Richmond Planet

THE RICHMOND PLANET Turned Away. The Knights of Pythias and Courts of Calanthe observed their anniversary exercises jointly last Sunday, 27th ult. The former assembled at the New Pythian Castle, 727 N. 3rd St., at 2 p.m. The Brigade staff was represented by John K. Chiles, Chief of staff. Col. D. Ferguson, Asst. Adjutant General, Col. W. Henry Stokes, Brigade Engineer; Col. Thomas Smith, Quartermaster General; and Major John J. Bly. THE MILITARY DEPARTMENT The First Regiment was represented by Col. Thomas M. Crump, Commanding; Lieutenant—Colonel E. A. Washington, Capt. W. Henry Jones, commissary, Capt. Thomas H. Wyatt, Adjutant, Capt. Willis Wyatt, Quartermaster, Capt. John G. Smith, Signal Officer, Lieut. Wm. A. Robinson, Adjutant. Eureka Co., No. 1 was under the command of Capt. David Allen and Planet Co., under command of Capt. Adolphus Jackson, assisted by Lieutenant Jesse C. The Cadets from Shookoe Hill were under command of Capt. Roscoe C. Mitchell and Capt. James Church hill under command of Capt. Thomas Davis, Grand Master at Arms S. S. Baker had charge of the subordinates. There has never been a larger outpouring of the Knights and they atracted much attention as they marched through the streets. PACKED TO OVERFLOWING The church was packed to overflowing, standing room even being at a premium. The pulpit was decorated with palms and the table of the Grand Chancellor ornamented with flowers. On his right sat Past Chancellor H. F. Jonathan who is Vice President of the Mechanic's Savings Bank. The deptoned organ under the skillful touch of the organist, Mr. H. B. Burrell sounded the doxology which was sung by the choir and the congregation. Then Rev. Z. D. Lewis, D. D., the pastor of the church delivered a most fervent prayer, which made a great impression, then followed the chant of the Lord's Prayer, and the singing of the members of the Order the arm and the battle-cry, "God Bless our Knightly Baptist." Rev. J. Andrew Bowler, pastor of the Mt. Olive Baptist Church and a member of Maceo Lodge. No. 35, read the Scrip tures. Rev. O. H. Phillips, D. D. for Venus Lodge. No. 46, prayed for the downponing of the spirit on the organization. AN INTERESTING PROGRAMME Col. Thomas M. Crump of Planet Lodge No. 23 and leader of the Second Baptist Church Choir sang, "Palm Branches" to the satisfaction of all present. Miss Eva G. Davis rendered a selection entitled, "There'll be room in Heaven." The effect was electrical and at its conclusion sounds of approval could be heard through out the church. Rev. A. S. Thomas, pastor of the Sharon Baptist Church and a member of the Planet Lodge, No. 23 was introduced and he delivered a fine anniversary sermon from Genesis 9:13 "I have set my bow etc." He reviewed the origin of the Order and dealt with its progress. He spoke of the value of good leadership, declaring that this had brought the Order where it is to day. He advocated the exercise of charity. He gave instances of the value of continuing capable people in the lead: A PRAYER FOR PROSPERITY The Thanksgiving Prayer was ringingly delivered by Rev. J. Andrew Bowler, "Nearer my God to Thee" was rendered by Mrs. Alice Crawley, Mrs. India Burwell, Mr. Willie Dixon and Mr. Thomas H. Smith. Grand Chancellor, John Mitchell, Jr., although indisposed spark in glowing terms of the progress of the Order and dwelt upon the specific principles of the same. Rev. Dr. Z. D. Lewis welcomed the Pythians and Courts and assured them that they would be always welcome at the Second Baptist Church. A collection of $34.69 was lifted, and donated to the church. The Committee of arrangements was highly commended for the excellence of its work. The members are as follows: Miss M. L. Chiles, Chairman, Mrs. Anna Taylor, Mrs. Sallie Fox, Mrs. Nannie Johnson, Mrs. R. E. Wesley. A vote of thanks was tendered the church, the pastor, the choir, Rev. A. S. Thomas, Miss Eva G. Davis, Rev. J. Andrew Bowler, the committee of arrangements, and all others who participated in the programme. The benediction was announced. The following lodges contributed towards the expense; Royal, Excelsior, Virginia, Fulton, Myrtle, Maceo, Old Dominion, Venus, Christian Hope, Unity, Samson, Richmond, North Star. The following Courts contributed: Excelsior, Pure Gold, Old Dominion, Rising Mt. Zion, Verbena, Narcissus, Toilet, Josephine, Royal, Virginia, Sylvanus, Silvanus, America, Unity, Blooming Lake, Silvanus, Star, Martha's Maceo, Elizabeth, Midred's, Mechanics' Planet, Cordelia's Rosetted's, Anna's Eureka. Mr. Huffman's Observations. Richard Dixon was a stranger in our city, having come here from Cynthiana, Ky., and among those who knew him, he bore a bad reputation. Dixon had some trouble with a woman whom he claimed to be his wife. He asked the aid of patrolman Collis in getting something from his alleged wife. Finding he could not get the things sought, he fired and wounded the woman, then turned and shot the policeman, who died from his wounds the next day. Shame that there was much talk of lynching Dixon and Monday when word was received that the policeman was dead, it was then that that was determined to lynch him. The members of the Antimob and lynch-law association at once up the matter of presuming the mob from carrying out their threat. We called upon the sheriff and inquired what provisions he had made to protect his prisoner. HAD AMPLE PROTECTION We were informed that he had ample protection, with three companies of State guards being located here, but we were not satisfied with his statement, we called upon the mayor of the city and he promised to call out the militia, but kept them in their armories, then it was called again on the sheriff, but was told he could handle the mob. When given a positive assurance that he would protect a prisoner, we retired, but soon saw that the mayor and police were in sympathy with the mob, for they did absolutely nothing to prevent the lynching. THE SHERIFF TO BLAME The sheriff was to blame for the whole disgraceful affair, the city officials, also aided and abetted the mob that burned a large district where colored people lived. Reports were sent from here that 1,500 Negroes left the city and that those who remained were scared to death. Both reports were rank falsehoods. The small Negro population of this city caused the mayor to quickly call for 1,500 soldiers, when it was known the Negroes were going to retaliate. Our association is now engaged in collecting evidence against members of the mob, and it is quite likely many of them will serve time in State's prison for their part in the crime. The time is here that the Negro North and South should unite for better protection, for when a people are known to be prepared to protect themselves, the mob will hesitate before they attempt to carry through their devilish designs. S. E. HUFFMAN, Secretary of the National Anti-Mob and Lynch-law Association. Springfield, O. The Swarthy Peril Corporation Counsel Delaney has appointed James D. Carr, a cloned lawyer, to be an Assistant Corporation Counsel. Had this appointment been made a few hundred miles further south it would have been greeted with an outraged uproar. For there it would have been understood that Mr. Carr's legal methods must be tinctured by the color of his skin—that his legal amen might be sufficient to judge of the rights of colored cases, but that to judge justly of matters of law between white men was for him a congenital impossibility. The rallying-ery would have arisen that this iniquitous appointment was a recognition of the social equality of the Negro. The very foundation stone of society would have been declared undermined. And it can be confidently stated that life would have been made very unpleasant for Corporation Counsel Delaney. But up here, we are still benighted. We do not realize that black men can try black cases that white men can try black cases (where there are fees involved), but that a black man is inherently incapable of trying a white case. We seem strangly indifferent to the perils of "social equality" and the consequent annihilation of society. All we seem to care about is the sordid question as to whether Mr. Carr will make the city an efficient Assistant Corporation Counsel. And yet it seems probable that we shall survive this menace to our municipal existence.—THE WORLD. Saturday, March 26, 1904. The Douglass Lyceum. The Donglass meeting will hold its first public exercises at the New St. Lakes Hall Thursday evening, April 7th, 1904 at 8 p.m. Admission free. PROGRAMME: Devotional Exercises. Introductory Remarks, Pres. B. H. Peyton. Duet. (Instrumental.) Wyatt and Jones. Paper Mr. C. H. Hooper. Solo—Miss Margaret Tinsley, Declamation—Mr. W. W. D. Jones. Music. Prophecy—Mr. B. R. Adams, Installation address—Rev. D. W. Davis, D. D. WANTED -Reliable nurse to take charge of infant. Apply 402 E. Clay St. RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, SATURDAY, APRIL 2, 1904. Baptist Ministers' Conference. This Conference had a great session Monday morning. The pastors were out in full. President Ferguson presided with his usual dignity and Rev. Dr. C. H. Phillips opened the devotional exercises; after which Rev. A. S. Thomas sang spitedly, "Hark my soul, it is the Lord." Dr. W. T. Johns on read the minutes and they were approved. The order of the day was an address by Rev. S. C. Burrell, on "The work of the Y. M. C. A." Rev. Burrell gave very valuable information touching his work its origin, spread, nature and its origin in the churches. He gave valuable information about the results of the work in and about the city of mond. The address was aby discussed by Drs. Perry, Lewis, F. W. Williams, Dr. Graham and Bishop Payne. The reports of the various churches were very interesting. Dr. Lewis was in his high-noon glory. He had just closed his 15th Anniversary, at the conclusion of which the members and friends presented him with a fine new buggy. Bishop Payne reported Rev. Thomas H. Johnson of New Kent very ill. It is expected next Monday that a large gathering will be present and Rev. W. W. Young will be the preacher of the church. K. OF P. NOTES. Sunday was indeed a gala day for the Knights of Pythias and Courts of Calanthe and as predicted by us in this column on last Saturday the Second Baptist Church was taxed to its utmost capacity by the surging mass of humanity that thronged the church. Enthusiasm is now at a high pitch and the influence of the organization is being felt all over this community. Virginia Lodge, No. 6 and Samson Lodge No. 16 met on Monday night. Excelsior Court, No. 117 held a most interesting meeting on Monday afternoon. The attendance was large and much routine business was transacted. Planet Lodge, No. 23 will meet on Monday night at the New Pythian Castle 727 N. 3rd St. Young men you should not let these golden opportunities pass you. New clubs are on foot and will soon be instituted into new lodges. This is your opportunity and you should take advantage of this opportunity. $300.00 drives away mang a tear and and the ladies are seeing to it that their husbands and friends join. Notice 1 On Friday night, April 8th, 1904, the "Corey Lyceum" of the Virginia Union University will hold its regular annual public exercises. The subject for debate is; "Resolved that there should be a Uniform Divorce Law in the U. S." The "Corey Lyceum" has always attracted large and intelligent audiences; to its public exercises; and on this account, ample preparations are being made for the entertainment of its many friends. All are cordially invited to attend. R. C. JUDKINS, Pres, S. S. BOOKER, Sec. Early Morning Marriage. BERRY—THREAT— The marriage of Miss Charlotte Threat to Mr. Thomas Berry will take place at the residence of the bride, No. 1923 Decatur St., Manchester, Va. Monday morning, April 11 at 1:00 p.m. Friends are invited, no cards. The couple will leave for Washington on the early train. MANCHESTER, V.A., March 30th. Manchester Lodge, No. 11, Knights of Pythias, celebrated their Thanksgiving exercises at the Second Baptist Church at 3 o'clock on last Sunday evening. Rev. D. W. Davis, the pastor and a member of Planet Lodge, No. 23, delivered the Thanksgiving sermon. The lodge turned out in full to hear one of the most eloquent discourses ever delivered in this city on Pythianism. The Reverend was certainly at his best, and that friendship which was displayed between Damon and Pythias of old had never been more vividly portrayed than on this occasion. The Knights unite in one strong vote "all praise to Daniel Webster Davis, A.M., for his excellent services rendered." Many thanks were tendered Mr. John Ross for rendering a solo and also to the choir for their musical service. The Reverend was presented with a purse of $5.00; a collection of $7.50 was lifted for the church and the Knights returned to their Castle, where they were dismissed in ritualistic form. Rey, Bass' New Church. Mt. Tabor Baptist Church, Woodville, Va., dedication April 3rd, 1904, will be a grand time with the pastor and members. They will enter their new building with praise and thanksgiving. At 9:30, the Sunday School will enter with songs of praises. And at 11:30, the doors will be thrown wide for the reception of the public for the purpose of hearing the Rev, F. W. Williams, pastor of the Rising Mt. Zion Baptist Church Fulton also choir Baptist Church, Fulton, also choir. At 3:30, Rev. Dr. C. H. Phillips will mreach the Dedication Sermon. Music by the First Baptist Church Choir, Richmond, Va. At 8 o'clock sharp, the Rev. J. A. Bowler, pastor of Mt. Olivet Baptist Church and choir will be on hand. Monday night, sermon by Rev. W. H. White, pastor of Mt. Carmel Baptist Church Tuesday night at 8 o'clock, sermon by Rev. F. B. Mitchell. Wednesday 8 o'clock, sermon by Rev. W. F. Graham, D. D., pastor of Fifth St. Baptist Church. Thursday night, 8 o'clock sharp, sermon by Rev. A. S. Thomas, pastor of the Sharon Baptist Church. There will also be ordination of Deacons, Fri. day night, 8 o'clock, sermon by Rev. J T. Turner. April 10th, 11:30, sermon by Rev. D. W. Davis, pastor of 2nd Baptist Church of Manchester. Music by the following: -- Messrs. Billy Smith, J. T. Taylor, J. J. Johnson and T. H. Hopkins. At 3:30, Rev. L. A. Carter. At 8:30, Rev. W. W. Walker. We ask all our friends to come and rejoice with us. The way to Woodville--Any car coming east, whether on the Clay St. or the Oakwood line, secure a transfer for N. 23rd St. Rev. R. J. Bass, Pastor. D. W. COOPER, Chish Clerk FIFTEENTH ANNIVERSARY OF DR Z. D. LEWIS. Fine Sermons and Addresses: The fifteenth anniversary exercises of Rev. Dr. Z. D. Lewis as pastor of the Second Baptist Church, which extended over a week, were concluded on last Sunday. The occasion was marked by a large and enthusiastic attendance upon each service. Seldom, if ever, have we heard sermons of such careful preparation, profound thought and eloquent delivery as those preached by our pastors on this occasion. The addresses delivered by members of the church were fine in composition, and showed that Dr. Lewis had done a great work during his fifteen years pastorate at the old historic 2nd Baptist Church; that he is held in high esteem by the members, that he is a leader of marvelous individuality, strong conviction, great in forethought, broad in comprehension of the needs, the thoughts and condition of his people. He has baptized into the church more than twelve hundred and fifty persons. The speakers of the occasion were; Drs. J. E. Jones, J. B. Hawthorne, J. H. Binford, E. Payne, W. F. Graham, F. W. Williams, G. D. Pinckney, Joseph Perry and Messrs W. G. Carter, A C. Brown, Armistead Washington, Alex Gaines and W. H. White. The church is in the noon day of its prosperity, being free from debt, having a strong tre sury, being blessed with many accessions to its membership, exerting a powerful influence in the councils of the Baptist denomination both in the city and state. The pastor is the recipient of many presents and enjoys the confidence and esteem of not only his congregation but the entire city and state. The occasion was enlivened by specially prepared music by the Second Baptist Church choir led by Prof. T. M. Grampn The Y. M. O. A. Conference is a help to the men. The meetings in the jail and alms house last Sunday were very impressive. The boys' meeting was well attended last Sunday. The men are still interested. A large number was out last Sunday to hear Lawyer J. Henry Crutchfield who delivered a very timely address. Subject; "Whom Shall We Place Next Those?" Each man should place himself next to the commandments of God and then live as they teach. The music by the Quartette composed of women and men added much to the meeting. Come to the explanation on the Sunday School Lesson to-day 5 p. m. All men for committee work are requested to be on time Sunday. Boys' meeting at the rooms Sunday 4 p.m. Mr. John H. Braxton, our Real Estate Agent will address the boys. Easter with the men at the True Re- formers' Hall Sunday 3:30 p. m. Mr. S. K. McKee, General Secretary of the Central Y. M. C. A. will address the men. Subject; "A Dangerous Power." Special music. Mr. Handon S. Watkins will sing a solo. Miss Ella J. Williams and Lawyer Geo. W. Lewis will render a duet accompanied by Miss Nannie Osborne. All men are invited. Only men. The women are working for the great meeting for women April 17th. Sunday 3:30 p. m., Rev R. V. Peyton will deliver a special address at the True Re- formers' Hall. Tell the other women. Special prayer is asked for these great meetings. Easter morning an early meeting will be held at the Y. M. C. A., 9 a. m. Get up men and come. You save money in buying groceries of farmers' store. See ad. on another page. PYTHIANS AT WORK IN DANVILLE Another New Lodge There—A Joyful Greeting. Danville, Va., March 29, 1904.—Grand Chancellor John Mitchell, Jr., accompanied by Assistant Surgeon General, Col E. R.Jefferson and Grand Master at Arms, S. S. Baker arrived on morning at 8:45 and proceeded to the Python lab, where the lab was in readiness for the organization of a new lodge of Knights of Pythias. EXPECTED EARLIER The party had been expected earlier, and the exercises were delayed to suit their convenience. They completed their work at about 6 o'clock this morning. The new body will be known as Nehemah Lodge No. 68, an1 the following officers were installed; C. C., S. R. Rogers, V. C., G. W. Hamlet; M. of W., C. G. Coleman; K. of R. and S., E. A. Morrow; P, R. H. Hooper; M. of F., H. S. Keen, Jr.; M. of Exchequer, J. B. Henderson, M. at A. V. G. Tarton; I. G., H. W. Campbell; O. G., Henry Coles. Trustees: C. G. Coleman, Henry Coles, D. 1. Tarton. Attendants: R. S. Spencer, I. E. Chaney, Jr. SPOKE TO THE MEMBERS The Grand Chancellor lectured to the large number of Knights present. He was the guest of Special Deputy Grand Chancellor H S. Keen and his Madame. Carringes were secured and the party transported to the hill in short order. This lodge was organized through the efforts of Special Deputy H. S. Keen. The Grand Chancellor left to day at 2:20 p.m. for Martinsville, Va., where he will institute another new lodge of Pythians. There were 14 in the party. EDITOR MITCHELL SPEAKS AT MARTINSYLLE. A Surging Crowd to Hear Him—Stirring Times in the Mountain Town. A New Lodge Instituted. Martinsville, Va., March 30th, 1904.—Grand Chancellor John Mitchell, Jr. arrived here yesterday at about 2:15 p. m. He was accompanied by Col E. R. Jefferson and Grand Master at Arms S. S. Baker of Richmond and Major W. H. Cunningham, Special Deputy Grand Chancellor H. S. Kee, Deputy Grand Chancellor W. A. Milner, Past Chancellor, Geo W. Rison, Major L. W. Holcoon W. W. Manns, W. J. Hubbard, Caleb Burns G. W. Hamlet, Lewis Stewart, H. S. Keen, Jr., of Danville. They were met at the train by a committee from the club, and there was a most joyful' time on the platform. MADE ABSOLUTELY COMFORTABLE The Grand Chancellor and Sirs Jefferson and Baker were conducted to the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Green Penn, where they were made comfortable. The High St. Baptist Church was packed to suffocation by a surging mass that had assembled to hear Eduor John Mitchel Jr., discuss the issues. He had been preceded by Prof. James L. Hill who entertained the audience until he came. When he, (Mr. Mitchell), arrived accompanied by Mr. Green Penn, whose guest he was, there was a commotion within the church edifice. A WORD TO THE CITIZENS Mr. Mitchell spoke of his birth-place and the troubles to which he had been subjected. He spoke of the race and its difficulties and for an hour gave sound advice upon the great questions affecting the colored people. He told of the advantages of Pythianism, discussed the national organization and spoke, of the work that had brought him to Martinsville. He was listened to with marked attention and was congratulated at the close. The club which was ready with a list of about 26 paid through tound its number swelled to 39. FOUND OUT ABOUT PYTHIANISM The initiation took place in the basement of the church and rapid work it was too, being completed in a little over two hours time. The following officers of the new organization which will be known as Douglass Ledge. No. 69 were installed: Chancellor Commander, James L. Hill; Master of Work, L. F. Floyd; vice Chancellor, Thomas J. Jones; Prelate, Robert Butler, Keeper of Records and Seal, A. L. Cosby; Master of Finance, M. C. Hairston; Master at Arms, John A. Griggs; Master of Exchequer, Green Penn; Inner Guard, Wiley Drewry; Outer Guard, H. C. Cahill. Trustees: L. F. Flood, J. L. Hill and A. L. Cosby; Attendants; Frank Drewry, John A. Hairston, J. J. Earley and J. H. Barrett. A HAPPY PARTY. A bounteous repast was spread and all heartily enjoyed themselves. This lodge was under care of Special Deputy H. S. Keen and adds another laurel to his wreathe of Pythian achievements. Grand Chancellor Mitchell was out-spoken in praise of the people of Martinsville and the hospitality shown him by Mr. and Mrs. Green Penn in particular and the people of Martinsville in general was the subject of much comment by him even after he had left the thriving town in the mountains. The party left at about 9 o'clock Wednesday morning for Danville. The Return to Danyille. Danville, Va., March 30th, 1904.—Grand Chancellor, John Mitchell, Jr., and party arrived here to day at 12:30 p.m., from Martinsville Henry County, Va., and while Dr. E. K. Jefferson accompanied Dr. Winslow on a tour of inspection, Grand Chancellor Mitchell, Sir S. S. Baker and Deputy Grand Chancellor H. S Keen proceeded to the cozy residence of Mr. and Mrs. Geo W Rison where one of the best dinners to be found in Danville was ready and waiting and the accomplished Madame presided as hostess. This happy couple have dogs, cows and horses and admirable places to keep them all. Dinner being over, it was time to start for the Southern Railway Depot. Past Chancellor Rison had his rubber tired two woeled buggy, which rides as comfortable as a Pullman Car, ready and took the Grand Chancellor to the train. The party had but few moments to spare and were soon being carried towards Richmond. —Col. B. R. Boulding of Norfolk Va., was in the city last week RUSSIA STARTS LAND FIGHTING IN KOREA Gossacks Attacked Japanese Cavalry Near Chong-Ju. MIKADO'S LOSSES WERE HEAVY Russians Were Forced to Retire, With Three Killed and Sixteen Wounded. Czar's General Praises Bravery of Japanese Troops—Admiral Togo's Report On Second Attempt to "Bottle Up" Port Arthur. St. Petersburg, March 30.—General Kuropatkin, in his first report to the emperor from the scene of war an- nounced that offensive land operations had taken place against the Japanese upon the sixth anniversary of the occu- pation of Port Arthur by the Rus- THE TENTS BUSGIAN SOLDIERS IN CAMP NEAR THE KALU RIVER RUSSIAN SOLDIERS IN CAMP NEAR THE VALU RIVER. slans. These operations took the form of a cavalry attack Monday by six companies of Cossacks, led personally by General Mishtechenko, against four squadrons of Japanese cavalry, which the general believed to be beyond Chong Ju, but which he found to be in occupation of that town. General Mishtechenko's Cossacks have been endeavoring for some days to come in contact with the Japanese patrols, but the latter refused the combat. The skirmish will have the effect of encouraging the Russians to retard as much as possible the advance of the Japanese army. General Kuropatkin's Report. General Kuropatkin's report is as follows: "I have the honor to respectfully communicate to your majesty the report of General Mishtechenko, dated March 28, at 10 p. m., which says: "For three consecutive days our small outposts attempted to draw the Japanese cavalry into action, but their patrols, after contact was established, retired beyond Chong Ju (about 50 miles northwest of Ping Yang). "Having learned that four squadrons of the enemy were posted five vers's beyond Chong Ju, on March 27, six companies marched toward Kasan, and on March 28 reached Chong Ju at 10.30 a.m. As soon as our scouts approached the town the enemy opened fire from behind the wall. Two squad- rons promptly dismounted and occupied the heights, 600 yards distant. A engagement ensued. "In the town a company of infantry and a squadron of cavalry lying in ambush. Our men were forced by three companies, and attacked the Japanese with a cross fire. Notwithstanding this and our commanding position, the Japanese gallantly held their ground, and it was only after a fierce fight of half an hour's duration that the Japanese succeeded fire and sought refuge in the encampment. The Japanese hoisted the Red Cross flag at two points. "Soon afterward three squadrons the enemy were seen advancing along the Kasan road at full gallop to the town, which two of the squadrons succeeded in entering, while the third fell back in disorder under repeated volleys from our troops. A number of men and horses were seen to fall. "For an hour afterward our companies continued to fire on the Japanese in the town, preventing them from leaving the streets and houses. "An hour and a half after the beginning of the engagement four companies were seen on the Kasan result, hastening to attack. I gave the order to mount, and the entire force, with covering squadron, retreated in perfect order and formed in line behind the hill. The wounded were placed in the front and the retirement was carried out with the delibration of a parade. "The Japanese squadron which was thrown into disorder was evidently unable to occupy the hill which we had just evacuated, and their infantry arrived too late. "The detachment protecting our rear guard arrived quietly at Kasan, where we halted for two hours in order to give attention to our wounded. 9 p. m. our force reached Noo-San. "It is supposed that the Japanese had heavy losses in men and horses. On our side, unfortunately, three officers were severely wounded—Stepanov and Androkoo in the chest and VasVervitch in the stomach. Schlinkoff was less seriously wounded in the arm, but did not leave the field. Three Cossacks were killed and 12 were wounded including five seriously." "General Mishtenchke beats witness to the excellent conduct and gallantry of the officers and Cossacks, and especially praises the third company of the Argunsk regiment, commanded by Krasnostanoff." Admits Attempt to "Bottle Up" Port Arthur Failed. Washington, March 30.—The Japanese legation has received from Tulane the following official report made by Admiral Togo respecting the second attempt to "bottle up" the Port Arthur squadron: "About 3.30 a.m. of the 27th March the 'bottling up squadron,' composed of four ships, escorted by a temped boat destroyed flotilla and a temped boat flotilla, reached outside Port Arthur, and without minding their searchlights of the enemy, stretched straight towards the entrance of harbor. At about two marine leagues from the entrance the 'bottling up squadron' was discovered by the enemy. Thereupon the shore battered guardships showered hot fires upon the ship, in spite of the terrific the ships made their way into the inner roadstead, one after the other. "The steamer Chiyo Maru anchored at a position about a half a cable from the Golden Hill, blew up itself and sunk. The Fukui Maru passed a little ahead of the Chiyo Maru by its side, and at the moment when she was lowering anchor was shot by a torpedo from the enemy's destroyers and moved in that position. The Machi-Hikaru Maru anchored to the left of the Fukui Maru and blew up itself and sunk. The Yoneyama Maru, colliding with the stern of the enemy's torpedo boat destroyers, passed between Chiyo Maru and Fukui Maru and anchored in the middle of the roadstead. At this moment the ship was shot by a torpedo from the enemy and, consequently, by reason of that torpedo, she was carried toward the left side shore and sunk, slideways. "The result of the action being above described, there is some space left between Hachi-Hiko Maru and Yoneyama Maru. It is a matter of regret that the roadstead could not completely closed up. The casualties were as follows: "Killed—Commander Hirose Takei one under officer and two sailors. "Seriously wounded—Sub-Lieutenant Shimada." by our torpedo boat destroyer foilot. "Of the torpedo boat foilot, the Candaka and the Tsubame, while escorting the 'bottling up squadron,' and at about one mile from the entrance of Fort Arthur, engaged in a fight with one destroyer of the enemy, and inflicted numerous damage on her. The enemy's ship retreated, raising an enormous column. CONTINUED ON 4TH PAGE. THE APLANET SATURDAY... APRIL 2. 1904 COASTING When the mercury goes downward and a freeze is in the air Childish voices, yes, and laughter echo down the walls to come An I see 'em all a-standin' underneath the apple-tree her head. 'An the slope she sits beneath 'em and 'they start, an they are gone!' Each sled with a red-checked burden an 'a boy to hold her on. I would like to be up yonder for a little while, I would. Where us fellers used to gather where the crab-apple stood. I would and just her an' me forever flyin' laughin' through the night. BETWEEN JOURNEYS By NELLIE CRAVEY GILUMORE LIEUT. PEARSON swung himself on a Broadway car with considerable relief. The transport had arrived but an hour ago, thus allowing him scant time and no ceremony, in which to see the barber and pay a flying visit to his apartments. Four years had wrought little material change in the scenes about him; he could shut his eyes and almost fancy that only a day and night had elapsed since the last time he had taken this ride. Alas, how well he remembered it—every little detail, full of sadness inexpressible to them both, but full or even of a hope that had long since shriveled and died. Certainly, he thought, it was a very curious irony that was bringing him to her house now. But whatever the cause—or the lack of one—that had brought about her suds, a marriage with the other man, only one fact remained for present consideration. Benton was dead, and with almost his last breath, had entrusted to him, a message for the woman he was leaving behind. Pearson's hand went involuntarily to his pocket, just as it had done hundreds of times before in the year that had passed. The packet was safe and he drew a sigh of relief. Another half hour, and it would be—thank Heaven—out of his keeping forever. He left the car in a fever of nervousness, but the walk of several squares in the cool, brisk wind, restored his self-poise. A strange mixture of emotions fought for dominance as he stood again in front of the old-fashioned door with its old-fashioned brass knocker. But he presented his card quite calmly to the servant who let him in, and sat down without treplication in the familiar drawing room, to wait. Mrs. Benton came in almost immediately. "I received your message," she said, holding out her hand, "and I dressed at once so as not to detain you. I think it rather too bad that you must hurry right off again." The lieutenant relinquished her fingers in silence and sat down in the chair she indicated. "I'm sorry myself," he returned, presently, "but circumstances require it and circumstances, you know, are about as inflexible sometimes as the proverbial "stubborn fact." After a desultory interchange of inquiries and reminiscences, Pearson fumbled in his pocket for the little package he had crossed the ocean to put/into her hands, drawing it out with a keener sense of constraint than he had imagined possible. "Doris—Mrs. Benton," he began, uncertainly, "your he requested me to give you this. I—" "Thank you, Jack," she interposed, quietly, extending her fingers quite passively. Pearson regarded her in some surprise. He had expected tears, questions, hysteries—anything but this inscrutable calm. Did she, then, love him so very much after all as to be compelled to crush back all feeling behind a mask? Or—he dismissed that other thought almost before it was born. "Is this all?" she asked after a pause. "Was there any word—any last word—for me?" Lent. Pearson flushed to his temples. How was he to tell her that the man's her husband's dying breath had framed another woman's name? Benton had asked him, dispassionately enough, to deliver the packet to his wife; that was all. And everything the packet contained was the seal-ring Doris had given him and one or two trivial little ornaments of hers he had brought with him to the Philippines. "He was unconscious at the last," he replied after a silence. Mrs. Benton looked at him earnestly, "Sit—before that?" she insisted with maliguised eagerness. He met her eyes without flinching now. Yes," he said, "there was something." "Tell me," she leaned back in her chair, folding her hands tentatively. "Tell me—everything," she went on with a little catch in her voice. "I want to know the truth, Jack." Pearson remained silent for some time. The truth he could not tell her; it must be a lie or notpthing. The lie was safer. "He said," he answered, slowly. "Tell Doris my last thought and wish and prayer—were for her." Mrs. Benton paled, then flushed and paled again. After a little she rose restlessly and crossed the room to an open window. For a long time she stood there mute, staring out into the rapidly thickening dark. Minutes passed, and a clock somewhere struck seven. Pearson started to his feet with a little exclamation of alarm. "I really must be going," he explained, hurriedly, "my train for the south leaves in 40 minutes." Mrs. Benton turned tear-misted eyes to his. She opened her lips to speak, but the words refused to come, and her lips quivered suddenly. She held out both hands to him in the little impulsive way that belonged to her. Pearson held himself in check by a powerful effort. His hands closed over hers with a restrained pressure. "Good-by," she said brokenly. "You are more noble than I can tell you—more than you will ever know—" She paused and turned away for a second. When she had controlled herself, she looked up again into his eyes that searched hers so earnestly. "I had not meant to tell you, Jack," she went on, tremulously. "but something that I cannot resist, impels me to do so. I know—all, and a good deal besides that you never dreamed of. He is dead now, and hereafter, my lips must be sealed against him. But this much you must know. He did you the greatest injustice one man may do another. He lied—to steal me from you, and I, like a credulous fool, fell into the trap. You have lied—to save him from dishonor in my eyes, and to save me from shame and sorrow. Thank you, Jack, and—good-by again." A quiver A woman in a long dress stands in a room, holding a curtain in her hand. She is facing a table with a vase and a glass. The room has a wooden chair and a wall with a picture frame. SHE STOOD THERE MUTE, STARING OUT INTO THE RAPIDLY THICKENING DARKNESS. ran through her and she turned from him suddenly, breaking into a storm of sobs. Pearson hesitated a second; a strange, glad light pushed its way through the cloud in his eyes. He moved over to where she stood, and for a moment, himself stood looking down at her howed head. After a bit, she glanced up abruptly, brushing back the hair from her face with a little nervous gesture. Something unmistakable—something that he had seen in her eyes a hundred times before in the years that were past—trembled vaguely through their shadowed blue. He held out his arms. "And you never really—" "Hush, dear. He is dead now, and after all—he was my husband." His arms closed about her. "I'm afraid," remarked Lleut. Pearson after a while. "that I am going to miss my train." He laughed. Doris Benton lifted her head for a brief second. "And does it matter so very much?" she asked. "If you can be ready to go with me to morrow—no," he said. HORSES NOT FOR PRESIDENT Arabian Stallions from Sultan of Morocco Intended for Exhibition at St. Louis. It has developed that although the six Arabian stallions which arrived on the Hohenbollen recently are not intended as a gift for the president from the sultan of Morocco, they are that potentate's contribution to the world's fair at St. Louis, where the president probably will see them. The president may not receive such a gift save by an act of congress. The stallions were taken to a riding academy in Hoboken, where they will be kept until J. W. F. Langerman, formerly vice consul at Tangier and now the agent to Morocco from the St. Louis fair, returns to this country. Before the horses were taken from the Hohencolllern many persons went to the ship to see them, somewhat to the annoyance of the Arab horsemen who are taking care of them, and who seemed to resent the intrusion. No child of luxury could be treated better than are the six chargers. At nine o'clock they received their morning bath and some one who was taking a look at the high-bred steeds at the time picked up a cake of soap which was being used for the equine ablution. "Perfumed!" he exclaimed in amazement. About that time several photographers arrived, and threw the Arabian hostlers into a panic, the queer-garbed men running away from the cameras as though they were Gatling guns. When inquiry was made regarding their behavior, one of the Arabians who can speak English fairly well, explained that it is a belief in Arabia that a person who has a photograph taken thereby shurries his or her life by at least two years. Polyglot student. There is at the present time a student at the University of Leyden, Holland, who, in addition to his own tongue, speaks and writes no fewer than 13 languages. Largest of World's Mints. The United States mint at San Francisco is the largest institution of the kind in the world. In the Soup. "That latest missionary we captured is preaching too much." Cannibal King—Boll him down... Judge. THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA Modern Methods Do Not Entirely Denude the Country of All Its Forest Covering. LL about stands the virgin forest, thick woods that have thus far escaped the woodman's axe. But the lumber company has recently entered in, and presently, say seven years from now, the character of the country will be much changed. "hicks" not a little only accomplishment "keeping house." Few of the French lieve, live in the large wives and children proud proprietors of ties. These shanties most are overwhelmed Where now uprise fine spruce and balsam, hemlock and white pine, birch and maple, there will be left standing only such timber as is not merchantable; slope and plain will be bereft of their present noble growth. And yet it is an agreeable surprise to one to walk over a tract where the lumber company has passed through, and note how much of the forest aspect remains. I went the other day from camp to camp with the forester, traveled up into the woods quite a distance, and though the company had cut almost all the timber it intended to lay low in the region we were traveling over, the place did not seem devastated by any manner of means; there was not the utterly barren look I have noticed in lumbered regions of northern Wisconsin. The superintendent told me lumber companies do not always deserve the bad name given them, that they do not always destroy a watershed, despell a region, to the extent reputed; and, although the trees were thinned out very considerably in the tract under discussion, yet there certainly were enough left standing to give some woodland virtue to the surrounding country. Not so very long ago, New York was noted for its wonderful forests, ocean OPERATING THE LOG LOADER plied first place in the lumber industry; it now ranks twelfth. The annual report of the forest, fish and game commission of the state of New York, transmitted to the legislature January 30, 1903, gives the following information concerning the forest output: OUTPUT OF ADIRONDACK FORESTS. 1901. Ft. R. M. Spruce (sawmills) ..... 154,439,030 Spruce (pulp mills) ..... 237,483,126 Hulock ..... 65,889,318 White plum ..... 65,403,428 Hardwoods (sawmills) ..... 36,452,529 Hardwoods (cooperage, chemicals, etc.) ..... 6,036,804 544,254,888 Shingles ..... 32,628,500 Lath 51,328,400 The recent erection of cooperage and wood alcohol plants is partly accountable for the increase that is shown in the cutting of hardwood, and the pulp mills yearly require more and more spruce. Balsam and poplar also are used as pulpwood, the pulp mills using much more balsam than do the sawmills. In the manufacture of woodpulp and paper New York retains supremacy, being far in the lead of any other state in the magnitude of these industries. We are wont to look upon the Adirondacks as a great pleasure ground, rather than an industrial center, but its streams are not wholly given over to angler and paddler; on many a bank buzzes huge sawmill or pulpmill; and the villages are not wholly of the sort affected by summer holiday maker. A lumber company town is generally a collection of temporary dwellings sheltering the families of men that work in the mills and the households of the head men of the company. It is interesting to tramp through the woods and watch the busy life going on therein. No winter day is too cold for these hardy woodsmen, and, well prepared for the rigors of below-zero weather, they labor away lustily. The camps keep pretty close to racial lines; here there is a community of north Italy men, big, blue-eyed, red-haired, industrious fellows, quite the opposite of the gang that tolls listlessly on the section work and at unskilled labor about the mill, the short, dark countrymen from southern Italy; a camp of Irish-Canadians, these men also big and stalwart and able to work; Swedes and Germans, too, labor in the woods and exhibit their typical characteristics; and lastly, but much to the fore, are the French-Canadian woodsmen. Most of the loggers live in the traditional logging camps, bunks against wall, long table down the center, box-stove giving out tropic heat. The cook is usually a man, though sometimes a sub-contractor has his wife at camp to to the cooking and board the men. As a rule, any one of these woodsmen can turn his attention from felling a tree to stirring up biscuit or frying salt pork; and I have noticed among the Reckless Waste. Miss Witers—When Harold kissed me he told me that he loved me. The Friend—What a waste of words! —Town Topics. Commendable. "He says he can play golf but he never does." "Well, he is more commendable than others who can't play but who do."—Brooklyn Life. --- "thicks" not a little pride in the womanly accomplishments that make up "keeping house." Few of the French-Canadians, I believe, live in the large camps, but, having wives and children with them, are proud proprietors of individual shanties. These shanties, however, are almost as overcrowded as the sheds, for the families are sizeable and the dwelling one-roomed. I visited one the other day that was overflowing with youngsters; made acquaintance with the shy mother and the sheer children. These French-Canadian inhabitants of the woods are half-wild folk, and their children untamed creatures that chafe against restraints other children take as a matter of course. When put into schoolrooms they are like caged animals. The furnishing of the shanties of the French-Canadian squatter is of the barest, and while this sort of thing does very well for a week or two of vacationing in midsummer, it is not altogether desirable during the long, cold winter. The men look comfortably dressed in their thick "mackinaws," but the children are very thinly clad. I saw a couple of boys playing in the snow with their legs bare, and was told by the logcalcer that he had seen many of the children going about in their bare feet this winter. The women and children look sickly, but the men are robust-appearing fellows. And picturesque in the extreme, as are all the woodmen I have seen. They choose bright colors for their garb, deck their horses in gay red tassels, and their own color is as ruddy as 5 their ornament. Some of the woodsmen wear plaid from head to foot; "mackinaw" trousers of red and brown plaid, and "mackinaw" jackets of red and black. With their caps, tufted mittens and high "hick" shoes they certainly are arrayed in any but a commonplace manner; certainly would attract attention on State street in Chicago, or Fifth avenue in New York. They are not only picturesque as to their costumes, but also at their work. We watched with much interest the loggers send the big trees crashing down, and appreciated the saying "the whole forest trembles when a lumberman sets foot in it." Then we clambered through the snow over the rough LANDING ON THE SKIDWAY new road to see the loggers load the huge logs on the great sleds and marvelled at the ease with which the men, by means of their peveys, raised them into place. The drivers, also, seemed of strength and no mean skill; guilding the heavily-loaded sleds down the humpy road, now holding back their horses, now encouraging them, after a needed rest, to the first mighty effort to move the load. At the sidway we observed the working of the logloader, and did not envy the men that toiled about the queer machine; neither the man inside, who must keep nine levers at work; nor the man who grabs the great hook and fastens it to a huge log, which then sways threateningly above his head until it decides to turn itself towards the man on the log train. It poises above the load and men on the car, held only by that treacherous hook and slender cable, and the man that is pilling must be quick as a flash to avoid being hit and to place the log so the load will be well built. The log-scaler, too, seemed to have no enviable position, running back and forth on the load measuring, and ever on the alert to avoid being struck by the descending monster. "Bah Jove! He called me a jibbering idiot!" "Oh, well, that's nothing. All idiots jibber."—Town Topics. Took a neighborly interest. "Her voice was tried by a famous singing master." "Was it found guilty?"—Princeton KATHERINE POPE FIANCE CALLED HER. Strange Story of a Narrow Escape Stirs the Spiritualistic Circles of London, England. Ever since those two great scientists, Sir William Crookes and Sir Oliver Lodge, declared their belief in a spirit world there has been a boom in spiritualistic circles in London, and "mediums" and "clairvoyants" are reaping the usual harvest. A very pretty girl, who has only been "out" one season in London, was traveling down to the country to meet her fiance, who was one of a big house party gathered together for the benefit of the newly engaged couple. In the first class carriage with her was an elderly doctor unknown to the lady. As the train was just leaving a station some ten miles from her destination the girl made a spring at the window and an attempt to get out on the platform. The elderly man retained her, however, and pointed out that it would be better to a station further than risk her life in that manner. At HANDED THE GIRL HIS CARD. the next station the very same thing occurred, and the girl seemed terribly distressed when she was again prevented from jumping out. Finally the doctor gave the frightened girl his card and asked her in a kindly way what he could do for her. Then the girl told her story. She had seen her flance on the platform beckoning to her to come out of the carriage at both the stations which they had left. The doctor, a little incredulous, of course, told her that she had better get out at the next station as she felt so distressed. It was only three miles from the house and she could take a cab. The girl saw nothing when she stepped out onto the foggy platform, and just as the train moved on a man stepped into the carriage and took his place beside the doctor. Within three minutes of its departure that train was in collision with a goods train, and the only man who was fatally injured was the stranger who had taken his place opposite the doctor. WAS ALREADY PROVIDED. Young German Didn't Propose to Give the Woman Preacher a Matrimonial Chance. A certain small village in the west, far removed from the noise and bustle of commerce, boasts a female preacher, and the lady's duties are many. One day she may visit the sick, another attend a funeral, and the next baptize a baby. One afternoon she was preparing the seismon for the following Sabbath when she heard a timid knock at the parsonage door. Answering the summons she found a bashful young "I VANT ME TO KIT MERRIET." German standing on the step and twirling his straw hat in his hands. "Good afternoon!" the preacheress remarked. "What do you wish?" "Dey say der minister lifed in dis house, hey?" "All right; I can marry you," she said. The lady's hair is beginning to silver, and the German glanced at it. Then he jammed his hat on his head and hurried down the path. "What's the matter?" she called after him. "You gits no chance mit me," he called back. "I don't want you; I haf got me a girl abretty." **Woman's Lot in Corea.** In no country is the life of women more pathetic than in Corea, where it might be termed imprisonment with hard labor from the age of seven until death. Little girls are secluded from the time of their betrothal. At an age varying from 10 to 16 years they are married to men they have never seen, and go away to take their places as meniais. Wife—How thoughtful you are! And so you really bought this beautiful antique rug for me? Husband—Yes, my dear "How lovely of you! Where shall I put it?" "Put it in front of your dressing case." "It will certainly look very pretty." "Yes. It's a good, strong rug, and will keep you from wearing out the carpet there."—N. W. Weekly J. W. H. Wood and Coal, Cigars AT THE LOWEST M YOU CAN SAVE MONEY IN AJJ GOODS DELIVER TELEPHONE A. C. BOOKER 18 W. BAKER ST. W. I. JOE FUNERAL DIRECTOR Office & Warerooms, 207 N. 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Also your Roofs, Gutters, Coatstores Repaired and Painted at a reasonable price. Your patronage will be highly appreciated. FRED G. GRAY, Richmond, Va LOOK OUT FOR OUR PRICE LIST. IT CAN'T BE EXCELLED Your Patronage is Invited. The AMERICAN GROCERY and PROVISION MARKET When you want nice dry, sawed pine wood, call up 2883. We sell ½ cord for $2.75 guaranteed full measurer. A full line of fancy and staple groceries and fresh meats. Granulated sugar 4¾ cups per lb. Prices low on everything this week. Hard and soft coal. Hay and Grain. --- --- ```markdown ``` 1820 FRANK WALLER, JR. 1221 St. James Street Booker's Market 18 W. Paker St. A FULL LINE OF FINE GROCERIES AND FRESH MEATS & VEGETABLIS V. P. & F. K. of W. Savings Bank OF RICHMOND, VA 511 North Third Street. Capital, $25,000. WILLIAM CUSTALO, J. J. CARTER THOMAS M. ORUMP, Ssec. x SYDNOR AND HUNDLEY, LEADERS IN Quality Furniture We have some twenty-five or thirty suits bought, most of which will be in stock in a few days. "Don't do a thing" until you see this line. MORRIS CHAIRS. This always popular chair of rest will be in as much demand this fall as ever. Part of our stock has already arrived and $10 values vie with $15 values of a year ago. Call, see our stock of Bed Room Furniture and save time and money. Passenger elevator. Sydnor & Hundley, 209-11-13 E. Broad St. 4 # Ghe Gentleman D t From Indiana By Boorn TARKINGTON Copyrigar. 1899. by Doubleday (QQ McClure Co. Conyright, 1902, by McClure, Phillips QQ Co. Seer | Judge. What are we doin’ bere? W SE a ee ee, oe A] the night: No hesitating stroke of Schoflelds’ Henry. no uncertain touch, was on the rope. A loud, wild. hurried clamor ealing out to wake the countryside, a rapid clang! clang! clang! that struck clesr in to the spine. ‘The courthouse bol had tolled for the death of Mor. ton, of Garteld, of Hendricks; had rung Joy peals of peace after the war aad after political campaigns, but tt had rung as it was ringing now only three times—once when Hibbard’s mill burned, once when Webb Landis killed Sep Bardiock and intrenched himself ja the lumber yard and would not be taken until he was shot through and throngh, and once when the Rouen ac- commodation, crowded with children and women and men, was wrecked within twenty yards of the station. Wuy was the bell ringing now? Men and women, startled Into wide wake- fuluess, groped to windows. No red auist bung over town or country. What was it? ‘The bell rang on. Its loud alarm beat increasingly into men’s hearts and quickened their throbbing to the rapid measure of itsown. Vague forms lvowed in the gloaming. A horse, madly ridden, splashed through the ‘town. There were shouts; voices called ‘doarsely; lamps began to gleam in the winiows; half clad people emerged {row their houses, men slapping their deaces on their shoulders as they ran out of doors; questions were shouted inte the dimness. { Then the news went over the town. it was cried from yard to yard, from xroup to group, from gate to gate, and reached the furthermost confines. Run. ners shouted it as they sped by, and boys panted it, breathless; women with Yoosened hair stumbled into darkling chambers and faltered it out to new owakened sleepers, and pale girls, cluteh- ing wraps at their throats, whispered it across fences. ‘The sick, tossing on ‘their hard beds, heard it! The bell clamored it far and near; it spread over the countryside, and it ‘few over the wiees to distant cities. The White Caps had got Mr. Harkless! _ Lige Willetts had lost track of him ‘out near Briscoe's, it was sald, and had come into town at midnight seeking Am. He had found Parker, the Herald foreman, and Ross Schofield, the type- setter, and Bud Tipworthy, the devil, at work in the printing effice. but no sign of Harkless there or In the cot- tage. Together these had sought for Lim and had roused others who had in- quired at every house where he might have gone for shelter, and they had heard nothing. They had watebed for his coming during the slackening of the storm. He bad not come, and there Was no place he could have gone. He was missing. Only ove thing could have happened. They bad roused up Warren Smith, the prosecutor, and Horner, the sher- Mf and Jared Wiley, the deputy, Wil ‘iam Todd had rung the alarm. Tt was agreed that the first thing to do was te find him. After that there would be trouble, 1f not before. It looked as Af there would be trouble before. The men tramping up to the muddy square iu thelr shirt sleeves were bulgy about. the right Lips, and when Homer Tibbs jeined Columbus Landis at the hotel corner and Landis saw that Homer | was carrying a shotgun Landis went back for bis. A hastily sworn Pome galloped out Main street. Women and whildren ran Into neighbors’ yards and began to ery. Day was coming, and ue the light grew men swore and sav- agely kicked at the palings of fences #8 they ran by them. | Iu the foreglow of dawn they gather. ed in the square and listened to War- ren Smith, who made a speech from the courthouse fence and warned hem to go slow. They answered him with angry shouts and hootings. But he made his big bass voice heard and bude them do nothing rash. No facts were known, he said. Tt-was far from certain that barm had been done, and no one knew that the Six Crossroads people bid done it, even if something had happened to Mr. Harkless. He de- Jared that he spoke In Harkless’ name. Noiling could distress him so much as for them to defy the law, to take it ont of the proper hands, Justice would be done -Yen. it will” shouted a man below tim. brandishing the butt of a rawhide| Whip above his head. “And while you jaw on about it here he may be tied ap ke a dog In the woods, shot full of| Boles by “the men you never lifted a Anger to bender, because you w ant peti iM tiie h hI LU NIN Pe N ef vee No NEST SA | [isba eae A AA EES ye A, ex ys vil GEN Ce : cS ay ESR RR y/ ZL y Eh i i Efe, i ia x 4} hei eateiiesinan ann acoe Geir votes when you ran for ctrcult have started for the Crossroads hai hot # rumor sprung up which passe rapidly from man to man and in a fey moments bad reached every person it the crowd. ‘The news came that th two shell gamblers had wrenched a bai out of a window under cover of th storm, had broken Jail and were a large. Their threats of the day befor were remembered now with convinein, vividness, ‘They had sworn repeatedl; to Bardlock and to the sheriff and in th hearing of others that they would “do’ for the man who bad taken their mon ey from them and had them arrested ‘The prosecuting attorney, quickly per | ceiving the value of this complicatios in holding back the mob that was al ready forming, called Horner Crom th j¢towd and made bim get up on the fence and confess that his prisoners had escaped, at what time he did not know, probably toward the beginning of the storm, when it was noislest. “You see,” cried the attorney, “there is nothing as yet of which we ean ac cuse the Crossroads. Lf our friend has been burt it is much more likely that these crooks did it. They escaped in time to do it, and we all know they were laying for him. You want to be mighty careful, fellow citizens. Hor- ner is already In telegraphic comnmuni- cation with every town around hese, and he'll have those men before night. All you've got to do is to coutrol your: selves a little and go home quictiy,” He could see that bis words (except those in reference to returning home— bo one was going home) made an im- pression. There was a babble of shout- ing and argument and swearing that grew louder and louder. Mr. Ephraim Watts, In spite of ail confusion, clad as carefully as upon the preceding day, deliberately climbed the fence and stood by the lawyer and made a single stendy gesture with his hand. He was listened to at once, as Luls respect for the law was less noto- rious than his irreverence for it, and he had been known in Carlow as cus- tomarily a reckless man. ‘They want- ed illegal and desperate advice and quieted down to bear it. He spoke in Lis professionally calm voice. “Gentlemen, it seems to me that Mr. Smith and Mr. Ribshaw." nodding to the man with the rawhide whip, “are both right. What good are we doing here? What we want to know is what's happened to Mr. Harkless, It looks Just now like the shell men might have done it, Let’s find out what they dove Scatter and hunt for him. Soon as any- thing’s known for certain Hibbard’s will whistle will blow three times. Keep on looking ti tt does; then.” he finished, wih a barely perceptible scornful smile at the attorney—"then we can decide on what Ind ought be done.” Six Crogsronds Iny dark and steam- ing in!) sun that morning. ‘The forge was silent. the saloon locked up, the roadway deserted even by the pigs. ‘The broken old buggy stood rotting in the mud without a single lean little old man or woman—such were the chil- dren of the Crossroxds—to play about it. Once, when the deputy sheriff rode through alone, a tattered black hound, more wolf than dog. half emerged, growling, from beneath one of the tumbledown barns and was jerked back into the darkness by his tail. with a snarl flercer than his own, while a gun barrel shone for a second as it swung for a stroke on the brute’s head. The hound did not yelp or whine when the blow fell. He shut his eyes twice and slunk sulleuly back to his place. The shantics might have received a volley or two from some of the mount- ed hands, exasperated by futile search- Ing, kad not the escape of Horner's Prisoners made the guilt of the Cross: roads appear doubtful in the minds of many. As the morning waned the ad- voeates of the theory that the gam- blers had made away with Harkless grew in number. There came a tele- gram fron: the Rouen chief of police that he had a clew to their whereabouts. He thought they had succeeded tn reaching Rouen, and it began to be generally believed that they hed es caped by the 1 o'clock freight tram, which lind stopped to take on some empty cars ata side track a mile north West of town, across the felds from the Briscoe louse. Toward noon a party went out to examine the rail road embankiwent, Men began to come baek into the vil- lage for breakfast by twos and threes, but many kept on searching the woods. not fecling the need of food or caring if they did. Every grove and clump of underbrush, every thicket, was ran sacked. The waters of the creek, shal- jow for the most part, but swollen overnight, were dragged at every pool. Nothing was found. ‘There was not a sign. ‘The bar of the hotel was thronzed all morning as the returning citizens rapidly made their way thither, and those who liad breakfasted and were going out aguin paused for internal as Well as external re-enforcement. ‘The landiord, thmself returned from a long hunt, set out his whisky with a lavish hand, “He was the best man we bad, boys.” said Landis as he poured the litte glasses full. “We'd ort of sent him to ha Sk aees ea ae genie THE VOLIMOWI PLANT 2s gow VIQzINn' 4. adelante ae S| A a Tn) eS sony Soin’ to seem mighty empty around here,” said Ross Schofield “What's goin’ to become o' the Heral and the party in this district? Where’ fhe man fo run either of ‘em now ce as not,” he continued desperai “IH go aguinst us tn the fale Dibb Zane choked over bis four fn gers. “We might’s well bust up the dab dusted ole town ef he's gone.” “I don't know what's come over tha: Cynthy ‘Cipworthy,” said the landlord “She's waited table on him last twe Years, and her brother Bud works a the Herald office. She didn't say word, only looked and looked and looked, like a crazy woman; then het and Bud went off tozether to hunt in the woods. ‘They jest tuck hold of each other's hands like”— “I reckon there ain't many crazier than them two Bowlders, father and Son.” interrupted a patron, wiping the drops from his beard as he set his glass on the bar. “They rid into town Uke a couple of wild Indians, the old man beatin’ that gray mare o° theirn tll she was one big walt, and he ain't Batcherly no cruel man either. 1 ex- pect Lige Willetts better keep out of Hartley's way.” “I keep out of no man's way!” cried & voice behind him. ‘Turning, they saw Lige standing on the threshold of the door that led to the street. In his hand he held the bridle of the horse he had ridden across the sidewalk and tha now stood panting, with lowered head haif through the doorway, beside his master. Lige was hatless, splashed With mud from bead to foot; his jaw Was set, his teeth ground together, bis eyes burned under red lids, and. bis hair lay tossed and damp on his brow. “I keep out of no man's way.” be re- Peated boarsely. “I heard you, Mr. Tibbs. but I've got too much to do, while you loaf and gas and drink over Landis’ bar. I've got other business than keepin’ out of Hart Rowlder's way. I'm lookin’ for John Harkless, He was the best man we had in this ornery hole, and he was too good for us, and so We've maybe let him get killed, and maybe I'm to blame. But T'm goin’ to find him, and if he's hurt I'm goin’ to bave a hand on the rope that lifts the men that did it if T have to go to Ronen to put it there. After that TH answer for my fault, not be- fore.” He threw himself on his horse and was gone. Soon the room emr tied. as the patrons of the bar returned to the search, and only Mr. Wilkerson and the landlord remained, the bar being the professional oilice, 80 to speak, of both. At 11 o'clock Judge Briscoe dropped Wearily from his horse at his ewn gate and said to a wan girl who came run- ning down the walk to meet hin. “There is nothing yet. L sent the tel- egram to your mother—to Mrs. Sher- wood.” Helen turned away without answer. ing. Her face was very white and looked pinched about the mouth, She went back to where old Fishee sat on the porch. lils white head held betweeo his two hands. He was rocking bir seif to and fro, She touched him geo tly, but he did not look up. She spoie to him, “Father,” she said. He did not seem to bear her, “There isn't anything yet. He sent the telegram. shall stay with you HOW. no Mbctor what you say.” She rat beside him and put her bead down oa his shoulder, and. thongh for a mo inent he appearvd nut to notice it, when Minnie came out on the porch, hearin: her father at the deor, the old man had put his arm about the girl and was stroking her fair hair softly. Briscoe glanced at them and ratsed a warning finger to his Caughter, and they went tiptocing into the house where the inde dropped heavily apo: a sofa. Minnie stood before hin with a look of pale inquiry. and he shook bis end. “No use to tell him, but T can't see any hope.” he answered her, biting nervously at the end of a cigar. “I ex pect you better bring me some coffee in here. I couldn't take another step to save me. I'm too old to tear around the country lorseback before breal fast. I'ke 1 have today.” “Did you send her telegram?" Min nie asked as he drank the cofee ale brouxht hin, She had Interpreted “coffee” Uberaily and. with the assist- ance of Mildy Upton, whose subduea nose was frankly red and who shed tears on the raspberries, had prepared an appetizing table at his elbow. “Yes,” responded the judge, “and I'm sind she sent it, 1 tilked the other Way yesteruay, What little [ said—it Isn't any of our business—but 1 don't think any too much of those people somehow, She thinks she belongs with Fisbee, and 1 guess she's right. ‘That young fellow must lave xot along With her pretty well, and Pu afraid When she gives up shell be pretty bad over it; but I guess we all will It's terribly sudden, somehow, though it's. only what everybody hal? expected would come, only we thought it would come from over yonder.” He nodded toward the west. “Hint she’s gat to stay here with us, Bounding at ‘Tibbs’ with that okt man won't do, and she's no girl to live In two rooms. You fix it up with her—you wake ker stay.” - a el oe |i 7 ie rl iy A i oy, Ny ae he Ci Mh Be Wea) Cue Mare oe eee te eae ee | cled hair from her temples, “it isn’t true? Helen won't believe It, Why should 1? It's only a few hours since he was right here in our yard talking to us all. 1 won't believe it till they've searched every stick and stone of Six Crossroads and found him." “It wasn't the Crossroads,” satd the old gentleman, pushing the table away and relaxing his limbs on the sofa. “They probably didn't have any- thing to do with it. We thorght they had at first, but everybody's about come to believe it was those two fel- Jows that he had arrested yesterday.” “It wasn't the Crossroads!” echoed Minnie, and she bezan to tremble vio- lently. “Haven't they been out there yet?" “What nse? ‘They are out of it, and they can thank God they are.” “They are not!” she cried, very much agitated. “They did it. It was the White Caps. We saw them, Helen and 1.” The judge got upon his feet with an oath. He had not sworn for years un til that morning. “What's this?” be said sharply. “I onght to have told you before, but We were so frightened, and—and you went off in such a rush after Mr. Wil-y was here. [never dreamed everybody wouldn't know It was the Crosstoads; that they would think of any one else. And 1 looked for the scarecrow as soon ag it was light, and it was away off from where we saw them and wasn't blown down at all; and Helen saw them in the field besides; saw all of them” — He Interrupted ber. “What do you mean? ‘Try to tell me about it quietly, child.” He laid his hand on her shoul. der, She told him breathlessly what she and Helen had seen. and he grew more and more visibly perturbed and un- easy, biting his cigar to pieces and groaning at Intervals, When she had finished he took a few quick turns about the room, witty his hands thrust deep in bis coat pockets, and then, charging her to ropeat the story to no fone, left the house and, forgetting bis fatigue, rapidly crossed the fields to the point where the bizar fxures of the night tad shown themselves to the two girls at the window. The soft ground had been trampled by many feet. ‘The hoot prints pointed to the northeast. He traced thom back: ward to the sonthwest through the field and saw where they had come from near the road, going northeast: then, returning, he climbed the fence znd followed them northward throug the nest field, From there the next fleld to the norih, lying beyond the road that Wax a coutinnation of Main street stretched to the railrotd embankment ‘The track, mzzedly defined in tram. pled foam and muddy furrow. bent tn @ direction which indicated that its termini might be the switch where the empy cars had stood last night waiting for the | o'clock freight, ‘Thoth the fields had been trampled in many blaces by the searching parties, he felt sure of the direction taken by the Crossroads men, and he perceived that the searchers had mistaken the tracks he followed for those of earlier parties in the hunt. On the embankment be saw 4 number of men walking west und examining the ground on each side and a long liie of people following them out from town. He stopped. He held the fate of Six Crossroads in Lis hand, and he knew it ‘The men on the embankment were walking slowly, bending far over, thelr eyes fixed ou the ground. Suddenly ‘one of them stout erect and tossed hiv arms In the air and shouted loudly. Other men ran to him, and another far down the track repeated the shout and the gesture to another far in his rear, This man took It up and shouted and waved to a fourth man, and so they passed the signal back fo town, ‘There came altuost Immediately three long, loud whistles from 2 mill near the sta. tion, and the embankment grew black with people pouring out from town, While the searchers came running from the elds and woods and underbrush on boilt sides of the railway. Briscoe began to walk on toward the embankment. : The track lay level and straight, not dimming In the middle distances, the rails converging to points both north- west and southeast in the clean washed air like examples of perspective in a child's drawing book. About seventy miles to the west and north lay Rouen. In the same direction, nearly six miles from where the signal was given, the track was crossed by a road leading directly sonth to Six Crossroads. ‘The embankment had been newly dallasted with sand. What had been discovered was a broad brown stain in the sand on the south slope near the top. There were smaller stains above and below, none beyond it to left or right, and there were many deep foot- prints in the sand. Meu were exam- ining the place excitedly, taiking and gesticulating. It was Lige Willetts who had found it, His horse was tethered to a fence near by at the end of a lane through a cornileld. Jared Wiley, the deputy sheriff, was talking ‘toa group near the stain, explaining. “You see, them two nimst have knowed about the 1 o'clock freight and ihe tate hie Qian Sa ae dow they beat through the storn straight for this side track. At th same time Mr. Harkless leaves Bris coe's, goin’ west. It begins to rain He cuts across to the railroad to hav! & sure footin’ and strikin’ for th deepo for shelter—near place as any except Briscoe's, where he's. sald goo hight already, and probly don't wist to go back, fear of givin’ trouble o: keepin’ “eww up. Anybody can under stand that. He comes along and get to where we are precisely at the: tin they do, them comin’ from town, hin strikin’ for it. ‘They run right inte each other. That's what happened They re-cog-nized him and raised: up on him and let him have it. What they done it with I don't know. We took everything in that tine of of ‘em. Prob'iy used railroad iron, and what they done with him afterward we don't know, but we will by night. ‘They'll sweat it out of ’em up at Rouen when they get em.” “I reckon maybe some of ‘us might help,” remarked Mr. Watts reflectively, Jim Bardlock swore a violent oath. “That's the talk!” he shouted. “Ef { ain't the first mun of this crowd to set mny foot in Roowun and first to beat in that jail door I'm uot town marshal of Plattville, county of Carlow, state of Indiana. and the Lord have mercy on our souls!” ‘Tom Martin looked at the brow stain and quickly turned away. ‘Then be went back slowly to the village. On the way he passed Warren Smith. “Is it so?" asked the lawyer, Martin answered with a dry throat. He looked ont ever the sunlit fields and swallowed once or twice. “Yes, it’s so, There's a good deal of It there. Little more than a boy he was.” The old fellow passed his seamy hand over his eyes without concealment. “Peter ain't very bright sometimes, it seems to me,” he added brokenly; “overlook Bodeffer and Wisbee and mic, and all of us old husks, and—and”—he gulp: ed snddeuly, then finished—“and act the fool and take a boy that’s the best we had. I wish the Almixbty would tuke Peter off the gate. He ain't fit fer It” When the attorney reached the spot where the crowd was thickest, way was made for him, The old colored man, Xenophon, approached at the same time, leaning on a hickory. stick and bent very far over, one hand rest ing on his hip as if to ease a rusty Joint. The nezro’s age was an incentive to fable. From his appearance he might have known the prophets, and be wore that hoary look of unearthly wis dom which many decades of super- stitions experience sometimes give to members of his race. His face, so tor- tured with wrinkles that it might have been made of innnmerable black threads woven together, was a living mask of the mystery of bis blood. Harkless had once said that Uncle Xenophon had visited heaven before Swedenborg and hell before Dante. To- day as he slowly limped over the ties his eyes were bright and dry under the solemn fds, and, thouzh his heavy nostrils. were unusnally distended in the effort for regular breathing. the deeply puckered lips beneath them were set firmly. Ie stopped and look- ed at the faces before hin, When be spoke his voice was gentle, and, though the tremulousness of aze Warped on the Vocal strings, it was rigidly controlled, “Kin some kine gelmun.” he asked, spleuse t° be so gant ex ¢ show de ole main whuh de Wite Cwips is done thoot Marve Hawkliss?” “Llere was where it happened, Uncle Zen,” answered Wiley, leading tim for- ward. “Here is the stain.” Xenophon bent over the spot on the satud, makjng little odd woises in his throat. ‘hen he paintully resumed his fermer position. “Dass bis blood,” he said in the same gentle, quayering tone. “Dass my bes’ frien’ whut lay sa de groun’ whay yo! staltd, gelmun. Dass whub dey laid “im, an’ dass whub he lie,” the old negro continued. “Dey shot “im in de fies. Dey ain't shot ‘im beah. Yondeh dey drugxen ‘im, but dis whuh he lie.” He bent over again, then knelt groaningly and placed his hand on the stain, one would have said, as a man might place his hand | over a heart to sce if it still beat. He was motionless, with the air of heark- ening. | “Marge, honey, is you gone?" He raised his voice as if calling. “Is yo! gone, suh—marse?* He looked up at the elrele about him, and theo, still kneeling, not taking bis hand from the sand, seeming 10 wait for a sign to listen for a voice, he said: “Whafo’ yo’ gelmun think de good Lawd summon Marse Hawkliss? Kase he de mos’ fittes’? You know, dat man | he ketch me in de cole night, wintuh ‘for luis” stealin’ ‘is wood. You know whut he done t de ole thief? Vek an’ buil” up big fah een ole Zen? shulnty. Say: ‘He’p yo'se'f, an’ welcome. Teck: on you honxry, too, ain’ you, Xeno | phon? Tek an’ feed me, tek an’ tek Keer o” me ev" sinee, Ab pump de baith full in de mawn', mek “is bed, pull de weeds oun de front walk; dass all He tek me in, When Ab alsk ‘im ain’ he "fraid keep ole thief he say, Jesso: ‘Dass all my fault, Xenophon? Ought look you up long ‘go; ought know long "go you be cole dese baid nights. Reck- | buil’ ap big fiah een ole Zen’ shainty. Say: ‘He'p yo'se'f, an’ welcome, Reck- on you honxry, too, ain’ you, Xeno- phon? ‘Tek an’ feed me, tek ‘an’ tek Keer o° me ev" sinee. Ab pump de baith full tn de mawn’, mek “is bed, pull de weeds out'n de front walk; dass all, He tek me in When Ab alsk ‘im ain’ “he ‘"fraid keep ole thief he say. jesso: [Dass all my fault, Xenophon? ought look you up Tong "go; ought know long ['E0 you be cate dese baid nights. Reck- ‘on Ah'm de thievenest one ‘us two, Xenophon, keepin’ all dis wood stock up when you got none.’ he say, Jesso. ‘Tek me in; say he lahk a thief; pay me sala'y; feed me. Duss de main whut "de Cups gone shot Inis’ night.” He Peaised his head sharply, and the mys- tery in his gloomy eyes intensified as Hthey opened wide and stared at the sky unseehuply, “An's bawn wid a caw!” be exclaim- ed loudly. His twisted frame was braced to an extreme tension. “Al's bawn wid a cawl! De blood anssul!* “It wasn’t the White Caps, Uncle Xenophon,” said Warren Smith, laying his hand on the old man's shoulder. Xenophon rose to his feet, He Stretched a long, bony arm straight to the west, where the Crossroads lay; stood rigid and silent, like a seer; then spoke: “De men whut shot Marse Hawk- liss Hes yondeb, hidin’ Cum de light o day. An’ him”—he swerved his whole rigid body til! the arm pointed north- west—“he Hes yondeh, You won’ fine im heab. Dey fought ‘im in de fiel's, an’ dey druggen ‘im heal, Dis whuh dey tay "tm down. Ab's bawn wid awl!” ‘There were exclamations from the Usteners, for Xenophon spoke as one having authority. Suddenly he turned And pointed bis outstretched hand ful at Juulze Briscoe, | An’ dass de main.” be erica: “dass de main kin tell yo" Ab speak de trufe!™ |, Before Briscoe answered, Eph Watts looked at hime keenly and thew tmened to Lige Willetts and whispered: “Get on your horse, ride in and ting the courthouse bell like fury. Do ast are Tears stood in the judge's eyes. “It is 80.” he said solemnly. “Le speaks the truth. I didn't mean to ten it to day, but somehow" He paused. “The hounds!” he crie& “They de serve it. My daughter saw them cross ing the fields in the nisht—saw them climb the fence, a big crowd of them, She and the Indy who is visiting us saw them—saw them plainly. The lady saw them several thmés clear as day’ by the flashes of lightning. The scoundrels were coming this way. They must have been dragging him with Kegs Ne) ie SS he E “le K ‘) them then, He cowldu't lave had a show for his life amonz them. Do what you like. Maybe they've got bin at the Crossroads, If there's » chance of it, dead or alive, bring trim fuek!" A voice rang ont xbove te clamor that followed the jndige’s speoch “Bring him back! God could. may be. but he won't, Who's trevelin’ iy way? 1 go west!" Hartley Rowlder had ridden his serret right up the em bankment, and the horse stood between the rails. ‘There was an angry roar from the crowd. ‘The prosecutor pleaded and threatened unheeded, and. as for the deputy sheriff, he declared his intention of taking with him all who wished to go asthis posse. Epl Watts succeeded fn making bimself heard above the turnult. “The square!” he shouted. “Start from the square. We want everybody. We'll need them. And we want every one in Carlow to be implicated in this Posse.” “They will bet shouted a farmer, “Don't you worry about that." “We want to get into-some sort of shapef* eried Eph, “Shape!” repeated Iartley Bowlder scornfully, ‘There was a hiss and clang and rat: tle behind him, and a steam whistle ‘bricked. The erowd divided, and Hartley's sorret scrambled down just in time as the westbound xecommoda- tion rushed by on its way to Rouen. From the rear platform leaned — the sheriff, Horner, waving his hands fran- tically as he flew by, but no one un- derstood or cared what be suid or in the general excitement even wondered why he was going away. When the train had dwindled to a dot and dis- appeared and the noise of its rush grew faint the courthouse bell was heard ringing, and the mob was rush- ing pelimell into the villaze to form on the square. ‘The judge stood alone on the embankment, “That settles It" he sald aloud. gloomily watching the last tgures, He took of his Lat and pushed back the thick white hair fom his forehead. “Nothing to de but wait. Might ax well go home for tuit. Blast itt he ex- alaimed impatiently. “Ldowt want to go there. 10s two hard on the little Birk If ste oat come till next week he'd + ‘tos Bi aeblnen © (TO BE_ConTINUKD.) Sete ena Miss Strongmind—Paivou me, but if Tam not misuaien sou ar one of the poor, underpaid working girls whom our Emancipation socie"s (ried to bene- fit—or at least, you were two years ago. Fair Stranger—That Is true. “Then our society has evidently not been without fnftuence, for you look ery prosperous now.” “I have everything | want, and never was so happy in my life." “Thank Heaven! | You must have solved the woman problem.” “t have." ) “Glorious! Tell me how you man- aged?" “I married a nice young man."—N. Y. Weekly. ‘The Mean Thing. “My dear,” remarked Mr. Joxee to bis wife, as he gathered up his mail on the first of the month, “you have missed your vocation. You should have been a member of the state legislature.” “What do you mean by that?” asked his innocent wite. “You are so indefatizable in introduc- ing bills,” replied Joues—CinciznaL Commercial Tribune / ‘Gatneedinie Wasciiies. “What do you think of this new theory that if you congh al! you can when you have the pneumonia it won't be so hard on you?” “I don't know about that, but f re- member that after | got weil of pneu- monia two or three winters ago I had to do some hard coughing every 20 days for nearly six months."—Chicago ‘Tribune, Rather Airy. “She seems to be wrapped in thought,” be said, referring to the iady with the ‘Beaucitus .. weve eine “Yes.” bis tair companion reple@s [ato Jou think it woud be radiee jer chilly to be wrapped in nothing: Bay thought above the -waist line?"—Cihtee | cago Record-Herald. Werth Lovina Fem {What are you looking for? Welw: Sot everything worth taking.” “E am looking for—" And the burgiar continued = search. 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'b idieeksa Bk eueee, Art—Now money ts. really @ minony consideration. Hen—With me it's @ minus covside. eration. —Yale Record. Clones for the Bamity. Bacon—Can you tell a smoker trom ene who does not smoke? Egbert—Sometimes 1 can “How? “Well, at a dinner, when the cigarey are passed around, the man who takew one cigar at a time is a smoker, the men who takes (wo clears Is not = Amoker, but has smokers in his fama, ity."—Youkers Statesman. fe Sontimental. Office Boy—Please, Miss Daisy,, would yer mind writin’ a little giowes, when Pm aroind? ‘Typewsiter—Why? Office Boy—Beerese every time yout, pretty fingers touches a key me hearty thumps, and unless you reduces youry speed I'm afraid (Il eit aeart diseasedy Chicago American, 7 Too Mach Indulgence. : “How did you like br Fourthly last; Sunday morning?” ace Mrs. Oldcarr tle. “Don't veu think he indulged) rather freel; in mixed metaphor?* “Goodnes#! I didn't notice. Did bee have i before going into the pulpit® This w% be a terrible blow to Joslak. He thinks so much of the doctor.“ WBS. wit te eo “The people in the flat above bought: &@ pianola, and I almost went crazy, Uuying to think how to get even witht them.” % “And did you?" Oh, yes, indeed; T've taught tte Robby to play ‘Bedelia’ with his fore~ Sager and the loud pedal." —Town Tops tom ~ Con taxed. “Fenty Penhecker,” observes nf wife as they sit at the bappy table, “you were certainly In asad coms, dition when you came home last night* “Why, my dear,” stammers Henry. “how can yon say such a thing? T req member distinctly that when I came fm, you asked me to wind the clock, put owt the dog, and light the night-lamp." “Yes; and this morning I found the! night-lamp with all the wick wound up, In the chimney, and Fido’s tail perfectly. bare where you had touched him with match, and the clock lying on the back. porch."—Judge, ae a 2 2. al Se a aS ee vie rae Bor] ke L pe es ae ANS es \IA42 een Seatie ca veers Satunaay uy Jonx RzoHe Se esdli North th Beret, Wcbmond, Ve a enna eee @RtIN MITCHELL, JR., = EDITOR. Se @dkoor munictions intended for, pabticatio Pout tnoantoreach ea oy Wensaiay 39 remus apvance ae (eervoncyetrs | = = saat See Cope isgntmenns, AR ExeCaritourminths, =" SLB Scecoyyithrcemantay > > > Mame Copy. sore Sos) ae Fi ADVERTISING RATES tur cine inch. one, tneertion, - 8 B fr encwnch: enh sabveguent inertion,® Sivasewsame. .. 8 Bes sic nate pertig. (See guc-rinewand Funeral Notices c.g Shveding and Tramiot Notice per tine,” 5S ‘gi POSTAGE STAMPS OF A HIGHER DE. [NOMINATION THAN TWO CENTS NOT |g BECEIVED ON SUBSCRIPTIONS {gam PiANrnin inmed weekly. Thosubeerip Keon price ual soa year, in advance Shore ur FOUR Wave by which money can be enbty me at onr Ask “in a Peet OCA, “Order b Hank Cheek or. Draft; or pm ee Beseache- Order and when none of these Senrbe procured, in m Wogistorea Letter” stoner Onpens —You “9 bur a Money Ord ae jas Pong lie, payable ne talon ‘Bex Mico, and we will be respemn’dle for ies Srerrival. “eranss Moxey Onpens can bo ot ained at Bevoollve of the American Expres onthe Waites States Exproma Co.cand the Wel SFr Spurablofce mumey sont bs hay of Wen ease Srimuney sent br niiy oF dese core Papen, Tee Etprew Money Order rarafe ‘Convunicat way for forwarding money. Rpolerened LerrER—It_a Money Onter Pow Oaiee oran Express OMe Mme wie oar reach, Tour Pustamaster wil Ropister the Bees So hah to mend us on payment of on ievir. ‘Them, if the letter letest or stolen it mate treed: “You ear sond anoney in this ‘Sanat our risk. We cannot be responsible for money. sent in force inane cher was than one ‘ot the our Saye nintioncd above: It yentrend yous more oie any other way, you must doit at your Seam. PRxrWArS, erC—If yoa do not want ‘Twe spec artitand for dutnes gear Moe gos ifom has us gute yen then notify oe Eecci lard to diccontinas ite ate courte bees Seesdd that wabscribers to mewspapes whee ds Grae order their paper diseamtinucd ne the ort ‘eution of imo for which What been ped wre Bees Histo foe the payment of the suteoription eens when tley Orr the paper anc CONMUNTCAs9.9?—When writing to us Ser paper, Fou should give'your namecand a Boao in Huts others tes we enann aad yor Seen cou coe” CusAGR Or ADDRMR-—Tn order to change EE Ser, Nostale eters iSorzser’ sa well av the present eaivene \ aixiored in the Post Office at T-hmond, Fa. Brewed clnes mtn, = a tera er eee SATURDAY .. . . APRIL 2, 1904 ee ‘Teves colored men wore ignomin- Weusly slaughtered inst week in the msighborhood of De Witt, Arkansas. ‘he authorities made no e.Yort to pro- swot them and the lynchers were defi- cant. ‘We are already disfranchised and the Seapreme Coort of the United States has sanGrmed this disfranchisoment and pet there are white men in Congress all discussing the Negro by misrepre- tenting and abusing him, ‘Pax more the North yields to the de- ssuands of the southern Negro-haters, sabe wore it will have to yield and the ‘ese satisfied will the southerners be. Brery colored man should strike out Gown the pike for education, carrying <om his back a good sized bundle of com- amen-sense. ‘Yur ill-bred, dishonest, disreputable, young colored people are a serious landicap to the race, and we should gervoved to unload them. colored man, who will be disrespect- felt a white person will be disrespect- Sz) to a colored one. Souonen people should conduct them- selves with respect apon the street-cars, ssewmboats and steam-cars. Loud, ‘“sisterous conduct should not be toler- ‘sted for an instant, because it plac:s ‘sthem vpou the level of what used to be Senown as “low-ground Negroes.” ‘We nmst save our money and buy znd and acquire property. ‘We are not desirous of eating with Ge white folks. If they are content to Sve, eat and sleep with their own dis- reputable characters, and shake a glad Sand with the lawless, hocdlam white elements that now infest the South- Gand, we ebali be contenc. ‘TemRe are at least two persons who axe socially equal—a mean, low, vebiskey-drinking white man and a seean, low, whiskey-drinking colored «eae. And yet the law says they must SSravel separately. ANOTHER OUTRAGE. A mob of white men went to the sresidence of Rev. R. R Joxes, D. D., of Floanoxe, VA., believing him to be there, March 24th, 1904, broke down othe door, and with a lighted lamp vsearshed the premises. They then ase foul langage and notified the sgkvinking wife, who was alone in the ‘Gonse at the time that she must leave sthe city, within twelve hours, ‘This was done in a town with police igrotection and with a company of state —— ooo a Ss Ce ee cay eathortis, ‘The namos of the hood- lams, guilty of this wilfal violation of ie law can be easily ascertained and they should be punished. Rey. R. R. Jones was charged with using language, while pastor of the first Baptist Charoh reflecting upon ‘the husband of Mrs. SHrELps, the un- fortunate white ‘lady, who was the vierim of Henry Wu.tiam’s bratality. Had he uttered the language attributed is him, it would not have justified the mob in assailing either him or his Madame. Bat Rev. Josts denies hav- ing uttered any such language and we are informed that he is now in Wasnt 1noTON City, a refuges from the city in which he has the accumulations of a life-time. There he has achurch yal- ned at $25,000 und it was bailt by means of his admirable leadership. Now amob of masked fionds break ‘into his house, seare his lone wife into | hysterics and then orders her to leave ‘the city. Of course, we are not ina ‘position to speak for Rev. R.i.Joxes, D. .D., but it seems to us that ivasmuch as ‘heisa minister of the gospel, and ac- cording to the Baptist instractions and beliefs in this bemighted land, his pass- ports to heaven are all right, it is as | good a time to goto JESUS now as at |any other seasou of the year, and the jotee: of Roanoke would be an admirable es from which to start on the jour- | ney. We would not leave Roanoke. We would notify Gov. Mostacre at Rich- mond, the Chief of Police and the May- ‘or of Roanoke and proceed to enter the front gate of our residence in the day- time, after having previously made ar- ‘Fangements with the colored faneral- [director as to the kind of casket to be [used for our remains and located the |section in which we wished it lowered for the last time, if those remains were \sufliciently numerous toentitle them to "sach a resting place | , Then we should await developments, | A good repeating shot-gun, one repeat- ‘ing rifle and one long Colt revolver to- |gether with acopy of the Holy Bible [would be all that could possibly be “needed during that night or the one to | follow. | It would be only necessary to have a itolerably fairaim with ordinary eye- sight to cause matters to be lively in | that neighborhood in the event of such |an attack as his wife experienced. | The report says that the sentiment of the town is unanimous in condemnation | of the white fiends, guilty of the out [ge and we believe the report to be correct. The men guilty of such con- | duct have pat themselves on a level with the Negro, Henry WiLtiams, who | has righteously paid the penalty for hig criminal act. | We shall never regrot the execution of the lawless, insulting, good-for-noth- ing, murderous Negroes, and we have | no tears to shed over the killing of few white hoodiams, who feloniously en- |tered_Rev. R. R. Joxrs’ household. ‘They’ took their lives into their own hands, ‘They barglariously entered a resi- | dence in the night-time for the purpose |of committing murder and they are | amenable to the laws of the state. To have killed one or all of them was and is uo crime under our laws and we re- gret that Rev. Dr. Joxes was uot there | wo do it. | The time of parleying with the mob is past. Gov. Moxtacue was right when he sent eighteen companies of | state troops to Roanoke. A large num. ber of inhabitants there are uncivilized |and the oury thing necessary to get into them the proper civilization is to shoot it into them from the muzzle of a re- peating rifle. Somebody should pro |jtect Rev. Joxxs’ house. — Somebody ‘| should protect Rev. Jones’ wife. Some body should protect Rev. Joys’ church If the liberal-minded white men_ there wont do it, then the liberal-minded col- Jored mea should volanteer their ser. | vices. | If they wonld stand united on this |question, this agitation would corse, | Rev. Fons’ family would be undisturb ed and one of the ablest divines in the state would no longer be an exile ina strange land. Rev. Dz. Joxrs should go back to Roanoke and the authorities should be | required to afford to him that protection | guaranteed to him by our laws. | Lynch law must go! } alee OPPPOSITION TO CANAL Suit Against Secretary Shaw to Stop the Construction. Washington, March 29.—Warren B. Wilson, a lawyer, of Chicago, filed in the district supreme court a bill in equity for an injunction against Soc- retary Shaw, the Republic of Panama, the new Panama Canal Company of France and others to estop the con- struction of the Panama canal. He asks that Secretary Shaw be enjoined from permitting the payment from any mon- eys under his control under the “pre- tended authority of the void act of June 28, 1902, entitled ‘An act to pro- vide for the construction of a canal connecting the waters of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.’ He avers that there 1s no appropriation by law of any money for the payment of any of the construction expenses, and declares that the act of June 28, 1902, fs In vio- lation of the constitution of the United States and is null and void. He charges that the treaty 1s wholly unconstitu- tional and Invalid both in the United States and in Panama, in its essential features, and confers no rights and im- Poses no obligations on either of the Parties directly concerned. Mr. Wilson charges that even if that act were valid, its terms and conditions have not been complied with and do not authorize the proposed payments, which will therefore, he alleges, vio- late the constitution. THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND. VIRGINTA Convicted of Taking Ilegrl Fees in Postal Matters. WAS MIXED UP IN RIALTO CASE St. Louis, March 29.—Joseph Ralph Burton, senior United States senator from Kansas, was convicted by a jury in the United States district court of having accepted compensation to pro- tect the interests of of the Rialto Grain and Securities Company of St. Louis before the postofiice department. ‘The dury deliberated 41 hours. A motion for a new trial was immediately filed by counsel for the senator. Judge Adams thereupon ordered that Senator Burton appear in court either in person or by proxy from day to day until the court has heard the arguments for a new trial, If the verdict Is sustained, Senator Burton will lose his seat.in the senate ie ee gon Fon Wee Te and forever be prohibited from holding any office of public trust, Each count constitutes a separate offense, and Sen- ator Burton could receive a peniten- tiory sentence of two years or a $10,000 fire on each count. Senater Burton's recourse fs an ap- Peal to the United States circuit court of appeals, which body is the final ar- biter in his case. Senator Burton wont directly from the court room to his hotel after the verdict was rendered. He spent some time in the lobby talking with friends. ‘When asked if he had anything to say concerning the verdict, he said: “I re- fer ali Inquiries to my attorneys. 1 have nothing to say.” ‘The evidence adduced against Sena- tor Burton may be summarized as fol- lows: In November, 1902, he accepted a Proposal to become general counsel of the Rialto Grain and Securities Com- Pany, @ concern whose operations at the time were under the scrutiny of the postoffice department. Burton de- manded $2500 for his services, but he ‘was satisfied to be paid in monthly In- stalments of $500 wach. Soon after his employment it devel- oped that the federal grand jury was investigating the Brooks Brokerage Company, with which Major Hugh C. Dennis, president of the Rialto Com- pany, had been associated. Numerous letters written by Burton showed that the senator was using his influence to Prevent the issuance of a fraud order against the Rialto Grain and Securities Company. , Burton submitted regular reports to the Rialto people, telling them how matters were progressing at Washing- ton, advising them of complaints fled at the postoffice department, and clos- ing with the assurance that “If you look after things ut your end of the line, I will attend to matters here.” JERSEY LEGISLATURE TO MEET Governor Murphy Issues a Call For Special Session on April 12. ‘Trenton, N. J., March 80,—Goyernor Murphy has Issued a proclamation con- Yening the legislature in special ses- sion on April 12, Tue governor in his proclamation gives two reasons for his action. He recites the fact that a re- port was made to the legislature by the Morris Canal commission and that no action was taken thereon. He men- tlons also the fact that the anti-pigeon shooting bill failed to become a law. These matters are both of sufficient importance in the governor's view to warrant the special session proclama- tion. It is probable at this special session the governor will send In again the names of the five nominees for state prison inspectors who were not con- firmed the last day of the session. It fs not thought that any other matter will be taken up, although it will be the privilege of the legislature to con- sider any matters that the members may desire to bring up. ‘Siihiaiaes Aoi i ai dt Philadelphia, March 29—Miss Nellie Maguire, daughter of Mrs. Richard Ma- guire, wife of a former ink manu- facturer of New York, was arrested here and held in $10,000 bail, charged with forgery. She will be given a further hearing on April 5. Her ac- cuser !s Mrs. Henrietta E. Crosby, at whose home Miss Maguire had apart- ments along with her mother. It 4s charged by Mrs. Crosby that Miss Ma- guire represented herself as Mrs, Crosby and forged her name to sev- eral mortgages, on which she bor- rowed money to the amount of nearly $10,000. CONVICTED MURDERER ESCAPES Seized Prison Keys From Sheriff's Daughter ard Made Off. Mauch Chunk, Pa, March 30.—Mar- tin Lavitskl, a convicted murderer, es- eaped from the Carbon county prison and is still at large. In the absence of Sheriff Rothermel bis daughter Stella was in charge of the prison. Since his conviction Lavitski has been given the freedom of a corridor, and learning that the sherif was away, called Miss Rothermel to bring him some oll. As she handed him the oll, Lavitski seized the prison keys from her and made his escape from the place. Lavitskt was convicted of killing his boarding house mistress at Lansford Inst July. A WEEK’S NEWS CONDENSED. ‘Thursday, March 24. Two men were killed by the ex- plosion of the boiler of a freight en- gine on the Lehigh Valley railroad near Buffalo, N. ¥. ‘The testimony in the hearings against Senator Reed Smoot have been printed and bound tn one volume of more than 700 pages. President Roosevelt and Governor Pennypacker, of Pennsylvania, will at- tend the Memorial Day exercises at Gettysburg, Pa., May 30. By the capsizing of thelr oat, An- drew Isgrigg, Arthur Everhart and Ed- ward Hart, young men of Jefferson- Ville, Ind, were drowned in the Ohio river. Friday, March 25. Sir Edwin Arnold, the famous au- thor, died in London, aged 72 years. | Bighteen Minneapolis, Minn., flour mills have shut down indefinitely ow- ing to the dullness in the flour trade. Thomas Boesse, one of the origina- tors of New York's paid fire depart- ment, died at Easton, Pa, aged 77 years. ' Walter D. Myers, of Marysville, Pa, won the first of the Ten Eyck prizes for oratory at the Yale junior exhibl- tion held at New Haven, Conn. The New Jersey Democratic state committee set April 12 as the date. and selected Trenton as the place for holding the convention to elect dele- gates to the national convention. ' Saturday, March 26. Harry L. Detterer, a brakeman on the Reading railroad, was crushed to death between two freight cars at Philadel- phia. | Bismarck, N. D4 experienced its worst blizzard of the winter last night, snow drifts being from three to six feet deep. A shutdown affecting 30,000 Towa coal miners is threatened because of the refusal of the miners to arbitrate the wage scale, ‘The engagement fs announced in Washington of Miss Rebekah Knox, @aughter of the attorney g-acral, to James R. Tindle, of Pittsbuig, Pa. The Wedding will occur {nthe autumn, Monday, March 28. Dan Daly, the comedian, died sud- deniy in a New York hotel from con- sumption. | W. M. Henry, for 16 years adjutant genoral of Mississippi, died at his home at Jackson, ‘The Chicago car barn bandits, Marx, Neldermeier and Van Dine, have been denied a new trial and will be hanged April 22. | ‘The honse committee on rivers and harbors have reported a bill appro-. Priating $3,000,000 to carry on existing | river and harbor tmprovements. A clever swindler has collected $5 each from scores of Wyoming Valley, Pa., Russian mine workers, exempting them {rom service in the czar’s army. Tuesday, March 29, President Roosevelt has appointed Joseph W. J. Lee, of Maryland, to be secretary of legation at Panama. | Reports from the fruit growing sec-_ tions of Georgia, Alabama and ‘Ten- nessee are that the immense poach erop 4s safe from the cold snap. The investigation of the protests Against Senator Reed Smoot will be resumed April 12 by the senate com mittee on privileges and elections. The senate has confirmed the nomi- nation of Charles D. White, of New Jersey, to be secretary of legation at Buenos Ayros, Argentine Republic. Four workmen were instantly killed and six seriously injured by an ex- plosion at Cedar Hill tunnel, on the Connelisville Central railroad, near Brownsville, Pa. Wednesday, March 30, ‘The members of the Panama canal commission sailed for Colon and will Inspect the entire route of the canal. | The Republicans and Democrats of Manila, P. 1, are organizing to elect delegates to the national conventions. Pennsylvania railroad telegraphers have submitted demands to the com-| pany for increased pay and reduced hours, | An agent of the Russian govern- ment purchased 100 head of arate horses at Oskaloosa, Ia, for use in the Russian army. | General W. H. Payne, a famous Con- federate officer, and commander of the Black Horse Cavalry at the first. battle of Bull Run, died in Washing- ton, aged 73 years. | TRAGEDY IN LONELY Woops Father, Daughter and New-Sorn In- fant Found Dying In Cabin. Scranton, Pa, March 30—In a little cabin in a lonely woods near the state line, far removed from habitation, is the scene of the latest tragedy that has startled the residents of Wayne county. There William Hull, a “squatter,” was found dying alongside the unconscious form of his 14-year-old daughter Mat- tie and the dead body of a 3-days-old infant. ‘The awful discovery was made by neighbors, whose suspicions had been aroused by the non-appearance for weeks of anybody from the lonesome house in the woods. The cabin is hid- den away in the woods half way be- tween Duck Harbor and Reillyville. Both father and daughter died before a physician could be summoned. Hull expired without making a statement of any kind, and his daughter never regained consciousness. As to who is the father of the child fr a forbidding surmise. A physician who afterward examined the three bodies declared that the man had died of pneumonia, and that the mother and child had died of neglect. Hull himself was a strange character. For years he had lived in the unpre- tentious cabin with his wife. Three years ago his wife, who could not bear his hermit life any longer, left him and went to the home of relatives in Pike county. Since that time Huli lived with his little aaughter, who was born in the cabin 14 years ago, ‘What disposition will be made of the bodies is not known. The county au- thorities were notified, But they have as yet failed to take any action. Investigation of the house failed to Unearta a morsel of food, and there 1s every indication that nothing in the way of provisions had been in the house for some days past. FOUR DEAD IN MINE ACCIDENT Lipa pepe ihe esse ge a a a 24 ap on cart Pi nate One Had Neck Broken. Wilkesbarre, Pa, March 28.—Four miners were instantly killed at the Dorrance shaft, operated by the Le- high Valley Coal company. The ac- cident was caused by the overhoist of the mine carrnage. ‘The dead are: Joseph Kanolosky, miner, neck broken; Bud Vanhorn, blacksmith, instantly killed; Peter Cavaleski, laborer, instantly killed; Joseph Pipava, laborer, instantly killed. Abraham Price, who has been the stationary engineer with this company for the past 25 years, and who never before had an accident of any kind, was hoisting the men from the pit of the shaft to the surface, which is over 1000 feet deep. The carriage shot up ‘ont of the shaft at great speed, and, Tunning to the head of the sheave, where the wire cables broke, and the massive carriage tipped over and be- gan to descend. It caught at the sur- face and lodged there, but by tnat time three of the men had slipped from the carriage and plunged to the bottom of the mine. ‘The fourth man, Kanolosky, was caught In the wreckage of the cage and his neck was broken. ‘The engineer, who is a sober and re- Mable man, Is so overcome that he is, unable to explain how the accident occurred.“ It is feared that he may loss his mind. PROBING GRAY'S STRENGTH Cleveland Men May Favor Jurist As Second Choice. New York, March 28.—Judge George Gray, of Delaware, is an important factor in the Democratic prestdential situation. Four persons high in Demo- cratic politics said that there has been in progress for the last week a syste- matic investigation, in which prom!- nent Cleveland men have taken part, to discover just how much strength Judge Gray would develop as a candi- date. Among those mentioned as having shown an interest in Judge Gray's can- didacy are Charles F. Murphy, Mayor George B. McClellan, James Smith, Jr., of New Jersey; W. F. Harrity, of Pennsylvania, and Police Commis- sioner McAdoo, of this city. The in- vestigation has covered various states. It was said that they will favor Judge Gray as second choice if for any rea- son Mr. Cleveland’s name should be eliminated. ‘The movement for Judge Gray as a second choice has reached the ears of Judge Parker's managers in this city. Two of these said they regarded the movement as simply an effort to widen the scope of the Cleveland movement, considering it as settled that delegates for Judge Gray would cast their votes for Mr. Cleveland it ‘occasion should arise. Marine Confesses Double Murder. Philadelphia, March 30.—William EB, Church, alias Buescher, the marine, who was arrested at the League Isiand navy yard last Friday, charged with murdering his foster parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Yeater, near Warrenton, Mo., last August, has been turned over to the Philadelphia police by the gov- ernment, and the prisoner confessed to the murders. The local authorities will turn him over to the sheriff of Warren county, Mo., who will imme- diately leave for the west with the prisoner, Aged Man Tortured By Thieves. Reading, Pa, March 28. — William McKnight, over 70 years old, who lived ‘alone in Cumru township, and who was supposed to have considerable money in his home, was brought to the Read- ing hospital. Last Tuesday night he was attacked by masked thieves, who bound and gagged him and tortured him with hot Irons to force him to give up his money. It is believed they obtained nothing. Over four days elapsed before McKnight's plight was discovered by neighbors. FOR $50,000 Hearing of His Appeal m the Ben- nett Will Case, “SEALED LETTER” IN DISPUTE New Haven, March 30.—Philo 8. Bennet’s will was admitted as a com- petent document for a probating by Judge Edwin B. Gager, of the superior court, as the result of the first day's hearing in the appeal of William Jen- nings Bryan from the decision of the Probate court which disallowed the “sealed letter" found with the will giving Mr. Bryan $50,000. The chief contention—the admissibility of the “sealed letter” as evidence—was be- ing argued by counsel when court ad Journed. Former Judge Stoddard, who appears as senior counsel for Mrs, Bennett and the other heirs, fought every inch of the ground over which the appellants moved in their efforts to introduce evidence and at times he directed bitter Invectives and sarcasm against the opposing side. Practically the whole day was taken up in effort of Henry G. Newton, coun- sel for Mr. Bryan, to have admitted as eviden7e the will, the “sealed letter” and a type written copy of the “sealed letter,” and this necessitated a repe- tition of the probate court proceedings only with greater legal details. Four times Attorney Newton asked the court to admit the “sealed letter” and on final refusal he said that he would have to put in testimony as a whole, skipping that which had to do with the main point at issue. Judge Stod- dard firmly refused to abandon the po- sition he had taken and asked the court to allow him an argument on this contention. Although counsel did not insist on At the court thought {t well to excuse cutie ae the Jury and allow arguments at this ‘time. Judge Stoddard sald in his argument that the main question was whether the testamentary letter or paper con: veying any part of the estate and claiming to be a part of the will can be ® part of the will when not in complt- ance with the statutes and which is not signed by three witnesses accord- ing to law. He said no paper or codi- cil can be any part of the will unless signed by three persons in the pres. ence of the testator. He argued that the language was prohibitive and ex- clusive and that no will drawn up in this state shall be vaild to pass unless so witnessed. He sald tt was the law and practice of Connecticut, New York, Massachusetts, as well as in England, and quoted from several authorities ‘sustaining bis statements. He said: “There is absolutely no au thority that a paper executed as this fs and coming Into existence as this does that was ever admitted to pro- bate as a part of a will.” He said that the paper must be as complete in every detail as a will it- self and has the same Jurisdiction in the statutes as any reguarly drawn testament. Mr. Newton will make a reply to Mr. Stoddard. BURTON HARRISON DEAD Was Jefferson Davis’ Private Secre- tary During War of Rebellion. ‘Washington, March 30.—Burton Nor- yill Harrison, a lawyer of New York, and husband of Mrs. Burton Harrison, the anthoress, and father of Congress- man Harrison, of New York city, died here, aged 65 years. Death resulted from a general breakdown, due partly to old aze. Mr. Harrison was born in New Or- Jeans, and graduated from Yate in 1859. During the war Mr. Harrison was pri- vato secretary to Jefferson Davis, the President of the Southern Confederacy, remaining with him in the relation al- most of a son, as well as of a secretary, to the end of the war. He shared in the capture of Mr. Davis, rather than for- sake his fortunes at their fall. When Mr. Davis was carried to Fort Monroe for imprisonment, Mr. Harrison was sent to prison in Washington and was finally sent to Fort Delaware, where he remained in solitary confinement until 1866, when he was released. Mr. Harrison during the latter months of his imprisonment studied law and later went Into the office of former Judge Failerton in New York, where he has since continued in the practice, Mibte Gonbitiadnce Btemienn- Philadelphia, March 30.—The anthra- cite conciliation board held two long sessions here and then adjourned to meet in this city on April 8. The question under discussion all day was whether the increase In wages grantod the contract miners as a result of the strikes in 1900 and 1902 should be com- puted on their gross or net earnings. No decision was reached, and it is not improbable that the question will be referred to an umpire. President Will Not Attend Fair. Washington, March 28.—It was offt- cially announced at the White House that the president will not attend the St. Louls World's Fair. With the ex- ception of the Gettysburg Memorial Day trip Mr. Roosevelt will make no engagements that will take him away from Washington or Oyster Bay un- til after election. Buried Alive In a Well. Bridgeton, N. J, March 29.—John Mixner, a well digger, was buried alive im a well. Ie was engaged in re. moving bricks from the well, when a cave-in occurred. His son Oscar dug him out, but life was extinct when the body was reached. ! RUSSIA STARTS LAND , FIGHTING IN KOREA. CCNTINUED FROM 18T PAGE. Of steam, as if her boiler was broken. “When all the members of the ‘bot- tling up squadron’ had been taken in and our boats withdrew to the outside of the harbor, a ship which appeared like one of the enemy's was seen at the foot of Golden Hill, utterly incapable of navigation. “Although both our destroyer fleet and torpedo boat flotilla were subject: ed to terrific firing from the enemy, until the dawn, not the slightest dam- age was done to any of the boats.” GENERAL MARKETS uadelpts Pa., March 30.—Plove steady; winter superfine, $3.60@ 3.85; Penna. roller, clear, $4.60 4.80; city mills, fancy, $5.60@5.70. Rye flour was quiet. at $25 per barrel. "Wheat was rm; No. 2 red Penna., new, $1.0613@ 1.07. Corn was firm; No. 2 yellow, lo- cal, Bite. Oats quiet; No. 2 white, clipped. S0c;” lower grades, 4sige Hay stéady; No. 1 timothy, large bales, 16.50@ 17. Pork was firm; family, N7S0G18 Beet was steady. ys hams, $20@21. Live poultry, i5e. for hens, 10c. for old roosters.” Dressed poultry, 1434¢. for choice fowls, 1c. for Old roosters. Butter steady; creamery, 28e. pea Eggs ty: New ork and Penna, i9e. dozen. Potatoes were Steady; pei bushel, $1.05@ 110, Baltimore, Md. ‘March. 30—-Wheat Was weak; spot contract, $1.00%4@ 1.00%; spot No. 2 red western. $1,011 GLO! “stoanier No. 2 red, wing 96%c.; southern. by sample, 95c. $1.02; do. on grade, 95¢.@$1.02. Corn Weak; spot, 50% @50%4¢.; " steamor mixed, 46% @46%4c.; southern white and yellow corn 41@50%ec, Oats dull and easier; No. 2 white, 48¢c.; No. 2 mixed, ty 4Ge. Rye firm; No. 2, wy town, 82@8ic.; No. 2 western, 84%) Bbc. ay firm; No. 1 timothy, $16@ 16.50; No. 1 clover, mixed, $14.50@15, Butter firm; fancy imitation, 18@19e.; do. creamery, 26c.; do. ladle, 17@18c. Eggs steady; per doz. 18q 19. Live Stock Markets. Union Stock Yards, Pittsburg, Pa, March 30.—Cattle were firm; choice. $5019.20; prime, $4.75@4.90; fatr, $3.46 @4.15.'’ Hogs ‘were higher; prime heavy, $5.80@6; mediums, $6; ey Yorkers, $5.95@6; aa Yorkers, $5.8! 5.90; pigs, $5. ty 75; roughs, $3.50 5. Sheep'were firm; prime wethers, .20@6.40; common sheep ae .25; choice lambs, $6.25@6.35; v calves, $6.50@7.25. ‘The Feminine Idea, “What is your idea of one contin- uous round cf pleasure?” asked the very young man. “An engagement ring,” promptly answered the fair maid in the parlor seene.—Cincinnati Enquirer. Naturally Adapted. 4 “The man who has the worry of @ business on his mind really has the ‘most responsibility.” “Well,” said Mrs. Bilggins, “T guess Josiah will be a great man one of these days. He don’t care much about actual work, but he'll take almost any baai- ness you mention and sit down and Worry about it by the hour.”—Washe ington Star. Not Quite Sere, : “Well, here is the money you've bem tormenting me for,” said the rich uncle to his spendthrift’ nephew; “use it wisely, and remember that a fool and bis money’ are soon parted.” “I don’t know about that,” sald the young scapesrace; “I've been coaxing you more than a week for this"—Tite Bits. SP? m3 Parke—Business must be good! Did you ever stop to count the number of Gelivery wagons there are in town, Lane—No. But it would be easy te @o it if I wanted to, Parke—How? Lane—Why, I'd simply stay at home the day after my wife went shopping. —Town Topics. ‘The Cattain Lecture. | Most wives are inconsistent When husbands drive them te nm They say's no use eae ‘Thea go right on aed oie | Philadelphia Ladeee d DROWNED OUT. | & CB re L : @<2 ) Sy 1/77" \ hii Pee KPT / hy Say Lo) I Es bs) = Sai Bob—What's the matter? { Bessie—You make so much notse with your drum that T can't make any with my ttle piaoo.—Detroit Free + Gaamaen Tae Of ol2 when a fetiow would steag | He was drazced to the bastile: | But the modernized crook t Wheti he's brought to book Rides to jail in his autemoblie, Taunting Wim, “The ma who put this miserablecage together,” said the rat in the trap, “for got to provide the proper exits. Nobody, ean deny that.” “No,” replied the wise old rat on the outside, “there's no getting away from that."—Philadeiphia Press, i Up to Date Gir Patience—You say he was bashful and afraid to propose? Patrice—Yes, he wrote her a letter asking for her hand. “And she replied, T suppose?” “Sure! By telephone!"—Yonkere Statesman. 4 ‘Gacteatinadine: “They say,” remarked the Mt. Am burn man, “that it is a physical im- possibility for hearts to break.” “But,” rejoined the Norwood phik osopher, “there are lots of cracked Drains, just the same."—Cincinnatt Enquirer, The Usual Sacrifices, “I don’t suppose you propose to make any sacrifice during Lent,” said the first clubman. “Oh, I don’t know,” replied the oth- er, “I expect to sacrifice the trath oc. casionally when I get home late."=—. Philadelphia Press, A Question of Time. “We can’t afford to recognize them, Their ancestors were in trade.” “Weren't ours?” “Of course; but our trade ancestors are two generations farther back than theirs."—Chicago Post. “ Chanze of Mind, Cholly—I beg of you to kindly send some one to my room at once with a pitcher of water. Clerk—Can't. Too busy. Cholly—But, my dear sir, my room ig on fire!—N. Y. News, Lack» Man. “Well, Jones has struck It rich, at Test!” 1 “You don't say?" { “Yes; his wife allows him two dol- lars a week out of his salary now!”— Atlanta Constituton. a! ‘THE OPERATES \ Dovble Daily Trains Carrying Pullman Sleepers, Cafe Case (a la carte) and Chair Cars (seats freq. : ( Electric Lighted Throughout | SS 4 Birmingham, Memphis and Kansas iggy ANO TO ALL POINTS IN, 4 Texas, Oklahoma and Indian Territosies Far West and Northwest THE ONLY THROUGH SLEEPING CAR LAMB BETWEEN THE SOUTHEAST ato Kansas cre Descriptive literature, tickets am ranged and through reservations made pon application fo W.T. SAUNDERS, Gen Aor. Pass. Dewy) ae ‘ F.E.CLARK, Trav. Pass.Aar., Artamra, @a) W. T. SAUNDERS Gen’! Agent Passsnger Department ATLANTA, GA. asia) THE SYLNET SATURDAY ..... APRIL 2, 1904 ROAD AND FARM IMPROVEMENT Barracks Are to Be Preferred to Stacking, Because Convenient and Cheaply Built. I recently saw, in a book for the information of farmers, plans and description of a barrack. Having built them, and living in a section where every farm has them, was greatly impressed with what the writer did not know about these useful farm structures. The diagram, herewith, shows the true way to frame around the corner post and the manner of arranging the sweep for raising and lowering. Four straight chestnut poles 22 feet long are selected from the woods and bored with holes one foot apart to receive PARRACK FRAME. CP, corner post; R, rafter; B, brace; P, plate; Y, yoke; T, temple; S, sweep; AA, roof boards. CP. corner post; R. rafter; B. brace; P. board; T. temple; T, temple; S. awe; A board roofs. the bolts which support the roof. They are set four feet in the ground and 18 feet apart as that is a convenient size to make a barrack. The plates are four by six inches, made of white pine or some other light wood, as is all the material of the roof. Lightness is important and the roof boards are made on one-half inch material. The brace across the corner is made of 2 inch frank spiked strongly to the plates. It is of such a height that the rafter which rests on it if projected through the corner post, would meet the frame at intersection of the plates. The roof boards are cut around the corners, leaving a hole a few inches larger than the corner posts. A little rain that gets in at the corners or through the roof does practically no harm as the open condition of the barrack favors quick drying. Barracks are much to be preferred to stacking; are convenient and cheaply built.—G. Davis, in Ohio Farmer. MAKING THE ARMY USEFUL Agricultural Paper Suggests Employment of Idle Soldiers in Construction of Highways. Gen. Miles has been developing a scheme whereby the army when not in service, which is most of the time, may be relieved of the monotony of a life with nothing to do but eat and sleep, and at the same time be of some practical use to the country. He proposes that they be supplied with modern road machinery and set to improving the roads of the country. There is much good hard sense in this proposition. There has recently been considerable effort made to restore to the soldier the privileges of the canteen on the ground that in his enforced diligence there were other and worse evils, which were liable to take possession of his time when the canteen was refused him. We believe the proposition to give him something to do will relieve the monotony of his position in a way that will be far better for him and for the country in general, and certainly more to the credit of the nation. So long as these regiments must be maintained at public expense, why not have them employ their time in a way that would be for their good and of practical value to the general public. While our army is vastly smaller than that maintained by most other countries of similar proportions and the expense of maintaining it is consequently less burdensome, yet if it can be employed at some useful occupation this burden will be still farther reduced. Every little helps in cutting down the expenses, and with the large and increasing demands for public improvements along various lines all over the country, it is certainly advisable to adopt economic changes wherever practical.—Prairie Farmer. Advance in Land Values The advance in land values has been very marked during the past six years. Good agricultural lands are steadily increasing in price, and there is no prospect of a reduction or decline. Our population increases steadily, while there can never be any more acres of land on the earth's surface than at present. It annually requires more of farm products to feed the increasing population, and prices must therefore rule higher and higher and farming become more and more intensified and remunerative—Midland Farmer. Save Your Horse Hides It has occurred to us that farmers and horse dealers are not generally aware of the fact that horse hides, whether taken off from slaughtered horses or those which have died by disease or per ished from other causes, have marke- value. Farmers should not allow the hides of their fallen stock to go to waste. Fair-sized horse hides, free of cut hole and other blemishes, are now bringing from $3 to $2.25 in Milwaukee. NON-PARTISAN IN SCOPE. Facts Which Prove That the Good Roads Movement Is of a Non-Partisan Character. The non-partisan character of the "good roads" movement has been emphasized in a most significant manner by the action of its leading representatives in congress. While the movement for national aid has many able supporters in both houses, Representative Brownlow and Senator Latimer, of South Carolina, have been justly recognized as its pioneers and leading advocates. The former is an enthusiastic republican and the latter a rock-ribbed democrat. But both are for good roads first, last and all the time, and together they have done more than any other two men in the United States. Both introduced bills similar in principle, but differing in important details. Now they have come together and after consultation with other friends of national aid, they have agreed upon a single bill embodying the best features of both bills, and the new measure has been introduced in both houses. To emphasize the fact that the good roads movement is also non-sectional, and is favorable to the north as well as the south, Senator Gallinger, of New Hampshire, and Representative Currie, of the same state have also introduced the Brownlow-Latimer bill. The new bill provides for a bureau of highways with three commissioners, one being a republican, one a democrat, and the third an army engineer, all to be appointed by the president, and subject to the control of the secretary of agriculture. It also appropriates $24,000,000 to be used during the next three years in the improvement of the roads throughout the United States. This money is to be divided among the states and territories on the basis of population. Half of the expense of building the roads is to be paid by the government and the other half by the states or their civil subdivisions. The demand for legislation of this kind comes equally from the north and the south. While it is recognized that the need for such a law is greater in the south, there is nevertheless urgent need for it in the north. While the latter section has made more progress in road building, only a good beginning has been made even in the older commonwealths. That the demand for national aid is not limited to the less wealthy sections is strongly evidenced by the fact that the New York legislature has recently adopted a resolution demanding the passage of the Brownlow bill. This action is the more significant when we consider the fact that the rural districts alone are to be the direct beneficiaries of national aid, while a large majority of New York's people live in cities. If New York favors such legislation, how much more should such states as Iowa, Arkansas and many other commonwealths whose population is almost wholly rural and agricultural. A PERFECT RABBIT TRAP. Illinois Farmer, After a Trial of Three Winters, Pronounces This Device Infallible. This is the kind of trap that I find is the most perfect for catching rabbits, after three winters' experience. The roller A is made by sawing a piece from a broom handle. Drive a pin in each end and two wires 2½ inches long through the roller. A RELIABLE RABBIT TRAP slide, B, is two inches long, $ \frac{1}{2} \times 1 $ inches, passing through notch in crosspiece. The wire from A to B is No. 14 in size. A wire nail, C, driven through the bottom three inches from the end is to hold bait. The door, D, or entrance to trap, which is $ \frac{1}{2} $ inch thick, seven inches long and $ \frac{4}{3} $ inches wide, is shown raised. Four large wires, C, with sharpened ends bent, are driven into the wood. The box is 22 inches long, six inches high and five inches wide inside. The rabbit sees the bait if he comes up at either end, but cannot reach it without dropping the door behind him. Mice gnawing the bait cannot trip the trigger.—L. C. Grudgell, in Farm and Home. The Breathing of Trees Besides giving out oxygen in assimilation, trees also take in oxygen from the air through their leaves, and through the minute openings in the bark called lenticels, such as the oblong raised spots or marks on the young branches of birch and cherry and many other trees, says a student of tree life. All plants, like animals, breathe, and plants, like animals, breathe in oxygen and breathe out carbonic acid gas. This process of respiration or the breathing of the tree goes on both day and night, but it is far less active than assimilation, which takes place only in the light. Consequently more carbonic acid gas is taken into the tree than is given out, and the surplus carbon remains to be used in growing. Lack of color in butter usually tells the story of dry feed and often abides in poor butter, although sometimes really good butter lacks color. "What is alimony, ma?" "Alimony, my daughter, is something which is considered by many women as an improvement on a husband."—Yonkers Statesman THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA USED PRINTER'S ANK CRIPPLED MAN WANTED BRIDE SIMILARLY AFFLICTED. Got What He Wanted by Judicious Newspaper Advertising—Loss of a Finger Leads to a Happy Newspaper Marriage. In an eastern paper recently there appeared the following curious advertisement: Matrimony.—Advertiser, a young man of 27, of good family, steady, and in receipt of a good salary, is anxious to meet with a young lady who, like himself, has had the misfortune to lose the right leg. No other applicants save those who have lost a leg will be considered. Address, etc. The young man, it appears, who had a year before met with the accident which had deprived him of his right leg, was extremely sensitive about his misfortune, and could not be convinced that he was not an object of pity to everyone with whom he became acquainted, especially women. He therefore hit on the novel plan of advertising for a partner similarly afflicted in order that he might be sure that she was not marrying him in pity. He had a large number of replies from girls who were pretty and sound in wind and limb, who declared themselves perfectly willing to marry a one-legged man and look after him all the days of his life, but these generous offers the young man threw aside at once. Then came applications from correspondents who, though they had certainly met with painful accidents, were not afflicted in a manner similar to the advertiser. One girl had lost her right hand, another an eye, a third her nose, and so on. These offers were also rejected. Among the batch, however, were four who had each lost a leg; but as two of these were over 40 they were also laid aside as unsuitable. The remaining two were asked to appoint a place of meeting, which they did, and the young fellow interviewed them. One turned out to be a negress, which debarred her from securing the prize, but the last appeared to be just the girl the advertiser was looking for. She was young, healthy, pretty, bright, and—she had lost her left leg. The young man gave and received "full particulars," which turned out so satisfactorily that the two are now man and wife. The marriage is said to have turned out a particularly happy one. One can hardly believe that the fact of having lost a finger, and that the A "LOOK AT MARY WELLS." little one, would so prey upon a man's mind as to induce him to contemplate self-destruction, yet this was the case with William Drige, a man who was employed at one time on a farm in Kent, England, and who lost his digit in a threshing machine. After the accident Drige became so depressed and melancholy that his friends had some fears of his losing his reason. In vain he was joked about his accident and asked if he hadn't nine good fingers left, but his melancholy only increased. Then one day his brother, who was trying to arouse him from his depression, lost his temper and declared that he ought to receive a good hiding instead of sympathy. "Look at Mary Wells," he exclaimed, indignantly; "she lost her finger the other day in a guillotine at the bookbinders' where she's employed, and she don't go snuffling round about it. I'll bring her round to see you, and if she don't make you ashamed of yourself I give it up." He was true to his word and next evening brought the young woman round. She was the Ivellest girl William Drigele had ever met, and she succeeded so well in cheering up the melancholy one that he begged her to come again. This she did, and several times after, until William was so much improved that Miss Wells suggested that there was no further need for her visits. This, however, was by no means to William's taste, and he there and then asked her if she would continue her visits indefinitely, which, after some hesitation, she agreed to do. William has since been heard to say that the loss of his finger was the greatest piece of luck he ever had, since in return for it he obtained the prettiest little hand that one could possibly desire to possess. Big Traffic in Cocaine The United States is buying 30,000 ounces of cocaine a year at about three dollars an ounce. Of this only a small proportion is used legitimately. It robs its victim of his mental faculties and destroys his moral responsibility in shorter time and in greater degree than any other drug. Some Facts About Baldness. Baldness is ten times as common among men as among women. It has also been noted that a man's hair turns gray five years sooner than a woman's. Friendship's Tribute. Maud—They say he fell in love with Lucy at first sight. 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Patent Office. Any infringement will be promptly prosecuted. OZONO positively straightens Knotty, Knappy, Kinky, Stubborn, Harsh, Refractory Hair. No injurious hot irons are necessary to produce this effect. OZONO does the work alone, and the use does not have to be kept up after the hair becomes straight, and washing the hair hastens the treatment, doing it good in every way. Cures Dandruff, Baldness, and all itching, running, scaly, humiliating Scalp Diseases; causes the hair to grow long and straight, soft, fine, and beautiful as an April morning. Price, 50c a box; 4 boxes does the work. OZONO cannot fail. Read our grand offer: Cut out this advertisement and send to us with $1.00, and we will send you immediately four boxes of OZONO; one bottle of ELECTRICAL SKIN REFINER, which makes rough skin soft and brightens up block. skin several shades; also one bottle of SKIN FOOD, which removes Wrinkles, Freckles, Moth Patches, Tan, Liver Spots, Small-Pox Pits, Birthmarks, &c. It makes the aged look young, and the young look younger. We will also, to show our liberality, include a package of ANTI-ODOR, which removes all smells and odors arising from human body such as feet, arm-pits, &c.; cures Sore Throat and Mouth, Womb Diseases, Sore ag Frosted feet. This grand combination, words $5.50, we will send you on receipt of One Dollar, to introduce honest goods. Parties sending us $3.00 will receive four lots. Register your letters. AGENTS WANTED VIRGINIA:—In the Law and Equity Court for the city of Richmond, March 8th 1904. LEWIS DAVIS ..... Plaintiff. vs JUDY DAVIS ..... Defendant. In Chancery. The object of this suit is to obtain a Divorce, a Vinculo Matrimonii from the defendant. An affidavit having been made and filed that the defendant, Judy Davis is a non-resident of the State of Virginia, it is ordered that she appear here within fifteen days after the due the publication of this order and do what is necessary to protect her interest herein. A copy teste, - P. P. WINSTON, Clerk. J. HENRY CRUCHFIELD, Pq. To JUDY DAVIS: You will take notice that I shall, on the 5th day of May, 1904, at the office of Phil B. Shield, room numbered 60, Chamber of Commerce building situated on the South-west corner of 9th and Main streets in the city of Richmond, Virginia, between the hours of 9: o'clock a. m., and 6: o'clock p. m., of that day, proceed to take the depositions of Witness; to be read as evidence in my behalf in a certain suit in Chancery depending in the Law and Equity Court for the city of Richmond Virginia, you need a refendant and I am plaintiff: if free from charge, take taking of the sad depositions be not commenced on that day, or if commenced, be not concluded on that day, the taking of the same will be adjourned and continued from day to day, or from time to time, at the same place and between the same hours until the same shall be completed. By Counsel. J. HENRY CRUTCHFIELD, Pq., Office 12:11 E. 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Let us lend a helping hand to those who falter by the way; And we'll see the silvery lining in the clouds that hang above. And the boy warts luring to other hearts will come to ours each day. Rev. Edwin H. Burgess, in N. Y. Observer. THE TEST OF ENDURANCE. Character's Severest Test Is Bearing Without Faltering the Common Ills of Our Daily Life. When the night-bound railway train, with its coaches full of drowsy passengers, stops for a few moments at a wayside station, the dim outline of some strong, faithful machinist may be seen going from coach to coach, striking each wheel in turn a ringing blow with his hammer. They little think, who ride there, says the Sunday School Times, that, as each gong-like clang breaks on the silent air of the murky night, it tells the story of endurance, for better or for worse—endurance of the burden and the friction and the heat and the mighty toll of the rails. Hundreds of lives deprived moon a man's applying that test with patience and care to every wheel. All things that we really value are things that have been tested. Every article that we possess, every quality and companionship that we hold in dear and high regard, has been submitted to some far-reaching, excellent experience which has shown us where worth lies. And the connection between the two between the worth and the testing is closer than we often think. The turning of the earth on its axis and the falling of its smallest apple are not more intimate than are these days of soul proof and life testing in all the dear things that we love. All life seems to sum itself up in new deep and rich experiences, which are not two, but rather twofold—en- surance and achievement; what we have borne, and what we have built; what we have suffered, and what we have created. There is nothing that men prize more highly than things tested and proved. The builder wants timbers that are toughest and hardest, which wind and rough weather in the open of forest and field, the sun in summer or the heat of the kiln, have made compactest in fiber and grain. The amazon wants bricks that have felt the souste fire in the curing, and the stone that has known volcanic heat. Men cannot, however, determine this, as easily of men as they can of things, but they do it as well as they can. And since they cannot pass upon thought and quality at first hand, as they can upon stratum and fiber and mass and weight, they take what seems to them as fair equivalent, and judge of knowledge and worth as they register themselves in reputation or as they coin themselves in deeds. Yet, in spite of all this, we can go terribly astray, and follow too far, to our confusion and shame and loss, a rule that is human and faulty and crudе at best. Do not let us make the mistake of supposing that God looks at achievements as we do. The all-revealing question that he will ask will lie, not so much what we have accomplished, but rather how much have we endured. Not that we should despise the world's effort to fill its positions with men whose worth has issued in well-known name and work. We know its value too well. We know that, despite the confusions of a deranged world, the good man is to be found each of the good name; that a great building points to an accomplished builder, a beautiful picture to a gifted artist. Achievement does express life and beauty, and worth. But there is another life and deeper beauty and another worth that cannot be uttered. Do not let our interest in the area of achievement crowd down our interest in God's greater arena of endurance. Says Paul Laurence Dunbar: "The true purpose of the crown business but for the crown for many a hero has him dim down with naught but his express bough. There are gallant men in the losing fight. And as gallant men are done ever graced the captured height." We need, then, the warning of this worry who is it that we most delight to honor? Is it not the daring explorer, the brilliant engineer, the mighty builder, the ingenious inventor, the great officer, the gifted singer, artist of literature—all of them vicars in vis- ible business—to us honor them. They have endured. It would be ig- noble not to do so. But let us also have an eye on the men who walk obscurely in their rear. it may be in poverty and pain, who in reality may be as far above them as the heaven are above the earth. or the soaring eagle above the worm. Let us see this vision of the man whose soul is growing beautiful and great before God—great in the highest sense of all, and made great by the greatness of endurance. There is a level on which we may all meet without advantage, and strive as one, where no accident of race or line or mind or body favors the one or faults out the other. That level is the arena of endurance. The greatness of Moses, among other things, lay in his rejecting the opportunity of achievement, as men then rated it, and sharing with his own people their hard lot of servitude. The famous words: "He refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter (and all the fame and leadership that went along with it), choosing rather to share lit-treatment with the people of God." set the high glory of endurance vividly over against the tinsel glitter of fame. When Paul turned about, the new life into which he was called embraced many things within its scope. For one thing, epistles were to be written of transforming and world-moving power, and the center of civilization was to be shifted from Asia to Europe, and all this the achievement of one God-niled and God-guided man. But the highest honor that was set before him that day was the glory of endurance—"I will show him how many things he must suffer for my name's sake." Endurance was the very soul of his message to the Corinthian Christians, for that is the meaning of those great words of his: "Fat he be it from me to glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ." And it is this divining word that divides, as no other can, his life from his life after he took Christ into it. Up to that vivid, memorable hour, he had made it his chief business to inflict suffering on others, make others endure; but from thencecorthe he took as his proud badge that despised word which Calvary had made forever glorious, the word "endurance." It was a deep saying of Horace Bushnell that, "if you would put character to the severest test, see if it can bear without faltering the common lilies and hindrances of our daily life." LIFE FOREVER YOUNG. God Renews the Morning of Youth in the Heart of Age—Lesson of Implicit Trust. It is in the morning of life, O Lord, that I see Thy glory; in the midday I see Thy helpfulness. Thou art then to me the shadow of a great rock in a weary land, a refu' from the burden and the heat. In the evening I see Thy faithfulness; I behold the retrospect of all that Thou hast done and, lo, it is all very good. But the morning is the season of my implicit trust, perfectly implicit be cause not yet founded on experience. I trust Thee at midday because I feel Thy help; I trust Thee at even because I trace Thy plan; but I trust Thee at morning without any reason save the morning's glow in my heart. I trust Thee as the lark trusts the morning air into which it soars and through which it sings. I trust Thee by an instinct of my being. I trust Thee without experience before trial, irrespective of argument, in defiance of difficulty; there is no vision but the brightness of Thy face. My God, give me back my youth; I can regain it in Thee. Let the shadows of my life be rekindled into morning's glow; let my heart be lit with Thine eternal youth. Thou hast promised us eternal life—and what is that? Not merely life forever, but life forever young, Thine eternal life can make me a child again, a child without childishness, O Thou on whose bloom time breathes not, who art "the same yesterday and to-day and forever," bathe me in those fountains of the morning whence Thou hast the dew of Thy youth. Bathe me in the ocean of that love in which there is "no variabilityness nor the least shadow of turning" that the pulses of this heart may be renewed. Then shall I have "the bright and morning star" and "the dayspring from on high" shall rise within me. Then shall creation break forth into gladness, as in the day when "the morning stars sang together and all the sons of God shouted for joy." I shall see the glory of life when Thy morning is in my soul—George Matheson. RELIGIOUS TRUTHS. Blessed is the man that enduret temptation, for when he is tried as shall receive the crown of life.—James 1, 12. If you wish to appear agreeable in society, you must consent to be taught many things which you already know.—Tallyrand. Think of good that you may avoid thinking of evil. The mind of man cannot for one moment remain in a state of inactivity.—St. Ephraim. Life is the only real counselor. Wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissues.—Edith Wharton. Jesus found so many aimless lives! They were not motionless. No human life is that. But there was no meaning in their motion. This aimlessness is wretchedness, Hence the invigorating joy of the command: "Go work to-day in My vineyard."—George A. Gordon. If we always bore in mind this solemn truth, that life is but the vestibule of the everlasting temple, the first stage of a progress that shall know no limit, the noviate or apprenticeship both of heart and intellect. I think we should acknowledge more fully the high importance of the trust, and endeavor to fulfill its duties in a purer and holier spirit.—W. H. D. Adams. The Supreme Thing. Love should be the supreme thing, because it is going to last; because in the nature of things it is eternal life.—Drummond. * The Plot and the Hatch. The author scribbles, deep in thought, the heart, and the scratches; The carie is hatching out a plot, The other plots a hatch. — Lippincott's. Discipline Must Be Maintained. A school teacher received the following note from the mother of one of his pupils: "Dear Miss: You writ me about whipping Sammy. I hereby give you permission to beet him up eny time it is necessary to learn him lesens. He is just like his father—you have to learn him with a clubb. Pound nolege into him. I wante him to git it, and don't pay any atenshion to what his father says. I'll handle him."—Tit-Bits. Just What He Wanted. He was showing his wife a house in the suburbs that he contemplated purchasing. "How do you like it, dear?" he asked. "Oh, I'm delighted." she replied. "Its beauty fairly renders me speechless." "That settles it," said the other half of the sketch. "I'll buy it this afternoon and we'll move out to morrow."—Cincinnati Enquirer. Cinderelln. Ella was a comely miss. Eyes were bright as tinder. When she rode upon a train. Eyes would catch a cinder. So her little brother Bill— Likely little feller— Found a name appropriate, Called her Cinder-Ella. -Yonkers Statesman. LOOKING FORWARD. A She—Tell me, John, you are not marrying me for my money only, are you? He—Well, no; to tell you the truth, I hope to get your Uncle John's, too. —Ally Sloper. Why He Stept. 'Tis the voice of the sluggard. I hear him complain. "You have waked me too soon. I must sumber again. For sleep's the one comfort—confess it we must Which nowadays isn't controlled by a trust." —Washington Star. Ma's Error. "Papa," asked the little son of the board of trade man, "are you a bull or a bear?" "I'm a bull, just now." "There! I told mamma she was mis-taken when she said you was an old bear, after you went away this morning" —Chicago Record-herald. Quite Sure of Him. "And so, senator," said the inquisitive lazy, "you think your colleague is permitting his conscience to guide him in this matter?" "Yes, I haven't any doubt of it. He's nearly 80 years old now, and fully realizes that his health is very feeble."—Chicago Record-Herald. It Makes a Difference: "What do you consider a really bad wreck?" asked the sarcastic reporter, who had been vainly trying to get some information. "That depends," replied the honest railroad official, "on whether it takes place on our line or on some other."—Chicago Post. Correcting an Injustice. "When Mr. Talkwell fell on the stage the audience thought he was drunk and hissed him; but they made up for it when the manager announced he was dead." "Why, what did they do?" "Gave him three cheers and a tiger." —Judge. Not Patented. Mrs. Slimdie—The boarders are all at the table. Where's the milk? Mrs. Slimdiet—Then hurry into the dining room and pull down the yellow sunshades.—N. Y. Weekly. Saw His Finish. Husband—if I am an idiot, as you say, why did you marry me? Wife—Oh, I felt sorry for you and wanted to help you out of your misery. Husband—Well, you're rapidly doing it, all right, all right.—Chicago Daily News. What He Would Do. "What would you do," said the nervous person. "if a fire were to break out in your apartment house?" "I'd go right downstairs and thank the janitor," answered the man who is always dissatisfied.—Washington Star. Indirect But Effective Method. "I suppose," said the chemist, "that the secret of transmitting the baser metals into gold will never be discovered." "Nonsense," answered the mining magnate. "I discovered that secret long ago. 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'S mush earlier 'n usually is at thish time, I sure you.—Judge. Flattery. "Mrs. Strongmind feels very much flattered." "How so?" "Why, the paper spoke of her manli- ness."—Chicago Post. A Man of Genius. "A man of genius, you said?" "Yes, he failed in art and actually admitted it—then went into business and succeeded."—Detroit Free Press, THE PLANET TEMPERANCE NOTES Haunting Memories of Better Days Turn His Dying Moments Into Ones of Intense Agony. A bundle of highy rags, face swollen and disfigured by vice, eyes bleared and sunken—and this one of God's creatures! He lies still and quiet, dead to all around him, deaf to the noise and bustle of this New Year's eve, this season of joyousness and of mirth. There are no children in his mockery of a home, no wife to tell the prattling little ones of what New Year's should mean to them, no pleasure for him save in the bottle which has helped him to forget the past. Rousing himself, he places the bottle to his lips; he takes one more drink and then sinks back again, but this time not to forget fainness. "My God! why can I not forget?" is his dispairing cry. "One more drink. I must forget!" Once more he sleeps, and are long there falls upon his ear a pattering of tiny feet. In the dim light stands a beautiful, fair-faired boy with a bright, merry face. As the man looks, he says: "Who are you, and why do you come when I would forget?" Then the boy answers in his sweet, childish tones: "Do you not know me? I am the spirit of your childhood days. I am of the time when we played our games of marbles and ball. Our days were spent in frolic and in glee, and at night, do you not re "I AM THE SPIRIT OF YOUR SCHOOL DAYS." member the sweet-faced woman who took us in her arms and sang such soft, sweet lullabies that we can seem to hear them yet? And on New Year's eve do you not remember as she tucked us into bed she told us of little New Year and when she had heard our evening prayer, she added this petition: "O. God, keep my boy pure and upright?" Has her boy kept himself pure and upright?" The voice ceases and the spirit of his childhood vanishes from his sight. The drunkard raises himself to a sitting posture, and searches again for his boon companion, the bottle. As he does so he hears a boyish whistle, and near him, where the little child had stood, is a boy of perhaps 14 years of age. Like the little child, the boy wears a familiar look, and to him the drunkard puts the same question which he had addressed to the younger child. Then the boy misses answer: "I am the spirit of your schooldays. Do you not remember we were preparing to leave home for the first time? We are going away to school. You know mother said she wished to keep us at home awhile longer, but we said we did not wish to stay all our days in the dull old place. Do you remember on our last night at home when she came and kept at our bedside and prayed: 'O God, keep my boy pure and upright. Has her boy kept himself pure and upright? Did he not learn to smoke, to bet, to drink while at school? Did he keep himself pure and upright as his mother prayed he might be kept?' Once more the drunkard reaches for his bottle, but between him and it stands the form of a young and beautiful girl, and by her side is a stalwart youth—a handsome face his seems at first glance, but closer inspection shows lines of dissipation that mar its perfect beauty. As the drunkard gazes upon these two, the young man speaks: "I am the spirit of your youth, and this is Mary, sweet Mary, whom you have just won for your wife. Oh! we were proud of Mary, you and I. Do you remember that night when she proclaimed she would give herself to us to keep for vermege? What a gift!—The love of a pure, good woman! We drank again and again, we were so happy." The two spirits passed on, and with a moan the drunkard mutters: "Can I never forget! Oh, for a drink to drive away these memories!" The fire dies down and blazes up again, and in its brilliant glow he sees a beautiful room. Great palms and costly flowers are everywhere. Under a canopy of roses stands a young and beautiful woman (the Mary of his youth) and himself. He can hear the bridegroom promise to love and cherish his beautiful bride. Would nothing take these pictures from before his eyes? Where is his bottle? Hark! They are drinking the health of the young couple, and Mary's soft hand touches his as she whispers gently: "I would rather you would not take any more wine, dear." He hears the bridegroom say: "You did not know me, did you, man? I am the spirit of your young manhood, and you and I are happy to night with the happiness of a lifetime." "Happy!" echoes the drunkard. "Oh, for one drink to drive away these visions of my youth!" A tiny hand touches his, a baby's hand, and as the little fingers grasp his, a baby's voice cooes sweetly in his ear: "Papa, O papa!" "Who calls me papa? Take her away." I cannot listen to that voice. I cannot look upon that face. Before the drunkard stands a woman holding in her arms a little child. The woman is worn and weary; the child is moaning a weak, pitiful wall. Its tiny hands are thin and emaciated, and its lips are blue with the cold. The door opens and a man staggers in. The child stretches out its little hands and cried: "Papa, O, papa!" The man, with an oath, plunges forward, and with one blow strikes down the mother and child. The drunkard starts to his feet. "Who are you, man?" The man answers: "I am the spirit of yourself, and these are your wife and child. To-day is election day—a glorious day, with free liquor for all who will partake." The woman lies still and quiet. The little one moans and cries, but the mother will never again in this world hush its cries. It ceases moaning, and all is still, for the souls of mother and child have gone to their Maker. The New Year's bells ring their melody of hope and cheer, but to the drunkard they seem to echo the words of the mother's prayer of long age: "Oh, God, keep my boy pure and upright!" They found him dead, tightly clutching in his hands the picture of a sweet-faced woman in her bridal robes, and wound about the picture was a curl of soft baby hair. They could not loose his fingers from the picture. Thus he lies, unknown and unmourned, but shall one say that he can at last forget?—Mrs. J. T. Crowley, in Union Signal. THE DRINKER His Chances in the Various Walks and Relations of Life Are Rapidly Narrowing. The temperance cause is receiving aid from various directions more calculated to produce good and lasting influence in deterring men from drink than all the laws in the world. For instance, we find that American insurance companies are now agitating whether they shall not follow the example of the English companies, and make better rates to abstainers. A number are seriously inclined to adopt such a ruling, which is founded upon sound premises. Statistics prove conclusively that the abstainer has a longer lease on life; he is less exposed to accidents and current diseases, and the mechanism of his body undergoes less friction. The drinker has fewer chances of remunerative employment. Corporations are more and more refusing to fill responsible positions with men who drink. A drinking man is unreliable. Drink leads to the downward path. Men who indulge in this practice are uncertain factors, and are not wanted. In a variety of the trades the men are learning for themselves the dangers of drink. Painters, carpenters, hod-carriers and others whose calling exposes them to certain dangers requiring clear heads to avoid, have learned to let drink alone. A man who works all day on a swaying platform many feet above the ground, or climbs a ladder carrying a heavy load, does not want his faculties befuddled, his balance destroyed or his limbs made heavy and clumsy by drink. The abstainer enjoys better health than the drinker. The drinker's appetite is capricious, digestion impaired, nerves on edge. His kidneys are overworked and irritable. The continual passage of urine, inflamed by the agency of alcohol, over the prostate gland causes swelling and thickening of that organ, which cuts short the period of sexual vigor, and exposes the unfortunate tippler to all the horrors of catheter life. Unquestionably, the man who lets drink alone prolongs the period of sexual activity at least ten years. The time is coming when men will be led by self-interest and observation of the deleterious effects of drink to let it alone. It is the pain duty of the doctor to contribute to and hasten his desirable end by pitting his scientific knowledge and professional influence openly and always against the practice. This he owes to mankind as an offset for the irremediable harm done by dead and gone generations of doctors, who were accustomed to sanction the use of spirits as tonics and appetizers.—Farm and Fire-side. FACTS AND FIGURES Reports show that Chicago drank 75,359 fewer gallons of whisky in 1903 than in 1902 and smoked 11,263,009 fewer boxes of cigarettes. As a result of the increase of temperance sentiment among the anthracite miners, nearly one-third of the 1,100 saloon keepers of Schuylkill county, Pa., will go out of business next year. The highest amount charged yearly for a liquor license is $3,500, in Louisiana. The lowest is five dollars, charged in the same state. The license fee varies between these two extremes according to the amount of business done. Illinois is under local option, with a minimum fee of $500. Her Bean—Say, Bobby, can't you get me a lock of your sister's hair? Bobby—Sure! But not jest now. She's wearin' it.—Chicago American. THE RICHMOND PLANET RICHMOND VIRGINIA HOG GOES ON SPREE When Fermented Apple Mush Gave Out Least Looked for More. That Is How the Bibulous Porker Led Way to Moonshine Still-Master Swore Oil, But Pete Is Beyond Redemption From McKeever, N. Y., a correspondent writes to the New York World that "Bib'lous Bill's" bibulous hog, Pete, which disappeared two weeks ago, has been found under circumstances that may result in an investigation. The authorities at the Corners are talking about it, but they don't know where to begin. Bill got his nickname "Bibulous" some years ago, when he and the cup that cheers were inseparable companions. He rather glories in it now that he has sworn off. For more than a twelvemonth he has touched nothing stronger than water. In the good old days, when he was in "tippling trim", Bill declares, "that he could outbibble anything in the country." It was two years ago last fall that Bill annexed Pete. The porker was a mite of a pig then, and became very companionable. He learned to fo'ow Bill about like a dog, and even went squirrel hunting with him, and rooted for acorns while his master was "laing for grays." A year ago last fall Bill got a job in a clder mill down at the Corners, and reported for work along with Pete. The former figured that the latter would wax fat on apple mashings. He did. In time some of the mashings fermented and Pete got drunk. He lectured him, but it did no good, and at the end of the week Pete was a confirmed sol. One night while the pair were stumbling home much the worse for wear Bill saw a ghost, and the next morning swore off. Pete hadn't seen anything uncanny, so he kept up his spree until the mill closed down for the season. By this time he was a fit subject for a whisky cure. His nerves gave out, and he searched the woods, farm, buildings and even cellars for more stimulants. Bill thought of his own experiences and chuckled. He knew Pete would come out all right in the end and was delighted to have his pal sober once more. Things went along nicely until a fortnight ago, when Bill awoke one morning F. H. H. BILL LECTURED HIM. to find that Pete had taken his departure in the night. He thought it odd that his pet should desert warmth and a good breakfast in such cold weather, and figured that he would soon return. But at supper time he had not showed up, and Bill looked for tracks. The snow was crusted and he couldn't find any, so he waited. He would probably still be waiting had not Joe Walsh, who lives three miles back in the woods, come across strange tracks in a fresh fall of snow early in the week. The footprints looked like those of a pig, but they progressed in most erratic lines. Out of curiosity he followed them and eventually came to an old abandoned barn about a mile and a half from Bill's shack. The roof of the barn had tumbled in, but a beaten path made by the animal he was following led underneath the ruins to an old cellar. Walsh had frequently been by the barn, but had never noticed the cellar. He stuck his head down the hole and looked. As soon as his eyes acustomed themselves to the semidurkness he made out the well-known form of Pete lying in some straw in one corner. He had lost considerable flesh since the farmer saw him two months ago at Bill's, and looked decidedly rakish. Close beside him were three vats. Pete looked up, recognized the friend of his master and gave a welcoming, but hiccuough grunt. Walsh descended and kicked the hog by way of greeting. This brought more hiccoughs and an unsuccessful effort on the part of Pete to stand up. "Drunk again," snorted Walsh, looking about for the spirits. He found them in the vats, which contained whisky diluted with rainwater that had leaked from overhead. It certainly was whisky, and Walsh instantly came to the conclusion that he had stumbled on an illicit still operated in that section several years ago by two men who are now serving time at Dannemora. Pete was in no condition to drive home, so Walsh notified Bill, and he went after the hog with his mare and a wood sled. Then the proper authorities were informed. They are talking investigation, but as the men supposed to own the still are in fall they don't know what to do. Pete is chained up. Farm Hands in Norway. Farm hands in Norway receive $40 to $50 a year. Not in His Line. The following dialogue was overheard in the office of one of Boston's leading physicians the other day: Doctor (to patient)—Whatalls you? Patient—I don't know. I only know that I suffer. I work like an ox. I eat like a wolf. 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Any 43 for $1.25. Any 100 for $3.00. 4 Write your name, full address, and pieces wanted by the numbers; this, with stamps or silver, and mail c to address given below, and the mum besent direct from Boston, postage prepare THE PLANET STARS AND STRIPES SUCCESSFULLY STOPS WIFE BEATER. Russian Jew's Better Half Flaunts It Defiantly When Quarrels Arise —Mother-in-Law Also Seeks Its Protection. By the use of a small silk American flag the wife of a Russian Jew protected herself from the abuse of her husband, kept the latter out of jail, and steered their troubles clear of a diversion. The incident came to the notice of Judge Hoard, one of the best-known jurists of Shelbyville, Ind., and it is he who tells in the Chicago Tribune the story as it came to him in the course of his services as a lawyer. It will also explain to a great many people who have passed a certain little home in Shelbyville why a flagstaff has been erected in the foreground and why the stars and stripes are there displayed on every occasion during the year. One afternoon while the judge was sitting in his office a woman entered the door and in broken language managed to convey to the lawyer the fact that she and her husband had had trouble and that the neighbors had advised her to consult a lawyer. She told the jurist that the man with whom she had emigrated from a distant land beat her, and, as she explained, "I tinks he 'buse me too much.' The lawyer managed to make her understand that, under the laws of this country, the husband could be punished for such an offense. When he explained that she could have him arrested and placed in jail she held up her hands depressingly, and when she was further told that such an act would furnish the ground for a legal separation the expression that came to the face of the faithful wife clearly told the lawyer that the idea was abhorrent. "O, no, I not do that! I only tink he whip me too hard," she said. The judge was quick to see that it was a case in which his professional services would not be employed, so he undertook to offer a little advice gratis. Taking a small flag from a drawer of his desk, he passed it over to the woman, telling her that the next time she and her spouse had trouble she was to wave it in his face and to tell him that he dare not strike her with the flag in her hand. It was difficult for the woman to clearly understand, but when she went out of the office she had folded the flag inside of her corsage, and the judge dismissed the matter from his mind. A few days after that a Jewish looking BROADCAST GAVE HER A SMALL FLAG. man entered the lawyer's office in a towering rage. "What's dat you tell my wife about me no dare strike her vile a flag she holds mit her hand?" It didn't take the judge long to see that he had a chance to cultivate the seed he had sown a few days previous. He told the irate Russian that his wife, claiming the protection of the flag, could cause his arrest and imprisonment, and, if she chose, could divorce herself from such a husband. "A month or so after that," relates Judge Hoard, "I had occasion to go down to the depot to meet a friend, and while there I noticed among the people in the waiting room the little Russian woman who had sought my advice. I was induced to question her as to how she was getting along and as to what Old Glory had accomplished for her. She told me that she was at the train to meet her mother, who was coming over from the old country. She managed to convey to me that she had written home to her maternal parent explaining the laws of this country, that however much men whipped their wives in Russia they were not allowed to do so here and go unpunished. Then she proved to me that she had brought about a wonderful reform in the ideas of her liege lord, that he had not only respec'd the little banner that she carried about with her, but with his own hand he had erected a tall staff in their humble dooryard, and from its peak a big flag waved on every holiday of the year. "The man, his wife, and his mother-in-law are now all living under the same flag, and it doesn't appear to me that I will ever be able to earn a fee from any trouble that family may have." The German Wine Industry. According to the Moniteur Vinicole, Germany holds the eighth place in the list of wine-producing nations. 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The object of this Association is to establish and carry on a mercantile and industrial business on a fraternal basis. And to establish the kind of business in every locality among the race as the occasion best dictates. Any lady or gentleman may become a member of this Association by paying the joke fee of One Dollar and Fifty cents ($1.50). All members will be entitled to all the rights and privileges accruing to members of this Association under and by virtue of its Constitution and By-laws, and shall be allowed to participate in the profits of the Association after payment of expenses, in proportion to the amount invested. Persons wishing to represent us out of town can receive full information concerning our special arrangements with our special representatives by remitting to us $1.50 as above stated with two good references together with a 2ct postage stamp for reply. Representatives wanted every where. Search diligently all history and it will be found that all great men and women, who did great and lasting work, and made on this world an adelible impression, were God loving and praying men and women. All religions are founded and all societies are prayed for. Great individuals, commonwealths and nations are founded and sustained by prayers to God. "Be with me, O Lord at all times, For abandoned to myself I shall surely fall." Address all Communications to the PIEDMONT MUTUAL ASSOCIATION, Temporary office, 705 W. Leigh St., Richmond, Va. WANTED-SEVERAL INDUSTRIous persons in each state to travel for house established eleven years and with a large capital, to call upon merchants and agents for successful and profitable line. Permanent engagement. Weekly cash salary of $34 and all traveling expenses and hotel bills advanced in cash each week. Experience not essential. Mention reference and enclose self-addressed envelope. TEE NATIONAL, 332 Dearborn St., Chicago In order to promote circulation and to create additional interest, we have decided to make the Knights of Pythias, It pays an endowment and burial benefit of $200.00 for all ages. It pays $4.00 per week sick dues. The badge, costing 75 cents each is the only absolutely necessary regalia. For information concerning the organization of lodges, apply to the main office. a feature and persons cannot do better than to enter the little ones in this mystic circle. The expense is nominal and the benefits all he could be expected. It pays from $1.00 to $1.50 sick dues and death benefits of from $0.00 to $40.00. If you have no Pythian Lodge or Court or Band in your neighborhood, or rani ze one. For all information concerning the Children's Department, address. For all information concerning special rates of membership for new lodges and courts address. KNICHTS OF PYTHIAS C.F. F.C.B. A 311 North Fourth St., Richmond, Va. N. A., S. A., E., A., A. AND A. This organization is one of the most powerful in the country and its progress has been phenomenal. The Grand Lodge of Virginia has jurisdiction over all of the cities and counties in this state. Thirty males are required to organize a new lodge. The benefits paid constitute one of its strongest features, but the principles are greater than anything else. Founded on Friendship, based on Charity and established on Benevolence, the respectable, upright people of the state will find it an order worthy of their heartiest support. Is the Female Department of the Order. It requires a membership of thirty persons to organize a court. Its members are pledged to exhibit Fidelity, exercise Harmony and prove Love one for the other. It pays an endowment and burial benefit of $150.00. It pays $3.00 per week sick aues. The only expense for regalia is the cost of the badge, 50 cents and a rosette, costing 25 cents for funeral occasions. MRS. ANNA TAYLOR, W. M., 120 W. Hill St., Richmond, Va. JOHN MITCHELL, JR., 311 N. 4th St., Richmond, Va.