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THE RICHMOND PLANET VOL. XX NO.14. William Rice a Most Respectable Colored Man. AND PORTER FOR THE SOUTHERN HOTEL, FOUND DEAD. Subsequent Developments Point Conclusively to the Fact of Foul Play. [Lawrenceville, Va., Brunswick, Gazette.] On the morning of February 26th the body of William Rice, a highly respected colored man, who was employed as porter for the Southern Hotel, was found dead under the trestle work of the high railroad bridge that spans Rose creek, just east of and within the corporate limits of this town. At the point where the body of the dead man was found a cross tie was missing, having perhaps been taken out for the purpose of repairing the bridge and was not at once replaced. This circumstance at first led to the belief th t Rice, in attempting to cross the bridge the night before without knowledge of the fact that one of the cross ties was missing, fell through to the ground below, a distance of some forty or fifty feet, and was killed by the fall. Subsequent developments, however, speedily changed this belief into the conviction th t his death was not the result of the accident, but of foul play. On the night before the colored people of the town and vicinity, who are members of a charitable society known as "True Reformers," held their regular monthly meeting in a hall on the street leading from Main to where the county road crosses Rose creek. This meeting was largely attended and adhere between even a clock, real of the, returning to their homes him to pass up Main street, when on that street they saw at a point not far from the northwest corner of the court house square several white men engaged in an alteration of some kind with the man Rice. An examination of the ground in the vicinity of that point disclosed a large pool of blood, and a lock of human hair that had been torn from the head. At another point near by the impression of a man's form was found in the mud. No other traces of evidences were found until the steps were reached that lead from the street to the railroad track below at the bridge near the residence of Jolyn L. Claborne, where drops of blood were found. Further on down the railroad track in the direction of where the dead body was found, Rice's shirt collar was discovered besmeared with blood. Further on revealed a spot near the old Morrisonarry ground where Rice's shirt was taken from his back, and also the remnants, several sticks called switches, cut from the near by shrubbery that from all appearances had been used without mercy on its bare back. Still further examination seemed to reveal another spot on the line of the railroad and not far from the bridge at which the body was found, where every indication points to the fact that the Negro was again inhumanly beaten. The Coroners jury at first blushed and without knowledge of these developments, were inclined to the belief that death had resulted from falling through the trestle work of the bridge, and so expressed themselves, but they have returned no verdict, and still have the matter under consideration. We suppose when it is returned it will be found to conform to the irresistable logic of these after discovered and grewse facts. Whether Rice died from the beating he received at the hands of his assaultants and was thrown through the trestle to divert suspicion and create the belief that his death was the result of the accident or whether after having been thus inhumally beaten he was made to walk the trestle and to his death is a question about which it is not our province to attempt to solve, but an examination of the dead body made patent certain facts that cannot fail to have a material bearing in leading to its solution. Rice's body bore the marks of inhuman punishment, on each side of his head were ugly and dangerous wounds apparently inflicted by a bludgeon or some other heavy and dull instrument. In addition to others, his under jaw-bone was shattered and driven into the upper one. The last injury was evidently received in the fall through the bridge by striking his chin against the cross supports or braces to the trestle, but evidently not so with the wounds on each side of his head. Were these sufficient to have caused immediate death or unconsciousness upon this hinges the question? While from a legal standpoint the solution of this question is a matter of grave importance as a moral one, it amounts to very little. There is no difference, when morally considered, in the degree of guilt in killing a man and throwing his body through a trestle and in compelling him on a dark night when beaten perhaps to almost unconsciousness to walk a trestle forty or fifty feet high with a vacant space therein with the knowledge that through this vacant space he will by all human probability fall and that the fall will almost surely result in his death. As a moral question the difference is only that between tweedledum and tweedlede. No case that has ever occurred in this place has aroused deeper or more deserved indignation in the breasts of its peaceable and law abiding citizens than this. On every hand are heard spoken words of the deepest and most severe condemnation. The dark and bloody deed has brought reproach and disgrace upon the town and shame and humiliation to its citizens. Stormy Meeting at Harrison Street Church. From all accounts a very stormy meeting of the congregation of the Harrison Street Baptist church, colored, was held on last Monday night, which at one time it is said, looked as it would result in a row. This church has a membership of about 2,800 and its pastor is Rev. Ellis Watts. It appears that for sometime past trouble has been brewing in the church growing out of a dispute, it is alleged, as to what undertaker should have charge of the burial of deceased members. The meeting Monday night, which was presided over by Rev. Watts was, if possible, to arbitrate the matter. It is stated that a motion was made to leave the adjustment of the question at issue to the officers of the church, but it is said, that the chairman refused to entertain the motion and that then the meeting broke up in disorder and confusion. Another meeting was held at which it is said that by a majority vote the pastor of the church and that the six deacons of the church were removed from their office. Rev. Watts has been pastor of the church for the past ten years and came to Petersburg from Richmond. The affair was much discussed yesterday among the colored people of this city.—Petersburg, Va., Inder Appeal. Y. M. C. A. NOTES. The meetings in the jail last Sunday were conducted by Chairman Stephen Braxton, assisted by brothers A. D. Daly and James Herns. President Clift Cabell conducted the Bible Study for boys last Sunday at our rooms. This hour was much enjoyed by the boys. The men turned out in large numbers last Sunday to hear Lawyer J. Henry Crutchfield, who gave them a very profitable address. Subject: Return with your shield or on it. What the lawyer said, if put into practice we will soon see the other man seeking to help, than trying to hinder. The music by the League Guitar and Mandolin Club, under the direction of Mr. John Ghee, was enjoyed by all. The Sunday School Lesson will be explained by Prof. G. R. Hovey Saturday 5 P. M. at our rooms. Free for women and men. Come and bring another. Committees for the jail and almshouse work will please be on time Sunday. The men who are serving for ushers at the big meetings will please report on time. You are doing an excellent work. The other fellow always likes to be made welcome. Patches! Patches!! Patches!!! Sunday 3:30 P. M. at the True Reformers' Hall. Men only will be admitted. Prof. W. F. McWilliam swill address the men. Subject: Patches. Seats are expected to be in demand. Be on time and get a good seat free. Special music. Be on time. Prof. McWilliams will speak. Mr. Paul Pollard will address the boys Sunday 4 P. M. at our rooms. Boys, be on time. The Ladies Auxiliary is working hard to perfect some plans by which the as sociation will be able to do more for the benefit of our boys and men. All are invited to help them. Young man, you did right when you brought that strange fellow into our room. Do so again. Every man is invited. Owaward She Goes. The American Beneficial Insurance Company has put in force a plan of operation by which a Reserve Fund is to be created for the protection of of its members. All who remain in the company five years from date of joining will be entitled to extra aid from the fund in time of sickness and death. The people of Richmond and other cities are rejoicing over the new movement. This company is the one of color that met the requirements of the State law the first of the month and paid the one per cent tax. She is leading them all. Dr. Graham says he working for the benefit of the people. --- The Pythian Cadets, of this city, Capt. Roscoe Conkling Mitchell, in command, was on Monday night, last, the cynosure of all eyes on the occasion of the Third Annual Carnival at Mt. Olivet Baptist Church, 25th and S. Sts. The pastor Rev. J. Andrew Bowler, highly complimented them, not only upon their fine appearance, but also for their proficiency in drilling. Much credits is due Deputy Samuel S. Baker for their success. "These are my boys," said he to the writer Monday night. Mr. R, Ross Burt and Mr. J. H. Thornton write us that the female brass band of Washington, D. C., scored a great success at its entertainment March 2d, at the Asbury M. E. Church. It was organized the 1st day of Jan. 1903, by Prof. Jas. E. Miller and he was presented with a gold medal in recognition of his services. RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, SATURDAY, MARCH 14, 1903 KILLED IN THEIR BEDS KILLED IN THEIR BEDS Miners' Union Investigates Shooting of Men in West Virginia. HAD NO CHANCE TO SURRENDER It is Said Deputy Marshal Cunningham's Posse Fired Into Miners' Homes at Night, Killing Them Without a Moment's Warning. Indianapolis, March 9.—The official report of Chris Evans, who was sent to the West Virginia coal fields to investigate the killing of the colored miners at Atkinsville, has been received at the headquarter of the United Mine Workers. The report says that General St. Clair, the attorney for the coal companies, created an agitation to have the men arrested and taken to Charleston, and that immediately afterward arrangements were made with the United States marshal by the Mine Workers' officials to give bond for all who were arrested, but that later, on account of the agitation created by Deputy Marshall Cunningham, the agreement with the marshal was broken, and Cunningham was sent to arrest the men. According to the report, there was great feeling against Cunningham, and the men decided not to allow him to arrest them, and he was driven away. Mr. Evans says that he sent a telegram to the men to submit quietly, but that the coal companies, who own all the telegraph and telephone lines into the town, refused to deliver it, and before he could get any message to the men Cunningham and his deputies, who he says, were the worst characters he could collect, went to the town a second time and killed the miners in their beds at night. Mr. Evans says that he went to the scene of the trouble the next morning, and that 48 men had been arrested for conspiracy to kill Cunningham. He found in a house occupied by a colored man, called "Stonewall" Jackson, the dead bodies of William Dodson, William Clark and Richard Clayton, all negroes. The report continues: "We found that the wife of Jackson and her four children, with eight negroes, were in the house, and that about daybreak all were awakened by shots fired into the house from the outside. This shooting took place without warning, and the three colored men were found dead on the floor. Two were in their night clothes, and the other one was partly dressed. We visited another house, where Joseph Hizer lay in bed, mortally wounded, having been shot as he was dressing. Hizer lived with his sister, and she made the statement at the inquest that she pleaded with those shooting not to kill her children, and in reply said: 'Women and children must take care of themselves.' In no instance could we find where these people had been asked to surrender, until after the deputies had commenced shooting at the occupants of the houses. "We next went to the house of Luclen Lawson, who was considered mortally wounded. I understand that after the shooting referred to, this man, with others, returned the fire of the posse, and this is the only instance where any attempt of resistance was made by the miners. During the shootin, in many instances, the men and women pleaded with the men outside to have mercy on them, but their cries were met with derision and curses. Our investigation proves conclusively that no effort was made to shoot or resist, except in the one case mentioned, but that all would have been glad to surrender if they had been allowed the opportunity." Mr. Evans says that the coroner's jury has returned a verdict of felonious killing against Cunningham for the killing of William Dodson. NAVAL ACADEMY APPOINTMENTS Admiral Sampson's Son Among Those Named by President. Annapolis, Md., March 10.—The following young men yesterday received appointments to the naval academy from President Roosevelt: Ralph Earle Sampson, son of the late Rear Admiral William T. Sampson. J. Woodward Philip, son of the late Rear Admiral John W. Philip, of the battleship Texas fame. Alfred Miles, a nephew of Commander Hugo Osterhaus, in charge of ships at the naval academy. Otis W. Howard, son of Major Guy Howard, who was shot in the Philippines, and a granson of General O. O. Howard, has received an appointment from Congressman Mercer. Sperintendent Brownson has recommended to the navy department that the examination for the admission to the naval academy be held on the second Tuesdays of April, May and June each year, with a special ex ination to fill unexpected vacancies on June 30. Personalals and Briefs. —Read the PLANET and pay for it if you wish to be happy. —Alfred Sandridge, (white) shot and killed Miss Nannie Morris, (white) last Sunday night about 11 o'clock at her residence, 517 N. 26th St. He then attempted suicide by shooting himself. Is thought that he will recover. —Old clothes made to look like new by carrying them to Mr. W. O. Turner. See advertisement. —The anniversary sermon of the Knights of Pythias will be delivered by Rev. F. W. Williams at the Ebenezer Baptist Church on the first Sunday in April at three o'clock. —For up to-date furniture call on Messrs Sydnor and Handley. To buy from them once is to do so again. See advertisement. Rev. A. S. Thomas, the popular pastor of the Sharon Baptist Church is raising money for the purpose of erecting a fine new church on the present site. It was sad, but the arrangements made were all right. Funeral Director A. D. Price always looks after such matters and it has a soothing effect on the family. Rev. W. H. White, pastor of Mt. Carmel Baptist Church will soon begin the work of erecting his church edifice on the fine lot near the First St. viaduct. Mrs. Anna Taylor continues in disposed. Mrs. Jane Green's remains were brought to this city this week from Philadelphia and interred here. We will send you the P. ANET four months for 50 cents. Seed or leave your name at the cemetery. —Capt. W. Henry Jones collects for the PLANET Pay him when he calls. Capt. J. Henry Stokes won the second prize in the contest for King of the Carnival and a handsome gold Pythian pin was presented to him. Mr. H. J. Harkin, Jr., of Thomasville, Georgia, sends us a ringing letter accompanied by the sum of $1.50. Capt. R. S. Nelson announces that he will resign the captaincy of Eureka, Co., No. 1, Thursday night, 19th inst and all members are requested to attend the meeting to elect a successor. Mr. Shields Lesular sends us his subscription fee and also Messrs C. M. Morris, S. G. Betis and W. T. Brown as subscribers with the money to pay for the same. Photographer J. C. Farley, of this city, has received a gold medal and diploma as a premium for his excellent photographic exhibit at the Charleston Exposition. This is another testimonial of the excellency of his work and demonstrate that his skill is of the highest order. A Pleasant Afternoon Spent. Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Scott of 816 N. 6th St. entertained a few of their friends at tea Monday evening. March 2nd, in honor of Mrs. Alice Almond and son of Philadelphia, Penn. All expressed themselves as having spent a delightful afternoon. WINSTON—In memoriam of my beloved husband, Lewis Winston who departed this life at his late residence, 706 W. Catherine, St., on Thursday March, 5th at 5:55 P. M. He was a consistent Christian, a devoted husband and a loving father, a faithful friend. He leaves a wife, and five children to mourn their loss. Thy hands are clasped upon thy breast. I have kissed thy marble brow; and in my aching heart I know, I have no husband now. T'is hard to break the tender cord, When love has bound the heart; Tis hard, so hard to speak the word, We must forever part. Dearest, loved one, I have laid thee, In the peaceful grave's embrace; But thy memory will be cherished, Till I see thy heavenly face. A Fine Meeting. The Moral Local Convention, of Chesterfield county, Va., met at the First Union Baptist Church Feb. 23rd, 1903. After singing and the reading of the Scriptures by Rev. Kelly, Miss Leslie Roane Kelly catechised the assemblage. Chairman Lewis then introduced Rev. J. A. Kelly, who delivered a practical address. $7.25 was raised. PETER LEWIS, Chairman, MISS IDA SULLY, Secretary. Grand Chancellor, John Mitchell, Jr., will speak at the Pythian rally at Portsmouth Monday night. $4.00 to $8.00 a day guaranteed to every person sending their name and address to BISHOP IRELAND AND THE COLOR LINE. A Word About the Church—Race Prejudice and Protestantism. Baltimore, Md., Mar. 3, 1903. Editor John Mitchell, Jr., Richmond, Va. Dear Sir: I notice that your recent victory in the liable suit has caused quite a comment and justly increased the dignity and renown of your paper; receive my congratulations with the many others you have received. The lesson you have taught such cliques and conspirators against the truth shall be a warning to the whole race to lay aside prejudice and malice and recognize principles of right and reason. I notice also in your last issue quotations from Archbishop Ireland, the eminent Catholic divine, in favor of the colored people: When he speaks in favor of the colored race he not only speaks his own sentiments, but also those of the Catholic Church. But this is nothing new to those who have read of the endeavors of the church to secure to all men, regardless of race or color, the true liberty of both soul and body. The very thing that Protestant Christianity has not only failed to do, but even affected to contrary. Many men of the greatest eminence and dignity in the Catholic Church have been noted advocates of the colored race. In the church of St. Augustine in the city of Washington some time ago the Archbishop said: "It makes me ashamed as a man, as a citizen, as a Christian, to see the prejudice that is acted against the colored citizen of America because of his color. As to the substance, the colored man is equal to the white man; he has a like intellect, the same blood courses in their veins; they are both equally the children of a common Father, who is in heaven. A man showed a narrowness of mind and acted unworthy of his humanity by refusing any privilege to his fellow-man because he is colored. Every prejudice entertained, every breach of justice and charity against a fellow-citizen because of color is a stain flung upon the banner of our liberty that floats over us. "No church is a fit temple of God where a man, because of his color, is excluded or made to occupy a corner. Religion teaches that we cannot be pleasing to God unless we look upon all mankind as children of our Father in heaven. And they who order and compel a man because he is colored to betake himself to a corner marked off for his race; practically contradict the principles of justice and of equal rights established by the God of mercy, who lives on the alter. Let Christians act out their religion, and there is no more race problem. Equality for the colored man is coming. The colored people are showing themselves worthy of it. Let the colored be industrious, purchase homes, respect law and order, educate themselves and their children and keep insisting on their rights. "The color line must go, and soon, too. The line will be drawn at personal merit." This clearly refutes one of the many erroneous ideas among our people concerning the Catholic Church. In Brazil which is a Catholic country, the slaves were freed without bloodshed many years before the question was agitated in this country under Protestant rule, and then it took four years of the most barbarous slaughter of men on both sides to obtain what is liberty in name only. It is a well known fact that all the men who enact such measures against the Negroes are Protestants, the most of whom are as prominent in their churches as in legislating against a defenseless people. Reason, conscience and religion are tossed to the winds as mere theory when it is a subject of the Negro. The contrast will be very plainly drawn if a colored man visits a white Protestant Church and sits among the congregation to find himself ushered to the gallery; when he goes acrofs the street to a Catholic Church he sits in the same pew with the white people and kneels at the same altar at the same time, and in no respect does he find a difference. Then he realizes the effect upon the heart and the power of the original and true Church of God, and that God's true people are indeed no respecter of person, and in this one place only he breaths the spirit of true liberty of soul and body. The time has long since past when, to be a race, we must lay aside malace and superstition and study from proper sources the true knowledge of those who are favorable to us. To be true to our race and ourselves we must be true and faithful to God, and that religion which is not practical when dealing with our fellow Christians, but simply held as a mass of controversial theory, is the most dangerous form of infidelity. But our race is burdened with a host of so-called church leaders who themselves are blinded with malice and seek to pervert the people to gratify personal gain. Not until we learn to think and acknowledge and seek the real truth will we be a successful race. RESPECTUALLY ORVILLE A. MCNORTON, JR. Special Notice to Colored Barbers. A very rare business opportunity for a colored barber with a little capital. For particulars., address. CHAS. PRESTON, Gen. Delivery, Prov. P. O., Providence, R. I. WANTED.—A Sober, Industrious and Reliable Pharmacist. Apply to Geo. W. Rison, 119 Market St., Danville, Va. RICHMOND The Death of Rev. W. S. Snead. Pocahontas, Va., March 6, 1903 Rev. W. S. Snead, pastor of the First Baptist Church of Pocahontas, passed away at 12 o'clock Tuesday night after having been sick for long while. He bore his sickness with Christian fortitude, patiently waiting for the coming of the Lord to deliver him from his suffering. He died in the full triumph of faith, thus closed a useful and successful life, one which was felt wherever duty called him, ever working to lift high the standard of Christian thought and feeling. For many years, though young at the time of his death, he wrestled, fought and prayed—fighting the powers of darkness down, that he, "Through faith in His name," might lay hold on eternal life. He was forty-two years of age, and had been a member of the church for thirty years, and a gospel minister for fourteen years, and a faithful teacher twenty one years, during which time he showed himself a man after that type which ever seeks to help and elevate those around him. To meet him was but to love him, for all who met him learned to trust his lofty character, confiding in him their deepest interest as a pastor and teacher. His funeral took place at the church of which he was pastor, at three o'clock P. M. . Rev. S. E. Williams, pastor of the Scott St. Baptist Church, of Bluefield, W. Va., officiated. He selected for his text 2 Tim. 4.6:8. For I am now ready to be offered, stc., from which he preached an able and soul-stirring sermon, portraying the work and life of the deceased, by which we believe many lives will be encouraged to nobler pur-purposes of life. Several pastors of the field came to pay their last tribute of respect to their brother, whom they loved and honored. They represented the Flat Top Baptist Association, Ministers and Deacons Union and the Sabbath School Union of Virginia and W. Va., of which Rev. Snead was a member, with appropriate resolutions, which were read and presented for publication. He was a member of the G. U. O. of F. and Grand U. O. of True Reformer. Both orders turned out to give honor to one who was an inspiration to them in the halls of secrets. The Odd Fellows took the lead in the procession, it being the special request of Rev. Snead for them to bury him. The Odd Fellows were lead by Mr. U. S. G. Free and Mr. R. L. Jackson, and the True Reformers by Mr. P. W. White, Worthy Messenger, and Mr. James E. Woods, W. M. The members of these lodges truly loved and respected Rev. Snead, who was a social worker, always laboring to bring together the members of his race, in love, confidence and sympathetic respect, one for another. We acknowledge our lost which is his eternal gain. In view of the foregoing we offer the following resolutions. Whereas, it has pleased God to take out of the world our beloved brother and esteemed pastor, Rev. W. S. Snead, be it therefore, I. Res. That he was faithful, energetic and Christ like in all of his bearings and ever honest and true to his fellow man and the community in general. II. That we believe that he, having been engrafted by the word of God, has sown the seed of righteousness, which brought forth an abundant harvest which God has reaped to eternal life. III. That he bore the appreciation and esteem of all who knew him, seeking not his own, but ever to help those whom he went in and out before seeking to bring the lost ones to the fold. IV. That we surrender all things unto God who is too wise to err and too kind to be unjust; tendering our heart-feld sympathy to the bereaved family, commending them to God, who is able to sustain them in their severest srials and soothe the broken heart. V. Be it further Res. That we tender a copy of these resolutions to the family of the deceased and a copy be sent to the Richmond Planet and one to the Christian Organizer. Rev. Wm. Henry, B D., J. M. Harper, F. A. Green, Jerry Palmer, Mrs. Maud E. Woods. SHEPARD—John M. Shepard, beloved husband of Martha Shepard, departed this life Tuesday morning, Feb. 24th 1903 at his residence, No. 36 W. Jackson, St. He had been declining in health for more than two months. The funeral took place Thursday afternoon, Feb. 26th, 1903 at the First Baptist Church. The Rev. W. T. Johnson preached a very sympathetic sermon, assisted by Revs. A. S. Thomas, Rev. Strange, Rev. Scott Burrell. The choir sang, "Asleep in Jesus," and then Mr. Frank Cunningham sang a solo, and Mr. Geo. Bryant accompanied on the piano for him, which was very touching. He leaves a devoted wife and a loving niece and many relatives and friends to mourn their loss. He had many colored and white friends. Honorary pall bearers:—W. H. Jones, R. T. Hill, F. Kersey, Dr. Thompson, R. Threat, William Ellis, H. Smith James Goode, E. S. Brown and S. W. Shorts. Active pall-bearers from his lodge, No. 2674, Invincible, G. U. O. of O. F., J. Carter, R. Koots, D. J. Farrar, R. Anderson. Dearest husband, thou hast left us, We our loss most deeply feel; But 'tis God who has bereft us, He can all our sorrows heal. His wife, MARTHA SHEPARD. HONOR ROLL. VALLEY SCHOOL Sixth Grammar—Mary Mankins, Calie Fulton. Fifth Grammar—Edward Stanton Elizabeth Mitchell. Fourth Grammar—Clotelle Griffin, Martenia Mankins. Third Grammar—Joseph Burruss, Judson Mankins, Virginia Christian. Second Grammar—Leroy Brown, Robert Mosey, Millard Scott, James Gregory, Gertrude Harris, Otlee Johnson, Rosa Moody, Fannie Robinson, Louise Young, Nannie Gardner. First Grammar—Susie Williams, Zoie Washington, Archee Johnson, Pearl Brown, Marie Brown, Marie Daniel, Flora Jackson. Eighth Primary—Lily Booker, Annie Holland, Vivian Kemp, Beulah Thomas, Seventh Primary—Ruby Macklin, Mary Francis, Josephine Jackson, James Ross, Rosa Gaines, Flora Anderson, Lottie Thompson, Leroy Harris. Sixth Primary—Fannie Braxton, Mabel Grammar, Alma Hamm, Agatha London, Gertrude Walbarrow, Bessie Wells, Virginia Brown, Lula Fox, Charles Davis, Morris Tyler, Blanche Eddleton, Pearl Jackson, Zipporah Yearman, Osborne Mason, Freddie Tharps. Fifth Primary—Louise Bolden, Louis Duncan, Lenora Kenny, Mattie Thomas, Susie Wafer. Fourth Primary, No. 34—Charles Walbarrow, Maria Brooks, Annie White, Rosa Wingfield, James Byrd, John Ellett, Edward Mankin. Gertrude Elllett. Fourth Primary, No. 35—Roland Elett, James Miller, Edward Taylor, Virginia Dixon, Mildred Gardner, Essie Jenkins, Henrietta Wilkerson. Third Primary, No. 36-Sarah Bell, Cabel Hill, Cora Smith, Claire Shields, John Moody, John Hargrave, Alma Minton, Alex Wyatt, Eddie Watkins. Third Primary, No. 37-Will Burrell, Cora Eldridge, Gracie Sutton, Victoria Williams, Eli Anderson, Percy Coles, Samuel Gaines, Custis James, Welly Lewis, Joseph Stokes, John Willis. Second Primary, No. 38-John Gray, Wm. Gregory, Arthur Chaffin, Edward Jenkins, John Parker, John Russell, Algie Williams, Noah Thompson, John Winston, Lonnie Williams, Ella, Waller Alberta Thomas, Blanche Smith, Julia Parker, Lucy Overton, Mary Kinney, Mamie Harris, Gladys Hill, Irene Chairborne. First Primary No. 39—Edward Carter, Edward Gailmore, Rogers Jones, Percy Jackson, James Kelly, Albert Lambert, Junius Mathews, Robert Murray, Fred Williams, James Williams, Martha Christian, Florence Clareau, Adelia Eddleton, Mattie Jefferson, Clara Johnson, Virginia Jenkins, Ethel King, Lila White, Laura Thomas, Gertrude Payne. Second Primary. No. 40—Lloyd Davis, Alex Dandridge, Hearn Ellis, Thos. Henderson, Milton Hepburn, Shirley Kenney, Sherman Kenney, Chas. Mann, Jos Scott, Cecil Young, Bessie Bell, Roberta Brooks, Mabel Dandridge, Agnes Jones, Leola Jones. Clara Lewis, Bessie Montagne, Ruth Woodson, Lily Scott, Eva Scott. First Primary, No. 41-Willie Anthony, John Baker, Arthur Braxton, Eddie Harding, Jos. Henderson, Claude Johnson, Harrison Lee, Timothy Morris, Walter Palmer, Geo. Robinson, Bluford Scott, Dora Allen, Ruth Carter, Ethel Kenney, Adonia Granderson, Lilian Christian, Mam Hargrave, Polly Link, Emma Thomas, Jennie Winston, Eleanor Taylor. Those Two Mitchells [Cincinnati, O., Pythian Monitor.] The two Mitchells, Gen. L. M., of Austin, Tex., and Gen. John Jr., of Richmond, Va., have "re-enjoyed" themselves the past month. A the suggestion of the Monitor, a smoker was given by four lodges at Austin, and a profitable and enjoyable evening spent. Steps were taken to purchase a hall to hold future smokers under their own vine and fig tree. Gen. Richmond Mitchell, Jr., was the recipient of a final match charm of K. of P, design at the 6th Mt. Zion Baptist Church, Feb. 12th. A program of Richmond's best talent was presented. Mitchell was escorted by this entire staff gorgeously arrayed in glittering uniform. The spectable was an imposing one. $100 Paid. Richmond; Va., March 5th, 1903. This is to certify that I have received from John Mitchell, Jr., Grand Worthy Counsellor of the Grand Court of Virginia, One Hundred Dollars, in payment of the death claim of Sister Ann Griffin, who was a member of Josephine Court, No. 238, I. O. Calanthe. Signed:--MILDRED C. JUDAH. [Witnesses:—] Lesson in Hair Preservation TURP MANEUVER. of an Impetu- er in the fashionable hairdresser's every time we want our hair to look nice, we here instruct our readers how to produce the latest in coifures. Our No.1 shows how the hair should be divided, and how three wavers are used for each side. The hair may be allowed to remain in the wavers all night, or can be pinched with hot irons should the effect be required immediately. When the hair is waved all round the head, it is frized underneath with the comb, or, better still, a lightly-made house-hair frame is placed underneath, to reach from ear to ear. The way hair is combed over this. Next we come to the back hair, which, In the Whirl of Fashion headgear. In our present death of novelties we are compelled to beautify all we possess, and paint the lily for the nonce! By what subtle process have skirts become gathered, flutted, or plaited all at once? Possibly the skirt yoke is responsible, for it is a feature in all the latest skirts. It fits closely round the hips, it mounds the figure, and is often covered with rows of fringe, or that new grumpie which is made of braid and closely resembles embroidery. fringes is immensely popular, whose skirts are made of henna or silk fringes, and, after the production is expressive, the effect is very graceful. Princess' fringes behras on low Victorian bodices. It edges, open sleeves, and falls round the brim of Spanish boloer hats! Mantles are trimmed with the large, categlyphic henna fringes. For matrons' gowns, very thick panels are made with foxes of fringe in graduated widths. These ```markdown ``` In some cases the yoke curves round quite narrow at the back, where one or the double box joints attach the skirts, with a few years ago one of the most popular skirts made with a very shallow boxplait in front, and machine-stitched folds, which like the boxplait, flow inside from the knee to give the fashionable fullness round the feet. Velvet and velvette are the smallest wear just now. Some of the cottony and pane velvette, so fashionable, are as-sample and thin in texture as the finished cloth. They can be killed or box-painted with excellent effect. Velvet dresses for evening wear are made of the new princess silk, light-tight at the back, but breezy front on an underskirt of some other material. Light velvette are the most fashion. Sentiment and Business "I cannot understand, sir, why you permit your daughter to have an for breach of promise. You remember that you were bitterly opposed to our engagement, because I was good enough to hate and would disgrace the family." "Young man, that was sentiment." AN INTERESTING MANEUVER. Unique Achievement of an Impetuous Young Officer in the CIVIL WAR. "I am probably the one man living or dead who ever enjoyed the distinction of marching a dead company to the front," said one of the heroes of Miami to a group of military enthusiasts, relates the New Orleans Times-Democrat, "and I count it among the rarer things of my mil- "CONFESSED THAT I DID NOT." tary career. I was at Miami, and that is saying a great deal. Miami may not be as conspicuous in the military history of the world as Lodi or Waterloo, or Gettysburg, or Chickamauga, and a few other places I might mention, but Miami is a military fact which the historian, for truth's sake, cannot overlook. Miami was at one time the center of gravity, so far as I was concerned, and even now when I toast my shins around the grate on these bleak, wintry days, and react my mind on retrospect. I find that all of memory's roads lead back to Miami. Miami. There is something magic in the manner and the symbol which spell it seem to stand out in tangible proportion, during and prophetic, and it has a rhythmic sort of sound which thrills every corpse of my veins and arteries, tingling my corpse's circulation with a wild, burning sort of frengied fervor. Miami! The battles I fought there, the fierce charges blood base take the dying—the dead the shouts of victory, and that sort of things, but all in the mind, you know, while waiting for orders to move on the enemy. But to get back to my old endeavor in marching a dead company to the front. The artillery and be stationed at a certain point, and I was commanded to make a charge. I started out through the woods with him the desperate during and enthusiasm of the soldier, headed for the point of attack with my men from abroad. Directly the major called upon me. I saluted again after a hurried preposition he ordered. But you know that you are marching a company of dead men. I confessed that Lodi not, and remarked in doubtlessly that I had worked an considerable military侦视 and determination on the benefit that my men were all played and pabled of fighting. Every man in the company is dead, every sheer with commanding discipline. I saluted the artillery and thanked him for the satisfaction he gave me. I was his hefty affection for the goods by myself and destined to make a single-handed attack on the artillery. The major saved my life because the artillery would have showed me how to short order. The major wished a West Pointer. The attack which started out to make was just a little manner for training and exercises. When the major found me marching my men against the artillery, four abreast instead of suffering them well, in his firing way he described the situation, for my company would have been dead in short order. This fate is not without a moral, because it shows the superiority of the West Pointer, and that is my excuse for telling it. Half a dozen soldiers were ex-changing reminiscences the other day in Osaka. Kami hid were telling each other just how the city was should have been fought. Curry Harrison, a local joker happened along and listened awhile. Finally he became a trifle weary and said, "I am going to found a new association of old addresses to be composed exclusively of those who admit that they did not put down the rebellion and who further admit that they are scared and ran repeatedly. There are only 40 or us in the state so far as I know. I expected to hold high office in the order for I am in every other man at Chikokanus." It Would seem so. Fair News. What do you object to deets so fine that it impedes Tommy. There be no reason, when two people attack one, in offensive pieces of music, simultaneously, like taking an unfair advantage. — Chicago Daily News. HE accompanying sketches show a style of hairdressing that is now fashionable. Waving the hair is still in vogue, and as all of us are not able to pay a visit to a T EAUTY at this time of the year 'shines in ermine and white broadtail, but she carries the promise of spring in the guise of primrose and violets, in her B adorn the sides of narrow apron fronts of the new skirts, in which the front breadths are reduced to a minimum. "Young" *mind* "this" *was* *sentiment* *this* *this is business* "the Bits* THE RICHMOND PLANET RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. as the illustration shows, is tied first of all in one piece at the back. After that, it is divided into four strands. If one's own hair is not thick enough, a tail of hair made from combings, or a false one of 20 inches, should be added, and divided with one's own. The lower loop is formed first, and pinned in position; after this, the upper one, pointing in the opposite direction. See No. 2.) Then the side ones are arranged to finish the back dressing. (See Fig. 3.) The front can be left rather flat, as Fig. 4, or may be raised, as Figs. 5 and 6. This is according to style of face. The fringe is worn very often divided a little at the side, without making an actual parting, and the wavy park, which falls back, is divided, and forms three separate pieces, as Fig. 6. Combs, flowers, and aigrettes are among the fashionable novelties for evening wear. i o n a b l e — 'slate blue', silver-gray, orange, turquoise, rose-pink, cherry, and cream velvets are certainly the loveliest fabrics imaginable. Black and white is still at the zenith of popularity; and there is a great fancy for plain figured moiré for evening gowns. Transparent gauzes and chiffon are worn over chine silks, and flecked woof- len materials in pepper and salt, or black and white, are in vogue, trimmed with red or royal blue machine- stitched bands of velvet. a trine tawdry, they are no bedecked Satin or Velvet Evening Gown for a Matron, with lace lozenges, beads, pearls and medal flowers. Square falls and puffed edgings are being worn again. Square coasts are modernized with Louis Quinns, wives and from pearls of hard pierced brooches fitted on pearls satin and the ball sheaped shows show- piece under matron. The hard bells are encumbent by the charm of a small drawn-bell satin, satin or velvet, the fleshened bows the backs to group of two short recesses, finished off with two tassels, or fragrant balls of metal. ELLEN QSMONDE. Soudanee Cleaillines. Throughout the journey nothing but my equipment did the native girl with such longing as at any supply of soap, writes William Goger. Evoking his interesting account of warship by Adrienne Tindale down the Nile it was suddenly large when Pftt Berberi later it was gone. It was almost the only article which had the habit of strangely disappearing day on night, and to make a present of a tiny piece was to make the recipient a warm present. The Soudanee riverman is a cleanly animal he battles community in the river, and wafts his clothing frequently but the wolf comes on, gives the effect thereof, the water he uses is thick with mud. The scubbing has a rick, and the cleaning is accomplished by streaking underfoot for an indisinite period the muddy keep of animals. Cleaillines. Tynn Balders. Willie-Have you heard the latest, Gush. But -No. Cholly's half-brother is engaged to begin a half-brother. When will they be made one, Y. Times. Mistress Did you learn how Mrs Upton was about you many times? I patted at the doorbell half all hour and couldn't make anybody hear. I knew the bell had been muffled. Mistress The ideal How is the poor invalid to know that all her friends are anxious about her if her bedless wife has muffled the doorbell? WA, weekly. A Trestle-Bridge Over a Gorge on the Railway between a Gorge and Cove. are complimented South America. Upon Bolivar Venezuelas loc which all patric the frequency distracted region difficult to stock Caracas on July 14, 1935. The economy was still under the domination of Spain, and the fateful reformer who himself a descendant of noble Spanish houses. His early education he received at home, and he was then sent to complete his studies in Europe. After a few years in Madrid, he travelled on the continent, and was an eye-witness of some of the last scenes of the French revolution. In the year 1800 he visited the United States, where, for the first time, he saw free institutions in operation, and there is no doubt that the impressions he there received led to his identification himself with the party of independence which had for years been agitating Venezuela, and the other Spanish colonies, in A Trestle-Bridge Over a Gorge on the 1810 he helped to promote a revolutionary movement at Caracas, and receiving a colonel's commission from the insurgent junta he proceeded to Great Britain with Luis Lopez Mendes on a diplomatic mission. On July 5 of the following year Venustio formally threw off the yoke of Spain, and declared her independence. The next year he joined in a war and the Spanish forces advanced under Monterrey. The Spanish were first victorious, and Bolívar, who had been in command at Puerto Cabello had to Caracas. In the autumn of the same year he emprended from retirement, and joined himself to an important movement in New Granada. He operated with great success against the Spaniards on the Magellan river, and finding himself in the course of warfare on the borders of Venezuela, he declared an insurrection the colony, and if possible, overthrow Monteverde. He won over to his cause the towns of Merida and Truxillo, and throwing his augmented forces into two divisions, he issued a decree of war to the death and proclaimed on 10wards Caracas. At bastion he inflicted a crushing defeat upon Monteverde and August 1813 the enforced Caracas in triumph. By the beginning of the year 1814 the parachute of inde- The Statue of Belkvar at Caracas The Statue of Bolivar at Caracas. pendence, had the whole of Venezuela in the hands, but the Spaniards failed, and Bolivar was defeated aesar Cura. Caracas fell in July, and the royalists, once more made themselves masters, of Venezuela. And impaired, Bolivar attended, the congresses of New Grenada, and received from him commission to proceed against Santa Fe de Bogotá, where Don Candinamarca had refused to acquaint the condition of the newgent provinces. He very speedily brought Candinamarca to his senses, and was publicly thanked by congress. Bolivar next proceeded to the relief of Martina, which had fallen into the hands of the royalist troops; but in this enterprise he failed, being completely damnified by his Spaniards. He therefore resigned his commission, and relieved to Jamaica, where his life was attempted by a hired assassin, who by this misdeed his secretary. He proceeded to Havil, where he organized an expe Mercury Prequationary. "You succeeded in life in spite of the fact that you did not give much attention to any during your youth." "Yes," answered Mr. Cummings. "But that doesn't prove that education isn't a good thing. I was so much afraid that someone would make me do any spelling that was compelled to fussie and get rich in self-defense." Washington stole. victory, which placed Bogota and all New Grenada in Bolivar's hands. He returned to Aragua amid the widest popular enthusiasm, greeted as the deliverer and father of his country. He secured the passing of a law which summoned the ex-president and New Grenada under the title of the republic of Colombia, and now him a really fine army, he ended the war by the victory of Carabobo. A year later the constitution of the new republic was adopted, and Bolivar was elected president. Away. Between L.A. Guayana and Caracas. About this time Boliyar was joined by a Scottish knight, errant, Gen. John Macpherson, who had come to Curacao in the British service in the year 1839. He served the liberator with distinction, and is mentioned in Venezuela, history, under the title of process, of the independence. The fighting instincts of the Clan Chantan were communicated to Gen. Macpherson, who gave a great reputation in the war of 1848. Bulivar's schemes were not bounded the work he had already accomplished, and he set himself to achieve the liberation of the whole country. He freed Peru and Ecuador, and through years of storm and stress, which he was constantly in the fields he prognosed himself to capable of South America. He held the guerring power in Colombia until his death at San Pedro on December 11, 1830. Bulivar was imprisoned, fallethough he had free control of the regimes, he died premature. His inspiration for Bulivar's career destined to play for the annals of South American tribes, but to fear that all revolutionary dead traitors on soil disinterested saw. But this civil achievements were the warrior of the law courts and the announcement of art and science. Under his influence national spirit came into being and he was from干燥 in the mountains and from damp in the mountains and much to win them nominated at the National and International Convention in Amsterdam and Hama by an unanimous and unanimous ratification. The British South African company, whose interests were based in British colonies in the Caribbean and in expedition railways in the Dark Continent, will be bound next year to take the company into the Zambia and the other countries with will be for the purpose of carrying the Capitol of Caracol some 300 miles from the Zambia to the Capitol of the Kafue which would extend further and oppose the railway and have been made. With the work in contemplation has been carried forth, the work will have over 2,500 miles of railway. The recent grant to Mr. Robert Williams for constructing a railway from Lolito Bay, on the west coast of the Kafue to Kanyang will form another valuable feeder to the Cape to Cape The distance is 500 miles and the railroad will be completed in eight years from January 1, 1830. A company with capital of $10,000,000 will be organized within six months, with head offices in Lisbon and subject to Portugal. BW will finance the work. Queen Customs of Moslemem It is a rule with Mohammedans to begin a meal with salt and finish with vinegar and they begin with salt, they will escape the confinement of so dishearsed. If they finish with vinegar, their worldly prosperity will continue to increase. The law is in innerthe ground to be the first to start eating and the last to stop. the little scheme. "Old Croesus is a tiny silver servant." How is that? "Why must before the assessor gets to him the always manages to have a lot of stuff printed for the effect that he has been getting several millions to charitable and educational institutions, that makes his assessment needed look more probable."—Chicago post. Covering Mr. Griggs with his weapon, he reinforced him with the wristband of a heartless capitalist and the unprincipled tool of the money power. Turning to the established antisinger, he began to wild horrors in meadow while violently shouted his picture. A few arightened women ripped from the church or hid behind the pews, but the suddenness of the whole proceeding and the fear that the wedge so recklessly handled might go off to some one's injury, held the congregation spellbound. Peace Griggs had paused when the man's revivaler was pointed abut him at such ill-defined orange but the new finched, and stood, slightly leaning against the deck, uncovering the interior. When the latter turned his back on him to address the congregation with his incoherent rays, the professor, against whom his wrist seemed especially directed, might easily slipped out by the channel door, but he remained as be- BEGAN A WILD HARANGUE foree, immovable and watchfully regarding his aggressor. Brave men in the audience at length, arose to deal with the latter. Col. John P. Irish the well-known orator and politician, at present naval officer of the port of San Francisco, approached the framed man with soothing gesture and word only to be promptly covered with the weapon, he carried. The colonel afterward confessed that he never before realized how enormously large in distance the month of April is when you are permitted to look at such close range into it. While he was parleying with the manan the latter whispered, other members of the church, who had come up from behind, seized and disarmed him, after which he submitted peacefully and was done out all the audience. An examination showed him to be insane and the was taken to an asylum. After his removal the congregation gradually composed itself. Those who had arrived behind seats emerged shuffled saddely, and a few who had sought the open air rested to their plaster, though one timed sister confessed that at the first intimation of danger she jumped over the back of the new and ran at full speed out of the church four blocks away to her home. Prof. Ozawa meant while safety was down, passed his hand and handed over his face as if stiffening to the thoughts, and then quiet having been restored, went on with his discourse, speaking centrally without notes and in this gesture, and fluent manner. No doubt, eventually, adding, would have imagined from his manner that the flow of his ideas had been so violently interrupted, or that he himself had escaped a great personal danger all of which goes to show that non-resistant may be quite courageous as a ready impetus, and display a noble type of manliness. Aid Marriage Doesn't Pay? A man, white suffering from influenza in South Bombay, was surprised by the sudden appearance in his room of his wife who, 20 years ago, eloped to California. Falling on her knees she imploded, his forgiveness, the man with whom she took flight, after making a fortune, having recently died. The husband forgave her. She nursed him so well that he recovered, but she caught the influenza herself, and died, leaving him $300,000. Fodder from Best Leaves. A factory, Manglore, her making fodder for cattle, by stealing the leaves herdofarm wasted, the best sugar maker has provided a financial success. — A Paradox. "Isaiah o'odde remarried the yard philosopher. What where man is pur- suing his studies at college the faster he is the harder he is for him to keep up?"—Harvard Lampoon. With So they returned your man's nassiment It is unhanded His band told them to write Vessels what the editor said about the lectures Curate—And how did you like my lives, Mr Wurzel? Mr Wurzel, Mr Wurzel!—not bad at all, considerin' in your moral highignance of the subject—498. The flowers will sell in garden spring; The flowers will grace the garden spot; And we'll complain, such, wonderful thing! Because the weather is too hot. —Washington Star. Little Girl—A pound of steak, please, and can't be tough—will Set? Butterfly named Zed—Why? Little Girl—Cause—If It's tender, father cuts it all—Phil May—Journal How It Happened, I hear you were sure to get a super last summer! I worked in a pickle factory— Prefectic Tiger— Better Than Electrician Agent—Wouldn't yound like drave burglar put a knife on me Mr. Blake's Don' need it ever got a wife. New Weekly **The Exception.** Attorney, ignorance of the law excuses no one. Client, except of countrys a lawyer. Town and Country. **In Pursuit of Knowledge.** "You must be asked a great many foolish questions in the course of day," said the solemn man in the sleevor man. "Indeed them?" "Oh, same as you're asking." Judg. **And Then She Doubled.** Parke- My wife of the most obliterate woman I ever saw. Lane- in what was Why, the other night, I had lost up till daylight, arriving in resuscitation, that I hadn't been irrigating down the Herald. Bitter Hurted, Daughter Other manure, Reggie Montague is down the parlor, I know we're going to propose! Mother Will accept him, my dear. I detest the yellow so much that I have to be the mother in law. He said I am too much. SYDNOR AND HUNDLEY, Quality Furniture 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. For nature and save time and money. Passenger elevator Sycot & Hundley, 709-11-13 E. Brent St RIPANS There is scarcely any condition of life health that is not benefited by the co- cessional use of the RIPANS Tabula. For sale by Drugrists. The Rive Ogn pocket is enough for an ordinary occa- sion. The family bottle 90 cans, one tains a supply for seven. A CLEW BY WIRE OR AN INTERRUPTED CURRENT BY HOWARD M. YOST. [Copyright, 1884, by J. B. Lippincott Co.] CHARTER I - Nelson Conway, suspected of a Philadelphia bank robbery, reached Addington on Monday and gets Jake Hunsicker to drive him to his boyhood home and recognizes in Jake's wife Sarah, a servant 15 years old, who has been living in Conway. CHAPTER I-A: a year previous Conway, paying teller in a Philadelphia savings bank, was invited to the home of Florence and not allow him to bank as early next morning as usual. He arranges, with or on hand when the clockwork should release combination of waults. Returning to bank reserve of $10,000 milestone. CHARTER II - Conway is accused of theft, but Mr. Moyley, a trustee, proves an account of the theft, however removing the general suspicion. CHAPTER IY—Perry, expresses his confidence in Conway, but says officially he has never worked in Conway, nor has he worked in his position, M. Morkley also believes in Conway's innocence, but because of that friendly relations between Conway and Florence Morley be discontinued until Conway proves his innocence. Conway writes to assure Conway of her continued respect and trust. In the old Nelson home, Conway writes to assure the voices he heard even afterward, sees a ghostly figure in the moonlight, shoots at it only to find it a reflection of Conway's true voice he heard joined him mansailing processus Conway learns from Sarah that Sylvester Morley and his neighborhood residence in new neighborhood. CHAPTER VI—Discovery is made that been doorway into one of the cellars have been opened by Conway, but offers no salutation. Jackson has frequently been coincidentally and sometimes calls on the Morley. GLATTER VIII - Conway sees Sonntag, his agent. He knows nothing of wailing up cellular doors. Sonntag connects mysterious lights and noises, with the sealed doorways. CHAPTER VIII. Meeting between the presence and company results in a need to marshal, fuse, and upon accustoming Connity of仁慈, a compact had been made that she be trained in horseback in case theft could be traced. Connity of仁慈 CHAPTER VIII. When I again passed the depot at Sidington on our way home, there was a little on horseback talking to the agent. It needed no second glance to tell me if was Florence Morley. Her face was turned toward the fellow, and so she did not see me. I drove along slowly, keeping my eyes upon her, and debating in my mind whether I should stop and address her or not. It was a strong temptation, and only fear held me back, a cowardly fear too. I doubted how my overtures might be received. I had chosen my course of my own accord and I would follow it. It it was contrary to her wish and giving the station I allowed my horse continue at a walk so that Florence must catch up with me if she intended to ride to her home from Sidington. The resolve to stick to my promise was growing weaker since Sarah's comment upon it. A word from Florence. I knew, would cause me to break it, and I really was impatient for that word. So the sound of approaching hoofs beating the hard road reached me. Nearer it came and nearer, until finally I caught a glimpse, out of the corner of my eye, of a swaying petticoat. She pulled in her horse to a walk, and then I turned my head and glanced at her. My heart was in my throat when I looked, but the smile that greeted me dispelled my fears like mist before the morning sun. But the smile was not all that told me of her emotion at again meeting me. The deep brown eyes were suffused with tears. With my own heart leaping for joy, I refined my horse to a stand-still. In an instant I was at her side. She extended her hand, and with my assistance sprang lightly to the ground. I took her horse's bridle over my arm, and with the disengaged hand, helped her climb into the buggy. "Tie the horse to the back axle, then come here, beside me," were the first words she said. I lost no time in obeying. Imagine, if you please, the overwhelming joy to be seated once more beside her who held my whole heart in her keeping. I could not trust myself to speak, and it was she who began. "Are you not pleased to see once more, Mr. Conway? Because if you are not, I certainly will tell you how happy I am in again meeting an old friend." "The soft, sweet tones of her voice, which I loved, so to hear, had now in trumbles to them. I glanced at her, and—well, Flocfon was still my true heart, as she had been throughout, not with standing my doubt and fear. "The past year has been an eternity to me. I finally said, "And who is to blame for that, I wonder? And, too, when was the mystery cleared up, since you are now speaking to me?" she said, with a joyous laugh, which told me as plainly as words could how she had missed me. "It is not cleared up; sometimes I think it never will be. I could not have found faults with you had you forgiven me. Will you forgive me when I confess I was fearful you had?" "No. I do not think I can quite forgive that. What reason had you for mistrusting me?" she earnestly asked. "You passed me this morning, you know, without bowing." "I was so startled, and we had gone by before I realized that it was you who were standing there. That was a slight cause for mistrusting me, sir." "It was and I am very sorry. Indeed I have been a fool right through the whole affair. I see it now. I had no right to make such a promise." "Well, I do not think you were a fool. But, forgive me, that promise was a foolish one, and—and just a trifle—mkind."2 The tears again started in her eyes, and her voice looked on the trellis which went so appealingly to my heart. "Never again will I be so foolish!" I exclaimed. "I will see your father and tell him I have broken my promise, thift it was impossible to keep it, and that it is simply absurd to subject us to the misery of a longer separation. May I tell him that? May I speak for both of us?" She hung her head, while the red lush spread over her face. Then she murmured: "Yes, speak for both of us. Why not, since it is true? Perhaps you'll find father has changed his views a trifle." "Not in his opinion of my innocence, I hope," I said, "I have been told he strongly objected to my arrest. And I know whose influence caused him to do so." "Not mine, really," Florence earnestly replied: "Father believed you were innocent, and took the stand he did for that reason. I did not know about the robbery until after the first meeting of the trustees. It was at that meeting that he opposed your arrest. I remember he felt quite triumphant afterward, for most of the trustees insisted upon your immediate arrest, and it was only after father said that he would never consent to it that they gave up the point." "Now that is pleasant to hear," I cried, joyfully. "What reason have you to think he has changed? What views regarding the promise?" "This morning, after we had passed you, I said, 'That looked like Nelson Conway.' Father langed at me, and answered, that it must have been an hallucination produced by constantly keeping my thoughts upon you." It is impossible to describe the fascination of Florence's manner when she told me this: how suddenly baskfulness blended with love's boldness, how the blushes, dyed her smooth cheek, while her eyes shone with a confident, happy light. "Then at lunch this noon father asked me if I—I liked you as much as ever." "Liked" was not the word he used, but never mind, we use it now." "And what did you answer?" I asked, serenely and respectfully. "That not a day went by that I did not think of you, and oh Nelson," she continued, her voice deep and full in its earnestness, "that was not half the truth. Why should I hesitate to confess it to you, my dear friend?" Here I made use of my disengaged arm. I could not help to. I drew her closely to me and kissed her blooming cheek. "I certainly shall not go on Haming terrupted," Florence said, in gentle remonstrance. "What'd did your father say in answer??! I finally asked. "He said he thought perhaps it was unjust to both of us to insist on your keeping the promise." "Did he say that? I exclaimed. "Then Florence...but really it is enough to say that the dear girl promised to be my wife, even though the suspicion should not be removed from me, providing Mr. Morley's consent could be gained; and she moreover promised to do all she could to help me gain his consent. When we arrived at the cross roads, Florence insisted on riding her horse the rest of the way to her home. A thought occurred to me after I had assisted her to remount. I laid my hand on the bridle to restrain her going. "Do you mind if I ask you a question?" I inquired. "Assuredly not." "Then tell me, do you assume of Horace Jackson? Has he asked you to marry him?" "Yes, he has asked me to marry him," she replied, drooping her head. "Indeed, there is a compact between us about it." "Yes, Now, please do not be foolish and feel badly over it. But I have promised Mr. Jackson that I will marry him if the robbery can be traced to you, and the stolen property, or a portion of it, be found in your possession." "Good heaves! Why did you give him that promise?" "Well, he bothered me so, laterly, that I gave him the promise to get rid of him. His part of the compact is not to mention the subject until until you are shown to be the robber. So you see how absolutely safe I am in this." "Does Jackson believe I am guilty?" I lasted. "No, he does not. In his most heart he does not. And he used to alarm his belief in your innocence until..." She hesitated here, and seemed reluctant to proceed. I waited in anxiety, and she finally went on "until lastly he, for some reason, has changed his opinion. At least so he says. And it made me angry when he told me that he had. Then it was I gave him the promise." "How long is it since you discovered that he had changed?" "About six weeks ago. I have not seen him since. He and his father had a terrible quarrel that day, and he has not been here since then." "What reason did he give for now believing I was the guilty party?" I asked. "Oh, he mumbled something about discoveries recently made which would throw new light on the case." Florence gazed earnestly into my face, and she must have noticed the troubled expression upon it. For she leaned toward me and with great earnestness exclaimed "Nelson, oh, tell me, you had nothing to do with it, did you?" "Florence!" "Forgive me. I know you are honest and true." She laid her hand upon mine. "I will not wrong you by the least doubt. But Jackson seemed so confident. There is no way by which a seeming proof of the robbery could be shown against you is there." "Good heavens, how could there be? I exclaimed. "Oh, I see it all." I went on bitterly. "Jackson has become wealthy, and is trying to ingrate himself with your father and, undermine my reputation with you and so finally gain your hand." Florence listened to my incoherent outburst with an amused smile. But now I needed no such diversion to lead my thoughts away from the robbery and to lighten my life. I did not regard that affair longer as the one great bitter which between me and harmless although the desire for excavation was never than ever. I was sure of Florence's love and trust, but I could not wish her sweet self dineer forever to one over whose life a blood of suspicion lunge. Her tore was an inspiration an incentive, under its influence I hoped to accomplish re-trying to find repose, but not come. I was resolute stone unattained in utterries. For the events seemed and as they prove when explained irritating and threaten the rest and peace to find in Nelsonville. It was exasperating the ing burdened with a load rightfully befitted on do I should have waited. "Do you like Jackson at all?" Is he agreeable to you?" I asked, in jealousy. The smile died from her face; and her eyes flashed with an angry fire. "Like him? No, indeed; I detest the man. I hate him. This outburst made me happy, and I laughed nicely. "It is not kind of you to compel me to show temper," she said. "But remember, sir, you provoked me to it. It is not only for myself alone that I dislike him, but it seems to me that he is the cause of the change that has come over my father lately. Ever since that quarrel father has been so different." "In what respect?" I asked, sympathetically. "He seems terribly worried and anxious." "It is probably business care. There are very few men directing great enterprises, who have not times of woe and anxiety, who have not financial storms and the fear of wreck to face," I added, consolingly. "And as for the quarrel with Jackson, that was probably no more than a difference of opinion regarding business methods. Jackson told me once he had business relations with your father, and that is what makes me almost fearful that he will gain you after all." "But I have promised you, what more can you ask? I would not marry Mr. Jackson even if I had never met you." Florence said, with a decided shake of her head. "Unless it was proved I robbed the bank," I suggested. "No, not even then. I'd rather die." "Oh, my darling love!" I burst out, "I must be first in your heart or nothing, first or nothing!" "What a foolish fellow you are! You make me, we feel quite hurt at your implied doubt of me." *agree* She urged her horse forward a few steps, then turned her face toward me. "Rest easy about that!" with the true "And what did you answer? light in her eyes. "You are first, dear one—first now, first always." I made a spring for the bridle, but, with a merry laugh, she gave her horse the whip and cluded me. I watched the dear form rising and falling like a bird along the road, then climbed into the buggy and slowly drove home. CHAPTER IX. After supper I lit a cigar and walked up and down in front of the house. During the meal Mrs. Snyder had kept up an incessant chatter concerning the mysteries about my house. I did not hear half her words, but nevertheless there was an element so foreign to my thoughts in the few sentences I caught that I was glad to escape her. The evening shadows were settling over the valley, and the moon was rising in splendor. Letsurely I trumped to and fro, giving up my thoughts undisturbed to the pleasant realization of new-found happiness and to anticipations of future joy, in the constant companionship of my sweetheart. The cigar finished, I required to my room, with the intention of reading. But the evening was so fine that I soon blew but the light and sat down by the window. Then I remembered how, on rallying from the same, chair the evening before, a tall, white specter had confronted me. This recollection coming to me suddenly in the midst of happy thoughts caused me to glance somewhat nervously toward the closed window opposite. I could see a faint image of myself swaying to and fro in unison with the motion of the, rocking chair in which I was seated. Directly underneath was the cellar, whose solid walls, defying investigation of the interior, had so impressed the old nurse Sarah with an unreasonable fear. Even Santag, who, from his职位, was accustomed to hold himself well in hand against surprise, had exhibited profound amusement when informed of the circumstance. It was irritating to have thoughts concerning the mysteries which seemed to abound in the old homestead come crowding up and play at cross-purposes with the happy state that the meeting with Florence had induced. The mysteries had seemed trivial in the daytime, had been wobbly forgotten in Florence's society, but now that I was again alone and the night coming on, the thought of the cellar came back to me tinged with a shadow of fear. And, the voice, the unearthly voice—what was it? At first I had felt a hope that the vague account given by Mrs. Snyder might have something of truth in it. The unravelling of a chain of events which seemed to border off the supernatural would be a new experience to me and therefore furnish a discontent in this quiet, uneventful life I expected to lead in Nilesville. but now I need not go on diversion to lead my son away from the rob- bey and his brighting upon my life and honor. I did not regard that affair as longer as the one great bri- brus which stood between me and harp- ness. Although the desire for execlu- lation was keener than ever. I was sure of Florence's love, and trust, but I could not wish her sweet self kindly in return to one over whose life a blood of suspicion lurge. Her love was an inspiration an incentive, under its influence. I hoped to accomplish results which even the vast resources of the bank had failed in. To devote all my thought, all the energy I possessed, to this one end will now my purpose. That small mysterious events were arising with their attendant invitations, threatening to divide the resources of my mind and body, which I desired concentrated to one end, filled me with impatience. Then, too, the certainty that Horace Jackson seemed to feel that Florence would be compelled to fulfill her promise, weighed heavily upon me. Why had Jackson changed his opinion regarding my innocences? What developments had arisen which would throw new light on the case, and make an innocent man bear the consequences of a crime he knew nothing of? Just before retiring it occurred to me that the lights of Mr. Morley's house might be seen from the attic window. It seemed as though sleep would be sweeten after a glimpse of those lights, some of which were casting, radiance over Florence's loved form. I left my room and quietly ascended the stairs. Arrived at the attic, I grouped my way to the small window through which I had gazed that morning. I stood for a few minutes, contemplating the lights of the Morley residence on the hill opposite. A brisk breeze was piping down the valley. Through cracks and crevices it crept into the old attic with soft walking and moaning. There was homesickness in the mournful tones, and a sadness, as though the spirits of the departed were sighing for a return to old familiar scenes. What was there about my old place that produced such a depressing effect upon my spirits? The happiest moments of life have a slight shadow to them as though to warn us that all joy is deceiving. Perhaps it was only this shadow which caused the undeable feeling of insecurity. But there was a quality, also, which breaked of events to come of dife import. I seemed like the mariner on a dark sea, conscious of breakers ahead, and knowing not which way to steer. Even my dreams in the restless slumber of the past night seemed premonitions. That vague forebodings should come when my mind was filled with thoughts of the beloved one who had given me her heart, was most strange. I could not shake off the depression. The darkness of the attic deepened it. I was about to retrace my steps to the stairway, when sounds reached my ear which caused me to pause and listen—a series of raps alternating with a rasping noise, but so feeble and indistinct that I was unable to form an opinion of the cause. All I could determine was that they seem to come from a love. A loose shingle or piece of timber, rattling in the wind, would have made a dull, heavy sound, while she gentle raps. I heard had a clear, mellow ring, like that produced by the vibrations of a tuning fork. After lighting all the matches I had with me and making as thorough an examination of the roof as the brief filkering lights wozl allow, I groped toward the stairs. Probably half the distance to the landing was passed when upon my ear fell the voice, the unearthly voice, the weird tones of which I had first heard in my room downstairs. It could not possibly be heard up in the attic, when speaking in my chamber. So then it must have the faculty of being able to change from one apartment to another just as the whim seized it. Like the voice which had sounded downstairs, the tones were intermittent; in the present instance they alternated with the rappings. After standing motionless, with hearing strained to the utmost, I noticed that at no time did the voice and the rappings sound together. The few detached words I distinguished had no possible reference to myself; nevertheless the voice seemed to follow me. I was unwilling to attribute the sounds to supernatural causes, for I was not a helier in the supernatural. It might be that the parties who had walled up the galler found some of their plans, whatever they may have been, upset by my advent, and had taken this way to frighten me and cause my departure. On second thought the idea did not appear tenable. For if the purpose was to frighten me, a fiercer and more terrifying demonstration would be used. Was there only one voice, which in some way sounded both in my room and in the attic, or were there various voices all over the place, each independent of the other? I hastened downstairs, but when I reached my room no sounds were heard there. While in my bedroom, I had no way of knowing if the voice in the attic was still sounding. The remainder of the evening I spent in rushing from my room to the attic and back again, and quietly stealing through the vacant rooms, in the hope of laying hold of some explanation of the strange voice. I did hear it again in the attic, but there was no sound in my room, though I had immediately blasted there. Finally I gave up the quest for the time, and, thoroughly fatigued, undressed and went to bed. My head and hardly touched the pillow, when the report of a pistol reaped my ear. The sound was, muffled as though coming from a distant apartment. Indeed, it seemed to come from underneath, so I found the sound of the shammy door, but yet not directly beneath. It would be disheartedly how sounded much planner and the shattered taken place in the muffled up collar below my room. They was no answering shot, appalled, more, unaccountable noises, though heartbeat intensely321D 22A throught the night321D 22B through the night321D trying to find repose, but sleep would not come. I was resolved to deliver stones unarmed to unarmed these menieries. For the events trivial as they seemed and as they probably would prove when explained, were certainly irritating, and threatened wholly to destroy the rest and peace I had expected to find in Nelsonville. It was exasperating that, besides being burdened with a load of guilt which rightfully befitted on other shoulders, I should also be subjected to petty annoyances which promised to insinuate my stay in Nelsonville anything but peaceful. Type. I was my own mission. I could leave the old home on the morrow. But to be utterly routed and driven from the field by a few harmless though inexplicable happenings was contrary to my nature. Then, too, Placerie: how could I tresse the place, now that I had found my love abiding here. When she first rosy tints of dawn showed in the east, slumber closed my weary eyes. As on the previous morning, Mrs. Shyder was compelled to arouse me for briefest. On the present occasion she announced rather the testify that the morning, meal had been waiting, for over an hour. I could not resist the desire to begin investigations immediately, and therefore after hastily dressing I walked all around the house, keeping at such distance from it that every part of the roof could be seen. There was a line of wire running along the side of the road, which, as I afterward ascertained, belonged to a telephone circuit embracing half a dozen towns and villages in the vicinity. This wire crossed the roof of the house, but was not fastened to it in any way, swinging at least three feet clear of the ridge-pole. Within a few inches of the wire was a section of lightning rod. The air was still, and the wire hung motionless. On the prettous night, a strong breeze had been blowing, as I remembered from the mournful cadences it produced up in the attic. Here was one mystery which could be very reasonably explained. The wind had swung the wire, causing it to strike against the perpendicular portion of the lightning rod, thereby causing the series of gentle vibratory raps I had heard. Satisfied that the other mysterious events would also give up their secrets upon investigation, I went to break it down. Seyder who didn't seem to talkative as during former meals. Indeed, she appeared rather glum. The reason of the old widow's taciturn manner was soon explained. After pouring my coffee, she watched me in silence for some itime. But silence was not the widow's forte, and, as I was busy with my own speculations, she was compelled to begin. "I guess you won't like my cookin'," she said. "Indeed I do; the proof lies in the quantity I find room for. You are an excellent cook." The old woman's face relaxed some- what under my praise... "Vell, bind you ton't come rite avay when id is retty," she continued, "and I ought maybe you not like de cookin'." "I beg your pardon, Mrs. Snyder. I did oversleep. I'll be more punctual in future." "So you schleep offer yourself? What for?!" she inquired. "Oh, I was up, rather late the evening before," I remarked, indifferently, for I knew questions relating to the strange things which had come under her observation were trembling on her lips. "You remember our discovery of the walled-up cellar?", I continued, Mr. Sonntag's suggestion regarding the wisdom of secrecy coming to mind. She nodded, and her old eyes brightened expectantly. "It is advisable to keep the matter a secret," I continued. "You have not mentioned it to anyone, have you?" "Ach, no." "Then please do not, for the present." She promised compliance with my request. As the cellar was the next mystery I determined to turn my attention to. I went home immediately after finishing my breakfast, harnessed the horse in the buggy, and drove off toward Sarah's house. If I had the necessary tools it would not be a difficult matter to cut the floor of my bedroom. Sarah greeted me effusively. The good soul seemed to have a constant fear that each time she saw me would be the last. "Can you let me have a saw, a chisel and a hammer?" I asked. "Ach, yes. Bud that for, Neh?" "I am going to find out what is in that collar." I answered. "How you got in?" "By cutting through the floor." "Dat will be hard work, Neh. De timber under de floor is awful thick." "I know that. 'But I have plenty of time, and so will be able eventually to get through." The tools were produced, and I started, homeward, Sarah sending after me an earnest appeal, for carefulness and the avoidance of danger. I intended to commence the task of getting into the seated apartment immediately upon my arrival home. The thought that danger of some kind might lurk in the cellar would not deter me, and the pistol-shot I had heard the last night seemed to indicate that there might be a degree of peril in the work. I did not like the idea of the deak, musty odors ascending into my sleeping apartment, but I could easily remove to one of the spacious chambers upstairs, and thus escape them. On arriving at the house, I took the tools into my room. I looked over the floor, and after quite a time debating where the hole should be made, determined to begin over in one corner. Before I had time to commence operations, a loud knock sounded on the front door. Hastily showing the tools under the bed. I went out through the hall and opened the door. My visitor was Mr. Sonntag. (To Be Continued.) Your Subscriptions for the Planet is due. Pay up now. ROAD FARM IMPROVEMENT My good friend tells me that women's work is never done. And you men talk only putter, round the place from sun to sun." But I reckon that its farmers always find shore or two. When the sun is short, and nights are long, around the barn to do. Don't you know that seems no end to fixin' here at alpenglow here. If you wish the stock to show in spring little care. An' I've learned and interest in springing, don't you know. Jes' to hustle in the winter, spate o' ice an' sleet an' snow. I jee' hath 'tid' to set the effulera lookin' dirty. bummedQamitran When a little bit of extra work would make them fat an 'clean' You'll brush the cattle with the card; an' do it every day. For you'll find that when the buyer comes around you'll get your pay. Don't forget to overhaul the harrow, mower, plow, an' cart. An: now you've got to do it, 'fore the —Orange Judgery Farmer Constructed for the Purpose of Con- suming Convicts While Working on Country Roads. This cage is not infended for wild animals, as might be supposed from its appearance, but is used to confine human beings. The convicts are made to work upon the public highways, and in order to work the roads at any great distance from the county jail ```markdown ``` PERIPATETIC JAIL it is necessary for the prisoners to camp out, so this steel ear was constructed for the purpose of confining the convicts while working in the outlying districts. The cage is twenty feet long by eight feet six inches wide, and is eight feet from floor to roof. It is divided into two compartments; the larger one, for the prisoners, contains twelve bunks, and the smaller one has two bunks for the guards. The whole thing requires six horses to pull it over the country roads.—V. W. Gould, in Strand Magazine. WIDE TIRE THE THING. It Acts as a Roller on a Dirt Road and Makes Hauling of Heavy Lounds Easy. As I am a good-road-lover, I wish to give my opinion on how to make a road hard, and solid so that it will carry the heavy loads better than most roads generally do. In my own experience years ago, I owned only one two-inch tire wagon. Since then I made a three-inch wagon out of old wheels by cutting it down a little lower and had the blacksmith put on three-inch tires, one-half inch thick. The wonderful effect this has in improving an otherwise worthless farm convenience no one knows unless he has tried it. The wagon now is as good as a new one, and it does not cut down as before. Farmers should be sure to order wide tires when new wheels are needed on old wagons. A three-inch tire will do, but a four-inch is still better, as it acts as a roller on the road, and when once packed the draft is much lighter. This is my experience.—H. F. Jahke, in Farmers' Voice. Every class of fruit has its day with the amateur. Just now the pear is on the riling side of popularity and is being bombed by the nursery agent. Car loads of this delicious fruit are shipped into the north annually, and the home grower who has fruit to sell has no trouble in realizing good prices. If you have rolling land, with good fair drainage, and a clay soil, and there are a number of such locations in the central west, you may be safe in trying a few. But for the northern half of the belt or on low black soils, beware. Under such conditions the pear blight has blasted more than one mind's hopes after years of patient care and walking. Milda and Farmer. Care of Horses in Spring. Gallied horses are very common in the spring when the horses are first put to work, and are easier prevented than curred, especially if the animal is kept at work. It is very important to see that the collars and harness fit properly; then the collars should be kept clean; keeping the collars well oiled will be a help. Wash the shoulders at noon and night with soft water after removing the harness. When the teams are stopped for a rest in the field, pull the collars away from the horses; shoulders; in this way galls may generally be prevented. Midland Camer. RIPENING OF CREAM. Unless Perfect Cleanliness Characterizes the Process, Good Results Are Out of the Question. Shallow, seating produces cream sufficiently ripened, as a general thing, at the time of gathering. Occasionally it is over-ripened, which sometimes causes considerable difficulties in making good butter. In deep seating, sev- eral skimmings may be brought into one can and bed at a temperature of 60 to 70 degrees. For 24 hours will be kept for cooking, this will be the time for a state of fermentation. If beaten milk is kept in the first of its state of fermentation, then and is allowed to cool, the milk jars that have been fermented will wash off, and the milk will be pure, the milk will be split into pint containers, and will be sufficient to use. The abnormal practice of ripening cream in a churn that has not been washed before or after is very likely to be denounced. The cream is hurried along fast enough, but, bad flavors, propagated in this way, internally spoil the butter. Separated cream may be reopened the same as cream from deep setting, but it requires more time, probably an additional ten to 20 hours, according to the instructions. Every farmhouse has a different temperature where the milk is kept. A buttermaker must make rules to fill the surroundings. Every fitness however, applies to every buttermaker and every milk room. It is impossible to make a nicely flavored butter with any part of the surroundings filthy. Enjoy comes from fermentation that is induced by germs. Foul dishes, bad odors and filthy surroundings imply obnoxious germs that affect the flavor of butter disastrously. The fitness first, last and at all times is absolutely necessary to the production of good butter. E. J. A. Kirkland KILLS DISEASE GERMS. Electric BTHH Reconditioned by Yamaha Lee Inventory for Shiny Cattle Agus Since the discovery that the terrestrial foot and hooply disguise that woman its savage camouflage has been England states every means has been utilized to safeguard the planet and prevent it from spreading to other herds, the stalk and national departments of agriculture cooperating with the farmers to this end, it is not improbable that the Appalachians here illustrated the recent invention of Andrew Nunnan, of Gobton Mass, may be of considerable value in this work, having been designed especially for the purpose of saving animals of A man fishing from a boat. parasites. As will be seen, the idea is to immerse the animal in a bath, thus subjecting whatever parasite growths may have found toughened to the action of the liquid. This of itself would destroy many of the germs, but the inventor goes further in his work and applies a current of electricity to complete the treatment by destroying any parasites which have survived the bath. The liquid preferably uses a weak solution of acetic acid; this will add to the conductivity of the bath, so that a weak current or one of low voltage may be sufficient to kill the germs without injury to the animal. In applying the treatment the animal is first driven into the bath, in which one pole of the battery is placed. A metallic yoke or fork is then placed over the neck, with a wire leading from the end of the fork back to the battery to receive the return current, the animal's head being forced under the surface of the liquid for an instant to allow the current to act on all parts of the skin. Louisville Courier-Journal. DAIRY AND LIVE STOCK. Some dairymen spend enough time weeping over spilled milk to buy a whole cow. The American hog has rooted his way into nearly every corner of the civilized world. No country dare go to war without him. If you do not know anything about sheep, don't start with over ten. You will lose enough on these ten, if you are not a sheep man by instinct. Never allow anyone to tease of tickle your horse in the stable. The animal only feels the torment, and does not understand the joke. Vicious habits are thus brought on. It is about one even thing to day whether you make it good steer or good colt; each will sell for about the same price when two years old. There is more risk with the colt, however. The disputes between the cattle and the sheep men which are becoming so serious in many parts of the west are no new thing. Abraham and Lot had the same old trouble. Where sheep live cattle survive. The cow which is raised are bloom at all times is structure to the eye, but we have learned from our experience that such a cow is not profitable to keep. One may pin his faith to the angular cow, whose bony structure is pronounced, which is an indication that her food goes directly to the production of milk. Farm journal. Mr. Scrappeagle. You always told me that there was no fool in your family. Mrs. Scrappeagle—That was before we were married. John—Brooklyn life. Stubbs—My new novel will hit the public all right. Scribbles—What do you call it? Stubbs—Confessions of a Cook. Detroit Free Press It May Be the Reason. Do you know why all the world loves a lover? "Because he makes such a blooming tool of kinsmen through the wounds he to laugh." Brooklynn Fuchs THE PLANET SATURDAY.....MARCH 14, 190 Among Her Prime Favorites Are Gila Monsters, Rattlesnakes, Tarantulas, Lizards, Toads and Other Serpents. Harboring pets whose sting means death, caressing them, teaching them tricks and attending to their needs and comforts quite as eagerly and affectionately as other girls look after their cats, dogs or canary birds, is a favorite occupation with Miss Lillian Sanderson, who lives among the beautiful oak-covered hills just back of Nordhoff, Cal. Miss Sanderson, says the San Francisco Examiner is of a dashing brunette type, and is a great social favorite, being vivacious and witty and possessing a remarkably rich, full contrato voice. To look at her, to hear her sing or speak, one would never suspect that she derived her greatest happiness in life from companionship with a colony of creeping, crawling, sinuous creatures or from spending several weeks at a time in some old shack in the mountains while hunting for new specimens to add to her lively collection. When Miss Sanderson asked of her parents that a room in their handsome new home be set aside for her pets there was naturally some opposition to establishment of a veritable Dante's Inferno within the confines of the family residence; but her whims have always been gratified and, as usual, the girl had her way, the result being that one of the largest, sunnest apartments is thronged with outdoor denizens—snakes, Gila monsters, tarantulas, lizards of many species and other queer inhabitants—the whole making a display so formidable that even Satan himself would drop his pitchfork and run from the scene. The young snake enthusiast was PLAYED WITH A BATTLEER born in the mountains near a great mine in which her father was interested, and as soon as she was able to toddle among the rocks that surrounded the log-cabin home her baby voice shouted merrily at every bug, spider, worm or lizard that crossed her pathway. She played with them, handling them carefully, tenderly and crooned to them as most children croon to their dolls, and they seemed to reciprocate her affection by contented submission. One day when she was three years old she slipped out and away while her mother was busy with household tasks. When she was missed the usual calls failed to bring her. Several hours passed by and the mother became almost frantic with fear, for there were mountain lions in the surrounding forests, as well as many other dangers that might assail the child. A search party was organized, and after a tramp of two miles through the wilderness the youngster was discovered behind a huge bowler with an immense coiled ratter beside her, which she was stroking as contentedly as if it had been a kitten. The snake also seemed to be enjoying itself immensely, and the softly vibrating rattles made a sound like purring. The father, horrified, quickly grasped the baby from danger and then killed the snake. The child screamed and sobbed and raged over the loss of her pet and it was many days before she recovered her usual sweetness of temner. After that memorable experience father and mother watched the child more carefully, but in spite of their diligence she enjoyed many a play-hour with snakes that she found or which she enticed from their holes. They never offered to bite her, but accepted her caresses as a matter of course, and so it was with every nature thing. She seemed to possess some remarkable power that soothed and made wild creatures docile and tractable at her will. At last her parents discovered that she was carrying on these meetings, and finding that no harm resulted from her strange associates they gradually became reconciled to her having reptilian pets, but commanded that the "beasts" be kept in one place, and be not introduced into the general domestic life. And so, with the exception of a huge gopher snake that rids the place of mice, and a few horned toads and lizards that bask on the sunny window sills and catch files, all the pets are now relegated to one room, some having their individual class cages, while others enjoy the freedom of the apartment. China Is Progressing. China is advancing in science. She has established, within the past four years, six smokeless powder factories. DOUGH ROSE ALL RIGHT The Embarrassing Experience of a Kind-Hearted Housewife of Skowhegan. A medicine bottle, a mirror and a bunch of keys, all sticking to a chunk of dough as large as your head, was the sight, says the Lewiston Evening Journal, that met a Skowhegan woman's view when she opened her satchel in the Skowhegan car en route to Lewiston, Me. She had wondered for some time what it was that was swelling out the sides of her satchel in such an unproportionate manner, and she opened the satchel to find out. She struggled to close it, but she could not. The man in the rear seat looked over her back OPENED THE SATCHEL. to see what the matter was. The conductor stopped to look at her in her helpless state. "What's the matter, madam?" he inquired. "Oh, nothing. Bread is rising, can't you see? Oh, get away!" She got her fingers in the dough and then she got mad. She tried to pull them. She tried to close the satchel, but it would not close. "Confound that thing," she said, and the satchel, comb, mirror and dough disappeared out through a window. When she tells her friends about the case now she laughs at the horrid fellow-passenger and conductor, but she did not feel like it then. She was coming to visit a friend in Lewiston. This friend admired her bread very much and said it was the best in the world, so, not having any bread ready to bring with her, she seized upon a large piece of dough which was rising in a pan before the fire and wrapping it in a napkin she placed it in her grip with the above result. KNEW ALL ABOUT HIM. Husband No. 2 Was Quite Familiar with All the Good Points of His Predecessor. It was a contested will case, and one of the witnesses in the course of giving his evidence, described the testator minutely. "Now, sir," said counsel for the defense. "I suppose we may take it from the flattering description you have given of the testator, his good points, and his personal appearance generally, that you were intimately acquainted with him?" "Him!" exclaimed the witness. "He was no acquaintance of mine." "Indeed! Well, then, you must have observed him very carefully whenever JUSTICE "I MARRIED HIS WIDOW." you saw him?" pursued the examining counsel. "I never saw him in my life," was the reply. This prevarication, as the counsel thought it, was too much, and, adopting a severe tone, he said: "Now, now, don't trifle with the court, please. How, I ask you, could you, in the name of goodness, describe him so minutely if you never saw him and never knew him?" "Well," replied the witness, and the smile which overspread his features eventually passed over the court, "you see, I married his widow." Modern Medica. The modern medical man is no longer only a healer; he must also be a sanitarian. It is to the study of preventive medicine rather than to the study of therapeutics—or curative medicine—that the scientific physician, of our time devotes himself with enthusiasm and confident hope.—Everybody's Magazine. Morgan Good at Figures. So clever is J. Pierpont Morgan at figures and finances that he can figure out a big profit for himself in every business deal. 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A freight train on the Erie, made up principally of tank cars filled with oil, broke in two near this city at about 9 o'clock. The two sections came together with a crash and one of the oil tanks was demolished. Fire broke out almost instantly and the sky was lighted up for miles. A large crowd of people left this city for the scene of the fire. While they were lined up along the tracks a terrific explosion occurred. The flames communicated quickly with the other tanks, and a second and a third explosion followed each other in rapid succession. Sheets of flame shot out in all directions. Scores of people were caught within the zone of the fire and enveloped in the flames. Men and boys ran screaming down the tracks with their clothing a mass of flames. Others fell where they stood, overcome by the awful heat. Just how many were killed is not known, as many of the bodies were incinerated. Sydney Fish, a prominent business man, returned from the scene of the fire at midnight. He said: "I was attracted to the scene of the fire between 9.30 and 10 o'clock. When I was within a quarter of a mile of the wrecked train there was a terrific explosion. Flames shot outwards and upwards for a great distance. I saw several persons who started to run away drop on the railroad tracks, and they never moved again. Others, who had been standing close to the wreckage, were hurled through the air for hundreds of feet. The scene was awful. Half a dozen young boys ran down the tracks with their clothing on fire. They resisted human torches. I could hear their agonized screams distinctly from where I stood. They ran some distance down the track and then threw themselves to the ground, grovelling in the ditches in their frantic efforts to extinguish the flames. Then they lay still, some of them unconscious, others dead. I don't know how many were killed, but I counted 20 bodies before I came away." Word was sent at once to Olean police headquarters by telephone. Every doctor and ambulance in the city was summoned. Grocery wagons and carriages of all kinds were pressed into service and everything possible was done to bring the injured without delay to the hospitals for treatment. At midnight the first of the injured arrived at the hospital. They were four young boys. Their in. frightful. Great patches of flesh were burned off and hung in shreds from their bodies. Large crowds gathered at the hospital and the faces of the injured were anxiously scanned as they were borne into the building on stretches. Heart-rending scenes were witnessed when one of the poor, blistered bodies was recognized by a father or a mother or a brother, and it was with difficulty that persons were restrained from invading the operating room. CHRISTIAN SCIENTISTS WON Bill Passes North Carolina Senate Making Their Practice Legal Making Their Practice Legal. Raleigh, N. C., March 9.—Christian Scientists won their fight before the general assembly of North Carolina Saturday, when the law to define the practice of medicine and surgery, which would make illegal the practice of their faith in North Carolina, was amended to read: "Provided that this act does not apply to any person who ministers or cures the sick or afflicted by spiritual means only, prayer to Almighty God, without the use of drugs or any material means," the amendment having been worded by Miss Mary Hatch Harrison, of the publication committee for the state of North Carolina. The bill passed its final reading in the senate without a dissenting vote. Democrats Discuss Situation. Washington, March 11. After the senate adjourned yesterday a number of Democratic senators met informally in Senator Gorman's room for a general discussion of the political situation in the senate and in the country at large. Senator Gorman talked at some length about the necessity of party unity, and pointed out the necessity of harmony in the party in the senate at this time because of its possible bearing on the fortunes of the Democratic party throughout the country. A number of other senators expressed similar views, but necessarily no action was taken, as the meeting was in no sense official. Unique Conscience Contribution. Washington, March 10. The secre Actual Results from Baldness After Only 4 Weeks' Use of ZOMODONE. tary of the treasury has received from an unknown person a unique conscience contribution in the shape of a watch, with a gold-filled case. The watch came in a package postmarked Pittsfield, Mass. The sender says in an accompanying letter: "Such as I have I give unto you for the conscience fund. The money I gave for the watch is more than I consider I owe the government." Cast Up By the Sea Atlantic City, N. J., March 10.—The life-saving stations at Hereford and Cold Springs report the washing ashore yesterday morning of the half of a vessel, probably a barge. It is believed she went to pieces off this city during the gale of Friday night. The boat is broken directly in half and parts of the rigging and spars are still attached. No name is on the wreckage, and there is no means of identifying the boat. The life-saving crews from both stations are on the lookout for the crew of the boat, but it is thought improbable that any survived the storm. Theatrical Managers Appealed To. Washington, March 11.—The secretary of the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Association of the United States has sent a circular letter to the theatrical managers of America, asking them if they will devote to the Jefferson memorial fund 1 per cent. of the gross receipts derived from the theatrical performance on Monday, April 13, next, the 160th birthday anniversary of the author of the Declaration of Independence. A facsimile copy of a letter from Joseph Jefferson is attached to the circular, warmly approving the suggestion. Colored Pugilist Kills His Wife. Chester, Pa., March 9.—Maud Jones, colored, was shot dead yesterday by her husband, George, alias "Kid" Jones, a pugilist. The shooting took place in the house of a neighbor, Jealousy was the cause of the murder. Jones tried to escape, but was captured a few minutes after committing the crime. Keel For the Connecticut Laid. New York, March 11.—The first keel plates of the battleship Connecticut, the first large battleship ever constructed in a government navy yard was laid yesterday in the navy yard at Brooklyn. There were no ceremonies in connection with the laying of the plate. Brilliance Versus Plodding. 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Send 2 Cent stamp and 25 Cents in money for immediate reply. State in what paper you saw this ad. V. P. & F. K. of W. HEAPLAYER DR. TOLBERT was a young physician whose profession was little else besides his schooling and a determination to succeed in his chosen profession. Showy at attaining his and a young legal guardian, one Martin, took an other teacher in Chicago. They arranged to reunite separate hours each paying an equal share of the rent. A small glass and frame partition divided the little room into two tiny apartments. The lettering on the glass portion of the outer door read: "John L. Martin, Law Office," and a small, neatly designed metal plate on the panel read: "Dr. G. H. Tolbert." The morning hours were set apart for the exclusive use for the attorney and his clients—should there be any—and the afternoon was to be dedicated to the relief of the sick. A few friends called and several letters and circulates were received during the first month. Financing the second month, however, was uphill work. The days seemed long, but the month was short and the agent of the building, although polite, was firmness itself. Patients were scarcity and poor at that, and briefs were few and litigation scant, at least with the young lawyer. Time passed on the doctor labored manually, among his few outdoor patients, and succeeded in keeping the cost paid, although it was not always strictly in advance. Times grew harder and harder. Martin was adversely discouraged and the agent had called twice with the persistent little bill. The doctor, however, bore up bravely under the trying circumstances. At last one afternoon, as Tobert was walking alone reading a text-book on therapeutics, for lack of other occupation, he was suddenly aroused by the opening of the outer office door. A moment later a plain, modest looking woman stepped in from the hallway. Her features wore a somewhat anxious look and under her right eye there was a dark contusion, while her upper lip and forehead bore several creases. "I have been arrested for 'an assault,' said his caller. "Last Monday morning my clean clothes were hanging in the yard and the woman next door breakout out a dirty carpet and began to beat it. I called to her to stop and she jerked at me. Then I climbed over the fence and grabbed her. I pulled the carpet of the line and then, holding it down with my feet, I tried to get the stick away from her. But she hit me in the face with it. Then I dropped the carpet and went at her and I can tell you that I gave her a good drubbing. Then she had my arrested. My case comes up to tomorrow morning in the justice court." The doctor was pale with emotion. Here was "client" not a patient. Like a flash he remembered that the lettering on the door read "Law Office." How was this "woman" to know what particular hours the lawyer kept? However, the case might help pay the Pent. So, with an effort, he informed the woman that the assault was personally instructing and that her case Thoughtfully the advocate listened and asked, "She has no defense at all; she will be blind and it will serve her right." "titit," explained the medical side of the firm, "she is our client, and I have promised to defend her. She has paid a retaining fee and—and we need the money." "Now, see here," Tolbert said. Martin the poor doctor is instantly a poor lawyer. I tell you there is no defense for this woman. It is a plain case of assault with a fine and costs coming against the defendant. I don't care to have anything to do with it, and if you insist on such nonsense you can go and defend her yourself. Any one can practice before a police magistrate." Tolbert was stunned for a moment. How could Martin refuse this source of income, small as it was, with the rent or the wage? justice, who knew more about leather than law, was surprised to find both sides ready, with no continuance asked for. The prosecuting attorney called the witnesses for the state, had them sworn and then told the complaining witness to take the stand. The victim of the alleged assault glared at the justice and then sat down in the chair, with her hands poked over a huge umbrella, which she rolled to and fro on her lap. She was large, dark and heavy, with thick lips and a prominent law. She was an unprepossessing woman from almost any point of view, but her right eye was especially hers. concerning. When fixed upon any one in a street place it seems something awful. She pointed it at the justice and never combed it from his face once during the course of the trial. Mr made him nervous; he could not avoid it. While giving her testimony in a loud, deep tone she kept that evil eye fixed on the justice till his soul was filled with dread. Tolbert took his one fall a moment and after a very brief cross-examination he dismissed her from the stand, much to the relief of the justice. When Tolbert called the defendant with great care he went over the circumstances of the case, bringing out that the complaining witness not only had threatened to annihilate the defendant but had struck her over the head and face with a large stick with great force and violence and that to save her life she, the defendant, had done only what was necessary under the circumstances. The prosecuting attorney, in his speech said it was a perfectly clear case of assault and that the defendant should be fined according to law. "Folbert arose, however, and, addressing the justice with all the dignity he could assume, explained that there was a difference between law and justice, and that a person guilty according to the strict letter of the former was sometimes perfectly innocent from the latter point of view. I will assure my legal friend on the other side of the case, the shiny child with no thought of censure for him, because as prosecuting attorney he is simply doing his duty in trying to secure conviction, yet the law rises above and beyond the compulsory tender mercies for the welfare of the poor. person under an evil threat, he led to commit a crime can be held acc compatible for it. No. I have no gist of the crime. I have a honor well knows that if the client was injured on irresistibly to the officer, the person she should pay for is the officer. Why that other wrongs, a frightful glare might make even your honest target himself. Excuse me, but I have the defendant to show me the evidence of pole ones have been thrown the circumstances. Mr. Bar thoughest to obtain the shine tice. The firm is very well known and two hours later he obtained the shine to Maximus hospital. A few hours later he acquired the shine to a person in the care of his son. He was able to to the prosecution witness glasses eyes. Chicago Daily News. Newly invented Clothing Wearment to Protect the Wearers from Electric Shocks Thanks to the researches of a Russian savant, man may now, like Jove, defy the lightning's stroke. He has invented a garment that is said to be a certain protection against a stroke of the electric fluid. It is light and flexible and does not in the least interfere with the movements of the wearer. The garment is made of fine gauze, of brass threads, and consists of a shirt and trousers that reach below the feet. The sleeves end in gloves that are provided with buttons for fastening. A hood covers the head, buttoning on the body part of the safety garment, says a London report. When the wearer of this garment approaches too near to the current of an electric machine instead of harming the current is conducted to the ground by the suit of gauze and the person inside experiences no inconvenience. The wearer of this suit can stand between the two poles of a high-tension circuit, of electricity, and the sparks will pass from one to the other across his intervening body without shocking him, the discharge going through the metallic covering. The iron the protecting garment electricity unarmoring the apparatus, a careful so staring that when he withdrew his hands an electric spark two feet long shot out from the machine. At the termination of the experiments it was found that the gauge garment had not been damaged by the spark, which the exception of small holes at the points of contact that did not DEMAND GOOD ROADS. People of Arkansas Payor National and State Aid in Improving. Their Highways. The State G recently held ata was one of the held in the co industrial quest numbers, ent and harmonic legislature capital hall w tators of comp 2,000 — the discuss aid to load b almost a un favor of both the second day by a unanim vention instrue pass a law at o The State Good Roads convention recently held at Little Rock, Arkansas, was one of the most important ever held in the country to consider any industrial question. It will large in numbers, enthusiastic, interest and harmonious in action. The legislature is in session at the capital, and to meet in the great hall we delegate and spectators are permitted to the number of 2,000. The state legislature under discussion is the state aid and national aid to road buildings. There was almost a unanimous opinion in favor of both propositions and on the second day a resolution was passed by a unanimous voting in the convention instructing the legislature to pass a law at once, with a tax of two mills on every dollar of taxable property in the state to raise a fund to be used by the state to aid its different subdivisions in building roads. The opinion also prevailed that the United States government should become one of the cooperating forces in this great work, and should pay some share of the cost required to improve certain leading highways up to a high standard of excellence. In this connection the Brownlow bill now pending in congress, which provides for a system of cooperation between the United States and the different states, or subdivisions thereof, in road building, was under consideration. Among the arguments offered in favor of national aid are the following: The revenues government, a hundred million are drawn as cultural areas combined, yet comes to the not more than out in the ruin nity per cent great ships, ties, c ultured tention lieved that ninety per cent. are visited in the great churches and townships, and many are in temporaryities, especially in the summertime, as a result of attention to the community. It is believed that churches would make appropriations for improving roads as well as rivers if urged to do so by the people, of the rural districts. This instance was cited as an illustration of the wisdom or sinuenause: The White River is now being improved by the United States government at a cost of two million dollars, which will reside in a slight improvement in its navigation that will benefit but a few carriers and a small number of people, whereas a permanent and well-improved highway built with that large amount of money alone among the bank of that same river in any other portion of the state of Arkansas, would contribute much more to acheapening transportation would increase the value of land adjacent to it and would add very much more to the state's wealth. We have been participants in United States to contribute a improvement in the industry was indoors by the fire, called to the fire has already dollars for our Ideo and another pines, and the lately recommend the approval three millions immediately after of the Philippi mainly expend and other pubi islands. HANDY T For All Kind Device He No We was constituted government by the participants in the first United States should be called upon to contribute a share in this necessary improvement of highways. This idea was indoors in a resolution passed by the convention. Attention was called to the fact that the government has already appropriated a million dollars for such a purpose to Porto Ideo and another million to the Philippines, and the secretary of war has lately recommended to congress, with the approval of the president, that three millions of dollars should be immediately appropriated for the use of the Philippine government to be mainly expended in building highways and other public improvements on the islands. HANDY DUMPING SLED. For All Kinds of Winter Work, the Device Here Illustrated Has No Superior. Manure may be easily and quickly unloaded from a dump sled. An old bob sled with an extra high bolster and an elevated cross piece built up from the race in front, works all right. 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In the roaring city that, like the sea, Has its rob and flow, with its millions tossed. As bubbles robbed of identity. There is fellowship in the country town. With its empty streets and its spreading trees. Where the country apngbirds waste down At mids as fair as man ever sees. When wind blows sweet from the fields near by. Where man know the names which their neighbors bear. Where a bear is missed when he's gone to with the peaceful ones who have sensed to care. There are joys out there in the country town That of the city may never learnt. In the rush for money and for renown. Confronting strangers where we went. Oh wasn't God's world serene and fair. In the country town we we came awn. Aren't it be sweet to sleep out there. Far city city, come one day. S. E. Kiser, in Chicago there lends A CASE of ILL-LUCK By BERNARD BARRY IN THE Little cottage on the southern side of Telegraph Hill, Nita was repealing many Ave Maria before an atrocious lithograph of the Madonna. The rog-norm had been crowling all morning, and her father and her lower wore out with the fishing fleet. For every Ave she offered up for Louis, the lover she offered two for her father, the Padrone. Every one connected with the fishing industry in San Francisco knew the Padrone, and his advice was the law of the fishermen. Even those who had incurred the debacle at times bore him no ill will, for the heart of that gentle, gray-haired gentleman of his heaps were hard. Nita loved him as only a sweeted but misguided child could. Even Louis was not half so dear to her as the father—her method of praying showed that. Just at that time Louis and the Padrone were greatly in need of her or perhaps were material ning much faster than the half mile he had traveled the law and made the matte wood of their little boat. Louis and the Padrone plunged almost simultaneously into the cold water just in time for the start of the race. TOSSED HIM SOFTLY UP ON THE avoid being entangled in the debris. This may or may not have turned to investigate the damage any rate, it did not find Louis or the Padrone, who were into founder in the sea. "Boots off, Louis," called the Padrone, almost cheerily "the mist with till we reach the islands, or till they fog lifts." He wanted to keep the younger man from realizing how less was their condition — in a short time they directed the men of their boots and their outer clothing, for they were both good swimmers. This way. The Final Notes are this way. Follow close, but have your strength. said the Padrone. He was completely lost, but there were volumes of confidence and hope in his voice. The men struck out, breasting the waves with strong strokes. They swam for several hours, but the fog did not prevent him. Louis began to tie, and the Hearse he heard his gasping for the cage. boy, for Nita, he cried. But Louis' strength was not great. Louis searched, wasist giving out. "Put your head on my shoulder." ventured the Padronne, "I can tow you." "No," panted Louis; "I cannot fast. Save yourself." "It is for Nita boy. You must be saved," said the Padronne. "apply, "in the name of God, listen to the breakers! There is land ahead." The gentleman ran, struck out desperately, and the Padrone was swimming behind, with one powerful arm, pushed him forward holding him by the hair with the other hand. A heavy roller caught the pair, hurling Louis up on an exoskeleton small arm of sandy beach. But the Padrone was still far from Louis. He was dashed against a high rock on one side of the beach and the other he managed to crawl over. Louis left knee was bitifully crippled, they fey, breathless on the sand for some time. Apparently they were in a little guilty, with wells, manning perpendicularly, and the floor slipping upward at. "Holy Mary!" whispered the Padrone. Out of the most above came the sharp bark of the seal. Louis was too much exhausted to realize what it meant. But the Padrone knew. The seals would soon become alarmed and come sliding down that narrow slope seeking the water, after their custom when alarmed. Several more commenced to bark. The Padrone looked upward in despair. Several feet above, on one of the walls, a little edge of rock jutted outward like a shelf. "Thank God," muttered the Padrone; "I can save him for Nita. Yes, the old man will save her Louis for his little girl." He dragged himself quickly to his feet, thou the sharp pain in his knee made him wheeze. The stalk were thoroughly a coused by this time. Rapidly gauged the distance with his eye, the Padrona seized the, unconscious young man in his arms and tossed him softly up on the ledge. The Padron one could hear the sound of the seals, thinners, as they began their descent. He bowed his head to receive death, with a prayer on his lips. But in the kardioscopic flashes of recollection that comes to men at such times, came the momentary remembrance of the days when he stood shoulder to shoulder with the red shirted men in Italy to receive the choreas of Pio Ninio troops. He lifted his head with fierce pride, and shook his first defiantly. "Wise! Garibaldi!" couted the Padrone, raising the old battle cry with his last breath. For the slids, slid down upon him in a brazilied mass, crushing him to death and rolling his body into the sea. The story of Louis' rescue covered nearly a year of a certain enterprising journal, which he was found and brought back to San Francisco in a specially chartered tag by two of their reporters. After they had photographed and interviewed him to their heart's content, he hurried off to Fisherman's Wharf. "Where is the Padrone?" was the first inquiry hurled at him fiercely. "Dog! Coward! Where is the Padrone?" And the fisherman gathered about him with their fists. Louis seemed not to see or fear the angry looks. He had been thinking of the cruel of facing Nita with the news. "It was at the little cove on Saddle Rock," he replied, doggedly. "I was half dead, and he threw me up on a ledge. Then the seals slid down and killed him." "Dog! Beast!" came the angry chorus. "How dare you come back to tell it. Death to the coward!" And several knives were drawn. Manuel, a tall, wiry Italian, who, next to the Padrone, held highest authority over the men, pushed Louu into a shed, where the fish were stored, and blocked the doorway. "Wait!" he cried, sharply. "Listen to reason. We will leave the matter to the daughter of the Padrone. If she desires it, we will send him to her. If not we will punish. Pedro-go and find what she wished." A stalwart you fishman quickly started on the errand, and returned with an expression of sadness joy in his swarthy face, for he had been an admirer of Nita. outside she says that the does not will to face him after he painted. "Andy of Knoxwell rose from the crowd" "Death to the coward" they insisted. "It is closed, they said Manuel, calmly, they will take him back to saddle back, no died coward's death, where he might have died a man's, and no cowards in the fishing boat" Pedrogy will go in your boat. "Four fishermen, turned executioneons, glided out through the Gold- "Good," said Manuel, eagerly, "the seals are there. Quick, boys, before they 'become frightened.'" The salt marshmen, and two of the men bent to the oars. Manuel picked the helpless Louis and handed him on the bench with all his strength, then pushed off with his leg. The men backed desperately with the oars and the little dog drew off none too soon for the foremost shoveler forcibly with the bottom of the boat. When the men looked at the large beech log, he was knocked In the little college John Telegraph Hill, Nita offered Aves to the Madonna's children. He reposed on her father's soul. Noone, prayed for the soul of Louis, whose only crime was illicit. San Francisco Argentine. **WHERE TO TRAVEL: Klepsomminen.** Klepsomminen tells us a method dealing summarily with female kleptomines of whom HUOLIU which followed in certain West End shops. Every woman included in the set of shoplifting is given her interior of being prosecuted in court of "being plenied by the manageress, a person specially selected for her biceps. The bison is a forbidden one."—in the shop alone, says Truth, "20 women have accepted the order of buying, in addition, to any young child of a foreign nationality, who, in consolation for their tender years, were treated to a milder form of chastisement. 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Mr. Pennell was riding in his electric automobile with Mrs. Pennell. They were on Kensington avenue, near Fillmore avenue, skimming along the edge of the Gehres stone quarry, a huge ribbed hole in the ground. Mr. Pennell's hat blew off. The automobile swerved, and in some inexplicable manner it leaped over the curb into the abyss below. Mr. Pennell was killed instantly, his head being crushed to an unrecognizable mass. Mrs. Pennell was injured so severely that the surgeons at the Sisters Hospital, to which she was taken, say her chances of recovery are very slight. Two boys saw the tragedy. They were too far away to know positively just how it happened. Mrs. Pennell when found was unable to speak. She was only semi-conscious when taken to the hospital, and could speak no coherent words. After the operations performed immediately by Dr. Eugene Smith, in the hope of saving her life, she lapsed into unconsciousness, and hence there can be no true version of precisely how the affair occurred. Mr. Pennell left his office in the Austin building at 4.05 o'clock yesterday afternoon. A friend who called up Mr. Pennell on the telephone was informed that Mr. Pennell was in, but that he was just going for a drive. Mr. Pennell himself answered the telephone and said that he would be back between 6.30 and 7 o'clock, making an appointment with his friend for that hour. "Would 6 o'clock do?" he was asked. "Oh, well, you might come at 6 o'clock, but you better make it later," said Mr. Pennell. It was learned last night that the matter mentioned in the telephone talk was something he considered most serious, and which weighed heavily upon him. It was in connection with the Burdick murder. Recently Mr. Pennell made the following statement: "About this case of Burdick. I have told the authorities I went away to New York before the murder, and that I met Mrs. Burdick while I was away. In fact I saw Mrs. Burdick near New York two or three days before the murder of Mr. Burdick. I came home again Wednesday, the day before the murder. I have told it frankly, and the meeting was a proper one. But they seem determined to drag all this business out in the papers. I would do anything to stop it." Pennell and his wife left their home at 4:50 o'clock or one or two minutes before that time. It was a gloomy afternoon and rain was falling. It seemed a strange day for a man to take his wife out automobiling, in the lonely northeast section of the city, at such an hour. Pennell was not a veteran at automobiling. Yet he was an expert at handling the machine and was experienced as to its management. So far as could be learned, he never had any accidents. Certainly he was not regarded as a green or incompetent chaffeur. What was unusual about yesterday's proceeding, according to the maid, was that Mrs. Pennell had always before told her when they would return. "Yesterday, however," said the girl, "when they went out it was Mr. Pennell who told me. Mrs. Pennell went on ahead of him, and he came back and called me and said: 'Lizzie, we will be between 6.30 and 7 o'clock.' i said 'All right,' and they went away. That was between 4.40 and 4.50 o'clock, just after Mr. Pennell had talked over the telephone." Philadelphia, March 10—At a meeting last night of the Vesper Boat Club It was decided to send the famous oarsman, James B. Juvenal, to England next summer to participate in the Henley regatta. It is the intention to have him compete as the representative of Philadelphia in the race for the diamond sculls. Although several Americans have endeavored to win this big event, Ned Ten Eyck, of the Massachusetts Boat Club, of Worcester, Mass., is the only oarsman who ever succeeded. Fortune For a Poor Woman. Charleston, S. C., March 11.—Mrs. John Hopkins, who lives in reduced circumstances at Ophir gold mine, Union county, in this state, it is announced, will receive $143,000, the fortune left by the late Charles Hill, of Los Angeles, Cal. Mrs. Hopkins' first husband, Robert Alexander, while in Texas 20 years ago, it is stated, saved the life of Charles Hill, and Hill made a will of all his property to his preserver. Mrs. Hopkins' two lawyers left Union for Los Angeles yesterday. Fatally Injured by Son. Richmond, M., March 10.—J. M. Tal convention in Light Guard Armory. The fact that Mr. Bryan was to speak attracted a large number of delegates and spectators. Stanley E. Parkhill, of Owosso, the temporary chairman, introduced Mr. Bryan, who said: "Down east, in Delaware, I learned more about some other things than about future candidates for the presidency. I found that many Republicans were fighting against a man named Addicks. 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New York, March 10—Former President Grover Cleveland denied yesterday that he had come to New York for any political purpose, as was rumored. He said: "I came solely for the purpose of attending the Beecher memorial meeting Brooklyn. The reports that I had a political talk with Edward M. Shepard, William C. Whitney and others are untrue. I am not in politics. I am out for good. I only saw Mr. Shepard for two minutes, and politics did not figure in our conversation. Politics is furthest from my thoughts at present, although I am always ready to act in an advisory capacity, if so desired. "As for taking any active part in politics, that is not to be considered." GROUND TO PIECES ON RAILROAD Three Men Mangled Beyond Recognition In Philadelphia. Philadelphia, March 11.—Three men were killed and one other was injured last night by a train on the Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington Railroad in the southwestern section of the city. The victims were workingmen out of employment. 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Washington, March 11—Senator Morgan yesterday secured the first material concession that has been made to him by the senate in connection with the Panama Canal treaty with Colombia. This consisted of an agreement to attach the Spooner canal act bodily to the treaty. This change was made in compliance with a request presented by Senator Lodge during executive session of the senate, and after the necessity for it had been discussed by Mr. Morgan and other members of the senate. It was specifically stipulated, however, that this concession did not amount to an amendment to the treaty. Senator Morgan consumed the entire time of the remainder of the closed session, discussing the canal question from various points of view, and going over much ground he already had covered. Most of his speech was written, and when Senator Cullom asked him if the speech he was reading was a new one or an old one, he replied with some manifestation of vexation that it was new, adding that he did not have to repeat his addresses. He discussed particularly the attitude of the Isthmian canal commission, of which Admiral Walker is the head, and criticised to some extent the change of view taken by that commission in its last report. He also dwelt on the variation of the terms of the treaty from those of the Spooner law. Yesterday there was more or less informal discussion of the proposition to permit Senator Morgan to publish his remarks in the Congressional Record, but there was no effort to reach a conclusion on this point. Senator Cullom, chairman of the committee on foreign relations, has taken the position that this permission to print shall not be granted unless Senator Morgan will agree to allow a day to be fixed for a vote on the treaty. On the other hand, Senator Morgan says he can discuss to any extent he pleases in the public prints a former treaty between the United States and Colombia, which is almost identical with the pending treaty, and which has been made public. POPE'S REAL CONDITION It Is Said the Only Thing the Matter With Him is a, Stuhbhorn, Gold... With Him is a Stubborn Cold. Paris, March 10. A special dispatch from Rome says a correspondent has obtained an interview with a prelate attached to the Vatican, showing the real state of the pope's health: "The reception of 6000 pilgrims Sunday did not fatigue the pontifi seriously," the correspondent asserts. "In fact, the audiences and recent solemnities seemed to have the effect of stimulating the vital forces of the aged man. His chief sources of fatigue have been the giving of long, private audiences and serious work with the cardinals and officials of the Vatican. The only thing the matter with the pope is a rather stunborn cold, which cannot be expected to be entirely bred before a fortnight. It is only then that Dr. Lapponi can form an opinion as to whether the pope's present prostration is accidental or a step in progressive weakness, the result of which may prove fatal. Although it has been denied, the symptom which is causing Dr. Lapponi the greatest anxiety recently is a slight disorder of digestive and intestinal functions. For the present the catarrh with which the pope has been suffering is slowly but continuously improving." CHOLERA ON BOARD Steamship Karamania Detained at Quarantine at New York. New York, March 11.—Six strange deaths at sea aboard the Anchor Line steamer Karamania, from Marselles, Palermo and Naples, caused that vessel to be detained at quarantine yesterday, and Health Officer Doty, after an examination, said the symptoms were so similar to those of cholera that the ship would be thoroughly disinfected and its 733 passengers and the crew sent to Hoffman岛 to remain there until the health officer positively knows they are free from infection. The bodies were buried at sea, and the meager report of the ship's doctor increased Dr. Doty's suspicions. Each of the six victims died in convulsions, following an attack of nausea and cramps. This is the Karamania's second experience of the kind. On August 3, 1893, she arrived off quarantine from Naples and reported three deaths during the trip. Dr. Jenkins, then officer, reported that the death had been due to cholera. Smuggling On U. S. Tranp Manila, March 11.—Collector Shuster has seized a quantity of silk, silver and liquors brought from Hong Kong on the United States transport Seward but not recorded on the manifest, and has ordered the arrest of Captain Harry Chamberlin and the quartermaster of the vessel on the charge of smuggling. The goods were purchased in Hong Kong at the request of prominent army officers, who say they had no knowledge of the plan to conceal them, and who deny intent to defraud the customs. The officials say smuggling is frequent on transports and regular naval vessels, and that they are determined to put a stop to it. Mitchell Expected at Wilke Wilkesbarre, Pa., March 11.—It was announced yesterday at the headquarters of the local leaders of the United Mine Workers that President John Mitchell is expected in this city immediately after the anthracite strike commission makes its award. It is also stated that the findings may make his presence necessary. BRYAN ON ADDICKSIM Nebraska Man Again Reads Cleveland Out of the Party. Detroit, Mich., March 11.—Hon. William J. Bryan, of Nebraska, yesterday addressed the state Democratic judi- THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. 184 Men Arrested SCOTT REMRDY Co., P. O. Box 570, Louisville, Ky Face Bleach. VIRGINIA-In the Law and Equity Court of the city of Richmond, Feb. 14, 1903. The object of this suit is to obtain a divorce a vinculo matrimonii by the plaintiff from the defendant. An affidavit having been made and filed that the defendant is not a resident of the State of Virginia it is ordered that she appear here within fifteen days after due publication hereof and do what is necessary to protect her interest in this suit. A copy Teste:— P. P. Winston, E. M. Roscher, Pq. Clerk. To Nenny Smith. Take notice that I shall on the 31st day of March, 1903, at the office of E. M. Roscher, 128 W. Clay street, in the city of Richmond, Va., between the hours of 9 o'clock A. M. and 6 o'clock P. M., of that day proceed to take the depositions of witnesses to be read as evidence in my behalf in a certain suit in chancery depending in the Law and Equity Court for the city of Richmond, Va., wherein you are defendant and I am plaintiff, and if from any cause the taking of the said depositions be not commenced on the day or if commenced be not concluded on that day the taking of the same will be adjourned and continued from day to day, or from time to time at the same place and between the same hours until the same shall be completed. Very low rate Colonist mixed class tickets via Southern Railway to the South and Southwest. During the months of February, March and April the Southern Railway will sell mixed class Colonist tickets to California, Texas, Mexico, New Mexico, Colorado, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Utah and New York. Low rates. For detailed information inquire of any Southern Railway Agent or write C. W. Westbury, D. P. A., Richmond, V. Richmond Vs Union University. 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