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Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1910-10-01

holy joy overspread the fsherman'a
visage. and his hairy paws continued
TO open and close hungrily.
do you mean businessT' he below
ed at Emerson. Can you fightT"
yes"
This gang won't stop at anything"
warned Bait
Neither Will l." affirmed the other.
with a scowl and a dangerous down
drawing OF his lip corners. 1--WE got
to win, so don't waste any time won
dering how far I'll go. What / want
to know is II you will join my enter
prise"
III give my life to it,"
II knew you would" flashed Cherry.
"And IL we don't beat Willis Marsh.
by glory. I'll kill him. Bait shouted.
fully capable OF carrying out his
threat, for his bloodshot eyes were
lit with bitter hatred. Turning to the
girl. he said:
Now give me something to eat. I've
been living on dog1sh till nay belly
is full of bones"
Long after Cherry had gone to bed
she heard the murmur OF their voices.
Its ali arranged" they advised her
at the breakfast table. I'VE leave to-
morrow"
Tomorrow she echoed biankly.
1--WE start in the morning. We have
no time to waste"
She felt sudden dread at her heart.
: What II they failed and did not re-
turn7 What II some untoward peril
should overtake them on the outward
trip? IL was hazardous journey. and
1 George Bait was the most reckless
man on the Bering coast. Emerson's
/ next words added TO her alarm:
"we'n catch the mail boat at Kat
mai"
''Katmai,'- she broke in sharply.
'-You said you were going by the liam
Da route" She turned on Bait angri-
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George Bait: no man dares 70 give
him bed: no cannery will let him
work. He has 10 take a dory 20 Dutch
HarbOr 10 get food. He doesn't dare
leave the country and abandon the
meager thousands he has invested In
buildings, and every summer when
the run starts he comes across the
marshes and sinks about the Kalvik
thickets like wrath. watching from
afar just In order TO be near 1t all.
He stands alone and forsaken. barking
20 the clank OF machinery. every bolt
Of which he placed. watching his
enemies enrich themselves from that
cleaning silver army. which he con-
siders his very own. He Is summed
like a leper. Some time l believe he
will XIII Marsh"
"Hm-ml One seems TO be forever
crossing the trail OF this Marsh" said
Boyd. who had listened intently.
The man who beats Marsh win
have done something" She paused.
then said deliberately. "And 1 believe
you are the one to do H."
They had reached their destination
the mouth OF deep creek. up which
Cherry turned her dogs Emerson
leaped from the sled and, running for
ward. seized the leader, guiding II into
a clump OF spruce. among the bcleS
OF which he tangled the harness. for
this team was like a pack OF wolves.
ravenous for travel and intoIerant OF
the leash
Together they assembled the bank and
surveyed the surroundings. Cherry ex-
patiating upon every feature with the
fervor of a land agent bent on weav-
ing his spell about prospective buyer
And in truth she had chosen well. for
the conditions seemed ideal.
I've watched you. and | know you
are down on your luck for some rea-
son." the girl said. you've been mis-
cast somehow. and you've had the
heart taken out OF you. but I'm sure
fits In you to succeed. for you're young
and intelligent, cool and determined.
am giving you this chance TO play
the biggest game OF your life and erase
In eight short months every trace OF
failure I'm not doing IL altogether
unselfishiy. for believe you've been
sent 10 haivik TO work out your own
salvation and mine and that OF poor
George Bait, whom you've never seen.
You're going 60 do this thing. and
you're going TO make II win"
Emerson reached out impuisively and
caught her tiny. mittened hand. His
eyes were shining; bis face had lost
the settled look OF detection and was
all agIow with a new dawn OF hope.
Even his shoulders were lifted and
thrown back as II from some sudden
access OF vigor that lightened his bur
den
You're rightF' he said firmly. 'we'n
send for Bait tonight"
In the days that followed Cherry
was nj Boyd's elbow constantly. aid
Ing him at every turn in his zeal "a
acquire q knowledge OF the canner
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1910-10-01
Scientific Course Of Instruetion.

The Armstrong Manual Training
school OF Washington has added a
new course OF instruction TO its excel
lent list OF subjects this fall. which
bids fair TO become very popular as
well as helpful.
1t might be called a course in avia-
ton. or course no attempts at fight
will be made. but the principles OF
propelling an airship through Its nat
uraI medium will be taught by means
OF a small model. which travels along
g wire. its motor being driven by cleo.
tricity.
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Lectures on European sesn,,.

Rev. John c. Love. ID. D.. OF Mont.
clair. N. J.. is arranging to give the
public a series OF Illustrated lectures
this fall and winter in which he will
present scenes from the various cities
visited by him during his recent tour
OF Europe.
He will also tell OF the habits and
customs OF the people. their capacity
as wage earners and mode OF living as
compared with similar classes OF wage
earners In the United States. The
story of his trip will no doubt be In
teresting.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1910-10-01
BIG EDUCATIONAL RALLY.
Generous Financial Aid Given Eight
Worthy Young Women.


The testimonial reception and educa-
tional rally held at the Bethesda Bap-
fist church. New Rochelle. n. Y. on
Thursday evening. Sept %. was a
grand success.
The affair was given for the purpose
OF raising funds 10 assist eight ambi-
tious young women through school.
Miss +. VILLA Davis was one OF the
prime factors In the movement, and It
is encouraging TO note the splendid CO.
operation which she received from her
associates and the general public.
The young women in whose honor
the testimonial was given are the fol-
lowing: Misses Julia Trent. Kate Wat
son. Rosa Flowers. Maggie Foster. Mel
lie Brunette. Lillian Corbette. Nettie
Benjamin and Lillian Moses.
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ITo BE Continued
Men Aear lecture on Sian Paintin

Men Hear Lecture on Sign Painting.
The men Of the Carlton avenue
branch. Brooklyn Young Mems Chris
tan association. were treated to a
very instructive lecture on Sign
Painting" on Saturday evening. Sept.
"a. The lecture was given under the
auspices Of the Bolton Sign company.
Demonstrations in half a dozen sub
jects were given.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1910-10-01

Cooperation Of Parent and Teacher.
School days have come again. Let
every perent see TO II that his child
goes to school. We should work hand
In hand with the teacher who In
sfructs our children. Let us teach
them at home thrift. industry. hon.
esty. truth. self reliance and obedi-
euce
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1910-10-01
sOeisty Of the Sons Of virainia.

The fourteenth annual reception OF
the Society OF the Sons of Virginia
will be held at Pilgrim hall. Brook
lyn. on Thursday evening. Nov. "a.
The Organization is In fourishing
condition. and the officers are endeav-
oring 10 make the coming reception
grand reunion OF members and
friends
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1910-10-01
N Pr ~ NORFOLK &
u' " u' WESTERN.
ONLY ALL RAIL LINE TO NORFOLK.
E-L.L--L- l. IL. L..

ONLY ALL RAIL LINE TO NORFOLK.
Schedule in Effect June -. 1910.
Leave Byrd Street Station, Richmond. FOR
NORFOLK: bs:lO A. NJ, 1900 A. N; $500 p
N. s4:lO p. NJ, b7:o0 p. N
FOR LYNCHBURG AND THE WEST-'e:l5
A. NJ. 300 A. N, bl2:l0 Noon; $500 p. NJ.
1870 P. NJ
Arrive Richmond from Norfolk-b 1855 A. u.
a IL 40 A. N, $3.50 p. N, b 1925 p. NJ, I'll 20
p. NJ From the West: $50 A. NJ, also p
n, 2,l5 p NJ, s6:O5 r. NJ. 300 p. N.
Daily Daily except Sunday Sunday only
Pullman. rarlOr and Sleeping Cars, Gaze Din
ing Cans. @. VI. BOSLEY,
W. b. BEYILL, ID. p. A., Richmond, Va
G. y. A., Roanoke, Va.
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All ouis, Alona th. Pacific.

The Johnson-JefrrUs fight pictures
are showing to full houses in San
Francisco. and as yet we have heard
OF no race riots OF other disturbances
along the color line from the northern
metropolis.-Los Angeles (Csl) New
Age.
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ATLANTIC COASTLINE.
EFFECTIVE LPRn II. ises.

EFFECT1Vk AFRn IL. lDoe.
TRAINS LEAVE RICHMOND DAILY.
For Florida and South Sis A Il and Tn
r. n.
FOR \. and ". n.y.. Wet; s:os a. n. ii:is
and SOS P. n
For Petersburg; s;ss A. ~, rs:lo. see, sf:ss
r. n, r. n. s:eS p. n. fs1 and IL Is ?. n.
For Coidsboro and fsyestsvfns: s1sss r. n
Trains arrive Richmosd dzflys s:1s. Iscs A.
n, ,s:8 i1:s A n. ss1s:<4 A. ~, s1sn r.
n, Ssos. $50 &on and sslS r. Il
sxxsept Sunday. ss81zday Ozly.
Time Il snfva; s.d dspArsurss and sssass-
sions cot guArAotsse-
O 4 oAkrBHG. q. r. A.
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on topics; the Rev. Robert w. Bag
nail. rector OF the. church where the
sessions OF the conference were held.
and the venerable Archdeacon Henry
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Losing lime.

We heard the sweet girl grads crate.
We saw the sweet boy grads perspire
And not one OF them up TO date
Has set the blamed old world ehre.
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THE SUMMER ARGUMENT.

She wants to 70 unto the shore
And pack her trunk.
With gowns no one has seen before.
And all such junk
But I would seek some far-on place
Where I'm unknown.
And let my whiskers deck my face
And be alona
She signs for parties and for teas:
They are her wish.
i merely want TO take my eess
And loaf and fish
She wants to lead life that's Era0d.
IN silken skirts
] want TO wear my old trousers and
My outing shirts.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1910-10-01
Russian Braid.

Coarse Russian braid is used a
great deal for trimming coats and
capes
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1910-10-01

Your subscription to The PLANET
Is due. Have you paid ST n not. why
notY
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Southern Ry
TRAINS LEAVE RICHMOND.

n B.-Foilowing schedule figures publsbes -.
information aud not guaranteed
b;lO A. A.-Daily. Local Tor Charlotte
lO:4o A. A-Daily. Limited. For ali pointu
south. Pullman and Day Coaches
800 u A,-hK' Sunday. Local for Noseley Va
900 r ny Sunday Keysvile Local
u'ao T. A-daily. Limited. for All point.
South. Pullman ready $3.50 p NJ
YORK RIVER LINE.
$50 F. MY. Sunday. To West Point. con-
Meeting for Baltimore Mon, Wed A Fri
4'SO A. A-Ex Sun. and 2;I5 p. M-Moa--
Wed. and Fri. Local to West Point.
TRAINS ARRIVE RICHMOND.
. From the south: 200 A. NJ, $3.50 p NJ. daily.
$40 A NJ, Ex Sunday: 4:lO p. N. sos p ~
tx. Sunday O.OcaD
From West Point. 9;sc A. NJ. daily; 1l:s5 A.
n wed and Frls 5;46 =. NJ, TX Sunday
%, ,. Z. BURGESS. d. p. A.
go East Main Street, Phone. nadison--4ss
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Out OF elaht

Out Of sight
Il see your sweetheart wears one Of
those Don't Kiss huttons!"
Yep"
We'll. you seem quite cheerful
over it7''
Yep. I never see her In the day.
time. and I can't see the button after
dark"
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=. & ..

900 A. Daily. Fast trains to Old Po,nk
900 =. Newport News and Norfolk
~ A.-Daily. Local TO Newport NevA
300 P.-Daily. Local TO Old Point
Z;S r Daily. Louisville and Cincinnati,
$50 P.-Daily. "st. Louis Chicago Special %
Pullmans
l2'Oo N.-Neek days to Hinton 'Mountsia
Special" Parior Cans
$50 A.-Daily. Charlottesville Week dav,
Clifton Forge.
5;l5 P.-Week days. LEGAL 20 Cordonsviue
ll;t5 A.-Dsiiy B'burg Lexington, @. Fore.-
o;l5 P.-Daily To Lynchburg
TRAINS ARRIVE RICHMOND
Local from East-s:25 A. n. 1850 p. NJ
through from East-lI:35 A. N e.S5 p M
Local nom West-'s:So A. NJ, $50 A. NJ,
7:3O p. N
Througk-7:Oo A. NJ 2:45 p NJ
James River Line-S:S5 A. N. $500 p n
Daily except Sunday
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RIGHT EXPERIENCE.

The Stout Man-We want a man to
write advertisements for patent
medicine. Ever had any experience?
The Thin Man-Surei I've been
writing fiction Tor Ave years.
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RAILROADS.
Richmond, FTGdGTiCEh'g & Potomac R.R
TO AND FROM WASHING T0R AND BEYOND

ACCOMMODATION IRAINS-wEEKBAYs.
Leave Byrd st. Sta $50 p. ID. for Rrederieksburg
Leave Elba Sta $50 A. n, so p. N. for Ashland
Arrive Byrd ST. Sta. SIS An. from Freeericksb'g
Arrive Elba Sta $40 An. $50 Y. y. from Ashland
sDaily. tWeskdsys. 2Sundays only.
All trains to or from Byrd Street Station
Except trains leaving so q. m. and arriving
II 50 night stop at Elba. Tisae OF arrivals aud
departures not guaranteed Read the aiEna.
Imperial Valley press., 1910-03-12

west and let the desert winds blow the bats out of his belfry.
 There is a doctor up in Redlands, who knows too much about health and disease to hold the superstition that drugs make sick men well, and is too sincere to play upon the child ish credulity of patients for his own profit by doping them with chemicals when they need only to eat, drink, breathe and think rat'onally, The doctor has been on the desert, and
 has a theory to account in some easure for the health and sanity of dwellers in Imperial Valley.
 The thin, electric atmosphere of high attitudes is known to promote eXcita- bility of the nerves and to be unsuit- able to many invalids. Some con- sumptives are barred from the benefits of the dry, pure air of the Rocky Mountain plateau by their inability to endure the stimulation. The Doctor sends his consumptives into the desert below sea level, if they have sense enought to believe that the open air, good food. little exercise and tran quil mind are the medicines they re- quire, and if they are not incapaci- tated by temperament and habit for taking the prescription.
 The Doctor says the atmosphere be- low sea level, being denser and con
Imperial Valley press., 1910-03-12
What Fertile Soil, ,uSoLara Heat, Abun-
 dant Water and IndonitabLe Energy HaUe AchieUed in Reclamation of an Empire in Delta Of the Colorado

is vivid green instead of gray. Be- fore the break of the Colorado in 1906 z the annual summer overflow of the river usually sent some water into the central and northern part of the valley by way of shallow channels, and lakes were formed in depressions in many places. Along the water courses and about the lakes, mesquite, cotton wood and willows grew rankly. The thrush of the whole volume of the river in 1906-7 cut the shallow arroy- as to gorges from thirty to sixty feet in depth and from a hundred yards to mile in width, drained the lakes and created the Salton Sea. The gorges of New River and the Alamo now serve as drainage channels for the irrigation system, solving a prob lem that would have puzzled the en- gineers.
 The half of the valley south of the Mexican border comprises the delta of the Colorado, and much of it is
Imperial Valley press., 1910-03-12

Imperial Valley is part of the re- in area, that has been known as the desert of the Colorado. But like that vast country between the Rockies and the Sierra Nevada which the old geo. graphies said was the Great Ameri- can Desert, this desert of the Colorado is a region of varied character, some of it arid and barren and some of it fertile, watered and covered with veg citation, even with forest growth.
 The main line of the Southern Pa cific, from Yuma to the pass through the mountains to the coast, traverses that part of the basin which is veri- table desert waste of sand and gravel. The road runs between the Chucka- walla mountains and the surf of wind driven sand that breaks at their feet, and originally it dove more than 200 feet below the level of the sea to the bottom of the Salton Sink, where pure, white salt could be scooped up with a steam shovel. That bowl is now filled with water; lake of 400 square miles area covers the sand and salt that reflected blistering heat waves made the west wind a blast from a furnace and burdened it with choking dust to smother the people in rail road coaches crawling through that Death Valley of the South
 The northeastern part of the ba sin is still an unmitigated desert, and that is what the railroad traveller sees and supposes to be what I'm perial Valley was before it was re- claimed. A few miles south and west of the railroad the character of the country begins to change, and between the south end of Salton Sea and the head of the Gulf of California are more than three thousand square miles of land of alluvial formation having none of the characteristics of the true desert. The soil is silt that was carried in suspension by the wa IerS Ol IHS Ooioiduo dhu uopooi|Su oJ the periodic overfows of the river into the basin. It is hundreds of feet in depth and as rich as Nile mud. Not pebble is to be found in thous- ands of square miles and there is not grit enough in the soil to scratch the polish of piano case.
 Imperial Valley is desert only in the matter of climate It is a land of little rain. It is not the home of cactus and sage, and in no respect does it resemble the deserts of Ne vada and Arizona Its native vege- tation consists chiefly of cottonwood, willow, mesquite and greasewood and
Imperial Valley press., 1910-03-12
hn1perial Valley,
 Land Of Promise

perial Valley was inaugurated, the Colorado was about ready to make one of it's periodic excursions into the basin. It had made start in 1891 and partly submerged the salt works at the bottom of the bowl, but the flood of that year was only a flash and did not last long enough to make a deep cut in the bank, and the river returned to it's old course and resumed the preparatory work of building up the ridge from which it would eventually rush down into the basin below sea level. The real prob lem of the engineers, had they but seen it, was not how to get water in- to the valley but how to keep it out. They made an intake at one of the points of inflow of the flood of 1891, but their headworks were only tenn porary structures and when the river launched one flood after another against the frail barrier the gates went out and the Colorado went on it's appointed way to carry on it's ages-old task of filling the basin with fertile soil.
 How the big problem of control of the Colorado was solved for the time by the titanic work of forcing the floods back into the old channel is an old story. The break was closed, but the permanent works required for complete mastery of the river were not constructed, and in 1909 the Colorado
Imperial Valley press., 1910-03-12

labor-crops that bring exceptional profits because they reach the mar kets at seasons when there can be no competing supply
 The settlers of this region are direct producers of wealth, and because of peculiarly favorable condition they come nearer to retaining the whole product of their labor than most other laborers. They are not exploited by captains of industry" they depend upon no mans favor for a ''job," thei products cannot be cornered by gam bling syndicates,, they fear no failure of crops because the control of con- ditions essential to growth is in their hands. Fear cannot come to the man who knows that he can get his living from the land if all the business ia the world goes to smash, and life without fear is the only life worth living.
 This is pleasant land to live in. For eight or nine months in the year the climate is without blemish. For three or four months 1t is torrid but the heat is by no means unbearable. and one who adjusts his way of living and working to the environment need not suffer anything worse than little discomfort
 There is virtually no sickness Ia the country, Doctors have little ts do. and undertakers have to conduct
Imperial Valley press., 1910-03-12

One has the feeling of being in an atmosphere of social sanity. In a great crowded noisy city, all the peo- pie hurrying past with strained faces and tense nerves seem to be milling like a bunch of locoed steers. The denizens of New York, the people who could go away and live under rational conditions but deliberately elect to stay in that Bedlam, surely have eaten of rattleweed. Not one in a hundred thousand of those bund- wants to know or would think it of the slightest importance if he did know that thousands of clean living, clean thinking, healthy sane, cheery Ameri- cans have come into the desert to make ten blades of grass grow where none grew for ages.
 The men who print papers for those demented people don't tell them any thing of that sort The New York editor would not give two lines of his space to Imperial Valleys develop ment. He gives pages, day after day, to harlot who stays a tin-horn gam bier, and he really believes that stuff is useful information of the most i'm portant character He is locoed too If he were not he either couldn't or wouldn't hold his job; he would es- cape from Bedlam, come to the South
Imperial Valley press., 1910-03-12

ditions of life to keep them in meAtal health.
 An Empire of Industry
 There is a deadening, disheartening and of thought, on the old-fashioned farm of the East, on the Kansas prai- rie and the Nebraska plains. Here are new problems, new methods and new life for the farmer and his family. The problem is not to eke out a liv- ing by back breaking toll; it is to take best advantage of the opportunity ts establish an ideal home in a land of plenty and derive from the soil an income that will supply all the req sonable luxuries of life, give the child ren complete education and insure an old age free from worry. and hard labor.
 These people are doing hard work now, for they are laying the founda- tions of prosperity in an empire of industry, but they are working with the spirit of conquerors, with buoyant hope and confidence in the future, and that is the spirit that keeps the mind and body sound.
 Imperial Valley is attractive be- cause it has land of wonderful fer tility, abundant water and beneficeRt climate and produces the most boun- tiful crops in return for the least
Imperial Valley press., 1910-03-12

taining a greater proportion of oxygsa than the air above, is conductive to serenity and nerve relaxation. He prescribes Imperial Valley for nerves that are strained and need rest. Aad there we have the sanity of this des- ert people partly accounted for by the air they breathe. Of course, they had to be pretty level-headed to recog- nize the opportunities offered in this region and to come here and seize them, but there is much in the con-
Imperial Valley press., 1910-03-12

munity. They think about and plan for the great development of produc- tive industries in Imperial Valley. They are much interested in the building of canal that is to put water upon thousands of acres of desert and cause homes and human beings to replace sand wastes and lizards, and not at all interested in squalid details of the debauches of perverts and de- generates oozing from a New York court room.
Imperial Valley press., 1910-03-12

under water during the summer, partly submerged forest of willows, cottonwoods and mesquite, varied by vast swamps of tule and cane. In the winter, when the water subsidies, the open lands are covered with grasses that furnish pasturage for tens of thousands of cattle. The Colorado left it's old bed in the summer of 1909 and is now flowing through the delta forests to the gulf. Obviously it is gross abuse of the term to call that region a desert. e
 When the irrigation project of I'm
Imperial Valley press., 1910-03-12

made another break westward below the levees and again left it's bed. The engineers had recognized the real problem, and forseeing renewal of the rivers efforts to continue it's con 5tructive work in the basin, had built barrier to it's northerly flow that turned the flood into the channels of the delta to find it's way to the gulf by way of Hardy's Colorado. How to keep the water out is no longer a problem; it is merely matter of con struction of substantial barriers.
 It is now plainly written by "the