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Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1902-01-04

timely. Subject, Giving" The men
were thoroughly benefited. Solos by
President Clifton Cabell was equal TO
the occasion.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1902-01-04

Mr.. 8. B. Graves of Mcdonald, W
Va. called on us.
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.N0THB r.
BREAK
THERE
Troubling ,be { hudren.
RISGRACEFUL PROCEEDINGS In
THE FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH.

The First Baptist Church was the
scene of another stormy meeting on
Thursday, 18th ult.
The battle ragged hot and furious.
From a row about the Church came a
row about the Sunday School and
Brother Nelson williams, Jr., who
forged the names to the application for
the meeting led this war upon babes.
Having failed to secure the non-recog-
milton of the Mount Ohvet Baptist
Church, he proceeded to make an as
sanlt upon the Mount Olivet Baptist
Sunday School
After a heated debate, the children
referred to were dropped as members of
the Sunday School Union by vote of
IL to ii, and the doors of that body vir-
tually slammed in their faces in viola
ton of every precept of the Christian
religion.
No reason was given for this action
despite the demands of the representa-.
tives of the Mt. Olivet Baptist Sunday
School.
CHILDREN RESPONSIBLE FOR PARENTS.
This act virtually made the children
responsible for the action of their par.
ents, proposition without a parallel in
the annals of the unadulterated Bap.
tist Church.
The Sunday School Union Board met
on the 18th ult at $50 p. NJ, at the
First Baptist Church, President S. w
Turner in the chair; Secretary, A. w
cambridge officiating. After the trans
action CT routine business, the case oi
Mt. Olivet Baptist Sunday School was
taken up.
1t seems that about two months ago
Brother r. II. Thurston offered a reso-
luton requesting each Sunday School
to state what it regarded as the rights
% Mt. Olivet Baptist Sunday School in
the Union.
They We're to have reported on the
2nd Thursday in November. Only one
school, the Fountain Baptist, reported
aud it announced that it had left the
matter in the hands of its representa-.
tives.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1902-01-04
OVER THREE THOUSAND DOLLARS
In ONE DAY.
The Mechanics Savings Bank Opens
Its Doors.

The Mechanics Savings Bank was
formally opened Wednesday, Jan. 1st
1902. at 511 n. Srd ST., with appropri.
ate exercises. Little S. Ethel L. Taylor,
daughter of Mr. John I. Taylor was
the first depositor and Mr.. j. Q. Farley,
the second. The exercises took place
in the spacious parlors of the building
Rev. w. f. Graham, ID. D.. was mas
ter of ceremonies. The Scriptures were
read. Prayer was offered by Rev. w
II. Stokes.
John Mitchell, Jr., President of Me.
chanics Savings Bank spoke on the
Future of Our Order.
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THE ILLUMINATED SIGN.

The office floor and the Directors
room are covered with solid color, light
brown linoleum. The handsome gold
leaf sign, Is feet long by IL feet wide
has been fringed with 20 electric lights
1t was lighted for the first time last
Wednesday night and was a surprise to
all beh Olders, casting as it did a flood
of light across the street. It was paint
ed by our colored artist, o. NJ. Steward.
A detailed account of the improve
ments will appear later.
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SHORT ADDRESSES.

Then followed short addresses by Rev
r. J. Bass, Rev. w. II. Stokes, Rev. s.
Q. Burrell, James Forester, John T.
Taylor, Thomas M. Crunp, DR.. e. r,
jefferson, Miss Marietta l.. Chiles, Mrs.
Anna Taylor, Mrs. Harriet Thompson,
Mrs. Mildred johnson, B. H. Peytor
and A. j. Smith, Jr.
The hall was tastefuily decorated.
On the walls were large pictures Of the
Board of Directors. The inspection of
the building then took place.
Cashier G.. w. Lewis was busy hand
ling the money and the rush Of deposit
ors continued throughout the day. The
amount deposited was ($3050.l7) three
thousand and fifty dollars and seven
teen cents.
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THE BUILDING AND THE CHANGES

The remodelling of the lower part of
the building was one of the features of
the enterprise. The vault, ten feet
square, was placed partly in both
rooms. 1t is built of grey brick, and
the walls are two feet thick, being per-
meated by an air chamber, making the
structure entire fre-proof. The gas
pipe and electric wires were put under
meath the surface of the walls.
There are seven electric lights in the
front room and four in the rear or Di-
rectors' room. The walls have been
handsomely papered. The presidents
Office is to the right, and has beer
handsomely papered and carpetted
There are three electric lights and one
gas fixture. This room is also papered
Iron gratings are ON all the windows
and on the door. The upstairs door i:
covered with sheet iron.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1902-01-04

WARREN H. MERCER, p. q.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-07-13
MR.. DOOLY DISCOURSES
ON THE FIGHTING WORD.
Copyright, 1902, by Rob ert Howard Russell.
BY F. P. dunno.

his on'y nourishment is beets, or that
he belongs to New York s'ciety, an
tn sinit will on'y yawn. But wanst
even hint that his such-an'- such is
so-an'-so Il will not repeat tn hee-
jous wurruds) an We mus hurry an
slim on TIL brass knckles FIR theyse
a slap comm to we.
Here's what happened: Sinitor
Bailey stepped quickly over Slnltors
Hoar, Mason, Quay an others an
made FIR where Sinitor Biv'ridge was
quietly smokin' cigar an talkln TO
himself Sinitor Bailey says ioh r
able sir, We must withdraw that loath-
some insinocation again me good
name he says. L have not led pure
life. No man has. 1 don't claim to
be amy betther thin others. But no
wan befure has liver said about me
such things as these, an If we don
take thin back at wanst, I'll Kill We,
I'll choke We, I'll give We a slap IN Tn
eve, he says. I cannot consint, says
tn boil sinitor firm Injyanny,' l can
not cinsint to haul back me epithet.
1t wud not be sinitoryal courtesy, ne
says. Thin says Sinitor Bailey, here
goes FIR an assault an batthry.' An
with gesture Nv tn thrue orator, ne
seized him be tn throat. TIL debate
become gin'ral. Sindtor Spooner iv
Wisconsin led FIR tn Republicans an
Sinitor Morgan iv Alabama counther-
ed FIR tn dimmycrats. Sinitor Platt
made a very happy retort with a
chair to which Sinitor German replied
with a sintintous cuspidor. OWN to
tn excitin' nature iv tn debate on y
a, few iv tn best remarks reached tn
gall'ry; wan iv thin, a piece iy hard
coal. layin' out representative iv tn
Sultan iv Zulu. At tn hospital he de-
clared himself much Impressed. Dur
in tn proceedin's Biv'ridge acted in
tn mos gint1emanly an
even ladylike manner. His
face wore a smile iv complete
sang fraud or pain, an he niver took
his cigar firm his mouth wanst. In
deed. it was siv'ral hours befure tn
Havana cud be EXTRACTED be tn sur
geon who was called in. While tn de-
bate was in progress, pitcher ~
Thomas jefferson was observed to give
a slight moan an turn its face to tn
wall TIL sinit thin took up routine
business an tn janitor swept up tn
hair. an neckties. Sinitor Biv-ridge
was not much hurt. TIL finder outside
iy tn wind-pipe was somewhat bruis-
ed but tn wurrukin' inside is still in
tact
"'Twas a pretty scene, Hinnissy, an
wan that makes me proud iv Bailey
f'r his courage in pouncin' on his col
lague: iv Biv'ridge FIR tn manly self
restraint an rayspict FIR tn dignity
iv tn sinit that par'lyzes mans
hands whin his win is cut off; Nv our
noble country that projooces such
sturdy sons. iv tn sinit that brings
thin together in a clinch an Nv mesll1
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-07-13
SOME QUEER THINGS.
Uncle Sam Has the Finest and Most
Enhancing of Toys, and Plays the
Funniest and Most Amusing Games.

Uncle sam Has the Finest and Most
Enhancing of Toys, and Plays the
Funniest and Most Amusing Games.
One thing that very few persons
know is that the United States govern
ment has the most tempting toys and
plays the most delightful games every
day as part of the serious and i'm
mense work of carrying on the govern
ment of the greatest of nations.
This is not because the men who are
at the head of affairs want to play
can learn a great deal from play.
Play, when done properly as every
thing should be done in this world, is
study, and the child or man who
plays right has gained much useful
experience without knowing it at the
time.
So there is one man-an old and
grave and wise and very famous pro-
fesscr-who may be seen often in mis-
office in Washington standing on chairs
and desks, launching little paper birds
and funny contrivances through the
air and watching them soar Nand set
tie with just the same interest and de-
light with which boys and girls would
watch them. II folk who did not
know who he is were to behold him
they might well be excused for imagin-
ing that the old gentleman is growing
childish. But probably there are. few
persons in the whole country to-day
who know better what they are about
than does he. For he is one of the
foremost scientists of the great Smith
sonian institution and some day ii is
expected that he will teach the world
how to build flying machine that
really will fly.
Often, after he has played good and
hard with the little paper toys, he dis
appears. Then the other scientists know
that he is down in a lonely part of the
Potomac river, experimenting with big
flying machines that have been built
according to ideas gained by him from
hfs toys.
And while this fine old professor is
flying his playthings the chances are
that not far away other wise men are
playing with the most delightful of
little toy gardens There are patches
just big enough for little children to
weed and hoe with their tiny imple-
ments. These patches are watered
with lovely graduated watering pots;
and with beautiful scales little pinches
of fertilizer and other plant food are
measured out for each.
Big men sit over them and watch
them and peer into them, and fondle the
little leaves, one by one. just as chill
dren would do. But every few weeks
one of the players sits down at his
desk and writes and soon afterward
the government issues q pamphlet that
tells farmers all over the world lust
how much they can handle their farms
OF thousands and thousands of acres
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-07-13

That man Bailey Nv Texas FIR me
ivry time" said Mr.. Dooley.
What's he been doin'?" asked Mr..
Hennessy.
He done me frind Biv'ridge iv In
jyanna," said Mr.. Dooley. AN I'm
is him FIR leader iv tn party. He's
wan iV tn best two-handed orators
in tn slnit or anywhere. He has a
WONDERFUL left an his repartee with
tn right is said to be very stingin'.
hes inthrajooced tn sthrangle holt
De means iv which tn debate can be
suddenly cut off. He's me ideel lead
er.
L want a leader who's got a good
grip on public affairs AN men, who
can take hold iv amy question or an
ny republican an choke it or him
I'LL they're black in tn face. Bailey S
IN boy. 1 followed Tillman f'r-awhiler
Out he's gone back. He belongs to
III OF school iv parlymintaryanS, tn
same that Jawn l.. Sullivan belongs
10 He's clever FIR an old 'un an I'd
pe Wlllin to back him again amy
Idypublican in New England at catch
weights. His reply to Sinitor Nc
Ldurm was said to be wan iv tn
quickest liver heerd since tn days iv
Ian Webster. 1t laid open tn scalp
Put they tell me Tillmans speeches
~ not What Hogan calls imprompJ-
enu' He rehearses thin ivry mornln
win q punchin' bag. Bailey is more
~ nachrai debater. No holds bar
.ea with him. Hand or fut it's all
IN same.
~ What was it all about, says We?
ven ye see this sinitor firm Injyanny
ne Irind Jeremiah Biy'ridge made d
Nus lnsultin' remark to Misther Bail
ey. What did he say? l mustn't tell
;e NO, no, tits too horrible. Well
ye must hear it, close th'd dure an
~ RLu down tn blinds. Whisper! There
.I,nere We have it. I blush to raypeat
VI 1901 wurruds. To think that amy
man shud SO semean himself as to inn
peihe such thing, lave alone say it,
~, ne Outright out in tn sinit be-
,ra Hlnnery Cabin Lodge. Oh, IT
80 turr bic. Here it is in tn pa
81 'Misther Biv'ridge said tn
-nts Nv tn hon'rable sinitoT
VOL III texas was unw-r-nted. Modesty
sa ',sre was thy blush? as Shakespeare
stss' aceordin' to Hogan. Now, tn
i.ltors iv' tn United States is not
sa siiy shocked. That's not tn way We
e.. INTO tn sinit. Tn bright blush
,shane hasn't been used there more
all al twice since tn war. Ye can say
W ost anything We like to sinitor
he. an an say he wanst stole a horse, that
,ba. Hvin' undher an assumed name,
ne was made be a thrust, tha'
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-07-13

1t. A man In Woods Hole let a little
star no bigger than dollar tackle his
fingers, and he found 1t could pull
much harder than even he could with
stand with all the strength of his arm.
Well. the starfish used to eat SO
many oysters and CLAIMS that the fish
ermen of Connecticut alone lost more
than $1,000 The playing of the man
in Woods Hole has taught the govern
ment new ways of fighting the stars
and IT is now sending the information
to all the fishermen and shellfish
planters.
So all the playing means vast sums
of money saved or earned in various
ways. j. w. M.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-07-13

upon mans face whin another man
is cloutin' him about is on'y tn out
ward EXPRESSION iv something about
two numbers up tn chest firm sea
sickness That's all I've got to say
about fightin. Ye can't lay down an
ny rules about it,
Eye niver will go to tn sinit with
thin views" said Mr.. Hennessy.
Il don't want to- said Mr.. Dooley.
Some day TIL sinit will be pulled"
The Tucson citizen., 1902-09-25
A Minor CONFEDERATION

The ambitious young woman was
attracted by an advertisement, one line
of which read, How to Become an
Author" The advertiser claimed that
by his method failure was impossible.
SO the ambitious young woman sent
on the necessary trifiing sum of money
and by return mail she received a slip
on which was printed this bit of ad-
vice, Write something"
But" she protested by letter, 81
already have done that, and it hasn't
been printed
1--WE congratulate you," was the re-
ply. IF you have written something.
you already are an author. Publca-
tion is Il minor consideration, with
which we have nothing to do. Brook
lyn Eagle.
The Tucson citizen., 1902-09-25
n WORLD WIDE MONOPOLY.

The oldest and perhaps the most
powerful monopoly in this country is
the Standard Oil company. 1t has
controlled the entire supply of illumin-
ating oil for many years past. It's
management has been so conservative,
I'and it's charges made to the consum-
ing public represent SO comparatively
slight an advance, if any, in the prices
which prevailed before it's organiza-
ton, that the people seem content to
let it continue undisturbed.
The current intelligence that the
Standard Oil company is now one Of
three parties to a monopoly of the
worlds oil supply will no doubt arouse
popular interest in it's affairs, which
has been rather slight at any time
since the monopoly was being built up,
by means which many still recall as
being far from scrupulous, and which
were in force in every case where pur-
chase was not thought necessary or
| feasible.
| The creation of the new world mo-
| nopoly in oil will probably not give
the people any immediate or enduring
concern. AS long as prices remain as
they are, there will be- no criticism
and less opposition One day, per-
haps, the country will wake up to a
full realization of what it means to
| sanction a vast natural monopoly in
one of the most essential of the neces-
saries of life.
The other nations affected may give
the new organization more of serious
thought than our people are likely to
do. But it remains doubtful whether.
with the tremendous financial power
which hes behind the monopoly, any
| one nation in Europe would undertake
without the most serious consideration
any curtailment of its powers.
The poor in all countries will continue
to turn to oil for their light. and the
fluid will continue to be purchased in
the conduct of the worlds industries:
and it remains quite plain that no eff
fort will be made in the immediate
present at least to divest the oil mo-
nopoly of its control of the article.
Some time. however, sooner or later,
enlightened public sentiment in all
| free countries will get around to the
inquiry whether any natural product
whatever, which is practically indis-
pensable to human comfort should be.
under any circumstances, the subject
of private monopoly. When that
day comes all such organizations as
this new oil combination, no matter
how powerful they may be, will have
to pield to the inevitable,
The Tucson citizen., 1902-09-25
DEMOCRATIC TICKET.
nENDERSON'S RETIREMENT.

Speakers, like other officials, are not
inclined to resign power, and below
Speaker Henderson's withdrawal lies
either a distrust of the voters In his
own district, or else a belief that the
Democrats will control the next
House. He poses as a martyr to
Dingleyism, but in very truth he has
seen either a handwriting on the ma
tional or district wall. To ask any
one to assume that Mr.. Henderson, a
veteran office-seeker and office-holder,
would voluntarily relinquish the sec
ond Office in the republic, is asking too
much of human nature. 1t. is more
than the average man could swallow.
Ex-Governor Boies has been NOM
mated in the Henderson district by the
Democrats, and he is running on a
tariff reform platform. He is asking
the Iowa farmers why they should go
on paying the trusts Is cents a pound
for rife powder when it is freely Of
erred to foreign buyers at II cents.
He also wants them to inquire why
ten-inch rakes cost them $3.50 a dozen,
while the Canadian farmer can buy
them at $1.1S. He desires them to in
quire why harness snaps cost them
1928 a gross, when the South African
pays but $40 for like article from
the same American shop. Likewise
the fruit press, which costs the Iowan
$11, when any foreigner can buy it at
1882. And so on to the end of the
list of articles made and sold by zoe
tariff-protected trusts. These trusts
have advanced the cost of living 40
per cent, and the Iowa farmers are in
revolt. So are the Iowa business men
who are compelled to pay $100 for a
typewriter that the foreigner buys for
$55, or to pay for primed shells $40
per 1000, although the export price is
but $3.50.
There is trouble brewing in Iowa for
the Republicans, and this is the better
and more plausible explanation of Mr..
Hendersons retreat. He himself SAYS
as much when he says he has ascer-
tanned he is not himself Gin harmony
with a great many of the Republican
voters who believe that free trade, in
whole or in part. will remedy the
trust evil This is the entire situa-
ton. Nh Henderson has felt of the
Iowa pulse, and he has discovered that
its pulsations are not of a pro-tariff
or pro-trust nature.
The Tucson citizen., 1902-09-25
Society and compantonxhir.

The privilege of having some one
with whom we may exchange few
rational words every day, as Emerson
phrases it, is the choicest gift in life.
We are rich in society and yet poor in
companionship. In the overflow OF
chatter we are starved for conversa-
tion. Social life is so largely an affair
of representation, it inclinos so largely
to the spectacular and to what its
chroniclers designate as ''social func-
tions," that the element of converse
tional intercourse is almost eliminated.
Yet, primarily, is not that the supreme
object of all friendly meeting? When
we reduce to first principles this COM
pick thing called living, do we not go
to our friend solely to talk with him
Do we not invite him solely that we
may exchange ideas and compare
views on subjects of mutual interest
Still, as things go, people meet all
through a season in the midst of groups
and throngs-at dinners. receptions. en-
tertainments of all kinds without eX-
changing one word in the way of true
ntercourse.-E Exchange.
The Tucson citizen., 1902-09-25
Swift Was a Ounce at school.

Not only philosophers and divines.
but Some of the most trenchant satir-
lists and brilliant humorists We're dull
enough as boys. 1t has been said of
Swift in his best days that "he dis
played either the blasting lightning of
satire or the lambert and meteorlike
caricatures of frolicsome humor." And
yet this vigorous disputant was consid-
cred fit subject for a FOOLS cap at
school, Afterward at the Dublin uni
versity "he was by scholars esteemed
a blockhead," who was denied his de-
gree on his first application and OBJ
tanned it with great difficulty on the
Second.-LondOn Standard.
The Tucson citizen., 1902-09-25
EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT

of insanity say he plants extensive
gardens and nurseries one year, only
to pull them all up the next, but they
admit that he often sells one tree out
of the number for more money than
they make out of all their fields to-
gether. Won Muller says the English
walnut has been known to produce a
single tree that sold for $4,000. Now
Burbank believes he has improved the
Incompatible grain of the wood by
crossing it with the American and Cal
ifornia walnuts. It is even asserted
by some scientists that crosses such as
Burbank makes will often effect an
advance of twenty to thirty years in
the Gmelioration Of fruit.
At any rate, Burbank has become a
leading topic of the Pacific coast coun-
try and there is every reason to believe
him one of the wonders of the new
century.
The Tucson citizen., 1902-09-25
USEFUL MAN.

Not all of the twentieth century
glory of doing things of benefit to
mankind is song to Marconi and Tes-
la and Edison. There is a man out IN
California who is as busy as the little
bee writing himself indelibIy into his
tory. His name is Luther Burbank
aud he is already known by some Of
his neighbors as the wizard of horti-
culture" For many years Burbank
has been studying combinations. the
blending of species and varieties by
cross pollentation, and SO successful
has he been that an attache of the
United States department of agricul-
ture who recently visited one of his
fourteen-acre fields of wheat of new
variety reports he found the grain SO
absolutely uniform that all of the
joints Of the stalks were on a water
level across the field, all being of the
same elevation above the ground
His neighbors, some of whom have
regarded him as eccentric to the verge
The Tucson citizen., 1902-09-25

ment and other conditions which
would enable them to decide whether
they desired to become independent or
be made into a state like Canada or
Australia under Great Britain" Re-
tain the islands indefinitely? When
will the prospect of giving them up
become any better? If the conditions
of the islands improve, will we be any
more apt to let them go in ten years
from now than at present? Is there
anything to be gained by trying to de-
ceive ourselves on that question?
And then the proposal to educate the
Filipinos to a state of government
that would enable them to decide
whether they desired to become inde-
pendent" What a persuasive contra
diction. and how logically we are pro-
ceeding with that education. We are
impressing on them now the lesson
that a demand for independence is
treason. Mr. Roosevelt's announced
view is that the first step, before any
thing else can be done or promised, is
the unqualified recognition of the SOW
ereignty of the United States.
In other words, the very idea of in
dependence must be given up as the
first step in this education for an in
telligent choice between independence
and colonial relation to the United
States. And if complete sovereignty
be established, who would have any
right to say that it may be dissolved
and removed? Who would have pow
er to take any part Of the United
States out of the United States? It is
monstrous to pretend that anything of
the kind is in contemplation The
meaning of the present Republican at
titude toward the Philippines is to hold
them in subjugation forever