Richmond Planet

Saturday, October 23, 1909

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THE RICHMOND PLANET THE AMERICAN BANKERS' ASSO. The Last Day's Session.==The Guaranteeing of Deposits Condemned==No Postal Savings Bank Wanted. A COLORED PRIVATE BANKER AND HIS PLACE OF BUSINESS VOLUME XXVI, NO. 47. THE AM BA The Last Day's Deposits Co A COLORED PRIV (Continued from last week.) We entered the Auditorium Theatre Friday morning at 10 o'clock to attend the last day's session of the American Banker's Association. We found ourselves much surprised by the change. The dancing floor which the night before had held the thousands or people had disappeared so to speak. The tiers of opera chairs had reappeared and the stage was in its place again. Gangs of white workmen were busily engaged in the work of nailing down the seats. They were giving the last touch to the work. THE MORNING SESSION We were so astonished that we asked one of them at what time did they begin work. "At half past twelve o'clock last night," was the reply. It was nearly 11 o'clock before President Reynolds sounded the gavel. Rev. Wm. P. Merrill, pastor of the Sixth Presbyterian Church of Chicago offered prayer. Mr. J. P. McIntosh, president or the Guardian Savings and Trust Company of Cleveland, Ohio, made the report for The Trust Company Section. Mr. W. J. Field of the Commercial Trust Company of Jersey City reported for the standing law committee and Mr. Arthur Reynolds, of Desmoline, Ia., presented the report of the Federal Legislative committee. CHECKING AND ITS DIFFICULTIES This committee reported that an effort was being made to pass laws to punish persons for making false statements in order to obtain credit; to punish persons for circulating derogatory statements affecting banks, to fix the liability of a bank to its depositors for payment of forged or raised checks, to punish persons who give checks or drafts on any bank wherein the persons so giving such check or draft have not sufficient funds, or a credit for the payment of the same. OPPOSED TO BANK GUARANTEES The report of the Federal Legislative Committee attracted much attention. It reported against all form and propositions for a central bank. This was a noticeable contrast to the address of President Reynolds who had spoken strongly in its favor. It reported against the guaranteeing of bank deposits by either the state or federal government. It voiced its opposition in the following language: "It taxes conservatism in the interest or profligacy; it compels legitimate business to bear the risks of speculation; it takes away the high ideal involved in establishing character and building up good will; it compels the conservative banker to place his character standing in the community and financial strength at the command of incompetent, venturesome, or dishonest rivals, and thus enables them to buy away his deposits and his business, A PREMIUM UPON DISHONESTY It is a premium upon bad banking and unsafe business, and portends disaster to all commercial interests and threatens the welfare of the entire nation. The applause which greeted these declarations left no doubt in the minds of any one as to the attitude of the Association upon this most vital question. The committee in its report on the proposition that the government establish Postal Savings Bank stated that it had canvassed the banks of the country and found that 98 per cent. of them were opposed to it. The committee asserted that the statistics given out by the advocates of the proposition were misleading and it further declared that in the foreign countries which had established Postal Savings Bank, they were being operated by the government at a loss. DRASTIC CONDEMNATION It concluded its report in the following terse language. "To establish Postal Savings Banks would be contrary to the general plan of new government, wherein the origination of the Constitution sought to leave the largest measure of liberty and freedom to the people to transact their own affairs. Establishment of Postal Savings Banks would be a movement on the part of the government to take from intelligent and progressive citizens the savings bank business of the country and place its control in the hands of any office holding class. The danger of the political use of such a power should cause all patriotic men to hesitate before adopting such a radical measure. OPPOSED AND PUT TO SLEEP. The committee recommended the segregation of the savings deposits in national banks and also the designating of certain assets and specifying the class of investments to which these deposits should be devoted. This recommendation met with a storm of protest and it was referred to the Executive Council. It was decided that the meeting of the Association in 1810 be held at Los Angeles, California. THOSE THREE MONUMENTS Dr. J. C. Kilgo, president of Trinity College, Durham, N. C., delivered an address on "Our Industrialism and Americanism." He is an able orator. His address was very lengthy. He paid a glowing tribute to Abraham Lincoln. He was equally as laudatory of Gen. Robert E. Lee, and concluded his address by proposing the erection of three monuments: one to Lincoln, one to Lee, and one to the black servants of the Southland. THE ELECTION OF OFFICERS The afternoon session was devoted to unfinished business. The election of officers resulted as follows: President, Lewis E. Pierson, president of the Irving National Bank, of New York; Vice-President, F. O. Watts, president of the First National Bank of Nashville, Tenn. Chairman of Executive Committee, William Livingston, president of Dime Savings Bank, of Detroit, Michigan. The officers were installed. President Reynolds was presented with a handsome set silver knives, forks, spoons, etc. A vote of thanks was tendered the people of Chicago and the Association adjourned. It was about 5 o'clock. A SOCIAL ENGAGEMENT We had made arrangements to leave Chicago the next morning. We had promised Major General R. R. Jackson to meet him at his headquarters and there we found him. We dined with him and his Madam, while his attractive and accomplished daughter added some gaiety to the occasion by selections upon the piano. Later we visited places of amusement and at about 11:30 we sought that rest so much needed after a strenuous day in the windy city. THE COLORED PRIVATE BANKER It may be well to state that we visited the well-equipped establishment of Mr. Jesse Binga, the private banker, who is located on the corner of 34th and State Streets. We enquired of a colored man if he thought he was there at 8 o'clock in the morning. He said he was. As we neared the place, we saw painted in large letters on the side of the building, "Jesse Binga, Banker." We entered the real-estate department. A lady clerk was talking to a colored customer. Every thing was clean and orderly. Mr. Binga was not in, but was expected, "There he is now," was the remark TOO BUSY TO TALK MUCH A gentleman of light brown complexion, medium bulb, walked in hurriedly from his automobile. We handed him our card, but it was business before visitors and he made hurried enquiries concerning matters and gave instructions. He went into the banking department and returned. We then had an opportunity to say a few words to him. He had an urgent engagement. He showed us over his fine banking estab- RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1909. A CHAMPION JACK JOHNSON, Who Knocked Out Stanley Ketchell, Saturday, October 16th, 1909 at Colma, Cal. lishment. He had a vault and safety deposit boxes. THE TROUBLE WITH. COLORED FOLKS. He was not altogether pleased over the patronage he had received from colored people. They did not seem to appreciate fully his efforts still he was doing a fine business and his real estate affairs were in such a healthy condition that he could get along even if the colored people did not put any money, whatever in the bank. He was doing a good business though in his banking department. A RIDE IN AN AUTOMOBILE He insisted upon our going down town with him. He had an engagement at 10 o'clock. His complaint was that men he employed would leave him and set off business for themselves as soon as they got the run or things, and instead of getting new business, would attempt to carry away from him customers that he had dealing with. He left us at the Auditorium Hotel and we did not have the opportunity to see him again during our stay in Chicago. Great Meeting of the Fifth Street B. Y. P. U. An excellent program was rendered at the Fifth Street B. Y. P. U. on last Friday night. The attendance was very large and all seemed to have enjoyed themselves. The meetings are increasing in interest every Friday night. President John W. Howard opened the meeting after which Biblical verses were recited. The topic, "How to assist our pastor" was aly discussed by Hob. J. Henry Crutchfield and others. Prof. R. H. Fannetleroy was at his best in singing a beautiful solo. "Hark in the voice of Jesus Calling". Next Friday another excellent programme will be read; another celebrated singer will render sweet music. All are invited. Mr. B. L. Jordan, One of Richmond's Popular Business Men is Still a-Sufferer. On August 19th last Mr. Jordan, while taking his family out for a walk in the evening—his wife being a convalescent from an attack of fever—was assaulted with a brick by Edward T. Plagman, since which time he has been a constant sufferer and under the watchful care of his physician, Dr. M. B. Jones. While attending services at his church on last Sunday afternoon, he was taken ill with the affection of the head from which he has been a regular sufferer since this injury. His friends all over the state are anxious about his condition and constantly enquiring about the trial of the young man who tried to take the life of so valuable a man to the community. The case will be tried in the Hustings Court on Last Friday, October 29th. Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Davenport, of Staunton, Va., have been in the city several days on business COLORER MAN IS STILL CHAMPION. Johnson's Great Victory over Ketchel==Was Superior at All Stages of the Game. THE WHITE FIGHTER OUT-CLASSED AND OUT GENERALLED AT EVERY POINT. San Francisco, Oct. 16.—Shooting a terrific right-hand swing to the jaw, Jack Johnson, the big Texas negro, knocked Stanley Ketchel, of Michigan, cold early in the twelfth round of their bout at Colma this afternoon, and thereby retained the world's heavyweight championship. Throughout the bout Johnson showed his superiority. He easily avoided Ketchel's wild rushes and at the same time jabbed constantly with his left. These blows soon caused a rush of blood from Ketchel's mouth and nose. With his face a gory mass, Ketchel tried hard to shift the tide, but found his adversary too tricky. In the last round Ketchel was tricked to his finish. Early in the twelfth Ketchel swung a hard right to Johnson's arm. that put Ketchel down hard. He was counted out and Referee Jack Welch awarded the bout to Johnson. The bout was scheduled to go twenty rounds and the negro was a 2 to 1 favorite in the betting, but thousands of dollars were lost on the proposition that Ketchel would last fifteen rounds. The men fought for 60 per cent of the gross receipts. Johnson received about $10,000 for winning the bout, and also took $5,000, which he bet with Ketchel. Ketchel's losing end was about $5,000. Johnson was the first to enter the ring. He got a warm reception, but was nothing compared to the applause that greeted Ketchel. The din was so deafening that the announcer was unable to make himself heard. New Shoe Store, North Second Street To our many Friends and Patrons. We take this medium of thanking you for the very liberal patronage which you gave us during the first week of our opening. We regret that many of our friends could not be served because of our lack of sufficient help. That we may the better serve you hereafter, we have increased the number of our salesmen. You will find each salesman polite and accommodating and ready to serve you. We are offering special values in all grades of our shoes. Here are the prices: $1.50 shoes for The crowd became crazed when Johnson fell flat on his back. He looked as if the arm had been injured by the blow. He got to his feet and Ketchel rushed to finish him, thinking he was crippled. He received the surprise of his life for Johnson met his rush and with the supposedly fractured right arm crashed a terrific blow to the isw that put Ketchel down hard. He was counted out and Referee Jack Welch awarded the bout to Johnson. The bout was scheduled to go twenty rounds and the negro was a 2 to 1 favorite in the betting, but thousands of dollars were lost on the proposition that Ketchel would last fifteen rounds. The men fought for 60 per cent. of the gross receipts. Johnson received about $10,000 for winning the bout, and also took $5000, which he bet with Ketchel. Ketchel's losing end was about $5000. Johnson was the first to enter the ring. He got a warm reception, but was nothing compared to the applause that greeted Ketchel. The din was so deafening that the announcer was unable to make himself heard. Ketchel, as soon as he climbed through the ropes, took a seat in his corner and joked with his seconds. Jack Welsh was the third man in the ring, and he received a round of applause as he introduced the men. By W. W. Naughten. San Francisco, Oct. 16. — The Ketchel-Johnson fight ended as every one of judgment in these matters supposed it would end. Ketchel, who is a wonder when equally matched, had about as much chance with the giant negro as a rabbit would have with a greyhound. Johnson toyed with his man for eleven rounds, and then put Ketchel to sleep with a volley of punches, so fierce that the skin of Johnson's gloves was torn through contact with the middleweight champion's teeth. When Ketchel fell he went down heavily, and spread-eagled on the floor on his back, his arms thrown out to the fullest extent. He was as lifeless as a log, and a look of concern spread over Johnson's face. He eyed Ketchel closely while the count was in progress, and when it was all over and they gathered up the battered Michigander and carried him to his corner Johnson followed them and heaved a heavy gigh when he saw he was coming back from slumber land. The closing round was a sensational one, and at the same time a peculiar one. Here is the way it went: Johnson for several rounds had stood statuelike in the beginning and then suddenly snapped Ketchel's face with lefts that shot in as straight as a die. THE TRICK THAT DID IT In this particular round Ketchel went at Johnson the moment the gong rang. Johnson met him with one of his left prods and some one in Ketchel's corner yelled: "Now, then, Stanley!" Ketchel started a giant swing with his right and his glove curved around Johnson's neck. Johnson fell clumsily to the floor close to where the writer sat, and I noticed a grin on his face as he went down. He did not remain down an instant, but jumped up quickly, and turned to meet Ketchel's rush. Ketchel fairly impaled himself on Johnson's fast-flying fists, and fell like a log. Johnson has the habit of infusing buffoonery into his fights at times, and especially when he has matters well in hand, and at the first available opportunity after the contest I asked him why he went Down grinning from what was at best a glancing blow. "Ah, he hurt me sure enough," said the negro. "He caught me on the bone behind the ear." A medical student standing near volunteered the information that Johnson was struck on the mastoid process. The occasion therefor ranks in importance with the events in which the ulna and os magnum figured. JOHNSON'S COMEDY FALL Possibly if Johnson had been bumped harder he would have fallen more gracefully and would not have flashed his golden grin. When Ketchel went down he dropped like a steer whose heart had been cleft (Continued on Fifth Page.) PRICE, FIVE CENTS. IS STILL ION. Cetchel==Was Su= the Game. OUT-GENERALLED New Shoe Store, North Second Street To our many Friends and Patrons We take this medium of thanking you for the very liberal patronage which you gave us during the first week of our opening. We regret that many of our friends could not be served because of our lack of sufficient help. That we may the better serve you hereafter, we have increased the number of our salesmen. You will find each salesman polite and accommodating and ready to serve you. We are offering special values in all grades of our shoes. Here are the prices: $1.50 shoes for $1.00; $2.50 for $2.25; $2.25 for $2.00; $1.75 for $1.50; $3.50 for $3.00; $4.00 for $3.50. These reduced prices are for Friday, Saturday and Monday. Come and examine our stock and be convinced that we are offering a high grade durable shoes at a price lower than any other house in the city. Purchase from us and you will save enough on one pair or shoes to buy a week's supply of sugar, tad or flour. We carry a full line of trunks, vallises, dress suit cases, overshoes, etc. W. H. HAYPS & CO. Major Cunningham Dead We received news of the death of Major William H. Cunningham, of Danville, Sunday, October 17th at 5:30 A. M. His funeral which took place Tuesday, October 30th, 1909, was largely attended. John Clinton, Sr., Dead Mr. John Clinton, Sr., father of Mr. John Clinton, Jr., formerly of this city, died in Philadelphia, Pa. Tuesday, October 12th, 1909, at 3:15 P. M. The funeral will take place to-day. Mrs. W. L. Smith, of Chula, Va. after spending some time here returned to her home Thursday. Dr. and Mrs. R. E. Jones cordially invite their friends to their twenty- fifth marriage anniversary. Wednesday, Nov. 10, 1990, 5 to 8 P. M. Jonesboro, at Fort Lee, Va. Train leaves C. and O. station 5 P. M. sharp, returning leaves Fort Lee 8-14 P. M. No cards. The many friends of Mr. Frank W. Cunningham, learned with regret of his name being left off the ticket. It was due to an oversight. Write his name in the space left there under City Collector and it will be all right. Do You Know Them? My father, William Agester, now deceased, was born in Richmond, Va. 1841 (?) and was sold to Mr. John Witerspoon in Lawrenceburg, Ky., in 1849. His mother's name was martha Anne Page Crump Egester. She afterwards married a Cox Her children were named John and Chastine Cox. John Cox married a lady by the name of Polly, and a child by the name of Henry was born to them. If any one knows of the whereabouts of John Cox, or some of his children, or can furnish any information, please write MRS. JAS. COAKLEY, 214 14th Street, New Albany, Ind. hits, Hats, Shoes, Jewelry, Given Away to every Lady, Girl, or Boy. Send us your name we'll tell you how a Large Bible Free to every Sunday School, or family. A Large Dictionary Free to every Public School or Person. 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DURANT comes own, INCKNEY saw bis chance. Bo Marsh." he said, kindly taying his band on the draughtsman’s arm. “And. really, Lam your friend T have not told yeu before, but I have & scheme, and if you trast me ft will €0 through and everything will end Tight. You don't know anything about business, do you?" “No.” agreed Marsh, “T don't” “And you have not consulted a law Yer or anybody about this gun bust. Ress?" persisted the manager. The mention of business and law yers was having {ts effect. Marsh looked puzzled “No,” be confessed. “I have said nothing to anybody.” Pinckney smiled his superior smite “Weil, Marsh, if sou bad you would realize better what a fool you might have made of yourself. You have work ed for this company, and we pay you for your time and your brains. Evers thing that you do belongs tous. Auy lawyer would have told you that. It 4s legally correct, but not morally right. Now, I want to rectify that. 1 am go- ing to try to get you something on this gun, Therefore t have patented tt un- der the name of Rbinestrom. Mr. Du rant Wwould never consent to pay yon any royalty. But he would be willing to pay royalty toa man who does not work for him. Now, if you will trust me I will see If I cannot get a royalty for Rhinestrom and pay it over to you." A great bope had dawned on Marsh's tace. “You mean you wil do that square?” he asked “Of course,” answered Pinckney, “if we can arrange it. 1 will draw the royalty for Rhinestrom and pay It over to you, The business must, of cours all be done through me or nothing w come of it. You must trust me.” “How much will the royalty be? asked Marsh The manager hesitated “Well” he sald firmly, “T think Tear get you $000 for every six inch ¢ and under and $100 an Inch for ere gun over six inches turned out at the factors. It will be a competence for you, man, and you can quit you Arudgery and work for the rest of you life as Sou please on your inventions Now, 1 have proved myself fale!” Marsh nodded apologetically “L wronged you, Mr. Pincknes,” sald at last. “I see you Intend to do the fair thing All right. 1 won't say anything more.” But. remember." said Pinckney warningly, “the least word and th: contract would be off. You must trust me. And another thing"—be hesitated & moment, then spoke meaningty “the contract will be no good on earth should the Sommers gun turn out to be better than the Rhinestrom gun.” Marsh nodded with the confidence of the inventor in his ewn work. “That is a chance we bave to take but I think we will come out all right ‘The Rhinestrom gun ts a winner.” After the head draughtsman was gone Pinckney pondered a long time Finally be called in bis stenographer and dictated to her‘ contract between the Durant Steel company and Wil helm Rhinestrom by which the Durant Steel company agreed to take over the Khinestrom patents and pay the tn Yentor $6,000 royalty on every gun six inches or under and $1,000 an inch for every additional inch above six. The contract he signed as manager of the steel company. Then be sent a tong cable explaining what he had done to Durant, although he knew Durant was on the ocean and would not receive it. ‘That night in bis own room the man- ager figured Just what he would make —on every gun six inches and uader $5,400 and $000 for every additional inch above six. “And at that.” be sald to bimself with a sneer, “everybody will be hap- py. ‘That fool Marsh will make bis $600 and his $100. That ts enough for him, and Durant can stand the price. It means wealth and that girl, too"’—he paused, and a sinister Night came into bis eyes—“it only that Som mers gun is a fallure. 1 wonder"— Ob Gag aes) 8. WV pieces “George. 1 was ashamed of you—post- tively ashanied of you. Your first night home and yon sit up at the table and talk vothing but steel and ar- cenary and croop guns and that sort of thing. and when we have a guest here too! [don't know what Lieuten- ant Sommers thought of you.” Mrs. Durant spoke frritably, but her husband, who knew her ideas on busi- ‘ness matters from long experience, merely sintled with toleration. It was the first night after his return from a trip abroad on business, and Sommers and Pinckney had both been to dinner with the family. ‘ “Now. now. my dear.” the steel man tered in wo have to mgt - tBederadi 2! guess he pald attention because x are Frances’ father, not for any other Durant pricked up bis ears at once. | “Frances' father?" he asked. “How should that interest this fellow?” The father was plainly put out. He bad too long held the idea that the name of Durant in the steel world would be perpetuated by the marriage of Frances snd bis protege, edward Pinckney, for him to hear with equn. nimity that a penniless naval officer “Now, look here, George Durant,” exclaimed bis wife indignantly, “don't 1 dare to pretend yourself that Frances Is not attractive!” 1 never pretended any such thing.” he protested “You did!” she declared insistently, “But, my dear”— “Didn't you say you were surprised that this naval man was paying her attention? That's the same thing as Saying she's not attractive, and t want to tell son that Frances is the pret tlest girl in Pittsburg, even if she is George Durant smiled placidly. We dear, you see, sbe’s bound to be pretty. ‘Think of her mother.” Now, don't try to soft soap me just because I'm your wife, George. Re member I've had twenty sears of your blarney and I recognize It AN right lear.” he agreed. We'll let it go at that.” Let the naval man pay attention to her, It won't do him any good. 1 should hope not!” exctaimed his wife plously. “The idea of any girt Edward ¥ entered from the Mra. bi em fF hands in ni eet Lhave t attors with 1 t this g vented. by s we are casting for the government. It won't be much work, and 1 have my stenograpber and sec Before the wife cout, ‘protest. far ther Frances and Sommers entered the drawing room. ‘The old steel man did not give his wife a chance to argue. Ah, Sommers.” be excialmed. gen: ally. “I was just hoping you'd come int I owe you an apology, my wife says, and | wanted to deliver it" “Apology! For what? excialmed the Heutenant, mystitied. Durant winked at him “Why. Lieutenant Sommers.” he said, with assumed seriousness, “1 thought 1 owed you an apology for my conversation at dinner discussing the truck gun work and steel and gun making generally—those subjects tn which you have no interest and could hot anderstand.” Sommers, catching the spirit of the teene, bowed seriously “Your apology is accepted, Mr. Du- Fant” be said. “I thought myself tt was rather strange that you should choose a subject on a thing nether one of us knew anything about; but, of course, as you were host 1 chipped in and did the best 1 could. 1 hope my remarks on the subject weren't altogether foolish.” Durant turned to bis wife. “There, my dear. You see I've done everything you asked. I've apologized. But really we ouly talked on that sub- Ject because we both thought it was the one thing you were interested tn, #0 we'll bave forgiveness all the way Found. And now | must get to work.” “George.” she pleaded. He paused for one second, his hand on the door “Only a litfe while. You'll all ex- cuse mey" Sommers and Pinckney bowed, but Frances laughed out loud. “Dear old dad, what difference would {t make whether we excuse you or not? We know you'll go anyway.” “Well, I won't be long,” be protest- ed; “really 1 won't.” When the door had closed behind him Mrs. Durant drew a long breath; then she brought her foot down with ‘emphasis that was almost a stamp. “Tm going into that stthly,” she de- clared, “and stay there until I get him ‘out, The idea of bis beginning busi- ness on the first night home! He ‘Won't stay long after I come in!" “Indeed he won't.” agreed Frances. “You know,” she went on, with a laughing explanation to Sommers, : work . ere Se SSN vee ae see THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. staring at him reproachfully. She calls it moral snasion.” “But does it work?" asked Sommers. “Does It work?" Interpolated Pinck- ney. “If you'd ever seen it you'd um derstand it would work.” “Yes, indeed.” exclaimed Frances. “Father will struggle along for five oF ten or even fifteen minutes, but at last that steady stare gets too much for his nerves. He'll begin to make mistakes fo his dictating, and at last he'll jump out of bis chair and stare, and then mother will heavt a long sigh and say: ‘George, dear, 1 know you are tired. | Don't you think you'd better stop | awhile? And he stops.” ' “What a splendid system! laughed Sommers. “And what do sou do, Mis Durant, when you want to manage him?” The girl smiled. + “Ob, that's a secret.” she sald. “l have my own way of doing tt, but tt works, doesn’t It, Edward?” “You're right there,” agreed Pinck- nes. “1 won't forget Io a burry how you bandied him on the wireless teleg- raphy scheme.” “Wireless telecraphy!” exclaimed the haval man, “Do you mean to tell me that you understand wireless telegra- phy too? “Not very much,” confessed the girl, “but I do know something about it Edward taught me the rudiments, and then 1 went to work myself. I got some of the men up from the shops, and they rigged up a station for me at the top of the house, Father did not Know a thing about it until one day 1 brouglit him up there and showed hit He didn't think it was very nice for a girl, but what could he do?” “Oh,” said Sommers, “I see your system. You do what you please and then make him agree." “Don't you think It a good one?” tn quired the girl innocently. ‘The man smlled and shrugged bis shoulders. “Good for ttle things, but how would It work for a big one?" The question was lightly put, and all three were smiling, The smiles on the men's faces were just a bit set, for bebind that question both knew there was a great deal left unsaid, Frances tossed her bead Ughtly, but the tone of her answer was vital with disfavor. “And on the bis ones, too, Mr. Som mers 1 do always what seems best Pinckney turned away sharply, white the smile In the face of the naval of cer became more natural and a little broader “You know I'd like to see this wire less room.” he sald. “It must be bully place ‘Oh, it's a workroom.” the girl Ip sisted “nothing footlsh mbout tt. 1 not as good yet as Edward at send and taking, but then T have more tui to practice. and If be doesn't bustle TH beat him." “You flatter me,” sald Pinckney “Really, Mr. Sommers, she ean beat me, I think, but we do bave great fun working over (t.” “Yes; Edward and 1 are more or Jess partners—in this,” agreed Frances “Partners?” Sommers iried to keep his tone light ly unpersonal, but a little hardness had tocreep in, The two men were so nat urally antagonistic that probably they must have taken opposite sides on anything, and the feeling of each for the girl only tended to bring out more keenly their inborn antipathy, Since the afternoon when Pinckney Inter Tupted the practical iove scene between | Frances and Sommers on the bill above the works the tension had been greater [than ever between the men. Each treated the other with elaborate cour. tesy, but it needed only a word on ‘either side to bring about real trouble The more impulsive and domineering Pinckney bad been close to the limit of endurance several times, and on [each occasion the cool courtesy, the ‘splendid self control and the ‘good | breeding of the naval officer bad pre- | vented an outbreak, Sommers realized his position. He knew that Pinckney was the manager of the works where his gun was to be cast. He knew | also that Pinckney probably in the end | Would marry the girl they both loved. ‘and In many respects he bad the right ‘of way, All this had made the naval | man circumspect in bis dealings, He could not afford to have an open break with Pinckney. | An open fight between a naval officer ‘on duty, as Sommers practieally was, (and a manager of a big gun works /Anust result in a court martial and the possible disgrace of the officer, and un- less the provocation were great it "Would mean bringing the uniform into Gisgrace by conduct which might be construed as unbecoming an officer | and a gentleman. Pinckney had no one except Mr. ‘Durant to whom he must account, and Sommers knew that a man as clever and as unscrupulous ax he believed Pinckney in some ways to be would not hesifhte to do anything that might put a rival in an embarrass ing position. However, the naval mar could not imagine for a moment that the manager could be guilty of any conduct that might injure bis work He considered the matter betwee Se ee ee enn) ae ces. “Yes, or a dressing room,” he agreed. “That's the sort of thing we might expect our young women of today to have” ‘The ciri tilted her chin proudly. “Well, Mr, Doubter, if you will just come with me I'll show you it’s a revi workroom.” “Indeed I will,” be agreed eagerly. ‘The girl arose. “Come on. then.” ‘They bad alwost reached the door when she remembered that Pinckney had not been Included in ber tnvita- tion, fe was standing over by the mantel, both bands stuffed in his pock- ets, and was grimly looking Into the fre. “Ub, 1 forgot!” she exclaimed. “You What to come too, Edward? Lf you do, come atead."* For a second he seemed about to ac- cept ter invitation, Phen she added quickly: 7 “But. then, tt wonld bore you. You ran come up guy time” ‘The manager shrugged bis shoulders with elaborate carelessness, “Yes: I bare something to do,” be confessed Then, after thes had gone, be turned back to the Gre angrily with a mut: tered exclamation “rn Ox is 3 young cub!” HAPTER IY, Sees Sera ene are around st the complete lttle worksbop in nmazement, Besides the Wiroiess outfit, be saw tools models. sharps, « drawing table, « Itt tle workberich—everythiog, In’ fact. that it seemed to tim a mechaoleal inventor woul! really need, “You use all these!” be exclaimed. “Why, of course! she sald. “This ts my fan. 1 work ap bewe on dark days. and we have plenty of those in Pitts burg. you know” The man could uot have controlted Ais nstonisyment. He examined ser: erat of the nindela They were on {m Provements i» wireless telegraphy, va rious mecha ies! devices and on even the model of » tittie gan, “Gh Me yoatented them an ex clawed Fratces, “I don't know thn’ any of them amounts to much, but | patented them just the same, You see You're not the only gun Inventor, Mr Sommers” , “Then the Sorimers gun has to com pete with the Frances Durant gun?" he asked quizaleally. She shook her head, smiling. “Noz L'il tell sou a secret. { wouldn' let them mitke a kun of mine If T cou patent ft. bat that Is Just a little mode of the Rhinestrom gun, which Edware has great faith In. Marsh made the motel for we.” “Oh, the Rhinestrom gun!" sald Som mers, with lifted eyebrows, “I'v heard something of that around the S| Pas eel * afl °) (- A at | \ Ee. INC \} ae EREN the Sommers gun has to compe with the Brances Durant gun?" works. Your man Marsh seems ¢ have great faith in it. Who Is thi Rhinestrom?" Frances shook ber head. “I don't know. ‘Think be must bv some German, Edward just told a that we had bought the patents aud controlled them. But that doesn't af fect your gun any, does it?" Sommers looked up from the mode! he had been studying. “Frankly.” be said. “if this model + correct it won't affect my gun. ‘The Sommers gun has the good points of this one and a new principle which 1 expect will partly revolutionize thing: for whoever manufactures it. “It all depends on the forging. 11 By cun ts, forged right and properly tempered, well”—he paused, then wen! on with a confident smile—“T don’ want to brag, but honestly I am no! afraid of any gun that ever was cast It will all be in the forging, and tomor row will tell that. We'll put it through tomorrow night.” “Ob, | bope {t goes through ai) right!" cried the girl “It must ge through! It would be terrible to think of a failure." “Yes,” be said grimly, “it would.” “It would mean.” she asked, “th: blasting of your hope?” He shrugged bis shoulders. “That would be a minor considera tion. It would mean death to the men who are handling the gun and cour: martial and disgrace for me. You sev why I'm Interested.” “But there’s no chance of a failure,” she exclaimed, ber eyes big with alarm Sommers ianghed. “Not of the Durant works, I-tbink.” ‘he said. “That's why I was glad when the government decided to have a gu: oS ae. SO ee eee ee basa reputation for the highest cis | most careful work, so I feel safe, even if you do own patents on the Rhine strom gun.” | “You'll be here for the forging?” ste asked. “Of course.” be replied. “I'l be down in the works superintending ax much as 1 can.” | “And 1," murmured the girl, half to herself, “wil! be up bere waiting ex gerly, anxiously, watehing for you t come with the news that everythine has gove right. Ob. what a pity It i that you should nveot this gun aud | not get anything for your brains and your labor!" He shook his bead, smiling. “No.” he said; “it's right. ‘That part of the contract | made with Unete Sam when he took me tn at Annapoiis | He educated me, gave me the ebanes | to work, and 1 promised to devote my life to him. “We're all merely cogs tn the bli machine, Miss Durant. we fellows from Annapolis and West Polnt, cox th the machine that makes the fa: and the flag's the biggest thing to us you know. It's bard sometimes. fea: fully bard. We have to give up a lo. Rut it's duty, and duty is what we inust think of." ‘The girl had been looking at bim, ad miration and Just a hlot of somethinz more showing In her face. “Yes.” she said at last; “after atl you men of the navy nnd the army ary the real patriots working for your country. You seem to be about the only ones who do any reat sacrificing.” Then her volce becawe more earvest. “But 1 don’t see why you should sac- tifice everything.” ‘The wan laughed somewhat grimty. “That's just it, yormpee,” he said “We try uot to sacritice everything. We always try not to sactidce our self respect, 1 think.” “Self! respect, fddlesticks! It isn’t self respect men won't sacrifice,” ste snapped. “It's generally selfishness Oh, how you men do love to foot yourselves! You step back and stand on your dignity, so proud and hard [ema cereees Geo ret fering, Mat you are heroes who won't sacrifice self respect, and in reality you are nothing of the kind. You are simply stupid self deceivers who are willing to sacrifice your future, bap pines, everything, on the altar of your own selfishness—really sacrifice your selves and sometines™— Shegaused suddenly, aghast at what she was nbout to siy. “And sometimes?” the man question | ed unsteadity Aud sometimes girts talk more that they should.” she ended sharply, ‘Then she looked at tim with a sudden smile and quick change of mood that baited him completely. “I think it's time we Went back to wireless telegraphy, don't Baffled, but still somewhat relieved at being saved from himself, Sommers turned to the wireless {nstrument, You can send and take well?" he asked. “Of course,” she answered. “Edwant taught mo originally, but I've learned a lot since. He's quite an adept too I learned really because I wanted to have a wireless plant placed on fa ther’s yacht. Perhaps some time when I'm cruising om the yacht I may pick you up when you are on your battle ship and have a Uttle chat with you Do you think you'd be glad to bear from me?" “Td be glad to bear from you wo matter where 1 was,” be exclaimed eagerly, “and I'd recognize you, too, Whether the message was directed to me oF not.” “I will send it to you," she said, with, meaning, “and you must recognize It.” “I will; you may be sure of that,” te agreed earnestly. “And now I think T must be going. It’s late.” He turned within the door and then started back to the drawing room. Meantime down in the drawing room Edward Pinckney had been having an uncomfortable quarter of an hour Marsh had come up from the works determined to see Mr, Durant, Pinckney had not told the master draughtsman of the contract which he had sigued, and Marsh, thoroughiy imbittered with the prospect of losing everything be had done, hurried up to the honse determined to lay bare the whole matter before the owner of the works, throw himself on Durant's mer. cy and beg that at least he be given eredit for the invention of the Rhine. strom gun. Forminately Pinckney bad been tn the drawing room when the butler brought in Marsh's name and so bad been able to intercept the man before he got to Durant. “I don’t want to talk to you,” ex. claimed the Inventor when be entered and found it was Pinckney and not Durant he had been shown in to see “I don’t want any more of your soft talk. You talk and promise, but you don't do anything. I ought to have known better than to trust you the other day when you fooled me down at the works with all that stuff about giving me a chance. J felt in my heart you weren't going to do tt; but, Mke a fool, | trusted you, and this ix ‘ied El tla a Sas eee cee Fa 2 a, Ry PO ore acs eae A nF Te “You ought to want me to keep quiet ™ Pinckney had regained bis wits now. He saw it was the time for diplomacy. not force, so he put on his blandest. most ingratiating smile. “Now, listen to ae, Marsh.” be pleaded. “You're up In the air with this because sou've got an entirely wrong idea of me. Ever since that accident you've acted as if 1 were to blame.” - “1 don't want to talk about that.” exclatmed the inventor. “You can't sidetrack me with any talk like that.” “But 1 want son to get a square deal,” protested Pinckney. “I'm go- ing to see that you do.” Marsh looked at bim with @ sneer “You call it a square deal to give the credit for all my work to another?” “Of course it wouldn't be! ex ‘claimed the manager. “That's just tt T'm going to put It through for you if you'll only give me a chance.” | “After what sou said the other day?” sneered the other. | “And I've done it.” snapped Pinck. “ney | “You've done it?” ‘The general manager nodded [between Wilhelm Rhinestrom and the | Durant steel works bax been drawn | up. signed by Rhinestrom and by me for the Durant steel works, but only waits for the approval of Mr. Durant. and I'it get that tonight” Marsh “How could Rhinestrom siga st when there Isn't any Rbinestrom?* Pinckney looked at bim pityingly “What do you care who signed tt for Rhtnestrom tf you get the money?" he sald. “The name on the contract ts Wilhelm Rhinestrom.” | “You forged that name!* gasped | Marsh “Shut up!" snapped te other. “Don't be n fool! You can't forge a man's hame If the man doesn't exist. Now take your money and be satisfied Leave It to me. I'm your friend. I'm proving myself your friend, and here You go ahead and kick up © fuss and risk the whole thing. I've taken a Uttle risk myself to put this thing through and give you a square deal, and this Is what you do in the way of gratitude. Now, aren't you ashamed of yourself?” Marsh looked at the manager apoto- “I'm sorry, Mr. Pinckney,” he sald. “I'm always playing the fool, it seems. You've been a good friend of mine, sir. and 1 want to thank you for help. ing me out. I'l be grateful. 1 won't make any trouble. I'll shut up.” Pinckney slapped the old man on the back almost affectionately, “That's all right, Marsh,” he sata. “I reatize you don't know anything in the world about business, realize that thoroughly. and Tm acting in this manner for the good bf all. Now, you trust me, With this order we have from the government—It ought to keep vs busy for a year—you'll be rleh You'll have a fortune, but if it wer known who was the Inventor we'd get nothing. You see that?* Marsh nodded. “1 understand, str.” “All right, Marsh. ‘Then be good," advised the manager. “Now you'd bet- ter xo." ‘The little man had got almost to the door when he paused and turned back. “Just one thing more, Mr. Pinck- ney.” “Well?” said Pinckney impatiently. “It’s about the casting of the Som- mers gun tomorrow.” “What about it?" asked the manager sharply. Marsh hesitated. “It's Just this, sir. I understand that you're going to put Smith in charge of the works. You know what sort of a fellow Smith is?" “Smith Is\a good man,” sald Pinck- ney sternly. “Don't criticise fellow employees, Marsh. I am responsible, and I know what I'm doing.” Still the little man, honest at heart, felt compelled to protest. “Smith nas been drinking for several days, sir, and he’s already ugly. ‘The Jast time he was charged with impor- tant work he ruined the gun and cost us a lot of money, besides throwing and hurting one of the men. “Now, Sommers, I understand, in- tends to be down at the works to su- perintend forging: these guns. If he ‘and Smith get together there'll be trou: ble and the gun may be ruined, and that will cost us a lot more money.” Pinckney looked at him with a sneer, “Seems to me, Marsh.” he said, “that the inventor of the Rhinestrom gun is ‘taking an awful interest In the gun of ‘his rival. What do you want te do- manage the business yourself and spoil Sommers’ gun?" “Mr, Pinckney.” exclaimed Marsh in- ignantly. “you haven't any right to talk that way to me. I was telling you something for your own good and the ‘good of the works.” “Look here, Marsh” — Pinckney's manner had grown suddenly stern—“1 am the general manager of the Durant works, and I don't propose to take any Muterference from you or any other employee. I have ordered Smith in charge of that work, and he’s going to be in charge, and he's going to do it wight.” ‘Thoroughly cowed, Marsh turned and left the room just as George Du- rant entered by another door from bis study, where be had been dictating. {to BE contmvxD.} ADMINISTERING MEDICINE. ‘They Must Swallow tt. Giving medicine to children is one of the most difficult that Joung mothers have to cope for some little ones have such a horror of * ouaitlon ‘of oetvoos inane batsee a of nervous illness before the medicine gets into thelr stomachs, and so it frequently nauseates them, thus making successive doses harder to give. ‘There ts no question but that if a child shows a disposRion to rebel against swallowing medicine the men- tal tussle must be gone through with and settled frst. That ts, there is no use in trying to give the dose while administering admonitions, The Ut- tle one’s stomach must be quiet, and this cannot be If he is in tears or is screaming. So when the child refuses it Is es- seutial to put the medicine aside and to make him understand that the cure must be taken, He must not for an lnstant be permitted to think that be has gained his potnt and need not take It. ‘To the contrary, he Is given to understand that he Is obliged to and that the sooner he is qulet the better, Precisely how this is to be accomplish et depends upon Individual tempera- ment and the way each parent handles the babe. Sometimes when the argu- ment Is prolonged a spanking may be required, One small girl had three doses of this materaal discipline be- fore she became quiet and swallowed her medicine, There was never any trouble with her afterward, for she had been made to accept the fact that medicine when it was brought her was to be taken and to fuss only made the condition worse. Coaxing works with some little ones; with others pun- fshment fs required. Each parent must decide this for herself, During the time that this matter of will contest is In progress the medi cine {x not administered. When the child has been conquered he must be xlven a few minutes to qulet sobs or temper, and then the dose must be given If the sick child thinks he cannot swallow medicine, no matter how much be may want to, he must be broken of this Mea, He fs apt to change bis {dea rather quickly, too, If be finds that each tle be efects the medicine a fresh dose Is given. It takes a clever child only a few moments to realize that be is simply prolonging the agony ‘The notion some have that they can not swallow pilis ts likely to be. im agination. which ft Is not always well to give In to If there Is a reason for Paying heed to it an easy way of ob Viating it Is to give liquid instead. for there are few prescriptions that cannot be administered in this form The old way of glving pills in Jelly does not commend Itself to. present Viens. The sweet, combined with | medicine, is apt to upset the stomach, causing nausea. | To deceive a child about medicine | and tell him it Is good is great mls take. ‘This may work once, but he | will be suspicious ever after, He should be made to understand that | medicine is not a Joke, but that it ts less disagreeable than to be fl, and that whether be wishes It or not he | must take tt. How to Travel Without Fatiaue. ‘The secret of traveling without fa- tigue ts to abandon thoughts of amuse: tot let your nerves get the upper hand of you.” Refrain ss much as possible froin conversation, for tn the wolse of travel talhieg "on becomes Uring. Avold reading, for the tse of the eyes while the train ts la motion seers, to induce sick headaches and nausea, AL this seems to say that you. will have an unlnterestiog and tresome journey, tue If sour trip is a short one Laat this worth while if you cab reach your destination bright eyed and with an undaunted spirit, ready €o enter gayly into anything ‘that ts expected of you? How to Scatter a Threatened Boil. A French doctor has had great suc- cea with scattering bolls by: applying at the first sign of inflammation com- Dresses wet with equal parts of tine. ture of arnica, tincture of fodine and spirits of camphor, Continue until the trouble seems to be passed. If with the compresses onedrinks sulphur wa- ter or red clover blossom tea it will help to scatter the boils and overcome the tendency. How to Peel Onions Without Tears. ‘The work of skinning onions, which ‘usually ends in tears, can be made a pleasure by pouring boiling water over them and covering a few minutes be fore peeling. ibn «Ol Me drinks to get an appetite. He says, nor seems to think ‘That all he does Is just excite An appetite for drink. —Catholle Standard and Times, Identification. Knicker—Did you recognize my voice ‘on the phone? Mrs. Knicker—No, I recognized the excuse.—New York Sun, Ri Sedaner Chetiia. Back home the gay resorter comes, ‘And as he takes a scrub, “I love those summer Joya." he hums, “But, /O you tub! —Detroit Free Press. Credutous. Hewitt—Cruct is a credulous fellow. Jewett— Yes. he even believes io hin. self.—New York Press. The Better Way. ‘Just learn to say no, Young man, and then You won't always be saying “Never again.” —Pittsburg Post. Atter the Crash. 4 lore my auto. but, of, you sktd!— Cleveland Piain Deaier. THE PLANET SATURDAY...OCTOBER 23, 1900 HINTS FOR FARMERS The Canada Thistle Canada thistles are not eradicated by the ordinary system of cultivation that is applied to corn, says the Homestead. They may be cut off three or four times, but there is an opportunity in the fall for the thistles to make considerable growth, and during this time the root system strengthens so that they are ready for business just as strong as ever the following year. There is little danger of scattering the thistles by ordinary culture methods. Where sheep can be kept this is, possibly the most inexpensive way of getting rid of thistles, because it is a well known fact that they are consumed readily by sheep. Of course it must be borne in mind that where pastures are good sheep will not eat thistles in preference to any other or all kinds of plants, but when pastures dry up a little, during July and August, thistles are usually succulent, and at that time they seem to make rather luscious eating for sheep, and for that reason we recommend the sheep method of destroying this nest. Swine on the Farm I am a great believer in keeping swine on the farm and have often wondered why more farmers do not engage in this profitable industry, writes a Maine farmer in the New England Homestead. I have bred swine for many years and am a friend to all, but consider the Berkshire the most profitable for me to keep. In order to be successful it is necessary to give the hogs considerable care, especially at farrowing time. I put my sows in pens by themselves about two weeks before farrowing time and feed them bran and flour made into a swill. Mix with hot water and occasionally add some salt and a little linseed oil. Give them about all they will eat. Under this treatment I never have any trouble from sows eating their pigs. After pigs are born feed lightly for first week and increase feed as pigs grow older. I generally wean pigs at four to six weeks of age. Advantages of Draining Soil Advantages of Draining Soil. Concerning the subject of drainage, we must not fall to notice some of the incidental advantages it affords the farmer. In the first place, it lengthens the season, because drained ground dries and warms so much earlier in the spring. It lessens the cost of production, because the farmer can do his work more nearly when it ought to be done. He can keep ahead of the weeds and be master of the situation. It oblates the injury to our fields by trampling by stock when wet. It prevents injury to our crops by heaving of the ground by frost and by its cracking open in drying. It does away, as nothing else can, with the uncertainties of agriculture and puts the farmer in a position where he can count, as other business men do, on certain returns from labor and capital invested.—F. L. Allen in Rural New Yorker. Dairy Cleanliness. Clean cows, clean clothes and clean dry hands for the milker should be the unvarying rule of every dairy, Special milking suits should be worn and frequently washed. A small topped pail would prevent a large amount of dirt from falling into the milk. Pails, cans, strainers, coolers and every other utensil that comes in contact with the milk should be washed clean and sterilized. Sterilizing means heating to 212 degrees F. It may be done by boiling water or by steam. It cannot be done by starting with boiling water in one can and pouring it from can to can to clean half a dozen. The easiest way to do thorough work is to use steam.-Agricultural Department Bulletin. Fertilizing Grass Land. In experiments at the Rhode Island station it was found that a mixture of 400 to 500 pounds per acre of superphosphate and 300 to 350 pounds of mrate of potash and nitrate of soda applied as an annual top dressing from April 15 to 25 would maintain a good yield of timothy without the use of stable manure, which is subject to the objection that the coarser undecomposed material of the manure remaining upon the meadow is likely to be raked up with the hay and that the manure sometimes has the effect of reducing the quality of the grass by causing a rank growth or by the introduction of weeds. The War Upon Quack Grass Throughout the northwest quack grass is spreading so rapidly that the better class of farmers are quite concerned. The Minnesota experiment station expects to take one of the worst quack grass farms in the state and try different methods of killing out the quack. It is said that this farm grows nothing but quack and for that reason ought to present a good subject for the experiment. All sorts of methods will no doubt be tried, including close pasturing and digging up the quack roots. WILLING TO PAY. The Bridegroom Thought the Bishop Too Impatient. The right reverend bishop of Delaware tells the following story: "A young man came to me one day and said, 'Bishop, I want you to mar- ry me on next Wednesday! "All right, young man. I'll marry you," I assured him. "Well, I want the bell to ring," he continued. "Very well, you can have the bell rung." "Well, I want the organ to play." "All right. You can have the organ played." "And I want everything else that anybody ever had at a church wedding." "Certainly. You shall have it." "Well, the night came, the bell rang, the organ played, the church was crowded, and everything went off as the young man wanted it. When the ceremony was over the young couple waited, instead of leaving the chancel. So I held out my hand, shook hands with the bride and then held out my hand to congratulate the bridegroom. He had his hand deep in his trousers pocket, and as I stood with my hand out he said, somewhat impatiently and in a tone that could be heard all over the church: "Now, don't be in such an all fired hurry, bishop; I'm getting the money out just as fast as I can." "And everybody in the church gig-gled." Lippincott's. Thorough Baptism. In one of the smaller cities of New England there was a church which had two mission chapels, commonly known as the East End mission and the North End mission, from the parts of the city where they were respectively located. One day the rector gave out the notices in his most distinguished high church tone, as follows: "There will be a service at the North End mission at 3 o'clock and at the East End at 5. Children will be baptized at both ends." Simply Labor Saving. Broncho Bill was a bad man, proud of his reputation for lightning gun plays, and he had but one eye. One day a young tenderfoot happened into "LOSE IT BE HANGED!" SAID BILL PEROCIOUSLY. the mining camp and after getting acquainted ventured to ask politely, "Bill, how did you come to lose that left optic of yours?" "Lose it!" Bill thundered. "Did you say lose it?" "Why—er—yes," faltered the tender-foot. "Lose it be hanged!" said Bill ferociously. "I cut it out so's I wouldn't allus be havin' to shut it in drawin' a bead." Getting the Most Out of Life. Make yourselves nests of pleasant thoughts. None of us yet know, for none of us have been taught in early youth, what fairy places we may build of beautiful thought, proof against all adversity—bright fancies, satisfied memories, noble histories, faithful sayings, treasure houses of precious and restful thoughts, which care cannot disturb nor pain make gloomy nor poverty take away from us—houses built without hands for our souls to live in.—John Ruskin. Followed Instructions Care and system are the halfway houses to happiness, and If Mrs. McQuillum was anything she was careful and systematic. A little while ago she had occasion to go out and leave the house to take care of itself. But the grocer was expected, and unless he was warned he would leave his commodities on the doorstep and thus advertise the fact that the house was unprotected. Therefore Mrs. McQuillum wrote this note, "All out; don't leave anything," and pinned it on the front door. When she returned her note was no longer on the front door, and there was a nasty, empty sort of sensation about the greater part of the house. Everything of value had disappeared. She found her note on the dining table. But a line had been added to it. "Many thinks." It ran. "We haven't left much." Discouraged at Last Bill Barlow of Wyoming told of one of the first humorous paragraphs of his former editorial associate, Bill Nye. There had been a railroad accident. The locomotive was lost, two passenger cars were destroyed, the express car was smashed, but no one had been fatally hurt. This is the way Bill Nye described it: "For upward of twenty years repairs have been repeatedly promised the old South bridge. Hoping against hope and waiting until distracted the old bridge became discouraged at last and yesterday just laid down in the gorge with a passenger train." Brute. Cyrlic--She knows his footsteps a mile off in the midst of a hundred others, sees him coming from the corner of her eye, pats her hair and smooths her dress and jumps a foot with surprise when he ascends the plaza steps. Clinic--Who? Cyrlic--All of 'em.--New York Life. Oh, the Difference to Him! Oh, the Difference to Him! I call a man a dog, and worth with he Starts right in to paw the scenery. Half removes his waistcoat and his coat Even makes some passes at my throat. Things look black for me, but I cry, "Ha I can remedy my rude faux pas! Yes, a dog—sad dog!" I quickly add. My, but he looks pleased and sly and bad. -New York Times. THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA SICK HEADACHE CURES. How to Relieve This Most Distressing Form of Illness. Slick headache, while not dangerous, is one of the most disagreeable forms of illness. Some women are subject to it at such frequent intervals that they are incapacitated for several days at a time. Unless the headache is known to come from some functional disorder it can generally be traced to impaired digestion or a sluggish liver. These must be treated in the interim of the headaches, as at the time nothing but alleviating remedies are possible. A treatment that is often successful is to abstain from red meats for a time and to be careful about taking foods that ferment easily. One man who had doctored for years for sick headaches was cured by his wife seeing to it that he drank a cup of hot water with a half teaspoonful of salt in it as soon as he arose in the morning. A half lemon in a glass of cold water taken night and morning is another remedy that has proved helpful to many. During the attack rest and quiet are imperative. Lie down in a darkened room, drink quantities of hot water and apply either a hot water bottle or an ice bag to the temples and the base of the brain. Cloths rung out of hot witch hazel often bring quick relief. Headache cologne if rubbed on the temples in time acts as a preventive, while some sufferers are helped by taking a cathartic at the first symptom. In severe cases five or ten minutes' treatment with an electric battery is invaluable. This is better than massage, as the pressure is sometimes too strong when the headache is bad. In the first stages of sick headache it can often be averted by taking abdominal and neck exercises and by putting a mustard plaster over the stomach. How to Make Kitchen Aprons To the woman who does her own work there is great satisfaction in a neat, well made apron, and such a necessary article may be easily and quickly made at home and prove much more attractive than the ready made ones. An admirable apron is cut with a panel front that extends to the bust and fitted side gores that are finished with a band of buttons around the waist. A blas band around the neck is slightly shaped and buttoned to the panel front, but may be slipped on over the head without unbuttoning. There is a shaped pocket at the side, and if one is desired on the front at the bust it may be added. Denims and percals in solid colors or checked ginghamms are usually chosen for work aprons, but for more elaborate ones dotted or crossbarred muslins are very dainty and launder well. The latter may be touched up with lace edged ruffles put on with beading through which colored ribbons are run, pockets set on with fine featherstitching or embroidery, and instead of the plain belt about the waist ribbon strings may be substituted. How to Clean White Leather Shoes. Soft white leather shoes can be cleaned in gasoline, and when not too badly soiled they clean nicely with almost any white powder. Pique or linen shoes should be washed, but often if merely dusty they can be cleaned with white chalk or flour. The regular white shoe polish can be used on them. A white polish is made with whiting and water, made medium thick and applied with a clot. Rub the shoes free from dry powder after they have dried. Chamois bootees clean nicest in rather strong ammonia water. They should be washed in a suds with ammonia in it and rinsed in ammonia water and wiped dry with a towel. Do not dry chamois near artificial heat. How to Oversee Cooking How to Overcome Cooking Odors. A volatile oil rich in sulphur is contained on onions, turnips and cabbage. When these vegetables are boiled this oil spreads over the surface of the water and sends its fumes to the far corners of the house. If the vegetables are soaked in salted water for an hour before cooking the trouble will be less. If they are kept at the boiling point for three-quarters of an hour, but not allowed to boil, they will become tender, yet their odor will not permeate the house. If boiling for a short time is preferred as a method of cooking, a crust of very hard bread dropped into the water for ten minutes will absorb most of the oil as it rises, when the crust may be removed. How to Get Rid of Ants To get rid of ants in a kitchen use on the floor over which they have to pass a spray composed of coal oil, ninety-five parts, and crystals of carbolic acid, five parts; also spray their nest if it can be found. Persist in this treatment and they will leave the place. Do not get the spray on articles of food. The spray must be exceedingly fine. Several hand sprayers are on the market and are ordinarily used in distributing disinfectants. The vapor from this solution is fatal to the ants. How to Prevent Rusting. It is better to use wooden pegs in 'bathrooms or kitchens, where damp towels or cloths are apt to be hung; otherwise the linen may rust from the iron. If iron hooks are already in place and it is not convenient to change them, give them a coat of white enamel paint. It prevents danger of rusting and is much less unsightly against the paper. If the linen has already been rusted it may be removed by rubbing with lemon juice and salt. Odd Labor Transformation From sardine packers at one season of the year to Irish lace makers at another is the strange labor transformation which takes place among legions of workers at Bretagne, France. In Auvergne the field laborers turn from their plows at certain times to the manufacture of pillow lace. The Auvergne lacemakers receive but 5 cents a meter for their work, while the lace sells elsewhere for 80 cents a meter. Attractive One Story House. A Complete Home on a Single Floor - Can Be Constructed In First Class Style For About $2,500. THE HOME OF THE HOME OF THE HOME PERSPECTIVE VIEW-FROM A PHOTOGRAPH A Stylish Gable Roof Cottage. Designed For a Terrace Site—Can Be Constructed and Finished Complete and Up to Date For About $6,500. Designed by Albert E. Davies, the Bronx, New York. THE HOME OF THE MAYFIELD MUSEUM PERSPECTIVE VIEW-FROM A PHOTOGRAPH PORCH 7'x11'4" KITCHEN BATH 11'x12' PANTRY PANTRY SITTING ROOM BIMEN 14'x16' DINING ROOM BIMEN 14'x17' PARLOR FIVET WIDE 14'x18' HALL OAK 12'x15' MAPLE FLOOR OAK ROOM STYLE PIAZZA BATH BATH 6'x9' BED ROOM 9'x10' CL CL BED ROOM VICIUMS 14'x17' HALL BATH 4' BED ROOM EXCLAMATES 12'x14' CLOSET CLOSET BED ROOM EXCLAMATES 14'x15' BED ROOM 8'x12' Here is a design for an attractive gable roof cottage to set upon a terrace. The dimensions are 28 by 43 feet. The foundations are of stone, with rustic held stone underpinning for the plaza. The first story is cipapboard with shingled plaza rolling, carrying double and triple colonial columns for the support of roof. Second story and roof are shingled with cypress shingles, gables having projecting verge boards. The cellar floor is cemented with portland cement concrete. There are stained glass windows in the hall, stair landings and bathroom. The hall and dining room are finished in oak, parlor in ivory white, sitting room in birch, kitchen in ash and the upstairs rooms in sycamore. The chamber floor is of maple with a double border of oak and the other floors of North Carolina pine. There are ample closets and dressers, and the plumbing is first class, with white enameled fixtures and nickel plated trimmings. Electric bells and burglar alarms are provided. There are outside blinds to all side and rear windows. Total cost, including plumbing and hot water heating, $6,300. FORAY 8' X 10' KITCHEN CHAMBER 11' X 12' - 6' DINING ROOM 14' X 16' BATH 7' X 76' BATH GROUND PARLOR 11' X 14' HALL CHAMBER 11' X 11' 28' ROOM 8 X 10 FLOOR PLAN A Stylish Gabble Designed For a Terrace Side Finished Complete and Up Designed by Albert E. D. PERSPECTIVE VIEW— PORCH 7×11'6" KITCHEN AISL 11×12' PANTRY SITTING ROOM 14×16' DINING ROOM 14×17' PARLOR 14×18' HALL 12×15' MAPLE FLOOR OAK ROOM PIAZZA FIRST FLOOR PLAN. Here is a design for an attractive terrace. The dimensions are 28 by 4 with rustic field stone underpinning floors boarded with shingled plaza rolling columns for the support of roof. See cypress shingles, gables having projects cemented with portland cement cows in the hall, stair landings and are finished in oak, parlor in ivory wash and the upstairs rooms in sycamore with a double border of oak and the There are ample closets and dressers, white enameled fixtures and nickel burglar alarms are provided. There are windows. Total cost, including plumbing. Materials For Swords. Perhaps no manufactured article has so variously adapted itself to circumstances as the sword. It has been made of stone, wood, bone, copper, brass, bronze and iron. It has assumed as many shapes and sizes. It has been long and short, wide and narrow, curved and straight, heavy and light, pointed, round and square, sharp on one side, on both sides and on neither side. Although the resemblance between the house shown in the above photograph and the ordinary summer bungalow is striking, the design presented is for an all the year round home. Size, 28 by 39 feet; height of first story, 9 feet; attic, 8 feet. The exterior may be shingled from the ground to the gables, which will appear well covered with plaster. Five good rooms are provided for the first floor, with two rooms in the attic suitable for bedrooms. By cutting out the back chamber the dining room can be turned into a large living room, with the parlor for a "den." The house is economical to build and on a wide plot with open views all around makes an attractive home. Estimate of $2,300 as the outside cost of construction includes basement in concrete, porcelain plumbing, gas and electric lighting and furnace heat. THOMAS L. WEST. The Roof Cottage. —Can Be Constructed and to Date For About $6,300. Ivis, the Bronx, New York. FROM A PHOTOGRAPH. SECOND FLOOR PLAN. We gable roof cottage to set upon a feet. The foundations are of stone, or the plaza. The first story is clap- carrying double and triple colonial and story and roof are shingled with setting verge boards. The cellar floor accret. There are stained glass win- bathroom. The hall and dining room white, sitting room in birch, kitchen in re. The chamber flooring is of maple other floors of North Carolina pine, and the plumbing is first class, with lated trimmings. Electric bells and are outside blinds to all side and re- ing and hot water heating. $6,300. ALBERT E. DAVIS, Architect The Mechanics of Hauteur. Said he, with despair in his look, "You carry your neck like a scholar Intent on an upper shelf book." Said she, "It's only my collar." —Success Magazine The Servant Question. "That woman seems to have a lot of trouble with her help." 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We do not desire the correspondence of those expecting a miracle or anything unreasonable. Our preparation is a natural and pure compound, the ingredients of which, we would not hesitate to put in print. Will just here remind the public that the United States Government has placed national public health on our hair preparation by which it is protected, and we are in turn responsible to the government for best methods and square dealings. It will positively remove Dandruff, Care Itself Impurities, Restore Hair on Clean Temples or Bald Heads, where hee Roes are not Dead, Impurities per capita. The Face Beautifier makes the use of powder entirely unnecessary and is perfectly harmless on all out of city properties and $1.00 per bottle. A charge of ten cents extra is imposed on all out of city properties by Post Office Money Order, or Express Money Order. Address all communications to: 'Phone 4601. 616 N. 1st St., Richmond, Va. 'Correspondence Strictly Confidential.' RAILROADS. ASHLAND ACCOMMODATIONS - WEEKDAYS. Leare Ebla Station - 7.30 A.M. 1.45 A.M. 6.30 P.M. Arrive Ebla Station - 6.40 A.M. 1.45 A.M. 5.30 P.M. *Daily. * Weekdays. * Sundays only. * All trains to or from Byid Street Station stop at Ebla Station. * Departures and departures not guaranteed. * Read the sign. ONLY ALL RAIL LINE TO NORFOLK. Schedule in Effect April 11, 1909. Leave Byrd Street Station, Richmond Daily; For Norfolk - 9:00 A. M. 3:00 P. M. and 6:00 P. M. For Lynchburg and the West-9:00 A. M., 12:10 P. M., 9:05 P. M. Pullman, Parlor and Sleeping Cara. Cafe Dining Cars. ATLANTIC COAST LINE. INTEGRATIVE AFFILIATE TRANSFER TO BAYMONT DAILY. Florida and South: 8:15 A. M. and 7:25 P. M. For Norfolk: 9:00 A. M., 8:00 P. M. and 6 P. M. For N. and W. RY., West: 9:00 A. M., 12:10 and 9:05 P. M. For Petersburg: 9:00 A. M., 12:10, 3:00 *3:30 P. M, 6 P. M, 9:06 P. M, 7:25 and 11:15 P. M. Goldbobar and Fayetteville: *2:30 P. M. Trainer, Goldbobar and Fayetteville: 6:10, 7:00 P. M, *8:35 11:45 A. 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Real readers of the merits and results of the NUTER, we will from time to time produce a potion to have used our oxy- bearing witness of the ginniess qualities hose expecting a miracle or anything unre- sure compound, the ingredients of which, we that the United States Government has placed on by which it is protected, and we are in inst methods and square dealings. Potions are not Dead. Piquant, pectin, restore Hair Roots are not Dead. Piquant, pectin, per cent per box powder entirely unnecessary and is perfectly 1.00 per bottle. A charge of ten cents extra can be sent by Post Office Money Order, unications CE COMPANY. 616 N. 1st St., Richmond, Va. Strictly Confidential. Southern Ry TRAINS LEAVE RICHMOND N. R.-Following schedule figures published only as information and are not guaranteed: Charlotte, 10:45 A. M.-Dallas-Limited-Harlem to Atlanta and Birmingham, New Orleans, Memphis Chattanooga, and all the South. Team coach for Chattanooga, Oxford, Durham. 6:00 P. M.—Ex. 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M., 7:00 P. M., 10:30 P. M. From West--8:50 A. M., 7:45 P. M. Through--7:30 A. M., 3:25 P. M. James River Line--8:53 A. M., 6:50 P. M. *Daily except Sunday. JOHN M. Higgins, Dealer in CHOICE GROCERIES, WINES, LIQUORS and CIGARS. PURE GOODS, FULL VALUE FOR THE MONEY. Subscribe to The PLANET. THREE KEEPS SCALP FRESH CLEAN AND WHOLE- SOME MAKES HAIR GROW LONG AND LUXURIOUS [Name] S. E. BURGESS, D. P. A. 920 E. Maid. St., Phone FOUR THE PLANET TERMS IN ADVANCE. One Copy, one year, - - - - - $1.50 One Copy, eight months, - - - - - 1.00 One Copy, six months, - - - - - .80 One Copy, four months, - - - - - .50 One Copy, three months, - - - - - .40 Single Copy, - - - - - .05 ADVERTISING RATES than price is $1.50 per year in advance. 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If you send your money in any other way, you must do it at your own RENEWALS, ETC.—If you do not want THE PLANET continued for another year after your subscription has run out, you then notify us by e-mail, and we will decide that subscribers to newspapers who do not order their paper discontinued at the expiration of time for which it has been paid are up to date when we oerl r the paper discontinued. COMMUNICATIONS—When writing to us to request your subscriber or to discontinue your paper, you should give in full otherwise we cannot find your name on our books. ADDRESS OF SUBSCRIBER—In order to change the address of a subscriber, we must send the former as well as the present address. DR. WASHINGTON IN THE OUTLOOK. In reading the very interesting accounts of Dr. Booker T. Washington on "The story of the Negro," an published in the New York Outlook it will be well to note that this distinguished educator has marshalled his facts in a manner of a two horse team. He has harnessed the civilized Negro with the uncivilized one, showing the commendable traits of character and meritorious achievements of both. He skillfully avoids offending the white men of the South and at the same time he side-steps all questions that might embarrass the white men of the North. To our mind, this grouping of events and dealing with measures are the products of a master-mind drilled in the school or experience to a far greater extent than it has been trained in the school of science. Here he is at his best in dealing with the African question in Africa, just as though he had eaten and slept upon the soil of the Negro's motherland. "Nothing, perhaps," says Professor Franz Boas, "is more encouraging than a glimpse of the artistic industries of the native African." A walk through the African museums of Paris and London and Berlin is a revelation. I wish you could see the scepters of African kings, carved of hardwood and representing artistic form; or the dainty basketry made by the people of the Congo River and of the region of the Great Lakes of the Nile, or the grass mats of their beautiful patterns. "Even more worthy of our admiration," he continues, "is the work of the blacksmith who manufactures symmetrical lance-heads almost a yard long, or axes inlaid with copper and decorated with filigree. Let me also mention in passing the bronze castings of Benin and the West Coast of Africa, which, although perhaps due to Portuguese influences, have so far excelled in technique any European work that they are even now almost inimitable." "The blacksmith seems to occupy a very important place in the social life of Africa. Travelers have found these smiths at work in the most remote and inaccessible parts of the continent, where they may be seen collecting the native iron and copper ores, smelting and reducing them, and then working them in their primitive forges into hoes, knives, spear and arrow heads, battle-axes, woodworking tools, rings, and hatchets. "Just as everywhere in the Southern States today, especially in the country districts, at the crossroads or near the country store, one finds the Negro blacksmith, in so some of the remote regions in Africa every village has according to its size, from one to three blacksmiths. Each man has an apprentice, and his art is a craft secret most zealously guarded. "Samuel P. Verner, a Southern white man and missionary of the Southern Presbyterian Church, says in his book "Pioneering in Central Africa" of these blacksmiths: "The proficiency of some of these men is astonishing. I frequently have my work done by them, and their skill amazes me. They have the art of tempering copper as well as of making soft steel. Some of the objects of their craft which I placed in the National Museum at Washington are revelations to the uninitiated in their remarkable complexity and variety. "Mr. Verner's mission station was in the Congo Free State, on the upper courses or the Kasai, in the heart of savage Africa, where the people have never been touched by the influences of either the European or Mohammedan civilizations. Speaking of the carving and wood-working of some of these tribes, Mr. Verner says: "Some of these Africans are wonderfully adept. They can produce a geometrical figure whose perfection is amazing. Their tools are of the simplest, yet they can carve figures of men and animals, pipes, bowls, cups, platters, tables, and fantastic images. I saw a chair carved out of a solid block of ebony. Their work in ivory is also rare and valuable, and I believe their talent in those lines ought to be developed. It seems that contact with the white man has caused the Negro to deteriorate in the arts, even if it has improved him in the sciences. No where in the United States to day can be found Negroes who can produce this handiwork of the Dark Continent. He says further: "Throughout West Africa, wherever the European has not established his trading factory, the native market is an institution which is a constrain source of surprise to travelers. These markets are the native clearing-houses for the produce of the soil and the fabricated articles of the land. They are generally the center of the trading operations of a district ranging from ten to thirty miles. Here will be seen vegetables and fruit, poultry, eggs, live plops, goats, salt of their manufacture, pettery or their own make, strips of cloth, grass-woven mats, baskets, and specimens of embroidery and art work, besides numberless other articles of various sorts and kinds which are essential to African comfort, and well-being. From the small group of native merchants who travel with their wares within a radius of thirty or fifty miles, to the large caravans of the Hausa traders who cross the Desert of Sahara, and at times reach the eastern and western confines of the continent, everywhere in Africa the black man is a trader. "Among the more primitive tribes, the village markets are confined to two or three hundred buyers or sellers, but in the greater markets, like those of Kano and Upper Nigeria, twenty or thirty thousand traders will be gathered together at certain seasons of the year. It is an interesting fact, as indicating the African's interest in trade, that in many tribes the market-place is considered sacred ground, and, in order that trade may be carried on there without interruption, no strife is permitted within its precincts. Professor Boas, writing in 1904, said: "The Negro all over the African continent is either a tiller of the soil or the owner of large herds; only the Bushmen and a few of the dwarf tribes of Central Africa are hunters. Owing to the high development of agriculture, the density or population of Africa is much greater than that of primitive America, and consequently the economic conditions of life are more stable." It may be safely said that the primitive Negro community, with its fields that are tilled with iron and wooden implements, with its domesticated animals, with its smithers, with its expert wood-carvers, is a model of thrift and industry, and compares favorably with the conditions of life among our own ancestors. It is the commercial traits which develop a people and in this day and time make a nation. Colored people here are slowly, but surely learning this. The disposition to serve the white man in a servile capacity, rather than work for one's self in an employing capacity is the weakness of a race. We are raising an army of youngsters, whose lives are well-nigh useless in the direction of elevating their own race or people who now, more than ever needs their services. Dr. Washington could not go far without throwing a bouquet at the southern white man. So far as it relates to the better classes down here, it is well deserved. Here is what he says: "It is just as true in America as it is in Africa that those who know the Negro intimately and best have been as a rule kindest and most hopeful in their judgments of him. This may seem strange to those who get their notion of the Southern white man's opinion of the Negro from what they see in the press and bear from the platform, during the heat of a political campaign, or from the utterances of men who for one reason or another have allowed themselves to become embittered. Southern opinion of the Negro, particularly as it finds expression in the press and on the platform, is largely controversial. It has been influenced by the fact that for nearly a hundred years the Negro has been the football in a bitter political contest, and there are a good many Southern politicians who have acquired the habit of berating him. The Negro in the South has had very little part in this controversy, either before or since the war, but he has had a chance to hear it all, and it has often seemed to me, if, after all that has taken place, the Negro is still able to discuss his situation calmly, the white man should be able to do so also. But that is another matter. Where will you find in the realm of logic better illustrations of the points or ideas that Dr. Washington THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, WIRGINIA wishes to convey? He has reasoned the matter out in such a practical style and manner that even a child may understand. He then calls his intent diplomacy into positive action and soothes the feelings of even the Negro's harshest critics. Here is how he does it: "Nineteen times out of twenty, I suppose, a stranger coming South who inquires concerning the Negro from people he meets on the train or on the highways will get from these men pretty nearly the same opinion he has read in the newspapers or heard in political speeches. These criticisms of the Negro have been repeated so often that people have come to accept and repeat them again without reflection. The thing that shows this to be true is that the very men who denounced all Negroes are very likely before the conversation is added tell of one and perhaps halt a dozen, individual Negroes in whom they have the greatest confidence. "A Southern white man may tell you, with the utmost positiveness, that he never knew a single Negro who would not steal—except one. Every white man knows one Negro who is all right—a model of honesty industry, and thrift—and, if he tries to remember, he will think of other Negroes in whom he has the greatest confidence and for whom he has a very genuine respect. Considering that there are a good many more white people in the South than there are Negroes, it seems to follow, logically, that, in spite of what one hears about the Negro in general, there are a good many individual Negroes who are pretty well thought of by their white neighbors. "It is well to take into consideration, also, that when Southern people express their confidence and their respect for an individual black man, they are speaking of one whom they know; on the contrary, when they denounce in general terms the weakness and the failure of the Negro race, they have in mind a large number of whom they know a great deal less. Dr. Washington then proceeds to show the martial or war-like spirit of the Negro race by tracing their origin to the leading tribes of the Dark Continent. He says: "I do not mean to suggest that there is no justification of the criticism of the Negro that one often hears in the South. I have never thought or said that the Negro in America was all that he should be. It does seem to me, however, that the Negro in the United States has done, on the whole, as well as he was able, and as well as, under all the circumstances, could be reasonably expected." He then traces the history of these Africans as follows: "Several peoples, of strikingly different characteristics, contributed to form the several loosely connected states which now form the British Colony of Northern Nigeria, of which Kano is the principal city. The most important and interesting of these are the Hausas and the Fulahs, or Fellani, as they are sometimes called. The Fulahs are noted for their military spirit; the Hausas for their commercial enterprise. One has a light complexion, and the other is dark. "The Fulahs are an equestrian people, with a cavalry, armed with lances and swords. They are zealous Mohammedans, with a knowledge of how to "divide and govern." Their independent character is described by the proverbial saying that "a Fulah man slave will escape or kill his master, and that a Fulah girl slave will rule the harem or die. The Hausas are superior to the Fulahs in the arts of peace. They are possessed or unusual industry, judgment, and intelligence, and have a considerable degree of literary taste. The Hausas carry on the internal trade of the North and Central Sudan. They are well clothed, and have many well-built cities with populations sometimes of from twenty to sixty thousand. Birth in describing Kano, which is, perhaps, to West Africa what Chicago is to the United States, what he commanded on horseback, "rode for several hours round all the inhabited quarters, enjoying at his leisure from the saddle the manifold scenes of public and private life, of comfort and happiness, of luxury and misery or industry and indolence, which were exhibited in the streets, the market-places, and in the interior of the courtyards." Here he saw "a row of shops filled with articles of native and foreign produce, with buyers and sellers in every variety of figure, complexion, and dress." Now an "open terrace of clay with a number of dye-pots and people busily employed in various processes of their hand-craft; here a man stirring the juice and mixing with indigo some coloring wood in order to give it the desired tint, there another drawing a shirt from the dye-pot, there two men beating a well-dyed shirt;" farther on. "a blacksmith busy with his tools in making a dagger, a spear, or the more useful ornaments of husbandry;" and, in another place, "men and women hanging up their cotton thread for weaving." It will be seen that he has shrewdly confined his researches to "that portion of Africa from which our American slaves were taken." You may say what you will about Booker T. Washington, but a shrewdier, more diplomatic, wiser citizen of color never breathed the air of life upon the American continent. At one time he is open to criticism; at another to wonder. In the issue of the Outlook under date of September 11, 1909, and under the caption of "The Negro's Life in Slavery," he says: The market of Kano, said to be the largest in Africa, is celebrated for its cotton cloth and leather goods. Traditions of Kano go back over a thousand years. It is surrounded by walls of sun-dried clay from twenty to thirty feet high and fifteen miles in circumference. "The greatest chieftain that ever ruled in West Africa. Mohammed Askia, lived in Kano. He became ruler in 1492 and held sway over a region probably as large as the German Empire. Barth tells us that Mohammed Askia was an example of the highest degree to which Negroes have attained in the way of political administration and control. His dynasty, which was entirely or native descent, is the more remarkable if we consider that this Negro king was held in the highest esteem and veneration by the most learned and rigid Mohammedans. Not only did he consolidate and even extend his empire, but he went in 1495 as a pligrimage to Mecca accompanied by 1,500 armed men, 1,000 on food and 500 on horseback, and founded there a charitable institution. He extended his conquests far and wide from what is now the center of Nigeria, westward almost to the borders of the Atlantic Ocean and northward to the south of Morocco. Askia governed the subjected tribes with justice and equity. Everywhere within the borders of his extensive dominions his rule spread well-being and comfort. "The career of Mohammed Askai is possibly the best example of the influence of Afrikanismanism on that portion of Afrikanism which our American slaves were taken." Now here is another display of his wisdom and another exhibition of his diplomacy. He seems to be fearful less he was "swung out too far in commending the Negro, and he comes back by charging that the Negro was in a measure responsible for his own enslavement. This will necessarily cause a protest from the citizens of color, who have alligned themselves in the anti Booker T. Washington brigade. They will charge him with trimming, or hedging. This might be true of a ward politician, but it enjoys the designation of diplomatic correspondence in the higher realm of genuine statesmanship. So we will simply say that Dr. Washington is diplomatic in the use of language. He essays to make a distinction with a difference when he says: "Some years ago one of the frequent subjects of discussion among the white people and the colored people was the question. Who was responsible for slavery in America? Some people said the English Government was the guilty party, because England would not let the colonies abolish the slave trade when they wanted to. Others said the New England colonies were just as deep in the mire as England or the Southern States, because for many years a very large share of the trade was carried on in New England ships. "As a matter of fact, there were, as near as I have been able to learn, three parties who were directly responsible for the slavery of the Negro in the United States. "First of all, there was the Negro himself. It should not be forgotten that it was the African who, for the most part, carried on the slave raids by means of which his fellow-African was captured and brought down to the coast for sale. When, some months ago, the Liberian embassy visited the United States, Vice-President Dossen explained to me that one reason why Liberia had made no more progress during the eighty-six years of its existence was the fact that for many years the little State had engaged in a life-and-death struggle with native slave-traders, who had been accustomed for centuries to ship their slaves from Liberian ports and were unwilling to give up the practice. It was only after the slave trade had entirely ceased, he said, that Liberia had begun to exercise an influence upon the masses of the native peoples within its jurisdiction. The second party to slavery was the lave-trader, who at first as a rule was an Englishman or a Northern white man. During the Colonial period, for instance, Newport, Rhode Island, was the principal headquarters of the slave trade in this country. At one time Rhode Island had one hundred and fifty vessels engaged in the trade. Down to 1860 Northern capital was very largely invested in the slave trade, and New York was the port from which most of the American slave smugglers fitted out. Finally, there was the Southern white man, who owned and worked the bulk of the slaves, and was responsible for what we now ordinarily understand as the slave system. It would be just as much a mistake, however, to assume that the South was ever solidly in favor of slavery as it is to assume that the North was always solidly against it. Thousands of persons in the Southern States were opposed to slavery, and numbers of them, like James G. Birney, of Alabama, took their slaves North in order to free them, and afterward became leaders in the anti-slavery struggle. He then skillfully inserts the acc count of the dark side. Here it is: "As with every other human thing there is more than one side to slavery, and more than one way of looking at it. For instance, as defined in the slave laws in what was known as the Slave Code, slavery was pretty much the same at all times all over the South. The regulations imposed upon master and upon slave were, in several particulars, different for the different States. On the whole, however, as a legal institution, slavery was the same everywhere. "On the other hand, actual conditions were not only different in every part of the country, but they were likely to be different on every separate plantation. Every plantation was, to a certain extent, a little kingdom by itself, and life there was what the people who were bound together in the plantation community made it. The law and the custom of the neighborhood regulated, to a certain extent, the treatment which the master gave his slave. For instance, in the part of Virginia where I lived both white people and colored people looked with contempt upon the man who had the reputation of not giving his slaves enough to eat. If a slave went to an adjoining plantation, for something to eat, the reputation of his master was damned in that community. On the whole, however, each plantation was a little independent state and one master was very little disposed to interfere with the affairs of another. The account that one gave of slavery from the laws that were passed for the government of slaves shows that institution on its worst side. No harser judgment was ever passed on slavery, so far as I know, than that which will be found in the decision of a justice of the Supreme Court of North Carolina in summing up the law in a case in which the relations of master and slave were defined. "The case I refer to, which was tried in 1829, was one in which the master, who was the defendant, was indicted for beating his slave. The decision which acquitted him affirmed the master's right to inflict any kind of punishment upon his slave short of death. The grounds upon which this judgment was based were that in the whole history of slavery there had been no such prosecution of a master for punishing a slave, and, in the words of the decision "against this general opinion in the community the court could not hold. "It was a mistake, the decision continued, to say that the relations of the master and slave were like those of a parent and child. The object of the parent in training his son was to render him fit to live the life of a free man, and, as a means to that end, he gave him moral and intellectual instruction. In the case of the slave it was different. There could be no sense in addressing moral considerations to a slave." This is a glimpse of the terrible truth, that which is so vividly and eloquently displayed in Harriet Beecher Stowe's life's work, "Uncle Tom's Cabin." He says: "There was a very great difference between the life of the slave on the small plantations in the uplands and upon the big plantations along the coasts. To illustrate, the plantation upon which I was born, in Franklin County, Virginia, had, as I remember, only six slaves. My master and his sons all worked together side by side with his slaves. In this way we all grew up together, very much like members of one big family. There was no overseer, and we got to know our master and be to know us. The big plantations along the coasts were usually carried on under the direction of an overseer. The master and his family were away for a large part of the year. Personal relations between them could hardly be said to exist. John C. Calhoun, South Carolina's greatest statesman, was brought up on a plantation not very different from the one upon which I was raised. One of his biographers relates how Patrick Calhoun, John C. Calhoun's father, returning from his legislative duties in Charleston, brought home on horseback behind him a young African freshly imported in some English or New England vessel. The children in the neighborhood, and, no doubt, some of the older people, had never before seen a black man. He was the first one brought into that part of the country. Patrick Calhoun gave him the name of Adam. Some time later he got for him a wife. One of the children of the black man, Adam, was named Swaney. He grew up on the plantation with John C. Calhoun, and was for many years his playmate. "The conditions of the Negro slave were harder on some of the big plantations in the far South than they were elsewhere. That region was peopled by an enterprising class of persons, of whom many came from Virginia, bringing their slaves with them. The soil was rich, the planters were making money fast, the country was rough and unsettled, and there was undoubtedly a disposition to treat the slaves as mere factors in the production of corn, cotton, and sugar. "And yet there were plantations in this region where the relations between master and slave seem to have been as happy as one could ask or expect under the circumstances. On some of the large estates in Alabama and Mississippi which were far removed from the influence of the city, and sometimes in the midst of the wilderness, master and slaves frequently lived together under conditions that were genuinely patriarchal. But on such plantations there was, as a rule, no overseer." "As an example of the large plantations on which the relations between master and slave were normal and happy I might mention those of the former President of the Confederacy, Jefferson Davis, and his brother Joseph Davis, in Warren County, Mississippi." "The history of the Davis family and of the way in which their plantations, the "Hurricane" and "Brierfield," came into existence is typical. The ancestors of the President of the Confederacy came originally from Wales. They settled first in Georgia, emigrated thence to Kentucky, and finally settled in the rich lands of Mississippi. In 1818 Joseph Davis, who was at that time a lawyer in Vicksburg, attracted by the rich bottom-lands along the Mississippi, took his father's slave and went down the river, thirty-six miles below Vicksburg, to the place which is now called "Davis's Bend." There he began clearing the land and preparing it for cultivation. At that time there were no steamboats on the Mississippi River, and the country was so wild that people traveled through the lonely forests mostly on horseback. In the course of a few years Mr. Davis, with the aid of his slaves, succeeded in building up a plantation of about five thousand acres, and became, before his death, a very wealthy man. One day he went down to Natchez and purchased in the market there a young negro who afterward became known as Ben Montgomery. This young man had been sold South from North Catolina and because perhaps, he had heard, as most of the slaves had, of the hard treatment that was to be expected on the big, onesome plantations, had made up his body to remain in the city. The first thing he did, therefore, when Mr. Davis brought him home, was to run away. 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"Just what that understanding was no one seems now to know exactly, but in any case, as a result of it, Benjamin Montgomery received a pretty fair education, sufficient, at any rate, to enable him in after years, when he came to have entire charge, as he soon did, or Mr. Davis's plantation, to survey the line of the levee which was erected to protect the plantation from the waters of the Mississippi, to draw out plans, and to compute the size of buildings a number of which were erected at different times under his direction." Dr. Washington is careful not to disturb the nicely balanced scales which he has so skillfully adjusted. It will be seen that he soothes the feelings of the rabid southernners and pours out the unction of his praise even upon the ancestors as well as the person of Jefferson Davis, one time President of the Southern Confederacy. He then shows that the foundation of the South's prosperity is the Negro's labor. Here is what he says: "The four great crops of the South—tobacco, rice, sugar, and cotton—were all raised by slave labor. In the early days it was thought that no labor except that of the Negro was suited to cultivate these great staples of Southern industry, and that opinion prevails pretty widely still. But it was not merely his quality as a laborer that made the Negro seem so necessary to the white man in the South; it was also these other qualities to which I have referred—his cheerfulness and sympathy, his humor and his fidelity. No one can honestly say that there was anything in the nature of the institution or slavery that would develop these qualities in a people who did not possess them. On the contrary, what we know about slavery elsewhere leads us to believe that the system would have developed qualities quite different, so that I think I am justified in saying that most of the things that made slavery tolerable, both to the white man and to the black man, were due to the native qualities of the African. Here he is again paying another attribute to his own race. It will be seen that before he is through with his recital that he has woven a masterful story in behalf of his own race. He has the conservative men of the white race in this country on the stage in the rear of him as hearers, with the world in front of him for an audience. We have no doubt given too much now and we shall continue our review in our next is- We received a programme of the Forty- sixth Anniversary of the Shiloh Baptist Church, of Washington, D. C., Rev. J. Milton Waldron, D. D., Pastor. 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A point in Johnson's favor was that Referee Welsh thought the knock-down a fair one. "Johnson was inclined to fool around too much, and I think Kachel slipped one over on him" said the referee. It was a lamentably one-sided fight. Ketchel swore he would force the champion to lead. He did so on the occasion, but the city of it was that when Johnson led he reached something. For about six rounds Johnson relied mainly on a straight left, and bleeding lips and blood-smeared face soon bore testimony to the accuracy of his aim. Ketchel inned his fate on a left under swing for the short ribs. He got there, too, a few times, but the scoring was light compared to the volume of misses. It was a subdued Ketchel throughout. There was no tiger and no "assassin" about him today. He tried no shift, and even his big right swing, the one he failed with a dozen times and landed with in the long run, lacked the usual snap which accompanies the Michigander's attack. Truth to tell, there was little in the fight as it developed to encourage Ketchel. His body hooks were brushed aside, his left leads to the face fell short of the mark, and when he made use of his threatening right swings Johnson's head fell over the champion knew to the second when one of the middleweight's best efforts was coming. THAT UPPERCUT IN RESERVE. All the world knows that the most damaging blow Johnson is master of is that nasty right uppercut, which tears through a man's guard and loosens his teeth. Johnson kept that thing in reserve today until the seventh round, and even then he only used it a few times. It may have been, of course, that the big negro felt he could do without it and wanted to be as merciful as possible, but taking the whole thing into consideration the writer never saw OF RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. Johnson's uppercut so little in evidence. It is doubtful at the time if Johnson ever gave us a fight in which he was seen in better variety. He showed us a little of everything, and it was all gilt edge. Poor Ketchel must have forgotten at times that it was his mission in life today to force Johnson to lead. This because, when Johnson, on occasions, took to feint as only John can feint, Ketchel would begin whipping his gloves to and fro, sidewise, and blinking as though punches were coming from he knew not where. In boxing, Ketchel was thoroughly out-classed, and before two rounds had gone past it was plain his one hope was in being able to land just one swing. When Johnson held out his two hands, as he did in the affair with Kaufman, and Ketchel swung at the body, the lighter man's shoulder with a well-shift of the mark. When Johnson shot the man at bay in this manner, the champion's arms seem to be as long as ours. JOHNSON WISER AND STRONGER In the clinch fighting again Ketchel discovered that Johnson knows more in one round than the average fighter learns in a career. Without actually taking a grip of a hand or arm Johnson placed his gloves against Ketchel's biceps or shoulders and used pressure, which rendered Ketchel as helpless as though he were tied with ropes. Ketchel, as a rule, is away above the average at clinch fighting, but today he was powerless. He was held exactly, and yet he could not free his fighting machinery, and all the time Johnson was looking down into the littler man's face and chuckling derisively. They are other things about those clinches in the manner we gave an idea of Johnson's immense strength as well. Several times he hit Ketchel playfully off his feet and swung him half around. Once, when Ketchel's legs became entangled when the men were grappling, Johnson picked Ketchel up with one arm and placed him squarely on his feet. Johnson has always assured his friends that Jeffries' strength has no terrors for him. After watching the champion closely in his recent fights, it seems to me that even big-framed Jeffries will not be able to take any liberties with the ebony-hued Johnson when they lock arms and begin to pull and haul. A great strong mobbed the Colma arena this afternoon to see the battle, but it was not an enthusiastic crowd. As the time approached for the first preliminary the crowd gathered faster and faster. The street car service was partly demoralized by the pressure brought to bear upon it. JOHNSON THE FAVORITE Johnson arrived in his dressing room before the first preliminary was well-started, coming in his own machine. The negro seemed utterly unconcerned about the fight. He stood at the entrance to the arena 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. 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The ringside betting remained unchanged at 10 to 4 on Johnson and even money that Ketchel would not stay fifteen rounds. There was very little betting done at the ringside. Ketchel arrived at 2:27 P. M. and immediately went to his dressing room. At 2:30 Promoter Coffroth announced that there were approximately 10,000 people in the arena. Johnson's seconds were Bob Armstrong, Harry Foley, Young Peter Jackson, and Jack Leahy. Ketchel's were Brittany Gus Miller, Steve O'Connor, and J.Lafayette. When Johnson entered the ring he was dressed in a varicolored bathrobe. Ketchel wore a gray sweater and black trunks Hoots and groans welcomed Johnson, and also a few cheers. Ketchel's arrival was greeted with a wild outburst of cheering. The principals met in the ring center and gripped hands. Johnson strolled about the ring and gazed indifferently at the crowd. He went to Ketchel's corner, personally examined the gloves and bandages on his opponent's hands. FIGHT BY ROUNDS First round--The men shook hands. Johnson towered above his adversary by several inches. The champion scored almost immediately with a hard left hook to stomach. "Make him lead," yelled the seconds to Ketchel. Ketchel apparently was determined to make the black lead, and sparred for almost half a minute. Johnson, at long range, shot his left to the face twice with lightning rapidity. Ketchel forced Johnson against the ropes, but the latter wriggled away without receiving a blow. The bell rang, with the men in the center. It was an utterly tame round, both men fighting with extreme caution. Second round—Ketchel looked nervous throughout, while Johnson wore his golden smile. They ran to a clinch and the referee pried them apart. On the break Johnson shot a straight left to the nose, and soon thereafter duplicated it. At every clinch Ketchel was playing blows for the stomach. Ketchel uppercut hard to jaw wifl left. This angered Johnson, who rushed in, landing left and right on body, and Ketchel slipped to floor with considerable force. He was up quickly, rushing in, bull-like, but had great difficulty in getting under Johnson's long reach. Johnson merely toyed with Ketchel until the bell ended the round. Third round—Johnson posed and waited for Ketchel. Ketchel pawed the air and did not lead. Johnson feinted rapidly. Ketchel got in a left on the body and Johnson landed left, right, and again left on the jaw. Johnson held both hands exited and then suddenly shot in a straight. Ketchel tried a right swing for the ball, and marked by a bare inch Johnson landed on the face with a left and Ketchel got home with a left on the body. A clinch followed. Johnson was short with left, but reached the face with the next one. They clinched. Johnson simothered Ketchel's blows while holding and drove a stiff right to the stomach. There was a long siege of feinting. Ketchel was short with a left and Johnson rapped him hard on the jaw with a right. Fourth round—Johnson stood statue-like for a while and then began feinting. "Make him lead," shouted Ketchel's corner. Johnson was there with right and left on the face. He sparred for a while and missed with a double left for the in clinch Johnson lifted Ketchel of his feet to show his strength. Johnson hit show with a left a couple of times. Ketchel tried a right swing for the jaw which went dangerously close. Johnson grinned and shook his head. With a long spell of sparring Johnson rammed home a hard left to the stomach. Ketchel got in a light left on the mouth and they clinched. Pifth round—Johnson kept feinting toward Ketchel and missed with a left. Johnson blocked Ketchel's left, and they clinched. Johnson was there with a straight left to the mouth. Ketchel's head went back from another left. Johnson followed with another and blocked Ketchel's left hook in a clinch. Ketchel tried for the body with the left, but was short. Johnson landed two straight lefts on the face and a hard right to the body. Ketchel reeled. Johnson's system of defense in the clinches was perfect. Johnson drove in two straight lefts without drawing an elbow back, and there was blood on Ketchel's lips. Six round—Johnson blocked a left body blow and clinched. After the break Johnson got in two straight lefts, and Ketchel put in a right body punch. Johnson sent Ketchel reeling with a right on the jaw, and dropped him to his haunches with a straight left. He hooked Johnson in the ribs with a left. Johnson seemed to have the range with his straight left and prodded Ketchel repeatedly. The crowd laughed as Johnson backed away from Ketchel. Johnson shot in a straight left as the bell rang. Ketchel's nose bled freely. Ketchel swung a left for the body, but he was hurt. Johnson used his left in a punishing way, reaching the face repeatedly. Neither left from Johnson and Ketchel was short for the body. In a clinch Johnson began pumping his right uppercuts for the first time, reaching the face and body. Johnson sent Ketchel reeling with a right which landed on the shoulder. In a clinch which followed Johnson worked his upper-cut again, tilting Ketchel's head. Ketchel swung a hard left which caught Johnson on the glove, and made a great noise. The crowd cheered, thinking Ketchel had reached the head, but Johnson laughed. Eighth round—Johnson drove in a straight left, sending Ketchel's head back. They clinched and each punched the body with the left. Ket- 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 ``` chel got in another left on the body after the break from a clinch. Johnson sent home a straight left in a clinch, then drove his right into the ribs. Ketchel missed the negro's right swing and reeled into a corner. Johnson stepped back and grinned. Ketchel swung a left on the body and Johnson scored twice with a straight left. Ketchel tried another right swing and spun around like a top when he missed. The crowd cheered Ketchel as the men went to their corners. Ninth round—Johnson stood still a moment and then rammed home a straight left. They clinched till broken by the referee. Another clinch followed and Johnson held Ketchel's arms so that Ketchel could not score. Ketchel followed Johnson swinging for the body, and the crowd roared as Johnson stepped away. Johnson sent in a headfitting left. Johnson caught Ketchel with a right hook on the mouth as Ketchel ducked and sent him into the ropes. Ketchel missed with another right swing and Johnson brought blood from the lips with a couple of straight lefts. They stood away and Johnson scored again with a left, sending Ketchel's head back. Tenth round—Johnson was short with a straight left and they clinched. Johnson smuggled in a left body blow. They broke away and Johnson sent in two straight lefts for the stomach and several lefts on the mouth and nose. Johnson seemed to be keeping his right uppercut in reserve again. In a scuffing match Ketchel seemed to be stumbling, but Johnson steadied him and lifted him off his feet with one arm. Johnson still and straightened his left every few seconds, bringing blood from Ketchel's mouth. Johnson sent Ketchel reeling with a left hook on the neck. Johnson drew back from a left swing and then rushed Ketchel to the ropes. Eleventh round—Johnson sent in straight left and used the right uppercut in a clinch. Ketchel led with a right, but was short. Johnson put in two straight lefts and drew back from a left swing. While in a clinch Johnson used the right uppercut repeatedly, but did not seem to put much force in the punch. Ketchel's head went back from a straight left. Johnson then tried a right uppercut. Johnson then tried a right uppercut at giving Ketchel right and left uppercuts. Ketchel has tried twice with left uppercuts to the chin. Johnson avoiding them and using the right uppercut, landing each time. Johnson then began swinging his left into the body and scored repeatedly. Twelfth round—Johnson stepped briskly from his corner and met Ketchel with a straight left as Ketchel advanced. Some one on Ketchel's angle yelled, "Now then, Stanley!" and Ketchel let go a swing with the right. His glove seemed to curve around Johnson's neck and Johnson sank clumsily to the floor, knocking against the mat as he sank. There was a bit of a grin on Johnson's face, so that he was evidently in the possession of all his senses. (Continued on Eighth Page.) ```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. Ramsev, H. L. Jackson, H. Powell These are easily the peer of any garments hereabouts costing from $15 to $25 each. Fashioned, too, in a faultless way, with great care exercised in their tailoring, so that they may be right up to "The Famous" requirement. They MUST be "right" to be here. Fall Overcoats $10 and $15 Two Special Values in light and heavyweight OVERCOATS. Both are unusual at the prices asked. Garments most expertly tailored and created in the most fashionable manner. They were built in one of America's greatest tailor shops, where only expert workmen find employment. REAL WORTH $15 TO $25. Would be unusual if priced at $5 and $6. Newest effects. Many patterns. Every stylish shape or block that Fashion suggests for Fall and Winter. Unmatched at the price outside of "The Famous." THE FAMOUS CLOTHING CO., 124 East Broad Street. W. I. JOHNSON, Funeral Director and Embalmer, Office & Warerooms, 207 N. Foushee St. Cor. Broad. HACKS FOR HIRE. Orders by Telephone or Telegraph filled. Weddings, Suppers and Entertainments promptly attended. Telephone, 686. Residence in Building. THE PANET SATURDAY OCTOBER 23, 1909 Paul Before Festus and Agrippa Sunday School Lesson for Oct. 24, 1909 Specially Arranged for This Paper LESSON TEXT—Acts 25.6-26.32. Mem- ory verses 27.29. GOLDEN TEXT—I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have com- mitted unto him against that day—"I Thus It Is." TIME—Autumn of A. D. 29 or in 60. PLACE—Cesarea, the Roman capital of Palestine. Herod Agrippa II. was king of the regions north of the Sea of Galilee, with his capital at Cesarea Philippi. Suggestion and Practical Thought. Three ways of treating the gospel: Exemplified by three representative men—the Apostle Paul; the Roman Governor Festus; King Herod Agrippa II. Preliminary Events. An Interesting Story.—Acts 25:1-12. First. The new governor. At the close of two years in prison under Felix, there was a change of governors, and Porcius Festus entered upon his duties. We know nothing concerning him except from the Acts and Josephus. "Josephus tells us that he governed his stormy province with a wise, firm rule, putting down the Sicilar (assassins), and other predatory companies, who were then harassing Judea. He finds no fault with Festus." Second. The Plot to Take Paul's Life.—The first thing the new governor did after landing at Caesarea was to go up to Jerusalem, the Jewish capital, where were centered the most difficult persons and questions with which his administration would have to do. The Jewish rulers devised an ingenious plot to obtain possession of Paul. They poured into the ears of the new governor all the charges Tertullus had brought against Paul, and these charges were chiefly for breaking the Jewish law. On the way from Caesarea to Jerusalem they proposed to assassinate Paul, just as they had hoped to do two years before, but now with much better chances than before of accomplishing their purpose. Third. The Appeal to Caesar—On returning to Cesarea, accompanied by the Jewish rulers, Governor Festus summoned Paul into court where they emphasized these (v. 7) "many and grievous complaints," and asked Paul if he were willing to go up to Jerusalem for his trial. Paul stood up "four square to all the winds that blow" for his rights as a Roman citizen. His independent manhood speaks out: "I defy their charges; I will not go to Jerusalem to be tried by my enemies; I appeal unto Caesar." 1. Paul's Discourse Before King Agrippa; Revealing How He Treated Jesus Christ and His Gospel.—Acts 25: 13-26.23. The Royal Assemblage.—King Herod Agrippa made a visit of congratulation to Governor Festus. With him came the beautiful and fascinating Berrice, who was both his sister and his illegal wife. She was also the sister of Drusilla the wife of Felix and a dissolute. Festus was puzzled to know what charges to send with Paul to Rome. For Paul was no such criminal as the Jews tried to make him out. He had broken no Roman law. Hence he asked Agrippa, who was a Jew, to help him out of this dilemma. Paul's strongest argument was the fact that he (v. 19) "was not disobedient unto the heavenly vision," but he practiced what he believed, and gave his whole life, amid labors and perils and weariness, in hunger and thirst, and cold and nakedness, persecution, stonings, stripes above measure, shipwrecks and painfulness (2 Cor. 11), to urging Jews and Gentiles to (v. 20) "repent and turn to God, and do works meet for repentance" as he himself had done. The charges against Paul were false. For the Jews (v. 21) "were about to kill" him because he proclaimed the very Messiah they were expecting, the fulfillment of their hopes. 22. "Having therefore obtained help of God," "Help" in the Greek means originally an alliance against enemies, such aid as a warrior receives from auxiliary or allied forces. God was Paul's powerful ally. "Witnessing both to small and great," referring to age, rank, and position. Paul treated all alike, rich and poor, learned and unlearned, obscure and famous, despised and honored. "Saying nene other things," etc. The Decision of the Court—Vs. 30-32. The court decided that Paul was innocent, and might have been set at liberty had he not appealed to Caesar, but that the appeal must stand. "The whole process of two years and more, at Jerusalem and Cesarea, ended in a public and decisive acquittal. Claudius Lysias, Festus and Agrippa, had each declared him innocent; three times was it publicly announced of the apostle, as of his Lord, that he had done (v. 31) "nothing worthy of death." But this decision was the means of bringing him safely to Rone. It made a favorable impression on the Roman officer who took him there, and upon the Roman authorities after his arrival. Paul's Discourse.—Paul stretched forth his hand, the common gesture of an orator in opening his address and commenced his address with his characteristic union of frankness and courtesy." He appealed to the on-good point of Agrippa's bad character and life, not only because it was a courteous and fitting thing to do, but because it was the only way to open Agrippa's heart to the gospel. Then for the third time in the Acts is related the story of his conversion, the wondrous change wrought in himself by Jesus Christ. STARTING THE DAY DAINTY BREAKFAST TABLE IS IM PORTANT THING. A Little Care in Appointments Means Much—Proper Preparation of Various Kinds of Appetizing Dishes. By JESSICA E. BESACK (Director Department of Domestic Science and Art National Corn Exposition, Omabaa.) Daintiness should be the keynote of the breakfast table as well as for the table at other times. Some housekeepers may feel that they do not have time to go into the garden and gather a few dew-laden buds for the early morning meal, but those who do not have time, usually have some one about who could do this if they were asked. Not every housekeeper can have hot-house flowers on her table in mid-winter, but there are very few who could not find the time to pot a few ferns or other greenery that is waiting in the woods to be dug up, if they cared to do so. Such a centerpiece will add both daintiness and cheer to a very plain table and will show that some one about the house thinks of other things than mere existence. Mahogany furniture is not necessary to make a pretty and attractive tables, but neatness and care will make the plainest table pretty. Every woman can iron a tablecloth neatly and lay it straight. Plain white dishes, well washed, are within the reach of all, and are infinitely to be preferred to the gaudy colored ones on the market. Some people have been educated to take delight in a pretty, well-kept table, and to these people an untidy table, littered with part of the evening meal, filled with dirty cusup and other bottles, crumbs and carcass cooking, will take away all desire for food. A simple breakfast of eggs, toast, coffee and fruit, if daintily served, is good enough for anyone. In making toast there is no reason why the bread should not be trimmed into a neat shape and cut thin and evenly. Heat the bread knife, and you will be surprised to see how easily this is done. The parts cut off can be used otherwise, so there need be no waste. Toast the bread evenly and law it in straight piles on the hot plate and it will all be eaten. Eggs may be peached in milk for a change and if each egg is broken into a little mold or tiny tin cover, it will keep a pretty shape. They may be slipped into the oven and baked A pretty way to fry mush is to cut it into cubes and fry it in hot fat, after rolling each piece in flour. If the hot mush is packed into baking powder cans and allowed to cool, then cut evenly and fried carefully, the slices will keep a nice shape. Biscuits are much more attractive if cut with small cutter. It ought to be unnecessary to say anything about the pouring of coffee, yet we see it poured so carelessly sometimes that it runs down the side of the cup and into the saucer, making a very unattractive looking affair. The early morning meal is the beginning of a new day, and if one leaves the table with a satisfied feeling, he is fortified against many of the lils of the day, while a poor breakfast may be responsible for evils difficult to account for. ```markdown ``` Embroidered End for Lawn or Linen Jabot. To Whiten the Teeth. Some teeth are of a yellowish tinge naturally and no amount of care can make them glistening white, they can, however, be made a better color by constant brushing with a whitening powder and by occasional bleaching by a dentist who understands his business. Chewing a twig of althea bush is said to whiten the teeth, but care must be taken that the pulp is not swallowed. Rubbing the surface occasionally with the inside of a lemon rind is also whitening, nor is it as much of an acid as is usually considered. The practice of using peroxide of hydrogen on the teeth, as a bleach, should not be indulged in without the advice of your dentist. THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA DESIGNED FOR OUTDOOR WEAR Smart Costume in Dragon-Fly Blue Venetian Cloth—Plaited Skirt is a Feature. This exceedingly smart costume is in dragon-fly blue Venetian cloth; the skirt has two plats down each side of front, which are stitched about threequarters of the way down; near the ```markdown ``` foot tabs of braid and buttons form a trimming. The coat, which fastens over in a point, has a wrapped seam down each side of front and back, and is completely edged with braid; a strip of braid is sewn down the outside of arm, and has braid tabs put on either side of it; three of them are also sewn by the fastening in front; black satin forms the collar. ACCESSORIES OF THE TOILET Dainty Materials and Supplies That Are in Favor with the Daintily Gowned Girl. Scented sea salt, lavender perfumed powder and cheesecloth bags holding a mixture of white corn meal and powdered orris root for softening and perfuming the bathing water are included among the toilet accessories which one daintily grown young girl considers necessary for sanitary safety as well as for absolute physical comfort. On the same list are several bath mits of different sizes, face cloths of softest chamals and sponges of superfine quality to be used alternately while the others are being aired, dried and sunned. Fine French flower scented soaps are used for the hands and face, Castle for general bathing and tar soap for shampooing, but there is also a regular hair fertilizing and scalp cleansing soap, and each one of these cakes is kept in an individual box of silver, crystal or celluloid. Sterilized tooth brushes are kept in stoppered glass cases, and the sanitary tooth paste used upon them issues from the top of a screw covered zinc tube. Violet and rose toilet waters are purchased in perfectly airtight glass bottles and essences of those flowers, as well as lavender smelling salts, in glass stoppered phials cased in hard-wood boxes. A porcelain jar which holds the cold cream has a glass cover which screws on so tightly that dust cannot possibly reach the preparation. In a leather case are orange sticks, enery boards, cakes of cuttlebone, luster and pumice stone, a tube of ointment and a nail polishing machine to which a buffer is attached. Sash Worn in Front On some of the very newest gowns of foulard and ponge sashes are worn in front, swinging free from the gown at the waist line or just above it, and finished with deen slit fringe One side of the surplice drapery continued from the slightly raised waistline and formed the sash, which was also trimmed on the edge with the narrow embroidery. The sash hung well below the knees and was edged with a deep black silk fringe. In the Sewing Room When making buttonholes in material always choose a thread 20 numbers coarser than that which you would naturally use in that material. For instance, if you are sewing a piece of material with No. 80 cotton, you can work the buttonholes with No. 60. To prevent the thread from knotting when doing hand sewing always make a knot in the end last broken from the spool. This done, stretch the thread by taking the ends and giving several quick pulls. Feather Stitching. There is a revival of the simple old fashioned feather stitching as a trimming for negligees. A Chump. "Hs is an awful chump, isn't he?" "Yes, he bought a ticket in an automobile raffle and then built a garage before the drawing came off." "Well, what do you know about that? Was he disappointed when the drawing came off?" "Not so you could notice it; he won the auto." FALL MOTOR COAT HERE IS A SMART AND ATTRACTIVE MODEL. Distinction and Style Combined with Simplicity Marks Garment—Designed for the Needs of the Average Woman. So eccentric are many of the designs put forth by fashion for the up-to-date woman to copy that it is refreshing to come upon such a sane, smart and attractive model as the design for a fall motor coat shown in our illustration. The lines, while possessing all that could be desired in ```markdown ``` Motor Coat for Early Fall. the way of distinction and style, are nevertheless conservative and suited to the average woman, who does not look her best in strange and unusual designs of coats, gowns and hats. Light weight cloth, serge, cheviot, etc., would be suitable for this coat for the very early autumn, but for motorizing it is more prudent usually to get a garment of some weight, unless there are to be several in the wardrobe. A fairly heavy cloth usually will not be found too heavy after the middle of September, except in Indian summer days, when the summer coats may be worn. There is much latitude in colors, an effort being made to obtain those that will not be much duplicated. Tan is always correct, but unusual shades of any kind quite as admirable if becoming. MADE MOST OF SMALL SPACE Artistic Arrangement of Hall Bedroom Shows What Can Be Accomplished. Such a cosy little room as it was—the bachelor quarters of the woman who could pay only $3 a week room rent! There seemed to be a place for everything, and such a lot of space left over just to rest your eyes on. And yet, when you looked at the ceiling you saw that it was only a narrow slice of hall bedroom, after all. How came the magic hallucination? Why did you not feel as though you had to walk sidewise to get into the room, and then keep your biggest thoughts from expanding until you got outside again? "I'll tell you the secret," laughs the resourceful woman who wrought the transformation. "Of course I had to spend just a little on getting the furnishings I wanted, but, then I have to live here year in and year out, and wall paper is cheap when you do your own hanging. You see, the cardinal principles of space, or the appearance of it, are unbroken lines and lightness of color. A large room will look smaller in figured wall paper, and a small room larger in plain. The same is true of carpets and draperies. And light colors give the appearance of largeness, and horizontal lines of breadth. I therefore papered my walls in plain light green, carpeted my floor evenly from wall to wall in unfigured carpet, as light a shade as was practicable, and covered my couch and pillows with unfigured fabrics of harmonizing tints. My couch pillows I even had oblong instead of square, to give the horizontal lines. Nor did I break the floor space with rugs, nor the walls with large pictures. Across my one window I hung a single wide curtain, bordering it deeply and letting it come just to the sill for the sake of those same horizontal lines. Then I arranged my couch crosswise instead of lengthwise, so as to leave a square instead of an oblong space, and I tucked away every single article that I neither needed nor considered necessary to the beauty of the room. The result you have before you," and she smiled with a well earned pride. Suits for Girls There have recently been brought out some combination serge and plaid suits for girls and misses that are uncommonly smart in appearance. The plaited skirts are of plaid, in large, bold blocks, but in good colors, and the three-quarter, tightly-fitted coats are of dark blue serge, with cuffs and collar and a broad, turned-up band, held in place by small buttons, made of the plaid. An anchor or smaller emblem is embroidered on the left front of the coat. For those who may possibly think this pretty style too conspicuous there are suits made on the same plan entirely of the serge. Glorious. "Well, father," asked the beautiful young heiress, "did the count call on you this morning?" "Yes." "What did he say?" "He asked me if I was able and willing to support him in the style to which he had been accustomed." "Oh, glorious! Dear old dad, let me kiss you. I am so happy! Doesn't it all seem like a beautiful dream?" knights of Pythias, This organization is one of the most powerful in the country and its progress has been phenomenal. The Grand Lodge of Virginia has jurisdiction over all of the cities and counties in this state. Thirty males are required to organize a new lodge. The benefits paid constitute one of its strongest features, but the principles are greater than anything else. Founded on Friendship, based on Charity and established on Benevolence, the respectable, upright people of the state will find it an order worthy of their heartiest support. 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 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 PYTHIAST F.C.B. pays $4.00 only absolutely necessary regu apply at the main office. The Court Is the Female Department of the thirty persons to organize a co Fidelity, exercise Harmony and an endowment and burial bene dues. The only expense for m a rosette, costing 25 cents for f THE BANDS OF CALA stitutes a feature and persons a circle. The expense is nomin $1.00 to $1.50 sick dues and d Lodge or Court or Band in you For all information concern For all information concern membership in the lodges and TRIMMING UNDER THE ARM Fashion for Autumn That May or May Not Long Retain Its Popularity. This autumn will set the fashion for elaborate trimming under the arm in full swing. No one can prophesy these days how long it or any other fashion will remain in style. All one can hope for is that styles won't go hopelessly out of fashion before one can wear the garment they are having made. A dressmaker should really go home with every gown to alter it on its arrival. But this under-arm adornment may be taken off quite easily if style demands it. It is pretty and gives a coat or a gown other lines from those which we have been adopting. It is a change from that ever-recurring line down middle front and back. Braid, either soutache or the new lace weave, is the most used of all the trimmings. Floral designs are not especially popular. All the so-called Egyptian ones are. In separate, sleeveless coats, which are still popular, the armhole is decidedly pear-shaped, and the trimming which surrounds it extends to the hem. Princess frocks, which are even more fashionable than ever, have fantasies of trimming under the arm, narrowing as they go toward the hem. Lace is used, silver and gold braid, insertions of another material, and applied leaves of metal tissues or parne velvet. The latter is a mediaeval idea that joins hands cordially with all the other ideas we are borrowing from fargone centuries. PINAFORE DRESS FOR CHILD Should Be Made Up in Fancy Cotton —Long-Waisted Bodice Effect. Our illustration shows a capital little pinafore or over-dress to be made in fancy cotton; it has a long-walsted bodice with tucks turning from the fronts, giving the appearance of a large double box- plait trimmed each side with oval butt buttons and cord loops; the skirt has also plaits each side front and back; the armbones and the "V" shaped neck are finished with insertion or galloon; the blouse worn beneath may be of spotted muslin or cambric. in fancy cotton; it has a long-waisted bodice with tucks turning from the fronts, giving the appearance of a large double box-plait trimmed each side with oval buttons and cord loops; the skirt has also plaits each side front and back; the armholes and the "V" shaped neck are finished with insertion or galoon; the blouse worn beneath may be of spotted muslin or cambric. Materials required: Three yards for pinafore-dress; one yard for plouse. Their Natural Place "Did you see where a newly wedded couple were going to spend their honeymoon in a balloon trip?" "That's nothing. Honeymooners are generally in the clouds, anyway." In London "Hasn't she a willowy figure? So slender and sheathy!" "Yes, she's a suffragette and just out of Hollowell jail. Tried to starve herself, you know." Trained Animal. The animal trainer having been taken suddenly ill, his wife reported for duty in his stead. "Have you had any experience in this line?" asked the owner of the circus and menagerie, with some doubt. "Not just exactly in this line," she said, "but my husband manages the beasts all right, doesn't he?" "He certainly does." "Well, you ought to see how easily I can manage him."—Tlt-Bits. N. A., S. A., E. A., A. AND A. organization is one of the most power- has been phenominal. The Grand over all of the cities and counties in led to organize a new lodge. 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Your patronage is respectfully solicited. ```markdown ``` The Conquest’ of the Pole * " ! | i i 4 pe hg | i é “6 Maa ae sh ae oe fae oa pict a4 { alin ox cab we] Se ee a ees | ES ae } | SS ae eae | Oe ea Sir A. as 2 i (. 2 I ess. a: | ER Oe Te pai rd ae SO Wey \ EE EES TE TP AES VORP STOTT TREE THE MIDNIGHT SUN IN THE ARCTIC. By Dr. FREDERICK A. COOK Copvright. 1909, by the New York Heral4 Company. Redistered In Canara lo Accordance With Copy- ritht Act. Copyright In Mex- ico Unde- Laws af the Republic of Mexico. All Rights R------4 Oososososososoeososososo <7 ms ipa hare fii estes tor ee scat bes ioe Ww Bradley and the officers and encouraged with a cheer from Il on board, we left ‘the motherly vacht for our new bome and m'ssion. The yrcht stood off to avolé drifting ice and await the re- ‘turn of the motorboat. When we were set ashore we sat down and watched with saddened eyes ‘the denartnre cf our friends and the fevering of the bond which bad held js to the known world of life and ‘bappiness, ‘The village of Annootok Is placed In a small bay just inside of Cape Ingle- field. Its population changes much from year to year, according to the known Ick of the chase or the ambi- tion of the men to obtain new bear- skin trousers. Scattered about it were twelve seal- atin tents, which served as a summer shelter for an equal number of vigor- ous families. In other places nearer the sea were seven stone igloos, Upon these the work of reconstruction for owinter shelter bad already begun. in the Immediate vicinity there were some turf and moss, but everywhere else vathin a few bundred feet of the sea the Innd rose abruptly in steep slopes of barren rock To the westward across Smith sound in a bine haze were seen Cape Sabine, Bache peuinsula and some of the land beyond whieh we hoped to cross in our prospective venture. The construction of a winter house and workshop called for immediate at tention after the wind subsided. Men. women and children offered strong hands to gather the stones strewn along the shor When the cargo ts packed in this manver the things can be qafckly tossed on deck and transported to Moating ice or land. Later it is possi ble, with packing boxes of uniform size as building material, to erect eff elent shelter wherein the calamities of arctic disaster can be avoided. Building Winter Quarters. ‘This precaution agalust ultimate mis bap now served a very useful purpose. Inclosing a space 13 by 16 feet, the cases were quickly piled in, The walls Were helt together by strips of wood or the joints seated with pasted paper with the addition of ‘a few tong boards, A really good root was made by using the covers of the boxes as shin. gles. A blinket of turf over this con. fined the heat and permitted at the same tine healthful eitculation of alr. | We siept under our own root at the! end of the first day, and our new bouse had the vers great advantage of con-| taining within its walls all our posses: sions within easy rosch at all thes. ‘Ae the winter advanced with ts stormy fergghiy and frighiful darkness At Was not necessary to venture out and dix up suppiles from great depths of snowdrift. Meat and biubber were stored in large quantities about the camp, Much Work In Sight. But our expedition was in need of skins and furs. Furthermore. as men engaged for the northern venture would be away during the spring months, the best hunting season of the year, it was necessary to make provision for house needs later. There was therefore much work before us, for we had noi only to prepare our equipment, but to provide. for the families of the workers. In the polar cycle of the seasons there are peculiar conditions which ap- ply to circumstances and movements. As the word seasons {s ordinarily un- Gerstood there are but two. a winter season and a summer season—a winter Season of nine months and a summer of three months. | But for more convenient division of the yearly periods it fs best to retain | the usual cycle of four seasons. Eski- | mos call the winter ookiah, which also means year. and the summer onsab. | Days are “sleeps.” The months are. moons, and the periods are named in accord with the movements of varions creatures of the chase. In early September at Annootok the nn dips considérably under the north- era horizon, There is no night At sunset and at sunrise storm clouds ‘Aide the bursts of color which are the glory of twilight, and the electric after- ds generally lost in the dull gray the torment of the eI ee : Marvesting Food and ; Feel For the Polar Trin. ¢ Narwhal Hunting an ¢ Exciting Spert se J : ITRIRD ARTICLE} eteteretertetetesesetesese ‘The gloom of the coming winter night now thickens. The splendor of the summer day has cone. A day of six months and 4 night of six months are often ascribed to the volar regions a8 a whole, but this is only true of a ‘Yery small area about the pole. AS we come sovth the sun slips un- er the horizon for an ever increasing Part of each twenty-four hours. Pre. ceding and following the night as we come from the pole there is a veriod of day and nieht which lengthens witb the descent of latitnde. It is this period which enables us to retain the names of the usual seasons —summer for the double days, fall for the period of the setting sun. This season begins when the sun first dins under the ice at midnight for a few moments. ‘The Arctic Night. These moments increase rapidly, yet ‘one hardly appreciates that the sun {s departing until day and night are of equal length, for the night remains light, though not cheerful. Then the day rapidly shortens and darkens, and the sun einks until at least there Is hut @ mere glimmer of the glory of day. Winter is limited to the long night. and spring applies to the days of the rising sun, n period corresponding to the autumn dass of the setting sun At Annootok the midnight sun is frst seen over the sea horizon on April 2 It dips in the sea on Aug. 19. It thus encireles the horizon, giving summer and continuous day for 118 days. It Sets at midday on Oct. 24 and Is ab seat & period of prolonged night cor Fesponding to the day and rises on Feb. 20. Harvesting Food and Fuel ‘Then follow the eye opening days ut spring. In the fall, when the harmon {zing infuence of the sun ts withdrawn, there begins battle of the elements which continues its smoky agitation until stilled by the hopeless frost of early night At this time, though feld work was Palafal, the needs of our venture forced Us to persistent action in the chase of walrus, seal, narwhal and white whate We harvested food and fuel. Betore winter ice spread over the hunting grounds ptarmigan, hare and reindeer were sought to supply the ta Ble during the long night with deltca cles, while bear and fox pleased the palates of the Eskimos and their pelts clothed all Many long journeys were made to se cure an important supply of grass to pad boots and mittens and also to se. cure moss, which serves as wick for the Eskimo lamp. ‘The months of Sep tember and October were indeed lm: portant periods of anxious seeking for Feserve supplies, Aid From the Eskimos, ‘There was a complex activity sud. denly stimulated along the Greenland coast which did not require general #2- pervision. The Eskimos knew what Was required without a word from ns and knew better than we did where to find the things worth while. An out line of the polar campaign was sent from village to village, with a few general fustractions, Each local group of natives was to fill an important duty and bring to gether the tremendous amount of ma terial required for our house and sied equipment. Each Eskimo village bas, as a rule, certain game advantages. In some places foxes and hares were abundant. Their skins were In great demand for costs and stockings, a Eskimos must not only gather oo greatest number pessible, but must Prepare the sking and make them into Droverly fitting garments, In other places reindeer were abnn- dant. This skin was very much in demand for sleeping bags, while the sinew was required for threa¢. In still other places seal was the luck of the chase, an¢ its skin was one of our most imnortant needs. Of it boots were ordered. and an imménse agnount of line and Iashings was prepared. ‘Thas in one way or another every man, woman and most of the children of this tribe of 250 people were kept busy In the service of the exped’tion. The work was well done and with much better knowledge of the fitness of things than could be done’ by any poscihle qathering of white men. Use of the Narwhal. ‘The quest of the walrus and the nar- whal came In our own immediate plan THE RICHMOND PLANET. RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. Of adventnze. The unicorn, or hat Whal, does not o%ten come under the eye of the white man, though one of the first aniroais to leave our shores. It gave for a brief spell good results fm sport and useful material. The Dlubber fs the pride of every house- keeper, for it gives a long, hot flame to the Inmp, with no smoke to spot the igloo finery. ‘The ekin is regarded as quite a delicacy. Cut into squares, ft loots and tastes Mike scallops, with only a slight aroma of train oll. ‘The meat dries easily and is thus prized as n appetizer or as a lunch to be eaten en route in sled or kayak. In this shape it was an extremely use- ful thing for us, for it took the place ‘of pemmican for our less urgent jour- neys. ‘The narwhal, which. apart from ts usefulness, $s most interesting to den- fzens of the arctic Jeep, played in schools far off shore, usually along the edge of lance fce. Its long trory tusks Tose under gpouts of breath and spray. When thiryriad ripht was noted every kayak abont camp was manned, and the Eskimos’ skin canoes went like birds over the water. Some of the Fiskimos rose to the ice fields and de- livered harpoons from a secure foot- ing. Others hid behind floating frag- ments of heavy ice and made a sudden rush as the animals passed. Still others eame up tn the rear, for the narwhal cannot easily see back- ward and does not often turn to watch {ts enemies, tts speed being so fast that it can easily keep ahead of other troublesome creatures. Hunting the Narwhal. ‘The harpoon ts always delivered at close range. When the dragging float marked the end of the line in tow of the frightened creature the Ine of skin canoes followed. The narwhal le timid by nature. Fearing to rise for breath, he plunged along until nearly strangulated. When it did come up there were several Exktnios near with drawn lances, which tnflicted deep gashes. Again the narwhal plunged deep Gown with pnt one breath and burried along as best It could. But tts speed “slackened, and a Ine of crimson mark “ed its hidden path. Loss of blood and | want of alr did not give it a chance to fight. Again ft came up with a spout; again the lances were hurled. The jartle continued for several hours, with many exciting adventures but tn the end the narwhal always suc cumbed, offering a prize of several thousand pounds of meat and blubber Vietory, as a rule. was not gained until the bunters were far from home. also far from the shore Ine. But the Es kitho is a courageous hunter and an intelligent seawan. Towing the Carcass. To the buge carcass frail kayaks | were hitched in a long line. Towing is slow, wind and sea combining to | make the task difficult and dangerous | Qe ue | ~ b ‘One sees nothing of the narwha! and Very little of the kayak, for dashing Seas wash over the little craft, but the double biaded paddles seesaw with the regularity of a pendulum. Homecoming takes many hours and engenders a prodigious amount of hard work, but there Is energy to spare, for A wealth of meat and fat is the cul mination of all Eskimo ambition. Seven of these ponderous antmals were brought in during five days, making a heap of more than 40,000 pounds of food and fuel. Then the harwhals suddenly disappeared, and We saw no more of them. ‘Three white whales were also obtain. ed in a simtiar way at Etah at about the same time. Thue. All men at times must toe the mark, But all men also Know ‘The holes in socks, if left undarned, Will surely mark the toe. Detroit Pree Press. How About Thia? “Mrs. Hyler says ber busband is a perfect man.” “Hub! You know what people say about a perfect man, as a rule.”—Kan- sas City Times, A Psalm of Hair. Heads of aia men off remind us ‘That our hair would Ge sublime If the tonic men ‘could nd us While there yet was lots of time. Chicago Post Sibistider Diente Harker—1 wonder why Coppin gave up his quarters at the Uppson hotel? Parker—Probably because be hada't the dollars to pay for them.—Denver Republican, His Version of It. My wife says her nat’s a dream, J say vo too, for I'vp a habit Of creaming the tost horrid dreains Afier dining on Welsh rabbit. ‘Houston Post. 7 leet “Bliggins used to say be admired a clinging woman. Did he marry one?" “Yes, She bangs on to every cent of his salary.”"—Washington Star. PRESIDENT TAETS AUTEN OUTING +2. al hs Ba ee SS : a a ar a i te t a “3 7 Vee! . TRE Cosa emo GO RLONE = FB) a i = GTAP : ache sk Seang A SIDENT TAFT SPEAKING FROM PLATFORM OF HIS CA The Itinerary to Be Follow. ed In Making the 13,000 Mile Journey Across the Continent and Return. :: HE presidential tour across the | continent and return by the ! southern route, beginning Sept. 15 and ending Nov. 10, amounts ‘practically to a wide swing around the [United States covering approximately |13,000 miles. | On this tour every modern means of transportation except the airship will ibe employed. Starting from the north \coast of Massachusetts, the route is direct west from Beverly by motor into Boston the morning of Sept. 15— ‘Mr. Taft's fifty-second birthday—and there boarding the car which practical- ly will be a roving White House for two months. ‘The president's first stop was ar- ranged for Chicago, on the mérning of Sept. 16, spending the afternoon and evening, leaving at 3 a. m., Friday, Sept. 17, for Milwaukee, WIS, spend- ing there the entire forenoon of that day, leaving there at midday for Wi- noua, Minn., with a brief stop at La Crosse, Wis., en ronte. After spending Friday night at Winona the president arranged to react Minneapolis early the morning of Sept. 1S This two days’ visit was planned to include an afternoon and evening In St. Paul. On Sept. 20 five hours will be spent In Des Moines, and then the president moves on to Omaha. At Denver Sept. 21. Denver will be reached during the afternoon of Sept. 21, and the presi- dent will go almost direct from his train to the state capitol for a recep tion to be tendered by state officials, by the chamber of commerce, elvie “organizations, ete. At 9 p. m. the pres- “dent will make an address tn the Den- ver Auditorium, where Mr. Bryan last \year was nominated for the presi ‘dency. The president and his party [will breakfast with Thomas F. Walsh at Wolburst, near Denver, the morn- ing of Wednesday, Sept. 22, and then return to toe city for the chamber of commerce banquet at noon, Leaving Denver at 5 p. m., Sept, 22 the prest dent and his party will stop for an hour's visit at Colorado Springs and then go ou to Pueblo The morning of Sept, 2% wilt ind the president at Glenwood Springs for @ brief visit, and that afternoon he will Visit Montrose to have a look at the great Gunnison tunnel of the west ern Colorado irrigation project. Ite turning to Grand Junction to resume the journey westward, the president is scheduled to arrive at Salt Lake City Friday afternoon, Sept, 24, to re- main there until Sunday afternoon, the 26th, when the party will leave over the Oregon Short Line for Poca- tello, Ida., and Butte, Mont, the latter city being reached Monday, Sept. 27, at 640 a.m. After spending balf a day In Butte there will be a brief ex- cursion into Helena. Spokane, Wash, will be reached early Tuesday morn- ing, the 28th, and the entire day will be spent tn the clty. The fore. noon of the 20th will be spent at North Yakima, and the party will arrive at Seattle ‘at S:15 o'clock that evening. ‘The president will also visit Tacoma, At the Seattle Fair. President Taft will spend two days Sept. 30 and Oct. 1, “doing” the Alas ka-Yukon exposition, leaving Seattle late on the evening of the second day and arriving at Portland, Ore, Oct. 2, at 7a. m. Two days will be spent in Portland, the party leaving there at 6p. m. Sunday, Oct. 3, for a trip down ‘whe famous Shasta route, through the Siskiyou mountains and in view of Mount Shasta. to San Francisco. The president will stop for the even. ing of Oci. 4 at Sacramento, reaching Oakland early on the moruing of Oct. 5 He will spend four or five hours fn and around Oakland and Berkeley before taking the ferry at 12:20 o'clock for San Francisco. After an after- hoon and evening in San Francisco the President will leave early the morning Of the 6th for the Yosemite valley. He will spend the 7th, Sth and 9th im the valley and, coming out the ceed to Los Angelo, stopping for three to Los Angel hours at Fresno on Sunday afternoon. ‘The president on Monday and Tues- @ay, Oct. 11 and 12, will be tn Los Angeles visiting his sister. He wil) Places to Be Visited Dur- ing the Fifty-six Days of President's Grand “Swing Around the Circle.” :: x arrive at the Grand canyon the mori- ing of Oct. 14 and will leave again that night for Albuquerque, N. M., where he will spend the evening of the 15th, reaching El Paso early the following morning for the meeting with President Diaz of Mexico, ‘The president is due to reach San Antonio Sunday night, Oct. 17, and ‘will spend the forenoon of the follow- ing day in an inspection of Fort Sam ‘Houston, with the upbullding of which he had much to do while secretary of war. Arriving at Corpus Chaist! the evening of Oct. 18, the president goes at once to his brother's ranch, where he will stay through Tuesday, Wednes- day, Thursday and Friday. Visiting Houston on the forenoon of Saturday, Oct. 23, the president proceeds to Dal: las that afternoon to spend Saturday evening and Sunday. Down the Mississippi. From Dailas the president proceeds direct to St. Louts to besin his four days’ trip down that historic water- way. He Is to reach St. Louis at 7:27 on the morning of Monday, Oct. 25, and will leave at 4p. m. on the steam: Doat assigned to him by the Deep Wa. terways association. ‘The first long stop of the river trip will be at Cairo, I, at 8:30 a. m., Tuesday, Oct. 26. ‘The second stop will de at Hickman, Ky., at 2:30 p. m., the president making brief addresses at both places, Arriving of Mempbis, ‘Tenn., at 8 a. m., Wednesday, Oct. 27, the president will make an address at 9a. m. and that afternoon at 5 o'clock will speak at Helena, Ark. On Thurs- day, Oct. 28, at 2:20 p. m., the president will make a speech at Vicksburg. New Orleans will be reached about 4 o'clock Friday afternoon. The river journey also will include short stops at Cape Girardeau, Mo. and Natchez, Miss. ‘The president will remain In New Or- Teans from Friday afternoon, the 20th, to Monday morning, Nov. 1. Fe will address the waterways convention Oct, 30 at 2:30 p. m. Through States of the South, From New Orleans the president goes to Jackson, Miss., spending practicaRy the entire day of Nov. 1 there. He Will spend three hours of the following day at Columbus, Miss.. and will ar- rive at Birmingham, Ala. that even: ing at 7:45 o'clock. ‘The president will remain in Birvalngham until the after- noon 4% Wednesday, Nov. 3, when he proceeds to Macon, Ga, arriving there early the woraing of the 4th. After spending the forenoon of the 4th at Macon the president proceeds to Sa Yannah to spend the evening of the 4th and half of the wext day. Charles- ton, 8. C., Is next on the ist for a stop. the evening of Nov. 5. From Charleston the president will proceed. on Saturday morning, Nov. 6, to Au- gusta, where he will spend Saturday afternoon and Sunday. Columbus, S, C., will be visited the afternoon of Nov. 8 and Wilmington, N. 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EIGHT THE PLANET SATURDAY...OCTOBER 23, 1909 Colored Man is Still Champion (Continued From Fifth Page.) Johnson jumped up quickly and turning on his heels, met Ketchel's rush. The negro lashed out with lefts and rights, catching Ketchel on the body and face. The finishing blow was a right-hander. Ketchel fell on his back and throw his arms wide. He was stretched out long after ten seconds had elapsed and had to be gathered up and carried to his corner—Washington Post. Ketchel's Mother Bets Detroit, Mich., Oct. 16—Mrs. Julia Argorman, mother of Stanley Ketchel, had $1,000 bet on her son's success in his fight with Jack Johnson for the heavyweight championship today. Three hundred of this amount was at 3 to 5; the remainder at even money. "I was perfectly willing to bet even money on Stanley," said the disappointed mother sadly. "He sent me a telegraph this morning that he was in great condition and would give a good account of himself. "In his letters he has been telling me that he never felt better and more confident of winning a fight in his life. In fact, he told me to bet all the money that he could spare on him, declaring that he surely would win. He said, however, that if he lost he would make good the money I lost on him. He said he knew just where to reach his weak spot; knowing he could knock him out right at the start; but he intended to play with him for a while. "I think yet he is the best fighter. It must all have been an accident the twelfth round, for Stanley had him down and almost beaten." Jeffries Forced to Make a Match With Johnson. Jim Jeffries will be compelled to make a match with Jack Johnson for the heavyweight championship of the world or admit that he does not intend to reenter the prize-ring. Jeffries is on the Lusitania, which will arrive here on Thursday or Friday, and has promised to make arrangements for the big fight without further delay. Johnson will be in Chicago probably by the end of the week and says he will be ready to sign articles and post a big forfeit to go as a side bet. Johnson's signal victory over Stanley Ketchel, the latter being knocked out in the twelfth round, has put the pugilistic situation squareup to Jeffries. The sporting public is ready to admit that Jeffries is the only white man in the world who has the physical strength and scientific necessary to bring about the defeat of Johnson, and at that there are many followers of pugilism who doubt Jeff's ability to whip the gigantic negro. Jeffries said in London on Friday that as soon as he reached this city he would confer with Sam Berger, his loquacious manager, who made a sort of tentative agreement with Johnson last August which amounted) to practically nothing. Jeffries also said with apparent sincerity that if Johnson defeated Ketchel the champion would have to make the match that has been widely discussed for nearly a year. Jeffries further said that he was in fine health and if Johnson ever got in the ring with him the championship title would be returned to the white race. So far so good! Jeffries has $5,000 posted with a friend in this city and probably will call Johnson's attention to it as soon as he steps off the big Cunarder. If Johnson objects to this particular stakeholder, which is not improbable, Jeffries can easily turn the money over to somebody else with the provision that it will go as an appearance forfeit and also as part of a side bet on the result of the mill. If Johnson wants to clinch the fight he will cover Jeff's forfeit without a pow-wow and both men can then sign articles. There need be no wrangle over the purse or battleground, for Promoter Coffroth who will be here on Saturday probably will make an offer which will secure the fight for Colma. If Johnson and Ketchel drew a $35,000 gate at popular prices it is believed that the Jeffries-Johnson mill in the same arena would atract at least twice that amount. Johnson is ready to fight Jeffries right off the reel, he says, but he probably knows that Jeffries will not be in his sees condition before March or April. Boddes, Johnson is believed to be anxious to tour the big cities for a while to search of more easy money as a result of his triumph over Ketchel The sporting public has been patient over the arrangement of the big mill and the men are entitled to a reasonable amount of time, but if they do not agree to get into the ring within the next six months they doubtless will be accused of bluffing. Johnson looms up as a formidable opposition for Jeffries after all, which they will settle their differences the fighter will be about the biggest thing of its kind ever held on American soil. Jack Johnson Lays Ketchel Out For Count. 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LOAN OFFICE 214, 216, 218 & 220 N. 9 RICHMOND, VA. 214, 216, 218 & 220 N. 9th St. RICHMOND, VA. the world, put up against the negro, Jack Johnson, of Texas, who has held the title for nearly a year, at this place here Saturday afternoon. The negro finally won in the twelfth round, knocking out Ketchel by a tricky blow in the jaw that sent the white man to sleep for the count. The white boy, champion of the middleweight class and desirous of winning the laurels of a higher set, was completely outclassed in weight, reach, height and defensive work. Johnson several times refused to force the issue when he apparently had Ketchel completely at his mercy but allowed his opponent to recover once after being down for the count of nine. Ketchel stuck gamely to his flag, however, and several times landed effective blows on the negro's jaw and abdomen. Once he nearly put the champion to the happy hunting grounds, but the big black recovered and came back strong as ever. WIND-UP GAME IN TWELFTH. The beginning of the end came in the eleventh. Ketchel stung the negro with a left to the ear. Johnson, infuriated by the blow, dashed at the "assassin," and showered lefts and rights to the head and stomach. The bell found the middleweight decidedly wabby, and when he came up for the twelfth, he seemed to be all in. They engaged in a fierce mill, when suddenly Ketchel shot out his left, that appeared to graze Johnson's jaw. The negro went back upon his haunches, and with a grin pulled himself up and pivoted about on a rigid left arm, showing apparently that the blow had not robbed him of any of his vitality. After the time-keeper had counted a few seconds Johnson arose as spry as ever, and sailed into Ketchel like a demon. Following left jabs to the nose, the negro put over a left to the jaw, and as Ketchel's knees began to sag, Johnson sent a crushing right to the point of the chin, knocking Ketchel flat on his back, completely out. It was the opinion of many that if Johnson shows no more class than he did to-day, Jeffries, with one-half his old-time form, can clean up the negro in fig time. Jeffries Confident He Can Beat The Negro. New York, Oct. 18.—As soon as James J. Jeffries arrives here from Europe on Thursday or Friday, he AN OFFICE, 220 N. 9th St. ND, VA. will be prepared to sign immediately final articles for a fight with Jack Johnson, according to James J. Corbett, who had a three-hour interview with the former champion just before he sailed from England and who is quoted in a cable message received here as saying: "Jeffries will certainly fight Johnson. The public may have believed that he was bluishing but it was due to Jeff's honest desire to see whether or not he could fit himself for the ring. He is fit now and will fight. I was surprised at his appearance. I haven't been in such good condition for years. 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