Richmond Planet

The RICHMOND PLANET University Boys Are Coming. Next Wednesday will complete the first ten years of the life of Virginia Union University. The alumni and old students plan to celebrate the anniversary by bringing up a handsome contribution. The present students also want to show their appreciation of the University. They cannot give much money, but they can work. You may receive a call from one of them next week. Welcome him for his cause's sake. Seventy-five University boys, with subscription papers, each containing the large seal of the University, will canvas the city. Don't give him any money unless he has a paper with such a seal on it. But if he has such a paper, remember these facts: 1. About 300 Richmond boys and young men have attended the University in these ten years, and multitudes of Richmond boys will attend it in the years to come. Whatever you give to the University boys you give largely to Richmond boys. 2. Furthermore, many Negro young men of Richmond who do not go to the University will get the benefit of your gift. They have no athletic field. Broad Street Park is in such constant demand by white clubs that the colored clubs cannot get it. Even when a colored club engages it, the club is in danger of having the park let to some influential white club at the last moment. The Negro young men of the city, as well as of the University, ought to have a place where they can have their field days and their games. If the University had a good field, it would be at the service of the colored clubs of the city when not in use by the University, and at a cost which would be but a very small part of what he Broad Street Park costs. 3. Boys and young men need exercise in the fresh air for health of body. Especially they need it if they are students. The change of life from farm to study often seriously injures health, unless the young man is induced to take outdoor exercise. Men every year break down in our school from lack of exercise. Others never grow to the strength of body which they ought to have and which they need, from the same reason. 4. Many boys need games to save them morally. All the great students of human life know that many boys can be saved from idleness, laziness, and positively bad habits, only by giving them innocent games which will absorb their interest, and turn them away from cards, smoking drinking, and other evil habits. A boy who is without interest in books or religion is often saved from ruin by a wholesome interest in games, under a professor's oversight. 5. The whole civilized world is waking up to the place that exercise and play have in the life of boys. A very wise man has even said: "A boy without a play-ground becomes a man without a job." In wise play he learns self-control (cf. I Cor. 9:25), definiteness of aim, the value of training and of concentration, fairness and manliness, quickness and activity. As kindergarten is part of a child's education, so games are part of the necessary education of many boys. 6. The University boys who are to canvas the city will ask you for a contribution toward the amount needed for putting the athletic field in order. The University has offered the boys a piece of ground, on condition that they get the money for fence, seats, grading, etc. About One Thousand dollars will be needed. They hope you will give them from one to ten notitars, according to your ability, payable at once to the young man who takes your name, or to Prof. J. W. Barco, 113 1-2 West Jackson Street, Richmond, Va., within 30 days. 7. If every man who is asked makes a contribution, the whole amount can be raised without hardship to anyone. Northern white people are putting about $20,000 into the University this year. Help the young men make an offering of $1000, their first considerable gift, on this tenth anniversary of the establishment of the school. According to Editor Mitchell, of the Richmond, (Va) Planet: "The poor classes of whites do not travel as much as the corresponding elements among our people" We are quite certain they do not spend as much. The colored man who does not spend what he makes and proceeds to go in debt is altogether too rare. If we had less of this we would have more home builders. This is the statement of a distress-ing fact, and the conclusion drawn is absolutely correct.—Huntsville, Ala. Journal. FOR SALE—Barber shop, two chairs, best trade, old stand. Terms right. PRES. LEE, 55 State Street, New London, Conn. Honor Pupils. Monroe School. 4 B Grade—Alice Traney, Mamie Cross, Ruth Deane, Lucy Johnson, Malcena Webster. 4 A Grade—Margaret Minor, Elvira Epps. 3 B Grade—Rosa Redd, Lillie Dabney, Lucy Black, Mary Tucker. 3 A Grade—Clara Smithers, Elenora Roy, Daisy Grey, Gertrude Minor, Jennie Dabney, George Epps, Benj. Warner. 2 B Grade—Jarrett Minor. 2 A Grade No. 1—Marie Johnson. 2 A Grade No. 2—Lucile Matthews. 1 B Grade No. 1—Daisy Jordan, Marie Jordan. 1 B Grade No. 2—Josephine Coles, Ethel Pierce, Lillie Smithers, Alfred Brown, George Mitchell, John Pollard. Baker School. 7 B Grade—Madge Funn, Helen West, Eulalia华丽, Edna Harris. 7 A Grade—Julia Bolling, Maria Jones, Elmaud Marks, William Jackson, Robert Lewis, Henry Yancey. 6 B Grade—Gertrude Chambers, Martha Chiles, Beatrice Eldridge, Camille Mayo, Marie Williams, Vivia Lemas, Lucie Smith. 6 A Grade—Ethel Lemas, Sadie Nelson, Gladys Golden, Ethel Robinson, Wendell Miles. 5 B Grade—Zenobia Gilpin, Lucy Smith, Bessie Anderson, Lizzie King, Ophelia Grey, Henrietta Mason, Ruth Holman, Mable Washington. 5 A Grade—Ruth Catlett, Maria Ellis, Ottie Graham, Alma Hone, Pearle Vest. 4 B Grade—Emmett Scott, Lucie Johnson, Belle Boyd, Clara Pollard, Marie Epps, Moselle Anderson. 4 A Grade—Abram Harris, Benjamin Woolfolk, Ida Hayden, Ida B. Johnson, Bessie Lemas. 3 B Grade—Emma Daggett, Alice Jackson, Robbette Lewis, Alice Meade, Lucie Smith, Martha Smith, Rosa Trent, Eloise Williams. 3 A Grade—Ester Boyd, Edward Carey, Sarah Walker, Flossie Winn, Carrie Pierson. 2 B Grade—Norvell Coots, Percy Waddell, Ellen Allen, Elizabeth Brown, Rosa Banks, Annie Gayles, Georgiana Grreeene, Bertha Jackson, Charlotte Johnson, Lillian Mayo, Marian Mayo, Fannie Morton, Ruth Pollard. 2 A Grade—John Ballard, Ruby Booker, David Cross, William Branch, Marie Garrant, Addie Greene, Daniel Jackson, St. Julien Saunders, E hel Robertson Moore School. 7 A Grade—Raphael Bryant 6 B Grade—Harvey Miles, Henry Reld, Louise Conway, Clara Hill, Clara Wells. 6 A Grade—Alberta Henley, Lillian Scott, Golden Houston, Ollie Mosby. 5 B Grade—Ollie Ferguson, Joseph Jackson, Robert Lewis. 5 A Grade—Lella Lewis, Ethel Taylor. 4 B Grade—Andrew Walker Harry Howard, John Franklin, Regina Jackson, Eva Logan, Rosetta Mines, Ruth Pemberton. 4 A Grade—Douglas Woolfolk Richard Johnson, Annie Cox. 4 A Grade—Leonard Carter, Elmo Jackson, Mozelle Hicks. 3 B Grade—Georgie Anderson, Edna Anderson, Alma Johnson, Mildred Johnson, Louise Jackson, Gertrude Robinson, Emma Wingfield. 3 B Grade—Carrie Aycocke. 3 A Grade—Pearle Venable, Walter Wells. 3 A Grade—Marie Clark. 2 B Grade—Cora Carter, Joseph Coppedge, Pauline Freeman, Hamilton Goolsby, Ruth Harris, Inez Patterson, Florence Wagner, Armstead Walker. 2 A Grade—Irene Mosley, Clytie Horsley, Myrtle Priddy, Estelle Smith, Theresa Howard, Arthur Randolph, Floyd Booker, Angus Wood, Jacob Logan, Linwood Mosley, Edward Johnson. 1 B Grade—Rhea Bland, Inez Green, Esther Johnson, Adele Shelton, Steele Jackson, James Brown, Leonard Brown, Raymond Bland, John Nash, Joseph Winston. 1 A Grade—Richard Barlow, William Cotton, Hilyard Shelton, Lether Salle, Herbert Toles, Harry Poindexter, Sarah Chandler, Annie Lewis, Sarah Johnson, Louise Lewis, Wilhemena Patterson, Lucie Price, Emogeneine Smith, Marion Smith, Mabel Taylor, Lucretia Wells, Louise West. EXCURSIONS TO WHITE CITY. The Norfolk and Western Railway is the quickest and the only all rail line from Richmond to White City. Round trip $1.50 every Sunday, beginning May 30th, 1909, leaving Richmond 8:10 A. M. Special arrangements may now be made for weekday excursions on a liberal basis. For Sunday Schools and other organizations, by applying at N. & W. passenger office. 838 E. Main Street RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, SATURDAY, MAY 15, 1909. SENSATION HERE A Question of Forgery. A Bogus Court Certificate. THE WIDOW OF THE LATE REV. JOHN JASPER—HER POLICY NOW THE SUBJECT OF REVIEW—OFFICERS MAKE THE ARREST—WILL CLEAR HIMSELF AT THE TRIAL, MR. DENNY DECLARES. Quite a sensation was caused by the arrest of Mr. W. F. Denny, the colored real-estate agent on last Monday on the charge of forging the name of Mr. C. O. Saville, clerk of the Chancery Court of this city to certificate of guardianship. Mr. Denny states that there is some mistake and that he can explain the matter satisfactorily to the court. Mr. Denny was bailed in the sum of one thousand dollars with Mr. A. D. Price, the well-known undertaker as security. be upon the Order as it has already paid out one hundred dollars upon this same person. UNUSUAL TO RETURN IT. It is customary for all of the Orders to file this certificate in their files and no return them to the court, presuming that it is a copy of the record. The charge is also for abstracting the blank from the desk of the clerk and also of forging the official records of the court. The SHORT HEALTH TALKS. No. 1. The House Fly. The common house fly, which makes its appearance about this time of the year and remains as a guest until the return of the cold weather, is generally regarded as little more than a nuisance. He insists on coming where he is not wanted, and always appears in the wrong place; but, aside from this, he is not considered by most people as a menace. THAT HUNDRED DOLLAR POLICY It seems that the grandmother of Josephine, Gertrude and Sidney Goode died and she was at the time of her death a member of the Order of St. Lukes, of which Mr. J. Thomas Hewin is the representative in this city. She held a policy for one hundred dollars, which policy was made over to her three grandchildren. In order to get the money, it was necessary for their mother Mrs. Catherine Goode to qualify as guardian for these children. Mr. Denny transacted the business for her and he appeared at the office of the St. Luke with a certificate of qualification, certifying that Catherine Goode had qualified as guardian of the children in the sum of two hundred dollars. EXAMINED THE RECORDS Mr. Hewin authorized the payment of the check for one hundred dollars and he took charge of the certificate. Upon examining it closely, he was not satisfied as to its regularity and he went down to the Chancery Court to examine the records. No information concerning it could be found there and as these certificates are never given out until a record has been made, the clerks there were dumfounded. Major Charles O. Saville examined it and at once pronounced the certificate a forgery. REPORTED IT TO THE JUDGE He reported the facts to Judge Grinnan, who immediately directed that the commonwealth's attorney be sent for and the forged certificate turned over to him. Mr. Fowlkes turned the matter over to the detective bureau. In the mean-time, Mr. Hewin had to go to Red House, Charlotte, Co. last Saturday and he telegraphed to Mrs. Bell Christian, the Secretary to stop the payment on the check for one hundred dollars which had been given to Mr. Denny. She responded promptly and went to Mr. Denny and asked him to return the check to her. He stated that the money had been paid him and in other words that the check had been cashed. ATTORNEY HEWIN'S PREDICA MENT It seems that as Attorney J. Hewin had the certificate. it was encumbent upon him to show where he obtained it. He received it from Mr. W. F. Denny, who got the money. Now it is for Mr. Denny to explain where he obtained it. The effect of such a forgery can be plainly stated. These certificates are held only by the clerk in Chancery or by his deputies and they are not at the disposal of the public. Whenever one is presented, just to see it is all that is sufficient provided it is filled out. This money could not have been spent, if placed in the hands of a legal guardian. It must be held in trust for the children until they are of age. THE CERTIFICATE WORTHLESS It will be seen then that when a forged certificate had been presented and the money obtained from the Order, that the money did not pass into the hands of the real guardian and there was no bond up to protect it as the certificate was worthless. As the matter now stands, it will be necessary for some one to qualify as guardian for these children. When the person so qualifies, a demand can be made upon the Order of the St. Lukes for the payment of another one hundred dollars and the loss will be upon the Order as it has already paid out one hundred dollars upon this same person. UNUSUAL TO RETURN IT It is customary for all of the Orders to file this certificate in their files and no. return them to the court, presuming that it is a copy of the record. The charge is also for abstracting the blank from the desk of the clerk and also for forging the official records of the court. The penalty is not less than two or more than ten years in the penitentiary. Mr. Denny has retained Attorney H. M. Smith, Jr., as counsel and the indications are that his interests will be well-protected. Further information given us is as follows: it seems that Mrs. Mary Jasper, the widow of the late Rev. John Jasper, died and at that time was a member of Mt. Olive Council, I. O. of St. Lukes, leaving the proceeds of her butted dollar policy to her three grandchildren, Josephine, Gertrude and Sidney Goode. The daughter, Mrs. Catherine Goode turned the policy over to Mr. A. D. Price to defray the burial expenses of the children's grandmother, Mrs. Mary Jasper. THE COLLECTION OF A DEATH CLAIM. Mr. A. D. Price put the matter in the hands of Mr. W. F. Denny, who is collector and real-estate agent for collection. Before the proceeds of the policy could be collected, it was necessary for some one to qualify as guardian for the children. Mr. Denny carried a certificate of qualification of Mrs. Catherine Goode as guardian for the grand-childs, to Mrs. Belle Christian, Mrs. Barbara Jenkins and they sent it to Attorney J. Thomas Hewin, who is also a member of the committee for inspection. A NAME OMITTED Mr. Hewin discovered that the name of one of the children had been omitted in the certificate and he states that he told Mr. Denny how it could be corrected at the Chancery Court. When Mr. Denny returned with the certificate, the same had been scratched and the name inserted and this caused Mr. Hewin to go to the Chancery Court with the certificate to investigate it by examining the records. Then it was pronounced a forgery and the action above stated taken in the case. Prof. Miller's Tour Across the Continent Prof. Kelly Miller, Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, is overwhelmed with requests to deliver commencement addresses, only part of which he is able to accept. Immediately after commencement, May 26, he will enter upon an itinerary covering tour or five thousand miles. On this tour, he will deliver the commencement address for the High School at Kansas City, Kansas, will address the Western University, at Quindaro, Kansas, lecture at Kansas City, Mo., deliver commencement address, as well as Y. M. C. A. lecture in Topeka Kansas.: lecture in Lawrence Kansas, Denver, Colorado Springs and Pueblo in Colorado, Omaha, Neb., Des Moines, Ia., Chicago, Ill. St. Louis, Mo., Indianapolis, Ind., Cincinnati and Columbus, Ohio. This trip will be completed in time to deliver the commencement address to the Baltimore High School, June 18. While on this trip Prof. Miller will keep an alert outlook for the interest of Howard University, and will be glad to confer with alumni former pupils and friends, as well as those wishing to enter any. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. B. Wood, of Petersburg, Va., called on us last week. —Mr. J. W. Brown was in the city this week from Fayetteville and called on us. He was enroute to Washington. SHORT HEALTH TALKS No. 1. The House Fly. The common house fly, which makes its appearance about this time of the year and remains as a guest until the return of the cold weather, is generally regarded as little more than a nuisance. He insists on coming where he is not wanted, and always appears in the wrong place; but, aside from this, he is not considered by most people as a menace to health. Recent work by experts, however, has shown that the house fly is one of the most dangerous agents in spreading disease. This is due to the fact that the fly never "wipes his feet", and is not at all choice in his selection of a lodging place. The whole life-history of the fly contributes to make him filthy and obnoxious. The eggs are deposited in filth and manure, and remain for about ten days before they hatch out. When first hatched, the fly has the form of a small worm, and as such crawls into the most obnoxious places. He loves the bodies of dead animals, and manure in the barnyard, the excrement in the privy, and feeds on these things. When the fly reaches maturity, he has a peculiar roving nature. He does not always care to remain in the barnyard or in the privy, but likes to leave these places and fly into the dining-room, where he lights on the vegetables, the dessert or the butter. As the fly's feet may gather germs wherever he goes, he naturally leaves some of them on everything he touches, whether it is the baby's bottle, the milk, or the fruit. These germs are often taken into the system, multiply, develop and cause disease. Typhoid fever, which causes so much sickness in the community every year, is spread by the fly as well as by bad water and bad milk. The only good fly is a dead fly. There is practically no way to kill off all the files, but by screening the windows and doors, and by covering the dishes containing food and drink, the number of files can be much reduced. At the very least, the fly can be kept out of the sick-room. If the manure is removed frequently, and is sprinkled often with lime, it will not be so attractive a breeding place for the files. If the closet is screened and the files kept from the excrement, the danger to the household is considerably reduced. Another Civil Rights Case Won Charles Balash, a waiter employed in the "Bank Cafe" at 18 Public Square, was arraigned in police court last week Friday on a charge of violating our Ohio civil rights law, preferred by George W. Johnson and Theo E. Green, Esq., who said Balash refused to serve them after their orders had been taken. P. W. Welsh, bartender, arraigned with Balash, was charged with beating Mr. Green on the head when he made complaint. The prisoners pleaded not guilty and the cases were continued until Tuesday morning of this week. when Judge McGannon of the police court, after trial, fined the proprietor $50 and costs (the minimum penalty provided by the law) for his refusal to serve Mr. Johnson. Attorney Green lost his case against the bartender for assault and battery because of his inability to prove who struck him. Mr. Johnson was not present in the room in which the blow was struck at the time it was delivered, but arrived afterward. Both Messrs. Green and Johnson are entitled to much praise for fighting the cases. It is only this spirit and this activity in the courts that is ever going to put a stop to the insulting, aggravating and wholly uncalled for discrimination against our people in public places solely on the ground of color or racial prejudice And to think, foreigners and oftimes allens, as well as others, frequently so mistreat citizens! It is enough to make any decent American's blood boll. "Sting" them (under our Ohio civil rights law), as Messrs. Johnson and Green have this week, and as Walter L. Brown did recently in the "roller rink" case, and put a stop to a drawing of a color line in public places in this community and state Be Me!—Cleveland Ohio Gazette. Colored Boys' Confession is Not Believed. Their Confession Held to Discredit Testimony Given at the Trial. Powhatan, Va., May 11.—The latest confession of the negroes, Robert and Fleming Taylor and Stepheney Johnson, upon the strength of which Charles and Emanuel Brown, sons of John and brothers of William Brown, who were executed for the murder of Mr. Johnson and Mrs. Skipwith, have been arrested, has been the subject or the most widespread interest and discussion here. The prevailing sentiment with regard to this confession is one of disbelief, and its only effect has been to discredit the entire testimony of the boys. Of the five men who have been executed, all, with the exception of John Brown, denied any connection with or knowledge of the crime, and all of them, including John Brown, died protesting their innocence. As to John Brown, the facts are that he did admit on several occasions that he was present at the scene of the crime after the killing of Johnson, and that he helped to secrete some of the articles discovered in the outbuildings, but he testified at the trial that he made this admission because he had been told that if he would do so he could be punished only by imprisonment, and that, realizing his danger, he did this in order to save his life. He also stated before his trial that on the evening prior to the murder, Callie Taylor, a colored woman, told him that Joe and Isham Taylor were going to kill Johnson the next evening, but at the trial he testified that this was a lie, told by him in an effort to save his own life. The boys in their latest confession also state that Callie Taylor was in no way connected with the crime. No one here pays any attention to anything told by John Brown, as it is believed that he would have sworn to anything if by so doing he could have saved his own life. At the trial practically the only testimony against the prisoners were the statements of these boys and the fact that in the house of Joe Taylor were found some cups and saucers and a little sugar which had been taken from the burned house, and an axe with a little blood on the handle; that in Isham Taylor's house was found a double-barreled gun, with a snapped cartridge in it, and in Jenkins's house a cartridge which was similar to some known to have been in Johnson's house, and the vision of Jenkins which the Commonwealth treated as a confession. BELIEVED THEM GUILTY That the jurors who tried the prisoners believed the boys is beyond question. They are some of the best citizens of the county—men who would not have convicted the prisoners, but from an absolute belief in their guilt. But it is equally as true that before the trial many misstatements and rumors were scattered broadcast, and upon the face of them there was not the slightest doubt that the prisoners were guilty of one of the most horrible crimes ever committed, and that this prevalent impression, differing in nothing from a mortal certainty, existed long before the trials commenced and prepared people for statements which were so improbable that but for the previous misstatements they would have discredited themselves. In all these trials the boys were the central figures. To be named by them was certain death. And they withheld nothing, either of the horrors of the midnight murder, arson and pillage or of the names of the participants. In all they named an even dozen. These were themselves, Joe and Isham Taylor, Lewis Jenkins, John and William Brown, Ollie Ross, Monie Johnson and the mysterious strangers from Amelia. Over and over they swore that these were all who were there. They were asked, both by the attorneys for the Commonwealth and those for the defense, if it was possible for any one else to have been present, and in every instance they replied: "No." They were asked several times if it was possible for Charles and Emanuel Brown to have been the two men who drove up in the buggy and whom Isham called the "Amelia men," to which they replied that it was not; that they were well acquainted with Charles and Emanuel; that they were darkskinned and that their horse was a cream-colored horse, while the strangers were ginger-cake-colored and drove a horse that was white. On the morning that the boys were taken back to Henrico jail they were again asked if it was possible that these could have been Charles and Emanuel, and they again denied the possibility. These facts are incontrovertible, and it is this knowledge PRICE, FIVE CENTS. which creates the suspicion that perhaps their testimony at the trial was of the same character as they present confession, and thus leaves it to unpleasant speculation whether all of those who have already gone to their deaths were guilty. UNFAIR TO NEGROES It has been extremely unfair to the negroes or this county to publish reports emanating from Richmond of their attitude to this crime. The column article in an afternoon paper last week with relation to the intention of the negroes to meet the bodies of Joe and Isham Taylor with a brass band and to hold a demonstration over their graves was a fabrication pure and simple, without the slightest foundation in fact. In the first place, no such state of affairs as has been pictured exists here. The negroes have been outspoken in their denunciation of the crime, and in many instances their churches and lodges have taken vigorous action with regard to it. Practically all of them condemn the crime and its perpetrators, and certainly have not expressed any dissatisfaction with the results. In the second place, the white citizens of the county are abundantly able to take care of themselves, even against their own strong feelings, and they have absolutely no fear of any conflict. The undesirable notoriety which the county has had thrust upon it is not the result of a general condition, but of an isolated crime, which is condemned by both races, and both are determined that it shall have no repetition. They are not living in a state of armed neutrality, or of mutual suspicion which is liable at any moment to break out into local race war. But for this last confession of these boys, utterly discredited, and for the sensational rumors which come from sources outside of the county, there is nothing to disturb the peacefulness of the county. —Richmond, Va. Times-Dispatch. BRANCH—HATCHETT The marriage of Miss Sarah Hatchett to Mr. Venable Branch took place Wednesday, April 28, 1909 at 2110-106th Street, N. W., Washington, D. C. They are now located at 113 W. Jackson Street, Richmond, Va. Mr. and Mrs. Branch extend many thanks to their friends for the valuable and useful presents received. Notice! To all persons having furniture stored at A. Hayes: All furniture stored at A. Hayes, and storage bill due for six months, will be sold at publice auction unless paid within ten days. I have just completed a storage room at the cost of $1700 for the accommodation of the public. Plenty of room for all desiring storage. A War Journal. Mr. W. D. Selden, the well-known news-dealer has on sale duplicate copies of the Weekly Delta, published at New Orleans, La. February 16, 1861. It contains a report of the Louisiana Convention of Secession and other matters of interest and it will be a source of information to all persons. Call at the Chamber of Commerce Building and get a conv. $100. Endowment Paid Houston, Va. May 11, 1909. This is to certify that I have received from John Mitchell, Jr., Grand Worthy Counsellor of the Grand Court of Virginia, Order of Calanthe, ($100.00) One Hundred Dollars in payment of the death-claim of Sister Sinie Edmondson, who was a member of White Rose Court, No. 118, of Houston, Va. Signed—Henry X Edmundson. Beneficiary. Witnesses: Alice L. C. Ewell, W. C. Mayme Easley, Escort. William Ewell, M. of W. K. of P Fannie L. Coleman, D. D. G. W. C. $150.00 ENDOWMENT PAID Danville, Va., May 8, 1909 This is to certify that I have received from John Mitchell, Jr., Grand Chancellor of the Grand Lodge of Virginia, Knights of Pythias, N. A., S. A., E., A., and A., ($150.00) One Hundred and Fifty Dollars in payment of the death claim of Brother Anthony T. Carter, who was a member of Roman Eagle Lodge, No. 18, of Danville, Va. W. W. DAVIS. J. H. ROBINSON. P POLLY of the CIRCUS BY MARGARET MAYO COPYRIGHT, 1908, BY DODD, MEAD AND COMPANY TWO CHAPTER XI. 'S goin' into de Sunday school room to take off dat 'ere widow's finishin' touches,' sak Mandy as she came down the steps. "All right." called Douglas. "Take these with you. Perhaps they may help." He gathered up the garlands which Polly had left on the ground. His eyes were shining. He looked younger than Mandy had ever seen him. Polly had turned her back at the sound of Mandy's voice and crossed to the elm tree, drying her tears of happiness and trying to control her newly awakened emotions. Douglas felt intuitively that she needed this moment for recovery, so he piled the leaves and garlands high in Mandy's arms, then ran into the house with the light step of a boy. "I got the set—sit—settin' room all tidied up," said Mandy as she shot a silly glance at Polly. "That's good." Polly answered, facing Mandy at last and dimpling and blushing guiltily. "Mos' so sociable folks will mos' likely be hangin' roun' de parsonage tonight, 'stead ob stayin' in de Sunday school room, whar dey belongs. Last time dat 'ere Wildow Willoughby done roun' all ebenin' a-tellin' de parson as how folks could jes' eat off'n her kitchen floor, an' I ups an' tells her as how folks could pick up a good squar' meal off'n Mandy's floor too. Guess she'll be mighty careful what she says afore Mandy tonight." She chuckled as she disappeared down the walk to the Sunday school room. Polly stood motionless where Mandy had left her. She hardly knew which way to turn. She was happy, yet afraid. She felt like sinking upon her knees and begging God to be good to her, to help her. She who had once been so independent, so self reliant, now felt the need of direction from above. She was no longer master of her own soul. Something had gone from her, something that would never, never come again. While she hesitated Hasty came through the gate, looking anxiously over his shoulder. "Well, Hasty?" she said, for it was apparent that Hasty had something important on his mind. "It's de big one from de circus," he whispered excitedly. "The big one?" "You know—de one what brung you." "You don't mean"— Polly's question was answered by Jim himself, who had followed Hasty quickly through the gate. Their arms were instantl. about each other. Jim forgot Hasty and every one in the world except Polly, and neither of them noticed the horrified Miss Perkins and the Widow Willoughby who had been crossing the yard on their way from the Sunday school room with Julia. "You're just as big as ever," said Polly when she could let go of Jim long enough to look at him. "You haven't changed a bit." "You've changed enough for both of us." He looked at the unfamiliar long skirts and the new way of doing her hair. "You're bigger, Poll, more grown-up like." "Oh, Jim!" She glanced admiringly at the new brown suit, the rather startling tie and the neat little posy in Jim's buttonhole. "The fellows said I'd have to slick up a bit if I was a-comin' to see you, so as not to make you ashamed of me. Do you like 'em?' he asked, looking down approvingly at his new brown clothes. "Very much." For the first time Jim noticed the unfamiliar manner of her speech. He began to feel self con- J. "You mean that you ain't never comin back?" POLLY of the CIRCUS sold "You bet!" He looked at her awkwardly. She burried on: "Hasty told me you were showing in Wakefield. I knew you'd come to see me. How's Barker and all the boys?" She stopped with a catch in her throat and added more slowly. "I suppose every thing's different now that Toby is gone." "He'd 'a' liked to seen you afore he cashed in," Jim answered, "but maybe it was just as well he didn't. You'd hardly 'a' knew him toward the last, he got so thin an peeked like. He wasn't the same after we lost you—nobody was, not even Bingo." "Have you still got Bingo?" she asked, through her tears. "Yep, we got him," drawled Jim, "but he ain't" much good no more. None of the other riders can get used to his gait like you is. There ain't nobody with the show what can touch you rldin'; there never will be. Say, mebbe you think Barker won't let out a yell when he sees you comin' back." Jim was jubilant now, and he let out a little yell of his own at the mere thought of her return. He was too excited to notice the look on Polly's face. "Toby had a notion before he died that you was never a-comin' back, but I told him I'd change all that once I seen you, an' when Barker sent me over here today to look arter the advertisin' he said he guessed you had all you wanted o' church folks. 'Jes' you bring her along to Wakefield, he said, 'an' tell her that her place is wait' in for her, 'an' I will too." He turned upon Polly with sudden decision. "Why, I feel jez' like pickin' you up in my arms an' carryin' you right off now." "Walt, Jim!" She put one tiny hand on his arm to restrain him. "I don't mean—not—today—mebbe," he stammered uncertainly, "but we'll be back here a-showin' next month." "Don't look at me now," Polly answered as the doglike eyes searched her face, "because I have to say something that is going to hurt you, Jim." "You're comin', ain't you, Poll?" The big face was wrinkled and carewn with trouble. "No, Jim," she replied in a toue so low that he could scarcely hear her. "You mean that you ain't never comin' back?" He tried to realize what such a decision might mean to him. "No, Jim," she answered tenderly, for she dreaded the pain that she must cause the great, good hearted fellow. "You mustn't care like that," she pleaded, seeing the blank desolation that had come into his face. "It isn't because I don't love you just the same, and it was good of Barker to keep my place for me, but I can't go back." He turned away. She clung to the rough brown sleeve. "Why, Jim, when I lie in my little room up there at night"—she glanced toward the window above them—and everything is peaceful and still I think how it used to be in the old days, the awful noise and the rush of it all, the cheerless wagons, the mob in the tent, the ring with its blazing lights, the whirling round and round on Bingo and the hoops, always the hoops, till my head got dizzy and my eyes all dim, and then the hurry after the show, and the heat and the dust or the mud and the rain, the rumble of the wheels in the plains at night, and the shrieks of the animals, and then the parade, the awful, awful parade, and I riding through the streets in tights, Jim—tights! She covered her face to shut out the memory. "I couldn't go back to it, Jim! I just couldn't!" She turned away, her face still hidden in her hands. He looked at her a long while in silence. "I didn't know how you'd come to feel about it" he said doggedly. "You aren't angry, Jim?" She turned to him anxiously, her eyes pleading for his forgiveness. "Angry?" he echoed, almost bitterly. "I guess it couldn't ever come to that atween you an' me. I'll be all right." He shrugged his great shoulders. "It's just kinder sudden, that's all. You see, I never figured on givin' you up, an' when you said you wasn't comin' back it kinder seemed as though I couldn't see nothin' all my life but long, dusty roads an' nobody in 'em. But it's all right now, an' I'll just be gettin' along to the wagon." "But, Jim, you haven't seen Mr. Douglas," Polly protested, trying to keep him with her until she could think of some way to comfort him. "I'll look in on him comin' back," said Jim, anxious to be alone with his disappointment. He was out of the gate before she could stop him. "Hurry back, won't you, Jim? I'll be waiting for you." She watched him quickly down the road, his fists thrust into his brown coat pockets and his hat pulled over his eyes. He did not look back, as he used to do, to wave a parting farewell, and she turned toward the house with a troubled heart. She had reached the lower step when Strong and Elverson approached her THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA BY MARGARET MAYO COPYRIGHT,1908,BY DODD,MEAD AND COMPANY F. P. "OH, SEE HOW SERIOUS HE LOOKS!" SHE TEASED From the direction of the church. "Was that feller here to take you back to the circus?" demanded Strong. She opened her lips to reply, but before she could speak Strong assured her that the congregation wouldn't do anything to stop her if she wished to go. He saw the blank look on her face. "We ain't tryin' to pry into none of your private affairs," he explained "but my daughter saw you and that there feller a-makin' up to each other. If you're calculatin' to run away with him you'll save a heap of trouble for the parson by doin' it quick." "The parson" "You can't blame the congregation for not wantin' him to keep you here. You got sense enough to see how it looks. He'd see it, too, if he wasn't just plain bullheaded. Well, he'd better get over his stubbornness right "OH, SEE HOW SERIOUS now. If he don't we'll get another minister; that's all." "Another minister? You don't mean." It was clear enough now. She recalled Douglas' troubled look of an hour ago. She remembered how he had asked if she couldn't go away. It was this that he meant when he promised not to give her up, no matter what happened. In an instant she was at the deacon's side pleading and terrified. "You wouldn't get another minister! Oh, please, Deacon Strong, listen to me, listen! You were right about Jim. He did come to get me, and I am going back to the circus—only you won't send Mr. Douglas away, you won't' Say you won't!" She was searching his eyes for mercy. "It wasn't his fault that I kept staying on. He didn't know how to get rid of me. He did try. He tried only today." "So he's comin' round," sneered Strong. "Yes, yes, and you won't blame him any more, will you?" she hurried on anxiously. "You'll let him stay, no matter what he does, if I promise to go away and never, never come back again?" "I can't holdin' no grudge agin him," Strong grumbled. "He talks pretty rough sometimes, but he's been a good enough minister. I ain't forgettin' that." "Oh, thank you, Mr. Strong, thank you. I'll get my things. It won't take a minute." She was running up the steps when a sudden thought stopped her. She returned quickly to Strong. "We'd better not let him know just yet. You can tell him afterward. Tell him that I ran away. Tell him that!" She was interrupted by Douglas, who came from the house. "Hello, Strong! Back again?" he asked, in some surprise. Polly remained with her eyes fixed upon the deacon, searching for some way of escape. The pastor approached. She burst into nervous laughter. "What's the joke?" Douglas asked. "It's only a little surprise that the deacon and I are planning." She tried to control the catch in her voice. "You'll know about it soon, won't he, deacon? Good afternoon, Mr. Strong." She flew into the house, laughing hysterically. Douglas followed her to the steps with a puzzled frown. It was unlike Polly to give way to her moods before A. "You'll save a heap of trouble for the parson by doin' it quick." others. "Have you gentlemen changed your minds about the little girl staying on?" he asked uneasily. "It's all right now," said Strong, seating himself with a complacent air. "All right? How so?" questions. HE LOOKS? SHE TEASED. Douglas, more and more puzzled by the deacon's evident satisfaction. "Because," said Strong, rising and facing the pastor—"because your circus ridin' gal is goin' to leave you of her own accord." "Have you been talking to that girl?" asked Douglas sternly. "I have," said Strong, holding his ground. "See here, deacon, if you've been browbeating that child I may forget that I'm a minister." The knuckles on Douglas' large fists grew whiter. "She's goin', I tell you, and it ain't because of what I said either. She's goin' back to the circus." "I don't believe you." "You would a' believed me if you'd seen the fellow that was just a-callin' on her and her a-huggin' and a-kissin' of him and a-promisin' that she'd be a-waitin' for him here when he come back." "You lie!" cried Douglas, taking a step toward the retreating deacon. "There's the fellow now!" cried Strong as he pointed to the gate. "Suppose you ask him afore you call me a liar." Douglas turned quickly and saw Jim approaching. His face lighted up with relief at the sight of the big, lumbering fellow. "How are you, Mr. Douglas?" said Jim awkwardly. "You've seen Polly?" asked Douglas, shaking Jim cordially by the hand. "Yes, I've seen her." "The deacon here has an idea that Polly is going back to the circus with you." He nodded toward Strong, almost laughing at the surprise in store for him. "Back to the circus?" asked Jim. "Did she say anything to you about it?" He was worried by the bewilderment in Jim's manner. Before Jim could reply Polly, who had reached the steps in time to catch the last few words, slipped quickly between them. She wore her coat and hat and carried a small brown satchel. "Of course I did, didn't I, Jim?" she said, turning her back upon the pastor and motioning to Jim not to answer. Douglas gazed at her in astonishment. "What do you mean?" he asked in a borese, strained voice. He glanced at the coat and hat. "Where are you going?" Polly avoided his eyes and continued nervously to Jim: "What made you come back? Why didn't you wait for me down the street? Now you've spoiled everything." She pretended to be very vexed with him. The big fellow looked puzzled. He tried to protest, but she put a warning finger to her lips and pressed the little brown satchel into his hand. "It's no use," she went on hurriedly. "We might as well tell them everything now." She turned to Douglas and pretended to laugh. "You have found us out." The deacons were slightly uneasy. The frown on Douglas' forehead was deepening. "Oh, see how serious he looks!" she teased, with a toss of her head toward the grim visaged pastor. "Is this some trick?" he demanded sternly. "Don't be angry," she pleaded. "Wish me luck." She held out one small hand. He did not take it. She wavered; then she felt the eyes of the deacons upon her. Courage returned, and she spoke in a firm, clear voice. "I am going to run away." Douglas stepped before her and studied her keenly. "Run away?" he exclaimed incredulously. "Yes—to the circus with Jira." "You couldn't do such a thing," he answered excitedly. "Why, only a moment ago you told me you would never leave me." "Oh, but that was a moment ago," she cried in a strained high voice. "That was before Jim came. You see, I didn't know how I felt until I saw Jim and heard all about my old friends—how Barker is keeping my place for me and how they all want to see me. And I want to see them and to hear the music and the laughter and the clown songs—Oh, the clown songs!" She waltzed about, humming the snatch of melody that Mandy had heard the morning that Polly first woke in the parsonage: Ting, ling— That's how the bells ring. Ting, ling, pretty young thing. She paused, her hands clasped behind her head, and gazed at them with a brave little smile. "Oh, it's going to be fine—fine!" "You don't know what you're doing?" sald Douglas. He seized her roughly by the arm. Pain was making him brutal. "I won't let you go! Do you hear me? I won't—not until you've thought it over." "I have thought it over." Polly answered, meeting his eyes and trying to speak lightly. Her lips trembled. She could not bear for him to think her so ungrateful. She remembered his great kindness, the many thoughtful acts that had made the past year so precious to her "You've been awfully good to me, Mr. John." She tried to choke back a sob. "I'll never forget it—never! I'll always feel the same toward you. But you mustn't ask me to stay. I want to get back to them that knew me first—to my own. Circus folks aren't cut out for parsons' homes, and I was born in the circus. I love it—I love it!" She felt her strength going and cried out wildly: "I want Bingo! I want to go round and round the ring! I want the lights and the music and the hoops! I want the shrieks of the animals and the rumble of the wheels in the plains at night! I want to ride in the big parade! I want to live and die—just die—as circus folks die! I want to go back! I want to go back!" She put out one trembling hand to Jim and rushed quickly through the gate, laughing and sobbing hysterically and calling to him to follow. CHAPTER XII. ONELY days followed Polly's desertion of the parascone. Mandy went about her duties very quietly, feeling that the little comments which once amused the pastor had now become an interruption to thoughts in which she had no part. He would st for hours with his head in his hands, taking no notice of what passed before him. She tried to think of new dishes to tempt his appetite and shook her head sadly as she bore the untasted food back to the kitchen. She sometimes found a portfolio of drawings lying open upon his study table. She remembered the zeal with which he had planned to remodel the church and parsonage when he first came to them, how his enthusiasm had gradually dled for lack of encouragement and how he had at last put his books in a cupboard, where they grew dusty from long neglect. She marveled at their reappearance now, but something in his set, faraway look made her afraid to inquire. Thus she went on from day to day, growing more impatient with Hasty and more silent with the pastor. Mandy needed humor and companionship to oil the wheels of her humdrum life. There was no more laughter in the house, and she began to droop. Polly had been away from the parsonage a month when the complacency of the village was again upset by the arrival of the "Great American Circus." gladly 'hare reinstated the pastor as their idol, for, like all truly feminine souls, they could not bear to see a man unhappy without wishing to comfort him, nor happy unless they were the direct cause of his state. "How dare any man be happy without me" has been the cry of each woman since Eve was created to mate with Adam. Douglas had held himself more and more aloof from the day of Polly's disappearance. He expressed no opinion about the deacons or their recent disapproval of him. He avoided meeting them offender than duty required, and Strong felt no uncomfortable and tongue tied in his presence that he, too, was glad to make their talks as few as possible. Nothing was said about the pastor's plans for the future or about his continued connection with the church, and the inquisitive sisterhood was on the point of exploding from an overaccumulation of unanswered questions. He delivered his sermons conscientiously, called upon his poor, listened to the sorrows, real and fancied, of his parishioners and shut himself up with his books or walked alone on the hill behind the church. He had been absent all day when Mandy looked out on the circus lot for the dozenth time and saw that the afternoon performance was closing. It had driven her to desperation to learn that Miss Polly was not in the parade that morning and to know that the pastor had made no effort to find out about her. For weeks both she and Hasty had hoped that the return of the circus might bring Polly back to them, but now it was nearly night and there had been no word from her. Why didn't she come running in to see them, as Mandy had felt so sure she would? Why had the pastor stayed away on the hills all day? Unanswered questions were always an abominadon to Mandy, so finally she drew a quarter from the knotted gingham rag that held her small wad of savings and told Hasty to "go long to de show an" find out "bout Miss Polly." She was anxiously waiting for him when Deacon Strong knocked at the S. S. door for the second time that afternoon. "Is Mr. Douglas back yet?" he asked. "No, sah, he ain't," said Mandy very shortly. She felt that Strong and Elverson had been "a-tryin' to spy on de parson all day," and she resented their visits more than she usually did. "What time are you expectin' him?" "I don't nebber spec' Massa Douglas till I sees him." Strong grunted uncivilly and went down the steps. She saw from the window that he met Elverson in front of the church. "Dey sure am a-meanin' trouble," she mumbled. The band had stopped playing; the last of the audience had straggled down the street. She opened the door and stood on the porch; the house seemed to suffocate her. What was keeping Hasty? ought to have tempotioned for Hasty on the table and the dishes. Hasty sided and peeped out at a red fire. When Douglas did ence of his two "touched with momme" "Have you had a new gravel walk?" remembering that he a fresh path to the room. "Jes' yo' come eaty called to Douglas your head 'bout day mine. He ain't got to hurt hiself." He had been tempted to know how Hasty his cus and seen nothing. He came at last, but Mandy could tell from his gait that he brought un-welcome knews. "Ain't she dar?" "She's a-trabbellin' wid 'em, Mandy, but she didn't done ride." "See heah, Hasty Jones, is dat ere chile sick?" "I don' rightly know," said Hasty. "A great big man, what wored clothes like a gemmen, comed out wid a whip in his hand an' says as how he' 'bilged to 'nounce aduder gal in Miss Polly's place. An' den he says as how de udder gal was jes' as good, 'an' den ever'body look disappointed like, an' den out comes de udder gal on a hoss "Ain't she dar?" an' do tricks, an' I ain't heard no more 'bout Miss Polly." "She's sick, dat's what I says." Mandy declared excitedly, "an' somebody's got to do somethin'." "I done all I knowed," drawled Hasty, fearing that Mandy was regretting her twenty-five cent investment. "Go 'long out an' da up dat 'ere kitchen fire," was Mandy's impatient reply. "I got to keep dem vittels warm for Massa John." She wished to be alone, so that she could think of some way to get hold of Polly. "Dat baby faced mornin' glory done got Mandy all wobbly 'bout de heart," she declared to herself as she crossed to the window for a sight of the pastor. It was nearly dark when she saw him coming slowly down the path from the hill. She lighted the study "She's sick, dat's what I says." lamp, rearranged the cushions and tried to make the room look cheery for his entrance. "I's fraid yo's mighty tired," she said. "Oh, no," answered Douglas absently. "Mebbe yo'd like Mandy to be savin' your supper in here tonight. It's more cheerful." He crossed to the window and looked out upon the circus lot. The flare of the torches and the red fire came up to meet his pale, tense face. "How like the picture of thirteen months ago!" he thought, and old Toby's words came back to him. "The show has got to go on." He longed to have done with dreams and speculation, to feel something tangible, warm and real within his grasp. "I can't go on like this!" he cried. "I can't!" He turned from the window and walked hurriedly up and down the room. Indoors or out, he found no rest. He threw himself in the armchair near the table and sat buried in thought. Mandy came softly into the room. She was followed by Hasty, who carried a tray laden with things that U ought to have tempted any man. She motioned for Hasty to put the tray on the table and then began arranging the dishes. Hasty stole to the window and peeped out at the tempting flare of red fire. When Douglas discovered the presence of his two "faithfuls" he was touched with momentary contrition. "Have you had a hard day with the new gravel walk?" he asked Hasty, remembering that he had been laying a fresh path to the Sunday school room. "Jes' yo' come eat yo' supper," Mandy called to Douglas. "Don'y wo' worry your head 'bout dat lazy husband' ob mine. He ain't goin' tler work 'nork to hurt hiself." For an instant she had been tempted to let the pastor know how Hasty had gone to the circus and seen nothing of Polly, but her motherly instinct won the day, and she urged him to eat before disturbing him with her own anxieties. It was no use. He only toyed with his food; he was clearly ill at ease and eager to be alone. She gave up trying to tempt his appetite and began to lead up in a roundabout way to the things which she wished to ask. "Dar's quite some racket out dar in de let tonight," she said. Douglas did not answer. After a moment she went on, "Hasty didn't work on no walk today." Douglas looked at her quizzically, while Hasty, convinced that for reasons of her own she was going to get him into trouble, was making frantic motions. "He done tiger de SATURDAY.....MAY 15, 1909. circus," she blurted out. Douglas' face became suddenly grave. Mandy saw that she had touched an open wound. "I jees' couldn't stan' it, Massa John. I had terd find out' bout dat angel chile." There was a pause. She felt that he was waiting for her to go on. "She didn't done ride today." He looked up with the eyes of a dumb, persecuted animal. "And de gemmen in de show didn't tell nobody why-jees' spoken 'bout de udder gal takin' her place." "Why didn't she ride?" cried Douglas, in an agony of suspense. "Dat's what I don't know, sah." Mandy began to cry. It was the first time in his experience that Douglas had ever known her to give way to any such weakness. Hasty came down from the window and tried to put one arm about Mandy's shoulders. "Leab me alone, yo' nigger!" she explained, trying to cover her tears with a show of anger that she did not feel; then she rushed from the room, followed by Hasty. The band was playing loudly. The din of the night performance was increasing. Douglas' nerves were strained to the point of breaking. He would not let himself go near the window. He stood by the side of the table, his fists clinched, and tried to beat back the impulse that was pulling him toward the door. Again and again he set his teeth. It was uncertainty that gnawed at him so. Was she ill? Could she need him? Was she sorry for having left him? Would she be glad if he went for her and brought her back with him? He recalled the hysterical note in her behavior the day that she went away—how she had pleaded, only a few moments before Jim came, never to be separated from him. Had she really cared for Jim and for the old life? Why had she never written? Was she ashamed? Was she sorry for what she had done? What could it mean? He threw his hands above his head with a gesture of despair. A moment later he passed out into the night. CHAPTER XIII JIM was slow tonight. The big show was nearly over, yet many of the props used in the early part of the bill were still unloaded. He was tinkering absentmindedly with one of the wagons in the back lot, and the men were standing about idly waiting for orders when Barker came out of the main tent and called to him sharply: "Hey, there, Jim! What's your excuse tonight?" "Excuse for what?" Jim crossed slowly to Barker. "The cook tent was started half an hour late, and the sideshow top ain't loaded yet." "Your wagons is on the bum; that's what! No. 38 carries the cook tent an' the blacksmith has been tinkerin' with it all day. Ask him what shape it's in." "You're always stallin'," was Barker's sullen complaint. "It's the weapons or the blacksmiths or anything but the truth. I know what's the matter, all right." "What do you mean by that?" asked Jim sharply. "I mean that all your time's took up a-carryh' and a-fetchin' for that girl what calls .ou 'Muvver Jim.'" "What have you got to say about her?" Jim eyed him with a threatening look. "I got a-plenty," said Barker as he turned to snap his whip at the small boys who had stolen into the back lot to peek under the rear edge of the big top. "She been about as much good as a sick cat since she come back. You saw her act last night." "Yes," answered Jim doggedly. "Give her a little time," Jim pleaded. "She ain't rode for a year." "Time!" shouted Barker. "How much does she want? She's been back a month, and instead of bracin' up she's a-gettin' worse. There's only one thing for me to do." "What's that?" asked Jim uneasily. "I'm goin' to call her, and call her hard." "Look here, Barker," and Jim squared his shoulders as he looked steadily at the other man, "you're boss here, and I takes orders from you, but if I catches you abusin' Poll your bein' boss won't make no difference." "You can't bluff me!" shouted Barker. "I ain't bluffin', I'm only tellin' you," said Jim very quietly. "Well, you tell her to get on to her job. If she don't, she quits; that's all." He hurried into the ring. Jim took one step to follow him, then stopped and gazed at the ground with thoughtful eyes. He, too, had seen the change in Polly. He had tried to rouse her. It was no use. She had looked at him blankly. "If she would only complain," he said to himself; "if she would only get mad, anything to wake her." But, she did not complain. She went through her daily routine very humbly and quietly. She sometimes wondered how Jim could talk so much about her work, but before she could answer the question her mind drifted back to other days, to a garden and flowers, and Jim stole away unmissed and left her with folded hand and wide, staring eyes, gazing into the distance. The memory of these times made Jim helpless tonight. He had gone on hoping from day to day that Barker might not notice the "let down" in her S. "Star gazin', Pollf" he asked. Work, and now the blow had fallen. How could he tell her? One of the acts came tumbling out of the main tent. There was a moment's confusion as clowns, acrobats and animals passed each other on their way to and from the ring; then the lot cleared again, and Polly came slowly from the dressing tent. She looked very different from the little girl whom Jim 'ad led away from the parson's garden in a simple white frock one month before. Her thim, pensive face contrasted oddly with her glittering attire. Her hair was knotted high on her head and intertwined with flowers and jewels. Her slender neck seemed scarcely able to support its burden. Her short, full skirt and low bodice were ablaze with white and colored stones. "What's on, Jim?" she asked. "The 'leap o' death.' You got plenty of time." Polly's mind went back to the girl who answered that call a year ago. Her spirit seemed very near tonight. The band stopped playing. Barker made his grandloquent announcement about the wonderful act about to be seen, and her eyes wandered to the distant church steeple. The moonlight seemed to shun it tonight. It looked cold and grim and dark. She wondered whether the solemn bell that once called its flock to worship had become as mute as her own dead heart. She did not hear the whir of the great machine inside the tent as it plunged through space with its girl occupant. These things were a part of the daily routine, part of the strange, vague dream through which she must stumble for the rest of her life. Jim watched her in silence. Her face was turned from him. She had forgotten his presence. "Star gazin', Poll?" he asked at length, dreading to disturb her reverie. "I guess I was, Jim." She turned to him with a little, forced smile. He longed to save her from Barker's threatened rebuke. "How you feelin' tonight?" "I'm all right," she answered cheerfully. "Anything you want?" "Want?" She turned upon him with startled eyes. There was so much that she wanted that the mere mention of the word had opened a well of pain in her heart. "I mean can I do anything for you?" "Oh, of course not." She remembered how little any one could do. "What is it, Poll?" he begged, but she only turned away and shook her head with a sigh. He followed her with anxious eyes. "What made you cut out the show today? Was it because you didn't want to ride afore folks what knew you—ride afore him mebbe?" "Him?" Her face was white. Jim reared she might swoon. "You don't mean that he was"— "Oh, no," he answered quickly, "of course not. Parsons don't come to places like this one. I was only figurein' that you didn't want other folks to see an' to tell him how you was ridin'." She did not answer. "Was that it. Poll?" he urged. "I don't know." She stared into space. "Was it?" "I guess it was," she said after a long time. "I knowed it!" he cried. "I was a fool to 'a' brung you back! You don't belong with us no more." "Oh, don't, Jim! Don't! Don't make me feel I'm in the way here too!" "Here too?" He looked at her in astonishment. "You wasn't in his way, was you, Poll?" "Yes, Jim." She saw his look of unbelief and continued hurriedly: "Oh, I tried not to be! I tried so hard. He used to read me verses out of a Bible about my way being his way and my people his people, but it isn't so, Jim. Your way is the way you are born, and your people are the people you are born with, and you can't change it, Jim, no matter how hard you try." "You was changin' it," he answered savagely. "You was gettin' jes' like them people. It was me what took you away an' spolled it all. You oughtn't to 'a come. What made you after you said you wouldn't?" She did not answer. Strange things were going through the mind of the slow witted Jim. He braced himself for a difficult question. "Will you answer me somethin' straight?" he asked. "Why, of course," she said as she met his gaze. "Do you love the parson, Poll?" She started. "Is that it?" Her Hds fluttered and closed; she caught her breath quickly, her lips apart, then looked far into the distance. "Yes, Jim, I'm afraid that's it." The little figure drooped, and she stood before him with lowered eyes, unarmed. Jim looked at her helplessly, then shook his big, stupid head. "Ain't that h-1?" It seemed such a short time to Jim since he had picked her up, a cooling THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA habe, at her dead mother's side. He watched the tender, averted face. Things had turned out so differently from what he had planned. "An' he don't care about you—like that?" he asked after a pause. "No, not in that way." She was anxious to defend the pastor from even the thought of such a thing. "He was good and kind always, but he didn't care that way. He's not like that." "I guess I'll have a talk with him," sold him, and returned to "Talk!" she cried. He stopped and looked at her in astonishment. It was the first time that he had ever heard that sharp note in her voice. Her tiny figure was stiffened with decision. Her eyes were blazing. "If you ever dare to speak to him—about me, you'll never see me again." Jim was perplexed. "I mean it. Jim. I've made my choice, and I've come back to you. If you ever try to fix up things between him and me, I'll run away—really and truly away—and you'll never, never get me back." He shuffled awkwardly to her side and reached apologetically for the little clinched fist. He held it in his big rough hand, toying nervously with the tiny fingers. "I wouldn't do nothin' that you wasn't a-wantin'. Poll. I was just a-tryin' to help you, only I—I never seem to know how." She turned to him with tear dimmed eyes and rested her hands on his great, broad shoulders, and he saw the place where he dwelt in her heart. (To Be Continued.) Tom Reed's Insinuation. Once when Thomas B. Reed was with the late Senator Wolcott of Colorado and Joseph Choate, Mr. Choate, when asked to take a drink, said that he never drank, never smoked to excess, and never gambled in his life. Wolcott, who was a sinner in every one of these lines, looked pathetically at Reed and said: "I wish I could say that." "Say it," said Reed; "Choate did." As nearly as can be ascertained, the wealthy persons of New York city receive 35,000 begging letters a day from strangers, and the writers stand a better chance of finding money than in getting from them, for even the most liberal of philanthropists do not dispense their charity excepting according to careful plans and after investigation. Wasteful Philanthropy "Buddle thinks he's done something awfully funny and smart," said his mother, "but he hasn't." Look here! He's taken all the buttons I had in my work basket, wrapped them up in paper and thrown them down to the little Dutch band in the court to make them think they were pennies. It makes me tired. There were about a dollar's worth of buttons there." Thoughtful Child They are considerate youngsters in England, as most people know. A little boy whose grandmother had just died wrote the following letter, which he duly posted: "Dear Angels: We have sent you grandma. Please give her a harp to play, as she is short-winded and can't blow a trumpet."—London Tit-Bits. His Occupation: A big, brawny fellow, in answer to a question in a justice court as to what he did for a living, said: 'Well, sir, in the spring I ketches an sells young mockin' birds; in the summer I mostly sells rattlesnake buttons for rattles for the babies, but in the winter I sometimes has to chop wood.' Junk Exidently Built to Last Although 110 years old, the Whangho, a Chinese junk, has since April, 1906, twice crossed the Pacific ocean. The ship is but 121 feet long and is the first vessel of this size to accomplish the feat. Its three masts are made of Formosan mahogany. To Save Time A small machine glass with markings indicating different numbers of drops will be found a great saving of time to every mother, while the accuracy of measurements by means of it is well worth taking into consideration Invention of Porcelain At a display of porcelain in China an exhibitor said that Chinese literature ascribes the invention of porcelain to a period some 25 centures before Christ. Foreign experts are by no means certain that the art existed before the seventh century of this era. How Lorella Was Interested While the visitor told how he had ridden 30 thrilling miles on the cowcatcher of a locomotive, five-year-old Lorella listened attentively. As he concluded, she asked: "Did you catch the cow, Mr. Blank?" American Burial Caskets in Demand. American burial caskets in considerable numbers are now exported to various foreign countries, including the West Indies and South America, and England, South Africa, and Australia. Kites for Locusts The Molteno (Cape Colony) farmers have hit upon a novel plan for dealing with locusts. A farmer has imported some eagle kites for the purpose of scaring locusts from the crops. Useful Home Remedy "A Turkish bath is such an excellent thing," remarked Miss Tartun, "that I have often wished these Turks who sell candies at expositions would take one occasionally." The Last Straw. "I am entirely friendless," remarked the man of gloom. "Why, do you know, to-day I bowed to the inevitable, and—it cut me!" Time's Changes in Venezuela. Venezuela received its musical name from the early Spanish residents, who saw a resemblance to Venice in the sites of the inland cities. The llanos, or bleak plains, on which the llaneros live a precarious life, have largely changed their character since Humboldt saw them. Then these great plains of grass supported innumerable herds of cattle; but civil war led to the destruction of the beasts to feed the insurgents. The llanos are now rapidly becoming a potential source of timber. Best Medicine Is Sleep The best nerve food in the world is sleep. Good, sound, refreshing sleep will do more to replenish the nerve centers and build up a fagged brain than anything that can be devised. Nervous people ought to cultivate the practice of sleeping after dinner. A short nap after the noon meal will strengthen the nerves, and make it much more liable that the rest of the day will be spent in some sort of comfort. Efright Results In Paralysis An engineer at a paper works at Essonne, France, recently pushed another employee into a big dye tub for a joke. When the victim had changed his clothes he returned to the works, and, seizing the engineer, made as though to drop him over the parapet on the second floor. The engineer was so frightened that paralysis ensued, the whole of his right side being seized. His condition is very grave. And the Others? The other-people's business man persisted in trying to extract information from a prosperous looking elderly man next to him in the Pullman smoker. "How many people work in your office? he asked. "Oh," said the elderly man, getting up and throwing away his cigar, "I should say, at a rough guess, about two-thirds of them." The earliest direct mention of playing cards discovered so far is in the "History of the City of Viterbo." The author quotes Covelluzzo, who wrote about the end of the fifteenth century as follows: "In the year 1379 was brought into Viterbo the game of cards, which comes from the country of the Saracens and is with them called naal." A. Cross-Exed Hit "That handsome cross-eyed boy makes a great hit when he gives a recitation," whispered one whose eyes are straight. "He seems to be so impartial. They think he is looking at them all at one and the same time when the fact of the matter is that he can't look a single one of them straight in the face." Best for Our Intelligence Ignorance, considered alone and aside from truth with which it is so sweetly harmonious, is rest for our intelligence; it makes us forget our past evils, dissimulates the present ones; in fine, it is a boon, since it comes to us from nature.—Barnardin de Saint-Pierre. The Wife's Tribute "Your husband wor a good man," declared the sympathetic Mrs. Cassey to the bereaved widow. "He wor!" exclaimed Mrs. Murphy, dashing the tears from her eyes. "No two policemen cud handle him."-Tit-Bits. A man must have a great deal of vanity who believes, and a good deal of boldness who affirms, that all the doctrines he holds are true, and all he rejects are false.—Benjamin Franklin. More Than Figurative "Alas," sighed Weary Wiggles, gazing defectedly upon his torn and tattered trousers, "I'm afraid these here pants is on their last legs!"—Lippincott's. Notice! A London man attempted to prevent an angry husband from abusing his wife, whereupon the wife shot and killed the good Samaritan. Universal Patent Costly To secure a patent in each of the 64 countries issuing them would cost an inventor $15,000, exclusive of the attorneys' fees. Thoughtful Walter Walter—"Be careful of the soup, gentlemen. It is so hot that it has scalded both my thumbs."—Meggendorfer Blatter. Mission of Successful Man Not to outshine, but to shine upon his neighbors, is the man's mision mission. Sometimes the Less, the Better. We have noticed that anybody who can sing can play the plano a little.— Atchison Globe. Make It Effective Markham: We have committed the golden rule to memory; now let us commit it to life. No Chance for Argument No man dares dispute that a married woman is a slave. His wife won't let him.—Brooklyn Standard-Union. Before All Things, Humility. Humility is the A, B, C of spiritual life.—St. Vincent. If We But Know How Whatever happens to anybody, it may be turned to beautiful results.—Walt Whitman Prevalence of English Language. Two-thirds of all the letters which pass through the post offices of the world are written in English. The Japanese Baby. The first name is given to him with great ceremony when he is a month old; at 15 he is considered grown up, assumes the responsibility of a man and takes a new name. Entering upon public duties he takes another name, which is changed with every step in life; if his superior officer has the same name he happens to have at that time he must change it again; he must also change it when he marries, and when he dies it is changed for the last time and inscribed upon his tomb. —Home Notes. Action of the Magnetic Needle The magnetic needle comes to rest pointing north and south because the earth acts as if it were a great magnet. A compass needle would come to rest pointing lengthwise of a bar magnet placed under the compass needle, just as it does under the influence of the earth. For this reason we think of the earth as a great magnet. The north pole and the north star have no influence over the compass needle. Idleness. It is no more possible for an idle man to keep together a certain stock of knowledge than it is possible to keep together a stock of ice exposed to the meridian sun. Every day destroys a fact, a relation, or an influence; and the only method of preserving the bulk and value of the pile is by constantly adding to it.-Sidney Smith. Bores. An article in the London Spectator on "Bores" has called forth the following definition of a bore which was given by the late Bishop Mackarness of Oxford: "A bore is a man who will talk about himself when you want to talk about yourself." Sydney Smith is said to be responsible for the original definition. International Inquisitiveness We are all engaged in an effort to learn more about the rest of the world. The Germans are curious about the French, the French are trying to understand the British, the Americans are striving to find out wherein we differ from Europeans in general.—Saturday Evening Post. He Wanted Some. The banquet table was spread and the guests about to be summoned. "Are you sure that there are no reporters present?" anxiously asked the host of the butler. "I've made certain of it, sir." "Then hustle out and get a few," rejoined the host. To the Grave and Beyond Kim Yunwka, a Chinaman, was recently made the subject of a strange jail sentence. After being condemned for life by a Chinese court he escaped and when captured he was tried by another court and a further term of punishment was given him. One Worthy Remembrance The brightest spot in a long and intimate experience with the telephone is that once some one called up the wrong number and got us by mistake and didn't blame us for it.—Ohio State Journal. Consider the Difference Statisticians inform us that the cost of living has increased 250 per cent. during the last 100 years. Still, it will have to be admitted that living is worth a good deal more than it was 100 years ago. Extreme Carefulness "Ribson is the most careful man I ever met." "Indeed!" "Yes. The evening he was married he requested his best man to carry the ring, and then asked him for a receipt for it." Jimmy's Grievance After Jimmy had attended school a few days he begged to stay at home. "Because," said he, "teacher says we mustn't talk and I'm so tired of whispering!" Mixed Population The most mixed population in the world is probably that of British Guiana. There is admixture of French, Dutch, Spanish, British, coolie and Indian blood. A Sign. When people begin to take the trouble to tell other people that the value of your work is overestimated it is a sign that you are succeeding. Safety in Eminence. "Even in case of an accident," says the Philosopher of Folly, "the man who has climbed the highest is bound to fall on top of the heap." His Hard Position Gyer—"There goes a man the weather seldom agrees with." Myer—"So? Who is he?" Gyer—"He's a government weather forecaster." Costly Incense Sticks Some of the incense sticks made in Thibet cost from one to two dollars apiece. Beauty. If actresses were always as pretty as their pictures no girl could get married without going on the stage. C. & O. 9:00 A. { Fast daily trains to Old Point, | 4:00 P. { Newport News and Norfolk. 7:40 A. { Daily. Local to Newport News. 5:00 P. { Daily. Local to Old Point. 2:00 P. { Daily. Louisville, Cincinnati, Chic- 11:00 P. { go and St. Louis Pulmana. 8:50 A. { Daily. Chvite, exe. Sum. C. Forge. 5:15 P. { Week days. 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COMMUNICATIONS.—When writing to us to renew your subscription or to discontinue your you should give your name and address in full. Otherwise we cannot find your name on our books. 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 second class matter. SATURDAY.....MAY 15, 1909. THE POWHATAN TRAGEDY "Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge, the wing wherewith we fly to Heaven."—Shakespeare. Five colored men of Powhatan County have been killed for the murder of Mr. Johnson and Mrs. Skipwith the white residents of that same county. It seems now though that a reaction has set in and that the better class of white people of that locality who consider all matters in a conservative manner and who weigh facts before expressing a final opinion, are now being heard from. All five of these men went to the electric chair protesting their innocence of the crime of which they were convicted and the white people referred to are now wondering if in the excitement, the "hot-heads" did not over-do this thing. We thought so at the time. It is inconceivable to our minds that any body of colored people could organize a conspiracy against any white man and against a defenseless white woman, butcher both of them for the few old household effects that were found scattered around among the cabins of the colored people in that locality. We are publishing a statement from an impartial white correspondent of the Richmond, Va. Times-Dispatch, which bears out this view of the case. We have found the most essential feature in the case lacking and that is the one of motive. When a crime is committed, unless it is the work of a crazy man, it must be inspired by some motive. The colored people of this State looked on in amazement. They trusted the white people of Powhatan county to do justice and they could not offer any objections for the very good reason that their motives would have been misconstrued and it would have been openly charged that they were lending aid and comfort to Negro murderers, when they had no desire to do either. If guilty, a Negro jury would have sent these people to the electric chair just as soon as a white jury would have done so. The aim and purpose of every law-abiding colored person in this State is to have the white people understand that they do not favor lawlessness and that they are endeavoring to prove themselves worthy of the citizenship which they now enjoy. Colored people are in a large measure helpless. They now look no further than the capital at Richmond. The claims of the nationalists have no attraction for them. They are here for "weal or woe" with the white people, male and female with whom they have lived during all of these years. They would not leave as a mass if they could and they could not if they would. Here are all of their belongings and here are the graves of their fathers and forefathers. To remove to another clime even where financial conditions are better is to invite other troubles and other embarrassments. These considerations are impressive "And makes us rather bear the ills we have. Than to fly to others that we know not of." It was then with satisfaction that we noted the turn in the "tide of sentiment," white people speaking up for the good colored people with whom they had associated during a life-time. It is realized too that these reports about Powhatan county had portrayed a condition that would injure the financial progress of that section very materially, whether true or untrue. One thing we know is that the attorneys for the prosecution were so able and skilled in the law that they could have secured the conviction of an innocent colored man, as much so as a guilty one, simply by magnifying unimportant details and minimizing important ones. We have had the pleasure or the displeasure of listening to the arguments of both of the distinguished attorneys and we know whereof we speak. To have forced these people into a trial with charity counsel against such a legal array as the prosecution produced could be little less than a butchery. It was simply an act of complying with the law. If these people were guilty, all of this was unnecessary, when it is remembered that the jury was necessarily hostile to the prisoners and even the colored people were shocked by the enormity of the crime. The secret of the whole affair rested with those blackened bones of the two dead white people. It was necessary for the side of the defense to be able to demand that the state prove beyond the shadow of a reasonable doubt, from the testimony of reputable witnesses that a crime had been committed. But these people, charged with the crime are dead now and both white and colored people breathe freer. The former because they believe that the fiends who committed the murder are out of the way and the latter because they hope that the wrath of the former is appeased and that they will not be held responsible for this outburst of alleged brutal passion on the part of a few members of the colored race. Still there is food for reflection for white people and colored ones. On the other side of the river, in the Great Beyond, before the Judge on the Great White Throne, this mystery will be explained and the secret of this whole affair explained to a listening world. Whether Isham Taylor and all of his associates went to their doom with falsehoods upon their lips is the question. It seems that there are some white folks, who have their doubts about it. As to the opinions of the colored folks, it matters little. It will not influence the white folks, who believed the men guilty. All we can say is that the presumption must be that they are guilty, just as before the conviction the presumptions should have been that they all were innocent. They have given up all that they could yield to the decrees of the law. Their penalty has been paid and the public should be satisfied. It will not do to discuss the matter in an argumentative way with white people who differ. Let white folks discuss it and draw their own conclusions. It is enough to say that we have already been injured by the undue publicity given to an affair that from start to finish was purely local. It carried with it no sinister meaning. The relationship between the better class of white people and the better class of colored ones was never more friendly, and despite assertions and inuendoes to the contrary, a conspiracy to murder white people by colored ones and vice-versa exists only in the imaginations of those prejudiced people who see in such an agitation some hope of financial or political gain. On the other hand, a contented yeomany is the foundation of material prosperity and financial success. It tends to bring tranquility to business and multiply the products from the farms and gardens of the commonwealth as well as the out-put from the mineral beds of the Old Dominion. These things form the basis of the financial prosperity for the State and the citizen is blind indeed who fails to realize the importance and the sound sense of our contention. Relative to this Powhatan case, the chapter is closed. All of our argument cannot undo the injury that has already been inflicted or bring back to animation the lifeless forms that now are silent in death. Let us look to the future and hope that the reckless criminal elements among our people may take warning and reform and that we shall not have the occasion to witness such evidences of depravity in the courts of this commonwealth again. "It must be so—Plato, thou reasonest well— Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire. Hase whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality? Or whence this secret dread and in- THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA Of falling into naught? Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction? 'Tis the Divinity that stirs within us, 'Tis Heaven itself that points out an hereafter And intimates eternity to man." —Addison. WHAT WOMAN WOULD DARE To tell the year she came out before condescending debutantes. To speak her mind to the cook every time the inclination or provocation seizes her. To throw a ball with herself as wager against a crooked line; to bank on her bank balance being O. K. To be frank to guests in her own home. The law of hospitality is responsible for a chastening self-restraint at times. To give her real opinion of some of "the little ways" of her best young man. Love is not blind so much as it wears blinders knowingly. To confess she is not wild about bables. If she hasn't them, the world crises "Sour grapes;" if she has, "Unnatural, heartless wretch." To let the world see her as she really is when off guard; even the "perfectly natural" girl has artifices, though she may not suspect it herself. To drop things every time domesticity bored. Few men realize that happy homes are dependent on woman's capacity to endure the daily grind and monotony. To openly defy Fashion. Most women could more quickly scare up courage to face a mouse under the bed than to wear a five-yard plaited skirt and big-puffed elbow sleeves in this day. To impart to a doting mother what you could cheerfully do to her spoiled darling; to hit out from the shoulder when her dearest man friend expects her to rave over his fiancée; to give her real views to the ultra orthodox. PHILOSOPHICAL Salad days are those in which the long green is plenty. Falling in love at first sight is all right if you are insured against the consequences of the second. The chief trouble with the average alarm clock seems to be that after the first fright the alarm wears off. If there is anything the world hates more than a quitter it is the man who refuses to quit when he is through. If it be true that the devil sends the cooks we should rejoice that he is at last engaged in so useful an occupation. As a rule the young person who is conspicuously lavish with his dough will be found on investigation to be half-baked. Women are never selfish in the matter of secrets. There are very few who will not share their last one with you if you will give them a chance. In these days of frequent divorce and legalized polygamy a child utterly without ancestors may still have forefathers—nay, even five. It is curious how easily a woman can be deceived by a foreign suitor making his appeal through a coronet, when she would instantly spot a fellow American who was talking through his hat.—Lipindcott's. SAYS THE CYNIC Push and pull are a hard pair to beat. It's easy enough to see the silver lining to other people's clouds. Few men are ever in such a hurry that they can't stop to tell their troubles. Fewer flowers to the dead and a little more charity to the living would help some. The social climber is anxious to go to heaven because that is where all the best people go. The pessimist doesn't worry about the uncertainties of life. He expects the worst anyhow. Many a man has been wrecked on the rock of adversity, but there has generally been a little rye on the side. The law considers a man innocent until he is proved guilty, consequently a criminal is a man who is found out. If a woman is only sure her hat is on straight and her skirt hangs right, she feels that she is equipped to conquer worlds. CHIRPS OF A CHERUB. Bungling sympathy is worse than positive abuse. Never judge a widow by the length of her crepe veil. A self-made man always worships his maker—himself. Don't always follow your mother's example when you fall in love. Don't think you know it all. There are lots of people who could make you resemble a stale bargain counter after a rush.—Kate Thyson Marr, in Sunday Magazine. LIFE SENTENCE FOR KIDNAPPER Boyle's Wife Gets 25 Years and $5000 Fine. MAKE SENSATIONAL CHARGES Boyle Accuses Harry Forker, Mrs. Whitla's Brother, of Murder, and Says He Suggested the Kidnapping to Pay Blackmail—Declares Whitla Offered Him Protection If He Shielded Forker. Locked and bolted in separate cells, the man to spend his life within the bleak and grim walls of the western penitentiary in Pittsburg, the woman to remain at least for a period of fifteen years and perhaps a quarter of a century. Mr. and Mrs. James P. Boyle, kidnappers of "Willie" Whitla, began to suffer the maximum punishment possible to impose for their of fense. Boyle's only hope of freedom lies in the remote possibility of a pardon. Mrs. Boyle, convicted as "Mary Doe," the name given by the law to designate "an unidentified person," was sentenced to serve twenty-five years and to pay a fine of $5000 and the costs of prosecution. But since it has been customary to "forget" the fines and costs imposed upon a statisticor, it is assumed that these penalties will be waived and that the woman, should she earn a legal reduction of her sentence, will be released after fifteen years. Sensations followed each other thick and fast. The severity of the sentence appalled Mercer, where it was pronounced, and surprised many elsewhere, who had not anticholated the extreme limit of the law. Then came the sensational scene in the courtroom, when both prisoners collapsed and had to be carried from the room. Hardly had they reached their cells when the word was given out that the woman had taken poison during the night before and had narrowly escaped death at her own hand, and that a razor had been found concealed in Boyle's clothing. Before this thrill had lost its force, Boyle gave out his statement, implicating Harry Forker, brother of Mrs. Whitlin, in the kidnapping case. In Mercer and Sharon the story does not seem to be generally credited, and as the district attorney has no faith in it there is little likelihood of any formal action in the matter. In his statement Boyle accuses Forker of killing a man at Youngstown, Ohio, years ago, and claims to have levied blackmail on him to keep his secret. He further says that while he and his wife were in Sharon six months ago he met Forker and demanded $6000, and that Forker, not being a ble to secure the money, a few days later in a letter suggested the kidnapping of Willie Whitlea. Boyle says Forker sent the boy with an escort to Warren, O., where he took charge of him. Nine persons, who were out boating in the Susquehanna river at Port Griffith, near Wilkes-Barre, Pa., were drowned by the upsetting of the boat. They are William Andrews, of Port Griffith; Theodore and Thomas Andrews, Frank Marianosky, Adam Strukus, Frank Ganofsky, Mrs. Frank Ganofsky and their two small boys, John and Michael, all of Providence, near Scranton. None of the bodies have been recovered. William Andrews was entertaining a number of relatives from Providence, Lackawanna county, and after dinner took them out for a boat ride. They crowded into a small boat, five men with Andrews, his sister-in-law and two little nephews, and started out. The boat was low in the stern, with the several people seated in it. Apparently on of the men there moved forward to help Andrews with the oars, the movement causing the boat to rock. It shipped some water at the stern. Those seated there stood up to avoid the water, the boat rocked more and shipped a quantity of water. There followed a wild scramble of the now thoroughly frightened people, and the next moment the boat upset, and with shrill shrieks for help all the occupants were thrown into the water. Girl Cuts Family From Ruins of Home. For her bravery in hewing the members of her family out of the ruins of their storm-wrecked home, a Carnegie medal is to be asked for fifteen-year-old Mamie Price, who lives near Bowden, Ga. A storm struck the Price home, wrecked it and buried all the family in the debris except the girl. She procured an axe, and, guided by the cries of the victims and a lantern, began to cut them out. Mrs. Price died as the girl cut the last timbers from about her, but she rescued her baby brother and a younger sister unhurt. Her father had been caught by the heavy timbers; but his most serious hurt was the crushing of his left arm. The girl cut away the timbers from the body of her father, but the mangled arm was still held. Price realized that the arm was lost and that it was only held by shreds of skin and flesh, so he told the girl to sever the strings with the axe. The child objected, but when the father insisted she brought down the axe and Price was free. Under her father's directions the child made a tourniquet to stop the loss of blood from the severed arm and then went through the darkness for assistance. Price will recover. Wild Race In Auto With Snake Wild Race in Auto With Snake. The coolness of Allen Zarring, of Richmond, Ky., has probably saved his life. Mr. Zarring is a miller, and during the afternoon he was called to the country on business. He made the trip In an automobile After concluding his business he returned to his machine, and after going a few hundred yards a large copper head snake crawled out from under the rug on the floor of the machine and wound itself around Mr. Zarring's leg and the brake of the automobile. The reptile extended his head in the air and showed his fangs. In his fright Mr. Zarring pulled the speed lever and let the machine go. He came through Richmond with the automobile going at full tilt, fearing to put his hand on the brake. All he could do was to keep in the middle of the road and trust to luck. A fellow autist pursued the runaway machine to find out the trouble. Coming up beside Mr. Zarring, he saw the snake and struck it with a buggy whip, knocking it to the ground, where it was run over by one of the machines. Roosevelt Warns Jans Former President Theodore Roosevelt in the current issue of The Outlook, warns Japan that America will have to take the matter into its own hands if the mikado does not prevent the coming hither in any appreciable numbers of Japanese of the laboring and small trading classes. He says it is the duty of America to wait to see whether Japan succeeds in enforcing this policy, "whether we do or do not believe that it will be successful." But he adds: "If the Japanese government proves unable to carry its policy through, then undoubtedly this government, by treaty or by legislation, must protect itself and secure the desired result on its own initiative. But in such a case it would be doubly incumbent upon us to take the action in the way that would provoke the least possible friction and cause the least possible hard feeling." Burned Brother's Store For $50 Young Hirschman confessed that he received $50 from his brother for setting fire to the place while the latter was away. Shoots Steer While Pinned to Wall. Pinned against a wall by a maddened steer, Charles Seaman, of Columbia, Pa., saved his life by shooting the animal. Seaman, who is a butcher, had intended to shoot the steer anyway. As he raised the rifle the beast charged upon him. One horn struck the lift side of his face, plowed a furrow through the flesh and forced Seaman's head fast to the side of the building. While in this position he placed the muzzle of the rifle against the animal's neck, fired and the steer fell dead. Seaman's jaw was dislocated and his face and head badly lacerated. Woman Guilty of Witchcraft Woman Guilty of Witchcraft. Alleged by her accuser to be a witch, Mrs. Laupaule Orber was tried on a technical charge of disorderly conduct, was convicted and sentenced to pay a fine of $5 and serve ten days in jail at Butler, Pa. The charge was preferred by Mrs. Julia Kroner, who alleged that Mrs. Orber went into Mrs. Kroner's barn and by the use of witchcraft cast a spell over a cow, which has prevented it from giving milk. That something had been done to the animal was indicated by the testimony. Hailstones Cause Failure. William K. Partridge, one of the best known florists in Cincinnati, has filed a deed of assignment. He gives his assets at $40,000, liabilities at $30,000, and hallstones as the cause of his failure. Two weeks ago a hallstorm did $8000 damage to plants in his greenhouses and beds, and two years ago a similar storm did greater damage. Found $2,250,000 In Yildiz Palace Found $2,250,000 In Yildiz Palace. The commission which is taking an inventory of property at the Yildiz palace at Constantinople has found $2,250,000 in bank notes and a large quantity of jewelry. Papers seized at the palace show that Abdul Hamid had something over $5,000,000 on deposit in a foreign bank. Two Negroes Electrocuted Joe and Isham Taylor, two more of the negroes who figured in the recent terrible Powhattan county tragedy, in which Mrs. Skipwith and Walter Johnson were murdered, were electrocuted in the penitentiary at Richmond, Va. Diphtheria Closes Taft's School. Owing to an epidemic of diphtheria at Taft's Preparatory school at Watertown, Conn., it has been decided to close the school for two weeks. Several cases of this disease have developed in the past few weeks. Fell Dead at Auction: C. Albert Sandt, a member of the Northampton county bar, fell dead while bidding in stocks and bonds of his late aunt, which were being offered at public sale in Correll's hall in Easton, Pa. He was fifty years old. Editors Will Meet In Vancouver Editors Will Meet in Vancouver. Ottawa, Ont., May 12—It is expected that the National Editorial Association of the United States will hold its annual meeting in Vancouver this year some time in July, about the 18th or 20th. The Canadian government has invited the officers of the association to meet in Canada this year. Taft to Open Tunnel Denver, Colo.. May 12. — President Taft is expected to press the button for the opening of the Gunnison tunnel at the Transmississippi Commercial Congress on Aug. 16. The opening of the tunnel will signalize the completion of the extensive government reclamation project. DOUBTFUL POWDER. One day, after listening to a story particularly offensive with age, Lincoln McConnell, the Georgia evangelist, told this: An old darky went into a store down in Georgia and asked: "Say, boss, you got any gun powdah heah?" "Yes, we have gun powder." "Lemme see some of that theah gun powdah." The dealer showed him some. "Pore a little of that powdah in my hand." The old darky took the powder near the light, ran his forefinger around and around in it, looked at it critically, and then smelled it two or three times. "And you say this heah is powdah?" "Yes," answered the dealer sharply; "that is powder. What is the matter with it?" "Dunno, boss!"—the darky shook his head doubtfully—"but hit smells to me like it's done been shot off betoah."—Judge. Revelation. When Phyllis passed me in her sheath. It really made me grit my teeth— I've ever been her ardent wooer. But Gee! There is so little to her! Harry—Mrs. Grand has a great many diamonds, hasn't she? Dorothy—I should say so! Before she goes to the opera she sends for a window dresser. A MAIDEN'S MINUTE An unsophisticated youth, Unused to women's ways, forsooth. Dropped in once when his lady fair Had cute kid curlers in her hair. Of course he never saw, But met Dulcinea's papa, Who led him to the parlor, where He heard her voice float down the stair— "Wait just a minute." The youth sat down and talked with dad Of weather good and weather bad. Who next would be the nominee And what things should be tariff free. And other moons were made of cheese. And all the solar theories. And how to navigate the air, And keep the roadbeds in repair, And countless other subjects, too. Before the madness came to view, In "just a minute." THE BRUTE. A She—Poor Ethel has had a great deal of trouble since she obtained her divorce. He—How's that? She—Hubby has kidnapped her pet dog three times. Wanted a Change. "I don't like that car," said the prospective buyer. "But it's a fine machine," insisted the automobile salesman. "That may be, but it smells too much like the last one I had!"—Tonkers Statesman. Couldn't Prevent Him. Miss Gushington (entering street car)—Oh, don't get up. Please keep your seat—please do. Mr. Manhattan—Really, I'd like to oblige you, madam, but I want to get out at this corner—Judge. Responsive Trades "How is your eldest son getting on?" "He has a soft job. He makes feather beds." "And your younger son?" "Oh, he has a snap. He makes steel traps."—Baltimore American. Comparative. "You think jinks is a better conversationalist than Smith? Why, neither one of them ever says anything sensible." "I know, but it takes Smith longer to say it."—Cleveland Leader. He Solved It. The Lady—Why is the average man such a fool? The Gent—I haven't an idea. The Lady—And the average man hasn't either—I guess that's the answer.—Cleveland Leader. At Hash House. "You spoke too late"—as the boarder said when he heard a chirping as he swallowed a hard-boiled egg.—Purple Cow. Ungallant Author. I wish Adam had died with all his ribs in his body.—Boucleault. Must Retain Part of Boy. No one is a real man after he has lost out all the boy.—H. W. Beecher. OVERCROWDED BOAT SINKS Twenty Persons Drowned in Ohio River Near Pittsburg. ONLY TEN ESCAPED DEATH Gasoline Launch Sank Beneath Weight It Had Been Bearing and Many Men Were Caught In the Suction and Went Down With It—There Was No Explosion or Leak. Pittsburg, May 12.—Twenty persons are missing and all of them are believed to have been drowned when a gasoline launch sank in the middle of the Ohio river near Schoenville, four miles below Pittsburg. Of the thirty occupants of the boat only ten are known to have escaped. All the men were employees of the Pressed Steel Car company at their McKees Rocks plant. The men left the works to cross the river in the launch. The boat is said to have been intended for not over twenty persons, and it is said it was dangerous to attempt to carry as many as twenty-five in it. But all the men wanted to get across the river-on the first trip of the boat, and thirty of them crowded in. As the men started out in the boat one of them is said to have remarked that it seemed to him to be overcrowded and he feared it was not safe to attempt the trip in it. When the boat reached the middle of the river, when the water is perhaps twenty feet deep, the boat suddenly sank. There was no explosion, no leak was sprung, but the boat simply beneath the weight it had been bearing and went to the bottom. As it sank it caused a suction which took many of the men down with it. Others attempted to swim ashore, but were chilled by the cold water and became exhausted before reaching the shore. So far as is known but ten of the men reached the shore. The region is sparsely settled in the vicinity where the accident occurred and it was some time before news of the accident spread. One of the men who succeeded in swimming ashore ran to a telephone and gave the alarm. Boats were at once put out in the hope of rescuing some struggling swimmer. John Deer, who lived on the river bank and heard cries for help, went out in a skiff and saved eight lives. Part of that number of men he put into his boat, while others held on to the side of it and were rowed ashore. One man swam to the bank and was saved. It is thought not another of the thirty reached shore. GIRL DANCED HERSELF TO DEATH Waltzed Until Carried From Kail Fainting. GIRL Chicago, May 12.—Marie Fron, aged twenty years, danced herself to death in a public dance hall, according to the verdict of a coroner's jury. The girl possessed a frail constitution, but waltzing was a mania with her. She was warned by her parents not to exert herself, but the music cause her to forget the warning and she danced continuously until she had to be carried out of the hall fainting. She died in a hospital. PENNSYLVANIA DEMOCRATS State Convention Will Be Held Some Time In August. Harrisburg, Pa., May 12.—The Democratic state convention to nominate candidates for justice of the supreme court, auditor general and state treasurer will be held some time in August. This was informally decided on at a meeting of the state executive committee at headquarters here, but the selection of a date was left to the new executive committee which is to be named at the meeting of the state central committee in Harrisburg July 21. Suspect Black Hand Crime. Cincinnati. O., May 12.—Police are investigating a Black Hand case that has been revived by the sudden death of Salvatore Rizzo, a fruit dealer. A few months ago he received three letters demanding that he go to Pittsburgh with $10,000. Rizzo did not heed the demand. Last Saturday he became suddenly ill, and Tuesday he died. Two doctors who attended him believe he died of natural causes, but his family fear he was poisoned by agents of the Black Hand. Bishop Galloway Dying Jackson, Miss, May 12. — Bishop Charles B. Galloway, of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, is dying of pneumonia at his home in this city. He has been in feeble health for several weeks. He is gradually sinking, and there is no hope for his recovery. 8shot Dead While Eating Supper Sasley, Va. May 12. Benjamin Young, a colored man of the town, was shot and instantly killed while eating supper. Young was shot with a shotgun through a window, severing his fugitive vein. Ambushed by Natives In Africa Lagos, British West Africa, May 12. —Lieutenant D. A. Vanrenen, assistant resident administrator of a district in Northern Nigeria; three other Englishmen and thirty-five native police were ambushed recently by natives at a point fifty miles northeast of Zungeru. The lieutenant and twelve of the policemen were killed. THE PETER SATURDAY.....MAY 15, 1909 ARCHBISHOP EVANS, D. G. The Founder and Director General Of The True Light Army Makes The Fairiest and Biggest Offer to This Generation of People Ever Made to a People by Any Man That Ever Came In The World. Why Not Try Him Now Righteously and Honorably, and See What He Will Do For Us? If He is Right How Can He Be Wrong? Special to the Planet, Richmond, Va. Mr. Editor: As I am a colored man, or a so-called negro, and one that nobody knows but God and myself, and as I am the founder and the director-general of the Army known as the True Light Army which is now making up a standard membership of seven hundred thousand (700,000) true light soldiers: I now inform everybody that I do want to be truly and thoroughly understood by the true righteous of God everywhere, both in Heaven above, and in the earth beneath. I say this is my true desire before the eyes of God the Almighty. And now if you will kindly give me space in the columns of your paper I will endeavor to entertain all nations, and I will try to the best of my ability to make the wise in all the world understand me, and know of a truth what I am doing, and will do by the help of Him who sent me to do the thing I am doing for His glory and praise. You will understand by this that I still stand to my former profession that I personally have had a conversation with, and have been instructed by Him who is the author of life, and understand well what I am doing: 1st. Now to the people I will say to you, one and all that the first of all I will now tell you why I have organized this strange army known as The True Light Army, and why I have formed it to be increased to the standard number of seven hundred thousand (700,000) standard True Lights united into one grand army, as true soldiers of the true righteousness which is of the Living God. I have done it in order that it, the True Light Army, may destroy the total darkness that has covered the earth, and the gross darkness that has now already, covered all the people, for evidence of such possibilities, (see Isaiah, 60 Chap. Verses 1, 2, and 3.) The above chapter referred to shows plainly that there is no hope for the people of this world without proper supreme light be given them to deliver them from that mighty darkness that has covered them, and the succeeding chapter shows also the good results of the proper true light when it arises over the people, so also does Malachi 4th chapter 1, 2 and 3 verses as does also Micah 4th chapter 1, 2 and 3 verses. So now in order that these scriptures be fulfilled successfully God's will must be the order of the day, and the thing ordered out by Him must come forth at His command at the time appointed by Him, and the thing of His choice must also be glorified to His choice splendor of glory. 2nd. Now the next thing I want to say is this, I ask why should you people of this, and coming generations stumble and fall, as if you were all fools, and without sight and true light, or if you already have the true light given you in its splendor, and if you each have eyes sufficiently to see well, and are brought into the perfect light of life. I ask you does such a light now shine on you as a people, if not, it shall be seen now arising over you, on The True Light Army, for the glory of the Lord is now arising on it, and it, the light of it, and the speech of it in one voice, shall prevail forever and forever. For evidence see Revelation 19th Chapter, 11, 14 and 17 verses. 3rd And now one of the first great deeds that the True Light Army is fitted for, is to establish of itself in the midst of all the nations a new name which they have never known or understood, a name that shall have no equal in the from or light and in the form of an educator that is true and glorious in the highest order of glory. Yea, it is now forming and building the unknown name known as the high educational college and supreme church of glory, and of the true light of life, which is characteristically called the royal high educational college, and Congress of the glorious King and Queen church of glory, or the united saints of The True Light Army, which is now arising over the nations with healings in its wings, see Malachi 4th Chapter and St. John 1st Chapter 1, 3, 4 to 14 verses which will also assure you that without the True Light nothing was made that is made of God. Now without the True Light Army no standing victory can ever be won over the devil and his angels in this world, never, no never See Revelation 19th Chapter, 11 to 20 verses. The high educational college of glory formed, created or built by the True Light Army will ultimately prove in creation to be the genuine high educational college of Almighty God which is Supreme in spirit and in truth in the true light of life most high. Its teachers are unknown of men, but are approved of, by all of the holy angels. 4th. Now the reason why such a college as this is needed on this earth is because of the deficiency of the wise men of Babylon to properly teach and make known the true secrets of God to the kings of the earth, and also because of the deficiency of the scholarly men of this age and of the future to give to the people the true interpretations of the signals of all his holy angels, which he shall send and has now already ordered out to gather together his elects from the four winds. For evidence see Matthew 24th Chapter, 29, 30 and 31st verses. And I say again that I have a seat in the True Light Army, and in the high educational system of glory, for seven hundred thousand (700,000) standard elect true light teachers, leaders, warriors and royal teachers of the true light of life, most high, and I ask you now to consider well and see if it was one voice or was it two voices or speeches that called the fowls of heaven to the supper of Almighty God. For evidence see Rev. 19th Chapter, 17th verse. If we was one voice, the one glorious voice is sufficient, therefore all men had better regard the one voice that now calls for all the true righteous, as I now call for them that are willing to honor me and obey God, for if they will not honor me neither will they obey Him. I say again see and consider well whether it was one angel that chained the devil down or was it two. For evidence see Rev. 20th Chapter, if it was one the one supreme angle is sufficient, and all other angels had better now regard the voice of the One angel that now speaks in me. 6th. Now the next thing I want to be understood in is this. I want to see first of all how many. Christians and men and women of the so-called Negro race that there is that will now cheerfully answer me and each give to God through me or to me for God $1.00 each or more up to $10.00 or more each as volunteer helpers in this work, to help the True Light Army build this high educational college and church of glory in America first, and then in other parts of the world. Yea I am trying now by this effort to find somebody also in other races that will think upon my undertaking and cheerfully furnish us some money unconditionally to help build it. I want to see how many people of any kind that will volunteer and send me a gift cath, without further information, to help me to do the thing I know how to do. My request is, that all who would like to find me out, and see me do the thing I am sent to do for the good of the people, let them do so now at once, as I invite them to do, in other ways that will shine brighter and brighter until it will become so bright and glorious in this world that men will stop doing evil of any kind all round the world forever, and forever. For evidence of such a possibility see Micah 4th Chapter 1 to 8 verses, Isiah 60th Chapter 12, 18 and 21 verses. I say as Christ has said "All things are possible to me, and with me, when all things do as they are fitted to do while I show them how." For evidence see St. Mark 9th Chapter 23 and 24 verses. So let me see now who will be the first one hundred thousand people to say to me. "Here is my volunteer gift to you to help you in your glorious undertaking," and when the amount is in my hand needed, I will then do the thing most needful to be done, and I will not deviate from the right. My call is for one hundred thousand to one million volunteers for this work. I want one hundred thousand to volunteer each and send to me and get one of my little contribution books, and raise in them $100 each or more if they can or will, and send it to me to the glory of God, and send it to the glory of God, just for the sake of doing the good they individually can do as God wills. I want to see just how many people will be wise enough to accept this invitation. I also want to see just how many professes to be wise that will refuse and reject it and decline to lend me a helping hand, while God is looking at them refusing to do his will. I inform you all that the time is now come for all men to be proven of what sort they are in character. The sum of money I call for will bring the victory forward to a point that will increase all true righteousness to a perpetual success forever and ever. So I solemnly charge all men to be obedient to this call, for The True Light Army and the high educational college of glory, and spirit, possess the right of way, and will prove to possess and will possess a mouth and wisdom that nothing can gainay or resist forever and ever. For evidence see Revelation 19th Chapter, 19, 20, and 21 verses. I am the man that did it, Justus J. Evans, D. G. office 21. Williams St. Boston, M. P. S.—It has been well said that God and one man is the majority, and this is also true that God, Christ and me and The True Light Army are two-thirds the majority of all men and angels and all other men had as well in line and take sides with us and live for if they go against us they must perish, for evidence see Isaiah 60th Chapter, 12th verse. Nevertheless there is nothing nor no man void of the proper will and desire that can do. I have invited the true righteous to do, but they will do as I have invited them there is an endless fortune that will come to them through me; for theirs is success forever and, ever, that hear me and do as I say do, for he that will succeed must be in the lead of others in the right, and I am in the lead now, so let all who will follow me do so cheerfully, and all who will not follow me et them alone for they are joined to their idols. I am the man that said it, for I am not alone God is with me. You that will answer me address me at 21 William Street, B-aton. Mass. JUSTUS J. EVANS. G. D. Mr. Editor: I do not want to worry you or to take up too much of your space, but if you will kindly permit me, I want to say further it will be remembered that I published a proposition through your paper offering to THE RICHMOND PLANET. RICHMOND. VIRGINIA lead the Negro people of America to an everlasting success. This I did as late as 1906 and 1907, as you will remember under the name of the Royal Trust Company, to be composed of 700,000 standard members, but they suffered the devil to keep them from accepting my proposition, or in other words they would not do as I told them to do. I saw that the Negro's political success as a people was going down, and that no more can the negro people be anything valuable in politics in America, unless they will follow the plans I offer them. Yea, the Negro is left now desolate as a people, as they know no friend, now that they can depend upon any more and knows none that is willing to depend upon them as a people, and as God has seen fit to lay the burden upon me, and has sent me to offer my people or his the Negro race, a sure and an infallible way of everlasting success, he has given me the best way for them that can be given, and now I will try to the best of my ability to say a few things in print to see if I can possibly get this people or even 100,000 of them to realize that I am sincere and true, and to know that I know what I am doing; and at this point, Mr. Editor, for the sake of testing the honesty and sincerity of all men who oppose me and have opposed me heretofore, I will now offer to be tested fairly by all men by saying that I will give a reward of $500, in gold to any person that can find a man the world over that can produce a plan that God would approve of it followed by the Negro people, that would bring this people a success that will equal the success that I now guarantee them if they will do the little thing I say do. In other words, I will agree to give $500, as a reward to any person who can find a man in any other part of the world besides me that can successfully prove by the Almighty, and the true people of God, or by infallible that he has authority direct from God given him, authorizing him to show to the Negro people exactly how to overcome all of these evil circumstances as a people in America and in the world at large. Or I will put it this way: I will give $500, to any person that can find a man in any part of the world besides me, who claims that he is right as a direct servant of God, and that he is directly authorized by Him, as I claim to be, to lead the Negro people or the true church of God to everlasting victory, as I claim to be able to do. If such a man can be found that I cannot equal or blind and make null and void every argument that he can make against me or against the Negro people doing as I say for them to do. I will give as aforesaid $500, if such a one can be found in this generation. Now, let me see if I can make it a little stronger. will agree, Mr. Editor to give $500, as a reward to any person that can find a minister of the gospel in any part of the world that can equal me in authority or for eyesight, or for knowledge, judgment and understanding, regarding the weightier matters of the law of the Lord, and regarding the times and the seasons which He has put in his own power, or regarding the coming or Christ the second time, or the coming of the Kingdom of God and regarding the true righteousness of God which is supreme and His glorious king and queen church of glory. My claim is this: I claim there is nobody besides me that knows what I know about God's plan for the immediate future, success of His church and His royal people, and I will give $500, to that man who can prove by infallible proof that I ah not true, or prove that there has ever lived a man that has been given what I possess. If it were not so, why should I say so, or why would I want to be tested, and why would I be to be tested fairly by all the wise men of the churches and the world at large? If this is not evidence enough to convince all men that I know something highly important for their success, that they do not know, and to convince them also that I am first fall with God, and then with all mankind, then let them offer me a proposition and see whether or not I will not accept it. Any reasonable proposition that is as reasonable as any I am offering, let them offer it and see if I will not prove that I am equal to the test I have undertaken. I am waiting, anxiously waiting, to see who it is that is brave enough to step out now and prove themselves or himself to be as honest with God and me as I am with him, for honesty is the best evidence that man can offer as positive proof that he is right and is in Union with Gad, and as I am by virtue of the authority vested in me, the true leader and founder of the glorious light of the world union, the Grand Supreme Holy Trinity Association, the glorious King and Queen Church of Glory and the Director-General of the True Light Army, I now call all worthy people in out of the coming storm, and I demand all men in the ministry who want to escape defeat and destruction to come to order now and get an understanding from me and let us all prove ourselves what we claim to be. I inform all concerned that I have supreme authority given me as Noah had, who built the visible ark of God for the saving of those saved from the anti-deluvian world and them that are with me in heaven above and in the earth beneath are most glorious and most high, and by the help of Him that sent me to am now going to rule and build to his order and to his everlasting glory. As you will see Revelations, Second Chapter 26, 27 and 28 verses for evidence of a possibility of a second one to Christ Jesus, ruling and setting things in order in his stead with full authority in the highest, the True Light Army is it, and I am the leader of it. I ask then of whom shall I fear, or of whom shall I be afraid? For evidence of its success see Revelation, 19 Chapter, 11, 12, 14-21 verses. I will venture to all men are out of order and must come to order. All leaders of the Negro blood I say first to you come to order. Yea, I charge you by the living God, the Almighty, and by Christ Jesus, and by the Holy Ghost to come to order. I say also to all leading men of the nations the world over, it would be well for you that you all come to order, and here my report to my people and learn of me, and I charge all people also to not foolishly take sides with them who oppose me, for so certain as you do you must fall a victim un- RECEIPT THAT CURES WEAK MEN-FREE. RECEIPT THAT CURES WEAK MEN-FREE. Send Name and Address To-day- You Can Have It Free and Be Strong and Vigorous. I have in my possession a prescription for nervous debility, lack of vigor, weakened manhood, failing memory and lame back, brought on by excesses, unnatural drains or the follies of youth, that has cured so many worn and nervous men right in their own homes—without any additional help or medicine—that I think every man who wishes to regain his manly power and virility, quickly and quietly, should have a copy. So, I have determined to send a copy of the prescription, free of charge, in a plain, ordinary sealed envelope, to any man who will write me for it. This p prescription comes from a physician who has made a special study of men, and I am convinced it is the surest-acting combination for the cure of deficient manhood and vigor-failure ever put together. I think I owe it to my fellow man to send them a copy in confidence, so that any man, anywhere who is weak and discouraged with repeated failures may stop drugging himself with harmful patent medicines, secure what, I believe, is the quickest-acting, restorative, upbuilding, SPOTTOUCHING remedy ever devised, and so, cure himself at home quietly and quickly. Just drop me a liml-like this: Dr. A. E. Robinson, 3895 Luck Bldg., Detroit, Mich., and I will send you a copy of this splendid receipt, in a plain, ordinary sealed envelope, free of charge. to them that take sides with the right. For I am exactly right, and they that takes sides with me are right, and they who are against me are compelled to be strong and they must come down for the people are now called to a new work by the Almighty through me, and unless they heed the call. He will find a way to plunge them into utter despair. I say to one and all if you will obey, I want you all to be quick, for I am in a great hurry. I hear one say to me, "Archbishop I would do as you say do if I believed you, but I do not believe you are all you say you are". To such a one I say to you, that your unbelief is the devil that is in you, and unless you get that devil out of you he will make you do that which is worse instead or doing that which is best. I am glad to be able to inform all my friends interested that by careful investigation you will find that the people that honor me the world over are of the best quality that there is among all the people. I can say we have a list of contributors who are helping us and just recently as late as April 27, 1909, one of the members of our own race presented me a gift of $500, for the True Light Army to help us build a branch building for this Army in Washington, D.C., and we are now preparing to build in Boston a building for our Army and College of Glory and one in Asbury Park, and we have ground in Washington city now to build on which is fully paid for. We aim to build there this year, so we are ready for the help that we have called for and we trust that all who hear us will gladly accept the invitation to help us and will do so to the glory of God, and then watch and wait for the results and they will find that the results will be most glorious. JUSTUS J. EVANS. D. G. The General Missionary Board of the True Light Army is as follows: the True Light Army is as follows: Mrs. E. O. Anderson, Mrs. A. F. Bower, Mrs. S. F. Randall, Miss Emma Davis, Miss Jane Coats, Miss Susan Anna Hicks, Bishop M. M. Jones, Reimpson H. Bell, Bishop Isaac Nottingham, Mrs. Isabel Cole, Mrs. Virginia Berry, Mrs. Theresa L. Dugins, Mrs. Fannie Hurley, Mrs. Hester Grant, Mrs. Carrie M. Bell, Mrs. Molle Arnold, Miss Florence Davis, Miss Lee Anna Lee, Miss Willelchelmina Davis, Mrs. L Raner, Mrs. Mary Williams, Mrs. Louise Hill, Miss Gertrude Bell, Mrs. Willie McKivens, Rev. S. D Roundtree, Rev. Archie Jones, Rev. Edward Harris, Rev. Robert Hall, Mr. Leon Hudson, Mr. Matthew Kane, Mr. Oliver Lane, Archbishop Justus J. Evans, D. G. General offices, 21 Williams street, Boston Mass, 1208 Springwood avenue, Asbury Park, N. J., 203 F street, S. W., Washington, D. C., 447 Cypress street, Valdosta, Ga. A. F. Bower, Sec. C, M. Bell, Asst. Sec., Lottie Jefferson, Cor., secretary. PLAIN EVERYDAY THINGS W. H. Edwards, New York's street cleaning commissioner, has distinguished himself on every occasion by his splendid handling of the snow problem. "I suppose, Mr. Edwards," said an interviewer, "that your college education has greatly helped you to a thorough grasp of street cleaning?" The commissioner smiled. "That sounds good," he said, "but I don't think it's true. Differential calculus and the gnomic aorist are all very well, but in street cleaning they don't hold a candle to plain, ordinary, everyday American bustle. "Plain, ordinary, everyday things—they are the ones that count; they are the levers," said Mr. Edwards, philosophically. "Try to soar above them, and the truth brings you down with a bump, such as aeronauts get. "I said the other day to a bachelor who was going to get married: "Well, Jim, at your time of life—" "He's getting on, you know—40 or so." "Well, Jim, at your time of life," I said, "I suppose a man does feel the need of a faithful and enduring affections wherewith—" "Oh, rats, Jim interrupted, I'm getting tired of darning my own socks; that's what—the matter with me." In the Ecstatic Stage The Girl (passing her fair hand over his brow)—There, Arthur! Have I charmed your headache away? Arthur—You have, dear! You're lay witch Hazel!—Chicago Tribune CONDENSED NEWS ITENS. Thursday. Max. 4 Dr. J. Counterman, of New Albany, seventy-five years of age, pleased guilty in the United States district court at Fort Scott, Kan., to the charge of counterfeiting. Addison S. Beardsley, confidential secretary to Carpenter & Co., real estate brokers in New York, was sentenced to prison for five years for embezzling $27,000. Delirious from illness, Captain William Cook, a prominent Elk and a noted drill master, leaped from a fourth-story window at Toledo, O., and was instantly killed. Friday, May 7. Matthew Bynum and Willard Wylle, brothers-in-law, shot and killed each other at Dukedom, near Mayfield, Ky. Senator P. C. Knox, of Pennsylvania, celebrated his fifty-sixth birthday anniversary in Washington on Thursday. Fire wiped out the buildings of the North Pacific Lumber company, at Barnet, near Vancouver, B.C., entailing a loss of $350,000. Frustrating a plot to kill an Italian and his wife, who lived at East Vlivan, near Bluefield, W. Va., four officers raided a lodgeroom, and in the scrimmage that followed two Italians were killed and eleven arrested. Saturday. May 8. Passed Assistant Surgeon James P. D. Bruler, medical officer of the United States gunboat Paducah, died aboard that vessel at San Japan, Porto Rico. Jacob E. Ridgway, president of the Quaker City National bank, of Philadelphia, and well known as a financier, died of general debility, aged eighty-five years. While sleeping in the anteroom of his study, Father Scrippo, of the Westville Rcman Catholic church at Danville, Ill., was fired upon by three men armed with shotguns, but escaped injury. Lewis Jenkins, the fifth of the negroes convicted of the murder of Mrs. Mary E. Skipwith and Walter Johnson in Powhattan county, was electrocuted in the penitentiary at Richmond, Va. Monday. May 10. Fire destroyed the plant of the Liberty Hat company, at Newark, N. J., causing a loss of $100,000. The entire plant of William Godfried & Co., lumber dealers at Cheraw, S. C., was destroyed by fire, with $50,000 loss. Lorenzo D. Cunningham, a negro employee of the United States mint at New Orleans, is under arrest, charged with stealing $300 worth of gold. Mary Sull'van, 107 years old, an employee and pensioner in the Chanler family for more than fifty years, died at Barrytown, near Poughkeepsie, N. Y. James Renfrew, manager of the Western Union Telegraph company at Chambersburg, Pa., committed suicide by hanging himself in the cellar of his residence. Tuesday, May 11. Francis O'Connor, formerly editor of the Catholic Union and Times and a magazine writer of note, died at Rochester, N. Y., aged seventy-seven years. President Taft sent to the senate the nomination of Henry Groves Connor, a Democrat, to be United States judge for the eastern district of North Carolina. Emmert Schoolcraft, a Civil War veteran, eighty years old, and his wife Emily, seventy-seven years old, were burned to death at Detroit, Mich., when their home was destroyed by fire. Charged with having embezzled $1200 from a local insurance company, J. B. McCormick, one of its agents, who was arrested on the Pimlico race track, Baltimore, was taken to Reading, Pa., when a warrant was served on him. Wednesday, May 12 Another cut of 5 cents a barrel in all grades of oil was announced by the Standard Oil company. J. Pope Brown has been appointed state treasurer of Georgia by Governor Hoke Smith to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Robert E. Park. John Borefnac was killed and three other foreigners were seriously injured at Hellwood, near Indiana, Pa., in a riot which was participated in by fully a hundred men. Charles Bright, an eleven-year-old Camden, N. J. boy, confessed that he and a companion of the same age had broken into many unoccupied houses to rob slot-meters. PRODUCE QUOTATIONS The Latest Closing Prices For Produce and Live Stock. PHILADELPHIA — FLOUR firm; winter low grades, $5@2.55; winter $5.50@5.75; city mills, fancy $6.80@5.75; RYE FLOUR firm; per barrel $4.50@4.60. WHBAT dull; No. 2 red, western $4.60; CORN firm; No. 2 yellow, local $8.50@84c. OATS firm; No. 2 white, clipped, $52\%$ @63c; lower gates, 61c. HAY firm; timothy, large bales, per ton, $16.50. POULTRY: Live steady; hens, 11 @ 42c; old roosters, 11 @ 12c Dressed up; choice fowls, 17c; old roosters, 13c. BUTTER steady; extra creamy, 22c EGGS steady; selected, 24 @ 25c; nearby, 22c; western, 22c POTATOES steady; old at 90@95% per bush; new, per barrel; $4.25@4.75 Sweet Potatoes steady, at 75c;$1 per basket. Live Stock Markets. PITTSBURG (Union Stock Yards)—cATTLE active and higher; choice. $7.55 @ prime, $6.50 @ 6.75. $8.25 @ EMI, $8.55 @ 6.75; prime wothers, $8.55 @ 6; prime wothers, $8.55 @ 6; lams, $5 @ 8; veal calves, $7 @ 7.50. HOGS higher; prime heavies, $7.55 @ 7.60; mediums, $7.45 @ 7.50; heavyorkers, $7.40 @ 7.45; light Yorkers, $7.40; plgs, $6.50 @ 6.90; roughs, $6 @ 6.90. Making Sure. "Did you charge that man for that steak?" asked the butcher. "I think so," replied the clerk. "Well, charge it again and be sure." "That wouldn't be right." "Perhaps not; but I'd rather charge it twice than forget it once."—Yonkers Statesman. TWO MEN MURDERED Brutal Crime Brought to Light at Gloucester, N. J. Gloucester, N. J., May 12.-Lying side by side, with their skulls battered and crushed, the bodies of two men, subsequently identified as James Purdy and John Whitelaw, were discovered in an abandoned tallow factory here by three boys. Nearby was a shovel and an iron bar, both plattered with blood. Purdy, who was identified through a letter found in his pocket, recently received a money order for $210 from St. Thomas, Ontario, where he lived at one time. He was an iron worker by trade. It is believed that he and his companion were murdered by tramps, who are said to have made a headquarters of the abandoned building in which the bodies were found. THROUGH DRAIN TO FREEDOM Man Serving Nine Months For Stealing $5 Bill Escapes. Trenton, N. J., May 12. — Thomas Chapple, serving a nine months sentence in the county workhouse for stealing a $ bill, escaped by crawling half a mile through a drain pipe but a little larger than his body. He has not been recaptured. WRIGHT BROTHERS BACK FROM EUROPE Say Contracts Will Kcep Them Busy For Some Time. New York, May 12.—Wilbur and Orville Wright, the American aeroplaniists, returned from the scenes of their European triumphs aboard the North German Lloyd liner Kronprinzessin Cecilia. They were about the shyest and most retiring heroes that New York has welcomed in many a day. Both the brothers looked well and appeared to be glad to get back. They were accompanied by their sister, Miss Katherine Wright, who made three flights at Pau recently and said that she was not scared a bit by her experience. The brothers had little new to say to their interviewers. Summed up in a few words, they said they had signed contracts enough to keep them busy until they could get back to Europe and sign more; that about sixty of their aerosplanes were now in process of construction, and that officials of certain European military powers had asked them to demonstrate that their flyers can be driven safely out of the range of rifle fire. MISSING ARCHDUKE FOUND? Member of Austrian Royal Family Said to Be at Palnesville, O. Chicago, May 12.—The Journal says that it has discovered "the lost John Orth," otherwise Archduke Johann Salvator, of Austria, Prince of the House of Hapsburg, who disappeared nineteen years ago, after marrying Ludmilla Stubel, an opera singer. The Journal says "John Orth" has been discovered at Palnesville, Ohio, working as a machinist at $15 a week. The missing Archduke Salvator was married in London and sailed with his wife to South America on a schooner, which sank off the coast of Chile. According to the Palnesville machinist, he and his wife escaped death by landing at Cusavana before the ship sank. They drifted about the world, finally taking a plantation in Martinique, where the wife and two sons were killed by the eruption of Mount Polee. Salvator was rescued and came to the United States. Prayer Caused Material Mount Vernon, Ga., May 12.—Following a prayer at the opening of the court's session, offered by Rev. Joe McDaniel, a relative of W. C. Beanley, for whose allied murder Jordan Swain is on trial here, the defense in the case at once moved for a mistrial and it was granted. Rev. McDaniel in his prayer asked compassion for Swain, referring to him as a "man whose hands are stained by the blood of his fellow man." Japanese Honor Conferred Japanese Honor Conferred on Elliot. Boston, May 12.— With a simple yet impressive ceremony, President Charles W. Elliot, of Harvard university, was invested with the insignia of the Order of the Rising Sun, bestowed upon him by order of the emperor of Japan. The red and white ribbon and jewels of the order were placed about President Elliot's shoulders by the Japanese ambassador at Washington. Traveling Trowel of Masonry In Mexico Mexico City, May 12.—The silver traveling trowel of Masonry reached here, accompanied by over a hundred California Masons and their families. It was given in charge of Anahuac lodge here at one of the largest blue lodge meetings ever held in Mexico. Walks to Church on 102d Birthday. New Albany, Ind., May 12.-David Detrick, 102 years old, walked to the church to attend a special service in honor of his birthday. He presided at a family dinner, at which four generations were present. Commission to Succeed City Councils. Minot, N. D., May 12.-The commission form of city government was adopted by ten votes. The present council, which took office a month ago, will be succeeded by the commission in twenty days. Husband Owna Wife's Dresses The question of who owns the dresses of a wife came up in the Brompton county court of Maryland recently and the judge decided that the husband is the owner. The man held that he had given the wife the money to buy the dresses in dispute, and, although they were not paid for, it was decided that they be oned to him. FIVE How Lapp Collects Reindeer. In April, the Lapp lets his reindeer loose to wander as they please, and when the mosquitoes begin to abound (about midsummer) collects his herd simply by catching one deer, fitting it with a bell and trusting to instinct (which leads the animals to gather into herds for protection against the mosquitoes) to do the rest. In a cool summer, when mosquitoes are few, this instinct does not come into play, and it is almost impossible to bring the reindeer together. Statesman's Complaint England's house of commons wants ventilation. Plenty of air is pumped into the chamber, and it comes through the gratings on the floor, but it comes from a spot just over the bank of the Thames river, with its ill-favored barges. And the other evening a member met a colleague with his handkerchief to his nose. "You never know what will pass inside," he spluttered, "but you always know what's passing outside." Oh. Quit. Here is the way to quit smoking (recommended by a man who failed to make it work): Instead of quitting off short, quit gradually. Don't smoke in the morning until you can't stand it any longer. Then smoke a cigar, and then quit again until you are compelled to smoke or go crazy. By degrees, you will learn to do without smoking. —Atchison Globe. All Explosive "There's a paint shop around the corner on First avenue that's just as full as can be of all sorts of explosives," said the east side woman. "Naphta, kerosene, turpentine, and do you know what else they've got there? A cross-eyed girl clerk. It's tempting Providence"—New York Press. A Witty Revivalist A revivalist in Carterville enlivens his addresses with such anecdotes as this: "An old woman shouted in the revival. Her husband said: I felt like going through the floor." She replied: "And I felt like going through the roof." Each was attracted home."—Kansas City Star. Jimmy Knew When to Start "My son Jimmy came home from school yesterday crying as if his heart would break. 'For heaven's sake, stop it, son!' I commanded. 'Did you yell that way all the way down the street?' 'N-no, he sobbed. I started when I got to 'th' front door.' —Cleveland Leader Frivolous Person "A man about town, as near as I kin figger it out," remarked Uncle Goshall Hemlock, "Is a feller who wants to loaf around from pillar to post. Ain't satisfied to take up a place with the solid citizens every evenin' in the grocery." All Meteora: "Sbay," exclaimed the citizen who had been sitting up with a friend, gazing wonderingly at the heavens, "thish must be a great night for astronomers. Never saw sho many meteors in my life."—Kansas City Times. Her Act of Forgetfulness "Being pelled with flowers is not always a sign of good will," observes the Philosopher of Folly. "I once knew a man whose wife was always throwing bouquets at him, but she forgot to remove them from the pots first." Small Enough The visitor was trying to be genial, and asked the small malden at his side: "Shall I peel your pear for you, little one?" But the child replied: "No, fank you; it's quite small enough now." Score One for Mr. Henpeck. Mrs. Henpeck—"Why is it that bachelors are so much more crabbed and cross than married men?" Mr. Henpeck—"Because they're not afraid to say what they think."—Newark Star. Cut Flowers To keep the water fresh and sweet in vases of cut flowers, add to it a small bit of sugar. This is successful even in the case of such things as wallflowers. The Minnesota Girl It is said that every third Minnesota girl is a breadwinner. It is hoped that the other two girls are bread makers. Minnesota certainly has the flour.—Cleveland Plain Dealer. African "Butter Tree." The "butter tree" grows in Central Africa. From the kernel of its nut is obtained nice, rich butter, which may be kept a year or more. Man Is Not Made for Himself Only. No man is made only for himself and his own private affairs, but to serve, profit and benefit others.—Benjamin Colman. Pavement Few of us are interested in those famous pavements made of good intentions, as we don't expect to go there, anyhow.-Chicago News. Popular Names in Britain In England and Wales, out of every 100,000 girls and boys, 6,820 are called Mary and 6,590 William. Immense Mexican Haciendas Some of the haciendas in the Mexican state of Durango contain a million or more acres. First Daily Newspaper Elizabeth Mallet established the first daily newspaper in the world. In London, March, 1702, she published and edited the Daily Courant, which took up the cudgels for women's rights and during its prosperous career carried out the expressed determination of its founders to "spare the public at least half the impertinences which the ordinary papers contain." SIX THE PLANET SATURDAY.....MAY 15, 1909 Sunday School Lesson for May 16, 1909 Specially Arranged for This Paper LESSON TEXT:—Acts 14:1-28. Memory verses 21, 22. GOLDEN TEXT:—"All the gods of the nations are idols, but the Lord made the heaven's."—Psalm 96:5. TIME:—Immediately after the last lea- son. Perhaps in the autumn of A. D. 47. PLACE:—Lycadonia, in southern Galatia. Iconium, Lyrata, Derbe, with a return to Antioch and Perga, and thence to Antioch in Syria. Suggestion and Practical Thought. The greater the work a man en- deavors to do, the greater the obstacles that he will meet, and the more numerous they will be. It is a princi- ple of physics that resistance increases as the square of the velocity. Paul's work, like that of all true Christians, was very great, and therefore it en- countered formidable obstacles. But these hindrances were overcome, in Christ's strength; and the process of overcoming them strengthened Paul, as it will strengthen us. "A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against and not with the wind. Even a head wind is better than none."—John Neal "A great multitude both of the Jews and also of the Greeks (Jewish prose-lytes) believed;" but there were "unbelieving Jews" (R. V. "disobedient" to the truth), who prejudiced the Gentile populace against the missionaries by their calumnies. For this double reason ("therefore", v. 3) Paul and Barnabas remained at iconium a "long time", probably several months, since (1) there were so many converts to be instructed in their new faith, and (2) that faith was evidently to be tried by severe opposition and would need to be strongly re-enforced by instruction. Finally, the hatred of the Jewish rulers and of the Gentiles whom they influenced (not the Gentile rulers, see v. 5) became so inflamed with the missionaries' bold speech and increasing success that a plot was formed to stone them as blasphemers. Getting knowledge of this, and mindful of Christ's command (Matt. 10:23) to flee from persecution, Paul and Barnabas escaped, going first to "Lystra", 18 miles south-southwest of iconium, and then to the Derbe, 20 miles to the southeast of Lystra. Stories of the gods coming down to man were common among the Greeks and other races. "Like distorted and obscure reflections in muddy water, they give a blurred image of the great truth"—Maclauren. They show that Christ's coming was in response to a universal need. One of these tales was of the visit of Jupiter and Mercury to this very Lycaonia. The people thought them to be poor vagrants, refused to entertain them, ridiculed and maltreated them. At last they came to the hut of the poor peasants, Baucis and Philemon, who received them hospitably and entertained them with the best they had. In return, the gods transformed their hut into a glorious temple over which they were set as the chief ministers of worship, while the churlish neighbors were punished by a terrible flood which overwhelmed them. The statue of Jupiter stood before the gate of Lystra, and Ewald suggests that this story of Baucis and Philemon may have been recited year by year at the great festival in this temple. They "persuaded the people." "Probably they influenced the multitudes to regard the miracle, the reality of which they could not dispute, as the work not of beneficent gods, but of evil demons."—Expos. Greek Testament. They raised a mob, which "stoned Paul" whose bold speech had centered hostility upon himself. What memories of the stoning of Stephen ten or eleven years before must have passed through Paul's mind! "Transformed into a howling mob, like those which even in Christian America shoot negroes, Chinamen and Italians, the quondam worshipers left Paul ready, as they supposed, for the cremation fires or the vagrant dogs"—William Elliot Griffs, L. H. D. Perhaps, as the stoning of Stephen must have moved Paul toward Christianity, the stoning of Paul was the turning point in the life of Timothy. The young man may have been among "the disciples who stood round about him," to give what aid they could, and care for his body if he were really dead. Note the sudden change in the feelings of the people toward Paul, and compare it with the revolution in the attitude of the people of Jerusalem toward Christ, from "Hosanna!" to "Crucify him!" Compare also the sudden change in the minds of the people of Malta, Acts 28:4.6. The lesson is "not to rate very highly human praise; not to be greatly depressed by human censure. Had Paul been desperately anxious to please Lystra, I fancy that stoning would have killed him."—Morrison. How did the missionaries close the first missionary journey? Properly and wisely, with a report to the home church at Antioch in Syria, which had sent them forth. This report was to the whole church, for all had a part in the work, and needed the stimulus of the report. Every member of the congregation should be in the missionary meeting. (2) It was a modest report, telling what "God had done with them," on their side, as an ally, and not recounting the achievements as their own. (3) It was an encouraging report, a report of progress, telling of the great forward step that had been taken, the admission of Gentiles into the church through "the door of faith," and no longer through the rite of circumcision. GOOD DRIED FRUITS THEIR POSSIBILITIES IN THE WAY OF DESSERTS. Are Most Delicious and Wholesome When Properly Cooked—How to Retain Sweetness and Flavor of Fresh Fruit. At this season, as the preserve closet stores are dwindling on the shelves, the housewife naturally turns to dried and evaporated fruits. Properly cooked, the dried fruits are delicious and wholesome. The only reason that their popularity A woman is making a soup. has ever waned has been due to bad cooking. All dried fruits require long soaking to restore the lost juices, then slow cooking to develop the latent sweetness and fruit flavor. Prunes cooked in this way need no sugar at all, unless one has a phenomenally sweet tooth. Currants and raisins lend themselves to a great variety of wholesome dishes, the currant particularly being now recognized as a real health food. Carefully dried apples make a sauce almost as good as the fresh apples, to say nothing of delicious pies and cakes. Cherries, plums and pears properly treated may be used satisfactorily almost any way that fresh fruits are cooked. Few housekeepers realize the possibilities of dried apricots as the basis of delicious desserts. Added to mincemeat or combined with other dried fruit their delicate acid flavor serves to bring out the rich flavor of other ingredients. They require long soaking—from ten to twenty hours—using plenty of sugar in the water in which they are soaked; if they are ripe and appetizing they are then ready for use, without any cooking whatever. Simply drain, boil the slurp down one half and pour over the fruit. If the fruit was put up a little green they may need some cooking; but it must be a gentle simmer, not a rapid boil, which toughens. A nice combination of flavors is found by using equal quantities of prunes and apricots. Wash thoroughly and soak over night in water to cover. The next morning simmer until tender, then press through a colander. Sweeten to taste and cook a little longer. Serve as sauce or allow a tablespoonful gelatin to each pint of the cooked fruit. Soak the gelatin in cold water for half an hour, then dissolve in boiling water or over the tea kettle. Stir thoroughly in with the fruit, turn into a mold and set in a cool place to harden. Serve with cream. Cherry Salad. Two cups of canned cherries, one cup canned pineapple cut, in small pieces, one cup white grapes, from which the seeds are removed, cut in quarter, and one half cup English walnut kernels. Mix fruit and nuts together. Add mayonnaise dressing mixed with cream. Do not mix uffl before serving. This serves six or seven people. Tapioca Salad. Cook one cup of tapioca until transparent. Remove seeds from half a pound of large white grapes and cut in halves; three large bananas, two oranges, one cup of pineapple, all cut in small pieces, and one cup of cherries. Add to this the cooked tapioca mix thoroughly, spread with shredded cocoanut and serve with whipped cream. Dainty Orange Baskets Use large, well-formed oranges. Cut out two corners to make a handle to the basket, scoop out inside. Make a filling of taploca cream flavored with the orange juice; let cream cool, fill the orange basket with the cream and top with whipped cream. Add either a maraschino cherry or a dot of red jelly to either side of handle. Winter Chili Sauce One can of tomatoes, two large onions, one tablespoon of salt, one teaspoon of pepper or a pinch of cayenne, one cup of sugar, one-half cup of vinegar, one-half teaspoon each of the different spices. Let cook slowly about two hours. It is nice on beans or cold meats and can hardly be told from fresh tomatoes. Apple Sauce Pie Line a plate with plain paste. Cover bottom with pieces of bread spread with butter. Over this pour custard made of one egg, one tablespoon sugar, one-half teaspoon cornstarch and one cup milk. Upon this spread apple sauce thickly and sprinkle with clnamon, then bake until custard is thick. Sardine Appetizer Have bread toasted crisp, hard crust removed. Beat together one teaspoonful of butter, one-half teaspoonful of mustard, a little cayenne pepper, one teaspoonful of Worcestershire sauce and a little lemon juice. Spread on toast, lay on sardines and set in oven a few minutes before serving. Sandwich Ham After boiling a piece of ham the short, shank end is generally stringy and often wasted. If this is passed twice through a meat chopper and then mixed with a little sweet cream it makes ham which is excellent for sandwiches. Time Savers. When ready to core apples, if you do not own a corer, use a common wooden clothes pin—does the work just as well. —Subscribe to The PLANET THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. THREE DISHES FOR DESSERT Walnut Custard Pie One of the Daintiest That Can Be Made—For Apple Pie de Luxe. Walnut Custard Pie.—This is a favorite dish at one of the New York hotels. Beat two eggs siligantly, and a scant half-cupful of sugar and a pinch of salt, pour over this two cupfuls of hot milk; mix well, strain and add half a teaspoonful of vanilla and half a cupful of finely-ground English walnuts. The nuts will rise to the top and form a tender crust to the custard. Pecans and almonds may be used in the same way. Silver Custard--Whites of three eggs slightly beaten; two tablespoonfuls fuls cold milk and two tablespoonfuls of sugar, a few grains of salt, and half a teaspoonful essence of lenn; mix well and pour on one pint of hot milk; bake in a small, deep pudding dish set in a pan of hot water till firm (20 to 30 minutes). Serve with a soft custard made of one pint of milk, yolks of three eggs, half a cupful of sugar, a few grains of salt and one teaspoonful of vanilla, or it may be served with a chocolate sauce for a change, made by adding two squares of dissolved, unsweetened chocolate to the above soft custard. Serve both ice cold. Apple Pie De Luxe--Into a deep pie plate without undercrust slice five apples, add two tablespoonfuls of sugar, a little cinnamon and bits of butter. Bake with a rich top crust. In serving, turn each piece upside down and lay on whipped cream sweetened and flavored. Potato Sweets Boll and mash a large potato, place while hot in large bowl, stir in as much sugar as will make a dough of the consistency of biscuit, flavor with vanilla or any preferred flavoring, and knead into it a cup of chopped nuts, English walnuts or mixed. Mold into a loaf and place in cool place. When ready to serve slice down in squares, cut into small blocks, and serve. This candy may be varied endlessly by different modes of treatment after the "dough" or fondant is made; it may be molded by the hands into bonbons with or without the addition of chopped nuts, dates, figs, etc. Bonbons may be ornamented with whole walnuts and dates are delicious stuffed with the candy. If colored candy is desired the fondant may be separated into parts and each colored with fruit or vegetable colorings. In this case of variety of flavors should also be used. Escalloped Fish. One pint of milk or cream, two tablespoons butter, two tablespoons flour, one cup bread crumbs moistened with melted butter, three pounds of any kind of white fish (I prefer the center of a fair-sized cod), a few sprigs of parsley, a little red pepper and a small onion. Boil fish one half hour in salted water, remove skin and bones, break apart with a silver fork. Boil milk in double boiler ten minutes with onion, put flour and butter in a saucepan, cook up smooth, adding the salt and pepper, then add to boiling milk. Put into baking dish a layer of sauce, then one of fish, and lastly the bread crumbs. Bake one half hour. Casserole of Potatoes Pare thin and wash 12 potatoes; cover with water, add salt and boll until tender. Drain and set on back of range for about ten minutes and add piece of butter size of an egg. When butter is melted mash them and stir in a little at a time one-half cup hot cream, then beat until light with a fork. Arrange on a hot dish, forming an oblong, high mound, hollowed in the middle. Brush inside and out with beaten yolk of egg and set in oven to brown. When done fill with a ragout of mutton or duck or macaroni and oysters in cream sauce and serve hot. F. cassseed Potatoes One of the Hungarian ways of transforming white potatoes is to fricasee them. A small onion is sliced, placed in a sauce pan with one dessertspoonful of butter, a dash of paprika and salt, and fried a light brown. The potatoes, cut in small squares, are then poured into the sauce pan, and covered with boiling water. When the water has boiled away, the potatoes are soft and mealy and tinted a golden red from the butter and paprika. They are just as good as they look.—Woman's Home Companion. Stuffed Sirloin. Procure a pork loin roast. Do not remove the tenderloin, but slit it and stuff with dry dressing made of stale crumbs highly seasoned with salt, pepper and sage. Roast in usual manner and serve with potatoes roasted in pan with same meat, brown gravy and apple sauce. Graham Cake. One and one-half cups sugar, one half cup lard, one cup raisins, one teaspoon each of cinnamon, allspice and nutmeg, one-half teaspoon salt, one and one-half cups sour milk, one teaspoon soda, and three cups graham flour sifted twice. Bake in a slow oven. Bread Sauce for Fowl Boil half an onion and a half cup of fine white bread crumbs in one pint of milk until the desired consistency. Remove the onion without breaking it, add one tablespoonful of butter, one-half teaspoonful of salt and a dash of white pepper. Nut Pick to Remove Covers A nut pick will be found a great convenience in the kitchen for removing the tops from milk bottles, removing broken corks from bottles and various other little jobs. Perplexity, Beauty's Mar. The forehead filled with lines is not always a sign of years. Often it is nothing but evidence of bad facial habits. Do you knit your eyebrows when you are thinking of perplexing matters or are down on your luck? If you do you will have a forehead seamed with lines and several deep furrows between the eyes. Good Car Service to all Points of City. A. Hayes OFFICE AND WARE-ROOMS, 727 North Second Street RESIDENCE, 725 N. 2nd St. First-class Hacks and Caskets of all descriptions. I have a spare room for bodies when the family have not a suitable place. All country orders are given special attention. Your special attention is called to the new style Oak Caskets. Call and see me and you shall be waited on individually. 'Phone, 2778. JOHN M. Higgins, Dealer in Phone, 2778. JOHN M. Higgins, Dealer in CHOICE GROCERIES, WINES, LIQUORS and CIGARS. PURE GOODS, FULL VALUE FOR THE MONEY. Is the Female Dept thirty persons to co. Fidelity, exercise an endowment and dues. The only e a rosette, costing a THE BANDS stitutes a feature a circle. 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We also expect that you will will be so well pleased that when you want a bicycle you will end a trial tire at once, hence this remarkable tire offer. FEED TIRES don't buy any kind at any price until you buy a pair of tires from anyone until you know the factory price quoted above; or write for our big Tire and Sundries all makes and kinds of tires at about half the usual prices. WAIT but write us a postal today. DO NOT THINK OF IT! it only costs a postal to learn everything. Write it NO AD CYCLE COMPANY, CHIC IF YOU NEED TIRES don't buy any kind at any price until you send for a pair of the special introductory price quoted above; or write for a big Tire on approval and trial at the special introductory price quoted above; or write for a big Tire on approval and trial describes and quotes all makes and kinds of tires at about half the usual prices. DO NOT WAIT but write on a postal day. DO NOT THINK OF buying a bicycle Status of Korean Miner. The Korean miner possesses all the good qualities of a miner with very few of his defects, being physically strong and very easy to handle. As regards the amount of work done, it is estimated that two Korean miners are more than equal to one white miner. Live Well the Present Day. To-day well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness and every to-morrow a vision of hope.—From the Sanscrit. Bookworms. There is no doubt that all books kept for a long time in libraries and other places become the abode of the germ and microbe. The Tartar's Manners: When a Tartar invites an honored guest to dine with him he will take the guest by the ear and lead him to the table. Self-Sacrifice Necessary The winner is he who gives himself to his work, body and soul—Burton. double RECON usually have knights of Pythias. KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAVS C. F. A. C. B. 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 organization of lodges apply at the main office. only absolutely necessary regu- apply at the main office. The Court Is the Female Department of the thirty persons to organize a co- Fidelity, exercise Harmony and an endowment and burial bene- dues. The only expense for m a rosette, costing 25 cents for i THE BANDS OF CALA stitutes a feature and persons a circle. The expense is nomin- $1.00 to $1.50 sick dues and d Lodge or Court or Band in you For all information concern For all information conce- membership in the lodges and The Courts of Calanthe The Courts of Calanthe Is the Female Department of the Order. It requires a membership of thirty persons to organize a court. Its members are pledged to exhibit Fidelity, exercise Harmony and prove Love one for the other. It pays an endowment and burial benefit of $150.00. It pays $3.00 per week sick dues. The only expense for regalia is the cost of the badge, 50 cents and a rosette, costing 25 cents for funeral occasions. THE BANDS OF CALANTHE or Children's Department also constitutes a feature and person sitates a feature and persons cannot do better than to enter the little ones into this mystic circle. The expense is nominal and the benefits all that could be expected. It pays from $1.00 to $1.50 sick dues and death benefits of from $30.00 to $40.00. If you have no Pythian Lodge or Court or Band in your neighborhood, orgniz one. For all information concerning special rates of membership in the lodges and courts, address FOR PURE ICE-CREAM. ICES, ETC. IN TO FAMILY TRADE. RECEIVED DAILY AND SERVED TO ORDER. Clock every night. Action to Dealers Dessale Trade. STON-S 'Phone, 2253. A RIDER AGENT IN EACH TOWN and district ta ride and exhibit for full particuliers and special offer at once. Until you receive and approve of your bicycle. 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PUNCTURE-PROOF $ 80 FRES A SAMPLE, PAIR RES TO INTRODUCE, ONLY hout allow- s from satis- ten pumped compses than being given abric on the pair, but for notion the thick rubber tread "U" and panure strips and "D," also film strip, "H" to prevent rim cutting. This tire will outlast any other make-SOFT, ELASTIC and EASY RIDING. padded same day letter is received. We ship C. O. D. our examined and found them strictly asramed. We thereby making the price $4.65 per pair if you choose this price. We returned at OUR expense if for any reason they are actually reliable and money sent to us is safe as a rule. I will find that they will ride easier, run faster, take you have ever tried on at any price. When you want a bicycle you will give us your order. Hence this remarkable tire offer. Any kind at any price until you send for a pair of bicycles you have ever tried on at any price. Write for our Big Tire and Sundry Catalogue which es at about half the usual prices. Come on! I NEVER THINK YOU BUYING a bicycle on anyone until you know the new and wonderful learn everything. Write it NOW. EMPANY, CHICAGO, ILL. Took Effect on the Trailer. "Laura," said Mr. Ferguson, laying aside his hat and overcoat, "I saw the worst train wreck half an hour ago I ever saw in my life." "Were you in it, George?" asked Mrs. Ferguson, turning pale. "No, but I helped to put out the blaze." "The blaze? Did the train take fire?" "Yes; and it burned fiercely." "How did it happen, and where?" "In a fashionable restaurant. Society woman accidentally stepped on a match." "O, you wretch!"—Chicago Tribune. The Confusing Anthem Mary Anderson de Navarro, at a luncheon in New York, told a story about her little boy. "In our church," she said, "the choir one Sunday morning sang the anthem, 'We all like sheep have strayed.' "You know how that anthem begins—'We all like sheep, we all like sheep.'" "Well, at the end of those two phrases my little boy whispered with a puzzled frown; "I suppose they mean they all like mutton, don't they?" This organization is one of the most powerful in the country and its progress has been phenomenal. The Grand Lodge of Virginia has jurisdiction over all of the cities and counties in this state. Thirty males are required to organize a new lodge. The benefits paid constitute one of its strongest features, but the principles are greater than anything else. Founded on Friendship, based on Charity and established on Benevolence, the respectable, upright people of the state will find it an order worthy of their heartiest support. N. A., S. A., E. A., A. AND A. organization is one of the most powerful has been phenominal. The Grand over all of the cities and counties is in need to organize a new lodge. The biggest features, but the principles based on Friendship, based on Charity, the respectable, upright people of their heartiest support. An endowment and burial benefit of per week sick dues. The badge of Galla. For information concerning hurts of Calantia in the Order. It requires a member court. Its members are pledged and prove Love one for the other. Benefit of $150.00. It pays $3.00 per regalia is the cost of the badge, 500 funeral occasions. ANTHE or Children's Department cannot do better than to enter the final and the benefits all that could death benefits of from $30.00 to $40 our neighborhood, orgrniz one. Mrs. ANNA TA 120 W. H. warning special rates of JOHN courts, address THE ECONOMY 303-5 North Third St FINE TAILORING CLEANING, DYEING AND REPAIRING CHITMAN M. WHITE, PROPRIETOR. Established 1890. Phone 4160. JOHN FOXEL, Dealer in General Line of FANCY AND STAPLE GROCERIES, NOTIONS, FRESH MEATS, CI- GARS, TOBACCO, ICE, WOOD, COA. 11 S. 4TH ST., RICHMOND, VA. BOARDING & LODGING Rates Reasonable. All the Comforts of Home Orders received by letter or telegraph MRS. BOOKER LEFTWICH, PROPRIETRESS 816 N. 2nd St., Richmond, Va. BLACKWELL & BRO Practical House and Sign Painters, Graining and General Contractors. ...ALL WORK GUARANTEED..... Cards, Letters or Orders. ...Give us a trial, you will never regret it.... Address, 608 St. Peter Street, RICHMOND, VA. 'Phone 5688. Nelson, s Hair Dressing can be be bought in Angles and Brown Drug Store, Pittsburgh, PA Truth in Old Saying. What the eye sees not the heart rues not.—Campion. Has Almost a Monopoly. Quebec supplies 90 per cent. of the world's supply of asbestos. Certainly Not Overlooked. "In short, sir, we go in far too little for what Matthew Arnold calls sweetness and light." "I don't see that—sugar and oil are the two biggest trusts we support."—Life. Passive Virtue Discredited I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and seeks her adversary. -Milton. Rubber. Rubber is a queer product. It thrives best in the hottest countries in the tropics, yet it cannot stand heat. In 1908 we imported $37,000,000 worth. Charity and Love. Without dew and light flowers fade. Charity and love are the dew and light of the human heart.—Mme. de Gentis. Money and Knowledge Money and Knowledge. Money and knowledge are wholly unlike in that the less knowledge one has the easier it is to pick up more. —Chicago Record-Herald. Ravages of Field Vermin. The department of agriculture estimates that the ravages of field mice and rats entail a direct loss of $20,000,000 annually. Olive Oil for Books. Olive oil rubbed over the library shelves will, it is said, prevent the mildewing of the books. the membership of led to exhibit er. It pays per week sick 50 cents and ment also con- the little ones into this mystic ld be expected. It pays from $40.00. If you have noPythian address, TAYLOR, W. M., Hill St., Richmond, Va. N MITCHELL, JR., 311 N. 4th St., Richmond, Va. 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A handsomely illustrated weekly. Largest circulation of any newspaper. Periodicals year, four months, $1. Sold by all new dealers. MUNN & Co. 361 Broadway, New York Branch Office, CS F St., Washington, D.C. Let the PLANET do your Job-work. S. W. ROBINSON. NO. 23 NORTH 18TH ST. DEALER IN FINE WINES, LIQUORS, CIGARS, &c. All Stock Sold as Guaranteed. PROMPT ATTENTION. Your patronage is respectfully solicited THE PLANET SATURDAY.....MAY 15, 1909 FOR DINING TABLE MANY NOVELTIES ARE SHOWN THIS SEAGON. Imported Accessories That Are Both Beautiful and Useful - Mission Chafing Dish That Will Surely Be Popular. Imported novelties for the dining table are the thing just now among people who are particular about being up to date in household accessories. Shops show many beautiful things in this line. A The Burgundy or champagne bottle-holder of German silver is most useful when serving tonics. It is so fashloned as to hold the bottle securely, and has a handle by which the wine can be poured with ease and without danger of spilling. When on the table it holds the bottle at the proper angle. The German silver wine cooler is a beautiful addition to the dining-room of those who entertain. The silver is highly polished, and ebony handles with silver mountings are particularly good style. A wine tankard of burnished copper comes from France. This is unique in design. The pattern is copied from an ancient Egyptian model. It can be used for lemonade, cider, beer, and would make a charming hot chocolate pot if large company were to be served. Another dainty novelty in copper is the glass holder. This is made especially for children's use, and is used to hold a glass of warm milk. The handle, which the child can grasp, precludes any danger of baby spilling his milk. It also will be of great assistance in the sickroom or to an invalid. There is a demand for plain, unadorned articles of household use. The mission chafing dish is an especially good model. Made of the finest nickel or silver, with cloony handles and base, absolutely plain and easy to keep clean to the sparkling point. it is admired by all good housekeepers. The college girl will appreciate this bit of plain silver, for nearly every college girl owns a chafing dish, and not one of them enjoys cleaning an ornate piece of silver where they are obliged to rub and rub and scrub with old tooth brushes in order to get into the crevices of the design. One girl's cry is echoed by all: "Give me a plain piece of silver that I can polish with a chamois and not get my hands all messed up with silver polish." EXERCISES FOR COLD FEET Defective Circulation Present, and Must Be Improved. Cold feet indicate a defective circulation, and relief will never be found until the circulation is improved. You may apply hot water bags and wear bed slippers, but the relief will only be temporary for these "cures" do not remove the cause. Ankle exercises will improve the circulation of the feet wonderfully. When sitting in a chair stretch the foot out, extending the toes to the extreme limit. Then rotate the foot up and down sideways and around in a circle. Then stand, supporting yourself by a table or chair, and with one foot slightly raised make it hang lifeless; in other words, devilize it. With a circular movement of the lower part of the limb swing the foot around many times. Exercise both feet in the same way. When you have stopped the exercise you will feel a peculiar tingling sensation in the feet. This is the blood rushing back to them. Almost at once, you will feel a comfortable sense of warmth that will be different from any feeling of warmth obtained by the use of hot water bags. Hat and Frock Express Idea The happy day of the hat that "goes with everything" is done. Now the hat which completes and makes a picture of one particular frock is the thing. And, mind you, that hat is not to be worn with any other frock. If it is, its meaning—warns the artist who is responsible for the whole costume—will be lost. Particularly in the case with the restaurant frock—never worn without a hat—is the hat a vital factor of success, and woe be to the woman who shames her, frock with headgear that does not correctly interpret it, or cheapens her hat by a gown that fails to carry out its meaning. Comfort for the Cold Fearer The mother who persists in dressing her children in heavy clothes will not be as pleased as will her daughter to hear that physicians are attributing the lessening susceptibility of our women to colds to unlined lingerie waists and cutaway coats. Each winter there are more and more summer frocks and blouses worn, while the low collars of last season seemed direct pneumonia breeders to the old-fashioned mother. Toys of Glass. So far have we gone in the hygiene of the nursery that we will now pre- sent children with toys of glass in stead of painted wood. The glass is so thick that it is barely possible that a child could break it. They are invented to keep a child from sucking the paint of wooden toys, but they are not inexpensive. SALT AND ITS VARIED USES. Minor fills and Discomforts Vanish Before Its Kindly Offices. Salt can almost be regarded as a panacea, so many and varied are its uses. It cleanses the palate and furred tongue and a gargle of salt and water is often efficacious. A pinch of salt on the tongue, followed ten minutes afterward by a drink of cold water, often cures a sick headache. It hardens gums, makes teeth white and sweetens the breath. Cut flowers may be kept fresh by adding salt to the water. Weak ankles should be rubbed with a solution of salt, water and alcohol. Bad colds, hay fever and kindred affections may be much relieved by using fine, dry salt, like snuff. Dyspepsia, heartburn and indigestion are relieved by a cup of hot water in which a small spoonful of salt has been melted. Salt and water will sometimes revive an unconscious person when hurt if other remedies are not at hand. Hemorrhage from tooth pulling is stopped by filling the mouth with salt and water. Weak and tired eyes are refreshed by bathing with warm water and salt. Salt rubbed into the scalp or occasionally added to the water in washing prevents the hair falling out. Feathers uncurled by damp weather are quickly dried by shaking over a fire in which salt has been thrown. Salt should always be eaten with nuts and a dessert fruit should be specially made. DESIGNED FOR THE BRIDE A charming suggestion for a bridal costume is made from ivory white liberty satin. The draped fichu is trimmed with bands of pearl passementerie, and where it crosses a trifle to left side there is a long sash falling to below knee depth and also trimmed with passementerie and finished with silk fringe. This is caught at bust line with a bunch of orange blossoms and the sleeves are alternate bands of tucked satin and passementerie. Plastron and high stock are tucked tulle. About Sleeves. Although the long sleeves, which are the style this season, are pretty and a welcome change from the short full sleeves which were the style for so many seasons, there is one drawback to them—namely: That they give one a narrow effect across the shoulders. Women with narrow shoulders and a flat chest look extremely narrow and thin in these tight sleeves. To a small extent this appearance may be done away with. Most of the sleeves have a slight fullness at the top of the arm, and when gathering this fullness stitch the top of the sleeve with two rows of machine stitching about a quarter of an inch apart. When sewing the sleeve into the waist sew along the line of the first stitching and leave the other row to show at the top of the sleeve. This will give a pretty tailored finish to the top of the sleeve and will hold the top of the sleeve firmly up so that it will give an inch or so on each side to the width of the shoulders. You will be surprised to note how this adds to the appearance of a waist. A Practical Use of Ribbon. Warranted to weather all sorts of weather is a simple yet effective ribbon trimming which is entirely new this year. The graceful "Janet" hat in to-day's illustrations shows this unusual mode of trimming. Yards and yards of three-inch satin ribbon, edged at one side with pliable wire, are massed into a full rosette. Still more yards are arranged in lapping folds around the crown. Even with the lavish amount of ribbon employed, such a hat would prove quite inexpensive and be both practical and attractive for runabout wear. To Protect the Sleeves To protect your sleeves when doing kitchen work wear cuffs of white oilcloth about seven inches long. Stitch them on the machine. Five cents' worth of table oilcloth makes two pairs—the time required for making each pair, five minutes. They are easily adjusted, quickly wiped off, and to a housewife prove a "joy forever." The Gentleman. He is gentle if he doth what 'longest to a gentleman—Chaucer. THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA FASHIONS IN FURS FASHIONS IN FURS COMBINATIONS NOW FORM THE CHIEF MOTIF. Neckpieces, Muffs and Hats Combine with Ribbon Bows and Rosettes —Good Reason for Seeming Over-Elaboration. Fortunately the woman who has a piece of fur too worn about the edges to be worn in its present shape, yet not unworthy of recutting, for she may imitate at very slight expense the novelties that bring so high a price in the shops. A very little piece of fur will do for a neckpiece, muff or hat, for the style is now to combine with ribbon bows, rosettes and ruffles, and even with inset lace. A most elaborate combination, you will say—but think—how can we protect our throats from winter's chill and yet have our huge incroable revers and other directore motifs uncovered to admiring gaze? As for the muffs, they must assuredly not present an unbroken expanse of fur in opposition to the much berunified stoles above them. Then why should not My Lady Dainty boast a hat to match? The note of novelty in the simple ruffled bands of fox fur, sable, mink and martin. is this, that almost without exception they are joined to the head of the animal on the side instead of in front or back. The ends, moreover, if there be ends, are made to hang over the back of the left shoulder, for the new coats all protect the throat. There are also little chokers of mink, martin and other soft furs that fasten in back with a knot of ribbon. These may or may not have separate pelts set on the bottom of the collar at the sides with tails and heads over-hanging front or back. But more attractive still are the little folded collars of velvet banded at the top with a bit of short-haired fur, which is in turn completed by a plaited ruche of double-faced satin ribbon. Colors are often used in this combination, moss green with a touch of gold being employed to brighten up the lighter furs, white also being seen with black. The muffs foremost in favor are the large pillow affairs made up of alternate strips of fur and inset lace, or of fur set off by ribbon frilling. The furs of the winter's vogue are the richest, glossiest things that ever an animal grew for woman's adornment. Sable and chinchilla take the lead, though their great expensiveness makes them prohibitive to mere ordinary mortals. Black lynx and pointed fox rank second in favor, the glossy lynx in particular setting off the satin coats and hats to advantage. Our drawing shows a fancy neckpiece of ermine, with plaitings of chiffon and lace. It is made with a high ruche around the neck, and the fur bands are finished with the ermine tails. The hat on this figure shows a combination of lace, fur and paradise plumes for trimming. Just below are two fancy neckpieces, one of plaited chiffon and ribbon, and the other of fur finished by a bow. Smart Coat o? Mink A mink coat seen at a smart furrier's had its side seams open to the waist line and the sides cut away in front almost to the waist line. The full sleeves were shaped into deep, almost close, cuffs from the elbows down. The turned-down collar was of pale brown velvet edged with gold bullion trimming, and the small revers matched. The coat closed single breasted with large dull gold cabochons set with topaz rhinestones, a dull gold cord looping over them, and each side of the open side seams, at the top, were cabochons similarly joined, and each cuff showed two smaller cabochons. A heavy braid in brown, picked out with gold thread an inch and a half wide went all around the edges of the coat and around the bottom and up the outside seam of the cuffs.—N. Y. Times. Vivid Linings for Coats. The new black satin coats, which are made on directive lines and worn with black skirt or over colored frocks, are lined with brilliant colors. A lining of plain black or white, or black and white, is commonplace. One has wistaria, catawba, vivid geranium, American beauty, and the new pink as choices for linings. There is no repetition of this color on the collar and cuffs, but the lining has a way of showing. Some fastidious women repeat the color of their hats. Bloomer Petticoats Bloomer petticoats have considerable favor because of the closeness of the new skirts. KIMONO INSTEAD OF MANTLE. English Women Have Made Decided Change in Style. English women have exchanged the kimono and the liberty cape for the mantle. These are considered the proper evening wraps for young girls no less than women of middle age. Those worn by young girls are made of satin and a lightweight serge. For A Homelike Cottage. Arranged For One or Two Estimated C Copyright, 1900, by Glenn L. PERSPECTIVE VIEW—FR Arranged For One or Two Stories and Basement Estimated Cost, $1,700. Copyright, 1909, by Glenn L. Saxton, Minneapolis, Minn. PERSPECTIVE VIEW—FROM A PHOTOGRAPH PORCH BATH KITCHEN 11-6 X 9-6 CLO BED ROOM 10-6 X 9-0 DIMING ROOM 14-0 X 12-0 CLO BED ROOM 30-6 X 12-0 LIVING ROOM 15-0 X 12-0 PIAZZA ROOM PLAN. older women they are made of silk or cloth. The Marie Louise style of dressing is the newest style in grooming hair. The hair is parted on the side and a great many little curls and puffs are worn on either side of the face. Though certainly chic, it is only becoming to certain types. The ra_e for hand-made lingerie has reached its climax. Some of the finest shops show suits in hand-woven linen trimmed with the handsomest laces in exquisite designs, such as fine Alencon and Irish. The princess tunic seems to be taking an odd turn. Some of the afternoon and evening dresses have a turned up piece in washer woman fashion. Behind this forms two ends, which are knotted together. The open mesh so popular in walstars and vells is being adapted in stockings. Filet net stockings in lisle and silk are all the rage. They are trimmed with square embroidered dots and are especially designed to be worn with patent leather pumps. SHOWER BATH AS TONIC. Beneficial for Those Physically Able to Take Them. Not everyone is strong enough to stand a shower bath, but when taken properly it has a tonic effect. The best test whether it is beneficial or harmful is whether one is in a glow afterwards or feels creepy for several hours. The shock is not good for anyone with a weak heart, and no one who is not well should use a shower except by the advice of a physician. As a rule, the best time for a cold shower is on rising in the morning; the system is strongest then. Do not stay under the shower too long, a minute is quite long enough, unless one has exceptional strength. It is well to prepare for the cold shower by dashing cold water on you first or by taking a tepid shower and gradually getting it colder. Never take a cold shower when chilly. The cold feeling is a sign that your physical condition is not up to the mark. Follow a shower by hard rubbing and by a few physical exercises. Some women go back to bed for five minutes after the bath before dressing. The rest overcomes any shock from the cold water. Do not stoop forward unduly in taking a shower. It is not good for the spine to receive the first shock of cold at the base of the brain or between the shoulders. HAT OF OLIVE GREEN A choice bit of millinery is shown in the above cut. The attractive shape is a rich shade of olive green with a --- two Stories and Basement. Cost, $1,700. Saxton, Minneapolis, Minn. FROM A PHOTOGRAPH. ```markdown ``` In this design I present something which is in great favor on the coast, and, though only the first floor is finished, there is ample room on the second floor for a couple of small rooms. Because of its simplicity it should also prove to be an economical house to build. The rooms are all of generous size. The size over all is 27 feet by 38 feet. The basement is seven feet high and the first floor nine feet. Either a large or small basement can be had, at the option of the builder. The exterior is sided, though either shingles or plaster would look well. Cost to build, exclusive of heating and plumbing. $1,700. GLENN L. SAXTON. Architect. ```markdown ``` band of velvet a shade darker edging the under brim. On top there is a chic arrangement of richly colored velvet dahlias with foliage of natural shadings, which almost entirely covers the medium-high crown. To Put on the Veil. It is an art to get a veil on well, and much depends on the start. Always tie a new veil in a small knot in the center of the upper edge. This will give a little fulness, which permits it to lie over the face without stretching. Pin—never tie—the two upper ends on the hat and the two lower ends low down on the hair, almost at the neck. A trick of taking care of the lower front edge at the chin line is to pull it well down, twist in the middle and tuck the twisted part down into your collar. This keeps it secure and makes a becoming frame to the chin if you are slender, but if you have a full neck do not let the veil come over it. 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The League has been called to meet at the Dunbar Theatre in Columbus, Ohio, on May 26, 1909, at 10 o'clock A. M. It is expected that the sessions will last two days with public meetings in commodious places of assembly during the sessions. At the coming meeting it is intended to take notice of what has been accomplished thus far, to discover mistakes, if any, and to arrange to avoid them in the future, and above all to lay plans to carry on the work begun and the work to be done, and to invoke the blessings and assistance of Almighty God in arousing our people for the mighty struggle in which they are engaged. To this meeting every member and every person who have contributed to or assisted the League in its work are cordially invited—especially will be welcomed to it all the Friends of Freedom and of Equality of Rights, who regard these matters as of paramount importance and who have found it difficult to retain their allegiances under existing conditions. Issued at Washington, D. C., May 8th, 1909. The Y. M. C. A. Conference is still boiling. The debate was full of spirit last Friday evening. Subject: "Rescue," That a consecrated number of Christian men is more protection to the country than a strong Navy. Affirmative: Messrs, John L. Ballard and Bernard L. Allen, Negative Messrs, D. E. Jeffress and Julian Taylor. There was quite a struggle, but the negative won. Keep at it men. The Sunday-school lesson was explained by Prof. J. W. Barco last Saturday. The committees from the alms house for last Sunday brought good reports. The work in the jail was a great success last Sunday. Five prisoners were won on the Lord's side. Mr. Bernard L. Allen, Secy. of the Boys' Work conducted the boys' meeting last Sunday. Every boy was helped. Rev. C. S. Harper, B. B. addressed the men last Sunday. Subject: "Man's Duty To Society." The cry is come again my brother. Our brother knows how to talk to men. Mr. Joseph Matthews sang from his heart. Be on time to-day 5 P. M. at the Y. M. C. A. building, Prof J. W. Barco will meet the class. Men be on time Sunday ready for hard work and the other man. A special meeting for boys Sunday 4 P. M. at the Y. M. C. A. Building. Dr. G. D. Pinkney, pastor of the Fist Union Baptist Church will address the men Sunday 3:30 P. M. at the True Reformers' Hall. Subject: "The Seagull." Special songs. Bring the other man. Be on time. The Y. M. C. A. night school will close at the Sharon Baptist Church, Thursday, May 27th. 8 P. M. Rev. J. E. Jones, D. D., will deliver the address. Subject: "The Dignity of Labor." Special music by the chair of the church. Leader, Prof. Thomas H. Hopkins. Keep praying for the Y. M. C. A. This is to certify that I have received from John Mitchell, Jr., Grand Chancellor of the Grand Lodge of Virginia, Knights of Pythias, N. A., S. A. E. A. A. and A., ($150.00) One Hundred and Fifty Dollars in payment of the death claim of Brother James A. West, who was a member of Macedonia Lodge, No. 59, of Danville, Va. WANTED—A Pharmacist wanted at once good position for right person. For particulars apply to PANEL BROS., Augusta and Prospect Streets, Staunton, Va. VIRGINIA—In the Law and Equity Court of the City of Richmond, Virginia, April 1, 1909. Hryes, Sallie H. S. Sante Defendant. The object of this suit is to obtain an absolute divorce by the plaintiff from the defendant. And an affidavit having been made and filed that the defendant is a non-resident of this State, it is ordered that she appear here within fifteen days after due publication of this order to protect her interest herein. A Copy—Toste: P. P. WINSTON, Clerk. R. W. IVEY, p. g. Mrs. Bettle Graves, of Radnor, Pa. is very anxious to locate or hear some information whereabouts of her grandmother, Mrs. Kelley. Address all communication. --- HIGH THE PLANET Negro American Political League The National Negro American Political League Lining Up For Work Senator J. B. Foraker and Governor Harmon To Speak At Its Annual Meeting. Officers of The National Negro American Political League have issued a call for the second annual meeting to be held at Columbus, Ohio, on May 26th and 27th. This League was formed at Philadelphia, about a year ago. The basis of the League was the merging of a number of national, state and local political organizations. They announced its purpose to be to convince the colored voters, particularly in the North and West of the necessity of using their ballots primarily to secure race rights, rather than in the interest of any particular political party. The League conducted a vigorous fight against the nomination of Mr. Taft by the Republican Convention at Chicago, because his position on race matters was unsatisfactory and because he had approved and defended the dismissal of the Black Battallion and because he was the avowed candidate of President Roosevelt and apparently committed to his policies, which were regarded as being extremely imminent to the race. After Mr. Taft's nomination, it opposed his election strongly. Surprise and alarm were created at the Republican headquarters on account of the fight that was waged during the campaign and it was conceded that noticeable inroads were made in the Colored Republican vote in several states. Had the election been normally close such a bolt would have had decisive results. The call invites the attendance and co-operation of all persons of all races who are in sympathy with its purposes, which are broadly stated as the cause of equal rights and equal opportunities. Particular interest attaches to the coming meeting at Columbus because it is to be addressed by Ex-Senator Joseph B. Foraker, the peerless champion of the Black Battallion, Gov. Harmon, of Ohio, and other prominent men of both races will speak at the public meetings of the League. It is also announced that it is hoped to have present Mr. Jason Brown, the only surviving son of John Brown, and that Mr. W. F. S. Cook, the son of John Edwin Cook, one of John Brown's principal lieutenants will be present at the meeting. One public meeting will be devoted especially to the memory of John Brown, as this is the Jubilee year of his martyrdom. The officers of the League maintain that events have fully justified their stand or last year, and hold that present conditions demand the continuance and extension of work along the same lines. They are quite satisfied, with what has been accomplished, and claim to be the most effective race organization of national scope. The offices of the League are at 1334 V St., N. W., Washington, D. C., Rev. J. Milton Waldron, D. D., of the District of Columbia is President; Wm. Monroe Trotter of Boston is Corresponding Secretary and Hon. Archibald H. Grimke, of Boston, Treasurer. Among the other National officers of the League are the National Vice Presidents: Bishop Henry Turner, D. D. LLD; Rev. J. Byron Gunner, D. D. N. Y.; Mr. E. T. Morris, Mass., and W. Ashie Hawkins, Esq., Md.; Rev. L. G. Jordan, D. D., Louisville, Ky., Recording Secretary; Mr. W. T. Ferguson, Washington, D. C., Asst. Recording Secretary; Rev. S. L. Corrothers, D. D., Washington, D. C., Financial Secretary; Mr. Granville T. Martin, N. Y., Sergeant-at-Arms; Rev. E. W. Moore, D. D., Pa., Rev. Garnett R. W. Waller, D. D., Md.; J. R. Clifford, Esq., W. Va.; Dr. O. M. Waller, Esq., W. Va.; Dr. O. M. Waller, Esq., D. C.; Rev. W. H. Scott, D. D, Woburn Mass.; National Organizers The Call of The National Negro American Political League To All Lovers of True Freedom To Meet At Columbus, Ohio, May 26th and 27th. To all Lovers of True Freedom who believe in Equality of Rights, Privileges and Opportunities for all Americans without regard to race or color.— GREETING A little more than a year has passed since a number of individuals met at Philadelphia and formed The National Negro American Political League, whose prime object is thus stated: "To organize and train the colored men of America to use their ballots to secure for the race every right guaranteed it under the Constitution of the United States." The original call and the address adopted at the first meeting set forth in detail the reasons which made an organization having such a purpose, a national necessity. The same reasons apply to-day with added force. For none of the dangers and evils therein enumerated have in the least abated and new dangers menace the freedom and citizenship of the race. At that meeting a certain plan to J. MILTON WALDRON, President Y. M. C. A. NOTES $150.00 ENDOWMENT PAID Danville, Va., May 8, 1909 Witness: WM. CARTER. J. H. JOHNSON, H. S. KEEN. IN CHANCERY Want to Find Her. MRS. BETTIE GRAVES, Care of Mrs. Henley, Radnor, Pa THE KN . LOND PLANET. RICHMOND. VIRGINIA STATEMENT OF THE FINANCIAL CONDITION OF Mechanics Savings Bank of Richmond located at Richmond in the County of Henrico, State of Virginia at the close of business, 28th day of April 1909, made to the State Corporation Commission. RESOURCES Loans and discounts . . . $8991.26 Overdrafts . . . 1133.90 Bonds, securities, etc., owned, including premium on same . . . 2630.00 Other real estate owned . . 98265.13 Furniture and fixtures . . . 2160.62 Exchanges and checks for next day's clearings . . . 1422.39 Due from National Banks . . 11216.70 Paper currency . . . 1492.00 Fractional paper currency, nickels and cents . . . 60.60 Gold coin . . . 577.50 Silver coin . . . 630.35 All other items of resources . . 2616.71 Mortgages . . . 8045.55 LIABILITIES Capital stock paid in ..... $25060.00 Surplus fund ..... 6250.00 Dividends unpaid ..... 317.91 Individual deposits subject to check ..... 32731.98 Savings Deposits ..... 74877.22 Certified checks ..... 5.60 Total ..... $13924.71 I. Thomas H. Wyatt, do solemnly swear that the above is a true statement of the financial condition of Mechanics' Savings Bank of Richmond, located at Richmond in the county of Henrico, State of Virginia, at the close of business on the 28th day of April, 1909 to the best of my knowledge and belief. THOS. H. WYATT, Cashier. Correct—Attest: THOS. M. CRUMP. THOMAS SMITH. J. J. CARTER. Directors. State of Virginia, City of Richmond, S sworn to and subscribed before me by Thomas H. Wyatt, this 10th day of May, 1909. J. THOS. HEWIN, Notary Public. My commission expires 18th day of April, 1910. STATEMENT OF THE FINANCIAL CONDITION OF The Nickel Savings Bank, located at Richmond in the County of Henrico, State of Virginia, at the close of business April 28, 1909, made to the State Corporation Commis- RESOURCES Loans & discounts..... $6925.40 Overdrafts secured..... 600.00 Other real estate owned..... 13540.00 Furniture and fixtures..... 1700.00 Exchanges and checks for next day's clearings..... 93.81 Due from National Banks..... 730.86 Paper currency..... 2940.00 Fractional paper currency, nickels and cents..... 262.43 Gold coin..... 390.00 Silver coin..... 265.00 LIABILITIES Capital stock paid in.....$8900.00 Surplus fund.....1400.28 Individual deposits subject to check.....14622.80 Demand certificates of de- posit.....9524.49 I. R. F. Tancil, President, do solemnly swear that the above is a true statement of the financial condition of The Nickel Savings Bank, located at Richmond in the County of Henrico, State of Virginia, at the close of business on the 28th day of April 1909, to the best of my knowledge and belief. R. F. TANCIL, President, Correct—Attest: BENJAMIN SMITH. R. J. BASS. J. H. JONES. State of Virginia, City of Richmond, S sworn to and subscribed before me by R. F. Tancell, this 12th day of May, 1909. GEO. W. LEWIS, Notary Public. My commission expires Feb. 19. '10. Injurious Only to Pedestrian. The white car tore very smoothly along the straight road between the fields. "And they say"—her red lips curled in a disdainful smile—"they say that the jar of automobiling is injurious to the nerves!" "Pooh," he sneered, "it is only foot passengers who say that!" And he steered with splendid skill straight at a fat old man with a sack of grain on his back. Knows Our Weakness "He's a great success. He can make everybody believe that he is very wise, and so he gets what he wants." "How does he work it? He really hasn't much sense." "No, but he knows how to assume an air of respectful admiration for you that's more effective than any con talk ever sprung." Cleveland Leader. Smooth and Hard They were roller skating in the big rink. "Suppose," began the young man, with a far away look, "suppose I should fall, strike the floor and put myself out of business." "In that case," laughed the pretty girl, "I suppose you would have a hardwood finish." Trotter—How is your old friend Black getting along? Homer—Oh he's making a fortune out of an infant industry. Trotter—Infant industry? Homer—Yes He manufactures incubators.—Chicago Daily News. N. WINSTON, CONFECTIONER. Headquarters for Wholesale Special Attention to Fam sions, Sunday School Furnished on Choice Pound and W nished to Order. For FRUITS AND N. WIN 537 Brook Ave., 'Phone Headquarters for Pure Ice-Cream Wholesale and Retail. Special Attention to Family Trade, Picnics, Excursions, Sunday Schools, Lawn Parties, Etc. Furnished on Short Notice. Choice Pound and Wedding Cakes furnished to Order. Foreign and Domestic FRUITS AND DELICACIES. 537 Brook Ave., Richmond, Va. 'Phone, 2253. CAPT. HAINS FOUND GUILTY Slayer of Annis Convicted of Manslaughter. PENALTY ONE TOTWENTYEARS Counsel For Defense Will Ask For a New Trial on Ground That Jury Had Not Been Properly Guarded During the Trial. Flushing, N. Y., May 12.—Captain Peter C. Hains, Jr., U. S. A., faces a prison term of from one to twenty years. Despite all the testimony submitted by the defense as tending to show insanity, he was convicted of manslaughter in the first degree for killing William E. Annis at the Bayside Yacht club last August. Quickly following the young army officer's conviction, his counsel announced that they would produce affidavits to show that the jury had not been properly guarded during the trial, and upon this allegation will urge that a new trial be granted. These affidavits will be submitted on Monday, the time set for passing sentence and for any motions that the defendant's counsel desires to make. There will, of course, be the usual motions to set aside the verdict as against the weight of evidence and contrary to law, but the unguarded jury feature is the only departure from the stetotyped procedure looking to a new trial. Daniel O'Reilly, of counsel for the defense, said: Jury Permitted to Roam. "There was no evidence in this case to warrant a verdict of manslaughter. It should either have been murder in the first degree or acquittal on the grounds of insanity. The jurors were permitted to roam about the county in an automobile and go right to the verge of the scene of the homicide, which is clearly against the law. We will have affidavits to prove that such is the case, and also that the jurors were permitted to leave the jurisdiction of the county and to have been on government property at Fort Torton, all of which will be urged as a ground for setting aside the verdict." No one was more surprised than District Attorney Dewitt, who had said all he could hope for was a disagreement. As he heard the decision of the jurors Hains' face was as white as chalk. He stood for a few moments motionless, staring at the jury after he heard the verdict. A few moments later, apparently little affected by the verdict, he walked from the courtroom with a steady stride between his two lawyers and was taken back to the Queens county jail. In striking contrast to the demeanor of the prisoner was the grief of his aged father, General Peter C. Hains, and his brother, Major John Power Hains. For a minute they sat as if idazed, then broke down and wept. The captain's aged mother, who was such a pitiful figure in court during the trial, was not in court, having returned to New York. General Hains, however, quickly communicated the verdict to her over the telephone. NIGHT RIDERS GUILTY Fourteen Sent to Jail For Ten Days and Fined $500 Each. Waverly, Tenn., May 12—A verdict of guilty was returned in the case of the fourteen men charged with being members of the night riders' organization and with whipping J. M. Reece on Oct. 15, 1908. The punishment was fixed at ten days in jail and a fine of $500 for each. They were remanded to jail under a strong military guard. After the verdict was announced the defendants shook hands with each other, and they played the banjo and danced in jail. Charleston W Va to Be Charleston, W. Va., May 12.—The new city council at its first meeting voted Charleston dry, adopting by 21 to 17 votes a resolution refusing licenses to saloons. The question of saloons had not been agitated and the action came as a surprise. Fifty-five saloons are affected. "I shall scream if you attempt to kiss me," said the young girl. "You don't dare," said the young man. "It's against the rules in this flat to make any unusual noise after 10 p. m." Realizing that his argument was good, the young lady relented. Against the Rules Pure Ice-Cream and Retail. Family Trade, Picnics, Excursions, Lawn Parties, Etc. Short Notice. Wedding Cakes fur-oreign and Domestic DELICACIES. INSTON, Richmond, Va. , 2253. Why She Was Changed. A little girl in Knoxville, Tenn., asked the family whether they had not noticed recently that she had had a different and a very sweet expression. They said: "Perhaps so, but what would be the reason?" She replied: "Well, thoughts of Jesus, and then the new way I do my hair."—Dellmeator. Deserved to Escape. A Russian political prisoner condemned to death at Kleff recently escaped from prison as he was on the point of being driven to the place of execution. Although in chains, the man ran over half a mile before he was overtaken and recaptured. He was subsequently harmed. If you sit around any particular store or office a good deal, you can bet you are unpopular at that particular store. The preorder grows about you to his friends, and would like to get up the nerve in order to give you both barrels. - Atlantic Globe. "I am about to commit suicide" writes a friend. "Can't see any other way out of it. You see, I was married, about a year ago, and 29 unmarried friends sent nice wedding presents. Well, they are all going to get married this month." Tree Tenacious of Life The "life tree" grows in Jamaica. It gets its name from the fact that if the leaves are broken from the plant, they will nevertheless continue to grow. Nothing will destroy their life except fire. "That girl's all right," said the blonde girl in the dressing room, after she had looked everywhere for her overshoes. "The one who has just left; she's gone off with both the right overshoes and left me the ones." Buttons in Contribution Box Plates are to be substituted for collection bags at St. Mary's church, Doyer, mainly on the express ground that so many buttons have been found in the latter—Pall Mall Gazette. Some people, in addition to crossing bridges before they are reached, go to the trouble and expense of building bridges where there is never likely to be any water. When a vessel is on her trial trip she runs four times over a measured mile, twice with and twice against the tide. Her average speed is thus arrived at. 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