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The St. Johns herald., 1898-06-18

It has long been the fashion to place upon menu and dinner cards sketches and quotations to suggest topics of con- versation, but PariSian hoSteSes have adopted an opposite course. Their form ula reads, While sitting at table, speaking on the subject of the Dreyfus question is forbidden" In like fashion Catherine IT. once posted on the walls of the Hermitage: Tt Is forbidden to have an Hl-tempered air, to exchange unkind words, to speak i'll of any one whatever. All quarrels must be left at the door with hat and sword" How beautiful to be a dictator! Yet even in this land of free speech, the De Lome indiscretiOn suggests the wisdom of dictatorship over ones own tongue.
The St. Johns herald., 1898-06-18

The extraordinary safety of the malls Is Illustrated in the history of the Round Robin of the class of "A Yale, which in fifty-three years of travel across the continent one hundred and fifty times and journeyed more than five hundred thousand miles without once being lost
The St. Johns herald., 1898-06-18

Illinois was the second State in the production of coal last year. the total product being 20,072,75S tons, valued at the mines at $14, AZ, ,529, or an aver age of 72 cents a ton. Pennsylvania stood at the head of the list, with product of 53,S42, 800 tons of bitumi- nous, valued at $37, ,964, ,496, an average cost of 70 cents a ton at the mines. It will surprise people to learn that West Virginia stands third in coal production Of all the United States, her total reach ing 13,556,07S tons, valued at SS, ,637, ,617, an average of 64 cents a ton at the mines, which was the lowest of any State in the Union. Ohio coal cost an average of IS cents, and, although the total WAS l. ,340,OO0 tons less than was
The St. Johns herald., 1898-06-18
The Proner Way to Eat.

At recent meeting of medical men pr. F. A. Burrall spoke of the amount of mischief done by the very common habit of eating the meals rapidly, ac- cording to the farmers motto of Quick to eat and quick to work" Thorough mastication was of the utmost import ance, and, of course, this presuppOsed a proper condition of the teeth. Gastric
The St. Johns herald., 1898-06-18
Time Is Also Cruel.

Mrs. Biffkin was dissolved in tears.
 "You have changed, she sobbed; ''you have changed most cruelty. You love me no more. You no longer sit with your arm encircling my waist, as was your custom before we were mar ried''
 "Gcod heavens, AntoinetteP' ex- claimed Mir. Biffkin. You should have married an india rubber man.
 Alas It was but too true. Mrs BiR- kin had also changed. d.-London Tit Bits.
The St. Johns herald., 1898-06-18

"Ever since was a child" remarks Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett, 'I have felt an overwhelming sense of responsi- bility for the universe" Perhaps that is why Mrs. Burnett has grown tired of assuming the responsibility of a hus- hand
The St. Johns herald., 1898-06-18

A Washington scientist wants all American subsidiary coins made of nickel, because they would be durable and velvety to the touch" There's the rub! What is really needed is coin that is hard to the touch"
The St. Johns herald., 1898-06-18

A candidate for the office Of Cover nor in a Southern State has single plank in his platform: Simple. una dulterated, unpurchasable, unbulldoz- able manhood" An excellent working summary for every one, candidate or vOfAr
The St. Johns herald., 1898-06-18

A Maryland man suddenly died the other day while laughing heartily at a joke. The dispatches do not tell what the joke was, but 1t must have been r,arHacflY Killing.
The St. Johns herald., 1898-06-18

Do American wives consider their husbands merely as bread winners" asks London paper. If the American wife is welded to an English duke she doesn't
The St. Johns herald., 1898-06-18

A California thief sold his plunder for s14 and with the money paid an honest debt. As soon as the moral or this incident has been studied out It will be duly announced.
The St. Johns herald., 1898-06-18

The other day a coroner's jury re- turned a verdict that ''the decedent came to his death by being struck by a railroad train in the hands of a re- ceiVer." That must be deadly uoorN0n
The St. Johns herald., 1898-06-18

Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, frequently proposed
 by theorists and visiOnaries, seldom command enough support to receive se- riOus consideration. There is a sound conservatism, which fortunately is pop ular, against meddling with the text or that historic instrument which is the great charter of our institutions. There is now upon the calendar of the Senate, however, a joint resolution, which has received the favorable report of the Judiciary Committee, and which has behind it the force of its provision for a possible exigency. This amendment, which it is proposed to submit to the Legislatures of the several States for their approval. is designed to meet the contingency of the death of President elect, between the time when the cleo tOral college casts its vote, early in Jan- uary, and March 1, the date of the in auguration. At present. there is no pro vision by which another President could be elected, and Congress has no authority to supply the deficiency. The President-elect occupies a position of peculiar responsibility and of possible danger. Had the plot to assassinate Lincoln at Baltimore on his way to Washington succeeded, there would have been no legal method to choose his successor and a state of anarchy would have preceded the civil war. Had Blaine been nominated by the Minneap- oils convention and elected, there would have been a similar dilemma, as his lamented death occurred on Jan. 29. Four Presidents of the United States have died within a few weeks after their inauguration. It would seem, therefore, entirely wise to confer in eX- press terms upon Congress the power to "provide for the case where there Is no person entitled to hold the office of President or Vice President, declaring what officer shall then act as Presi- dent" The constitutional lawyers of Congress may split hairs to their brains content over the precise form and lan- guage of this amendment, but its pur- pose is as plain as its need is obvious.
The St. Johns herald., 1898-06-18

It takes so much to repair a bicycle and run a kodak that no one owning either can hope to save enough for the Paris exposition.
The St. Johns herald., 1898-06-18

Minister Polos statement that all American newspaper men should be hanged is too sweeping. There are still a few exceptions.
The St. Johns herald., 1898-06-18

MT. Moody says it is easier to con- vert a man than to convert woman. Who doubts It? There is so much more from which to convert man.
The St. Johns herald., 1898-06-18

Down in Kentucky a bank cashier has been convicted and denied a new trial. It's a poor defaulter who can | steal enough to protect himself.
The St. Johns herald., 1898-06-18

Women have transacted the church business so long that it is startling to see a man at it.
The St. Johns herald., 1898-06-18

lou cant temper criticism of your partners whist-playing enough to keep it from hurting.
The St. Johns herald., 1898-06-18

No matter which diplomatic shell poor old China picks up, the pea will not be under 1t. It isn't the CelestiaPs game.
The St. Johns herald., 1898-06-18

The Emperor of China is known as the brother of the sun, but he is not "so warm"
The St. Johns herald., 1898-06-18
OBSCURE BUT ELOQUENT.
Enduring Epita phs that Commemorate
 Useful and Beautiful Lives.

Enduring Epita phs that Commemorate
 Useful and Beautiful Lives.
 AmoDg the enduring, put commonly unnoti.ed, relics of human lives are the memories If humble goodness which they leave behind then, and these are better worth record upon stone or bronze -lan the annals or mere great ness, though they are seldom found there. Now and then, like flower in the desers DlushiUg unseen, one stum- bles upon some simple churchyard token of a life that was a blessing, or of
 "a good deed in q naughty world. Close by the grand tomb If Gen. Grant on the bluffs Of the Hudson stands a graceful little marble, more than cen tury old, commemOrating An Amiable Child" Many who briIr garlands for the hero turn with a st, ting tear to the gravc of the 4-year-,ld boy who died so long ago, but who made every one lova him
 Mir. Nal,er Wade a Stlte insurance solicitO~, mentioned 10 ne Louisville Post the other daE che If hs curious finds on a Kentucky n.lISida. It was a roughly hewn stone over one of pair of negiected graves in a iassafras thicket. The stone was otergrOwn with wild ivy, bus he could make out these words, rudely ch.seled on it:
 JANE LALER
 Ded Agus I549
 She wlz aJlus kiue to eyrybuldie.
 Inquiry of an aged mouItaineer about the Tai,r family elicited he fact that the woman was the wife ofan old woodsman who once lived and hunted on Mt. Elklorn It was probably his unpractieed hand that had carved her epitaph before he, too, vas laid by her side in his hillside grave.
 q ask no greater .b1on," sail MT. Wade, "5hau that I, when I sleep my last sleep, may have such an epitaph written above my dust:
 "'He wuz allus kline o cvrybudlie.'
The St. Johns herald., 1898-06-18

The Spanish colors appropriately are red and yellow-blood and cowardice.
The St. Johns herald., 1898-06-18

Nope" said Mir. Rockwell, as he wiped his glasses, 'T'm afraid Johns college education ain't goin' to do him much good, after all." ''Why, Silas, '" his anxious wife cried, "what makes you say that?' "He admitted in the store yesterday that there was still a few things I knew more about than m."-Cleveland Leader.
 Cupid introduces more house bills than all our CongreSSmen.
The St. Johns herald., 1898-06-18
ST. JOHNS HERALD
EVERY SATURDAY

,nco-norsted April P, 1887
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1898-08-20

What il he did take few old clio thesY
What IL he did appropriate to his own
use a few dollars worth Of lead pipe?
Was this enough to justify the taking
of his life7
Patterson seems to have thou ght so.
Would he have killed q white man2
Would he have shot o white boyY
Would he have msimed his friend 3
dog? This is the question, and the
more it is considered and discussed the
more foul appears the crime which
he has committed.
But. on with the acquittal Place
the revolver again in his hand and
make an earthly hero OF him for kill
ing one lone Negro boy.
Blood is upon his hands, crime upon
his soul. Too low for human sympa-
thy: zoo foul for eutlemsnly contact
We say this OF PATTERSON
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1898-08-20
AFTER THE OOL0RED BROTHER.

The Richmond, Va, DIsPArca in re-
ferring to the discussion at the annual
Negro Conference at Hampton says:
"The Negro race is diseased to an
astonishing extent; q fact that we do
not give sufficient attention to. consid
ing that they make our bread. was hour
clothes, and nurse our children"
This information is supplemented by
a sinister motive when it remarks:
"There are hundreds of Negroes en-
ployed as house servants who would be
instantly dismissed if their employers
only knew how badly diseased they
are"
Mark you, this warfare is upon the
industrious members of our race and
not upon the loarers.
II disease is to be the cause for dis
charge and not dishonesty, the sooner
the public is informed as to what dis
position is to be made of the unfortu-
mates the better.
1t says:
"Colored ministers, teachers and phv-
siciaDs, and all others who have the
ear of these people would do them a
good service, and benefit the general
public. by warning them to take good
! care OF themselves and to keep clean. u
You advocate that they should take
! better care of themselves and then ad
wise the taking away from them their
means of subsistence. Strange reason
ing this. Able-bodied persons, male
and female. are working in the service
places here for salaries ranging from
$3.50 to IS per month.
Is this sufficient amount to enable
them to keep clean and take care Of
themselves?
These servants work from six O'Clock
in the morning until nine at night.
We are at lost to understand thi,
lack OF humanity. You make us pool
and blame us for being so. You take
all OF our time and abuse us for not
having more of it for ourselves.
II the DIsPATcH's proposition is to be
accepted then these people are to be-
come the wards Of the community in
which they live.
Certain it is that they must either
| support themselves or the public must
support them. Let US alone, please.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1898-08-20
BRIEF ITEMS OF NEWS.

A dispatch from Rome announces
that the pope is again extremely weak
1t Is believed that 80 lives were lost
in a cloudburst in Hawkins county,
Tennessee. last Friday.
General Fitzhugh Lee announces
himself candidate for United States
senator from Virginia
Judge j.. M. Hobson. father or the
brave lieutenant, has been appointed
postmaster at Greensboro. Ala
A rival to the Klondike has been dis
covered on Pine Creek, in Alaska, and
there is a wild rush for ths diggings.
In q wind and hail storm near Gary,
g. D.. eight persons and many cattle
were killed and thousands OF dollars
damage done.
Robert p. Porter. ex-superintendent
OF the census. has been appointed a
commissioner on banking. finance and
customs OF Porto Rico.
1t has been determined that Mrs. J.
p. Dunning and her sister. Mrs ]. D.
Deane. daughters or ex-Congressman
Pennington. met death by poison sent
In a gift of candy from San Francisco.
Father Kowloslxi, of Chicago. has
brought suit against Archbishop Fee
han. Of that diocese. and Cardinal
Ledochowski, at Rome. for $50 900 dam
ages for being accommodated from
the Catholic church.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1898-08-20

plies to mankind as God created it, and
not as the prejudiced elements would
have it be.
In its issue OF August l4th. it ssys:
eve take occasion tn reiterate, for
the benefit of the Richmond PLANET
our oft-expressed sentiments that
when it comes to the awful crime of
rape we, favor the severest and most
summary punishment for the offender
regardless OF race, color or condition. "
When the white men of the south re-
solve to stand upon that platform a
brighter and better day will dawn for
all classes.
We have voiced these sentiments
time and again. and stand ready &c
join the crusade upon the lines indi.
Gated by our fair-minded contempora-
~
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1898-08-20

THE Cubans are reported to be dis
satisfied with the terms OF che protocol
as signed by the representatives OF the
United States and Spain.
There is evidence steadily accumu-
lating that their army will decline to
recognize them despite the hurried de-
elarations of the Cuban Junta at New
York to the contrary.
1t is the same old story. The capt.
talists of the United States and Oi
France and Spain will. settle the mat
ter and the misguided followers OF
Gen. GOMEZ and Gen. GARCIA will find
that their last condition will be as
wretched as the first.
They have been used to accomplish 6
purpose and their usefulness is at ar
end.
The wealthy Spaniards upon the is.
land OF Cuba will surely control its des
tiny. The white men of this country
will combine with them in ersurinl
this control.
The dark-skinned inhabitants of thu
island will be the victims of race-prej
ndice, and this combined with Spanisl
contempt will make their wretche'
lives miserable.
1t is indeed gloomy outlook, wit
not q ray OF light visible upon tn
horizon OF their future.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1898-08-20
KILLED THE BOY.

JAMES L. PATTERSON (white) deliber-
| ately shot and killed JOHN EDWARD
JONES (colored). The latter was only
sixteen years of age and had done
| nothing to warrant the taking of his
life.
According to PATTERsoN's own state
ment, it was a cruel dastardly murder.
To have numerically beaten the boy
would nave been bad enough, but to
have shot him down was a crime de.
serving the severest punishment.
PATTERSON says that he saw the boy
in his yard at 6:15 o'clock Monday
morning last, acting suspicio lsly and
Immediately killed him.
The coroner's jury stumbled over
itself' in deciding to exonerate the
murderer. AS strange as it may seem
PATTERSON employed counsel.
For what? Did he expect q Jury
such as is drawn hereabouts to convict
him. The idea is absurd. He had on
ly shot Negro. II he had crippled q
white mans dog or injured a COW OF
famed" horse, he would have been
fined or imprisoned for doing it, but
he only killed helpless sixteen year
old colored boy-and what of that?
This boy did not belong to any white
man. He was not favored servant OF
the "blue bloods." He was only the
child of a colored mother, who, away
down in her heart possessed as much
love for her boy, as does Patterson foI
his.
She is well-nigh heart-broken, and
the walls in that neighborhood tells Of
the agony he has caused her.
JOHN EDWARD JONES did not work TO,
a rich corporation. He could not "run'
market bill or get credit on the lool
at the grocery store.
He had to hustle for his living and
it was an open question at times as t.
how he could get meal of victuaIs.
We say that JAMES L. PATTERSON i
guilty of murder. We charge tina
without a justifiable excuse he ha
sent this boy into another world. N
one charges that JONES had so much a
a pocket-knife. He was running, the,
say.
Lean me up against the post" h
said. And the blood trickled, and tn
life-spark flickered. and thus he died
Il Con knows it was a touching scene
Away from home, staggering in hi
} own blood he died without time t
: send up prayer to that Con who ha
/ promised never tc forsake those VIII
put their trust in him.
/ JAMES L. PATTERSON, you murdere
/ JAMES EDWARD JONES. Bad luck wi
be yours. The morns which escape
his lips will reverberste through yoI
brains until you are called the way
L all the earth.
i But change will come one of the
t days, thank Con. A reckoning day
h even now Fastening on.
Il What if JONES had stolen few rag
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1898-08-20

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There are FOUR WAYS by which money can be
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We cannot be responsible for money sent IN
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Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1898-08-20
A Brilliant Event.
BosroN, Mass, Aug. Is. 1893


On Thursday evening, Aug. 18th, '98,
there could bs seen entering the pala-
tial suburban residence of Mr.. Richard
Crump, many of the elite of Boston
and suburbs. The scene was one of
the many receptions rendered to Rev
and Mrs. s. @. Burrell, Secretary of
the Y. NJ. G. A., of Richmond, and Mrs
Burrell, (nee S. Alice Kemp), the
Nightingale of Virginia"
The gathering was conspicuous by
the presence of many newly welded
couples, among them, brother of Rev.
Burrell, a groom, prominent lawyer,
and business man, Mr.. John M. Burrell
and wife.
Ushers, Messrs. Oliver and Crump
Masters of Ceremonies, Clarence Smith
and Ferguson. The occasion was en-
livened by the instrumental music of
Messrs. w. w. Wallace and Harper s.
Fortune and the most excellent vocal
solos of Mrs. s. @. Burrell who richly
deserves the title of Nightingale.
A most enjoyable evening was spent
by all. Among the visitors were Miss
Jones of Fortress Monroe, Va, Pierce
of Washington, d. c.. Hoffman oil
Louisville, KY, henderson of New Or.
leans. La, Pelham of st. Louis, Mo.
and Mrs. Farrar of Clarendon, W. Va
and many others.
I N. EMRsIs.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1898-08-20
THE JUDGES CHARGE.

While it does little good towards Sc
curing the punishment of the red
handed murderers, who are commonly
designated red handed lynchers, still
the utterances such as we quote here
tend to create healtay public senti.
ment and arouse to action the Justice
loving elements in the community.
Judge MARCUS w. BECK. of Georgia
in his charge to the grand jury is quot.
ed as follows:
"WIthin about two years three Ne
groes have been lynched in this county
"a county that could justly boast Of i'll
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1898-08-20

progress along all the avenues Of civil
ization. In neither case has the crime
for which the Negroes were lynched
been committed in this county. Two
had come from Henry and the third
from Meriwesther.
Your attention is now called TO the
fact that to avenge crimes committed
in other counties. q mob collected on
the streets OF this town and on the
roads OF this county. and has cruelty,
deliberately, defisntly committed will
full and outrageous murder. There
can be no question as to the nature OF
the offence committed by yesterday :
mob-it was awful, unholy, uncallsd
for murder"
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1898-08-20
Camp wylSor in Excellent Condition.
Musterine one the volunteers.

Washington. Aug. 1.-THE mastering
out OF the volunteer army raised in de-
Tense OF the Union against the armies
OF Spain practically began at the war
department yesterday, and will DO con-
tinued until the army has been placed
on q basis consistent with our present
relations to the nations OF the earth.
Orders were prepared yesterday Tor
the mastering cut OF about $1,000 vol
unteers. including nearly rs regiments
OF infantry and about eight troops Of
cavalry and five or six batteries of ar
tillery. About 100000 volunteers win be
mustered out within the next 80 days.
This will leave a military force OF about
10000 men.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1898-08-20

WE do not like to hear our females
SPOKEN of as "negresses" and we do
net think that the Richmond Va,
TnKs does itself any good by continu-
ing the practice.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1898-08-20
Closing Of the Rally.

The Gravel Hill Baptist Church
Chesterfield County will close its
Grand Rally the fourth Sunday in this
month, Aug. 18th. Elder Briggs. Elder
Dickerson, and w. f. Graham, d. ID o.,
have been with us. Elder Cox will
preach on the fourth Sunday. The pub
lie is cordially invited to come out and
aid as in remodelling the building.
w, w. YOU'VE,
Pastors
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1898-08-20

CoLoRRD men should remember that
their lives are always in jeopardy in
dealing with the Negotiating ele.
ments OF the south.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1898-08-20

Washington, Aug. 16.-A decision
rendered yesterday by Assistant Sec
rotary OF the Interior Davis makes
members of Knapp's battery, PennsyI-
vania militia, eligible for pensions. 1t
is decided that the battery was In the
service Of the United States when #
operated In Maryland in 1853.