Richmond Planet

THE RICHMOND PLANET VOL.XIX NO.8 FIRST HONOR PUPIts. VALLEY SCHOOL. 6th Grammar—Hattie Kemp, Marie Forsey, Sallie Harris, Justine Williams, Elizabeth Taylor, Irma Brown. 5th Grammar—Ethel Bowler, Sallie Brown, Elizabeth Gregory. 3rd Grammar—Clarence Jeter. 2nd Grammar—Edward Stanton, Lelia Johnson. 1st Grammar—Lillian Davis, Nora Burrell, Louisa Young, Urseline Gardner, Daisy Johnson. 8th Primary—Sullivan Pitchford, Melvina Harris, Pearl Thomas, Emma Tinsley, Elise Tyler, Mary Vandervall. 7th Primary—Gertrude Harris, Rosa Moody, Blanche Walton, Maude Poindexter, Melvin Robinson, Leroy Brown, Ottee Johnson, Joseph Anderson, Alfred Newton, Willie Cary. 6th Primary — Zoia Washington, Pearl Brown, Marie Brown. 5th Primary—Robert Brown, Stephen Banning, Emmett Coleman, Ernest Edwards, James Monroe, James Ross, Alfred Stokes, Lillie Booker, Bertha Crump, Lelia Dabney, Annie Freeman, Ruby Harbys, Annie Holland, Vivian Kemp, Ida Phels, Beulah Thomas, Hattie Reed, Josephine Robinson. 4th Primary—Mrs. F. P. Walker, teacher: Lillian West, Mary Francis, Rosa Gaines, Lillie Howard, Estelle Jones, Rosa Perkins, Julia Pemberton, Rosa Pemberton, Lula Johnson, Florence J. White, Virginia Seaton, Bland Banks, Parish Lewis, George Murray, Nat. Wickham, Fitzzhang White, Virgil*1 Williams, Clarence Willis. 3rd Primary, 36—Bessie Wells, Geo. Dance, Pearl Jackson, Melissa Kinney, Thomas Kelley, Willie Richardson Lily Green, Estelle Gregory, Lizzie Johnson, Gertrude Walbarrow, Mary Woodson. 3rd Primary, 37—Mabell Grammar, Adolphus Edwards, Morris-Tyler. 2nd Primary, 38—Oscar Allen, Harry Black, John Lipscomb, James Miller, John Mankin, Walter Phillips, Ernest Venable, Frank Watson, Prunella Anderson, Gertrude Harris, Nora Jones, Virginia Kenny, Marie Irene, Irene Pitchford, Blanche Muse. 2nd Primary, 40—James Mayo, Arthur Roots, Louisa Bolling, Lena Brown, Lula Duncan, Marion Thomas, Annie White. 1st Primary, 39—George Brooks, J. Milton Dabney, Arthur Dance, John Henry Ellett, Asa Lipscomb, Cornelius Manuel, Edward Taylor, Whitman Washington, Pearl Brown, Maria Brooks, Eva Coleman, Dora Jackson, Charlotte Smith, Edmonia Venable, Rosa Wingfield. 1st Primary, No. 41—Weldon Lewis, Charley Walbarrow, Mary Dixon, Gertrude Ellett, Ida Hargave, Pearl Harbell, Mabel Jones, Emma Moody, Eliza Montague, Amanda Reid, Marie Thomas. Week Ending January 24, 1902. 6th Grammar—Mr. A. V. Norrell, teacher: Royal Bouldin, Augusta Johnson. 5th Grammar—Miss Rosa B. Brooks, teacher: Fannie Cowan, Jeannette Forrester. 4th Grammar—Miss Lena V. Isham, teacher: Maggie Miles, Coralease Norrell, Lillie Porter. 3rd Grammar—Bennie Ross, Lillie Fox, Sadie Fox. 2nd Grammar—Miss C. L. Brown, teacher: Maria Williams, Jessie Johnson. 7th Primary, 49—Miss E. B. Lucas, teacher: Laura Jackson. 7th Primary, 50—Miss Virginia B. Harper, teacher: Martha Williams, Leanna Davenport, Walter Brooks, Jas. Walls. 6th Primary—Miss Earle A. Lee, teacher: William Frazier, Milo Grinnan, Robert Woodson, Carrie Anderson, Lily Burrell, Lucy Consins, Virgie King, Irene McCray, Eva Payne, Lena Ruffin, Ethel Thorne. 5th Primary, 1—Miss M. L. Tinsley, teacher: Theodore Brown, John Dunn, Edgar Robinson, Virginia Branch, Eva Cosby, Virginia Custalo, Ellen Griffis, Mary Jackson, Blair Osby. 5th Primary, 11—Miss E. Madeline White, teacher: Mary Richardson, Pearle Banks, Mattie Norrell, Annie Brown, Albert Norrell, Rosa Page, Kate Stephens, Lottie Washington, George Burrell, John Freeland, Willie Brown, Edloe Ward, Oscar Watkins, William Frayser, Bertha Wallace, Irene Carr. 4th Primary, 1—Miss M. E. Morris, teacher: Joseph Brooks, Marina Daniel, Virginia Knight. 4th Primary, 2—Miss S. E. Brown, teacher: Mary Cabell, Sarah Carter, Mary Jennings, Julia Johnson, Marie Fisher. --- 3rd Primary, I—Miss S. E. Brown, teacher: Willie Arvin, Sherman Brown, Herbert Fenner, Robert Hamilton, Willie Milton, Marie Rolling, Florence Bryant, Irena Gregory, Sophia Johnson, Nellie Owens, Rosalie Primas, Adell Richardson. 3rd Primary—Miss M. C. Trice, teacher: Pierce V. Glenn, Leroy West, Alberta Caesar, Mille Granderson, Emma Randolph, Rebecca Stith, Rosa Reese, Lettle Pratt, Estelle Pleasant, Willie Hall. 2nd Primary—Miss M. C. Trice, teacher: Minnie Smith, Ada Boisseau, Beatrice Edmonds, Ianthea Hudson, Nita Hope, Albert Jefferson, John Johnson, Belmore Lee, Robert Pratt, Rutherford Jenkins, Elizabeth Dudley. 1st Primary, 1—Miss J. I. Stephens, teacher: John Beale, Clarence Friend, Samuel Green, Willie Hunt, Cornelius Minor, Samuel Morgan, James Walz, Robert Winston, Mamie Bentley, Alice Fenner, Maggie Fountain, Mand Hoper, Florence Hunt, Jennie Jones, Ruth Loundes, Irene Minor, Fannie Nightingale, Alice Myers, Pearl Stovall, Mary Terry. 1st Primary, No. 2.—Miss J. I. Stephens, teacher—Frank Arvin, Joseph Cabell, Willie Harris, James Sire, Richard Taylor, Wilbur Ward, Pearl Allen, Mattie Harris, Rebecca Mantley, Catherine Monroe, Mattie Scott, Julia Station, Eva Talley. Week Ending January 17th, 1902. Senior A—Josephine Davis, 14 weeks. Lucy Breoks, Allie White. Public Meeting of the Ministers' and Deacons Union. The public meeting of the Ministers' and Deacons' Union, Feb. 4. Tuesday, evening, at 8 p. m., at the Zion Baptist Church, Manchester, Va., of which Rev. J. H Burks is pastor. The following program will be rendered: PROGRAMME. Hymn. By the Choir Scripture Reading. Rev. D. W. Davis Prayer. Rev. S. H. Monford Chant. Choir Sermon. Rev. J. Andrew Bowler Address, Purity of the Pulpit, Rev. R. J. Bass Address, What's Necessary for the improvement of our Young Men? Rev. T. B. Banks Jubilee song. Deacon Samuel Harris Address, Why should we Patronize Negro Enterprises? Rev. W. F. Graham, D. D. Address, Pastors' Relation to the Church by. Rev. M. B. Hucless Song. Rev. Peter Steward Address, The Oppression of the American Negro, Rev. D. W. Davis, A M. Collection Benediction. By the Pastor The public at large is invited. White Stone, Va. Notes. WHITE STONE, VA. Jan. 18, 1903. Hon. John Mitchell, Jr. Editor Richmond PLANET: Dear Sir: Please allow me space in your valuable paper to say of the Mt. Vernon and the Sharon Baptist Churches of Lancaster County, Va., that we are succeeding nicely. Mt. Vernon Church is nearing completion at White Stone, and Sharon is just a little way behind. These are grand people, liberal as well as benevolent. During last year their contributions amounted to ($2,171.00) two thousand, two hundred and seventeen dollars. Mt. Vernon presented the pastor with a nice pulpit suit, made to order and a purse of money. Sharon presented a fine overcoat, made to order, a pair of driving gloves, and a purse of money. They also presented me some time ago, a buggy purchased in Chicago. They are a live people spiritually and financially, and engage largely in the work of missions, that the world may be brought to Christ. BAKER—Departed this life, Jan. 18, 1902, Mrs. Clara P. Baker, in the 47th year of her age. Her funeral took place from 3rd St. A. M. E. Church, Tuesday, January 21st, Rev. Strange officiating. He took for his text the 23rd Psalm, which she repeated to him when he visited her. By request the choir sang her favorite hymn, "Home of the Soul." She leaves a husband, John H. Baker, two children, an aged mother, two sisters and two brothers to mourn their loss. Her sister, MARY CARTER. John Mitchell. Jr., editor of the Richmond PLANET, addressed Bethel Literary, at Washington, D. C., on "Lynch Law." His address abounded in information on the vital topic and his many apt references and scathing rebukes to the lawless white element of the South evoked much enthusiasm and applause. —New York Ace. --- RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1902. DEBATE ON TARIFF BILL Senators Spooner and Tillman Indulge in Fierce Argument. THE CHAIR RAPPED FOR ORDER Tilliman Apologized and Said He Was Taunted Into Anger—The Negro Question Was Brought Up, and Led to Argument. Washington, Jan. 29.—One of the fiercest debates of the session occurred in the senate yesterday afternoon between Mr. Spencer (Rep.), of Wisconsin, and Mr. Tilliman (Dem.), of South Carolina, during the consideration of the Philippine tariff bill. The interchange of words became so heated that the chair rapped for order. Mr. Tilliman apologized to the chair for not first securing recognition before he spoke, but explained that he had been taunted into anger. Prior to the outbreak on the Philippine question the senate concluded the consideration of the bill establishing a department of commerce and passed it. The name of the new department was changed to that of the department of commerce and labor. During Mr. Spooner's speech on the Philippine bill bill Mr. Tillman interrupted him to inquire: "Will the senator allow me to ask him if the Platt amendment had been defeated by debate until the end of the session, would that side have had courage to have gone forward in its philanthropy, humanity, Christianity and liberty and all that kind of thing, and to have called an extra session?" Mr. Spooner—"We have courage enough on this side to do anything on earth." Mr. Tillman—"Except to defend the negro." Mr. Spooner—"We have not courage enough to lynch colored men or deprive them of their rights." Mr. Tillman—"Does the senator desire to discuss the race question here? He seems to have left the Philippine question to throw a personal filing at me. I am ready to meet him anywhere on the race question." Mr. Spooner—"Whenever the senator is willing to meet me on that question or any other, he will find me there so far as that is concerned. The senator addressed to me an observation rather offensive in its character." Mr. Tillman—"It certainly had no allusion to lynching." Mr. Tillman—"And the senator understands very well that I come from a section of country where lynchings for a given crime and for a good many other crimes are very prevalent. Now, does the senator wish to leave the Philippine proposition, in which he is dealing with a colored people in a most infamous and damnable and hypocritical way and go south and hold them up as examples that we are dealing with in a similar way; I mean the colored people here at home. Are we to have two rules of conduct in regard to the colored people, one in the Philippines, by which we butcher, and shoot Christianity into them, and another in the south, where we are not allowed to protect our wives and children?" Mr. Spooner—"If we had the same rule for the colored people in the Philippines as the senator refers to in the south, God help the colored man in the Philippines." Mr. Tillman—"God help him. In the Philippines now you have already butchered in three years three times as many as the Spaniards did in three centuries." Mr. Spooner—"It is one thing to kill men with arms in their hands against a government and against the flag. It is another thing to burn them, Mr. Tillman." Mr. Tillman—"You burned them in Kansas, sir." Mr. Spooner—"Wherever it is done, it is an outrageous crime." Mr. Tillman—"Oh, it is a very easy thing for a man who has not come in contact with them in close quarters to arise and say what other people ought to do." Mr. Tillman was admonished by the president pro tem, that he must not interrupt a senator without first obtaining leave, to which he replied that he was "taunted in a way that no white man from South Carolina can submit to." Wilkesbarre, Pa., Jan. 29—Father Aust, pastor of the Polish Catholic church at Hazleton, was probably fatally injured last night. He, with two other men, was riding in a carriage, and at the Pine street crossing, Hazleton, the rig was struck by a Lehigh Valley railroad train, smashing it to splinters. Father Aust was hurled about 50 feet, and was taken to the Hazleton Hospital in a critical condition. One of the other two men was also badly hurt. A WEEK'S NEWS CONDENSED Fire destroyed St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church at New Britain, Conn. Loss, $200,000. Israel V. Cornell, a contractor of Wilmington, Del., committed suicide by shooting himself in the breast. Michael Dougherty, a clerk in the New York tax bureau, was arrested yesterday, charged with embezzlement. M. Jules Cambon, the French ambassador, was the principal speaker at the banquet last evening of the New York Bar Association at Albany. President Harper, of the University of Chicago, denied the rumor that John D. Rockefeller is considering a gift of $26,000,000 to the university. Friday, January 24. President Roosevelt has signed the bill granting the franking privilege to Mrs. McKinley. John D. Rockefeller has given $100,000 to the Syracuse, N. Y. University to be added to the endowment fund. Ezra Budd Marter, aged 74, a lifelong resident of Burlington, N. J., and well known in politics, died yesterday. Robert J. Lowry petitioned the superior court at Atlanta, Ga., to appoint a receiver for the Atlanta Bank of Commerce, alleging that a shortage of $12,000 exists. The largest gas well in West Virginia has been struck in Pleasant县. It is flowing about 15,000,000 feet of gas a day, and also produces over 250 barrels of oil. Saturday, January 25. A naval retiring oar yesterday declined to recommend the retirement of Captain Richmond P. Hobson. The flagship of the Manila Bay flight, the Olympla, went into commissoir at the Charleston (Mass.) navy yard today. The transport Buford will sall for Manila on February 1 and will carry 1,500 unassigned recruits, now at the Presidio. W. L. Stewart, a yard foreman, was killed and six others injured in a freight wreck in the Burlington yards at Quincy, Ill. The annual convention of the Brick-layers' and Masons' International Union, after a two weeks' meeting in Pittsburg, closed yesterday. Monday, January 27. The St. Louis franchise of the American Base Ball League was purchased by R. L. Hedges and a number of St. Louis capitalists. Herbert W. Bowen, United States minister to Venezuela, was married to Miss Carolyn Clegg, of Galveston, Tex., on Saturday. The factory of the Barrett Manufacturing Company, at Shady Side, near Jersey City, N. J., was destroyed by fire. Loss, $100,000. The Southern Furniture Exposition company will erect a mammoth building at Charlotte, N. C., in which will be held furniture expositions for southern factories. Tuesday, January 28. The National Association of Retail Grocers held their fifth annual session in Milwaukee. Two negroes were lynched at West Carroll Parish, La., for the murder of G. N. Grant, a police juror. Fire destroyed the book store of W. O. Davis & Co., at Cinchnatt, causing a loss of $50,000. Many rare books Were burned. Yale College has decided not to enter a crew in the race at Annapolis, Md., May 10, which is being arranged by the University of Pennsylvania. A Norfolk and Western Coal company tug collided with the ferryboot Vermont at New York yesterday, smashing the women's cabin of the ferryboot. Wednesday, January 29. Fire gutted the Guardian Assurance company's building, in Montreal, and caused a loss of $100,000. Rear Admiral Lewis A. Kimberly, U. S. N., died of heart disease at West Newton, Mass., yesterday. Rear Admiral Silas Casey, with the battleship Iowa, of the Pacific squadron, arrived at Valparaiso, Chill, yesterday. It is learned that President Roosevelt sent a cablagrem of congratulation to Emperor William of Germany on his birthday. The British war office says there is no dispute between the colonies and the government over pay of colonial troops in South Africa. The Pittsburg Steamship company, at Cleveland, O., has settled the wage question with its firemen and oilers on a basis of $17\frac{1}{2}$ cents an hour for nine hours' work. Yukon Embezzler Committe Sulcide, Dawson, Jan. 29—Thomas Middleton, a native of Leeds, England, chief accountant for the Yukon territory, has committed sulcide rather than suffer arrest for embezzlement. His books were examined, and a shortage approximating $10,000 was discovered. When confronted with proof of his defalcation he went into another room and cut his throat from ear to ear. Y. M. C. A. NOTES. The explanation on the Sunday School lesson was well attended on last Saturday. The meetings in the city jail last Sunday were conducted by General Secretary S. C. Burrell. The results were good. The committee was out in full. The weather last Sunday was so that the street committee could not-hold meetings upon the corners of the street, thus this committee visited the sick under the directions of Brother D. J. Ross. The three papers which were read by the boys at the boys' meeting last Sunday were extremely instructive. The boys deserve much credit. The men's meeting last Sunday was well attended. The address by Lawyer J. Thomas Hewin was crowded with thoughts which will bring forth that fruit that will help the entire community. Lawyer James Alexander Chiles, of Lexington, Ky. gave some very encouraging remarks. Our brother is a brother of one of our popular mail carriers, Mr. John R. Chiles. Both have our sympathy and prayers. At this writing we are glad to note that their mother is improving. We have just received a very encouraging letter from one of our young men who was once a student of our Night school, but is now a student of the V.N. & C.I., in the person of Mr. Paul Pollard. Our last visit to the V. N. & C.I. we were pleased to hear everybody speak in the highest terms of Mr. Pollard. We wish him much success. No man or woman should miss the opportunity Sunday, Feb'y 2nd, 3:30 p.m. at the Presbyterian Church, Monroe and Catherine streets. Lecture by Dr. R. Perr, kerr of the First Presbyterian Church, Grace street. Subject, "A Walk About Jerusalem." The doctor having visited the Holy Land, the subject will be extremely pleasing. Special music by section No. 1 of the First Baptist Church Choir under the directions of Director Tharps. Duet by Mestames Carrie B. Hawkins and S. Alice Kemp Burrell. Accompanist, Miss Nannie Osborne. Admission free for both women and men. Tell your neighbor. Having been requested not to remove our calenders we will with pleasure grant this request by letting them remain in our reading room. The members of the Junior Department were highly entertained last Friday evening in the Y. M. C. A. Rooms by George W. Bragg and the Ladies' Anxilion. You never saw such a happy crowd. A note of thanks was tendered Mr. Bragg and the ladies, by the boys. There were short speeches made by the ladies, Mr. Bragg and the boys. All were happy and left feeling satisfied that a profitable evening been spent. Mr. George S. Stephens was present. We are always glad to welcome the press. Mr. Moses Thomas Randolph of Springfield, Mass. called on us. Mrs. A, S. Thomas, who has been indisposed is now much better. Preaching at the Fifth St. Baptist Church to morrow by the pastor. 11:30 a.m. Text. "I have put off my coat how shall I put it on." 8 p.m., "Fret not thyself because of evil doers." Rev. Thomas B. Donovan of Montgomery, Ala. called on us. He is succeeding nicely in his new field of labor. His friends were highly gratified to see him. He has been visiting Clayton, Del. and Wilmington, Del. He delivered an able sermon at the Cathedral Sunday at 11 a. m., The Bishop was present. - Lawyer J. Alexander Chiles returned to his home in Lexington, Ky. last Thursday night. His mother is greatly improved. A Fine Showing. Cashier Georgo W. Lewis, of the Mechanics' Savings Bank of Richmond, reports the total deposits from all sources up to Wednesday, Jan. 29th to be ($12081.45) twelve thousand and eighty-one dollars and forty-five cents. Do You Know Him ? I desire to know the whereabouts of of William Griffin, better known as Peri Griffin, a prize fighter. When last home he was in Philadelphia, Pa. His mother's name is Amanda Griffin. Any information will be gladly received by addressing BROWN, VI. Philadelphia and Jamestown papers please copy. Nicely Furnished Rooms to let, large and small. Good accommodation. MRS. GARRETT, 251 W. 20th St. New York City, EXPLOSION IN TUNNEL Six Killed and Many Injured in New York Rapid Transit Subway. SEVERAL BUILDINGS WRECKED Dynamite Stored at Park Avenue Shaft of Tunnel Expolded, Wreck- ing Two Hotels, a Hospital and Tore Great Hole in the Street. New York, Jan. 28.—The reserve supply of high explosives stored at the Park avenue shaft of the Rapid Transit tunnel, now in the course of construction, blew up shortly after noon.yesterday. The giant blast killed six persons, injured a hundred others and seriously damaged all the property reached by the flying debris and the vibration of the shock. Those killed were: CYRUS ADAMS, at the Murray Hill Hotel. JAMES CARR, 32 years old, a waiter employed at the Murray Hill Hotel. LAWRENCE HINE, 20 years old, of Ansonia, Conn. J. RODERICK ROBERTSON, of Nelson, B. C., a guest at the Murray Hill Hotel. RALPH H. THOMPSON, assistant engineer. THOMAS TUBBS, master mechanic for Contractor Ira A. Shaler. The irregular square formed by the Murray Hill Hotel on the west, the Manhattan Eye and Ear Hospital and the Grand Union Hotel on the east, and the Grand Central Railroad station on the north, was the scene of the explosion. The buildings named sustained the greatest damage, but the area affected extended for several blocks in the four directions from the centre. J. Roderick Robertson, of Nelson, B. C., was kiled by the debris, hurled with the force of artillery into his room at the Murray Hill Hotel. He was general manager in Canada for the British Columbia Gold Fields Company, Limited. The sunken approach to the street railway tunnel used by the Madison avenue line cuts through Park avenue, and the shaft for the Rapid Transit Subway was run down beside it at the intersection of East Forty-first street. The street railway approach was housed over with a superstructure used for the operating plant of the Rapid Transit contractors. Temporary buildings for storage purposes were thrown up against the superstructure at the mouth of the shaft, and there the expulsion occurred. It tore a great gorge in the street, demolished the temporary buildings and part of the superstructure, and sent a mass of earth, splintered timber and twisted iron high in the air. Much of it went battering against the front of the Murray Hill Hotel, and although the walls and main structure of that building stood the shock, nearly every room in the front of the house was wrecked. The Manhattan Eye and Ear Hospital, on the east side of the avenue, fared nearly as bad and had to be abandoned by the management. The Grand Union Hotel lost all of its windows and glass partitions, and practically every front window in the Grand Central Station was shattered. The great clocks on its front towers were blown from their cases. Thousands of windows, some of them seven blocks from the tunnel shaft, fell in fragments. It was the shower of broken glass and falling debris that injured the greatest number. Torrents of water from broken mains poured into the tunnel shaft while the wreckage was being cleared from the street railway subway, and it was feared that the street might cave in. The cause of the explosion and the quantity of explosive that blew up are not definitely known. Several causes have been advanced. One was that a fire started near the powder room and that Master Mechanic William Tubbs lost his life in a desperate attempt to quench it before it reached the deadly fuel. Another was that it started from a spark produced by a stray current of electricity. A third placed the balme upon a blast in the tunnel. It will probably take an official investigation to reveal the true cause of the catastrophe. District Attorney Jerome visited the scene and made an investigation to guide him in the official inquiry and possible criminal prosecution that will follow. Ira A. Shaler, the engineer in charge of the work at Park avenue; John Bracken, a foreman and Martin McGrath, an assistant foreman, were placed under arrest, charged with homicide. The damage may exceed $1,000,000. The first estimate on the Murray Hill Hotel placed the loss at $100,000, but later the hotel was abandoned as unsafe. Late last night investigation of the damage done to the Murray Hill Hotel was complete, and it showed a remarkable condition of affairs. Two-thirds of the big hostelry cannot be used until repairs have been made, and the northeast corner is closed entirely. Propreator Jacques places the loss in glass alone at $15,000. Every window in the hotel was shattered and the window frames torn from their fastenings and blown into the rooms. Fortunately the explosion occurred at the noon hour. Not more than 100 persons were in the main waiting room of the Grand Central station, though in the smoking room at the southwest corner a number of men were lounging. Some of these were slightly injured by bits of glass. Four ticket sellers were injured. They stood in the pathway of this blast and were all cut about the heads and arms with the flying silvers. Two Hundred Soldiers Frozen to Death London, Jan 29.—The Tokio correspondent of The Daily Express cables that over 200 soldiers have been frozen to death in Northern Japan. Eleven Men Drowned. Dover, England, Jan. 29.—The trawler Heron sank during a gale off here yesterday. Eleven persons were drowned, and one man was saved. WITHOUT FOOD FOR DAYS Japtain Porter's Marines Suffered. Hardships In Samar. Manila, Jan. 29.—General Chaffee curtailed his trip and returned here yesterday morning. He says he found the conditions satisfactory everywhere, except at Samar, where continuous rain, during the past two months, has retarded the campaign, especially against such an elusive enemy. The condition of Captain David D. Porter's marines, who took part in the expedition into the interior of Samar is much worse than previously described. They suffered fearful hardships and were without food for several days. The natives who accompanied the marines claimed they were unable to distinguish the edible roots which the marines did not believe. The anger of the marines against the natives is intense. None of the latter returned with the marines. The marines suffered so acutely from starvation that they ate raw the flesh of two dogs. When Captain Porter and the first three of his men staggered into camp they were delirious and difficulty was experienced in ascertaining the whereabouts of their companions. Williams, of the first infantry, headed the relief expedition in the face of a torrential rainstorm which flooded the rivers. He succeeded in reaching the remaining ten men, who would otherwise have certainly perished. He found them all delirious. Two of the men were discovered in the branches of trees, barking like dogs. Some of the marines are so ill that they are not likely to recover. General Chaffee has endeavored to obtain full details of the trip of the marines, but Captain Porter is not yet able to lucidly explain matters. MISS STONE STILL A CAPTIVE Brigands Want to Conclude Negotiations in Turkey. Washington, Jan. 29.—The state department yesterday received a dispatch from the United States representatives in Turkey regarding the case of Miss Ellen M. Stone, the American missionary held by brigands, and her companion, Madame Tsilka. Its contents were dispointing, the captives not having been released, as was hoped would be the case from the manner in which the negotiations looking to that end had been progressing lately. Vienna, Jan. 29—A telegram has been received here from Sothe, saying that the brigands wish the liberation of Miss Stone, the captive American missionary, to take place upon Turkish territory, and that the Turkish government will not consent to this arrangement, unless it be advised of the time and place of the passage of the brigands across the frontier. The Turkish government also requires that a neutral escort accompany the brigands. Big Crown at Double Hanging. Harrisburg, Pa., Jan. 29.—Watson M. Kelper and Henry Rowe were hanged yesterday morning in the Harrisburg jail yard in the presence of 1,000 people for the murder of Charles W. Ryan, cashier of the Halifax National Bank, at Halifax. The murders went to their death without a shudder and neither made any statement on the gallows or at any time since their trial. The crush for admission to the jail was so great that it required the combined effort of the police force and the sheriff's deputies to keep the crowd away from the entrances. The house tops and telegraph poles in the vicinity were crowded with people eager to witness the execution. Chicago Would Have a Home for Misfit Art And now comes a Chicago alderman with the proposition that the City Fathers set apart a certain neglected park as a hospital for the decrepit statues which have, this long time, patiently borne the burden and heat of the day — to say nothing of smoke at all hours, and other rigorous atmospheric conditions characteristic of the windy city at various seasons. It has not been entirely clear just what the alderman's original noction was; that is. MINATION PARK The Chicago Alderman's Idea. whether he planned this park with the idea that the rejected statues which should go into it in future were likely to be more artiste than those accepted by the municipal art commission and that the city would in this way ultimately find itself in possession of a collection of rare—though rejected—works, from the hands of unrecognized masters; or whether he designed it in truth, as the papers have generally construed the matter, as an asylum or place of exile for unworthy pieces of statuary which have been foisted upon the city from time to time. If this plan matures the park in question will certainly be an interesting place and will doubtless attract a great number of morbid sightseers. One of the chief regrets is that it cannot be made a state affair; and it would be better yet if the various states would pool their grievances and establish a national Ruination park. If the laity could know the inside history of some of the statues and groups which have been unveiled in this republic the necessary funds for such a park would be soon forthcoming from voluntary contributions. Committees that have been appointed by state, municipality or organi- zation of fraternal nature have often considered the purchase of statuary purely as a business transaction, like that of buying a tombstone, and the general practice in this country has been to let the contract to the lowest bidder. This is a matter of common repute. ART COMMISSIONER It comes to me upon the authority of an expert sculptor that the statue of a certain general, sculptor that the statue of a certain general, which adorns the city of Washington, D. C., was made some 50 years ago by a plasterer who thought he had taught the world a lesson in art when he managed to balance the general's horse on its hind feet. The statues in this country have, in many instances, been made by plasterers, waxworkers, tombstone cutters and tramp sculptors. In order to live up to the contracts and spend as little time as possible between the time of receiving the commission and getting the check for the finished figures, some curious makeshifts have been adopted by these fertile sculptors. In a certain city one of these men was given a commission to execute a statue showing a fireman rescuing a child. In a short time the work was finished, but when the piece reached the foundry it was discovered that both of the child's legs were left legs. Those having the matter in hand were in no little quandary for some time, but the shifty artist finally remedied the defect by replacing one of the left legs with the right leg from an old neglected statue of another child. By this happy expedient the group was in place in plenty of time for the unveiling. The piece was unanimously accepted by the committee and the firemen were more than pleased. A certain famous battlefield in this country has some statues that are very curious from an artistic standpoint. Not a few of them could be spared very nicely for service in a national Ruination park. In different parts of this historic field are to be found no fewer than seven heads modeled after the same pattern but placed upon different statues. Before the commissioners decided upon the placing of some of these groups. very curious from an artistic standpoint. Not a few of them could be spared very nicely for service in a national Ruination park. In different parts of this historic field are to be found no fewer than seven heads modeled after the same pattern but placed upon different statues. Before the commissioners decided upon the placing of some of these groups, a famous sculptor was consulted, but his ideas were manifestly absurd—as SYNDICATE No. 1. Nov 20 Some from Outside. Miss Backbay—I don't like your friend Mr. Gotham. He remarked to me last night that there were no pretty girls in Boston. Miss Knickerbocker—How ridiculous! Miss Backbay—Wasn't it? Miss Knickerbocker—Yes, because there are always some New York girls visiting there.—Philadelphia Press. they very soon demonstrated to him. It was quickly proven that his sense of proportion was very much out of plumb. In order to make this fact plain, the commissioners took the trouble to go home and measure with a tape measure the members of their own families. Of course, after this showing, there was nothing for the eminent sculptor to do but to withdraw all advice as gracefully as possible. As a matter of record, the contract was let to a cheaper man; but when the figures were sent to the foundation the proprietors of that institution refused to cast them, so amateurish was the work. The matter became noised abroad in the public prints, and by some happy chance reached the ears of the authorities, who refused most of the statues on the strength of the general rumor. The others were placed in position on the field, where they will doubtless remain until the state or national Ruination park is established. One of the most ingenious plans for filling an order for a statue is to remodel old figures to accord with the size of figure demanded. For example, one tramp sculptor received an order for a statue of a certain size. Luckily for him he had at his command a similar figure already completed. The only difficulty which presented itself was the fact that the figure in hand was too small to meet the re- "Too Small! I'll Put in a Piece." "Too Small! I'll Put in was too small "Too Small I'll Put in to meet the requirement of the commission. The sculptor was a very quick witted fellow, however, and he soon evolved a plan by which he could utilize the old figure. He saw the thing in two lengthwise through the middle, and then again crosswise, and put slabs in between. When these slabs had been made properly to conform on the outside, with the surrounding surface, the statue was complete, and it was sold to the commissioners at a good, round sum as a work of art. No doubt it still stands, in the conspicuous place where it was put, a source of inspiration and enlightenment for the masses. In most countries a man who should propose to put in a public place a duplicate of some statue in a foreign land would be held up to open ridicule. Apparently, however, there is no such fine sentiment here. There are philanthropists in America who seem to delight in making gifts of this kind of sculpture. As a result we have no end of copies of figures the originals of which are to be found abroad; and the worst part of it is that some of the originals thus represented here are themselves very inferior works of art. In the agitation which has followed the Chicago alderman's proposal for a Ruination park little judgment has been exercised in the naming of pieces of statuary which should be sent to the new asylum. For example, the monument of La Salle, in Lincoln park, has been a bused more than it deserves. It is true that the knee might have been more happily posed; but in every other respect A man standing on a pedestal, pointing outward, with three men standing below him. The finished Production but in every other respect the statue is a work of art. It is very far superior to a great many statues which may be seen in Madison square and Central park, in New York city. The world's fair staff lion in the fenced square near Lexington avenue is a pretty good piece of work, and would be an ornament to the city if it were well preserved. The man who made the colossal statue of Columbus—which the world's fair commissioners gave to Washington park as a present and which lies upon its back in the park—is now a prosperous doctor. From all of these facts it may easily be seen that what we need in every city and state is a discerning art commission, the members of which are competent to pass upon works of art. Chicago now has on its commission men of this stamp. Some of them are local artists, but there is no reason why this fact should disqualify them for this position. The acceptance or rejection of a piece of statuary should have nothing to do with the financial end of the affair; it should be a matter of art and art alone. Much money has been expended in Chicago for worthless statuary. Sixty-four thousand dollars was the amount expended for one statue; and now various organizations are quarreling over the remains. They want the brass that's in it for a new statue. MILTON B. MARKS She wanted to Know. "Grandniece," said the old lady, feebly, in a tone which indicated mental anxiety as well as bodily suffering. "Yes, aunt. What is it?" "When Dr. Slimppe comes I suspect he will try to give me an anecdy, and I want you to promise it not to let him to it. It won't cum my disease, and if I have a pain want to know it."—Tina's Weekly. THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA SAVED THE LAUNCH. How Mrs. Joseph Peno Proved Herself a Real Heroine. At the Helm of a Frail Gasoline Craft She Battled for Hours with a Most Furious Storm on Lake For four hours Mrs. Joseph Peno stood at the helm of the little gasoline launch May and battled with the most furious storm that has raged over Lake Ontario for years. The nerve and coolness of Mrs. Peno saved not only her own life but that of her husband and her two little daughters, Mary and Agnes. Time and again the waves swept over the little boat, and sometimes the wind seemed to lift it clear out of the water. If the sea had caught the launch on its beam a single time the little vessel would have been capsized and neither the Peno family nor their boat would ever have been heard of again. But not once did the merciless waves catch Mrs. Peno off her guard. Every time they swept down upon the little boat Mrs. Peno with a quick, sure twist of the wheel would head the launch up into the sea and meet the waves bow on. Peno was obliged to remain all the time over the tiny engine of the launch keeping the machinery moving without a moment's stop. Peno, his wife and two daughters, says the Chicago Tribune, had been spending their vacation at the Thousand islands camping. When they decided to return home Peno planned to go alone in the launch, taking the camping outfit and the tents. The lake was so smooth and the weather so good on the day that Peno was to start that Mrs. Peno decided not to go home with her daughters by rail to make the trip in the launch. It was a beautiful run up the St. Lawrence river and along the shores of the lake until Lake View was reached. Off this point a black squall, the same one that piled a number of good, stanch ships on the rocks be- MRS. PENO AT THE HELM. fore its fury had abated, broke over the little launch. The children were made to lie down in the bottom of the boat so that they could not be washed overboard. Then Peno sprang to his engine and Mrs. Peno took the wheel. The engine of the launch had been constructed for cruising up and down tiny lakes and smooth rivers, and not for bucking against a black squall in Lake Ontario, and Peno could not take his attention from the machinery for a second for fear that some break would occur and the launch would lose headway or fail to respond to the rudder and let the boat swing about so that the seas could strike it abame. The howling of the storm prevented his shouting any orders to his wife and she had to handle the wheel as her best judgment dictated. The launch was not far off shore when the storm broke, but it was a lee shore, on which the waves broke with tremendous fury. To have gone too near the coast during the squall would mean the instant demolition of the little craft on the rocky reefs. So Mrs. Peno of her own volition headed the launch squarely out to sea. Whenever possible she woul head the boat for Fort Ontario Hi", where there is a river, into which Mrs. Peno planned to run the boat and find safety. Every few minutes, however, she would have to put the helm down to meet some mighty wave that would come tumbling down on the devoted little craft. Finally the boat reached the point where the rushing current of the river met the surging waves and where the two during a squall fight a fierce battle. Into this maelstrom the little launch bully plunged. For a time it seemed that nothing could save the boat, but in some way it fought its way through and gained the smooth water of the river inside the land. Mrs. Peno, in speaking of her experience, said: "I have often wondered why it was that so many schooners and steamers have been so close to port and then wrecked under the Fort Ontario hill. I shall not wonder again. The meeting place of river current and lake waves is a boiling caldron. The wheel struggled in my hands like a living thing. Sometimes I felt as though my arms were being pulled from my body. I breathed a farewell to my children and husband. "Every moment I expected the launch to capsize. At the worst moment little Agnes crawled up to me and shouted: 'Mamma, I have been praying to God to quiet the storm. I know He has heard me.'" Miscalled. Knick—There is a question that has been puzzling me for some time. Knock—What's that? Knick—Why do you suppose they call hired girls help—Town Topics. SOUTHERN RAILWAY Schedule in Effect Nov. 24, 1901. TRAINS LEAVE RICHMOND, VA. 9:30 A. M. No. 7, daily for Durham, N. C.,丹ville, and all local stations south, connecting at Farnville and Lynchburg; at Jeffreysburg, on Norfolk Division to Danville; at Oxford for Henderson; at Durham for Raleigh, Goldsboro, and all North Carolina. 2:30 P. M. No. 29, limited train daily, for Jack, serville and all Florida points; Havaan-Nassau, etc., Connects at Mossley, with Pine Grove, Greenboro for Durham, Raleigh and Winston-Salem; at Charlotte with No. 29, United States, fast mail, solid train, daily at Richmond, which carries sleepers to New Orleans, Drawing Room Sleeper, Richmond to Atlanta, and Durham. Through train with Sleeper, Salisbury to Memphis. Dining-Car Service. 11:30 P. M. No. 11, Southern Express, daily for Atlanta, Augusta, Jacksonville, and Greensboro. Sleeper for Danville, points open at Richmond 9:30 P. M. Connection with New York and Florida Express and in Western Limited, which can travel through Sleeper. Savannah, Jacksonville, Tampa Nashville Memphis, Atlanta, New Orleans, etc., Georgetown, Pullman Tourist Sleeper Mondays, Wed needays and Fridays Washington to San Francisco, without change, with connection points in Texas, Mexico and California. 6:00 P. M. No. 17, local daily, except Sunday for Keysville and intermediate points. TRAINS ARRIVE IN RICHMOND. 6 A. M) 5:43 P. M.) From Atlanta, Augusta, Jackson Ville, Asl,ville, and all points South. 8:40 A. M.) from keysville and local stations. 3:25 P. M.) From Charlotte, Danville and intermediate stations. LOCAL FREIGHT. Nos. 61 and 62 between Manchester and Neapolis. YORK RIVER LINE, VIA WEST POINT. THE FAVORITE ROUTE NORTH LEAVE RICHMOND 4:30 P. M. No. 16, Baltimore Limited, daily except Sundays, connecting at West Point with steamers for Baltimore and York River hindings stops only at stations between Quincy and Baltimore. 2:15 P. M. No. 10, Daily except Sundays, local express for West Point, and intermediate stations, Connects with stage at Lehigh Monitor for Walkerton and Tappahannock. 5F A. M. No. 74, local mixed. Leaves daily, except Sunday for West Point and intermediate stations, connecting with stage at Lehigh Monitor for Walkerton and Tappahannock. TRAINS ARRIVE RICHMOND. 9:15 A. M., daily from West Point, with connec- tion from Baltimore, except Mondays 10:45 A. M., daily from West Point, 5:15 P. M., daily except Sundays, from West Point and intermediate stations. Steamers leave West Point daily, except Sandys, 5:33 P. m., arriving Baltimore 8:30 a.m. Steamers call at Almonds and Yorktown Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays; Clay Bank and Gloucester Point Mondays, Wednes- days and Fridays. C W. WESTBURY, D P. A., 920 E. Main St., Richmond, Va. S H EARDWICK, G P. A., F. S GANNON. Third Vice-President and General Manager, Washington, D. C Norfolk and Western R. R. November 24th, 1901. LEAVE RICHMOND (DAILY), BIRD STREET STATION. 990 A. M. NORFOLK LIMITED. Arrives at Norfolk Hall only at Petersburg, Waverley and Suffolk. 9.55 A. M. THE CHICAGO EXPRESS, for Lymburg, Roanoke, Columbus and Chicago. Buffet Parlor Car Petersburg to Columbus. Fulman Sleeper Roanoke to Columbus; for Bristol, Knoxville, and Chattanooga. Fulman Sleeper Roanoke to Knoxville. Office 838 Main St. JOHN E. WAGNER, City Passenger and Ticket Agt. C. H. BOSLEY, District Passenger Agent. W. B. BEVILL, General Passenger Agent. General Office: Roanoke, Va. C. & O. PASSENGER TRAINS LEAVE AND ARRIVE NEW MAIN-ST. STATION LEAVE RICHMOND. 9 A. M., Daily, Local to Old Point, Norfolk and Portsmouth. 10:10 A. M. Except Sunday. Local to Calverton Culverton. Insects for Orange, Culverton and Manassas. 2:45 P. M., Daily, St. Louis and Chicago Limit. Dining Car train, Pullman for Cincinnati, Louisville and St. Louis. To eight hours, quickest line West. Connects for Virginia Hot Springs. Train follows St. Louis Limited from Gordonsville to Staunton, except Sunday. 3:45 P. M., Daily. Local to Old Point, Norfolk and Portsmouth. Pullman to Old Point. 4:45 P. M., Except Sunday, "Atlantic Limited" to Old Point, Norfolk and Portsmouth. Parlor Car. Connects at Old Point for Ramblers, washington and Cape Charles Steamers. 5:15 P. M., Except Sunday for Bremo. 5:20 P. M., Except Sunday to Doswell. 10:30 P. M., Daily F.F. V, Dining Car train. Conn ects for Virginia Hot Springs. Pullman to Hinton, connecting with Parlor Car to Cincinnati, and Pullman to Cincinnati, Louisville, and the West. ARRIVE NEW MAIN ST. STATION. 8:00 A. M. Except Sunday, from Doswell. 8:00 A. M. Daily from Cincinnati. 8:40 A. M. Except Sunday from Bremo. 10:00 A. M. Except from Norfolk and Portsmouth. 12:40 P. M. Except Sunday, from Norfolk and Portsmouth. 8:00 P. M. Daily, Cincinnati. Apply at 890 E. main street, 003 east Main St. Murphy's Hotel, or New Main St. Station tick- tle offices for further information. H. H. FULLER, JOHN D. POTTS H. H. FULLER, JOHN D. POTTS 14:07 A. M. Daily from BYRD STREET STATION, for Washington and beyond. Fredericksburg and Alexandria. Sheepington and New York. Dining Car. 6:45 a. m. Daily from SEABOARD AIR-LINE STATION, Florida and Metropolitan Stops at Washington and beyond. Stops at Frederick and Alexandria, Sleeping Cars to New York. Dining Car. 6:54 a. m. Commencing Jan. 17, except Monday, February 14, New York and Florida Special, for Washington and beyond. Makes no stop All Pullian Cars. No extra fare other than usual Pullian charge, Dining Car. 7:24 a. m. Except Sunday, from ELBA STATION, accommodation for Ashland and intermediate points. 8:00 a. m. Sunday only from BYRD STREET Stops at Ela, Glen Allen and beyond. Stops at Ela, Glen Allen and local stations. Ashland to Quantico inclusive, Ocoquan and Alexandria. Buffet Parlor Car. 8:50 a. m. Except Sunday from BYRD STREET STATION for Washington and beyond. Stops at Ela, Glen Allen and local stations. Ashland to Quantico inclusive, Ocoquan and Alexandria. 12:00 Noon. Except Sunday from BYRD ST. STATION, for Washington and beyond Stops at Ela, Glen Allen, Dasswell, Milton, Frederickburg and Alexandria, Buffet Parlor. Connects with Congressional Limited. 3:12 p. m. Daily, from SEABOARD AIR-LINE Station for Wash ng n. and beyond, Stops at Deswall, Fredericksburg, and Alexandria. Sleeping cars to New York. 4:00 p. m. Except Sunday, from the BYRD ST. Station for Fredericksburg bury and intermediate stations. 6:12 p. M., Daily, from ELBA STATION, for Washington and beyond, Stops at Fredericksburg and Alexandria. Sleeping Cars to New York. 6:30 p. M., Except Sunday, from ELBA STATION, Accommodation for Ashland and intermediate points. 8:05 p. M., Except BYRD-STREET STATION, for Washington and beyond, Stops at Elba, Ashland, Dowell, Midford, Fredericksburg, Brooke, Widewater, Quantity at other stations Sunday. Sleeping Our Richmond to New York and Washington to Philadelphia. 11:15 p. M. Except Sunday, from ELBA STATION, Accommodation for Ashland and intermediate points. Trains Arrive In Richmond South- ward. 6:40 a. M., Except Sunday at ELBA STATION Accommodation from Ashland and inter- mediate points. 8:25 a. M. Except Sunday at BYRD STREET STATION, from Fredericksburg, and inter- mediate points. 8:40 a, m. Daily at BYRD STREET STATION Stops at Alexandria, Widewater, Brook land, and Elba. Stops at Oxford, Dowell, Ashland, and Elba. Stops at other stations Sunday. Sleeping car from New York to richmond. 12:53 P. M. Except Sunday at BYRD STREET STATION. Stops at all stations, from Washington to Ashland inclusive, Glen Alen and Elba. 2:00 P. M. Daily, at ELBA STATION. Stops at Alexandria and Fredericksburg, sleeping car from New York, Dining Car. 2:30 P. M. Daily, at SEABAO AIR-LINE STATION. Stops at Alexandria, Fredericksburg, Dowell and Ashland. Sleeping car from New York. &52 P. M. Except Sunday at ELBA STATION. Accommodation from Ashland, and inter mediate points. 7:13 P. M. Daily, at BYRD STREET STATION. Stops at Alexandria, Fredericksburg, Ashland, and Elba. Sleeping cars from New York to Washington. Dining Car. 8:40 P. M. Daily, at BYRD STREET STATION. Stops at local stations Washin- gton, Alexandria, Glen Alen, and Elba. Buffalo. 10 P. M. Daily at SEABOARD AIR-LINE STATION. Florida and Metropolitan STATION. Stope in Alexandria, Frederick- lakesburg, Downtown, and Ashland. Sleep- ing Cars from New York. Dining Car. 11 200 P. M. Except Sunday, at ELBA STATION Accomodation from Ashland. 11-40 P. M. Except Sunday, at BYRD-STREET STATION New York and Florida Special. Makes no stops. All Pull- man Cars. No extra fare, other than usual Pullman charge. Dining Car. W. P. TAYLOR, Traffic Manager. W. D. DUKE, E. T. D. MYERS, General Manager. President. SEABOARD AIR-LINE R. R. "Capital City Route" Short Line to Principal Cities of The South and Southwest. Florida, Cuba, Texas, California, and Mexico, Reaching the Capitol of Six States. SCHEDULE IN EFFECT DEC. 1, '01. Trains Leave Richmond Daily—Main Street Station. 10:37 p. m. "Florida and Metropolitan Limited" 10:37 p. m. "Henderson, Henderson, Raleigh, Southern Pines, Southport, Sacksonville, Tampa, Miami, all points Southwest, Cuba afar the West Indies. 10:37 p. m. "Special for Petersburg, Henderson, Henderson, Carroll, Atlanta, ern Pines, Pinehurst, Athens, Atlanta, Montgomery, Chattanooga, Nashville, Maryland and 2:38 p. m. "Seaboard Fast Mail for Petersburg Henderson, Raleigh, Southern Pines, Pine Hunt, at points in Florida, Alanta, Athens, Atlanta, and all points South and Southwest. 9:10 p. m. "Seaboard Express", Daily for Pet- termediate stations. Connection at Non- lima with train arriving at Henderson at 9:10 p. m. "Raleigh, N. C., 3:50 p. m. and Durham, N. C., 3:53 p. m. daily, except Sunday. 5:30 p. m. "Richmond and Petersburg Local" "Dear Petersburg and all intermediate stations" 11:45 p. m. "Richmond and Petersburg Local" "Dear Petersburg and all intermediate stations" Trains reach Richmond for Washington New York and the East daily. No. 34, at 6:45 a.m. Connections at Jacksonville and Port Tampa for all Florida East Coast points, and Cuba, and Port Rico. At New Orleans for all points in Texas, Mexico and California. 5:45 p. m., from Noralina, N. C., Petersburg and local points. 9:40 p. m., from Petersburg. 8:00 a. m., Daily, except Sunday, from Petersburg (Local) Cafe CAR SERVICE Cafe Dining-Cars will be operated in Trains Nos. 31 and 34. "Florida and Metropolitan Lim- bours," in Carte, Vaughan, Ga., and in Trains Nos. 32 and 33, between Hamlet, N. C., and Atlanta, Ga., Service in Carte, Prices moderate; no canned meat, vegetables, and staples served. This is an innovation, and will be found a great convenience to travellers, as against meal SLEEPING CAR SERVICE Nos. 37 and 34-"Florida and Metropolitan Limited" "Drawing Room Sleeping Cars and Through Day Coaches, between New York and Tampa. Through Drawing-Room Buffet Sleeping Cars between New York and Atlanta. Nos. 37 and 64-"Seaboard Fast Mail" Through Drawing-Room and buffet Sleeping Cars between New York and Tampa. Through Drawing-Room at Hamlet with Sleeping Car to and from Atlanta, in connection with which Through Pullman Tickets are sold. Finest Day Coaches. Z. P. SMITH, District Passenger Agt. 836 East Main Street* J. M. BARR, 1st V.P. and G. M. R. E. L. PUGH. Schedule In Effect Jan. 14, 1902. TRAINS LEAVE RICHMOND—BYRD STREET STATION 7:28 P. M. FLORIDA & WEST INDIAN LIMITED. Daily. Arrives Petersburg 7:50 P. M. Norfolk & Western for Norfolk and Indiana; arrives Emporia 9:03 P. M., Connects with Atlantic and Danville for stations between Emporia and Sawneeville; Wedon 9:24 P. M., Norfolk and Emporia; lastest 6 A. M., Savannah 9:09 A. M., Jacksonville 12:45 P. M., Port Tampa at HIWAY. NEW LINE TO MIDDLE GEORGIA POINTS—Arriving Augusta 7:55 A. M., Macon 11:15 A. M., Atlanta 12:35 P. M., Thomasville 12:35 P. M., Nebraska Mountain Sleeper New York to Wilmington, Port Tampa, Jacksonville, Augusta and Macon. 9:10 P. M. Daily. Arrives Petersburg 9:55 P. M., Connecticut Petersburg with Norfolk & Western railway, arriving at Lynn峡 burg 2:30 A. M., Roanoke 5 A. M., Bristol 2:30 A. M., Palmab Sleeper Rickmond to Lynchburg. 11:30 P. M. Daiy. Arrives Petersburg 12:10 A. M. 11:50 P. M. Daily, except Sunday. THE NEW NORFOLK & WEST INDIAN LIMITED. Arrives Charleston 2:30 A. M., Savannah 10:50 A. M., Jacksonville 2:50 P. M., St. Augustine 4:50 P. M., Tampa 10:40 P. M. 6:40 A. M. Daily except Monday. From Tampa ugentine, Jacksonville, Savannah qahd and New York. 11:42 A. M. Daily. From Norfolk, Suffolk and Petersburg. 11:10 A. M. Sunday only. From Norfolk, Suffolk and Petersburg. 2:15 P. M. Daily, except Sunday. From Petersburg. 7:45 P. M. Daily. From Miami, Port Tampa, Jacksonville, Serrannah, Chastleton, Wilmington, Goldsboro, and all points South. 6:50 P. M. Daily. From Norfolk, Suffolk, and Petersburg. 8:56 P. M. Daily. From Petersburg, Lynchburg and West. T. M. EMMERSON, Traffic Manager. J. R. KENLY, General Manager. H. M. EMMERSON, General Passenger Agent C. S. CAMPBELL, Division Passenger Agt., 838 East Main Street. jan. 14. WANTED TO BUY FOR CAS Old Brass Fenders, Candle Stacks, old Pewter and Silver Plated Ware, old Blue Dishes and China Ware, and in fact, every thing old fashioned. 219-W. Broad St. Richmond, Va. 12-7-1m Opening of Winter Tourist Season. The Southern Railway, which operates its own lines over the entire South and forms the important link in the great highway of travel between the North and South, Florida, Cuba, Mexico, the Pacific Coast and Central America, announces for the winter of 1901 and 1902 the most superb service offered by the Southern Railway service will be augmented by the Southern Railway Limited, a magnificent man-made which will be operated between New York and St. Augustine, Florida. The Highway of Trade and Travel. The Southern Railway begs to call attention to its unequaled facilities for reaching all points in Florida, the South and Southwest. It is justly termed the representative railway of the South, the highway of trade and travel. Its import through connections, through car arrangements, complete dining car service, quick and convenient schedules, commends it to the traveling public. In addition to the many local trains operated by this progressive company, the following through limited trains are run daily: "The Washington and South western Limited," "The New York and Florida Express," "The United States Fast Mail," "The New York and Atlantic Express," "The Washington, Richmond and Florida Limited," "The Washington and Chattanooga Limited. The Southern's Palm Limited, formerly known as the New York and Florida Limited will be inaugurated early in January, 1903, and will run solid between New York and St. Augustine, Florida. All of these trains carry dining cars that provide convenience and time-saver to the public. I. JOHNSON, DIRECTOR AND EMBALMER. Rooms, 207 N. Foushee St. Corner Broad. HACKS FOR HIRE: Telephone or Telegraph filled. Wedding, Super Entertainments promptly attended. 6, Residence in Building, New Phone, 48. KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS OF THE WORLD V. P. & F. K. of W. W. I. JO FUNERAL DIRECTOR Office & Warerooms, 207 N HACKS R Orders by Telephone or Te pers and Entertainment Old 'Phone, 686, Residence W. I. JOHNSON, FUNERAL DIRECTOR AND EMBALMER. Office & Warerooms, 207 N. Foushee St. Corner Broad. HACKS FOR HIRE: Orders by Telephone or Telegraph filled. Wedding, Suppers and Entertainments promptly attended. Old 'Phone, 686, Residence in Building, New Phone, 48. KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS OF THE WORLD TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: This organization has been chartered and legally situated under the laws and statute of the state of New York, for the purpose of uniting together all acceptable men on the Broad Bases of Charity—Beneficial and note the Social and Moral condition of humanity. Military and uniform ranks will secure for this organization a list of all sacred institutions of modern events, a grand oppoort. Deputies wanted in all sections of the country to organize kindly address, V. ALLEN Supreme Voyager, This organization has been chartered and legally situted under the laws and statute of the state of New York, for the purpose of uniting together all acceptable men on the Broad Bases of Charity—Beneficial and Fraternal and to promote the Social and Its two distinct military and uniform place in the front ranks of all sacred insunity for active men. Deputies wante lodges. Kindly address. G. W. ALLENS Its two distinct military and uniform ranks will secure for this organization a place in the front ranks of all sacred institutions of modern events, a grand opportunity for active men. Deputies wanted in all sections of the country to organize lodges. Kindly address. G. W. ALLEN Supreme Voyager, 346 W. 37th Street, New York City. ```markdown ``` Asheville and Hot Springs, N. C., "The Queen of Resorts" offers to the pleasure-seeker the charms of a mild and delightful climate, and a scenic vista of unparalleled beauty, and to the invalid balmy breezes redolent of renewed health and strength. Excursion tickets on sale daily via Southern Railway at greatly reduced rates. Double daily limited train service, con sideing of elegant day coaches, Pullmans and dining cars. Call on any agent or representative of the Southern Railway for a complete "Winter Homes" folder. C. W. WESTBURY, D. P. A., Richmond, Va. The Greatest of All—The "Southern Railway." The winter Schedules and through car arrangements of the Southern Railway for the approaching season will be superior in many respects to the splendid service heretofore offered by this system. It has through cars to almost every important point in the South and Southwest, and by means of its connection one can reach any and all points with perfect comfort. Its schedules are arranged to form all through connections, and with its complete dining car service on all through trains, proves a great time saver and convenience to the traveler. On Nov. 24th a through limited train between Washington, D.C. and Jacksonville, Fla. via Richmond, will be added to this territory which will afford the very best service between Washington, Richmond and all points South. The train will be composed of Pullman Sleepers, Day coaches, and dining cars of the latest improved designs. With this new service one can leave Washington at 19:50 a.m. m. Richmond at about 2:40 p.m. reaching Jacksonville the following morning at 9 o'clock. Atlanta at 6:10 a.m. New Orleans at 8:30 a.m. and all other points in the South and Southwest similar quick service is offered. ALPHEUS SCOTT, CHURCH HULL FUNERAL DIRECTOR Orders By Telegraph and Telephone promptly attended to. All business confidential. Old Phone No. 3183. TO THOSE IN WANT OF EMPLOYMENT: We desire the names and post-office addresses of competent, industrious, reliable colored women, men, and girls, wishing situations in the north as cooks, chambermids, child nurses, laudresses, waiters, waitresses, coachmen, butlers, farm hands, day laborers, bellmen, general housework, etc., etc. Address, J. H. LEWIS, Manager, Inter-State Real Estate and Employment Agency, 73 Summer St. Trenton, N. J. The Private Employment Bureau. HELP WANTED AT ONCE. Are you out of employment or do you want a good salaried position. If so, we can place you in any city you prefer in the United States. No pedding from house to house. Write us to-day. THE PRIVATE EMPLOYMENT BUREAU, 2804 Armour Ave., Chicago, Ill. 12-21-4t $15.00 To Suck as Wish. Fifteen Dollars to such as wish. One hour's writing each day. Work at once. Prompt pay. Self addressed stamped envelope for reply. No fake. Try it please. Mrs. Z. M. REA, Grove Cottage, Box 178, Southern Pines, N. C. WANTED—WOMEN TO GO NORTH If you can cook, wash and iron for northern families, we will send you a ticket and give you a good situation. All applicants must be strong and healthy. Enclose stamp. Address, HUNTER & PATTerson, 211 E. 103 St., New York City. "Winter Homes in Summer Lands." The Southern Railway is distributing a very comprehensive booklet descriptive of "Winter Homes in Summer Lands." It is beautifully illustrated, the illustrations being accompanied by reading matter relative to the various health and pleasure resorts located in the Southland. In the booklet will be found an alphabetical list of Hotels and Boarding houses, their location, proprietors, number of guests accommodated, and rates per day, week and month. The booklet is one of the most complete issues of its kind ever distributed. A copy may be had by asking any Southern Ry. Agent or representative. Richmond, Va. MASTER and SLAVE By... T. H. THORPE --- "YOU desired my presence, Mr. Oakfell?" said Mrs. Wyley, entering the office, followed by a servant, who placed lights upon the ta- ble and retired. "Yes, Mrs. Wyley, if you can spare the time to assist me in giving audience to Quillebert's jockey, Leon, who, in apparently great distress, en treats it." Horace replied. "Indeed I am more than willing to do so," she said, resuming the large rocker, "for I have always felt there was something foully wrong in that Frenchman's treatment of the boy." "Have you any personal knowledge bearing upon it?" "I know a good deal about the beginning of it and am anxious to tell you all I can with certainty." Leon appeared timidly upon the threshold and was bidden assuringly to be seated. He besitated; but, the invitation being repeated by Mrs. Wyley in a tone conveying something of command, he compiled, first laying his hat upon a bench outside the door. He was manifestly agitated, embarrassed and apprehensive, and, though ample time was given him to open the conversation, he sat confused and silent. "This interview is of your own seeking, Leon," said Horace, "and has been granted by Mrs. Wyley and myself. You ask for my advice and help. Whether either or both will be given must depend upon the character of your statement. Now proceed to tell your trouble without reserve, for we are kindly disposed to you, but tell it with absolute truth. You must not mislead me into action or speech by a falsehood. Give me facts only. Upon this condition I will advise to the best of my ability for your good and possibly assist you to make the advice effective. We are waiting to hear you." With visible effort to repress his excitement Leon said: "I cannot speak well like you, Mr. Horace, and some of the things I will tell you I do not at all understand. I know that until I was 10 or 11 years old I lived with Mrs. Wyley on the Lallande plantation, on Atchafalaya river. One day she sent me to M. Constant Quillebert's plantation to see my mother and get some presents from M. Constant, who was my godfather. He would not let me go back to Mrs. Wyley and has kept me on his place since." Oakfell looked inquiringly at Mrs. Wyley, whose eyes responded a confirmation. Leon continued: A man and a woman sit in a room, each holding a book. The man is seated on a chair, while the woman is seated on a table. A clock is mounted on the wall behind them. "We are waiting to hear you." "M. Constant has treated me differently from the others on his plantation. I have never been put to field work. Up to the time I was 15 he made me stay about the house, and after that he put me in charge of his best horses. Now, as you know, Mr. Horace, I am his jockey and ride for him at all the races." "And from what I hear you give him satisfaction in that capacity," Horace remarked. "Yes, sir," said Leon, "except when he loses a race, and then he curses me for not punishing the horses. That I will not do, for I know they try their best, as I do mine. But he has never whipped me—the others, yes, my mother and all, for he is terrible in a passion, but not me. My mother has said that I do not belong to him, that I am not a slave, that I am free, and he whipped her for telling me so, though he never said anything to me about it. I do not understand it. Father Grhe, who christened me, has told me the same thing. But I cannot explain how it is. One day when I was crossing some horses on the ferry at Bayou du Lac M. Valsin Moillot said to me that he had heard M. Constant admit I did not belong to him or to anybody else." "Can this have been true, Mrs. Wyley?" inquired Horace. "I am not prepared to say no," replied Mrs. Wyley. "Though I have feared to speak to M. Constant about it," Leon resumed. "I have always believed I am not a slave and have hoped that something would occur to put me in my freedom. But my hope has been today destroyed. All that cheered me has been denied. Please, Mr. Horace and madame, do not laugh at me and think me foolish for what I am going to tell you now, I am in love"—he hung his head like a guilty child—"and my love has made me strong, obedient and patient. I love Odette the mald of Mile. Estelle Latifolias, and she has said she would be my wife. She is a good, faithful, true girl. To me she is lovelier than the yellow jasmine, and the thought of her has kept me honest and cheerful and has made me kinder to my horses. Her mistress loves her and more than a year ago promised to set her free when I should be ready to marry her. But last night she met me weeping and broken hearted, for mademoiselle had informed her that she could not give her freedom, because the law had changed in spite of Mr. Horace's noble opposition so as to forbid the emancipation of slaves. I could not console her. It seemed as if this news took all my life away. Not a moment have I slept since. All the night long I walked up and down in the stables save when I rested my head on one of the horses and cried like a woman. But with the daybreak came a hope. I remembered that if I myself was not a slave I could buy Odette and make her free by taking her to a free state, and I determined to ask M. Constant to lend me the price of my bride, to be paid him in services in the stable and on the track as long as would be reasonable. Knowing how set he was on beating Judge Elgee's mare today and that he had bet heavy sums on the race, I made up my mind to win it for him even at the risk of my neck, so as to have his favor when I should ask him for the loan, which I would do before sundown if my mare kept her feet. He would not refuse then, I felt sure. Again I cried, but from joy, and I danced with happiness, and I whistled like a mocking bird as I patted and rubbed Charlotte Corday and prayed to her to carry me out of my trouble. Belle Cheney has better points than Charlotte, and I trembled as I saw her leap to the stand. But when the word was given I leaned down and shouted. 'Odette!' in my mare's ear. At the end of the track I saw not the post, but only Odette's sweet face. In the crowd's roar and yell in the last stretch I heard only the name Odette, and when I shot under the line I saw Odette standing with her mistress on the veranda of Father Grbe's house, waving her hand to me. After caring for the mare and kissing her forehead I went to Mile. Latiolais and asked her if she would sell Odette to me and at what price. She said she would for $100 and, laying her snow white hand on Odette's shoulder, added that she would give the price and something more to the bride as a dot on her wedding day. Odette kissed that little hand and, with a smile of happiness, expressed our thankfulness. Mine was then the lightest heart that ever beat in a poor man's breast, and I made my request to M. Constant on his return home. But, Mr. Oakfell, a knife run through my body could not have given the pain his answer did. His eyes almost closed and his face trembled with anger as he said: 'You scoundrel! Why should you be my wife? If you did, she would be my slave. Whatever you acquire will be mine.' 'How so, M. Constant?' I asked, 'I am a free man.' Like a mad dog he leaped at me, clutched me by the throat and screamed: 'You lie! You are my slave! If you ever dare to deny to me! I will lay the lash on you till you will wish you were dead!' And he funge me away from him with the vilest curses. Crushed and all but blind, I staggered to the stable and hine my face in Charlotte Corday's mane until my thoughts came back to me. Then, not knowing or caring whether I was seen, I went to Mile. Latiolais and informed her what had occurred. She said to me: 'Go at once to Mr. Horace Oakfell, the only real man of this country. Tell him I ask him to hear you and thwart the evil purpose of that wicked Quillelbert. Mr. Oakfell has the true eye to see what is just and the brave heart to do it.' As I was leaving the yard I met M. Leondas Latiolais and asked him whether he would not buy me if I was M. Constant's slave, and he said he would think it over. I came directly here. I have told nothing but the truth. For the sake of justice, for the sake of Jesus, who, the priest says, was friendless as I am; for the sake of Mile. Latiolais, advise and protect me, Mr. Oakfell, and you, Mrs. Wyley, who were always kind to me and never had cause to chide me." The poor fellow in his excitement had unconsciously risen at the close of his narrative and assumed an attitude of supplication eloquent in its naturalness and earnestness, and his two auditors looked from him to each other with expressions of astonishment and wounded consciences. "A dreadful recital, if true," Oakfell said. "Even the mercy of heaven must be stretched to cover such wickedness," was Mrs. Wyley's comment. "Do you feel inclined to give me your recollection of this matter, Mrs. Wyley?" asked Oakfell. "Yes, sir," she replied, "not only inclined, but eager to do so. When Leon was but an infant, Febien Queyrouze owned the plantation adjoining Lallande's, of which my husband was the overseer. It was in those days that I first saw Quillebert, who visited Queyrouze on Sundays. It seems they had known each other in France. By the request of Queyrouze, Quillebert stood as godfather at the child's christening at Mansura by Father Grhe, who had but recently arrived in this country. Queyrouze was very fond of this child, but was greatly displeased for some cause with the mother, Olive, who, with her children, was his slave. The year the cholera was so bad—I think it was in 1833—on returning home from a visit to New Orleans he told his overseer, Belisaire Poydre, that he intended Leon to be free and directed that he be sent to me to be raised. The following day he died of the cholera. He had befriend my husband in a serious trouble, so that when, two days after his death, a nurse came to us with the child and a message from Poydre con- veying the wish of Queyrouze we consented, and I took charge of the little one. Of course he was favored by us and never caused me to regret our action. As child and boy he was good natured, respectful and obedient. He was keenly sensible of the attractions of the bayou belles and prairie lassies, he had remained heart free. Evariste had before repeated to him commendations spoken by the fair, and if they had fallen gracefully Odette." "Oh, mama what you are of the good!" the only one "Quercouze was a bachelor, and his heirs lived in France. His will instructed Poydre to wind up his affairs, sell his property and deliver the proceeds to the heirs. This he did four years later. Quillebert bought Olive and her three other children. Leon was not included in the sale, but remained with me. Beltisrae Poydre died of yellow fever in 1840. My poor husband was carried off by the same disease in 1843. About six months after my husband's death I received a request from Quillebert to send Leon to visit his mother and receive some presents from his godfather, and, suspecting no trick, I did so. Leon did not come back. I wrote Quillebert a note asking why he detained him. He returned the verbal answer that the boy preferred to remain with his mother. This I did not believe, but I felt myself helpless and took no further steps in the matter. This is all I know of it. I do not pretend to understand the law, but I have always thought Leon was free." At these last words Leon's face brightened, and he looked eagerly and anxiously to Oakfell. "And my thought agrees with yours," said the latter. "Oh, thank the good God!" exclaimed Leon, falling on his knees. "And you will secure and protect me in my freedom, Mr. Horace? You are white, you are rich, you are wise, you are powerful. Defend me from this man who enslaves me against law and justice." "I will, poor fellow, to the utmost of my power." Oakfell promised. "And if I succeed in establishing your freedom I will lend you the money to buy Odette." Leon wrung his hands in a paroxysm of joy, but could not speak his gratitude. Mrs. Wyley, however, was moved to say, "God will be on your side in the fight, Mr. Oakfell." "I can only prevail by the humanity and justice of our laws," said Oakfell. "Listen to me, Leon. I must proceed in this undertaking with deliberation. My course will arouse bitter opposition and bad feeling, which should not be provoked prematurely. Meanwhile you must be absolutely under my direction and pledge implicit obedience to my instruction, though it may involve suffering. It is proper that at the institution of your suit for freedom you should be under the apparent control of Quillebert. You must not be a fugitive when you sue for freedom. Therefore you must return to his plantation, though he may put the lash to you for being away tonight. Do not disclose that you have spoken to Mrs. Wyley or myself, though he should torture you to extort the confession, for if he learns that you have conferred with us I do not doubt he will kill you. Can you keep your counsel and ours and endure his cruelty until I send for you and give you further instructions?" "Mr. Oakfell, I will take the lash and any pains he can put me to if I can gain my freedom and Odette, and neither whip nor fire can force from me one word about this meeting." "Go, then," said Oakfell, "and be firm." "God help me to be firm and to be grateful for your goodness and that of Mrs. Wyley." Leon replied and withdrew. "What is all this, brother?" said Evariste, smiling and entering the office with noseless step. "Are you holding abolitionist meetings and receiving messages by the grapevine line? Beware, for there is danger in that." incident, requesting Evariste's secrecy, "Certainly," said the latter; "I will be silent as the tomb. But indeed I warn you there is more peril in your undertaking than in a genuine abolition grapevine conclave. That fellow Quillebert is a devil incarnate. He is as venomous as an adder and as conscienceless. To deliver a thrust from behind or a shot in the dark is as easy to him as a gulp of absinth. He is a relentless hater and already has his evil eye on you as an American and as the champion of Estelle Latiolais. Moreover, he has a following among the lowest fellows of this parish. Reflect before you draw the ire of such a rascal for the sake of a saffron jockey who never can be more than he is at this present moment." "Evariste, your affection for me leads you to magnify the dangers and minimize the cause," Horace answered. "You are perhaps young yet to weigh the considerations which have appealed to my conscience tonight. I feel that this disclosure has lain upon me a duty which it would be disgraceful and cowardly in me to shirk. I would assume it were the perils ten thousand times greater than those you imagine. But I do not wish you to be in the least troubled about it. Only sacredly keep what I have confided to you." Evariste again promised, and good nights were spoken, but the lights in the office burned till the smallest hour of the morning. TWO items of Leon's recital lingered pleasingly in Oakfell's thoughts, Estelle's generous consent to sell Odette to her lover and bestow the price for marriage provision and her confident reference to him (Oakfell) as the one man of the parish able and willing to defend the weak against the injustice of the powerful oppressor. His admiration and self esteem were appealed to effectively, and he found himself wondering why he had not seen the grand-daughter of Latiolais during the past three years and whether the child he remembered could justify Evariste's rapturous description of the beauty he had met at Father Gre's table. Her responses to the appeals of Leon bespoke her a person of superior qualities of character, tender sympathes, courage in high resolutions. His truly chivalrous mind kept all women upon pedestals, and in his regard all possessed some of the sweet perfections with which his mother and Mme. Fidelde were endowed. Yet, though He was keenly sensible of the attractions of the bayou belles and prairie lassies, he had remained heart free. Evariste had before repeated to him commendations spoken by the fair, and if they had fallen gratefully on his ear they had failed to sirt his imagination, but the words of Estelle surprised and thrilled him. Such emotions Oaktell startled Estelle defy analysis, and thus, without understanding why, he realized that the task he had from conscience imposed upon himself took a poetic color which it had wholly wanted but for her interest. He experienced no difficulty in deciding that he should without loss of time call on his gentle colleague, both to pledge his loyalty to the cause she had espoused and delicately warn her to reticence in the presence of her voluble grandfather, whose malleability in the masterful hands of Quillebert might otherwise become the fruitful source of mischief. The bridle path through the swamps behind the bayou fields shortened considerably the distance between L'Esperance and the Latiolais plantation. The shadows of afternoon were but beginning to lengthen when Oakfell started Estelle, with broad hat tied under her chin and shears in her hand, clipping a shrub of sweet olive. Flushed cheeks and embarrassed manner testified her maidenly timidity, but quickly the convent taught politeness came to her aid, and she gracefully welcomed her visitor to a seat upon the veranda, where at the summons of her mistress Odette served cool water flavored with the sirup of mandarins. "You will, I hope, be not displeased, mademoiselle, when I tell you that three years have made such change in your appearance that I scarcely would have recognized you elsewhere than here at your home," said Oakfell. "I sufficiently realize that," she replied, "when I look at my mirror and then at the little daguerreotype I sent to grandpere from New Orleans when I first went to the convent. Sometimes I fear I shall be an old woman while my companions are still young girls. Laure Luneau is two years older than I, but she looks two years younger." "Is she one of your companions?" asked Oakfell. "We have known each other all our lives," answered Estelle, "and the mention of her name reminds me, Mr. Oakfell"— "I beg you will not," Oakfell interrupted. "But," she persisted, "I feel bound"— "So do I," said Oakfell, "fear for there are other matter; we can discuss with more likelihood of agreement—for instance, the message you sent to me by Quillebert's jockey, Leon." "Oh, Mr. Oakfell," she exclaimed, "was ever such a cruel, wicked wrong? But you will protect poor Leon and deliver him from that ferocious man, will you not?" "Your command moved my mind to that resolution," he said. "And you will succeed," she declared, with warmth. "Father Gre's account of your speech in the legislature against that disgraceful law forbidding emancipation of slaves told me you were brave and wise, and your championship of me in the election of godmother for the bell told me you were generous, and therefore I sent Leon to you. Was I too hold, and did I do wrong? I had no time to advise with my grandfather." "No, demoiselle. My misgiving is as to my own ability. But what strength I have shall be exerted to the fullest, and should success meet my efforts the gratitude of Leon and Odette will be due to you." "And mine to you, Mr. Oakfell. So you will receive it all, as you well deserve." "Your grandfather is well, I trust. Is he at home?" Oakfell inquired. "He is quite well, but I regret is not at home. He rode away an hour ago, I fear, to Quillebert's." Estelle replied, an expression of pain coming to her face. "I do wish dear grandfather was not so much with that bad man, whose evil influence over his kind, yielding nature I so much dread." "M. Latolais' virtues are too confirmed to be weakened by contact with so coarse a character. Nevertheless," Oakfell added, "this intimacy between them compels me to suggest, maudemoiselle, that nothing be said to your grandfather of Leon's visit to me or of my intentions in his behalf. I pray you will not feel offense at the suggestion." "Not in the least," she answered him. "It is well founded and just and shall be respected. When will you begin?" "I cannot say," he replied. "The work of preparation may occupy me until fall." "I will earnestly pray God and the Virgin to aid and to bless you and to enable me, though but an ignorant and feeble girl, to be of some use in so just a cause," said Estelle. "Your good will shall be my sufficient stay," said Oakfell, offering his hand in adieu, and the touch produced a delicious shock that sent the blood bounding through his veins in a manner new to his experience. As he rode away with a knightly bow Estelle turned to her maid, who had loitered within hearing distance of the conversation, and said: "I am so glad that I sent Leon to him. I am so happy that he came to see me. Now I am sure I did not do wrong and that he will never yield to injustice. What a handsome, good face he has." Odette." "Oh, mamselle, he is among men what you are among women, the first of the good!" answered Odette. "He is the only one fit for you, and you are the only one fit for him." "What are you thinking of, silly thing? Mr. Oakfell is not a Catholic, and I am," said Estelle, faintly pouting. "I know he is not a Catholic," the maid replied, "but, for all that, he is the best man in the parish. I have heard Father Grhe say that." "Father Grhe has honest and correct opinions, and whatever he says I believe. But Mrs. Oakfell will very likely be one of those bold American beauties on Bayou Boeuf, not the shy and stupid little creole of Bayou Rouge." Estelle said plaintively. "Ah, my sweet mistress, if you had seen M. Oakfell's face as I saw it when you gave him your hand for goodbyo you would not talk so. And if he looks for beauty, which one of the American ladies can compare with Mammelle Latolais? Beauty is not everything to such as M. Oakfell, nor boldness, nor money. Something better than all these he will want—the good, true heart, and no American lady has a heart of pearl like my mistress." The slave girl spoke warmly and loyally, and Estelle ran into the house to conceal the blushes of happiness these words brought to her cheeks. At sunset the grandfather returned. His step was slow and his countenance grave and troubled. Sinking wearily into a chair on the veranda, he closed his eyes as if to shut out an unwelcome visitor to his memory and thus sat silent and brooding when Estelle approached and lightly kissed his brow. "Are you sick, my dear grandfather?" "Are you sick, my dear grandfather?" she asked. "In spirit, yes, otherwise no, my dear little girl," he replied. "Then what is it that has given despondency to my good old child?" "Ah, little Estelle, you are the child too tender and sensitive to hear the shocking thing that has saddened my soul this evening." "No," she protested; "you misjudge me. I am strong enough to share with you all your griefs and must do so or fall in my duty. Then tell me what distresses you. Did you not go to M. Quillebert's, and was it not there this thing has happened? Tell your Estelle." "Yes, my angel, I will tell you, for I must speak to some one. I rode over to Constant's to spend an hour with him. As I passed his stables I heard the strokes of the whip falling heavily upon flesh and a low moan following each blow. I hastened on to the house and had allighted at the gate when Constant came out of the stables, oxwil in hand, breathless and almost speechless. The savage fury of his face frightened me. He sent a negro boy on one of his fastest horses to bring Dr. De Roux. When he had rested somewhat and restored himself with brandy, he told me his jockey. Leon, went away THE LADY AND THE SISTER "You heard what my grandfather told me" last night, leaving the horses unfed, and did not return to the plantation until midnight, when he was brought by the constable, who had caught him coming out of the swamp, and stubbornly refused to say where he had gone. He caused the unfortunate fellow to be tied by the wrists to a feed rack from last night until this evening without food or water and threatened the whip if he did not tell where he had been, but promising release for confession. Leon obstinately closed his mouth and would not speak. "Constant went into the stable this evening and made his final demand for confession, but with no effect. He then bared the negro's back and gave him the lash until he fell forward and hung from the rack limp and unconscious. At this he became alarmed, believing that he had killed him, and cutting him from the rack, dispatched for the doctor. I remained there until De Roux came and reported that he had revived Leon, but could give no assurance that he would not die from the effect of the punishment. Constant drank more brandy, raved like a madman, swore he could never get another jockey to equal Leon and promised the doctor $500 to cure him. All this made me feel utterly miserable, and I came away." "And if you will never go back there, dear grandfather," Estelle exclaimed, "both you and I will be the gainers." "You are weeping, child," said the old man, seeing the tears that blinded her eyes. "I should not have harrowed you with such a recital." "You did right to tell me, that I may have the best of causes to entreat you to stay away from him. Oh, my kind protector, he is not fit to associate with you! He is an atheist, a fland, a brute, and you are a Christian gentleman. He is not the equal in character of the poor negro he tortured, maybe murdered. Never permit him to speak to me. Do not expect me to notice him if he does. Never invite him to come here. If he enters that gate, I will set all the dogs on him." "Calm yourself, my little one," the grandfather said soothingly, "and remember that Constant is a white man and Leon only his negro slave." "Grandfather" the girl replied spiritedly, "it is more probable that Leon is not Quillebert's negro slave than that Quillebert is deserving to be called a white man." "What do you mean, Estelle?" "I cannot tell you now, but time will explain this saying of mine in both its parts. Only promise me this—that never shall one of our slaves be put to the lash or tortured." "I promise that sincerely." "Then, dear grandfather, let us talk no more of this unhappy subject. You need your supper and pipe." "Yes, dear, and tell old Julle to drip the coffee extra strong to quiet my nerves." Passing into the hall, Estelle found Odette sobbing bitterly and, taking her hand, said in a low tone: "You heard what my grandfather told me? "Yes, mamselle. Forgive me for listening. "Remember, then, Odette, what Leon suffered for your sake and be you as brave and silent for his. The God of mercy will right all this wrong. Trust in God and Mr. Oakfell." "Yes, and you, dear mistress." "Go now, bathe your eyes in cool water and wait on us at table with a face showing no trace of weeping." Estelle proceeded to her own room and, closing the door, knelt at the pretty little priedlen near her bed. Bowing her beautiful head and closing her eyes, she addressed her petition for the success of the oppressed to heaven, but in her involuntary vision she saw only the face of Oakfell. From the happiness of this dual devotion she was summoned to preside at the meal. [TO BE CONTINUED.] IN RUSSIA. Russian engineers are experimenting with a military kite which will it is hoped, prove useful for reconnoitering purposes. The Russian empire contains more than 65 independent racial groups. It is a veritable Tower of Babel. Even with the omission of Siberia and Central Asia there remain in Russia, in Europe and the Caucasus alone 46 different peoples. The Russian government has sanctioned the erection of a monument at Warsaw to the celebrated Polish composer Frederic Chopin. The initiators of the projected monument intend inviting designs for the work from British and foreign sculptors. In Russia no meetings of private citizens for any purpose are permitted; the privilege of holding meetings is granted only to chartered corporations or associations. All crowds except in places of amusement or worship, are dispersed by the police. No premises can be hired for the purpose of holding a meeting without a permit from the police. IMPORTS AND EXPORTS In 1900 Germany imported $21,420,000 worth of tobacco. The cotton exported from the United States during the past year amounted to 3,330,800,448 pounds. Siberian butter is now sent in large quantities to London and Hamburg under the label of Danish butter. Of Arabian wool that from Bagdad is considered best, then that from Mosul and from Kurdistan. Last year 376 tons of imported cigarettes, valued at $1,737,000, or fully five times as many as ten years ago, were consumed in Germany. The imports of German fuel into Switzerland in 1900 were as follows: Coke, 126,210 tons; coal, 1,145,418 tons; briquettes, 307,813 tons; total, 1,579,441 tons. LITTLE HINTS The straight front corset is in greater demand than ever this season. Stitched panne velvet is considerably used for trimming cloth tailor gowns. The windmill bow of satin ribbon or velvet is seen on many of the latest designs in children's hats. The very latest walking skirts are made to show the feet to the top of the instep, and are of equal length all around. Coifure ornaments never were lovelier than this season, and the diversity in ideas makes it easy for every woman to suit herself. No Chance for a Substitute. A middle-aged prosperous-looking man entered a Chicago furniture store, the other day and said he wanted to look at some feather beds. "Good gracious," said the clerk, who was waiting on him, "we haven't any feather beds in stock. Nobody uses them any more. Can't I sell you a nice hair mattress?" "Nope. Got to have a feather bed. My wife wants it to sit on during thunderstorms. The one she's been using is all worn out"—Chicago Record-Herald. Where Danger Lies "I want to be famous," said the boy. "Well, you'll have to be mighty careful." answered the father. "There are more people who makeools of themselves trying to be famous than in any other way."—Chicago Post. Subtle Distinctions "This is a hard job," said the man with ink stains on his right hand. "What is it?" "I am expected to abuse the publisher of a sensational newspaper without becoming as sensational as he is."—Washington Star. HOW ROYALTY SLEEPS. The king of Italy cannot sleep except upon a very hard bed. He dispenses with the use of pillows. He uses sheets of the very coarsest web and sleeps like a top. Queen Victoria went to bed quite late, although she was a comparatively early riser. Year in and year out her average time of going to bed was 10:15. A lady in waiting was deputed to read her to sleep. Queen Wilhelmina goes to bed about 11 o'clock and gets up early. On rising she takes a stroll around the park and visits the stables. Her bedstead is of monumental size, being broad enough for six and proportionately deep. Emperor William is a soldier even when he goes to bed, for he sleeps a regulation camp bed, such as his officers use. The bed clothing is of the rough regimental pattern. He retires at 11 p. m. and is up and dressed soon after five a. m. Leopold III., the king of the Belgians, goes to bed late. He spends half the night working and reading. In strong contrast to his neighboring sovereign, he uses an ordinary bedstead without any other luxury than a quilt of swansdown. He is a very chilly mortal. The car of Russia has the greatest difficulty in getting a good night's rest, and yet he is what old-fashioned people call a "lover of the bed." He dreads the night. His bedroom is always brilliantly lighted, like a reception-room. He often suffers from acute insomnia and makes frequent use of chloral. HOUSEWIFELY HINTS. Throw new sponges in cold water and let them soak four or five hours. new sponges in cold water and let them soak four or five hours. To prevent a rug from curling, sew a piece of furniture webbing along the under edge of the corners. A small box of lime in the pantry will help to keep the air dry and pure; it should be renewed occasionally. Mud stains on silk can generally be removed by rubbing with a piece of flannel. Should a stain prove obdurate, rub it with a piece of linen saturated in spirit. To keep out moths use alum. Wash over the crevices of store boxes with alum water and sprinkle powdered alum wherever it is suspected that moths may make their appearance. A good furniture glue that does not harden and which has long been in use in the family from which the receipt is got is easily made. Dissolve five cents' worth of gelatin in five cents' worth of acetic acid and bottle Black lace may be washed in warm water, to which a little borax has been added in the proportion of a teaspoonful to a pint. This lace should never be dried by the fire, as it will turn rusty. To sponge it use an old black kid glove. Tea leaves are useful for other things besides brushing floors. When a few days old pour boiling water over them, leave till nearly cold, strain and use the water for washing paint. White paint may be cleaned by rubbing it with a flannel which has been dipped in whiting. IN WOMAN'S REALM. Miss Mary Clagett, daughter of the late Judge W. H. Clagett, of San Francisco, has opened a barber shop in Spokane. It is said that Mrs. Theresa Wilcox, wife of Hawaii's delegate to congress, will start a newspaper printed one-half in English and one-half in Hawaiian. Alma Stencel, a 13-year-old California girl pianist, has been accorded unique honors in Berlin. Countess von Bulow has invited her to play in the imperial chancellor's palace in Wilhelmstrasse to an audience of cabinet ministers, diplomats and other dignitaries. Mrs. Jenkins, wife of Gov. Jenkins of Oklahoma territory, is a Quaker preacher and noted for her charitable acts. She fills the pulpit of the local Quaker church every Sunday and visits regularly the United States jail in Guthrie, and ministers to the material as well as to the spiritual wants of the prisoners. GLEANINGS OF FACT. St. Louis is to have a newspaper published exclusively for negroes. The retail price of meats in Chicago is higher than it has been for years. Pickled cod is sold by the barrel but hooked cod always by the score. but hooked cod always by the score. Any hard steel tool will cut glass when kept wet with camphor dissolved in turpentine. If a sitting of eggs has arrived from a distance they should always be kept for 24 hours before putting them under a hen. A great many musicians are bald-headed, but no one ever saw a hairless man in Sousa's band. This is because Sousa won't have bald-headed men among his musicians, and not a few of them wear wigs to avoid being cut off. LONDON TOWN TALK. London soot manures 100,000 acres of land a year. The night population of the city of London is falling off at the rate of about 700 a year. Of London proper 53,405 acres are covered with buildings, 6,445 are parks and 15,500 acres are vacant land. London's 20 biggest hotels represent a capital of £7,000,000, accommodate 8,400 guests a night during the season and employ 4,500 servants. G. Foster, of the London county council, suggests that the board of health shall periodically inspect restaurant kitchens to prevent dirt, just as it now inspects bakehouses. Cautious Girl. Percy—I proposed to Isabel on a lovely moonlight night. Guy—Well— Percy—She said to bring the matter up again some cloudy night; that she didn't want matters to stand so I could blame the moon if we made a bad match.—Detroit Free Press. Night Sounds. He—Do you hear the rustle of the leaves? She—Yes; and isn't it strange that when we can hear so distinctly that we can't hear the bark of the tree!—Harlem Life. Equal to the Occasion. Gladys—There, now, mamma's gone to the matinee, and has forgotten her pocketbook. Frank—Don't you worry, about mamma. She'll unlock the box offices with a hairpin.—N. Y. Times. "Molly," he said, "if I should die first I want you to see that I'm cremated." "Mercy on us, John! Coal may be six dollars a ton then!"—Atlanta Constitution. Published every Saturday by JOHN MITCHELL, JR., at 311 North 4th Street, Richmond, Va. JOHN MITCHELL, JR., - EDITOR. All communications intended for publication should be sent so as to reach us by Wednesday. 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These obstacles, we fear, are insurmountable by the methods the Convention is pursuing. The Convention may try from now until doomsday and it will never be able to pass a law that will disfranchise the Negro without disfranchising any white man and at the same time comply with the Federal Constitution." Never was a greater truth more plainly spoken. It is up against an impossibility and a man must be both deaf, dumb and blind not to realize and see it. A DOUBLE LYNCHING. Two more colored men were offered up to the fiendish brutality of Judge Lynch last week. The telegraphic report bears date of the Jan. 27. It seems that G. N. GRANT, and a white man named McKAY were out hunting when they came upon some colored men cleaning hogs in Carroll Parish, Louisiana. GRANT claimed that the hogs belonged to him. It has never been explained how he could tell his hogs from any body else's or whether he could recognize them even if turned inside out or outside in. Any way, he claimed the hogs as his property without even counting his hogs beforehand to see if any were missing. To charge men with stealing without having evidence of it was bad enough; but he attempted to arrest them without a shadow of the authority of the law. It is evident that he was about to shoot them. Be this as it may, the colored brother was two quick for him, firing first, the bullet lodging in the brain. McKAY quickly disappeared and arroused the white people in the neighborhood, who formed a lynching party and succeeded in capturing three colored men. As to whether any of them were the ones who shot GRANT and killed him, deponent sayeth not. They proceeded to hang two of them, while no doubt the colored brother who did the shooting is even now going in another direction as fast as his legs can carry him. This is the idea of justice now prevailing in this benighted section. It is a virtual announcement that there can be no self-defense as between a white and a colored person when the former loses his life in the deadly duel. Three lives are offered up for a few hogs, thus placing a value upon the four-legged animals all out of proportion to the market prices now prevailing. The sacrifice of two colored men and the loss of one white one may result a better state of feeling. Certain it is, that hog-owners will be more careful in identifying property in the hands of colored men. They will exercise caution in dealing with colored men, realizing that continued oppression and submission to oppression leads at times to a desperation, the exercise of which causes the colored man to set no valde upon his own life and care still less for the life of the man whom he is attacking. Lynch-law must go! HIGGINBOTHAM'S CONVICTION The trial of JOE HIGGINBOTHAM (colored) charged with having raped Mrs. RALPH WEBBER (white) Saturday, January 11, 1902, at Lynchburg, Va., took place Wednesday, January 22, 1902, in the Corporation Court, Judge CHRISTIAN presiding. HIGGINBOTHAM's uncontradicted statement, "I am guilty of it all" removes from the minds of the conservative public the last vestige of sympathy entertained for his undone condition. Never in the history of the commonwealth have we observed a more determined effort to prevent a lynching and to save the grand old commonwealth from the odium of a ruthless disregard of its laws. Gov. A. J. MONTAGUE has realized the full import of the oath of office and he is seeing to it that the laws are faithfully executed. There is but one unfortunate feature of the whole affair. The prisoner was tried without counsel. He was conveyed to Roanoke, Va., for protection and upon his return, eight companies of state militia had been assembled at Lynchburg for the purpose of maintaining the majesty of the law. The jury was obtained at Danville, Va., it being impossible to secure persons in the locality in which the crime was committed, who were unbiased in their judgment. The only sad and unfortunate feature about the case, so far as an impartial trial was concerned, was the fact that he was arraigned without counsel. If it be a fact that the members of the bar assigned to the case by the court declined to serve, it reflects very materially upon the bar. HIGGINBOTHAM should have been defended by counsel. He had confessed. He knew the penalty of his crime. The jury had been secured from a "hanging town." The gallows loomed up in the distance and there were none so blind as not to be able to see the not far-away apparition. Then why should a member of the bar decline to do his duty and carry out the order of the court? But, it is all over now. The machinery of the law was put into operation. The Governor communicated with the Mayor and the Mayor with the sheriff, and the sheriff with the jailer. HIGGINBOTHAM was convicted, and sentenced to die February 24, 1902. Sympathy for him? you ask. No none for him. He has forfeited his right to live. He was brought up in one of the best homes in Lynchburg, surrounded by all of the comforts which indulging, foster-parents can give. He was sent to the Sunday-school and he joined the church. He was janitor in the temple of learning. He could read and he could write. He had read the flaming condemnation of this crime of crimes. He had read of the recent burning of colored men charged with similar offenses. He knew that the law was inexorable and his punishment was death. Yet, he risked all for a moment of imaginary pleasure. When the deed was done, fear prompted murder, and the youth added to villainy the crime of flendishness. He seemed not to have remembered that even though he had escaped, he would have thrown the pall of suspicion upon every colored youth in Lynchburg. He knew the frenzied state of feeling upon the subject among the lower elements. He knew that this charge is the most embarrassing one with which our people have to contend, and yet he risked it. Not alone this, but he stabbed to the heart one of the best, one of the most respected, one of the most beloved families in Lynchburg. Housed and fed by them, educated by them, honored by them, viper-like he turned upon the Higginbotham family whose name he bore It is for them we have sympathy. It is for them we would shed our tears. No one can tell the mortification, the anguish of this old Virginia family, which has lived during all these years among the "quality white-folks" of the old commonwealth. Higginbotham is the arch-enemy of the "New Negro," the element which is now striving to march onward and direct their steps upward. But, the Higginbothams need not despair. They did what they could for Joe. They prayed over him, wept over him, suffered bitter pangs for him and this is their reward. We cannot tell about these things. Many a white family has suffered in a similar way. There is they say, a black sheep in every fold. The conservative, liberty-loving white people, those who have had wayward sons will understand. The aristocratic Virginia family in whose midst, the Higginbothams were reared will know that Joe's aberration did not come from the foster parents' stock. On the 24th of this month, he will die. The gallows will be sprung, the last plunge will take place and all that remains of that faithless, ungrateful, death deserving mortal will be silenced forever more. So be it. Let the colored people of Virginia stand mute at his end and hope that his fate may serve as a warning to all, both white and black, rich and poor. When white men commit similar crimes upon colored females, let our white friends be equally as indignant and positive in their demand for punishment. William O'Boyle, (white) is now under sentence of death at Newport News. Va. for the commission of a crime upon a colored woman as fiendish as the one with which Higginbotham stood charged. He murdered a colored woman and her unborn babe, stamping the life out of both. Two white juries have found him guilty of death. Two colored juries would have found Higginbotham guilty of death. This is indicative of a better state of feeling existing between the white and colored citizens of the commonwealth. JOKE WAS ON JOKER. Friends Get Even with Girl Fond of Playing Pranks. Had Her Start on a Journey in Character of a Bride—Mook Marriage Trip May, However, Grow Into Real Article. It isn't always necessary to be married in order to enjoy the ridiculous discomforts of a wedding journey. That fact has been discovered by writers of fiction before this; but, says the Minneapolis Journal, it was borne in upon a young lady whose home is in the Midway district recently in a way that she Lake Su great lake 1,003 feet above the In Los ordinance lars for the streeterty. Theodore president in the H the other Pierce, G A Frenge missed satirical the lead and caric fashion. Colorado It shows that the law can and will be executed, that mobs should be sent to the rear and that the dawn of a brighter morning will bring peace and prosperity, hope and contentment in one of the fairest portions of the land of sunshine and flowers. All honor to our state officials for their fidelity to duty. When the law is supreme, and guilty criminals punished, regardless of race, color or previous condition of servitude; then the advent of the millenium is at hand and the glad refrain will be heralded from the Atlantic to the Pacific; from Canada to the gulf. Lynch-law must go! DOCTOR SHOOTS WIFE Lancaster Man Attempts Murder and Then Commits Suicide. Chicago, Jan. 28.—Dr. Harry J. Ziegler, of 216 West King street, Lancaster, Pa., fatally wounded his wife, Anna, and then killed himself yesterday day afternoon at the Wellington Hotel. A note left by the physician declared that he and his wife had decided to die, and that, as he lacked the nerve, Mrs. Ziegler had promised to commit the act. The woman, be fore being removed to the Samaritan Hospital in a dying condition, declared that the shooting was done by her husband. The physician and his wife arrived at the Wellington Hotel yesterday morning and were assigned to a room. The two were young and apparently happy. They retired to their room and about 3 o'clock a call came to the clerk's office. When the bell boy arrived at the room he found the woman tugging at the door. Blood was flowing from a wound in the back of her head. "Oh, my husband has shot himself," she cried, forgetting in her fear for him the pain of her own wound. The bell boy took her out into the hallway, saying that her husband might kill her, and she let him lead her away from the room. Then he hastened to the office of Dr. B. L Riese, the house physician. When the latter arrived the husband was dead and the wife was barely conscious. A note addressed to a morning newspaper was found in the room. It read: "My photograph belongs to your paper. We decided to die, but I lack the nerve to shoot, so my wife, Anna, will do it. Send my body home to 316 West King street, Lancaster. Good bye." BIG RAILWAY COMBINE New Company Being Formed to Take Over All Lines In Philadelphia. Philadelphia, Jan. 28—The directors of the Union Traction company, which controls all the street car lines in this city, at a special meeting held in the offices of P. A. B. Widener, yesterday afternoon, granted the request of John M. Mack for a conference between the Union Traction company and the Mack-Foederer company, which owns all the street car chisises granted last summer by city councils. Immediately after the meeting Mr. Mack left for New York. It is proposed to form a new company, to be called the Consolidated Traction company, which will be capitalized at $30,000,000. The promoters of this company made a proposal to the Union Traction company to lease all its lines on a sliding scale rental, in which the dividends increase each year until the fifth year, when a 6 per cent. basis is reached. After that period the Consolidated Traction company guarantees a fixed rental of 6 per cent. to the Union Traction stockholders. To the Mack-Foerder-Wolf syndicate the proposal is made to take over all their franchises which were recently granted and which cover in perpetuity all the important street railway concessions. The new company will therefore have a monopoly of all the local transportation, surface, underground and elevated, which Philadelphia has and will ever require. The deal involves financial interests worth fully $150,000,000. Washington, Jan. 28.—The war department has been informed that the troops which are to return home from the Philippines will sail from Manila as follows: Twenty-second Infantry, February 1; Twentieth Infantry, February 16; Headquarters and First and Second Battalions of the Seventeenth Infantry, February 28. The Third Battalion of the Seventeenth Infantry will sail from Manila after the arrival there of the Second Battalion of the Twenty-seventh Infantry, between March 1 and 10. Train Robbers Secured $13. Charleston, S. C., Jan. 29 —According to the latest advices from Branchville developments concerning the Southern Railway express robbery, so far as made public, are not important. It is known that after securing the express safe the robbers conveyed it to a point on the Edisto river, six miles away. Failing to open it, they threw the safe into the river, where it was found yesterday morning. The amount of plunder secured is said to be about $13. Last Year's Output of Big Iron Philadelphia, Jan. 29.—The American iron and Steel Association has received from the manufacturers complete statistics of the production of all kinds of pig iron in the United States in 1901. The total production of pig iron was 15,878,354 tons, compared with 13,789,242 tons in 1900. JOKE WAS ON JOKER JOKE WAS ON JOKER Friends Get Even with Girl Fond of Playing Pranks. Had Her Start on a Journey in Character of a Bride—Mook Marriage Trip May, However, Grow Into Real Article. It isn't always necessary to be married in order to enjoy the ridiculous discomforts of a wedding journey. That fact has been discovered by writers of fiction before this; but, says the Minneapolis Journal, it was borne in upon a young lady whose home is in the Midway district recently in a way that she will not soon forget. The whole affair was a practical joke, but in the end the jokers found they had builted better than they knew. That, however, is anticipating the story. The young lady in question went down to Chicago some months ago to visit relatives. While there she met a number of young parsons, and, as she is something of a practical joker, she hadn't been there long before several of them were "just aching for a chance to get even." Finally their opportunity came. A day was set for the visitor's departure, and the crowd went down to the station to see her off. Just outside the depot she was introduced to a young man, the friend of one of the boys, who was also on his way to Minneapolis, and who intended to take the same train. Through the gate they went and into the same car, the Minneapolis girl in the lead. As she entered the Pullman she turned laughingly and said: "Just look at that section! Evidently we are going to have a bride and groom with us on the way up." The section in question was lavishly decorated with white ribbons and bridal roses. As one of the party remarked, it was "certainly a splendid piece of work." The odor from the flowers perfumed the entire car, and M. THE PORTER GRINNED. every one in it was craning his neck to catch sight of the newly-made benedict and his bride the moment they should appear. Then came the porter, and with grandiloquent air deposited the luggage and wraps of the Minneapolis girl in the bridal section. "Why," she stammered. "That isn't right. I don't belong in there." The porter grinned, but said nothing. He turned away, and a moment later deposited a gentleman's suit case on the floor, close beside the little satchel that had preceded it. Then this young man who was bound for Minneapolis cut into the conversation. "Here, porter," he called, "what's all this tommyrot? Is that my berth?" "Yes, suh. It suittenly is, suh. Upper seben. The little lady has the lower," and with a guffaw that could have been heard for blocks, the blue-coated attendant made for the farther end of the car. "Sit down, please, and try to look pleasant," called a voice from the crowd, and then began a shower of rice. Every man in the party had rice in each one of his pockets. Every girl had a bag of it concealed beneath her wrap. "Damn!" said the masculine traveler. "Thank you," said the girl. "Please say it again for me." Finally the train started and their tormentors were compelled to leave. Afterward the ribbons were torn down and the roses thrown out of the window. But the troubles of that very much unmarried couple were not yet at an end. They went in to dinner together, and found that the solicitude of their friends had preceded them. For they were shown to a table decorated as had been the sleeping car section, with white ribbons and bride's roses. During the night, each time the train stopped, telegrams were received inquiring anxiously after their welfare, and altogether the trip was one long to be remembered. However, out of that mock marriage trip may grow the real article, for the Chicago man's business has brought him much to Minneapolis of late and an announcement is expected shortly. There are three nut-cracking plants in St. Louis. The machines are driven by electricity each nut being fed individually into the crusher. After the shells are cracked the nuts are winnowed by an air blast and the meat is picked from the cracked shells by hand, women and girls being employed for this part of the work. FLOTSAM AND JETSAM. The largest slaughter house in the world is in Kansas City, Kan. The trade of all South America is not equal to that we have with Canada. By the use of a process invented at Bridgeport, Conn., wooden doors are being electroplated with copper or brass. Lake Superior is the deepest of the great lakes. Its greatest depth is 1,003 feet and the lake is 601 feet above the level of the sea. In Los Angeles, Cal., there is an ordinance imposing a fine of five dollars for allowing chickens to run on the streets and other people's property. Theodore Roosevelt is the fifth president who has held membership in the Phi Beta Kappa fraternity, the others being John Quincy Adams, Pierce, Garfield and Arthur. A French naval ensign has been dismissed from the fleet for writing a satirical novel in which several of the leading officers were criticised and caricatured in a very sarcastic fashion. Colorado, Nevada and California have no representation on the committee on mines and mining in the present house of representatives. Territorial Delegate Smith, of Arizona, is a member of the committee. IN THE WAY OF VARIETY. The Seattle assay office has handled $55,000,000 since its establishment. Maximinus, the Roman emperor, was over eight feet high, and could wear his wife's bracelet as a thumb ring. The Commercial club of Louisville uses advertising space in street cars and on billboards to enjoin readers to patronize home industries. One Foxcraft (Me.) farmer had to shovel out 270 sheep in his pasture. The snow was 30 inches deep, and the sheep were scattered over a wide area, so that it took a large crew of men with shovels to rescue them. The first salt was produced in this country prior to 1620, and in the various reports of the federal census mention is made of not less than 32 states in which salt has at some period been produced in considerable quantities. When a cargo of bananas arrives at New Orleans or Mobile, the fruit is sold at once to local dealers, while the green bunches are sent northward by a special train. As it proceeds, the train slowly dwindles, for sections of it are dropped at this point or that and sent off in various directions until finally it is broken up altogether, and the last car is sidetracked at some town in the far northwest. TRADE AND FINANCE The record for the price of a seat on the New York stock exchange was broken recently, when H. E. Montgomery paid $80,000 for a seat that was bought in 1869 for $400. The crops of 1901 in Manitoba were very large, official returns showing 50,500,000 bushels of wheat, 27,796,000 bushels of oats, 6,536,000 bushels of barley, and 4,800,000 bushels of potatoes. The American Sugar Refining company, commonly called the sugar trust, has recently paid off its mortgage of $10,000,000, which was made in 1891 and would not have matured until 1911. The Association of Merchants in Berlin has sent to the federal council a memorial asking for the legislative regulation of trade combinations in order that the artificial raising of prices may be avoided. According to the estimate of the Railroad Gazette, 4,518 miles of railroad were built in the United States in 1901, Texas leading (537 miles) in the list of states and territories, with Oklahoma (398) second, and West Virginia third. IT OFTEN HAPPENS. That men figure as masters who are fit only to be followers. That women fancy they are pretty through men's flattery. That men become supersensitive because of too much petting. That men are given choice positions just to prove their incapacity. That women willfully misconstrue statements to suit selfish ends. That women take on consequential airs through men's polite greetings. That a woman's disposition is made odious through a man's want of tact. That men say things they know will be combatted so as to appear original. That men forget how small a part they play in the world's management. tly play in the women's management. That women's schemes are made futile by men's stupidity.—Philadelphia Bulletin. THEIR ORIGINAL MEANINGS. Shrewd once signified evil or wicked. Thomas Fuller uses the expression "a shrewd fellow," meaning a wicked man. The word "prevent" originally meant nothing more than to go before. It is used in this sense in several places in the Scriptures. Prejudice was originally nothing more than a judgment formed before-hand, the character of such judgments being best indicated by the present meaning of the word. A waunterer is believed by some etymologists to have originally signified a man without lands, such a person naturally wandering to and fro in search of employment. An Unsisterly Fling "She is pretty," said the young woman, "but she is so obviously made up." "Yes," answered Miss Cayenne, "I can't help wondering how she got back from Europe without having paid duty collected on her as a work of art." - N. Y. Telegraph. A Popular Antidote. "Mike," said Mrs. Flannigan, looking from the paper in her hand to her husband, who had just signed the temperature pledge, "shure an' a great doother sez that alcohol do be a shure cure for carbolic acid pizex, an' if so be yez haven't anny alcoholo, thin twict as much whisky will do jist as well." "Be quick, thin, Norah, me dear, an' lay by a good store o' the stuff. Shure I'm that deep'r it there's no tellin' whin I'll be nadin' the rimidy."—Judge. IN THE FAR EAST. A German tourist in Corea writes that the usual bill of fare consists of dog meat, rice and beans. A Turk holds that the day begins exactly at sunset. At that time he sets his clocks and watches at the hour of 12. Vladivostock, which 40 years ago consisted of four Chinese fishermen's huts, is now a flourishing city of 50,000 souls, and Khabarofsk and Blagoovestchensk are not far behind in wealth and population. Corea is believed to be rich in gold, but it all belongs to the king, who gets 25 per cent. of the gross earnings, and whose consent for mining undertakings is hard to get. Nevertheless about $2,500,000 of the metal was secured last year. The Chinese have the idea that milk revives the youthful powers, and that it has special virtue as a winter food for old people. Pictures and characters illustrating this idea, as well as the value of it for baby food, would without doubt increase the sale of American milk in China, as one of the consuls suggests. Arab music has been described as the singing of a prima donna who has ruptured her voice in trying to sing a duet with herself. Each note starts from somewhere between a sharp and a flat, but does not stop even there, and splits up into four or more portions, of which no person can be expected to catch more than one at a time. MANY MATTERS MINCED UP. Alcohol as such has never yet been found as a natural original product. It is always formed by art. The first city incorporated in this country with a charter and privileges was New York, which was granted its papers in 1664. The Mackenzie, the principal river of the dominion, is 2,500 miles in length and drains an area equal to one-half of the United States. The country roads of the United States do not compare favorably with those of any nation in Europe. During the spring season in many districts of the western states the roads are practically impassable. A Quebec paper figures out that in the United States and Canada there is spent yearly the enormous sum of $15,000,000 on golf. This includes the cost of clubhouses and links, their maintenance, the wages of caddies and servants, the cost of golfing suits, sticks and balls and all other expenses. Most persons are unaware that the portrait on the new ten-dollar bill, known as the "buffalo bill" because of the rampant figure of a bison in the center of it, is that of a man who committed suicide. It is the picture of Meriwether Lewis, a famous explorer and once private secretary to President Thomas Jefferson, who afterward made him governor of Missouri territory. In a fit of deep despondency he killed himself when 35 years old. FRESH FROM FRANCE. In 1909 the Eiffel tower becomes the property of the city of Paris and will then be used for its weather bureau. An employee in a French tobacco factory has invented a machine which makes the head on cigars after they are rolled and does the work of about a dozen hands. Generally speaking, Frenchmen are not chewers of the Indian weed; but in the manufacturing districts, where men work 12 hours a day and cannot smoke during that time, they chew. Paris has a municipal department that not only moves large trees from place to place, but takes such as are sickly to a tree hospital, where they are restored to vigor and then set out anew. Parisian thieves have discovered a new method, which has taken the form of abstracting the platinum tubes from the interior of motor cars. Hundreds of thefts of this kind have been committed during the past few weeks. MILITARY MATTERS A cadet in the United States navy is paid as highly as a lieutenant in the British navy. The Belgian government has fixed the period of service for the infantry at 20 months and 36 months for the cavalry and horse artillery. The amount of gutta percha that will be required for the transpacific cable, estimated at 3,000,000 pounds, is causing some concern among the army signal officers, lest the demand will seriously affect the price of the material. When the present work on the League Island navy yard at Philadelphia has been completed the yard will be the finest in the country in point of size and equipment. The plans call for golf links and baseball ground for the use of the officers. SCRAPS OF INFORMATION In Texas superstitious people carry a small bone from a fish's head, but the luck only comes after the charm has been lost. The Bedouin Arabs are small eaters. Six or seven days soaked in melted butter serve a man a whole day, with a very small quantity of coarse flour or a little ball of rice. As late as 1840 there were neither roads nor coaches in any country district of Portugal. Gentlemen traveled on horseback and ladies in sedan chairs, carried by men, or in mule litters. It is said that Herbert C. Hoover is one of the highest salaried men of his years in the industrial world. At the age of 29 he is in receipt of $3,000 annually for his services as a mining expert. BITS OF SCIENCE. The wasp and the fly are irreconcilable enemies. The presence of a wasp's nest is a guarantee to the whole neighborhood of the absence of flies. A product of the heretofore unproductive deserts of Utah is a kind of watermelon which is picked in October. The melon ripens after it is picked. An air-cooling system on a vast scale is to be tried at the St. Louis exposition. Great fans will be down a current of cold air from a height of 800 feet above the earth and pour it over the grounds on hot days. Prof. Wilbur C. Knight, of the state university of Wyoming, is engaged in putting together pieces of a sea serpent which he discovered in 1895. The animal was 60 feet long and is one of the most valuable specimens ever captured. To see objects at a distance of 100 miles the observer must be standing at a height of 6.667 feet above the level of the sea. The rule is that the distance in miles at which an object on the earth's surface may be seen is equal to the square root of one and a half times the height of the observer in feet above sea level, allowance being made for the effect of atmospheric refraction. Prof. McKendrick, in his presidential address to the physiology section of the British association, in September, remarked that the smallest particle of matter that can be seen with our present microscopes is between one-four-hundred-thousandth and one-five-hundred-thousandth of an inch in diameter. The diffraction of light in the microscope forbids the possibility of seeing still smaller objects. Yet the living spores studied by physiologists are sometimes, probably, even smaller in size than the most minute particle that the most perfect microscope can show. The stars which are called "fixed stars" are properly so described. They do not change their relative places appreciably even in the longest periods of time with which history has to deal. Take, for instance, the twin stars which form the belt of Orion, that constellation which is especially the glory of our winter skies. There is no doubt that the relative positions of these twin stars, and their positions relative to other stars in the vicinity, were just the same 1,900 years ago as they are today, so far at least as the general appearance of the constellation is concerned. PEOPLE AND EVENTS. Mayor Low, of New York, refuses to perform the marriage ceremony, saying that to do so would take up time which might be spent to much greater advantage. Chinese Minister Wu Ting Fang gave $100 toward the ransom of Miss Ellen Stone. Another Chinaman gave $12,000 toward a professorship at Columbia university. Col. Cody, known as Buffalo Bill, will quit the road after next season's round and then he intends to cut off the long hair that has grown white and straggly in recent years. "Leslie M. Shaw," says a friend of the new cabinet official, "will be the David Harum of Roosevelt's administration. What I mean is that Mr. Shaw is a natural born man of affairs and the personification of shrewdness." Ex-Empress Eugenie is busy preparing her memoirs. A complete record of her reign is to be left after her death to the public library of Paris. The empress has carefully filed every personal letter since the day of her marriage. OBSERVATIONS FROM LIFE. Statistics sometimes prove that Mars can figure. A budding genius is all right until he begins to blow. Her father's boot frequently makes an unfavorable impression. Too much of the noise in this world tries to pass itself off as music. It is better to be wrong at the right time than right at the wrong time. The more a woman argues the more she is unable to convince herself. Some dancing, instead of being the poetry of motion, is mere doggerel. The price of liberty is eternal vigilance, but the cost of repairs is extra. Young men think themselves wise and drunken men think themselves sober. The man who knows it all is a fit companion for the woman who knows nothing. Any man can think as he likes, but it isn't always policy to put his thoughts into words.—Chicago Daily News. HEALTH AND COMFORT Never use heavy bedclothing. Weight and warmth are not synonymous. A child's appetite is a pretty fair indicator of health; so, if it fails, and the failure is not due to indiscretion in diet, see whether it is worried over lessons and has enough sleep. To promote children's appetites, take care that they have plenty of outdoor exercise and that they have only such simple, homely food as they can digest. If this be done there will seldom, if ever, be any cause for anxiety on the score of lack of appetite. One may prevent chilblains by wrapping the chilled part very thickly in cotton, wool or flannel and taking brisk exercise in a room having a temperature of about 60 degrees Fahrenheit. Should a chilblain present itself let it be "painted" at once with a mixture of glycerin and belladonna liniment. ```markdown ``` He's Getting Even. Trivet—Did you hear of the dreadful revenge Frothingham took on Miss Dimling when she refused his proposal? Dicer—What was it? Trivet—He preposed to her mother, as Mrs. Dimling was a widow, and now he won't let a man come to the house to see his stepdaughter.—Chicago Journal. Boarding House Parsimony. Landlady—Our Shakespeare club is to discuss the character of Cassius tonight. Boarder—Did you know Cassius? Landlady—What a question? Of course, not. Boarder—I didn't know but he boarded here; he was lean and humgy, you know.—Brooklyn Life. RE PLANET BRUIN AND PEDDLER Together They Shot Down a Steep Mountain Incline. Man Hid in Wagon Box with Bear on Top and Horse Broke from Sleigh—Big Beast Killed by the Accident. According to the Susquehanna (Pa.) correspondent of the New York World, Fritz Stein is a peddler known by everyone on the road between his home at Hackensack and Scranton. He carries in his red wagon box everything from a darning-needle to a stove. Fritz was driving his sleigh along the road down Pocono mountain near Manunka Chunk recently at twilight, singing because of the good sales of the day, when, with a savage spring, his horse jumped into the air and lurched forward. Fritz's hair stood on end, for right ahead, in a bend in the road, was a huge black bear. The brute shambled forward and struck at the horse, which gave a sudden spring, twisted off the thills, and went down the mountain at a furious pace. The sleigh was left standing upon a knoll. Fritz screamed in terror. He was unarmed, and he saw certain death ahead. He leaped from the sleigh, tumbled into the box in which he stored his stock, and fastened both doors. The enraged bear attacked the sheep hides on top of the sleigh and tore them into shreds. Then he tried to tear off the top of the box to reach Fritz, who was holding the doors closed and expecting every moment that the top would break. Then the unexpected happened. The sleigh was standing in the deep, smooth tracks made by the heavy sleds of the lumbermen, and the terrific exertions of the bear, with his added weight, suddenly started the outfit down the incline, shooting ahead with frightful velocity. The bear realized his danger and growled as he crouched and clung to C. H. TRIED TO TEAR BOX OPEN. the guard rails on top of the box. Poor Fritz closed his eyes and braced himself for the shock, which he well knew would soon come. The road was straight ahead for two miles. In the middle of the mountain a farmer's team pulled to one side just in time to escape disaster and to see the strange outfit shoot by with the speed of the Black Diamond express. Near the foot of the mountain is a sharp bend in the road. There the sleigh left the track, shot directly across the road, and collided with a huge pile of railroad ties. Some hours later a sleighing party on its way home from a country dance encountered the wreck. The bear was jammed in between the sleigh and the timber, fearfully mangled and quite dead. Fritz was fished out of a huge pile of snow and woolen goods, stunned and lacerated. The sleigh was a wreck, and the goods were scattered among the snowdrifts. Fritz was carried to a farm-house, where he received medical attendance. In a day or two he discovered his horse in a farmer's barn five miles ahead, and he rode it to his Hackensack home. Unique Wedding in Kansas Unique Wedding in Kansas. A business-like wedding was celebrated at Fort Scott, Kan., the other day. The parties were aged, respectively, 71 and 64. Both are possessed of valuable property, and the bride is the owner of several farms. Before the ceremony an agreement was signed to the effect that each should have control of the property belonging to each. However, the good woman got a little the better of the dickering. By the terms of the agreement she is to have a life interest in his estate after death, but he is not given the same right with respect to hers. After everything had been completed comfortably, the two stood up and were married, and then the husband attempted to salute his bride. "Go 'way, John," she said, "I ain't a-going to let you kiss me in public." Tears Used as Medicine. Human tears are not recognized as a specific against disease in any other country but Persia, and there, only those tears which have been shed at a funeral are supposed to have curative qualities. In the country named the custom of bottling tears is an important feature of funeral ceremony. To each of the mourners present the master of ceremonies presents a piece of cotton, wool or sponge, with which to wipe away the tears. The contents of the wool or sponge are afterward squeezed into a bottle, and these tears are preserved as a powerful and certain restorative when all other medicines have proved useless. 1EST FOR SOBRIETY. Missouri Town Marshal Has an Original Scheme for Gauging His People's Capacity. Kansas has produced the magistrate who decides on a man's condition of sobriety, or the reverse, by making him walk a crack. Cape Girardeau, Mo., has done better and produced a flight of stepping stones along which supposedly intoxicated persons must walk to insure their freedom from incarceration. "Coon Hollow" is a bit of low ground lying south of the courthouse at Cape Girardeau. Beyond it live the poorer darkies and the less useful portions of the local population. The hollow is something of a sink hole, and in times C. H. STEPPING STONES TO FREEDOM. of heavy rains becomes considerable of a morsac. To the inhabitants of the transhollow region the stepping stones across have always been a source of trouble. They were so necessary that their removal has never been seriously considered, for without them any man who attempted to walk through the hollow in the mud would probably stick fast till help came. Even with them there enough of the inhabitants fall off in the mud and have only the stones to cling to for safety. Charlie Armgard is town marshal of Cape Girardeau. He has many a bit of trouble with the settlers beyond the stepping stones, and has often debated with himself whether or not to "run in" some of them who seemed to have had a drink too much. One night he was escorting home one who pretended he was sober. They reached the stepping stones all right, but there the assistee's troubles began. He could go a couple of steps and then he would miss, sway off and pitch into the mire. Marshal Armgard's patience was soon exhausted. After the fourth or fifth attempt he hailed his prisoner away to fall. That was how he got the idea. Now when he has a questionable prisoner from beyond Coon Hollow he takes him forthwith to the stepping stones, stands him on the first block, and sits down on the bank to watch him go home. If the suspect goes steadily across the line he is all right and can stay on the other side. If he wavers a little and still keeps on the stones, he is still all right. But if he staggers and plunges off, if he misjudges the distance between his foot and the stones and falls or trips—woe to him. UGLIEST MAN KICKS Recent Speech Dilating on His Qualifications and Starts General Fight at a Social. Claude Edwards won a prize at a social at Kokomo, Ind., and broke up the social by starting a fight. The feature of the social was a voting contest to decide which man in J. H. H. THREW THE CUP AT PERRY. the house was the ugliest. Mr. Edwards did not electioneer for votes. He electioneered for several other candidates, but the decision was almost unanimous. He was chosen by an overwhelming majority. When the clerks announced the result of the vote Ross Perry, one of the defeated candidates, made a speech. He dilated on Mr. Edwards' fitness for the honor. He declared the votes of the women present had won the victory for his opponent, and he wound up by presenting the prize, which was a heavy silver cup, to Mr. Edwards, who took it and threw it into Perry's face, causing a scatterment of teeth. A general fight started, in which several men tried to add to Mr. Edwards' qualifications for the office to which he had been chosen. Several women fainted and, before Edwards was arrested, the social was broken up. The General Rule. The better a man thinks he is the more foolish he acts.—Chicago Daily News. THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND: VIRGINIA PERSONAL MENTION. James N. Lann, of Middletown, N. Y., a preacher, doctor and author, is 10 years of age and has been married 13 times. His first marriage occurred at Milford, Pa., in 1830. Anton Lang, who took the part of Christ in the Oberammergau play last summer, was married at Christmas to the girl who sang the "mystical song." Her father is Jakob Rutz, the village blacksmith and leader of the chorus. Gen. Shattue, of Ohio, chairman of the committee on immigration and labor of the house of representatives, has long been proud of his taste in fancy waistcoats, solitaire diamonds and flaring cravats, all of which adorn his expansive front. It was particularly noticed at the recent New England dinner in Philadelphia that the speech of Chinese Minister Wu easily outshone all the others so far as good English was concerned. Among the orators of the evening were Justice Brewer, Mr. Hamlin, Mr. Hill and Mr. Cockran. W. Scott Miller, of Louisville, Ky., has been granted by the courts of that state the right to control and collect the money yielded through visitors to the Mammoth cave. The matter has been in litigation and the four daughters of the late Dr. George Grogham, who own the cave, are widely separated, one of them living in Switzerland and the other in California. Dr. George Eitel, of Clanhassen, Carver county, Minnesota, who has just taken his medical degree at Berlin university, has already had diplomas from the universities of Minnesota, Oregon, California, Pennsylvania, Washington, Idaho and Montana—probably the record in the medical profession. The Berlin press good-natured hanters him, hoping that before long he will be able to celebrate a silver jubilee commemorating his twenty-fifth passing of examinations. Eitel is 43 years old. He began his medical studies 16 years ago. SEEN IN THE STORES. Mauve and pink furniture is one of the latest artistic fancies—mauve wood, pink, satin, brocade and curtains shot with both colors and figured with flowers. Pretty nut bowls of wood, decorated with burnt woodwork and resting on three short supports, are not only desirable but seem particularly adapted to the use intended. One of the prettiest plants for home decoration shown by the florists is a begonia with delicate pale pink blooms that intermingle with the dark-green leaves in a way that delights the eye. The newest side comb is the horse-shoe comb and comes in light and dark tortoise shell. Then there are combs with rope-coiled tops and jeweled evening combs that cost a small fortune. Superstitions concerning the opal have evidently died a natural death, if one may judge from the many that are shown. The demand for this lovely stone is steady, and though the Hungarian opals are the finest, many of lesser value are used as settings for brooches, rings, hatpins and stickpins and are much sought. It is particularly noticeable in the china shops that the old-fashioned white china with gilt is becoming popular. These sets are almost duplicates of the old-fashioned "tea sets" of our grandmothers' early days, and come in the old-fashioned shapes, made of fine clear ware. Of course this ware is costly, and therefore the woman who has retained as a family heirloom her grandmother's set is fortunate. IN THE OLD WORLD. The average size of a farm in North Italy is but 16 acres; while in starving Southern Italy farms vary from 40 to 180 acres. Italy's congress is composed of two bodies, but in the lower house there are 508 members, chosen by the people, while the senate does not consist of a fixed number, varying from 200 to 300. The Italian senators are chosen by the king and hold office for life. There is no pay for any of the national legislators and all they get in recognition of their office is free transportation on the railroads. Germany is the home of toy manufacturing, and recent statistics show that 41,000 persons derive their living from that employment. Sonneberg produces half the toys made in Germany, but the industry is scattered through Waterhausen, Friedricksroda, Ohrdruf, Hrmenan, Hilderghausen, Schlensinger and Coburg and other towns from the Black Forest to the Palatinate and the Sudetic mountains. The value of the product which is mainly sent to Great Britain and the United States is $12,000,000. SAYINGS OF CHILDREN: "Can you tell me what pride is?" asked the Sunday school teacher of a small pupil. "Yes'm," was the reply. "It's walking with a cane when you ain't lame." Papa—"Tommy, if you had a little more spunk you would stand better in your class. Now, do you know what spunk is?" Tommy—"Yes, sir. It's the past participle of spank." "Mamma," said five-year-old Bessie, "I'm going to be a duchess when I grow up." "How are you going to acquire the title, my dear?" asked her mother. "Just like other ladies do," replied Bessie. "I'm going to marry a Dutchman." Small Willie one day asked his mother who made the trees and was told that God made them. A few days later an old colored man came to trim the trees, and, the little fellow seeing him at work, ran to his mother and exclaimed: "Oh, mamma, God's out in the yard repairing His trees!" Archie's an excellent little boy When he's studying with his tutor. But when he's out with the other kids, He's out with a rubber shooter. Chicago Tribune. Easily Pleased. Mr. Lydecker - My last butler was too good a judge of whisky. too good a judge of whisky. New Butler—Well, Orn'tm not so particular. All whisky is good whisky to me. sirl—Brooklyn Eagle. Straightens Kinky, Curly Hair In order to protect the public from the numerous quack nostrums now on the market, which claim to straighten and cause the hair to grow long, and which are simply put up by a lot of quacks, charlatans, and fakirs, who have no chemical skill, with the sole idea to get your hard-earned cash and give you nothing in return for your money but a dirty, sticky mass of worthless greases, which injure the hair and cause it to fall out, we have placed our trade-mark, granted to us by the Government of the United States of America, on every box of OZONO, King of all Hair-Growers and Hair-Straighteners. This trade-mark consists of two heads, as shown in this advertisement—one head showing short, curly hair, the other showing long, flowing hair. Any preparation showing the heads with the hair done up in a coil, or showing features different from the faces shown in this advertisement, is not OZONO. Seeing our marked success with the true hair-straightener, OZONO, King of all Hair-Growers, numerous firms are now widely advertising spurious compounds, and trading on the reputation that we have made for OZONO. Do not be fooled by these flaring advertisements, which are all promises. Buy the genuine and only original King of all Hair Tonics, OZONO. Two hundred and fifty thousand colored people bought OZONO in the last twelve months. OZONO is sold in every State in the Union, all over Europe, Asia, Africa, and South America, also in Cuba and the West Indies. Its fame has travelled around the world, because it is a true Hair Tonic that straightens without any outside assistance. No hot irons are used; nothing but OZONO. It not only straightens the hair, but produces a long, silky, beautiful, luxurious growth of soft, fine hair. To neglect your hair is more than foolish, when you can increase its beauty by a few applications of OZONO. We can send OZONO to any place that you may live in, no matter where you may live. The price of OZONO is 50c. a box, sent to any point on receipt of price. Four boxes is a complete treatment. In order to introduce this great Hair Tonic, we will send to you, on receipt of only $1.00, the following grand aggregation: Four boxes of OZONO; one bottle of ELECTRICAL SKIN REFINER, which softens rough skin and brightens black skin, making it several shades lighter, worth 50c.; also one bottle of ELECTRICAL SKIN FOOD, Nature's cure for all skin diseases, such as Pimples, Tan, Acne, Itch, Eczema, and Itch. It also removes Wrinkles, and makes the skin soft and pliant. We will also include a one-pint package of ANTI-ODOR, which removes all smells and odors arising from the human body, such as feet, armpits, &c.; also one bar of our PURITY SCALP SOAP, made expressly for the human scalp. This grand aggregation offer is made to introduce honest goods. Cut out this coupon and mail to us, with $1.00, and we will send the goods the same day we receive the money. If you send $3.00, we will send you four lots; if you send $2.00, we will send you three lots. If you have a friend who wishes to take advantage of this lot, let them pin their name to this coupon, and the goods will be sent promptly. If this offer is read by some who does not own this newspaper, they can get the goods by simply sending $1.00 and mentioning the name of the paper in which they saw our advertisement. Parties who desire one of our MAGNETIC COMBES, which aids materially in the straightening process, can obtain same by sending 50c. extra. Remember, OZONO is guaranteed to straighten the hair—to Water in the Pool of Siloam. For over ten years the Pool of Siloam has been only a name. Visitors to Palestine who have seen this historic spot of late years have found that its healing waters have vanished. Just recently the waters of Siloam have made to flow once again, and there has been great rejoicing in the Holy Land. It appears that Jerusalem has been especially short of water of late, and it occurred to some of the inhabitants of Siloam to try to find out whether the spring which used to supply the pool was really dry. Tona of accumulated rubbish were cleared away, and after about a month's work the spring was found. The excavators discovered behind some fallen rocks an old aqueduct running into the valley of the Chadron, and into this aqueduct the beautiful, cool, clear water had run and been wasting for years.-London Mail. The Dentist's Revenge. A dentist recently turned the tables neatly on a nimble-footed thief who had robbed the dentist's wife of her purse in the street. The husband remarked at the time that he should know the rascal again, and when a few days afterward the thief called to have some teeth attended to the dentist was ready for him. Telling his visitor that it would be necessary to take a cast of his mouth, the dentist resorted to the now obsolete method of a plaster impression, and having allowed it to remain in long enough to set hard, calmly ordered his patient to follow him to a lawyer's office with the view of signing a confession and making restitution. The terrified thief had perforce to comply, after which the dentist, with the aid of a hammer and cold chisel, delivered him from his awkward predicament—Paris Temps. What He Meant: "While I was out to the stocky yards," said Hiram on his return to the city, "I met a bunko buster." "You mean a broncho buster, don't you?" inquired his wife. "No, I don't," retorted Hiram. "A broncho buster breaks horses, an' a bunko buste. breaks men. I'm busted." -Chicago Post. Slang and. "What good does it do you to associate with those Swannigum boys?" said Tommy's mother, sharply. "They are low, dirty and ignorant. Do you get anything from them but slang?" "Yes'm," replied Tommy, wiping his nose with his coat sleeve. "Fleas."—Chicago Tribune. Once Bitten. Twice 5hx. The Old Philosopher—We are all liable to error, but the wise man never makes the same mistake twice. The Novice—What about second marriages, then? The Old Philosopher—That is not the same mistake—it is generally another mistake—Ally Sloper. Siberia has long been sending butter to England, but the opening of the Trans-Siberian railway has made it a far more formidable competitor than it formerly was. Last year the imports of Siberian butter were valued at £1,400,000, and this year it is estimated that they will reach the value of £2,500,000. The supply of butter which Siberia can furnish is said to be practically unlimited, and it is possible that the opening up of Siberia may affect the dairy industry of these countries as disastrously as the opening up of America affected the wheat growing industry. It is also expected that Siberia will shortly flood the English market with poultry, game and meat. Cheerful news for the already depressed agriculturists! — London News. The European Mammoth At Combarelles, in the commune of Tayac, department of Dordogne, France, there is a grotto of the old stone age, having its walls engraved with figures, including that of the horse, ox, aurochs, antelope, reindeer, and—what is more remarkable and quite new—the mammoth. It has long been believed by anthropologists that man hunted the mammoth in Europe, but we think it was hardly suspected that he was an artist in those days. Nevertheless we are indebted to his picture for a description of the animal. The front of the head was very high, with a medial concavity; the tusks were very short, and the body was covered with hair—London Globe. NOT WHAT SHE EXPECTED. Jack Ford—Bessie told me that she would never marry a man who drank or smoked. Ed Stillman—And couldn't. you shake her resolution? Jack Ford—No, but I shook her.—Harlem Life. Circumstances Alter Cases. Smith—You are a fool to lend five dollars to Short. He will never return it. Jones—But suppose he pays it back promptly, as he said he would? "Oh, in that case Short is the fool." —Chicago Daily News. Indianapolis, Jan. 29.—The United Mine Workers closed their doors yesterday afternoon against newspaper men and discussed the report of their scale committee in secret session. The scale as agreed upon by the committee was adopted. The scale recommended was for the general advance for bituminous mining of 10 per cent. on a "run of mine" basis, the differential of 7 cents—the old figure—between pick and machine mining; 15 cents a day increase for inside drivers and a uniform scale for all outside labor. The report of the committee on legislation providing for a general increase of salaries of general officers was adopted. The salary list will be as follows: President, $1,800; vice president, $1,400; national secretary-treasurer, $1,400; editor of the United Mine Workers' Journal, $1,200; members of the national executive board, $3.50 per diem. Making No Useless Exertion. Smooth Stranger—Beg pardon for troubling you, sir, but may I ask if you are carrying all the life insurance you want? Fweddy (languidly to valet)—Williams, am I cawwying all the life insuance I want?—Chicago Tribune. Works Both Ways. Boozely—The worst of water drinking is that it never makes you jolly—does it, now? Teapot—Perhaps not; but if it doesn't make a man laugh, neither does it make his wife cry.—Ally Sloper. Judging from Appearances. The New Woman—In me, sir, behold a self-made woman. The Old Man—That is certainly commendable. How long have you been a dressmaker?—Chicago Daily News. Hopkins—Old Brown is going to marry off one of his daughters pretty soon. Popkins—How do you know? Hopkins—The gas meter man told me.—Judge. As It Might Rave Been. Wederly—I don't believe the average mother-in-law is half as black as she is painted. Singleton—Don't you, really? Wederly—No. My mother-in-law tried to do me a favor once that would probably have made me happy for life had she succeeded. Singleton—What did she do—attempt suicide? Wederly—No. She refused her consent to my marriage with her daughter, but I, like a blooming idiot, induced the girl to elope with me.—Chicago Daily News. Change vs. num. It was declared by a British judge that anyone could assume whatever name he liked, and the act did not require a royal license. He quoted cases in point, one being that of a man named Bugg, who, being displeased with that appellation, assumed the name of Norfolk Howard—as a result of which, added the court, certain insections came to be called "Norfolk Howards."—Chicago Inter Ocean. No Exception. "What would you do if you had a billion dollars?" "Oh," answered the languid man, "I don't see why I should expect to prove any exception to the rule. I would probably go to one of the usual extremes, and either buy yachts or else walk to save car fare."—Washington Star. Poor Chumpleigh "Why, pa, this is roast beef!" exclaimed little Willie at dinner on the evening when Mr. Chumpleigh was present as the guest of honor. "Of course," said the father. "What of that?" "Why, you told ma this morning that you were going to bring a 'mutton-head' home for dinner this evening."—Philadelphia Press. SYDNOR & HUNDLEY. DON'T MISS THIS OPPORTUNITY TO SECURE GREAT VALUES IN ELEGENT, NEW FURNITURE SYDNOR & HUNDLEY'S Rebuilding, Reduction Sale. v ~ 6 ; eee Fao ae eee ra. ae ? ONSTAR FoR gir eae a SRN SES cf SANS , ae SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1908 pe TO THE Livina. re will not wait until your voice is still Before we say that we have loved its tone, Z ‘ta charm, its eloquenée, its magic thrill, Its power to make our loyal hearts your own; Wo! While your voice still lingers on the car ‘We will confess that we have held it dear ‘We will not wait until your eyes are dim Before we say that we have loved thelt light; ‘et others keep to grace a funeral hymn ‘The tender words that might have mad¢ life bright; Wo! while your eyes are gazing into ours ‘We bring the smiles of friendship, and its flowers. ‘We will not wait until your ears are dull Before we speak the dearest words of Jove, ‘Words that can make this life all beautl- ful And heip us to a dearer life above; Wo! While your cars are open to our speech ‘We will repeat the praises love can teach. ‘We will not wait until your hands He cold. Folded across a pulseless breast of snow, Before we thank them for the manifold And tender deede their labor can bestow; No! While your hands are swift with busy skill ‘We wili declare that they have wrought God's wil. i ‘We will not wait until your heart shall cease ‘Fo throb with human hopes and cares and fears, Betore we wish you all the joys of peace ‘And happiness, to crown your ripening years: No! While your heart is warm, and beats with ours ‘We bring our love, our frien¢ship and our flowers. —Mrs. McVean Adams, in Union Signal. A Low Country Feud ATTON had come from a state far ther north, He had been in the Jow-country for years; but these had ot served to entirely eradicate the 4raditions and the inborn teachings of this home state. Wild, uneducated, wuntutored, he was a savage still. He bad a brother. Younger, less wild, and weaker, this brotherappealed strangely to his love and to his pro- ection. When Tatton came to the dow-country his brother had remained Debind. For months he did not hear from him. At length he received -word from a friend. For the moment ‘he was stunned and could not under stand the reality. ‘Tom, so the friend ‘Wrote, had become involved in a quar. Fel with a man in the section—one with whom Tatton was well acquaint. sed—and in the course of the personal ‘encounter that ensued he was shot wand killed. After much labor Tatton had man- mged to read the letter. It was slow ‘work, for he could not read so well ss in the old days when he had casu- silly attended the little school out By the branch. Distrusting his own ‘knowledge, he took the letter with ‘him to the village some distance away. There he persuaded a friend- ay storekeeper to read it for him ‘Ft was indeed as he had read for him- self; Tom was dead. Tatton dumbly thanked the man. took the sheet of paper, and silently Jeft the place. Out into the woods he made his way, towards the Old Fort swamp. Once there, he seated ‘himself on a log, one that had served the purpose before, and bit by bit ‘went over the information he had received: It was woefully brief and {insufficient in its details. Tom. had Become involved in a quarrel with >, ) i ig Z » Wa fh | / i, Ne , | ( Nis Wc a Ne Yq ear 1 A ENS ae vone Ben Jenkins over a hog. One word led to another, each pulled his gun, and in the fusi!lade that fol- Jowed Tom fell with a bullet through hhis head. Jenkins gave himself up to ‘the authorities, was tried and acquit- ted. He had killed Tom in self-de- fense. That was all there was to it. ‘Tatton went over the meager details time and again, until they were in- elibly engraved on his mind and heart. That morning, just prior to receiv. ing the letter, another blow had been administered to the man. ‘The wom: an who kept the house where he took his meals was a Mrs. Hawkins. Long had Tatton observed her, for she was go00d to look at. There was a grace in her every movement that he could not understand, but which he ad wird. Her face was pretty, and he 1 that he could look at ie forever 8) not grow tired. He did not know Yat love was; but he would lie out bi sond the fence, in a clump of low yine caplings, and watch her for hours as she passed to and fro in the Pur-snance of her duties. Sometimes there Was e child with her, a girl gf ‘mitted to himself aed seaimes: ee unto his conception an angel ‘During these months that he had been in the low-oountry his ebrewd- ness and industry had uot gone unre- warded. He had saved some money. One day, some weeks before, the Thought had come to his mind to ack Mrs. Hawkins to marry him. Night after night he lay sleepless, thinking it over, and weighing his chances of failure or success. Finally he decid- ed to put it to the test, He called on Mrs, Hawkins and made known hie desire in his blunt, straightforward way. No less blunt and straightfor- ward was her answer. She was mar ried, her husband was still alive, and in fact she expected him home that very evening. He had been away for, @ long time, but to-day he would re- turn. Tatton saw the look of joy in her eyes, heard the ring of glad- ness in her voice. He turned from her and left the house. As he walked Aejectedly to the front gate, the little girl ran after him, shyly slipped her hand into his, and told him not to look so, that her papa was coming home that night. Tatton stooped ab- ruptly, took her in his arms, and held her close for a moment. Gently plac- ing her on her feet again, he contin- ued his way to the woods, while the little girl returned and told her mother what the man had done. When he came to the village the letter, notifying him of Tom’s death, was given him. Out by the Old Fort swamp he brooded over it all. He wondered in a mechanical way how much it would cost to reach Ken- tucky. Once there, he would shoot Jenkins. Tom would rest easier in his grave if he knew of it. Late that evening he came to the Hawkins house. He came late pur- posely, that he might miss seeing Mrs, Hawkins’ husband. As he ap proached the house he took refuge in the clump of saplings, to see if the road were clear. A glance convinced him that it was not. Coming towards him, along the path, were a man and woman; before them, in childish glee, ran a little girl. He knew the three at a glance. As they came nearer something about the man seemed familiar. Tatton watched him closely. The man raised his face to look at the full moon in the east. ‘There was no mistaking him—it was Ben Jenkins. Tatton's first emotion was one of ferocious pleasure. His blood surged hot within him, and then ran cold. Already was his enemy within his reach. He paused not to’ think how he came, or why he came; but pulling out the pistol was pre- pared to do bloody work. One sec- ond he hesitated and then it was too lute. Softly he replaced the pistol, and as softly slipped from the sap- ling thicket deeper into the woods. “It mout scare Mis’ Hawkins an’ the leetle gal,” he muttered; “I'll come back to-night an’ git him wen they ain't so clost to him.” ‘True to his word, two hours later ‘he returned with his rifle. Long he ‘paused in the thicket, but he could see no one about the house. Finally he slipped up close jto the front door! and lay in hiding. From within came the sound of voices. Soon Jenkins ap- peared on the small front porch, and with him came the little girl. | She climbed into his lap as he sat on the step, and called him “papa," Up to this time Tatton could not conceive of Jenkins’ relation te Mrs: Hawkins and her daughter. With a sudden shock it now came to him. He remembered having heard that Hawkins was Mrs. Jenkins’ maiden name. For some reason she had adopted it when her husband) went to Kentucky. ‘Tatton had just raised his Win- chester when the words of the little girl came to his ears. At this mo- ment, from within doors, came the sound of Mrs, Jenkins’ voice in song. Sweetly the words throbbed in his cars, It was the old song, dear to every loyal heart of the old state, “She was bred in old Kentucky.” Tatton thought the gates of paradise had operied, and that this was the fragment of an angel song. Enrap- tured he listened until the last word floated onthe night air and died away He dropped the muzzle of his gun, arose to his feet, softly slipped out to the pine thicket, and thence along the path to the Old Fort ewamp. aS a ee hy Morelia has some other odd things; for exampie, the sweetmeat-stands under the portales, or arcades, where friendly bees and wasps devoured the candies, and were not scared off. 1 asked an old woman sitting behind » large stand, loaded with candied fruit, dulces of all sorts, sugar-plums Rind molasses candy: + “Won't these bees sting a fellow? “Oh, no, senor, don't be afraid; they are muy inteligentes, aad can tell a customer right off!” “But would they sting a thief, for instasee?” “Certainly, senor; they are very in- telligent. Poor things, they do no harm and are much company. They must live!” I watched these winged insects with all their panoply of war ready, and was fascinated. Then I asked another question: “But would not a Morelian bee sting a Yankee?” “Not If he were a customer, cabal- lero!”—Mexican Cor, Boston Herald. ‘waepdntins ‘and Masta Sabentee: A preliminary report on the tur pentine and rosin industry of the United States has been issued by the census bureau, showing the extent o1 the industry in the census year of! 1900, as compared with 1890. “Accord: ing to this statement, the total value of these two products for 1900 was $20,344,888, against $8,077,379 for 1890 The number of establishments, 1,502 against 670 in 1890; the capital em ployed, $11,832,845, against $4,062,375; the average number of wage-earners 41,864, against 15,266; the total wages paid, 38,390,682, against $2,906,547, anc the cost of materials used, $6,196,596 against $2,874,603, Key to Success, “What isthe key to success?” “The ability to make pecple pay.* “Pay for what they get?” “No: pay for what you tell them they are getting."—Chicago Post. THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. ——————— tian tiene ha! j ee ee ee Te “Anyone killed in that fire down at the Old Maids’ home?” asked the great editor of the assistant. “Naw, nothin’ but nine cats,” asid ‘the assistant, who was not alive to ‘the possibilities of yellow journal- ism. “Great Scott, man,” yelled the great editor, “Rush an extra on the streets end run a red ink headline clear ‘scross the front page, saying ‘Eighty- one Lives Lost!’"—Baltimore Ameri- can. ‘That Settled 16. He had taken an unwarranted liber- ty in criticising her new hat. It pro- voked her. She was about to say that she didn't propose to be dictated to by any man. But she didn't say it. All she said was: “Ido not propose—" ‘Then he interrupted her. “If you did,” he smilingly murmured, “I should certainly say yes.” And that seemed to settle it —Tit- Bits. ‘ A Slight Change of Condition, Gabriel had blown a blast on the last trump, and Cholly crawled from under a tombstone, - “Deuced wacket!" he exclaimed. “It's the resurrection,” explained Gabriel. “You've been dead, .you know.” “Have I, weally? Thanks, awfully,1 assuah you. Nevah should have no- ticed {t."—Harlem Life. ee eae” Re ee: “Ami the only girl you ever loved?" ahe asked, doubtfully. “Am I the only man you ever en- couraged?” he inquired. 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Many birds certainly attain an extraordinary age. Eagles, ravens and parrots frequently live 100 years, and pelicans probably live as long, for it is recorded that one of these birds was placed in the Amsterdam zoological garden some time before 1792, and was still there in 1870. This pelican, too, was at least four or five years old when it was placed in the garden. Eels are also long lived. Prof. Buchner tells of one which was kept for 26 years in a pond at Thiengen, in which it was placed at the age of eight years. It attained a length of nearly five feet, and its favorite haunt was in the current that flowed into the pond. All authorities agree that domestic animals which are obliged to do a good deal of work do not live so long as those which lead a placid life.—N. Y. Herald. Destruction of Injurious Insects. For two or three years past the vineyards of the Beaujolais have been devastated by night-flying lepidaptera. Experiments have lately been made in the way of attracting them by lights and destroying them by petroleum. An acetylene lamp is set up above a basin about 18 inches in diameter. The basin is partly filled with water and over the water with a thin layer of petroleum or of some cheaper oil. The lamp is lighted about nine p. m. and burns till daylight. It attracts crowds of insects, some of which are burned, though many more fall on the oil and are destroyed by its fumes or by absorbing some of it. A single basin has caught 4,868 insects in one night. In 18 nights more than 170,000 moths were destroyed. The cost is small. Four lamps can be maintained at an expense of about seven cents per night and they will protect a hectare if they are burned for 20 nights each year, say at an expense of $1.40 exclusive of the expense of labor.—N. Y. Sun. A Duck's Suicide Sportsmen who hunt ducks on inland streams and lakes have frequently known them to dive when wounded and fail to appear again. A professional guide who has shot ducks for many years along the upper Hudson says he has solved the mystery. He shot a wood duck that fell wounded and dived in still water. It did not reappear, and when he came to look for it under water he could see the bird hanging with its bill to a root. It was quite dead, and considerable force was necessary to loosen its hold. The hunter firmly believes that the duck committed suicide by drowning to keep from falling into the hands of its mortal enemy—man—N. Y. Times. Trying to Liquefy Helium Prof. James Dewar said, in a recent lecture to the Royal society in London, that the hope of being able to liquefy helium depends upon subjecting it to the same process that succeeds with hydrogen, only instead of using liquid air under exhaustion as the primary cooling agent, liquid hydrogen itself must be employed. Liquid helium seems to have a temperature of about five degrees above absolute zero. In order to get within one degree of absolute zero, Prof. Dewar added, another gas must be found as much more volatile than helium as helium is than hydrogen.—Science. Getting at the Facts "You say," said the judge to a witness, "that the plaintiff in this case resorted to an ingenious use of circumstantial evidence." "That's what I said, your honor," replied the witness. "What do you mean by that?" asked the judge. "My exact meaning, your honor," replied the witness, "is that he lied." —Chicago Daily News. Sulted His Flock The Colonel—"You only have to preach one sermon on Sunday, Uncle Micajah? I should think your congregation would insist on an evening sermon, too." Uncle Micajah — Dat's 'coz de cong'gation hez heern me preach, cunnel, an' yo' hain't."—Chicago News. Women Poor Bullfighters. An experiment with women as torcedors was recently made in the bull ring at Cadiz, Spain, and was far from satisfactory. The women proved very poor bull killers, and the cheers turned to hisses before the day's entertainment was over.—London Express. Grain Transportation in Turkey. Horses, mules and donkeys go loaded to market in Turkey, but the road is strewn with grain leaking from the old sacks, and thousands of turkeys, which may be bought at 12 cents apiece, feed on the dropping grain.—N. Y. Sun. A. Mental Appetite Tom—What is your idea about getting old? Dick—Getting old? Well, a man is not old until he finds his future so uninteresting that his thoughts have to feed on his past—Detroit Free Press. Bow Wow! Can it be said of a sailor that he has gone to the bow-wows if he is in the dog watch on a bark?—N. Y. Times NEW MODES SEEN IN NEW YORK It Is a Season of Novelties in all Lines and the Demand Still Grows. IN THE matter of evening gowns, evening cloaks, underclothing, stays, hats, and all other dainty creations that go to make up the toilette of the modern smart woman, novelties are appearing every day. The corset-makers are perhaps the hardest worked of all the creators, for it has now come to be thoroughly understood that the person who makes a corset not absolutely different to the old-fashioned kind had better close his or her shutters at once. As to the new underclothing made to accompany these modern corsets, it comprises many novelties, a corset cover and petticoat all in one, cut with as much precision as a princess dress, being one of the daintiest and most becoming. bon, then about ten inches below five more rows of the same, and above this are still another five rows. This giving a flounce effect. The ice has a round yoke of shirred w chiffon, with black velvet appliqué finish. The lower part of the bo is of the broadcloth, with velvet plique in floral design at each and directly at the waist line in fr Some of the newest and prettiest tea gowns are of crepe de chine or mousseline de soie of some delicate color, pale pink, pale blue, or pale yellow, accordion-plaited from neck to hem, and worn with a boloer of antique or imitation antique silk. Velvetteens, which will be much used for smart winter dresses, with the bodices trimmed with a little good lace, are more beautiful than ever in color. It is really wonderful to look over a shade-card and observe the infinite gradations of tint. In greens there are lily-leaf and willow-green, and emerald and sea, and Nile and bronze, each exquisite, and the rest, running through the gamut of shades. The reds are not less various; the tulip, the geranium, the poppy, the ugly-named but effective sang-de-boeuf, the ruby, the copper, the old rose—these and a dozen other shades, ranging from almost pink to the neighborhood of brown. Out of such variety who could not be pleased? The great virtues of velvetteen are its capacity for receiving the beautiful and various dyes and its softness in draping; and these qualities make it above all suitable for tea-gowns and indoor dresses for the THE LADY OF THE MIDDLE EAST OF BLUE CAMEL'B HAIR CLOTH. colder part of the year's procession of costume. Those little stray ends of trimming or ribbon, decorated with ferrets or grelots, that we patronized last season, have not worn out their welcome. They appear cleverly placed on many of the new models, perhaps as a little rosette and cluster of ends at each side of the throat or at the bust, perhaps as a finish to a lacing of the waistbelt, and offer an easy and effective means of throwing a sparkle of gold or silver upon a somber gown. On tailor-made dresses there are still both strappings and stitchings to be seen. But there will be amongst the new models an increase of gowns trimmed with garnitures of some separate kind. All sorts of fantasies in galloons and pessementeries are being produced suitable for the cloth and tweed frocks of the severer weather. The transparent trimmings of the summer, the a jour decorations on skirts, will still be used for visiting gowns. Apropos of the tailor-mades, let me give you a description of three or four that will offer an excellent idea of the trend in this form of the winter's gowns. One of the simplest and yet most striking of the tailor-made street suits is of dark blue camel's hair, spotted with silver threads. The skirt is made perfectly plain, with many gores that flare at the bottom. Each gore is stitched three times. It has a tight-fitting three-quarter length coat, with several rows of stitching at the waist line, forming girdle, and with small pocket lapels below. A turn-over collar, and deep-pointed revers. The coat is finished with small buttons, and left open revealing a cream broadcloth vest, with numerous small, white, pearl buttons. Plain sleeves, with pointed turn-over cuffs. An afternoon calling gown, on the tailor-made order, and, in fact, more in conformance with the accepted tailor-made modes of the season, is of sage-green broadcloth, trimmed with black velvet The skirt is corded from the waist line to the hem, the cordings being one inch apart. They are held down at the knees with five rows of black velvet baby rib- A Hereditary Profession In Corea the medical profession is hereditary, passing from father to son. The basis of medical study is a work in 19 volumes, written about 2,000 years ago.—N. Y. Tribune. Jill—Oh, yes! Too good to lie about. Yonkers Statesman. THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. bon, then about ten inches below are five more rows of the same, and again below this are still another five rows. This giving a flounce effect. The bodice has a round yoke of shirred white chiffon, with black velvet applique to finish. The lower part of the bodice is of the broadeloth, with velvet applique in floral design at each side and directly at the waist line in front. A AFTERNOON GALLING GOWN ON THE TAILOR-MADE ORDER. Three rows of black velvet forms a pointed girdle. The sleeves turn back below the elbow, with velvet applique cuffs, and full undersleeves of shirred white chiffon in narrow bands of velvet. A very elegant model, made in the finest black face-cloth with a minute hair just visible on the surface, the material being called by the contradictory name of "suede zibelane cloth." The skirt was made fitting very close to the figure at the top, and had a flounce en forme set on, beginning below the knee. Midway between the knee and the top of the flounce an insertion a jour was found; it was a sort of cloth decoupe, worked upon with chenille, and a blue lining was just suggested, barely visible between its interstices. A similar line of galloon trimmed the top of the flounce. The bodice was bloused over a belt of black ribbon, and had a front of white lace and chiffon, with a side piece of blue velvet (the French call the center vest the chemisette and the outer vest or edging piece the gilet) set with many tiny turquoise-studded buttons. For the heavier tailor-dresses, a galloon of the same tone as the material is generally chosen. There may be great relief in detail notwithstanding; thus, a brown cheviot is trimmed with a galloon of brown silk braid in which copper threads glisten; and a touch of gold is seen amidst the green silk threads that form the chief portion of an elaborate passementerie trimming a cloth gown of olive green. Strappings of taffetas are seen in shot and fancy designs, but must be sparingly employed on plain cloth if a vulgar look is to be averted. One of the tailor-made driving coats that shows the possibilities of machine stitching is of kersey in a pretty shade of brown, and stitched with dark brown silk. It has a high A A TAILOR-MADE DRIVING COAT. storm collar, with small revers, having five rows of machine stitching. The upper part of the sleeves fit snugly, flaring in a deep bell below, with five rows of stitching to finish. Six large, white pearl buttons on the front. Slashed sides, with ten rows of stitching around the bottom. Stitched pocket lapels at each side. 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The peddler selects a good, deep drift, located where a good many people pass near, and punches a lot of holes deep into the snow. Into the holes he puts his whisky, in half-pint bottles, and then he goes away a block or two and watches—keeping one eye on the snowbank bar and the other out for customers. When a customer is landed he is assessed 30 cents, having paid which he is directed, with many a cautious wink and whisper, to the snowbank and told to "pull one." He is closely watched, and should he attempt to "pull" more than one of the bottles he would find himself in big trouble, for the peddler has a good many friends and "agents" around handy. Chance for Pompadour Boys. A druggist in Omaha will not employ in his store any man who parts his hair in the middle. Another Gem Being Added to the American Navy Named After Iowa's Capital City. THE MARITIME THE NEW UNITED STATES CRUISER "DES MOINES" WITH the acquiescence of Great Britain to the Nicaragua canal treaty, the growing interest in American naval affairs becomes more keen, and as a class of special ships for sea police duty are well toward completion, the United States cruiser Des Moines merits attention. The Des Moines is one of a class of six ships named after the other following cities: Denver, Cleveland, Chattanooga, Galveston and Tacoma, and her christening at the yards of the Fore River Ship & Engine company, near Boston, will mark a special step in the government's effort to develop home industry. This establishment in less than 18 months has broken ground for ships and docks, and in addition to merchant ships, including the first seven-masted schooner ever built, have completed the torpedo boat destroyers Lawrence and McDonough, and is ready to launch the Des Moines without interfering with construction of the new battleships New Jersey and Rhode Island. Considering that one rides in a country "bus" or "one-hoss chaise" to cover the last few miles approaching the plant at Quincy, Mass., the idea of finding a fully-equipped ship yard, forges and great-machine shops building these war-dogs rivals Jules Verne's creation of the "Begum" THE NEW UNITED STATES Fortune" or the construction of Capta Nemo's submarine skin the "Navalized." Nemo's submarine ship, the "Nautilus." The building of the namesake of Iowa's capital is not more remarkable than the stories referred to, and the baptism of the ship by Miss Frances West, of Des Moines, in the presence of Gov. Shaw and a large party from that city, will give the occasion up-to-date realism not possible in the books of the noted French writer. The Des Moines will be about the size of the Raleigh and the Cincinnati, which was designed when the eraze for speed at all costs had reached its maximum. The Des Moines and her sisters will be "stayers" rather than "flyers." Instead of the Raleigh and Cincinnati's required speed of 19 knots, they will have only the sober-going gait of $16\%$ knots, which, is, however, likely to be 17 in actual service. This reduction of two knots in speed makes it possible to reduce the required horse-power in the new designs to 4,500 as compared with the 10,000 of the Raleigh and the Cincinnati. This means less than half the weight of propelling machinery, and, of course, a very great reduction in space. The weight and space galanced will be utilized in the new cruisers for coal and stores. One other remarkable thing about this important new cruiser is the big trumpet which Rear Admiral Constructor Hichborn wins for his idea of sheathing ships' bottoms with wood, covered outside with copper, to prevent the rapid growth of weeds and barnacles which so sadly reduces a vessel's speed, especially in the warm waters of the Atlantic and Pacific. For many years Admiral Hichborn, while chief constructor, stood almost alone in his advocacy of sheathing, but persistent arguments, combined with many object lessons from the reports of our ships in service which confirmed his arguments in every particular, have overcome the strong prejudice of conservatism, and not only these cruisers, but all of the ships authorized by congress, including three first-class battleships and three first-class armored cruisers, are to be sheathed with copper, just as the admiral has urged. Length on load water line..... 392 ft. Length, extreme..... 308 ft. Length, about..... 308 ft. Mean draft at trial displacement, 2-3 coal, ammunition and stores..... 16 ft. 8 in. Coal, about..... 16 ft. 8 in. Trial displacement, about..... 3,100 ft. Full load displacement, about..... 3,400 ft. Coal carried on trial..... 470 tons Total bunker capacity, not less than 100 tons Speed on trial not less than..... 18% knots Speed on trial not less than inverted, four- cylinder, triple expansion Estimated indicated horse power..... 4,600 Type of boilers, water-tube. Sail area, about ..... 6,000 sq. ft. The guns will all be designed for smokeless powder, and the five-inch "Were you successful in getting your bill through the legislature?" "Oh, yes. Why, I had some cash left over."—Town Topics. Ethel—Nonsense! Edith made him propose in just one week!—Puck THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA guns will be more effective than the old type of six-inch guns. Eight of them will be mounted on the main deck in recessed ports (an idea borrowed from the English-built ship Albany), the four forward ones having a range from right forward to 60 degrees abaft the beam, and the four after ones from right aft to 60 degrees before the beam. The two remaining five-inch guns will be mounted behind shields on the spar deck, one forward and one aft. Four six-pounders will be mounted on the main deck, two forward and two amidships, and four more on the spar deck. The two one-pounder guns will be mounted aft on the main deck, and the Colt machine guns on the top of the hammock bertling amidship. The coal capacity of this ship with bunkers full (700 tons), is sufficient to give her a radius of action at full speed of about 2,600 miles. At the most economical rate of steaming, probably in the neighborhood of ten knots an hour, they will be able to steam about 9,800 miles without recoaling, or more than sufficient to take her from San Francisco to Manila. The ammunition supply will be large, as it should be to make rapid-fire guns effective. For each of the five-inch guns they will carry 250 rounds, and for each of the six-pounders 500 rounds. CRUISER "DES MOINES." The wood material used in the construction of the hull will be reduced to a maximum. All the bulkheads on the gun and berth decks will be of metal, and they will each be fitted with a pilot house on the spar deck built entirely of nonmagnetic metal. Where it is found necessary to use wood for any purpose, it will be treated with the electric fireproofing process before being worked. A water-tight deck covered with one-half inch plate will be worked from stem to stern, the sides sloping down to three feet below the water line, and the flat or midship portion rising 18 inches above the same. This will be on the line of the berth deck for the greater part of the length, but towards the ends it will slope down. On top of the watertight deck, at the sides, a belt of obdurating material will be worked, covering the waterline for the whole length of the ship. All of the propelling machinery, steering gear, and magazines will be below the watertight deck. The rig will be two-masted schooner with signal yard on the foremast. The vessel will have two searchlights, an electric signaling system and a complete installation of electric lights. The blowers for ventilation and deck winches will be operated by electricity. She will carry one 30-foot steam cutter, one 30-foot launch, two 28-foot cutters, one 28-foot whaleboat gig, one 28-foot whaleboat and one 18-foot dingy. The complement will be 27 officers, 233 seamen and 25 marines. NICHOLAS J. QUIRK. How Should "Bobby" Know? The density of the English "bobby" has often been told, but here is the experience of a young woman just back from London. Happening out on the street one morning, she noticed that the reflected light suggested afternoon rather than morning. The sun, to all appearances, seemed to be in the west. To the first polioman she met she addressed this query: "Officer, which is west?" He pointed to the direction from which the sunshine seemed to come. "Oh," she said, "then the sun rises in the west in London?" "As to that, miss," replied "Bobby," "I really cannot say."—N. Y. Times. Love Made Him Go Round. Lady—What brought you to this deplorable condition? Tramp—It was a love affair, ma'am. "Poor man! How very sad. Here's a quarter for you." "Thanks, ma'am. Dis will kinder give dat love affair uv mine a boost. You see, it wus my love fer liquor dat put me on de hog train—Chicago Daily News. Viola—I don't think I know him. Is he well off? "He certainly is. She refused him." —Stray Stories. Stubb--Since my wife has taken up bowling she is always after me for money to play the game. Penn--More pin money, eh?--Chicago Daily News. He—Gracious! Has he had as many as that?—Yonkers Statesman. PROGRAM COMPLETED Plans For Reception and Entertainment of Prince Henry. HE WILL ARRIVE FEBRUARY 22 Will Be Greeted By President's Delegates On Royal Yacht—February 24 He Will Take Dinner at White House and Leave For West on March 1. Washington, Jan. 29.—The program for the reception and entertainment of Prince Henry of Prussia was finally completed yesterday so far as the exchanges between the president and the German prince are concerned. The program is as follows: Saturday, February 22—Arrival in New York harbor, probably about noon, on Kron Prinz Wilhelm, of the North German Lloyd line. Admiral Evans will meet the steamer at the quarantine station and conduct Prince Henry to the Hohenzollern, which the president's delegates will then visit to extend greeting. Prince Henry and his suite will attend the Irving Place Theatre and return to the Hohenzollern for the night. Sunday, February 23—In the morning religious exercises on board the Hohenzollern, and a visit to the tomb of General Grant in the afternoon. Leave for Washington in the evening by special train on the Pennsylvania railroad. Monday, February 24—Short stop at Baltimore at 9 a. m. Arrival at Washington at 10.20 a. m. Military escort to the White House and thence to the German embassy. The president will return the visit of the prince at noon. Dinner at the White House at 6.30 p. m. After dinner the prince will return to New York by special train on the Pennsylvania railroad. Tuesday, February 25—Departure of the prince and his suite and of the president and his party from Jersey City for the ship yards of the Townsend-Downey Shipbuilding company at Shooters Island. Launching of the yacht of the German emperor at 10.30 a. m. Lunch to the president on board the Hohenzollern at 1.30 p. m. Visit of the prince to the mayor of New York in the afternoon. Gala opera at the Metropolitan Opera House in the evening. Wednesday, February 26—Lunch-eon with representatives of commerce and industry at 1.30 p. m. Slight-seeing in New York in the afternoon. Torch-light concert at the Arion Club at 6.30 p. m. Banquet of the press of the United States at 8 p. m. Return to Washington. Thursday, February 27—Arrival at Washington. Memorial exercises to President McKinley in the house of representatives, the prince and his suite attending. Visit in the afternoon to Mount Vernon. Friday, February 28—Visit to Annapolis in the forenoon. Reception by Secretary Long at the navy department, 3 to 5 o'clock. Saturday, March 1—Departure of the prince and his suite for his southern and western tour on a special train. PRESIDENT CANNOT TAKE GIFTS Washington, Jan. 29.—In the opinion of the officials here, President Roosevelt cannot accept any present from either Emperor William or Prince Henry without authority from congress. An examination of the precedents is said to disclose the fact that while in a great many instances presidents apparently received presents from abroad, they never have retained these except by express authority conferred by congress. In the other cases where the gifts have not been returned to the donor, the presents have been deposited by the president in the department of state or in the Smithsonian Institution. Many medals and articles of value may be seen in the library of the state department, the gifts of foreign rulers. Seven Dead in Tenement Fire. Boston, Jan. 29.—Seven Italians were suffocated in a tenement house fire on Fleet street, in the north end, this morning. Three others were removed to the hospital and will probably die. The other victims include three women and one man, who jumped out of windows. The dead include men, women and children, all thought to be members of two families. The police are trying to secure identifications. Two Years For Shooting a Woman. Wilkesbarro, Pa., Jan. 29.—Michael Joyce, of Pitts on, who created a sensation in the city, stupefied Barrett some weeks ago by shooting Alrs Frances Barrett and was living testimony in the court on the win MECHANICS' 511 N. 3RD ST., MECHANICS' SAVINGS BANK 511 N. 3RD ST., OF RICHMOND, VA CAPITAL $25000. 4 PER CENT Interest Paid on All Deposit ing 60 Days or over. LOANS NEGOTIATED.—The patronage of is solicited. For all information concerning Stock, De Loans, Etc., apply to the Cashier. Apartments are fitted up with modern improvements. Building gas and electricity. Polite officials will be pleased to serve you. OFFICERS: JOHN MITCHELL, JR., President. WM. A. HANKINS, W GEO. W. LEWIS, Cashier. BOARD OF DIRECTORS: J. C. FARLEY W. E. GRAYN. LOANS NEGOTIATED.—The patronage of the Public is solicited. For all information concerning Stock, Deposits, and Loans, Etc., apply to the Cashier. Apartments are fitted up with modern improvements. Building lighted with gas and electricity. Polite officials will be pleased to serve you. OFFICERS JOHN MITCHELL, JR., President. WM. A. HANKINS, Vice-President. GEO. W. LEWIS, Cashier. BOARD OF DIRECTORS: J. C. FARLEY, W. F. GRAHAM, E. R. JEFFERSON, JNO. R. CHILES, B. P. VANDERALL, SECY, D. J. CHAVENS, WM. A. HANKINS, JOHN MITCHELL, JR., N. T. TAYLOR, H. F. JONATHAN, THOMAS SMITH, R. W. WHITING, THOS. M. CRUMP, E. A. WASHINGTON, J. J. CARTER, WILLIAM CUSTALO. stand, and inflicting a serious wound, was arraigned in court yesterday afternoon, pleaded guilty of felonious wounding, and was sentenced to two years and six months in the Eastern Penitentiary. Young Corbett Agrees to Fight. Louisville, Ky., Jan. 29.—Manager Gray, of the Southern Athletic Club, had a conference last night with Young Corbett, who agreed to box here in six months, his opponent to be the winner of the McGovern-Sullivan fight, scheduled for 25 rounds before the Southern Athletic Club on February 22. Bill to Change Pension Laws. Washington, Jan. 28.—Representative Ryan, of New York, introduced a bill changing the pension laws so that all veterans of the civil war now living who have reached the age of 60 will receive a pension of $6 a month, and all over 60 years will get $30 monthly. Dog Prevents Conflagration Brookfield, Mass., Jan. 29. — A little dog owned by John L. Mulcahey, a baker here, probably saved the town from a serious conflagration yesterday, because its warning bark aroused its master, and the alarm was given in time to prevent the widespreading of the flames. Three buildings were burned, causing a total damage estimated at $15,000. One building fell in and five firemen were injured. The dog which roused Mr. Mulcahey was burned to death. Train Struck Funeral Party Chicago, Jan. 29.—Three persons were instantly killed and four seriously injured by a Michigan Central train at a crossing at West Hammond, Ind., yesterday. The dead: Mary Polek, Joseph Bojek, Joseph Swisgak. The party was in a closed carriage, returning from a funeral. The locomotive struck the carriage with great force, demolishing it and throwing the occupants in all directions. Military Bill Carries $91,000,000 Washington, Jan. 29.—The military appropriation bill has been practically completed by the house committee on military affairs, and Chairman Hull will report it as soon as he returns from a trip to Iowa which he is about to take. The bill carries approximately $91,000,000, which is about $10,000,000 below the estimates and about $25,000,000 below the appropriations of last year. Died While Reading Paper: Died While Reading Paper. Passaic, N. J., Jan. 29.—Aaron Woodworth, a prominent resident of Rutherford, near here, dropped dead yesterday while reading the morning papers. He was one of the oldest residents of the town. For a number of years he held a seat on the New York Stock Exchange, but laily retired from business. Chief of Police Dismissed Wilmington, Del., Jan. 29.—Chief of Police Massey was last night dismissed by the police commissioners on charges of conduct unbecoming for an officer in neglecting to suppress gambling and policy playing last winter. Much testimony was heard. The East End Memorial Burial Association of Richmond informs the public that having purchased six (6) acres of land, situated in Henrico County, near the city of Richmond, adjoining Oakwood Cemetery and that they are disposing of the same, in sections, half sections and at the following terms. Sections, $25.00 and Half Sections, $15.00. The situation of this Cemetery is high, dry and rolling and accessible to the Richmond Traction Street Railway and Seven Pines Railway lines, adjoining Oakwood Cemetery. This Association has at a considerable expense divided this tract of land into sections, erected a fence around its boundaries, which with the additional inducements contemplated, will be an inducement in those desiring or contemplating purchasing resting places for their deceased relatives and friends. The attention of the general public is solicited and advantageous inducements offered. J. R. Griffin, President, No. 2412 E. Broad street; E. A. Washington, Secretary. For information, apply to John Coleman, Keeper, No. 2930 P street; Wm. Custalo, 702 East Broad street; W. H. Jones, 1037, St. Peter street; W. H. Jones, 1037, Bunanan street; Samuel Meredith, 1328 P street; Joseph Robinson, No. 49 1st market or 281 9-mile Road; D. J. Chavers, Supt., 1882 Carrington street. WANTED-Names and addresses of 5000 respectable colored girls for high class domestic service in the north as cooks, chambermaids, child nurses, laundresses and general house-work. 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Mercer, 1100 East Main Street, Richmond, Virginia, between the hours of 9 a. m and 6 p. m. on that day, proceed to take the depositions of Nannie Horsely and others to be read as evidence in my behalf in a certain suit in equity pending in the Law and Equity Court of the City of Richmond, Virginia, wherein you are the defendant and I am complainant; and if from any cause, the taking of said depositions be not commenced on that day or if commenced, be not concluded on that day, the taking of the same will be adjourned and continued from day to day, or from time to time, at the same place between the same hours, until the same shall be completed. Is there any reader of the PLANET who can inform me of any of the persons whose names I have mentioned? If so please inform me through the PLANET or by letter. I am inquiring for my grandfather who is likely to be in this city now. He is sometimes known as "Free John," and has been a barber in Richmond since 1855. 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