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THE RICHMOND PLANET A COLORED MAN AT NORTH POLE An Interesting Story==All About the Troubles There==He is Loyal to Commander Peary. A Word about the Eskimos. VOLUME XXVI, NO. 43. A COL AT N An Interesting There==He is A Wor Battle Harbor, Labrador, by wireless telegraph via Cape Ray, N. F., Sept. 15.—"We hoisted the Stars and Stripes twice at the north pole," said Matthew Henson. Commander Robert E. Peary's colored lieutenant and the only other civilized man, according to Peary, who ever reached the pole. Henson gave to the Associated Press tonight an account or the one night and two days he and Commander, Peary and four Eskimos camped at 90 degrees north latitude. Henson personally assisted in raising the American flag and he led the Eskimos in the cheers, and an extra cheer for the United States flag in the Eskimo tongue. "Having spent eighteen years with Commander Peary, and a considerable portion of that time in the arctics," said Henson, "I have acquired a knowledge of the dialect of the northern Greenland Eskimos, who probably are superior to any other. As is commonly known to travelers in the far North, the Eskimo entertains a strange prejudice toward any tongue but one, and is therefore necessary for successful dealing with them to study their unwritten language. ARRIVES JUST BEFORE NOON. "We arrived at the pole just before noon, April 6, the party consisting of the commander, myself four Eskimos and thirty-six dogs, divided into two detachments equal in number and headed respectively by Commander Peary and myself. We had left the last supporting party at 87 degrees 53 minutes, where we separated from Captain Bartlett, who was photographed by the commander. Captain Bartlett regretted that he did not have a British flag to erect on the ice at this spot, so that the photograph might show this as the farthest north to which the banner of Britain had been advanced. "I kept a personal diary during this historic dash across the ice field. Our first task on reaching the pole was to build two igloos, as the weather was hazy and prevented taking accurate observations to confirm the distance traveled from Cape Columbia. Having completed the snow houses, we had dinner, which included tea made on our alcohol stove, and then retired to rest, thus sleeping one night at the north pole. HOIST FLAGS ON APRIL 7. "The arctic sun was shining when I awoke and found the commander up. There was only wind enough to blow out the small flags. The ensigns were holsted toward noon from tent poles and tied with fish lines. "We had figured out the distance pretty closely and did not go beyond the pole. The flags were up about midday April 7 and were not removed until late that evening. The haze had cleared away early, but we wanted some hours to make observations. We made three close together. "When we first raised the American flag its position was behind the Igloos, which, according to our initial observations, was the position of the pole, but on taking subsequent observations the Stars and Stripes was moved and placed 150 yards west of the first position, the difference in the observations being due perhaps to the moving ice. "When the flag was placed Commander Peary exclaimed in English: 'We will plant the Stars and Stripes at the north pole!' In the native language I proposed three cheers, which were given in the Eskimos' own tongue. ESKIMOS GIVE CHEERS. "Commander Peary shook hands all around and we had a more liberal dinner than usual, each man eating as much as he pleased. The Eskimos danced about and showed great pleasure that the pole at last was reached. For years the Eskimos had been trying to reach that spot, but it was always with them 'Tliquelgh,' which, translated, means 'get so far and no closer.' They exclaimed in a chorus. 'Ting neil Hi- mah ketisher,' meaning, 'We have got there at last." Henson, who reached the farther north with Peary three years ago, said that conditions were about the same at the pole as elsewhere in the arctic circle. All was a solid sea of ice with a two-foot lead of open water two miles from the pole. The Eskimos who went along on the final lap were Ootah, Eingewah, Ouzueah and Sigloo, the two first named being brothers. Commander Peary took photos of Henson and the Eskimos waving flags and cheering. NO OPEN LAND AT POLE "At the pole," continued Henson, "we could see no open land, and we went no distance beyond the flags. The ice near the igloos was at least ten feet high and the flags were placed on a hummock twenty feet in height. The ice at the pole is about the same as on the journey up, all rafted in between with small floes. Nearly all the winds we had were from the northwest. Commander Peary had three thermometers and the coldest day was 57 degrees below zero Fahrenheit. I believe there is little difference in the temperature at the pole from that some distance south." Henson learned from the Eskimos that for three days in Whale Sound last month they saw a cloud of smoke and there was an odor like bristle. The natives were greatly frightened, and Henson thought a new volcano had erupted, and so informed them. Henson made his first trip north in 1891. He went there because he was interested, and kept on going year after year. Of Commander Peary he said: "He is the best man that we could have for arctic expeditions. He has wonderful endurance and the weather never is too cold for him. The Eskimos think that there is no man like him." Continuing his story, Henson said: "The report is absolutely untrue that I did not go to the pole. I went the whole distance, side by side with the commander and just as far as he did." Henson also said that he saw Peary write the records which were left in the ice. The Eskimos, who were with them, with the exception of Outzueaeah, understood English and one of them could count a hundred. PEARY HOISTS WIFE'S FLAG Commander Robert E. Peary, who is still at Battle Harbor on board the steamer Rooseveit, conversed further today with the representative of the Associated Press regarding his journey to the north pole. He spoke particularly of the flags he raised at the pole and the records he left there and he touched again on some of the assertions credited to Dr. Frederick A. Cook. Commander Peary said that when he reached the pole the first flag to be thrown to the breeze was a silken American emblem presented to him by his wife fifteen years ago. He had carried this flag on every one of his expeditions to the North, leaving a piece of it at the highest point he attained. The last remnants were raised and left at the pole. The explorer then raised the navy ensign, the flag of the Navy League, then the flag of the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity, and finally a flag of peace. Peary inclosed records of his trip and other documents and personal papers in a box, and buried it in the ice. The documents were placed in water-tight coverings and the box itself was water-tight, so it would float if the shifting or melting ice brought it to water. Commander Peary has not yet developed the films he took at the pole. Referring to the weather condition $ _{s} $ at the apex of the world, Commander Peary said he found nothing like the revolving wind referred to by anarctic explorers. The weather conditions varied from time to time, although there was probably considerable uniformity. He would not say whether or not he found currents at the pole. Commander Peary today received a cablegram asking him to make a statement regarding a report from a Danish source that he had posted a notice on the Greenland coast to RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1909. the effect that Dr. Cook was dead, making this notice a pretext for the appropriation of Dr. Cook's supplies. The explorer said to the Associated Press representative that he knew nothing of this; that it evidently was a newspaper publication. He expects to be quoted erroneously in the press as making a variety of statements. Commander Peary has said already all he intends to say regarding Dr. Cook. His statement dictated to the Associated Press covers this subject fully for the present. In referring to the reception being planned for him when he reaches home, Commander Peary asked the Associated Press to publish the following statement: "From such fragmentary reports as I have received, I am more touched, gratified and honored than I can say at the way the public has treated my work." EXPLORER'S ARRIVAL DELAYED Sydney, N. S., Sept. 15.—Mrs. Robert E. Pearly today received the following telegram from her husband at Battle Harbor, Labrador. "Cannot arrive before end of week." It is hardly expected here that the Roosevelt will reach Sydney before the early part of next week. She makes only five knots an hour and she probably would be further delayed by stormy weather. Harry Whitney, of New Haven, Conn., who is believed to have in his possession documents and records proving the claim of Dr. Frederick A. Cook that he reached the north pole in April or 1908, will find several hundred telegrams addressed to him when he reaches Sydney. At present his whereabouts is unknown but the accumulation of communications for him here leads to the belief that he may come into Sydney any day. LOOK! WATCH! WAIT! For the Great Industrial Central Fair to be held, October 6th and 6th, at Long Creek, Va., two and one-half miles from Buckner's Station. Come and see the big things from the various Counties, and witness the achievements of the Negro since Emancipation. Many departments will be exhibited. Mechanical Trade Department, Agriculture Department, Furniture Department, Poultry Department, Millinery Department. A good band will furnish music for the occasion, Bruce and Co. Merry-go-round, Seward Ministrels. Come and see 100 fine horses owned by Negroes. Come and enjoy a day of city life in the country, and bring the little ones. Let them have an opportunity of seeing things that will inspire them for their life's work. Fair Grounds open all night. Admission, Adult $.25, Children $.15. E. B. JOHNSON, Manager Entered into Rest Departed this life Saturday, Sept. 18, 1909, at the residence of Mrs. Mary E. Henderson, 1826 James Street, at 6 o'clock P. M., Mrs. Marla Lee Stewart, Mrs. Stewart had resided at Andover, Mass., for the last eighteen years, until about five weeks ago. She leaves a mother, son, two sisters, brother, other relatives and a host of friends to mourn their loss. The funeral services were conducted from the Fourth Baptist Church, of which she had been a faithful member for about eighteen years. Rev. W. T. Johnson, officiated. The remains were interred in Evergreen Cemetery. Mrs. Dollie Marshall and Miss Lucy J. Marshall, of Andover, Mass, mother and sister and Mr. B. T. Marshall, of New York, N. Y., brother were called to the city on account of the death of Mrs. Maria Lee Stewart. Subscribe to THE PLANET THEY ARE AGAINST US. Michigan Legislature Passed Anti-Negro-Fraternal Bill. (Detroit Michigan Leader.) While the Georgia legislature was voting upon the final passage of the law prohibiting Negroes to wear any kind of a lodge button, as printed in The Leader September 3rd, the same identical law, was going into effect in Michigan. The manner in which this act was passed through the late session of our state legislature bespeaks a determination on the part of white lodges to put the taboo on the colored societies. While the bill seemed colorless, it is quite strange that none of the race leaders should have so completely overlooked it during its course through the senate and house. A white Elk made the statement that "We can accomplish more in our fight to protect our name by these tactics than the brass order adopted in New York and New Jersey." He stated further that such act as enacted in Michigan last winter was passed or would be passed in every state in the Union. The Leader is the first paper in the state to mention the bill in its real light, and will in a later issue publish the entire history of the same and show how our good Republicans of this country voted on it during its consideration. Several prominent fraternal men are of the opinion that it is a dead law so far as Michigan is concerned. Yet it shows how easily legislation can be slipped through entirely without the knowledge of men employed in the Capitol building. Walter H. Stowers, one of the leading attorneys of the city, says that the bill is not worth the paper it is written on and that it will not stand the test. Attorney Charles E. Williams, of the firm of Willis & Williams, said: "Upon comparing the text of anticolored fraternal laws recently enacted in a number of states, one is forcibly lead to believe that such legislation emanated from a common source and was the result of a national scheme to abolish colored fraternal societies which were not strictly original in basic principles. "The peculiarity of these enactments in northen states is the ingenious evasion of any reference to K. or P. Elks or other colloed societies in the drafting of these laws and the index thereof. Act 255 of Michigan Public Acts of 1909, which recently went into effect, is a masterpiece of legal ingenuity and proves that the amended constitution, which requires all bills to be printed and in the possession of each house at least five days prior to its becoming a law. (Continued on Fourth Page.) Return Thanks. We wish to return our sincere thanks to the many friends who so cheerfully rendered assistance during the illness of Mrs. Maria Lee Stewart and also for the many kind tokens at her death. It has been learned from good authority that a certain public school teacher of this city did wilfully assault with her fat a certain married lady and that the married lady did not return the blows, but simply reported the teacher to the church for assaulting her and also using language unbecoming a christian. To The Front Rank. The Oriental Beneficial Club" This chartered organization of the "West End" Incorporated under the laws of Virginia, we are glad to inform the public we are pushing forward to the foremost rank of the organized bodies of this city. It is looking forward in the future to extend with its subordinates. Not only in Virginia, but throughout the United States. This grand body of men is composed of some of the best material of that section of our city. The present officers are strong men, well qualified to work out a grand success. Officers; Joseph S. Woolridge, President; Philip Anderson, Vice President; Walter Cosby, Recording Secretary; Simon Harris, Financial Secretary. Banking Committee: John Orange, David Kriss, John Givens, Conductor; Major Overton, Sergt. at Arms; Edward Dance, Chaplain, Charles Harris, Sick Committee, Board or Directors, Richard Brown, Charles Harris, Jas. C. Mayo, Otto J. Johnson. The Club pays sick and death benefits. Joining fee reasonable. Claims paid promptly. The American Bankers' Asso. (Continued from last week.) We had the good fortune to secure a ticket to the best of the four theatres selected by the local committee for the entertainment of the members of the American Bankers Association. The Beauty and grandeur of these palaces of enjoyment must be seen to be appreciated. "The Fair Co-eed" was the play. As we entered a white box was given us and upon opening it, we found there in a silver spoon. THE PRESIDENT'S RECOMMENDATION As the play progressed, another box, dainty ornamented was given each person. This contained ice cream, and during the intermission each guest was given time enough to "put away" this dainty token presented by the bankers of Chicago. The address of President Reynolds, while being generously applauded nevertheless created a genuine sensation when he advocated the establishment of a Central Bank as an off-set to the cry for a Postal Savings Bank. A VIGOROUS PROTEST The protest against this proposition on the part of the bankers in the states was loud and deep, although it did not take a virulent form on the floor. All measures which were calculated to cause friction were diplomatically referred to the Executive Council of the American Bankers' Association from which place it hardly ever returned to disturb the fraternal feeling of the organization. THE DANGER The feeling is that if the government is permitted to receive large sums of money on deposit it will tend to withdraw this money from circulation in some states and be distributed in some others, thus benefiting one section of the country at the expense of the other. For this reason the centralization idea was bitterly opposed all along the line. THE TRIP TO GARY, INDIANA. There was no session of the American Bankers' Association Wednesday. The Trust Section met. The trip to Gary, Indiana, had been arranged and for this purpose two large steamers had been chartered for the purpose of conveying the bankers and their ladies there. We reached the wharf at the foot of Wabash Avenue just about eight minutes before leaving time. Both steamers seemed to be loaded down by the mass of people who were standing and sitting in every conceivable place. SURPRISED TO SEE US We got aboard after a struggle. We found that we were on the better of the two boats. At its peak floated the banner with the words "American Bankers' Association. Although we have been present at every meeting of the Association for five years, still there are new members who look with astonishment upon a colored man in the banking business. This is not confined to white people, but is a noticeable fact in colored people as well. It is embarrassing even to a person of our nerve and calibre, and at times makes us wish that "it was all over." A FRIENDLY BANKER Still we must push on and we did so. We found ourselves next to an Illinois banker and his family. He wanted to know and we told him. His wife took an interest in us and she was soon passing over to us the fine box of free candy with which the local committee had provided the bankers, and we too were testing the flavor and taste of the confectionaries of the western clime. We were on the first boat to leave and all along the wharves, crowds of citizens gathered looking in wonderment at the crowd of wealthy people who were on their way to enjoy a day's outing. THE BAND PLAYS. As we left Chicago in the distance and looked out upon the vast expanse of water known as Lake Michigan after passing out of the Chicago river. It was a scene never to be forgotten. The band played. It was giving us "John Brown Body" then "Marching Through Georgia" then the "Star Spangled Banner" and then the waltzing selections and everybody was happy. The lake was rough. It is difficult to realize that this is a body of fresh water. It has the bluish cast of the ocean. Seagulls follow the vessel and lighthouses line the shores. Y. M. C. A. Notes. Mr. Darlus Harris and his social committee gave the men a watermelon feast last Friday evening. We can assure you that the men did their part. The best of season so they were enjoyed. This committee is adding much life to the work Watch for the next act by this committee. The Y. M. C. A. Quartette sang. The prisoners of the city jail were helped much last Sunday by the meetings which were held by the committee. The committee on the city home work was glad to welcome the new worker in the person of Brother Woodson. The meetings were good last Sunday. The boys had a great meeting last Sunday. Director John S. Powell addressed them. Subject: "The Intellectual and Moral Training of the Youth." Our Brother knew just how to help the boys. This was the hour for the voluntary rally by the boys. The following companies reported. Company B. Capt. Cornelius B. Gaston, Company C. Capt. Robert Pervall, Company D. Capt. Bernard L. Allen, Company E. Capt. Leroy Ragland, Company F. Capt. W. H. Cary, Company F raised the largest amount. The boys were happy over their great success. They thank the many friends who helped them. Always encourage the boy in the right and the future will be bright. A very practical address was delivered to the men last Sunday by Rev. William Johnson. Subject: "Kept For The Master's Use." A very large number of men was out to hear our brother. Do not forget men. You are invited to the opening of the class for the explanation on the Sunday School lesson Saturday 5 P. M. at the Y. M. C. A. building. We have been very successful in securing Prof. J. W. Barco for teacher. Free for everybody. Men be on time Sunday hard work and the other man. Director N. W. Bouldin will conduct the meeting for men Sunday 5:30 P. M. at the Y. M. C. A. building. Subject: "What Have I Done and What Am I Willing to Do?" The Y. M. C. A. Quartette will sing. Arrest the other man for this meeting. Be on time. A special meeting for boys Sunday 4 P. M. at the Y. M. C. A. building. The Y. M. C. A. will hold a great mass meeting for women only Sunday 3:30 P. M. at the Leigh Street Methodist Church. Rev. C. E. Hodges, pastor of the church will deliver a special address. Subject: "Our Women." Good music. Free for all women. Come and bring another woman. The season for the work of the Y. M. C. A. will open Sunday October 3rd, 3:30 P. M. at the First Presbyterian Church. Rev. E. H. Hunter pastor of the Third Street Methodist Church will preach a very practical sermon. The junior choir of the church will sing under the directions of Madame Fannie Payne Clarke. Women and men are invited. Come and bring a friend. Now for the opening of the Y. M. C. A. Lecture Course 1909 and 1910 Monday October 18th, 8 P. M. at the True Reformers Hall with a lecture by Mr. W. A. Hunton, International Secy., Washington, D. C. Subject: PRICE, FIVE CENTS. s' Asso. Theatres Leased e Trip to "A Trip to Japan." Mr. Hunton has made this trip across the water so you can see that he comes with practical experience. Illustrative veils will be thrown upon the canvass. Doors will be open 7:30 P.M. Admission to all parts of the hall ten cents. Be a committee for this great treat. Every home is requested to have special prayer for the Y. M. C. A. The Y. M. C. A. night school will open Monday September 27th, 8 P. M. at the Y. M. C. A. building. Come, Teachers who mean business have been secured. Temptation. Sweet seems this proffered bliss! yea, more than sweet! Yet in the fascination of its spell My trembling soul dost cling unto its throne In carpeting fear lest it shouldst dreaming take The will-lest step into this moment's depth— Yea, just a moment's depth, but shall I find A vain mirage when reason 'wakes my soul! Upon a joyless desert will my heart Be powerless to find the teeming will To follow conscience and regain its throne! Perhaps! No. I have faltered here too long— I set my will—there is no temptor now! LUCIAN B. WATKINS JOSEPH'S BONDAGE --- Rendered in Three Acts Perhaps the most wonderful production ever presented to the people of Richmond, will be pulled off at the True Reformers Hall or the City Auditorium about the middle of November, by the Richmond Operatic and Literary Association. FIRST ACT This act will be on the Grand Opera plan, acted and sung throughout, the cast being supported by a well trained chorus of 100 picked voices, and a full amateur orchestra led by Prof's Johnson and Bixon. SECOND ACT The feature of the second act, is that it will be acted and played just as did the ancients in the original drama. The robes, girdles, sandals and turbans will be an exact reproduction of those worn by Jacob, his twelve sons and wives, King Pharoah and his host. THIRD ACT This act will be a combination of Opera and drama, acted and played in the same way, as was act second. The novelty of this entertainment will no doubt make it the most popular thing of its kind ever attempted by a company in this community Mr. Malachi Brown, of Epworth, Va., was in the city last week. The Richmond PLANET can be purchased from our agent Mr. I. J. Holden, 974 Ferry Avenue, Camden, N. J. Miss Virginia C. Proctor is the guest of Mrs. C. N. W. Cary, Charlottesville, Va. Miss Carsie D. Isham returned to her school at Fine Creek Mills, Va. last Friday. Mr. G. T. Calloway, of News Ferry, Va., passed through the city last week enroute to Baltimore, Md. on official business. PAID IN FULL Novelized From Eugene Walter's Great Play CHAPTER XVII. EMMA moved toward the door, but her husband ran and intercepted her. "Wait a minute. You can't go that way," he said determinedly. "You are my wife, and you can't leave here without some explanation." "I've no explanation to make," she retorted coldly. "You will please let me go. I've done my part, and it's my right to leave." "I tell you I won't let you go until you tell me the truth. What happened with Williams, and how did you induce him to agree?" "You've no right to ask that. The price I paid for that letter is none of your business. You set that price at the highest possible figure a woman can pay. Now, how I bargained or what I paid is none of your affair." "It is my affair. I want to know, and I will know." "When you sent me to that man, Joe Brooks, I told you that if I made the bargain I was to make it alone, that it was to be my business alone and that I should never be asked. You agreed. I've carried out my part. You carry out yours. I gave you your freedom. You give me mine." "There is only one reason why you should leave here now, and that is Williams. Are you going back to him?" She stepped back from him and swept him with a cold of cold disdain. "If there was one thing left for you to do to make you the most contemptible cad you've done it now!" she exclaimed. "When you sent me to Williams I thought you'd sunk as low as you could, but I see I was mistaken. There was a depth that even in my VARNA "I won't let you go until you tell me the truth." disgust, my loathing of you, I never imagined existed. But now you've reached it. I don't hate you. I just pity you." A gleam of fury glowed in his eyes under this merciless castigation, and he moved toward her menacingly. "That's not the answer I want," he said harshly. "You're quibbling. Tell me the truth about Williams." "You'd better let me go." "You'll tell me the truth about Williams before you leave this room!" he shouted. "Make up your mind to that now, because that's just the way it's going to be!" She realized that she had gone too far in her denunciation, that his anger was dangerous and that he would stop at nothing, not even blows, not even murder. He was white, his teeth were set, and on his quivering face was an expression of ferocious determination that warned her that she must temperize and appear to give in to him. "Very well," she assented, turning from the door; "if that's the way it's going to be I'm perfectly willing." "Then answer me." "I intend to do that, but I intend to do something more than merely answer that question. If you don't mind we'd better sit down." She motioned him to a chair and seated herself so that the table was between them. "In the first place," she went on, very calmly, "in order to relieve your mind I might tell you that I have done nothing tonight which can reflect upon me as a good woman. I had no intention of doing any such thing. So far as I can find out, you are the only person who had my degradation in mind and was willing that it should happen if it resulted in your escaping the consequences of being a thief." "What do you mean?" "I mean that Captain Williams did not have the slightest idea of putting a price on your freedom toward which I in any way would have to contribute. You seem to be the only one who thought that I, with all I hold precious, was a fair figure to offer. Had I gone, had he demanded, had I submitted and brought back that paper and given myself to you again, as well as your freedom, you would have been contented and happy." "You know that's not true, Emma," he protested. The white heat of his fire had been dulled by her quietness, and little by little he was becoming PETER H. EUCENE WALTER. Author of "Paid In Full" and "The Easiest Way" "I know it is true, Joe, and so do you. I wanted to go to mother without having all this talk, but now that we have to talk let's be frank with each other and with ourselves. And you try to appreciate the truth as much as you are able. To begin with, it seems that I have been alone in not realizing how worthless you are. My father when we were to be married warned me not to take you unless I thought you indispensable to my happiness. You know that every one else put it a little more bluntly. But I thought I loved you—I'm sure I did. Now it seems utterly beyond belief. But then it must have been love. I mistook your egotism for a deeper sentiment, a determination of purpose, and I thought in my girlish way that the things you preached about socialism, the cruelty of the rich and all that meant that you were noble, self-sacrificing, even brilliant. Now I know the difference. You fight capital? God sometimes is kind to a fighter, but he can't have much use for a man who whites." "You believed me then, Emma," he said brokenly, "you know you did—you know you did." "That's the wonderful part of it. I've always believed you till tonight, and now I know I never should have believed you. You've always been a liar, and you've always been dishonest at heart. Your incompetency, the way you were distrusted by your employers, I thought was hard luck, injustice. But now I know that you never were and never will be the least bit of good to yourself or any one else. You married me to help yourself. You tried to disgrace me to help yourself. I was willing to meet the situation, but you couldn't, and tonight you wanted to sell me to help yourself. I pity you from the bottom of my heart. I think I've told you the reason why I cannot live with you any longer." She rose "Emma," he supplicated humbly, "it will all be different. Let me start out again. Give me another chance. I'll never lie to you again, and I'll never take a cent that isn't my own. I promise you I won." She shook her head. "Oh, yes, you will. You can't help it. Captain Williams told me tonight that a woman who was good couldn't be bad and a woman who was bad couldn't be good. It's that way with men. One who is inherently honest could never be dishonest, and one who is inherently dishonest could never be honest. You are both a thief and a liar, and there is no hope for you. You've struck the downward path, and you'll keep on going until the end. If you ever had a chance it was with me, and you've thrown it away. I'm sorry, more sorry than I can tell. Goodbye." He leaped to the door, which she was about to open, and placed his hand against it. "Emma, you mustn't go. You can't go. I will not let you go." "I will go, and I request that you will open the door," she said firmly. She grasped the handle, but he put out his arm and forced her away. "Enough of this tommooolery!" he cried, with a savage scowl, following her up menacingly as she staggered back. "I'm your husband. I order you to stay here, and here you will stay!" "It only remained for you to strike me!" she gasped. "Strike you! I'll strangle you if you ever dare to try to speak to me again as you have done this night. I've borne with you and humored you and put up with your insults too long. What I did was for you, and you know it. What you did, about which you are giving yourself such airs, is no more than any wife would do for a husband who'd acted as I did. That's all there is to it, and I don't want to hear any more about it now or at any other time. I'm master in this house, and I'm going to remain master." "You are not my master, and you can't frighten me with your threats," she retorted. "Open the door this instant!" He grasped her roughly by the arm. "You take your hat off and go to bed," he ordered, pushing her toward the bedroom. "That's the best place for you." "Never!" she panted, wrenching herself free and grasping a vase on the table to defend herself with. "If you make one step toward me, you coward, I'll scream for help." Rushing at her, he seized her by the throat and hurried her on the sofa. His fingers tightened their grip, choking all utterance. THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA "You will leave me, will you!" he cried, shaking her with all his strength. "Leave me! Leave me; Then you will leave me dead!" He did not hear a knock nor the opening of "he door that followed it. A hand gripped him by the collar, and his own grasp of Emma's frail form relaxed. The hand swung him round and sent him reeling across the room. "What's the matter with you. Brooks? It has it to wife beating now?" Smith stood looking at him scornfully. Emma struggled up, more dead than alive. "Oh, Jimsy," she cried, "he tried to kill me because I would not stay with him." "All right, Emma, you go now," he replied. "You stop here!" commanded her husband furiously. "What does this man mean by interfering in my affairs?" "I guess that man has a big claim on your gratitude," said Smith. "That's two escapes you've had tonight—one from the penitentiary and one from the electric chair. You've a whole lot to be thankful for if you only knew it, Brooks, but it looks like you don't." Emma had reached the door and hurried out without looking back. Her husband would have rushed after her, but between him and the exit stood the tall form of Smith, and there was something in Jimsy's look, in the lines that had tightened about his mouth, that caused him to hesitate. He had never imagined that the kind, genial face could take on such an expression. The eyes had become hard and forbidding, and under their keen gaze the man's feeble courage wilted. "Brooks," said Smith, "you have no more rights. You relinquished them all under the terms of your deal with Emma, and you have been paid in full. Of course if you repent of the bargain Captain Williams, as a party to the contract, may be induced to cancel the receipt and leave the matter as it was earlier in the evening. I will get him on the phone in a jiffy if you say so." A smile so sickly, so distorted with baffled rage, that it became a hyena-like grimace, flickered so Brooks' visage. "I see," he said. "You've all turned against me now you like I'm down. Well, as you like. Consider I've been paid in full. I'm agreeable. I've done nothing but slave for her for five years and been kept down by her. I didn't send her away; but, seeing she's going against my wishes, she'll stay gone. It lets me out. In future I'll only have myself to think of, and you bet I'm going to do it." "That's up to you," retorted Smith sententiously. Without saying good night he turned and left the room to rejoin $\mathsf{S}mma$, who was waiting for him at the bottom of the elevator shaft. CHAPTER XVIII WASHED with rain, the stars, "forgetmenotes of the angels," blinked 11m pidi ly from the sky of violet blue. The moonlight flooded the country, percolated in soft, refulgent cascades through the spruces and hemlocks and traced with its witchery weird arabesques in the glades. On the road that ribboned through the forest and up from the lake walked Emma Brooks and her sister Beth, the latter grumbling. "You are the queerest girl," she complained. "No one but you would think of coming out in such weather—not a soul. My shoes are so heavy with mud I can hardly lift my feet." "Oh, I just had to! I love it," replied Emma. "I simply could not stay indoors. I know now what a bird must feel like when it is caged. You must humor me, little sister. I have been born again—awakened to a new life. My soul, snatched from the swirlfire of sordidness, of sorrow, of baseness, that seared it, must expand or burst. My life for so long was depressed in the fog, like that we came up through today to emerge at last into the brightness of the mountain tops. It is hard to realize that I have left all this behind and am free in the light." "You certainly have had a hard time of it with that beast," admitted Beth, stopping to take breath. "Listen!" went on Emma. "Don't you love that chorus of the frogs and the grasshoppers? I think there is something weirdly exquisite in these noises of the night that we do not hear in the city, that I have not heard for ages and ages. Oh, I wish the woods here were full of the old world nightingales that the poets say 'feed the heart of the night with fire, satilate the hungry dark with melody,' don't you? And don't you love this incense of the soaked earth and its verdure? It lifts me to the clouds there that drift like silver snow past the moon." She laughed aloud in her light heartedness, and the joyous peal went echoing through the wood. "Lor', Emma, how you talk!" said Beth, marveling at her sister's exaltation, which she did not understand. They trudged on and upward in silence through the mud, past cheerful lights that glowed through windows of bungalows and cottages among the trees, until they came to a miniature dwelling ensconced in a bower of laurels. At the door stood Mrs. Harris. She was displeased. For goodness' sake! Where have you been?" she exclaimed as the girls entered. "I began to think you had fallen into the lake or off a rock or that some other dreadful thing had happened to you and was scared to death." "Emma." said Beth, dropping into a chair, "is impossible. She insisted on walking right to the lake, though the FARRELL "I have been born again—awakened to a new life." roads were awful and ankle deep in mud so sticky that I thought I'd have to leave my rubbers in it. Don't forget, too, that's all uphill coming back." "Oh, I never enjoyed a walk so in my life!" declared Emma. "It was magnificent! I couldn't have slept. I couldn't have stayed in bed, if I hadn't taken it." But Mrs. Harris refused to be mollified. "And I won't be able to sleep because you've made me so nervous." she complained. Emma went to her, put her arm about her and kissed her. "Don't be cross, mother," she pleaded. "You know this is my first sniff of real country for a century, and I have never been in the Catskills before and therefore never so near heaven. I am a little girl again, as full of childish joy as I used to be when father took us on those trips which now seem like a dream, they were so long ago." "If your father hadn't been so 'easy' we'd be owning a handsome cottage at one of the fashionable places in the Adirondacks instead of hiring a mean little bungalow here," lamented Mrs. Harris. "No fashionable people ever come here, and one has to be so particular. But what is one to do? One can't remain in New York in the dog days." "For me, I'm sick and tired of the mountains," announced Beth. "I'd like to go to Newport, where we'd stand a chance of meeting somebody and where anyhow we'd be able to see real society people." "Bother society!" said Emma happily. Both her mother and Beth looked shocked. "Emma, how can you say such a thing?" reproved Mrs. Harris, enveloping herself in an air of loftiness. "I hope you have not allowed yourself to be influenced by the anarchistic vaporings of your—of that unspeakable person whose name is not to be mentioned." "I've read somewhere that fine society is only a self protection against the vulgarities of the street and the tavern," chirped Beth primly. "That all depends on how you define 'fine society', Beth," said Emma. "I mean the society of wealth, the Four Hundred, of course. I pray every night that I may marry a duke or a count." "Beth has such elevated ideas!" commented her mother admiringly. "Such petitions," observed Emma, becoming grave, "never reach the mercy seat. It is said that at midnight every New Year's eve, when the bells of the churches ring out the dying year, there issue from the belfries streams of vapory spirits with distracted, terrified faces, their hands clasped to their ears. They are the prayers that never rose any higher, prayers of worshipers in the churches who repeated them mechanically, as they are accustomed to do every Sunday, without realization of the significance of the words they utter; prayers muttered by those whose thoughts were on other things; prayers of the hypocrite; prayers of the humbug; supplications to the most high for the preposterous and the impossible; prayers of those who do not practice what they preach; prayers of those who do those things which they ought not to do and leave undone those things which they ought to do and think their weekly gibb confession of it and their oblivius in the collection plate absolve them. With the jangling and clanging of the bells they are borne by the winds over mountain and sea and are lost forever in the eternal void between the worlds. All such prayers wherever uttered must share this fate." By this time Mrs. Harris was agape, too astonished to utter a word. "Gracious, Emma!" gasped Beth. "You talk like a book. I don't know what's come over you." "It is my new birth. I told you it was as though I had been born again. I hope you will marry a duke or a count if you want to, Beth. As a rule, I believe they are real men, every whit as worthy as good men who don't bear this distinction of title. Still, the field is necessarily restricted, and you mustn't forget that there are other noble men as distinguished from noblemen—men of sterling value, whirring true under every test." "Like-like Jimsy," ventured Beth with a dubious air, casting about and on the spur of the moment thinking of none other she knew who would fit the description. "Like Jimsy," assented Emma emphatically. "But he's so ungrammatical, so—er—shy on education, besides which he hasn't any money," objected Mrs. Harris. "None to speak of," seconded Beth, pursing her lips deprecatingly. "Aside from that, though," conceded Mrs. Harris. "I must say Jimsy's a real good man and most obliging. He can't help his upbringing." "How about Captain Williams?" questioned Emma. "How would you class him?" "My dear," answered her mother, "you wouldn't put him in the same class with Jimsy—I mean socially, He's so rich! I wouldn't be surprised if he were several times a millionaire. Remember, he has two automobiles. And the handsome way he treated you! Why, he crossed out the $16,000 that abomination stole as though it were a matter of 16 cents." "A man's true wealth is the good he does in this world, mother, according to Mohammed." "That is how it may have appeared to that foreign prophet in the year 1," retorted Mrs. Harris with a tone of finality, "but in this age of horse seas in the United States a million dollars in the bank is the real standard of wealth. With money you can do everything. If you have plenty of it you can do plenty of good, and everybody else will sit on the fence and clap, but if you haven't any you are no good to yourself, can do no good to others, and everybody else will get down from the fence to kick you." Left to his own devices, Brooks took a survey of the position in which he found himself, and his conclusion was not without gratification to him. The clean "bill of health" she had been the means of obtaining for him from Captain Williams had in fact left at his free disposal as his own property several hundred dollars from his stealings and from his last "plunge" on the horses, which had been a winning one. Then there was the furniture. The plano was supposed to be Emma's, and he felt sure she would send for it, but he had no intention of surrendering it. No one stick, not one penny, would she ever get out of him after the way in which she had treated him. The very day after her departure he soid the instrument to the plano house from which it had been purchased. Within three days he had removed from the hotel where they had lived in state for such a brief period and transferred such furniture as he required to one room in a bachelor apartment house. The rest he disposed of for cash. He was a bachelor again to all intents and purposes, and he resolved to enjoy his liberty to the full. He had had enough of married life, with its cares and the discipline of restraint it imposed. Once more he was "one of the boys." To make his position unmistakable and discourage any disposition on his wife's part to return to him he forwarded, care of her mother, her portrait, that had been conspicuous on the parlor mantel, after taking it from the gilded frame in which it had stood. On the back of it he wrote a verse of an old song: My wife she ran away from me Some two or three weeks ago, And now she wants to come back again, But I tell her it no go. "You're not my robe." "Once bit twice shy," is my reply, And if it was to rain Cats and dogs and mussels and frogs I'd never have her back again. There was no word of explanation beyond this insulting doggerel, and he was careful not to give his address. He chuckled as he put it in the letter box. At times he was a little uneasy lest she should seek to discover his whereabouts for the purpose of making a claim for support, but as the weeks wore on and nothing was heard from her be became reassured. He had had little difficulty in procuring work, thanks to Captain Williams' note accepting his resignation, and soon was established as assistant to the receiving teller in a bank with a salary of $25 a week. With this and the money already in his possession he deemed himself rich, and his fitful optimism obtained the ascendency once more in its usual extravagant form. But his escape from arrest had been a lesson that had sunk in deeply. He vowed never again under any circumstances to "borrow" from the funds he handled in the course of his duties. He eschewed horse racing also, knowing that if the bank officials became aware that he was gambling he would lose his place that very instant. After awhile his fellow employees noticed that Brooks, the spry, genial Brooks, who had won the good will of everybody, as he had in the general office of the Latin-American Steamship company, manifested a tendency toward moroseness; that his face at times assumed an expression of melanchoy. Despite his love of self, he was of those natures which do not thrive in solitude. He never had cared much for the companionship of men. His inclination always had been toward that of the opposite sex. Accustomed also as he had been for so long to the consolations of home life, to the thoughtful, affectionate ministrations and bright presence of Emma, he was bound sooner or later to miss her. "There's nothing in this Ring alone." The avowal came one night after he had spent an evening at the theater with two sociable fellow clerks and he gazed around his silent, cheerless bedroom. Although he had not at any time loved Emma with that ineffable passion which is the golden ladder upon which the soul mounts to heaven, yet she had filled a larger place in his heart than he had ever had any complete idea of prior to her absence. His sentiment, fostered by his selfishness, revived with violence under his introspection. He yearned for Emma's smile of greeting and the kiss that accompanied it at his homecoming, for the numberless sweet attentions she had lavished upon him. How pretty she was, how gentle! How sweetly she had put up with his ill humor! She was different from any of the girls and women he had ever been acquainted with. He was sorry he had sent the photograph, not alone because he felt that he had made gratuitously a false move, but because he wished he had kept it for himself. There was not one personal object remaining that had belonged to her. The little ornaments she had liked, her clothes, the trinkets she had left behind, he had disposed of in his haste to get rid of everything that could recall her or to which she might lay claim. He wondered if she, too, was sorry for their separation. She must be. How could she live under the eternal nagging and fault finding of her mother and the lording proclivities of Beth and not long to return to the independence of her own home? She had loved him. His memory evoked the distant vision of her frail, little form clinging to him as she gazed up into his eyes, her own aglow with the glory of her adoration and its delicious intensity. He felt the blissful pulsations of her heart throbbing against him, its paean of passion; he heard, too, in fancy the red lips murmur her soul's ecstasy in words of flame and beauty, felt the thrill that shivered through him as hbs fingers threaded caressingly the shimmering cloud of her tresses. That was long age in their early possession of each other, when she had awakened to knowledge of herself and had worshiped him as a god, fountainhead of joy and light for her on earth. This transcendent passion had not round in him the responsiveness it graved and which alone could nourish it. Emma had been an enigma to him often, a riddle that had bored him at times. His blunted senses, sharpened by desire of her, perceived that stupidly, ignorantly, he had disdained a treasure beyond price. But, remembering what he had been to her and that she was still his wife, he believed that a reconciliation could be brought about. Sentiment and desire took counsel with advisability; selfishness weighed the pros and cons. In the end sentiment and desire, being the stronger, adjusted objections to their own point of view. But even then it was some time before he could summon up courage enough to take any steps in the matter. Summer had given place to winter and returned again since Emma had left him. In all that time he had not heard of or from her. He had made no attempt to see Jimsy Smith or any of his former friends and associates. Now he bent his thoughts upon how best to effect the rapprochement. Should he write Emma, expressing his contrition and begging her forgiveness? His pride stiffened at this proposition. Should he write and request an interview with her? If he could see her he believed he would have little trouble in persuading her. But, counseled by her hateful mother, who always had despised him, she might refuse to see him. Perhaps the best way would be to approach her through some one else. The only person he knew of who by any possibility could act as intermediary was Jimsy Smith, the general utility man. Requisitioning Jimsy's services did not appeal to him. He had long been jealous of his prosperity and of the fact that he had once been a suitor for Emma's hand, although jealousy on account of the latter circumstance was rather the outcome of envy of his success in business. Nevertheless Jimsy was indispensable, and the more Brooks realized this the higher became the degree of favor to which he restored him. It had been bad policy not to keep in touch with Jimsy, a serious mistake. Smith, however, was such an "easy," obliging, warm hearted fellow that there would be no difficulty in squaring things with him and getting him to act as go-between. He resolved to call on Jimsy. CHAPTER XIX DESTINY is a strange thing. Under many a quiet exterior smolder fires of volcanic passion that never are fanned into activity because the essential puff of cause has never stirred them. Jimmy Smith had conceptions of comfort and life on a large scale that he had never attempted to carry out for the reason that the one thing upon which they were based, the one incentive, was lacking—a wife. Given wealth and a woman responsible in the same degree to the profound devotion and large ideas of which he was capable, Smith might have developed into a magnificent nabob, a great statesman or a great "captain of industry," certainly into a great and wise philanthropist. Given such a woman as an inspiration, he might with his strength of mind and seel control have won from nothing to a position that would have enabled him to live in some accord with the aspirations that once had illumined his day dreaming. As it was, he had banished day dreaming from his plan of existence. He had fixed a rigid line of demarcation between right and wrong for the governance of his own conduct that he never permitted himself to overstep, but the failings of others he was prone to condone and ever was ready to stretch forth a hand and help a weakling to set himself straight. Jimsy occupied two furnished rooms in a small, quiet boarding house. He had lived in the place ever since his arrival in New York, and the only change he had made was to take a private sitting room in addition to his bedroom when his means admitted of it. It was here that Brooks found him when late one evening he called there. Jimsy, cigar in mouth, was working at some plans and figures in the light of a reading lamp when Brooks opened the door. He looked up from the table with no evidence of surprise as his visitor entered. "Hello, Jimsy!" "Hello!" Smith might have expected him and regarded his presence as an ordinary thing for all the tone of his response to the salutation indicated. "How have you been all this time?" "About as usual. How have you been getting on? Take a chair, won't you?" He did not see the hand that Brooks extended for the reason that he was rolling up the pians that had been stretched before him. PARKER "Hello, Jimsy!" Brooks sat down in the only other armchair, on the same side of the table. On entering he had been very nervous. His customary aplomb revived as he found that Smith was apparently the same old Jimsy. "Oh, fine," he replied. "Thought I'd just drop in on you and see how things were." "Thanks. Have a cigar." Smith pushed the box toward him, and he helped himself to one and lit it. "I feel like I owe an apology for keeping out of the way so long. I suppose you wondered what had become of me." "I have often wondered." "Well, you see, I was sort of cut up after the way Emma left me. It was enough to make me feel sore. There was no excuse for it. Then I've been awfully busy. I got a job in a bank as assistant receiving teller at a real living salary. A fellow isn't ground down there, and there's a chance to get on. They treat you like a gentleman, not like a lascar cabin boy. I ought to have quit the Latin-American line long ago. I suppose old Williams is still slave driving." "Williams is still president of the company." "Well, he'll get what's coming to him from somebody one of these days." Smith made no comment. "Say, Jimsy, you don't give one the impression that the world disagrees with you. You look immense." "There's never much the matter with me. Brooks." "Brooks? Why Brooks? What's the matter with 'Joe' You needn't be so darned ceremonious. You haven't got a grudge against me because I stayed away so long, have you?" "No grudge whatever." "Oh, well, let it go. How's the old woman?" "You mean Mrs. Harris?" "Who else would I mean except my saintly mother-in-law?" "She was well at last reports." There was another pause in the conversation, and Brooks stared hard at the ceiling. "I guess you're a fixture here. You wouldn't be happy in any other lodgings," he went on, looking at Jimsy, who was eying him with his usual calm expression that was neither cold nor kind, yet partook, if anything, of kindness. "You ought to see the cute little quarters I have. They're in a bachelor apartment house. I want you to come around one of these evenings. You'll come, won't you?" "Maybe, one of these old evenings. We've got to provide accommodations for more boats, and I'm a busy man, so you mustn't bank on me for awhile." "All right. If that ain't a refusal any evening you can dispose of will suit me. Just let me know you're coming; that's all." For the hundredth time his eyes wandered to portraits of himself and his wife in a silver stand on the table. They had presented photographs and stand to Smith soon after their marriage. "You've still got that, I see," he said, indicating it with a nod of the head. "Of course," "How is she, by the bye?" At last he had brought the conversation round to where he wanted it. "Emma? Oh, she was all right when I last heard about her." "Heard about her? She's living with her mother, isn't she?" "Certainly. I haven't seen them for some time. All the family's out of town." Brooks could not conceal his disappointment. "Where are they staying? Is it far from the city?" "Quite some distance." "Well, where is it? At the seaside? In the country?" he demanded, exasperated. "Why don't you come out with a straight answer instead of dodging? What do you think I am? What do you think I came here for?" "You said you came to see how I was getting along." Brooks could have kicked himself for having been betrayed into losing his temper. It was a bad break for a man having a favor to ask. "Of course I came for that, Jimay," he said, the anger gone from his voice. "But it's only natural I should ask for news of my family. You don't seem to think I have any rights or feelings. I am still Emma's husband, and it ain't because we've had a tiff that we're to be at cat and dog for the rest of our lives. I suppose." "I haven't forgotten that you're Emma's husband, Joe, but the matter of your 'rights' is open to a difference of construction, and I'm entitled to my own opinion. I do consider it perfectly natural, however, that you should be curious about your family, and I've answered every question you've put to me except the last. I'm under promise not to disclose their whereabouts THE PLANET to anybody. That's why." "Yes, you've answered my questions, but you've confined yourself to 'Yes' and 'No' as if you were a witness under cross examination." He passed his hand over his eyes and sighed. "It ain't like you. Jimmy," he continued. "It ain't like you a bit. I thought you at least wouldn't turn against me. He's a good man who never does anything wrong." "That's right. I guess there are more men who do wrong and aren't found out than there are men who do wrong and are discovered, and I don't in the business of leaving rocks at any man—certainly not at you." "I'm glad to hear you say that. I've been living on the level ever since. You can believe me, Jimsy—ask the bank if my accounts ain't in order—and I'm going to keep straight too. What more can I do, except say I'm sorry? What more does anybody want me to do?" "Nothing, I should think." "You believe me, Jimsy?" "Joe, I believe you're speaking the truth, and I hope with all my heart and soul you'll keep right on the way you're going. And, now you know how I feel about it, come right out and tell me what brought you here." "I will, then. I want to know about Emma. It's a year now since she—since we separated, and I won't stand it any longer. I want her to come back to me. I simply can't do without her." He looked at Smith expectantly, but the phlegmatic Jimmy made no remark. "You see them often. Do they ever speak about me?" "They have never mentioned you in my presence since the night Emma left you." "I never believed Emma would sulk so long. I'll bet she's as sick and tired of this business as I am. If she ain't had enough of the old woman and that stuckup little chit of a Beth by this time I'm no good as a guesser. I know Emma. They must have baited her to death." "Maybe, but if they have she hasn't told me about it, and she doesn't carry it writ on her countenance so's you'd notice it." "Jimmy, I must see her. Tell me where she is." "You can't find out from me. I'd tell you willingly enough, but she served an injunction on me ages before you came here, and I'm not going to put myself in contempt of court." Brooks jumped up and nervously knocked the ash from his cigar on to a tray. "You've known Emma and me for over six years, Jimay," he said. "And you know all about us and how happy we were together—how I tried to make her happy, risked everything for her. You were always a good friend to both of us. That's why I'm here—that's why I'm going to ask you to do me a favor. Will you?" "Joe, I'll do anything within the bounds of reason." "I knew you wouldn't refuse. I want you to see Emma alone—not with her mother and Beth around; they'd queer everything. I want you to ask her to let bygones be bygones and come back to me. We'll begin all over again, and this time we'll begin right. Tell her I'm well fixed. I'm ahead of the game. I've got money by—earned and saved it—and a good place. There'll be no more hard pulling like there was in the old time. Tell her I'm more sorry than I can express for our little misunderstanding—sorry and miserable. Tell her I love her more than ever and that if she will see me she will understand." Smith nodded assent. "And, Jims, put in a good word for me—plead for me—do it as if it wa for yourself. Emma will listen to you when she won't to any one else. You know she thinks a whole lot of you. Will you do this for me?" "Yes, I'll do it, Joe." "Let's see this is Tuesday. I'll see her Sunday—go on purpose." Brooks went to him and seized his hand with both his own. "Jimsy, you are the best ever!" he exclaimed fervently. "I knew I could count on you. I'll never forget this turn you're doing me—never! And Emma will appreciate it too. Good night and God bless you." He wrung Smith's hand again. At the door he turned with this recommendation: "Don't forget, Jimsy. Plead with her as if it was for yourself." Smith sat staring straight before him for an hour. *(To Be Continued.)* The Early Drama The first foreign actor to play in England was Drusiano, an Italian comedian, who visited London in January, 1577. In Shakespeare's time printed bills were stuck on posts on which the title of the play was announced, but neither the name of the author nor those of the actors. Queen Elizabeth advised all actor to place themselves under the protection of some baron or other noble lee they be adjudged and deemed rogue and vagabonds. Among the most famous of the first plays ever produced in England we "A Dead Man's Fortune," "Tama Cam." "Frederick and Basilie" an "The Seven Deadly Sins." HOW PEARY MADE HIS DASH TO POLE Had Headquarters at Etah, Just as Did Dr. Cook-Bitter Rivalry of These Daring Explorers, One a Year Behind the Other. BURNING rivalry between two fearless explorers of the danger spots of the earth's surface has thrown the nations of the world into a freeway of excitement. On top of the announcement of the discovery of the north pole by Dr. Frederick A. Cook of Brooklyn comes the receipt of the now equally historic message from Commander Robert E. Peary crying triumphantly to the universe, "Pole reached." Following this statement came his message that he had discovered the pole on April 6. 1909. This date was almost a year later than that of the reported discovery by Dr. Cook. That the dauntless Peary, who has spent almost a lifetime among the floes and bergs of the treacherous polar sea, should send his momentous news at the precise moment when the king of Denmark was entertaining his rival, Dr. Cook. In royal splender is no less sensational than it is dramatic. Little did Peary know that already the secret expedition of his foe in the race for immortal fame had been hailed worldwide as the solver of the long hidden mysteries of the long hidden pole. Little did he know that during the tenuous months he was spending hewing his way through the primeval ice barriers of the silent north another had already succeeded in a like emprise, one hardy, courageous and intelligent enough to snatch from his finger tips the mead of glory, the prize, the reward, that ambition and hope had whispered to him was to be his. Peary is the hero of no fewer than COPYRIGHT, 1908, BYHARRIS AND BWI COPYRIGHT 1948 BY HOPEIS AND RYAN COMMANDER ROBERT E. PEARY. eight expeditions into the cheerless arctic wastes, where starvation lurks even in the glow of the midnight sun and where the dread scourge of scurvy leaves misery and despair in its foul wake. of so many exped equipped for the journey. Ex-President Ro interested in the and immediately Bitter Peary-Cook Discussion The Peary message, which was received at Indian Harbor, N. S., gave instant rise to an imbittered discussion as to whether Commander Peary or Dr. Cook was entitled to the credit of the discovery of the pole. Peary, being better known than Cook and the possessor of more personal friends, immediately was championed by his admirers, many of whom had pronounced the claims of Dr. Cook to be unsubstantiated. Even when the later news came that Peary had not reached the pole until almost a year after Cook the former's supporters continued their claims, asserting that Cook could not prove his reports to be true and that Peary could convince the world. The further news from Peary that his vessel, the Roosevelt, was safe evidenced that he had used excellent judgment in the planning of his expedition, for it is an unusual feat for a venturer as far north as Peary went to bring back his vessel intact. The fact that the Roosevelt was designed and built at great expense especially for arctic exploration purposes of course contributed to the chance that she would be brought back in safety. Herbert L. Bridgman of Brooklyn, secretary of the Arctic club, to whom Peary sent a cipher message announcing his discovery and the safety of his ship, said, "The message, to my mind, indicates that Commander Peary will come right on home in the Roosevelt." He said he did not intend sending any dispatch to Peary, as none was necessary. He did not expect to go to meet the Roosevelt, inasmuch as he had not received a telegram containing the code word "twilight." This word, he explained, meant, "Meet me at Sydney." Had Able Newfoundland Sailors. Mr. Bridgman is of the opinion that Peary was materially aided in his expedition to the pole by the fact that the captain and crew of the Roosevett Newfoundland Crew and Stanch Ship Roosevelt His Aids — The Course Commander Followed—His Career—Record Trip in 1905-6. were natives of Newfoundland. Peary sent a congratulatory message to the governor of Newfoundland because of the sterling qualities of his crew. Characteristic of the doubting tendency of the British mind, particularly toward Americans and their accomplishments, London dispatches say that the receipt of the Peary dispatch created the greatest degree of excitement there. The newspapers at first treated it as a hoax, and before publishing it they kept the telephone wires hot with inquiries as to its authenticity. The message reached the evening papers only in time for the briefest "stop press" mention. Headlines such as "A Strange Telegram" and "A Mysterious Message" emphasized the caution with which the startling news was received. The annoyance of the Britishers at this new double conquest for America can well be imagined. Left New York July 6. 1908 The latest Peary expedition set out from New York on July 6, 1908, in the steamer Roosevelt, which had been thoroughly equipped to force her way through the ice floes of the north. Peary joined the ship at Sydney on July 17. Forty guests of the Peary Arctic club and Mrs. Peary boarded the Roosevelt and sailed as far as City Island, N. Y., and returned to New York later on the navy tug Narketta. "If I do not find the pole this time I will never try again." was the parting message from Peary to the world. Never before had the arctic explorer 5 of so many expeditions been so we equipped for the arduous northern journey. Ex-President Roosevelt was keenly interested in the present arctic trip and immediately before leaving the commander and Mrs. Peary journeyed to Oyster Bay, N. Y., and took lunch with Colonel Roosevelt. Colonel and Mrs. Roosevelt inspected the vessel which had been named after the president immediately before sailing. Roosevelt's Farewell Cry "Good luck! Good luck! Good luck! Remember, America must be first to reach the pole!" cried Roosevelt as he was leaving the Peary vessel after inspecting it off Oyster Bay. "Thanks, Mr. President. It's the north pole or bust for us!" cried Peary, waving his hat, while the crew stood about and cheered. Captain Bartlett of the Roosevelt was Peary's most trusted lieutenant and took entire command of the trip until his master joined it at Sydney. In the initial stages of the northern trip Peary made extraordinarily good time. On July 21 he left Hawkes Harbor, Labrador, for Greenland. Before leaving Hawkes Harbor Peary sent the following dispatch to the Arctic club in New York city: Leaving for Greenland 4 p. m. today. Everybody well and outlook bright. July 21, 1808. ROBERT E. PEARY. Peary and his crew were more sanguine over the outlook of the present expedition than any other attempted by the veteran explorer. Felt He Would Reach Pole. Peary predeceased upon his setting out that he would return to the United States in October, E.D., after having successfully attained the goal sought by the searchers for the pole. Peary and his party, however, were prepared for a stay of three years, and only last month a supply ship was sent to carry relief. The relief ship Jeanie sailed from St. John's, N. F., on Aug. 2, carrying fifty tons of coal and a similar amount of provisions. These were landed at Etah, Greenland. Harry Whitney, in whose keeping Dr. Cook left much of his data at Etah, went north with the Peary expedition to spend the winter in Green- THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND VIRGINIA --- And hunting musk oxen. The last heard from Peary before he plunged into the northern solitudes of ice and snow, was in September, 1908. The Peary Arctic club received the following dispatch Sept. 26, 1908. from the explorer: Etah, North Greenland. Aug. 17, 1908, via Indian Harbor and Cape Ray, N. F. Sept. 26, 1908. Herbert Bridgman, Secretary; Arrived Cape York July 31. Roosevelt went to Etah to overhaul and trim for the ice. With steamer Erik visited Eskimo dogs and materials for disabled. Thirty-five wailers killed by party. Rejoined Roosevelt at Etah with Erik Aug 11. Coaled Roosevelt from Erik. Roosevelt went to Cook, who had not yet returned. Put them in charge and sent Cook's men home disabled. Whitney will remain through winter to hunt musk oxen and bear. Unusually stormy season, but no ice. Snowing furiously now-plenty of it From Littleton island and Sabine north all depends on ice conditions beyond Have good supply of Eskimo dogs and walrus meat. All well on board. Expect to steam north some time tonight. Left Etah Aug. 17. A second dispatch, forwarded by the same route, also received by Secretary Bridgman from Captain Samuel W. Bartlett, told of the steamer Erlk having collided with an iceberg and having sustained serious damage. Captain Bartlett in the same message also reported that Peary's steamer, the Roosevelt, left Etah Aug. 17. His dispatch follows: Collided iceberg Monday night. Damage occurred. Proceeding along shore. Roosevelt left Etah Aug. 17. Prospects of success good. What Peary Feared Most Peary went prepared to encounter much open water. That was a handlecap he greatly feared, as dogs and sledges cannot cross and have to make long detours around the open water after the vessel is left behind. On his present expedition Mr. Peary announced that he would take a route from Grant Land more to the west and not so directly north as that of his former attempt, beading almost as far as the eightieth meridian of longitude and thus compensating for the eastward ice drift. He planned to establish his last base on a newly found island northwest of Grant Land. Peary based great hopes on the results to be obtained by following the arctic currents. The advantage of this route is that it allows a base of supplies approximately a hundred miles nearer the goal than the Spitzerbergen base, which he been its chief rival. Peary's friends for several we past had been expressing a belief that he had already reached his goal. Before he set out some one ask Peary what the discovery of the pot would mean. He gave with characteristic enthusiasm this answer: "It is to open up 3,000,000 square miles of absolutely unknown regions. The race is both sentimental and moral, and if we win we will be victorious in the greatest contest ever engaged in by nations wherein there was no jealousy." Although the figures given by Dr. Cook make his discovery of the pole antecedent that of Peary by nearly a year, apparently Commander Peary will be the first to land on American soil and receive the plaudits of his countrymen. If the commander comes on at once he should reach New York by rail from Sydney in a few days. Dr. Cook does not plan to sail from Copenhagen till Sept. 23. He will in that case not reach New York till nearly a month after his rival. Career of Commander Peary. Commander Peary has made several arduous trips into the arctic ice. He was born at Cresson Springs, Pa. In May, 1856. He entered the navy in 1881. His first polar experience was acquired in 1886, when he made a reco- noissance of the Greenland inland ice. In June, 1891, he sailed from New York on the Kite and, making his headquarters at McCormick bay, on the west coast of Greenland, penetrated as far north as latitude 82. In 1894-5 he reached the seventy-eighth parallel on the west Greenland coast. In 1898-9 he went to between the seventy-ninth and eighteenth parallels on the east coast of Ellesmere Land. In 1900 he reached the eighty-second par- allel on the east coast of Grinnell Land. In 1905-6 he skirted the north coast of Grinnell Land a A L at attack on the pole from Cresson Moss. This was the expedition which reached what was at that time "farthest north." 87 degrees 6 minutes. He reached that point on April 21. Comparatively smooth traveling he then found until he reached latitude S5 degrees 12 minutes. There he encountered a terrific storm, which held him prisoner, while the ice drift carried him seventy miles to the east. These handicaps and the constantly widening lanes of water and increasing roughness of the ice, together with a threatened failure of supplies, forced Peary to turn back on April 21. Score of the operatic stage Winner two Could they but reissue signs of age And know the time to quit. - Philadelphia Ledger. Practical Results. "Do you believe these billikin idols bring good luck?" "Most assuredly. I killed a yowling cat with one last night."—Cleveland Leader. Happy Adam. Whatever trouble Adam had. No man could make him sore. By saying when he told a joke, "I've heard that man," he said. "Lippincott's Magazine." "Excuse me, conductor. I did no mean to step on your train. Very careless of me." - Florida Times-Union Not In His Set. And now 'it feared the modern boy Grows haughty on discovering that The good professor they employ is not a member of his "trat" Star A Genius. "How did Tom manage to get so much of his uncle's estate?" "He married his lawyer's only daughter."—Boston Transcript POLAR VENTURERS OF PAST. Willoughby, Frobisher, Davis, Hudson, Franklin, Nansen, Abruzzi, Etc. The best previous record to Dr. Cook's reported final triumph was that of Perry, who on April 26, 1906, reached the latitude of 87 degrees 6 minutes north of Greenland. Previous to that time the Duke of the Abruzzi's expedition held the record of latitude 86 degrees 34 minutes, which was reached on April 25, 1900, north of Franz Josef Land. Nansen's record was 86 degrees 14 minutes, made on April 7, 1895. The search for the pole has been a quest which has drawn adventurous men into the arctic regions for centuries. The Norsemen were probably the first Europeans to visit Greenland Sir Hugh Willoughby sailed in 1553 "for the search and discovery of northern parts of the world." He discovered Nova Zembla, but starved with most of his men in Lapland on his return voyage. Frobisher in 1570 and Davis in 1585 made voyages to Greenland and the north coast of America. Henry Hudson in 1907 reached latitude 73 degrees on the eastern coast of Greenland and added to the knowledge of Spitzbergen, which was discovered by Willem Baentz in 1506. In 1707 Captain Gillis made a voyage far to the eastward along the northern shore of Greenland and saw high land, which has since been Gillis Land, in latitude 90 degrees. Captain Scoresby, in command of a whaler, succeeded in advancing his ship, the Resolution, as far north as latitude S1 degrees 12 minutes 42 seconds in 1806. This record was not exceeded until Lieutenant Robert Peary reached latitude S2 degrees 45 minutes in an attempted dash for the pole from the northern coast of Spitzerbergen. The fil fated expedition of the English admiral Sir John Franklin sailed on May 19, 1845, and consisted of two ships, the Erebus and Terror, with crews of 134 officers and men. The ships were last seen in Baffin bay on July 26 in latitude 74 degrees 48 minutes. No great anxiety was felt until 1848, but in that and succeeding years expedition after expedition was dispatched in quest of the missing explorer and his men. Between 1848 and 1854 about fifteen expeditions set out from England and America in the hope of rescuing Franklin. Various traces of the missing ships and crews were discovered through Eskimos, and in 1854 three sledging parties from Sir Leo Pold McClintock's relief expedition discovered all along the west and south coast of King William's island remains of articles and skeletons, which told the tale of disaster. A record was discovered in a cairn at Point Victory, which briefly told the history of the expedition up to April 25, 1848. The record tells the tale of Franklin's death and the beginning of the end for the survivors and stated that twenty four men had already died. This is all that is known of the fate of Franklin and his men. The catastrophe which overtook him led to 7,000 miles of coast line being discovered. The interest aroused in America in the search led to the expeditions of De Haven and Griffith in 1850 and of Dr Kane in 1853. Following these were the American expeditions of Dr Hayes and of Hall. In 1871 Hall reached 82 degrees 16 minutes in the Polaris. Probably the most spectacular attempt to discover the pole was that of the ill fated Andree, who set out in a balloon and has never since been heard of. LIVES LOST IN SEARCH FOR POLE. Explorer. Lost. 1533. Sir Hugh Willoughby 62 1533. Richard Chancellor 8 1536. Sir Martin Frobisher 40 1534. Sir John Davis 12 1534. Willem Barentz 28 1536. John Knight 3 1612. Thomas Button 14 1610. Han Munk 14 1631. Thomas James 14 1631. Thomas James settlers 7 1631. Isle of Jan Mayen settlers 7 1638. Deshneff 70 1719. James Knight 50 1725. Bering 10 1735. Pronschistcheff 2 1754. Second voyage 1741. Bering 12 1773. Lord Mulgrave 8 1781. Captain Cook 1 1818. 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He i quoted as follows “It is deliberately drawn to im pose educational and other qualitica- tions for the suffrage upon Negroes and to exempt everybody else from such qualifications. This is gross in. justice and I say, violation of the spiri, the fifteenth amendment It ot to be voted down by every one whether Democrat or Republi- can who is in favor of a square deal.” ane This is surprising language from 4% statesman who has travelled through Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas where such conditions exist in one form or the other, and who has seen fit to condone these conditions rath- er than condemn them. This fact makes his present decla- rations all the more surprising and it tends to show that he has wit- nessed more than enough of this kind of legislation. Still, his pres- ent declaratigns have deeply im- pressed us and if he will continue fo stand by them and in the lan- guage of the street, “stay hitched” to them there will be cause for re- Jolcing among every lover of truth and justice in this broad land of ours, ° \ ‘We shall watch with interest the result of this contest in Maryland. If President Taft maintains his posi- tion and continues to exert his in- fluence with the people of that state, regardless of party, the defeat of this pernicious legisiation is a foregone conclusion... A NEGRO AT THE NORTH POLE. Now comes the announcement from Commander Peary, declaring that Matthew Henson, a citizen of color, an Afro-American, better known in the Southland was the only civilized man, who was with him when he reached the North Pole. As the statements of Dr. Cook have been questioned, Mr. Henson comes into the lime-light as a most important witness in the controversy throwing the preponderance of evi- dence to Commander Peary as Dr. Cook did not have @ civilized man with him when he reached the spot on. which he alleged to be the location of the North Pole. , It seems strange, but it Is never theless true that the Negro has figured im practically all of the im- portant events in this country. ‘The white folks bad the Revolutionary War. The Negro was there. The white folks had the War of 1812, The Negro was there. The white folks had the Indian Wars. The Ne- gro was there. The white folks had the Mexican War. The Negro was there. The whith folks Mad tly Civil War. The Negro was there. The white folks bad the Spanish. American War. The Negro wa there. The white folks have had the Phil Ippine Wars. The Negro was there ‘The white folks have discovered the North Pole, and now, bless God. thi Negro was there too. He is th ‘child of sorrow, the creature of op. pression, and the object of pity, af fection and admiration, hewn ow from the rough material to occupy a place of honor and admiration in the universe of the Creator. NORTHERN LEGISLATION, The Detroit, Michigan Leader an- hounces that at the last session of the legislature of Michigan a bill was enacted into law which is a duplicate of the one passed by the Georgia legislature against Negro Secret societies, having any color able name or title which would indi cate that they are in any manner similar to white organizations of a similar name or title. The Leader calls it “trick” lexi lation as no colored person seemed to have been cognizant of his intent, Purpose or the reason for its pas- sage. It Is as much a crime to wear an Flk’s pin in. Michian as it is In Georgia. The legistation against us in Georgia Is the work af Democrats The legistation in Michigan is the work of Republicans It can be readily observed that they are working along similar lines. It Is asserted that this law has been Placed upon the statute books of over twenty states already. Ms effect will be far-reaching. In Virginia, we should be able to prevent it, if die cretion and good judgment are exer- cixed in approaching the statesmen in charge of affairs here. It has always been the aim of the better class of white men to have us {mitate thelr good traits. We do not in any way antagonize them along these lines or even compete with them, for the reason that we move along entirely different — path-ways. We parallel them, but we never cross over #0 to speak. We notice even on the large works where hundreds of white and colored men are em ployed that they encourage the or- Kanization of secret orders for the feason that it improves the laborer and tends to cause him to remain longer tn one place. Property has been purchared, col- ored orders incorporated, deeds in these incorporated names entered pen the records of the courts of chancery In the commonwealths and t would be a most pernicious polley to upset all of this and to plunge the law abiding colored people of this and other commonwealths into a heediess, and may seem to be an endless litigation. It will be well for the conserva- tive colored men here to “take time by the forelock" amd to take steps to check any such movements by ap- pealing to the better class of white people of Virginia to whom we have never yet applied in vain. The time has passed when we can expect ald oF comfort in these matters from the national government. Whether we win or lose, we should look to His Excellency, Claude A. Swanson, Governor of Virginth and to ie sacar the Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia, the legisia- ture of Virginia, the Mayors and councils of the cities of the common- Wealth and to the business men with whom we deal in order to get that simple justice and fair-play which is “8 coy as a maiden and as hard to catch as the proverbial snow-bird in the winter-time. The Connoisseur. While pouting lips, obwervers say | ite's sweetest station are: missing The pouting Kind—when caught’ that | Are"beet of all for kteaing The Bride—Oh, darling, our honey- j moon was just the loveliest ever The Groom—it certainly was, dear- est.” The Bride—And 1 have only one re- gret—I may never have the pleasire | of going through another. bey Goren Sea nag. { “This idea which I have embodied in my invention.” said the genius, | “will be an epochmaker.” “Perhaps. | rejoineg | Mr. Dustin Stax, thoughtfully. “But will it be a money-maker?" Appropriate Rates. “What will you give me, sir, for this article for your paper on the relation of Mars to the solar sys- tem?” “I guess we can give you space ' rates.” THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. COOK REACHED. HOME TUESDAY Arctic Explorer Warmly Re- ceived in Brooklyn, MET FAMILY AT QUARANTINE New York, Sept. 21—Dr. Frederic! A. Cook, who unfurled the Americar flag at the North Pole April 21, 1908 arrived in Brooklyn Tuesday. Wher the steamship Oscar Il. arrived a quarantine Dr. Cook met his wife an¢ two children and the executive com mittee of the Arctic Club of America After exchanging greetings the part) was transferred to the steamboat Re public, and the explorer was cheered to the echo by the 1000 or more per sons on board. The Republic then pro ‘ceeded to Brooklyn. Here thousands were awaiting his arrival, and ami¢ music, cheering and a gorgeous dis ‘play of flags and bunting the parade was formed. Seated in an automobile Dr. Cook bowed right and left and fre quently lifted his hat in response te cheers. A triumphal arch has been erected opposite his old home, under which the parade of automobiles, with the explorer in the foremost, passed enroute to the Bushwick club. ‘There his old friends and neighbors felict tated him, A reception was held at the Bush wick club, which is In Dr. Cook's home section of Brooklyn, and he was plied with questions about his trip as he shook hands with thousands of Bis friends and neighbors. Later Dr. Cook Joined his family at the Waldorf-Astoria, His plans thereafter, with the exception of being the guest of honor at the banquet of the Arctic Club of America, to be held at the Waldorf-Astoria on Thursday night, have not been announced. Dr, Cook appears to exeraise great self-restraint, but can hardly repress @ natural annoyance at Impeachment of his veracity, without proofs. He re. quested the Associated Pross to make public the following: “I bave come from the pole, T have brought my story and my data with me. 1 have not come home to enter Into arguments with one man or with fifty men, but I am here to present a tlear record of a plece of work over which T have a right to display a cer tain amount of pride. “Lam perfectly willing to abide by the final verdict on this record of com: petent judges. That must be the last word, and that alone can satisfy me and the public, “Furthermore, not only will my re port be before you in black and white but I will also bring to America hu man witnesses to prove that I have [pesmabla rte gett PEARY AT SYDNEY sarge Vrowds Welcomed Explorer and Business Was Suspended. |_ Sydney, N. 8., Sept. 21.—Commander Robert E. Peary arrived here on the Roosevelt on his return to New York. News that Peary was nearing port caused a general cessation of businens in the town. Large crowds swarmed into the streets and to the | Water front to welcome the explorer |All manner of water craft, from yachts |to sailboats, sporting thelr colors, anov Jed down the bay when three blasts of the: whistle were heard, Which was the signal that the Roosevelt was ap. | proaching. | The tux C. M. Winch, gaily #ecorat €0 with flags, conveyed the official wel [comitiz party down the bay at an eatly hour. This party Included the mayor of Sydney, Wallace Richardson; the heads of the city departments and other prominent officials Mrs. Peary, her daughter Marie and little Robert E. Peary met the com. /'mander at Paul's Island, having sailed north on the steam yacht Sheelah, owned by James Ross, president of the Dominion Coal company Commander Peary will acctpt no in vitations to receptions and no public honors until the question of the dis covery of the North Pole has been de cided by scientific authorities. This he made known in the following state. ment, which he gave out for publica tlon “Acting upon the advice of General Thomas H. Hubbard and Herbert 1. Bridgman, president and secretary re spectively of the Peary Arctic club, I wish to express my thanks Jo friends for their kind offers and invitations, and also beg to say that I have de cided not to accept any invitations to receptions, oF any ovations, until the | present controversy is settled by com- potent authorities.” Commander Peary suplemented this briefly. He was asked when the public was likely to get a decision on this subject. and he replied: “I do not know, but what I have to say will not be very long delayed. Whether my @atement will be issued in one week or two weeks depends upon circum: stances.” When the Roosevelt lay at the city wharf an eager throng of sightseers visited the ship and went through her from stem to stern. Souvenir hunters carried ayay everything portable, and many valuable records and data be- longing to Professor McMillan were lost. ‘These were records of tides and animal life north of 82 degrees lati- tude, the names of al the Eskimos in the Btah region, together with more than a hundred books in which many important marginal notes had been made. No records bearing on the dash to the pole were lost. The missing books are of immense value and can- not sen replaced, but the authorities are @ public appeal for. return. « 4 COMPANY'S MASCOT, a . ae Chat z General Buruside’s forces lay at the gup, the garrison felt secure ks by the Confed- erates. ‘The Federal army was in pos- session of ville, and General Burnside bad to the gap six- teen regiments and two trains of artil- tery. Phe Confederate foree, under Gen- eral Frazier, was about 1,000 strong. statjoned at Morristown, whare he could control the railroad with sup- Plies for General Buckner's army. The former was ordered to meet the ad- vance of the Federals, who were marching toward Jonesville. His hope wag, we afterward learned, that'n part of General R. B, Lee's army of northern Virginia would re- enforce aim beftire our mazch of thir- ty-six miles contd be made. But he had reckoned without the Union host. We showed a frovt so formitable tat General Frazier wisely taid down his arms, and Generals Ruckwer and Jones fled across the mountains of east Ten- nessee. General Longatreet had evidently ex. pected that General D, 11. Hill's corps that occupied a secure position at Cat- tott's gap, in Pigeon mountain, which was about fifteen miles from Chatta- hooga, a spur of Lookout mountain, would come to his relief, but as Gen- erals Hindman avd FU still hoped for succor from Buckner the opportunity to evacuate voluntarily was lost It was at this juncture that General Thomas moved upon Hill's left wing and closed the gateway to Buckner's force. This was the turning potnt tn the speedy vietory for the Union tn Tennessee. It wis at Gordon's Mills that we mot General Pat Cleburn. A crash of musketry made us reet carly ia the engnzement, and the fire Was so terrifle that we were obliged ta.withdraw to a better position on the hil. ‘Then night came on General Cleburn’s men were just over the brow of the hill, 6 close that we comld “hear their volces a they called back and forth to each other. Like ours, thelr camp was an- lighted. Every. weil regulated com pany, it fe xald. owns to a mascot. The mascot of Company H was Ted- dy. If he had any other name we did not know it, and I doubt if he did. He was a harmiess sort of half wit who had followed the army from the Ohio border” Te was a happy-go- lucky wight, carely understanding the simplest things ssid to bl, but his an- failing cheerfulness and good nature had won for him the honor place of maseot of the company. He was the possessor of very flue regimantal flag, and he seemed not to know bow tt be came bis, but bls devotion to It was so absolute that we had learned to re spect It. ‘The Confederates were early astir, and we could bear the herses champ- ing their bits and the men exchanging words about te preparations for the day, Of coursesthey tried the bluff game on us of rising shouts every now and then as if reenforcements had come. We were ready for the hard day to come, resting on our arma, waiting for the sigual of battle. . Suddenly, about 7 o'clock, a furry was felt in the alr, and a crash came, General Cleburn's men had struck our right wing, and that awful rebel yell Sounded in our ears, sharply reverber- ating through the pass, and we kuew | that something unexpected had oc curred. We bad no time to question what that might be, but later we learned that General Buckner’s men had strengthened our neighbor's force and that we wére In for the conflict for good or ill, We were surprised, for We had not expected It to occur until much later in the day. The din be. came horrible. Somehow we felt that & crisis not altogether to be desired by us was at hand At this desperate Juncture Toddy Wes seen to run to the rear and plant himself on 9 hillock some 200 yards away. Here be unfurled his flag. I shall never forget the thrill that ‘swept my soul as the folds of that splendid banner float d to the breeze. Was it bis uppeal to high heaven in our be- balf? I wondered then; 1 think so now. ‘The sun seemed to wrap its stars and. stripes In n very glory of brightness. ‘Then the band Played, as if answering the call of its colors, “The Star ‘Span- gled Banner.” and a shout to match that of the rebels rose on the air. ‘The flag with the cross of the south ‘was plainly to be seen in the advanc- tug Hine. Suddenly the maddening eles of the Confederates ceased, and we saw their columns waver, the flag come down, and there folldwed a clear, determined retreat. It is a matter of history to those who bore the brunt of ‘that unexpected attack that If the en- emy bad carried out their original in- tention to engage us before the second. division came to our relief the history, of that “battle among the clouds” Would have had a different telling. After all, it is but the repetition of the fact that we are, the creatures of cir- cumstances. An officer taken prisoner at the fight told us that when the Con- federates saw the flag and “knew that we had been re-enforced they thought it best not to force the fight, as with- ‘out Buckner’s help it would have been The Largest Grapevine. ‘The largest grapevine In the world 4s 120 years old gad is at San Gabriel, Cal, planted by Franciscan friars. The stalk is one and « half feet to diameter and eight feet high, and the branches and follage cover an area of 5,000 square feet, Its average crop of grapes is two.and a half tons year ly. It forms the summer dining place of the San Gabriel botel. They Are Against Us. SSS tae Aces oe ee ‘from : wNSThis law determines the right to aa Senin iar f I society ‘according to priority of time in organization and ‘of the title, whether such user was in or out of the state, and provides ‘pro- tection of this right by injunction and criminal proceedings against the offending body or person. ‘it will be Apparent to any one that should this law be strictly enforced all except three of the larger colored lodged will be forced out of business in this state.” AS grat events often cast their shadow before their coming, this situation was noted in the swelling tide of prejudice manifested in De- troit and elsewhere In recent years. Had those who tried ih. this sentiment received a mbre cordial support things might have been oth- erwise, for then public opinion would have been a buckler to pro- tect our people from injury. The sit- uation is crucial and snould be given immediate attention and = sober thought. Here te the Iaw: See. 1. No male persan, society, sgsociation oF cones ration shall assume, adopt or use the name of a benevolent, humane, fra- ternal or charitable organization, in- corporated under the laws of this or any other state, or of the United Sistas Gr none to Mee eae Bling the: namie of cana lnsocoraves otganteation as to Do's colerabie tae tation thereof, or calculated to de- ceive persons not members, with re- spect to such corporation. In all Cased where, bine or mort or auch societics, asvoclations or corporations alm the right t0 the maine memes to the tame subetantitliy sities above provided, the organization which was fret organized angen the name, andthe tet bean te corporated under the laws of the Thitea Staten or Bf ony sate a aoe Unious shall be eatitiey ie twats to the prlocraas eucuipe ear cree namie, and the Tights gf meh sone, ae, samsiatinna OF coor tine ie OF there tadirideal uomtereeiny be fixed and determined accordingly. Sen 3..No perpm Bhan eee exbibit the badge, button, emblem, decoration. inalgula Or chara oa or Charitable corporation, tenia rated unter the laws of thie eee cther-state or Of the Untied Scien ee shallcenteue er utara ee Tnotater tnereot or ot tears soreiton, tha name ec ehior eens Dy reccmble the anectoh cee oan corporation existing prior tothe fauization of the corporation’ sy op saciation op which sect tena ane Gates :ts be aimaeber tee ieee whersof may be'aslealated to aoutee the people with respect to any such prior corporation, unless he shall be] authorized under the law, statutes, rules, regulations and by-laws of such’ former corporations, to" weet ich. Wedges: Wate enttecs en ration, Insignia, or charm, er’ ta ces and edsume such name es ecu caecegt ec. 8. Wypenetar use asa tte an actual or threatened violation OF the above act an application may be made to, the court or judge having Jurisdiction to issue an injunctiog. wpon notice to the defendant of not less than five days, restraining such actual or threatened violation, or it shall appear to ease cont ce Justice that the defendant is in fact using the name of such a benevolent, humane, fraternal or charitable cor- poration, incorporated as. aforesaid, or & Dame so nearly resembling it oa to be calculated to deceive the pub- lic, or wearing or exhibiting the badge, Insignia, or emblem, of such corporation without authority there- of, and In violation of the above. act, an injunction may be issued by sald Sourt' or justioy-valeiiee een straining such actual or threatened violation, without requiring proof that any person has in fact been misled or deceived thereby. See. 4. Any person violating the provisions of this act shall be deem- ed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof, fined not exceeding fifty dollars, or imprison- ment in the county jail not exceed- ing thirty days or both such fine and imprisonment, Approved June 2, 1909, HEALTH DEPARTMENT INVESTI- GATES. OYSTER SITUATION IS SATISFACTORY. Finds All Bivalves Now Supplied For Market are Healthy. Richmond, YVa., Sept. 20.—(Spe- cial.) —The oyster situation in Vir- ginia ts eminently satisfactory from the sanitary standpoint According. to an official statement given out today by the State Health Department, Ex- perts in the service of the Depart. ment have recently examined the oyster beds along the Chesapeake and have issued health certificates to scores of tongers and planters. This investigation is the outcome of the agitation of last winter, when reports were circulated to the effect that ‘unhealthy oysters were being supplied to northern markets by Virginia dealers. These reports did Breat damage to the oyster industry and threatened, for a time, to bank- Tupt a number of large packers. At the request of the oyster men, the State Health Dapertment last winter made an investigation of the situation, and found that conditions had been greatly exaggerated in the northern press. A few planting beds were found in an unsanitary condi- tion, but the majority were above suspicion. The investigation just concluded was intended by the health authori- ties to inspect the plants that were condemned last year. Health officers found that all the dangerous oyster grounds had been abandoned and that uniform improvements had been made. The decision of the health eee ities was received with approval “ustry here, and has already general rejoicing in the oyster se- lection of the state. CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS. ‘Tiered, Genin Tt at ieee Ff é ; years old, crushed to death at Holland, Pa. when six tons of rock fell from ‘the side of a quarry in which he was working. \ Pay Director James A. Ring, senior officer of the pay corps of the navy and for many years in charge of the Pay office at Portsmouth, N. H., retired ‘on account of age. Because Mrs. Jesste Gabel, a widow, refused to marry him, Charles Eason shot and killed the woman at Fort Worth, Tex,.agd after drinking the contents of a tho-ounce bottle of car- bolic acid sent a bullet through his brain. Friday, September 17. Fire destroyed the flour mills and elevators of Iglehart Brothers, at Evansville, Ind., entailing a losa of $200,000. Burglars broke into the Neenah, Wis., postomfice, blew open two vaults and obtained about $000 in stamps and money. Dr. John W. Coffin, a major in the Tenth Pennsylvania Volunteers during ‘the Spanish-American war tn the Phil- Appines, dled at El Paso, Tex. ‘ "National Negro Baptists at their an: ‘nual convention at Columbus, O., unan- tmously reelected Rey. Dr. B.C. Mor ris, of Helena, Ark., to serve as presi dent for his sixteenth year. Saturday, September 18. | Bishop MeCloskey, of the Catholic locese of Kentucky, died at Louis ville, Ky. The convention of the Fraternal Or der of Eagles at Omaha, Neb., decided to hold Its next grand aerle at St Louis. Chang Yin Tang, the newly appoint ed Chinese minister to the United States, in succession to Wu Ting Fang, has left Peking for Washington. Harrisburg. Pa. grocers, who were prosecuted by Dairy and Food Com. missioner Foust for selling ketchup containing excessive quantities of ben: zoate of soda, pleaded guilty and patd fines of $60 each. Monday, September 20. ‘The union label wit! be restored tn all the hat factories of Danbury, Bethel and New Milford, Conn. For killing a fellow-soldier, John E Gibson has been given a life sentence in the federal prison at Leavenworth, Kan A shipment of 193 high-bred cattle from the Isle of Jersey, estimated to be worth $96,000, has arrived at Coop ersburg, Pa. Police of Nashville, Tenn. have! averaged six arrests a day for drunk enness since July 1, when prohibition went Into effect. Governor Harmon, of Ohio, Invited the governors of all the states and ter ritories of the United States to attend with dolegations the National Good Ronds Congress, to be held in Colum bus, 0., Oct. 26 to 29. Tuesday, September 21. Bishop Seth Ward, of the Methodist Episcopal Church Sout, died at Tokio, Japan. A. H. Sanders, of Chicago, announce ed bis acceptance of President Taft's {nvitation to membership on the new board of tariff commissioners. James King. charged with having as sassinated Charles Scribner from am Dush near Beattyville, Ky. has beon| captured by a posse of officers with! bloodhounds after a chase of five days Heartbroken because a scornful laugh from the belle of the Italian quarter greeted his pleas for her hand in marriage. Luigi Bracaleone leaped io death from the high bridge over Panther Hollow in Schenley park at Pittsburg. Wednesday, September 22. John and Henry Queen, brothers, of Fleming county, Ky., in a general fight with negroes, were both mortally shot ‘There was an aggregate Increase of $1,190,037 in internal revenue receipts for August as compared with the cor Fesponding period of 1908. ‘Three men were killed when the Montreal express, bound from Mon treal for Boston, crashed into the rear of the disabled Quebec express from. Quebec for Boston about a inile and a half from Pattee, N. H. In the superior court at Greensboro, N. C., Gaither Holt, a negro youth. pleaded guilty to the charge of at tempted rape on Maggie Powers. a girl of his own color, and was sentenced to fifteen years in the state penitentiary. PRODUCE QUOTATIONS. | The Latest Closing Prices For Produce meat Sa mia ; PHILADELPHIA — FLOUR quiet; winter low grades, $4.10@4.35; winte Hoist elty mills, fancy 6.256 RYE FLOUR steady; per barrel Hiss, WHEAT steady; new No. 2 rei western, $1.05@ 1.06. TTS GEN, auiet; No. 2 yellow, local OATS rm: new No, 2 white, 444 @4ic.; lower grades, 43c. POULTRY: ‘Live steady; hens, 164 17e.; old roosters, a Dresse« ee choice fowls, 17e.; old roost ers, 12¢. BUTTER steady; extra creamery 82. per Ib EdGS firm; selected, 29@31c.; near by, 27¢.; western, 27c. POTATOES steady, at 73@75c. per bushel. Live Stock Markets. PITTSBURG (Union Stock Yards)— CATTLE slow; choice, $6.55@7. SHEEP steady; prime wethers, $4.3( Boi wo ats omen, SLO: me $4.50@7.25; veal calves, $9@ HOGS active; prime heavies, $8.6 G885; | medlume” §55G R00; nea Dog Eso pee Stsoge to; eas a ae Lost and Found. in the newspaper, my children, are eleven advertisements of something lost as against one lonely advertise- ment of something found. What does it signify? That finding ts a dozen times rarer than losing, to be sure. Certainly after 2,000 years of the Ser- mon on tk» Mount It isn’t possible that People who find are so much less anx- fous to rush into print than are people ‘who lose —Puck. i ———— NS $3.50 RECIPE CURES’ WEAK MEN—FRES ‘Send Name and Address Today— You Can Have It Eree and Be Strong and Vigorous. 1 have in my possession a pre- pire for nervous debility, lack of vigor, weakened manhood,’ failing and lame back, brought on by excesees, unnatural draine, oF the follies of youth, that has cured so many worn and nervous men right in their own homes-—without any ad- ditional help or medicine—that I think every man who wishes to re- a his manly power and virility, quickly and quietly, should hate a copy. So I have determined to send ja copy of the prescription free of charge. in a plain, ordinary sealed envelope to an¥ man who will write me for it. This prescription comes from a |pbysician who has made a special study og men and I am convinced it is the surest acting combination for the cure of deficient manhood and vigor failure ever put together. I think I owe it to my fellow man to send them a copy in confidence so that any man anywhere who is weak and dispduraged with repeated fallares may stop drugging himself with harmful patent medicines, se- eure what I believe is fhe quickest- acting restorative, upbullding, SPOT- TOUCHING remedy ever devised, and so cure himself at home quietly and quickly. Just drop me a line like this: Dr. A. E. Robinson, 3895 Luck Building, Detroit, Mich., and T will send you a copy of this splendid recipe ina plain ordinary envelope free of charge. A great many doc- tors would charge $3.00 to $5.00 for merely writing out a prescription like this—but I send it entirely free. Grasping at Opportunity. There are times when the colored ‘eitizen, especially the office seeker, tises to the occasion like a trout to the fy. One of this type recently applied to » politician for a certificate of char- acter tovenable him-to get a govern- ‘ment position. The testimonial was hothing short of being te adatory. After feading the ceriiticnte, expressed tn such glowing terms, the negro turned to the writer and said, “Looky heah, Mistab EL. can't you all gib me suthin® tub do_youh own se'f on that thar reckymendation?"—Lippincott’s Maza- aine. By a Pessimist. “ “Declined with thanks.” and all they add ‘To make the note perurable Most often means “Your work ts bad” ‘Or “Simply inexcusable!” ‘And “Let us hear from you again’— Encouraging elvitity— Denotes “¥6u ve half a chance in ten— A fgnting possibitity.” And lastly. be it understood. “We flad sour verse available” Does not imply “Your thymes are good." AU sitnupty meanw they're nalnble. = Arthur Guiterman in Puck. When He Was Cruel. After they bid quarreted and kissed and wade up the newly wed one put ber arms about bis neck and sighed softly. Was it yesterdaé that you were so cruel to me too?” she asked im, “No.” sid be. vit was the day be- fore."—New York Press. Judgment Day. Yes. you are very debonair, You walk forth with a langukt scan, ‘The neatly tailored clothes you wear Prociaim you as @ Gibson man, And ladies favor you with smites ‘And get your photographs to boot, But wart until the sea beguiles— ‘Wait till you don a bathing sult. —Chicago Post. Moist Whist. “Rubber playing cards—great inven- tion” “What good are they?" “Bathers uvedn't lose time from the whist table; can get a board and play bridge in the surf."—Pittsburg Post. ae = ioe Wise Mr, Fly. “WIN you walk into my partor?* Said Miss Spider to the fy. “Not 1." his fysnip answered ‘As he winked his other eye, “For your dinky #0 cailed parlor— Well, it isn't in my tine. AU's nothing but a dining room, So none of it for mine.” z —Hoston Traveler. Meredith ae Publicher’s Reader. | George Meredith was reader for ‘many years for Chapman & Hall. To say he was difficult to please is to understate the fact. His standard was tremendously high, snd from that pin- cnacle his judgment was right and sound. But some doubt may be ex- Pressed as to whether that standard was the right one from which to Judge 8 book for commercial purposes. ‘Thus “East Lynne” was in 1861 judged by Meredith in these words: “Opinion em- Dhatically against it." “Decline,” wrote Meredith of z novel by Ouida, entitled “Villers,” and of a story by Mrs. Lynn Linton, “Isola,” “Very sour in tenden- ey, hard in style,” he observed of an- other novel which Mrs. Lynn Linton submitted fo Chapman & Hall years later. Speaking of Mme. Sarab Grand’s novel, “Phe Heavenly Twins,” he said, “The author is a clever woman and has ideas, for which reason she is hampered at present in the effort to be & novelist.” He went on: “The writer should be advised to put Ghis manu- script aside until sbe has got the art of driving a story. She has ability ‘enough, and a gilmpse of humor here and there promises well for the fu- ture."—Portnightly Review. “ey Wieetead Gites. When was a musical baton = used in England? Present musical fe: tivals have provoked the query. It was surely at the philharmoaiec con- certs in 1820 when Spohr used one to the great astonishment of the audi- ‘nce. It was not until ten or twelve years later, however, that the baton came into general use. A German con- ductor who wielded one produced such wonderful results with his orchestra that it was thought there must be Some magic power in the baton, and tt consequently became popular with conductors all over the country. Be- fore the advent of the baton time was kept by the first violinist or by the pianist—London Chronicle. THE MECHANICS' SAVINGS BANK OF RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. The Modern Burglar and Fire=proof Vault With Its Steel Lining and Burglar=proof Round=door Will Be a Wonder. NOW OFFERS TO THE PUBLIC the facilities which it possesses for the safe-keeping of money, jewels, insurance papers, deeds, wills, stocks, bonds, and all valuables of whatever description at a reasonable cost. It holds choice real-estate, of which it will dispose on long time payments. It requests the patronage of the small depositor and the favor of the large one. Interest paid on all time deposits, remaining (60) sixty days and over. PERSONS WHO HAVE BEEN UNEASY ABOUT THEIR DEEDS, INSURANCE PAPERS AND THE LIKE, will breathe a sigh of relief when they transfer them to the vault of the Bank, where they know that they are safe from fire and theft. There is a specimen SAFETY DEPOSIT BOX at THE MECHANICS' SAVINGS BANK, which THE CASHIER OR THE TELLER Will show you and either will explain its workings. The stock of the MECHANICS' SAVINGS BANK is now selling above par--to be exact it A NOW OF ities which it money, jewels stocks, bonds, scription at a It holds the dispose on lon the patronage favor of the time deposits, over. The M Lining PERSON ABOUT THEM AND THE LIN when they tr Bank, where from fire and There is BOX at THE which THE O show you and The stock BANK is now ```markdown ``` ```markdown ``` TAFT DEFENDS THE TARIFF BILL Declares It is the Best the People Have Ever Known. SCORES、THE INSURGENTS Says They Who Voted Against Payne Bill Have Abandoned the Republican Party—Shows Revision Was Downward. In the most important utterance that he has made since his occupancy of the White House, President William H. Taft, at Winona, Minn., in a state which is the hotbed of the "insurgent" movement within the Republican party, defended the Payne tariff bill as the best tariff measure ever passed by a Republican congress and hence the best tariff bill the people have ever known. The president boldly asserted that the insurgents who voted against the bill had abandoned the Republican party. "Was it the duty of the member of congress who believed that the bill did not accomplish everything that it ought to accomplish, to vote against it?" asked the president. "I am here to justify who answer this question in the negative. I am not here to defend those who voted for the Payne bill, but to support them." To this statement the crowd in the Winona Opera House responded with a cheer which could be heard far down the street. It was shouted by the adherents of Repreintative James A. Tawney, of this district, the chairman of the house committee on appropriations, who has been on the defensive ever since the adjournment of congress because he did not vote with the other members of the delegation from Minnesota, both in the house and senate, against the bill. "To make party government effective," said the president, "the members of that party should surrender their personal predilections of comparative less importance. I am not here to criticise those who felt so strongly and believed so intensely that it was their duty to vote against the tariff bill because it did not contain all they thought it should." President Taft's speech was a remarkably plain spoken defense of the Payne bill. He has been met with many queries since the beginning of his trip as to when he intended taking up the subject of the tariff. The statement contained only enough figures to make clear a point which the president has dwelt upon for some time in his confidential talks, that the measure of the new bill should be taken by the amount of reductions made on articles of general consumption compared to the increases on articles little used. The president, by means of a table prepared at his request by Mr. Payne, showed that the tariff had been increased on articles whose consumption in this country amounts yearly to $1,000,000, and that of this amount $379,000,000 is represented by such luxuries as silks, wines, liquors, perfumes and pomades, leaving a balance of $272,000,000 representing increases on articles not luxuries. Afainst this the president set, with great emphasis in his delivery, the fact that the tariff had been reduced on articles, mostly necessities, whose consumption in this country amounts annually to $5,000,000,000. Harriman Leaves All to His Wife. In three tense sentences, comprising all told 104 words, Edward H. Harriman, who died a week ago, has devised his vast estate, estimated vartously at from $100,000,000 to $200,000,000, entirely to his wife. Mrs. Harriman is given absolute control over the vast estate, being appointed sole executrix, making her the richest woman in the world. The will was filed at Goshen, the county seat of Orange county, N. Y., in which Mr. Harriman's residence at Arden is located. At the same time a copy was made public in New York. There is reason to believe that his unmarried daughters, Mary and Carol; his married daughter, Mrs. Robert Livingstone Gerry, and his two sons, William Averell and Roland, a boy of fourteen, together with his surviving sister, Mrs. Simons and other relatives, have all been substantially provided for in gifts out of hand and trust funds set aside by Mr. Harriman during his lifetime. Prison Filled With Vermin Conditions at the western penitentiary of Pennsylvania at Allegheny have been found to be so distressing and intolerable as to require the immediate removal of all the federal prisoners whose transfer is practicable, and to demand the most serious consideration of the proper public authorities. This is disclosed in the report of C. H. McGlasson, of the department of prisons and prisoners, to the attorney general at Washington. At the direction of the attorney general, Wade Ellis, acting head of the department of justice, made known the results of the investigation which Mr. McGlasson conducted, following the reports published by the newspapers several weeks ago, criticising the conditions at the penitentiary. The federal authorities are guarded in their statements, as it is not their desire to reflect on the state officials of Pennsyl THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA THIS BANKING INSTITUTION is no longer an experiment. It is conceded to be run upon and in accordance with the most improved rules of the best banking concerns in the United States. Its large spacious four story bank and office building is now in the course of erection and when completed will be one the most modern edifices of the kind in the Southland and will rank with the best white institutions of a similar kind and character. is selling at ($5.00) five dollars per share above its face value and rating it on the basis of the past dividends, this stock pays seven per cent. to those who purchase now. The BOARD OF DIRECTORS has decided to place a limited amount on the market at $15.00 per share, to be exact, the block equals just ($10,000.) ten thousand dollars and application should be made for an allotment to the Cashier of the Mechanics Savings Bank at once or to some member of the Board of Directors. The first who come will be the first served. --- ```markdown ``` vania or any others who may be responsible for the conditions at the institution. "The population on the first of this month was 1301," says Mr. Ellis in his statement. "Of this number more than half are at all times idle, and more than half are confined two in a cell. The cells are unusually small, and the cots take up almost the entire length of each, the room for moving about being a space eight feet long and eighteen inches wide. There are more than 300 prisoners suffering from tuberculosis, and seventy-nine cells are now occupied by those showing advanced stages of this disease. The prison is filled with vermin of all kinds, although the officials are making an effort to eradicate them. An unusually large number of the prisoners are of the lowest possible character, mentally, and morally, and there is but one general mess provided for all. Almost universal complaint is made about the quality of food served, especially the meats." Says She Stole to Avert Jilting Says She Stole to Avert Jiting. Miss Stella Jones, one of the prettiest young women of Glenwood, a suburb of Pittsburg, cashier for former Councilman Peter Hermis, who owns the Pittsburg and Ohio Milk company, was arrested, charged with stealing $8000 from her employer. Her sweetheart, Gilbert N. Esler, who posed as a wealthy young man about town and a physician, also is in jail, charged with being an accomplice to the theft, the young woman having broken down and confessed that she had given the money to Esler for fear he would refuse to marry her had she rejected his demands for funds. Esler confessed that he had gotten the money from his fliancee after he had informed her that he had $25,000 tied up in securities and that he would reimburse her at any time. In the meantime Esler's automobile bills ran as high as $100 a day. He had a large roll of yellow-backs in his pocket when arrested. Baptists $ ^{1} $Bar President Taft Division on the question of a united invitation to President Taft to address the Virginia Baptist association in Portsmouth on Nov. 19, on "Missions," because of the president's Unitarian principles, yill result in no address before that body by the president. Individuals had written to Washington on the subject of having the president address the Baptists when he comes to the Inland Waterways convention here in November, but the extension of a formal and united invitation having met with opposition in the Baptist pastors' conference, the opinion was expressed that there could not be a united invitation, and the president, this lacking, will not be asked to make an address. Death Ends Relay Across Continent. The transcontinental automobile relay run from Philadelphia to Seattle Wash., under the auspices of the Philadelphia P-ess, came to a sudden and sad end when the first relay car was wrecked at Robesonia, twelve miles west of Reading, Pa., causing the death of two of the occupants of the machine and the serious injury of a passenger. The men who were killed are Henry L. Buckley, a reporter for the Press, and William Brown, of Philadelphia, William H. Bohn, of the Acme automobile agency in Philadelphia, sustained a deep laceration of the scalp; Clifford R. Ely, the chaufour and Halyard Carter, colored, a valet, were slightly injured. Buckley and Brown died in a hospital in this city. Insane From Cigarettes. Smoking for some time past from twelve to fifteen packs of cigarettes a day, George Butts, twenty-ax years of age, went crazy at Pottsville, Pa. and has been committed to the jail violently insane. Butts labors under the hallucination that he has been folowed by scores of women and regiments of soldiers. Justice of the Peace Joseph Bendrick committed him to prison for public safety. Leopard Attacks Boy at Show. A crowd of 300 persons was thrown into a panic at St. Paul, Minn., when a leopard wwhich was being exhibited there broke from its cage and at tacked Martin Martinson, aged four years, and tore the boy's right arm almost from its socket and clawed off one of the child's ears. Charles Reus trom, a blacksmith, rushed from his shop nearby and killed the leopard with one blow of an axe. Have Cure For Pellagra Durham, N. C., Sept. 22. — J. S. Orcode-Terry, a native African, graduate of Cambridge, England, and medical missionary studying here, declared that the natives of Africa cure 90 per cent of pellagra by herbivorous treatment, and he gives the formula. The doctors have taken his suggestion up and are working upon some of the Durham cases to see what efficacy there is in the remedy. ```markdown ``` ```markdown ``` WE HAVE ARRANGED for a limited number of Safety Deposit Boxes. They will be rented to our patrons at the rate of ($.25) twenty-five cents per month and upwards, payable in advance annually. Two keys will alone secure entrance to one of these boxes. The bank has one and the depositor the other. Both keys must be used, one after the other; before the safety-deposit box can be opened by either the Bank Cashier or by the depositor. This is a measure of safety which must be seen only to be appreciated. ```markdown ``` ```markdown ``` OFFICERS AND BOARD OF DIRECTORS: JOHN MITCHELL, JR., President. H. F. JONATHAN, Vice-President. THOMAS H. WYATT, Cashier. John R. Chiles, John Mitchell, Jr., H. F. Jonathan, R. W. Whiting, Thomas H. Wyatt, E. R. Jefferson, D. J. Chavers, John T. Taylor, Thomas Smith, Thomas M. Crump, Sec., J. J. Carter, A. D. Price, P. B. Ramsey, H. L. Jackson, H. Powell. Our New Shoe Repairing Dept. IS A WINNER. We have installed the Finest Shoe Repairing Department in Virginia, and it has already jumped into great public favor. Equipped with the latest improvements, operated by Experienced Shoemakers and using only Leather of Highest Grade, we are turning out Repair Work that makes Old Shoes Equal to New-made so that a Lady or Gentleman can Wear Them with both Comfort and Pride. Fatally Hurt by Hazers. Hazing at the high school at Cranston, R. L. is alleged to have beer responsible for the injuries from which Maxwell Harrison, son of Rev. Z. Harrison, aged fourteen years, is believed to be dying at the Rhode Island hospital. Three other boys are suffering from less serious injuries. Several arrests will be made. Send us a trial pair and learn the advantage of First Class Modern Shoe Repairing and the Money-saving Derived from it. Remember, We Use Only "White Oak" Leather, and Guarantee Our Soles to be Durable and Pliable. Woman Dies of Pellagra. Mrs. J. R. Richardson, of Goldsboro, N. C., died of pellagra. Mrs. Richardson had been sick with the idasease for a long time. She was thirty-five years old. There have been three cases of pellagra reported here, and this is the second death. No Long Waiting! No Disappointing! Hog Cholera Costs $40,000,000 Yearly. Hog cholera costs farmers of the United States $40,000,000 annually, according to estimates presented at the closing session of the Interstate Association of State Boards of Live Stock Commissioners at Chicago. Men's Half Sole and Heel, (Regular 85c Work) 45c. Ladies' Half Sole & Heel, (Regular 75c work) 35c. A collision of bicycles at Bridgeport, Conn., killed Victor Yasenar and seriously hurt John Downey, brother of Tom Downey, shortstop of the Cincinnati National League team. Downey will recover. RUBBER HEELS PUT ON NEATLY, ONLY 40c. DON'T FAIL TO LET THE KING'S CUT-RATE SHOP DO YOUR WORK. BEST IN TOWN. PHONE. MONROE 2830. Twists Rupe Until He Strangles. Scranton, Pa., Sept. 22—Ill health led Benedict Taylor, eighty-eight years old, to commit suicide by an unusual method. Placing a rope about his neck, he twisted it until he slowly strangled to death. Mr. Taylor had been in ill health for some time, and his failure to improve worried him greatly. Albert Stein KING OF SHOES Fifth & Broad Sts. Gives College $50,000 on Birthday, Syracuse, N. Y., Sept. 22—Chancellor James R. Day, of Syracuse university, announced that Mrs. Russell Sage had given $50,000 to the institution on her birthday. "Is she engaged to the count?" "Only tentatively. Nothing but an option has been paid yet."—Philadelphia Ledger. THE PLANET SATURDAY.....SEPT. 25, 1909. TEMPERANCE LESSON Sunday School Lesson for Sept. 26, 1809 Specially Arranged for This Paper LESSON TEXT.1 Cor. 10.22-23. Memory verse. 1 Cor. 10.22-23. Golden Text."Let every one of us please his neighbor for his good to edification."- Rom. 15.2. Suggestions and Practical Thought. In the Arena at Corinth. Let us in imagination to day sit in the great Corinthian amphitheater, looking down upon Christians strugging with temptations, and perplexing questions of duty, and evil passions, as they had often seen gladiators trying to overcome wild beasts and armed antagonists, and ready to spill the last drop of their blood to gain victory. The Christian church was living in this arena, and trying to live and teach a pure and heavenly life. There arose many moral problems and questions, two of which come before us in our lesson for to-day. The first problem was concerning the Sabbath. How strictly could they keep the Sabbath where there were no Sabbath laws or customs; where the whole machinery of life moved on the plan of all days alike? What holy days should they keep—the Christian anniversaries, the Jewish, the Christian Sabbath—and how should they keep them? The other problem was concerning food offered to idols. This was the most generally perplexing question for a small band of Christians living in Gentile cities like Corinth. To some extent the Jews had prepared the way for its solution. The importance of this problem is hard for us to realize. Paul discusses it at length in Romans 14, and his discussions in 1 Corinthians begin as far back as the eighth chapter. Much was to be said pro and con. There was much to be said on both sides, and there was danger of a rupture in the church. Paul's Counsels as to the Settlement of These Questions. With what weapons and in what spirit Christians should gain the victory. 1.—Stand by Your Personal Liberty "Ye, brethren, were called for freedom." Gal. 5-13 "Why is my liberty judged by another conscience?" 1 Cor. 10:29. 2.--But control your Liberty by the Law of Love. "All things are lawful, but not all things are expedient. All things are lawful, but not all things edify." 1 Cor. 10:23. "Let no man seek his own, but each his neighbor's good." 1 Cor. 10:24. 3—Keep Your Conscience Pure. “Happy is he that judgeth not himself in that thing which he approveth” Rom. 14:22. “Each one of us shall give account of himself to God.” Rom. 14:12. 4—Consider the Effect Upon the Conscience of Others. “Let us not therefore judge one another any more: but judge ye this rather, that no man put a stumbling block in his brother’s way or an occasion of falling.” Rom. 14:13. 5—The Practical Conclusion. “Wherefore, if meat causeth my brother to stumble, I will eat no flesh forevermore, that I cause not my brother to stumble.” 1 Cor. 8:13. “Even as I also please all men in all things, not seeking mine own profit, but the profit of many, that they may be saved.” 1 Cor. 10:33. The author of Hebrews pictures us in the world as in a huge amphitheater where mighty contests are going on; while encompassing us, like the crowds on the seats of the stadium watching the games, are a great cloud of witnesses. The heroes he had been describing in the previous chapter, heroes who had gained the victory, are looking down upon us from heaven to see how the battle is going with us. But the one that concerns us at this hour is intemperance. What shall be our attitude toward the use of strong drink which prevails everywhere, and is doing so much mischief? Paul's principles which he enunciated to the Christians and to the Romans apply to us. And we should meet the question practically, as the author of Hebrews taught the Christians of his day. "Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, "let us lay aside every weight "and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, "Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; "who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, "and is set down at the right hard of the throne of God." The Goodness of God God is a kind Father. He sets us all in the places where He wishes us to be employed, and that employment is truly "our Father's business." He chooses work for every creature which will be delightful to them, if they do it simply and humbly! gives us always strength enough, and sense enough, for what he wants us to do; if we either tire ourselves or puzzle ourselves, it is our own fault. And we may always be sure, whatever we are doing, that we cannot be pleasing him if we are not happy ourselves.—John Ruskin. NOVEL PIN CUSHION PRETTY DESIGN THAT CAN BE MADE AT HOME. Crocheted on Small Celluloid Rings and Placed on a Square of Silk or Satin, Loosely Puffed at Each Corner. Pretty pincushions for the toilettable, are always acceptable, and here we show a novel and decidedly pretty one. The same idea might be carried out in a larger size for a sofa cushion. For the crochet rings, which form the ornamentation, use those of celluloid that can be bought in various sizes from most dealers in fancy work. Those used for the model were covered closely over with double stitches in crochet worked with cream crochet cotton, the number to be regulated by size of ring. For the small rings for pincushion, 32 stitches should be worked, then draw through the first, for the scallops, pass over the first two doubles, *, into the next work three trebles, three double trebles, and three trebles; pass over two stitches, one double into the next, pass over two doubles, and repeat from * seven times more; draw through the first stitch and fasten off the cotton. The patterns may be joined by needle and cotton, or may be connected by drawing through the edge of one pattern, when working the corresponding part of next. Work the spun stitches in center of ring with a needle and cotton, as you would in point lace; that is, the threads are crossed from side to side, and are then darned through in a circle; the end of the cotton must be carried down one strand and fastened off at back of ring. The rings are connected to form a square, six rings in each line. A square pincushion is covered with silk or satin, loosely puffed out at each corner. The crochet square is then laid on so that the corners come in the center of each side, where they are fixed tightly down under a bow of ribbon matching the silk that covers the cushion. The Toilet Table Put hot flannel over the seat of neuralgic pain and renew frequently. Buttermilk is good for the removal of freckles, tan and butternut stains. A change of shoes and stockings completely will be found as soothing as anything for tired feet. A bad bruise can be eased by applying turpentine. This is also excellent if one has run a nasty nail into the flesh. Nothing relieves the sting of mosquito bites or the itching of hives like bathing them in a weak solution of carbolic acid and water. If the clothes seem to have stuck to a wound do not tear them off, but soften with warm olive oil the parts that adhere, having first cut away the clothing close to the wound with sharp scissors. For a bad sprain put first under hot water and then under cold. Keep this up until the doctor arrives. Or bandage the wound in some of the clay preparations recommended to reduce swelling and pain. It is said that chewing pieces of cinnamon bark gives relief to sensitive teeth and gums. For the sensitivity brought about by acid fruits cleaning the teeth with precipitated chalk and water is satisfactory. The brush must be soft. Keeping the Hair Fluffy During the humid weather the hair—especially if at all oily—should be shampooed once a week. If this is inconvenient, a substitute shampoo of talcum powder will answer temporarily. The hair shampoo powders on the market are often heavy in character and clog up the roots of the hair, making it fall out. Powder should not be applied to the roots of the hair; the locks should be arranged in a full, all around pompadour and then sprinkled with talcum, precisely as one would do if dressing the hair for a masquerade. The powder may remain on the hair for an hour or so before retiring; then the hair should be taken down, shaken and well brushed. Next morning another brushing must be given and the locks will be clean, dry and fluffy. For the Summer Tea Table A good sandwich for summer teas is made of brown bread filled with a mixture of ripe currants and cream cheese. The juice is strained from the currants and mixed to a paste with the cheese. Green peppers are good served with boiled rice, in the following fashion: Cut them up and boil until tender. Season with salt, pepper and butter, and turn over the rice. It seems queer to think of cooking radishes, but it can be done, and people who have tasted them say they are good. Take large white radishes and cut them into thick slices. Boil for about ten minutes in water in which a little salt has been put, and then fry them in hot butter, seasoning with pepper, salt and a little vinegar. THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA DRESS FOR LITTLE GIRL Made Up in Butcher Blue Linen and Has Panel Up Center of Front. A dainty little dress is made up in butcher blue linen, the gathered skirt is trimmed at the foot by a piece of insertion embroidery, and has a panel up the center of front, continued to 10 the neck of dress and cut out of piece embroidery. The collar is edged with insertion, which also forms the cuffs. Hat of embroidery with a colored ribbon taken round the crown and tied in a bow at the side. Materials required: Three yards 36 inches wide, one yard piece embroidery, four yards insertion embroidery. MAKES A PRETTY TRIMMING For Foulard or Soft Silk Frock, Corded Effect Has Been Much Admired. A good looking trimming for a foulard or soft silk frock is made from cords of the material arranged in a design like braiding. A yoke or color effect can be formed from bias bands about an inch wide with cording to connect them in a scroll design. The cording is made from bias strips three-quarters of an inch wide sewed together on the edges and turned. A soft cord is run through it and the cord is ready to be sewed between the bands. It is caught by blind stitches to the bands at opposite edges. To make the trimming easily, draw the desired shape on stiff paper, baste the bands to it, and sew the cords until the collar or yoke is finished. As there is no particular pattern, just a turning of the cording, from one band to the other to form continuous scrolls anyone who can sew can quickly achieve a handsome trimming at no cost but a few cents for cord. Jabots Are Not Babats. Nearly every woman calls every piece of neckwear that pins to her collar and dingle-dangles down the front of her blouse a jabot. Nine out of every ten of these neck fixtures are not jabots, but rabats, as the real jabots are just a bit passe. A jabot is a neck fixing made of ruffles or is trimmed with small ruffles—in other words, a frilly affair. A rabat is generally plaited and can be several inches or a half yard in length. Long rabats are now very much in vogue. The majority of rabats are edged with wide laces—Irish point or baby Irish, Venise, fillet and various other kinds. Hand embroidery frequently adds a touch of daintiness. New Colffures Coming A change of coiffure lines is stirring French women of fashion and will doubtless make itself felt here in the autumn. The hair is dressed flatly at the sides instead of being puffed out in the fashion which has become so distressing a caricature, and the hair is coiled or braided round the head or dressed low in loose chignon fashion. A tiny fringe may or may not appear across the middle of the forehead. It will be hard for women to accustom themselves to the flat side lines, and millinery will have to be adapted to the change, but after all the mode is merely tentative. Embroidered Fronts for Blouses The big shops are showing fronts for blouses made of the finest embroidery and lace. The work is done by native Filipinos and is of cobweb texture and as delicate as frost patterns. It is of drawn work and in raised patterns, and is made by half-savage women from the interior of the islands. The fabric is matched in the sheerest material for the back and sleeves of the blouse. For a Book Best The housewife who is fond of reading during her brief moments of leisure will find it very comfortable to let the book rest upon an ordinary sofa pillow held in the lap. The plump cushion raises the book to the required distance from the eyes so that the arm is not tired while the back is erect. Writing is also facilitated in placing the pad upon the pillow in the same way. Sweaters Longer Sweaters have increased in length until now some models shown reach almost to the bottom of the dress skirt, but the shorter models remain the more practical and proper. Only Partly True Tinkkins—I get up at four o'clock every morning. Simpkins—You evidently believe in the ancient proverb, "Early to bed and early to rise, make a man healthy, wealthy and wise." Tipkins—Not sit together. I'm healthy enough, but my wisdom hasn't enabled me to pile up a fortune." READY TO FIGHT. The big man with the fiery look on his face had b_en struggling with the car window for 20 minutes. Suddenly it came down on him and beld him a prisoner. With much fuming and wriggling he finally released himself. "Confound that blasted window!" he thundered, almost exploding with rage. "I feel like I could chew it up in bits, glass and all." It was then that the humorous little man in the next seat touched him on the arm. "My friend," he said, with a merry twinkle in his eyes, "don't be so angry with the window. Why, that window likes you. In fact, it is really affectionate. "What! Are you Joshing me? The window affectionate?" "Certainly, sir. Didn't it fall on your neck?" And then the humorous little man vanished toward the smoker. IT DIDN'T CO. Percy—Did you bet on the baseball game. Harold? Harold—Why, I was going to, but when I offered to bet a husky fellow two ice cream sodas to a box of caramels he just gave me a rude stare. His Finish. When he asked: "Is this hot enough for you?" He went on to happy trim. But if he went where they sent him to, "Twould be far too hot for him." Abdul the Roasted "I wonder," said one young Turk, "why they spared Abdul Hamid's life." "Because," answered the other, "it is forbidden to speak ill of the departed, and in his case we couldn't afford any such oblitation." Imperfect Equipment "I wonder if hunters had any kind of equipment in Nimrod's day!" mused the sallow student. "Of course not," said the up-to-date youth. "They hadn't invented cameras and press agents in those days." Only Too Glad. Mrs. Hutton—We are organizing a piano club, Mr. Flatleigh. Will you join us? Mr. Flatleigh—With pleasure, Mrs. Hutton. What pianist do you propose to club first? His Profession "Dickinson is a good sailor. Do you know that he can extract enjoyment from the very teeth of a gale?" "But, then, you know, he's a dentist." Mr. Jones—Her husband is dead. Miss Brown—Well, I'm not surprised to hear it. His doctor told me he thought he could straighten him out. Another Version. Woodman,hew that tree. Epunge in the scene. In my my my. Came from its apple green. An Over-Rating. "Over and above the merits of the case. I can't see how they could have entrusted Reddy with such a mission." "Why not?" "Because he is too overbearing for any undertaking." Limitations. "This is a preserved lake. They limit you to 20 fish in this lake." "Sounds good to me." "But, mind you, they don't guarantee the 20 fish." Cholly—Is there any law against my standing here, officer? Guardian of the Peace—Sure, there may be and there may be not. They're after addin' new laws to the stattoot books all the time.—Puck. "Mrs. Yellowbond's houseboat party has broken up." "Indeed! What was the trouble?" "All the girls eloped with all the young men." Jack—Wildows are wiser than maids in one respect, at least. Tow—What's the answer? Jack—They never let a good chance go by, thinking that a better one will come their way. knights of Pythias, This organization is one of the most powerful in the country and its progress has been phenominal. The Grand Lodge of Virginia has jurisdiction over all of the cities and counties in this state. Thirty males are required to organize a new lodge. The benefits paid constitute one of its strongest features, but the principles are greater than anything else. Founded on Friendship, based on Charity and established on Benevolence, the respectable, upright people of the state will find it an order worthy of their heartiest support. It pays an endowment and burial benefit of of $200.00 for all ages. It pays $4.00 per week sick dues. The badge costing 75 cents each is the only absolutely necessary regalia. For information concerning the organization of lodges apply at the main office. The Courts of Calanthe Is the Female Department of the Order. It requires a membership of thirty persons to organize a court. Its members are pledged to exhibit Fidelity, exercise Harmony and prove Love one for the other. It pays an endowment and burial benefit of $150.00. It pays $3.00 per week sick dues. The only expense for regalia is the cost of the badge, 50 cents and a rosette, costing 25 cents for funeral occasions. THE BANDS OF CALANTHE or Children's Department also con- stitutes a feature and persons cannot do better than to enter the little ones into this mystic circle. The expense is nominal and the benefits all that could be expected. It pays from $1.00 to $1.50 sick dues and death benefits of from $30.00 to $40.00. If you have no Pythian Lodge or Court or Band in your neighborhood, orgniz one. For all information concerning the Children's Department address For all information concerning special rates of membership in the lodges and courts, address KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAAS L.C.B. pays $4.00 only absolutely necessary rega apply at the main office. The Court Is the Female Department of the thirty persons to organize a court Fidelity, exercise Harmony and an endowment and burial benefit dues. The only expense for re a rosette, costing 25 cents for fU THE BANDS OF CALA stitutes a feature and persons of circle. The expense is nomine $1.00 to $1.50 sick dues and de Lodge or Court or Band in you For all information concernin For all information concern membership in the lodges and REGIPROCITY. "Get-even" spirit rules the world; The brick of retribution's hurred. With prompt sure alm throughout the land. Held back by no forging hand. "Get back at him," is working rule In modern life's hard business school, And each one has the warning pat, "You strike my dog, I'll hit your cat." The principle is right enough, And yet it makes the walking rough; For how much better it would be If we could rights of others see As clearly as we do our wrongs. And sometimes answer taunts wit songs, And now and then be glad we lack Ungenerous chance of "getting back." And what a difference it would make If all as eager were to take The chance of paying favors so, And pass them on where'r we go; If well as foe, we paid our friend, And not our friend, we command. So this read first upon life's log: "You stroke my cat, I'll pat your dog." Last Night He Called They had been sitting in the lighted parlor with the chaperon when he leaned over and whispered: "Go on, dear!" "I'm 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." And right there and then she insinuated that he could get his hat and cane. Wise Petro. "Yes, it pays to have a sunny disposition," said the head barber. "Now there is Petro. As soon as he smears the lather on a patron he starts to whistle. Then he gets a tip right off." "Ah, they tip him because they enjoy his merry whistle?" interrogated the stranger. "Oh, no, sir. They tip him to stop it." Quite Perceptible Actor (pompously)—If you engage me, sir, you get an artist. All my family who were on the stage had a great deal of finish about their work. Manager (significantly)—I don't doubt it. I can see you now. "Speaking about the poverty of poets—" "A topic often discussed." "The chief characteristic of poets nowadays is the poverty of their minds." Her Composition. "How could he have married that termagant wife of his? I don't see what she was made of!" "That is the answer. She was maid of money." "Every notable invention alters our language." "That's right. Bolts from the blue may get to be common when airships came in." "I suppose you get a great deal of amusement out of your golf playing?" "No, but my friends do." --- N. A., S. A., E. A., A. AND A. organization is one of the most powerful has been phenomenal. The Grand over all of the cities and counties is needed to organize a new lodge. The longest features, but the principles handed on Friendship, based on Charity, the respectable, upright people of their heartiest support. An endowment and burial benefit of 50 per week sick dues. The badge, regalia. For information concerning courts of Calanty of the Order. It requires a memorial court. Its members are pledged and prove Love one for the other. Benefit of $150.00. It pays $300 per regalia is the cost of the badge, 50 funeral occasions. ANTHE or Children's Department cannot do better than to enter the final and the benefits all that could death benefits of from $30.00 to $4 four neighborhood, groriz one, ning the Children's Department a THE ECONOMY, 303-5 North Third St FINE TAILORING CLEANING, DYEING AND REPAIRING CHITMAN M. WHITE, PROPRIETOR. STRAUSS Old Yac PURE W Will Satisfy the kin of stimulant We have all grad Cigars and Tobac us. ISAAC STRE 422 E. BOARDING & LODGING Rates Reasonable. All the Comforts of Home Orders received by letter or telegraph MRS. BOOKER LEFTWICH. PROPRIETRESS. 816 N. 2nd St. Richmond, Va. BLACKWELL & BRO ONE OF THE LEADING PAINTERS Practical House and Sign Painters. Graining and General Contractors. ...ALL WORK GUARANTEED..... Cards, Letters or Orders. ...Give us a trial, you will never regret it.... Address, 608 St. Peter Street, RICHMOND. VA. Phone 5688. 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THE ECONOMY not also con- little ones into this mystic will be expected. It pays from 00.00. If you have noPythian Address, TAYLOR, W. M., Hill St., Richmond, Va. MITCHELL, JR., 11 N. 4th St., Richmond, Va. STRAUS' SPECIAL Old Yacht Club, PURE WHISKEY Will Satisfy the lover of the right kln of stimulant. Special prices. We have all grades of good liquors, Cigars and Tobacco. Call and see us. Richmond, Virginia. H F Jonathan FISH, OYSTERS AND PRODUCE. 114 N. 17th St., RICHMOND, VA. ALL ORDERS WILL RECEIVE PROMPT ATTENTION. Long Distance 'Phone, 752. SCHOOL SHOES. Capitol Shoe & Supply Company. No. 210 East Broad Street. A complete stock of Boys,' Misses,' Men's, Ladies,' & Children's Shoes. ALL THE LATEST STYLES. DR. P. B. RAMSEY, DENTIST, 115 East Leigh St. 'PHONE, 816. --- 60 YEARS' EXPERIENCE DATENTS TRADE MARKS DESIGN3 COPYRIGHTS & C. Anyone sending a sketch and document may quickly ascertain our opinion free whether an institution or private person commissions strictly confidential. HANDBOOK. Our parents sent their Oldest agency for securing patients. Patient Laken Through, Munny & Co. receive special notice, without charge, in the Scientific American. A handsomely illustrated weekly. Largest current citations of private person commissions. Four months, $1. Sold by all new advertisers. MUNN & Co. 361 Broadway, New York Branch Office, 625 F. St., Washington D.C. Let the PLANET do your Job-work S. W. ROBINSON NO. 23 NORTH 18TH ST. FINE WINES, LIQUORS, CIGARS, &c. All Stock Sold as Guaranteed. PROMPT ATTENTION. Your patronage is respectfully solicited. ```markdown ``` THE PLANET SATURDAY.....SEPT. 25. 1909. THE DAIRY RECORD FOR THE SHORTHORN Cow Owned by Missouri Agricultural College Places New High Mark for Her Breed. On the 11th of April the registered shorthorn cow, Lula, owned by the Missouri Agricultural college, completed a year's record which places her far in the lead as the best dairy cow of this breed, writes Prof. C. H. Eckles in Hoard's Palirman. The total amount of milk produced during the year was 12,341 pounds with an average test of 4.17, which equals 514.8 pounds butterfat. This is equal to 605.6 pounds of commercial butter. This record is compared with other official or authenticated records of shorthorn cow places the cow Lula almost in a class by herself. One of the marked characterists of this cow shown during the year while this record was being made was the economy of production. For some reason, hard to understand, she does not Shorthorn Cow. Lula do well on a ration of mixed grains, and after some experimenting she was placed on a grain ration consisting of pure corn chop. The average amount of this fed was nine pounds per day. She was on a blue grass pasture in the summer and had in addition green alfalfa, and later in the season green corn. In the winter season her ration consisted of corn chop, about 20 pounds corn silage a day, and all the choice alfalfa she would consume. She was milked three times a day while producing the largest amount of milk. The average price received for butter by the dairy department during the year covered by this record was 32 cents. The value of the product of this cow at this rate was $192.12 for butter produced. In addition, there was approximately 9,000 pounds skim milk, which was sold at the rate of 20 cents per 100 pounds for hog feeding, making a total income of $210 for the year. This remarkable record does not in the least indicate that the shorthorns should be classed as a dairy breed, but it does show that when bred and developed for dairy purposes they are capable of making a good showing in this line. NOTES OF THE DAIRY. Buttermilk is a most wholesome article of diet; the lactic acid in it is very beneficial to the stomach. If milk is to be separated, the sooner it is done after milking the better. Cows must be kept in good working condition or the game is a losing one. If cows are in low condition all sorts of trouble may be expected at calving time. If they have been obliged to wallow through snow and mire and cold, you can expect the calves to come every way but the right way, and some cows may abort. A check in the growth of the young stock is a loss that cannot be regained. Save every heifer calf from first-class butter-making cows. Weed out and build up the dairy, then you may expect success. See that the young stock have no lice on them when they are put in pasture. If any lice are found, use some good non-poisonous dip and disinfectant. Get one of the new, covered milk pails, then practice milking into it. You will have to pay strict attention to your business, or you will have more milk on the outside of your pail than you will on the inside. When a cow is a little off, never put her milk in with the rest. Just because a butter jar is made of stone is no reason to think that it does not need thorough washing. Wash well, scald and air till it smells as sweet as the morning dew. Sometimes water pipes become stopped, so that the cows cannot get a drink. Take a turn that way every now and then to make sure that everything is working all right. Three thousand pounds of milk was converted into cheese at the same exhibition. The product was distributed among the visitors. The advice not to permit mold to accumulate in the dark, damp corners of the cow barn is pretty good, but better advice is to have no dark, damp corners in the cow barn. Be sure that the dairy cows get as much water as they need. They require a good deal. Noon Milk Best. According to some experiments noted by the department of agriculture it was found that where cows were milked three times a day, ing, noon and evening, the milk was richest at noon and poorest in the morning, and when milked morning and evening the milk was slightly richer in the evening. FLOWERS IN HOUSE CONVENIENT AND EFFECTIVE WAY TO USE THEM. Holders That Can Be Made Easily With Bowls and Vases and Covers of Knotted Natural With the profusion of flowers that the gardens of country homes generally produce, added to the beautiful wild flowers that one is always tempted to bring home from a walk or drive, it is often a difficult matter to take care of them all, and this duty is apt to fall to the daughter of the house. Of course she can take it as a burden-some task, but she need not do so; it can be made a real pleasure. One thing that helps to make it enjoyable is to have plenty of vases ready for use. A specially convenient and effective way to arrange many flowers is to hang them up around the living room and porch, and one of the best ways to do this is to make raffaella holders for vases and deep bowls. Any girl can make these herself. She can buy charming bowls and vases at any pottery or oriental shop, in dark green or ox-blood red, and make the covers of the natural raffaella, which will give a very pretty contrast. To make a cover, begin by knotting together at the bottom a number of strands of raffia. Draw them up over the vase, knotting two or three together in a fancy knot. Then separate these and knot them with the next group on each side, in this way making a network all over the vase. At the top draw all the strands together and tie them firmly far enough above the vase to hang it up and leave room for the flowers. If a girl is in the country where she can not buy the vases she can make them for herself by using old wine bottles. To break off the neck of the bottle with a good even line soak a piece of twine in alcohol and tie it around the bottle just below the shoulder, then set the twine on fire and when the fire has run around the bottle plunge the whole thing into cold water. The glass will break under the twine. A simple but attractive holder can be made by using the straw case of a wine bottle, instead of raffia. This must be securely fastened at the top with a loop. The straw makes a very effective background for bright colored flowers. This is one of the hundreds of variations of the princess dress to be worn on a cool afternoon. It is dainty in cut and material and is essentially a gown for a slender figure, being of a soft, clinging shirt shirred at the new waistline, the shirring repeated on the corsage. It is of that cool pigeon blue shade, braided with soutache. The rather large hat is of gray horsehair trimmed in shaded blue feathers. Six Tips on Ironing Iron lace embroidery on the wrong side only. Iron frills, lace, bands, sleeves and collars first. Iron the main part last, being very careful not to crease the work already done. Iron fine silks and muslin through a piece of cambric. Iron handkerchiefs and serviettes whilst they are quite damp, finishing in the center. Iron body linen on the right side only and table linen both sides, wrong side first. Useful Gown of Black Foulard. An effective addition to a wardrobe of many gowns is one of plain black foulard silk. The plain trailing skirt is overhung with a long tunic bordered with large white dots. The bordered material trims the corsage in graceful crossing folds over a chemisette of black a-jour work laid over flesh-colored mousseline doe. The long tight sleeves are of the a-jour work, with little caps of dotted silk. Tucking Is Pretty. A band of narrow tucking down each side of the panel front and back of a princess frock is almost as pretty as embroidery. A. Fellow Feeling "And if you only knew how nervous I was till you proposed to me!" THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA SIMPLE WALKING COSTUME Effective Combination of Cinnamon Colored Cloth Given with Tight Jacket and Crinoline Hat. Simple, but very effective, is the walking costume shown here. It is in cinnamon colored cloth; the skirt has a wrapped seam up center front, three rows of stitching are worked round foot, and three up each side the seam 100 to about the center. The upper part is trimmed with black buttons and simulated buttonholes of cord. The jacket is tight-fitting, the deep dart on the shoulder giving a very good fit there and on bust. The double-breasted waistcoat is of silk; buttons and cord loops form the trimming. Hat of black crinoline, trimmed with chiffon and pink roses. Materials required for the costume: Eight yards 46 inches wide, $1\frac{1}{4}$ yard silk 22 inches wide for vest, five yards lining silk for jacket, four yards double-width sateen for skirt lining, about eight dozen buttons. CLEAN AND FRESHEN RIBBON Mixture of Soft Soap, Honey, Gin and Water That is Very Effective. Ribbon is first dusted and then ironed between tissue paper. To clean ribbon, a mixture is made in the proportion of three ounces of soft soap, three tablespoonfuls of honey, to a teacupful of gin and water. The ribbon is placed on a board and scrubbed with the mixture. It is then rinsed by dipping several times in clean, cold water, and not squeezed out, but hung over a line to drip, then put between cloths and ironed by drawing the ribbons from under the iron. This prevents creasing and a stringy appearance at finish. The iron should be kept still with pressure upon it. White ribbons will,not turn yellow when washed if the water is warm, not hot, and the soap used a fine white quality. Rinse in three waters, the last being a strong blue. Hang in the sun until half dry, then press under clean muslin with a warm iron. Black satin ribbons may be renewed by rubbing gently with vaseline. To wash colored ribbon, make a strong lather of fine soap and cold water; wash the ribbons and rinse them several times, always in soapy water, not clear water. When partly dry, iron between thin pieces of muslin, having the ribbon perfectly smooth. Ribbon interwoven with tinsel is best cleaned with fine breadcrumbs and powdered blue, then shaken and rubbed with a clean cloth; tinsel or gold lace may be cleaned with ammonia. To dry clean lace give it a dry bath in flour. Put a quart of flour into a basin, put in the lace then rub and squeeze it with the hand 'as if the flour were water. After the lace has received a good shaking it will look as fresh as ever. The Autumn Suit Wise buyers always wait until the very latest moment before selecting either material or model for their suit, for autumn usually sees some distinct difference in cut and trimming. If the first suit of the winter is carefully and thoroughly chosen it is probable that it will remain in excellent style throughout the season. There are rumors that velvet will be a very favorite material for winter, and that means that corduroy and velveten will both be much worn. As to color, the wise ones predict a great rush for green. This will be worn in all shades and fabrics, and probably amethyst will be next choice, although some experts say that blue will be extremely popular. After the middle of September it will be possible more accurately to gauge the possibilities. Shirtwaist Hint. If a shirtwaist has to be raised at the shoulder, take pattern and lay a small tuck across the back and front at center armhole. This will leave original shoulder and neck, and will not pucker as if you take up shoulder after it has been cut. The Recamier Coiffure The fashionable hair arrangement, with its center parting and very wide sides and back, is called the recamier. The little curls dropping from the back and pinned to the hair are growing more in fashion each week. "So, madam, will you tell the court why you prefer your dog to your hus- band?" "Because my dog only growls oc- casionally." Gets His Wish. The man who says he would be contented with little generally has it. The Scrap Book He Told by the Weight. A student of an English college had a barrel of ale deposited in his room, contrary, of course, to rule and usage. He received a summons to appear before the president, who said: "Sir, I am informed that you have a barrel of ale in your room." "Yes, sir." "Well, what explanation can you make? "Why, the fact is, sir, my physician advises me to try a little each day as a tonic, and not wishing to go to the various places where the beverage is retailled. I concluded to have a barrel taken to my room." "Indeed! And have you derived any benefit from the use of it?" "Ah, yes, sir. When the barrel was first taken to my room I could scarcely lift it. Now I can carry it easily." Let Go! "Hold fast!" That splendid motto has many battles won When linked with noble purpose to earn the world's "well done." the world's 'wet doof.' But one of equal import for all shrewd town know is when to quit and have the grit to then and there "let go." Have you lost your colgn of vantage? Have you slipped into a rut? It's no disgrace to change your baze be- fore the wires are cut. It beaped the only general to outwit a stubb- borne foe. Don't stand your ground when you have found 'twill pay you to let go. Touching Gratitude A golfer who has a pretty high opinion of his own ability as a master of the game was playing a match one day when he noticed the ragged condition of his caddie. Rather touched by this, he gave the boy something to get some food with and promised him a suit of old clothes. Later, hearing about a dependent mother, he sent the old lady a stock of provisions and a small sum of money. The lad was very grateful indeed for all this kindness, and, with his eyes brimming with tears, he tried one day to say something befitting the occasion. "Please, sir"—he began, and then "Please, sir!"— he began, and then he halted. "Oh, that's all right, my boy," said the benefactor cheerly. "Say nothing. Be a good lad, that's all." Then the caddle could no longer restrain himself. The kindly thought which lay at the bottom of his heart broke through. "Please, sir," he cried, "I'm sorry you're such a bad player!" A. Gentle Bear A gigantic private in the army was brought before his commanding officer one morning charged with being disorderly in the public street. "Who makes the charge?" asked the colonel. "I do, sir," replied the sergeant. "I was in the town last night when I heard some one bellowing and roaring songs about 300 yards away. I went to the spot and saw the prisoner—Private Jones—singing at the top of his voice. "And you could hear him 300 yards away?" asked the colonel. "Yes, sir." "Well, what have you to say, Private Jones?" continued the colonel, turning to the prisoner. "Please, sir," said Private Jones, "I was only humming." Staggering the Lecturer In an English village schoolroom last winter a lecturer from a neighboring town was holding forth on matters astronomical. His audience was inclined to be skeptical, and there was quite a flutter when the lecturer spoke of the distance between the earth and the moon. "That feller's a fule," whispered the village wiseacre to his next door neighbor, "andAw'll prove it when e's done spouting." Accordingly when the lecture came to an end the old villager rose to his feet and declared his intention of "axing a question." "Very well; fire away." smiled the lecturer. "WotAw wants to know is. How far is it fine here to N.?" mentioning the name of another little village at some distance. "Really," gasped the lecturer, "I couldn't tell you. I've never been to N." "Just soa" came the triumphant retort. "Then hoo mony tomes has ta been to the moon?" Vanity and Conscience. A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice; the one is busy and importunate in all times and places; the other but touches the sleeve when men are alone, and, if they do not mind it, leaves them—Walter Savage Landor. Not Impressed Herr Goldmark, the composer, who was said to love the children of his brain with a truly fatherly affection and never to lose an opportunity of seeing how they were treated, was once traveling to hear a performance of his opera, "The Queen of Sheba," and in the train got into conversation with a lady in whom he became much interested. He longed to make himself known to his fair companion and at last ventured to say, "I suppose, madam, you do not know who I am?" "No, sir, I do not," replied the lady "Well, then, I am Carl Goldmark, the composer of 'The Queen of Sheba.'" "Oh, indeed," was the lady's reply, "and is that a very good situation?" The Oldest Book. The oldest book in the world, so far as present information goes, is that by Ptar-Hotep, the Egyptian, compiled in the reign of Assa, about 3366 B. C. The manuscript of this ancient work is preserved in the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris. It is written on papyrus, in hieratic characters, and is made up largely of political, moral and religious aphorisms. SIRES AND SONS M. Bleriot, the French seronaut, has met with over fifty accidents during the course of his many flights. William Jennings Bryan may remove from Nebraska to Texas at the end of a tour of South America, for which he is now making preparations. Abner Dunton, who was born in the first frame house built in Hope, Me., has celebrated his one hundred and second birthday anniversary. Edward H. Harriman at fourteen became a messenger boy in a stockbroker's office. In forty-one years he has accumulated $120,000,000 in railroad shares. Count Witte has gone to Pekin as the special commissioner of the cairn and evidently is still a figure of importance in the Chinese-all nations diplomatic game. In the quiet of rural life at Colfax, In., resides General James B. Weaver, Greenback candidate for president in 1880 and People's party candidate for the same high office in 1892. General Weaver is seventy-six years old. Robert Stanton of Paris, a Cornell graduate, has been appointed assistant scientific secretary of the newly created international bureau of public hygiene opened this year under the auspices of the French foreign office. State Senator Ernest R. Ackerman of New Jersey is one of the best known and most enthusiastic collectors of postage stamps in this country. So large is his collection that he has set apart one room in his home in Plainfield as a stamp room, in which are some of the rarest of stamps. Sporting Notes Syracuse university will take up water polo. Ed Geers expects to lower the four-year-old trotting record of Directum, 20:54, with the Harvester this season. Frank (Brownie) Browning of the San Francisco Pacific league team won sixteen straight games. He is the smallest pitcher in the league. Whenever Dick Allen, 2:08, the South Dakota pacing gelding, is on his good behavior, no horse short of one provided with wings can beat him over a two lap track. Herbert Jaques, the Harvard distance runner, will confine himself to the two mile run next year and will not attempt to run two races on account of parental objection. The Canadian Rowing association has accepted a silver cup trophy donated by a gentleman, with the stipulation that the trophy should be rowed for by senior eights and called the Hanlon memorial challenge cup. Pen, Chisel and Brush. Edward Bedinger Mitchell, the author, is a recent graduate of Columbia. Gutzon Borglum, the sculptor, has received a commission to make a bust of President Taft. Rolf Boldrewood, the Australian novelist, who is T. A. Browne in private life, writes very little now, as he is in his eighty-third year. He is one of the patriarchs of the Melbourne club, having been elected a member as far back as 1854. James Jebusa Shannon, the portrait painter, has been elected a Royal academician. Shannon was born in Auburn, N. Y., in 1862. He went to England in 1878. He has had paintings in many exhibitions, receiving first class medals at Paris, Berlin and Vienna. And Have a Monopoly. "With all the poets writing street car verse, Pegasus is out of a job." "Who is Pegasus?" "He might get work towing disabled airships in." - Washington Herald. "What's this? What's this?" "I've laid an eggplant, by Heck!" "What decided her not to get a d'vore?" "There was another woman in the hotel willing to take her husband as soon as the decree was made absolute" —New York Life. The Airship. Like some great bird it deaves the ski Upon its canvas wing. What would it sound like should it try Like real birds to sing? —Los Angeles Times. Bringing Down Big Game. First Rhino—What did Rwana Tum do when the explosive bullets failed to penetrate your hide? Second Rhino—He used explosive words,—Pittsburg Press. Things Theatrical. Katherine Kavanagh is to bring out a new play in October. "The Winterfest," by Charles Rann Kennedy, is to be produced in Berlin. Graham Brown, an English actor, is to play an important role in "Israel," by Henri Bernstein. Miss Ann Murdock will appear in the cast of "A Noble Spaniard," in which Robert Edeson is to star. A. W. Pinero has finished a new play which he calls "Midchannel," in which Ethel Barrymore is to star. Mme. Kallich will appear in two new plays this season by Maerterlink and Hauptmann. She has also a new play by an American author. The Cookbook. To mix corn bread more easily warm the bowl that it is mixed in. Tarragon vinegar is an essential touch to a sharp salad dressing. A little baking powder added to the flour used in making pie crust is often desirable. The proportion is half a teaspoonful to one ple. When cooking a small roast, first sear the meat all over on a hot spider. 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Colored women occupy seriously, marry better, get along bet- SEVEN Enigmatical THE PLANET STATE MOURNS GOV. JOHNSON Buildings in St. Paul Draped in Black; Flags at Half Mast. MANY TRIBUTES OF BESPECT When the Governor's Body Was Taken to the Train the Streets Were Lined With People, With Heads Bared. Taft Sends Message of Sympathy to Widow. St. Paul, Minn., Sept. 22.—One of the most remarkable tributes ever paid to the memory of a public man in Minnesota was accorded the late Governor Johnson, who died Tuesday as the result of an intestinal operation. From the hour that the governor's death was first publicly announced by tolling of beils in Rochester, all usual public activity was abandoned. All banks, stores and offices were closed and buildings were draped in black and purple creme. Governor Johnson's body was escorted to a special train for St. Paul by a throng of citizens from every walk of life. On the train were Mrs. Johnson, a few of her personal friends, state officers and friends of the late governor. As the cortege passed down the street leading to the railway station the escort lined up on either side with bared heads and the hundreds of people around the depot showed a like respect. Mayor Thompson had proclaimed it a day of public mourning. All the way along the route to St. Paul flags were at half-mast and the buildings draped with crepe. At the capitol the body was placed in the rotunda where it lay in state. Wednesday Rev. J. J. Lawler, chapain of the governor's staff, conducted services in the capitol. Thursday the body will be taken to St. Peters, where final services will be held under Presbyterian auspices, with Rev. R. E. Clarke in charge. Interment will be in the family cemetery at St. Peters, where Governor Johnson is to be buried beside his mother. Honorary escorts will be state officers, the St. Paul lodge of Elks and the Knights of Pythias, who will accompany the special train to St. Peter. Striking evidence of the remarkable esteem in which Governor Johnson was held in all parts of the country was seen here in the flood of messages of sympathy which have been received at the state capital from men prominent in all walks of life. Chief among these was the following telegram from President Taft to Mrs. Johnson: "My heart goes out to you in sympathy to you in your present deep sorrow. Governor Johnson was a national figure of great ability and great capacity for usefulness to his country as he had already demonstrated, and his loss will be felt far beyond the state that loved him so well. I sincerely hope that the fond remembrance in which he is and always will be held in Minnesota and elsewhere and the record of his high and valued public service may come as a boon to you in your sorrow and may in time lighten the burden you are now called upon to bear." Adolph O. Eberhart, lieutenant governor, was sworn in as chief executive of the state after the death of Governor Johnson. SET JAIL ON FIRE Prisoner's Act Nearly Causes Death of Five. Wilkes-Barre, Pa., Sept. 22. — Five prisoners had a narrow escape from being burned to death in the city jail. Pat Madden, a sixth prisoner, who was at large in a room close to the cell corridor, set fire to the room and was feeding the flames with all the combustible material he could find, when the policemen who were about to answer a hurry call to a distant point smelled smoke and discovered the fire. The blaze was extinguished only after hard work. Had the policemen left, the men in the cells would probably have been smothered or burned to death, as there would have been no one on hand to release them. Madden was arrested over agrin and charged with arson. Thrown Under Car, Says Dying Man. Pottsville, Pa., Sept. 22.—According to his ante-mortem statement, Michael Ponnick, who died at the Pottsville hospital, was murdered by an unidentified man, who threw him in front of a trolley car near Duncott. Ponnick said he was waiting to board the car when the stranger seized him by the shoulders and hurled him on the track. The car a second later ran over him inflicting injuries that caused his death an hour afterward. State police relying upon the dying man's description of his assailant, arrested Adam Brusap on suspicion. Small Peach Orchard Yields $5000. Schencksville, Pa., Sept. 22.—With an income of approximately $5000 from a peach orchard of four and a half acre, John L. Kern will this year have one of the most successful years in fruit-growing that has ever been recorded in Pennsylvania. The orchard contains 700 trees, mostly Albertas and Fitzgeralds. More than 3500 baskets were picked, and the fruit sold at prices ranging from $1.50 to $2 per basket. CHILD BRIDE A SUICIDE Girl Who Wed at Thirteen Drowns Sorrow With Poison. Phillipsburg, N. J., Sept. 22.—Discouraged and heart-broken because of the fact that her marriage had proven a failure, Mrs. Elizabeth Sigafoos Halpin drank poison at the home of her father, Jeremiah Sigafoos, of Alpha, and died before a physician could be secured to attempt to save her life. She was seventeen years of age, and when only thirteen years'old had married Earl Halpin. Their married life had not been happy, and a year ago she returned to the home of her parents. She had felt the separation very much and had threatened to take her life. QUAY STATUE NOT CLAIMED Sent to Storage Warehouse by Pennsy Railroad Officials. Harrisburg, Pa., Sept. 22—The Pennsylvania railroad freight officials here said that they had sent the Quay statue to a storage warehouse because it was unclaimed. This means that it will be held until called for by the commission. At the capitol nothing is known about the plans of the commission. FOUGHT DUEL WITH SABRES IN PARLOR Cuban General Wounded in Fight With Editor. Havana, Sept. 22. — A desperate duck with cavalry sabers was fought in the parlier of a private residence in Havana between Major General Enrique Loynaz del Castillo, a former congressman, and Wilfredo Fernandez, editor of El Comercio. After several minutes of fencing General del. Castillo was seriously wounded in the sword arm and was unable to continue fighting. The duel was the outcome of a sarcastic reference in El Comercio to the general, who thereupon sent a challenge to Senor Fernandez. Both men are skilled swordmen, and the duel is said to have been the most desperate fought in Havana in many years. VANDERBILTS. JR. PART W. K. and Wife Have Arranged For Separation and Custody of Children. New York, Sept. 22.—William K. Vanderbilt, Jr., and his wife, formerly Virginia Fair, Fair, of San Francisco, have parted. A formal agreement of separation, approved by their respective counsel, and containing specific provisions as to financial arrangements and the custody of their children Muriel Consuelo and William K. Vanderbilt, 3d, has been signed by each. This formal action will be made known to society on the return of young Mrs. Vanderbilt, now on her way from Europe to New York on the steamship Lusitania, and will set at rest the vague gossip which has been circulated about the couple since a year ago. STATEMENT OF THE FINANCIAL CONDITION OF The Nickel Savings Bank, located at Richmond, in the County of Henrico, State of Virginia, at the close of Business, September 1, 1909, made to the State Corporation Commission. RESOURCES Loans and Discounts... $ 7128.80 Overdrafts, secured $ 445.52 ... 445.72 Other real estate owned. 13540.00 Furniture and Fixtures. 1780.00 Exchanges and Checks for next day's clearings. 41.19 Due from National Banks 1426.97 Paper currency 3049.00 Fractional paper currency, nickels and cents. 187.91 Gold coin 570.00 Silver coin 153.20 Total $28,322.79 LIABILITIES State of Virginia, City of Richmond. Sworn to and subscribed before me by R. F. Tancil, President, this 16th day of September, 1909. ROSCOE C. BROWN. Notary Public. My commission expires September 6, 1913. Virginia Baptist State Convention. Norfolk, Va., Sept. 5, 1909. To the Churches, Sunday Schools and other Organizations connected with the Virginia Baptist State Convention: The Convention has authorized me to send out the news to the churches and pastors, and other bodies connected with us, that the First Sunday in October has been designated "Virginia Seminary" day, at which time special collections are to be lifted for the heating plant to be installed at the school and sent to Rev. A. A. Galvin, D. D., Danville, Va., Treasurer of the Board of Trustees. It is our earnest prayer that you'll not throw this letter aside and forget your obligation to this school. When you stop and think that at least two hundred young men and women are in danger of fire every day and night in that building where individual stoves are used in the dormitory, you will arouse sympathy in your heart for those students; and, sympathizing, you'll give 'till the stoves have given place to a steam heating plant. Please give the collection. If you find that the First Sunday in October will not suit you, why select another day. But, by all means, send the money for the work. May the Lord bless and preserve you and yours. Yours for the work. R. H. BOWLING. President. Rev. G. B. Howard to Preach The anniversary exercises of Planet Auxiliary, Knights of Pythias, will be held at the Moore Street Baptist Church, the fourth Sunday in this month, Sept. 26, 1909, at 3:30 o'clock P. M. Rev. G. B Howard, D. D., of Petersburg, Va. will preach the sermon. The public is cordially invited. Home for an Infant A man and wife desire an infant to keep. The person who will give will receive a present. Address. Mr. Thomas B. vanville, Va. care of Mr. Thomas B. 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. 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