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Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1908-12-19
Mr.. Mahammitt's Appreciation.
romaha, Neb. Enterprise. ]

Many thanks 20 Mr. John Mitchell.
Jr for what he said concerning the
city OF Omaha. He was our guest
for several days while here and the
report which he makes in his paper
OF his Impressions concerning our
city are good indeed. We hope that
Brother Mitchell will find time TO
come TO CIR western country and
spend sometime with us here
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1908-12-19

Rev o. n. Massey Of Monrovia.
Liberia, w. c. Africa, called on us
this week
Mr.. c. c. Johnson of Atlantic
City, n. J. is spending hin vacation
here. He will return about the first
of January.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1908-12-19
$4,000 Endowment Paid.

Richmond, Va. 1908.
This is TO certify that we have re-
celved from John Mitchell, Jr.
Grand Worthy Counsellor of the
Grand Court Of Virginia, Order OF
Calanthe, ($1OO.OO) One Hundred
Dollars in payment of the death
claim of Sister Barbara Chlorie. who
was member of Ivy Leaf Court
No 80 of Richmond. Va.
Signed-Marietta Webster.
Beneficiary
Per M. S. B.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1908-12-19

Peculiar OrOSvtn y, ..-....
The horn OF rh'ncceros is not
Joined 10 the bones Of the head. but
grows on the skin Ike wart
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1908-12-19
Hat sale.

All trimmed hats from now until
Xmas below cost. Come and be con-
WINGED.
MRS. -. =. CHAMLEE.
3l6 +. Broad st.
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Madame 9. j. Walker.

Culturist
cred Of
pride
six
produce from half inch to an inch only
she H
pointing Secretary Baptist
For further Information ddress - -
MADAM O. WALKER =
pats.bur~
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1908-12-19

Nothing astonishes people more
than the truth and honest. straight
forward dealing.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1908-12-19

POSTAGE STAMPS OF A HIGHER nENORTNA
TON than TWO CBNTS NOT RECEIVED
on SUBSCRIPTIONS
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1908-12-19

Many Shorthand Systems.
There are mere than four hundred
systems OF shorthand
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1908-12-19

Entercs az che Po-t Once It Richuood. Va
a. -auf Las matter.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1908-11-14
NAV Be Andree,s Body.

Copenhagen, Den.-There Is reason
to believe that the body of Prof. s.
A. Andree, the Arctic explorer, who
in 1897 made an attempt to reach the
North Pole in a balloon, has been
found on the coast of Labrador.
A letter received from the captain
of the Danish steamer Inga, dated Lab
rador Sept. 80, reports that Capt.
ChallSer, skipper of the American
schooner Pelops, of Conception Bay, N.
F., discovered in northern Labrador a
cross bearing the name "Andree," and
underneath this cross he found body
and a box of documents.
The letter from the captain Of the
Inga was sent from Indian side, Labra-
dor, and states that the schooner Pc
lops arrived there from Cape Mug
ford, northern Labrador. Capt. Chal-
ker reported that he went inland at
that place end about a quarter Of a
mile from shore he came upon a sim
pie wooden cross on which was in
scribed the name "Andree."
He dug under the cross and found a
human body and box containing pa
pers. Capt. Chalker said that he re-
moved the cross, but he refused to say
whether or not the papers were in his
possession. He asked the Inga's cap
tain how the name "Andree" was
spelled On being told he TOOK piece
of paper from his pocket on which was
written the name as it appeared on the
cross. 1t was "Andree."
The place where the cross was dis
covered is an absolute desert and is
rarely visited, even by the Eslzimos
What became of Andrees two compan-
ionss, If the discovered body is his,
is problematic, but light probably
will be thrown upon their fate by an
examination of the papers.
Capt. Chalker is a half-caste Eskimo
and he took part in the landing Of the
Perry expedition in Greenland.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1908-11-14

discipline OF her army, principally un'
der the direction OF German officers
"on leave"
The proclamation of the Turkish
Constitution and the subsequent con-
fusion in Turkish political and admin
istrative ciIcles have given the Bull
garian government the long-awaited
opportunity to be utilized through what
is known as the Oriental Railway dis
pute. This railway which forms part
of the scheme of the late Baron Hirsh
to connect Central Europe with the
Levant, carried out on guarantees CIV
en- by the sultan connects Sofia with
Adrianople, and, at Kuleli-Burgas,
separates into two branches, one rum
ming eastward to Constantinople and
the other southwark and then west
ward to Salonika. 1t is the property
of the Turkish government, but has
been leased by a company whose head
Office is in Vienna and whose directors
are three Germans and two Austrians
The lease expires in 1868, and the prop
erty then reverts to Turkey
| hS ACNClhb Sll lhV Va INV OhlpAOJ SS "a
the line gave the government of Bull
garia an excuse for occupying the road
as for as Philippopolis, in Eastern Rou-
melia. This action the government of
Constantinople resented, and notes
were exchanged between that city and
Sofia. At first the Turkish govern
ment sought to assume that the step
taken by Bulgaria was solely in the
interests of the public, but after the
strike had been ended in Turkish ter
ritory proper, Bulgaria declined to re-
move her troops from the Eastern Rou-
melia part of the line, stating that her
occupation Of it was a consequence Of
the strike, which could only be settled
between it and the company leasing
the line.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1908-11-14
no Try Phonetic spelIlna.

Paris, Monday.-Simplified phonetic
spelling, upon the lines advocated by
President Roosevelt, is to be intro
duced in the public schools by M.
Dougmergue, the minister of public
instruction. This reform, which is to
be strictly limited to various groups
of double consonants, received the ap-
proval of the French academy, the ar
bitter of all matters pertaining to the
photography and construction of the
French language as long ago as 1893,
but had not heretofore received gov
ernment sanction.
1t provides for the suppression of
the "h" in the Greek group of words
like "rhetorique," "rhinoceros," etc.;
the substitution of 81" for ~" in "an-
alyze," "style," etc; the substitution
of &C" for the sibilant 1T" in words like
confidential" ETC., and the extension
OF the IS" as sign Of the plural in
words ending in "ou," eau" and "au."
1t also provides for the suppression of
the "h" in words like theatre" the
substitution Of "f" for "ph" in words
like phenomena" and the elimination
of the double IN" in words like
"paysanne."
The reform, while 1t will be intro
duced in the schools during the pres
ent school year, will not be obligatory
rather sort Of edict of tolerance for
the new fashion of spelling.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1908-11-14
WORK on New Warshlp.

Camden, N. 1.-THE prediction is
made that by next summer fully 5000
now idle men will be at work as the
result Of awarding of the contract to
the New York Shipbuilding company
for the new battleship Utah at $3,946,-
900. The work will mean employment
for at least three years and is regard
ed as a big factor in the long-looked-
for revival of business.
although this contract will not me-
cessitate the immediate increase of our
force" said DeCoursey May, president
of the shipbuilding company, by
spring expect to have added 1000
men. Many of the 5000 men now on
our payroll are working on the Michi-
gan, which will soon be finished and
we shall gradually transfer our forces
from the Michigan to the Utah. 1 do
not think 1t unlikely that by next sum-
mer there will be 5000 more men en-
played by shipbuilding firms along the
Delaware"
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1908-11-14

New Orleans, Lat was a heavy
price In human life that paid for the
errors of railroad trainmen Wednes-
| day when a Great Northern express
crashed into the rear OF a New Orleans
&c Northeastern local train at Little
Woods station, a fishing and hunting
camp on Lake Pontchartrain, 12 miles
from New Orleans
Eleven dead and many more injured,
some of them fatally, are the record
of the wreck.
The crash was attended by unusual
ly gruesome scenes In the foggy
ewamps of the lake shore. To add
10 the horror of the situation, the
wreck caught fire and only the heroic
work of the surviving passengers pre-
tvented the cremation of those pinned
in the debris.
Between Sidell and New Orleans the
Great Northern trains run over the
tracks of the New Orleans & North
eastern road. A local train of the
Northeastern, from Hattiesburg and
other Mississippi points,. is due to ar
rive in New Orleans 20 minutes before
the fast Great Northern train from
Covington. Wednesday morning the
Northeastern train was late, and the
difference of 20 minutes between the
running of the trains was consider
ably reduced.
When Engineer Blackman of the
Great Northern train took the Mouth
eastern tracks at Slidell he was Civ
en- the usual right of way signal, he
says, and proceeded to move his train
toward New Orleans at As miles an
hour
AS Little Woods was approached the
Northeastern local suddenly loomed up
through the fog.
Engineer Blackman applied the
brakes and remained at the throttle
whilet the ponderous locomotive plowe
part way through the train ahead,
leaving behind it trail of corpses and
injured passengers.
| No one on the Great Northern ex-
press was seriously hurt, but those
aboard the Northeastern local were
thrown right and left or crushed by
the express locomotive as 1t tore
through the two rear coaches of the
local. At Little Woods has no tele-
graph station, serious delay was exper-
fenced in getting a message to New Or
leans, and it was two hours before a
rescue train arrived.
In the meantime passengers of the
Great Northern train did all they could
to rescue the injured. Among the
sights that greeted the rescuers was
that Of small boy, apparently unable
to extricate himself from the wreck
age which was fast settling down upon
him. A score or more men made a
heroic effort to get the child but the
wreckage and escaping steam from the
damaged locomotive cut of their way
and they were forced to stand idly by
while the child called family for help
until he died.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1908-11-14
Mr.. Rryan,s Sentiments.

Lincoln-Declaring the Democratic
party cannot die, and that it has &C,
complished more out of Office than the
Republican party has in office during
the last IL years, w. j. Bryan bids
his supporters not to despair. In the
coming issue of his Commoner Mr.,
Bryan speaks philosophically of the
election and discusses the future un-
der the caption, "a Battle Lost-A
War But Begun" He says:
"The election of 1908 is over and
the returns disclose a signal victory
for our opponents; but the principles
for which our party stands, the poll
cies for which our party contends
these are not dead. A good proposition
is not made bad by rejection at the
polls; a needed reform is not made
unnecessary by an adverse vote. The
legislation asked for by the Democra-
tic party in it's last national platform
was not of temporary character. 1t
was legislation which will be of per-
manent advantage when 1t Is secured.
"As for myself, let no one worry
about my future. The holding of Of
flee is a mere incident in the life of
those who are devoted to reforms.
The world owes me nothing; have
been abundantly compensated for
what 1 have been able to do. My life
will not be long enough to repay the
people for their support and for the
confidence which they have ex.
pressed.
1.-The measure of our work cannot
be taken in day. If we are right, as
believe we are, 1t will vindicate us
if we contribute, as l believe we are
contributing, to a cause that is found
ed in justice, for efforts will weigh in
the final victory"
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1908-11-14
Cabinet Possibilities.

Washington.-It being pretty well
understood that Secretary Root will
retire from the state department on
March to enter the senate as the sue
cessor to Thomas G. Platt, there is
a good deal of speculation as to the
new secretary Of state
In all probability 1t will be Post
master General Meyer, although that
has not been definitely determined,
and there may be reasons to induce
Mr.. Taft to consider that 1t would be
advisable for Mr.. Meyer to become the
head of the treasury department in
stead of the state department,
One Of the callers at the White
House, recently, was Representative
Theodore q. Burton of Ohio, who is re.
garded as a senatorial candidate, a
cabinet possibility, or in some remote
contingencies the speaker Of the next
house. Mr.. Burton cannot of course be
all three, the only question in the pub
lie mind is where he will eventually
land in the senate, the cabinet or the
speakers chair.
Mr.. Burton stands very close to Mr..
Taft and took an active part in de-
feating the plans of the Foraker-Dick
alliance to prevent Mr. Taft from
having the solid support of Ohio,
A man of experience in public life,
scholarly and of great natural ability,
he is qualified to be placed in charge
of the foreign relations of the United
States, and a great many prominent
Republicans have suggested that Mr..
Taft could not do better than to put
Mr.. Burton at the head of the state
department.
Mr.. Burton was asked whether he
was to become secretary of state un-
der the new administration ut is
rather unbecoming to talk about cab
met appointments" he replied, "as
they are rendered and not sought but
may say that do not anticipate any
thing of the kind, and there is nothing
TO the story so far as l know Mr..
Taft and l are on excellent terms, but
this does not imply that l am to be
rendered place in the cabinet"
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1908-11-14
A New Anaesthetie.

In a report by Professor Reclus on
a paper presented by M. Couteand at
the sitting of the Academy of Medley
the sitting of the Academy of Medi.
cine the advantage of new anaes-
thetie, known as novocaine, were
strikingly affirmed. The anaesthetic
known as stovaine has been suppressed
ing cocaine, as being much less toxic.
Two thousand operations have been
performed with it by DR.. Reclus and
his pupils without a single accident.
Novocaine has been found to work
even better, being much less poison
GUS than either. 1t may even be
employed, according to DR.. Reclus--
who thus confirms a previous COM
munication to the academy by DR..
Reynier-without any danger. The
injection of anaesthetic round the
spinal column is condemned by DR..
Reclus, who insists upon the benefits
Of local anaesthesis, which permits
the suppression of chloroform in cases
of hernia, OF certain laparotomies
where general anaesthesis might be
dangerous to the patient.-St Louis
Republic
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1908-11-14
FRIeHTFUL FALL.
Young Lawyer Plunges Down ITO Feet
From His Office Window.

From His Office Window.
New York.-Harvey w. Watterson,
a lawyer and younger son Of Henry
Watterson, editor Of the Louisville
Courier-Journal, plunged to his death
from the 10th floor of an Office build.
ing at 81 Wall street late Wednesday
afternoon.
His body fell 11O feet, landing on
the roof of 1O-story building adjoin.
ing, Almost every bone was broken,
the head crushed and death was prac,
tically instaneous.
While there we're no eye-witnesses
to the tragedy 1t was evidently entire.
ly accidental Mr.. Watterson's hat
and overcoat were on his closed desk
and he presumably remained a mo-
ment to lower the window when, eth.
er stumbling over the radiator which
was in front of the low sill, or losing
his footing in some way unknown, he
pitched forward and down to death on
the roof below.
Mr.. Watterson was 80 years old,
married and lived In I'd avenue. He
was junior member of the law firm Of
Wing, Russell G. Watterson.
Shortly before 4 o'clock, after dis.
cussing a case with a clerk in the of,
flee library, Mr.. Watterson said he
was going home and passed from the
library through the Office of F. r. Bagg
managing clerk into his private Office,
hn nf rrhinh pIndn6 anH
locked automatically .as he entered,
Bagg was the last person to see the
young lawyer alive.
A few minutes later the superintend'
ent of the building ran in and in.
formed Thomas e. Wing, senior mem
Der of the firm, that Mr. Watterson
had fallen from the window.
The body was removed to the Wat.
terson home, as Coroner Dooley, af.
ter an investigation, pronounced the
case purely accidental.
Mr.. Wing said that Watterson had
been a member of the firm about three
yeats. He was sure, he said, that
death was accidental, since Watterson
had no financial or domestic troubles.
Watterson was born in Louisville
and when about q. years old came to
New York and entered the Columbia
university law school. During the
time he was student there he taught
in night school.
Shortly after becoming a member Of
Wing, Russell & Watterson he ran for
the assembly. on the Tammany ticket in
an upper West Side district, but the
district was strongly Republican and
he was defeated.
Henry Watterson, who is at his
home near Louisville, was notified oi
his sons death. Pending word from
him, no funeral arrangements will be
made.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1908-11-14
Not a 4NavxD . Band.

Washington-The Marine band will
be free to play for compensation with
out regard to the statute providing
that naval bands or members thereof
shall not receive remuneration for
furnishing music outside the limits of
military posts when in competition
with local civilian musicians.
This is the effect of a decision rem
dered by the attorney general just re-
ceived by the secretary of the navy.
Representatives of organized labor
have taken the position that govern
ment bands should not compete with
union musicians and that the ques-
tion as to whether the Marine band
is strictly navy band" in the mean
ing Of this law. The attorney general
cites many decisions to show that
while the marine corps is a part OF
the navy, yet it has frequently been
held to be a separate institution so
far as legislative enactments are con.
cerned.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1908-11-14
LovEY-DovEYIsM.
Now Demonstrated To Be Nothing
but a Fake.

but Fake.
love song and concluded with senti-
mental "coo-coo-o" ne made terri.
BILE blunder For the lady dove, we
are told, is not coy, but quite man
dove chaser, and many doves are now
known to possess "afinities," even
though they were married with much
pomp and ceremony to first loves.
Lovey-doveiSm never existed. Low
ers simply have wasted their best
efforts in trying to emulate the al
legged coy little dove, and as for "feath-
ering the nest" gracious, what an un-
conscious little joke! But don't blame
the poet, because he was not natur-
alist.
Prof. William Wallace Craig of the
University of Maine, having studied
the pigeon family a long time, pre-
sented his conclusions in paper
which won for him the degree of Phi.
D. from the University of Chicago in
June. The paper is published in the
July number of the American Journal
of Sociology, issued by the Universi-
ty of Chicago press.
Pigeons-or doves-are much like
primitive peoples, according to the
professor. They grow up, court or
WOO their sex opposites, marry, set
tie down in a home, raise a family,
have their own social settlement and
family tree, and in addition have mar
ital troubles. Lady and gentleman
pigeons both seem to be subject to
afinities.
But as regards coyness, for which
the pigeon family seems to have won
immortal fame, the innocent looking
little birds have joke on the poet.
In this respect Prof Craig writes:
'In pigeons, smong which there is
always ceremony before pairing, the
female sometimes is more anxious to
mate than is the male and leads tho
male on. The females of this group
at least certainly have no special in
stinct of coyness. They may in some
| cases show reluctance to accept the
advances of the male, but these cases
do not indicate coyness."
The ceremony Of marriage Is pre-
sented as follows:
when at length site Is agreed
upon (for a nest) the selection is i'm
pressed upon the minds of the birds
by ceremony in which both sit to-
gether in the chosen spot and call and
caress one another for long period.
Then one bird, usually the female re-
: mains in the nest to build 1t and fash
| ion it, while the other bird flies of in
search of building material.
Each time the male returns with
a straw the female welcomes him with
low, complacent cooling and an af-
fectionate hutter of the wings, which
must serve to confirm still further
! the union Of the birds and the choice
of a nesting site"
The uncertainty OF marriage is
shown thus:
MATED birds, after remaining alb
solutely faithful through long Pc
riod, may under certain circumstan-
ces separate, and one Of them or each
of them may form new and different
union. Chicago Tribune.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1908-11-14

In report by Professor Reclus on
a paper presented by M. Couteand at
the sitting of the Academy of Medicv
the sitting of the Academy of Medi-
cine the advantage of a new anaes-
thetic, known as novocaine, were
strikingly affirmed. The anaesthetic
known as stovaine has been suppressed
ing cocaine, as being much less toxic.
Two thousand operations have been
performed with 1t by DR.. Reclus and
his pupils without a single accident.
Novocaine has been found to work
even better, being much less poison
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1908-11-14
Berlin Expsots Lively Time.

Berlin.-It is expected that the de-
bate on the subject Of the emperor's
interview, recently published in Lon
don paper, will be lively, probably tax
ing up two days in the Reichstag.
Chancellor Won Buelow, it is believed,
will make his explanation soon after
the opening of the debate. The social
lists have called 26 mass meetings in
Berlin and vicinity to protest against
"absolutism."
Members of other parties, in prepara-
ton for the questions in the house re.
garding measures to prevent similar
occurrences, met at the Reichstag and
discussed privately their respective at.
titudes and nominated speakers to ex-
press their views in the debate.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1908-11-14

! Gus than either. 1t may even be
employed, according to DR.. Reclus-
who thus confirms a previous COM
munication to the academy by DR..
Reynier-without any danger. The
injection of anaesthetic round the
spinal column is condemned by DR..
Reclus, who insists upon the benefits
of local anaesthesis, which permits
the suppression of chloroform in cases
of hernia, or certain laparotomies
where general anaesthesis might be
dangerous to the patient.-St. Louis
Republic.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1908-11-14
Chinese. Save Their Face.

Pekin-In order to satisfy the pride
of the Chinese people the official
newspaper controlled by Grand Coun
cillor Yuan Shat Kai explains the
fact that only half the American bat
tleship fleet, that is to say, eight YES
sells, visited Annoy as the guests of
the Chinese government, by declaring
that the fleet was dispersed by a
storm on it's way to the Chinese coast.
The fate of the other eight vessels is
unknown, according to the newspa-
per; only half the fleet reached Annoy.
The foreign board accepts this
statement with complacency. The
American legation was not consulte
prior to its publication.