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THE RICHMOND PLANET V. REV. C. I. WITHROW, A. M., D. D., the subject of this sketch, was born just after 4,000,000 of the sable sons of Ham had been unhered into the golden sunshine of liberty, when the thought was prevalent that the Negro would ever be a huner of wood and a drawer of water. From his youth he has always shown the joy of the ordinary, and at an early age was the leading actor in his country. Honor after success was in his bestowed upon him. He held charge after charge, teaching at the same time with great success. the city, both white and below we publish several different sources as to his character as expressed by people. He received cal training at Wester Seminary, a white school Penn. Hear what the South-West DVCCATE has to say We are pleased to pr bestowed upon him. He held charge after charge, teaching at the same time with great success. Dr. Withrow was sent to his present charge in the spring of 1900. He at once started a revival in the church among the members. The church has undergone some improvements and I under his leadership has been freed from a long standing debt and is now standing out like the peaks of the mighty Alps, with her steeple towering high, kissed by the golden sunshine of freedom. The church has increased in membership and every department has taken on new life and is now in a prosperous condition. They rally to his support and are marching to success. Dr. Withrow is a scholar of rare ability and is always in demand by those who have had the privilege of hearing him once. He has had the honor of speaking before some of the most noted gatherings in this country. In 1893 he spoke in Winston, N.C., in the chapel of the school building and was seated on the rostrum among some of the greatest doctors, lawyers, educators and ministers of this country. The procession was said by the white papers to be two miles long. In 1894 he spoke in Court Houses of Rutherford, and Shelton, N. C. In Reidville the same year on Emancipation Day and the hall in which he spoke was crowded beyond standing room. In 1897 he spoke in the great High Street Baptist Church, Roonoke, Va., before a great gathering and was invited to make another speech the next year for the same people but had to refuse to accept an invitation from the people of Pulaski, Va. In December 1897, he delivered an address before the St. Mark's Lycée of New York City on the subject: "Equipped in a Lion's Skin He Obtained immortality." In 1897 he spoke before the Grand Sitting of the True Reformers in Richmond, Va. The late Rev. W. W. Brown was so impressed with his ability as a scholar and speaker that he had published at his own expense one of Dr. Withroh's sermons in pamphlet form, getting out 6,500 copies. Dr. Withrow has recently had published an Eulogy of Bishop Hearst which has had the highest praise of Dr. Thirkield, of Cincinnati, O., Bishop McCabe, Dr. Hayes and others, and was requested by the Librarian of Drew Theological Seminary and granted a place in the library of the fire-proof building of Madison, N. J. He has received an invitation to represent a fraternity in Hayt this year. Dr. Withrow is destined to be and is really one of the greatest scholars of his race. He is young, vigorous, gifted with a brilliant intellect, eloquent, a clean christian gentleman, cultured and refined, and is admired, respected and honored within the coacmination and by the entire outside world. He has served this present charge successfully for four years and was sent back by the recent Conference in Baltimore, Md., making his fifth this city. He is the only minister that he held charge here for five years in the history of the Augusta Street M. E. Church. The Old Dominion Sun, the only white Republican paper in the city recently contained the following: "Rv. Chaucey I. Withrow, Pastor of the Augusta St. M. E. Church, of this city, was recently offered two fine positions—one in Greensboro, N. C., and the other in Baltimore, Md. He declined them to remain pastor of the Augusta St. M. E. Church, of which he has been pastor for several years. He is held in high esteem by the people of the city, both white and colored, and below we publish several extracts from different sources as to his standing and character as expressed by several prominent people. He received his theological training at Western Theological Seminary, a white school at Allegrety, Penn. Hear what the South-Western Christian dvccate has to say. "We are pleased to present to our readers a picture of the Rev. Chaucey I. Withrow, the pastor of Warren M. E. Church, Pittsburg, Pa. He is a young man of energy and pluck, and gives good account of himself no matter where sent. Bro. Withrow is a North Carolinian and was educated at Bennett College, Greensboro, North Carolina, from which he graduated in 1893. He was at that time a member of the North Carolina Conference when he served several charges but in 1895 was transferred to the Washington Conference to which he now belongs and was stationed at Lexington, Va. At this point he had remarkable success and built a brick church a monument to him and his children's death to the cause. His next charge was Pittsburg, where he met with most excellent success in his attempt to pay the debt against the church and enlarge the membership. Bro. Withrow has been around inism in that city during the past few months by having a series of lectures by such men as Drs J. W. F. Bowen, M. C. B. Mason, I. L. Thomas and Prof. I. Garland Penn. The financial results of these lectures were second only to the intellectual quickening of his people in particular and the community in general. Bro. Withrow's friends are expecting much of him. The career of Rev. Chanceuce I. Withrow, the subject of this sketch has been of such marked and considerable progress as to afford example and encourage ment to the young men of both races and to effectually explode the false and insidious charge that the avenues of distinction are not open in the South to the "brother in black," where as a matter of fact, his highest destiny can be worked out. It has been truly remarked that genius is sexless. It might be remarked that the elaboration of that idea that the "divine flame" knows no color, race or condition. And in its wisdom no restriction islimitations in the selections of its choice, in the great human family its chosen child-in of the elect may be found. Joachin Miller himself a poet of unmeasurable genius has made the prediction that some day from the Negro race, living as it does, so close to the beating of nature's heart—will step forth one of the grandest poets the world has ever known. The subject of this sketch is a native of Rutherford county and is about the close of the late war in the year 1866. He gave at an early age evidences of the sterling qualities of head and heart which in latter years have advanced him to the forefront as a brave, consecrated and intellectual worker in the uplifting of his people to a higher plane of life and in behalf of the cause of his master. From the age of 18 to 21 he taught school in Rutherford and Cleveland counties. Upon attaining his majority-standing upon the threshold of his young manhood he chose wisely and by giving his heart to the Lord, and 20 days after his conversion he was licensed to teach. In the following year he was ordained as a minister and at this epoch of his life began a career which discloses the possibilities for good to those who follow in his footsteps. He entered Bennett College, Greensboro, N. C., as a student and served as pastor at the same time of a circuit in the last two years. Since then his labors have been given in the service of the M. E. Church at the Reidsville station. He has proven to be a popular shepherd, raising the membership of his church from 83 to 138 the first year, adding by his nutritious efforts to the interest, entertainment and spiritual profit of the services and hereby greatly augmenting the congratulations. He has also Boundary Line Railroads Mukden KING KOREAN BORDER Pai-chi-hu Muang-ning Kin-chow Port of Newhwang Stautong Siu-yen Hai-cheng Chin-Tien-Cheng Kaiping An-Tungo TATUNGKOON Wi-ju An-ju Suk-chhoe Mun-chhoe Ping-yang Chinnampo Hwang-ju Chang-yon Hai-ju Seoul Chemulpo Inchhoe Won-ju Chung-ju Yong-ju KOREA BAY Port Adams Pigon Bay Shainy Port Arthur LAO-TNIE-SHAN CHANNEL HAO-TAO ISLANDS YELLOW SEA Gulf of Pechili River Lai-chow THEATER OF HOSTILITIES IN MANCHURIA AND KOREA Scale of Yards 0 100 200 300 400 500 600 Mud Flats Light Battery Dock Yard Fitting out Basin LAKE Tiger's tail Fort ROAD Pond GOLDEN HILL Battery Fort Fort Fort 380 ft Fort 410 ft ROAD Fort 210 ft Fort Light Battery Water & to 11th Samp Japanese Bulks Open Sea proven to be a good financial manager for his church and in giving an account of his stewardship it is found that in a short space of time he has his church, of a debt of seven years standing, and placed upon an independent, thorough working basis. He completed the entire Conference course and was ordained elder in three years and the spring following graduated from Bennett College with the degree of A. B., being among the first to have this honor conferred upon him in that celebrated college. He has the confidence and respect of all classes, and his popularity is extending, which is evidenced by the ever widening circle of his friends and admirers among both races. He is the first colored minister in our midst to secure the concerted co-operation of the white passors of Reidsville and his work receives their warmest praise. The Review is always ready to commend to its readers merit consecrated to a good cause and in this connection we present to their sympathies and kindly offices, this young, rising representative of the Afro-American race, the only alien race that has finally accepted and become assimilated, identified and imbued with the sentiments of religious and otherwise of the Anglo-Saxon people.—1the Review of Reidsville, N. C. To whom it may concern: I have known the bearer thereof, Rev. Chancey I. Withrow, from his boyhood, and do not hesitate in saying that he is a man of excellent character, and has always been so regarded here, and furthermore that he has always been a student, and has always devoted himself industrially to the education and advancement of his race. He has made considerable progress in his labors, and is now justly regarded as one of the foremost and ablest men of his race in the state. The colored people have a few, if any young men in North Carolina whose future is brighter than Mr. Withrow's. He is regarded unanimously by both white and colored as a man of splendid abilities and the higher sense of honor in all things. Rev. Chanucoey I. Withrow, A. B., was born in Rutherford county, N. C., the year after the war closed, 1866. Naturally quick to learn he distinguished himself at school and became a teacher when he was 18 years of age. This profession he followed until he attained his majority, when it pleased the MAP OF THE HARBOR OF PORT ARTHUR. manager account list in a church, mag, andorough ordained foliage among unfered age, of all Lord to convert him. Within 20 days after this radical change in his heart and life he was licensed to exhort in the Methodist Church. He was matriculated at Bonnett College, Greensboro, N.C., and in due time was graduated with the degree of A. B. During his college career he had charge of a circuit. He was the pastor in charge of the Reidvill estate and subsequently at the Graham St. M. E. Church in Chilcot, N.C. Last fall he was transferred to the pastorate of the church at Lexington, Va. columns of ADVOCATE career has Rev. C. I. Chance Rutherford age of save schools of perhaps, f of the man developed schmoved schmoved to country N. Mr. Withrow is regarded by those who know him best as a man of active ability, which has, with reading and study, made him conspicuous among the colored people for intelligence. He is considered judicious in the management of all his pastoral work, and has been blessed with success in financial administration in increasing the numbers of his charge and in building up his people in the grace of the Spirit. As a preacher he is said to be interesting and instructive. We welcome him to Virginia and to Lexington, and hope that he will not only sustain the reputation he brings from North Carolina, but will add to it. He is in charge of an important work at Lexington. While his church is not very large in numbers it has some of the worthiest colored people in it. These have shown their devotion to the Master's cause by erecting a large and handsome edifice, which is an honor to them and an ornament to Lexington. Every lover of his kind and every friend of Christ rejoices at this evidence of their advancement in civilization and religion, and with a hearty godspeed is ready to help them still onward in their work. May the Lord bless Brother Withrow and his worthy people. JAS. A. QUARLES. JNS. A. QUARLES: In the Messenger of Lexington, Va., in 1866. The following is a clipping from the Charlotte Messenger: "Rev, C. I. Withrow, the efficient and worthy pastor of the Graham Street M. E. Church, will on October 1st transfer to Lexington Va. He is an excellent preacher, fine scholar and Christian gentleman, much loved by his church and all others who have met him. His removal from us is much regretted." Rev, C. I. Withrow, A. M., the pastor of Warren M. E. Church, Pittsburg, Penn. It affords me very great pleasure to introduce to the public through the columns of the Southwestern Christian Advocate, one whose intellectual career has been so brilliant as that of Rev. C. I. Withrow. Chanceyce I. Withrow was born in Rutherford County, N.C., 1866. At the age of seven years he entered the public schools of his county, and here he cast, perhaps, for the first time dim shadows of the man and scholar that was to be developed in him. He remained in the public schools eight years, then was removed to boarding school in Cleveland county, N.C., where he stayed only being put back in the public school of his own country. It was not long after his last removal before his ability had won him the place of principal in a public school in South Carolina, where he remained until 1888. He entered Bennett College at Greensboro, N. O., in 1889, and while here he supplied Centre and Ju ian circuits, and taught school during vacation. He graduated from the classical course in 1893. Having finished three new churches on his district, he was stationed at Reidsville in 1892. Desiring to continue his education he entered the College of Liberal Arts from which he received the degree of A. B., in 1894. In the same year he was married to Miss Louisa Darsette who is a sister to President Chan's wife, and a graduate of Bennett college. In 1890 he joined the Methodist Episcopal Conference, and was ordained minister in 1893. At Oxford, N. O., he was elected secretary of the Conference in 1894, and stationed at Charlotte, N. C. He was elected to represent Bennett college in the International Association of North Carolina. In 1895 he was transferred to the Washington and Baltimore Conference, and stationed at Lexington, Va. Here he completed a new church and lifted a heavy debt. In the spring of 1898, he was stationed at his present charge in Pittsburg, Pa. Heaven has smiled upon his work here. Fifty-four persons have been added to the church; the Sunday school and Epworth League have improved rapidly under his administration. He is serving his second term as president of the Interdenominational Ministerial Association of Pittsburg, Pa. As a scholar andulpitor, his peer is hard to find. Reason is that he is the only colored minister who belongs to the white preachers association. M. S. MALONE. Staunton Va. "JIM CROW" [STREET-CARS. Citizens Act—Mass-Meeting Next Tuesday Night at 8 P.M.— Public Invited. The action of the Virginia Passenger and Power Company in adopting rules and regulations for the separation of white and colored people on its street-cars has caused intense feeling among the colored people. For a week, the colored people have studiously applied themselves to -walking. The Clay Street line which usually carries a packed crowd of colored people both morning and evening has been avoiled and the other lines give the impression that the colored population has left the city. A conference of colored citizens to discuss the situation took place at Mr. A. D. Prew's Hall has Thursday at 5 P. M. A. Prew's number of the leading colored men and women were present. John Mitchell, Jr. was made permanent chairman and Dr. Chas. E. Wilder, permanent secretary. The discussion was conservative and it was the opinion of the body that the colored people should do all in their power to promote peace and avoid any clash or disorder on the street-cars. It was decided that the best way to do this would be to WALK and STAY OFF the Virginia Passenger and Power Company's cars. To this end, it was voted to hold a mass-meeting Tuesday night, April 19th, 8 P.M., at the True Reformers' Hall and invite the public to be present to hear the discussion and to take the proper action in the premises. EMANCIPATION CELEBRATION. The thirty-ninth anniversary of the emancipation was celebrated in Tuska-hoe District, Henrico Va., on Monday, April 4th, 1904, in a manner befitting the occasion by the West-End Celebration Club. The speaking was held in Quircosis Baptist Church and was opened with devotional exercises. Mr. Jacob White, the vice-president, in a very happy and graceful manner introduced the president, Mr. John Bryan, no one at the meeting the object of the meeting delivered was interesting and historical address as to the progress of the Negro since emancipation. The president then introduced Rev. D. E. Williams, the orator of the day. Mr. Williams eloquently dwelt upon the goodness and guidance of that God, who delivered the children of Israel, who led them through the wilderness by day and night and enjoined upon his hearers to put their trust in Him, who could deliver them in the time of trouble. He held his audience spell bound for one hour and a quarter, touching upon tue things that had been done and the things left undone and the things now being heaped upon us as a race. Rev. A. H. Jackson of Pilgrim Baptist Church delivered an address. Among the many visitors, ladies and gentlemen from the city were Capt. W. H. Anderson and Lieut. Henry Hosely. These gentlemen are looking forward to organizing a Boys' Brigade in the district. Capt. Anderson is the organizer. The line of march was formed and with fife and drum the gallant host of Tuckahoe marched to Jerusalem Hall, where a feast had been spread and all enjoyed themselves till the going down of the sun. Boycott Street Cars. The color line, as ordained by the city council, was drawn on the street cars for the first time on Tuesday morning. The innovation was not relied by the Negro population of San Antonio, and resentment was demonstrated in a general boycott by the race of the street cars. Owing to the exceedingly light travel by colored people, the traction company on Tuesday set apart only the last seat of each car for the Negroes, and there was always plenty of room upon this seat throughout the day. The presence of a Negro on the cars was a rarity, the boycott being for the present most complete. It is stated that all of the religious meetings of the Negroes on Sunday night word was passed to keep off the cars and the injunction was obeyed. Here and there a colored passenger was seen, and every once in awhile some colored man declined to go into the rained-off portion took his stand on the the rear platform and thus surmounted his objection to the innovation. There was no attempt at disorder over the enforcement of the ordinance.—San Antonio (Tex.) Express, March 16th. FORTY-THIRD ANNIVERSARY. A Grand Time Promised—Rev. White to Deliver Sermen The forty-third anniversary sermon of the G. G. A. O. B and S. of Love and Charity will be held at the McCarmel Baptist Church at 3 o'clock Sunday, April 24th. The sermon will be preached by Rev. W. H. White, pastor of the church. All male members are requested to meet at Hayes' Hall at 1 o'clock. Females are requested to meet at the church at 2 o'clock. It is earnestly requested that all members will attend. Officers are: Willis Wyatt, W. S.; Sister Lucy Cross, W. V. S.; Bro. Thomas Minor, see 'Sey's Bible Grey, W. Tr. as; Bro. Green Robinson, Chain; Sister Lucy Perkins, R. H. Conductress; Sister Sister Tiney L. H. Conductress; Bro. David Andersen I. R. Robinson, Marshall. Committee: Bro. Robert Howard. Bro. Thos Minor, Mrs. H. L. Richardson. A Great Meeting. The regular monthly meeting of the National Baptist S. S. Union was held on last Sunday, April 10th, 1904, at 3:34 P. M., at the Fifth Baptist Church (Sydney) Rev Jos. Perry, pastor The attendance was large. President B. Peyton presiding. Devotionals exercised conducted by the Chap- plain, Rev. Jas. K. of Zion. Baptist Church, Manchester. Christer C. C. Williams led the sweet songs. Superintendent M. G. Lowin delivered the welcome address which was ably responded to by Rev. A. R. Smith. The various schools were well represented by recitations, papers, and solos. The selection by Miss Annie V. Taylor, "The Sunday School," by Miss Alice Eps, deserve special mention; while the Mr. Skipwith was very appropriate and highly praised, Little Miss Cole carried off no laurels for the Fifth Baptist School. The subject, "How may the young people best help the Church and Sunday School?" was ably discussed by Ool. E. A. Washington, W. H. James, Rev. J. Y. Harris and Dr. Jos, Perry. Many wholesome thoughts were gleaned from the discussion. A hand some collection was raised. Brother Brown offered a fervent prayer for the university. The next Union will be held at the Zion Baptist Church, Manchester, the second Sunday in May. A grand time is expected. Baptist Ministers' Conference The Baptist Ministers' Conference met at the usual hour in Fifth Street Baptist Church. Devotional exercises were conducted by Rev. S. O. Burrell Dr. W. T. Johnson read the minutes. The order of the day was the special sermon by Dr. Pinkney of the Leigh St. M. E. Church. He preached from the subject, "The inmutability of Jesus Christ." The sermon was very thoughtful, well delivered and stirred the brethren up. It gave much food for discussion and was discussed by Rev. Watkins, R. O. Johnson, D. D., S. C. Burrell, F. W. Williams, B. D., Hugh Williams, B. D., W. W. Wines, Bishop Payne, W. T. Johnson, B. D., Z. D. Lewis, D. D., W. F. Graham, D. D., and Rev. Jacob Turner. Rev J. D. Herbsen, B. D., of Washington, D. C., was introduced to the Conference and made some very helpful remarks. He is at present conducting a great revival at the Fifth St. Baptist Church. Rev J. R. Griffin and William Coov were received as new members. The Conference is in a healthy condition and is doing more good for the city of Richmond than it has done heretofore. — Mrs. J. L. Lovings, accompanied by Mrs. Mattie H. Eewin of Richmond, Va., has gone to Norwood, West Virginia, to spend two weeks with a friend of hers, Mrs. Artena Miller. Mr. Charles Jordan of Pittsburgh Pa., in company with Rev. R. C. Judekins called on us this week. He is stopping at the Hotel Reformer. Mrs. L. A. Green, aunt of Mrs William V. Macklin had published the death notice in our issue of last week. Notice. LOST—Sunday, April 10th a gold medal in shape of a star, Inscription, "President and Founder." A reward will be given to the finder by leaving the same at Little Billy's Barber Shop 3 W. Leigh St. Notice. 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Stamp for repai THE SPACE 22 LONG AS MOTHER'S THERE My father's he's a travelling man, He travels everywhere; He's been to Europe and Japan He's been to the Russian bear; He stays at home week or so, Or mebby just a day, and then the first thing that you know He's got to go away. We're always glad when father's here, He brings us lots of things. He's been all over, pretty near. For mother boots the doors, you know. So we'll be safe at night. We seem, somehow, to get along. All feelin' pretty gay; There's hardly anything goes wrong When father's far away; We very kind and very good And we'd be glad glad To have him stay here if he could— But still things ain't so bad. Sometimes when mother goes somewhere And don't come home that night. Then's when it's pretty lonesome there And nothing seems just right. I'm glad boys' mothers need go To travel far away— it seems about a month or so When mother's gone a day. -S. B. Kiser, in Chicago Record-Herald. THE MISTAKE OF CYNTHIA DODD By J. C. PLUMMER (Copyright, 1904, by Dally Story Pub. Co.) THINK, Miss," said the hired man, while weeding out Miss Dodd's garden, "that old apple tree sight to be cut down. It takes up room and don't bear." "I wonder why it doesn't bear?" said Miss Cynthia Dodd. "Because," replied the man, "it is all alone. Trees like comny." But Miss Dodd did not have the tree cut down; it did not seem just for her to do so. Was she not alone and of little consequence to the community? Perhaps there was a trifle less of sunshine in that day to Miss Dodd. So many women around her had husbands and children about their heels, and she could see from her window several apple trees in clumps with the red fruit on their branches. Miss Cynthia caught herself sighing that Day. Maybe the old apple tree had its blue days. At no time had Sandhurst speculated on the chance of Miss Cynthia marrying. It seemed an accepted fact to the folk of that port that she would live and die a spinster. Men might escort her to and from church, visit, may, walk with her by moonlight in requested pathways, and yet the gossipy tongue of Sandhurst never hinted at Miss Cynthia having a lover. It was not that she was particularly plain of feature, for she wasn't; her manners were agreeable and her heart was the kindest in the world; but the fact remained that she had never had a lover, and Sandhurst, while loving her hugely, believed she never would. Having no personal interest in love or marriage, Miss Cynthia felt the deepest possible interest in the loves of other people. She delighted to bring Jack to his Jill and to follow, perhaps urge, their feet along the pathway of love to a joyful ending. A marriage where Miss Cynthia had not been in some way concerned would have WHAT CAN I DO? INQUIRED THE AMAZED MR. LANE. seemed stale and lacking of the prop- ingent to the people of Sandhra "Captain Bob," said Miss Cyrt addressing the master of the s athia, Salome, as they sat on the chooser Miss Dodd's cottage, "it's porch of you were settling down." high time Capt. Davidge admitt was 45 years old. ed the fact. He "Then," said Miss you marry Cecli The captain I Craig and do it?" Miss Craig he estimated a doubt as to Miss Cynn living him. bly. ma rubbed her nose vex- Why, she cries you've never asked her! schoor . . . "You couldn't expect your your her to sail if you didn't hoist T canyas, could you?" he captain shook his head and said, would try some day. "He needs rousing," murmured Miss Dodd, looking after him. Captain Bob and Miss Cynthia had been friends for years. Every time his schooner came to Sandhurst he paid her a visit, and naturally she felt a deep interest in his settling down. She had, herself, introduced him to Cecilia Craig, whom she felt would make him a most suitable helpmeet. But, despite the encouragement of Miss Dodd, the suit lagged. To use a nautical expression, it was plagued with head wounds. At the end of a year apparently no progress whatever had been made, and Miss Cynthia, becoming nervous, impressed Thomas Lane, mate of the Salome, into service. "Thomas Lane," she said, "Capt. Davidge is too slow in his courtship of Cecilia Craig. He needs rousing, and I want you to help me do it." "What can I do?" inquired the amazed Mr. Lane. "Make out you wanted her yourself; cut out the captain all the time and make him jealous. Then he'll speak." "I'll do it!" exclaimed Mr. Lane with enthusiasm. "You can depend on me, Miss Dodd." Mr. Lane, who had been an occasional visitor at the Craig cottage, now became assiduous in his attentions to Miss Cecilia Sandburst and Miss Dodd spurred on Capt. Davidge to action. "I wouldn't let my mate beat me," she said; "speak up and she will have you." The Salome sailed for Boston a few days later, but Captain Bob found time to stop at Miss Cynthia's cottage before sailing. "Cecilia's sald 'yes,'" he remarked. She congratulated him; but she was gloomy that day. All her friends were settling down, and she would miss Captain Bob. Stretching out northwestwardly from the port of Sandhurst was a long submerged ledge, a dangerous menace to vessels in thick weather, and there had been many wrecks and several lives lost on those hidden rocks; hence, when a fierce nor'easter roared through the streets of the village, bringing with it a whirling smudge of snow that merged the short day into night long before its time, people who had friends at sea prayed that they might be far from Sandhurst ledge that stormy night. Among those who wrung their hands and prayed was Cynthia Dodd. The Salome was due at Sandhurst, and with that howling gale driving along she would not be behind time. As the night drew down the gale increased, and she stood on the porch, miserably nervous, unmindful of the blast and swirling snow. A man bearing a lantern ran past the cottage. "There's a vessel on the ledge!" he bawled; "they say it's the Salome!" Miss Cynthia flung a cloak about her and ran after the man to Dawkin's tavern, near the beach, where a crowd of women and old men were assembled. Some wept, others garrulously gave their opinions, and others still gazed vacuously into the night, all waiting for the news they dreaded to hear. Cecilia Craig stood gazing toward the beach, pale and suddering, and Miss Cynthia, noting her, found to her amazement that she hated her. Not for her life could she have gone to the young woman and whispered a comforting word. Ashamed of herself she shrank back into the gloom. Then the wind bore with it something beside bite and snow-swirl. It was a shout. Blown to shreds as it was, there was yet a significance in it that caused an old seaman to mutter, "Thank God!" and to rush towards the beach. It came again, that shout, stronger now and articulate, "All safe!" was its burden, and women cried with joy and old men hallowed back in screechy tones. Then came disjointed words plainly from the crowd approaching. "It was the Salome." "She hit the ledge, but Bob managed to back her off." "Bully boy, Captain Bob!" Miss Cynthia stood trembling until a man rushed among them and threw his arms about Cecilia Craig. Then Cynthia Dodd fed homeward, crying softly, for she had discovered something. She stood before her mirror and looked at herself. "You fool!" she cried; "you stupid fool. Are you crazy?" Capt. Davidge called on Miss Dodd while she was eating her breakfast the following morning. Miss Cynthia didn't look at him; but then she was not looking at her best. Her face was pale and her eyes swollen and red. "I want to tell you something," said Captain Bob, abruptly. "Is it about Cecilia?" asked Miss Cynthia, with a shudder. "Part of it is," he replied; "she's going to marry Tom Lane the first of the month." Miss Dodd dropped her cup, thereby breaking a set she had inherited from her grandmother, and gazed affrighted at the captain. "Oh, Robert!" she wailed, "it's all my fault. I did it. I am the cause of it. I set him on to it." Captain Bob approached the weeping woman. "Cynthia," he said, nervously, "I never wanted to marry Cecilia. I wanted you. I was afraid to ask you, for we had been friends so long that I hated the idea of breaking off from you, and I was sure you'd say 'no.'" "You wanted me?" exclaimed Miss Cynthia, hysterically. "Two very happy people ate breakfast in the Dodd cottage that morning." AUTO GOGGLES FOR DOGS Frenchmen Now Dress Their Canine Pets in Up-to-Date Motoring Costumes. The automobile has always been bad for the dog unlucky enough to stay in its way. But it has also been and is bad for the dog that rides in the car with his master. The dust gives him sore eyes and he catches cold. The master, having devised means for his own comfort on the road, has at last bethought himself of his dumb companion. It is no uncommon sight in Paris now to see the dog peering from the front seat through enormous goggles such as the chauffeur himself wears. He wears a heavy blanket, tailored to fit as snugly as a coat, and a scarf about his neck to keep pneumonia at a distance. Small wonder that the peasants on country roads about Paris, seeing this strange beast in the still terrifying motor car, alongside a creature more resembling a gorilla than a man, raise their eyes to heaven and murmur: "Mad, all mad!" Wasn't Quite Sure Passenger—Are your sandwiches fresh? Sandwich Boy—I don't know, mister; I've only been here three days.—Judge. THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA MACADAM ROAD BUILDING. Cost Depends Largely on the Ease with Which Suitable Stone May Be Secured. Among the men whose names will live as long as civilization exists is that of John L. Macadam, the road builder. Not only has his name become a part of the English language, but the kind of road which he built has been adopted by all civilized nations. The ancient Romans built stone roads, but they were very different and vastly more expensive than the macadam roads of modern times. They built a substantial foundation of rock, sometimes several feet in depth and then covered it with a pavement of large flat stones. This kind of road will outlast any other. Indeed some parts of the Appian way, the building of which was begun three centuries before Christ, are still in use, and in good repair. It remained for John L. Macadam, a modern Englishman, to prove that the great expenditure of JOHN L. MACADAM. (The Inventor of the Modern System of Hard Roads.) time and money required in the building of the old Roman roads was largely wasted. He demonstrated that a smooth hard enduring road could be built of crushed stone a few inches in depth properly spread and compacted on a foundation of earth. The main points in successful macadam road building are (1) that the foundation be properly constructed and drained; (2) that the surface of the road be slightly curved so as to shed water; (3) that the surface of the finished road be made hard and smooth and as nearly waterproof as possible. The last of these qualities is secured by spreading on the stone in layers, beginning with a layer of the largest fragments and finishing with a layer of very fine crushed stone with which some sand is often incorporated. Each layer is well compacted with a heavy roller. Although the expense of building macadam roads is trifling compared with that of constructing a stone-paved road like that of the Roman emperor, Appius Claudius, it is still so great as to form the principal obstacle to macadamizing modern highways. The cost, of course, depends largely on the ease with which suitable stone may be secured. Where the material has to be transported by rail for a considerable distance the cost is greatly increased. Some of the Massachusetts highways have cost $8,000 to $10,000 a mile; while in some other states good macadam roads have been built for $1,500 to $3,000 per mile. Some friends of the good roads movement hesitate to join in the demand for national aid because they are appalled by the enormous expense involved in macadamizing the entire road mileage of the country. Such persons are laboring under a mistake. The national aid bills now before congress do not propose to construct any particular kind of road. They simply propose to "improve the public roads," and provide for "investigations and experiments to determine the best kinds of road material and the best methods of road building." In a recent article Representative Brownlow says: "My own individual opinion is that some of the principal thoroughfares ought to be macadamized. Well informed road experts have estimated that if one-tenth of the road mileage of the country were macadamized and the other nine-tenths were improved in other and cheaper ways, using the best local materials available, the cost of hauling the farm products of the United States to market would be reduced one-half." If this estimate is correct, the saving to the farmers would be enormous, and would in a few years be sufficient to cover the entire expense of making the improvements. Besides lessening the cost of hauling, good roads will bring the people of the rural districts pleasures and benefits which can not be measured in money. An Unpleasant Comparison. France is considerably smaller than Texas, yet has nearly 24,000 miles of wagon roads built and maintained as national roads by the national government at the expense of the nation. Where Italy Leads Us. Italy has 5,000 miles of highways built and maintained by the national government. In size Italy is no larger than Iowa and Illinois combined. NATIONAL AID TO STATES NATIONAL AID TO STATES. Policy Now Applied to Education In Also Applicable to the Improvement of Roads. The advocates of government aid in building and improving the roads are actively engaged in hunting up precedents. The latest thing in this line is government aid to education. They call attention to the fact that, in our earlier history, large gifts of public lands were made to the states to be used in support of the public schools. In 1862 the Morrill act was passed by congress making large grants of public lands to all the states, the income from which was to be used in the maintenance of agricultural colleges. In 1880 the second Morrill law was enacted making a national appropriation of $15,000 to each state to be used in supporting these agricultural colleges. This annual appropriation has been increased from year to year until it is now $25,000 for each state. This direct appropriation, added to the income which all the states derive from the land grants of 1882, makes an aggregate of nearly $2,000,000 a year, which the states now receive as national aid to agricultural education. One interesting feature of this government aid scheme is that it involves cooperation between the nation and the states somewhat similar to that now proposed in the Brownlow-Latimer bill. The government appropriations and the land grant funds must be used only in maintaining the colleges, not in establishing them. The states must provide the buildings and equipment. Most of the states also put up part of the funds used in paying the current expenses. In addition to all this, congress in 1887 passed the Hatch act making a gift of $15,000 annually to each state to aid in supporting a state experiment station, and in this we have another example of the same kind of cooperation. The states now receive from the government for the support of these stations nearly $800,000 annually. This added to the government aid which the colleges enjoy makes a grand total of more than $2,700,000 annually. The good roads people are asking why their plan for national aid to road improvement should be branded as unconstitutional and paternalistic, while government aid to education is a well established feature of our national policy. They point out that, while the constitution expressly empowers congress to "establish road posts," it is silent on the matter of education. They also claim that agricultural education is something which the states could handle far more easily than the improvement of the roads. On the whole, it looks as though the good roads advocates have the best of the argument, and federal aid to education will serve as a strong precedent for federal aid to road improvement. DRAG FOR COUNTRY ROADS When Used After a Rain or Thaw It Will Keep the Roadway in a Fair Condition. A drag is made by splitting a log, placing the two pieces about 30 inches apart (with the flat sides facing in the same direction), and pinning them together. The lower edge of the front piece is protected with iron; an old A LOG ROAD DRAG wagon tire will do. The log should be 10 or 12 inches thick and about 10 feet long. Fasten a chain or heavy wire 12 or 18 inches from each end by which to haul it. Hitch the team so the drag will move the dirt toward the center of the road. The hitch is next in importance to the time at which the dragging is done. The right time is just as the road dries after a rain or when it is thawed on top during the winter and spring, and it should be dragged every time.—Farm and Home. Keep the Milk Vessels Clean Keep the Milk Vessels Clean. The value of clean milk pails and pans is recognized by all dairymen, but not every farmer knows what is meant by clean milk vessels. The washing they receive on an ordinary farm, in which one small lot of boiling water serves for washing several milk pails, does not clean them, but always leaves large numbers of bacteria, especially in the cracks, ready to mix with the next lot of milk drawn into the pail. If possible they should be steamed daily. When this is not possible, they should be scrubbed with boiling water and sal soda, rinsed in boiling water and turned upside down to dry. They should not be rinsed in cold water and should never be wiped with a rag after scalding. In hot weather it may be necessary to take them occasionally to a creamery for steaming.-Prof. W. H. Conn, in Farmers Review. Work for Early Spring Days The fences will need looking after, and that is a job not to be put off. Drive a few nails here and there where they will do the most good. Very likely there is a post loosened by the frost, or a gate that sags, or a hinge out of order. Coal tar and mortar, mixed, is a good thing to stop the rat notes. It is something they will not be apt to gnaw. The drains and the sewers ought to be watched and kept clean. A little plaster, bone meal, orsuperphosphate makes a good top dressing for pasture lands, and for all grass lands; and there is no better time to put it on than this, when the coating of snow has left them soft.—Frank H. Sweet, in Epitomist. ATTRACTIVE FARM LAWNS. There Is No Reason Why Every Door Yard in the Land Should Not Be Beautified Nothing so beautifies a dwelling as to be set in the center of a well kept lawn. There is no reason why the farmer and his family should not enjoy the possession of an attractive door yard, since every facility is at hand for grading, planting and keeping a pretty lawn. The dwelling should, if possible, be located on a slightly elevated knoll, but often the site has already been selected and the building erected in which case it may be necessary to grade to the desired elevation. One can not endure a low sloppy door yard, hence the ground immediately around the house should be higher than at the outer edge of the yard. Early spring is the best time to sow the grass seed. Kentucky blue grass is a general favorite for lawns. This should be very thickly sown to produce a mat the first season. If, however, one succeeds in getting a fal, even stand, he need have no concern regarding the lack of density as this grass thickens up from year to year. In arranging the lawn, have very few shrubs or trees in the center. There should be planted at the outer edge, preferably at the rear and sides of the building. Do not obscure the view from the roadway. If there are unightly buildings a screen of vines run on a wire trellis will be found effectual in hiding them from the occupants of the dwelling as well as from passers-by. A very pretty effect may be had by planting a few beds of profuse bloomers of different colors very near the house, at the ends or side of the porch or around the bay window. Provision may be made to have these beds in bloom from early spring bulbs for early spring blooming, annuals for summer, and chrysanthemums, cosmos and other autumn blooming plants. Their beauty is enhanced by the greenery about them. C. B. Barrett, in Epitomist. SETTING THE FRUIT TREES. How an Orchard of Any Kind May Be Made to Look Attractive as Well as Thrifty. Young orchards should be set so the trees may be in exact rows. It requires little more work than the silipshod methods too often used. An orchard in which the trees are accurately set is a joy forever, while one in which they are set in a haphazard fashion is an eyesore. The contention that sighting the trees themselves will not give perfectly straight rows is also sound. I can scarcely conceive of the ordinary farm hand, or even an extraordinary one, getting under a "light tripod" and dig- PLACING TRE TREE ging a hole for a tree without moving the tripod. It might be possible if the tripod were so large as to give ample room for the operation of digging. In such a case it would be too unwelty to move easily. Lowering a weight down by the side of the trunk to ascertain when the tree is in the right place is likely to prove somewhat tedious if there are any branches on the tree to interfere. The accompanying diagram shows what has proved to be a most satisfactory device for getting the tree exactly where the stake originally stood. It consists of a board perhaps six feet long with a hole in either end and a deep notch in the middle. The land in which the trees are to be planted is first laid in in rows with a small stake where each tree is to stand. The board just described is placed on the ground so that the notch fits over the stake. A small stake is driven through each of the holes in the ends of the board. The board is removed and the hole dug for the tree. While this is being done the measuring board may be used to set the guide stakes for other holes. When everything is ready to set the tree, put the board back in place again, place the tree in the hole so that it fits in the notch, and fill in the soil. The result will be that the tree stands just where the original stake did. If planting is being done on a large scale, there may be a half dozen or more of the measuring boards. If they are all of the same dimensions it will make no difference whether or not the same one is used in setting the tree that was used when the guide stakes were set.—F. C. Sears, in Orange Judd Farmer. Ditching the Country Boss In my travels, I notice that often when a side ditch is made, it is put on the lower side of the road instead of on the upper side, as it should be, to catch the water and keep it off the roadbed. The best rule, however, is to have a good ditch on each side the entire length of the road.—J. H. Cain, in Farm and Home. Bad Roads Breed Ignorance. Bad roads do more than anything else to promote ignorance, isolation, discouragement and disgust among the country people. HER MUSICAL EAR. "Have you a good ear for music?" asked a caller of four-year-old Ethel, who was seated at a plano. "Course I have," replied the little miss. "Why, only this morning I heard a man two blocks away playing a tune on a grind organ."—Cincinnati Enquirer. Merely a Hint. 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He's shot and hacked up his mother wouldn't know him if she wanted to. At least that's what they say out here. We haven't seen him. He's called Jerry the Teller, and one of my sergeants found him in the freight yard. Knew it was the Teller, because he was stowed away in one of the empty cars that came from Plattville last night. And Slattery—that's his running mate, the one we caught with the coat and hat—owned up that they beat their way on that freight. Looks like Slattery—let the Teller do all the fighting. He ain't scratched. We've been at Slattery pretty hard, but he won't open his head, and we hope to get something out of this one. He's delirious, but they say he'll come to before he dies. Do you want to go in with us?" "Yes," said Meredith simply, and a young surgeon presently appeared and led them down a wide corridor and up a narrow hall, and they entered a small, quiet ward. There was a pungent smell of chemicals in the room. The light was low, and the dimness was imbued with a thick, confused murmur, incoherent whisperings that came from a cot in the corner. It was the only cot in use in the ward, and Meredith was conscious of a terror that made him dread to look at it, to go near it. Beside it a nurse sat silent, and upon it feebly tossed the racked body of him whom Bigrett had called Jerry the Teller. The head was a shapeless bundle, so swathed it was with bandages and cloths, and what part of the face was visible. Vase was discolored and pigmented with drugs. Stretched under the white sheet the man looked immensely tall—as Horner saw with vague misgiving—and he lay in an odd, inhuman fashion, as though he had been all broken to pieces. His attempts to move were constantly soothed by the nurse, and he as constantly continued such attempts, and one hand, though torn and bandaged, was not to be restrained from a wandering, restless movement that Meredith felt to be pathetic. He had entered the room with a flare of hate for the thug whom he had come to see die and who had struck down the old friend whose nearness he had ever known until it was too late. But at first sight of the broken figure he felt an animosity fall away from him. Only we remained and a growing raitorous city as he watched the long white finger of the Teller pick at the man was muttering coverlet. The of words and syllables. "Somehow I feel, a sense of wrong, dur." Meredith white, "I feel as if I surged, whom he know. 'I feel as if I had done the fellow to 'death myself, all if it were all out of gen.' 'I know how Henry felt over me.' The great how Henry felt over me.' That Gilbert. How tall he looks." "d" don't seem to me like a thug's ha The surgeon nodded. "Of course there's a mistake to be made you can count on Barrett and his sergeants to make it. I doubt if this is their man. When they found him, what clothes he wore were torn and stained, but they had been good once, especially the linen." Barrett bent over the recumbent figure, "See here, Jerry," he said, "I want to talk to you a little. Rouse up, will you? I want to talk to you as a friend." The incoherent muttering continued. "So here, Jerry!" repeated Barrett more sharply. "Jerry! Rouse up, will you? We don't want any fooling, understand that, Jerry!" He dropped his hand, on the man's shoulder and shook him slightly. The Teller uttered a short, gasping cry. "Let me," said Gay and swiftly in terposed. Bending over the cot, he said in a pleasant voice: "It's all right, old man; it's all right. Slattery wants to know what you did with that man down at Plattyville when you got through with him. He can't remember, and he thinks there was money left on him. Slattery's head was hurt. He can't remember. He'll go shares with you when he gets it. Slattery's going to stand by you if he can get the money." The Teller only tried to move his free "The Teller only tried to move his free band to the shoulder Barrett had shaken. "Slattery wants to know," repeated the young surgeon, gently moving the band back upon the sheet. "He'll divvy up when he gets it. He'll stand by you, old man." "Would you please not mind," whispered the Teller faintly—"would you please not mind if you took care not to brush against my shoulder again?" The surgeon drew back, with an exclamation, but the Teller's whisper gathered strength, and they heard him murmuring oddly to himself. Meredith moved forward, with a startled gesture. "What's that?" he said. "Seems to be trying to sing, or something," said Barrett, bending over to listen. The Teller swung his arm heavily over the side of the cot, the fingers never ceasing their painful twitching. The surgeon leaned down and gently moved the cloths so that the white, scarred lips were free. They moved steadily. They seemed to be framing the semblance of an old ballad that Meredith knew. The whisper grew more distinct. It became a rich but broken voice, and they heard it singing like the sound of some far, halting minstrels: "Wave willows--murmur waters--golden sunbeams smile, Earthly music--cannot waken--lovely- Earthly music—cannot waken—lovely—Annie Lise." Meredith gave an exclamation. The bandaged hand waved jauityl over the Teller's head. "Ah, men," he said, almost clearly, and tried to lift himself on his arm. "I tell you it's a grand cleen we have this year! There will be little left of anything that stands against them. It's our championship. Did you see Jim Romley ride over his man this afternoon?" As the voice grew clearer the sheriff stepped forward, but Tom Meredith, with a loud cry of grief, threw himself on his knees beside the cot and seized the wandering fingers in his own. "John!" he cried. "John, is it you?" The voice went on rapidly, not heeding him, "Ah, you needn't bow! Well, laugh away, you Indians! If it hadn't been for this ankle—but it seems to be my chest that's hurt and side—not that it matters, you know. The sophomore's just as good or better. It's only my egotism. Yes, it must be the side—and chest—and head—all over. I believe. I'll try again next year—next year I'll make it a daily. Helen said, not that I should call you Helen. I mean Miss-Miss-Fisbee—no, Sherwood—but I've always thought Helen was the prettiest name in the world—you'll forgive me—and please tell Parker there's no more copy and w't be-I wouldn't grind out another stick to save his immortal—she said-ah, I never made a good trade—no unless—they can't come seven miles—but I'll finish you, Skillie, first; I know you! I know nearly all of you. Now let's sing 'Annie Lisle'"—He lifted his hand as if to beat the time for a chorus. "Oh, John, John!" cried Tom Meredith, and sobbed outright. "My boy, my boy—old friend!" The cry of the classmate was like that of a mother, for it was his old idol and hero who lay helpless and broken before him. Two pairs of carriage lamps sparkled in front of the hospital in the earliest of the small hours, these subjoined to two deep hooded phaetons, from each of which quickly descended a gentleman with a beard, an air of eminence and a small, ominous black box, and the air of eminence was justified by the haste with which Meredith had sent for them and by their wide repute. They arrived almost simultaneously and hastily shook hands as they made their way to the ward down the long hall and up the narrow corridor. They had a short conversation with the surgeon and a word with the nurse, then turned the others out of the room by a practiced innuendo of manner. They stayed a long time in the room without opening the door. Meredith went out on the steps and breathed the cool night air. A slender taint of drugs hung everywhere about the building, and the almost imperceptible permeation sickened him. It was deadly, he thought. To him it was imbued with a hideous portent of suffering. The lights in the little ward were turned up, and they seemed to shine from a chamber of horrors, while he waited as a brother might have waited outside the inquisition, if indeed a brother would have been allowed to 'aft outside the inquisition. has, he had found John Harkless. A. he lost track of him as men sometimes lose track of their best betimes do it had always been a comforto, but that Harkless was somewhere, a comfort without which he could hardly have got along. Like others, he had been waiting for John to turn up on top, of course—he had such ability, ability for anything, and people would always care for him and believe in him so that he would be shoved ahead no matter how much he hung back himself; but Meredith had not expected him to turn up in Indiana. He remembered now hearing a man who had spent the day in Plattville on business speak of him: "They've got a young fellow down there who'll be governor in a few years. He's a sort of dictator. Runs the party all over that part of the state to suit his own sweet will just by sheer personality. And there isn't a man in the district who wouldn't cheerfully lie down in the mud to let him pass over dry. It's that young Harkless, you know. Owns the Herald, the paper that downed McCune and smashed those imitation "White Caps in Carlow county." He had been struck by the coincidence of the name, but he had not dreamed that the Carlow Harkless was his friend until Helen's telegram had reached him that evening. He shivered. His name was spoken from within, and Horner came out on the steps with the two eminent surgeons, and the latter favored him with a few words which he did not understand. He did understand, however, what Horner told him. Somehow the look of the sheriff's Sunday coat, wrinkling forlornly from his broad, bent shoulders, was both touching and solemn. He said simply: "He's conscious and not out of his head. They're gone in to git his antemortem statement." And they re-entered the ward. Harkless' eyes were bandaged. The lawyer was speaking to him, and as Horner went awkwardly toward the cot Warren said something indicative THE RICHMOND AVENUE (100) 100 A "John, is it your?" of the sheriff's presence, and the hand on the sheet made a formless motion which Horner understood, and he took the pale fingers in his own very gently and then set them back. Smith turned toward Meredith, but the latter made a gesture which forbade the attorney to speak to him and went to a corner and sat down, with his head in his hands. A sleepy young man had been brought in, and he opened a notebook and shook a stylographic pen so that the ink might flow freely. The lawyer, briefly and with unlegal agitation, administered an oath, and then there was silence. "Now, Mr. Harkless, if you please," said Barrett insinuatingly, "if you feel like telling us as much as you can about it." He answered in a low, rather indistinct voice very deliberately, pausing before almost every word. It was easy work for the sleepy stenographer. "I understand. I don't want to go off my head again before I finish. If it were only for myself I should tell you nothing, because if I am to leave I should like it better if no one were punished. But that's a bad commitment over there. They are everlartingly worrying our people. They've always been a bother to us, and it's time it was stopped for good. I don't belong very much in punishment. I can't do a great deal of reforming with the Crossroaders unless you catch them young, before they're weaned. They wean them on whisky, you know. I realize you needn't have sworn me for me to tell you this." Horner and Smith had started at the mention of the Crossroads, but they subdued their ejaculations, while Mr. Barrett looked as if he had known it, of course. The room was still, save for the dim voice and the soft transcribings of the stylographic pen. "I left Judge Briscoe's and went west on the pike to a big tree. It rained, and I stepped under the tree for shelter. There was a man on the other side of the fence—Bob Skillett. He was carrying his gown and hood—I suppose it was that—on his arm. Then I saw two others a little farther east in the middle of the road. I think they had followed me from the Briscoe's or near there. They had their foolish regalia on, as all the others had. There was plenty of lightning to see. The two in the road were simply standing there in the rain looking at me through the eyelashes in their masks. I knew there were others—plenty—but I thought they were coming from behind me—the west. "I wanted to get home—the courthouse yard was good enough for me—so I started east toward town. I passed the two gentlemen, and one fell down as I went by him, but the other fired a shot as a signal, and I got his hood off his face for it. I stopped long enough, and it was Force Johnson. I know him well. Then I ran, and they followed. A little ahead of me I saw six or eight of them spread across the road. I knew I'd have a time getting through, so I jumped the fence to cut across the fields. I lit in a swarm of them. It had rained them just where I jumped. I set my back to the fence, but one of the fellows in the road leaned over and smashed my head in, rather—with the butt of a gun. I believe. I came out from the fence, and they made a little circle around me. No one said anything. I saw they had ropes and saplings, and I didn't want that exactly, so I went in to them. I got a good many masks off before it was over, and I can swear to quite a number besides those I told you." He names the men slowly and carefully. Then he went on: "I think they gave up the notion of whipping. We all got into a bunch, and they could" get clear to shoot without hitting some of their own, and there was a lot of gouging and kicking. One fellow nearly got my left eye, and I tried to tell him apart, and he screamed a good deal. Once or twice I thought I might get away, but somebody hammered me over the head and face again, and I got dizzy, and then they all jumped away from me suddenly, and Bob Skillett stepped up and—shot me. He waited for a furry of lightning, and I was slow tumbling down. Some one else fired a shotgun, I think, I can't be sure, about the same time from the side. I tried to get up, but I couldn't, and then they got together for a consultation. The man I had hurt—I didn't recognize him—came and looked at me. He was nursing himself all over and groomed, and I laughed, I think; at any rate my arm was lying stretched out on the grass, and he stamped his heel into my hand, and after a little of that I quit feeling. "I'm not quite clear about what happened afterward. They went away—not far, I think. There's an old shed, a cattle shelter, nea, there, and I think the storm drove the van under it to wait for a slack. It see, and a long time. Sometimes I was conscious, sometimes it wasn't. I thought I might be drowned, but I suppose the rain was good for me. Then I remember being in motion, being dragged and carried a long way. They carried me up a steep, short slope and set me down near the top. I knew that was the railroad embankment, and I thought they meant to lay me across the track, but it didn't occur to them—they are not familiar with melodrama—and a long time after that I felt and heard a great bang and rattling under me and all about me, and it came to me that they had disposed of me by hoisting me into an empty freight car. The odd part of it was that the car wasn't empty, for there were two men already in it, and I knew them by what they said to me. "They were the two shell men that cheated Hartley Bowlder, and they weren't vindictive. They even seemed to be trying to help me a little, though perhaps they were only stealing my clothes, and maybe they thought for them to do anything unpleasant would be superfluous. I could see that they thought I was done for and that they had been hiding in the car when I was put there. I asked them to try to call the trainmen for me, but they wouldn't listen or else I couldn't make myself understood. That's all. The rest is a blur. I haven't known anything more until those surgeons were here. Please tell me how long ago it happened. I shall not die, I think. There are a good many things I want to know about." He moved restlessly, and the nurse soothed him. Meredith rose and left the room with a noiseless step. He went out to the stars again and looked to them to check the storm of rage and sorrow that buffeted his bosom. He understood lynching, the thing he was home to him, and his feeling was no inspiration of a fear lest the law miscarry. It was the itch to get his own hand on the rope. Horner came out presently and whispered a long, broad, profound curse upon the men of the Crossroads, and Meredith's gratitude to him was keen. Barrett went away soon after, and Meredith had a strange, unreasonable desire to kick Barrett, possibly for his sergeant's sake. Warren Smith sat in the ward with the nurse and Gay, and the room was very quiet. It was a long vigil. They were only waiting. At 5 o'clock he was still alive—just that, Smith came out to say. Meredith sent a telegram to Helen which would give Plattville the news that Harkless was found and was not yet gone from them. Horner left for the station to catch a train. There were things for him to do in Carlow. At noon Meredith sent a telegram to Helen on barrica to detail as the first. He was alive; was ill. He improved. But this telegram told her, for she was on the train to Carlow, and half of the population was with her. They seemed to feel that they could camp in the hospital halls and corridors, and they were an incalculable worry to the authorities. More came on every train, and nearly all brought flowers and fely and chickens for pre THE STORM "I set my back to the fence." paring broth, and they insisted that the two latter delicacies be fed to the patient at once. They were still in ignorance of the truth about the Crossroads and spent the day (it was Sunday) partly in getting in the way of the attendants and partly in planning an assault upon the Rouen Jail for the purpose of lynching Slavery in case Harkless condition did not improve at once. Those who had heard his statement kept close mouths until the story appeared in full in the Rouen papers on Monday morning. But by that time every member of the Crossroads White Caps was lodged in the Rouen jail with Slattery. Horner and a heavily armed posse rode over to the muddy corners on Sunday night, and the sheer discovery that he might have taken the Skillletts and Johnson's single handed and unarmed. Their nerve was gone. They were shaken and afraid, and, to employ a figure somewhat inappropriate to their sullen, glad surrender, they fell upon his neck in their relief at finding the力 touching them. They had no wish to hear "John Brown's Body" again. They wanted to get inside of a strong jail and to throw themselves on the mercy of the court as soon as possible. And those whom Harkless had not received made no delay in giving them up. They did not wish to remain in son and one or two Skilllett. Force John of a physician others needed the case was suffering badly, and one man back. Horror from a severely wrenched a crossing ner had a train stopped at be taken so that his prisoners need not brought through Plattville, and he them all safely to Rouen. It took nearly a week to persuade people of Plattville that it was better for them to go home, and it was only the confidence inspired by the manner of the two eminent surgeons (they lay in wait at all hours to interview these gentlemen) that did persuade them to return—this and the promise of two daily bulletins. As many of them said on their return, Plattville didn't "feel like the same place," and a strange thing had happened—for the first time in five years the Carlow County Herald missed fire altogether. Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday passed. Mr. Fishee only sat staring out of the dingy office windows with Parker in a demented silence. There was no Herald; there was no one to get it out. In the Ronen hospital John Harkless feebly moved on his bed of pain. His constant delusion was that the universe was a vast, white heated brass bell and he a point at the center of it listening, listening for years, to the brazen hum it gave off and burning in hot waves of sound. Finally he came to what he would have considered a lucid interval had it not appeared that Helen Sherwood was whispering to Tom Meredith at the foot of his bed. This he knew to be a fictitious presentation of his fever, for was she not by this time away and away for foreign lands? And also Tom Meredith was a slim young thing and not a middle aged youth with an undeniable stomach and a baldish head who by the preposterous necromancy of fever assumed a grotesque likeness of his old friend. He waved his hand to the figures, and they vanished like figments of a dream; but, all the same, the vision had been realistic enough for the lady to look exquisitely pretty. No one could help wishing to stay in a world which contained as charming a picture as that. But the next night Meredith waited near his bedside, haggard and disheveled. Harkless had been lying in a long stupor. Suddenly he spoke, quite loudly, and the young surgeon, Gay, who leaned over him, remembered the words and the tone all his life. "Away—and away—across the waters" said John Harkless. "She was here—once in June." "What is it, John?" whispered Meredith huskily. "You're feeling easier, aren't you?" And John smiled a little, as if, for the moment, he saw and knew his old friend again. That same night a friend of Rodney McCune's sent a telegram from Rouen: "He is dying. His paper is dead. Your name goes before convention in September." Strange Adventures of a Man Who Starts Out to Lose the Body of Cat He Had killed. Sneaking by the fries he met in the streets, with a guillot feeling that they might guess the package he carried contained a dead tomcat, a certain East Orange (N. J.) man was amazed when he reached his home to find that the cat wasn't a cat at all, but a fine leg of mutton. This man had heard about cat being served under other worms. 35-cent table d'hote restaurants in New York city, but the reversal of that dinner custom puzzled him for a time. He is in business in New York and is a pigeon fancier. Recently vagrant cats have been killing his pigeons, so he lay in ambush with a gun and shot one of the four-footed bird fanciers. He started to bury the dead cat in his back yard; then thought prying neighbors might think he was hiding a murder. "I know what I'll do. I'll wrap the corpse in paper and throw it off the IT WAS A LEG OF MUTTON. ferry boat when I cross in the morning," said he. The neat bundle was in his hand when he boarded the train in the morning. But on the boat he was surrounded by friends, and he reflected he might have to make an embarrassing explanation if he threw the bundle overboard. "An ash barrel in New York will doo," he thought. But, on reaching Manhattan, he found it hard to carry out his plan. "I'll throw it overboard on the way home," said he. But on that trip he met more acquaintances, and as a result the cat still was with him when he boarded the train. He laid the package down beside him and tried to become absorbed in his paper, but the cat haunted him. When he reached his station he picked up the package and went home. "Here," said he to the cook, "bury this in the back yard." She went out, but came back in a few minutes, looking surprised. "Why dye want to bury that, sir?" she asked, and she held out just as nice a leg of mutton as ever graced a table. He stared; then guessed the truth. "I hope the other fellow who took that cat home doesn't learn who I am," said he, and he told the cook they'd have mutton for dinner. But what the other family ate is a painful question. A Leak Somewhere "Anything wrong at the pumping station of the city waterworks?" asked the idiotic boarder. "Not that I know of," replied the landlady. "Why do you ask?" "Oh, I've noticed that the water you have been giving us lately is about half milk," replied the i. b. with a ghoulish grin. "Cincinnati Enquirer. Why She Was Worried. wonder who that woman is whose on crooked, and who looks both- hat is "to death," said a man on the ered car of a street car. back pike "wife," said Mr. Meekton. "That's it to death for fear she "She's boths 'Don't Worry' club in won't get to his section of officers."— time to attend the Washington St. With the temperature at nearly zero, Miss Margaret Dwyer occupied her cot on the rear plaza of her home on Tea Broeck street, Albany, N. Y. When asked the all-important question: Why? Miss Dwyer responded: "First, because I cannot sleep well indoors and can in open air. When I returned from last summer's vacation it was very warm in the city, so one night when I could not sleep at all I got up and went out on the porch, where I easily fell asleep on a couch. After that I just drifted into the habit. This has been a pretty cold winter, but I have not been at all cold in bed on the back porch, and have spent several of the coldest nights out this winter. I feel fine in the morning, and did not have a cold until my uncle interfered." At this point Miss Dwyer's uncle, John J. Jansen, explained that coming in one blizzard night, with his A woman in a long dress stands on a balcony, looking out at a cityscape. MISS DWYER RETIRING. clothes covered with snow, he absolutely refused to let his niece sleep in her exposed bed. A few days after that she developed a cold, and the uncle regretted his interference and believed that had he allowed Miss Dwyer to pursue her own course she would never have had her one cold. The bed that Miss Twyer sleeps in is an ordinary cot, with woven wire springs, situated against the partition which separates her uncle's from his neighbor's back porch. Her bedding consists of a pair of fleece-lined sheets, a rose blanket, a comfortable and a pillow. She disrobes in the house, dons a nightdress, a bath robe, a pair of knitted bootees and a hood, which, while it protects her ears, leaves her face entirely exposed. Thus attired she seeks a couch almost under the broad expanse of the heavens. Her fancies are somewhat poetic and she says it is the most sublime sensation to watch the myriads of stars overhead until sleep closes the eyes. CAUGHT DANGEROUS PET. Servant Lately Arrived from Old Country Thought Fierce Wild Cat Could Be Tamed. John Stephens, a farmer who lives in the Alleghenies about five miles west of Altoona, Pa., was awakened from his slumbers several mornings ago by an unearthly squealing in the lower portion of his home. Selzing a revolver, he sprang down three steps at a time to the kitchen, where he found his new Swedish cook placidly preparing breakfast, while a mass of squirming something near the fireplace spout out a vocabulary of feline invective such as he had never heard before. "I got you pretty puss," she said, smiling at Stephens. "I got him in the stable v milk I milk. I catch him v horisely nettings so he can't scratch. Yes; he is von fine big cat." The farmer looked at the struggling animal. It was a wildcat which A "I GOT YOU, PRETTY PUSS." weighed at least 75 pounds, and had claws like a small tiger. He scratched his head in perplexity. He could not cut the animal loose, and it was equally impossible to allow it to remain in the house. Suddenly a ripping was heard, and, with a wild howl, the cat began to extricate himself from the netting. The farmer dragged the girl into an adjoining room and locked the door. A minute later the animal leaped through a window to liberty. "Him vas von nice cat," said the maid, regretfully. "I vish him would stayed." Japan's Merchant Marine The mercantile fleet of Japan ranks seventh in the world's shipping. His Contribution After an unsatisfactory banquet the guest of the evening was introduced by the toastmaster as follows: "Gentlemen, we have with us tonight Prof. Long-Bowe, who will tell us one of his best, and biggest 'after dinner' stories." Amid loud applause Prof. Long-Bowe arose. "Mr. Toastmaster and gentlemen," he said, "to begin with my biggest story let me tell you how thoroughly I have enjoyed your banquet."—Chloe go Tribune. A Foreign Entanglement. Monroe was explaining his famous doctrine. "There must be no foreign alliances or entanglements," he exclaimed. "But, James," whispered his wish, "the Irish cook says she will leave we don't discharge the Swedish maid. Hopelessly the great man sank like a chair and brought his powers of plomacy to bear on the subject—N. Times. The Hum-Bug. The Hum-bug has its hab-1-dat "Most every-where be-neath the In fact, it is very like-ly that You know the where-a-bouts of—Puck. A FAIR ARRANGEMENT. Kitty—And when we're married shall you insist on my reading your poems and novels? Author—We'll make a bargain, dear! If you'll read what I write, I'll what you cook—St. Louis Republic How Careless There was a little girl And she was a little girl— To the table when it attested And when she was good She was very, very good. And when she was bad she was arrested. Cornell Widow. Facts in the Case. "I invested in a horseless carriage last week," remarked Wederly. "Indeed?" exclaimed his friend Singleun. "Then you are right in the push." "Sure thing," rejoined he of the prelude. "You see, the baby's getting too big to carry."—Cincinnati Enquirer. Thought It Quite Likely. "Harold, dear," purred his young wife "are you sure you will never grow tired of me?" "Perhaps I may, pet," said Harold, caressing her brown hair. "But there's my club, you know."—Chicago Tribune. No Relief. Mistress—You have broken another plate, Margaret? Mald—I have, mum; but that's all the good it will do. You'll get another, of course; so I'll have just as many dishes to wash as ever.—Boston Transcript. Mrs. Caffrey—And how is that pretty young widow? Is she reconciled to her loss yet? Mrs. Malaprop—No, she ain't exactly reconciled yet, but they do say she's got the man picked out—Tit-Bits. The joke of It "I suppose being the wife of a humorist is a continuous joke," said her former schoolmate. "Yes," she sadly sighed, looking at her faded jacket, "and it's on me."—Chicago Record-Herald. A Flower Show Tragedy. A Flower Show Tragedy. Bobbie—Auntie Belle, please take me home from the ball. Auntie Belle—Home, Bobbie! Why? Bobbie I wanted to know where the wall flowers grew, and a lot of ladies laughed at me. Equine Criticism. First Horse—What do you think of those automobiles? Second Horse—Why, the blamed fools haven't any instinct. They run into anything they come across—Brooklyn Life. Fishing. "Why does she always lead that ugly dog around?" "Just to give a fellow a chance to spring some remark about Beauty and the Beast,' I suppose."—Chicago American. Described. "How would you describe a college boy?" "I'd call him a chap who might be a fine student if he had time to study." Detroit Free Press. Troublesome Times. "This seems to be the age," grumbled the housewife, "where you don't seem to be able to get anything except something that's 'just as good as' something else." —Chicago Post. Couldn't Be Safer Gentleman (to pediar)—Call these safety matches? Why, they won't light at all! Pediar—Well, wot could yer 'ave aster—Tit-Bits. No Rush About It. The Millionaire—What's the use of living, anyway? His Son—Please don't hurry on my account, sir.—Cincinnati Commercial Tribune. Always Had It. "Has your husband a birthmark or anything of that kind, by which he may be identified?" asked the detective. The deserted wife reflected a moment, "Yes, sir," she said. "He has a sord o' hang-dog look on his face, and it was born with him, I guess."—Chicago Talk, una. Served Him Right. Mr. Jinks—I see the editor of the Trumpet is having trouble with his wife. She wants a divorce. Mrs. Jinks—I don't wonder. He was always printing articles about housework being healthful—N. Y. Weekly. Not Flattering. 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Stay off the street cars and avoid trouble. COLORED people should remember that they should discountenance all unlawful tendencies and strive to promote peace and harmony in the communities in which they live. It seems that Senator B. R. TILLMAN has more influence in the United States Senate where a colored man is concerned than the President of the United States. The confirmation of Dr. W. D. CRUM as Collective of the Port of Charleston, South Carolina, was postponed simply because the good Lord had afflicted Tillman with a bad case of sore throat. STREET CAR mass-meeting at True Reformers' Hall, Tuesday, April 19th, 1904, at 8 o'clock. Go early and hear how to avoid trouble. Stay off the street cars! Do not get on the street cars to assert your rights. Legitimate rights become legal "wrongs" in the face of the specific provisions of legalized regulations and the Mayor and Governor are obliged to call out the armed power of the state, when necessary to uphold the same. Let us be peaceable, law-abiding and at the same time avoid trouble. Walking is good now. Stay off the street cases! THE TIMES-DISPATCH says that the colored people' property, which is valued at eighteen million dollars, is partly mortgaged. Well, that doesn't affect the taxes paid on it. And this journal knows that our esteemed white folks' property sometimes appears to be all mortgaged. The government itself will take 250 years to pay what it owes. When it comes to borrowing or owing money, the white folks are past-masters at the art. A NEEDLESS INNOVATION. We act since the close of the Civil War has tended to arouse a more bitter feeling of racial antagonism than the source pursued by the VIRGINIA PASSenger AND POWER COMPANY in adopting rules and regulations authorizing its irresponsible and responsible conductors to order its white and colored gatrons from this or that seat to this or that seat. This feeling has been accentuated from the fact that there was and is absolutely no demand or excuse for such discrimination. The class of colored people, who have been the patrons of the line are well-behaved and orderly, submitting to indignities and insults from some of the prejudiced conductors, which would have called forth retaliation from a more sensitive and hot-headed class of people. In fact, it is conceded that in the matter of obeying the police authorities and good conduct on the street-railways, the colored people of this city will compare favorably with any orderly community in the world. The relationship between the better elements of the two races has been most friendly, and at no time has the Richmond City Council deemed it necessary to pass any measure even remotely, looking to the discrimination which the VIRGINIA PASSENGER AND POWER COMPANY of its own motion proceeds to inflict upon this community. Some Negro-hating member of the Council proposed such legislation, and we believe actually introduced it, but it must have been "laughed out of court" for it never emerged from the sombre surroundings of the committee room. This was considered by the conservative colored people to be a good omen and the feeling of friendliness towards the white people here was strengthened. It is known that the colored people of Virginia are among the best in the world for kindness, good manners and a disposition to serve with satisfaction those among whom they cast their lot. For this reason, Virginia servants for many years commanded the highest wages at the North and in many places now, they are eagerly sought. This was due, to a large extent, to the courtliness of the true F. F. V. Virginia gentleman, to the "manor born," who had around him only well-bred servants and infused even into the field hands the spirit of true "Chesterfieldian" politeness for which our people were noted. For years after the war closed an ill-mannered Negro was designated by the colored people themselves in tones of co-steup as "a corn-field Negro," and an ill-mannered white man, as "poor white trash." BUT the VIRGINIA PASSENGER AND POWER COMPANY evidently did not know this. It is a northern corporation, which is no doubt trying to out-do itself in pandering to some of its Negro-hating patrons. In this, it has over-stepped the bounds, and is meeting deserved condemnation at the hands of the respectable, conservative colored people and being most heartily criticized by the better class of white people of this community, whose parents owned a Negro and knew the value of one. There are not half a dozen white families of standing in Richmond, whose members, both male and female do not come in closer contact with Negroes than it is ever possible to do during the transient acquaintanceship on the street cars. They know that it is utterly impossible to give parlor-car accommodations for five cents and that people who wish to ride to themselves or keep from comin contact with Chinamen, Italians or Colored people should either hire cabs, or charter furniture wagons for their own convenience. It seems then that this COMPANY has grievously misunderstood the situation and that President FRITZ SITTERDING, who, we believe is a German and General Manager HUFF, whom we believe is evidently anything else but a native born Virginian should hold sweet communion with the Virginians of the Mr. JOHN P. BRANCH or Mr. JOHN L. WILLIAMS' type. The former held the funeral of his black Mammy in his parler, and not to have done so wou'd have been in the face of the protests of the tender female members of his family. They should call on the members of the Centenary Church in this city, who sent their stewards and designated white members of the congregation to act as pill-bearers over the remains of the old colored sexton, JOHN WHITE and whose pastor, in tones of emotion pronounced the eulogy over the remains then in transit to the grave. No thought of racial separation was there apparent, and no one spoke of it. It is evident that the management of the company has been living in Richmond, but is not yet of it. Capt. ALEXANDER B. GUIGON, the able young attorney for the company comes from true Virginia stock and can no doubt enlighten Mr. SITTERDING and Mr. HUFF on these matters, if they desire to be enlightened. Judge GUIGON, admitted to be one of the ablest jurists who ever sat on the bench would have taken a seat beside a Negro, either male or female on a street-car or in a carriage. He had done so hundreds of times for he always kept Negro servants around to rear his children and to discharge the onerous cares of the household. But enough, the COMPANY, in our judgment has made a mistake, and it at present insists upon following it out to its logical conclusion. This is no time to threaten, or to attempt to retaliate. We should demonstrate that we have been well-bred and are students of good manners. There is no discrimination on the side-walks and we are at present in a friendly relationship with the policemen. No Negro's head has come in violent contact with an officer's presiding club, with its accompaniment of bumps, blood and stars for more than a year and we can walk and be happy. Let us avoid trouble. Walking is good now. Stay off the street cars! THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA BRUTAL MURDER OF WATCHMAN Robber Surprised at Work in Houston Club of Pennsylvania University. NEGRO CONFESSES THE CRIME Philadelphia, April 11. — John Thomas, the night watchman at the Houston Club of the University of Pennsylvania, which is situated on the campus in the heart of the university's group of buildings, was brutally murdered on the bowling alleys in the basement of the club house. The motive is believed to have been robbery, and Lawrence Gibson, alias John Oakley, a negro, was arrested on suspicion. Gibson was employed for a number of years as a utility man at Houston Hall. Houston Hall is closed at 7 o'clock on Sunday evening. Shortly after that hour a student in passing the hall noticed that it had not been closed, and entered the building. As he did so he heard groans in the basement. He summoned assistance from the University Hospital, nearby, and the watchman, who was about 69 years of age, was found lying across one of the bowling alleys. The right side of his head was crushed in, one ear was partly cut off and one finger was severed from his left hand. The man was dead. One of the watchman's pockets was turned inside out. Near the body was found two chisels and an andiron. Blood was spattered over the alley and on several of the bowling balls. A stand where books and stationery are sold, just outside the bowling alleys, showed evidences of a struggle, part of the iron grill work surrounding the stand having been torn down. A thorough search of the building was made. Under a cushion in a cozy corner on the main floor a blood-stained hatchet was found. Trails of blood led from the alleys to this spot and also to the bath room on the second floor, where blood-stained towels were also found. Gibson was arrested at his home early in the day, and denied all knowledge of the crime until late in the afternoon, when he broke down and confessed to the murder. Self-defense is his plea. Gibson says he went to Houston Hall to call on Thomas. The watchman, Gibson says, evidently mistook him for a thief and attacked him. In the struggle he unintentionally killed the old man. He says there was a scuffle, in which Thomas attacked him with a pair of tongs, cutting his finger. The men struggled, and Gibson broke away, wrenching the tongs from Thomas. He hit the watchman with them. Thomas fell at the first blow, but got up and renewed the fight. Gibson struck him again and ran away. On going home he tore out and partly burned the bloody sleeve of his shirt. The detectives have the charred fragments. The police do not believe this story, Superintendent of Police Quirk is of the opinion that revenge for being dismissed from Houston Hall was the motive for the murder, although he has not entirely discarded the theory of robbery. Gibson, whose complexion is so light that he easily passed as a white man, misrepresented himself as a student at the university and married a young white woman three weeks ago. When the deception was discovered he was discharged from Houston Hall. How he expected to get revenge, and his reason for attacking the watchman, the police decline to say. The authorities say that Gibson is wanted in Jamaica for some offense. JERSEY LEGISLATURE OBDURATE Met and Adjourned Without Action On Morris Canal Aandonment Measure Trenton, N. J., April 13.—The special session of the legislature convened yesterday afternoon in accordance with a proclamation issued by Governor Murphy and adjourned sine die last evening. The net result was the passage of four bills, the refusal by the Republican senators to consider the Morris canal abandonment proposition and acquiescence by the house Republicans in the attitude shown by the senators, and the confirmation by the senate of the five members of the board of prison inspectors who failed of confirmation on the last day of the regular session. One of the bills passed was the antipigeon shooting bill, which was opposed in the senate by Senators Horner and Lee, and which received eight negative votes in the house. A bill appropriating $250,000 for stone roads to take the place of a similar bill appropriating $270,000 passed by the regular session and vetoed by the governor, passed both houses without opposition. The governor will sign the bill appropriating $250,000. The two other bills passed take the place of bills passed at the regular session and vetoed by the governor, because of incorrectness as to form. One was the Passaic valley flood bill and the other was the Jersey City sewer bill. Boston Gets Episcopal Convention. Boston, April 11—Announcement has been made that the next general convention of the Episcopal church will be held in this city October 5 to 25. The sessions will be held in Emmanuel church, and it is estimated that some 7000 people will attend. The woman's auxiliary also will hold its triennial convention here, October 6 to 10. It is possible that the archbishop of Canterbury will attend the convention as a visitor and as a guest of the citizens of Boston. Santa Barbara, Cal., April 11.—One of the Edison company's street cars ran off the track in this city and was turned over. Three people were instantly killed and two were so badly injured that they died soon after the accident. Twenty were more or less injured, sustaining bruises and broken bones. All are believed to have been residents of Santa Barbara. A CHANCE FOR ALL Home-Builders and Speculators BOTH SIDE 6TH AND 7TH STS.,OVERLOOKING C. & O.R.R. 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As prefect of the congregation of studies, the cardinal will visit the Catholic University at Washington and he will also make a trip to the St. Louis Exposition. Several friends of the cardinal, who have invited him to their homes, expect that his visit will extend over a month. Cardinal Satolli's visit to the United States is considered most important, there being no record in recent times of a cardinal immediately attached to the papal court going abroad without being accredited an ablegate. SENATOR QUAY ILL Condition Is Not Critical, But Doctors Order Complete Rest. Atlantic City, N. J., April 12.—United States Senator Quay, who came here from Washington a couple of weeks ago, is still in such poor health that he confines himself almost exclusively to the cottage he occupies at 100 States avenue, at the corner of Pacific. Quay is ill—seriously ill—but there is considerable exaggeration in the reports that would suggest his condition is critical. Senator Quay's physicians ordered the trip to the seashore and prescribed that he should take a complete rest from the cares of public life. He sees scarcely any visitors and the few exceptions are some of his personal friends of many years' standing. To all others the reply is the same: "Senator Quay is not seeing any visitors." Man and Wife Met Death On Bridge at Westville, N. J. Woodbury, N. J., April 13.—Augustus Marticio and his wife Christina, of Philadelphia, were struck and killed by a West Jersey and Seashore train on the bridge over Timber creek, at Westville. The bodies were found by the trainmen of the Maurice river freight, the remains being frightfully mangled. The man, who was 27 years old, and his wife, aged 24, went to Westville to visit the woman's sister, and left her house, proposing to walk the track to the Gloucester ferry, and were run down on the bridge. The relative knew nothing of their fate until she saw from the window of her house the trainmen engaged in some task, which she soon learned was the gathering up of the remains of her sister and brother-in-law. MURDER NEAR ALLENTOWN Man Killed By Blunt Instrument Found Along Railroad. Allentown, Pa, April 12.—Andrew Lasko, of Newport, Northampton county, a cement worker, 25 years old, was found dead along the Lehigh Valley railroad near Cement. His wounds show that he was not struck by a train, but was killed by a blunt instrument, the skull being fractured and his clothing badly torn. Blood stains indicated that the body had been carried half a mile to the place where found. The Greek Catholics observed Easter on Sunday. Lasko participated in the celebration at his boarding place, where he ejected three men who created a disturbance. The coroner's theory is that he was followed by these men and clubbed and choked to death. Want Bryan Removed. New Haven, Conn., April 13.—Counsel for Mrs. Grace Imogene Bennett appeared before Probate Judge Cleaveland with a petition that William Jen- nings Bryan be removed as the executor of the estate of the late Philo S. Bennett, the chief allegation being that he is dissipating the funds of the estate in his legal actions in attempting to secure the probating of the "sealed letter" as a part of the will. The "sealed letter" gives Mr. Bryan $50,000. The court will set a date for a hearing. Religious Maniac Mutilates Child. Oil City, Pa., April 12—Mrs. Luke Gough, aged 27 years, became insane on religion a week ago, but was not placed under restraint. Obeying what she conceived to be a divine command, she set her daughter Harriett, 8 months old, on top of a hot gas stove, and before the other children could bring assistance, cut the right hand of her child off at the wrist with a blunt paring knife. The mutilated victim may recover. Mrs. Gough was a member of the sect known as the Holy Rollers. General Toral Still Living. Madrid, April 13.—There is no truth in the story published in the United States that General Toral, who commanded the Spanish garrison at Santiago de Cuba at the time of the surrender of that place to the United States forces, had died at an insane asylum at Leganes. General Toral is still living at the Esauerado Hospital. The Bechtels Acquitted. Aleintown, Pa., April 12.—The last act in the tragedy growing out of the murder of Mabel Bechtel last October was taken in court when, on motion of District Attorney Lichtenwalner, a nolle pros was entered in the cases of Mrs. Catherine Bechtel, Miss Martha Bechtel and John and Charles Bechtel, mother, sister and brothers of the dead girl. All had been indicted as accessories after the fact and an additional indictment against the mother was for murder. 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Address all communications to AGENTS WANTED. ap16 6 m THE FRISCO SYSTEM Carrying Pullman Sleepers, Cafe Cars (a la carte) and Chair Cars (seats free) Electric Lighted Throughout BETWEEN Birmingham, Memphis and Kansas City AND TO ALL POINTS IN Texas, Oklahoma and Indian Territories AND THE Far West and Northwest THE ONLY THROUGH SLEEPING CAR LINE BETWEEN THE SOUTHEAST AND KANSAS CITY Descriptive literature, tickets arranged and through reservations made upon application to W. T. SAUNDERS Gen'l Agent Passsnger Department ATLANTA, GA. Subscribe to THE PLANET. as follows: "Sounds of very heavy fire were heard at 6.30 o'clock this (Wednesday) morning. The firing evidently was being done between here and Port Arthur. It is believed at Teng Chow that the long expected sea fight among the Minaotao Islands has taken place. "The Japanese battleship Asahi, flylag an admiral's flag, was seen off Chefoo yesterday, going to the west, and there is no doubt that the remainder of the Japanese fleet was in the vicinity of Port Arthur. The Russian fleet also was seen outside Port Arthur yesterday." The captain of the steamer Lockshan, which arrived today from Newchwang, reports that he heard heavy firing between 5 and 7 o'clock this (Wednesday) morning, in the direction of Port Arthur. The firing was continuous, but no ships were visible. From the direction of the sound he judged that there was fighting at the entrance to Port Arthur. The Lockshan was the last foreign merchant steamer to leave Newchwang, sailing at the same time as the British gunboat Esplegle yesterday afternoon. Newchwang Forts Sink a Junk. London, April 13.—The Times' Newchwang correspondent cabling under date of April 11, says: "Last night a pilot's flare was mistaken for the lights of a Japanese fleet, and the Russians opened fire and sank the junk, with 35 hands, besides killing three persons and wounding seven in another junk. "The native population is panic-stricken and leaving the town." No Ships at Newchwang. Newchwang, April 13.—Prior to the departure of the British gunboat Esplegle, which has been stationed here during the winter, M. Grosse, civil administrator of Newchwang, visited the warship officially. The civil administrator and Russian local authorities afterward waited on the esplanade along the water front while the gunboat steamed by on her way down the river. This official ceremony was in recognition of the cordial relations which have existed between officers of the Esplegle and the Russian authorities during the stay of the gunboat at Newchwang. The detention of the Esplegle after the time originally set for her departure is understood to indicate the unqualified acceptance by Great Britain of the establishment by the Russians of martial law at Newchwang and to indicate Great Britain's agreement to the plan for protection of British interests here during the war. The departure of the Esplegle removes a cause of embarrassment to the Russian authorities and enables them to put into execution a system of martial law consistent with the demands of the situation. The Esplegle was the last foreign warship at Newchwang, the United States gunboat Helena having left here some 10 days ago. The last of the merchant steamers has left Newchwang, and the shipping companies have notified their agents to send no more vessels here, consequently it is expected that henceforward commerce will be practically at a standstill. He Is Imprisoned In Seventy Feet of Water at Boonton, N. J. Boonton, N. J., April 13.—William Hoar, a diver from New York, who was imprisoned in 70 feet of water in the Jersey City reservoir here Monday, has been given up for dead by other divers who had come to alnd in rescuing him. The divers worked until, under the influence of the high wind, the waves on the lake caused the raft on which the air pump rested to pitch so that it was impossible longer to supply the men below with air. Then the pump was removed to the stone dam, and on the possibility that Hoar is still alive air is still being sent down to him. Hoar was sent here on Monday from New York to close an intake pipe in the lake. To close the pipe, the gate of which was not working properly, a ball of wood and lead, nine feet in diameter, had been lowered in front of the opening. Still the water continued to flow through the pipe in almost as great volume as before. Hoor went down Monday afternoon to place the ball in proper position, and his left leg became caught between the pipe and the ball. All efforts to release him failed, although the work of the rescuers was continued until last night. CONGRESS TO ADJOURN APRIL 28 Date Being Discussed By Congressmen and Senators. Washington, April 11.-April 28 has been discussed in cimmittee rooms and among senators and representatives as not at all an improbable date for the termination of the present session of congress. The pension appropriation bill has been received from the house and reported from the senate committee with an amendment. Discussion of service pension legislation it is believed will be exhausted before the bill is placed on its passage, and this measure, therefore, is not considered a barrier to early adjournment. Pittsburg, Pa., April 11. — In an equity suit filed in the county courts, W Harry Brown, of this city, seeks to prevent the merging of the car wheel plants of the country and to have the court declare an alleged merger of the Keystone Car Wheel company with the National Car Wheel company illegal and void, under the Sherman anti-trust law. Bust of Jefferson Demolished. St. Louis, April 13.—A heavy gust of wind blew down and demolished the staff bust of President Thomas Jefferson at the World's Fair. The bust, five feet in height, ornamented a pedestal at the exposition. It is probable that another bust will be made. A WEEK'S NEWS CONDENSED. Thieves entered the Catholic church at Belleaire, O., and stole over $600 worth of gold and silver ware. J. Pierpont Morgan sailed for Eu- RECYCLE JAPANESE BEATEN IN TWO FIGHTS Fifty Scouts Annihilated After Crossing Yalu River at Wiju. SECOND DEFEAT AT YONGAMPHO General Kuropatkin Reports Two Skirmishes Near Mouth of Yalu River, and Says Japanese Have Widrawn Their Outposts at Wiju. Naval Battle Reported From Chefeo St. Petersburg, April 13.—General Kuropatkin, in a dispatch to the emperor, bearing yesterday's date, says that General Krasmalinskii on the night of April 8 ordered a detachment of sharpshooters to cross to the left bank of the Yalu, opposite Wiju. The sharpshooters landed on the island of Samalind and surprised a patrol of 50 Japanese scouts just as the latter were approaching the east side of the island in three boats. The Russians allowed the Japanese to land, and then fired on them. Nearly all the Japanese were shot, bayoneted A A TYPICAL COSSACK. or drowned and their boats sunk. The Russians sustained no losses. Noncommissioned Officers Louchkine and Sonhachonov distinguished themselves in the fight. On the following day the Japanese lowered their flag at Wiju, and their outposts, which lately have been seen, fell back. On the night of April 9 four Russians crossed the Yalu to Yenampo (Yongampho?) and made towards a Russian village, where they found a squadron of Japanese cavalry. They remained there 12 hours, when they were betrayed by Koreans, and found themselves obliged to swim the river, their boat having struck on a sand bank. One soldier lost his life. The Japanese pursued the Russians in a boat, but were in turn attacked by a Russian boat, which had come to the rescue of the swimmers. The Japanese were all killed and their boat sank. One feature of the message which is not pleasing to the authorities is the action of the Koreans in revealing to the Japanese the presence of the Russians at Yongampho, and the belief prevails that the Koreans are not so unfriendly to the Japanese as has been announced. Incidents such as that at Yongampho indicate that the view held of the Korean attitude is a mistaken one. Chou Tien Cheng Fortified By Russia. Seoul, April 13.—Japanese advices from Northern Korea state that the Russians have strongly fortified Chou RUSSIAN ARTILLERY. Tien Cheng, a walled town on the Manchurian side of the Yalu river, about 16 miles north of Antung. It is estimated that there are 20,000 Russians of all arms at Antung ready to oppose the Japanese crossing. BIG NAVAL BATTLE FOUGHT Sounds of Heavy Firing at Sea Heard at Teng Chow. Chefoo, April 13.—A correspondent of the Associated Press at Teng Chow, 60 miles northeast of here, telegraphs No Ships at Newchwang. DIVER MET HIS DEATH THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA rope on the steamship Oceanic, for his annual vacation trip abroad. Postmaster General Payne has gone The Southern Good Roads Association was organized at New Orleans by 300 delegates, representing seven states Joseph E. Schwab, brother of Charles M. Schwab, has resigned as president of the American Steel Foundries company. A favorable report was made to the senate on the bill applying the general pension laws to telegraphers who served during the Civil War. The Tennessee Republican convention endorsed President Roosevelt's administration and instructed the delegates to vote for his nomination. Two trainmen were killed and two fatally injured in a collision between passenger and freight trains on the B. & O. road in a tunnel near West Union, W. Va. Saturday, April 9. King Christian, of Denmark, celebrated his 86th birthday and is in excellent health. Press No. 1 to the World's Fair grounds at St. Louis was made out in the name of President Roosevelt. The New York legislature has appropriated $260,000 for an agricultural college at Cornell University, Ithaca. The Missouri, Kansas and Texas flyer was wrecked near Fort Scott, Kan., by the rails spreading, and 16 persons were injured, none fatally. President Roosevelt has appointed James R. Parsons, Jr., of Albany, N. Y., United States consul general to the City of Mexico, vice A. D. Barlow, resigned. Monday, April 11. The Kansas supreme court declares it is not illegal to read passages from the Bible in the public schools. Edward W. Clark, one of the oldest and best known financiers and bankers of Philadelphia, died after a brief illness, aged 77 years. Hon. Charles H. Page, formerly a member of the board of review of the National Trotting Association, and one of the best-known turfmen in the United States, died in Philadelphia of heart disease. Tuesday, April 12. The executive board of the American Federation of Labor will meet at Denver. Colo. April 18. General J. J. Jiminez, the rebel leader, who fled from Santo Domingo, has arrived in New York. The house of representatives passed the river and harbor appropriation bill, carrying $3,000,000 for improvements. The strike on the Panama railroad, Republic of Panama, has ended, the laborers returning to work under the old conditions. Judge Palmer, at Denver, Colo., decided that there was no punishment prescribed by statute in Colorado for fraud at special elections and discharged 18 election officers charged with stuffing ballot boxes. Wednesday, April 13. Governor Hunt, of Porto Rico, will confer with President Roosevelt relative to Porto Rican affairs. Lieutenant General S. B. M. Young, retired, has returned to New York, after spending several months in Cuba. George Hampton was appointed receiver for the Abram Robinson Canning Company, of Bridgeton, N. J. Liabilities, $17,000; assets, $7000. The car barn and paint shop of the International Traction company, at Cold Springs, near Buffalo, N. Y., were destroyed by fire, entailing a loss of $100,000. After long litigation, it was decided by the United States district court of New York that the United States must pay $203,219 to the owners of the ship Foscolia, sunk by the cruiser Columbia, May 28, 1898. GENERAL MARKETS Philadelphia, Pa., April 13. — Flour was steady; winter superfine. $3.60@3.85; Penna, roller, clear. $4.60@4.80; city mills, fancy. $5.50@5.75. Rye flour was quiet, at $4.30 per barrel. Wheat was firm; No. 2 red Penna, $4.60; corn was firm; No. 2 yellow, local $5.60; corn were quiet; No. 2 white, clipped. 48c. grades, 47c. Hay was steady. No. 1 timothy, large bales, $16.50@17. Pork was firm; family, $17.50@18. Beef was steady; beef hams, $20@21. Live poultry, 15c. for hens, 14c. for old roosters. Dressed poultry, 14c. for wales, and 14c. for old roosters. Butte was wale; cremation 25 per pound. Eggs were steady; New York and Penna, 177c. doz. Potatoes were steady, at $1.20@1.25 per hushel. 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I'm looking to the day when she will be my loving wife. happy time is not so far away; I hope always love her, as I do love my life; And never have an unkind thing to say. Born with no latch-key in winter, spring or fall No matter if I plead on bended knees; I think I see my finish—I'll not get out at all When Sarah Ann manipulates the keys. Yonkers Statesman. The Girl in the Background By FRANK H. SWEET (B copyright, 1903, by Daily Story Pub. Co.) BRONCO BUSTER stepped to the door of the saloon, holding his glass he could see the colors of the sun- light through the liquor. The street was comparatively deserted, for when noblewars were in town it was customary for the inhabitants to bethink them- selves of needed indoors. The color of the liquor proving satisfactory, Bronco's hand dropped from its signi- cant position on his hip pocket, and his eyes swept the street. "Hike here, you fellows!" he yelled suddenly. "Yonder's Billy Patterpat turnin' the corner. Let's cover the street and corral him, an' then make him dance." "Aw," drawned another cowboy, who was leaning against the counter, emptying glasses and flinning them at whoever he thought might not be able to doze, and holding his recover in readiness to meet possible objection to his playfulness. "Patterpat won't dance. He's joined the little party of Mennonites up country an' gone plain. Ain't you heerd? Billy ain't frivolous no more." "We're goin' to give him a drink fust," significantly. "There won't be no trouble then. You used to know Billy." The figure at the counter straightened. "Why, of course, of course," he conceded; "a good drink will be lie for Patterpat's feet. I did use to know Billy. The only trouble with him was that all his brains and fun an' everything was just in his feet, an' with them gone plain there couldn't be no Patterpat any more. "DON'T YE GIVE IT TO ME, GENTLE MEN." We'll tie 'em with Billy's special limber. "He hurried his last emptied glass straight at Bronco's head, but not so quickly as to prevent its being caught and hurled back with such instant and unerring precision as to be shattered to a hundred pieces against the hat crown of the sender. But instead of angering him, the cowboy at the county chuckled hilariously as he head and shook the pieces is hat brim. He liked mutually danger- half away, coming on slowly and looking from side to side for some avenue of escape. The gradual spreading of the cowbirds across the street brought up memories of past experience, and his eyes had begun to grow troubled and full of apprehension. At length he stopped and looked back; but it was too late now. Several of the cowbirds were near their mustangs; and, as he turned they swung in to their saddles and dashed up the street. In a few moments he was in their midst, struggling and protesting, his eyes big with terror of what he felt was coming. "Don't ye give it to me, gentlemen," he pleaded. "I'm plain now, an' twouldn't be right. I ain't danced in six months, an' ain't tasted a drop. Don't ye make me now." "Look at that, Billy," said Bronco, holding up a bottle between Billy's eyes and the sun. "Don't that look good? Just see how it smiles! It's the very best in town, an' we've got more bottles in waitin'. There's ten whole glasses for ye, Billy, jest for you. Think how it'll feel runnin' down your throat, an' remember how it smells. Lordy! I do feel almost like drinkin' the whole thing myself. But here, Billy. He reached out the bottle suddenly, and Billy's hands—both of them—went hungrily toward it. His eyes were shining, his lips trembling, his whole form in a quiver; but even then with an almost superhuman effort he forced his arms back to his side. "Don't, Bronco," he implored. "Don't, don't, don't," his voice rising quaveringly. "You know how't is with me. Please don't. I don't want to." "It'll do you good," inflexibly. "You're gettin' tinn from gain' without so long, an' it's better to enjoy the stuff tricklin' down your throat slow than to have it poured down in bottles full. You know what we say goes, Billy, an' you must drink the whole thing. Billy dropped upon his knees. "Don't!" he repeated, dully. "I don't want to. If I smell I can't stop then. You an' me's been good friends, Bronco, an' I've danced an'—an' drunk a lot for you. Let me off this time. An'—an' if you don't mind, I'd like to say why." "Oh, let the poor devil make his confession, Brone," interposed one of the cowboys, good naturedly. "You know how' is with Pattater. If he smells, as he says, he won't stop easy. It'll be two months' fore he sobers up. Let him start in right." "Billy shot him a grateful look." "It's like this" he said, with a pathetic eagerness, in his voice. "Six months ago I happened to be up in the country, an' I saved a girl's life. She was caught by a bear, an'—an' I pose I acted some brave. At any rate, she an' her folks thought so, an' took me in. Since then I've been up there, an' I can't tasted a drop, an' I've been feelin' that mebbe I could make something of myself some time, like I used to think a long time ago." There was a catch in his voice, then he went on in lower tones: "Me an' the girl was to be married. I came down to-day for a ring and license. They believe in me up there, an' I've joined in with them, an'"—his eyes suddenly becoming steady and aggressive at a giggle from one of the cowboys—"if't wasn't for the whisky I believe I could be a good man again, a better one than you could ever be, Danny. But, of course," his voice again dropping and his hand reaching mechanically toward the bottle, "this will finish it all. Up there they don't have anything strong to drink, an'—an' they never suspected I was that way. When they find this out, it'll be over with us. I'll run through myself soon's an, can'—an' the girl an' they feel sorry; but you'll have your dance carnival. So we won't all lose. Now you can give me the bottle, Bronco." But Bronco was now holding the bottle up between his own eyes and the sun. "Seems a pity to spile such good stuff," he sald, regretfully, "but it's got to be did." Then, in a louder voice: "Here, you fellows, see that stone over 'tother side the street. Well, everyone who's got a bottle shy at that, an' the one who breaks into the most pieces will go with Billy to see 'bout the ring an' license. Then we'll all club in for a present, an—" Billy's head went up suddenly. His eyes were moist. "No, no," he repeated. "I don't want no present, gentlemen. I've been workin' hard up there, an' have got some ahead. I'm all right long's i can keep away from that stuff." "Shet up, Billy." Bronco retorted, ungraciously. "Tain't you; it's a present for the bride. An' I reckon we'd better make it two of our best ponies. 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PURE GOODS, FULL VALUE FOR THE MONEY. 1610 East Franklin Street, [Near Old Market.] RICHMOND, VIRGINIA NEW YORK SATURDAY ..... APRIL 16, 1900 A SUNSET SONG Back of the gold hills the dying sun, And the light of day, like a dream, is done; Like a beautiful dream that we wain would As masters cherish the dream of gold. But dreams drift past— Too bright to last; And Night comes fast—and Night comes fast! Q well for the beautiful morning light, It but be well for the falling Night; It the heart can say, at the death of day, It has been folded in Love away! And Love well is past. When Light is past, And Night comes fast—and Night comes fast!" Back of the gold hills the dying sun, But get—sweet rest, with the day's work done! In Night that is Light in the love of God. —F. L. Stanton, in Atlanta Constitution. Lucy Jane's Birthday By SARA LINDSAY COLEMAN (Copyright, 1901, by Daily Story Pub. Co.) ECSTASIZING over the loveliness of the dress Lucy Jane was fashioning for her eighteenth birthnight party the girl, at the risk of a nip in the neck from the dressmaker's scissors, wriggled around viewing herself in the cracked little mirror that was so unfair to her young fairness and said: "It's lovely, you dear Lucy Jane. Isn't it a beautiful world?" "Yes," said Lucy Jane, softly, "when one is 18 and loves it is." "Ah," said the girl. "nobody understands as I do. you have been there yourself, if you are an old maid. And don't it fun? Did one ever threaten to ding himself into the river and almost frighten you into saying it? And did another snip off a strand of your hair quick? And did he, he, Lucy Jane, take one dozen instead of only just one!" Lucy Jane leaned over the girl breathlessly; for the moment they were girls together. "Yes," she said, just over her breath. "It was on my eighteenth birthnight." "Then why, why?" the girl stammered, her eyes questioning Lucy Jane's. "Never mind," said the woman gently. She opened the door for the girl to pass out and put an impulsive hand on her shoulder. "I hope you will be happy, dear," she said. Lucy Jane went back to her work—but presently the girl's birthday gown fell from her hands to the floor and lay there. It was Lucy Jane's birthday—she was 40. Her eyes wore a faraway look as she gazed down the long road she had traveled since that eighteenth birthday. The stones cut her feet, the dust choked her as she went with memory over it. At a knock at the door she started from her reverie. It was more dresses, no doubt. She was thankful for work, of course. But sometimes, when the house was piled ceiling high with work that never seemed to come to a finish and dreded back and nerves cried for rest, she wondered wearily if the villagers would ever give her time to die. At the door pink roses were thrust in her face by a little black messenger, who beat a hasty retreat. She recognized the roses—only one garden in the village produced such—she recognized the messenger, and although she wondered at the unusualness of the occurrence, she sniffed them delightedly. She loved flowers as her neighbors loved their babies. When Lucy Jane drew a card from among the roses and read: "If it's yes, wear these," she was almost stifed by her heart's swift beatings. Her lips trembled; her eyes blurred. The rough road of her life had a turn in it and she saw a glimpse of the blue sky, caught a match of song from the bird's glad throat. There had never been a time when Lucy Jane hadn't loved the sender of those roses. Their laughing little faces had kissed each other through a broken paling in the fence; they had stolen on snowy mornings to their rabbit trap—it was on his sled she had coasted, and later their voices had mingled in the village choir. Lucy Jane's eyes went back to the written words—one couldn't doubt written words. She had walted, weared, wondered, watched; then, seeing her faded face in the mirror, she had crushed the dreams into a tight little ball down in the bottom of her heart and gone through her days in colorless content. As Lawyer Coates awaited Lucy Jane in her prim little parlor he fidgeted. His errand was an awkward one. He had come to explain about the roses and some old time memories had overtaken him. He had loved Lucy Jane since their babyhood days when he had pulled the palings off the back fence that divided them; she had given him letters to mail to his rival with such persistence that he had ceased his attentions to her. As he sat there he remembered the mad whirl of love and anger that had swept over him, and he smiled somewhat grimly as he told himself that the fire of that old love had burnt itself out. Poor Lucy Jane! Life had taken the roses out of her cheeks before they fairly bloomed. He wondered for the thousand time who was the mysterious Jim Jackson, and what had come between them. When Lucy Jane greeted the lawyer she wore roses in her cheeks, in her hair and nestled in the belt of her gown and as she saw her thus attired a great dismay fell on Lawyer Coates. He had come to tell her the roses with which she had decked herself were for the young widow across the street. He sat down and looked at Lucy Jane out of the corner of his eye. There were little furrows of loneliness in the cheeks that had been so round. "Lucy," he stammered; "Lucy Jane." She turned her happy eyes upon him. The lawyer was a tender man, and he hedged a little nearer, didn't he have to tell her about the muddle the little nigger had made of things. "You don't care, Lucy?" He blurted out the words and hung anxiously on her answer. "Care," she said. "I have cared all my life." "Look here, Lucy," the lawyer said, earnestly. "I'm not worth it! And I want to tell you—" "You needn't." her soft little laugh filled the room. "I always knew that you'd come back to me when you found out the truth." "Lucy Jane!" desperately. "And you are just as scared, now that you have got here, as if you were stepping on eggs. How did you find out? I used to pray till I wearied the Lord when I heard—never mind how—that you were jealous about those letters, 'Lord, let him find out that Jim Jackson was the cook's beau and not mine.'" The lawyer stared at her stupidity. He had been a jealous young fool, but Lucy, his Lucy, had loved him straight through; they had lost more than 20 good years of happiness, and now, he groaned audibly, he was still a fool—the worst kind—an old one. He had rescued a flirtatious young widow's boy from a mud hole and her pretty thanks that sounded through his sentimental, empty soul through the long hours of the summer afternoon and prompted him to send the roses and with them an avowal of love. With the instinct of the homing pigeon Lucy Jane nestled to him at the sound of that heartfelt groan. "Dear," she said, "what troubles you?" The lawyer folded her in his arms. He didn't care a rap for all the scheming widows in the land—not if he had submerged them with roses, and pursued them with attentions—he would confess like a man. But suddenly, it came in a THE LAWYER WAS A TENDER MAN AND HE EDGED A LITTLE NEARER liberating flash of thought, he remembered that there was no confession to make to the widow—Lucy had got his roses; she had his declaration—the widow wasn't even aware that the tranquil waters of his life had been ruffled by pulling her Bobby from a mud hole. But Lucy was talking, her smothered voice coming from the depths of his coat, already she was taking the airs of a matron and saying: "Some men get such poor wives. I'm sorry for the poor young fellow that's going to marry the pretty widow across the street, even if I have just a picture acquaintance with him, for she's flight, and," whispering, "she's an awful cook." "For the land's sake, Johnny," said the smiling, breathless Jane, "then 'twas the Lord!" The lawyer got his breath in a quick little gasp of relief and chucked the last scrupe down deep in his heart to lie there with what he knew about those blessed roses till the judgment day. "It was the Lord," he echoed, plausely. PAINTS OF THE ANCIENTS. Water Colors Were Invariably Used in the Olden Days---Pictures in Oil Are Modern. Paints as now employed in the arts, both mechanical and decorative, were not known to the people of ancient times. Pigments they had in abundance, but the art of mixing them so as to make them enduring had not been discovered. Nowadays when the artisan is applying varnish he puts up a sign warning pass-by to beware of paint, which shows that by the average man varnish is regarded as a species of paint. The two are, indeed, closely related, but it will surprise most people to learn that, while varnish is a product known in very remote ages, paint as used to-day is of comparatively recent origin. The paint used in Babylon and Nineveh and in Pompeii was composed of pigments mixed not with oil but with water, to which had been added a little glue, egg albumen or perhaps sometimes casein, which is albuminous matter from milk, or the gluten from cereal grains. Glue, however, was the most universal binding material. Such paints are known as fresco paints or water colors. They have not gone out of use, as is illustrated by the reported statement that the New York rapid transit subway walls are to be painted throughout with some of these preparations. You Bet He Does "Mamma," asked small Floramay, "does a lawyer know everything?" "No. dear," replied her mother, "but he thinks you think he does."—Cincinnati Engineer His Business. "I think," she said, "that he has deceived us all. I don't think he is anything more than a clerk." "Why?" "Because, right in the middle of a proposal last night, his mind wandered and he said: 'You could wear a size smaller, miss, without any trouble at all.' I jerked my foot back, of course, but I knew right away why it was so easy for him to get on his knees before a girl.'"—Brooklyn Eagle. Touching Music Miss Yallerby—Dat Percy Mokington knl play de mos' intoxicatin' an' heabenly music on his banjo. Oh, my' Clarence Coonley (sneerlingly)—Huh! I guess rag-time am about dat niggah's limit! Miss Yallerby (warmly)—T is, eh? Yo' je ought ter heah dat man gib an imertation ob a spring chicken a sizillin' on de pan, er a hungry pickaninny eatin' a wateh-millyun! Talk about yo' real music!—Puch. The Boss Was Wisa Employer—You are having a decided flirtation with the girl who has charge of our telephone wire? Truthful Clerk (with cold chills running up and down his spine, and with visions of instant dismissal)—Y-e-e-s, sir; but please, si— Employer—Well, keep it up. She will give more attention to our calls if you do.—Tit-Bits. Big Undertakings "Talk about big jobs," said the Cheerful Idiot, while trying to look serious—"Well," said the Wetim, wearily. "Wheeling West Virginia may be some and Lansing Michigan may be rather a big surgical undertaking, but Flushing Long Island isn't such a tiny little sanitary stunt."—Baltimore American. Well Done All Around "Did the critic say anything when you told him I had sold that picture to an American millionaire?" asked the artist. "Yes; he said 'Well done!'" responded the close friend. "Ah! he meant the picture?" "No; the American millionaire."—Tit-Bits. Real Damage Silas—By heck! I think the society for the preservation of American forests should get after those city hunters. Cyrus—You mean the society to prevent the extermination of game. Silas—No, they don't hit game. They take all the bark from the trees. Chicago Daily News. Explained "She claims to be a poet." "Oh, that's impossible! All poets are males." "How do you mean?" "Well, you know the old saying, 'The poet is born, not maid.' "—Philadelphia Ledger. Didn't Know How to Use It Didn't Know How to Use It. Miss Howjames (at the opera)— Hasn't she a marvelous technique? marvellous technique Mr. Cahokla — Yes, but she doesn't— er—seem to know how to manage it gracefully. She gives it a sort of kick when she turns around. —Chicago Tribune. Title with Marriage "You say that when she married she got a title?" asked the sweet thing. "Yes," answered the most popular girl in the neighborhood. Positive Indications Mabel—Did Gladys have a fashionable wedding? Maude—Very. Why, her wedding-dress was nearly torn off before she got inside the church—Judge. Devotion. He paid her compliments before, Brew now he pays her bills. Isn't just to say that marriage A man's devotion chills? —Puck. HE KNEW. A Edith—Did you speak to papa? Edward—No use to try; I wouldn't end him in. Edith—Why not? Edward—He owes me $10.—Chicago Journal. Epitaph. Percy studied chemistry, Studied long and late. Percy breathed some chlorine gas, He'll not graduate. —Cornell Widow. A Fairy Tale "What would you consider the best general definition of a fairy tale?" "Why, one that says 'And so they were married and lived happily ever afterward.'"—Chicago Post. Brownovitch—Three weeks ago Higgles married a widow whose conversational powers attracted him. Smithinskl—Well, what of it? Brownovich—To-day he applied for a divorce because the aforesaid conversational powers almost distracted him.—Cincinnati Enquirer. Difference. "Women," remarked the after-dinner philosopher, "are all alike in one respect." "In what respect?" asked the information seeker. "In being different from each other," replied the philosophical observer.—Chicago Record-Herald. OLD DOMINION STREAM SHIP COMPANY Leave Richmond daily at 7 p.m., stopping at Newport News in both directions. Daily except Sunday by O. & O. Railway, 9:00 a.m. m. 4. p.m. 9. a.m. and 8 p.m by N. & W. Railway; link connect at Norfolk with direct steamers for New York, sailing daily except Sunday, 7 p.m. Steamers sail from company's wharf (foot of Ash Street) Rockets. K. F. CHALKLER, City Ticket Agt., 1212 E. Main St. JOHN F. MAYER, Agt. Wharf Foot of Ash St., Richmond, Va. H. B. WALKER, V. P. & T. M., New York. C & O Nov. 1st, 1903. 2 Hours and 25 Minutes to Norfolk. LEAVE RICHMOND—EASTBOUND. 7:50 a.m.—daily—Local to Newport News and way stations. 9:00 a.m.—daily—Local to Newport News 9:30 a.m. Daily-Limited-Arrives Williams- a.m. Daily a.m. Newport News 10:30 a.m. p.m. Old Point 11:30 a.m. Norfolk 11:25 a.m. 4:30 p.m. Week-day Special-Arrives Williams- a.m. Weekday 4:36 p.m. Newport News 5:38 p.m. Newport 6:30 p.m. Norfolk 6:25 p.m. 10:30 p. m. - New days. Local to Fred's Hall 10:30 p. m. - Dallas, Texas. Lincoln, Louisville, St. Louis and Ohio. 10:20 a. m. ERRIVER LINE. 10:20 a. m. Erriver Birmingham, New Castle, Clifton Forge and principal stater, except Sunday to Lexington. 6:15 p. m. - Erriver Birmingham. TAEIN3 RICHMOND FROM 10:30 p. m. 10:56 a. m. daily. 11:45 a. m. Ex. Sun. and 7:00 a. m. New News Local 8:30 p. m. daily. Chincinnati and West 7:45 a.m. m. daily and 8:30 a.m. l. line Local from Clifton Forge 8:10 p. m. Ex. Forge Frederick's Hall Accommodation 8:10 a. m. Ex. Sun Jane River Line Local from / lifton Forge 6:35 p. m. daily, Bremo Accom. 8:30 a. m. Ex. Sun DOYLE, W. O. WARTHEN, Gen'l Manager. Dist. Pasc. Art. SOUTHERN RAILWAY Effective Jan. 10th, 1904. TRAINS LEAVE RICHMOND. 7:30 a. m.-Daily. Local for Charlotte. 12:30 p. m.-Daily. Limited, Brent Pullman to Atlanta and Ft. Richmond, Orleans, Memphis, Chattah age and age. 6:30 p. m.-Daily. For West Point. 10:30 p. m.-Daily. Limited, Pullman read. 9:30 p. m., for all to the South. VERS LINE The favorite to route,imore and eastern points. Leave Richmond 4:30 p. m. Daily except Sunday. 4:30 p. Except Sunday. Local mixed for West Point. 2:15 p. Mon. Wed. Ft. Local for West Point. 4:25 p. m.-Except Sunday. For West Point, connects, anchorage, Baltimore and river landings. Miles Wet, Wed. and H. C. ACKERT, G.M. S. H. BARDWICK, G. P.A. C. W. WESTBURY, D. P.A., Richmond, Va. ATLANTIC OAST-LINE. TRAINS LEAVE JICH&OND DAILY BYRD STREET STATION. 8:30 a. m. To all points South. 8:30 p. Petersburg and Norfolk. 12:30 p. Petersburg and W. West. 8:30 p. Petersburg and Norfolk. 4:30 p. Goldsboro local. 4:30 p. Goldsboro local. 6:38 p. To points South. 9:38 p. Petersburg and N. & W. West 11:38 p. Petersburg local. **TEAINS ARRIVE RICHMOND.** a. m. a. 7:35 p. m. a. except Sunday. 11:30 a. m. 11:24 a. m. 2:00 p. m., 6:50 p. 7:45 p. m., 8:45 p. m. +Exercise C. S. GAMBELL, Div. Pass. Agt. W. J. CRAIG, Pass. Agt. Norfolk and Western R. R. LEAVE RICHMOND (DAILY), BYRD STREET STATION. 9:00 A.M. CHICAGO EXPRESS Buffet Parlor Car Petersburg to Lynchburg and Roarake Bluefield to Cincinnati, Cincinnati and Bluefield to Indianapolis also Roarake Knoxville, and Knoxville to Chattanooga, and Memphas. 9:00 P.M. Sooakie Express for Farmville, Lynchburg, and Roarake. 9:00 P.M. Ocean Shores limited Arrives Nor- westerly. Stop only at Petersburg Wav- ery and Suffolk. 9:00 P.M. Boston, Providence, New York, Baltimore and Washington. 6:55 P.m., for Northland, all stations east of Petersburg. 9:25 P.M. M. NEW ORLEANS SHORT LINE. Pullman Sleeper Richmond to Lynchburg, Petersburg to Roanoke; Lynchburg to Chattanooga. Trains arrive from the west 7:35 a.m. m. f. p.m. and 8:56 p.m. from Norfolk 11:10 a. m. 12:38 a.m. m. and 6:30 p.m. 13:08 a.m. 8:38 East Main street. W. B. BEVILL Gen. Pass. Agt H. C. BOSLEY Diy. Pass Agent. SEABOARD Short Line to Principal Cities of t South and South west, Florida, Cuba, Texas and Mexico Schedule in Effect Jan. 10th. 19 10:25 p. m. "SEABOARD FLORID ED," composed exclusively of meetings, Dining Car, D troom, Sleeping Car, C Car and Observation Car Southern Pines, Hamlet, C hawavannah, Jackson'gus tustin 2:15 p. m. "SEABOARD M Artist improved day Sleep, Pullman Pa Car, to Henderson, Pines, Hamlet, Pine' den, Johnbush, Sa St Augustine and 11:00 p. m. 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Wright, the umpire for the miners and operators conciliation board, who sat of the five cases only partially sustained one for the mine workers, through the latter is general and applied to check weighmen and how their wages shall be collected. The grievances and the decisions are as follows: Complaint of rockmen of numbers 1 and 2 collieries, Dunnmore, that they are not receiving any advance in wages on conditions; not sustained. Complaint from D. and E. colliery, mouth, viz: to pay for props, no for chambers since the road mov-on side or place; no increase in workers wages working company work, sustained. Complaint of Delaware and Hudson camps of Plymouth that most of you are in third class and very few the first or second class. Not sustained. Complaint of Charles Dixon, of the Hartford colliery, People's Coal company that he has been discriminated because of activity in the workers union. 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The success of the operation largely depends (1) on having the stocks and soils perfectly healthy; (2) in selecting the proper season, which varies somewhat with different plants; (3) in getting a perfect union of the inner barks of selon and stock at least on one side; (4) in making all the cuts with a sharp knife, that the parts in contact may have a smooth surface; (5) in doing the work rapidly, so that the surface may not be dried by exposure. Grafting-wax is generally used for covering the wounds made in grafting. A good grafting-wax is one that will not become too soft in summer, so as to melt and run down the stock, or so hard in winter as to crack and split off. A very reliable grafting-wax is made by melting together four parts (by weight) of resin, two parts of beeswax and one part of tallow. When well melted, pour into a pail of cold water, grease the hands slightly, and pull the wax until it is about the color of pulled molasses-candy. Make into balls, and store for use. This wax should be warmed when applied. If it is too hard, more tallow and less resin may be used. Clay is frequently used for covering wounds made by grafting, and gives quite as good results as any of the waxes if properly applied. For this purpose some very tenacious clay should be used, and it is thought to be improved when mixed with about one third fresh cow-dung and a little plasterer's hair. The whole mass should be thoroughly worked over before using. Cleft-grafting is a very common form of grafting, and is more universally known and used than any other. It is commonly performed to change the bearing of apple, plum and various other trees and plants. It is generally the most practical method to use on branches two or three inches in diameter, but it also works well on quite small stocks. Cleft-grafting is performed as follows: \ The place selected for the insertion of the selon should be where the grain of the wood is straight. The stock is then cut 'square' off with a sharp saw, and is split through its center with a grafting-chisel to a depth sufficient to allow the selon to be put in place. The cleft is held open by the chisel until the selon is cut and inserted, when the wedge is withdrawn, allowing the stock to close on the selon and so hold it in place. If the stock does not spring back so as to hold the selon firmly, it should be tightly drawn together with a string. The number of selons inserted will depend upon the stock. If the stock is not over three-fourths of an inch in diameter, one selon is enough to insert, but on larger stocks two may be put in. All the cut surfaces, including the ends of the selons, should now be covered with wax. The selon to be inserted in cleft-grafting should be cut wedge-shaped lengthwise.—Farm and Fireside. Purpose of Pruning: Grapes The purpose of pruning is to leave only a sufficient number of buds on canes of the current season's growth to give such an amount of fruit the coming season as the age and strength of the vine can support. Pruning should be varied somewhat to suit the habits of the different varieties. The stronger growing sorts should have more wood allowed them than the weaker ones. The vines should not be allowed to bear much fruit until strong enough to grow vigorous canes with strong laterals. Thrifty laterals develop fruit buds near the base. These laterals are cut back to from four to six buds, depending on the age and strength of the vine. Allow as much fruit to set as the vine can support and grow to perfection.—Farmer's Review. He Found Fault. "He criticised me for almost nothing!" moaned the wife. The friends sought to comfort her, but she was not to be soothed. Between her sobs she told how her husband had expressed very unfavorable opinions of her new ball gown. "But you said he criticised you for almost nothing," argued the sympathizers. "So he did." Here she gave way to a fresh outburst of sobs. "He—he said I was wearing it."—judge. What's in a Name Dunop—I know why they call the place where you bet on the races a poolroom. Ben Thayre—Do you? Why? Dunop—Because that's where they soak you.—Town Topics. THE RICHMOND PIANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. Saddening. Never yet a sunrise. But 'twas matched by solemn hush! Never yet an hour's snowfall. But bought hours of slush. -Baltimore. CANDY Friend—Why do you always buy tar drops? Do you like them so? Young Widow—No, but, you see, I am in mourning.—Chicago American. The Cause of Her Anger. He kissed her once. Next day she was as cold to him as ice. What! Was she mad? Of course, because He had not kissed her twice. —Philadelphia Ledger. Before and After. 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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 b come a member of this Association by paying the joining 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 payment 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 undelible impression, were God loving and praying men and women. All religions are founded and sustained by countless prayers. All great individuals, commonwealths and nationalities are maintained 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 $24 and all traveling expenses and hotel bills advanced in cash each week. Experience not essential. Mention reference and enclose self-addressed envelope. 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 at 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 have 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 ransie one. For all information concerning special rates of membership for new lodges and courts address. KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAAS F.C.B. THE BERRY 311 North Fourth St., Richmond, Va. 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. The Courts of Calanthe The Courts of Calanthe 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 days. The only expense for regalia is the cost of the badge, 50 cents and a rosette, costing 25 cents for funeral occasions. N. A., S. A., E., A., A. AND A. JOHN MITCHELL, JR., 311 N. 4th St., Richmond, Va.