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THE RICHMOND PLANET EDITOR MITCHELL IN THE FAR WEST. A Trip to the Gold Fields. A BARBACUE DINNER IN A SNOW-STORM—THE STAMP MILLS AND THE GOLD QUARTZ—A VIVID DESCRIPTION OF THE SCENES IN THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS—THE PROSPECTS AND THE STOCK SALES—MINING AS A CHANCE PROPOSITION—A SALTED MINE THAT "PANNED OUT" HANDSOMELY—AN UNPLEASANT INCIDENT. VOLUME XXV, NUMBER 51 EDITOR IN THE A Trip to A BARBACUE DINNER IN GOLD QUARTZ—A VIVID MOUNTAINS—THE PRO A CHANCE PROPOSIT HANDSOME Sleep, nature's sweet restorer had done much for us during the night following the Moffat Road trip. The bankers and their ladies were invited to visit Glipin county and enjoy a free barbecue on the top of Black Hawk mountain. The train left at 9 o'clock Saturday morning. There was not as large a gathering of the bankers as there was the day before. The primary reason seems to have been due to the fact that the local committee viewed the trip as being in the nature of a speculation for the purpose of promoting the sale of mining stock and for this reason refused to enter it upon the official list of entertainments. THE GULCHES AND THE CANONS We were soon on our way up the mountain gulch. On one side flowed a mountain stream, shallow enough for one to wade across. It had a dark milky color. As we were carried further, the mountains on either side towered a thousand feet or more above. Now we saw a miner here and there and the guide explained that they were engaged in placer mining. This was interesting information. It was explained to us. PLACER MINING These miners are accorded the right to take a pan with a fine wire mesh in the bottom. Quicksilver is placed in this and the sand and dirt of the river bed are thrown into the pan. Water is used to wash away the sand and dirt and the quicksilver of course, catches the free gold which may be found in these shallow river beds. The miners can make from $4.00 to $5.00 per day at this kind of mining. Still, this would not be enough to make it profitable to most men, considering the exposure and risks attendant to this kind of money getting. THE STORY OF A PROSPECT There were holes in the side of the mountain. Some were from four to five feet in diameter. They were mines that had been abandoned. It was explained that the United States government granted to a miner a stated number of feet on the mountain, at any point that he might select, provided, it had not been previously taken up by some one else. When he could satisfy the government that he had expended as much as $500 on it, the government would give the miner an absolute title to it and he could work it further or sell it. THE TROUBLES OF A MINER. It will be seen then that a poor miner would not stand much show in a case of this kind for he would be required to work a long time before he could show that he had expended five hundred dollars on his prospect. He would work for many days getting out rock, called quartz, which would not contain enough gold to pay his living expenses. Right here is the trouble. All of the prospects contain more or less gold, but when it runs as low as three dollars worth of gold to a ton of quartz, it costs more to get the gold out than the gold is worth. THE PECULIARITIES OF THE BUSINESS. This then accounted for the many holes in the mountains, called prospects. Miners had labored with a hope or finding a richer vein and had been disappointed and forced to abandon the mine. Sharpers very often would take a worthless prospect and send out flaring circulars portraying its value, and also employ agents for this purpose, selling shares of stock listed at $1.00 per share for ten cents per share with a promise of rich dividends. The owner of the prospect would thus come into possession of this stock money and his gold mine would be paying a rich dividend of gold that flowed in to him from the stock-holders, in the East. TRICKS OF THE TRADE. We had explained to us the trick (Continued on Fourth Page.) P MR. WATKINS LIKES THE RE- CITAL. Sees Great Good as a Result of the Experience. Fort Sheridan, Ill., Nov. 16, '08 Editor John Mitchell, Jr. I have read with keen interest your "In the Far West," that has graced the columns of The PLANET the past few weeks. I suggest that its publication in pamphlet form should prove popular as race matter. It, indeed teaches many important lessons as set forth at the points of contact of the Negro and political America, (geographically considered) When the prestige of the American Negro has wedged an ingratiated fellowship into such institutions as "The American Bankers' Association," it is surely time that he awaken to the realization of his strength and tear "impossible" and its synonyms from the vocabulary of his life. Let the Negro centralize and focalize his forces into a nucleus of will-set strength and await the results of his "problem." Very respectfully, LUCIAN B. WATKINS. A Brilliant Wedding. Baltimore, Md. Nov. 18. '08. Miss Laura E. Clements, daughter of Mrs. Clementine Clements, and Mr. Daniel H. Murphy, Assistant Manager of the Afro-American Ledger, were the principals in a fashionable wedding at St. Mary's Episcopal church no-night. After a short wedding trip Mr. and Mrs. Murphy will reside at 559 Laurens Street. The groom is well known in local business circles and is a son of Mr. John H. Murphy, Managing editor of the Baltimore Afro-American Ledger. Magnolia Park Troubles Magnolia Park, the pleasure resort on West Moore Street will be sold at auction to-day (Saturday) at 4 P. M. to satisfy a note of $1250, past due. The corporation controlling this place was organized several years ago by Mr. S. H. Jeter, who has been tireless in his efforts to make it a profitable investment. It has been liberally patronized, but the panic and other handicaps seem to have hopelessly involved the management in debt and the red flag is the result. We have been informed since writing the above that the troubles have been tided over and the sale will not take place. Rev. W. H. Brooks, D. D. to Preach. Rev. W. H. Brooks, D. D., pastor of 19th St. Baptist Church, Washington, D. C. will preach a Thanksgiving Sermon at the Ebenezer Baptist Church, Thursday, November 26, 1980 at 12 o'clock noon FAITH I cannot see Thee, Lord, but well I know that thou art there. Can't see my form and hear my voice In praise or in prayer. I see Thy foot-prints in the flowers, Scattered far and wide. Where Thou hast walked and talked with man At noon and eventide. The stars mark out thy course to me, As do the trackless seas, The hurricane is but thy breath, As is the gentle breeze. All things on earth or in the sky Speak plainly unto me: They say, "See here, thy God discern; Trust Him! He's always nigh." —O. M. STEWARD. For fine printing call at the PLANET Office. RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1908. Thanksgiving, Thursday, Nov. 26th, 1908. J. R. R. THE REAL NATIONAL BIRD. Dividend Notice—American Beneficial Insurance Company, Richmond, Virginia. The Board of Directors of the American Beneficial Insurance Company has declared its Fifth Annual Dividend of 6 per cent. payable on and after the 16th of November, 1908 W. F. GRAHAM, Press. B. H. PEYTON, Secy. THE HAND OF ETHIOPIA. Thou worthy member of thy mother race. Thou "shalt stretch forth" unto thy Maker. Let Thy touch show glory in its every trace And in His promise, may thy hopes be set. Yea, cities at thy fingers' tips shalt rise In beauty's architectural dreamy bliss; Each tear or past and all the heavy sighs Shalt pleasingly embrace thee with a kiss. Science shalt pleasingly unfold its wing And come to warm its breast against thy palm; And Art shalt offer for thy touch the string Of every beauty—peace, serene and calm. Yea, earth shalt yield its plenty to thy will. That thrills electric flashes to thy flight: And honor shalt attend thy way until The token of thy shadow shalt be light. — LUCIAN B. WATKINS, Author of "Voices of Solitude." Sen. Foraker Announces HIS CANDIDACY. He Will Seek Vindication Before Ohio Legislature. SUBMITS EVIDENCE TO PROVE THAT HE IS NOT GUILTY OF ANY INDISCRETION—POWERFUL TESTIMONY IN HIS FAVOR---CAN HE LAND CINCINNATI, Nov. 15.—Senator Foraker gave out to-day a statement consisting mainly of a letter from Virgil P. Kline, attorney for the Standard Oil Company, setting forth the nature of the Senator's services for the Standard in Ohio for two years prior to January, 1901. The letter and his former statements, Senator Foraker says "should satisfy any fair minded man." He lets it be understood that he is in the Sen- THE SENATORIAL TOGA? atorship fight, but doesn't propose to "engage in any unseemly scramble." The statement follows: "Now that the election is over and the people have read and studied the returns I deem it an opportunity time, and my duty to my constituents as well as to myself to publish the following correspondence: Cincinnati, Oct. 5, 1908 Virgil P. Kline, Esq., Cleveland, O. Dear Sir: In view of the charges of Mr. Hearst and the discussion now going on in the newspapers as to the character of my employment by the Standard Oil Company, and the services I rendered under such employment, I would be glad if you would write me in regard thereto and give me permission to use your letter if occasion should seem to require it. I make this request because I was employed by you personally and because you are entirely familiar with the scope of that employment, the services rendered, and, in short, the whole subject and because, under the circumstances, I prefer that you rather than myself should speak on these points. With assurances of continued re- (Continued on Eighth Page.) New Store Opened A new store has opened at 314 E. Broad St., consisting of clothing, shoes, hats and gents furnishings. Please give us a call. All goods sold guaranteed. MISS ESSIE G. MILLER, Manager. A Fine Singer Miss Marie James of Washington will sing at Hartshorn Memorial College on Thanksgiving night for the benefit of Hartshorn Memorial College and the Virginia Union University. She is the special music teacher in the public schools of Washington and she also teaches in the Conservatory of Music there. She is a fine singer and all will be richly repaid who are fortunate enough to hear her. Pythian Cadet Entertainment The Pythian Cadets will give a grand bazaar at the Pythian Castle three nights next week for the purpose of raising money to purchase new uniforms. Piano music will be furnished and the event promises to be one of real enjoyment. It will last Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday nights and the entrance fee will be only ten cents. Prizes are being offered for the one selling the highest number of tickets and all information may be found on the handbills. Howard Won The foot-ball game at the baseball park, between the foot-ball team of Howard University and the Virginia Union University last Monday afternoon resulted in a score of 21 to 0 in favor of the Howard boys. A reception was tendered the visiting team at Pythian Hall last Monday night and a most select crowd was present and thronged the hall. Some claim that the score was 16 to 0, but the Howard enthusiasts claim that the touch-down was made in the time limit, at dark, and this caused the controversy as to the score. —Mrs. P. M. B. Hodge is in the city making great success with her work. DIED—Mary Jane Evans, daughter of Mrs. Arabella Evans at her residence, 729 N. Third Street, Saturday, Nov. 14, 1908 at 10 P. M. after a long and painful illness. The funeral took place last Tuesday, 3 P. M. at the First Baptist Church. PRICE, FIVE CENTS. nounces DACY. indication slature. SILTY OF ANY INDISCRE- DR---CAN HE LAND A SINGULAR CASE A White Couple's Depravity Royall Ellyson, the white man, who conspired with the wife of Jacob L. Hechler to kill the husband was convicted and sentenced to four years in the penitentiary last Monday in the Hustings Court, which sentence Judge S. B. Witt changed to four years on the public roads. The crime was committed August 4, 1908 and Hechler narrowly escaped with his life. It seems that Ellyson slept at Hechler's home that night and Hechler awoke to find that his wife had left his bed. He went in search of her. He found Ellyson and his wife together and they led him to believe that there were burglaries in the yard and under the house and when he went to look for them, they attempted to kill him, Ellyson shooting at him in the street. The case attracted much attention at the time and the husband was high indignant over the affair and disowned his wife. One of the singular features of the case was the discovery that Hechler had been endeavoring to get two witnesses not to testify against his wife and her paramour. He was severely reprimanded by the judge. The wife's case will come up at the next term of the court, she having been indicted as an accomplice. A Colored Priest Here Father John J. Plantevigne of New Orleans, La. called on us in company with Father William J. Reichmeyer, who is assistant in charge of St. Joseph's Mission here. The visitor is a colored gentleman or culture and refinement and is engaged in the missionary department of the work. $100.00 Endowment Paid. Blackstone, Va., Nov. 9, '08. This is to certify that I have received from John Mitchell, Jr., Grand Worthy Counselor of the Grand Court of Virginia, Order of Calanthe, ($100.00) One Hundred Dollars in payment of the death- claim of Sister Berta Cousin, who was a member of Evening Star Court No. 77 of Blackstone, Va. Jennie V. Jackson, D. Deputy H. L. Jackson, W. C. Bettie G. Stokes, R. of A. Lelia A. Clark, R. of D $100.00 Endowment Paid Suffolk, Va., Nov. 2, '08. This is to certify that I have received from John Mitchell, Jr., Grand Worthy Counselor of the Grand Court of Virginia, Order of Calamite ($100.00) One Hundred Dollars in payment of the death- claim of Sister Georgia Moore, who was a member of Golden Rule Court, No. 86 of Suffolk, Va. Signed—William Mack Moore, Beneficiary. Witnesses: Julia Goode, R. of A. Bettle Harris, W. Inx. Inez Hunter, R. of D. Julia A. Powell, D. D. G. W. C. $100.00 Endowment Paid. Natural Bridge, Va., Nov. 9, '08. This is to certify that I have received from John Mitchell, Jr. Grand Worthy Counselor of the Grand Court of Virginia, Order of Calanthe, ($100.00) One Hundred Dollars in payment of the deathclaim of Sister Malahie E. Diamond, who was a member of Hyacinth Court No. 130 of Natural Bridge, Va. Signed—M. H. Diamond, Guardian. Witnesses: (Mrs.) Margaret Moore, P. W. C. (Mrs.) Janie B. Watts, W. C. (Mrs.) Nannie Silvey, W. O. THE SEVENTH DERSON BY BEN M'CUTCHEON COPYRIGHT 1905 BY DOOD MEAD COMPANY TWO SYNOPSIS. CHAPTER I - Gerard Chambers, son of a wealthy importer and a student at an eastern college, was awarded a membership organization, founded by Rodney Graves. The society was exclusive, only one being admitted. The members were known by the name of the hold and each member was awarded the "call of destiny," which amounted to an assignment to test his metal. CHAPTER II - Chambers read his descent of his father, Norfolk as a sailor and not set foot on the sea for a year. Then he was directed to go Mexico for further instructions which were to be given another year, during which time he visited his own living unassisted, and keep everything a secret. CHAPTER III - Jerry then told his father, who had gained his elder son's consent. He also accompanied Bayless, his father's choice for his wife, with the fact that he would be away two weeks before the left him angry. CHAPTER IV - Young Chambers had a brief interview with the ocean freighter. His father sought again to prevent the boy's departure. Jerry obtained a berth as superintendent of the ocean freighter. His father tried to obtain a berth, but he would seek the hand of Miss Bayless. CHAPTER V.-Jerry sailed the following morning on the Sister Mary. After the ship had landed, the officer led him that the boat was bound for south America, loaded with guns for enemies of that government. CHAPTER VI.-Sister Mary put in at Havana. He ordered regarding the landing of guns. Jerry, given opportunity to desert, passed it up. CHAPTER VII. J- Lerry landed the guns as a tranian cruiseer hove in view. At first Chambers was chased, but escaped. Chambers was captured and thrown into a dungeon. CHAPTER VII. - Marina Bostos, captived daughter of Gen. Bostos, entered Chambers made a strong impression on his wounds. Other she was known as the "little saint of chambers" because of her nursing. CHAPTER VII. - Jerry, tried by Gen. Bostos, was seized and sent to the following day. Upon promise of Marina's love, Capt. Pilaro pledged himself on horseback late at night. CHAPTER X. - Sheler was secured the following day. Marina and Pilaro decided to join Gen. Barado's army, seeking government. They united with the rebels, Chambers being made a captive. CHAPTER XI. - Capt. Pilaro died of burns. Marina accompanied his body to burial or Barado. or Bostos. In a fierce battle the former was Jerry frustrated an attempt to assassin- CHAPTER XII.-Gen. Bostos forgives his daughter, Marina. Her funeral party was held at Pandaro, capital of Uruguay, captured and a confederacy established. The town was made much of. By that time Marina was captured and a confederacy established. CHAPTER XIII.-Jerry was given a big reception by the Uruguian public and a cross of Honor. He then called for Haitian aid to a short运Mexico City for further instruction. CHAPTER XIV.-Capt. Chamberls was benized aboard the steamer. He met donor, Opea, a wealthy Uruguian, and his daughter, Lopes, a richest storm while Jerry was being fenced. CHAPTER XV.-The steamer was dashed on the rocks, nearly all on board drowning. Jerry saved himself and Lopes. The girl's strange actions caused him to express the belief that she was demise. CHAPTER XVII.-After a long time on the rocks the party rescued conveyed to Havana. Jerry himself too late to catch a boat for Mexico. He recognized Marina Bostos, a passenger from Mexico. By a ruse he gained the deck. CHAPTER XVII. — Chambers was granted the privilege of going to Vera. He was being held a prisoner on board, the pretensa being that she was demented. CHAPTER XVIII. — Jerry successfully intercepted in Marina, which plotted against him. He wrote her a note and confided the American engineer, who promised aid. CHAPTER XIX. — The plotters took Marina into Vera Cruz, secretly, Jerry following by swimming, after he had been caught. Suddenly, remembering he must hurry to Mexico City within a few hours, he left the engineer to resume the chase. CHAPTER XX. — Jerry reached Mexico in the letter of instructions. Mike successfully escaped and abductors and learned their plans. He then wired Chambers. CHAPTER XXI. — Young Chambers re-entered Mexico's orders to proceed to Escalon. Mike successfully escaped and instructions. He again left Mike O'Connor, the engineer in charge of the shadowing Chambers. CHAPTER XXII. — Mike trailed the fugitives to Jiminez, using various ruses. CHAPTER XXIV.—The pair camped in the mountains. They discovered an old cabin calling himself Jose. After alighting him when he seized near death, Jose promised to tell them a secret. CHAPTER XXV.—Jose gave them a particular knowledge of the location of the lost mine. He offered it unsuccessful, however. Mike was sent to it for provisions. While he was away and was exploring, Yaguel Indians burned the camp. Jerry was struck with fever. CHAPTER XXVI.—Mike returned, finding Chambers delirious with fever. He offered to help Mike. One of the plotters they found Marina a cave after overcoming all of the abductors. CHAPTER XXVII.—Marina and Jerry contended with each other. The plotters were turned over by his ties. Jerry, being still compelled by his search for the lost mine, returned to search for the mine, leaving his sweetheart. Mike refused to accompany him. CHAPTER XXVIII.—After days of searching, Jerry his preparations to depart him,umbled near the lost mine. He departed for El Paso, Texas. CHAPTER XXIX.-At El Paso, Chambers received new orders, compelling him to steal away from Gen. Bostos, Marina Minae Mike. The orders were him. That usual, so he could not explain. He was sentenced to lead the life of a tramp and beggar for six months. CHAPTER XXX.-Jerry started out as a tramp. In applying for food he was made Mike. The orders were him. The Texans prepared to lynch him. Sheriff arrived in time to free him of charge as a noose was being adjusted in his neck. He was made a guest of honor. CHAPTER XXXI.-Mike, on investigating, decided Jerry was crazy. A reward of $1,000 was offered for his capture. Chambers narrowly escaped pursuers. CHAPTER XXII.-Jerry's reward was increased to $1,000. At last he was released. The story was believed by all. At the time he was working out "time" for vagrancy. **Subscribe to the Richmond PLANET.** Only $1.50 per year in advance. CHAPTER XXXIII Jerry Chambers was in an empty box car bound for the warmer south when the morn of New Year's day dawned. There scarcely was a limit to his "stop-over privilege" on the way down to San Francisco. Eight times he was put off the train, principally at water tanks and stingy hamlets, and five days were required in making the journey. When he finally crawled from the trucks of a car filled with canned salmon at Oakland—oh, the irony of it!—he was weak from hunger. He begged and worked for six meals that day, the night of which found him in San Francisco, where he intended spending much of his time before going to Los Angeles for his further instructions. He decided to go to Chinatown. "I couldn't think of leaving 'Frisco without seeing the 'chinks'," he said to himself. "They never would get over it if I did." He forgot all about his seedy appearance when he reached the heart of the Mongolians' district, so great was his interest in the unusual surroundings. Every policeman he passed eyed him suspiciously. He was standing in front of a restaurant when a ragged young friend about his size sped past him and darted into an alley a few feet away. "Thief! Stop thief!" came to his ears from running men half a block down the street, and the next moment they were speeding past him. He stepped into a dark, narrow hallway just as a big policeman came along. "Wonder what's up?" he asked himself, but before he could supply an answer the officer, who had sped past him a few feet, quickly wheeled and made a dash for him. "You will, will you!" panted the red-faced officer, grabbing him by the arm and fumbling for handcuffs. "You're pretty slick, I don't think! Come on, now, or I'll club your head off!" "What—what—" began the dazed Jerry, hanging back. "None o' that!!" snapped the policeman, whipping out his mace. Just then a pudgy little man came waddling up, breathing so hard that for a full minute he could not speak a word. He simply focussed his wild eyes on Jerry and excitedly pointed to him. "Is this the guy?" asked the policeman. "He's got my wife's purse!" the pudgy man blurted. "He snatched it from—" "Your wife's purse!" gasped Jerry, his face as pale as death. "I never saw your wife in— Search me, officer, for heavens sake!" The policeman felt his pockets. "You see I haven't his wife's purse," Jerry added. "Aw, cheese it!" sneered the officer; "that's an old gag—swiplin' and then throwin' away when you see you're goin' to be pinched!" A few minutes later a patrol wagon clanged its way through the fast-growing crowd, and before Jerry could make any further protest he was hustled into it. The accuser accompanied him to the station, a few blocks away. As Jerry stepped to the pavement, his arm in the firm grasp of the officer's big hand, his heart almost ceased beating. Standing near the steps leading to the station were Bernard Bayless, Mrs. Bayless and Marsylla Bayless. They were looking directly at him when he heard their uniformed guide say: "Only a common sneak thief, I guess. They pick 'em up down here every few minutes." The pudgy little man, who gave his name as Sylvester Orrencott Igenfritz of Akron, O., preferred a charge against Jerry, and gave notice that he would appear against him in the morning. "That little sawed-off can't identify me," he concluded, "and the copper can't say that he found the goods on me. But I'll just make it a point to keep this Mr. Sylvester Lippincott Bilgenitch, or whatever his name is, in mind, and one of these sweet days I will make him sorry that his wife ever owned a purse. I wish that this had happened on New Year's day, for then I would have made it my strongest resolve to visit Akron, O., with a mission." At 9:30 in the morning Jerry was standing before a red-nosed magistrate in a stuffy little hole that was dignified by the name of courtroom. "Firs' case," yawned the justice. "Pickpocketin," said the officer who had made the arrest, pointing to Jerry. "What did you want with the woman's money—get a shave?" asked the magistrate, who gloried in his newspaper reputation as a wit. "No—a haircut," answered Jerry, running his hand over his face. "Don't get fresh!" snapped the justice. "You need a little salting down. Is this the fellow that snatched your wife's purse?" addressing Mr. Igenfritz. "Yes, sir, your honor, it is!" answered the accuser most decisively, and with an emphasis-adding head. Jerry thinned pale as a ghost as he looked into the little man's beaming face. Then, in an instant, the blood was surging to his head, and he cried out: "You're a liar, you little muttonhead! I'll fix you—" The court squelched him with: "Ninety days!" "Ninety days—three months!" he gasped. "Good heavens, it's all off THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA 1912 "I'll Sick Mother You!" now! There will be no nick-of-time rescue this crack! A Gemin's luck has gone for sure! March 19—only a little more than two months away, and no time off for good behavior!" He jumped to his feet, his hands pulling at his shaggy hair, and went to the door. Jerry did not eat his first prison meal—a tin pan full of touch meat, soggy bread, black molasses and a tincup of alleged coffee, telling Finnerty, the old guard who had become too stiff-jointed to perform beat duty, that he was too sick to swallow a moutiful. 'What do you expect at this hotel—mother's cookin' and poonkin poil?' growled Finnerty. "You get thim only every other 'Fanksgivin'." Jerry smiled as the guard went away. "He has a nice disposition," he said to himself: "and I'll bet he's a model family man." When the first day of March rolled around Jerry's beard was long enough to braid, and his joints were so stiff from lack of exercise that he felt like an old man. Almost all of the little flesh that was on his bones when he was arrested was gone, and his clothes were a caricature might. It was a most unusual thing, but at that time there were, besides himself, only two prisoners in the station, whose "times" were almost "up." On March 14, when there was not a spark of hope in Jerry's breast that he would get to Los Angeles in time for his instructions. Old Finnerty had taken something of a fancy to Jerry, and gave him the least disagreeable work to do. Jerry performed so well, and seemed to show such personal interest in the guard's welfare, that the old man was greatly pleased. That night Finnerty actually thanked him, after he had given him a fine apple and a glassful of real milk. The ranking officer also was pleased with Jerry's work. "I'm glad you're satisfied," said Jerry to the ranking officer, "and if you want to do something for me you can make me feel like a new man. Cut these whiskers off and give me a shave. They make me feel like a patent-medicine man." The officer complied with the request, and when Jerry lay down that night he felt almost as young as he used to be. The following morning he was put to work clearing up the rubbish and refuse in the little courtway back of the station. Finnerty plied up boxes while Jerry shoved the refuse into heaps near the gate of the picket-topped high board fence. The guard had implicit faith in him, and frequently went into the station, leaving him alone in the courtyard. While Jerry was shoveling out the contents of a big dry goods box he came across an old slouch hat. The instant his eyes fell on it the thought of escape flashed across his mind. Finnerty's back was turned at the moment, and before he faced about Jerry had thrown the hat over the fence into the alley. His first impulse was to steal up behind the guard and beat him into insensibility, but his liking for the old man, more than anything, stayed the violent hand. He respected Finnerty's white hair, but the thought of what might fall to the guard's lot if he effected his escape was quickly brushed aside. "Finnerty," said Jerry after a time, sitting down and pressing a hand to his stomach and screwing up his mouth, "get me something for the cramps, will you? I've got 'em bad," "Sure, kid," said the guard, and the next moment he was in the station. Jerry scrambled over the fence, tearing his trousers on the sharp-pointed pickets, and dropped into the alley. Picking up the hat, he ran as fast as he could to the street, where he reduced his gait to a skisk walk. He crossed to the next corner, where, to a surprise that almost took his legs from under him, he ran almost into the policeman who had arrested him. The relief that came with his sigh when the officer passed by without even looking into his face was great. Jerry hid himself in a lumber yard until the street lights began to twinkle. His excitement was so great that he forgot all about his hunger until, about 11 o'clock, he was riding on the trucks of a car near the middle of a south-bound passenger train. CHAPTER XXXIV. About four o'clock in the morning Jerry had further occasion to curse a "Geminl's luck." A "hot box" at his end of the coach brought the train to a stop near the "flag" station of Gonzales. Before the engine had come to a standstill the fireman was at the "hot box" with his torch. Jerry tried to scramble off the trucks, but the engineer had him by the nape of the neck before he could get to his feet. "Hey, Charley!" shouted the coal-heaver, and a moment later a big brakeman came up. "Charley" swung Let the PLANET do your Job-work. Jerry around until his face was directly east and then fly a big boot with great accuracy. "Now, you skin!" said "Charley." "Get over that fence and don't move a muscle until the train's on its way. If you try to get back on I'll beat your 'block' into a jelly!" Jerry limped to the edge of the right of way and leaned against the fence, the big trainman's eyes on him all the time. "Say, pal," he pleaded, "take me on to Los Angeles, won't you? I'll fix things with you one of these days. If you were in my fix and had a mighty sick mother—" "Back up!" laughed the trainman, stooping for a rock. Jerry was not half a second too quick in dodging that stone. "On the square, old man, I've got to get to Los—" "I'll sick mother you!" but there was no other rock handy. The train pulled out a few minutes later, leaving Jerry standing against the fence, a picture of despair. He watched the cars swing around a curve and disappear; then he started to limp down the track. He kept on down the track until he reached a siding, where he decided to wait until a freight train stopped long enough to permit of another train's passing. It was five o'clock in the afternoon before a south-bound freight drew up at the siding. He climbed into an empty box car, at one end of which he sank to the floor, utterly worn out. He stretched himself at full length and soon was dreaming of the beautiful la-1 of people, coffee and sound fruit. When he opened his eyes it was almost pitch dark and the car was standing still. He got up, but almost sank down again when he found the doors closed. He tried to push them open, but they were locked. Through a crack he saw electric lights and one or two rather prestigious buildings, and he wondered where he could be. "What time is it? What place is this? How long have I been asleep? Who locked these doors?" These and many other questions flashed through his mind. He was ravenously hungry and so thirsty that his threat was parched. He brought all of his little strength to play, but failed to open the doors. He decided that he could not possibly out of the car until the doors were unlocked, and he sat down at one of the larger cracks and locked out into the darkness. His eyes had not been on the crack long before a wager "added with trunks passed under an ectric light. Painted on its side was "Los Angeles Transfer Company." "Good heaven!" he exclaimed, his blood running cold. "I'm in Los Angeles! How long have I been here? Maybe I have been asleep for days! Maybe I am too late—" The dread of this thought almost drove him insane. "I must get out of here right away!" he murdered, desperately. "and I will get out if I have to fire to the ear!" He felt in every pocket, but could find nothing that resembled a match. There was a toothpick, but ka throw it to the floor with: "That's right—you rub it in, too! I've had a lot of use for you!" When, very early in the morning, the doors were unlocked and pushed open, Jerry Chambers was almost a nervous wreck. He had choked and fretted, cold chills succeeding hot flashes, for hours—days it seemed to him. He was so eager to get out of the car that he did not wait until the man who unlocked the coors had gone, and he afterwards thanked his lucky stars that the man was too old to give chase. The car was on a siding near a freighthouse, off by itself. It was a little after six o'clock, but Jerry thought only of the date—not the hour. With heart almost standing still and eyes almost popping from their sockets, he ran up to a man and asked what day it was. "This is Thursday, the 19th," answered the man. "The 18th!" exclaimed Jerry, bringing his hands together in ecstasy, "Thank heaven, I've made it this far, anyway!" Before the man could recover from his surprise Jerry was running across the tracks. "I've hours, hours to spare!" he mattered to himself, his face reflecting the great joy that raged within him. It was not for many minutes that he was brought back to the realization that he was almost starved. He reached a narrow street, and in the yard of the first house he came to he saw an elderly man splitting wood. He went up to him and agreed to finish the job for his breakfast. An hour later he left the place the possessor of three cupfuls of coffee, two slices of ham, two eggs, several pieces of buttered bread, and two or three pipefels of tobacco. He felt 100 per cent. better, mentally and physically, notwithstanding that his arms were very sore from wielding the ax. While he trudged across a common he gave himself a thorough inspection. "This will never, never, never do," he said to himself. "If they see this horrible example downtown there'll be but one finish for little Jerry." His trousers were rent in a dozen places and his coat was stiff with mud. The old slouch hat was at least three sizes too small for him, and every time he took a step the sole of his foot beat the little remaining suggestion of the sole of his shoe to the ground. At six houses he managed to beg and work for a pair of trousers, a coat, a clean flannel shirt, a fairly sound pair of shoes, much too large for him, and a soft hat that might have been presentable back in the 80s. The coat was a bright checked affair and the color of the tight-fitting trousers was a faded brown. He scrubbed the floor of a colored man's barber shop for a bath and a shave (he shaved himself as per the proprietor's ultimatum), and when he started towards the central business portion he felt considerably "dressed up." Los Angeles was in gala garb, for the annual Festival of Fruit and Flowers was in full swing. Thousands upon thousand, of persons from sections of the country were in the city, and the trains still were pouring in others by the hundreds. It was a little after 11 o'clock when jerry got his first view of the Hotel Florida, at the office of which he was to receive his further instructions. It was the first time that he had given much thought to what the next envelope would contain, and he fell to picturing all kinds of possibilities. "But I've gone this far," he mentally commented, "and made good, and I'll shove through the last three months if I have to swim across the Pacific or walk to Jericho. They can't hand it to me any harder than they have, and I'm used to about everything in the tough-luck line. The San Dimas can wait and so can she—if she has not waited too long already." Here he became gloomy over the thought that Marina might be dead, or that she had ceased to love him, or that she had fallen in love with another. The broad, flower-banked plaza of the hotel was swarming with men and women and children—all dressed as is becoming such a festive occasion. Jerry was in tremendously marked contrast with his checked coat and brown trousers, and when he got near enough to be seen he was easily one of the "sights." Girls siggled as they looked at him, men eyed him suspiciously, and two tots set up a scream and ran from him when he save them a "good morning." He deemed it advisable to become less conspicuous, and determined to wait until a few minutes of the appointed hour before going to the hotel office. He had retraced his steps a short distance when he saw a man and a woman, the former swinging a cane and the latter in fluffy white from tip to top. She was a picture of loveliness and Jerry could not take his eyes off of her. When they had approached to within 20 feet of him his chin dropped and he almost reeled. It was Marsyla Bayleass! It was too late to turn, and, brushing his teeth together, he kept on, increasing his gait. He did not intend that she should get a good view of his face, but for some unaccountable reason he looked her squarely in the eyes. Her eyes were directly on him, and she came to a sudden stop and uttered a little exclamation of surprise. Then, when he was but five feet away, she curled her lips, tessed back her head and looked straight ahead. "Good heavens!" flashed through Jerry's brain. "she recognized me! She was startled at seeing me, but she wouldn't speak! She turned up her nose, and..." Here he broke into a broad grin. "I don't suppose she should be blamed, for I'm a nice looking thing to be spoken to. Out here for the festival with her father and mother, eh? I wonder who that sickly-looking stick was she had with her? Some 'baited' count, I suppose. He's just the selt." Jerry walked until his legs were ready to go war and then, after a rest, started back to the hotel about half an hour before the appointed time. He had reached the end of the plaza when he saw Marsylla alone in a smart little trap. She pulled her pony close to him and whispered: "Jerry Chambers! Go down to the next street. I must see you!" Jerry could not say anything before she was driving away. He thought for a moment, his first impulse being to keep straight on, but he finally decided to see her. "She didn't want to speak to me where there were people around," he said to himself, "but wants to have a word away from their sight. I'll bet she is doing a lot of worrying right now for fear that she will be seen talking to me." Five minutes later, in the shade of a large tree on the next street, he was standing before her. "Jerry, Jerry, where have you been?" she asked rapidly, looking up and down the avenue. "The whole country thinks you are dead. Tell me, tell me—" "Dead?" gasped Jerry. "How did that get out?" "They searched for you for weeks and weeks, until a body was found in the Rio Grande. Everybody, even your father, was convinced that it was you. Oh, Jerry, how you look! Please don't—don't speak to me when others are—" she pleaded, her face coloring in embarrassment. "You needn't worry about that, Marsylla," he smiled. "I know just exactly how you feel, and I wouldn't humiliate you for a fortune. But, tell me, Marsylla—is mother—" "Your mother and your father are at a quiet hotel on the other side of the city," she broke in, plainly showing her desire to be rid of him. "Your mother has been ill for months, and she is in mourning for you. You must see her this very day, Jerry, and—" The sight of another trap approaching caused her to stop, and with a hurried "good-by" she drove away. Jerry scarcely knew what to do, so hot was his brain, so great his surprise to leara that his father and mother were in Los Angeles. He had about ten minutes in which to reach the hotel office, and he knew that he would be unable to look up his parents before two o'clock. He decloded, however, that, no matter what the instructions were, he would go to them as soon as possible after he received the envelope. He reached the hotel stops at three minutes before two o'clock, after running a gauntlet of curious eyes, whispered remarks, giggles and laughs, and advanced boldly towards the door. His hand was on the knob of the screen when the hand of a big, uniformed man came down hard on his shoulder. "Here, you can't go in there," said the doorman, grumfly. "There ain't no job for you. Clear out!" "But there is a message in there for—" protested Jerry. "Clear out, I say," snapped the man, grabbing his arm. "I am—" "You get out o' here or I'll have you arrested," and he blew a police whistle. The clock over the office counter showed about a minute before two. Jerry was desperate. His face was colorless and his hands moved restlessly. The sound of the whistle brought a fat, bald-headed man to the door on a run. "Is there an envelope here for Rodney Graves?" Jerry cried, as the doorman started to drag him down the steps. "Graves-Graves, ch. yes!" quickly answered the man. "It's at the desk!" "Quick, quick, for God's sake, quick!" frantically implored Jerry. The doorman was half dazed, relaxing his hold, and Jerry dashed into the office, barely missing a collision with a fat woman. The bald-headed man had reached around the lettercase and grabbed up a long blue envelope, which, just as the clock struck two, he handed to the fast-breathing Jerry in the middle of the crowded room. CHAPTER XXXV. The hand that came down on Jerry Chambers' shoulder a second later was the friendliest he had felt in six long months. It was the hand of Phineas Hwyte, manager of the hotel, and a Gemini Person of The College class of '81. "I'm awfully sorry you were so badly treated by the man at the door," apologized Hwyte. "Oh, don't let a little thing like that worry you," laughed the happy, light hearted Jerry, apparently oblivious to the many curious eyes that were focused on him. "If just such a thing hadn't happened I should have been surprised and perhaps a little disappointed. I'm so used to excitement in the stretch runs, you know. But wait a second," and he looked at the envelope. A soft light of satisfaction came into his face and he sighed like the man who had won. "There's no hurry about getting into this," said he. "See"—holding the envelope before the older Gemin's eyes—"For Rodney Graves—To be opened ten hours after the specified receiving time." Plenty of time, you see—But, gee, that means midnight! The hour when graveyards yawn! A little creepy, isn't it?" Half an hour later Jerry and Phineas Hwyte were being driven down one of the principal business thoroughfares. Jerry was kept in surprise and wonder until the vehicle came to a stop in front of a men's furnishing shop. "We are going to tog you out as well as we can," explained the hotel manager. "I have been instructed to make you look as respectable as possible at a "ready made" store, and to see that your pockets are not entirely empty." When Jerry cane out of that store he was a complete transformation. His sung fitting, stylish gray suit, an immaculate negligee shirt, a spotless straw hat, a pair of eight-dollar tan shoes and a bamboo walking stick reminded him of the Jerry Chambers of other days—the Jerry Chambers whom Marsella Bayless would not insist upon going up a side street to see. In his pocket were half a dozen $5.0 gold certificates—"just a little pin money, you know," said Jerry. "Diamond-pin money," laughed the rich Jerry, as he kissed the roll of yellow-backs. When Jerry and Hwyte, arm in arm, walked up the hotel steps the uniformed man at the door colored and seemed ill at ease. "I beg your pardon, sir," he began, bowing and opening the door as wide as it would go, "but I—" "Oh, that's all right," smiled Jerry, handing him a cigar, "I don't blame you a little bit, but you did give me a pretty good pinch." Hwyte took Jerry to one of the parlor-floor rooms, which he turned over to him "with the compliments of The Geminil." When Jerry was alone, lying on the bed after another bath, he wondered and became suspicious. "What does all this kind treatment mean, anyway?" he mused. "I suppose it's meant to make what's coming to me all the harder. What in thunder can be doing at midnight? That's rubbing it in good and hard!" He had intended losing no time in looking up his parents, but he was so tired and worn out that he fell asleep. A rapping on his door about five o'clock aroused him. "Come in," he said, sitting upright and rubbing his eyes. The door opened and in rushed Wallace Chambers, Mike O'Connor and Gen. Fernandez Bostos. Before Jerry could be made to believe his eyes he was being almost smothered with hugs. Wallace Chambers, the first to reach him, could not speak, but the fast-flowing tears spoke his happiness. Drops of Joy were springing from the eyes of Mike O'Connor, and Gen. Bostos was unable to speak for some time. "Well!" Jerry finally managed to exclaim. "Where—what—" "Safe at last!" his father wept, and he squeezed him so hard that he grunted. "My boy, my Jerry, back again—back to father and mother and—" Here his eyes began to sparkle, and he brought himself to his full height. Tapping his chest proudly, he went on in the business-like tone of the Wallace Chambers of old: "I knew they couldn't kill him! I know the 'Chambers colors' too well! It takes more than a hurricane to lower them, I can tell you, gentlemen." "And you wasn't nutty, Jerry?" asked Mike. "Not when I left you at El Paso," laughed Jerry, "but the subsequent developments, and the reward notice in particular, nearly upset me. How is it that you all are here?" "We—the general and me—came up from San Diego to see the big show," said Mike, "just the other day, and—" "Only you and the general?" broke in Jerry. "Where is—" "Oh, she's here, too," provided Mike. "She's nappin' in her room. She don't know you are—" "How in the world did you find out I was here?" asked the whirling-brained Jerry. "Why, everybody in town knows by this time that you're here," said Mike. "All they're talkin' about is Jerry Chambers is alive! Jerry Chambers has come to earth again! and all that, you know. Newspaper reporters have been tryin' to find you, but the manager wouldn't let thim in to see you. It was him that gave out the story in the first place, and it has spread like wildfire. Jerry, my lad, you're a hero, even if you have turned our hair 20 shades whiter." "And all for that 50-cent pin!" said the overflowing father. "I suppose you have gained your Personality and had it delivered in a gold case." "I'm not "I'm not quite through yet, father." sald Jerry, and his brow wrinkled a little. "There are still three months, you know." "But you're not going on another wild-goose chase?" gasped his father. "I can't say anything about it." "Well, we'll see about that, sir," said his father very decisively. "You've more than earned that pin and all that goes with it, and they can't ask you to do more." Jerry quite agreed with his father, but he could conceive of many, many things for him to do, if The Gemini were disposed to make him do them. "Have you seen Marina yet?" his father asked, and there was just a suggestion of a guilty look in his eyes. Gen. Bostos and Mike O'Connor had told him everything. "Not yet," answered Jerry. "It was not until an hour ago that I knew any of you were here. Is she well?" "She is fast rounding to her old self," said his father, and, with a twinkle in his eyes: "She is fairer than all the rest of the girls in the world." "Marsylla and her parents, too, are in Los Angeles," said his mother. "I saw them in 'Frisco,'" said Jerry, "but I was a little bit rushed and didn't have a chance to speak to them." "Jerry," began his father, his eyes on the floor, "I guess you knew your business back there in New York, and I know I didn't know mine. We'll not say anything more on the subject." "That's all right, father," Jerry mugged. "Perhaps I was unreasonable and—" "You were not unreasonable," broke in his father. "I was builhead, and you would have been justified in punching my block-head off, and—" "Oh, no, not that, father, not—" "I say you were, I say you wore! That's enough." Mrs. Chambers sent Jerry back to the Hotel Florida, after dinner had been served in her room, with: "You must see her, Jerry, dear, for she is waiting for you—she is yearning for you. Go to her and share with her all the love that I have for you." Jerry, not giving a thought to what might be in the big blue envelope, was driven back to the hotel alone. He could not have wished for greater happiness. When he reached the business section he laughed and colored as he heard: "Extrity, extrity paper!" All about Jerry Chambers found! All about millionaire's son in Los Angeles!" He bought a paper, the front page of which was monumental in great type. He read how he had returned from the grave how he had stirred up the whole country, how he looked, how he was cheered and cheered at every turn, how his friends in the cast were celebrating, and how his meeting with Marina Bostos had added to the romance of the climax, and he beheld himself as a senior at The College and as an officer in the Uranian army — pictures that had been used after he disappeared from El Paso. "Talk about enterprise!" he said to himself. "They tell all about my meeting with Marina before I have seen her." When Jerry reached the hotel he was cheered by the men, and it was a matter of only a few minutes before he was the center of a group of eager newspaper men. He staved them off with: "Too busy now. I'll tell you all about it later on." He picked his way up to the desk, where Phineas Hwyte, his face wreathed in smiles, greeted him. "There's a note here for you," said Hwyte, producing a little square envelope. Jerry recognized Marina's writing, and soon was reading: "The grave gives up its dead! The heavens restore!" Five minutes later Jerry Chambers and Marina Bostos were alone. CHAPTE6 XXXVI People had traveled hundreds of miles to Los Angeles to see one thing—the grand illuminated Parade of the Flowers, scheduled to reach the plaza of the Hotel Florida promptly at nine o'clock that night, but two persons had no thought of it. Jerry Chambers and Marina Bostes sat at a window of a room on the parlor floor, with hearts CALEV "Marina," He Said, "Let Me Fix the Date?" as one, with thoughts as one, none to see a picture of perfect bliss but the moon and stars. The reunion of these lovers was complete. The soul of each was the soul of the contented; the eyes of each told a story infinitely better than tongue could tell it; a single little word of three letters from her, again repeated, was as a volume of joy to him. That long line of smart traps and THE PLANET SATURDAY...NOVEMBER 21, '08 SATURDAY...NOVEMBER 21, '08 automobiles, smothered with blossoms and made brilliant by paper lanterns, had passed the hotel before Jerry and Marina went downstairs for a stroll. There still remained an hour and a half between Jerry and the opening of the blue envelope, and yet the young Gemini had given the instructions but little thought. At every step on the swarming plaza he was recognized, and many times he was stopped by men eager to shake his hand. He bore his triumph modestly. They were at the end of the plaza when they almost bumped into Mike O'Connor. "What's that about birds of a feather?" asked Mike, taking both of Marina's hands into his. "Something about flocking together," provided Jerry. "But, Mike, old man, you look like the prince of Fifth avenue—just like the owner of a real gold mine. That red walstecat should have led the parade to night." "Oh, an Athlone man don't always have to wear a gingham jumper and lug greasy waste," said Mike, throwing back his coat and inserting his thumbs into his vest armholes. "But are you still thinkin' about gold mines?" "You can gamble on it, Michael O'Connor," enthusiastically responded Jerry; "and one of these days the universe won't be big enough for the two of us. I'm thinking of buying the moon already." "But Jerry, are you sure you found—" "Mike, I can lead you to that red stone in the pathway and get you to old '14 in less time than it takes you to puff an inch of that cigar away. Will you be up after midnight?" "I'll be up till they take in the grass. How could anybody sleep on such a night as this?" "Mike, get out a pencil and a piece of paper," said Jerry. "I want you to take a couple of notes, for fear I might forget them." Mike produced a pencil and an envelope and awaited Jerry's diction. "Just put down 'Akron, O.' and 'Richard Huntington, Portland.' That'll be all now," and the next moment Jerry and Marina were moving towards a bench across the lawn, near a clump of bushes, and considerably removed from the gay throng. They had just seated themselves on the bench when Marsylla Bayless and the man Jerry had seen with her on the plaza approached. "I have been looking everywhere for you, Jerry," said Marsylla, her voice laden with sandy sugar. "How proud we all are of you!" Jerry took her hand and merely smiled. The next moment he was shaking the hand of the count of Palawazza, "descended from the old house of Bariscalanda." "And when we are going to have you back in New York, Jerry?" asked Marsylla. "Really, I can't say. You see, I've been enjoying myself hugely the last year or so, and I hate to give up this sort of thing. I may drift back there sometime, though. That was a pretty pony you were driving to-day." Marsylla stammered something, and she was grateful that the light was low enough to hide the color that came to her cheeks. "She is a beautiful girl," said Marina in genuine admiration, as Marsylla and her escort moved away. "She is that," said Jerry, "and a mighty clever horsewoman, too. She can get a horse away from a crowd quicker than anybody I ever saw." There was a long silence as they watched the fast-diminishing crowd on the plaza. She broke it with: "When are you going back to New York, Jerry—to your family and your friends?" Jerry pulled out his watch. "Whee!" he exclaimed; "it's a quarter to 12. I may be able to tell you something definite as soon as the clock strikes 12. But, tell me, Marina, do you trust me after all the sorrow I have caused you to suffer?" "Of course I do, Jerry, dear. If I did not I should not be here with you now." "You saved my life once." "And you saved mine." "And you're going to 'save' it—again?" "Jerry, dear, if I value my own I must 'save it'—" She could not crowd the other words past his lips. Jerry put his watch into her hand and both of them watched the minutes tick away. When the big hand was but a single space from the numeral XII he took the envelope from his pocket. "It is midnight, Jerry," said she, softly, and the next instant the envelope was open and the contents were in his eager hands. "Let me read to myself, sweetheart," he said, and now his head was hot and his mind was far from easy. She picked up his hat and played with it. She looked back into his eyes only when he gave a little sigh and brought his lips to hers. "Marina," said he, "let me fix the date." She was so surprised that she could not utter a word before he went on: "Let us make it for noon on the 19th of June. Say you will!" "And let's make it a quiet affair—with only your people and mine there—and Mike O'Connor." "I do not want a big wedding." "Fine! I guess you may look at this now," and Jerry handed her this message from The Gemin: "Well done, good and faithful Person of The Gemini! Ye have performed to the glory of your beloved fraternity, and ye have built yourself up grandly. But ye have not yet earned an enduring right to your priceless Personality. It is the all Gemini that ye do as now directed: "From now ye shall seek the spirit of reciprocal love; ye must win a love that will be more to you than life is, and at noon on the nineteenth day of June 1960, the last day of the second year of your marriage, you must bear the words that unite you with another in the holy bonds of wedlock. "May the blessings of the spirit of Rodney Graves be upon you now and remain with ye forever and ever." Hindoe Church at 'Erissa Modeled after the great Taj Mahal temple at Benazares, a Hindoo church has been built and consecrated at San Francisco, being the only one so far as known in the western world. ONE DISTINCTIVE PHASE OF THE NEW GOWNS. Illustration Pictures the Idea—Charming Costume for Youthful Women for Either Morning or Afternoon Wear. Gowns buttoned or hooked in the back are almost as passe as those with long waist. Nearly all the new models open in the front or at the side front, and the closing is no longer concealed as it used to be. On the contrary, it is frequently made more pronounced than ever by having conspicuous buttons and possibly side trimming. This new departure in dressmaking is illustrated in the figure shown, where long vertical plaits offer a simple concealment for the fastening of both waist and skirt, but instead of taking advantage of a con- A A New Plaited Model cealing plait the designer boldly displays the opening on the left side in both sections of the costume This is one of the few plaited skirts that remain to us, the others having been succeeded by the circular or the scant gored skirt Instead of giving slanting lines to the plaits as they are fitted over the hips they are folded on almost perfectly straight lines to emphasize the fashionable curveless figure This would make a charming dress for morning wear, or even for afternoon house wear, and it is especially suited to youthful women. There is something distinctly girlish about the arrangement of the bodice and the Dutch neck. In soft woolen materials, in thin house fabrics, and even in the more serviceable goods the model would be useful and becoming. Its severity is relieved by the lace guipme which fills in the square cut neck and by the charming frill of lace edging which adorns the left side of the waist from yoke to belt. Jabots and frills placed on either side, preferably the left, are quite new and decidedly fashionable. Many of the latest separate blouses are trimmed in this way, while the gowns demand a touch of something soft and fluffy either at the throat or defining the front. The sensation of New York and the country. If you doubt there is a personal devil read the story in this paper. You will be sure when you have finished that he exists and that you should resist his wiles. Touch of Black. Just a little touch of dark upon a dress, coat or hat adds very much to the attractiveness of the articles. This is found a great deal this season upon the hat which will be furnished with a band of black under the brim, while the large rosette is finished with a swaying bunch of black algrettes. Upon the waist it has been found that the black sash is giving a touch of elegance scarcely expected from a novelty. It crosses the waist in surplice fashion, forms a girdle and is loosely tied upon the right hip. Narrow bands of black will be observed as hem trimming upon net waists and many voile dresses are resplendent with black features, and diminutive collars are stitched with black brier stitch. Small black buttons are found upon vests, coats, dresses and street hats. Small and Large Hats A bride-to-be should provide herself with at least six hats, and four of them should be large. The one worn with the directoire going-away gown should be somewhat on the poke order and provided with strings which may be tied at one side or merely looped, according to whichever arrangement is most becoming. 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"I knew it, my darling," the dear girl exclaimed; "come, let us go to ma and tell her how much mistaken she was." And they did, and ma didn't seem to be very much broken down over the affair after all. AIRPORT Mrs. Gadder—I was only thinking to-day, Fred, that home is the dearest spot on earth. Gadder—Well, look at this hotel bill, Marie, and think again. An almost distracted young Dr. Took his heaping wife out and Hr. But the Jew in a trice Gave her back without price. Mr. Cotham it's new man from the country—Well, Patrick, how do you like living in French flats? Patrick—Sure, sir, it's not a French flat Ofm living in. It's an Oytallan flat, sir, N. W. Yeolly. A hat the size of Saturn's rings She wore, quite to view. But when I asked: "Why hide your head?" She looked surprised and only said: "The other girls all do." In dress she wore enormities. The dreaded sheath gown, too. A modest, shrinking maid is she. But fatefully she says to me: "The other girls all do." One day I caught her in a fib, not very large, 'his true. Still wreathed in dignity led—A slight remonstrance, this she said: "The other girls all do." So from her book a leaf I took. As one I never rue. Now when I beg her for a kiss And then some more—I say just this: "The other girls all do." A thought once stole, by mistake, into the mind of a minor poet. It was a very little thought and it was frightened at the vast empty spaces, and covered timidly into a dark corner, where it hoped to escape to escape ob- THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA WATCH!! For the Opening Chapter. Ruger The Devil Novelized by Joseph O'Brien from Oliver Herford's Adaptation of Molnar's Play. Illustrated by Berger Rocking the Boat. "THE DEVIL" is offered to our patrons because it is the sensation of the day. In addition to a most successful run in Europe, Oliver Herford's adaptation is being played nightly to crowded houses at the Garden Theater in New York. It is the theatrical sensation of Gotham to-day. Patriotic Ice Cream The phenomenal success of "THE DEVIL" at the Garden Theatre has determined Mr. Savage to cover the country with the play as rapidly as possible. Six companies have already been organized and will be rushed on the road. THE SENSATION OF NEW YORK WILL SOON BE THE SENSATION OF OUR TOWN. A SWEET PRECEDENT. Dorothy Dix says: "Every one who can should see this wonderful play, but those who cannot should read the vivid story." Beatrix Fairfax says: "A lesson for all women and men in this wonderful story." The story grips tightly from the first instant—New York Sun. One of the strongest plays the stage has seen in a decade.—New York Press. Astonishing. . . The audience breathless.—New York Herald. Twenty-one curtain calls after second act for "the only authorized version."—New York American. Mr. Savage called before the curtain to acknowledge a cyclone of cheering for his unparalleled feat.—New York Morning Telegraph. Garden Theater far too small for the crowds who desired to see the novel production.—New York Evening Telegram. Mr. Savage's "DEVIL" is full of invitations to come early and avoid the rush.—New York Mail. Beautifully staged and exceedingly well acted.—New York Times. "THE DEVIL" is at the Garden for a long and merry run.—New York World. A Minor Poesy. Uproar of applause followed the curtains on the second act.—New York Tribune. 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. servation. But in a moment the poet had discovered it, and straightway he pounced upon it avidly, and mauled, jammed, cut, squeezed and otherwise tortured it. The thought suffered greatly, but the poet did not desist until he had achieved his purpose, which was to grind out another sonnet and keep himself before the public—Puck. "So you have traced your ancestry away back to the old barons of the Rhine!" "Yes," answered Mr. Dustin Stax. "What a pity you can't meet some of them!" "I don't know about that. Those old barons of the Rhine seem picturesque from this distance. But a man of wealth was liable to be more or less embarrassed by a personal meeting with any of them."—Washington Star. LINES TO MARY ANN I was hasty, very hasty-I am sorry, Mary Ann. Won't you come back to our kitchen and forgive me if you can? I am longing, Mary, longing for a look into your eyes. And my human self is hungry, hungry for your lemon pie. For your lemon pie, we have For the matter of a dollar we have drifted far apart, I drifted more myself and will I will pay, if you'll forgive me and will forge an apple tart. When I see the leaden biscuits and the leathery steak I scan, I am on my knees for pardon, for your pardon, Mary Ann. I remember how it happened, it is clear as it can be. How you wanted twenty dollars, and I told you Twenty-three; I was very young and foolish, on my dignity intent. And I swear it, Mary, swear it, did not cooking meant. I am older, now, I cooked, won't Won't you make some fluffy biscuits like you used to, Mary Ann? Ah, if you could lift the biscuit! Ah, if you could only look On the pale anemic coffee since my wife has had to cook; If you saw the steak she serves me, how our every daily meal From once being a real pleasure has become but an ordeal. You'd have pity. Mary, pity, though your love for me is gone. And you'd burry back, I know it, and would put the broiler on; And the gravity specific of the biscuits you'd reduce— Oh, have mercy, Mary, mercy, don't be stubborn-what's the use? "You say de world owes you a livin'?" said Mr. Erastus Pinkley. "Da's what I done says?" answered the young man who had been dabbling in amateur economies. "Well, den you jes' run along to de world an' collect yoh livin' an' stop tryln' to borry money fum me."—Washington Star. "Is your son-in-law, the duke, a good conversationalist?" "Well," answered Mr. Cumrox, "he's willing enough. But my foreign vocabulary is limited. I can never feel sure whether he is talking about his pedigree or thinking up a menu for dinner."—Washington Star. Briggs—Even divorce, nowadays, others no sure relief. Briggs—How so? "Why, in nine cases out of ten a man is free to marry again."—Life. Mrs. Bullion-I wish I knew something to do that would provide me with an absolutely new sensation. Mr. Bullion-Go out and pay cash for something.-Life. KEEPS SCALP FRESH CLEAN AND WHOLE- MAKES HAIR GROW LONG AND LUXURIOUS Family Suspicion: A Theory Accepted In Doubt Foolish Man. Startling. THKer Usually Right. The Doctor—Now that you are going to school, Johnny, perhaps you can tell me what happens when an irresistible force strikes an immovable object. "People send for you, doctor."—Life. Catastrophes "Did you have any adventures while you were abroad, Mrs. Comeup?" "Oh, yes. In Italy we were in a hair-breadth of being held up by the bandolines, and in Switzerland we came mighty near falling down a cavat."-Baltimore American. He Did. First Waiter--You tried hard enough to work that swell guy for a tip. Did he give you one? Second Waiter--Yes; he gave me two. He handed me a dime and told me never to judge a man's wealth by his clothes he wore--Chicago Tribune. Poor Fellow! She (caressingly)—Sweetheart, I know you must be tired holding me on your knee so long. He—Oh, no, dear; I am not tired. I was two hours ago, but I am numb now.—Judge. Goat's Milk for the Baby. Jinks—I see Butt-In is giving his baby goat's milk. Jenks—How's that? Jinks—To develop the old family habit, I suppose.—Life. JOSHUA BANKS & SONS CATERERS EVERY FACILITY CONSISTENT WITH FINE CATERING. Special Attention Given to Balls, Suppers, Installations and Smokers at the Shortest Notice. LAM L. BANKS, 611 N. d Residence: 1312 N. 26th St RAILROADS. Richmond, Fredericksb'g & Potomac R. R. SCHEDULE EFFECTIVE SEPT. 6, 1908. TO AND FROM WASHINGTON AND BEYOND. Leave Richmond Arrive Richmond *5.20 A.M. Byrd St. Sta. *5.45 A.M. Main St. Sta. *4.40 A.M. Byrd St. Sta. *4.00 P.M. Byrd St. Sta. *4.00 P.M. Ela Station. *1.15 P.M. Ela Station. *5.20 P.M. Ralo St. Sta. *5.20 P.M. Ralo St. Sta. *5.20 P.M. Ralo St. Sta. *7.50 A.M. Byrd St. Sta. *10.35 A.M. Ela Station. *12.15 P.M. Main St. Sta. *12.15 P.M. Main St. Sta. *7.15 P.M. Ela Station. *9.00 P.M. Byrd St. Sta. *9.00 P.M. Byrd St. Sta. *10.15 P.M. Main St. Sta. ASHLAND ACCOMMODATIONS - WEEKDAYS. Leave Ela Station - 7.30 A.M. 1.30 P.M. 6.35 P.M. Arrive Ela Station - 6.40 A.M. 10.40 A.M. 5.40 P.M. *Daily.* *Weekdays.* (Sundays only. All mornings or from Byrd Street Station stop at Ela Station. Departures and departures not guaranteed. Read the sign.) N. & W. NORFOLK & WESTERN ONLY ALL-RAIL LINE TO NORPOLE. Leave Bryd Street Station, Richmond. In December 1, 1907. For Norfolk-9:00 A. M. 2:00 P. M. and 7:00 P. M. mallberg, 9:00 A. M. 12:10 P. M. and 7:40 P. M. ARRIVE RICHMOND—From Norfolk-11:00 A. M. and 6:50 P. M. daily. From the West- 7:40 A. M. 2:00 P. M. and 8:50 P. M. daily. Pulman, Parlor and Sleeping Cars. Cake Dining Cars W. B. BEVILL C. H. BOSLEY, Gen. Pass. Agent. Div. Pass. And. Southern Ry TRAINS LEAVE RICHMOND. N. B.—Following schedule figures published as information, and are not presented: 6:20 A. M.-Daily-Local for Charlotte. 11:00 A. M.-Daily-Limited-Buffet Pullman to Atlanta, Birmingham, New Orleans, Memphis, Chattanooga and the South Through coach for Chase City, Oxford, Durham. 6:00 P. M.-Sunday-Kyville 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 Point—On necting for Baltimore Monday, Wednesday and Friday. 2:15 P. M.-Monday, Wednesday and Friday— Local to West Point. 4:23 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 Chase City and local station. 8:40 A. M.-From West Point and from Balt- more Wednesday, Friday and Sunday. 10:45 A. M.; 5:45 P. M.-Local from West Point C. W. WESTBURY, D. P. A. ATLANTIC COAST LINE (EXECUTIVE January 8, 1998.) TRAINS LEAVE RICHMOND DAILY. For Florida and South-8-15 A. M. and 7:26 P. M. 11-40 A. M. 8:00 P. M. 8:00 P. M. For North Carolina-9:00 A. M. 8:00 P. M. For K. N. and W. Ry. West-9:00 A. M. 12:28 and 9:40 P. M. For Petersburg: 9:00 A. M. 12:10. 9:20 P. M. 6:00. 9:40 P. M. 7:25 and 11:30 P. M. Trains arrive Richmond daily-6:18. P. M. 7:40 A. M.; *8:35.* *19:45 and 11:30 A. M.* *12:16* 2:00. 6:50. 8:00 and 5:50 P. M. Trains arrive Sunday. *Sunday only.* **Hospice** Monday. Time of arrivals and departures and con- structions not guaranteed. C. CAMPBELL D. P. A. SEABOARD AIR LINE RAILWAY SOUTHBOUND TRAINS SCHEDULED TO LEAVE RICHMOND DAILY. 12:55 A. M.-Sleepers and coaches, Havasuah. Jacksonville and Southwest. 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SATURDAY...NOVEMBER 21, '08 Good and evil are often present in one and the same person. --- Some people do not trust anybody and as a rule, they are people, who can least be trusted. --- Business conditions are improving. The election helped the politicians and damaged the ordinary citizen. --- Holding up lamp-posts and supporting front fences is not the way to make a living or support a family. ---O--- God is good to the extent that he allows the just to live as well as the unjust and the lazy as well as the thrifty. _____ People who render good services are always in demand. People, who render slip-shod service are always the ones whose room is demanded. The statistical white folks say that the Negro is dying out. Then what are they worrying about? There is no need to send them to Africa or anywhere else. --- Some people rather loaf around all day to make twenty-five cents by sharp practices than to work three hours and make fifty cents by honest labor. --- There is many a lazy man who imagines that he is sick. Sometimes it is a case of inherited-tiredness. It usually disappears when he is forced to enter a public work-house. Some people are always talking about hard times and they make time much harder by talking so much about it. A man who has a five hundred dollar bill to invest is not liable to take it out in the midst of a lot of croakers, who would lead him to believe that he would lose it. Let us talk about the good times and they may heave in sight. --- We note with renewed interest the determination or Senator J. B. Foraker to make a fight for re-election to the United States Senate. We had been advised that a canvass with this idea in view had been going on in Ohio for some time previous to the election. It was being maneuvered by the friends of this distinguished representative. It means that a statesman, who has given the best years of his life to the cause of his people and whose public life has been an open book cannot be howled down and the brilliant career tarnished by misrepresentations of his political enemies. It may be that Senator Foraker will not be able to succeed in this, the greatest contest of his life. He will have the best wishes and prayers of ten million citizens, who see in him the elements of greatness and the basic principles of true righteousness. An advocate of human rights and a champion or the oppressed, will always be cheerfully supported by the conservative, right-thinking people of this country. Defeat for such a man is only temporary and if he lives long enough, he must win in the end. --- "PEERLESS COLORED AMERI CANS. We have received a handsome chromo, size 24 by 36 inches of "Peerless Colored Americans." The production is very fine, both from an artistic standpoint and from the choice of subjects. In the left hand corner at the top is a log cabin in the pines with the moon in the distance. In the right hand corner is the capitol of the United States. In the lower left hand corner are the colored soldiers moving on to a conflict. A mounted officer with the uniform of the Union Army of 1861 is seen. In the lower right hand corner is a colored farmer at the plow. On the left hand side in the centre is a colored artisan with plans in his hand representing Education and Labor. On the right hand side in the centre is an orator, representing Religion and Law. "The Peerless Colored Americans" selected for this chart are Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, A. M., Paul Laurence Dunbar, Kelly Miller, A. M., Granville T. Woods, Henry O. Tanner, W. E. B. DuBois, A. M. Ph. D., Bishop D. A. Payne, Bishop J. W. Hood, R. H. Boyd, D. D. LL. D., John Mitchell, Jr., Bishop Henry M. Turner, Daniel H. Williams, M. D. The division is specified as follows: Literature, History and Philosophy, Art and Invention, Industry and Finance, Commerce and Agriculture. The poetic selections and apt quotations are as follows: "The business of government is to hold its broad shield over all and to see that every American citizen is alike and equally protected in his civil and personal rights. My confidence is strong and high in the nation as a whole. Its fundamental principles are sound. Its conception of humanity and of human rights, is clear and comprehensive. It stands out free and clear with nothing to obstruct its view of the lessons of reason and experience."—Frederick Doug lass. "Our ears shall list thy story From bards, who from thy roots shall spring, And proudly tune their lyres to sing Of Ethiopia's glory."—Dunbar. "Let wrong and hatred cease the races dwell in peace From strand to strand."—Brooks. "To understand man, we must look beyond the individual and his actions or interests and view him in combination with his fellows."—Carlyle. "Never in the history of man has a race made such educational and material progress in forty years as the American Negro."—Lyman Abbott. "For their blood has cleansed completely Every blot of slavery's shame."—Dunbar. "Peace hath her victories No less renowned than War."—Milton. This magnificent chromo will be sold by agents or may be obtained direct by addressing George M. Rewell and Co., Cleveland, Ohio. It should be in every home and it will awaken a patriotic thrill in the breast of every patriotic citizen of color who has a spark of racial manhood within his heart. A QUESTION OF REDUCTION The declaration of President Roosevelt that no responsible man in the Republican Party has any serious idea in reducing the congressional representation of the South, so long as the disfranchisement of voters is not based upon race or color seems to us to be within the strict lines of the truth. We would like to have shown us though one single disfranchising constitutional enactment in the southern states, where this disfranchising business was not made on account of race and color. In fact this was the avowed purpose of all such legislation. If it was made with the intention of dis THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA franchising the illiterate white man as well as the illiterate Negro, then the electorate of the South has been badly deceived by their supposed friends. So far as the colored folks are concerned, they are woefully disappointed over the outlook and many to-day hope to see the time come again when they shall be permitted to cast that ballot that they had come to regard as the heritage of every American citizen. This country is drifting to that condition of oligarchy, where only the favored few can rule and it is a deaf, dumb and blind man who fails to see it and to realize its disadvantages. The whole theory upon which this government was founded is being reversed. THE KAISER IS MUZZLED TONGUE WAGGED TOO FREELY Chancellor Von Buelow Wins Out In His Presentation of Demands of German People—The Emperor Promises to Conform Himself to Constitutional Methods of Conducting the Policies of the Country—The Promise Published In Official Gazette. Berlin, Nov. 18.—Forced by the angry tide of popular feeling that swept the empire from end to end, Emperor William yielded to the nation and promised henceforth to conform himself to constitutional methods of conducting the policies of Germany. The climax to the public utterance of the emperor was reached in an interview which he gave to an Englishman and which was published in the London Dally Telegraph on Oct. 28. As the outcome of this, the whole country was aroused; the relchasing endorsed the attitude of many of its prominent members when they denounced the sovereign, and Chancellor Von Buelew, while he attempted to smooth away the affair, undertook to communicate to his majesty a straightforward and unvarnished statement of how the German people viewed his intervention in affairs of state. The interview between the emperor and the imperial chancellor took place at the new palace in Potsdam, and at its conclusion the emperor made formal promise to his people that in the future he would not act except through the chancellor and his associate ministers. This promise was made public in the Reichsanzeiger, the official gazette of the empire. It was in the form of a note, printed on the front page, where decrees, the texts of treaties and the promulgation of new laws usually appear. It was as follows: "During the audience granted to the imperial chancellor, his majesty, the emperor and king, listened for several hours to a report by Prince Von Buelow. The imperial chancellor described the feeling and its causes among the German people in connection with the article published in the Daily Telegraph. He also explained the position he had taken during the course of the debates and interpellations on this subject in the rechaltag. His majesty, the emperor, received the statements and explanations with great earnestness and then expressed his will as follows: "Heedless of the exaggerations of public criticism, which are regarded by him as incorrect, his majesty perceives that his principal imperial task is to ensure the stability of the policies of the empire, under the guardianship of constitutional responsibilities. In conformity therewith, his majesty, the emperor, approves the chancellor's utterance in the reichstag and assures Prince Von Buelow of his continued confidence." Prince Von Buelow had determined upon handing in his resignation if the emperor had not met the country's demands, but as such a situation did not arise, the audience ended with the emperor saying to the imperial chancellor that he reposed full confidence in his wisdom. Within half an hour after the chancellor's return to Berlin bulletins were issued by the newspapers, reporting a favorable issue of the meeting below on the emperor and prince, were eagerly snatched by an anxious public, who in the first moment of joyful surprise scarcely conceived the importance of the announcement to themselves and the empire. The whole nation had awaited with breathless suspense the word from the palace which would decide whether Prince Von Buelow would quit his office and the "reign of personal policy" continue, or whether the chancellor would remain and the desire of the people be fulfilled, that the nation as well as the emperor would have a word in directing the policies of the country. It is certain now in the minds of the German people that a great step has been taken toward freer government. FRANCE'S NEW POSTAL IDEA Letters May Be Telegraphed at Night For a Very Low Rate. Paris, Nov. 18. — The ministry of posts and telegraphs has supplemented the special letter delivery system in France with "letter telegraphs." By this new system letters may be telegraphed at night at a cost of one-fifth of a cent a word for delivery next morning. Taft Will Visit Havana Havana, Nov. 18.—It is reported on good authority that President-elect Taft will visit Havana to attend the inauguration of General Jose Miguel Gomez on Jan. 28 as president of Cuba. EMPEROR AND DOWAGER DEAD Three-Year-Old Bcy Placed Upon Throne of China. SOME STRANGE CEREMONIES Senator Elkins Says Daughter Is Not Engaged to Abruzzi—Henry Watterson's Son Killed By a Fall—Over 300 Dead In Mine Disaster In Germany. Aged Man Murdered and Robbed. Poor Widow of 81 Gets Fortune. Cuba Elects President Tsze Hsi An, the dowager empress of China, the autocratic head of the government, which she directed without successful interference since 1861, and without protest since 1881, died Sunday afternoon. The announcement of the dowager empress' death was official, and followed closely upon the announcement that Kuang-Hsu, the emperor, had died Saturday, but it is believed that the death of both the emperor and the dowager empress occurred a considerable time before that set down in the official statements. An edict placed upon the throne Prince Pu-Yi, the three-year-old son of Prince Chun, the regent of the empire, in accordance with a promise given by the dowager empress soon after the marriage of Prince Chun in 1903. An edict issued on Friday made Pu-Yi their presumptive. Death-bed observances of 2000 years ago marked the passing of the emperor and dowager. They died alone and unattended, although surrounded by circles of abject spectators, who remained a rod distant, as, on account of the sacred persons of their majesties they could not be approached. The emperor died as he had lived, without ministration of whatever kind or scientific aid. For months he had refused to permit the services of foreign physicists, and although it was stated that he had gone back to the old form of medical treatment, it is believed that latterly he received no treatment at all. Tsze Hsl An, or "western empress," was born Nov. 17. 1834. She was the child of poor people, who lived in Pekin. At an early age, following a common practice in China, she was sold as a slave by her parents on account of their poverty. She became the property of a famous general, who, enchanted with her great beauty, adopted her and offered her as a present to the reigning emperor, Hsien-Feng. She so charmed the emperor by her looks and intelligence that he made her his secondary wife, and on her bearing him a son, the future Emperor Tung-Chih, raised her to the first rank. On his death she became the regent of the empire, administering the national affairs with more vigor than any of her predecessors. Her authority was complete over about 14,000 officials and over the welfare and lives of the vast majority of the inhabitants of China, who number close to 270,000,000. Metcalf to Leave Cabinet Secretary of the Navy Victor H. Metcalf tendered his resignation to President Roosevelt, to take effect on Dec. 1, on account of ill health. Assistant Secretary of the Navy Truman H. Newbery will be named as Mr. Metcalf's successor. For more than a year the fact that Mr. Metcalf has suffered serious illness has been well known at the navy department. Formerly of vigorous health, his friends expected that he would be able to regain his strength, but constantly recurring illness has convinced him that the only course for him to pursue is to sever his connection with all active work. Famous Priest Found Dead Rev. George E. Viger, of the Sulpician Order, and who had been for over forty-seven years a member of the faculty of St. Charles college, Elliott City, Md., and one of the best known priests in this country, was found dead in bed in his room at the college. Death was due to heart failure. Father Viger was seventy years old. Many of the most prominent members of the Catholic priesthood and heilarchy in the United States were his pupils at St. Charles college. Hairless Calf Has Fringe of Wool. A hairless calf is the latest freak of nature and is owned by Ollie Williams, who has a farm near Seaford, Del. The calf is six weeks old and has not a hair on its body. Its form is perfect except its head, which is covered with wool, while a streak of wool extends about ten inches down its back. Boy Killed While Hunting Adelbert E. Rose, sixteen years old, was accidentally killed by Harry Cordner while hunting near Kinzua, Pa. Both boys shot at a grouse, the discharge from Cordner's gun striking Rose in the head. Miss Elkins Not Engaged. Senator Stephen B. Elkins made the emphatic announcement that no engagement exists between his daughter, Miss Katherine Elkins, and the Duke se Abruzzi, of the Italian navy. Falls 110 Feet to Death. Harvey W. Watterson, a lawyer and younger son of Colonel Henry Watterson, editor of the Louisville Courier Journal, plunged to his death from the nineteenth floor of his office building at 37 Wall Street, New York City. His body shot downward for 110 feet and landed on the roof of a ten-story building adjoining. Almost every bone was broken and the head crushed, and death was practically instantaneous. While there were no eve-witnesses to the tragedy, evidently it was entirely accidental. Mr. Watterson's hat and overcoat were on his closed desk. Presumably he had attempted to lower the window, and either stumbling over the radiator which was in front of the low sill, or losing his footing in some manner unknown, pitched forward and down to death on the roof below. Mr. Watterson was thirty years old and married. He was junior member of the law firm of Wing, Russell & Watterson. Embezzled Over $700,000 Peter Van Vlissinger, a Chicago real estate dealer, and who for years has been classed among the first of Chicago's prosperous and reputable business men, confessed to having obtained through forged deeds and notes more than $700,000, and a few hours after his arrest, on his own urgent appeal to be punished, was sentenced to the penitentiary. The arrest, the indictment, the confession and the sentence were the work of less than four hours. His term in the penitentiary was fixed as indeterminate from one to fourteen years. Widow of 81 Gets Fortune After a life of hardship and poverty, which at times bordered upon actual dependency, Mrs. Mary Wheeler Somerby, a widow, eighty-one years of age, of Newburyport, Mass., has virtually been declared to be the sole heir of the valuable estate left by the late John Wells Russell, of East Orange, N. J. Mrs Somerby is now living with her only son in a little frame dwelling, said to be scarcely more than a shack, and almost in destitute circumstances. It is said the estate to which she is heir is worth in the neighborhood of $100,000. Over 300 Dead In Mine Horror The greatest mine disaster in many years in Germany took place at the Radbad mine, about three miles from Hamm, Westphalia. There was a heavy explosion in the mine, and almost immediately the mine took fire. Of the 380 miners working under ground at the time only six escaped without injury. Thirty-five were taken out badly injured, and thirty-seven were dead when brought to the mouth of the plit. The remaining 302 have been given up for lost. Cuba Elects President As indicated in dispatches from Havana, the Liberal party was triumphant in the election of president and vice president, according to a cablegram from Governor Magoon received by President Roosevelt. Major General Gomez and Senator Alfredo Zayas, according to the dispatch, for president and vice president respectively, have a substantial majority in the electoral college. The Aged Man Slain and Robbed William Read, seventy-eight years of age, was murdered at his home at inland, N. J. The aged man was struck over the head with a blunt instrument which probably rendered him unconscious and was then twice shot in the head. Railroad bonds said to be worth $50,000 and about $300 in cash were taken by the murderer. De Chaulnes Heir Born A private cablegram received in New York from Theodore P. Shonts, who is now in Paris, announces that a son was born to his daughter, the Duchess de Chaulnes. Mr. Shonts and his wife went abroad six weeks ago. The Duke de Chaulnes died in Paris last spring under tragic circumstances. To Kill Diseased Cattle The Pennsylvania live stock sanitary board has ordered that a quarantine be placed on all cattle in Montour, Northumberland, Union and Columbia counties, because of the outbreak of the foot and mouth disease. All infected cattle will be killed, and the owners will be recompensed by the federal and state governments. Surgeon General of Army The appointment of Colonel George H. Torney as surgeon general of the army, to succeed Surgeon General R. M. O'Reilly, was announced by the secretary of war. Colonel Torney is now in charge of the general hospital at San Francisco. The vacancy in the surgeon generalship will occur Jan. 14. Mitchell Seeks to Again Head Miners. John Mitchell, former president of the United Mine Workers of America, allowed it to become known through his friends that he would seek re-election to the office now held by Thomas Lewis. Watchmen: Mordred and More Watchman Murdered and Robbed. Lynchburg, Va., Nov. 18.—Thomas Monroe, aged sixty-eight years, night watchman for the Chesapeake & Ohio railroad eighteen miles west of here, was found dead, having apparently been murdered. The body was found at the foot of a fifteen-foot embankment. His salary, which he had just received, was missing, and a coroner's jury returned a verdict of murder. SEARCHING POCKETS LEGAL Washington Judge Justifies the Wife's Hunt For Cash. Washington, Nov. 18.—It is legal for a woman to take money from a husband's pocket while he sleeps, according to the decision of Judge Muiowney, of the Washington police court. "It shows the interest the woman has in you," he said to George Ridgway, who complained that his wife took liberties with his pockets as he slept. "It shows that she loves you. A woman who does not go through the pockets of her husband does not love him. You have been married long enough to know that a woman has some rights, Ridgway." Ridgway had been arrested on complaint of his wife, who declared she was afraid her husband would knock her head off. She had taken $14 from his pocket to pay the rent. (Continued From First Page.) of a salted gold mine. The owners of a mine that was found to be worth less would load up a gun with gold and fire it into the walls. When the prospective buyer or investor would go there he would be astounded to find gold all about him and believing that he "had struck it rich" would pay a fancy price for the mine only to find that he had been duped. We were told an amusing story where a mine of this description was unloaded on wealthy eastern capitalists, who spent a great deal of money upon it. After months of work a rich vein of gold ore was struck and the mine is now producing from twenty-five to thirty thousand dollars per month much to the surprise and chagrin of the promoters who sold it. The price paid was far below its actual value. RULES OF THE WEST We saw a cabin which appeared to be deserted. The door was open, "That cabin is occupied," said the guide. "In times back any miner could leave his door open and no one would steal anything. The miners would hang a man for stealing quicker than they would for murder. One miner could go into the cabin of another miner, start a fire, cook himself a meal from whatever supplies he found there and it would be all right. All the way up we saw envelopes of gold mines, or prospects as they are called, that deserted. We were nearing Black Hawk. This was the place where gold was first discovered in the Rocky Mountains. THE ROCKY MOUNTAIN GOLD FIELDS. John H. Gregory discovered gold here May 6, 1859. The residents were celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of this discovery. During a period of the first eight months, one million dollars worth of gold was taken and shipped east to the States. We were now at the Stamp Mills. We had wagon-loads of ore being hauled to the mills. We entered and were shown up to the ore crushers where the quartz was reduced to a pulp and sent below where the iron, copper, lead, silver and gold were separated. Water flowed through the sieves of quicksilver where the gold was deposited. Each banker in the party was furnished with specimens of the gold quartz. We loaded up our overcoat pockets with the ore and came away heavier if not a richer man than we were when we entered this truly remarkable establishment. THAT NARROW GAUGE LINE It is said to be a fact that gold is never found in a quartz mine, but what silver in greater or less proportions is present. The whistle sounded and the bankers hurried to the open freight cars that closely resembled the open freight cars of "away down East" of years ago. We were now on a narrow gauged track. Boards had been placed across the cars and on these primitive seats, the wealthy gentlemen and their wives sat. Aawy up on a jutting rock could be seen a group of white girls, with their wraps or variegated colors, giving them the appearance of gypsies. They were gazing with open eyes amazement upon the visitors. A colored man in the party was to them too, a curiosity. THE ENTRANCE TO THE GOLD MINES. The little engine started with a snort to climb the mountain. We were soon around a curve where all three villages below could be seen. They looked like children's toys below, and gazing at the sight for the first time, one could not realize the activities of the people below. Away to the left were the mighty peaks of the Rocky Mountains. On every side could be seen the stamp mills and the entrances to gold mines that were either in operation or had been deserted. The scenery was sublimely grand. We had never seen anything like it before. Men burrowed into the depths of the mountain seeking for gold. A GAMBLER'S CHANCE "Over there," said the guide, "to the left is a mine that was owned by a widow lady. It had not been worked for years. No one thought that it was of much value. A stranger came into our place and said he wanted to buy a gold mine. We looked at him and laughed. He'd have no trouble for there were numbers of them about here that the owners would have been glad to sell for a song. We told him about the widow lady's mine. He went out and when he returned, he said he had purchased it for seven thousand dollars. We laughed again, for there was not one of us who believed that it was worth half that sum. A MAGNIFICENT VIEW "He paid the money. There is the place over there where you see that mill. The opening is right there. This mine is producing twenty thousand dollars worth of gold per month and one hundred thousand dollars wouldn't buy it to-day." We were thinking deeply now. Another screech of the dummy engine, a swing back to the other side and we were looking down upon the towns of Black Hawk and Central City. In many respects it surpassed anything we had ever seen before. FALLING SNOW ON THE MOUN TAINS. A stop for water and we saw two colored boys with the party of white ones. They were the first and only members of that race that we had seen since we had left Denver. We were soon on our journey again and then to the place where tables had been spread with all that heart could wish. We were away up on the mountain, within fifty yards of the top to the left of us was a residence, and to the right of us was the grim locked-up mans. Away down in the valley over thou-sand feet below were the busy villas. Spy was now falling and the novelty of eating a barbecue dinner in a snow storm was a feature of this picturesque trip to the gold mines. A RICH REPAST Every one was invited to the table Receipt That CURES Weak Men FREE. May man who suffers from nervous debility, loss of natural power, weak back or failing memory, brought on by excess, dissipation, unnatural drains or the follies of youth, may cure himself quickly and may cure himself in a home with a simple prescription which I Will Send FREE, in a Plain, Sealed Envelope. This prescription comes from a physician who has made a special study of men, and I am convinced it is the最acting combination for the cure of efficient manhood and vigor failure ever put together. MR. A. E. ROBINSON. and we found ourselves elbow to elbow with the bankers, doing full justice to several slices of juicy beef, the recollection of which even now makes "our mouth water" for more. The meat was well seasoned. Coffee was served and as for the cream that came from the large pitchers, we find the words will not adequately describe. The thigh light sla and the memory of acute attacks of indigestion floated before us, but only as a memory. We had decided to take the chances. THE WAY IT WAS DONE. The mountaineers had dug a pit in the side of the mountain and had built a fire. On this was a large receptacle, made of sheet iron. The beef had been killed and the parts rounded up. Rocks were placed in the large pan or receptacle and heated. On top of these the meat was laid in huge chunks. A cover was placed over it all. The cooks said that they had been up all night preparing and that the meat had been smimmering ever since the evening before. We were repeatedly urged to eat more and it was only when we did not respond, feeling as though we were overloaded to eat more as long as we lived, we wandered about the mountain side with a white friend from the North-west. THE BANKS AND THE GOLD QUESTION When we reached Central City, it was raining, which was said to be a very unusual thing for that season of the year. We were led to the Rocky Mountain National Bank where specimens of gold nuggets were in abundance. They were marked and the bankers were told their value and shown how this was determined. These experts have a dark colored stone about one inch by three inches in size. They could determine the fineness of the gold by rubbing it on the stone. The streaks of bright or gold color on the stone showed them and by weighting large scales provided for the purpose. The could be accurately determined on short notice. Gold sells at about $20.27 per ounce at the mint at Denver. ANSWERING QUESTIONS The specimens were handed around to the group of interested bankers and their ladies. We were in the centre of a group of bankers now, asking questions of the polite officials, who seemed never to tire of giving all information and answering the most peculiar questions propounded by the host of sight-seers, who were there to learn all about this gold mining business. To be perfectly plain, a miner would bring a hammer and nugget. Get it weighed and tested on the bank, with gold from the United States mint to show to his friends on the outside. AN UNPLEASANT INCIDENT We then visited the First National Bank where the intricacies of this gold mining banking business were explained. We were shown to the Directors' room and then we went to the lobby on the outside, where we were engaged in a discussion by a group of bankers. We laughed and chatted with them and admired the photographs of the bankers which had been taken on the top of Black Hawk mountain. We turned partly around only to look into the glowering features of a tall aristocratic looking southerner, whom we had observed with two ladies and a youth in the cars as we came up from Denver. "Get out of the way," he exclaimed sententiously. We did not change color or even change the smile that beamed on our countenance, but easily and gracefully moved aside, although he could have had room just a foot away from us. NO NOTICE TAKEN None of the white bankers paid any attention to the incident and we did not appear to notice it. Later we saw this same white banker standing over in the corner apparently alone with his thoughts and somewhat crestfallen by the manner in which we had met his sally and the ease with which we had parried his affront in the lobby of one of the finest banks in this Black Hawk gold fields. This was the only unpleasant incident during this, our long journey. At no time we were made to feel, save just this once, any embarrassment, for the managers of the gold mines, the presidents, cashiers and directors of the banks and the public spirited citizens of the towns had all treated us with the same courtesy and consideration extended to our white fellow members. It was not long before the return journey began and we were soon going down grade to the capital of Colorado, where the Lights of the city told us that another day was done. In the Long Ago King Copetua had just married the beggar maid. "Because," he explained, "it won't cost much to support her in the style to which she has been accustomed." Chortling over his shrewdness he ordered his funkies to send a notice of the wedding to the various newspapers, with instructions to play it up as a first page story.—Chicago Tribune. We ie ao ) His ead: war é Sy 5 ” . -s HAS HOPES FOR © THE DEMOCRACY Bryan Not Discouraged as to Future of Party. | MAY RUN FOR PRESIDENT AGAIN He Hopes It May Never Become Necessary, But He Will Not Attempt to Decide Until the Time Comes to Act — Believes Country Will Yet Adopt the Reforms Advocated By the Bemocratic Party—Refuses to Say if He Would Allow Himself to Be Elected U.S.Senator From Nebraska. San Antonio, Tex. Nov. 18.—“My friends do not require me to prejudice ‘the future, and I shall not take the advice of my opponents on this sub- Ject. 1 shall continue to write and Speak in defense of things which I belleve to be good for the American people. I hope it may never become mecessary to rin for office again, but I will not attempt to decide that ques- tion until the time comes to act. I do not see any necessity to say more on the subject.” In answer to the direct question, “Will you run for the presidency again if conditions arise to warrant it?” ‘William J. Brygn dictated the fore going statement. Regarding the future of the Democratic party, he sald: “I am not at all discouraged as to the future of the Democratic party. ‘There must bo a democratic party in every country, and I want our party to be democratic; and I have no doubt that the country will see the necessity for the adoption of the reforms advo cated by the Democratic party. It te already a great educational force, and I have no doubt that conditions will #0 indicate the party as to make the yoters turn to It as the best instru: ment for the accomplishment of the Recessary reforms.” “Will you allow yourself to be elect: ed United States senator from Ne Draska?” he was asked. “Nebraska does not elect a senator this year,” he sald with a smile. “But it does two years from now,” he was reminded. “You have my statement regarding my future so far as } care to say,” and he refused to discuss the subject further. Mr. and Mrs. Bryan are enroute to ‘Mexico. Convicts Fire Mine and Eight Are Burned to Death, Birmingham, Ala., Nov. 18.—Accord- Pratt City formed a conspiracy to set Nov mine aie and escape during the safely locked in the stockade. ‘The coup was cunningly planned and daringly executed. A lot of timber lying in the manway was ignited and tion had been attracted to the flames they could make their way through the mine and escape by the main en- try. They had hoped to be able to make their way along the mine ahead of the smoke and fumes from the fire. Im this they miscalculated, for at least eight were suffocated. LOOKOUT INN BURNED Famous Resort In Tennessee Destroy- ed, With All Its Contents. Chattanooga, Tenn., Nov. 18.—The famous old Lookout inn, on the crest ef Lookout mountain, was burned to the ground, together with all its con tents. The owners, Messrs. Jung & Shammotulski, stated that a deal had Just been arranged for the sale of the inn property for $135,000. There was $26,000 insurance on the hotel and its furnishings. Aside from the hotel, four cottages and their contents were destroyed, en- tailing a loss of $16,000. The incline power house was damaged and the trestle on the face of the bluff was ablaze for a time. JERSEY ATTORNEY GENERAL Edmund Wiison, of Red Bank, Ap- pointed By Governor Fort. Trenton, N. J., Nov. 18. — Governor Fort appointed Edmund Wilson, of Red Bank, now state railroad commis- sioner, to succeed Robert H. McCarter as attorney general. Frank H. Sommer, former sheriff of Essex county, was appointed to suc- ceed Mr. Wilson as railroad commis. sioner. Mark Fitzhugh Lee's Grave. Richmond, Va, Nov. 18—A plain shaft has been erected in Hollywood ee MOND, VIRGINIA. 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CLOCK, ONE DOZEN NAPKINS, ONE HALF * ag WE WILL SEND YOU THE PLANET AND DOZEN TOWELS, ONE CHOCOLATE POT, ONE ‘ \ THE COSMOPOLITAN MAGAZINE FOR $2.25 PAIR VASES, ONE PAIR KID GLOVES, ONE iz + k PER YEAR FOR BOTH. HAM, ONE TURKEY. e mest) WE WILL SEND YOU THE. PLANET AND an eee z € S09 McCLURE'S MAGAZINE FOR $2.25 PER YEAR FOR TEN NEW SUBSCRIBERS zt yi” FOR BOTH. WE WILL SEND ONE CHINA SET, THIRTY-ONE iit (i? Pen ie cURGCnneRe PIECES; ONE NECKLACE; DICKENS, SHAKES- © # FOR PEARE, BYRON WORKS; ONE UMSRELLA, ONE * ( ) oR THEIR EQUIVALENT, WE WILL SEND PIC- PLAIN GOLD RING, ONE PAIR LACE CURTAINS x }\ TURES, ONE ONLY, OF PRESIDENT THEO- 1,000 ENVELOPES, 1,000 SHEETS OF PAPER + ("*? DORE ROOSEVELT, DR. BOOKER T. WASH- PRINTED AWD DELIVERED; ONE TOILET SET. : \</ INGTON, BATTLE OF SANTIAGO, LAND BAT- ONE HALF CORD OF SAWED WOOD. ; .. TLE OF QUASIMAS NEAR SANTIAGO, JUNE 24, Se eraat nes / : i \ 1898, SHOWING THE NINTH AND TENTH COL- FOR TWENTY NEW SUBSCRIBERS it nd ~ Ay - P IGI bi va , ~ te + : i \ — c aha, eapsild CE oa WE WILL GIVE ONE HANDSOME GOLD RING $e : i DERS. S SD Ae ES. LAND WITH OPALS, RUBIES OR PEARLS; ONE JEW- oe BATTLE AND C! = ELRY BOX FINISHED IN GOLD OR SILVER; } COLORED INFANTRY IN RESCUE OF ROUGH ONE SILK SHIRT WAIST; ONE READY MADE ## RIDERS AT SAN JUAN HILL, JULY 2, 1898, SIZE DRESS. ONE GOLD WATCH, FILLED, WAR- $% 20X28 AND 20X24 INCHES, ADMIRAL DEWEY'S RANTED FOR TEN YEARS, ONE ROCKING tty : GREAT. NAVAL BATTLE OFF CAVITE IN MA- CHAIR, ONE LOAD OF COAL, ONE GROSS OF ore + NILA BAY, MAY IST, 1898, NAVAL BATTLE, SOAP. EITHER WASHING OR TOILET; ONE $2$ DESTRUCTION OF ADMIRAL CERVERA’S BARREL OF BEST FLOUR, ONE PAIR BLANK. #4 SPANISH FLEET OFF SANTIAGO DE CUBA, JU- ETS, ONE MANICURE SET, ONE SEAMSTRESS’ Ve LY 3RD, 1898, SIZE 22X28 INCHES; LAND BAT- WORK BOX, ONE PAIR SHOES. GENTS OR LA- $$ TLE, CAPTURE OF EL CANEY, EL PASO AND DIES. itt FORTIFICATIONS OF SANTIAGO, JULY FIRST ate Je ree S : AND SECOND, 1898, SIZE 22X28 AND 22X27 = FOR FORTY YEARLY SUBSCRIBERS 233 INCHES. WE WILL SEND YOU ONE OF ANY OR EQUIVALENT, WE WILL GIVE ONE SEW- %5 : OF THE FOLLOWING BATTLES OF THE CIVIL ING MACHINE, ONE DIAMOND RING. ONE WAR ON THE SAME TERMS. THE PICTURES jCOLD WATCH, ONE PAIR FINE GOLD EAR- oe4 LIKE THE OTHER BATTLES ARE FINISHED IN RINGS, ONE MUSIC BOX, ONE PHONOGRAPH, #&% COLORS. THEY ARE 22X28 INCHES AND RE- ONE READY MADE DRESS, ONE SUIT OF GEN- cs TAIL AT ONE DOLLAR EACH. WE WILL TLEMEN'S CLOTHES, ONE GOLD-HEADED + FURNISH FRAMES FOR ANY OF THESE FINE : CANE, ONE GOLD-HEADED UMBRELLA, ONE #& : CHROMOS FOR 2 Be & Se dee nae CHINA SET, ONE DOZEN SILVERPLATED it DITIONAL. BATTLE ETTY: KNIVES AND F ; - ONE Me ee oe rong cer: eee a) KNIVES AND FORKS, ONE HAT-RACK. ONE 4nd vemetery by friends of General Fitz- hugh Lee ‘) mark the last resting place of the: gnilant soldier. The shaft is inseribee on all four sides with the offices held by General Lee during his tite. CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS. See ee ee eee Jobn Irby a negro, was convicted at Spartansburg, S. C., on a charge of at- tempting a criminal assault on Miss Leila Dempsey and was sentenced to serve thirty years in the penitentiary. Duncan Cameron McCallum, late teller of the Farmers’ Bank of Canada, [pleaded guilty at Toronto, Ont. to the theft of $16,495 from the bank and was sentenced to three years in Kingston penitentiary. Edward Bostwick, sixty-eight years of age. and @ former state senator of Michigan, committed suicide by strangling himself with a silf scarf at the home of his sister, Mrs. Benjamin Clark, in Syracuse, N. Y. Friday, November 13, Charged with cutting off half of Ja- cob Wynn's whiskers, Thomas White ‘was fined $35 in the criminal court at Camden, N. J. Judge Tayler, of the federal court, named War-2n Bicknell and Frank A. Scott ag receivers for the Municipal Traction company, of Cleveland, O. Dr. William Kieth Brooks, professor ‘of roology at Jobns Hopkins univer- sity, Baltimore, Md.. and since the founding of that institution continu- ously in its service, died after a pro- longed ilIness. - Jobn J. Miller, etghty-seven years of ‘age, who has been employed In the government service continuously for thirty-three years, died at his home in Washington as the result of an at tack of acute indigestion. ~ Saturday, November 14. The genoral assembly of the Knights of Labor will meet in St. Lous in 1910. | Eeho river, in the Mammoth cave, near Louisville. Ky., 1s almost dry as & result of the drought. |The president appointed George S. Terry to be assistant treasurer of the United States at New York, tr succes: sion to Hamilton Fish. | Brakeman John Carter, of Wilkes: Barre, Pa. was killed, and Fireman E. T. Bradshaw, of Wilkes-Bagre, Pa was fatally injured when the botler of | the engine drawing a fast freight train on the Delaware & Hudson blew up near Windsor, N.Y. | Monday, November 18. | ‘The big cotton mills at Laurens, 8 ©. are to be greatly increased in ca pacity Caught between a car and the walls of a coal mine at Portage, Pa, John Rebosh was fatally squeezed. ‘The University of Ilinots may es tablish a $250,000 veterinary schoo! in the Union Stock yards at Chicago President Roosevelt has been asked to plant a tree Feb 12 next on the campus of a new colored school at Lexington, Ky. | The Home Missions Soctety ‘of the Methodist church has appropriated $100,000 toward rebuilding San Fran cisco churches destroyed by the fire. Tuesday, November 17. ‘The treasury has purchased 100,000 ounces of silver for dellvery at New York at 50,501 per fine ounce, William Jennings Bryan bas been unanimously elected by the seniors of Westminster college, at New Castle, Pa., to deliver an address next June during commencement. Lying In pools of blood, with thelr throats cut from ear to ear, Mrs. Ag nes Lidner and her two children, aged five and three yeara respectively, were found in their home at Frankford, Ky. One Italian was shot to death and threo others probably fatally injured at East Millsboro, near Uniontown, Pa., in a general fight over the owner- ship of a well which was located be- tween two foreign boarding houses, Wednesday, November 18. William $. McKinnon, treasurer of Ohio, died at his home’ in Cleveland after an fllness of more than a year. Herman Rjllik, convicted of the mur. der of five members of the Vzral fam- ily, wus sentenced by Judge Barnes in Chicago to hang on Dec. 11. Gene Doudell, a sixteen-year-old ne gro, confessed to killing Ernest Walsh, twelve years old, also colored, at Ham: iiton, Ga., by beating him on the head with a rock and throwing the body into a creek, after robbing him of $2. Charles N. Hanscom, president of the Eastern Shipbuilding company, an- nounced that the plant at Groton, Mass., where the battleships Minne. sota and the Dakota were built, would be sold at auction and the yard dis- mantled. PRODUCE QUOTATIONS. | ‘The Latest Ciosing Prices In the Principal Mariets. PHILADELPHIA — FLOUR firm; | winter extras, new, $2.75@3.90; Penn- sylvania roller, clear, $4 <q 4.28; city mills, fancy, $5.75@ 5.90. RYE FLOUR steady; per bbl, $4.15@4.25. WHEAT steady! No. 2 “red, western, $1.01@ 1.04 hs CORN firm; No. 2 yellow, lo cal, 69 £. Wc. OATS firm; No. 2 white, clipped. 55 @ 55%%c; lower es 53c. HAY steady; timothy, ge bales. $14.50. POULTRY: Live steady; hens, 12\%4@13ca old roosters, S%4c. ‘Dressed steady; ‘choice fowls, 13%¢.; old rostoers, 10c. BUTTER firm; extra creamery, 33c. EGGS. firm; selected, 38@40c.: nearby, 35c.; western, 35c. POTATOES steady; per bushel. 75@ 0c. Sweet Potatoes, Kaat- ern Shore, Va. s1@1 25, Fer bbl. BALTIMORE— WHEAT steady; No. stg bis ahCorse: southern: sivisg spot. $1. “01%; southern, $1. Gis Gon Soaay; new ‘witrel eho 0% G70%c.; steamer mixed, 6 ae aac southern, 70@70%e. Oa’ firm; white, No. 2, 54 Sec No. 3. RKOrtge No. 4, 52: sor mixed, No. 2. 5$@b3%4c.;'No. 3, 52@ a. BUTTER firm; creamery se; arat extras. apes prints, 31, Be; held, 23@24c.; ‘Maryland and Pennsylvania iry prints, 17@18c. EGGS firm; fency Maryland, Pennsyl- Vania and a Sie; West Vir- ginia, 30c.; southern, 29c. Live Stock Markets. PITTSBURG (Union Stock ote] CATTLE lower; choice. $5.80@6; prime, $5.59@5.75. SHEEP steady; prime wethers, ty gege st: culls and common, $1.50@ 2.50; aed on 90; veal calves, $3@825. HOGS active; ime heavies, $5.90@6; mediums, i Sage eles ati Bek th@UHe: roushe sso eat. “THE DEVIL.” Don’t fail to read our new serial, “The Devil." Commences next week on page two. THE PLANET Solomon Anointed King Sunday School Lesson for Nov. 22, 1908 Specially Arranged for This Paper LESSON TEXT--1 Kings 1:32-40; 50-53 Memory verses, 39, 40 GOLDEN TEXT--"Know thou the God of thy father, and serve him with a per- son and with a willing mind."-1 Chron 28, 28 TIME--Solomon began to reign B. C. 1621, or according to the Assyrian re- cords B. C. 921. He reigned 40 years. PLACE--The city of Jerusalem. Solomon was crowned at Gilon. Identified as the founder of the kingdom. Comment and Suggestive Thought. Solomon's Early Life and Training. 1. He was the first son of David and Bathsheba after their legal marriage. 2. His name, Solomon, means the Peaceful, one whose reign was fore- told to be a reign of peace and quiet ness (1 Chron. 22:9). It may have also expressed the fact that David himself had found the peace of for giveness. Nathan called him Jedi diah: "Beloved of Jehovah." 3. His parental inheritance was remarkably strong in several directions. His father, David, was in the maturity of his age, and his mother, Bathsheba, was the granddaughter of the wise Ahthophel, whose advice "was as if a man had inquired at the oracle of God." 4. His early environment had several advantages over that of Absalom, the son of a heathen mother. Solomon was placed under the care and training of the prophet Nathan, a faithful, pure and wise teacher. He would be brought up thus in the religion and learning of the Jews. He developed a great taste for science and literature (1 Kings 4:32-34). He had the advantages of being the child of David's later years and of being under the influence of the subdued plety which characterized those years. His mother, too, doubtless joined with David in his penitential plety, for she had great influence over him to the last. On the other hand, he was "born to the purple;" he was brought up in luxury and wealth, and knew nothing of the hardships which developed much of the character of his father. The influences of the court were often bad. He came in contact with other princes and he had to resist all the temptations of a beautiful and flattered youth. 5. He was probably 19 or 20 years old when he began to reign. There are some very wholesome lessons from this picture of Solomon. (1) Almost every child born into a Christian family has greater opportunities and blessings than even Solomon had. All Solomon's wisdom and wealth could not bring him so many advantages and comforts and blessings as a poor child may have in this age. How much God and your parents expect of you. Many a hope and joy depends on you for fraternity. (2) It is a great advantage in many ways not to be born and brought up in the luxury of riches. The other extreme of deep poverty is as little to be desired. But that condition of neither poverty nor riches, where the child must learn to work, learn self-demil, learn to do his part in the family, and sees that only work and energy can give him real success, is the best for all. (3) It is wisdom to put ourselves under the best and strongest religious influences. No one can escape temptation. Everyone must make a choice of the influences around him. And the influences he chooses out of all those which are around him will largely determine his future life. Compare Burbank's "Training of the Human Plant." V. 39. "And all the people said, God save King Solomon." They accepted him as their king, "with shouts that rent the earth with the sound thereof." The attempt of Adonijah was nipped in the bad. The kingdom was a limited monarchy, perhaps the first in his ory. In I Chronicles 28 and 29 there is an account of a great assembly of the princes, the army of officers, the statesmen, and the Jewish leaders, called by David. To them he told his plans, for the temple, presented Solomon to them as their king, and entreated both him and the people to keep all his commandments with a perfect heart and a willing mind, "that ye may possess this good land, and leave it for an inheritance for your children after you forever." And David said to Solomon his son: "Be strong and of good courage, and do it: fear not, nor be dismayed, for the Lord God, even my God, will be with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee, until you hast finished all the work for the service of the house of the Lord" (1 Chron. 28:26). The leaders accepted Solomon as king, proved that they were in sympathy with his great work by immense contributions given with great joy, and confirmed their allegiance by religious services, and a great feast of thanksgiving. God has given each of us a kingdom to gain. Three influences brought Solomon to the throne. (1) His inheritance as the son of David and grandson of Ahithophel. (2) His fitness for the place and work. (3) His choice by the people. These three influences have to do with the success of the young people to day. There is an element of Divine Providence in every Life beyond the individual's control. But his use of it and his choice of those things which fit him for usefulness will largely determine his career, though he must also have those qualities which lead the people to freely choose him for his place. FARM GARDEN THE NITROGEN PROBLEM. It Is Not Solved as Easily as Some Farmers Suppose. The nitrogen problem is solvable, but not solved so easily as some people suppose. One speaker at a farmers' institute said: "A rotation including sufficient clover or other legumes will solve the nitrogen part of the fertility problem for us." This statement does not cover the whole situation, by any means, declares Farmers' Review. How can a rotation with legumes settle the nitrogen question when the legumes cannot be made to grow in the first place? And often, even when they do grow well, it is several years before nodules develop on the roots, without which nodules no increase in nitrogen can be made. It very often happens that the cheapest way to supply nitrogen is to buy it, even at 15 cents a pound. It takes several years to get nitrogen from the air by the help of leguminous plants, even under the best conditions; that is, to get enough of it to count for much. The process of gathering nitrogen from the air is one of growth and decay. A soil deficient in nitrogen cannot produce the plants desired, and if they are produced they will be so small and weak that they will amount to nothing when they decay. Therefore before plants can be grown at all luxuriously it is necessary to add to the soil nitrogen as well as other elements of plant food. It is better to add to the soil a liberal amount of some form of nitrogenous fertilizer than to take chances on gradually developing the nitrogen producing bacteria in the soil. Therefore in the very first stages of solving the nitrogen problem, it may be necessary to make considerable purchases of chemical nitrogen. But after the first good start has been made, it should not be necessary to again have resort to commercial nitrogen. There are many plants that are hardy and produce pods, and all pod-producing plants are nitrogen gatherers. Either clover or peas will stand severe conditions of drought, if they are well rooted. Clover and alfalfa will both stand winter conditions. Where red clover will not do well, alsyke clover or white clover will. In some sections, cow peas and soy beans will do well and can be grown for plowing under. Southern localities are, however, likely to reap the most benefit from these two plants. This must be said about cow peas and soy beans, that they have a limited root system and so if only the roots are plowed under they do not give the beneficial results secured from the plowing under of a clover sod. In any rotation carried on for the purpose of keeping up the supply of nitrogen, the leguminous crop must be brought in often enough to give the results desired. How often this leguminous crop should be grown will depend on the natural richness of the particular field in nitrogen and also on the kinds of crops being generally grown as well as the quantities of crops taken off. KEEPING SEED CORN. See That It Is Thoroughly Dry Before Freezing Weather. Never let it freeze before it is dry. We have had seed corn exposed to a temperature of 30 degrees below zero without injuring its vitality, and have had it ruined at ten degrees above zero. We would not recommend kiln drying for 30 degrees below zero without injuring its vitality, and have had it ruined at ten degrees above zero. We would not recommend kiln drying for the general farmer, as this is only practical where a grower is in the seed business. We have found, says Farm and Home, a very convenient way is to take four pieces 4x4 six feet long, set them up in a square, and nail laths on them two and two opposite, leave a six-inch space between the laths so the corn will have plenty of ventilation. Lay your corn on this to dry, and if thoroughly dry it can lay there all winter. Cement and Steel Culverts The price of lumber in the near future will stop the idea of building bridges and culverts of wood. Cement and steel must take its place. There is nothing cheaper than cement, if durability is figured. It is cheaper than corrugated steel, glazed sewer pipe, lumber or cast-iron pipe. Bridges will come to be made of arched spans of concrete, steel beams cement covered, or steel beams with checkered steel floors. Piling, piers and abutments can be made of concrete and will stay for all time. "Are you Mrs. Comeup, attending those college egoteric lectures?" "No, sir; my boys ain't attending any kind of 'sot' lectures. They don't need warnings against the drink habit."—Baltimore American. Elevating Themselves. Faceted Friend—The Comeups are telling their friends they are going on a "tower" of Europe. Cynical Acquaintance—I suppose then, they expect to have a high old time,—Baltimore American. THE RICHMOND PLANET. RICHMOND. VIRGINIA TILE DRAINING PAYS. One Farmer Who Is Certain That the Investment Is a Wise One. In my opinion tile will pay the largest possible dividends on money invested, writes an Iowa farmer in Orange Judd Farmer. I do not care how much or how little is put in the profits will be in proportion. My experience indicates that the tile drains should be laid below the frost line. I contess, however, that I never heard of any damage to a tile drain from frost. Experience indicates that a depth of 3 to $3\frac{1}{2}$ feet is most satisfactory. I think the work should be done while there is water in the ground so that there will be no possibility of making a mistake in the grade. I like a fall of at least two inches to the 100 feet. More would of course be better. Tile ditches should be straight. Lines of tile should be placed from three to five rods apart, according to fall and kind of soil. The three-inch tile is the common size for short distance ditches, but a larger size should be used for outlet drains. Tile drains will not do much work in spring until the frost is out of the ground. Of course, if it is very wet some of the water may seep in. I am especially interested in tile draining, but do not pretend to know more than experienced men. I do know, however, that when I put in a tile drain it does the work all right. I only wish I were able to put in a lot more. POTATOMATOES How the Tomato May Be Grafted Up on the Potato. You recently published an article on grafting the tomato on the potato. Will you kindly describe the process? I desire to try the experiment, writes a correspondent of the Country Gentleman, and that journal replies: "In grafting the tomato on the potato, or the potato on tomato or in making any other graft of similar herbaceous plants, the simpler methods are preferred. The saddle graft and the splice graft are the ones most commonly used. The splice graft is made by simply cutting the scions a smooth slanting cut. The stock is cut in the same way and the two members are tied together with their faces joined. Splice. Saddle. Two Kinds of Graft. In order to get the best results, it is desirable to have the grafts made of rather tender shoots, such as have only partially hardened. In order to get a proper union with this sort of tissue, it is necessary that the cut be made with a very sharp knife, preferably with a razor. The two parts are then rather tenderly joined together using very soft cloth bandages or moistened raffia. It is desirable furthermore to cover the grafted plant with a bell jar or hand glass of some sort for a few days in order to prevent too rapid evaporation. If it is left exposed to the open air, especially if the atmosphere is rather dry, the sclon dries out and wilts so badly that it cannot recover. The saddle graft is made by cutting the stock wedge-shaped, while the sclon is cut with a V-shaped silt so that it will fit down the wedge of the stock. The rest of the process is carried out exactly as already described for the splice graft. THE THRESHING OUTFIT. It Will Pay You to Take Good Care of It During Idie Season. It pays to take care of a threshing engine after the season is over. One of the best things to do is to clean the boiler, then fill it with cold water, pour in a quart of good oil and get up steam, then blow it out. When it gets cold clean the grates good and all around them, then take some axle grease or thick oil and grease the inside of the firebox all around. Oil the flues with good oil and put two or three shovelfuls of dry shavings in the firebox to take up the dampness. I have given such care to a boiler and engine that have been 16 years in the field and are good yet, declares a writer in Farm and Home. They are running a 36-inch cylinder machine, with a self-feeder and a swinging stacker. Look Out for the Nails George A. Matthews, for 46 years a miller, says farmers should use more caution when cleaning grain to use fine screens that will remove all nails and iron. He has taken one-quarter pound of nails by magnet from a grist of 500 pounds. Nails or bits of iron not only endanger the grinder, but may kill a cow if she eats them. Co-Operation. With a gasoline traction engine land can be plowed for about 80 cents per acre. Not many of our readers have farms big enough to warrant buying one, but here is a grand opportunity for co-operation. Let several farmers combine in the purchase of such an outfit. BRIEF HINTS. Never put soil or sods on top of a gravel road. It simply means mud in wet weather and dust when the season is dry. Supply the hopper so the mill will die, no matter what kind of an animal your mill may be. Be good to yourself by being good on your stock. A Lonely Place. Country Hostess—Have you nice neighbors where you live now? City Guest—Ch. we have no neighbor. City Guest—Ch. we have no neighbors now, not at all. Country Hostess—You haven't any neighbors? City Guest—No. We live in a flat. -N. Y. Weekly. Look Here, Sir. In Car—Look here, sir, I got up to give my seat to that lady! Second Man—putting down)—That's all right, old fellow. That's my life. JOHN M. 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We are selling old papers at fifteen cents per hundred. ```markdown ``` PARLORS THE PLANET SATURDAY...NOVEMBER 21.'08 Jimmy's Thanksgiving. By OLIVE HARPER. "JIMMY" WEBSTER, more properly Geraldine, had determined to leave her country home to study art In New York. "I know I am an artist; perhaps I am a genius," she said. Her mother said nothing against the project, but new lines formed around her mouth. Some thing had gone out of her father's eyes "JIMMY." and step, and he looked older. He, too, remained silent. George Seabright, when his pleading proved vain, merely sald, "If you find the world too much for you, let me know." "Perhaps," replied the young girl, while her pretty lips took a hard outline new to them. She had $180 and thought that more than enough to last until fame and riches came. When she was gone the whole farm seemed empty. Her brave, bright letters told how she and three other girls had rented a photograph loft for only $10 a month. They had made it very artistic, had built wardrobes of packing boxes and made divans of cots covered with denim, which served as cozy beds at night. She told of the screen made of a clotheshorse, covered also with denim, which served to hide their bachelor girl kitchen with its coal oil stove and packing box closets for dishes. Her father made no comment on these pitiful makeshift, but he and George read between the lines. They knew there was something wrong. There was a forced breezing in the letters, George had loved Jimmy since she was a baby, and he decided as Thanksgiving drew near that he could stand the strain no longer. In the meantime the four girls in the great, bleak, ancient photographer's gallery were finding it very hard to win fame. The rent, though divided among four, was high when nothing was coming in. They could not afford a stove, and tea and dry bread were their food. Finally one girl sat down on the floor and began to wall. She was cold and hungry and miserable. She was going home, "and art could go to grass!" This voiced the general sentiment, but Jimmy had come from sterner stock, and she wouldn't give up. Three of the four girls wrote to their parents and in a week had said goodby to Jimmy, who faced the question of rent alone. She threw herself on the cot and cried all night with hunger, cold and the knowledge that she was beaten. From talent to genius was a far cry, and she was no genius. "But I wouldn't care," she sobbed. "if it were not so near Thanksgiving. At home there'll be turkey and pies and cake and jellies and—I just can't stand it." But she never once thought of writing home for help. The next morning she lay unconscious in her lonely place tossing in fever, while her grieving father and mother were going around heavy footed making preparations for the coming feast. Jimmy lay two nights and a day ill and alone, when a lady who had an office in the same building had a feeling that something was wrong upstairs and went up to find the poor deserted child. The doctor said she should go to a hospital and that he would send for her. There was a hurried step on the stairs, and in a minute George was on his kness beside the cot. "Oh, Jimmy, little Jimmy! I knew something was wrong, and I've come to take you home if you go." "Will I? Oh, George, I'll be so thankful! I'm a failure, George—I'm a failure." "I don't think so. Can she travel doctor? I'll get a carriage. She'll be home just in time for Thanksgiving." "It will be that for me," said Jimmy weakly, while two tears jumped from her eyes, and big George Seabright put his arms around her and pressed his first kiss on her quivering lips regardless of the doctor and the lady. "It will be an eternal Thanksgiving. Jimmy" THE WIDOW = THE WIDOWER DEACON SILAS LAFHAM, widower, had been paying attention to Aunt Sarah Hender sow, widow, for two years Each heard that the other was stubborn, and each was watching and waiting for the other to exhibit the trait. Thanksgiving brought the crisis. The widow invited the deacon to dinner. There was no question about the deacon taking the head of the table, but when the matter of carving came up the widow took knife and fork in hand and said: "I can do it so much better than you, you know." "I fall to see how or why," he replied. "Because I have always carved. It was an eccentricity of mine even when I was a girl. No doubt you can slice ham or pork, but when it comes to carving a turkey"— "I have carved thousands of them. D. "THERE—YOU ARE JABBING AGAIN!" as you must know," interrupted the Seacon, with considerable asperity. "Don't jab the fork into the bird like that. That's like a bired man jabbing a pitchfork into a heap of hay." "I was not jabbing. In order to start carving you must get a firm hold of the bird." "Then take it by a leg." "Never! How would you look holding the bird with one hand while you sliced away with the knife? If you have always carved that way?"— "I have, and it's the only way to carve. There—you are jabbing again! One would think you were a soldier bayonetting an enemy." "Deacon Silas Laplah, you are talking like a child! When I think I need to be told how to carve a turkey I will call on you for advice. I simply get a firm hold with the fork and then"— "And you would also saw and jab." "Y-e-s." And though you w didn't miss your turkey. "N-o." And all things consist. Yes, all things consist. The deacon's fur has the right way for a time at last, and on this time he will do the carving will pass the cranberry. Our Thankfules By ROBERTUS [Copyright, 1908, by American H, we are thankful blessings. Thankful for life. "And then jab, jab, jab. A woman has no business with the carving knife and fork when there is a man present. I will carve this turkey." "I beg your pardon, but you will sit there and see me carve it. Don't forget that I am in my own house and that I am still my own boss." "You invite me to dinner and then humillate me, do you?" shouted the deacon as he shoved back his chair. "Now, don't be a schoolboy," chided the widow as she flourished the knife around. "Having got a firm hold with the fork, I now proceed to cut around the thigh joint—thus." "But you are sawing instead of cutting." "If I was a swearing man"— "You'd get off a swear word on this occasion. Yes, you look as if you were swearing to yourself this minute." "I hain't sworn a single swear, but when a man has to sit here and see a Thanksgiving turkey jabbed and poked and stabbed and sawed and butchered the Lord would surely forgive him for one or two swear words." "Deacon Silas Lapham," she replied as she rested from her labors, "I said I could carve a fowl." "Then why do you?" "I am doing it, and if you would keep quiet for five minutes I"— "This is too much, widow—too much!" said the deacon as he started for his overcoat and hat. "You invite me here and then insult me. I heard about your obstinacy"— "And I heard about yours." "But I thought it a slander. Now, however, I can no longer doubt." "Neither can I." "It was my place to carve that turkey. In your obstinacy you continued to saw and jab and butcher without regard to my feelings. My only course is to bld you good day and take my hat and leave." "If you will act like a boy, I can't help it." "And never come again." finished Successful Candidate—Well, Jerry. what did you spend during the campaign? Jerry—I'll leave that to yer own judgement, yer honor.—Life. In a Department Store. Mrs. Shopper—I'd like to look at some hose. Floor Walker—Yes, madam! Garden or limb?—Life. "No, I'm not." "Widow Henderson!" "Deacon Lapham!" "Neither can I." By Caspar Dullon Copyright, 1908, by American Press Association the deacon as he got on his overcoat. The widow ate her Thanksgiving dinner alone, but that turkey was never carved to form a part of it. After the deacon's departure she returned to the carving knife and eventually managed to saw off a piece of the meat, but she had no sooner tasted it than she started for the kitchen to interview the hired girl. It was three or four days before the mystery was solved, for there was a mystery. The turkey, which had been killed three or four days ahead of time and hung up to freeze, had been cut down and devoured by cats, and to save himself from reproof the hired man had killed a peacock and hung it in its place. "And so you see I had to saw and jab," explained the widow as the widower was sent for. 1-e-s, I see. "And you would also have had to saw and jab." "Y-e-s." "And though you went away you didn't miss your turkey." "N-o." "And all things considered"— "Yes, all things considered"— The deacon's fur had to be rubbed the right way for a time, but he purred at last, and on this Thanksgiving day he will do the carving and his wife will pass the cranberry sauce. Our Thankfulest Thanks BY ROBERTUS LOVE. [Copyright, 1908, by American Press Association.] OH, we are thankful for manifold blessings. Thankful for life and for home and for health. Thankful. Thankful for turkeys with savory dressings. Thankful for progress and wisdom and health. Thankful for corn and alfalfa and clover. Thankful for money and faith in the banks. Thankful, so thankful, election is over- That is the source of our thankfulest thanks! One year in four is a leap year, remember. This is one of 'em, and many a man Sworn to stay single if this were Decem- ber. Now would give thanks to be free of the ban. Yet there's a bother that's still more distressing One year in four—all the rest it out- named. Namely, election, which keeps us a-guess- ing. Now that it's over, our thankfulest thanks! Man can escape from the malden pursuing; Man can resist the importunate miss; Simple system of shunting and shoot- ing. That will avoid matrimonial bliss. But there is never a man so evasive He can escape the political tanks. A man who is not He can escape the political tanks, Always a drip with palver persuasive. They're they're quiet, our thankfulest thanks! Season of roaring and ranting and raving. Period when it is perfectly plain Every man's maniac. If Washington's duty is saving Washington's country from bondage chain; Time when your friend or your father or brother For his opinions you class with the cranks. Now your years are correct. Now for four years we cannot have an- other. So let us offer our thankfulest thanks. Maybe 'twas tariff and maybe 'twas labor. Maybe 'twas courts that so split us apart; Maybe the trusts so affected your neighbor That he dissevered himself from your heart; Maybe injunctions or guaranteed banking. Any or all of the partisan planks. Well, it is over, so now for the thanking— Now for reunion, our thankfulest thanks! Oh, we are thankful the nation is living. Thankful the dear old republic is still. Sure of a hand to proclaim a Thanksgiving. Thankful, so thankful, his front name is Bill! Thankful are we that Columbia is leaping Four years away from political pranks. Such a relief is occasion for heaping Thus on Thanksgiving our thankfulest thanks. Free from One Scandal "Everybody tells me I am taking a gambler's chance with this thing," he said, "but I'm not springing any slot machine game on the public anyhow." For this, as we learn from subsequent history, was reserved for lake steamers of a later perio1.—Chicago Tribune THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA The People's Restaurant. POLITE ATTENTION EMPEROR AT THE PLOW. Peculiarities of China's Thanksgiving Celebration. In China at the beginning of winter a thanksgiving festival is held at which the deities are especially thanked for the preservation of life and health during the preceding twelve THE EMPEROR OPENS SEVERAL FURIOUS months. Offerings are presented on the family altar, and the ceremony is brought to a close by a grand dinner at which all members of the family can partake. The teasting and rejoicing are kept up for days. On the fifteenth day of the first moon the emperor of China goes in great state to a certain field, accompanied by the chief officers of his household, and prostrates himself, touching the ground nine times with his head in honor of the god Tien, and pronounces a prayer invoking the blessing of the great being. Then as high priest of the empire he sacrifices a bullock to heaven as the fountain of all good. While the victim is being offered a plow drawn by a pair of highly ornamented oxen is brought to the emperor, who throws aside his imperial robes, hold of the plow handles and opens several furrows. The principal mandarins follow his example, and the festival, which is really a species of thanks in advance for good harvests, ends with a distribution of clothes and money to the poor. "RABBIT HUNTING DANCE." Odd Thanksgiving Festival Held by the Pueblo Indians. The "rabbit hunting dance" of the Pueblo Indians at Zunil, Acoma, Taos and Isleta is a festival contemporaneous with that of the white man. In the dance the Indians give thanks and pray for future favors. The chief of each village designates a day in November for the festival, and the dancers, who are dressed in white cotton shirts and pantaloons and carry guns, chant and dance as long as breath and strength remain. They begin at day light and after a pause for food at noon continue dancing far into the night. 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(Now, Mose, yo' show yo' mannahs 'fo' dese folks, er Ah tell yo' Dath'll be a chile go hongry, an' he'll git a lickin' too). Heah, Oncle Dan, is de possum meat—Ah's lockin' aftah dat— An' heah's a piece esphah' youahs, all brown an' streaked wif fat. WHA'S dat—de graby? Don' yo' fret; it's comin' right up daih, An' sich! W'y, dat air possum fat enough, I do declaih, To mek enough er graby fo' de ma'chin' Isruites. Heah, Rev' end Mistah Fe'guson, be suah yo' gets yo' rights. De smell am sweet! Wy, man, yo' tas' an' den I bet yo' shout An' mek de neighbohs wondah wha' de fuss am all about. Heah's little Eph. Now, chile, it's sabed yo' sumpin' nice an' sweet. Wha's dat! Good lan! Dis boy is savin' he' don' lak possum meat COPYRIGHT 1908 BY UNDERWOOD & UNDERWOOD, N.Y. "NOW FO' DE POSSUM DINNER!" He saize he don' lak possum meat, an' him a son o' min. Now, honey, tuhn to all dese folks an' knowledge. Mek out 't uz jes' a lia' joke to aggervate yo' ma, Or, 'clar' to goodness, Ah's jes' boun' to whup yo' till yo's Yo' speak de trufe, yo' li'l imp! Den wha's yo' doin' hea' A settin' up wif nigghah folks to mek yo'se' f appeah A niggah, too, when eb'ry one kain tell, in spite youah b Dat tuhnin' 'way f'um possum meat yo' ain't de hones' WELL, dere, yo' pa saize nebbah min', bekaze yo' su'u Dat 'tain't youah fault yo' sum'ays missed youah Hol' out yo' plate; dere's plenty mo' to fill a chile lak yo' De good Lawd mek yo' suitain ways, Ah spose, dat's got' But, lan!' Ah's 'feared yo' grow up wrong an' mebbe be' To all de cullahd circle an' de 'spected fam'ly name, Fo' ebbah sence Ah's ol' enough to stan' upon ma feet Ah's s'pishoned any niggah would tuhn f'um possum HE saize he don' lak possum meat, an' him a son o' mine! Now, honey, tuhn to all dese folks an' knowledge up yo's lyin'. Mek out 't uz jes' a lil joke to aggervate yo' ma, Or, 'clar' to goodness, Ah's jes' boun' to whup yo' till yo's raw! Yo' speak de trufe, yo' li'l imp! Den wha's yo' doin' heah A-settin' up wif niggh folks to mek yo'se'f appeah A niggh, too, when eb'ry one kain tell, in spite youah black, Dat tuhnin' 'way f'um possum meat yo' ain't de hones' fack? WELL, dere, yo' pa saize nebbah min', bekaze yo's such a mite; Dat 'tain't youah fault yo' sum'ays missed youah nachul appetite. Hol' out yo' plate; dere's plenty mo' to fill a chile lak yo'. De good Lawd mek yo' suhtain ways, Ah spose, dat's got to do. But, lan'! Ah's feared yo' grow up wrong an' mebbe be a shame To all de cullahd circle an' de 'spected fam'ly name, Fo' ebbah sence Ah's o'l enough to stan' upon ma feet Ah's pishahed any niggh dat would tuhn f'un possum meat. BOY ARRESTED FOR MURDER CONFESSES Grandson of Victim Tells How He and Two Others Plotted Crime. Vineland, N. J., Nov. 18—Startling were the developments in the Read murder mystery. The detectives who have been at work on the case decided to arrest Walter Zeller, the nineteen-year-old son of Mrs. W. E. Cooper, and grandson of William Read, who was slain last Friday night. Zeller was taken to the house of Detective Spencer and put through the "third degree." He held a bold front for an hour, but finally broke down and with copious tears confessed. Prosecutor Fithian was hurriedly sent for. The boy showed extreme grief as he began to realize his position. His stepfather, W. E. Cooper, broke completely down and was attended by a physician. Zeller told of the plot by himself and Cline Wheeler, twenty years old, and Herbert Grigg, nineteen years old, to rob the old man on Hallowe'en night. Read awoke in time to save his life, and the would-be robbers fled without being recognized. Zeller says Wheeler and Grigg did the job last Friday night, and that he (Zeller) was not present. This the detectives do not believe. He says that Wheeler struck the blows and fired the fatal shots. According to Zeller's story, Read was asleep when the first blow was struck. While the boys were hunting for the money Read revived and made a fight for his life. He rushed after the boys, and fearing that they were recognized, the determination was made to end the old man's life. Wheeler and Grigg were landed in the lockup. FINDS "DEAD" SON ALIVE Now He Can Read His Own Obituary In Newspapers. Pottstown, Pa., Nov. 18. — Ira W. Stratton. a Reading business man and EIGHT ```markdown ``` --- ey's welkim as kain be, selbs to eb'ryt'ing yo' see. o' dat's yo' job, ol' man, rs quick 's dey leab yo' han'. fo' dese folks, er Ah tell yo' ll git a lickin' too). —Ah's lockin' aftah dat— all brown an' streaked wif fat. ' fret; it's comin' right up daih, sum fat enough, I do declaih, chin' Isrulites. suah yo' gets yo' rights. tas' an' den I bet yo' shout de fuss am all about. bed yo' sumpin' nice an' sweet. sayin' he don' lak possum meat. an' him an son o' mine! folks an' knowledge up yo's lyin'. ivate yo' ma, to whup yo' till yo's raw! wha yo' wa' doin' heah yo'se' f appeah cell, in spite youah black, yo' ain't de hones' fack! min', bekaze yo's such a mite; am'ays missed youah nachul appetite. to fill a chile lak yo'. Ah spose, dat's got to do. wrong an' mebbe be a shame ted fam'ly name, stan' upon ma feet old tuhn f'um possum meat. Republican leader in the select branch of city council, will have the privilege of Reading his own obituary in Pottstown papers. A telephone message sent to his mother in this town told of his death from paralysis of the heart, and arrangements were made for his funeral. When Mrs. Stratton reached Reading she found her son alive and recovering from a stupor that had been mistaken for death. Washington, Nov. 18. — Subjecting his guests, who were representatives of many of the leading labor organizations of this country, to a rapid cross fire of questions, President Roosevelt at a dinner given by him at the White House endeavored to find out what labor wants from congress and in what way he could be of assistance to the tollers of the country. While the president did not commit himself to any of the propositions submitted by the various labor leaders present, it was learned that he sought a full expression of sentiment from all of them. Labor's attitude on various questions were reiterated, it is said, and the president listened interestedly to each argument presented. Thinks He Could Have Carried Georgia Atlanta, Ga., Nov. 18.—"If I had been a candidate for president this time I would have carried Georgia and broken the 'solid south,' were the words 'attributed to President Roosevelt by Commissioner of Agriculture Hudson, of Georgia, who has just returned from Washington. He went to Washington to consult the president about the country life commission. Memorial in Honor of Cleveland. State Treasurer Voorhees, of New Jersey, who is also the treasurer of the New Jersey Cleveland Memorial association, said that at a meeting in former Senator Dryden's office in Newark the committee decided on a $100,000 monument to the late president. The amount will be apportioned among the New Jersey counties, with a sub-committee in each. The monument will be erected in Princeton, the last home of the expresident, and where he is buried. ```markdown ``` THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA SENATOR FORAKER ANNOUNCES HIS CANDIDACY. (Continued From First Page.) gard, I remain, very truly yours, &c. J. B. FORAKER. Cleveland, O., Oct. 6, 1908. Hon. Joseph B. Foraker, Cincinnati, Ohio. In December, 1898, at the time you were employed by me there was pending against the Standard Oil Company in the Supreme Court of the State of Ohio very serious and difficult litigation. A proceeding in contempt had been instituted by the Attorney-General charging that com- pany with having wilfully violated the order of the Supreme Court directing it to withdraw from the trust agreement. The company had answer- ed, issues had been made up and a considerable volume of testimony taken. There was also pending against the Buckeye Pipe Line Company a proceeding in quo warranto, charging it with being a member or a trust in violation of the anti-trust laws of the State; also a like proceeding against the Ohio Oil Company and the Solar refining Company, and one of a like character, at that time I think, threatened against the Standard Oil Company of Ohio and which was brought in January, 1899. These were so-called constituent companies of the Standard Oil Trust. These bills in quo warranto were all filed in the Supreme Court and asked for the revocation of the charters of the said several corporations, the appointment of receivers to take possession of the properties, and the dissolution of the various companies. Many millions of dollars of property were thus involved in the litigation already pending, and much imperilled in addition to other litigation threatened. It was in the midst of these difficult cases, with the very serious consequences incident to any adverse decision, that with the approval of my client I turned to you for assistance and advice. The Standard Oil Company of Ohio had endeavored in good faith to comply with the order of the Supreme Court. The trust certificate holders had by a resolution passed at a meeting held in New York in March, 1892, determined not only that the Standard Oil Company of Ohio should withdraw from the so-called trust agreement but that the trust itself should be dissolved, and the trustees had entered in good faith upon the policy of a dissolution and a winding up of the entire trust. Many practical difficulties presented themselves, as the trust certificates, of a par value of more than $97,000,000 were held everywhere throughout the country, had been invested in by savings banks and trust companies, had passed from hand to hand in the market for ten years, were held in large and small amounts and the effort to give the trust certificate holders a legal interest in the stock of the various companies that had formerly been in the trust, was one or great difficulty. It was upon a realization of these serious and disastrous consequences, well-knowing your ability as an attorney, and the respect lawyers and courts had for you throughout the State, that I sought your service. Your judgment was sought, not only as to what had been done by the Standard Oil Company of Ohio in its effort to withdraw from the trust, but also as to what form of future organization of the great interests of this company and of the constituent companies should be taken that they might not be open to any further attack. For more than a year testimony was taken at various places, full transcripts of that evidence furnished you and suggestions received from you as to the lines upon which it outspoke to me. The testimony having been closed, the contempt case was finally submitted to the Supreme Court, and in December, 1900, an entry was made by the court finding the defendant not guilty of contempt and dismissing the proceedings. A little later the four ouster cases were also dismissed, the dismissal of the latter cases being made by the Court at the suggestion of the then Attorney-General, Judge Sheets. Your employment extended over a period of more than two years, during which time I was repeatedly in consultation with you, and there was no phase of litigation of which you were not fully abreast all the time, and your counsel was fully appreciated by my associate counsel and by my client, and there never was a particle of effort upon our part to conceal your relations to the interests we represented. So far from the attitude of the company being one of a desire to evade the law or the decree of the court, it had faithfully endeavored to comply therewith, and so far as the Valentine trust law was concerned we were not trying by subterfuge or indirection, to evade it. You understood perfectly our desire and cooperated with it to put these properties on a basis of conformity to the decree of the court and of the law, that they might be safely and securely held by their owners. $ ^{2} $ Your efforts greatly contributed to the success of the litigation and the preservation of the property by its owners. At the time of your employment and when it ceased, as it happened to my colleague somewhere about the first of January 1901, there was no intimation from any source whatever of criticism or attack on the part of the Federal Government. That did not come for more than four years afterward, and so far as I know, and I have been intimately in touch with the litigation and troubles of the company for twenty years, and am still, nothing has ever been asked of or accepted by you inconsistent with your public duties, and so far as I know you have had no relation whatever to the company, as an attorney or otherwise, for more than seven years. You may make any use of this letter you see fit. With kindest regards, I am, very truly yours. VIRGIL P. KLINE. Cincinnati, O., Oct. 8, 1908. M. F. Elliott, Esq., New York City, New York: Dear Sir: I herewish enclose a copy of a letter from me to Mr. Virgil P. Kline, dated October 5, and his answer thereto dated October 6. Those ters, which added to my former state mentions should in my opinion, satisfy any fairminded man, I submit to the Legislature, as every other candidate must do, the question as to who shall be my successor in the Senate. "I do not mean by this statement that I don't intend to give any further attention to the impending contest, but rather that I do not intend to engage in any unseemly scramble "Whatever may be the result I shall always be profoundly grateful for the many distinguished honors I have enjoyed at the hands of the people of Ohio, and shall always have the satisfaction of knowing, whether anybody else does or not, that I have under all circumstances striven to serve my State and my country faithfully, and whether right or wrong ever more than in regard to those questions in connection with which I have been criticised." Exclamation. Easyman—Lead you on. What's the matter with you? Speed—Oh, I do it. naming a cell or a cell on own—Lead you on. NOS OF MME, C. J. WALKER. AFTER USING. J. Walker. who is astonishing the world with best and surest remedy ever discov- she or her daughter will appear in my woman of pride should see her treatment with a six weeks supply will. One personal treatment only $2.00. of Nannie H. Burroughs. Corres- ary to National Baptist Convention. THESE ARE PERSONAL PHOTOS OF MME, C. J. WALKER. AFTER USING. BEFORE USING AFTER USING. Madame C. J. Walker. The world's greatest Hair Culturist, who is astonishing the world her wonderful Hair Grower, the quickest and surest remedy ever ered for the growth of hair. Either she or her daughter will ap this city on or about Nov. — Every woman or pride should while in this city. One personal treatment with a six weeks supply from a half inch to an inch. One personal treatment only. She is the woman who grew the hair of Nannie H. Burroughs, ponding Secretary of Woman's Auxiliary to National Baptist Con. For further information address THESE ARE PERSONAL PHOTOS OF MME. C. J. WALKER. BEFORE USING The world's greatest Hair Culturist, who is astonishing the world with her wonderful Hair Grower, the quickest and surest remedy ever discovered for the growth of hair. Either she or her daughter will appear in this city on or about Nov. — Every woman of pride should see her while in this city. One personal treatment with a six weeks supply will produce from a half inch to an inch. One personal treatment only $2.00. She is the woman who grew the hair of Nannie H. Burroughs, Corresponding Secretary of Woman's Auxiliary to National Baptist Convention. For further information address MADAM C. J. WALKER, 2518 Wylie Avenue, Pittsburg, Pa. The Hawkins-Price Co. Hair Growers and Restorers. ns-Price Co. and Restorers. The Hawkins-Price Co. Hair Growers and Restorers. TRADE MARK REGISTERED Carriles a full line of natural human hair braids, bangs, pompardours and the latest styles in front pieces—all colors—black, brown gray and mixed gray. Those desiring pieces to match the hair must be very sure in stating explicitly the colors desired. It is always safe to send a small sample of hair if possible, so that A. B. C. we may be in a position to match it correctly. For Braids, (Natural Hair) ... $2.50 to $5.00 For all-round Pompadours, (Natural Hair) $3.00 to $5.00 For Front Pieces, (Natural Hair) $1.00 to $1.50 This preparation has proved to be a fortune to many of the fortunes, who are to-day delighted with its wonderful reel. The merits of this great hair preparation naturally place it sphere all of its own, and the glowing terms in which our praise of it, reassure us of its satisfactory results. We can boast of a large patronage throughout this and other States and enjoy the commendation of the very best white and colored hair in this immediate community. In order to convince the most skeptical readers or the most results of the Hawkins-Price Hair Grower and Restorer will from time to time produce in print the photographs of a giving us permission to do so, who have used our preparation are to-day among the many bearing witness of the genuine quality. We do not desire the correspondence of those expecting a man or anything unreasonable. Our preparation is a natural and compound, the ingredients of which, we would not hesitate to in print. We will just here remind the public that the United States Government has placed national patent rights on our hair production 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 the Scalp of all purities, Restore Hair on Clean Temples or Bald Heads, when Roots are not Dead. Price, 35 cents per box. The Face Beautifier makes the use of powder entirely unisary and is perfectly harmless. Sale Price, 25 and 50 cents per bottle. A charge of ten cents extra is imposed on all out orders. Money can be sent by Post Office Money Order, or Ex Monev order. Address all communications to HAWKINS-PRICE COMPANY. Phone 4601, 616 N. 1st St., Richmond Correspondence Strictly Confidential. to be a fortune to many of the united with its wonderful results. Separation naturally place it in a dwelling terms in which our patrons satisfactory results. We can well notice this and other States and also every best white and colored people. Most skeptical readers of the merits of the Hair Grower and Restorer, we can print the photographs of those who have used our preparation and witness of the genuine qualities. Hence of those expecting a miracle preparation is a natural and pure touch, we would not hesitate to put the public that the United States patient rights on our hair prepara- we are in turn responsible to the hard square dealings. Adrud, Cure the Scalp of all Im- temples or Bald Heads, where the contents per box. We use of powder entirely unnecessa- sale Price, 25 and 50 cents and $1 extra is imposed on all out of city fast Office Money Order, or Express implications to RICE COMPANY, 616 N. 1st St., Richmond, Va. Strictly Confidential. For Braids, (Natural Hair) ..... $2.50 to $5.00 For All-round Pompardours, (Natural Hair) $2.00 to $5.00 For Front Pieces, (Natural Hair) ..... $1.00 to $1.50 This preparation 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 place it in a sphere all of its own, and the glowing terms in which our patrons speak of it, reassure us of its satisfactory results. We can well boast of a large patronage throughout this and other States and also enjoy the commendation of the very best white and colored people in this immediate community. In order to convince the most skeptical readers or the merits and results of the Hawkins-Price 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 many bearing witness of the genuine qualities. We do not desire the correspondence of those expecting a miracle or anything unreasonable. Our preparation is a natural and pure compound, the ingredients of which, we would not hesitate to put in print. We will just here remind the public that the United States Government has placed national patent rights on our hair preparation by which it is protected, and we are in turn responsible to the government for honest methods and square dealings. It will positively remove Dandruff, Cure the Scalp of all Impurities, Restore Hair on Clean Temples or Bald Heads, where the Roots are not Dead. Price, 35 cents per box. The Face Beautifier makes the use of powder entirely unnecessary and is perfectly harmless. Sale Price, 25 and 50 cents and $1 per birth order are imposed on all out of city orders. Money can be sent by Post Office Money Order, or Express Money order. Address all communications to --- I Give Away to Ladies This 150-Piece DINNER SET Gold and Floral Decorations "I PAY THE FREIGHT" ABSOLUTELY FREE My firm now wants me to further introduce the "K. & W." Brand of go States. I have instructions to go shread and in my own office to decide to give Absolutely Free a 150-Piece Dinner Set, beautiful decor in gold, to ladies who will help me. And this is not all. I am the Manager of the店 and am willing to introduce the "K. & W." Brand of goes through may be. We guarantee satisfaction on our Baking Powder, Cocoa, Extr. know that they will meet with satisfaction. With every purchase of these goods articles as China Ware, Glass Ware, Enameled Ware, Table Ware, Beautiful T UTELY FREE induce the “K. & W.” Brand of goods into every make whatever offer is offered by you. The Kitten Set, beautiful floral decorated in color is not your brand. I am the Manager of the Agents! and you do goods throughout the United States. Making Powder, Coffee, Tea, with every purchase of these goods, I allow my agents to purchase all of the Lamps, Cutlery and Fancy Goods. TO ANY AGENT we will give a Beautiful Dinner Set. Furniture of everything you can imagine. The 100-Piece or beauty and will delight you. Liberal can handle Agents Need No Money all the goods and the premiums at the art and give my acreats plenty of time to deliver the things you can imagine. An easy art in your home or for yourself? Many people and told us that they could not see how we could be the “K. & W.” Brand everywhere, and I am going to Be Your Name and Address To. Be Your Offer! and I will understand. After things, and you and no harm done. Write metoday, just done this and Mitterwards were so pleased that you could be addressed to. Address your postal card or letter to: as I ship all the goods and all the premiums at the same time, and I PAY THE MONEY that I give, give my agents plenty of time to deliver the goods and collect for them before paying them for the goods. When you need anything you need or want in your home or for yourself? Many agents have left everything come to us and told us that they could not see how we could do it, but my company says that we can. I will go everywhere, and I am going to do whatever the cost. Send Me Your Name And Your Postal Just say "Send Me Your Offer" and I will understand. After you receive our contact and other things, if you do not care to go ahead with the work, you can keep the things. Send you and no harm done. Write metoday, just out of curiosity, if you like. My agents and my employees were so pleased that they thanked me for calling their attention to our offer. And they thanked me also can possibly afford to. Address your postal card or letter to KENNEDY & WRIGHT CO. K. & W. Building. Bearer's Book. No. 12 CHICAGO, IL. letters are self explanatory While you did not have anything to do personally, so far as I am aware with my employment, yet you were familiar at the time with all the other facts stated by Mr. Kline. If your recollection as to them is in accord with my employment, yet you were familiar at the time with all the other facts stated by Mr. Kline. If your recollection as to them is in accord with his I would be very much obliged if you would write me a letter so stating and give me authority to use it in connection with Mr. Kline's letter. I hope you will not think I am imposing upon you in making this request, but will understand that under the circumstances I naturally hesitate to speak of either the character or value of my services. Standard Oil Company 26 Broadway New York, Oct. 12, '88 Hon, J. R. C. H. 12 Dear Sir; I am in receipt of your letter of the 8th inst., with which you enclose copy of letter from Hon. V. P. Kline to you under date of October 6, 1908. You was associated with Mr. Kline in the letter refers to in his letter and know that the statements contained in his letter are true. "With the publication of these let. 2518 Wylie Avenue. MARY C. BROWN I EXTRA FREE PRESENT many other flus extra presents. SISTER wanted chicke Brother said a gane Ma she wanted turkey, an Nen I went out huntin'' Heard a norful growlin''; I des aimed my rifle an' "HEARD A NORFUL GROWLING" SISTER wants the gizzard Brother wants a dale Fatner 'in take the wishbear' An' as I'm quite hungry Don't I wish that Roseefe Nen I'd shoot some elfur Agents Wanted Everywhere. Pittsburg, Pa. SISTER wanted chickens Thanksgivin' day to eat, Brother said a gander was mighty hard to beat, Ma she wanted turkey, an' pa he wanted duck. Nen I went out huntin' an' had the bestest luck. Heard a norful growlin'; but, say, I didn't care. I des aimed my rifle an' shot this grea' big bear! COPYRIGHT 1908 BY WOODWARD & LINCOLN "HEARD A NORFUL GROWLIN'; BUT, SAY, I DIDN'T CARE." SISTER wants the gizzard, the neck er anything; Brother wants a drumstick, an' mother 'll take a wing; Father in take the wishbone, with des a slice of breast, An as I'm quite hungry I think I'll eat the rest. Don't I wish that Rosefelt, the pres'dent, was my pa; Nen I'd shoot some elfunts 'way down in Africkah! ```markdown ``` Straighten Your Hair DEAR SISTER: I have used only one bottle of your pomade and now I would not be without it, for it makes my hair soft and neat and easy to comb and also starts a new growth. Miss W. A. Watson, St. Mary's (Formerly known as Ozonized Ox Marrow) Fifty years of success has proved its merits. It is grown in a barn, harsh, kinky or curly-hair straight, and easy to comb, and arrange in any style. It is removed in Removes and prevents dandruff, invigorates the scalp, stops the hair from falling out or breaking, and vigor. It is absolutely harmless—used with the results even on the youngest children. Delicately perfumed, its use is a pleasure, as it is also used for Ford's Hair Pomade has imitators. Don't buy anything else alieged to be "just as good." Ford's Hair Pomade will be used. Pomade—it will pay you. 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At last the CHEMICAL WONDER CO. of New York has discovered 'Complexion Wonder' which does bring a light natural color every time it is applied. The effect is not artificial. The lighter coloring is natural. The effect on the colored countenance is magical. Price of Complexion Wonder, fifty cents. The Chemical Wonder Company has another preparation which is indispensable for colored people as well as white people. It is called 'Odor Wonder'; a toilet preparation which prevents perspiration odor and encircles the body with perfumed daintiness. It will make any one physically welcome in society or business circles. Our men customers secure better positions in banks, clubs or business houses. Our women customers advance faster in life. Price of Odor Wonder, $1.00. Our Wonder Comb will straighten any hair. A heavy comb, magneto-metallic. Will last a lifetime, 50 cents. Don't fail to order one. Wonder Grow fertilizes the scalp; supplies nourishment which makes hair grow lengthy, gives the scalp strength which prevents the hair from falling, 50 cents. Wonder Uncurl. This preparation uncurls knots and kinks and makes the hair pliable so as to dress well. 50 cents. We promise that our specialties will do more to advance colored peo ple socially and commercially than showy garments or gewgaw jewelry. Booklet free. Delivery free. Applications for agency considered. M. B. BERGER & CO., 2 Rector St., New York, selling agents for Chemical Wonder Co. HAVE YOU A HOME? If not, why not, when a home is so easily secured in Omohundro's Plan on New North Road, near St. John's Church, $5.00 cash and $5.00 per month? If you want to be somebody, buy land and own a home. If you want to own a home, or buy land, see M. H. OMHUNDRO, Room 32, 1103 E. Main St., City. "The Devil," our new serial story, will commence next week on page two. Read it.