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The RICHMOND PLANET THE AMERICAN BANKERS ASSOCIATION. Michigan State University In session at Brown Palace Hotel, Sept. 28, 1908 at Denver, Colorado. The Mechanics' Savings Bank of Richmond, Va., was the only Colored Institution that had a representative in that body. President John Mitchell, Jr. may be seen sitting at the extreme right just in front of a lady. A HAPPY NEW YEAR! PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT AND THE BROWNSVILLE MESSAGE False Testimony Submitted to Congress. WITNESSES ESTABLISH THE FACT THAT HIRED DETECTIVES SUBMITTED PERJURED EVIDENCE. An Embarrassing Predicament for the Chief Executive—Senator Foraker Meets the Issue VOLUME XXVI. NO. 4. THE In session at Brow Va., was the PRESIDENT AND BROWNSVILLE False Testim to Con WITNESSES ESTABLISH DETECTIVES SUBMITTED An Embarrassing Predicamen ator Foraker M In order that our readers may fully understand and appreciate the points at issue in the now justly celebrated Brownsville case and the evident intention of President Theodore Roosevelt to prove them guilty, regardless of the facts in the case, we herewith reproduce the articles from the Atlanta, Georgia Constitution, as the men who are alleged to have guilty and who it is alleged confessed resided in the state of Georgia. When the communications are read however, it will be seen that even Democrats discredit the testimony submitted by President Roosevelt to the United States Senate. It seems too that President Roosevelt made no effort to ascertain whether the statements of his paid detectives were true, but accepted all that they said at face value, much to his own discomfiture in the premises. DETECTIVE'S REPORT ON CON YERS. Washington, D. C., December 14. The part played by Boyd Conyers of Monroe, Ga., formerly a private in Company B, Twenty-fifth Infantry, in the shooting up of Brownsville, constitutes a large part of the evidence submitted by the special agents of the war department who have been investigating his case. After rectting the efforts made to secure a confession from Conyers, which information Mr. Brown states was corroborated in the presence of SAVINGS BANK SECTION. witnesses, the report proceeds. CONYERS ATTEMPTS SUICIDE "Conyers tried to commit suicide after he found that he had made his statements to a detective, declaring that the other Negroes would kill him when it got out. He finally wrote Senator Foraker and received a reply, a copy of which is annexed. That reply he construed to mean that he should stick to his original story, told before the Senate Committee, at all hazards, and there he stands. I have every reason to believe that his confession is genuine and gives for the first time the true secret history of the Brownsville raid. "The list of participants given in this report Conyers furnished me personally. I believe it is substantially correct, but with the influences shown to be backing Conyers to adhere to his false testimony given before the senate committee still being exerted he cannot be relied on to support his own confession until it is thoroughly sustained from other sources. "Evidences of similar encouragement to stick to the lies told at Brownsville and before the senate committee were found in many places and subsequent to the date of the Foraker letter they became stronger and more obstructive than ever." "The investigation has been conducted with strict recognition of the advisability of preserving secrecy, and with discretion. No promises of immunity were made. The knowledge on the part of the ex-soldiers that the government could not punish them after their separation from the service, coupled with the belief that RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1908. THE OLD VIRGINIA REEL A CHRISTMAS REVERIE IN VERSE BY ROBERTUS LOVE COPYRIGHT, 1805, BY ROBERTUS LOVE In old Virginia, on the James, Beside Potomac's placid flow, Where limpid Shenandoah shames The rival welkin with its glow Or Rappahannock runs, you know (Be war had flashed its fiery steel). Some half a hundred years ago They danced the old Virginia reel. Where now are they, the stately dames, The dimpled maddens all a row. Who played with hearts the deadliest games While lightly treading to and fro? Where now is all the dainty show Of silken fabric, glance of heel And gleam of satin slippered toe That danced the old Virginia reel? Where son the cavaliers? The names Of some have fed the bugle blow Of glory—seared in battle flames. They sleep Virginia's sod below— And some have quaffed the common woe. Of nameless death their dooms to seal. And yet, good fellows all, heighe! They danced the old Virginia reel. ENVOY. Gaillants and girls, I see ye grow From out the gloom—your ghosts ap- peal. Touch hands anew—the music—so! We'll dance the old Virginia reel. by preserving silence they would aid in the passage of the relief legislation now pending in Congress, has added to the difficulty of securing information. NEGROES SHIELD CRIMINALS "The issue has evidently become racial. The colored detectives would be confronted frequently in the smaller towns where these men are living with a demand from colored men for information as to their business. "We have located over 130 of these ex-soldiers, and have been in thirty states in quest of information. The appendices give statements as to the results obtained. They indicate a general knowledge on the part of the ex-soldiers that the raid came from inside the fort and that the soldiers of Company B were the guilty parties. "We earnestly urge that we be permitted to continue the investigation. Several detectives are still in the field, and within the coming week a number of affidavits will be forthcoming." LAWSON'S AFFIDAVIT "This day personally appeared before me William Lawson, who, being duly sworn, deposes and says: "On June 5, 1908, I was sent to Monroe, Ga. to interview Boyd Conyers, one of the soldiers who was stationed at Brownville, Texas, in (Continued in Eighth Form.) PRICE, FIVE CENTS. TION. ank of Richmond, hell, Jr. may Mrs. M. B. Berryman, one or our business women of Philadelphia, (for merely of Manchester, Va.) and Mr. George P. Edwards of Philadelphia were married in Camden, N. J. on Wednesday, December 16, 1908. We hope them a happy and prosperous life. LEE—HUCKMON. The marriage of Miss Maud E. Hickmon to Mr. David Lee of Lancaster, Va. will take place at the home of the bride's parents, 200 W. 21st St., Manchester, Va. Tuesday morning, December 29, 1908 at 11 o'clock. Friends are invited. Its Fallacy Shown. John Mitchell, Jr., one of the sainest editors of this country, and ranks among the safest leaders of race pride and unpurchaseable Negro thought, aptly shows the wicked fallacy of Roosevelt in talk, in the President's tissue paper talk to the Washington Negroes last week. —Columbia, S. C. Light. VIRGINIA Maternal Eden, thou whose virgin bud Unfolded into one chromatic bloom, Whose petals cling upon a common will Of grand united beauty and its strength. And from the bounteous threshold of thy love So many minds have risen to the height Of laudable import,—will-set they stand, And balancing the weighty problems high Upon the hand, adjust each in its place. Thy well-directed hospitality Shook Ethiopia's hand and bade her learn Of thee. She did. And though thy lessons oft Were more than hard, and many falling hearts Dropt in the task, the over-coming strength Was more than strength. Thrice blessed is thy name. —LUCIAN B. WATKINS. —Misses Robena Hickmon, Robena Jenkins and Ethel Stovall called on us this week. ! ADAPTED FROM THE SENSATIONAL PLAY OF FERENC MOLNAR- COPYRIGHT.1908.BY HENRY W.SAVAGE ```markdown ``` THE DEVIL TWO ```markdown ``` ADAPTED FROM THE By Dramatized by OLIVER COPYRIGHT ```markdown ``` CHAPTER XVIII HEN Karl left the home of Herman and Olga to conduct Elisa and her aunt to their carriage, he did not return. He was deeply ashamed of the suspicion he had entertained and humiliated at the trick played upon his overheated imagination by Millar. He could not bear to face Olga or his tormentor. Sending the servant back for his overcoat and hat, he plunged along through the snow, walking briskly. Old Heinrich had gone to bed when he reached the studio. There remained but a few hours of the night, but Karl could not bring himself to sleep. He paced restlessly up and down the studio, his mind tortured by the thoughts so skillfully implanted there by Millar. He was not surprised when the door-bell rang, and it was Millar whom he admitted. His strange visitor shook the snow from his great fur coat and laid it aside. Then he walked over to the grate where the fire burned cheerfully and stood in front of it, rubbing his hands as he held them out to the blaze. Karl resumed his restless march up and down the room. Millar watched him cynically for a few moments. "You seem nervous this morning, Karl," he said. "I am nervous. I'm crazy," Karl answered. "You ought to be very happy," Millar insinuated. "Ought to be happy! I ought to be miserable, as I am, but it is all through your evil machinations. You have made me reveal all that is evil in me to the woman—" "To the woman you love?" "Yes, to the woman I love and have no right to love; to the woman whose honor I have held sacred for six years; to the woman I must never see again!" "You will see her again," Millar asserted quietly. "How base she must think me," Karl went on wildly. "I did not know my self. I did not dream that I could be so rotten." "You will see her again," Millar repeated. "She will come to you of her own free will, here in this very studio, today, and she will tell you with her lips on yours that she loves you." "Stop! I won't listen to your informal insinuations. You have ruined my happiness, you shall not ruin bers! I want you to keep out of her way. Do you understand? I give you fair warning." "My dear Karl, you don't know what you are saying. I shall not mar her happiness or yours." "Why did you play that evil trick on me tonight?" "Why, you dull young artist! Because I wanted to show her that you loved her; that you cared not two straws for that little slip of a girl to whom you were trying to play devoted; because I wigned to show her that her great love is not wasted on an empty pated ass!" "Her love!" "Of course — her love. She loves you and has loved you for six years, and you were blind and did not know it." "It is not true. It must not be so. She is a true, loyal wife to my friend." "Bah! Do you want her to be loyal to that big boor of a husband when she loves you?" "I refuse to listen to you any further. Now, let me tell you this. I am going away. I shall not see Olga again. I shall close my studio and return to Paris. And I wish not to see you again. Do you understand? I am going to bed now. When I awake I want you to be gone. Don't let me find you here." "You are not hospitable, my dear young friend," Millar said, smiling and bowing. He seemed genuinely amused at the passionate outburst of the young artist. "I believe you are the devil!" Karl cried. "And you don't find the devil a pleasing personage to look upon, except when he is decked out by poets in the disguise of Cupid." Millar sneered. Karl abruptly left the room, going into his own room and locking the door. He threw himself upon the bed and tried to sleep, but for hours he lay awake, haunted by the sinister shadow of his temptation. Left alone, Millar sank comfortably back in the big Gothic armchair before the fire. Olga's maid, alarmed at the prolonged absence of her mistress, found her moaning on the floor, where she had fallen in a swoon after Millar's departure. The maid helped her mistress to her room and to bed. "As soon as it is daylight go to M. Karl's studio and find out at what time he will arise. Let no one else know that you go there, and awaken me as soon as it will be possible for me to see him." "Yes, madame." Olga meant to get to Karl to intercept the letter which Millar had tricked her into writing. She meant to tell him to go away, to end everything between them; but, although she did not know it, she was blindly obeying the evil will of Millar. CHAPTER XIX B ROAD, glaring daylight had come when Heinrich entered the reception room of the studio. He divined no pres He admitted to the anteroom a beautiful young woman whom he had never seen before. When he returned to the reception room to ruminate on the situation he was confronted by the figure of Millar—the figure of the devil. "I-I beg your pardon I did not know you were here," he said. "I am here." Millar responded cheerfully. "Who rang?" "A lady, sir." "A real lady?" "Oh, yes, sir." "That's odd. What does she want?" "She wants to see my master, sir M. Karl." "Well, show her in." Heinrich hurried out and ushered in Elsa. The poor little girl had lost her bravado of the night before. She was ready to humble herself. She was stricken with the terrible malady. She was in love. She acknowledged it to herself, and she knew that the man she loved had his heart elsewhere. But she had resolved to make a fight, to win him if she could, and she had taken this deeper move. She was startled, though, when she was ushered into the reception room and saw Millar there, his hands on his breast, bowing profoundly. "You seem to be everywhere," she exclaimed. "What are you doing here? Are you Karl's secretary?" Millar was transformed, back into his frock coat, his immaculate trousers, his wine colored waistcoat. He was again the polished, suave, affable gentleman of the afternoon, with ingratiating manner, cynical smile and insinuating words. "No, I am not Karl's servant—only his friend," he said. "How are you feeling today?" "Oh, very well, thank you. I did not know there was any one in here or I should have waited outside. But as it is only you I do not mind." She resented the presence of this man in the place, and she took a seat, turning her back to him. Millar, not in the least disturbed, said: "Karl got in very late this morning." "Still, I think he would be very much pleased to know that you are here. Will you permit me to acquaint him of the pleasure that awaits him?" "Thank you, no. I will wait for him here. This is an interesting room. I have never been here before." "I know that," Millar said. "How do you know it?" Elsa demanded with spirit. "Oh, Heinrich told me. A lady may come here secretly every day, but when she comes the first time it cannot be secret, even to Heinrich." "I wish I had not come alone," Elsa declared. "I know that also," said the imperturbable Millar. "How do you know that?" "Oh, Heinrich told me there was a real lady writing." "I am glad at least that Heinrich recognized me as such." Elsa declared indignantly. "He is the only one who has spoken to me as if he realized that." "Then he must have thought you the other kind." Millar said cynically, "Heinrich made a mistake." "I think Heinrich is the better judge." Elsa said. "An excellent judge, I grant you," Millar said, laughing. "He is the one man who should have brought you here. You know only two men have the right to open the door of a bachelor apartment to a young lady. They are his valet and the clergyman. You may choose which of the two you would prefer." Elsa turned on him with eyes that flashed indignation. "I was once left alone with a man who kissed me, and I insulted him," she said. "I was once left alone with a lady who insulted me, and I kissed her," the cynical person replied. "You are horrible!" Elisa exclaimed. Miller saw her distress and rang the bell. When Helirch entered be said, "Get a little red leather pocketbook out of my overcoat." "Oh, you need not fear. I shall not THE RICHMOND PLANET RICHMOND VIRGINIA Adapted by JOSEPH O'BRIEN RY W. SAVAGE "I want to have my portrait painted and I shall come every day." Elsa replied. "You mean you want to come every day, and therefore you will have your portrait painted," said the eyelid. "You are an expert word juggler." said Elsa. "Do you know that another indy comes here to have her portrait painted?" "Yes; that is why I am coming." Elsa declared boldly. "I want to see whose portrait will be better." "That is a bold challenge, my little girl. You were not so brave yesterday." "Yesterday I was undecided. Today I have made up my mind to fight. You gave me good advice." "I have some more advice to give you today. We did not finish last night." "What is it?" "It is this—do not fight. You were not made to fight." "Why not? she demanded, with spirit. "Am I not brave and clever?" "Yes, brave and clever." Millar repeated cynically, looking at her with the smile that made her want to weep. In spite of her resolve to fight she was on the verge of tears. She sat at a table, shrinking from the sinister figure before her. Millar inspired her with a nameless terror, and it was almost against her will that she listened. "Let me tell you what you must do," he said, sitting down in front of her. "Do you know what you should do?" "I don't like to have you sit in judgment on me this way," she protested. "You question me as if you were a judge." "No, it is not that, but you answer as if you were a prisoner. Now, little Elsa, stand up and listen. You know that Karl is in love with Olga." "Yes, I know it. It is the only thing I do know." "Then you should give Karl up." "You must learn." "How? From whom shall I learn?" "Let me see. I think I have here the very person." Millar said. He walked over and opened the hall door "Mimi, come in here and wait; it is warmer," he called. To the amazement of Elsa the shrinking little model came in, hesitating on the threshold. She wore a red wooden jersey over her bodice that fitted her tightly and made her look very slight and shivering. She looked with wide open eyes at the beautiful girl and dropped a courtesy as she sat in the seat Millar drew out for her. Elsa nodded at her in silence, and Millar, after watching them a few seconds with a smile of amusement, out of the room, whistling Mimi was the first to break the she squirming under Elsa's direct scrutiny. "Madame is waiting for the artist?" "Yes." Elsa replied shortly. "So am I," Mimi said, adding with engaging frankness: "He went on a spree last night. When he does that he always sleeps late." Elsa was embarrassed, and there was another interval of silence. Then Mimi asked: "Is madame to have her portrait painted?" "Yes." "I know all those who come here to be painted." Mimi went on. "This is quite like home to me. I am his model. I don't have to pay for my portraits. Madame has a splendid profile." "Please do not call me madame," Elsa said impatiently. "I am miss, like yourself." "I beg your pardon." Mimi said. "I am not madame, either. My name is Mimi." "My name is Elsa." "Oh. I know. I have heard of you. You are very rich as well as very beautiful. I know what it means to be rich. Once our family was well off, and I did not have to work as a model." "I am sorry you have been unfortunate." Elsa said. "But I have heard much of you," the girl went on. She was now tremendously interested in this beautiful woman, whose coming, she believed, meant that she would no longer be Karl's model. "You see, I know all the things that go on here. I look out for the artist's laundry and sew his buttons on, and I almost know his thoughts." "And do they interest you?" aimed. rang the said.ook out shall not "Why not?" "Because he is to be married, because you have come, and he will not need me." "Why not? He will still paint. He must have models." "Yes, but it will not be the same." Bingy FOR A MOMENT THE SHADOW LINGERED ABOVE HER AND FADED. and I will not come any more." "Do you like M. Karl?" "Very much." "Does he paint you now?" "Ah, no; nothing but landscapes." "Then you did not come as a model today?" Elsa asked. "I come always as a model. If the artist does not treat me as such it is not my fault." She noticed that Elsa looked offended and went on hurriedly, apologetically: "Please, if I offend you I will be quiet. But you seem to be so nice. If I were you and you were the model I should not be angry with you." Elsa was touched by the pathos in Mimi's eyes. "Pardon me. I am very, very sorry if I have hurt you!" she cried impulsively. "Let us be friends." "Yes, let's'." Mimi cried. "You can talk to me about everything. I am not a bad sort, but I have known him for a long while. I was crying when I went away yesterday, and he felt sorry for me. He came to the house on his way to the ball last night in his evening clothes, but I would not see him. It must be finished." "Was he fond of you?" "I liked him very much." Mimi replied simply. "And now?" "Ah, now it is different. If a man wants to have another sweetheart, what can we do? It is like the railway. The train comes in and goes, and the little station must wait until another train comes." "And are you going to wait for another train? You were fond of him and can speak like that?" "I was fond of him," Mimi said, "but I am not silly enough to believe it will last just because I wanted it to last. I knew when it started that I should have to give him up some day. I have learned that. I shall forget him and hope that he and you will be happy." FOR A MOMENT THE SHADOW FA Mimi's tears came unrestrainedly now, and as she looked for her handkerchief Elsa picked up Millar's weeping satchel where he had left it on the table and gave it to the model. Mimi dabbed vigorously at her streaming eyes. "I am glad that I met you here," she said when she could control her voice. "I shall be clever today and not see him at all. I will go away now and never come back. What time is it?" "It is 3 o'clock." Elsa said, looking at her watch. "Then I must go. Another artist in the next block expects me to pose for him, and his laundries comes at 3. He is very clever." She stood up and looked around the room at the things on the walls—her own pictures, the place that seemed like home to her. She sobbed as she started toward the door. Elsa looked after her as she went out. Then she looked around the room and was seized with panic. "Mimi, Mimi!" she called out. The model did not return. Elsa seized her hat and fled, just as Millar entered from the adjoining room. His chuckle of satanic amusement reached her as she hurried from the house. CHAPTER XX. M MILLA'S sardonic face was wreathed in smiles as he looked after the two young girls, each of whom carried from his hateful presence a bruised heart. With Mimi it was the fate of a child of the underworld—something to which she was pathetically resigned. With 1 Her there was no struggle. She knew that when she ceased to charm she must go her way and find another man, a master rather than a sweet-heart. Elsa could not have told herself what fear made her fly from the studio after Mimi, but she feared that she was also doomed to give up the hope of her heart. It was her first cruel disappointment, but Mimi had made her see that she was beaten, and, in spite of her earlier resolution to fight, she saw that fighting would bring only unhappiness. She hurried to her waiting carriage and was driven home, where she locked herself in her room to weep alone. And Millar, the sinister being, ever at hand with his insidiously evil suggestions, chuckled as he watched them go. He threw himself into a chair and rang the bell for Heinrich. The old servant entered rebelliously, but, trained to habits of obedience, he could not give expression to his feeling of hatred and distrust of his master's strange visitor. As for Millar, he even seemed to find something amusing in the old man's obvious aversion. "Bring me tea and brandy," he ordered peremptorily. "Yes, sir." "Is your master up?" "Yes, sir." "Has any one seen him this morning?" "No, sir. Mme. Hoffmann's maid was here three times." "What for?" Millar demanded quickly. "She wished to know when Mme. Hoffmann might see M. Karl. I told her I had strict orders not to call him before 3 o'clock." Miller looked at his watch and saw that it was a few minutes after 3 o'clock. "Humph! We shall have another visitor shortly." he muttered. "I think I begin to see the competition of 1x." V LINGERED ABOVE HER AND DED. work. It shall be this afternoon. Get my tea," he added to Heinrich, "and serve it in the studio." The old man went out. Millar paced slowly up and down the floor, looking at his watch until he heard the door bell ring. "The beautiful Olga," he said, stepping softly from the reception room into the studio and leaving the way clear for Olga. She was admitted by Heinrich. She hurried into the room, looked wildly about her and sank into a seat. For a moment she could not speak. All night and all day, since Millar's shadow hovered about her fainting form in her own home, she had been torn by the emotions raised by the letter. It was a confession she had never meant to make. She dreaded the thought of Karl ever seeing it. "Is M. Karl at home?" she asked as Heinrich waited respectfully. "Yes, madame." "My maid told me he could not be seen until 3 o'clock. It is now after 3. May I see him?" "If you will wait a few minutes longer, madame, I will tell him that you are here." Heinrich started toward the studio. "One moment." Olga called after him. "Has any one seen M. Karl today?" "No, madame." "Has he received no letter?" "No, madame." "Thank God!" she exclaimed fervently. "Go. Heinrich, tell him I am in a great hurry and must see him at once." "I am afraid, madame, you will have to wait a few minutes for M. Karl to dress." Heinrich said. "Shai! I tell Dr. Millar you are here?" "Who?" Oliga cried, springing up in dread. "Dr. Millar, the gentleman who was here yesterday," Heinrich said. "Is he with your master?" Olga cried in fright. "Yes, madame." "O God, am I too late? Tell me did you see Dr. Millar give a letter to your master?" "He may have done so, madame. I cannot remember." Olga walked nervously up and down the room, while Heinrich waited, sympathizing at her distress. The old man was mystified, but he felt that Millar was to blame for the grief which his young master's beautiful visitor showed. "It may not be too late." Olga cried to herself. Then she said to Heinrich. "Please tell Dr. Millar to come down. Do not tell him who is here; simply say a lady wishes to see him at once." "Yes, madame." Heinrich withdrew, leaving Olga, with clinched hands and twitching features, walking up and down the room. It was thus Millar saw her as he entered, with his cynical smile, at which she shuddered. "You are the lady who wished to see me at once?" he asked, with his most polite bow. "I am honored, madame." "Yes, I sent for you," Olga said, not knowing how to begin. "And what may I do for you?" "Please tell me quickly—I am trembling, did you?" "Yes, dear lady, I delivered your letter." Olga sank into her chair and covered her face with her hands, while dry, tearless sobs shook her body. Millar looked at her unmoved, and as Heinrich entered with the tea tray he turned coolly to the old servant. "Put that tea here," he said, indicating a table near Olaq. "Ar! the brandy. Thank you. You may go." He poured himself a cup of tea and began to sip it, looking the while at the terrified woman before him. It was the moment of Millar's complete triumph, and he gloated over Olaq as she sat there, her trembling hands covering her face, much as a large cat gloats over a mouse helpless beneath his paws. He lied deliberately about the letter, which even then reposed in the inside pocket of his immaculate frock coat. But he reserved that for a final coup. He knew that Olaq, believing Karl was in possession of the letter, would yield to the inevitable that she would again confess her love, even to Karl himself, and that only a miracle of resolution and faith and strength could save the two young people from the abyss of dishonor and unhappiness into which he was about to plunge them. He slipped his tea in silence. Several moments elapsed before Olga was able to control herself. Then she asked, without looking at Millar, and her voice was dry with pain: "Did—did Karl read the letter?" Do, and Millar read the letter. "Oh, yes," Millar said, with another sip of tea. "O God, too late!" she cried. Millar arose and stood behind Olga's chair, leaning over her and speaking in a soft, low voice. "After he read the letter he buried his face in his pillow and wept," he said. "He went?" Oliga did not heed his flippancy. She looked up at him imploringly. "I did not want him to get that letter." she said. "I came to ask him to give it back to me unopened. I am too late." "It is not you who are too late. It was I who was too early." Millar said deprecatingly. "Oh, is this life really a serious matter?" Oliga exclaimed. "when every thing can depend upon one's getting here a few moments before or a few minutes after 3 o'clock?" "That is it exactly." Millar said. "We should not take it so seriously." Oliga looked thoughtfully away from him and said to herself softly: "He wept." "From joy." Millar repeated after her, in the same soft voice. "I am afraid to speak to him, and yet I must." Olga cried, starting up. "I would like to go far, far away, but I cannot. Something seems to hold me here. I cannot cannot go. What will become of me?" "You will be very happy and will make Karl very happy." Millar said. Heinrich entered and took the tea things. "M. Karl will be down in a moment," he said. Olga clasped her hands tragically and turned an imploring face on Millar, who started for the studio door. "Goodby," he said. "I will leave you to speak to Karl alone." "Please don't go." Olga implored. "I can hardly remain under the circumstances," he said. He knew that to further his design Karl and Olga should meet quite alone. He would see to it that even old Heinrich did not interrupt them until Olga had repeated her confession of love and the hoax of the letter had been revealed. Then he would reappear, with the letter, and they might read it together. Olga knew that her own own frail feminine heart would give way if she were left alone to meet Karl. Evil as she believed Millar to be, yet she dreaded his going now. "I am afraid to be alone with him," she said. "Won't you please stay?" "But if I stay how could you speak to Karl about the letter?" Millar asked. "And you must say something about it, you know. I would only be in the way." Olga weakened and began to pace the floor again. "Well, I shall be quite frank with him," she said. "I shall be honest. I shall ask him for the last time"—Karl's voice was heard in his own room calling to Helnrich. "He is coming." Millar said. "I will leave you." "Please don't go very far away." Olga implored. "I shall be here." Millar said, going to a small anteroom adjoining the studio. "If you need me, call." He stepped within the other room and closed the door softly. Olga stood, her hands gripping the back of her chair, waiting. CHAPTER XXI ARL entered the reception room and stood for an instant, looking at Oliga. He showed that he, too, had suffered during the night. His face was white and drawn. When he saw Oliga standing there a mute statue of despair he was filled with pity for her and self abasement. He stepped quickly to her side, caught her hands and kissed them passionately. "I ought to go down on my knees and beg her parlon for my conduct last night, Oliga," he said. She turned to him quickly, yielding her hands to him, leaning toward him, speaking eagerly. "Speak very low. He is in there; she said, pointing to the anteroom where Millar was hiding. "Let us be brief, Karl. I have been very foolish, but I could not control myself. After what happened I wanted to know. I wanted to feel that you loved me as I thought you did, as I hoped you did day and night, every minute." "Ogla!" he exclaimed rapturously. He was not prepared for this. He feared that he had offended her, and her impulsive declaration swept him from his feet. He watched her face eagerly, hungrily, as she went on, talking very rapidly and making no effort to disengage her hands, which he held elapsed to his breast. "Everything has changed since yesterday, Karl. But let us try to repeat what we said then. Let us shake hands honorably. Let us try to be strong and keep our promises, as we have kept them so long, Karl. If I have been bold and frivolous it was only because I wanted to know what you thought of me; nothing else. But I am afraid I have been punished too much." Her passion swept her along as she was swayed alternately by love of Karl and the saner impulse to flee from him. But the sweetness of knowing that she was loved, of feeling her hands clasped in his, after all her years of self repression broke down her resolution. "I fear it is too late, Karl. My strength is gone. My will is lost. We have gone back six years, Karl, I love you." The last words she whispered with infinite tenderness, and her head fell on his breast. Hysterically they clasped each other in their arms and, half laughing, half sobbing, looked into each other's eyes. Karl leaned over her, murmuring his love and kissing her eyes and hair. "Be careful; he is in there," Oiga warned him finally, again pointing at the door behind which their evil spirit lurked. Then she whispered shyly: "Did my letter surprise you?" "Letter?" Karl asked, astonished. "What letter, dear heart?" "Karl, I understand you wish to be discreet," Olga said reproachfully, "but it is my first letter, and I am not ashamed. Let us be honest. I am not afraid. I love you. When I wrote that letter I hardly knew what I was doing, and I must confess I felt ashamed at first. But I am no longer ashamed now; I am proud. Sometimes women do not write what they want, Karl, but they always want what they write. Karl, I would like to read that letter over again in your arms." That letter meant much to Olga. It was her only love letter. She had never written to Karl before except in the conventional boy and girl fashion, when she did not know how to express love. Her correspondence with Herman had always been of the most perfunctory sort. Never before had she poured out her soul as she did in this letter. Now she wanted to see what she had written, to read it over with the man for whom it was intended. It was with a shock of pain that she beheld Karl's indifferences, and she was amazed when he added: "I received no letter from you, Olga." "What! How can you say so? Was not a letter delivered to you this morning?" "I assure you that I did not receive any letter from you," Karl said earnestly. The realization of Millar's trick was like a blow in the face of Olga. She saw now how he had deliberately lied to her in order that she would certainly repeat her confession of love to Karl. In what a bold, forward, disloyal attitude she had been placed" Her first impulse was of anger, and she ran toward the anteroom. "Doctor! Dr. Millar" she called wildly. The door opened noiselessly, and Millar stood bowing on the threshold. My "my letter," Ola stammered. "Madame, I beg a thousand pardons." Millar said suavely. "My only excuse is that some letters are better undelivered." He drew from the inner pocket of his coat a letter and, with a smile and a sweeping bow, handed it to Karl. "However, I can now make reparation," he said. Karl took the letter, looking wonderingly from Ola to Millar. He held it an instant in his hand and was about to open it when Ola cried: "Karl, tear the letter up!" Karl instantly obeyed her, tearing the envelope into small pieces. "Now burn it," Ola said. He stepped over to the fireplace and threw the bits of paper on the glowing coals. They started up in a little flame and were quickly reduced to ashes. Continued on 3rd Page, 2nd Column. THE PLANET SATURDAY...DECEMBER 26, 1908 THE DEVIL (Continued from 2nd Page.) CHAPTER XXII. LGA was terrified at the trick Millar had played upon her and at its results. She look- ed in fear from him to Karl. Who is this man? who acted LGA was terrified at the trick Millar had played upon her and at its results. She looked in fear from him to Karl. "Who is this man?" she asked. Karl could not answer her. The same question was echoling in his heart. Who was this man, this personification of evil? Ever there were his insidious wiles to compromise, cajole, trick and betray them. He could not tell. He only knew that he loathed him and that he would drive him out. "Are you going now?" he demanded as Millar stood looking at them, with his evil smile. Millar took the question in the most natural way, disregarding the purposely offensive tone in which Karl spoke. "Yes, I am; I must," he said half regrettely. "My train leaves in half an hour. Again permit me to beg a thousand pardons. Could I have foreseen the anguish that was to follow my failure to deliver madame's letter nothing in the world could have"—Karl interrupted him rudely, determined that he should not beguile them again and that he should not speak of Olga or the letter as a thing of importance. "You should know that the letter contained only a conventional message," he said. Millar looked at Oliga, and his smile grew broad as she hung her head and blushed. Who should know better than he the confession which she had written and which was now destroyed? "It was quite conventional, I am sure," he said cynically. "You will miss your train." Karl said, with studied insolence. "Heinrich, help the doctor on with his coat. "A thousand thanks," the imperturbable Millar said. "Madame, goodby, and once more I neg a thousand pardons." Neither Oliga nor Karl spoke to him as he walked to the door, looked back at them, bowed to low again and chuckled as the door closed after him. Oliga turned quickly to Karl and held out her hands. "He is gone. I am glad. But, Karl, I would give a year of my life if he had delivered my letter to you." "Why? Tell me what you wrote," he asked eagerly. "I wrote all the things I told you a few moments ago, Karl. You know it all now." She went over to the grate and looked sadly into the ashes. "My first love letter," she said softly. "Oh, Karl, it was my confession of my love for you. I would like to read it over again with you, and then we might forget. I don't want to be afraid. I want to be strong, to be happy. If I only had that letter now!" Karl took her hands in his and comforted her. "Never mind it, Olga. It has served its purpose. It has taught us ourselves, our hearts." "It has taught us that we must be strong, brave and loyal." Olga declared warmly. They stood thus, looking into each other's eyes sanely, clearly, each ready to renounce. The door of the studio opened, and Millar stood before them again, holding in his extended hand a letter. "I beg a thousand pardons again," he said. "I find I gave Karl an old tailor's bill instead of madame's letter." Olga eagerly took the letter, opened it and recognized her, own handwriting. "My letter, Karl." she exclaimed. Both bent over the letter, reading it eagerly, while Millar slipped quietly out of the studio—out of their lives. Olga looked up from their reading. "I am glad that I wrote it, Karl." she said. "Now we will burn it." Together they watched it glow brightly into flame and fall into gray ashes. "That is our love begun and ended. Karl." Olga said quietly. "It was wrong, and now we realize it, don't we? And now, dear boy, you are coming with me." "Where?" Karl asked. "I am going to take you to Elsa," Olga answered. With a feeling of elation Karl called Heinrich and was helped into his overcoat. He bent respectfully and kissed Olga's hand as they walked out of the studio together. THE END Franklin's Epitaph. After Franklin's death an epitaph written by himself when twenty three years of age was found among his papers. Though it was not chiseled upon his tomb, we may quote it here: The body of B. FRANKLIN, Printer, Like the cover of an old book, its contents torn out, and stripped of its lettering and gilding, lies here, food for worms. But the work shall not be wholly lost, for it will, as he believed, appear once more in a new and more perfect edition, corrected and amended, by the Author. He was born January 17, 1708. Died 17. B. F. Begins Next Week. Page Two. Satan Sanderson By Hallie Erminie Rives Illustrated by Will Jones Here is a story about who agreed. "Powerful," "thrills are some of the terms used with startling climaxes and done with artistic skill. It will be published to reader who begins in each succeeding installment. The Story of a Satan Sa By Hallie E history about which the critics are powerful," "thrilling," "intense," and the terms used to describe it climaxes and the characteristic skill. be published in this paper and who begins it will wait eagerness to succeeding installment. History of a Thousand John Sander Hallie Erminie Ri Here is a story about which the critics are generally agreed. "Powerful," "thrilling," "intense," "dramatic," are some of the terms used to describe it. It is filled with startling climaxes and the character painting is done with artistic skill. It will be published in this paper and every reader who begins it will wait eagerly for each succeeding installment. The Story of a Thousand Thrills M. M. Satan Sanderson Illustrated by Will Jones *As a man soweth so she great truth that is pictured that are intense with acti matic surprises. It grips men, one strong, the other man are the leading charm with a sure hand. The is sweet and uplifting. soweth so shall he reap." that is pictured in this great story sense with action and thrillingises. It grips, holds, fascin-rong, the other weak, and on leading characters and the hand. The love element is lifting. As a man soweth so shall he reap." That is the great truth that is pictured in this great story, in scenes that are intense with action and thrilling with dramatic surprises. It grips, holds, fascinates. Two men, one strong, the other weak, and one noble woman are the leading characters and they are drawn with a sure hand. The love element is there also sweet and uplifting. THE WEDDING. The young pair had so many friends that the police were quite unable to cope with the situation. The bride was headed up in a barrel and thrown into the river, while the groom was bound and gagged and suspended by his feet from a tall tree. At this point the military was called out and arrived at double-quick just in time to save the baggage from being pasted over with insulting placards. A number of shots were exchanged. At a late hour the city was reported quiet and the authorities, though not denying the popularity of the high contracting parties, were confident that there would be no more violence. —Puck. "I want to see some collars," said --- which the critics are generally calling," "intense," "dramatic," and to describe it. It is filled and the character painting is in this paper and every will wait eagerly for fallment. Thousand Thrills Anderson minie Rives all he reap." That is the in this great story, in scenes on and thrilling with dra- s, holds, fascinates. Two weak, and one noble wo- acters and they are drawn ove element is there also, the fat man. "Yes, sir," replied the clerk; "what kind?" "I want the swellest dress collar you've got in the shop." "Here's the latest, sir." "What size?" "No. 16." "Better give me a size larger; I don't think there'd be room to tuck in my napkin with that size." Comparisons Are Odious Mrs. Crimsonbeak—This paper says that about twice as much power is required to stop an express train as to start one. Mr. Crimsonbeak—Very likely, but that does not give us any adequate idea of the additional power needed to stop a woman talking as compared with what is required to start her.—Yonkers Statesman. THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA ek. son s generally dramatic, it is filled painting is POINTED PARAGRAPHS. It is easier to catch cold than it is to let go of it. There is nothing so rare as roast beef properly done. Be a "good thing" only for the benefit of your family. The day dreamer is sure to attract attention—when he snores. Most women are credulous enough to believe in their husbands. You can't judge the value of a thing by the price card attached. A man with a lot of money is always a great help—to himself. Secrets a woman can't tell worry her as much as the money she can't spend. It takes an exceptionally smooth confidence man to sell mining stock to a miner. Success is the only thing that can turn a man's head when he has a stiff neck. He cannot afraid of an The cynic stolen fruit To praise ticipate in He who does worse It takes we have an Getting so way of tam He does is who is to try Trying to is a sure way The worst who never The man's flection puts boose. It's a way statistics for angel. An old bachelor says an engaged man is as good as married and a divorced man is better. As soon as a girl gets old enough to know better she quits wearing pins along her waist line. When a woman has on a pretty pain of stockings she is terribly afraid of getting the bottom of her skirt soiled. —Chicago News. WISDOM IN WHIFFS. Self-sympathy is the road that leads to misery. Man eternally lives an epic of which the Author is Divine. The fool is often happy in his folly and the wise man lonely in his wisdom. A manly woman is to be avoided, but a ladylike man is beyond endurance. Woman is an idol a man worships as long as it is too high for him to reach. Flattery is counterfelt coinage which would have no currency but for our vanity. The highest love is not a blind love, but one that, seeing all faults, can still pardon and esteem. The art of adapting one's self to one's listener is a better aid to conversation than intellect. A man may rave upon the heights, but he finds his real self persistently awaiting him on life's levels. Philosophy can triumph over past ills and those that loom in the distance. To present ills she succumbs If only a woman would follow her intuition instead of her heart she would be a match for the cleverest man in Christendom. SUNFLOWER PHILOSOPHY Some people act ridiculous and then become indignant because people tell it. If you promise to be at a certain place at a certain time, get there, or send a note that you can't come. Some women should explain why a woman thinks her toilet isn't complete unless she has a dab of powder on her nose. It is a boy's opinion that when the preacher offers thanks at the table he has a perfect right to peep to see if there is anything on the table worth giving thanks for. The talk of an afternoon reception where there are 200 or 300 women is said to remind the silent spectator of a train rushing through a succession of short tunnels. So many varieties of cakes, cookies and crackers are put up in fancy boxes that children are being brought up without ever seeing their mothers make cookies, or receiving, as a reward for being good, a cooky-man.—Atchison (Kan.) Globe AS TO LOVE Love is a winged messenger between hearts. Love is the amaranth in the Garden of the Soul. There be many loves, but only one way of loving. Love is God's benediction on the world—a worldless amen. When the last word shall have been spoken echo will answer—love! Woman is the queen of a little kingdom; its throne is one man's heart, its boundaries her children's arms. When we say "Lovest thou me?" it may be for sweet asseveration or for poor bolstering of wavering faith.—Indianapolis Star. SENTENCE SERMONS. Hatred always hinders. Giving grudgingly is sowing spar- ingly. It will not make you godlike to call others godless. It takes more than a flow of words to wash the world. He cannot defend the truth who is afraid of any truth. The cynic is one who has found stolen fruits not so sweet. To praise a good action is to participate in its repetition. He who has nothing to do always does worse than nothing. It takes adversity to show whether we have any real prosperity. Getting sore at the world is a ready way of taming yourself in the race. He does not know what forgiveness is who is too lazy to resent a wrong. Trying to get even with an enemy is a sure way of sinking below him. The worst of all failures are those who never fall because they never try. The man who has nothing but reflection puts his headlight on the caboose. It's a waste of time to fix up your statistics for the benefit of the recording angel. The man who talks to please himself soon has an audience well pleased with itself. Many a man thinks he is a saint because he has dreams of heaven every Sunday. One resolution to do the right thing is worth a bushel of resolutions not to do wrong things—Chicago Tribune SAYS THE OWL A man is never sure he knows until he makes good. An ounce of accomplishment is worth a ton of theories. A silly woman tries to drive a man; a wise one leads him. You can't always judge the show by the price of admission. A woman will do a lot of cheeky things to improve her complexion. Fortune is sometimes fickle, but misfortune is always sincere. Don't invest your money in a scheme because it figures out well on paper. The one way to get the best of people is to catch them at their worst. When a jealous man marries a jealous woman there is something doing every minute. Every mother knows that her own children are superior to any other children on the market. Give people what you think they want instead of what they ask for, and you'll make a lot of enemies. JUST NONSENSE. The fellow who steals a watch must expect to wind up in jail. Charity covers a multitude of sins that might better be exposed. When a fellow is in a hole don't rub it in by looking down on him. Any man can have an appreciative audience if he only talks to himself. There is one sign that is never a forgery, and that is the sign of old age. It is useless for a man to dream of a political career when he is too proud to beg and too honest to steal. The Sexton—"In what way do you regard your occupation as helpful to mankin1?" The Gravedigger—"Well, I've made many an opening for a man in my time." "I tell you, that boy of mine is growing," exclaimed the proud parent. "I'll take your word for it," replied the bachelor friend, "but he doesn't seem to grow on me."—Philadelphia Record. WHIMS. Wolfskin makes the best banjo parchment. Swans keep water completely free of weeds. The temperature of space is 200 degrees below zero. There's three pounds of grapes in a bottle of champagne. Chinese athletes believe duck brains to be the most strengthening food. The Size of It "Oh, Tom, have I got 'em again," moaned the unsteady young man. "I certainly see a big hat coming up the street by itself—I swear I do?" "Be calm, Jim," said the faithful Tom. "It's all right about the hat. There's a woman under it—Baltimore American." Work for Athletes Bacon—I see a western railroad is going to put on a gymnasium car. Egbert—I don't see the necessity of that. A man can have all the exercise he wants, and get in all sorts of positions, trying to open the windows—Yonkers Statesman. Suggestive. Patience—Don't you think she is artistic? Patrice—Well, there is something about her face which suggests painting. -Yonkers Statesman. 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Byrd St. Sta. *10.43 A.M. Main St. Sta. ASHLAND ACCOMMODATIONS WEEKDAYS. Leave Elba Station - 7.20 A.M. 1.20 P.M. 6.35 P.M. Arrive Elba Station - 6.40 A.M. 10.40 P.M. 6.40 P.M. *Daily. | Weekdays. | Sundays only. All trains to and from Byrd Street Station stop at Elba. Time of arrivals and departures not guaranteed. Read the signs. N & W. NORFOLK & WESTERN. ONLY ALL-BAIL LINE TO NORFOLK. Leave Byrd Street Station, Richmond. Ifect December 1, 1907. For Norfolk - 9:00 A.M. 8:00 P.M. and 7:00 P.M. daily. For Lynchburg, the West and Southwest 6:00 P.M. 8:00 P.M. and 9:00 P.M. daily. ARRIVE BYRD STREET. From the West 6:00 P.M. and 5:00 P.M. daily. From the West 7:40 A.M. 2:06 P.M. and 8:50 P.M. daily. Pulman, Parlor and Sleeping Car. On Divine Car. W. B. BEVILL. C. H. BORLEY, Gen. Pam. Agent. Dv. Pax. ATLANTIC COASTLINE Per Florida and South-6:18 A. M. and P. P. M. 7:11 0 P. M. For Norfolk-9:00 A. M., 8:00 F. M and 7:00 P. M. For N. and W. Ry. West--9:00 A. M., 18:0 and 9:40 P. 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RENEWALE, ETC.—If you do not want THE $1,000 PLANET continued for another year after your subscription has run out, you then notify us by Postal Card to discontinue it. The courts have decided that subscribers to newspapers who did not order their paper discontinued at the expiration of time for which it has been paid are liable for the payment of the subscription on date when they order the paper discontinued. COMMUNICATIONS—When writing to us to renew your subscription or to discontinue your paper, you should give your name and address in full, otherwise we cannot find your name on our database. CHANGE OF ADDRESS—In order to change the address of a subscriber, we must be sent the former as well as the present address. Entered at the Post Office at Richmond, Va., as sound matter. SATURDAY . DECEMBER 26, 1908. THAT REMARKABLE MESSAGE. --- It is with a feeling of genuine regret that we are led to ask the question. Has President Theodore Roosevelt violate his oath of office? He solemnly swore with hand uplifted that he would maintain and support the Constitution of the United States. Article V. reads "No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a grand jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces or in the militia, when in actual service in time of war or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself nor be deprived of life, liberty or property, without due process of law; This is the section of the law which applies specifically to the cases of the 167 colored soldiers of Companies B, C and D of the Twenty-fifth United States Infantry, who were dismissed from the service and their army records marred by the arbitrary action of the Chief Executive of the nation and the War Department. There was no war and there was no state of great public danger at the time that these men were punished. The modifying clause was therefore plainly not operative. In his message to the Congress, President Roosevelt made some glaring admissions. His apologists in the United States Senate denied that the dismissal of these soldiers by the President was not a punishment and for that reason did not come within the scope of the constitutional prohibition. But Mr. Roosevelt throws disarray to the winds, when he says: "Under the circumstances and in view of the length of time they have been out of the service, and their loss of the benefit that would have acrued to them by continuous long-time service, we can afford to treat the men who meet the requirements given above as having been sufficiently punished by the consequences they brought upon themselves when they rendered necessary the exercise of the disciplinary power." This then is a frank admission that the President of the United States did punish these men to the extent of depriving them of property, without due process of law. He further emphasizes his disrespect for law, when he used the following language: "Meanwhile the investigation will be continued. The results have made it obvious that only by carrying on the investigation as the war department has actually carried it on is there the slightest chance of bringing the offenders to justice or of separating not the innocent for there were doubtless hardly any innocent, but the less guilty from those whose guilt was heinous." If the crime was heinous, then the crime was infamous, within the meaning of this portion of the Constitution of the United States. What right then had President Roosevelt and the War Department to set themselves up as judges, jury and high executioners of the sentence? The Constitution of the United States says that this shall not be done. It further provides: "In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the assistance or counsel for his defense." How then could a President of the United States, sworn to observe these guarantees embrace in a message to the United States Senate the following language? "It appears that almost all the members of Company B must have been actively concerned in the shooting, either to the extent of being participants or to the extent of virtually encouraging those who were participants. As to Companies C and D, there can be no question that practically every man in them must have had knowledge that the shooting was done by some of the soldiers or B troop, and possibly by one or two others in one of the other troops. This concealment was itself a grave offense, which was greatly aggravated by their testifying before the senate committee that they were ignorant "what they must have known." Here then is the President of the United States violating a fundamental principle of the Constitution itself by making an attack upon citizens of the United States and affording them no opportunity to prepare themselves for such an attack. He gives them no opportunity to answer these charges made against them, but uses the power of his high and honorable office to crush one of the bravest bodies of men, who ever wore a uniform or shouldered a rifle. He boldly announces that he has used all of the machinery of the government with its matchless wealth to secure evidence against these men and then declines to open even one doorway to permit them to obtain evidence in their favor. Nay, more than this,—he is in a life and death struggle, so to speak with Hon. Joseph B. Foraker to crush him, because in keeping with his life's work, he has dared to defend these helpless soldiers. We confess that the spectacle is such as to cause any self-respecting citizen to hang his head in shame. And this is the great Roosevelt, the champion of "a fair deal," the sponsor for the cry, "All men up, rather than some men down." Here he is placing the "thumb screw" of the Middle Ages upon these men, so to speak, by endeavoring to force them to testify against themselves and against each other in plain violation of the letter and spirit of the constitution itself. These men have sworn that they are innocent. He said further. "Nevertheless, it is to be said in partial extenuation that they were probably cowed by threats, made by the more desperate of the men who had actually been engaged in the shooting, as to what would happen to any man who failed to protect the wrongdoers. Moreover, there are circumstances tending to show that these misguided men were encouraged by outsiders to persist in their course of concealment and denial. "I feel, therefore, that the guilt of the men, who, after the event thus shielded the perpetrators of the wrong by refusing to tell the truth about them, though serious, was in part due to the unwise and improper attitude of others, and that some measure of allowance should be made for the misconduct. In other words, I believe we can afford to reinstate all of these men who now truthfully tell what has happened, give all the old they can to fix the responsibility upon those who are really guilty, and show that they themselves had no guilty knowledge beforehand and were in no way implicated in the affair, save by having knowledge of it afterward and falling and refusing to divulge it. Here, then he presumes these men guilty and demands that they prove their innocence. After stating that he had private detectives employed and one of them announced that he had visited thirty states and interviewed over one hundred of the members of the Black Battallion, President Roosevelt had the effrontery to say in his message: "I recommend that a law be passed allowing the Secretary of War, with in a fixed period of time, say a year, to reinstate any of these soldiers whom he, after careful examination finds to have been innocent and whom he finds to have done all in his power to help bring to justice the guilty." The Secretary of War is the legal arm of the President of the United States and that official is so preju- THE RICHMOND PLANET. RICHMOND. VIRGINIA diced against these colored men that he cannot even see straight and yet he asks that this authority, openly hostile to every member of Companies B, C and D of the Twenty-fifth Infantry be ordained as the proper tribunal before whom they shall appear to "prove their innocence." Such a proposition is monstrous. There should be no surprise then that the daily press should have said: "Mr. Foraker spoke with great earnestness. He said it was an outrage that such methods should be employed. He believed the 'poor friendless discharged soldiers' should have an opportunity to confront their accusers face to face, 'meet testimony with testimony'. Therefore he believed that the tribunal authorized by his bill was unobjectionable. He named the following retired army officers as the proposed committee: Lleut. Gen. Adna R. Chaffee, Lieut. Gen. John C. Bates, Major General George W. Davis, Major General Jesse M. Lee and Brig. Gen. Aaron S. Daggett. Mr. Foraker asked for the printing of his bill and the extract from the letter which he had read in the record." And again "Mr. Foraker denounced as an outrage the system of esplonage which the Government had inaugurated to obtain evidence against the discharged soldiers. The reading of the President's message and the report had proved the wisdom of passing the amendment which he had proposed or something similar to afford these 'poor, helpless' soldiers an opportunity to confront their accusers and meet testimony with testimony.' That was all he had ever contended for, he said; merely that the humblest citizen might enjoy the same privilege accorded the mightiest." And again: "Mr. Foraker said it had been the sixth time that the men kad beaol investigated. Each time the case against them failed." Mr. Roosevelt is a "mighty good" preacher but a "mighty poor" practitioner. What can be his motive in all of this? We say it advisedly that the Democratic jurists of the South-land have never been guilty of so flagrant a violation of the fundamental principles of this Republic. We would be ready and willing to submit the facts in this case to any five Governors of any five southern states, provided they would swear to pass upon the facts according to "rules of evidence," and we would be willing to abide the result, with complacency, being satisfied that the conclusions would be favorable to these colored soldiers. Texas stands in the foreground with no accusing legal finger against these men for its legal tribunal has already decided that the evidence was not sufficient to convict or punish any one of them. President Roosevelt does not seem to understand that there is no provision in the law where the President of the United States can punish people for infamous crimes, either in the army or out of it. He does not seem to understand that he is usurping the power of the courts and the court-martials by just such proceedings and that he is lowering the dignity of his high office and making himself appear ridiculous in the eyes of the whole civilized world. So far as we are concerned, we are here to enter our protest against this high-handed usurpation of power. Our feelings of regret are giving way to the feelings of indignation and we are even now wondering how long the American people will stand for this species of Czarism, which is doing so much to undermine the bed rock principles of this Republic. One thing we know, God reigns and In His own time, He will rough places smooth and the cracked ways straight President Roosevelt will yet be called to answer at the bar of eternal justice, where more than one egotistic individual has been made to bow and to understand that He 2nd He alone holds the destiny of nations in His hands. --- President Roosevelt may like colored folks all right, but he has a peculiar way of showing it. --- Senator Foraker is much older than he used to be, but in a fight his enemies would hardly know it. --- President Roosevelt may rest assured that well-nigh every colored person of intelligence in the United States will shake a glad hand with him when he steps on the steamer to sail for either Europe, Asia, Africa or Australia. All of the southern white folks are now laughing over the predicament of the colored folks who, after that Booker T. Washington dinner began to regard Mr. Roosevelt as an angel. Now it takes a right good, conservative, colored person, outside of those holding office by presidential appointment, not to see horns, where once he saw wreaths upon the presidential brow. --- People talk a great deal about Heaven, but very few of them want to go there, except when they can't help themselevs. Jordan may be a hard road to travel, but it can't be Roosevelt. ROAD AND FARM IMPROVEMENT A RIGHT WAY TO GRADE. If Work Is Not Dane Right, Money Is Practically Wasted. How the money we raise by taxation with which to build and repair road grades is expended should interest all of us. It means a good deal to have it used right; it means a great loss to us if it is not used right. We have endeavored to draw a few sketches representing our views on how a grade should be put up. These are calculated to convey our meaning pattern than words can be made to do so. No. 1 shows an average highway before being graded. This may have been graded slightly some time in the past, and may not have been. In either case, you will recognize the appearance. We believe it quite true to life. No. 2 is drawn to represent our notion of what is a good road grade. Observe that there are no depressions here. The way is clear to the ditch at the side from the center. A road drag on such a grade does good, and the more it is used the harder becomes the grade and the quicker the water gets into the ditches and off the highway whenever it rains. Observe, too, that the ditches are well out away from the center of the highway, so if any cut deeper, as is often the case on slopes, the center of the grade is not disturbed. If a grade is put up like this, then dragged a reasonable number of times each year, never again will there be use for the grader upon it. No. 3 is calculated to show up common mistakes in the handling of a grader. A ditch is cut deep enough, and the right distance from the center of the grade, but it is cut on too GROUND NO 1. BROADWAY, BROADWAY GRADING GROUND NO 2. BROADWAY, BROADWAY GRADING GROUND NO 3. BROADWAY, BROADWAY GRADING (TO BROADWAY, BROADWAY) GROUND NO 4. BROADWAY, BROADWAY GRADING (TO BROADWAY, BROADWAY) Different Types of Grading sharp an angle, and the dirt for four or five feet inside this sharp ditch is not disturbed. This leaves what we commonly call a hump inside the ditch. The ground line is really left intact here, the dirt being dragged over it and all bunched in the center. This bench keeps the water from getting quickly into the ditch; in fact, when low, loose grades become worn and settled, this bench often turns the water back into the center of the grade, even when the bottom of the ditch at the outside is lower. The object of No. 4, explains Farmers' Mail and Breeze, is to show the folly of too narrow grading. We have many examples of this about us. A few years ago this township bought an expensive engine to pull a grader, against the opposition of a majority of the taxpayers. In an attempt to prove the wisdom of their purchase, the township officials made narrow grades. The object was to put up many miles of "graded" roads in a short space of time. These grades were so narrow the ditches were brought very close to the center of the highway. These ditches have been deepening on the slopes since then, and it is taking much work with slip scrappers to fill them and keep them from destroying the center of the highways. COST OF BAD ROADS Poor Highways a Source of Loss to Farmers. The cost of bad roads to the farmers of the United States is, perhaps, a difficult matter to estimate. However, when it is considered for the entire country upon the basis of highway mileage and the results of experiments relative to the cost of hauling farm produce, the figures are most surprising. The federal department of agriculture states that there are 2,151,578 miles of public roads in the United States. Of this mileage, statistics for the year 1904 show that about seven per cent. are improved. During the crop year 1905-06, 85,478,000,000 pounds of farm products were hauled over common roads from farm to market. As no figures are included for forest or mine products or for the general commodities of life that go from city to country, it is evident that the slightest saving in cost of hauling per ton would assume striking proportions when considered for the entire country. Figures show that these great crops traveled in wagons over the country roads 208,432,644 miles, merely in being transported from the farm to the railroad shipping point. Investigations have established the fact that the average cost of hauling per ton per mile is about 25 cents. The cost on stone roads, dry and in good order, is about eight cents; on stone roads in ordinary condition, 12 cents; on earth roads containing ruts and mud, 29 cents; on sandy roads when wet, 33 cents; or sandy roads when dry, 64 cents. A reduction in the cost of hauling from 25 cents to 12 cents would mean an average saving of over $250,000,000. Get In the Wood The coal bin or wood shed should be filled before midwinter. Later the roads become bad and hauling difficult. All heavy hauling should be done while the roads are dry and smooth. Get things in shape in general so that when bad weather comes some effective work can be done inside. Do not plan to rest all winter. A little work each day makes a man bright, healthy and optimistic. CRIB WITHOUT A SHOVEL. It Is Made Possible by Building Granary with Upper Driveway. This grain storage house is designed to allow for handling the crop ge house is de handling the crop without unnecessary lifting. Grain is hauled in the upper drive and poured from the wagons into the bins, and is then without unnecessary lifting. Grain is hauled in the upper drive and poured from the wagons into the bins, and is then removed by being drained from the bins into the wagons in the lower driveway. If built upon a hillside the job of making the fills will not be serious, says Farm and Home. Even on Two-Story Granary. level ground this can be done without a great deal of expenditure of labor with the use of a road scraper. The entire building must be raised upon piers about four feet high so that the bottom of the bins is not much lower than the bottom of the wagon box, allowing the entire contents of the bins to be drained into the wagons without lifting. WHEN TO USE A DRAG After a Rain and When the Soil Is Moist. The drag does the best work when the soil is moist, but not sticky. The earth then moves freely along the faces of the slabs. If the roadway is very badly rutted and full of holes, it may be well to use the drag once when the ground is slushy. This treatment is particularly applicable before a cold spell in winter, when it is possible to have a roadway freeze smooth. A smooth road surface is secured by this method. Clay, when mixed with water and thoroughly worked, becomes remarkably tough and impervious to water. If compacted in this condition it becomes extremely hard. Another valuable result of dragging is the reduction of dust, for the particles of clay cohere so tenaciously that there is but little wear when the surface is smooth. Dust on an earth road is due to the breaking up under traffic of the frayed and upturned edges of ruts and hoof prints. If the surface is smooth after each rain and the road dries hard and even, no edges are exposed to crushing and the only dust which forms is that due to actual wear of the road surface. There are so many influences at work and conditions are so varied in different localities that it is quite impossible to lay down a general rule for the number of treatments needed to keep a road in good condition, says Farmers' Voice. A tough clay or a stiff sandy clay will resist the action of wheels and hoofs for a longer period than a loam, other things being equal. Certain sections of a roadway will require more attention than others because of steep grades, seepage, exposure to hillside wash, etc. The best guide in meeting these conditions is the knowledge and experience gained while dragging the roadway. There is one condition, however, in which special treatment should be given to a road. Clay hills under persistent dragging frequently become too high in the center. To correct this it is best to drag the earth toward the center of the road twice and away from it once. In soils full of loose stones or even small boulders the drag has done good service. The loose stones are drawn into a window down the center of the road while the earth is deposited around the boulders in such a way that the surface is leveled. The loose stones in the center of the road should of course be removed. Where there is a large proportion of small stones or gravel the drag will keep down the inequalities of the surface. HUSKING RACK FOR WAGON It is Easily Adjusted to the Side of the Wagon Box. Here is a plan for a husking rack for a wagon, writes a correspondent of Prairie Farmer. I take two-inch strips about five feet long for side pieces and two pieces of the same material for the ends. Two side Prairie Farmer. I take two-inch strips about five feet long for side pieces and two pieces of the same material for the ends. Two 2x4's are used to support the frame, being held in position by a cleat which passes under the 2x4's, and is secured by the hook catching at the top of the box. This frame answers every purpose for one man in husking bundles. If two men are to work a similar frame is placed on the opposite side. Be Systematic. Systematic arrangement and laying out of the work several days ahead will often show where time can be economized, especially in going from one job to another and besides gives the hands no excuse for not knowing just what to do. Modern Variation. "One touch of nature faking," observed Prof. Sinnick, "makes the whole world an Ananias club." Evil in Love of Gain The love of gain never made a great painter, but it has marred many.— Aliston Defects of the Laws Anacharsis: Laws catch files and let hornets go free. Professor's Wife—Shall we take the car to Aunt Maria's, dear? Professor—No, darling; the car will take us. Professor's Wife (pouting)—That is not a fair proposition. Professor (smiling)—But the car is a fare one.—Baltimore American. TABLE DELICACIES SOME APPROVED RECIPES OF VARIOUS KIDS. To Cream Butter—Care Needed in Caramelizing Sugar—Delicious Rice Balls—Roasted Pork Tenderloin with Garnishment. Put milk in the top of a double boiler, having water boiling in the under part. Cover and let stand on top of range until the milk has a bead-like appearance around the edge. To Cream Butter—Put butter in a bowl and work part. Cover and let stand on top of range until the milk has a bead-like appearance around the edge. To Cream Butter—Put butter in a bowl and work with a wooden spoon until the butter is of a soft creamy consistency. Should buttermilk exude it should be poured off. To Extract Juice from Onion—Cut a slice from the root end of the onion, remove the outer skin and press onion on a coarse grater, using a rotary motion. Fried Oysters—Select large oysters. Clean and parbell slightly to draw out water. Drain and dry on towel. Roll in cracker crumbs, dip in mayonnaise dressing, then in crumbs. Let stand for five minutes, and if moist dip again in crumbs and cook in deep, hot fat for one minute. To Caramelize Sugar—Put sugar in a smooth granite saucepan or omelet pan, place over the hot part of the range and stir constantly until melted and the color of maple sugar. Care must be taken to prevent sugar from adhering to the sides of the pan or spoon. Rice Balls—Boll a cupful of rice in water and add salt. While warm mix in quarter pound of butter, two eggs well beaten, and tablespoonful of cinnamon. Make this into small balls and fry in deep fat. Drain and roll in currant jelly, then powdered sugar. Roasted Pork Tenderloin—Clean a dozen pork tenderloins, season with salt and pepper. Put into baking pan. Make for this a dressing of bread crumbs, seasoned with salt, pepper, onion chopped fine. Moisten this with milk and put dressing between the loin. Add hot water for basting and bake for an hour and a half. Serve garnished with parsley and hard-boiled eggs. Canned Chicken To can chicken prepare as for stewing, put on to cook in water to cover, with a rounding tablespoon (possibly more) of salt to each chicken. Cook till the meat will slip from bones, take out all bones, pack pieces of meat, as close as you can, in glass jars; fill with the broth, adding boiling water to it if there is not enough to fill all jars. Put on rubbers and covers, put up top wire, but do not snap down lower one. Put jars on rack in wash boiler, pour in warm water to shoulders of jars, cover boiler and let boil three-quarters to one hour after water begins to boil. Then lift boiler off, out of drafts, let stand a few moments before uncovering boiler. Then take off boiler cover, snap down lower jar wires, without lifting tops, lift jars out, wipe and set aside to cool, then put away. To Serve with Ice Cream Crystallized mint, rose leaves, geranium and violets are nice to serve with ice cream or ice. Make a sirup of one pound sugar and a gill of water. Boil without stirring until a drop put into water becomes immediately brittle. Remove the saucepan from the fire and set it at once in an outer pan of boiling water. Add to the sirup the juice of half a lemon. Run the prongs of a sharp pickle fork through each leaf to be candied and dip it into the hot sirup. Lay the leaves separately on a buttered or waxed paper to drain. Mushrooms Baked Under Glass Mushrooms Baked Under Glass. Peel and remove the stems from good-sized, firm mushrooms. Saute lightly in plenty of butter and season with salt and pepper. Put round slices of toast in the dish, cover with the mushrooms and the liquor from the pan in which they have been sauted, cover with the bells and bake from fifteen to twenty minutes. When ready to serve add a tablespoonful of hot cream to each dish and serve under the bells. Steamed Rye and Indian Lent Sift together two cups, corn meal, one cup rye meal (not flour), a teapoonful soda and a scant teaapoonful salt. Add one-half cup molasses and a half cup sweet milk, mix well, turn into a buttered tin pail or mold and steam in a kettle of boiling water for four hours, keeping it steadily boiling. An Egg Hint To prevent hard-bolled eggs (for salads, sandwiches, etc.) from turning a dark color, place them when taken out of the boiling water in a basin of cold water for a few minutes. This will not only preserve their natural color, but will render them much more easy to shell. To Keep Vegetables Turnips, carrots, sweet potatoes and horseradish keep fresh a long time by being buried in sand in the cellar. Parsley and celery, if dug up by the roots, with some of the earth around them, and placed in the cellar, will also keep green for some time. French Salad Dressing. Three tablespoons of olive oil, one tablespoon vinegar. Mix salt, red pepper, a little mustard and a trifle of sugar; stir smooth with oil. To these ingredients add the oil and vinegar. 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Detroit, Mich. --- make for a person of average knowledge of cookery, and do not require so much effort that the hostess need tire herself. They are not too elaborate, but depart from those of the cook books: Pineapple Eggs.—Soak the contents of half a box of gelatine in water and when dissolved add a cupful of grated pineapple (canned or otherwise), and the juice of one lemon, a cupful of boiling water, and a cupful of sugar; strain and set away to harden. As soon as the hardening process begins, whip quickly with an eggbeater and fold in the whites of five eggs. Mold in eggshells and serve in any fanciful way. Ice Cream Cake—Cream two cups of sugar with one of butter, add a cupful of sweet milk, $3\frac{1}{2}$ cupfuls of flour, and the whites of nine eggs; stir in two scant teaspoonfuls of baking powder, and bake in jellycake pans. Spread each layer with a boiled icing, seasoned with the juice and rind of one orange. English Tart—Line a deep pie plate with a rich crust and fill with gooseberry preserves, sprinkling a little flour over the top. When baked cover with a maringue or with whipped cream, sweeten to taste, and set on ice. German Dumplings Remove the crust from two or three small stale rolls and cut the crumbs into small pieces. Lay the crusts aside. Put the crumbs into a basin and pour over them enough boiling milk to nearly cover. Soak 10 or 15 minutes, and then press, to remove superfluous milk. Put over the fire and stir with a spoon until hot, but not scorched. Push back and season with salt and pepper. Cut a half pound of bacon into small pieces and fry with some of the crusts cut into dice. When done, add to the soaked bread, with two tablespoonfuls of butter cut in small pieces and enough beaten egg to bind the mixture without making too soft. It must be stiff enough to hold its shape when rolled into dumplings. Flour the hands freely and make the dumplings of equal size. Plunge into a saucepan of boiling water, cover tightly, and cook ten minutes without uncovering. Drain; put on a hot dish until ready to serve. Meat Pasty for Lunch Put one pound of steak into a saucepan with an ounce of salt, and just a little water, not enough to cover it; cover closely and gently cook for about an hour; let it get cold, then cut up into small dice and season rather highly with pepper and salt. Make some pastry with four ounces of butter, two ounces of lard, or cold bacon dripping, and eight ounces of flour; rub both butter and lard into the flour, add a teaspoonful of Borwick's baking powder, mix with cold water; roll out rather less than half an inch thick, cut into rounds about six inches across, on one half put some of the meat with a little gravy to molten it; turn the other half over, press the edges. Bake in a brisk oven till the pastry is cooked. Dry Curry. Mince four onions; cut fowl or veal in small pieces, and fry in butter; add two tablespoonfuls of curry powder, and put all in a small stewpan. Rinse out the frying pan with a teacupful of boiling water, and pour amongst the curry. Season with salt, cover closely and stew till tender. Add a tablespoonful of lemon pickle and two of cream. Stir, and boll five minutes. Serve with boiled rice round the dish, the curry in the center. Raisine. To make this famous French marmalade allow an equal weight of grapes and pears, cook in a little water until soft, then press through a coilander to remove the seeds. Add the pears, cored and sliced, and simmer until thick, stirring almost constantly. When thick sweeten to taste, scald, strain from a coilander and can. A Mexican Dish Into a baking dish put a layer of macaroni (after it has been thoroughly cooked in salted water), then a few spoonfuls of gravy from roast beef; cover with tomato catsup, then another layer of macaroni, gravy and catsup on top. Set in the oven to brown. Sick Room Shade In the center of a common pie tin punch a hole large enough to slip over the gas jet, and drop in place right side up. It will not interfere in any way with lighting the gas, and will be found to shade the patient's eyes perfectly. It also allows sufficient light for nurse to attend to her duties. Beef and Carrots. Take one pound of round of beef and chop coarsely. Chop three carrots fine and cook with the meat in water just to cover until done. Season this with salt, pepper, butter and an onion grated. Thicken with a tablespoonful of flour, rubbed smooth with cold milk. Creamed Carrots on Steak Wash and scrape carrots, cook until soft in boiling salt water, pour over them thin cream sauce, and pour the whole over a hot broiled steak. Serve at once. Each adds to the flavor of the other. s , i = ire tea { A ately e = ~ THE TOILET TABLE floss when food becomes — loded between the teeth. It is really better than a wooden toothpick, which often breaks, leay- en Fae tee eR oe a ee ee er wood. There ts nothing in the rubber to harm the teeth Singeing the hatr is still thousht to be most helpful toward continued growth, and, if you cannot afford to have it singed by a professional hair dresser, then you should know exactly how to go to work to have {t singed at home. Divide the hair into numerous Strands and twist them (ghtly, then Tough up the ends, so that they stand out about an inch, Have your friend pass a lighted wax taper along the Jength of each strand, while you hold Mt out at full length and as taut as possible, In this way there ts less danger of fire than if one attempts to do the singeing for one's self. Re- member that {t regulres skill not to burn off the long hair as well as the split ends, so do not choose an assist ant who Is nervous or whose hand trembles. Hi you intend wearing one of the princess gowns this winter, you must have corset covers that fit exactly and follow every line of the stays, Dainty ones are made of the fine nainsook with valencionnes insertion and edge for shoulder bans There t# no time of the year when $0 much attention should be given to the hair as in the fail, Dust, sun an% aalt water are foes to glossy, well Kept locks, and, if your hair is falling out, better afford a course of treat: ment. If not, then masdqce It relte. tously every sight and. moss, using the Hintest bit of vaseline or kerosene on the very Ups of the fingers and rub Ding {t Into the scalp without touching the bair. Good results will be sure to follow in a short time. ‘One cure given for warts 1s com: posed of one dram of salicyle acid and one ounce collodion. Have the druggist put this in a bottle which has a tiny brush run through the cork. Apply the mixture to the warts twice a day. Breathing through the nostrite is ab- solutely necessary for a long, healthy Ufe. An excellent remedy for those suffering from any form of catarrh fs: One glass of warm water, one tea- spoonful of listerine, one-half teaspoom ful borax and one-half te-apoontul foda. Use this as a spray for the throat and douche for the nose both night and morning Oftentimes freckles appear on the Rose when the rest of the face shows no sign of thom. These little brown spots will often disappear if several times a day one applies the following lotion: Lemon juice, three ounces; vinegar, one ounce; rose water, one ounce; bay rum, one ounce. ~ Those who are inclined to be round-shouldered should _praetice walking to and fro across the room with the hands behind the back. Throw the shoulders well back and keep the elbows close to the body. ‘Thie will naturally keep the chin free and the chest threwa forward. To Rest While Sewing. A wate Wav sewerel er ase ot tae dene bes ound that ber sock docs not Become oo tired if ber chet ta low or tf sbe has stool pon, whled to rest ber dest. It lo aqumyiing what & difference the comfortable position makes and how much more work she nat on: Mould the arms become weary, shi puts a cushion in her Jap. On this She reste her elbows, changing the position of her sewing, thus giving both arms and eyes a chance to re corer Fi, = Ae WALA Kf “as yy acAr7y aN: a Lack of sufficient sleep soon shows im one’s appearance. Buttermilk 1s very good for remov- tug freckles or sunbars. Sleeping with the mouth open will spoil the shape of the lips. A good brisk walk before breakfast ‘tech morning is very beneficial. Right hours’ sleep out of the 24 ia required for building up the body, ‘The sun ie very good for the hair and, after washing, the hair should be ried im the sun, im the open air, if possible. All American housewives know the value of the hot-water bottle in times of filness, but when it is not to be ‘bed a small sack loosely filled with wat and thoroughly warmed {5 equally (good, especially for neuraligia, as the Weakt adds its curstive properties to the warmth. ‘The Baby's Mik. | Whea srareling ea crpelient way tn fearry the baby's je to place the atthe im sa ordicasy hand ——— ‘sith on ine beg Giled with THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. TT WILL PAY YOU a —_—— +? _— Tt ane s e To interest yourself in promot- e . ¢ i ing the CIRCULATION of the % ———— Eee iE i i ; p Tia = a RICHMOND LANE — e} e t eee Se ee , < es a tt 3 if YO. 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WE WILL SEND ONE CHINA SET, THIRTY-ONE tH mo ; FOR TWO YEARLY SUBSCRIBERS PIECES; ONE NECKLACE; DICKENS, SHAKES. ++ PEARE, BYRON WORKS; ONE UMBRELLA, ONE “9 OR THEIR EQUIVALENT, WE WILL SEND PIC- PLAIN GOLD RING, ONE. PAIR LACE CURTAINS TURES, ONE ONLY, OF PRESIDENT THEO-| ( 1,000 ENVELOPES. 1,000 SHEETS OF PAPER +t DORE ROOSEVELT, DR. BOOKER T. WASH-| \ |PRINTED AND DELIVERED; ONE TOILET SET +4 INGTON, BATTLE OF SANTIAGO, LAND BAT- ONE HALF CORD OF SAWED WOOD. oe aa TLE OF QUASIMAS NEAR SANTIAGO, JUNE 24. is 4fi\ 1898, SHOWING THE NINTH AND TENTH COL; FOR TWENTY NEW SUBSCRIBERS * ORED CAVALRY IN SUPPORT OF ROUGH RI- ERwmitCreon ante ea 2 #3 DERS. SIZE 20X28 AND 20X24 INCHES, LAND WEOE ONE HANDSOME GOLD RING ; BATTLE AND CHARGE OF THE 24TH & 25TH 1 OPALS, RUBIES OR PEARLS; ONE JEW- : ELRY BOX FINISHED IN GOLD OR SILVER; : COLORED INFANTRY IN RESCUE OF ROUGH ONE SILK SHIRT WAIST; ONE READY MADE $e RIDERS AT SAN JUAN HILL, JULY 2, 1898, SIZE DRESS, ONE GOLD WATCH, FILLED, WAR- tt #@ 20X28 AND 20X24 INCHES, ADMIRAL DEWEY'S RANTED FOR TEN YEARS, ONE ROCKING $9 : GREAT NAVAL BATTLE OFF CAVITE IN MA- jCHAIR, ONE LOAD OF COAL, ONE GROSS or ##® NILA BAY, MAY IST, 1898, NAVAL BATTLE, SOAP, EITHER WASHING OR TOILET: ONE 2t® DESTRUCTION OF ADMIRAL CERVERA'S BARREL OF BEST FLOUR, ONE PAIR BLANK. ne %@ SPANISH FLEET OFF SANTIAGO DE CUBA, JU- ETS, ONE MANICURE SET. ONE SEAMSTRESS: 8 +4 LY 3RD, 1898, SIZE. 22X28 INCHES; LAND BAT- WORK BOX. ONE PAIR SHOES. GENTS ORLA. $$ TLE, CAPTURE OF EL CANEY, EL PASO AND DIES. . $F FORTIFICATIONS OF SANTIAGO. JULY FIRST 7 7 $33 fF AND SECOND, 1898, SIZE 22X28. AND 22X27 FOR FORTY YEARLY SUBSCRIBERS ty INCHES. WE WILL SEND YOU ONE OF ANY Beat Hu OF THE FOLLOWING BATTLES OF THE. CIVIL ¢ Res ae me ee GIVE ONE SEW. $y #3) WAR ON THE SAME TERMS. THE PICTURES GOLD “WATCHLAONE PAIS Oe ne: Be $4 LIKE THE OTHER BATTLES ARE FINISHED IN RINGS, ONE MUSIC BOX. CNo rie eat #@ COLORS. THEY ARE 22X28 INCHES AND RE- ONE READY MADE Dress One See %$ TAIL AT ONE DOLLAR EACH. WE WILL TLEMENS CIGIHES IONS, ee FURNISH FRAMES FOR ANY OF THESE FINE CANE, ONE GOLD-HEADED UMBRELLA, OnE $$ CHROMOs FOR 2 DOLLARS & 50CTS. EACH AD CHINANGET WONEUDIGSEN Tore one Ht $e DITIONAL: BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG, BAT KNIVES AND FORKS OND Lee Dae TLE OF SHILOH, BATTLE OF FIVE FORKS VA., SILK DRESS yONE HAT-RACK, ONE ONS AEs OF S, ONE WEEK'S TRIP TO THE SEA. SPOTTSYLVANIA, VA, BATTLE OF VICKS- SHORE. RAILROAD FARE AND HOTEL BILL . PAID, FOR ANY RICHMOND WORKER BURG, MISS., BATTLE OF LOOKOUT MOUN- ate . t TAIN. TENN., BATTLE BETWEEN THE MONI- a rae ee MAY BE TAKEN ADVAN- TOR AND THE MERRIMAC, BATTLE OF BULL SCHIRERS EN ENDING ONE OR TWO SUB. #$¢ RUN, VA., BATTLE OF CHANCELLORSVILLE, eeone AMES AT A TIME. WE WILL 3 BATTLE OF THE BIG HORN, (CUSTER’S LAST CORD OF THEM: AS SOON AS THE CHARGE) STORMING OF FORT WAGNER, S. SE 5 “# C, (COLORED TROOPS IN THIS FIGHT), BAT- RoR wan a ee ee Renae sid © OF NEW ORLEANS, LA., CAPTURE AND A PERSON WHO TRIES TO GET FORTY ais to ATH OF SITTING RUITI. TRE CREAT INL Ce ein naw: ooo ee Tee. The milk wi then be cept swe amt needd, when rome moons o' farming {t must be fownd ure wa should be carried ip ihe sapi wa GOOD IN S“RGE OR CLOTH. Neat Jacket Suitable for a Girt of from Twelve to Fourteen Years. The Uttle jacket we illustrate here is made of the same material as the skirt, Our model is In gray tweed but the style is equally sultabie for serge oF cloth. The back is tight-fitting, the fronts open and loose, The seam at ‘aide of front is continued over the Ey (oe yee aa shoulder to the lower edge of basque. Straps of velvet, edged with silk, form a trimming over the shoulders, the collar and turn-up cuffs being of the same. The fronts are fastened on the bust with a silk cord ornament. Bive straw hat, trimmed with velvet and silver buckle and feathers, Materials required for the jacket: Two yards 48 inches wide, onehalt yard velvet, one-half yard silk on the cross PRETTY DESIGNS IN RAPHIA. Embroidery in Almost Any Shade That ‘Can Be Desired. Some of the most beautiful em- broldery is done now in raphia, which may be had in almost all shades or dyed to sult the needs of any artistic worker. It looks extremely dificult, too, when used to decorate curtains oF other household furnishings. A cur tain of burlap, for instance, in green may be made artistic and beautiful by an embroidered border of red and brown raphia. The beauty of the raphia is that the work is quite easy nd the results are remarkably good, while at the same time the matertals for working cost practically nothing. One may buy a bunch of raphia— what would correspond to a large skein of wool yarn—for ‘zn cents. The raphia may be used on many matert- als; denim, for instance, fine netting or @ coarse cotton material. The needle used should be a darning needle, and if the raphia ts too thick it may be split .o the required sise, Seeten fer Gunkiees af Ge ant 6h A costume of changeable silk and white linen that will be copied a month hence in Ottoman silk and cloth or velvet and cloth was gufte charming and novel. Over an under dress of finsly-tucked white linen (the tucks lengthwise) was worn a prim cess silk overdress, perfectly molding the figure. The armholes were cht to sbape a little over the top of the tight tucked sleeves of the underdrese; tm front the bodice was cut into « bist aquare and buttoned double breasted for four or five inches; below it was cut out to show a wide girdle of binck ailk buckled with a lnen-covered duckie. Below this opening the clos fmg line continued on the skirt, bak way to the knees, then it sloped away sharply to the back to show much of the underdress. ‘lisaiiei tee Some very effective decorating has deen dono in “wheeling stitch.” It t Just another adaptation of buttoabobe atiteh, and, of course, is the simplest thing in the world to do. While wal lachian stitch was a rival of solld em broidery wheeling stitch will play out Une stitch. The stitches are taken rather short and are mot placed sa close together as to present a said ‘appearance. Almost any pattern de ‘signed for outline may be worked ia this variety of stitch. All curves are most readily turned—benee the name ‘This stitch variation will be « vale Able addition to the semfembroidery alltches, which are called into requis tion this season on account of the demand for hand stitchery upos gowns and cloaks. Handkerchief Shaws. The latest craze im the works of fasbion which at the present moment 4s carrying all before it ts the little handkerchief shawi. This 1s about the fine of the tiny shaw! of the Breton Densant, being designed of s sqgare of figured crepe de chine, muslin or chif- fon folded inte two points and fringed all round, and {a worn over the daiuty white muslin dresses with charming effect, the shawl being tolded over the ebest, where it is sometimes secured with @ large jeweled ornament, while in company with the poke boone provides an ensemble which has all the merits of quaintness and certein originality —Woman’s Life. Darning Heiee. ‘Take biack netting and sew on the bole. Draw the thread tm the sseal ay through the meshes, skipping @very other mesh, so that whea you darn crosswise you will have meshes. to darn through, Ne matter how large the hole is, you can dare !t eves Wy and in good shape, and save time. Useful Household Utensil. A roasting pan which automatically “bastes” meat while cooking by means of @ percolator which collects the Juices and sprays them over the meat ‘has been patented. meen MANY CANAL WORKERS KILLED Twenty-Five Ton Dynamite Blast Explodes Prematurely, FOURTEEN BODIES FOUND It Ie Believed a Score er More of Victime Are Still Under the Masses of Rocks and Earth Thrown Up. Three Americans Among the Dead. Many of the Bodies Torn to Pieces By Terrific Force of Blast. The explosion at Bas Obispo of a twenty-five-ton dynamite blast yas the Most serious accident in connection with the building of the Panama canal since the United States took control. ‘The dead now total fourteen. That many bodies have been recovered, but it ts believed that a score or more are still under the masses or rocks and earth that were thrown up. The death lst would have been appalling had a train, conveying 590 laborers, passed & few minutes later. gis train steam- 4 throu he cut aihnan barely ot of view when the expldsion occurred. For a distance of $00 feet in length ‘and 400 feet in width the Bas Obispo cut presents a graphic picture of the terrible effects of the explosion. The whole hillside had been devastated. the dynamite rending the earth in twain and tossing huge boulders in all directions. A ninety-ton steam shovel les a complete wreck, crushed under the weight of falling rocks. Every one of the crew was killed, All the tracks in this section were torn to pieces and are now covered with tons of debris. Hundreds of men are on the scene working heroically to find the bodies of their dead comrates. Many evi: dences are come across of the terrible force of the blast, as here and there pieces of human flesh and bone are turned over with pick or shovel. The charge consisted of fifty-one holes. sixty feet deep. and spread out over a large section of territory. The last hole was being charged by John J. Reldy, an experienced powderman, whon it exploded. The others were exploded by the concussion. Reidy was blown to pieces. Churches May Combine. Asa direct result of the movement te secure a unity in the Christian churches by the establishment of the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America, which closed {ts Sessions in Philadelphia on Tuesday the announcement was made that a Joint committee representing the Pres. byterian Church in the United States of America, the Reformed Church in the United States and the Welsh Pres. byterian church has recommended to the respective bodies a consolidation of the three churches. Dr. William H. Roberts, former moderator of the Pres byterian Church in the United States of America, was chairman of the com- mittee representing that body; Rev. J. Spangler Kelffer, of Hagerstown, Md., was chairman of the committee of the Reformed church, and Rev. R. T. Rob- erts, of Wilkes-Barre, Pa, headed the committee of the Welsh church. Holland Captures Venezuelan Shin. The Dutch cruiser Gelderland on Saturday captured the Venezuelan coast guar*ship Alix outside Puerto Cabello. The Dutch flag was hoisted ‘over the Alix, the crew of which was sent ashore. The guardship then was maoned by a Dutch officer and ma rines and towed to Willemstad, arriv. ing here Sunday. Although the seizure of the Alix was plainly discernible from Puerto Cabello, the forts there did not fire ‘upon the Gelderland, ‘The steamer Maracaibo, which ar rived here from Venezuelan ports, re ports that when she was at Maracaibo the sir was full of rumors of a revolu tion in the interior of Venezuela. Driven From Town; Attacked McKinley Declaring at a meeting at Macomb. Mi, that the late President William ‘McKinley was an anarchist, that he had turned more people loose to prey nm society than any other man in the world, and that the assassination of McKinley was all right, except that {t did not happen soon enough, the self- styled “Divine Healer” Schlatter only escaped personal violence from a mob through the intervention of the police, ‘The officers escorted Schlatter to a ho tel and to the first train out of town, followed by citizens threatening to do htm violence if he did not leave at once. Schlatter went to Quincy, Il. Sent tiie of Sete Abraham Ruef, former political boss of San Francisco, was convicted o! bribery. The jury was out for twenty. four hours. The trial had been in pro gress for 106 days. Ruef's conviction renders him liable to a maximum pen alty of fourteen years in the peniten tary. Ruef sat between his father aud ‘Thomas B. Dorier, of the defense, when the verdict was returned. He whispered « few words of encourage wet to the aged man and sent him gut of the room to break the news to the defendant's mother and sisters. ' pie at Preforred Death to Arrest. In order “> escape arrest by federal officers. a man known as A. H Craw- ford blew ot his brains in the home of Mrs, Hlizabeth Speishouse, near Biticott City, Ma. C1, who was wanted for allered fraudulent use of ‘the mails, { said to have claimed to represent the Russian revolutionary real estate company. Trading Stamps Good For Funeral. ‘Trading stamps that are good for & complete funeral and a monument are being offered by Richard Respass, founder of a colony just outside Balti- more, and who has purchased 150 acres of land for a @pnctery adjoining his city. When the customer has obtained enough stamps with her dress goods, her spring bonnet, her shoes, her Stockings and other things she buys, she will be entitled to ride In a funeral car to this cemetery, whore she will be nicely buried, with a monument over her grave. Four Children Burned to Death. Near the town of Himthorne, eight miles from Ottawa, Ont. the four young children of William J. Scharf, @ farmer, were burned to death in their beds while the parents looked on, unable to give aid. The parents left the children sleeping in the sec- ond-story of the house and went to the barn. Soon after Scharff saw the flames bursting through the upper windows of the house. The fire made such headway that the parents were unable to reach the children, who could be heard crying tm agony. No New Trial In Capito! Case. John H. Sanderson. the contractor for the furnishing of the new capt tol at Harrisburg, Pa; ex-Auditor General William P. Snyder and ex State Treasurer William L. Mathues, who approved and patd the billa, and exSuperintendent of Public Grounds And Buildings James M. Shumaker, who certified to the correctness of the bills, have been refused a new trial by President Judge George (unk o the Dauphin county court. motion having been made to aet aside the ver dict of guilty of conspiracy. Job For Cortelyou. Tt was stated, although the state ment was not officially confirmed, that the presidency of the Union ‘Trust company, in New York city, had been offered to George B. Cortelyou secretary of the treasury. The Union fs the fourth largest trust company in the city. John D. Rockefeller keeps his personal account in it. It has de Dosits of $58,387,408, a capital stock of $1,000,000 and surplus and undivid ed profte of $8,179,979, ‘Garnssie Qubseensad, Andrew Carnegie was subpoenaed to Appear before the house ways and means committee to testify in the tarif Tevision hearings being conducted by the committee. The future sessions will be very interesting, as several persons of prominence are to be called to tes: tty. If these witnesses refuse to re spond to subpoenaes they probably wiil be cited before the courts for con. tempt. as was done in one instance during the hearings on the Wilson bill. Shipping Thousands of Xmas Trees. The annual cutting of Christmas trees in the Adirondacks near Utica, N. Y.. is now tn full swing, and car loads of the trees are being shipped to points far and near. Thirty thou sand trees have come out of the Adi Fondack forest north of this city with- in the last two days, and the cutting goes merrily! on. The trees are from Ave to ten feet long, and the average price paid, collect freight charges, is 10 cents aptece. Teddy, Jr, a Major. Governor Elect George L. Lilley, of Connecticut. has announced the ap- Dointment of Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., as an aldede-camp on his staff, giv: ing him the rank of major. Mr. Roosevelt is now living at Thompson- Ville, where he ts engaged in learning the carpet making business at a large manufactory in that village. Pennsy Places Big Rail Order. The Pennsylvania railroad has just placed orders for 135,000 tons of steel Tails for delivery as early in 1909 as Dossible. The order is reported to be About equally divided between open hearth and Bessemer rails. The price for Bessemer is $28 per ton and for the open hearth ralls about $1 or $3 er ton higher. led From Gverdess of Madisies. Mrs. Bettle F. Shelton, aged fifty. four years, wife of Charles H. Shel. ton, agent for the Leroy Steamboat company, died suddenly at her home in Norfolk, Va., following an overdose of nervine tablets, taken for the cure of headache. Making Money on Apple Tree Butts, Apple tree butts are in such demand for the manufacture of saw and tool handles that some farmers in tho vi- cinity of Harrisonville, N. J., are tak- ing out their apple trees and using the ground for the raising of small vege tables and truck. Invents Watch to Sell For 20 Cents. A friend of Daniel Drawbaugh, the Veteran inventor, of Bberly's Mills, ‘near Harrisburg, Pa, stated that he 1s about to perfect a watch which can be made and sold at a profit for » cents. Dies After Sleep of One Week. After having been asieep a week, Peter Snyder, a tarmer near Logans. port, Ind., died. A week ago he work- e4 all day busking corn. Since he re tired, rather early that night, all ef. forts to arouse him failed. ‘Telniote Bera Gn Ganraten of > |. T plets were born tc Mr. and Mra, Amb-ose EB. Calhoun, of Columbus, Ga, ‘This couple now has twenty-five chit fren. The father ts eighty-two years Fi ase, | er fine printing call at the PLANET Office. THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND. VIRGINIA | anid Says Anthracite Will be Ex- —hausted in 84 Years, ; BIG CROPS SHOWN Final Estimates Show Notable In. creases Over Last Year. Washington, Dec. 16—The produc tion in 1908 and farm value on Dec. 1 ot important farm products, according to the final revised estimates of the department of agriculture, are an. nounced as follows: Corn, 2.658,651.000 bushels and farm value $1.616.145,000, against. 2,502,320. 000 bushels in 1907, and $1,326,001,000 on Dec. 1 of that year; winter wheat, 437,908,000 bushels and $410.130,000. Against 409.442.000 and $361,217.000 last year: spring whent, 226-694,000 and $206,496.00. against 224,645.00 bushels and $13,220,000 tn 1907; on 4 807,156,000 bushels and $281,171,000, agninst 754443.000 and $824,508.00; barley, 166 756,000 bushels and $92- 442,000, against 153.597,000 bushels and $102,290.00 in 1907 Santa In Grass Valley | One town in the United States has a Practical and apparently — perpetual Banta Claus, In Grass Valley, Cal. everybody gets Christmas gifts. ‘There 18 no child so poor as to be disap- potnted when Santa passes his boun- ‘Wes around, and, for that matter, no sFown person either. Twenty-five years ‘Ago Mrs, Hanson of Grass Valley was an fnvalid, confined to ber chair at the Window of her cottage. She watched the school children treop by. Some of them were scantily clad and looked {1 nourished. The good woman for- got her own misfortune in her com- Passion for the unfortunate little ones. She suggested that on the last day of school before the Christmas holl- days each child should bring to school something te give away to others. It Reed uot be anything big or costly— Just whatever the child could spare, A committee was to distribute the things where they were most needed So many lttle ones and their parents were made Lappy the first Christmas that Grass Valley adopted the idea per- manently. Now for a quarter of a century Mrs, Hansen's Improved Santa Claus system bas been in working or- der, though long ago the good woman herself was released from her chair of pain and laid to rest in the town ceme- tery. When the last day of school in the old year arrives—called donation day in Grass Valley—every child of the more than 1,000 in the schools 4s seen trudging teacherward with an offering. Later the town's brass band heads the Procession, dispensing appropriate mu- a ies., Aa rm k Ree Shad Pee TES ea op BBG. NS ae ee IS SE 4 )r we 1 \\ Sa 2 2 4 Ae 3 GANS os fi j MERE AND THERE A DOT REARA A Lav) cunCKEN. sic, Some of the children carry sticks of wood as big as themselves; otbers hold only a fat potato in thelr chubby fingers. Here and there a boy bear Aloft a live chicken, cackling and strug ling. At the rear of the walkers fol ows a line of wagons Inden with good things donated by the merchants and other well to do citizens. Suppose i rains? Well, that doesn’t matter. The children march, rain or shine. Sante Claus ts not deterred by inclement ‘weather—not in Gress Valley. ‘Cte thas as Se Don't you think ft is just lovely to enjoy the fall In an auto?” “Perbaps, but I don't enjoy the ones I have had out of it."—Raltimore American. Sure of That. Daughter (proudly)—Mr. Stalate is ‘@ coming man, Father( weartly)—Perhaps so; he is Rot @ going one.—Baltimore American, ‘The Difficulty. ‘We know we should Be Ciways Rood; ‘But unless we're bad ne ae ae = MOTO uccEcOCS=~S ; —— N. WINSTON conrectioner: } HEADQUARTERS FOR PURE ICE-CREAM ; WG WATER-ICES, ETC. <9 ; SPECIAL ATTENTION TO FAMILY TRADE. | een ; RECEIVED DAILY AND : Oysters SERVED TO ORDER. } ; Opened to 12 o'clock every night. : ce Special Attention to Dealers . and the Wholesale Trade. : ; WZ7INSLIONT-S 537 Brook Ave. Phone, 2253. Pe re cee a eae Par ah a oa) ten - ee Cn BANKS & SONS vey FACILIT? CONSISTEN WITH FINE CATSRING. |Special Attention Given to Ba)’ | Suppers, Installations and Bmed | ‘ere at the Shortest Notice. eer Your Patronage Bolicited.—y. Refresament Cars and Boat Priv | es Handied in Season. Address -ll communications te Mca L. BANKS, BLL N. 86 era eet Let the PLANET do your Job-work JOHN M. eee | e ° Higgins, Dealer in CHOICE GROCERIES, ‘WINES, LIQUORS and CIGARS. PURE GOODS, FULL VALUE FOR THE MONEY. $610 East Franklin Street. (Near Old Market.) Richmond, Virginia ee BOARD AND LODGING. Meals Furnished At All Hours. Prompt Service. Transient and Per- manent Boarders and Lodgers Will Find it to ‘Thetr Interest to. Patron ize Me. Meals Without Lodging or Lodging Without Meals. "Phone 6570. MRS. K. DREW, 322 N. 18th Street, Richmond, Virginia Hercules had subdued the Eryman- thinn doar, What are you going to do with the beast?” they asked lim. “I refuse to answer,” be sald, “on the ground that ft might tneriminate me.” Vor well he knew that any answer he could make woutd be dlforent from the accounts written by the historians, and at that portion of his career he Wox sensitive about boing accused of nature faking.—Chicago Tribune. Silencing a Boaster. Uncle Zeke (back from the eity)— You talk about cheap ridin’! I rode 20 miles on = street Wyar an’ all tt cost me was a nickel. Uncle Jed—Gosh! That ain't noth- in’, When I was thar last year I rode to the top o° the tallest butldin’ in town, an’ It didn’t cost me a blamed cent!—Chicago Tribune. tn a GCalmer Frame of Mind. Mamma, why should T buy my Unnecessary Questions, NO ROOM LEFT. NASD ree] Aye? JAVA? SBSH pes Ney TH Sac Be ia. Hy st +25 M4 Rees YS oS LOT 7 _\ \N ey 8) Le Go SH “Say, old man, | am going to be tn town all night. Your family is away. Can I come around and occupy a room In your house?” “Sorry, old feliow, but all the rooms are filled.” “Filled with what?” “Why, souvenir postal cards from my family.”—Chicazo Journal, A Noble Parent. In writing ske‘ch of Washington a Pupil ended her essay by saying: “Washington married a famous belle, Martha Custis, and in due time be came the father of his sountry.”—De Mneater Rnigbts of Pytbias, . This organization is one of the most powerful in the country and its ks rogress has been phenominal. The Grand Lodge of Virginia has juris . Hieton over all of the cities aud counties in this state. Thirty males are required to organize a new lodge. The benefits paid constitute one lAenriee of its strongest features, but the principles are greater than anything on a“ else. Founded on Friendship, based on Charity and established on Be. sh nevolence, the respectable, upright people of the state will find itar order HSS worthy of their heartiest support. i It pays an endowment and burial benefit of of $200.00 for all ages It pays $4.00 per week sick dues. The badge costing 75 cents each is the only absolutely necessary regalla, For information concerning the organzaition of lodges apply at the main office. = The Courts of Calanthe. = As the Female Department of the Order. It tequires a membership of thirty pers ms to organize a court. Itsmembers are pledged to exhibit Fidelity, exercise Harmony and prove Love one for the other. It pays an endowment and burial benefit of $150.00. It pays $3.00 per week sick dues, The only expense for regalia is the cost of the badge, 50 cents and arosette, costing 25 cents for funeral occasions. | THE BANDS OF CALANTHE or Children’s Department also con- ‘stitutes a feature and persons cannot do better than to enter the little ones into this mystic circle. The expense is nominal and the benefits all that could be expected. It pays from $1.00 to $1.50 sick dues and death benefits of from $30.09 to $40.00. If you have noPythiar Lodge or Court or Band in your neighborhood, orgrniz one. For all information concerning the Children's Departuient address, Mrs. ANNA Taytor, W. M., 120 W. Hill St., Richmond, Va. For all information concerning special rates of | JOHN MITCHELL, JR., membership in the lodges and courts, address 311 N. 4th St. Richmond. Va “ Wh h self : w a INS AND OUTS. KO SEB Spo Et ee Ww tye drei Aer | were hea i eee Ah (i ee» Ft See | A Ahi 4 Lait Hy ae | REN HN are: | me ee ah Hen teu tis “aur TIEN oooes ed un ae where the laugh eet eat eee tea ec ae Tve squandered smiles to-day, Aad, strange to say, Although my frowns with care I've stowed away, To-night I'm poorer far In frowns than at the start But in my heart, Wherein my treamures best 1 store, ¥ find my «miles increased by several Success. A Child's Wish. “And does your mamma always call you ‘Angel?’ asked the lady who was ‘making the formal call. “Ob, no” replied the sweet child; “only when we've got comp'ny. I wish we had comp'ny always. ‘Cause I like ‘Angel’ so much better than ‘Brat.’ "— Chicago Record-Herald. His Limit, “Orlando, mamma says you mustn't come to see me any more—" “Gracious heaven, Dora! What have _ “Than four timer a week | -cafter. Quit that, Oriando! Let me alone!” —Chicago Tribune, (tial (niente Kitty—Come over to our house and play with my Tede, bear. Dicky—Huh! I've got a bull pup to play with that’s real meat.—Chicago ‘Tribune. In the Drug Store. “Have you any five-cent cigars?” “No, but we have some hing just as ood; here's a ten-ceat clgar!”—Yonk- ers Statesman. Didn't Want {t Strong. Howell—In unfos thero fs strength, Powell—Give ™e non-union butter every tima—Jodee. THE ECONOMY, eee ens —S—— 303—S North Third Si SPIN EY CLEANING, DYEING aN) REPAIRING CHITMAN M. WHITE, PROPRIETOR Established 1808, "Phone 4100 JOHN FOXEL, Deaier in General Line of ®ANCY AND STAPLE GROCERIE NOTIONS, FRESH MEATS, Ch GARS, TOBAQ, ICE, WOOD, COAL, &e. 8 ern at RICHMOND. wv. BOARDING & LODGIN( Rates Reasonable, All the Comfort | 9% ottfome 4 4 Orders received by letter or telogray MRS. BOOKER LEPTWICH. PROPRIRTRNSS 816 N. 2nd St. Richmond, ¥ eceetamceaeteee eee 2 BLACKWELL & BRO. ONE OF THE LEADING PAINTERA Practical House and Sign Painter: Graining and Geveral Coatrac. tore. sowALL WORK GUARANTEED... Cards, Letters or Orders. Give us a triat, you will never regret it. Address, 608 St. Peter Street RICHMOND. VA. "Phone 5688. |, ——Nelson.s Hair Dressing can be bought at Jennings and Brown Drug | Store, Pittsburg, Pa ————_—_—— MO NEY! | FOR YOU. | $15.00 per week antt up, payable to Colored Men and Women, Old and Young. We inten“ to establish Salesrooms and Parlors for the Sale of the Hudson Machines, in Every City and Town in the United States and possibly Foreign Countries. We need at once Employees to fll Office, Factory, Managing Salesmen, Solicitors and Other Positions. Re- ‘Member Distance Cuts No Figure With Us. You Can Start to Work on Receiving Our Reply. Send two /2-cert stamps for particulars to HUDSON'S CLIMAX MFG. AND | PARLOR CO., LTD., Home Office: 2960% State st., Chicago, Tlinois. Please mention this paper when writ- ing to advertiser. DR. P. B. RAMSEY, DENTIST, 115 Bast Leigh S:. “PHONE, 816. SFOOCHHSHOOOVO00SSO660460606 At the Aero Club. Redd—Do you know my balloon re- minds me very much of my wife? Greene—I suppose so; always wants to go to a different place from the one you wish St to.—Yonkers Statesman. None Such. Bobby—What's “an idle fest,” pa? Father—There’s no such thing, my boy. They're all working overtime.— Judge. STRAUS’ SPECIAi SiSaUS’ SPECIAL Old Yacht Club, Will Satisty the lever of the righ: Kin: of stimulant. Special prices We have all grades of good liquors Clgars and Tobacco. ‘Call and ser = ISAAC STRAUS & CO. 422 E. Broad Si., Richmond, Virginie H F Jonathan FISH, OYSTERS AND PRODUCE. 120°N. 17TH 8T., RICHMOND, Va ALL ORDERE WIL. RECEIVE PROMPT ATTENTION. Long Distance "Phone, 752. SCHOOL SHOES, Oo Capitol Shoe « Supply Company, No. 210 East Broad Street, A complete stock of Boys, Misses,’ Men's, Ladies,’ & Children’s Shoes. ALL THE LATEST STYLES, MRS. JOSIE A. GRAHAM wa RAHAM Virginia’s Most Success- | ful Hair Culturist, | PARLORS... 108 B. Leigh st, - Richmoaa, ‘Phone, 1034 Private Parlocs, Confidential inter. views and Correspondence. The largest and most up-to-date Hair Dressing Parlors in Richmead The very best Preparations that cax be made for the hair, scalp, face and kin. Graham's Superior Scalp Food for growing hair on bald heads ané bare temples 25cts. per lar By ail, 85ets |, Graham's Superior Orange Flower Skin Fo * tor developing and beauts fying the ukin, 25cts a jar By mail ‘S5ets. Graham's Superior Velvet Liquid Powder for wiving the face a beau Uitql fair color, 26 cents = bottle By mail 86cts. ye Graham's Vegetable Hatr Dye the dest on market giving a rick natura) golor, $1.00 per bottle By mai $1.26, Mrs. Graham makes a specialty of massaging art beautifying tadion faces for parues and public gather ings, 36 cents. Mrs. Gratam s.ampoos the head and puts ft in a healthy condition, 26 cents. All ladies who einer and other soctal gatherings should have a nia at made beau cei Mrs. Graham's preparations sel! at sight. Ladies ving in other tes and towns can ‘good mon- oy by selling these preparations. Write tor terms te Mrs. J. A. Gra- ham, No. 108 B. Leigh St, Rice mond, Va. | —We selling ol4 papess af igen aout ‘pee neeken, A ay } it aay Rote iNGr Z wy s ie ye See ee eens Seah ae JHESDARY AS = “Gumption” fs an _ old-fashioned ‘Yankee word and signifies the ability to shape one's own fortune, work up out of difficulties, overcome discour- agements, ete. Last week our New York correspondent, H. H. Lyon, spoke of the almost helpless state the milk farmers of that state find themselves In before the “double twist” the milk dealers in New York city have put on them. Why cannot the farmers at every milicshipping station co-operate with each other to put up a creamery and handle their milk that way? asks the Hoard’s Dairyman. We sometimes think that the millcshipping business has the worst effect on the enterprise and ability of the farmer of anything that could happen to him. Certain it fs that it makes very much less of a farmer of him. He does not raise young cattle and hogs Itke the creamery farmer. He loses all ambition to be what he should be, a wise breeder and developer of dairy cattle. He drifts down to the final landing piace at the foot of the ladder, buying his cows and crowding costly feed lato them for a year and ther. selling them for beef. There seems to be nothing about the Dusiness as at present organized and conducted that will tend to the making Of a larger-minded and better farmer of him, And then, as if to cap the climax, he is at the merey of a lot of milk dealers who know enough to combine against him, if he doesn't against them. and he helplessly ac- cepts the situation. His farm suffers from the constant drain of milk ship: Ping to the extent of at loast five to even dollars per cow of valuable fer. Ulizing material in the milk, most of which would be saved to the soll ff consumed on the farm. Of course we know that milk must be produced for city use, but tt does com as If the milk farmers as a class were lacking in the ordinary “gump- tion” of minkind to submit as they do to impexiiion, and make no com. Sinad Silat to Koeln themsaiven RACK FOR DAIRY UTENSILS. Will Prove More Convenient Than a Table, sot Grving oil tensile wed tn the dairy is shown tm the accompanying Mustrstion, 1 wil! be found much =F eo es \ (ees —S See enue Aresinservent of Rack. More satisfactory than a table or box, declares the Prairie Farmer, since al! Parts of the various vessels are thor oughly aired when placed between the laths, ere ae A series of trials were made at the Vermont experient station wherein milk Was divided into two lots, one half allowed to freeze and the other handled im tle usual wanner; ther churned, the butter worked anc cored. Neither skimming, ripening Ror churning appeared to be impaired Not so, however, with the scoring, The average scores of two cets of 15 lols each were: Frozen butter, 93.2; nor mal butter, 93.5. Freezing tended very slightly to lower the grade of the Butter, yet freezing Is not necessarily & menace to good butter-waking. It should cot be inferred, however, that {infrequent creamery receipts, deliv re more or less frost bitten, wil make as good butter as if they had Been delivered unfrozen. SKIMMINGS. With every pound of butter there should be an ounce of salt, and at Present prices only the very best salt should be used As a large per cent. of milk is water, cows should be given plenty of water. Good milkers are heavy eaters, and Grink freely, also. Every farmer who keeps cows should put plepty of corn in. the silo. ‘The best milkers are those who are painstaking aud gentle. They make the cow feel comfortable when being milked, and this increases the yield. Many of the by-products of the dairy can be profitably conve: 4 into pork. Destroy the Stamp. ‘The secretary of agriculture and the secretary of the treasury have jointly fasued a regulation which requires that whenever any manufacturer's package of renovated butter 1s empty it shall ‘be the duty of the person who removes the contents theerof to destroy utter. & the taxpaid stamp on such empty package. Any person baring In hig. possession emjty renovated bu ter packages the tax-paid stamps on which have not been destroyed will be liable to heavy penalty, ‘ CONVENIENT SARN TRUCK. Will Make the Task of Feeding the Cows Much Easier. —_ No dairyman can afford to ignore that which will Hghten his labor in any way whatever. Be b's stable ever 0 conveniently constructed, he has enough to do, Hence the importance of his considering the truck or car Presented in the cut. Made of good lumber, the only iron about it is the handle at each end, by which to a es ater Ee SN. Sy se os S a ey Feeding Truck for the Stable. push or pull ft along the feeding al ley in front of the cows which are to be fed, and the trucks on which I is mounted. The wheels procured any good blacksmith can make this so that the truck Is by no means dit ficult to construct. It should be about two feet wide, 20 inches deep and 4%4 feet long. Silage can be conveyed {1 At from the silo to the mangers vers readily, says Farm and Home. If the [silo Is some distance away, it will save “much hard work, indeed LIKE A RIFLE SHOT. Pure Bred Sire in Dairy Herd a Ne cessity If Herd Is to Be Built, Once in awhile we strike # statement that goes to the center of things Ike a HSe shot. In clreular No. 11 of the Indiana ex periment station the writer says: “Whenever great progress has been wade In milk produetion the pure-bre datry sire has been employed to brine ft about. In 20 herds studied by 1% writer there was an average of 2.09 rounds of milk and $8 pounds of but fer fat per cow, per year, In favor of ering up with a purebred dairy sire This amounts, in a herd of 49 cows. te $580 greater annual returns than from erubs.” How true. «serlastingly tre. those words are. Who ever heard of a community of farmers that made progress In dairy. ing where they used the serub Bull o7 even the dual purpose bull? Everything ts at a standstill tn such communities Who ever heard of a farmor becom: ing a broader. finer datryman, one whe made Increasing profit every year, who Went Into partnership with a serut bull, or even a dual parpose bull? The thing bas been worked out s0 many times and in so many hundred different places that we wonder that still there are farmers who really think thelr fortune tes with euch ani ‘tials, says the Hoard's Dairyman Only the other day we heard a farmer. lah owe chart poe cows, say that ‘8 cheap grade bull was “good enough for him." How true were the words of the great Teacher when He sald: “For ye have the poor always with you.” “Surely “the destruction of the poor fs thelr poverty” of judgment. cow FEED. Give Them a Variety, 1f You Would Get Resuits. No animal likes variety of food more than a cow docs, and none pays. great er returns than a cow. The Dalry Review in alluding to this matter says that for the stimulation of appetite and ald in digestion some of her feeds should be green and succulent, such a8 roots and silage for winter. Some Unseed meal should be given at fre quent iniervals. It is not only a rich feed, but an excellent regulator of the digestive organs. Clover and alfalfa hay are both rich in milk-forming ele ments, and give bulk to the ration. Some corn should be given daily, espe- elally through the cold months, be cause cows greatly relish the grain, and It helps in forming butter fat and in producing animal heat. Give the cows about all they will clean up at each feed, but shift change often, not only the kinds, but the amounts of each kind at different times. This change gives a stimulating variety to feeds, and the cows thrive and pro duce on it. Where Will t¢ Ena? “Milk stools should be scrubbed and Sterilized at least once a day,” is one of the “requirements” of the milk commission of the Indianapolis Med feal society for “certified” milk “Jerking the teats should be forbid den,” ts another provision. The pro ducers will probably next be ordered to read the Constitution of the United States to each cow before proceeding to extract the lacteal fluid from that long-suffering bovine.—Jersey Bulletin. Wouldn't it also be a good thing to have the secretary's eye glasses “sterilized” a bit before next rule day, asks the Indiana Farmer, so as he can tell the board tow it looks on paper. Pure Delry Gale. Good, pure dairy salt is as essential to good butter making as pure water fs to health. Any kind of salt won't |do for good butter, but it will do for the poor stuff that’ sells at half price. Milking by Machine, It 18 said that 20,000 cows are now mod with machinery. The milking machine whe. found aii rigat will go into yeneral use as cream separators have. Select Good Cows. ‘Why not select good cows as we se- lect good seed corn and wheat? There are poor results when this rule ts not applied to cows as well as seed Cut of Mie Rams. | “At last!” erulted the ex-bicylist, a: he soared aloft in his aeroplane. “I'v. found @ public highway now wher: there ts no sprinkling cart demon to come along and turn it into a sea of mud!” THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA CORRECT FURNISHING FOR, THE BEDROOM wiNDOW. Despite All Changes of Fashion That Color Still Holds Its Own, and Is, After All, the Most Appropriate. With all the changes of fashion to the matter of furnishing, the use of delicate white material for the window ‘draperies of bedrooms continues in favor, for daintiness is the first requt ‘site of such hangings, especially tor @ woman's bedroom, and nothing can vie with the sheer white hangings in this quality. | Amon the materials which are now Most popular for this purpose are very sheer linen—the most expensive of the ‘materials employed—sheer _ batiste, cotton etamine and India and French lawn, The fashion of the moment calls for the use of very fine embrold. ery, in delicate rather than elaborate patterns, for hemstitching snd other Yarieties of fine needlework and for the use of very narrow fine lace in- sertions and edging for the trimmings of such hangings. The idea seems to be to secure fineness of quality and Paw. sk Bee ee 2a a Re Ebates RPE aS perfection of finish rather than elab- oration of detail or striking destzns. Among the very nowest ideas for trim- ming these curtains Is the employ- ment of narrow white braid to carry out the design, rather than embrold- ery. This braid, when used for fine material, is most effective. Some of the curtains on which ft is used have only the ruffles trimmed, the braid being used in a vine and flower pat- ‘tern or in a scroll design on the edge ‘of the ruffles. Heavier muslin, that which fs quite opaque after embrold- ering, 1s also used for these curtains and trimmed with the white braid. ‘The ruffies are then starched and stand out quite stim™y, and in an old- fashioned looking room with chintz fittings this style of curtain Is quite effective. Very frequently the ruffles of these curtains are fluted, the braid trimming not being placed on the rufMles, but on the edge of the curtain Just inside the rume. For very sheer curtains there ia an effective trimming of hemstitching which fs to be noticed at some of the most exclusive nen shops where everything is done by hand, To hem- stiteh a patr of curtains in this fashion would undoubtedly be a task calling for patience and good eyesight, but once accomplished the task would Dear lasting fruit, for the wear and tear upon curtains Is nothing like so Ereat as that upon bed or table linen, 4nd the curtains, with care, would en- dure for many years. The hemstitched curtains noticed had a double border Of the material hemstitched on both sides and a rume with two rows of hemstitching down the sides and around the bottom, Then the middle of the curtain Was also trimmed with the hem- stitched bands. The double ma- terial formed a rectangle in the Genter of the curtain and this wus hematitched all around. The material used for these curtains was excessive- Wy sheer, and much of the beauty of the curtains depends on this. Care shrould also be taken to select a ma- tertal which would not thicken up too much in laundering, as otherwise the effect of the hemstitching would, be completely lost. Is the Chignon Comina Back? Some intrepid hairdressers main. tain that {t is. They insist that the mass of puffs and curls worn at the back of the head now is its immediate forerunner. There does seem a long Period of possible hair eccentricities betwoen the “Psyche” and the chig- non, which was a feature of civil war times; but wio knows? Meanwhile let none of us in any capricious mo. ment discard one single puff, coll, ring. let or switch, for if by auy chance the “waterfali” should come to town, there 1s more than likely to be a corner in trosses. Face Silk Petticoat with Cloth, ‘Woe be to the petticoat that seeks to ape the frou-frou effects of an earlier favor. It will be pronounced by the sartorially elite a hopeless has- been. If one must wear a petticoat, protest the dressmakers with patient tolerance of one’s old-fashioned ideas, let {t be of softest satin, the sort that alinks. Let it be scant, and face it up eight inches with something sufficient. ly heavy to prevent any frivolous ten- dency to fluff. And one has a direc- tore petticoat, CLEVER (DEA FOR GARTER. Woman Seems to Have Satisfactorily Solved a Problem. So many women complain that the Datent fasteners on the garters, which are attached to the corset, tear out the stockings, but there is a clever woman who has found a way out of the diMeulty. She sews two bits of ‘white tape to the top of her stockings "SOSH ES HEROES RE RERES SB The People's Restaurant, ee /—— —~ 750 North 3rd St., Richmond, Va—— — ee ee et MEALS at All Hours—Hot or Cole. Board by Day, Week or Month. SOFT DRINKS. POLITE ATTENTION OIVE MB AcaLt Mme. SYLVIA L. MITCHELL, Proprietress. CRETE BEGHRE HEHE BEREe * Mf ; faces <form so they are each just where the potent fasteners usually come in contact with the stocking. She then removes the fasteners from the garters and uses, In their stead, little pleces of ribbon which match the color used in her corset cover. When she puts on her stocking In the morning she slips the ribbon in the loop of the eorter and then throuzh he tape ty bor stock.mg, G iag the eud In» neat bow, Not only does this method save the stockings and lengthen thelr pertod of nscfuiness, but {t makes a pretty fin- ‘ch far more dainty than the pavent ostener could possibly be. The form of the arrangement might even be vari. Brown tape might be festened on brown stockings and one ‘cht even have a bit of brown rib- yon. Again, a buitonhole might be vorked in the top of the stocking, In vitich case the tape might be dis- pensed with, Surely tt would be bet- ter to even go to that much troubte tan to spent countless hours in the unconzenial tesk of mending slipped threads. CLOAK AND GOWN COMBINED. French Creation Built on Fashionable Greek Lines. | One of the season's offerings in the Tealm of ccthos is a combination gar- ment which ts a dress and a cloak in one. The creation is a French one, as one might readily surmise. and it is built on the fashionable Greek lines. When it is worn as a gown there is a long, graceful hanging skirt having drapery around the hips which is caught up to the gown at either side with a fancy brald ornament. With perfect ease one side of this drapery can be detached from the skirt and lifted to cne shoulder, thus convert ing the costume into a semi-wrap af: fair. By following the same method with the other side of the skirt, the irapery can be attached to the shoul- der aud the costume becomes gown, over whieh Is worn a very handsome, tong drayed mantle reaching almost to the edse of the train and caught up in artistic folds in front. FEATHER RUFFS FOR NECK. Expensive to Suy, But Are Not Hard to Make at Home. It Is quite fashionable now to wear around the neck a close-fitting ruff made of an ostrich feather of smail tips. ‘This has extra whle white ruch- ing above and sometimes below. The feathers are secured with a tight-tit ting satin band, which ends over the hooks and eves with a rosette and two short streamers. These are expensive to buy, there. fore the woman who has small feath- ers put away ean accomplish such a Tu at home during the morning hours. Steaming the feathers and re- curling them with a scissor blade will put them in good condition. The ruff should fit the neck and be worn over A stock with a cout suit. COAT FOR STREET WEAR. we en A ae Rh feagaN << tt rs Hi f if \ By! || Boal ees The change that has come abont in fastening blouses in the front instead of the back has been almost imper ceptible, but the change in collars has been made over night Isn't it the frony of fate that ne sooner does fashion arrange it that women can have comfort in a blouse that fastens in front, fashion also ar Tanges It to twist the collar aroun: and fasten it at the back: ‘The comfortable turnover linen col lar now meets at the back, fastens In the ordinary way, except that its edges must be brought together with hooks and eyes or bar pins, There fs ho opening in front, and a large bow or jabot or other kind ef ornament is put at the front A Softening Frill. There ts no disguising the fact that without the immense and jovely $a. bots, stocks and f-ilied puffs the pres ent styles would be angular and se- vere to an unbecoming degree, The softening frill does much to hide the Severity of the season's costumes, It fs the opinion of the many that women are more furbelowed this year than ever before, but if all those frills were deducted women would look as mannish as they did on the street last year. ‘The Philosowher of Folly, “A lot of people are crazy to get Into society,” says the Philosopher of Folly, “for the same reason that a lot of other people are crazy to keep them out—because a lot of people are easy.” What Herrened to the "Phone. Sathryn (Guttering in)—I'm so glad T've found you home, dear. 1 tried to call you up, bat central said your ‘phene Was out of order. Gladys (weakly)—I suppese it is. 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This ie tho chance of a life time. Don't let it pass yeu. Ofice hours: 9 A. M. to 9:80 P.M. | Sunday: 3:80 to 7:30 2, M. N. B.—Our consultation Fee 50 conte. Sittings, $1.00. Al le tors containing $1.00 wétt he anews. i in full. MAIN OFFICE: 510 & Sem St, nbdeebpinia he THE FALLEN SATURDAY. DECEMBER 26. 1908 (Continued From First Page.) August, 1906. I was sent by Mr. Baldwin to get in with Convers and ascertain if he knew who did the shooting at that point. I was not from the names of any of the members of either of the companies stationed at that point, nor was I given any other information, except the fact that a shooting occurred at the time and place above mentioned, and that Boyd Convers was suspected of knowing who did same. "I arrived at Monroe, Ga. on June 5, and stopped at the home of Esther Crews, colored. I met Boyd Conyers, who is known as "Buddie" Conyers, on the morning of June 6, but had very little conversation with him, but was introduced to him as an old soldier. On the morning of June 8, between 8 and 9 o'clock, I met Conyers about half way between the station house and Main street. We talked some twenty and twenty-five minutes. I broached the Brownsville case, and mentioned the fact that the soldiers had shown their good sense by keeping their months while at Washington. I then asked him what the motive was for the shooting. He told me that the "crackers" at Brownsville had made threats that they would have no Negro soldiers at Brownsville, and the soldiers had made it up in their minds that if they bothered them that they would go in and clean up the ground. He also said that they mentioned this to Sergeant Reid, who was commander of the guards and that Reid said, "All that I have to say is to take care of yourself and the boys when you go down there." S. H. Parker, whose home is at Charleston, S. C., was present and heard the same conversation. HARD TO SECURE EVIDENCE. "About then a gentleman called Conyers to come and clean some clothes, and Conyers left, and nothing further was said about the matter at this time. I was with Conyers nearly every day, and went to Gainesville, Ga., on an excursion with him on the 15th of June. I did not mention the Brownville matter to Conyers again until on the 29th of June, when I returned from Atlanta, having gone there on June 27th. On this date I met him at Joe Blassingame's, and had a pint bottle of liquor offered him a drink—he would not drink in the house, but we went up the street and we stopped under a storehouse porch, near Main street. We took a drink or two and I started the Brownville case again. He told me that he was doing guard duty at the time of the shooting at Brownsville, and was stationed at the outlet toward the town. He said that when the guard was called the night of the shooting they mentioned to Sergeant Reld what had occurred downtown, and he said, "Boys, if you are not satisfied, you will have to go and get satisfied," and they remarked that they were going to get satisfaction that night. Reld then laughed and said, "Boys, don't you go down there and let them get the best of you." He then assigned the guard and went away. "In this conversation, Conyers told me that John Brown, J. H. Holloman and a man named Powell, and several others came down where he was on guard, and that they went downtown and just gave them hell, and after they shot out all of their cartridges they ran back to the barracks and when they got back to the barracks they found that the alarm had been sounded and the officers were calling the roll. Holloman Brown and himself were late for roll call, but that some one answered for Brown and Holloman, but that he was late, and that Reid told him that they had gotten themselves and himself in a hell of a hole, and told him to go to the guardhouse and pretend to be asleep, which he did. "He told me that they had slipped a few cartridges when at target practice, and that before inspection, after the shooting, Reid gave him some cartridges to replace the ones he had used. He further said that they had all agreed before they went out that they would keep their mouths, and that he would have told them at the investigation at Washington all about the shooting, but that he was afraid. I had no further talk with Conyers, because I saw that I was being suspected by the Negroes around Monroe, Ga. "WILLIAM (his x mark LAWSON." POWELL DENIES COMPLICITY IN THE BROWNSVILLE RAID. "I jes' played the part of a fool nigger. I was talktn' th'ough my hat." This was the explanation made by James Powell janitor at the Atlanta Dental College, when asked yesterday about his boasts that he helped to shoot up the town of Brownsville, Texas, on August 13th and 14th, 1906. Powell insists that he was only making up a wild story to impress a Negro from the north. He admits having talked with William Lawson and James Brown, and later with W. G. Baldwin, but affirms that what he told them had no other foundation than his own imagination. He has been in the army and was discharged about six years ago. For the past three or four years he has been working for Dr. William Crenshaw, of the Atlanta Dental College. Dr. Crenshaw was formerly in the confederate army. He was very much incensed over the fanciful story told by his Negro janitor, and particularly over a letter written by Powell to Boyd Conyers, or Monroe, Ga. "Of course there is no foundation for the boy's statement that he had a hand in the raid. He has been working for me for three or four years. He was formerly in the army, but was right here during the summer of 1906. I gave him a severe lecture for having been such a fool. While I would gladly surrender him up for punishment if I thought him guilty of such a thing, it is naturally impossible for him to be involved because he was right here at the time." POWELL IS PENITENT Powell was very penitent when asked about the stories he had told Lawson. He said his wish to impress "a nigger from up the country" had gotten the better of him. It had led him to do a lot of talking in which there was much fancy and no facts. He was eager to know if there was any danger of his being prosecuted for what he had done, and was unsparing in denunciation of himself. While the detectives of the war departments were working in Georgia during the past summer, they attempted to extract the truth from Powell by means of a decoy letter presumably from Boyd Conyers. In reply to this letter Powell wrote: "Atlanta, Ga., 304 Fort Street, August 13, 1908—Dear Friend: I received your letter to-day and was truly glad to hear from you it found me well and truly hope when these few lines reach you it will find you the same. I was jest thawking about you when I got your letter from John Brown went to Philadelphia a bought three weeks ago. I have heard of eny rest of the boye except John Jone he was throw heare and went to Chicago I will meet the lawer when he come You ask me abought the chracker I haven had the opportunity to meet that Entertainment I have three good guns and if eny thaing should start I will be with them When are you coming to Atlanta, Bud die I will take you for my leader because I don't no wheare eny rest of the boys. You must excuse bad writing write soon and let me heare from you from your frind. JAMES POWES." Powell was visibly surprised when, asked about this letter. He had evidently not been confronted with it before. "I was only acting a fool," he said. "I was givin that nigger a lot of guff. I ain't got three guns and never had 'em in my whole life." Powell declined to explain what kind of entertainment the "chracker" was. He plainly sought to avoid a discussion of the letter he had written. The story of Powell, though presented in full in the evidence laid before the senate by President Roosevelt, is evidently of the kind he speaks of as obviously valueless. STATEMENT OF BALDWIN The statement of W. G. Baldwin, written from Atlanta on September 11, 1908, is as follows: Atlanta, Ga., September 11, 1908. —I went to Atlanta and found James Powell, whose home is 304 Fort street and who works for Dr. William Crenshaw, at a dental college in Atlanta. told this Negro that I represented a magazine of New York, and that we were anxious to get the facts of the Brownville shooting. Before calling on Powell, I sent George W. Gray, who was in Company C, and whose parents live in Roanoke, and I believe is one of the most reliable Negroes I know in this country, to see Powell and find out what he had told Lawson and others. After a short interview Gray came back to the hotel and stated that Powell was lying; that he had tripped him up in a number of his statements; and that he was satisfied that he had never been in Brownville or knew anything about the case. "My calling on Powell a few minutes afterwards evidently excited him and when I began to ask him about the Brownsville case he told me that he knew absolutely nothing about it and that he was not at Brownsville, but had formerly belonged to the Tenth Cavalry and had been discharged at San Francisco about six years ago. I then confronted him with the letter he had written Boyd Conyers on August 14 and asked him what he meant by this. His explanation was very unsatisfactory and he admitted to the authorship of the letter, but said that he had formerly known Conyers was the reason for his reply to Conyers' letter written to him about August 10. He denied knowing James Brown, a member of Company B, although he and James Brown left Atlanta for Philadelphia on the same train about three weeks ago. Brown is still in Philadelphia. I called on Dr. Crenshaw, who told me that he knew that this Negro, James Powell had not been out of Atlanta for three years, except on this trip to Philadelphia. P. S.—It subsequently developed that Powell was for a short time in a volunteer regiment. He was never in Brownsville, but had gotten his information from John Brown, one of the raiders." NOT IN TENTH CAVALRY Powell admits serving in the army but states that he was in the Forty-eighth regiment in the Spanish-American war, and was discharged five or six years ago. He said when he enlisted in Atlanta he went to Fort Thomas, Kentucky, and from there to St. Louis, where he was discharged He denied having ever been in San Francisco, or having served in the Tenth Cavalry. GEORGIA BLACKS IN THE COILS OF THE GOVERNMENT. Five Negroes now living in Georgia are charge* in evidence submitted by President Roosevelt to the Senate to-day with having been conspicuously involved in the shooting up of Brownsville, Texas on August 13 and 14, 1906. Boyd Conyers, of Monroe, Ga. and John Hollowoman, now living quietly in Macon, Ga., are accused by special investigators of the war department with having been ringleaders in the riot. Senator Joseph Benson Foraker, of Ohio, a member of the senate committee on military affairs, which investigated the affray and who defended the Negroes in committe THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA and on the floor of the senate is charged with having encouraged discharged Negro soldiers to adhere to false testimony given before the committee ATLANTA NEGRO FIGURES. An Atlanta Negro. James Powell, employed by Dr. William Crenshaw at the Atlanta Dental College, figures in the testimony in a ludicrous way. Powell, in a vainglorious and boastful way, told a detective of the war department that he was one of the rioters. It appears that he was in Atlanta all the while. Dr. Crenshaw states that the Negro was working at the Atlanta Dental College at the time and had no connection whatsoever. Powell himself, when seen yesterday, made an humble confession, and stated that he had only been romancing. "I tell you, hones', white folks," he said when questioned by a Constitution reporter, "I wuz jes' talkin' though my hat. You know how a fool nigger will do sometimes. I ain't never had nothin' to do with no member of them troops, and was right here in Atlanta when it all happened. Dr. Crenshaw will tell you that hisself. I did tell that big nigger from up norf that I was one of 'em, but he put up a lot of big talk to me an' I jes' let myself out a little bit." PRESIDENT BELIEVES ALL GUIL TY. President Roosevelt in his message to the senate, declares that all the members in Companies B, C and D were more or less guilty. He declares all the members of B troop must have actively concerned in the shooting affray, and that the members of the two other companies were guilty of complicity and of concealing the facts. He recommends that the secretary of war, within a year, be authorized to reinstate such of the members of the discharged battalion as will tell the truth and assist in fixing the blame upon those actually guilty of firing the shots. The president seeks to divide the "less guilty from those whose guilt was helpless." NEGROES SHIELD EACH OTHER That many Negroes throughout the country now know those guilty of participation in the Brownsville affray and are shielding members of their own race is the charge made by Herbert J. Brown and Captain W. G. Baldwin, who conducted the investigation. Boyd Conyers charges in his statement that John Holloman, of Macon, Ga., was the ringleader. He also mentions John Brown of Atlanta; Carolina de Saussure, of Savannah and others, according to Lawson and Brown. A letter written by Senator Foraker to Conyers is included in the testimony. In this letter Senator Foraker assures Conyers of his belief that Conyers' testimony was the truth. TEXT OF PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE Washington, December 14.—The following special message bearing up on the Brownsville, Texas affray was today sent to the senate by President Roosevelt: "To the Senate: I inclose herewith a letter from the Secretary of War transmitting a report of the investigation made by Mr. Herbert J. Brown employed by the department in conjunction with Captain W. G. Baldwin to investigate as far as possible what happened at Brownsville on the 13th and 14th of August, 1906. The report and documents contain some information of great value and some statements that are obviously worthless, but I submit them in their entirety. "This report enables us to fix with tolerable definiteness at least some of the criminals who took the lead in the murderous shooting of private citizens at Brownsville. It establishes clearly the fact that the colored soldiers did the shooting; but upon this point further record was unnecessary, as the fact that the colored soldiers d'd the shooting has already been established beyond all possibility of doubt. The investigation has not gone far enough to enable us to determine all the facts, and we will proceed with it; but it has gone far enough to determine with sufficient accuracy certain facts of enough importance to make it advisable that I place the report before you. ALL MEMBERS GUILTY "It appears that almost all the members of Company B must have been actively concerned in the shooting, either to the extent of being participants or to the extent of virtually encouraging those who were participants. As to Companies C and D, there can be no question that practically every man in them must have had knowledge that the shooting was done by some of the soldiers of B troop, and possibly by one or two others in one of the other troops. This concealment was itself a grave offense, which was greatly aggravated by their testifying before the senate committee that they were ignorant of what they must have known. known. "Nevertheless, it is to be said in partial extinction that they were probably cowed by threats, made by the more desperate of the men who had actually been engaged in the shooting, as to what would happen to any man who failed to protect the wrongdoers. Moreover, there, are circumstances tending to show that their misguided men were encouraged by outsiders to persist in their course of concealment and dent SLAM AT FORAKER "I feel, therefore, that the guilt of the men, who, after the event thus shielded the perpetrators of the wrong by refusing to tell the truth about them, though serious, was in part due to the unwise and improper attitude of others, and that some measure of allowance should be made for the misconduct. In other words, I believe we can afford to reinstate any of these men who now truthfully tell what has happened, give all the aid they can to fix the responsibility upon those who are really guilty, and show that they themselves had no guilty knowledge beforehand and were in no way im- plicated in the affair, save by having knowledge of it afterwards and failing and refusing to divulge it. "Under the circumstances, and in view of the length of time they have been out of the service, and their loss of the benefit that would have accrued to them by continuous long-term service, we can afford to treat the men who meet the requirements given above as having been sufficiently punished by the consequences they brought upon themselves when they rendered necessary the exercise of the disciplinary power. "I recommend that a law be passed allowing the Secretary of War, within a fixed period of time, say a year, to reinstate any of these soldiers whom he, after careful examination finds to have been innocent and whom he finds to have done all in his power to help bring to justice the guilty. "Meanwhile the investigation will be continued. The results have made it obvious that only by carrying on the investigation as the war department has actually carried it on is there the slightest chance of bringing the offenders to justice or of separating not the innocent for there were doubtless hardly any innocent, but the less guilty from those whose guilt was heinous. "THEODORE ROOSEVELT. "The White House, December 14, 1908." To Take Off a Tight Ring. 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One Way to Attain Prominence "Another way to get your name in the papers," says the Philosopher of Folly, "is to send a telegram of condolence whenever some famous man dies." Rather. Seven-year-old Elsie ran up to her mother saying: "Mamma, Gertrude just said, I ain't, neither. That's pretty poor geography, isn't it?"—Puck. Still Seeks the Light It is well to fly towards the light, even where there may be some fluttering and bruising of wings against the window panes.—Mrs. Browning. Philosophic View of Death. All that nature has prescribed for us must be good; and as death is natural for us, it is absurd to fear it.—Steele. Cabby and His Fare. Cabby is the same the world over. When you come to pay, you are soon convinced.—Travel Magazine. Nobody has ever done any better than we may do. When you nail your flag to the mast do it with nails that clinch. It is a bad thing for a boy to be the son of a man who has no backbone. It is about as necessary to have an aim in life as it is in shooting squirrels. Many a man is kept out in the cold because he can't learn to rub the fur the right way. Knowledge is power only to those who know how to put on the harness and hitch it up. The same note from a pipe organ means a good deal more than it does from a tin whistle. The Christian should remember that every good lick he strikes is helping to bring the millennium nearer. If a sin couldn't make itself look as though it had just stepped out of paradise the road to destruction wouldn't be so crowded. What a blacksmith needs for the making of a horseshoe is real iron, not a chromo imitation of it.—Indianapolis News. REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR GIRL. Nobody can be all things to all men; but a married woman is expected to be all things, from a cook to a houri, to one man. Trying to attract a man without appealing to his vanity is about as effective as hailing a street car on the wrong corner. After a man has had the same engagement ring returned by two or three girls he begins to look upon it as a tallisman. Consider the show girls, how they dress; they toil not, neither do they spin, yet Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. Husbands are almost as rare nowadays as solid mahogany, and they have to be watched just as carefully owing to the prevalence of affinities. Nothing frightens a man so much as his wife's dead silence after one of his deflections; it is like a stone wall with a barbed-wire railing on top; he can't get around it, nor can through it, nor walk over it. WIT AND WISDOM One learns by suffering.—Latin. A bitter heart makes a strong arm. —German. One takes the odor of one's company.—Chinese. No one is a fool always; everyone sometimes.—Latin. Crosses are the ladders that reach to heaven.—French. No wind ever blow that did not fill some sail.—Spanish. Paradise is for those who command their anger.—Koran. Do what you know and you will know what you do.—French. Might Organize a Society. We have in this country the material for a strong organization to be composed exclusively of the grandfathers of future dukes. Hard Task for Some. Considering what bad features some individuals have, it is not surprising that they cannot keep their faces straight. BEFORE USING Madame C. J. The world's greatest Hair Culturist, wher her wonderful Hair Grower, the quicker ered for the growth of hair. She is no Any one wishing to enter the class for me at once. One personal treatment vduce from a half inch to an inch. She is the woman who grew the hair o ponding Secretary of Woman's Auxiliary For further information address Madame C. J. Walker. 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. She is now in this city at 510 N. 2nd Street. Any one wishing to enter the class for learning our trade please see me at once. One personal treatment with a six week's supply will produce from a half inch to an inch. 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. CHRISTMAS GIFT. CHRISTMAS GIFT. No More Useful GIFT can be found. It means a present for the whole family for years to come. They can't wear out. Its all in the Cylinder. As simple as ironing and just as o sculps or scorched and broken hair that heated plain combs. Every comb guard can at least send for one and try it and back to us and get your money. You r paid to any address for $2.00 the day o Have you tried Electro-Capals? Very comb. For further particulars, add NEWTON NOVELTY M 308 and 310 Main St., As simple as ironing and just as effective. No danger of burned scalps or scorched and broken hair that so often result from the overheated plain combs. Every comb guaranteed to give satisfaction. You can at least send for one and try it and if not found satisfactory mail it back to us and get your money. You run absolutely no risk. Sent prepaid to any address for $2.00 the day order is received. Have you tried Electro-Capallis? You'll like it. Free box with every comb. For further particulars, address with stamp. All correspondence confidential AN ECONOMIC PROTEST. "Did I understand you to ask me if I wanted work?" asked Plodding Pete. "That's what you-understood, if you understood anything," answered the woman with a cold steely eye and a square jaw. "You've got some wood that needs chopping, I suppose?" "I have." "Lady, I'm surprised at you. Don't you know dat de trees gather moisture gradually an' by slowly lettin' it into de ground keep up a steady water supply? Don't you know dat when you leave de hillsides naked an' bare de water comes down in a freshet, same as beer from a barrel wt de head stove in? Don't you know dat future generations is gold' to miss de umbrageous protection overhead, an' dat our grandchildren is liable to be at de mercy of a parasol trust? An' you want me to chop wood! Lady, I'm surprised at you!"—Washington Star. Mistress—"Nerna, why didn't you finish winding the clock? You only gave it a couple of turns." Nora—"Shure, and I'll be lavin' yz termerroun, num, and I'd not be afer doin' anny of the new grul's row-rk!" Colored Skin Made Lighter For centuries the scientific men have been trying to make dark skin lighter colored, not by artificial whitening, but in a natural way. At last the CHEMICAL WONDER CO. of New York has discovered "COMPLEXION WONDER, which does bring a lighter 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. The CHEMICAL WONDER CO. is the best friend the dark race ever had. It has preparations for kinky hair which exactly suit colored people. The WONDER COMB magnetic, helps to straighten hair. It costs only fifty cents and will last a life-time. The pomade called WONDER UNCURL keeps hair straight and pliable. The WONDER COMB and WONDER UNCULL when used together, will make any kinky hair dress well. If the hair is too short, use WONDER HAIR-GROW. This is a liquid fertilizer for the scalp. Just as fertilizers in the corn field make the corn stalks grow, so this liquid fertilizes the scalp and makes the hair grow longer. M. B. BERGER & CO., 2 Rector St. New York will send any or these WONDERS for fifty cents or all of them for $2.00 delivery free. Send post-office order or money. Information book free. If you desire to improve your appearance we will cheerfully write you without charge and promise that our WONDERS will help to advance colored people socially and commercially. Agents Wanted. --- AFTER USING 2518 Wylie Avenue. Fastidious Nora J. J. Walker. who is astonishing the world with cockest and surest remedy ever discov- sion now in this city at 510 N. 2nd Street. for learning our trade please see with a six week's supply will pro- air of Nannie H. Burroughs, Corres- siliary to National Baptist Convention. IAS GIFT. for Straightening the Hair The Combs Never Get Hot. as effective. No danger of burned that so often result from the over- guaranteed to give satisfaction. You and if not found satisfactory mail it you run absolutely no risk. Sent prey order is received. You'll like it. Free box with ev- address with stamp. MFG. CO., Dep't. B. Cincinnati, O. tial. AGENTS WANTED. Do You Know Her? Page, W. Va., Dec. 16, '08. My daughter, Sadie White left her home at Staunton, Va. July 1002 for Braddock, Pa. Her mother's name is Mrs. Maggie White, father's Wash White, dead. No brothers. Uncle's name Nelson Crawford living in Nelson Co. Va. Any one knowing her will please notify her dear mother, High Class Entertainment. The Orient Theatre, located at Madison and Broad, extends an invitation to you to attend their Theatre. First Class Moving Pictures and Vaudeville. Special attention given ladies and children. Programme changed daily. 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. OMOHUNDRO, Room 32, 1103 E. Main St., City. Straighten Your Hair AFTER USING. Pittsburg, Pa. Page, W. Va.