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THE RICHMOND PLANET Stock=holders Met Fine Showing of the Southern Aid Society. OFFICERS REELECTED—PROMINENT BUSINESS MEN—A SKETCH OF THE PERSONS CONTROLLING AFFAIRS—A FINE SHOWING. The annual meeting of the Stock. In Pythian circles he is generally known holders of Southern Aid Society was as "Our Tom." VOL. XXI NO.9. Stock=ho Fine Showing o Aid S OFFICERS REELECTED MEN-A SKETCH CONTROLLING A SHO The annual meeting of the Stockholders of Southern Aid Society was held on Monday night, January 25th, at the office of the company, 504 N. 2nd St. Very nearly all of the stockholders were present, a few being represented by proxy. One of the principal features of the meeting was the report of the Secretary and General Manager, which showed that the company had enjoyed the most prosperous year of its existence. The increase in membership was exceedingly large as was also the cash receipts and real estate holdings. The excess of business over that of the preceding year was very near $7000. It has real estate to its credit in Richmond and Newport News valued at $0000, which not only places it among the most substantial corporations of its kind in this State, but gives it a financial standing second to none, and secures its policy-holders in case of increased sickness and death. The company has been able to pay all of its just claims promptly and has established an unshaken confidence. The name, Southern Aid is a household word, and its reputation for prompt payment of claims is quite an enviable one. The report of the condition of the work was most gratifying to the Stockholders, who were unstinted in their praise of the officers in charge of the affairs. Rev. Z. D. Lewis, the company's first president, made a speech complimenting the officials for their work. He made a most excellent comparison of the past and present condition, and was listened to with marked attention. The officers and directors were all reelected, which is indeed an evidence of the confidence indeed their ability by the Stockholders. Messrs. J. V. Carter, B. L. Jordan, Rev. Sidney Stanton, Mossrs. H. B. Burwell, Walter E. Baker, Armistead Washington and Thos. M. Crump made speeches, thatking the Stockholders for their re-election and complimentary remarks. MR. ARMISTEAD WASHINGTON. Officers and Directors for the ensuing year are Mr. Armistead Washington, President. He is also President of the St. Luke's Association, Director of the Richmond Hospital, Deacon and Treasurer of the Second Baptist Church and has been for many years with Dr. Wm. H. Taylor, State Chemist. He is known for his veracity, keen insight in business matters and is considered by those who know him to be one of the best and most successful financiers in the world. That is a college graduate, he has, from his wide experience in business, won the reputation of having an extraordinary amount of common sense and his opinions are sought by many. To have the benefit of his judgment means success. MR. EDWARD STEWART Mr. Edward Stewart, Vice-President, conducts a well-stocked grocery store at 205 S. Second street, between Canal and Byrd Sts. He is better known by "Ed." Stewart, and his name is a household word. He is polite, affable and easily approached, and his trade among the white people is as great as among the people of his race. His business is successfully run and he enjoys the confidence of the public. He is chairman of the Trustee Board of the Second Baptist Church and his influence has been much felt. MR. WALTER E. BAKER. Mr. Walter E. Baker, Treasurer, is a young man who has spent all of his years conducting the wholesale and retail liquor business for Mr. A. W. Rosene at 13th and Cary Sts. There is scarcely a man or boy who is employed in that vicinity who does not know him. He is faithful, honest and a thorough business man. He knows how to make friends, a gift that many persons do not possess. MR. THOS M. CRUMP. Mr. Thos. M. Crump, Secretary and General Manager, won his business reputation while engaged as bookkeeper and assistant manager of the Richmond PLANET, a position he held with credit to himself and honor to his employer for eight years and 6 months. He is Grand Keeper of Records and Seal of the Grand Lodge of Virginia, Knights of Pythias; Secretary of the Board of Directors of the Mechanics' Savings Bank; Colonel of the 1st regiment, Uniform Rank, Knights of Pythias; Director of the Y.M.C.A., and Chorister of the Second Baptist Church choir. He is widely known throughout the State for his business tact. He is courteous and easily approached, and has made a most successful manager. MR. B. L. JORDAN Mr. B. L. Jordan, General Inspector, is one of the youngest men on the Board. He was for several years the most successful agent of the company, and resigned to accept the position as manager of the mercantile department of the True Reformers. While in this position he established all of the large stores operated by this organization. That he was successful has been more than once conceded by the officials of the organization. He is a thorough business man, enjoys the distinction of being a graduate of the Baltimore Business College. He is a valuable man to the company, being also a member of the Anciting Committee. He is Superintendent of the Fountain Baptist Church Sunday School. MR. JAS. T. CARTER. Mr. Jas. T. Carter is probably the youngest man on the Board and is chairman of the Auditing Committee. He is at present, and has been for several years, the stenographer and copyist for the firm Messrs. Christian & Christian, Chamber of Commerce Building. He is the only man of his race in this city holding such a position with a white firm. He is unassuming, careful, painstaking, well versed in many practical law points and noted for his dignified manner. He is a fluent speaker, a quick thinker, a man of considerable discretion and judgment and the safeguards of the corporation. He is a teacher in the normal department of the Second Baptist Church Sunday School. REV. SIDNEY STANTON. Rev. Sidney Stanton is a member of the Auditing Committee. He has for a number of years been with H. W. Rountree & Bro., trunk and bag manufacturers, as foreman in the shipping department, a position of great responsibility. He is a man of wide experience and knows what business is and how it should be conducted. He is noted for his dignified bearing and Christian qualities. He is also Superintendent of the normal department of the Second Baptist Church Sunday School and is an earnest worker. MR. A. D. PRICE. Mr. A. D. Price is the most prominent funeral director in this city and probably the most widely known member of the Board. He needs no introduction to the public, for he has, by his sympathetic, humane, yet business like manner in dealing with his many patrons, won their respect esteem and contends with his broad views and high aspiration in his judgment is worth a great deal to this corporation, having had considerable experience in insurance matters. MR. H. B. BURWELL. Mr. H. B. Burwell, the junior member of the Board, is cool, calm and not easily excited. He is a man of munc discretion, has the courage of his convictions and unswerving in his opinion. He is one of the most reliable agents of the company and a man of integrity and forethought. He is a successful music teacher, in fact one of the most successful in this city. He is organist of the Second Baptist Church and Sunday School and has been for a number of years. With such men as these directing and managing a corporation, success is an assured fact, because they have been successful along individual lines. One of the best proofs of a man's capability to handle the business of others is to handle successfully his own. The public has the company's thanks for their patronage and best wishes, and we trust to be able to continue to merit their esteem and confidence. Hustling agents can get employment with the Southern Aid at all times. The people know our ability to keep our obligations, and you can make money by representing us if you are energetic. Should our agents fall to call on you, contact us, 504 N. Second St., Richmond, Va. Thank you again for your very liberal patronage in the past and praying a continuance of the same, we are. Yours respectfully. Boy Preacher Here. Mr. J. L. Washington, the eloquent Boy Preacher, called on us. He is now engaged in evangelistic work in this city. His blind father is here at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Jackson. He is looking well and expresses the intention of attending school next fall. RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1904. Baptist Ministers' Conference. An interesting programme was executed at the conference last Monday morning; but owing to the sadness caused by the deaths of Revs. R. C. Kemp and W. W. Christie it was not so sunshine as heretofore. The brethren spoke in highest terms of both of the deceased elders, whose work have been so helpful in our community as pastors. The names of Revs. J. Andrew Bowler and D. W. Davis were entered as members. The visitors present were Drs. Green, of the A. M. E. Church; Pinkney, of the A. M. E. Church; Rev. Washington and Rev. Goff. Rev. Goff made a very happy address. He is the able young pastor of River Mount Baptist Church, Lynchburg, Va., editor of the Interpreter and leader of the Great Royal Order of Joseph. President Archer Fergusen ruled in his usual dignified manner. Rev. W. W. Young conducted the devotional exercises. Dr. W. T. Johnson read the minutes. Mr. T. H. Ellett, one of the leading business white men of the city, appeared before the conference in behalf of preaching services for the prisoners on the State farm. He made a very touching statement, and it is hoped in the future that arrangements will be made by which members of the conference may safely visit the farm and preach to the prisoners. Rev. A. S. Thomas preached a very able sermon before the conference from Mark 16:15, "The Divine Commission Unlimited." The sermon was full of rich thought, well analyzed and eloquently delivered. It was discussed by Rev. Dr. Lewis and others, and accepted with thanks by the conference. Arrangements were made for attending the funerals of the two deceased pastors. The conference was very largely attended. Next Monday the special order of business will be the arrangements for religious services at the State farm. $100 Endowment Paid. This is to certify that I have received from John Mitchell, Jr., Grand Worthy Counsellor of the Grand Court of Virginia, ($100.00) One Hundred Dollars in payment of the death claim of Sister Millie Jackson, who was a member of Dora's Court, No. 41, I. O. of Calanthe, Signed:— JAMES HENRY JACKSON, Witnesses: Beneficiary. Mary L. Merchant. Dora J. Sears. 8150 Endowment Paid. Norfolk, Va., Jan. 29, 1904. This is to certify that I have received from John Mitchell, Jr., Grand Chancellor of the Grand Lodge of Virginia, Knights of Pythias, ($150.00) One Hundred and Fifty Dollars, in payment of the death claim of Buddie Olds who was a member of Golden Seal Lodge, No. 39, Knights of Pythias, N. A., S. A., E. A., A. and A. of Norfolk, Va. Signed:— EMMY X OLDS. Witnesses: mark W. T. Capps, Golden Seal Lodge, No. 39, K. of P. J. C. Wilson, C. C., Friendship No. 3. J. W. Gramby, D. D. G. C. —Mr. Herbert Fitzgerald of Blackstone, Va., visited our office this week. —Mr. J. W. Thompson is as yet confined to his residence, No. 104 W. Jackson St. —Cashier E. A. Washington of the Nickel Savings Bank is indisposed. Now is the time to save, or if you are anxious to own a home, start now. Try the Mechanics' Savings Bank. It is one of the strongest and best institutions in the city. Mr. F. H. M. Murray, editor of the Home News, of Alexandria, Va., and Mr. W. S. Blackburn, editor of the Mirror, of Daxville, Va., in company with Mr. George St. Julien Stephens, called on us. We return thanks for an invitation to the Full Dress Stag of the Richmond City Gun Club, Feb. 10 at 10 p.m., at the League Cafe, Mr. G. W. Bragg, president; Mr. D. A. Ferguson, secretary. The event promises to be one of the finest of the season. Mr. George Williams, Jr., of Lynchburg, Va., called on us and also Mr. George F. Knickerbrocker of Washington. The Mechanics' Savings Bank pays interest on deposits. It is one of the safest money depositories in the city. Call and see Cashier Wyatt. One Exception. "All the world loves a lover," quoted the young man who was making his first call. "You haven't met papa yet, have you?" queried the fair maid in the parlor scene.—Chicago Daily News. No Hope for Her A good parti was bragging before a lot of girls as to how, when he married, he should go off after the wedding with his cigar in his mouth. A handsome girl, who was suspected of having done her best to catch him, exclaimed: "Disgusting! I should knock it out of your mouth!" "Pardon me," was the retort, "you would not be there."-Tit-Bits. GOV.W.F.TAFT SUGGEEDS ROOT New Secretary of War Sworn in and Assumes Office. GOV. WRIGHT INAUGURATED Washington, Feb. 2.—Governor William H. Taft has taken the oath of office as secretary of war, and at once Secretary of War Taft. entered upon his new duties. The ceremony took place in the large reception room attached to the secretary's office in the war department, and the transfer of authority from Elhuh Root, the retiring secretary, to Governor Taft, while simply made, was more impressive than any similar event in many years. The rom was cleared of all except the participants in the induction save the party of friends and the members of the general staff. Governor Taft and Secretary Root took their places at the long table where stood John Randolph, a notary, who administered the oath of office to the incoming secretary. Then there were congratulations showered upon Secretary Taft and good-byes were said to Secretary Root. Every army officer on duty in Washington was alligned at the doorway, and the brilliantly uniformed column passing before the retiring and incoming secretaries formed a pretty spectacle. Secretary Taft was in the beat of spirits, and he had a smile and good word for every one, while Secretary Root showed in his countenance the relief he felt in laying down the cares of the great office. Hanging in his office as the new secretary was inducted into the arduous duties of his post, was the picture of his distinguished father, Alphonso Taft, who was President Grant's secretary of war in 1876. Thus father and son have held the same portfolio, this being the second instance in the history of the war department, the first being presented in the incumbency of Simon Cameron under Lincoln and James D. Cameron, his son, under Grant. GOV. WRIGHT 1NAUGURATED Imposing Demonstration at Manila, In- including Parade of 3000 Troops. Manila, Feb. 2.—Governor Luke E. Wright and Vice Governor Henry C. J. EULK E. WRIGHT, GOVERNOR OF THE PHILIP- IPINES. Ide were inaugurated here. There was an imposing demonstration, including a brilliant military pageant, about 3000 troops being in line. After taking the oath of office, Governor Wright delivered his inaugural address. It was a straightforward speech, dealing with the most important interests of the islands. Governor Wright invited attention to the improvements that had been accomplished in the Philippines under American rule and declared his intention of adhering to the principles of the Taft administration. He urged Americans to establish cordial personal and business relations with the Filipinos, who must constitute their chief customers. Governor Wright asked for the sympathetic co-operation of all classes, to whom, he said, were assured equal opportunities for advancement. Senator Hanna Improving. Washington, Feb. 3.—Senator M. A. Hanna, who suffered a temporary setback by venturing from his sick chamber to soon, is again on the mend and his physician says his condition is favorable. It probably will be a week, however, before the senator is permitted to leave the house, as the doctor thinks absolute rest and care are necessary in order to prevent another relapse. CZAR CONSIDERS REPLY May Take Several Days to Review Answer to Japan. St. Petersburg, Feb. 3—The czar now has before him the report of the special council on the Russian response. All the papers relating there-to were submitted to him yesterday by the Grand Duke Alexis, and the czar is giving them earnest consideration. He had not rendered his decision up to last evening, and it is authoritatively said it may possibly be several days before the response is forwarded to Tokio. A dispatch from Vladivostock, issued here by a semi-official agency, says the Russian fleet at Vladivostock has been fully equipped for immediate service and prepared for sea. All the wood fittings of the ships have been removed. The harbor is being kept open by ice breakers. Hopeful Feeling In Washington. Washington, Feb. 3.—If the Russian reply indicates a willingness on the part of the St. Petersburg government to conform to the general lines of Japan's last proposition it is learned on adequate authority that a continuation of the negotiations in the earnest efforts to reach a final settlement by diplomacy may be expected. The qualifying statement is added, however, that Japan's last note was at the time declared to set forth an irreducible minimum of her demands, and it is difficult for those conversant with the Japanese position to believe that any important departure from the general lines of that note would be acceptable at Tokio. IS MRS. MAYBRICK FREE? Reported Release From British Prison Shrouded In Mystery. London. Feb. 1.—In spite of the mystery with which officials shroud the action in connection with the reported release of Mrs. Florence Maybrick, who is serving a life sentence for poisoning her husband, it can be definitely said that she has been removed from Aylesbury prison. At the United States embassy it was most emphatically declared that she had not been pardoned and that she was still a prisoner. Where she has been taken remains a mystery, but reports from Aylesbury are to the effect that she has been removed to some institution in Cornwall. The home office and the governor of Aylesbury prison refuse to make any kind of a statement on the subject. If the ordinary course had been followed, Mrs. Maybrick would have been taken to Holloway if her immediate release were contemplated, but she is not there and has probably been removed to some other prison of less rigorous discipline, where she can recuperate prior to her release. Or, possibly, she has been conveyed to one of the government homes of detention or to an asylum. The Daily Mall this morning says that Mrs. Maybrack is now in Liverpool, and that the following conditions attach to her release from prison: That she will not appear on the public stage or write a book of her experiences and shall in no way endeavor to attract public attention to herself. COLOMBIAN TROOPS FIGHTING Panama Hears They Had Conflict With Indians On San Blas Coast. Panama, Feb. 3.—A report has reached the Isthmus that Colombian troops are fighting with the Indians on the San Blas coast, which is in Panamanian territory. It is impossible, however, to obtain reliable confirmation of this. The United States gunboat Bancroft was to have sailed from Colon to Bocas del Toro, but these orders were countermanded at the last moment because of the report of fighting on the coast. A letter was received here some time ago from Captain Torrets, commanding the Panamanian troops at Chapo, on the south side of the Isthmus and directly south of the San Blas country, saying that he had decided to cross over to the Atlantic side. There is a possibility that the Indians are fighting with Captain Torrets' command, mistaking them for Colombians. BEGHTEL FAMILY MAKE CHARGES Petition Court to Punish District Attorney Lichtenwainer. TELLS OF INSULTING CONDUCT Allentown, Pa., Jan. 30. — Charges were preferred against District Attorney E' J. Lichtenwalner to Judge Frank M. Trexler in chambers alleging gross misconduct on the part of the district attorney before and during the Bechtel trials. They were filed by Attorney William J. Jones, on behalf of Allison K. Brobst, Mrs. Bechtel's son-in-law, complainant, in the form a petition to the court. The petition of Mr. Brobst sets forth that the district attorney "has wilfully and grossly neglected to comply with his duties, much to the chagrin and humiliation of the deponent, his wife and her family, as well as the counsel." It is further alleged that the district attorney on October 27, 1903, at the beginning of his inquiries into the death of Mabel Bechtel, "grossly and negligently conducted the same while in a state of intoxication and in an insulting manner," toward the family of the murdered girl; that the district attorney later, in the course of the several trials, did attempt to conduct the same "while in a state of intoxication, which fact compelled your honor to adjourn court until the following day, when he was again incompetent to try the cases properly because of his condition the day previous;" that on Thursday, January 21, he was "again unable to appear at the afternoon session of court and had to be taken away from the law library, thereby throwing upon his assistant the entire onus of the trial, which again constituted wilful and gross negligence on his part." Attached to the complaint of Mr. Brobst are several affidavits in support of his allegations. The first one on the list is that of Mrs. Catharine Bechtel, the mother of the murdered girl, and in it she affirms, among other things, that when, on October 27, the district attorney called at her home he was in a state of intoxication. She asserts that she was ill and nervous and was barely conscious of what was going on. "I remember," she states, "that the district attorney staggered and I was really afraid of him. He seated himself on the couch beside me and announced that he had come to get evidence to hang David Wcisenberger. He embraced me and repeatedly kissed me. I made attempts to repulse him, but in my weakened condition I was unable to do so. I was so overcome with grief and emotion and so frightened and insulted at the man's actions that I became partly unconscious and don't remember clearly what happened save that he thrust money in my hand. "I resented the manner in which the said Lichtenwalner acted toward my daughters. I saw him embrace and try to kiss my daughter Martha. I next recall that the police entered to take Lichtenwalner from the house." Mrs. Harry D. Newhard, in her affavit, avers that Lichtenwalner was insulting and tried to embrace her, Mrs. Newhard says Lichtenwalner made improper proposals to other women in the house, and to Mrs. Brobst, sister of the murdered girl, he offered a ring. Mrs. Brobst makes similar charges against Lichtenwalner in her affidavit. She alleges that he took her "mother around the neck, kissed her repeatedly and hugged her roughly." "Then," the affidavit goes on, "Lichtenwalner sat beside my mother while lying on the couch and presented her with his endearments and pretended to console her as follows: 'Your darling, dear, beloved daughter Mabel.' Then Lichtenwalner ordered ham and eggs and drink and cigars to be brought, as though in a saloon, and wanted a cab to be brought to carry my mother home, not knowing that she was then home. He persisted in his behavior and I was forced to have an officer called." Martha Bechtel, also a sister of the murdered girl, corroborated the testimony of her mother and Mrs. Brobst, and says "Lichtenwalner, who was in a state of intoxication, came to me while seated in a rocking chair, leaned over me, grasping the arms of the chair so that I could not escape and leaned into my face." (Here follow charges of improper proposals.) The papers were filed and the case will come up for a hearing on Monday. Hearing Postponed Allentown, Pa., Feb. 2.—Edwin J. Lichtenwalner, the accused district attorney of Lehigh county, resented the institution of the Bechtel family that he was no gentleman. He appeared in court ready to fight any charges that might be made against him. Judge Trexler decided, however, that the time was not yet ripe, and fixed Friday, March 11, as the date for a formal hearing. Probably the best criminal lawyers in Lehigh county will defend Mr. Lichtenwalner. He announced that he had engaged former Judge Edward Harvey and State Senator Arthur G. Dewalt to represent him. Mr. Harvey was the Democratic candidate who opposed the present Judge Trexler in the exciting campaign last fall. Still Balloting In Maryland Annapolis, Md., Feb. 3.—The Maryland legislature in joint session balloted for United States senator, with the following result: Democrats—Isidor Rayner, 35; John Walter Smith, 29; Bernard Carter, 9; E. E. Jackson, 7. Republican—Louis E. McComas, 23. Necessary to elect, 57. A WEEK'S NEWS CONDENSED Thursday, January 28. In a collision of trolley cars at St. Louis, more than 20 persons were injured, some fatally. Oscar Murray, president of the B. & O. railroad, has been elected president of the B. & O. S. W. The National Editorial Association will hold its 19th annual convention in St. Louis May 16, 17, 18 and 19. President Roosevelt has appointed John L. Snelling apperiser of customs at Boston, vice A. W. Brown, resigned. Governor Pennypacker, of Pennsylvania, has ordered an investigation into the mine disaster at Cheswick, Pa. The Canadian Pacific Railway has placed an order for 40,000 tons of steel rails with the Pennsylvania Steel company. Friday, January 29. Three children of Louis Cohen, of New York, were suffused in a tenement house fire. General Joseph Darr, formerly chief of staff of General Rosecrans, died at his home in Washington. Thirteen inches of snow fell at Jackson, Miss., the heaviest fall of snow known there in 25 years. Caleb Thorpe, aged 103 years, believed to have been the oldest soldier in the Civil War, died at his home at Millersburg. O. A dispatch from Bessemer, Mont., says the copper country has experienced the coldest weather in its history, thermometers registering 48 degrees below zero. Saturday, January 30. Earl McCann, aged 7 years, of Wilmington, Del., was burned to death by his clothing catching fire while passing a stove. Officers of the Clairton Steel company, Pittsburg, Pa., say there is no deal pending to transfer the plant to the United States Steel company. Another speed trial of the new United States protected cruiser Denver, which failed to reach contract speed, will be held the latter part of February. As the result of an explosion following an attempt to hurry a fire with coal oil, Mrs. A. F. Gray, of Pittsburg, Pa., is dead and six of her family seriously injured, one fatally. Monday, February 1. Enough new Springfield rifles will be ready by late summer to equip the entire United States army. Dr. Jacob Cooper, professor of philosophy at Rutger's College, New Brunswick, N. J., died of pneumonia, aged 74 years. The Eastern Alumni Association of Franklin and Marshall College, of Lancaster, Pa., held their annual meeting and banquet at Allentown. Authority has been given to open a national bank on the exposition grounds at St. Louis, to be operated only as long as the fair lasts. Carbic acid, taken with sulcidal intent, because she was sent home from school, caused the death at New York of Anna Reindeers, aged 16 years. Tuesday, February 2. The prison at Dawson Springs, Ky., was destroyed by fire and one prisoner burned to death. The report of Treasurer Harris, of Pennsylvania, for January, shows a balance of $10,431,057 in the general fund. While walking home from a nearby town, Robert Hines, a farmer, of Petersburg, Ill., was frozen to death in a snow drift. Senator Penrose introduced a bill to appropriate $100,000 for the erection of a statue of Abraham Lincoln in Washington, D. C. Mrs. Anne Hurd, aged 71 years, was killed by falling down stairs and breaking her neck at her home at, Wilmington, Del. Wednesday, February 3. The national committee of the Socialist party has re-elected William Mally, of Boston, national secretary. The Kentucky legislature has postponed indefinitely consideration of a bill designed to disfranchise illiterate negroes. Two children of Frank Bennett, of Somerset, Pa., were burned to death in a fire which destroyed their home. A lamp explosion caused the fire. , i 2 oe . > Ses Bins a aWe- A TEI PR eA x SRS r cs vy Me, xy appease =" 9 erry SATURDAY.....FEBRUARY 6, 190 LOVE UNDERSTANDS. ‘Eg often sald that 1dve is blind, t faults it cannot see &m the beloved and most "cored ‘ Bui it scoms more to me hat love vill gain an inner sight, ‘The depth of soul to know, Where others but the surface see, And not the heart's warm glow. ‘Whey do not se the heart concealed And bid trom human sight, Which is reveaied to the twin soul Who has the inner tight, ‘To see and read the ioved one’s thoughts, ‘And eympathy to feq. With his desires and alms of tife, And all that is most real ‘Bhe knows his motives for each deed, And judges him aright; Wor she isever guided by Love's clearer, inner licht; She, too, has mercy for his faulte, _gAnd leads his soul above ‘To hetghes where she will help him soar By the sweet power of love She knows the snares of human ilfe, And knows that there may be Some faults in every mortal soul; Hut through them, learns to see _ ‘The sweet and tender soul beneath ‘The Little faults he owns, An her eyes, loving tenderness For many? faulis. atones —Bartha Shepard Lippincott, in Good Houseker ping. | By J. c. PLUMMER POSOSLOODSOO0O98O9OOO ie WOULD be just my blooming luck to meet Mackay to-night,” muttered apt. Duncan Strong, of the steamer ‘Walisman, as he walked unsteadily up Bhe street. - An evening spent with fellow cap- @ains, jovial and bibulous, is vot con- ucive to sobricty and, despite resolves to the contrary, Capt, Strong left the Barty drunk. Most people would regard an oc- ‘easional lapse from #briety as a mere matter of a headache, brandy aud soda anda brand new resolve, but it was not Just ro with Capt. Strong. He was much ‘4m love with Doris Grey, one of the pret- Gest girls in Newcastie, and he was en- @aged to her provisionally. He had Promised to refrain absolutely from ‘@rdent spirits and on this promise Miss Grey had allowed herself to be engaged. ‘As & private citizen's actions are not of (xternational importance, it would seem Possible for Capt. Strong to get drunk in America and his dereliction not be known to a girl in England, but there ‘was Mackay. Capt. Mackay, a stern old temperance mdvocate, secretary of the Seaman's Blue Ribbon society, was Doris Grey’s ancile and guardian. It was Mackay ‘who had consented with a bad grace to Ais niece's engagement on the promise alluded to, and it was Mackay who would instantly have it broken if the @romise was not kept. His influence over her was great and she was also an enthusiastic temperance worker who Bated strong drink as flercely as did her uncle. Capt. Mackay was now in Baltimore fu command of his steamer and hence the foreboding that the unfortunate fate ef Capt. Strong would bring him in ‘eontact with Captain Mackay this very - evening. “It would be just my luck,” muttered the captain, gloomily. “I'll take a tram and go to the steamer.” He entered the car with wavering wtep, fell heavily into a seat and his eS VB hy had , Ma RI a Wp he (i, Sle) dae © : a we Ae f 4 fet | Hox aon EGE Haas een AND eves roved vacuously around the car un- ‘tM they fixed themselves with a stony stare for, directly opposite with a queer expression on his weather beaten face, Capt. Andrew Mackay. He had wit- Serechiiseaateance of Capt, Strong into ‘Whe car and was evidently fully aware of the cause of his stumbling into the eat. For & moment the befogged brain os Capt. Strong wrestled with the problems as to whether he should speak to Mac- kay, keep silent or get off the car, but Mackay settled the matter by arising jand abruptly getting off the car himself. ‘Capt. Strong’s eyes followed him as, ‘onder the glare of astreet lamp, he walked with a strangely halting step to ke pavement and then stood with bis rm around the lamp post. | “He's 60 angry he can’t sen walk,” faurmured Capt. Strong to himself, “it’s Bll over with me now.” During the next day Capt. Strong ex ected a visit, a thunderous and denun- elatory visit, from Mackay, but the visit ‘Was not paid and in the afternoon Capt Mackay’s steamer pulled out of the pier &nd started on her voyage to Englend, Jeaving Cupt. Strong in a most perturbed satate of mind. Some men conceal their troubles in ‘thelr breasts as the Spartan boy did the fox and Jet it enaw there, but others eek te teak tek a Mr. Stokes listened sympathetically. He was not a Blue Ribboner and he had sailed a number of years with Capt. Mackay. “The pint of the thing is that Mackay didn’t see you drink banything, so he can't swear you were drunk. Wertige ’s the word for this mix,” remarked the old man, coolly. | “Vertigo?” exclaimed Capt. Strong. “Yes, wertigo, men stagger hawful When they have it and it’s a common complaint.” “I don't want to lie about it,” objected Capt. Strong. | “Theré's times when lying must be done,” said Mr. Stokes with firmness, “and this is one of them.” ‘The bewildered captain considered the “situation without committing himself _ to Mr. Stokes” expedient. | When the Talisman entered the Tyne tt was too late to dock, so she dropped her anchors in the stream. Capt. Strong | did not go ashore. Newcastle had no charms for him. To be coldly recetved by Doris was a blow from which he re- colled and he felt sure, strong-minded, enthusiastic girl as she was, that his | Weakness would be bitterly resented. He | imply turned In and dreamed éepress- ing dreams, In the morning he started for the of- fice to report his arrival and on the way eame face to face with Doris. She ac- knowledged his salutation coldly: and swiftly passed on without giving bim a chance to say a word, When the cap- | tain returned to his steamer In the low- est possible spirits Stokes confronted him at the gangway. He had a grin on his face as he sald: “Capt. Mackay’s been aboard. He wanted to have a talk with me and says ‘he wants to see you,” Capt. Strong said nothing. He didnot | want to see Mackay and he walked up and down the bridge until the whirr and clatter of the blocks as they hoisted up the cargo ret him mad and he left the ship. He went to the office, where a clerk told him Capt. Mackay had en- quired for him. What could Mackay want with him, To insult him probably on top of bis present troubles, He would stand no lecturing from him. He took a long walk into the suburbs and | was returning slowly when he felt him- self seized and pushed against a wall. “Wertizo,” exclaimed Stokes’ yotce, “It'll be the death of *im.” Strong angrily chook hitiself free and {was about to pour out the vials of his wrath on Stokes when he noticed Miss Grey standing near laughing. “I hope you will recover, Capt. Strong,” she said and walked on. | “What the devil did you mean by that?" asked the captain of the grinning Stokes, “L was a helpin’ you out don’t you see? 1 was a showin’ theyoung leddy how yu had vertigo,.” and with this remark Mr, Stokes disappeared into a public house, Capt. Strong continued his course to sthe steamer and was disagreeably sur- prised to find Capt. Mackay seated in the cabin waiting for him. | “I want to have a word or two with you, Duncan,” said he." “The last time we met was in a tram car in Baltimore.” j Capt. Strong nodded sulkily. ! “I suppose you thought It queer T did not speak to you in the tram?” con- | tinued Mackay. As Capt. Strong did not think it was diieer he said nothing, “You see,” said Mackay, moistening his lips as If the words did not come freely, "I had a bad attack of vertigo and when {t comes on I can't ride and can’t speak a word to any one.” Capt. Strong stared at him fn mute wonder. “I knew you were hurt at my not speak- ing to you,” resumed Mackay, “and 1 wanted to explain. Now, I don't want | you to say anything to Doris about my Attack, as she 1s so easily alarmed about sickness, Come up to-night.” After Mackay had left and he had come out of his trance of astonishment, Capt. Strong fe't Ike shcuting with joy. Evi- ‘dently Mackay bad told Doris nothing. ‘There was somthing mysterious about it, but this fact was evident and he hastily dressed himself to call on her. As he carve on deck he noted Mr. Stokes in convu.sions of mirth leaning against | the side, “What did he say,” enquired that grotleman in a voice stifled with laughter. “Vehat did you say to Capt. Mackay?” asked Capt. Strong. A “He wanted adwice,” replied Mr. Stokes, choking with laughter, “and I gave it to him.” Strong raised his hand menacingly, Dut Stokes escaped below and the cap- tain hastened to call on Doris. He soon found her coldness of the previous day ‘was the result of pique that he did not come to see her the evening of his ar- tival. He had « most pleasant visit and returned to the steamer in high spirits, | “I'd never have thought It of Mackay, never,” sald Capt. Strong to himself as _ he went to bed. Abyssinia. Abyssinia, an African empire known to the ancients as Ethiopia, is rapidly rising in importance. industrially and commercially. It is presided over by @ emperor with the title “Negus Ne- gust,” which signifies “king of kings.” ‘The president ruler is Menelik II, born in 1842, @ man of rather remarkable character and singular clear-headed- neas for one 50 far separated from the outside influences of the civilized world. The area of the country is about 150,000 square miles and the pop- ulation is a little less than 4,000,000, The last census estimates it to be 3,500,000. The chief industries of the empire are the rearing of cattle, sheep and goats, and the cultivation of bar- Jey, dhurra, wheat, hops and tobacco for home consumptiop, ; Missionaries Need *Km. Among the presents on a South Orang? (3) Sonday schoo! tree was 2 num of rifiee. Preparing the boys to be- come missionaries? asks the Buiiulo ix- PANEL Ko aaitent 8 okays: Chicago Restanrants Vindicnted. ' One man ate so much in a Chicage restaurant that be dropped dead, re- amarks the News of that city. Doesn't that rather vindicate out restaurants? The Heroine. In the drama of existence, Should you take a searching look, You will find tke lending indy | Very atten te the cook. THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. _—————————_————— a SNS . ToMespins, bread, bluing, aid svery- Bmiled again, EVIL OMENS DEFIED, Toca teat we ae sre patted seat ——— $7.50. But, says the Chicago Inter resting on the Brides Had More Courage Than the Soo ie tim ges Nowene him a hero, the anarchists Men They Married. | Thursday night when his wife, Mrs. “Why, that, aon | Caroline Buchholz, went to their home “is only a At 820 Herndon street, Chicago, after Moldty They Flew tm the Face of AU g hard day's work, she called her hus- [—=====— ) the Superstitions of Our Gramd- band in from the kitchen, where he | === | mothers—Took a Bridegroom | was preparing supper, and asked for an | === from City Jail. | Srsparing Sepper, and as SE Most young people contemplating matrimony prefer .o have good omens for the eventful day. It may be that they are not superstitious—no one real- ly is, of course—but just the same on that day they prefer to have every- thing proceed auspiciously. Even when the brice and groom ob- Ject_to old suces and white ribbons the oride will not only consent but may ask for a hanaful of rice, “just for luck.” It fs certain that most brides would refuse absolutely to be married on Fri- day, most of the small minority wao would not object to Friday would balk at Friday, the 13th of the month. Tt happens, however, that some young people have laughed at all the terrors of auch superstitions. In the first case it was tue bride who was courageous. Lemuel W. Morse, of Bayonne, N. J., had fallen in love with Miss Emma Johnson, of Pensacola, Fla, then on visit ‘to the northern town. It came time for her to go home and Morse endeavored to pre- vent it, ive Friday,” he sald. “It's a bad day for a railroad trip.” | “Lam not frightened,” sald Miss Johnson, laughing. The separation might mean the end of thelr friendship and acquaintance; 80 Morse braced nimself and made an- ‘other objection. “It’s the 13th of the month,” he con- ‘tinued. __ “1'm not at all superstitious,” she re- ‘plied. | ‘The young man was downcast for a ‘moment and then he recovered des- perately. “Will you marry me?” he asked. “Yes,” she answered. Since she had not objected to Friday, and the 13th with regard to the rail: | Toad trip, she could not object to them with regard to a marriage. It took place that day. As this all happened }in November, tt Is too early to say whether they were unwise or not—bnt of course every one hopes that they were not. Itremained fora Pacific coast couple to, brave all the alleged danger of ‘dad omens. They were married on Friday, the 13th. ‘They sat down with 13 at ‘the wedding breakfast. They fairly harried the 13 superstition to l¢ plige. SEZ ms: 4 HF an 7) en “ hy Mn te ! (2 rl 0 death. They took a train leaving at 13 minutes after the hour. The groom received 13 cents in change from the Ucket agent. They carried exactly 13 pieces of baggage and parcels. ‘The groom broke a mirror intentionally, and if there was ary superstition they did not brave it was because they did Bot know of it. Then they laughed and departed on their honeymoon. | There were several other marriages jf recent date in which the supersti- tions were dared to do their worst. hese are the exceptions, however, which may prove the rule that most brides and bridegrooms prefer not to take any chances with something Sich may do no harm but which ‘might cause them to look back and wonder if that were the cause of their misforiune, | Tt may not be a particularly bad omen to take a bridegroom out of jail. Common sense and not superstition might argue against that. Mise Mina Bennis, of New York, has defied them both. Her sweetheart was in the Lud- low street jail. She married him there and bas just secured his release. Mor- rig Tannenbaum, the young man she has married, had been in the prison since October on a charge of breach of promise made against him by Mrs Frida Rosenthal, a widow twice as old as himself. She brought a sult for $10,000 damages. A civil process wae fesued and he was put in jail. Tannenbaum had been engaged to be married for eix yoars to Mina. They had known each other since ebild- hood and only waited until they were at age to be married, ‘When Miss Bennié’ friends @ld her that her fiancé had made love to the attractive widew, Mra, Rosenthal, she Tefused to delieve ft, and said that she would stick ta Morris even if he ‘Were in prison. She called to see birt 4nd was glad to hear him say that he [never promfued to marry the widow. | Mina said that she would do all she ‘ould to help free him from prison | Bhe offered to marry him in jail, amd he agreed. Wits Boats a Hero. Bus*and Kepe Rouxe on $9.05 a Week and In Rewarded by Being Wed and Pounted. ‘This hasband swept “he floors, made the heds, couse three meats every day, did the washing and looked after the chikiren. His wife was away for two ‘weeks making the living. Then he was Jmaten and arrested, because the fort- gight’s expenses, including sap, ‘Gothespins, bread, bluing, afi@ svery- thing else needed to run the place were $7.50. But, says the Chicago Inter Ocean, the judge thought him a hero, and let him go. ‘Thursday night when his wife, Mrs. Caroline Buchholz, went to their home at 820 Herndon street, Chicago, after &® hard day’s work, she called her hus- band in from the kitchen, where he was preparing supper, and asked for an account of his stewardship: “I spent $7.50, all the money you gave me,” said Buchholz, as he wiped his hands on his apron. “What! $7.50 to run this house only two weeks!” the wife shouted, and, ac- cording to the police, she tied her hua- AY We S gus OM : ws { ) Ae “Nh A a? M7 i ek ize band’s feet with a clothesline and sent for the police, When a wagon load of policemen [trom the Sheteld avenue’ station Teached the house they found Buchholz ‘helpless on the floor. He was being beaten by his wife, and was crying to her to desist. “Arrest that man for disorderly con- duct!” shouted the woman of tho house. “He spent $7.50 in two weeks!” ‘The police cut the man’s cords and took him te the station. His wife ap- eared against him in the court of Jus- tice Mahoney, She wanted to charge him with larceny as baflee, but she changed the charge to disorderly con- duet. “Enough.” sata Justice Mahoney, ‘when ue heard this much of the evi- dence. “A man who could keep house on $7.80 for one week, let alone two, ought to have a gold medal.” Mrs. Buchholz and ber husband lock- ef arms and left the station. | WAS A RUSTY COOK. An@ When “She” Was Arrested ax an Eacaped Negro Convict There , ‘Was a Fine Scare. Something new and rather appailing in servant girls has turned up at Bir- mingham, Ala. An escaped negro con- viet from the Pratt City mines, put on skirts and a wig and as “Annie San- ders,” obtained employment as a cook for a well-to-do family living in{the South Highlands. He worked there for three months without detection, but has now been found out by the police. “Why, my husband used to be away for days at m time,” exclaimed the mis- tress of the house, in telling about it. “He always had such confidence in An- nie, and so did I, that we felt perfect- ly safe. She had all the keys and lock- yA 4 ] m ii \@| ral Ye pen EAC f; ( h Fi 7 4 | i. RJR 4 ae h Lig Ae i fi if hi hil " | eT -Win Vp y me pe = (\ = ( @d up the house every night. She nev- €r went out and was the quietest ser- vant we ever had. With ner in the house I simply felt that nothing could happen, and then she was a most aatis, factory cook. She had no company and no bad habits, and my husband and { congratulated ouyseives on getting bold of her. | “I Searly fainted when the officers veame and said, ‘We want your éook, madam!’ “Not Annie!’ I gasped. ‘Why, An- ule never did anything. She hasn't even been out of this house for the three months she's Been here. | MAU they did was to show me her ‘record and I cap tell you I was fright- ened.” | TAKEN FOR ANARCHISTS, {Pour Pesivefal Bowlers Carcying + Ligeim Vitue Bomb Frightea | eles “YR bet they're anarchists, every one,” said young woman (o her es: cort, riding home after the theater ix a New York elevated car. “Just look at them!” And she indicated to him three foreign-looking men, sitting side by side and talking together, a litte @istance away on the other side af the car. ‘Truta to tell, says the New York Tri. Dune, they were not very desperat looking to the young man. “But, I tell you that’s what they are, insisted the young woman, “ant they've got a bomb with them now Look! They're going to blow up some thing, I know.” ‘The young man looked again at th object she indicated to him. and hi Bmiled again. The bomb was about the slze of a ten-inch snell, and tt cy resting on the floor in front of one of the anarchists, in a canvas cover that had loop handies at the top of it “Why, that,” said te young man, “is only a Wgnum vitae bomb. It =] | aa a | Ck s 4 | 1 ee eg 1 aN ee OH) OV, WY Mh hk wi LIN Ke) q I FEL Wak Y Hn) | ta Aleta) Soma \ eS i E a eee . Se) [a << tod LOOKED LIKE ANARCHIsSTo { Would hurt you if it dropped on your ‘toes, but there is no danger of it ex- ploding. That is a bowling bail, whose owner carries it about with him in that manner when he goes bowling. The four foreign looking men are members of some bowing club, and they are doubtless going to peaceful homes after rolling in some tourna- ment. I hope they were victorious, though, judging from thelr looks I Suess the other side won. I think that’s what makes them so glum.” “Oh!” said the young woman; and she and her escort got off at the next station, the three anarchists with the big lisnum vitae bomb going on fur- ther uptown. ELOPERS ARE OUTWITTED. Enthustastic Lover, by Mistake, Car- ries Wis Sweetheart’: Enraged Father to the Ground. With the supposed form of his Sweetheart in his arms, Eddie C. Row- erly, a Baltimore & Qhio railroad tele- graph operator, descended a ten-fuvt ladder from a window at the hoie of James Hagerty, At Farmington, 0., the other morning. When terra firma was reached instead of a lover's kiss he faced a loaded revolver in the hands of an irate father. In company with Miss Dayton young Rowerly cautiously proceeded to. the Hagerty residence, and Miss Dayton Placed a ladder to the girl's window. Young Rowerly mounted to the win- dow, and taking the form heartily mel Sy y Pru Sy, figs My \V Vi )) ( Vy ) WN \ HI WRAY \ \A hb \ \ \\\ VON) ib Wrapped in a cloak started to descend the ladder. The prospective groom was radiantly happy for only a short period. | As they reached the ground the cloak was thrown off and the father of the girl, with pistol im hand, stood before the frightened lover, who took to his beeis with his companion, and nothing has since been heard of the pair. Hagerty had been apprised of the scheme, and succeeded in outwit Ung the plans of the lovers. Wife's Room « Sanctuary. In Corea the rooms of a wife or mother are the sanctuary of any man who breaks the law. 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The lights once switched off, I felt that there was not a moment to lose if I wished to be on the spot to get first snatch at the bag when it was tossed through the window. Walking quietly out, I worked my way unobtrusively to the gate which closed the passage leading to the yard at the back of the hall. Fortunately for me, the hubbub inside the building, and the sudden putting out of the lights, had served to distract the attention of the loungers inside the railings and of the crowd outside, so I was able to open the gate and to slip through unobserved. Closing it si- A man is falling down a steep hill. He is wearing a hat and a coat. The hill is made of rocks and there is a gate in the background. "LET ME GO, YOU DOTARD!" lently after me, I hurried along the passage, but before I had gone a dozen paces I came upon some one walking slowly in the same direction, whom, when he burned on hearing my foot-steps, I found to my dismay to be the old care-taker. "Where are you going, young man?" he inquired gruffly. Perhaps my momentary hesitation in search of a plausible excuse aroused his suspicion, for when I said that I was only taking an airing, as the heat of the hall had made me faint, he answered, none too genially— "Then you take a airin' somewhere else. These ain't infirmary grounds, and if you feel faint the best thing you can do is to nip round to the Red Cow and get two penny'orth of brandy." "Oh, I shall be all right in a minute, my friend, thank you," I said, thinking it best to humor him. "I don't care to go out into the street for the present, it's too crowded; but don't you bother about me, I shall be all right when I've had a stroll round in the air for a few minutes;" and with that I essayed to slip past him, being impatient of this unlooked-for blindance. "Well, you can't stroll round here," he said, barring the way with his bulky figure. "We can't have no strangers along this passage. It's private property; so out you go and sharp." Finding him thus obdurate, I did what I ought to have done at first, and slipped a coin-half a crown I thought it was—into his hand. His fingers closed upon it in an instant. "I don't want to be disagreeable when a gentleman ain't feeling quite well," he began. "All the same—" Then he stopped disgusted. "Why, it isn't arf a crown. It's a penny—not so much even as the price of a drink. If you think—" Just then I heard the bursting of the bomb inside the hall. There was not a moment to lose if I was to secure the bag, so, determining to take by force what had been refused me as a favor, I nudged my shoulder to the caretaker's chest and "charged" him in the good old fashion of the football field. "Would you?" he shouted. "You rascal I knew you were after no good!" and catching at my coat collar as I was in the act of passing him, he tried to swing me round, but, losing his balance, fell back heavily on the gravel, dragging me, sprawling over his chest, on top of him. As we went down, a man—it was evidently Hubuck—carrying something in his hand darted round the corner, and jumping lightly over the prostrate pair of us, passed through the gate, which he banged behind him. "Let me go, you dotard!" I shouted to the care-taker. "Let me go before I strike you. I must follow that man at all costs." The old fellow was a man of spirit, notwithstanding his years, and held me so stoutly—I could not bring myself to strike him—that some seconds passed before I could shake off his grip. When at last I managed to wrench myself free and leaped up to follow Hubbock, it was only to find that I had left the frying-pan for the fire. From the open door of the hall a awaying throng was now surging like devils vomited from the mouth of hell. Some of them must have heard the meaningless cry of "Stop him! stop, thief!" with which the old care-taker eluted my flying figure. All I know is that for the second time that evening I was reminded of my football days, only on this occasion it seemed to me that I was the football and the center of the scrimmage, and that some two dozen of devils—mad for blood, and pounding and bashing at me with hands and sticks, as well as with feet—were the players. The old man's meaningless cry of "Stop, thief!" had led them, no doubt, to suppose that I was the stealer of the money, and that, if they were only quick enough about it, they might se- Cure the booty for themselves. care the body for themselves. It did not take long to undeceive them, for in less than half a minute I hadn't as much as a rag to my back; and I was allowed to drag myself, bleeding, breathless, naked, and trembling in every limb, to a corner, where I lay feeling as one might who had been snatched from the ravening jaws of a pack of hungry wolves. It was some days before I was sufficiently recovered to journey to Tarborough to claim my share of the money and to hear how Number Two had fared. I had telegraphed to say I was coming by the three o'clock train, and Hubbock was there with the trap to meet me. "Well, is the money safe, Hubbock?" I said, as we drove off from the station. "Yes, sir. I took care of that. Your share is waiting for you all right Rather cheaply earned, sir, wasn't it?" "No," I answered, grully. "It struck me as rather dear. Where's your master?" "In bed, sir—what's left of him. And a bad attack, too." "Attack—what of?" "A catching complaint, sir. You appear to have suffered from it, too—universal brotherhood, the master calls it. What did you say, sir?" But what I said about universal brotherhood is not fit for publication. CHAPTER XIX FISTS AND FINGER-NAILS AND HOB-NAIL BOOTS. Hubbock was quite right in observing that Number Two had had a "bad attack." The poor man's face was patched like an old coat, he wore a green shade over one eye, and was sitting up painfully in bed and as stiffly as a sawdust doll. "How are you, Number Seven?" he said with a feeble smile. "Excuse my not getting up to receive you. I have to move an arm or a leg all of a piece like a pump-handle, and even then I wince and sometimes squeal aloud with pain. How do I look, do you think?" "Like a stuffed Guy Fawkes on a barrow," would have been my answer had I felt called upon to adhere to the truth. As it was, I answered cheerfully that he was "looking a bit chippy, but that a day or two would no doubt set him on his legs." "Set me on crutches you mean, don't you?" he grouned. "Oh! what a mauling I've had! The voice of the people may be the voice of God, but how about the people's fists and fingernails and hob-nail boots? How did you get on?" "I should have 'got on' well enough," I replied, ruefully, "if only I could have 'got off.' But I couldn't. The people saw me switch the light off, and two or three of them strolled up to interview me after." "Ah!" he said, trying to screw himself round the better to see me, and grinning hideously, but whether from pain or from gratification at finding a fellow-sufferer I could not say. "Ah! so you, too, have been interviewed by the people, have you? And how did you fare at their hands?" "It wasn't their hands I objected to so much as their feet," I said. "Tearing one's clothes off one's back and bashing at one's head with half-bricks and sticks may have been only their playfulness. But when it came to knocking a poor devil down and dancing on his stomach, not to speak of kicking him in the ribs, why, then I began to feel that there was such a thing as having too much of the people." "I believe you," he groaned. "There is such a thing, and I've had it—Lord knows. However, there's one consolation. We did the devils out of their £5,000, though I wouldn't go through such an experience again for £500,000. Your share's in that writing-desk on the table there. You'll find a bunch of keys in the top pocket of those trousers hanging at the foot of the bed. The little key's the one. Open the desk and take out the parcel with a big 'seven' upon it." I obeyed, and found, a little to my surprise, but greatly to my satisfaction, that he had not misied me. There, sure enough, was a parcel marked "seven," containing no less a sum than £1,000 in gold and small bank notes. After I had expressed what he appeared to consider unnecessary thanks, I asked him whether our fellow conspirators were "upstairs." "No," he said fervently, "they're gone, thank goodness. They were restless to be off as soon as they had pocketed the money; and as the hue and cry about the murder in the shed has blown over, I let them go—one at a time, of course. But talking of the money, I must warn you, as I warned them, not to let any one notice your're flush of cash, either by paying it into a bank or by blueing it too prominently. That sort of thing always arouses suspicion, and has led to the discovery of many a crime." "Have they gone for good, then?" I asked. "More likely for bad," he laughed. "Crime, like poverty, brings one into strange company. How you, and, for the matter of that, how I came to row in such a galley I can't think. I don't know anything about you personally, Number Seven, for Number One, who 'put you up' for election to the council, didn't take me into his confidence on the subject; but I fancy, as I've said to you before, that you were meant for a gentleman." Even had there been no note of interrogation—as of one inviting confidence—in his voice. I should have taken the last part of his sentence less as an involuntary compliment than as an intentional "draw" to lead me to talk about myself. Piqued apparently by my non-committal reply of "You're Very kind," he changed the conversation abruptly. "A meeting of the council is to be held here to-day week at five in the afternoon. Until then I need not burden you with my company, as I have nothing further to discuss. If you choose to remain here until then as my guest, you are at liberty to do so. Or you are at liberty to go. Which is it to be—stay or go?" Under the circumstances I felt that it had better be "go," and said so. scheme? In that case, empower him to act, tails make themselves salts." I did not at all apprehend things had taken. It I had been apprised of the conspirators' line of action on more than one occasion in frustrating But if secrecy were not garrd to their proposed "Quite so," he assented curtly. "The social attractions of Heath cottage are not, I am aware, great, especially when the host is laid on his back. To-day week, then, we shall have the honor of welcoming you again. If you will come down by the same afternoon train, Hubbock will meet you with the trap. The time and route by which the other two are coming have been arranged. I wish you speedy recovery from your hurts. Good-day!" "I wish you the same," I said, and so we parted. CHAPTER XX THE MUSICAL BOX THAT PLAYED TWO VERY DIFFERENT TUNES. Number Two was sufficiently recovered to preside at the reassembling of the syndicate. After greetings had been exchanged and inquiries had been made in regard to his health, he came to the point without further delay. "Our newly-elected councillor, Mr. Hubbock, who celebrated his advent to the council by successfully accomplishing the carrying off of the money which had been sent from Germany to furnish sinews of war for the dock strike, is apparently not content with that exploit, but is burning to distinguish himself still further in the service of the council. He has communicated to me a project which I have promised him to put briefly before you. It is, as you know, most necessary that we should impress our numerous subscribers in this country and in America with our activity. Unless we keep ourselves well before them and before the public, subscriptions will assuredly fall off. Nothing has been done for some time in the way of striking a blow at the monarchy or at the aristocracy, or at any of the other figureheads which we set up before our own particular public—just as a showman sets up the ever-familiar figure of Aunt Sally at country fairs—in order that the public in question may dump down money for shying at it. The public dearly loves some sort of Aunt Sally to shy at, and in a general way the Aunt Sallies are not very much the worse. But a wise showman who wishes to keep the coin coming in, humors his public, and takes care that every now and then one of the many edgels that are thrown shall catch the old lady full in the face, and perhaps bash her features as well as break the pipe in her mouth. That makes the throwers feel that they are getting something for the money, and it keeps the coin coming in. "Well, we've had two tries at the popular 'Aunt Sallies' lately, and each time we have missed. The first time was when we tried to blow up that best-hated man in England, Lord Cranthope, and the second was the failure of our jubilee programme for hoisting the queen and the royal family sky high. It wasn't our fault that we failed. We know now, though we didn't then, that our failures were due to treachery, and if any proof were needed that it was so, it is, I think, to be found in the fact that the very first enterprise we undertake, after we have rid ourselves of the traitor, turns out a complete success. If that female Judas who pulled the linch-pin out of our plans for the blowing up of Lord Cranthope's place and for celebrating the jubilee on quite another way than her majesty intended, had been a member of this council when we planned to lay hands upon the £5,000 that was sent to the strikers by Germany—if she had been a member of the council and in our secrets, the money would not be in our pockets to day." Number Two paused for breath, and a murmur of unmistakable approval and applause hummed through the room. "Well, my friends," he went on, "Hubbock has devised a plan for retrieving the failure at Lord Cranthorpe's and the failure at the Jubilee. Here it is. "Some years ago Hubbock was chef at the Ishmael club. Have any of you ever been there? No? Then the Ishmael club, you must understand, is a coterie of travelers, artists, authors, journalists, musicians and so on, who pride themselves on being Bohemians. They are popularly supposed to be in revolt against conventionality of every sort, and in suburban and provincial society a member of the Ishmael club is looked upon as a dreadful upsetter of the order of things and as one who stands for all that is 'advanced' in thought and manners and morals. "As a matter of fact the members of the Ishmael club—Brother Ishmaelites,' as they call themselves—are just as sober and solvent a set of respectable, law-abiding, custom-following taxpayers and citizens as you will find outside the precincts of the clubs of actual fogeydom. It is true that the original members who founded the Ishmael club some 50 years ago were a Bohemian harum-scarum lot, but the club as it now stands is simply living on its past tradition and reputation. The present members do their best to delude themselves and the public into the belief that they are a dare-devil crew, and they take their club and themselves so seriously that I verily believe most of them are persuaded that no four walls in the world contain such a gathering of sad dogs as is to be seen in the dining-room of the Ishmael on their 'house dinner' night. They stick their heads, like so many ostriches, into the sands of the past, and refuse to see that the old order changeth and that the members of the Ishmael are Ishmaelites no longer. All that, however, doesn't concern us. If they like to play at Tom and Jerry, they are quite welcome to it, and if they can make believe so well as to persuade themselves that they are the original and only Toms and Jerries, why let 'em in Heaven's name, and be hanged to 'em. Our interest in them doesn't hinge on that; but there is one custom of theirs that has been handed A PRIDE THEMSELVES ON BEING BOHEMIANS. oh from what Mr. Hubbock calls 'time immoral' which does concern us and which I must describe to you. "One of their rules—a very excellent one—is that of 'no long speeches.' Ten minutes is the maximum of time which is allowed to any man, guest or member, prime minister or paragrapher, and to keep this golden rule involate the original Ishmaelites initiated a custom which is still religiously followed. At every meeting of the club there is placed on the table in front of the chairman a little metal cube about the size of a pint-pot. When any one rises to speak, the chairman presses a spring at the top of the cube which sets an inside piece of mechanism in motion. This piece of mechanism is timed to run for exactly ten minutes, and if by that time the speaker has not finished and the chairman has not reversed the action, a bell strikes, at the sound of which the speaker, whoever he may be, must sit down. It is a rule that might with advantage be introduced into other institutions. To be interrupted or called to order by a member of one's audience—even by one's chairman—is not pleasant. But no one, no matter how touchy, can accept a pull up from an irresponsible piece of dead mechanism other than good-humoredly. "But what has it I this to do with us, you say. Well, I'm coming to it. The 15th of next month is to be a field day with the Ishmacites, and they have succeeded in nobbling the prince of Wales as their guest. And who do you think is to be the chairman? A gentleman who has been honored with a considerable amount of attention from the syndicate already—no less a personage than our friend Lord Cranthorpe. Gentlemen, wouldn't it be tempting, Providence, who has, so to speak, delivered these two men into our hands, to let slip such an opportunity of retrieving the failure which attended our previous attempt on the life of Lord Cranthorpe and the royal family? The idea is not mine, but our excellent friend Hublock's; but I am bound to confess that if he succeeds, as he believes he can, in effecting the assassination of the prince and of Lord Cranthorpe at one stroke, he will have struck a blow at the powers that be, the powers with which we are at enmity, that would immeasurably encourage the anarchist spirit which it is so much to our interest to foster, and that will bring in the subscriptions as nothing else we have attempted lately has done." "How it is to be managed?" I asked; "and who's to do it?" "Hubbock offers to take the sole responsibility and the sole risk upon his own shoulders," was the answer. "Iho knows that it has been a rule of the syndicate that every new councilor shall qualify for the honor and commit himself irrevocably to the responsibility attending a place on the council by undertaking the first piece of risky work that is to be done after his election. It is true that Hubbock has already qualified by undertaking the task of securing the bag containing the money which was tossed out of the window the other day. He hopes and I hope that the fact that he accomplished the difficult enterprise and conveyed and delivered the cash safely and intact into the hands of the council has satisfied the councilor who at our last meeting raised the question of Hubbock's honesty, I beg pardon, honor. But he is anxious still further to prove his zeal by striking what I am bound to confess seems to me a peculiarly daring and deadly blow at royalty and at the aristocracy. We who constitute this council are paid to wage a war against the upper classes and the capitalists, and if Hubbock succeeds, I think it will go far to satisfy our clients and subscribers that we are giving them something for their money." "Yes! yes!" interposed Councillor Number Six rather testily, being annoyed, perhaps, at the reference which had been made to him. "It seems to me there's too much jaw about these meetings. You don't need to explain all these things to us over and over again as if we were a pack of schoolboys. Ever since we lost our old chief, you jump at any chance of lecturing us, same as some old women do who want to hear their own voices. We all know that to blow up the prince of Wales and the other aristocratic perilsher, Lord Cranthorpe, along with him will set business moving in the subscription line and we don't want to be told it all over again at every council meeting. 'The show ain't a prayer-meeting. The point is, can the things be done? If so, how?' Number Two took the interruption in better part than I had expected. "Very well, my friend," he said, good-humoredly, "I don't want to inflict too many details upon you, I'm sure. Only as we all share the responsibility as well as the profits, it seemed only right to me that councilors shall be fully acquainted with what was being done in their name. When you know beforehand how the thing is to be done, you will be able to judge the better whether Hubbock has acquitted himself capably and is deserving of further confidence and trust. I'm very sorry if I have overburdened you with detail. Shall I spare you all the details of Hubbock's scheme? In that case we can merely empower him to act and let the details make themselves known by results." I did not at all approve the turn that things had taken. It was only because I had been apprised beforehand of the conspirators' line of action that I had on more than one occasion been successful in frustrating their projects. But if secrecy were maintained in regard to their proposed operations, the game would be up as far I was concerned, for unless I knew what move they were about to make, I should not know how to go to work to checkmate them. "The chief's quite right in insisting upon everything being above board," I said, boldly. "We don't want any hole-and-corner business in a concera like this. We are all like so many mountaineers roped together on a mountain. If one of us makes a slip and the others aren't prepared to set their feet hard and meet the jerk when it comes, the chances are that the iot of us get pulled over the precipice. And mind you, friends, a rope round your body on a mountain is one thing, and a rope round your neck on a scaffold is another. I've sampled one, but I don't want to sample the other. So I think the chief is right in taking us into his confidence as he has done. We all hang by the one rope, so what I say is, 'Let us know where we're going.' Besides, in a concern like this, which claims before all things to be democratic, we don't want any one man show. Here are we working to overthrow the autocrat or aristocrat wherever you find him, and you propose setting up one man who is to be our pope and lead us all blindfolded by the nose." "Give us your hand, Number Seven," said Number Six, slapping me familiarly on the shoulder. "It's a good job you can't a parson, for if I heard you preach a few times, I believe you'd convert me, and I'm damned if I could stand that. I'd no idea we'd got such an orator among us. Anyhow, he's convinced me; so go ahead, chief, and let's have the details in full." Good humor being thus restored, Number Two continued his explanation. "The thing is to be done in this way," he said. "Hubbock was once chef at the Ishmael club, and is still friendly with the steward and the other waiters. From one of them he has heard a little secret which is supposed to be known only to the secretary of the club and the committee. The Ishmaelites are very fond of having what I may call unrehearsed effects at the house-dinner evenings, and the member who is in the chair often springs a surprise upon the company by providing some unexpected feature for their entertainment. The secretary—a whimsical fellow—has hit upon an idea which he purposes to carry out on the occasion of the prince's visit. 'Good fellowship' being a sine qua non for election to the Ishmael, the prince of Wales, who is, as every one knows, the best of good fellows in the social sense, is naturally a prime favorite there. As you all know, the prince is only now recovering from a serious illness, and as his presence at the Ish- mael will be his first public appearance after his convalescence, the lmaealites intend to give him an ovation. The speech of the evening will be, 'The health of our guest his royal highness the prince of Wales.' Well, the secretary has sent the ten-minute timekeeper to Switzerland to have the ordinary gong replaced by a musical box which shall play 'God Bless the Prince of Wales.' The chairman, in proposing the prince's health, will purposely outstay his ten minutes. The gong will stifle, but instead of merely sounding ten warm, notes on the bell it will lead off with 'God Bless the Prince of Wales.' As soon as the members 'tumble' to it (for the affair is to be kept secret from all but two or three), the chairman will spring to his feet and take up the air, which will be sung, all standing, and ending up with 'three times three.' That's just the kind of thing to catch on with the lshmaealites, and I shouldn't be surprised if it proved an immense success and pleased the prince into the bargain. "Well, Hubbock has contrived—in virtue of his old connection with the club—to get engaged as an assistant chef for the occasion, and he also managed to get a peep at the address on the box that contained the gong, when it was sent off to Switzerland to have the inside mechanism taken out and replaced by a musical box. The address was that of a well-known instrument maker in Geneva to whom Hubbock has since paid a visit. Need I tell you why? It was to get a duplicate gong made—a duplicate, that is to say, so far as the outside is concerned. But it isn't a duplicate inside, for instead of the musical box, Hubbock is getting an infernal machine made from a newly discovered explosive. It is an explosive so death-dealing and terrible that even the small quantity that can be packed away inside the gong will be sufficient to kill every in its immediate vicinity, and in fact, it is more than probable that it will kill every one in the room. Anyhow, the chairman, our old enemy Lord Cranthorpe, and the prince, who as the quege of the evening will sit on his right, will be as good as dead men. The joke of it is that it will be Lord Cranthorpe himself, who, by winding up the gong—according to the regulations of the club—when he gets upon his legs, wilt with his own hand put into motion the machinery which will give him and his guest, the prince, as well as a good many of the members, a bare ten minutes more of life. The secretary is no doubt chuckling to himself to think of the stir that his own ingenuity in preparing so pretty a little surprise is likely to make. I think that the surprise which we are preparing for his royal highness, as well as for his lordship and the other members of the club, is likely to make a bigger stir. That, however, we can discuss when the thing's fait accompli. I'm getting shy of counting my chickens before they're hatched, since that miserable jubilee has so. All the same, I think Hubbock's idea for adding to the evening's entertainment is very curious, and as he is willing and, in fact, anxious to undertake the business, I think that he should be allowed to consider his scheme as under our 'distinguished patronage' as the placards put it, and to have our best wishes for his success. Anyhow, there's his programme, and as discussion is freely invited, I hope any of you who have anything to say will speak up." "It's a very clever little arrangement," said Councillor Number Six, "and what I says is, is here my respects and best wishes to Mr. Hubbock, hoping as he'll go ahead and scoop the trick. What do my other two honorable colleagues say?" "We say 'ditto,' too," I answered, speaking for myself and for "the silent councillor," to use the name by which I had dubbed the remaining member. "But if Mr. Hubbock and the chief will pardon me for saying so, there's a difficulty ahead which it won't do to overlook." "What's that?" asked Number Two. "This. Isn't it very likely after Hubbock has changed the gongs, that some member of the executive of the Ishmael will want to test the mechanism, if only to see that it is in working order? In that case the explosive would be a bit previous. We have no quarrel, I take it, with the members of the Ishmael club as Ishmaelites. In fact, I'm not sure that the members of this council are not exceptionally qualified for membership of a club so-called, and, indeed, it occurred to me while the chief was speaking, that the Ishmael club would be a very suitable name for the particular fraternity of which we who are present in this room have the honor of being members." "You are quite right, my friend," said Number Two, with a laugh. "Hubbock and I both recognized that that would be a tickle point. But Hubbock's idea is not to change the gongs until the last moment, when the table is laid and relay for the dinner. The庐mel is a very tree and easy place and Hubbock is so well known there that he anticipates no difficulty in finding some excuse to effect the change. I think we may be content to leave it in his hands, since he is willing to undertake all responsibility." No one demurring to this. Number Two announced that the next meeting of the council would be held in the same place, and at four o'clock in the afternoon of the day following the proposed outrage at the庐mel club. "I hope on that occasion," he said, genially, "that we shall be in a position to offer Councillor Hubbock our heartfelt congratulations at having succeeded in blowing his royal highness, the prince of Wales, and the Right-Honorable Lord Cranthorpe, M.P., to blazes." With which humane sentiment the meeting broke up. CHAPTER XXI. THE PRINCE OF WALES AT THE ISHAEMEL CLUB. It was the night of the Ishmael club dinner to the prince of Wales, and though the rule by which members are permitted to introduce guests had on this occasion been suspended, the muster of Ishmaelites in their handsome trophy-hung dining room was so great that even a director of the London, Thatham & Dover Railroad company would have acknowledged that for once in his life he had met with a genuine case of overcrowding. So democratic a gathering—notwithstanding the fact that the future king of England and emperor of India sat in the midst—is not often to be seen. At the Ishmael, brains and "good fellowship" are counted greater righteousness than "coin" or a coronet. Within its walls all men are equal. To a good fellow, the right hand of fellowship is readily extended. The "stick" will find himself as readily cold-shouldered, and the assumer of "side" may think himself hucky if he be allowed to depart unbaited. To see the Ishmaelites "trail" a sufferer from "swelled head" is to undergo inoculation against that fell malady. The public and as suddenly lost himself, or the moneyed noboy, who has made a successful bid for a baronetage by placing his thousands at the disposal of his political honors, would do well to air his new honors elsewhere than at the Ishmael. When such a man is known to be in the house, the word goes round, and to him these trusting children of nature come to be instructed in the secret of his greatness. They sit at his feet and drink in his words of wisdom as if hoping thereby one day to follow—be it ever so humbly—in his footsteps. They ask him artless questions about himself, and when he condescends to gratify their very natural desire to be informed upon so interesting a subject, they tell each other audibly what a great man he is, or sit listening with unconcealed admiration in their eyes. They beg to be allowed to present to him this or that friend or member who will esteem it a privilege to know so distinguished a person, and when their victim is most swollen—like a human wind-bag—with gratified vanity and a A PROPOSING THE PRINCE'S HEALTH. sense of his own importance, they unostentatiously produce the necessary pin, and what is left of him when they have done with him is scarcely worth the trouble of sweeping up, not to say of interment. With the Ishmaelites the heir ap- parent had always been a prime favorite. Whatever their faults may be, they are at least not flunkeys, and his popularity with them is in no sense attributable to his exalted position, but to their regard for him as a man. If there is one man in all England who may be pardoned for allowing a flatterer to get the blind side of him, it is surely he whose every wish or whim it is the business of those about him to humor. Yet if there is one man in England who is absolutely inaccessible to flattery, it is the genial, generous, but keen-eyed prince. This the Ishmaelites know well, and they love him for it, just as they hail him prince of good fellows, and the best and most honest hater of sham and humbug in the country. Hence the dinner which was being given in his honor was the most brilliant and at the same time the heartiest function that the club house has ever witnessed. Brains, pluck and good-fellowship—these are what the ishmaelites most delight to honor; but being a British club, they put bravery before even brains, and at the high table that night sat wearers of the Victoria cross, leaders of forlorn hopes, admirals who had saved life as well as fought the enemy at sea, explorers, travelers and soldiers who with a handful of men had held an impossible position or not hesitated to face a thrice outnumbering foe. Everything had gone without a hitch, and there was no denying that the function was a magnificent success. The prince, still pale from his recent illness, was, it was easy to see, both touched and gratified by the genuinely enthusiastic and affectionate greeting which had been accorded to him; and never had he looked more thoroughly at home than when hobnobbing with the ishmalites. Dinner being finished, and the permission, 'Brother Isabacaciles, you may smoke!' has gone forth and been received with the customary yell, the chairman rose in his place to make the speech of the evening, by proposing the prince's health. Another yell greeted the placing of the ten-minute bell before him, and yet another the setting of the machinery in motion. Then he began his speech. Nothing of the sort could have been happier, for there was not a false note throughout. He claimed for the prince only that illustrious personage's due, and yet he referred to sympathetically to his illness and paid so graceful a tribute to his qualities as a man, a sportsman and a good fellow, that the Isabacaciles interrupted him again and began with raining cheers. The announcement—the unexpected announcement—that the prince and that evening expressed his wish to become a member of the club and a Brother Ishmaelite, brought the enthusiasm to the culminating point; but the welcome words had scarcely passed the chairman's tips before the first stroke of the ten-minute gong was beard, and at the sound he held up the customary silencing hand and dropped back into his chair. The rule of the club is that when the gong strikes, the speaker, whoever he may be, at once resumes his seat, and every one sits in silence until the ten strokes have sounded, when members are at liberty to give expression to their feelings, a privilege of which they avail themselves by yelling, howling and hurling epithets, and even match-boxes, cigar-ends, or anything else which may be handy, at the offender who has transgressed their time-honored ten-minutes rule. Hence when Lord Cranthorpe relapsed into his seat there was a sudden hush while the member waited dutifully for the ten strokes to sound. Half a dozen seconds had not throbbed away before the Ishmaelites became awere that something out of the ordinary—but what they did not know—was happening. There was a flutter of repressed excitement. Then some one called out "Hush!" and the silence became electric. What was that sprinkling of bird-song music that percolated the smoke-hung atmosphere as if fair hands were linging the largest of tiny wafer-li silver coins for all to gather? "Hush!" some one said impatiently again. Expectation stood on tiptoe, as every ear was strained and every face became alert and expectant. Note by note the thin thread of muscic rippled out. It was recognized, and a tremendous cheer set rattling the trophies on the wall as the chair- man rose and with a wave of his hand above his head took up the strain. In another second every man was on his feet, and "God Bless the Prince of Wales" was being sung as it had never been sung before. "With heart and voice awaken Those minstrel strains of yore, Till Britain's name and glory Resound from shore to shore. From all our ancient mountains, And from our lovely vales, O'er the sea." God bless the prince of Wales." The secretary's little unrehearsed effect was a huge success. Perhaps the prince's illness had left him somewhat weak and shaky, for as the hymn concluded with the most deafening "Three times three," and yet again "Three times three," that ever left human ears buzzing and human hearts thumping, the kindly eyes of that right royal prince of good fellows were suspiciously bright, and when in a few many words he thanked his "brother Iskha-melites" for the greeting that had been accorded to him, there was just the ghost of a tremble in the voice that is generally so firm and strong. (TO BE CONTI UED.) Briggs—I don't know whether play golf, Sunday, or go to church. Griggs—Why not be guided by conscience? Briggs—But I don't dare run the run —Brooklyn Life. Same Material. Mrs. Joggins—My! They make car wheels out of paper! The idea! Paper car wheels! Joggins—That's nothing. They have stationary engines, too.—Browning. He Repents. She—You only married me for money. He—Serves me right for trying to buck up against one of those get quick games.—Judge. 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MUNICIPALS — When writing to us to renew your subscription to your paper, you should give your name and address in full, otherwise we cannot find your page in our access. Our new press — order to change the address of a subscriber, we must send the former as well as the present address. Entered in the Post Office at Richmond, Fla., second class letter. SATURDAY — FEBRUARY 6, 1900. THERE is not a colored person in the state of respectability, but what regrets to learn of the horrible crime committed at Roanoke, Va., where a white lady was murderously assaulted and outraged and her child barbarously treated on Saturday last. In order that the guilty man may receive his just deserts, it is only necessary that a colored jury be empanelled and an opportunity be given for the law to take its course. Such fights are the enemies of society in general and of the colored people in particular. The hope every law-abiding citizen is that the guilty person may be apprehended and punished by the authorities of the law. He can expect no sympathy from colored men and if the guilty person is caught and convicted, a hearty amen will go up from every colored man's home in Virginia. A man, be he white or black, who would commit such a crime on a female, white or black, deserves death, and the courts of this state will not be slow to mete it to him. The question of color should not enter into the discussion. It has been demonstrated that crime knows no color or race. White men have committed and are committing outrages as heinous as any ever found in the catalogue of brutish achievements. DR. THIRKIELD AND HIGHER EDUCATION. REV. Dr. W. P. THIRKETEL in his admirable address as published in the Cincinnati, Ohio, CHRISTIAN EDUCATOR continued: "The question now, then, no longer is, 'On the Negro take the higher education?'—but to what extent under present conditions, is it wise to furnish facilities for the higher education, seeing that the lack of endowments for his colleges must throw the burden of their support largely on the benevolence of the people? Does the Negro, in the present stage of his development, really need the higher education? "Yes, even now after a generation, though the capacity of the exceptional Negro for higher education has been demonstrated, the trend of opinion in some quarters has set strongly away from college education, to elementary and industrial training for the race. Many of the tried and true friends of the Negro are the strong advocates and liberal supporters of this form of training, almost to the exclusion of the higher education. There must be reason and truth here. Facts must plead strongly to gain such advocates. Giving that for the masses, industrial training is first and importance—a necessity to existence and progress, shall we discourage, restrict, give the men of exceptional capacity and power?" As a premise for his reply, he lay down the following statement of facts: "On the higher education the very existence of any education depends. No people will long maintain common schools for primary education, that does not possess and sustain colleges for the higher education. The fountain-head of learning is not the common school, but the college. The college not, only furnishes the trained teacher, but gives motive and inspiration for the common school. Blot out that university in the wilderness and the intellectual leadership and achievements of Harvard men, and the entire history of a commonwealth would be changed." This is emphatic language, but the facts speak for themselves and history will bear out this contention. He pays tribute to common schools, but in this does not lose sight of the main purpose of his address when he says: "The elementary schools of the South have done an unparalleled work since emancipation. But that work would have been an impossibility had it not been for the teachers trained in the higher institutions, established and sustained by Christian benevolence. "Without these trained teachers, millions expended by the State for public education must largely have gone to waste. Had it not been for these schools of higher training, that early enthusiasm for knowledge which after emancipation, carried old and young into the schools, would long since have spent itself, and millions of the race would have sunk back into the low levels of ignorance where slavery left them. These colleges and normal schools have not only given thousands of teachers to the public schools, they have also brought ideals and higher hopes to an entire race. Fortunate it is that these were Christian schools. The influence of moral and spiritual ideals in the teachers of a race just out of bondage—a race without standards of homelife, virtue and morality—is beyond estimate." But enough for this week. We shall consider this remarkable address further in our next issue. CONDEMNING VARDEMAN. We had thought to make extended comment upon the address of Gov. VARDEMAN before the Mississippi legislature, but, finding that the day of the extremist has passed and that conservative white men are as forward in condemning such uncalle-dfor utterances as thoughtful colored ones, we deemed it advisable to cite a few of the comments made by white Democratic journals which, as a rule, have an antipathy to the people whom this official has so wontonly assailed. The Richmond, Va., NEWS-LEADER in its issue of Jan. 20th, 1904, said: "Governor James K. Vardeman, of Mississippi, in his inaugural address delivered yesterday, declared that education is ruining the Negro race. He asserted that the commission by Negro men of unmentionable crime is an expression of desire for racial equality, and that the Negro becomes more criminal as he becomes more intelligent. "Governor Vardeman's declarations and doctrines are much more sensational than just or sensible. Mistaking coincidences for cause and effect is an old and familiar fault of shallow ignorance, Pertecting coincidences to make them appear cause and effect is an old and cheap trick of demagogues and quacks. A few years ago we had argued to us from very high sources that because prices of wheat, cotton and silver had risen and fallen about the same time the prices of cotton and wheat depended on the price of silver." The above is caustic language, but it nullified Gov. VARDEMAN's statistics when it continued: "Governor Vardeman says the statistics prove that in New England, where the Negro is most generally educated, he is most generally criminal. Therefore education makes the Negro a criminal, he tells us. We could prove precisely by the same method that education destroys the white man morality. It is unquestionably true that in communities where nobody can read or write forgery is an unknown crime. We could demonstrate by statistics and obvious facts that in jails and penitentiaries there is less crime than anywhere else in the world. The inmates do not have the opportunity for crime. The Negro as a slave was watched, guarded, managed and punished like a child, and he had little more than the child's opportunities for crime. It is a wonder that Governor Vardeman did not carry on his course of intelligent reasoning and protest against the decree of the Almighty that human beings must grow to intelligence and humanity; for as children all of us are innocent. The statistics will prove beyond doubt that maturity morally destroys humanity, because under the age of six the criminals and offenders against morality are few and over that age they are many. "In all the histories of the world pastoral, primitive, unsophisticated people have been innocent and law-abiding as compared with the busy, progressive, informed people of the cities. We are told that in the days of King Alfred, of England, along about the year 883, a virgin could walk from one end of England to the other unattended with a purse of rold in her hand in perfect security. Then nobody in England, outside the monasteries, could read or write. To-day a virgin unattended and with a purse of gold in her hand would hardly be safe walking 500 yards in England. Therefore, according to Governor Vardeman, education has been a curse to the English-speaking race, and the sooner we put the torch to school-houses, universities and colleges, slaughter the professors and teachers and leave learning to the monks, the better it will be for our morals." The above is good reading, but what follows is equally so: "Statistics show beyond question that in New England and the Northern States crime among white people is very much more general than it is in the South. In the South the ignorant white people are many and in the North they are few. According to the sagacious Vardeman, this is conclusive evidence that education is a curse not only to the Negro, but to the white man. Men and brethren, let us lay hands on books and schools together. Obviously, if Vardeman be right, the thinkers and teachers of all the world have been wrong these centuries and education, instead of a blessing, is a deadly curse. Let us work ourselves and our children back to school and isolation as fast as possible, because those two conditions mean innocence, while activity and knowledge mean crime." This is sarcasm and irony with a vengeance. It continued: "We cannot comprehend the methods of thought of the white people who contend that the Negro should be denied THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA educational opportunities. What do they expect to do with the Negro? They say he must not leave us, because we need him to work our fields; that he must not be educated, because education destroys his morality. Do they believe that we can keep here a race of beating them generation after generation to be cotton-pickers and corn-field hands? Do they consider that to be justice, morality to be the basis for the hoges and instincts supposed to be common to all humanity? Because the Negro like the white man finds his opportunities for crime increased as he gains knowledge and comes in contact with other men and his wants increase, shall we gravely take the position that to educate the Negro at all is a hideous mistake? Do we think we will be permitted to keep a race in which it is nominally free, that the world will look on while we hold the Negro here, of wood and drawer of water, denying him knowledge and light on the prext of guarding his virtue and promoting his happiness. "From 1820 to 1864 we had here in the South Vardemans who preached and proclaimed aloud that the Negro was made to be a slave; that slavery was fastened on him by the immutable decree of Providence; that he was happier and better cared for in slavery than otherwise; that we were his benefactors, rightful owners and natural guardians. How much of honesty there was in our belief of these things, God knows. Certainly we were talking for what we believed to be our interests, however conscientious we may have been, and where self the wavering balances shakes its adjustment is rarely just. Vardeman no doubt thinks he is talking for our interests of the South now. The world is used to accept our contentions or to share their theories in the old days, and it rose against us when we alone of all the world stood for slavery. Cannot we learn by bitter experience? Are we to undertake, under the leadership of the Vardemans and Tillmans and our own prejudices and interests, to defy the world's public sentiment and all the lessons of human history?" We would to God that the southerner who wrote that editorial would continue along the "good old road." It sounds like the plea of our southern white friends of other days. He speaks for justice and declares for fair play in all this land. He realizes that "righteousness exalteth a nation and sin is a reproach to any people." Yes, God is raising up friends for us where we least expect to find them, and advocates who speak boldly when the occasion requires it. We dare say that there were many white members in the Mississippi legislature who have criticized Gov. VARDEMAN as severely as has this editorial writer of old Virginia. One thing we know—when a Virginian is for you, he speaks and labors with all of his energy—and he will be with you from the be ginning and even without God's help, will be with you to the end. THE Richmond i, Va., TIMES-DISPATCH, under the caption of "An illogical Governor" in its issue of January 21st, 1904 said: "Governor James K. Vardaman, of Mississippi, in his inaugural address, which we printed yesterday, declared that education is the curse of the Negro race, tending to make him worse instead of better, and urged an amendment to the State Constitution that would place the distribution of the common school fund solely within the power of the Legislature. "After citing some statistics, which proved to the Governor's satisfaction that under a system of education the Negro race has become more brutal and more criminal, he added, "The better class of Negroes are not responsible for this terrible condition, nor for the criminal tendency of their race." "It seems to us that the Governor utterly refutes his own argument in this saying. He admits that there is a 'better class of Negroes,' and we ask, in all reason, how this class is to be continued and still further improved and increased in number. Are we to accomplish it by turning our backs upon the Negro race, and withholding from them the means of education? Can we make more Negroes of the 'better class' by keeping them in ignorance and supervision, and in a state of moral isolation? Is it possible to improve any man whether he be black or white, by withholding from him the means of mental and moral development? "Governor Vardaman's doctrine seems to us to be utterly illogical, untenable, harsh and cruel. As one of our great educators has well said: 'Ignorance is the remedy for nothing.' Our system for educating the black man is defective, but it is scarcely less than an axiom, that if we would improve him, we must educate him, for improvement is education, and education is improvement." This is what we call from a logical stand-point, "eating him up alive." Farewell, Brother VARDAMAN! GENERAL MARKETS Philadelphia, Pa., Feb. 2. — Flour steady; winter super fine. $3.25@3.50; Penna, roller, clear. $4@4.15; city mills, fancy. $5.10@5.25. Rye flour was quiet, at $3.35 per barrel. Wheat was used; at $3.50 per barrel. Corn firm; No. 2 yellow, local. $3c Oats were quiet; no. white, clipped. $48½c; lower grades, 46c. Hay steady; No. 1 timothy, large bales. $15@15.50. Butter was steady; large bales. Beef stew; beef heams, $20@21. Vegetry, 13c for hens and 3c for old roosters. Dressed poultry, 13½c for choice fowls and 10c for old rosters. Butter was steady; creamy, 27c per rooster. York and Penna, 33c per dozen. Potatoes were steady; 95@98c per bushel. Baltimore, Md. Feb. 3.—Wheat firm; spot contract, 94@%49%c; spot No. 2, red western, 95@%54%c; steamer No. 2 red, 85%@%86c. Corn firm; spot, 49%@% 50c; steamer mixed, 48%@%48c. Oats firm; No. 2 white, 45%@%46c; No. 2 mixed, 43c. Rye firm; No. 2, in export devon, 43c. Rye firm; No. 2, in export western, in export elev. 68%@% 63c; uptown, 68%@%69c. Butter steady; fancy imitation, 19@%20c; fancy cream- ery, 25c; fancy lady, 16@%18c; store packed, 15@%17c. Eggs firm; 35c. doz. Live Stock Markets. Union Stock Yards, Pittsburg, Pa. Feb. 3.—Cattle steady; choice; $5.10@ 5.35; prime; $4.55@ 5; fair; $3.40@ 4.25. Hogs higher; prime heavy; $5.10@ 5.15; mediums; $5.15@ 5.20; heavy Yorkers; 6.25; hogs; $5.15@ 5.15; pigs; $4.90@ 5.45; pigs; $4.90@ 5.45; roughs; $3.50@ 4.50. Sheep slow; prime lambs; $6.15@ 6.25; veal calves; $7.50@ 8. WM. C. WHITNEY PASSES AWAY Died of Peritonitis Following an Operation For Appendicitis. New York, Feb. 3.—William Collins Whitney, former secretary of the navy, died at his home, 871 Fifth avenue. He WILLIAM C. WHITNEY died while under the influence of ether administered preparatory to a second operation for appendicitis. By his bedside were his son, Harry Payne Whitney, and his daughter, Dorothy Whitney, as well as Dr. William T. Bull, the chief surgeon in attendance. Mr. Whitney was in his 64th year. Mr. Whitney was taken ill Friday night at the performance of "Rigoleto" at the Metropolitan Opera House, and had to leave before the opera was ended. Dr. Walter B. James, the Whitney family physician, was summoned, and found that the condition of the patient was such that after consultation an operation was decided upon, and was performed by Dr. Bull. The patient rallied so well that it was fully believed he would recover. Mr. Whitney's condition was very grave, however, on Sunday and Monday, and at a consultation held yesterday the conclusion was reached that the only hope for the patient lay in a second operation. A bulletin issued in the morning stated that there had been a slight improvement in the patient's condition, but shortly before 3 o'clock alarm symptom's were noted, and hurried preparations were made for a second operation. Mr. Whitney was placed under the influence of ether, but whether the operation was proceeded with or not is not known. When the physicians perceived that the patient was in danger of death, Harry Payne Whitney and Miss Dorotry Whitney were immediately notified. They hastened to the side of their father, and in a few minutes he had breathed his last. Oxygen was used, and all the skill of the physicians and surgeons brought into play to save the life of the distinguished patient, but to no avail. The following statement was issued: "Mr. Whitney died of peritonitis and blood poisoning following an operation for appendicitis. The interment will be at Woodlawn, at a date to be hereafter fixed, in the family plot where are the remains of Mrs. Flora Payne Whitney, Olive Whitney and Mr. Whitney's grand-child, Flora Payne Paget. "The funeral services will be held at Grace Church, where Mr. Whitney was a pew holder." Soon after the death visitors began to call at the house. Among them were Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt and ex-Secretary of War Ellu Root. Cleveland Greatly Shocked. Princeton, N. J., Feb. 3.—Mr. Cleveland was deeply moved when he learned of Mr. Whitney's death. He said: "The news of Mr. Whitney's death has greatly shocked me. As I think of him, my mind, passing beyond recent years, dwells upon the days of my association with him in high official duty and recalls the time when I had the opportunity to enjoy his unreserved intimacy and friendly companionship. Our relations have never changed, but the exigencies of life have forbidden recent close intercourse. "Wr. Whitney had more calm, forceful efficiency than any man I ever knew. In work that interested him he actually seemed to court difficulties and to find pleasure and exhilaration in overcoming them. His conquest over the obstacles he encountered in undertaking to build up our navy afforded him greater delight than the contemplation of the great results he achieved in his department of the government. His judgment was quick, clear and astonishingly accurate; and, when it was called into action, his mental poise was so complete that neither passion nor irritation could lead it astray." Bishop of Nassau Drowned. Miami, Ala., Feb. 2.—Mail advices from Nassau, Bahamas, announce the drowning there of the Right Rev. Dr. H. N. Churton, bishop of Nassau. The bishop was making a visit to Ragged Island, one of the outer islands. In attempting to go out to his yacht, the Message of Peace, the small boat was swamped and he was drowned. Shot and Killed at a Dance. Philadelphia, Feb. 1.—Alfred Carter, living near Avondale, Chester county, was shot and killed at a dance near that place. He was shot during a quarrel. Some of those who witnessed the shooting declared that the shot was fired by Samuel Keely, a participant in the dance, and he was arrested. Dynamite Plot Along Leighh Valley. Hazleton, Pa., Feb. 3.—Details of an alleged dynamite plot along the Leighh Valley railroad 20 miles north of White Haven has come to light. T. H. Pindell, of Wilkesbarre, superintendent of the Wyoming division of the Leighh Valley railroad, last week received an anonymous letter, saying that if $10,000 was not deposited at Lake Station, on the Wilkesbarre mountain, that section of the line would be blown up. Sheriff Albert Jacobs was notified, and he with a posse patrolled the tracks.24 hours, but no attempt was made to carry out the threat. A guard is still maintained by the railroad company between Fairview and Lake Station. Three Men Scalded to Death Detroit, Mich., Jan. 20.—Three men were so badly scalded by the breaking of an iron elbow connecting the boiler and engine in the basement of the Hotel Metropole that they died in a short time at the hospitals to which they were removed. The dead: George Vincent, engineer; William Capp, fireman; Frank Casper, fireman at Hotel Brunswick. Casper had gone to the Metropole engine room to see one of the other victims. The three men were deluged with hot water and steam when the coupling burst, and they suffered agonies. Pickpockets to Serve In Mexican Army Mexico City, Feb. 1.—Several prisoners convicted as pickpockets were placed in the regular army to serve out the terms of their sentences. Government officials believe this modern punishment will prove more satisfactory than imprisonment. REV. ELWOOD CONVICTED Guilty of Three Specifications For Preaching Lynching Sermon. Wilmington, Del, Feb. 3.—Rev. Robert A. Elwood, pastor of Olivet Presbyterian church, of this city, who was tried by the New Castle Presbytery on charges growing out of the sermon entitled "Should the Murderer of Miss Helen Bishop Be Lynched" preached by him the day before George White, the negro murderer of Miss Bishop, was burned at the stake, was found guilty on three of the six specifications presented against him. The specifications on which he was found guilty are, in substance as follows: Gulley of unministerial and unchristian conduct in that he violated the constitution of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America, in the 20th chapter of the Confession of Faith, section four, by preaching an unsound and unwise sermon. Guilty of charging, in the event of the lynching of the alleged criminal, the responsibility therefor upon the judges of the courts of New Castle county and the state of Delaware, and thereby tending to lessen the reverence and respect to the constitutional authorities intrusted with the maintenance of civil law. Guilty of advocating the lynching of the alleged criminal if his trial be delayed, or if found guilty, through some technically he be not given capital punishment. After Mr. Elwood had been found guilty a committee was appointed to fix punishment. This committee consisted of the Revs. T. A. McCurdy, S. R. Shaw, J. L. McEllmoyle, H. L. Duyeknick and J. R. Hodgson. After due deliberation the committee recommended that Mr. Elwood be cautioned to be more careful in the future. The recommendation was accepted, and the Presbytery adjourned. Thieves Clean Out Small Jewelry Store After Beating Woman Unconscious. Philadelphia, Feb. 2.—Four men entered a small jewelry store at 3416 Market street, West Philadelphia, and beat, bound and gagged the aged owner of the place, Mrs. Annie Hassler, and then gathered up jewelry to the value of about $500 and escaped. The daring robbery was committed while persons were passing the store, but so quietly was it done that no one's attention was attracted until the men left the store and ran away. A neighbor who saw the robbers leave entered the store and found Mrs. Hassler unconscious on the floor. She is seriously injured, but will probably recover. Mrs. Hassler, who is 71 years of age, says that the four men entered the store and asked to see clocks. As she turned to get one, two of the men seized her by the throat, twisted her head, and one of them struck her with a club. The blow rendered her senseless. The robbers bound and gagged her, and then gathered together the more valuable jewelry in the show cases and in the window. They did not attempt to open the safe. FIVE ROCKMEN KILLED Torn To Pieces By Explosion While Be ing. Hoisted in. Mine Cage Mahanoy City, Pa., Feb. 1. — Five men were instantly killed in the Maple Hill colliery of the Philadelphia and Reading Coal and iron company. The victims, who were rockmen, are: Morgan Jones, aged 35; John Mackey, 28; Joseph Junis, 35; Adam Savage, 23; and John Huderick, 31. The men were killed by an explosion of powder in a steel cage in which they were being hoisted. The explosion ripped the cage apart, and the mangled forms of the rockmen fell 300 feet to the bottom of the shaft. The head of one of the men was blown off. The Maple Hill is one of the collieries visited by the anthracite strike commission, and it is one of the best equipped mines in the hard coal regions. Serious Charge Against a Doctor. Springfield, Ill., Feb. 2.—Dr. Charles A. Nichols, of Urbana, Ill., was arrest ed and brought before Judge Hum- phrey, of the United States district court, charged with sending obscene letters through the mails. He was ar- rested on complaint of Mrs. Susan C Day, of Urbana, divorced wife of Will- iam A. Day, assistant United States attorney general at Washington. Mrs Day charges that Dr. Nichols attempted to extort money from her. Dr Nichols was released under $1000 bonds. Son of Swiss President a Suicide. Dijon, France, Feb. 1.—Arnold Comtesse, son of the president of Switzerland, committed suicide hare by shooting. M. Comtesse, who had been living here recently, drove out to pay a visit to a woman of his acquaintance. Upon being informed that she was not in, Comtesse re-entered his carriage and shot himself in the mouth with a revolver, the bullet penetrating his brain. He was taken to a hospital, where he died. He had been suffering from cerebral derangement resulting from malarial fever. CUPID ON THE PIERS Romances Found on the Docks of Steamship Lines. Young Cuban's Emotional Meeting with Bride to Whom He Had Been Married by Proxy—Pleasing Bridal Discovery. Cupid must spend a large part of his time sitting on the pier where he can watch the coming and going of ocean liners entering and leaving New York. If the small gentleman of the wings and bow were a personal deity and circumscribed by the law which declares against a person being in more than one place at one time, that undoubtedly is the place he would elect as his home. Take the scenes of one day along the docks as an illustration, and those scenes were not all. They were the ones that happened to be observed and known. The White Star line steamship Oceanic started it by arriving with four engaged couples and 14 brides to be on board. The 14 young women came from abroad to marry men who had preceded them to make homes in this country. Their husbands to be were waiting for them on the deck. You may be sure that Cupid smiled broadly as he saw 14 different sets of greetings and beheld the four engaged young couples stalking happily away. The Oceanic had been through rough weather, but Boreas was working against Cupid on that trip and the 14 brides to be and the four engaged couples came safely through. Then, says the Chicago Tribune, at another dock another scene was being enacted. Since morning a young Cuban, Rafael Hidalgo, had been waiting in the cold and snow, watching for a steamer to appear. He had been married by proxy in Havana, November 19, his father acting as his representative in signing the wedding contract. The eagerness of both the young man and the young woman defeated the object they had in view—a welcome the moment the dainty foot of the bride touched American soil. As the passengers began to come off the bridegroom mistook another young woman for his bride and dashed madly down the pier for her. Discovering his mistake he plunged through the crowd of disembarking passengers, but it was not until he had searched 20 minutes that he found her. Then he discovered her in charge of a strapping member of the United States C. M. RAFAEL MEETS HIS BRIDE. army hospital corps. Private John Stremer, in whose care she had been placed on leaving Cuba. The two Cubans had not seen each other for three years, but the recognition was instantaneous. Private Stremer stood at "attention" with a pleased smile on his face while the two exhausted the vocabulary of endearments. The bride was hysterical at first. The crowds, the unaccustomed cold, and the language she could not understand frightened her and she hid her face in her husband's coat and sobbed. He hold her while sympathetic women passengers tried to soothe her and after a while the little fear passed away and she was smiling with confidence again. She had been married to Rafael, his father acting as proxy, because the young man himself could not leave his employment at the Rogers Locomotive works in Paterson, where he is studying to become an engineer. At another dock there was an outgoing steamer which carried two happy, passengers with a story worth repeating. They had been married in Pennsylvania. The young man had told his bride that the money he had saved for the wedding would take them on a wedding trip to New York, but that they must not be extravagant, they would need to be economical in beginning housekeeping. At this she smiled and promised to be exceedingly careful of the household funds. A trip to New York was all the wedding trip any girl needed, she thought. So they were married and started on their trip. When they got to New York the bride informed her husband that it would be nicer to drop their arrangements for the wedding trip and make a tour of the world instead. "You see," she said with a blush and in an apologetic manner, "instead of being poor, as you thought me. I have a modest fortune of half a million dollars, but I wanted to be loved for myself alone." It was an astonished young man that listened to this announcement, but their appearance on the pler, taking an outgoing vessel, was proof that he did not regret the fact that the woman he had married as poor had turned out to be rich. MOTHER WAS FRANTIC Carriage Got Lost with Baby Inside and General Excitement Was the Result. "Where's the carriage with a baby in it?" erled a woman, young, smartly gowned and handsome, as she emerged from a Twenty-third street toy store, New York, and looked anxiously up and down the street. Shoppers hurrying by stopped. The carriage caller on duty in front of the shop asked: "What carriage? Whose baby?" "My carriage and my baby in it," came the half sobbing reply. "Find them for me! Oh, what shall I do if baby is gone?" "Where's the carriage with a baby in it?" roared the carriage man in a voice that echoed down the block. Then his was off on a run for the head of the line of carriages, startling the crowd by bellowing: "Where's the carriage with a baby in it?" The cry was taken up by policemen. A "I WANT MY BABY!" Half a hundred men's voices swelled the chorus. The ordinary traffic of the street ceased. The distracted mother wrung her hands. "I want my baby," she kept repeating. "I only left it a moment to go inside and buy a present. Now it's gone." There were dark whisperings of kidnapers. Every carriage that hove in sight was eyed with suspicion. When the excitement was at its height a carriage thread its way to the curb. There was a glad cry from the weeping woman, and opening the door herself she was inside with a bound. The next thing the crowd saw was a baby about two years old being smothered with kisses. "Home, Thomas," came a voice from the carriage, and mother and baby were whirled away before anybody had a chance to find out who they were or how the carriage had come to get lost. TRAGEDY IN ASYLUM. Mexican Madman Nailed Fellow Inmate's Head to the Floor to Give Him a Shave. Ambrosio Samano Campa, a Mexican madman killed a fellow inmate of the San Hippolita insane asylum in the City of Mexico, the other day while professing to shave him. Campa induced the other man to remove his straitjacket. When this was accomplished he asked his companion to don the garment, which he did without protest. Then, laying his victim on the floor, Campa proceeded to drive a large spike through his head into the floor. With a shoemaker's knife, which by some means he had contrived to secure, he tried to shave his victim, but finding the latter's position inconvenient, removed the spike and nailed the man's head to the floor in a different manner. This operation he repeated four times. The dead man was a brother of Manuel Marron, prosecuting attorney in the Belem criminal court, and a well V. SPIKED HIM TO THE FLOOR. known litterateur. When news of the tragedy was conveyed to the lawyer he was summing up the case in the trial of Jorge Lezama, who was finally sentenced to death for murder. As the attorney asked the terrible penalty for Lezama tears were streaming down his cheeka, Samano Campa, who had been in the asylum for nine years, was a powerful man. He believed himself to be God on earth. Once he grasped a man who refused to worship him by the throat and struck his victim's head against the wall, fainting the skull. Two years ago in a fight with another inmate, who also claimed to be God in Heaven, Campa secured a club and killed his opponent. Coffins Made of Glass. Hermetically sealed glass coffins are coming in vogue in French cities. It is asserted that a body buried in a glass coffin becomes mummified in about 30 years. Courting the Muse. The post burns the midnight oil And lonely vigils keep; While products of his wakeful toll Put other folks to sleep. -Spare Moments. "Certainly, Mr. Cautious, if you can furnish the dough."—N. Y. Times The Drama of Dirt. Madge—How was the play last night? Dolly—Just lovely. It was full of things a girl had to pretend she didn't understand.—Town Topics. She—Has he any degrading ties? He—Yes, those his wife bought for him. Yonkers Statesman. AC PLANET SATURDAY ... FEBRUARY 6, 1904 WAR REMINISCENCES STARTED SHERIDAN. Illinois War Veteran Who Awoke the General to Make His Historic Ride. The man who started Gen. Phil Sheridan on his famous ride from Fairfax station to Winchester to win back a battle that was lost lives in Warrensburg, a village in this county, and his name is George Mixell, says the Chicago Chronicle. This incident is the old veteran's most treasured memory of the war and he delights to tell how he sent Sheridan galloping down the Shenandoah valley at two o'clock in the morning of October 19, 1864. "I was a private in the Two Hundred and Second Pennsylvania," says Mixell, and Col. Charles Albright commanded our regiment. We were on duty at Fairfax station, 25 or 30 miles southwest of Winchester, in old Virginia. Near Winchester runs Cedar creek, near which Sheridan's army was in camp. City Point, where Grant was at the time, is about 25 miles south and west of Winchester, in West Virginia. "You know Sheridan left his army to visit Gen. Grant and have a conference with him. He did not think Early, the confederate leader, would surprise and sout his army; he didn't think Early was strong enough. So he took plenty of time and was in no hurry to return to his command. That is why he came by Fairfax station. "It happened that I was on guard duty at the headquarters of our colonel the evening Sheridan arrived at the station. Col. Albright had his headquarters in a large house near the railroad and I patrolled the porch. "When Sheridan arrived he was alone and came up on a black horse, not a large one, but a magnificent animal full of spirit and splendidly proportioned. He dismounted in front of the house and started to pass me, but I stopped him, not knowing who he was, but just then my colonel came out and welcomed him and I saluted. "He spoke to me pleasantly, and that's probably what gave me courage to do what I did later. Sheridan went into the house and was soon in bed, I guess, for it was late when he came. I continued my watch without anything unusual happening until about two o'clock in the morning, when sounds of cannon firing came from the direction of Winchester and some other sentry called to me that he thought Sheridan's army was in a night battle. "I knew this was unexpected and something told me to call my colonel and Sheridan and I woke them up. Sheridan jumped out of bed and asked what was wrong, and I told him. He GEORGE MIXELL ran out on the porch in his shirt, listened a minute, made some strong remarks and called for his horse. "While the animal was being brought he was getting into his clothes. He jumped on his horse, ordered my colonel to get his men out and galloped off. He was alone then, and if he had a guard he picked them up in our camp. He may have left a couple of his men there when he came up to the colonel's house. I never heard anything more about his ride except that he got there and found his army on the run and made them stand up and fight. Our regiment did not get in the fight because it was over before we got there and we were stopped on the way." Mr. Mixell gleefully relates how Sheridan seemed put out when he heard the sounds of cannonading as of distant thunder when aroused from bed. Why the Lord Made So Many In Lincoln's lips, the words that often came were these: "The common people." To those who lived with him and talked with him, especially during the civil war, it seemed as if he could never cease thinking of those who were just human beings, unlettered, unknown, inglorious. A congressman from a western district approached him during his term as president, and apologized for presenting a petition from his constituents, because they were very common people. "Well," said Lincoln, pleasantly, "God must love the common people. He's made so many of 'em."—Success. Purest Gold Ores. The purest gold found anywhere is in the Mount Morgan mine, at Queens- land, Australia. The mine holding second place in this respect in the Guillempe mine in Tuolumne county, Cal. The Mount Morgan gold is 997 fine, 1,000 being chemically pure gold, worth $20.67 per ounce. AN ENTERPRISING YANKER. How He Got Horsehair to Make Fancy Bridles and Other Trap-pings. "Speaking of curious things that happened during the war between the states, reminds me of a little enterprise launched by a smooth Yankee in southeastern Arkansas," said the old-timer in the New Orleans Times-Democrat, "and if he could have held out he would soon have become a millionaire, and he would have owed it all to the traffic in horses' tails. He was a genius in his way, but turned out to be a bit clumsy, else he would not have been caught so early in the game. As it was, however, he made a neat sum, and when he was told that the climate of that section was not good for him, that his health was run down, and in fact that he would not live long if he did not leave forth with, he left and had ample funds with which to leave. "He was about the cleverest and most enterprising fellow I met during the unhappy season of the country's history. He could make all kinds of neat, useful and attractive things out of horse hair, the hair of the horses' tails and manes. The prettiest and most artistic bridles I ever saw were made by him out of this TAILS OF THE ANIMALS DISAPPEARED material. Leather bridles were scarce. Many men were using bridles made out of pawpaw bark, and the bark of other kinds of trees. When he started his horse-hair bridle and leather enterprise it looked like the salvation of the country. He was doing an immense business. Wherever there was a dead horse there you would find him, also, carefully cutting away the manes and tails. It would have been all right if this Yankee genius had confined himself to dead horses. He could even find a few men who were willing to sell the manes and tails of their horses. But as a rule the old fellows of that time were proud of the manes and tails of their horses and would have as quickly permitted you to cut off one of the animal's legs. So he could not get all the hair his expanding business demanded. "The result was that in a short while complaints began to be made from all sections of the country by the owners of horses that in some mysterious way the manes and tails of the animals disappeared. The beauty and grace of family pets had been marred in some way during the nighttime and there was walling and gnashing of teeth. In the meantime the business of the horsehair bridle and haltermaker kept steadily growing. Besides, he was now actually making harness of all kinds out of horsehair—ropes, hamestrings, martingales, breeching, backstops, backbands, even trace chains—and these facts naturally brought suspicion down on his head. By a bit of detective work on the part of citizens the responsibility of this unique kind of vandalism, if I may say it, was placed upon the Yankee bridlemaker. The result has been stated. When he was told that the climate of southeastern Arkansas did not agree with him he agreed to the statement and in a short while scuttled out of that section. He left behind him the strangest-looking lot of horses you ever lied eyes on and actually people were ashamed to let their horses leave the stables in their hairless condition." Tunneling Out of Libby. Aside from the effects of hunger, there was a feeling of unrest among many of the prisoners, which, if yielded to, often led to serious despondency and even insanity. Plan after plan was devised for escape, only to be proved to be impracticable. In the dead hours of the night men could be seen prowling around the prison, in the hope that some means of escape might offer. Often on dark, stormy nights the guards would come up for temporary shelter, under cover of the prison walls, where, unobserved by anyone from the outside, they would enter into conversation with the prisoners, often giving expressions of sympathy. Among them frequently was found a man of northern birth who had been conscripted into the confederate army and was at heart a unionist. Bribes were sometimes offered by the prisoners and taken to the guards; but attempts to escape by that means generally resulted in the prisoner being handed over to the authorities after he had got outside and given up his valuables.—James M. Wells, in McClure's Magazine. In a Boston Nursery Johnnie-Ma, what does me-e-t-a-g-r-a-b-o-l-i-z-i-n-g mean? Ma—It means, dearie, the contripetal force which is displayed by those who fire off their mouths in vain aspiration for the ephemeral essences of cosmic generalities which have not been brought into pellucid ratioscination by the processes involved in the metaphysical grouping of the cosmic air contradistinguished from the lambent ablutions of the peripatetics. Johnnle—Ah!—N. V. Sun. Perversity The kicker sings a sorrowing song. There's nothing else can ease him. The more this world keeps going wrong, the more items to please him. -Washington State THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA that is helping to regulate the price of eatable commodities? Is it a specter invented for the satisfaction of man's just for gold, or is it a reality? She Lost It and Beau of Her Childhood Found It. Naturally This Combination Led to Reunion and a Happy Wedding —A Case of Meddlesome Father. "She lost her heart to him"—extract from any popular novel of the deeply sentimental type. Once at least it has happened actually. The heart was lost—actually. The young man who got it married the girl who lost the heart. The only unromanile thing about it was that the heart was leather. "Wine girl with leather heart" was the headline they put on the story. That sounded like the ery of a dime museum "commercial orator," but that also was a fact. The girl with the leather heart was Miss Neomi K. Woods, daughter of Benjamin F. Woods, of San Francisco. The man who found the leather heart and won the girl was Wilmot F. Haughton, son of the late Maj. Charles Haughton, of Louisville, Ky. Mr. Woods had refused to allow Haughton to marry his daughter until he had stopped gambling and had saved $2,500 by honest toll. The way the leather heart comes to figure in the case is thus: Last year the Wholesale Saddlery association, of which Mr. Woods is a member, met in Cleveland and Miss Woods attended the sessions with her father. The women at the meeting were presented each with a photograph case of morocco leather in the shape of a heart. Miss Woods put her picture in the case and then lost it—the heart and the picture. It was found by Haughton, who was astonished to find the picture that of his old sweetheart, from whom he had been separated by the edict of her father. Woods was determined that Haughton should not marry his daughter, believing that he gambled and was not saving. That had been four years before. When Haughton found the picture he carried it to the girl and said: "I should like to return this and claim the reward." The father found that the young man had stopped gambling and had saved the necessary $3,500 and accordingly the engagement was announced. Here's a stubborn father. This one was John Dineen, of Yankton, S.D. His rebellious son was Albert Dineen, aged 17, and the bride was Miss Jessie Lane. RETURNED THE HEART. the same age. They were married at Dakota City after they had been arrested by the Sioux City police while passing through that city. After they had been arrested at the father's request he relied, the son declaring that he would not give the girl up. The conversation of young Dineen with the policemen while he was being held at Sioux City was interesting. "Well, I see the old man has got me," exclaimed the young lover angriily. "I expected as much. I don't care. I won't give up Jessie for a minute. You won't consent to give me up, will you?" "Never!" exclaimed the girl. "Father's mixing in this won't do any good," continued the boy. "I won't go home. If I go, I won't stay. I'll like right back to Jessie. You just watch me. Is the old man coming down after me?" "I don't know," said the officer. "Well, if he does, he'd better bring somebody with him, for I am a better man than dad is any day. He can't take me up there." Dineen was searched at the police station. A pocketbook, in which reposed a lock of Jessie's hair, tied with a red ribbon, was found. He looked lingeringly at the lovelock as he passed it over to the officer. The young man then told of how at seven o'clock in the morning he awoke, went into the next room, where his intended wife was staying, and waked her. They gathered together a few articles of clothing, hired a hack, and went to the depot. He said their elopement would have been perfectly unknown to his father if he had not purchased a ticket at the depot. "We intended to go to Dakota City and there get tied up," he said. "Jessie's mother lives 16 miles from there, and five miles from Homer. I can work. I have had to work ever since I was big enough to travel around, and I guess we could get along. The folks don't like Jessie. My parents and all the kids have it in for her. I am game, though, and I won't give her up." Whereupon Jessie's eyes gleamed with regard, while she watched every movement of her boy lover. Afterwards the father relented, the police released the levers, and they went their way in peace. Horse Versus Man Power. The strength of two horses equals that of 15 men. She Came Back at Him. "I mustered up enough courage last night to ask my wife if she knew that some wise man has said that a maximum of talk is a sign of a minimum of thought?" "And what did she say? "She looked at me for some time and then said that she had begun to notice that a minimum of talk usually indicated a maximum of idiocy."—Cleveland Plain Dealer. The Causes of Her Threatened Rapture with Russia. A GREAT FIGHT FOR HER LIFE Sees Danger of the Bear Absorbing Northern Provinces of China —Cocera Not the Real Cause of the Trouble. WHAT is it all about, this rumpus in the far east that fills the columns of the press of the world with theories and rumors; that keeps the bulls and bears of the stock pits clawing at each other: By all means it is a reality. A reality founded upon a condition that has in it nothing that is new in the world of international economics, nothing the world has not seen before. The press one days tells us that Japan has issued what is virtually an ultimatum to Russia; another the news is cabled from Peking, from Hong-Kong, from Nagasaki or other seat of the enterprising scribe, that new negotiations are on foot and a settlement seems near. A settlement of what? What are the negotiations about? What was Japan's ultimatum? What is the rumpus all about anyway? It is one little nation fighting for its life, its future, its prosperity. It is more than—it is this one little nation fighting for the life of another little nation and a big nation near her borders, and for the commercial rights of other big nations of Europe and America. Japan is saying to Russia: "Corea must not be stepped upon; it must remain a free and independent people; the seal of the czar must not lock its doors. That is what is said in words. What is said in meaning is that Japan must have a chance to live, a chance to grow, a chance to sell the products of her accumulating factories. That the THE GREAT WALL OF CHINA. greed of the Russian Bear must stop before it has cast the shadow of its hoary paw over all that semiconscious nation, a nation worse than helpless, on the mainland that means to Japan life, future, opportunity, prosperity. As a matter of necessity, Japan has set up a Monroe doctrine of her own in Asia. The little empire is not large enough for the awakened activities of its people, and there must be room for commercial expansion. Long before Japan was awakened by Commodore Perry and his followers, Yernak had crossed the Ural mountains and the Russian Bear began his migration eastward. Before Japan had awakened he had reached the Pacific and found—a sea of ice. He tarried there, and it was not until Japan had awakened and rubbed the sleep of centuries from her eyes that he tired of his sea of ice and began casting covetous glances southward to an open sea. Those glances in- ADMIRAL ALEXIEFF, The Representative of the Czar in the Far East and Commander of the Russian Forces There. cluded Corea, then claimed by China as a dependency, a claim which the world scarcely recognized. In Corea, too, Japan saw an opportunity, and she was then but beginning to look for opportunities, and she grasped at it. Europe wrung from her what she had fairly earned by defeating the Dragon in open warfare, but she insisted, at least, upon Corea's independence. The Bear, in the meantime, moved southward. Policy forbade him middle with Corea, for a time at least, and with wily smiles and fair promises he won favor with tottering China and a foothold on the open sea. Japan has watched the menace grow, and proposes to stop it. China, when it is too late, sees the danger opening before her, but is powerless. The nations of Europe, for very fear of each other, Not Worth Mentioning. Foreman (explaining the accident to the owner of the building)—Barney was working on the roof, sir, and he slipped and fell the whole four stories, bringing the cornice down with him, sir, and breaking both his legs and half his ribs. Owner—Oh, well, never mind. I intended that cornice to come down in any case.—Tit-Bits. W ADMIRAL ALEXIEFF. dare not move a hand. The peaceful policy of the United States forbids more than sympathy with the little combatant. And the menace that is seen is closed ports in a developing market. No, little Corea, with its 82,000 square miles of territory, is not the only bone of contention. If it were the question so far as Russia and Japan are concerned, would be easily settled. Russia is quite willing to concede the independence of Corea as demanded, upon the condition that Japan acknowledge Russian sovereignty in Manchuria. What Japan demands is that Russia concede Corean independence, and the gree to keep his paw off the hermit nation without asking conditions, for Japan is too wise not to know that the acknowledged control of Manchuria is but another step in the scheme of Russian agrandizement, the full object of which is the control of all the great northern provinces of China containing the very best markets now open to Japan, markets the gates of which would be closed and looked with Russia in control. There is a peculiar political situation back of this lone fight of little Japan to prevent the disruption of the Chinese empire. Every commercial nation of Europe and America has cast covetous glances upon China, either upon its territory or its markets. Had not the Washington government stepped in an opportun time the great empire would undoubtedly have fallen a prey to the territorial greed of the nations of Europe, but with American mills, American machinery and American genius back of these the Washington government could see a better opportunity for this country in an undivided China with open ports than in a divided China with closed ports. That this country could share in the distribution and division of the empire was not, or is not, to be considered, and even if it could, it would be valuable only from the commercial standpoint, and undivided China offers a better opportunity than any small part of the empire this country might, by any possibility, secure. The wise heads of England look upon the subject in much the same way as do the officials at Washington. Though England might share more largely in the territorial spoil than could this country, yet England cannot afford to ```markdown ``` see the disruption of the Chinese empire. Lord Curzon put the case tersely when he said: "It is only in the east, and especially in the far east, that we may still hope to keep and create open markets for British manufactures. Every port, every town and every village that passes into French or Russian hands is an outlet lost to Manchester, Bradford and Bombay." Russia is not a competitor with the other nations of Europe in the world's markets. She wants only exclusive markets, and to get these she must control territory. The development of Siberia lacks nothing but a market for its products. What better is at hand than North China. French politicians at least are willing to help Russia get what she wants if in turn she may have her pick of the southern provinces bordering her already large interests in Cochin China. But republican France is not so easily handled as a more stable monarchy. The intentions of the French politicians may be all right, but Russia mistrusts the temper of the French people. The military alliance with that country cannot be counted upon too strongly for such a purpose as the dismemberment of the Chinese empire in opposition to the wishes of Japan and the United States, and so Russia has curried favor with Germany, who covets territory in the provinces lying to the south of Peking. Just how much Russia is willing to grant in return for the assistance she needs is hard to say, but she will probably be quite generous in promises if such are necessary. The smaller nations of Europe which can in no way hope to profit in territory by the distribution of China at the hand of the czar, sympathize with Japan in the struggle she is making, but, like the United States, their help can go no further than that of sympathy, and this neither buys warships or wins battles. Thus it is that Japan is left virtually alone to fight for the maintenance of the Chinese empire and for the open door policy of which we have heard so much. It is the mikado and his army and navy that must keep the Russian Bear out of Manchuria, out of Corea, out of Mongolia, out of Peking, if he is to be kept out, and the ports of this section of China remain open to the commerce of the world. If she is not successful, the great wall of China will be moved south some several hundred miles to mark the new Siberian frontier, and Russia will have secured new and exclusive markets which she so much desires. That these markets will still remain open to the trade of the world is an idle dream Lady—Begging must be hard. Tramp—It is, lady. This is the sixth time that I've had to eat soup to-day. —Fllegende Blaetter. Two Kinds. Rebecca—Who are the "smart set?" Isadore—Why, those who are in it and those who keep out of it—Detroit Free Press. 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Miss Crossett graduated at the same school and she figured it out that she had walked 5,000 miles in going back and forward while she was at her studies, and she determined to save her brother and sister such an extended trudging. The car is used to put up switch lights and for other purposes, and she induced him to equip it as described. When she and her sister each get a foot on the treadle and the wind is with them they sail up the big steel highway in grand style. If for any reason they are obliged to take the machine off the track the three are drilled to take hold after a certain agreed on fashion and the contrivance is yanked off the rails and set down at a safe distance on the right of way. In the evening the children wait at a given point and are ready to help set the car on the right hand track and take their places. In an instant the car is spinning homeward bound. A CHILD OF THE TIMES. A woman is standing in front of a man who is sitting in a chair. 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Of the many tools introduced for pulverizing the soil, none is cheaper and less used than the drag. Some farmers term it "block," "leveler" or "clod-smasher." Its use can begin with a two cr three-horse size, immediately after breaking, when it levels the land, so tooth or disk harrow can do most thorough work, and this same form HOMEMADE ONE-HORSE DRAG. does admirably, preceding grain planters of all types. But it is the one-horse style, used immediately after the cultivator in growing crops, where the nicety of work proves it one of the most profitable tools. In early cultivation it gently hills the plants, doing away with an enormous amount of hand-hoe work, and leaves the surface in its natural level condition, insuring uniformity of depth of future cultivations. During dry periods it is invaluable; all other tools loosen the surface, while the block, on previously well-fined land, packs and fars the earth to the depth cultivated, retarding evaporation without injurious root disruption. A one-horse drag, similar to that shown in the above cut, can be made by anyone at very small cost. It may be modified or improved to suit one's fancy.—Orange Judd Farmer. TALK ABOUT GINSENG. Proper Time to Set In Either in September or October or in February or March. Young ginseng is very tender, but with age it becomes more hardy and with a little care and knowledge of its habits may be transplanted with safety. It should be set in the fall; September or October are considered the best months. It can also be set in the spring with good results during February and March. Some prefer growing it in a thicket or the edge of woods, but I think it is much better to grow it out in the open field and provide an artificial shade. It cannot stand the direct rays of the sun, and will not grow unless shaded. A very convenient shade is made by setting nine-foot posts $2\frac{1}{2}$ feet deep in the ground. Nail heavy strips or rails to top of posts and then cover with brush. The soil should be rich and loose to insure rapid growth. The plot of ground should be north or northeast; the latter being the most preferable. It will not grow to advantage on south or west land. I have hunted the woods in this section but never found a wild plant growing in land with that exposure. To insure good drainage, choose a plot of ground that is a little rolling, and then dig a ditch around it from 12 to 16 inches deep and about the same in width. This will carry off the water and make a sure protection against moles. Beds for planting should be about four feet wide and any convenient length. A coat of leaves and leaf mold is necessary as a protection during winter. It is estimated that on one acre 100,000 plants can be set. Ginseng usually comes up in May and blooms usually in June and July. By September there will be a cluster of bright red berries, each containing one to three seeds. As soon as the seeds are fully ripe the top begins to die. The next year's bud forms on the root, but lies dormant until the coming spring—Elmer Gark, in Orange Judd Farmer Seedless Fruit Production. The experts in the fruit department of the department of agriculture at Washington have been very successful during the past season with their experiments in producing stoneless and seedless fruits. The dread of appendicitis from swallowing fruit seeds is stimulating the innovation very much. The success of the seedless naval oranges of California is well known. Seedless plums from the same state were put on the market for the first time this year. They were of a large size, a deep blue color and delicacy, in flavor and quality. A seedless prune is promised among the next season's novelties, as are also seedless watermelons, apples, peaches, pears, grapes, strawberries and blackberries. Sensible Orchard Treatment. In central New York, there is a 14-year-old orchard that has always been managed on an exceedingly sensible and profitable plan. The branches are trained to the spreading habit, which opens the tree to the air and sun. For about eight years the orchard was plowed and planted to crops, which require thorough cultivation like corn, beans and potatoes. Then it was seeded down with alfalfa and inoculated. This developed a very thick sod, which is cut three times a year for hay. This hay is fed to stock, and then the manure is all hauled back again and spread around the trees. Under this system the orchard has made a very remarkable growth. BUT ONE PROPER TIME. Noted Massachusetts Horticulturist Says That All Pruning Should Be Done in June. After three score years of experience in orchard culture, allow me to say something on the proper time for pruning. There is but one proper time, the month of June, when the new bark forms on the wood. More orchards are ruined by being pruned at improper times than from all other causes. If pruned in autumn or winter, the bark will dry around the stump and heal there, but never over the end; this exposed stump will not out in a few years, leaving a tagged hole where water can enter, and the decay of the center of the whole tree begins, shortening its life many years. If pruned in the spring, the wound bleeds, the sap often running down and killing the bark below, making a black, unsightly wound, which never heals over, and the whole tree is subject to decay. If pruned in June, when the new bark and wood is forming, the wound begins to heal at once, and no matter what the size of the branch cut may be, the wound will heal before decay begins if the tree is vigorous and in good condition. Care should be taken to cut close to the trunk or larger branch, so that the wound may heal over the end, for if cut two or three inches from the trunk or main branch, nature forgets to carry the necessary material to heal over the wound, and again the water enters and decay occurs. When from accident, the effect of snow or ice, a large branch is broken, cut temporarily, leaving a foot or more to be cut again close to the trunk in the month of June. The reason farmers generally prune in early spring is that they then have time and little else to do and are anxious to be at work, and thus have some excuse; but if they could realize the damage they are doing to their own property, they might perhaps refrain and put their labor to better account at the proper season—W. S. Ripley, in Country Gentleman. SAVES LOTS OF WORK Wheel Hoe of Simple Construction and Adapted Especially for Light Garden Work. The accompanying cut explains itself. Use an old bucksaw, bent at right angles for blade, eight inches is wide enough for onions, etc.; in 14-inch rows. Have the blacksmith punch the holes for bolts and turn the corners. A wooden wheel will do. The large wheel of an old sewing machine is best. The average farm boy will have it built and out in the snow with it to see if it hangs right before you know it. On good garden soil, free from stones, he will do as much with it in ten minutes as you can with a hoe in one hour—John Jackson, in Epitomist. Keeping Tomatoes in Lime. A Missourian reports having tried the method of keeping tomatoes in lime, with varying success. Each tomato was wrapped in paper and placed in shallow boxes—one layer between two layers of lime to each box. The tomatoes kept best thus stored in a loft where the temperature was about 40 degrees. The tomatoes should be gathered in October and be dry when packed. A small green one will keep as well as any, but is liable to be wilted when it ripens. Our friend says he has kept tomatoes in this way until March and April. He prefers a green tomato gathered just before it commences to turn. Any tough, smooth-skin tomato will keep if handled carefully, wrapped in paper and packed in lime or ashes. The ashes seem to do fully as well as lime. In telling how to expeditiously plant willows for windbreaks, a writer says: "Take poles of the willow of any length that may be desired. Bury these in the ground some six inches below the surface. This can be done by laying them in the bottom of a furrow plowed out to the depth desired. Before laying them thus, cut a notch in the pole wherever a tree is wanted. Let the poles lap a little at the ends. When put in place the earth should be put back in place again, and if firmed somewhat, so much the better. In a short time the shoots will appear above the surface of the ground. Cultivation should be given along the sides of these for a couple of years, thus forming a dust blanket, which will help to keep in the moisture, and which will also keep down the weeds."—Shaw's Farmer. Keeping Vegetables for Winter. To enjoy wholesome and palatable vegetables during the winter months proper care is essential in gathering and storing. A good plan of storing is greatly needed. Sink a barrel, box or cask two-thirds its depth into the ground, heap the earth around the projecting part with a slope on all sides, place the vegetables in, cover the top water tight, and when winter comes throw an arm load of straw over them. If the bottom is out of the barrel so much the better. Vegetables will keep in this way as fresh as when taken from the ground. Celery should stand nearly perpendicular, celery and earth alternating. Freedom from frost, ease of access, and especially freedom from rot, and freshness, are the advantages of this plan.—E. L. Morris, in Epitomist. Always milk in the same order and at the same time of day. "And what did Miss Specie do when she heard the count's tale of woe?" "She gave him a helping hand."—Town Topics. THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. Harrowing Experience of an Actor Down in New Jersey. Celebrated the Day by Stuying in Bed Because He Had Neither Trouwers Nor Money Enough to Buy a Pair. "I suppose every actor has had some unpleasant experiences on Christmas day," said Raymond Hitchcock, the star of "The Yanee Consul," to a Chicago Inter Ocean reporter, "but I challenge any other man in the profession to prove that he had an experience as harrowing as one I had while playing the New Jersey one night-stand circuit about 12 years ago. "At that time I was unfortunate enough to believe that I was destined to become a great manager. I thought the profession of acting was overcrowded. I saved my salary during the previous season, and by borrowing from some of my friends I managed to scrape enough money together to 'take out a show.' It was a very sad rural melodrama, called 'Down Yonder on the Farm.' We started out very late in the season, and for a few weeks before Christmas business was bad. The day before Christmas I looked over my statement, counted my cash, and to my dismay discovered that I had but $38 to take the company to the next town. We were to open there with the Christmas matinee (I'll not mention the name of the town, because it is still on the map, and the same manager is there). My $38 was just enough to pay railroad fare. With true managerial instinct it occurred to me that I had better keep my $38. After a long argument with the officials of the railroad it was agreed to send my company to the next town 'C. O. D.' Of course, when we got to the town I touched the box office and got enough money to pay the railroad fare. To make matters worse the woman who was playing the principal character came to me and demanded her salary for the preceding week, at that time unpaid even in part. While I was using my most suave and persuasive language on the character woman the transfer man came in and demanded $20 for hauling the scenery and baggage. "While I was talking to him the actor who was playing the lead TURNED THE HOSE ON HIM. stepped in the door and announced that he would not play the part unless he got his salary for the past week. I left the character woman and the transfer man, called the frate leading man out in the alley and gave him the $38, saying, 'I will owe you the other two dollars until I go out to the box office; I have several hundred dollars out there, but am too busy now to and get it!' I supposed everything was settled satisfactorily with the leading man, but when the time came for the curtain to go up I was pained to learn that he had left town. Then it was up to me to play the lead. I knew only a few of the lines, but I intended to 'fake' and get through with the performance some way. While I was making up I was called outside my dressing room to face another creditor, and when I returned I discovered that the two pairs of trousers, one pair that I wore on the street, the other the pair the leading man used on the stage, had been stolen. There I stood, trouserless, in my dressing room, and the thermometer, even indoors, was 15 below zero. I was wondering whether the audience, if we had any, would permit me to appear on the stage trouserless, when again the manager of the theater appeared in the doorway and demanded the money he had advanced for railroad fare. "I have just learned that my trousers, containing my purse and all my funds, have been stolen," I said. "Aw, come off," said the manager, "I'll give you just one more chance to fork over that money." "I started to explain for the fifteenth time, when I was deluged with a stream of icy water. The manager had, as a last resort, turned a hose on me. 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Ler Authorized Capital, $5,0 BEFORE MAKING *Your purchase you would call at the most reliable house in the city and a line of Of every description; all best designs in ROCKERS; OHAIRS. Our good best for the price and t very low. THE PLANET SATURDAY... FEBRUARY 6, 1904 THE DAIRY Scheme of a Kansas City Genius for Making a Rocker Do Troublesome Work. The very newest thing in the way of a churn has been invented by a man from Kansas City, who stands all day long on the corner of Fourth and Main dis- playing his ingenious butter-maker. The churn is made in the shape of a rock- ing horse. It is crudely shaped, and painted a vivid blue, but the way that animal gives butter milk is a wonder. The body of the horse is the churn proper. The head comes off in the shape of a lid and reveals a cylinder with three dashes attached. The cylin- UNIQUE CHURN ROCKER. der is to hold cracked ice when the beast has been on the rampage, or hot or cold water, as the case may demand. A spigot of a nose gives forth buttermilk when the butter is formed, and, altogether, that blue hobby horse is fearfully and wonderfully made. For the busy farmer's wife, this blue hobby horse offers visions of the millennium and Saturdays full of case. Unless the hobby horse go lame, the week's end butter is made quick as a cat can wink its eye and walk twice around the red barn. There are several ways of keeping the horse at a trot, and, incidentally, the milk at butter pitch. A string attached to the beast's neck, like a bridle, will keep it going at a fair pace by an occasional jerk. A foot on the rocker as the housewife does the week's mending will bring a pot of butter into existence with no effort whatever; and the third and last method is the best of all. It offers a double inducement. Put the baby on the hobby horse and go on about your business. The baby can get butter out of that churn as well as the next one. To be sure, he doesn't know that he's churning. The baby, if he has leisure in which to think, probably fancies he's having a tremendous horseback ride, just like papa. He doesn't dream that he's being useful. Babies seem to have a deep-rooted dislike to being useful. No doubt any well-regulated baby asked to jump on his horse and do the week's churning would rebel. But tell him to go play with his hobby horse, and while he's hunting up his riding whip surreptitiously fill the beast with sour milk. The result is butter without any worry or work, and the baby is amused. Every armre should have a blue hobby horse—Los Angeles Herald. INFLAMED UDDERS Nine-Tenths of the Cases of This Annoying Disease Are Caused by Taking Cold. Many complaints are in about this malady, and this will answer all of them. In the first place, cows properly cared for rarely have this trouble. The udder of deep milking cows is very sensitive, and nine-tenths of the cases are caused by taking cold, says the Dairy World. Recently one of the windows in a cow barn was raised a little in a warm day and was left open during the night. The next morning the cow standing nearest the window had a swollen udder. During the night she took cold from the draft and it settled in the udder. Closing the window after the evening milking would have avoided the trouble. For treatment the udder was frequently bathed with hot water, scrubbed vigorously until dry and vaseline was applied. Generally a physic is recommended, but with the treatment described we have not found it necessary. At this season many cows are fresh, and if allowed to lie on the damp ground they are likely to take cold, especially if they have been well housed during the winter. If the udder begins to cake before calving follow the remedy prescribed, and milk out. Of course the best way is to prevent this chief cause. Daily access to salt is important because if salt is given only occasionally they will take too much, causing abnormal thirst followed by drinking too much cold water which often results in a cold. Why Dairying Pays Well Dalryng is profitable because it brings the farmer the largest return for his labor and products of his farm. It enables him to get a larger gross and net income from his farm than he can obtain without it. The seed that will make two pounds of beef will make a pound of butter, and the value of a pound of butter is always more than the value of two pounds of beef, even during the last few years of relatively high prices of beef and low prices of butter.—Farmers Review. WATER AFFECTS BUTTER. Valuable Information Contained in a Recent Bulletin from the Iowa Experiment Station. All well water, whether it be from shallow wells or deep wells, contains bacteria. Water from shallow wells is polluted with impurities to a greater degree than water from deep wells. The conditions which surround shallow wells do not guarantee a creamy pure water at different seasons of the year. Filthy surface water is all the time seeping in from the sides, especially during the wet season. In the spring of the year, or at any time during the different seasons when heavy rains are frequent, shallow, open or bored wells act as a receptacle for inflowing, nasty surface water containing a great deal of organic matter, and where organic matter is present gorms of different species are always sure to be present. Besides being a receptacle for such inflowing water, shallow wells serve in the capacity of traps for a number of animals, such as rats, mice, rabbits, skunks, minks and squirrels. The presence of one or more of these dead animals in an open well is sure to result in water strongly impregnated with undesirable odors and a multitude of undesirable and putrefactive organisms, which, when distributed through butter, will produce no good results. If every open well was drained and searched for such dead animals, very few would be searched in vain. The writer has seen water used which was impregnated with impurities and bad odors to such an extent that it imparted directly to the butter this same undesirable odor and taste. The very fact that water from certain wells has a clean appearance and pure taste does not necessarily indicate that it is free from undesirable germs. Deeply drilled wells are much the best for supplying creameries with water. They cannot in any possible way serve as a trap for small animals as can the open wells. Germs do not enter the soil so deep as to cause water to be infested with them, so the number of germs deep well water contains largely come from the atmosphere after exposure to it or to unclean receptacles. Prof. Pammel found shallow well water containing as high as 18,000 germs per cubic centimeter. Deep well water he rarely found to contain more than 400 germs per cubic centimeter. BIG MONEY IN ANGORAS. Massachusetts Farmer Claims That They Are the Best-Paying of All Farm Stock. I am a farmer in a small way compared with western ideas. We keep cows for butter making, hens, geese, turkeys, sheep, and last, but not least, Angoras. I have a rocky hill pasture of more than 100 acres; bushes of all kinds, including birch. For years we have mown the bushes, but seldom kill any, but now that the Angora has come, the bushes have to stand back. They are the best paying of all stock enumerated by us, and they have come to stay. It is bushes STONE FENCE FOR GOATS with them, and for a relish grass; they are always fat, ready for the butcher, and no better meat do we have on our table. No skinness, none killed by dogs; they come to their house every night without help. The most care we have in dipping them twice a year. The kids are hardy. We have saved one for every doe that kids. Most of them kid in January; they are out every day except when rainy. Our fence is stone wall (see cut), two wires; posts are on pasture side. That is our way for cattle. For Angoras and sheep sticks are driven in the wall and nailed on post or stake; top of that are put small poles and brush; if no wall then woven wire is best. We sell the kids for six dollars, the does, eight dollars, and supply the neighbors who have none with meat. Our cattle and Angoras go together in pasture. With us there is more real gain in one Angora than two sheep. The dogs often kill the sheep. Forty cents a pound is about the price for unwashed fleece; ours average about three pounds. The kids carry their fleece till the next year in April.—John B. Jenkins, in Rural New Yorker. HINTS ABOUT MILKING Milk as rapidly as possible without irritating or worrying the cows. Before commencing to milk, brush all loose dirt from the sides and udder of the cow. Always confine cows in a stable to be milked. It is better than having them chase one another around the yard. There should always be a friendly feeling between the cow and the milker, and milkers should not be changed if it can be avoided. After a little manipulation of the teats and udder, the milk is ready to "come down." Then is the time to take it, and do not delay. No definite rule can be given as to how the teats should be handled in milking, as cows differ and hands differ so much; but be sure of one thing, please the cow if possible. Have the stable clean and have the cow clean, or you cannot get clean milk. Lime and whitewash for walls and posts is a good thing. Land plaster is a good absorbent in the stable. His Advice. "Frankly, madam," said the honest salesman, "I wouldn't advise you to take that gown." "Why not?" asked the woman. OLD DOMINION ST. AM. SHIP COMPANY. Nortt Line for Nortolk Leave Richmond daily at 7 p. m., stopping at Newport News in both directions. Daily except Sunday by O. & O. Rail- way; 9:00 a. m., 4 p. m. 9 a. m. and 3 p. m. by N. & W. Railway; all lines UNHAPPY HOMES Caused By A Michigan Specialist Finds an Easy Way to Cure Any Case of Sexual Weakness Even in the Oldest Men. This Wonderful Cure Has a Most Marvelous Record of Successes. SENT FREE TO ALL WHO APPLY IN WRITING There are thousands of cheerless homes in this country filled with discontent and unhappiness, lack in love and companionship through the sexual weakness and physical impairment of a man whose years do not justify such a condition. Indiscretions, abuses, and recklessness often cause a temporary cessation of vital power that instantly yields to the wonderful treatment discovered by the great specialist, Dr. H. C. Raynor, of Detroit, Michigan. It has remained for this great physician to discover that sexual we kness and similar troubles can be cared and in a remarkable short space of time. This treatment does not ruin the stomach, adding the miseries such injury entails, but it is a new treatment that easily and quickly restores youthful vigor to The discovery is beyond doubt the most scientific and comprehensive that our attention has ever been called to. From all sides we hear private reports of cures in stubborn cases of sexual weakness, enlargement of the prostate, vococele, spermatorrhca, lost manhood, im potency, emissions, prematurity, shrunken organs, lack of virile power, basiliskness and timidity and like unnatural conditions. It does this without appliances, vacuum pumps, electric belts or anything of that kind. Satisfactory results are produced in a day's use and a perfect cure in a short period of regardless of age or the cause of it. The tucky discoverer simply desires to get in touch with all men who can make use of such a treatment. They should address him in confidence. Dr. H. C. 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Prominent Citizen (of Hawville)—No; I've always heard that the cemetery is the only part of your town that holds out any inducements for permanent residents—Tit-Bits. Klippax—And who is your favorite author, Mrs. Softly? Mrs. Softly—My husband. Klippax—Pardon me; I didn't know he wrote. Mrs. Softly—Oh, but he does, and nicely—checks—Town and Country. Too Many to Drink It. "Did you have a full meeting at the firehouse last night?" asked Faye. firehouse last night?" asked Faraway. "No, indeed," replied Subbubs, of the swamphurst Volunteer Hose, "nowhere near full. Why, we had only one case of beer and all the boys were there."—Philadelphia Press. Merely a Question of Time. The weather prophet wears a smile. His cares in life are very few; No one will but wait awhile. What he says say comes true. —Washington Star. TOMMY "Ethel rubbed it in on Tom when she sent him back the engagement ring." "How?" "She sent it back in a box marked 'Glass—Handle with care.'"—Chicago Chronicle. Was Unoccupied. A teacher in a quiet country village, on the second morning of the session, found leisure to note his surroundings, and discovered a three-legged stool. "Is that the dune block?" he inquired of a little girl of five. The dark eyes sparkled, the curls nodded assent and the lips rippled out: "I guess so; the teachers always sit on that."—Public Ledger. OLD DOMINION ST AM Leave Richmond daily at 7 p. m., stopping at Newport News in both directions. Daily except Sunday by C. & O. Railway, 9:00 a.m. 4 p.m. 9 a.m. and 8 p.m. by N. & W. Railway; all lines connect at Nerfolk with direct steamers for New York, sailing daily except Sunday, 7 p.m. Steamers sail from company's wharf (foot of Ash Street) Rockets. K. F. CHALKLER, City Ticket Agt. 1212 E Main St. JOHN F. MAYER, Agt. Wharf Foot of Ash St., Richmond, Va. H. B. WALKER, V. P. & T. M., New York. Nov. 1st, 1903 C & O ROUTE. CHESAPEAKE & OHIO RAILWAY. 2 Hours and 25 Minutes to Norfolk. LEAVE RICHMOND-EASTBOUND. 7:30 a.m.-daily-Local to Newport News and way stations. 5:00 p.m.—Week days—Special—Arrives Williamsburg 9:35 a.m. m. Norfolk 8:35 burg 9:35 a.m. m. Norfolk 8:35 burg Old Point 11:00 a.m. m. Norfolk 11:25 a.m. 4:50 p.m.—Week days—Special—Arrives Williamsburg 4:36 p.m. Newport News 5:36 p.m. Old Point 6:30 p.m. Norfolk 6:22 p.m. 5:50 p.m.—Daily—Locals to Old Point. 10:30 p. m. - Daily. Local to Freds Hall 10:30 p. m. - Daily. Local to Cincinnati, Louisville, St. Louis and Chicago. RIVER LINE 10:20 p. m. - Daily. Excursion New Castle, Clifton Forge and principal station, except Sunday to Lexington. 8:15 p. m. - Daily. SEAINS RICH MORED FROM SEAINS RICH MORED FROM 8:15 p. m. - daily. 11:45 p. m. Ex. Sun. and 7:00 p. m. daily. News News 8:30 p. m. daily. 1. Upcensiland and West 7:55 a.m. daily 2. and 8:30 p.m. daily Line Local from Clifton Forge 8:10 p.m. 3. Frederick's Hall Accommodation 8:10 a.m. Excuse 4. James River Line Local from Clifton Forge 6:35 p.m. daily. Bremo Accommod. 8:30 a.m. Exc. Sun SOUTHERN RAIL W. Y SOUTHERN RAIL W. Y Effective Jan, 10th, 1904. 12:30 p. m.-Daily. Limited, Buffet Pullman to atlanta and Ft. wingham, New Orleans, Memphis, Chattanooga and all the South. 6:00 p. m.-Daily. Keysville. 6:30 p. m.-Daily. 10:30 p.m. - Daily, Limited; Pullman ready 10:30 p.m. - Daily, Limited; Pullman ready FORE #INVINYL WORK VIRTUAL The favorite to route Baltimore and eastern points. Leave Richmond 4:30 p.m. Daily ex- cept Sunday. 4:30 p.m.晨.晨.晨. 4:35 a.m.—Except Sunday. Local mixed for West Point. 213 p. m. Mon. Wed. Fri. Local for West Point 420 p. m. - Except Sunday. For West Point connecting with steamers for Baltimore and river landings. Mon. Wed. and Friday. TRAINS ARRIVE RICHMOND 8:35 a.m. and 6:25 p.m. - From all the South. 8:35 a.m. - From Keysville. 8:35 a.m. - Baltimore and West Point. 8:35 a.m. - H.C. ACKERN, M. S.H. HARDWICK, G.P.A. C. W. WESTBURY, D. P.A. , Richmond, Va. ATLANTIC OAST-LINE. TRAINS LEAVE HICHMOND DAILY BYRD STREET STATION. 8:30 a. m. To all points South. 8:30 a. m. Petersburg and Norfolk. 12:30 p. m. Petersburg and N. W. West. 8:00 p. m. Petersburg and N. W. West. 14:10 p. m. Goldsboro local. 14:10 p. m. Goldsboro local. 6:56 p. m. To points South. 9:35 p. m. Petersburg and N. W. West. 9:35 p. m. Petersburg and N. & W. West. 11:36 p. m. Petersburg local. **RAINES ARRIVE RICHMOND.** ~4:30 a. m. 7:35 a. m. 8:25 a. m. except Sunday 11:30 a. m. 7:35 a. m. 2:00 p. m. 6:50 p. m. 7:45 p. m. 8:45 p. m. ~Except Sunday. N. J. GASBELL, Div. Pass. Agt. W. J. CRAIG, Pass. Agt. Norfolk and Western R. R. LEAVE RICHMOND (DAILY), BYRD STREET STATION. 9:00 a. m. NORFOLK LIMITED. Arrives at Waverly and Suffolk. 8:30 a.m. CHICAGO EXPRESS Buffet Partier Our Petersburg to Lynchburg and Roanoke, Columbus and Bluffton, % Chattanooga also Knoxville, and Knoxville to Chattanooga, and 12:30 p.m. Roanoke Express for Farmville, Lynchburg, and Roanoke 8:00 P.M. Ocean Shores, limited Arrives Now folk 5:20 P.M. Stops at Petersburg Waverly and Suffolk. Connecns with Steamers to Boston, Providence, W. Merck, Baltimore and Washington. 6:56 P.M. for Norfolk and all stations east of Petersburg. 9:38 P.M. M. NEW ORLEANS SHORT LINE. Pull man sleeper Richmond 10:38 Lynchburg, Petersburg to Roanoke; Lynchburg to Chattanooga. Trans arrived from the west 7:38. Trans arrived from the west 7:38. p.m and 8:58 p.m. from Norfolk 11:10 a.m. 11:39 a.m. m.-a.m. 8:50 p.m. 8:58 East Marsh Street. W. B. BEVILL 8:58 East Marsh Street. C. H. BOSLEY Gen. Pass. Agt Div. Pass. Agent. SEABOARD AIR LINE RAILWAY Short Line to Principal Cities of the South and Southwest, Florida, Cuba, Texas and Mexico Schedule in Effect Jan. 10th, 1904. TRAINS LEAVE RICHMOND—MAIN ST. & STATION—DAILY. 10:26 p. r. "SEABOARD FLORIDA LIMIT ED," composed exclusively of Pullman's Apparel, Dining Car, Dairy Double Drawing Room, Sleeping Car, Compartment Car and Observation Car, to Raleigh, Southern Pines, Hamlet, Camden, Columbia, Savannah, Jacksonville and St. Augustine. 2:15 p. r. "SEABOARD MAIL," composed by Coachy coaches, Pullman Sleeper, Pullman Café Car, to Henderson, Raleigh, Southern Pines, Hamlet, Pinehurst, Atlanta, Camden, Savannah, Jacksonville, St. Augustine and Tampa. 11:00 p. m. 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It is printed on regular short-music paper, from large, clear type — including colored titles — and is in every way first-class, and worthy of being in 2000 copies sold. LIST OF THE PIECES OFFERED AT THIS LIST This offer holds good to any of our subscribers or any person much as 50 cents for a subscription to the PLANET. PRICE OF ABOVE PIECES. Any 10 for 35 cents. Any 24 for 65 cents. Any 43 for $1.25. Any 100 for $3.00. Write your name, full address, and pieces wanted by the numbers: this, with stamps or silver, and mail to address given below, and the mu- be sent direct from Boston, postage prope HE PLANET SATURDAY....FEBRUARY 6, 190 THE CAUSE OF TEMPERANCE. The cause of temperance is God's, its foes cannot prevail; love may yet linger for a time, and yet it cannot fail come at last fall flame of fire, in tidal flood; burn and flow and purify and introduce the good; age of peace and reason, of harmony and love, yet be distant for awhile and tarry yet above; trave of light and tones of love are seen and heard to-day give us hearts to labor, and zeal to watch and pray. George Dutton, in Suggestion. A WARNING. The Story of What Drink Did for One of Uncle Sam's Sailor Boys. Recently, while crossing on the ferry from Jersey City to the New York side, a sailor, one of Uncle Sam's boys, stepped up to me, wishing to sell a watch guard. It was beautiful, made of white silk; yet he wanted to part with it for the paltry sum of one dollar and a half. And why? That he might pay a debt at a saloon. Physically, he was a splendid specimen of manhood, tall and broad-shouldered, weighing nearly 190 pounds, but yet his face detected suffering and deep wrinkles appeared on his face. Then, by questioning him, I received the following story, which I here give to you word for word, as near as I can remember, hoping that it may reach the heart of some one: "Son, don't you want to help me out? want to sell this watch guard. I owe bill at a saloon, and being that I owe "YOU DO NOT KNOW THE AWFULNESS OF TEMPTATION." "YOU DO NOT KNOW THE AWFULNESS OF TEMPTATION." tracted that debt, I feel obligated to pay it, even if it is to a saloon." I complimented him on his honesty, and asked him to what ship he belonged. "The Indiana," was his reply. "Some people have an idea that all sailors are the off-scouring of the earth, but it is false." Then with a pathos in his voice that touched me to the quick, he continued: "My mother is a God-fearing, praying Christian, God bless her. I have three sisters, the best the sun ever shone on, but I am the black sheep of the family. I had a splendid wife, as true and loving as it is possible for a wife to be. I had a beautiful child, which was the joy and pride of the home, but—but—I am divorced." This he said with tears in his eyes. I have been home two days of my fullough, recovering from my weakness, brought on by drink. I am now on my way back to the navy yard, although my time is not up till morning. I have signed the pledge and I am going to reform. Young man, never touch a drop of any intoxicating liquors." Then, turning to my younger brother, he salt: "You are young yet, you do not know the awfulness of temptation. God grant that you never may. Oh, to be a boy again! Oh, for another chance!" Till my dying day I shall never forget the look of anguish that passed over his face, as he thus ruminated over his past life. "I have seen some of the saddest sights ever mortal man was privileged to witness right over here in the navy yard," he said. "Some of the finest fellows I have ever known have died one after another in the strait-jacket, drink being their only fault." As the ferry reached the slip he left us, with that look of longing still on his face. That man had reformed, and but for us, we who give the devil his license to ruin men's souls, would have been on his way to Heaven., but, temped, fell. Later, out on the street, I saw him pull a bottle from his pocket and hilariously lift it to his lips, bought from some accursed saloon. How long shall we license the devil to break mothers' hearts, wreck the lives as well as the souls of our fellow creatures, fill our courts with divorce suits, and our jails with criminals? How long no one knows, but may God grant that we may have a great awakening in the very near future—Charles T. Yost, in Ram's Horn. Moderate Drinking Hurtful In Switzerland an advocate of moderate drinker experimented for 18 months upon his children, whose ages ranged from ten to fifteen, several months' use alternating with several months of abstinence. During the wint periods the children were languald and less inclined to perform mental tasks, their nights more restless, and their shing. Two of the cat they be excused the-drinking, being im- lar lack of condition. Extracts from a Paper by Dr. Legrais of Paris, at the Anti-Alcohol Congress at Bremen. It is a fact, nowadays disputed by nobody, that a certain relation exists between tuberculosis and alcoholism. 1. Alcohol in its action as a predisposing agent stands in the same relation to tuberculosis as to other contagious diseases. But the problem is here of greater importance, as tuberculosis is the disease that has the greatest predisposition for the human body and demands the greatest number of victims. 2. Alcohol makes a person more disposed for tuberculosis by its paralyzing and smothering effects on the protoplasm of the cells, making their power of resistance against the bacteria less. It prepares the soil for the tuberculosis by destroying all the works of defense of the organism, especially by affecting the nervous system, for which it is a powerful poison. It also produces organic troubles in the organ of nutrition and their works. 3. By producing innate weakness it makes a person predisposed for tuberculosis from its birth. 4. At last alcohol makes disease worse by continued influence on the already affected organism, thus hastening the development of the infection. It prevents the cure of the disease, which generally is possible. 5. Therefore it is absolutely wrong, although some Italian specialist (Marighiana) lately claims the opposite, to systematically treat tuberculosis patients with alcohol, showing a great ignorance of the human nature. 6. Alcohol makes the human system more predisposed to tuberculosis from the social side by removing from him every moral support, every other ideal, and by darkening the consciousness of his real wants. This brings the consequence that he neglects his body and it is this that brings the pauperism with all its well-known signs—small, overpopulated, unhealthy habitations, unwholesome food, and ignorance of the most simple rules of private and public hygiene. The inebriates do not know enough to eat, to dress, to live, or to get a habitation in harmony with the other wants of a human being. 7. Therefore, from a social standpoint, the bacteria are not the real cause of the disease, but all such conditions that are suitable to extend this field for the power of the bacteria and to bring the infection to its full effect—sickness; physical, moral or financial pauperism, absence of proper sanitary conditions—all causes that come direct from the use of alcohol when it has become a habit. 8. A logical consequence hereof is that the fight against the tuberculosis must precede the treatment of the tuberculosis patient, and that this fight in the first place must tend to remove the social causes for the disease, that is, to prevent those. By curing a few tuberculosis patients the tuberculosis does not disappear more than drunkenness would disappear by curing an inebrile. 9. That tuberculosis is contagious is a fact, but this has been greatly exaggerated. It is all right to cry out the risk of infection, as the wholesale terror this will cause among the people, by and by, may induce them to change their way of living in accordance with the general rules for sanitary conditions, but the scientists themselves must never estimate the danger higher than that from other contagious or infectious diseases. 10. I do not at all hereby say that we should not treat the tuberculosis patients and give them all the help we can, but it is, in my opinion, as the importance of the subject demands, that we first of all concentrate our works in trying to change the drinking habits, thus annihilate the alcoholism and terminate the cause of tuberculosis. 11. If, also, the sanatories are a great help for the tuberculosis patients, it is yet from a social side to proceed in a wrong way. If not at the same time means are provided to prevent the evil. The most important of these means is, without doubt, the fight against alcohol. To triumph over alcohol is almost as to triumph over the tuberculosis. 12. The efforts of the official authorities and of the private charity will be almost fruitless if they, as at present, concentrate their work on the tuberculosis alone. 13. The efforts of the states and the capital spent in the interest of society are used in the wrong directions as long as they are not to the same extent used in the fights against alcoholism. The sanitation of tuberculosis patients demands one for the treatment of tuberculosis. 14. Cooperation with the work against the alcohol can do more against the tuberculosis than the sanatories. Those only give their attention to the slick, but neglect entirely to teach them how to live after they are cured, and in this we have one of the greatest causes of the spreading of the disease. 15. Both for the individual and the community the most important treatment of the tuberculosis is to take the proper measures to prevent the evil. Of all such measures the most important is total abstinence from alcoholic beverages and to spread among the people the knowledge of the importance of total abstinence. 16. Therefore the fight against tuberculosis must necessarily be a fight against the alcohol. The physicians at the asylums for treatment of tuberculosis patients must consider it their duty to be testtakers and to educate the sick to be testtakers also. 17. Before everything, the now-existing hospitals and sanitariums for treatment of tuberculosis patients must also be a school that educates the patients by teaching the example of total abstinence. The treatment at such asylums must include a methodic, successful and scientific education to a total abstinence life. Total abstinence is, under this double view of curing and educating, absolutely necessary. Popular Young Man. Archie—See how I am run after; all these invitations. Friend—Good gracious! All Invitations! Invitations to what? Archie—To call and settle accounts. -Tit-Bitz THE RICH MOND PLANET, RICH MOND, PLANET. HAUNTS DEEP WOODS Wild Man Whose Face Is Hidden by Rough Beard. Avoided Civilization for Years, But How Comes Daily to Country Hotel—Hair Like Mane Adds to Repulsiveness. Living alone in a lair located in a tract of dense woods not far from Cincinnati is a mysterious creature, human in form, but with all the attributes of the animal strongly apparent. Seldom seen, except in the early dawn, or at dusk in the evening, no one has been able to give a good description of the mystery, and those who attempt to do so unconsciously fall into the use of woods descriptive of beasts of the forest. The locality chosen by the strange creature is a tract of dense woods situated about 11 miles from Cincinnati in Kenton county, Ky., and along the line of the C., N. & T. railway. Through the trees in these woods occasional glimpse of firelight have been discovered at night by the few people who live in that vicinity. Investigation in the daylight failed to locate any habitation, even so much as a hut of boughs or of sods. For a time the source of the firelight was a mystery which the simple refused to investigate at night. Soon, however, those on the edge of the forest, regularly the people living at Geo-one-zu Springs, became aware of the cause of the nocturnal gleams in the forest. There appeared at dawn one day to the startled servants of the little hotel at the springs a strange and weird-appearing creature. It was without doubt a man, of whom description fails to give a true conception. He was hatless, with a thick mane of tawny hair matted into an almost solid mass, the lower part of his face concealed by a heavy beard as unkept and tangled as his hair, the upper part of his face an indescribable color from the effects of smoke and dirt. His bristish appearance was augmented by the color of an old chinchilla uister, which had once been brown, but which, from long use and exposure to the sun, wind, rain and contact with the earth, was, as has been described by one who saw the creature, "about the color of a red fox." The remnants of a pair of ragged trousers showed beneath the coat. More by A signs than by speech this strange being signified that it was hungry. Food was offered him, which he grasped ravenously, but instead of eating it at the door of the kitchen, he thrust it into an old coarse bag, and, turning without another word, he trotted off into the forest and was lost to sight. The servants told of their experience and the landlord and guests of the hotel awaited the next coming of the "wild man," as the servants called him. When he again appeared, attempts were made to question him and to learn something of his mode of living, as well as his identity. The question appeared to be unintelligible to the creature, with the exception of one, which asked where he came from. In reply to this he muttered "Michigan," or a word that was taken for the name of that state. Securing his morsel of food, he again trotted away to the woods. Further efforts to elicit information have been even more signal failures than the first. He does not seem to understand what is wanted of him. He does not appear to fear questioning or investigation. He returns to the hotel daily, always at dusk or dawn, however and gets his food, much as an animal would be prompted by instinct to seek its sustenance in the same place daily. Cat Rides on Car Truck. An Albany (N. Y.) cat, perched on one of the trucks of a New York passenger train, made the journey between that city and Utica, traveling the distance at the rate of a mile a minute. The feline was well groomed, its sleek body indicating that it had a good home in the capital city. All attempts at persuasion did not stir the cat when the train reached this city, for the reason it was frozen to the trucks. The cat was finally dialogued, and within ten minutes had thawed out, jumping nimbly about. It was ascertained that the cat had jumped to the car trucks when the train pulled out of Albany. New York of Shipping Fish. Salt water is to be attached to the sides of some of the German railroad cars, for the purpose of conveying live fish from the seaboard to the inland cities and towns. KEEPING CUT FLOWERS. "Cut flowers when properly treated," said a St. Louis florist. "can be made to look fresh for three or four weeks. "Every night take them out of the vases and thoroughly rinse the stalks under a faucet, removing with the fingers any decomposed matter. Then put them To bed for the night in a basin of strong soapsuds, but be careful not to allow any water to touch the blossoms. The soapsuds supply a certain amount of nourishment. "In the morning rinse the stalks under the water again, and, as each blossom is arranged for the day in the vase of fresh water, sniff off a tiny portion of the stock with a pair of scissors. Always carefully trim away any faded part. "Food for the day is supplied by sulphate of ammonia, a few drops of which should be added to the water put into the vase. "At night put the flowers into some dark, cook place—say a canopy—as it is not good either for the flowers or the household that they should remain all the time in the living rooms. "To revive cut flowers put them into warm salt water, to which has been added a few drops of sulphate of ammonia. "Cut flowers are constantly sent by express and through the mails, but esidom in such a fashion as to preserve their bloom and freshness. "To effect this, pack them in a light wooden box lined with cotton or wadding, laying over this a sheet of tissue paper. Then lay the flowers, not on top of each other, but in rows, side by side, the blossoms of each row on the stems of their neighbors. "Pack closely, otherwise the flowers will be displaced and injured in the journey. Before packing they should stand in water for several hours in order to absorb moisture enough to keep them from withering. "It is not good to sprinkle them too heavily after they are in the box, for without air this is likely to produce mildew."—St. Louis Republic. PRETTY DUTCH DESIGNS. In High Favor Just Now for the Decoration of Lamp Shades, Boxes and Cushion Frises. Those well known Dutch designs (representing sturdy little Hollanders, animals, geese, et cetera) are so striking as freeses upon cushions and decorative boxes that it is pleasant to find them in still another form. From France can the suggestion of using them upon lamp and candle shades. Not until the results of the plan are seen does one realize just how clever a choice it is. Of course the material used in the shades must be of a character appropriate to such treatment. Heavy carbon paper or cardboard without a glaze is a good choice. So are denim and other heavy fabrics. Some women will be able to do original work in applying the design. Those who DELFT LAMP SHADES. have no gift in this line can transfer the colors with transferring fluid. A very postery decoration is obtained by the new application method of fancy work. Here, the rough sketch or outline of the picture is drawn in with a soft pencil, the various divisions being afterwards cut out of cloth, cardboard, et cetera, and pasted on. In this way, if the Dutch gamin is wearing a dark blue blouse, a traced pattern made over the sketch is cut out of dark blue flannel or carbon paper. This fits exactly into the sketch. It is neatly pasted in with gum arabic. Sabots can be shaped from heavy yellow paper or cardboard, and any other portions of dress or figure added until the picture is complete.—St. Paul Globe. Creme de Meathe Sandwiches Creme de menthe sandwiches are a pretty novelty, the Félice for which is given in the Cooking Club. For 20 minutes infuse a tablespoonful of pulverized mint leaves in two tablespoonfuls of hot water; strain and add it to one plint of whipped double cream; add also a saltspoonful of salt, a dash of white pepper and half an ounce of gelatine softened in a tablespoonful of cold water and dissolved over hot water. Cool in a square mold, and when cold cut in thin slices and place between similar-sized pieces of brown bread. Egg Stains on Napery. In washing tabel linen, or any cloth stained with egg, avoid putting it in boiling water, which will set the stain. Put the cloth in cold water, and the stain can be very easily removed. The same rule applies to eggcups and any dishes stained with egg. If they are set with the other china into hot dish water, the stain will harden, and it requires considerable patience to remove it. Egg stains come out easily in cold water. **An Egg Poaching Hint.** Add a little vinegar to the water in which you poach eggs, to prevent the whites from spreading. Breaking each into a cup about a quarter of an hour before it is to be used will also help. Well Worth While First Financier—Do you think it worth while to depress this stock any more? Second Financier—Why not? Why, all the people who bought it at high prices have had to sell. We might as well buy it back—Brooklyn Life. A Bond of Union. "I wouldn't marry the best man on earth." "And I wouldn't marry the best woman on earth." So they were married—for neither seemed to regard the other as the best. —Chicago Tribune. One Way. Hannigan—Shure, these scales is no good at all fur me. They only weigh the hilt o' 200 pounds, an' Oi'm near to 250. Flannigan—Well, man alive, can't ye git on thim twice?—Philadelphia Press WE WANT AGENTS! Good active handlers can make a big money handling items and taler experience necessary. 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And there can be no doubt that we, ourselves, would be greatly benefited by having placed before us a pictorial representation of the progress of others of our people. The object of this publication is to benefit our people; and we hope that you will do your part by sending us immediately the name and address of as many people as you can think of. Our history and literature should be preserved. Write to-day to Your Respectful Friend, WESLEY ROBBINS, M. D., Rooms 100-101 Paterson Block, FLINT, MICH. VIRGINIA—In the Law and Equity Court in the city of Richmond, January 18th, 1904. BENESE 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 with the defendant half of the plaintiff from the defendant. An affidavit having been made and filed that the defendant Ben Johnson, is a non-resident of the State of Virginia, it is ordered that he appear here with fifteen days after due publication of this order and do what is necessary to protect his interest in this cause. A copy test. P. P. WINSTON, Clerk. A. L. TOLIVER, p. q. To BEN JOHNSON: Take notice, That I shall on the 23rd day of February, 1904, between the hours of 9 a.m. and 6 p.m. on that day, at the office Phin B. Shields, Commissioner in Oban- yment, 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. Respectfully, BESSIE JOHNSON, A. L. Toliver, p. q. By Counsel. Man of Action: "George certainly is a man of action." "What has he done?" 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A 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 selling, and would take away from your pleas- ling it. THE GENE FROM IN Will be published in this pa We are not going to say mu you why. If we describe the story a you have read it that we hav ter you have read it you will It is the story of a fearle hatred of white caps and w them, and—but we must not would be telling, and would ure in reading 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. NICKEL SAVINGS BANK, Located at Richmond, in the State of Virginia, at the close of business Jan- uary 23rd, 1904, made to the State Corporation Commission. RESOURCES. Loans and Discounts ..... $ 5 341 25 Overdrafts ..... 30 00 Furniture and Fixtures ..... 1 600 00 Checks and other cash items. ..... 216 21 Exchanges for clearing-house. ..... 389 48 Due from National Banks ..... 2 159 00 Specie, nickels and cents ..... 1 942 16 Paper Currency ..... 2 529 00 Capital stock paid in ..... $6 000 00 Surplus fund ..... 1 100 00 Individual deposits subject to check ..... 5 784 24 Time certificates of deposit ..... 1 323 81 Total ..... $14 207 05 I, E. A. Washington, do solemnly swear that the above is a true statement of the financial condition of the Nickel 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. E. A. WASHINGTON, Correct—Attest: Cashier. R. F. Tancil, R. J. Bass, A Ferguson, Directors. State of Virginia, City of Richmond. Sworn to and subscribed before me this 30th day of January, 1904. Geo. W. Lewis, Notary Public. 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