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Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1903-10-24
NEWS AND COMMENTS.

The fruits OF the saloon go back to
Its roots In the citizen.-Ram's Horn.
Better to be seen in a small COM
pany OF those who try to do right than
TO be hid among company of wrong
doors.
Man is born unto trouble as the
sparks fly upward" and the drunk
ards wife is married to trouble. as
sure as the saloons drag downwards.
National Advocate.
Professor Pfuger, of the University
Of Bonn, maintains that one-third of
all the deaths registered in Munich are
due to heart disease, brought on by
the immoderate use Of beer, and that
tobacco also claims a large percentage
of the victims.
The factory inspection OF Milwau-
kee revealed 60 boys and girls under IA
years working in the various CITY
shops. In almost every case the moth
ers, when examined as to the cause.
said: my husband drinks" One
thousand two hundred permits were
issued for children between the ages
Of IA and 16.
The Daily News, one Of the leading
papers of Great Britain. has lad the
moral courage to exclude from its COL
umns all betting news and all liquor
advertisements, and to give promi-
nence to all religious news. This is
brave thing to do, and costly sacri-
fee to make. This makes the Daily
News clean" paper and the only
clean paper published in the great me-
tropolis.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1903-10-24

meant that the matter should be added
to what had gone before, but the COM
positor who put 1t in type knew moth
Ing about the preceding matter. conse-
quently he set the phrase as headline:
Fighting Joe Hooker Concluding that
1t made good headline. let 1t 60 I
realized that If a few other proofread-
ers treated the phrase as l did, Hooker
would live and die as Fighting Joe
Hooker Enough additional proof
readers acted likewise to do the busi-
ness"
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1903-10-24
Post Cards with a Moral.

M. Capmartin, of Blaye, France. has
had half million picture postcards
printed illustrating the evils of drunk
enness. They have such titles as 1.-The
Drunkard's DOOM" Death In the Bot
tie" and "The Drink Fiend," and the
author suggested they might be posted
to confirmed drunkards. Two or three
Islander actions have already been
started by people who have received the
cards, and one recipient is being pro-
ceeded against for violently assaulting
a sender.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1903-10-24
Profits on whisky.

The report of President Curley. of the
Distillers' Securities corporation, of the
operations of that corporation for the
fiscal year ending June 80, 1908. has
been made public. 1t shows that the
total receipts fro n all sources for the
year were $50, 730, 7Oe; total operatin ,
expenses, $7S.764,074. After chareins
on the amounts paid for interest on
notes and loans. taxes, rentals, insur-
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1903-10-24

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from his feet, and taken up
residence in Singapore. There have &C
sompanied him into exile his six wives.
his retinue of slaves, and the magnificent
dattos that form his cabinet.
The reason assigned for his departure
Is the increasing weakness of his hold
apon the throne, and two causes are given
for this decrease of power: one that the
American invasion has affected his au-
thority, the other the fact that he has no
male heirs. 1t is believed that the sui
tan, who is a physical wreck, will not
have long to enjoy life in the Straits set
uement, not long to enjoy the pension
from the United States. A short life and
a merry one, is evidently the motto of
this royal parsonage.
Among the poorer classes in Sulu a
man seldom aspires to more than one
wife-he can't afford it. But the sultan.
the dattos, and some OF the other chiefs
indulge in a plurality of wives, being en-
couraged thereto by their religion, the
Mohammedan. When the United States
made treaty with the sultan, promise was
given him that our government would
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1903-10-24
Low Rates TO California and North
west.
s DISCO SYST EN-

We will sell daily between Septem-
18th and November Both, 1903, low rate
colonist tickets to points in Washington,
Oregon, California, Montana. Idaho.
Wyoming, Colorado, Nevada, Utah.
Arizona and New Mexico.
Short line, quick time, no bus trans
fers, free reclining chairs.
For rates, schedules, maps, aud full in
formation write to +. f. Clark, Travel
ing Passenger Agent, Atlanta, GA.
w. L. SAUNDERS,
Gen1 Agt. Pass. Dept.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1903-10-24
As She'd Have Them Do.

He-Whatever else may be said of
Miss Passay, she certainly is good and
charitable.
She-Yes?
He-Yes; her motto seems to be ito
do unto all men as you would have them
do unto you"
She-Oh, come now! She doesn't real
" kiss them, does she?-Philadelphia
Press.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1903-10-24

Washington there came a reply from
President Lincoln to the federal COM
mander, saying: 4 know Custis Lee
means what he says. Defer the execution
of his brother until you receive further
orders from me-
These orders never came" concluded
the host, for shortly afterward w. H F.
Lee was excha- ged for a federal officer
of the rank of brigadier general, and
at once set out to rejoin his family. His
devoted wife in the meanwhile, learning
the story of his capture and sentence,
and having no means for ascertaining his
subsequent fate, had pinned away and
died. Scarlet fever carried off his four
children, so that it was to darkened and
desolate Preside that Rooney Lee re-
turned out of the jaws of death. He
knew nothing at this time Of the offer
made by his brother to take his place, and
1t was not until long after the civil war
had ended that he had learned what q
big-hearted man abraham Lincoln was
and what he had done.
els It any wonder" continued the mar
rator, that men of the south revere the
memory of Lincoln? 1t was the darkest
day In our history when he fell by the
assassin's act, and none deplored his I'M
timely end more than brave old Marse
Robert and HIS sons Custis and Rooney
Lee. the last named afterward a con-
gresham at Washington. son Of
Rooney Lee by a subsequent marriage
is now a member of the Virginia legis-
lature. and as he bears the name Of his
grandsire worthily he is an ideal Vir-
ginian, brave. chivalrous and gallant"
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1903-10-24

Colonel" asked the beautiful grass
WIDOW have you ever really known
what 1t was to be frightened"
Il should say have" replied the GAL
liant warrior. "At the dentists Office
the other day / could actually feel the
blood CONCEAL in my veins when he came
at me with his buzz saw"-N. Y. Her
aid.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1903-10-24
Cheap Settlers Tickets.

On the first and third Tuesday of each
month till April. 1904, the Frisco Sys-
tenn (St. Louis and San Francisco Rail-
road) will sell reduced one-way tickets
from Birmingham, Memphis and Saint
Louis TO all points in Arkansas, Kansas.
Missouri, Oklahoma, Indian Territory
and Texas. Write w. T. Saunders.
General Afient Passenger Dept, Allan.
ia, Ga, for further information.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1903-10-24
W airy.

Mrs. Farmer-Here. my poor man. are
some cold sausages.
Weary Willie-'Scuse me. mum, but
don't your sign say Beware of the dog ?"
Judge
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1903-10-24
Nature Health Restorer,A Asthma Cure

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New York City.
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anoe, additions to reserve fund, main
tenance and repairs. and interest on all
bonds. net profit OF s21S4,791 is
shown for the year, an increase of $780,
<36 over that of the fiscal year ended
June 30, 1902.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1903-10-24
Death to AIooboIic.

An attack of typhoid fever, Of pneu-
monia or of erysipelas that would be
lilG in a sober man will kill one ad-
-. o alcoholics quickly.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1903-10-24
The Real Measure.

1.-The tailor often fails to get mans
real measure" remarked the Observer
of Events and Things, until he sends in
his bill. "-Yonkers Statesman.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1903-10-24
Compulsory.

Have you noticed Mabel's new ring7"
'Of course. None of her friends is
permitted not to notice it."-Chicago
American.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1903-10-24
Potent Love.

It's '1ove that makes the world go round.
As many people think,
But frequently no doubt, you've found
It's merely love of drink.
Catholic Standard and Times
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1903-10-24
No ENCOURAGEMENT.

Hs--If you didn't play golf It wouldn't
have any attraction for me.
shs-Dear me! Now, do you know 7
nike golf for itself alone.-Puck.
New-York tribune., 1903-07-12
PLAN TO JOIN CHURCH SOCIETIES.
Christian Endeavorers Would Unite with Ep-
worth League and Baptist Union.

Denver, July IA movement has been
launched by the Christian Endeavor convention
in session here for the arnalgamation Of the
Christian Endeavor Society. the Epworth
League and the Baptist Union The plan will
be presented in the form of petition from the
Endeavorers to the two other bodies. In taking
the initiative in the advocacy of such a union
the Christian Endeavor Society points to its
priority of establishment as justification.
Christian Endeavor delegates and visitors held
quiet hour services in five city churches at 8
O'Clock this morning.
At 10 o'clock a conference of State, district
and local union officers began at the Central
Presbyterian Church. Addresses were delivered
by Henry H. Marcusson, Of Chicago; H. n.
Lathrop, of Poston; John A. lockwood, Of Port
land, Ore: Fred w. Chamberlain, of Detroit;
the Rev. c. H. Hubbeu, of Columbus, Ohio; the
Rev. Joseph S. Rodey, of Harrisburg, Penn;
John R. Clements, of Binghamton, N. Y, and
others
simultaneously the convention proper was in
session at the large tent in Camp Endeavor.
The Rev. James L. Hill, of Salem, Mass pre-
sided. our Resources and How to Develop
Them" was the topic OF the day, and addresses
were made by the Rev. DR.. Stephen A Northrop,
of Kansas City; Professor A. r. Wells, OF Bos-
ton, and others.
A session devoted to the Junior Endeavorers
was held in Tent Endeavor this afternoon. The
Loose" by the Rev. c. H. Tyndall, D. D., OF
Mount Vernon, n. Y, and The Story of Old
Granny" by the Rev DR.. W. F. Wilson, Of
Hamilton. Ont
New-York tribune., 1903-07-12

expediency Of the coordination and correlation
Of the teaching forces of the universities
throughout the empire There was no trace OF
the British habit of condescension in the sym
pathetic address OF Sir Oliver Lodge, Sir Henry
Roscoe, DR.. Mahaffy and other British educators
TO their colonial colleagues and the conference
was not disturbed by signs Of academic jealousy
or resentment, but was conducted with the ut
most harmony and good feeling. Some Cana
dian delegates bluntly suggested that the his
toric English universities needed to wake UP
and improve their resources for scientific study
and not force colonial students to take advan-
tage of the hospitality Of -American universities;
but on the whole there was a broadminded
appreciation Of the useful work done in higher
education throughout the empire and the utility
Of cooperation the part OF scientific experts
in the promotion OF researches and special
studies
The principal addition to the repertory at
Covent Garden has been Aida with Mile
Pacquot and Nine. Kirkby Lunn singing accept
ably. and Alvarez. Plancon and Scott support
ing them we'll. Nine. Melba and LIme Calve
are both in good voice. The revival Of Don
Giovanni" is certain, and the production Of a
one-act opera, "Magellone." by Missa, is prob
able for the sake OF Nine. Calve.
The concert season is rapidly ebbing Kube-
lik being among the last to retire from the
scene. The theatres are also beginning to close.
as the audiences are thinned out by the hot
weather. The last nights of Dante"
nounced, and Sir Henry Irving will soon have a
well earned holiday after a highly profitable
season. At Drury Lane there has been an in
teresting production Of "Comus' and Ben jon
sons Hue and Cry After Cupid" at the Bo-
tanic Gardens bv the Mermaid Society, under
the direction OF Philip Carr.
There are n1anv weekend parties after the
fatiguing week of the Anglo-French and Anglo
American revelry, with its scores of functions
civic banquets. garden parties and diplomatic
receptions
Mr.. DePew has gone to Paris after paying
hearty tribute to the Kings diplomacy at Mr.
Wilson's dinner and receiving Mr.. Germans
good natured chaff in return He is deeply i'm
pressed with the economic changes in progress
in Great Britain and seems half CONVINCED that
Mr. Chamberlain will carry the country with
him if he can have adequate time for discussing
the new policies. Mr.. Wilson himself has
started for Switzerland after establishing
unique reputation a breezy American enter
tainer.
Henry W. Lucy who was invited by Sir
Thomas Upton to witness the Cup races from
the Erin, is detained by Parliamentary busi-
ness, but will visit America at the end OF Octo-
Der and carry out an important literary COM
missien in which the American public men will
take a keen interest. Mrs. Lucy will accom-
pauy him. l. n. F.
New-York tribune., 1903-07-12
SHAKERS SEEK TAX EXEMPTION.
Trusts Reported to Have Injured the Mount
Lebanon Industries

New-Lebanon. n. Y. July (SpeciaD.-The
Shakers of Mount Lebanon. after paying taxes 10
the State and county for more than hundred
years, amounting TO thousands Of dollars. have
come to the conclusion that they should be exempt
a church settlement They have taken legal
advice, and will appeal TO the legislature to put
them on the free list. Their church building is
already exempt. The sect is assessed on $1,000
valuation, which includes the residence. store and
factory buildings Of the North. Church. Second
and South families and some three thousand acres
of land. much OF which is mountainous
THE State has right TO tax US when IL ex-
ernpts other church communities said Elderess
Anna White. of the North family. to a Tribune
correspondent to-day. She is a Brooklyn woman,
who has lived IN the Shaker village for more than
forty years. 1.-The property is held in common
and is not used for private gain In the century
and over that the village has been in existence
we have clothed. fed and educated hundreds OF
Door children. most Of whom left Us On o. before
coming Of age and went out 10 make good citizens
For this charity have received nothing from
tho State. In times when our Industries were
profitable We prospeTed. and did not mind paying
taxes. Now the trusts have forced US 70 close
most of our industries and are poor The
The Shakers through their trustees. will appea!
to the Senator from this district 20 present blil
for their relief at the next session OF the lesls-
Iature They will not attempt TO recover taxes
already paid. The four families now NUMBER only
loo most Of whom elderly women
New-York tribune., 1903-07-12
TO SOUTH POLE.
Relief Ship Morning Returns from
the antarctic Regions.

San Francisco. July 11.-Captain William
Colebeck of the relief ship Morning, tender to
the exploring ship Discovery, now in the South
Pole regions, is here, en- route to London, to re-
port. He says the main work of the Discovery
has been the location OF between four hundred
and five hundred miles OF new coast line, and
she worked as far south as latitude - degrees
30 minutes south. With sleds members of the
party got far south 81 degrees l. min
utes south latitude, the furthest south any man
has gone
A lot of new marine fauna has been found,
also some marine plants, but they are a low
type of organization Seals abound but the
polar bear and the walruS are not there. No
new large animals were found. The cold there
is far worse than in the Arctic. In the latter
region in the summer time the temperature gets
up to 30 and 90 degrees above zero. In the
Antarctic region below zero is summer weather.
Valuable geological, seiInisic and meteorological
data have been secured.
New-York tribune., 1903-07-12
MUTINY LEADER BREAKS JAIL.
Gets Away with Two Other Negroes and a
White Prisoner.

Junction City. Kan, July 11.-Gilbert Mulin.
the federal prisoner who led the mutiny al the
Fort Leavenworth prison in November. 1901
and who has been in the county Jail here for
the last year, awaiting trial the charge OF
numbering one of the guards in the mutiny led
an assault on Sheriff Peeso early to-day, and
he. with three other prisoners, a white man and
two negroes escaped. The Sheriff was over
powered and badly cut about the head. but he
succeeded in getting the cell door closed before
all five prisoners could get out
The quartet of jail bi eakers ran to the river.
and, compelling fisherman to row them to the
other side. made for the tall timber The Sheriff
followed in a buggy, and posses were quickly
organized and Joined in the chase. Later sol
diers were sent from Fort Riley TO help in the
hunt. Shortly before noon two of the negroes
were captured and returned to Jail Sheriff
Peeso. though badly injured, continued TO lead
the search. Mulln, who is negro, is a des-
perate man, and ii is expected that he will put
up a hard fight.
In the Fort Leavenworth outbreak twenty-stx
prisoners escaped, Mullin and nearly all the
others finally being captured after desperate
fight, in which ]. B. Waldrupe a guard, and
several convicts were killed
New-York tribune., 1903-07-12
PROTESTS HAVE EFFECT.
Russia Furnishing Those Response
bic for Kishinef Massacre.

Washington, July 11.-Information Of an
tirely trustworthy character concerning the
Kishineff massacre has reached here From ad-
vices received to-day it appears that the pro-
tests which arose in the United States and
many other civilized countries against the muir
derous attacks on the Jews in Kishinef last
spring have not been without practical effect.
This information states that the Russian Gov
ernment has been moved to vigorous action in
the matter OF investigating and Furnishing those
who were responsible for the Kishinen massa-
ere. Eight hundred arrests have been made, and
as result of the preliminary examination three
hundred and fifty persons have been remanded
for trial in the lower courts. Four hundred and
fifty cases have been sent 10 the Court of APP
peal of which ifty-three are indictments for
manslaughter,t A change of venue having been
oruered, the trials of those accused Of murder
Ing and horribly maltreating the Jews at Kishi-
neff will occur in September at Tiraspol. The
services of four distinguished lawyers have been
cases. and three well known lawyers will aid in
the prosecution of the synagogue property cases.
Berlin, July 1.-THE "Frankfurter Zeitung''
says II learns by way of Bucharest that the
ringleader of the Kishineff atrocities a man
named Piserjewski has committed suicide at
Kishinen because the director of the Russian
Ministry of Justice had arrived there, commits
stoned by the Gar to make a stringent investI-
cation into the horrors The correspondent
adds that a number of persons previously dis
charged from arrest at Kishineff have been re-
arrested, and that other persons morally re-
SpOiSIDle Tor the murders have been arrested.
Inc 'Frankfurter Zeitung'' also saws il learns
from another source that Ex-Governor Won
Raaben has returned to Kishineff and is en-
oeaVoring to get the Jewish population of that
place 70 unite in testimonial 10 the effect that
ne behaved correctly during the massacres.
New-York tribune., 1903-07-12

pupils from the Carnot High School In auto
mobiles, and, under the influence OF champagne
and luxurious surroundings, to take part in
rites called les messes noires," which were per-
formed with music and incantations in the pres
ence of dozen or twenty participants and
spectators. These pupils OF the ages OF
ten to fifteen, and belonged to highly respectable
families, two sons of an eminent engineer Of in
ternational reputation being among the victims
Of these abominabIe rites Of Astaroth.
The Petite Republique," influential So
cialist organ. edited by Jean Jaures. is plough
ing into this filthy mud with an energy worthy
Of The Pail Mall Gazette in former days, and
finds in the Iamentable revelations weapon for
making violent attacks on the French aristoc-
racy and -on the Franco-cosmopolitan plutoc-
racy. The Socialists are. indeed up in arms at
this scandal. The indignant parents of the vic
tins swear they will seek vengeance on the
perpetrators with their own hands. Altogether.
it is tremendous sensation, and scarcely any
thing else was talked of to-day in Paris.
The summer migration to Switzerland and
Germany has now set in. Among the Ameri-
cans at Lucerne are Governor and Mrs. Richard
Yates, of Illinois; Miss Ross. her uncle, Mr..
Wadsworth; Mr. and Mrs. A r. Shattuck, Mrs.
and Miss Gambler, Mrs, Richard H Davis and
Clyde Fitch
James Low Hartman has arrived at HON.
burg in his automobile making the jour
ney from Paris without q hitch mishap. At
Homburg, also. Mr.. and Mrs. Hubert Har-
riman, Mrs. von Len6erke Meyer, Mr.. and Mrs
Joseph Livingston. Mr.. and Mrs. and Miss
Hotchkss Colonel and Mrs Wilson. At the
neighboring watering place, Nauheim are Mrs.
William Storrs Wells, Mrs. J. J. Post. her sister,
Mrs. Mahoney, Mrs. Levi P. Morton, Mrs S. E.
Mead, A. P Alcott ]. J. Stilwel, Stephen ].
EIkins and w W. Kimbau. c. I. B.
New-York tribune., 1903-07-12
NEW eREEK CABINET FORMED.

Athens. July 1.-THE new Greek Cabinet is con-
stituted as follows:
NJ RAII4I. Premier and Minister Of Foreign Affairs
ana ad interim Minister Finance
MAVROMICHALIS, Minister OF the Interior
Colonel CONSTANTINIDES. Minister Of War and ad
interim Minister Of the Navy
NJ. MARKOPMULO. Minister Of Justice. =,
NJ PHARMACMA EOULOY Cwho is a nsphew OF M
Ieyannis the distinguished Greek statesman and former
Premier Minister Of Public Instruction.
New-York tribune., 1903-07-12
HARVARD STUDENTS UNDER BAIL.

Cambridge, Mass. July u-Barry c. Eastman, a
student at the Massachusetts Institute Of Tech
nology, whose home is in Oregon has surrendered
TO the local police in connection with the robbery
on May l Of the Harvard Cooperative Society's
store in Harvard Square. He the third stu
dent to be placed under arrest. In the district
court to-day Eastman pleaded not guilty to
was bound TO the grand jury in coo Guy
L Hunt and Floyd e Rich, the other two
poets. held in g. 200. All admitted
to bail.
New-York tribune., 1903-07-12
CANADIAN WESTINGHOUSE COMPANY.

Ottawa Ont. July 1.-THE Canadian Westing-
house Cornpany has been incorporated. with head
quarters in Hamilton. Ont. Among those interested
are George Westinghouse. P1ttsburg; Henry Her
man Westinghouse, New-Yorki George Carson
Smith Frank Hendrickson Taylor and Loyal Alien
Osborne Pfttsbure: Thomas Ahearn and Warren
Young Soper Ottawa. and Paul Judson Ayter'
New-York tribune., 1903-07-12
ALASKA BOUNDARY BRIEF FINISHED.

Johnstown Penn. July I'D. T Watson OF
Pfttsburg. who has been in Ebensburg for the last
two months preparing his brief In the Alaskan
boundary question, has ended his labors and VIII
sail in a few days for London. where the com
mission will sit. The brief makes more than SIX
hundred typewritten pages. and was placed IN
tvne as RAPIDLY as finished The book contains sew
erai mans prepared under the direction OF Mr
New-York tribune., 1903-07-12
GRANITE COMPANY ASSIGNS.

Pennington. Me. July 1.-THE Maine and New
Hampshire Granite Company has assigned %
Henry P. Cox, OF Portland. and George p Martin,
Of Auburn Only two OF the creditors have signed
OF so far They are George - Wing and the Ma
tionaI Shoe and Leather Bank OF Auburn The
assignment is the result OF the recent failure OF
the Ctlshman Shoe Company. OF Auburn II n
said that the assignment will be only temporary.
as the assets appear greater than ne lab.lltes