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THE RICHMOND PLANET ANNUAL MEETING Of the Stockholders of the Mechanics' Savings Bank. -$6,870 of its Stock Represented. - A Fine Showing for the Year. The second annual meeting of the Stockholders of the Mechanics' Savings Bank was held Tuesday evening, January 16, 1994 at the new Pythan Castle 727 North 80rd street. Out of the $7,890 worth of stock sold $6,870 worth was represented either in person or by proxy. During the preliminaries previous to the reading of the reports of the President and Cashier a fervent prayer was delivered by Mr. J. H. Tyrrell, after which a most excellent explanation as to the meaning of sto k and its good and evil was made. He seemed thoroughly conversant with the banking business and explanation was very much enjoyed by those present. Vice-President H. F. Jonathan took the chair and the president made his report which gave an account of the general condition of the bank and of its successful business career since its opening on January 1st, 1902. It was received with marked attention throughout, and at interval was applauded. It was indeed a gem and full of encouragement. Cashier, Mr. Thos. W. W. Wyatt rendered his second report to the stockholders, telling in detail of all of the transactions of the year's work. He was indeed equal to the task and gave most tangible proofs of his executive ability. Mr Wyatt is indeed a model young man and has made an excellent, careful and pains-taking cashier, of which the officers and stockholders of the bank are justly proud. Telks were inudged in by Rev. Dr. W. F. Graham, Rev. G. H. Phillips, Col. E. A. Washington, Cashier of the Nickel Savings Bank; and Miss M. L. Chiles. The meeting was one of enthusiasm, the bank has had a most prosperous career in a most excellent condition. It is the purpose of the President and Board to offer to the public every accommodation to be had in the largest banks of this city consistent with safe banking rules. The public has proven that they have the utmost confidence in the bank as is evidenced by the large amount of patronage given it since its organization. The reports of the officials show an increase in deposits and all the other departments of the business. The entire Board of Directors was re-elected in the person of Messrs. John Mitchell, Jr.; H. F. Jonathan, Thos. M. Crunn, B. P. Vandervall, J. J. Carter, D. J. Chauvers, Wm. Custalo, Thomas Smith, John T. Taylor, R. W. Whiting, John R. Chiles, Dr. E. R. Jefferson, Rev. W. F. Graham, E. A. Washington, J. C. Farley. Expressions of approval of the works and success of the past year were given and the meeting adjourned with benediction by Rev. C. H. Phillips. Thanks Returned Richmond, Va. Jan. 6th, 1904. Mr. Editor: Please allow me space in your valuable paper to thank the many friends who contributed so liberally to the Friends' Asylum for Colored Orphans, and especially the Little Folks' Association Charity Club and the Little Willing Workers' Penny Club, who contributed so nicely to the children. With many thanks, we are yours for the benefit of the children. FRIENDS' ORPHAN ASYLUM. Bettie Graves, Matron. Aniversary! Mount Olivet Baptist Church! Anniversary. In recognition of Divine Guidance by which they are able to rejoice in the payment of the last penny on their building, the Mount Olivet Baptist Church will have their anniversary and thanksgiving services an entire week, beginning the second Sunday in the new year, Jan. 10th, 1904, ending on the third Sunday night. The following pastors have consented to preach on this occasion: Second Sunday—Morning, Rev F. W. Williams; afternoon, Rev. W. F. Graham, D. D.; night, Rev. W. T. Johnson, D. D.; Monday night, Rev R. V. Peyton, D. D.; Tuesday night, Rev R. B. Taylor; Wednesday night, Rev A. S. Thomas; Thursday night, Rev N. B. Brown; Friday night, Rev John Fauntleroy. Third Sunday—Morning, Rev A. Ferguson; afternoon, Rev D. W. Davis, D. D.; night, Rev W. H. Stokes. The choirs have been invited to accompany their pastors. Services 11:35 a. m., 4 p. m., 8:30 p. m. All are welcome. REV. J. ANDREW BOWLER, Pastor. A pleasant and enjoyable evening was spent at the residence of Mr. Wm. Oustalo, — N. 9th street, last Sunday afternoon. Present: Messrs. W. M. T. Forrester, Wm. B. Lyons, John S. Powell, E. S. Robinson, Geo. W. Lewis and John Mitchell, Jr. The dinner was very fine. At the conclusion the party required to the residence of Mr. John S. Powell, where the eating ceremony was proceeded with again. All were happy. CATES AND MULLEN SENT TO JAIL In Default of Payment of Fines in Libel Case--They Go Down. W. H. Mullen and D'finey Cates were yesterday sent to jail in default of the payment of the $250 each assessed against them in the Hustings Court for criminal libel, growing out of certain publications concerning Superintendent Euchanan, of the Passenger and Power Company, in "The Opinion," of which they were editors during the recent street railway strike here. The bail bonds of the men expired yesterday with the beginning of the January term of the court, and Judge Witt declined to renew them. The men had applied to His Excellency, the Governor, for pardon, but he had not seen his way clear to grant it as the case is full of embarrassing complications. The limit of the term, which Mullen and Cates may serve is three months, though they may be released much sooner upon proof of their bankruptcy. Upon satisfactory information of their insolence, Judge Witt may free the prisoners in his discretion. Muchen sympathy is felt among acquaintances of the men. Young Cates, who besides being a young man of industry and good reputation, is practiced as a minister of his widowed mother,—Richmond, Va., Times Dispatch, Jan. 5th, '04. Fifth St. Members Remember Their Pastor. New Year's Day carried pleasant greetings and tokens of honor to the home of Dr. W. F. Graham, pastor of the Fifth Street Baptist Church. During the day the family were the happy recipients of a fine barrel of flour, many pounds of granulated sugar and other necessities for the store room. These were sent by ladies: Mary Page, Madine Seily, Virginia A. Henderson, Cora Shepherd, Martha Seey, Amanda Archer, Jennie Hawkins, Sarah Powell, Martha Jenkins, Lotissa Weare, Annie Coleman, Hardenia Willis, Lillie Mornis, Bettie B. Walker, Mary Smith, Lucinda Ware, Annie Chaffin, Martha Scruggs, Florence Scruggs, Callee Brown, Mollie Lewis, Nellie Hearn, Emma Shells, Addie Lemas, Annie Harris, Barbara Lewis, and gentlemen: B. H. Peytor, James Chies, Virgil Hawkins and Edward Shells. At night another happy party came bringing a fat purse of money and many other presents to the family. This party was composed of ladies: Isabela Wilkerson, Martha Mayer, Henrietta Harris Rosa Lewis, Josephine Baker, Ella Hill, Wimfrey, Catherine Matthews, Jane Dudley James, Annie M. Coleman, Bertha Williams, Georgia Williams, Virginia Jones, Nancy West, Angela Stannily, and gentle William Wilkinson, Harris, Joseph Wilkinson, Edward Coleman, James West and Rev. J. L. Robinson. Happy addresses were made by Mrs. Wilkerson, Miss Bertha Williams and Mr. James West. Grand Chancellor in Staunton Staunton, Va., Jan. 7, 1904. Grand Chancellor John Mitchell, Jr., arrived here last night at about seven o'clock for the purpose of completing the initiation of the members of Staunton Lodge, No. 62. He was met at the train by Deputy Grand Chancellor, A. C. Mabrey and conveyed to his residence, where an enjoyable repast was served by the Madame. Sir Mabrey has two interesting children. The following candidates were examined by Sir M. W. Pamrell, M. D., acting Grand Medical Register: George H. White, William B. Perkins, William Anderson, Israel P. Jackson, George H. Davenport, William Perkins, Rice/R. Keys, Thornton Scott, J. H. Ailen. The initiation ceremonies were highly interested and were thoroughly enjoyed by all present. The Grand Chancellor was outspoken in communication of this new lodge. The Castle Hall was in fine condition. The furniture is new and a portion of the degree work has been secured. The Grand Chancellor explained the business features, told about the Mechanics' Savings Bank and its progress and urges the members to purchase stock. The officers of this lodge are: C. C., J.A. Carter; V. C., Lawson Downey, M. of W., A. C. Mabrey; Prelate, R. C. Pannell, K. of R. & S., William Ellis, M. of F., A. E. Burks; M. of Ex., J. M. Morris; M. at A., Robort H. Southall; I. G., Giles Jackson; O. G. M. L. Brown. Sir Mitehell left this morning for Richmond, being accompanied to the train by Sir Mabrey and Sir W. Claude Johnson, the Planet agent here. $100 Endowment Paid. Richmond, Va., Jan. 5th, 1904 This is to certify that I have received from John Mitchell, Jr., Grand Worthy Counsellor of the Grand Court of Virginia, One Hundred Dollars ($100) in payment of the death claim of Mrs. Bette Randall, who was a member of Julia's Court, No. 235, I. O. of Calanthe. Signed:— LUCY A BENSON. Witnesses: her Eliza X Green. mark N. B. Norrell. Ida B. Stares. RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, SATURDAY, JANUARY 9, 1904. SAMAKITANS TO THE FRONT. New Lodge of Ninety Members Made in Portsmouth. On the 17th of December Grand Secretary J. W. Thompson was called to Portsmouth to install the officers of Christian Light Lodge, No. 359. Through the energetic work of Special Deputress Mrs. S. T. Jackson, Deputy Edward Tharps, W. J. Perry and Mrs. M. J. Wright, this lodge was gotten to come over from the Grand United Samaritans to the Independent Order of Gleaves and D. of S., Mr. David Sprayle leader. After the installation of officers the members spread a long table laden with all the delicacies of the season. The work of this order is progressing wonderfully in the State. Deputy Anos Johnson, at a mass meeting in December, offered all lodges in the city to hold a general thanksgiving meeting on their first meeting in January, 1904 Jordan Leige, No. 40, elected its yearly officers the 4th Tuesday night in December and initiated one candidate. On the 2nd Tuesday night in January this lodge will have a general thanksgiving meeting. Kev. R. V. Peyton will act a schairman. Every member is expect'd to be present, and the fraternity in general are invited out. Every member and visitor will bring an offering for the Friends' Orphan Asylum. Money or anything else you may bring will be thankfully received. This lodge meets at Foushee Street hall. Come and help a noble cause. Rev. Dr. Binga Remembered Pastor Binga, of Manchester was visited by a number of his members during Chistmas week as usual, who presented many valuable tokens of respect. The presentation speech was made by Diane Baker in a few well-chosen remarks. Called Up From Danville. Mr C. H. Lewson, general manager of Hotel Lawson at Danville, Va., called up the Planet office last Monday. He was in the hotel and Editor Mitchell was in his business office and they conversed as satisfactorily as though they were only a few blossoms away. He gave me concern concerning his up-to date hostelry. The rates are only $1.00 per day and you will do the proper thing to call them. Union! Union!! Union!!! The regular monthly meeting of the National Baptist Sunday School Union will be held on next Sunday, January 10th, 2014 at 3 p. m. at Zion Baptist Church, (Manchester) Excellent programme, All attended. B. H. PEYTON, President; E. A. WASHINGTON, Vice-Pres; A. W. DANDRIDGE, Secretary. 8150 Endowment Paid. Danville, Va., Dec. 31, 1903. This is to certify that I have received from John Mitchell, Jr., Grand Chancellor of the Grand Lodge of Virginia, Knights of Pythias, ($150.00) One Hundred and Fifty Dollars in payment of the death claim of Lewis Brown, who was a member of Roman Eagle Lodge, No. 18, N. A., S. A., E., A., A. & A. Signed:— EMMA X BROWN, Witnesses: mark Lucille Brown, Wife. Dangher; H. S. Keen, C. C.; W. A. Millner, D. D. G. C. Officers Elected. The annual meeting of the Stockholders of East End Memorial Bursal Association was held on Monday night, last, and the following officers were elected: President, W. H. Jones; Vice-President, E. W. Fowlkes; Secretary, E. A. Washington; Manager, D. J. Chavers, Directors; W. H. Jones R. F, Tancil, Samuel Meredith, E. A. Washington, Peter Coleman. Smith-Carter The marriage of Mr. Eppuse C. Smith to Miss Luln T. Carter, of Charlottesville, Va., will take place in Charlottesville, Va., Tuesday night, January 12, 1904, at 8:30 o'clock, at the home of her parents. Reception at their future home, O'Connor street, Richmond, Va. Wednesday, April 11. Friends are invited. No cards. Mr. Henry A. Robinson, of Covington, Va., called on us. Rev. J. W. Thompson, pastor of the Temple Baptist Church, Chester, Pa., and Mr. E. L. Young, of Lincoln University, called on us. Rev. W. H. Crawley, of South Boston, Va., was in the city last week. Mrs. Gertrude Fitzgerald Webb, with her infant son, is the guest of Mrs. J. Mark Funn, 608 North Third Street. WANTED—Cooks and house-girls for this and Northern cities. Wages good. Transportation furnished. R. W. Elsom, 417 E. Broad St. MESSAGE ON PANAMA GANAL The President Explains and Defends His Course on Isthmus. NICARAGUA OUT OF QUESTION Washington, Jan. 5. - When Congress reconvened President Roosevelt sent a message on the subject of the Isthmian canal. In part it is as follows: To the Senate and House of Representatives: I lay before the congress for its information a statement of my action up to this time in executing the act entitled "An act to provide for the construction of a connecting the waters of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans," approved 26.19.1802. By the said act the president was authorized to secure for the United States the property of the Panama Canal company and the perpetual control of a strip wide across the atitmus of Panama. It is the responsibility "should the president be unable to obtain for the United States a satisfactory title to the property of the New Panama Canal company and the control of the necessary territory of the republic of Colombia" to a Reasonable time and upon reasonable request the president" should endeavor to provide for a canal by the Nicaragua route. The language quoted defines with exactness and precision what was to be done and what as a matter of fact has been done by the president was authorized to go to the Nicaragua route to a reasonable time he could not obtain "control of the necessary territory of the republic of Colombia." This control has now been obtained, the provision of the act has been compiled with it, is no longer possible under existing legislation to the Nicaragua route as an alternative. The president then says this act marked the climax of the United States to secure a canal across the Isthmus, and then quotes a resolution passed by congress in 1961 that would allow French Panama company to construct the canal. The resolution follows: That the government of the United States will look with serious concern and disapprove European government with the construction or control of any ship canal across the Isthmus of Darlen or across Central America, and must regard any such conquest as a threat to the just rights and interests of the United States and as a menace to their welfare. When the government submitted to Colombia the Hay-Herran treaty, three things are therefore already set in motion: that the canal be built for time delay, the time for permitting the attempt to be made by private enterprise, the time for permitting any government of anti-social spirit and of development to bar the work was past. Second-While it was settled that the canal should be built without unnecessary or improper delay, it was no less clearly shown to be our purpose to deal not merely in a spirit of justice, but in a sense of generosity with the people through which we work. The Hay-Herran treaty, if it erred at all, erred in the direction of an overgenerosity toward the Colombian government. In our anxiety to be fair we had gone to the very verge of yielding to a weak nation's demands what that nation was unable to enforce from us against our own. The government was made upon the administration for the terms of the Hay-Herran treaty were for having granted too much for Colombia, not for failure to grant enough. Neither in the congress nor in the public press, at the time that this treaty was formulated, were there complaint that it did not in the fullest sense guarantee to Colombia everything that she could by any color of title demand. Then follows Colombia's reasons for rejecting the treaty, owing to relinquishment of "sovereignty," which the president of the republic misrepresentation of facts, as the treaty overrode sovereignty over the tract. It is also shown that after the revolution had taken place Colombian officials offered to ratify the treaty and relinquish sovereignty over the canal strip if the United States would place Colombia in control of Panama. Third—Finally the congress definitely settled where the canal was to be built. It was provided that a treaty should be made to the congress across the inthus of Panama, and if after reasonable time it proved impossible to secure such treaty, that then we should go to Nicaragua. The treaty has been made, it needs no argument to show that the treaty would be impossible across a canal across Panama, and that whether the republic granting the title was called New Granada, Colombia or Panama mattered not one whit. Although, as the treaty itself does not increase improbable that the Colonies would ratify the treaty or take steps which would be equivalent thereto, yet all chance for such action on their part did not vanish until the congress closed the treaty. There are days thereafter the revolution in Panama had broken out. Panama became an independent state, and the control of the territory necessary for building the canal then became obtainable. The condition of the treaty would be impossible Nicaragua thereby became impossible of fulfillment. If the pending treaty with Panama should not be ratified by the senate, this would not alter the fact that we could not go to Nicaragua. The conclusion is no alternative under existing legislation. The president here tells of the start of the Panama revolution, and quotes interviews with travelers and many newspaper articles, showing the dissatisfaction of the Panama people with the treaty. The articles said that before the Colombian congress adjourned the people were securing arms and ammunition and were making arrangements to declare their independence. Continuing, the president said that it was notorious that revolutionary trouble of a serious nature was impending upon the isthmus. But it was not necessary to rely exculpation upon such general means of information to justify the board of the navy notified the navy department that though things were quiet on the isthmus, a revolution had broken out in the state of Cauca. On October 16, at the ruest of Lieutenant General Humphrey and Lieutenant Grayson Mulligan Murphy, who had just returned from a four-months' tour through the northern portions of Venezuela and Colombia. What they saw in Panama so impressed lieutenant Theron to Lieutenant General Young, according to his memorandum: "that while on the isthmus they became satisfied beyond question that owing to the failure of Colombia to ratify the Hap-Herran treaty, a revolutionary party was in course of organization, having for its object the separation of the state of Panama from Colombia, the leader being Dr. Humphrey, and the state of Panama; that when they were on the isthmus arms and ammunition were being smuggled into the city of Colon in two boxes, merchandise crates, etc., the Lieutenant General Gras French rife, the Remington and the Mauser; that nearly every citizen in Panama had some sort of rife or gun in his possession, with ammunition therefor; that in the city of Panama there had been organized a fire brigade which was really intended for a revolutionary military order. In view of all these facts I directed the navy department to issue instructions such as would insure our having ships within easy reach of the isthmus in the event of need arising. On November 2, when the Colombian congress having adjourned, it was evident that the outbreak was imminent, and when it was an end in sight, the Colombian ready forces whose meeting would mean bloodshed and disorder, the Colombian troops having been embarked on vessels, instructions were sent to the commanders of the Boston, Nashville and Dixie; "Maintain free and uninterrupted transit and prevent landing of armed force." He responded, saying that the telegram had been received 400 Colombian troops from Cartagena had landed at Colon; that there had been no revolution on the isthmus, but that the situation was most critical if the revolutionary orders should act. On this same date the Colombian responded by sending a bulletin stating that a revolutionary outbreak had occurred. On November 3 a dispatch was received saying the uprising had occurred and had been successful, with no bloodshed. The Colombian gunboat Bogota next day began to shell the city of Panama, with the Colombian naval commander. The consul general was directed to stop firing. Meanwhile, on November 4, Commander Hubbard notified the department that he had landed a force to protect the lives and property of American citizens, which created serious apprehension. As Commander Hubbard reiterated his letter of November 5, this officer and his men were on the front line war against the United States, and only the forbearance and coolness of our officers and men prevented bloodshed. The president here quotes Commander Hubbard's letter, in which Colonel Torres threatened to open fire on Colon and kill every United States citizen in the places seized at Panama were generals who were seized at Panama were militants then that 42 marines were landed from the Nashville and arms distributed to the citizens. The marines took up their station in a stone building of the Panama Canal company, while the women and Colonels were on several steamers. The Nashville steamers were on the water and was ready to use small arms (crush朋 fire). The Colombians surrounded the building occupied by the marines and were very threatening for an hour and being their intention to provoke an attack, the marines were cool and steady, and no shot was taken. Colonel Torres then withdrew his men to Monkey Hill, and the marines were taken on board the Nashville. Commander Hubbard then makes a lengthy report on all that occurred, and says marines were not landed until the lives of American residents were threatened. Continuing, the message says: This plain official account of the occurrences of November 4 shows that, instead of there too much provision by the American government of order and the protection of life and property on the lithium, the orders for the movement of the American warships had been too long delayed—so long, that there were but 42 marines and sailors and and protect the lives of American men. It was only the coolness and galantry with which this little band of men wearing the American uniform faced ten times their number of armed foes, bent on carving the great threat of the Colombian command that prevented a murderous catastrophe. I hesitate to refer to the injurious insti- nations which have been made of com- plexity by this government in the revi- olutionary movement in Panama. They are the only institutions as of propriety. The only excuse for this is that they is the fear lest unthinking people might mistake for acquiescence the silence of mere self-respect. I think proper to say, therefore, that no one connected with this government had any part in preparing, noting or encouraging the late revolu- tionary movement in Panama and that save from the reports of our unfitness and naval officers, no one connected with this government had any previous knowledge of the revolution ex- cept such as was accessible to any person of ordinary intelligence who read the acquisition and so a current acq acquisition with public affection. By the unanimous action of its people, without the firing of a shot—with un- simility hardly before recorded in any similar case—the people of Panama declared themselves an independent republic. Their recognition by this government was basi- cally in no way dependent for its justification upon our action in ordinary cases. Long before the conclusion of the Hay-Herran treaty the course of events had shown that a canal to connect the Atlantic and Pacific oceans must be built by the United States or not at all. Experts have demonstrated that private enterprise was able to equate for the purpose, and a fixed policy was established the United States on many memorable occasions and supported by the practically unanimous voice of American opinion, had rendered it morally impossible that the work should be undertaken by European powers either singly or in combination. It consistently maintain that the recognition of the republic of Panama was an not justified by the interests of common civilization. If ever a government could be said to have received a mandate from civilization to effect an object the accomplishment of which was demanded in the interest of mankind the United States holds that position with regard to the insecurity of the people, and build the canal was definitely announced there have come from all quarters assurances of approval and encouragement, in which even Colombia herself at one time participated, and to general assurances were added specific acts and declarations, which were firmly believe, of the adjacent parts of Central and South America, will be greatly benefited by the building of the canal and the guarantee of peace and order along its line, and hand in hand with the guarantee of going the benefit to us and mankind. By decisive action not only have our interests and those of the world at large been conserved, but we have forestalled complications which were likely to be fruitful in loss to ourselves and in bloodshed, suffering to the people of the isthmus. Instead of using our forces, as we were invited by Colombia to do, for the twofold purpose of defending our own rights and interests and the interests of the civic community, we must pass the mission of the people of the isthmus to those whom they regarded as oppressors, we shall, as in duty bound, keep the transpeen and prevent its invasion. Meaning that we must be before us is that of the ratification of the treaty, for it is to be remembered that a failure to ratify the treaty will not undo what has been done, will not restore Panama to Colombia and will not alter our obligatory treaty, and the treaty across the isthmus and to prevent any outside power from menacing this transit. In conclusion, let me repeat that the question actually before this government is not of the recognition of Panama as an independent state, but of ready an accomplished fact. The question, and the only question, is whether or not we shall build an isthmian canal. I transmit herewere copies of the latest version of the republic of Panama to this government and train notes which have passed between the special envoy of the republic of Colombia and this government. A WEEK'S NEWS CONDENSED. Thursday, December 31. Fire of unknown origin at North Bergen, N. J., destroyed 14 houses, rendering 13 families homeless. John K. Royal resigned as city treasurer of Harrison, Pa., to become prothonotary of Dauphin county. The White Star Steamship company is building a steamer at Belfast, Ireland, 755 feet in length, or 30 feet longer than the largest ship in the world. By the explosion of a large steam pipe at the Kundtz Cabinet Works, at Cleveland, O., three men were scalded to death and four others seriously burned. Edward F. Kimball, of Massachusetts, has been appointed superintendent of the money order system of the postoffice department, vice J. T. Metcalf, removed. Friday, January 1. The United States gunboat Quiros is on a reef off the coast of Borneo. Pope Plus received in private audience John F. Betz, of Philadelphia. Paris, Ill., was shaken by an earthquake, which was perceptible all over the city. No damage was done. Frank White, of Paterson, N. J., son of a wealthy lumber dealer, was sentenced to 28 years' imprisonment for forgery. By the derailing of a Lake Shore express train at Ashtabula, O., three trainmen were killed and another fatally injured. Saturday, January 2. Saturday, January 2. The total deaths from typhoid fever to date at Butler, Pa., number 87. Two business blocks in Ansonia, Conn., were destroyed by fire, involving a loss of $175,000. Daniel Edward Fiskey, the famous author and newspaper writer, died at Upton, Mass., aged 81 years. Charles Mason, a Newark, N. J., butcher, was stabbed to death during a quarrel by Charles Schaub. The fire department officials of New York have been ordered to make weekly inspections of the fire arrangements in all theatres. The National rolling mills of the United States Steel Corporation at McKeesport, Pa., resumed operations, giving employment to 8000 men. Monday, January 4. The national convention of the Socialist party will be held in Chicago, Ill., May 1. Fire in the business section of Wilson, N. C., destroyed a dozen or more buildings, entailing a loss of $125,000. Bryan Democrats of Lincoln, Neb., are arranging a dollar dinner as a welcome to their leader when he returns home, January 18. President Roosevelt declined to attend the quadrennial conference of the African Methodist Episcopal Church in Chicago in May. Angered because he was ordered from the home of his sister-in-law, John Pollack, of Chicago, shot the woman twice, killing her instantly, and then killed himself. Tuesday, January 5. All collieries in the anthracite coal district resumed work, after an idleness of 10 days. Minneapolis mills have advanced the price of flour 10 cents a barrel, as a result of the advance in wheat. James Pendegast, a miner living at Upper Lehigh, Pa., was found frozen to death on a public road near his home. PRICE, FIVE CENTS CAUSE OF CHICAGO FIRE DISCOVERED Asbestos Curtain Blocked by Reflector Carelessly Left Open. HALLS AND THEATRES CLOSED Chicago, Jan. 4.—The cause of the Iroquois theatre fire and panic, in which 590 persons lost their lives by being burned and trampled almost beyond recognition, has been found. Fire Inspector Monroe Fulkerson announced that he has finally discovered the secret of the fire. The asbestos curtain upon which the safety of the audience depended was, according to Mr. Fulkerson, blocked in its descent by a steel reflector, that had been carelessly left open by John Schmidt, a stage hand. While one end of the curtain got within five feet of the stage, the other was suspended 20 feet above it, and beneath it swept the flood of dame that carried death to so many hundreds. The first step toward a definite conclusion as to the cause of the fire was made when William McMullen, operator of the "spot" light, threw the blame upon another electric light nearby. The task was completed when Mr. Fulkerson followed up a clew furnished by John A. Mazzoni, a stage hand, and discovered the deadly reflector still open in the ruins of the theatre. On each side of the proscenium arch was a metallic reflector, concave in form, 20 feet long studded throughout its entire length with incandescent lights. Normally these lights fitted into niches in the masonry, but when in use were swung out in order that the lights might be thrown upon the performers upon the stage. When either reflector swung outward the descending curtain could not get below that point. The carelessness of Schmidt resulted in the combination of the open reflector and falling curtain, which cost 500 lives. The police are searching for him. Beginning this morning, Coroner Traeger and the jury impanelled to sit at the inquest resumed its task of collecting evidence in the theatre building. An exhaustive examination of the building was made, and particular attention was paid to any violations of the building ordinances that may be found. In accordance with the request of the members of the jury, all sightseers, and even watchmen, were excluded from the building while the examination was in progress. The jury said to the coroner that they did not wish any person to hear of the questions that they may put to anybody, as they fear publicity will interfere with the thoroughness of the inquiry. Because of the unlimited scope that the coroner intends to give to the investigation, it is expected that the work of taking testimony will consume several weeks. Contractors and all others who can give expert testimony will be summoned, and the coroner issued a notice to all persons who were in the theatre, and who made their escape, that he would be glad to have them appear and give their evidence. THEATRES AND HALLS CLOSED Must Comply With Building Ordinances Before Reopening. Chicago, Jan. 5.—As a result of the Iroquois theatre fire and panic, in which 590 persons lost their lives, Building Inspector Williams issued an order closing all public halls, dance halls and all similar places of public assemblage, until an inspection has shown that they are complying with all the provisions of the building ordinance. All the theatres have already been closed. This leaves Chicago churches and lodge halls alone open for public gatherings. As there are upwards of 400 halls in Chicago, ranging in size from those that will accommodate 50 persons to those with a seating capacity of 500, this order will affect probably as many persons as the theatre closing order. Protests were numerous, but the building commissioner was inflexible. He said: "Many of these halls are worse than any theatre in Chicago, some of them are put up with no restrictions such as govern theatres, and many of them are fire traps of the worst kind." The police arrested George M. Dusenberry, chief usher of the theatre, on a charge of manslaughter. Dusenberry declares that he tried to hold back the rush of spectators and helped to save 30 women from the jammed front exits. He is held to furnish evidence on the statements made by many people in the theatre that the ushers closed the doors, and that they at first refused to allow people to pass out. Benjamin Solomon, a boy who rented opera glasses in the upper balcony. [Continued on 4th page - 11th column.] 2 ee eA z ys je) Q Resa On SATORDAY..... JANUARY 9, 1004 eet oe m * es Gay-5 Sh TAY ait Poe Tyoniisg “War “oo an TTINCOLN AND VIRGIN A. Mfaj. John C. Al€erson, tormeriy of West Vireicia bur iow of Wail strect, @ome time an char iu ine coniccerate army, telis in the Kichmend ‘tim s- Dispateh an getcr size story reiatics to Presiceetiiscu.u acd bis attirce @fter the war iowsrd the siate waieh Bead seccded irom the usion. “In April, 42.5, just alter the end of @e war,” szic Maj. Aicirson. “I was sitting on thesporch of the residence of Lieut. Gov. Price in Lewisburg, in Greenbrier county, 1 had just returned ome trom the army, and you may well Believe f was ‘xJojing the rest and the company of the prettiest girl im the Word, Cov. Price's daughter, who. was @m the porch with me. “While we were talking,” Maj. Alder- Son continued, “a soldier suddenly gal- Yoped into sight and drew rein at the door. He asked if that was Gov. Price's fhou:e, and upon my telling him that it fas he said he brought a letter for Gov. Price from the president of the United Btates. He had evidently ridden hard, for he looked greatly fatigued and hi: horse was covered with foam. “U told bim that the governor was down on his farm two or three miles away and that, as he seemed Urcd and broxen down, I would deliver the letter. The officer hesitated, but upon the young lady assuring him that { was ‘@5 one of the family and that it would SUE all Fight he gave me the letter, ich was in a large official envelope ‘Tho officer went into the house to rest and get something to eat. I got on a horse and hurried to the farm to sce ‘@ov. Price, 4° found the old fellow at work in ‘Ye barn fanning wheat,” Maj. Alder- son went on, with a reminiscent smile. “They had buried two or three sacks “af grain to keep it from falling into the hands of the northern troops, and now they had resurrected it and were clean- tug it to have come bread. A negro was turning the wheat fan, another was scraping away the cleancd wheat, and Gov. Price was standing by the hopper worhing the grain through to the rid- es. “I Jumped gi my horse and hurried tato the barn. * “iGevernor,’ I sald in some excite- mont, ‘here Is @ letter for you from the president of the United States.’ ~The old fellow turned a> white as a sheet. You sce we did not know at that time just what course the United States government would pursue toward the men who had fought in the confed- erate army or held office under the con- federate government. The old fellow troke the seal and took out a large doc- q su F Aya 2: te NW = tee = a 7 ‘ument, portentous looking, indeed. He read hurriedly and then laughed. “ ‘It's all right,’ he said, and he hand- ed me the letter. It was addressed to Lieut, Gov. Price, and signed by Abra- ham Lincoln, It requested him to call the Virginia legislature together at once Yo take action regarding the changed condition of affairs in the state. In con- clusion were these words, which I shall always remember: ‘I want you People to come back and hang up your Aats on the same old pegs.” “But on the very night that letter ‘was received, I think,” said Maj, Alder- son, “the president was assassinated, and his plaus for the government of the states which seceded were never carried “out.” ‘Maj. Alderson said that the letter was addressed to the lieutenant governor for ‘the reason that Gov. Smith nad had to flee from Richmond at the evacuation of ‘Wat city, and President Lincoln did not know where he was. tet ae oe An anecdote is related about Rishop ‘Rosecrans, brother of the iate Gen. W. 5. Rosecrans, which is vouched for on Bood authority, The bishop wasatadin- mer one day in 1864, when the conver- sation turned on the civil war. ‘One of the group remarked: “It would ®eem, bishop, that you and your broth- er are engaged in vory different call- ings.” “Yes, it would appear 80,” responded ‘Whe bishop. “And yet,” he continued, “we are both fighting men. While the epnera) is wielding the sword of the flesh, { trust that I am using the sword of the spirit. He is fighting the rebels, and I am fighting the spirit of darkness, ‘There is the difference in the pursuit of our several duties; he is Nghting with Price (Gen.), while iam fighting with- out price."—-N. Y. Tribune. SHFLL SENTINELS. 3rant’s Mortars Kept the Confeder- ates Very Busy While They Were Holding Petersburg. “The thing that annoyed us most while we were holding Grant back from Petersburg,” said Judge Samuel J. Har- sison, of Hannibal, in the Kansas City Star, “was the fue bomb fired from mortars. We kept sentries on the look- out ail the ume. When trouble start- ad our way the eentry would call: “Twenty-four pounder coming to the left." or whatever direction it might be, kad we would scamper into the bomb- proofs. The bomb-proots were general ly six fect ceep and 15 feet square, with solld carth over them. We bept our ammunition chests there until they commenced handing out 75-pounders to us, and then no place was safe. One could see the shells coming and grt out of the way, but it was tiresome watch« ag ee ey ee Wee 5 CD ae (atte, ie eee A Set Bei ay een TUT ai a. ee } a SS Sy \ ez OT LEAD 2 =e eh SS SS ye ing the sky all the time, and so shell Sentinels were stationed along the front. | When a shell would light it would tear ‘@ hole In the earth as big as a well. [They made a funny noise like the gobble of a turkey. It was kind of them and fave us a chance to leave word that we | Were ‘not at Lome’ when they called, if the sentry happened to forget. “The boys in the trenches developed considerable agility in dogging. One day a 24-pounder struck right at the feet of a gunner, without going off, but the fuse was sputtering worse than a cannon cracker. Tho Gunner lifted {t over the parapet In an instant, and {t went off with a noise to raise the dead. Lasked him how be came to take such 8 hair-breadth chance for his life, “You'll swear never to tell?’ he said, { swore. “‘Well,” he said, with a grin, ‘I didn’t bave time to run.’ “In such cases a man follows his first Impulse, and the impulse to run seemed to be a lacking element in a soldier of the army of north Virginia in times of extreme peril. When the mine was dred under the center of Lee's fortifica- Hons on the early moraing of July 30, 1864, and men, cannon and earth were shooting skyward and the federal can- non were turned on the general confu- sion it looked for a few minutes like an earthquake and a voleano had joined wands. But In a few minutes the ranks had closed up and every man was at his gun. 1 gon’t remember secing a man start to run and our battery was pretty close to where the trouble was, There were three ominous happenings within two or three minutes—the center of the fortification had beca blown ap, 8 terrific cannonade followed before the smoke of the mine cleared Kway, and then the infantry charged. Of course you know the result of the crater fight. Somebody made a mistake, but it warn't ‘Uncle Bob’ who had to ‘stand in the corner" for it. : “Gen, Lee knew something was going on when the union forces were prepar- ing the mine, and he put men to work excavating in the hope of striking the enemy’s underground works. I have often wondered what would have hap- pened had the two forces met in the tunnel.” FROM CASE TO CAPITAL. Printer Pat Down His “Stick” and Enllated, und Hin Good Ne preceeded as In 186%, the funny man among the printers of the Madison (Wis,) Journal laid his “stick” on the “case” and looked hard at the ceiling fof a moment. Then he said: “I must go,” put on bis coat, and started for the door. “Where must you go, George?” asked John Hawks, the foreman. “To the war, Jonn; I am going out to enlist now.” He kept his word, says Success. ‘The new recruit in the Fourth Wis- consin cavalry, by big quaint remarks and rare good nature, marched at once into popularity, and within afew months was a lieutenant, He came home, at the close of the war, in command of a company, and at ouce resumed work in & printing office, but this time as editor and proprietor. Twenty-five years ago he served as chief clerk of the assembly; 22 years ago he located in Milwaukee, and in two years had the most popular opel paver in the west, With a elrey- tatfon of nearly 100,000, He made money rapidly. ‘One Saturday night he figured up his earnings and found that they were $5,000 more than he had estimated. He made his venerable mother a pres- ‘ent of $500. It was more money than ‘she ever before possessed at one time. On another occasion he sent her $1,000. ‘Ten years ago his party drafted him into the service and made him mayor of Mil- waukee. The following fall he was nom- inated for governor and elected, and two years later was reelected. Gee teaentenes. It is great misfortune not to have enough wit to speak well or not enough Judgment to keep sllent.—Chicago Jour- nal. Eight relatives.of Premier Sedden, of New Zealand, draw on an average of $25,000 each im salary from the govern- eeent. THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. ee . Swner of the largé farm {9 not often re MADE TIP-TOP STEW. ohne" of,the larss poultry. tt is the | [a7 rn small farmers, under the necessity of La Making the most of every opportunity ie Ghost Mystery of Little Vermont to make money on thelr land. wha ate attracted by the possibilities of poul- i _ of the small New Engiand farms are ie ! Coon Im Attic Madly Seared Timia of such dimensions and proportions jg. Farmer and Mis Hired Man—Mys- that that fowls cannot be given range. boar | ee tery Solved by « Hunt- Because of this many small farmers yy Hit) guacttceae nei ke Lh | When the hired man employed by Mr. Hunt, a farmer living near Tyson, Vt, ran down two flights of stairs from the garret some nights ago and with bulging eyes and quaking knees re- Ported that he had “jest seen eh’ gol- gumdest ghost,” Abe laughed at him and told him “to go back an’ git them but’nuts” he started after. But Pete—that was his name— Wouldn't do it. Every hair on his red bead stuck up straight, and he allowed that he'd “be durned ef he wo'ld.” He declared that he would forego butter- nuts for all time rather than face that ghost. No more garrets for him. He had rather get ont and hunt for a new job. The ghost, he explained, had eyes as big as a plate, claws the length of pitchfork tines, and scratched and snapped like a terrier pup. Never be- fore had he seen its like and never again would he take a look if he could help it. “Peeshaw!” snorted Abe. “Ye've been t’ one ‘f them seances down t’ th’ village; thet’s what th’ matter with ye. I'll hev but'nuts 'f I hev t’ go arter ‘em myself.” With that he took the lantern and pail and made his way upstairs, while Pete hugged close to the lamp and Poured out a liberal libation of old cider the moment Abe's rheumatic legs disappeared above. He was draining a second glass when he heard a commo- tion over his head, and the next mo- ment the farmer, lantern in hand, slid down the entire flight on his back and landed in a limp heap on the kitchen floor, “Gewhillikin’!” he gasped, looking furtively back over his shoulder, “I cal'late I most feu thet time. [ seen suthin’ an’ I guess it was a ghost.” There was a clattering above; feet Ppattered on the floor and Pete and Abe shuddered in a common fear. There Was a bump as of some heavy object falling, and then all was still. Abe got the clothes pole and pushed shut the door at the head of the stairs. Then he and the hired “hand” crouched at the center table and looked at each other. ‘There came a knock at the door and Ah V2 a wl j Soe hy J oe I a WH) fj So — pF f= b aoe | both started nervously. Then the lateh clicked and in walked Bud Hawkins, champion bunter of the village, and his sleepy-eyed ‘hound Spot. “Evening,” he said cheerfully, ap- parendy noticing nothing strange in the appearance of the men. “Thought I'd come over an’ see f' ye didn’t want U go buntin’ (morrer. Goin’ t' be fine fer rabbits. The hao:nd pup’s in real pert condition, too." Spot looked up, blinked one eye and sniffed. He turned the other eye to- ward the stairs and, twisting in his tracks, leveled his nose in the same direction. “Scents suthin’,” said Bud. “Ghost,” whispered Abe and Pete In a breath. “We jest seen one.” Bud looked incredulos. Spot started up the stairs, cautiously at first, then in bounds. A socond Iater he had pushed the door open, and, with wild yelps of delight, bolted for the attic. ‘There was a scurrying of feet, then loud bays and grunting squeals, fol- lowed by a wrestling over the floor. “Cal'Iato Spot hes keteched th’ ghost an’ is shakin’ him,” efaculated Ped, showing considerable excitement for a ehampion hunter. “Guess I'll go an’ see.” | Pete had collapsed and Abe was speechless, but between them they managed to lay a restraining hand on Bud. The young hunter shook them oft and darted up the stairs, Abe sank in a chair, his face the color of a sheet, and Pete leaned heavily against the table. There were shouts of “Sick ‘em, Spot, knock th’ tar ont ‘f him,” more threshing about and then silence. Finally there were sounds of footfalls and Bud appeared at the head of the stairs. | “Here's yet ghost,” he said, throw- ing a large fat coon at Abe's feet. “Reckon ye'll hev t’ git some more seed corn In the spring. But he'll Wiehe: mishty One stew” Ran on Liquor Drinking. Beginning January 1, 1904, any em- ploye of the Northern Pacific Railway company caught taking a drink while either on or off duty will be subject to instant dismissal from the service. At present the road has a rule in force that prohibits drinking among the em- ployes while they are on duty. FOR SMALL FARMERS. Mow They Can Manage a Flock of Poultry Without Giving Too Much Time to the Work. ‘The Massachusetts board of agricul- ture publishes an article on “Poultry on Small Farms,” by John H. Robin- ton, who says: A large farm offers the best oppor- tunity to keep poultry with little labor and comparatively large profits, but the Owner of the largé farm { not often anuch Interested in poultry. It is the small farmers, under the necessity of Making the most of every opportunity to make money on thelr iand, who are attracted by the possibilities of poul- try culture. A very large proportion of the small New Engiand farms are of such dimensions and proportions that that fowls cannot be given range. Because of this many small farmers have adopted the intensive methods which small poultry keepers in towns often find necessary, but which large poultry keepers and farmers ought to avoid. Intensive methods male the care of poultry a grind and drudgery, «0 that the poultry Keeper's time is al- most fully occupied in caring for a few fowls. Many farmers who follow the intensive system and find it profit- able for a time have neglected other Unes of farm work, while others, un- willing to do this,” have reluctantly given up their intention of increasing their stock of fowls. The best solution of the problem of the small farmer who wants to keep a few hundred hens and still give most of his time to other things, will be found in the adoption of methods intermediate between the intensive methods of the town poultry keeper and the free and easy methods that work well on large farms Mr. Robinson then goes on to say that for more than a decade the inter- est of poultry Keepers has ven almost Monopolized by Intensive methods, which are necessary to secure high averages of egg production. These large egg yields are often secured as such cost of care and food that the ac- tual profit per fowl figures small. By the colony system the owner of a larze farm will distribute his fowls over the farm, and, giving them room and range Tolleve himselt of the necessity of do-| ing for them many of the things which the Intensive poultry keeper must do daily, What we are seeking, says Mr. Rob- Inson, {s a method by which the farmer can keep as much poultry as possible without giving it the detailed atten- tion that must be given when the land occupted {8 stocked to the limit. The problem {s neither deep nor diMeutt. As the farmer who cannot give his poultry range must have yards, the obvious thing for him to do is to lay out his yards according to the size of his flocks, limit the total of fowls kept to the capacity of the yards, make houses of such dimensions as are re- quired, and place them singly or in pairs where-they can be most readily reached in making the roinds of the place. He points out that the expense of fencing Is limited to the increased cost for the end fences. no more fenc- ing being required for the division and side fences than when a continuous connecting house with narrow yards {s used. i Tn closing, Mr. Robinson says: “Poultry keeping ought to be an im- portant feature on every farm, and a | pleasant feature of farm work. Tt may be, if the farmer will only study to adapt ‘ls stock and his methods to the capacity of his farm under conditions | satisfactory to him.” | TO CURE BROODINESS. Canadian Department of Agriculture Recommends Swinging Coop Were Described. An effective way to overcome broodi- ness in hens {s to place the ambitious sitters in a swinging coop. The illustra- tion shows the construction. The coop is simply a wooden frame two feet square and two feet high, covered peak = —— 2 Le ay x) Cemucremein CPE re, ee SI, IR == 75 Necceiieennienedenae stat CAGE WOR BROODY ENA, on the op, bottom and four sides with laths two inches apart. Four strings from the upper corners of the coop are tied to a central cont fastened to a nail in the roof of Use poultry house. The coop should be raised 18 inches from the ground. The excitement of the out- ude chickens and the swinging of the coop quickly dispel the hatching idea from the hens. The sitters should be fed and watered at the same time as the laying hens, but with a liberal vegetable and meat diet will induce early laying. — Canadian Department of Agriculture. The Turkeys In Winter, Provide a good, warm house for the winter and on stormy days get the flock in avout four p. m., otherwise they may roost in the trees. Through the winter months get on speaking terms with the flock and freely provide clean water, fine bone, shells, scraps of meat, ete. Do not confine them too closely in their diet, but vary the fare with oats, chopped hay, small potatees, apples, ete., cooked and mixed with meal and given to the flock while warm—Orange Judd Farmer. HIS WEDDING TROUSERS. ‘Tailor Failed to Deliver ‘Them on ‘Time nnd Was Soundly Thrashed By Groom's Prienda. Completely dressed, except for his trousers, William Weisman, of Phila- delphia, paced his room Sunday night in dreadful suspense. His trousers had not come home from the tatlor’s. He was late for his own wedding. And because the trousers did not come when promised, Weisman’s father and brother-in-law went and interviewed the tailor and struck him several times, and the tailor, Sol Subol by name, had them arrested. Every one who was at the delayed wedding was at the sup- plementary proceedings before a magis- trate and the father and brother-in-law of Weisman were held for court. Weisman claims that the trousers were promised for Saturday, but they HH aeeat vve aN eer MN te pm ani | ee 7 ae a a is & 1 not comé. A visit to Subol ellefted the promise that they would be ready Sunday afternoon. ‘The hour came. but not the trousers. Miss Esther Schwartz waited for her husband-to-be. Then a sister of the bridegroom visited Subol, but came back without the trousers and with several bruises. Next, the sister’s husband and Weisman’s father visited Subol. When they left the shop Subol was a sight to behold, al- though he had only been hit 23 times. The tronsers in question not coming to hand despite all efforts, a ready- made pair were procured and the wed- ing proceeded. While the ceremony was going on the policemen arres'ed Weisman’s brother-in-law and father. The tailor still has the trousers. WHO PAYS THE BILL? A Solomon Needed t6 Solve a Curious Clothing Store Puzzle in iiiaieene A business man of Indianapolis, Ind., Went into a clothing store this week and looked at a number of overcoats. He departed without ma*ing a pur- chase, but went back the next morning and, walking to the counter where the coats lay, picked up one he had tried on the day before. “I've concluded to take this,” he said, and, handing out $25, walked out, wear- ing the coat. When he reached home he learned that his brother had sent him an over- coat as a present. So the next morn- ing the man went back to the clothing store and asked the clerk if he would take the coat back, explaining the rea- son. The record of sale was looked up, but @ patient search failed to reveal any sale ticket.. The clerk who had shown the ccat recalled that, but not the sale. Who sold the coat? This was the question in which the proprietor was Se Hie Ny TA es WS fe: P 5 i if t ( ii | a \ iv i : 1 iy q Hl ties —- $ av interested, and every clerk in the store ‘was called, but the purchaser shook his head as each appeared. Finally it dawned upon the man that some one ‘who probably was looking at the over- coats when he entered had taken tho $25 and then had left the store. ‘Then the proprietor demanded that the coat be paid for or that it be left at the store, saying that the firm had received nothing for it. After some controversy it was decided to leave It to a lawyer who is a mutual friend of proprietor and purchaser. The attor- ney 1s now investigating the question, Who should lose the $25? No Microbes in Cheese, ‘That the microbes which cause tuber- eular consumption, if tneorporated in cheese, as they necessarily are when the milk contains them, are killed by the ripening of the cheese is proved by exhaustive investigation. An Ameri- can student finds the microbes con- tinue to live and retain the capability of growth in cheese for three months, but are dead in cheese which has been curing for a longer period. ie Shea tie Mrs. Naggsby—A man who was more or less handsome called at the house to see you this morning. Naggsby—What do you mean by a man being more or less handsome? Mrs. Nagysby—I mean that he was more handsome than you and less hand- ‘some than the man I was foolish enough to throw over for you.—Chieago Daily News. A Bie Winner, Plugleish—I hear you won & lot of money on the races yesterday. How much was it? Lightbetter— One dollar. Plugleigh—One douart Why that’s not much. Lightbetter—It's a Iot to win on the Faces.—Philladelphia Ledger. Delays Are Dangeroun. Lover—And so your mother does not believe in long engagements? [am de- lighted. Miss De Broker—Yes, mamma says ever so many girls’ fathers have failed during long engagements, and the poor things never got married at all.—N. Y. ‘Weekly. So Provoking. “Carrie is awfully disapyctated In her new hat.” “What's the matter?” < “She saw a girl with one on that looks more freakish than hers.”—Phil- adelphia Bulletin. EE P , gem Booker’y! Market | Bes (AG M>.501 Webster St. He ¥ V A FULL LINE OF FINE ANA M4 GROCERIES AND FRESH aoe MEATS & VEGETABLES Wood ang Coal, Cigars and Teb26cO, aay anne ee AT THE LOWEST MARKET PRICES, YOU CAN SAVE MONEY BY GIVING ME A CAEL. ALL GOODS DELIVERED TO YOU FREE. TELE PHONE 1307 ~<__ A. C. 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M., remaining open :atil T P. M. Call by as you come from work, OFFICERS: JOHN MITCHELL, JR., President. H.P. JONATHAN, Vice-President, THOS. H, WYATT, Cashier, BOARD OF DIRECTORS: Rev. W. F. Grauam, D. D., Jxo. R. Onines, B. P. Vaspervaue, E. R. Jerrexson H. FB. Jonata, ‘Tomas Sarre D. J. Onavers, J. 0. Faruey, Jno. T. Tayior, E, A. Wasutxaton, R. W. Wrrrtya, Wittiam Custa.o, J.J. Oarrer, JOHN MITCHELL, JR. Pres. THOMAS M. CRUMP, Sxo*<. In Need of a Change. Turpin—Come with me to the 200? Jenks—No, thank you. I'll stay at home. My oldest daughter does the Kangaroo walk, my second daughter talks like a parrot, my son laughs like @ hyena, my wife watches me lke 2 hawk, my cook is as cross as a bear, and my mother-in-law says I am a gorilla ‘When I go anywhere I want a change— ‘Tit-Bits. ‘Poo Sertous. Miss Ascum—So you're not engaged to him any more? , Miss Gidday—Oh, no. I just had to break it off. Miss Ascum—Why, what was themat- ter? Miss Gidday—The simpleton got too sentimental. He was beginning to talk to me about marriage,—Philadelphia Press, Au Autoblomenphy. Mrs. Foleigh—On, John, the paper {s offering a prize for a description of a model husband. Mr, Fole4h—You want to have a try acit? Mrs. Foleizh—Yes, please. Mr. Foleigh—All right. Just get the Pen, ink and paper, and I'll dictate to you.—Tit-Bits. ‘ian oe Towne—Greathead doesn’t _ bother about politics any more, does he? Browne—No, indced. Towne—Let me see, when was it tha he got the presidential bee in his bon- net? Browne—Just before he got it in the neck.—Philadelphia Press, Busy Days Ahead. “I will be very busy preparing speech- s,” said the man who had just been elected to congress, “My friend,” answered Senator Sor- ghum, “it isn’t preparing speeches that keeps a man in your position busy. It 4s hustling for a chance to deliver them.’ —Washington Star. ! 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But I knew him to be a consequential personage, ever ready to act on his own responsibility; and what was more likely than that so ambitious a man should go further than his instructions, and seek to strengthen his position as a candidate for the chieftainship by some master stroke which would confound and astonish his colleagues? If at the forthcoming meeting he could inform the council that not only had he performed the task entrusted to him, and had obtained possession of the dynamite, but that he had actually put the explosive to the use for which it was intended, and had bawn up the house of the offending nobleman, his zeal in the cause could not fail to win the commendation of the executive. In view of such a contingency, I deemed it wise to keep an unwinding watch upon the condemned house; and I did not think I could better effect my purpose than by buying out the business, good-will and stock-in-trade, of a "pavement artist," who had installed himself not far from Lord Cranthorpe's residence, on the other side of the way. Plantagenet Square consisted of a circular space, laid out in grass plots and gravel paths, and bordered by trees and shrubs. The whole was framed in by four rows of solidly built, but exceedingly English looking and ugly houses, which constituted the "Square," the central enclosure being surrounded by high iron railings, that had a broad pavement running around them. Here it was that the artist in question, by dint of much chalking and finger smearing, had succeeded in producing a highly-finished picture of a purple-faced and apoplectic-looking person in widow's weeds, which bore the loyal and not unnecessary legend, "God save the Queen." Much as this portrait of Her Majesty was admired by patriotic passers, the most critical were of the opinion that, as a liliness, it was not quite up to the level of a portrait of a mackerel, which formed the companion picture. But the gem of the collection—in the opinion of materially-minded folk at all events—was a rasher of bacon, in which even such detail as the section of sawn bone was pictured so faithfully that one patron of art declared that it made him hungry to think of it frizzling in the pan; while for lovers and people of poetic temperament, a moonlight scene done in dark blue chalk with white effects, a sunset that glared in crimson and yellow, and a shipwreck in black and gray with a white lifeboat putting out to the rescue, completed the exhibition. Having disguised myself as a working man, I waited until I knew there would not be many people passing, in order that I might ask the artist if he were willing to enter into negotiations for the sale of his business. He was sitting with his back to the railing, his cap being displayed beside him to invite the casual copper. "What is it?" he said suspiciously, when I told him I wanted a word with him. "Nothin' much, mate," I replied. "Only I've got a little money laid by, and thought o' settin' up in your line myself and wanted to buy a business. How much'll yer sell this yer show—stand and all—for, eh?" To my surprise he leapt to his feet excitedly, and grasped the lapel of my coat, he peered into my face as if he expected to recognize me. Then he exclaimed in a voice hoarse with passion: "Come, drop it! None of your tricks with me; I was prepared for something of this sort! Who are you? A detective, eh? Speak up! for I'll stand none of your nonsense!" It was getting dark, but not so dark that I did not see a peculiar twitching of the eyebrows, which I had noticed as the only sign of excitement that Number Three had betrayed when, at the drawing of lots in the glipsy wagon, he discovered that it had fallen to his share to assist Number Two in obtaining possession of the concealed dynamite. Yes, it was Number Three unquestionably, and I had indeed made as pretty a mess of the business as was possible. Staggered as I was, however, I did not lose my presence of mind. "No! no!!" I made haste to protest with earnestness, which was not all assumed, for his hand was at his side-pocket, as if in search of a weapon. "I ain't no sneakin' 'tee. Strike me dead if I am! I'm a pore man like yourself, mate, and I don't like the 'tecs no better nor you do, for if they knew what lay I was on, they'd nab me and no mistake, they would, rot 'em!" "What's your game, then?" he said shortly, but less aggressively. "Well, it's like this," I answered; "there's a man wot lives in this Square as I'm goin' to put a knife into. You're a pore man and I'm a pore man. See! So you won't peach on me, I know. This man—a lord he calls hiself—he's took the bread out o' my mouth and out o' my kiddies' mouths, and out o' the mouths o' my mates and their kiddies. That's wot he's done, the ____. Lord Cranthorpe's his name, and some of us—them as is men and not chickens—ave met on the quiet and talked over 'ow we could get even with 'im. We're men, we are, not dogs to be kicked and starved an robbed, and our missises and kiddies starved, by the likes of 'im. And we've drawn lots which of us was to knife 'im, and I drawn the billet and got to do it. Well, my mates they sent the 'at round, and got a bit o' money together to 'elp me in doin' the job. So as your lay's just a nigh 'is ouse want to buy out the business, so as I can 'ang around without 'aving no perishin' pliceman harskling questions. Then I waits for my man when 'e's comin' in or goin' out when there ain't nobody by, and then I spikes 'im. See? You're a pore man and so'm I. Eh? That's right, isn't it? On the square, too. Well, 'now much do yer want for it?" "I don't want anything," he said. "I shall go straight away and put his lordship on his guard, and then set the police on you. That's what I shall do." "That's what you'll do, eh, is it, yer bloomin' monkey?" I said, with a great assumption of fury. "You give hinformation to the plice, yer perishin' pavement spiller! No, yer won't, not much; not if I 'as to swing for yer!" "There! there! there! my friend! That's all right," he said. "I only wanted to see if you were made of the right stuff or not. How was I to know that you weren't a detective in disguise, and that all this talk of yours wasn't a plant to take me in? Now look here! If you are in earnest in all this, so am I. I have a bone of my own to pick with Lord Cranthorpe, and that's why I'm here. Can't we work together? Two heads are better than one, and I can put you up to a better way and a bigger way—a thundering sight bigger way—of sending Lord Cranthorpe to blazes than by putting a knife into him." The words were hardly out of his mouth before I had jumped to the scoundrel's scheming. Number Two under whose direction Number Three was acting, had shifted the most dangerous part of his mission—the actual conveyance of the bomb to Lord Cranthorpe's residence—upon the shoulders of his subordinate, who, in his turn, thought to make use of me as his catsnaw in the same manner. To affect to fall in with his dastardly plan would be the surest way to induce the plotter to show me his hand; so, protesting with a profusion of oaths that I was ready to listen to anything that promised to make more terrible the vengeance that was to be meted out to Lord Cranthorpe, I invited him, in suitable language, to tell me what he wanted me to do. Evidently gratified, and perhaps not a little relieved by the success of the stratagem by which the degree which he dared not disobey could be carried out without risk to his own precious person, he took my arm, and leading me towards the shadow of some trees at the corner of the square, began to unburden his mind of the business. Scarcely had we got our heads well together, however, when suddenly, silently, and without a moment's warning, something whizzed between us. Though I was not conscious of any direct blow, I found myself flung forward as forlibly as if I had just been discharged from an enormous catapult, and after whirling, a confused tangle of arms and limbs, in a sort of human catherine wheel, and executing a couple of somersaults, I landed finally on the pavement, where I lay listening to the music of the stars that were singing in my cars as well as staggering away Jammer. I SAT UP, RUBBING THE BACK OF MY HEAD. before my eyes. A bicycle, going at racing pace, had run into us, and had knocked the conspiring pair of us apart as neatly as a couple of "missing" billiard balls are knocked spinning in opposite directions by the impact from a ball which comes piping hot from the stroke of the cue. I grieve to say that when I began to get some breath back in my body the first mouthful was put to no better use than the utterance—the emphatic utterance—of the single and sinful word, "Damn!" "I quite agree with you," said a voice, the owner of which I was still too dazed to see. "A most sensible remark, I'm sure, and my own sentiments entirely. Say it again. It will do you good." "Precisely," the voice went on; "if it's not generally considered a word to make glad the heart of man, but in the present instance you couldn't have hit upon one to gratify me more. It was quite soothing in fact, for I thought at first I had killed you, and that word was 'the best assurance I could have that you hadn't yet gone to Heaven and become an angel. It was too human." I sat up, rubbing the back of my head ruefully, and looked around. Number Three had gone—whither there was nothing to indicate; but a tradesman's cart had drawn up to the curb, and by the light of the lamp I saw standing over me, with what in spite of the levity with which he had spoken, was a face of concern, a tall, dark, determined looking man. Two of his fingers were clipping the undercuff of his coat sleeve in order to stretch the cloth sufficiently tight to form an improvised brush, with which THE RICHMOND PLANET RICHMOND. VIRGINIA he was gingerly scraping away at the dust on his brown bowler hat; and I saw that his hair, which he wore short, was, though thick and curly, quite gray. Whether his fresh complexion, bright eyes and black mustache suggested some sort of contradiction to his gray hair, and thus tended to make him look out of the common, I could not at first say, but as I stared up at him I was conscious that there was something unusual, if not of distinction, about the man. "Well—now that you have got your senses back—don't you think that you ought to be ashamed of yourself for obstructing the thoroughfare, pitching me off upon my head, not to speak of the damage you've done to the bicycle and to my arm?" He held up his left arm as he spoke, and I saw that the sleeve was ripped, up, showing an ugly gash at the elbow, "I'm very sorry," I said, unmindful of my own hurts, and with a want of spirit which was probably due to the fact that my brain was still a bit confused. "Tut! tut! man," he stuttered, as if disarmed by my meekness; the "fault was as much mine as yours, for I had no right to be traveling at such a pace. I hope you're not hurt? Let me lend you a hand up." I took the proffered hand and leapt to my feet; but my haste cost me dear, for my right ankle twenged to such purpose that I squealed with pain, and speedily sank to the ground, where I sat groaning and squirming till the pang passed. "So bad as that, is it?" said the collider. "Poor chap. How far off do you live?" "A long way," I replied. "I couldn't get there if I traveled all night." "Why? Where do you live, then?" "Nowhere," I answered, thinking vaguely that it was possible Number Three might be lurking within earshot, and that I had best sustain the role I had assumed. "Great heavens! And they call this a Christian country! Never mind. We can make up a bed for you at my place, and then I'll see what can be done. Are you out of work?" "Yes," I replied. "I was one of Lord Cranthorpe's mill hands and we're all out on strike." "What!" he cried, "are you one of that rascally, skulking crew?" a set of ruffians who are driving the trade out of the country into the hands of Germans, and cutting their own throats into the bargain, at the bidding of a lot of scheming agitators who wouldn't be tolerated for a moment anywhere but in England. If I'd have known—but there, I expect you're more fool than knave. That's my house just past the lamp-post. I am the blood-sucking tyrant, Lord Cranthorpe, who, according to your friends the agitators, am battening and fattening on the brow sweat of the starving poor. Here, lend a hand—you with the cart I mean—and we'll carry this poor chap over. We'll make up a bed for him somewhere in the basement, so that he won't have to strain his foot by hobbling upstairs. You take his head and I'll take his feet. It's the first house past the lamp-post, and be careful how you go down the area signs." My foot was so painful that I wined nervously as he stooped to raise me, but no woman could have been defer of hand or more tenderly considerate than he, and my transit was accomplished painlessly. They carried me through a sort of passage opening upon the street, to an inner room, where I was propped up on a huge wicker chair, my injured foot resting luxuriously upon another chair. Then Lord Cranthorpe explained the situation to the servants, telling them that I was to remain in the house until my foot was healed, and giving strict injunctions that they were to make me as comfortable as possible during my sojourn under his roof. Comfortable, however, I cannot say I was, for, with one exception, the whole staff of servants appeared to present my advent as an intrusion. They were civil enough in attending to my wants, and in their own phrase, 'passed the time of day with me' when they had cause to enter the room where I was located. But though I did my best, for obvious reasons, to get upon good terms with them, they never seemed at ease in my company. This was especially noticeable in the matter of meals, for once or twice, when I asked to be allowed to take my food with them, their awkwardness and silence were most oppressive. They watched me furtively, as if to get an opportunity of conveying fork, spoon or knife to their mouths at the precise moment when my attention was engaged elsewhere, and on one occasion I detected the cook in the act of taking lunch on the stairs rather than join a party of which I was a member. I tried to solace my vanity by telling myself that this might be due to some instinct which warned them that they and I were not upon the same social plane; but as the only member of the staff who was at all inclined to accept my advances was a wisp of a sculery-maid named Amelia, whom the others persistently snubbed, and to whom I heard them allude as of "no class," it seemed likely that the diagnosis of the case should have been the other way about, and that I, as well as Amelia, was considered as wanting in "class"—whatever that may be. Amelia herself, however, was more than disposed to be friendly, and it was from her that I learnt certain facts which had no unimportant bearing upon my enterprise. The most significant was that she was engaged to marry a "haristist"—which engagement having only been recently formed, she was burning to communicate to some one. "An artist!" I said with some surprise when she announced this piece of fashionable intelligence; "an artist, eh? How did you come to meet him?" "Yes, he's a harist," she repiled, assertively "He draws the most lovely pictures you ever see in chalk on the pavement, and his colors is hexquisite. I met him in the square one night, and he told me he'd fell in love with me right hoff." Bit by bit I drew the story of her "harist" lover from the silly but unsuspecting girl, and when I learnt that each night he entrusted to her care a parcel, which he called for early the following morning—which parcel was supposed to contain chalks—I began to feel that the case was developing. "'Enery—did I tell you his name was 'Enery—Mr. 'Enery Talbot—lives a long way hoff,' she said, 'so, 'e sed, wot's the good of 'luggin' his chalks along with 'im hevery time? So 'e just leaves 'em for me to take care of at the hare door of a night, and as I'm up fust in the mornin' I gives 'em 'im out again when 'e calls. But it ain't so much to save 'iself trouble as to 'ave a word with me as he does it. 'E as good as told me so last night, though 'e is mighty particular about his ole parcel all the same." I was beginning to get interested in that parcel; though I am free to confess, that had I known, during the three nights I had already passed under Lord Cranthorpe's roof, that his hospitality had been extended by proxy to articles in the possession of my friend Number Three, my slumbers would have been less childlike and peaceful. My foot was practically healed, and I was only hanging on as Lord Cranthorpe's guest for my own purposes. But now that I knew that the basement of his lordship's house was being used as a sort of cloak room for the storage of parcels containing a deadly explosive, my natural delicacy made me feel how very desirable it was that I should not outlay my welcome, or trespass unduly upon my host's hospitality. Hence I decided that the following morning should witness my departure, but as I preferred making my exit by means of my legs rather than with the assistance of dynamite, and as I proposed moving only to the next street, and not—on this occasion at least—right away to the next world, I came to the conclusion that I should sleep more peaceably if, before retiring to rest, I could satisfy myself that on that particular night, at all events, Mr. Henry Talbot's parcel contained more dangerous than chalks. So, instead of hobbling off at nine o'clock into the little room where my bed had been prepared, I remained chatting with Amelia. By-and-by she began to get fidgety, being, as I could see, impatient for the moment when by carrying a lighted candle three times past the window, she could let her lover know, according to the signal which had been arranged between them, that the other servants were at supper and the coast clear. The signal had scarcely been given before there came a gentle tap at the area door, and leaving me in the inner room, hurried out Juliet-like to greet her Romeo. "Here's the parcel of chalks, pretty one," I heard Mr. Talbot say. "Put them away carefully for me, darling, and I'll call for them as usual in the morning." Amelia had left the door leading into the passage slightly ajar, so that I had been able to play the cavesdropper without leaving my chair, which was fortunate, for the next instant she stepped coquettily into the room with a brown paper parcel in her hand, which she popped into an open drawer, and then, with a saucy nod to me, popped out again. Her lover seemed to be in a hurry this particular evening, for I heard Amelia say, "Wot, you ain't goin' yet? Put down yer 'at and coat and give us a kiss." Presumably the obedient Henry put down his hat and coat as directed, whereupon Amelia snatched them up playfully and running once more into the room where I was sitting, threw them upon a chair, and returning to Henry said triumphantly: "There! you shan't 'ave 'em back again till you be'ave yerself. A nice young man you are to walk out with a gal, and never even want to give her a kiss." "That's soon put right," was the reply, and from the sounds which reached my ears, I have cause to suppose that Henry was as good as his word. Presumably, however, preoccupation of some sort tended to make him less amorous than usual on this occasion, for when Amelia next spoke there was a ring of disappointment in her voice. "Dye call that a kiss? Why don't you give us a real twist?" An ardent lover, when the object of his adoration thus coyly capitulates, and gives him to understand that the favors she has to bestow are his for the asking, might reasonably be expected to snatch her passionately to himself, and to cover her lips, hair and cheeks with burning kisses, but Mr. Talbot's reply to Amelia's tempting invitation consisted, so far as I could gather, of a mumbled protest about having to be going now. "Very well, Mr. 'Enery Talbot,' snapped the slighted maiden, "I will give you yer old parcel back and wish you good-hevening; and perhaps you'll find another young woman to walk out with another time." "O Lord love us, what a lot you women are!" groaned Mr. Talbot in a voice which, though intended to be persuasive and conciliatory, sounded to me more like the voice of a man to whom it would have been an intense relief to tear his own and perhaps his companion's hair. "Lord love us! I never knew such a fool as you are in my life. I didn't mean anything, my dear. You know I love you better than—lump sugar, I do," and from the noises which ensued, I gather that he was bestowing "real ugs," with an ardor, which, if assumed, was sufficiently ursine to satisfy the most exacting of maidens. Here was my opportunity. Very quietly I reached over, and took Mr. Henry Talbot's parcel of chalks from the drawer. As I held the package, with a hand which haste and nervousness made none too steady, something metallic rattled ominously; and when, with thumping heart, I laid my ear beside the thing to listen, I distinctly heard the clock-like beating of an infernal machine. Repressing the insane but perhaps natural inclination to dash the horrid object away, and mastering, by sheer will-control, the blind, unreasoning rush of panic-strenken impulses that sprang up within me, I tinted across the room, and lifting Mr. Talbot's coat, I stuffed the parcel into the pocket. How long I sat in my chair looking in a sort of frozen horror of calm at a dirty brown bowler hat and a grease-soiled yellow overcoat, reeking of bad tobacco and stained with beer—neither if them objects to be associated readily with tragedy—I cannot say. To me, who fancied as I sat there that I could hear the stealthy working of that devil's plaything and hour-glass, ticking away the lives of human beings—of whom it was possible I might myself be one—it seemed a very eternity before Talbot said, "Now get me my coat and hat and I'll be off." But when, some minutes after, a full echoing roar, as of the distant discharge of musclety, set the windows rattling in their sockets like teeth in a skull, causing Amelia to drop a plate with a crash, and to scream out, "Wot hever's that?" I knew that Number Three of the infernal brotherhood had handed in his papers to no earthly chief, but to that arch-conspirator who is the master of every murderer. TO BE CONTI UED THE PROMISE OF BETHLEHEM. THE SHEPHERDS. Keepers of sheep, and lowly, Folk of the common kind, Rough and unlettered toilets, Burdened and poor and blind; But the glory of God touched the shadowed earth. And humble were led to a Saviour's birth— Just a wee bit of a baby, Smiling from out the bay, But the Baby's face Brought the dawn of grace, And a light on the toiler's way! THE WISE MEN. Teachers of men, and royal, Rich in their treasured store, Yet weary and heavy-hearted For a world in bondage sore; But the strange new star in the eastern skies. Guided their steps to a gird surprise— Only a Babe in its cradle, Gazing with wondering eyes, But the dimpled hands, Shall unload the bands, That baffle the strong and wise. MARY. Malden, alone in sorrow; Mother, in tender joy, Tenderdrop child in together Over her Baby Boy. But the Spirit of God, with Heaven's own art, Tenderly strengthened the mother-heart— Just her own dear little Baby, To love, and at last—to give! For the child is LOVE. From the Home above, And the world through Him shall live! —Rev. Charles I. Junkin, in N. Y. Observer. LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS What Christ's Coming Meant to the World—Plato Saw the Need for a Redeemer. It was a dark night when He came. There were stars overhead, but the stars had gone out in men's hearts. It matters little whether there are stars in the sky; if the sky of the heart is starless, the firmament above gives no cheer. It was a dark night when He came—for the fires of hope and expectation had died down on the heart-altars of the world. The lamps lighted by the splendid philosophies of the ancients had lost their warmth and their brilliance; they were only painted lamps. The pleasures of men had become the orgies of brutes. "On that hard, pagan world disgust and secret loathing fell"—just before Jesus came. The wise men from the east were more than travelers; they bore the heart-sob of a world for Something—they said "The King of the Jews," but they said less than they felt; it was a world's cry—"Where is He?" Teachings had lost their zest because they never had lite; men turned away from the shadow and lored for the substance! Oh, it was a sick and weary world—when Jesus came. Is it a wonder that the knowledge of Him spread over the whole known earth within a hundred years? The world was looking for Him! There was little hope "unless one should come," but who Plato could not tell. When He came—He came as purest blessings ever come, in the sunrise on a baby's face. And a little child shall lead them; and still He is leading on! But so many did not know Him—when Jesus came! These 2,000 years He has been here—and for great multitudes He is still the unrecognized Christ. "There standeth one among you Whom ye know not," said John. It was too true; Jesus moved in and out among men, but they did not recognize Him; down to the end they were often confused—even His best friends. "Have I been so long a time with you—and yet hast thou not known me?" It is Jesus, speaking lovingly, yet reproachfully, to Philip. Philip should have known better, but somehow he didn't. Yet He is standing here, right in the midst of us—what if we knew Him! There are those who sing His praises, talk of His teachings, yet they do not know Him as He stands there—He, a kingly stranger still. It is the pathos of human experience, it is the sad fact of history. The fruits of His life are eagerly received, the stream of life He began wonder in Bethelhem has watered hill and plain—but we do not recognize Him! If we knew Him—there would be fewer sorrows in the world, human speech would be kinder, the hand pressure would be warmer, there would be more smiles on the faces of the children, more peace in the heart of the pilgrim as he nears the setting sun, more hope and holy courage in the hearts of the world's struggling ones. If we knew Him, we would love Him, and love would make a Heaven below; for loving Him, we should love each other, and "where love is there God is!"—Baptist Union. Keep the Door Open. You close your doors and brood over your own miseries and the wrongs people have done you; whereas if you would but open those doors you might come out into the light of God's truth and see that His heart is as clear as sunlight toward you. If you would but let Him teach you you would find your perplexities melt away like the snow in the spring till you could hardly believe you ever felt them.—George MacDonald. A Good Plan. "Oh, George! I do believe the little darling is going to have another tooth." "Great Scott! Can't we send him to a hospital till it's over."—Chicago American. The Charleton Robbery BY HAROLD OCHS (Copyright, 1853, by Daily Story Pub. Co.) WHEN Sergeant Pegram was called into the captain's office and detailed to take charge of the Charleton robbery case he realized that it was an opportunity to make a reputation, but he also felt a bit of trepidation as to the criticism which failure would incur. Sergeant Pegram was full of face, large of mustache and stout of form as became the modern working member of the American detective staffs. He was called a "safe" officer, although he had never had an opportunity to display any brilliancy he might have. He always knew that his opportunity would come and the Charleton case certainly appeared to be what he was waiting for. It was a difficult case; that was evident at the start, and a failure to solve it would be sure to bring criticism. The papers would be full of it and the criticism would be unsparing if the culprit should not be caught. The Charlton case was a peculiar one. Willard Charlton was the president of the Inter-State bank and a man of mark in the financial world. On the night of October 6, 1901, he had arranged to go to a neighboring city where an important deal for a leasehold was to be consummated between a semi-public body and a syndicate of which he was an important member. Should the leasehold be voted it was deemed expedient to close the entire deal that night, as it was feared there would be a public uproar when the morning papers heralded the proceeding. The deal involved a cash payment by the syndicate of $80,000, and it had been determined that this money should be paid the moment the deal was made. This payment was to be made in cash, so as to avoid any possible hitch. So Willard Charlton, who was the treasurer of the syndicate, had agreed to accompany the attorneys and tender the cash. He had drawn the amount in bills of large denominations which he had wrapped in a simple appearing package about the size of a glove-box, covered with plain wrapping paper. He had gone home early, as his wife was to start that afternoon on a trip to Europe with a party of friends. The trip he was to take would compel him to remain all night in the city where the deal was to be made. After dinner he got out a small satchel, into which he put a few necessary toilet articles and the valuable package containing the $80,000. His wife called him and he went into her apartment, which ad- MADE A FEW CHANGES IN HIS TOILET. joined his own, leaving the satchel open. After a conference with his wife, which lasted some five minutes, he returned, made a few changes in his toilet, closed the satchel, locked it and returned to his wife's apartment to continue the conference. Soon after the carriage was announced and they went to the depot where she met the European party, who left by one train while he met his party and left by another train. From the moment he locked the satchel Charleton was positive the satchel was not out of his sight or touch for a moment. Yet when he opened it upon reaching the hotel at his destination the package of bills was not there. This was the case given Sergeant Pegram to struggle with. Mr. Charleton's apartment had three doors; one connecting with his wife's room, one with his bath room and the third with the hall. He was positive that the door into the hall was locked on the inside when he placed the package of bills in the satchel and went into his wife's room for the short conference. He knew, of course, that no persons entered through the room where he and his wife were. His bathroom had no other entrance except through his room. There were two windows in his apartment, both 20 feet above the ground, and inaccessible from the outside except by ladder. The windows were fitted with burglar alarms. October 6 was a damp night and the ground beneath th) window was very soft. On the following day, when Sergeant Pegram examined the ground it was evident the ground had not been disturbed by ladder or foot print. The window in the bathroom was off a court with straight, smooth kides and was protected by iron bars. Sergeant Pegram went at the case systematically. The servants were all examined and were greatly excited—all excepting the doorman, an Englishman of stolid personality and wonderful self-poise. He had been in the employ of Mr. Charleton for some five years and had been employed in some very confidential services by the banker at times. In fact he enjoyed his confidence more than any other servant in the house. This man, Joseph Hallet by name, showed no excitement whatever and appeared to regard the entire affair as quite natural. His attitude aroused Sergeant Pegram's suspicion at once, but Mr. Charleton refused to listen to any suggestion that Hallet might be the thief. All of the servants were put under quiet surveillance to obtain information regarding their habit's, companions and to detain any unusual signs of prosperity. Sergeant Pegram put other men on the trials of the other servants and quietly took up the task of watching Hallet. "It's these confidential ones that the masters won't suspect that have the best chances to get away with the swag," said Sergeant Pegram to himself, and he kept after Hallet with characteristic patience. But for some time he could make no progress, and the papers began to make flings at the inefficiency of the police department. But Pegram was patient and kept on in his own way, although he began to detect signs of coldness at the central office. Other claws were followed also, famous private agency conceived the idea that the money was stolen on the train and went to work shadowing the train employees who made the trip on October 6. In a new days they had discovered that Harry Wimple, a train butcher with sporty tendencies had been plunging on the races since October 6 in a manner wholly disproportionate to his income. He was arrested. Sergeant Pegram smiled. On the day previous to Wimple's arrest he had run into a new lead with Hallet which filled his professional heart with great glee. He had followed him to a distant part of the city where he made a long can. The next day Pegram called at the same house and after adroit questioning learned that the name of Hallet was not known there, but that the tall man with the side whiskers who called yesterday was Mr. Jenkinson, who rented a suite of rooms up stairs, where Mrs. Jenkinson was installed. "Not that I know she is Mrs. Jenkinson," remarked the girl who answered the door and to whom he was talking. "And it is mighty funny to me the way they live, even if he is a traveling man—a 'runnin' in and a runnin' out again at all sorts of hours an' never here regal nights or Sun days or any time. But it's none of my business, I'm sure, so long as Mrs. Jones wants to have 'em in her house." Here was a lead indeed—Hallet kept an establishment under an assumed name, and a doubtful establishment at that. And when Pegram a few days later found that Hallet, under the name of Jenkinson, had paid $1,000 on a cottage in the suburbs, he did not hesitate to arrest him. After he had laid the case before Mr. Charlet that a gentleman was forced to admit that it looked bad for Hollet, although he deserved strongly against the arrest. But the police department insisted on the arrest. Here was a confidential servant who knew of the circumstance of the money in the house and who might easily have a key to his master's room. and this man was living a dual life and made a purchase of property immediately after the robbery occurred, and made a cash payment that was plainly out of proportion to his station. The case was plain. Moreover, the police had no other clew and it was eminently desirable to apprehend the thief rather than accept the clew of a private detective agency. So Wimple was turned loose and Hallet arrested. He was stolid but protested his innocence and finally waived examination and was bound over to the criminal court, and not being able to secure bonds, was kept in jail. All these events had required some six weeks. A week after Hallet's preliminary trial Mrs. Willard Charlton arrived home from abroad. A day or two later she asked her husband: "Where is Hallet?" Then Charlton gravely told her the story of the robbery and its consequences. Madam's forehead wrinkled and she looked grave. "Where was this money, dear," she asked. "In my small alligator satchel—don't you remember I was throwing a few things into it the night you left. It was when you called me into your room for a moment was the time the money was taken." "And the police have arrested Hallet for it?" "Yes," he replied; "and the case certainly looks strong against him—and vet—" "Why, the great geeese," replied Mrs. Charleton, "and I am another. You remember I followed you back into your room while we were talking, and seeing that brown package which was lying half in the satchel, I thought it was those silk mittens Aunt Mary wrote me she had sent me to my office address and which you had told me had come and that you would bring home, and I picked the package up and threw it in that litter box of mine in my closet." There was a scramble for Mrs. Charton's apartment, and sure enough there was the precious package. The case against Hallet was dismissed and the triumph of Sergeant Hallet turned to ashes and ridicule. What Smokers Consume. According to the internal revenue report there are no less than 26,423 cigar factories and 517 cigarette factories in this country and they turned out last year 6,787,458,108 cigars and 3,258,883,303 cigarettes for domestic consumption. Of course, these figures are exclusive of all tobacco smoked in pipes, as well as of imported cigars and cigarettes. Naturally. The amateur dog fancier was looking critically at the little cocker spaniel. "I don't like his feet," he said. "He has too much long hair about them. He looks as if he had feathers." "Well, he's a bird dog, you know," said the dealer—N. Y. Times. Between Friends. "Fred took me to the opera last night, said the first dear girl. "We had a box. "Yes," rejoined dear girl No. 2. "I saw you eating candy in the gallery, but wasn't quite sure whether you had a box or a paper bag."—Chicago Daily News. 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We have read with care the very able message of President Roosevelt to the Congress of the United States defining the position of the administration in its dealing with the Republic of COLOMBIA. We admire his manner, even though we may not be able to command his method. There is no hypocrisy about THEODORE ROosevelt. All of the diplomatic language and sugar coated utterances give way to his plain declaration of facts, while the apologists look on with dismay at the destruction of their handiwork by one whom they had essayed to defend. The plain Engli-h of it all as stated by the President is that the Panama route was the best one through which should be transported the commerce of the world, and the United States was the only power that should dig the canal and exercise control over the enterprise. Accepting these declarations as axiomatic truths, then no republic or people should be permitted to stand in the way of a public necessity or an international enterprise. Condemnation, seizure or war was justified in the face of such conditions. The republic of Panama was a make-shift that the diplomatists and jugglers created in order to dignify the unlawful seizure of Colombia's territory. This was our conclusion from the first and we admire President Roosevelt's manliness in acknowledging the fact and telling the country that he has nothing to conceal in the premises. His candor will increase his hold upon the affections of the people who despise the policy of indirection, and admire open confession even though they may not be able to approve the method, or abide by the results. Nothing excited more ridicule than President McKinley's declaration of bonevolent assimilation of the Philippines and his condemnation of forcible annexation as being criminal aggression, while at the same time his Secretary of State and Secretary of War were practicing the very evils which he in a message had previously condemned. The McKINLEY rape of the island of Hawaii has been followed by the BOOSEVELT rape of the isthms of Panama. The latter stood sworn to carry out the policy of the former and who can blame him? The administration proves that it was not a party to the insurrection, although many Americans and Frenchmen are admitted to have been. Both the Democratic and Republican leaders, backed by the civilized nations of the whole world endorse the results accomplished and the whole affair, so far as the undoing of past events are concerned, is a closed chapter. Selah. EXTRACTS FROM HISTORY. "The task was rendered all the more difficult because there was an utter lack of co operation with the whites on the part of educated and respectable Negroes, who consisted in making common cause with ignorance and vice, thus obstructing the work of suffrage reform on one hand and the mental and moral improvement of the Negro race on the other." - Peterburg Index-Appeal. "What else were they to do? What else would you have done? They could not separate the issues without endangering the cause for which they contended. They stood ready to support the intelligent, law-abiding white man against the ignorant and the vicious as applied to white and black men, but the white men of Virginia would not have it so." - Richmond Planet. "You are entirely mistaken about this. The white people of Virginia sought the help of colored voters in reconstruction days against the carpet-buggers, and it was the Negroes who would not have it so. In Petersburg a Democratic common council made overtures to Negro voters by putting Negroes on the police, and the Democratic party put Negroes on its ticket for municipal offices. The Negroes not only rejected these overtures, but ostracised and persecuted Negroes who accepted places at the hands of the Democratic party. In some instances, Negroes who voted the Democratic ticket were threatened with expulsion from their churches, and if our memory is not at fault, some were expelled. It is certain that they were ostracised socially and persecuted in business."—Petersburg, Va., Index Appeal. Our esteemed contemporary has a good memory and for this reason we shall be pleased to refresh it along these same lines, while quoting an amusing, but truthful doggerel: "The Devil was sick, The Devil a monk would be. The Devil was well. The devil a monk was he." The Negro-hating Democratic Party of Virginia and the Southland has always been to the average colored citizen at least the image of "His Majesty," if not the Devil himself, and when that party after a campaign in which the Negro constituted the burden of its song and the object of its abuse was hardly ready to receive it with open arms or believe anything that it was shrewd enough to say. We were of the opinion that the very success at the polls which gave to the Democratic Party of Petersburg the power of which the INDEX APPEAL speaks was brought about by a coalition of Negroes and white folks. Moreover, the intelligent Negroes who were put upon the police force and those who wre nominated for municipal offices most assuredly voted the Democratic ticket and urged their friends to do like wise. This would seem to us then to prove the truth of our contention; namely,—that the educated and respectable Negroes stood ready to support the intelligent, law-abiding white men against the ignorant and the vicious as applied to white and black men. Let us grant that the ostracism of Democratic Negroes was wrong, both in principle and practice. From what source did they receive their instructions? They were pupils in the school of civilization, and the southern white men were their instructors. Who were subjected to hotter fires of persecution than the southerners who sympathized with the North and spoke in favor of the Union? Who stood greater insult, and were visited with greater misery than the Yankee school-marms, who followed in the wake of the war's devastation and instructed the young Negroes how to read and write despite the laws making such an act a misdemeanor, which laws up to that time remained upon many statute-books of the southern states? We cite these facts to show our fair-minded contemporary that despite all this, some of the intelligent Negro s broke away from their own people, as this journal frankly admits, faced ostracism and braved the expulsion from their own churches in order to test the promises made by the Democratic white men of the Southland. It may not be out of place to call the attention of the INDEX-APPEAL to the ostracism, to which Gen. WILLIAM MA-NONE and his followers were subjected. The former of course was not expelled from the church, for, from the number of "cuss-words" he was noted in using it was hardly possible that any church would retain him in its membership. We do not refer further to their troublows times of the past, for we have examples at the present time. Treasurer MARTIN (white) and his life threatened at Berkley, Va.. during last December because he received the poll-taxes from colored men, who were so entitled under the law. Armed white Democrats drove colored men from the treasurer's office and the treasurer in question was forced to take refuge in a station-house. No arrests have as yet been made and the matter seems to be treated lightly in official circles. This is done too in a county where the candidates for office are so-called fusion Democrats and whose recognized leader, Capt. R. C. MARSHALL boldly announced, and announces that they stand for white supremacy, and incidentally the political degradation of the Negro. But these intelligent Negroes supported and are yet supporting Capt. R. C. MARSHALL, although there will be many of them no doubt who will prefer to support the real an article—the "Old Boy" in plain language, the Devil himself, which is indeed typical of the Negro-hating Democratic Party. We are frank to state that we would be willing to trust our interests in the hands of the liberal element of the Democratic Party as represented by the INDEX-APPEAL and the business interests of the common wealth. But this element does not control the Democratic Party, neither is it very influential in the councils of the organization when ques- THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. tions affecting our rights are under discussion. This is an unfortunate condition of affairs, but we hope in the near future, party lines will be so disarranged as to permit of the free entrance or exit of the colored voter from one party to the other. The INDEX-APPEAL must know that the Democratic Party has an iron-clad rule by which none but white men can be admitted to membership or participate in its primaries for the nomination of officers. TROUBLE AT PINEAPPLE. THE lynching of a colored citizen at Pineapple, Wileo county, Alabama, December 26, 1903 was not without its amusing features. As usual one of the "best white citizens" of that locality, who answered to the euphonious name of PIG MELTON was engaged with a number of Negroes in shooting crap. A little disagreement resulted in his being shot. No undertaker has as yet testified to having placed MELTON's remains within the bosom of Mother Earth. Still, another man, who was charged with being an accessory was caught, placed in a calaboose, while the Negro who did the shooting was moving rapidly in another direction, no doubt humming the well-known refrain, "Foot, help the body." He has not as yet been captured. In this section, it is evidently a capital offense to even talk about shooting a white man and so a mob gathered, broke open the calaboose, and after practicing other indignities, knocked the colored man in the head. He was murdered. This should have answered all purposes, but it didn't. Their blood-thirstiness was not satisfied. They had evidently read of the case of a man, who, after he had crushed in the head of a snake was found hammering and beating that same snake for an hour afterwards. "My friend," remarked an on-looker, "that snake is dead. What are you beating him for?" "I want it to understand," was the remark, "that there is such a thing as punishment after death." But this was not a snake. It was a man made in God's image. He had committed no crime, for the man who did the shooting had taken leg-bail and left that section for parts unknown. But thee "best citizens," who shoot crap with Negroes, not only killed an innocent man, but took drastic measures to let the corpse know that there was such a thing as "punishment after death." They wet it with kerosene oil and set fire to it and soon the remains were a soothing mass of flames and the barbarians, who practiced such a desecration, no doubt, danced around in glee. But their mirth soon turned to mourning, for the calaboose caught fire and their efforts to extinguish the flames were unavailing. The red tongues of fire, fanned by the strong winds, reinforced too by God's disapprobation, set fire to JACK-ON & ADAMS' seed-house which was well filled with inflammable material and then to the cotton ware-house, and then from store to store, just as though the deeply wronged Negro had found an atoning angel in the flames. PAUL DAVIDSON's wagon repair shop went the same way, and citizens who had turned lazily on their heels when informed that a Negro was to be lynched and gave a grunt of satisfaction when they learned that the deed had actually been accompli-hed, now became blind with fury. They became in sensed and demanded the punishment of the men who had disgraced the young, but growing town of Pineapple. The indignation over the outrageous killing and burning of this colored citizen became more pronounce and to the astonishment of the outside world, a Negro, who, twenty-four hours before was not regarded as being worth a pair of old suspenders so succinctly became to be regarded as one of the most valuable adjuncts to Pineapple's p prosperity. A coroner's jury was emanuelled to view the remains or the place where the remains were and while it recessed for dinner an indignation meeting, consisting of about 200 white citizens, over which Mr. J. A. MATHERSON presided was held and a committee was appointed to go that night to Selma, Alabama to ask Solicitor QUARLES to come to the great and growing town of Pineapple. They wanted him to have a special session of the court held, not for the purpose of indicting the other Negro, who shot "Brother" PIG MELTON; not for the purpose of hanging any more Negroes, but for the purpose of maintaining the majesty of the law by punishing those white men, who had been so murderous in their instincts as to kill and burn a colored citizen of Pineapple directly and about fifty thousand dollars worth of the white folks' property indirectly. The more the losers thought over the matter, and gazed upon their wives and children with no shelter over their heads and but little money in the bank, the more they became impresed with the fact that "lynch-law must go," and the lynchers with it. They wanted some hangings now in Pineapple and Negroes were not to be the chief actors at the performance. Nine stores had been burned and the insurance amounted to but half the amount of the total loss. One thousand dollars were raised and deposited in bank as a reward for the arrest and prosecution of the white men who lynched and burned this lone Negro, and thus by the means of this fire, which touched the nerve-centres of the white man's pocket an atonement was to be made for the untimely ending of the life of this lone, but pleading Negro of the Southland. RUSSIA MAKES CONCESSIONS Hopes Her Proposals Will Prove Acceptable to Japan. STRONG HOPES FOR PEACE St. Petersburg, Jan. 6.—In her reply to Japan, Russia made great concessions, and hopes her proposals will prove acceptable to Japan. The foreign office says instructions have been sent to Viceroy Alexieff on which the reply was based. The latter was drawn up in the most conciliatory spirit. Some of the Japanese proposals were accepted, while others were made the subject of extended observations and were met by counter proposals. There are strong hopes in many circles that on Thursday next, the Russian Christmas, the Czar may be able to announce that peace is assured. The statement made by the foreign office regarding the instructions sent to Viceroy Alexieff was communicated to the British foreign office and to the Japanese legation. They both expressed pleasure at the fact that Russia had evinced such a friendly attitude, but they said no definite conclusions could be drawn until the nature of the counter-proposals was known. The Japanese legation reiterated that the cardinal points of the Japanese proposals admitted of no counter-proposals, and said that if serious points were included among those accepted there was a possibility of reaching a settlement by further negotiations. THE CAUSE OF IT ALL Neutral Zone In Corea Greatest Diffence Between Them Paris, Jan. 6. It has developed that the greatest difference between Russia and Japan arises from the proposal made by Russia that a neutral zone shall be established, extending from Ping-Yang, in Corea, on the south, to the Russian frontier on the north. The Russian government has expressed a willingness to recognize the preponderating influence of Japan in the remainder of Corea, and the two powers are agreed respecting the principle of the integrity of China and of Corea. Japan, however, saw no reason why the proposed neutral zone should be established, holding that the entire peninsula should be subject to her preponderating influence. The attitude of Russia is believed to be due to the fact that if Japan controls Corea she will thereby be able to more easily menace Port Arthur, as well as Vladivostock. The diplomat who gave out the foregoing information expressed himself as confident that Russia in her reply to Japan will give way on this vital point. U. S. MARINES IN COREA The Vicksburg Lands 38 Officers and Men to Protect Americans. Washington, Jan. 6.—The navy department is in receipt of two cablegrams from the commanding officer of the United States ship Vicksburg, at Chemulpo, dated the 4th and 5th insts. respectively, as follows: "After consultation with American minister, we are of the same opinion—aspect of affairs very grave at Seoul. There is much fear of riot by Corean soldiers. I have completed arrangements to send the company of marines overland by railroad at the critical moment; also, about 35 men and field gun from this vessel at Chemulpo if deemed necessary." The second message is as follows: "Two officers and 36 men left at 10 a. m. for Seoul. The remainder of guard is prepared if there is any demand. There is little change in the situation." PORTO RICANS NOT ALIENS Supreme Court Rules They Can Enter This Country Without Obstruction. Washington, Jan. 5.—In an opinion by Chief Justice Fuller the supreme court of the United States has decided that citizens of Porto Rico are not aliens of the United States and that they are entitled to enter this country without obstruction. The opinion was delivered in the case of the Porto Rican woman, Gonzales, who in 1902 was refused admission to the port of New York on the ground that she was likely to become a public charge. The decision was based entirely on the immigration act of 1891, and took the ground that the Porto Ricans owe allegiance to the United States and to no other government. President Roosevelt Sends His Nomination to the Senate. Washington, Jan. 5.—The president sent to the senate the nomination of William H. Taft, of Ohio, to be secretary of war. The president also nominated Luke E. Wright, of Tennessee, to be civil governor of the Philippine Islands, and Henry C. Ide, of Vermont, to be the vice civil governor of the Philippine Islands. Favorable Report On Wood Promotion. Washington, Jan. 5.—The senate committee on military affairs decided to report favorably the nomination of General Leonard Wood to be major general. The vote stood 7 to 2, the affirmative senators being Proctor, Warren, Foraker, Quarles, Alger, Cockrell and Pettus; the negatives were Senators Scott and Blackburn. Senator Proctor was not present, but authorized his vote to be recorded. Senators Hawley and Bate were absent. The Greedy Coal Man. "Some men figure their profits on paper," remarked the Observer of Events and Things, "but the average coal dealer figures his on slate."—Yonkers Statesman. Out of Date. "Here is a story about a man who married the woman he loved." "Why do you read those old-fashioned things?"—Cincinnati Commercial Tribune. CAUSE OF CHICAGO FIRE DISCOVERED (Continued from First Page.) declared that all the ushers and attached closed the doors and attached to the spectators to remain seated, as there was no danger. Coroner Trager is looking for the chief scrubwoman of the theatre, who, it is said, carried all the keys to the doors and exits of the balconies. She will be arrested when found. In addition to the managers of the theatre, Will J. Davis and Harry J. Powers, every employee of the theatre has been summoned before the inquest Thursday morning, and many members of the "Bluebeard" company, who were not permitted to depart for New York, will also be called on to testify. A Day of Funerals. Chicago, Jan. 4.—Sunday was a day of funerals in Chicago, and for the first time in the history of the city all of the people who wished to bury their dead were unable to do so. The unprecedented demand for hearses and carriages would have been enough in itself to task to the very utmost the resources of the undertakers, but the heavy snow that had fallen increased their difficulties. The cemeteries were compelled to keep men at work all through the night digging graves, and in some of the larger cemeteries they barely managed to make them with sufficient speed. At one time 14 burials were in progress in Rose Hill Cemetery, and all of them were the interments of victims of the fire. In the home of the millionaire manufacturer, Ludwig Wolff, was held the quadruple funeral of his daughter, Mrs. William H. Garn, and her three children. A crowd of more than 1000 people surrounded the house, and the police were compelled to open a passageway for the pal bearers when they left the house with the caskets. These are but instances of what happened throughout the length and breadth of Chicago yesterday. Multiply the funerals mentioned by 20, and a better idea can be bad of this first Sabbath in the new year. IMPORTANT MINE DECISION Umpire Wright Says Conciliators Did Nut Grant Men 9-Hour Day. Scranton, Pa., Jan. 6.—In the decision rendered by Umpire Wright in the dispute of the anthracite miners' conciliatory board regarding the Saturday "short day" grievance of the Schuylkill miners, it is ruled that the contention of miners cannot be sustained and that both operators and miners have misinterpreted the strike commission's award on the "nine-hour day" matter. For many years prior to the strike, the Schuylkill miners worked 10 hours a day, generally, and eight hours on Saturday, receiving the same pay for the short day as the full day. After the award of the commission, the companies all through the region established a nine-hour day with 10-hours pay. Tails gave an increase of 11 1/9 per cent in wages to the men paid by the day. Umpire Wright decides that: The antracite coal strike commission did not reduce the hours of labor of company men from 69 to 54 per week, nor any other number of hours to any number, as insisted in the grievance, nor did it prohibit the parties to the submission making any voluntary agreement for their mutual benefit, or perpetuate, or report any custom existing prior to the strike not especially made the subject of award. This interpretation, it seems to the umpire, leaves the parties just where they were at the time of the strike, and just where the award of the commission left them—at perfect liberty to fix the hours per day or per week by voluntary action. The commission did not, nor can the umpire now interfere, with that liberty. 500 DANCERS IN A PANIC Hall and Hotel at Woodbridge, N. J., Dynamited For Revenge. Woodbridge, N. J., Jan. 4—An explosion wrecked the hall and hotel of Joseph Galalida and more or less seriously injured 30 persons at Kesahsy, four miles from here, while the St. John's Benevolent Society was celebrating its anniversary by a dance. There were about 500 in the hall, and one of the two exits was closed by the wreckage. The people became panic-stricken and fought to get out, many being trampled on and seriously injured. Galalida was burned about the head and face. His wife was thrown against the chinney and fell unconscious to the floor. Miss Gertrude Ellon had one eye destroyed, her nose broken and her jaw dislocated. She may not recover. Michael Ponger had his right arm torn off at the elbow. It is believed that some one with a grievance against Galaida, or the society, used dynamite. The walls of the building were blown apart and it may collapse at any time. Steel Dividend Passed. New York, Jan. 6. — The dividend on United States Steel common was passed at the quarterly meeting of the directors, but the regular 13% per cent. was declared on the preferred stock. This was practically what Wall street expected. At the previous quarterly meeting the common dividend was cut from a 4 to a 2 per cent. basis. The Moccasin Blown Ashore Again. Norfolk, Va., Jan. 6. — According to the weather bureau dispatches, the submarine boat Moccasin, which was floated Monday, has been blown hard ashore again and is now as fast on the beach as she was before the wrecker succeeded in getting her off. It will require another siege of hard work and some high tides to float her. General Longstreet Dead. Atlanta, Ga., Jan. 4.—General James Longstreet, statesman and diplomat, and the last lieutenant general of the confederate army, with the exception of General Gordon, died in Gainesville, Ga., from an attack of acute pneumonia. He had been ill two days. HOW MOTHER KNEW. One White Chip Told the Story of the Card Game. Youth Thought He Was Smart, But He Couldn't Fool His Loving Ma—Squared Himself by a Bit of Flattery. The son of the house occasionally plays poker. He plays for the love of the sport, and not because he needs the money, but usually when he indulges in a good old game of "draw" he keeps the fact from his mother. Particularly does he keep the fact from that lady when the game happens to take place on Sunday. On Sunday, the young man's mother says, no one but a heathen would play cards, and she frowns upon him so when she hears that he has disobeyed her mandate that he is positively intimidated. The Baltimore News says that last Sunday his mother, his father, his sister and the servants went out early in the afternoon. This left the son of the family entirely alone, and, as sometimes happens when he is left alone, a half dozen of his friends happened in. It is a curious thing, but just as sure as the house is deserted on Sundays, the young fellows seem to have tepathic information to that effect, and they instantly rally around the flag. The young man took his guests up to his bed chamber, and it is the saddest thing in the world to have to relate, but directly they were all busily engaged in the great American game. At 5:30 clock they stopped with the host $2.50 ahead and the guests having departed, the young man went to work busily to clear away all signs of their visitation before the mother returned. He took the cards and the chips down-stairs, put the table back in its place, threw out the cigarette stumps and otherwise put the room in perfect order. Then he went down to tea with as clear a conscience as ever man knew. The next evening when he came home from the office there seemed to be some disturbance in the domestic atmosphere. His mother looked severe. It was at the dinner table that she made the attack. "Who was playing poker yesterday afternoon in your room, Harold," she assed. "Poker in my room!" gasped Harold. "WHO WAS PLAYING POKER?" acting injured innocence as well as he could at so short a notice. "Poker," replied his mother, "and on Sunday!" The young man saw that the jig was up. He also observed that his parent must be propitified. "Tell you what," said he, "if you will tell me how you found out there was any poker played in this domicile on Sunday I will make a clean breast of the whole affair." "When I see a little white spot that looks like a hole in the carpet under your bed and investigate and find one white chip, the logical deduction is that some one has been at cards, and I know it wasn't your father." "I should say not," said that gentleman, triumphantly. The young man felt that it was up to him to make his peace. "You are a perfect Sherlock Holmes," said he to his mother, "and I am proud of you. If ever I want any detective work done, I am going to get you to do it. There's no use in a fellow trying to be bad when he has such a sharp-eyed angel to look after him." Which delicate bit of flattery so propitiated the powers that were that nothing has been heard since of that illicit card game. Treed by Enraged Buck Treed by Euruged Buck. E. J. Lewis, of Ashland, Wis., had a thrilling experience while hunting deer at Glidden. Mr. Lewis started out early in the afternoon and when a few miles from the village came suddenly upon a big buck, which he shot at and wounded. The beast became maddened with pain and immediately turned upon Mr. Lewis, who lost no time in climbing a tree. In his flight Mr. Lewis had dropped his gun and as the deer stalked about the tree from the afternoon till midnight Mr. Lewis was forced to be a captive, as he was afraid to venture down. Just because his cow, for which he paid $45, gave milk that resembled the emerald in hue, Farmer Euerle, of New Haven, Conn., has sued the man from whom he purchased the bovine for $75. He bought the cow on the strength that she would produce eight quarts of milk daily, color not specified, and was horrified when he learned that the lactate fluid was green. He changed the position of the pall, thinking the reflection from the sun caused the hue, but it made no difference, and now he is after damages. CLIMBS TREE IN SLEEP Kawaiian Boy Sommambalist. Pere forms a Fent Which Has Excited Universal Interest. A peculiar case of somnambulism is reported from Hanalei, on the Island of Kauai, Hawaii. William Williams, aged 12 years, disappeared from his home one morning. When he did not return for breakfast, nor late in the forenoon, his parents became anxious, and scared was made for him. After some time a native found him lying in the shadow of a great boulder, in a place difficult of access. When the native saw him he gave a shout, partly to announce to the other searchers that the boy was found and also to awaken the boy, who seemed fast asleep. The shout woke the boy suddenly, and seeing the native's black eyes staring at him, as he afterward explained, he thought a wild pig, many of which are found in the region, was about to attack him. To escape the boy climbed a tall coconut tree, growing a hundred yards away. As he did not respond or come down when called to, the native climbed up after him, but was kept at bay by the boy with a 12-inch knife. A man in a hat looks up at a cliff. HOARSE SHOUT AWOKE HIM. nally his father came and spoke to him and then he came down, still in a dazed condition. He did not fully recover consciousness until he had been taken home and put to bed. He then had but a dim consciousness of his experience. All the circumstances indicate that he rose from bed early in the morning, put on his working clothes, took three books under his arm, and a long knife used in cutting ferns, and started for the woods, where he cut a quantity of ferns and carried them to where he was found by the native. When startled by the shout of the latter he still kept his books under his arm and his knife in his hand, and climbed the coconut palm to the top, a distance of 40 or 50 feet, a difficult feat to perform even to the natives with their hands free. The boy was never known to walk in his sleep before, but is supposed to have been suffering from nervousness, following an attack of fever. One of the most surprising features of the incident is that the boy had never climbed a coconut palm before. TROUSERS SAVED HIM Painter's Fearful Fall from Water Tower End's Up in Fit of Hysterical Laughter. George Sololeus, a young painter of Vineyard, N. J., sat in a swinging chair painting the city water tower, 135 feet above the earth, while a big crowd watched him. Suddenly the crowd sent up a cry of dismay. One of the hooks which held the painter's flimsy seat broke and let him slide down with steering ruddy. The spectators turned their heads to shut out the sight, but they were Vilhelm HIS TROUSERS CAUGHT. aroused by a loud hysterical laugh from Sofelous. In his descent the seat of his trousers caught in the sharp prongs of an iron railing which ornaments the outside of the tower about half way up, and there he hung. Wriggling about gingerly, the young man managed to pull himself up to the railing and make his way to the ground. "I certainly thought I was done for that time," said he as the crowd congratulated him on his escape. After repairing his chair the young painter resumed his work. Iodine Sterilizes Water. Tincture of iodine is invaluable for sterilizing water; four drops in a carafe of water is sufficient to render the liquid fit for drinking purposes within half an hour. He—Yes; of girl babies at the reciprocal age. She—What's the reciprocal age? He—Sweet sixteen—Cincinnati Enquirer. And Pitch In. Wise—Haven't you got a job yet? Potter—No, I'm still waiting for something to turn up. Wise—Huh! Your sleeves are what you need to turn up—Philadelphia Press. The Common Idea. Eminent Senator—This friend that you want me to get a government position for—you can recommend him as a man of good ability and capable of filling the place, I suppose? Constituent—Why, no, senator, I can't do that. It's because he can't make a living at anything else that I want you to get a government job for him—Chicago Tribune. THE PLANET SATURDAY ..... JANUARY 9, 1904 Necessary There. Citiman (looking up from his paper)—Montreal, P. Q. "What does that "P Q." mean, do you know? Backlotz (of Swamphurst)—Well, I know what it means out our way. It's a byword with us, nearly every day. Citiman—What is it? Backlotz — "Purchase quinine."—Philadelphia Press. Carefully Edited Subbubs—I want to insert an advertisement: "Wanted, a plain cook for—" Clerk-Beg pardon, sir, but they might resent that; better say "Girl wanted to do plain cooking." Subbubs—Ttha's so, and, by the way, instead of "girl," perhaps we had better say "lady."-Philadelphia Press. For Instance. "Yes, my boy," said the aged adviser; "the thing for you to do is to get out and hustle. There is always plenty of room at the top, you know." "Plenty of room at the top! But where? What business shall I adopt?" "Well, for instance, go into the halt tonic trade."—Judge. Pessimistic View: Sentimental Wite (reading from a novel)—And, clasping the beautiful girl to his heart, the hero pressed his burning lips to her snowy brow. Practical Husband—Yes, and I'll bet a dollar to a doughnut he'll be down with pneumonia in the next chapter.—Cincinnati Enquirer. The Morning Tub. Briggs—Do you have the courage to take a cold bath on these winter mornings? Briggs—Indeed I do. But I missed it this morning. Briggs—What was the trouble? Griggs—There was no hot water.—Town Topics. Method In His Mindness. Deckem—I say, old man, why in the world do you wear such a disreputable-looking hat? Enpeck—Because my wife has emphatically declared that she will not be seen on the street with me unless I get a new one. See?—Cincinnati Enquirer. Stranger Now. Edyth - George says he can't understand why I accepted him. Mayme—George isn't like other people. Edyth—Why, what do you mean? Mayme—Other people can't understand why he proposed.—Chicago Daily News. In the Polite World "Lizette," said Mrs. Goldrich to her maid, "i wish you would run up to my room, get the novel on my writing-desk, cut the pages, take it back to Miss Bookhides, present my compliments and thanks, and tell her the story aroused my most profound interest."—Tit-Bits. Cause and Effect Jack—So you asked old Gotrox for his daughter's hand in marriage, eh? Tom—Sure, and it was a regular walkover for me. Jack—A walkover! Tom—Yes. The old man walked all over me.—Chicago Daily News. Dangerous Procedures Winks—My gracious, old boy, you are all banged up. Binks—I should say I was. Winks—What did you do—dispute the right of way with a trolley car or talk-I like a free-born American to a police-man?—N. Y. Weekly. Shady. He runs a shady business— Ne, he is not a fakir; Nor does he deal a faro game— He Is an uwning maker. —Judge. A "Ah, doctor, my poor husband was a great sufferer!" "I know that—er—I mean—I am not astonished!"—Ally Sloper. No Wonder. What makes the waiter gayly hop. And, eke, with joy to skip? It is because he feels tip-top— Just got a tip-tip. -Philadelphia Press For Good. Mand—I understand you are about to lose the young pastor that has been preaching for you the last year or two. "And did the old pig cut her off like a panper?" "Yes—they say she hasn't a million in the world." — Cincinnati Commercial Tribune. Looking Forward Old Millymys (hugging his fiancee)— Barling, I could die hugging you. Young Fliance—Oh, don't do that! Wait until we are married—Judge A Specimen Prediction. Weather Prophet-I hit it again. I never fail. Ordinary Man—Huh! The thermometer has dropped 20 degrees, and it is raining pitchforks. You predicted fair and warmer. Weather Prophet-I predicted fair and warmer, with increased humidity I may have been a trifle off on the fair and warmer, but you can't deny the humidity, sir—no, sir—N. Y. Weekly. Magazine Limitations Magazine Editor—We need a leading article for next month. Regular Contributor—I can prepare an elaborate historical sketch of Napoleon "Won't do. Too much like news." "Might work up something on Solomon." A Useless Search. Don't you hunt foh trouble; Jes' ten tell to what your's got. It ain' no special credit Even if you finds a lot. -Washington Star. 2 "Yes, I think I must. I know the other girls are just dying to discuss my engagement, and I don't want to spoil their pleasure."—Chicago American. The Wife No One Wants. Who knew many some man and sing 'em; But she couldn't mend hose. Wise. Actress—I'm going to give you back our engagement ring. I can never marry you; I love another. Higher Education Doomed. Stranger—Did Miss' Finemind, who lectured here on the higher education of women, make many converts? Sweet Girl—Mercy, no. She can't be over 20, and yet she had two deep wrinkles between her eyes.—N. Y. Weekly. A. Friend's Advice Belle—What are you going to give Cholly for a Christmas present? Lena—Oh, I don't know. My heart, I suppose. Belle—You'd better give him something he can't break—Town Topics. His Theory. "Papa used to call me an angel," said the bride of six short months. "No wonder," rejoined the man who had promised to pay the household freight, "you are always harping about something."—Cincinnati Enquirer. Achievement. Briggs—Well, old, man, I can at last look the world in the face—all my debts are paid. Briggs—How did you do it? Briggs—Oh, I succeeded in borrowing the money.-Detroit Free Press. Padded. Jack—Maua Manwandi looks to me as though she padded pretty liberally. Jim—You bet she does. Why, she tried to make me believe her father is worth a million, and the old boy is a clerk on a salary.—N. Y. Times. Slight Misunderstanding. She—But I don't see how you can manage to support a wife on an income of ten dollars a week. He—Ten a week! Why, I thought your income was much larger than that!—Chicago Daily News. A Desperate Remedy. "I really must send the cook away, George; she uses such dreadful language sometimes." "What kind of language, dear?" "Well—oh! the as you use, you know!"—Bronxville Life Candid. "Did you ever lose yourself in any of the great roles you assumed?" "Well," answered Mr. Stormington Barnes, "I wasn't exactly lost. But I have found it pretty hard to get home." —Washington Star. Broke the Record. The engagement is off. He was calling, and she pleasantly said: "I sang into a phonograph to-day." "Indeed," be replied, innocently; "I suppose you broke the record."—Yonkers Statesman. Bald-Headed Information. "Where will I get a marriage license?" asked a young man in the city hall. "You might try the bureau of encumbrances," replied the man with the bald head, as he passed on.—Yonkers Statesman. Picks Its Company. "Old Hunks boasts that he never hits a cold." "It's nothing to boast of. He's so mean that even a cold won't have anything to do with him."—Chicago Tribune. THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA FOR Like an Alarm Clock. "Why do you insist on sitting near the bass drum and cymbals at a grand opera performance?" "I don't mind telling you as an old friend," answered Mr. Cumrox. "It's the only way I can make sure of not disgracing mother and the girls by staying asleep through the entire performance."—Washington Star The Best of Proof Mrs. Crabshaw—How do you know that the woman next door is going to get a Persian lamb jacket for Christmas? Crabshaw—Why, didn't you say you were determined to have one?—N. Y. Times. A Partial Speech "Did your husband keep away from the horses this meeting?" "Well," answered young Mrs. Torkins "he kept away from some of them. He told me that he never managed to get near those that won."—Washington Star. His Fatal Error: He told the maid. Alas! How could the luckless fellow know One of her eyes was glass? -Judge. SEASONABLE DIPLOMACY. Little Willie—Say, pa, it must be awful to be a poor orphan boy and know that Santa Claus won't bring you a bicycle, a sled, a cannon, a knife, a box of tools, a watch and a lot of oranges, candy and nuts for Christmas—Chicago Daily News. A Straight Tip One word is quite sufficient To the wise; And here's the word omniscient— Advertise! —Philadelphia Press. Another War Rumor. Priscilla—Lieut. Huggins seems to be rather attentive to Miss Elderleigh of late. Melicent—Yes; and she is evidently skirmishing around trying to precipitate an engagement.—Cincinnati Enquirer. A Shrewd Guess. "Why does Mr. Bliggins insist on writing verse?" "It is safer," answered Miss Cayenne. "If he violates any of the rules of grammar, he can say it is a case of poetic license."—Washington Star. Her Instructions. Mrs. Newrocks—I like the picture, but I can't buy it. The Artist—Can't buy it, madam? Mrs. Newrocks—No. When I like a picture, my connoisseur tells me I mustn't think of buying it.—Puck. Who Knows it? Farmer Stunhedge—You'd be a lot better off if you had lived decent and stuck to a steady job. Next-House Noonan—Well, now, yet can't tell. I might be worrying about undigested securities.—Puck. Discretion. She—That is Miss Finian, who wrote the celebrated novel, "Love and Life." Shall I introduce you? He—Er—thanks—I think not. I don't want to be either rude or untruthful.—Brooklyn Life. Everyone to His Taste. Mamma—My dear, you shouldn't be so wasteful. I always eat the crust—and like it, too. Little Effie—Very well, mammy—me will leave it for 'oo'.—Ally Sloner. Her Opinion. "Do you think that man descended from monkeys?" "Some descended," answered Miss Cayenne, "and some merely dress differently."—Washington Star. Carefel Young Man. Mr. Dukats (grimly)—My son spends a good deal of his time with you, I believe. Sue Brett (scornfully)—Yes; but that's all.—Town Topics. To Save Expense. "Their marriage was a hasty affair, I understand." "Yes, indeed. They told the minister to hurry, as they had engaged a cabman by the hour."—Judge. No Doubt. Husband—You seem to have some doubts whether I am telling the truth or not. Wife—Not at all. I know you are not.—N. Y. Herald. Friend-The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world. Henpekt-Not much it don't! Mrs. Henpekt makes me put the baby to sleep.-Puck. Can't Hart Him "Would you like to try some of our hair restores?" She—I didn't see you at your friend Mr. Robinson's wedding. He—No; I don't believe in gloating over my friends' misfortunes.—Chicago American. FUN Riches in Will Power. "I understand that young Spriggins has acquired considerable wealth during the two years of my absence from town." "Yes; and it's all the result of sheer will power." "Will power? You surprise me! I never suspected him of having the least particle of it in his make-up." "He didn't; it was the will power of his late lamented uncle"—Tit-Bits. Taught by Experience. Reuben, Jr. (with newspapers)—By cricky! Faw, here's a feller says he'll guarantee ter teach anybody hypnertism by mail for one dollar! Do you think I could learn anything if I sent a dollar? Reuben, Sr.-Sure's shootin'! Yew send the dollar and I'll guarantee you'll learn a lesson that'll do yew a heap uw good.-Puck. A Sexe Text Winkers—How did Van Brief make such a failure of politics? Blinkers—His head was so full of legal phraseology that when he started to make a speech, he used the same style of language. "Well?" "Well, the campaign was over before he could say anything."—N. Y. Weekly. A Wager Lost. "She's a treacherous thing," asserted the girl in blue. "How is that?" asked the girl in gray. "Why, we fixed it up between us that she was to refuse him if he proposed, and then I made a bet with him that she would." "Well?" "Well, she didn't."—Chicago Post. With a Reservation. Yeast—Did you ever notice that when the question about obeying is put to women in the marriage ceremony some of them answer louder than others? Crimsonbeak—Oh, yes, I've noticed it The ones who say "yes" the loudest are the ones who know their husbands will never dare to ask them to obey.—Yonkers Statesman. Worth That Much Pistol Pete—How much to marry us, parson? Rev. Bill Blood (looking them over)—O, I reckon 50 cents will—er—say, do you want all the frills thrown in—kissin' the bride an' all that? Pistol Pete—Sure. Rev. Bill Blood—Ten dollars.—Philadelphia Ledger. His Limit. "But you play poker, dad," urged the boy. "Oh, yes. I play occasionally," admitted the father. "Then why can't I?" "Because, my boy, my income won't stand the drain of more than one poker player in the family."—Chicago Post. Lacks Artistic Taste. Artist—My dear, that new cook will never do. Wife—Why not? He used to be a chef of a fashionable club. Artist—That may be; but can't you see that he's just served spinach in a blue dish and tomatoes on a pink plate? Horrible!—N. Y. Times. Smart Little Bobble "Mamma, I know the gentleman's name that called to see Aunt Ellie last night—and nobody told me, either." "Well, then, what is it, Bobbie?" "Why, George Dont! I heard her say 'George Dont' in the parlor four or five times running. That's what his name is!"—Tit-Bits. Preferable. A holiday is comforting. The busy world must surely like A woman all of us quit work. Good-natured, without a strike. -Washington Star. SHE WOULDN'T TELL IT. The Butler—What makes the missus in such a bad humor this morning? The Maid—Some woman told her a secret last night and she's forgotten it. Chicago Chronicle. The Brief of Life Life's jest too short for sighl'm— 'The song still beats the sigh; The song still runnin' rosy 'Round the hat's in the sky! 'Atlanta Constitution. The Provoking Wretch "Why does Amelia hate Cholly so?" "Why, when she told him she could never learn to love him, he insisted that one was never too old to learn."—Puck. Their Remedy. Tourist—Some people from the east might not like it out here. Lacked Sense of Duty: Lacked sense of Duty. Mrs. Hatterson—My husband never goes out with me anywhere. Mrs. Catterson—What a pity he has no sense of duty.—Town Topics. Occupied. "I haven't seen Quirks for a 'coon's age. What's he doing now?" "Time." — Cincinnati Commercial Tribune. LOV The One Exception. Husband—To hear you to it one would think I never told the truth in my life. Wife—Well, I must give you credit for having told the truth once. Husband—Indeed! And when was that, pray? Wife—When you proposed. Don't you remember saying you were unworthy of me?—Cincinnati Enquirer. Getting Acquainted Relative—I notice that you have at last got acquainted with your next-door neighbor, who has lived alongside of you for the past ten years. Mrs. D'Avnno—Yes, we were introduced to each other at the Pyramids of Egypt, and I found her a delightful companion. We became very intimate. N. Y. Weekly. Optimism. One glorious boon all have at hand—Or prosperousverse? Be grateful, howsoever you stand, Your fortunes are no worse. —Detroit Free Press. F. He-You're not—going back already—and all rigged out in your new hunting suit? She-Why, of course I am. Here we've been out all morning and I haven't seen a soul I know.-Chicago Chronicle No Kick Coming. The warbler faced the audience And thus sang trite and true: "I cannot sing the old songs, As once I used to do" "Twas then a gallery godlet Called out from his high pew; "Am I ready to sing now, And give us something new." -Cincinnati Enquirer Cerulean. Josser—What sort of looking fellow is Scribber, the poet? Goaker—Oh! he has a red face, red eyes, red nose, and wears a red necktie. Josser—He's all red, then? Goaker—That's it—all except his poems, and they're not read.—Ally Sloper. Ambiguous. Among a number of notes received by a teacher in excuse for the absence of children was the following: "Dear Teacher: Kindly excuse Minnie for having been absent yesterday, as she fell in the mud on her way to school. By doing the same you will oblige Her Mother,"—N. Y. Times. Her System: "How is it that you always seem to know all the news, Mrs. Faddiethwaite? You must make reading the papers a regular business." "Oh, no. Our church society meets every Wednesday, and I always go."—Chicago Record-Herald. "The Janitor Philosopher. "Lots av grocers awn druggists hov found th' road to success," said the janitor philosopher, "by tellin' women they looked ten years younger awn praisin' babies."—Chicago Daily News. Not Ready to Leave "I suppose," he said, angrily, "that you'll go home to your mother now." "Oh, dear, no," she replied. "Why, I'd lose all the excitement of quarreling with you then."—Chicago Post. Precious Stone Harry—They told me Blanche was deaf, but when I changed the conversation to diamonds she heard every word. Harold—Oh, I don't guess she is stone-deaf.—Chicago Daily News. Made Up for It Then. "How did you discover that Van Major was one of the no-breakfast advocates?" "I invited him out to lunch with me." -Cinchnatti Times-Star Explained. "Now that I've met Brown's wife I quite understand why he is so dictatorial at the office. He has to have some place where he can show his authority."—Chicago Post. Family Inferences Clara—How did you know the company had gone? Clarence—Oh, when you called me in you didn't have on your company voice. —Detroit Free Press. **Out in the Cold.** Sunday-School Teacher—Why did Adam and Eve clothe themselves after the fall? Bright Scholar—Cause winter comes after the fall—Puck. **Charming Comparison.** The Debutante—Oh, you ought to have seen my flowers last night! I do believe I got more flowers at my debut than grandmamma got at her funeral! —Town Topics. Man of Ability "I hear he is a man of ability in many lines." "Yes—culpability, incorrigibility and undesirability." — Cincinnati Commercial Tribune. Southern Aid Society OF VIRGINIA One of the strongest and promptest paying Sick Benefit Insurance Companies in the State. 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A farm of 180 acres in beautiful Surrey, one of the garden spots of England, was selected as the site of the model village, which consists of six cottages clustered around a larger house. It is most charming and homelike spot. Here the victims of alcoholism who are candidates for reform are brought. They are separated into small groups, usually from seven to ten, and each group assigned to a cottage. Each cottage has its separate establishment, presided over by a nurse matron from the Church Army. The poor women take great delight in their comfortable "little homes," as they proudly call them, and vie with each other in a laudable rivalry as to which dwelling shall display the most spotless cleanliness and in every way be the best cared for. The large building contains the rectory, kitchen, recitation hall, labor matron's room, and a private room belonging to Lady Henry Somerset. Immediately behind this building are the laundries, workshops and wori rooms. Alcoholism is regarded as a disease, and a hospital has been provided for the treatment of the patients. There is no institutional character in the arrange- W. H. ment of the colony. Everything is pretty, homelike and cheerful, and its attractiveness is enhanced by the lovely natural scenery. Each patient is kept one year, that sample time may be afforded for permanency in the work of reform. Mothers with babies under 15 months old are permitted to bring them to the colony. A very efficacious method in the plan of reform is that of constant occupation for the women, chiefly in gardening. The inmates take great delight in this employment, as the beautifully managed forcing houses and well grown vegetables and flowers testify. A small charge is made for the maintenance of the patients—the minimum being five shillings, or about $1.25 per week. Labor accounts are accurately kept, and where it is ascertained that anyone has earned her full keep, the extra money is placed to her credit and given her when she leaves the colony. One bright feature of the colony, though not an integral part of it, is the children's home at the Nest. The children brought here are from the slums of London, and are of the very poorest and most disconsolate. Girls and boys are entertained separately. The "Bird's Nest," as it is called, is cared for by Sister Kathleen, who has made children's work a special study. It is now eight years since this unique scheme for reclaiming inebriate women was inaugurated, and its continued and growing success justifies its existence. Magistrates have in many instances consigned women to the colony who had been in prison scores of times, including one who had been sentenced over 200 times. However, the majority of the women who come to the colony are the wives of artisans who earn small wages—women who perhaps have not been before the magistrate, but who are wasting their husbands' earnings and making their homes desolate through drink; servants who have lost both character and situation; and young women who have taken to drink through excess of hard work and unhappy surroundings. All these seek the place voluntarily, and generally leave enred. It speaks well for the success of the colony that 65 per cent of the women received since the beginning seem to have been permanently reclaimed. So nurses have people been to seek its benefits that 3,000 applicants were refused in one year, and since the opening of the village over 10,000 women have been denied admittance for lack Lady Henry Somerset hoped, in founding the Duxhurst Colony, that it would be the pioneer in a new, practical and successful work for reforming hosts of habitual drunkards. The encouraging results attending the experiment justify the hope that many similar ones will be founded. Fines and imprisonment have proved futile. No punishment hitherto tried has been in any sense reformatory. The poor, besotted creatures, after serving their sentence, are returned to the same old pricious and criminal environments, and the same degrading companionship, and are haled again and again to prison, sinking lower every time. It was this disheartening aspect of the case that set Lady Henry thinking. The personal effort and the complete change of environment which were suggested to her have proved wonderfully effective, and have secured the attention of legislators interested in the punishment and reform of confirmed inebriates. The subject has appealed to parliament to such an extent that a new inebriate act was passed, which provided that "any habitual drunkard found guilty of crime may be detained in a state or certified inebriate reformatory for not exceeding three years." The drunkard is now no longer free to ruin his own life and that of others. But the question is what to do with him. The farm colony at Duxhurst having so effectively shown what the influence of healthful work in the heart of nature can do for women thus,affected, it is hoped that the government will be impressed to model their reformatories upon this plan—Union Signal. DEALING WITH INEBIATES. How Present Efforts to Check the Evil Develop a Dangerous Class of Individuals. TEMPERANCE ITEMS. Wanderings bring to weakness. When life is all sport to us the devil is the hunter—Rami's Horn. All the railroads that center in Chicago have prohibited the use of liquor or tobacco by employees when on duty. Practically all the important railroads now concur in this prohibition. Rev. Mark Guy Pearse, the great English preacher, was once reproved for making too many temperance speeches, and when told he ought to be taking care of his flock, he answered: "The sheep are all right just now; I am looking after the wolf." During the last 50 years insanity in England and Wales has increased enormously. In 1859 there were 36,762 cases, while at last January there were 113,964. This does not mean that the cases have only increased with the increase of population. While the proportion to population in 1859 was 1 to 536, now it is 1 to 239—truly a sad state of matters. The increase is accounted for by drink, heredity and business worries, but the greatest of these is drink. Curse of Grocers' Licenses. Curse of grocers' licenses. A doctor with a large practice in the suburbs of London, England, told a newspaper representative that grocers' licenses are among the greatest curses of the age. "I have traced," he said, "many cases of alcoholism among women to this source. The evil begins with the grocers' license and in a short time the public house is patronized. Another evil is the medicated wine, the trade in which has vastly increased during the past few years. Scores of people who would not touch ordinary wine or spirits ask if they may take a little of somebody's medicated wine. It is nothing but ordinary wine to which a drug has been added. It is my firm conviction that the use of such wines cultivates, and in some cases awakens, a craving for alcohol stronger form." Disagreable Fellow. Fuddy—There is one thing about Flanders that I like. He never has anything to say about his aches and pains. Daddy—No; but he's all the time bragging about his splendid health. "Tit- THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. THE BIRTH OF JESUS. To Attempt to Eliminate the Miraculous Is to Mutilate the Picture Beyond Recognition. It is a matter of the first significance that the two great festivals of the Christian church, Christmas and Easter, center about the two prime miraculous events of Jesus' life—His birth and His resurrection. According to the simple, unaffected narrative of the biographers of Jesus, His life began and ended in miracle. Those prepossessed by a superficial materialism, says the Chicago Advance, are telling us to-day that we have all that is essential of the life of Jesus without these "myths" of His miraculous coming and departure. Not so. Such an assertion is a fragrant flying in the face of the plain facts of history. Such a theory is pure conjecture. It is the creators of this theory of what a Christianity of non-miraculous origin would do, who are the inventors of a pure figment of the imagination. That which has actually accomplished the triumphs of Christianity was not the kind of story or figure which their toil some philosophical ingenuity has framed. "The story which has transformed the world" was a story in which the miraculous was a prominent and indissoluble element. No one can fail to recognize the fact that Christianity has its origin, not in a system of ethical maxims nor in a record of charitable deeds; but in a Person. Jesus spoke as never man spoke; He performed many signs, wonders, and mighty works; but what He said and what He did derive their meaning and find their explanation in what He was. And in this mystery of His Being, the fact of His birth of a virgin overshadowed by the Spirit of God is a most harmonious factor. None other than a Being to whom such unique origin is perfectly natural and consistent could have had the influence which He has had upon all after times. To suppose that the mighty revolution in human history which Christianity has effected, so transforming human society and coloring its finest fiber, that it is impossible for the greatest unbeliever to speak or act apart from its influence, could have been the results of legends gathered by simple Galilean peasants around the story of a low-born but gifted Jewish youth who died in cleavage at the hands of a Roman executor; this is to imagine a greater miracle than any which their pers. record. Though the evangelists record the life of Jesus from different points of view, they are at one as to the congruity to His nature of His miraculous origin. Matthew looked upon Jesus in the light of tradition, and as the consumption of Jewish history. His birth, like the other important events of His life, was so ordered that "it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet." Luke interprets Him in his relation to the redemption of mankind. He identifies Himself with the Servant of God and announces that He has come in the interest of the poor and the oppressed. The distinctive parables of Luke, the Good Samaritan, the Pharisee and the Publican, the Rich Man and Lazarus, rebuke pomp and valgory, and announce a revolutionary doctrine of the regeneration of society through humility and service. But this revolution is to be brought about not by a maxim, but by a Redeemer, whose birth a choir of angels chants a promise of glory to God and peace to men. To John Jesus is the ever-living Son of God, the Word made flesh, and through the incidents of the miraculous birth are not specifically mentioned by him, they are in thorough harmony with his sublime portrayal of the nature of Him who lived "in the beginning." Mark does not tell the story of the birth, probably because he was relating the words of an eye-witness of His later years; but certainly not because his narrative is less firmly dyed with the miraculous element. What impresses the reader is the complete harmony and continuity of the story of Jesus' birth, as of all other miraculous events, with the rest of the narrative. There is no abrupt change from the story of miracle to the story of other events. The two blend completely. In fact they are not two stories but one. To attempt to eliminate the miraculous is to mutilate the picture beyond recognition. The miracles are always treated as simple, rational and congruous to such a One as Jesus was. The Christian world is not amiss in celebrating the birth of Jesus as it does. It is the natural, reasonable beginning of "the signs and wonders which He did." GEMS OF THOUGHT. The snob thinks most of the treatment he receives from the world; the gentleman thinks first how he shall act courteously to others. "To be our best, not merely for ourselves, but for each other, that is a noble impulse; that if it were fully carried out, would be the world's salvation."—Phillips Brooks. 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In making out this plan the fact must be considered that the pigs will not long remain pigs, but will soon become hogs, that will require hogs' feeding room. Every hoghouse properly constructed should have a sleeping and a feeding apartment. If fed in the same room in which they sleep, it is a difficult matter to keep the bed dry and clean. Six grown hogs will find comfortably lying space on 29TH. ALLEY 3 H. 12 H. 5' X 9' LOT Door 6' X 9' 8' X 11' 7 X 9 LOT Door 8' X 13 6' X 9' a floor space seven feet square; but for a feeding floor they should have rather more room, say, a floor space eight feet square. It is a difficult matter to plan out a satisfactory hoghouse for some one else, when the surroundings are not known or his plan or manner of growing hogs. Every pen in a hoghouse should have an outdoor yard connected with it, for hogs cannot long be kept in close confinement on a hard floor. Young things will suffer much more quickly with lameness than older animals. In this place we will allow space for the pligs about one-half that allowed for the grown hogs. I will give the floor plan and Mr. P. can construct the kind of a building that will suit him best from it. He can make a one-story structure, shed form, or else a two story, using the upper story for a feed room. A small room at the north end will be found convenient for a well and for feed mixing purposes. The plan is 12 by 24 feet. In this latitude I would make the long way north and south; cut an alleyway three feet wide off the west side! for the large hogs' sleeping room cut a space five by nine feet off the north end. Then give them a feeding room six by nine feet, connecting with sleeping room by a door in the east end of the partition. This will leave a space nine by 13 feet for the pigs. Give them a sleeping room six by nine feet off the south end. This leaves them a feeding space seven by nine feet. In each case make the door into the lot from the feeding room, but close to the partition between the feeding and sleeping rooms. The lots can be made as large as Mr. P. wishes or has land for. This building will give much better satisfaction if floored with cement, which will cost little; if any more than a first class floor of lumber. This plan will probably be as large as Mr. P. will want. Allowing as much space each for the pigs as for the larger hogs would doubtless require a house larger than he would care to build at first—John M. Jamison, in N. Y. Tribune Farmer. FEED GRAIN TO FOALS It Should, However, Be Given Only In Such Quantity as Will Be Enten Up Cleena. In cases where the brood mare must work daily, the colt needs careful attention in feeding. Whole oats make a splendid ration, and so much the better if these can be mixed with a little bran, remarks a horseman in the Live Stock Indicator. It should be fed in a manger by itself, and should be given only such quantity as will be eaten up clean. If handled in this way, the colt from the working mare may be kept in good flesh and will make practically as much growth during the first year as one whose dam is allowed to run dle. In this case the weaning period is passed through without any injurious effect to the colt, so that at no time is the strong, healthy growth interrupted. It sometimes happens that corn is more plentiful than oats or bran, and there is some temptation to feed a little too much corn. This, however, is a mistake. It will be profitable to sell the corn and buy oats, because with horses selling at present prices there is no form of feeding done on the farm that will give better returns than in this instance, providing plenty of frame-making food is used. How to Catch a Sheep. A sheep should never be caught by its wool. This method not only causes the animal unnecessary pain, but in the case of fat sheep, that are to be killed, it does much harm to the joint of mutton that lies underneath where the wool was pulled. It causes a dark bruise just in the same manner as our bodies become discolored from being bruised. The proper way to catch a sheep is to take it either by the hind leg just above the gambrel joint, or by putting the hand underneath its jaw or neck. In using a crook it is important that the sheep are not caught below the gambrel joint, as injury to the leg is liable to result from this—Pacific Homestead. The horse that plays cribbage on his manger is a bad gamboler. OF IMMENSE VALUE. Why Progressive Farmers Are Making Constantly Increasing Use of Shredded Fodder. Ask men who have made a practice of feeding shredded fodder why they do it, and they will tell you that they feed it because their cattle, horses and sheep like it so well and thrive so well upon it, and because they cannot afford to let it go to waste and feed hay which could be sold for two or three times as much as the prepared fodder costs. When the farmer computes the cost of cutting and shredding his fodder it looks high, but he must remember that, although it does cost him from $2.50 to $3.50 per ton, it takes the place of hay which has a market value of from two to three times that amount. Men who have made a practice of feeding shredded fodder state that it cost from three to five dollars an acre to prepare it, and that an acre of average corn will yield from $1½ to $2½ tons of dry fodder. They say further that a ton of fodder has as much or perhaps more feed value than a ton of average hay. Corn used for shredding is bound and shocked when the grains are well dented and glazed over, but before the stalk has shown much signs of ripening. When thoroughly dry it is run through the husker and shredded and stowed away in the mow.—Iowa Agriculturist. HOG SLAUGHTER HOUSE. Convenient Room In Which the Largest Animals Can Be Handled with Great Ease. I herewith present a rough sketch of what I believe to be the most convenient hog slaughter house that has yet come to my notice. A one room building, 18x20, is amply large enough. In one end is built the furnace of brick or stone on which set the kettle for heating the water. By the side of and near this is a large hoghead, set into the ground beneath the floor and at an angle, so that the lower edge of its mouth is even with the floor. The hoghead must be firmly planted. A sloping bridgeway runs up from the mouth of the hoghead to an elevated platform built across the other end of the room. A windlass, with FARM SLAUGHTER HOUSE wheel above, is arranged on the platform and opposite the hogshead with which the hogs can be easily hauled out, after scalding, on to the platform for scraping, and later hauled up and hung to the cross pole overhead for cleaning. This arrangement does away with a lot of break-back lifting, and the largest hogs can be handled with ease. When not in use the hogshead should be kept full or partly full of water, to keep the staves from falling in. A hog slaughter house of this kind, which can also be put to a dozen different uses, does not cost much, and is a great labor and money saver. The hogs are rolled in onto the platform through the door shown. The bridgeway, from the mouth of the hogshead to the platform, is movable.—Dennis H. Stovall, in Epitomist. CLEANING THE HORSE. Use of the Currycomb, Once so Popular, Is Now Discouraged by Sensible Farmers. The currycomb is used more frequently and to a greater extent than it is at all necessary. Brushing a horse's skin is better than scraping it—better for the health and appearance of the animal. A good brush, in the hands of a good groom, thoroughly removes all dust and dirt, stimulates the skin and imparts a gloss to the coat. The currycomb may be used on rough-coated horses in the winter, but it should always be used lightly, and on no account should the teeth be sharp or more than one-eighth of an inch long. A water brush may be used to wash all mud and dirt from the feet and legs of the horse, and stains from its quarters. Or, when mud has dried on, it can be nearly all removed with a hard corncob, and' the rest is easily brushed away. A corncob is an implement not to be despised in stable work; it can be used to advantage on the hocks and other sensitive parts which some horses cannot bear to have currycombed. But, as we have blunted, the currycomb might well be laid away. In summer it is absolutely objectionable, and in these days of clipping and singing, it is almost as unnecessary in the winter.—American Horse Owner. How to Market Hogs After I have my hogs fattened I would not drive them to market. I live three miles from a railway station. Whenever I have driven them that distance I have had a loss of from five to seven pounds. If I hauled them I have never had a shrinkage of more than $1\frac{1}{2}$ to two pounds. Then I would have my cars well bedded; ride with them myself; go with them to market; stay with them in the yards, water, feed and stay by them until they cross the scales. Whenever I get someone who can attend to that better than I can I will turn it over to him. There is money in the hog business if it is properly conducted. There is no money in it if it is not properly conducted—John Cownle, in Farmers' Review. The garden seed drummer is on the beet for his celery. Summer and Winter. 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"I have studied the matter for a long time," said the landiady, "and it is my belief that while eggs are one of the best kinds of food people can eat in the summer they are not good for the cold rough days of winter." "That's right," added the star boarder, "they're cheap in the summer, but cost like the dickens in the winter."—Chicago Record-Herald. The Petter Half. Though perhaps created second, Lovely woman need not smart; Like the postscript to the letter, She's the most important part.—N.Y. Sun. CHRISTIE "You're accused of running the end of an umbrella in this man's eye. Are you guilty or not guilty?" "Not guilty, your honor; the umbrella doesn't belong to me."—Chicago Chronicle. OLD DOMINION STA- SHIP COMPANY. Nit at Line for Nortok. Leave Richmond daily at 7 p. m., stopping at Newport News in both directions. Daily except Sunday by G. & O. Rail- way, 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. 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 H. B. WALKER, V. P. & T. M., New York. C & O ROUTE. CHESAPEAKE & OHIO RAILWAY. 2 Hours and 25 Minutes to Norfolk. LEAVE RICHMOND-EASTBOUND. 7:30 a.m.-daily-Local to Newport News and way stations. 9:00 a. m.-Dainy-Limited-Arrivee Williams burg 9:36 a. m., Newport Kea, 10:36 a. m., Old Point 11:00 a. m., Norfolk 11:24 a. 5:00 p. m. -Daily -Locals to Old Point. MAIN LINE, WHITE HWY 10 30 p. m.-Daily- Lincoln Local to Freds Hall, Cincinnati, Louisville, St. Louis and Chicago. 10 20 a. m.-Daily- Lynchburg, New Castle, Clifton Forges, Lynchburg, new stations except Sunday to Lexington. 5 15 a. m.-Daily- Bremo. TRAINS ARRIVE RICHI CINCINNATI Norfolk and Old Point 10 35 a. m., daily, 11 45 a. m., daily, 2 35 a. m., daily. Newport News Local 8 30 a. m. From Cincinnati and West 7 45 a. m., daily. m. p. daily. Main Line Local from Clifton m. Ex Sun. Frederick's Hall Accommodation, 8 10 a. m. Sun. Jam River Line Local from lifton Forge 6 35 a. m., daily. Bremo Accommod 8 30 a. m. Ex. Sun. s. DOYLE, Gen'l Manager. W. O. WARTHEN, Dist. Fashion. Art Effective Oct. 4th, 1903. 7:30 a. m.-Daily Local for Charlotte. 7:30 a. m.-Daily Set Net Pullman to at Atlanta and Ft. highland for Orleans. Memphis, Chattarla and all the South. 9:30 a. m.-Daily urly Chase City. 11:30 a. m.-Daily urly Pullman ready 9:30 a. m. for all a South. **ORK 1 VEK LINE** The favorite Baltimore and eastern points Leave Richmond 4:30 p. m. and eastern except Sunday. 5 304 m.—Except Sunday. Local mixed for 2125 p. m.—Local for West Point. For West Point, connecting with West Point for Baltimore and river landings. ARRIVING SUNDAY. TRAINS APEIVE RICHMOND. 5 3 5 m. and 6 4 2 p m. - From all the South. 5 3 5 m. B. C. ACKERT, G. M. S. H. HAPDWICK, G. P. A. C. W. WESTBURY, D. P. A. Richmond, Vr. SEABOARD AIR LINE RAILWAY TRAINS LEAVE RICHMOND DAILY 2:20 p.m. -Seaboard Mail-10:35 p.m. p.M. Sea board Express-To Savannah, Jacksonville Atlanta and Southwest. 9:30 a.m. -North Carolina and Hendrick TRAINS ARRIVE RICHMOND-DAILY 6:35 a.m. -No. 34-43 p.m. -No. 66-From Florida, Atlanta, and Southwest. 530 p. m.—From Norlain and local points. B. S. HARRIS, District Passenger Agent, No. 884. St. Richmond, Va. Phone: 405. W. J. MAY, City Ticket Agent. ATLANTIC OAST-LINE 900 a.m. CHICAGO EXPRESS Buffet Parlor Car Petersburg to Lynchburg end. Yorks, Ruthie Street to Cobbletoe to Collinna and Ruthie Street to Cobbletoe to Collinna and K洛维莱, and Knoxville to Chattanooga, and Memphis. Ruthie Street to Ramone Express for Farmville, Lynchburg, and Rougea. 3300 P.M. Ocean State, joined Arrives Now folk 5:20 P.M. Stops c/o 123858 Wav- wavolk. Connex with Steamers to Boston, Providence, 844-747, Baltimore and Washington. 6.50 p.m. for Nov. 17th. d all stations east of 9.50 p.m. 8.59 p.M. NEW ORLEANS SHORT LINE. Pull- man Sleeper Richmond to Lynchburg, Peters Park to New Orleans. Cafe Dining. Trans arrives from the west 7.33 a.m. m. 2 p.m. Office Ng883 East Main Street. W. R. BROWN BREWERY Gen. Pass. Act. Dip. Pass. Aguy R.F. & P. R'i:hmond, Fredericks- b. brg. & Potomac R. R Trains Leave Richmond—Northward, 3:51 a.m., m., daily, Br 1 St. Through. 4:54 a.m., m., daily, Mn 1 st. Through. 4:58 a.m., week 24 s., Elba, Ashland accom modation. 123 noon, week days, Brdst 1. Through 123 noon, weekdays, Byrne 1. Frder cks burg accommodation. 6:25 p. m., week days. Elba. Ashland accommodation. 8:35 p. m., daily. Byrd st. Through. Troman Arrive Richmond-Southward. 6:40 p. m., week days. Elba. Ashland accommodation. 8:55 a. m., week days. Byrd st. Fredericks- bury accommodation. 8:55 a. m., daily. Byrd st. Through. 11:45 a. m., week days. Byrd st. Through. Kenwood. 2:05 p. m., daily. Main st. Through. 6:00 p. m., week days. Elba. Ashland accommodation. 7:15 p. m., daily. Byrd st. Through. 6:55 a. m., daily. Byrd st. Through. Local stops. 10:29 p. m., daily Main st. Through. VOICE-Pullman Sleeping or Parlor Cars on all trains except local accommodations. W. D. DUKE, C. W. CULP, W. P. TAYLOR, Gen'l Man'r. Asg'tl Gen'l Man. Traf. Man. 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 REPRODUC 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. 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