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2 = ree earn GS rs DEO a Apa one AGA: Fi ac ae UA NN . N Pe o Pera aber oo SATURDAY..... JANUARY 30, 1904 WHAT, INDEED? ‘Bet the wortd go by, dear, Never mind :be weather? (Cail the fairese blooms that blow ‘In amongst Me heather. What to ail whe big round world? What tit may beride me, (Se. you creep into my arma? ‘So you walk bead mer When you're tar from me, dear, Mom'ry's Iie's beet blessing: lom'ty of Uke day that were; ‘Cool pink paime caressing: Mem'ry of the bills we climbed, ‘Hilis we cimbed together: Wet the world go by, dear heart, ‘Never mind the weather! Lat the clouds hans tow, dear, Let the thunder mutter? Wet the frightened birds Ay low, Weak wings all a-lutter: Met the writhing trees bend down, Wild winds tear the heather; Bo that you're bestle me, dear, Tt is glorious weather, Bo that you are by, dear, ‘So 1 fect the preaan OC your warm ted lips to ming, ‘Of the Cool omressing ouch of your hand in my own, Let the earth be rivent What do 'cace fer the world, Dear, when I'm in Heaven? J. M. Lewis, in Houston Post, THE BEST OF INTENTIONS ‘By Horace Seymour Keller ——————— ‘Cindi ie Rill bhkay Ped HEN Joba, the young farmer, married, he told his wife to be Kind to his mother, to save her all the teps she could and to make the old @ady's life as casy and comfortable'as Possible. “Mother,” he added, “‘has been a hard working woman all her life. She has Seought up a large family, and now It js ‘mo more than right that she should pass he rest of her days at rest. She was ‘eiways the first up in the morning and the last to retire at nizht. She is get- ing old now and not ro spry as she was, ‘Best and comfort should be her portion im life from this out; she certainly has ‘worked to this end—rest.” “Never fear, John. I shall take de. Beat in waiting on her and doing all 1 ean to wake It easy for her. You need ‘ot worry on that account; I shall at- end to all her wants, save her steps end care for her, dear mother!” No doubt the young wife meant it all when she said it. She immediately be ‘wan to save John’s mother steps that ‘very day. When it approached the din. mer time, and the old lady started fo ‘ths kitchen door she was met by her new Maughter-in-law who smiled sweetly and swaid: “Now, mother, don't you stir a step Wou are to take things easy and not tc ret and worry about meals and suct from this out. I told John I was going ve save you steps—" “I know you mean to be kind to me; Wut you see [ don't want anyone to save we steps. I've worked so long that | wan't get along, my dear, without some Mhing to do. I've bees in the old kitchen eo many years I can’t stay out of it wher meal time comes—" “Yes, but that's all over now, mother, 4 am going to do all the work now, and Jou are golug to take a nice rest and be ‘easy, sco?” But John’s mother failed to see or te wmderstand why she murt keep away @rom her kitchen, especia!ly at mea [2 heal & ae ef Le) i} BAN 3... 8 VEFAK\S= "Sous DINNER, MOTHER. YOU MUST TAKE THINGS EASY NOW." time. She stood for a moment looking ‘on the fresh, strong young woman be- Yor her—and debarring her from the Kitchen. That kitchen had been her stronghold and prized paradise for so imany years, There she had reigned Queen, and been mistress when John coaxed for sugar cookies, long before ‘he knew such a fine and strong young feature as this, The quiet alr of Puronage and well-meant kindness ‘sang the old mother to the quick, and she uttered firmly: “My son means well, only he does not know, you ste. 60 do you mean well, ‘woly you do not understand, dear. J must help work in the kitchen—” She started forward only to be confronted by © pair of uplifted hands and a face Sled with the smile of kindness. Tho Bew wife said: “No, you are to drudge and work in that room no longer, You have been basy for many years. Now you must sit down and take things easy. Please sit in your nice rocking chair and be comfortable, mother. I want to show Joba that I ean make you easy and com- fortable, mother.”* ‘The old lady was gently pushed into her chair by the fre—where she sat while strange thoughts ran riot through her Drain. She was positive that her son's wito meant ft all for the best, and in —— And out of great regard. But it wise? Her hands and muscles Bad been so used to work; her fect had Lippdietae eee to command every bone, nerve, limband throb of the heart—ah! was not her own aon doing het a great injustice by or ering rot now? The noise and bustle In the icttehen eame to her ears Uke muste—ouly she wished she could be among it all. Suddeniy the dinner horn sounded to call the men folks. Her eyes brightened and she started from her chair toward the door. Then she halted and stood still with uplifted hand and a troubled look on her face. In the doorway stood her son’s wife bearing a tray. She stepped briskly forward and said, smilingly: “Your dinner, mother. You must take things easy now.” “No, not 1 can't eat my dinner here. {don't want to be waited upon, dear— “But this is not waiting upon you, mother, I like to save you steps. Here you can eat in comfort and ease. See, ail the nice things we have in the kitch- en, You will not have to stir from your easy chair—please do sit down. There, Isn't 1t nice and comfortable to have your tray right on a little table by your chair? If you need more tea just ring this cute little bell. You must take it easy, mother.” And for the second time that day the busy old mother was gently pushed into her rocking chair. For the sécond time the irony of affairs was pressed home to the quick. ‘The cute little bell was not sounded for more tea. While the rest of the folks were gayly talking, rattling spoons, knives and dishes In the kitchen, the old mother sat with folded hands looking at the red glow behind the mica. She does not touch the food, she cannot take a morsel. She is resting, resting s0 hard, so bitterly that she can only ait and think. ‘The next day was the same—only she began to eat a little, but lightly. She fs eating lightly and—resting, resting more than she wishes. She is resting so much that her heart is growing hungry, so hungry that she is feeding it with the tears that she must hide, but cannot keep from dripping, ever drip. ping inwardly. A few more days and she plucked up courage and demanded to go to the |kitehen. But her son’s wife was deaf tc ;|ner entreaties and returned: ;| “You are growing old enough to take ;{@ nice long rest, mother. T am here t {do the work.” “But I do so want to do something [to help. Please let me come in th , {kitchen and wash the dishes, scour th ; {Pans and pots—" ;|_ “Never! Fotks would laugh at me t ; Lshould let you do that. I am strong }, Besides, mother, T do not want to b "| bothered—" "| “1 would not bother you, my dear. , only want to help you with the work Please tet me help you.” } “No; 1 promised Jobn to make tt a ‘easy as possible for you. Tam doing al 1 Lean for you; I wait on you, do all th 4, work and bring your meals to you—” - | “But you must see, dear, that I am no |. asick pereon who needs to be waited or I do not ithe to be waited on. I don’ 1] eat much now—but could eat lots mor - if T could only go In the kitchen wher t the rest of the folks are.” -{ “What a silly fancy! Here you ar 2 at ease, and comforable. “I do not min w bringing your meals in here. It is s d'nice and quiet here, You must conten {yourself, mother. John wanted me t ). make it easy for you, and I am doing th o best I know how.” n! The old Indy looked after the fin @ figure that disappeared through th doorway, and softly sald In a low tone :! “You do not know—you are so youn; € Nolther does John know—he thinks yo 1 are doing all things right. But I kno ~ you are starving me, my heart, my sou o my all. If you only could know ho u tong the days are to me, sitting het alone; if you could know how dark th r. nights are to me; if you could onl d know how I long to get away from m e chair, get to work—but you will nev know.” 0’ Weekly the little old Indy grew mot ¥ and more weak, paleand thin. Shecon 1 plained no longer; she sat in her cha by the fire and looked upon the re glow behind the mica. She fs resting- Dut eating more lightly than ever. Ah Dut her heart fs growing greedier an greedler day after day. Her hungr heart that feeds ever and ever upon he tears! | ‘The tray is bronght to her chair on morning and the young wife says: | “Bat, mother, and take it easy.” No hand is lifted, no lips feebly utte thanks, no wrinkled face upturns. Th Other's hand ts laid on the thin should¢ —but the little old mother is at rest last. Her soul and heart are starved s last. | She ts resting—resting everlasting! | ‘sapanese Wedding Ceremony. A Japanese wedding is a quaintly pretty ceremony, as described by the American Queen. The bride, dressed in a white silk kimono and white veil, sits on the floor facing her affianced husband. Near them are two tables, upon one of which are two cups, a bottle of saki and a kettle with two spouts. On the other are a miniature plum tree, tyvifying the beauty of the bride; a miniature fir tree, represent. ‘ng the strength of the bridegroom, and a stork standing on a tortoise, signifying long life and felicity. The bride and bridegroom drink alternate- ly trom the two-spouted kettle in token that they will henceforth share each other's joys and sorrows. After the wedding the bride’s veil is laid away to be used as her shroud when she dies. ‘Senwsk aad an wee 4 man named Armand, his wife and bis mother-in-law, all exceedingly stout, himself weighing 225 pounds, took a cab in Paris the other day. The two women got in first, then Armand, but his weight upset the cab. Armand fell underneath and the women inside against the top of the cab. A young man on the street, alarmed at the screams, turned in a fire alarm. The Gremen arrived on the scene and pre- fired to throw a stream of water, but © spectators restrained them and righted the cab. Its Pecatiarity. “There's one queer thing about money—" “Identity this one.” “Why, whenever you chip im, you have to shell out "—Indes THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. SS ‘Soaps by the box, manlcire scissors f’ MAKES } SEN ATE Pl RCH AS FS quantities and clean towels varying in number from 279 dozen in September, | 1902, to 924 dozen in January, 1908; all ) VA\gaPM Pre ——--- g0.to testify to the = and ex- | to Cure H quisite habits of the dandy senators. Free to ‘What the Distinguished ee, It takes a book of 455 pages printed In = Buy with Contingent Fund. | nonpariel type to give all the items of wiry, MAK! 3 expenditure of the senate, and theso , ‘given are but a bint of the scope ants ei. tues SOME VERY ODD NECESSITIES variety of the senatorial appetites and manheal «pron tastes. Savant is im ben | —— | 1ron0 was to judge from the number | hey Find Omeial Use tor Wrist Bags, | Knives bought for the senators—870 & Corkscrews, Timothy Hay, Pocket = Knives, Patent Medicines and — HB average American citi- zen would not readily per- celve any connection be- tween toothpicks, playing cards, manicure sets, wrist bags, pocket knives, pine lumber, bottle goods, timothy hay, etc., etc., and statesmanship and legisiation, Dut there does exist a relationship— which is closer in some cases than sec- ‘ond-cousinship—between the aforemen- tioned articles and senatorial st>tes- manship and legislation is clearly evi- Gent, if the contents of the con- tingent fund pie served up every year ‘to the hungry senators be investigated. ‘This article of culinary statesmanship rivals everything in the way of mys- tery from boarding house hash to New ‘England mince ple. The external ap- ‘pearance of this remarkable production ‘Would not excite undue attention or challenge Investigation, for to be told that the expenses of the senate of the United States were a million and a half of dollars would not, perhaps, be con- | sidered excessive. But break through the crust and, mixed up In rich profusion with those | things which one would expect to find |there—such as stationery, printing, | desk, library and office supplles of ali kinds, telegrams, furniture and equip- ments, repairing and cleaning, etc.— are articles which not even a Philadel- phia lawyer or ingenious New England Yankee would be able to account for. However, the astute and dignified and yenerable and hard-working senator would probably be able to convince the most inquisitive constituent, who would be daring enough to poke his interrogatory nose into the expense ac- count of the senate, of the reasonable- ness of every item, and trace the con- nection between such articles as Rog. ‘ers’ table knives, gentlemen's toilet [ xa , 1 me i fr ) ae p) a A a KC % iN Cases, glove cases, opera bags, nail nip- pers, etc., ete., and the profound and weighty lawa and measures enacted by that body. |The contingent fund of the senate for the last fiscal year ending June 30, 1903, covered expenses of $1,419,$83.35, and a glance through the pages of the itemized report brings many singular ‘items to light, ranging in vartety and Value from the good, old-fashioned quill toothpicks to the latest thing in the fashionable world, the wrist bag, jone more choice and artistic than its fellows costing $30.50. Just which one ‘of the senators of aesthetic tastes 1s | wearing this gorgeous article we are |not able to say, but that he is the envy ‘of all the other senators it is quite safe ‘to imagine. A majority of the senators | must be addicted to the wrist bag hab- It, for 55 of these handy adjuncts to statesmanship were purchased during the year. They ranged in price from 90 cents to the $30.59 one aforemention- ed. It is probable that some new and unsophisticated member was put of with the cheap 90-cent bag. With the demand for wrist bags came the need of pocketbooks, of which 121 were purchased, ranging in price from nine cents toa more expensive [article of $14.25. Now, inasmuch as there are only 90 members of the gen- Ate, some of the more opulent of them must require two pocketbooks to con- tain their ready cash. Five chatelaine bags were purchased, ranging in price from $3.25 to $12.20." It took 114 card cases to satisty the demands, and some of them must have been magnificent, for it took $16.75 right out of Uncle Sam's bank to pay for the most ex- pensive one, Bat if we let you into all the singu- lar secrets of the contingent fund we must hurry on. Here are a lot of items taken at random, and they are only a few among the many: Pastur- ing horses, $108.26; gallons of neats foot ofl, mustang liniment, gargling o° axle grease, tons of timothy and clo- hay, meal, middlings, bran, etc, these items clearly indicating some senators at least enjoy & horsefiesh and want it well tak B® of. Photo mailers, nearly 4 © handkerchief cases, photo frar 4; and one-half dozen Roge _4®, St knives, scores upon scores ** ta Weights and thermomete + Of Pai boxes, 14 whole hides, $92 Jm 32° Articles which show t g of the senators was clo’ at the hes sre as follows: One lesitheecle Alive bromo-quinine eve boxes f Jamaica ginger, on’ —_, he dozen court plaster, dan’ _# @ozen package cotton, tonics, ba —-_Arwif_ cure, absort pbor, alum, Cut fram, castor ail, c of quinine ‘pill! —_dewta salve, thousa the most expr 4, hundreds of case: fact enough amir mincral waters kien te set merdicines andl dros, ‘a well equipped apo aS Ane manicure wails vrushes by the gr porfumé gets vy the dozen, nall See by the gallon, dainties Soaps by the box, manfctre scissors fh quantities and clean towels varying in number from 279 dozen in September, 1902, to 924 dozen in January, 1903; all Eo .to testify to the cleanly and ex- Guiaite habits of the dandy senators It takes a book of 455 pages printed In nonpariel type to give all the items of expenditure of the senate, and theso given are but a hint of the scope ant variety of the senatorial appetites and tastes. If one was to judge from the number of knives bought for the senators—870 ado Atl JI Yer "| Bares, Vea Sey Ra et ett Wee Drea ee —ranging in price from cheap ones at 33 cents each to the best grades at $3.60 each, we might conclude that the laws of the land were literally whittled out by the busy senators, But taking an- other item of expense from the contin- gent fund report, that of 1,863 feet of white and Virginia pine and 5,000 feet of California red wood, it is easy to seo ‘the connection between the two. Evi- dently the brainy scnators who have learned to think groat thoughts, have not forgotten to whittle as in their boy- hood days. When time hangs heavy on their hands, the inspiration to whittle Decomes uppermost, and jackknife and Pine boards soon are in juxtaposition, ‘nd the senatorial shavings falling here and there, And such of the 870 knives which are not in use in the uands of the senators are perhaps Kept in re- serve for the friends of the senators who may drop in for a quiet chat and 8 little whittling. But the knives are not the only articles of cutlery which the senators enjoy, for 309 scissors were bought for their use, ranging in | price from 30 cents to $3.21 per pair. | Dozens upon dozens of corkscrews Were purchased for the senators last jYear, and this expenditure may be ac- counted for by the closing of the capl- {tot bar. No longer is it possible for the thirsty senators to have his liquid | Wants supplied by the professional and jhe has been forced to pull his own corks and serve his own tonic. Every ‘senator carries his own corkscrew, or (at least he might do so, for enough of the stopper-pullers were purchased to more than go around, and judging from the number of cases of mineral (2) wa- ters reported purchased for use in tHe senate to float important measures safely into port, it may be inferred that the aforesaid corkscrows were kept busy. And we canzst help noticing in connection with the purchase of cork- screws, and mineral waters, that of glasses. Dozens and scores and bun- dreds of all shapes and sizes were pur- chased, and it must be concluded that they met an early fate and their young careers shattered, or else they walked Ao mb CpPoees LEO JIN Wh a \ N tee oe A Fp off as souvent: under the gently per suasive touch of the senators and their guests. ' In conr ection with the cork} screws, KT yes, ele, we must not for- get to mc tion the playing cards Why the sen® tors who ordered these “vere 0 hanes es to put them in the report as playin cards and not something else is no f'elear, Packs of playing cards and shrewd senators s & combination bar’ 4 to deat. The contingent fund con- tin gos to liquidate many singular ex- r seagances of the senate, and inas- P gach as it {s not known who the pur- abasers of the singular items scheduled gm the report ars, the senators wink: Knowingly at each other, continue to .| uy whatever meets their fancy and J ehe public is left to wonder, and to 7 | softer. i ——— it Suiictent Explanation, a| “Are you a moneyed man, sir?” | “No, sir; I'm « married man."—De- e| troft Free Press. ut Pp ag Miss Helen Lackeye, sister of the popular actor, Wilton Lackeye, has the family gift of repartee fully developed. Recently a young society man who prides himself on his popularity with female acquaintances begged from her a few of the violets she wore at her corsage. He placed the flowers inside the case of his watch, vowing that as Jong as he lived they should repose there. A few days later the two met again and Miss Lackeye asked about the flowers. The young man was vis {bly embarrassed, but explained that he had opened the waich while in the street and that a gust of wind hai ‘blown away the violets. “And yot ent the watch after that?" said Mis: Lackeye with sweet incredulity. MAKES MEN VIGOROUS. ‘Valuable Prescription by Which Any Ma Can Make His Own Remedy to Cure Himself at Home Sent Free to All. Write for it, WILL MAKE A MAN OF YOU. For the return of that youthful feeting of satsbond a promintat tnteett ves anes Scat myelin pameen lanrouneemehahia / SS ian 3 Sx: “ (' ns ee » \ Se Za \\ dae 2 fo’ Les aE Le thoes PL wr Ne America’s Greatest Specialist. bimeett used in bis own extensive private prac- fice wit the tnest starting eurecees Though the sare hn os it gun ewe ee fonds and: with it thousands ¢f weak sen hve Grought about the ‘cures’ they" cocmiteh Tonged Yor. The doctor willingly? sends the forma entirely trea oan mu viv terten hie for icy and She3 wil fn f'n git ot Fa value. It'ts kod’ for sextnl weakness, lost Tans hood, ertonsncen, weak beck, riston, Waricose'sy nak of hee, prostae trou, Bight sweats inability snd the many other em? Breton conditions tnt betall the sestnlly in: Barfect man. dt creates ai immedinte. sodial feekine, warmth and’ good hares forces aes {ive tidod to the macular tess, toner dhe ervown system and aroues Peay confides. Henan of 6 good ay at a ie Young man asnin eager for society and ‘At for Inarrfage and parenthood, “Batiefnctory re- balla af produce in'n day's wee, nana epaefeck Sure in a few weeks: regardless of ager OF 16 Shue of your condita nn ‘ary heed meh'n ened, nena soar, mame ans naddrens todny ta tele. Key ea” Cos Hata Bldgs Detroit Mich. aim an um Tnavkced envelope the doctor Will at once send Ze ts recent nn promised, explaining i de wine mgredente to use and ow to com Pound fhowtbe hat any wenle mai ca care inset tn hig ows home without teing: wader stollgations to" nny ‘one, "itcowts you nothing fana the sooner, you write, the sooner you will becured. | RODENT BREAKS JAIL. Batrapped Rat, Aided by Another, Es- | enpen from Trap Prison, im am ceubiees Was, H. E. Barden, a printer of Toledo, O., tells an interesting story of rat intellt- gence. His pressroom is infested with rodents, and recently he sought to clean the place of them by means of a trap. Occasionally he found a rat in it, but if he failed to take it out and dispatch it at once it invariably escaped. He determined to learn how the trick was done. Waiting until he had scon a rat securely in the trap he secretly watched it. ‘The trap is a wire affair, where the rot is fed along until it reaches a flat piece of tin which tilts, allowing the ae | Te ay AM) a | ait = | AN “WY rat to drop into a box, When the tin Wrops back into place, securing the prisoner. Mr. Barden prvsently saw a second rat approach the trap and climb up near the entrénce. Then the two rats began to werk together. The impris- oned rat Uragged the piece of cheese so that ft was immediately under the ‘tilting ‘piece of tin, The rat on the outside had evidently been informed how the trap worked, for it braced itself with its hind legs so that {t would not slip, and then, tilting the tin, the two ‘tats worked the piece of cheese so that it wedged between the tilted platform ‘and the side of the cage. This held the trap open so that the imprisoned rat ' could get out. | On several other occastons Mr. Bar- den watched and saw the performance repeated, the procedure being the same in every instance. A Good Reason. © An Irishman ordered corned beef and apinach in a restaurant. Having eaten fall the corned beef first and the spin- uch ufterward, another diner, who evi- dently knew him, asked for an ex- planation. |] “It’s to keep the green above the red,” replied the Irishman —N. Y. Times, iy et ea Frankley—Don't you think it's rather mean to rub it in ou ‘Tous in that fash- jon? Meantey—Well, there was a time when he could have rubbed it into me if he'd wanted to. Now, this is my day. | Frankley (s:gnifican ty )— Yes, “every dog has bis day.”"—Philade|phia Press. At # Dinndvantuge. “You weather prophets make a great many mistakes,” said the man whe ‘sneers. “Yes,” answered the observer, “and it other people had all their mistakes pub- Mshed in the daily papers as we do, I suspect that our record would seem pretty good.”—Washington Star. Fosttively Weutal, “Oh, dear!” exclaimed the young mother in a tone that savored of de- spair, “I do wish I knew what to give the baby to keep him quiet.” “Why don't you ty arsenic?” growled her bachelor brother, who was trying to read his favorite paper.— Ginetuestl acuirer. om — Booker’s ee. ms - Market gh f PP 501 Webster St. ' Zn gf" A FULL LINE OF FINE: — VAN A GROCERIES AND FRESH | Ve MEATS & VEGETABLES Wood and Coal, Cigars and Tobacco, wy AT THE LOWEST MARKET PRICES, YOU CAN SAVE MONEY BY GIVING MB A CALL: ALL GOODS DELIVERED TO YOU FREE. TELEPHONE 1307~—. A. C. BOOKER, Prop. 18 W. B* KER ST., RICHMOND. VA. . W. I. JOHNSON, | © FUNERAL DIRECTOR’ AND BMBALMER. ; Office & Warerooms, 207 N. 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Money received on deposit and interest paid om amounts above $1.00 which remains 60 days and over. Money Loaned on Satisfactory Security. Business Accounts Handled Promptly. Amounts of ten cents and upwards received on deposit. ‘This establishment is fitted up in the most improved style, having a large white vault, burlar-proof steel chest, electric lights and every modern conyen- ience for safety and the accommodation of the public. I For all information concerning Stocks, Deposits, Loans, ete., apply to the Cashier. Banking Hours have been arranged for the special convenience of the work- ing people as follows: 9 A. M. to4P. M. Saturdays, 9 A.M. to 8 Pa We close Saturday at 8 P.M. and open again at 5 P. M., remaining open :atil ¥ P. M. Call by as you come from work. OFFICERS: JOHN MITCHELL, JR., President. H. F. JONATHAN, Vice-President. THOS. H. WYATT, Cashier. BOARD OF DIRECTORS: Rey. W. F. Grama, D.D., Jyso. R. Onies, B.P. VaNDErvatL, E.R. Jerrenson H. F. Jovataan, Tromas Sra D. J, Onavams, J. 0. Farney, Iso. T. TAYLOR, E. A. Wastixorton, R, W. Wartixa, Witiam Custalo, J.J. Oantam, JOHN MITONELL, JR., Pres. THOMAS M. ORUMP, Szo*x. ite, iz 1 FRANK WALLER, JR PRACTICAL HOUSE PAINTER, ‘914N, St. James St., Richmond, Va Residence, 1 E. Orange St. Prompt attention given to all mat orders. Satisfaction guaranteed. All Kinds of Painting Done Cheap Give me acall before going elsewhere ———— Fred G. Gray, 268 Wee Leigh St. THE STOVE MAN. 7 ‘You can have all kinds of Stoves Re Bitters, Gonductors Repaired and Painted at a reasonable price. oi emiceae ON IPhone, 2807, FRED G. GRAY, Richmond, Va. \@LOOK OUT FOR t OUR PRICE LIST.<2@ | __ip CAN'T BE EXCELLED—— Your Patronage is Invited.—__, ‘The AMERICAN GROCERY and Provision MARKET 1221 St. James Street. ‘When you want nice dry, sawed pine wood, eall up 2888, We sell. 3g ord for S76, qearantond fall menemrer, ‘A fail line of fancy ard staple groc- Jeries and fresh meats. Granulated sagas 4xots . Prices low on everythi Heats rat. ‘Hard and soft coal. sy band Grain. AND HUNDLEY, LEADERS IN Quality Furniture PARLOR SUITS, We have some twenty-five or thirty suits bought, most of which will be in stock in a few days. “Don’t do a thing” until you see this line. MORRIS CH Als. ‘This always popular chair of rest will be in as much de- mand this fall as ever. Part of our stock has already ar- .|rived and $10 values vie with $15 values of a year ago. Gall, see our stack of Bed Room Far »| niture and save time and money. : Passenger elevator. Gydnor & Hundley, | 3 09-11-18 B St, SCOUNDRELS & CO. By COULSON KERNAHAN A te a eae enti ‘Copyright, 18gg, by Herbert S. Stone & Ca. eee eee eee ee ee eee ee “You have seen my man Hubbock. ‘Well, I am venturing to propose that the .be elected to fill ono of*the three wacancies on the council. It seems to ‘me, when an outsider gets to know as much as, under the imperative cir- eumstances, we could not prevent Hub- Boek from knowing about our busi- mess—that one of two things must happen. That person must either be more committed—must, in fact, be not omty an accessory to what we have done oF propose doing, but must be ow actual accomplice—or else we must protest ourselves from the possibility ef that person doing us mischief or of turaing informer by taking the one and only effectual way of shutting his mouth. Hubbock has been with me for four years, and I can go bail for bis trustworthiness. I've sounded him and find him ready and eager to be elected. He will be a distinct acquisi- tion te the council, for an abler fellow era man of more resource I don't know. Are you or are you not willing that be should join us? I don’t want ‘ force my candidate upon you against your own judgment or your will, so f any of you have anything to say ‘on the matter I hope you will not hes- ‘Mate to speak out.” “AM I've got to say,” said Number ‘Six, “is that I’m glad to hear that the ‘ehap’s ready to become one of us. I don’t fancy having people knowing as ‘much about me as he does, unless they are all in the same boat. What do you ‘say, mates?” My colleague and myself assenting te thie view, Hubbock was summoned and informed of the decision of the council. He was a short, squat man, the grossness of whose appearance did not prepare one for his apish imitation of fine specch and fine manners. His lumpy, bridgeless nose, deep-set, pry- mg pig's eyes, coarse-grained and pimply complexion, and huge mouth, ‘hat when be grinned stretched al- most from lobe to lobe of his flapping slephant-ears, soomed ludicrously out of keeping with his mincing way of Speaking. Being always self-conscious fm regard to his superiority, and anx- tows to impress everyone with his ‘aloofness from the common and “h”- less herd, be accentuated the aspirate, and the “t" in such words as “often,” as aggressively as if they were testi- monials to his own education and breeding. The effect of this was helght- ened by his habit of introducing into bis conversation—no matter how irrele- vantly—any grandiloquent phrase or high-sounding word which he had picked up, and probably only imper~ feotly understood. “I am happy, sentlemen, to be thus honored,” he said, with a series of stately bows. “It has from time im- ‘memorial been my heart's wish to be &@ member of some such honorable so- elety. But I have for long entertained grave apprehensions (“grave apprehen- sions,” I may remark, was a plirase which had appeared—apropos of the health of some distinguished invalid— {m the papers that morning), yes, I havo, I repeat, for a long time enter- tained grave apprehensions that I should never find myself thus favored, and I thank you from all my heart.” “Spoken like an orator of one of the good old ‘immoral’ times,” said Hall, slapping Hubbock on the back. “Now, if you'll sit down, I've got one er two matters of business that I'd like to pat before the council of which you are now a member.” ‘Phere was a nasty gleant in Hub- bock’s little eyes, which told me that the fact of his being ridiculed was seither lost upon nor relished by him, but with a smile which displayed an expanse of false teeth, reminding me of the keyboard of a piano, he bowed Bilectedly and relapsed into a seat. “Gentlemen,” our host went on, “I think that the time has come when it ts no longer desirable nor feasible for @s to attempt to conceal our identity from each other. It is possible—per- haps probable, if I speak my mind— thet the wéman who betrayed us has informed the police that we are all Greased and disguised alike. But even were it Rot so, now that we are all ‘asown together in this way, it seems fo me childish to keep any further semblance of secrecy. Personally I am ‘Bot, aad never was, very keen on dis- goles, ‘That sort of thing may, and eften does pass muster in the street, or lu the presence of people who have Be cause for looking at the disguised berena too closely, or for suspecting Mim to be other than he seems. But— peastical as false hair and false beard may be for ordinary purposes, or for @ecoiving strangers—I am bound to ad- mit that I mever yet met the criminal whece abilities for ‘making up’ were ®© wonderful that he could enter un- Supected into conversation with any ‘ena who had reason to be suspicious. I have read ef such criminals in books, where you have to take the author's ‘woud for it that the thing happened ‘&3 yeu aro told it happened, and I have weem them in melodramatic plays, ‘where the person who is supposed to ‘be Impenetrably disguised is placed far @uourh away from the andience to ‘almtais the delusion. But, as far as ‘my experience goes, a practiced crim- CHAPTER XV. Ways a risk of being found out), the Gisguise is greatly assisted. But for us, at any rate, to keep up among our- selves the pretense of a disguise would, it seems to me, be idle, especially as there is the possibility, and even prob- ‘bility, as I have already said, that the woman who betrayed us has informed the police of the fact that we are all made up alike. I think we shall only be courting discovery by continuing the practice.” “I say ditto to that,” said Number Six. “Them as is of the same opinion will oblige by hoisting a paw. “Carried unanimous,” he remarked, turning to Number Two. “There's unity for you. The liberal party ain't in it with us, for pulling together ami- cably. Now I've got a word of my own to say, and it’s this. It’s more than time this syndicate had a leader. We're not like the liberal party in that. They can do without one seemingly, but we can’t, and the sooner we've got a head the better. Well, that head don’t want much looking for. It’s right between your shoulders—Number Two. Hands up, those who vote for Number Two as ‘the chief.” Once again the show of hands was unanimous, and Number Two having made fitting acknowledgment, the serious business of the meeting was commenced, “My friends,” said our new chief, “I've got a little move to propose thai should put a thousand pounds into each of our pockets. You know, of course, sie een - j (Kee pn Ue NY Wiis “that there's a big dock strike on. Well, no less a sum than £5,000 has Deen subscribed by the working men of Germany, and this money has been sent over te their fellew-workmen ia ;England to enuble them to carry on the war which is being waged against ‘capital, | “Atleast, we are told that the money ‘has been subscribed by the working |men of Germany, and some of the pa- | pers have prophesied the coming of the ‘millennium on the strength of it. The |gush about universal brotherhood in 'which they are indulging is quite pret- ity to read. | “Germany give us £5,000 for noth- ‘ing! I knew better than that, 0 I sot |to work to get the truth, and what do you think tt is? Not 600 pence of that |money has come from German work- ‘men. It has come—almost the whole of it—from German employers, and {s |sent to furnish sinews of war to the agitators who are fermenting mischief between the masters and men. But _Why? Because every day the strike lasts soes our trade drifting Into tho hands of Germans, who, when they have once got it, will take care to keep ‘it, I don't say that the strike leaders eren't honest men. They are honest, but they're fools, for all that, for if they knew how much the German em- ployers have had to do with starting | the strike, and what {t is worth to Ger- | man trade, they’d advise the men to go back to work to-morrow on any terms. | “But I'm not here to talk polities; I'm here for us to consider how wo can turn what's going on to our own advantage. Well, gentlemen, I'm known in the commercial world as Mr. Rolandson Hall, the secretary of the Anti-Capitalist “Association for the Protection of Labor, and the money has been sent to me to pay over to the strike leader. The question ts, how is that money to find its way into our pockets, instead of into the pock- ets of the agitators? I tell you frankly that even if I were an honest man, in- stead of being a swindler and a thief, V’d make no bones about laying hands upon that money. Rogue as I am, I'd rather chuck it into the sea to-morrow than that it should go to the strikers, when I know that it has been sent over by Germans only because they know that while the English workman and the English employer have their hands ‘on each other's throats, the trade is being diverted to Germany. That the wife and children of the men are stary- ing, and the masters are being ruined, doesn’t trouble these Germans, so long as they can pocket the coin So, as I say, although I am appointed to re- ceive the money and to hand it over to the strikers, I'm ready to tumble to any plan that will put the cash into our own pockets. I'm not without a conscience,.though I am a thief, but on that matter I confess I've no more conscience than a spider. The question is, how is it to be done?” “Have you got the money?” asked Number Six. “Yes, it is in my possession at this moment.” “Then don’t let {t go out of your Possession." Let's share it betwwen us and make ourselves scarce.” “My good fellow, don't talk like a madman!” said Number Two. “A seat on the council is worth thousands a year to each of us, and to do as you Propose would be to kill the goose that lays the golden egg, and for a paltry THE RICHMOND PLANBT, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. of them. No, no; we must have the money, but we umist work the business so that our—or rather~ my—honesty can’t be called into question. “Now listen to my plan, and if of you think of a better oue, I'l be giad enough to hear it. I've arranged that there shali be something of a cere- mony on the occasion of the handing over of the money to the strike com- mittee. I've xot the loan of a big hall at the East End for the purpose, and I intend to make a bit of a splash. The editors of all the democratic papers Will be invited, and all the M. P.’s and other public sen who talk tall about the sacredness of labor, and all the rest of it. They'll’ come readily enough if they think there's agchance of a good advertisement, saat ar- range that. The hall I am tafing will hold a couple of thousand people. It has a window right behind the plat- form, which in winter is covered by a thick plush curtain, but in summer can be left open, and so keep the place cool, which sa consideration, for if the weather is as hot as it is now the Place will be precious stuffy. ‘Tho chairman will sit at the tabie, with myself on his right, and the members of the strike committee, the M. P.'s and so on around us. After the usual pre- liminaries, the chairman will call upon me to band over on behalf of the Ger- man working people the noble sum they have so generously and self-sacri- ficingly subscribed to assist the work- {ngmen in England. I rise, make my speech, work It up well, present the satchel containing the ‘money—gold end small banknotes—and then resume my seat. The satchel will, of course, be accepted on behalf of the British workman by the chairman. But when the enthusiasm is at Its helght, the electric light will suddenly be turned out, immediately after which a small (quite harmless) bomb will be thrown against the wall and exploded some- where in the room. At that particu- lar moment, when everyone's attention will be distracted, I shall snateh up the satchel and toss it out of the open win- dow behind me, where one of us will be waiting to secure it. The sudden change from light to darkness will prevent those present from seeing what fs going on vntil their eyes have be- come a little eecustomed to the dark- ness; and the bursting of the bomb will so dazzle them and give then such a fright, that [ hope my little manou- Yer will be well covered, and the fact of my having risen from my seat, even if it 1s noticed, won't rouse suspicion, for the chances are that the bomb will bring the whole platform to its feet, and will perhaps create a panic, When the light is turned on again, and the money is found to be missing, there will be a row, and a big one, of course, but that needn't trouble us, and we can let them fight it out among thomselves. “What do you think of the plan, gen tlemen? You see, we manage the business without incurring any great suspicion or running much risk, and we put a clear thousand apiece into our pockets. The idea strikes me as all right. We can’t afford to let it be sup- pesed there's any hanky-panky games going on, so far as we are concerned, as if so we shouldn’t be allowed the handling of the money that’s sub- scribed by the different associations and leagues, which we represent. And as having a finger in the ple means some thousands a year, It wouldn’t pay us—for the sake of a thousand aplece— to incur suspicion. But if my plan works out according to my {dea—and I don’t see why it shouldn't—we get the money all the same without losing the confidence of the public.” “Your'e a genius!” said Councillor Number Six. “Wasn't I right, mates, when I said he was cut out for our chief? Now tell us when the thing comes off and how the rest of us are going to help you. I think I'm the boy to wait outside and play at catcb-ball with the cash-box." “Easy, my friend—easy!" put in Number Two, as I shall still continue to call him. “Have you forgotten that we are all wanted for the murder of a constable not two miles from this very spot, and that the murder took place’ only yesterday? You are safe enough In this house, or rather in this room, but any stranger who's seen in this neighbor- hood just now may be called upon to give an account of himself. We can't do with less than three to carry out the business successfully. I must be on the platform to do the bomb business and toss the cash out of the window, for one; then one of us must be out- side to catch it, and make off with it; and one of us must undertake to put out the light at the right moment. “Pwo out of the three must be Hub- Lock and myseif, who can go out of the Louse unsuspected. ‘The other must be one of you three gentlemen, but we shall have to go very carefully to work to smuggle him out. The remaining two had best Iie low here meanwhile. I'm sorry I can't arrange for the whole of you to lie perdu for the present, but I don't want (o let anyone else Into our secrets, and must rely upon one of you to help. Will you three draw lots to see who's to act with Hubbock and me? I think Hubbock should be the per- Something under his breath about “thé boss being In a hurry to put on the pot,” he proceeded somewhat sulkily to do as he was told. Folding into slips several half-sheets of paper, ono of which was marked with an X, he tossed them into’a hat and shook them all up together. “Now, gentlemen,” he said, “we'll draw them one by one until we've got three apiece, and then we'll open up and see who's got the ticket. We'll draw with our backs to the ballot box, please, and then no one can accuse me or any one elso of faking the rubber. Put your hand behind you, Number Seven, and start the game.” After the hat had been three times Tound, we examined our papers. That with the X had fallen to my share. “You've got to play Jonah this Jour- ney,” yelled Number Six, slapping me on the back; “but don’t sink the ship if you can help it, old man. We wand to see that £1,000 apiece in our pockets first.” a} , CHAPTER xvT eet ae eee GREAT MEETING. Number Two called me early on the morning of the meeting. "You and I are going (o travel up to town together, Number Seven,” ho said. “It will be best so, as in that case you'll pass as my friend, and no suspicion will attach to you. Hub- dock will follow later. The trap will be at the door for us in half an hour. If you want the loan of a razor you can have mine, and perhaps you'd better put on a suit of my clothes, in case the police happen to know that our uniform is blue serge. If you'll come with me, I'll show you my wardrobe, and you can pick out what will ft you best, and supply yourself with some clean linen.” I nodded “good-by” to my two col- leagues, Number Four and Number Six, and clambered down through the cupboard-top into Number Two's own room. When we were out of hearing, he took me by the arm somewhat famil- farly. “I'm glad the lot fell upon you, Number Seven,” he said. “Why?” I asked. “Well,” he answered, “we are all biackguards, or we shouldn’t be mem- bers of this rascally syndicate, All the same I think I'd rather work with @ blackguard who ought to have been @ gentleman (as is, I think, the case with you) than with a gentleman who ought to bave been a blackguard.” “That sounds cleverish,” I replied, “but I'd not know what it means. However, 1 take it that you mean it complimentary, and that you want me to infer that you'd rather work with myself than with either of the other two upstairs.” “That's it,” he sald. “I was afraid I was going to draw “the foreman’—I always call that glib rascal Number Six ‘the foreman.’ When he isn’t in- solent, he’s cringing, and hang me if I know when like him best or least!” T ought, I suppose, to have been flat- tered by Number Two's advances, but I was by no means certain whether his assumption of cordiality towards myself was not meant as much as a “blind” as for any other reason. And even had I been convinced of his sin- cerity, I could not have brought my- self to make friendly overtures to a man whom I was all the time planning to betray. So I remained discreetly silent, find- ing which Number Two said no more, except to inform me that breakfast was nearly ready. During the meal he told me where the hall in which the meoting was to be held was situated. “You had bet- ter go there direct,” he said, “when we get to London. Tho care-taker won't de there till noon. He lives some Iit- tle way off, and I’ve told him to stay in all the morning, as I'm calling to see him about the final arrangements, ‘and T haven't time to go far east. But T've got a duplicate set of keys. Here they are. The switch, for turning the electric light on and off, is in the space Detween the double set of swing baize- covered doors. You'll see a little cup- board hich up on the right. The key is always in it. Turn the light on and off several times, to make sure you un- derstand it. There is a pair of round glass windows, about on a level with your head, on the inner set of doors that lead into the hall. Watch the platform through them. You'll see me place the bag containing the cash on the table. When I put my hand op the top of my head, slip away at once, and turn off the lht.” “And suppose there is a policeman or the care-taker there?” I asked. “They'll stand in the inner lobby, if 80,” was the reply. “The double set of spring doors was put there to keep out the noise of the street, as well as to keep out the dranght. But they are placed Inconventently near to- gether—the county council built the place, I expect; no one else would have done the thing so ciumsily—and it's quite a work of art to pass in and out without getting a nasty clump from one or other of the swing doors.” “T understand,” I said. “Am I to turn the light on again afterwards?” “No, I shouldn't trouble about that If you should chance to be seen when turning off the light, and you went Dack to the place afterwards, you might get collared, The policeman, ‘or the care-taker, or some one else can gee to that. You'd best be off when ‘you've tuned on the total eclipse You won't be able to get back here again to-night; but if you come to- morrow afternoon by the three o'clock train from St. Pancras, { shall be home by then, and will meet you with the trap, You'll be in time for the shar- ing up of the money. Now I think you have your sailing orders complete, and, if you have finished your break- fast, we'll be off to town.” Arrived at St. Pancras, Number Two and I parted company, he perhaps to plan some new devilry, I to visit the hall where the meeting was to take place. It was a big red-brick building, lying back a few feet from a main street. In front was a graveled space with fron railings. On the right was a: Saaied Meek Wade akc enkiatnn Platform looked, and here Hubbock was to post himself, im onde, to ee cure the bag containing the money, when it was thrown out, Of that money I was determined by some means to possess myself, if only to prevent it from falling into the hands of either the syndicate or of the strikers. "That the former would gh See : < Se a Ee ’ iN an) Li +’ i aE 1 A ie ren b 4 Bes STH Pye ize] LNs i epy | 5a li Zz Sa ee nr “ rd u———_————__________§3 DURING THE MEAL HE TOLD MB. it to no good use, needs no demon- strating. Nor—conservative and im- Perialist as I am—did I feel that it ‘would be much better employed in the hands of the strikers. Number Two chad stated—and I saw no reason to disbelieve him—that the money had been sent to England by Germany, and for so sinister a purpose as to prolong a strike, and so to cause English trade to drift irrevocably into the hands of ‘the Germans. In that case, by pre- venting the money from coming into the possession of the strikers, | should }be serving the cause of my country. I had often enough had to make ex- cuse to myself for the means by which I obtained money. For once in my life I was in the position of being able to steal, not only with a clear con- science, but with a glow of virtuous self-righteousness. The only question that troubled me was how I was to go to work. I was at first strongly tempted to take some one—say my brother—into my confidence, and to get him to undertake to switch off the electric light at the critical moment, ‘so that I myself might be on the spot when the bag was thrown out, and make off with it before Hubbock could lay hands on it. It would, of course, be necessary to disguise ‘myself, so that my fellow conspirator should not recognize me, but that need not be very dificult. The meeung was pur~ posely arranged to commence at nine o'clock, in order that working men of all sorts might have a chance to be Present; and as there was no lamp in the yard behind the hall, and night would by that time have fallen, I might easily escape identification. ‘Thrash my brain ag I would, however, I could hit on no plan for so conceal- ing myself in the yard as to escape Hubbock’s notice. The place was noth- ing more than a bare, gravelled patch, some few feet square and surrounded by four high walls so that it would have been next to impossible to find | shelter in which to conceal so much as a cat. Besides this, I was disin- clined to broach even to a brother the business on which I was engaged. | Half-confidences would be no use in | such @ case, and unless one were pre- pared to make a clean breast of it, the thing had best not be spoken about at all. | Not often have I been so hard put to it for a way out of a difficulty, but in the end I decided that the following was the only feasible plan. If imme- diately after turning off the ight 1 slipped round to the side door that led to the yard, I should be in ample time to cut off Hubbock’s retreat. His only ‘way out from the back would be along the side passage, and as the bag could not be thrown out of the window un- til the light had been turned off and the bomb exploded, the chances were that I should be able to be on the spot in time to get first snatch at the bag. And even should I find it in Hubbock’s possession, my superior height, Strength and weight would give him no chance in a tussle. To have that bag I was determined, and if Hub- dock showed fight, so much the worse for him. Now that I had decided upon my Ine of action—unsatisfactory though that line of action was in many respects— I began to feel easier in my mind, and after switching the light on and off several times, to make sure that every- thing was in working order, I locked up the hall, and went in search of ‘lunch, Number Two had told me that the key he was lending to me was only @ duplicate, and that, as the care-taker had one of his own, | need not con- cern myself about returning it; so I had the whole afternoon in which to arrange about a disguise and to at- tend to the batch of letters which I found awaiting me at my chambers. , Evening was creeping on when I sallied forth again to make my way to the hall, which | reached some half- hour before the advertised time of the meeting. Number Two had omitted one detail, Admission to the meeting was only to be had by ticket, and as he had forgotten to supply me with the necessary pasteboard, | was at first refused admittance. It was fortunate that I happened to have in my pocket the proof of an article | had been writ- ing, which I produced in evidence of my claim to be a representative of the press. Otherwise, so inexorable were the guardians of the gate in their re- fusal to admit any one without a tick- et, that I might have been left outside altogether; in which case the lights would not have been extinguished and the £5,000 might by this time, like the proverbial bread which is “cast upon the waters,” have found its way back again to the German pockets whence it emanated. “HELL—WITH THE FIRE OUT." ‘The “British workman,” of whom we hear so much, but whom we see—at work—so seldom, is by no means to be confounded with that honest, decent, =. Je the public-house during the rest of the week appear to be his permanent ad- dresses. Of the British working man there was no sign at this meeting, but that that amiable representative of Sweet reasonableness, the lorg-suffer- Ing, toil-exhausted, tyrant-oppressed British workman, was present could be both seen and’ smelt. The entrance of the chairman, the strike committee, and the delwzates was hailed with tumultuous applause, which rose to a frenzy when, at a sign from Number Two, the care-taker of the Wall pulled a string that com- municated with what looked like a bundle of dirty linen that was screwed up close to the roof over the chair- man’s head, but when loosened re- solved itself into the respective flags of Germany and England intertwined, Again and again the building re- echoed with patriotic cheers, varied by “Rule, Britannia!” and the inspiring strains of realistic imitations of a German band playing slightly out of tune, this last being no doubt intend- ed asa delicate compliment to the great nation which supplies the soul- Jess Englishman with music, and on this occasion, and “for one nizht only.” as they put {t in the theatrical profes- sion, had supplied him also. with money. ‘Then the serfous business of the evening commenced. “Seldom since our race was ere- ated,” said the chairman, “had the inhabitants of this planet gathered to- gether on an occasion which marked s0 great an epoch in the history of mankind and did sich honor to the human heart.” (Vociferous cheers and cries of “Good old heart!) “Person- ally he was prond to thin! that he had lived to see this day—this glorious day, this never-to-be-forgotten day— when two great nations had combined to unfurl the fla of the brotherhood of man, and had pirnted jt on the watchtower of civilization for all the world to see.” (A voice: “Never mind the flag, old chap. Have yon got the money there? That's what wo want to see.") “Yes,” responded the chairman, with an indulgent smile, as if saying to himself, with .Pecksniffian phil- csophy: “Let us hnmor these good creatures, these dear creatures. It is natural that they should wtsh to as- sure themselves, by 2 sight cf the gift that has come from Germany, that their dream of brotherhood is in- deed realized.” “Yes, the money is here safe enough, my friends,” he said. “Tt is in that satchel which is now held by my honore? co-laborer nnd colleague, Mr. Rolandson Hall, and which he will soon have the honor of presenting on behalf of the people of Germany, and I of accepting on behalf of the people of England.” ‘This statement was followed by a Scene of the wildest enthusiasm and uproar, each member of the audience expressing his approval in his own way. When order, or something like order, was restored, other speakers followed the chairman, some exulting in a rapidly approaching millennium, some speaking less inflatediy, and some with sound common sense. but all more or less pointing to the fact that the combination of the working classes of two great nations was an assurance that the day was not far distant when the working men of ali nations would follow the splendid example which had been set by the working men of Ger- many in coming to the rescue of their oppressed fellow-workers in England. As Number Two was now on his legs, and the moment for turning off the lights would soon be arriving, 1 edged my way out and watched the rest of the performance through thc couple of tiny oval-shaped windows, which were set, like a pair of eye- glasses shining out from an expres- stonless countenance, high up on the face of the swing doors. I saw him hand over the satchel to the chair- man, who worked up his audience to & state approaching delirlum by open- ing It and waving a bundle of crisp bank notes over his head. Next he plunged @ fist In, and bringing up a handful of gold, he let the yellov discs slide back again—a cascade o} shining coins—into the bag, which he closed with a snap and replaced upor the table. Then Number Two gave the signal, and in another instant I had done my part and tured off the lights. A friend who was present told me afterwards that the seene inside—it 4 acene it can be called when there was no light by which to see—was inde- seribable. He said he could liken i to “hell on a busy night—with the fire out.” Almost immediately afterwards the lights were turned on—by whom I da not _know—and my friend, who is economical of speech, described the scene then presented as “hell on busy night—with the fire on.” Worse was to follow. Number Two, white with passion or with face powder, 1 cannot say which, was seen to leap upon the table, with one hand pointing to the door, and with the other hol- lowed round his mouth so as to form a sort of speaking-trampet. “Shut the door!” he thundered. SOCIETY OF BEGGARS Thoroughly Organized Band of Mend dicants Discovered in Paris, | _ } Arrest of the Chief Leads te Curtows Revelutions—ail Detain Yinwnes nd Business Conauctea a $ | Claude Berthet, aged 63, a veteram criminal, Woo bas more than a Ore, of convictions w bis name, has beem ‘arrested again by the Paris police om ‘@ charge of begging and obtaining money by Lalse preienses, His arrest has ied w some curloun Tevelations. Herthet, it appears, waa the chief of a iarge band of professiona}: mendicants, whose headquarters were, 4m the vicinity of ihe Sorvonne. Inthe worning the members of the gang used “© meet 10 receive their orders for the. day. One would take the Champe ilysees quarter, another would work she Parc Monceaux, and others would. so in various directions ali over the. city. At night they would meet again, (4g @ bar in the Rue St. Jacques, ang she day's takings would be pooled and divided among them. On good days each beggar would take: $5, and sometimes more. A Ust of perm soms charitably disposed, with the ‘mount usually given, was kept by the secretary of the corporation, and the dest educated members of the band were allotted the task of writing letters, of @ pathetic and appealing nature, de~ scribing in touching terms the misery and suffering of those who presented them. One leiter, for instance, received by a baroness living in the Boulevarg dalesherbes is worded as follows: “Mme. la Baronne and Benefactor o& the Poor: Permit me to approach yaw: ence more al @ time when the snow ip falling and when a kfe of wandering Im. the streets is made so pitiable Yom. have already helped me several times, and in fact saved my tife, for which ® thank you on my bended knees. T am, afraid | am abusing your liberality byt applying to you again, but if you knew: how | am suffering and how unhappy, 1 am you would (eel sorry for me.” This was signed as coming from = widow named Gare, but was really written by the hardened old vagabond, Claude Berthet. The band included both men acé women, and where the male mend jeamts were unsiccesefal the womem | would try thelr iortune later, | When honrer and the hardshine of winter failed to nie the purse strings of his clients, Rerthet ¢id not hesitate, to declare that he had not a sou with which to bury bis poor mother in the Provinces, and one day he received $40. for the purpose of erecting a cross upam, her grave. It ts expected that several of his asses clates will be arrested soon. END OF LIFE OF PRIVATIONG Man Claiming Leadership of Chrtge tan Israelites Meets Death bya Fall in Easlish Village. Daniel Milton, a former New Englan@ shipwright, who claimed a divine com- mission as spiritual adviser of the Christian Israelites, founded by Joanna, BSouthcote, died recently in the village of Wrenthorpe, England. Milton, after being made a judge by the Christian las. raelites of New York, announced hime self as the long-expected “Shiloh,” a word used by Jacob on his deathbed an@ interpreted variourly as “the Mcesiah,” as the “City Shilob,” or as “Rest.” He arrived penniless in 1860 at the door of Israel's temple, otherwise Melk bourne house, Wrenthorpe, informing Mr. Wroe, the head of the church, that he had come to assume his inheritance. He was repulsed and returned to Ante, ica. Wroe died in 1863 and Milton again attempted to establish his claim, bu® failed after long litigation. Neverthes less he lived in the village, confident ta ‘his dying day that he would eventually occupy Melbourne house. Milton declared that he never woul@ die, but a neighbor who had not seen, the “judge” for a couple of days peered through a crevice of the paper-covered window on the day before his death an@ saw him lying semf-conscious at the bottom of the stairs with a wound in hip bead from which he died the next day. | TO INVESTIGATE CURES. | Pope Anxtous That Miractes at Pas mous Sanctuary of Lourdes Re Authenticated Beyond Doubt. | A congress of French doctors hag been summoned to meet In Rome next April in order to. discuss the numer. ous miracles alleged to be performed at the famous sanctuary of Loines, in the south of France, where thous sands of pilerims from all parts off the world gather every year, and from whence wonderful stories aro heard nearly every week of miraculous cures. performed through the intercession of the Virgin and the use of the watep from the spring under the grotto. Pius X. is greatly interested in the coming congress, for he wishes to dis- pose of the dentale of skeptics whe sneer at any renort of a cure from the famous sarctuary. It 1s the {ntertion of the pope that measures be adopted which will reauke tm the practical undeniability of euch, cures, once they have been testified te by a medical body. ‘The Bee tm Harness. The French army has discovered that bees can be used as messengers in nam of war. One bas flown four mites im 20 minutes with a mesage. When 1 erated they will retura to thelr hive, Just as a carrier pigcom will return @& its loft. , ‘Wun Della Good Beats: ‘The county board of supervisors, @@ Elmira, N. Y., appropriated $254,000 @e the construction of good roads throug the county. The roads will be laid wt im accordance with the plans of the stata engineer and in harmony with the sage gestions of the New York and Chicage Good Roads association. 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Money Orr gow baicy sean es Gite MRT La Fee reeks poor Pele wher te Segintah fo worl ca on payh t ene Tee RV aR ah gan he trnord. You car wend money in this Seamer oa eke Secemnct be report for money wat i dattors in any other war than one of the four ey ibe va sow ae aoa Soe Bear oievey, ; Rare aieere-it yon, de not want we seeped for tue fae SA Rear erdotiuniinag i ne coat? SSE esters bene: Seon elt paper dotntinage Sethe Eirpersine euch habeas saa a EXT or the treme tne Sa hes Pease whan Wy ones She ae ae COMBIUNTCATIONS Wien writing to we ee eet reteripon ot Loach SEPENRGE other wo aN Aa oe Fees cares Cuma or ADDRMK:—In order vo comms Plamen ore RNetian Seethase Soa Sissi gomatemy In the Post Office at Pichmond, fa, “BATURDAY — JANUARY 30, 1904 Coxonzp people should improve their seondition. ‘They shonld educate their children and improve their own minds by attending night schools. Bap manners is an abomination in any nee. We must respect others be they white or black, ifwe expect to be re- speoted. Ba polite to the white folks, colored people and to the black folks, too. It costs you nothing, but pays well in the long ron. THAT TROUBLE IN NORFOLK. Iv was announced that the elimina- tion of the Negro as a political factor ‘would ensure purity in the election methods in this state. Democrats, who justified themselves im their condoning of fraud in elections by thes atement that it was necessary sotodoin order to keep the Negro down were ccnfident that a new era had dawned for the commonwealth. We knew better. We were well aware that a dishonest person will steal from a friend about as quickly as he will from anenemy, if his necessi- ties impel him in that direction. The Democrats held a primary in Norfolk city, from which all colored men were rigorously excluded. They made no discrimination other than col- or. Onthe other hand, they left the ars down for all white men, regard 2.68 of rehgion or character. Nev, there isa howl in the neigh- ‘ocrhoed of Norfolk and its reverbera- tiom# are heard up here at Richmond, Itis a case of the robbers being robbed. The fellows who were “‘burnt” would have treated the other side in the same way they are being treated, if they could only have had the chance. ‘The Richmond, Va., Traes-Disratcn im ite iesne of January 22d has this to say about the affair: +The disclosures of fraud in the Nor- folie eity primary are humiliating. A Jada of sleotion made public con femsion on stand that he and hia associates deliberately changed the returns in the Fourth Ward. Witness said that the mea who acted with bim as judges of Serica pty chet andy as 6 tide wandlates “hod a majority ofthe ‘votes cast, rubbed oat the figures which showed this, and made others on the ‘other side of the sheet, thus shifting the totals for the benefit of the administra. ‘tion candidates. Witness held a ‘job’ ‘ander the city administration and testi- fied thas he understood that he was ex- ‘Peoted to do this dirty work in order to Fotaim it.” ‘There you have it. This is the meth. oe resorted to in the defrauding of col- ‘ored eandidates out of an election. We ‘were the victims of just such fraudulent manipolation. Now, the biter is being bitten, and ‘who eares? This apostle and advocate of “hon- est” elections continues: “There was a time when in elections was condoned, it Tes ed that cheating was Recessary to kee, the Negro party oat of coatrol. Bat what possible exense can be offered by one set of Democrats for cheating alt- other set of Democrats? “It is time tor this sort of villiany to stop. Heaven knows we have had enough of it in Virginia. But there is ‘no longer any pretext for it. and when- ever fraud in elections is discovered, it should be punished to the fall extent of the law, and ishment should be Ioted out us well to, those, who insti gate itasto tho tools in their hands who obey orders.” ‘This journal admits that it has con- doned this kind of villiany when the other fellow’s ox was being gored. We have no sympathy for either of the factions, for the colored people are past injury. Froma political stand- point, they are as “dead as Julius Oae- sar.” ‘They can well afford to enjoy the fun, clapping their hands with delight as these Democrats pummel each other, pull hair ana shed blood in the contest. Some of them have swapped places with the Negro. Where he was mal- treated, they are being maltreated. Where he was defrauded, they are be- ing defranded. Where he was forced to contest an election, they are being forced to contest an election. Where he was scandalized, they are being seandalized. Well may we say, “Go it, ye cripples, and may the best man win!” BORROWING MONEY. OSE AL te En fed eae ee ee borrowing money, the white man is a past master in the art. Still, according |tothe white man’s own reports, the | Nogrois an adept at lifting a chicken from the roost, removing a hog from apen, or taking by forcible means a sheep from the fold. But what is thisin comp:rison with the white man’s skill 1p stealing a mil- lion dollars in New York, another 1nil- lion in Chicago. several more millions ‘in St. Louis, and another million in Now Orleans, and hundreds of thous- ands in Georgia, South Carolina and | Virginia, and untold sums at Washing- | ton? | This establishes the white man’s supremacy asarobber, but the polite way to put it now—as an embezzler. | After reading the record, the Negro is forced to admit that he is but a poor ‘pupil and must ‘go "way back and sit down.” | ‘This was hnmiliating enough, but now comes the Burean of Statistics at Washington and announces that the white folks know how to borrow and “how to never pay it backat least, dur- ing their day and generation, They make a note payable in one, | two, three, four and five hundred years, with the express privilege of renewal at the expiration of that time; thereby putting their offspring in debt before they are born. Now, what Negro is there in the whole United States whose “mouth wouldn't water” for such an opportun- ity as that? Just make a note for amillion dollars, payable in one hundred years and that | same Negro to get the money on it now. | ‘This would be a golden opportanity ‘forany Negro, if he could but get some white man to accept and discount that ‘note, giving that Negro the cash money ‘or its equivalent for it, | But these prejudiced white folks [wont do it. ‘They are slow about taking a Negro’s note for one hundred dollars /and even then they want him to prom- ‘ise to pay it in ninety days instead of ninety years, when he coald have a ‘chance to die and forget all about it. |, Bat we forgot to refer again to the Bareau of Statistics, which shows how }much white folks can borrow. It says “that the civilized nations of the world “have borrowed and now owe about thir. _ty-five billion dollars. Now a billion ‘dollars is a thousand millions, | France owes six billion dollars, Great | Britain owes four billion dollars. Russia ‘owes three and one-half billion dollars Italy owes two and one-half billion dol- lars. Spain owes two and one-half bi! lion dollars. The United States is at the bottom of the list of borrowers: it owes only about one billion dollars. Of course, this is the national debt of the United States and does not include the towns, cities and states of this un- ion, which, if added together and foot- edup with the national debt would place our glorious country in the same rank with Russia, and wo might be able to rival Great Britain. Colored men can take courage from this, for the ability to borrow is evi- dently an evidence of greatness, for all of those borrowing countries are great and the United States, from its expen- ditares in the Philippines, Hawaii, Oa- bs, Porto Rico and Panama, is endeav- oring to rival them in greatness, Major Hoyt Sherman Dead. Des Moines, Ia., Jan. 26. — Major Hoyt Sherman, brother of General W. 7. Sherman and of Secretary John Sherman, died at his home here. Major Sherman was one of the oldest resi- dents of Des Moines, and the Sherman home on Woodland avenue is one of the finest in the city. He had been in oor health for several years. Elephant Trainer Killed. London, Jan. 25.—George Lockhart, the well-known elephant trainer and circus proprietor, was accidentally erushed to death by an elephant while he was attending to the unloading cf cireus animals at the Hoe streot rail- Toad station at Walthamstow, Publisher a Suicide. Doylestown, Pa., Jan. 27. — Harry Goslin, aged 45 years, publisher of the News, a newspaper at Newportville, was found dead in the attic of his home. He had committed suicide by baneing, THE RICHMOND PLANET. RICHMOND. VIRGINTA. MRS. BECHTEL NOT GUILTY Allentown aay Few Her of Com plicity in Murder of Daughter, Suing somaiC ene TRIAL Allentown. Pa.. Jan. 25.—Mrs. Cath ering Bechtel, Uic aged mother of Mau bel Bechtel, who was fonnd murderec last October, was acquitted of the charge of being am accessory to the murder after tic fact. Her trial oceu- Pied nine days, and the Jury deliberated ‘one hour before rendering their verdict of not guilty. ‘The gray-haired defendant received the news of her acquittal with teacs and expressions of joy. She was im- mediately released from enstody, and ‘went to her home, accompanied by he: sons and daughters, Martha, her youngest daughter, and her sons, John and Charles, are under indictment 01 a similar charge. but their trials have been postponed until the April term of court. Former Mayor Schasdt, coun- sel for Mrs, Bechtel, says he has insti- tuted an Investization by which te hopes to clear up the mystery sur- rounding the murder of the young woman. ‘The ‘greater part of the last day's session of court was devoted to the ar- guments of counsel and the judge's charge. The defense called several neighbors and friends of the Bechtel tamily as corroborative witnesses. Mrs, Agnes Miller testified that she had ob- served what appeared to be blood staias in the areaway leading to her Louse. ‘This testimony was to substantiate th? theory of the defense that Mabel had been killed outsiue of her home and her body dragged through Mrs. Miller's yard to the alley of Mra. Bechtel's resi- dence. Dr. Cawley was recalled and testified to finding blood stains on chips of wood taken from the steps of the Bechtel’s and Miller's underground al- leys. The commonwealth endeavored through Dr. Lear to gg extensively in- to the question of blood tests, but Judge Trexler stopped the redirect ex- amination and the case ended. Attorney Schaadt made an eloquent plea for the acquittal of the accused woman, and during bis address direct- ly charged Eckstein with having a guilty knowledge of the erime. District Attorney Lichtenwalner In his address explained that the theory of the com- monwealth was that ‘lom Bechtel had killed his sister during a quarrel, and asserted that the evidence adduced had Proved the claim. Judge Troxler's charge consumed a half hour, It was impartial. ‘The scenes following the rendering of the verdict were at once pathetic ‘and joyful. No sooner had the stal- wart foreman of the jury, Thomas Bruch, announced in clear tones the Verdict, “Not guilty,” than glad ac- claim arose throughout the crowded court room, and it secmed as if the entire audience had by a sudden and simultaneous impulse boiled over, SHORT OVER $20,000 Treasturer of New Hampshire Trust Company An Embezzler. Nashua, N. H., Jan. 26. — John P. Goggin, treasurer of the Nashua Trust company, was arrested, charged with embezzling a sum of money from the bank. The amount Is placed at be- tween $80,000 and $100,000. Goggin was held in $10,000 bonds for the grand jury. He made no state ment, but it was said that his down- fall was not due to speculation, but to his having given assistance from time to time to a friend, An attachment of $50,000 was placed on the property held by Goggin In this city by the bank. Real estate of George E. Gage, of Manchester, was levied upon to recov- €r on a promissory note for $20,000. Another attachment for $12,000 also has been filed against real estate own- ed by Gage in this city. Gage was formerly a bank official here. West Chester Bank Closed. west Chester, Fa., Jan. 26.—The pri- vate bank of E. D. Haines & Co., of this place, closed its doors, and upon application to the court, John J. Gheen was appointed receiver. Upwards of $100,000 is said to be on deposit. The Investigations by the re- ceiver of the affairs of the bank reveal- ed nothing hopeful to the depositors, beyond the likelihood of their receiy- ing 25 per cent. of their deposits. Many of the assets are of uncertain value, 80 it is alleged, and it willl require time and care to determine their full worth. FLOOD SITUATION WORSE With Great Loss and Suffering. Wilkesbarre, Pa. Jan. 27. — The flood situation at Bloomsburg and other points was further Intensified by a fierce snow storm, accompanied by a high wind. ‘The snow fall was eight inches deep and drifted so badly that all roads leading from Bloomsburg which were not under water have now been rendered impassable by huge drifts. The water fell about six inches there, but a message from Rupert stated that the water had receded but two Inches at that point. The river is gorged solidly from Boyd's station, on the Pennsylvania railroad, several miles below Cata wissa, to Creasy, 10 miles above Bloomsburg. The fce is packed sc tightly that no water is passing along the bed of the river, and all the water fs escaping through a new channel formed by the river east of the gorge The river at Nescopeck and Berwick began rising suddenly, and now is five feet higher at these points. This news caused great alarm at Berwick, Cata wissa, Rupert and Espy. Unless this great body of water accumulating at Nescopeck has pressure enough to force out the gorge below it, there wil! be almost incalculable loss and suffer ing. The county commissioners ai Bloomsburg have taken steps to break up the gorge with dynamite, if such a thing Is possible, as it is feared that ff the ice moves all the bridges be tween Bloomsburg and the Montour county line will be torn out and the many towns, along the river _will_be obliterated. A conservative estimate has been made. and the loss 50 far sustained ir the flooded districts will reach $350. 000. FATHER AND CHILD PERISH Stanesbury Jacobs and Daughter Burned to Ceath at Stanton, Del. Wilmington, Det,, Jan. 27.—At Stan- ton, five miles from Wilmington, a fire which destroyed four frame howses| also destroyed the lives of Stansbury Jacobs, aged 45 years, and his dauch-| ter, Lena, aged 10. His wife, Eliza beth, and the 15-months-old baby es caped with severe burns, and a boy, Albert, aged 7 years, eseaped unhurt. Jacobs. when awakened by the smoke, took his family down stairs. He succeeded in throwing his wife, baby and son out of the front window, but he and the little girl were overcome by smoke and flames. Later their deat bodies. reduced to two charred trunks, were taken from the ruins. ‘The fire is supposed to be of incen- diary origin. The loss is about $2000, | partially insured, | A WEEK’S NEWS CONDENSED, eee SOnuary Zt. ‘The plaat of the American Fertilizer company, ee, Va., was de- etroyed by ». Loss, $100,000. Secretary of State Hay has gone to ‘Thomasville, Ga, to spend a week or more as the guest of Colonel Payne. ‘The three cadets dismissed from the Annapolis, Md., naval academy for haz- ing will probably be reinstated by con- gress, Over 800 cab drivers at St. Louis are on strike for $12.50 per week, a 12- hour day, 25 cents an hour overtime and recognition of the union. ‘The steamer Princess Irene, bearing the body of John Smithson, arrived at New York and was met by the United States dispatch boat Dolphin, and the body conveyed to Washington. Friday, January 22. The Pennsylvania Association of Graduated Nurses will meet at Wilkes- barre April 20 and 21. J. W. Warr, president of the Mo line (la.) Building Assoclation, is un- der arrest, charged with embezzling $100,000, John Rattigan, of Bordentown, N. J., a fireman on the steamer Springfield, was found dead on the boat, asphyx- lated by gas from a stove. Mass meetings were held in six towns In Arizona to protest against Joint statehood with New Mexico. John Alexander Dowie safled from San Francisco for Australia, after de livering two addresses, which were coldly received. Saturday, January 23. ‘The Hepbura pure food bill passed by congress goes into effect September 1 next. The Kentucky legislature has adopt- ed a resolution inviting William J. Bryan to address them. Harry Landorf, under arrest at South Norwalk, Conn, for counterfeiting, committed suicide in his cell by hang- ing. An illicit distillery, with a daily ca- pacity of 100 gallons, was raided by Tevenue officers In New York, and sev- eral arrests made. Joseph G. Rosengarten, president of the free library of Philadelphia, who was a delegate to the Alliance Fran- caise, at Paris, has been made a che- valler of the Legion of Honor by the French government. Monday, January 25. The Wolfson’s department store at San Antonio, Tex., was destroyed by fire, entailing a loss of $350,000. Ex-Governor Taft, of the Philippines, and family arrived in San Francisco from Manila, on their way to Wasi- ington. Mrs. Nellie Stepler, ot Philadelphia, was burned to death and her 3-year- old daughter fatally burned by the ex- plosion of a lamp. §, B. Allen, president of the Farmers’ and Merchants’ Bank, at Cleburne, ‘Tex., was arrested for emberzling $29,- 000 of the bank’s funds. Four young ladies, members of a sleighing party, were fatally hurt in a runaway at Dubuque, Ia., while 11 oth- ers were slightly injured. ‘Tuesday, January 26. ‘The comptroller of the currency has isesued a call for the condition of na- tional banks at the close of business January 23. In a collision between passenger trains on the Burlington road near St. Charles, Mo., four persons were killed and 12 injured. Senator McComas, of Maryland, tn- troduced a bill in congress to appro- priate $5000 to purchase General George ‘Washington's sword from his grand- niece. Professor Lewis H. Gause, one of the ‘oldest school teachers in Pennsylvania, died at Harrisburg, aged 82 years, He taught in Pennsylvania and New Jer- ‘sey for over 50 years. Wednesday, January 27. Senator Hanna, who fs ill with the grip, is very much better. Sixteen inches of snow has fallen in Indiana and railroad traffic is at a standstill. ‘Three small children of Henry Feis- inger, of Celina, O., were burned to death in a fire which destroyed thels home. "While blasting frozen earth at quar ‘ries near Norristown, Pa, Frank Cle yette was killed by flying rocks and Joseph Foloane was fatally injured. The fire in the P. & R. colliery near Shamokin. Ps., which raged for sev. eral days, endangering extensive workings, has been gotten under con- Cleveland Has Nothing to Say. Princeton, N. J., Jan. 26.—Former President Cleveland, when asked for his opinion on Willilam J. Bryan’s statement that no man who voted the Palmer-Buckner ticket can be noml- nated by the Democrats, smiled and sald: “I have not a word to say on the matter, except that Bryan has got the stage, let him go It I guess that's definite enough.” Walking Around the World. Monte Carlo, Jan. 25.—George W. Schilling, who left Pittsburg, Pa., in August, 1897, on a bet that he could ‘we@k around the world in seven years, arrived here Saturday. Schilling has previously been reported on his waik- ing tour from Japan, India and South ‘Africa. ea’ ‘SHY ONES IN DEBATE. Misa Elis D'Lnterre’a Pupiia Deelde That the Ailiction In Net w Mca ee cea: In pursuit of their desire to conquer shyness, quite a number of shy ladies @ssembied recenUy at Miss Klsa D'Es- terre's devating class, at Mrs. Jopling’s ehool of art. Acting under the energetic prompt- ings of Miss D'Esterre, who herself Scorns all suyness, Miss Marjorie Brend, @ vominaily: shy young lady, presided over the discussion om “Is Shyness a Form of Conceit:” Miss Bouchier, who was sternly com- manded by Miss D'Esterre to “speak up,” mainiained that shyness was real- ly only a form of concait. ‘Lo this Miss Brend, the chairwoman’s sister, took strong exception. Miss Marjorie Brend then ceciared the Jehate open. It too. a long time and considerable Persuasion to induce any of the shy ladies to get up. At length, however, one more courageous than the rest broke the ice, and spoke up shyly on behalf of the shy ones. After this few of the ladies had any hesitation in ris- ing, and there followed a succession of Speakers who were quite sure that shy- ness was not conceit. But then, of course, they were all shy. One lady rose, and, having got so far &s to say that shyness was a question Of nerves, illustrated her point in a Practical way by becoming over- whelmed by shyness and collapsing. ‘The champions of shyness applauded, and voted without exception against the horrid suggestion implied by the resolution, MESSAGES AT HIGH SPEED. Inventor of stultiplex Syntem Devizes Inatroment Sixty Times aa Rapla ua Sekine Sabicea Telegraph messages can be sent and Feceived at a rate of from 1,000 to 3,000 words a minute. A newspaper representative recently saw and heard ‘@ message transmitted and delivered ‘at these speeds. In the transmission of messages press wires can, by the use of the shortest code, with the most expert operators, carry only an av- erage of 2,500 words an hour. The record is 3,300 at present. ‘The inventor, P. H. Delaney, who devised the multiplex sysiem, has been working on his device for ten years in South Orange. Stripped of all tech- nicality, the new automatic telegraph system may be described as follows: A typewriter keyboard, when manip- ulated, causes two rows of perfora- tiona.to be made upon a narrow tape of paper which unwinds itself auto- matically over the type faces and re- winds after being perforated. This contains the message in a Morse cipher, the dots being read when two holes are at a close angle or nearly in perpendicular alignment, and the dashes when the angle is greater. This tape, reeled as it is fin- Ished, is put upon the transmitter, which sends the same dashes and dots to the receiving office. The perforator is an adjunct of the keyboard and Is controlled by a power- ful and very rapid electric motor. OLD COLLEGE PHOTOGRAPHER. Death of J. L. Lovell, Who for Fifty ‘Year Made Pictures of Students and College Grounds. Memories of various attempts of a more or less satisfactory nature to “look pleasant, please,” before the camera have been revived for thousands of col- fege men in the recently announced death of the venerable photographer, 3. L. Lovell, at Newport, N. H. For 50 years Lovell was the college artist for the colleges of Amherst, Willams, Darmouth and Smith. His studio was at Amherst, but on account of failing heaith he had ceased active work several years ago. College class work and college views in general were his specialty. ‘The old photographer had a vein of humor. Or was it accident which led him to takea Tiree photograph of a greenhouse when ‘a certain student on a bit of a lark was showing some girls about? And it was, ‘of course, only a desire to get some “Uife” in the pleture when he made a slight noise, at which the Individuals who were back to him looked around to see what was up—and were all taken to- gether, a good face view. It was a lit- tle expose of a certain student's frolie- some tendencies, and the picture was in great demand, much to his chagrin. It 49 sald the usually stolid artist smiled slightly as he snapped his camera on the Interesting scene. PROPHECY OF A BABY. Infant Causes Terror in Wales by Uttering a Prediction That Next Year Will He One of Disaster. An extraordinary story comes from Penrhyn, in Wales, ‘The wife of a quarryman was bathing her three-month-old babe, when she was thunderstruck to hear the child say plainly in Welsh: “Next year will be a terrible year, mother.” ‘The mother rushed in terror to the next door and told what she had heard to a nelghbor, who ran immediately Dack, picked up the fnfant, and, as she soothed and caressed it, coaxingly asked ft if it had told its mother that next year would be a terrible year. To her aston- ishment, the child looked at her, said “Yes,” and fell back dead. ‘The story has been discussed far and wide, and the two women have been cross-questioned without shaking thelr story. At Penrhyn, where the peopleare rather primitive and religious, there is much foreboding. ‘Tne Children's Chotee. Lady (to applicant for position o Bursemaid)—Why were you discharged from your last place? Applicant—Because I sometimes for- got to wash the children, ma'am. Chorus of Children — Ob, mamma, please engage her! —Tt-Bits, Siunsee mil micasoaienaneiee “There is a time,” she said, “when nearly every woman believes in luck, and also a time when she ceases to believe in it” “When are the two times?” “When she is engaged and when she is married."—Chicago Post. IN THE CITY. ‘There are country ways a-callin’, ploumtry meadows gemmed with dew; ‘Thore are perfumed shadows fallin’, Theve are birds a-callin’. too; But would we could tread the byways, Where the pent-in peopies bes Freud the cobbled bricked-in highways, ‘As of oid, just you and me. 1 would Mke to stand with you, dear, And watch women dodge the cars On a corner that we anew, dear, TMidet the city’s jole and Jars; Watch the big poilceman tussle With the rushin® jomtling throng, Ain't It fun to watch the bustie As the old world scoots along? ‘You remember that fat woman? ‘There are things one can't torgett Truly ske looked almost human, Tean see her joggie yet As the wolley dashing near her— ‘Oh, the sights of other dasst Can't you see and almost bear her As she tried to dodge both ways? Fat, and team, and solemn, (aces; ‘Sad of micn, and debonair: Deur, it seemed that ail the races Of ‘the earth were gathered there Jus: to drift where we were standing, dying about our feet, Drifting, grouping, and disbanding: ‘Those old days were giad and sweet! There is piensure in the meadows Where the dew-gemmed blossoms Ne; Pleasure in the flying shadows OF the clouds across the sky There Is Joy wherever you are, Whether lights or shadows run, But the corners that we know are Simply bubbling full of fun. —J. M. Lewis, in Houston Post. A Jungle Tale (Copyright, 1983, by Daily Story Pub. Coy LONE, at the crossing of tralis, in the great Terai jungle, waiting a jetachment of Lancers, several hours past due. ‘The sun set lke a drop-curtain, and still there was nothing to do but wait. Giving my horse what liberty I dared, under a large tree, I betook myself to the branches. The noises of the night were disagreeable, but there was none of the wailing and gnashing of teeth one Teads about, and more to the point was the agony of clinging to those branches, ‘When the dew had saturated my thin clothing and the night air, hot as it was, set my teeth chattering, fear forsook me. Fools will rush in where angels fear, and dropping from the tree 1 caught up my sadle and blanket and made for a cave I had noticed during the afternoon. ‘With lighted vestas I went some dis- tance down, finding only a catty odor which, to my drowsy senses, only sug- gested the advisability of sleeping near the entrance, for fresh air. There, rolled In the blanket, the saddle for a pillow, I ‘was soon oblivious to everything. ‘The mouth of the cave was gray with morning when I woke, suddenly, tremb- GE BA SN Wij Balti i tie Sy Yo es AN) Ke BN y |! ae Psy) oe apes ni Ieee WN = ee yy) ae CS ——— sO aS SNIFFED THE CORNER OF THR BLANKET AND TOUCHSS. I ae a oun Ung from head to foot; either from a bad. dream or @ monstrous fright. While I lay still as death, imagining everything, there sounded about mea deep vibration, like the first trill of an organ, develop- ing Into what might have been the pur- ring of a cat, under a mighty magnity- ing glass. ‘Then, from down in the pitchy blackness of the cave there flashed on me two yellow balls! great, glowing, bobbing. While I lay stupidly staring they dipped, for an instant disappeared, then flashed again, decidedely nearer. I tried to exploit an idiotic yell, but had not even the strength to extricate my revolver. It grew quickly lighter or my eyes saw better, for beyond the yellow balls I immediately distinguished the outlines of @ female Bengal tiger, stretched at full length, her whiskered chin resting Detween two huge paws, less than ten feet from me. | Kuowing that one knows the worst steadies him a bit, however bad it be, and freetmg my revolver I cautiously ‘raised the hammer under the blanket. ‘The click was scarcely audible, but @ sudden flash of theyellow eyap and shiver along the paws wes followed by an in- tensely graphic insinuation. Long, gleaming claws, like polished amber. protruded from the furry eushion and the purring ceased. A moment later, satisfied that it was @ false alarm, the tiger deliberately be- gan ber morning tollet and I discovered why she had’ no tmmediate use for me. She had been dining late and heavily. Her paws and throat were besmeared with the remnants of the feast. She ‘worked on them till her tongue was tired, while I iay trembling, knowing the folly of a pistol shot from there, yet that my slightest motion would land her upon me. Bhe sighed, lifted her haunches, eurved her back im a tremendous stretch, and yawned, making an almost complete circle of glistening, jagged, pointed teeth, such as, Heaven save me, from ever having flashed on me again, about a gurgling, quivering gullet, oon- cluding by driving her claws deep inte the hard bed of the eave and coming to rest still nearer me. From the new view-point she gave me another critical survey, then yawned again, burying her very eyes in fur. I took advantage of the opportunity to sit up, and had it not been for mortal ter- Tor I could have roared when she opened her eyes and discovered the transforma. on. Her jaws came together with 2 click precluding levity. She bung her head on one side, then on the other, : bee Ker ears pricked up and one eye closed. SUill uncertain she crept a bit. sniffed the corner of the blanket touched it with her paw, ready to towalt Mt harder if it stirred. With wriggle she came close ash eae the saddle against which I was leanings What an opportunity for stndy coe the life, if the morrow would omy taken thought for the things of But ker jaws were within six inebes my ribs, inside which a heart wee thumping furiously, Scarcely moving my wrist 1 could touch her throat with the muzale of my revolver, but no ball could ever pene trate that mat of hair. She was indolently Interested—hal® asleep. I wondered If 1 could posatbig, Part the hair, and ventured to touch hes throat just under the ear, moving the muzzle only enough to push back a Iitte fur. My cold finger trembled on the trige Ber, ready to take my only chanee the moment she rebelled when, by the love of Heaven, she began to purr! Thongh stupid with fear I realtecd that she liked it and that [ eowld prom’ by the same. Cautiously Increasing the motion I went deeper, for the mat was. thick and one shot must do the work, But the harder I scratehed the better: she purred. When I stopped for amine stant, to see if I had reached the skin, she roiled her head to my hand, pre- cisely like a cat and looked at me Ld such a gentle way that, fool that I wan, {t roused a most unnecessary sentiment, By degrees I brought my free hand te relieve the pistol. I know why, but hardly expect that tt can be believed I was afraid that by some accident the Fevolver would go off. So I scratche® till my arm ached, while the soft brows eyes looked into mine as lovingly ae—= why, as a cat's eyes, when one is male ing her quite comfortable. Gradually all ber muscles relaxed and her head sank on my leg. It was a shock that sent fee to my spine. My empty hand drew back an@ the muzzle touched her throat The purring ceased. The eyelids eS I took the hint and scratched again ‘she had purred herself to sleep. It wag my golden opportunity, but while enee half of me dripped with mortal Secoak the other half saw only a royal Bem Deauty, and was warmed by a thrill of triumph as I watched the magnificent head of the queen of the jungle resting on my knee, Shoot! Not for my life. But she wag dreaming. She had forgotten me & Quiver shook her handsome coat. Hes tail swayed gracefully. A dream growd sounded and in the paws, so close to me, the glistening claws appeared. She was a tiger! When she woke she ‘would call on me for lunch, Only now she was at my mercy. My hand trembled as it brought the muzzle again to the mark. Her drowsy eyes half opened, with a sigh of relief that it was all s dream, and she began to purr. Cold perspiration was on my foree head, but I laid the pistol down an@ scratched axain tll suddenly pricking up her cars she sprang to her feet, Teaped back and crouched. Teavght the revolver again for a dew Perate chanes, but It was too late. With a sayveee yelp and bound she disap peared in the depths of the cave and im an instant there flashed back at me two yellow balls of light. Punie-siricken 1 bolted for the tree where I had left my horse, but all that remained of him could only (ell me on what my lady dined, that she had not cared for me, & also discovered the cause of her die turbance, however, for the Lancers were marching up the trail, THE OCTOPUS. Experiment Shows It Can Only Drag t= Victims War Below Wates Moca Mr. Martin Duncan, lately lecturing at the London Camera club on the ae tops and the cuttlefish, told how he ha@ carried out some interesting experl= menis with these creatures in a specially, consirucied tank of sea water, says Chambers’ Journal. Wishing to test the truth of the many stories whic have been told of monster cephalopods dragging human victims to the gea bot tom, he placed in the tank with an oo topus a doll of the same speciiie gravity, 5 a man, and baited {t with acrab, Ate tracted by (his tempting morsel, the oo topus made for the figure, selzed it in tte powerful arms, and tried to drag itunder the water without success, It them urged its body towards the edge of the tank; and, holding on to the glass with some of its arms, it dragged {ts prey box neath the surface, and crushed the eral shell with its powerful Jawa Mr. Dum« ean believes that this experiment age fords a conclusive proof that the octo- ‘pus can only drag ite victims far below water near rocks to which it ean attach fts suckers. There is one spot in the Bay of Naples where these creatives grow to a large size, and now nd again & fisherman is reported missing. ft ts believed that such disappearances are due to the unfortunate men being canght by the leg by a concealed octopus and dragged under water. In the caseof such A repulsive and powerful creature as the ectopus it 1s difficult to separate fas§ from fiction. * ‘The newspapers of Belgrade chrome {clea the arrival im thelr city = tow ‘weeks ago of the monk Rodrigo Abela, who {s making a foot tour from Reme to Jerusalem barefooted and bare= headed. j : Chinese as Militiamen, ! A militia company, formed eel of Chinamen, has been formed in land, Ore. The members are mem chants, bankers and clerk, At fest thelr military maneuvers appeared quite comical to the observers, but thew arefmproving, 1 Matter of Doubt. i ‘Wedderly—To-day is the tenth anne versary of my marriage. Singleton—Well, what do you expect? Wedderly—Which do I expect? / Singleton—Yes; congratulations of sympathy?—Chicago Daily News. ‘Time's Changes, “Did he seek the office or did the office seek him?” “Ob, he was looking for the office all right before election, but since then e's been dodgin’ it most of the time, except on salary day.”—Chicago Post, as THE PLANET AMONG MINE OWN. "And he said unto him, Say now unto the king, shoutst thou be spoken for to the king, or to the king, And she answered, I dwell among mines every people." II. Klins iv:13 The many roads that lead away Stretch far and fair to see. On some the pipe and tabor play And ring with revelry; Down the river we glory waits For him who fail would roam The many roads that hold our fates— They also lead us home. The roads that tempt the wand'ring feet Lead on through scenes that change; Lead on to where we long to meet One face that is not strange. Perchance they skirt the desert sand Or meet the flying foam— But, lead to whatsoever land, They also lead us home. The Shunammite—twans hers to go Where jewels flashed as fire Yet she had her desire. The swallow the blent In cadence round the throne Dhummed in the carol of content She heard among her own. "Among mine own!" Where friendly eyes And friendly hands are mine; Where humble songs of pleasure rise And there are bud and vine, And honey bees to search the sweets Upon the breezes blown— There, satisfied, the heart repeats The croon: "Among mine own!" -Chicago Daily Tribune. The Parson's Football Game By HAYDEN CARRUTH OUR rules were few, though they started out boldly enough under the head of "Constitution and By-laws of the Corncock Club," and began and ended as follows: "Section First, Article First—It shall be the duty of each member throughout every session to smoke a cob pipe with due diligence. "Section First, Article Second—Members who do not smoke shall not be required to smoke." The parson was the only member who profited by Article Second, and the doctor used to charge him with quietly electioneering to have it repealed, so that he might return to his former bad practices, but this was a slander on the good man. Not being burdened with a cob pipe in a constant state of conflagration the parson was left with more time for conversational efforts. We suspected he sometimes took advantage of our nicotinized condition to foist tales upon us containing a smaller percentage of truth than the state board of story inspectors would have countered; but of this there was no direct proof. The parson certainly always THAT'S THE RIGHT EXPRESSION, IS IT NOTT' had a most truthful and benign aspect, and never more so than one evening, when, the talk turning on football, he leaned forward and said: "Do you fellows happen to know that I used to take part in football games?" "In your clerical capacity, to carry consolation to the mortally wounded, I suppose," returned the judge. "No, no," answered the parson, "as a player. I was on our college team for three seasons." "You should have gone into the army instead of the ministry," commented the major. "You are jealous of football," resumed the parson. "After all, it is a rather mild pastime as commonly played. This recent suggestion that the players be armed with bayonets may make it more strenuous, if it is carried out, which seems improbable. What I was going to tell you about: was a game that I once took part in when I was on our 'varsity eleven, which I firmly believe to be the most remarkable game ever played. It was a fast and exciting game from nefirst, and on the whole there was some pretty rough play, but that is not what I refer to when I say it was the most extraordinary game of football ever witnessed since football was invented." "Well, out with it—what made your game such a rare bird?" asked the doctor. "In good time," returned the parson with a touch of complacency. "Of course I really can't say that it was a unique game—I strongly suspect that the same thing happens rather frequently in the game, but it isn't de- fected. When a thing isn't discoverer it's just the same as if it didn't happen in one sense, you know. Well, this game that I'm talking about was between Tamerlane college, where I was a student, and the Attila university players. There has always been, and is yet, as you know, a strong feeling of rivalry between these two seats of learning. It happened not so many months before that Attila had carried off the honors in rowing, while Tamerlane had won at baseball; so we football players felt, as I may say, that it was up to us. That's the right expression, is it not?" "Don't try to appear innocent—I heard you use it in a sermon the other day," said the judge. "That is a base slander," returned the parson. "Besides, you haven't been to church for three months, so that if I had used it you wouldn't have heard it. Well, the game was fast right from the start. We went at each other and fought like a wildcat in a tin oven—as some Boston author said. The local authorities had been warned, and made provisions for it by keeping their policemen away from the grounds so they wouldn't get hurt, and sending all the doctors, surgeons, nurses, ambulances and other alleviating and repairing apparatus to the field early. The combat was something terrific, but through it all these fearless workers for the good of humanity (I include the ambulances) moved about and carried relief to the stricken. As seen as a player was incapable of movement he was carried away on a stretcher and a substitute took his place. A well-equipped field hospital had been established under the grand stand, where restoratives were administered and minor operations performed. A line of fast ambulances hurried the more seriously injured to the city hospitals. "As the game progressed its fury increased. Players, integral and fractional, were flying in the air everywhere. The umpire and referee retired to a safe distance and conveyed their instructions through giant megaphones. The spectators stood in the grandstand and fairly howled, though little of the strife was visible to them owing to the fog of torn clothes and uprooted soil which hung over the scene, not to mention players, or parts of players, which ever and anon were thrown up from the seething maelstrom below. Once a flying Tamerlane player, hurled through the air by two Attilas, struck a Red Cross nurse and bore him down, but he was dragged from the field by a brother worker. Again, an Attila player was tossed to the top of the grandstand, where he clung to the ridge pole and yelled for his side, while a sustitute rushed to take his place. The combat deepest! Now it is impossible to——" "See here, parson," broke in the major, rather firmly, "you're getting too excited. Calm down—you'll be tackling us and throwing us out the window the next thing you know. Besides you are telling us of nothing but a simple, ordinary game of football, after all. Where's the extraordinarily unique uniqueness you boasted about?" "You may interrupt me if you choose, but you shouldn't stop me," said the parson, with a trace of indignation. "See, the combat deepens! It—well, no matter. It was a wonderful game. And here is what made it unique so far as known. All the way through we players felt that something was lacking—that something, somewhere, was wrong. Afterwards we learned that the spectators had the same feeling. But no one on the gridiron or in the grandstand could say what it was. At last the game ended. All had been removed except the two captains. I was one of them. We lay stretched on the plain near the middle of the field, of course, unable to rise. We heard the ambulance coming to bear us away. the captain of the Attilas raised his head with difficulty and whispered honorsely: "Hello, old man, great game, wasn't it?" "Wonderful,' I replied. 'Still, there was something lacking.' "I had that feeling all the time, too, but I can't make eat what it was." "Neither can I.' was my answer. 'But there was something wrong just the same.' "You're right—something wrong. Hold on—I've got it! We didn't have a ball!" "And it was a fact, and this is what rendered the game so remarkable, though, as I said before—" "Parson." Interrupted the judge solemnly, "will you do us a favor?" "Certainly." "Never mind about what you said before." ROW OVER BANDIT'S BONES. Removal of Skeleton of Quantrell, the Guerrilla Leader, from Ohio to Kansas Makes Trouble. W. W. Scott, at one time postmaster of Canal Dover, O., and for many years editor of the Iron Valley Reporter, is indirectly the cause of a bitter discussion, which is going on in Kansas, over the bones of "Bill" Quantrell, the guerilla leader, who terrorized that state in the border warfare days. Scott seems to have had a fad for collecting all manner of grusome relics. Some years ago, he, together with Mrs Quantrell, "Bill's" mother, made a journey to the bandit's buried place and had the bones exhumed. They were brought back to Canal Dover, where Scott kept them for several years. Finally he sent the bones to the State Historical society of Kansas on condition that they should not be placed on exhibition during the life of Mrs. Quantrell. A short time ago she died at the Ode Fellows' home in Springfield, O. Now the Kansas Historical society has placed on exhibition the relics of the bandi chief's mortality and a storm of protest is going up from pulpit and press. On pastor bitterly declares that the bone should be cast into the Kaw river, and their place reserved for the mementoe of decent things. Could Sell His Half A man in Breslau, Silesia, sold his mustache for $25 and his wife interfered, claiming a half interest in the mustache. The Atlanta Journal remarks that he might sell his half for $12.50. THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA "Is this in style?" asked many a receiver of these dainty little trifles. To be sure they are. It is practically impossible to get anything in this line that is not stylish and approved by Dame Fashion. There are countless numbers of varieties of them, seemingly so great in variety that every woman might have an individual one if she wished. Every day of the New Year is bringing out new variations on the ordinary themes, and each variation presents beguiling possibilities. One can go along with few blouses, but no normal woman can to-day be content with few collars, stocks and scarfs, and the appetite comes with eating—the mania comes with buying. First the foremost are the turnovers, and even that one division of the subject opens up infinite variety. One may buy a linen turnover for 25 cents, or one of real lace for $15, and between the two extremes are many gradations. The single or double tab collar in various designs is perhaps prime favorite, but deep turnovers, almost as deep as the stock and cut with straight lines, are liked, particularly in sets of collars and cuffs and in the heavier materials, such as crash, cotton, etamine, etc. These heavy collars and cuffs are frequently embroidered in Russian or Bulgarian cross stitch, and are exceedingly smart. White with black embroidery is popular and for elderly women or women in black, white collars and cuffs with narrow black hems attached by fagoting are fashionable. One point about the turnover is trying to the soul of the wearer and it is odd that no effort has been made to remedy the fault. Almost all of the stocks or dress collars over which the turnovers will presumably be worn are curved out in front for comfort sake. The turnovers are cut straight and the result is that the turnover invariably musses sadly just in front. Many of the new hand wrought collars are not turnovers at all but merely supplementary collars with tabbed or pointed fronts. These are usually curved at the top in front, and are worn flat over a foundation or dress collar, or without any support. Linen collars of the stiff sort are in again after a season of disfavor, but while the severely plain linen collar is seen, the modish stiff collar bears an embroidery of dots or tiny flowers or scrolls. Sometimes its edge is scalloped and buttonhol, sometimes its narrow Dinner and E afternoon reception wear, is astonishing us with its multiplicity of design and elaborateness And speaking of these gowns let us look at the colors. Pale blue is preeminently the color for use with the omlim present moleskin, although some shades of yellow and orange furnish an excellent relief to the soft darkness of the fur, and a moleskin toque trimmed in marigolds shading through the yellows and orange is a thing to conjure with. Yellow is one of the dominant color notes this winter, especially in the realm of evening and house attire, and some of the shades are remarkably beautiful. Banana is a favorite shade, particularly in the soft velvets, and is not so trying as many of the yellows. Pineapple is another popular yellow, and there is a new golden yellow which, while not universally becoming, has an exquisite warmth and softness, especially when used in many thicknesses of chiffon. This golden yellow is charming, too, in the lustrous satins, and some of the ultra-fashionable milliners are using soft gold yellow felts or beavers, or shapes covered with many folds of gold yellow chiffon and almost invariably trimmed in dark fur or velvet. Mrs. Enpeck—Do you believe that nonsense about there being a man in the moon? Enpeck—Otherwise it wouldn't be so hot there—Chicago Daily News. Progress of Different Factories in Making Cars During Year. Official Returns Place Number of Cars Turned Out at 154,508—Over 5,000 New Locomotives Built—Canada Makes a Good Showing. Official returns from all but two car-building plants in the United States show that 154,508 cars have been built during the year 1903. As the two firms not heard from turn out a total of less than 2,000 cars, the Railroad Gazette has estimated the output from their own record of their work and added the sum obtained to the above total. This figure includes all freight and passenger cars built for elevated and steam railroads, exclusive of those built by the railroads at their own shops, and exclusive of those built for street and other electric service. Careful estimates have been made by all the large car plants of their output during the month of December, so the total given above is very nearly correct. Of this total figure, approximately, 152,801 are freight cars and 2,007 are passenger coaches; 153,195 for domestic use and 1,613 for export. Last year the total number of cars built was 164,547, which is about 9,700 in excess of this year. The decrease has occurred in the last two months, as up to that time the output for 1903 was equal to the output for the first ten months of 1902. During the year 5,152 locomotives were built at the various locomotive works in the country, as against 4,070 last year. This figure is officially correct, as complete returns have been received from every locomotive plant in the United States. The number includes 88 electric locomotives. The increase over 1902 is the largest that has ever been made in one year, and is possibly due to the fact that the locomotive works in the country had such a volume of orders placed during 1902 that they were unable to make immediate deliveries and many of the orders were held over until 1903. Returns from Canada show that 55 locomotives have been built by two firms, one of which has only recently begun operations. In analyzing the report it is interesting to note what this total of 5,152 really means, by calculating the expenditure involved. At an average cost per locomotive of $12,000, the total amount spent by the railroads for motive power would approximate $62,000,000. This figure of course does not include the locomotives which are built yearly by railroad companies at their own shops ELEMENTS TRANSMUTABLE. Theory of Professor Sir Oliver Lodge Shakes Foundations of Science as Now Understood. The scientific world seems almost dumfounded at Prof. Sir William Ramsay's discovery that the elements are, after all, transmutable. It is felt that what has been regarded as one of the foundations of science has been destroyed. Prof. Sir Oliver Lodge now launches the following stupendous theory: "There are those who have surmised that matter is, after all, the only weapon and vehicle of mind. The way it interprets itself to our consciousness through the sense of the organs gives no clew to its nature. Its fundamental and underlying reality is unknown to us, but some of it certainly constitutes our bodies. "A motion and alteration of the configuration of the molecules of our brain is believed to accompany every act of thought. It will be at any rate a suggestive analogy if a material process of an essentially similar sort is found to be occurring throughout what we know as the inorganic world—the world of dead matter—and we should begin to ask: 'Does all this motion correspond to some universal thought or mental activity likewise?' GETS FANS FROM VATICAN. Valuable Emblems Used in All Papal Processions Will Be Presented to American People. Mrs. Joseph Drexel, widow of the former partner of J. Pierpont Morgan, has received the famous eight-foot fans of the vatican. They are to be presented to the American people, and will be exhibited in the museum of the University of Pennsylvania. Visitors to the vatican remember these emblems. No papal procession is ever held without them. When the pope is carried into the audience chamber or takes part in any of the festivities of the church two fans of this type are always in evidence, either carried aloft or allowed to rest against the papal throne. Years ago Mrs. Drexel saw these fans and coveted them. The fans are formed of the rarest of ostrich plumesipped with peacock feathers. On the ticks are the papal arms magnificently worked in heavy gold. The crown is studded with rubies and emeralds. The fans will be exhibited by the side of the fan made for Mrs. Drexel by the queen of Italy. His Ultimate End. It is well that the young man employed at $9 a week who was stealing 2000 a day was discovered, says the Chicago Daily News, as we have all the captains of industry we need in this country. Probably Died Happy. A Pennsylvania man who ran to catch train the other day died as a result of overexertion. But he caught the train. On the Shelf Since Speaker Cannon has been in charge of the house many polysyllable words which used to be in daily use, says the Washington Times, have retired to a shelf and gathered dust. Powdered Milk Milk is now reduced to a powder by a new Swedish invention. Five parts of skim milk yield one pound of powder. Modish Turnovers, Stocks, Ties ```markdown ``` Dinner and Evening Gowns 1 A MONG women one of the favorite forms of Christmas remembrance during the season just past was the stock or tie, or some other of the many forms of attractive neckwear. HAT which we may call the semi-evening gown, the gown which in the city is worn at the fashionable restaurants or at the hotel dining rooms, and in the smaller towns is adapted to either evening or T stiff linen hem is joined to the collar with open work, and altogether it is a linen collar of a distinctly coquettish type that is with us now. In Paris the stiff linen collar, slightly pointed at the bottom in front and opening in the back, where it fastens with two jeweled studs, has found much favor. Severe mannish ties are often worn with these collars, but the preference is for soft scarfs, and the day of masculine feminine attire seems, at least for the moment, to have gone by. A bewildering array of scarfs in soft silk and in crepe is offered, and these are either tied in a loose bow knot with long floating ends or tied once in a small bow knot and then knotted loosely again at the bust line. Many of the crepe scarfs are fringed, and a few of the silk scarfs also have fringed ends, but the prettiest of the silk scarfs for ordinary wear are in foulard or a very supple surah with bandanna, scroll or dot designs in contrasting color. Dark blue and light blue is a favorite combination, dark blue with a design in white and black, in white and red, or in white and light blue is popular; red scarfs have white and black designs, and there are daring combinations of dark blue, white, black and orange, which might be most effective with certain blouses. The silk stocks are legion, and an attempt to describe them would be futile. Hand work is, of course, the keynote of the more elaborate type, but these fussy silk or chiffon and lace stocks are much less practical than their less pretentious kindred, and seldom finish a dressy blouse satisfactorily, while they are certainly out of place with a blouse of any other kind. With the dressy blouse it is necessary that the stock should look like an integral part of the blouse, and as the ready made fussy stocks seldom achieve this effect it is far better to have a stock made to order to match the blouse. Trim, smart tailor stocks of stitched taffeta in black or color have flaring bows or some of the many variations upon the tab finish and are appropriate for wear with tailor blouses and under dainty turnovers more becoming next the face than the dark silks. Very narrow stiff linen turnovers are also used with these stocks and are arranged to button upon them so that there need be no annoying pinning. Tailor stocks of plaid taffeta, piped with white, are among the new things and are very attractive when worn with a plain blouse in one of the colors predominating in the plaid. A set of little gold or jeweled cuff and collar pins is almost indispensable for wear with stocks and turnovers. Evening Gowns Tulle in many shades of yellow or of plink, one thickness over another, is selected for many evening frocks, and the shaded tullies and chiffons are greatly liked. The fichu is more and more in evidence, and nothing makes a prettier fichu than white mousselline and creamy valenciennes several inches in depth. Ready-made fichues are for sale in the shops, and some of them are dainty and fine, but they are seldom cut exactly according to one's requirements, and any fichu needs very skillful and artistic adjustment by means of folds and plait and gathers. Flat surpice pieces of real lace in the heavier varieties appear upon many of the new evening bodices, bordering a V shaped decolletage and crossing surpice fashion in front. The lace is broad upon the shoulders and tapers toward the points, and this shape is newer and more desirable than the cane collar. The surplus idea is carried out in many ways and on everything from street gowns to evening toilets. One expression of it developed in many materials is illustrated in the gray chiffon velvet frock sketched here, whose bodice is almost entirely covered by a surplus pelerine of heavy lace bordered by bands of chinchilla fur. One Kind. "Say, pa, what's 'multum in parvo?' " "Those three dumplings you have just eaten." —Chicago Record-Herald. Life's Problem Solved. Tired Tim—Wot's that you say? Lookin' for work? Wayfaring William—Yep. I ain't no tramp. I work on farms. But I never stays in one sitation more'n a week. "Why not?" "Well, by that time the folks generally stop treatin' me as company, and wants me to work"—N. Y. Weekly. Southern Aid Society One of the strongest and promptest paying Sick Benefit Insurance Companies in the State. You cannot afford to be out of it and should not hesitate to join when our agents call on you. HONESTY THE BEST POLICY IS "OUR MOTTO" OFFICERS AND BOARD: A. WASHINGTON, PRESIDENT; EDWARD STEWARD, VICE-PRESIDENT; WALTER E. BAKER, TREASURER; REV. SIDNEY B. STANTON, HENRY B. BURWELL, JAMES T. CARTER, A. D. PRICE. THOS. M. ORUMP, SECRETARY & GENERAL MANAGER. All orders promptly filled at short notice by telegraph or telephone. Halls rented for meetings and nice entertainments Plenty of room with all necessary conveniences. Large picnic or band wagons for hire at reasonable rates and nothing but first-class carriages, buggies, etc. Keeps constantly on hand fine Funeral Supplies. OPEN ALL DAY & NIGHT--Man on Duty All Night! He had been telling the thrilling story of his escape. "So the automobile got beyond control?" she remarked. "Seems too bad, doesn't it?"—Chicago Post. "KNOBS" PUZZLES DOCTORS. Medical Fraternity of New York Baffled Over Protuberances on Aged Man. A disease which has baffled the medical fraternity of Wayne county, N. Y., recently came to light in the case of Calvin Snyder, of Clyde, who has been suffering from a peculiar malady for more than four years. Its character is most unique and physicians have been unable to diagnose it. Mr. Snyder is 72 years old, and at the age of 68 bone-like protuberances appeared at various points on his body. Since that time the number of "knobs" has increased to 50 and vary in size from a walnut to the circumference of two clinched fists. He experiences not the least pain. At the last meeting of the Wayne County Medical association Mr. Snyder's case was discussed, but neither the cause or the result of the disease could be determined. An eminent specialist of the Buffalo Medical college was summoned into consultation, but could throw no light on the case. SAYS THEY CAN NEVER TALK. Surgeon Examines Half Human Monkey with Vfew to Operation to Aid Articulation. Consul, the half-human chimpanzee, had his throat examined at London recently, with the object of ascertaining whether an operation would enable the animal to articulate. Dr. Blaker, who made the examination, is of opinion that Consul will never be able to speak properly. The flatness of the roof of the mouth prevents lingual sounds, and the protrusion of the lips is opposed to labial sounds. While Consul is perfectly able to togive facial expression of pleasure, curiosity, desire and anger in the most pronounced form, it is impossible to make him speak. Carrier Pigeon Census. Owners of carrier pigeons and homing societies in France have been notified that the number of birds and other facts concerning them must be reported to the government before January 1, as such pigeons have been comprehended in the census law. Blanks to be filled out call for the name of the owners, residence and occupation, place where the pigeons are kept, number in each cotehouse and in what direction the birds are trained. An Axiom Revised. This life is full of odd deceit— A coat of paint may hide the dirt, An army an honest heart may beat Beneath a jewel-studded shirt. —Judge. A He—Sweetheart, I—I—I didn't intend to tell you this when we came in here, but something spurs me on to tell you that I love you. She—Heavens! Maybe you're sitting on the cactus!—Chicago Tribune. Not Specifie Enough. A Harvard professor says some slang words are beautiful and poetic. He doesn't give a list of them, though. THE FRISCO SYSTEM Carrying Pullman Sleepers. 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Now if you want to find out what your future life will be and what your past has been, and want to have it changed from evil to good, send at once to this wonderful medium. Send lock of hair, date of your birth and 25 cents in silver, and receive your life written from cradle to grave. Do not send postage stamps. Address all letters to MRS. DR. WHTR. 1917 E. Pratt St. Baltimore, Md. Now Tourist Sleeping Car Line to California.1 Commending December 9th, the Frisco system will inaugurate through Pullman Tourist Sleeping Car service between Birmingham, Ala., and San Francisco, California. Cars will leave Birmingham at 10:20 p. m., every Tuesday, and will be routed vin: the Frisco System to Kansas City, Rock Island System to Pueblo, Denver and Rio Grande and Rio Grande Western to Ogden and Southern Pacific to San Francisco. Requests for reservations should be addressed to W. T. SAUNDERS, General Agent, Pass. Dept. Corner Pryor and Decatur St's Atlanta, Ga WANTED—Agents to work Southern District of Illinois, soliciting for Industrial, Sick and Death Benefits Association. Good position for right party. Write at once. PEOPLE'S UNITED INDUS, ASS'N. 716% Washington St Springfield, Illinois. I HE PLANET ROAD AND FARM IMPROVEMENT DITCH-GRADING LEVEL. Farmers Who Learn How to Use It Will Seldom Require the Services of a Surveyor. I here give a rude sketch of a straight edge and level for grading tile ditch, which I will try to explain. First, the straight edge is five inches wide by seven-eighths inches thick and four feet one and a half inches long, making one-fourth of a rod of 16½ feet. The straight edge is leveled on the bottom, so that no lump of dirt or gravel stone can get underneath to hold it off from the bottom of the ditch. The two uprights, marked a, can be any length so suit the operator, made of one-half LEVEL 4' 16" STRAMANT EDGE LEVEL FOR GRADING DITCHES oy three-inch stuff nalled on right-hand straight edge and the level fastened on the right-hand side of the uprights, so as to be out of the way of the staff or handle, which can be of any length to suit the operator. The bevel is fastened on the uprights with one common screw at the further end of the level. The other end opposite is fastened onto the upright by cutting a narrow slot hole in the upright, through which put a small bolt that will just fill the slot hole sideways, also coming through the level provided with a thumb nut and washer as shown on the drawing. There must be great accuracy in putting the level upon the uprights to have the bottom of the level and the bottom of the straight edge exactly parallel. When you are getting the grade or fall of ditch to the rod by raising or lowering the rear end of the level by taking the difference on a straight line with the bottom of the level measured down at each extreme end of the straight edge, you can tell just what incline your ditch will have per rod multiplying the variation by four. For instance, if the difference in length of the straight edge and the line of the bottom of the level was three-eights of an inch, the fall in the ditch per rod would be twelve-eights, equal to 1/2 inches, as the straight edge is one-fourth of 16% feet. Always drive the tile tight at the top of the joint to keep out all the loose dirt. My experience teaches me that the water always enters the tile at the bottom. Always use a scoop to fit the size of the tile, then, when you fill in, the dirt will not crowd the tile out of line. In setting the level fc. work, have the incline so as to have the bubble always occupy the center of the opening of the level. In so doing you seldom require the services of a surveyor.—Prairie Farmer. MARYLAND LEADS OFF. Granges of That State Support National Demand for Federal Aid in Road Building. The state grange of Maryland is the first of the state granges to follow the National grange in demanding that the government aid in improving the highways. At a fully attended meeting in Baltimore recently a strong resolution on this subject was adopted, and Master J. B. Ager in his annual address said: "There seem to be great interest at this time all over the state in regard to good roads. It is said that the government has expended $500,000,000 in improving the rivers and harbors and proposes to spend $200,000,000 in building the isthmian canal. Therefore we believe something should be appropriated to assist the farmers in building permanent highways. "According to Secretary Wilson's report the farmers have added the government very materially. Discussing the balance of trade, the secretary says that the favorable balance of trade to the credit of this country is due entirely to the farmers. The balance of trade in the farm products during the last 14 years, no year excepted, aggregated $4,100,000,000 in products. Other than the farm products during the same period, the balance of trade was adverse to this country to the extent of $865,000,000. Our farmers not only canceled this immense obligation, but placed $3,940,000,000 to the credit of the nation, when the books of the international exchanges were balanced. He concludes that it is the farmers that have paid the foreign bondholders. Now, why should not the government aid the farmers in the construction of roads? "It is shown by careful estimates that it cost $300,000,000 to haul the products of the farm to railway stations, rivers and canals, which is vastly more than it costs to maintain 260,000 miles of railway, and by careful estimates the cost could be reduced one-half. I have no doubt that on some roads it could be reduced much more." Weedx Along Rondalder Some states that have laws that require the removal or destruction of weeds by the way the roads are insisting on strict enforcement of the law. It is a question whether the farmer or the overseer or the highways or road commissioners should do the work of weed destruction. In some states railroads are compelled by law to destroy all dangerous weeds under penalty. Roadside are a pregnant source for distributing weed nuisances on farmers' fields. EFFECT OF BAD ROADS. It Is Felt Not Only by Farmers, But by Merchants and Railroad Companies as Well. Many people look upon the road question as one which affects mainly, if not solely, the people of the rural dis- this is a mistaken idea. Roads seriously affect the people towns depending on trade with the rural population. Bad roads hinder and express local trade by making it almost impossible for the farmers to get to town sometimes for weeks at a stretch. This depression in turn affects the wholesale trade. Local dealers reduce their orders, are slow in making remittances and have to ask for extensions of credit. The business of the railways is also seriously affected. The farmers must haul their produce to the shipping points at times when the roads are in fairly good condition. This causes congestion of traffic at times, and partial suspension at other times. As a result of this, the railway companies must have a great many more cars and engines than would be needed if the traffic were regular and uninterrupted by passable roads. The road question has an important influence on our national finances in much the same way as it affects railroad interests. It is well known that a large amount of ready money is needed in the fall of the year for "the movement of the crops." This always causes more or less stringency in the money market. Good roads would make it possible for the farmers to market their crops more at leisure, would greatly extend the time during which their surplus would be carried to market, and would relieve these periodic strains on the money market, which really have a depressing effect on the business of the whole country. It can thus be seen that the effect of bad roads is far-reaching, affecting directly or indirectly the people of the towns and cities as well as those of the rural districts. The road question is, therefore, a national as well as a local question. As such it is a proper subject for consideration in the halls of congress, and it is at last receiving the serious consideration it deserves. Just what action will be taken cannot, of course, be forecasted with certainty, but all indications point to the enactment of a national aid law—the Brownlow bill, or some similar measure. Much, of course, depends on the popular demand. If the people who are most vitally interested in road improvement remain silent, congress will be slow to act. On the other hand, if the farmers, business men, manufacturers and railroad men express their wishes plainly and strongly, congress may be spurred to prompt action. GREAT CONVENIENCE. Combined Wood Box and Carrier Which Can Be Put Together by Any Bright Boy. A great convenience is a combined wood box and wood carrier, such as is shown in the cut. Any ingenious boy can make one from green sticks with the bark left on, by boring holes for the in- WOOD BOX AND CARRIER. section of ends where practicable, and elsewhere using round-headed screws. Such a carrier can be filled with wood at the pile, carried to the stove, and allowed to set beside it until the wood is used.—Farm Journal. A Pound of Farm Seeds. A Pound in Farm Seeds. Number of farm seeds in a pound varies greatly with even the leading farm crops. Red top 603,000, reed canary grass 600,000, smooth-stalked meadow grass 2,400,000, rough-stalked meadow grass 3,000,000, sheep's fescue 680,000, various-leaved fescue 400,000, creeping fescue 600, awnless brome grass 137,000, perennial rye grass 336,800, italian rye grass 3,000,000, sheep's fescue, 680,000, meadow fescue 318,200, meadow oat grass 159,000, yellow oat grass 2,045,000, velvet grass 1,304,000, timothy 1,170,000, meadow foxtail 907,000, vernal grass 294,000, crested dog's tail 1,127,000, al-sike clover 707,000, sainfoin 22,500, clover 279,000, white clover 740,000, common kidney vetch 154,000, alfalfa or lucerne 209,500, trefoil 328,000, bird's foot trefoil 375,000, official goat's rue 62,000. Orange Judd Farmer. Corn Forty Years Old An Indiana farmer will exhibit at the St. Louis world's fair corn which has been in his possession for 40 years. The cereal, in spite of its age, is in a splendid state of preservation, and all this time has been kept in an ordinary corn crib. If corn improved with age, as wine does, this collection would be very valuable by this time. It is not often that farmers keep corn very long nowadays. The demand for feeding purposes and the temptation to convert it into cash at market are too much; besides, there would be no advantage in storing away corn infinitely unless for the purpose of ascertaining how long it would keep. —Chicago Daily Sun. A Toast. "Put down that glass!" cried Mrs. Jawsum, catching her husband in the act of taking a wee nip. "If you drink that liquor I'll never speak to you again aslong as I live." "My dear," said he, as he gulped it down, "here's long life to you.""—Philadelphia Press. She (whose father keeps a dog)—Why do you bring your man with you when you call on me? Chappie—He is to walk behind me as I go out.—N. Y. Weekly. THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA BIG PRICE FOR CANARIES. King Edward's Hobby Starts a Boon in the Feathered Pets in Great Britain. The recent sale in London of a pair of canaries for $350 has directed public attention to the rage for these diminutive pets. Since the king took up the hobby of canary breeding prices have been steadily rising and in many instances birds have changed hands for four times their weight in gold. The most expensive variety are those with top-knots. Perfect-crested canaries are very difficult to breed, and are subject to blindness, the crest being cultivated to such an extent that it grows over the eyes and hides even the beak. Prices for good "crests" range from $20 to $200. Norwich plainhead canaries are far more popular, but do not realize such high prices. At the Huddersfield show recently a young bird, in its first season, was sold by auction for $75. Mackley Bros., of Norwich, whose last consignment of canaries to New York numbered 5,000, have sold several plainheads at prices ranging from $75 to $125 each. Plainhead Norwich birds are bred almost exclusively for color properties, the most highly colored specimens invariably heading the list. For the purpose of enhancing the natural color, large quantities of cavenne and other peppers are imported from Spain and given to the birds in a preparation of egg food. For first-class Yorkshire canaries there is a strong demand, but prices are not so remarkable, the highest reported being $100 for a sprightly young fellow exhibited at the recent Manchester show. TRAVELS OF A HALF DOLLAR In the Course of Nineteen Years a Marked Coin Was Twice Heard From. In August, 1884, George Sizer, of Harrodsburg, Ky., was run over by the chemical engine and received injuries that proved fatal. Ten years after his death a letter addressed to him was turned over to his mother, Mrs. Mary Sizer. It was written by a gentleman in New York, who stated that he had come in possession of half a dollar with the name "George Sizer, Harrodsburg, Ky." stamped on it, and if it was of an, value to him to send 50 cents and he would return the coin with the name on it. Mrs. Sizer was quite ill at the time and the letter was never answered. The coin is still in circulation, for a few days ago another letter came here addressed to George Sizer. It was dated Baltimore, Md., November 27, 1903, and was written by Miss Irene Yorks. She stated that her company was filling an engagement at a theater in that city and two nights before some admirers of her histrionic accomplishments had tossed several coins on the stage, and among them was a 50-cent piece with his (Sizer's) name on it; that if he desired she would send the coin. This letter was also given to Mrs. Mark Sizer, and she has sent 50 cents to Miss Yorks with a request that she send her the piece of money with her dead son's name on it. A singular thing in connection with Miss Yorks' letter is that it is dated November 27, the nineteenth anniversary of Mr. Sizer's death. DESCENDANT OF KING DAVID. Demise of a Philadelphia Woman Who Traced Kinship to Jewish Family of Abarbanel. A lineal descendant of King David died in Philadelphia recently. Mrs. Gustav Lipschutz was her name. She lived with her husband and five children on Diamond street, but death came in St. Luke's hospital, where she had undergone an operation. She was 53 years of age. Through the misty reaches of sacred history this woman could trace her kinship to the distinguished Jewish family Abarbane, whose relationship to King David is undoubted and whose achievements throughout Europe are matters of history. Mrs. Lipscheutz, whose malden name was Bertha Neumann, sprang from that branch of the family of which Don Isaac Abarbanel, prime minister in Spain in 1492, was the head. During that time, when persecution against the Jews began as a result of the change in the religious views of Ferdinand and Isabella, Don Isaac was obliged to flee with his less favored brethren. The family scattered, settling in various parts of Europe. Don Isaac afterward became prime minister in Italy. The grandfather of the dead woman was Rudolph Hirsch Abarbanel, one of the foremost rabbis of Germany in the last century. The city of Gretz, where he died, gave him a public funeral, and the government buildings were draped in mourning. "Dead Man" Comes to Life. An old man named John Crake, who lived alone at Norwich, England, had been ill, and, as his house was shut up, a neighbor entered and found him on the bedroom floor, apparently dead. She gave information to the police, and a constable came to the conclusion that Crake had expired, as he was cold and motionless. An undertaker was sent for, but on his arrival he was surprised to find Crake sitting up on the bed and guttering. He died a few hours later from apoplexy. A. Sure Preventive. One of the medical journals says there is no reason why men should not live to be 150 years of age if they eat right, remarks the Chicago Record-Herald. Evidently the scientist has not taken the Chicago grade crossing and footpad into consideration. No Reason to Be Nervous. "Was the bride nervous at the altar?" "Oh, no. She knew he didn't have nerve enough to run after she's got him that far."—Chicago Post. A True Patriot. "Did you enjoy your trip to Europe, Mr. Brown?" "Yes, indeed. All the time I was there I was thinking what fun it would be to get back."—Chicago American. THE WHITE FRONT PRINTING HOUSE 311 N. 4th St., Richmond, Va. WE PRINT., EVERYTHING Our Job D IS THOROUGHLY EQUIPPED LIVERY OF ALL KINDS OF ARE THE LOWEST, CONS AND GOOD WORK. Fine Wee OUR LATEST DESIGNS MAY BE SEEN AT THE As an Advertising Medium Fam Paper, it is not to be exc 30 c. 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First-class Hacks and Caskets of all descriptions, I have a spare room for bodies when the family has not a suitable place. All country orders are great special attention. Your special attention is called to the new style Oak Caskets. Call and see me and you shall be waited on kindly. 78. House DST. URG Refrigerators, Mattings, Oil-Cloths. And in fact everything that is need- ed in house furnishings. RUGS AND CARPETS. The Custalo House 702 E. BROAD ST. Having remodeled my bar, and having an up-to-date place, I am prepared to serve my friends and the public of the same old stand. Choice Wines, Liquors and Cigars. FIRST CLASS RESTAURANT Meals At All Hours, New'Phone, 1261. Wm. Oustalo, Pres. S. C. G. Jurgen's Son 421 EAST BROAD ST., between 4th and 5th Street S. W. ROBINSON. DEALER IN 'Phone, 2778. MRS. P. C. EASLEY. Satisfication Guaranteed. 6-7-8mos. When You Are Sick Sure and Fresh Medicines only will eure you then purchase your Drugs and Medicine from: Leonard's Reliable Prescription Drug Store. 724 North Second Street. SECOND TO NONE. WOMAN'S CORNER-STONE BENEFICIAL ASSOCIATION. INCORPORATED, MARCH, 1897. Office: 502 W. Leigh St. Authorized Capital, $5,000: Claims promptly paid as soon as satisfactory notice of sickness or death is placed in home office. OFFICERS: LOUISA E. WILLIAMS, President KATE HOLMES, Vice-President BETTIE BROWN, Treasurer MILDRED COOKE JONES, BEFORE MAKING Your purchase you would do well to call at the most reliable furniture house in the city and see the fine line of Of every description; also the fastest designs in ROCKERS and special CHAIRS. Our goods are the best for the price and the price is very low. oe eo AN A tay ete; De i ee AN Wo — eee TORDAY.... JANUARY 20, 1004 Pm tee pikes os KO BS orn tbat ee Oe aE WHE DRUNKARD’S SOLILOQUY. Backward, turn backward, O Time, tn your fizht, Yama Take me'a man agala, just for to- aight; Wet mo shake of thoso vile rags that 1 ‘wear, ‘Gieanve mo (rom all this foul stain thet 1 dear! WR Lec me stand where I stood Jong ago, reed {rom (hese sorrows, unknown to this ‘woe: from a tite that fs cursing my soul death while the years of eternity Fol. Wackward. turn backstand, oh fast-Gowing stream, Teuld that my Ufe could prove only ‘dcearn! ant mo (arget the black sins of the pests at me undo all my folly so vast; Sat me live over the dark lite that is gone; Bring back che dark, wasted years that are aeaeass, , turn backward, © Time, in your ‘ee mak? moa man again, just for to night. Beck! Yes, turn backward, ye swift-roll ‘og years! Why does your memory bring forth these hot tears? comes this vision of life lost ta aint Wey am T Uniting of what might have nt Whore is my home, once so happy and Drightt Where ‘is hat face whose presence was Teste Where are the children who cilmbed on my ‘knee? Bost, flowing tide! bring thm once men Yo met et the tide rushes on, this wiir Might of the ‘years, na the days only deepen my sorrows ant fears. Yeail, but no answer comes back to me now, Hought but an echo as weak as my vow. For ‘neath the sad cypress tree, low in the soa, Ides ‘the body whose soul has gone back to lus God, ‘And out of the silence no child rotces come As i daze tong ago in my sweet, happy home. Beckward? Nay, Time rushes onward ané on: Te the dream that comes back of the days that are gone: 2 yielded my strength when I could have been strong; 3 would dy, but alas! I had Ungered to jong. The hell hound had selaed me—my wil! was mot mine, Bewtruction Was born in the sparkling 0 a Be, in weakneos, I Lotter through gleom te none ica, bat i eovereign in birth, but in dying—a slave SWexas Advocate, ALCOHOL AND DEATH RATE. Accwrate Statintion Gathered by Swrins Government Show Alarming Conditien. Switzerland is a country in which Very little drunkenness is to be ob- served, for the good and suficient rea- fom that the police arrest on the spot every perwon who shows the least sign ef intoxication. There is nevertheless a large amount of secret drinking, and eapecially in French Switzerland ab- inthe has of late increased in use until its ravages are very noticeable. ‘The government recognizes the drink Problem as e most serious one, and ie doing all it cau to find means for its gomirol. One of its recent investiga- lens concerns the death rate from al- coholism. Statistics of this nature are ‘oually inaccurate, for the reason that At is often Impossible to find out just to what extent a deceased person has ‘beon given to the use of liquors. Rela- téves and even physicians conceal the facts out of the natural desire to pro- tect the dead man’s good name. Two yeare ago the Swiss government estab- shed, however, a system under which the facts can be secured without re- Yealing the identity of individual @runkards. Doctors are required. to make full reports, but on blanks that bear numbers instead of names. Only By a circuitous incthod Involving appll- gation to the central government at Berne can names ever be connected ‘with the reports. The facts thus collected show that among the niales over 20 years of age the deaths from delirium tremens aver- age haif of ore per cent. ‘This is ten times the rate officially recorded ia France by tie old imperfect stattstical ‘mothods. For males over 70 yeors of age alco- hol is given as the principal or con- comitant cause of death in cen per cent. of the cases. ‘Tho general death raiv directly refers able to acute or chronic alcoholism, without including hepatic cirrhosis oF other subsidiary conditions, is three er cent, This showing must admittedly he re- Barded es an alarming one, and as suf- ficient justification for the most strenu- ous efforts in the cause of temperance. ‘The worst of it is that there is no rea- Bon to believe that the Switzerland @eath raie would appear exceptionally AMigh if the real facts for other nations ‘were known.— Chicago Record-Herald. Railroads War on the PDrink« Railroads throuzhout the country are waging war agains! the use of intoxicat« fag liquors and tobacco by employes who are engaged in operating the lines, Phe flat has gone forth generaily that employes who drink er frequent places where liquors ure sold are not safe to Amtrust with the lives of patrons or with the valuable property transported By the railroads. The rules which have ‘Feeently been inaugurated against the ‘fee of tobacco are not se stringeat a. Hhaoee against liquor, but generaily they Broceribe tobacco while om duty aid when about stations. As for the clgar- ette, the order against it is almost as severe as that against whisky. ‘The rule is being strictly enforced.—Journal of Inebriety. TEST YOUR APPETITE. Case of m Young Man Who Found It Was Not So Easy to Quit Drink- ing as He Had Supposed. A young man carelessly formed the habit of taking a glass of liquor every morning before breakfast. An older friend advised him to quit before the habit should grow too strong. “Oh, there's no danger; it's a mere notion, I can quit aay time,” replied the drinker. “Suppose you try it to-morrow morn- ing,” suggested the friend. “Very well; to please you I'll doro, but Tassure you there's no cause for alarm.” A week later the young man met his ielend again. “You are not looking well,” observed the latter. “Have you been ill?” “Hardly,” replied the other one. “But 1 am trying to escape a great danger; and fear that I shall before I shall have A } Ao A EN ie il SL A 9 if Z) NN r S 7 i i ae ie ha conquered. My eyes were opened to an imminent peril when I gave you that promise a week ago. I thank you for your timely suggestion.” “How did it affect you,” inquired the friend. “The first trial utterly deprived me of appetite for food. I could eat no break- fast, and was uervous and trembling all day. I was alarmed when I realized how insidiously that habit had fastened on me, and resolved to turn square about and never touch another drop. The Swearing off has pulled me down severe- ly, but I am gaining and mean to keep the upper hand after this. Strong drink Will never catch me in his net egain."— Church Life. FINGERS ROTTED BY BEER. Instances Where the Hands of Bar tenders Have Been Crippled by the Liqeer They Handled, ‘The Mail and Express gives the follow- ing significant facts: The attention of the New York hospital surgeons has deen called to the big number of bartend- ors that have lost several fingers of both hands within the past few years. The firet case was that of an employe of a Bowery concert hall. Three of the tin- gers of his right hand and two of his left were rotted away when he called at Bellevue one day, and begged the doctors to explain the reason. He said that his duty was to draw beer for the thousands who visited the garden nightly. ‘The man was in perfect health otherwise, and St took the young doctors quite a time to arrive at any conclusion. But they did finally, and It nearly took the beerman's Breath away whon they did. “Your fingers have been rotted off,” they said, “by the beer which you have handled.” Other cases of a similar nature came rapidly after this one, and to-day the physicians estimate there 1s an army of employes of saloons whose fingers are being ruined by the same cause. The acid and resin in the beer are said to be responsible. The head bartender of a well-known @owntown saloon says he knows a num- ber of cases where beer drawers have, in addition to losing several fingers of both hands, lost the use of both members. “Beer will rot iron, I believe,” he added. “I know, and every bartender knows, that it {s Impossible to keep a good pair of shoes behind the bar. Beer will rot leather as rapidly, almost, as acid will eat into iron. If I were a temper- ance orator, I'd ask: What must beerdo to men’s stomach, if it eats away men’s fingers and their shoe leather? I'm here to sell it, but won’t drink it—not much. | TEMPERANCE NOTES. ‘There are at the present time some 1,038 Catholic Total Abstinence unions in the United States, with a membership of 85,729, In the great battle against intemper- ance and vice many Christians prefer a toy-pistol toa Krupp gun.—National Advocate, _ The New York Evening Post raises the following pertinent question for the ad- vocates of the canteen: “If beer close et hand {s really a cure for too much beer outside the barracks. why should we not hear next of a little gambling in the post to cure the passion for a great deal in the civillan resorts?” During the last 30 years, owing to drink, Normandy in France has lost 147,- 000 of her people. During the same pe- riod, the province of Orne has lost 71,000. Im the whole of France in the last 50 years, while the consumption of alcohol has increased 250 per cent., the popula- tion has increased only 12 per cent. It is estimated from a study of co- operative atatistion that there are over ‘10,000 murders a year in the United Gtates. From inquiries made in the arge cities, where the [acts are more ac evasible, it is evident that over 70 per cent. are committed by persons under the influence of spirits at the time of the ‘commission of the crime, “Why do you consider his reputation for truth and veracity so bad?” “Because I once traded horses witb him.”—Chicago Post. THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND VIRGINIA SS —————————— a A OLD DOMINION §T* AM. grcesnreres SHIP COMPANY, 2 Q (Step |___ tenure toc - WOND a re Leave F.ichmond daily at 7 p. Bh hy | omen 18 DESC ee ae News in both directions. 13 cieiy Hair Ms my rer TY Daily exopot Sunday by O, & O. 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From all sides we hear private reports of cures in stubborn cases of sexual weakness, enlargement of the. prostate, varicocele, spermatorrhase, lost man: hood, im poeetr emissions, prematari- ty, shranken organs, lack of virile pow- er, bashfulness and timidity and like unnatural conditions. It does this with- out appliances, vacuum pumps, electrio belts or anything of that hind. Satisfactory results are produced in a day's use and a perfect cure in a short time, regardless of age or the cause of ‘The lucky discoverer simply desires to get in touch with all men whocan make nee of such a treatment. ‘They should address him in confidence, . H. O. Raynor,, 172 Luck Building, Detroit, Mich, and immediately on receipt of your name and address it 18 his agree- ment with this paper to ages ee a free receipt or formula of this modern treat. ment by which you can cure yourself at home, SHOT A WHITE DEER. | seer Dire Misfortune Predicted for Wes- ley Jordan, Its Slayer. Animals of This Color Have Deen Se Rare tm the Adirondacks That Ther Have lleen Regarded with Geahatiashainws: Adirondack guides are predicting that dire misfortune will befall Wesley Jor- dan, of Saranac Lake, N. ¥., because he shot white deer, thesecond over known to have been killed in the Adirondacks. A white deer is so rare a sight in the Adirondacks that when one does appear it is regarded with superstitious awe. Jordan has received letters from all parts of the country warning him to Prepare for trouble, but he takes no stock in the superstition, and is having the deer mounted by a Saranac Lake taxidermist. The belief that the slayer of one of taese animals would meet with some great misfortune has been 0 gen- eral, however, that from time imme morial such white deer-as have been seen from year to year have filtted from thicket to thicket unmolested by the ar- row of the Indian or the shot of the white man, A few deer nearly white were killed in the Adirondacks years ago, but this fe only the second, according to some of the oldest and best-known guides, that is a perfect albino, Rodney West, the Besex county woods- man, says that if a complete albino deer is killed the rest of the deer usually leave that neighborhood, and that {s why an Indian will not kill a whitedeer. “Six white deer,” said Weet the other @ay, “and only one of them a buck, have been seen in America since 1897, and I have had at least one good chanes te get $1,000 by killing one, but I don’t want money bad enough just yet to do that. Where a white deer chooses to haunt the others love to resort. I have seen this many times.” ‘The only white deer known to have been killed in the Adirondacks appeared in Keene valley in the autumn of 1898 ‘and became very tame. Tt was a beautl- fal creature, having a neck and tail of pure white, while the upper part of the body and back was nearly white. This deer bad white eyes, though usually the eyes of the albino are pink. ‘The hunters decided not to moleet this albino, and, when the heavy snow came, an attempt was made to capture it alive The dogs got after It, however, and chased it until, exhausted, it passed ‘Rear a traveler, who caught It and cut Its throat: The man was not aware of the agreement among the hunters to preserve the doe, and he deeply regretted his act. A white deer was seen four years ago ‘near Cranberry Lake, St. Lawrence county. | It was accompanted by a fawn of the usual color, but neither was molested ‘by the woodsmen. One winter several deer were seen near Indian river by ‘Tippecanoe Knapp, a well-known guide. ‘The leaders were a big white buck and & white doe. A party of hunters at- tempted to capture the white deer alone, but the herd got away. * Think as little as posstble about any good in yourself; turn your eyes ree- olutely from any view of your acquire- ments, your influence, your plan, your success, your following—above ail, speak as little as possible about your- self. The inordinateness of our self- Jove makes speech about ourselves Hike the putting of 4 lighted torch te the dry wood which bas been laid in order for burning.—Bishop Wilber- force. Progress Means Effort. You cannot expect to gain without effort that which cost Christ all His ‘See... eats. Tek OLD_DOMINION 8° AM. SHIP COMPANY, Mir it Line for Nortotk. ; Leave F.ichmond daily at 7 p. m., stopping at Newport News in both directions. Daily excpet Sunday by O, & O. Rati- way, 9:00 a. tie Sp m9 a. m. and 3 p. m. by N. & W. 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Write your namo, ull addres, ant ploces wanted by the Mumbere} ¢ thia,with tampe oF iver and maile to address given below, and the mm... Dosent direct fn “elon, postage propa 8 HE PLANET SATURDAY.....JANUARY 30. 1904 FOR SUNDAY READING A PRAYER. baviour. Thy love to me is more than life away from Thy dear armsa constant strife waged with self, the world and sin, And Thy sweet peace dwells not within. holy love! that must my soul pervade, like to burnished gold I would be made, and have Thy blessed image shine, in my poor life, with light divine. such would I be, dear Lord, so near to Thes, that though Thy hand should smite and take from me that now seems dear as life, I'd pray, help me "Thy will not mine," to say. and though Thou givest what I would not choose, and from me what I would not lose, loving trust I'd say: "The best, and thus my strenken heart find rest. Thy rest, how sweet it is! no anxious thought, need eer disturb the soul by Jesus bought, if only on His breast, each day. bur burdened hearts we calmly lay. to help me, my dear Lord, to come to Thee, and bring my every want and every plea, and kneeling at Thy cross, be blest, With Thy sweet peace and perfect rest. Thy Elizabeth Palmer, in N. Y. Observer. WHY DOES GOD SEND PAIN? Much of That Which Comes to Us Is Not Heaven-Sent, But Self-Inflicted. At the outset let us eliminate from the problem the pain which God does not send but for which those who experience it are directly responsible. The fierce headache which follows a debauch, the diseased organs which are the ultimate result of physical and mental anguish which men bring upon themselves, are not chargeable to the Creator of this universe. Of course, says the Boston Congregationalist, the causist may ask why the universe was so constructed that admits of pain anywhere in it. But it is difficult to conceive of a world, tented by moral beings at least, entirely invaded by aches and pains. If disbedience of God's laws never brought disaster, if we could touch fire and not be burned and touch pitch and not be deified, we should have a race of flabby, nerveless, unsympathetic, brutish men and women instead of children of God heroically working out their destiny. And yet when we eliminate the pain due to men's misuse of the world and of his own powers, a vast deal remains and the mystery of it all still oppresses us. "How man God bear it?" said Oliver Wendell Holmes in one of the moments when his heart was drawn out in compassion toward the sorrowing, suffering children of men. But God has been seeing and bearing it these thousands of years as the brute creation has been born and suffered and perished, as men have wasted with disease and bled their lives away in the forests and on battlefields. Yet little by little the area of suffering is being reduced and modern science is discovering ways to alleviate, if not to obviate, suffering. And humanity keeps on its sorrowing way, sustained by the promise of the final consummation "when there shall be no more pain." Meanwhile we are driven back to the spiritual interpretation of it all. Whether God might have used some other agency or not, the fact remains that pain works ponders in the moral sphere for those who accept it as a messenger of God. It sweetens the bitter spirit, it refines the coarse nature, it softens the hard heart, it puts iron into the weak will. To stand outside the circle of suffering and curse God because the world is so full of pain is one thing. It is quite another to experience, one's self or in the persons of those dearest to one, the chastening hand of God. The skeptic, the complainer, the atheist are not as a rule the persons who themselves suffer, but from such patient, trusting souls have come through the ages songs in the night, beons of rejoicing, immortal psalms, voicing their confidence in Him who doth not willyingly afflict or grieve the children of men. Dean Stanley went from the bedside of his dying wife, Lady Augusta, and wrote to a friend: "The more the marble praises the more the statue grows." He could say this because Lady Augusta and learned how to bear pain. Only the other day a man honored throughout New England, who within the last year has lost by death the loved companion of his advancing years, one of the most brilliant and useful women of our generation, wrote to a friend saying: "I am trying to transform my private grief into public service." Out of the mental anguish consequent upon his bereavement this man has gained new power for life and a fresh consecration to good deeds. Neither physical nor mental pain is to be sought for its own sake, but when it comes it may be made a means whereby we are lifted Godward and drawn out in tender love toward our suffering fellowmen. Cure for Unhappiness Faith in God, faith in the good and true, faith in men and women as children of God. These are the ingredients which will make this the only efficient prescription for happiness. Will anybody take it and get it filled for himself? Will anybody take it to God and ask Him to administer it in such a way as to the unhappiness which afflicts the soul?-Rev. H. R. Harris. Sla and Disense: The best way to keep disease out of the inner life is to keep it strong, healthy and vigorous with moral and spirit. fual life. The way to keep sin out of life is not by fencing of any kind, but by having the life filled to overflowing with spiritual life and power.—Rev. W. M. Martin. A DAILY PRAYER. Story of a Farmer Whose Religion and Life Bad Limitations But Still Rang True. Henry Hayes was a farmer who had made his start into manhood on a heavily mortgaged farm. Both he and his wife, says the Youth's Companion, worked early and late to meet the interest, and reduce, year by year, the principal sum. They succeeded in so doing by industry, economy and good health. Other men with similar burdens saw the foreclosure of their mortgages, but Mr. Hayes appeared each interest day with his money. In time he owned his farm free and clear. The habit of hard work was upon him, and he continued it as long as he lived. In later years the farm grew larger, and he hired men, who worked as he did, and sometimes for more hours a day than they cared to work. Yet they always respected the man, and even when they complained among themselves about the length of the day, they always spoke of the sincerity and goodness of their employer. Henry Hayes was a Christian. Even when the work was driven at its hardest the men always admitted that, and they added that he always worked as hard as he expected his men to do. But no matter how the work pressed, a blessing was asked at the table; and after the morning meal a chapter was read in the Bible and Mr. Hayes offered prayer. The chapter was read without much discrimination, and the Bible was taken through by course, without halting even at Chronicles with its hard names, some of which were not easy for Mr. Hayes. He was not an ignorant man, but he had had only the education of the country school, and had added very little reading. Some of the chapters may have done him little intellectual good. The prayer, too, may have seemed a somewhat barren one. It was made up of sentences which had been picked from pulpit petitions and the prayers of ministers in the home. It was the same prayer every morning, word for word, except that on Sunday, after thankking God for preservation "through the sound watches of the night," he added, regularly, "as well as through labor's dangers and the fatigues of another week." The prayer certainly grew monotonous to those who heard it daily; yet the farm-hands heard it always with respect. They knew that a man so industrious as their employer did not detain them and himself from work after breakfast every morning without a sincere motive. And that prayer gave the farmer strength to live among men a life that was indeed over-energetic, yet gentle and considerate; excessively laborious, yet patient and self-controlled. "I never remember that prayer," said one of the farm-hands in later years, after Mr. Hayes was dead, "without thinking of the value of it to the family, to us, the farm-hands, and to the character of Mr. Hayes. I know, and I knew then, that it wasn't at all what a prayer should be; but in spite of all that it lacked of originality and freshness and individuality, it was a million times better than no prayer, and the more I think of it the more I respect the man. Henry Hayes had true religion, and that daily prayer and his daily life, although both of them were limited and stern, were the prayer and life of a true man." HELPFUL AND TRUE. Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties.—C. H. Spurgeon. Let not future things disturb thee, for thou wilt come to them if it shall be necessary, having with thee the same reason which now thou usest for present things—Marcus Antoninus. To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfish and to inquire our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature.—Adam Smith. It is an excellent plan to have some place to go to be quiet when things vex or grieve us. There are a good many hard times in this life of ours, but we can always bear them if we ask help in the right way.—Miss Alcott. The all-embracing knowledge of God associated with the act of giving existence is a solemn pledge on His part that the existence given shall prove a final blessing to its possessor.—Thomas B. Thayer. When goodness separates itself, it is only half good. A virtue which is not active is in danger itself of turning to vice. Jesus was not too good for publicans and sinners. How many of His disciples are?-J. F. Dutton. Cheerfulness is not always spontaneous; it is greatly a matter of habit and bears cultivation. One who can contrive to bear a smiling face through a world where there are so many troubled hearts, may unconsciously be a public benefactor.-Miss Wells. Blessed is the man who has the gift of making friends, for it is one of God's best gifts. It involves many things, but above all, the power of going out of one's self and seeing and appreciating whatever is noble and loving in another.-Thomas Hughes. As things in nature, so the things of the Spirit grow up to their fullness and perfection by slow and insensible degrees. The famous and heroclical acts of the most renowned believers were such as themselves could not once perform, or, it may be, think they ever should. Great things both in nature and grace come from small and contemptible beginnings—John Flavel. The Touch of Love. Humanity responds to the touch of love. Around on the sunny side of even the most frigid man there is always a door that opens to the pressure of a loving heart. -Rev. T. J. Villers. Classified: "All the money he makes he spends for clothes." "Yes, he's a bird, isn't he?" "That's what! He's a regular tailor's goose."—Philadelphia Ladder. THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, PLANET LINCOLN'S DEATH-WARRANTS. The President Had an Effective Way of Disposing of the Dreadful Documents. American history is full of personal anecdotes and incidents of the magnanimity and kindness of heart of Abraham Lincoln. The venerable Dr. Bullock, for many years a clergyman, liked to tell a story which he heard during a visit he once made to Mr. Robert Lincoln, the president's son. The conversation naturally turned on the father of the host, as Dr. Bullock had known him during his early days in Kentucky. Mr. Robert Lincoln, then minister to England, recalled for his visitor an incident of his childhood, which was deeply impressed upon his memory, so illustrative was it of his father's character. He was with his father in his cabinet one morning during the early years of the war when Secretary Stanton was announced. Scarcely replying to the courteous greeting of the President, Mr. Stanton walked directly up to the desk where Mr. Lincoln was sitting and said: "Mr. President, I have come for the papers that I brought you yesterday to be signed." "Well," said the president, with an expression in his face something like that of a convicted schoolboy, "the truth is, Stanton, they are not ready." "Well, then, those you had the day before." "They are not ready, either," was the answer, with a somewhat quizzical look. "But you have had some of them for a whole week, and all I ask you to do is put your name to them. Come, do it now! The whole batch will not take half an hour. I will wait while you sign. It is only a trifle I am asking, and it is not like you to hinder our work in this way." "A trifle!" echoed Mr. Lincoln, with a deep gravity settling over his care-worn countenance. "Do you know what these papers are?" "Of course I do," answered the secretary. "They are death warrants." "And you call signing a death warrant a trifle? Look here!" and he drew out from under his desk a basket overflowing with papers. "Here are the papers you have brought me during the last TOSSED THEM ALL ON THE COALS week, and that you have been urging me to sign, and every one of them will condemn a man to death if I put my name to it. How can I sign when I know so well what will be the result?" "You must sign, Mr. President; you must sign them. You are clogging the wheels of government. We have been at a standstill for a week because you have picked out every death warrant from the papers I have brought you. No wonder they have accumulated! But now we cannot wait any longer. We must have those papers, and you must sign them," and seizing a pen from the rack, he dipped it in the ink. Back and forth, up and down the room strode the tall form, as was his wont when in perplexity. Suddenly his face cleared, and he approached the hearth, were there was a glowing coal fire. Taking up the poker, he stirred up a bright blaze; then, almost running across the room, he picked up the basket of death warrants and tossed them all on the coals. A tongue of fire seized them and a puff of wind blew them up the chimney. "There, there, good riddance!" he muttered, as he saw the ashes disappear. Then he turned to Mr. Stanton, who stood agasth and is sechless for once, and with a deprecating look said: "I couldn't help it, Stanton, I really couldn't, and I couldn't sign them. It is too beautiful a day to send so many souls into eternity. I don't believe the wheels of government will be blocked. Come, now, let us take a walk down the avenue." Rubbing It In. "Yes," said the Englishman who had immigrated some years ago, "I dearly love the mother country." "You certainly did old England a great favor," rejoined the home-grown American. "What was that?" queried the Englishman. "You didn't stay there," answered the other.—Chicago Dally News. Jimmy—Ain't it funny dat 'wen yer don't want a ting dat yer uster want yer kin have it all ter yerself? Danny—W'at are yer t'inking erbout now? "I passed de baseball park ter day an' dere wuz dau hole in de wate' w we all useter fight over last summer." —Philadelphia Press. A FUNNY WAR INCIDENT A member of the old Logan guards of Pennsylvania, who early in the war was stationed at Martinsburg, Va., says the American Tribune, related the following incident: Shortly after the arrival of the company, the squad to which my friend was attached, was messed not far from a pretentious house. The men had strict orders not to enter this house; but from the first night their interest in the place became very strong, owing to the fact that musical voices could be heard in matches of song during the day, which matches became perfect floods of melody at night. The unknown vocalist sang in tones so soft, so tremulous, so melodious, that the volunteers strained their ears and THE MYSTERIOUS SINGER. drank in every note with rapture. In the daytime they would lounge in groups before the dwelling, but as the doors remained shut and the blinds down, they did not see a soul. Beauty, so every man felt, must be an attribute of the sweet but unseen singer; and it was surprising how all the boys "prinked" up in the hope of catching the attention of the unknown. For a week the music of that wonderful voice was heard till late every night, and when it died out worldly interest went with it, and the dreams of the young men were filled with delightful fancies of the fair but mysterious songster. One night the voice burst out with a melody and a rapture more entrancing than usual, and one of the soldiers sprang to his feet, exclaiming: "By jove! I can't stand this any longer. That beautiful nightingale is going to be discovered!" The amorous youth at once started off to recoonolter the place. He crept on tiptoe toward the dwelling leaped the garden fence and finally, undiscovered, but very pallid and remorseful, the casement. Slowly raising his head, he peered through a partly raised window. The room was full of music and he seemed to grow blind for the moment. Lo! prone upon the kitchen hearth sat the mysterious singer, in the shape of a fat, coal-black, middle-aged negress —scouring kettles. The soldier's limbs sank beneath him, and the woman, catching sight of him, stopped her singing and called out: "Go 'way, dere, won't yeh! Quick, or I'll heave dis yere kettle at yer ugly head!" The soldier hastened back and told of his discovery; but the boys dreamt no more of lissome angels in the camp. WHY THEY COULDN'T OBEY. The Formation Was a Failure Because the Officer Was the Faster Runner. Clerk McDowell, of the house, saw civil war service, and was at the battle of Fredericksburg, which resulted disastrously for the union forces. His captain was an officer of the name of Ridgley, and the company, after a disastrous encounter with the enemy, started on a lively retreat, relates the Washington Post. "I met with Capt. Ridgley," said Mr. McDowell yesterday, "and almost at the same moment Gen. Meade came riding down upon us. "'Form your men, captain,' shouted the general. "Ridgley drew his sword. 'Form on me, men,' said he, obedient to the orders from high authority. "Ridgley, a soldier named Moriarity, and myself were all there was to form. As we huddled together a shell burst near and Ridgley ran for half a mile without stopping. "When he halted he again drew his sword and shouted: 'Form on me, men.' Again a shell burst and Ridgely sprinted for another half mile to the rear, still again drawing his sword and shouting: 'Form on me, men.' "By that time, Moriarity and I were exhausted from running. 'Form on you,' said I. 'How can we do that when you can run faster than either of us?' " His Comment. Deacon Adoniram Sprawl, good and upright old man—albeit he may have been just a trifle rectangular in his younger days—was driving slowly townward with a load of produce, not dreaming that there was an aeronaut within a thousand miles of him. Suddenly, with a whish of his apparatus, and a yell of warning, the gentleman from the greatest show on earth came rushing down through space and landed astride of old Dobbin's neck. No damage was done, except to the deacon's accustomed placidity. "Well! Well!" he ejaculated, in surprise. "That beats—er-er—what Gen. Sherman said war was; gullvummed if it don't!"—Puck. Tables Turned. I have never been a whaling where the foaming billows sweep; I have never cut the Flubber from the monster of the deep; But I thought recollections of those days in boyhood's writhing When mother did the whaling and I the blubbering. —The I. Back at Him. Jim—I understand the women are going to wear mirrors on their ears in order to see all the men in the street. Alice—And they tell me the men are putting on blinders to keep from seeing the women who stand in the street cars. —Cincinnati Commercial Tribune. Had Her Own Impressions "Your husband says he established his hotel by honest toll," remarked the woman who hears all that is said in the village. "Yes," answered the tired-looking woman, "but he didn't say whose toll, did he?"—Washington Star. The Shower of Shoes. "I didn't know there was a wedding on our block last night, pop?" "Was there, my son?" "I guess so. The street is full of old shoes this morning." "Oh, perhaps it was only cate, my son."—Yonkers Stateman. WE WANT AGENTS! Good active handlers can make big money handling goods. We can provide total experience necessary. We will match you with a complete quittie package with work education细节. Suits to Measure $9 up Trouseres $2.50 up Express Propail. Excellent composition. BUSINESS OF YOUR OWN. Send 2 coupons for samples and further particulars PROGRESS TAILORING COMPANY 199 L Market Street, CHICAGO SMELT FISHING IN MAINE. Forty or Fifty Pounds in a Tide Not Regarded as an Uncommon Catch for the Fishermen. The smelt fishermen are on the ice at Surry, and, although the season has just begun, 300 to 400 bushels are being taken and shipped to Ellsworth each day by stage and to the west The outlook for the smelting business this year is greater than ever before and there will be two tents this season to every one last year. Not only men and boys, but some women and girls are also going into business, and Ellsworth even will send a small delegation to participate in the smelt fishing. With the fishing season there is a demand for boxes for shipping the fish, and while the custom has been to contract with some manufacturer in another city to furnish the entire lot, it appears this year that home manufacturers will be tried and one of the citizens will try to make them. The smelting has also created a demand for small sheet iron stoves, to be used in the tents for heating purposes, and Ellsworth dealers are having them sent over by the load. While on the ice, when the tides are not favorable to fishing, men are busy making more tents, not being satisfied with one. When fishing is good, and tides are running favorably, it is a common thing for the fishermen who best understand handling the lines to take 40 or 50 pounds of fish in a tide. Later in the season, when the men are all on the ice, the stage won't be able to bring one-half of the fish to Ellsworth that is to go by express, and extra teams are sent over, besides the many sent from Surry. BIG FOOTBALL CROWDS Estimated Thut 250,000 Persons Witnessed Games in the East During Past Season. Football is a great medium for keeping money in circulation. Good prices are realized for seats and a good deal of the money taken in by the colleges is expended in keeping up other branches of sport. There have been five games this season in the east alone, with a total attendance of 130,000. At the Harvard-Yale game the attendance was 40,000; at the Yale-Princeton game it was 28,000; at the Harvard-Pennsylvania game, 22,000; at the Yale-Columbia game, 18,000. This with the crowd that saw the army-navy game will make the 130,000. The Pennsylvania-Cornell game drew well, as did the Dartmouth-Brown contest. Lehigh and Lafayette drew 10,000, Pennsylvania and Columbia drew 11,000 and Harvard and the Indians 17,000. Three games at West Point this fall drew about 12,000, bringing the total up to 180,000. Other games too numerous to mention, among them Princeton and Cornell and Harvard and Dartmouth, add materially to the total, which might reach 250,000, and in a comparatively small area of territory. There would have been many more at Cambridge and New Haven had there been room for them. Football does not wear as well as baseball, but outdraws it while it lasts. REQUIRES SON TO QUIT OFFICE Rich British Merchant Leaves a Strange Will on His Demise. Public attention is being drawn in Liverpool, England, to the singular and arbitrary provision contained in the will of the late David Jacobs, which disinherits his son, Julius Jacobs, a member of the Liverpool city council, if he seeks a seat in parliament or in the city council, or continues a member of the city council. Mr. Jacobs has become one of the strongest members of the conservative party. A movement is on foot to test the validity of the clause, which is stated to be both capricious and detrimental to the public welfare. The late David Jacobs was in the tailoring and clothing trade, and left property valued at £65,000 gross. To his daughter he left an annuity, and, after making certain legacies, he leaves the rest of the property in trust for a period of 21 years to accumulate, after which it is to be divided between the two sons and daughter, conditionally. Julius Jacobs has tendered his resignation as a member of the city council. LACK OF COMMA AFFECTS LAW Iowa's Governor Holds New Jersey Statute Is Invalid Because of Poor Punctuation. Gov. Cummins of Iowa has refused the application of New Jersey authorities for the extradition of Fred Shivers, charged at Columbia with wife desertion. The governor considers the New Jersey law invalid because of the omission of a comma and the insertion of a conjunction. The New Jersey law on wife desertion provides for the punishment of men who "desert their wives and leave the state." Gov. Cummins points out that leaving the state must be part of the crime, therefore the crime could not be committed till the offender had left the state, and, having left the state before the crime was committed, he cannot be extradited and returned to the state. State Secret "William," asked his wife, "how did your campaign cost you?" "Ten thousand cigars," replied the successful candidate. "But I'd a little rather, Maria, you wouldn't ask me what the cigars cost." -Chicago Tribune. A man in a top hat and coat walks through a field, holding a walking stick. In the background, there is a small house with a pitched roof and a chimney. WHAT FISH IS REPRESENTED? SOLUTION TO LAST WEEK'S PUZZEL. DRUMFISH. TO.... BOOTH OUR READERS Great THE GENE FROM IN Will be published in this pa We are not going to say mu you why. If we describe the story you have read it that we haver ter you have read it you will It is the story of a fearl hatred of white caps and w them, and—but we must not would be telling, and would ure in reading it. BOOTH TARKINGTON'S RADERS Great American Story THE GENTLEMAN FROM INDIANA published in this paper beginning in a few days. not going to say much about it and we will tell describe the story as it is you will say before read it that we have greatly exaggerated. Af- fore read it you will say we failed to do it justice. the story of a fearless editor who incurred the white caps and was murderously attacked by but we must not say what came of it, for that telling, and would take away from your pleas- ding it. THE GENTLEMAN FROM INDIANA Will be published in this paper beginning in a few days. We are not going to say much about it and we will tell you why. If we describe the story as it is you will say before you have read it that we have greatly exaggerated. After you have read it you will say we failed to do it justice. It is the story of a fearless editor who incurred the hatred of white caps and was murderously attacked by them, and—but we must not say what came of it, for that would be telling, and would take away from your pleasure in reading it. It pictures vividly a phase of life which is too common in America. It ought to be read by every man who loves his country and by every person who loves a lover—for the hero is a passionate lover, whose love making is superb. We know you will read it if you dip into the first chapters—and our word for it, you will enjoy it as you have seldom enjoyed a story. FINANCIAL CONDITION MECHANICS' SAVINGS BANK. Located at Richmond, in the State of Virginia, at the close of business January 22nd, 1904, made to the State Corporation Commission. Loans and Discounts ..... $ 1 345 34 Overdrafts ..... 98 04 Stocks, bonds and mortgages, 4 250 00 Other real estate ..... 35 711 80 Furniture and Fixtures ..... 2 010 62 Exchanges for clearing-house, 312 14 Due from National Banks ..... 2 484 68 Specie, nickels and cents ..... 1 840 24 Paper Ourrency ..... 2 284 00 All other items of Resource, viz: ..... 690 42 Total ..... $41 027 20 ILITIES. Respectfully, BESSIE JOHNSON, A. L. Toliver, p. q. By Oconnell. in. $6 163 03 2 250 00 R.F.&P. Richmond, Fredericks- bm.g & Potomac R. R. Capital stock paid in..... $6 163 08 Surplus fund..... 2 250 00 Undivided profits, less amount paid for interest, expenses and taxes..... 517 53 Individual deposits subject to I, Thomas H. Wyatt, do solemnly swear that the above is a true statement of the financial condition of the Mechanics' Savings Bank, located at Richmond, in the State of Virginia, at the close of business on the 22nd day of January, 1904, to the best of my knowledge and belief. THOMAS H. WYATT, Correct—Attest: Cashier. John Mitchell, Jr.,} W. F. Graham,} J. C. Farley.}Directors. Sworn to and subscribed before me this 26th day of January, 1904. J. Thomas Hewin, Notary Public. STATEMENT. RESOURCES. LIABILITIES check Demand certificates of deposit Time certificates of deposit Certified checks Cashier's checks outstanding, State of Virginia, City of Richmond A man is being attacked by a group of ghostly figures. VIRGINIA—In the Law and Equity Court in the city of Richmond, January 13th, 1094. BESSIE JOHNSON, ..... Plaintiff. VS. BEN JOHNSON, ..... Defendant. In Chancery. The object of this suit is to obtain a divorce, a vinculo matrimonii, on behalf of the plaintiff from the defendant. An affidavit having been made and filibuster the defendant. Ben Johnson, is a non-resident of the State of Virginia, is it ordered that he appear here within fifteen days after due publication of this order and do what is necessary to protect his interest in this case. A copy test. P. P. WINROSS, Clark. A. L. TOLIVER, p. q. That I shall on the 33rd day of February, 1904, between the hours of 9 a.m. and 6 p.m. on that day, at the office Phil B. Shields, Commissioner In Chancery, room 63, Chamber of Commerce Building, in the city of Richmond, Va., proceed take the deposition of witnesses to be read in evidence on my behalf in a certain suit pending in the law and equity Court of the city of Richmond, wherein you are defendant and I am plaintiff.