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THE RICHMOND PLANET VOLUME XXVI. NO. 40. PYTHIAN TEMPLE TAX ABOLISHED. The Meeting of the Supreme Lodge Full Attendance—Grand Parade. Next Session in Indianapolis. Kansas City, Mo., Aug. 28.—The Fifteenth biennial session of the Supreme Lodge of Knights of Pythias of North and South America, Europe Asia, Africa and Australia, which has been in session here during the week, has closed one of the most successful meetings ever held in the history of that body, and the people were loud in their praise of the gallant Knights, the members of the Supreme Court, of Calanthe, and the encampment of the Pythian army, the Uniform rank, came in for part of the praise. Several thousand people in the city from all parts of the country brought forth many favorable expressions touching their conduct, the men were gentlemen in every particular. The large number who visited Camp Carruthers to witness the drills, dress parades and other military maneuvers were highly elated over the results of their visits. The Supreme Court of Calanthe, while subordinate to some extent to the Supreme Lodge attracted large attention, because it was presided over by Hon. John W. Strauther, of Greenville, Miss. Strauther was appointed to fill the position of vice Supreme Chancellor in 1908 at the death of the Supreme Chancellor. S. W. Starks. Hence many were anxious to see him preside. Five thousand people listened to the bend contest Tuesday night at Convention hall, and took part in the prominade which followed. The contest between three great negro bands in this part of the country was something new, and will be remembered for years to come. There were to be eight bands in the contest, but when the smaller bands heard the music from the big bands at once needed they could not measure up to them and withdrew from the contest. The game, was called at 10 o'clock and the Eighth Regiment band, of Chicago, took the first inning under the direction of William E. Berry, and the rendition of "Il Trovatore," by the 35 musicians almost shook the steel girders of the big hall. It is said that the strong applauses which followed came straight from the hearts of a music loving people. The second selection was the "Flower of Italy," a waltz. St. Louis band was second at the bat, and it concluded the Overture from William Tell, "Heart Throbs" and then came a selection from Desdune Band, of Omaha. During the rendition of his first selection, many of the auditors went to sleep, but when it was announced by the chairman of the local Committee Nelson C. Crews that the next selection would be "Missouri Maze" the audience began to gaze. The leader, himself, started the "Maze" on a cornet, and before he had finished the first bar every one in the audience was cheering. It was rag, strictly rag and seemed to reach the heart and feet of all present, and it was then the verdict of the audience that the Omaha band had carried off the first prize, but the judges who weighed the music and were not moved by feeling rendered the first prize to the Eighth of Chicago, second to Omaha, and third to St. Louis. The feature of the session Wednesday was the biennial address of Supreme Chancellor Green, which was replete in information concerning the Knights. He found many good things to say about the order and its conditions, covering his administration from the death or Supreme Chancellor Starks, April 1908, to the present. It was shown that the finances had been well guarded by the new Supreme Chancellor, and an effort to follow the policy of Col. Starks was shown. There were many questions asked at the conclusion of the address. Rev. E. B. Topp, of Mississippi presided during the delivery of the address. To turn from the business of the Supreme Lodge and pay tribute to the fallen hero, S. W. Starks, was the sad part of the meeting. This was done Wednesday night at Allen Chapel, A. M. E. church. The rostrum was appropriately draped. Supreme Chancellor Green presided. The speakers were Dr. E. E. Underwood, of Frankfort, Ky.; Mrs. C. K. Robinson, St. Louis, Mo.; Dr. C. M. Wade, Hot Springs, Ark.; and the eulogy was delivered by Col. Roscoe C. Simmons, Grand Chancellor from New York. It was a masterly effort. Thursday after the report or the officers, and the finance committee the Supreme Lodge went into the election of officers. The following officers were elected: S. W. Green, New Orleans, La., Supreme Chancellor; John W. Strather, Greenville Miss., Supreme Vice Chancellor; C. K. Robinson, St. Louis, Mo., Supreme Keeper of Records and Seal; J. H. Young, Phe Bluff, Supreme Master of Exchequer; A. H. Newton, Camden, Supreme Prelate; S. D. Miller, Paris, Ky., Supreme Master at Arms; Geo. A. Watty, Baltimore; Md. Supreme Inner Guard; Dennis Taylor, Jacksonville, Fla., Supreme Outer Guard; Dr. J. H. Ward, Supreme Medical Registrar; R. R. Jackson, Chicago, Ill. Major General, S. A. T. Watkins, Chicago, Ill. Supreme Attorney; Temple and Sanitarium Commissioners, Dr. C. M. Wade Arkansas; Dr. E. E. Underwood, Kentucky; J. M. Hazelow, West Virginia; Dr. A. M. Prince, Texas; A. L. Libby, Missouri, W. J. I. Reed, Indiana; C. D. Creswell, Ga.; with S. W. Green, Louisiana, John W. Stranther, Mississippi and C. K. Robinson, Missouri, ex-officio members. E. D. Green, of Chicago, is secretary of the commission. THE SUPREME COURT No time in the history of the court were there as many visitors, from all parts of the country, and the sessions were interesting from opening to the closing session, when the women led by Mrs. M. E. Moore sang, "God Be With You 'Till We Meet Again." This proved to be one of the most interesting sessions ever held, and the new Supreme Worthy Counsellor Hon. John W. Strauther made his way to the hearts of all the members and when the committee from the Supreme Court bore greetings to the Grand Supreme Lodge, they expressed thanks to that body for sending Mr. Strauther. He proved to be a master of the situation, and demonstrated his ability as a presiding officer, one well posted on conditions and showed that he was a leader, possessing that magnetism which draws men and women to him. It was Sir Strauthers first time to preside over the Supreme Court, hence much interest was manifested in him and his work. Many were anxious to see him preside, and to see what there was in him. His words of wisdom and advice were accepted, and his good humor accepted by the delegates. The Supreme Court got down to business, and a committee on credentials reported which was discussed at length. The representatives from Mississippi had a protest entered against their being seated. The committee on credentials referred the matter to the committee on appeals. This decision was set aside and then ordered to report on the credentials. The following morning the committee reported seating the Mississippi. The sessions of the Supreme Court were harmonious, and the business dispatched with rapidity. The following officers were elected: J. W. Strauther, Greenville, Miss. Supreme Worthy Counselor; Mrs. R. L. Barnes, Savannah, Ga. Supreme Inspector; Mrs. C. Allen, Shreveport, La. Senior Inspector; Mrs. M. B. Reed, Jacksonville, Fla. Junior Inspector; Mrs. M. J. Hazelwood, Charleston, W. Va. Supreme Orator; Mrs. C. L. Proctor, Birmingham Ala. Supreme Escort; Miss M. L. Chiles, Richmond, Va. Conductor; Mrs. M. S. Johnenburger, Fort Smith Ark. Assistant Conductor; Mrs. C. A. Curl, Chicago, Supreme Register of Deeds; Mrs. A. D. Keys, Greenville, Texas, Receiver of Deposits; Mrs. Bertha Reed, Indianapolis, Herald; J. S. Fielding, Protector; Mrs. A. E. Loverette, Cincinnati, Ohio, Lecturer; Dr. A. M. Prince, Sherman, Texas, Medical Registrar. The crowning point was reached Friday night at the Convention hall, when Major General Jackson, and his army of 3,000 men were reviewed by 15,000 who also witnessed an exhibition drill between select companies. On this occasion music was furnished by the Eighth Regiment Band of Illinois. This was the favorite during the entire encampment, and many compliments were paid the leader W. E. Berry. When Chairman, N. C. Crews, of the local committees announced the time was on for the drill, the band played the "Missouri Maze" which had been made famous during the contest by the band from Omaha. Then followed the drills. Each company was at its best. Class "A" which consisted of regulation drill, the prizes were awarded as follows: Palestine Company B, Cincinnati, O., first prize; Enterprise Co., A, Columbus, Ohio, second; Palestine Company, Hot Springs, third. Class "B" was the fancy exhibition drill. The first prize was won by the Pride of Frankfort, Frankfort, Ky. This company styled the "Kentucky Jockets." When they entered the arena it was seen that they were the favorite of the crowd. Wild cheering greeted the jockeys, and was kept up during entire drill. The second prize was won by Palestine Co. B, Cincinnati, O.; third prize was won by Company D Frankfort, Ky. The next was the drill under Class "C" sword, the first prize was won RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1909. by Elite Company, 5, Pittsburg, second prize by Palestine Company, 2, Hot Springs, Ark. Class "C" was the regulation drill by companies who had never won a first prize. First prize was won by Banner Co., No. 3 of Chicago, Ill., second prize by Little Rock Co. A, and the third prize by Troupe A. St. Louis, Mo. Class "D" was the battalion drill, the first prize was carried off by First Battalion, Second Regiment, St. Louis, Mo., second prize by Second Battalion, Second Regiment, Chicago The first prize in the cadet drill was carried off by St. Louis, and the prize for the shortest sergeant was carried off by John Guainea, of Banner Company, No. 3, Chicago, Ill. Saturday was spent by the Supreme Lodge and the Supreme Court in Legislation. It was the busy day, and with the close of the day, ended the Fifteenth biennial session, and the crowd left on the evening trains resolved to meet next year in 1911, in Indianapolis, Ind. CHAS. STEWART KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS Pythian Temple Tax Abolished. The Virginia delegation to the Supreme Lodge, Knights of Pythias, N. A., S. A., E., A., A., and A., returned home jubilant over the repeal of the Pythian Temple tax. This tax was abolished by practically a two-thirds vote. This was the result of six years agitation by Grand Chancellor Mitchell and the Supreme Representatives from this state. No blow could have been more severe to the administration's forces, as this was the issue upon which the fight for supremacy was based in the Supreme Lodge. Drowned in the Dock While walking along the edge of the dock at the foot of Twenty-second Street Monday afternoon at 3:30 o'clock, Belt Willington, a colored boy seven years of age, fell into the water and was drowned before help could reach him. The child, with several companions, was playing near the dock when he stepped upon the wall and fell in. None of the other boys could swim, but they ran as quickly as possible for some one to rescue him. Several men hurried to the place, but he had sunk for the last time before they reached the dock. The boy lived at 2222 East Main Street. "Snowball," the prize negro boatman of the dock, and several expert swimmers spent the rest of the afternoon dragging the dock with grappling irons. The body was recovered Monday night. * False Report Miss Mabel Arle Moseley, who is visiting Mr. and Mrs. Ryland Cephas, 1302 E. Marshall Street, takes this opportunity to say that there is not a rumor that she is to become the bride of Mr. Wm. Conley Moseley, formerly of Norfolk, but now of Richmond, in the Fall. She, at present, is not to become the bride of any one. The report is false from beginning to end. Successful Revival Rev. D. M. Miller, of Bolling, Va. has just closed a most successful revival at Thesalonia Baptist Church and Arvonia and Liberty Chapel. He was assisted by Dr. H. Johnson and Dr. A. C. Jones. There were 79 conversions. Returns Thanks Richmond, Va., Sept. 1, 1909 I take this means of expressing my heartfelt thanks to all who we liberally contributed for the beautiful bouquet of flowers and handsome purse, presented me on last Friday evening by Miss Martha Willis and Mesdames Sarah Botts and Hattie J. Eaton. They truly brought rays of sunshine and gladness. Thanking you again for your kindly expressions, I am Yours Truly, H. BELLE FITZHUGH, 1104 St. James Street. WESTRAY—JACKSON Mr. and Mrs. Baxter F. Jackson, announce the marriage of their daughter Hazel D. to Mr. J. M. Westray, September 1, 1909, at their residence. Reception Thursday, September 9, 1909, from 8 to 12 at 103 East Leigh Street. No cards. Friends invited. McCLURE'S MAGAZINE Contents For September, 1909. Lleutenant Shackcitor and His Little Son, Frontispieces. Farthest South, Lleutenant Shackleton. Illustrated with photographs. Gaelic Song. A Poem, Edith B. Spaulding. The Parler Back Heme, Eugene Wood. Illustrations by Horace Taylor. The Martyrdom Lottery. A Story, Perceval Gibbon. Illustrations by Walter Jack Duncan. Brooklyn Bridge. A Poem, Florence Wilkinson. Drawing by Frederie Dorr Steele. An Englishman's Impressions of American Rule in Cuba. Sir Henry Johnson. Illustrate1 with photographs. The Miracle. A Poem, Anita Fitch. James Galbraith. Able-bodied Seaman. A Story. John Fleming Wilson. Illustrations by George Harding. The Prayer of the Weak. A Poem. The Prayer of the Weak. A Poem Margaret Steele Anderson. The Best Way to Prevent Industrial Warfare. Charles W. Ellot. Provencal Legand. A Poem, Willa Silbert Cather. The Kerosene Spring. A Story. Kenneth Brown, Illustrations by Albert Levering. Beer and the City Liquor Problem. George Kibbe Turner. Illustrated with photographs. A Question of Salvage A Story. George Allan England. Illustrations by J. A. Cahill. The Efficiency of English Courts, Jesse Macy. Buffalo Mountain Tunnel. A Story. Arthur K. Akers. Illustrations by F. B. Masters. MR. B. L. JORDAN ASSAULTED An Account of the Outrage. His Condition Improved. Mr. B. L. Jordan. Ass't Secretary-Manager, of the "Southern Aid Society, of Virginia, Inc." was dangerously wounded Thursday night, August 19th, by Edw. T. Plagemann, a white youth. Mr. Jordan was taking his family to Monroe Park thinking that the fresh air and rest would benefit his wife, who was valuing from a severe spell of illness, when his two girls, who were several yards in front of their parents, passed a crowd or white boys at the corner of Munford and Marshall Streets, one of the boys slapped the older girl, when Mr. Jordan spoke to him about interfering with his children he showed sight at once and began to draw some concealed weapon from his hip pocket, but before he could use same Plagemann who had left the crowd and secured a brick returned and struck Mr. Jordan a severe blow behind his right ear at close range inflicting a wound two inches long and three fourths of an inch deep. Mr. Jordan was rendered unconscious by the blow, the screams of his wife and children brought a crowd of the white residents and the police from the station at the next corner who rendered all the assistance possible. Dr. M. B. Jones his family physician was called and responded promptly and took Mr. Jordan to his residence where he dressed the wound taking five stitches in same. Plagemann was arrested in a short while after the assault as the white residents were so disgusted with his cowardly attack on Mr. Jordan that they gave the Police his name and address in a few minutes after he left the scene of his crime. He was bailed to appear in court September 3rd, but as Mr. Jordan's condition will not permit him to leave his bed, the case will more than apt be further postponed. Children's Party The home of Mr. and Mrs. Geo. W. Dandridge was a scene of beauty last Saturday afternoon. The occasion being a social given in honor of Miss Lucile Dandridge, of New Orleans. The little ones enjoyed themselves by a musical after which all kinds or games were played after which refreshments were served. Those present were: Nathaniel Baker, of Philadelphia Pa. Miss Ellen Spence, of Norfolk, Va., Miss Gladys Booker, Miss Bertha Jackson, Miss Frances Dawson, Miss Mary Waller, Miss Florence Gardner, Miss Julia Jefferson, Miss Estella Dawson, Miss Jeannette Smith, Miss Evelyn Barrett, Miss Ruth Matthews, of Washington, D. C. Wanted—A good all round printer. Permanent position and good pay to the right person. State experience and wages expected. Address Manager, The Reformer Publishing Co., Box 190, Durham, N. C. Citizens Devoence Crutchfield's Stand in Gain Graft Scandal. Richmond, Va., Aug. 30. — Among city officials approached yesterday there was almost universal condensation of the result of the trial of Jim Robinson, the negro driver employed by Alvey Bros., who was given ninety days in jail in Police Court Saturday morning for his part in the short weighing of cats delivered at the city stables, by weighing in 190 pounds of cobblestones to the lead, a practice admitted to have been continued for more than a year past, while at the same time the court flatly refused to entertain charges against those who evidently profited by the transaction, and who were accused by Robinson of having hatched and suggested the scheme, giving him drinks and small sums of money to carry out his part. GOING TO HIGHER COURT Some Councilmen went so far as to allude to the trial as a rank miscarriage of justice, and to say that there should be prompt and effective action by the Council and by the higher courts to mete out justice to those who have been defrauding the city, whoever they may be, and to secure either a pardon or a commutation of sentence for the negro who has so palpably been made the scapegoat and to whose sentence of ninety days his own lawyer consented without protest, although he had been told before court that as far as the negro was concerned, both the city and the Police Department would consider the ends of justice fully met by a $5 fine, the real effort being to get at the projectors and beneficiaries of the graft rather than to dump all the blame on an ignorant negro, who was a mere tool in the hands of more intelligent men. NEGRO GOT NO GRAIN That the negro was convicted and sentenced to jail term for stealing graffiti when no grain was stolen; that although he was charge with a conspiracy to defraud the city, the court refused the request of the Commonwealth's Attorney for a warrant to bring into court the party with whom the negro admitted he had conspired; that Edward Alvey, who brought the first charge, and sword out the first warrant against the negro, was not summoned to court and not called on to testify; that the charge of conspiring to defraud the city, made on the police blotter, was changed before the case came to trial; that the negro was convicted solely on his own statement made to the detectives, while the court announced from the bench that it would not consider the negro's evidence against his employer, however, the circumstantial evidence seemed to point, and who, as far as the record has developed up to this time, seems to have been the sole gainer by the transaction—these were among the arguments advanced everywhere yesterday for a new and impartial trial, when the negro may tell his own story in open court, without the intervention of Police Court lawyers, and where the circumstances surrounding the case may be weighed by a jury or responsible men, and not be decided on hand on a mere theory unsupported by any evidence, as was the admitted case on Saturday. CRUTCHFIELD'S THEORY For Justice Crutchfield announced from the bench that it was his theory of the case that, after weighing in the cobblestones, it was the practice of the driver to go back to the car and get another 190 pounds, to make up the weight, and to dispose of that grain to his own profit. Commonwealth's Attorney Folkes protested that this was a mere theory, without evidence to sustain it, and somewhat lacking in probability, but the Police Justice announced that this was his view of the case, and that his mind was made up, and on this account he would not issue a warrant, however strongly the evidence might point in one direction. The Council Committee on Streets meets to-night, and spice times are expected. From the first report of the matter, the committee has shown no desire to gloss over any part of the transaction, Chairman Adams announcing flatly that there would be no whitewash, whatever the consequences. This was the spirit of the report of the subcommittee on stables, composed of Alderman Powers and Councilman Lynch, which committee heard Edward Alvey's statement in regard to the transaction, and which recommended that his bill be held up pending further inquiry. It was the spirit of the resolution offered by Alderman Gurst, and adopted by the Board or Aldermen, giving the Street Committee authority to investigate every phase of the transaction, with power to summon witnesses, examine them on oath, and compel the production of books and papers. The Common Council will be called to meet Wednesday night to concur in this resolution. In the Street Committee the only satisfaction expressed is that so far it has not been shown that any person in the employ of the city either knew of, or profited by, the graft in grain. That the stable committee will recommend a new system of buying and weighing supplies is a foregone conclusion, while great emphasis has been given to the movement to have a city purchasing agent for the buying of all city supplies. CAN GET NO JUSTICE THERE At police headquarters yesterday it was frankly admitted that it was useless to attempt further proceedings before Justice Crutchfield. The Police Department has repeatedly complained of the methods of Justice Crutchfield's court, and the turning of a court or justice into a place of bufoonery, his failure to enforce the ordinance for keeping loafers out of the courtroom. On one occasion the Police Board took formal action protesting against the treatment accorded police officers who appeared as witnesses in the magistrate's court, the board stating that the men were frequently insulted and ridiculed, to the demoralization of the force. At detective headquarters it was frankly said that it was no use to secure a warrant for Mr. Alvey since the Police Justice had said in advance that he would not hear direct testimony against him. On the night Robinson was brought back from Powhatan county where he had fled, according to his own account at the instance of Alvey, he made a complete confession at the First Police Station to Detective-Captain McMahon in the presence of Detective-Sergeants Wiltshire and Bailey. Mr. Bailey wrote down the statement, which was read to Robinson, and which he signed as correct. That statement is ready for the consideration of the Street Committee, should it sit as a court for the trial of the case, or for the grand jury in the event Judge Witt determines to impanel that body and so take further proceedings out of (Continued on Fourth Page.) THE MECHANICS SAVINGS BANK BUILDING Purchased the Lot Adjoining—A Finished the Strings—Pulling the Old Strings The work of demolishing the old building on the north-west corner of Third and Clay Streets to make room for the new four-story banking and office building has actually begun. Contractor D. J. Farrar placed a force of men there last Thursday morning and the indications are that the work will be well under way by October 1st. The Mechanics' Savings Bank, through its President John Mitchell, Jr., has purchased the house and lot adjoining at a cost of ($5,000.) five thousand dollars. SIXTY FOUR FEET FRONTAGE NOW. It has a frontage of 33 feet and a depth of one hundred and fifty feet. This dwelling will not be disturbed. This gives the bank a frontage of sixty-four feet on Clay Street. The new building will have a frontage of only twenty-seven feet. It will be electrically lighted throughout and the Otis elevator will carry visitors and tenants to the roof. In the summer will be arranged a roof garden for private use. Palms and ferns will be among the attractions and electric globes will be placed at eight feet intervals all around the roof. Got the Building. John Mitchell, of the Richmond PLANET, has succeeded in having a permit issued for the erection of his bank building. He had a strenuous time, but there were no reasons why the permit should not have been issued, beyond the one—the same "grand old reason" of race. But" it is useless to rehearse the particulars since the mere suggestion is sufficient. Mr. Mitchell gets his building, and is to be congratulated that he did succeed.—Indianapolis, Ind., Freeman. Our Supreme Court Representative Miss M. L. Chiles, the Supreme Representative to the Supreme Court from Virginia, was the honor ed guest or the Virginia delegation to and from Kansas City, Mo. Although her berth was in the regular Pullman she enjoyed her meals with the gallant Virginian Sir Knights. At Kansas City she was pleasantly PRICE, FIVE CENTS located at the palatial residence of Prof. J. Silas Harris, 1611 Forest Ave., with the Ohio delegation. She attended the Memorial exercises, the reception to the ladies at Lyric hall by the Inter-State-Dames, the competitive drill and ball at Convention hall Friday night. She won many compliments for the able and fearless manner in which she represented her state and the rules were suspended and she was unanimously re-elected Supreme Worthy Conductress for the next two years. Example To His Race The career of John Mitchell, one of the prominent men in attendance at the national gathering of negro Pythians in Kansas City this week, should serve as an example and inspiration to all the people of his race and should go far toward proving the ability of the negro to rise when given reasonable opportunities, Mr. Mitchell is not one of those negroes who deem it necessary, in order to rise and to avail themselves of an opportunity, to force impossible and vexations social distinctions in his favor. He never sued a "white" hotel manager for being refused accommodations, for the simple reason that he never forced himself where he knew he would be unwelcome. Nor was his residence ever dynamited because it was in a "white" district. Mr. Mitchell has probably done as much for the advancement of the negro race as any other member thereof, with the exception of Booker T. Washington. He is the president of the Mechanics' bank of Richmond, Va., an institution with a capital of $100,000 and deposits of more than ten times that amount. This bank was one of the financial butwarks of the panic of 1907 and helped materially to save the credit of the other banks. President Mitchell is the only negro who was ever a member of the National Bankers' Association, and for eight years he has been a member of the city council of Richmond. He is worth not far from a quarter of a million dollars, and his bank owns many valuable buildings which are leased to whites. Such a career, brought to its present climax in the capital of the late Confederacy, shows that the unfortunate race prejudice which goes to such regrettable lengths at times does not operate against individual members of the negro race who prove themselves able to rise above obstacles. One concrete example like this is worth all the sermonizing and sociological homilies printed in a decade. So long as one negro can attain to Mr. Mitchell's degree of success there is room for encouragement to other members of his race.—Kansas City, Mo. Journal, August 27, 1909. Mr. U. S. G. Froe, of Pocohontas Va., visited Richmond last week. Mrs. Harriet E. Thompson, of 104 W. Jackson Street, is on a visit to Atlantic City, N. J., and other Northern cities. After three weeks prolonged stay at Jennings Ordinary and Burkville, Va., Mrs. R. Eleanora Wesley has returned to the city much improved. Mr. John Bland, of Prince County, Va., was in town and called on us. Mr. Fortune Randolph, of Centerville, Louisiana, is visiting his Brother M. Banks Randolph, of Richmond, Va. Mr. John Clinton, of Philadelphia, Pa., is the guest of Mrs. Martha Fields Boyd, 903 St. John Street. —Mr. James A. Manson, of New York City, was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. R. T. Cogbill of 1017 Hull St., Manchester, last week. —Miss Alberta Jenkins has returned to her home in Manchester after spending a pleasant stay in Danville, Va. While there she was royally entertained by Prof. G. W. Woody and Mr. U. S. Cunningham. The Frankest and the Bravest Editor John Mitchell of the Richmond (Va.) PLANET seems to be the frankest and bravest Afro-American journalist who made the mistake of supporting Candidate Taft last Fall. He has the courage to express his convictions even if in so doing he publicly acknowledge having made a great mistake. He is a greater man, in at least this one respect, than "Brownsville" Roosevelt. It takes a great deal more courage to do what he has done, than it does to make such a mistake.—The Gazette, Cleveland, Ohio PAID IN FULL Novelized From Eugene Walter's Great Play CHAPTER IV. THERE was a knock, the unlatched door opened, and James Smith walked in. "Anybody at home?" he demanded briskly. "Not a solitary living soul," Emma assured him. "Come in." "Hello, Joe! You a dead one, too?" he said. "Almost," replied Brooks, brightening up a little in spite of himself under the influence of his friend's good natured smile and cheeriness that positively emanated from him. "Just come up?" "Yep, and I reckon in about time to help," he said, glancing at the crockery on the table. "Just in time," assented Emma, whose drooping spirits also began to rise under the diversion caused by his advent. "But first explain what you mean by not coming to dinner." "I couldn't come, really. I tried my best, but I had to attend to such a lot of business that couldn't be put off that I was unable to get here in time. I hope you didn't wait long for me. I'm awfully sorry." "You book it—I don't think," she scolded. "Go on; get busy if you're going to." "All right," he answered, taking up a small pile of cups and saucers very gingerly. "Where do these go? If you left it to me, like as not I'd be putting a soup plate behind the door and slip a broom into the sideboard." "They go right in here." He stopped on the way to the sideboard and turned to Brooks. "Seen the latest extra, Joe?" he inquired. "The Orinoco wasn't hardly scratched getting out of Rio Janeiro." "You don't say!" "Kind o' scraped over the bar. She'll only be a day late now." "Do be careful with those cups, Jimmy." admonished Emma. "They're ching." "Don't you suppose I know that?" "I mean real china," she emphasized. "All china and Chinamen look alike to me. Here's the paper, Joe. You'll find all about the Orinoco on the inside page." He drew it from his pocket, and as he did so one of the cups balanced on the saucers slipped off and sinashed to bits on the carpet. "Now, Jimsy, you certainly are going to get it," commented Joe, rising and taking the paper extended to him. Smith looked appealingly at his hostess. "Jimsy," she chided, assuming an expression of mock gravity, "how could you—my very best Sunday go to meeting china! How could you!" "Not how could I—how did I?" he corrected, stooping and picking up the pieces. "You know, Enma, I've had butter fingers ever since I was a little shaver, and I guess I always will have—in business and everything else." "Why, how do you mean?" "I've been clumsy all my life, that's all. Everything I've ever had in my hands that was worth much I've generally let slip and fall. In Colorado when I was a kid around Leadville they used to say that I sure would turn out to be a sawed off and hammered down, good for nothing man. So you see the way things have turned out. I've broken about even with that prophecy." "How broken even?" "Taking their side for the book, I win the first bet and lose the second. There ain't nothing sawed off and hammered down about me, is there?" "I should say not," she said, with a merry laugh. "You've been pulled out like a piece of taffy." "Then I win, but it was in doubt quite some time. Never really did start to grow until I was fifteen, and then I just eased out into my present altitude. But the second proposition—that good for nothing bet—I guess they win." "Nonsense, Jimmy. How can you say such a thing? You're good for a whole lot." "Emma," he declared solemnly, "there have been moments of financial stringency when that declaration seemed to be open to doubt." "Jimmy, you're an idiot!" she laughed. "Discovered!" he avowed, bowing ceremoniously. Brooks, who had been reading the paper, threw it down angrily. "D—n him!" he growled. "Joe!" exclaimed his wife reproachfully. "D—n who?" inquired Smith. "Lots have done that," said the superintendent. "But what's the matter now, Joe?" "His luck," went on Brooks. "The Orinoco isn't scratched. If any one else owned a ship and she got into a muss like that the chances are a hundred to one that she'd have foundered—been a complete loss." "That's right," assented Smith. "But Williams—he don't lose her. He couldn't." "I should think you'd be glad," remarked Emma. "She's a brand new ship, isn't she?" "No, I'm not glad," he declared furiously, rising and walking about the room. "I'm tired of him, of his rotten old steamship line, of all of is—you hear? Of all of it." "Joe, please!" she protested. "You know I—" "I know you've slaved and bore with me long enough! Here I am—handling all the money of that line, ain't that so, Jimsy?" J. B. "That's right," admitted the latter "But what's the matter?" "Matter? Isn't it matter enough that I should do all this for a mean, miserable bleeding? I suffer and work, and work and suffer, for that nasty, nig- gardly salary and this beast, this wild animal of a Williams, keeps us all starving-yes, starving! Don't I deserve something a little better? Do you know what I could do? I could steal thousands, and no one would ever know it." "Joe!" she ejaculated, greatly shocked. "Oh, I'm not going to do it; but, with all this responsibility, when I ask for money I don't get it—not a dollar. You do, Jimmy; you're single and you can quit. And then Williams—what does he do? Comes around here to my wife with my mother-in-law—d—n blim —and rubs it in." Emma looked at him pleadingly. "Joe, you mustn't. Captain Williams means well, but"— "Well, there's a whole lot of truth in what Joe says," put in Smith convincingly. "You see, Williams did start out as a captain of a south Pacific trader, but, like most of them fehlows, I guess he stole a good deal more than he traded. He had the reputation of being the strongest man on the coast or in the tropics—could break a man's arm with as much ease as you'd snap a straw. He's harsh. Williams is—harsh! When he came east he got control of the Latin-American. He loved money, and he got it—most any way he could. Yes, Joe ought to have more, that's sure. He ought to have more." "You know I should," went on Brooks, somewhat mollified by his friend's acquiescence and support and drawing a buoyant pocket book from the inside pocket of his waistcoat. "I've got control of all the money of the company. That's my job. Why, here, this alone is the afternoon collections, too late to put in the safe, nearly $3,000, more than twice as much as I get in a year. I could take it all and then not be caught or at least not for months, but"— "Why, Joe, I'm surprised!" his wife broke in. "Of course Joe wouldn't take a cent that don't belong to him," said Smith. "I know that. Williams does too. So I guess he figures him safe and don't see the least bit of use in paying him more." "But I won't stand it!" Brooks declared, waxing wroth again and flinging himself in his chair. "Why do you get raises, Jimsy? You've been advanced time and time again." "Lord, I don't know," he replied. "I just tell the old fellow that I calculate I'm worth more money. 'Come across or we separate,' I say, and so far he's always come." "I was so glad to hear of your last good luck," remarked Emma sincerely. A look of regret came over Smith's face. "I only wish Joe had got it instead of me," he said. Brooks jumped to his feet. "You don't need to wish that, Smith," he cried excitedly. "I'm no object of charity—no, I ain't. And you're all the rest of the capitalistic crowd—grind, grind, grind. Well, look out, there's going to be a smashup—you understand? A smashup, and you all go—millionaires, toadles and—well, that's all I've got to say." He snatched his hat from a hook in the hall and went out without another word, slamming the front door behind him so heavily that the glasses on the sideboard rattled. Emma gazed at Smith in blank dismay. "I can't understand Joe," she said, shaking her head in worry and perplexity. "He's growing so morose and 1F RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA John W. Harding Copyright, 1908, by G. W. Dillingham Co. Discontented." "It's funny, ain't it" observed Smith reflectively. "Joe's just rushed out, filled up to the throat with anarchy, socialism, smushups and all that stuff almost ready to throw a bomb." "Nonsense." "He is, yet if Williams had raised him today $10 a week he would have been a firm believer in capital and the way it works." She sighed, took a seat opposite to him at the table and with great earnestness started in to question him. "Jimsy," she began, "tell me honestly—why doesn't Joe get on?" "I really don't know," he averred. "I'm afraid you do." Emina insisted. arried you do. Emma missed "Honest, I don't. I've been so busy getting along myself that I haven't paid much attention to any one else." He paused and gazed up at the ceiling, engrossed in thought. "You know, Emma, he went on suddenly, turning toward her, "this getting along business is a funny game. Such a lot depends on what a man means when he gets along. Some get along when they have got a lot of money, some when they have a wife and a home and a bunch of kids, some when they are able to pick pockets and fool the coppers. Getting along and why you do or why you don't depends a good deal on where you want to get." "And you, Jimmy?" she questioned. "Have you been getting along?" "Oh, yes, I guess so. I ain't got a whole lot to kick about; perhaps a little less, maybe a little more, than Joe. But the great idea is not to get sore. Joe's all right. Maybe he's just being prepared for a better living. When it comes hell appreciate it more." "Somehow I don't seem to understand him as I used to," she confessed. "There's been a change that worries me—that worries me greatly." Three sharp rings of the bell put an end to further conversation, and she rose, disappointed, and pushed the button. "That's mother's ring," she said. "Please help me to bring some chairs from the parlor. We can't go there because everything's covered up and in disorder. They're papering the room. I shouldn't wonder if Captain Williams were with them. He takes mamma and Beth out in his new auto and has brought them around here quite frequently of late." "Does he ever take you for a ride?" "He asks me to go, but I won't." "Why not?" "That's just what I can't tell. There is something about the man that is repulsive—he looks at me so strangely. And then I know just how he has treated Joe, and—" "And what?" "I don't like him—that's all." "That's enough, it seems to me. After all, I guess he figures all to the bad with women—decent women." "Mamma and Beth like him." "Well, your mother never did shine up to me more'n the law allowed, and as for Beth, she's a nice enough girl, but her education hurts her, I think." "Hush! Here they are." And the little woman hurried into the hall to open the door for them. CHAPTER V W HEN broad minded Mrs. Brooks observed to her husband that she did not understand her mother any more than her mother understood her she had expressed exactly the mental relation in which they stood toward each other. Mrs. Harris was one of those women occasionally to be met with who continue to treat their grownup sons, and especially their grownup daughters, as children and feel it incumbent upon them—nay, consider it their bounden duty—to intere with advice and comment in the natural progress of domestic sophistication of their young wedded offspring. Moreover, she was a woman wholly lacking in tact and depth of mind and possessed to an exaggerated degree that "quicksand of reason," vanity. Mrs. Harris and Miss Beth Harris were out for a ride with Captain Williams, who accompanied them, and all were in automobile tenue. Her mother and sister greeted Emma effusively. Their escort extended his hand, but Mrs. Brooks was too much occupied for once in responding to her parent's embraces to notice it. He stalked in with rude familiarity without removing his automobile cap, upon which he had pushed up his goggles and found himself face to face with Smith. "Hello. You here?" he said by way of greeting, greatly surprised to see his superintendent there on that above all nights. "Ya-as," replied Jimsy. "Tm here again." "Ought to take a berth here," grunted his employer, looking round for the most comfortable chair and installing himself in it. "You're always around." "Much as possible," admitted Smith tranquilly, remaining standing. "How do you find your new car?" "Good enough. Cost $5,000—ought to be good—ought to be." Mrs. Harris and Beth bustled in, throwing open their automobile coats and disclosing very handsome gowns that contrasted strangely with Emma's poor little cotton frock. "Why, good evening, Jimmy?" cried Mrs. Harris. "Where's Joe?" "Gone out for a walk, I guess," he answered. "Howdy, Beth?" "Very well, thank you, Mr. Smith." responded that young person somewhat frigidly. "Mr. Smith?" he echoed, looking at her curiously. The girl raised her eyebrows and af- fected surprise. "isn't that right?" she inquired. "Yes-Smith is the name," he replied, "It ain't that I've forgotten it—no—only to remind you that the first one—Jimsy—ain't been changed." "No, dearie; Jimsy wouldn't know what it meant to be mistered," observed Mrs. Harris with an intonation of disdain. "Me neither," put in Williams, "but a man's got to get used to it." "Have you got used to it, captain?" asked Emma. "Yes and no. I never had it given to me until I came east—always used to be Cap'n Bill or something on that order—but with eastern airs and a bit of prosperity your old ways have got to change." Mrs. Harris had been gazing about her deprecatingly. She wanted to know why they should stay in the dining room. Emma explained that they had succeeded in inducing the janitor to have the sitting room papered and that it was all upset. "This ain't bad," commented Captain Williams. "It's real cozy, and you can see a woman's bad a hand in the arrangement." "But it's a little bit of a stuffy four roomed flat," objected Beth, tiring A man in a long coat and hat walks down a street, carrying a bag. He is followed by a group of men in similar attire. "Hello! You here!" up her pretty nose. "Really, I should die in one." "Well, Beth," remarked Smith, with his quiet drawl, "you never can tell. Maybe you will." Beth made a grimace. "I would, if I had to do my own work, washing dishes—ugh!" "I don't see how Emma stands it," declared Mrs. Harris. "It's just drudgery." "Well, mother, please remember it's Emma who does stand it, after all," retorted that little woman patiently, "so please, please, don't you mind." "I think it's a great little nook, Mrs. Brooks," owed Williams. "Thank you, captain," she said gratefully. "And fixed up nice and comfortable. Can't say as anything looks cheap." "Has he done that?" inquired Mrs. Harris, affecting surprise and admiration. "Figuratively speaking. I presume?" thimed in Beth primly. "I always thought 500 was figuratively speaking." said Smith. Captain Williams had produced his pipe, filled it and lighted it without asking permission. "Smith says I'm close. I'm not!" he declared. "To me business is business. If I've got money nobody gave it to me. I earned what I earned, and then I made that earn more." "You sure ain't given it no vacations, captain," commented his superintendent dryly. "And that's right," affirmed Mrs. Harris with some heat. "I believe in men getting money. Mr. Harris was one of those soft hearted men who never made the best of his opportunities—always trying to be fair and square with other men, and what thanks did he get?" "Mother, please!" remonstrated Emma. "It's true." went on her parent. "If he hadn't been that way, Emma, do you suppose you'd be here doing your own work?" "Mother, I insist—you must not"—"Mother is perfectly right," interrupted Beth. "Emma, you don't deserve this kind of a life." "But have I complained?" demanded Mrs. Brooks desperately. "Why do you say such things?" "Because I've got myself to think of," snapped her mother. "You're wasting yourself—died up to the house all the time—and everybody—all my friends know just how you're fixed. You're never invited anywhere any more." "Completely forgotten," said Beth. Brooks, who had let himself in silently and unobserved, stood in the hall irresolutely, watching them and listening to the conversation. "Please don't," entreated Emma, greatly distressed. "It's my affair, and, besides, bef re people"— "You might say the captain's almost one of the family since your father died," put in her mother. "I knew you should never have married Joe—that he couldn't take care of you the way he ought." "It's too late now," said Beth, shrugging her shoulders. "Captain, don't you think Emma should have more?" "Well, Mrs. Brooks must know her own mind," he replied. "Your father when he worked for me always had a way of his own. But it does seem as if she should at least have a hired girl and more than four rooms to a flat, but"— Brooks strode into the room, livid with passion, cailed to a white heat of fury, re-less of everything, murder in his heart, and, hurling his hat to the door, faced the company. "It does seem so, doc," he fairly hissed, going over to his employer. "I'm gud you think so. And why hasn't she? Will you tell me that? Speak. Will you tell me that? I'll tell you why, you slave driver." Mrs. Harris and Beth sat speechless and pale, but Smith rose. "Steady, Joe, boy!" he admonished. Emma had hurried to her husband and grasped his arm. "Oh, Joe, don't!" she impaired. "You don't." "Let me alone!" he shouted and turned to Williams again, quivering with rage. "Do you know why she hasn't?" he continued. "Well, I'll tell you all. It's because this man ain't on the square. He began by cheating and murdering niggers who worked for him aboard his rotten trading ships. Then, after he got through with the belaying pin, after he got his money, he picked up the salary list for a club, and he's murdered and wounded and malned with that. You see my wife here? She's only one of hundreds, and she suffers. It is too bad she married me. It is too bad that she's got to do her own work. It is too bad that she's got to wash and scrub and sweat in the heat, but that man's to blame. If you gave me a fair share of what I produce, if you didn't grind down, oppress and pinch, she wouldn't have to. I've worked for you five years, hard, honest, and all the time you've been grinding me down, down, and thousands of others, thousands. You know, all of you know—my mother-in-law and smart sister-in-law know—you've piled up your money on the blood and sweat and misery of others. That's the kind of a man you are, and you might as well know it." Captain Williams had listened to this denunciation at first in utter amazement. Then his shaggy eyebrows had knitted together, and his little eyes had narrowed to slits, while the blood had spread over his face in a deep glow through the veins that swelled out like cords on his neck and throat. "There ain't no one ever said them things to me and got away with it," he thundered, clinching his fists and gathering all his tremendous strength as he rose to crush his accuser. Mrs. Harris and Beth sprang up in great alarm, and at the captain's terrifying voice and his ferocious aspect Brooks shrank back. Smith stood impassive, but watching Williams, toward whom he had been edging. Erna had stepped quietly between Emma had stepped quickly between the captain and her husband. "Please—please, captain—for my sake," she pleaded. "I don't care—let him come on," cried Brooks doggedly, but his voice faltering. Williams gazed at the sweet, frail woman standing imploringly before him, and as he gazed his muscles gradually relaxed, the wrath faded from his eyes, and finally the corners of his mouth twitched in a faint smile. "All right, Mrs. Brooks," he said gently "I almost forgot where I was. I apologize." Smith, his hands in his pockets, moved away across the room. "Joe, you know it's your home—our home," expostulated his wife. "I—I—forgot. Excuse me," he muttered silently, looking ashamed. Smith spoke up, his winning smile lighting his face; "You know, it's been an all fired hot day—just the kind of weather when about every mother's son is on edge. Now, Joe, he slipped a cog, and that sort of put the whole confounded machine out of gear, including the captain. But now, you see, it's just all forgotten." "Possibly. As far as I'm concerned I must be going," declared Mrs. Harris coldly. "Indeed, yes!" chirped Beth. Brooks now, his rage having spent itself and his bravado fizzled out, was almost crying. "I—I—" he began. But the words choked in his throat, and, picking up his hat, he hastened out of the room and the flat. "Will you please take us away, captain?" requested Mrs. Harris. "Just a moment," he said. "Mrs. Brooks, I'm almighty sorry about what happened just now." "I—I'd rather you wouldn't speak of it," she told him. "Perhaps I have been a little hard," he said earnestly and apologetically. ZARUER. "Please—please, captain—for my sake," she pleaded. "Please—please, captain—for my sake," she pleaded. I've lived a hard life with hard people. Since the day I shipped before the mast in a north Pacific sealer I learned what a cuff and a blow was; what rotten grub, the scurvy and all them things meant, and I knew that the only thing between them things and comfort, decency and the respect of folks was money. I started to get money, and maybe I have been a little hard—just a little hard." "No one would call you easy, captain," agreed Smith. "Anyway, Mrs. Brooks," continued Williams. "Joe keeps his job, and it ain't going to make a bit of difference between us." "Not the least?" she asked, with wonder. "Certainly not," said Mrs. Harris. "Joe," declared Beth languidly, "was absurd. He quite bores me." Smith smiled at her and injected a good deal of irony into his tone as he said: "Yes, you looked as if something was wrong, Beth." The captain approached Mrs. Brooks with an attempt at gallantry that was elephantine and grotesque and seized her hand, which she suffered to remain limply in his clasp. "Well, Mrs. Brooks," he said, "if it's all squared you will come riding with us, won't you?" "Not tonight. You will excuse me," she replied. "Certainly," he assured her, warmly shaking her hand as though it were a pump handle. "Good night." "Good night," she answered. Then she advanced to receive the parting kisses of her mother and sister, which were a good deal less cordial than those with which they had greeted her on their arrival. Their osculatory reserves seemed to have been kept in cold storage during the interval. The fact that in the engrossing ceremony of leave taking with Mrs. Brooks everybody forgot to be polite enough to say good night to Smith did not ruffle his equanimity in the least. CHAPTER VI W W HEN the door had closed behind the visitors Mrs Brooks and Smith sat down and gazed at each other in silence for some minutes. "Well?" exclaimed Emma, interrogatively, at last. "Well," he replied, "between you and me, Joe came as near getting skinned alive as any one I ever saw." "It was terrible!" "It was terribly true. You saved him." "I know." "The captain must like you. I never did think he could like anybody." "I hate him!" she declared, with a grimace of disgust. "Ugh, what a beast!" Smith reflected. "Maybe, and maybe not," he mused. "I can't just make him out." At this juncture the front door opened and Brooks entered. "I saw them drive off," he said, dropping into a chair. "I hope they will stay away in future. That mother and sister of yours me tired! I can't stand for them, and, what's more I won't! They'd drive a saint to drink, and I'm no saint and don't purpose to be, either." His wife began to reproach him for his attack upon Captain Williams and for his general ill humor during the evening, but he cut her short sharply: "We won't talk about that! Not a word, you understand? Not from you or any one else. That's final!" "Very well; it's dropped," she said and, angry at last in turn, rose and went to her room. Indifferently he watched her go, then turned to Smith. "Got anything to smoke, Jlmsy?" he demanded. Left alone, Brooks began to give way to the uneasiness and apprehension that had followed upon his scene with Captain Williams. "I wonder if Williams will fire me," he muttered. "If he doesn't it's on account of Emma. He acted as if he'd go a long way for Emma." He was anxious to know what had happened after his brusque departure. He went into the bedroom and found his wife in tears. "Don't cry, Emma," he said soothingly, going to her and taking her in his arms. "I didn't mean to hurt your feelings. I know I've got a fierce grouch on tonight, but I can't help it. So would you have one if you'd had to put up with what I have today." Mrs. Brooks was one of those sweet natured women who could not sulk for more than five minutes if they tried. It needed but his caress and apparent contrition to dispel her resentment. "You certainly have had cause to worry, dear," she assented. "After what's happened tonight I'll have to hunt another job," he said. "But I don't care. I'm glad I told the beast what I thought of him. Some day somebody I'll tell him what they think of him and plug him, too, as sure as he's born." "You'll not have to hunt for another job yet awhile," she told him. "The captain said he would overlook it and that it wouldn't make any difference." Her husband looked at her in astonishment, half incredulous. "He said that?" "Yes, and I'm glad it's turned out as it has, for how we'd manage if you were out of work just now goodness knows. I don't" "Just how did he put it?" "He said he was almighty sorry for what had occurred, that he knew he had been hard at times and that as far as your place and we were concerned there would be no change." Brooks' relief showed in his face. "Well, that knocks me," he commented. "Nobody else ever bucked up against him and got off scot free. I can't understand it. Did your mother put in a word for me?" "No." "Then it's you who must have a pull. He died right down when you spoke to him. I never would have believed such a thing. If you had been a man standing there in front of him he'd have smashed you. Darn it, I wonder who's ringing now? Can't be Jimsy; he hasn't had time to get to the street at the gait he goes." He went to the head of the stairs and met a messenger boy who was bearing a letter and had received instructions to wait for an answer. "Sure!" he exclaimed joyfully as he perused the missive. "Tickled to death! Go and get your things on, Emma. It's from Beatrice Langley and Willie Ferguson. Willie's giving a sort of theater party, and they want us to go with them. There's going to be a little supper afterward." She shook her head. "Tell them we can go." "Can't go! Why not?" "I simply can't." "I don't see why." "Well, then, I won't; so there! You'd better make some excuse." "Write it yourself, then," he said, irritated and deeply disappointed. "I'm not going to lie to them." Without another word she fetched some writing material, indicted the note and sent it off by the messenger. "What's the matter? Are you sore over what happened tonight?" he demanded sulkily. "No, I'm not sore, Joe." "Then why can't you go?" "Because I can't. That's all!" "I think you might. If you didn't want to go yourself you might have accepted for my sake. I never get any amusement, and you're always complaining." "When do I complain, and of what?" "It's the selfish way you act, I mean, for once, we get a chance to go and see a decent show and afterward have a supper party, you get sore. You simply don't want to go. You haven't any consideration for me." Burning with indignation, she went up to him and forced him to look her in the face. "You say I have no consideration for you!" she said. "You know as well as I do why I can't go. I haven't a new dress in a year. My gloves are all worn out. I've skimped and struggled and economized until I can't do any more. I'd go to the theater if I could go alone or with you or with Jimsy and hide somewhere in the corner, but do you think I want to go to a party looking like a kitchen maid? My shoes are cracked. Everything is secondhand and old and ugly. And look at me! Do you know what's happened to me? I've grown common and coarse and cheap. Sometimes when I look at myself in the glass it seems as though I could see the dirt and the grease and the horrid nastiness of it all staring me right in the face. Why don't go? I'm ashamed, that's all. And you make it harder. It has almost reached my limit of endurance." She turned from him, fears of exertion and humiliation in her eyes. As she did so Smith, the peacemaker, entered. He had arrived in time to hear the last part of the confession that had been forced from her by her husband's injustice and selfsiness. "Emma," he said soothingly, "there can't no use in making Joe feel worse than he does. He was like the devil, but somehow Joe wasn't built exactly lucky. He is one of those fellows like I used to know in Colorado who spend all their lives looking for a gold mine and never quite find one. But Joe's all right, and just to make this eventful sort of evening end up nicely I'm going to hike to the best show in town, and you two are going to hit my trail while I dig up the necessary spondilles to defray any and all expense incurred, including a slight and select grub stake after the entertainment. Now, what do you think of that?" Brooks, who had been listening to his wife and friend sullenly, was filled with a sudden resolve. "No, you won't!" he said tempestuously. "I ain't going to be an object of charity. I'm as slick and tired of this whole business as she is. Emma, you put on the best dress you've got and fix youself up the best you can, and I'll take you to a show, and if Jimmy wants to come he can come as my guest. I'm still a man, and it's just as right I should take care of my wife and let her have a little fun as it is for the Astors and Vanderbilts and all of them to spend money on their families. I'm going to do it, and I don't care whether I can afford it or not. I can find a way all right. Hurry up, Emma!" Mrs. Brooks would much rather have stayed at home. She was worn out with the constant quarreling and exciting happenings of the evening, but she did not want to be accused of contrariness. So she said: "If you think we can really afford it I'd like to go. I haven't seen any show in nearly a year. Do you think I'd better go, Jimmy?" "Why, surely, my girl." was Smith's reply. "There's no use of sticking around here all the time and getting into more rows. Go ahead!" "Then I'll hurry and get ready," she said, hastening to her room. Brooks had seated himself and was gazing before him with a determined expression, his hands clasped between his knees. Smith went to him and tendered a bill to him. "Joe," he said kindly, "you'd better let me slip you the ten that will be necessary to pay for this business. You know Emma don't need to know, and you ain't got the coin to blow in." "Yes, I have," he asserted, pushing the note from him, "and I'll pay for it myself." "All right, Joe. But, take my tip, when you go into the borrowing business you'd better borrow from the fellow who knows he's giving it to you and isn't in a hurry to get it back." "Look here, Jimsy!" exclaimed Brooks hotly, jumping up. "Don't you butt into my business! It's none of your affair! And, by the way, it might be just as well to remind you that Emma's my wife—my wife, you hear! She married me, no one else—just me—although I've been told she had other chances at the time." Smith gazed at him without any trace of offense, but with a look of pain in his eyes. "I'm sorry you said that, Joe," he answered in his slow, quiet voice. "Yes, I know Emma's your wife and that she chose you after I asked her to be mine, and it is just because I do know that that I don't want you to go wrong, and for just that same reason I want you to understand that if you ever get into a tight hole you can gamble on me for help, and I-- I ain't always been a spendthrift. Good night!" "You're not going, then?" inquired Brooks as his friend moved toward {ite ae NET. { ; fe. ww ak ax 09 eo ih C\p > i Vi if iM "AWA (Be M/W id qj i Wh Sy = Arn 4 ai Ste |||) “Why, where's Jimsy?" she asked. “He went home, He said he guesse he'd better not come, as be wanted t get up early, or something or other, Ued Brooks, “I wonder why he changed bis min $0 suddenly,” she sald. It was 9 o'clock when they foun themselves In the street, and Brook decided on a vaudeville show as bein the only possible place of entertain ment they could go to at that bout It had been so long since they ba Permitted themselves the extravaganc Of a night out that Mra. Brooks en foyed the change to the full. Wateb ing the actors and laughing at thel Jokes and antics, she forgot for th time her worrles, and the painful im Pression of the early evening was com pletely dispelled, As the performano. Progressed Brooks also underwent : change of mood, and by the time th curtain fell he had softened to some thing of his old self and was tende. and attentive. When they found themselves outsid Again she was for going straight home “No,” he sald gayly, squeezing he: ‘arm that she had passed under his anc patting ber hand affectionately; “ws Are out for a good time for once, anc we're going to have it She demurred feebly, wanting to go but feeling that scruple on the grouné of expense which, from the necessit of exercising strict and unrelentins economy, entered Into all her house hold expenditures, but he brushec aside her cautious calculations, anc ‘oon they were seated in a restauran ‘of quite imposing aspect, and he wa: ordering brolled lobsters and wine with the air of a man to whom money was uo object. He was in rare higl spirits and gallant with a tendernes: he had not manifested toward her tr many moon. He chattered and chat tered, and his animation communicat ed itself to her, so that her eyes spar Kled, ber pretty face was wreathed {: happy smiles, and she returned hi glances of love and admiration as it the happy days of their early marriec Ufe, when they were all in all to eact ‘other and there was none so bandsom and so noble minded as be in all thy world. CHAPTER VIL OMETHING untoward was hap pening or impending at the ex tensive plers and docks of th Latin-Amercan Steamship com Dany on South street. Manhattan. Thi had been evident from an early hour for when as whistle sounding time ap Proached the workmen trooped towar the docks nd warehouses to begit their dally toll they found groups o policemen stationed about the ap Proaches to the Latin-American line’ Property. On the faces of, the met ‘Who entered its gates was an expres sion of expectancy and determination. ‘The earitest man to arrive saw the tall, gaunt form of Mr. Smith, th superintendent, standing at the doot of the office building. He had beer working hard while they slept. bu! there was no evidence of bis all uigh' labor upon his cheerful visage, nor was ‘any sign of anxiety or of the knowl qdge that any unusual situation bad risen discernible in his phiegmatt demeanor. He appeared to be enjoy ing the morning air and his cigat without a care in the world. His Bresence there at that hour was the only indication that he expected trou ble. He hed not allowed one police Man to reain within the gates. Hard Ay a man issed in but saluted bin verbally or with a touch of the bat find not’ -alute was given without ackt wedged. To some he re ° ©) 4 a genial smite and » whieh cere | be stopped completels at 10 ‘be vanished upstairs, not was he seen again until the bauds 0: the clock approached that bour and the strike leaders began to go among the restless men. Then be sauntered out. ordered work stopped, and. mount Ang a crate cf merchandise, assembles the men about him. “You boys.” he said in his slow, dis tinet voice, “have made up your minds to quit at 10 o'clock because some body told you you ought to be getting more pay and a raise was refused Weil, this is a free country, and every man’s right to sell his labor where he likes and at what price he likes ts guaranteed him by the constitution If you want to walk out of here You are free to do so, but If you take my advice”— “See here,” interrupted ope of th« leaders roughly, pushing to the front “we ain't askin’ no advice from sot Ror no one else. What we want is money. Do we get that raise or don't we? If we do, all right; if we don't we quit here and now, and that's al there is to it." A murmur of approval greeted this ultimatum. “No.” auswered the superintendent “1 ain't going to leave you in doubt about it for a minute, You don't get ne “Then shut up!" ordered the man “We ain't goin’ to lose our time lis tenin® to no cheap talk. We've voted to quit and all talk is off.” “All right.” retorted Smith. “Con sider you've all quit. Now, that being the case, you have heaps of. time op your hands and are tikely to have for an indefinite period unless you have provided jobs for yourselres tn antic: Ipation of this. T've got something Ta like to say to you. Those whe don't want to hear me don't have to As I said, this Is a free country.” “Go uhead. Jimsy!" cried a voice in the crowd. “You're all right! You've always given us a square deal.” “I hope 80,” he replied, “and one square dea! deserves another.” “Aw, come on, fellows! admonished the lender. “We're not kids. A strike's & strike. This ain't no debatin’ hee, and we don't belong to no mutual ad- miration society.” Some of the men turned away, but others voiced the view that a hearing ought to be given to the syperintendent since he wished to speak to them, and, seeing that their fellows remained, the otters soon returned “I haven't got a lot to say, and I'm no preacher,” he continued. “What I want to give you ts not a lecture on what you've got to do—that's your business—but an explaoation tn your interest. I want to tell you things other people haven't told you and that you evidently don't know. Please let me get through, then you do as you like. I don't have to tell you that the rate of pay is governed, Uke every- thing else, by the law of supply and demand. What is the situation today? We have byd rush work for several Weeks, and’ the docks bere and all along the water front are choked up with freight But back of this, al- theugh you may not know ft, the ral. | & SD. Py ; : i, roads everywhere are laying off frelgh cars, mills are laying off men, and signs polnt to a serious slump in busi ness all over the country, which will reach here soon. The indications are that in the natural course of things during the coming winter there won't be work for more than half of you and that you'll need badly all the spare coin you can save now. Yet you chose this very time to demand an {n- crease from the company and give it eighteen hours’ notice, including twelve nonworking hours, in which to think it over. I don’t call that a square deal, Whatever you may think about tt Now, the country towns are full of men anxious to get Jobs, and the com- pany, notwithstanding the short no- tice, is fully prepared for a strike. In that shed yonder are 3,000 cots, put there during last night, and provision has been made to feed 3,000 men for Several dayr. Captain Williams”— An outburst of curses and yells greet- ed this mention of the president's name, with cries of “We know Willlams!” “Captain Williams,” went on the su- perintendent caimly, “says that any man who goes out on strike now will never enter the employ of the line again in this or any other port. And I'll see personally to it that he doesn’t. This man here sald a strike had been decided on, but anybody who wants to stay and work instead of making a fool of himself by quitting will be taken care of, I'll promise that. That's all. It’s up to you.” Amid dead silence be got down from the crate and returned to bis office. The men remained assembled for consultation. and in the crowd were many doubifal faces. It was cleat that Smirh's calm drawied barancus PHE RICHMOND PLANE, RICHMOND, VikGINIA had made a profound itopression. Just Seat ene, 's0 in business, to which he gave strict and intelligent attention. he earned the respect of all with whom he had to deal. "athe strike leader mounted the crate and. amid the applause of the hot headed and discontented. delivered himself of a flerce denunciation of the | company as a greedy, grasplug, oppress. ive corporation and of its dock super. intendent as a “dour fusher” and a dispenser of “con” talk, meaning there- by of words intended to deceive. But jthere were too many who knew that | Smith was neither. | “For my part.” one of the laborers said, “I've got a wife and six kids, the eldest of which fs nine. I move that We take another vote on this here strike.” ‘The motion was adopted with accta- mation. The result of the ballot was overwhelmingly in favor of remaining at work | While delegates appointed to inform the superintendent that there would be no turnout were waiting upon bim in bis office. the other men passed the shed indicated by Smith, pushed open the door and gazed in, while others | eromaea up behind hem. Arranged ail around the vast space were neat, white cots. and In the center were long tables and benches. “Say.” remarked one of the men. “Jimsy Smith ain't no bluff. ts he? For a siow speakin' and movin’ man he's the liveliest bustier I ever s2en.” Half an hour later Smith once more lowered himself Into the chair beside the president's desk. “Well.” said Captain Willfams gruft ly, “I understand the strike's off.” “ep,” was the reply. “How did you do iy" “Told ‘em the teurh.” ‘The captain regarded him from um Ger his bushy eyebrows, brought to- getber in bis usual frown. “I guess you don't often lie, Smith.” “Not more than I have to.” “What preparations had you made for trouble? “Three thousand hired army cots in [No. 2 shed. with tab#s and benches. Then there's these.” He laid before the president a aum- ber of bids for supplying rations three times a day to from 500 to 3,000 men and telekrams from various towns worded something to this effect: ‘On terms offered can ship 2 men with- tn forty-eight hours. Williams read each paper carefully. “A strike at this time would have meant heavy loss to the line,” he ob- served. Smith nodded. | ‘Then the captain gave utterance to the higbest compliment he had ever ‘made toa man In his life. | “I put it up to you,” he said. “and You've made good, I guessed it was Hikely you would. Eave a cigar.” CHAPTER wire assured Mrs, Brooks that be would bear them no grudge be cause of her husband's attack upon him, he did not return again to the litle flat, and it was some time be: fore Mrs. Harris and Beth favored them with another visit. But this did not trouble the young couple a bit. Commencing on that night when be had insisted on taking bis wife to a place of amusement, Joe's conduct to- ward ler had undergone a compiete change. Instead of returning home de- Pressed and irritable be was nearly always in good lumor and affection ately considerate, They weeded no other company than thelr own and oc- casionatly Jimsy's The happy transformation bad been brought alwut by an unexpected bit of luck. As Joe explained It to his de- Ughted wife, In his capacity of col- lector he had become very. friendly with the manager of a concern which transacted bpsiness with the steam: ship company. and this gentleman bud Offered him $10 a week to render, when Fequired, certain Uttle services In. the matter of collections, which be was able to do without interfering to ang extent with the duties the Latin- American tive paid him for perform ing. It was Just the amount of the advance he had asked for and which Captain Williams bad refused to give him, and ic represented the difference between very painful sparing and com- parative ease. And that was not all One thing !eading to another, Joe was enabled now and then to earn an extra $5 or $10 from other sources With this prosperous turn in his af- fairs the self confidence and assurance that long had abandoned bim under his repeated disappointments and fail- ‘ure to make headway returned. Mo- Fose supineness gave way to vim and energy. His old optimism had revived im most extravagant form. He began to be interested In the price of real es- tate and automobiles. His wife, with the sobering recoliec- tion of the gulf between talk and achievement, of desire and possession, was careful to build no hopes upon these fabrics of vision, though she was too wise to seek to restrain the ardor of his imagination. She did, however, take with gratitude what the gods had given, pending the bestowal of possi-| bly greater favors. The substantial addition to their means enabled her to hire a woman who (when she felt like 1) did the dirtier work of the house- hold that bad been such a tax upon her. Little tollet necessities aad acces- sories made their appearance. Brooks, when be bad made an extra good week, insisted on lavishing bis addi- tional earnings upon her. New and suitable clothing restored her self re- spect and the pleasure that every wo- man feels or should feel in making herself attractive. Mrs. Harris and Beth could not fat! to notice the change, and it had a gradual but marked effect on their at- titude toward Brooks, which became more civil and cordial. Emma de- clined to gratify their inquisitiveness beyond admitting that Joe was “get- ting on.” To all leading questions she. returned evasive answers, one reason being that deep resentment rankled in the heart of her husband for the lofty disdain under which he bad for 90 Jong aod that be objected ¢ Phatically the revehtion of their Private affine to @oylods. even to Jimsy. Besides. ax be tind potuted (Out, It wou'd not be to their interest for the intellizence that te was doing utside work to reach Captain. Wik Hams’ ears He would either be dropped oF so muuch would be given to him to do that there would be no time in which to devote his energies 0 lucratively elsewhere. ‘The force of this could not fall to be seen by Mrs. Brooks. and, thus placed on ber guard, she was all discretion. Soon Joe was doing so wel! that they decided to take 9 larger flat and en- gage a regular servant. Another piece of Ick came to Jor. ‘80 unlooked for, In form so amazingiy Substantial, that it almost made Emma erazy with foy. |} Looking oat of the window about "Supper time and wishing that ber bus- band would come, she noticed a cab rive up to the door and, to ber sur. prise, saw her husband leap out of it. He bounded up the stairs two at a time, breathless with excitement, and emptied from his pockets on to the table a heap of notes and gold. Then he selzed hold of her and foreibiy waltzed her around the room. Finally he sat her. panting and te- |Wildered. In a chair and pushed the money toward her. “There, litle woman,” ne gaspea, tars for you, ali of It—every penny of it! You know that three days ago |when Jimsy started on that trip of in- Spection to vur South American ports Jof call Wililams went too and that ‘they are io be gone for two or three months. Well, I'll give you a million chances and you'll never come near guessing the decent thing Williams did. He recognized my services to the company at last by promoting me to head a new exchange and collection department with a salary of $300 a month, the raise to dite from six ‘Mouths back. Here's the six months’ back pay—$1,800." It was Emma's turn to get up and walt wheo she bad recovered some- what from her astonishment. They decided at ber suggestion to celebrate their good fortune forthwith by @ banquet royal for two at one of the fashionable restaurants. Hastily she donned ber prettiest costume, and they set out. Never had she been so vivacious, peter more charming. “Now,” she said joyfully, “you'll be able to get a dress suit, and I can have a piano.” R ‘The lack of a piano always had been cause for keen regret. ‘Then she began to consider how they might live more comfortably than they: had been doing. Joe proposed that they should avoid therhousekeeping and servant problems altogether by Uving In an apartment hotel He ‘thought this would be within their means if they furnished the apart- ment themselves. He did oot think It would cost more than living in a flat Emma fell in with this view with ea- ger enthusiasm. Toventization proved the plan a tittle more expeustve than they had bar- gained for tut they bad what ap. Peared to Enna to bea fabulous sum Of money on hand, and thes found an Apartment which so pleased them ina ‘ed to be satisfactory that they decided to take it ‘Theo Eusmua, with a light beart and © full purse—which, however, did not remain tong iu its bulging condition— experienced for the Grst time the un- alloyed fetlcity of shopping to her beart’s content. and the tangible re. sult of her peregrinations was a charmingty furuished nest, conspicn- ous among the objects in which was her coveted piano, T the end of the first month passed In thelr new bome Mrs Brooks’ joy in the sudden and great change in ber husband's fortunes in the steamship company re. mained uudimiuished. Her mother, Mrs. Harris, had come to look upon him with great respect and to be rath er proud of her son-in-law, who had belied ber dire prognostications and upset all her firmly rooted fdeas and convictions by rising to the world. As to Brooks bimself, the exuberance of bis optiuiism bad worn off consid- erably. He did oot share to any ex- tent in the light beartedness of his wife, who diffused happiness and rip- pled tt tn Joyous music on the plano and in songs that had smoothed out the creases of care on her father's brow when sbe sang to him io the days of ber girthood. He had become more and more thoughtful, with lapses ‘a unexpected times into absentmind. edness, Moreover, of lote, symptoms of his former ill humor aud nervous irritability had reappeared. “Goodness, Emma, one would hardly Know you! exclaimed Beth to her one evening efter dinver, to which Mrs. Brooks had tovited ber mother and sister. “Your dress is a dream. and at table you were positively radiant.” She had followed Emma into her bedroom and was gazing in admira- tion at her sparkling «yes and ber cheeks rosy with health. “1 am bappy,” admitted Emma, put- ting her arm around ber affection- ately. “Do you koow, dearie, I'm just be- ginning to koow who and what you are?” Highly amused at the girl's patrontz- ing manoer and not at all taciined to take her seriously, Emma looked at her with assumed gravity. “How's that, iittle sister?” she in- quired. “Please don't cal! me ‘little sister,’ ” objected Heth. “You're alwayn mak- fog fun of we.” “My dear Beth, it ts you who are always making fun of yourself,” Ew- ma told ber “Indeed I'm not!” “Why oot taugh and play and Just be a giri—a reai ‘tomboy? After all, that's the thing You are only eight- een, while t tave reached years of discretion. I'm twenty-five, you know, and awfully staid and wise in conse. quence.” *You weren't @ tomboy.” “Ob, yes, I was until I fell tn love. You were a wee bit of a little maid then, and after | fell to love L became a silly littic goose tike all girls tm love, ang then” — MS What of ne ene ee ee B tS teethiy. Mrs Harris persisted. “Captain Williams says that the race track ruins more young men aad"— Her son-tntaw had beer waxing nore and more exasperated. “For heaven's sake." be broke out angrily, wiping the perspiration from his face, “can’t you fod something Detter fo talk about than ruined men, thieves and fellows who go wrong?” “Why. Joe. what's the matter?” In- quired his wife. gazing at him in as- tonishment. He turned bis wary face toward her, and there was a look as of entreaty and apology tn bis eyes, under which the dark circies appeared to bate deep- ‘ened, as te replied: “I'm Ured and nervous. 1 think IU walk down the street.” “Ob, but you've got to take us to the theater,” Beth told him. “Mother hasn't seen the play at the Renals- Sance, ond you can't get seats—not a single @-even from speculators, 1 Promised to take her.” “Where do 1 come in?” Mrs. Harris answered for her: “You just take us; call for us after the show and put us on a car.” “We simply can't miss this chance, can we, tamma? said Beth. “You will trke us and come for us, won't you, Joo? “Oh, 1 suppose so," be acquiesced, » Uttle wearily At that sroment the telephone bell tang, and Emma answered it. “Yes, right up.” she lustructed the operator and, hanging up the recetver, turned with an eager smile. “I've got a surprise for you." she said. “Guess who's calling? Some ‘One who wasn't expected for a month.” “Jimsy." erted Beth *Jimsy Smith, straight back from Guatemala.” Joe's ese widened, and the ittle color to It faded from his face. He} Wes very much startled by this unex-| Pected visit. but kept sufficient controt over himself not to make the fact too apparent. . “Is Captain Willams with bim?* tn- quired Mrs Marris. “1 don't know,” answered Emma. , “I wonder what brings him back? Be; wasn't expected for 2 mouth or six = “I suppose the captain's with him,” surmised Beth, Her mother expressed the bope that be was. “So do 1,” said Emma. “I want to thank him for Joe's raise.” “You'll do nothing of the kind! ex Ploded Brooks furiously. “I want you all to understand bere and pow that my busiuess ts my business 1 don't want It discussed with elther Smith or Williams What I've got I've got, and it ts nobody's affair but mine. Now, {f avy of you have got anything to say about me or what I do, say it to me or shut up” “Joe, how can you?" reproached his wife, taken completely aback by this savage and uncalled for display of anger. “Well, I declare!" ejaculated Mra Harris, bridiing up. “I've vever been talked to so tn all my life and”— ‘The doorbell rang, and sbe subsided, sinking back in her chair and fanning ber red face vigorously. Mrs. Brooks opened the door, and Jimsy stood revealed with his win- some stile, bis face tanned brown by the sun of (ue tropics. “Weicome home, little strangert” ex- “Helio, Emma! How are you?" be said. taking ber outstretched hand. “Ludtes, 1 salute you. The prodigal bas returned from the distant laud of | chili cou caral and fat ladies wearing mantilias to receive his overdose of American grub.” “Look at bim! Hle’s as brown as an Indian!” laughed Beth, giving him a cordial handshake. | “Where's Captain Willams?” asked Mrs, Harris, t “All in due time, when I spin my yarn.” drawied Jimsy. He went over tw Brooks and shook hands with bias “Glad to see you, Joe,” be said. “Thank you, Jimay, Same te you. You look immense.” “I'm better than that Now, if you folks will sit down I'll tell you the! ory of my wonderful adventures, | ying only when wecessary to protect | my unsullled reputation. How ts that, | Beth, ‘uusullied reputation? Pretty | good, eh?” “But Captain Williams and the sto- ry?” urged Emma, “What I want to know,” observed ber mother, “is, Did the captain come with you?" “So do 1.” said Brooks, with hardly ouceuled anxiety. “Well, you know {t took me two months to do all this, and you can't| expect me to tell this story as if it was a journey in the subway.” “Jimsy, you're exasperating,” re- ponstrated Emma. “I was saying— Say, Emma, you ook all right in that dress,” he broke ff, contemplating her with admiration, ‘She stamped ber foot imperiously. | ~ “You married Joe.” “Yes.” suid Emma seriousiy, “and that's why } want you to have sucb a good time vow. while you can. Of course | hope you'll aot have the hard Pull that Joe aud I have tad—1 mean “When yon are married—but one never cain tell” _cNever mind the past now, Emma ‘Think\how happy you are.” “I know. it is good to be living ‘once again. but the best of tt all ts that Joe has suceeded. Even mother ad malts It. Think of tt!” ‘She even tikes him." contided Beth “My dear, sou know that mother ‘Ukes most any one who bas healthy to. teations of a bank account” “Emma,” chited the girl, “you ought to be ashamed! “I'm not.” laughed ber sister. “I'm too contented I don’t think that 1 shall ever forget the night. asariy seven weeks azo, when Joe cam home with the good news, bis salary more than tripled aud stx mouths’ back } Pay.” “Joe never thought Captain William would do tt for him." “No, mor 1. And the way it was done! You kuow the captain and Jim fy bad been gone three days before | Joe knew the good news.” “When are they coming back? Not for 2 month anyway.” “Joe says he doesn't know.” “Isn't tt funny that with all his luck he doesn't seem contented?” Emma became grave, “He's worried, poor dear, and I can’ make {t out.” she sald. “Perhaps he’s fo auxious to succeed tn bis new posi tion” In the parior Mrs. Harris sat fan. ning herself. for ft was a very warm ay. She was dressed in a gown of Summer finery that would have beet more sultable to her had she been. say, fifteen years younger, and she \ : id ; \ og - | ; VV ti / , fir / yf s | 4 7) / Yj ) LAAN * Oe “pp ws Mi SL | Was engaged fn ber usual pleasant oc | cupetion of criticising or "yseckine® as Joe calied tt Brooks was in @inner coat and bore other external evidences of his pros perity, which, bowever, was being purchased at’ considerable physical cost, for be bad become thinner and | was pale and hegeard. ‘The worry his | new position occasioned him was | plain to be seen, aud be was tn an ex | ecrabis surly mood and as vervous ts | the proverbial cat | “As I was saying to Joe.” observed Mrs Harris, turning to Emma and | the coffee ts not what it might be. It's | terribly bitter. Otherwise 1 liked the inner, Yes, on the whole, I liked the dinner But tf I were you, Joe, I'd complain about your walter.” | “What's the matter with bimt asked Emma “i | “Rather twpertinent and"— “That walter sults me, and I haven't heard Emma kicking.” eat tn Joe. But Mrs. Harris was not to be sup- Dressed by any snubbing from him. “SUIL” she persisted, “1 think for the money sou are paying here” — “For the money | am paying bere,” he retorted. “I'm satisfied. It seems to me that that ts all there is to tt" “Mother, dear, please don't find fault.” urged Emma. “It ts all so much better than ft has been. | think you should be happy to see things as they are.” “So much better than Emma's had for so long.” chimed to Beth, Brooks scowled at ber and, gathering Up some more papers from the tabie, fetreated with them to bis chair and began to peruse them rather fever- isbly. “I never read the papers any more,” Geclared Mrs Harris. “All they have Are scanda!, wurders and gen who steal money frow their firms. My—I don't know what the world is coming to!” | “Wasn't it terrible about that man Festerday watkfhg out of the bank witb a small forrune?” sald Beth. “I can't understand tow a man can deliberately steal,” suiffed ber mother, “especially when there isn't a chance 0 earth of getting away.” “He's the man who gave all the mouey to some woman, isn't be? Emma wanted to know, “Yes He'll have plenty of time to think tt over. The penitentiary isn't &@ bit too good for men lke him.” “I felt so sorry for his wife, poor woman,” remarked Beth. “She'll havc to stand most of the trouble.” Brooks jumped up impatiently, bit- ing his nails with annoyance. “Where's the rest of this paper?" be demanded “I want the part with the Facing char It's marked ‘Past Per, formances’” “Ob, | know—what Jimsy calls the dope sheet,” said Emma. “There ‘t| is” 3 ‘Mra. Harris looked horrified. “Joe, sas certainly aren't im races-horse races?” abe tnterro- “Yes, 1 be snapped. “I don't eee play "em, but { like to look ‘em over THRE: Brooklyn steam trto port all patnted By with a lot of peevish bluejackets eo board. looking for trouble. So they Postponed their change of government {ndetinitely. We nad been delayed #0 Jong by them fellows" — . “Jinms.” objected Beth. “Don't call them ‘hem fellows. * “Nor “No. Say “those fellows." “Well. Beth. I've known those greas- ers down there for fourteen years as j‘them fellows.’ aud if 1 called them anything else I'm aftald 1d have to be Antroduced again.” | “But Captain Williams?” insisted Mrs. Harris. “Yes, where ts he? sald Brooks, “Well we decided to come home. Captain left on the steamer by. the way of New Orleans, and a couple of days later 1 came direct to New York.” | “Rhea be is here?" said Mrs. Harris In a tone of gratification. | _“T suppoxe ho fs. unless be was ship- wrecked on the way. “But you haven't told us anything About the war.” Beth reminded him, “Was it exetiing 2" “Well, 98 the only things that were shot off wore severat hundred mouths and as {'m a bad hand at repeating conversations I will have (o leave the details to sour tnaginations.” “I consider that a most uninterest- ing story.” pouted Beth, “and, besides, you're keeping us from the theater.” AM gots?” queried Suulth, “No, Just eth and me.” explained Mrs. Harris, “Enima apd Joe have seen the pty, and we've got the last two seats." Emma accompanied ber mother and sister w her dedruom to help them don thelr hats. | When the deor had closed upon them Smith's sttinde changed entireiy. The smile vanished from bls face, and jhe went over to Brouks and placed both bands on uly shoulders “Joe, you're found out.” he announc- ed | “How found out?" demanded Brooks, Jumping up and facing him, very white “The money you've taken.” “If you say I've taken money, you're @ Mar!’ retorted Brooks, with an at- tempt at fierce indignation, But the words came falteringly between his blue, parched Ups. “Joe, Joe.” rebuked his frlend stern- Jy, “this ain't uo time to four dush witts me. I'm your friend, and you need one now, boy. Besides, there's Emma to think of” “I don't know what you mean,” he protested tn a choking votce. “That story of a revolution was a Ue.” explained Smith “Willams bas been bome three days. fle has bad the books looked over at aight He seem- ed to kuow what you were doing from the thue you took the Grat dollar, I've reason to think be went away simply” to give you a free rein and got even with sou for what you said to him that night at the Mat Joe, we've got to pul! togetber now, and you've got to be on the square with me.” Brooks sank iimply into a chatr and covered bis face with his hands. “What shall Ido?" be moaned. “Sit tight and saw wood.” “But they'll send me to jall, won't thes?" “You took that chance, Joe, boy. But we will have to Sight and Aight hard to get you out of {t You can't run away. You're watched,” tater: fupted bis friend. “Detectives are downstairs. and tf you make a false & & =f SY i gi), Mh WN ah AA) i aL Sith) Nat WH Ai | 1) move they'll nab you and spol! every chance.” “Jimsy, I'm done; | know I'm done!™ he almost whtwpered, plunged again into the bottomest depth of despair. “Keep sour nerve. What have you told Emma?" “She doesn't know.” “Of course she doesn't 1 mean. where did you say you got all the money?" “I told her my salary was raised, ‘and some buck pay"— “I'm on Now brace ap. You look all in. Here come the ladies.” “They are ready, Joe,” announced Mrs. Brooks “Come on my boy, and take the fam- Dy to the show." ordered Mrs. Barris, “I'm ready.” be replied, pulling bim- Self toxetber with great effort “Jim- ay, walt till 1 come back.” Emma and Smith accompanied them to the elevator. “Hurry back. Joe.” was Emma's in Junction to her husband as the car Gisappeared from view, (To Be Continued.) _——— Oi iti Break @ whole egg in a glass and aaa two tablespoonfuts of any fruit sirup preferred. Fi!! i=! ‘cod bottled ‘soda water and mix chorough!y in an egg shaker unti! light and foamy. Pour into @ glass and add a dash of prow phate. Grate nutweg l'gnuly ove: the top. FOUR eis f ue ctl Apa ; Ny s&s &) Sia pesisetin ei ies ia ers ia ay ST 20 JouN MITCHELL, JR, ~ EDITOR ace ecblemtn Rie ib tees Hatwrence soe a hy Reem eee 35S ASE 2 ee eee tion peice ia $1.59 per year in advance, ‘There are four ways by which money ean. be sent by tall at our risk—In 8 Post Odie Money by Bank ‘Check of Draft, or an Exprew Grier, and when none of thewe can be procured, in a Registered Letter. MOSEY ORDERS—You can buy a Moner, Oni at you. 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ETC.—It you do not want THE PLANET continued for another year after your sabecription bar run out, you theo notify us by Poual Card to ‘Kecontizue it. The courte bave dechied that subscribers to mewgapers who do fnot onier their payer discontinue! at the exp ation of time for which It has been paid are Set "uabie for the parment of the sabneston up to date when they rdf the paper disco: hued COMMUNICATIONS —When writing tous to renew your subscription or to discontinue you farer, you shooid give your name and wtiires [etait “otherwise we canwet Sad your pame os CHANGE OF ADDRESS—In onler to change the sckirem of s subscriber! we must be sent the former as well as the present address ———<—<—<—<$ Entered at the Post Ofice at Richmond, Va eo cocend Gass matter. Saturday September 4, 1900, —_——_ We sometitnes wonder if this wil continue to be an age of looseness and corruption. Married men like club-houses just as much us singie ones aud we some- times think, a little bit better. It is mo use to carry around a sour face. Smiles tend to beautlty ‘the countenance and make every- ody feel happy. j Rises gene Fo Colored people have always been experts at the praylug business, while the white folks have always ‘Deen experts at the money making Dusiness. Mr. Edgar Allan, Jr., is now Post: master of Richmond. We are of the opinion that it will take ten der- ricks and an unusual amount ot steam power to oust him from the job when his present terni expires. We went to Kansas City « poo: man and according to the Kansa: City daily newspapers, we awoke worth from a quarter to a half mil Hon dollars. When we reached Richmond, ve were poor again, THAT HEINOUS CRIME IN GEORGIA. Governor Brown of Georgia, has Just refused to grant an application for the commutatioa of the sentence of William H. Mitchell, a wealthy white man from twelve months in the chain-gang to a fine. The con- victed man is a resident of Thomas- ville, Georgia. In view of the charges against colored men and the allegation that they are the only ones disposed to commit the unmen- Uonable crime, this case will be of Special interest to all who will care to take the care to consider it. Miss Lucile Linton, white was a relative of the wife of William H. Mitchell. The accused and convict ed man conceived the idea of entic- ing her to a lonely cabin in the woods, out of hearing of passing countrymen and there criminally as- sault her. He bought disguises and after securing a buggy, robed him- self as a Negro woman and sent word to Miss Linton that she was wanted by a neighbor. She got in the buggy with him and as he drove away from the road-way, she became armed. He endeavored to detain _ Caran ms browaht re" Dette se ne ha a erate stregple, = He was tried in Fotis 7 and all of the facts bromght out es- tablished the fact that he had pur- chased the disguises, had blacken- ed bis face and had made an at- tempted criminal assault upon the lady in question. A jury ‘him guilty. Mitchell ts troy ye of age and has a wife several beautiful daughters. A plea of tem- porary Insanity failed and the ver- diet was sustained by the Supreme ‘Court of Georgia. After one of the most spectacular fights ever made before the Prison Commission of Georgia, that body recommended to the Governor that the sentence be commuted to one Year on the State Ferm at Miiledge- ville, Georgia, The Governor, how- fer, deelded to be sulded by. the recommendation and in his offielal Ssciaunt aide ihe Maes and refusing to grant any considera- ‘tion whatever. among other things he sald | “Should the clemency asked tor In the preseat case be extended, there is grave danger that It would bear fruits of sorrow in every se ton of our State. It would set an example perniclous beyond compare, an example embodying a daily me- nace to Georgia's womanhood. It would say that we have one law for the rich, another for the poor: one law for the highly-educated. another for those “40 poor to enjoy the privi- leges and immunities consequent upon edueation: one law for <@® classes, another for the masses,” There can not be any Just crith cism of the Governor's action. The Punishment originally meted was ‘grossly Inadequate to punish the ertme of which the convicted man was admittedly guilty. He was really deserving of R more severe penulty than would have been an {literate Negro. He was wealthy. He had been educated In one of the best col- leges In this country. He carefully planned the outrage and he was cog- nizant of the kelnousness of his action. Moreover, be attempted to injure one of the kindllest races of ‘people on the face of the globe, by creating the Impression that one of ‘the members of that race had been Suilty of such a heinous outrage. | This emphasizes the fact that many colored men are lynched for [crimes committed by white men with blackened faces, Under the prevall- jing customs and practices in it South-land, Mitchell should have been hanged aad thus one more brute should have been transferred to the other world. Truth fs mighty and will prevall and gradually the injustice of our treatment in this section of the coun- try is becoming apparent to all the wort OTHERS GUILTY. | We ad with m nterest ca R a This @ was convicted In the Police Court last Saturday morn jing on petit larceny and given ninety uraish the city of Richmond with Jdriver was caught with a load of fcobble-stones in addition to th grain, when the wagon or cart was weighed. | He was arrested and the result announced was the result. It was further ascertained that the driver could not have profited by the welghing of the grain In this man- ner and that only his employer was benefited. It was not proven or jeven alleged that he took grain off ‘the wagon and sold it and substi- tuted these rocks therefor. White citizens became interested in fhe matter and the detective bureau be- camie equally interested. As a result other counsel was secured for the colored man and an appeal taken in the case. The matter will be alred in the Hustings Court. Iu the meantine, the colored man, has told all of the facts in the case ‘and it beccraes'a question as to the ‘scope of a servant's responsibility in ‘earcying out the orders of the man, who employs him. If Mr. Alvey told him to put rocks or cobble- stones in that wagon, what was he to do, but to obey him? There must have been a motive in his doing this and the motive was not to secure financial reward for himself. This much is conceded. | It may be well understood though ‘that all of this agitation ie not tak- ing place in the behalt of the Ne- ro or on account of any other Ne- jgroes. It means that there is a split, deep and wide in the Demo- cratic Party im this elty. The frle- tion is on the increase and every op- portunity is now being taken to dis credit the actions of the other side. In the meantime, colored will necessarily profit by the eo tions of temper. We must be care- ful though not to become sativa ta sithar coins bt “wa ore and say nothing.” ee THE RICHMOND PLANET. RICHMOND, ‘VIRGINIA. Jim Robinson is now out on an appeal and before the contest is over there will be revelations which will ‘tend to injure maay people and to show that the poor Negro is as yet being used as a cats-paw for the f- nancial advancement of many white [people in this city ; . WHY JONES PAID. eae He Preferred to Buy the Supper Rather Than Do Wife's Bidding. APSEREE friends who. bad been spending the evening at their club agreed that the one who @id not do the trst thing bis wife told ‘him wheo be got home should pay for an oyster supper Smith ta trying to Gud the matches trod on the cat. “That's right.” said the wife, waking up. "“Kll the poor cat and have done with it.” “Well.” thought Smith, “I'l have to do it or pay.” So be kliled the family pet. Brown, in the dark, stumbled against the plano. “Why don't you break the plano?" demanded bls wife. Brown at once broke the plano. When Jones got howe te stumbled on the top step of the staircase. “Go on.” said bis wife—“tambie downstairs and break your neck.” “Not me.” auswered Jones. “I'l pay for the supper first."—Iustrated Bit: Hien Remtildtton Matannk. “Dis yer legisiatur’ business is what you might call epidemic.” said Brother Dickey—“gors de rounds an’ some- times sweeps thoo a whole family ‘fo it gits thoo wid ‘um. For geners tlons an’ generations white folks th. been legishitin’—bere, dar an’ every whar. It runs ia de blood. an’ dey kin ho mo! be'p it than 1 kin be'p bein righteous or a ‘possum kio he'p feelin’ ‘simmons we'n dey ripe an’ ready for him.” “Any of them ever make a mark?” he was asked. “Oh, yes, sub. One er ‘um got mad an’ thowed a ink bettie at somebody. but outside er dat 1 never did bea: tell dat any er ‘um did much cuttin up."—Atianta Constitution. A Dismal Thought. “Well, airships way be ali right, but I don't believe I'l ever care as much for them as I do for automobiles.” “Why have you become possessed of that idea?” “Just think of {t When you're out in an airship there never will be any thank-you-ma’ams to make the gir ‘squeat and crab hold of you for pro- tection.""—Chicago Record-Herald. li a A certain father who ts fond of put ting bis bors through natural bistor~ examinations is often surprised by thelr mental agility. He receutly asked them to tell him “what anima! “is satisfied with the least nourish ment.” “The moth!” one of them shouted couddently. “It eat» nothing bu’ holes."—New York Journal. He Approves. Friend—Why do you encourage these woman suffrage meetings: Surely, you don't approve of them? Husband—Approve? With all my heart: I can come home as Inte ax { Uke now without finding my wite at bome to ask questions.—Fliegende Blatter. True Loyalty. “You should stand up for the rail: Tos that 1s doing so much to develop your suburb.” Well." answered Mr. Crossioms “come to think of it, 1 never get a seat. 1 stand up for It at least thror hours a day.”—Wasbingtoo Star. Modified Baseball. “Do you think baseball will ever get @ foothold In Eogland?” “Ehey play it some.” “As strenuously as we do?” “Well, no. They serve tea between fonings, I understand."—Kansas City Journal. icin ke oink oes eel toot” The Avene aed eee 6. fr I a ea ti ee Wee | . % he f it (je Way QY’'G “aN p> ew 27m ee FEZ Station aster Pore Certo. pro spective passenger woo le waiting ce branch line station for a traip that |s toch orerdaey-Sbell be getla ura Row, sir. ‘Ere's the engine driver's little dog a-comin’ down the line.— Uttle ¢ Wants Her Hand Too. “And that young man kissed you on the lips? Why didu't you offer bim your hand?” said the father, “Ob, I didn’t have to, papa,” said the girl. “He's going to ask you for that.” —New York Telegram, What Did He Mean? ‘The Major~I saved that rose you gave me last week, Miss Antique. for, though it ts withered, it still reminds me of you. : Miss Ancique—Sir!—Christian Work and Evangelist. SIRES AND SONS. One at an inquest at Was named Mr. ¢ Carnegie began Iife as a bobbin boy fa a tinen factory at a wage of & shillings sterling a week. Nansev ts soon to set forth on an- other cruise tn arctic waters to study ocean currents aixl sea temperature. Prince von Bulow, the late imperial chancellor of Germany, was offered some years ago £1.200 a year to joln the staff of the London Times. Senator Benjamin F. Shively of In- diana ie distinction of being the only Deme it in the senate from the section north of Masou and Dixon's line and east of the Mississippi river. Ex-Ambassador Joseph H. Choate ts a strong bellever In the knee as a device for disciplining a wayward youngster. ‘I helleve that a good man's knee has been the turning point tm many a man’s life,” be said in an address recently H. B. Clafiin, the founder of the great chain of stores that still bears his name, started humbly in a dry goods store In New York, while his son, John Clatlin, now head of the HB. Clafin company, began as a clerk tn hits father's store One of the conerous givers to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York ts George A. Hearn, who has given an endowment of $151,000 to buy works by Amertean artists, be- sides presenting before 1906 nearly thirty paintings and alding tn the purchase of fifty-seven pictures. The Writers. It ts sald that when King Edward VIL. offered Borrle a titte recently he replied, “I have no use for euch things.” Edwin Lefevre, who, besides having written muck fiction, of which, per- haps, the best known ts bis collection of “Wall Street Stories,” has long been the financial editor of a New York daily, hes entirely given up bis work In this ceid. ‘Those who know Robert Grant, the author, wonder when he can find thme to write novels, for Mr. Grant, or, rather, Judge Grant, i a very busy man. Hesides a large law practice ke has been Judce of the probate court and of the court of msélveney for ‘Suffolk county, Mass.. since 1893 and Water commissioner for Boston for the last five years Law Points. The ability as an insurer ef a common carrer undertaking to trans- port live stock ts held in Summerlin Versus Seaboard Air Line R. Co, (Fla.), 47 So. S57, 19 L. R.A. (N.S), 191, not to extend to any damage resulting from the nature, disposition of viclousness of the animal An assignee of a bil! of Inding as collateral security for a draft upon the consignee of property represented b7 it, which he discoants, is held tn Ma- son versus Nelson (N.C.), 62 8. E. 625, 18 L. RA. (N. 8). 1221, not to be liable for breach of warranty by the consigh- or In the sale of the property. Sporting Notes. Dorando Miller, the New York A. C. crack singlg sculler, says this is his last year to row. A golfer in Cincinnat! who had ac- eldentally driven his ball behind and within six feet of a tall shelter house Jofted the bal! over the building tn one stroke by the niblick and, landing ft on the green, won the game. Joe Martina ts something of a base- ball thrower, his perferimance of 139 yards, 2 feot and 2 tnehes at New Or. leans recently betug a world’s record. Larry Twitchell in 1888 made the for. ‘mer best record of 1352-3 yards, Science Siftings. In the Edinburgh museum there ts a Magnet which weighs but three and one-half grains, yet it can lft 445 times its weight. Experiments have shown that Hert- zian waves will pass through stone walls more than three feet thick, but ‘Will be stopped by tin sheets no thick- er than cigarette paper. Roentgen rays ar+ now used to help ‘the diagnosis of tuberculous disease. Tuberculin indicates the presence of ‘the disease in the system, but to find its location the X rays are needed. Art of Writing. James Russell Lowell said the art of writing poetry consists “in knowing What to leave in the ink pot” When asked how he wrote bis poetry James Whitcomb Riley said, “Mostly with the rubber end of the pencil.” When Henry Ward Beecher was once ‘criticised for incorrect grammar he re- piled, “When the English language gets in my way it doesn't stand a hance.” ; British Briefs. ‘The English mint was erected in the year 1810, Edward U1. instituted the Order of the Garter, A cabinet minister's full dress sult costs about £120, Omnibus proprietors in London as- ert that they carry 20,000,000 passen- gers a year. Over 200,000 seamen, of whom 128, 009 are British and the remainder Las cars and foreigners, are employed ta British merchant vessels. Why He Was Single. Sir Joba Teigiel, the famous Eng. Uish cartoonist, was once asked why be had never married. “Well,” be replied. “it I bad married a girl she would al Ways bave wanted to be going about all over the place, and that would no have suited me, while, on the other hand, if f bad married an elderly lady she would bave worn a sbawl, and that I could mot have stood.” DAMES AND DAUGHTERS. | Ellen Terry was only eight years old when she made her first appear. ance on the stage. Mrs. Honora Tully, a native of Cavan. Ireland, vow on a visit to Brooklyn, ts 104 years old and eats lobster and keeps bouse. ‘The Grand Prix de Rome, founded by the Igstitute of France in 1805, bas been awarded to Mile. Lucienne Hen- Yelmaus. Men have usually been re- clplents of this award. The holder has four years’ residence ut the Villa Med- tel, Rome. Miss Nellie H. Phiibrick, for eighteen years chief clerk in the Middlesex pro- bate court at East Cambridge, Mass.. has been made third assistant probate register, She Is the frst woman to occupy the place, and ber appointuien: comes as the result of a recently enact ed law allow jog women to fill such of. ices. Miss Laura A. Hecox, who for twen ty-seven years has tended the light of the Santa Cruz lighthouse, recently re turned to her post from the last of the six vacations she has taken durinz that period Since 1881 she has had absolute charge of the light. and in all that time it has never gone out dur ing the night German Gleanings. Berlin supports about 1,500 practic. ing dentists. Germany has bullt a motoreagarimed with a quick Oring gan, sfectaily adapted for use against airships. Among the curtosities at a recent culinary exposition in Germans were baskets and imitations of mushrooms, almonds and varlous other things fash toned out of potatoes. | The sightseeing automobile ts uow being used in Berlin, but it Is there called the “cheese cart,” because the vehicles are owned by H. W. Kaese. ‘and knese is the German word for cheese A census of cripples has been made in Germany with the ald of medical ‘men, potice and schoolteachers. ‘Che number of cripples registered was 71. 783, making 148 tn each thousand in: pa The Royal Box. __ King Leopold has announced that he ‘will place the modern paintings tn the royal gallery on sale next November. Tn view of the precarious health of King Menelik of Abyssinia full pow- ers of regency have been granted to Ras Tesams, the guardian of Prince Lidj Jeassu, heir presumptive to the throne. Princess Loulse Victoria, the only daughter of the German emperor, bas never been kept in the seclusion that has been the lot of some princesses, but has visited endless theaters and concert halls, always in fashionable at- tire, and bas driven her own pony cart fn the Thiergarten and ridden there ever since she was a ttle girl. Science Siftings. Pure tungsten ts hard enough to scratch glass. | ‘The earth's atmosphere, according to ‘some authorities, varies In depth from 120 to 200 miles. Life of only the “very lowest order” ‘exists on Mars, if life exists there at ‘all, according w Professor Simon New- comb. The eighth satellite of Jupiter, dis- covered at the Greenwich observatory fn January of last yonr, proves re markable not only for belng so far from the planet, but also for Its very eccentric orbit, Its distance from Jupi- ter varying from about 10,000,000 to 20,000,000 miles. Tales of Cities. A recent directory census gives Mit. waukee 370,246 tnbabltants. The cen- sus of 1900 gave the city 285,315 in- habitants. Ten years ago the St. Pau! building. at Ann street and Broadway, was the tallest In New York and its 308 feet of altitude, was looked on with won- der. Now it attracts no particular at- tention. Butte, Mont., ts sald toybe the onty elty in the country which bas at the same time a free park for the chil- Gren and a street railway. that pro- Vides free transportation to the park for them. Things Theatrical. Doris Keane has been engaged for the cast of “Arsene Lupin.” Mrs. Thomas Whiffen is to be a mem- ber of Kyrie Bellew’s company this season. E. E. Kidder’s new play for Mar- guerite Clark is called “The Golden Garter.” Sam Bernard is to star In a new play by Hartley Manners, which is named tentatively “The Magician.” Loulse Gunning will continue ber tour in “Marcelle” this season. Jess Dandy will be in the company. \ Sandwiches. Minced dates make an agreeable sandwich filling. Sometimes minced raisins and figs are added to them. To make olive sandwiches, chop fine one-half pint bottle of olives and nix with a generous quantity of mayonnaise. Spread generously on thin slices of fresh bread. Sardine sandwiches are made by Fubbing the contents of one box of sardines to paste and mixing with two hard bolted eggs chopped fine. Spread evenly on triangles of bread. The Gritish Grouser. It is the proud privilege of every Englishman to grumble. The term “to grouse” has been especially, designed for this purpose. In the army they grouse from moruing till night. In (be navy the pastime of grousing absorbs all the spare hours. The society idler tops all by grousing in the most as. tounding fashion whenever and wher- ever opportunity offers.—London Town and Coustry. Indian Ink. Indian ink is made from burnt cam- phor. ‘Storks of Egypt. | Were it not for the multitude of storks that throng Egypt every winter. ‘there would be no living in some parts of the country. for after every inun- dation frogs appear in devastating swarms. ‘iniediaees No race ts safe from choler. It is deadliest to negroes. Conch Shells. A conch shel! with ts splrats twist- ing to the right instead of to the left 4s sald to be worth its weight tp gold. A shell of this kind sold in Calcutta for £4,000. ‘The Tongue. ‘There are “blind spots" on the tongue which are insensible to cer- tain flavors. The Carnation. In {ts original state the carnation was a Give petat flower about one inch tm diameter, in color a light pink, though it was sometimes seen in a mauve shade. The carnation of the Present day is the product of careful hybridization, as a result of which the size of the flower not only bas in creased to a marked degree, but {t has been filled with petals, something like a hundred being seen in a single choice specimen, French Coast Line. The water boundaries of France are asfollows: Mediterranean sea coast 395 miles; North sea, strait of Dover and English channel, S72 miles; Atian tle ocean, 584 miles Séobhiiite Wiabiaae ‘The Daves made it a rule uever to attack an enemy by night, on account of {ts cowsrdice, but upon one occa- sion they broke this rule. On they crept, barefooted, nolselessiy and un- observed, when one of them stepped ona thistle, which made him ery out in pain. Alarmed by the cry, the Scotch fell upon the party and defeat. ed them with fearful slaughter. Ever since the thistle has been adopted as the embiem of Scotland. Nickel Steel. At high temperatures the breaking Strength of nickel steel ts higher than that of welded trom, and this applies in a still greater degree to the élastic Halt. Mandarin. : Mandarin ts not, as is generally “sip- posed. a Chinese word, but one given by the Portuguese colonists at Macao to the officials of the Flowery King: dom. It 4s from the verb “mandar™ (to command). ‘There are alne ranks of the mandarins, distinguished by the buttons in their caps—first, ruby; sec- ond, coral; third, sapphire; fourth, an opaque blue stone; fifth, erystal; sixth, an opaque white shell; seventh, Wrought gold; elghth, plain gold; ninth, silver. Potato Crop. The potato crop of the world ts roughly 5,000,000,000 bushels a year, Most of it is raised in Europe. Bees. Bees were unknown to the Indians, but they wore brought over from Eng- land only a few years after the land {ug of the pilgrim fathers. It was more than two centuries after the first white {nvasion of New England, how- ever, before modern beekeeping began. ‘The industry of the present day dates from the Invention of the movable frame hive by Langstreth in 1852. Playing Cards In Moscow. In Moscow playing cards are sold only by the municipal government, and the vast fncome derived from that source 1s applied toward the malnte- nance of orphan asylums. Long Lived Fish. Fishes, especially the larger species, live a very long time. According to Bacon, eels live fifty years. Carp have been known to exist at least 150 years, while dolphins, sturgeons and sharks Uve more than a century and attain a huge size. Hard Graves. Before a grave can be dug in the churchyard of Lianbadoc, in south ‘Wales, the rock has to be blasted away. ‘Stain Miiiniatal, Pecan nuts are grown successfully ta Several states, but mainly in those states south of parallel 40. Forty feet is generally the distance apart of the trees, If the triangular method of planting ts adopted forty trees can be grown to the acre. Pecan trees may bear a few nits at an carly age, but paying crops cannot: be expected under ten years and full crops under twenty. The annual yield of a tree in full bearing has been variously report- ed at from one to twenty bushels. ‘The Zuyder Zee. The Zuyder Zee was formed by an {nroad of the sea, which broke down the protecting sand dunes. The Cylinder Printing Press. In 1814 Frederick Koenig invented the cylinder press in London. It was used here first in 1827, Koenig toveut- ed it to the order of Walter of the London Times, the world’s great news- Paper tn those days. Philippine Forests. The forests of the Philippine Isiands fover an area of about 40,000,000 acres. ‘The island of Mindanao, with an area of some 20,000,000 acres, has immense tracts of almost unbroken forests. ; Hollyhocks. ‘The hollyhock resembles a tall, mod. est maiden. The air of aloofness and aristocratic sufficiency veils beauty and charm. Friends have told me of fragrant hollyhocks, but I have yet to meet one, while knowing full weil that with a generous supply of honey au! nectar there should be perfume bidde deep in the beart of the dower.—Chi. ens Pest, $3.50 RECIPE CURES WEAK MEN—FREE Send Name and Address Today— You Can Have It Free and Be Strong ané Vigorous. sertolion for nervous abit, ack nervous zi vigor, weakened manhood,. failing memory and lame Dack, brought on by excesses, unnatural draing, or the follies of youth, that bas cured so many worn and nervous men right in thelr own homes—without any ad- ditional help or medicine—that I gate every man who wishes to re- gain his manly power and virility. quickly and quietly, should hate a ‘copy. 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A great many doc- tors would charge $3.00 to $5.00 for merely writing ont a prescription lke this—but I send it entirely free. POLICE JUSTICE ROUNDLY SCORED. (Continued From First Page.) the hands of Justice Cratchfeld WILL GET ANOTHER LAWYER. Other officials are feticent in dis- cussing the case, though all admit a dissatisfaction with the present stat- us, and a belief that there will be prompt developments in the direc- tion of the real offenders. Already there is a movement on foot to ralse a fund to employ a new lawyer for the negro. believed to be the scapegoat. His counsel. H. C. Glenn, at the tria] on Saturday took the ground that his client's confes- sion to the detective precluded his taking an appeal and apparently he made little effort to secure his re- lease on the ground that he had turned State's evidence. Should bis view that an appeal and jury trial is not permissible be sustained, re- sponsibi Richmond citizens sald yes- terday that they would go before the Governor with a request for a par- don or commutation of the sentence delivered by a magistrate who con- dems one party to a conspiracy and refuses to consider evidence against any others, ASK JUDGE WITT To ACT. The Street Committee to-night Will have before ft a resolution which has been prepared by Chalr- man Adams, requesting Judge Witt to summon a special grand Sury, and it is probable that this course will be adopted, independent of a counctimanie inquiry. which may come later. . Members of the com- mittee feel that the negro, while turnimg State's evidence, has been made to bear the whole blame, and that by the action of the Poll Court he wilt come before the grana Jury discredited as a criminal, serv- ing a sentence in jail, rather thyn as ‘one member of a conspiracy to de- fraud, who, caught in the act, tells the whole story, shielding no one. ; Offended Her. “Ab.” sighed the enraptured swain, holding her lily white hand and look- ing up at the refulgent orb of night, “see yonder moon! And think how often it has looked down upon a scene Uke this and listened to soft words uch as these.” “Sir!" she exclaimed, jerking her hand away. “I want you to under- stand that I was not tn earnest with all the others."—Chicago Post. Priscille’s Curl. ‘Twas small. it's true, but very fair, A dainty, gleaming, silky snare Which some blest wandering breath of ate Brushed o'er my cheek, and then and there, With cheeks aglow and thoughts awhirl, I wondered if 1'd really dare— Prisetlia's curl! I wondered, t90, if she would care And, wondering. leaned above her chair, Pressed to my lips the wisp of hair. Bho rose and left me standing there With cheeks agiow and thoughts awhtrt, For in my hand remained Priseilia’s curt! —Lippincott’s Magazine, Too Much Prosperity. Frere {s a story of the meeting of two farmers recently. One asked the other how crops were in his nelghbor- hood. “Well, crops are pretty good—in fact, the best I've ever seen at this season— but I'll teli you what's a fact, old man—if crops Keep on at this rate the land ts going to be sapped so we won't make a thing for five year to come!”—Atlanta Constitution. The Lost Dream. T searched through all the garden close, 1 questioned ev'ry Dudded rove, of each buzzing bumblebee, Plead with the silver willow tree, But where it vanished none could say— ‘Tho dream that I lost yesterday— ‘TUl, when he heard my wistful sighs, Love showed it me within his eyes! ~Charlotte Becker ta Puck. Di cee Taper—I'd like a two weeks’ absence to attend the wedding of a very dear friend. Mr. Gingbam—it must be a very dear friend, indeed, to make you want that much time. Who is it? ‘Taper—Well, sir, after the ceremony she will be my wife.—Vogve. i. THE YEAR Saturday.....September 4, 1909. BOWSER THE SHARP. Nobody Can Work a "Con Game' on Him. ACCUSES MAN OF SWINDLING Takes Him to Station House For Selling Mrs. Bowser Breastpin Hoe Thought Brass—Told to Go Home and Lose Sharpeness. By M. QUAD [Copyright] 1909, by Associated Literary Press.] M $ ^{E} $ "Lady, I am out of work and my wife is ill, and I want to sell you this article to raise a little money." "But you should go to a pawnbroker," was the reply. "He will only loan on it, and that not half its value. I want money for medicines and food." "The pln may be brass for all I know," said Mrs. Bowser after looking at it. said Mrs. Bowser after looking at it. "Lady, I pledge you my word that it's solid gold. It was a wedding present to my wife. It's worth $10, but you may have it for three." "It may have been stolen." "I ask you if I look like a thief? I'll give you my name and address and you can find out that things are as I tell you. Take it for $2, for I must have money. The doctor has left a prescription that I must have filled." Mrs. Bowser had heard so much about fakers that she was afraid, and yet she had to admit that the man looked what he claimed to be. After a brief mental struggle she handed over the money and said she would keep the pin simply as security. When the man had departed it struck her to take the pin along and ask a jewel. A man in a suit and hat stands in front of a door, pointing at a woman in a long dress who is standing on the other side of the door. "I WANT MONEY FOR MEDICINES AND FOOD." er to value it. This she did and was more than surprised when it was handed back to her with the remark: "Yes, it's solid gold and probably cost $10. I will give you three for it for old gold." There wasn't any doubt as to what Mr. Bowser would say when he came home to dinner and was told of the incident. He had repeatedly warned Mrs. Bowser about such transactions. When he arrived and got seated at the dinner table she innocently asked: "Do men ever go around with brass jewelry trying to sell it for gold?" "Do they!" he exclaimed as he looked up. "Well, I should remark that they did! It's a regular business with lots of them." "And what stories do they tell?" "Oh, they generally get off something about a stek wife or starving children. It's what the police call the sympathy dodge." "And not one of them is honest?" "Not a living one. The whole gang ought to be in prison." "But there must be cases where families are hard up," persisted Mrs. Bowser. "All nonsense. If any of the fellows call here you don't want to be taken in by any of their stories. How does it happen that you are asking me all about this matter all of a sudden?" "Why—why, I just happened to think of it, you see." He Wants Particulars. Mr. Bowser leaned back and looked at her for half a minute and then with a "Humph!" went on with his meal and asked no more questions. It was not until they reached the sitting room that he said: "Now, madam, tell me all about it. You have had a confidence game worked on you today, and I want the particulars." "But he talked like an honest man." "Oh, certainly. He made you believe black was white." "And is wife is ill." "The usual tale. What did he have to sell?" "This gold breastpin. He said it was worth $5 or $6, and he let me have it for two." "For two! For two!" exclaimed Mr. Bowser as he reached for it. "You gave him $2 for this piece of brass!" "Isn't it gold?" "Gold nothing! It's pure and undultered brass, and is worth abon- 10 cents. By George, but you must have softening of the brain! Taken in and done for as slick as grease." "I-I thought it was gold." "And you think the moon is made of green cheese. He said it was gold, of course, but you needn't have been niny enough to believe it. Two big dollars for 10 cents' worth of brass! Don't talk any more about my buying chickens." "I wish you would take it to a jeweler and see what he says," observed Mrs. Bowser after a moment. "What! Don't you believe what I've said?" "But he seemed so honest. I can't somehow believe he stood and looked me in the eye and fled to me. And the pin seems like gold to me." "Taken in and done for by a game that wouldn't fool a baby, and yet you hate to admit it." he laughed. "Why, woman, I was on to that game before I was out of knickerbockers. It's one of a dozen well known con games." "And weren't you ever fooled?" "Me taken in—me, Bowser? Not on your life. I have never come within forty rods of it. Gold? Why a chile could smell the brass. And he said he had a sick wife—ha! ha! ha!" "If a jeweler says it's brass"— "How can he say anything else? Why don't you own up that you've been played? Yes, I'll take it over and I'll also tell him what a keen-witted wife I have. Gold! A sick wife!" Makes an Arrest. Mr. Bowser had headed for a jewelry store when a pedestrian stopped and accosted him with: "Mister, here's a diamond ring belonging to my wife. There's two small diamonds, and the ring cost $40. I'll take $20 for it." "Um, um. Maybe you are the man that sold my wife a breastpin for $2 today." "I sold one to a lady somewhere around here. She was very kind to help me out, but I must have more money." "You are just the chap I want to see. Take a walk with me." "I will." "It was a gold breastpin, was it?" "For sure." "And this is a diamond ring?" "It is, sir." Mr. Bowser walked the man into a police station and up to the desk and said to the sergeant: "Officer, here is a man I want to give in charge. He's a swindler." "Arent you mistaken?" asked the officer. "I have known the man two or three years. He's a hard worker and out of luck. He was asking me to buy a breastplast this fortnoon." "But he sold it to my wife, and it's brass. The diamonds in his ring are only glass." The sergeant sent for a jeweler across the street, and when the man had made his examination and report, Mr. Bowser stood with open mouth and might have remained an hour longer had he not been told: "Better run home, now, and try to lose some of your sharpness on the way." "Well?" asked Mrs. Bowser, as he arrived. "Fools and jackasses, the whole pack of 'em," he replied as he sat down with a grunt. And that's all she got out of him. More Nonsense. "I wish," she complained, "that you wouldn't talk so much nonsense to me." "I didn't know that I talked non sense to you." "You're always telling me about yourself and what you have been doing."—Chicago Record-Herald. An Ordeal. "Father," said little Rollo, "what is an expert witness?" "In many cases, my son, an expert witness is a man who is willing, for a consideration, to go on the stand and let the lawyers give him the third degree."-Washington Star. True to Principle. "Why don't you want the singer who was so highly recommended for your concert?" "Because, sir, her advertisements said she had such liquid tones, and this is a dry town, sir."—Baltimore American. Noncommittal "Would you like a cheap hammock or a good strong one?" asked the salesman. "A capable salesman could tell by the buyer's appearance," she answered haughtily.-Cleveland Leader. A Georgia Text. It's a pretty hard matter to run the world we're in, and yet there are folks that think they are competent to give the angels instructions in the art of flying.—Atlanta Constitution. Mixed Housekeeping "Can your daughter who is just mar rled make good bread?" "She doesn't have to. Her husband' got the dough."-Baltimore American Quite Appropriate Tippler—What do the coinmakers employed in the mint drink? Nibbler—Mint julep, I suppose."—Brooklyn Eagle. A Widespread Hopes. I've never crossed the wide blue sea. No touring car is mine. I have to figure carefully I'll be among the leading men And live in independence when I sell my miling stock. I have to labor, wet or dry. I always want to care: I always am compelled to buy The cheapest things to wear. But some day I will cease to sigh, And I will travel far; In the future. CLOJDBURST AT RAWHIDE Six Persons Missing, 500 Homeless and 165 Buildings Destroyed. Remo, Nov. Sept. 1.-The mining THE RICHMOND PLANET. RICHMOND. VIRGINIA camp of Rawhide, one hundred miles from here, was swept by a cloudburst, a wall of water said to have been 12 feet in height rushing through the streets. Six women and children are reported to be missing, 500 persons are homeless and 165 buildings have been destroyed. Offers $100,000 For Big Eight Jack Munroe, the former heavyweight prize fighter, and now mayor of Elk City, Ont., telegraphed to Robert Edgren, a local sporting writer of New York, that the Elk City Athletic club had offered a purse of $100,000 for the Jeffries-Johnson fight, to take place in Canada one year from date. Munroe does not state the exact location of the battleground, but says it is less than thirty-six hours from Chicago, New York and other eastern cities. York, Pa., Prosecutor Found Dead. District Attorney William L. Ammon, of York, Pa., died in his stable under circumstances which indicated suicide, but the physicians who examined the body declared that death was caused by heart disease. An official examination of his accounts with the Standard Building and Loan association, made by request of the state banking department, reveals a shortage existing over a period of fifteen years. The shortage is said to be $40,000. Ball Player Killed by Lightning. In full view of 1000 people, William Bedford, of Cairo, Ill., negro second baseman of the Cuban Giants base ball team, was instantly killed by lightning while practicing before the game with the Atlantic City team at Inlet park. The bolt struck the ground close to the player, and ran through the spikes in his shoes into his body. Although dead when picked up, Bedford's body carries no burns or other marks of the lightning. TRENTON MURDER MYSTERY Man Found Dead In Street and Four Persons Arrested. Trenton, N. J., Sept. 1—Thomas Walters was found dead in a street, presumably murdered. Mrs. Elizabeth Keeler, her son and daughter and Lincoln Lovett, who boarded with the Keelers, were arrested as witnesses. In Walters' head was a bullet wound. Mrs. Keeler is said to have admitted to the police that Walters, while at her house, charged her with having robbed him, and that he drew a revolver and tried to shoot her. The son and daughter told similar stories. SON MURDERS FATHER Shoots Parent For Demonstrating Against His Misbehavior. Wheeling. W. Va., Sept. 1.—Returning home from church with his wife, Robert Brown, of Simmons, W. Va., found his son, with a companion, in he parlor playing the piano and raising a disturbance. The father remonstrated and ordered them from the house. The son, it is charged, caught up a gun and shot his father dead. He was captured. SEVEN ORPHANS DIE IN FIRE: 743 SAVED In Bed and at Prayer When Flames Broke Out. New York, Sept. 1.—Seven little children, inmates of St. Malachy's Home for Children at Rockaway park, L. I., were suffocated in a fire which destroyed a portion of the home. There were 750 children in the institution, which is conducted by the sisters of St. Joseph of Brooklyn. Most of them marched out of the buildings in good order when the fire alarm was sounded, and it was supposed that all had escaped, until the little bodies were found in the smouldering ruins. Nearly all of those burned to death were under five years of age. The fire was discovered in the laundry. Three hundred and fifty small children were in their cots on the third and fourth floors, and some of the older children were attending evening prayers in the chapel. As the alarm sounded the older children marched from the chapel to the boardwalk along the beach, and the nuns and attendants rushed to the work of carrying the little children from their cots in the floors above. NEW YORK MAYOR ACCUSED Borough President Color Declares McCillian Has Squandered Money. New York, Sept. 1.—Charges against Mayor McCillian, filled with Governor Hughes by Bird S. Color, president of the borough of Brooklyn, were made public. Mr. Coler alleges that Mayor McCillian has squandered money in the investigations ordered by his commissioner of accounts, and that these investigations have been aimed solely at his political opponents for political purposes and not for the general good of the city government. In the investigation of the office of the president of the borough of Brooklyn, Coler charges McCillian misplace funds of New York city to the extent $t nearly $100,000. RECEIVED THE ROOSEVELTS French President Entertains Ex-President's Wife and Daughter Rambouillet, France, Sept. 1.—The president of France and Mme. Fallier-lies received Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt and Miss Ethel Roosevelt at his chateau. The party came from Paris in an automobile, Ambassador and Mrs. White being included in the number. Tea was served, after which, escorted by the president, Mrs. Roosevelt and her daughter viewed the historic treasures of the chateau and strolled about the grounds until time to return to Paris. THE EASIEST WAY. Mr. Gilberry Wanted a Coat of Tan as Quickly as Possible. M. GILBERRY was strolling up and down the dusty road in the broiling sun, clad only in a short kneeed bathing suit. The native drew up before him curiously, looking bim over carefully. "Want a lift, mister?" "No. thank you." "It's quite a way to the shade, pardner—better jump in!" "No, thanks." "This sun 'll peel you, stranger, if you don't get out of it." "I hope so," crossing his arms complacently over his breast. The native studied Mr. Gilberry for a moment. "If it ain't pryin' into your affairs too much I'd like to know what you are paradin' around in this killin' sun dressed like that for?" "To save time," answered Mr. Gilberry, critically examining a red arm. The native regarded Mr. Gilberry profoundly, sadly shook his head, tapped his forehead significantly and clucked to his horse. The sun bad done it, of course. Which shows that the best of us may be mistaken and that conclusive evidence is only an empty phrase, for Mr. Gilberry could spare only two days to go to the seashore.-Puck. Not What He Expected Uncle Boffin was being almost worried to death by the persistent attention of a local life insurance agent, and when the fellow called upon him for about the thousandth time he suddenly wheeled around in his chair and demanded: "Is your life insured?" "Of course, sir!" "In case of your death who benefits?" "My wife, sir." "Him! Send your wife to me." Rather puzzled, the agent withdrew, but being a man who did not stick at trifles, he persuaded his wife to call on uncle. "Mrs. Jones," remarked the old swell when the lady called, "I understand your husband's life is insured?" "That is so, Mr. Boffin." "And that you would be entitled to claim in the event of his death?" "Certainly, Mr. Boffin." "Then, madam, if you can prevail upon your husband to visit me once more—only once, mind—I'll see you don't have long to wait for your money. That's all. Good morning." The insurance agent didn't call again—Half Holiday. The Last Night He Called They had been sitting in the lighted parlor with the chaperon when he leaed over and whispered: "Go on, dear!" "I am going to propose"— "Gracious! This is so sudden." "Going to propose that we go out on the dark porch and see if we can sight Mars. You know that planet is interesting these days." An- right there and then she insinuated hat he could get his hat and cane. bicago News. Where Extremes Meet. "Skip the gutter, mister, or you'll get your cuffs muddy!"—Browning's Magazine. No Idle Boast. Clancy—Flannery likes folks to know now that he's wan if the min higher up in the palace department. Casey—Arrah, what illivated him? Clancy—A horse! He's bin applanted a mumber iv the thraffic squad—Cincinnati Commercial Tribune. The Place For Him First Manager-Why did you advise that fellow to go into a stock company? He is no actor. Second Manager-Can't act a bit more than a cow. That's the reason I told him to go to a stock company.-Detroit Free Press. Gatering to His Taste "Did you divide your bonbons with your little brother, Mollie?" "Yes, ma. I ate the candy and gave him the mottoes. You know he is awfully fond of reading."—Baltimore American. Reflected Glory "I think that Mrs. De Blink acts awfully uppish." "Well, why shouldn't she? Her daughter has just ascended Mount Blanc."—Cleveland Plain Dealer. Sorry She Spoke. sheepish when you proposed to me. Benham—Then I was a nature faker, because I wasn't a sheep, but a donkey! —Chicago News. Why? "In Vienna the organ grinders play only between noon and sunset." "Why do you say 'only'?"—Chicago Record-Herald. Unprejudiced. 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Many women have been separated from their husbands; mothers from their children, without knowledge of the whereabouts of one another. Little effort to recover the bodies of the drowned has yet been made, the chief thing done under the chaotic conditions prevailing being providing of shelter and food for the living. Four Young Girls Meet Violent Deaths Four young girls met violent deaths at Camden, N. J. Two were drowned while wading in the Delaware river and two others were killed by a train on the West Jersey & Seashore railroad. Florence Lyons, aged eight years, and Annie Bulber, aged fifteen years, were wading with a number of companions in the Delaware river near the yards of the New York Shipbuilding company, when Florence stepped into a sluice where the water was above her head. Annie hurried to her assistance and also got into deep water. Neither of the girls could swim, and both drowned before assistance could reach them. 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Rector Street, New York. seconds faster than that made by Hleriot over the same course. The other two pilots who represented France, Latham and Lefebvre, finished respectively in 17 minutes 32 seconds and 20 minutes 47.3 seconds. Henry Farman, the English aviator, in a ship built of his own design, broke the world's reco for duration and distance in a heavier than air machine and won the -Grand Prix de Champagne—the endurance contest—by a remarkable flight recorded as 180 kilometres, 111.77 miles, in 3 hours, 4 minutes and 56 2 seconds. He actually covered 118.06 miles. A few minutes after 7 in the evening, under the rules, the timekeepers could not keep a record. Zeppelin Airship Arrives at Berlin. The airship Zeppelin II, with Count Zeppelin at the helm, arrived safely at Berlin Sunday afternoon. The voyage from Friedrichshafen was marked by an accident to the airship which caused a considerable delay at Bitterfeld. At that point Count Zeppelin met the craft and was greeted by the crown prince, representing the emperor. The emperor himself witnessed the arrival of the airship here. Two monarchs of the air, Count Zeppelin and Orville Wright, foremost exponents of distinct systems of aerial navigation, met at Berlin for the first time. They were introduced by the monarch of the German empire. Double Lynching In Georgia. Following the shooting and burning of Ben Clark, an escaped negro convict, by a posse, and the killing of James Durden, a prominent planner, of Soperton, Ga., who was a member of the posse, in the fight with Clark, John Sweeney, another negro, who had harbored Clark, was taken from a passenger train near Tarrytown and hanged by the posse. Four other members of the posse were wounded in the battle with Clark and one. Sheriff James Lester, of Montgomery county, probably will die. The posse found Clark, an escaped convict, in Sweeny's house. The wife of Sweeny was at home, but Sweeny was absent. The sheriff called on Clark to surrender. For answer he received a 44-calibre bullet fired from a rapid-fire gun. Durden was shot and other members of the posse fell before the torrent of lead dealt out by the nogro. He continued to fire until his ammunition was exhausted. He was then overpowered and his body riddled with bullets. He wore a steel breastplate that turned Winchester bullets. A pile of logs was covered with crude turpentine and the body was placed upon them and cremated. In the excitement the woman escaped. Friends of Benzoate Win After a sharp and protracted debate the resolution endorsing the findings of the so-called "Remsen board," which declared benzoate of soda to be not harmful when used as a preservative, was adopted by the convention of the Association of State and National Food and Dairy Departments at Denver, Colo., by a vote of 57 to 42. The opposing forces were the government chemical experts, including members of the Remsen referee board, who contended that benzoate was harmless, and some of the two hundred state food commissioners and agriculturalists delegated to the convention. Bear Carries off Baby; Attacks Father James Doolittle, a homesteader near Nyack, Mont., was probably fatally injured in rescuing his four-year-old daughter from a grizzly bear which had picked her up and taken her some 200 yards away. Doolittle, hearing the child scream, gave chase on horsesback. The horse threw Doolittle, breaking his leg, when the grizzly turned and clawed him in a frightful manner, almost disemboweling him and chewing both legs and arms almost to a pulp. Aside from a few scratches, the baby was uninjured. Made Whisky From Prunes In Prison. Eight guards at the western Pennsylvania penitentiary in Pittsburgh have been dismissed. It is alleged, because they have failed to detect some of the prisoners who are said to have been making whisky in the big prison. According to one of the discharged guards, other employees at the penitentiary are implicated. The whisky was made from prune juice, yeast and sugar. Killed In Fist Fight. Hiram Oakes, a retired merchant of Des Moines, Ia., was killed at Columbus junction in a flat fight with Charles Brown, of Fredonia. The men quarreled over financial matters. FIVE --- SIX Seen ae é a iave: : i i v, a8 ae ea é Ve: Py § Paul’s Third Journey Continued Sunday School Lesson for Sept. 5, 1909 LESGON TEXT.—Acts 32-3. Memory verses 312 GOLDEN TEXT.-“I san do all things through Christ which strengtivennthy mart Pott 4a TIME —Paul toft Eptanus tate im A. D, Se. December, 63, 3a 1 February Si. at Corinth, Me reached ‘Miletus and uferted with Exterian elicen the last of Apr PLACE -Paul. after leaving Eiphes went through Macedonia to Corinth, and Returned bythe same route to, Philippl Troas and. MMitctws Suggestion and Practical Thought. A Pastor's Wise Counsels Redeomed by Example. 1. Paul's Journeyings Among the Eu. ropean Churches—Vs. 1-4 We learn from 2 Cor. 1:8-19, written not a great while after Paul left Ephesus, that he left that city because his life was in danger if he remained, and he could no longer do his work there. He wa in depressed frame of mind from ill health. From Ephesus be took a trad ing vessel to Troas on his way t Philippi. Here a door was opened, but he was restless because Titus failed to met.him there with news from. t church at Corinth, (2 Cor, 2:12; 7:5, 6 Paul took another vessel to Philipp where he was joined by Titus, ard later to Berea and Thessalonica, where Timothy joined them, and they joined in addressing the second letter to the Corinthians. In the autumn he went, to Greece and spent three months there, chiefty In Corinth, where he had much to do amid sickness and affic tions on every side, “fightings without aud fears within” (2 Cor. 4:7-11; 7:5 6) in caring for the churches (2 Cor 11:28) and correcting wrong conduct (2 Cor. 12:20, 21; 12:1, 2). It was four or five years since he had left them, after a stay of a year and a halt During all this time collections were taken up in the various churches on this tour for Paul to carry to the poor Gfsciples at Jerusalem, according to his promise seven years before (Gal 2:10). Seven delegates had been ap pointed to accompany Paul, but a plot Of the Jews determined him to change his plans and. instead of going by wa- ter, he, together with five delegates from Europe, went by land to Troas where two delegates from Troas joined him, 2. Paul's Experience at Troas—Vs. 6 12. Paul and his company remained a Week at Troas, a seaport on the Aeg ean sea. They reached Troas five days after the Passover, Paul, on the eve. ning of the Lord's day, held a preach. ing service and holy communion in an upper chamber As Paul was to sail the next morning the service lasted till midnight. A young man was sitting in the latticed window of the third story. ‘The place was crowded and hot, the hour was late, and the young man was weary, 80 that he was overpowered by sleep and fell down three stories to the ground and was taken up for dead Paul immediately went down by the outside stairs common in Oriental houses, and fell on him, embracing him, as Elijah in the case of the son of the widow of Zarephath (1 Kings 17:21), and Elisha, in that of the Shu- nammite’s son. Doubtless Paul prayed as earnestly as those prophets, “and the close contact, the clasp of warm affection gave new intensity to the prayer of faith.” His prayer was an Swered, and the young map was re stored. The incident revealed the love, the faith and the power of Paul and the religion he represented. 3. Paul's Review of His Life at Eph- esus—Vs. 13-27. Luke. The change of pronouns to “we” in v, 13 shows that Luke had now Joined the party, and he -continues with them till they reached Jerusalem (Acts 21:17), ‘On the fourth day they reached Mil- etus, beyond Ephesus. The vessel was detained here for an uncertain length of time and Paul sent for the Ephesian elders to come to Miletus and meet him, fer tt would not be safe for him not to be ready to embark at short notice. Paul Meets the Elders of Ephesus. Luke was probably present at the meeting, so that he was able to report what Paul said. Those present knew that he was speaking the truth. What he had done and taught was an example for them to follow and an inspiration to faith. fulness. 1. He did his work (v. 19) “with all humility of mins.” He was not self- Seeking; he was ready to do the hum. blest service for the humbiest person, He worked with his bands, although brought up in the midst of wealth and learning. Pa © set Curist forward and Kept himself in the barkground. 2. Amid great difculties. “With Many tears,” not for himself, but for others. And this (¥. 31) “night and day with tears,” expressing the intens- ity of sympathy and desire for their good. (V. 1%) “And temptations.” Trials of hia temper, of his patience, through persecutions and bitter hos- tility of those he came to help. EA ee “TI bave net shunned to} declare unto you all the counsel of God.” All that God had revealed (o him concerning satvation, whether men were willing to receive tt or not. They to be told of thelr sins, and that a ld not be saved they re- a and forsook their ¢ wpe} back nothing that was profitable unts you.” 4 Paul used both of the two great methods of bringing men to Christ— by masses and by individua's. Every wise preacher and Sunday school teacher teaches both “publicly and from house to house.” Significance OF the Cummins Revolt F Senator Albert Balrd Cummins of lowa, former governor of the Hawkeye State and father of the “lowa idea.” is to have his way. the insurgent movement against the Payue tari bill fs not to die with the Passage of that measure. Rather it is to be extended to the entire country, As to be injected Into every Republican ‘convention where it his any show of ‘success and 1s to be fought out on the floor of the national convention in 1912. The fssue as framed by Cum- teins is net exactly on the tariff, bat father ov the broader and more funda- mental principle of carrying out piat- form pledges. So fur as the tariff is concerned. the Towa senator will be satisfed with a commission of experts and a revision on individual schedules AS orcasion seems to demand. He makes ft plain that he stands on the Protective tariff principle, that he sup- ports President Taft and that he makes bis fight within the Republican Party, but be wants ft understood that henceforth and forever a party prom- fse means a party performance. On that issue be has planned a three years’ campaign and bas gone 0 far a8 to announce his own possible can- didaes for the presidenes. The declaration has added force and Aignifieance because of the character of the man making it and the enthust- astic reception given him by the peo- ple on tis return to Towa. Cummins fought the raliroads and the former leadership of bis party In Iowa and beat them in three successive cam- Palgns for the governorship, defeated them again when elected senator, fa- Yored for years the removal of the tariff on trust made goods arid op posed the Parne-Alitrich tariff bill to the end, voting against tt as framed by the seuete and again as it issved rae Cz! 5 from ithe, conference committee, and Row bns carried the war to the coun- try with te aunouncement that quar- ter will neither be asked uor given. Such a declaration from such a man insures @ fluish fight On the mere issue of carrying out Platform pledges there can be, of course, no successful opposition to the Cummins program. But that is mere- ly the academic statement of the case ‘The imme really involved is the im- plied charge that the present leaders of congress did disregard platform pledges by passing the Payne-Aldrich bill and therefore should be retired. ‘There ts the crux of the matter, and fo the whole thing hinges not so much on a question of principle as on a Question of fact in the application of a principle. On this issue Cummins Is fairly sure to have the backing of the entire tn- surgent group in both houses and of @ considerable portion of public senti- ment on the outside. Even those in- Surgents who Yoted for the bill on fina! passage did so with mental reser- Vations and op the general issue are Mable to join with their former com- panion in arms and to continue the fight on “Aldrichiam,” as standpatism has come to be cafied. In the senate there were six beskles Cummins who Voted against the Payne bill oa final passage—Beveridge of Indiana, Nel- son and Clapp of Minnesota, La Fol- lette of Wisconsin, Dolliver of Iowa and Bristow of Kansas. In addition to these were Brown and Burkett of Nebraska, Crawford of South Dakota and Borah of Idaho, who had been in insurrection al! the time) but who fnal- Jy voted for the bill tn response to the appeal of President Taft, Of this group La Follette bas gen- erally been regarded as the leader. Since the advent of Cum in the senate, however, the Iowa man has gradually forzed to the , and now bis action in issuing his ‘to the powers that be will doul make bim the popular figure amogg those Who espouse the new idea. He ts @ man of striking and handsome . Qnce, an effective speaker wide culture and thorough of facts and » man whom and foe alike recard as being and Incorrujtible. J. A. EDGERTON. Beneath Her. “Did Marjory marry for jove” —subdecribe to The PLANET THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA THE LINCOLN COINS. Designer of New Pieces and His Con- troversy With Secretary Mac\feagh. ‘The letters “CQ D” which have been seen so much in print must for a time give way to “V. D. B” Not that the latter bave anything to do with steamship disasters or wireless telegraphs, however. ‘They are the ini tals of Victor D. Brenner, the design. et of the new Lincoln pennies, whose controversy swith Secretary MacVeazh over the coins {s attracting so much attention If you have secured one of the new Lincoln pieces yc); hare probably po- ay | oS ticed the letters “V. D. B.” on them, You thought this was all right, of course, as long as you could get full Yalue for sour money, but the bead of Unele Sam's treasury ts of a differ. ent opinion. After 27,000,000 were struck off recentiy he decided that only the initial “BR.” should appear on the Penny. Mr. Brenner, however, insists that his three initials “V. D. BO show on every Lincoln coln issued and says he will take the matter up to Prest- dent Taft If necessary, Whatever the outcome, the fact re Mains thar the new pieces are in great demand and have been sold on. the Strects In various cities for many times their value The face of the penny, besides the Lincoln profile, has the word “Liberty” and the date. while on the roverse side are the mottoes “In God We ‘Trust aud “E Pluribus Unum." surrounded by two curved feathers. These pennies eventually Will replace the Indian head pennies altogether. n= no more of the latter Will be cotned SAN FRANCISCO'S PRIZE. on SS amene Vers to ile i Golden Gate Park. ‘The placing recently in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, of the steamer Gjoa hax revived interest ia Captain Roald Amundsen and the famous Ut. tle vessel on which he salled through the northwest passage, Born in Chris- Hania, « Norwegian of the Norwegians, Captain Amundsen first catwe promi: Renily before the public as a member of the antarctic expedition of the Bel- gica, which vessel In W979 cruised ta the south polar seas under M. Gerlach, Returning from this expedition, he con- celved the Idea of an arctic explora- tion, the object of which would be the discovery of the northwest passage And the location of the magnetic pole. Amundsen told bis friends Nansen, the explorer, aud Professors Schmid? and Neumayer of Germany his hopes and taid before them tn detail the ie ations _A Plans which. if followed, he felt con- vinced would solve two of the three reatesi of arctic problems. ‘These friends, tudroughly believing in Amunds, realized at once the merit Of bis arcusents and unhesitatingly Andorsed ix scheme. Accordingly the Gjoa, a single masted sloop of forty. Seven tous, was designed and cou- Structed to weather the roughest of arctic storms aud seas. and on June 1, 1903, she sailed away from Christiania harbor on her jong voyage to the frozeu north, and after suffering great hardships Amundsen gained undying fame by being the first to sull a ves- sel completely through the northwest passage. Recently the famous little vessel ‘Was beached near the Cliff House, San Francisco, and moved on rollers to a Pond in Golden Gate park, where it will commemorate its own and Amundsen’s deeds, having been pre- sented to the city by the Danish citl- tens. ‘An important Decision, By a recent decision of the civil dis trict court of New Orleans Frank Wal ker, a white man, bas been dispos sessed of an estate valued at $25,000, of which he was a legatee auder the wil of Mrs. Virginia R. Davis, ap Afro-American woman. The will was contested by George Campbell of Nash- rae, ‘Tenn, who was a sco of Mrs vis. 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PURE GOODS, FULL VALUE FOR Tae MONEY 1610 East Franklin Street. {Near Old Market.) edhe virdlotn GOOD SMALL CAKES PECULIARLY ADAPTED To THE SUMMER SEASON, Light and Toothsome Daintien Suit able Alike for Morning, Neon and Night—Some Recipes, Both ama cee | Summer is eminently the small feake season. ‘The popular refresh. | mens for morning porch parties, afternoon receptions and teas, or eve: Ring affairs in the fruit punch, Jee Water, or {ce cream, the cup of tea, chocolate, lemonade or coffee, with its accompanying Uttle cake or wafer. |The seedcakes and sand cookies of grandmother's day, the cunning little pastry tarts filled. with every known fruit jam or jelly, the Uttle sweet Sandwiches of bread and marmalade or scented butter, or the sandwiches which speak of the garden, or the nas- turtium, lettuce and cress, are 80 easily made and so delicious that no hostess need wrinkle her fair brows over what to sérve in summer. In cake baking the wise cook 1s she who has her own successful white cake mixture amd uses that, adding variety in the way of flavorings, fill- ings and Icings. Here are given some small cakes which find favor with Ger- man housewives: Cookies—One cupful of white sugar, one-half cup butter, one egg. two tablespoonfuls of aweet milk, two tea, spoonfuls baking powder, a little Srated lemon rind; suffictent flour to roll thin. Bake tm a quick oven, Almond Cookies — Three-fourths pound butter, two cupfuls of sugar, one-fourth pound almonds, yolks of two eggs, hard polled, three fresh 6E5, one lemon, one small glass of brandy, one heaping teaspoonful bak- ing powder and flour enough to roll. Ginger Snaps—One cuptul of sugar, two cups of molasses, one heaping cupful of lard. Let these ingredients boll together, then add one teaspoon- ful of sods and-one teaspoonful of singer, Mix while warm and roll thin, Se ke ‘Macaroons—@@ak one-half pound of nights of [py Z N.A.,S.A,E. A., A. AND A. SUF This organization is one of the most powerful in the conntry and ite Se <3 progress has been phenominal. The Grand Lodge of Virginia has juris- L/S G\, diction over all of the cities and counties in thisstate. Thirty mates 7 i) ey are required to organize a new lodge. The benefits paid constitute one GAAG} ° its strongest features, but the principles are greater than anythiug Rey | cise. Founded on Friendship, based on Charity and established oa Be Ss ety nevolence, the respectable, uptight people of the state will Gnd it as rte, oxen roew. worthy of their heartiest support 2 S . EF 14 C. . 7 Sy 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 nly absolutely uecessary rega For information concerning the orgauzaition of lodges apply at the main office The C f Calanth ihe Courts of Calanthe Is the Female Department of the Order. It requires a membership of thirty pers ms 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 ob the badge, 50 cents and a rosette, costing 25 cents for funeral occasions. THE BANDS OF CALANTHE or Children’s Department also con- stitutes a feature and persons cannot do better, than to enter the little ones inte this mystic circle. The expeuse 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 $30.9 to $40.00. If you have nsPythian Lodge or Court or Band in your neighborhood, orgrniz one. For all information coucerning the Children's Department address, Mrs. ANNA Taytor, W. M, 120 W. Hill St., Richmona, Va For all information concerning special rates of JOHN MITCHELL, JR., membership in the lodges andcourts, address art N. ath St. Richmond. Va en almonds in bolling water until the skins rub off easily, wipe dry, pound fine and mix with a teaspoonful of ex. tract of roses. Beat whites of three exes to a stiff froth; stir in gradually one-half pound powdered sugar and the almonds Drop In small cakes on buttered tins, sift sugar over them and bake in a slow oven. Cocoanut Kisses—Six ounces grated cocoanut, three ounces powdered Sugar, one ounce flour, three egg whites beaten to a stiff froth; vanilia to taste. Bake on paper. Cinnamon Stars—Six egg whites beaten sti: one pound powdered sugar, one pound grated almonds with skins, one tablespoonful cinas- mon. Roll thin, cut in shape of stars and bake In slow oven A Tea Table Confection—Grind huts, figs and seeded dates together, work in enough powdered sugar to make the mixture roll; rol! in one- fourth inch slices and ‘eut tn faner shapes with cutter or sharp knife. Sprinkle with sogar. Candied Orange Peel—Take the peel from 12 thick+rkinned oranges, cut in thin strips, put in salt water over night, and toil in fresh water until almost transparent: dissolve one-half teaspoonful powdered alum in water enough to cover the peel and let stand two hours. Make a sirup of four pounds of sugar, three cupfuls of water and juice of two oranges; boll until it ropes; put the peel in this and boil one-tralf hour. Place in steve and shake until nearly dry; sprinkle with granulated sugar and spread on @ cloth. zs A Useful Empioye. “Talking of the classical drama.” groaned a theatrical manager, “I wish we could resurrect old Charon, the ferryman of the * Styx, for a door. keeper.” “Why Charon?” “Because he could collect money from deadheads.” In No Hurry to Learn. Young Sister—What, you can't ride 4 bicycle yet, and Jack bas been teach- ing you for three weeks? Eider Sis- ter—Yes, but be hasn't proposed yet. —Chips. THE ECONOMY, ———= 303—5 North Third S: SEINE TA ILORING CLRANINO, DYEING AN! REPAIRING CHITMAN M. WHITE, PROPRIETOR. pce et BOARDING & LODGING Rates Reasonable. All the Comtort: #& ottome 4 Orders received by letter or telegrap: MES. BOOKER LEFTWICH. PROPRIFTS EMS ‘$16 N. 2nd St, Richmond. Va BLACKWELL & BRO. ONF OF THE LEADING PAINTERS Practical House and Sign Paintere Graining and Geueral Coutra~ tore. +ALL, WORK GUARANTEED..... Canis, Letters or Orders Give ca a trial, you will never regret tt Address, 608 St. Peter Street, RICHMOND. VA. "Phone 5688, ——____ —Nelsou.s Hair Dressing can be bought at Jennings and Brown Drug Store, Pittsburg, Pa Fish Croquettes, Rub together three tablespoons. of flour and one of butter and stir into a half pint of rich milk. Add a tea. Spoonful of finely chepped parsiey and & quarter teaspoonful of grated onion Boll until tt thickens, then stir in two cupfuls of cold cooked fish and let the mixture bot! up again. Season with aalt and pepper and. sot aside When cold roll into croqueties, dip fn beaten egg and breadcrumbs and fry In hot fat. Serve with peas, cress or fresh string beans, garnished with slices of hard-botled eggs, Italian Rice. Boil two cupfuls of rice which has been previously washed in several waters. In the water drop a clove or a tiny plece of garlic Fry three or four peeled and sliced tomatoes in a tablespoonful of butter, Add them to the rice with the yolk of one exg, two saltspoonfuls of sait and half @ cupful of grated cheese. This dish may be served alone as a single course or as a vegetable with meat. AFTER EFFECTS. | 44 What? Begging again? Didn't I just sive you a home-made pie this morn- ing? : Yes, indy. But I just dropped ‘round ter ask if you had a few Indi: Bestion tablets you could sparc! STRAUS’ SPECIAL | SES SPECIAL | Old Yacht Club, PURE WHISKEY SWAN Satisty the lover of the rigs | We nave ail grade of Petal tees Cigars and Tobacco. Call and see ISAAC STRAUS & CO., 422 E. Broad St., Richmond, Virginia. pests egress Sa Wea Bt H F Jonathan FISH, OYSTERS AND PRODUCE. 114° N. 17h St, RICHMOND, va. ALL ORDERS WILL RECEIVa PROMPT ATTENTION. Long Distance ‘Phone, 752. SCHOOL SHOES, Capitol Shoe « Supply Company, No. 210 East Broad Street. A complete stock of Boys, Misses,’ Men's, Ladies,’ & Children's Shoes. ALL THE LATEST STYLES, OOPS res) ts ig tor ee 3 DR. P. B. RAMSEY, 3 DENTIST, 3 11S East Leigh st 3 ‘puowe, 8:6. ‘Trace Marans qatecly aonertae sansten, on freemen, epce oat Et bl Ras rocgal nti, wtenowe Saree ta thy Scientific American, 36 1Broadway, MUNN & Co, ser0rsone, Now York ee $Me ROBINSON, NO. 23 NORTH 18TH ST. a alae FINE WINES, LIQUORS, CIGARS, &c. 88 All Stock Sold es Guarantesd.-we PROMPT ATTENTION. ‘Your patronage is respecttuily solicited. Teale a J A Ao era! Ae NY . NEA Gagan ieee a sass INDUSTRY OF DR. SHAW. fe . Afro-American Shaw came toto the community to do missionary work among our people His preparation at Lincoln university, Pennsylvanian. where be graduated ‘with honors, made it possible for bim to greatly advance ttelr moral and intellectual condition. Dr. Shaw’s ability to do material work is proved by the fine Presby- terian churches.be bas built since he has begun his work in this fleld. He has also given to the race by bis un- tiring efforts a schoo! that Is quietly diffusing new life in the community. In & pleturesque section of the town of Oxford, upon a healthy site, is the Mary Potter Memorial school, of which be is founder. Dr. Shaw's sin- cerity and devotion to the uplift of our people attracted the attention of the late! Mra. B. F. Potter of Schenec- tady, N. ¥.. who used ber influence as Well as ber money for the success ‘of the school which was named in ber honor. She was particularly inter- ested in the work of the freedmen’s donrd among Afro-Americans, and her true devotion to the uplift of the race is felt and appreciated by th asands of people. Mars Potter Memorial school ts un: der the direct control of the freed. men's board. The students are given &@ practical English training which Prepares them for the freshman ciass of the best universities A farm of seventy acres is connected with the school, where the students are tangbt the art and seience of agriculture. Owing to the fact that a number of students desire to learn trades, money is being raised to erect what will be known as “Auburo shops.” No wom- an is prepared for her life’s work who has not been tangbt sewing and do 7 fod) fi BE | el tari. Si | ae “sc MARY POTTER scmoot. mestic work. Regardiess of the high Uterary attainments of a young woman i this school, she is not allowed to graduate untll she bas wade at least an ordinary dress. The religious train. ing that the student body receives has an encouraging effect upon the life of the community. The women of the synod of New York donated the Helen A. Wells Building of Domestic Science as a tes. timonial of their ardent love of the work and for Miss Helen A. Wells. STRONG BAPTIST SOCIETY. Mount Bethel Association Will Soon Hold Annual Session at Washington. Great preparations are being made for the entertainment of delegates and Visitors fo the thirty-third anpual ses- siou of the Mount Bethel Baptist as- sociation, which will be held with the Second Baptist church of Washington from Aug. 24 to 26, inclusive. Dr. W. Bishop Jobnson, pastor of the chureb, is one of the ablest palpit orators and scholars among Negro Baptists in the United States. The association is composed of churches of the denomivation in Maryland, Vir- ginia and the District of Columbia. It maintains an industrial school and an old folks’ bome in Virginia and does a large home and foreign mission work. “THE DESTINY OF LIBERIA. Young Republic Wents to Make ite ‘Own Way, Aided by America. ‘Liberian which arrived gate tabs We 2. tre tise ago “Give accounts of the reception accord: ed to the American commission seat out by the state department. The Ls- berian one cent stamps affixed to the Dundirs containing these newspapers ‘Should make a subtle appeal to a Re- Pubhean administration. ‘be center denign is an elephant swaying bis way Across a tropical background. ‘The Oz. ure of the elepbant stands out boldly And plainy. His ears seegy a trifle large and bis teg3 somewhat attenuat- ed to persons accustomed to the do- mestic drawings of the embleufof the G0. P. ‘The Liberian Register In a recent issue coptains what seems to be a semiotiicial statement Intended prt marily for the eyes of the American comuilssioners, who were at Monrovia at the time it was printed. Jt sets forth in terms bow the United States cap belp Liberia. That ts what the American commissioners went to Li beria to discorer, “It is remarkable what a profound impression the coming of the Amer- ican commissioners has made upot the People of Liberia. ‘There are many People tn Liberia wbo come from America, and the vast majority of those who did not come from America are descendants of the original stock. Their hearts beat warm toward the mother country. Every day as they look out upon the formidable scont- ing cruisers lying at anchor tn the bar. bor you can bear such expressions as, “Ab, that looks ifke old times—the days of our fathers, when the United States government showed an Interest in us. 1 am giad I've lived to see fi" It is evident that they mean It and are de- Pending vpou the United St ~ to Gnd A way to assist them In \..... effort to help themseives. “This dors not signify that they ex. pect anything given them—not at all, Liberia wants to make ber own way, but she reallzes that the United States fs republic, a strong one, an inde- Pendent one, while she, though a re- public also, is not only young. but sad- ly In need of that assistance which only a republic like America ean give. The United States is responsible for her birth and very inrgely for her form of gorernment, and. while we do not Assert that she Is obligated to come to our assistance, we do declare that it is most natural for Liberia to expect it.” MISSIONARY WORKERS MEET. Touching Letters From Coworkers tr || Africn Read at Annual Seasion. ‘The annual meeting of the Women’s Hone and Foreign Mission society of the African M. E. Zion church, which was teid in Mother Zion chureb, New York. week ending Ang. 21, was a great success, Much interest was Ruaitested In the report of the corre sponding secretary, Mrs. A. W. Black. Well of Philudetphia, who reviewed the work of the general and local so cleties and offered many suggestions The report incinded letters from mis. Slovaries in Africa, in which ft was Stated that one of the Christianized workers on the west coast of Africa had given a daughter of fourteen years to the cause of missions. She is to be Sent to America for Christian educa. tion for the purpose of working among her own people 1 Africa. | In response to an appeal by the wou ‘en of the society and the correspoud. ing secretary Miss Sarah J. Janifer, secretary of the sockety and one of the most enthnsiastic mission workers. a teacher in the public schools of Wash. ington, offered herself for the cause of jmissions, Miss Janifer, realizing the heed of trained’ missionary workers will willingiy give op ber salary of jnearts $100 monthly to Inbor in the cause on the west coast of Africa, Phe report of Mrs. M. B. Harris, treasurer, showed that the receipts for the year were $1,052.90. ‘The ex- penditures were $801.14, leaving a bal ance of $761.85. | Both the corresponding secretary and the treasurer, Mrs. Blackwell and Mrs. Harris, were tendered a unanimous vote of thanks after commendatory “speeches by Bishop Alexander Walters and Miss Eliza Gardiner of Boston. | Mra. C.D. MeNell of Greenville “Miss, made a stirring address and was ‘given a substantial sum by the society for her school of philanthropy in the south, Miss McNeil made a plea for ‘the thousands of little boys and girls ‘of our race who are given about three months of schooling anoually. ‘The officers are Mrs. K. P. Hood. President: Mrs. M. E. Washington. vice president; Mrs. T. H. Lomax, vice Presiiears Mré. M. EB. Harris, treasur- ef; Miss 8. J. Janifer. A. M.. recording secretary: Mrs, A. W Blackwell, cor- Fesponding secretary; Mrs G. W. Cliv- ton, generat superintendent, and Miss V. Richardson. secretary of the Young Women's Missionary soctety. John Brown's Fort as College Library. There is encouragement for brainy meh in the Niagara movement in the fact that while they are in apnual meet- ing at Sea Island the citizens of Har- pers Ferry will be busily engaged in moving the old John Brown fort from ‘the Murphy farm to the campus at Storer college. where it will be re- erected and used by the college as a Mbrary and museum ee Skin of Elephant Shot by Roosevert. Nairobi, British East Africa, Sept. 1. —Famund Heller. a naturalist with the Roosevelt expedition, bas preserved entire the skin of an elephant shot by Mr. Roosevelt. The tusks of this ani- ‘mal weigh eighty pounds each. All the ‘Dart yare well, Big Michigan Apple Yield. Traverse City, Mich., Sept. 1. Re- Ports from the orchards indicate a Feconi-breaking apple crop in Grand ‘Traverse and Leelanau counties. It is estimated that in Grand Traverse county the crop will reach 400,000 bar. els. Puddiers Get a Raise. Pottstown, Pa., Sept. 1.—The pud- Gere and thelr helpers st the lower : Glasgow companye ‘Wore surprised by the announcement that the price i mottling hed been ‘advaaced 25 cents per ton. This maXos ‘® priee of $4 per ton for paddling. THE RICHMOND PLANET. RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. LONE MAN HOLDS UP A TRAIN Stops Pennsy Express, Terrorizes Crew and Robs Safe, ESCAPES TO MOUNTAINS Placed Dynamite Cap on Rails In Lonely Spot Near Lewistown, Pa, and Compels Messenger to Throw Out Bags of Coin, After Shooting Conductor In the Hand—Escaped ‘With About $100. Lewistown, Pa, Sept, 1—One of the Most audacious and startling hold-ups of a railroad train in the east for years took place on the eastern slope of the Allegheny mountains, when a lone highwayman stopped a Pennsylvania Failrosd express train with a dynamite cartridge, and at the point of a re- volver compelled the crew to carry thousands of dollars in coin and bul- lon from the express car to a spot in the wilderness. When the conduc- tor of the train attempted to interfere with the robbers’ plans he was shot in the hand, and the bold bandit suc- ceeded in making good bis escape, Mistook Lincoln Pennies For Gold. In the darkness, however, the rob- ber mistook a bag containing 10.000 new Lincoln pennies for gold coin, and staggered away with it, leaving the real gold bullion to be recovered by the railroaders, When the news of the robbery reached the railroad and express com- pany officials they were deeply con- cerned at its boldness, and immedi- ately ordered every available detec- tive from ihe east and west to the ecene in an effort to capture the auda- clous bandit. Bloodhounds were also put on bis track, but with no immedi- ate success. Superintendent Preston and other officials of the middle division of the Pennsylvania railroad hare establish a headquarters at the signal tower near the scene in order to make as thorough investigation of the crime aa possible. The general superinten dent and general manager of the Ad. ams Express company are on the ground to assist in directing the search. ‘The looted train was made up of an engine, three express cars and two sleeping coaches filled with passen- gers. It was running through Lewis: town narrows. a wild and lonely moun- tain gorge. Through which flows the Juniata river, when suddenly a dyna. mite cap exploded, and the engine driver brought the train to a stand: Still, When he looked out to see what the tronble was he was confronted by @ masked figure, holding a revolver im either hand. Forced Crew to Carry Loot. “Are there any mail cars on this train?” demanded the highwayman, “No,” was the reply of the startled en- Eineer. The engine crew was then forced at the point of the gun to ac company the robber to the first ex press car, where the messenger was looking out to discover the cause of the sudden stopping of the train. A Tevolver was poinetd at the messen- gers’ head, and threatening to blow up the car with dynamite. the robber forced the messengers of the two ex Breas cars and engine crow to carry all the gold and builion stacked in the first car to the side of the tracks. Con- ductor I. R. Poffenderger, of Harris: burg. Pa. who came up while this work was being accomplished, was or. dered back by the bandit, who emp- Ued one of hie revolver's at him, one of the shots penetrating his band and the other grazing his body. Bullion Found Beside Track Despite the appearance of three pas. eengers, who had been awakened by the shooting, the robber calmly order. ed the crew back on the train and ‘compelled them to steam away, leaving the bullion beside the track. It was Fecovered later by posse sent on # Special train. It was reported that, in Addition to the missing pennies. sever- al thousand dollars in currency waa missing, but the express company off cials refuse to announce the exact amount of their loss. No clew to the robber's identity has yet heen discovered. He is described ‘as being about five feet eight inches fm height, and was dressed in dark clothing and wore a slouch bat pulled well down over his eyes. When the train was leaving he called ont, “Good Dye and good luck. I hope to see you ‘Sgain.” Agent Hamaker, of this place, sent & safe to the acene of the robbery to Fecelve the six bags of pennies on which the seals had not been broken, Dnt which had been cut open with a sharp knife to ascertain the contents and abandoned by the robber in dis- Homes of 200 Miners Burned. Wilkes-Barre, Pa. Sept. 1—Ter double blocks owned by the West End Coal company, at Lee. a mining village near. here. were completely destroyed dy fire. They were occupted by 201 miners in the employ of the company. all of whom were homeless until shel tercould be obtained for them. The origin was a defective flue. Meld Us Cachler and Reh Mant.’ Mineola, Ia, Sept. 1—Two masked men, armed with pistols, held up Cash fer F. H. Nipp, of the Mills County German bank, here, and escaped with $1500 In cash. Five Hundred Pound Woman Dies. New York, Sept. 1—Elephantiasis was a contributory cause of the death of Mrs. Theresa Habets, wife of a res- taurant keeper, who died in a hospital here. She weighed 560 pounds, and it will be necessary to construct a spe- cial casket for ber body. Until three year sago the woman was of ordinary size. She was thirty-eight years old. Ye Lela a Ll Ba. TT " 4 OIA EO oc ‘ ee Cae: =] nel] gi, pa GS Dy Iocan cy a. 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For Florida ‘sod South! €:18 A, Me aad. 2 PM For Norfolk: 9:00 A. M, $:00 PM. and ¢ Pot For X. and W. Ry., Weetr 0:00 A. M., 12:1 and 6:06 Pe For Petersburg: 9:00 A. M., 12910, 8:00, 8:4 P.M, 6PM, 0:06 P.M, 799 and 1238 P.M Fer’ Goldsboro and Fayctiorile: 3:90 P.M ‘Trains arrive Richmond daily: 6:10, 7:00" A My 38:86 TG ALM MOMS AL Mey 1-2) P M,; 2:06, 6:50, 8:00 and 85 P. i Sexcept ‘Sunday. s*Senday’ Only. Time of arrival and departures and connec tions not guaranteed. ‘©. 8. CAMPBELL, D. P. A. ee EABOARD Am Lins Ramway SOUTHBOUND TRAINS SCHEDULED TO LEAVE 0 A. M—tacal to, Netlion, "Raleigh, Char 9:10 A. Mtoeal to Norlin, 12:05 P. MinSiecpere sad eotchen, Atlanta, Se = ‘ranneh, Seema ad erie ‘pointe * Mcleeetie, Attently Memnghoc en Nonrmndib Tuan sommepoLED To aR. ‘RIVE fr. 580 AM, S08 P.M, oS Pe TRAINS LEAVE RICHMOND. X. 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Weddings, Suppers and Entertainments promptly attended. Telephone, 686. Residence in Batiding. GOOD ALL THE YEAR ROUND. Delicious Beverage Mas Ginger for a Foundation—Mint. May Be Added If Desired. Here is a delicious beverage which may be made and used at all seasons of the year and it Is easy to make. Put two qbiespoonfuls of the best frovnd giccer into a plece of cheese cloth, place this In an agate sauce pan: poxr over it two quarts of cold Waier, bring to a boll, and simmer ently three minutes; add one pound Of gronvinted sugar, stir unttl thor. oughty digeo'ved: next put in the Straiie@ futce of four lemons; stand aside un‘it cool, put it in a pitcher or far, thin place it in the refrigert tor. Serve coid. In the summer, when serving time comes, put cracked ice in glasses to Uke depth of an inch, then OM them up with the mixture, For those who enjoy the favor ef mint, a bruised sprig fs an acceptable addition, with a chip of the yeliow rind of a lemon, or a chip of orange peel. Serve with sweet wafers. In winter, after shopping. or upon a cold night this fs exceeding'y comforting, espe claily Hf bented to the boiling point and sipped. IRON GN RIGHT SIDE ONLY. Proper Way to Fix Up Tablectoths— Easy Method of Preserving the Fringes. Tablecloths are ironed on the right aide oniy. They should be folded down the center, with the right aide aut, then each selvedge turned back toward the center fold on either side The cloth should be pulled by twe Persons til the ends meet evenly and then, if possibie, mangled. To iron a tablecioth, lay it fat on the table in its folds, and iron in this Way, taking care (o iron between each fold, and passing with the tron over each side of the cloth, This must be continued until the cloth Is quite ary. When a tablecloth ts taken off a table after use It should always be folded into the vame folds. If tray cloths have fringes, shake the fringe out against the edge of the table before ironing. and then comb it out. Iron the linen center on both sides until it is dry, and then dry the fringe with the fron. Small cloths should have as few folds in them as possible, SEVEN —The Home. Tt ts sajd that a teaspoonful of salt and one of pulverized soap added to every two cupfuls of starch will give a fine glaze to the starched clothes. When pressing dark tinen frocks it 1s just as well to cover the board for the time with a plece of dark mate- rial, and thus avold pressing white lint into the material. The most convenient and cheapest of all disinfectants to use in the cel- lar is quicklime. It may be placed In dishes, in bins or cupboards, or scat- tered loose in dark. damp corners. Save all tissue paper, whether torn OF not. It is useful for cteaning mir. rors, plate glass and table glassware. Spoons can be cleaned with dry tis sue paper that has been dipped in whiting. Rhubarb is sometimes stewed with raisins or with prunes. One house. wife's favorite way of making this dish is to add to a quart of stewed and sweetened rhubarb half a pound of stewed but unsweetened prunes Boil a moment or two and cool. Serve cold. Among the latest novelties for finger bowls at a children’s party are Japanese water Rowers, These should be thrown in the water as the bowls are placed in front of the guests. ‘The bits of painted wood of any apparent form or shape gradually unfold and expand into flowers or other quaint concelts: | ele ee ei Nobedy calls attention to the ad- visability of frankness when his views coincide with another person's —E. F. Benson, “The Climber.” His Experience. Peekem, whe tat loved and wom Goce tet this keatence fall "Tin better to have loved and lost Than never to have lost at al How it Struck Him, Madge--Matnms says it's wrong for A man to kes 8 git he’s not en- gaged to, Jack—Good heavens! She wouldn't have a felow engaged to every girl re kisses™ A Mocern Sapphira. Chief Clerk—Here comes the lady who Wrote those articles on “Hew T tive regally om «ix dol’ars a week.” Satan—Put her over there with the ather Mare.—Lipnincett’s, THE YLANDER Saturday.....September 4, 1909 JUSTICE MOODY SERIOUSLY ILL Removed in AmbulanceFrom R. R. Station to His Home. APPEARED TO BE HELPLESS Although His Ailment Has Been Promounced Rheumatism, Physicians Believe It to Be More Serious—Was In Sanitarium In New York State. Haverhill. Mass., Sept. 1.—With many precautions for secrecy, Associate Justice William H. Moody, of the United-States supreme court, was removed in a police ambulance from the J. B. JUSTICE MOODY. Bradford railroad station to his home here. It is understood that his condition is serious. He appeared to be helpless during the transfer from the train to the ambulance. Although Justice Moody's alliment was announced as a case of rheumatism and gout, local physicians who have known him for years, believe it to be more serious. Justice Moody came here, it is understood, from a sanitarium in New York state, where he has been for several weeks from a short stay at Hot Springs. Ark. No intimation of his indisposition had been received here previously. BALLOON CONSUMPTION CURE Up-In-the-Air Treatment Most Successful, Declare Experts. Ottawa, Sept. 1.—Israel Kenney, of Paris, Ont., has invented a balloon system for the treatment of tuberculosis. It consists of a main balloon, which is suspended half a mile above the earth by a cable and an auxiliary balloon running up the cable to take patients and doctors up and down. It is not yet quite in shape, but he says the general idea is feasible. German doctors, he says, have declared that "up in the air" treatment is the most successful method of curing tuberculosis. CHILD BURNED TO CRISP Played at Stove and Her Clothing Be came Ignited. Lancaster Pa. Sept. 1.—Elsie Eisenberger, the sixyear-old daughter of George Eisenberger, of Millway, was burped to a crisp. During the temporary absence of the mother, the child played at the stove and her clothing became ignited. When she ran from the kitchen to her mother in the yard she was ablaze from head to foot. Probe "Odorless Drunks" Nashville, Tenn., Sept. 1.—For two months the police have been combating the "odorless drunk." Men are carried into the station house every day drunk with something that leaves no odor on the breath. When they are questioned as to what they have been drinking, they almost invariably say, "beerette," but beeteeer is not considered an intoxicant. The "odorless drunks" are usually without bottles in their pockets. CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS Thursday, August 26. President Taft has commuted the sentence of Charles F. Mine, serving five years in the penitentiary at Columbus, O., for counterfeiting. Four men were seriously injured and heavy damage caused when the roof of the round house of the Pennsylvania railroad in Pittsburg collapsed. George W. Drinkwater, of Jersey City, second engineer, was instantly killed and three other men were fatally injured by the explosion of a feed pipe on the tugboat Bee in the East river. Colonel William D. "Shaw, railroad man and originator of "Hello Bill," the Ekl logo at lodge conventions, died at his home in Cincinnati, aged seventy years. Friday, August 27. Water in the streams in the northern section of York county. Pa., is lower than it has been in thirty-five George Ruttledge found a pearl in the Wabash river at Mount Vernon. Ill., weighing forty-six grains, which he sold for $2500. Rev. Robert Gamble, aged eighty years, of Bridgeton, York county, Pa., a well known Presbyterian minister died in the hospital at Columbia from a stroke of paralysis. Firing a single charge of buckshot at two supposed chicken thieves, Charles Hartshorn Sr., at Newark, O. Instantly killed his nephew, John Weakley and William Trace. Saturday, August 28. The Manitoba Grain Growers' association estimates the wheat yield of western Canada at 107,000,000 bushels. Professor E. B. Bierman, aged seventy years, former president of Lebanon Valley college at Annville and one o.f the founders of that institution, died suddenly at his Annville (Pa.) home. Charles W. Fairbanks, former vice president of the United States, and Rear Admiral G. B. Harber, U. S. N., were received in separate audience by the prince regent in the Forbidden City in Pekin, China. By the explosion of an ingot mould filled with molten steel at the Maryland Steel works, at Sparrows Point, Md., Thomas Smith, colored, was killed and three or four others, all negroes, were badly injured. Monday August 30 Rev. J. C. Hartzell, Methodist Episcopal bishop in Africa, arrived in New York from Europe. An explosion of powder in a zinc mine at Neck City, Mo., killed two and fatally injured one. General rains in Kansas have greatly benefitted the corn crop which had been set back by hot winds. Premature discharge of a cannon at a farmers' picnic at Esconabia, Mich. killed one gunner and seriously injured another. As a result of going in swimming too soon after recovering from an attack of typhoid fever, Lee Hildebrand, aged thirteen, of York, Pa., died from the exposure. Tuesday, August 31. Mr. and Mrs. Charles A. Coppersmith, of Newton, were killed near Newton, Ia., when their motor carrolled down a thirty-foot embankment. Made frantic when his shopmates taunted him because he was deaf, Alfred Sido, a graduate of Heidelberg, committed suicide by hanging himself at Waterbury, Conn. Edward Kumberl and Eric Heinemann were drowned in the Tittahawasse river at Saginaw, Mich., by the capsizing of a rowboat in which they were being towed by a launch. Deputy Sheriff J. W. Sykes, of Norfolk, Va., died as the result of wounds inflicted by one of three negro highwaymen who had been placed under arrest by him and two special officers in south Norfolk. Wednesday, September 1. Five weeks drought in Kansas was broken by a two-inch rain. Diamonds valued at $12,000 were toslen from Mrs. Adolph Hirsch at the Vendome hotel in Chicago, and there is no clue to the thief. Engineer W. D. White was killed and ten passengers hurt when a passenger train and work train on the Northern Pacific collided near Detroit, Mich. The employees of the Southern railway's big shops at Spencer, N. C., have been placed on a nine-hour working day basis instead of eight as heretofore. While resisting an attack made upon him at Canal Dover, O., John Mace, a railway watchman, shot and instantly killed an unidentified Italian and set two other Italians to flight. PRODUCE QUOTATIONS The Latest Closing Prices For Produce and Live Stock. PHILADELHIA — FLOUR quiet; winter low grades, $4.10@4.40; winter clear, $4.50@4.75; city mills, fancy, $6.40@6.75. RYE FLOUR steady; per barrel $4.25@4.50. WHEAT firm; new, No. 2 red, west ern. $1.01@1.02. CORN quiet. No. 2 yellow, local. 79 @ 79½ c. OATS quiet. No. 2 white, new, 43@ 43½ c; lower grades, 42c. POULTRY: Live steady, hens, 15%@ 16c; old roosters, 10½@11c. Dress ed steady, choice fowls, 17@18c; old roosters! Fruit; extra creamy, 31c. PITTER Fruit; extra creamy, 31c. EGGS fruit; selected, 28@30c; near, by 26c; western, 26c. POTATOES steady; new, per barrel. 75c @ $1.75. Live Stock Markets PITTSBURG (Union Stock Yards)—CATTLE steady; choice, 6.50; SHEEP steady; lams lower; prime wethers, $4.65@4.85; culls and common, $1.50@8; lams, $4@7.25; veal calves, $8.50@9.50. Heavy meaves, $4.40@8.45 medium, $3.85@8.45; heavy Yorkers, $8.30@8.35; light Yorkers, $8.15@8.26; pigs, $7.80@8; roughs, $6.50@7.25. Was Cook For Roosevelt Montclair, N. J., Sept. 1—Hester Campbell, a famous Scotch cook, who was employed for many years in the family of former President Roosevelt, died here, at the age of ninety-six. 1909 SEPTEMBER 1909 SUN MON TUE WED THU FRI SAT 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 Hamburg Belle defeated Uhlan in two straight heats in their match race at North Randall, near Cleveland, O., and also set a new world's record for a trotting race and for the fastest two heats ever trotted. The new record for a mile is 2.011%, and was made in the first heat of the race. The former record of 2.031% was held by Cresceus. Sweet Marie formerly held the record for the fastest two heats trotted, having made miles in 2.042% and 2.032%. Hamburg Belle's time is 2.011% and 2.011%. THE RIC OND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA Y. M. C. A. Notes. The membership meeting of the Y. M. C. A. was an excellent one last Friday evening. The members are ready for the season. Hard work and the other man is the watchword. Chairman Robert Chandler conducted the meetings in the city home last Sunday. Much good was accomplished. The jail committee made a very good report for last Sunday from the city jail. Three prisoners gave themselves to Jesus Christ. No boys were found in there. Prof. J. H. Rhorer gave the boys a very timely address last Sunday. Subject: "The Rough Stone." Master Richard Ballard read a special paper. Gen. Secty. S. C. Burrell made some very encouraging remarks. The storm did not discourage the boys. Capt. John L. Ballard was at his best last Sunday. The men were glad to have him address them. Subject: "The Weakness, of Strong Men." Dr. D. Webster Davis surprised the men with some very helpful thoughts. The men are always glad to hear the Doctor. The Y. M. C. A. Quartette sang with much spirit. On time, men, Sunday, hard work and the other man. The boys will have special papers for their meeting Sunday 4 P. M. at the Y. M. C. A. building. Boys be on time. Now the row is on Sunday 3:30 P. M. at the True Reformers' Hall by the companies for the voluntary rally. Dr. G. B. Howard, of Petersburg will come over to help settle the trouble. The Dr. will deliver a special address to the men. Subject: "A Square Deal." No man should fall to hear the Doctor. Free for all men. Bring the other man. Live singing. Come full men and you will be well paid. The Y. M. C. A. night school will open Monday September 27th, 5 P. M. at the Y. M. C. A. building. The class for the explanation on the Sunday School Lesson will open Saturday September 25th, 5 P. M. at the Y. M. C. A. building. We have secured teachers who have their heart and soul in the work. Watch for the opening of the season. The Y. M. C. A. lecture course will open with a trip to Japan. Notice. The 1909 issue of the "Southern Aid Messenger" is about ready for the press, reliable parties wishing reservation of space may secure same by applying for it at once, as there will be no solicitors of ads, for this issue. Terms and rates will be mailed to all out-of-town inquiries. Remember, this magazine will be beautifully illustrated, and for a general free distribution—None ever sold—Your ad. will reach hundred of thouands. Address, Adv. Dept. Southern Aid Society, 527 N. Second Street, Richmond, Va. 4- t In The Garden Of Paradise Is the title of our entirely new non-sectarian copy righted book embracing the World and Man's creation. Showing possibilities of seeming impossible things convincing without a doubt that the fruit alluded to in Genesis, 2-16 the ripe and 17 the green. That the curse of the World is winter. Cain was the first indifferent colored man, and many other startling eye opening Biblical mysteries disclosed. Colored paper cover. This and next month 10 cents/(silver) per copy post paid. Wrap coin in paper write plainly and address only. PRUNTY CO., P. O. Box, 424, Atlantic City, N. J. Notice. Examination for Superintendent of Nurses for Richmond Hospital will be held Tuesday, Sept. 7, 1969, at 406 East Baker Street, Richmond, Va. All applications must be filed with the Secretary by Sept. 1, 1969. Signed: DR. M. B. JONES, Surgeon in Chief. DR. D. A. FERGUSON, Ho! For White City! Get Ready and Go. The young Men's Helping Hand Association is giving an excursion to White City, Sunday night, September 5th, at 12:30 and will arrive at White City on Labor Day via Norfolk and Western R. R. Fare for round trip, $1.50. Children between 5 and 12 years $8.50 cents. All rail route. Leave White City 6:30 Monday evening. It is not given for the benefit of the Usher's Board of the First Baptist Church as stated on the bills. The Officers of the Helping Hand Association are as follows: Shirley Scott President; Henry G. Carter, Vice-President; William Randall, Treasurer; Moses N. Whitlock, Secy. Committee: Henry G. Carter Wm. Randall, Moses N. Whitlock Luscious Storrs, Abraham Wilder Charles W. Roberson, John G. Smith, Robert Kenny, Shirley Scott, General Manager. FOR RENT—Two beautiful office rooms in Southern Ald Society's new modern office building, located right in center of Negro business section. The rate is low and includes gas, electricity, water, steam heat, janitor service and other modern sanitary arrangements. These two rooms adjoin and can be "en suite." For information apply at the building, 527 N. Second Street, Richmond, Va. The Avery College Training School. The Avery College Training School Offers Special Inducements to young Colored Women to Become skilled Artists in Dressmaking, Millinery and Domestic Science. The Andrew Carnegie Hospital Connected with This Institution. Offers Splendid Opportunities to the Ambitions Young Colored Women to Become Trained Nurses. Uniforms are Furnished Free, Board, Furnished Room, Laundry and a Monthly Compensation are Offered to the Young Women in Training. Address all Communications to --- Howard University, Washington, D. C. Located in the Capitol of the Nation. Advantages unsurpassed. Campus of twenty acres. Modern, scientific and general equipment. Plant worth over one million dollars. Faculty of one hundred. 1205 students last year. Unusual opportunities for self-support. THE COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES Devoted to liberal studies. Courses in English, Mathematics, Latin, Greek, French, German, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, History, Philosophy and the social Sciences such as are given in the best approved colleges. Address Kelly Miller Dean. Courses in English, Mathe- ch, German, Physics, Chemistry, and the social Sciences such as ed colleges. Address Kelly Miller. Facilities for preparation of teachers. 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Courses in English, Mathematics, Latin, Greek, French, German, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, History, Philosophy and the social Sciences such as are given in the best approved colleges. Address Kelly Miller, Dean. THE TEACHERS' COLLEGE Affords special opportunities for preparation of teachers. Regular college courses in Psychology, Pedagogy, Education, etc., with degree of A. B.; Pedagogical courses leading to Pd. B. degree. High grade courses in Normal Training, Music, Manual Aris and Domestic Sciences. Graduates helped to positions. Address Lewis B. Moore, A. M. Ph. D., Dean. Affords special opportunities for preparation of teachers. Regular college courses in Psychology, Pedagogy, Education, etc., with degree of A. B.; Pedagogical courses leading to Pd. B. degree. High grade courses in Normal Training, Music, Manual Arts and Domestic Sciences. Graduates helped to positions. Address Lewis B. Moore, A. M. Ph. D., Dean. THE ACADEMY Faculty of ten. Three courses of four years each. High grade preparatory school. Address George J. Cummings, A. M. Dean. THE COMMERCIAL COLLEGE Courses in Book-keeping. Stenography, Commercial Law, History, Cities, etc. Gives Business and English High School education combined. Address George W. Cook, A. M., Dean. SCHOOL OF MANUAL ARTS AND APPLIED SCIENCES Furnishes thorough courses. Six instructors. Offers two years limited courses in Mechanical and Civil Engineering. PROFESSIONAL SCHOOLS. Courses in Book-keeping. Stenography. Commercial Law. History, Cities, etc. Gives Business and English High School education combined. Address George W. Cook, A. M., Dean. SCHOOL OF MANUAL ARTS AND APPLIED SCIENCES Furnishes thorough courses. Six instructors. Offers two years limited courses in Mechanical and Civil Engineering. PROFESSIONAL SCHOOLS Interdenominational. Five professors thorough courses of study. Shorter E. advantage of connection with a great University. Low expenses. Address Isaac Clark, D. D. THE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: Medical, Dental College Over forty professors. Modern laborament. Large building connected with mital, costing half million dollars. Clinic passed in America. Pharmaceutic College. Dental College, twenty-three professors. and Polyclinic. Address Dr. W. C. McNeil St., N. W. THE SCHOOL OF LAW Faculty of eight. Courses of three yeare knowledge of theory and practice of its building opposite the Court House. Ado Leighton, LL. B., Dean, 420 5th St., N. W. Interdenominational. Five professors. Board and thorough courses of study. Shorter English, courses. Advantage of connection with a great University. Students' Aid. Low expenses. Address Isaac Clark, D. D., Dean. THE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: Medical, Dental and Pharmacetic Colleges. Over forty professors. Modern laboratories and equipment. Large building connected with new Freedmen's Hospital, costing half million dollars. Clinical facilities not surpassed in America. Pharmacetic College, twelve professors. 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