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THE RICHMOND PLANET VOL. XIX NO. 27 LAKE STEAMERS CRASH Whaleback Thomas Wilson Sank by the George G. Hadley. NINE OF HER CREW DROWNED Vessel Sank So Quickly That Night Crew Did Not Have Time to Leave Their Bunks—Steamer Hadley Raced For the Shore. Duluth, Miss., June 9.—The whaleback steamer Thomas Wilson was cut almost in two by the steamer George G. Hadley a half mile south of the Duluth Canal Saturday, and nine men went down. They were mostly men of the night crew, had not time to get out of their bunks before the vessel sank. The names of the men lost: Aaron Trips, — Frank, James McDougall, James M. Frazer, Joseph McGraw, John Campbell, John Carey, Thomas Jones and William Roebeck. The Wilson was coming toward the canal and the Hadley going out, both loaded. Just before reaching the canal and when about opposite the Wilson, the Hadley was given orders by a tug to go to Superior. Immediately she sheered off for the Superior entry, and crashed directly into the Wilson. The Wilson went down so quickly that it did not seem possible to save a life. One man on the Wilson threw life preservers to those who had jumped into the water. The crew of the Hadley also threw out life preservers. As the Wilson went down, the members of the crew rushed to the stern, jumping overboard as fast as they could free themselves from their clothing. The vessel did not float a minute after the collision. During this interval she seemed supported entirely by the Hadley's prow, which was sticking in through her plates. Two men who jumped last were seen struggling near the hull just before the plunge and could not be seen afterward. In a few moments it was apparent that the Hadley was going down and the crew on it could be seen stripping themselves and lowering the boats. Some of them got into the boats, but when the Hadley sunk to within a foot of her deck she seemed to cease snaking for a few moments, and the men clambered back on the boat. The race of the life saving crew and the tugs for the wreck was thrilling. The Hadley would not have made the shore had it not been for the tugs. The life saving crew picked up the men in the water. The Hadley had a hard run for shore, and a moment after her bow went on on the bottom her stern began to settle and finally went down. Fully half the way in from the scene of the accident to the point of the beaching, the decks of the Hadley were covered with water, and the members of the crew that were compelled to stay by her took to the upper works. The Wilson went down in 80 feet of water and only a few feet of her upper works are visible. The Wilson was loaded with ore, and belongs to the Pittsburg Steamship line, the fleet of the United States Steel Company. The Hadley carried oil. FOREST BILL DEFEATED Cannon's Plea For Economy In the House Was Effective. Washington, June 11.—The house yesterday defeated the bill to transfer certain forest reserves to the agricultural department and to authorize the president to establish game and fish preserves. Its death was accomplished by striking out the enacting clause. The motion was made by Mr. Cannon and was carried by 100 to 70. He claimed that the bIM would greatly increase the cost of administering forest reserves, and declared that the estimated receipts for the next fiscal year already were exceeded by the appropriations up to the present time by over $57,000,000. Naval Bill Passed Senate. Another of the big supply bills of the government was disposed of by the senate yesterday, the naval bill, carrying more than $78,000,000, being passed. It includes provisions for two first class battleships, two first class armored cruisers and two gunboats, but strikes out the house provision that one of each shall be built at government yards. Houses Wrecked By Cave-In Willkesbarre, Pa., June 10.—The surface over No. 8 colley of the Erie Coal Company, at Hughestown, caved in early yesterday morning, and six houses were badly wrecked. The inmates of the houses were asleep at the time, and some of them were thrown out of their beds and injured. The dwelling occupied by Mrs. Gertrude Tischler sank 15 feet, and the family had to be rescued by ladders. The cave in covers an area of five acres. It is thought the surface was weakened by robbing the coal pillars which supported the roof. LYNCHING CHILDREN. [Richmond Va. Daily Times, June 12th] We are distressed to see that a mob at Salisbury, N. C., has lynched two negro boys. The youngest of the victims was only thirteen years of age, and he was made to climb a tree with a firepower his neck and jump to death. He was not even old enough to control his feelings, and broke down and cried just before the fatal leap was made. After the boys were hung, torches were applied to the're feet to make sure that they were dead, and then the mob dispersed. This is a horrible thing. In vain will it be decided that the boys committed a horrible crime. They were bad boys and they stoned a woman to death, but that was no excuse for a savagery of the mob. Things have come to a poor pass indeed when the mob wreaks its vengeance upon children. We cannot defend ourselves against such a shameful exhibition of mob violence as that at Salisbury. Fifth Baptist Church and West-end. West-end is exceedingly lively in church circles. Both old and young are bestirring themselves. Some are being led to the altar from time to time that knot which death alone can sever. June 1st, at the residence of the bride on west Moore street, Mr. A. N. Banks of Washington, D. C., led Miss Maggie Woolfork to the altar and they twain became one. Rev. Joseph Perry officiated. June 12th, Mr. Earnest Anderson and Mrs. Lonisa Harris were happily united in the bonds of marimony at the homes of the bride on Hancock street. The officiating clergy was Rev. Joseph Perry. Mrs. Noel of west Taylor street leaves for Baltimore June 17th. We hope her stay will be short and pleasant, and that she will soon come back to our city. The funeral of Miss Ada Morris was conducted from River View church, Rev. Champ officiating. Rev. J. T. Johnson of Gordonville, Va., is visiting the capitol of the Old Dominion. He preached for Rev. Joseph Perry at 5th Baptist church to the great delight of all. It is said by all that Rev. Johnson's sermons were just grand. His sermon in the morning was on the subject, "No being like God." In the evening, "The Christian's race." They embraced a scope of history and learning we do not often meet. Rev. Johnson showed himself a preacher of race ability. Come again. At 3 o'clock, the pastor, Rev. Perry preached one of the finest sermons of his life, we think. His subject was, "Christ, a testator." The manner in which Rev. Perry handled the subject makes one think he is something of a lawyer also. Mr. W. A. Caldwell, a deaf and dumb gentleman of North Carolina, and Rev. Perry gave a deaf and dumb exhibition at the 5th Church, Sydney, last Monday night. It is a curiosity and just grand. Everybody should have seen it. Nothing like it ever was in the city of Richmond before. Every man in Virginia ought to have heard his speech. Prof. Caldwell is a fine scholar, but can't hear it thunder. If clubs desire his service while in Richmond, Rev. Perry will arrange it with them. Target Practice. The Richmond Guz Club participated in a shooting contest near the exposition grounds last Tuesday evening. Each member was allowed 25 shots. The reward of marksmanship is the following: George W. Bragg, 19 pigeons; D. P. Bragg, 19; Dr. D. A. Ferguson, 19; James Davis, 9; A. W. Folks, 16; George Jenkins, 21; John Lewis, 12; James Smith, 20; R. L. Tarpin, 14; Wm. Wood, 21; P. H. Mayo, 19; E. T. Jenkins, 12; Monroe Jones, 10. There will be another contest next Tuesday evening: NATIONAL BAPTIST SUNDAY SCHOOL UNION The regular monthly meeting of the National Baptist S. S. Union was held on last Sunday at the Zion Bapt. Church Manchester, Va. Notwithstanding the downpouring of rain, the people from all parts of Richmond and Manchester could be seen wending their way to the Union. The church was packed, and all pres ent enjoyed an excellent programme. Recitations, solos and essays were well rendered and soul stirring. Miss Luberta Burnett Walker read a very fine essay on "What makes a good Sunday School". This was an excellent product. Dr. Graham delivered one of the finest addresses ever listened to. Mrs. Lucy A. Coles, the State Superintendent and the Inspectrix of the Union also gave a very fine address. The congregation was well pleased. Quite a number of distinguished divines were present. So well pleased that the congregation placed on the table $7.02 and invited the Union to come again very soon. Next Union will be held at the Macedonia Church, 21st & Grace, on the 3rd Sunday in July. Excelsior Lodge, No. 29, K. of P., will elect officers Tuesday night, June 17th. All members are requested to attend. RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, SATURDAY, JUNE I4, 1902. OPERATORS' LETTERS Correspondence With Mitchell on Coal Situation Made Public. PRESIDENT BAER'S ATTITUDE Declined to Join In Conference to Fix Wage Scale For Anthracite Regions, Claiming It Was Impracticable, and Refused to Agree to An arbitration New York. June 11.—The presidents of the coal roads immediately affected by the strike of the anthracite coal miners made public yesterday letters and telegraphs which have passed between the operators and President Mitchell and other representatives of the United Mine Workers. The operators say they have heretofore hesitated about making public this correspondence. "The president of the United States," they said, "having requested Mr. Wright, the commissioner of labor, to investigate the strike, the presidents of the coal companies have given him such facts as he desired, including this correspondence, and it is now given to the public." The operators' preface the correspondence with a brief history of the unionizing of the anthracite coal miners after the establishment of the United Mine Workers, originally an organization of bituminous coal miners, and recite the agreement to an advance of 10 per cent. in wages in 1901, following the strike of 1900; the abolishment of the sliding scale, and finally the invitation of February 14, 1902, to the operators to a joint conference to form a wage scale for the ensuing year. Then the text of the letters and telegrams are introduced. The first letter on the list is that of President Beer, of the Reading Railroad, dated Philadelphia, February 18, 1902, and adressed, as were all replies, of the operators, to "John Mitchell, president, and others," at Indianapolis. In part Mr. Beer says: "Gentlemen—I beg to acknowledge the receipt of your favor of February 14, inviting this company to be represented at a joint conference of operators and miners on March 12, the object of the conference to be the formation of a wage scale for the year beginning April 1, 1902, and ending March 31, 1903, and in which you express the hope 'that the methods employed by the miners' organization in adjusting the wage scale in all districts where it is recognized and contracted with will commend themselves to us.' In the judgment of the companies I represent, it is impracticable to form a wage scale for the whole anthracite region. The mining of anthracite coal is entirely different from that of bituminous coal. The distinction between the bituminous and anthracite mines is recognized in the Pennsylvania laws regulating mining, which have been enacted primarily at the solicitation of the mine workers. Special laws are created for each. "We will always receive and consider every application of the men in our employ. We will endeavor to correct every abuse, to right every wrong, to deal justly and fairly with them. The objection to your proposition is not alone the impracticability of forming a uniform scale of wages, but it is to the divided allegiance it creates. Discipline is essential in the conduct of all business. Your organizations have no power to enforce their decrees, and thereby insure discipline, and we have no powers to maintain discipline except the power to discharge. "A careful analysis of the results of last year's operations shows that the efficiency of our mines has decreased 1,000,000 tons, because the contract miners have worked only four and one-half te six hours a day. "With no disposition to interfere with labor organizations in all honest efforts to better the welfare and condition of the working classes, we respectfully decline to join in any conference for the formation of a wage scale for the next year. "GEORGE F. BAER." "GEORGE F. BAER." The replies of the other operators follow the same lines, and all decline to join in any conference for the formation of a wage scale. The operators also claim that to grant an increase in wages would result in the further advance in the price of coal to the public, which is impracticable, owing to the competition of soot coal. They offered to allow miners' representatives to examine their books, and after saying that the anthracite mining is a business and not a religious, sentimental or philanthropic proposition, refused all suggestions for arbitration. Boy Dragged to Death Lancaster, Pa., June 11.—Elmer Musser, a 17-year-old son of Benjamin Musser, of East Bonegal township, was dragged to death by a runaway horse near his home. The horse was at- tached to a buggy, and after the animal got beyond the boy's control the shafts broke off. The lines were wrapped around the lad's feet and he was pulled from the buggy and dragged over half a mile before the horse was stopped. His body was horribly mangled and almost nude. The scalp from the base of the skull was torn away and turned up over the crown of his head. Anti-Anarchy Bill Passed. Washington, June 10.—The house yesterday passed the bill to protect the president, vice president, members of the cabinet and foreign ministers and ambassadors, and to suppress the teaching of anarchy, by a vote of 175 to 38. A motion to recommit the measure, with instructions to strike out certain sections, was defeated. 71 to 123. From Manchester. MANCHESTER, VA., June 10, 1902. Mr. John Miles, of the oldest and best known colored citizens of our city departed this life Saturday morning, June 7th. He had a member of the First Baptist church many years. His funeral took place Monday evening and the church was well filled to pay the last tribute of respect to this "old soldier of the Cross." Dr. A. Binga preached a very sympathetic sermon and when he referred to the familiar hymns sung by Bro. John, a wave of sadness seemed to move over the gathering. Brother John was highly respected by the young and old. "Peace to his ashes." Miss Charlotte Briggs, who has been very sick, is somewhat better. We hope to see her out tomorrow. We are glad to see Mrs. Robinetta Cogbill out again after a brief illness. Mrs. Lucy Watkins is still sick. Mr. James Cunningham, Jr., has arrived in the city after a short visit to Norfolk. He was accompanied by his daughter, Florence. Mr. and Mrs. C. Henry Jones have returned to the city after a pleasant visit to Baltimore and Philadelphia. Mr. John Hickman left the city Wednesday afternoon for New York. The marriage of Mr. Ernest Baker of our city to Miss Wayne will take place in New York on the 18th inst. We return thanks for an invitation. Manchester Lodge, Knights of Pythias, is forging ahead. The members seem to be working hard. Five men were given the Knight rank and three the rank of Page. Fallen members are being reinstated and many reported as having candidates on the way. Last Tuesday night's work will be long remembered. The Manchester Public High School Alumni held their annual meeting at the school building on Thursday night, 5th inst., and a pleasant evening was spent. The programme was well rendered and all deserve much credit for the fine showing. Mr. Samuel Johnson made a splendid installation address and was greeted with rounds of aplause. The Alumni Association is composed of 87 graduates, all coming under the principalship of Prof. James H. Blackwell. Don't forget, you can always find the PLANET at P. M. Briggs' Drug Store, 1320 Hull St. Leave your Job Work with him. WIDE-AWAKE BUR. Mr. Farley Awarded Another Medal. Mr. J. C. Farley, the well-known photographer has scored another signal recognition. The committee on awards of the Inter-State and West. Indian Exposition has notified him that a silver medal has been awarded him for the excellency of his photographic exhibit at Charleston, S. C. Rev. Dr. Bowen Here. Dr. J. W. E. Bowen of Gammon Theological Seminary at Atlanta, Ga., preached at the Leigh St. M. E. Church last Sunday morning at 11 o'clock from his Letter to the Ephsians; Text: "While Bee Brewed" The sermon was highly instructive. Rev. W. A. C. Hughes, the pastor introduced the distinguished chapel. Music! Music!! Music!!! By the Richmond Musical and Dramatic Association for the benefit of the New Pipe Organ Rally to be held at the Second Baptist Church the 1st Sunday in July, 1902, Rev. Z. D. Lewis, D. D., pastor. The above association will give on Tuesday evening, June 24th, 1902, one of the grandest musical entertainments of the season. Mrs. Olivia C. Bolden, Mrs. Fannie P. Walker, Mrs. G. A. Price, Mrs. Alice Burrell, Mrs. Carrie Hawkins, Mrs. M. A. Cross, Miss Margaret Tinsley, Miss Alice Smith, Mossers. M. Sydney Mayon, Conway Reid, Thomas H. Hopkins, William B. Smith. A musical entertainment by the above named persons or association means an evening of great joy and pleasure. Don't forget the date, Tuesday evening, June 24th. Admission, 10 cents. Mrs. OLIVIA C. BOLDEN, Pos REV. McEWEN HONORED Guadalupe College of Sequin, ex- honored Rev. A. N. Moeen of Mobile is the title. D. D. This is a deserved re- motion of one our able Baptist publit ordination. Memorial Service. PETERSBURG, V.A., June 11, 1902. Editor, Richmond PLANET; Dear Sir:— On Sunday, June 1st, the congregation assembled in the Hospital Chapel to pay tribute to the memory of our friend and fellow laborer, who is dead. Rather, we may say, "having served his generation by the will of God," he has fallen asleep to await the trumpet's call, when he shall receive the command: "Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for the trumpet." Brother John West was a good man. He was endowed with all the instincts of an humble, true and devoted Christian; ever ready to obey the call of the suffering and to strew flowers along the path of the troubled. He was loved and respected by all who knew him and especially by us at the Central State Hospital, where he spent the greater part of his life. The services conducted by Rev. Dr. G. B. Howard of Gifted Baptist Church of this city, assisted by Brother Banks Wood of the Hospital. After some appropriate hymns, Brother Howard preached a most excellent sermon from John 14:1-210. Our hearts were sad as we listened to the able discourse, for we sorely missed from among us one who had so often been present and ever held in high esteem. At the close of the sermon, the choir said that sweet old hymn, "Good night," the benediction was pronounced by Rev. Howard and we quietly passed out with the assurance that some day we will meet up yonder, where sorrow and parting will be no more. From McDonald. McDONALD, PA., June 3, 1902. Editor, Richmond PLANET: Please allow me space in your paper for a few items. McDonald is still improving, new buildings are going up and the beef trust has meat so high that the people are afraid to look at a meat market, and blush at a drove of cattle when they see them unloaded. When they go to market, they have to take a week's wages to get their supply for Sunday. One of our young men, who travels on north Fanny street, and has been for about a year, thinks it best to slow up until the beef trust falls on their meat, for a bride cannot eat white side meat, and chickens roost so high that it takes 20 cents per pound to reach them. Mr. R. C. Scott has arrived home from Lynchburg Seminary and will spend his vacation with his many friends. One of our West-end young ladies was made to smile when R. C. Scott arrived. O. F. Lodge, No. 4641, G. U. O. of O. F. was invited to attend the annual sermon at Cannonburg on June 1st. A large delegation went with them and had a delightful time. The sermon delivered by Rev. Skinner of Cannonburg was very instructive to the order. Advent at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Johnson, a son. Rev. J. M. Riddle, D. D., of Columbus, Ohio, preached at the First Baptist church, May 5th. Mr. Wyet Green of Finleyville, Pa., visited his sister, Mrs. J. E. Carter of north Fanny street. The children of the First Baptist church are making great preparations for Children's Day. MABEL WILLIAMS. The Knights of Damon, No. 1, gave an enjoyable social in honor of Queen Esther Club, No. 1, at W. I. Johnson's Hall last Tuesday night, the club of which Mrs. Delia West is president. Quite a number of ladies were out and seemed to enjoy themselves to the highest extent. The K. of D. also presented Mrs. West with a handsome set of silver spoons, which was quite a surprise and also appreciated by her. Done by order of the club. MRS. DELIA WEST, President; DELLA EDWARDS, Secretary; MARY BRADSHAW, Treasurer. Editor Mitchell Vindicated. [Baltimore, Md., Weekly Guide.] The question whether or not Editor John Mitehell, Jr., of the Richmond PLANET was lawfully expelled from the First Baptist church of Richmond, Va., for publishing the proceedings of a church meeting in his paper has been decided in his favor. A council of some of the leading colored Baptist ministers of the country has decided that the action of the church was not in accord with Baptist polity and Scriptural teaching, and the church is adjudged guilty of the infringement of the individual membership rights and privileges. The complete vindication of Editor Mitchell is what any fair-minded person would have predicted, who was conversant with the circumstances of the case. First Baptist Church is one of the historic colored Bapt. churches of this country and it is to be much regretted that it has placed itself in such unfavorable light. It will however doubtless profit by this experience. Editor Mitchell is a hard proposition to "down." The First Baptist church undertook a herculean task when it attempted to force him to the wall, and especially when it had no tenable ground upon which to stand. Mr. and Mrs. James Whitfield Shoultz of Brownsburg, Va., called on us. They were ennobled to New York. RICHMOND SANITARIUM BURNED SANITARIUM BURNED Chicago Hospital Proved a Death Trap For Inmates. TEN DEAD AND MANY INJURED Flames Spread So Quickly That Many Persons Had to Jump From Windows—Sensational Escapes From Fourth-Story Window. Chicago, June 10. — Nine men and one woman were killed and about 30 persons were injured, several fatality, in a fire which yesterday afternoon destroyed the sanitarium conducted by the Saint Luke's Society, at the corner of Wabash avenue and Twenty-first street. By far the greater portion of the patients received in the institution were those seeking cure from the drink habit and those who were addicted to the use of drugs. When the fire broke out there was on the fifth floor a number of patients suffering from delirium tremens, and some who were eased by drugs. Several of these were strapped to their beds, and it was found impossible to save them, so rapidly did the fire spread through the building. The fire originated in the basement of the building and spread rapidly to the upper stories through the elevator shaft. The blaze was discovered by James Newell, a grocer, who was driving through the alley in the rear of the building. Newell shouted to several men in the alley to give the alarm and to alarm the inmates of the building. Several hurried to do this, but by the time they reached the first floor of the building, the flames had been carried to the roof, had eaten through it and were leaping high in the air. Several of the patients jumped from the windows to the pavement. The fire department was on the scene in a few minutes and as the windows were filled with people shrinking for help, the firemen devoted their first efforts to save lives and allowed the fire to burn. While this was the means of saving a large number of people, who were carried down the ladders by the firemen, it gave the fire such a headway that there was almost no chance for those on the upper floors of the building to make their escape, and such of them as were not suffocated were killed or badly injured by leaping from the windows. A scene that wrought to the pitch of madness the great crowd that had gathered around the building was enacted at a fourth-story window on the north side. Across this window was a heavy wire screen, and on the outside of the screen were iron bars running parallel to the sill. Behind them was gathered a crowd of 25 men. Escape in other directions was impossible, for the fire filled all the halls and was steadily eating its way toward the window at which the men were standing. The men closest to the screen tore and tugged at it in a vain effort to tear it from its fastenings and the men behind them fought madly to get close enough to the screen to fasten their fingers in it. So fiercely did the prisoners pull at the screen that from the street below were plainly visible tiny streams of blood that trickled from lacerated fingers and hands and flowed over the window sill. Finally the screen was torn from its fastenings, and after several minutes of hard tugging the bars were also torn out. Then a new danger assailed the prisoners. The crowd behind, hearing that at last the way was open, pushed forward with such haste that those near the window were nearly forced through to meet death on the sidewalk, four stories below. The first man through was Dr. C. A. Anderson of Chicago. He hesitated for an instant, then sprang for the fire escape clutched it and was saved. The next man through the window was G. S. Gott. Anderson was so much exhusted that he was not able to drag Gott after him and Gott was so badly burned that he was not able to make the leap himself. Clinton Osborne crawled out beside Gott and told the men inside to grasp his feet. This they did, and, telling Gott to take hold of his wrists and drop over the window sill, Osborne, hanging head down, swung Gott to and fro until he had acquired sufficient momentum, and then swung him up and onto the landing of the fire escape, where Dr. Anderson selzed and held him. He and Gott then formed a chain, Gott holding to the fire escape, and Anderson, tightly held by Gott with one hand, reaching out toward the window, so that the men one by one as they crawled through were able to take one step on a ledge and make a short leap to the platform of the fire escape, down which they made their way to the ground. Twenty-five men made their escape, in this manner, and when (Continued on Bighth Page.) —Mrs. W. M. Miller of Norwood W. Va. is in the city visiting friends She leaves to-morrow for her adopted home. —President G. W. Hayes of Virginia Theological Seminary and College was in the city this week. He is enthusiastic over the progress of the work. He left for an extended trip north. —Mrs. Lucy Jones and her daughters, Misses Florence and Lucy of Lynchburg, Va., are visiting Philadelphia Pa., and Newark, N. J. —Mr. A. L. Scott and Mr. W. Philip Dabney of Cincinnati, O., are in the city and J. Cornelius Carter, Esq., of Houston, Va., called on us. —Mrs. J. C. Farley is spending a pleasant time in Atlantic City, N. J. the guest of her daughter, Mrs. F. O. Fitzgerald. Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Baylor, formerly of New York have purchased a house in Jersey City, where they will make their future home. LOST—A liberal reward will be paid for the return of the helmet lost on drill ground May 20, 1902, day of Knights c Pythins parade. Mr. and Mrs. B. G. Fitzgerald c Atlantic City, N. J. are the happy possession of a baby-boy. Both child and mother are doing well. Mrs. J. G. Fasley will remain there for some days yet. Notice. The Woman's Baptist State Educational Convention of Virginia will convene June 19th with the First Baptist church of Harrisonburg, Va., Rev. Thomas H. White, pastor. Reduced rates have been secured on all roads leading into Harrisonburg. One fare and a third for the round trip. Tickets will be on sale June 17, 18 and 19th. The main object we have in view for the coming session is trying to raise a thousand dollars ($1,000) for educational and mission work. We want one hundred dollars ($100) for foreign mission, and earnestly beg those who are interested in the work to contribute some-thing. Respectfully, (Miss) PEARL H. SMITH, Corresponding Secretary, Box 8, Christianburg, Va. NOTICE. Will Preach to Them. The Hod Carriers Union of Local No. 2 of the International Protective Union of America, will have their first Annu Address Sunday June 16, by Rev. Randolph Peyton - pastor 6th Mt. Church at 3:30. Friends are invited —Rev M. B. Hucless will leave Richmond, Wednesday June 18th for Harrisonburg, Va. to preach the Annun Sermon of the Womans Baptist State Educational Convention, which will convene in the 1st Baptist Church Rev. Thos. H. White pastor. Rev. Hucless has also accepted an invitation to preach the Introductory Sermon of the Bethany Baptist Association which convenes at Oak Grove, Brunswick Co. A Mock Wedding. Concert and Drill at the 3rd Street A. M. E. Church, June 23rd, 1902. The beautiful and attractive, Miss Lizzie Burrell of north 4th street and Mr. Jas. West have consented to act as bride and groom, together with sixteen maids and groommen on the above night. This entertainment will be the last of the season and Madam Walker will also have her pink hermine drill and introduce singing and dramatic recitations. Names of entire bridal party will appear in our next issue. Admission to wedding and reception, 10 cents. Mme. F. P. WALKER, Manager. The memorial exercises at the National cemetery were conducted with a great deal of patriotism. The following speakers participated: Rev. D. W. Davis, Revs. Dr. W. F. Graham, A. S. Thomas, R. Beecher Taylor, Z. D. L. ew and Lawyer Crutchfield. The ladies of the club on Church Hill will please be ready to be examined by the doctor Tuesday, June 17th, 1903, at 7:30 P. M. This will be the last meeting. Please come prepared to pay up. Amy STOP AND HEAR IT! Polk Miller's Old South Quartette composed of Archie Johnson, Clarence Smith, Anderson Epps and Alphonse De Witt, will give one of their grand entertainments at the Reformers Hall next Tuesday night June 17. Their old plantation melodies and up to date songs will cheer and delight the dullest soul. Prof. D. Webster Davis will be on hand with his great mirth provoking recitation, "One Night on the Old Plantation." Be sure and come. Don't miss it. MAKE BIG MONEY by making and selling the best application for the hair known. Will straighten the most indifferent hair. Take advantage of this grand offer. Send one dime for receipt to EDWARD B. SELBY, Glynden, Baltimore Co., Md. 2 ET ~% puad eZ, ‘ o—” SS ieee: sae Se + ER 7 ANG TINES OU ee Seg Sie vay i NG & sf Sao % Ne 2 ed ge i e ree bk a SS ~ SATURDAY, JUNE 1, 100 ea IF | WERE You. “Et I were you, I whispered to the sun, We throw a few more sunbeams on the gras: ‘For know you not that ere the day te done ‘My lady down the meadow-land will pase. “And, seeing that you retgn alott alone, ‘There are so mad} things that you might jo: ‘Sbake myriads of sunbeams from your throne, ‘Or sweep the hazy sky feom gray to blue. LT were you, I murmured to the stream, ‘That wound its twisted way to find the Sea, Wa leave in every nook a tinted dream ‘That one who passed might stay awhile ‘with me. “Oh, River, Sunlight, Summer Shadows Trees, ‘There are so many things that I would do ‘Buch songs I'd utter to the morning breeze, ALT were you—H only I were you! But were I you, T said tomy Desire, Y'@ borrow from the dawn a frame of dew, And in the sunrise write, in words of fire, ‘Thank God that Lam I, since you are you! Naomi Saunders, in Chambers’ Journa!, How a Life Was Lost and Won & ae FS0? Won AROMA Serena i ne G8 a ee Ae AY solemn binck, speaking not Buperfluous word to guest or menial methodical in every movement, of a Presence which at once inspires re- ~wpect and almost reverence—such is ‘the personality of an old, white- haired man, who, a few months ago attracted the attention of all who saw him during his sojourn at the ‘Westminster chambers. From day to day the curiosity of ‘the other guests of the hostelry grew. Men were sent by their wives to try to get the mysterious person- age to talk, but in vain. They were always met with courtesy and re- spectful words, but like a snail the old gentleman would draw back into ‘his shell of silence as soon as he dis- ‘covered that mere curiosity was the Anstigator of the conversation, Dick Davis, who “covered” the hotels for one of the daily papers, had laid the most intricate plans, by the use of which he hoped to way- lay the silent stranger, but each and every one was frustrated. At last, being almost driven to despair, he decided to forget all xchemex and plots and simply send his card to the man in question, with an accompany- ing note, seeking an interview. What was the surprise of the Young newspaper man to receive an answer which informed him that the Fequest would be granted. He proved to be no less a person- ‘age than Col. Thomas Sheldon, of New Orleans, now nearly 9¢ years old, who has been first a prosperous and happy cotton planter, next a dissolute gambler and spendthrift, and now is known all over the coun- ‘try as a philanthropist and general owell-doer. The colonel rose as the reporter entered the room, and on motioning the younger man to a chair, said: “Of course, Mr. Davis, after hear- ‘ing my name, you are partially ac- “quainted with the story of my event- ‘ful life. It was my Intention to keep Secret to myself the full story of my Aownfall and subsequent rise aa long "as life lasted, but when your card ‘Was sent to me to-day I realized that perhaps my story would serve as a Jerson to younger men than myself, and so I have decided to tell you how my life was lost and won again. “I must ask you to imagine your. ‘Self in the beautiful cotton country of Louisiana as it appeared in 1858. X was a happy man in those days, a Prosperous cotton planter of many ‘Acres, and possessing as fine a body of slaves as ever worked for one snaster, “But all this had become mine through inheritance, and I was not ‘so happy on their account as I was “over something which I knew I had gained by my own individual efforts. ‘This was my wite—so young and glorious. “When she first came into the old Plantation house I gave up all the bad habits which, as a youth, I had acquired, I thought, never to be re- Unstated in my nature, for how could = man cause such a wife as she to be sad? “But my happiness was of short ‘duration. One morning, less than a ‘Year from the time she had first tripped sup the long stairway, she was carried down in her coffin. “The days went by very slowly then. ‘Thad lost my intorest in the plantation, sand when the time came for the annual trip to New Orleans to dispose of my cotton crop I plunged with frightful energy into the life of dissipation swhich I had left on being married. “As soon as I returned to the fields, I Brew restless. There is no need to re- ‘count all my visits to the metropolis, as io new features developed except a fondness for the gaming table, which grew stronger and stronger, until I dis- ‘covered that all my available funds fad gone and that heavy mortgages had accumulated on my once prosperous, Dut now sadly neglected, plantation, “At last I decided to have a last try at the gaming board, and if that were ‘Dot successful, to end my unhappy and anfortunate life and seck rest in the Breat unknown. Accordingly, I raised “as much as possible on all the property which was not encumbered. When I Zeached New Orleans I had just ten dollars in the form of a ten-dollar gold piece, besides $5,000 in bills of large de- mominations. “TI was to go to the club, the Albe- marle, now extinct, where all the high playing was being done, and risk all in @ mad venture to win back my honor and my home. If unsuccessful, I de- cided to put.an end to my miserable life in my room at the hotel. “I was walking along by the high stone wall which incloses the park, thinking of the young wife who had blessed my life for sueh a short time, when a most pecultar sound greeted my ears. It was the ery of a woman in grief. A sobbing wail, andit seemed to come from the opposite side of the wall. I rapidly went to the nearest en- trance to the park and hurried to the spot from which T thought the sound came. I had not gone far before I heard the cry again, and hastening, Saw a young girl leaning in an angle of the wall, sobbing as if her poor heart, would break. “Tell me wat the trouble is, little one,’ Isaid; ‘perhaps Tean help you,’ “She started at the sound of my vatee and looked up at me with tear-filled eyes. After a few moments of ques- tioning. I heard her touching ttle story, which was told with just enough sobbing hesitancy to convince me that this was no imposter. “She had just left what had once been her home in the country, 40 mile: out of the city. Her father had died year before, and now her mother hat ‘followed him. Now the girl, friendless and alone, had come to the city to seek her brother, who had left home for New Orleans several years before and had not been heard from since. “My heart was tonched.by her simple story, and my hand went down in my pocket and came in contact with the ten-dollar gold piece, and I gave it to her, telling her to be careful of It, to get herself a night's lodging, and to meet me on the veranda of the club- house in the morning, and that, if I were there, I would help her to find her brother; knowing that I would not be there if unsuecessful at the night's play, but also that if I were there I would be well able to help her. “I then left her and went on my way to the club and started to play with a recklessness that paralyzed my oppo- nents. Bill after bill was thrown on the board, and soon, before I realized what it meant to me, only $100 remained between me and—eternity. “I breathlessly threw it on the table. As the ball rattled its way about the spinning wheel my mouth grew dry and - Sa ST eo : A 7 ae al ( se MAS QA eA = $y - 4 Alera ha } “4 a nt i i fe | » od P| Tie: my tongue felt like velvet. ‘Eighteen —the red—and the even,’ the croupier (drone out, and I rushed from. the room, my head in a whirl, my temples | throbbing with the pulse which I thought was so soon to cease. |” “1'almost ran out on to the veranda, forgetting my hat—everything except tne fact that I had fost and that 1 would keep my vow. I tumbled over chair, and looking down into it, was thunderstruck to see, calmly sleeping there, the girl | had befriended. She had evidently wished to be near her benefactor, and, unknown to me, had dogged my footsteps to theclud. “I remembered the ten dollars I had given her. Did she still have it? I fumbled until I found her pocket, and there, tied Into the corner of herhand- kerchief, was the gold piece. It looked | very big and shiny when I untied the knot. | “I ran back into the club and threw ‘the money on the table. The coin lay jon the square 17, the red and the odd. It won, paying me 32 to 1. “Again I won, and again. Iwas play- ing for my life now, and made no more Tash bets. I won in the remainder of the night enough to buy back the old plantation and still have a balance of $40,000 to my credit in the bank. “Again I went out on the veranda. T would help that gir! to find her broth- er, and when he was found would see that they did not want for anything in this world, for had she not saved my life, honor, everything?” “But when I came to the chair it was empty. I looked at the church clock across the way. It was late. Proba- bly the girl bad decided that I was not able to keep my appointment with her, and so left, But had she discovered the loss of her money? “For a whole week TI searched the city over for traces of that girl, and at last I found her selling wild flowers on the street at the water front. At once T instituted a systematic search for her lost brother, and finally located him in one of the large stores. “I bought back the old home and once more applied myself diligently to my work there, and I built what is now called the ‘Mary Thorne home for friendless girls.” I had previously giv- en $10,000 to the girl and her brother, The young man started a modest lit. tle business for himself and is now a prosperous merchant. “The home still stands, and is stilt performing its mission of good, Iam glad to say that this, in my estimation, is © monument erected to the reform of one soul. My own. The name? “Oh, yes, Mary Thorne ts the name of the homeless little girl. “This is my story. It is an interest- ing one. to be sure, but after hearing Mt can you wonder that I ama sort of recluse from society ?"—Boston Globe. Hangs Together, (lowed tiere warn't no sense in Freneb But it gets there with a whoop: For Eliza's rew spring hut le hie, And she got it by a coup. =Brookiy: Lite THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND. VIRGENIA. ee FOR THE SPRING GARDENER. ‘The dahlias will never disappaint you. Pink, white, yellow or crimson, ‘tall, dwarf or cactus, it is bound to ‘flower. No work pays such a rich profit inso many ways as gardening. The fruits | of this pleasant labor are many times enjoyed. | Olé-fashioned tiger lilies will give great satisfaction. Set against a bank of dark foliage or an old fence, they will blaze charmingly. Even if you have only a sandy strip of earth ora tiny cornerdo not despair ofagarden. Something can always be induced to. grow and flower. Diserim- ination and persistence can be depend- ed upon to produce pleasing results. ‘The pansy geranium is a new and beautiful Pelargonium. It grows easi- hy but low, bears quantities of hand- some blossoms, and the shades, tones and colorings are so pansy-like and varied that the plant richly deserves its name. | For the “perfectly hopeless” spot or corner of the garden invest in mixed portulaca seeds. A little fertilizer will induce them to thrive in the dryest ot sand. The springing plants do not mind hot winds, dryness or the most tervid of sunshine. Sew seed as soon as the ground is warm. Hanging baskets are fine friends for the flower lover with limited space at command. A few good plants or seeds make a fine showing, and fairly transform a window or verandah. Ox- alis, nasturtiums, geraniums, petunias, heliotrope and the beautiful weeping dantana are all fine for this use. Unless you really love flowers do not attempt to grow many. A neglect- ed garden is a ead sight, and there are hardy, persistent plants and foliage bearers which will look well with little trouble, Sunflowers, cosmos, pinks, zinnias, geraniums and such faithful flowers can hardly be kept from bloom- he. PERT AND PERSONAL. |, Senator Clark, of Montana, is an en- ‘thusiastic automobilist. He rides about Washington on a $10,000 “French flyer,” which he bought last year in Paris. | The emperor of Morocco is said to have a weakness for collecting billiard tables. He already has specimens trom England, France, America, Italy, Germany, Austria and Russia. Gov. Crane, of Massachusetts, has signed the bill awarding a medal to every man from his state who went out in response to President Lincoln's call for troops. ‘The pen with which he signed the bill has been presented to President Pierce of the “minute men of '61." Although Russell Sage is somewhere about 84 years old he apparently ex- Pecta to live 21 years more. He has Just leased for that time a house on Fifth avenue, New York, where he has lived 42 years. He paid $700 for the first year, but the lease he has just signed calls for an annual payment of $12,500, The late Dr. Emil Holub, who headed two South African exploring expedi- tions under the auspices of the Aus- trian government, has made a fortune by his discoveries, but lost it and spent, the last years of his life in poverty. On January 1, 1902, the government granted him a pension of 8,000 crowns, but he lived only two months to en- Joy it. An old gentleman who had got lost wandering around the capitol building in Washington stepped up to a quiet- looking man and asked to be shown to Senator Quay's room. The stranger conducted him thither and asked whom he wished to see. “Senator Quay,” wae the response. “Iam Senator Quay.” said the quiet-looking man, and the old gentleman collapsed. | PREVAILING STYLES, White Japanese silks are much im- proved this year by being heavily corded. Dancing shoes with gold or silver lace are a new fad and some preter them to slippers. Chiffon veils, hemstitehed in heavy embroidery silk of another color, are a coming novelty. Pongee is still a favored material, but it is made up in tailor fashion, with straps of colored silk and hand embroidery. ‘The attenuated mermaid train should have a crisp, outstanding effect all around the hem; the flimsy, crushed appearance is no longer the mode. In spring gloves the mocha, which was popular during the winter, will be largely used again, though the heavier doeskin and the dogskin, recommend- ed for outing and athletci wear, will be popular with swagger girls. These latter have the virtue of whitening the hands if worn during warm weather. MY LADY’S HEADGEAR. Birds’ neste perch atop a few of the new hats. Oriental laces are especially well adapted to the present styles of hat trimming. Dead roses are more favored in artl- ficial flowers than are the fresh and blooming ones. One of the daintiest, as well as the prettiest, hats of the season ie the summery hat of tucked white mull, “tam” shaped as to the crown, tucked and frilled as to brim, and often over- laid with long sprays of a fine white flower. ‘The flower hat is still enjoying an uninterrupted reign, and now, instead of confining it to one flower, the body of the hat is covered with, say, large double violets, while introduced on the brim are cunning little open me- dallions of pompadour white roses, with just a bit of folinge. JEWELRY HINTS. Fashion foretells the pronounced revival of the earring. Among the latest offerings in cut glavs 1s the mayonnaixe bow! and plate. It is a desirable gift for a bride, Handsome examples of flowers are to be seen at the jewelers, Including a big diamond spray, one blossom, one bud partially ont. and one smaller one with a number o? the leaves. “'Porthe hair, the newest Barettes are combinations of bows and buckles. A tiny square looped bow of white satin, meant for evening wear, is reenforced by a buckle of pearls, while for day- light there are black bows with plain gold buckles or those of tortoise shell. A brilliant netklace is formed of squares about three-quarters of an inch in size, each showing many colors like so many jewels, but being in the bdeantiful translucent enamel. Each square is joined to the next by three tiny strings of pearls, and in the front there isa big round pendant also show- ing the brilliant enamel jewels, SIGNS OF LOVE. It fs eald man is in love with @ woman: If he is perfectly willing to do any- thing she may ask, no matter what sort of an idiot it makes him appear. If he is able to tell without reference to notes what dress she wore the last week, and. also to describe the color and design of her hat. If he'll wear anything in the line of haberdashery which she may see fit to buy or make for him with her own hands. It he fe willing to remain up until dawn for the privilege of escorting her home from a dance his ease is hopeless. Although, of course, he may be a night watchman by profession or a victim of insomnia. If he stands around at balls and parties with a look of unmitigated gloom brooding over his beet ling brow, and following with his eyes her every movement with a sort of doglike ex- pression, he is either in love or his liver is out of order. SCISSORS AND PASTE, There is not a real, low-down cur in our town.—Crawford (Tex.) Grit. ‘The man with the sack coat and be- gum hat was in town yesterday —Ty- ler (Tex.) News. Joe Subl has returned to work after & short attack of the piazza fever — Emporia (Kan.) Gazette. One of our pastors was recently greeted by a colored brother with the effusive remark: “You's a good preacher. You's suttinly a soundin’ brass and a tinklin’ eymbal."—Biloxi Qliss.) Herald. SHOT A SEA SERPENT. ‘The 1902 Reptite of the Deep In Fired At After Exposing Itself for a Quiet Halt Hoar. A monstrous sea serpent, vicious and awful looking, wae the sight that brought fright to the crew of the schooner Samuel B. Hubbard only a few days ago. This vessel, of which Capt. Mahaffey is master, bas just ar- rived in Brunswick, Ga., from New York. Her commandér, who is well known to all the north Atlantic ports, vouches for the authenticity of the story, and the facts are corroborated by his first mate, Mr. Coverdale. Capt, Mahaffey says: “It was on the 234, in north latitude 34 degrees 41 minutes, and west longi- ‘ ee ee O dats ho ~_~ peste 4 —_ of saroee © mS SS gf a <a = 3, pres = Weer f f Sh B—.. ——$—<\-) ——_————— = C“C“‘( pee eS RTS tude 76 degrees 10 minutes. The ship was lying becalmed about 12 noon, when the chief mate called my atten- tion to something in the water just abeam, a quarter of a mile off. Along, slim object, moving from side to side. and coming toward us with such great rapidity that it looked like an old thresher at work. It very quickly worked under our qvarter, and in the ‘clear water we saw the qucerest fish out. As it lay quiet within 15 feet of the vessel it appeared to be about 30 feet long by three feet in cireumfer- ence. A smooth body, showing no fins but the dorsals, three of them, one short, one, say, about a foot long, near the head. Then half way down the body a long, tail-like fin about seven feet long and about five inches wide, and near the tail a small hind fin. The tail was unlike a fish, ending at a point, without a fin. The body was a deep pink color to the middle, and darkening to @ light brown at the tail. “The head was fully three feet long, the mouth close to the top. The eyes were large and close to the top of the head. We had » good look at the fel- low as he stayed by fully half an hour. Then the mate got a shotgun and as the fish lay with half of his upper body exposed, sent a charge of small shot in. It evidently hurt him, for he leaped out of the water half his length and sounded like a whale. Tt came to the surface in a fow secénds and if it kept up the gait it started with the serpent is near the western coast of Africa by this time” A Pleasant Feeling. Binke—Magnificent library you have! Winks—Yes. When I think of the pile of money I've sunk in that collec- tion of boeks it makes me feel quite in- tellectwal.—N. Y. Weekly. Made Up to Sell, She—Some things nowadays are just made up to sell. He—Yes; that’s what a painted wom- an’s face is made up for.—Yonkers Statesman. Unnecessary. . He—Don’t you think you could learn to love me? She—What's the usé? I have too many expensive tastes as it is.—Life. CURES WEAK MEN PREE. Insure Love and a Happy Home For , All, : = How any man may q cure him- self attar Yours of eating Yoon toctoal weakness, loss vitality, night losses, var- icocele, eto., and enlarge small weak or- gans to full size and vigor. Simply send Your name and address to Dr. Konapp Oo., 1822 Hull Building, De- Holt, Mich. and they will gladly’ send the free receipt with fall directions. 60 that any man may easily cure himself at home. ‘This is certainly a most gener- ous offer, and the following extracts tak en from their daily mail, show what men think of their generosity. neat Sits: Please aocept my sincere ‘thanks for yours of recent date. I have given your treatment thorough test ‘and the benefit has been extraordinary. } It has completely braced me up. I am just as Vigorous as when a boy and you ‘camnot realize how happy I amn.”" . “Dear Sirs:—Your method’ worked Deautifully. Results were exactly what I needed. Strength and vigor have com- pletely returned and enlargeniont is on- tirely satisfactory.” Dear Sirs:—Yours was received and 1 had no trouble in making use of the re- ceipt as directed, and can trathfully say it is a boon to weak men. I am greatly improved in size, strength and vigor.” All correspondence is strictly confiden tial, mailed in plain, sealed envelope, The receiptis free for the asking and they want every man to have it. 4-5-02-tf WANTED—5 Ixpvsrniovs Coronne Max so remen n lnch eal. RG hae eee ce oe pace Meese Beaneees See creeks See een eae a Baieceeneree ase © cet cemeiaes L107 & 1100 B. Main St., Se ve sanom On to Chicago THE MIDDLE STATES AND MISSISSIPPI VALLEY EXPOSITION To be held Chicago from the 14th of. August to the 14th of September, 1902. The first practical demonstration ever | ee cree north of the velopment and growth of the Ne race in this section. A grand diapiay cece eee. ‘The nation’s first big event of the 20th century. Chicago is the freest and most hospitable city in the United States. cee ain sum- Bas Ghiage tale pee ma tn Race Expositions, Special railroad rates. The 14th of August to the Mth a ea 1903. ‘or information, address the ComMITTer, No. 610 Garfield Boulevard, Chicago, Mlinois. Miller, Graves & Wright, BILLIARDS AND POOL SAMPLE ROOM, Nos, 216-218-220 highth Street, Huntington, W. Va. Barber Shop Connected, 216 Sth St. Best Wines, Liquors, Beer, Cigars. 5-17-3m, Seaboard AirLine R. R. “CAPITAL CITY ROUTE” Short tine te Principal Cities of the South and Bouthivest. Florida: Cain, Peruse’ Calin Bid, and Mexico, reaching the Cupitals of Six SCHEDULE IN EFFECT APRIL. 19, 14 TRAINS LEAVE RICHMOND—MAIN’ ST. STATION—DAILY. Roe AES, 213. w. 1:0 wet. Richmond. Pye ue Mae aoe Been, area ‘Wave. u. Ly. Race 1830.30 700A AT: Hamlet, Iara: Paani ne TRAM, a0 bat ATS, 2iat Wasa ean ches (lantern Time.) 105.4. 940.a.26- Lv, Coluantiar (Genteal Time.) 4:55.4.m. 2:10. 0.- Ar, Savana EBLE FO eae SEA Ouse ke tampa ss eM iNT eee Hit Waa ee . . (Eastern Time.) 195.4. 9404. 4—Lv. Columbia, (Central Time.) 4:55 aw. 2207. 0—Ar, Savuoonie BARE Fook SAE Sassonvlte Sa8 ea. Oni asin ae, Tarapa. ibis es m. Wgeta' nar Conptotte, iad te. ‘Wao. ty. Geeeetrood. odsatu fuer cur Ane POANE gee ete Alanee nab a Tanwar Maa a5 rat "Gaur. waar Menigomery. OM eRe AL ear Mable ney F282: Mar. New Orleans, 6:85 rw. Twa ae Nene SOM: ao 2 ke. Ment “Train No. 95 leaves Richmond 9:10 a. x6 dai ror Peterburg: Neralina, XC nai ee irinrvine Howie Tutt Sorataa Te eigh 0 he daily, and Darhasn ¢. day exept Sunday "Trains leave Richmond for Washington, and wow tage toa Meaty Sa wade Sar seee ne Gonnections at Jacksonville and, Tampa for Porta Risa; at Sow cohame for, Gube, and ea; at Sow Rear fora Texas, Mexico and California, az TRAINS ARRIVE AT RICHMOND—DAILY. $5 4.x, No 8) Prom all pointe South. EEN Bf Papers 48 FX." No. BO, Noralinn SG Pes and local poiats. SLEEI ING-CAR SERVICE. Now, ft and st —Plorida & Metropolitan Lim- sciatic pincer es, Zi rs Detween New "tot ping baled Couches between New York and Wel mds g Setar Richnood ne feck = Pullman Sleeping Gate ween Yacksonville and Tamper Aso ihisegh Draw i gam Sleeping Car, tat Wrenn New Peri ‘Atlante, wud CafeCare’ hetwonn "Hantce mad Atlanta'and Hamivt and Suraseahe ‘Nog Hand’ @seaboerd Bact Mail. Pot man Dring oom Batee Siping Care be twaon New York and deckeenvifie savant aE and from At- inate inconnection ith which “through Pa man tlekots are sold. ‘Palisran Packer ears between Jacksonville and Tampa. Finest Day W. J. MAY, City aera = 2S. sMrTH, District 3 ce Mast Seni See, Phone és. _ We promptly obtain U.S. and Foreign ¢ 3 $ $ Rroereport oa bateniathiige For fe beck casas TRADE-MARKS "z= PI fe WASHINGTON D.C. eX “ & O° PASSENGER TRAINS LEAVE AND ARRIVE NEW MAINST. STATION. MAY 4, 1902, LEAVE RICHMOND. 7:00.A. M., Except Sunday, Local to Newport ‘con 835A. M, Daily, F. Fy. Limited to od Solel mgs cnsebr es Wilisnasen ho me exoope ch Wihisaaeae ‘tnd Hampton, o 10:20 A.M. Bxcopt Sunday. Local to Calverton Glittou Forges Cuanocts for Orange Culpepersand Mannsens. 10204, M. Daily for Lynchburg, Lexington ‘ony, Chon, Pure her hocke eae Sunday for Rowney, Alberene and New 2:0 P.M, Daily, St, Louie ana Limit ea Dinkig: Car train, Patlinan te Giheinnadls Loulsvilie. and St Lops toeiaht hours auickt line West. Con bet eitin, Ho om train follows St Louis ‘Pimited. Gordonsville to Staunton, eacept Sus m 4:00 P.M Hxoept Sunday, “Senshore Limited” {or Old Point, Norfolleand Bortamoath. Parlor Gar to Old Punts mahew no Lo cope extent famaburg’ and Hampton. "Connects at Ola Post wink Ractineton, Baitinior and Cape Charios Steniners. Connects nt Novteks with O. B.S. for New York s:00P. 3 'baily for Newport News and. Old 8:18 P. M., Except Sunday for Bremo. 5:80P. M.” Except Sunday to Doswell. 10,80. M. Daily F. F. V. Dining Car train. Con iets fou Virginia Hot ‘Springs ull inan to Hinton, connecting with Parlor Gar to Cincinnati, and Pullman to Cin: Sinnati, Louleville, and the West. ARRIVE NEW MAIN ST. STATION. 5:00 4. M. Sunday, from Doswe #50 4 Bt Dally Prom Cinclanat BiB MG Bret Sunday from tiremo, 10°90 4A Daily from Old Point Norfolk and 2:15 P.M Except Sunday, from Old Pon t Norfoth and Portamouth: 8:90 P. M: Daily from Cimeinati. 6-80 P.M. Daily from Old Point, Morfelle and 8:15 P.M. Except Sunday trom Clifton Fo: droiftteg Rit at ies, warns we m a Ho tel, or Now Main-Strect Siation ticker otioce for further information. H.W. FULLER, JORN D. PorTs GPA. ‘A.G.P. A. ATLANTIC COAST-LINE. Schedule In Effect Jan. 14, 1902, TRAINS LEAVE RICHM )\v—BYRD STREET STAI %00 a. m. NORFOLK TL =». Dally. Ar “RE RERR 2 Ota — po Waveriy, anager > "i vee ee Ween TASS, ip eeTE Ree & P.M. Charleston 7 m., Savannah ES Geter eersata Tampa Tid p.m , Connects ‘at Wilson Bai oper tne Af Goleta nase ROBES caitlin oa RBEee «nentn, Sapegisses Sonar. Arne et See Sat eee ome lia and Ches- esp memen <a conten! nee » EO a RAED, Bale sett feats Wavertysane rade tapas ee aso Pigekarg ht eURaty, Arrizes Bet ocky Mo a ++ COB, Mo Malcos all inter: eae cane Bee ey | Keats tno. Tap ETO ¢ Ewhsr EXDIAN un «Ewha ENDIAN Un Reed uxt Norte Waser Emmpor Jx'B Me Commerte whinge: fant. «‘Canvilictor stations beter Empo: acd 2awrenceville:) Weldon foe's @ emecerty wae Testo. 1A. Me Bavanmal O00 AC SES |e eet Ni OSE zo. wore oppuays Be RE SAG i fa: Ni w iork to, Wiliington, Charente Bea Ecunpa, Jacksonvillon ‘AGeaees ad hand ihe lee cheer sxe 2. Satria gas suerte area win ort ‘of SHDA. By Hoangke 64. St. Belo fie aes Ree naw oat Deity.” Arrives Petersburg 12330 ec MF . NEW We Mapes ores panda, THES ‘aT PR os Merete tne AAS aes Ee PRAINS ARRIVE RICHMOND, + Re paw ree eae | Bah, Chtienssa™ afeenton Wile, Seren: Sotalrrecclpe Mesdese’ From, Tam , eieee Behind kertects mone Sevan: 2. “Me Dally. | Fro mm Putersbune, Lyneh- “1AM Dally, exeope Sanday. Petersburg La SE Daily, st Sunday. From Golds ONE gsi Sat Se - Aa Babe Pes, worth buna aa plod, Minds only. Prom Norfolk, But: 21sP. 3 Bally ‘except Sunday. From Pet- fb ENN oree sane, Gece Baty Pom, Mam. Post Tare genres ation ater ses 8:0P. BL Daly. From Norfolk, Suffolk, and a FE eee cence ow pargesk Wore an 'T. M. EMMERSON, Traffic Manager. J. R. KENLY, General Manager. H. M. EMMERSON, General Passenger Agent. Opies Pasion det ion ager ie ‘838 East Main Street. jan, 14. Norfolk and Western R. R. November 24th, 1901. LEAVE RICHMOND (DAILY), BYRD STREET STATION. 9:00 A. M. NORFOLK LIMITED. Arrives at More Sk, BED. (Artes at 906.4. THE CHGS EEEMissS, tor ~— Eapeieery, qeemoks, Cotumbar, and to Roanoke. Pullman Slevper Roanoke Seer gee enon ares Substamtae: ake for Borel, Boor Seas: P20 Hen erpraaitee Arrives Now Waverly and aatitk Coosa atte Sei peters aeee ae fone Nee Yon Baltes cad Wak 120. MforSuffolle, Norfolle and intermed- ene a eS $207. for Lpehvere, end Roanoke. 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OF y Ashley Towne $8 Se3ee— COPYRIGHT, 201, 2 ‘Seas o— BY CHARLES B. & SOO Seoose £0999200000440000-900: seccseenenes 186 UOeCGSSe Sse ese segunaasese Gssgusonenoncuvensovoeneegoeceacbaereseeseteeteen = ag nate the eee oe Lee! berm an eg cuaprmn in, | eget face wan ct detond. an © ‘Veber region; but, i Ky MEA) for Paris, it was not I} Wi Ah] much to boast of, and La Li}}) cabs were scarce. At TPZ CID saat. “nowerer, thes were able to waylay an empty vehicle, into which Darrell assisted the Indy of the brown eyes, Where would monsieur wish to go? It was the cabman’s question, and Darrell seemed not to hear it. “You were on your way"— he began and paused. “To the Place Blanche,” said the coachman. “Ab, yes,” responded’ Darrell. “We Will go to the Place Blanche.” He took his place in the carriage and. became immediately aware that his companion was shivering pitifully, As the night was unseasonably warm, this Phenomenon required an explanation. “You are ill?” be asked. “Frightened,” she answered. “I am quaking with terror. Absurd, now that it ts all over!” And then she burst into tears, weep- ing with a perfect self abandonment which he was sufBciently experienced to recognize as the ‘best possible re- Uef. Her calmness in the first min- utes of their acquaintance had been astounding and doubtless had been no less so in the terrible scenes that had preceded her extraordinary rescue. Dareell now easy at what expense it had been maintained. Consolation and tenderness are in- separably connected, and before Dar rell_was really aware of it he was holding her band and caressing it as fnnocently as if she bad been a burt child, Then suddenly she was a wo- man again, and be was a man of the world restrained by.all the barriees of conventionality. “I am not often so weak,” she said. “You would be surprised to know what I have borne without a tear. But 1 have no Intention of burdening you with my sorrows, Help me through a few more minutes until I have formed &@ plan, and then I will relieve you ab- solutely of all care of me.” “Surely there must be some one with whom you would wish to communt- cate,” he sald. “There are a few to whom I would send word,” she replied, “but unfar- tunately Ido not know just where they are. Certainly they can be of no use to me this night. Moreover, it is dis- agreeable to mention the circumstance, but [am absolutely without money. 1 had a purse containing a stwall sum, but it is gone. There is more at the house where I have been living, but £ dare not visit it, for I think the Rus- sian agents are ignoraut of the fact that I dwelt there, and 1 would not direct their attention to my friends. Perhaps tomorrow 1 can send word.” “I will agree to manage that,” said Darrell, “and In the meantime let me say In the gentlest way that money does not enter into this problem, 1 have a large pocketful, and of course you are more than welcome to all you may need. Ag two the night, we could ride in this cab till daylight if neces- sary, but 1 would rather you should have rest, and as to that I have a plan. 1 have some friends at the students’ ball—Mr. and Mrs. Gordou, Americans and very nice people; precisely the sort for an emergency such as this. I have @ card for the ball, It was my inten- Uon to go, but I changed my mind. And now fate has changed it for me in the other direction. If you wouldn't mind waiting in this carriage near the Moulin Rouge, I might go in and con- sult Mrs. Gordon. She Is a person of expedients.” “You cannot ask her to take any in- terest In me,” said the girl. “She does Pot know me, and I have no means of making myself truly known to you. ‘The circumstances of our meeting are & poor guarantee in such a matter.” “There is, however,” said Darrell, “such a thing as Instinctive recognition of individual character. I have seen a f Sot ; ft nae pea ey t <A by eer ae aM f iz rg Ve l f W yy oe 2 y ea “Iam Vera Shevalof.” : good and bad women, very many of both, and I have seen women of birth and breeding and others who lacked those advantages. Such being the case, though I have known you less than an dour, 1 am not troubled by the small- est doubt. I shall tell Mrs. Gordon ex- actly what bas happened; I shall tell ber precisely what I believe of you, and ‘then, if I know ber’— “What can she do? She cannot take me to her home.” Darrell turned more directly toward her, From the brightly lighted street Siakt eaten Glow wntiiclend to Gees. ek. chee ee a “Why not?” he asked, “My friends bave nothing to fear from the czars sples. The fact that you are persecut- ed and pursued will merely make them the more anxious to befriend you. They are not afraid of anything, and, as for annoyance, beaven beip the man who tries to annoy Robert Gordon. I have known bim a good many years. ‘Therefore I say to you, Why not?" “There {s no reason whatever,” she aid, looking him straight In the eyes, “I am Vera Shevaloff, the daughter of © prince. 1 am of the house of Kon- ‘stantin of Stavropol.” “Stavropol!” exclaimed Darrell. “Why are you surprised?” “Because I have recently met Ivan Getchikoff, son of. the governor gen- ral of the province,” answered Dar- Tell. “I saw him this afternoon in the company of Ladistov, the man whom I believe to bave been the coachman of your prison on wheels. It cannot be that Getchikoff assisted him in that enterprise?" “If it was be, I did not recognize him.” she replied. “I doubt, indeed, whether I should know Ivan ip broad Gaslight, and this man & scarcely saw at all.” “I think be would be above such Work,” said Darrell. “The Getebikoffs are proud.” she said, “but cruel as wolves. They are all powerful in Stavropol today, both 4n the city and the province. It is Probable that I should have been taken there for some form of trial, though “as to that I am merely making a guess. 1 have no means of knowing what | would bave been done with me except that I should eventually have been Sent back to Siberia.” | “Sent back!” exclaimed Darrell. “Have you been there?” | “I accompanied my father,” she an- swered calmly, “Upon the downfall of my family four years ago he was | exiled, and “my mother and myself chose to share his fate, though we might bave avoided it. As to what we Suffered, there are now many books Which describe the long journey and the horrors that are reserved for those who survive it. My mother llyed more than two years after we reached the | prison settlement to which we were as- signed; my father, some months lon- ger. In Stavropol, my friend, there ts | 8 cathedral which my father built, and within it 1s a tomb of white marble. | The snows of Siberia are whiter than the marble, and perhaps my father and my mother sleep as well in one place 2s another. Let us pot think of it.” | “But you!” exclaimed Darrell. “You escaped?" | “I was released.” “Then how can you be sent back?” “Because,” sald Vera, extending a white hand from the folds of the cloak into the light and holding it clinched tp @ pecullar manner, “In order to avoid @ fate worse than Siberian exile I drove a knife Into the heart of Nicholas Gorskl, governor of the district." | “Dhank God!” gasped Darrell invol- untarily, “The order for-my release had al- ready arrived,” Vera continued, “and | Gorski dared not suppress or delay {t. I knew what must happen the Instant | that I heard of the arrival of the order, and so I prepared the knife for myself. But circumstances made tt possible for me fo sheath It elsewhere than in my own breast. It was all very fortunate. ‘Lam told that six months had elapsed and I was far from Siberia before the suspicion arose that I had struck him | down. His death was a mystery. | Even now, if 1 were disposed to deny it in a fair tribunal, the act could not be proved. That is why I shall never be openly arrested outside of Russia.” “You came to Paris?” | “Eventually, yes. But I have been in ‘many parts of Europe, even in Stayro- pol, though that was @ great risk, for ‘the Getchikoffs, who plotted and ac- ‘complished my father’s destruction, ‘Would make short work with me. I Went to obtain funds that he had hid- den, and I was successful. Since com- ing to Paris I have harbored with nl- hilists, and that is why I am unable to seek any refuge this night. If I am an ‘object of pursuit upon my own ac- count, I must not attract the hounds , toward another quarry. Now you have my story. Shall you tell it to Mrs, | Gordon?” “Most certalnly,” answered Darrell, . “and the sooner the better. I am only sorry that you cannot go with me into the ball, but unmasked it would not be best. Iam afraid to leave you alone in the carriage.” “It is impossible that they should have followed me,” she said. “I shall not be alarmed.” Darrell glanced out of the cab win- dow. “We are in the Rue Blanche,” he said. “It is the Church of La Trinite that we have just passed to the lett there. It is a matter of five minutes now. By heaven, I wish it were rot necessary to leave you!” “I think it would be best for you,” said she, “to leave me forever. I am @ dangerous companion for you or for your friends, It is monstrous that I THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND: VIRGINIA. drowned the great orcnéitra @5@ the roof rang with the song. “What s it?’ asked Vera, “I bave heard it in the street.” “It ts ‘L’Heure Charmante,’ the lat ‘est craze of the Quarter,” replied Dar. rel. “You know it, then?” for she had begun to sing. “Then why not? It Is in the air.” ‘He added his own strong and clear Yolce to hers, and they sang together Vustily. Suddenly the people on their left ‘Yeered toward the dancing floor. Vera tumed quickly, ber eyes burning He Rodded, and thelr hands were clasped together. Another moment and these two, so strangely met, were dancing among the revelers—this woman with the scars of fetters on her wrists, this man who was alive because a bullet fired balf an hour before and meant for him had gone astray. It was in har. ‘mony with the night's adventure that they should dance and sing together in Yhis mad throng that whirled them Dither and thither, aimless as fate. ‘The musle stopped with an abrupt crash of the instruments and a break of the volces from song to shouting. then to silence. All looked toward the highest gallery, where appeared Lucia, Acclaimed the favorite model and now Proudly perched upon a pedestal. She was small of stature, and her beauty ‘was not of the type that “carries” to a great distance. Her costume, however, Was wonderfully effective. Bhe wore & gown of pale green, brocaded with Irises, and she held in her hands a yel- low Yell so variable in quality under the lights that it seemed to waver round her body like a tongue of flame. A famous artist made a quick sketch of her as she stood there, and then the oldest of the students, a giant, dressed like a gladiator, gave ber bis hand, and as she stepped down from the pedestal he kissed her on the forehead, as if to typify the reverence for beauty In the hearts of all that vast assembiy of its worshipers. Applause rewarded him, ‘and then the band struck up once more UHeure Charmante:” A tigusand voices selzed upon the strain, the ditn- ‘cers whirled away into new measures, and upon the instant Darrell said in his companion's ear: | “There are the Gordons.” | He had descried his friends at the eige of the lower gallery. | “We must hurry,” he added, “or they will eseape us.” ‘Then suddeniy, “Upon | my word, 1am glad that we danced!” | “1, too,” she replied. “It Is something ' for me to have known this life if only Se Be eG ’ ay 2 Vi ( XN Al MS fora moment. But Iam ashamed to go to your friends. It Is like asking @ fa- Yor. Iam too proud.” “We ask nothing.” returned Darrell “not even advice. We merely tell our amusing Uttle story for thelr greater Joy In the midst of this merrymaking. It Is a favor that we confer upon them. Hasten!" It proved to be easy to overtake the Gordons, for they returned immediate- ly to a table and an unfinished bottle of wine, The friar of orders gray was @ stranger In thelr eyes as he approach- ed them and bowed gravely, as became his character, “Pax vobiscum,” said he. “And with you also, father,” replied Gordon. “May I be permitted to in- quire—Jack Darrell! Well, upon my soul!” “And Edith!” cried Mrs. Gordon, for ‘as much as could be seen of Vera {n mask and domino was not without a suggestion of Afiss Lorrimer. “You are in error,” whispered Dar- Tell, stooping beside her chair. “This lady is Vera Shevaloff, a princess by right; an exile through Injustice. 1 took her from the agents of the czar this evening, and one of them, Robert,” he added, looking across at Gordon, “was our friend, the pirate, Ladislov.” Gordon rose hastily and bowed, while his wife extended her band to Vera, for there was a gleam in Darrell’s eyes which meant, “If you are my friend, re- ceive her well.” . “And you are the man who forswore adventure!” said Gordon aside. “Well, T am not surprised.” “It is this that Is the test,” replied Darrell; “my nee here. No man can expect vo Metate absolutely in the matter of general peace and quietness, ‘The thing {s too difficult, for the house may take fire over his head while he Hes asleep with his hands folded upon his breast. But in regard to special acts, most of us still retain the de- lusion of choice. Therefore, in order to set me definitely right in the matter, fate bas brought me to this spot. Oth- erwise I might have fancied that I was free to decide whether I would or would not attend a ball. Let me dis- miss the notion. I am thistledown in the wind of destiny.” “I will give you my opinion of that,” replied Gordon, “when I have seen the princess without her mask.” Mie Siace Sianche and presently stop- ped amid a press of vehicles before the Portals of the Moulin Rouge. Darrell directed the cabman to go on a little way, and then alighted. Imme- diately he was aware of two figures, | map dnd woman, who were hurrying toward him. ‘The man was frocked Uke a gray friar, with cord and cowl; the woman wore a fawn colored dom!- no, and she twirled a mask by its cord She bad abundant dark brown hair, ‘and she was tall, like Vera. Her com: Panion was a six footer, and he looked @ giant ip his gray robe. “I beg your pardon,” he sald in Eng- lsh. “Are you done with the cab? All these are engaged.” “You leave the ball early,” sald Dar rell, without answering the question. “Is it less toteresting than usual?” “We say goodby to Paris at sunrise,” the young man replied. “Isn't that beastly? We have Just time to get to ‘our lodgings and finish packing. You ‘are an American, aren't you?" “Yes,” replied Darrell, “I'm an Amer- ican, as you are, and I'm in a bit of a fix also, as you are. You want a cab, ‘and 1 want to go into the ball with my friend, but we can’t do it without cos tumes. If we don’t get any, I shall be ‘obliged to go in alone, and ebe will Wait in the cab; 80 you can't have It {f, on the other band, you will sell’ me Your frock—are you dressed completely under it?" “Ob, yes, I'm dressed all right.” “And as to the domino? Could it be spared?” “How funny!" exclaimed the young woman, with a laugh “But ererything happens in Paris. Certainly your friend can have the domino. Some- body spilled a giass of bock on the back of it"—and she turned to reveal the staln—“but If your friend doesn’t mind that"— | “The stain is an advantage,” replied Darrell. “What says the monk?” | “My frock for the cab!” erled the felar. “It is yours.” | Darreff protested that he must pay the worth of the dresses—indeed much | more—and be succeeded In forcing the | young man to accept a sum that was Probably an agreeable addition to his | exchequer. Then the two women got j into the cab, and it was Vera in mask and domino who got out. Meanwhile Darrell in the shadow of the vehicle | had slipped the monk's frock over his head. | “ihren adel hee: present of my cloak,” whispered Vera. “She fancies that Tam a millionatress upon a trifling escapade. She will change her opinion about my wealth when she views the cloak by daylight. It has seen hard service.” “I might give the gentleman my op- era hat,” replied Darrell, “or your handewffs, But the fatter I value too highly asa souvenir, and the former, closed, Iles easily in the bosom of my gown. And now for cabby.” He beckoned to the driver, who climb- d down from the box. ' “Pitty francs for you,” sald Darrell, “and as much more tomorrow evening if you are discreet. Do you under- stand? You will forget everything. Call there at 6 tomorrow.” He gave the man his card, upon Which was written the address of a { club. ' “Why do you bribe him?” asked Vera. “It any successful attempt 13 made | to trace you,” replied Darrell, “this man will be found, and if that hap- pens I want to know of tt. “Meanwhile these costumes are great luck.” | ‘The unfrocked monk leaned from the cab window and gave directions to the coachman. Vera and Darrell, turning away, waved their hands n farewell, ‘The portal of the Moulin Rouge was | beset by such a throng that Darrell and his companion passed through un- noticed. But a moment later, as they Worked thelr way out of the press, @ couple dressed as sailors, the woman's costume being like the man's in the minutest detail, accosted them with merry badinage. “We knew you weren't golng away,” said the woman. “You were afraid of drinking too much wine.” “Mistaken identity,” laughed Darrell in Vera's ear. “I hope our friends were well bebayed, for thelr reputation _ has passed to us. Now to find the Gor- dons. What a lark! And I told Gor- don this afternoon that I would never have any more fun!” A wild outburst of applause suddenly | arose upon thelr right, and the crowd | eddied and swirled as all sought places of advantage from which to look down ‘upon the dancing floor. Darrell felt ' Vera's hand on his arm; she seemed to be drawing him forward, | “Do you care to see it?” he asked, | “Why, yes,” said she, “since we are here. What are they doing? I know nothing of these grand entertainments, 1 was too young to see much of such fetes as we had in Stavropol. ‘There is a place from which we ean see.” | And with the words she stepped nimbly ahead of him, securing a re- markably good position. “It is the procession,” sald he, stand- ing close behind her. “I did not ex- Brice Rip sucetarig nape ge nade Me tgag etek eel “Paz vobiscum,” said he. CHAPTER Iv. A CRIME OF THE NINILISTS. eg RS. BOB GORDON, as eM] she was generally SQM | known in the Ameri- ean) can colony, was a wo- FeReaRS| man of broad views Ck) BA and invincible inde POY MK] pendence. Her social SEZ position was very strong, being founded cestry. buttressed bs money and defended: by tact and individuality— the last named s great power, for {t ts the conventions! creature. who must do conventional things. while the strong Personality wlos a measure of freedom. She heard Vera's story, somewhat more fully told than before, yet with Rothing of real importance added to the tale as Darrell had received it. Vera mentioned no names of friends in Paris and avoided any reference to a reason for her choice of that city as a Place of residence, but the impression ‘was strong upon Darrell that bis prin- cess was not in the great capital for the sake of Its climate nor to behold its many beauties. He felt that this woman's life must be directed by some strong purpose, and if its mainspring bad been the desire for vengeauce that would have seemed natural, Yet she ‘had denied complicity with nihilism, and Darrell bad taken ber word. He Must therefore seek some other ex Plavation of the mystery surrounding her. -_ in spite of all that Americaos know 0f the various injustices that are rife in Russia, it is impossible to hear such ‘& narration as Vera’s without a feeling that there is something novel, almost incredible, in it; that men in high sta- tion, surrounded by the attributes of Power and dignity, cannot be dragged down In a moment to the level of grind- ing, hopeless, unrewarded toll In the mines of a frozen desert; that gently nurtured women cannot be cast out of Palaces Into hovels buried in arctic snows. Gordon heard the story with @ growing wrath, his elbows on the ta- ble, his head thrust forward, his eyes shining, and his wife, who showed Jess emotion, was yet moved to clasp ‘the hand that had slain the villain Gor- ski and to ent it firmly for some sec- onds after thi& incident had been dis- closed. At the last Vera showed signs of the strain involved in the recital, with its ghastly memories, and so when It was done the others felt an impulse to with- draw her mind from retrospection as ‘soon as possible. “Let us have one more look at the dancers," said Gordon, rising. “The sight of such light hearted people will do us good.” He turned toward the larger hall as he uttered the words, and at that mo- ment two men came hastily up to him. “You are Mr. Robert Gordon,” said one of them, and as he spoke a third man joined the two. “Iam,” replied Gordon. “And you are Mr, John Darrell?” “That is my name,” ‘answered the gray friar, “It ts believed that you have certain Information which ts desired by the Police.” sald the officer in a low tone, “Will you accompany us?” “With pleasure.” replied Darrell. “May | ask the nature of the affair?” “The commissary will inform you,” sald the officer. “Shall we go at once?” Darrell was perfectly willing. bis only desire being to lead these solemn faced detectives as far as possible from Vera Shevaloff. 2 “Purdon me one moment,” he said, turning toward Gordon, and at that in- stant he heard one of the officers whis- per to the spokesman of their party, “The Indies are Mme. Gordon and Mile. Lorrimer, Americans.” Mrs. Gordon also overheard these Words, and she sald instantly: “Robert will take Miss Lorrimer and myself home, and then he will go to you, If these men will give us the nec essary tnformation.” To this the leader of the detectives replied that his orders were to ask Mz. Darrell to accompany him to the station on the Rue Gluck, beside the opera house. If he should not be there when Mr. Gordon should arrive, there Would be no difficulty tn learning where he had gone. Darrell did not wait for further words. He gave his hand to Vera and the Gordons and then burried away, attended by the officers who were kind enough to avoid giving the affair the appearance of an arrest. There was a four seated cab outside, and {t conveyed the party to the sta- tion on the Rue Gluck. He could ex- tort no information from his compan- fons upon the way, and, indeed, he made no great effort to do so, being sat- isfled in advance that it would be fu- tile. In fact, he was of the opinion that the time could be. better passed in thinking than fn talking. Undoubtedly Ladisioy bad made some sort of complaint, probably for assault. The purpose of the action must be the recapture of Vera, for La- dislov was not the man to ask the law to right any personal wrong so long as swords and pistols or even bludgeons continued to be procurable for money. Darrell bad uo fear elther of the public or the private vengeance of “the pi- rate.” He was prepared to justify his own conduct if necessary, but his first concern must be to shield Vera. It would have pleased him to do this boldly—to tell the story of the night's adventure precisely as It had occurred and then to defy the ezar’s agents and all other persons to do their level worst. He did not belleve that there be remembered.” The monk’s hood was nearly as good asa mask, and the stain of beer on the fawn colored domino was more distinctive than ansthing that could be noted of the lady's actual Personality. As » means for confusing any possible pursuers. the gown and the domino might bave served well, though Darrell had not foreseen that they would be needed as the matter of @ claim of ailbi, As to thelr value tn this regaré, Dar- rell resolved upon a test. He had a theory about the three men In the cab with him. ‘The one who bad conducted the “arrest” might be an agent of the district commissary of police, but Dar- rel suspected him of connection with the central bureau de la surete (the detective bureau of Paris). ‘The second }ras a man from the precinct in which ‘Darrell and the Gordons lived, and be Was there for purposes of Klentifica- tion. It was he who bad sald that the ladies were Mrs. Gorden and Miss Lor- rimer, the latter of whom Darrell now blessed for her hasty and almost secret ‘flight from the house. The Paris police are sure, but slow, though their mill- tary discipline and unquestioning obe- dience, combined with excellent organ- fzation, sometimes give them the delu- sive aspect of rapidity. It might take them a week or even a fortnight to dis- cover that Vera had replaced Miss Lor- Timer, despite the rigid supervision to which strangers are subjected. So much for policeman No. 2 and his fortunate error. Passing to No. 3, Darrell made him out to be a member of the force assigned for that evening to the Moulin Rouge to watch the mer- ry students and their guests, He had been brought along to testify concern- Ing the Gordon party, and Darrell was pleased to observe that he was gnaw: ing bis upper lp and cracking the Joints of his long and bony fingers. “Your name, my friend?" erled Dar- rell suddenly, slapping the man on the knee. ‘The officer sat up so suddenly that his long backbone gave forth a snap- ping sound as from a whip. “Henri Fontaine!” he cried. “Why do you ask?" “Merely from interest,” replied Dar- rell. “I happened to have seen you several thmes this evening. You re member when the beer was spilled on my friend's domino?” Fontame did not reply in words, but his face was well worth noticing. A light shone favorably into the cab, re- Yealing a glance full of “I told you 804 directed by Fontaine toward the chiet detective. Darrell knew that he had made a center shot and that Fontaine must have already expressed bis bellef that Darrell and the Iady had been In the Moulin Rouge at the time of the act of which Ladislov had complained, whatever that act might be. Of course there was no certainty that the black visaged rascal had sworn to the truth. ‘The cab stopped, and its occupants alighted. As they entered the station Darrell was annoyed to observe that the detectives surrounded him with a somewhat elaborate display of precau- tion lest he should escape, and the passage of the party through the outer Toom excited an audible thrill of tn- terest. ‘They entered # private offlee, where Darrell perceived a gray and sol. dierly officer seated by a fat topped desk. Behind him sat a man who leaned forward as If buried in thought, his elbow on bis knee, his chin in his hand. The attitude and the peculiar arrangement of the lights made this man’s face a blurred shadow except for Lis left eye, which, being turned to- ward Darrell, shoue like a Jewel. The three men who had brought in the prisoner fell away from him, leay- ing him standing alone before the desk in a glare of light, Immediately the elderly officer took up a paper from the table and began to read aloud in a hasty but monotonous tone a fairly ac- curate description of John Darrell, American, and of his doings since he had come to Paris. “Sir” said Darrell in his gentlest tone, “this record Is very interesting and surprisingly correct, but It docs hot seem to explain my presence here at this tine, Would you favor me with 8 few words on that pont?" “The charge against you,” sald the officer, putting the paper carefully into a pile of them, as if to show that It was only one of many damning documents in the case—“the charge against you, Mr. Darrell, relates to Captain Sergius Ladisloy.” “If Captain Ladislov has made a complaint against me,” answered Dar- Cee igs = pA a ; / eel i; i ve me | “I would like to meet him face to face.” rell, “I would venture to suggest that be repeat it in my presence. That is ‘more the manner of my country. I Would like to meet him face to face.” | ‘The officer shook bis bead, but before he had denied the request in words the man in the shadow said: “If sueb ts your wish, follow me.” He arose and walked toward a door &t the rear of the office, and Darrell followed him. ‘They descended some fro steps, not too well lighted, and Passed into 8 long room below the street level. At the farther end sat two policemen, one upon each side of fa large table. Darrell at first supposed fiat 9 Qhird oftcer lay upon the table len and colered ith cloak. bap as be approached, the policeman w! had been seated arose and, apparently bering a sign drew away the cover- from the recumbent figure. _It was Ladisiov who lay there dead. 3 he was not to be seen. At the foot of” the stairs be had stepped back, allow-- ing the American to precede him, ang what had become of him afterwaré was @ mystery. It was the tall officer with the grizzled locks whom Darrell confronted as he turned, “This Is a great surprise to me,” saide be. “He had been shot in the back,” re- plied the officer. “We have our owm> opinion as to how it happened. Thee body was brought here, which ts un usual. Moreover, as you asked to sea= hhim, and {t was so convenient”— He finished the sentence with a shrug of the shoulders, “I know nothing of this,” sald Dar rell earnestly. “I never saw the mar» until this afternoon” — “When you bad a violent quarrel,"* added the officer. “Nothing of the kind,” retorted Dare. rell. “I can bring abundant evidencas to prove that It was the merest trifle.” He walked hastily to the table ang? bent over the body, which was clothed. in the coachman’s rough garments that the man had worn when Darrell had dislodged him from the box of the- coach. He turned the corpse upon its: face, though shrinking from the toucts of it. The clothing had been cut opers for an examination of the wound, but it was not very much soiled with blood: The bullet had struck below the lett shoulder blade, and it seemed to have- remained In the body. “A doctor has seen this?’ said Dar rell. “What does he tell you? How long could the man have lived after re— celving te injury? Where was he found? “He was found upon the Rue di Richelieu,” replied the officer. “Per baps you may Judge, from the location, how long he survived his Injury.” “If you mean to Intimate that £ M+ fiicted tt,” said Darrell, “you are utter- ing an absurdity, and the earlier you « dismiss the Idea from your mind’ the - Sooner you will reach a solution of: the puzzle which this crime presents.” “As you have seen Captain Ladislov,. according to your request,” said the of- ficer by way of reply, “I would sug- gest that we return.” He waved his hand toward the stair way. Darrell bowed and walked in the: direction indicated. When they came {nto the room above, it was empty. whereat the officer was certainly sur- Prised, though he endeavored not to show it. He sat down by the table an@ motioned Darrell to a chair near by. “I would like to inquire"— began the officer, taking up a paper from the desk, and then he paused, reading what was written in that document with. close and Increasing attention. “Om second thought,” he continued, laying down the paper, “I have decided to ask no further questions.” “Then,” said Darrell, “with your per+ mission, T would like to ask a few.” | “I am not at liberty to answer,” was the reply. “But—yes, I will ask one ‘myself, Do you know a Russian wom- an named Vera Shevaloft?” “Vera Shevaloff,” repeated Darrell, as if weighing the name upon his lps. “I have never bad the pleasure of be- ing presented to the lady.” The officer bowed. “That is all.” he sald. “I crave your pardon for having detained you so Jong.” Darrell rose slowly and with as calm € countenance as possible, though the surprise was almost overpowering. “I wish you a very good evening,” he sald. He was permitted te find his own way out of the station. Upon the street, while he was walking toward the cab stand. he encouatered the de tective, Fontaine. “It was I who cleared you, mon- sleur,” sald that Individual. “I testi fled that you were at the ball.” “The truth is mighty and will pre~ vail,” responded Darrell, giving the man money, “but surely there was. some other cause”— “It Is a crime of the nihilists,” whis~ pered Fontaine. “A paper was found, torn and lying on the pavement, near where the body lay, It was a sort of warrant from the czar, and It showed. that Ladislov, who was an agent of the Russian secret service, was engaged Im making an arrest—a kidnaping, let us say—when he lost his life. It is al ways a risk. The puzzle was solved: while you were down stairs, Ah, It takes little time for M. Cochefert te + get at the bottom of things.” “Cochetert!” cried Darrell. “Chief of the bureau de la surete? 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The new constitution seems to cause more complaint among the white folks than it does among the colored ones. Our aim should be to cultivate a most friendly feeling with the best element of the white people of the southland. The unlawful proclaiming of the new constitution was a flagrant betrayal of the Democratic people who authorized and directed the calling of the unconstitutional "constitutional" convention. They got what they deserved. A contemporary now announces that like the right to vote, the right to hold property is a conferred privilege and not an inherent right. Is it possible that the next step will be legislation to curtail the colored man's right to hold property? COLORED men, let us encourage the well-behaved elements in our midst. The low, degraded, insulting elements amongst us are a serious handicap to our progress; but let us hope for the best and press onward. --- It is officially announced that the Boer War in South Africa is at an end. If England is no more successful in ending hostilities in that section after the announcement than the United States government has been in the Philippines, it will be the English and not the Boers, who deserve to be pitied. DR. R. E. JONES has formally opened his settlement at Fort LEE and it is known as Jonesboro, being only about six miles from Richmond. He is blessed with energy and rich in plans. If the people will follow his leadership and heed his advice, one of the most unique and prosperous colored settlements in the state will be an object lesson to all classes. So far, he and his associates have done well. HORRIBLE LYNCHINGS. HARRISON and JAMES GILLESPIE (colored) aged sixteen and thirteen years respectively were lynched at Salisbury, N. C., last Wednesday morning, June 11, 1902, at about half past two o'clock by a mob of white men. They were not charged with criminal assault; but it was asserted that they killed a white woman, Miss NEELY BENSON, using rocks at the weapons. The older boy was hanged and the younger one was made to climb a tree, and leap from a limb. Their bodies were riddled with bullets. Lighted torches were applied to their feet to make sure that they were dead. It is an open question as to how long these murderous conditions shall be permitted to exist in this section of the country. The mob was guilty of the same crime with which the boys were charged. It will finally result in persons charged with crime resisting arrest as was done by WILL REYNOLDS at Tuscumbia, Alabama, and WILL RICHARDSON at Atlanta, Georgia. It may be all right for theorizing critics to talk about surrendering to the officers of the law; but when it is realized that in most cases, these officers are but the advance agents of the mobleaders, sensible colored men will take the chances of dying with a rifle in their hands rather than by the slow torture of an agonizing death. For our part, we prefer the route taken by WILL REYNOLDS and WILL RICHARDSON rather than that traversed by the unfortunate HARRISON and JAMES GILLESPIE, who must be presumed innocent until they have been proven guilty in accordance with our forms of legal procedure. Lynch law must go! SENATOR QUAY IN CONTROL Such Bitterness at Meeting of Pennsylvania Republican State Committee. Harrisburg, Pa., June 11. The bitterness between the leaders of the Pennpacker and Elkin factions cropped out several times during a meeting of the Republican state committee yesterday afternoon to prepare the roll of delegates and select the temporary officers of today's state convention. Senator Quay, the leader of the Pennpacker forces, and Attorney General Elkin, in personal command of his adherents, shook their fingers in each others' face and threatened political reprisals if each was not given fair treatment in the disposition of the contested seats in the convention. State Chairman Reeder accused Senator Quay of making a deliberate misstatement, and Senator Quay instantly replied that this was an insult which he resented. The vote on two propositions showed that the Pennpacker forces had a decisive majority in the committee. Contests were filed with the committee on contests from the Twenty-eighth Philadelphia district; the Fifth Luzerne district, the First Luzerne district and the Fourth Schuylkill district. The Philadelphia contest was thrown out by the committee, and that from the Fifth Luzerne district was withdrawn. In the first Luzerne district, A. H. Fell and W. H. Morgan were unseated and their seats given to Charles A. Manor and Morgan B. Williams, Watres' adherents. In the Schuylkill district John Woodward and George W. Seiders were unseated and Samuel Lee and John T. Shoener, Pennpacker adverents, were given their seats. The four delegates who were unseated were pledged to Elkin. The action of the committee was sustained by the state committee. CONVICTS KILL THREE GUARDS Prisoners In Oregon Jail Shoot Down Their Keepers. Salem, Ore., June 10—Two desperate prisoners, Harry Tracey, sentenced to 20 years, and David Merrill, a 13-year man, serving sentences for assault and robbery committed in Multnomah county, escaped from the penitentiary yesterday after killing three guards, Frank Ferrell, S. I. Jones and Benjamin Tiffany. The prisoners had just marched into the foundry for work, when Tracey appeared suddenly with a rifle and shot Ferrell, killing him almost instantly, Ingram, a life prisoner, attempted to take the rifle from Tracey, when Merrill shot Ingram through the leg. Other prisoners, forced at the point of a pistol, permitted the two men to climb a ladder to the wall. Getting outside, they shot Jones. Tiffany, after being wounded, leaped over the fence and followed the men, shooting at them until they killed him. The prisoners then escaped into the woods. A posse of 40 men is out after the prisoners and has them located in the woods. A battle is expected. The posse is headed by Sheriff Durbin. Sheriff-elect Colbath and several officers from the prison. The prisoners are armed with two rifles and two revolvers. The arms are believed to have been thrown over the stockade Sunday night by friends among excursionists who came from Portland. A FEAST OF ROSES Manheim Church Pays Its Yearly Rental With One Flower. Lancaster, Pa., June 9.—The annual fest of roses was celebrated at Manheim yesterday, when Zion Evangelical Lutheran Congregation of that place paid to the heirs of Baron Henr Stiegel their yearly rental—one rose. A crowd of nearly 10,000 people poured into the little town to witness the quaint and beautiful ceremony. The church in which the exercises were held was wholly inadequate to accommodate such a throng. The church was beautifully decorated with roses. Baron Siegel, a German Nobleman, in 1770 deeded to the Zion Lutheran congregation ground for their church, stipulating that they should in return pay to him or his heirs forever in the month of June each year one red rose. In 1773 and 1774 this unique rental was demanded and paid to the baron. Then the custom was abandoned and seems to have been forgotten until 1892, when it was revived. Since the latter year it has been celebrated annually, attracting wide attention. MASSACRED BY ARABS Traders and Escort, Numbering Over 500. Are Slaughtered. Vienna, June 11.—The Tageblass says that an immense caravan, under a strong escort of gendarmerle, has been wiped out by Arabs near Kowett, on the Persian Gulf. The assailants, the paper says, massacred 250 gendarmes, besides nearly all the traders and their servants, numbering over 500 persons. Wilhelmina's Physicians Decorated. The Hague, June 10.—The physicians who attended Queen Wilhelmina during her recent illness have been decorated. Professor Roosenstein, the pathologist of Leyden University, has been promoted to the rank of commander of the Order of the Lion of the Netherlands, and Dr. Konwer Roessingh and Pot have been appointed knights of the same order. Woman's Body Chopped to Pieces. London, June 9.—The remains of a young woman, sawed and chopped up into a dozen pieces, have been found in an alley in the Lambeth district. The body had been apparently baked and bolled. The scalp had been torn off, and the hands, feet and intestines were missing. It has been impossible to identify the remains as the woman's face was practically destroyed. FIERCE BLAZE IN PHILADELPHIA Big Warehouses Destroyed and Many Dwellings Damaged. A WEEK'S NEWS CONDENSED. Thursday, June 5. Lieutenant General Miles has gone to Fort Riley, Kas., to witness a practical test of field guns. The Missouri State University yesterday conferred the degree of Doctor of Laws on Samuel L. Clemens (Mark Twain). The senate passed a bill extending the free postal delivery service to cities of 5,000 population, or to cities having postal revenue of not less than $5,000 annually. Albert Wertz, of Rossmere, Lancaster county, Pa., while driving a four- WAS sitting tached office summer night a slight rattle arrested my my pistol, I opened the door cony. I was a anxious scare. Philadelphia, June 11.—Fed by the most inflammable and combustible material, and fanned by a southwest wind, fire yesterday swept through the block on North Broad street, opposite Germantown Junction, and licked a northeastern path parallel with the Pennsylvania Railroad tracks to the line of Thirteenth street. Coal and lumber yards, an immense feed warehouse, and nearly a dozen dwellings combined to furnish fuel for the gigantic blaze, which for more than one hour was beyond the command of the fire department, and threatened to extend its fiery length over several blocks. The loss is estimated at $250,000. When Chief Baxter's men finally gained the mastery the big buildings, 2931 and 2933 North Broad street, three-story brick structures, occupied by the Germantown Junction Elevator and Warehouse Company, and by L. F. Miller & Son, feed and grain merchants, were wiped out, while the coal sheds of George B. Newton & Co., extending eastward along the railroad tracks, were entirely destroyed. Rows of dwellings on North Broad street and Sedgely avenue were badly damaged, while the occupants of many narrowly escaped with their lives, abandoning their belongings to the devouring flames. STRIKE INVESTIGATION OVER Commissioner Wright Had Two-Hour Conference With Operators Conference With Operators. New York, June 11.—Yesterday afternoon Labor Commissioner Wright had a two-hour's conference with President Bear, of the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad; President Olyphant, of the Delaware and Hudson Company, and President Truesdale, of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad. Mr. Wright said that the books had been opened and he had secured all facts and figures, and now had sufficient information of both sides, which would probably not necessitate his going to the coal fields. He declared the investigation as practically over. He said he expected to hold no more conferences. Commissioner Wright will make an official report to President Roosevelt. The report will touch at the root of the difficulty and will explain the "real causes" leading to the great industrial conflict, which causes have been jealously guarded by both sides. Mr. Wright will not make any suggestions or recommendations. THE SOFT COAL STRIKE Nearly All Men Out and Business at a Standstill In New River District. Thurmund, W. Va., June 11.—The strikers succeeded yesterday in tieing up almost every operation in the New river district. Not 100 miners out of 6,000 were at work on Loup creek, and not a single car of coal has been sent down that branch. All the Chesapeake and Ohio shifting crews in this field have been laid off, and business is at a standstill. The fires are out in the thousands of coke ovens that have heretofore illuminated the New river valley, and from all indications the situation will not be soon improved. At mass meetings held at Glen Jean the strikers decided to remain out indefinitely, unless the operators meet their demands. There has been no violence along the Chesapeake and Ohio yet, and operators believe there will be none. PRINCETON'S NEW PRESIDENT Woodrow Wilson Elected to Succeed E. L. Patton. Resigned Princeton, N. J., June 10—The chief event in connection with Princeton's 155th annual commencement, and was a great surprise, came yesterday in the annual meeting of the board of trustees, when President Francis L. Patton resigned the presidency, and Professor Woodrow Wilson, professor of jurisprudence and politics, was elected to succeed him. There was a full attendance of the trustees, and after the meeting had been called to order President Patton handed in his resignation and at the same time suggested that Professor Wilson be elected to succeed him. A prominent member of the board of trustees said that President Patton so strongly urged his own resignation that the board could not do otherwise than accept it. He also said President Patton's suggestion that Woodrow Wilson be nominated to succeed him was acted upon and the election was made unanimous on the first ballot. Mob Strung Up a Chinaman. Idaho Springs, Colo., June 11.—Lou Sing, a Chinaman, has been strung up to a tree twice by a mob and threatened with death if he did not leave the town never to return. The mob's wrath was aroused by the Chinaman's efforts to run away with a white girl named Nellie Merchen. It is not believed the Chinaman suffered severely, other than being cut around the neck with the rope and knocked down twice. Y. M. C. A. Secretaries In Session. Mountain Lake Park, and, June 11.—Nearly 500 secretaries of the Y. M. C. A. from all parts of the United States and Canada are here attending a conference. Sessions will continue behind closed doors until Sunday. The wives of the secretaries, debarred from attending the conference, are holding meetings of their own. Trackmen Stepped in Front of Train. Lewistown, Pa., June 11.—William Minchart and Thomas Trew, trackmen on the Pennsylvania Railroad, in getting out of the way of one train yesterday, stepped in front of a rapidly-moving freight train. Both were terribly injured and died several hours later. Thursday, June 5 Lleutenant General Miles has gone to Fort Riley, Kass., to witness a practical test of field guns. The Missouri State University yesterday conferred the degree of Doctor of Laws on Samuel L. Clemens (Mark Twain). The senate passed a bill extending the free postal delivery service to cities of 5,000 population, or to cities having postal revenue of not less than $5,000 annually. Albert Wertz, of Rossmere, Lancaster county, Pa., while driving a fourhorse队 was struck by a fast freight on the Pennsylvania railroad near Lancaster last evening. The horses were killed and Wertz seriously injured. Friday. June 6. There is no foundation for the report that Mr. Kruger, ex-president of the Transvaal, is ill. He is enjoying good health. The navy department has been notified by Nale & Levy, Bath, Me., that they will launch the protected cruiser Denver on June 21. Secretary of the Navy Moody yesterday sent to the house dispatches concerning the bombardment of the Taku forts in China. Six hundred and fifty head of Texas cattle have been shipped from Pensacola, Fla., as the first of thousands to be used in restocking Boer farms in South Africa. Saturday, June 7. The 155th annual commencement of Princeton College, Princeton, N. J., was held today. The cabinet yesterday discussed the public buildings bill, and it is said President Roosevelt will sign it. Ezvira Lovell, who claimed to be the oldest gypsy queen in the country, died last evening at Harrisburg, Pa., aged 96 years. The house committee on commerce has decided to consult President Roosevelt regarding the bill creating a department of commerce. The safe of the Duncannon National Bank, Duncannon, Pa., was blown open by burglaries early yesterday morning, who secured about $5 in small change and a revolver. Monday, June 9. The Window Glass Trust advanced prices 12½ per cent, and an additional increase may occur in a few weeks. The annual convention of the Federation of American Catholic Societies will be held in Chicago on August 5. Whitelaw Reid, special envoy of the United States to the coronation of King Edward, arrived in London yesterday morning. Nelson Felix, of Sunbury, Pa., an employee of the Pennsylvania railroad, was knocked under a draft of cars Saturday and killed. The steamer Talbot sank in Chesapeake Bay last Friday night and her crew were saved. She sprung a leak and the pumps failed to work. Tuesday, June 10. The Arkansas Democratic state convention met at Little Rock today and nominated a full state ticket. Mrs. Abbie R. Smith, of Scranton, Pa., will endow with $50,000 a manual training school for that city. A movement to organize employees on vessels on the Great Lakes was started in Chicago by the Longshoremen's Union. A picnic party returning to Nashville, Tenn., in a tally-ho was struck by a trotie car and four persons were seriously injured. Rear Admiral G. H. Wadleigh and Captain F. S. Houston, of the United States navy, have been retired, the latter with the rank of rear admiral. Wednesday, June 11. The annual commencement of Johns Hopkins University was held at Baltimore yesterday. Brigadier Generals Sumner Lincoln and Samuel M. Whiteside, recently promoted, have been retired. Secretary of the Treasury Shaw addressed the Maine Republican state convention at Portland today. President Roosevelt arrived at West Point this morning to attend the graduation exercises of the cadets. Three men were killed yesterday afternoon by an explosion in the Aurora mine of the Oliver Mining Company, at Ironwood, Mich. GENERAL MARKETS Philadelphia, Pa., June 10—Flour weak; winter superfine, $2.85@3.10; Pennsylvania roller, clear, $3.40@3.65; city mills, extra, $3.10@3.30. Rye flour quiet, at $3.25@3.30 per barrel, white, at $3.25@3.30 vanilla, red, $83%@84c. Corn was steady; yellow, local, 67%c. Oats were quiet; No. 2 white, clipped, 51c.; lower grades, 50c. Hay market steady; No. 1 timothy sold at $15.50@16 for dew, deer was steady; beet hams, $20@21. Potatoes were $20.50@21. Live poultry sold at 14%c. for hens, and at 10c. for old roosters; spring chickens, $24@28; Dressed poultry sold at 13%c. for choice fowls, and at $12%c. for old roosters; ear was steady, cream- ing, 23c. Eggs were steady, 17%c. for Pennsylvania, 17%c. per dozen. Potatoes were dull; eastern, old, 60c. per bushel. Live Stock Markets East Buffalo, N. Y., June 10.—Cattle were steady and unchanged; prime steers, $7.25@7.60; choice steers, $6.25@6.50; best fat cows, $5.50@6; choice heifers, $6@6.50; butchers' bulls, $4.75@5.25; choice feathers, $5.525; Veals, $4.75@5.25; towhees, $7.00@5.25; Hogs were active and 5@10c higher on light grades; steady on heavy; heavy, $7.40@7.55; mixed, $7.25@7.35; pligs, $6.80@6.85; roughs, $6.85@7; stags, $5.50@6. Sheep and lambs steady; top mixed sheep, $4.75@5; fair good, $4.25@4.50; culls to common, $2.25@2.50; towhees, tops, $7.25@7.35; fair to good, $6@6.50; culls to common, $4@5.50; yearlings, $6@5.75. East Liberty, Pa., June 10.—Cattle were steady; choice, $7.15@.75; prime, $7.05@.72; good, $6@.50. Hogs were higher; prime neavies, $7.50@.75; medium, $6.00@.11; heavy pikers, $7@.75; light lorkers, $6.85@.95; jiggers, $8.80@.90; roughs, $5@.85. Sheep were slow; best wethers, $4.65@.48; culls and common, $1.50@.2; choice lambs, $6.25@.65; veal calves, $7@.775. Negro Found Hanging to a Tree. Newport News, Va., June 11.—The dead body of an unknown negro was found hanging to a tree on the Brierfield road, near the city, yesterday. The county authorities are unable to determine whether the case is one of murder, lynching or suicide, but are inclined to the suicide theory. The scene of the ghastly discovery is in a neighborhood which has witnessed seven tragedies in the past year, murders, accidental killings and suicides. A Murderer's Story WAS sitting at my desk in a detached office of my factory one midsummer night, of the year 1854, when a slight rattle at the window blinds arrested my attention. Reaching for my pistol, I cautiously unbolted and opened the door leading out on the balcony. I was confronted by a cringing, anxious, scared-looking man, whose face, or I should say form, was not entirely unfamiliar. At that date my factory, on the upper side of Canal street, was the last building toward the rear of the city. The two roadways for a considerable distance were unpaved, and the "neutral ground," as we called the green stretch which dided the municipalities was an untrodden tangle of noxious weeds and swamp grass. Some distance above, on the opposite side of the street, two or three small, detached cottages, surrounded by low fences, straggled unevenly along the narrow sidewalk. Still further up Canal street "Wood's cotton press" was the only occupied lot for quite a distance. I was daily at my factory, and occasionally clerical business detained me in the office after nightfall. My shabby visitor I thought I recognized as a tenant of one of the before-mentioned cottages, though I had never met him face to face, as we walked on opposite sides of the broad street. He called me by name, and whispered he was in great trouble, and had been watching my office several nights hoping to see a light there that would indicate my presence. I told him to come in and close the door and tell me his trouble. In response to his inquiring look, I assured him there was no one besides ourselves about the building. By the light of the room I saw he was all in tatters; his clothes, of good material, were torn by thorns and briars and bespattered with swamp mud. "Why, man," I said, "where have you been? And what is the matter?" "Oh, Mr. Winn, I am in great trouble. I have killed a man this three nights ago, and I run away and hide in the swamps all days. And only nights I creep out and watch for your light. I want you to help me. I want you to hide me. Do something!" he added, and the tears raced down his careworn face and dropped upon his ragged coat front. "You have been in the swamp back here all that time? Without food and in all that mud? I only wonder you are not crazy. Here, take a drop of brandy and brace up, and then we will talk it over." I saw he was verging on a complete collapse. He swallowed the brandy and seemed a trifle more composed. I assumed a very reassuring manner, and cheerfully said: "Now, tell me all about it. Maybe I can help you. Mr.-I don't even know your name. You say you have killed a man. Don't you live in one of these cottages across the street? Haven't you a family? I see a woman around there sometimes." I fired the questions at him to get him quieted down, for he was fairly shaking now with nervous excitement. "Yes, yes. I live there. I have a wife; I have no children. You don't know me, but I have always known you since you come out here. And there's nobody but you, Mr. Winn, can help me now." "Tell me all about it now; it's getting late, and both of us are tired. We'll see what we can do to help you. What is your business? and where is your wife? and how did you happen to kill a man? and where did you do it? Brace up and tell me the whole story." "Well, I am in a shoestore down on Levee street, and they sent me to Lafourche on business. This is Friday, isn't it? Well, I got back Wednesday night; it was after dark when the boat got in, and I took my bag and walked to my house. My wife she go to Pass Christian while I bin gone, and so the house was shup in. I open the front door and struck a match and lit the lamp in the hall. Then I just chance to look into my parlor, and there was a man standing there looking straight at me; his hat on like he just come in. I say to him: 'What you doing here?' or something that way. He look back at me, fierce like, and he scowl at me, but he never said a word. I know he heard me, for he scowled and frowned and he come one step nearer me. He look so angry and so fiery that I knew he would harm me if he come any closer, so I put my hand to my pocket. You know, Mr. Winn, out here by the swamps, where there's no houses and no police, a man has to have a pistol handy when he goes around out here, especially after dark. Well, I put my hand to that pistol pocket, and that awful looking big man, so much bigger than me, went to his pistol, too. As I pointed at him I see he was quick, too, and his pistol was pointed right at me. So I fired—quick—and fired first, for he fell, struck right in the head—before he had a chance to fire. I know I killed him dead, he fell so sudden. And the noise just shook everything, he was such a big man, so much bigger than me." I poured out a stiff drink for the wretched man and bade him pull himself together and finish the recital without delay. "What did you do then? Did you touch him to see if he was really dead?" "Touch him!" he almost shrieked; "touch that big man? No; I run out of that house and shut the door behind me; and I never stopped running till I got to the swamp. I bin there ever since, hiding in the weeds all day, and nights I creep out—that night and last night and again to night—to see if your hamp is burning. I ain't been on that other side of Canal street." "Do you tell me you left a dead man in your house two days and three nights. Why, you must be crazy." "What must I do; what must I do?" he wailed. "Nobody knows about it; I didn't see anybody I know on the way out here from the boat; nobody knows I got home." He was so confused that catch ing at such straws, with apparently no reason in him. "Your bag in the house and a dead man on the floor?" I was beginning to lose patience with the frenzied coward. "There's only one thing to do; I will go to the nearest police court with you, and help you out of your scrape the best I can." He was so startled and alarmed at such a proposition that I tried to reassure him, by explaining to his dazed brain, he had the right to protect his property and to defend himself; that he could not have had any response to a call for aid, the police patrol did not extend to that remote part of the city; that there was really nothing for him to do but shoot the man who threatened him, and that he was lucky to have got in the first shot. If we found the man's body on the floor and the pistol at his side, that would be vindication before the law. "So put on your hat and be a man, and I will see you through." I pocketed my pistol, and we started out. It was now long past midnight, and the deserted street, with its grim tragedy across the way, seemed grewsome enough. Except for the light of an expiring moon, we might have had difficulty in avoiding the mudholes and pitfalls of an unpaved street and broken sidewalks. I led the way across Canal street and its neutral ground to the ill- A man in a suit and hat points at a wall with a stick. "SO I FIRED-QUICK-AND FIRED FIRST." fated cottage. The man had such a shaking fit at the gate that he humbled some time before he found the latch, all the while pleading and insisting he could not go in the house. "If I undertake to help you," I said in my sienest manner, "we begin right here. I am going to see just how things are before we get to the police court. I want this story right and straight." Entering the house, all was pitch dark; the light from the oil lamp had long ago flickered out, but I struck a match and lighted the greasy wick. Meanwhile the man leaned trembling against the door of the hall. The dim light fell upon the parlor floor. No man's body was there. A large mirror was shattered into a thousand fragments, over carpet and furniture. The confessed murderer, with stumbling steps, slowly totered forward at my smiling signal. One dazed look into the room and he fell at my feet in a swoon. Gradually the realization of the facts came to him—that his wife must have purchased the mirror in his absence and had it placed to command the entrance to the room. "What she want with that looking glass? She never have nobody here to see it. That thing cost $500. I don't get but $40 a month." "Oh, no," I said, "the glass is thin; it may not have cost more than $20." "Well, she ain't got no more looking glass, and I ain't got no dead man, nuther." I found he was coming around all right, so I proposed that he should go to bed and have a good night's rest and go about his business the next day, after his grewsome vacation. "Mr. Winn, you have been very good to me. No other man would have done for me what you have done. I will see you safe to your office. I am no coward, me." "No, thank you; I shall go to my rooms on St. Charles street. Good night."—New Orleans Times-Democrat. With More Expression. "She sings with much expression, don't you think?" "Possibly, but I thought some of the listeners swore with more."—Chicago Post. JOHNSON, DIRECTOR AND EMBALMER. Imms, 207 N. Foushee St. Corner Broad. MACKS FOR HIRE: phone or Telegraph filled. Wedding, Sup- tertainments promptly attended. Residence in Building, New Phone, 48. KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS OF THE WORLD 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 the Social and Moral condition of humanity.ry and uniform ranks will secure for this organization all sacred institutions of modern events, a grand oppo-puties wanted in all sections of the country to organi-ly address. ALLEN Supreme Voyager, W 37th Street, New York City. This organization has been chartered and legally stituted 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 Moral condition of humanity. 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. "Where's your bag?" "I learn it in the book." With More Expression New Outing and Picnic Park at Jonesboro. There is a New Outing and Pionic Park, Jonesboro, at Fort Lee on the Eastern Branch of the C. & O. R. R. convenient for Pionics by wagon or rail. There is a large pavilion that will accommodate them and other attendants such as guards. Excellent water on the grounds. You cannot find a more desirable resort for church, Sunday School, society or private nics or one that will afford a more perfect day of rest, recreation or pleasure. For particulars as to dates and rates apply at once to JNO. H. BRAYTON, 10 W. Jackson St. Notice !!! 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 improvements contemplated, will be an influence to 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. Old 'Phone' 1983. For information, apply to John coleman, Keeper, No. 2920 P street; Wm. Custaldo, 702 East Broad street; W. H. Jones, 1037, St. Peter street; W. H. Jones, 1037, St. Peter street; Samuel Meredith, 1223 Nohan street; Ebenezer ebenson, 1223 Nohan street; No. 49 1st Market or 2811 9-mile Road; D. J. Chavers, Supt., 1827 Carrington street. RIPANS There is scarcely any conditions of ill-health that is not benefited by the occasional use of a R-L-P-A-N-S Tabule. For sale by Druggists. The Five-Cent packet is enough for an ordinary occasion. The family bottle, 60 cents, contains a supply for a year. WANTED—Man and wife. Man to take care of a horse and cow; woman to cook; best wages paid. Apply, 2601 Grove Ave., city. THE MIDWAY LUNCH ROOM, 726 N. 3rd St. Richmond, Va. MEALS FROM 7 A.M. TO 8 P.M. Term Reasonable, Quick Service. Give Me A Call. MRS. S. L. MITCHELL, Proprietress. Go to Beach Park. Westpoint Excursion and Picnic Grounds.—Only 30 Miles, One Hour's Ride From Richmond, via Southern By. A great many excursions have already been booked for "Beach Park" for June and July. The various attractions and improvements at this popular resort gives it more prominence each season; To close proximity to Richmond, and the unlimited supply of the most wholesome artesian water, together with many other natural advantages, places it second to none as a pleasure and health resort for Richmond people. King William Pier, a substantial structure, extending 689 feet in length and 25 feet wide over the York River, with waterproof roofing as a protection from rain, adds considerably to the beauty and convenience for picnic and other outing parties. In addition to the new Beach Park Hotel, new being erected, you will find other hotels and many nice boarding houses, furnishing cheap rates and good first-class accommodations. The principal attractions are such as fine fishing, boating, sailing, merry-goround, shooting galleries, steam and napha launches, a large dancing pavilion with a band of music day and night, several wells of fine artesian water on the grounds, and various other attractions to suit the older people as well as the little ones. For any other information apply at or write to the Southern Ry. office, 920 E. Main St.. Richmond, Va. Old Phone, 1233. New Phone, 1553. THE PRIVATE LIVERY 700 CATHERINE ST. QUICK TRANFERING AND MOVING. Saddle or Driving Horses, Buggies and Surries To Let at Lowest Prices. N. B. Tandem Lessons Given. Strict attention given to all orders. George Jenkins, Proprietor. V. P. & F. K. of W. Le Cet ee adorn = s te ULAR mr AoE $ SAS a LU SATURDAY, JUNE 14, 1902 FAMOUS OLD HIGHWAY. Oumberiand Road, Constructed Near ly One Mundred Years Awe, eeds Bak oe ‘The most remarkable highway built fn the United States early in the cen- tury was the so-called Cumberland oad, which was to extend from Cum- berland, Md., through southwestern Pennsylvania,’ over the Alleghany mountains to the Ohio at Wheeling, W. Va., and then on to St. Lonis. It was so well constructed that it is a good road to-day. Henry Clay was ita projector and chief supporter, and his services in its behalf are commemorat- ed by a monument near Wheeling. We are told by letters written at that period that “there were sometimes 20 gayly-painted four-horse coaches each way daily. The cattle and sheep were never out of sight, and canvas-covered wagons were drawn by six or twelve horses.” On this great road, which eventually Passed into the hands of the states through which it runs, the government ‘€xpended no less a sum than $7,000,000. Within a mile of it on either side the eountry was a wilderness, but on the highway itself the traffic was ax dense as in the main street of a large town. ‘Ten miles an hour was the usual speed for coaches. From Baltimore to Wheel- ing ran lines of freight wagons which carried ten tons, drawn by 12 horses, ‘and with wheels ten feet in diameter. When Charles Dickens visited Amer- fea in 1542, he traveled by stage coach from Cleveland to Sandusky, 0. De- acribing his experience, he wrote: “At one time we were all thrown to- gether in a heap at the bottom of the coach, and at another we were crush- ing our heads against the roof. Now the coach was lying on the tails of the two wheelers, and now it was rearing up in the air. The driver, who cer- tainly get over the ground in a man- ner quite miraculous, so twisted and turned the team. in forcing a passage corkscrew fashion through the bogs and swamps, that it was a common cireumstance, on looking out of the window, to see the coachman with the ends of a pair of reins in his hands, spparently driving nothing, and the Ieaders staring unexpected at one from the back of the coach, as if they had some idea of getting up behind, A Great portion of the way was over what fs called ‘a corduroy road,’ which is made by throwing trunke of trees {nto @ marsh and leaving them to set- tle there. The very slightest of the jolts with which the ponderous car- Flage fell from log to log was enough, dt seemed, to have dislocated all the ones in the human body. It would be impossible to experience a similar set of sensations in any other cireum- stances, unless perhaps in attempting to go up to the top of St. Paul's in an omnibus.” ‘This description serves to Mustrate the condition of our country roads, generally epeaking, as they were 25 Years ago, except in a few wealthy communities. There has been a won- Gerful change since then.—Pearson’s Magazine. PLANTS WHICH WALK. Rear Wino Ruae~ eouene Mare ceraaets Sane eee Not a few plants are possessed of the actual power of migration, not merely by their seeds becoming scat- tered, but by an actual geographical movement from year to year. The common purple orchid, for instance, forms a new bulb each year, and each year the new shoot appears nearly an inch from the root occupied by last year’s stem. Tulips planted in the shade will often find their wayto a “sunny spot. There is a North Ameri- can fern which sends outa long, grace- fully-arching frond, which, under the y/ Y/, J WZ Wf \W WY \ WY pean (Bhowing Location at End of Second and ation at End burden of its weight of buds and leaves, ‘bends to the earth and the tip takes root, and a new plant soon bursts out Qt this spot. This peculiarity has gained for the fern the popular names ‘of “walking leaf” and “jumping fern.” Several grasses and sedges develor creeping stems of great length, which give rise to new plants at every point or at intervals. The familiar quiteh, twiteh, or couch, is of this character; but the most striking examples are to be found in maram grass and sea sedge that occur on sand dunes by the sea. ‘These plants of the seashore make ropes of their enormous creeping root- stocks wherewith the sands are tied together, and many banks that would otherwise wash away with its first high tide are held intact.—Philadel- phia Record. - An Angelic Ambition, Little Dottie and Clarence quarreled. Dottie is four, Clarence five. “You ain't a good girl,” said Clar- ence. “You ain't going to Heaven.” “I is a dood girl,” replied Dottie, “an’ 1 fs a-doin’ to Hebben. An’ when Lis ‘@ angel 1 is a-tummin down an’ ‘en” (with energy) “I'l pull oo’ hair.”"—Lit- tle Chronicle. @ JAE A WY MANS c y STRATICY. A them. He knew the'young ladic ) o | Tae amar Ea Nh eee oe Chee — M | never spoke of it during ten. T= was an alley man. Everybody who lives on the North Side knows what an alley man is. He is theman who does odd jobs for a dozen fam- ilies and sleeps in the furnace-room of the particular family which has shown the greatest toleration for his pres- ence and to which he owes paramount allegiance. ‘The alley man generally drifts into the neighborhood, per- forms some service that gives him a title to recognition and thereafter he is a fixture, gradually extending his field of operations until he has ten or @ dozen households which call upon him for occasional service and one household which he calls his own. ‘Tim the alley man did a service one day for 15-year-old Jimmie Rutgers, who lived, with his parents in a colo- nial house on Astor street, colonial though it was built only ten years ago; but of such is the kingdom of ewelldom. Jimmie Rutgers was driving alone. A buekle broke and with only one rein at His command Jimmie, though plucky and a good driver, could do nothing, and the horse bolted. Tim stopped the runaway before much harm was done to either vehicle or driver, but indoing Wt Tim got a smashed rib. ‘Thereafter he was a protege of the Rutgers. He had a fine room in the steam-heated stable, and would have been put in charge of the horses had it not been that Tim had an occasional weakness, for gin. He ate at the Rutgers’ kitch- en table, did about three errands a week for the household and did about as many more for each of a dozen oth- er families living along the fashionable thoroughfare. One-half the errands that the alley man runs are at the request of the cook, the laundress or one of the mi- nor maids. ‘This makes the alley man welcome in overy kitchen, and it »!so accounts largely for the fact siat one household is generally kept pretty well informed about the doings of the other households. Tim, however, wasn't much of a gossip. He was getting on in years, and he knew that no matter how great the service rendered might have been, that many an alley man | 2 =e 3, . | Gi if Of Vi Hes fy YW fa Lp et Ti ue, —— a } be \a A We UL < ®) Cite) \ r he) See eas Sr JUST THEN mMMMTE SLIPPED ON A Be TED ON had lost his clientage because he couldn't keep his tongue between his teeth. ‘Tim had been around the North Side neighborhood for ten years. He had the strongest kind of affection for Jimmie Rutgers now James Rutgers, lawyer, age 25. The lawyer recipro- cated the feeling, and more than once had stood between Tim and the dis- pleasure of the head of the house, when Tim had looked upon the gin when it was white and gave nocolor in the eup. Now it happened not long ago that James Rutgers began to think a bit seriously of marriage. About three evenings every week he called at a certain Goethe street residence, on Miss Victoria Mainwaring, who was stunning beyond all question, and who had a lot of money. in_ her father's right. Mr. Jimmie, as Tim called him, also called about once every two weeks at a modest Schiller street residence, where lived Miss Agnes Merrithought, who was pretty if not stunning, and who did not have a lot of money in the right of her father or anybody else. Tim occasionally took flowers to the residence of Victoria Mainwaring and somewhat less than semi-occasionally took them to the residence of Miss Agnes. Tim noticed that his flower- bearing trips to Goethe street were getting more frequent and that those to Schiller street were getting corre- spondingly infrequent. ‘There were other things that told him that Mr. Jimmie was “getting thick,” as Tim put it, in the Goethe street quarter. Now Tim knew a thing or two. He had ron errands several times a week | for two years for both the Wainwaring and the Merrithought households, in addition to having toted many a bou- quet and bonbon box to both places for Mr. Jimmie. With his heart shed- ding tears, so to speak, Tim saw the growing preference of the heir of the Rutgers for “that Mainwaring girl.” It had reached the point where there [was gossip about it in the kitchens, ‘and the cooks one and all predicted an ‘early marriage, as one of them put it, of “Rutgers versoos Mainwaring.” One morning Mr. Jimmie appeared in the stable and called Tim down from above, He led the alley man into the conservatory and pointed out two pot- ted azaleas, both laden with white blossoms. “Tim,” he said, “I want you to take one of these plants to Miss Mainwaring and the other to Miss Merrithought, My father and mother are both in Florida and these beauties are wasting their sweetness here.” It must have been an inspiration with Tim. He knew the Mainwaring and the Merrithought households as ter Jimmie never dreamed of ‘ee: THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND: VIRGINIA. ‘Yes, it must bave been an inspiration. “Mr. Jimmie,” said Tim, “you've told me time and again that I once done you @ service. Maybe.I did, but I ain't never spoke of it during ten years. Now I want yon to dome a service, and maybe you'll be doing one for yourself at the same time. You may think I am crazy, but I'm not. It’s an awful cold day, end I want you to take my jumper, my overalls, my old mitts and my knit cap that pulls way down over the ears and face and take these pots of azealas to Missus Mainwaring’s and Missus Merrithought’s yourself. No, I ain't crazy, and I want you to do something more. Just when the young ladies are going to take ‘*em—you can go into the house with ‘em, ‘cause they'll think it’s me and I'm privileged —you accidentally slip and let the pots fall and break, but don't you do it un- less the young ladies are there.” Mr. Jimmie looked at Tim a moment, as though he actually did think him demented, but then something of a light broke in on his mind, and without a word of question he said: “Tim, rl do it.” It took only five minutes to turn Jim- mie Rutgers into Tim, the alley man. Jimmie téok an azalea under one arm and started out. He went by way of the kitchen and had the satisfaction of hearing the cook tell him that she wanted him to do an errand for her when he came back. The coachman | called him Tim as he passed through | the stable. His cap was ‘way down | over his eyes, and the turn-down at- ; tachment was brought forward to cover his ears and his cheeks. He reached the Mainwaring establish- ment and rang the bell at the lower door. ‘Themaidsaid: “Good morning, | Tim.” | “This {9 for Mise Victoria," sald Jimmie. “It's heavy, and I'll carry, | up to the parlor myself if she’s there." | Jimmie mounted the stairway and went to the parlor, where Miss Main- | waring was reclining in an easy-chair. | It was 10:30 o'clock, but, late as it was, Miss Victoria looked as though she hadn't been up more than ten minu- | utes, and she was fraezled and frumpy. She gave no answer to Jimmie’s “Good mornin’,” but said, peevishly: “What is it?” “An azalea from Mr. Jimmie, Miss Victoria,” said Jimmie in a croaky voice. Miss Victoria looked pleased, and something of interest came into her languid eye. Just then Jimmie sipped on a rug and dropped the pot. It broke into 50 pieces and the earth went ail over the floor. ‘Then Victoria Mainwaring, whom he had known as the embodiment of. all that was sweet and good and gen- tle, broke out. Jimmie heard himself called a blundering beast, an alley rat, senm and a few other choice things that fell from Nps that he supposed could drop nothing but pearls. He got out of range, somehow or other, and made his way back to the conserva- tory. ‘Tim looked at him with a critical eye and probably saw something in his face that pleased him, for when Mr. Jimmie left with the other potted azalea Tim was chuckling awiibly. Jimmie got into the Merrithought household on Schiller street and dupli- cated the Goethe street performance up to the point immediately after breaking of the pot and the spilling of the dirt all over the parlor floor. He had noted, however, that Mise Agnes said: “Good morning, ‘Tim,” and had told him that it was good of him to bring the flower around in zero weather. When the pot was smashed to smithereens Jimmie blurted out an apology. “All right, Tim.” said Miss Merri- thought. “I'll call Sarah, and between you both you can gather up the dirt ‘and put it in another pot and replace ‘the azalea and it will grow as well as ever. These rugs are slippery things ‘and you couldn't help dropping it. Don't feel badly about it; it wasn't your fault.” Jimmie repotted the plant and got out of the house some way. He didn't feel cold, notwithstanding the fact that, unlike Tim, he wore no sweater under the alley man’s blue jumper. Nothing was said in the conservatory, but for some reason or other Tim felt | perfectly satisfied. | Just one year from that time there was a wedding on Schiller street, and the contracting parties, it is more than , needless to say, were James and Agnes. They are living now in a North Shore suburb, and Tim says he likes the. country lanes better than the city al- leys. \ ‘One day recently Mrs. Rutgers said: “Jimmie, why was it you would have ‘Bo decorations at our wedding except ‘Potted azaleas?” ' “Well, my dear,” said Jimmie, “you ‘Must ask Tim.”"—Edward B. Clark, in ‘Chicago Record-Herald. 1 A Natoral Inquiry, } A i Re Re First Office Boy—I asked de boss ter let me off ‘cause me grandmother was dead. Second Office Boy—Wot did he say? First Office Boy—Asked me who wuz goin’ ter pitch at her funeral.—Puck. ‘ Genin: tare 1. A fool and his money are hard ta find. 2. Never put off till to-morrow what some one will do for you to-day. 3. A rolling stone gathers no joy from the scenery. 4. It's an ill wind that dies before it gets up. 5. A miss is aa good as a mystery. 6. One swallow doesn’t make a spring hat. 7. Uneasy lies the head that needs no hair ut. 8. ‘The longest way round is the most saving on the garden gate. 9. Enough is as food as a controlling interest in a trust.—N. Y. Tribune, SONGS AND SONNETS. The Dicentra. T know a flower of such a faint, fair hue As never meadow nor the" roadside knew— Dear to the Hamadryads and to Pan— Of hermit-heart, and shimmering Pro- tean: Fragile in form ax leaf or bloom can be, And timider than the Anemone. Petaled unique, in opalescent guise, Choicest of floral woodland mysteries— Companioned by the cavernove rock and shade, Blushing to find its cool retreat betrayed, ‘The loved Dicentra, hidden from sun and Perennial comes all beauty to dety. Thick-Jeweled wonder of the mold of ‘woods, Inhabitant ‘of elfin solitudes, Arrayed in costume of a sort #0 rare That quéens for it might well in tears despair; Nelghibored by stalwart beech and priest- ly fir, And palpliant to the soft zephyr’s stir. Q orchid rival, @aintier than the rose, No garden favorite thy fond sorcery knows— Here through some subtle, unimagined epell ‘The forest marvol's year-born miracle, In opulent bounty, fills a suniess space ‘With sculptured beauty and transcendent race! Joe! Benton, tm Century. ‘Two Kinds of Dollare. ‘There's a difference in dollars, for some are 80 pure and wholesome and big and delightful; While others which men tn thelr hurry Procure are little and tarnished and frightful. The kood kind brings riches that stand for success with honest, intelligent striving: ‘The others bring only that sense of dis- tress that comes of unmanly conniving. “Tis the sorriest error to measure our gold by the number of dollars; “tis ter To think of thelr quality: find if they hold a genuine joy for thelr getter. For a coin that is good when we win it aright, with conscience and beart in our dealing, Is only a counterfeit, pleasuroless quite to him who obtains it by stealing. Nixon Waterman, in the National, ‘When Pa ané Ma Were Littha ‘When my pa was little like me, He says he always used to mind his mother, And, just’ keep busy, doin’ this and other. “Twas casy to be good, somshow or ‘other, ‘When my’ pa was lttle, ike mo. When my ma was little, like ma, She never did no talkin’ Back, mor Jumpin’, Nor ciimbin’ trees, If she had, she'd got sumpin'— A stick, maybe, or grandma's slipper thumpin'— s When my ma was little, like ma And when I get grbwed up, lke them, T' tell my girls and boys Hew mother And father never used to be a bother. On, FN come out all right, somehow or ‘other, When I get growed up, like themt Estelle Filmore, im Orange Judd ‘Parmer, a Nate ie Within & book of old-time ballads laid: This dead rose of a summer long gone by Once glowed ite red heart to the morn- ing sky: Amid its happy leaves the sephyrs played. Sti tn its withered heart it doth tnclose Long dreams of summer in a silences deep, As in the souls of lovers long asleep le golden thoughts undimmed by Death's repose. And here it marks a little song of tears ‘That some poor lover wept o'er, long ago, Where Nes Love's tender fantasy and ‘wos, Wrapt in the music of departed yeara. “Marion W. Simpson, in Chambers’ Journal. Mls First Day at Scheel. A pair of mittens, warm and red, New shoes that’ had shiny toca, A velvet cap for bis curly head, “And a te of palest rose: A bag of books, and a twelve-inch rule, And tho daintiest hands In towri— ‘These were the things that went te 1001 | With William Herbert Brown, A ragged mitten without a thumb, ‘Two shoes that were scorched at the ‘toes, A head that whirled with a dizzy hum ‘Bince the snowball hit his nose; A stringless bag and a broken rule, And the dingiest hands in town— ‘These were the things that came from ‘school JU Mappy “Billy” Brown. Mary Catherine Hews, in Chicago ‘Evening Post. Swinalea, SHE. Long. jong ago, he saidewith me ‘To cheer him on the way, No place would be so high that he ‘Might not shine there some days But he has failed, alas, and I ‘A lowly way must take; He has not won the splendid, high Position for my sake, B ZX thought to mount if she would amile, But that was long ago, And she has only chided while I've struggled on below: Z've missed both riches and renewn, But I would still be high If she some day would cease to frown And, smiling, bid me try. —S. E Kiser, in Chicago Record-Herald, Gck tebe: Spring Is a time, a poet said, Wren all creation seems in tune, When skies are smiling overhead And sunlight glids each afternoan, And gentle birds upon the tree ‘Delight to trill a dainty lay, And all is fair as fair can be, Ab, this ts what the poets say. Spring ts @ time when microbes climb About your timorous, trembling Arame, You cannot muse on the sublime, Your head aches and you're going lame, And there ts mud upon the street And snow upon the trysting spot And frost and fog and slush and sleet— ‘These things the poet quite forgot. Washington Star. Seon. the Shies Gack How Geep ts love, my heart? ‘As deep as this dark blue sen, How wide is love, my Ute? ‘As wide as this’ world can be How high fa love, my soul “Az high as the stars we sce | ‘That nightly watch both him and me, Go tell my friend, ye waves, . Of your bottomiess depths of love. © worldwide space, Vay mesenge, Coo, ‘And a hint 9 fove. from the ftary above T would send him across the bles, How long will such love last, my friend? } Til sea snd stars and time shail end. Wil N. Andorsen, in N. Y. Independent. Qwie Joming, “He proposed to her as a joke” | ¥en?” } “Well, shhe accepted him. He does not regard himself as a humorist any more.”—Brooklyn Life, Shrewd, Bat Polite. Lady (on windy day)—This window sticks so I can’t get it up. Gentleman (behind)—Mine works easily,madam. Allow me to exchange seats with you—N. ¥. Weekly. FATE SEEMED CRUEL But It Laid the Foundation of Per- manent Happiness. Youns Countess Thanked Heaven * When Her Handsome Lover Was Tiere, for once, a charming girl thanked Heaven ‘that the man she loved had been stricken blind. This affecting story is told by Count de In Garde-Chambonas in his Book, “Anecdotal Recollections of the ‘Congress of, Vienna.” it is apropos of “a young man whose eyes were covered with a black bandage, and who was guided through the crowd by a young lady whose face was hidden by a thick veil.” ‘The young wan was Count Theo- 'dore Hadrick, who, being engaged to [marry Constance, ‘the lorely daugh- ter of Count Amady, went to join the | Hungarian army at Pesth at the head of his vassals: “Theodore, in virtue of several sig- nal actions, deserved the cross con: ferred upon him by the chapter of the Order of Maria Theresa, a dis- tinction considered one of the fore- most in the annals of chivalry. But while the young man supped full with glory, Constance had been car- ried to the brink of the grave by a eruel illness. Stricken down by an attack of most viralent smallpox, she hovered for a long time between life ‘and death. The doctors, while sar- ing her, could not prevent the face which had been one of the most beautiful from becoming almost hideous. She was only allowed to } look at herself when she was on the high road to recovery. “The sight, as you may imagine, filed her with despair, and, con- vinced that Theodore could no longer love her under such conditions, she ardently prayed for death. In’ vain [her father and Comte Hadick tried | to reassure her. Haunted by the hor- rible dread of being no longer wor- thy of her betrothed, she refused to be comforted, and the young girl was > q : | = : Ely AN Gy hy Ms — Wye QS a ER =) jsimply dying of despair, there being not the fainest hope felt. “Nevertheless, one morning when she was nestling in the arms of her father, who bade her live at least for him, the servant, who had accom- panied Theodore to the war sudden- Jy rushed into the apartment, an- Bouncing the immediate coming of ‘his master, whose voice, a moment afterward, was heard outside. “ ‘Constance, Constance, where art thou? “At that voice, so dear to her, the Young girl, lacking the courage to fly, covered her face with her hand- kerchief and her hands. “‘Do not come near me, Theodore; I have lost my beauty. I have no longer anything to offer thee but my ‘heart.’ “‘What do I hear? But look at me, Constance!” “‘No, nol Thou wouldst only re- coil at seeing me.’ E “‘What does it matter, if thy lore is the same, Constance? Constance, Tan no longer see thee.’ “She raises her eyes and looks. Theodore was blind. The charge of @ musket had deprived him of his sight. . “God be praised!” exclaimed Con- Stance, falling on her knees. ‘Theo- ore, we shall be united, for thou canst still love me. I shall. be thy guide; yes, I shall be to thee as I was in the first moments of our love, and thou shalt be able to love me still | “Shortly after that they were mar. ried. Never was there a couple so deserving of happiness more really happy than they. The countess takes her husband everywhere, never leaving his side for a moment” Shock Caused Paralysis, What is said to be one of the most peculiar death certificates received by New York board of health in many years has been filed in the case of Mrs. Bridget O'Connell, 62 years old. It states that her demise was due to “apoplexy caused by her hus- band’s death in the civil war 38 years ago.” Mrs. O'Connell became para- lyzed on éne side when she was in- formed that her husband had lost his lite in battle. A second stroke brought death. ‘wopine: Ettet dit Geen: z The insugance of the lives of chil- Wren fs forbidden in Montreal, on the ground that many parents neglect their sick offspring when they know they will profit by their death. SHREWD CANINE THIEF. Doggie Had Neen Taught to Steal in & Selentite Way by Mis Wicked Miatreas, For some time several articles were stolen from a large store in Paris, France. Every effort on the part of the proprietor to discover the eulprit Proving useless, many detectives were employed. ‘The Parisian detective has @ great name for hie’ <kill, but in this ie | " ml udp) S ey f N Sa Ali vy “4. f Ne rats a i as) pened at last, by accident, to get on the track of the thief. This adroit scoundrel turned ont to possegs four legs. It had never occurred to any- body to suspect a certain dog. Yet this particular animal had been trained by his mistress to become a perfect accomplice. Having indicated the article she desired she left the store. By and by she halted in an ad- foining street and laid down her basket, as if tired. Presently her dog came along in a leisurely manner, with the stolen goods hidden, as well as he could hide them, in his muzzle. When he reached the basket he sniffed at it, and finally, as if curious to see what it contained, thrnst his head beneath the lid, where, of.course, he laid the article. His mistress having rested, or anxious to remove her basket out of the strange dog's way, picked it up and walked off. ‘Sim Webiiods an Wuangh es” In Nuremburg, Germany, 800 work- men are employed making lead sol- iers and lead toys. They turn out about 100,000 lead soldiers a day. ‘The Rrate, Mr. Kawdle—I wish you wouldn't ins terrupt me every time I try to say something. Do i ever break in when you are talking? Mrs. Kawdle—No, you wretch! You go to sleep._—Tit-Bits. Satisfaction Guaranteed, ‘The Boy—This isn’t what she or- dered. ‘The Grocer—I know it. Just tell her this is more expensive, but we'll let her have it for the same price—Indianap- olis News. ‘The Usual Finis, Daughter—All is over. I have dis- missed Mr. Goodheart. Mother—Have you returned his presents? Daughter—No—o, but I sent him back his letters.—N. ¥. Weekly. Ought to Be Perfect, qi “If practice makes perfect—" “well?” “Well, if practice makes perefct she ought to be a perfect fiancee. This is her eighteenth engagement.” — Chie cago Post. _——______ |, Inquisitive Friend—Did you succeed in making a good photo of Miss Got- rox? | Amateur Photographer—No, but I got a strong negative.—Chicago Daily News. | A Sure Thing, | Farmer Mossbacker (behind the, striped tent)—Ain’t this ’ere a gameo* chance? The three-shel! pirate (truthfully) — Nope! 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No, your case is not uncommon, 'Tis a popular distress; Though 'tis not at all contagious, Thousands have it, more or less; Bryce fields to simple treatment, And is the cure? If you follow my directions Convalescence, quick, is sure. Take a bit of cheerful thinking. Add a portion of content, And, with both, let glad endear, Mixed with earnestness be blent; These, with care and skill compounded, That produce a magic oil, That be better than If your heart is dull and heavy, If your hope is pale with doubt. Try this wondrous Oil of Promise, For 't will drive the evil out. Who will mix it? Not the druggist From the bottles on his shelf; The ingredients required You must find within yourself. Nixon Waterman, in Success. DRAMA AT ENNIS' GULCH By PAUL P. HARRIS. [Original.] EVERY miner in the gulch, barring Eddie Grim, who was deaf, dumb and half blind, was on the tip-tie of expectancy. There never had been a theatrical troupe in the gulch nor had the most visionary of its four score inhabitants thought there ever would be. Kansas Joe allowed that no such event could be pulled off. "Women folks never will stand fer being dragged way down into Ennis' gulch 40 odd mile from nowhere jest ter play act fer a gambin' cussin' fightin' passel o'men. Tain't natural, no how. I wouldn't he no respeck for any woman that would so fer forget her sex. I don't lay no calcerations on seein' it done," said Joe. Sandy Crowey, who had been married four times while living in civilization, reckoned women had done stranger things afore now; and Billy Ennis, son of the late Old Man Ennis, who first discovered the rich deposits in the gulch, and who died with his boots on, a few months subsequent to the discovery, the result of carelessness in not "pullin' fust," calculated that there was no accounting for tastes. Kansas Joe's reputation as a shrewd judge of human nature was destined to be shattered, for, on the day appointed, a seraggy, weather-beaten little band of barn stormers appeared. Joe wished that he hadn't been so "sartin" but felt almost repaid for his loss of reputation when he saw the evolution of a theater from the old warehouse. The manager of the company was not at all a tenderfoot, and had had his prospecting for the yellow dust. Though habitually penniless, he was full of good cheer, and many were the good ones that he told at the expense of the fiercely mustached leading man, and even his low comedian came in for his share of drubbing; but the story that meant most of all to his hearers was one he told of the "Little Lady." dark-haired Margaret, who was becoming such a genuine actress. He told them how he found her in Denver, pale and wasted, trying to earn enough money as seamstress to support herself and her invalid moth- "THEY AIN'T A GWINE TER BE NO FORCED MERRIAGES." er; how she had been used to better things, and that she had been defrauded out of her inheritance by a much-trusted guardian, and that it had been within her power to reclaim her own and put an end to all of her want, but that she had not done so, feeling that she could better afford to endure poverty than he, disgrace. Great credit this manager took himself for his keen discernment and his ability to bring to the surface, real genius wherever it existed and however deeply it might be buried in poverty or even worse. The camp learned the story by heart, and when the curtain was rung up, on that memorable night, which proved to be both first and last performance, every one looked for the little lady with the hollow cheeks and the large eyes, and they thought how fine a thing it would have been if she, in the time of her greatest need, could have been deluged with the golden treasure of a night's winnings at the faro bank. The money meant so little to them, and it would have set every thing right with her and her sick mother, and when they thought of the guardian who was responsible for all of the wrong, their faces were not pleasant to look upon. "Little Lady's" part that night might have been taken from her own life, so real was the story of hardship and self abnegation, and her audience saw her only, living as she had lived, suffering as she had suffered before they had known her. A tall, well-boned man, with slightly sooping shoulders, sat on the extreme right of the improvised theater and seemed very much affected as the play progressed. He was swayed by every shadow of emotion as if he were seeing real life instead of a very ordinary play acted by a semi-amateur group of barnstormers. Twice he was seen to grasp his chair convulsively, and when the leading man, he of fierce mustache and commanding mien, swearing by the ever-living God that she, meaning "Little Lady," should be his wife, whether or no, and rushed to seize her in his arms, the tall, well-brown man arose in his place with gun leveled direct on the fierce mustache and said: "They ain't a gwine ter be no forced merriages in this yer house ter night and they ain't no kind er use er enjoyment in sech harriner scenes. Tain't good, neither fer body er soul. Ez fer you, Mister Bad Man, the less seen of you around these yer diggins, the less likely ye air ter find yourself a human tassel swinging at the end of a cord." The speaker was Kansas Joe, the same who a few days before "wouldn't hev hed no respech for a woman that would so for fergit her sex exter come down into Ennis Gulch ter play act for a gamblin', cussin', fightin' passel of men," and he had scarcely finished speaking when four-score weather-beaten tempters of providence, gamblers of pick and pan, arose as one man and hurrahed the sentiment to the echo. Judge Slocum, postmaster, coroner and magistrate, finally managed to get order out of chaos, from his vantage ground on the top of a beer barrel, vouchsafed a few remarks on the occasion. "The time hez been," said the judge, "within the memory of many that I see present, when sich an exhibition of downright cussedness would hev been follored in due course of time with a lynchin; but now, hampered as we air by the friendly rivalry that exists between this camp and our much esteemed neighbors at Pine Knob, ez ter which kin make the best showin' of law and order; curtailed ez our natural privileges hev become by reason of our heartfelt desire ter be recognized abroad ez the most law-abidin' community in this yer neck of the woods, a desire that hez already led to our freely, cheerfully refrainin' from exercisin' our Heaven-born prerogative of hemp stretchin' in the case of Bronco Pete, when nuthin' on airth wuz wuz more sartin than that he stole a rasher of bacon and a sack of beans from the home and fireside of our lamented and dearly beluv'd feller citizen. Ezra Pickett, who died manfully defending his rights to aforesaid bacon and aforesaid beans, to his last breath of life. "I say, gentlemen, a principle thet hez cost us so dearly already, must not be fergot at this moment of trial and temptation. I move thet this company, excloondin' the dangerous-looking individool, be allowed to depart unmolested. I move thet this pusson, of the bear-lied mustache, be given a trial by a jury of his peers and, lastly, I move thet the city marshall be requested ter levy a tax on every self-respectin' critter in the guilch accordin' ter his means and thet the proceeds of the aforesaid tax be presented ter this yer little pale-faced gal, who appears ter heven gettin' the wust of it all along the line, with the best compiliments of the season." This motion, with the amendment that the marshal be instructed instead of requested, as the latter word by no means expressed the meaning and that the instructions be both given and put in execution forthwith, passed the house without a dissenting voice and, though the subscriptions were solicited with a showing of guns, it was more as a matter of form or through force of habit than because of necessity, for there was not a man of the four-score who thought himself rich enough in the remembrance of good deeds, well done, to afford to lose the opportunity. Kansas Joe was appointed a committee of one to escort "Little Lady" and her wealth back over the trail again, and the stories he told on his return elected him mayor of the gulch without opposition. The jury, not being quite certain as to how much of the fierce mustached man's ranting was due to his desire to play act in a realistic manner and how much to pure deprivacy, gave him the benefit of their doubts; but the chairman of the vigilance committee and Judge Slocum, having the welfare and the reputation of the community at heart, escorted him to the county line on the day following his demonstration. Indian with Exeglomer "I noticed something the other day that was to me in the nature of a novelty," remarked a prominent local court stenographer, who has spent considerable time in a business way among the descendants of the American aborigines. "What struck me as strange was my meeting here in Washington with an Indian who wore eyeglasses. In the course of all my experience with the red men I never before observed Poor Lo making use of lenses to aid his sight. Perhaps the name of this particular Indian has something to do with his' adopting what is unquestionably a very necessary custom of civilization. He bears the cognomen 'Foggy Cloud,' and is a member of the Chippewa tribe. All the other Indians of my acquaintance are blessed with keen sight of the most pronounced type, and I do not remember hearing that any of them ever had eye trouble of any character—Washington Star. Japanese Are Fish Eaters. The Japanese eat more fish than any other people in the world. With them meat-eating is a foreign innovation, confined to the rich, or rather to those rich people who prefer it to the national diet.-Albany Argus. THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. HEALTH AND BEAUTY. A healthy condition of the body depends upon a perfect balance of foods taken. There are many other factors entering into the question, but this feature must not be forgotten. Few people there are who can keep healthy without fruit. To assuage thirst and cure feverishness apple tea is a notable sick drink. It is made by slicing up raw apples into a jug, filling up the jug with boiling water, as in tea making, then sweetening to taste. When cold this apple tea will be found pleasantly tart and refreshing. The ideal drink for the weary person is said to be a glassful of very hot milk, sipped slowly. That last warning is perfectly unnecessary if the milk has reached a sufficiently high degree of temperature, for no one could drink it in any other method. But if you try the milk cure for mental or physical fatigue take ten minutes in which to sip it. For those who desire to become or keep thin exercise on foot is better than on horseback or bicycle. A good brisk walk of a mile in ten minutes is excellent for reducing one's weight; it is next best to running. A girl who knows well how to carry herself never looks better than when running, and it is first-rate exercise. 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How to Construct a Convenient Corn Crib and Grannary at a Very Moderate Expense. In the illustration, Figure 1, is shown the elevation of corn crib and granary which is very convenient on any farm where much wheat, corn, oats or barley is grown, and as every farmer soon finds out that it is not practicable to store grain in the barn along with hay and other roughage, owing to the destruction from mice and rats and danger from loss by fire, such an outbuilding is found almost indispensable on every farm of 40 or more acres. The plan covers 20x30 feet, with posts 10 feet in height. The corn crib part is CORN CRIB AND GRANARY. 14x26 feet and is divided into a driveway 9 feet wide and a corn crib 5 feet wide. The crib posts next to the driveway are flared 1½ feet from bottom to top and the crib will hold between 600 and 700 bushels of ear corn. The driveway when not in use for storing corn may be utilized for the storing of wagons or carriages, and with pullleys, the wagon box or hayrack may be drawn up out of the way. The granary portion is 16x20, with alleyway three feet wide extending along between two rows of bins which cover a floor space, each of $ \frac{6}{12} $x14 feet and are 7 feet high. These bins will hold about 700 bushels of grain. They are made of hemlock, matched material; tight floor of the same material above the bins, and upon this floor may be stored four or five hun- CORN CRIB 5×20 DRIVEWAY 9×20 B A B INTERIOR ARRANGEMENT. dred bushels more corn, which may be unloaded from corn crib driveway, thus utilizing every foot of roofing capacity in the building. Small doors which are kept tightly closed, are arranged along the tops of bins next to the driveway and by the aid of a portable chute attached by hooks and staples to side of bin, the grain can be unloaded right from the wagon to the bin very easily. This saves very much heavy lugging of grain at threshing time and facilitates the handling. The outside row of bins are arranged in same manner, only the wagon is driven up alongside outer end of granary building where the chute and port-holes are arranged. At A, in the granary compartment, is left a space 616 feet where the fanning mill is kept ready for use, along with scales, bag-holder, truck, bags, measures, etc. The door from driveway to this room will be found very convenient if at any time it is desirable to shell corn from the crib and store it in a granary bin for feeding. The cost of construction would be hard for me to estimate, owing to the difference in cost of various materials. It is better to put such a building as this upon stone or tile pillars, owing to the fact that all parts will then be accessible to cats and dogs, which will lessen the chances of the enterprising rat or mouse. The building might be erected of hewn or sawed square timber framed together, or a balloon frame. Any good carpenter can figure an estimate, after knowing the material that is available for its construction. —George W. Brown, in Ohio Farmer. Protein for Dairy Cows. For many years the German standard established by Dr. Wolff was accepted as final. A 1,000 pound cow was supposed to require 2.5 pounds of digestible protein. Recent investigations have partially discredited this theory. The best dairymen now prefer to feed protein according to the capacity of the individual cow. It is understood that some small cows will make good use of a ration that contains the full amount of protein while other cows weigh considerably more, will waste part of it, because of their inability to convert it into milk.—Agricultural Epitomist. What the Dairy Cow Needs. The relation of the comfort of the cow to the cash received by her owner for beer products, is one that every dairyman should study with much interest. These conditions—enough good food and purewater, shelter from the heat of summer and storms of winter, and kind treatment, are just the conditions man demands for his own comfort, and just what would be due every animal from every owner, for humanity's sake, even were there no business relations between them.—Midland Farmer. PREVENTING MILK FEVER. Iodide of Potash, Properly Administered, Has Proved a Specific for This Disease. Some time ago we gave in this department of the paper a full account of the new Schmidt method of treating milk fever with a solution of iodide of potash infused into the udder; we are now in a position to give instructions for the prevention of the disease by use of the same drug prior to parturition. Where it is feared that a cow will suffer from an attack of milk fever she should be given a half drachm of iodide of potash twice a day for a week, two weeks ahead of the expected event and three times daily the last week, that is for one week prior to calving. This is for fat cows or such as have had a previous attack and recovered, for such cows are likely to suffer a second and fatal attack. The drug is very strong in its action, and where given for a long time prior to parturition will be apt to kill the calf and run the cow down in condition. It is necessary to get the cow under the control of the drug, but it should, if possible, be done in such a way that the life of the calf is not endangered. We believe that it is safe to give a half drachm of the iodide of potash night and morning for one week prior to calving, and then two drachms at one dose when it is seen that the cow is about to calve, and this treatment will prove effective in most cases, unless the cow is very fat or predisposed to an attack by reason of a previous attack. At the same time the pregnant cow should be well exercised daily and should have soft food rather than a lot of grain. Corn seems to be an especially dangerous food for heavy milking cows that are getting little exercise prior to calving, but bran is found to have a good effect as a preventive in that it does not fatten but keeps the bowels freely open. The iodide should be given in a little water as a drench or may be mixed in the drinking water or soft food, as it has no bad taste, and cattle will not object to its presence in food or water. It will lessen the first flow of milk, but the flow will come back in a short time after the cow gets over the effects of the drug, and less milk is better than risk of having a case of the fatal disease mentioned. Cows liable to have the trouble should be kept off green grass—Farmers' Review. THE IDEAL DAIRY COW United States Department of Agriculture Describes How She Should Be Developed. This illustration and accompanying description of the proper development of posterior regions of the dairy cow are taken from Farmers' Bulletin, No. 143, issued by the United States department of agriculture: The figure shows the proper formation of hind quarters and barrel of the dairy cow. She should be cat-hammed and thin through the lower thigh. She should have a long quarter, and, for the greatest utility and service, be wide at the PROPER DEVELOPMENT plnbones, and particularly so in the region of the loin pelvis. The angles of the body should be evident and clearly defined, and there should be no sign of any surplus flesh, while the udder should be wide, deep, capacious and strongly attached high up on the posterior side. Registered Bulls in Demand Registered Bulls in Demand. The demand for registered bulls of the various beef breeds ought to remain good for years to come, says Live Stock and Wool Growers' Journal. Breeders of registered cattle have it largely in their own hands to maintain good prices, and this they can do if they will make steers of the medium to fair bull calves, although they are from good families, and subject to registration. Nothing will hurt the registered bull so much as selling inferior animals for breeding purposes. No matter how good the herd, there will necessarily be some inferior animals, and breeders can ill afford to sell such except for slaughter. Breeders should work to create a permanent demand for bulls, and this can only be accomplished by breeding animals whose progeny will show up all right. To Save the Cranberry. The department of agriculture is planning a half-acre bog on the Arlington farm near Washington, recently turned over to it as an experiment station. Here will be studied the "scald," which threatens to ruin the bogs of New Jersey, New York and New England, and is slowly spreading to other parts of the country. The regions affected produce seven-eighths of the crop, which a few years ago was valued at $2,000,000. This scald is caused by a fungus which appears to enter the plant through its roots, and cannot be reached by ordinary spraying. Thus far it has not been found at its fruiting season, and little is known of its life history. In the Watches of the Night. Glover—When my wife smells smoke at night she gets the whole house up. Shover—That's nothing. My wife does that when she only thinks she smells smoke—Town Topics. THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA "Varmints" by the Thousand Inhabited a Deserted Shaft—Hole Was "Shot" After the Way of Shooting an Oil Well. The Portland Oregonian says that several mining men who chanced to meet in the office of a hotel in that city the other day were discussing the various mines in a certain district in this state, when one of them spoke of a "wildcat" mine. A logger who was sitting near pricked up his ears at this, and chipped into the conversation. He said that there was the most productive wildcat mine he had ever heard of near the logging camp where he had been working on the Lower Columbia. One of the mining men remarked that his idea of a wildcat mine was one that yielded nothing but assessments, and asked what this wildcat mine produced. "Why, wildcats, of course," replied the logger. He then proceeded to explain that many years ago one had run a tunnel into the side of a hill in search of coal and had run a number of short branches, and had gophered about generally in the bowels of the hill, but finding no coal, had finally abandoned the workings. There were wildcats in that section, and the parties who had been prospecting for coal left several cats at their cabin. The wildcats and the tame cats had affiliated, and had taken up their abode in the tunnel and had increased in numbers. Finally a celebrated bear hunter of that region discovered the half-closed entrance to the tunnel and thinking that perhaps some wild animal might be occupying the place, sent his dogs in to investigate. In a few minutes the dogs came rushing out, literally covered with wildcats and howling like lost spirits. While the fight was going on the old hunter took a hand to help his dogs, and killed 27 wildcats. The cats A LOGGER TELLING HIS STORY. were scared at the reports of the rifle and finally retreated into their hole in the ground. The dogs could not be persuaded to enter the tunnel again and the hunter did not care to enter himself. The cats killed were a curious mixture of the colors of the tame and wildcats, and had tails of all lengths, from the rabbit-like tuft of the genuine wildcat to the elongated "narrative" of the domestic thomas cat. Several attempts were made within the next two weeks to clean out the colony of cats, but to no purpose, as no dog nor man could be found who dared to go any distance in the tunnel. Finally, a cold-blooded scheme was put up on the cats. They were obliged to go out at night to seek for food, so a man was dressed up in half a dozen suits of clothes which no cat could bite or scratch through, and furnished with several giant power cartridges and a coil of fuse, penetrated to the extremity of the tunnel. Next day a crowd gathered about the entrance of the tunnel, and the fuse was lighted. As it burned along into the tunnel the flame, smoke and smell of powder scared the cats and they began to come out, and as fast as they came in sight they were shot down. The shooting and the dead cats terrified those in the rear, and they held back till the tunnnel was fairly choked with a surging, squalling, spitting army of cats, and then the giant powder exploded and several tons of cats were shot out of the hole. "Were there any cats left?" inquired one of the mining men. "Nary a cat," said the logger. "The mine was worked out, and was closed permanently with rocks and earth." Man with Strong Stomach. Phil Melloy, of Dubuque, Ia., is a gastronomic wonder. For a wager he recently ate 85 raw eggs in less than ten minutes. A trickster, watching the feat, smuggled in a rotten egg, and for a few moments this staggered Phil; but he stubbornly went on with his task until the seven dozen were swallowed. Raising Wolves for Bounty. The raising of wolves is a flourishing industry in Nebraska. The state pays a bounty for each wolf-scalp, and some farmers breed the animals in pens. One thrifty farmer raised 100 wolves last summer. Uncle Allen. "You never fully realize the value of time," moralized Uncle Allan Sparks, "until the horse you have put all your money on loses the race by a fifth of a second."—Chicago Tribune. Even Genius Mistakes poet "I can feel the sap rising." "Perhaps it's only softening of the brain, my dear," responded his wife, -Atlanta Constitution. His Philosophy. "There are a great many things about this government that are not properly conducted," said the man who's always apprehensive. "Yes," answered Senator Sorghum, "but no matter what we decide on, there is bound to be protest and indignation. And this being the case, I do not see why I should not have my own way instead of letting the other fellow have his."-Washington Star. SENTIMENTAL CONCEITS. The prime of life is past, and here and there A vagrant wrinkle sets its stubborn seal Upon the face, and gray locks so soft steal Upon the face, and the matte the hair; With not with offense, and so to give alarm, But with insinuating stealth unarm The victim. And looks into the glass And notes the swift encroachment of old age. Yet notes it not, for, seeing, still is blind To what it means; and as the young years pass The budge leaves no impress on his mind; Nor gristles his heart by the language. Lo! 'tus upon him as the swift-wing bird Doth start the hunter with its ringing note As from the hedge it bursts, with noisy throat, All unexpected; Or as music heard In distance, louder grows as it drawn nigh. Then louder still, and swiftly hurries by And dies in echo. Thus old age, the foe Of all mankind, unheralded, doth creep Its way insidious and as silent go In other way, not unattended, so To tull mills, not fast, eternal sleep. —Baltimore News. Where you hung your light belongin's, where the old boys used to swim! In the shaded spot an' cool In the dear old swimmin'-pool. Where you scampered 'crost the common, with the boys let loose from school! It's yonder, in the blossoms—it's hidden far away; An' wouldn't you give millions for a swim like that to day! On the old-time hick'ry limb, near the mosses traillin' dim. To hang your light belongin' where the old boys used to swim! Oh, what are all your millions—your money piled so high— To the old hills that seem reachin' to the blue of Boyhood's sky! To that shaded you set cool. By the deer old swimmin'-pool. Where you scampered 'crost the common' with the boys let loose from school! —F. L. Stanton, in Atlanta Constitution. If. If all the ways were easy And all our tasks were light; If all the weeds bore roses And all our hands were white; If all the purity should fall, Lest he should fall behind. And no one had to worry Because Fate was unkind; If those we love would love us And sweetly tell us so, And only gentle breezes Achieved that should blow If each could have the basket That held the choicest poach, And if to gain the prizes We merely had to reach. A few perhaps would gladly Award some things, But most of us would say Give vent to murmurings; The blessings would be hateful That all alike possessed, Where no one could be richer By taking from the rest. —S. Kiser, in Chicago Record-Her- ald. The Sweetest Girl of All. I've sung of the girls who play at golf, Of the girls who fish and shoot; I've sung of the maid who's not afraid I've pose in her bathing-suit. I've sung of the maid she stands a Duke, And lives in a palace hall; And the footlight maids, with their lights and shades, I've sung of them one and all. But now I will sing in a soft refrain Of the girl you would like to know; The girl who can cook without paper or book, The girl who can darn and sew. Of the girl who never went far from home, Who is void of all social schemes; Who is homely and neat, old-fashioned and sweet, The girl whom you see in your dreams. —Joe Cone, in Woman's Home Companion Song. The sun, and the sea, and the wind, The wave, and the wind, and the sky, We are off to a magical land, My heart, my soul, and I; Behind us the issus of despair, And mountains of misery lie. We're away, anywhere, anywhere, My heart, and my soul, and I. O islands and mountains of youth, O land that lies gleaming before, Life is love, hope, and beauty, and truth— We will be for the sea no more. Behind, are the bleak fallow year, Before, are the sea and the sky, We're away, with a truce to the tears, My heart, and my soul, and I. —Robert Loveman, in Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly. The Little Leaves. The little leaves are peeping out Where others peeped a year ago. And they will swing and sway about While summer breezes sweetly blow. 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It was well warmed and lighted, and there was a sound of laughter and the hum of merry voices. Some one was tuning a mandolin to the piano, and there was a fluttering of music leaves. Company had come in, as usual, to spend the evening. The Moberly irls, that is, the three older ones, all had light hair, blue eyes, and lively, vivacious manners that proved very attractive to the young people in the quiet village. "Pa" Moberly nobody knew much about. He sat out in the kitchen most of the time. It was a dingy little room, and often in the evening he had no light; only the dull glow of the stove and the red sparks of his old-fashioned pine. Pa Moberly was a little, timid shrinking man. He had faded blue eyes, bent shoulders and toil-worn hands. He had worked hard for his girls. He had ungrudgingly given them his best. It seemed too bad that now he was old and they were grown to womanhood they did not care. When Mrs. Moberly was alive, things were different. He had his comfortable easy chair then in the sitting-room; his slippers, too, and there was the lounge to rest on when he was tired. But as his girls grew up, pretty, strong-willed and altogether selfish, Pa Moberly found himself banished from his comfortable quarters. A number of cushions top fine for use adorned the old sofa, and his armchair had three tides on it. He was soon made to understand that he was not wanted. It was not long before he began to stay in the kitchen, and by and by he sat nowhere else. He knew every figure on the dingy papered walls, and the only chair he had to sit in was a straight-backed wooden one, in which he could not rest. He used to long sometimes for his old corner in the sitting-room, with its lights, its laughter and its music, but to his gentle hints the girls gave scant encouragement. "They didn't want pa around," they told themselves. The lonely, tired old man had many thoughts as he sat in the kitchen night after night in solitude, and he used sometimes to ponder the question in his gentle heart as to whether, after all, it paid to bring up girls who were ashamed of you when you were old. Polly did not know about the changed condition of affairs. Polly was the youngest, and more like her mother than any of the others, being small, quiet and brown-eyed. She had been staying for three years out in Pennsylvania with an invalid aunt for whom she had been named. Poor Aunt Bassett was dead now, and to-day Polly had come home again. She was upstairs now, busy in the small back room that the girls had forgotten to make ready for her. As Pa Moberly sat alone in the kitchen to-night he was thinking of Polly. In his yearning, fatherly heart there was a faint stirring of hope. There was a chance that he might take some comfort with this, his youngest daughter. He had felt that from the time she was born. She wasn't like the other girls, and she had seemed so unfeignedly glad to see him. He felt the pressure of her young arms yet about his neck, and her kisses still lay warm upon his furrowed cheek. In the darkness of the old kitchen he brushed a tear from his eye. He was thinking of Ma Moberly, too, and of her gentle, tender, womanly ways. He wished the girls were more like their mother. Just then Polly came in. She went quickly to his side. "Why, pa," she cried, "what are you sitting in the kiteen for, and in the dark, too? Is anything the matter?" In the friendly darkness Pa Moberly took the little hand and stroked it. "Nothing, Polly," he said. "I—I always sit here." Polly seated herself on his knee. "Always sit here?" she cried, in surprise. "Don't you go into the sitting-room evenings as you used to?" Pa Moberly shook his head. "No," he faltered. "But why?" insisted Polly. "You don't mean to tell me you don't sit in your old chair any more?" Pa Moberly's chin quivered. Polly did not know, and it was hard to tell her. Polly was like her mother. "Alice likes to keep that chair for company," he said, slowly. "Oh, I don't mand the kitaen so much, now," he added, as cheerfully as he could. "At least I won't now, since you've come home. I do miss the old chair some, but it's all right." "The girls don't want me in there, Polly," he went on, huskily. "They're young, and there's always company, you know. I don't know as I blame 'em much. No. I can't say as I blame 'em." Polly laid her soft cheek suddenly against the wrinkled one. "You're not old or worn-out or behind the times, either!" she said. "It's a shame for you to stay out here!!" Her sweet, girlish voice was full of indignation. "But never mind, pa," she went on. "I tell you there are better days ahead. I've come home now, and I'm going to look after you, see if I don't. What would ma think if she were here, to see you sitting here all alone in this dark old kitchen? Why, it would break her heart! Come with me, pa!" "Where?" said Pa Moberly, hesitatingly, in his surprise. "Into the sitting-room." "Oh, I can't go in there, Polly; they don't want me." "Yes, you can. I want you. You wouldn't refuse me anything on this my first night home?" Pa Moberly got up. The old wooden chair was uncomfortable, and he rose stiffly even with the help of Polly's arm. "No, I couldn't, Polly," he said. You—you're too like your mother." As they left dark kitchen together Pa Moberly grasped Polly's hand tightly. "I'm afraid, Polly," he whispered. "Wed' better not." But Polly only squeezed his hand in a reassuring clasp, and somehow Pa Moberly felt stronger. Polly opened the sitting-room door, and a stream of light flashed out into the little dark entry. The girls were having a good time indeed. A young lady in a blue dress occupied the piano stool. A young man, with his hair plastered down over his forehead, occupied Pa Moberly's armchair. He had a mandolin in his hand, and was strumming it to the young lady's accompaniment. Alice and Belle and Harriet were sitting about with the liveliest air of enjoyment. As Polly and Pa Moberly entered their complacency faded into astonishment and dismay. What did Polly mean, and what did pa mean, by intruding on their company in this fashion? Polly advanced steadily into the center of the room, still holding her father's hand. How little and shy and bent pa looked, the girls thought, and how determined was the air Polly wore—like a young captain going into battle. It was as if Ma Moberly had come to life. Alice rose. The young lady at the piano turned, the young man stopped "DO YOU MIND TAKING ANOTHER CHAIR, MR. BRYANT?" his mandolin. In all the months he had come to the Moberly house, this was the first time he had ever seen the little, white-haired man who lived there. And who was that pretty brown-haired girl with flashing eyes? Alice broke the silence. "My sister Polly, Mr. Bryant," she said, a little nervously, "and—my father. And this is our old friend, Eva Brent. Pa, you know Eva?" Pa rodded cordially; so did Polly. But something wholly unusual was in the air, and every one felt it. Polly led Pa Moberly up to the young man reclining in the chair. "Do you mind taking another chair, Mr. Bryant?" she said, pleasantly. "You see, this one is pa's favorite. Ma gave it to him. Alice and Belle and Harriet flushed, but Polly was quite undisturbed. The young man was astonished, but he rose quickly, with a stammered apology, and Polly calmly wheeled the chair nearer the pleasant fire. "Sit here, pa," she said, affectionately, "and let me turn the light so it won't hurt your eyes." She adjusted the light to her liking, then pushed Pa Moberly gently into his old place. His white hair shone in the lamplight, and his lips trembled. "There!" said Polly, in a pleased voice. "Isn't that better?" Regardless of all onlookers, she kissed the withered cheek; then she turned to the ethers. "Go on with your playing, won't you, Eva?" she said, gently. Nobody spoke; then the young lady turned to the piano and the restraint was quickly over. Pa Moberly's eyes grew moist. How soft the chair was, and how comfortable was the touch of the little, firm hand upon his shoulder! And there was something else. He knew and every one else knew that his lonely hours in the old kitchen were over. To-morrow the straight-backed wooden chair would be pushed back, to be occupied no more. The firelight could play on the dingy walls, the mice could scamper at will over the floor. Pa Moberly would not be there to see. Folly had come home to take care of him, and Polly was brave. It was, as if Ma Moberly had come to life again. Youth's Companion. Reflections of a Bachelor Children are a necessity that is as expensive as luxuries. Great men look into other people's mirrors; small men into their own. Women don't worry so much about how the other half lives as how the better half lives away from home. There is never any telling when a man asks a girl to marry him whether she is going to refuse him and be sorry or accept him and be sorrier still.—N. Y. Press. Without End. "Pa, why do they call it the sewing circle? They don't sit in a ring." "No, my son; but they start a piece of gossip and it goes round and round." Philadelphia Bulletin. THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA HEROES AND HEROINES. People Who Bear the Unbearable with a Serene Faith in the Providence of God. Everybody admires heroism. The qualities of character which hurl one to the forefront in a critical moment, careless of danger, reckless of consequences, claim our unstinted applause. But in the emergency, when the air vibrates with excitement, a man becomes intoxicated with courage, ordinary soldiers do deeds which would grace a god of Olympus and the coward is so rare an exception that he becomes invisible. Human nature, when impelled by a strong passion or a noble ambition, surprises itself. The poor village lout has a capacity for endurance and brilliant work which needs only time and incentive to become divine. The rattle of musketry is the stimulus to great achievement. The perilous expedition, with sudden death lurking in ambush, will always find volunteers. Man is a rude, crude, but grand sort of creature, with the making of an archangel in him. There is a mettle in his soul which has not yet been fully called forth. He is a Toledo blade which the hot fire of circumstance will some time temper. He is nobler than he knows or ever can know until he is forced to show himself by opportunity. So much for physical heroism. It is generally exhibited in the gaze of the world. There is another kind, however, and a higher kind, which never sees the light of day—the quiet heroism of an obscure life. The majority of our heroes and heroes will be unknown to us until we get to Heaven. They are not now walking on hilltops, where they can be observed of all men, but are living quietly and sacrificing patiently in their narrow sphere, waiting for the peace and rest which will come "at eventide." I have known many such, and have never looked into their sad faces without thinking that there is a courage to which that of the battlefield is a trivial circumstance, the courage which endures with resignation and meets inevitable suffering and misfortune with a calmness which is God's best gift. Here, for example, is a woman who on her wedding day saw nothing but blue sky and sunshine. It seemed as though no shadow could throw itself across her path. A light heart and lips of laughter—nothing more. She did not know her own strength, for she had never been tested. But the avalanche swept down the mountain side and buried all her hopes. The day was turned to night, and even the stars refused to come out. Sickness, death, poverty followed in logical succession. She was face to face with a hard world, her children crying for bread. The friends of other days had their attention called elsewhere, and they saw her not. Alone in the struggle! And yet she bravely set to work, won her way to a livelihood, walked her lonely path in calm confidence that God still lived, brushed away the tears and grappled with fate. The struggle has told on her, for her hair is gray, and there is a book in her face which comes only from sorrow hard to bear. You do not know her, or perhaps care to know her, but that life is one long list of heroisms, and when we all get yonder and look back on the past we shall see the path she has traveled, the upward climb of her years, and give her the need of praise which a thoughtless and ignorant world now refuses. There are no nobler qualities of character than her uncomplaining endurance, her persistent patience and her undimmed faith. The future has crowns for such souls, and God and the angels walk with them on their way to the New Jerusalem. I know a man who has given his life to an aged parent, and another who has been bedridden for years, shut in from the pleasures which we most prize, and still another whose life has been a long sacrifice for his children, and another who—but why continue the list? I do but remind you of a similar instance within your own knowledge. To meet such a fate as that requires the sublimest courage, not the courage of despair, but the courage of faith. There are flowers even in such byways as these, joys which cheer the heart and spots of happiness like oases in the desert. It is strange, but the presence of God and the conscious companionship of angels can bring bright days and starry nights. It is not our surroundings, after all, that bring peace, for if peace is in the heart it throws its light over all. The root and foundation of this heroism is religion. There must be faith that above us and around us are helpful and cheering influences, and that what strength we need will be given us for the asking if we are to meet sorrow and misfortune with quiet fortitude. And the more we realize the presence of God the easier it is to bear burdens. If we could once catch a glimpse of an angel's face we should be lighthearted even in the dark. At any rate, we can have faith that loved ones are near, though invisible, and it helps us as nothing else can—George H. Hepworth, in N. Y. Herald. Recipes for Troubles. If anxious and depressed, read Psalm 23. If lonesome and unprotected, Psalm 97. If losing confidence in men, i Cor. 3. If pelted with hard words, John 16 and Psalm 2. If discouraged about your work, Psalm 12 and Gal. 6, 7-9. If all out of sorts, Heb. 12. These recipes have been tested and can be relied on always to turn out well. A Mere Pretender. "Some call him a philanthropist." "Nonsense! 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In Rotomahona, New Zealand, there is an immense geyser, which covers an area an acre in extent, and constantly throws columns of water to vast heights, some of them ascending 300 feet, with clouds of steam which go much higher.—N. Y. Sun. She Had Missed It. "Of course, you're read Homer's story of Ulysses and Calypso, haven't you?" "No; I really can't say that I have. There's so many books keep coming out now, don't you know, that I just simply pretend to keep track of them all."—Chicago Record-Herdal. Too Much Free Trade "How did you ever fail in the grocery business with so many customers?" "Free trade did it." "But there is no free trade in your goods." "Yes, there is. My customers didn't pay their bills."—N. Y. Herald. Diplomatic. "Father, I wish you'd spank me a little bit." "Why, Tommy, the ideal Spank you—what for?" 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For all information concerning Stock, De. apply to the Cashier. It s are fitted up with modern improvements. Building city. Polite officials will be pleased to serve you. 4 PER CENT Interest Paid on All Deposits Remaining 60 Days or over. 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. W.M. A. HANKINS, Vice-President. THOS. H. WYATT, Cashier. BOARD OF DIRECTORS: J. C. FARLEY, W. F. GRAHAM, E. R. JEFFERSON JNO. R. CHILES, B. P. VANDERVALL, SEC'Y, D. J. CHAVERS, W.M. A. HANKINS, JOHN MITCHELL, JR., JNO. T. TAYLOR, H. F. JONATHAN, THOMAS SMITH, R. W. WHITING, THOS. M. CRUMP, E. A. WASHINGTON, J. J. CARTER, WILLIAM CUSTALO. JOHN MITCHELL, JR., President. WM. A. HANKINS, Vice-President. THOS. H. WYATT, Cashier. A. D. PRICE MERAL DIRECTOR, EMBALMER AND tars promptly filled at short notice by telegraph or te- tings and nice entertainments Plenty of room with Large picnic or band wagons for hire at reasonable class carriages, buggies, etc. Keeps constantly on ha- 122 EAST LEIGH STREET A. D. PRICE, All orders promptly filled at short notice by telegraph or telephone. Halls rented for meetings and nice entertainments. Plenty of room with all necessary conveniences. Large picnic or band wagons for hire at reasonable rates and nothing but first-class carriages, buggies, etc. Keeps constantly on hand fine Funeral Supplies. LL DAY & NIGHT-Man on Duty OPEN ALL DAY & NIGHT—Man on Duty All Night: 4 PER CENT LOANS NEGG is solicited. For all i Loans, Etc., appl Apartments are fi gas and electricity. JOHN MITCHELL, BOARD OF DIRE JNO. R. CHILES, B. I. JOHN MITCHELL, R. W. WHITING 'PHONE. 577 Capital $25000. In All Deposits Remain- over. Patronage of the Public ing Stock, Deposits, and movements. Building lighted with led to serve you. A. HANKINS, Vice-President Cashier. F. F. GRAHAM, E. R. JEFFERSON J. CHAVERS, WM. A. HANKINS, JONATHAN, THOMAS SMITH, WASHINGTON, J. J. CARTER, NEW PHONE, 1133. [Residence Next Door.] OFFICERS