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THE RICHMOND PLANET VOL. XX NO. 49. 58TH CONGRESS IN EXTRA SESSION President Roosevelt's Message on Cuban Reciprocity Treaty. CANNON SPEAKER OF HOUSE Washington, Nov. 10. — President Roosevelt's message was read in both branches of the 58th congress, which convened in extraordinary session. It deals solely with the treaty with Cuba, and is as follows: To the Senate and House of Representatives: I have convened the congress that it may consider the legislation necessary to put into operation the commercial treaty with Cuba, which was ratified by the senate at its last session, and subsequently by the Cuban government. I deem such legislation demanded not only by our interest but by our A. Speaker Joseph G. Cannon. honor. We cannot with propriety abandon the course upon which we have so wisely embarked. When the acceptance of the Platt amendment was required from Cuba by the action of the congress of the United States, this government thereby definitely committed itself to the policy of treating Cuba as occupying a unique position as regards this country. It was provided that when the island became a free and independent republic she should stand in such close relations with us as in certain respects to come within our system of international policy; and it necessarily followed that she must also to a certain degree become included within the lines of our economic policy. Situated as Cuba is it would not be possible for this country to permit the strategic abuse of the island by any foreign military power. It is for this reason that certain limitations have been imposed upon her financial policy, and that naval stations have been conceded by her to the United States. The negotiations as to the details of these naval stations are on the eve of completion. They are so situated as to prevent any idea that there is the intention ever to use them against Cuba, or otherwise than for the protection of Cuba from the assaults of foreign foes, and for the better safeguarding of American interests in the waters south of us. These interests have been largely increased by the consequences of the war with Spain, and will be still further increased by the building of the isthmian canal. They are both military and economic. The granting to us by Cuba of the naval stations above alluded to is of the utmost importance from a military standpoint, and is proof of the good faith with which Cuba is treating us. Cuba has made great progress since her independence was established. She has advanced steadily in every way. She already stands high among her sister republics of the new world. She is loyally observing her obligations to us; and she is entitled to like treatment by us. The treaty submitted to you for approval secures to the United States economic advantages as great as those given to Cuba. Not an American interest is sacrificed. By the treaty a large Cuban market is secured to our producers. It is a market which lies at our doors, which is already large, which is capable of great expansion, and which is especially important to the development of our export trade. It would be indeed short sighted for us to refuse to take advantage of such an opportunity, and to force Cuba into making arrangements with other countries to our disadvantage. This reciprocity treaty stands by itself. It is demanded on considerations of broad national policy as well as by our economic interest. It will do harm to no industry. It will benefit many industries. It is in the interest of our people as a whole, both because of its importance from the broad standpoint of international policy, and because economically it intimately concerns us to develop and secure the rich Cuban market for our farmers, artisans, merchants and manufacturers. Finally, it is desirable as a guaranty of the good faith of our nation towards her young sister republic to the south, whose welfare must ever be closely bound with ours. We gave her liberty. We are knit to her by memories of the blood and the courage of our soldiers who fought for her in war; by the memories of the wisdom and integrity of our administrators who served her in peace and who started her so well on the difficult path of self government. We must help her onward and upward, and in helping her we shall help our selves. The foregoing considerations caused the negotiations of the treaty with Cuba and its ratification by the senate. They now with equal force sup port the legislation by the congress which by the terms of the treaty is necessary to render it operative. A failure to enact such legislation would come perilously near a repudiation of the pledged faith of the nation. I transmit herewith the treaty, as amended by the senate and ratified by the Cuban government. THEODORE ROOSEVELT. White House, Nov. 10, 1903. CONGRESS IN SESSION Joseph G. Cannon, of Illinois, Elected Speaker. Washington, Nov. 10.—The house of representatives of the 58th congress held its first session, and except for the naming of committees, which will follow later, organization was completed. Joseph G. Cannon, of Illinois, whose elevation to the speakership was assured months ago, was formally elected speaker and inducted into office. Mr. Cannon received the applause of Democrats and Republicans all alike when he took up the gavel of authority, the demonstration being most complimentary to the newly elected speaker. He was at once at ease in the speaker's chair, having filled it so often temporarily during his many years of service in the house. The old officers were re-elected and the customary resolutions adopted providing for the appointment of a committee to notify the president and senate of the election of a speaker and clerk, and a committee to join a senate committee to notify the president of the presence of a quorum in the two bodies. The hour of meeting was fixed for 12 o'clock. The rules of the 57th congress were adopted for the 58th congress by an aye and nay vote, after a brief discussion during which the minority sought to secure an increase in the Democratic representation on the committees. CUBAN TREATY IN PERIL House Claims the Right to Initiate All Tariff Legislation. Washington, Nov. 11. — The president had a conference with a number of the leaders in both houses of congress. Those who called on him at the White House were: Secretary Moody, Speaker Cannon, Senators Allison, Aldrich, Platt, of Connecticut; Spooner, Hanna, Hale, Lodge and Wetmore and Representatives Payne, Dalsell, Tawney and Hemenway. The conference lasted two and a half hours. Those who attended it were very loth to discuss any feature of it, but one of the participants stated that the members of the house present had taken dinner with the president and had been called together for the purpose of going over with the president certain portions of his forthcoming message to congress. When the members of the senate arrived the party entered into a general discussion of the Cuban reciprocity agreement now before congress. It developed that the old controversy between the house and senate over the right of the former to initiate all revenue legislation was the principal topic of conversation. The members of the house claimed that the present treaty provides that during the life of the convention the duty on sugar shall not be reduced either by treaty or convention. To concede the position of the senate, they assert, would be a surrender of their constitutional powers. It was said that unless the contention of the house is admitted there will be the same difficulty presented as at the last session, with the probability that the measure will be defeated. No conclusion was reached by the conference. TRIAL FOR REV. ELLWOOD New Castle Presbytery Will Hear Charges at Dover, Del, Jan. 19. Middletown, Del, Nov. 10—The New Castle Presbytery, Rev. M. P. Stahl, moderator, presiding, met at Forest Church here to consider the sermon by the Rev. Robert A. Ellwood, in June last, on the topic, "Should the Murderer of Helen Bishop be Lynched?" The committee appointed to investigate the subject returned a divided report. Rev. S. W. Reigarl, of Salisbury, and Elder G. W. Blake, of Elkton, while they disapproved of the sermon, recommended that the case be dropped. The third member of the committee, the Rev. S. M. Perry, of Chesa- RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1903. peake City, agreed with the majority of the committee in the disapproval, but he recommended that the Rev. Robert A. Ellwood acknowledge that he was wrong in preaching such a sermon when the public mind was inflamed. It was decided to appoint another committee to harmonize the differences. The discussion showed that most of those present were in favor of censuring Rev. Mr. Ellwood, and before an opportunity had been given to appoint the harmony committee Mr. Ellwood requested that he be given a trial. This was granted him, and the presbytery will meet to hear the charges in Dover on January 19. Rev. J. S. Gillifan, of Newark, Del., and Rev. Joseph Brown Turner, of Dover, will make the charges, Mr. Ellwood will be defended by ex-Attorney General Robert C. White. Killed His Housekeeper: Milford, Del., Nov. 11. — Jacob Loftland, colored, living six miles east of here, shot and killed his housekeeper. Loftland then escaped and is believed to have committed suicide by either drowning or shooting himself. A poss is making a search of the neighborhood, and there are fears of lynching if he is found alive. The shooting was the result of a quarrel. Sargent Stricken With Paralysis. Washington, Nov. 9—Hon. Frank P. Sargent, the commissioner of immigration, suffered an attack of paralysis of the left side, and for a time his condition gave his family considera ble concern. He was better today however, and because of his splendid physique Mr. Sargent's physician hopes for a speedy recovery. The American Still Moves On. Wednesday night, the 4th inst., was the regular Board meeting of the American Beneficial Insurance Company. The meeting was a most interesting one. The monthly report showed the work to be in a healthy condition, with an increase of 10.6 members for the month, a large number of whom are straight life members. Undoubtedly this has become the most popular Negro insurance company in America. President Graham is now in Tennesse see and will go to Arkansas, in which two States their work will soon be opened. Recently some new additions have been added to the office force. Miss Madeline Say now becomes Cashier, Mrs W. F. Graham is assistant Cashier, Miss Ida Kyles is efficient and experienced stenographer who works with such high honor and credit the position as stenographer for the G. F., U. O. of true Reformers, now becomes the general stenographer of the American Beneficial Insurance Company. This new addition puts the American in first rank as to competency of its office force. The company is not at all selfish h as to the church matters, for it will be observed that among the officers and office force the different churches are represented. Miss Seay and Mrs. Graham are of the Fifth Street Baptist Church, Miss Kyles is of the Moore St. Church, Miss Kersay and Miss Evans are of the Ebenezer Baptist Church, Miss Pollie Clarke is of the First Baptist Church. The attorney, Lawyer J. Thomas Hewin, is of the Ebenezer Church; the Chief Inspector, Mr. M. J. Harris, is of the First Baptist Church; Mr. R. W. Anderson, of the Auditing Committee, is of the Church, while the manager and General Sick Inspector are of the Fifth Street Baptist Church. The ladies and gentlemen of the logo force are of the different churches. Mr. F. L. Bryant, the Poet Laureate, is a prominent member of the Third Street A. M. E. Church. The company, as has been said, is in a healthy condition and persons who join it should feel themselves proud to be in so substantial an organization. Mr. Adams Here. Hon. Cyrus Fields Adams, Assistant Register of the Treasury of the United States was in the city last Sunday, the guest of Editor John Mitchell, Jr. He was much pleased with the progress being made by our people in this locality, and was outspoken in communication of being done here. Vice-President H. F. Browne's residence was visited and he attended services at the Fifth St. Baptist Church. Foot Ball. Virginia Normal and Industrial Institute of Petersburg Vs. Virginia Union University of Richmond, Monday, Nov. 16th, 1903 at Broad St. Park. Admission, 25 cents. Game called at 3:30. Ladies admitted to Grand Stand, free. Shaw University of Raleigh, N. C. Vs. Virginia Union University, Friday, Nov. 20, 1903. —Rev. Robt. B. Robinson, pastor of Shaw C. M. E. Church, Alexandria, Va., was in the city this week on his way to South Boston, Va., to attend the Annual Conference of the C. M. E. Church. —Wm. H. Hatcher, Jr., son of W. H. Hatcher, No. 1917 Decatur, St., Manchester, Va., is very ill. —Mr. Benj. Jackson has been seriously ill. COLORED BAPTISTS COMING TOGETHER Fifth Street and First Baptist Churches are United. PERFECT LOVEFEAST Drs. W. T. Johnson and W. F. Graham Shake Hands--Two Strong Men Will Now Pull Together Last Monday night was one that will long be remembered by the First and Fifth Street Baptist Churches and this entire community. For more than a year these two churches have been estranged and were not fellowshiping each other. It must be said to their credit, however, that during all of this time, the two pastors have remained on friendly terms, each hoping and praying that the bright day of peace and harmony would come. Strange to say, last Monday night was not the regular church meeting night for either of these churches; Dr. Johnson had called a special church meeting, not informing his members his object of this call. Dr. Graham had called a similar meeting, simply because he wanted to hold his church meeting before leaving the city for a few days of recreation. HAND OF FELLOWSHIP ROSTORED It was late Monday evening when the two pastors found out that each would have a meeting on that night. The First Baptist Church met and in a few moments, in the spirit of broad-hearted love and Christianity, voted unanimously to restore the right hand of fellowship to the Fifth Street Church and appointed its pastor, Deacons and others, forming a large committee, who marched up to the Fifth Street Baptist Church and were received with open hearts and hands by Dr. Graham and his congregation. After Dr. Johnson had made known the mission of their coming, the Fifth Street Baptist Church, by rising vote, received the communication and adopted it. Then after a few expressions of warm hearted greeting on the part of Dr Johnson, Deacon R. T. Hill, Deacon Wyatt, Rev. R. Beecher Taylor, Edinborough Archer and Dr. Graham, the hymn "Blest be the Tie that Binds" was sung, after which Dr. Graham sang two verses of "Go Preach my Gospel Saith the Lord," while the great congregation stood and shook hands for joy. There were shouts, tears of joy, smiles, shaking of hands, and it could be easily seen that Dr. Graham and Dr. Johnson were almost overcome in ecstatic emotions of joy. THE FIETH STREET RESPONDS The Fifth Street Baptist Church voted to send their pastor and a committee of twenty-five to meet at the First Baptist Church the first Monday night in December and formally notify them of their approval of the happy end of the long standing trouble. It is believed that the reunion of these two churches will be the stepping stone for peace and harmony among Baptists not only in the city of Richmond, but throughout the State, and that it will go further and further until the fire catches hold of the Lott Cary and National Baptist Conventions, and therefore there will be not only local peace, but National reunion of all of the Negro Baptists of America. It has been suggested that Hon. John Mitchell Jr., will accompany the Fifth St Baptist Church committee to the First Baptist Church and take a part in the love feast. Dr. Graham and Dr. Johnson will now be in a position to render each other much help in the conduct of religious work. Blackwell—Howard The marriage of Mr. Thomas J. Blackwell to Mass Ida B. Howard took place at the residence of Rev. W. H. Stokes Wednesday Nov 4th, 1903, at 9 o'clock P. M. Bride's maid and groom servants acting, were Miss Llew Wells & Mr Wm. Wesley Mayo. There were no cards sent out, but the bride and groom were well entertained Sunday after-noon. Those present were Mrs. Jane Howard, Amelia Howard, Miss Goldia Hum, Miss Ida Kyles, and a host of other friends. Wright—Randall. The marriage of Miss Mary R. Randall to Mr. Wm. H. Wright will take place Wednesday Nov., 18th, 1903, from the residence of the bride's parents 614 N. 13th, St., at 9 p. m. Friends are invited. No cards. To let to gentlemen, two nicely furnished rooms, with privilege of hot and cold bath. Apply 103 E. Leigh St. The funeral of Jerry Peyton, brother of B. H. Peyton took place on last Sunday Nov., 8th, 1903 at one o'clock at the Fifth St., Baptist Church, Dr. W. F. Graham preached a very touching sermon. He died in the 36th, year of his age after an illness of four months. "Asleep in Jesus, Blessed sleep." PYTHIANS AT NEW RIVER Fine Initiation—Grand Time There. Grand Chancellor John Mitchell, Jr. and Col. E. R Jefferson of Richmond and Deputy Grand Chancellor W. J. Wells, of Lynchburg, arrived at East Radford Monday morning, 9 h in at about 8 o'clock the train being b te. They were met the train at Deputy Grand Chancellor R. W. Pettie who had conveyances ready and they were carried to Rock Read, where Sir Mitchell and Wells were made comfortable at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. R. M. Pettie and Col Jefferson at Mr. and Mrs. Jones' residence. THE INITIATION. At 11 o'clock Sir. D. C. Johnson, Deputy Grand Chancellor and Sir P. H. White arrived from Pocahontas. It was a lively throng that had gathered. The party came over here in the after noon at about about 7 o'clock. Sir Mitchell proceeded to initiate the remainder of the court, which had been instituted here. There were fourteen. The work was done in the Odd Fellows' hall here. Ladies came over from Rock Road to assist. The following filled the chairs: Grand Worthy Counsellor, John Mitchell, Jr.; Grand W. Inspectrix, Mrs Mary J. Jones; G. W. Inspector, Mrs. Olivia Pettis; G. W. O. Miss Lotie Floyd; G. W. S. D., Miss Venezuela Delaney; G. W. D., Mrs. Ella Fields; G. W. H., Mrs. Susie Floyd; G. W. A. Aest. Conductress, Mrs. Amelia Austin; G. W. Cond., Mrs. Sallie Henry; G. W. Escort, Mrs. I. A. Tute; Assistants, P. H. White, D. C. Johnson. THE OFFICERS INSTALLED The following are the officers of the new body, which will be known as Silver Stream Count, No. 67: W. C, M. Mary Armstead; W. Inspectrix, Nettie Hairston; W. Inspector, Mary Cassey; O., Julia Morton, S. D., Cora Saunders; J. D., Emma Thompson; E., Lucy Crockett, Cond. L., Lucy Cassey, Asc. Cond., Florence Brown; R. of A., Ethel Hall; R. of D., Roxie Austin; Rec. of D., Ella Trigg; H., Tenia Amons; P., William Hairston; Trustees, Mary Cassey, Ida Austin, Emma Sheffey. Eatables were served in abundance. THE LODGE COMPLETED. The initiation of the remainder of Silver Stream Lodge, No. 61, was proceeded, with the following filling the chairs: Grand Chancellor, John Mitch ell, Jr; Grand V. C., D. C. Johnson; G. P., P. W. White; G. M of W., W. J, Wells; G. M at A, E. R. Jefferson; G. I. G. C., J. Jones; G. O. G., J. E. Floyd; Attendants, Walter Lewis, J. H. Owens, Harvey Franklin, R. B. Blaney, Fletcher Wright, H. C. Jones, T. J. Gunn, S. Crockett, L. F. Ford, G. Ford, Arthur Day, J. W. Hairston, J. E. Owens, Sandy Caye, B. A. Armstrong, Jesse Barnett, Walter Trigg, Edmund Franklin, Abe Rollins, Wm. Minter, Richard Casey, Royal Bibe, R. J. Austin, C. M. Mains, Rev, W E. Mitchell, James N. Batts, S. H. Phillips, R. M. Pettitt, Robert C. Austin. THE LODGE OFFICERS. After the initiation, the following officers were installed: C. C., James Batts; V. C., Sandy Casey; M. at A., Robert Alston; M. of W., Robert C. Austin; K. of R. and S., James Owens; M. of F., W. M. Minter; M. of Ex. Solomon Crockett; P., Daniel Smith; I. G., John Owens; O. G., William Hairston; Trustees, Thomas Thompson, Chris. Mann, Abe Rawlings, Attendants, Arthur Buruet, Arthur Thirteen occupying in this neighborhood and everybody is happy. This work was done through the efforts of Deputy Grand Chancellor R. M. Pettis. Mrs. Anna Taylor spent three weeks here completing the court. PYTHIANS ENTER PULASKI The Grand Chancellor Speaks There— A Fine Initiation—Many Visitors Present. PULASKI, V.A., Nov. 11th, 1903. Grand Chancellor John Mitchell, Jr., arrived here yesterday, accompanied by Col. E. R. Jefferson, Sir W. J. Wells, Sir R. M. Pettis, Sir D. C. Johnson, Sir P. W. White and many other knights from Radford and New River. They were met at the train by Sir W. E. Williams and others. They were carried to the hall and subsequently assigned to their homes. Grand Chancellor Mitchell and Col. E. R. Jefferson were the guests of Mr. W. E. Williams. THE ADDRESS DELIVERED: The club here provided for the visitors in good style and the Grand Chancellor was much pleased. During the progress of the medical examination, the Grand Chancellor, John Mitchell, Jr., after an introduction by Deputy Grand Chancellor Pettis delivered a most eloquent and practical address. The club numbered 23 when he reached here and when he had concluded his remarks, 42 had paid through. Of these, 39 were initiated. The following filled the stations:—Grand Chancellor, John Mitchell, Jr.; Grand Vice Chancellor, D. C Johnson; G.P. Rev. W. E. Mitchell; G.M. of W., W. J. Wells; G.M. at A., E. R. Jefferson; G. I. G., G. J. Jones; G.O. G., Bentley Clark; G.K. of R. & S., Eugene Henry; G.M. of Ex. C. H. Jones; Ass't G. M. at A., P.H. White, R. M. Pettis; Attendants. S. Crockett, Sandy Casey, J. W, Hairston, J. H, Owens, R. B. Blaney, Fletcher Wright, Walter Lewis, J. E. Floyd, A. P. Armstrong, Rev. L. W. Holmes and J. W. Pack. NEW OFFICERS INSTALLED The following officers were installed in this new body, known as Peak Knob Lodge, 64.-C. C. J. H. Hairston; C. J. F. Bentley; P. Rev. W. E Mitchell; M. of W. W. E. Williams; K. of R. R; S. Henry A. Patterson; M. of F. J. P. Calfee; M. of Ex. B. F. Henry; M. at A. W. E. Calendar; I. G. W. B. Lewis; O. G. Abb. Miller; Trustees. C. H. Jones, Jerry Murphy, Beverly Perry, Attendants, William Wiuson, J. Baker, Robert Martin, David Austin. This lodge was organized through the efforts of Rev W. E. Mitchell and Deputy R. M. Pettis. The Grand Chancellor was outspoken in his commendation of them. Eatables in abundance were served. The National Baptist S. S. Union, of Richmond, Va., met on the above named date at the the Fifth Street Baptist Church, First Vice-President E. A. Washington, presiding. The meeting was opened with devotional exercises by the Chaplain, S. A Clay. Welcome address was delivered by Asst. Supt. R. H. Fanterloy, of the Fifth Street Baptist S. S. Response by the Third Vice-President, M. L. Crittendon, after which a well prepared program was well rendered. Among those present were the following well-known S. S. workers: E. A. Washington, S. A. Clay, Louis Potter, M. L. Crittendon, Rev. A. B. Smith, C. C. Williams, W. H. Jones, Thomas Beverly, A. W. Dandridge and many others. A most interesting and instructive address, subject "Our Union and Its Results," was delivered by Lawyer Henry Crutchfield. In the course of his remarks it was plainly seen that the Union had done and was still doing much in creating the Negro's possibility in this country. The next Union is expected to convene on the 2nd Sunday in December with the Fifth Baptist Sunday School (Sydney.) **Wanted—A WIFE** I have a good home, besites $1500 worth of real estate and a respectable bank account. Address, JOHN LEO, 201 E. 6th St., Austin, Texas. **Wanted—PORTER.** Man who has had experience in a tailor shop and can clean and press clothing. Good, steady job the year round to right man. Address with reference EXCELSIOR TAILORING Co., 2t Bluefield, W. Va. **Wanted—For ready engagements:** Artistic and Characteristic Entertainers, Choruses, Cake Walkers, Quartetts, etc. For information address. The Ethiopian Musical & Dramatic Exchanger, M.g'r- and MyRKs, Director, ——If Mr. Albert H. Harris, formerly of Rochester, N. Y., will communicate with Mrs. Charlotte Mason, 814 North 3rd Street, Richmond, Va., he will receive information of interest to him. 2t GERMAN EMPEROR OPERATED ON Polypus Removed From His Larynx By Professor Schmidt Berlin, Nov. 3.—Emperor William underwent an operation for the removal of a polypas from his larynx. The operation was performed by Professor Mortiz Schmidt and was entirely successful. The only inconvenience suffered by his majesty is that he has been enjoined not to speak until the wound caused by the operation has been healed. The bulletins announcing the result of the operation caused much astonishment, even among court officials, who had no suspicion that his majesty was suffering from any affection of the throat. The emperor himself appears not to have known of the growth in his larynx until a few days ago, and to have suffered no discomfort from it. The North German Gazette publishes the report of Professor Johannes Orth, the famous cancer specialist, who succeeded the late Professor Virchow in the chair of pathological anatomy in the University of Berlin. Professor Orth made a microscopical examination, which shows that the polypus consisted of a very soft connective tissue containing very few cells. This tissue was covered all over with a scale epithelium, sharply defined from the tissue. A portion of the connective tissue cells contained fine brown pigmented granules, which evidently were the result of former slight hemorrhages. The polypus also contained a large number of thin-walled corpuscles. The surgeons expect that the emperor will be out of doors in a week. He has arranged a hunting trip for Friday, November 27. MISS GOELET WEDS DUKE OF ROXBURGHE Only Two Hundred and Fifty Persons Witnessed the Ceremony. WILD DISORDER ABOUT CHURCHES New York, Nov. 11. The marriage of Miss May Goellet, only daughter of Mrs. Ogden Goellet, and the n. rest of American airresses, to Henry John Innes-Ker, eighth Duke of Roxburgh, and 17th in order of precedence of the dukes of Great Britain, was solemnized at St. Thomas' Church, in the city. Bishop William Crosswell Dearn of Albany, asisted by the Rev. Ernest M. Stfres, of St. Thomas' Church, performed the ceremony. A company of 250 guests, a small number for an international marriage of such importance, witnessed the ceremony. Forming in the outer vestibule of the church, the bridal party proceeded down the aisle to the chanel steps, the bride on the arm of her brother, Robert Goellet. The maid of honour was Miss Beatrice Miles, and Mrs bridlesmaids Lady Isabel Innes-Ker, Miss Martha Johnston, Miss Alice Bacock, Miss Marian Haven, Miss Theresa Iselin, Miss Nina Thayer, of Boston, and Miss Pauline Whittier. At the chancel steps the bride was met by the duke and his best man, the Hon. Reginald Ward, son of the late Earl of Dudley, and the betrothed service of the Protestant Episcopal Church was read by Mr. Stiles. The party then advanced to the altar rail where the Episcopal marriage service was read by Bishop Doane. The duke and his bride will spend a few days at Newport, and the real honeymoon will be spent on his estate in Scotland. The duchess received many super jewels among her wedding gifts, which are valued at over $1,000,000. They include a tiara of diamonds and pearls, a necklace of diamonds, a pendant of diamonds and emeralds, a head ornament of diamonds, a diamond collar, many rings' and bracelets set with precious stones, besides a great quantity of gold and silver plate, cut glass, etc. The bride's fortune, which she holds entirely in her own right, is estimated at about $30,000,000. Fifth avenue in the vicinity of the church was the scene before and during the ceremony of excitement and disorder unparalleled at any of the previous great weddings in New York. From the church to the Goolet residence, a distance of five blocks, the avenue was a surging mob numbering fully 10,000 persons, mostly women whom a force of 200 policemen were powerless to hold in check. Before the service began several hundred women gained entrance to the church and seated themselves in the gallery, from which they were forcibly lodged by a squad of police a few minutes before the arrival of the bride. When the carriage containing the bride-to-be and her brother, Robert Goelet, neared the church it was surrounded by women, who stopped the horses, and in their efforts to see the bride clung to the carriage, some of them getting on the steps and thrusting their heads into the open windows. When the carriage of Mr. and Mrs Cornelia Vanderbilt, which was just ahead of the bride, reached the canopy leading from the curb to the church, the crowd of women banked up 25 feet deep on either side rushed frantically forward, carrying the solid lines of policemen with them, and for a moment choked the entrance. They were forced back, only to again rush forward when the bride's carriage drew up. By this time policemen from other points had been collected there, but in spite of them a group of half a dozen women stooped down and lifted the canvas of the canopy and crawled under. They clung to their positions, notwithstanding all the efforts of the police to pull them away, and several of them managed to keep their heads under the canvas until the bride had passed up. A patrolman caught one well-dressed woman by one of her skirts and dragged her along the walk, she still clinging to the canvas. She was picked up smiling and satisfied. She had seen the bride. Found Their Children Shot Shamokin, Pa. Nov. 10—When Mr. and Mrs. Clement Copernick returned after a temporary absence from their home in Natalie they found their children, Anna and Stella, 3 and 9 years respectively on the floor of the kitchen covered with blood from wounds. Anna had been shot through the lung, while, her sister's neck and head contained an amount of bird shot. Neither of the victims have as yet been able to state who shot them. Anna is not expected to recover. The parents are unknown enemies shot the children. BE YENGE DECIDED NOT TO WORRY. I've decided not to worry any more; I'm 'livin' jesst as easy as before; What's the use to fume an' furry? The's use to allers worry? I've decided not to worry any more. Best go 'loutg an' allers mind your own af- fairs; Jest determine not to worry any more. What's the use to lie awake an' rack your brain Jest because the crops are thirstin' for a rain? It'll come of it's a-comin', An' it boun' to come a-hummin'. In the same old way—don't worry any more. When you come to cross a hill that's hard to climb. Take it easy; rock along an' take your time; Try to keep the weikin ringin' Wish your shoutin' an' your singin'; An' you'll clean fergit to worry any more. Lawrence Porcher Hext, in Lippincott's Magazine. What Black Mike Saw By W. W. HINES (Copyright, 1903, by Dally Story Pub. Co.) BECAUSE he was surly, the men called him "Black Mike" Riordan. Yet those who knew him best swore his heart was one of the kindest. Whatever the verdict of others, it is convincing enough proof that he had his good side, in that Kittle Donoughue loved him better than all the world. They were to have been married just before Lent, and Bliss Mike wore his scarf no more. Kittle was never strong and a cold just snuffed her life out, so Black Mike became bluer than ever before. Some would have tried to comfort him, but his fireman, Dan Meagher, who knew him better than any one else, said: "Leave him be. He likes it best so." And after a period of mourning, Black Mike, with a black scowl than ever, came back to work on the Central division. There had never been but one love in his life, that for Kittle Donoughue, who was dead, but there was a sincere liking for young Dan Meagher, who had been his fireman, and for engine 126, on which he had pulled the throttle. With a silent hand-clasp Meagher welcomed him back, and he could feel that No. 126 was glad again to feel the touch of his hand at the throttle. So he climbed up on the right side of the engine and the Cannon Ball express pulled slowly out of the brilliantly lighted station, with its first stop 98 miles away, and 12 minutes of time to be made up in the worst storm and the blackest night of the year. Rain came in sheets, driving before the heavy gusts of wind and beating against the glass sides of the cab as though it would drive them in. Even in the yards it took sharp watching to make out the signal lights, but there was time to be made up, and even engineers have to take chances of the safety of their train in such an event. Schedule time is a sacred thing in the eyes of the men of the Central division. On the whole, Black Mike was grateful to the storm. There was a wild tumult in it that struck a responsive note in his heart, where pain was eating like live, mad thing, gnawing and rending. The Cannon Ball express has the right of way over everything, and only accidents can detain her. The dozing operator at Merionsville was aroused as the Cannon Ball swept by, and walked to his instrument to report her as passed. "M!! M!! M!!" his station call, came over the wire, and when he signified that he was on hand, came the message from the chief train dispatcher: "Flag express all hazards. Bridge down." "Express passed before message received. Trying to report her when you cut in on wire," he answered. There was no other station between Mertonsville and the bridge over Benson river, so the chief dispatcher had done all in his power to prevent the impending catastrophe. Immediately upon receipt of a wire from the operator at Ordway, on the further side of the Benson river, he had wired to Mertonville in the vain attempt to stop the express. The dispatch from Ordway read: "Track walker reports bridge down. Cannot get flag man across." With quick, sharp orders, the dispatcher had a special made up to carry doctors and nurses to the scene of the accident he now regarded as inevitable. They were ready to start in an hour, and a wrecking train was only a few moments behind them. Picturing the track in his own mind, the dispatcher could see no escape for the express. There is a sharp curve and a heavy cut just before the approach to the bridge, and, with orders to make up lost time, Black Mike would be running at the utmost speed of which his engine was capable. It was the fault of no one. Everyone had done his duty—but it is a horrible thing to sit impotently in a chair and feel that over a hundred people are approaching their death. Darkness and storm around them, the beat of the rain against the windows of the cab drowning even the noise of the engine, Black Mike and Dan were both trying to keep a sharp look out ahead of For a little distance the headlight half penetrated the rain and darkness, which fled in black and impenetrable a hundred feet away. Black Mike is not on his seat. He is standing on the swaying floor of the cab; one hand on the throttle, the other on the air brake, and the reverse lever resting in the crook of his right arm. In the intervals of throwing in coal, Dan climbed to his seat on the left of the cab and pressed his face against the glass. Neither can hope to make out a danger in time to stop the engine, but there is an undefinable fear in the hearts of both. It is the schooling of engineer and fireman to take things on trust, but to keep on the alert. The Cannon Ball has the right of way, and there is nothing to fear except some accident to the track. Of a sudden, Meagher looks across to see Black Mike with his face pressed against the glass. It is not the position of the engineer that arrests and fixes his attention, but it is the expression on his face. The face is as white as a sheet through the grime of coal and perspiration, and his eyes are blazing with a light that seems perilously akin to madness. "See, lad! Look!" says Black Mike in a hoarse, unnatural voice. But from his own side of the cab, the fireman can make out nothing save clouds of rain which drive across the path of light in front of the locomotive. "I see nothing, Mike," says Meagher. "Just look ahead, lad, moving with us, the shadow on the track. Look, lad, look, and for God's sake tell me what it is!" "Rain drops on the glass of the head-light, Mike; that is all." "Nay, nay, lad. Look! It beckons us to stop. By the Mother of God, 'tis the wraith of Kittie Doncoughue." Releasing his hold upon the throttle, Black Mike throws the reverse lever over "IT BECKONS US TO STOP." as far as it will go, and tugs at the air brake with all his strength. It is all done with one motion and, despite her tremendous weight and momentum, the express comes to a halt within a few yards. The jar breaks the glass in the cab, throws the fireman to the floor, and shakes up every one in the train. Trembling as though from a chill, they carry Black Mike to one of the coaches and endeavor to make him swallow stimulants. To gratify what they think is a whim, they send a brakeman on ahead with a lantern, and discover that they have come to a stop within a hundred yards of the foaming Benson river, and that of the bridge there is nothing left but the pillars. "Twas Kittle, who wanted to save the passengers and to give me warning," said Black Mike, and in this belief he persisted. He would not take out another engine, and died within a week of heart disease. "The engineer of an express train is particularly liable to the attacks of heart disease," said the company's doctor. But Dan Meagher, who has an engine of his own now, never passes the spot where the Cannon Ball was brought to so sudden a halt without crossing himself, unostentatiously and in all reverence. COPPER WITH A HISTORY. Cent That Was Used to Determine the Name of the Metropolis of Oregon. F. W. Pettygrove, son of F. W. Pettygrove, one of the founders of Portland and the man who named the city, has in his possession the copper cent with which his father won the right to select the name. He is a commercial traveler for a San Francisco house and naturally sets great store by this cent, which he has shown to many here on his visits to this city, says the Portland Oregonian. Some of his friends have besought him to turn this cent over to the Oregon Historical society to be preserved, but he has not been able to make up his mind to do this. George H. Himes, secretary of the society, has been advised to wrestle with Mr. Pettygrove, and it is not unlikely that he may succeed in securing this historical coin. Mr. Pettygrove has also in his possession the Bible used on the occasion of the first sermon ever preached in Portland, which with the cent was presented to him by his father as a keepsake. It was in the summer of 1845 that A. L. Lovejoy and F. W. Pettygrove, who owned the claim on which Portland was located, employed Thomas A. Brown to survey their property and lay it off into streets, blocks and lots, and when he had completed the plat the proprietors undertook to choose a name for the newly born city. Mr. Lovejoy desired that it be called Boston in honor of the capital of his native state. Mr. Pettygrove contended that Portland was more appropriate, as it was at the head of navigation and the port where would land all the freight intended for the valley of the Willamette and all the southern produce of the territory. In order to decide the question it was proposed by Mr. Pettygrove to toss a copper cent, which he had brought with him as a souvenir of his eastern home. This was agreed to by Mr. Lovejoy. The cent was tossed and, Mr. Pettygrove proving the winner, Portland was adopted as the name of the embryo city. Peculiar Pets of Ladies "I sell these snakes as pets for ladies," explained recently a London naturalist who regularly contracts for a supply of harmless common grass snakes to be so disposed of THE RICHMOND PLANET. Used Cats for Poker Chips This Story Tells in a Truthful and Unassuming Way How Pete Snelling Won the Cat Poker Championship of Western New York and How Old Man Booker Went Broke on Two Pair, Queens High. The strangest poker game ever played in western New York was fought out two weeks ago by Pete Snelling, of Hamlin, N. Y., better known as the "Cat Hermit," and "Old Man" Booker, of Clarkson, likewise a recluse and something of a cat fancier. The two men live about one mile apart, with the town line between them. It was in reality town against town, with cats for chips. The game grew out of professional jealousy, as each of the players pretended to be the boss hermit in point of years, hard luck and number of cats. Last August Old Man Booker happened to meet Pete at the village store, and among other things declared that when it came to poker he could make Pat Sheedy hunt cover. to a pair of queens and caught a small pair. Pete split a pair of jacks and found a straight. "Oh, I'll bet a kitten," said Booker. "See your kitten and raise you two cats," Pete came back. Booker called and lost. For the next six hands they simply swapped kittens back and forth without getting any action. Then on jackpot Booker opened for one cat, holding pat a club straight, nine high. Pete discarded a queen of hearts and caught the ten of diamonds, which gave him a diamond straight, ten high. Then the cats flew into the box fast and furious. The boxes began to get a bit crowded and a vacant room was used to accumulate the chips. Both men left their cards "I am strong on it," he announced. "I'm husky. I haven't played for years, just because I know there is no one hefty enough to make it interesting." "If you dig up my past, you'll find I'm quite a cuss with the pasteboards, myself," said Pete. "Dare you to meet me," cried the old man. "I'm for that. What shall we play for?" asked Pete. Old Man Booker scratched his rough chin and thought deeply. Then he had an inspiration. "How are you fixed for cats?" he asked. "Got about 50, and 20 kittens," replied Pete. "All right! let's play for cats," said Booker. So it was agreed, and two weeks ago the game was pulled off. Booker collected his feline assets and carted them over to Pete's tumble-down farmhouse. Pete had his chips meowing and spitting in an empty room and no time was lost in bringing out a greasy deck of cards, and the game began on a kitten ante and two-cat limit. On the first hand Pete straddled the ante for one cat, but his boost began to eat up Booker's kittens. "I'm not going to lose my edge that way," declared Booker. "If you want to fight cats I've got some thoroughbreds in that crate." A compromise was effected by bringing in two big boxes with stout covers, one for kittens and one for cats. Booker refused to play and Pete pulled down the stakes. On Booker's deal it went into a jackpot and both put up a kitten, as neither had openers. "Change a cat for me," requested Pete. Booker pushed two kittens across the board. On the next deal Booker opened for two cats and Pete drew cards and boosted the sweetening one kitten. Booker drew SAVED MASTER'S LIFE. Dog Runs for Aid When a Tree Falls on the Man and Carries Evidence Along. John Reegan, a Cascade (Pa.) farmer, went out to fell trees. The dog followed him. Reegan cut down a tall oak. It fell and lodged against another tree. Reegan was pinned to the ground. DOG CARRIED A BOOT There was a depression in the earth under Reegan's body, else he would have been killed instantly. The dog, seeing the predicament of his master, began to bark, supplementing it with attempts to pull his master from under the tree. Finding it useless, he ran toward the house. When he arrived there he sat down in the dooryard and howled. When the door was opened the dog was seen with one of his master's boots in his mouth. The-men saw that something was wrong, and followed the dog, which still carried the boot. When the tree was reached Reegan explained that the dog had, after hard work, succeeded in pulling off the boot and taking it away. Reegan was 'soon released, little the worse for his queer experience. Several residents of Crookston, Minn., have fed a crow during the summer, and the bird became so tame that the children could feed it from their hands. The little folks have had great sport playing with the bird, and were in the habit of harnessing it with strings. One day, however, when the children started to play with it in the afternoon they had cause for sorrow. The crow darted at them, as if to peck their eyes out, and scared several of the little ones so that they called for help. Several scratches on faces and arms resulted from the attack, and a dead crow is the result. INDIAN GIRLS ELOPE. Leave Government School at Nigh and Make Their Escape by Canoe and Steamer. Two pretty quarterbreed Indian girls, 17 and 18 years old, escaped from the government Indian school on Vermilion lake, near Tower, Minn., by a rope from the washroom window, and eloped with their lowers, Thomas Gheen --- to a pair of queens and caught a small pair. Pete split a pair of jacks and found a straight. "Oh, I'll bet a kitten," said Booker. "See your kitten and raise you two cats," Pete came back. Booker called and lost. For the next six hands they simply swapped kittens back and forth without getting any action. Then on jackpot Booker opened for one cat, holding pat a club straight, nine high. Pete discarded a queen of hearts and caught the ten of diamonds, which gave him a diamond straight, ten high. Then the cats flew into the box fast and furious. The boxes began to get a bit crowded and a vacant room was used to accumulate the chips. Both men left their cards on the table and stood by their respec "CHANGE A CAT FOR ME." tive cats. As each called his raise he would grab the limit by the necks and toss them into the pot. "See here, Snell, I'm out of cats, but I've got a show for it." stakes," announced Booker, as he threw in two kittens and went shy a cat. "Well, Book, we'll show hands now, or seal up the cards until you can raise more cats. It's a shame to take your cats. I wish you'd call me." "Not by a long chalk, Snell. I'll never lay down on this hand. I'll die first. Give me ten hours to hustle in for more cats and then we'll show up." This was agreed to and inside of six hours Booker drove up with 20 cats and six kittens. The limit was raised and the whole bunch of furry chips were deposited in the fighting cat-pot, and the cards were unsealed. Thus, says the New York Sun, did Snelling win the cat-poker championship of western New York and incidentally break Old Man Booker. and John Gagnon, aged 21 and 18, respectively, pilots on lake steamers. The girls remained that night under a rowboat on a point in the lake during one of the most terrific storms of the season, while the fellows returned to Tower to allay suspicion. After picking up the girls, the fellows took a small steamer and went up Vermillion lake, pursued by Bob Fleetwood, an officer at the school, and an Indian policeman. At a roadhouse half-way across Crane lake portage the quartette were captured, but the girls eluded the officers and escaped to ESCAPED BY ROPE ROUTE the woods. The hunt was resumed, but the girls could not be found. Later Gheen and Gagnon rejoined them, and they sought shelter in a land-looker's shanty several days. Gheen and Gagnon went on up the lake, but Gagnon returned with a third fellow, whose name is unknown. Gheen came back in time to see the quartette board a steamer for Fort Francis, Canada, where they were to be married. This is the first elopement from the school, and the authorities are greatly chagrined to be outwitted by two girls. The story has been kept secret, the escape having occurred on September 19. Gheen has returned to Tower and resumed his position as a pilot on a steamer. Arctic Explorer—I believe I'll put on this dress suit for dinner, just for fun. His Wife—But it isn't proper to wear evening clothes before sundown. "Oh, well, put 'em away, then, for a couple of months more."—Town Topics. Primitive Lighthouses. The first lighthouses had fires of wood and coal kindled at the top of them. The Fish We Ent. Three times more herrings are consumed than any other kind of fish. Opium in England. The importation of opium in England has more than doubled since 1898. Ammonia for Iodine Stains. Iodine stains will disappear if dipped in liquid ammonia. --- RICHMOND VIRGINIA Fashion's Strict Rule Young Boston Woman Disappears from Nuptial Chamber and Is Found the Next Morning, Sound Asleep, on Dizzy Iron Ladder—Somnambulism Explains This Novel Honeymoon Experience. MRS. MONTGOMERY SEARS BUTLER, a Boston bride, spent the first night of her honeymoon on a fire escape at the Victoria hotel, in Chicago. Montgomery Sears Butler, the husband of the Boston bride, spent the night roaming the streets, striding up and down the hotel corridor, wandering through the hotel halls—in fact, everywhere save in the bridal chamber. Incidentally, when the bride was found perched on the lowest round of the fire escape, men were ungallant enough to make remarks about a woman who chose to spend the night clinging to the side of a building. Mr. and Mrs. Montgomery Sears Butler are prominent in Boston. At least that is what their friends say. The bridegroom showed that he was willing "Do I want to find her? Why, man, she must be found. Maybe she's been kidnapped." All the bell boys were called. Instructions were issued, and they were about to begin the hunt when the bridegroom shouted: "And there's ten dollars to the boy that brings a trace of her, and $20 to the man that ninds her." The boys needed no other incentive. They went along the halls shouting her name. Guests were awakened and asked if they had seen her. Sympathizating women joined in the hunt. For an hour the hotel was crowded by amateur detectives. But no trace of the bride was found. "The lake," finally shouted the husband. "Here to wait until morning." CORRECTIONS CORRECTIONS to give his wife the best when they arrived at the Victoria hotel. "The finest suite in the house," he said to Clerk McHenry. "Sure," said the clerk, and gave them the keys to room 313. According to the Chicago Chronicle, it was about 11 o'clock when the bride-groom and bride left the lobby. An hour later the bridegroom returned to the clerk. "Have you seen her?" he queried, and he was excited, too. "Who?" naturally asked the clerk. "Why, my wife." Then the clerk looked at the bride-groom. He wore a bathrobe. What else the clerk could not tell. The clerk didn't know just what to do. "Well, do you want to find her?" he asked at last. SAWED WITH HIS MOUTH. How a Tramp Got a Good Meal Without Doing a Lick of Work for It. Harry Sanderson, manager for Tony Pastor, who lives at Cranford, N. J., not feeling particularly well, took a day off recently and remained at home. From the window of his library he observed a tramp entering his gate and he walked down to the rear door to meet him. It was the old story—a request for a meal. Having a load of unsawed wood in the shed, he told the fellow that if he got to work and performed on the sawbuck for a brief period he would have something prepared for him. The tramp went to the shed and immediately the sound of vigorous sawing was heard, stick after stick parting under his energetic efforts. Calling the trump into the kitchen, Sanderson imbued him upon his energy, a trump replied with a rant that whenever he had an do he generally paid at- Lint tention to it. The meal was eaten and the tramp expressed his thanks and departed. Shortly after Sanderson went out to the shed and was surprised to find every stick of wood intact. Upon inquiry in the village he ascertained that he had been entertaining a stranded ventriolquist, who was working his way back to New York from Easton, Pa. The mean chap had simply gone into the shed and given his imitation of sawing wood. Had Flavored it for Hated Rival, But It Was Forced Down His Unwilling Throat. Prompted by jealousy because the girl he most admired was going to supper with his rival, a young man emptied the contents of his tobacco pouch in the oyster stew which was being made at a social held in the Bellinger schoolhouse, near Emericksville, Pa. Bride Naps on Fire Escape --- "HAVE YOU SEEN HER?" EXPRESSED H18 THANKS. ATE TOBACCOED SOUP "Do I want to find her? Why, man, she must be found. Maybe she's been kidnapped." All the bell boys were called. Instructions were issued, and they were about to begin the hunt when the bridegroom shouted: "And there's ten dollars to the boy that brings a trace of her, and $20 to the man that inds her." The boys needed no other incentive. They went along the halls shouting her name. Guests were awakened and asked if they had seen her. Sympathizing women joined in the hunt. For an hour the hotel was crowded by amateur detectives. But no trace of the bride was found. "The lake," finally shouted the husband. "Have to wait until morning," said Clerk McHenry. And he spent the remainder of the night trying to calm the bridegroom. Day was breaking when a brewery wagon stopped at the hotel. "Well, what do you think of that?" and the driver pointed to the fire escape. "Say, they must be doing an awful business," came from a pedestrian. "Well, it's a cinch that she'll escape if there's a fire," from another. Clerk McHenry began another investigation, this time to see what the second trouble was. He saw a woman asleep on the last round of the fire escape. "Say, how was your wife dressed?" he demanded of the bridegroom. "In her nightgown," answered the husband. "Have you any tidings of her?" The clerk led him to Van Buren street. "That's she," shouted the man from Boston, and he would have shouted at the woman, had not the clerk restrained him. "Don't. The shock might awaken her and then she would fail. We must be mighty careful. She's found, but not yet saved." Then he ran for a blanket. Four men caught the four corners and the blanket was held beneath the sleeping figure. "Now call her softly," advised the clerk. "Oh, Harriet," called the man from Boston. The woman yawned. "Oh, I am so hungry," she said. Then she became fully awake. Her husband shouted instructions to her. But they were unnecessary. When she saw the crowd below and then saw her night-gown, she got away quickly enough. She explained to her husband afterward that she walked in her sleep, and that she probably left their room and stepped down on the fire escape, and when she came to the last round and could go no farther, sat down and continued her nap. One of the young women tasted the stew and nearly falted. She thought STEW MADE HER SICK. she had been poisoned A young man tasted the soup, and announced that it was flavored with nothing more dangerous than tobacco. An investigation followed. The jealous young man was accused, and finally confessed. Some of the young men proposed holding him under the schoolhouse pump, but one of the girls suggested that he be compelled to eat the soup and to pay for it at the rate of 25 cents a plate. Rather than stand under the pump, he consented to eat all he could, and to pay for the rest. The girl he most admired leaned on his rival's arm and applauded as plate after plate was set before the victim. Of Interest to Dentists. Twenty years ago a young lady of Miller's Falls, Mass., had two teeth extracted. Now, at the age of 40, she is cutting teeth in the places once occupied by those extracted. **Sparrow Thieves in America.** In the United States the sparrow has six broods a year; in England seldom over three. Women Graduates. At the Royal University of Ireland last year, out of every four of the total number of students who matriculated, one was a woman. Advice All Can't Follow. The advice about not putting all one's eggs into one basket is of little value to the man who has but one egg.—Town Topics. Big Gold Find. Ninety-six ounces of gold were taken out of a hole two or three feet deep in a few days in the vicinity of Brisbane. Bright Children. It is the only extraordinarily bright child that can avoid being an infant phenomenon.—N. O. Times-Democrat. Convicts in Ohio. The convicts in the Ohio penitentiary now number 1,456, against 2,566 in hard times. WONDERFUL DISCOVERY Curly Hair Made Straight By THE NEW HAIR COLOR T. As wonderful hair pomade is the only safe preparation in the world that makes it very or curly hair straight as shown above. I learn that the materials are the best from the original out or breaking off. Cues stand off, fall, make the hair grow long and silky. Sold over forty years and used by thousands. 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SYDNOR AND HUNDLEY, LEADERS IN 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 Fur niture and save time and money. Passenger elevator. Sydnor & Hundley, 709-11-13 E. Broad St. THE OTHER MAN By FREDERIC REDDALE And now the quick march of events brings us to the night of the dance at The Cedars, which was to confront for the first time on one stage the chief characters in this little drama. Dinner for the flouse party was over at 8:30, and by nine o'clock the invited guests from the nearby country-side began to arrive. Among the first flight was the party from Denecroft-Stella and Sir Arthur, Marcia Churchill and Richard. The historic old picture gallery, which was to be devoted to the dancing, was already well-filled, and Rossiter Kane stood at the entrance to receive his guests in company with a young-old dowager, Lady Agatha Kin- A TURNING TO STELLA, KANE ASKED TO SEE HER DANCE CARD. gan, who had consented to chaperon the house party, seeing that the host was a bachelor. A typical English butler, rubicund of face, portly in form, and with irreproachable natural underplanning, announced the arrivals, and when in pompous tones he vociferated: "Sir Harthur Dysart and Miss Dysart, Mr. Richard Dysart and Miss Churchill," it needed all Kane's self-control to compose his features and his manner to the requisite standard of polite and genial interest. A moment now, and he would know his fate—recognition, exposure, disgrace, or— Sir Arthur, with Stella on his arm, came first, and passed under the arched door of the gallery, followed by Richard and Marcia. The first couple paused a moment after their greetings, and it fell to Marcia to introduce Richard to his host. "Welcome to The Cedars and welcome home, Mr. Dysart!" said Karen. Welcome to The Cedars and welcome home, Mr. Dysart!" said Kane. There fronted him a tall, athletic figure, bronzed and tanned of face, as clean-shaven as himself save for a tawny mustache, and in the man's conventional evening dress bearing not the remotest resemblance to or suggestion of the unkempt and bearded wayfarer of the Karroo Desert. The two men gripped hands in the hearty English fashion, and each looked the other squarely in the face. The first keen glance was what Kane feared most, but in the steady gaze of Richard there was naught save the utmost courtesy. Kane's heart leaped. He was safe, at least for the present. But there was an expression of studied interest in Richard's glance as they exchanged a few commonplaces, as though asking "what manner of man is this?" which was to be explained a moment later. Turning to Stella, Kane asked to see her dance-card, saying— "My duties will not permit me to be selfish, but I claim the first waltz." She handed him the enameled pasteboard, and while he was penciling his initials thereon the girl murmured in significant tones that none other could hear— "Be on your best behavior to-night, sir," flashing him a dazzling smile across her snowy shoulder as she was led away. Kane sent her an answering look, and breathed more freely. The fact that the brothers were both under his roof seemed a good omen, and argued no opposition to his suit. For the first time in many days his inner mood lightened. All might yet go well, and he resumed his task of welcoming the remaining guests with almost boyish vim and abandon After all, the ball would be a personal triumph, as he had at first intended, with his afflianced bride as its chief ornament and attraction for him. That waltz with Stella Dysart, he told himself, the soft perfume of her hair-floating upward like blessed incense, was worth periling a man's soul for. The while he held her in his arms he vowed to himself that he would go through the fires of perdition rather than give her up. Yet even at the thought there came to him the dread query, like a grinning demon in the midst of a feast, "What would she say or do if she knew the truth?" But he wilfully drove the thing away, and resolved, for that moment at least, to drink the cup of happiness to the last drop. As he led her to a cool corner after the final crashing bars of the music he murmured: "I shall call upon Sir Arthur in the morning, dearest. You can guess why." "I will tell him to expect you," she said, lifting her eyes bravely to his, the love-light shining in their star-like depths. CHAPTER VIII "Will your brothers be likeks to make any objections, do you taik?" he inquired, the slight temor of anxiety in his voice seeming perfectly natural to the girl's quick perception. "I think Sir Arthur will be glad to get me off his hands," she said ruguishly. "As for Rick, why, he does not know you very well, you see, and he must take my word for it that you are perfectly eligible, of legal age, and sound mind!" "I'm not so sure about that last," he responded, catching at her gay humor, and answering in kind. "When a man is bewitched, you know——" The rest of the sentence was unfinished, for at that moment Stella was claimed for the next dance, and Kane saw her no more until supper was served, when he had expressly reserved the privilege of taking her in, and she sat on his right hand with Richard on his left. By all rules of social precedence these places of honor belonged to others, but at the last moment Kane gave orders which resulted in the arrangement named. The evening had begun and continued auspiciously, and with his customary cool hardihood he resolved to then and there test to the utmost the possibility of Richard's recognizing him. During the repast the talk naturally drifted to the Cape. Nearly everyone knew that Rick had just returned thence, and he was kept busy answering questions as to his adventures, so that Kane was spared the necessity of originating or replying to any direct inquiries, but by a judicious remark here and there he showed his knowledge of the subjects touched on, nor seemed to manifest the slightest desire for concealment. Every word he uttered had for its ulterior object the creating a favorable impression upon Richard Dysart, but it was all done with such consumate tact that the younger and bluffer man was completely captivated by the elder, as was proved when, on kissing Stella good-night, after their drive home, he said— "Well, Sis, your Rossiter Kane seems to be a trump!" "Thank you, Rick," was her reply, "I just knew you would like him!" and, covered with happy blushes, she disappeared. So the ball was an unqualified success, and the star of Rossiter Kane was in the ascendant house. At noon the next day he cantered up to the entrance of Denecroft and inquired for Sir Arthur Dysart. On being ushered into the library he found the baronet alone and apparently expectant, for, true to her promise, Stella had expressly asked her elder brother to remain at home that morning. "Eh—eh—what's in the wind now, Stella?" the baronet inquired, looking up from his letters, and blinking near-sightedly at his sister. "More surprises?" Stella, to conceal her embarrassment, came around to the back of his chair and leaned over his shoulder, roughing and ruffling his hair in a certain tormentingly lovable way as was her wont. "Aren't you glad Rick is back?" she inquired, woman-like talking of the thing that was farthest from her heart at that moment. "Why, of course," assented Sir Arthur. "I believe we killed our fatted calf in proper fashion. It will be the happiest Christmas Denecroft has seen for many a year." Stella sighed blissfully. "Yes," she said, "I am a very happy girl." The baronet grunted an assent in preoccupied man-fashion, and opened another letter. Stella wriggled a little nearer, seating herself on the arm of his chair. "Well, what is it?" asked her brother, leaning back with an air of resignation. "Let me know the worst, and get it over." "Oh, it's nothing alarming," gurgled Stella—"at least I hope not. Are you in a very good humor this morning, Arthur?" "I was," he answered gravely, "but the most patient man has his limits, you know." Stella—the dignified little Stella—fairly giggled—there is no other name for the sound of suppressed delight and merriment which rippled from her lips—and immediately went off on another tangent. "Don't you think it very nice that Richard and Mr. Kane seemed to like each other so much last night?" "Why, yes—since we are all neighbors I should say it was most fortunate. Perhaps we ought to feel delighted that Mr. Kane likes us so well—eh?" and he pinched the girl's cheek mischievously, while a quizzical smile twisted the corner of his mouth. "Do you really like him?" she murmured, hiding her face on her brother's shoulder. "Who-Rick?" Sir Arthur perversely inquired. "No, you old stupid—Mr. Kane!" she replied, giving him an admonitory shake. "Certainly. He impresses me as a fine fellow; a man of action and affairs; a man of head and of heart. In point of birth and breeding, I suppose, we must concede something, but in these democratic days the new men are coming to the front and must be reckoned with politically and socially." During this didactic speech, delivered in Sir Arthur's most deliberate manner, Stella slid off the chair-arm and edged towards the door. "I am so glad you feel that way," she said as she turned the handle; and then, nodding saucily at her brother, "he is coming to see you this morning!" and with a whisk of drapery she was gone. Sir Arthur preserved his gravity for a moment, and then, with his favorite THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMON VIRGINIA chuckle, said half-aloud— "Another addition to the family, I urpose!" It is not always an easy thing to ask a father for his only daughter in marriage; but when the guardian of the girl happens to be her brother, and ratner younger than the sutor himself, the task of the latter is not a whit less embarrassing. But Kane found the baronet disposed to meet him half way—perhaps because of his general liking for the man. So when, after the usual salutations and inquiries, he came to the point simply and directly with— "As the head of your family, Sir Arthur, I am come to ask your sanction to your sister's engagement to me," the baronet smiled and said: "Yes, I received a hint to that effect this morning, coupled with a command that I was not to go out. Well, Mr. Kane, what has the culprit to say for himself? You know it's a pretty serious matter to rob a brother of his only sister, particularly when that brother is a bachelor!" "The only extenuation I can plead, Sir Arthur, is that the lady will be making another poor bachelor the happiest man on earth." "Oh, if you put it in that way," laughed the baronet, "I can have nothing to say, except that I do not know anyone to whom I would sooner trust Stella's happiness." And so saying he offered his hand. "The lawyers can attend to the settlements, I suppose," he continued, "and from what I have seen and heard of your resources, Mr. Kane, I opine there is little danger of your wife ever coming to want." They both laughed at the jest, and at this opportune moment Richard strolled in. "Here, Rick," exclaimed Sir Arthur, "you are just in time to be introduced to your future brother-in-law. Shake hands and congratulate each other." As Rick came forward his manner was most cordial. The morning's recollections of the night before had apparently left no unpleasant taste, and he took Kane in all seriousness and sincerity for what he had appeared to be. "See what comes of my leaving home," he said ruefully. "I find the family running at loose ends when I return and my little sister about to be carried off into captivity. But you have my sincere congratulations and good wishes, Mr. Kane. I wish our acquaintance had begun a little earlier out yonder. I rather think you and I together could have pulled off some big things." Kane could only bow his acknowledgments, as was perhaps natural under the circumstances, and was certainly safest. Rick knew, out of his own experience, what the other would wish next, and said tactfully, with a quiet smile lifting the corner of his tawny mustache: "You'll find Stella arranging her flowers in the morning room and keeping an eye on the door. We shall see you at luncheon, I hope?" With a grateful assent and a farewell bow Kane took his way in the direction indicated, and as he was careful to close the portals after him we will not intrude. Proudly elated, he rode homeward in a species of physical and mental exaltation, in which mood he continued for several days. But the reaction, inevitable to a man of his acute temperament, are long appeared. He had failed to reckon with a foe within which night and day assailed the fortress of his iron-clad will and determination to see the thing through. The simple faith and courtesy and confidence with which he had been received for what he claimed to be by those two English gentlemen did more to undermine his purpose than if they had held him at suspicious arm's length. Moreover, he was now a daily visitor at Denecroft, and, treated already as one of the family, he dined or lunched there more often than at home. His relations with Richard became more and more intimate and confidential. Again and again the subject of the latter's adventures in South Africa was touched upon. Once, in full family conclave, after dinner, he was compelled to listen unfinchingly, and in the full glare of the brilliantly lighted room, to a graphic recital of the tragedy on the banks of the Mool river, to feign indignation, horror and surprise, to join in conjectures as to the identity of the criminal, and discuss plans for his exposure and punishment. He also learned, to his dismay, that Richard had set an inquiry on foot to achieve these righteous ends. And all this under the warm glances of the girl whom he loved dearer than life, and whose manifestations of affectionate trust and loyal admiration were thereby turned into so many scourging whips of steel. In short, the situation was daily becoming one long, intolerable torture allike to Kane's manhood and his love. Remorse mocked at his endeavors to lift the incubus. CHAPTER IX. The dual wedding of Stella and Marcia was set for early in the new year, a rumor had it that Sir Arthur, moved perhaps by the sight of so much billing and cooling, would shortly afterwards console himself likewise, and put a period to his bachelorhood by leading to the altar the daughter of a neighboring county magnate. The time was rapidly approaching, and while the girls were busied with the delightful mysteries of tresse-building the two men, Rositer Kane and Richard Dysart, were perforce thrown much on their own resources, and naturally saw a great deal of each other. Frequent trips to town were necessary, and these they often made in company on the off-days when there was no hunting. Kane could never have told how it came about, but it was certainly not of his devising, and to have shown indifference or distaste would have been to court suspicion. And besides, the attraction was mutual; under any other conditions the older man would have been comrades with his intended brother-in-law with unfeigned heartiness. On one of these off-day tripe to London they traveled in the same compartment to Euston, and then, both being bound for the city, they chartered a hansom, which set them down at the bank. Walking up Threadneedle street, they cane suddenly face to face with a shabby little man who at sight of them stopped short, threw up both hands with an indescribable gesture of surprise, and then, turning sharply on his heel, vanished round the corner. It was Moses Plish! "Funny little beggar," said Richard; "the last time I saw him was in Ladysmith; seemed to know us both!" "Why, yes," said Kane, as nonchallantly as possible, "the is—or was—or I haven't set eyes on him in a long time—one of the snarest and shrewd dealers in stones in all South Africa. in fact," with a quiet chuckle, "I've had some dealings with him myself in the old days." "That's curious—so have I," said Richard. "Hes the man to whom I sold some stones, you remember, when I came out of the wilderness." Arrived at the corner of Bishopsgate street they parted, agreeing to meet for luncheon. As Kane turned away with a courteous wave of the hand, a sudden thought flashed through Rick's brain and held him rooted to the curb. "By all that's holy!" he muttered, gazing after his late companion. "Could it be possible?" Instead of doing his errand in the city, he hailed a passing hansom, and jumping in called out to the cabby "Wellington street," and within a quarter of an hour he was with our friend the manager of the inquiry office. "Have you anything for me?" he asked. In response he received a legal envelope, quite bulky, which he thrust into his pocket. "I believe all the data you asked for are there, Mr. Dysart," said the head of the concern, "and we have tabulated them in what seemed to us the order of their importance relative to your inquiry." "Thanks," said Richard, and regained his cab. Once within its shelter he lost no time in examining the contents of the envelope. These consisted of a series of foolscap sheets, fastened together with a brass clip at the corner, each sheet bearing at the top the name of some man more or less well known in the city or the diamond trade, with certain biographical remarks appended. And the first sheet bore the name of Rossiter Kane! Richard replaced the envelope in his pocket and sat staring ahead at the crowded mass of vehicles in Fleet street with a puzzled frown on his face. That's What the Wife Got and the Saloon Man Got the Kernel. Tom Darcey, yet a young man, had grown to be a very bad one. At heart he might have been all right, if his head and his will had only been all right; but these being wrong, the whole machine was going to the bad very fast though there were times when the heart felt something of its old truthful yearnings. Tom had lost his place as foreman in the great machine shop, and what money he had now earned came from odd jobs of tinkering which he was able to do, here and there, at private houses, for Tom was a genius as well as a mechanic, and when his head was steady enough he could mend a clock or clean a watch, as well as he could set it and regulate a steam engine—and latter he could do better than any other man employed by the Scott Falls Manufacturing company. One day Tom had a job to mend a broken browing machine and reaper, for which he had received five dollars, and on the following morning he started out for his old haunt, the village tavern. He knew his wife sadly needed the money, and that his two children were in absolute suffering from want of clothing, and that morning he held a debate with the better part of himself, but the better part had become very weak and shaky, and the demon of appetite carried the day. So away to the tavern Tom went. For two or three hours he felt the exhilarating effects of the alcoholic draught, and fancied himself happy, as he could sing and laugh; but, as usual, stupefac "I WON'T DRINK ANY MORE TO NIGHT." tion followed, and the man died out. He drank while he could stand, and then lay down in a corner, where his companions left him. It was late at night, almost midnight, when the landlord's wife came into the bar-room to see what kept her husband up, and quickly saw Tom. "Peter," said she, not in a pleasant mood, "why don't you send that miserable Tom Darcey home? He's been hanging around here long enough." Tom's stupefaction was not sound sleep. The dead coma had left the brain, and the calling of his name stung his senses to keen attention. He had an insane love for rum, but did not love the landlord. In other years Peter Tindar and himself had loved and wooed the sweet maiden—Ellen Goss—and he won her, leaving Peter to take up with the vinegar spinster who had brought him the tavern, and he knew that lately the tapster had gloated over the misery of the woman who had once disregarded him. "Why don't you send him home?" demanded Mrs. Tindar, with an impatient stamp of the foot. "Hush, Betsy! He's got money. Let him be, and he'll be sure to spend it before he goes home. I'll have the kernel of the nut, and his wife may have the husk!" With a sniff and a snap Betsy turned away, and shortly afterward Tom Parcey lifted himself upon his elbow. "Ah, Tom, are you awake?" "Yes." "Then rouse up and have a warm glass." Tom got upon his feet and steadied himself. "No, Peter, I won't drink any more to-night." "It won't hurt you, Tom—just a glass." "I know it won't," said Tom, buttoning up his coat by the only solitary button left. "I know it won't." And with this he went out into the chill air of the night. When he got away from the shadow of the tavern he stopped and looked up at the stars, and then he looked down upon the earth. "Ay," he muttered, grinding his heel in the gravel. "Peter Tindar is taking the kernel and leaving poor Ellen the husk, and I am helping him to do it. I am robbing my wife of joy, robbing my children of honor and comfort, robbing myself of love and life—just that Peter Tindar may have the kernel and Ellen the husk! We'll see." It was a revelation to the man. The tavern keeper's brief speech, meant not for his ears, had come upon his senses as fell the voice of the Risen One upon Saul of Tarsus. "We'll see," he repeated, setting his foot firmly upon the ground, and then he wended his way homeward. On the following morning he said to his wife: "Killen, have you any coffee in the house?" "Yes, Tom." She did not tell him that her sister had given it to her. She was glad to hear him ask for coffee, instead of the old, old cider. "I wish you would make me a cup good and strong." There was really music in Tom's voice, and the wife set about the work with a strange flutter in her heart. Tom drank two cups of the strong, fragrant coffee, and then went out—went out with a resolute step, and walked straight to the great manufactory, where he found Mr. Scott in the office. "Mr. Scott, I want to learn my trade over again." "Eh, Tom, what do you mean?" "I mean that it's Tom Darcey, come back to the old place, asking forgiveness for the past, and hoping to do better in the future." "Tom!" cried the manufacturer, starting forward and grasping his hand, "are you in earnest? Is it really the old Tom?" "It's what's left of him, sir, and we'll have him whole and strong very soon, if you'll only set him to work." "Work! Aye, Tom, and bless you, too. There is an engine to be set up and tested to-day. Come with me." Tom's hands were weak and unsteady, but his brain was clear, and under his skillful supervision the engine was set up and tested, but it was not perfect. There were mistakes which he had to correct, and it was late in the evening when the work was complete. "How it is now, Tom?" asked Mr. Scott, as he came into the testing house and found the workmen ready to depart. "She's all right, sir. You may give your warrant without fear." "God bless you, Tom. You don't know how like sweet music the old voice sounds. Will you take your place again?" "Wait till Monday morning, sir. If you will offer it to me then, I will take it." At the little cottage Ellen Darcey's fluttering heart was sinking. That morning, after Tom was gone, she had found a two-dollar bill in her coffee cup. She knew that he left it for her. She had been out and bought tea and sugar and flour and butter, and a bit of tender steak; and all day long a ray of light had been dancing and skimming before her—a ray from the blessed light of other days. With prayer and hope she set out the tea table and waited, but the sun went down, and no Tom came. Eight o'clock, and almost nine. Oh, was it but a false glimmer, after all? Hark! The old step! strong, eager for home. Yes, it was Tom, with the old grime upon his hands, and the odor of oil upon his garments. "I have kept you waiting, Nellie?" "Tom!" "I didn't mean to, but the work hung on." "Tom, Tom! You have been to the old shop." "Yes, and I'm to have my old place, and—" "Oh, Tom!" And she threw her arms round his neck and covered his face with kisses. "Nellie, darling, wait a little, and you shall have the old Tom back again." you shall have the old Tom back again." "Oh, Tom. I've got him now, now—bless him, bless him! My own Tom! My husband! my darling!" And then Tom Darcey realized the full power of woman's love. It was a banquet of the gods, was that supper—of the household gods all restored—with the bright angels of peace and love and joy spreading their wings over the board. On the following Monday morning Tom Darcey assumed his place at the head of the great machine shop, and those who thoroughly knew him had no fear of his going back in the joy to joylessness. A few days later Tom met Peter Tindar on the street. "Eh, Tom, old boy, what's up?" "I am up—right side up." "Yes—I see. But I hope you haven't forsaken us, Tom?" "I have forsaken only the evil you have in store. Peter. The fact is, I concluded my wife and little ones had fed on husks long enough, and if there was a kernel left in my heart, or in my neighborhood, they should have it." "Ah, you that night." "Yes, Peter, and I shall be grateful to you for it as long as I live. My remembrance of you will always be relieved by that tinge of warmth and brightness."—National Advocate ITEMS. Of 754 papers published in Kansas only 20 publish liquor advertisements Dr. Barnardo, the famous social worker of London, says that 99 per cent. of the homeless children of that city are made so by drunkenness of one or both parents. The National Catholic Total Abstinence union met in Pittsburgh a few days ago. About 1,000 delegates were in attendance. The union now numbers about 90,000 members. With the bells in every church in Norfolk, Va., ringing and women praying constantly the temperance voters of Elizabeth City, N. C., carried the local option election by a majority of 170. Within a few years the American saloon has directly murdered or assaulted ten or twelve ministers of the gospel, a dozen editors and reporters, several officers of the law, an unnumbered list of private citizens, and it has burned or blown up with dynamite a large number of churches, public buildings and private residences. Yet saloon keepers express wonder why we do not let the saloon alone.—Michigan Christian Advocate A BOY IN BATTLE. Old Soldier Relates His Impressions When a Youth of Thirteen in the Union Army. "I was only 13 years and three months old when I fought in the battle of Chickamauga, but I have not iorgotten my experiences of that great event in the history of the country," said John C. White, who served for 20 years as a soldier and only recently left the Sixteenth United States infantry, to a Chicago Inter-Ocean man. "On the afternoon preceding the battle," Mr. White continued, "our regiment, with the other regiments composing the Regular Bridge, Rousseau division, Fourteenth corps, was about 18 miles from Chattanooga. In the evening there was a light rainfall. It was chilly, but we could have no fires. Soon after sundown we began our march. It was a deathly quiet march, only the sound of the tramping breaking the silence. At morning we reached Crawfish Springs, but did not stop long. We stopped at the Widow Glenn's house long enough to make coffee, and then, tired, our feet blistered and hungry, we went on. Something—hunger or pain—told me to break ranks and seek a tree, but duty and fear kept me in line. "The regiment hadn't gone far when I was ordered to report to Maj. Coolidge. I knew what was in store for me. I went to him. He took me to the side of the road, took from his pocket a letter, and told me to give it to Lieut. Hotsinkellar, the officer in charge of the wagon train. "As he had repeatedly done this since leaving Murfreesboro, I thought it to be a trick to get me out of danger, for I was but a mere lad. I started away with the letter, but I did not go toward the wagon train. I turned into the woods and afterward found my way back to the rear of my regiment. We halted at Jay's Mill, but were soon ordered into a field densely covered with fine underbrush. We had not gone more than 500 feet when we were greeted with a terrific volley, and this was followed by hard firing into both flanks. We had been ambushed and more than two-thirds of our regiment were killed, wounded or captured. Our commander, Major Coolidge, who had told me to go to the rear, was killed at the first firing. "I was within the enemy's lines, but did not know it. Crawling along with the others, I managed to reach the slowly retreating column. I felt homsick. The bullets flew over and around me, but at the sight of the division drawn up I took courage, and 'You,' as I was called by the soldiers, was himself again. "Our division, and Brannan's, too, soon saw the fight was on. Forrest's cavalry, with Wilson and Ector's brigade, made desperate assault upon the two divisions, but were repulsed. Again and again the enemy strove to dodge us, but in each instance failed. All day Rousseau's and Brannan's divisions, the former commanded by Gen Baird, held their positions. Never shall I forget that day of shot and shell. "I had been schooled in the horrors of war and in its terrible earnestness, and I was not altogether boyish, for discipline matures one hurriedly, but the long-continued fighting, running into the night, with its scenes of death and suffering, made me feel woefully desolate. A sickening sensation all but HE LIFTED ME UP AS IF I HAD BEEN A BABE. mastered me. I thought my time had come and that the 'next' bullet was for me. But later, I forgot all this and never thought of the danger. "On the night of September 19 we went to sleep on our guns. There was no sleeping. On Sunday, September 20, the battle was renewed about nine o'clock, and toward noon a spent ball struck me in the forehead. I was not aware of this kiss of hate, which I received while on my way with a meg- sage all. Some of the tears of the Fifteenth regulars shouted to me to wrap some thing around my head; that I was bleeding. I put up my hand and found I was bleeding profusely. I hurried back to the Sixteenth regiment, and Capt. Crofton ordered me talen to the rear. Private Nattigan, of Crofton's company, was ordered to carry me. He lifted me up as if I had been babe. I was by this time weak from loss of blood, although the wound was slight. I struggled to break away, but he held onto me. That was the last saw of the battle. It's 40 years since that time, but who could forget it?" Weary. Mr. Crustybatch—isn't it tired by this time?—N. Y. Herald. Deyonring. Dubbs—No animal can exist on nothing. Tubbs—Oh, yes; moths eat holes. N. F. Herald. A Present from the East. Queen Wilhelmina of Holland has recently received a most remarkable Persian carpet from the shah as a memoir of the latter's visit to Holland. This carpet, containing 68 square yards, took three years to make, and has an enormous number of "points" to the square yard, the total number being 16,500,000. In Lapland. "Lapland is a strange and remarkable country," said the eminent explorer. "The customs of the people are so odd, especially during the season of courtship." "How is that?" she asked. "At that time every girl sits upon her own Lapp."—London Tit-Bits Plucky Woman Mrs. Rose Dale, of Pittsburgh, threw a water pitcher at a thief who was dragging off a trunk belonging to a Chinese laundryman, causing him to drop the plunder. The trunk served as a bank for the clothes cleaner and contained over $700 in money. Concering Watches. No watch keeps absolutely correct time, and even the most trustworthy chronometers used in observatories and on board ship must be regulated according to tables that are kept to fix the variations to which all timepieces are liable. Russia's Giantle Bridge The Russian government has sanctioned the building, at a cost of nearly $4,000,000, a gigantic bridge over the Straits of Jenditile. It will be 2,400 meters long, and will connect the Crimean peninsula with the Caucasus. Curious Ground for Divorce A. B. Seizer, of San Francisco, has brought suit for divorce against his wife on the ground that the spirits told him she no longer loved him. Singular as it may sound, this testimony was recorded in court. Long Siberian Rivers Exploration of the Yenisel and Obli rivers, of Siberia, which enjoy into the Antarctic ocean near Nova Zembia, has shown then to be navigable to ocean steamers for a distance of nearly 1,000 miles. A. Definition: Uncle Jack—You have regular prize fights, have you? And what do you call a regular prize fight? Charlie—Oh, that's when you knock boy out, and he doesn't tell his mother. -Brooklyn Life. Escape Is Impossible "The lot of man in this world is toil and trouble," remarked the Observer of Events and Things; "and he must not think he is going to escape these when he buys an automobile."—Yonkers Statesman. Another Exaggeration. "How many times has your daughter been divorced?" "Twice." "Oh, is that all? Somebody told me this was her third season."—N. Y. Herald. Lord Curzon's School Days. Like so many men who achieve greatness in after life, Lord Curzon's school reputation was not of the most promising. "He was clever enough," one of his old masters said recently, "but he was incorrigibly lazy and was far more immersed in mischief and practical joking than in his books. And yet, although he never did a stroke of work he could by any exercise of ingenuity avoid, he could always somehow manage to hold his own with the other boys of his form." It Is the Largest The most extensive wine cellar in the world is owned by the Roumanian government. A railway tunnel 2,600 feet long between Galatz and Barboshi could not be used for railway purposes because of inferior construction. It was leased to a wine dealer, who has turned it into an immense wine cellar. Costly Book The personal estate of Heber R. Bishop included manuscripts on jade, which are to be published at an outlay of at least $75,000. The copies are to be limited to 100, and it is stipulated that they shall be distributed only to certain museums and libraries in this country and Europe. Considered of Value Now There are immense forests of Alep p oines in Algeria, which have up to now been considered of little value; the suitability of this wood for road paving and for timbers for mines and telegraph posts, may have the effect of enhancing the value of these forests. Foreigners in Tokio. 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Be that as it may, MOLLY WHITE and her Negro women were arrested, while the one who went with him escaped. The case was heard in the Police Court, and MOLLY WHITE was fined $100 and 90 days security for maintaining a disorderly house. She was sent on to the grand jury upon the charge of robbing Prescious Hornley of $250 and a bench warrant issued, charging her with keeping a house of ill-fame. The other Negro women in the house were fined. As to the white man, he was permitted to go to his home, although it is known that he was in this disreputable house and the law forbids cohabitation not only with white females, but colored ones as well. What think the white men of this locality of this condition of affairs? Some of them are advocating racial separation. Is this the cause of it? These Negro women did not go after this white man. He sought them out, and from the character of the house, the presumption is that he indulged in the most flagrant kind of social equality. The rigors of the law are not visited upon the man, who came from the county and indulged in the hilarities and immoralities of life, but upon the women who were the recipient of his attentions. We cannot understand why some of these white men with the thousands of lovable white women in the land should seek out this class of Negro humanity—a kind that the Negro man of respectability will not associate with. Still, these white men appear as though they will die for their companionship and lose $250 in order to be in their company. We are of the opinion that this white man should go to jail even if the officials there will not permit him to associate in that hostelry with the women, whom he seems to have so dearly loved. Many a colored man has noted in silence these plain violations of the rules of decency. Let us have Negro men for Negro women and white men for white wo men, and to an extent at least, check this bleaching out of our racial characteristics. We have insisted that it is the white men who force this social equality upon us, that the colored people did not desire it, and yet we have a case in print where a white man comes six miles to "sleep" in a colored woman's house and instead of punishing him along with his dusky sweet-heart, he is made a martyr and the woman a felon. But this kind of business is becoming tiresome, and "there'll be news to carry to Hannah," if a change is not noted and this kind of social equality remedied. Colored men do not want white women, and white men must revive their tastes and leave the colored women alone. Shin on your side, white men, shin on your side! A WAIL FROM THE SOUTH-LAND. THE New Orleans, Louisiana, TIMES-DEMOCRAT seems to be particularly fond of the Negro question, although living in a section of this country where the rights of this much discussed individual are nullified. If a question is settled and the Democrats of LOUISIANA say that it is, why is it necessary to be administering allopathic doses on the same subject? In its issue of the 3rd inst., it said: "The next Republican candidate for the Presidency is determined above all else to hold the Negro vote in the Northern States solidly for himself and in party in the next national campaign. When Senator Gorman injected the race issue to the campaign in Maryland the President trushed into the fight as the champion of the Negro, and a friend of the President has given out this as a statement from him as to his attitude on the subject of the presidential canvass? "If I could be absolutely assured of my election as President by turning my back on the principles of human liberty as enunciated by Abraham Lincoln, I would be incapable of doing it and unfit to be President if I could be capable of it." How is it possible for any one to unfavorably question or criticize such a statement? It squares with the presidential oath of office. Mr. ROOSEVELT means to say for him to do otherwise would be for him to perjure himself, and any man who would perjure himself would be unfit for the high office of President of the United States. But the TIMES-DEMOCAT "begged the question" and evaded the issue in the following language: "This is very pretty, indeed, but what has the 'principles of human liberty as enunciated by Abraham Lincoln' to do with the domination of the Negro in politics? Perhaps the President has run across some expression from Abraham Lincoln regarding the Negro and the franchise which has not yet been given to the public. Certain it is that no man who ever entered American political life has had so much post mortm policy mapped out for him as President Lincoln. We have been gravely informed that had Mr. Lincoln would have favored this and opposed that; this policy as to the South would have been justified to the other, and his attitude on the Negro question would have carried him hither and yon. These political spiritualists do not have to go into a trance or to listen to rappings to state clearly and definitely what would have been Mr. Lincoln's position on any question whatever." It then proceeded to show that President ABRAHAM LINCOLN was opposed to the Negro to such an extent that he was really at heart in favor of slavery. In fact, after reading the TIMES-DEMOCRAT's diatribe on this lamented man, one would presume that it was a historic sketch of the life and career of Mr. JEFFERSON DAVIS. From this, we infer that Mr. LINCOLN's inner character was better known in LOUISIANA than it was ILINOIS, and that southern men really submitted and chuckled over the murder of one of the greatest anti-Negro advocates t he world has ever produced. We note, too, that with this journal the enlistment of colored men in the army of the United States and the issuance of the Emancipation Proclamation count for naught. We are led to enquire though, why it was that JOHN WILKES BOOTH, a southerner, should have been urged to assassinate a man, who was the equal of Mr. JEFFERSON DAVIS in his notions and according to this journal, one of the meanest Negro-haters the country ever produced. This journal continued. "Mr. Roosevelt does not desire the votes of those 'who would close the doors of hope against the Negro as a citizen.' Here again is a matter that requires some explanation before indorsement. Does the President know what the hope of the Negro is? Those who have unfortunately known the Negro all of their lives think they do, and they are determined to slam shut the door against some of his hopes and bar it tightly after it is closed." Of course they are and the issue is joined. The citizen of color is contend-for equal rights and equal opportunities. It continued: "The door of hope' for the Negro means social equality, intermarriage and even social superiority to the higher class of whites. He desires wealth that he may employ white butlers, white typewriters, white maids and white cooks and coachmen, even as some wealthy Negroes are now employing whites in these capacities in Mr. Roosevelt's city of New York The New York Sun is authority for the statement that there are at least two hundred Negro families of wealth in New York City whose house servants are for the most part white. "Some send their sons to English universities,' says the Sun, 'where there is no prejudice against the Negro at all They come back here with the same social desires and tastes that you find in young white folk of similar training.'" We should like to know what all of this has to do with the political rights of the citizen of color under the law. The subject matter herein injected is social, and social conditions cannot be successfully regulated by law. We are not aware of any statute which requires a white butler, white typewriter, white maid, white cook or white coachman to labor for a Negro employee if they were not inclined to do so. It then cites from the New York Age of October 8, 1903, a declaration of principles in which Hon. T. THOMAS FORTUNE sets forth the position of the better element of colored citizens of New York. Mr. FORTUNE declares his belief in manhood suffrage, pure and simple and this is the doctrine in-to-to of the Fathers of the Republic. OUR FASHION LETTER. Variety at Last Achieved In Automobile Costumes. STYLE AND COMFORT COMBINED. The Fashionable Woman of Today May Now Enjoy Ease Even In Her Best Apparel—The Trying Triple Tier Skirts—Some Smart Effects. Automobile costumes are being made He declares in favor of mixed schools, a doctrine which is endorsed by leading Democrats in the North and is cordially approved by the school autorities of Richmond, Va., for here we have white ladies, bending over and instructing Negro pupils in our own Richmond Normal School. If there is any difference between this social relationship in this city and that in vogue in some of the cities of the New York state, we fail to see it. Mr. FORTUNE is in favor of intermarriage of the raes, thereby legalizing what is now illegal in the southern states and to cause a cessation of this whole sale bastard business which is in operation from one section of the Southland to the other. The TIMES DEMOCRAT expresses a holy horror over the hawtul union of a white and a colored person and yet it "goes blind" over the most flagrant kind of social equality which has been taking place and is now taking place under its very eyes. There are probably more bastard mulatoes in Louisiana than in any other state in the union. Will this journal emphasize its disapproval by calling for an enactment of a law, making it a felony for a white person to be criminally intimate with a colored person and vice versa. Our observations have caused us to favor the separation of the races in the matter of social intercourse of a kind which produces bastard children. It would be far better to permit the marriage of the parties to the unlawful union than to have a condition as it now exists of colored men being afraid to speak to a white colored lady, for fear that they may make a mistake and thereby become a candidate for heaven by the rope route. The Times-Democrat boldly declares that it will murder the Negroes rather than permit them to have their rights. It concluded as follows: "Soon after the civil rights bill was passed a Republican politician in the town of Willington, N C, appeared at the Purcell House in that town and demanded that a Negro constituent be served with dinner. He called Mr. Purcell's attention to the fact that if he refused to serve the Negro he would certainly be subjected to a fine of $1500, which spelled ruin to the hotel keeper. Purcell had the Negro seated at a table and ordered a waiter to bring his dinner, but before it appeared he said to the Negro, as his hand went wearily toward his hip pocket: 'My friend, you are entirely welcome to have dinner at my hotel, for such is the law. But it is only fair that I should warn you that if you eat dinner here, you will at supper in hell.' Thank you, boss, I ain't hungery! replied the Negro, rising hastily and the incident was closed. "That is what the Roosevelt Fortune 'open door of hope' means for the whites of the South—and for the Negroes. It is the stronements one to bring massacre upon the country that he may be elected to an office which fell to him by chance, as a reward for heroism in a charge in which he did not participate." This is the note of defiance which comes from the Southland. It not only demands the right to regulate the Negro question and do as it pleases within its own borders, but demands the privilege of dictating and regulating the attitude of the white people of the North upon this same question. It has all it wants where it is and wants all it can get at Washington and elsewhere, going to the extent of dictating to President Roosevelt as to whom he shall invite around his festal board. This kind of interference will hardly be tolerated, and the election results in the country next year will be a fitting reply to this kind of racial nonsense. Most Popular Sachet Powder. Probably more "violet" sachet powders are sold than all other varieties put together, "hellotrope" coming second in popularity. The Willing Worker. A contented, willing laborer is worth 60 per cent. more than the dissatisfied compulsory worker.—Chicago Dally News. Soot on the Carpet. If soot falls on the carpet cover it thickly with salt. It may then be brushed up without fear of doing damage. Money Spent on Sport. More than $10,000,000 worth of sporting goods were sold in the United States last year. In England. The lord chief justice is, by virtue of his office, the principal coroner of England. Servants in London. Only 11 per cent. of the families of London employ a servant, but there are 205,858 persons of the servant class. Pins have been found among the Egyptian mummies and in the prehistoric caves of Switzerland. He Makes No Will. A Chinaman is compelled by the law of his land to leave his possessions to his male children. He can make no exceptions la favor of anyone. Japanese Prisoners. According to an official Japanese report, there were, at the end of June last, 53,779 persons in prison in Japan, including 3,249 women. OUR FASHION LETTER. Variety at Last Achieved In Automobile Costumes. STYLE AND COMFORT COMBINED. The Fashionable Woman of Today May Now Enjoy Ease Even In Her Best Apparel - The Trying Triple Tier Skirts - Some Smart Effects. Automobile costumes are being made in nine different styles, which is a good thing alike for the wearer and those who have to look at the wearer. Entire suits made of pony skin are perhaps the smartest, and they are certainly expensive enough to keep them from becoming common. For winter wear there are auto coats of shaggy inexpensive fur which shed the rain and dust. These are made double breasted, with inside pockets and high storm collars. The auto caps made of leather to match the coat have chiffon veils gathered around the brim in such a fashion that they can be thrown back or down at a moment's notice. Wine color is a prime favorite for auto veils and the silk waterproof coats which are used for short trips Jet and palletied net are revived in all their glory. Sometimes the secuurs ```markdown ``` BLOUSE AUTO SUIT are of various sizes, some large and some small. All forms of the sequined dress must be plain and tight fitting as far as the knees, but the flounces at the feet may be as voluminous as you please. A beautiful robe seen recently was a mass of jet and silver, cut on princesse, with the bodice and sleeves composed of a trelliswork mixture of black silk and chenille fringe. From the knees were numbers of pinned out silk flounces, edged with chenille bobs. The wearer of this very sumptuous frock eschewed all forms of jewelry and merely wore in her extremely pretty fair hair two large bows of velvet, one in front and the other at the back, the colfur being very high on the top of the head. This individual woman showed her sense of fitness of things by wearing no jewels, for that glittering mass of jet and silver required no lightening effect, being in itself a most gorgeous garment. The cut shows a Russian blouse auto costume made of light weight leather, with a cap to match. SUEDE AND CASHMERE Never has the fashionable woman been so comfortable even in her gala attire. She wears corsets so lightly constructed that she has ample room to breathe, and though she wears a high collar it is not a stiff one. Her skirts even are of soft light weight materials, and there are no tight linings and ungainly stiffenings. Coats of suede are among the smart novelties. These are made short length and are trimmed with handsome fancy buttons. Cashmere makes excellent house frocks, especially when accordion plait- WHITE FELT HAT. ed. Cream panne velvet and Irish crochet lace formed the trimming of a handsome white gown of this material. Cape effects, with stole ends and the long silk tassels, are still to be seen on many dresses. An evening gown of fine white net over white silk is made with a very full skirt quintely adorned with rouleaux of white soft silk ribbon, arranged, together with appliques of white lace, in a kind of scroll work design all over the lower part of the skirt. The bodice has a deep cape collar of white lace applique on net, and white cloth, with a hemsitch border. The picture shows a toque of white felt trimmed with green velvet and a green and brown wing. SERGE SHIRT WAIST DRESSES SERGE SHIRT WAIST DRESSES. The serge shirt waist suit is newer and smarter than the flannel shirt waist and separate skirt. These little dresses are very simple. The blouse is often made with a long shoulder yoke. From this start three graduated plats, which come down from either C A CHECKED COSTUME side into a point at the fullness of the waist line. Sometimes pipings of plaid are introduced to give a touch of color. The double and triple tier skirts, while very smart, are somewhat trying to the ordinary wearer. The faultless taste of the great Parisián dressmakers only adopts that mode of skirt becoming to the wearer. To revert to a past epoch is evidently the pronounced idea shown in the principal and best known temples of sartorial art. There are many old word gowns likely to be repeated combined with modern and practical notions. Some well known tailors are using many small tafta buttons and small frills of silk. These adorn impartially heavy and light weight tailor mades. The cut shows a costume of checked wool goods, having a double skirt. WHITE USED WITH BLACK WHITE USED WITH BLACK. Some very pretty French bats are made of chenille combined with colored feathers. For instance, those of white chenille will be almost covered with black feathers. These are most chic worn with ermine or black and white frocks. White cloth gowns are nearly always trimmed with the dead white Irish lace, and when anything is used to relieve this it takes the form of black panne appliqued in old figures. Fine plaited costumes are very fashionable for young girls, especially for evening wear. They are finished with a bertha of lace and a figured ribbon sash. Victorian capes of chiffon, velvet and furs to harmonize are very smart with cloth street dresses. Handsome buckles, buttons and embroideries are now used more than ever. Some early autumn mantles are in black velvet trimmed with medallions 3 SABLE STOLE AND MUFF. of black applique and frills and ruches of black taffeta. The majority of these are cut after the shawl pattern and very low on the shoulder. Then there are some smart little cloth capes reaching to the waist, finished with collars of oriental embroidery. We are wearing a good deal of black, while some are wearing white trimmed with black. White cloth, stitched with black and trimmed with white embroidery, is extremely smart, and so are white beaver hats trimmed with black plumes or birds. All the short skirts seem plaited or kilted and all the "tailor made" millinery is trimmed with birds or wings. It is a curious thing that despite so much strong feeling against the wearing of birds this fashion should have taken such a persistent hold. The cut shows a stole of sable and one of the latest muffs. The hat is of brown felt with a shaded brown feather. JUDIC CHOLLET. Mistook Men For Deer Parry Sound, Ont., Nov. 11. — Near Edington, 15 miles from here, James McComb, Dan Quinlan and a third unknown man were working on a camp road, when they were fired upon by Thomas Stanley, who thought they were deer. McComb was hit by the first shot, and Quinlan was hit in the thigh by the second. The third man escaped by throwing himself on the ground after the first shot. Stanley, who is a son of a settler, then stepped from the bushes a hundred yards distant, and was horrified to find what he had done. Quinlan may die. Cleveland Opens Hunting Season: Cleveland Opens Hunting Season. Princeton, N. J., Nov. 11.—Former President Grover Cleveland, with three companions, opened the hunting season by bagging a large number of rabbits on the preserve of H. B. McFar land, at Rocky Hill. The same party will try its luck again. One of the party characterized Mr. Cleveland "as the best shot and the most jovial member of the crowd." PANAMA SENDS CANAL COMMISSION Has Power to Negotiate New Treaty With United States. OUR FIRM HAND ON ISTHMUE Washington, Nov. 10. — Embarking of Colombian troops from Buena Ventura or any other Colombian port for the Isthmus will not be permitted by the Washington government and American warships will be ordered to any port upon receipt of an intimation that Colombian troops will attempt to sail for the isthmus. The Washington government holds that this policy is in the interest of the general good. The state department has been informed by an agent of the Panama Canal company that the provisional government of Panama has designated a commission of three members, one of whom is Frederico Boyd, a member of the junta, who left Panama today for Washington, to begin immediately the negotiations of a new canal treaty. The commission, it is said, is clothed with full powers to conclude that instrument. Reports are current to the effect that an effort was being made whereby negotiations for a Panama canal treaty might yet be resumed with Colombia, notwithstanding the defection of the Department of Panama and the establishment of an independent government. These had as their basis the recognition of the status quo of the isthmus 10 days ago, following which Colombia would immediately take up the question of a canal treaty with a view to a speedy ratification of such a convention. It is said that unofficial representations of this tenor had come from an outside nation and that an official of the state department had been approached on the subject. As has been stated repeatedly the Hay-Herran convention is dead, irretrievably so, and any negotiations for a canal treaty must be on the basis of a new convention. It was made very plain by the official referred to that the United States does not intend to and will not annex Panama nor dominate it by force, but that it is open to and anxious for negotiations of a treaty providing for an isthmian waterway. Dr. Herran, the Colombian charge, says he is still without any advices from his government, although he keeps the officials at Bogota promptly advised of everything that is transpiring. As yet he has not received any reply to his protest against the attitude of the United States government in isthmian affairs. COLOMBIAN TROOPS CAN'T LAND The Boston Ordered to Buena Ventura to Intercept Them. Washington, Nov. 11. — Upon receipt of a report by the state department that several British vessels were to be chartered by the Colombian government to take troops from Buena Ventura to the Isthmus, the navy department ordered the Boston to proceed off Buena Ventura, and in the event that the troops start for the Isthmus, their commanders will be informed that they cannot land. The navy department announces that no attempt will be made to interfere with British vessels on the high seas. It was learned that the instructions cabled the commanding officer of the Boston were quite specific and thus constitute a modification of the more general instructions previously sent to him. The purpose in sending the specific instructions was to prevent the commander of the Boston from going to the limit his general instructions might have warranted. It is the desire of the administration to do nothing that may be considered an act of hostility to Colombia. Boys Wanted to See a Train Wreck. Wilkesbarre, Pa., Nov. 9. — Ernest Carl, aged 7, and Harry Feldman, aged 6, of Tunkhannock, were arrested and held for court on the charge of attempted train wrecking. The youngsters wired several planks fast to the westbound Lehigh Valley tracks near their home, and, after cutting the signal wires, lay in the bushes waiting for the crash. Luckily the obstacles were discovered just before No. 1, the through westbound passenger, arrived. When arraigned the boys admitted their work, and said that they had heard of train wrecks, and wanted to see the care pile up and smash. FREIGHT TRAIN HITS TROLLEY Two Killed and Several Injured at Ackermanville, Pa. Easton, Pa., Nov. 11.—James Thomas, a watchman, and Mary Dore, an Italian girl, were killed at Ackermanville, this county. They were passengers on a Northampton Traction Company trolley car that was run down and wrecked by a Bangor and Portland Railroad freight train. The father, mother and a sister of the dead girl, Engineer Chapman and Brakeman Kern of the freight train were seriously injured. The engine was thrown from the track and landed in a ditch six feet below the roadbed. A number of persons in addition to those named were more or less severely injured, but their wounds did not prevent them from going home. How the trolley car came to run on the crossing before being signalled to go ahead has not been explained. Over 10.000 Miners Strike: Denver, Nov. 10.—More than 10,000 coal miners in Colorado went on strike for an eight-hour day, increased wages and other concessions. The strike was ordered by the national executive officers of the United Mine Workers of America, after the coal companies refused to confer with union representatives concerning the demands of the men. Of the idle men 3000 are in the southern coal fields, 2000 in the northern coal fields and 1800 in Premont county. One hundred mines have been closed down. Cuts in All Rolling Mills. Lancaster, Pa., Nov. 9.—Notices were posted at the Columbia rolling mill of a reduction of wages of puddlers from $4.50 to $4 per ton. The new scale goes into effect on November 23. Similar notices will be posted in all the mills of Eastern Pennsylvania. MITCHELL STORY DENIED Washington Laughs at the Idea of His Succeeding Secretary Cortelyou Washington, Nov. 10.—The story emanating from Pittsburg that John Mitchell was to succeed Secretary Cortelyou, of the department of commerce and labor, if President Roosevelt is elected to succeed himself, excited general laughter here. At the White House and department of commerce and labor the strongest denial of the story was given on the best authority. While the president declined to discuss the story for publication, he told a senatorial caller that the report was not only unfounded, but ridiculous. It would be a year yet before he would know whether he was to be his own successor and he would wait the decision of the voters at least before commencing the selection of his cabinet. He furthermore spoke in praise of George Cortelyou as a member of the cabinet. Mitchell Also Denies It. Boston, Nov. 10. "There is not a bit of truth in it, so far as I am concerned," was the comment made by John Mitchell, with reference to a report that he would become a member of the cabinet of President Roosevelt A BIG CORN CROP Government Report Says Yield About 2,313,000,000 Bushels. Washington, Nov. 11.—Preliminary returns to the chief of the Bureau of Statistics of the Department of Agriculture on the production of corn is 1903 indicate a total yield of about 2,313,000,000 bushels, or an average of 25.8 bushels per acre, as compared with an average yield of 26.8 bushels one year ago, 16.7 bushels in 1901, and a 10 year average of 23.9 bushels. The general average as to quality is 33.1 per cent, as compared with 80.7 last year, 73.7 in 1901 and 85.5 in 1900. It is estimated that about 5.2 per cent of the corn crop of 1902 was still in the hands of farmers on November 1, 1903, as compared with 1.9 per cent of the crop of 1901 in farmers' hands on November 1, 1902, 4.6 per cent. of the crop of 1900 in farmers' hands on November 1, 1901, and a six years average of 6.1 per cent. A WEEK'S NEWS CONDENSED Thursday. November 5. The First National Bank of Victor Cal., has been closed by the compri- troller of currency. About 150 houses were destroyed by fire at Jeremie, Hayti, and 1000 persons rendered homeless. The United States Steel corporation have laid off indefinitely 2000 work- men at Welch, W. Va. Two men were stabbed to death in a fight near Jackson, Ky. An old grudge was the cause. No arrests. An overheated machine in Alling's woolen mill, at Derby, Conn., caused a fire which damaged the plant to the extent of $30,000. Friday, November 6. The estate of Sir Michael Herbert, late ambassador to the United States, was sworn to in London by his widow at $39,620. The Confederate Veterans of Ala- bama have decided to erect a monument at Chickamauga Park, to cost not less than $5000. W. J. Honn, son of the wealthiest banker of Charleston, III, has been arrested, charged with poisoning his wife, who died suddenly. President Roosevelt has accepted the resignation of Oliver P. Shiras, judge of the federal court of the northern district of Iowa. Saturday, November 7. Two men were instantly killed by an explosion of gas in the repair shops of the Pennsylvania railroad at Pittsburg. John D. Ricker, a farmer near Rutherford, Pa., was shot to death by the accidental discharge of his gun while hunting for rabbits. By a vote of 1624 to 153 the employees of the Chicago City Railway Company have decided to strike to enforce their demands. The German emperor's yacht Meteor will be sent to this country next spring to take part in the ocean yacht race for the Emperor's cup. The La Butta Cigar Company, of York, Pa., filed a petition in bankruptcy at Scranton. Liabilities are $74,000, with assets of $14,000. Monday, November 9. Rumors that King Peter of Servia would abdicate have been officially denied. The American National Red Cross will meet in Washington, D. C., December 8. The club house of the Morristown, N. J., Golf Club was totally destroyed by fire, caused by a defective flue. As a result of the annual conference of Immigration Commissioners, it is expected that there will be a more rigid enforcement of the Chinese exclusion laws. William Smith, of Altoona, Pa., blew out his brains when officers went to his home to arrest him for cruelty to his wife, who was forced to jump from a second-story window to escape being murdered. Admiral Dewey raised his flag over the Dolphin and went to Norfolk and Annapolis on an inspection tour. Dr. E. W. Light, a prominent dentist of Sagnaw, Mich., committed suicide after fatally shooting his wife and daughter. Italian Minister of Finance Rosano committed suicide by shooting. He was found dead in his room, a revolver by his side. Over 5000 acres of swamp lands at Norfolk, Va., are to be reclaimed for farming by the Franklin Land Lumber Company. HE PLANET SATURDAY..... NOVEMBER 14. 1908 JUST OUR OWN. May, we cannot take them with us To our palace in Castle; Cannot show them half its beauties, Cannot hope to make them feel Half the ecstasy it gives us, Just us two to walk alone. For the palace is a dream, dear, And the dream is just our own! Other ones may have their dreams, dear But they're bound at last to wake; All their dreams will fade and leave them All their castles fall and break; But our dreams will never fade, dear, Nor our castles ever fade; They will always stand for us, dear, Castles that our dreams have made. They shall stand for us forever! Perfumed censors, dear, shall swing, Swimming through all the night-time We shall hear the music sing, And we'll walk soft-shod together, And our feet shall make no sound, Through the corridors we know, dear, Oh, my dearle, glory-crowned! Walk and talk and know no walking, Know no parting ways at all! Always just we two together; And where day's last beam shall fall, We shall stand and watch together, To see that day may have met— Stand in dying day's at glory On our castle's paranet. Other ones may dream their dreams, dear Other ones may sup the rue That shall follow castles shattered, That may follow dreams come true; But your life and my life, too, dear, Shall be spent beside a stream In a castle of our building, In an everlasting dream! -J. M. Lewis, in Houston Post. WHEN EDWARD WAS GONE A-FISHING By ADA C. SWEET (Copyright, 1903, by Daily Story Pub. Co.) IT WAS on the third day of May that Hannah came to me and told me that she had joined the Domestic Service union, and that under the rules there were certain things required of me before she could consent to remain longer in my employ. And Edward was away on his annual fishing trip! At first I was so surprised that I could hardly understand what Hannah said, but she gave me a typewritten paper, a sort of an ultimatum, which set forth the demands of the union, and this I read, behind closed doors, in my own room. We kept one general servant, Hannah, and hired a laudress who worked two days a week. Hannah was a fair cook, when I looked after her, and I had taught her all she knew of any branch of housework. With my active assistance the home was well kept, and Hannah, at least, was well paid in dollars and cents. My own remuneration "STOP! STOP!" I CRIED. Say in seeing my husband and children comfortable and happy. The rules of the union dazed me a little, and I put the paper in my belt, reserving a more thorough reading for the afternoon. It was my part in the division of labor to dust the drawing-room, library, hall and dining-room, and the bedroom upstairs, setting things in order as I went along. Upstairs, though it was 11 o'clock when I reached there, the beds were unmade. Bed-making was Hannah's work. I went down to the kitchen and found Hannah sitting on the back porch talking with a young woman in a black cloth skirt, white shirt waist and large hat trimmed with bird's wings and red ribbons. "Mrs. Osborne," said Hannah, rising as I came out on the porch, "let me introduce Miss Kennedy." I nodded to Miss Kennedy, who looked at me with a sort of wide-eyed confidence and curiosity mingled. She continued seated and rocking in Hannah's rocking chair, which had been drawn out on the porch for the visitor. "Miss Kennedy is the lady who has just organized our union," explained Hannah. "Then, perhaps, you can explain this," I said, sitting down on the top step and unfolding the "Rules and Regulations Governing Members of Sandy Bay Domestic Union, No. 1." The stranger looked angry and said hastily to Hannah that she ought not to let anyone outside the union see the paper. Hannah looked confused and a little frightened, then the visiting dignity reached over and took the thin sheets of typewriting from my unresisting hand. "If you will tell me why the beds are not made, Hannah. I will go in—I have a little sweeping to do," said I. "Miss Wargonother must have a helper," broke in the organizer, in a business-like voice. "Members of the union cannot cook and do all the other housework in addition." I faitered on the threshold a moment, and then fled. And Edward was away for two weeks! Miss Kennedy remained until noon and then Hannah set the table for luncheon. In the meantime I made up the beds and set the bedrooms to rights. After luncheon I called Hannah and she came to me sullenly. "I shall have to have a helper," she said, "I am not allowed to build the kitchen fire, or peel the potatoes, or put on the tea-kettle," here she unfolded the rules and regulations. "I must not cook if I do the upstairs work, or do the upstairs work if I cook; there must be a second girl for the general housework, and I must have a helper in the kitchen. I am not allowed to put on or lift off kettles, wash the cooking utensils, clean and fill lamps, carry wood or coal, answer the back door bell—and of course not the front bell. When I scrub the floor the helper must get the hot water ready and bring it to me, with the soap and brush—and I cannot sweep the back steps or porch—" "Stop! Stop," I cried. "Hannah, where are we to find a helper, and what can I get one for?" "The helper," read Hannah, from her paper, "must be not under 18 years of age nor over 25. She must be paid $2.60 a week for the first six weeks, and three dollars a week after that, until the Amalgamated Domestic Union of the United States issues other orders. She must be a member of a domestic union in good standing, and she must not work as helper to anyone not a member of the same union, nor in the house of anyone who employs nonmembers of the union in household work." "But, Hannah," I expostulated, "Do you know of any helpers?" you know of any helpers?" "No," said Hannah, "we haven't got any in our union yet." "What is their work to be?" I asked. "The domestic service helper," answered Hannah, "seems to be something like the helper that comes along with a plumber, you know, and hangs around and goes errands, and so on; I don't know what I shall ever do with one tagging at my heels, but I must have one." And Edward was away. He left no post office address; said he was to be in the woods the whole time, and there was no way to reach him! The door bell rang. Hannah started to answer it, then stopped, took her rules and regulations out of her apron pocket—it was baking day—and then she looked at me, a slow red mounting to her cheeks. I went and opened the front door to the new minister's wife, who was making her first call. We talked about the weather, the church, the Sunday school, the children, the apple blossoms, the next lecture course—and I thought and thought and thought about the union, Hannah and the mysterious helper. I have heard, since, that the minister's wife declared her opinion to be that I was "a singular woman." I am not surprised, nor even offended. When she had gone I went on thinking, and the dinner hour came I was still engaged in that unwonted occupation of a perhaps too quiet and incurious mind. That evening there was a meeting of the union in Odd Fellow's hall, hired for the occasion. In the morning, descending to breakfast, I found Hannah sitting upon her trunk in the kitchen. The trunk held all Hannah's effects and was strapped and locked, and awaiting the expressman. Hannah had struck. I paid her the week's wages and, after she had gone, I prepared breakfast and ate it with the children. And Edward was away! Two weeks afterwards I was aroused, early in the morning, by a loud thumping and a heavy jar. The sound seemed to come from the back part of the house. I dressed quickly and ran down the back stairs. There, on the porch, sat Hannah, on her trunk. She looked pale and hungry. I opened the door. "The union has busted," said Hannah. "Lend me an apron and let me get breakfast." When the morning's work was over Hannah told me her story. "We had a good time." said she, "at first. But when our money was gone we got tired. Miss Kennedy has gone to Beech Ridge, a organizing, and we never heard from the general fund for strikers. The boarding-house keepers wouldn't trust us, nor have us around after our money gave out, and I, for one, have no hope to go last night we met on the steps of the school house and voted to dissolve." "And so the Sandy Beach Domestic Service Union, No. 1, is no more?" I said. "It is as dead as a door nail," said Hannah, cheerfully. Edward came home that evening, after it was all over, and when I told him what had happened he only laughed. HORSE TO HAVE MONUMENT. Indiana Man to Honor Memory of Black Frank, a Famous Trotter of Twenty Years Ago. A beautiful marble monument, sculptured in New York, at great expense, will be erected over the grave of a horse at the home of Capt. C. B. Jackson, of Wayne county, Ind. More than 20 years ago Black Frank, one of the greatest trotting horses of his time died at the age of 24. Capt. Jackson, his owner, wrapped the dead horse in a large silk flag and buried it in front of his residence on Jackson hill, two miles west of Centerville, on the great national road. He intended at that time to erect a monument over the grave, but the actual consummation of his intention has been deferred until now. The monument is a statue, life size, of the horse, made after drawings and photographs. A programme has been arranged for the day, and, after speeches by distinguished men and a presentation of Black Frank's record and noble achievements, the monument will be unveiled by Capt. Jackson. Dickens' Birthplace The city of Portsmouth, England, recently bought the birthplace in that city of Charles Dickens, and will probably establish a Dickens museum in the house. THE RICHMOND PLANET. RICHMOND VIRGINIA. FLY PROVED USEFUL Insect Folls Sneak Thief Who Was About to Hob Man in Chicago Hotel Corridor. Listen to the tale of the heroic fly. The tale has a moral which it will cost nothing to heed. The moral is: If you have no money to employ private detectives to protect you from grafters and public detectives, get a fly—a nice, domesticated, well-behaved fly—and carry it about with you. Nicholas Fenn, of Minneapolis, went to sleep the other afternoon in the corridor of the Grand Pacific hotel, at Chicago. His coat was unbuttoned, and in the pocket of the coat was a wallet containing $648—all the money he had in the world. His sleep was disturbed by the buzzing of a fly, supposed to be the last fly "HELP! A THIEF!" of the season. He reached up several times and made aimless passes at the little pest, but was unable to drive it away. He did not wake up, and the fly kept on buzzing. Fenn's dreams were filled with swarms of winged insects that clouded his sleeping vision, swept to and fro, and threatened ever and again to smother him. Finally the fly alighted on his nose. It declined to be moved or frightened by the sleeper's slowly moving head. It stuck. Fenn stirred, and then sat upright. He made a sharp pass at his tormentor, and his hand encountered something solid. He opened his eyes, and at the same instant closed his fingers. They were encircling the wrist of a man, whose hand was in Fenn's coat pocket. "Help!" A thief! he shouted. The fly flew away. The thief jumped up from the chair next to Fenn's, wrenched his wrist loose, and ran down the corridor and out at the door. His intended victim reported his case to the clerk, and told how he happened to be saved. He gave much praise to the timely fly. Not So Bad. "The deacon went to a burlesque show." "Why, he admitted that he rather liked the shock."—Chicago Post. Les Miserables. The millionaire is wretched—quite; Half-starved—and who'll deny it? The poor man has an appetite, And cannot satisfy it! —Atlanta Constitution. THE FIRST AND THE LAST. Elsie—You know, Bobby is our first cousin. Dorothy (on whom Bobby has made an unfavorable impression)—Is he? Well I hope he's our last, that's all.—Punch They seemed at peace with all the world. Enrapt in holy bliss. But, with the osculation o'er, It was not hard to find This night she took her lips away, The ruby stayed behind! —Smart Set, _____ The First and the Last. Mr. Misht (savagely)—Before I married you was there any dodering idiot gone on you? Mrs. Misht—There was one. Mrs. Misit—There was one. Mr. Misit—I wish to goodness you're married him! ! Mrs. Misfit—I did!—Tit-Bits Had a Girl Though Friend—I thought you had a girl. Mrs. Suburb—I have. "But you are doing the work." "Yes. The girl is a consumptive, and was ordered into the country for her health. We couldn't get any other kind to come here."—N. Y. Weekly. Shrewd. "Mr. Bliggins seems to be a wonderfully bright young man." "He is," answered Miss Cayenne; "in a certain way. He is careful to select topics of conversation so abstruse that you have to take everything he says for granted."—Washington Star. Complimentary: "Ach, Fritzy, you are tears shedding Der moosie moves you, yes?" asked the boss fiddler. "I can't help it. Heinle. Your playing reminds me so mooch of dot leetle pig I had ven I vas a poy alretty."— Chicago American. Proper Ending: Bacon—Did you read of the accident when the two trains raced to see which would reach the drawbridge first? Egbert—No, I didn't; how did the race end? "In a draw."—Vonkers Statesman. At Chickamauga Memorable Incidents of One of the Most Sternly Contested Battles of the Civil War. THE CIVIL WAR THE BATTLE OF CHICKAMAUGA SEPT 20, 1865 Forty years ago, September 20, was fought the battle that made the name Chickamauga historic. In the character and number of troops engaged, in the stragetic maneuvers that preceded the battle, and in desperate fighting on the field, Chickamauga was the great battle of the chick, and one of the most remarkable conflicts of the civil war, says the Chicago Inter Ocean. The troops engaged were mostly veterans. The men of the union army had fought under Grant and Buell at Shiloh, under Buell at Perryville, under Rosecrans at Stone river, and were organized in corps and divisions commanded by such officers as Thomas, Crittenden, McCook, Sheridan and Palmer. The soldiers of the several divisions had the confidence that comes with long association in campaigns, and they had also that knowledge of the opposing army that came of meeting it in several battles. On the confederate side there were not only Bragg's veterans of Perryville and Stone river, but Longsireet's splendid soldiers of Lee's army and many of the veteran regiments from the rebel armies that had been operating in Mississippi and Georgia. THE BATTLE OF CHI Each army had respect for its antagonist, and an overwhelming desire to win. On the confederate side this desire to win had been intensified by what had gone before. Bragg had fought at Perryville and run away. He had fought at Stone river and retreated, yielding all of northern Tennessee to the unionists. He had been outmaneuvered at Tullahoma in June and July, 1863, and had yielded all of southern Tennessee without a battle. Two months later Rosecrans had forced the passage of the Tennessee and compelled Bragg's army to retreat from Chattanooga, which had been pronounced impregnable, and which was to the confederate line in the west what Richmond was in the east. When Bragg had retreated and Rosecrans elated division had moved on diverging lines in pursuit, the confederate authorities formed a plan to crush the pursuing army. Lee was weakened that Longstreet might be hurried to Bragg. Troops were, withdrawn from Sherman's front and sent toward Chattanooga, and on September 15, 1863, the president at Washington and the people throughout the country and Rosecrans at Chattanooga saw that the Army of the Cumberland was threatened with destruction in the hour of its greatest triumph. Rosecrans, confronted with the problem of holding Chattanooga and saving his army, recalled his divisions to the line of the Chickamauga river, and had them in supporting distance before Bragg was ready to strike. On the night of September 18 he shifted his whole army, anticipating the plan of Bragg to crush his left and drive the union army away from Chattanooga. So on the morning of September 19, INCIDENTS OF CHICKAMAUGA Strange Things Witnessed by a Union Soldier in That Sanguinary Battle. "At the battle of Chickamauga I was a private in the ranks of company G, of the Nineteenth Illinois infantry," said Col. Henry S. Dietrich, now inspector of rifle practice in the national guard of Illinois, in the Chicago Inter Ocean. "I was one of the skirmishers sent out to feel the enemy. At the beginning of the battle we advanced toward a clump of woods to draw the fire of the southerners. We had to cross a field covered with stumps and piles of rails, and a battery was stationed behind us to throw shells into the confederate ranks whenever we should draw their fire. "We had advanced a considerable distance when the confederates opened on us. We took refuge behind the rails and remained there firing until the recall was sounded. The battery all the while threw shells over us and into the woods. "When we were going back after the recall, I missed a young soldier named Metcalf. Looking back, I saw him kneeling behind a rail pile. Another soldier and myself, thinking he must be bounded, went back to get him. We found that a short shot from our own artillery had literally blown off the top of It Depends. "Rain water," said the teacher, "is always soft, is it not?" "Not always," replied the bright scholar; "sometimes it's soft, but very often it comes down hard." -Philadelphia Press. When Cooking Sauce. A too rapid boiling ruins the flavor of any sauce. It must boil up once, but should never do more than simmer afterward. 1863, Bragg, with an effective force of 71,000 men, was ready to attack Rosecrans' army of 56,000 and was confident that he would not only crush the union army but reoccupy Chattanooga that day. Before he could attack, however, Gen. George H. Thomas, in command on Rosecrans' left, which was not where Bragg supposed it to be, took the initiative and made a furious attack on one of Bragg's advance brigades. This movement developed the confederate position and at the same time so disconcerted Bragg that he postponed his general attack. Rosecrans, with Bragg's plans revealed, made his dispositions accordingly. His men knew they were outnumbered and fought with desperation. On Saturday night, September 19, the men of the Army of the Cumberland felt they had been worsted. In the hard fighting of the day they had lost heavily in men and artillery, but they felt as they went into new positions that Rosecrans was preparing to hold fast. On the morning of the 20th the sore-hearted soldiers of the depleted union army were waving like bulldogs to the roads by which Bragg must reach Chattanooga. The very flower CKAMAUGA SEPT. 20, 1865. of the confederate army of the east and west was against them, but they clung to the roads and gaps between the enemy and Chattanooga. Divisions were crushed, charging confederates ran over the general headquarters, a line of battle a mile in extent melted away. Gen. Rosecrans himself was swept from the field in a rout of the regiments nearest him, and at a vital point in his line, and yet the bulldog Army of the Cumberland held on to the roads and gaps. Assailed again and again, the divisions under Thomas on the left and the brigades that had been sent to reenforce him and the regiments, battalions and companies that had drifted to him when their own division were broken up, clung to the roads, even after Bragg's men were in their rear. When night came the Army of the Cumberland retired to the line of Missionary Ridge, but it still held the roads, and it still held Chattanooga. The supreme effort of the confederates in the west had failed of its object. The great battle of the west had been fought for Chattanooga, and after the tremendous struggle Rosecrans held it. This was the fact that discouraged the confederates and gave new courage to the unionists. It is a fact that is uppermost in the minds of the surviving veterans of Chickamauga today. There were blunders on that field. There were mistakes of a mystifying character on both sides. But when you ask an old soldier of Chicago who fought under Thomas or Palmer or Turchin at Chickamauga 40 years ago, "Were you whipped?" he answers, "Well—we held on to Chattanooga, you know." And that is the answer of history. his head, but it had not caused him to fall. "On Saturday night, September 19, I was on outpost duty. When relieved at midnight, I was thoroughly chilled. I went back toward my company, and on the way came upon a soldier lying beneath a blanket. Not having a blanket of my own, I crept under his quietly, to keep from disturbing him. I did not awaken until morning. Then I turned to get a glimpse of my companion. He was a dead cavalryman, and I had slept beside him, thinking he, like myself, was only worn out from the day's duties. "The next day, on Sunday, I had my experience in terrific fighting. Our regiment that day occupied Snodgrass hill, the key to the situation. There we remained until night. To make our position secure and afford us some protection, we tore down fences and log cabins and built a wall just high enough to hide us when lying down. Immediately back of us were the cannon. Men still back of the cannon loaded our guns and passed them to us, and we reserved our fire for the charges which the southerners repeatedly made. At one time I had five loaded guns beside me. When the enemy would come very close, we would fire these reserve guns as fast as we could pick them up and take aim. The cannon boomed right over us all the time, and deafened several of the soldiers. Affects the Tobacco. The spicy odor that is noticeable in the cigar box comes from the wood of which it is made. It is not because it is impregnated with the tobacco. On the contrary, the tobacco takes the flavor of the wood. That is the reason why a particular kind of wood is used for the boxes of all the best cigars. It is Spanish cedar, an expensive wood, porous and spicy, and the only kind which has been found to improve the flavor of the cigar. Canine Was So Smart That Its New Owner Had Him Converted Into Sausages. The New York Times tells this unique story of a certain office holder who decided to buy a dog. In reply to his "ad," a man called at his office with an intelligent-looking animal, that he immediately took a fancy to, though he deemed it advisable to first inquire into something of its characteristics. "What can he do?" he asked. "Oh, sir, he can do anything. If you've lost anything, sir he'll go direct." BETWEEN Birmingham, Memphis and Kansas City AND TO ALL POINTS IN Texas, Oklahoma and Indian Territio AND THE Far West and Northwest x1 THING." you lost it. THE Wonder of the World ly to the place where you lost it. He'll—" "By the way, I just missed my glove. Do you suppose he could find it?" "Certainly, sir. Just let him sniff at your hand." The office holder held his hand to the dog's nose, and the animal trotted serenely off. Presently he returned, and with a joyous wagging of the tall deposited his offering at the office holder's feet. At the same moment the click of the typewriter in the next room ceased. A girlish form appeared in the doorway. "My sash ribbon," cried a high sweet voice, "my sash ribbon! The dog has my sash ribbon!" The office holder's face turned a dull red. He cast a furtive glance at the man, dived into his pocket, and hauled out a bill. "I guess the dog'll do," he said, quietly. Thomas McNeill, a cowboy, living near Bluewater, N. M., while in the Zuni mountains accidentally ran into a cinnamon bear. Having no weapon, he tried to lasso him, but the bear brought down his horse by biting a piece out of the horse's flank. McNeill then tackled the bear on foot, using a rock to erush his skull. The animal when dressed weighed 417 pounds, and was soiled at Bluewater. A medical authority says that in railway collisions nearly all the passengers who are asleep escape to a great extent the bad effect of shaking and concussions, Nature's own anaesthetic preserving them. American Books in Japan. Japan has more translations of American books than any other foreign nation. Gidding's "Principles of Sociology," Mayo Smith's "Statistics of Sociology" and "Little Lord Fauntleroy" have had large sales. A Limited Industry. Chemists' shops are limited to a certain number in Germany, and new licenses are rarely granted. 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HE PLANET TO WALK WITH YOU. Oh, some men's lives are laughter-etched And some are etched in rue; But I care not what ways men walk So I don't walk with you! The skies make dawn overhead, The leven-bolt flash through; But I—I'll know it not at all So but I walk with you! Oh, happy days are short, short days, And feet are skies o' blue; But I will laugh to see them go So I but walk with you! Oh, who would care to live long days? What makes life long but run? I will make life's ways both glad and short So but I walk with you! So put your wee white hand in mine— Give me the other, too! Oh, your wee white dew So I but walk with you! Your wind-blown jocks are tawny gold, Your lips are like the hue Of trumpet blossoms! bless the ways So I but walk with you! And, oh, your breath comes sweet to me As illac perfumes do— Oh, life is short, but what o' that I pray that Heaven's gates may swing So we may both pass through! 'I'll go with never a backward glance So I but walk with you! I would not win to Heaven e'se, For Heaven were not true If I were there and you were here, If I walked not with you! And if you win the Heaven first Let not the gates swing to, Wait there a moment, Happy-heart, I'll come to walk with you! -J. M. Lewis, in Houston Post. THE SCIENTIFIC LOVER By EARL MARBLE ES, dear, I am much interested in the development of our experiment of regulating the progress of love by science, thus eliminating the vagaries of undirected or misdirected passion. I think that nearly all the misery of the world is generated by false ideas of love and marriage. Men and women are of a higher order than the animal creation, and should not let the animal instinct decide their destinies. So spoke Otto Henderson to Ella Morehouse as they sat on the porch of the latter's home. He had taken her hand in his in a quiet, matter-of-fact way, and she allowed him to retain it, and for several moments her hand lay passively in his. Probably the mutual feeling was as near platonic as ever is experienced in this world. Certainly there was nothing like the intensity of feeling usually experienced when two young people who are engaged are sitting out on the porch in the twilight, for these two young people were engaged, and fancied they were very happy in the society of each other. "How nice it all is!" said the young woman, whose placidity did not seem "I WAS ENGAGED TO YOUR MOTHER ONCE." at all ruffled, as she removed her hand from that of the young man in a mechanical way, and laid it as passively in her own, where it lay quietly in her lap. "We shall be very happy—scientifically happy," he said, looking into her eyes, and then allowing his gaze to scan the contour of her fine figure in an admiring but rather patronizing way. "Yes, Otto—it will be perfectly lovely. I won't get my hair mussed up, nor my gown rumped. It will be just as nice as though I were being loved by one of my roommates in the seminar. And how poetical it is, too!" Theyng man rather winced at this, but only for a moment, when the shadow left his face, and he smiled as he bade her good-night. At the club a few days later, Henderson met William Tremaine, between whom and himself a club friendish had existed for two or three years. "So you are going to marry Ella Morehouse?" said the elder man of the two, looking at the younger rather keenly. "I certainly congratulate you." "Do you know her very well?" "No, and yes. I knew her mother 20 years ago as well as any woman living; but, after her marriage, we rather drifted apart, and my acquaintance with the young lady has not been what you might call intimate. I shall certainly congratulate her when I see her next." That occasion came sooner than Tremaine expected. He was passing the house early one evening, and saw her sitting alone on the plaza, with the moonlight streaming over her. She apoke in response to his courteous bow, and, after a moment's hesitation, he opened the gate, and strolled up the walk, while she arrives to meet him, and d out her hand to him in greeting. "Is it in order for me to congratulate you on your coming marriage with Mr. Henderson?" he asked. "Why certainly," she replied; but there was a lack of spontaneity in her tone, and her eyes had a far-away look in them. "I certainly do congratulate you. I have always felt a kind of fatherly interest in you." "Why, you do not look old enough to feel fatherly, and such a confirmed old bachelor, too, as father said once, in speaking of you," she said with a good-humored laugh. "But I am getting quite old. I am nearly 40." "What a grandfather, to be sure!" The banter was thoroughly enjoyed by Tremaine, and he joined in the laugh at his own expense. "But the wind is rising, and the dust is disagreeable," she said. "Won't you come inside?" "Yes, if your father is at home. I have not had a chat with him for a long time." "I am glad that you love Mr. Henderson," he said, as he took a seat while a servant turned up the lights. "But I do not know that I really do love him," she said simply. "He is a nice young man, with no vices, so my friends say, and he has ideas—" "Yes, I have heard him exploit them, and frankly—" "You do not agree with them?" "No, Miss Morehouse. But I think you will be safe with him; and in time—" "Oh, thank you for your generosity, I am sure, as you say, we shall in time—" "I suppose you know, Miss Morehouse, that I was engaged to your mother once—" "Why, Mr. Tremaine! how can you say such a thing to me?" "I have a reason for it. I supposed maybe your mother might have told you of it before her death." "No, indeed, sir; and I am astonished that you should." "Wait, please. I was only 18, and your mother was a year younger. We had a little lovers' quarrel, and separated. Then she married a better man than I, and—and I see her image before me at this moment. I loved your mother very dearly, and—and how much you are like her!" "Mr Tremaine—" "I hope you will grow to love Mr. Henderson, and he you, and that your married life may be as happy as that of your parents. I am sorry that I shall be obliged to go away without meeting your father." "I think he will be here in a few moments." "I shall tell Mr. Henderson what a prize he will have, and—" "Do you think such a marriage can be happy?" "Why not? Both of you are pleased, and the love will come." "Do you think love is necessary?" "Good heavens, girl! why do you ask me? I am too old-fashioned, and Mr. Henderson is up to eat in his notions" "But are not some of the old-fashions better than the new ones?" "Why ask me? I may be prejudiced." "Did Mr. Henderson tell you the nature of our engagement?" "No, Miss House." "Well, if either of us were to fall in love with anyone else, the engagement was to be considered broken." He stared at her in a perplexed way for a moment, while she began to laugh hysterically. "It seems to me that your mother stands before me as she did twenty years ago." "But it is not my mother. It is her daughter." "But the love is in my heart just the same." She did not rebuke him, but hid her face in her hands. He placed his arm about her, but she did not make an objection. "Can you forgive me?" he said, as she uncovered her face, and looked at him through her tears. "I am afraid the engagement is broken," she said, as she hid her face again. "You do not mean it?" "I do, and here comes father just in time," as his step was heard in the hall. "But I have forgotten what I wanted to talk to him about." "That doesn't matter, does it? Can't you find a subject of conversation?" "I guess so. Poor Henderson!" BOSTON HOLDS WIDOW RECORD Massachusetts Official Collects Statistics for French Scientist—Their Lot a Hard One. A Boston state official who has been investigating the subject for Prof. Friedrich Prinzing, of Paris, has discovered that Boston has more widows in proportion to its population, than any other city in America, even Chicago, Philadelphia, New York, and other large centers. The young widow, he says, is one of the most unfortunate of beings, and not at all the gay butterfly which popular fancy has pictured. Prof. Prinzing has collected a remarkable group of statistics which show that poverty sorely oppresses the widow, and that she is more subject to insanity, consumption, conflict with the law, and death than her married sister. All these woes fall more heavily on the young widow. Dr. Prizing's opinion is that the state should make provision for the support of the widowed and their children, directly, instead of indirectly through hospitals and insane asylums. 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Our goods are the best for the price and the price is very low. C. G. Jurgen's Son 421 EAST BROAD ST., between 4th and 5th Street ACETYANET SATURDAY...NOVEMBER 14, 1964 CAMPFIRE STORIES He Was So Fool of laugh That They Had to Fire him Out of the Army. One day in 1863 there came down to the front a recruit with a grin on his face and a chuckle in his throat and he had hardly been turned over to the Third regiment when he put his hands to his sides and began laughing. He laughed like a man who was tickled to death. His face got red as paint, tears ran from his eyes and he seemed about to choke, when a sergeant gave him a kick to straighten him up and indignantly demanded: "Now, then, what sort of a blamed fool are you, and what are you laughing at?" "It's so funny—it's so funny," gasped the man, as he went off into another fit of laughter. "What's so funny?" "Why, my being down here! A week ago I was hoeing corn on the farm—ha, ha, ha!" The sergeant said he'd be hung if he could see where the laugh came in, nor could any of the rest of us but it was half an hour before James Thurston could sober up his face. That was his deout. Within three days he had every man in the company, officers included, down on him for being a laughing man. His face was in repose only when he slept. The rest of the time it wore a broad grin and the most trifling thing brought a laugh. He was top good-natured. He had such a guffaw of a laugh that he disturbed everybody in the company when he starred in. They called him names and he laughed the harder. He was kicked and cuffed and he roared: "Ha ha, ha!" till men came running from other companies. We finally demanded that the captain suppress him, and that officer called him up and began: "Look here, Thurston, what is all this nonsense about?" "What nonsense, sir?" asked the recruit, with a grin. "Why, you see laughing so much. What do you see to tickle you?" "Lots of things, captain—ha, ha, ha!" shouted Thurston, as he got a brace on his ribs. "It seems so queer not to be milking the cows and feeding the hogs and helping dad off with his boots." "And you laugh about that, do you?" "Yes, and I can't help it—ha, ha, ha!" "Well, you come mighty near being a fool!" exclaimed the captain, as the guffaw died away into a gurgle. "But I don't see why," answered Thurston, trying his best to look serious for a minute. "When I think of hoeing corn, painting the barn, washing sheep and whitewashing the cellar, and then look around me here and see a lot of soldiers and tents and mules, why, I have to—ha, ha, ha!" "But if you don't stop it I'll send you to the guardhouse. It is disrespect to your officers, and the men don't like it. We get braying enough from the mules." "I'd stop, captain, if I only could, but I—I can't—can't do—" The captain ordered him out of the tent and into the guardhouse. He was probably the only soldier in any army who was ever punished for laughing. He was hardly under arrest when it struck "ILL SEND YOU TO THE GUARD- HOUSE." him as funny that he should be in the guardhouse down at the front instead of chopping out weeds in a cornfield up in Connecticut, and he laughed until the indignant captain ordered a gag placed in his mouth. He didn't laugh any more for five or six hours, but his guards insisted that his face wore a grin all the time—as much of a grin as could be worked up under the circumstances. Thurston served for six months and laughed day and night, and nothing could check him. Then the men of the company drew up a petition and his captain went to the colonel, and one day the man's discharge papers arrived. They read "for general disability," but as a matter of act he was turned out of the army for laughing. He knew it as well as anybody else, and he seized upon it as a pretext for one of his loudest and longest guffaws. "It is so funny," he said, as he was ready to go. "Only yesterday I was a soldier in the army, and to-day I am a citizen and on my way back to old Connecticut to milk the cows and feed the hogs again—ha, ha, ha!" And he roared and gasped and gur- gled, and we heard the bray until he had put a full mile between us and left us to light the war on other lines. Best Kind of Learning. That learning is most requisite which mislearns evil.—Antisthines. BUCK-AND-BULL MUSKETS. Lot That Brought Anything But Rejoicing to the Soldiers Who Got Them. In the winter of 1861-'62 we encamped on Minne's Hill, Va., along with the Fourteenth New York, Ninth Massachusetts and Sixty-second Pennsylvania. We were armed with buck-and-bull muskets, which we were to exchange for Enfield rifles, says a writer in the American Tribune. Word was given the different companies to send details for guns. The company B detail was dispatched, and soon the boxes were brought and opened. Behold! a mistake was made, and, the boys thought, on purpose. Instead of Enfields, the box contained the same kind of guns we already used. The men were indignant, and refused to accept them, but finally concluded to use them awhile, as they were new and bright. The guns were distributed and the boxes ordered back. A procession was formed, a la funeral, an THE GUNS WERE DISTRIBUTED escort with reversed guns and music, and every conceivable thing that any noise could be got out of followed to the quartermaster's depot. A volley was fired over the boxes, and the process returned to quarters. Soon a racket was heard in the vicinity of company B. Every other man had a gun slung around his body and was down on all fours. The other fellow had a gun thrust between the gunsling and along the man's spine firing blank cartridges. As soon as the gun was discharged, the man on the ground would assume a sitting posture with the muzzle up; then the gunner would ram cartridge, and the gun would immediately assume the horizontal again to be fired. There were some 40 of the company engaged in this. That night after the racket, the Fourteenth New York cutler lost a barrel of whisky, rolled out from under his tent early in the evening, while the proprietors were engaged in front with a special delegation sent to occupy him and his assistants while the feat was performed. If never was found, but you could buy a canteenful for five dollars from one who knew where it was. Details were made to hunt for it, but it was never brought to view, but some of the details were quite drunk when they returned. FRIENDS OF CIVIL WAR DAYS Daughter of a Confederate Soldier Names Her Baby Boy for a Union Veteran. Senator Benjamin Starr, of Richmond, Ind., ex-department commander of the Indiana grand army, has sent to Benjamin Starr Reid, at Charleston, Mo., a beautiful solid silver loving cop and several other pieces of silver of exquisite design. The recipient is a babe a few weeks old and behind the gift is a chapter in a romantic story that had its beginning in civil war days. Senator Star was a member of the Second Indiana cavalry, and during a Kentucky campaign was stricken down with typhoid fever. The regiment was encamped upon, or near, the farm of James Wardlaw, not many miles from Mammoth cave. Wardlaw was a typical southerner, but he had knowledge of Starr's serious illness, and believing that he would never be able to pull through in camp, insisted that he be taken to his home. Here Wardlaw and his family gave Starr the best of care, but many weeks passed before he was able to leave the place and return to his regiment. During his stay a friendship was formed between him and the various members of the Wardlaw family that time will never sever. In the years that have passed since the civil war there has been a constant interchange of letters between Mr. Starr and the southern family and a Christmas day has never passed without gifts being sent and received by each. Upon several occasions Starr has paid visits to the family and has been royally entertained. The daughter of Mr. Wardlaw, now Mrs. Reid, of Charleston, is the mother of the babe that has been made the recipient of the gifts from Senator Starr. The friendship that has existed for him in the Wardlaw family has been carried forward another generation and the daughter has named her baby boy for the union soldier that her parents nursed back to life 40 years ago. So Handy. "Yes, we went all over the continent but papa really only enjoyed himself in Venice." "Ah, yes, no wonder! The gondolas, St. Mark's, the—" "O, it wasn't that. But he could sit in the hotel, you know, and fish out of the windows."—Stray Stories. Unpensioned Survivors. The commissioner of pensions estimates the unpensioned survivors of the civil war, excluding deserters, at 200-000. The average annual value of each pension is now $133. Terms and Conditions Only nine men have been hanged in Kentucky in the last five years, although there have been 798 murders. Big Bull Acts as Motor Power for the Small Craft. Unique Journey of a Hunting Party Around a Lake in the Maine Woods—Adventure Never To Be Forgotten. The Bangor (Me.) Commercial says there are two people of that town, a camp proprietor and a guide, who had an adventure recently, which they will tell about for the rest of their lives. The people are Miss Carry Geombs, of Bangor, who is staying at the well-known camp at Lily bay, Moosehead lake, kept by Alphonse Berdeen; Joseph Patten, of Bangor, a well-known guide of that region, and Mr. Berdeen himself. It does not come to the lot of many people to be towed a mile and a half through a lake by a big bull moose, while two cows swim alongside, the people being in a canoe and resting on the moose to keep him from swamping, fairly riding him, but that is what happened to these people. It was Tuesday afternoon that Mr. Berdeen, who is always looking out for the pleasures of his guests, spied a big bull moose on the shore of the lake near the camp and at once thought what fun it would be to chase the big animal in a canoe. Calling to Miss Coombs, Mr. Patten and Jack Dyer, the guide, Mr. Berdeen started toward the big animal, who at once began to swim out into the lake. Quickly jumping into a canoe the quartette started. Driven by the lusty strokes of the guide and the camp proprietor, the canoe was not long in overtaking the animal, who was making frantic efforts to escape across the lake. Upon reaching him Dyer, who was in the bow, seized the moose by the horns and the fun began. It was at this point that the most remarkable occurrence happened. The party was about 100 yards from the shore when, on turning DYER SEIZED THE MOOSE around, one of them saw two cow moose making out from the shore. The smaller animals soon overtook the big bull, who was sadly handicapped by having to drag the canoe full of people, and they began to swim alongside. It was at this juncture, however, that the fun nearly became serious. As the four people, each one wanting to get a better look at the big moose, crowded forward into the bow of the frail craft, it nearly swamped, the bow coming perilously near going under. How Mr. Berdeen got over the three people and, resting himself on the moose, held up the canoe, no one can tell, but he did, and for a mile and a half the big animal towed the four people in the canoe, while the two cow moose swam alongside. All this time, too, the bow of the craft was being kept up by Mr. Berdeen, who was supporting it on the moose's back. When the party had traveled as far as it wished and the moose was puffing and blowing at a great rate, he was released, and the four occupants of the canoe said that it was a sight worth going miles to see the way that moose, even in his winded condition, humped himself and made the water fly getting across the remainder of the lake to the opposite shore. INSECT HORSE GUARDS They Look Very Much Like Hornets and Keep Away Flies from the Laboring Beasts. In the northern states horses that travel in the country during hot weather are protected from the bite of the horsely by some sort of cover, which is made of leather straps or coarse cord, which keep up a dangling with every motion of the horse. This, with the incessant switching of his tail, serves to intimidate the pests in some degree. Still the big, daring files will sting the poor brute every now and then most cruelly. In Florida the horse guards are unique, and so effectual that a horse can travel all day, or stand under trees, or browse in the pastures well, and not be bitten by a single fly. These horse guards are very much of the appearance of hornets. Perhaps they are somewhat longer in body and the stripes not so wide as those of a hornet. Each horse is guarded by five of these vigilant insects, and woe to the fly that is bold enough to alight on a horse, for in a flash the faithful guard snaps it up, carries it away to the side of the road, and there digs its grave. All this is done so quickly that the guard has soon caught up with the horse, and is on the watch for another victim. The horse seems to understand, for although the guards keep up a continual buzzing, the sound does not annoy him in the least.—Cincinnati Enquirer. The Sultan's Hobby The sultan of Turkey has a curious hobby in regard to carriages. He has been engaged in collecting such vehicles for the past 20 years, and now has nearly 600 of all makes. Wallpaper Hung by Machinery. Wallpaper can now be hung by machinery. The device consists of a rod, on which a roll of paper is placed, and a paste reservoir with a feeder. OLD DOMINION ST. Ship COMPANY. Night Line for Norfolk. Leave Richmond daily at 7 p. m., stopping at Newport News in both directions. Daily except Sunday by O. & O. Railway, 9:00 a. m., 4 p. m. 9 a. m., and 3 p. m. by N. & W. Railway; all lines connect at Norfolk with direct steamers for New York, sailing daily except Sunday, 7 p. m. Steamers sail from company's wharf (foot of Ash Street) Rockets. Ranges with Kitchen ranges, are among the in the kitchen. The opening of the o'er away with burns many a cake frostant of closet one has to do is the progress of the Plants Any plant leeps rapidly to leaves and to bee K. F. CHALKLER, City Ticket Agt. 1212 E Main St. JOHN F. MAYER, Agt. Wharf Foot of Ash St., Richmond, Va. H.B. WALKER, V.P. & T.M., New York. Nov. 1st, 1903 C & O ROUTE. CHESAPEAKE & OHIO RAILWAY. 2 Hours and 25 Minutes to Norfolk. LEAVE RICHMOND-EASTBOUND 7:00 a.m.-daily-Local to Newport News and way stations. 9:00 a.m.-Daily-Limited-Arrives Williams- bury 9:00 a.m., Newport News 10:30 a.m. m., Old Port 11:00 a.m., Norfolk 11:30 a.m. 4:30 p.m. - Week days - Special - Arrives Williamsburg 4:30 p.m. - Newport News 5:30 p.m. - Old Point 6:50 p.m. - Norfolk 6:25 p.m. 5:00 p. m.-Daily-Locals to Old Point. MAIN LINE-WEST BOUND 10:10 a. m.-Exam Sunday to Cifton Forge. 10:20 p. m.-Daily-Special to Cinnamati, Louis Louis and Chicago. 5:15 p. m.-Weekly-Fred's Hall to Cinnamati. 5:15 p. m.-Daily-Limited to Cinnamati, Louisville, St. Louis and Chicago. JAMES RIKE LINE. 10.20 a. m.-Daily - Express to Lynchburg, New Cause, Clifton Forge and principal stater gates. 10.20 a. m.-Weekday - Lexington, 8:15 p. m.-Weekday - Lexington, 8:15 p. m.-Weekday - Lexington, BAIN3 ARRIVE RICHEM DOWN FROM New York. 10.20 a. m.-Daily, 11.15 a. m. Ex, Sun, and 7 a.m. Newport News Local 8.15 p. m. daily From Cincinnati and West 7:45 a.m. m. daily at 5:30 p.m. daily. Main Line Local from Cincinnati. Ex Ex Sun. Ex Ex Freckle's Easi Accommodation. 8:10 a.m. Ex Sun. Jam River Line Local from Litton Forge 6:35 p.m daily. Bueno accron. $20 a.m. Ex Sun. 5. DOYLE. W. O. WAKTHEN. Gent Manager. Dist. Fess. Arg SOUTHERN RAILWAY TRAINS LEAVE RICHMOND 7:00 a.m.-Daily. Local for Charlotte, 12:30 p.m.-Daily. Limited. Et. Pet Pullman, 12:30 p.m.-Daily. Ingham, New Orleans, Memphis, and Ft. lynch and all the South. 6:00 p.m.-Ix. ur 4:30 p.m. 11:03 p.m.-Daily. Limited. Pullman ready 9:30 p.m. for all 3 South LINE The favorite route to Baltimore and eastern points. Leave Richmond 4:30 p.m. and eastern except Sunday. If not except Sunday. Local mixed for West Point. 2:15 p.m.-Local for West Point 4:30 p. m. - Except Sunday. For West Point, connect with steamers for Baltimore and New York. TRAIN'S APPYE RICHMOND. 5:55 a.m. and 6:45 p.m. - From all the South. 3:35 p.m. 4:45 a.m. - From Chase City. 8:15 a.m. - Baltimore and West Point. 4:50 p.m. - From West Virginia. H.C. ACKERT, G.M. - S.H. BARDWICK, G.P.A. C.W. WESTBURY, D.P.A. Richmond, Va. SEABOARD AIR LINE RAILWAY **TRAINS LEAVE RICHMOND DAILY** 9 a.m. - Seaboard Mail-10:35 p. m. Seaboard Air Boarding, Vaughan, Jacksonville, Atlanta and Southwest m. - Local-For Norrish and Hamlet. TRAINS LEAVE DAILY 6:35 a.m. - No. 34-4:35 p. m. No. 66-From Florida, Atlanta, and Southwest. Paintings and local points. R. S. LEARD, District Painters, W. S. LEARD, St. Richmond, W. Phone, 405-722-3600. Phone, 405-722-3600. W. J. MAY, City Ticket Agent R.F. & P R. Richmond, Fredericks business & Potomac R. R modation. 8:00 a.m., Sunday only. Byrd st. Through. 8:40 a.m., week days. Byrd st. Through. 12:05 noon, week days. Byrd st. Through. 4:00 p.m., week days. Byrd st. Fredericksburg accommodation. 5:05 p.m., daily. Main st. Through. 6:25 p.m., week days. Elba. Ashland accommodation. 8:05 p.m., daily. Byrd st. Through. Trains Arrive Richmond.-Southward. 6:40 a.m., week days. Elba. Ashland accommodation. 6:15 a.m., week days, Byrd st. Fredericksburg accommodation. 8:35 a.m., daily, Byrd st. Through. 11:55 a.m., week days, Byrd st. Through. 2:05 p.m., daily, Main st. Through. 6:00 p.m., week days. Elba. Ashland accommodation. TOLE-Punjian Sleeping or Parlor Cars on all trains except local accommodations. D.W. DUKE, C.W. CULF, W.P. TAYLOR, Gen' Man'L, Ass' Gen' Man'L, Traf. Man'L ATLANTIC OAST-LINE BIRK STREET STATION. 8:30 n. m. To all points South. 8:30 n. m. Petersburg and Norfolk. 12:30 n. m. Petersburg and N. & W. Wes. 3:00 p. m. Petersburg and Norfolk. 14:10 p. m. Goldsboro local. 5:56 p. m. Petersburg local. 6:56 p. m. To points South. 9:35 p. m. Petersburg and N. & W. West 9:35 p. m. Petersburg and N. & W. West 11:30 p. m. Petersburg local. **TRAINS ARRIVE RICHMOND.** 4:07 a. m. 7:35 a. m. 8:25 a. m. except Sunday 11:10 a. m. 11:42 a. m. 2:00 p. m. 6:50 p. m., 7:45 p. m. 8:45 p. m. *Excuse G. S. GAMBELL, Div. Pass. Agt.* W. J. CRAIG, Gen. Pass. Agt. Norfolk and Western R. R. LEAVE RICHMOND (DAILY), BYRD STREET STATION. 9:00 A. m. NORFOLK LIMITED. Arrives at Norfolk 11:20 a.m. M. Stops only at Peersburg, Worcester, and Suffolk. 9:00 A. m. CHICAGO EXPRESS Buffet Parlor Car Petersburg to Lynchburg and Reynolds Pullman Steiger Roanoke to Columbus and Knoxville, and Knoxville to Chattanooga, and Memphas. 12:20 p. m. Roanoke Express for Farmville, Lynchburg, and Roanoke. 19:00 p. m. Roanoke Shift limited Arrives Norfolk 5:20 p. M. Shift to Lynchburg and Suffolk and Suffolk. Cengage with Steamers to Boston, Providence, New York, Baltimore and Washington. 16:56 p. m. for Norfolk, all stations east of Petersburg. 19:35 p. M. NEW ORLEANS SHORT LINE. Pullman to Lynchburg to Lynchburg. Petersburg to Knoxville to Columbus, Memphis and New Orleans. Cafe Dining Car. Trains arrives from the west 7:35 a. m. p. m. and 8:55 p. m., from Norfolk 11:10 a. m. 11:32 p. m. and 8:50 p. m. Office NESSEX East Main Street. W. B. BEVILL. G. H. BOSLEY Gen. Pass. Act. Div. Pass Agent. The Greatest Offer Yet! JUST WHAT THE LADIES WANT. Send A Good Photograph. WE WILL SEND YOU A HANDSOME GOLD-PLATED BREAST-PIN WITH YOUR PICTURE HANDSOMELY COLORED AND REPRODUCED THEREON FREE OF CHARGE. They can be worn by either male or female, being called either Button or Medallions. We have made special arrangements with one of the largest concerns in the country to furnish all new subscribers, who pay $1.50 cash in advance for the PLANET one these handsome Medallion free of charge. Fill out the Coupon and send it with $1.50 together with a good Photograph of the person whose features you desire reproduced in colors and we will send the button or medallion. All photographs will be returned. Enclose 5 cents extra to pay postage on the same. If you are not satisfied, your money will be refunded. Send us one yearly subscriber and we will send one Medallion. Two yearly subscribers, two Medallions. Now is the time to take advantage of the offer. The Medallion alone is worth the price of the subscription. Please find enclosed $1.50 for the one year, which you will to the following address: closed photograph which I desire inser pd in medallion or button Ranges with Glass Over Doors. Kitchen ranges, with glass oven doors, are among the labor saving devices for the kitchen. They save the constant opening of the oven door, thus doing away with burned fingers and saving many a cake from falling by the constant jar of closing the oven door. All one has to do is to look in and watch the progress of the baking. Plants Need Light Any plant lept in a faint light begins rapidly to lose the color of its leaves and to become fragile and transparent. There are very few plants in the world that can thrive without a good share of light. Those that grow in caves are generally thin and stunted. Corn for the Transvaal The demand for white corn in the Transvaal is now very great, and as Mozambique corn can be imported into the Transvaal free of duty, while corn from other countries is taxed, the cultivation of corn in this province is becoming a very important industry. Explain. Patient—Doctor, what makes quibble start one's head to going round and round? Doctor—Because it comes from Peru which is one of those countries where revolution is in the very air. Baltimore American. Brass Pans. Brass pans should be cleaned before use. Rub them with salt and vinegar, then rinse thoroughly with water and dry with a soft cloth. Thus you may be sure that the pans are free from verdigris, which is a strong poison. Ragpickers of Paris. The raplockers of Paris have lived in separate communities for so many centuries that they have almost become a distinct race, having their own laws and customs, their own cafes, even a patio of their own. Bath for Inflamed Eyelids. If the eyelids are inflamed by cold or study a little water is good for bathing them. Cold weak tea, weak salt water and warm milk are also good for occasional use. The milk should be diluted with water. Colored Races Hear Better. Colored races possess a keener sense of hearing than whites. Big Money on Horse Races. During the racing season more than $1,000,000 a day is wagered on horses. In the Cause of Science: With the object of obtaining specimens of every dialect spoken in the United States, Prof. Scripture, of Yale university, is touring the country in a special railway carriage fitted with phonograph apparatus. He is visiting the Indian tribes first, and afterwards intends including the poorer white people of the southern and foreign-born population. WH I K + Y How to make fine 014d Whiskey for less than 25 cefs a gallon. This recipe has raised many a poor man to fame and fortune. Sample Free. E. EHLER, Box 28, Freedom, Pa, B. C CHESAPEAKE & OHIO RAILWAY. 2000-Mile Tickets Discontinued. On and after June 1, 2000-Mile Tickets will be withdrawn from sale and replaced by the 1000-Mile Refund Interchangeable Tickets heretofore announced. The JUST Actual Size. This offer is, without the least doubt, the greatest value for the least money ever offered by any newspaper in the whole history of journalism ★ FULL SIZE ★ 3½ cts. ★ SHEET MUSIC ★ a Copy ★ LARGE TYPE ★ ★ UNABRIDGED ★ WE have made arrangements with one of the largest music houses of Boston to furnish our readers with ten pieces, full-size, complete and unabridged Sheet Music for thirty-five. The quality of our sheet music is the very best. The compassor's music are good enough over the continuum. None but high-priced copyright pieces or the most popular reprints. 12x12 printed on regular sheet-music paper, from new plates made from large, clear type—including colored titles—and is in every facet, and worthy of your home. $3,000,000 copies sold. LIST OF THE PIECES PRICE OF ABOVE PIECES. Any 10 for 35 cents. Any 21 for 65 cents. Any 43 for $1.25. Any 100 for $3.00. Write your name, full address, and pieces wanted by the numbers; this, with stamps or silver, and mail to address given below, and the mail be sent direct from Boston, postage prepaid. This offer holds good to any of our subscribers or to any person sending as much as 50 cents for a subscription to the PLANET. Address, JOHN MITCHELL, JR., 311 N.4th St., Richmond, Va. HE PLANET We cannot tell how sweet must be The Heavenly speech they use above; What cadences, o.e.p as the sea, What holiest phrase or tone of love. Let human speech has many a word More sweet than angel-ips can sound; Gorgiveness, grace in Christ the Lord, Mercy, with loving-kindness crowned. They breathe upon our hearts like songs That swell around, below, above; The words on mortal tongues. The words that tell God's wondrous love. They break upon our utter need. Like dauntless sacrifice. For Jesus brought from Heaven indeed. The words that spirit are and life. We cannot want for words to men. While still we strike the mercy-chord! Grant us power to speak again. The words of life in Christ the Lord. Mrs. Merrill E. Gates, in N. Y. Observer. "CUP-OFFERINGS." Little Helpfulnesses Are "Three- Fourths of All That Makes It Beautiful to Be Alive." Nothing is said in the gracious text about giving a cup of cold water, con- cerning the cup itself. It is not essential that it be of gold or silver. It is the water that refreshes, not the cup. And why but a cup? No one needs a bucke- ful at a time. Better have it fresh and sparkling as thirst returns, a cupful and then another cupful, says the Philadelphia Young People. "Three-fourths of all that makes it beautiful to be alive," says W. C. Gannett, "consists of cup-offerings." Take just a moment to consider this in personal experience. Recall how often and often the cup of refreshment has comforted the soul athirst, when there was no need of anything more and the larger supply was not at hand. Think what it has meant many a time to have the word in season of sympathy and love, or encouragement and cheer, to feel the mere touch of a friendly hand, to realize the companionship of one who was ready to stop a minute to minister in trifles to offer the cup of refreshing. Who cares to be drenched by the turning on a river when thirsty and faint? A cup offering of water is enough and does not stagger one with obligation. If our experience proves this to be so, what about our practice? Are we swift and ready with cup-offerings? Are we alert and glad to make the proffer in time of need? When the need is past what good will it do? It is a worthy aim to make it "beautiful to be alive" for those who do live and must live about us. Fountains of help abound, and it does not take long to dip a cupful and pass it on. No matter about the kind of cup, if love offers it and pure water fills it. Don't wait to turn the course of a river or to place a fairy foundation by every man's door. Remember the cup-offerings as you pass. THE NEAR VIEW. In One That Makes Psalmists—Dis tance Not only Lends Enchant- ment, But Stimulates Faith. The near view must ever be a disappointing view, says the Baptist Union. The pigments are too thick upon the canvas; the grain of the wood is too coarse; the roar of the organ-pipes is too great; there seems to be nothing but paint, nothing but wood, nothing but noise—and the close view is ever disappointing. I heard one say the other day that Jesus Christ had the long look. It was a most suggestive saying. He endured the shame of the cross because of the joy that was set before him; but the joy was a long way off—though he lived in the prospect of it. The whole suggestion has significance for those who are working and struggling and enduring. At first view—the close look—all seems confusion and disorder. This close view always makes pessimists; pessimists are near-sighted folks; they see to the end of the street corner; scarcely that, sometimes, for their eyes are on the ground near their feet. He who walks with his eyes downward, who is near-sighted by reason of his doubts and his fears, is no message for his age; he is a pessimist—and pessimists have no future. But the long look, the distant view—it not only lends enchantment, but it stimulates faith, kindles inspiration, nerves for the conflict! There is always a joy that is set before the soul of the faithful, though the immediate object be a cross upon which he is to be offered. What a pity to be near-sighted; what a great thing to have the long look of the Christ. Our Possibilities of Well-Doing. It is not the doing a great thing which is sure to be recognized and rewarded of Christ; but it is having the spirit and the readiness to do what we can. There are few who have the money to build a church, or to endow a public library, or to send a shiplion of provisions across the ocean to a starving people. If there were no reward promised except to those who did such great things, most of us would feel our helplessness in the work of well-doing. But the promise of God is to him who gives a cup of cold water only in the name of Christ. All of us can do that. Are we doing it?—S. S. Times. The Wise Man The foolish and cruel teamster loads his wagon with a view to the level. The wise and just man loads his with a view to the steepest hill that is to be climbed. The foolish man equips his life for the easy course—the wise man for life's heaviest trials and sternest tests.—Wellspring. As a Business Organization. According to Sir Robert Giffen, the United Kingdom as a going concern was in 1901 worth $80,000,000. spectful Toward the hers, But Eager ip as Well. The Chicago Interior, speaking of an editorial in an exchange, says that the latter recently undertook to say a true thing and said it so bunglingly that it sounded like a selfish, cowardly falsehood. The truth imputed at was that the fate of each man's soul rests in final responsibility with himself alone, and not elsewhere, and thence the editor illogically concluded that a Christian is not his brother's keeper and has no right to urge on his brother the claims of the Christian life. That was not only discriminate but inopportune. It is conceivable that in some fanatical crisis Christians might need to be cautioned against infringing on the right of people to go to perdition if they will, but this age of easy-going, unassertive Christian profession is not such a crisis—not by a very considerable quantity. It is perfectly true that as it is impossible to force a man into the Kingdom of Heaven, so it is wrong to go at him in any way that looks as if that was what you meant to do. The Lord Jesus Himself is profoundly, even mysteriously, respectful toward the humoral will; He saves no man who doesn't wish salvation, and although He earnestness, He takes none with violence for the kingdom. Infinitely impotent for the kingdom. We can only imitate the reserve of the Master. But it is a shame to imitate Him in restraint in one way and not to imitate His eagerness of zeal in all others. Where It will not compel. He does with ineffable love constrain, and where He will not command He incessantly pleads. And the love of fellow-men which is not assumed as a duty but felt as the stirring of a Christ-like heart, will spontaneously follow in the tactful way of the Saviour's own soul-winning. Any pressing of the Christian life on one's neighbor which has the air of superior goodness descending to advise him, of lofty wisdom charged with guardianship over him, of fierce determination to carry him bodily where he does not choose to go, will quite naturally be an offense to the person addressed. But the sincere approach to a friend in the attitude of simple desire to tell him what has been help and inspiration in one's own life and to invite him to try it too, will command respect and hearing. And in regard to that form of religious appeal to other men, we need not warning to refrain from it but incitement to greater forwardness in it. Many Buildings Going Up. In Beaumont, Tex., 1,500 residences were built in the last 12 months. It has a population of 30,000. Increase in Suicide Rate. The suicide rate in the United States has increased in ten years from 12 to 17 per 100,000 population. City of Many Foreigners. Nearly one-third of the 381,000 inhabitants of Cleveland were born in Europe. Rest to Be Prepared. "It certainly is raining hard," remarked the sweet girl. "I'll just get an umbrella and have it handy for you." "But surely," protested her favorite bean, "there's no hurry." "You can't tell when you may need it. Father's home to-night."—Philadelphia Press. New Games A FREE game inside each package of Lion Coffee 60 different games. FIRST MILLINERY STORE. A New Venture—Patronize Them. The first millinery store in this city owned and operated by colored people was established on the 1st day of Oct., 1903, by a number of our enterprising people at No. 528 East Broad Street—up stairs on the second floor over the colored dry goods store. We cordially invite our ladies and friends to give us at least a part of their patronage in our efforts to establish a business, wherein we can give employment to a limited number of our girls, especially since we can furnish them with the best of goods and the latest styles at the lowest prices. Owl and see us before purchasing elsewhere, as we guarantee satisfaction. Very respectfully, THE RICHMOND MILLINERY Co. tinlow2Sino Low Winter Tourist Rates via Sea-board Air Line Ri. Seaboard Air Line Railway announces special winter tourist rates to all of the principal points in Florida and the Southwest. Tickets on sale daily until April 30th, good returning until May 31st, 1904. Drawing-room Pullman Cars on all through trains; Dining Car service south of Hamlet, Information as to rates, tickets, etc., cheerfully furnished on application to the undersigned. H.S. LEARP W. L. MAY To California, the South and South- West Via Southern Railway. West Ria Southern Railway. Low rates excursion ticket one way, and round trip now on sale Via Southern Railway to California and the South West. Elegant through service, "Dining cars." For details, apply to agents. C. W. Westbury, D. P. A. NEVER SEEN HERE BEFORE!! A NEW FEATURE!!! CONGRESS OF ANIMALS! This amusing comedy represents the lower animals as having secured the upper-hand of mankind and they forthwith agree to hold a Congress of Animals to decide what is to be done with mankind. Mephistopheles (The Devil) having heard of the Proclamation decides to be present and to offer his realms for the settlement of the question. This discussion will commence each night at 8 o'clock sharp and last a half hour. Promptly at 10 o'clock, the animal dance will take place. Only the animals will be allowed on the floor. The Musicians will wear animal heads. All of the persons taking a part will wear the large costly animal heads, which have been secured at great expense. The imposing street parade of the animals will be a novel feature. On the first and third floors will be the homes of the animals, from which refreshments and merchandise will be sold. Potato and sack races will also be an amusing pastime. As the entertainment extends over a period of ten nights, every one will have an opportunity to be present. Ladies will serve refreshments in the Dog's House, the Lion's Den, the Hog's Pen, the Rabbit's Bed, the Mule's Stable, the Crocodile's Rest, the Bear's Cave, the Goat's House, the Giraffe's Plain, the Tiger's Forest, the Cow's Pen and the Ram's Fold. Imposing street parade Monday night, Nov. 23d, 1903 at 7:30 o'clock. Good Order Guaranteed. MUSIC IN ATTENDANCE EACH NIGHT. ADMISSION, 15 Cents. Children under 12 years, 10 Cents. Doors open 7:30 P.M. JOHN MITCHELL, JR., President; THOS. M. CRUMP, Secretary. THE RICHMOND PLANE RICHM Hossein Bordjeev 1879 Whereas, we have secured control of the Universe and the upper-hand of the Human Race, we deem it advisable to meet and discuss as to what shall be done with mankind. Our treatment in the past by Man has been such as to cause a feeling of resentment throughout the lower Animal Kingdom. Some of us have been shot, some have been slaughtered regularly at Christmas times, some made beasts of burden and beaten, some tortured and otherwise maltreated; Therefore I, after consultation with my brother animals, have decided to call a Congress of Animals to assemble at Pythian Castle, Monday night Nov. 23d, 1903 at 8 P. M., and to continue in session for ten nights. Done by order of His Majesty, THE LION, Attested:— King of Beasts. HALLS OF TRANQUIL DELIGHT. TEMPERATURE 20,000° BOWER OF BLISS. TEMPERATURE 19,600° IFANS FOR SALE AT THE DESK. THE DEVIL GETTING READY FOR THE MEETING. THE DEVIL GETTING READY FOR THE MEETING. Winter Tourist Excursion Rates Via the Southern Railway. Beginning with October 15th, 1903 and continuing until April 30th, 1904, the Southern Railway will have on sale excursion tickets to many points in the South and South-west, at greatly reduced rates. Frequent and convenient schedules; Through Pullman and Thoroughfare cars; duing car service of the highest class on all through trains. For details, apply to agents, C. W. Westbury, D. P. A., Richmond, Va. Some of the best HUNTING AND FISHING IN THE SOUTH TO BE HAD IN THE TERRITORY TRAVERSED BY SOUTHERN RAILWAY No other section offers to sportsmen such inducements and such variety of Game. Special attention given hunting parties. Send four cents postage to S. H. Hardwick, General Passenger Agent, Washington, D. C., for copy of Hunting and Fishing Book. COMMENCING Sunday Night, Nov. 23, 1903 and Lasting EEN NIGHTS umber 24th, 25th, 26th, 27th, 30th, Dec. ist, 2nd, 3rd and 4th, 1903, at the PYTHIAN CASTLE, 27 N. 3d St., For the Benefit of the PYTHIAN CALANTHE INDUSTRIAL ASSOCIATION OF VIRGINIA. November 24th, 25th, 26th, 27th, 30th, Dec. 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th, 1903, at the 727 N. 3d St., For the Benefit of the PYTHIAN CALANTHE INDUSTRIAL ASSOCIATION OF VIRGINIA. THE SECRETARY. THE DEVIL'S OFFER. Headquarters of MEPHISTOPHELES, Nov. 5, 1903. Having seen the Proclamation of His Majesty, THE LION, convening a Congress of Animals at Pythian Castle, Monday night, Nov. 23d, 1903 for the purpose of deciding what shall be done with mankind, though not invited to be present, I hereby announce that I shall be on hand to offer my service and to tender my realms as a suitable place for the location of man and the consequent settlement of this remotique question. It will require a meeting of only ten minutes, if my advice is taken and mankind be sent down to me. Respectfully submitted, THE DEVIL. nals as having secured the upper-hand gress of Animals to decide what is to ) having heard of the Proclamation de- tlement of the question. at 8 o'clock sharp and last a half hour. place. Only the animals will be allowed s. All of the persons taking a part TRADE MARK THE ONLY MADAME ALLEN'S REMEDIES FOR THE HAIR, SKIN, ETC. COLORED WOMAN IN THIS COUNTRY MAIL CORNER CARN CURT SUN 2000 LAKE LEATHER TWENTIETH CENTURY HAIR--GROWER | The treatment of the hair is a subject that should interest everyone. My GROWER acts on the glands of the hair, stops the hair from falling out, cures all kinds of scalp trouble and dandruff, makes the hair long, wavy, and a good quality. It is not a hair Straightener. PRICE, 30C PER. JAR. MADAME ALLEN'S Twentieth Century FACE BLEACHER Walter H. Booker'S Market 501 Webster St. A FULL LINE OF FINE GROCERIES AND FRESH MEATS & VEGETABLES Wood and Coal, Cigars and Tobacco. AT THE LOWEST MARKET PRICES. YOU CAN SAVE MONEY BY GIVING ME A CALL. ALL GOODS DELIVERED TO YOU FREE. TELEPHONE 1307 A. C. BOOKER, Prop. 501 WEBSTER ST., RICHMOND, VA. Wood and Coal, Cigars and Tobacco. AT THE LOWEST MARKET PRICES. YOU CAN SAVE MONEY BY GIVING ME A CALL. A Mechanics' Savings Bank OF RICHMOND, VA -511 North Third Street. Capital, $25,000. Money received on deposit and interest paid on all amounts above $1.00 which remains 60 days and over. Money Loaned on Satisfactory Security. Money received on deposit and interest paid on all amounts above $1.00 which remains 60 days and over. Money Loaned on Satisfactory Security. Business Accounts Handled Promptly. Amounts of ten cents and upwards received on deposit This establishment is fitted up in the most improved style, having a large white vault, burlar-proof steel chest, electric lights and every modern convenience for safety and the accommodation of the public. For all information concerning Stocks, Deposits, Loans, etc., apply to the Cashier. Banking Hours have been arranged for the special convenience of the working people as follows: 9 A. M. to 4 P. M. Saturdays, 9 A. M. to 3 P. M. We close Saturday at 3 P. M. and open again at 5 P. M., remaining open until P. M. Call by as you come from work. OFFICERS: JOHN MITCHELL, JR., President. H. F. JONATHAN, Vice-President. THOS. H. WYATT, Cashier. BOARD OF DIRECTORS: REV. W. F. GRAHAM, D. D., JNO. R. CHILES, B. P. VANDERVALL, E. R. JEFFERSON, H. F. JONATHAN, THOMAS SMITH, D. J. CHAVERS, J. O. FARLEY, JNO. T. TAYLOR, E. A. WASHINGTON, R. W. WHITING, WILLIAM CUSTALO, J. J. CARTER, JOHN MITCHELL, JR. FRES. THOMAS M. CRUMP, SEC'R. SOUTHERN AID SOCIETY OF VIRGINIA HOME OFFICE -- 504 N 2nd St., Richmond, Va. One of the strongest and promptest paying Sick Benefit Insurance Companies in the State. You cannot afford to be out of it and should not hesitate to join when our agents call on you. HONESTY THE BEST POLICY IS "OUR MOTTO" OFFICERS AND BOARD: A. WASHINGTON, PRESIDENT; EEWARD STEWARD, VICE-PRESIDENT; WALTER E. BAKER, TREASURER; B. L. JORDAN, REV. SIDNEY B. STANTON, HENRY B. BURWELL JAMES T. CARTER, THOS. M. CRUMP, SECRETARY & GENERAL MANAGER. Amounts of ten cents and upwards received on deposit This establishment is fitted up in the most improved style, having a large white vault, burlar-proof steel chest, electric lights and every modern convenience for safety and the accommodation of the public. For all information concerning Stocks, Deposits, Loans, etc., apply to the Cashier. Banking Hours have been arranged for the special convenience of the working people as follows: 9 A. M. to 4 P. M. Saturdays, 9 A. M. to 3 P. M. We close Saturday at 3 P. M. and open again at 5 P. M., remaining open : 31:1. P. M. Call by as you come from work. OFFICERS: JOHN MITCHELL, JR., President. H. F. JONATHAN, Vice-President. THON, H. WYATT, Cashier. BOARD OF DIRECTORS: REV. W. F. GRAHAM, D. D., JNO. R. CULIERS, B. P. VANDERVALL, E. R. JEFFERSON H. F. JONATHAN, THOMAS SMITH D. J. CHAVERS, J. C. FARLEY, JNO. T. TAYLOR, E. A. WASHINGTON R. W. WHITING, WILLIAM CUSTALO, J. J. CARTER, JOHN MITCHELL, JR. PRES. THOMAS M. CRUMP, SEC. SOUTHERN AID SOCIETY HOME OFFICE -- 504 N 2nd St., Richmond, Va. One of the strongest and promptest paying Sick Benefit Insurance Companies in the State. You cannot afford to be out of it and should not hesitate to join when our agents call on you. HONESTY THE BEST POLICY IS "OUR MOTTO" OFFICERS AND BOARD: A. WASHINGTON, PRESIDENT; EWARD STEWARD, VICE-PRESIDENT; WALTER E. BAKER, TREASURER; B. L. JORDAN, REV. SIDNEY B. STANTON, HENRY B. BURWELL JAMES T. CARTER. HAMILTON Keep Up With the Times YOU WILL ALWAYS BE BEHIND THE TIMES IF YOU DON'T GET ONE OF CARR'S EXCELLENT Time Keepers. YOU WILL ALWAYS BE BEHIND THE TIMES IF YOU DON'T GET ONE OF CARR'S EXCELLENT Time Keepers. Think of this beautiful ladies SOLID SILVER WATCH Stem Wind and Set and is a very good time keeper. Price Only $3.50. Sold elsewhere for $5.00. If you watch these advertisements, you will get many good bargains in jewelry. Remember this is no fake. Fair dealing is my motto. Satisfaction guaranteed. Send mail or express money order. Write your name and address plainly. Address all matters to P O. Box, No. 900. A. R. CARR, New York City, N. Y. SOLID SILVER WATCH Stem Wind and Set and is a very good time keeper. Price Only $3.50. Sold elsewhere for $5.00. If you watch these advertisements, you will get many good bargains in jewelry. Remember this is no fake. Fair dealing is my motto. Satisfaction guaranteed. Send mail or express money order. Write your name and address plainly. Address all matters to A. R. CARR, P. O. Box, No. 900. P 0. Box, No. 900. RICHMOND, VA. PHONE, 577. RICHMOND, VA. A. D. PRICE, THE FUNERAL DIRECTOR, EMBALMER AND LIVERYMAN All orders promptly filled at short notice by telegraph or telephone. Hall rested for meetings and nice entertainments. Plenty of room with all necessary conveniences. Large picnic or band wagons for hire at reasonable rates and notting but first-class carriages, buggies, etc. Keeps constantly on hand fine Funeral Supplies. 212 EAST LEIGH STREET. THE FUNERAL DIRECTOR, EMBALMER AND LIVERYMAN All orders promptly filled at short notice by telegraph or telephone. Halle rented for meetings and nice entertainments Plenty of room with all necessary conveniences. Large picnic or band wagons for hire at reasonable rates and nothing but first-class carriages, buggies, etc. Keeps constantly on hand fine Funeral Supplies. 212 EAST LEIGH STREET. [Residence Next Door.] OPEN ALL DAY & NIGHT--Man on Duty All Night OPEN ALL DAY & NIGHT--Man on Duty All Night