESS "The Gemini?" Whisperingly Gasped His Father. "Is That the Reason?" Mexico, Republic of Mexico. There shall ye inquire for an envelope bearing the name of Rodney Graves. The contents of that envelope, to be read within an hour after ye receive it, will give ye further instructions. "Now may the spirit of Rodney Graves guide ye well, and the love and trust and confidence of all Gemini inspire ye; and one day may ye say, with hand uplifted: 'By my manhood, by all that I love and honor, by all that honor and love me. I have earned the enduring right to my personality and the priceless glory that it carries.'" Three times the seventh person read these instructions. At the conclusion of each reading his determination to carry them out to the best of his ability dwelt in lower and greater strength. He lost himself entirely to his thoughts—thoughts that at times sent cool flashes over his sturdy frame, thoughts that at other times flushed his cheeks with the heat of excited anticipation. "Two years! Two years of—heaven only knows what!" he mused. "What a sacrifice! Two long years from home, two years from dear old New York, two years of ceaseless 'hump'—and I don't know how to 'hump'!" He sprung to his feet and started briskly across the floor. "And she—he was mumbling now between grating teeth—'she will wait! Father shall know that I—I am the one to be satisfied in this matter!" The next morning Jerry Chambers went to Vynne Marshall and formally announced his intention to carry out the instructions that came to him from the black sack of destiny. "I knew you wouldn't 'renig,'" said Marshall, as he took Jerry's hand. "You've got me guessing more than any of the other fellows." "I'll have others guessing, too," said Jerry, and there was a suggestion of stonemain in his toona. "There is more than earning my personality in this, old man—a cracking sight more. I am not going to say a word to anybody until—well, until things are done. All I can say now is that the 'Chambers colors' of a younger generation will do some of the principal flying." CHAPTER III. The Younger Colors Feel the Breeze. Two days after the commencement exercises at the college - on June 13 - Jerry Chambers walked into his father's private office in New York. He was welcomed with the warmest, heartiest handshake he had ever received. "Jerry, my boy," said the happy father, "I must confess that I am happier to see you now than I ever was before, and I've always been glad to see you. I actually have been longing for this day, for now I shall feel reasonably free to take my first real vacation in a dozen years—take a rest knowing that a Chambers still remains at the shop. I know—at least, I think—you are pretty tired after preparing for your graduation, and I shall not be heartless and selfish. I want you to take a nice rest and to come back fresh as a daisy to relieve me. Take a couple of weeks—three weeks, for that matter, if you need it. I am going to have a good time for once in my life, and the sooner you let me off the better things will be. Now, how long a vacation do you think you will require to put yourself in tiptop shape?" "Two years," was the prompt reply, "Two years!" gasped the father, "Why—what—no joking, Jerry. I am intensely earnest." "Two years," Jerry repeated. "Now, see here, sir, I—" "I never was more serious in my life, father," said Jerry, convincingly. "I simply must have two years to the day—to the very minute Really, there is no way out of it." "And this is gratitude!" frowned Chambers pere. "You are absolutely without reason, sir. Do you expect me to work my head off forever?" Rising sharply to his feet, his face flushed, he added in tones that half startled Jerry: "Till not agree to such a preposterous thing, sir! You may accept that as final—i-n-a-! You have had four years of the best part of your life—four years at college, and now you want a vacation of— No, damn it, sir, you can't have it! Jerry, you are a young man, with the making of a real Chambers in you, and I know that under that scalp of yours you have at least one grain of common sense. Will it be necessary for me to give you the sort of education that you must have to succeed in business, sir?" His head was thrown back in defiance and there was a suggestion of fierceness in his eyes. "Father," began Jerry, his face taking on a determined expression, "If I am not away from New York and you and mother for two full calendar years from the nineteenth day of this month I will be disgraced forever. Personally, I do not want to take any kind of a vacation. But, as I said before, there is no way out of it, unless—" "The Gemini?" whisperingly gasped his father. "Is that the reason?" Jerry smiled faintly and nodded his head. "That fool society, eh?" went on Mr. Chambers. "I understand now." He mumbled a few words, shook his head rather hopelessly and sat down in his revolving chair. Placing Jerry before his steady gaze, he went on: "What foolishness must you subject yourself to in order to wear that 50-cent pin you have on now, sir?" "Really, father, I can't explain anything to you," said Jerry, to the exasperation of his father. "I am pledged not to divulge a thing in connection with my instructions. I probably have gone too far already, but it is only reasonable-that you should know—" "Indeed, you have told me a lot!" sarcastically snapped the father. "Only reasonable! By the eternal— But sir, what do you intend to do in the premises?" "To carry out the instructions," an answered Jerry, with affected calmness. "What else could I do? When you were told of the possibility of membership in the Gemini you offered no objection, but—and you may recall your own words—you told me to stand for anything and not to finch. Do you want me to be branded as a coward—a traitorous weakling—after you actually urged me to 'show the Chambers colors?'" Wallace Chambers was floored. He lowered his head and began to drum on the arm of the chair with his fingers. His eyes lost their fire and became fixed in a hopeless stare. He was, above all things, a philosopher, and he knew that opposition to his son's plans would—if the "Chambers colors" were to continue to fly—be but little short of foolishness. It took much arguing on Jerry's part, however, to reach the point where his father said: "Well, if you must, you must, that's all. But it is much more than I had bargained for, sir. You have my unwilling permission to do as this fool society expects you to do, but you must make peace with your mother and—Marsylla. How about 'Marsy,' my boy?" "You may leave them both to me, father," said Jerry. "As to Marsylla Bayless, you know how I feel towards her, and I think you know how she feels towards me. I don't love her. It is simply a selfish notion—" "Jerry!" The interruption was as fierce as any that had ever broken a sentence from the seventh person. "But as to money?" went on the father in a much milder tone. "I'll need no money—now," and Jerry laughed aloud. His father's brow wrinkled in amazement. "No money? How in the world do you expect to keep alive?" Jerry held out his hands and nodded significantly at them. "Well, well, well," chuckled Mr. Chambers, "if that's the cane I can't say that I envy you your 'vacation.' Do you really think you can earn your salt—to say nothing about your pepper? Getting along in this world of ours, you must remember, doesn't mean lifting your voice in a glee club or hazing the unsophisticated freshman." "I'll have to exist, that's all—either exist or starve." "Well, starving, I've been told, is not the best thing in the world for one's constitution." Wallace Chambers admired the son's spirit, but the earnestness of Jerry's purpose chilled him. He tried to appear cheerful, but Jerry knew that the older "colors" were drooping. After thoughtfully running through the mass of papers on his desk, he said: "You may do as you please, my son. You are old enough to follow the dictates of your mind, and I shall not put an obstacle in your way. If you think the fish is worth the halt and trouble of landing it, and you have the right kind of a hook, why, go on. I want you to feel, however, that I am the real sufferer. You know what my business has grown to be and that one day it will be all yours. My cherished plans for a decent vacation are shattered. Here I have given you a four-years' course in Spanish, so that you might very soon assume charge of my business in Havana. You can speak the language well enough to keep them from handing you wooden money and worthless contracts. I am downright sorry and tremendously disappointed, that's all." There was a suggestion of moisture in his eyes when he said resignedly, with a wave of his hand: "Run home now and make peace with your mother—that unfortunate daughter of Aquarius, and with—but I am not going to talk about her now." That night Jerry succeeded in obtaining what he was magnanimous enough to call her consent, through the unwilling assistance of his father, who appeared to favor the "experience," as he called it. "Maybe, Isabella," said Wallace Chambers, "this thing will do him good—it will certainly 'do' me good. When he gets back—and there may be enough of the 'Chambers' in him to get him back in some manner, shape or form—he may, if he avails himself of his opportunities, be a moderate judge of human nature and the general run of things. Of course, we don't count. My pleasure in the matter is not to be considered. You and I, lovey, will continue to take our week-end jaunts into the country and to get back more tired, more worn out than when we started." Wallace Chambers was among the first of the great merchants of the United States to see the possibilities of a war with Spain. He beheld a vast field in the far east opening, and he saw the advantages of being first in that field—he, like the stalwarts who built up an American navy before a slow-thinking congress could determine the whys and wherefores, saw years ahead. For three years before the arms of the Don and of the Yankee clashed he had Jerry studying Spanish. "Of course, you are going to see Marsyla to-light?" said Mrs. Chambers, after Jerry had said something about calling on somebody else. "Not to night, I guess, mother," he answered. "I'll see her in time." His father frowned at this; he detected no desire at all on the young man's part to visit the girl whom he had chosen for his wife. "It strikes me," said he, "that you are a bit unreasonable in this. You must Be aware of the fact that you are displeasing me." Jerry, realizing that in this instance at least wisdom was the better part of valor, hastened to say that he would go to see Marsylla Bayless first of all. "Perhaps, Jerry," said Mrs. Chambers, after her husband had left their presence, "you do not care for Marsylla as you might if she were anybody else, but you know that your fathers likes her, and it is just as well to humor him for a time. It can do no real harm." "You are right, mother," said he. "Marsylla and I always shall be the best of friends, but—but she is not the one for me and I know I am not the one for her. Father seems more determined than ever that I must come to his way of thinking. This is the only case in which I have ever found him to be unreasonable." "But you will go to see her—tonght?" "Right away;" and fifteen minutes later the seventh person was almost pushing himself towards a magnificent house on the avenue beyond. Wallace Chambers and Bernard Bayloss were princes in the world of expanding commerce, and their interests often conflicted because of their similarity. Both were reaching out to the new fields, and Chambers knew that so long as Bayless' strength and position were so strong his great desires of conquest could not be gratified. He deemed himself the wiser, more resourceful business man, and he figured that a linking of the two families by the marriage the would afford him the opportunity that might enable him eventually to wield the scepter of mastery. Away back in the grammar-school days Marsylla Bayless, now a vivacious social butterfly, plighted her troth to Gerard Chambers. In the years that followed the ways parted, but each was actually forced to affect a relationship that was more than that of mere friendship. Marsylla yearned for a title of higher sounding than "Mrs." Still, she felt that she could trifle with Jerry's affections, which she imagined were of the soundest sort. It is barely possible that Jerry had been hypocritical in his attentions towards her at times. Marsylla's greeting was coated with the sugar of make-believe. She tried to impress upon Jerry that she was too happy for adequate expression. She acted like the creature who had a heart in a hand and a soul wrapped around it. "Through school at last, and now for the cruel, cruel world," said she, as they sat on a davenport in the mellow light of a shaded table lamp. "You must now feel indeed that you have entered into man's estate. What are your plans?" Jerry had determined to humor his father as much as he consistently could, but he also was equally determined to let her know that he was not dangling at the end of her string. "I think I'll be going away for a time," said he. "To the beach?" "Oh, perhaps. I'll be gone for at least two years—and maybe longer. I may have a world of fun." "Two years?" she said in surprise, and her pretty brow wrinkled. "Why, Jerry, you—you never have mentioned this to me—" "I really haven't told anybody about my plans. Even father and mother knew nothing of my plans until today." "I should think that—that you might have told me," and she felt depressed. "Oh, perhaps," in the most indifferent way. "I didn't think it would be tremendously interesting. As a matter of fact, I was putting in about all my time getting that sheepskin, you know. When a fellow gets within hailing distance of a diploma he doesn't—" "I am disappointed, hurt," she pouted. He filled his pipe, his custom by her permission, and soon was sending rings of smoke in the air. "You can't imagine how well you are looking, Marsy," he said, after a time, glancing at a Rembrandt on the wall. This cut her to the quick. She had suddenly come to a realization that Jerry Chambers, handsomer and manlier than she had ever seen him before, was not securely fastened to her string. "Jerry, you once said that I—that I—" and she startled him by breaking into sobs. "Here, here, little girl, don't—don't—" and he was so surprised that he could not complete his sentence intelligently. He laid his pipe down and patted her hand. He was completely taken aback. Had he, after all, been deceived in her? Did she really love him? His heart softened. "Why, of course, Marsy," he stumbled on, "I meant—meant to—" She sprang to her feet and seat a flash of fire from her big brown eyes and started across the floor. "You said you loved me," she cried, "and you—you don't love me! I never want to see you again!" Before he had a chance to say anything she was running up the stairs to her room. He stood in the middle of the floor for a minute, dazed, stunned. He stared at the portieres which had swallowed her from his view, and then half unconsciously went to the hallway and picked up his hat. Pausing just a moment, he cast back a burning glance and soon was in the open air, the door closing sharply behind him. As he walked briskly down the moonlit avenue his mind was awhirl. "By gad," he said to himself, "I wish I were golg to-morrow! I'll show father!" CHAPTER IV Wallace Chambers was alone on the porch when Jerry returned home. He looked at his watch and was surprised that his son had been away for such a short time. "Wasn't she at home?" he asked. "She was," answered Jerry, as he started briskly towards the door. "You made a short stay, I must say, after being away from her for so long," went on the father. "Perhaps I remained too long," almost snapped the seventh person, and his hand gripped the knob hard. "Wait a minute," said Mr. Cham: THE PLANET SATURDAY.....SEPT. 26, 1908 "I prefer to discuss," interrupted the father, sternly. "Are you trying to be bull-headed about the thing, sir?" "No-I am not," angrily returned Jerry. His patience was going fast. "You certainly are displeasing me greatly. I no longer can doubt that you find pleasure in your actions. You must not imagine, sir, that I am to be trilled." "Father, I think I am capable of doing some of my own thinking now," was the heated retort. Jerry's checks were alame and his blood was boiling. "Ungrateful." "Unreasonable—" and Jerry checked himself as quickly as he had checked his irate father. Wallace Chambers was so angry that he brought his teeth together hard and clenched his hands. For a moment his tongue burned the words that came. "You may go to your room now," he finally said, forcing calmness. "But I shall have something to say later on, remember." "If you insist on saying something, father, say it now." "You know well enough how I feel towards Marsylla Bayless." "And you know how I feel." "Again you are unreasonable. You will not listen. You are fighting against the best thing that fate has in store for you. You are more than independent—you are downright bullheaded, sir!' Again the blood surged in the father's veins, and again the fire and resentment flared up in Jerry. "I do not love Marsylla Bayless," snapped Jerry. "and the match you would have made would be a curse to both of us." "Again I say you are unreasonable; you are displeasing me mightly," and the father's tone has an ominous ring. "I am no longer a boy, father." "You may go to your room!" half-cried the father. "Let this stubbornness wear off and you'll come to see that your father is right—that the college-bred youngster is wrong." Jerry went to his room with brain afire, and in a few minutes, from a reclining position on the couch, he was rushing clouds of smoke across the room. There was but one thing to do—to acquiesce to his father's way of thinking or to take a determined stand against it. Then thoughts of the future flashed across his brain. It was a question now of the supremacy of "colors"—of the old and the new, Which should triumph? "I said I'd show father," he angrily mumbled, as he sprang to his feet, "and I'll do it!" He heard two strokes from the old clock downstairs before he finally fell to sleep. The first faint light of morn- ing aroused his troubled senses, and he arose and went into the street. He walked to a small park a few blocks away, where he brought himself as nearly as possible to a calm, dispassionate way of thinking over the matter. His father and mother were at the breakfast table when he returned. "Sleep well, Jerry?" asked Mr. Chambers. "Not very," answered Jerry. "Bed too new?" "Perhaps." "Did you have pleasant dreams in your old room, Jerry?" asked his mother. "Really, I don't think I slept long enough to have a dream." Wallace Chambers smiled and Jerry fidgeted in his chair. The last day of the influence of the sign of Gemini was but a few days off. Jerry all along had felt that he would have difficulty in beginning the first month of his absence, and he determined that he could not act too quickly in laying his preliminary "strings." Towards three o'clock in the afternoon he went to the foot of South street, where freighters of all nations were moored. He walked along the docks until he reached a place where the boats were scattered and not numerous. He stopped at one of the plers, where he accosted an old, pleasant-faced tar. "Anybody around here need an extra man?" Jerry asked. "By golly," laughed the sailor, "there don't seem to be no end to you fellows that want places. You're the tenth that's been 'long to-day lookin' to ship. There ain't a vacancy anywhere, I'll warrant. This is the time when everything's taken. There's a heap more m'n there's places for 'em. But say," and he cast his eyes over the young collegian, "you don't look like one that wants to ship, You're too trim and tidy." "Don't count too strongly on appearances," smiled Jerry. "I probably want to go to sea more than any of the other fellows that have been along here." "Pears like you could buy passage to any port." "So I could. But I must earn my way. I must go to sea for a month and land on another continent. Seems strange, doesn't it." "It does that. What's up?" "Oh, nothing much to—" "Trouble?" "No trouble that would drive me away. You see, I—I am under contract to earn my way at sea for a month—lost a bet, you know." "Never shipped before?" "I have never been on a freight vessel in my life, and never on anything more pretentious than a sound steamer." "By golly, there don't seem to be much hope for you. Scores o' young fellows that know all about shippin' can't get places." Jerry went across to a saloon and ought a quart of whisky, which he presented to the old sailor. "Just to show there is no hard feeling," he laughed, as he handed him the bottle. He was about to leave when the old man's brow became furrowed in thought. Presently the sailor said, feelingly: "Know what a supercargo is?" "No." "Well, a supercargo's one that goes with a shipment o' goods—looks after it, and the like, you know." "He don't have to know the difference 'tween a spar a mizzen-mast. He's a good sort like a passenger." "Do you know of any one that needs a supercargo? I'll make you a present of a dozen bottles of the best liquor in that saloon if you can put me in touch with such a fellow. Yes, sir, if you can get me on a boat that's bound for some foreign shore and takes its time about it, I'll tack on a $20 gold piece besides." "That's worth tryin' for," said the tar, knocking the ashes from his pipe. "I have a cap'n in mind that might be able to use a supercargo. We'll just' try, anyway, and if nothin' comes of it, why, there won't be a heap lost." At the expiration of an hour Jerry and the old sailor approached the pier of the Sister Mary, an old freighter of the smaller type, over in the Erle basin. "Cap'n Hank Bulser's about ready to take the Mary out," said Jerry's companion, "and it's barely possible he might have room for you. I don't think he had a supercargo yestiddy." The sailor led Jerry to the cabin of the vessel, where the captain, a gray-wishered man of about 55, was reading. At the sight of the two the captain shouted out in a deep bass voice: "Swallowin' swordfish, Steve! what fetches you 'round? I thought you cleared this morning!" "Waltin' over till to-morrow," said Steve (Jerry never learned his surname). "Hank, I've got a young fellow here that wants to go out with you. He's likely enough. I think. Did the cuss you was 'spectin' show up? "No, damned little liar—went back on his word," answered Capt. Bulger, hotly, "I'd about concluded to do without this time, Steve." Addressing Jerry, he added: "Want to ship?" "Oh, I per-cele," said Bulger, glancing significantly at Steve. "You might do worse, Hank," said Steve, who was beginning to feel the effects of the whisky Jerry had given him. "I think he's constructed o' the seasoned timber. You'll do me a favor if you can find a berth for him." Capt. Bulger and Steve went to the other end of the cabin and talked in a low tone for several minutes. Jerry did a deal of wondering, but with each succeeding moment his hopes rose higher. "Are you willin' to put up with a heap? questioned the captain, returning to Jerry, whom his keen eyes almost pierced. "I am willing to put up with almost anything," enthusiastically answered the seventh person. "Well, I'll give you a trial," said the captain, thinking hard. "You can act as supercargo on the Mary. You wouldn't be worth a strand o' seaweed at shippin', and I ain't on the lookout for ornaments jus' now. The Mary pulls in her ropes at half after seven in the mornin'." The announcement that the Sister Mary would start to sea the following morning sent a thrill over Jerry and caused his heart to beat hard and fast. He was too excited at the moment to consider the result of an interview with the folks at home. "There ain't much pay, you know—on'y enough to buy your tobacco and get drunk once in a while—if you get a chance," said Bulger. "I don't care much about the money end of it," said the exuberant seventh person. "All I want is to get to another continent and be on the sea at least a month." "The Mary will be movin' for more 'n a month, most likely," said Bulger. "I reckon you'd best think twice before takin' me up on this proposition, for—" "She'll stick her nose straight across," half frowned the captain. "And her cargo?" "Guns—arms for a military school. Remember, the Mary ain't much in the habit o' waitin' for anything 'r anybody," the captain added as he started to walk away with Steve, "and if you ain't here prompt you'll get left." Jerry gave Steve $20 and then started home. He had a hard time bringing himself to a realization of the situation. His enthusiasm was running very high and his eyes reflected the excitement that raged within him. That night he told his parents of what fate had offered, and they both qualified at the thought of the reality. After long argument, in which the father endeavored "on behalf of mother" to dissuade Jerry from such an early departure, and in which Jerry insisted he must go, Wallace Chambers" "colors" flew into the air. It was not, however, until Mrs. Chambers had gone to her room, almost heart-broken, that he gave vent to his fury. "You have decided to go," he snapped, "and I shall tie no string to you, nor will you tie a string to me. Have you given thought to what I had to say last night?" "Father, if you will but listen—" began Jerry, pleadingly. "Say that you will seek to marry Marsyilla Bayless." "...o! I will not make such a promise —now," and fire was flashing from Jerry's eyes. "Make it now or not at all." "Then, not at all!" Wallace Chambers, almost beyond control of his will, went into the house THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA J. "To the Uranian Insurrectionists?" Gasped Perry, Staring Wildly at the Smiling Captain. without another word. Jerry followed and asked that he say nothing to his mother about what had passed between them. "This is our affair," said his father in a chilling tone. "She need know nothing about it." (TO BE CONTINUED.) SAYINGS OF SAGES Unjust gains are equal to a loss.—Hesiod. No man became a villain all at once.—Juvenal. Hope is the dream of the man awake.—Plato. The avaricious man is always in want.—Horace. The force of powerful union conquers all.—Homer. A wize man should not refuse a kindness.—Herodotus. He who commits no crime requires no law.—Antiphanes. There can be no affinity nearer than our country.—Plato. Good folk are scarce and so it is with us.—Aristophanes. It is better to begin late doing our duty than never. — Dionysius. The world is perfectly beautiful, for it is a work of God. — Diogenes. A man must stand erect, not be kept erect by others. — Marcus Antoninus. None but the contemptible are apprehensive of contempt. — Rouche-foucauld. WISE AND OTHERWISE Patience is a necessity; not a virtue. There are many heavenly things on earth. It is better to blow a horn than to drink it. You cannot draw an inference with a team of horses. You cannot break down an argument with an idiotic laugh. If politicians got what they are really worth, they would have very small wages. Most women would be athletes, if jumping at conclusions were physical exercise. To make something ornamental a woman will rip up things that are useful. If a boy happens to be good, without being paid for it, then he must be good for nothing. If a girl is good, without being paid for it, she is planning a surprise for papa's pocketbook. MEDITATIONS OF A SPINSTER: Have you noticed that statistics show that all suicides were married? Strange that a fellow so often kisses a girl before he has really determined to. Many a man gets more or less upset when a woman commences to act as if he were flirting with her. Funny how so many men believe that it is better for girls to know nothing, when all the time they know more than enough. It's a queer thing for a man who has flirted all his life to know that he must not do so any more—where his wife will see him. When a young man makes love to her she hopes some day she may have better luck; when an old man makes love to her she gives up hoping—as it's always the same old thing. after all. ON POLITICS. The hardest way to get votes is to deserve them. Don't judge a candidate by the company he keeps before election. One way to escape newspaper attacks is to behave yourself. "Honesty," says the heeler, "is the best policy—for us to take adavntage of." Time may bring candidates wisdom, but it doesn't make them any prettier. Where the statesman sees a marble bust the politician sees a pile of sl --- moleons. There is a certain type of campaign manager who, after paying $5 for a vote, will tell his friends that it cost $2, and his candidate that it cost $15. FOOL'S CAP FILOSOPHY. The lonesomest man in the world is the third party in a hammock. It's tough luck for a chauffeur to be knocked down by a milk wagon. A man rocked a boat, and everyone said it was a most impressive funeral. There are seven ways to skin a rabbit, but the rabbit has no preference. Many a divorce suit has started with the bread that mother used to make. HAD MADE A NAME FOR HIMSELF. A well-known public man, who was spending the winter in Washington, had for his next-door neighbors a family with an aged negro in their employ who might have passed for the original of Uncle Remus, in so far as his personal appearance was concerned. The old man appeared bright and early every morning and swept off the walk, took care of the ashes, and, in short, was general chore manager of the premises. The newcomer, seeing the old fellow at work one morning, accosted him in genial fashion, and received the usual gracious response. "What is your name?" he asked the darky. "George Washington, suh," said the negro. "George Washington, eh? George Washington—seems very familiar, Seems to me I've heard that name before." "Well, I guess maybe you all ought to have heared it before," said George. "I been workin' around here most 25 yeahs."—Judge. FINE FINANCE. "He said you were extravagant." "Yes—he expects me to live on nothing—and save half"—Chicago Journal. Emotional Insanity A gay young Parisian, de Laine, Long courted an helix in vain. When he said, "Now or river?" She answered, "An river!" So he promptly, of course, went in Selne —Judge. Murphy's Dilemma Murphy, evidently under the weight of a hilarious jag, was zigzagging his way along the country road. Meeting a minister of the gospel, he straightened himself up and asked: "About four miles," answered the clergyman; "but, my good man, you have a long road before you." "It ain't th' linth of th' road that's thrubblin' me at all, at all, yer rividence," hiccoughed Murphy. It's the width of it."—Judge Fortunate. Indeed. Cook—Taylor was always a fortunate man, but doesn't it seem wonderful that his luck should stay with him to the very last? Raleigh—How was that? Cook—Why, he was operated on for the removal of a pearl which he had accidentally swallowed while eating oysters, and when the pearl was examined it was found to be valuable enough to pay for both the operation and the funeral—Judge. Mirth. Mr. Jigger — I went to see a performance of "Romeo and Juliet" last night, and I don't believe I have a tear left in my system to day. Thingumbob — Indeed? Does a tragedy usually make you cry? Mr. Jigger — No; but this one did. My sides are sore, too. Half Holiday. The One Quality Jack—I hear you are engaged to that homely Miss Gotrox. Tom—Yes; she has half a million in her own right. Jack—But money doesn't always lead to happiness, old man. Tom—True; but it ought to help you in the search—Half Holiday. Faith and Works. Johnny—What would you do if you was out in the deep water and a great big shark was comin' right at you? Tommy—I'd do a short prayer and then I'd swim like the old scratch.—Chicago Tribune. Only One More Resource. Elderly Uncle—Spent your entire patrimony, have you, Archibald? Gone through everything? Scapegrace Nephew—Yes, uncle; everything but the bankruptcy court.—Chicago Tribune. Too Strenuous. Dusty Rhodes—Say, wouldn't youse like ter belong ter dat swell Iroquois club? Weary Walker—Naw; Indian clubs makes me t'ink of gymnasium exercise.—Judge. At the Seaside. "Oh, George, can't you just smell LINCOLN HAIR POMADE MAKES KINKY HAIR SOFT REMOVES DONDRUFF 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 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. MAKES KINKY HAIR SOFT REMOVES DANDRUFF KEEPS HAIR FROM BREAKING OFF the salt water?" "More than that, Maria; I can taste it in the ice cream."—Chicago Tribune. "Mike, don't you and Pat pull together?" "Shure, we do, sorr, but it's in opposite directions."—Judge Horse-Power "It's too heavy for one horse, so I generally use two."—ludge CURRENT VERSE. From "Pan in Wall Street." A one-eyed-cyclops halted long In tattered cloak of army pattern, And Galatea cloaked the throng— A bloway, apple-vending slattern; While old Silenus staggered out For some new-fangled lunch house handy, And bead the pipe, with a shout. To strike up Yankee Doodle Dandy! A newsboy and a peanut-girl Like little fawns began to caper; His hair was all in tangled curl; Her tiny hair bared and tapered And still the gathering linger grew. And gave its place and crowded higher, While aye the shepherd-minstrel blew His pipe, and struck the gamut higher. O heart of Nature beating still With throbs her vernal passion taught her; Even here, as on the vine-clad hill, Or by the Arthemans water! New forms may fold the speech, new lands Aside within these ocean-portals, But still she waves eternal wands— Enchantress of the souls of mortal! —C. B. Stedman. The Dread Master His entrance evermore— And, let! the shadow, stealing by, Pound an unguarded door! I dreamt of far-off fields well-fought, Fierce battle, victory bright; "I shall have praise from him," I thought. "Who taught me first to fight." Then I remembered! as a breath Blows the dry rose apart; For, let! the sudden touch of death Hold me in the heart! John Erkina, in Century Magazine. If I Can Live. To make some pale face brighter, and to give A second luster to some tear-dimmed eye, One throb of comfort to an aching heart, Or cheer some wayworn soul in passing by; If I can lead A strong hand to the fallen, or defend The right against a single envious strain, My life, though bare. To us of earth, will not have been in vain. and twilight as well. If on that day of days the angels tell Of me she did her best for one of Thine, —Helen Hunt Jackson. The Way, the Truth and the Life. O thou great Friend to all the sons of men. Who once appeared in humblest guise beowr. Sin to rebuke, to break the captive's chain. We look to Thee! Thy truth is still the Light Which guides the nations, groping on their way Stumbling and falling in disastrous night, Yet hoping ever for the perfect day. Yes; thou art still the Life. Thou art the Way. The holiest know; Light, Life, the Way To Heaven! Unto the End Brief space for tears and prayers To him who loves and dares The high gods send; But laughter-lighted days Through all life's winding ways, Unto the sun: KEEPS SCALP FRESH CLEAN AND WHOLE- SOME MAKES HAIR GROW LONG AND LUXURIOUS 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 He 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'eer my dust shall blow, The life of life will go. The Wind. I saw you toast the kites on high And blew the birds about the sky; And all around I heard you pass, Like ladies' skirts across the grass— O wind, a blowing all day long, O wind, that sings so loud a song! I saw the different things you did. But always you yourself you hid, I felt you push, I heard you call, I could not see yourself at all- O, you that are so strong and cold, O, blower, are you young or old? Are you a beast of field and tree, Or just a stronger child than me? O wind, a blowing all day long, O wind, that is strong! —Robert Louis Stevenson You My heart is full of song, my lips are scant of speech. It is you, you, you, it is u, each to each It is happy winds of dawn that blow the snow. It is sunlight, leaping sunlight on the ripple-crested lake! Oh, the wave of love in me that sweeps me when I think! Oh, the memory where py glad spirits drink! Night and star and ripened corn, harvest-burdened hill. And the earth at twilight when the earth is still! To the Blush of Edna's Cheek. Thou lucky blush! Let me repeat. With warm and firm insistence, I envy thee the short and fleet Yet happiest existence! Thy life is briefer than the rose; And yet, could I but live it, Were every treasure that man knows Mine own, I'd gladly give it. But since there's not for me the bliss, Thou crimson blush to be thee, I can at least beatow a kiss. And then, in rapture, see thee! Elne English Church Belle In England for ages past church bells have been connected with everything sacred in life. Here the bells are loved for their old associations. Who has not heard of the famous "Bow church chimes" of Cheapside, London? They date from 1761 and are a fine pair of 12 bells in C, their total weight being nearly eleven tons. The whole bell tower is swayed by their ringing, and their rich tones vibrate throughout the entire city, as it is said those in the lofty bell tower of St. Ivan's do in Moscow. Salt Purification Salt is purified by melting in the new and rapid English process. The crude rocksalt is fed automatically to a table contained in a large furnace, is then fused and runs into troughs, from which it is drawn at one side of the furnace into large cauldrons. Alr is forced into the molten mass and lime is added. The impurities sink to the bottom, and the upper portion is ground and screened while the lower part is used for chemical manure. As the Playwright Sees It "If there was any justice about it, which there isn't," said the playwright, "the name of the playwright would be on the billboards three feet tall, the name of the star next, the name of the manager last. As it is, the manager comes first, the star next, the name of the man who prints the billboard next and the playwright last in point of size." Saved by Spike Catching Shirt. Eleven-year-old William Sohening fell into the bay at the foot of Canal street, Stapleton, and was carried under the pier. As he was going under his shirt caught on a spike in a smile. and held his head above water until Henry Kirchner found and released him. The String. A wise old owl observed to us yesterday that the string tied around the finger to make you remember something was a useless device. "In fact," he continued—and this was the purpose of his remark "in fact, it is a sort of a forget-me-knot." Groundless Accusation Kloseman—"Well of all things. The idea of his accusing me of making a lie out of the whole cloth" Peppery —"Yes, the idea!" Kloseman—"Ridiculous, isn't it?" Peppery—"Oh, very. Evidently he doesn't know how economical you are." Mexico is destined to become a prominent factor as a producer of refined petroleum. New wells are being constantly discovered. Europe is growing steadily colder, according to a bevy of French scientists, who have been comparing records for a number of years back. Misery Muzzles do not worry dogs worse than suspenders and stiff collars do men. Her Asset. A homely girl never wears of telling how many good things she can cook. JOSHUA BANKS & SONS CATERERS EVERY FACILITY CONSISTENT WITH FINE CATERING. Special Attention Given to Balla, Suppers, Installations and Smokers at the Shortest Notice. Your Patronage Sollicited Refreshment Cars and Bott Privile es Handled in Sensor. Address all communications to LLAM L. BANKS, 611 N. 8d Residence: 1312 N. 266 St. RAILROADS. TO AND FROM WASHINGTON AND BEYOND. Leave Richmond | Arrive Richmond *5.20 A.M. Byrd St. Sta. *5.45 A.M. Main St. Sta. *5.45 A.M. Main St. Sta. *12.01 P.M. Byrd St. Sta. *14.00 P.M. Byrd St. Sta. *14.55 P.M. Elba Station. *14.55 P.M. Elba Station. *14.55 P.M. Main St. Sta. *8.20 P.M. Byrd St. Sta. *8.20 P.M. Main St. Sta. ASHLAND ACCOMMODATIONS - WEEKDAYS. Leave Elba Station - 6.04 A.M. 10.40 A.M. 5.40 P.M Arrive Elba Station - 6.04 A.M. 10.40 A.M. 5.40 P.M *Daily. | Weekdays. | Sundays only. All trips are from Byrd Street Station stop at Elba. Time of departure not guaranteed. Read the signs. N. & W. NORFOLK & WESTERN. ALL-RAIL LINE TO NORFOLK. Leave Byrd Street Station, Richmond, in feet December 1, 1907. For Norfolk-9:00 A. M., 2:00 P. M. and 7:00 P. M. daily. For Lynchburg, the West and Southwest— 9:00 A. M., 1:10 P. M. and 7:00 P. M. daily. ARRIVE RICHMOND—From Norfolk-11:30 M. and 6:50 P. M. daily. From the West— 7:00 A. M., 2:05 P. M. and 8:50 P. M. daily. Pulham, Parlor and Sleeping Cars. Cash Dining Cars. W. B. BERVILLE. C. H. BOSLEY. Gen. Pass. Agent. Div. Pass. Agent. Southern Ry TRAINS LEAVE RICHMOND. N. B—Following schedule figures published only as information, and are not guaranteed 6:20 A. M. Daily Agent for Chess. 11:00 M.-Baily-Limited-Buffet Pullman Atlanta, Maitland, Birmingham, New Orleans, Maryland, Charleston, the South Through coach for Chase City, Oxford, Durham. 6:00 P.-Ox. Sunday-Keysville Local. 11:30 P. M.-Daily-Limited Pullman ready 9:30 P. M. for all the South. YORK RIVER LINE 4:30 P. M.—Ex. Sunday—To West Felt—On necting for Baltimore Monday, Wednesday and Friday. 2:15 P. Monday, Wednesday and Friday— Local to West Point. 4:30 A. M.—Ex. Sundays—Local to West Point. TRAINS ARRIVE RICHMOND. 7:00 A. M.—9:30 P. M.—From all the south. 4:10 P. M.—From Charlotte, Raleigh, Durham City and local stations. 8:40 A. M.—From West Point. 9:20 A. M.—From West Point and from Baltimore Wednesday, Friday and Sunday. 10:45 A. M. 5:45—Local from West Point. C. W. WESTFIELD. 8:1 E. Main Street. Phone 488 ATLANTIC COAST LINE (Effective January 6, 1998.) TRAINS LEAVE RICHMOND DAILY For Petersburg: 8:00 A. M., 12:10, 10:00, *8:30* P. M., 10:00, 10:15, *8:30*, P. M. For Goldschmidt and Fayetteville: 8:00 P. M., 10:00, 10:15, *8:30*, P. M. Trains arrive Richmond daily -6:10, ****8:30* 7:40 A. M., ****8:38*, ****18:45 and 13:00*, A. M. 1:2f, ****18:45 and 13:00*, A. M. ****Except Sunday*, ****Sunday only*. ****Except Monday*. Time of arrivals and departures and conditions not guaranteed. C. S. CAMPBELL, D. P. A SEABOARD AIR LINE RAILWAY SOUTHBOUND TRAINS SCHEDULED TO LEAVE RICHMOND DAILY. 9:15 A. M.-Local to Norlina, Raleigh, Char- lette, Wilmington. 2:55 P. M.-Sleepers and coaches, Atlanta, Birmingham, Savannah, Jacksonville and Florida poets. 10:45 P. M.-Florida Limited. 12:55 A. M.-Florida coaches, Savannah. 12:55 A. M.-Slepers and coaches, Ravensell, Jacksonville and Southwest. NORTHBOUND TRAINS SCHEDULED TO ABRIVE RICHMOND DAILY. 6:55 A. M., 9:15 A. M., Florida Limited, 6:55 P. M.; 6:35 P. M. 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Entered at the Post Office at Richmond, Va. could class matter. SATURDAY. SEPT. 26, 1908. Mr. H. David Murray of Rochester, N. Y. is selling a button which has four soldiers thereon. In black letters are the words, "Remember Brownsville!" --- We received a copy of the National Classified Negro Business Directory published semi-annually by the J. Allison Williamson Publishing Company of 712 Seventh Avenue, New York. It is only 15 cents per copy and is a most serviceable reference book. --- Rev. George W. Slater, Jr. tells in the September number of the Daly Socialist, why he became a Socialist and why he advises every other colored man to do the same thing. This indicates that the doors of the other parties are swinging inward for the colored people of the country and if they go in, we have no tears to shed or regrets to spend. It will be an admirable source of valuable information to both those who join and to those who remain where they now are. --- We have had the pleasure of reading the thesis, entitled "Progress of the Negro Americans science Emancipation" by Eugene Kinckle Jones, A. M. of this city, who submitted it to the faculty of Cornell University at Ithaca, N. Y. and we find it one of the ablest productions upon that subject that we ever read. It will take high rank as a statistical source or information upon that subject and will constitute a well-spring of knowledge for all who are desirous of keeping themselves posted upon the great question now affecting the American Republic. Mr. Jones is son of Prof. Joseph E. Jones and Madame Rosa K. Jones and is now in this city taking much needed rest after his years of toil in one of the leading universities in this country. "POINTING THE WAY." We have received the latest literary effort of Rev. Sutton E. Griggs of Nashville, Tenn. He dedicates this latest venture to his wife. The story told in these pages in a simple but deeply impressive manner will hold the attention of the reader until the last page is read. Mr. Griggs is a writer of rare merit. He possesses a charming personality which shows its impress upon every word that emanates from his pen. We bespeak for this work a liberal support from the reading public. The price prepaid is only $1.10 and we advise all lovers of good literature to place the work on their list for a winter's evening perusal. The Orion Publishing Co., Nashville, Tenn., Publishers. THE LEAGUE AND THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY. The Anti-Imperialist League has issued a circular announcing its intentions to support Hon. William J. Bryan as against Hon. William H. Taft and bases its attitude toward the latter on account of the policy of the administration in the Philippines. It cites the Democratic Platform relative to the independence of the islands as being positive evidence of the position of that Party upon that question. When the Democratic Party goes about the business of freeing anybody or anything with any other than a white skin, truly the time will have come when a tiger can change its skin and the leopard his spots. Based upon platform declarations every Negro in the United States would vote the Republican ticket this Fall, for no other Party seems to have thought enough of him to remember him at the time the declarations to the country were pronounced. But thousands of Negroes are not believing that the Republican Party will make good its pledges upon this all important subject and we entertain the same opinion of the Democratic Platform, relative to the promises now being made to the confiding Filipinos. Everything indicates that Mr. Bryan and his managers are making the shrewdest and best campaign ever witnessed in the history of that Party and that he has a good chance to win must be admitted by every conservative citizen, who has taken the time to carefully consider the situation as it now presents itself. But then the Democratic Party has always blundered in sight of victory and the Republican managers are confidently awaiting the time when the organization will perform its accustomed mistake to the satisfaction of all of the Republican voters in this country. --- SENATOR FORAKER AND STANDARD OIL. We have read with care all of the letters given to the public by Hon. William Randolph Hearst. They show that Senator J. B. Foraker received money from Mr. John D. Arch bold of the Standard Oil Company eight years ago, when he was advisory counsel for that corporation in Ohio. The inference drawn by Mr. Hearst and the impression conveyed to the public is that this money was paid Senator Foraker for the purpose of influencing legislation, all of which the able Senator denies. To our mind, the question is whether the action of Senator Foraker, in practicing his profession in a legitimate way with the Standard Oil Company as his clients was lawful or unlawful. He asserts that he has not had any connection with the company since and all relationship of even a legal charc-cter_has been severed and that relative to all matters concerning legislation, he has acted in his own right. We have always understood that Senator Foraker was one of the ablest constitutional lawyers in the country. To say this is virtually to say that he is a corporation lawyer. For only the corporations are able to employ men of this calibre at salaries commensurate with their great ability and literary attainments But it seems that Senator Foraker foregoes this source of income and gave all of his time and all of his ability to the service of the people of Ohio and the country and now instead of commending him for it, he is made the target for enemies of the Hearst stripe. There is no allegation or even hint that he is now in the employ of the Standard Oil Company. Senator Foraker has made no deplial of his connection with the affair and his statements are borne out by Mr. John D. Archbold, whose correspondence has caused such a commotion in the political atmosphere of the country. Mr. Roosevelt will regard the outcome with complacency, of course, reinforced by a fear that it will have a tendency to injure the candidate that he had nominated at Chicago. Senator Foraker has eliminated himself from the presidential campaign, but it is announced that he will make a personal canvass of Ohio on his own hook and in the interest of his own return to the United States Senate. He is seeking vindication at the hands of the people. It will be a most daring undertaking and no effort in the Senator's life will have been attended with a more drastic demand upon his physical being than this. So far as we are concerned, we are standing by the distinguished Senator from Ohio. If all of the attorneys for the great corporation had exhibited such a high type of statesmanship as he had displayed, we would not now be upon the eve of the dissolution of the great principles of this republic and permitting demagogues to enjoy the confidence of the people, when economists and statesmen should be in absolute control of the affairs of the nation. THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA BRYAN CALLS FOR PROOFS Asks President to Make Good Charges Against Haskell. WANTSHONORABLETREATMENT Democratic Nominee In Indignant Telegram to Mr. Roosevelt Demands That He Prove Haskell Was Connected With Oil Trust—Will Dismiss Him As Treasurer of Democratic Campaign Fund If Accusation Is Proved. Detroit, Sept. 23.—The remarkable spectacle of a presidential candidate rebuking the chief executive of the nation for making statements deemed to be unjustified was witnessed when William J. Bryan in a telegram to President Roosevelt defended Governor Haskell, of Oklahoma, treasurer of the Democratic national committee, against the charge that he had unlawful connections with the Standard Oil company. Mr. Bryan serves notice on the president that as the candidate of the Democratic party "I shall not permit any responsible member of the Republican organization to misrepresent the Democratic party in the present campaign." The telegram concludes with the statement that the Democratic party is making "an honest and honorable" fight in defense of its principles and policies "and expects and will demand honorable treatment from those who are in charge of the Republican campaign." In his telegram Mr. Bryan says: "In a statement given out by you you endorse a charge made against Governor Haskell, of Oklahoma, to the effect that he was once in the employ of the Standard Oil company, and as such employee was connected with an attempt to bribe or influence Attorney General Monnet, of Ohio, to dismiss suits pending against the Standard Oil company. In endorsing this charge you attack the Democratic party and its candidate, saying that 'Governor Haskell stands high in the councils of Mr. Bryan and is the treasurer of his national campaign committee.' And you add that 'the publication of this correspondence not merely justifies in striking fashion the action of the administration, but also acts a curious side light on the attacks made upon the administration, both in the Denver convention which nominated Mr. Bryan and in the course of Mr. Bryan's campaign.' "Your charge is so serious that I cannot allow it to go unnoticed. Governor Haskell has denied that he was ever employed by the Standard Oil company in any capacity or was ever connected in any way whatever with it or with the transaction upon which your charge is based. "Governor Haskell demanded an investigation at the time the charge was first made, offering to appear and testify, and he demands an investigation now. I agree with you that if Governor Haskell is guilty as charged, he is unfit to be connected with the Democratic national committee, and I am sure you will agree with me that if he is innocent he deserves to be exonerated from so damning an accusation. "As the selection of Governor Haskell as chairman of the committee on resolutions at Denver and also as treasurer of the Democratic national committee, had my approval and endorsement, I feel it my duty to demand an immediate investigation of a charge against him endorsed by the president of the United States. Your high position, as well as your sense of justice, would prevent your giving sanction and circulation to such a charge without proof, and I respectfully request therefore that you furnish any proof which you have in your possession, or if you have no proof, I request that you indicate a method by which the truth may be ascertained. Without consulting Mr. Haskell, I will agree that he will appear for investigation before any tribunal, public or private, which you may indicate, and I will further agree that his connection with the national committee and with this campaign shall cease in the event that the decision of such tribunal connects him in any way with this charge, or in case you after an investigation of the facts, say that you believe him guilty of the charges made. "As the candidate of the Democratic party I shall not permit any responsible member of the Republican organization to misrepresent the attitude of the Democratic party in the present campaign. I have assisted you to the extent of my ability in remedial measures which I deemed for the public good which you have undertaken; I have urged Democrats to support such measures and I have advocated more radical measures against private monopolies than either you or your party associates have been willing to undertake. The platform of the Democratic party is clear and specific on this subject, as on other subjects, while the platform of the Republican party is uncertain and evasive. The Democratic party is making an honest and an honorable fight in defense of the principles and policies enunciated in its platform, and it expects and will demand fair play, honorable treatment from those who are in charge of the Republican campaign." TAFT SCORES BRYAN Bays His Record From Beginning to End Is One of Failure. Cincinnati, Sept. 23—The real activities of the campaign have begun for William H. Taft. Republican presidential candidate. Three political addresses were the demands made on him during his last day in Cincinnati before starting on his western trip, not since the candidate was informed officially of his nomination has Cincinnati been to thoroughly awake politically as when marching clubs from Indianapolis, Columbus, Hamilton and other places lent the blaze of torch and the blare of trumpet as an escort to the candidate, who was the principal feature of the rally of the National League of Republican clubs at Music hall. Mr. Taft in his speech declared in no uncertain language what he thinks of William J. Bryan as a statesman and politician. After reviewing, before an audience which from the first showed a decided liking for him, the record of the Republican party as one of action and future reliability, he depicted his idea of the Democratic policy of "promise," and then devoted himself to an analysis of Mr. Bryan. "What is it we have to expect from Mr. Bryan?" said Mr. Taft. "Have we anything to expect but what he promises? Have we anything to expect but what is based upon his eloquence and his adroitness as a public critic? Has he ever given any practical demonstration of his ability to meet problems and solve them? Has he ever done anything but formulate propositions in his closet of an utterly impracticable character, largely with a view of attracting votes by their plausibility, and very little with a view on their operation? What is the history of Mr. Bryan? It is from beginning to end a record of failures on public questions. "If he were to be elected, unquestionably because of his record, however much now he may seek to pose as a conservative—because of his record, because of the failure of the theoreless which he has proposed for the last twelve years, his election will mean a paralysis of business, and we should have a recurrence of the disastrous business conditions of the last Democratic administration." TAFT OPPOSED FORAKER Would Make No Deal With Him Before He Was Nominated. Oyster Bay, N. Y. Sept. 22.-Secretary Loeb gave to representatives of the press a formal statement by the President, which was called forth by the recent exchanges between William R. Hearst and Senator Foraker of Ohio. Mr. Hearst, in public utterances, had accused the senator of relations with the Standard Oil company inconsistent with his duties as a senator and his attitude as a representative of Republican policies and professions. In the statement President Roosevelt makes another appeal for the support of Mr. Taft and declares that his defeat would bring "lasting satisfaction to but one set of men who, as shown in the correspondence published by Mr. Hearst, were behind Mr. Foraker, the opponent of Mr. Taft, within his own party, and who now are behind Governor Haskell and his associates, the opponents of Mr. Taft in the opposite party." The statement embodies a letter written by Mr. Taft to a friend in Ohio, on July 20, 1907, in which the present Republican candidate for the presidency refused to acquiesce in the plan of the Ohio State Central committee to endorse Mr. Taft for the presidency and Mr. Foraker for reelection to the senate in a single resolution. The president points out that Mr. Taft's attitude has always been directly opposed to that charged against Senator Foraker by Mr. Hearst regarding the moneyed interests. The president cites the Brownville affair as a case where the agitation was a phase of the effort "by the representatives of certain law-defying corporations to bring discredit upon the administration." It was, he says, in large part "not a genuine agitation on behalf of colored men at all." THIRTEEN KILLED ON FRENCH WARSHIP Explosion of Gun Blows Men to Pieces. Toulon, France, Sept. 23.—During gunnery drill one of the big turret guns on the French armored cruiser Latouche Treville exploded with terrific violence, completely wrecking the after turret and killing outright the entire gun crew of thirteen. A number of men were seriously injured, some of them probably fatally. The drill had been proceeding for a considerable time, when without warning the whole turret seemed to blow out. Dissmembered bodies were thrown in all directions and several of them were hurled into the sea through the great breach caused by the explosion. The spectacle was horrible, the dead and wounded, together with shattered arms and legs, littering the decks. A call to quarters was sounded, and as speedily as possible the wounded were cared for. The gun that exploded was of 7.8 inches bore, of which the cruiser carried two. Happening so soon after the accident on the Couronne, the explosion has caused a sensation in naval circles and doubtless will lead to a most rigid investigation. Admits Starting Forest Fire William Harrison, of Ruggies, near Wilkes-Barre, Pa., has been placed under arrest by the state police, and at a hearing was held in $500 ball for starting a forest fire. The prisoner admitted his guilt, but said he built the fire to burn weeds on his farm. The fire started by Harrison has already caused a loss of thousands of dollars. Reports received from Ashtola, near Johnstown, Pa., where a forest fire has been raging for several days, are to the effect that the fire is now under control. At Ashtola 10,000,000 feet of logs were consumed, and at Arrow, nearby, 6,000,000 feet were destroyed The loss is estimated at $300,000. RIVERS ARE DRY; FORESTS ABLAZE Water Famine Menaces Many Towns in Several States. THOUSANDS OF ACRES ABLAZE Three Farm Houses Destroyed Near Wilkes-Barre—Fire Drawing Nearer to Oil Wells In Western Pennsylvania—10,000 Men Fighting Flames In New York and Farmers Suffering Heavy Loss—Several Villages in Wisconsin Destroyed By Fire. Wilkes-Barre, Pa., Sept. 23.—Two farm houses are reported destroyed near Ruggles and one near Loyalville by forest fires, while several others are in danger. A large force of men is trying to save them and prevent the fire from spreading. By back-firing large tracts of land the fire fighters prevented the main fire from getting fuel to feed on in many places and have managed to keep it from spreading rapidly. There is still no indication of rain here, and the Susquehanna river is now far below the previous lowest water mark recorded since the valley was settled. Fire Drawing Nearer to Oil Wells. Corry, Pa., Sept. 23.—The situation in the fire-swept districts of northwestern Pennsylvania is daily growing worse. In Warren county, between Selkirk and Grand Valley, near the Dunkirk, Allegheny Valley and Pittsburg track, in one spot more than 400 acres of brush and timberland are in flames, and gradually this fire is drawing nearer to oil wells. Should it gain a foothold among the oil wells nothing could stay its progress. Coke Ovens Suspend Morgantown, W. Va., Sept. 23. On account of the scarcity of water all of the coke ovens in Decker's Creek valley have suspended, throwing nearly 1000 men out of work. More than 500 ovens are shut down on account of the drought. The Sabraton plant of the American Sheet & Tin Plate company employing 875 men, was forced to close several weeks ago and cannot resume until after heavy rains fall. Forest fires are raging in the Cheat mountains and are especially disastrous in the central part of the state. New York Farmers Suffer Heavy Loss Utica, N. Y., Sept. 23. In the grip of the worst water famine in years, the agricultural interests of central and northern New York are facing a desperate situation. For more than two months little or no rain has fallen. The farmers have already sustained tremendous losses, and these will be greatly increased unless a heavy rain comes soon. The output of the dairy industry will be considerably decreased. Pastures are dry and priced, and wells and streams in many sections are exhausted. The potato and corn yield will be less than half a crop. Fire Loss $1,000,000 a Day Washington, Sept. 23.—Dr. W. J. McGee, of the geological survey, who has returned to this city after a visit to the Adirondacks, states that a conservative estimate of the damage being done in that section by forest fires is $1,000,000 a day. 10,000 Men Fighting Forest Fires. New York, Sept. 23. Alarm is felt in many sections of the state because of the rapid and continual spread of the big forest fires that have been burning for many days in the Adirondacks. New fires are frequently reported, and according to dispatches dangerous fires are burning in at least a score of places, and a number of small towns and summer resort places are threatened. There are hundreds of small fires that may become dangerous. Probably 10,000 men are fighting the fires, but the flames have gotten so far beyond control that only a drenching rain will stop them. The more extensive fires are reported in Warren, Saratoga and Essex counties. Rivers, creeks, wells and springs have run dry, which greatly handicaps the army of fire fighters. Wisconsin Villages Burned. Rhinelander, Wis., Sept. 23. - Satulta a settlement of half a dozen homes three miles east of Rhinelander, was destroyed by fire. The settlers fled to Moens lake, where they are cared for. No loss of life has been reported. Rhinelander is now regarded as safe and the fires have been quieted by laek of wind. An unverified report from Ashland, Wis., says that the village of Mason is burning. Captured a Live Sea Cow Norfolk, Va., Sept. 23.—A live sea cow or manatee, weighing 1500 pounds, was hauled ashore at Ocean View in a seine. The fishermen succeeded in getting it alive into a pen, where it is being kept as a curiosity. It is said to be of the species found off the coast of Florida. Steamer Wrecked; 110 Drowned. Seattle, Wash., Sept. 23.—A cable dispatch to the army signal corps confirms the total loss of the Star of Bengal on Coronation island. Twenty-seven were saved and 110 drowned, including nine whites. Live Stock Markets PITTSBURG (Union Stock Yards)— CATTLE slow; choice, $6@6.15; prime, $5.65 @ 9.90. SHEEP slow; lambs steady; prime worms, $4@ lambs and common, $1.56@2; lambs, $6@5.85; veal calves, $8@2.85 HOGS strong; calves, $7.40@ 7.50; medlums, $7.25@7.00; heavy Yorkers, $7.15@7.25; light; Yorkers, $6.10@6.40; pig, $5.60@8.75; rougans, $5.50@6.25. FAMILY OF FOUR DROWN Man, Wife and Two Children Perish in Launch Disaster. Airship Falls, Orville Wright Injured and Army Officer Killed—Gave $4,000,000 to Each of His Children Father Sees His Son Cut In Two Fought to the Death to Save Her Husband—Falls Head First Into a Thresher—Gets Twenty Years For Stealing $5. Four persons out of a party of seven in a launch out were drowned in Long island sound off Stratford point, Conn. The three survivors were rescued after having been in the water nearly two hours. The dead are: Frederick L. Roswell, Mrs. Roswell, his wife; Edward, a son, aged nine, and May, a daughter, aged seven. The other members of the party were Miss Gertrude Adams, William Gerbith and Mrs C. Wesley Parkes. The party left this city for a salt up the Housanonic river, and were homeward bound during the evening, when the launch ran upon the breakwater off Stratford point and began to pound to pieces. Roswell put his wife and two children in the launch tender, together with Mrs. Parks, while Miss Adams and Gerbith were instructed to cling to the stern of the little boat. He then took his place in the boat and started to row, as he thought, for the shore. He evidently lost his bearings and rowed out into the sound. Roswell rowed until exhausted, and then, intending to let Gerbith take a turn at the oars, called to him to go around to the bow of the boat and to Miss Adams to get into the craft. At that moment a heavy wave struck the litley boat and capsized it. The little Roswell boy sank as once, but the others managed to get a hold on the boat. Then another heavy roller struck them and washed away the little girl and Mrs. Roswell. Soon Mr. Roswell's strength gave out and he gradually slipped from the boat and went under. The others kept up their cries for help. As they drifted nearer the shore their cries were heard and a rescue party brought them ashore. Airship Falls; Wright Injured After having drawn the attention of the world to his aeroplane flights at Fort Myer, near Washington, and having established new world's records for heavier-than-air flying machines, Orville Wright met with a tragical mishap while making a two-man flight. The aeroplankton was accompanied by Lieutenant Thomas E. Selfridge, of the signal corps of the army. Lieutenant Selfridge was fatally injured and died. Mr. Wright was seriously injured, but is expected to recover. While the machine was encircling the drill grounds a propeller blade snapped off and, hitting some other part of the intricate mechanism, caused it to overturn in the air and fall to the ground, enveloping the two occupants in the debris. Soldiers and spectators ran across the field to where the aeroplane had fallen and assisted in lifting Mr. Wright and Lieutenant Selfridge from under the tangled mass of machinery, ropes, wire and shreds of muslin. Mr. Wright was conscious and said: "Oh, hurry and lift the motor." Lieutenant Selfridge was unconscious and had apparently struck the ground with great force. His head was covered with blood and he was choking when the soldiers extricated him from under the machine. Dr. Watters, a New York physician, was one of the first to reach the spot and rendered first aid to the injured men. When their wounds had been bandaged Mr. Wright and Lieutenant Selfridge were taken to the Fort Myer hospital at the other end of the field. It was feared that Mr. Wright was suffering from internal injuries. He had lapsed into a state of semi-consciousness by the time he reached the hospital, while Lieutenant Selfridge, whose skull was fractured, died without regaining consciousness. Mr. Wright Wednesday replaced the propellers which he had been using with a longer pair, the blades of which were six inches longer, and many who have witnessed Mr. Wright's flights at Fort Myer believe the change of propellers caused the accident. An examination of the broken blade showed that it had been snapped off at a point one-fourth of the distance from the hub. A deep indentation of the broken piece indicated that it had struck some other part of the aeroplane. Twenty Years For Stealing $5 Twenty Years For Stealing $5. For stealing $5, Edward Jones, of 332 East Twentythird street, New York city, wah sentenced to twenty years in prison by Judge Malone in general sessions. On Aug. 26 Jones and two companions went into a store kept by Paul Sachs at 522 Sixth avenue. As Sachs was changing a dollar bill Jones seized him and took $5 from his pocket. Peter Derringer, a clerk, came to the assistance of his employer, and Jones fired a shot at him, whereupon the three robbers fed. Jones was caught after a short chase, but the other two men escaped. Falls Head First Into a Thrashen Tripping over some obstruction, Abraham Gulick plunged headfirst into the mechanism of a threshing machine near New Brunwick, N. J., and was killed. Gulick, who was a prosperous farmer, had volunteered to aid his neighbor, John McDonald, to thresh a crop of wheat. While feeding the grain into the machine he turned to look at McDonald, took a step forward, tripped and fell head foremost into the machine. The horror-striken man working with him stood helplessly by. Slowly Gulick was drawn into the machine, screaming. He was crushed and torn beyond recognition. Fought to the Death to Save rueband, John Roberts and his wife resisted a sheriff and his deputies in a fight near Prestonia, Mo., one mile south of the Arkansas line, when the officers attempted to arrest Roberts for killing Obe Kessinger, a neighbor. As a result the woman and Sheriff Mooney, of Baxter county, Ark., are probably mortally wounded and Roberts and two deputies are seriously hurt. Roberts went to Kessinger's house and called Kessinger to the door. When Kessinger appeared Roberts fired and killed him, it is said. The cause of the deed has not been learned. Sheriff Mooney, with several deputies, started to arrest Roberts. Mrs. Roberts from a window told the officers to keep away, but the sheriffs continued to advance, and both she and her husband opened fire. Mooney was shot by the woman, it is said. His fall disconcerted the deputies for a few minutes, and Roberts and his wife took advantage of this to barricade the house. They defended the buildings for hours under fire. When the firing from within finally ceased the door was broken down. Mrs. Roberts, suffering from fourteen wounds, was dying, and no attempt was made to remove her to fall. In a collision of Erle freight trains near Horseheads, four miles north of Elmira, N. Y., two men were killed and two were seriously injured. Weak Man Receipt Free. 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 follies of youth, may cure himself a home with a simple prescription that I will gladly send free, in a plain sealed envelope, to any man who will write for it. A E Robinson, 389F Luck Building, Detroit, Michigan. A Great Opportunity for Young Men Who Desire an Agricultural Many of the young men who have finished the courses in agriculture at the Tuskegee Institute are commanding salaries ranging from $50 to $100 per month. The graduates of this Department of the school are successfully employed as Instructors, or as managers of important agricultural operations. The school has an agricultural faculty of twenty instructors; men who have received their training in the best agricultural schools of the country. Young colored men and women who desire to take courses in practical and scientific agriculture are now offered the best opportunity to pursue such courses in one of the largest and best equipped schools for practical and scientific agriculture to be found in the South. The following courses are offered: Opportunities are now open to 500 young men and women who may wish to take any of the above courses of instruction. The cost of board is $8.50 per month. No charge for instruction. For further information address, BOOKER T. WASHINGTON The Demand for an Educated Ministry. Realizing the demand among the Negro people for an educated ministry, The Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute conducts in connection with its other Departments a Bible Training School. The courses of study are so arranged that, not only ministers and licentates may be benefited, but those also who desire to do better missionary work or become intelligent Sunday School teachers. The chief aim of the Bible Training School is to afford a comprehensive knowledge of the English Bible and to implant in the heart of those who attend an ambition to dedicate their lives to the elevation and Christianization of their people. Daily supplementary exercises designed to instill habits of sobriety, cleanliness, regularity and accuracy are provided. The teaching is wholly undenominational, the intention being not to oppose or antagonize any theological work being done elsewhere, but instead to assist all denominations. During the past year, the enrollment in the Bible Training School has been satisfactory, but the opportunity is now provided for a considerably larger number. The teaching is free. The cost of board, including furnished room, light, fuel, laundering, etc. is $8.50 per month. The entrance fee is $7 to be paid in cash by each student when he registers. Students will be given the opportunity to work out much of the $8.50 in some cases all of it. Lack of means should not keep any one from entering the Bible School. If the student is not afraid of word and study he will succeed. For further information Alabama THE PLANET CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS Thursday, September 17. The machinery department at the Reading railway car shops at Reading, Pa., has gone on ten hours a day. While jealous, George Mitchell, aged twenty-two, shot and instantly killed Miss Georgia Pratt, aged thirty years, at Eastport, Me. Augusta Zimrahl, fourteen months old, pulled a pot of boiling tea over on herself in her home in Philadelphia and was scalded to death. Martin L. Hellings, a retired business man of Devon, a suburb of Philadelphia, was struck by an express train and instantly killed at the Devon station of the Pennsylvania railroad. Friday. September 18. A. F. Bonell, a former banker of Cleveland, O., charged with the theft of $30,000, arrived in New York as a prisoner on the steamer Afghan Prince from Brazil. The New Boston colliery of the Mill Creek Coal company at Mahanoy City, Pa., shut down on account of the water shortage, throwing 1000 employees out of work. In a collision between a trolley car and an automobile at Newark, N. J. Estella Traphagen, aged eighteen, suffered possibly fatal injuries, and Marcella Connell, aged seventeen, the fracture of an arm. The great council of the United States, Improved Order of Red Men selected Detroit, Mich., as the place of the great council session next year; Cleveland in 1910; Columbus, O., in 1911, and Cincinnati in 1911. Saturday, September 19. For some inexplicable reason Silver Wetll, a fourteen-year-old schoolboy, committed suicide by hanging himself in the cellar of his home in Mount Vernon, N. Y. Carroll W. Ashby, cashier of the Southern Railway company, for thirty years an employee of that system, was found dead in a Turkish bath establishment in Washington. The Virginian railway is running copper wires along its lines in Virginia and West Virginia for the purpose of inaugurating the use of the telephone exclusively for the dispatching of trains. Monday, September 21. The Georgia senate passed the bill abolishing the convict lease system practically as it came from the house of representatives. Harry Domain, twenty-two years of age, of Nanticoke, Pa., was drawn through the huge rollers of a coal breaker and ground to pieces. William H. Gray and William S. Rule, government clerks, were drowned in the Potomac river at Washington, when a gasoline launch caught fire. One man was killed and three others injured, one fatally, when an eighteen-inch steam pipe burst in the ten-inch mill of the Cambria Steel company at Johnstown Pa. Tuesday. September 22. Robbers dynamited the safe in the Albion postoffice, near Erie, Pa., and escaped with over $1000 in cash and stamps. Clarence Richardson, of Ashland, O., shot and killed his sweetheart, Miss Lydia Corbin, at Portsmouth, O., after they had quarreled, and escaped. John Rowley, nineteen years of age employed in a paper mill at Tarentum, near Pittsburg, became entangled in the machinery and his body was badly mutilated. In a fight with ordinary pocketknives at Hot Springs, Ark., Charles Dunfield, of Pennsylvania, was killed by Sam W. Ray, of Tennessee, as the culmination of a quarrel. Wednesday. September 23. The Pennsylvania State Homeopathic Medical society held its forty-fifth annual session at Harrisburg. Fearing that he would go insane and have to be confined in an asylum, James Cogan, a clerk in the law office of DeForest & Brother, New York city, committed suicide at Washington by shooting. John Murray Dowle, aged eighty-three years, father of John Alexander Dowle, the founder of Zion City, and who was repudiated by his son, died at the home of his son's widow, Mrs. Jane Dowle, on White lake, Muskegon county. Big Find In Old Clothes. D. J. Blankenship, a farmer from Bedford county, Va., purchased here at the Norfolk & Western Railroad company's sale of unclaimed articles a package of clothing that once belonged to a soldier. He paid $6.50 for it. On opening the bundle he found among other things a pair of trousers with $100 in gold and two diamond earrings in the pockets. The diamonds are said to be worth a small fortune. Mutilated Body Found On Railroad. The mutilated body of a young man supposed to be a Slav, was found in the Altoona, Pa., railroad yards. He had evidently been struck by a passenger train while walking along the tracks. In his pocket was found a paper bearing the name of Andy Oberle and a pay check issued by the Snyder Steel company and payable at a Pittsburg bank. The man was about twenty-four years of age. Gave $4,000,000 to Each of Children. At the golden wedding supper of himself and wife, W. H. Singer, an iron king of Pittsburg, distributed $16,000,000 among his four children, each getting $4,000,000. Through the filing of certain papers in the Allegheny county court house here this come out and was later admitted by the Singer family, which is among the best known and oldest in Pittsburg. The iron king simply invited his children to the family home in Allegheny to assist in celebrating the golden wedding date on May 27. None but the children were invited, and each found by his or her plate a small dinner "favor"-checks, bonds and deeds amounting to $4,000,000 each. The Singer children, who received each $4,000,000 are William Henry Singer, Jr., landscape painter, now in Norway; George Singer, iron manufacturer, Pittsburg; Mrs. William Ross Proctor, wife of an architect, and Margarite Singer, young daughter, still at home. Father Sees Son Cut In Two Run down by a freight train at Harrington, Del., and cut in half before the eyes of his father, the seven-year-old son of Jacob Tibbett was instantly killed when he stepped out of the way of the Perryville train and on the track along which a local freight train was backing. The train struck the boy, and although the engineer had stopped the train before it went ten feet, the back wheels of the last car passed over the body, cutting it in two at the waist. The father, who was running the locomotive of another train on a nearby track, saw the accident and fainted. MARKET QUOTATIONS The Latest Closing Prices In the Principal Markets. PHILADELPHIA — FLOUR firm; winter extras, new. $3.50 @ 3.65; Pennsylvania roller, clear, $3.70 @ 3.85; cltv mills, fancy, $6 @ 6.25. RYE FLOUR steady, per bbl. $4.15 @ 4.25. WHEN quiet, no bbl. $1.02%; CORN steady, No. 2 yellow, local 87 @ 87%c. OATS firm; No. 2 white, clipped, 51% @ 55c.; lowe grades, 53c. HAY steady; timothy, large grades, $1.49; UDYTY, lowe grades, 12 @ 13c. old roosters, 91%c. Dressed frost; choice fowls, 14c.; old roosters, 10c. BUTTER steady; extra creamy, 27c. EGGS steady; selected, 27@29c.; nearby, 24c.; west, selected, 27@29c.; nearby, at 75@8c. per bushel. Sweet Potato Farm, Shore, Va. per bbl. $1.25 @ 15c. BALTIMORE-WHEAT easier; No. 2 spot, $1.04@1.041%; steamer No. 2 spot, 99@1.049%; southern, 99@1.012% CORN easier; year, 68%@68%; OATS firm, white; No. 2, 55@55%; c; No. 2, 52@52%; c; No. 4, 50@51%; c; mixed No. 2, 51%@52c BUTTER steady; No. 2, 51%@52c BUTTER steady; hold, 12%@12c prints, 24%@24c land and Pennsylvania dairy prints, 16c EGGS firm; fancy Maryland Pennsylvania, Virginia and West Virginia, 23c; southern, 22c A TREMENDOUS DIFFICULTY: "Fate is against me, as usual." "What's the matter, Mr. Riddinks?" "Don't bother me when you see I'm annoyed." "But—" "Never mind, Mrs. Riddinks. It's just my fierce luck. Every time I turn around something goes wrong. It's my beastly misfortunes." "It's too bad." "No; it isn't too bad. It's an outrage that I can't get along like other people. If I invest my money in stocks, the market goes against me. If I buy a house, the rents immediately begin descending—" "But what is the trouble now, Mr. Riddinks?" "Trouble? Nothing but trouble. That's all I ever have. I am pursued by trouble. I almost tire of living." "Can I help you?" "Can I help you?" "I don't know. I'm disgusted." "Then tell me what is the matter." "Can't you see?" "No. I cannot see." Well, this blamed shoe is so far under the bed that I can't reach it from either side."—John M. McNeely, in Judge. NEWS FROM A SEAT OF LEARNING Sister Ann—Did yer get any marks at school ter-day, Bill? Bill—Yus, but they're where they don't show.—London Sketch. Australian Yate Tree The yate tree of western Australia, growing to a height of 100 feet and a diameter of $2\frac{1}{2}$ to three feet, yields the strongest timber known. Late tests showed an average tensile strength of 24,000 pounds to the square inch, equal to that of cast iron, and some specimens resisted $17\frac{1}{2}$ tons to the square inch, equal to the tensile strength of wrought iron. * The Swashbuckler. The swashbuckling patriot is akin to the religious fanatic; the one can see only his country and the other only his sect. And in both cases the intellectual outlook is generally so narrow that scarcely anything more is revealed to the patriotic or religious fanatic than a distorted view of material greatness or spiritual goodness. —Concord. Frightened the Feminine "Spaceer out of a job? Why. I thought he was running a fashion department in a woman's magazine." "Yes, but he caused the magazine to lose so many subscribers, they fired him." "How in the world did that happen?" "Why the lobster head of his columba." "New wrinkles for women."—The Warn. TH= RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA ```markdown ``` RIC IF YOU WILL TAKE BORS AND INTEREST WE WILL HELP YOU IN ORDER TO FUR YOU WILL TALK WITH YOUR AND INTEREST THEM IN THE WILL HELP YOU TO OBTAIN A P ORDER TO FURTHER INCREASE WE WILL SEND YOU AND THE ST LOUIS, MISSO GLOBE DEMOCRAT, ONE REPUBLICAN JOURNALS STATES FOR $2.25 PER YEAR. WE WILL SEND YOU THE COSMOPOLITAN MA- PER YEAR FOR BOTH. WE WILL SEND YOU McCLURE'S MAGAZINE FOR FOR BOTH. FOR TWO YEARLY OR THEIR EQUIVALENT, V TURES, ONE ONLY, OF DORE ROOSEVELT, DR. INGTON, BATTLE OF SAN TLE OF QUASIMAS NEAR S 1898, SHOWING THE NINTH ORED CAVALRY IN SUPP DERS. SIZE 20X28 AND 20 BATTLE AND CHARGE OF ED INFANTRY IN RESCUE OF AT SAN JUAN HILL, JULY 2, AND 20X24 INCHES, ADMIRAL NAVAL BATTLE OFF CAVIT AY, MAY 1ST, 1898, NAVAL CONDUCTION OF ADMIRAL CEN- SH FLEET OFF SANTIAGO DE O , 1898, SIZE 22X28 INCHES; LA CAPTURE OF EL CANEY, EL PA ICATIONS OF SANTIAGO, JUL COND, 1898, SIZE 22X28 AND WE WILL SEND YOU ONE FOLLOWING BATTLES OF T IN THE SAME TERMS. THE F THE OTHER BATTLES ARE FIN S. THEY ARE 22X28 INCHES AT ONE DOLLAR EACH. W WH FRAMES FOR ANY OF THE POS FOR 2 DOLLARS & 50CTS. E AL. BATTLE OF GETTYSBUR SHILOH, BATTLE OF FIVE FO E OF ATLANTA, GA., BAT YLVANIA, VA., BATTLE OF MISS., BATTLE OF LOOKOUT BENN., BATTLE BETWEEN THE AND THE MERRIMAC, BATTLE OF A., BATTLE OF CHANCELLO E OF THE BIG HORN, (CUSTE E) STORMING OF FORT WA CORED TROOPS IN THIS FIGHT IN NEW ORLEANS, LA., CAPTU E OF SITTING BULL, THE GR HIEFTAIN; FORT PILLOW MA OF PETERSBURG, VA., BATTLE ER, VA., BATTLE OF OLUSTE LL SEND FAMILY RECORD, SIX WHICH CONTAINS SPACE FOR CARS OF PARENTS AND TEN CH LEND SEND SOLDIERS WAR REC OE OF SERVICE IN UNITED STA RICHMOND PLANET. IF YOU WILL TALK WITH YOUR NEIGH- BORS AND INTEREST THEM IN THE PLANET WE WILL HELP YOU TO OBTAIN A PREMIUM. SHOULD YOU DESIRE A JOURNAL IN THE UNITED STAT SEND IT TO YOU IN CONJUNCT PLANET AT A GREATLY RE FOR BOTH. IN ORDER TO FURTHER INCREASE OUR STEADILY GROWING CIRCULATION WE WILL OFF. WE WILL SEND YOU THE PLANET AND THE ST LOUIS, MISSOURI, SEMI-WEEKLY GLOBE DEMOCRAT, ONE OF THE LEADING REPUBLICAN JOURNALS IN THE UNITED STATES FOR $2.25 PER YEAR FOR BOTH. WE WILL SEND YOU THE PLANET AND THE COSMOPOLITAN MAGAZINE FOR $2.25 PER YEAR FOR BOTH. FURNISH THE PHOTOGRAPH TAIN PEN, GOLD POINT; ONE ONE BREAST-PIN, GOLD FILL, EN LINEN HANDKERCHIEFS, CLOCK, ONE DOZEN NAPKI DOZEN TOWELS, ONE CHOCO PAIR VASES, ONE PAIR KID HAM, ONE TURKEY. WE WILL SEND YOU THE PLANET AND McCLURE'S MAGAZINE FOR $2.25 PER YEAR FOR BOTH FOR TWO YEARLY SUBSCRIBERS OR THEIR EQUIVALENT, WE WILL SEND PICTURES, ONE ONLY, OF PRESIDENT THEODORE ROOSEVELT, DR. BOOKER T. WASHINGTON, BATTLE OF SANTIAGO, LAND BATTLE OF QUASIMAS NEAR SANTIAGO, JUNE 24, 1898, SHOWING THE NINTH AND TENTH COLORED CAVALRY IN SUPPORT OF ROUGH RIDERS. SIZE 20X28 AND 20X24 INCHES, LAND BATTLE AND CHARGE OF THE 24TH & 25TH COLORED INFANTRY RIDERS AT SAN JUAN 20X28 AND 20X24 INC GREAT NAVAL BATT NILA. BAY, MAY 1ST DESTRUCTION OF THE SPANISH FLEET OFF LY 3RD, 1898, SIZE 22 TLE, CAPTURE OF EFORTIFICATIONS OF AND SECOND, 1898, INCHES. WE WILL S OF THE FOLLOWING WAR ON THE SAME LIKE THE OTHER BAC COLORS. THEY ARE TAIL AT ONE DOL FURNISH FRAMES FOR CHROMOS FOR 2 DOL DITIONAL. BATTLE TLE OF SHILOH, BATT BATTLE OF ATLAN SPOTTSYLVANIA, V. BURG, MISS., BATT TAIN, TENN., BATT TOR AND THE MERR RUN, VA., BATTLE OF BATTLE OF THE BIG CHARGE) STORMING C., (COLORED TROO E OF NEW ORLEA ATH OF SITTING, DIAN CHIEFTAIN; FO FALL OF PETERSBUR CHESTER, VA., BATT WE WILL SEND FAMILY 28, WHICH CONTAIN GRAPHS OF PARENT WE WILL SEND SOLDI TIFICATE OF SERVICE MY.) COLORED INFANTRY IN RESCUE OF ROUGH RIDERS AT SAN JUAN HILL, JULY 2, 1898, SIZE 20X28 AND 20X24 INCHES, ADMIRAL DEWEY'S GREAT NAVAL BATTLE OFF CAVITE IN MANILA, BAY, MAY 1ST, 1898, NAVAL BATTLE, DESTRUCTION OF ADMIRAL CERVERA'S SPANISH FLEET OFF SANTIAGO DE CUBA, JULY 3RD, 1898, SIZE 22X28 INCHES; LAND BATTLE, CAPTURE OF EL CANEY, EL PASO AND FORTIFICATIONS OF SANTIAGO, JULY FIRST AND SECOND, 1898, SIZE 22X28 AND 22X27 INCHES. WE WILL SEND YOU ONE OF ANY OF THE FOLLOWING BATTLES OF THE CIVIL WAR ON THE SAME TERMS. THE PICTURES LIKE THE OTHER BATTLES ARE FINISHED IN COLORS. THEY ARE 22X28 INCHES AND RETAIL AT ONE DOLLAR EACH. WE WILL FURNISH FRAMES FOR ANY OF THESE FINE CHROMOS FOR 2 DOLLARS & 50CTS. EACH ADDITIONAL. BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG, BATTLE OF SHILOH, BATTLE OF FIVE FORKS, VA., BATTLE OF ATLANTA, GA., BATTLE OF SPOTTSYLVANIA, VA., BATTLE OF VICKSBURG, MISS., BATTLE OF LOOKOUT MOUNTAIN, TENN., BATTLE BETWEEN THE MONITOR AND THE MERRIMAC, BATTLE OF BULL RUN, VA., BATTLE OF CHANCELLORSVILLE, BATTLE OF THE BIG HORN, (CUSTER'S LAST CHARGE) STORMING OF FORT WAGNER, S. C., (COLORED TROOPS IN THIS FIGHT), BAT- 5. OF NEW ORLEANS, LA., CAPTURE AND ATH OF SITTING BULL, THE GREAT INDIAN CHIEFTAIN; FORT PILLOW MASSACRE, FALL OF PETERSBURG, VA., BATTLE OF WINCHESTER, VA., BATTLE OF OLUSTEE, FLA. WE WILL SEND FAMILY RECORD, SIZE 22 BY 28, WHICH CONTAINS SPACE FOR PHOTOGRAPHS OF PARENTS AND TEN CHILDREN. WE WILL SEND SOLDIERS WAR RECORD (CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE IN UNITED STATES ARMY.) FOR FIVE NEW SUBSCRIBERS FOR ONE YEAR EACH LENT. WE WILL SEND CLE TOM'S CABIN. THE TERESTING BOOK I WILL SEND YOU A WITH YOUR PICTURE THE YEAR EACH, OR THEIR WE WILL SEND YOU A COPY MIS CABIN, THE MOST INTEN- TING BOOK IN THE COUNT END YOU A GOLD-PLATED YOUR PICTURE THEREIN, FOR ONE YEAR EACH, OR THEIR EQUIVALENT, WE WILL SEND YOU A COPY OF UNCLE TOM'S CABIN, THE MOST INTENSELY INTERESTING BOOK IN THE COUNTRY. WE WILL SEND YOU A GOLD-PLATED BROOCH WITH YOUR PICTURE THEREIN, YOU TO ```markdown ``` ```markdown ``` To interest yourself in promot ing the CIRCULATION of the REQUISITE NUMBER IS OBTAINED, WE WILL FORWARD THE PRESENT INDICATED. A PERSON WHO TRIES TO GET FORTY SUBSCRIBERS AND GETS TIRED MAY INDICATE HIS WISH AND WE WILL SEND THE PRESENT FOR THE NUMBER HE HAS SECURED OVER FIVE. THE NUMBER WILL BE FOR NOT LESS THAN FIVE NOR MORE THAN TEN AND NOT LESS THAN TEN NOR M HAN TWENTY AND NOT LESS THAN FY NOR MORE THAN FORTY, TO DET THE PRIZE TO WHICH THE WORKER TLLED. IF ANYTHING IS DESIRED NOT SPECIFIED IN THIS LIST, WRITE US ABOUT IT AND WE WILL TELL YOU IN WHAT CLASS IT BE LONGS. A LANET WEEKLY READING UNITED H. T AND ER $2.25 T AND YEAR S ND PIC- THEO- WASH- D BAT- JUNE 24, TH COL- UGH RI- LAND & 25TH ```markdown ``` REQUISE FORWA SHOULD YOU DESIRE ANY COLORED JOURNAL IN THE UNITED STATES, WE WILL SEND IT TO YOU IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE PLANET AT A GREATLY REDUCED RATE FOR BOTH. FURNISH THE PHOTOGRAPH, ONE FOUNTAIN PEN, GOLD POINT; ONE LADIES RING, ONE BREAST-PIN, GOLD FILLED; HALF DOZEN LINEN HANDKERCHIEFS, ONE ALARM CLOCK, ONE DOZEN NAPKINS, ONE HALF DOZEN TOWELS, ONE CHOCOLATE POT, ONE PAIR VASES, ONE PAIR KID GLOVES, ONE HAM, ONE TURKEY. WE WILL SEND ONE CHINA SET, THIRTY-ONE PIECES; ONE NECKLACE; DICKENS, SHAKESPEARE, BYRON WORKS; ONE UMBRELLA, ONE PLAIN GOLD RING, ONE PAIR LACE CURTAINS 1,000 ENVELOPES, 1,000 SHEETS OF PAPER PRINTED AND DELIVERED; ONE TOILET SET ONE HALF CORD OF SAWED WOOD FOR TWENTY NEW SUBSCRIBERS WE WILL GIVE ONE HANDSOME GOLD RING WITH OPALS, RUBIES OR PEARLS; ONE JEWELRY BOX FINISHED IN GOLD OR SILVER; ONE SILK SHIRT WAIST; ONE READY MADE DRESS, ONE GOLD WATCH, FILLED, WARRANTED FOR TEN YEARS, ONE ROCKING CHAIR, ONE LOAD OF COAL, ONE GROSS OF SOAP, EITHER WASHING OR TOILET; ONE BARREL OF BEST FLOUR, ONE PAIR BLANKETS, ONE MANICURE SET, ONE SEAMSTRESS WORK BOX, ONE PAIR SHOES, GENTS OR LADIES. FOR FORTY YEARLY SUBSCRIBERS OR EQUIVALENT, WE WILL GIVE ONE SEWING MACHINE, ONE DIAMOND RING, ONE GOLD WATCH, ONE PAIR FINE GOLD EARRINGS, ONE MUSIC BOX, ONE PHONOGRAPH, ONE READY MADE DRESS, ONE SUIT OF GENTLEMEN'S CLOTHES, ONE GOLD-HEADED CANE, ONE GOLD-HEADED UMBRELLA, ONE CHINA SET, ONE DOZEN SILVER-PLATED KNIVES AND FORKS, ONE HAT-RACK, ONE SILK DRESS, ONE WEEK'S TRIP TO THE SEASHORE, RAILROAD FARE AND HOTEL BILL PAID, FOR ANY RICHMOND WORKER. THESE OFFERS MAY BE TAKEN ADVANTAGE OF BY SENDING ONE OR TWO SUBSCRIBER'S NAMES AT A TIME. WE WILL KEEP A RECORD OF THEM: AS SOON AS THE FOR TEN NEW SUBSCRIBERS FIVE COLORED WE WILL WITH THE RATE ONE FOUNCIES RING, HALF DOZZE ALARM ONE HALF POT, ONE LIVES, ONE HIRTY-ONE, SHAKESPELLA, ONE CURTAINS OF PAPER DILET SET. GOLD RING ONE JEWEL SILVER; LADY MADE ED, WARN ROCKING GROSS OF LET; ONE EAR BLANK-AMSTRESS'TS OR LA- ONE SEWING, ONE GOLD EAR-NOGRAPH, TOT OF GEN-O-HEADED SELLA, ONE PLATED BACK, ONE IN THE SEA-OTEL BILL BER. IN ADVANT-TWO SUBWE WILL ON AS THE ```markdown ``` ```markdown ``` Sux a SQ aS A aS Wye ‘ ys Se eee” SATURDAY. .....SEPT, 26, 1908 2. RQAD ANP & eee ee RS “Drainage is the key to success In making earth roads, and constant watchfulness is the sure means of keeping them up after they are once ‘Well made,” says Prof. Eldridge of the department of agriculture. “Water is destructive to any road, especially to @ dirt road, therefore, drainage that will at once carry away ralofall or melting snow is absolutely necessary. Again, little breaks In the road may be made by rain or by a heavy load att any time. and if not repaired Immedt- ately will grow Into mud holes, espe- clally in the winter, and these mud holes easily and rapidly develop into au almost Impassable mire. [tut fre quent inspection and a little work will keep the road in good condition and with less cost than under ordinary methods. With xood drainages es- tablished In building the road and fre quent inspection to keep the drainage “SARS = FS ori eMcient and to mend promptly small Injuries to the surface, the earth roads of the United States could be maln- tained In a much hicher state of use- fulness than at present, and at con siderably lower cost “The aim in making a road is to os tablish the eastest, shortest and most eenomical line of travel. It Is there. fore desirable that roads shold be firm, smooth, comparatively level, and It is readity ween that this rood was & terror to tracvlers before the drax got fn Ite good werk. Thin stretch was put in nice appearing condition. repeatedly with a big Toad grader. but the uasab: stantial results are apparent. On. the other hand a road draw! for 1 years, same section, shown! up Emosth, and a Seepy spot terion wan pot cat through This strikes a blow at the theory that capiltary attraction will dertroy a dragged road in seepy rpots—Orange Judd Farmer. At for use at all seasons of the year; that they should be properly located 0 that their grades shall be such that loaded vehicles may be drawn over them without great loss of energy: that they should be properly con- structed. the roadbed graded, shaped and rolled; and that they should be surfaced with the best available mate- rial sulted to their needs. “It is to be hoped that all the heavy traffic roads in the United States can be macadamized, graveled, or other- wise improved in the not far distant future; but owing to the absence in many places of rock, gravel, or other ard and durable substances with which to bulid good roads, and by rea- son of the excessive cost of such roads where suitable material is searce the majority of our public highways will of necessity be composed of earth for many years to come, It is fortunate, therefore, that under favorable condi: tons of traffic, moisture, and mainten- ‘ance the earth road is the most elas- te and most satisfactory for pleas: ure and for Nght traffic. The condi tion of the common roads in this coun- try, especially in the middle west, is 80 deplorable at certain seasons of the year as to operate as a complete em- Dargo on marketing farm products.” Canada Thistic, Canada thistles can be kept in schatk, y-colting tiem-of Jest helow the surface of the ground. The im Plement to use is a sharp hoe. Sharp. en it on the grindstone as you would any other cutting implement, and the work of thistle cutting will be greatly expedited. The thistle is very ten der when it starts to grow, and alittle stroke will decapttate it. As it spreads from underground stems, this cutting Off the tops must be repeated several times throughout the season. If the thistles are allowed to grow till they ‘have become large and blossom, they will have greatly re-enforced the un- derground stalk, which will make thelr future destruction so much the harder, ‘Sweat Pad WoW ccecsary. Some men who never have a horse ‘with a sore shoulder never use asweat Dad atall. The pad will make a big collar fit a little better, sometimes, but it 4s better economy to have a collar that fits without the pad. The pad ir- witates and chafes some ho-ses much more than a leather collar. If the hames are frequently adjusted on the collar many horses may be saved sore necks and sore shoulders. De not wear out the deep rich acres of the prairie states. IMPORTANCE OF POTATO. Not Only Valuable as Food But Has Manufacturing Value as Well. The potato is one of the most im- portant food products of the civilized ‘world. With a history dating back but Iittle more than 300 years, it shows in that brief time a record of develop ment unequaled by any other agricul tural plant. Originally a native of the mountainous tropte and sub-tropic regions of America, it was taken to Europe by the Spaniards early in the ‘Sixteenth century, and while it did not ‘become popularized there so raptaiy as here, it has during the last cea- tury become a staple and almost {n- dispensable food with most European peoples, Nor is it Important alone as ‘a food necessity, for during the past 50 years Yast developments have been made, especially in France and Germany, in the manufacture from the potato of starch for technical and commercial Durposes and in the production of al- cohol for light, power and fuel. In- deed tn some European states the na- tonal policy {8 to encourage the man- ufacture of commercial alcohol from Such sources as these in order that these countries may escape to some extent the importation of petroleum upon which a good many of them now depend for light and power purposes. It might be interesting in this con- nection to note that in 1905 Germany devoted 50 per cent. of ber potato crop to this purpose. That is to say, 700,- 000,000 bushels of potatocs, more than twice as many 2s were produced on the whole contineat of North Amer. fea, were used by these people In 1905 for the production of commercial starch and alcohol, Potato growing takes rank richt among the big agricultural Industries of the present day. Pound for pound the civilized races, consume more po- tatoes each year than they consume of any other agricultaral product whatsoever.—H. B. Smith, at Ontario Institute. GENERAL UTILITY FARM CRANE. Will Prove Especially Useful During Butchering Time. A convenient crane for butebering hogs or beeves or loading or unload- ing heavy articles on or from a wag- on, may be made in the manner shown in the accompanying {Mustration. A ts & sill 4x6, 4% feet Jong. Band B are two pieces of 3x1, 10 feet long which are mortised into A to form a triangle. C is another piece of 3x4, 10 feet long which ts placed at a right angle from BB and bolted between them at the acute angie. D and D are two pleces of 2x4, 10 feet long running from A at the base of BB to C to form braces. ‘A windlass, B, ts attached to BB by means of iron or steel stirrups at the desired height, on which to wind the rope F, which is attached to the outer boop EF 1 7 @ Pra TR db ie j 9 ° B - € \. | 3 \ J dD ue | ‘s \\ ad alk a sf Be i, : , ” "Ene, aE eg i= Se A Home-Made Lifting Crane. end of C, then passes through a mova- ble pulley G and stationary pulley H, and thence to the windlass E. 1, may be an old cultivator wheel or block to fit over a rod secured at the junction of C and B B to form a pivot, and to which guy ropes are attached, J is a block sunk in the ground to which the friline is bolted forming a pivot at the base so that the crane can make a circle. Posts may be set, says Prairie Farmer, or trees used to fasten guy wires in three directions from the support I, to hold the crane perpen- dicular. By placing a 3x4 with pins for hang- ing hogs at the proper distance from the crane support, hogs may be swung with ease, however large. ~~ Yew Trees in Churchyards. Yew trees were orixinally planted in churchyards to protect them from cattle, and so preserve them for the making of bows and arrows. : Strong Food for Baby. Bread, cheese and beer was the sup per given to @ three-months-old baby, it was stated tn a case at Brentford (London) police court. Doing What We Can. Let us be content to do the thing we can and not presume ‘o fret be cause it’s little—Mrs. Browning. Fore 'n’ Aft. People will not look forward to pos terity, who never will look backward to their ancestry.—Edmund Burke. Wisdom from Spain, Better go to bot suprecless than tise in debt.—S; axish Froverd. THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND. YERGCINIA. : TALL WOMEN IN FASHION. Season's Costumes Little Adapted for Gio Banat Staten. | The thin woman has never been ‘siven balf a chance. For the past 25 ‘Years she has tried all the remedies advertised to become stout, and bought all manner of things to trick the ob- server into believing she had a beau- tuful figure. Conditions are different. The stout woman is trying all the antifat remedies on the market to be- come lke her thin sister. The tall thin woman is the thing. The new gowns have brought this about and the new corsets. Hut it is a strugelo. And the thin girl just laughs. She is having her innings. The women with a good figure can- not but rejoice at the hip yoke, which has appeared in Parts and which is being rapidity adopted elsewhere. The hip yoke is very deep and it fits the figure ke a glove. It is fastened in- visibly at the back. The skirt, which 4s a cireular skirt, is fastened to it In such a manner that ft shows the slight- est flare. Around the foot the skirt is finished with a band of trimming put on in wall of Troy design or in flat bands. The style is severe and the trimming must also be severe. One of the most orixinal of the Mp yokes was fastened at the left. The skirt opened down each side and was buttoned with big buttons and buttonholes right down the hem. This was a rather trymg style and certainly an ex- treme, but ft served the purpose of Introducing an original note in the trotting skirt. GIRLS ALL WEARING SWEATERS. Have Got to Be Indispensable Part of Wardrobe. ‘The girls of this country have gone fn heavily for sweaters. They are part of the wardrobe of every college sirl, and no trunk packed for a yaca- tion ts complete without one. If m girl wishes to follow out her predilections for any certain college she can wear a sweater in {ts colors. The ordinary one is single-breasted, {s loose like a sack and has plenty of pockets, ‘Tho old-fashioned one that went over the head lms been discarded. Tho ew one gent out by an English firm is In coat shape. It comes half-way to the knees, is made of a dark tone that can be worn with any plaited skirt, is singlebreast- ed and bas a turnover black velvet collar, ‘The flaps of the pockets are also of Yelvet. The sivoves are finished with fourinch cuffs fastened down with velvet buttons. ‘This is to be widely worn this sea- son for all country life, for traveling and all outdoor sports. DRESS FOR LITTLE GIRLS. SEES ée eS A of Le ip Y . TKN Ss) iY) wT CLs Va V A h a F ‘This pretty little dress is in blue linen. It is a tunic pattern, plalted from the neck to edge of skirt, the plaits stitched only to the waist. The Square neck is set Into a band of em- broldery insertion, mitred sharply at the corners. A tab of the embroidery 1s laid on the center boxplait, aud also finishes the sleeves. Dyed Seven Times. As green is the artistic color for house decorations this year the manu- fucturers are trying many methods to produce a green that will not fade. So far all wall papers and draperies in green that recelve the effect of light give way to dull brown or dirty ecru in a short time. ‘Therefore it has been an expensive color, for tt has to be renewed every season unless one rather desires the queer faded brown that results. This season they are dyeing cer tain green draperies for all room banging seven times to see if they can compel the fabric to retain the color, It will be quite an interesting expefment. Not Always Becoming. ‘The fashion of trimming the hats on the right rather than on the left side fs gaining favor, though it can not be said that the arrangement Is generally becoming. Nodding plumes or tips are graceful, but the heavy bow of ribbon, with short, closely packed loops, is decidedly the opposite in ef- fect. There 8 a heaviness about it suggestive of anything but good taste, and not infrequently the wexrer is pos- itively dowdy looking tn consequence, for this style is only suited to very few faces. Most women need the aid of clothes that wil! not detract from 4 good appearance, us? Lew. “Let us get out in the sunshine,” says a Georgia poet, “but be careful © keep far from the farmers who would waylay and plow us, I delleve n ‘sticking to the soll’ In literature, but not in down-right reality—at the lowhandles, for instance, and as the non with the hoe in his hand. There S no poetry in the hungry braying f a Georgia mule, or the ‘gehaw' of ne plowman!"—~Atlanta Constitution. THIS RAZOR The A Philadelphia Press | eghecrdetsery rg oY hardened and tempered a and [ irs Particatar Mert bits Shaving Quality $ 228 BUYS The Philadelphia Press ONE YEAR daily, regular price $3.00 Fremont Razor . . . . . $320 Your Favorite Home Newspaper $1.50 Waluc’. . -geke ALL FOR $3.50 Cash Mailed immediately pen receipt ef your subscription, Order To-day—NOW! an ania a NOTES BY THE WAYSIDE. ‘Don't be afraid of overdoing cultt- Yation with the ¢orn crop. It is best to have the hay baled as soon as the stacks are out of the sweat. ‘The best of soil will fall to give ‘good results if {¢ {s not intelligently handled. ‘Turn a thrifty bunch of shoats into a field full of Canada thisties, and if the fence is pig-tight they will soon clean them out, To get rid of weeds, plow early enough In the fall to give the weed seed a chance to sprout. After they have well started cultivate them out of existence, A plowed sod rots quickly in wet weather but slowly in dry weather, If plowed when the land is very dry it will be a long time before cross plowing can be done, The Difference. Orthodoxy is my doxy; heterodoxy. 4s another man’s doxy.—Warburton. Paper Lace Worn on Stage. The most exquisite laces are copied in paper and worn by French actresses. A. Hayes OFFICE AND WaRH-RoOMS, 727 North Second Street. 2 RESIDENCE, 725 N, and St. | First-class Hacke a Deggeto ot all descriptions. 1 have Foom for hodies whon the Seah have not @ suitable place. All coun. ‘try orders are given special atten. ‘tion. Your special attention in eall ed to the new style Oak Caskets Call and sce me and you shall be waited on individually. "Pbeue, 2778. S. W. ROBINSOK, NO. 23 NORTH 18TH ST DEALER IN FINE WINES, LIQUORS CIGARS, &c. B@-AIl Stock Sold as Guaranteed.-we PROMPT ATTENTION. ‘Your patronage is respectiully solicited Rnights of Pythi nights of Pythias, N. A.,S. A. E. A., A. AND A. ___—_——— 5 This organization is one of the most powerfulin the country and its é Sones N progress has been phenominal. The Grand Lodge of Virginia has juris- (: P \G\_ diction over all of the cities and counties in this state. Thirty males 1 iY ¥ are required to organize a new lodge. The benefits paid constitute one “3 SG of its strongest features, but the principles are greater than anything Yo | else. Founded on Friendship, based on Charity and established on Be LR RY py. nevolence, the respectable, upright people of the state will find it an order EEN worthy of their heartiest support NOs” It pays an endowment and burial benefit of of $200.00 for all ages. It pays $4.00 per week sick dues. The badge costing 75 cents each is the ouly absolutely uecessary regalla, For information concerning the organzaition of lodges apply at the main office. The Cours’ Watsaihe ue 28 the Female Department of the Order. It requires a membership of thirty pers ous to organize a court, Its members are pledged to exhibit Fidelity, exercise Harmony and prove Love one for the other. It pays an endowment and burial benefit of $150.00. It pays $3.00 per week sick ‘dues. The only expense for regalia is the cost of the badge, 50 cents and arosette, costing 25 cents for funeral occasions. THE BANDS OF CALANTHE or Children’s Department also con- stitutes a feature and persons cannot do better than to enter the little ones into this mystic circle. The expense is nominal and the benefits al! that could be expected. It pays from $r.00 to $1.50 sick dues and death benefits of from $30.09 to $40.00. If you have noPythian Lodge or Court or Band in your neighborhood, orgrnix one. For all information concerning the Children’s Depariwent address, Mrs. Anna Taytor, W. M., 120 W. Hill St., Richmond, Va. For all information concerning special rates of | JOHN MITCHELL, JR., membership in the lodges and courts, address 31 N. 4th St, Richmond, Va. GEORGE 0. BROWN, |THE ECONOMY, | STRAUS’ spEcrAL ——— STRAUS" SPECIAL ene 303—5 North Third St Old Yacht Clot, G08 N, 2nd St., Richmond, Va é % ret phverahe, rast ie, leigh wr SET EY PU RE WHI SKE Y ie Untctone Wack cterat komme SER at a Wil Ratify the lever of the right gumcsenn onan phomenn _ SS ica al eee er strep as M8 ; TAILORING | ae ete ee ce Pager TET. Tal Be are *neidenaimreres ues —Subscribe to The Richmond LEANING, DYEING A} PLANET, $1.50 per year. ___REPATRING ISAAC STRAUS &CO_ THE ECONOMY, SSE 303—5 North Third St SEIN SY CLEANING, DYEING AN "REDATRING CHITMAN M. WHITE, PROPRIETOR Established 1890, "Phone 4160, JOHN FOXEL, Desier in General Line st FANCY AND STAPLE GROCERIES, NOTIONS, FRESH MEATS, CI GARS, TOBA@™O, ICR, WOOD, COAL, &c. 11 @ 47H ST. RICHMOND, VA. ee VAL BOARDING & LODGING Rates Reasonable, All the Comforts o% otiome « « Orders received by lester or telegraph MES. BOOKER LEFPTWICH, PavenTna, 816 N. 2nd St, Richmond, Va BLACKWELL & BRO. ONE OF THE LEADING PAINTERS Practionl House and Sign Painters, Graining and Geseral Contrac tore, sno ALT, WORK GUARANTEED... Canis, Letters or Orders. Give us a trial, you will nover regret it... Address, 608 St. Peter Street, RICUMOND. VA. "Phone 5688, —Nelson.s Har Dressing can be bought at Jennings and Browa Drug Store, Pittsburg, Pa. eR PS Furnished Rooms, SOc. up. Meals, SOc. up. THE MT. CLEMENS HOTEL AND MINERAL BATH HOUSE Fe ae = ggg ro AMERICAN AND EUROPEAN PLAN. Phone, 245. Has opened its doors for the accommodation of COLORED PEOPLE that may come to Mt. Clem ens in the future for their Health and Treatment on Rhesmatism. It is the only Hotel and Mineral Bath House own- ed and conducted by a colored man at any of the health resorts in the Un- | ited States. MF Write for Special Rates. BQ | GRO. I, HUTCHINSON, Prop. 48 Welts St., . Mt. Clemens, Mich. STRAUS’ SPECIAL | STRAUS’ SPECIAL Old Yacht Cleb, PURE WHISKEY Will Satisfy the lever of the right Kine of stimulant. Special prices. We have all grades of good liquors, Cigars and Tobacco. Call and see ISAAC STRAUS &CO., 422 E. Broad St, Richmond, Virginia. Sea ener H F Jonathan FISH, OYSTERS AND PRODUCE, wes 120 N. 17TH 8T., RICHMOND, VA. ALL ORDERS WILL RECEIVE PROMPT ATTENTION. Long Distance "Phone, 752. SCHOOL SHOES, ———————— Capitol Shoe « Supply Company, No. 210 East Broad Street. A complete stock of Boys,’ Misses,’ Men's, Ladies,’ & Children’s Shoes. ALL THE LATEST STYLES, $$$ MRS. JOSIE A. GRAHAM Virginia’s Most Success ful Hair Culturist. ++/sPAREORS..., 108 E. Leigh St, - Richmond, . ‘Phone, 1034. Private Parlors, Confideatial Inter views and Correspondence. The largest and most up-to-date Hair Dressing Parlors in Richmend. The very best preparations that cam be made for the hair, scaip, face and skin, Graham's Superior Scalp Food for growing ‘hair on bald heads and bare temples, 25ets, per jar. "By mail, 35cts, Graham's Superior Orange Flower Skin Po * for developing and beaut! fying the skin, 26cts @ jar. By mail 35ets, Graham's Superior Velvet Liquid Powder for giving the face a beau. Uitul fair color, 26 cents = bottle. By mall S5cts. Graham's Vegetable Hair Dye the best on market giving a rich natural $9g, $100 per bottle” “By maa, 1.25, Mrs. Graham makes a specialty of massaging ap1 beautifying tadies' faces for pares and public gather ings, 36 cents. ‘ Mrs. Graam suampoos the head gud puts it in a healthy condition, 25 cents, All ladies who attend parties and other socal gatherings should bave thetr finger nalis manicured and made beaztital, 25 cents. pecieteae ‘Mrs. amn’s preparations at sight. Ladies living in other el- ey ling these preparations. Write tor terms to Mrs. J. A. Gras bam, No. 108 EB. Leigh St, Rica mond, Va. —We are selling old papers at fifteen sents per hundred. THE PLANET PICTURESOUE HATS SUMMER SHAPES WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THE FALL. Will Be Draped with Silk or Colored Chiffon Instead of Net—A Pretty Model in Brown. Many girls to whom the lingerie hats of the summer have been particularly becoming are loath to abandon these fascinatingly picturesque examples of the milliner's art for the stiffer and more coneyational headgear which is usually shown for early autumn styles. The Charlotte Corday shapes, especially those with high crowns and brims which are little drooping, are quite appropriate for wear in town after midsummer is past, and for best occasions will be worn through the autumn. To render these hats a little less summery looking, Of Brown Taffeta. however, while they still preserve their picturesque effects, they are draped with silk or colored chiffon instead of net and mull, and they may be trimmed with ribbon, silk choux, or plumes instead of the floral garniture which has been so fashionable during the summer. The illustration shows a hat of this description made of dull finished chiffon taffetta in brown. The hat is precisely the same shape which has been so popular during the summer. The crown is covered with the silk, while the draperies of the same, as is also the large and dashing trimming at the side. A plaiting of the silk is used around the edge of the hat and beneath this there is a ruffle of coffee-colored lace. The hat is faced with shredred mousseline de sole in brown of the shade of the silk. A touch of color might well be added to this hat if it were meant to be worn with a gown all of one shade the same color in brown. But if the gown is to be of contrasting shades of color then it will not be necessary to have any bright touches in the hat. With a brown gown, for instance, which has a light waistcoat and coral-color trimmings the all brown hat would be more effective than one with a touch of coral in its trimmings. If the hat is to be worn with a tan gown trimmed with brown the all brown would also be more effective. For general wear, with a variety of different costumes, there is nothing more useful than a hat all in brown either of different shades or in monotone. But if the hat is to be worn with a rather dull brown costume, it is best to give it a touch of brightness, unless brown is singularly becoming to the wearer. FASHION'S FANCIES Russian crochet is much sought after. Dull gold is a favorite hue for ma- tron's hats. The three piece suit is becoming more and more popular. The hair ribbon fad has brought forth the ribbon comb. The better grades of lisle and silk hosiery are striped. Small brown buckles look neat on the dark brown oxford. Browns and yellows of all tones are much in vogue in millinery. Tan shoes in two button styles are worn with dresses of any color. Mohair is developing into some very smart coats for motoring wear. Rhinestone initials in place of buckles are a new fad in footwear About Making Underwear There is a soft spot in the heart of every civilized woman for dainty and fluffy underwear. The more billowy and alry an undergarment, the more it is appreciated and longed for by the adoring woman. Even the daintest underwear can be made inexpensively. Of course hand work is in the lead, but there are many women who must economize on time and labor as well as in expense. It is easy to combine hand work with machine sewing to good results. For instance, let the long seams and hems be sewed on the machine, while the hand work is reserved for the whipping on of insertion and lace and the tiny finishing touches which many people neglect in the belief that they are not essential. Of course all seams in underwear should be covered, that is to say, all underwear should be made with French seams, as this covers up the raw edges. None, but the dainiest pearl buttons should be used on underwear of any kind. LATEST IN PLACE CARDS. Imitation Flowers and Vegetables Made of Paper Used. The newest place cards are copies of vegetables and flowers in paper, the former being the newer, but more difficult to manage. Among the garden contributions are beets and asparagus, either in single stalks or in small bundles tied with a bit of straw or ribbon; radishes, baby heads of lettuce, tomatoes and cucumbers. The miniature flowers and vegetables are arranged on a flat foundation of cardboard with a small plain white card left for the name of the guest to be written on. Flowers made of paper are slimmer to manage than vegetables, for one thing, because they are comparatively flat or are made in a series of petals. In selecting a set of paper luncheon place cards it is essential, first, to choose a flower whose color matches that of the floral centerpiece, and the wise hostess eliminates all red and heavy looking flowers from her decorations; then the flowers should either be all alike or they should be of the same size, though varied in shape and coloring. First, the flower design is sketched on bristol board, then it is cut out and the petals are padded with a little cotton, wool or with crumpled paper. Over these padded sections tinted crape paper is stretched and these edges are pasted to the edges of the cardboard foundation. If the flower has a hear* then that is added in the correct shade of paper. Next the leaves and stems are covered with a wash in green. The small rectangular bit of cardboard for the writing is left undecorated. A little water color here and there on the petals will help to give the paper flowers a more natural air. Sometimes the tips need a touch, or there should be a darker shade around the center. HOUSEHOLD SUGGESTIONS To cover the pan in which fish is cooking will make the flesh soft. Nickel may be kept bright by being rubbed with wool saturated in ammonia. All lard to fry fritters and doughouts must be sizing hot before putting in the batter. Alcohol and whiting make a good silver polish excellent for polishing plate glass mirrors. Black lead mixed with vinegar will be found to give a specially good polish to the kitchen stove. A piece of flannel dampened with spirits of camphor will remove stains from mirrors or window glass. A weak solution of turpentine poured down the water pipes once a week will drive the water bugs away. Ripe tomatoes can be cooked in butter, and a cupful of spaghetti added will make a tempting dish for lunch.eon. Rub over new tinware with lard and thoroughly heat it in the oven before using it, for thus it is protected from rust. When making gravy add a little parsley to the grease before putting in the flour, remove it after it is thoroughly cooked, add the flour, and see what a delightful change it makes in the ordinary beef gravy. The Toilet Table Bags made of cheesecloth, about eight inches square, filled with oatmeal, some powdered borax, pulverized castile soap and a little powdered orris root, and used in the bath, are delightfully refreshing. The ancient Romans have a saying to the effect that a long life and a pleasant one depended on the free use of two fluids—olive oil without and wine within. The wise woman of today uses olive oil, but she uses it in moderation—both within and without. A box of powdered borax is indispensable at the toilet table and as a disinfectant, and will prove a valuable aid in procuring cleanliness at the kitchen sink, and if it were more frequently used a great amount of waste might be prevented in the larder. Olive oil, taken internally, arouses a torpid liver, and the complexion has no more insidious enemy than a torpid liver. It is said that rheumatism can find no foothold in a system fortified by olive oil. It will sometimes cure nervousness, and has a quieting effect in cases of neuralgia and neuritis. There is ruination to the complexion in sitting out of doors, even on a protected pizza, for strong light, almost as much as the direct rays of the sun, will burn and freckle those whose skin is delicate. This is a fact that a middle-aged woman should remember, for skin that has lost the freshness of youth will often suddenly develop brown freckles that will remain all winter. Whip one-half gill sweet cream to a stiff froth. Add and mix one-half pound almonds blanched and pounded to a paste. Some add a dash of rose or orange flower water. Two table-spoonfuls sugar. Spread over thin slices of bread, roll into tiny cylinders, into strips or just in plain form. A Word from Josh Wise. "You are in luck if you can say: "What shall I eat to-day?" The very rich, often, and the very poor, always say: 'What I can eat to-day?' Oplum Users in New York Opium Users in New York. There is evidently a large growth in the use of opium in New York city. It is estimated that about 5,000 white persons use the drug. EVE'S EP!GRAMS. A seaside belle is known by her rings. Wisdom is only experience crystallized. He jests at family jars that never had a mother-in-law. True kindness often doesn't even know how to spell creed. The kind of honest criticism most of us are after is spelled a-p-p-l-a-u-s-e. The path to Nowhere runs close beside the babbling stream of By-and-By. Cupld's suggestion for economy is to substitute love light for electric light. He that hath imagination is already a leading citizen in the world of adventure. They who marry for money mint the gold of their hearts into counterfeit coin. At the feast of life all the dishes should be dashed with a suspicion of attic salt. Ah, but if we loved where it were wisdom to love, that wouldn't be love, but common sense. Even a deep-sea diver sometimes falls head over heels in love and gets drowned in a dimple. The little tug o' dreams can pilot even a man-of-war into the peaceful harbor where the lighthouse is a home. What cruelty could compare to that of the teacher who made the small boy shut the blinds when the band went by? A girl's dream house of cards topples when she realizes that the man she married is just like her brother after all. PERT PARAGRAPHS Some men who beat the hangman only win by a neck. He is a wise man who knows just when it's time to laugh. It would be logical for the lightning express to go like thunder. Don't ask a woman her age. Take it for granted and subtract four. Sometimes it seems as if the only way to be happy is to be downright foolish. The fellows who are always howling for a new deal will often be found not to know a good deal. Most of the good fish in the sea that haven't been caught seem determined to stay there. No place like home. Still, the man is something of a hero in the eyes of his valet who pays promptly. Doubtless we call the parrot Polly, whether it is a lady or not, because of its notable attainments in continuous conversation. After a city has attained a population of 100,000 a stranger may allude to it as a village without danger of having his head knocked off. Go to Europe and tell your troubles to the police. They will not be able to understand and will thus escape suffering.—Nashville American. FRECKLES OF TRUTH. The ought-to-be man, as a rule, isn't. Any man is apt to feel all run down after his neighbors get through discussing him. In drowning your sorrows it is just as well to tie a stone around the neck of each one. Time is money, provided you don't waste a dollar's worth of time trying to save a penny. There are people who have some good in them, but it takes a lot of coaxing to bring it out. Some people have an idea that they can't be sincere without saying disagreeable things to their friends. If one-half the world doesn't know how the other half lives, it ought to be informed that the process is the simple one of not paying its bills.—Chicago Daily News. WHEN YOU ARE TIRED. Lie down in a dark place if only for 15 minutes. Don't read anything in which you are not interested. Don't grit your teeth and work harder. Ease up a little. Don't talk any more than you can help. Talking takes vitality. Avoid people and their woes at that time. Seek some one frivolous. Realize that it is better to leave things undone than overdo yourself. Don't feel that everything must be done in one day. There are 364 more. WISDOM FROM THE WISE. Talk not of a good life, but let thy good life talk.—Schiller. He who hesitates much will accomplish little.—Von Moltke. The doing of evil to avoid another evil cannot be good.—Coleridge. Consciousness of ignorance is no THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA MILLER'S HOTEL W.M.MILLER, PROFRIETOR WITHIN ONE BLOCK OF STREET CAR LINES THAT TAKE YOU • TO ALL PARTS OF THE CITY TERMS REASONABLE SECOND AND LEIGH STS. RICHMOND, VA. Hat Repairing. Hat Repairing. Silk, Stiff and Soft Felt Hats Cleaned. Blocked, 25cts; and 50cts Binding. Bands, Sweat Leathers, also Soft Hats made to order. Everything Everything IN FURNITURE AND FLOOR COVERINGS SYDNOR & HUNDLEY, INC. Leaders. 709 711 713 EAST BROAD STREET. small part of knowledge.—Jerome. The school of difficulty is the best school of moral difficulty.—Faber. A good conscience is to the mind what health is to the body.—Addison. Duty is the sublimest word in language, and sums the whole of life.—Lee. To plead that anything is excusable is to admit that it is wrong.—Smiles. Liberality does not consist in giving largely, but in giving wisely.—Jerome. That is an honorable work which is done as well as we can do it.—Browning. The obedience of the heart is the heart of obedience of the mind.—Hugh Black. Our happiness is a sacred deposit for which we must render account to others.—Colton. If you would not cease to love mankind, you must not cease to do them good.—Maclauren. The hand can never execute anything higher than the character can aspire.—Emerson. CUR CURIOUS CORNER Hydraulic presses are used in England for making seamless steel boat bulls. Fifteen thousand pictures are now on exhibition in the two great salons in Paris. The caissons for the foundation work of the Singer tower were sunk to bedrock through nearly 70 feet of quick sand. Crews representing the United States and Canadian governments are at work near Houlton, Maine, marking the boundary line. A company is now being organized in Germany with a preliminary capital of $125,000 to establish a line of passenger airships between the principal capitals of Europe, backed by the Krupps and by leading bankers. The bishop of London's evangelistic committee has started its outdoor campaign and will hold meetings every Monday evening in Hyde Park, London, the plan being to extend the work if it proves successful in this place. A mining journal published at Scranton has been calling attention to the curious fact that in coal mining communities there is a marked deficiency in the mortality from tuberculosis as compared with that of other localities. EPIGRAMS BY ROSE MACRAE. The point of difference between a prince and a pauper is the American heiress. Opportunity, young man, is one woman who will never take advantage of --- leap year to embrace you. When a woman holds her tongue it is because she has either bitten it or is afraid of being bitten. The cheerfulness of some grass wide ows may be explained by the fact that grass inevitably suggests the sod. When a woman swears she is telling the "honest truth" you'll fare just as well as if you accept an Inferior grade. A pretty woman may enumerate a million resentments, but she knows no figure higher than 30 when it comes to counting her years. Happiness is at the end of the rain- bow. But in the shower that precedes it some one is sure to get soaked. There are several ways of doing this. Pour around the mouth of the bottle a little oil, and, in an hour or two, if you cannot move the stopper place the whole bottle in warm water remove it and gently tap the stopper on either side against glass, and it will come out easily. 60 YEARS' EXPERIENCE PATENTS TRADE MARKS DESIGNS COPYRIGHT A.C. Anyone sending a sketch and description may quickly ascertain our opinion free whether an invocation a probation sentence, communal house-siriously conditional, Mum & receive gent free. Oldest agency for securing patents. Parents taken through Mum & receive special notice, without charge, in the A handsomely illustrated weekly. Largest circulation of any economic journal. $1 a week. Mail to: MUNN & Co. 361 Broadway, New York Broadway Office, 212 F. St. Washington, D.C. JURGEN'S SON Before making your purchase you would do well to call at the most reliable furniture house in the city and see the fine line of REFRIGERATORS. And in fact everything that is needed in house furnishings. RUGS AND CARPETS Of every description; also the latest designs in ROCKERS and special CHAIRS. Our goods are the best for the price and the price is very low. C. G. JURGEN'S SON, ADAMS AND BROAD STREETS. A PROBLEM SOLVING INSTITUTION. TO OWN YOUR HOME MEANS TO SOLVE THE NEGRO PROBLEM HEN RENTING PROPERTY call on the PEOPLE'S REAL ESTATE & INVESTMENT Co REALTY IN ALL OF ITS BRANCHES 707 North Second Street, Richmond, Virginia. Telephone, 4854. MEALS at All Hours—Hot or Cold. Board by Day, Week or Month. SOFT DRINKS. A. D. PRICE. Funeral Director, Embalmer and Liveryman. All orders promptly filled at short notice by telegraph or telephone. Halls rented for meetings and nice entertainments. Plenty of room with all necessary conveniences. Large picnic or band wagons for hire at reasonable rates and nothing but first-class, carriages, buggies, etc. Keep constantly on hand fine funeral supplies. No. 212 East Leigh Street. (Residence Next Door.) The J V Hawkin's HAIR GROWER & RESTORER TRADE MARK REGISTERED Has proved to be a fortune to many of the unfortunates, who are to-day delighted with its wonderful results. The merits of this great hair preparation naturally places it in a sphere all of its own, and the glowing terms in which our patrons speak of it reassures us of its satisfactory results. We can well boast of a large patronage throughout this and other States and also enjoys the commendation of the very best white and colored people in the immediate community. In order to the merits and results of the J. V. H. will from time to time produce in pr permission to do sc, who have u among the many bearing witness of its correspondence of those expecting a min ration is a natural and pure compound hesitate to put in print. We will just States Government has placed nation which it is protected and we are in tur est methods and square dealings. It will positively remove Dandruf Hair on Olean Temples or Bald Heads Prices:- 35 cts. per box; eight Beautifier makes the use of powder en less. Sale prices; 25, 50cts and $1.00. Order or Express Money Order all out of city orders. unity. In order to convince the man of the J. V. Hawkin's Hair Grade produce in print the photograph who have used our preparations witness of its genuine qualities, expecting a miracle or anything un pure compound, the ingredients of it. We will just here remind the person placed national patent rights on and we are in turn responsible to the dealings. Remove Dandruff, Oure Scalp of eyes or Bald Hairs, where the roots are, per box, eight boxes, $2.00xpress use of powder entirely unnecessary Oints and $1.00. Money can be sent by Order A charge of 10c the immediate community. In order to convince the most skeptical readers of the merits and results of the J. V. Hawkin's Hair Grower and Restorer, we will from time to time produce in print the photographs of those giving us permission to do so, who have used our preparation and are to-day among the best bearing witness of its genuine qualities. We do not desire the correspondence of those who are unaware or anything unreasonable. Our preparation is a natural and pure compound, the result of which we would not hesitate to put in print. We will just here remind the public that the States Government has placed national patent rights on our hair preparation by which it is protected and we are in turn responsible to the government for honest methods and square dealings. It will positively Remove Dandruff, Cure Scalp of all impurities, Restore Hair on Clean Temples or Bald Heads, where the roots are not dead PRICES;-35 cts. per box; eight boxes; $280express prepaid. The Face Beautifier makes the use of powder entirely unnecessary, and is perfectly harmless. Sale prices; 25, 50 cts and $1.00. Money can be sent by Post Office Money Order or Express Money Order A charge of 10cts. extra is imposed on all out of city orders. Address all communications to Mme. J. V. 612 NORTH FIRST ST. Telephone Correspondence S W. I. JO Funeral Director Office & Warerooms, 207 HACKS R Orders by Telephone or T Suppers and Entertain Telephone, 686. J. V. HAWK IRST ST., — RU Telephone, 4601. Respondence Strictly Conflic I. JOHNS Director and B rerooms, 207 N. Foushee S CKS FOR H telephone or Telegraph filler and Entertainments prompt 186. Residence Orders by Telephone or Telegraph filled. Weddings, Suppers and Entertainments promptly attended. PROF. D. D. BRUCE, M. D., Strange, Wonderful, but True are the awe stricken tests given by The Great Australian Medium. PROF. D. D. BRUCE, M. D. the only Living Apostle of Science of the Mysteries. $5000 in Gold to any one in the World to compete with him. Possessing mere power than any four mediums combined. No eard, trance or hand humbug Greatest Hindoo Medium in the World. SO GREAT IS HIS POWER that we can tell you while in a Clairevrant state, all you wish to know with out a word being spoken. 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"While I do not now recall the details, I remember that I rendered the company such service as I could, and charged for it and was paid. "The employment had no reference whatever to anything pending in Congress or to anything in which the Federal government had the slightest interest. "That I was so employed and presumably compensated for my services was common knowledge at the time; at least I never made any effort to conceal the fact. On the contrary, I had pleased to have people know that I had such clients. "It had not then become discredible, but was considered just the reverse, to be employed by such corporations. "That employment ended before my first term in the Senate expired. I have not represented the company in any way since. In other words, I have not represented the company in any way since long before it was attacked by the Federal Government nor since before, with full general knowledge, I was reelected to the Senate." HEARST'S NEW CHARGE ST. LOUIS, SEPT. 18. —William R. Hearst, in a speech tonight, answered the reply which Senator Foraker made today to the letters read by Mr. Hearst in Columbus, Ohio. Thursday night, Mr. Hearst said, in part: "Mr. Foraker replies in characteristic Republican manner. He admits that he did serve Standard Oil and is proud of it. His statement is based on letters I read last night. If he had seen the letters I am going to read tonight he would have denied the whole matter. The first letter follows: "26 Broadway, New York, January 27, 1802. "My Dear Senator: Responding to your favor of the 25th, it gives me pleasure to hand you herewith certificate of deposit for $50,000, in accordance with our understanding. Your letter states the conditions correctly, and I trust the transaction will be successfully consummated. J. D. ARCHBOLD "Hon. J. B. Foraker, Washington, D. C." JONES' ANTI-TRUST BILL The second letter, as read by Mr Hearst, was as follows: " '26 Broadway, New York, February 25, 1902. "My Dear Senator; I venture to write you a word in regard to the bill introduced by Senator Jones of Arkansas, known as S. 649, intended to amend the act. "To protect trade and commerce against unlawful restraints and monopolies," &c, introduced by him December 4. "It really seems as though this bill is very unnecessarily severe, and even vicious. Is it not much better to test the application of the Sherman act before resorting to a measure of this kind? I hope you will feel so about it, and I will be greatly pleased to have a word from you on the subject. The bill is, I believe still in committee. With kind regards, yours, very truly. "JOHN D. ARCHBOLD. "Hon. J. B. Foraker, Washington, D. C." "The bill referred to in this letter is the one introduced by Senator Jones, of Arkansas, in the United States Senate. Consequently, Mr Foraker's statement does not convince when he said the correspondence had nothing to do with anything in Congress. "There is no greater danger to this republic than this mighty power of money employed for evil. There are no greater criminals than those trusts that corrupt the public servants. "The Republican Party has not been maintained by these criminal combinations. The Democratic Party has long wanted to be tempted by these corporations. When Bryan was nominated in 1836 he had just reached success with my New York paper. I wondered all night what I should do. I stood everything to lose and nothing to gain. I did not believe in free silver but I did believe in Democracy. I decided to make my fight for Bryan. "My material successes crumbled, advertisers threatened to withdraw their patronage if I continued to support Bryan. The deficit for October 1896 was $158,000. But we did not surrender." WHY HE QUIT DEMOCRATS Mr. Hearst then gave his reason for leaving the Democratic Party. "Mr. Bryan," he said, "is a shell man at a county fair, executing a shell game. Where is the little ball of free silver, of public ownership, of the referendum? Gone!" "Mr. Bryan is the political loose-skin man. You cannot tell whether he is coming or going. "Mr. Bryan charges that I am angry at him because he did not support me for the Presidency. That is not true. The Independence Party was formed to restore genuine Democratic government—genuine American government. I am in this party because I find in it a better and truer democracy than in the old parties; because I find in it more patriot and intelligent leadership than in FORAKER DROPS OUT CINCINNATI, Sept. 19.—Senator J. B. Foraker tonight eliminated himself from participation with Judge Taft in the political rally of the National League of Republican Chubs, to be held here next Tuesday. His action was made known to Judge Taft in the following letter addressed to the judge today and made public by the Senator to-night: "Cincinnati, O., Sept. 19, '98. "My Dear Judge: Having read in the newspapers that some of your friends, and possibly you, are in doubt as to the propriety of my speaking with you at Music Hall next Tuesday night, I have concluded not to attend the meeting. I take this action, not because I deem the answers I have made to Mr. Hearst's charges insufficient nor because of any lack of loyalty to your cause, but only because I do not wish to do anything that might injure the cause or embarrass you personally. Very truly, yours. J. B. FORAKER. "Hon. William H. Taft, "Cincinnati, Ohio." To John Hays Hammond, President of the National League of Republican Clubs, Mr. Foraker sent this letter, which he also made public: "I therewith inclose a self-explanatory letter that I have just sent to Judge Taft." LETTER AFTER CONFERENCE. Senator Foraker said, on giving out the correspondence, that his action was entirely voluntary and that he had received no direct communication from Judge Taft regarding the situation. The publication of the letters followed a series of conferences held yesterday and today. Senator Dick and Mr. Vor's were the intermediaries yesterday, Senator Murry Crane, of Massachusetts, reached the city today and went at once to the Charles P. Taft residence, where Judge Taft remained the entire day. After an extended conference, Mr. Crane returned to the Sinton Hotel, where he was met by Senators Foraker and Dick. The three lunched together in the hotel, and then repaired to Senator Foraker's offices in the Traction building, where the conference was protracted until late in the afternoon, after which Senators Crane and Dick again saw Judge Taft. EXPLAINS $50,000 TRANSACTION Senator Foraker earlier in the day made the following statement to the latest Archbold letters. "The production by Mr. Hearst of the letter from Mr. Archbold to me, dated January 29, 1902, referring to a certificate of deposit inclosed for $50,000 and expressing the hope that the transaction might be satisfactorily concluded, illustrates how unreliable is the memory and how easily appearances may deceive. "When I first read the letter I could not recall that I had ever received any such letter or any such certificate. I at once called up my house in Washington, where my letters of that date are on file, and had a search made, with the result that a proposed transaction was recalled that had gone entirely out of my mind. "A friend of mine—a newspaper man—informed me that he held an option on the Ohio State Journal to purchase it, according to my present recollection for $135,000. He was able himself to advance but a small amount of this purchase price. He applied to me to help him. I did not have enough money to be of very material assistance, but for the sake of having the paper in friendly hands in the part of it. I applied to a number of friends to see if they would not make up the balance of the amount. STANDARD OIL AGREED TO HELP "Among others, I applied to the Standard Oil Company. They first agreed to loan to the newspaper company, when purchased and reorganized, $35,000, according to my present recollection, the same to be secured by stock of the newspaper company. Somebody, who was expected to go into the enterprise dropped out, and that made it necessary for all the others to increase the amounts they were proposing to advance. "At the request of my friend I asked the different parties to increase their advances, and thereupon the Standard Oil Company did accordingly increase their amount from thirty-five thousand dollars to fifty thousand dollars, and sent me the letter with certificate enclosed as stated. It was thought at that time that the transaction would be immediately closed, but there was a delay of a few days, and at the end of that delay the whole transaction fell to the ground, because other people had stepped in and purchased the property. "Thereupon I returned the draft to the Standard Oil Company. I had no employment in the matter and never received a cent of profit from it, and never made any charge on account of it to anybody. I am at the disadvantage of not being able to produce the correspondence because it is in my files in Washington. And I cannot get at it for the present, but I am confident that when I am able to produce it it will be found to be in exact accord with my statement. FORGETS LETTER ON JONES BILL. "I do not remember to have received the letter relating to the bill introduced by Senato-Jones, of Arkansas; but whether I received such a letter or not, it had no reference to any employment of any kind from the Standard or anybody else, nor did the letters about Smith Bennett and Judge Burkett, read by Mr. Hearst at Columbus, have any reference to any employment. I favored the nomination of Mr. Bennett notwithstanding Mr. Archbold's objection to him, and would have favored Judge Burkett's nomination if I had not heard from Mr. Archbold. Judge Burkett was a personal as well as a political friend of many years' standing, and I favored him the first time he was nominated, which was long before I knew Mr. Archbold. "I can only repeat that the only THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA employment I ever had by the Stand ard Oil Company was, as set forth in my statement published yesterday as advisory counsel with respect to their affairs in Ohio. STANDARD OIL IN OHIO "It will be remembered that the Standard Oil Company was first sued and a decree of dissolution was entered in the supreme court, which made it necessary for the company to reorganize. Difficulties arose in carrying out that decree, which delayed their organization, and proceedings were instituted against them by Attorney General Monnett in the supreme court to enforce the former decree and for other relief. "It was then that I was employed not to participate in the litigation, which was in the hands of competent counsel, but to investigate the whole situation—the records in the case, the statutes in Ohio, applicable to the company and the case against it, the court, and all the records in the case with views to advising the company how, in my opinion, it could most safely proceed to comply with the orders of the court and conform to our statute and so reorganize as to not violate any law or any judgments. "This work involved frequent consultation with the attorneys of the company, the examination of the voluminous records, the judgments and decrees of the court, and a general study of what was best to be done not to evade law and the decrees of the courts, but to comply with the same. "Nothing connected with this work had relation to anything whatever pending in Congress or to any matter in which the national government was interested in the slightest degree nor did anything connected with the employment relate to or conflict with any duty of mine as a Senator. SERVICES ENDED FOR GOOD. "The company finally concluded as a result of all the investigations and consultations and advice, to reorganize by incorporating under the laws of the State of New Jersey, and then my services ended. I have new ed had any relation whatever to the company since. "Any terms Mr. Archbold may have written to me on any subject since that time have been written only as any citizen might write to any legislator with whom he was acquainted concerning pending legislation that affected him or his interests and from the time my service ended I have never been under any obligations to the company nor the company under any obligation to me. "Nelther the Standard Oil Company nor any other company or individual has ever paid me a cent on access to that company's bill service nor has that company been ever suggested to me any compensation or reward of any kind in consideration or support for any bill or opposition to any bill or for any action of any nature whatever." LETTER RETURNING DRAFT A short time after giving out the above statement Senator Foraker was in long distance telephonic communication with Washington, after which he gave out the following: "Since dictating the foregoing my clerk has found and read to me over the telephone the following letter, which is confirmatory of what I said above about returning the $50,000: "Washington, D. C., Jan. 4, '02, "Dear Mr. Archbold: I very greatly regret to have to inform you that the proposed transaction at Columbus has failed, at least for the present. "It may be revived later, but I doubt if I shall need to bother about it any more. However that may be, I herewish send you, with many thanks for your kindness in the matter. New York draft for $50,000, payable to your order, as re-payment of the money advanced by you on the above mentioned account. Kindly acknowledge receipt of the same and obliged by R. FQRANER yours HASKELL SAYS MONNETT CLEARED HIM. CHICAGO, Sept. 18.—In the face of the assertion of Mr. Hearst at St. Louis that an affidavit signed by F. S. Monnell, former attorney general of Ohio, identified Gov. C. N. Haskell, of Oklahoma, as having been a party to Standard Oil alleged negotiations, Gov. Haskell today declared the statements were absolutely false. "The assertion that I had anything to do with the Standard Oil Company is absolutely false," said Gov. Haskell. "On the day the affidavits are said to have been signed, September 12, 1908, Mr. Monnett was in Oklahoma City, and on that day made a speech in which he exonerated me from all connection with the Standard Oil matter. It is unbelievable that any man would make such a speech and on the same day sign an affidavit stating the contrary thing There is no truth in the charges." NEW YORK, Sept. 19—As he was departing from this city, Mr. Bryan was asked whether the Standard Oil Company has contributed to the Democratic Party, as charged by W. R. Hearst in an address at Columbus, Ohio. Mr. Bryan replied: "The Standard Oil Company has contributed nothing to the Democratic Party." ARCHBOLD CORROBORATES SENATOR. NEW YORK, Sept. 19.—John D. Archbold of the Standard Oil Company, said today, when the statement of Senator Foraker about the $50,000 draft, was called to his attention: "That is exactly so; it is the truth." "I had forgotten about the incident," said Mr. Archbold, "when it was recalled to my mind by the publication of the story. As I recall it now, Senator Foraker thought he could consummate the deal for the purchase of the Ohio State Journal, and I sent him the draft for $50,000 as a temporary loan until he could finance the undertaking. The negotiations fell through, and the senator returned the $50,000 draft intact. That is the whole truth in the matter and really all there is to it." - For fine printing call at the PLANET Office. 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