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THE RICHMOND PLANET "HE LOVED HER SO!" Gushing Letters to A 14 Year Old Colored Girl. Came To Richmond To Meet Her. MR. JORDAN WRITES LETTERS TOO—ARRESTED FOR ATTEMPTED ABDUCTION.—CASE TO BE HEARD THIS MORNING. VOL. XIX NO. 46 "HE LO PECULIA OF A Gushing Letters Came To MR. JORDAN WRITES LE DUCTION.—CA Section 3678.—If any person take away or detain, against her will any female, with intent to marry or defile her, or cause her to be married against her will, against any person, having harmful charge of her, a female under sixteen years of age, for the purpose of concubinage or prostitution, he shall be confined in the penitentiary not less than two years, and over any person who shall assist or aid in such abduction or detention for such purpose shall be guilty for more than two years of penitentiary not less than two nor more than five years. Section 3888.—Every person who attempts to commit an offence, and in such attempt does any act towards its commission, against her will, otherwise provided, be punished as follows: If the offence attempted be punishable by confinement in the peententary, he shall be confined in jail not less than six nor more than twelve months. — CODE OF VIRGINIA. Bumpass, Louisa county, Virginia was arrested in this city Sunday afternoon, shortly after 12 o'clock upon the charge of attempting to abduct for immoral purposes Miss Josephine Johnson, the pretty and attractive 14-year-old daughter of Mr. Ned Johnson, a colored farmer, who lives on a farm adjoining the one owned by Eastham. This white man is about 45 or 50 years of age. His hair is heavily sprinkled with gray. He wore a musache turned up at the ends, which gave him a jaunty appearance. He is unmarried and I has charge of 7 or 8 farms in Louisa county, employing a large number of laborers. The arrest was made on the corner of First and Duval streets by four police officers, two of whom were in citizen's clothes. At the time Eastam was making his way towards Miss Johnson, who was designed to sent to the neighborhood by her relatives where Eastam had made an appointment to meet. STUNNED BY THE EXPOSURE He seemed stunned when he found out the predicament in which he had placed himself and keard the warrant read, which had been sworn out for his arrest by Mr. B. J. Lordan, Miss Johnson's brother-in-law, with whom she is stopping in this city. It would be well to state here that Mr. Jordan is one of the most prominent colored residents of this city. He is a man of great influence and prominence, being a Director of the Southern Aid Society and the General Inspector Eastham was carried to the Third Police Station and locked up. Failing to secure ball, spent Sunday night behind the bars and was carried to the Police Court in the prison van last Monday morning and was in the pen with the other prisoners. TROUBLE WITH THE GIRL'S FATHER. It seems that this white man has been infatulated with this girl for a year or more, but she avoided him and the affair caused illfeeling between her father, Ned Johnson and Eastham. She came to Richmond to spend the time with her sister, who is Mr. B. L. Jordan's wife. While here James P. Eastham's wife secured her address and wrote to him his name. Miss Johnson gave the letter to Mr. B. L. Jordan and he brought it to Editor John Mitchell, Jr. MR. JORDAN ANSWERED. Suffice it to say that J. P. Eastham received a letter in reply to his anonymous communication, but it was not written by Miss Josephine Johnson as supposed. In his blind infatuation, he gradually threw discretion to the winds and not only signed his name, but came on to the Horse Show, for which he "didn't give a d—m." His pleasing letters, heartfelt expressions of dying love, were completely uncovered when he was induced to designate a "nice" place for the object of his affection. The following letters explain themselves and have only to be read in order to be appreciated. Miss Johnson did not conduct the correspondence, but her brother-in-law seems to have been quite a success in this direction. This letter was given to Mr. B. L. Jordan by Miss Johnson being the first she had ever received from Eastham. The sub heads are ours. Oct. 5, '02. Dearest One: Doubtless you will be surprised to receive this letter and I assure you that I would not take the liberty of writing to you, but for the fact that much as I have tried, I have never yet had a chance to talk with you any and I can tell you that I had much rather be near enough to look into those sweet, pretty eyes, and to be in hearing of that sweet voice than to be 50 miles away and have to satisfy myself with writing. A COLORDED FELLOW HERED HIM. I tried to see you when you wore up here, but it seems that it was not intended that I should. I should surely that I would get a chance to talk with you that Monday afternoon when you went down to the store, but you brought John Taylor back with you and I just had time to get out of the way when I saw him with you. I think you treated me best mean. You just brought him back to keep me from talking with you and he 'bothered me that other time when I passed you in the wagon and I don't like him any better for it I can tell you. ;LEFT TOO SUDDENLY. What made you leave up here so suddenly? I had heard that you were going to stay until Christmas and I did not know any better until the day after you left and then I heard that you had gone and I hope that I will never have to feel that way any more. I never had anything to hurt me as bad in all my life. I thought I would never stand it in the world. WOULD GIVE HIMSELF TO DEATH. I thought I would grieve myself to death anyhow and I don't feel much better yet. Josie darling, sweet little Josie, I love you better than anything on earth and that's the truth if I ever told it and I do wish that you would let me come down there and see you, wont you darling? NO ONE WOULD EVER KNOW Why not, no would ever know it and I hate it so bad, that I have known you all of your sweet, little life and yet I have never had any chance to talk with you any. Though I have loved you so long, ever since last year, and you are "prettier than ever this summer," if such a thing is possible, I do know that you have the sweetest, prettiest eyes, I ever saw, and the prettiest hair and if any man can look at you and not love you he can do what I cannot do, for I love you all I know how, and that's all I can tell you. PLEADING FOR THE MEETING: Josie, precious, sweet little Josie, wont you let me come down there to see you? Say yes, wont you, darling? I am coming down to the Horse Show this month, but I don't care to come unless you will tell me that I may see you and if you will, I promise on the honor of a man, that no one shall ever know it and you can surely trust me, whether you think so or not, because I never tell any one my affairs and I certainly don't want any of these boys up here to know you, it can depend upon that all right. COULD DO ANYTHING. If you will let me see you, when I come down I promise you that you shall not be sorry for it. You shall have no fault to find of me and you know I can do anything I want to do. Josie, please don't slight this letter. Answer, it wont you! No one will ever know it, because I get lots of letters from Richmond and you could change your hand so that no one at the office here would know it and write on a pain envelope, such as man use for business. Get some man to back it for you that you don't know either of us. COULD BE NO HARM TO ANSWER. Josie, it certainly is no harm, for you RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1902. to answer this, as I have written to you first. If you fail to take any notice of it, it will certainly make me feel bad. I will think you are mad and that you are going to show it and "give me away." and I think it would be real mean if you do that, because you certainly have no better friend in the world than I am. WAS CAREFUL ABOUT HIS BUSINESS I hope I have not offended you by writing to you as I have. I would not have you to get mad with me for the world. Now, please don't give me away. I don't want any one to see this, but your own sweet self and I would hate sc bad for any one uphere to know any- thing about any of my business. I will mail this to Fredericks Hall or on the train, as I do not want the P.M. here to know it and no one at the Hall knows me. If you do not know who this is from [see at top] remember this word that I have told you before, that you are "prettier then ever this summer." Good by, S. [Side notes.] Good-by, my loveliest and best and dearest—my darling, sweet little Josie. [Excuse pencil and stationery.] Do you remember the fellow that passed you on horse-back at the station the Sunday morning the meeting commenced at St. Thomas? MR. JORDAN COULD WRITE LETTERS TOO. Mr. B. L. Jordan's reply to this letter seemed to have answered all purposes. Eastham wanted Miss Josie Johnson to get some one else to back the letter and also wanted her to use business envelopes and these requests were compiled with. The missive was evidently so satisfactory that he began it with "Burn this," and left out the word "am" in telling of his coming. He also threw off all reserve and signed his name in full to the letter. I coming Friday morning, the 17th. My Dearest Josia:— I just received your letter this afternoon and that is why I have not written before. I waited so that if you were going to write I would surely get your letter when I went. I wish now I had gone to the office sooner as I am afraid that I am not giving you notice enough but you must try and meet me some where tomorrow if you possibly can. If you can't do that I will have to stay in town until Saturday, because I can't live without seeing you "and that's right." WANTED. THE LETTER SOONER. I am awful sorry that I did not get your letter sooner so you must excuse me for not writing before, I will not try to write much now as I am in a hurry to get this off this aft. Now you must try to meet me somewhere, where I can talk with you as much as I want to and no body can say anything. I will have to leave it to you to fix that—because you know I will not have time when I get there. MUST PIX IT RIGHT I hope you will fix it right for you know you can depend on me and you know you can trust me all right, because you may think I am lying, but I love you and that's the truth, if I ever told it and I have told it, a few times in my life I know. POOR OPINION OF THE HORSE SHOW. I don't give a d——m 'for the Horse Show. All I am coming for, is to see my sweet little Josie. So you must fix it all right so I can see you and tell me right plain so I can find you all right. In the afternoon will suit me best if it suits you and now, "My only Joe and dearie O" LOOK INSIDE FOR MY ADDRESS. I will give you my address below. Don't write before 11 o'clock as I want to get there first, and you can write as much later as you like and you can send it by some one or through mail. This man wont think anything, I will tell him it is from some of my country friends, it can be left there, and I will call for it. J. P. EASTHAM, care of Chas. P. Seitz, 1210 E. Main, St. The following letter was postmarked Oct. 17, 1903, 8:30 P. M., received at 809 N. 81st St., at 11 A. M. Dearest Josie:— I did not get your note until so late that the only way I could write to you would be by private messenger or by special delivery, for in no other way could I get a note to you in time and I don't want to do either, because I am afraid I might "give you away." I had called there a good many times during the day but as there was nothing for me, I had about concluded that you were not going to write. I am awfully sorry I was out and did not see the boy because I would much rather have seen you tonight. As it is, I suppose I will have to take in the horse show. d——m the luck. COULD FINE PLENTY PLACES. It's all my own fault for not writing sooner. I can find plenty places where I could see you—but I don't know whether they would suit you or not. So I hate to do it, but I will have to ask you to try and find a place tomorrow and write me word where and what time. I will have to leave town about 5 P. M. Now you know the city, better than I do, and I know you can find some place if you will try. Now you must do this for me—because I just can't go back without seeing you—that's all I need for. I will come anywhere any time I want to wish I would have been the best time, but I can't help that now and I certainly do hope you can get off tomorrow as I don't know when I will be in town again. I would have gone home to-night, but that I failed to see you. THOUGHT HIS PLAN A GOOD ONE. My plan is a good one as no one can possibly think anything. Write to me through the Richmond Post Office like I will tell you and it will be there until I call for it. You will have to send it by some one so as to get it there early. Have it mailed at the Post Office and no where else cr I will not get it in time and don't put me off too late in the day because I want to see you as long as I can. Good night, darling, Years now and always, "You know who," Direct as below, J. P. EASTHAM, Gen. Dal., Richmond, Va. P. S. If you had rather, you can send it to the same place. I leave that to you. The following letter was received October, 18, at 5 P. M., by Messenger; Dear Desi: I wrote you last night and asked you to answer today through the mail, but I have not heard one word from you, and I don't know what is the matter I am afraid I have made you mad. I did not get your letter until late yesterday, so that I could not fix things like I wanted. I want to see you so bad that I want to see you again and go on the 2 o'clock train tomorrow. If you will tell me that I may see you before I go. Now please darling, don't make me go back without seeing you. DECLARED HE LOVED HBR. Now you know I love you, don't treat me so bad, Josie, precious sweet little Josie, tell me that I may see you before I go and I will stay until 2 o'clock tomorrow. If I can't see you, please let me know at once and I will have to leave on the 7 o'clock train to night. If you don't know any place, let me know if I must find a place and write to you again, now you must tell me something right away. I will tell the boy to say this is from a girl friend of yours. I wait at above named place until I hear from you. MUST NOT GIVE HIM AWAY. Don't ever give me away and if can't see you, please let me know in time to go on the 7 o'clock train, but I want to stay and see you. Now, don't deny me darling, you know it will nearly kill me if you do: If you don't know of any place, tell me if you will meet corner of 14th and Broad, St., tonight and I will go out there and make some arrangement and will be there—or go out to the horse show and I will see you out near the door and talk with you. Say what you will do and let me know at once." Mr. Jordan's reply was all that could be desired for he immediately disclosed his purpose. This letter was received Oct. 18, 1902, at 7:30 p. m. THE PLACE APPOINTED. "Maggie Smith, 320 Jail Alley—Not far from old C. & O. Passenger Waiting Rooms. Go up Broad St. from old C. & O, waiting room about 100 yards and turn down the alley—it is very little ways, or go past old C. & O, waiting room as if you were going up Broad and then turn down that road that goes through it. To me I meet very few people this way. I think for you at the end of the road at side of Broad, and if you want me, I will walk with you." HAD JUST BEEN THERE. "This is a nice, quiet place and no one there but the owner. Have just been there. The woman is all right. Don't fall to come. The reason I chose this place is be- cause you said you would have to go to market and it's near there." No more disreputable neighborhood in town could have been found than that specified. Jail Alley has been the residence of some of the worst characters in the city, and to designate such a locality was in itself a tell-tale confession of his motive. BITTERLY DISAPPOINTED. The following letter was received Oct 19, 1902 at 11 a.m., through messenger boy sent to 809 N. 31st St.: Dearest Josie: I received your note after so long a time. I thought the boy had fooled me. I am bitterly disappointed because I didn't see you to-night. It looks if it was not intended for me to see you, but I still live in hope. I don't suppose a man has lived in hope. I trying to see one little girl before, but think she is worth all the trouble and I will not mind it, if I only see her at last. I am awfully sorry I had to write to you so much, because I don't want to make it hard for you with your people, but I could not help it. COULDN'T GIVE HER UP EASILY. I have been loving you too long to give you up easy, but I tell you I had about given up to night until I got your note. I thought sure the boy had fooled me. Of course there are plenty of girls and pretty ones, too, but There is only one girl in my room, that's Josie, the sweetest darling of them all, and I am stuck on her right, if ever a fellow was. MUST LEAVE THE OLD TOWN. I came down here to see you. I have staid until now trying to see you and have not seen you yet, but I have got to leave this old town to morrow at 2 o'clock, no matter what happens, so I hope you will meet me as early as you can. I want to see you as long as I can and I think I have worked hard enough to deserve to see you—don't you, sweet hearts? WANTED PLAIN DIRECTIONS. I will send this out to morrow at the time you said and I hope you will give me plain directions so that I can find you and tell me what to do so that I wont make any mistake. I don't know a great deal about the city. I send card with the name of the place where I will be to-day. So that if I fail to find you, you will know where I am. Always your lover and friend, Good-by." WILLING TO STAY LATER. "P. S.—If it does not suit you to meet me so early, I will stay till the 7 o'clock train to night and I will stay any how, if you will stay with me a long time. Tell me what time to meet you and what time you are going." Card is as follows: Old 'Phone, 1858. THE PEN-MAR, Phil, G. Kelly, Proprietor, Richmond, Va. Franklin St., Cor. 17th. Hotel and Restaurant. When Eastham wrote the letter appointing the place in Jail Alley, Mr. B. L. Jordan responded with one naming a respectable family's number at 18 E. Duval St., and designating Sunday morning at 12 o'clock as the hour. In the mean-time, he went up to the Third Police Station and swore out the warrant for Eastham. The officers were late in reaching the spot and so was Eastham. HIS FAMILY WITNESSED Mr. Jordan had brought over his wife and baby and they were placed in the drug-store, together with Miss Josie Johnson to await developments. Editor Mitchell was an interested observer. Shortly after 12 o'clock, a white man was seen at the corner of first and Duval St. He made some enquiries of of the colored man on the corner, asking him as to the location of the number. LOOKING FOR THE NUMBER. The colored man walked out into the middle of the street and pointed towards the place. As there was funeral at the Sixth Mt. Zion Baptist Church, many people were about and this disconcerted Eastham, who walked uneasily about the corner. Finally it was decided that Miss Josle should go to the corner in order that It might be ascertained whether or not he was the right party. She did so. She had not reached the corner before he started towards her with generous strides. WAS THE RIGHT PARTY. She came back waved her hand and nodded her head and the officers who were concealed in the drug-store came towards him with regular strides. This disconcerted Eastam and he moved in an opposite direction. They arrested him on the corner occupied by the Catholic Sisters and when last seen, was in the midst of the officers on the corner of 1st, and Jackson Sts., awaiting the arrival of the patrol wagon. The Police Court was thronged last Monday morning. The docket was heavy, but Eastam's case was reserved until the last. During all that time, he sat in the pen with the lowest dregs of the city. He was represented by Attorney Harry C. Glenn. Mr B. L. Jordan stated to His Honor, Justice John J. Crutchfield that Mr H. M. Smith, Jr., whom he had decided to retain in the case for the prosecution was on his way from the Henrico county Court and he was therefore obliged to ask for a delay. After considering the matter, His Honor decided that the prosecution was entitled to delay and he postponed the case until Saturday morning. He allowed to allow Eastamn bail in the sum of $500.00. When last seen, he was sitting beside his counsel awaiting the arrival of a bondsman, who had been sent for. MISS JOHNSON'S STATEMENT Miss Josephine Johnson was interviewed by Editor Mitchell and in reply to questions said: "I was born May 20th 1888 in Louisa county, Virginia. My father's name is Ned Johnson and my mother's name, Susan. They have 18 children and I am the youngest girl. I have five sisters married and living in Richmond. My father owns about 80 acres of land across the road from Eastham's place. I have been staying in Richmond with Mr. Jordan for about three years returning home in the summer. My father farms for himself and is 59 years of age. He has worked for Mr. Eastham. THE FIRST INTERFERENCE. The first time he interfered with me was about a year ago. He passed me on horse-back and he said he would get off the horse and kiss me. I said, No you wont, and he went on. The next time was the third Monday morning in last September. He was in a wagon and asked me if I wanted to ride. I said nothing and he laughed and went on. My parents about it both times. The last time my parents about evening of the same day, he was on his horse by the side of the road. He said, If any one can look at you without loving you, it is more than I can do. A COLORED MAN HER PROTECTOR. I was then going to the store. When I came back, I brought John Taylor, acolored man, about 35 years of age back with me. I asked him to go back with me on account of this man. Mr. Eastham was on his place cutting corn. This is the time which he referred in his letters. He attended the protracted meetings at the colored church, St. Thomas, of which Rev. C. H. Phillips is pastor. He was on Monday, and Friday nights. They came on the second Sunday in last September. He was on the side of the road after church as I passed but I was with my mother and he did not interfere with me." A Brilliant Marriage. The marriage of Miss Lena V. I. Sham to Mr. Randolph Williams took place last Wednesday, 22nd inst., at 5 P. M., at the Ebenezer Baptist Church in the presence of a most representative gathering. Rev. R. Wells, pastor emeritus affiliated in a most pleasing way. The deep-toned organ sounded the wedding march under the skillful touch of the accomplished organist, Miss Nannie B. Jones. The relatives of the contracting parties entered by Mrs. W. H. Isham, who wore a handsome black silk, trimmed with satin and lace. Then came the bridal party proper in the following order:—Messrs. W. H. Isham, Jr., and Edward Stephens, W. E. Peps and W. W. Pinkatt. Miss Carsie Isham entered alone. T. H. Jones and groom. W. H. Isham and bride. The wedding march was played during the ceremony. The bride wore a pearl gray silk, trimmed with passamaterie and satin. The hat, white pan velvet, with ostrich feather and white tulle veil. She carried a bouquet of bride's roses. The groom wore the conventional suit of black Mr. A.D. Price. The liverman officiated. Married. The marriage of Miss Ada B Jones to Mr. Charles Hickmon took place on Thursday night, 16th inst., at the residence of Rev. Dr. A. Binga, Manchester, Va., at 8 o'clock. It was a very quiet affair and the contracting parties were handsomely attired. The Doctor performed the ceremony in his usual solemn manner. Messrs. Donglass Gray and Eunus Langhorne were ushers. After the ceremony, a reception was tended them by the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Jones, at their residence, 1509 Stockton St. All enjoyed themselves, and many were congratulations heaped upon them. May they live a long and happy life. The American Beneficial Insurance Company under the management of W. A. Millner now has a membership of 2273 in Danville, Va. Rev. Henry T. Braxton was accidentally killed Dec., 5th, 1887. —Miss Lucretia Turner of Portage, Wis., is in the city visiting her relatives she is stopping with Mrs. Willie Hope of College, St., and Mr. R. S. Forrester of Leigh St., our florist. —Mr. Robt. A. Jackson, who has been spending two weeks with his mother and friends in this city, left last Thursday to resume his work in the North. GREETING The various Lodges of the G. U. O. O. F. of the State are respectfully invited to take a part in entertaining the G. S. of England on his visit to this City Monday Oct., 27th 1903. W. M. T. Forrester, Chairman. N. W. Anderson, Secretary. PRICE, FIVE CENTS SENSATION AROUSED THE PEOPLE JUBILANT Members Happy. Officers Smilling. AGENTS AND CLERKS BUSY. SOUTHERN AID TO THE FRONT. A Word from One of Our Members. To the Managers of the Southern Aid Society: Having read with much pleasure a statement of your very excellent work in the colored papers of Richmond, seeing the remarkable growth of the company and its financial standing, I must confess that I felt proud to know that I have been carrying a policy in such a strong institution. I can readily agree that there is no other company in Richmond, whether run by white or colored people that pays its claimsprompter. While sick it was indeed a pleasure to me to have you call. I admired your courteous and gentlemanly manner. Yours respectfully, A MEMBER. We are indeed grateful for the above statement and we have in our office any number of complimentary letters coming from grateful members who have been waited on during sickness. Our new offer of Immediate One Half Benefits is taking like wild fire and our agents are all smiling because of the success they are achieving in writing new work. This is indeed a chance of your life and if you wish to put your money where it will yield sure and prompt returns, take out a policy with the Southern aid Society. We promise what we are willing to pay and you need not question our ability to pay, but give us a trial. Our record is already made and the people of Virginia and elsewhere are praising our business like methods. If your agents do not call on you, our home office is No. 504 North Second St., Richmond, Virginia. Branch Offices and Agents:—Newport News, Va., 604–33rd St., corner Jefferson Ave., M. C. H. Green, Manager. Staunton, Va., 111 E. Main Street opposite Opera House, Mr. Wm. C. Johnston, Manager. West Point, Va., Mr. C. H. Clarke. King William Co., Mr. Edward Butler. Charlotteville, Va., Mr. A. F. Angel, No. 306 Ridge St Gordonville, Va., Mr. Wm. B. Steward. 10-25-2t. Resolutions of Respect in Honor of Rev. F. T. Henderson, D. D. DANVILLE, VA., Oct., 17, 1902 Whereas Rev. F. T. Henderson, D.D. has served as pastor of the thr Beulah Baptist Church, Danville, Va., about three (3) years, and his pastorate has been one of peace and harmony, and have proved him to be a christian gentleman, and, whereas the abundance of his work in other fields prevented his serving any longer here, and in consequence thereof he tendered his resignation of the rectorship of the Beulah Baptist Church and Sunday School, and, whereas during his service in our midst we know him but to admire him, as a christian gentleman as a business man, and as a minister of the Gospel, who labored hard to elevate the people, edify the church, and to advance the cause of Christ. We the Beulah Baptist Church and Sunday School, feel it proper that we place on record our appreciation of his service as a pastor, his worth to the race and his merits as a man. Therefore be it resolved 1st: That in his resignation, we have lost an able divine, a christian gentleman, and a business man whose equal is hard to be found. Resolved 2nd; That we highly appreciate his labor with us, in so directing as to enable us to liquidate all our out standing endebtedness except a balance due him, which he has left with us to determine the time and manner of payments according to our own sense of honor and position. Resolved 3rd: That at any time he may come to our city he will find a cordial welcome in our church and in our homes, to himself and his family. Resolved 4th: That we pray the blessing of the Great Head of the Church may rest upon him and crown his labors with abundance success. Resolved 5th; That a copy of these resolutions be given to the pastor and family, a copy be spread on our minutes, and copy be published in the papers. Done by order of the Beulah Baptist Church and Sunday School, Danville, Va., October 17th 1903. Church committee:—Messrs. L. Z. Elam, D. W Parker, I. Gilmore, Geo. Martin, P. C. Carrington, Benj. Oliver, Mrs. Susan A. Oliver, Miss Sallie Moe Clland, Revs. R. B. Green and H. M. Henderson, B. D. pastor. Sunday School committee:—Mr. GooMartin, Mr. John Brooks, Mr. Silas Price, Miss Nannie Faulkner, Miss Bessie Coleman and Supt. L. Z. Elam. 2 aa iy + ~ cae ee E eee ia. Bi Le Des Ba ee pro: eee po ase Areata Nigra SaroNUKY, .. OUT 35, tm02 DeULTRy >, \AND Nigtzey (7 ba > SD CP BEES AN AUTOMATIC FEEDER. See ee Cine If the apparatus shown in the sc ompanying drawing accomplishes the purpose for which it was designed, it will mean a large saving in the amount of labor necessary in the care of fowls and possibly economize also in the amount of grain consumed by the flock. A hopper, or storage reservoir, is provided for holding a large quantity of grain, the bottom being conical in shape, to feed the grain into an open- ing in the center. Beneath the open- ing is a shoot, arranged to catch the ES ga =a SB 235 i Ss SSS S| | Vi i | i | | { g j WAM iVa= ee \ th om > — py) lee GaN SS Ey -- + Seanad HOW TRE MACHINE WORKS. grain and prevent a continuous outflow from the hopper. Suspended in close proximity to the ground is what the inventor calls a “bait box,” having a small quantity of grain placed in fixed eups, which are covered with glass or fine wire netting. In the natural course of events the fowls become hungry, and, discovering the grain in the “bait Dox," hop on one edge of the tray and attempt to peck at the covered kernels. The weight of the fowl tilts the swinging rod which supports the ‘tray, and this oscillatory motion slides ‘the shoot back and forth beneath the ‘epening in the hopper, thus discharg- ng the grains to the ground, to be de- voured by the fowls. The quantity delivered at one time te not great, but as often as hunger drives the fowls to peck at the bait the grain ts av- tomatically delivered, and as fowls will make little effort to get feed unless they are hungry, it is possible that there will be a saving fn the quantity consumed over that which they might be given if fed by hand, Zachariah Xevers, of Santa Cruz, Cal., fe the in- Yentor.—Cincinnat! Commercial Trib- une. EATING LIVE BEETLES. A Summer and Fal Diet Which Is Responsible for the Death of Take Donk. ‘The turkey is an active bird and will tat almost any kind of insecte when in the fields. Frequently it will eat potato beetles, but in such cases the turkey will die unless it first kills the bugs be- fore swallowing them, as the live bugs remain in the crop for many days, de- stroying the lining of the crop and causing inflammation. Chickens sel- dom eat potato bugs, but both chick- ens and turkeys will eat chinch bngs, which are smaller than the potato beetle and are not #lways killed when Picked up, If grasshoppers are caught they are usually torn to pieces or killed, as they are large and cannot be swallowed without being injured or killed; but whenever bugs of any kind are swallowed alive. if they have hard torerings on the bodies, the fowls will be unable to pass them from the crop to the gizzard, but soft insects may be swallowed withont danger to the bird. It may be stated that often the birds will consume hard-bodied insects and escape injury, and may go to and from the fields daily with noharm resulting, but some day they may be very hungry, especially If insect food has not been plentiful, and greedily fl their crops rapidly without first destroying the bugs, the result being disastrous, ‘When turkeys die, always open the srops and examine the contente.—Mid- tend Farmer. Caine aa ia a a When one thinks that any bee that walks out of its oradle, pale, perhaps, but perfect, knows at once all that is to be known of the life and duties of a Bee, complicated as they are, and com- prising the knowledge of an architett, @ wax-modeler, a nurse, a lady's maid. a housekeeper, a tourist agency and a field marshal, and then compares that Yast knowledge with the human baby, who is looked upon aa a genius if it gurgles “Goo-goo,” and tries to gouge ite mother’s eyes out with its fingers, ane realizes that the boasted superior- ity of the human brain depends large- ‘pon vanity.—Rural World. Prost from Hens Ye Larme, Most poultrymen estimate that each Ben will afford a profit of one dollar « year. This may seem small to some, ‘but it means after the interest on eap- ital, food and other cash expenses are paid. It = really a large profit, as most of the hens are not valued at more then half that sum each, and with © flock of 30 hens it represents the in- terest of $300 at «rx percent. When one takes into consideration the fect that on most farms the actual capital invested fp poultry is very emall, the profit from the hens fs usually quite large. THE BEES IN AUTUMN. ‘eoding Early for Winter Stores Ie 8 Practice Hixbly Recommended thy: Baapedenaienaanaea: The bees should be fed early, so they can seal up their stores, and feeding at this time not only insures good storea, but it also creates brood rearing, which is ax important as feeding. The teed ing should be done to secure the best results in promoting the production of brood; to do this, they should be fed regularly every day during the entire month, so that at the close we have the required amount of stores and se~ eral frames full of brood, besides @ good supply of young bees. Sngar-fed colonies. {f properly fed, usually winter better than those not so fed, especially if there is no honey flow at this time. We may exceptional- ly have such a honey flow in autumn that bees do not require any feed, but this is very rare, and colonies that do not have cnough stores in the hive at the close of the honey harvest seldom gain much during the balance of the ‘season. Late feeding just before going into winter quarters is not good policy, for the bees cannot seal up thelr stores, even if they are fed sufficiently, and no brood rearing will be done at this time, and we lose half of the bene- fits. It is best when beginning to feed to feed lightly for a week or more. This will give the queen a chance to fill the brood nest with eggs; then during the latter part of the month feed more heavily until the required amount Ss given. Tees that are to be wintered out of doors without extra protection should be fed more; and 30 or 40 pounds will not be too much, If win- tered in the cellar, 25 pounds is safe enough. Some who make a specialty feed less or carry them throngh with less honey, but they feed in early spring. Tt ts best to feed enough, or give them enough honey during the fall to both spring and winter them, for they may be neglected in spring —A. ‘4M. Duff, in Farmers’ Voice. | BEST EGG PRESERVERS. jqatonaime, Salt and Water and silt cate of Soda Mave Proved the Mont Satisfactory. Numerons experiments at times have shown the worthlessness as egg pre- servers of ashes, sulphur, permangate of potash, gypsum. Dry salt kept eggs fairly well, but injured the flavor. Vas- eline or grease rubbed on the shells worked well for short periods, but was a failure in the ten months’ tests. The old formula, one pound quicklime, one- half pound salt and one gallon water, Was a success, although flavor was LADLE FOR STORAGE BEGGS. slightly salty. Unfortunately the clear lime pickle does not appear to have been tested with the others. ‘The best success of all was with'we- ter gloss or silicate of soda, This costs 40 to 60 cents per gallon and may be re- uced with water when used to as low as three per cent. water glass. The eggs must be very fresh and should be completely immersed In the solution, Even this preparation was not succese- ful in every case, but was usually #0, the eggs being as good as fresh eggs for cooking. The egg ladle, as por- trayed, is a great convenience in hand- Ung large numbers of eggs. It is made of a round, shallow tin pan with a long handle, the tin being perforated to drain off the liquid. With it the eggs may be gently lowered into the barrel or tank without risk of breakage. ‘When wanted again they are removed with the dipper and placed on arack of slate to dry.—G. B. Fiske, in Farm and Home. atieide Mhaidien Ateshaa- diamine. Olcomargarine men claim that their product is a wholesome food. ‘The new law Se now in force imposing a tax of ten cents a pound on oleomargarine colored to imitate butter. If nutri tious and healthful oleomargarine should be sold on ita merits, very truthfully says the Globe-Demoerat. Those who are willing to consume it &8 a substitute for butter do not want to pay anything additional for color ing material. ‘The public hopes that the new law will be rigidly enforced, Adulteration or deception practiced in food is a fraud on the people, and the federal courts, when called on to act, will see that the new regulations are enforced. Preparing Fowl for Market, It will soon be time for the hucksters to go around buying chickens and other poultry. Make your fowls so good that he will be ashamed to offer you the going price or proud to give you an advance. Evenif you do not get fn advance the extra weight will pay for putting on. Shut the birds you are going to sell ina rather smail pen a few days—from ten days to three weeke—before you sell them and give them all they will eat of corn meal and wheat middlings mixed into a dough, giving them as much as they will eat of it. This makes thick flesh and sweeet, tender and juicy meat_—Com- mercial Poultry, i eta hes, atc a Se To the north when a bushel of corn is bought or sold it means, or should mean, a bushel of grain—that is, of shelled corn, Asn rule o bushel of ears of corn weigha from 68 to 75 pounds, according to the variety. If when shelled the grain weighs 56 pounds and the cob 14 pounds, then 70 pounds of ears will be for that crop equivalent to a bushel of shelled cors. A bushel of shelled corn in most states, as fixed by law, ‘a $6 pounds, though in New York St is made 58 pounda, and in some localities 60 pvands, ‘- Ge tes Mr. Jumper—You seem to like to talk to Whilka, Mr. Jimpe—Yeo; be never reads the papers, and everything you tell him 4 mawai~ Data Pree aan, . THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICH OND; VIRGINIA, .- . * your bust Ene | jae ASE RL SIAM! |= iy when she crie >. see i oi matter he mu: (#7) Deo Nor luxe os for fo mon eR) ee & heir ¥ 6 “ap Or Pm. “A few year <A spell of livelis ING @ dog, Roger asked no ques- tions of the man who had Fought him from the city to this white, vine-streaked villa by the for- est river. He was a city dog: but, after all, his home was and must be the man’s home. ‘The man had raised him from puppyhood, had nourished and caressed him, loved him, talked to him, made of him a companion and confidante. Therefore he had been content, nay, proud, to eit with him in the creaking, rushing, swaying train which brought them into the woods, to follow through the dust, between the wind-shaken trees, the carriage that had carried him and his bags to the white hotel that sat looking down from the thicket on the hill upon the murmuring, green wo- ters of the river. And the days which followed were glorious, undreamed of days for Rog~ er, because he spent them hunt- ing im wild, vine-hidden places, or sitting by the man as he fished in the swiftrunning waters, or lounging about the house where there were no other dogs. But at last one night when the moon was coming over the trees he saw the man come down the plaza with a girl and followed them, but the girl, who was very beautiful, screamed when she saw Roger following close at her heels, and the man with anger in his voice —a new note that hurt the dog— shouted: “Go Uack, you rascal! Go back!” And as Roger stopped, his tail sinking and his head very low, the man picked up a clod and struck him so that Roger sneaked away a few paces into the shadows, and then, unseen himself, followed the man and the girl as they wandered away to a moonlit knoll above the water and sat whispering there unaware of the two fond eyes watching them trom @ dark copse in the timber. But Roger was glad again the next morning, for the man stroked him < Hi as if to make amends, and he fol- lowed hia master about all morning charging through the long grasa be- fore him, circling about through the woods, barking at the kildees, dart- ing at grasshoppers and shouting fu- viously at the strange, shining, leap- ing creatures that the man lifted from whe water at the end of a long, thin string. But in the afternoon the man and the girl walked out again together, and Roger was scolded again and driven off with a stick. Her blue eyes stared at him as if he were some wild ‘beast and her pretty lips did not smile till he had crawled away under the lattice of the veranda. Watching througn the aisles of the trees, he saw them walking toward the river, and when they had unmoored the skiff and the man had lifted the girl into the cushioned seat astern, Roger came skulking out of the sedges pleading with his eyes and promising to be a good dog if they would but take him a-riding on the swift, shin- ing water. But the girl gave a sharp little screech and the man yelled. “Go back, you rascally eur!” ‘They pushed their boat away into the current, the man at the oars, and the girl, laughing now and trailing her white hands in the water, sitting opposite. Roger, crestfallen and puz- zled, ran along’ the margin of the river watching his master till the boat swung in at the opposite shore, where a row of tiny, white closets peeped from among the willows. Into them went the man and the girl, and presently came back to the water's edge, their white limbs gleaming in the sunlight, their faces radiant with happiness, their laugh- ter ringing across the river more mu- sical than the voices of wind and wa- ter. Roger saw them go hand in hand into the shallows along the bar, dashing the water into fountains, planging like the great fishes, floun- dering, shoutiog, playing. At last the girl went slowly baek to the lit. tle dressing-room and the man atroek Doldly out into the stream Roger sow bim eoming and barked a wel- ome He theught his master wae coming scroes and his dog's zn waa singing again. But the man Snly screamed as if in anger or pain, and sank deeper in the water {ll Roger could see only the dim fiash of his Important, 1 never go to sleep at night But this thought gives me painc Mow can the old world eet slong Unth T wake again? ~Cineianati Commercial-Tribune, Quite Trae, Hewltt—It ia worry, not work, that kille, Jewett—That's #0; especially when & fellow. worries to death because he eaanct got work —Brooklyn Life, i.e en Gnd legs beneath the sur- ‘face of the rushing river. And he ran again along the shore watching bis master swept away by the waters till at Inst he could see nothing but the green and yellow ribbons of the eeps, ruining like a millrace, flat, secret, crooning and purring, snarl- ing among the rocks Uke some great cat jealous of its prey. Roger stopped and waited, but the man did not come up out of the wa- ter. The sun swung low above the western hills and the blue cranes came skimming from the darkening east, but Roger eat and watched slone by the river and wondered. ‘Then through the darkness he saw ‘men with lanterns and long pikes in ‘thelr hands come down the river in boats, trailing ropes through the wa- ter and murmuring mysteriously among themselves. Roger did not underetand, but he felt the pressure of some inexplicable horror, and, howling as he went, he wandered back to the white villa on the hill. ‘There upon a bench near the veranda he found the man's garments, his cap, his shoes, and about them, mut- tering, a group of men and women. But the girl was in the parlor, her pretty face quite pale, her blue eyes ‘Yery bright, telling some story in which his name, the man’s name, came very often. But presently all of them, men and women, wandered away by two's und three's, in groups, and the girl walked out into the’ ‘gar- den with a strange young man. Roger sow them, arm fn arm, go slowly into the arbor, and soon heard their voices singing @ merry baliad, and thelr laughter made him believe that, after all, perhaps all was ‘well and that he, the master, would soon come back singing and Inughing. Then he saw the torches come like 8 sad procession up from the river, ond, going to meet them, saw the ‘man, pale now and very silent, lying ‘on @ great plank, his long arms trail. ing the grass. Roger slipped in be- tween them and barked for joy, but there was no sign of recognition from the man, though the dog licked the cold, dripping hands until some one kicked him away. Roger was puzzled by this queer transformation of the man who had been always #o splendidly alive. “Go back, you rascal!” and the harsh words and cuffs of the past few days, Were no longer a mystery. Roger Knew somehow thet these were but, ‘the words.and the deeda of the girl enacted aS by the men. The ‘reason he did not understand, but, the ‘cause was plain enough. She did not Uke dogs. Roger would have wel- comed a kick or a curse now, but that motionless coldness, that utter al- lence, that sleep in the midst of tu- mult and excitement, that total ob- livion even of the girl aa she stood above the man staring with scared and yet unfeeling regard! What had made the man like that? The next day they took the man away, but he did not call Roger, though he followed the wagon down through the tree-lined Iane to the depot. They would not let him into the train, end 20 he went back again, and when he might sat look- ing at the girl who laughed and sang always except when Roger was by. When zhey drove him away and he knew that there was no answer to his problem in them all, he went @own to the river where the empty boat tay moored, and, plunging in un- chidden, swam down across to the bar where the little white dreseing- rooms peeped from among the wil- lows. He ran about the sands and eniffed at the footprints in the sand—his footprinta as he had walked, shout- ing like a boy at play. Surely the mystery all lay in the rushing river. From where he stood knee-deep in the cool water, Roger could hear the chorus of voices singing at the white villa on the hill opposite, He could even distinguish her—the girl’s voice —singing. And so he struck out again into the current just as the man hed done, cried out as the man had cried and went away into dim, Tushing depths, hoping, belfeving and glad that he was following the man even away from the girl and into the mysteries which he neither under- stood nor feared.—Chicago Record- Heral4_ A Gigantic Barre! Top. Chinamen in Astoria, Ore., amuse themselves with a huge top made out of an empty white lead keg. A square opening is cut in the side, and it takes three men to spin it, one to hold the top and two to pull the string with a etick which eeta St in motion. While spinning it sounds Uke the whistle of a steamer, and can be heard three blocks away. Mighty Lively O14 Get, Mra. Eva Devoe, of East 8; N. Y., in an up-to-date girl, aithogs she fs 100 yeara old. She wants a bicyele, as she hater to be behind the times. “My family,” she saya, “seem to think I'd better not have one, and tTmaybe tt would look queer to see the mether of a 72-year-old girl whirl ing on a wheel.” Se Pa Calls the Tura. Little Willie—Say, pa, what's a double chin? | Pa-—A double chin, my son, is an exchange of words between your ma ‘and grandma.—Philadelphia Inquirer. “No Danger, “Do you have trouble with “your oooks Boiliig the coffe too long?” “Goodness, no! They don't stay long enough for that."—Pwek. Bet Mie Jeb. “Your husband ts @ floorwalker in © department story, isn't ho? pe yea. “Then, why don't you have him get Bp and walk the door with the baby when she cries?” “I can't wake him up, When 1 shake him and tell him what's the nutter he mumbles something about soothing sirup in the drog depart. -ment threo aisles down, and then goes to snoring again.” — Chicago Tribune Their Vindictivelessness. | “A few years ago, when we had a ‘spell of liveliness on us,” said the landlord of the Pettyville tavern, a trifle pessimistically, “we tried to get the Insane asylum located here; but Rustletown beat our best efforts and eecured the institution. However, our people are not resentful, and the fact that the asylum didn’t come to Pettyville don't prevent some of us Pettynllains from goin’ to the @sylum, once in awhile.”—Puek. What Ping-Pong Is Clke, “Ring-pong,” said the lady in the Golfing ekirt, “is just like golf.” “It is just like tennis,” declared the lady in the linen suit, “You're both wrong," observed the heavyset gentleman who was wiping his brow and breathing with evident effort. “It's just like hard work."— Indianapolis News. eae Laie “How do you get the reputation ot being so much richer than you are?” asked the intimate friend, “Very easily. I wear my old clothes as long as possible and never admit that I"have any money that I could lend. People take it for granted that I must be prosperous."—Washington Btar, ‘Why Lot Went. Lot, upon being notified that his wife had turned to salt, was observed to shed tears. “Why in blazes couldn't she have turned to coal?” he muttered angrily. But this vision of a sudden fortune having been speedily shattered, he re- sumed his weary march onward.—N. Y. ‘Times. At Home All Day, “Why weepest thou, woman?” “My lord will be buried this day.” “My wife was buried yesterday. To- ‘morrow I must get me another.” Wheretpon the widow shook th¢ ashes from her shining hair, dried het eyes, and, looking into the face of the widower, smiled. “I will be at home to-morrow all day,” she said.—Smart Set. ee PASSENGER TRAINS LEAYE AND ARRIVE NEW MAIN-ST. STATION. OCTOBER Sth, 1903, —ae Ye SRNR IND. Hee Loi: Broept Sunday Newport Now = ewe a 2 goer ta imo oe ieee ; Wars eae toNeriah sto Newport News. t smpton only. Connects at Old ec Bacto teasers’ at Martale Sh 5200p. ms For Newport News and Old Bane eater Wega aoa tain Line West’ Bound. gy Tocial Beowpt Banday' te Clifton 2900. gy Belg Cumann tnd _Loater 90 p. they Dally Eullmwens rome Cocteau oy Ce Yirgtnia” Hoe Speinage’ alone! teen Fro Cordonvillt to Bienes Yollsen Ecrocal sation, xoeph Sanday 1190p. ms Belly St, Las and Chon fecal fille GincsmatIndfanapats, 8 eau wae mame River Division. m, Dalle For Lynchiourg, Lexington, op, omer and “alberene snd "Sev 535 p. may Except Sunday, To Bremo, Arrive. Paxonagra Drvistox — From Norfolirand Old oie, agai, dally an 0 Dem daly: sem mc, and F200 pein Mane Line, From Gbvctanatt, 7:45 a. m. daily; and G0 ps me dally, Prom Ohio Rn cek eure oan Jace D From ae Forge id Lyncane a ps Gail and 920 tn, exeept Sunday froin Bremo: Apply at 800 £. Matin, meer Hotel and Hotel Jefferson for further information, Rates, tickets and’ Pullman ‘Hescrvation. W. 0. WARTHEN, _ DistRict PASskNOER AGENT. 0. DOYLE, -H. W. FULLER, Grs'L Wo'e. Gey’ P.A. Norfolk and Western R. R. Sopt. 28th, 1902, LEAVE RICHMOND (DAILY), BYRD STREET STATION. ee ee aera a Neviale 10-4 5. Blope oti ay Pet Mepis Wa bs gra ohh SERA Sats had ace Sesame 006.4. Mn THE “SHICAGO EXPRESS, for pos HONGO, PENS Sr penterg,_ ence: Cores and Bie Sng fee Gere Petats AN hele Sr Ghancke 00 Rnoeetlles an ee Ve ey Eeatter Boat ead Tecra pi Air ties gt ie crea Sat yeast Anais ies hates eaanete a es See mee, cman ater gence, New York, Baltimore ‘and Waa- 1257. M., for Suffolk, Norfolk aud intermed. ames Ne at ras ate Ms Lpetbae oot Reverb, Soe Eat Sade lana inti Serene artes Ee oemcioete nee ete Sites Mone Eoeaeeen ea ote! meu Pera ea for ge See STE Sa cee wn cae ane ane Taree ot 8:86 P. M.; from Norfolk and the oe Shae oases Pas ‘Office 888 Main St. JOHN E. WAGNER, Oity Passenger and Ticket Agt. ©. H. BOSLEY, District Passenger Agent. W. B. BEVILL, it. ener Cases eee Ae ee WO: A. M., Ne N.C. Dat re Sea te ey Pai ie oie Ex faci aapabbere aed al Ne tore Vorieger oi 240. Mo; limite tral dally for Jack Fees oeeed aio Greensboro for ‘Darks ‘and Shier or Bosh ate ‘SS, United States faet mail, tran Sibir teas cee Bud cogiesaferso Nee, Sea Bromine ea pon | train, with Gleopar salitbury 2. Mee EE Gabbe se 6 P.M., No. 11, Southern daily ie eos a jreenaboro, Sal sbary and Charlotee Pee ig Gs Reva Sohater met Sao aac ee ea Hemsky ‘nen, Nomina Sores, pining Car pecven Ee neyrneper dena RR ae Brite ant nections for all points in ‘Texas, Mexico Senet ape goes ah tae MEMEO. kel day. sxcoe Sander TRAINS AK RIVE IN RICHMOND, ore ABs em ae SSF ha, Mom Atante, ogee, ck 94 He Bom irate a kn ations SBE: Sd Dee LOCAL FREIGHT. suomiw irene ahaa YORK RIVER LINE, VIA WEST POINT. THE FAVORITE ROUTE NORTH. ar EE ‘ee ee oes Taltimore and. Xotkeriver: lessen ‘2515 p. am. No.0 daily ex: Sundays, local ‘aprein tor Went Bott. ana tikcrmed Exetor Mande for Walkerton soap 8:00. St. No. 74, local mixed. Leaves daily, —- Sunday for West Point and inter St" Lanter Mande for’ ‘Walkerton 6a Tappahiannock TRAINS ARRIVE RICHMOND. ob. = Xo J8.dally trom Went Point, wit 10:6 A.M NO, dally excopt Sundays and te 08. ° aig eet snare oe IONE Senter Point andl ‘olts panics Mondars, Weduee days: ge carr ‘and Alltonda e Wa E Main St. Rich sara ve : i a. 8. H. HARDWICK, G, P. A., 0. H. AOKERT, General Manage=. Washington, D. 0. Arr Line Ramway Short line to Principal Cities of the South ‘Southwest. Floris Osbe, Ares Sin, nnd Mexico, roechtng the Gupltels or SOHEDULE IN EFFSOT APRIL 15, 102 TRAINS LEAVE RIC) MOND—MAIN ST. ‘A TION- ¥. ‘Non Noe 2:15 Pa. 10:97 P. a— Ly. PBR nae ech : Pek ‘Une w ty. were fwa wr Deee [Dau Niy Hamlet FAS Hy ggbakh mae, Atl tint Wasa wear Osim (Eastern Time.) 105 A. Rt cat Tons aaa ) ($55 A.M 2:10 p. Mt. Ar, Savannah. eet = Tao ect Tackle = <hr de epee. SAS PM. 6:45 A. Moar. Tay PM TA Mie Hamer HAM! waucar come > ~“" Baxtern Tine.) 1064.2. 9:04... Columbia, (Be tan ena ee AM 220» wae, BRE EA Seas Seoatina 30 a: Arne: Atagastiogs Hoce en er, YB Acs 1038.4 3c—bv: Chester jase Wate Sit Ceased. G18 acm. 2:80 P. M.—Ly. Athens. AA ER eae Alae aba w Tad sear Sige i Ua Se Seti gomery, ~ 2:05 A. M.—ar. Mobile enna ERA eoAE Bee Steam, 0:50 wa. ‘Twi tear Noshethe Sie Et Soe ee ‘Train No.9 leaves Richmond 9:10 4. ». daily for Betorsbary: Novation BG ca atl ea agliste paint “Coninection 8¢ Noratfan with Genin aerving Henderson S30 No a aaa tae Semeecnien and Durham 4 P.M. daily “Tenia leave Richmond for Washington, and Now York and tho Bast daily "Nor Sia 638 a. weTan No. wat bos re Sannectons nt iackvonville and, Tampa for Rockers Sroka runes Bot Manlos wind Cues TRAINS ARRIVE AT RICHMOND—DAILY. 6B5a.m., No From all points South. 435 now No & “anid: Southwest: 5:45 B. M. No. 36, Noralina, N. C., Petersburg and local points, SLEEIING-CAR SERVICE, Nos, 81 and +—Ploride & Metropolitan. Lis 146, Pullman. Drawing-ftown, ‘kod ‘mec Sars between New Wonk cea nee eae Daled Cosshea Detwors New vere eea Vike Thond, Sd Setwreus Hickstond cha Sete Hille.’ Pullman Sleeping Cave cass) Sererees ing Hom Sleeping Core Gorrenr Rew eee ng oom tleeping Caen wetieees New Ye Sit Atlante, nnd ‘CafeCars’ Yetween Haslet Sig Atlante aad Hamict ara Sorasgaae pas Deng loom Bucs Stoping Cart be Tween Now fore and dackoonethons caster SUEtanast with rey ant fos ae inten connection eth which “Cael pa an cot ate cols Peisran Eetwreon Jecucnvilicand Some Anes Bes ow, J. MAY, City Ticket Agent. 2 P. SMITE, District agent pts ry "Phone ‘Now Outing and Picnic Park at Jones | boro. _ Thereis a New Qnting and Piosnie Park, Jonesboro, at Fort Lee on the Eas. tern Branch of the 0. & O, R. R. com ‘YVenient for Picnics by wagon or rail. | There isa large pavilion that will ac. commodate 800 persons and other at- ‘actions such as swings, base ball etc. / Excellent water on the grounds. You cannot find a more, desirable resort for sharch, Sunday , society or pri- ‘vate plo-niosor one that will affords more perfect day of rest, recreation ot pleasure. For particulars as to dates ‘sud rates apply at once to dxo. H. Bravtox, . 10'W. Jackson St, THE MIDWAY LUNCH ROOM; 726 N. 3rd St. Richmond, Va. MEALS FROM 7 A.M. TO 8 P.M. Give Me A Call. ‘MRS. 8. L, MITOHEL, Proprictress. Richmond, Fredéeicksborg and Potomac Ratlroad. qaghedule in Rffect May 25,1902. : from fi Bie oer ee Bove car rashington’ and Seas © CRere Daly from MaT Wer h Ge pratio’. ane Limited: oem cork. tito Mi except Sunday trom Kiba Sta accomodation, fof Aabiaad ‘cad sikinst eo ieieredin po eee BRATION: tor Wan Pieces ae Re kibes Glas ‘Satan ‘Sod “dana eae one Sn. 8 sty ON for Woahingte ned ‘STREET tana %3, “scootinis a ‘Seminary ae 12% Noon, Except Sunday, from BYRD ST. Se alte. 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Be that as ft may, no trace of him was discovered, and as he did not come forward of his own free will T soon abandoned afl hope of hearing of him. ‘What also added 2 deeper mystery to ‘the crime was the fact that nothing had been stolen from the bouse, though my mother’s cash box. which contain- ed her jeweiry and some £10 or £15 in gold, stood on s chair by the dressing table, absolutely beneath the eyes of the assassins. The egg shaped mark on the forehead was 8 thing to which the police attached no Importance. To them it had no meaning, and they con- sequently dismissed it with scant cere mony. It had been dfscovered that the marks had been produced by the appll- cation of @ powerful acid, but they had Do Goubt that if the brand meant any- thing at all it had simply been done to mystify the Investigatora. And so fn time the sensation lost Its charm, and people began to forget. ‘The police were stfll supposed to have the matter in band, and I recollect well ‘that they advanced some ingenious but utterly erroneous theortes concerning the crime, and there their utility ended. My vnele and I wero still convinced that the man with tho strange eyes was at the bottom of the mystery and that he could likewise explain the meaning of the sign, for that the two Were associated I implicitly believed. If the police shared this conviction, they made little of {t. Murderers never took the trouble to mark their dead un- Jess It was specially designed to throw the authorities off the scent. My fa- ther’s w: letter could not possibly Ramee iittcrine: eile reference enemies could only mean enemies in business, such as any man was likely to have. If there had been a man or any particular number of men to dread, would he not have sald who they were and to what extent their hatred was likely to carry them? As for the story 0€ the gatepost and the sign—well, I was only a boy, and it Is so easy_for a boy to Imagine things. The mere fact ‘of the disappearance of the sign show- ed bow little my evidence was to be ‘trusted. I now went to live with my uncle, and many and mauy a time we discuss- ed the pros and cons of the case, trying to bulld up some satisfactory clew to work upon. But we always came back to our original starting place, the man with the strange eyes. “I believe,” said my uncle, “if we could only lay our bands on him we ‘should soon solve the mystery. Your father has led a strange life, Davie, and I should not be surprised to bear that he had mixed himself up with the secret societies of the far east. That man with the strange eyes, whose na- tionality neither you nor your poor mother could guess, must have been either a Jap of a Chinese, and from what I have read of those easterns and their societies I know them to be cruel and callous to a degree. There- fore, my lad, we must be very careful, for {f it Is as I believe we have a terrt- ble enemy to grapple with.” And so for weeks at a time he never let me out of his sight. I slept in a room next to his, in the partition of which be had had a door constructed. He saw himself to the locking of the house, going the rounds every night after dark with a revolver tn his hand. I know he tnwardly prayed for a meet- ing with the man with the strange eyes, but that gentleman never put in an appearance. And yet, though he ‘sald nothing, I knew that he also fear- ed the coming, and with that end in ‘view he took me out in the fields every ay and gave me pistol practice until I became quite an adept. He was a cap- {tal shot himself, and he taught me to use the rifle as well as the gun. “It may be useful ome day,” he used to say, and I knew what was passing {n his mind. And so in this way the next six months passed, and the winter had come, with its short days and ‘ts long, did nights. By this time the “great ‘Windsor mystery,” as it had been call- ed, had become a thing of the past, and my youth enabled me to regard it with equanimity. No further word had come from my father. Had he been living in any civilized city or town he céuld bardly have failed to read of his Wife's murder. But nothing came from him, and sometimes we suspected that the same power that had struck down my mother had wrought tts Vengeance on him. Be that as it may, he was to all intents and purposes dend. My uncle now regarded me as his child, and had he been my father | could not have loved him more. ‘The grief through which he had late. \y passed bad steadied him considera. bly. The face wae still kind, thougt robbed of much of tts ruddiness, but the reckless, devil may care expression had entirely vanished. The man had fesponsibilities pow if be bad never ———— Which he shook off with a great effort. We rode and drove incessantly, and I noticed that he always peered into the eyes of every stranger we passed. Sometimes he took me to town for a week, and together we haunted all the most popular resorts of the metropolis. We tramped the great thoroughfares from the Marble areh to the bank, from Bt. Paul's to Hyde Park corner. And ail for what? Ho never sald, but I knew it was for the man with the strange eyes. Time after time he used to say to me, “Davie, are you quite | sure you would know him again?” And then I would go through a minute description of the man as he appeared , to me tn the garden that day,.and so ' often had I repeated the story that he knew It a8 well as I, and if I omitted ‘any particular he would say, “You for- got to mention the black tle with the ‘White spots,” or “Eis boots were rather square at the toes.” But nothing ever came of our wan- derings, though we had many false alarms, for in London, where one sees s0 many different faces, it would have| been strange had we not encountered 4 few disappointments, Men of for- eign appearance in particular we mark- ed as our quarry, especially those who have the brand of the east or the far east. But though at the sight of a man I have sometimes felt my heart leap to my throat a closer inspection Aissipated the hope, or, rather, I should say the fear, for there was more of fear than of hope tn it. And so the time flew on, and a bitter- ly cold January was drawing to a close. A good atx months had already passed, and in that time the world forgets much. I know that { had redehed that state In which I no longer experienced any difficulty in lulling my fears, and I could sleep without dreaming of try. Ing to escape from a man with strange eyes who pursued me with a gleaming knife and who was ever on the point of stabbing me Just as I woke. I think my uncle also was beginning to rest, though rest be would not while bis sis- ter’s murderer was at large. But he was Just a little moré contented, less given to gloomy fits of abstractiv.t, when something happened that set us all in a whirl again. T thought one night, waking sudden- ly, that some one was trying to force the window of my room, but after ly- ing for many minutes listening tntent- ly T came to the conclusion that It was nothing but my fancy. So, secure In the possession of a well barred win- dow, I soon fell asleep again. But When T awoke in the morning I still retained a recollection of my fright and, rapidly dressing, went out to In-' vestigate that side of the house, but} though I subjected it to a pretty close scrutiny I saw nothing that led me to suspect the presence of an enemy. However, on skirting the back of the building { passed close to the stable, upon the door of which I saw some- thing that made me stag. A step or two closer assured me that I had not been mistaken. There, distinctly vist- ble, was the fatal egg shaped sign drawn grimly with a red pencil, I looked and looked again and then drew closer to make sure that there was no mistake. Every nerve in me was now trembling with excitement, and for several moments I stood look- ing at the dreadful thing Uke one un- able to realize {ts meaning. ‘Then, forcing my numbed Iimbs Into action, I tmrned about and hurried into the house, bursting into my uncle's room with: “The sign! The sign!” “The sign!” he shouted excitedly, turning round with lightninglike ra- pidity. “Do you mean the”— “Yes, yes; the same. Comel It is on the stable door-” ‘Without further words he dashed by me, out through the back of the house to the yard, I at his heels. Before the stable door he stood and very narrowly serutinized the tracing, “It 1a the same?” he said. “It 1s lke the one you saw on the gatepost?* “Bxactly, but bigger.” “Then,” said he, “our enemies are close at hand.” I then told bim how I woke ap tn the night fancying I heard some one at my window. He started and looked very serious. “Why did you not call me?" ‘Because I lay awake a long time Ustening, and, not hearing the sound repeated, I easily persuaded myself that I was dreaming.” “It was wrong of you,” he sald. “Call me always if you hear anything sus- Piclous. We have a desperate set of People to deal with, Davie. We must lessen thelr number on every possible occasion. Now run in and fetch me the keys of the stable. We must sce if everything ts all right aide.” I did as I was bidden and on return- Ing found him closely examining the door, But with the exception of the sign there was nothiyg to show that it had been tampered with. The lock ‘was tntact, and when the key was in- ferted Into {t the spring flew back with a sharp click. But when the door ‘was thrown open we saw at once that something had happened. The horses (my uncle kept two of them) were stretched out in thelr stalls stiff and cold. I knew this at once by BIVEMOND PLANG@T. RICHMOND. VERCINT ‘With a cry, be sprang into the stable and began closely to examine them. ‘There were no streams of blood to trace to thelr fount, but just at the back of the ears a wound about half an inch long was discovered. The piercing of the vertebrm had at once Paralyzed the brain, and the poor ant- mals bad fallen dead without a strug. gle. For a long time my uncle stood look- ing at the two beautiful horses that had been bis pride, bis face white and drawn, bis lips working convulstvely. = 5 i a (fh@ Rorece wore stretched theer stalls thf and ene or ‘Then presently he turned to me, and I saw that his eyes were full of passion. “Davie,” he sald, “we must find out who did this. We must discover the meaning of thet sign. The murderer of your mother and the slayer of these horses is the same man. We must be careful or our turn will come—careful, you understand—eo careful that he ‘shall never take us unawares. I must seafch for this man and wring his se- ret from him. Your father might give ‘us the clew if we only knew where to find him, but probably he is dead him- ‘self, with tho fatal sign stamped deep ‘on his forehead. We will regard this calamity, which is meant to destroy our pence, as. friendly hint and be al- ‘Ways op our guard, and If you ever meet the man with the strange eyes Hoot him. Don’t stop to think, but shoot him dead. He will cross your ial until oné of you is exterminated. n't spare him.” ‘Then, with a desperate coldness which showed how strong was the hate within him, be examined the horses again and then all the stable, never ‘peaking a word outright, but mutter- ing darkly all the while ‘Then, his rxamination concluded, he got a bucket of water and a cloth and wasbed the sign from the door. “This is no job for the police,” he said, “though we must call them in. Say nothing of the sign or we shall Gighten people, and they will fight shy of us. ‘This Is a business we must see through by ofrselves.”” When our groom came, he was great- ly surprised to find us up and about. He was more surprised when he saw what had happened. My uncle at once Qispatched him to acquaint the police. CHAPTER V. THE RETURN OF THE WANDERER, As we fully expected, nothing came of the police Investigation. Such a wanton, senseless crime they failed ut- terly to comprehend, and, not knowing all that we knew or all that we sus- pected, they had little to stimulate them to great exertions. Sometimes I oubted my uncle’s wisdom in with- holding the story of the sign. It would At least havo put the authorities on the right track, but as my mother’s mur- derer was still at large and they were supposed to be assiduously searching for him {t could have furthered his capture but little to tell of our suspt- cions. As for making a polnt of the egg shaped symbol, that would un- doubtedly have lald us under the sus. picion of being a marked family and 4s such not pleasant neighbors. No; take It all in all, he was perhaps wise. The erime had been committed. There was the evidence of It. If the police captured the perpetrator, we should know where to look for my mother’s murderer. But some weeks slipped by, and with them went all my uncle's patience, and at last he told me that the strain of in- cessant watching was proving more than he could bear. “I am convinced,” said he, “that the police will never discover the perpetra- tor of this outrage, and as they cannot afford us the necessary protection we must seo to our own welfare. Davie, my lad, I am sick to death of being hunted, and I {intend to turn hunter myself. I have no doubt whatever that this man or men will follow us, s0 that our chance of one day meeting him ts not remote. You know what to do. Kill him without a moment's hest- tation Just as you would a mad dog. But you are young yet, and I have de- eided to put you tn a place of security. I will work on alone.” ‘Then one day, without warning, we left the house and went to London, my uncle taking a couple of rooms for us In Chelsea. He then entered into com- ‘munication with his lawyer, and after some little delay he succeeded In let- ting his cottage to a couple of highly respectable splnsters who sighed for the felicities of a rural life. Next the subject of school was broached, a sub- Ject not at all to my liking, but my uncle considered that another two ot three years at least were necessary to complete my education, and, feeling that he was right, I consented. More- over, my life of the last few months had made an old man of me before my time, and I sorely needed the compan- tonship of youth. So in due time T was packed off to a School in the heart of the Midlands, my uncle having carefully chosen the situ- ation. There 1 was known as James Davie, my uncle, for reasons of hia own, wishing me to take his name. Perhaps those reasons would not be difficult to guess. If by chance my own name of Kingston should come to the ears of certain people, even the crowded school might be no protection. Perhaps it was ‘a little superfluous caution on my un- cle’a part, but I could not quarrel with ‘him on that account. Besides, I bad no particular love for my father’s honored of mah sccoet- te. seat and of preferred James Davte to Davie’ Kingston. ‘My life was now extremely pleasant, and, exeept when I got a letter trom! my uncle, I scarcely thought of the| horrors of the past. [ was surrounded by young companions. I lived the free. open life of a boy, nnd If I did not en: Joy my studies overmuch I made up for my lack of intellectual energy by developing @ wonderful aptitude for games. During this perfod my uncle proved ‘@ most consistent correspondent, dis. Patching @ letter to mo every. week with unfailing regularity. It was a contract we had entered into, for It Would be the means whereby I might know {f be was still allve. I tn turn Was to write as often, but after having had a few letters sent to bis club he degged me to desist and send them on to bis lawyer, to whom I was at once to telegraph in case of an emergency. He did not explain himself more fully, but I needed no fuller explanation. Then he began his wanderings, and I got letters in succession from Hast- Ings, Bastbourne, Brighton, Worthing and so on from many towns and many counties, and they all repeated the same note: “I am still searching for the man with the strange eyes.” To me {t seemed singular that he should not forget, and once I even went 80 far as to suggest something of the sort, but the answer [ received made me feel ashamed of my presumption. “She ‘was my sister,” he sald, “and yet 1 eannot forget, but she was your moth- er.” Only those few underlined words, yet what @ world of meantng they con- Yeyed. With the advent of the holidays he alwayp came and took me away with him, and upon each successive occasion I eaw how sadly his quest was affect- ing him. “From a jolly fellow he had grown morose and gloomy and was; losing weight in a manner that might have been considered alarming had It! not suited him so well. Truth to tell, he had been somewhat inclined to’ fleshiness and a ruddiness of counte- nance of which a fastidious observer could not approve.” Had I not known the cause of this change I should prob- ably have welcomed it; knowing, I had some difficulty in concealing my alarm. ‘The world was not big enough for bim and his sister’s murderer. He was like one groping in the dark, but some-; where behind that darkness was the light, and he would see it one day. In the comparatively calm seclusion of this school the next two years of my Ufe slipped peacefully away, ‘The past was dropping further and further astern. The horrors of two years ago, if not quite obliterated from my mew-: ory (such a thing could hardly be with. my uncle, still pursuing his grewsome quest), had grown faint in the distance, and with the happy fortune of youth I looked forward, with but an occasional glance back. Not that I had forgotten. or ever could forget my mother, but at 17 one ¢annot paint the world black. palnt he ever #0 vilely. | And yet if I had ever indulged tm the hope that my misfortunes were at an. end I soon had good cause to restet my Premature congratulations. Fate had only been trifling with me so far. My real trial was about to begin. I remember one day belng sent for by the head master and told that a gen- tleman was waiting to see me tn the visitors’ room. ‘Thinking It waa my ‘uncle and delighted at this unexpected visit, I rushed toward the door, and, finding it open, bounded tn, my hand outstretched. But tstead of encoun- tering the well known face and figure & gaunt stranger slowly rose from a chair tn the far end of the room, where, he had been sitting, bis back to the Uaht. His beard was gray, his hair gray and worn thin about the temples. I saw that he had deep sunken eyes and heavy brows that bristled conspic- uously. Once a man of conspicuous stature, his powerful shoulders now drooped forward in a way that be- tokened the presence of {Il health. His face was very pale, and across the bridge of a commanding nose the skin was drawn tightly. ‘Without speaking he advanced slow- ly toward me, and I saw that his eyes, deep set and plercing as they were, Wore a frightened, hunted expression which filled me with considerable ap- prehension. Nor was I the more re- Heved when he threw a stealthy glance from side to side and nodded for me to close the door. I grew suspicious In an instant and tnyoluntarily drew back from him, I remembered my uncle's warnings end beheld in this man a pos- sible enemy. He saw my Indecision and smiled, and that act recalled me to & sense of dignity. I was now a big fellow and not to be frightened by a. shadow. ‘ “Your name is James Davie?” be sald. . “Yes, air.” “But it used to be Davie Kingston? Startled and more suspicious than ever, I watched him closely. ; “I will not deny it,” I said. “But how do you know?” He advanced still closer and fixed his. Dat T managed td stammer ont, “For Enow of course that my mother is dead?” A great shiver seemed to sweep hin from head to foot, and involuntarily he cast an uneasy glance across his sheul der. “Yes; your uncle has told me.” “She was murdored on the day she got your letter wa- ‘ng her against tome persons unknown.” “Yes, yes," he answered rather testi: ly. “I have heard all about it” “Who were those persons?” I asked. “Was one of thom a dark complexion. ed man with strange, Chinese eyes?” Again he threw that frightened look over his shoulder and bent bis head as though Ustening for some step ot sound. = “I don’t know,” he said, but not wit- out some confusion. “i am not quite sure of What I referred to. However, ft is all over now. We bave other ‘things to think of.” He went back to his seat by the win- dow and sat there, scanning me intent: ly. “You are a strapping fellow,” he sald suddenly. “How old are you?" “Seventeen.” He rested his head in his hand and began to think, and I saw the furrow deepen between his brows and the brows themselves come together untit they formed a forbidding line across his face. I knew what was passing tn his mind, and I did not envy bim the Possession of it. “Lot mo see," be sald. “It ts nine years since I have seen you?” “Nine years,” I answered. =, “And she bas been dead"— “Two years.” “Heavens,” he cried suddenly, slap- Ding his forehead, “my brain is going?” “Her death created a sensation,” 1 continued. “It 1s strange that you Should not have heard of it.” “No, not strange, considering where I was at the time.” “We made sure that you were tn some out of the way place—or dead.” “Dead!” be cried. “Yes, by heavens! I might have been dead 50 times.” ‘Then recollecting himself he added in 7 Bs “You are a Setow,” eatd «Fe uddentys How ou are yout @ lower tono: “An out of the way place, ‘48 you say. I was cruising in the south sea islands at the time, a place with- ‘out newspapers and telegraphs. Poor Lucy, poor, poor Lucy!" | “You heard, of course, that the mur. derers branded my mother on the fore- head?” “Aye, aye, the hidden meaning,” be nee “I know, I know.” “The hidden meaning?” I echoed. } He started, and the suspicious, mts. trustful look leaped once more to his eyes. Then, not without an effort, be | began a confused explanation. “Aye,” be sald, “had it not a hidden meaning? Your uncle told me that no one understood its significance.” “True, but we were always under the impression that you would know and that you would tell ua.” “That is your uncle's opinion. He ts a stupid fellow. I bave no patieace wt him.” “He has been very good to me,” I an- Swered stoutly, allowing no one to speak slightingly of him, “and he lov: ed my mother dearly.” | “E suppose you mean to insinuate ‘that I didn’t?’ This, I presume, is the way he has brought you up to respect your father?" | ‘Then assuming a more generous alt he continued: “Iknow be 1s a good fet Jow, and I adfalt that I have beep | much to blame, but you don't know all | Perhaps one day you may. Then you shall Judge, Dut until then suspend your judgment and remember that mis fortune often comes uninvited. But time presses,” sald he, looking at his watch. “You Uke this school? “Very much.” “You are bappy here?” “Yes.” T had nothing to complain of, Learn. ing was a bit irksome, tho blessings of . which I did not fully appreciate. But in this I merely claimed kinship with my kind. “But you will not be very sorry to leave?” I looked at bim inquiringly. There was something behind the question whieh made me pause. “Am I to leave, air?” “Yes,” he sald. “I have decided to take you away with me.” This was what I neither wished nor expected, and I mumbled, rather un- ‘graciously I fear, something about my uncle and his disappointment if I should quilt without his knowledge. A cloud spread itself over my fa- ther’s face. I saw that the reference to my uncle annoyed him, and I thought he was going to say something un- pleasant. However, he caught the word on the tip of his tongue and held it fast. With a curious amile he drew a letter from his pocket and handed {t to me. Opening It hastily, I at once recog- nixed my uncle's handwriting. It was but a short note and was to this effect: My Dear Davie—Tho bearer of this note is your father. “He waite you, and you must go with Bim. T need my nothing more to a lad wher 1 Dave grows to regard aa my aoa. 1 am still marching, marching; still the sume restlows epiit Seapets Geek enone nek Jeera) will mapy te larwardd to ee I handed back the note to my father, and he received it with a peculiar smile. He seemed to know that he ‘would have no more trouble with me. Much as he may haye disliked to admit the fact, he knew that to me my un: cle’s word was law. “Must I go at once?” I asked. He nodded slowly. “Yes. I want to reach North Wales tonight. Run 01 and pack your box. I will see the head master and give him the uccessary ex. planations.”” Ho rose and moved toward the bell, and I now noticed that he walled with alimp. He saw me look, but he offered ‘no explanation beyond “I have been In the wars, my lad, but they heve mot done for me yet. This arm,” said he, Ufting his left hand, which fell back With a Ifeless swing, “was once as good as the other, but a knife among the tendons don't tmprove them. Strange things happen In some parts of the world.” I thought that strange things happen everywhere and that oue of the stran- gost was the coming back of this man from the dead, but I kept the thought to myself and ran away to prepare for the journey. (10 Ba conTINUED) SCHOOL AND COLLEGE. Religious instruction is not given tm Japanese schools. There are 40,000 more children of ‘school age than seats in the New York schools. In 1886 every child in the public yhools cost Prussia $6 a year. To- fey the cost is $12. The total sum ‘expended Inst year on public schools was 269,042,375 marks ($65,786,160). Ex-Senator Carter, of Montans, has Presented to the university of that State his private collection of con- gressional records, giving a complete history of legislation from the be- ginning of the first congress to the close of the last. This, Mr. Carter Says, helps to “fill up" the library of ® struggling educational institution ‘and saves a great deal of space and rent for himself. The most interesting of the faculty changes at Yale the coming year is ‘the addition of John Hayes Ham- mond, the mining engineer, to the foculty. He will have charge of the work in mining at the Sheffield sci- entific school, which has never before been collected under a single head. Asmmond's experience is world- wide, he having been connected for Years with the Rand mines and with expert work In Montana and Colo- redo. Jean Jussieu, a French cynic, writ- ing in the Paris Revue, expresses grave doubts of the efficacy of the American schools and universities. He avers that the latter are gov- erned by mere endowment seekers, men of shrowd address and of high social position who can confidently nd successfully approach million- alres with requests for additions to the great funds accumulating under university control. These vast sums, M. Jession avers, are wasted in the construction of great buildings and the cause of education is not propor Uonately advanced. _ IMPORTED INFORMATION. | For the first time on the Itallan coast a shark has attacked and de- voured a bather in the sea near Na- ples, It iv one of the duties of the Berlin fire brigade to supply steel cylinders containing oxygen for use in cases of gas poisoning. In 1900 France exported 3000 horses more than she imported, whereas Ger- many had to import 90,000 more than she exported. A recent German travelerin the Cau- casus reports that he saw many hand- some men, but not one of the beau- tiful women for which that region is famous, although in the villages every- body turned out to see him. The bicycle erase shows no abate ment in France. Good roads have kept the wheel from falling into oblivion. True, there are not so many wheels seen on the boulevards and parks, but in the country the wheeling tourist is as promiscuous ae ever. At the sea- side and summer resorts the wheel is still the favorite method of locomo- ton. KANSAS PHILOSOPHY. There are some people who look as low spirited as an old family horse. A girl learns sooner than a boy that St 1s necessary to conceal many things trom company. | An Atchison man wante this tn- scribed on his tombstone: “Here lies the biggest fool thet ever lived.” _ The man who has nothing to do will usually be found in every petty plece of meanness going on in the commun- ity. When you are expressing an opinion. ft 1s unpleasant to have some one Sround who remembers what you have said on the subject at some other time. There is very little difference be- tween a good person and a bad one. Get well acquainted with a good man, and you will find much to condemn, and an intimate acquaintance with a bad man will result in the discovery of much to commend.—Atchison Globe. ' POINTED PARAGRAPHS. Happy are they who don't want the things they can’t get. _No, Cordelia, we can’t all be hero- worshipers; somo of us must be heroes. Many & woman who makes a mana mighty poor wife makes him a rich husband. Do a mana favor and he will consid- er you under everlasting obligations to him. When cupid visite Boston he discards his bow and arrows end usea o bean- shooter. } Many @ man who couldn’t train a dog decently imagines that he is an ideal child trainer. Though the pen may be. mightier than the sword, it can't come up to the seratch when pitted against the ink- eraser.—Chicago Daily News. LATE FASHION SUGGESTIONS. ._In the new hate four or five strong colore are groupes. Some of the newest autumn modele show sleoves of velvet in gowns of cloth, Odd Uttle Moen handkerchiefs ore seen with purple butterflies worked im the corners, : Te the new art gold are shows brooches formed of blossome or shells with lovely feminine heads set in the center. One of the daintiest things in nech- weer ie a French stock of white louls- ine silk combined with linen cord and hand work. In the new goods one finds golden- rod yellows both in cloth ond silk and ‘@ deep sumec red. The greeas are dull and deep tn tone. ' eee SS -—- S RECENT COURT RULINGS. | An insolvent corporation is held, in the National Wall Paper company va. Solumbia national bank (Neb.), 56 Ie RA. 121, to have no right to give pref- erence to @ debt due from ft on which the pificers ond directors are bound es sureties, A tenant for life in possession of real estate is held, in Hanna vs. Pak mer (Ill.). $6 L. R A. 93, not to be ‘able to obtain an ebsolute title to the property, either directly or indirectly, by suffering it to be sold for taxes and then acquiring a tax title. ‘ Statements made by defendant inam ‘action for libel, not voluntarily but im answer to inquiries made of him by interested parties touching defama- tory remarks made by other persona, are held, in Buisson vs. Huard (Iowa), 56 L. R. A. 202, to be within the protess tion of the rule ee to privileged com munications. Account books of one charged with having obtained money by false pre- wnses are held, in Blum va. state (Md.), 66 L. R.A. 322, not to be admis sable in evidence against him, under the rule protecting him from giving evidence against himself, although they hed been voluntarily turned over to receivers appointed by the court in @ proceeding to which the accused consented. A farm occupied as a homestead is held in Rattey vs. Barker (Kan.), 56 L. R. A. 33, upon the death of the own ‘er who died intestate, leaving a daugh- ter 27 years old as hie sole heir, who continues to occupy the land, to be subject to tale for the debts of the decedent. With this care a very ex- tensive note reviewing authorities on rights of child or children in home stead of parent. The owner of a life insurance pollcy having agreed to pay a city for sup port furnished him ont of its poor fund, the city is held, in McQuillan vs. Mutual Reserve Fund Life association (Wis.), 56 L. R. A. 233, to be his creditor for the value of the enpport furnished within the meaning of theclause inthe policy providing that, in case of its assignment to a creditor, it shall be valid only to the amount of his claim. GLIMPSES OF FALL STYLES. ‘The latest new skirt shown is one composed of three flounces from waist to bottom. Changeable silk linings are the prop- er thing for nearly all gowns, both taflor-made and more dressy gowns. Green fs «till a fashionable color,and one finds emerald golf green and ser- pent green are the prevailing shades. Garlands of small artificial flowers, held together by narrow velvet ribbon, are used to trim mousseline evening frocks. In the new fall wraps and dresses the ornamental stitching is done heavier than last season, and showy effects are produced by embroidery. Among autumn fabrics are Scotch plaids in dark bine and green tailor gowns. Lovely satin-finished cloths Gre shown in all the new shades. Cardeases have increased in size and some in soft suede in pale gray, flam- ing red or golden brown, ornamented with gray, silver and gilt designs. From the advance showing it is un doubtedly a fact that the long coat Will be the real winter coat. It is made of silk, of ribaline, eatin cloth, serge or melton, The very latest belt novelty is called the Virot, and je an artistically made belt having the new postilion back effect. Some have fringed ends, oth- era the new metal and silk tascel These belts are made out of a good quality of satin and taffeta ribbons. FOR THE HOME. : Very beautiful are the vases of por celain covered with a network of sik ver filagree work. Desk furnishings are shown in gold- en copperware. A large inkstand of this material is supplied with a per rack mede from small brownish red antlers. Among the decorations for dens are Moors’ heeds in dull brown againet a darker colored shield, which reste against a bright silken or felt banner of red and gold. Vases that represent flowers are among the pretty things in china. They are really exquisite and represent calla blossoms, Iflies of the valley, tulips and other lovely buds, A double vegetable dish in quad- ruple plate is so made that the handle on the cover can be easily removed and the dish converted into two sep- arate and useful serving dishes. Among unique things to add to the man’s den are match scratchers. These are oblong in shape and bear the por- trait of @ beautiful woman in a hand- some gown the trailing skirt of which is cleverly made of sandpaper. This clever device beare the motto: ' “A Striking Girl,” in quaint lettering. Wa gue Sean, “Is it love?” asked the doubter. “T rave about her Bair, her eyes; I seek her out on all occasions; I am content to hold her hand for hours at a time; I find a heretofore um known rapture in her smiles and kisses; but is it really love?” “I shonld judge,” replied his pro- saic friend, “that it ought to be.” “Ah, but is it?” “Well, I can tell you how to find out.” . “How?” ; “Marry her."—Chicago Post. j THE PLANET published every Saturday by JOHN MITCHELL, JR., at 811 North 4th Street, Richmond, Va. JOHN MITCHELL, JR. - EDITOR. All communications intended for publication should be sent so as to reach us by Wednesday. 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The courts have decided that subscribers to newspapers who do not order their paper discontinued at the expiration date hold liable for the payment of the subscription up to date when they order the paper discontinued. COMMUNICATIONS—When writing to us to renew your subscription or to discontinue our paper, you should give your name and address. If you write we cannot find your name on our books. CHANGE OF ADDRESS—In order to change the address of a subscriber, we must be sent 'to former' as we present address. Entered in the Post Office at Richmond, Va., as second class matter. COLORED men, do not be discouraged. LAWLESS, disreputable colored men do us great harm. They must be discountenanced and sent to the rear. LET us be polite to white people and equally so to colored ones. WE should contend for our rights in a respectful way. We can win friends by it. THERE are thousands of white people who sympathize with us. Let us do nothing to merit their disapproval. WE are progressing rapidly along all industrial and business lines. Our bank accounts are steadily on the increase. COLORED men, do not resist police officers. Submit to arrest in cities and fight your case out afterwards. THERE is no use talking about yielding one's self up to a cowardly mob even when led by a sheriff. It is far better to fight it out to the death and die "with one's boots on." UNFORTUNATE CRITICISMS It is reported that Rev. W. F. GRAHAM, D. D., pastor of the Fifth Street Baptist Church and Rev. R. V. PEYTON, pastor of the Sixth Mount Zion Baptist Church were roundly scored by one of the speakers of the meeting held at League Hall Monday night for the purpose of awakening interest in the movement to contest the new unconstitutional constitution. Rev. THOS. H. BRIGGS, whose &c and &c is said to have been foremost in this attack. This is to be regretted. We have no time to be attacking each other. It is said that this discourtesy was emphasized by the adoption of a resolution to return to Rev. PEYTON a letter which he had sent to the meeting in response to an invitation to be present expressing his views upon the subject This intolerant spirit will not do. We should admire men who have the courage of their convictions and state in plain language exactly what they think to be the best course for our people to pursue. To condemn them is to complicate the situation, invite antagonisms from other quarters and endanger the cause for which this organization professes to be contending. It seems to us that about the only people to be condemned "right through here now" are the members of the unconstitutional "Constitutional" Convention who forced upon us this hybrid product of the Devil's ingenuity. Rev. W. F. GRAHAM, D. D., is one of the most remarkable racial products that have been produced hereaussouts for a long time. He is doing a great work, both spiritually and temporally. If he has made any mistake, it has been in having anything to say whatever on the subject. He is open-hearted, able, and generous to a fault, and the people will hardly be willing to tolerate any assault upon him or his plans for the race's elevation and betterment. As for Rev. R. V. PEYTON, his record at the place from which he came is an open book and his conduct, during his brief stay here has caused him to be given front rank among Richmond city's colored divines. He is one of the most powerful pulpit orators in this state and the easy manner in which he holds the congregation of the Sixth Mount Zion Baptist Church is evidence that he is steadily growing in public favor. Striking at men of this stripe and calibre can do the cause no good, but much harm. Let us turn our guns upon the enemy! BLOODY TIMES IN THE SOUTH LAND. THE indications are that the nation is passing through one of the bloodiest periods of its history. The respect for the law is on the wane. The denial to the colored man of his man-hood rights and the curtailment of his privileges have whetted the apetites of the vicious for blood... One of the most absurd legal trials ever known in the history of legal jurisprudence took place October 17th, 1902, at Nacogdoches, Texas. JIM BUCHANAN (colored) was charged with the murder of the Hicks family (white). A howling mob surrounded the sheriff and it was announced to this lawless body of men that the trial would be proceeded with. Conviction was a foregone conclusion. After the announcement of the verdict, it was realized that thirty days must intervene between the sentence and the day of execution. The mob would brook no delay and the accommodating court officials proceeded to resolve themselves into a mob and permitted the prisoner to waive this right, which he could not legally waive and within two hours after his conviction, he was swinging from a scaffold, which had been hastily erected. Thus took place a judicial lynching. To our mind, the regular lynching with all of its terrors could have been no worse. This act was bad enough, but on the 20th instant, CHARLES YOUNG, (colored) was burned at the stake at Forest City, Arkansas, by a mob of white men. He was charged with assaulting and murdering MRS. ED. LEWIS, white. The mob is said to have broken a promise made to the sheriff, who had promised a speedy trial. The details of the burning are horrible and sickening. The brutes who committed the murder are so foul and guilty as the man they executed. There has been and will be no effort made to punish the guilty parties who defy the law and those chosen to execute its mandates. Another case took place in Hempstead, Texas. JIM WESLEY and REDDICK BARTON, (colored), charged with criminal assault and murder, after being tried, convicted and surrounded by a howling mob, were summarily taken from the sheriff and lynched. The mob had promised to desist and the order for troops was countermanded. The outlook was threatening and the troops sent for. While the sheriff was awaiting their arrival October 21st, the mob broke into the court-room and seized the cowering prisoners, hanging them in the public square. An attempt was made to have the thirty days before the execution waived, but the District Judge, knowing the law refused to permit it to be done. For this, he deserves all credit. These lawless conditions will eventually react upon these communities. It brutalizes the localities in which they occur and makes this government the object of ridicule in all civilized countries. In many states of this union, we have a semi-civilized form of government. The victims are in reality a secondary consideration. It is the law and our form of government which is attacked and which suffers. Lynch law must go! TWO NEW BISHOPS Revs. Hartzler and Heil Elected By United Evangelical Conference. Williamsport, Pa., Oct. 18.—The general conference of the United Evangelical Church elected Rev. H. B. Hartzler, D. D., of Harrisburg, former editor of the Evangelical, and Rev. W. F. Hell, of Allentown, formerly corresponding secretary of the general conference, as bishops for the term of four years, at a salary of $1,400 per annum, to succeed Bishops Dubs and Stanford. L. Weist was elected a publisher. Bishop W. M. Stanford was elected as editor of the Evangelical. Bishop Dubs was elected editor of the Evangelische Zeitsschrift. Rev. W. H. Winks was elected as editor of Sunday School Literature and Keystone League Christian Endesavor Journal. These editors are elected for a term of four years. Negro Burned By Mob. Forest City, Ark., Oct. 21.—Charles Young, the negro charged with assaulting and afterwards murdering Mrs. Edward Lewis, white, was burned here last night by a mob of infuriated citizens of this county. Last evening the mob appeared at the jail, took Young from his cell against the protests and pleadings of Sheriff Williams. The mob took the negro to a point about half a mile east of town, bound him, piled wood around him and set fire to it. The negro begged piteously for his life, but the mob turned deaf ears to his pleadings. In a short time the flames reached him and he expired in the presence of the mob. THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. HOLOCAUST IN CHICAGO HOLOCAUST IN CHICAGO Ten Men Lost Their Lives by Burning of Glucose Sugar Refinery. ESCAPE WAS CUT OFF BY FLAMES Those Who Lost Their Lives Worked On Seventh Floor, and Flames Spread So Rapidly That Escape Was Impossible. Chicago, Oct. 22—By a fire which broke out shortly before midnight in the plant of the Glucose Sugar Refinery, situated at Taylor street and the Chicago river, that factory was almost entirely destroyed, and 10 men lost their lives. Those who perished were working on the seventh floor. The flames spread so rapidly that a man who was working on the third floor had barely time to escape with his life. The plant of the refining company consisted of three buildings, the drying house, seven stories in height; the main refinery, 14 stories high, and another structure of four stories. The fire started in the drying house, being caused by an explosion. The flames spread very rapidly, and by the time the first of the fire department had arrived the building was ablaze from foundation to roof. It was impossible for the firemen to make any effective fight against the flames, and in a short time all the walls were down, and the building within one-half hour from the time of the explosion was a mass of debris. The fire was so hot that at one time it was feared that the Taylor street viaduct, across which access is had to the south side of the city, would be destroyed, but the firemen managed to save this after a hard struggle. They bent every effort toward saving the 14-story building of the refinery, but so intense was the fire in the drying house that this caught fire in several places and was badly damaged. The men employed on the three lower floors of the drying house ran for the doors and windows as soon as they had knowledge of the fire, and all escaped. On the third floor one man was at work. He was compelled to run for his life down the stairs. He burst through a mass of flame when he reached the lower doorway and was badly scorched. Two minutes later would have made it impossible for him to escape. The men on the seventh floor had no chance whatever for their lives. Several of them left the windows and crawled along the sills in an effort to reach a place of safety, but with the exception of two men all those who attempted to reach safety in this way made up their minds that it was certain death and went back into the burning building. The two men took the chances of a leap, and their bodies were horribly crushed and mangled, and it was impossible for any of the men who saw them directly after their jump to identify them in any way. Four other men jumped from the windows on the fourth floor. These men were terribly injured and were taken in police ambulances to the county hospital. The financial loss es estimated at $750,000. TWO NEGROES LYNCHED One Victim Was Taken From Court Room By a Texas Mab. Hempstead, Tox, Oct. 31. After being tried with legal form and procedure for criminal assault and murder and given the death penalty in each case, Jim Wesley and Reddick Barton, negroes, yesterday afternoon were taken from the authorities and lynched in the public square by an infuriated mob. Barton was tried first. He pleaded guilty to criminal assault and then to the murder of Mrs. Susan Lowis, aged 63, on Sunday, October 12. The juries in each case, on which were several negroes, promptly returned verdicts assessing the death penalty. Wesley pleaded guilty to the murder charge, but while the second trial was going on a mob broke into the court room and attempted to take him, having learned that the sheriff finally had asked for troops. The mob was dispersed and the trial proceeded, the state putting through its testimony hurriedly in corroboration of the plea of guilty. The officers of the court sat about the room awaiting the coming of the troops, when there was a sudden movement on the part of several men in the room, the sheriff was overpowered and Wesley was taken by the mob and hurried away. Another part of the mob attacked the jail, and Barton surrendered to them without a struggle. The two prisoners were hustled to the public square and there executed by hanging. CASTRO CLAIMS VICTORY Venezuelan Rebele Retreated After After Seven Days Downtick After Seven Days' Hard Fighting, Washington, Oct. 20.—In a telegram to the state department, dated Caracas, October 19, and received here yesterday morning, Minister Bowen stated that the revolutionary army had withdrawn from near Victoria and that the battle had ended with no decisive result. He also stated that the government troops still held Valencia. Three Thousand Killed and Wounded. La Victoria, Venezuela, Oct. 20.—A messenger has arrived here from the scene of the engagement near this place between government troops and revolutionists, bringing news that after seven days of terrible fighting, 9,000 rebels, under General Mendoza, had abandoned the field, having retired from their last positions, six miles from La Victoria, Friday night, retreating in the direction of Villa de Cura. According to President Castro, the killed and wounded number 3,000 During the last days of the fighting the temperature rose to 116 degrees, and a visitor to the scene of the engagement declares he never saw such a terrible spectacle as was presented by the battlefield. The victory of the government troops, which is said to be due to the personal courage of President who twice, with a Mauzer rifle in his hand, charged at the head of his soldiers, is considered a serious setback for the cause of the revolutionists. SENAATION IN COURT Man Supposed to Be Murdered Ap- pears Before Tennessee Justice. Knoxville, Tenn., Oct. 21.—While the supreme court was in session in this city yesterday a man claiming to be Silas Hulin entered the court room unannounced and addressing Chief Justice Beard said: "I am Hulin, who was not killed by Clarence Peak." Young Peak's case was about to be called before the court. Peak, who is the son of a prominent family, had been sentenced in the lower court to ten years in the penitentiary for the alleged murder of Silas Hulin at Clinton, Tenn. Peak is now in the insane asylum near here, a raving maniac, caused by this trouble. Hulin claims that Peak shot another man, whose name is now unknown, and that he (Hulin) escaped on the first train and wont to Colorado, from which state he came back here to prove that he was not dead. Hulin was a stranger at Clinton at the time of the shooting. Austria Combatting Drunkenness. Vienna, Oct. 20.—The bill for the purpose of combatting drunkenness, which is being prepared by the Austrian government, is the first measure of its kind in the history of Austria. It is an outcome of the strong pressure of public opinion and the efforts of the temperance party. It provides for the imprisonment of persons found intoxicated in a public place over a certain number of times within six months, and restricts the sale of bottled spirits, which, it is declared, leads to home drinking, to holders of special licenses. Only one such license is to be granted for every 500 inhabitants. Well-Known Abolitionist Dead. Baltimore, Md., Oct. 20.—Richard B. McCoy is dead at his home in Dublin, Harford county, aged 81 years. Mr. McCoy was a member of the Maryland legislature which met in extra session in 1861 to pass upon the question of state rights. He was a strenuous Abolitionist, but opposed to negro suffrage. He was one of a party who conferred with President Lincoln on negro suffrage the night preceding the latter's assassination. $10,000 Beauty Ake Damages Chicago, Oct. 20.—Louise Montague, actress, who was the "original $10,000 beauty" years ago, has brought suk for $100,000 against John A. Davidson, a millionaire dealer in marble. She averted Davidson induced her to leave the stage upon promise to build her a marble palace in New York and insure his life heavily in her favor. These promises, she says, were not kept. Miss Montague lives in New York and Mr. Davidson in Chicago. $7 Debt Caused Suicide? Lancaster, Pa., Oct. 22—Joseph Habeck, 19 years old, of Columbia, has disappeared, leaving a note that his body would be found in the Susquehanna river near Marietta, and giving as the cause for ending his life his inability to pay a debt of $7. He also requested in the note that four girls of Marietta act as his pallbearers. Williams to Hang November 28. Bridgeport, N. J., Oct. 21—In the Cumberland County court yesterday, Justice Charles E. Hendrickson sentenced Job Williams to be hanged November 26. Williams was convicted of the murder of aged John S. Holmes and Miss Catharine Shute his housekeeper. A WEEK'S NEWS CONDENSED. Thursday, October 18. Nearly 10,000 delegates attended the national convention of the Disciples of Christ today at Omaha, Neh. In a quarrel between striking miners at Shenandoah, Pa., last night Anthony Pokotikis was fatally stabbed. Harry F. Longnecker, register of wills of Lehigh county, Pa., died yesterday at his home at Allentown' of typhoid fever. The 10th annual session of the Kentucky Bankers' Association met at Paducah yesterday, with nearly 200 members present. A Manilla dispatch says it will be three weeks before the American expedition against the Sultan of Bacolod in Mindanao will leave Camp Vicars. Friday, October 17. Judge Allen Hyden, of Booneville, Ky., who was shot from ambush last Monday, died yesterday. Lieutenant Colonel Charles Porter, U. S. A., retired, died at Washington yesterday, after a long illness. Schraft & Company's planning and moulding mill, at Newark, N. J., was destroyed by fire yesterday, causing a loss of $100,000. President Roosevelt has appointed Rev. John Alvey Mills, an Episcopal minister of Massachusetts, to be a chaplain in the army. The war department received a cable dispatch from Manila yesterday, announcing the death of 12 enlisted men in the army, only one being from cholera. Saturday, October 18. Three children at Cruger, Miss., who had been locked in the house by their mother, were burned to death yesterday. Burglarrs raided the fur store of F. Banke, at Cleveland, O., and got away with the entire stock of goods, valued at $10,000. Congressman Charles A. Russell, of Danielson, Conn., is seriously ill with nervous prostration and a complication of diseases. The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company will build a big steamship pier at Locust Point, Md., at a cost of $500,000. It will be over 500 feet long. Monday, October 20. Two earthquake shocks, one severe, were felt Saturday afternoon at Memphis and Chattanooga, Tenn. The total enrollment of Yale University for the present year is 2,785, an increase of over 100 over last year. Governor Hunn, of Delaware, said on Saturday evening that he had decided not to call an extra session of the legislature to elect two United States senators. PROBABLY ANNIHILATED PROBABLY ANNIHILATED British Troops In East Africa Attacked By Mad Mullah. HEAVY LOSSES ON BOTH SIDES Officer's Letter Received In London Says Troops Are In a Regular Trap, With No Supplies and Very Little Ammunition. London, Oct. 20.—The foreign office has issued an undated dispatch from Colonel Cobbs, commanding one of the columns of British forces operating against the Mad Mullah in Somaliaill. The British forces engaged were composed entirely of native troops and levies. Colonel Cobbs says: "My forces reached Erego October 5. When about one day's march north of Mudug it was attacked in the thick bush. Two advances were made, and the enemy was beaten back in the morning. Their losses were heavy, and we captured 100 rifles. Our force then proceeded to collect animals for transportation purposes and to join the detachment at the stockade camp. In the afternoon a reconnoissance was made, and after sharp fighting the enemy were again driven off. "I deeply regret to report the following casualties: Colonel Phillips and Captain Angus and 50 men killed and about 100 men wounded. The latter include Captain Howard and Lieutenant Everett, but both are doing well. There were severe losses among the transport and riding camels. The force will advance to attack the enemy "Colonel Swain is much hampered owing to the necessity of transporting the wounded and water. He is retiring on Bohothe. He asks that 600 further reliable troops be dispatched from Berbera forthwith." Fears are entertained in London that the Somaliand expedition has been annihilated. A letter from an officer belonging to the Somaliand expedition, received here, shows that the British force is even in a more precarious position than has been indicated in the official dispatches. The writer says: "No one will appreciate this business until it is too late. We are in a regular trap, and how we are going to get out we do not know. We have had stifflish fights and have lost many men. The worst is that our blacks are funking and our camels have nearly all been killed or captured. We have next to no water, and we are miles from any wells. We have no supplies and nearly no ammunition." An official connected with the Red Sea ports, in an interview published yesterday, says: "The Mullah and other turbulent chiefs have been liberally supplied with rifles by Americans and Germans, in spite of the British gunboats. The rifles supplied by the Americans were done up as cotton goods. This explains the frequent reference in consular reports to the fondness of the Somalis for American calicoes and shirttings. It is not calico the Somalis want, but the rifles inside the calico." REJOICING IN COAL REGIONS Demonstrations of Joy When It Was Learned That Strike Was Settled. Shenandoah, Pa., Oct. 22.—News that the convention declared the strike off reached Shenandoah at 12 o'clock yesterday, and almost simultaneously every bell in the town was ringing and the whistles on every factory pealed their joyous notes. There was a spontaneous outpouring of people and ten minutes after the good news reached town the streets were crowded. Wild Enthusiasm at Mahanoy City. Mahanoy City, Pa., Oct. 22.—The news of the strike settlement has reached here with wild enthusiasm. There was blowing of whistles, ringing of bells and a spontaneous outpouring on to the streets of almost the entire population of the town which absolved itself into a parade headed by a brass band. The entire fire department turned out and the clanging of the fire bells added to the din and noise of the happy and enthusiastic populace. Shamokin, Pa., Oct. 22.—When the news that the strike had been declared off reached here English speaking miners generally approved the action of the convention. Some of the foreign speaking miners object to a resumption of work without an increase in wages. Men were at work last night repairing the mines. A number of engineers and firemen express the fear that they will not be re-employed. Earl Roberts to Visit Us London, Oct. 18.—it is learned that Generals Corbin, Young and Wood have tendered Earl Roberts a cordial invitation to visit the United States and that the British commander-in-chief replied at a late hour last evening that he had practically decided to accept the invitation in December of 1903, and that there was a possibility of his crossing in time to witness the international yacht races in that year. It is Earl Roberts desire that Generals French and Kelly-Kenny accompany him. Deadly Diseases Threaten Troops. Kingston, Jamalca, Oct. 20. — The steamer Orinoco, from Colon, Colombia, which reached here yesterday, brings a report that yellow fever and small-pox have broken out among the forces of the Colombian government at Colon, and that there are ten deaths daily from these diseases among the soldiers there. Appetizing. Missionary—I have come to save you. Cannibal Chief—You're just in time. I am almost starved to death.—N. Y. Journal. Appropriate. "I notice that somebody says that the pigskin has taken the place of the sheepskin for college diplomas." "That ought to suit the rooters."—Cleveland Plain Dealer. has better strength and flavor than many so-called "fancy" brands. Bulk coffee at the same price is not to be compared with Lion in quality. P. tell you the full story one in the world who can tell you the full story of marriage, and tells which or the one you love of marriage. 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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 Fraternal and to promote the Social and M Its two distinct military and uniform place in the front ranks of all sacred insti tunity for active men. Deputies wanted lodges. G. W. ALLEN Su 846 W 37th Street It 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. Real Egotism Myer—And what? Good Thing THE LORD OF THE WEST Special rates to California and the Northwest, Via Southern Railway. During the month of September and October, the Southern Railway will sell one-way, second-class settlers ticket to California and the northwest at greatly reduced rates. Superb service is offered by this route. Before arranging your trip, it will pay you to see a representative of the Southern Railway for detail information. The schedule and service via this popular route is without equal, in many respects. CANVASsER —WANTED— to sell PRINTERS' INK—a journal for advertisers—published weekly at five dollars a year. It teaches the science and practice of Advertising, and is highly esteemed by the most successful advertisers in this country and Great Britain. Lateral commission allowed Address PRINTERS, No. 10 Spruce St., New York 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 interments, erected a fence around its boundaries, which with the additional improvements contemplated, will be an inducement to those desiring or outemplating 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, 1087 St. Peter street; W. H. Jones, 1087 St. Peter street; Samuel Meredith, 1233 North Street; Joseph Robinson, No. 49 1st market or 2811 9-mile Road; D. J. Chavers, Supt., 1827 Carrington street. Go to Beach Park. Westpoint Excursion and Pienic Grounds.—Only 80 Miles, One Hour's Ride From Richmond, vln Southern Ry. 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 889 feet in length and 25 feet wide over the York River, with waterproof roofing as a protection from sun rains, adds considerably to the beauty and convenience for picnic and other oning parties. In addition to the new park Hotel, now 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-go-round, shooting galleries, steam and naphtha 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 to all orders. George Jenkins, Proprietor. JOHNSON, AND EMBALMER. W. Foushee St. Corner Broad. OR HIRE: Graph filled. Wedding, Sup- pts promptly attended. In Building, New Phone, 48. OF COLUMBUS OF THE WORLD W. P. & F. K. of W. ization has been chartered and legally in the laws and statute of the state of New purpose of uniting together all acceptable Broad Bases of Charity—Beneficial and moral condition of humanity. ranks will secure for this organization a institutions of modern events, a grand opper in all sections of the country to organi Supreme Voyager, New York City. Notice!!! 8 STEUER Aiea ANT, i ny < = r a SATURDAY. ...........00T. 2, 1902 PevLTR y Ae Ses DI QBEES BATH FOR THE DUCKS. te May Be Used ee ee Sow. ' First, take an old barrel and knock out the bottom. Dig a hole five feet deep and put the open end of the bar- Yel down. ‘Then make the box to suit yourself, but mine is four by six feet anda foot high. Cuta one and one-half inch hole in the middle of the bottom and then get two one and one half-inch flanges and two pieces of one and one- half-inch pipe, one piece being 14 Inches Jong and the other ten inches. Take the longer piece and a flange and screw them together and then screw to the Bottom of the box. Then put about a foot of earth on top of the barrel and eet your box down in the ground so that the top Is even with the surface of the ground. Screw a flange on the inside of the box over the hole, the same as the other, and screw the ten- inch piece of pipe in so that youcan un- screw it to let out the the water in order to clean the box. Run the inlet it, a Tot, Nite Ca WE sp Nese Pr, cB hh ye ie, eae onda Vi aaa | Sy \! y: | al a Ss # | THE BATHTUB IN PLACE. Pipe marked “F" as near to the hydrant ©r source of water supply as possible, so that a hose can be attached and the water allowed to run in for 15 tb 20 minutes each day, so that the box will be filled with clear water. I keep a few ducks, and they thor- oughly enjoy their bath_—Frank Kipp, ingigliable Poultry Journal. THE FINDING OF HONEY. A Question That Has Engaged the Attention of Learned Jurists | Soeas Soa ike Writing on laws relating to the find- ing of honey, R. D. Fisher in Glean- ings says: There was a sort of code among bee-hunters in the earlier days of this country, and is said to have beea generally observed. It was to the effect that when a bee tree was located and marked with the initials of the finder, his rights were prima facie, and zealously observed. But this code did not hold good in law, ‘especially against those holding an in- terest in the land. “If a person finds a bee-tree contain- ing honey, or a hive of bees on an- other's land, and marks ft at once with his initials, he does not reclaim the ‘Dees and vest the exclusive property of ‘the bees or honey in himself, as against one of the heirs having an in- terest in the land; nor does he acquire the right to bring in the courts the Usual action of trespass against the heir for cutting down the tree and car- ying away the bees and honey,” says the New York supreme court in the case of Gillet vs. Mason. An early and noted case Is reported 4m 1 (Root) Conn. Goodwin sued Mer- rill for cutting down a tree in the forest that had a swarm of bees in it, and taking the honey which he (Good- win) had previously discovered. Mer- Till plead that said bees were a swarm from his hive; that he had frequent- ly “lined™ them to near said tree, and that said bees were his property. ‘The plaintiff replied that he found them wild in the woods, and had a good right to take them, The trial court gave the Plaintiff judgment of 30 shillings dam- age. The supreme court reversed this judgment, and said: “A man’s find- ing bees in a treo «tanding upon an- other man’s land gives him no right either to the tree or bees; and a swarm of bees going from a hive, if they can be followed and known, are ‘not lost to the owner, but may be re- claimed.” As early as 1904 the New Hampshire supreme court held that one who finds @ swarm of bees in a tree on another's land, marks the tree with bis initials, and notifies the lend owner, cannot maintain trover against the lind own- et for the bees and boney which he obtained and converted to hia own use by felling the tree. ‘The Selection of Pallets, * As your young stock grows, select from all the broods the very finest, strongest and most vigorous pullets to keep for winter layers. Size, strength and vigor have so much to @o with egg production that one should study this continually in the flock and train the eye to see the best egg producers while yet undeveloped. Save all such for your own use; never part with them unless you have more than you need. After they are select- ed keep them well under your own eye and select trom all these the very Dest egg producers to Iny the eggs gFom which you will grow your future k, and gradually you will gain in egg production. The best hens are ‘the ones that lay the largest number of eggs that are Of fair siz, good form ‘end nicely finished. Such eggs sell the ‘best, usually produce the bestand have ‘the best velue in the market.—Feath- erm SECRET OF SUCCESS. Poultry Business Not Suitable for Those Occnpicd with a Variety ‘of Other Things. Buccess with poultry is only obtained by the utmost care and watchfulness, A crop of wheat after the seed is sown requires no attention until harvest, Corn demands considerable cultive- tion, but there comes a time when that, too, can be Inid by. But the cows and the poultry must be cared for every ay, from the beginning of the year um ti its end. And of the two think Poultry requires the more unremitting care, How foolish, then, for the man who has had little success in general farm- ing to rush into poultry raising on « large scale because he reads in the poultry books or papers thut there is money init. Perhaps, too, his wife, by giving a small flock the careit requires haa done well with afew hens, But let po man think he is going to get easy money out of hens. If given proper at tention they will pay & profit, and so will most other farm animala and crops. Of course, there is not so much hard labor required as in some other branches of farm work, but it is work, Revertheless. A farmer who has a liking for poultry will be more likely to give a flock the food and care they need than another, and such aman dum ing the winter months, when he has Uttle else to do, might be able to make ® good profit on his fowls. But it must be remembered that they will also require attention in the spring and summer when other work presses. Spring, too, ts the time when most of the hatching ia done. To have good winter layers one must hare early hatched chicks; to have these one must in most cnsea raise them himself. A farmer who fs busy on the land is not likely to spend his noons and evenings looking for head lice or in taking pre- cautions against rats and other chick- enenemies. Yet this must all be done or many of the chicks will never reach maturity. If « farmer has a family of dangh- ters, or a son whose time is not fully occupied, and, who will give the poul- try due attention, {¢ will be all right to increase the size of the flock. A large majority of men will not give ‘poultry the care they should have ‘Most women would do so, and the at- tention in small details, the “fussing” which makes the difference between ‘success and failure in poultry raising, Is far mote characteristic of the average ‘woman than the man. A woman will Watch the little chicks more closely than with the mother hen; she will ap- ply grease to their heads or change the feed at the first aign of drooping. If the fowls show eymptoms of ecaly leg, she will have them dipped in kero- tene at the first appearance of the dis- ‘easo—but the scaly leg is a filthy dls ‘ease not likely to appear in a woman's flock, unless brought there by pur- chased fowls from some “mere man.” If a fg] becomes eropbound she will have the ctop opened, sewn up again, and the fowl will be well before the ‘ordinary man would Know there wes anything the matter. | So turn the flock over to the women folks, if they have not already all the work they should do. Let them have, of course, the gross receipts from the poultry, and they will soon be buying incubators and other up-to-date ap pliances, and thus the farm poultry ‘business may tnerease in a natural and profitable manner—N. Y. Tribune Parca. Fellow Feeling. “You're an astronomer, are you?” “Yes.” “Shake! I'm s theatrical manager. I wonder if you have as hard a time finding new stare sa I bave.”—Chicego Tribune. WARM POULTRY HOUSE. anid Gases aie ete oe a tt eee ‘This cros#-section view shows how to construct a cheap poultry house that will be warm. It is built on level ground. Lay up a wall of flat rocks on the north side, and against this heap ER ce rs’ a ap a good bank of earth. Lay a sill in cement on the top of the wall and set the rafters on this. Make the floor of cement and carry this up on to the rear wall a little way. Where flat rocks are abundant euch as house can be built very cheaply.—Farm Journal. POULTRY PARAGRAPHS, A lazy man would make a poor poul- try man. ‘Two small poultry runs are better than one large one. Keep plenty of grit where the fowls ean have access to it. ‘The best way tocure sickness among the hens is to prevent it. Better not keep the male birds with the females during the moulting sea- son. Any fowls that are not to be car- ried through the winter should besold now. ‘The smaller and more crowded the poultry quarters, the cleaner they must be kept. Do not fall into the common error of thinking the poultry business can be mastered in a day. The Ontario station has demonstrat- ed that wheat and bran make a whiter flesh and corn a yellow one. ; There is mighty little sickness emong fowls which are properly housed and given the right kind of feed and attention. —Commercial Poultry. THE RICHMOND PRaiiet, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, WOMAN SAVbS TRAIN Her Cool Nerve at a Trying Moment Prevents Disaster, ae Amsinted tn Her Heroic Rfort by @ Telephone and « Man with « Bieyele—ttow She Found | i: Pp iy | A San Refeel (Cal) correspondent writes that the cool nerve of a plucky woman end the speed of aman riding for life on a bigycle was all that saved the Ukiah express, bound from Ukiah to Tiburon on the line of the Califor« nia Northwestern railway, from de- etruetion late the other afternoon, Mra, James Cochrane, wife of a welk ‘Known San Rafael attorney, was the heroine of the incident, and to her courage scores of passengers on the endangered train owe their lives, On that afternoon a storm of wind ‘swept over San Rafael. Near the out skirts of town and close to the resi- dence of Mrs. Cochrane a huge euca- lyptus tree, fully 100 feet in height, and two feet in diameter inite thickest Part, was blown over ao thatthe heavy Portion of its trunk lay squarely across the tracks of the California North- western railway. Shortly after five clock Mrs. Cochrane, witha team of hhorees, started on a drive into the eountry. She passed close to the track dp her carriage and saw the big tree lying across the rails. Suddenly the thought struck her that the Ukiah ex- Press was about due. She looked at her watch and it read 5:10 o'clock. A feeling of dread passed over her as she realized that the quick moving train ‘with ite long string of passenger cars was due at 8:15 o'clock. Hurriedly jumping from her car riage, she ran down the track, hoping to flag the train. Then the full peril of the sitnation dawned upon her. The tree had fallen just at the end of « eurve, which wound itself about a tall MMll. At the beginning of thecurve the track emerged from a tunnel, and it was evident that the engineer in his Gi , a Py Mi A aa Me fn 2 N “1 eM\ SS \ FAL ge ‘ SHAVE.’ A CLOSE tab would not be aware of his danger until he was right upon it. . Mrs. Cochrane confesses that she grew sick with fear and the thought came to her that the engineer emerg- ing suddenly from the tunnel would not understand her signal till too late, ‘Then she remembered the telephone, and, turning back ran over the rough ‘ground toward the house, where a line | ‘was installed. Once she stumbled, but the distance was short and in less tham ‘two minutes she was ringing for the railway depot. Train Dispatcher Force answered her message. All that he heard was: “Tree aerose the track near the tunnel; hurry; a train is com ing.” Outside the station G. E. Gillbride, the Daggage master, who is an expert bi- cicle rider, was standing. Force called to him the message, and with a jump Gilbride had seized hie bicycle and was off. Force threw him a signal fiag as he started and yelled a string of orders after him ashe spurted down the street. The distance was only about a mile and the bicyclist rode like the wind. After he had gonea block he heard the shrill whistle of the coming train as it approached the tunnel. It wos a race of men against a train with & hundred lives depending on the re- sult. Gillbride reached the fallen tree, jumped from his bicycle, ran down the track away to the mouth of the tun- nel, and as the engine emerged from the darkness flashed his red signal flag before the startled engineer. The whistles screamed “Brakes down,” and, with the engine shivering with the ex- ertion, the train came to a stop with the nose of the locomotive’s cow catcher searcely two feet from the fallen tree. Engineer Lewis, his face white from the peril, jumped from the cab and hurried to the signalman. “It was a close shave,” he gasped, and as the questiowing passengers and Conductor Crane pressed around him he could only repeat: “It wae a close shave, a close shave.” Pretty soon a half hysterical woman came down the track. It was Mrs. Cochrane and she told of the finding of the danger. The crew and passen- gers thanked her over and over again. Snaile Delight in Meate. A German scientist recently pointed ont that snails were eble to draw im mense weights, and now a French nat- uralist claims that there are few, if any, animals which have « higher ap- preciation of music than snails. Place some snails on a pane of glase, he says, and you will find that, as they move over it they will make musical sounds similar to those which a person can produce by wetting his finger and then rubbing it around a glass tumbler. 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Wag cs co pes week. tans a ea for Maryland, R. W- ELSor, 437 E. Broad St. Richmoud. V>. RESCUE SATURDAY, OCT. 25, 1809 KISSING THE BABY. She kissed the baby— So did I— It was her sister's, By the by— She kissed the baby, Crying: "Oh, You cunning thing, I Love you so!" She kissed the baby, I saw there, And touched its cheek with My lips there! She kissed the baby, I did, too! She spied, and said: "You Told me you Detested babies! Now I know You told a story! Say 'tis so! It was a kiss you Stole from her— Come, don't deny! I Saw you, sir!" "You kissed the baby, I saw where." I told her, "and I Kissed it there— I don't know that You could see. But oh the kiss was Sweet to me— You kissed the baby, So did I— And now you're blushing! Tell me why?" I saw the lashes Vell her eyes; I saw the baby Looking wise— I heard the sighing Girl protest; I felt her purrring On my breast— Ah, sweetest words of Tongue or pen; "We kissed the baby"— But not then! -S. E. Kiser, in Chicago Record Herald. Her Promise BURNING and shaking with fever, panting for breath, his head inclined toward the cold light of a sunless November day, which hardly reached his bed, Paul fell into a dose, then into a heavy, fitful sleep; his outstretched hand closing at times as if pressing another hand. "Marie," he said, softly. The young girl seated at his bedside bent tenderly over him ready to take his hand which in his troubled dreams was seeking hers, but his eyes didn't open, and he went on sleeping. "Sleep, sleep, beloved one," she murmured almost audibly. Large tears of despair suddenly rolled down her pale cheeks on her delicate hands, on the crochet lace her fingers fashioned unconsciously. The dainty work fell on the floor; she watched through tears the sleep of her cousin, her friend, her betrothed. Remembrances, especially happy ones, one more view seen through tearful eyes. Marie reviewed with intense emotion her life as a child, a young girl, so intimately bound up with Paul's own life. She had but a faint recollection of her father, Capt. Martial. He had been designated for the Indo-Chinese colonies, as much for his bravery as a soldier as for his qualities as administrator. One night falling in an ambush he fought heroically, putting the pirates to flight, but losing his own life. Her mother survived her husband one year; she died of a broken heart, leav- PAUL DID NOT SPEAK AGAIN. ting her orphan daughter to the care of her sister, Mrs. Duhamel, a widow in comfortable circumstances. The great sorrows of childhood are easily dispelled. Marie had in her third aunt another mother; besides, in her cousin Paul she found a big brother, happy not to be alone any more at home, and who devoted himself to her at the very beginning. He was a precocious child of a very gentle, grave disposition. Moreover, he cared little for the friendship of his schoolmates, finding Marie his best companion. He taught her how to read and write, and enabled her by his instructions to follow the outside course where she completed her education. She grew up in a kind of wondering admiration for the goodness and the knowledge of her cousin. Then Paul entered the Polytechnic school, and came out the first; and, wishing to establish himself in Paris, he went on studying while waiting for the position promised him. Only a few days ago, at a party given on her son's twenty-fifth birthday, Mrs. Duhamel had announced the engagement of Paul and Marie; the marriage to take place in the middle of December. The chilly November rains dimmed the skies. Paul had taken cold, he did not know where, and coughed at night. "It is nothing," he said at first, till one evening, overpowered by an extreme lasitude, he was obliged to yield to his illness. The doctor, who came at once, called in a colleague for consultation; it was a serious care of pulmonary congestion. From this time Marie did not leave Paul's boots, and hardly slept for five or six days. She stood there, brave and tender, when the broken-hearted mother succumbed to fatigue. While her beloved slept, the young girl wept silently. Clasping her hands in prayer, bending tenderly over him with the fervents will and the ardent vows of her chaste love, she watched his fitful sleep. He started at times, as if failing into abysses, muttering incoherent words of angulah, living in a world of nightmares and horrors. He woke up toward 8 o'clock, his features drawn and his breathing oppressed. Seeing his mother and Marie near him, his hand sought their united hands. "Mamma, Marie, here, both of you, kiss me, oh, kiss me, for all life to come." The mother lifted him and olapsed him to her heart, wiping the perspiration on his brow, the tears in his eyes. "Dear child, thou livest?" He answered by a slow motion of the head which seemed to deny the possibility of living. Noticing the look of anguish of his mother, he said: "Lay me down again, dear mother;" then, calmer, smiling sadly, he added: "I want to sleep again. I breathe easier. Go and rest, mother; you will be sick also." "Yes," insisted Marle, "you must rest, mamma. I will watch and call you if necessary." Paul fell asleep again and slept over an hour under the anxious gaze of the young girl. At 9:30, starting suddenly, he raised his arms, sat up in bed as if searching for a support. Then he fell back exhausted on the pillows. "Marie, yes," he murmured, "thou art near me. I see thee. I feel thee. I feel thy tears falling on my hands. Dear one, art thou alone? Listen to me. I will speak very low, because it is sored, and thou must hear. Listen, dear one." He spoke softly, and at his words Marie stifled a cry. "No, no, Paul, thou wilt not die, it is the fear that makes thee speak so." "Yes, Marie, I must die. Listen well, and tell me if thou wilt come." His voice sank lower and lower. In the full light of the lamp, Marie turned paler and paler as she listened, her lips drawn with pain her left hand repressing the beating of her heart. It was over. Paul did not speak again, but looked at her with eyes of love and anguish as if expecting an answer. She nerved herself by an effort of her will, uniting her gaze with that of her beloved, without trembling, although it was a terrible promise. She answered: "Yes, Paul. I will come." Their lips met in a kiss, silent and deep as death. Paul died in an hour after. Marie's grief was so intense, and brought on such alarming symptoms, that, fearing for her mind, loth to lose her, her aunt sent her (the day after the funeral) to a friend's house. Marie remained prostrated for several days by unutterable sufferings. Then the calm came; this calm seemed to those around her more alarming than her grief. Her eyes, that seemed attentive to obscure and far away things, had taken a singular light, and so with the smile on her cold lips, in her pale, inscrutable face. Urged to speak, she said at last: "You want to know? My betrothed promised to be always near me—one hour before dying, in possession of his full senses, he told me: 'Do not weep, death will not part us; we will yet be united. I will come for thee in a month. Expect me at the very hour of my death. I will come.'" They attempted to reason with her, but her pale smile was her only answer. Not to augment Mrs. Duhamel's sorrow, nothing was mentioned to her of Marle's answer. A week passed, and the young girl seemed calmer. Her excitement gave way to quiet melancholy. She expressed the desire to return to her aunt's home, and there she resumed her usual occupations, trying even to assuage the grief of the poor mother. The 23d of December arrived. In the afternoon Marle complained of a violent headache. "I cannot come to dinner," said the young girl; "pray, dear mother, leave me alone to my thoughts." "Yes, my child, I hope it is nothing more serious than a headache." "Do not trouble yourself about me, mother. I only want to be alone—I must—sleep." Marie did not come down during the evening. Her aunt heard her coming and going for awhile; then nothing more. Perfect silence. Mrs. Duhamel wanted to assure herself that Marie needed nothing. The door stood wide open, and the light shone in the hall. Marie had not gone to bed. Mrs. Duhamel advanced a few steps, but stood stupefied on the threshold. The lamp was burning brightly on the mantelpiece, and Marie, who had not heard her aunt coming, who did not even feel she was near, was seated motionless in an armchair, pale as death, her eyes only living, shining with supernatural light, fixed on the clock. She had discarded her mourning garments and put on the dress of her betrothed. Paul's ring was on her finger. The terrible silence within seemed intensified by the howling December winds and the falling rain pattering on the window panes outside. Suddenly a violent gust opened the window; the lamp went out, and darkness reigned supreme. Mrs. Duhamel, terrified, seted with anguish, called "Marie!" At that very moment, in the silence following the lull of the wind, a breath passed—an almost immaterial voice—a sigh—"Yes, Paul, I come." When, hearing the cries of Mrs. Duhamel, the servants brought a light, they saw Marie reclining in the armchair, pale but as beautiful as on the evening of her betrothal. She had died, a divine smile on her lips, the smile that welcomed her lover, who had not forgotten her, but come for her on the night that should have been their wedding day.—N. O. Times-Democrat. "Yes; each was afraid the other would back out."—N. Y. Times. THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. Rockaway Oyster Lake, near self king of All Izards Along Atlantic Coast. 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I remember once, 'bout ten years ago, when I was shinglin' the upright part of my house, a fog rolled in from the east fit to put a man's eyes out. I didn't take much notice of it at first, but kept on nailin' down shingles, an', by and by, it lighted up some, and what do you think I'd been doin', sonny? I was a half mile away from the house, and the shingles was lyn' on the field all the way back. That blamed fog was so thick I'd been nailin' shingles on it and didn't know it. And that ain't the worst fog I've seen, neither." PAINTED HER GREEN. Chicago Man Haled to Court by Sister-in-Law Whose Face He Had Decorated. Surrounded by a number of friends and her face smeared with paint, Mrs. Anna Brandt, 76 Liberty street, appeared in Justice Dooley's court at the Maxwell street police station, Chicago. She told the court that her brother-in-law, Nathan Brandt, had painted her face because he believed she would be more handsome. 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THE PLANET COAL STRIKE DECLARED OFF Miners' Convention Accepts Arbitration Proposition. CHEERS GREETED DECISION Mitchell Chosen to Present Men's Case to Arbitrators. REJOICING IN THE COAL REGIONS After Several Hours' Debate, In Which Speeches Were Made In Four Different Languages, Mine Workers Decided to Submit All Grievances to President Roosevelt's Commission. Wilkesbarre, Pa., Oct. 22.—With a about that fairly shook the convention building, the representatives of the 147,000 mine workers, who have been on strike since last May, officially declared off at noon yesterday the greatest contest ever waged between capital and labor, and placed all the questions involved in the struggle into the hands of the arbitration commission appointed by the president of the United States. When the news was flashed to the towns and villages down in the valleys and on the mountains of the coal regions the strike affected inhabitants heaved a sigh of relief. Many days have gone by since more welcome news was received. Everywhere there was rejoicing, and in many places the end of the strike was the signal for impromptu town celebrations. The anthracite coal regions from its largest city—Scranton—down to the lowliest coal patch, has suffered by the conflict, and every one now looks for better times. While the large army of mine workers and their families, numbering approximately 500,000 persons, are grateful that work is to be resumed tomorrow, the strikers have still to learn what their reward will be. President Roosevelt having taken prompt action in calling the arbitrators together for their first meeting on Friday, the miners hope they will know by Thanksgiving Day what practical gain they have made. The vote to resume coal mining was a unanimous one and was reached only ```markdown ``` principal objection to accepting the arbitration proposition was that no provision was contained in the scheme to take care of those men who would fall to get back their old positions or would be unable to get any work at all. The engineers and pump men get better pay than other classes of mine workers, and they did not wish to run the risk of losing altogether their old places and be compelled to dig coal for a living. This question came up yesterday, and was argued right up to the time the vote was taken. No one had a definite plan to offer to overcome the objection, and the report of the committee on resolutions recommending that the strike be declared off, and that all issues be placed in the hands of the arbitration commission for decision, was adopted without the question being settled. A few minutes before adjournment, however, a partial solution was reached, when a delegates in the farthest corner of the hall moved that the problem be placed in the hands of the three executive boards for solution, and his suggestion was adopted. The principal speech of the day was made by National Secretary-treasurer W. B. Wilson, who practically spoke for President Mitchell and the national organization. In a strong argument he counseled the men to accept arbitration, the very plan the strikers themselves had offered, return to work and trust to the president's tribunal to do them justice. Great enthusiasm was manifested when the vote on the resolutions was taken. President Mitchell came in for a share of the applause. When order was restored resolutions were adopted thanking all organizations and individuals for the assistance they have rendered the mine workers in the strike. A resolution was also adopted recommending to state legislatures that no person under 21 years of age be employed in or about the mines for more than eight hours a day. Envelopes addressed to President Mitchell, at Wilkesbarre, were distributed among the delegates, with instructions that all pay envelopes, due bills, statements of wages, and anything that may help the miners in their case before the arbitration commission be sent to him. Hundreds Will Be Hindered at Wilkesbarre. The question of taking care of all the men who will fall to get work immediately will be a serious one for the union. There is no doubt the executive boards will take care of the engineers, firemen and pump men, but there will be thousands of other classes of mine workers who will have to be looked after. In some places hundreds will not be able to get work for weeks, and in other localities, where the mines are in very bad condition, there will be an employment warm debate. During the deepe speeches were made in forgugues—Slavonic, Polish and on. The three foreign-speakites favored the acceptance proposition. for many workmen, as most of these mines will carry their idleness into next year. Now that the strike is over the volume of money relief will be erased, and the local union will be compelled to call upon the national organization for assistance when the money now on hand runs out. The officials who are willing to talk of the situation feel confident that the national body will come to the assistance and help all those who stood out during the suspension. Hundreds of men, needed to repair the mines and otherwise place them in condition for operation, went to work this morning, the convention having decided that this was imperative in order to get the men at work quickly to satisfy the country's demand for coal. All the locals held meetings today, at which instructions were given the members regarding their application for work. The proceedings in the convention indicate that there will be some friction in some of the local organisations over many little questions which will come up in connection with the men returning to the mines. Mitchell Well Pleased. President Mitchell received many congratulatory telegrams from all over the country after the news spread that the strike was ended. On his return to headquarters he was asked for an expression of his views on the action of the convention, and in reply he said: "I am well pleased with the action of the anthracite mine workers. in deciding to submit the issues which culminated in the strike to the commission selected by the president of the United States. The strike itself has demonstrated the power and dignity of labor. Conservative, intelligent trade unionism has received an impetus, the effect of which cannot be measured. I earnestly hope and firmly believe that both labor and capital have learned lessons from the miners' strike which will enable them to adopt peaceful, humane and business methods of adjusting wage differences in the future." After Mr. Mitchell had notified President Roosevelt of the action of the convention, and had received a reply to the effect that the commission would meet in Washington tomorrow, he sent out the official announcement through the press to the strikers that the strike was off. It was addressed to all miners and mine workers in the anthracite region, and was as follows: "You are hereby officially notified that it was unanimously decided by the delegates attending the special convention that all mine workers should report for work on Thursday morning, October 23, and that the issues which culminated in the strike should be referred for adjustment to the commission appointed by the president of the United States. "We are authorised by the executive officers of districts 1, 7 and 9 to caution all those who resume work to exercise more than usual care in order that accidents to life and limb may be averted. Owing to the condition of the mines after an idleness of five months there will be great danger when work is resumed. We are prompted to offer this advice by the fact that at the close of the strike two years ago many more accidents and deaths occurred than take place when the mines are operating regularly." President Mitchell has not made any arrangements regarding his future movements. He does not know whether he will go to Washington tomorrow. The miners' leader will act as the attorney for the men at all sessions of the commission and will have with him several assistants. Headquarters here will be kept open probably until after the award of the arbitration commission is announced. Reports from the small towns in the outlying regions are to the effect that celebrations of all kinds were held last night. Some of the larger towns celebrated the ending of the strike today. The greatest celebration, however, will be reserved for October 29—John Mitchell Day. That day will mark the second anniversary of the ending of the big strikes in 1900, when the men won a 10 per cent increase. ARBITRATORS TO MEET President Issued a Call As Soon As He Learned Strike Was Off. Washington, Oct. 22.—Shortly before 8 o'clock yesterday afternoon, President Roosevelt received a telegram from Wilkesbarre, Pa., informing him that the convention of miners had declared off the anthracite coal strike. The telegram was signed by John Mitchell, chairman, and W. B. Wilson, secretary of the convention, and was identical with that made public at Wilkesbarre. Immediately on receipt of this information, the following telegram was sent to Mr. Mitchell: "Washington, Oct. 21, 1902. "John Mitchell, Wilkesbarre, Pa. "Upon receipt of your telegram of this date, the president summoned the commission to meet here on Friday next, the 24th instant, at 10 a. m. It is probable that the first sessions of the commission at which testimony will be taken will be held in Wilkesbarre, as that city will be most convenient for the miners' representatives. Other meetings will be held in Philadelphia or New York, or in both cities. Whether the sessions of the commission will be open to the public is a question the commission itself have to determine, but it is regarded as quite likely that at all sessions when testimony is taken, representatives of the press will be admitted. How long the hearings will continue, nobody can foretell. At their conclusion, each member of the commission will be supplied with a copy of the testimony adduced and will consider it at his leisure. 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In Chicago he was known as an eminent specialist on diseases of the brain and nerves. When his name appeared in print it was followed by an array of dignified-looking abbreviations which gave it a very imposing appearance. It lent importance to the faculty of a leading medical college and to the staffs of several big hospitals. Ten months of steady work, the doctor considered, entitled him to a reest, and his method of resting was to throw off his work entirely. So that when he presented himself as a passenger on a lake steamer for an extended cruise he had dropped his title and was just plain "John Blank." Even his cards vouchsafed no further information. It was the carde which misled two young doctors from a small neighboring city who took passage on the same steamer. On the trip the two younger physicians discussed the latest medical discoveries daily with an erudition which secretly amused "John Blank." The conversation drifted one day to the subject of nerves, when, noting the Chicago man's evident interest in the discussion, they drew him into the conversation. Their criticisms of the specialists quietly offered opinions were made in terms intended to make their meaning plain to a rather presumptuous layman, but "John Blank" allowed the younger man to have the last word. The young men landed at Mackinac island and the specialist, says the Chicago Daily News, lost eight of them until a few days before his return. He had passed most of his time far up in Georgian bay and returning leisurely stopped off at Mackinac for a day or two. He walked right into trouble as "YOU'RE THE MAN I WANT." soon as he stepped on to the hotel plaza. A Chicago acquaintance, quietly smoking on the plaza, gave him a hasty greeting and hurriedly plunged into the hotel. Presently a disheveled man rushed from an elevator and seized the doctor. "Doctor," he exclaimed, "you're just the man I want. Our baby is sick—dying, we're afraid. Brain fever—unconscious; doesn't know me; telegraphed all over, but couldn't find you. We've had every doctor we could find up here, but none of them seems to think he's got any chance." Swept along by this tide of explanation, the doctor finally stood in a darkened room beside a limp, unconscious child. Waving the mother and several attendants aside, he sat down close to the bed. Soon he motioned the father to accompany him from the room, but a voice from the foot of the bed interposed. "Speak right out, doctor; we will be glad to have your opinion." The specialist hastiled in evident embarrassment. "If the child has had brain fever, doctors," he said, "you have cured him of that, but—" he motioned to the nurse to draw up the shades, and as the light streamed into the room turned again to the bed—I find something in the mouth which may contribute to the trouble somewhat. A slight surgical operation will doubtless assist somewhat." He reached for a lance from one of the medicine cases at hand and lanced the child's gum, where several teeth were struggling through. There was a sigh of returning consciousness and presently the child opened its eyes. "He will be all right in an hour or two," explained the doctor to the astonished parents. Then he turned toward his audience. "The pressure on the nerves-" he began with his usual eagerness to explain, but he stopped abruptly. Before him, reddening with confusion, stood the two wise young doctors. Want to Find Them. I would like to know the whereabouts of my brothers William and Anderson Robinson. When last heard of they were working in Richmond. Also my sisters Sallie, Jane and Louisa Robinson, Sallie married and went to Washington to live. My father's name was Walker Robinson, he was absent at the time of the war and has not been heard from the siege. My mother's name was Martha Robinson, and when last heard of was living with Sallie. My name is Frank Robinson. 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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. 212 EAST LEIGH STREET. [Residence Next Door.] Y & NIGHT—Man on Duty All Night. STATE AGRI- FAIR. HOWARD UNIVERSITY, OPEN ALL DAY & NIGHT—Man on Duty All Night. NORTH CAROLINA STATE AGRI- CULTURAL FAIR, RALEIGH, N. C., Oct., 27-31, 1902. For the above occasion the Southern Railway will sell special round-trip tickets to Raleigh, N. C., at one fare, plus fifty (50) cents, for the round-trip, which includes one admission to the Fair, applying from all points within the state of North Carolina; also Nor- folk, Richmond, Lynchburg, Danville, and intermediate points in the State of Virginia; tickets on sale October 25th to 30th, with return limit November 3rd. A very low rate will apply for military companies and bands in uniform; twenty or more on one ticket. Seaboard Air-Line Railway, low rates to California and the West. Every day during the months of September and October, the Seaboard Air Line will sell one-way second class setters tickets to California and other Western points at exceedingly low rates. Service offered by the Seaboard unsturpassed by any railroad in the south. Further information cheerfully furnished by agents or representatives of S. A. L., or call on or address, Z. P. SMITH, District Passenger Agent, 1006 East Main St. Richmond, Va. SELLING THE GREAT The New Poet of the Race. WRITE, J. E. McGIRT. NEW PHONE, 1133. Medical Department Including Medical, Dental and Pharmacolo Colleges. Thirty-fifth Session (1903-1903) will begin October 1, 1903, and continue seven (7) months. Tuition fee in Medical and Dental Colleges, each $90. Pharmaceutical College $70. All students must register before October 12, 1903. For catalogue or further information apply to F. J. SHADD, A. M. M. D. Secretary. Money to Loan On Easy Terms Rents are being advanced every day. It is cheaper to buy. After you have bought, the price cannot be raised on you. We will loan you the money to buy, or pay off your mortgage on such easy monthly terms that the money you pay in rent will pay for your house. Call on. GEO.C. JEFFERSON, Times Building, No. 6 North Tenth Street.