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THE RICHMOND PLANET VOL. XX NO. 5. THAT LIBEL SUIT. BRILLIANT ARRAY OF COUNSEL THERE. EDITOR MITCHELL'S DEFENSE.? Many Witnesses Testify. The Rights to Publish. Did Williams Forge the Names—Witnesses Testify. The suit of Nelson Williams, Jr., against John Mitchell, Jr., for $10,000 has been on trial in the Law & Equity Court since last Monday morning. Able counsel have been conducting the case. Editor Mitchell is represented by Hon. George D. Wise of the firm of Wise & Watkins and by Hon. Charles V. Meredith of the firm of Meredith & Cocke, and J. Thomas Hewin, Esq., (colored) of this city. Williams is represented by Mr. H. M. Smith, Jr., Hill Carter, Esq., and J. R. Pollard, Esq., colored. THE CAUSE OF THE SUIT The case grew out of the action of Editor Mitchell permitting the publication in the columns of the PLANET of the proceedings of the First Baptist Church upon the call of the pastor and the election of Rev. W. T. Johnson. Mitchell charges that Williams forged three names on a paper purporting to be an application for a church meeting held for the purpose of excluding Mitchell from the church and which did result in his exclusion. THE JURY SWORN. The jury was called and sworn. It correlated of all white citizens. Mr. H. Hith, Jr., then stated what his expected to prove. Mr. C. V. Meredith followed with a statement of what the defendant expected to prove. The witnesses were then excluded from the court room and Nelson Williams, Jr., the plaintiff was called to the stand. His statement of the case tended to injure him more than the defendant. He was subjected to a rigid cross examination by Mr. Meredith and his predicament was a sorry spectacle to those who had come to hear the case. HIS ATTITUDE DAMAGING His attitude on the witness stand was so damaging to the plaintiff side of the case that his counsel found it necessary to recall him the next (Tuesday) morning in order that he might be permitted to correct some of the reckless statements he had made the day before. RESTED THE CASE He did not help his case any, however. Then followed a most remarkable and surprising action on the part of his counsel. Mr. Smith announced that he would rest his case, thus forcing the defendant's counsel to show their hand. This they did not hesitate to do and after asking for a recess of fifteen minutes, which was granted by the court, they repaired to the consultation room to arrange the order for the presentation of their witnesses. NAME SIGNED WITHOUT CONSENT. The court resumed and Mr. Daniel Holman was placed upon the stand. He swore that he did not sign the application for the church meeting and that he did not authorize any one to sign his name to such an application. The first he knew about the meeting was the Monday after the Sunday that the paper was alleged to have been signed. Henry G. Carter came to his place of business and told him that his name had been signed to the application and asked him if he would permit it to remain. He had consened to this. He admitted having told Editor Mitchell that he had not authorized the signing of his name. HAYDEN'S TESTIMONY. Mr. Giles Hayden was placed on the wittness stand and declared that he had not signed the application for the meeting and that he had not authorized any one to sign his name to such an application. He had refused to allowed Williams so to do. He had been threatened outside in the corridors of the city hall during this trial by persons who said that he would be put in jail if he made this statement which statement was the truth. He told of William's visit to his evidence in an effort to get him to sign a statement that he did authorized his name to be attached to such a document. He was subjected to a rigid cross examination but his statement was unshaken. CHAIRMAN JACKSON'S STATEMENT. Deacon Benjamin Jackson was placed on the stand. He related the circumstances in connection with the application for the meeting. He told of the notification by Editor Mitchell of the forgery of the names. He told of the committee being appointed by the deacon board for the purpose of ascertaining whether or not the charges of forgery were true. The committee investigated the charges and reported that they were true. He explained that he had ruled that it required 15 persons names in order to justify the deacon board in calling a meeting. No one of the deacons it seems would call a meeting and so Mr. R. T. Hill took it upon himself to do so. Deacon John T. Allen came on the stand and substantiated the statement made by Deacon Jackson. DEACON POWELL EMPHATIC. Deacon Jno. S. Powell made a clear statement of the conditions existing at the First Baptist Church He explained the nature of the proceedings on the Sunday morning when the forged paper was produced. He made a most favorable impression. Deacon J. C. Farley made a most vivid statement of the conditions existing at the First Baptist Church and also of the attempted peace meeting which was alleged to have been frustrated by Bro. Thos. H. Briggs and Bro. Nelson Williams, Jr. BROTHER BRIGGS DISAPPEARED One of the features of the case was the ridiculous and disgraceful attitude of Briggs as chairman. It seemed to be generally conceded that they all fully agreed that the statement of Hon. C. V. Meredith when he said "We all know Briggs" who went from Jack Wren's office to the pulpit and that there was but one chairman worse than Th. S. Reed and his name was Tom Briggs. One laughah e feature of the case was the absence of Bro. Briggs. He was summoned as a witness by Bro. William counsel and he shook the dust of Richmond on his feet so to speak and has not been seen since. The cry of the court called "Briggs, Briggs" but no Briggs has answered, yet there was a general disposition to laugh when Editor Mitchel on the witness stand announced that his bad record was indeed known from Screamersville to Rockets. All through the case with references to his ruling caused not only derision but served to emphasize the fact that the lowest element had secured control of one of the most famous churches in the Southland. A BOSTONIAN SPEAKS PLAINLY. Commands the Planet and the Great Work Its Doing. To the Richmond, Va., PLANET: Sir:—The above named paper and its editor has been vainly and unjustly criticised by the editor of the "Guardian," a Negro weekly published at Boston, Mass. The writer is not personally acquainted with the PLANET's distinguished editor, but possesses some knowledge of his timely endeavors in behalf of his downtrodden people, of his ceaseless energies in rescuing the innocent and falsely accused from violence and untimely death, of his successful efforts in taking from the grasp of a merciless mob persons of the Afro American race, whose lives otherwise would have been strangled without the "due process of law." In the writer's personal opinion, the PLANET's brave editor has not written a single line or done a single act to boom or "boomerang" himself. There are two sides of life, the one bad, the other good. And if the course of a man's life is in the wrong, the people and the country will know it, but if it has been to educate the ignorant and rendering need aid to suffering humanity, the world is no less acquainted. And if he does not well in his course of life, his fellows are sure to criticise his none accomplishments; but if well, he merits the highest praise for his achievements. This is the case with Mitchell, who has stood firm during the past 18 years defending the rights of his people. No editor, nor advocate has stood firmer. None has done more to aid in the material and intellectual progress of the colored race than the PLANET's fearless editor, who, like most of us, started in life without any bank account or any means at hand to start one, but to-day, he is at the head of a weekly paper, the grand president of many benevolent fraternities and president of a banking institution, known as the Mechanics' Savings Bank, at Richmond, Va. Then, if this be so, what cause has he to boom or "boomerang" himself or to be alluded to as a "so-called leader" or standing line with those deserving that name? Men permit petty jealousy to rob them of sober judgment, in that, they are led by an unkind sentiment, which makes a sad commentary upon race unity when viewed by race criticism. Editor Mitchell's opinion concerning the National Supreme Court and its ruling concerning the Negro's right to vote and otherwise is just what it ought to be, and if such qualifications as have been displayed by the PLANET's editor make "so-called leaders," then let fifty thousand in every state among the Negro race like Mitchell! ROBERT W. CARTER, 1085 Beacon St., Boston, Mass. January 4th, 1903. Flora Batson and Gerard Miller At True Reformers Hall, Monday Night, Feb., 2nd 1903. Miss Flora Batson, the queen of songs, and Mr. Gerard Miller, the great Passo, accompanied by Miss Clara D. Scudder, an accomplished pianist and organist of the race, aided by Prof. D. Webster Davis and Mme. Fannie P. Walker of Richmond will appear before a vast audience at True Reformer's Hall, Richmond Va., February 2nd to benefit Mt. Carmel Baptist Church and the Old Folks Home. Admission, 10, 25, 38cts. E W. Brown & T W. Taylor Might RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, SATURDAY, JANUARY 10, 1903 CALLS IT OUTRAGE CALLS IT OUTRAGE PRESIDENT ACTS IN CASE OF INDIA-NOLA POSTMISTRESS. OFFICE TO REMAIN CLOSED Colored Woman was Forced to Resign by Lawless Element. Threats made against her life—Democratic State Senator on her Bond—Her character above reproach and conduct of the office competent and honest—Office will not be reopened until citizens accept her as Postmistress. The feature of the Cabinet meeting yesterday was the decision to close permanently the post-office at Indianaola, Miss., from which the postmistress, Minnie M. Cox, colored, resigned under compulsion a few days ago, since which time the office has been closed. The bondsmen have brought the matter to the attention of the authorities here, with a view to be relieved of the responsibility of the accumulated mail. The Postmaster-General has had a thorough investigation made and has become satisfied that the woman was obliged to resign under duress—in fact, that her life was endangered. Having represented this state of affairs to the Cabinet, after a long discussion, the decision above noted was reached, and the office will not be reopened until the people in the district are ready to accept this woman as their postmaster. During the afternoon the President discussed with several members of the Cabinet other features of the case of Mrs. Cox. Postmaster-General Payne being in conference with the President for an hour or more. It was decided, finally, to issue a formal statement concerning the Indianola case. Secretary Cortelyon, for the President made public the following: FAITHFUL SERVICE. "The postmaster at Indianola, Miss., is Mrs. Minnie M. Cox, a colored woman. She served three years as postmaster under President Harrison. When President McKinley came in she was again appointed, in 1897, nearly six years ago. Her character and standing in the community are indorsed by the best and reputable people in the town. Among those on her bond is the present Democratic State senator from the district, together with the leading banker of Indianola, and an ex-State senator from the district, also a Democrat. The postmaster and her has band own from $10,000 to $15,000 worth of property in Sunflower County. The reports of post-office inspectors who have investigated the office from time to time show that she has given the utmost satisfaction to all the patrons of the office; that she is at all times courteous, faithful, competent, and honest in the discharge of her duties. Her moral standing in the community is of the highest. Her reputation is of the best. Few offices of this grade in any state are conducted better. "The postmaster recently forwarded her resignation to take effect January 1st, but the report of inspectors and information received from various reputable white citizens of the town and neighborhood show that the resignation was forced by a brutal and lawless element purely upon the grounds of her color, and was obtained under terror of threats of physical violence. HER LIFE IN DANGER: "The mayor of the town and the sheriff of the county both told the post-office inspector that if she refused to resign they could not be answerable for her safety, although at the same time not one word was said against her management of the office. "On January 1, the bondsmen of the postmaster telegraphed that the post-office was closed, that the postmaster claimed that her resignation was in the President's hands to take effect January 1, and that there had been no advice of the appointment of her successor. The telegram closed with this statement: "prompt action necessary for relief of business interests." In the view of the President the relief of the business interests, which are being injured solely by the action of the lawless element of the town, is wholly secondary to the preservation of law and order and the assertion of the fundamental principle that this government will not conceive at or tolerate wrong and outrage of such fligrant character. "By direction of the President the following telegram was sent by the postmaster General to the bondsmen; The postmaster's resignation has been received, but not accepted. In view of the fact that the office at Indianola is closed, all mail addressed to that office will be forwarded to Greenville. "The papers in the case have been sent to the Attorney General for action." The talk of the town is Belshazar, at The True Reformer's Hall next Monday night Jan. 12th 1903. Admission, 25 cents, reserved seats, 35 cents. PENNSYLVANIA LEGISLATURE Present Session Will be the Shortest in State's History. Harrisburg, Pa., Jan. 6.—The biennial session of the Pennsylvania legislature, which organized today, promises to be the shortest in the state's history. A joint resolution was offered in the senate and house fixing the date of final adjournment on April 16. The Republicans, who are in a decided majority in both branches, are pledged by their party caucuses to vote for the adoption of such a resolution. This action was taken at the request of Senator Quay, chairman of the Republican state committee, who sent a personal telegram to every senator and representative, urging him to vote for the resolution. The house organized at noon by the election of Henry F. Walton, of Philadelphia, as speaker, he being the unanimous choice of the Republican members. The Democrats voted for Lewis M. Castner, of Lycoming. Thomas H. Garvin, of Delaware, was re-elected chief clerk, and Charles B. Johnston, of Montgomery, succeeds himself as president clerk. The remainder of the officers and employees of the house will be selected by the Republican slate committee, composed of one member from each of the 32 congressional districts. The committee will report after the legislative recess. John M. Scott, of Philadelphia, was chosen president pro tem of the senate, he having been the unimous choice of last night's senate Republican caucus. The Democrats voted for J. Henry Cochran, of Lycoming, Edward W. Smiley, of Franklin, was re-elected chief clerk, and Herman P. Miller, of Harrisburg, succeeds himself as senate librarian. The remainder of the officers and employees of the senate will be selected by the Republican slate committee, which will report after the recass. Big Coal Companies Combine Big Coal Companies Combine. Baltimore, Md., Jan. 7—Three of the biggest coal companies in the United States yesterday formed an alliance, which for all practical purposes will be a combination. The companies involved are the Consolidation Coal Company, of Maryland; the Fairmount Coal Company, of West Virginia, and the Somerset Coal Company, of Pennsylvania. The combined capital stock of the companies is $31,750,000. The output of the companies is 8,500,000 tons a year. Dr. Hill Minister to Switzerland. Washington, Jan. 6. — Dr. David Jayne Hill, first assistant secretary of state, will rellinguish that post this month to become United States minister to Switzerland. He will be succeeded as first assistant by Francis B. Loomis, as present United States minister to Portugal. Mr. Loomis will be succeeded at Lisbon by Charles Page Bryan, who has been confirmed as minister to Switzerland, but who has never assumed that post. Two Found Dead in Ledging House. Philadelphia, Jan. 6.—Frank Cashim, aged 40 years, a composer, and an unknown woman were found dead last night in a lodging house. The gas jet leading to a stove was turned on and the couple had evidently been accidentally asphyxiated. The police do not believe they committed suicide. Cashim formerly resided in Wilkesbarre. He came here about two years ago. COAL BARONS' NEW DEAL Independent Operators Now Free to "Squeeze" the Public. Scranton, Pa., Jan. 5. — Following the lead of the Lehigh Valley, Jersey Central and Reading, the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Company on Saturday acceded to the demand of its contract shippers to suspend the 65-35 contract until circular and actual market prices again conform. Only about half of the independent operators are selling under the 65-35 contract. They have had to be content with 65 per cent. of $5 on big sizes and the same per cent. of $3.75 on small sizes, the arbitrary figure fixed by the carriers for coal at tidewater. The independents who were not under contract terms have sold their coal at the breaker for at least $5 a ton, and the purchaser looked after the freight. The contract independents argued that it was not fair that they should be bound by an arbitrary circular price, when they could get fully 50 per cent. better prices, and particularly when other independents were getting all that the law of supply and demand allows. This means that the independents are now all free to sell their coal at the breaker at the best prices they can secure, leaving it to the purchaser to dicker with the carrier about the freight charges. There are in all 106 independent operators, having a total tonnage of 14,923,606 tons, or an average for each one of 140,000 tons a year. THE AMERICAN. IS THE BEST-IT IS THE STRONGEST. THE MOST RELIABLE. We make this claim because we have a clear knowledge of the condition of all the insurance companies. We are law abiding, because on the second day of the month we paid the State $200.00, the license for doing business this year. As to the money being paid monthly to our beneficiaries, we lead all others in that. They say figures don't lie, we ask the public to look at these figures; for the month of November and December we paid for sickness and deaths $3030.28, and $3868.89 respectively or for the two months $6899.17. Who can beat it? We are the ONLY RELIABLE. Then again we have the largest membership by thousands of any company doing our class of work, there is not another that has 13000 'enefited members we have 17000 paying members. We employ 45 persons to do our work right here in Richmond. What other company does that? We are the strongest because we have a much larger company of bonifide stock holders. The most of the others companies have only from 1 to 16 persons who own them, our company is backed by over 300 stock holders who have already put $6700 in hard cash in the bank. We propose to increase that, until the entire $20000, capital stock is paid in. This is the only way to make a great, substantial company. We do business in a legitimate way. We do not divide the company that's cleared each month among the stock holders. We are using both sick benefit and straight life policies. We insure persons for as high as $500.00. Persons who desire to take out policies with us may call at the office or have our polite agents to call upon you. Why not come into this company and let us build it up until it becomes a great wealthy concern that shall be a blessing to the entire race? Our capital stock is now $20,000, but it is our purpose to increase it to $100,000. (One Hundred Thousand Dollars) And why? Simply because that is the only way to compete with the great white companies, put money behind a business. We do not sell stock to every body. We are careful to sell to those who are good citizens and who means business in life. The colored people should unite and help us to have one strong insurance company in the land. The American is now leading the way and simply asks the continued support of the public. Respectfully, W. F. GRAHAM, President, B. H. PEYTON, Secretary, JNO. W. HOWARD, Gen'l Sup't. BELSHAZZAR. The Grandest Musical Entertainment of the Season. At The True Reformer's Hall, Monday night, January 13th, 1903. For the benefit of the Past Officers Council of the G. U O.T.R. The Richmond Musical and Dramatic Association, which is composed of the leading singers of Richmond, assisted by a chorus of more than 30 selected and well trained voices, will present to the music-loving public of Richmond, on the above date, the beautiful Dramatic Cantata of Belshazzar. President of the Association, Mrs. Olivia C. Bolden and Directors, Madam Fannie P. Walker and Prof. Thomas H. Hopkins are well pleased with the Caste and Chorus work. An entertainment under the direction of either of the above named leaders means success, to the extent of pleasing all who may come out. They do not hesitate to say that this will be the grandest entertainment of the season. The brilliant costumes and stage scenery of each act along with the rich sweet music to be used in the rendition, will catch the eye and feed the Soul. Can you afford to miss this rich and restful evening and spend an evening of great joy and pleasure. CASTE AND CHORUS: Belshazzar Mr. Conway B. Reid Cyrus " John T. Taylor Zerubbabel " M. Sydney Mayo Daniel " Joseph Woolfolk Festus " Thomas H. Hopkins Nitocris Miss Margrite Tinsley Antonia Mrs. Fannie P. Waiker Sleilomh " Carrie E. Hawkins Child of Zerubbabel Miss Mamie Tharpes Angel Miss Bessie Murray Jewess Princes;—Miss Mary E. Washington, Miss Kate Randolph, Mrs. Winston Fayne, Mrs. Amanda West. Tamar Atalia Ladies of Belshazzar's Zerlenia Court Magi- Mr.W. I. I. Johnson, Mr. W. B. Smith, Jr., Mr. John A. Walker. Missess-Martha Ross, Minnie Scott, Lillie Cox, Cora Epps, Annie Scott, Essie Harper, Rachel Tharpes, ratience Scott, Emily Powell, Bessie Dobson, Drucilla Marks, Mrs. Martha Langhorn, Messrs. Junius Lawson, Leroy Edmonds, Andrew Hunter, James Taylor, James West, Archer B. Hawkins, A. C. Johnson, B. A. Graves, Peyton Smith, Joseph Smith, Benj. Bowler, Abram Morton. Don't forget the date, Monday night. RICHMOND January 12th 1903. Admission, 25 cents, reserved seats 35 cents. Pianist.— Mrs. Olivia C. Bolden. John T. Taylor, Manager for the R. M. and D. A. Performance begin at 8:30 sharp Dr. Graham in a New Year Storm. The Fifth Street pastor never gets left. His church members and friends are always on the alert watching opportunities to make him happy. During the holidays he was a recipient of many tokens of respect and esteem. New Years night his family was made happy by the visit of the following named ladies and gentlemen: Sisters; Isabella Wilkerson, Henrietta Harris, Josephine Baker, Angelina Standley, Jennie Cheatham, Josephine Jonathan, Signora Wood, Ella Hill, Hardy, India Moody, Anna M. Colleen Nancy West, Susan Shepperson, Fimina Moss Addie Lemas, Ella Shepperson. Bretheren: Joseph Wilkerson, W. H. Harris, Ed T. Coleman, James West, J. A. Moss. The store-room was filled, valuable presents made and a happy time enjoyed in the pastor's spacious parlor. Mrs W E. Graham along with her husband received many congratulations. Y. M. C. A. NOTES. The Thirteenth Annual Conference of the Colored Young Men's Christian Association in Virginia, West Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Maryland, and District of Columbia, was held at Danville, Va., Dec., 27—30. It is the best that has ever been held and all the attended were well paid. The people of Danville know just how to encourage such girl springs. The next place will have to work very hard to surpass this meeting. God certainly smiled upon us in every way. The New Year Meeting was conducted New Year's Morning at 9 o'clock by General Secretary S. C. Burrell. Such a meeting will always bring success. One man was present who said for the past ten or twelve years he had given his time to the Devil but was happy to know that he began the New Year serving the Lord, and had planned to continue. The explanation on last Saturday by Prof G. R. Hovey was enjoyed by all who attended and many thoughts were presented which will give strength to the soul. Meetings in the jail and other cottage work produced many results which will not be forgotten very soon. The boys were out in good numbers regardless of the weather. Committee man J. H. Boher gave them a very encouraging talk. Mothers do not fail to send your boys to this meeting. The storm last Sunday did not discourage the men they attended in full and was helped by the timely address which was delivered to them by Mr. W. S. Morgan, subject: "Our personal work for Christ." The solo by Mr. Joseph C. James, of Lincoln University was enjoyed Miss Rosa James accompanist. My friend you are invited Saturday to the explanation on the Sunday School Lesson by Prof. G. R. Hovey. Vice-President of Union University. Come and bring a friend. Be on time, 5 P M Committees on jail, almshouse, and street work will meet Sunday 10 A. M. and 3 P M. Be on time. Boys meeting Sunday 4 P. M. Special papers by the boys. The boys' trio will sing. Everybody will have an opportunity to hear about the Conference which has just been held at Danville, Sunday, 5:30 P. M. The Men's meeting at the rooms. Come and bring another man. Special solos by the president of the Boys Den by T. E. Tiffin Cabell accompanied by Mr. E. T. Pollard. Free. Tell the other fellow. Our Pastor Kindly Remembered During the holiday a company of brethren and sisters of the Sharon Bapti's Church, visited the home of Rev. A. S. Thomas, and greatly blessed him and sister Thomas with many valuable presents. The following persons came: Deacons-R. J. Foster, Christopher Smith. Hanna Mabry, Mary King, Georgeanna Woodson, Bettie Carter, David Parson, Eliza Jackson, Andrew Johnson, Sam. King, Sallie Harris, Watt Jefferson, Lizzie Palmer, Isaac Lewis, George Smith, Mary Tyler, Matilda Thompson, Millie Monroe, Thomas Briggs, Joseph Griffin, Virginia Foster, Susie Bowman, Anna Bowman, Phillip Bowman, Nellie C. Scott, Frances Mickins, Nannie Gray Where the Negro Came From. An answer to the question, is he a beast? Do you know if Adam and Eve were made or colored? These look great on machines on the race course. Price 100¢. School of Psychiatry, 45 W. 66, New York City, N. Y. Annual Meeting The annual meeting of East End Memorial Burial Association was held at the office of the company, No. 601 N. 30th street on Monday evening, January 5th, 1903. Considerable business was transacted and after hearing the report of the secretary, treasurer and superintendent, the following officers were elected for the ensuing term: President, J. R. Griffin; vice president, A. W. Fowlkes; secretary and treasurer, E. A. Washington; assistant secretary, W. H. Jones; superintendent, D. J. Chavers; keeper, John Coleman. —Mrs. Anna Henderson of $Mills- bora, Va., called on us. She is the guest of Mrs. Luvonia D. Kerr, 936 N 4th St. WHITE—ROPER—The marriage of Miss Minnie L. Roper to Mr. John P. White will take place Thursday, Jan- uary 15th, 1903, at 113 west Jackson St. at 9:30 o'clock p. m. Friends are invited, no cards. Reception, Sunday, Jan uary 18th, 1903, at No. 209 north 3rd street, their future residence from 5 p. m. to 10 p. m. --- PAYNE—Died January 1st, 1903, at the residence of her husband, 607 Price street, Alice Kennon, in the full triumph of faith in the 31st year of her age. She was a faithful wife and a loving mother. She leaves two children, father, mother, five sisters, one brothers and a host of friends to mourn their loss. May she rest in peace, Her husband, NATHAN T. PAYNE. WINSTON—Mr. John F. Winston departed this life Dec., 29, 1902, at 1:30 o'clock p, m. His remains were taken to the home of his wife, Beaver Dam, Hanover, Co., Va. His death was one that shock the entire community. Those who were present expressed their sympathy who followed his remains to the silent city of the dead was; Mrs. Jas Watson, Miss Mary Jones, and acting pal bearers.—Mess Richard Adams, James Watson, David Anderson, Robert Burrell! Selely Cox, Beavley Fauntleroy, John L. Robinson, A. D. Coleman. The noral designs were numerous and costly. A FRIEND From Exit, Va. Brother W. M. Johnson departed this life December 17th. His funeral took place at the Little Bethel Baptist Church of which he was a member the next day aiter his death. It was preached by R. W. W. M. Read of Hobson, Va. He left a dear wife, several children and a host of friends to mourn their loss. We hope their loss is his eternal gain. May God bless his blind widow. Brot!er Hawson Tyler, a kind and loving father, a devoted husband, died December 20th. His death rests heavily on his family. Mr. Sherman Weaver of Indecker, Va., got his hisd broke in two pieces about two weeks ago. The Weavers are the richest colored people in the Isle of Wythe county. About the same day, the 13-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Hall got his leg broke by falling over a fence. Misses Ida and Lillie Jones, who were so very sick under the treatment of Dr. W. T. Fuller are able to be out again. Mrs. Martha Doles is critically ill, under the treatment of Dr. Fuller, who is one of the best doctors in Suffolk. Let us keep him floating. The way to do it, is to pay our bills. There was a large number of marriage Christmas, among whom were Mr. George Ragland to Miss Etta Rodgers; Mr. "Tin Langford to Miss Missouri Eley; Mr. Richard Eley to Miss Fannie Newbie and others. The boys don't know bacon is 18 and 20cts, per pound. Don't forget the PLANET. J. W. L. The regular meeting of the National Baptist Sunday School Union will be held Sunday, January 11th, at 3 p. m. at the Mt. Olivet Bapt. Church We have received a communication from "An Observer" together with money to pay for name. The author will please send us his name as it is not usual for us to publish anonymour communication. The marriage of Miss Mary Rebecca Graves to Mr. Thomas Coleman took place Wednesday, Dec., 30th at the residence of Mrs. Harrison, 6th and C.ay Sts. Reception at the residence of her cousin Mrs. E. Watson, Wednesday Jan., 7th, 1903, Manchester, Va. Brilliant costumes, beautiful stage scanery, rich sweet music to be used in the rendition of Belsnazzar at The True Reformer's Hall, next Monday night, Jan., 12th 1903, will surely catch the eye and feed the soul. Admission, 25C, reserved seats, 35 cents. —Can you afford to miss the rich and rare musical treat promised in the condition of Behazzar, the The True Reformer's Hall, next Monday night, Jan., 12th 1903. Admission, 25 cents, reserved seats, 35 cents. Girls Wanted. 100 Respectable Colored Girls Wanted to learn to make Charroots, will be paid while learning, and in a few months will be able to make from $3.00 to $5.00 a week. The work is light, clean and healthy. The factory has all the modern improvements. Apply at once to the VIRGINIA STAR CHEROOT FACTORY, 516 North 12th Street, Opposite Colored Normal School. WANTED—A first class type-setter. Must be well recommended. Apply to the PLANET, 311 N. 4th St. THE PLANET TEMPERANCE NOTES He Signed the Pledge and His Faith fulness Thereto Worked a Re- form in His Father. "Fa, I have signed the pledge," said a little boy to his father on coming home one evening. "Will you help me to keep it?" "Certainly," said the father. "Well, I have brought a copy of the pledge, will you sign it, papa?" "Nonsense, nonsense, my child. What could I do when my brother-officers called"—the father had been in the army—"if I was a teetotaler?" "But do try, papa." "Tut, tut! Why you are quite a little radical." "Well, you won't ask me to pass the bottle, papa?" "You are quite a fanatic, my child; but I promise not to ask you to touch it." Some weeks after that, two officers called in to spend the evening. "What have you to drink?" said they. "Have you any more of that prime Scotch ale?" "No," he said, "I have not, but I shall get some. Here, Willy, run to the store and tell them to send some bottles up." I COULD NOT TOUCH IT MYSELF. The boy stood before his father respectfully, but did not go. "Come, Willy; why, what's the matter? Come, run along." He went, but came back presently without the bottles. "Where's the ale, Willy?" "I asked them for it at the store, and they put it upon the counter, but I could not touch it. O pa! pa! don't be angry; I told them to send it up, but I could not touch it myself!" The father was deeply moved, and, turning to his brother officers, he said: "Gentlemen, you hear that? You can do as you please. When the ale comes, you may drink it, but not another drop after that shall be drunk in my house, and not another drop shall pass my lips. Willy, have you your temperance pledge?" "O pa! I have." "Bring it, then!" And the boy was back with it in a moment. The father signed it, and the little fellow clung around his father's neck with delight. The ale came, but no one drank, and the bottles stood on the table untonched. Children, sign the pledge, and ask your parents to help you to keep it. Don't touch the bottle, and try to keep others from touching it. ITEMS Drunkards in Germany will in future be sternly looked after by the state. Each town must keep a record of all the hard drinkers, and the city medical men are bound to report those who habitually imbibe to excess, so that the authorities may weed out the black sheep and subject them to a strict course of treatment. There is to be found at Sandy Spring, Md., a unique community which has attained a singular industrial prosperity, and an unusual degree of mental and moral culture, as a result of the absence of the liquor course. One of its successful citizens said a short time ago that he considered the fact that successive generations of white and colored people have grown up in Sandy Spring free from the temptations and demoralizations of the seaboon, the most telling condition in the environment of the settlement. One of the leading liquor papers of this country is actually urging reform of the saloon, in order to stem the rising tide against it. The declaration of the platform regrets the hostility of religious bodies to the liquor business, "which prevents many of those engaged in our business from taking that interest in religious work which otherwise they would be glad to do." This, says an exchange, is welcome evidence that the liquor dealers, however deficient in sense of humor, recognize the efficiency of the reform work of religious bodies. Saloon Blight in Indiana According to statistics gathered by the state board of charities, 5,336 persons were confined in Indiana jails for intoxication during the six months ended April 30, and the cost of caring for them was $15,088.36. Of those arrested, 159 were women. Grant county had the largest number-599 man and seven women. In Franklin, Hendricks, Morton, Pulaski, Spencer and Vermilion counties there were no arrests on this charge. A FUNNY MEDICINE. Some False Ideas Regarding Alcohol and Answers by Prominent Physicians. Mr. A.—I must have a drop, because my blood is poor. Answer by Dr. Kerr.—Alcohol injures the blood. Mr. B.—I cannot do without a little, because I suffer from indigestion. Answer by Dr. Bowman.—Alcohol retards digestion. Mr. C.—I have had brain fever, and I need alcohol. Answer by Sir Henry Thompson.—Of all the people who cannot stand alcohol, it is the brain workers. Mr. D.—I am rather nervous, and, therefore, I take a little. Answer by Brunton.—The effect of alcohol upon the nervous system is to paralyze it. Mr. E. I suffer with my liver, so I take a little occasionally. Answer by Dr. Norman Kerr.—Alcohol hardens the liver. Mr. F. I am a victim of kidney disease, that is my reason for taking alcohol. Answer by Dr Norman Kerr—Alcohol destroys the kidneys. Mr G. I am weak and I need something to strengthen my muscles. Answer by Sir R Richardson—The action of alcohol is to lessen the muscular power. Mr H. I have to work in a cold place, and must have some alcohol to warm me. Answer by Dr John Rae—The greater the cold, the more injurious is the use of alcohol. Mr L. I don't get enough food, so I rely upon a little alcohol to supply extra food to nourish me. Answer by Dr J C. Reid. There is no support to the body in the use of alcohol. Mr J. I have to undergo an operation, and I must take a little. Answer by Dr Bantone—I believe that all classes of operations are better without alcohol. Mrs K.-I have a little babe to nurse, and, therefore, I have to take stout. Answer by Dr Heywood Smith.—It is a popular mistake to think that the drinking of stout makes you betetr nurses. Mr L.-I feel low sometimes, so it is needful for me. Answer by Dr. Wilkes.—Alcohol is a depressor, and people are under a delusion who think otherwise. Mr. I. I am all "run down," and I have to take a little alcohol to build me up. Answer by the Lancet.—As an agent for producing degeneration, alcohol is unrivaled. Mr N. I have a weak heart, that is my reason Dr. Sims Woddhead—I never use brandy for the heart; hot milk is better. Mr. O.—I have a complication of complaints. I am forced to take it. Answer by Dr Dickson (Canada)—Alcohol is a most destructive agent to every organ and tissue of the body, either in a state of health or disease. MAKING MEN SOBER. What the Law Is For and What It Should Be Used For-New View of Old Proposition. "Mueh is said about the impossibility of making men sober by law, and of the impropriety of attempting it. This kind of argument is supposed to have much force. But we submit that it is exactly the wrong way of putting this case. It is not a question of making men sober by law, but of making them drunkards by law; and that is a different proposition. Men are sober; they are born sober. Except those who inherit a taste for strong drink from drunken parents, they all incline to temperance. It takes the temper and the dram shop to make them drunkards. Without the dram shop there would be few drunkards. It is the drunkard maker. When it is established by law, then it is the making of people drunkards by law that is to be considered, and not the making of men sober by law." So says the Pittsburgh Christian Advocate, to which the National Advocate adds: God never instituted a government on earth with a view to its throwing a protecting shield over vice and imimorality. He has never commissioned men to sit in high places to accomplish any such work. The end of government, so far as it bears on that point at all, is to suppress crime, to punish wrong-doers, to remove iniquity, to promote that which is just and true. And any government legalizing wrong for the sake of revenue is one with which the throne of God can have no fellowship. The Future with Americans The Future With Americans. This is what Rev. Mr. Wiseman, a Wesleyan clergyman of England, who recently visited America, told the English people on his return home. "The future," he declared, "is with Americans. The average American possesses a character of tremendous energy. He is not only receptive, but is always on the lookout for new ideas. He has no traditions to trammel him and is not cursed to anything like the same extent as the Englishman with the love of drink. I do not think that the workingman of America is one whit more intelligent than the British artisan, but he does not bear the mark of the drink in the same degree. I traveled east, west and south, and this general impression was strongly formed in my mind. I have come back with a deepened conviction that we must be much stronger in our temperance work if we are to be of value to the economics of our nation." Hewitt—Blood will tell. Jewett—Thai's so; Gruet swears terribly, and it turns out that his grandfather was a hackman—Brooklyn Life. THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. GOT A REAL BARGAIN. His Wife Cost Only $4.75, But Now Mr. Wilson Wouldn't Take a Million for Her. When Nathaniel Wilson, a glass-worker, of Marion, Ind., led Miss Kathryn Overtmeyer, of Gas City, to the altar, November 7, he completed a pretty little romance and at the same time got a lovely wife who cost him only $4.75. A week before the Christian Endeavor society of the Presbyterian church of Jonesboro held an auction sale of girls at the home of Mrs. Frank Pierce. Real live girls, reveling in all the glorious charms of womanhood, were sold to the highest bidder. While PICTURED ON THE CANVAS the purchase of a fair charmer did not insure the buyer a partner for life, Nathaniel Wilson purchased Miss Kathryn Overmeyer and on Friday they were wed. Mr. Wilson is a stranger in Indiana, having only recently moved to Marion city from Pittsburg. He is a handsome young man of 26 years, and, being a double-strength glassblower, commands a large salary. Several of his fellow employees, who were acquainted with the young women of Gas City and Jonesboro, were going to attend the auction sale of young ladies and asked Wilson to go with them. When the sale opened a large white sheet was stretched across the end of a room and the girl to be sold was placed so as that her shadow would be revealed on the cloth. Not knowing whom she was the young men would bid for her for the evening. Wilson took no part in this bidding until four young women had been sold, only one of whom brought over one dollar. When the fifth young woman was placed on the stand the form of a handsome girl was pictured on the canvas. Wilson opened the bid with 50 cents. A young man from Fairmount recognized the form as that of one for whom he had great admiration, but with whom he was not acquainted. He raised the bid to one dollar. Twenty-five cents at a jump her price rose until the Fairmount man found that he had bid just as much as he had cash in his pocket. Wilson went him 25 cents better and bought the young woman for $4.75. An introduction followed immediately, and, what started as only a little fun ended in the marriage of the young couple in the Presbyterian church in Jonesboro. Now Wilson says he would not take $1,000,000 for his bargain. ALARM FOR THE DEAF: They Don't Hear the Rattle of the Clock, But There Is Something Else Doing. The Anaeconda Standard says that an alarm clock for deaf mutes is the novel invention of Elza Cretzer, a deaf mute in the employ of the Washoe smelting plant. The dropping of a pillow on the sleeping person is the awakening SPRING RELEASES THE PILLOW agent, and it is operated so that the pillow falls at the desired time. An ordinary alarm clock is placed in a cigar box which fits it closely. It is then nailed to the wall at the head of the bed. A string connects the clapper of the alarm clock with an ordinary spring mouse trap fastened to the top of the cigar box. By a system of small pulleys and screw eyes a pillow is fastened to the end of a string and pulled to the ceiling directly above the bed. An ingenious arrangement connects the other end of the string to the mouse trap. The clock is set, and when the alarm goes off the string attached to the bell clapper springs the mouse trap and releases the pillow, which drops on the persons sleeping in the bed beneath. "When it does not hit me it hits my wife," Mr. Cretzer wrote on a piece of paper, "and so I never miss a day any more." TOOK BATH WITH EELS. Harrowing Experience of an Indiana Girl Who Was Staying with Friends in Chicago. The Chicago Inter Ocean tells this strange tale of a family on Delaware place with a palate for eels. As often as twice a week the head of the family carries home from the fish mar- ket two or three of the slippery, snakelike wrigglers. In the front rooms of the apartment where lives this family are two young women from Indiana, who, during their sojourn in the city, are boarding with the family of eel eaters. One night last week the man of the house took home three eels. After K. T. STOLE OUT OF HER ROOM. stumbling about the darkened house in a tuile search for a bucket, he hit upon another plan. He tiptoed to the bathroom and turned the eels loose in the bathtub. As soon as the house was quiet the younger of the two sisters, dressed for her dreams, stole out of her room with a heavy crash towel thrown across her arm and proceeded to the bathroom. The room was dark and she could find no matches. Not caring to search for a match, she decided to bathe in the dark, and accordingly turned on the hot and cold water. When the tub was well filled the young woman stepped in. The hot water had put life into the slippery eels, and when the young woman got both feet into the tub the creatures slid about her ankles and across her feet. That was all she remembered. With one hysterical scream she began kicking furiously and crying for help. Her older sister, fearing she was being murdered, ran to the bathroom, but found the door locked. After a couple of moments had elapsed the girl imprisoned in the bathroom fell out of the tub and managed to unlock the door. Not hearing the anxious questions her frightened sister was crying at her, she fairly flew down the hallway, clad only in the darkness. "What in the world is the matter, sister?" asked the elder one. "Oh, horrors!" shuddered the hysterical girl, "the bathtub is full of snakes!" By this time the head of the family, clad in pajamas, was tottering up and down the hallway choking in a spasm of laughter. He stamped his feet, hit his head against the wall, and at last controlled himself sufficiently to light the gas in the bathroom and call his wife to take a look at the room. The floor was flooded with water, and two of the eels were wriggling upon the floor. EVERYBODY LAUGHED. Why an Unfortunate English Conjuror Made a Sudden Bolt for the Dressing Room. At a public entertainment in London recently a conjurer had an experience which was highly comical. T HEN WAS AN OLD ROOSTER. though quite disastrous from a professional point of view. Having produced an egg from a previously empty bag, he announced that he would follow up this trick by bringing from the bag the hen that laid the egg. This little arrangement he had left to his confederate to carry out. He proceeded to drop the bird from the bag, but what was his surprise on finding that the alleged hen was an old rooster, which strutted about the stage with ruffled feathers and offended dignity, and set up as vigorous a crowing as if it had just awakened from its nocturnal slumbers. The whole audience shrieked with laughter, and the unfortunate conjurer made a bolt for the dressing-room Probably True. Wabash—I wonder what makes old Gotrox dress so shabbily? Monroe—His pride, my boy. Wabash—Why, how's that? Monroe—He's afraid his customers will mistake him for one of his clerks. —Chicago Daily News. Made a Strong Point. Yeast—The moth is no respector of persons. Crimsonbeak—I don't know about that. You never hear one of one getting into a $250 fur lined overcoat of a poor man.—Yonkers Statesman. The Only Way. Cora—Do you play ping-pong scientifically? Merritt—Yes, except when I'm playing with a cross-eyed girl, in which case I just bank away and trust to luck—N. Y. Times. LEE WAS TOO QUICK. With Rifle in Hand He Won the Girl He Loved. Unwilling Father and Brothers Forced to Be Witnesses—Romance Begins with Laugh and Ends in Marriage. In Oregon there lived a young girl with three large strapping brothers and her father and mother. The brothers, it was current opinion in the locality, could whip their weight in grizzly bear. As they were called "chips off the old block," it was to be assumed that the father was of the same type. In this family the daughter, Margaret Black, was regarded as the idol—also the slave. Margaret was to be worshiped so long as she obeyed. When she wanted to disobey then she was to be ruled. It was another case of Lorna Doone. Margaret's obedience was not a matter of dispute until one day when she happened to walk farther than usual into the great woods around the Black home and lost her way. She walked and ran through the underbrush without finding a familiar path until she was a thoroughly frightened little girl. Then she woefully sat down facing the prospects of a night in the woods. In this predicament she was found by a young man who carried a rifle under his arm. He was not lost. That was evident. He smiled when the girl confessed that she was. Of course he would take her home. "I am Roland Lee," he said. "Why, I live within ten miles of your home." To walk ten miles and more out of the way just to see that a pretty girl found her way home was nothing—not in Oregon. After that the disobedience of Margaret began. It would have been something wonderful the way they managed to meet in the woods if that were not as old a way as the story itself is old. When the three large brothers and the father who claimed Margaret discovered this they found that they had not been consulted, and that was reason enough to oppose it. They found that they did not like Roland "I AM ROLAND LEE." Lee. They discovered an unimaginable number of reasons why he would not do, all of which were communicated to Margaret, only to be received in the usual fashion. The more they argued the more the girl decided that he would do. Finally the family brought matters to a crisis by locking Margaret in her room. Lee walked about the woods for some time without finding Margaret before he learned that she was a prisoner. He also learned that he was the cause of it. Being a young man of decided convictions, upon which he was accustomed to act promptly, he followed his usual custom in this case. He went to the nearest town and secured a minister. "I want you to marry me," he said. "With pleasure," said the clergyman, "but where is the bride?" "We'll have to get her. Can you stand a long drive?" The minister said he could. Lee got his rifle and they set out for the Black home. Lee and his clergyman walked up to the door and knocked. The oldest brother threw open the door, revealing the whole family seated at the table. Margaret had been allowed out of the room to eat dinner, and she had been sitting silently, refusing to discuss her love affairs with her jailers. The three large brothers and the father had threatened to thrash Lee on sight if he came near the house, and when Margaret saw him appear suddenly in the doorway she jumped from her chair, expecting to see her lover set upon by the fighting brothers and put in a condition for the undertaker. Nothing of that sort happened. Lee was too quick for them. Before one could move, he had his rifle in position where it could be used rapidly and effectively. "I secured a license before I spoke to you," said Lee to the clergyman. "Here it is. Now, Margaret, if you are ready. The witnesses will please keep quiet and remain standing." Margaret came out of the house and stood before the minister, hand in hand with Lee, who used his left to keep the rifle pointed in the direction of the witnesses. When the family got back to the house and the brothers looked at each other, suggesting a chase, the eldest said: "What's the use. I guess he's the right stuff." MISTAKEN IDENTITY. Drug Cleek Picks Up Three Young Skunks Under the Impression That They Were Angoras. Music surely hath charms when it brings to the surface from their burrow three handsome skunk kittens. This, says the Hartford (Conn.) Times, was the case on Sunday after noon at Riverside park while the band concert was being rendered to thousands of people. The country boy may be green; he may be given even the title of "hayseed," but he knows a thing or two about skunk kittens. Not so with the young helper in a Main street drug store. He was lacking the wisdom of the farm boy on this particular occasion. He wandered about the park in his Sunday "GO BURY YOURSELF" clothes, and he was decidedly smart in appearance. As he mendered along the edge of the grove a little way apart from the crowd he espied three little skunk kittens—"regular beauties." He thought they were young Angoras, and he immediately picked them up and started for home. The kittens were quiet for awhile, but that was caused more by fright than by natural instinct. As he struck into Morgan street a smell reached his nostrils that he recognized but couldn't locate. It seemed to be in his neighborhood all the time, and before he got to Front street the citizens and noncitizens of that locality were scattering in different directions, and all eyeing him in open-mouthed astonishment. When he got to his place of business the proprietor took in the situation at a glance, and, plainly speaking, "fired out" the young man and his three skunk kittens, tening him what he had rolled in his arms at the same time. He dropped them outside the store, and it was then he came to his senses. The kittens were killed and then the young man turned to his employer and pictously asked: "What will I do?" The reply was: "Go bury yourself." CEMETERY FOR CATS. Three Little Children of Norwich Conu., Have Started a Unique Burial Ground. "Cat Dale Cemetery" is the name three little children of Nelson place have given a burying ground at Norwich, Conn., which they have started for cats. It is not very populous just yet, but the children are hunting the neighborhood for the kind of cats that need burying. A "cat funeral," as conducted by these youngsters, is one of the most imposing spectacles of the town. A wooden box is carefully lined and papered, the cat is placed in it and the top is nailed on. After the grave is filled in the children busy themselves writing epitaphs. The epitaphs over THE GREETING IN THE CAT CEMETERY. the two cat graves in the cemetery are as follows: "Tom Goodwin. Died 8th of August, 1902. Tom died about the middle of the morning, August 8th. Emily Goodwin's cat. It was a good cat in its life. It was treated good and had a good home and had plenty to eat. This little girl felt very sorry to have her little pet die. It was the only one she had. But she was good to every dumb creature. She took care it very well. Tom is dead now." The children did not know so much about the second cat. "Died on August 6, 1902. Good and noble in his life. A stray cat Dide on Whittaker's lorn on August 6, 19 and two. Some naughty boys threw it into a barrel and threw some sand in its eyes. Suffered by some disease. Fed it and it would not eat. We named it Freddie. But now it is dead. Dide at 3:30 this afternoon. It is out of its muserary. Poor little thing, it is dead now." Naturally. Rita—Why is Mr. Kodak so glum looking? Nita—He and Eleanor have just come out of the dark room, where he had evidently developed a negative.—Princeton Tiger. Compensations. Madge—It must be just lovely to be a millionaire. Marjorie—0. I don't know. There isn't half as much pleasure in buying things when you know you can afford them.—N. Y. Times. A Sympathetic Sentiment. "I'm crazy about music!" said the girl who always uses an exaggerated form of speech. "After hearing you practice," said her father, "so am I."—Washington Star. His Recollection Not Clear. "The charge against you," the police justice said, "is that you were uproariously drunk and cavorting about town, wanting to fight everybody you met. What have you to say? Are you guilty or not guilty?" "I don't know, your honor," answered the battered specimen of humanity in the prisoner's box, "until I hear the evidence."—Chicago Tribune. As to Shane. "The shape of my new winter gown," complained May, "I not what I want; I can't bear it. I wonder how I could improve it?" said Fay. "You might let some other girl wear it." -Philadelphia Press. A LITTLE MISTAKE. Professor—Now I understand why the people in the restaurant looked at me so. I put on my wife's wig instead of my own.—Meggendorfer Blaetter. His Epitaph. Here lies a maker of mirrors. His loss—how we deplore it. He spent his days behind the glass. While you spend yours before it. —Chicago Daily News. No Escape for George. Maud (under the Mistletoe)—Now, George, you must take only one. George—But one from one leaves nothing; let's make it one each and tie. Maud (shyly)—Oh, well, it's sud- den, but you may ask papa.—Yonkers Statesman. Helping the Poor. "Well, you must admit," said the misanthrope, "that old Gotrox never gave anything to help the poor." "Nonsense!" retorted Smiley. "I don't admit it. It was only a few days ago that he gave his $3,000,000 daugh- ter to a foreign count."—Philadelphia Press. Diggs—Smith's wife is deaf and dumb. Biggs—Does she talk with her fingers? Diggs—I guess so. Smith hasn't a dozen hairs left in his head.—Chicago Daily News. His Surmise. Little Willy—Mamma, is it the lightning that strikes, or the thunder? Mother—The lightning, child. Little Willy—And I s'pose the thunder is the walking delegate, ain't it?—Puck. From Boston, Perhaps. "Don't you think she has a very distingue air?" "Yes," said the sad-looking young man. "Judging from the chill she produces, I should call it a liquid air."—Washington Star. Weak Woman. Mrs. Gumpps-What do you think of this? Prof. Scaper says women make better violinists than men? Mr. Gumpps-Of course. They can't make so much noise-N. Y. Weekly. SYDNOR AND HUNDLEY, LEADERS IN Quality Furniture PARLOR SUITS We have some twenty-five or thirty suits bought, most of which will be in stock in a few days. "Don't do a thing" until you see this line. MORRIS CHAIRS. This always popular chair of rest will be in as much demand this fall as ever. Part of our stock has already arrived and $10 values vie with $15 values of a year ago. Call, see our stock of Bed Room Fur Call, see our stock of Bed Room Fur niture and save time and money. Passenger elevator. Sydnor & Hundley, RIPA There is scarcely any conditions of ill-health that is not benefited by the occasional use of a R-J-P-A-N-S Tabule. For sale by Druggists. The Five-Cent packet is enough for an ordinary occasion. The family bottle, 60 cents, contains a supply for a year. KUNG 63 CHAPTER XXVI. When consciousness returned to me, which might have been an hour after or a day (I had lost count of time), I found myself in complete darkness and for awhile wondered what had happened and where I was. But the numbed feeling of the head which still buzzed painfully awoke me to a reality of my position, and with horror I realized the fact that I was in captivity. Then little by little the past came back—the run down the river, the landing on the island, the march and the blow from behind which had laid me low. Who could have done this? Where was I now? And Jim—what of him? Had he, too, fallen into the hands of the enemy? Who was that enemy? Had Koon-Si betrayed us? All these questions ran like lightning through my brain, and to each of them my fears answered darkly. Had Kung, the omniscient Kung, secured us at last? Yet it was all so sudden, this surprise; the blow, too, had surely come from those whom I had looked upon as friends. And the pagoda—was it fancy, or had I really seen one? All these doubts had a most injurious effect upon my throbbing brain, and with the intention of easing the pressure round the temple I attempted to lift my hands to my head. To my extreme alarm I found I was unable to accomplish this simple movement for the very good reason that my arms were securely fastened. This also was the case with my feet, which we bound so tightly that I scarcely had any feeling in them. However, by a little skillful maneuvering of my wounded head I quickly realized the unpleasant fact that I was stretched at full length upon an earthen floor. After a long and vain endeavor to see I abandoned the attempt as one which had not the remotest chance of success. Then I lay listening, listening for some sound of step or voice, but nothing came to break the dreadful stillness of the chamber. No solitary gleam of light pierced the awful gloom. There was no more sound than if I lay buried deep down in the earth. It seemed to me as though I lay for hours in the acutest agony, for, to add to the pains in my head, I began to experience the agonies of thirst. These I mutely endured for some considerable time, and then I began to call for help, for I had an idea that perhaps it was the intention of my captors to subject me to this horrible form of death. However, in response to the cry, I presently heard the creaking of a door, and a man bearing a lamp entered the apartment. He came and held it over me, and, though I could indistinctly see his face, I noticed that he was a half dressed cooly. "Water," I gasped. "Give me something to drink." He did not answer, so I cannot say if he knew English, but without a doubt he understood me, for he immediately placed his lamp upon the floor, lifted me into a sitting attitude, my back to the wall, and held a basin of water to my lips. I drank deeply, for my throat was hot and dry, and never until that moment had I known the real pleasures of drinking. Thanking the man sincerely, I asked him where I was, but without replying he took up his lamp, and I heard the hinges of the door creak as he passed out. Left alone once more with my thoughts I stared blankly into the gloom, which now seemed deeper than ever and gave way to the bitterness of defeat. And as I pictured it all in that gloomy cavern of a room I failed to see how the adventure could have had another ending, and I thought with a curious, fatalistic resignation of the manner of my death. It was farewell Cecil, farewell Jim, if he, dear fellow, had not gone before. The society had triumphed once again. Well, did I not always know which side was going to win? It was only a question of time. It might have been an hour after, it might have been two—counting by my apprehension it was a veritable eternity—but suddenly through the gloom there came once more the creaking of hinges, and this time two men entered the apartment, one of whom bore a lamp, which, upon approaching, he held over me. The other, advancing, stooped and with a knife severed the bonds which held my feet. Then, each seizing me under an arm, I was lifted bodily to my feet, but it was some time before I could use them properly. However, the circulation came luck, slowly at first, then with a rush, and during this process I suffered an exquisite agony. But my guides, having but scant sympathy for such a trifling matter, seized me and some what roughly hurried me from the chamber. A gloomy passage some 12 or 14 spaces in length was next traversed, and then we all three stopped before a door upon which one of the men knocked. Almost instantly it was opened, and I was ushered into a chamber not less dreary than the one I had just vacated, albeit that it was bright with light. I looked about inquiringly, seeing nothing on three sides of the room but the bare stone walls; a fourth was hung with heavy black curtains. My guides THE YELLOW MAN. A THRILLING STORY OF THE BOXERS IN CHINA. BY CARLTON DANE. swiftly hurried me to the wall facing the curtains, and almost before I knew what had happened I felt a steel band snap around my throat. I jerked my head quickly, but the sharp teeth of the collar immediately cut into the flesh. I heard the short chain to which it was attached rattle, and realizing the awful situation I stood stock still. Then the men retired, extinguishing the lights, and I was left once more to darkness and my own darker thoughts. For a time I stood afraid to move, but growing accustomed to the situation, I gradually began to move my head, testing the limit of the chain and the teeth of the collar. The one was very short, the other very sharp. If by any chance my legs failed me, and I felt dizzy and weak enough for fainting, death by hanging in its most horrible form too surely awaited me. The torture was of that exquisite nature which is peculiarly Chinese. It was the very refinement of cruelty and thoroughly in keeping with the traditions of the yellow race. Another long wait followed, and then I once more heard the patter of bare feet on the flagged floor. Then all of a sudden a voice cried out, and again the lamps were lighted, and I saw before me, seated on a chair, a Chinaman, singularly dark and shrewd of feature, who owned a pair of eyes which glammed like living slits of fire. He must have been a man considerably over 60, for his hair was something more than tinged with gray, and about his mouth, which was very thin, and round his eyes there were wrinkles innumerable Though dressed as a common cooly, there was something unmistakably commanding about the man, so that his occupation of the chair while others stood around him seemed in nowise incongruous. I think that men who have been accustomed to command in sensible take to themselves certain airs of privilege, so that in time they come to fit them as a second nature. That this cooly was one who had commanded men his very attitude proclaimed. There was, unless I erred greatly, a keen brain behind those deep set eyes. That square jaw and thin mouth proclaimed an indomitable will and a callous nature. Of the men who surrounded him there were three, and in spite of his change of apparel I immediately recognized the one on the right of the chair as our esteemed friend Koon-Si, the carpenter. As his eyes met mine he smiled, but without speaking, and I no longer doubted that the cooly in the chair was no less a personage than the formidable Kung, and again and again my eyes went to him, and though at last I stood face to face with him under such dreadful conditions I could hardly realize that this was the man who wielded such awful power, who had brought such destruction on me and mine, whose image had pursued me like a nightmare for so many years. That we had been betrayed was now self evident, but how came Koon-Si, he whom my father had entreated us to join, to be on the side of the enemy? That he was only a fool I could no longer doubt unless he was playing a deep game. I looked again, and once more he smiled, but I had a misgiving as to the correct reading of that smile. If Kung was the father of evil, I verily believed that Koon-Si was his own son. And so for some little time we watched each other in silence. Silence seemed a peculiarity of these people, and under such conditions it was really nothing less than a species of torture rendered singularly impressive. It gave one time to think when thought was least welcome. But eventually Kung waved his hand, and one of the attendants immediately disappeared. Shortly after the patter of bare feet was heard, and presently two men, leading a third between them, entered the chamber, and my heart gave a great thump. Was it Jim? His head was enveloped in a cloth of some description, but as soon as he was fastened in a collar like mine the cloth was removed, and I saw Jim's face; but, oh, so dreadfully pale and emaciated! He blinked at the light for a little while, and then his gaze went slowly round the room. As his eyes met mine his face brightened up, and he exclaimed, for all the world as sincerely and earnestly as if we had been alive: "Still alive, my boy! Thank God!" "Why do you thank God?" said Kung in excellent English, for so the cooly occupant of the chair proved in very truth to be. "What has he done for you?" It was a very pertinent question and one which it was not easy to answer offhandedly with any degree of conviction, but Jim replied somewhat doggedly, "Because we are still alive!" "Truly that is something—a small matter, but something. Tell me to who am I indebted for the honor of this visit? How is it I find your exalted excellence thus condescending to honor with your illustrious presence my contemptible abode?" "Who are you that asks?" said Jim. "I am known by many names in many provinces," replied the cooly, with a curious smile, "but I have reason to believe that Kung is the best known of them all. "You seem to know the name." "I know nothing good of it." And yet you take all the trouble to come from England for no reason that I can see except to pay me a visit Strange people, you English. So good and confiding! It is a real pleasure to deal with you. My estimable friend, and here he nodded toward the carpenter, "has amused me greatly with a relation of your meeting and your travels. You came, I believe, with the charitable intention of killing Kung! Well, let me congratulate you on the excellent chance you have of accomplishing your work." He smiled most affably, and Koon-Sh, taking his cue from the master, grinned decorously. "I admit," said Jim calmly, "that we have lost the first set, but the game is not finished yet." By my father's direction we had sought out Koon-Sh, and his welcome was such as to raise in us hopes of success. He had realized all we were led to expect, even to his physical mutilation, and though we might have been more circumspect, I failed to see how the end could have been altered. Presently Jim's voice reached me out of the gloom. "Can you sit at all?" "No." "Same with me. Forgive me, Davie." "Dear Jim." "Lad, this is terrible. Pray God the end may be swift." A low chuckle came from the far corner of the chamber, and mingling with it, as it were, was the voice of Kung. "Fear not. The end shall be very swift." but when brightened not speak, save such finite satisis each other alive. He was a position as most imminent through the burning between K irons with stared at the horrified, torture us! smiled. W thoughts. Then a lowed, bro King smiled. "For you I think it is I never yet knew a man win a game once that collar was round his throat My heart gave a great thump. Was it faint? It handicaps him dreadfully. But no doubt, since you are so venturesome, you are a man who has been accustomed to giving long odds. I fear, though, that you are overmatched this time. My good friend Loo-hi," here he nodded once more toward the carpenter, "however, depicts you as a resolute man. Believe me, I cordially welcome such, especially when they prove, as you have proved, to be the possessors of no ordinary intelligence." Jim passed this taunt. He was in no position to bandy words with Kung. who held the privileged post of master of the situation. But his eyes went toward the carpenter, and I saw the first real shade of anger darken his face. "Who is that犬 Dog?" he said. Kung smiled again, an olly, yellow smile that was slickeningly exasperating. Koon-Si scowled horribly and took a step forward, with a wave of his hand Kung restrained him. "A very excellent gentleman and one who has served me with a devotion beyond all praise. His illustrious name is Loo-Hi, and his revered father was Chi-Li of patriotic memory. For certain reasons, however, he was called upon to assume the name of Koon-Li, a very excellent carpenter who, instead of keeping to his trade, contrived to mix himself with dangerous matters. The result was that he died suddenly, a fate which overtakes so many people who will not listen to the dictates of reason. It therefore became necessary to fill his place, for he had been a man of some consequence in his day, and as unfortunately the lamented carpenter had an uncommon left nostril I was forced to silt his honorable gentleman's nose. But he bore it bravely. It was all for the good of the cause. And now, having explained so much, I should really like to know who you are and what debt it is I owe you for which you would exact such heavy payment?" "My name is Carter," said Jim. "And mine Gray." "Carter—Gray," repeated Kung, honoring us with a doubtful look. "Curious. I have many very dear English friends," this with an inconceivably malicious smile, "but I don't seem to recollect either name. Are you sure that you remember rightly—that terror has not dimmed your intellect?" "Nevertheless it is very strange. As a rule, I know my guests, either personally or by repute, and I usually receive them with open arms. I have the reputation of a warm embrace, and, as you know, when a man has earned a reputation that is in any way singular he constantly strives to live up to it. However, if toward you I have in the least fallen short of that hospitality for which I believe I am not unknown, I shall strive manfully to atone for it later on. There is some one coming who knows many people who personally are unknown to me. He will repair any little omissions of mine." He rose as if to go, then suddenly sat again. "Oh, by the way, it is some little time since the carpenter set off in pursuit of his ancestors! May I ask who could have told you of him?" "Some one," said Jim, "who remembers that Kung is mortal like the rest of us." "Aye, to be sure. Only with this difference, Kung is well served. Still, it matters not. He of whom I spoke will soon be here. Once I know for certain who my guests are, trust me to treat them as they deserve." He rose again, and this time the heavy curtains fell before him. Then the lights were extinguished, a patterning of feet followed, and Jim and I stood alone in the darkness. Then there was a silence between us for many minutes, and I peered eagerly through the darkness, hoping to catch a glimpse of him, but the gloom was too profound, only the occasional rattling of his chains, the shifting from foot to foot and the hard breathing coming to tell me that I was not alone. For the rest, dark thought and bitter regret were mine, and I knew enough of Jim fully to appreciate his state of mind. We had played and lost, and I, now more fatalistic than ever, failed utterly to believe that we could have done other. It was easy now to see the madness of trusting so implicitly to the carpenter, yet not to trust would have rendered all our efforts futile. Who-would have believed the man was leagged with the society? By my father's direction we had sought out Koon-Sl, and his welcome was such as to raise in us hopes of success. He had realized all we were led to expect, even to his physical mutilation, and, though we might have been more circumspect, I failed to see how the end could have been altered. Presently Jim's voice reached me out of the gloom. "Can you sit at all?" "No." "Same with me. Forgive me. Davie!" "Dear Jim." "Lad, this is terrible. Pray God the end may be swift." A low chuckle came from the far corner of the chamber, and mingling with it, as it were, was the voice of Kung. "Fear not. The end shall be very swift." CHAPTER XXVII. this wrinkled of furo. For a long time after this neither of us spoke, for we feared that some one might be listening, and pride forade a display either of fear or of regret. We had staked, and we had lost, and now the end was come. But deeply mortifying was the thought that we had walked so easily into the trap. Before setting out we had duly calculated the chances of success and defeat, and even with the latter staring us full in the face we had hoped to go under fighting. But to be cooped, chained in this manner, with no ultimate hope of escape or fight, plunged us into the utmost depths of despondency. It was our own fault. Well, does that knowledge make misfortune any easier to bear? With a refinement of cruelty thoroughly Chinese we were so triced up that it was impossible to move the head either way for more than a foot or two without experiencing a bite from the sharp teeth of the collar. To sit down, to kneel, to rest ever so slightly, was utterly out of the question, and, what is more, I knew that if my strength failed me and I fainted or otherwise sank exhausted I should suffer a most horrible death from strangulation. What was the intention of our enemies of course we knew not, but after enduring for some hours the agony of this most trying position two men entered with a light and making direct for Jim unfastened his chain and led him away by the collar as one would lead a dog. "I don't know what this means, lad," he said, "but if it's the end, goodby. You forgive me?" "There is nothing to forgive." "Much—much," he muttered brokenly. And then as they dragged him through the door I heard him gasp a last "God bless you." Then I was alone once more with my thoughts, and the gloom seemed to have taken to itself a gloomier hue, while the awful stillness grew more profound. The presence of Jim, even though I could not see him, had something of the nature of consolation. I could speak, I could hear him speak, and, though the little we had to say was full of the sadness of death, it was good to hear the sound of a voice I loved. For a full hour or more they left me thus alone, and gradually my brain was beginning to wander, my limbs to refuse the task allotted them of supporting me. Visions of strangulation and the sharp cutting of iron teeth into soft flesh began to haunt me, when of a sudden the same two coolies who had dragged Jim off entered the chamber. Without speaking to me or to each other one of the men cut the bonds which held my arms, while the other loosened the collar chain, thus allowing me to collapse upon the floor. Then they placed water and food within my reach and without a word departed as silently as they had come. For the first few minutes a joyous stupefaction was mine, for I had fully believed that the intention of Kung was to have me stand there until my legs absolutely refused longer to fulfill their functions, when strangulation would of necessity ensue. But this A The other loosened the collar chain, thus allowing me to collapse upon the floor. was not to be, though my momentary relief was almost immediately clouded by a darker misgiving. If Kung spared now, it was but to prolong the torture. Once the circulation had returned to my arms, the process of which was in itself acute agony, I, having carefully marked in my mind the exact position of the food and water, stretched out my hand to them, and, though I knew not if either was poisoned, I cared but little. If so, an end would be made of me once and for all. But this was not Kung's way. The water was pure, the food palatable, and, having eaten and drunk, I felt inconceivably refreshed. What happened then I know not; but, weared out, I must have fallen asleep, and for aught I know I may have slept for hours. However, out of that sleep I was suddenly awakened by the sound of a gong, and when I looked up I was astonished to see the chamber in a flood of light and the thin lipped Kung seated in his chair of authority, supported by the diabolical Koon-Si and two other men. Presently the door opened through which I had last seen them drag my uncle, and, to my inexpressible relief, I saw him led in once more. He was horribly pale and emaciated, his blue eyes shining with a mad sort of light, but when he saw me a glad lock brightened his face. However, he did not speak, and I had nothing to say save such as would cause Kung infinite satisfaction. But we understood each other, Jim and I. We were still alive. He was quickly triced up to his old position against the wall, and then almost immediately after there entered through the same door a man bearing a burning brazier. This he deposited between Kung and me and turned the irons with a malicious movement. I stared at the glowing ceals spellbound, horrified. Was the wratch going to torture us? I looked at him, and he smiled. Without a doubt he read my thoughts. Then a long and painful silence followed, broken only by an occasional low crackle of the fire. As I have said the horror of these men was intensified by the extraordinary silence they invariably maintained and by the secrecy of their movements. But presently Kung spoke. Seen it! Heaven, but it had come between me and my sleep for many years! Now I was to feel it upon my forehead. "It is written in many ways," he continued suavely, "though we always use the one design—that of our illustrious society, of which I am the unworthy chief. If you have not seen it, you shall—and feel it too. It is a mark we sometimes place upon the disobedient, but offender upon the energy. It is a very interesting operation. I promise that you shall take part in it." He smiled again; he always smiled with an easiness which in some indefinable way proclaimed power. The man knew what he could do and seemed content. Neither Jim nor I answered, and at our obstinacy he smiled more darkly still, while at the same time the corners of his mouth curled with unmistakable scorn. "Mr. Carter and Mr. Gray," he said, "your names are strange to me, but your movements are not. You arrived from Australia by the steamship Airlie and took up your residence at the Hongkong hotel. From there you sought to find one Koon-Si, a worthy carpenter who crossed our path and is no more. But being unable to discover his whereabouts, which might puzzl much wiser men, you called in the aid of one Ah Yon, who quickly unearthed the illustrious Koon-Si. Strange, is it not? And yet not strange. Ah Yon like Koon-Si, is a member of this society, and you rendered it comparatively easy for the one to play into the hands of the other. When you set out to match yourselves against me, you were not thoroughly equipped for the encounter." For the first time I was almost consumed with rage as I thought how easily we had been trapped. Of course Ah Yon was worthy to rank with the rest of his detestable race, but we had liked him and had treated him with the utmost kindness and consideration. Indeed I had almost grown to fancy that he in turn had conceived something more than a passing interest in us. Oh, these yellow men, they were horrible beyond all imagining. “Ah Yon,” continued Kung, “has been an invaluable aid to our organization, but unfortunately he has feelings. Those feelings have at last brought him under my displeasure. We weaknesses of this description must be checked.” He nodded, and some one ran to the door and called, and presently Yon entered between two guards, a prisoner like ourselves. His arms were bound, his dress disarranged, and his face, especially when he saw the brazier in the middle of the floor, took unto itself a look of the most abject terror. "This man," said Kung, "worked well to begin with, but he was not proof against kindness, and it is our intention to eradicate such a contemptible weakness. Gratitude is a commendable quality and one with which we are much in sympathy, but we hold that loyalty to the cause is the first principle of existence. This man has not been loyal, and so he must be punished." "In what has he offended?" asked Jim. "We believe it is through no fault of his that you have been enabled to make our acquaintance under these most auspicious circumstances. It is through no fault of his that the illustrious Koon-Sl was enabled to carry out our wishes. It is believed that on more than one occasion he sought to warn you. That is a crime for which he must be punished. We do not usually view with indifference the presence of a traitor in the camp." Then he spoke to Ah Yon in Chinese. His face changed from suave amiability to that of intense malevolence, and he harangued the unhappy Yon with a hechence which was quite terrific. Yon replied in a quivering, pitiful tone, denying his guilt, but the judge was as implacable as death and turned a deaf ear to the appeals for mercy. With a sign he beckoned to the two men who had escorted Yon into the chamber, and himmediately seized the culprit and flung him forward on his face. The terrified shriek that escaped the unhappy man resounded throughout the chamber. "You shall see now," said the fiend, turning to us, "how the writing of Kung is made." Ah Yon still continued to shriek for mercy, struggling madly the while with his captors, but with arms bound he was entirely in their power, and with but little trouble they turned him on his back. Then, while one pinned his shoulders to the ground, a second knelt on his legs, while a third withdrew a redhot iron from the brazier. At the sight of it—the fatal sign of the society, for such it was, wrought in iron—Yon set up a shriller screening until the ghastly chamber rang with his awful cries. But Kung was adamant. Those about his chair looked on with calm, impassive faces. "He did nothing," cried Jim. "Why should you torture the poor fellow?" "It is our pleasure," answered Kung. "I want you to see how the society punishes the disobedient. From that you may imagine the treatment it metes out to those who would encompass its destruction." With that the man with the iron ag proached the unhappy Yon, and though I closed my eyes I could not shut out the horrid vell that followed the application of the brand nor the subsequent smell of turning flesh. When I looked again. Ah You was lying apparently quite dead upon the floor with a frightful scar upon his breast. "We have only slimed him this time," said Kung. "If he offends again, our writing shall burn deeper here," and he tapped his forehead with his long yellow nails. With that he waved to the man, one of whom seized the wretched victim by his legs and dragged him from the chamber. Frank Answer: "What are you doing here?" demanded the irate tarmar: of the boy he had surprised in his chestnut grove. "Nutting, sir," replied the frank little chap as he strove to hide the nut bag behind his back—judge. Not a Kicker. "What did you do when the horrid man called you a donkey?" "Nothing." "Well, if it had been me I would have kicked him with both feet." "Just so! Any donkey would have kicked."—Chicago American. The Feminine Dilemma. Cordelia—It worries me to buy clothes. Cornelia—Why? Cordelia—Oh, I can't decide whether to look stylish and be uncomfortable, or to be comfortable and look dowdy.—Detroit Free Press. Had Done His Best "What do you think ought to be done with the trusts?" "I don't know," answered Senator Sorghum. "Heaven knows, I've done my best to make 'em give up some of their money."—Washington Star. Calculating. Elderly Adorer—I am 69 and have $300,000. Fair Young Thing—I'll give you an answer the day after to-morrow. I will have to figure it out in the mortuary tables.—N. Y. Times. A Satisfactory Explanation. Mother—Mercy on us! Why is the light turned out? Pretty Daughter. I. I turned it out because the—the brilliant sparkle of the diamond engagement ring Mr. Nicefello has just given me was making my eyes sore. Mother (hastily retiring)—Oh, yes, yes, of course.—N. Y. Weekly. Precaution. "Do you think you can give my daughter the surroundings to which she is accustomed?" asked the parent. "Well," answered the young man, "I won't guarantee that. You see, Claribel has talked the matter over and says she's tired of the neighborhood."—Washington Star. Get One of Them Right. "I wonder why so many men live double lives," says the earnest student of humanity. "It may be," ventured the equally earnest student of human nature, "that they do so in order to correct in one of the lives the mistakes they make in the other."—Baltimore American. The End of the World Little Dot—I know something my eacher doesn't know. Mamma—Indeed! What is that? "I know when the world is coming to an end, and she doesn't. I asked her, and she said she didn't know." "Oh, well, who told you?" "Uncle John. He said the world would come to an end when children stopped asking questions that nobody could answer."—Tt-Bits. His Attitude: "I was always against bars," said the man with the ruby headlight. "Yes, and when I saw you last you were leaning very heavily against them, too." - Baltimore Herald. Responsibility Strappes—Five pounds for a bonnet! Madam, it is a crime! Mrs. S.—Well, the crime will be on my own head.—Glasgow Evening Times. Had Got Partially Over It. "You haven't voted yet?" "No, and I ain't going to. I don't care a dog-gone how the election goes." "You don't seem to realize, my friend, what an inestimable privilege the ballot is." "O, don't I? I realize it so well that I got six months fur exercisin' it in four different wards in one election, begoshi!"—Chicago Tribune. Reciprocity. Wife—I've been thinking, dear, ever since you gave me Hugo's works for my birthday, which you said you'd been longing to read, what present I would make you on your birthday. Now what do you say to a pair of opera glasses, like Maud's? They are heavenly, and you know how I long for them every time I go to the theater.—Judge. A Reluctant Admission "How is your boy getting on at school?" "Pretty well. He is beginning to admit that the Trojan war was almost as big a thing in its way as a football game."—Washington Star. "I don't know. Did you say anything to annoy him?" "Certainly. I just happened to remark Christmas was almost here." go Post. "Worse than that. It considers itself America's intellectual circumference." - Town Topics. Suburban Chat Joe—And horseless carriages out your way? Jim—Horseless? I guess so; but we call them mule teams.—Detroit Free Press. WAS QUITE PAINFUL Sad Climax of Sweet Love-Making by Phonograph. Experiment That Promised Pleasant Possibilities Terminates in Dire Disaster to Its Enterprising Promoter. Making love by phonograph is the latest tad. No one believes that it will ever be popular and the experience of a well-known Philadelphia man may not a damper upon other swains ambitious to do something unconventional in the winning of womanly hearts, as related by the Philadelphia Press. This is the well-known's experience: "Went to see a friend," said he, "and he showed me something that made roe open my eyes. He has just patented a new phonograph. It was the best thing of the kind I've ever seen—or heard. There is no irritating metallic sound about its tones, and the 'records' are so made that the machine will run for eight or ten minutes. "Well, I thought I'd borrow that phonograph and pay a visit to my sweetheart. "It was not a vest pocket affair, however. The thing weighed 100 pounds or more, and for that reason I did not think of using it as a watch charm. "But it played some music tunes, and I wanted my girl to hear them, so I lugged the whole thing to her house. It was as heavy as lead, and I had a hard trip of it. But at the girl's house it was a great hit, and the result was that for some months I lugged 'the pet' around to the homes of the best girls of quite a few of my friends. "It was great—sort of love-making-made-easy affair, you know, and a winner every shot. We had more girls than we knew what to do with. "It was a strange looking contrivance, you understand, and in order to reassure the girls it was necessary for us to hold their hands whenever the music box was doing the stunt. "Well, one night I put the arrangement on the stretcher and carried it A HAD WORKED THE WRONG RECORD. two miles through the snow to the home of one of the girls. "She was the best girl of one of the most bashful fellows you ever saw. He wanted to propose to her, but he lacked the nerve, and so he had concluded to let the phonograph speak his little piece for him. "I left him alone with the whole business—stretcher, phonograph, record and girl—and agreed to call for him in two hours. When I went back the first thing I saw was the phonograph like a mess of hash in the gutter, and under a nearby tree was the bashful fellow lying at full length and apparently dead on the stretcher. I roused him and demanded an explanation. "You gave me the wrong record," he said, in a sobbing tone, 'and I couldn't stop the blankety-blank thing. Her father and brothers are giants!' "I called for help and took him home on the stretcher and then returned for the phonograph. It was soon patched up, and then I put into it the record that the basfult fellow had sprung on his girl. Some one started the machine and we heard: "Oh, fairest star, thou angel bright, I'd like your ma to be out of sight. Then with a sigh in your one good eye, I'd fondly gaze awhile, and your false hair I'd madly tear unless on me you'd smile. "Chorus—Oh, there's only one girl in the world for me; she has a face like a yaller dog and a voice like a gale at sea. But she has money, you can bet, and that coin I will surely get, when she becomes my own Birdie." "There were 17 other verses along the same line, but I afterward learned that at the thirteenth verse the girl's screams brought in her father and three brothers. They found her beau working frantically to stop the machine. They were tall, strong, athletic men. It was very painful. "It appears that one of the fellows composed the doggerel and sang it into the phonograph so as to torment the bashful chap at some time, and that the record got mixed—quite by accident, of course—with the one on which the poor chap's carefully prepared proposal was recorded. "Yes, he lost the girl!" Now They Want More Pay The directors of a bank in Chicago think that no man should marry on a salary less than $1,000 a year. They have, therefore, informed their single clerks who get less than this sum that they must not marry. The clerks have requested higher pay. A PLEASANT ENTRY Groom—You have plenty of money, haven't you, darling? Bride—Why, no. Papa gave me a hundred dollars, but that won't last me a week—Booklyn Life. Modest. He—I love the true, the good, the beautiful. Miss Sereleaf—Oh, Mr. Blank, this is so sudden—N. Y. Sun. 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The controversy so far as we are concerned is closed. PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT is to be commended for his attitude in directing the Postmaster-General to close the office at Indianola, Miss., because Mrs. MINNIE Cox, the colored postmistress was intimidated and forced to give up the office. She had been in office there for many years. She was well-to-do, owning property to the value of ten thousand dollars. She was respected by both white and colored and both elements had united in endorsing her for the position. The opposition to her was based wholly and solely on her color. In view of the official oath by the President of the United States and all other government officials, we do not see how he could have pursued any other course in the premises. The better class of white people of the South will yet learn that it will be better to have this class of Negro hatters sent to the rear by southern influence rather than to have a rebuke so tellingly administered from the seat of the national government at Washington. Carnegie's Offer to Philadelphia. Philadelphia, Jan. 7-Andrew Carnegie has offered to give the city of Philadelphia $1,500,000 towards the extension of its free library system. Under the conditions of his offer this sum is to be applied only to the erection of 30 buildings, which are to be used as branches of the main library. The city is required to furnish the sites for the buildings and is to equip the libraries and afterwards maintain them at a yearly cost of at least $5,000 per building. The main library is not included in Mr. Carnegie's offer, the city having already appropriated $1,000,000 for the purpose. It is not known whether the It is not known as yet whether the city will accept the offer. The subject must first be considered by city councils. Columbus, O., Jan. 6. — When the Baltimore & Ohio passenger train arrived here from Cincinnati yesterday the body of a female colored child, wrapped in an old skirt, was found hanging to the brake rod under the rear platform. It was dead, but still warm. The post-mortem showed that it was in health and died from exposure. There is no clue, but the physicians say it could not have come from so far as Cincinnati. Conductor Burris says it was not on the train at Washington Court House. REMEDY FOR TRUST EVH Administration's Attitude on the Subject Made Public. THELEGISLATIONRECOMMENDED Should Be Directed Against Those Who Give Or Receive Illegal Advantages to Destroy Competition. Investigating Commission Proposed. Washington, Jan. 7.—The following abstract of Attorney General Knox's recommendations regarding trusts and combinations, which were made public at some length yesterday, was given out at the White House last night. It represents the general attitude of the administration on this subject, and was authorized by the president. The people do not desire the business of the country to be interfered with beyond the regulation necessary to control combinations where they act improperly, and to correct any tendency toward monopoly. Small enterprises have certain advantages over large combinations, and will live and thrive if assured of an open and fair field. Rebates and discriminatory rates constitute one of the chief restrictions on competition. They unjustly swell the earnings of favored concerns and, supporting a vast volume of capital stock, which represents nothing but unfair advantage over rivals, contribute largely to the upbuilding of a monopoly. The situation respecting transportation discriminations and the entry of independent capital into new industries has lately been improved. Recommendations for immediate legislation are: That all discriminatory practices affecting inter-state trade be made offenses to be enjoined and punished. Such legislation to be directed alike against those who give and those who receive illegal advantages, and to cover discrimination in prices as against competitors in particular localities, resorted to for the purpose of destroying competition. In order to reach producers guilty of these offenses a penalty should be imposed upon the interstate and foreign transportation of goods produced by them, and Federal courts should be given power to restrain such transportation at the government's suit. The casus omissus in the inter-state commerce act should now be supplied by imposing a penalty upon carrier and beneficiary alike, and by giving to the courts the right to restrain all such infractions of the law. It should be made unlawful to transport traffic by carriers subject to the inter-state commerce act at a less rate than the published rate, and all who participate in violating the law should be punished. Provision should also be made to reach corporations and combinations which produce wholly within a state, but whose products enter inter-state commerce. This provision should relate, first, to concerns which fatten on rebates; second, to concerns which sell commodities below the general price in particular localities or in any other way in particular localities seek to destroy competition. There should be a comprehensive plan to enable the government to get at all the facts bearing upon the organization and practices of concerns engaged in inter-state commerce, not with a view to hampering any legitimate business of such concerns, but in order to be in position to take action if necessary. To this end a commission or a special bureau in the proposed department of commerce should be created, whose duty it should be to investigate the operations of concerns engaged in inter-state or foreign commerce, to gather in formation and data enabling it ti make recommendations for additional legislation to report to the president. This would be a first step in securing proper publicity. This commission should have authority to inquire into the management of any concern doing an inter-state business whenever it becomes necessary or desirable. NEW PRIMARY LAW FOR JERSEY Governor's Commission Has Drafted Bill to be Submitted to Legislature. Trenton, N. J., Jan. 6.—The commission appointed by Governor Murphy a year ago to draft a bill for a primary election law to be submitted to the incoming legislature has completed its work. The bill as drawn provides for the conducting of primaries at public expense by the regular election officers on the first registry day. Official ballots are to be used, to be prepared by municipal clerks. Names are to be arranged upon the ballots in alphabetical order. Any person's name may be placed upon such ballots, either for a candidate or for delegate to a convention upon petition of 10 persons. Persons desiring to vote in such primary elections shall declare their politics to the election board and may swear their vote in whenever it is challenged. Schwab Applies for Stock. Schwab Applies for Stock. New York, Jan. 6—President Schwab, of the United States Steel Corporation, has cabled from Europe to the officers of the corporation, asking that 60 shares of preferred stock be allotted him under the offer recently made to all employees. Sixty shares is the max- imum amount Mr. Schwab could apply for. Hammonton, N. J., Druggist Missing. Bridgeton, N. J., Jan. 6—J. Spencer Rogers, a Hammonton druggist, who has interest in an oyster business in Port Norris, has disappeared, leaving behind him, it is alleged, endorsed paper to the amount of $25,000. Warrants are out for his arrest. Famous Confederate Officer Dead. Baltimore, Md., Jan. 7. — General Richard Snowden Andrews, a Confederate officer who won fame for himself and his command as the commander of "Andrews' Battery," died at his home in this city yesterday. Death was caused by paralysis. General Andrews was born 72 years ago in Washington, D. C. In recent years he had been engaged in commercial pursuits. THE RICHMOND PLANET RICHMOND, VIRGINIA DEATH OF SAGASTA Former Premier of Spain Succumba and President of Spain to Bronchitis and Gastric Trouble. Madrid, Jan. 6.—Former Premier Bagasta died at 11 o'clock last night. At half-past 6 he had an attack of heart failure and it was then thought he was dead; he rallied, however, and lived for four hours and a half. His funeral will probably take place next Wednesday. Senor Sagasta's death was due to bronchitis and gastric trouble. His family was at the deathbed and former Liberal members of the cabinet were near their old leader. A bishop administered the last sacrament yesterday afternoon. Senor Sagasta's intellect was unimpaired until his last hours. He talked to his daughter, the presidents of the senate and congress and to the archbishop of Toledo. King Alfonso has written a letter of sympathy to Senor Sagasta's family. During the former premier's illness the queen mother and other members of the royal family frequently sent officials to inquire as to his progress. The news of the former premier's death created a painful impression throughout Madrid. King Alfonso expressed profound regret. HOUSE PASSES ARMY BILL Measure Creating General Staff Adopted By Large Majority. to By Large Majority. Washington, Jan. 7.—The house yesterday passed the bill for the creation of a general staff for the army by a vote of 153 to 52. By the terms of the bill it becomes the duty of the general staff to prepare plans for the national defense and for the mobilization of the army in time of war, to investigate and report on all questions affecting the efficiency of the service and to render professional aid to the secretary of war and to general officers and other superior commanders. The general staff corps is to consist of one chief of staff and two general officers, all to be detailed by the president from officers of the army at large not below the grade of brigadier-general; four colonels, six leutenant-colonels, and twelve majors; twenty captains to be detailed from officers of the grade of captain or first leutenant. A number of bills of a minor character were also passed, the most important being one to increase the position of soldiers totally deaf from $30 to $40 per month. VENEZUELAN REBELS DEFEATED Fifty-seven Killed and Many Wounded After Four Hours' Fighting. Caracas, Jan. 6.—Fourteen hundred revolutionists, under Generals Ramos and Penalosa, attacked 800 government troops, under the command of General Acosta, Sunday morning at a point near Guatire. After four hours' fighting the revolutionists abandoned the field and the town of Guatire. They had 57 men killed and many wounded. One of their guns was captured. A prisoner captured by the government forces is authority for the statement that the revolutionists are still out of ammunition. About 1500 revolutionists are reported to be marching on Caracas. The activity and energy displayed by President Castro continue to surprise the foreign residents of this city. It is reported here that the leaders of the Matas' movement are treating with the government. The answers from the powers to President Castro's counter proposition in the matter of referring the Venezuelan issues to The Hague tribunal have not yet been received here. Shareholders Asked to Raise It to increased capitalization is deemed Philadelphia, Jan. 7.—The call for the annual meeting of the stockholders of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, to be held on March 10, issued yesterday, contains a notification that the shareholders will be asked to authorize an increase in the capital stock to more than $400,000,000, nearly double the amount now outstanding. The following official statement was issued from the company's office last night: "The object of the notice to stockholders is to provide sufficient working capital for the future and give the board the power to issue the same from time to time as the corporate needs of the company may require. The present outstanding capital stock is about $203,000,000. The 0increased capitalization is deemed necessary because of the improvements contemplated. While the New York tunnel is to be built by another company, the Pennsylvania Railroad Company will own all the stock, and at least $50,000,000 will be used for this purpose. There will be several millions of dollars spent in Washington, and about $50,000,000 on permanent improvement on the line of the road." STEEL TRUST'S EARNINGS Amount to $132,662,000 Last Year. Dividends Declared. New York, Jan. 7.—The directors of the United States Steel Corporation yesterday declared the regular quarterly dividends of 1 per cent on the common and 1% per cent on the preferred stocks. A financial statement was issued showing net earnings for the calendar year, with December estimated, of $132,662,000. The net earnings for the quarter ended December 31 were $31,339,613, an increase of $1,579,700 as compared with the same period of 1901. From the net earnings for the year deductions are made of $24,528,133 for sinking funds, depreciation and reserve funds and for a special fund set aside for depreciation and improvements; of $15,200,000 for interest on bonds; of $3,040,000 on sinking funds for bonds, and of $56,052,862 for interest on the stocks. These deductions leave undivided profits amounting to $33,841,565 for the year. Gave Birth to Quadruplets Toledo, Jan. 6.—Mrs. Francis Spyhalski, aged 20, wife of Stanislaws Spyhalski, aged 29, yesterday gave birth to quadruplets, two girls and two boys, ranging in weight from three to six pounds. Six years ago the woman gave birth to twins, and about a year later to triplets. All of these died. There is another child nine and a half months old. The boys have been named Samuel Jones and Theodore Roosevelt WAR REMINISCENCES A STRANGE WAR DUEL Between Federal and Confederate Scouts, Who Are Now in Business Together. On the 12th of June, 1863, I witnessed a duel between Capt. Jones, commanding a federal scout, and Capt. Fry, commanding a confederate scout, in Greene county, East Tennessee. These two men had been fighting each other for six months, with the fortunes of battle in favor of one and then the other. Their commands were encamped on either side of Lick creek, a large and sluggish stream, too deep to ford, and too shallow for a ferry boat, but there a bridge spanned the stream for the convenience of the traveling public. Each of them guarded this bridge, that communication should go neither north nor south, as the railroad track had been broken up months before. After fighting each other several months and contesting the point as to which should hold the bridge, they agreed to fight a duel, the conqueror to hold the bridge undisputed for the time being. Jones gave the challenge and Fry accepted. The terms were that they should fight with navy pistols at twenty yards apart, deliberately walking toward each other and firing until the last chamber of their pistols was discharged, unless one or the other fell before all the discharges were made. They chose their seconds and agreed upon a surgeon (as he was the only one in the command) to attend them in case of danger. Jones was certainly a fine-looking fellow, with light hair and blue eyes, five feet ten inches in hight, looking every inch the military chiefain. He was a man soldiers would admire and ladies regard with admiration. I never saw a man more cool, determined and heroic under such circumstances. I have read of the deeds of chivalry and high-certainty in the middle ages, and brave men embalmed in modern poesy, but when I saw Jones come to the duelists' scratch, fighting, not for real or supposed wrongs to himself, but, as he honestly thought, for his country and the glory of the flag, I could not help admiring the man, notwithstanding he fought for the freedom of the negro, which I was opposed to. Fry was full six feet high, slender, with long, wavy, curling hair, jet black eyes, wearing a slouch hat and gray suit, and looked rather the demon than the man. There was nothing ferocious about him, but he had that self-sufficient nonchalance that said: "I will kill you." Without a doubt he was brave, cool and collected, and, although suffering from a terrible flesh-wound in his left arm, received a week before, he manifested no symptoms of distress, but seemed ready for the fight. They turned around and walked to the point designated. Jones' second had the word "Fire," and as he slowly said, "One—two—three—fire!" they simultaneously turned at the word WALKED TOWARD EACH OTHER WALKED TOWARD EACH OTHER. "One" and instantly fired. Neither was hurt. They cocked their pistols and deliberately walked toward each other; firing as they went. At the fifth shot Jones threw up his right hand, and, firing his pistol in the air, sank down. Fry was in the act of firing his last shot, but seeing Jones fall, silently lowered his pistol, dropped it on the ground, and sprang to Jones' side, taking his head in his lap as he sat down, and asking him if he was hurt. I discovered that Jones was shot through the region of the stomach, the bullet glancing around that organ and coming out to the left of the spinal column; besides he had received three other frightful flesh wounds in other portions of the body. I dressed the wounds and gave him such stimulants as I had. He afterward got well. Fry received three wounds—one breaking his right arm, and one the left, and the other in the right side. After months of suffering he got well, and fought the war out to the bitter end, and to-day the two are partners in a wholesale grocery business, and certifying the sentiment of Byron that "A soldier braves death," etc. Profitable. "So you like to see automobiles spinning through this section?" interrogated the reckless chauffeur. "You bet," answered the county sheriff. "Why, I caught three the other day, an' when I gathered in the fine I had enough to paint my dwelling an' buy a piano."—Chicago Daily News. MOSBY'S GUERRILLA DAYS. So Tells That He Once Sent a Lock of His Hair to President Lincoln. John S. Mosby, well known as the commander of a guerrilla band in the service of the confederacy during the war of the states, and who is now a special employee of the department of the interior showed a willingness to talk about his wartime experience. 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It is needless to say that the statement was known to be false by most of the federal generals. "Yes, I frequently got close to Washington during the war. Many a time I would ride up to the hill up vonder 'TAKE THIS LOCK OF MY HAIR' across the Potomac and look down upon the city. I might have one or two men with me, and we would soon disappear. Just over on the Virginia side early one morning I met a Mrs. Barlow on her way to Washington with a wagon full of vegetables. Her husband was a federal soldier and she was a northern woman. She had a pass to go in and out of Washington and drove into the city often from her farm. I used to go to her house often and get a cup of good coffee. Of course, she gave it to us, knowing that we rather had charge of things all along on that side of the river. Well, on this particular morning Mrs. Barlow had a pair of scissors hanging from her apron. After I had talked with her awhile I said: "Mrs. Barlow, lend me your scissors." "She handed them to me, and I reached up to my head, got hold of a bunch of hair, cut it off and said: 'Mrs. Barlow, please take this lock of my hair right into Lincoln and say to him that I am coming in to see him soon and will expect a lock of his hair in return. She looked much puzzled, but she said she would do it. "I found out afterward that she rode straight to the white house and gave the hair to the president personally, refusing to give it to any one else. The president was amused and laughed heartily. No, I was not afraid to do this, because I knew that by the time the president could attempt to catch me I would be thirty miles away. President Lincoln never made an attempt to catch me, because he knew that I would be somewhere else when his men arrived. Many people took information of me into Washington for the purpose of trying to bring about my capture. "I covered the entire south side of the Potomac for many miles each way, and the largest number of men I had in 1864, when Sheridan was in the Shenandoah valley, was five troops of cavalry, a total of 250 men. With that command we captured all the arms we needed, all the ammunition, food, and clothing, and had a wagon train running to Lee's army frequently with supplies we had captured. No, I was never a general. I was a private in the First Virginia cavalry for the first two years after the war, and began raising my command after that time, beginning with one troop of cavalry. Each man was armed with two pistols and a sabre. We had no carabines." A War-Time Love Letter. The peculiar dialect of the mountainers of Tennessee and North Carolina is illustrated in part by a letter picked up on the battlefield of Chickamauga, by Capt. Gates, of the Thirty-third Ohio. 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"Holforth has been kicked all the way along. Whenever he sat down some one kicked him up; and look where he is now! And look at us. We'll own up to it frankly that not one person in a thousand relishes sustained effort—that we have to be kicked, and kicked hard, if we are to do great things. "Be kicked yourself!" grunted Grimswold; "I don't mean to be." "Now, there was that tortoise fellow," went on Seton. "Of course one never knows the real inside of things; but probably his wife went, too, and taunted him all the way through with here's speed, and his own steady power of drudgery did the rest. That's where most men fall—that they won't drudge it out. Bless you, the world's a mine of untapped genius, because their owners won't stick to it." "I hate muggers," struck in Grimswold. "I don't deny that the beggar will have done his day's charing when he dies; but I don't see anything in him to get an Elizabeth Morrison." "Can't you? But she can. The man has developed up all the way. Where other men have grown fat, or died, delivered of their message, or delivered it too soon, because they hadn't drudged out its meaning." "What are we to do?" said Grimswold, testily. "The worst turn fate can do a man is to let him alone," went on Seton, ignoring the question. "Now, she bestowed her closest, unkindest attention on Holford from childhood; then one day stopped to look at him—looked and admired, but went on kicking, for the man was too precious to be allowed to sit down. She has just dumped you and me down in arm chairs—when we're not killing something." "I didn't know this world was meant to be a penitentiary or a school," said Grimswold. "Nor yet a rose garden," said Seton. "Personally, I prefer a dahlia bed, it represents the autumn of a life effort." IT'S JUST HIS CURSED OBSTINACY, and the colors are glorious and last longer; and Holforth will get the dahlas, my boy, while we get rose stalks." "And I prefer the velvet feel and perfume of a rose to all the chilly, duty stricken dahlias on earth," said Grimswold. "And I find failure much easier than success, except"—he paused, and his weather beaten cheek flushed angrily. "With Elizabeth—just so, you see—you haven't earned her." "Been kicked into an heroic position that appealed to her, you mean," grunted the other man. "Possibly, but remember that some men are kicked down—the repeated kicks stan them—or some Samaritan drags them out of the highway into shameful harbor; upon such caresses cruel fate casts a contemptuous glance, and goes her way, searching for better sport." "It's just his cursed obstinacy," said Grimswold. "Look at his jaw!" "His father had it before him probably—the grit's his own—you see he never knew when he was beaten. It isn't till every prop has been kicked away from under a man that he finds himself—is his own backbone; just as no woman's virtue is proven till she has fought temperament, opportunity, the man himself—and all alone, off her own bat, beaten the three." Grimswold sat with an unlighted cigar gripped between his teeth, and looked ahead with gloomy eyes. He was beginning to realize that you can't have your cake and eat it, that "What will you have? Pay for it and take it," says God works out with relentless accuracy in every relation of life, that you can't work and play, too, that play gives you ephemeral joys—effort, the things that last, the things that really matter. "To strive," said Seton, cheerfully, "that's the verb we're set to conjugate hose below—to put our back unto things; if we don't we're but dead beneathes on the tree of life; and bless you, the women have found it out—and keep their homage for fighters like Duke Holorth, and their tolerance and play for lazy, self-indulgent brutes like you and me. And I rather see a woman's eyes blaze for pride in me than for love, any day. I believe there's a special corner of hades reserved for those who have died leaving no record—save of digging a hole in what to bury their talents—having wasted their every opportunity." But Grimswold had flung out of the room, and, left alone, Seton's face saddened. "And it's Betty with me, too," he said, half aloud, as he, too, passed out. Elizabeth Morrison represented a type to which the heart of man goes out with eternal freshness. For most of all he loathes a critic at hearth and bed and board; while the womanly woman, who is dimpled, and soft, and kind, creating for him an atmosphere of home and rest—who cannot argue all about it, but who "loves him still and knows not why," will ever be the deeply loved, the fondly cherished, alike by the Holforths, the Grimswolds and the Setons of this life. Some women's hearts stay at home, swept and garnished, but if the right man does not knock, they remain forever untenanted, but without Luke Holforth ever calling to her (for he was a stern man, with stern ideas of honor), she had turned away from her other lovers to watch this strong swimmer breasting the currents of life, so handcapped from the first that to sink was almost a foregone conclusion, and her heart had gone out to him and staid. We hear of ships that pass in the night, but what of those that pass in the day, near enough for us to see the tears of our best beloved as they are carried by life's strong current, each moment farther and farther from us? We may not even have dared to lift a hand in greeting, yet our eyes have spoken, our message has sped, the password of "Courage!" has been exchanged, and some day, in some signal instances, the gods intervene, setting a momentary gangway between the two passing vessels, by which one soul steps across to another. . . . Thus had it been with Luke and Elizabeth, and now, while those other men talked of them, these two leaned their heads together, and were in port at last. Elizabeth was not young; there were no roses in her cheeks, only dimples, but she was lovely yet. And as they sat together, sharers of the intense bliss of which human beings are capable, that none ever know the lack of until they have found their true life mate, he said (and was it an instinctive offering to the gods to avert disaster?): "Has Grimswold been here lately?" She laughed and answered nothing, knowing the ways of men; and, indeed, if Grimswold had staid away, this moment would not have been quite so sweet to Holford. "Brains, good looks, great wealth—what might not Grimswold have done, with the world to kick and Betty to reward him?" he said. Betty looked doubtful. Not the least of her charms was the dwarfing of all other men's claims to greatness by measurement with Luke's; while she was equally incapable of seeing both sides of his character, it was only the side towards her, his fighting and staying qualities, that mattered. So, by way of answer, she did one of those little feminine things, despised of cleverer women, but infinitely dear to a man's heart. She lifted his lean brown hand to her soft cheek, the hand that had striven and fought, while into her own had come the little hollow made by years of fasting for love—the hollow you will find in the hands of the women who desire love most, who have starved for it, and whose youth has passed while waiting for it, but she had not waited in vain. When presently they came back to rational conversation she said: "I like people who do things." "I don't know," he hesitated. "After all, the man who goes on hitting nail after nail on the head, driving every one of them home, is a bit of a carpenter, and may get as bored at last as the one who hits his own fingers every time instead of the nail. I often think how hateful the quiet, subjective order of people must find the active human persons who go up and down, perpetually sweeping the world; what torture they must suffer from those harsh noises intruding on their peaceful enjoyments." Elizabeth made a movement of dissent, but he went on. "I can imagine them watching with pity the marionettes jumping about in the crowd—the sages all abhorred energy, preached—peace—" "And I have always felt so sorry for their livers and their wives," cried Elizabeth, with spirit. "Listen. 'The night cometh when no man can work,' that's death—and a long, long night it is. 'Work while ye have the light,' that's day—and a short one at best—not one moment may be wasted out of the bit left over to us when we have slept, and eaten, and submitted to the opportunities of our best friends who thieve our time as if it were dirt, instead of gold!" "As I mean to thieve yours" he said. "He who has thriven may lie till seven," she said, slyly. "It's the early rising in your youth that enables you to take your ease when you are old. Not that you are that," she added proudly, "it is only women who grow old." He sprang up, throwing back his shoulders with a gesture as if he loosed a pack from them; and all the lean years of the past flashed before him; but in that moment he saw life as from a mountain top, as the Greeks and Romans saw it, clear and whole, birth and death as vestibule, and door of exit, inevitable accidents, events, convulsions, between, none alarming to a courageous soul, that snatches its pleasure from between hulls of the storm, and with the one thing it loves beside it, looks forward with a fine serenity, even curiosity, to the tremendous moment of death, that divides life from nothing, or life from new forms and splendor of life. Suddenly Holforth snatched her to him . . . with that past behind him, that future before, the man who had been kicked all the way along in that moment came at last gloriously into his kingdom, yet he only said: "Poor Grimswald!" being but a man, and human — Chicago Tribune A Matter of Course Millie—I wonder what the holes in a porous plaster are for? Willie—Why, they are for the pain to come out through, of course. Yonkers Statesman. THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. POETIC JOTTINGS. Living in the Past. [He speaks.] To-ay Dr. D. M. Foster, of Bloomington, 65 years of age, and his wife, who is 78, celebrate the sixteenth anniversary of their migration. They say that you and I are old, my dear. But you and I know that it is not so; They say our journey's end is very near- Ah, we are only starting on it, though. I gaze upon you, I see and it is fair. Your hand a joyo is thrill to mine imparts; Long years the Lord has given us to share, But years may never wier loyal hearts. I count the joys that you have brought to me. Found out that all the world was paradise Because in gleeful tones you told me so. They say that you and I are old, my dear, But you trusting hand in mine held fast The way ahead looks long and wide and clear, And, happy, I go Living in the Past. —Chicago Record-Herald. Just Keep Knitting, Knitting. My grandma used to sit and knit from morning till the night. With her needles glancing, glancing, when the sun was shining bright. She knitted stockings for us all, and all of us agreed That she'd find a satisfaction fitting out a centipede. I used to watch her often then, and note her kindly smile. And wonder if in Heaven above she'd knit 'most all the while. And say: "Now, ain't you weary?" and she'd answer: "Dear, depend If I just keep knitting, knitting, I am sure to reach the end." I've walked a tolome way, have shaken hands with Care; I have supped at a table with Pleasure, and have found her board was bare; I have faltened in the struggle, and my heart has made its plea; "Dear God, a chance to rest a time were Heaven enough for me." I have toiled and striven vainly, and the journey seems so long. And I judge that I am vanquished in the battle of the strong; battle of the strong; Yet I still take heart of courage, for I hear, while shadows bend: "If you just keep knitting, knitting, you are sure to reach the end." —Alfred J. Waterhouse, in N. Y. Times. A Song of the Sea. The sight of the marshy tea. The sounding stave of the trumpet wave In the ocean cave Are joy enough for me. I follow with eager eyes. a rarer eyes Where the vagabird seabird files, And straight I am kin to beak and fin. Kith of the sea, and swift within New love and longing rise. O solace of ocean tide! Speaks to me, comforts me, so will I Content by the sea abide. And peace enough there will be, When the great peace comes to me, In a quiet grave by the sunlit wave, Where flutter the lusty blooms that crave The sweet salt smell of the sea. Henry Robinson Palmer, in Springfield (Mass.) Republican. Far off, the murmurs of the world Come few and fitfully to me. Faint as the summer leaf that's whirled Low-rustling from the parent tree. This forty cleared is space enough To find the hidden secrets out— The way of life may be full rough, But tales of love lie all about. Here stood the immemorial oak, Here twined the ever-living vine, Here tempest after tempest spoke The thunder tones of law divine. And now the trees no longer branch, The vine creeps o'er another glade. But from the log house warm and stanch Want, penury and envy fade. This is my home—hard bought with toll. Here in the forest wide and wild; My hope of life lies in this soil, Here are my wife and little child. —Charles W. Stevenson, in Chicago Inter Ocean. People with respect will view his pretensions while he tells Of the things he's going to do. Fortune off strange favor shows. He may be her pet—who knows? When he's sixty years or more Youth with an admiring eye You observe him while he tells Of the days gone by. He may tell what the man Of his prowess and his skill Sullen doubts are even rife. Bluffs are swiftly understood. You must hustle and "make good." -Washington Star. A Little Sunshine. For *est* a little sunshine we give a world *thanks*. It makes *delight* of delight or joyment. it makes a ripple of delight on Jordan's stormy banks. An 'earth is beamin' bright, An 'we dream not of the night, For the fields are green around us, an' the promised land in sight! Jest a little sunshinel! We've been with grief awhile, But a little light from shadowed skies makes all the prospect smile! An 'we sing along the way, a sweetest words we say Of the light that promises the promise of the Everlasting day! -F. L. Stanton, in Atlanta Constitution Fame's Vagaries And makes crowds murmur, "There he goes!" Sometimes by toll severe 'tis won; Sometimes 'tis gained in social fun, Or near the cannon's fierce report, Or in the gentle tennis court. The pugilist, the preacher grave, The authoress who won't behave, We hall them all with accents gay, Now, what is fame? Ah, who shall say? —Washington Star. If Love Be with Us. If Love be with us, need we fear? Though much he may deny. There will be sunshine in each tear, A song in every sign. —Frank L. Stanton, in Atlanta Constitution. Notwithstanding Doctor—Yes, there are a great many drugs used in medicine. Patient—There is, bedad! An' shtill a good manny people git well at that.—Puck. Perhaps "Well, I suppose it's because the Lord put it on earth as a test of temper."—Brooklyn Eagle. ALL HAVE TROUBLES: 15 Dame Fortune treats you badly as you travel on the way. Do not let that fact disturb you, but be cheerful all the day. Never lose your pluck and courage and whenever she may frown. Just go on about your business, and she will come. Yes, refuse to treat with trouble, in a world so bright and fair. You will find there is no reason to be loaded down with care. You should stick to your misfortune and should fight out alone— Please remember all your comrades have some troubles of their own. You can call awhile on nature—ramble in the wild wonder of nature. That will shill with its beauties, though you do not understand; Then your troubles will not linger, and, in the end, you will be alone. Please remember there are others who have troubles of their own. If you fight all care with laughter, then it cannot cloud your sky. Is it not because they hunt it? That is why it comes their way. That each soul must have some trouble is a truth that's oft confessed. But we need not nurse it always—joy may often be our guest. And we do not need to sing it, or go shuffling round and groan. For our friends and other people have some troubles of their own. -St. Joseph Gazette. WITH THE CHERUB'S ASSISTANCE "It makes it awkward," said Neil. "Just a little." He reached over and pushed aside some poison ivy that dared to cast its crimson tendrils too near the ripples of her linen skirt. It was green, that skirt. The soft pale green that showed in the tall nodding sword grasses below them, and in the tip of a sunlit wave curling over the beach 70 feet down the bluff. The tint suited her fresh girlish face and the fluffy blond hair that fluttered little pennons in the lake breeze, and now and then blew a stray wisp perilously near Lennox's face as he bent over her. They sat on the ledge of an overhanging rock that some vagrant whim of nature had tossed on the edge of the bluff. Far below, where the shore curved crescent wise to the south, the summer cottages clung close to the sides of the bluffs, like wild duck nests, and to the west the lighthouse pier stretched a long, white, sheltering mother arm out into the deep blue waters of Lake Michigan. Only a few feet away lay Rolly, full length on the face of the rock, his chin on his hands, his hat pulled low over his eyes as he watched a tiny ant hill that reared a cone of finest sand among the gray, red-cupped moss, and white clover which found a living in the crevices of the rock. Nell sat with her back to him, but Lennox caught his glance now and then fixed on them, and there was a look of knowledge in his eyes that bothered him. Rolly was wise for a six-year-old cub, though his eyes were the eyes of a Raphael cherub. "And only last summer, too," Nell added, looking at him doubtfully. "It was a darling ring." She sighed. Her hands were ringless. "Pink pearls and a solitaire," he reminded her, drawing a tiny case from his pocket. She watched him interestedly as he took out the ring, the same dear previous ring she knew so well, and balanced it lightly on his finger tip. So did Rolly. "It is much prettier than any of the others." "Others?" "Before last summer." "None since?" "None since," she answered softly, her gray eyes looking off at the lighthouse. "It's all the same down here, isn't it? The hotel hops and the eternal coming and going. I am so glad the season is over. In the fall when everyone has had sense enough to go home, one owns the world way out here." "That was our favorite world corner last year. We called it Sweetheart rock." Rolly leaned over confidentially. "We come up here every day, Jack. All summer long. Just Nell and I." Lennox looked at her accusingly. "You come. because you remembered." She met his gaze defiantly. "I don't care. I did want to remember it all, and up here it was the same, the rocks and the lake, and the poison ivy, and even the funny crawly little flowers half as big as nothing. Just the same as last year, all except you." She smiled at him suddenly. "And then you came, like the prince in the fairy tale. Where did you leave your coal black charger?" "The yacht is off over there just inside the pier. Will that do? Is the princess sorry?" "One can't say. A summer comes and goes, and it seems as though everything ought to die with it. The rest did. And it was only an experiment, don't you know." He fanned himself lazily with his hat, singing under his breath. "We are engaged in a sort of way, And we're in love with one another." "Don't. It isn't a joke." "It was last year—to you." She was silent. He had not meant to hurt her, but she had been so sure and self-sufficient last year. It had been only a joke, a bit of nonsense born of the summer sunshine and moonlight witchery. "You were such a dear boy." She broke off a sprig of clover and bit it reflectively. "But that was all. Just a boy. And you did think you were so delicious. Jack, so altogether correct. Remember? White duck suits and necklies the girls made for you, and you played summer opera tinkles on a mandolin and smoked funny little cigarettes with perfumed cork ends. It was lots of fun. I couldn't help experimenting just to see if there was a wee atom of sturdy man sense back of it all." "And you were successful?" "You made love beautiful." She was laughing at him. It was distinctly annoying. He had fairly well-founded conviction that in all their acquaintances she had done little else but laugh at him. And he was three years her senior. All winter long the thought of her laugh with its amused scorn had spurred him ahead. It had been his first incentive to throw aside the irresponsibility of the boy, the complacent egotism and merry cynicism of his college days, and study the part of a man on life's stage, a man striving to make the best of himself for the sake of the one woman. And he had come back to the old haunt to tell her of it all, of the new ambitions her laugh had stung to life, of his battles and victories all for her own dear sake, and only the laugh awaited him. "It is so awkward, Jack," began Nell again. "We were engaged for a whole month, was it not? Would it be for two this year? A sort of annual betrothal?" She rose and stood on the edge of the rock. Lennox had forgotten Rolly, everything save the girl before him, and cast aside the hope of his life, as she might have tossed a pebble out to sea. A sudden anger tempted him to throw prudence to the winds. Raising his arm he deliberately flung the ring case out over the bluff. Rolly watched it spin in midair and promptly disappeared. "You're a flirt, Nell," Lennox was saying, quickly. "You lead a fellow on just for the comedy of a summer. I know. Didn't I see you train Tom Blanchard when you didn't give a snap of your finger for him. He was kind, too. And he went to the dogs last year. And there was little Trent, and Wade from Princeton, and then ENGAGED IN A SORT OF A WAY. I came and was given a chance to play your ladyship's fool for a season. That's all. I won't go after Blanchard. I've passed the kindergarten stage." He turned away from her and faced Rolly, standing guard at the only passable exit of the rock, his feet wide apart, hand's deep in his pockets. "I say, Jack, you're all daffy," he began, seriously. "Nell don't firt. She likes you like sixty." "Roland, go away," pleaded Nell, proud and white-faced. "I don't want to," responded Rolly, mildly. "You said you liked him terribly. You told Tom Blanchard so this summer when he came back and chased you around." "Rolly, did she tell Blanchard that?" "Honest Injun, cross my heart an hope to die," swore Rolly, recklessly. "And she told Aunt Grace she was going to be an old maid." "You did," said Rolly, joyously, encouraged by the look of warm friendliness from Lennox. "If I was you, Jack, I'd play fair, and just kiss her the same as you did last summer. Gee, but you two did use to kiss last summer." Nell's face was crimson. Lennox hesitated. "I threw the ring away," he said. "I went after it," retorted Rolly, proudly. You mustn't throw sling-shots away when there's a chance of another shot. Put it on for sure." Lennox obeyed solemnly. "For sure," he said, softly, as he kissed her. "Forever, sweetheart." And the cherub of Sweetheart rock turned his back and grinned a benison.—Boston Globe. Went Too Far: Judge—Yes, Richasmudde declares that he is a "self-nade man." Fudge—That's true enough; if he only had stopped there. "Indeed." "Now he's gone to work and made a fool out of himself bragging about it." —Baltimore Herald. 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Beer to Thirsty. ‘Travelere— What a Peace Oficer Saw a “When a fellow is chased up a tree it’s about the end, you think.” The deputy sheriff, eays the Chicago Daily News, crossed his feet ac he empha- sized the “you.” “Gereraliy it’s a case for the eor- ener,” remarked another deputy, Wossing the burned match toward the steam heater. “Yes, but this is not a case of hang- ing. ou remember when 1 went to Kansas to catch a gang of train rob- bers?” “And never gota man,” sandwiched im one of tht hangers-on. “That was the time | found a man up atree. It was like this: I got into ‘one of the eastern counties and made amy business known to the official there. He thought and taought and Yipped back in his chair, and the room im the courthouse got blue with ‘smoke. Finally he said there was a Suspicious character in the woods ever toward another town, but that ‘the only time one could find him was after dark. “It was decided that we should drive to the place in the evening. 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I was sure there was a walk down the stream for us and prepared for one of the things the boys call a ‘hike’ I put my re- volver into my coat pocket and got OP OO oe i | i A i f “ 4 i j! iY , i |S Sie <a LANA a | Pit) NN ee ip a a cee \\\ a art }, Feady for a battle with desperadoes.” “What did the sheriff do?” asked the iret deputy. “He lined up to a tree by the side of the road and folded bis feet as men do when they go to a bar. Out of his Pocket he took a silver quarter and pounded in a hollow place in the tree. Something came down and the silver isappeared. ‘There was more noise and presently a suspicious clink of glass. Then the thing raced down again and the sheriff pulled out a bot- Ue. “There was something mysterious about that tree. In all my experience I had seen nothing like that and I Anew something animate was in the branches. But the sheriff went back to his team and went off up the hill. When we were well out of sight and hearing the official pulled up by a fence and we stole back on our toes and sneaked across the field. Some- one approached the tree and went through the same performance we had, no word being spoken. Then like Indians we crept up and saw a dark object on the ground. It was a man. Before he could get into the tree the sheriff caught him by the foot. I came up then and together we pulled our captive down to earth and put handcuffs on him. After that I climbed into the tree and found a whole case of beer in the branches and a dumb waiter that slipped up and down in the hollow trunk. ‘That was all, except a rope and a board for the barkeep to sit on.” “The man under the tree—how about him?” “Oh, he was not the one I was look- ing for, after all. By and by we let him go, for there was no evidence Against hin. But it shows how they do business in Kansas.” Supposed Corpse Sat Up. John Bissman, a barber of Wells- Ville, 0., was shaving a supposed corpse, Samuel Colledge, when he im- agined that the body seemed warm. Farther investigation showed that the man’s heart was faintly beating. The Preparations for the funeral were abandoned, and ir a few days Mr. Col- ledge was able to sit up and take his rations. hii ini. atlas A rifle bullet fired at a distance of 50 yards will not pass through a wall of anow f0er fect kk Progress Madein the Development of Alaska A Telssronh Lines, Ratiwars, Stoamship Servicoand ql mag !E rapidity with which the modern spirit of commer- cial mastery has stretched its lines of communication into the heart of Alaska is revealed in the recent an- nual report of Gen. A. W. Greely, chief signal officer of the United States army. His statement says that the corps has built and put in working order in Alaska, during the past 24 months, 1.121 miles of land lines and submarine cables. This work included not only the surveying of the course, and the construction and installation of this length of line, but also the manufacture and inspection of large quantities of ma- terial and instruments; and_ their transportation, often under difficul- ties, over distances ranging from 4,000 to 7,000 miles. The great work accomplished by the service would not have been boys’ play even ima set- tled territory with every facility at hand: and when it is considered that much of the region traversed was wholly unexplored; that wagon roads were unknown; that streams had frequently to be crossed and virgin forests to be invaded, with bad condi- tions under foot and severe weather often making the work more arduous and dangerous, the Titantic nature of the accomplishment becomes ep- parent. The work of extending the tele- graph service in Alaska has been con- siderably facilitated by the ready co- operation of the Canadian govern- ment. It was only by this coopera- tion that the United States telegraph system in Alaska could be brought in connection with American lines and the lines of the world. Through the arrangement which was reached €- 3) o 4 «Je : oy Lees es ss fap 2 << ) eee hie OO pete eee eel Dw ——— sere ee =x == SS —— TS foe =" s 4 fem ON ici fae » SS =e. —— Tea Sa with the Canadian government, the Canadian line was to be extended from Quesnelle to Atlin. So rapidly did the Canadian government push the work that by May of last year Dawson and Egbert were connected by wire, bringing the upper portion of American territory on the Upper Yukon into direct telegraphic com- munication with Skagway, whence, by a four days’ steamer trip, news could reach the outside world. By September of the same year tele- graphic communication was extab- lished between Ft. Egbert and the Upper Yukon region via United States military and Canadian iand lines, Four hundred miles of tand lines and two short submarine cables (one from Nome to St. Michael and the other from Skagway to Juneau) was the extent of telegraphic communi- eation in Alaska up to the time of the preparation of the United States commercial report issued last May. ‘The plan then outlined was the ex- tension of the service as rapidly as possible along the Yukon, and it was hoped that at the close of navigation in September of the present year a Tine could be established between St. Michael and Ft. Gibbon—420 miles. Another land line was to be run from Nome vo St. Michael via Eagle City and this was to connect at the latter point with @ line running to Valdez ‘on Prince William sound. According to dispatches from the latest report, the work of wiring along the Yukon must have been accomplished, and more, so that the residents of the great Yukon district all the way from Klondike to the Behring sea on the one hand; and from Kiondike to Prince William sound, or (via Caa- adian lines) from Klondike to ex- treme southeastern Alaska, on the other hand, are no longer denied the comforting tick of telegraph instru- ments. Every enterprise of this kind is an enormous stride in the development of the country. The development of railroad systems will be of the most importance. But railroads are slower crawlers and it will take them a good while to creep along those new- ly explored valleys and through those dangerous and mighty mountain Fanges; nevertheless they will get there in time. They have started, and that is about all that can be said at present. ‘The only road now in operation is a 111-mile line from Skagway to White Horse; but oth- ers are proposed. Proposed roads, as represented by dotted lines on the Hatterson—That woman next door must have a tolerably correct notion of the partner of her joys and sor- rows. Mrs. Hatterson—Why? Hatterson—I went over there to get a rake, and she said her husband ‘was out.—Town, Topics. ‘Corveet Battmnte. map, it may be noted, travel trium- phantly and fearlessly over all ob- stacles and their total length is somewhat out of proportion to the total mileage of roads actually builts but this only shows that our aims are high. ‘The ccnstruction of the short line referred \>, obviating as it did the dangers and difficulties of the route over White pass, has been an agency of immense importance in opening up the Yukon country. The trans- portation of freight, which formerly. cost 40 cents a pound for this dis- tance, has been reduced to three cents. The only thing the matter with the road from an American standpoint is that it lies chiefly im Canada; and it is the common am- ition of those interested in Alaska to have an all-American route that is direct and practicable. Oue proposed route runs from Val- dez, on Prince William sound, to the American edge of Klondike. Thi route promises to be by far the most desirable of any that can be sug- gested. Port Valdez is reported to be a landlocked harbor with anchorage sufficient to accommodate the navies of the world. The harbor's depth and its freedom from ice are said to be such as to render it available for ocean-going steamers all the year round. American immigration to the Upper Yukon region is undoubtedly destined by and by to travel in this course, which is 250 miles shorter than any other practicable American route. And then, too, the valleys the proposed road will reach, if built, promise to become one of the rich- est agricultural districts in the terri- tory and doubtless this land will be the first taken up for homestead. Te all-waterway already traversed by regular steamers will be the only practicable path to Nome for a long time to come, and many travelers have reached the Klondike by taking ‘this long northern trip to the mouth of the Yukon and thence up that river to the gold fields. Mail routes to Alaska are becoming ‘more and more numerous, and United States mail is mow regularly deliv- ered inside the arctic circle. There are 75 post offices located at the various important points reached by the principal steamship lines, and at the mining settlements of ‘the in- terior. Mails leave the Pacific coast for Alaska every day. As the shore- line of alaska is greater than the’cir- cumference of the earth at the equator there is still room, of course, for further development of the mail system, if towns are to spring up in every bay and mails are to reach them all. ‘The climate of Alaska is varied in the extreme and has been unjustiy ‘maligned. The “Japan current” helps to make the southern border and fringe of islands warm while the ‘northern portion, lying in or near the arctic circle, is cold. ‘The climate of much of the interior is temperate, and one observer declares that in the summer season one may travel from one end of the Yukon to the other and find at all points a tangle of luxuriant vegetation, large for- ests and wild berries. The mistaken reports that Alaska is a cold, barren waste are circulated by persons who have only ventured short distances from the coast into the mountains, which are capped with snow and for- bidding. As a matter of fact rich and promising land lies on the in- terior and cattle may run ont in many sections all winter. Lack of a market for agricultural products and for stock will act for a time as a drawback to big farm- ing interests in Alaska; but any new valuable territory is bound sooner or later to be settled by persons who seek homes there more with the idea of growing up with a new coun- try than from any plan of definite conquest or dreams of sudden wealth, An unfortunate drawback at present is found in the fact that the opportunities of obtaining titles un- der the present land laws are not of the best. Congress permits the applica- tion of homestead laws to tracts not exceeding 80 acres; but surveys have not yet been made and few persona have as yet taken out homesteads Reap lieing ss preted core alle castatend Wantanno—Did Ezamark succeed in trying all the grip remedies his friends ‘recommended? | “Duzno—No, the process was inter rupted midway by a funeral. 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My trust is God, the eternal Lord— He is my tower of strength, my all; When trusting to His gracious word I cannot fail, I cannot fail. I love to think 'tis God who reigns, I love to thing He's King. In all my cares and all my pains His ruling grace I sing. He is my God, the eternal rock, Firm and secure He stands; I cannot bear his shock. For I am in His hands. —Mrs E H. Walker, in Christian Work THE OVERFLOWING LIFE. Earthly Preoccupations Shrink Soul Capacity-Content Only Comes in Seeking the Higher Things. There are men who practically decline to believe in God's liberal mindedness. They believe that He gives grudgingly, because He does not give in the order of their own heart's desire. That there can be anything wrong with this order, they do not seem to imagine. That the proportion of life as they conceive it would mean poverty at last, because it bears no relation to God's order of growth for man and his true scale of values, never seems to occur to them. Shall a father be liberal with toys and niggardly with food and education? God's thought is intent upon the highest gifts. He gives good "things to them that ask Him." He measures lesser things in such a way as not to interfere with these best gifts. And when it comes to true, enduring, spiritual life, which is the highest gift of all, Christ says. "I am come that they may have life and that they may have it abundantly." On that high level there is neither lack nor stint. Our Lord compares Himself to a living, ever-flowing fountain, where all who come may take till they are satisfied. It is the un-Christlike who complain that God does not treat them generously. Those who know Him better have discovered that the limit of His gifts is merely a limit of our own capacity—the cup we bring—while of the water of life there is neither lack nor end. We shall draw upon the sources of our strength and joy by coveting earnestly the best gifts. The proportion of God's thought will help us to content. God cares little for gold and jewels, which are but stones of His hills. Someone has said, voicing half of a great truth, that what God thinks of wealth is shown by the people to whom He gives it. He will not be lavish with these lesser gifts when He sees that they will rob us of our petite for the highest opportunities of life. He does not care for transient successes purchased at the cost of character. Too many of us are like birds that flutter, heavy-winged, in the mephitic vapors of some pit of worldly disappointment. He calls us to the free air and the open, sunlit sky, with its abounding joy and hope. The life which earth can satisfy is not the overflowing life. Earthly preoccupations shrink soul capacity. Content comes only from that which is higher and better than ourselves. The bread that satisfies is the bread of Heaven. Only God can fill a human soul to overflowing. But that overflowing will be for the joy of our homes, the blessing of our neighbors, the enlightening and transforming of the world.—Boston Congregationalist. WORDS OF WISDOM The example of faith is the best of legacies.—George Bowen. As the sunlight to the landscape so is a good man to his generation.—United Presbyterian. Anybody can build a house; we need the Lord for the creation of a home.—J. H. Jowett. The boy will believe in the feasibility of his mother's doctrine of righteousness if he sees his father exemplify it under the stress of business.—Charles H. Parkhurst. In truth it is not in the solitary life one shows himself a man; but the victory is his who, as the husband and father of a family, withstands all the temptations that assail him in providing for wife and children, servants and substance, without allowing himself to be turned from the love of God.—Clement of Alexandria. We shall find some of the sublimest fruits of faith among what are commonly called passive virtues . . . in the unostentatious heroisms of the household amid the daily drippings of small cares; in the noiseless conquests of a love too reverential to complain; in resting in the Lord and waiting patiently for Him.—Bishop Huntington Taking Kaitn by Letting Go. If you want to fix a thing in your own mind, tell it to another. He may not retain it as his own, but you will. A skilled teacher said to his pupils, in urging them to "talk back" to him by question and comment. "You may forget all that I say to you, but you'll not forget all that you say to me." A thought best reaches one's mind by coming out one's mouth. Let us store our minds with important truths by talking of them to our fellows.--S. S. Times CHRISTIAN COURTESY There Is No Walk in Life Where This Grace May Not Find Useful Exercise. There is a politeness which springs from the pit and another that comes down from Heaven. Flattery, insincerity, exaggeration, are alike alien to the Christian life; but interest in another's welfare, deference to another's views and the wish to brighten another's path are all graces of the Christian spirit. Christianity fosters independence but condemns boorishness; and Paul has rightly been called "the finest gentleman in history." It is a remarkable characteristic of the epistles of the greatest of the apostles that he greets by name so many in the various churches to which the letters are addressed. He mentions the particular kindnesses they have shown him, and the individual services they have rendered to the church of Christ. He indicates his affection for certain of the brethren who were older in the fellowship of the Master than himself. He remembers with loving commendation those who had proven themselves the hosts of friendless disciples. He does not forget to name certain ones who had put their own lives in peril for his sake. But we have a higher example to follow than of the foremost of the apostles; it is that of our Lord Himself, who, in His letters to the various churches selected as representative, does not begin His message with a recital of their shortenings but with the enumeration of their good deeds. He is not unwilling to go beyond their own modest estimates of their own good deeds and to write in letters of gold the story of their otherwise obscure deserts. Whoever therefore has most of Christ in himself will most exhibit this heavenly trait. He will not forget to acknowledge benefits conferred; he will not be too busy to repay good intentions with loving remembrances; he will not let the wife's heart starve for want of gracious speech or the child grow sick at heart for lack of parental encouragement. He will make a good neighbor, full of little attentions which without being obtrusive make fellowship sweet. He will be hospitable to strangers in the church. Wherever he goes he carries the sunshine of a life which esteems others better than itself and finds in others good qualities which come to the possessors as surprises. There is not a walk in life where this grace may not find useful exercise, but most of all is it needed in the home. It is for daily wear, not occasional displays; for beneficent purpose, not for decorative exhibitions. It is as precious as its counterfeit is cheap, and it is the fit girdle with which to gird about the soul "the white robe which is the righteousness of the saints."—Chicago Interior. GAIN THE GREAT EXPERIENCE Let Something High Enter the Sou and It Will Emancipate You from Lesser Attractions. In Raphael's picture of Peter imprison the splendor of the angel subdues the light of the torch and of the moon. And in the realm of the inner life a great emotion of love, ambition or devotion makes the ordinary impulses of life pale and dull. That was the philosophy to which St. Paul constantly reverted. It was as if he had said: Gain the great experience. Let something high and noble enter the soul, and it will emanipate you from all other attractions. "Walk in the spirit, and ye shall not fulfill the lusts of the flesh." The point is not that the great experience crowds out the lower, on the principle that two bodies cannot occupy the same space at the same time, but that the great experience puts the others into subordination. In Raphael's picture the torch still burns, the moon still shines, but these inferior lights become insignificant in the glory that radiates from the heavenly visitor. We make a mistake when we put things out of our hearts by crowding them out, especially if they have some right there. That is the error of asceticism. What we want is to make them take and keep their proper places. And that is to be accomplished by the entrance into the heart of some bright angel—Boston Watchman. Applied Science. One evening at supper little Lester said to his grandmother: "Grandma, do your glasses make things look bigger?" "Yes, dearie," said grandma. "Why?" "Oh!" said Lester, "I only thought if they did, maybe you'd take 'em off when you're cutting the cake."—Little Chronicle. The Saddies* Words. The saddest words of tongue or pen Are not, I think, "it might have been." Sadder are these, which o'er me lord it—"I'd like to, but I can't afford it." —Judge. Mrs. Lot's Failing. Sunday-School Teacher — And so Lot's wife was turned to salt. Can anyone tell why? Willie (from the rear)—She was too fresh—Harvard Lampoon. Different Now He--Do you know, Miss Dorothy, I often kissed you when you were a baby? She--Oh, well, I couldn't help myself then--N. Y. Journal. "If a cow was fed on tobacco leaves would she give tobacco juice?"—N. Y. Herald. THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. SOUTHERN RAILWAY SOUTHERN RAILWAY Schedule in Effect Nov. 30. 1902 Trains Leave and Arrive 14th St. Station 7:00 A. M. No. 7 Danville, charlotte, and all local stations situated on Danville and Lynchburg tions to Lynchburg, also with D. & W. Ry for Martinsville and stations on that line at Greenbore for all stations east of Danville. 12:50 P. M. No. 13. limited train daily for Jack, senville and all Florida points: Havana, Nassau, etc. Connects at Musselley, with Fremont and Greenbush for Durham, Raleigh and Winston-Salem; at Danville, with No. 54. State's fast mail sold daily for New York and South which carries sleepers to New Orleans, Columbia, Savannah and Jacksonville Drawing room Buffet, Sleeper, Kienna Room, Through coach for Chase City, Oxford and Durham. Through train, with Sleeper, Salisbury to Mem-phis. Dining room. No. 11. Southern Express, daily for Atlanta, Augusta, Jacksonville, and points South, Sleeper for Danville, Greenbush, Salisbury and Charlotte, opening station with New York and Florida Express and Southwestern Limited, which carries through leeps to Augusta, with connections with New York and Florida, etc. Complete Dining-Car Service. Also Pullman Tourist sleeper Mondays. Wednesdays, without connections to San Francisco, without connections for all points in Texas, Mexico and California. 6:00 P. M. No. 17. local dial, except Sunday, for Keysville and intermediate points. TRAINS AURIA E IN RICHMOND. 6:25 P. M.) From Atlanta, Augusta, Jacksonville, Ashville and all points South. 8:40 A. M., from Keysville and local stations. 8:35 P. M. from Durham, Charlotte, Danville and intermediate stations LOCAL FREIGHT. Nos. 61 and 62 between Manchester and Neapol YORK RIVER LINE, VIA WEST POINT. THE FAVGRITE ROUTE NORTH 4:30 P. M., No. 16, Baltimore Limited, daily except Sundays for West Point, connecti- nation at Baltimore and York-river landings 2:15 p. m. No.10 daily except Sundays, local express for West Point, and intermediat- e connectiion at Lester Manor for Walkerton and Tappanhackn. 5:00 A. m., local mixed. Leaves daily, except Sundays for West Point and inter- mediate stations, connecting with stage at Lester Manor for Walkerton and Tappanhackn. TRAINS ARRIVE RICHMOND. 9:15 A. M. No 15 daily from West Point, with a trip to Baltimore, except Monday. 10:45 A.M., No.9, daily except Sundays and Mondays. 4:50 P.M., except Sundays, from West Point and intermediate stations. Nos. 15 and 16 will make no stop between Richmond and Quinton. Steamers sail from West Point 5:30 p.m. daily except Sundays, from West cester Point and Clay-bank, Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, and Yorktown and Almonds 7 tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. C W. WESTBURY, D. P. A., 920 e. Main St., Richmond, Va. S. H. HARDWICK, G. P. A., C. H. ACKERT, General Manager, Washington, D. C. ATLANTIC COAST-LINE Schedule In Effect Nov. 30, 1902. TRAINS LEAVE RICHMOND—BYRD STREET STATION. 9:00 a. m., NORFOLK LIMITED, Daily. Ar rives Petersburg 8:31 A. M., Norfolk 11:20 a. m. Stops only at Petersburg Waverly, and Suffolk. 8:30 a. m. Daily. Arrives Petersburg, 9:13 a. m. Weldon 12:22 a. M., Emporia 9:13 a. m. Charleston 11:35 b. North Carolina 3:00 a. M., Jacksonville 9:05 a. m. Tampa 7:00 p. m. Port Tampa 7:00 p. m. Connects at Wison with No. 40, arriving Glenwood 2:35 p. m. Jacksonville 2:35 p. m. Pullman Sleeper New York to Jacksonville. 12:20 a. M. Daily. arrives Petersburg 1 P. M. daily, arrives North and Western railroad for Roanoke and inter mediate points. Stop at Drewry's Bluff, Centralia and Chester. 3:00 p. m. OCEAN SHORE LIMITED. Daily arrives at Petersburg 3:00 P. M., no stops only at Petersburg Waverley, and Sunday. 4:10 p. m. Daily, except Sunday. Arrives Petersburg, 4:33 p. m. Weldon 6:34 p. m. Rocky Mount 8:10 P. M. makes all inter mediate stops. 5:56 P. m. arrives Petersburg 7 p. m. Makes all stops. 6:56 P. M. FLORIDI & WEST INDIAN LIMITED. Daily Arrives Petersburg 7:38 P. M. Connects with Norfolk & Western for foothills and intermediate points. Emporia 8:38 P. M. (Connects with Atlantic and Danville for stations between Emporia and Lawrenceville); Weldon 9:00 P. M. Wilmington 10:10 a.m. Emporia 12:44 P. M. (Connects with M. Savannah 7:55 A. M. Jacksonville 1:05 P. M. Tampa 10:30 P. M. Port Tampa 10:30 P. m NEW LINE TO MIDDLE GEORGIA POINTS.—Arriving Augusta 8:25 A. M. Macon 10:30 A. M. Atlanta 1:50 P. M. Pawtucket Sleeper North Tampa, Charleston, Port Tampa, Jacksonville, Augusta and Macon. Dining-car service. 9:35 P. M. Daily. Arrives Petersburg 10:15 P. M. Connects with Petersburg with Norfolk & Western railway, arriving at Lynchburg 2:45 A. M. Roanoke 4:45 a.m. b. Bristol and Culpepper Sleeper Richmond to Lynchburg. 11:30 P. M. Daily. Arrives Petersburg 12:10 A. M. TRAINS ARRIVE RICHMOND. 4:07 P. M. Daily. From Jacksonville, Savannah, Charleston, Atlanta, Macon, Augusta and all points South. 8:45 M. Daily, except Sunday, Petersburg local. 11:10 A. M. Daily, except Sunday from Rocky Mount and intermediate stations. Norfolk and Suffolk. 11:42 A. M. Daily from Norfolk, Suffolk and Petersburg. 2:00 P. M. Daily. From Petersburg Roanoke and intermediate points. 6:50 P. M. Daily. From Norfolk, Suffolk, and Petersburg. 7:45 P. M. Daily. From Miami, Port Tampa, Jacksonville, Savannah, Charleston, Wilmington, Goldsboro, and all points South. 8:56 P. M. Daily. From Petersburg, Lynch- burg and West. H. M. EMMERSON, Traffic Manager. W. J. CRAIG, General Passenger Agent. C. S CAMPBELL, Division Passenger Agt., 888 EastMain St. WANED-5 INDUSTRIOUS COLORED MEN and women in each locality $10 to $30 per week can be made working for us, and much good work can be made on the of special interest to men and women of the race who desire to work themselves up. Full particulars furnished free. Apply by letter UNITED M.F.F. PUB. COMPANY, 1107 & 1109 E. Main St., Richmond, Va. 4-5-02-6m ALPHEUS SCOTT, OHURCH HILL Open Day and Night. Office and Ware rooms 3006 P St., Church Hill. Orders By Telegraph and Telephone promptly attended to. All business confidential. Old Phone No. 3183. C & O PASSENGER TRAINS LEAVE AND ARKNE NEW MAIN-ST. STATION. NOVEMBER 29th, 1902. LEAVE RICHMOND. 7:45 a. m. Except Sunday Newport News Local. All stops. 9:00 Local. All stops. 9:00 a. m., Daily for old Point, Newport n. m., Daily for Newport, Newport 25 minutes to Norfolk. Stops Williams- burg, Newport News Hampton and Burge. 4:00 p. m., Daily Except Sunday—For Old Point. Newport News and Norfolk. Norfolk Point. Newport News and Williamsburg, Newport News and Hampton only. Buffet Parlor Car Gordonville to Old Point. Connects at Norfolk Point. Connects at days, Fridays and Saturdays, with M & M Steamers to Baltimore; at Old Point. Steamers to Baltimore; at CapeCharles steamers' at Norfolk with Old Dominion steamers for New York. 5:00 p. m., Daily—For Newport News and Old Point. Steamers for Norfolk. Maxes principal stops. Main Line West Bound. 10:10 a. m., Local Except Sunday to Clifton Point. Connects Orange, Calpaker, Calvary. 5:15 P M Except Sunday. Accommodation to Dowell. 7:00 p. m., Daily - St. Louis and Chicago special to Cincinnati; St. Louis and Chicago special to Cincinnati; St. Louis and Chicago special apolls, and St. Louis. Parlor car incu- nued to Chicago. Dining car on at Gardensville. **James River Division.** 10:30 a. m., Daily - for Lynchburg, Lexington, and Clifton Forge; except Sunday from Albeneare and New Castle. Parlor car Arrive. PENNESULA DIVISION.—From Norfolk and Old Point, arrive, 10:35 m. a., daily; and 6:30 p. m., daily; 11:45 m. a., and 7:00 p. m., Sunday. MAIN LINE. From Concordia and the west 7:45 m. a., daily; and 3:30 p. m., daily 7:10 p. m., except Sunday. Local 8:00 m. a., except Sunday. JAMES RIVER DIVISION.—6:35 p. m., daily and 10:35 p. m., except Sunday. Apply at 890 a. east Main. street, 903 east Main street, Murphy's Hotel Jefferson Hotel and Main Street Station for further information, rates, tickets and Paluman Reservation. W. O. WARTHEN, DISTRICT PASSENGER AGENT. C. E. DOYLE, H. W. FULLER, GEN'L M'G'R. GEN'L P A. Norfolk and Western R. R. LEAVE RICHMOND (DAILY), BYRD STREET STATION. 9:00 A. M. NORFOLK LIMITED. Arrives at Norfolk 11:20 A. M. Stops only at Petersburg, Waverley and Suffolk. Stops and stops only to let off passengers holding tickets from Richmond and Petersburg. 9:00 A. M. THE CHICAGO EXPRESS, for Petersburg, Roanoke, Lincoln and Chicago. Buset Parlor Car Petersburg to Roanoke. Pullman Shuttle to Lincoln and Chicago. Blunfield to Lincoln and Chicago also for Bristol. Kooville to Chattanooga and Sleeper Roanoke to Knoxville, or to Roanoke to Farmville, Lynchburg, Roanoke and intermediate stations. 8:00 P. Norton Shore Limited. Arrives Norfolk 5:30 P. M. Stops only at Petersburg Waverley and Suffolk. Connects at Norfolk with Steamers to Boston, Providenciales, New York, Baltimore and Washington. 6:56 P. M., for Suffolk, Norfolk and intermediate stations. Arrives at Norfolk 10:40 P. 9:35 P. M. for Lynchburg, and Roanoke. Connects at Lynchburg with Washington and Pullman. Sleeps Lynchburg to Memphis and New Orleans, Cafe, Parlor and Observation Cars Radford to Attainla, Aia. Pullman Sleeper between Richmond and Lynchburg that ready for occupancy at 8:30 P. M. Also Pullman Sleeper Petersburg and Roanoke. Trains arrive Richmond and Lynchburg and then travel to 7:35 A.M. 2:00 p.m. and 8:50 P. M.; from Norfolk and the East at 11:10 A. m., 11:42 A. m., and 6:50 P. m. Office 888 Main St. JOHN E. WAGNER City Passenger and Ticket Agt. C. H. BOSLEY, District Passenger Agent. W. B. BEVILL, General Passenger Agent. General Office; Roanoke Va. Richmond, Frederickksburg and Potomac Railroad. Schedule in Effect Nov. 30, 1992. Trains Leave Richmond Northward. 4:15 A.M. Daily from BYRD STREET STATION for Iowa Railroad. At Milford, Frederickburg and Alexandria Stops Occupant Sundays. Sleeping Cars to Washington and Milford. Daily from M A I N S STREET STATION. Florida and Metropolitan Limited. Stops in Washington and beyond. Stops at Frederickburg and Alexandria. Buffet Sleeping Cars to New York. 7:00 A. M., Except Sunday from Ella Station, accomodation for Ashland and intermediate parking 8:00 a. m. Sunday only from BYRD STREET STATION, for Washington and beyond, Stones to Cherry Hill, them, and local stations, Ashland to Cherry Hill, Coquan and Alexandria Buffet Park Car. 8:40 a.m. Except Sunday from BYRD STREET STATION for Washington and beyond. Stops at Ela, Glen Allen and local stations, Ash Station, Glen Allen, Piar Carr, Piar Carr, 12:05 Noon, Except Sunday from STATION for Washington and beyond. Stops at Ela, Ashland, Dowell, Milford, Fredre ricobsburg and Alexandra, Buffet Parlor Car Connects with Congressional Limited, from the Bryd St Station, accommodation for Fredre ricobsburg and intermediate stations. 5:35 P. M., Daily, from Main St. Station, for Dowell, Stops at Dowell, Frederickson Brooke, Brooke, exandria. Buffet Sleeping Car to New York. Accentuation, Except Sunday, by ELBA STA Accentuation for Aashland and intermediate points. 8:35 P. M., Daily from Byrd Street Station, for Dowell, Stops at Ela, Ashland, Dowell, Milford, Brooke, Widewater, Quantico, and Alexandria. Other stations Sunday. Sleeping Car, Richmond to New York and Washing to Philadelphia. M.P. M., Except Sunday, from ELBA STATIO TIOGRAFIC for Aandhid and inter- mediate points. Trains Arrive Richmond South ward. 6:40 A.M. Except Sunday at ELBASTATION Accommodation from Ashland and inter- rival schools 8:30 a. m., Daily, at Byrd St. Station, Stops at Alexandra, Occoquan Widewater, Brooks Frederickburg, Milford, Doswell, Ashland, and Buffalo Sleeping car from New York to Toronto. 8:25 a. M. M., Except Sunday at BYRD STREET STATION Accommodation From Frederickburg, and intermediate points. 8:25 a. M., Except Sunday at BYRD STREET STATION, Stops except Sunday at Glen Allen, Washington to Ashland inclusive, Glen Allen and Elba. Parlor Car. 2:05 P. M. Daily, at MAIN STREET STATION, Stops except Sunday, Lorton, Ocoquan, Quantico Frederickburg, Milford, Doswell & Ashland, Buffet Sleeping car from New York. 2:05 P. M. Except Sunday at ELBA STATION Accommodation from Ashland, and intermediate points. 8:46 P. M., D. Daily, at BYRD-STREET STATION Stops at Alexandria, Fredericks Cars from New York and, Eiba Sleeping Cars from New York and Washington. Dining Car. 9 00 P. M., Daily, at BYRD STREET STATION, and localizations Quantico to Ashland incl, Glen Allen, and Elba. Buffet Purl Carr, ON STREET STATION, Florida and Metro. Stops at Alexandria, Fredericksburg, Dowwell, Buffet Sleeps Cars from New York. The Greatest Offer Yet! Send A Good Photograph. WE WILL SEND YOU A HANDSOME GOLD-PLATED BREAST-PIN WITH YOUR PICTURE HANDSOMELY COLORED AND REPRODUCED THEREON FREE OF CHARGE. They can be worn by either male or female, being called either Button or Medallions. We have made special arrangements with one of the largest concerns in the country to furnish all new subscribers, who pay $1.50 cash in advance for the PLANET one of these handsome Medallion free of charge. Fill out the Coupon and send it with $1.50 together with a good Photograph of the person whose features you desire reproduced in colors and we will send the button or medallion. All photographs will be returned. Enclose 5 cents extra to pay postage on the same. 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Ar Tampa. 10:25 A.M. 10:30 A.M. Lv Chester. 12:34 A.M. 10:30 A.M. Lv Greenwood. 3:25 A.M 12:37 A.M. Lv Athens. 7:35 A.M 2:35 P.M. Ar Atlanta. 7:35 A.M 5:40 P.M. Ar guajava. 11:25 A.M 7:20 P.M. Ar Macon. 6:25 P.M 9:20 P. Ar Montgomery. 2:55 A.M. 2:55 A.M. Mobile 7:25 A.M. 7:25 A.M. Orleans. 6:55 P.M. 1:49 A.M. M—Ar Nashville. 8:25 A.M. 8:20 A.M. Ar Memphis. Train No.35 leaves Richmond 9:10 A.M. daily for Petersburg. Norlina, N.C., and all intermediate points. Connection at Norlina with train arriving Henderson 2:02 P.M. and Mali and arrival in Fayetteville, and Durham 4 P.M. daily except Sunday. Connections at Jacksonville for all Florida East coast points. At Tampa for Havana gomery, New Orleans for all points in Texas, Mexico and California; also, for Chattanooga, Nashville, and all points west. TRAINS ARKIVE AT RICHMOND-DAILY. 6:35 A.M. No 34 From all points South. 4:55 P.M. No 66 And southwest. 4:55 P.M. No 38, Norlina, N.C., Petersburg and local points. SLEEI ING-CAR SERVICE W. J. 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Write your name, full address, a.n.3 list of pieces wanted by the numbers; enclose this, with stamps or silver, and mail or bring to address given below, and the music will be sent direct from Boston, postage prepaid. CERTIFICAT OUTLOOK IN PHILIPPINES Governor Taft Says Want and Famine Stare People in the Face. WARS' EFFECT ON AGRICULTURE Its Greatest Blow Was Destruction of 90 Per Cent. of Water Buffalo, On Which Cultivation of Rice Depended. Commission's Recommendations. Washington, Jan. 5.—The annual report of the Philippine commission, and a separate report by Governor W. H. Taft, made public at the war department yesterday, gives a review of the results of the year's work of the committee and contain recommendations for legislative action by congress deemed essential to the welfare of the islands. After reciting a history of the establishment of civil government throughout the various provinces, Governor Taft in his report says it has not been definitely determined what shall be done with respect to Mindanao, where, he says, hostility to the Americans does not extend beyond the Lake Lanao Moros. The Moros, he says, do not understand popular government, and do not desire it, preferring control by dattos. "Possibly far in the future," he says, "control by dattos may cease. For the present, however, it is necessary to provide a paternal, strong, but sympathetic government for these followers of Mohammed." Governor Taft tells of the conditions that have made it necessary for the islands to purchase about $15,000,000 worth of food on which to live, and of the effects war has had upon agriculture, almost the only source of wealth in the islands. The greatest blow to agriculture, he says, is the destruction of about 90 per cent of the water buffalo, on which the cultivation of rice is almost wholly dependent. After speaking of the ravages of Asiatic cholera, Governor Taft says: "The bane of Philippine civilization in the past was ladronism, and the present conditions are most favorable for its growth and maintenance. Were there temptations to agriculture, were there prosperous conditions in the country, it would not be a troublesome matter to deal with, but when want and famine are staring people in the face, the life of the freebooter forms to the desperate and the weak a very great attraction." The ladrones of Hollo are characterized as an organized band of cattle thieves. They are being rapidly stamped out. Governor Taft says that unless carabao can be replaced, or other methods of agriculture substituted which will prevent these animals being indispensable hereafter, the future for several years has a gloomy outlook. The Philippine commission makes the following recommendations to congress: The establishment of a gold standard in the islands; reduction of 75 per cent. of the Dingley rates on goods imported into the United States; an amendment to the Philippine act so that the government can lease to an individual or corporation not more than 30,000 acres; that all Philippine bonds shall be free from all taxation in the United States, and an amendment to the Chinese exclusion act by which a fixed number of skilled Chinamen can be admitted, on the bond of the employer that for every Chinaman employed he will employ a Filipino apprentice, and that he shall pay a head tax not exceeding $50, the Chinaman to be returned within five years. AID FOR ATTORNEY GENERAL Bill Introduced In House Providing For Appointment of Two Assistants 4. WEEK'S NEWS CONDENSED. Dr. Lorenz, the famous orthopedic surgeon, of Vienna, sailed from New York yesterday for England. The handsome residence of George B. Post, Jr., near Bernardsville, N. J., was destroyed by fire yesterday. Loss, 80,000. The Wisconsin Central Railroad has granted its engineers a 10 to 25 per cent. increase in wages as a New Year's greeting. A detachment of 100 Boers, who volunteered for military service in Somaliland, will sail from Cape Town, South Africa, on January 8. The navy department has decided not to repair the cruiser Philadelphia, and she will not be again placed in active service. Friday, January 2. The transport Sheridan sailed from San Francisco yesterday for Manila with 115 passengers and army supplies. Governor B. B. Odell, of New York, was yesterday inaugurated for his sec- ond form as chief executive of the state. The biggest gusher yet drilled in the Wayne oil field was struck on the Jerry Sandusky farm, six miles east of Monticello, Ky. Judge W. A. Little, of the supreme court of Georgia, yesterday tendered his resignation to Governor Terrell. Ill health was the cause. President and Mrs. Roosevelt and their guests attended a theatre party at Washington last night to witness Miss Annie Russel's new play, "Mice and Men." Saturday, January 3. Jack Brown, a negro, was hanged at the Richmond, Va., penitentiary yesterday for the murder of a fellow convict. Patrick Haburn, of Williamsport, Pa., who was missing since Christmas, was found in the woods yesterday frozen to death. During December the government receipts were $47,151,299 and the expenditures $36,533,744, leaving a surplus of $10,618,000. Charles S. Hutt, of Steelton, was instantly killed yesterday by falling from a building at the Pennsylvania Steel Works at Harrisburg, Pa. The enlisted men in the United States army stationed at Fort Slocum, N. Y., presented Miss Helen Gould with a solid silver loving cup as a New Year's gift. Monday. January 5. The total coinage at American mints during 1902 was $79,485,815. The corner-stone of the Army War College, at Washington, D. C., will be laid February 22. The Pennsylvania Steel Company announces that they will erect 12 coke ovens at Lebanon, Pa., to supply their furnaces. In a wreck on the Southern Railway, near Birmingham, Ala., Saturday night, the engineer was killed and 27 passengers injured. Five masked men dynamited the safe in the First National Bank at Abington, Ill., early Saturday morning and stole $4,800. Two were arrested. Tuesday, January 6. John W. Morrison was inaugurated governor of Idaho yesterday. The Chinese emperor has appointed his nephew, Prince Pao Lun, delegate to the St. Louis Fair. Governor Stone yesterday appointed W. A. Erdman judge of the Monroe-Pike (Pa.) district, vice Allen Craig, deceased. Three miners were killed at the Windsor mine, near Hurley, Wis., yesterday by falling 600 feet down the slope. Wednesday, January 7. Germany will appropriate between $625,000 and $750,000 for an exhibit at the St. Louis Exposition. Knowles & Gardiner's department store, Buffalo, N. Y., was destroyed by fire last night. Loss, $250,000. Governor T. F. C. Garvin, Rhode Island's first Democratic governor in 10 years, was inaugurated yesterday. The annual exhibition of the New York Poultry, Pigeon and Pet Stock Association opened in Madison Square Garden yesterday. It is announced that President Roosevelt will appoint Dr. Lyons, a colored preacher of Baltimore, as United States minister to Liberia. GOOD POINTS FORMINERS GOOD POINTS FORMINERS President Mitchell Cross-Examined Sheriff of Lackawanna County. OPERATORS PAID HIS DEPUTIES Mine Owners' Attorneys Claim That Under the Law They Were Compelled to Pay Surprised Judge Gray. Many Tales of Persecution Told. Philadelphia, Jan. 7. — Twenty-two men, all but one of whom were nonunion mine workers, appeared before the anthracite coal strike commission in the United States circuit court room in this city yesterday and recited the oft-told tales of the persecutions they and others underwent during the late coal strike because they chose to work rather than join the strikers. The single exception was Charles H. Schadt, of Scranton, the sheriff of Lackawanna county, and his presence on the stand under the cross-examination of President John Mitchell, of the miners' union, proved to be the principal feature of the day's proceedings. The sheriff, in direct examination, said among other things that he issued a proclamation shortly after the strike was inaugurated, calling upon all persons in the county to keep the peace; that it was difficult to get men to act as deputy sheriffs; that in most cases where there was trouble it was usually over when his men arrived; that he attempted to keep the peace in all localities and that the disturbances became so numerous and serious that he had to call on the governor for troops. He had appealed to Mr. Mitchell, whom he knew quite well, to assist in keeping the peace and the miners' president promised to do so and in several instances was of material help to the sheriff. Sheriff Schadt was then turned over to the miners for cross-examination. To the surprise of most persons, Mr. Mitchell took up the cross-examination. It was the first time that Mr. Mitchell had attempted cross-examination to any extent. In answer to the questions of the mine workers' leader, the Lackawanna county sheriff said he had employed about 40 or 50 deputy sheriffs and admitted that they were paid by the coal companies. Lead by Mr. Mitchell, he said he could not say that a general state of lawlessness existed in the county, but in answer to another query said there was a reign of terror in existence in some localities. Among other things he said that as a rule crowds dispersed when he ordered them to do so, and that striking mine workers whom he knew obeyed his orders the same as other persons. He also admitted that the second contingent of troops sent into his county was ordered there without his request. This appeared to satisfy President Mitchell, and General Wilson took the witness in hand and asked him why The county did not pay the deputy sheriffs. The sheriff replied that the companies had made the request for protection, and counsel for the witness explained that it was the law in Pennsylvania that the company asking for protection was compelled to pay for it. This explanation rather surprised Chairman Gray, who, as he straightened himself up in his chair, said: "I am not familiar with such an un-American law. When the county or state relinquishes the duty of maintaining order and protecting life and property and keeping the peace, then they are open to criticism." RULER OF GONZALES. Strange Romance in Life of Gypsy Queen Stella. After Twenty Years of Separation She Finds the Lover of Her Youth a Convict in an Ohio Penitentiary. After 20 long years of waiting Queen Stella has at last found the lover of her youth, the handsome young tor- "Remember who was so solicitant entertainment a cheerful girl "I know I square-jawed "Just give me you? You're has been her cage Record- Poetr Oh, the m Of the r And the la In a sty Twice during the proceedings Attorney Darrow tried to get an admission from witnesses that they did not employ the lawyers representing the nonunion men before the commission. The miners claim that the attorneys are employed by the coal companies, virtually giving the operators two submissions before the commission. Counsel for the operators in each case objected to Mr. Darrow's line of examination, and the objections were sustained by Chairman Gray for the commission on the ground that it made no difference who were employing the attorneys, so long as the commission got the information it desired. While the entire day was taken up in hearing the stories told of intimidation, boycotting and personal violence, the commission learned nothing new, the evidence being mostly cumulative. Sir C. C. Thompson of Planet Lodge made a flying trip to this city for the holidays on a visit to his parents and left this week to resume his duties as steward at Hotel Runnymede, Atlantic City, N. J. Mr. Walter Williams of 1018 St. John street came to spend a few days with his parents and will leave Tuesday for New York City. Rev. William Thomas of this city has been called to the pastorate of Macedonia Baptist Church. Rev. Dr. Christian, chairman; C. S. Bolling, acting clerk. RICHMOND, VA., Jan. 7, 1903. To the Richmond PLANET, Dear Editor, Kind Sir—Will you allow me space in your paper to thank all of the friends who so kindly remembered the children during the Christmas. The children were remembered by both the white and colored and may God bless them all. Wanted—A settled, steady woman to nurse child 3 years old. Apply, 1314 E. Main St. Tough Parishioners. Deacon Blunt—So your congregation gave you no vacation this year? Dominy Dull—Not a week; not a day. Deacon Blunt—Well! well! They are the hardest people to tire out I ever heard of.—N. Y. Weekly. An Incurable Case. "When a man's unconscious he doesn't know anything, does he, pop?" "No, my son." "Well, pop, are you unconscious? I heard ma say you didn't know anything."—Yonkers Statesman. Then and Now. Once, long ago, 'twas her delight, To dress up in a handsome gown; Broad, low, when he's out at night She like brunette hubby down. —Chicago Daily News. DIED INSOLVENT "Have you heard—Frau von Specht is dead. "Indeed? It's hard to believe it! Why, she owed me a call."—Unsere Gesellschaft. True Philosophers. The true philosophers are those Who treat all men as brothers. And while they smile at their own woes Believe the woes of others. —Philadelphia Press. Earned It. "How did he ever get the title of 'Hon.'?" "He declined a nomination for alderman once."—Chicago Tribune. And Alimony Mrs. Dearborn—And what has she got to show for her marriage? Mrs. Wabash—A divorce.—Yonkers Statesman. Strictly Business. "Is she a business woman?" "Yes, indeed. She refers to her engagements as options."—Town Topics. It Depends. "Prevention is better than cure." "Not if you have a nice young physician."—Detroit Free Press. A Good Suggestion: The preacher had apparently almost reached his perforation, but he has apparently almost reached it before, and the congregation was suspicious. "What can I say more?" he asked, in in passion tones. "Anen," answered a man in a back seat.—Chicago Post. Careless Sailors. "Sailors are awful forgetful, ain't they?" asked little Elsie. "Why, what makes you think that?" inquired her papa. "Because every time they leave a place they have to weigh their anchor. If they weren't forgetful they'd remember the weight."—Philadelphia Press. RULER OF GONZALES. Strange Romance in Life of Gypsy Oueen Stella. After 20 long years of waiting Queen Stella has at last found the lover of her youth, the handsome young torcador who won her girl's heart in the sunny days of her youth in Spain. Though found, the lovers are not yet reunited. That is, says the Chicago Tribune, the pathetic part of it. They became separated in Spain and have sought each other ever since. Now they have met and looked into each other's eyes and renewed the love of their youth. Still they are separated by a barrier greater than the dark eyed gypsy ever thought it possible to be erected between them. And by no real fault of her lover, either, so the devoted woman maintains. Queen Stella of the Gonzales has created for herself a warm affection wherever she has gone in America. She came here for the sake of her people, the gypsy tribe of the Gonzales, the oldest tribe of this renowned race. In this connection she has addressed organizations and colleges in different parts of the country. From the time of the Pharaohs, the Gonzales, these people of Egyptian birth, have been roving about, journeying hither and thither in their wanderings through the old world, living the wild, care free life known only to the wandering tribes that first inherited the earth. At last the Gonzales found their way to Spain. It was here Queen Stella was born. And here she attained to a ruler of her people, being the last in a long succession of reigning female sovereigns. No one would have ever found out her secret had not she gone to Columbus, O, where recently she had made her home. Twenty years ago, in her early Spanish home, Pedro Gonzales became Queen Stella's accepted suitor. His powers in the arena had made him famous. Six feet tall, and as strong as a lion, his daily struggles with the PRISONER STEPPED FORWARD. fierce bulls seemed the natural outlet for his native temperament. No bullfight was complete unless the matchless young toreared participated in it. The dark eyed young queen was proud of the strong, handsome young lover whom she ardently admired. To Pedro Queen Stella's word was law. Not because her rank made it so, but because she reigned supreme in his heart. But the young queen must be true to her people. Her own advantages made her conscious of the great obligation she was under to them. So she came to America to prepare a way for her tribe to follow. Pedro would soon follow, it was agreed. Certain members of the Gonzales did come, but months passed and still no word from Pedro. He had disappeared from Spain no one knew whither. At last word reached Queen Stella that Pedro was dead. Shortly after Queen Stella went to Columbus to live she conceived a notion one day to visit the prisoners at the state penitentiary. Why she went she does not know. The next day a note was sent her. It read: "If you are my Dolores, answer. Convict No. 3,003." Dolores was what Pedro used to call her. But no one else knew her by that name. So Queen Stella answered the note at once, saying she did not know the writer. The next Sunday, however when she went to talk to the prisoners, she asked to see No. 3,003. The prisoner stepped forward, but before he could welcome her Queen Stella lay a huddled mass at his feet. One glance was enough. It showed her the lover she had lost, her Pedro whom she had mourned as dead. He shot a man once in self-defense, so he claims, and for that he is wearing the gray prison garb. As soon as he could Pedro told her that he came to America in search of her, wandering from place to place. But he could get no trace of his adored Dolores. He had always a wonderful magnetism for horses; they followed readily at his merest word, and he became a horse trainer. It was while engaged in his profession that the encounter occurred that led to his crime. But there is a good chance for parole now. Hair Dye Shortens Life. It is said that the use of hair dye shortens human life. For this reason some of the life insurance companies of France refuse to insure people who use it. Report Was Well Founded. Mrs. Dearborn—They tell me your cook is an angel. Mrs. Wabash—I reckon she is. She tried to light the fire with kerosene this morning.—Yonkers Statesman. Where Umbrellas Are Cheap. In Corea a serviceable umbrella costs about 12 cents. The covering is of oiled paper. "Remember," said the beautiful girl who was soliciting for the charity entertainment, "that the Lord loves a cheerful giver." "I know He does," replied the square-jawed old captain of industry. "Just give me a cheerful rest, will you? You're the tenth puissance that has been here this afternoon."—Chicago Record-Herald. Poetry and Farming. Oh, the musing poet warbles Of the frost that's on the vine Are the laborors of the huskers In a wet plow, very fine But you bet he couldn't do it If he'd ever husked an ear. For about that much of farming Makes the romance disappear. -N. Y. Herald. THE QUICK AND THE DEAD Lady—Here's a dime. Now go away; my husband is sick upstairs—nearly dying. Grinder—Sorry, lady, but dere's so many sick people in dis street dat de price has went up. It'll cost youse er dollar to save yer husband's life dis time.—N. Y. Journal. Education. He sent his boy to college. And now he cries, alack! He spent ten thousand dollars And got a quarter back. —Puck. Two Points of View. "If there is one man I like more than another," said the optimist, "it is a man that I can trust." "My ideal man," rejoined the pessimist, "is one who is willing to trust me."—Chicago Daily News. He Wouldn't Do Barber—Mein cracious! You won't do. New Man—You schoost dold me to go to work. Barber—You won't do. Now you haf your hat off I see you are bald. How you zell my hair restorer, eh?”—N. Y. Weekly. A Day for Bad Luck. “No; John never seemed superstitious until we were married. Isn't that so, John? 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