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THE RICHMOND PLANET HE SHOT TO KILL! TERRIBLE TRAGEDY AT TRUE REFORMERS' BANK. IN THE POLICE COURT—THE DEAD MAN BORE A GOOD REPUTATION VOL. XXI NO. 19. HE TERRIBLE T WATCHMAN WARD IN THE PO Quite a sensation was caused in this city last Sunday morning by the killing of Emmett Steward, colored, while attempting to rob the True Reformers' Savings Bank. He was shot by Mr. Joseph Ward, the watchman who was armed with a Winchester riot gun. TWELVE BALLS STRUCK HIM. Twelve buck-shot entered the back of the man, two of which went through his body to the other side and were cut out from under the skin He stood in the gutter when shot, having just emerged from the window of the bank with one of the bank guns in his hands. The watchman says he pointed it at him and he fired. Steward did not live more than fifteen minutes after being shot. He fell in the middle of the street, and his remains were conveyed to Mr. A. D. Price's undertaking establishment. A FRANKLIN STREET BUTLER. "At the time of his death he was employed as butler at the residence of Mr. Stewart, 612 W. Franklin St. and when Mr. Price went up there to ask for him Sunday morning the people thought that he was in his room. He has hitherto borne a good reputation for Mr. Bossius and at another time worked for Mrs. A. J. Pyle, who gave him a good recommendation. PHOTOGRAPHED ON APRIL. 18TH He had his photograph taken April 13, 1904 at the Old Dominion Photograph Gallery. The inquest was held at 3:30 p. m., at the Second Police station. The outside plane of glass at the Bank was broken and also one of the inside planes. The wicket had been prized open. The following is the testimony as given before the Coroner's jury: BROOKS SMITH'S STATEMENT. Brooks Smith, colored, was sworn and deposed. "I live at 1109 St. Paul St. I was at the Metropolitan Laundry., corner 2nd and Leigh Sts., last night at about 2:20 o'clock when I heard a gun fire at the True Reformers' Bank on 2nd St., between Leigh and Jackson Sts. The watchman came running to me and asked me to tell Mr. Ellis, the Vice-President of the Bank to come to the Bank right away. I notified Mr. Ellis. I went over and saw the man lying near the gutter on 2nd St., in front of the Bank. He was not then dead. There was a gun laying on his arm. I noticed nothing else. The man did not say anything. I saw the watchman standing by the man. The watchman said that he caught the man in the Bank. He told him to hatch and that he could drew a gun on him and he shot him. He pointed the gun at him. He did not know how to work it. If he had known how to work it, he would have shot him. He stated that he saw the dead man's hat on the desk by the vaul. It might have been moved from some where else. The wicket gate or tellers windows was open. The papers on the Cashier's desk were in confusion, being upset. The desk was a roller top and had been broken open." ISAAC PARKERS' STATEMENT Isaac Parker was sworn and deposed. "I live at 406 W. Broad St. I was in the back part of the steam laundry. Mr. Ellis came back to lock up the laundry. I went over a head of Mr. Ellis. I went over to the bank and looking for the man, I fell over the gun which was lying on his arm. The man and I speak, but died in a few minutes. I heard the watchman say that he had broken into the Bank, and he went around to head him off. He got to the main-hall door on the street and saw him coming out of the window, he called on him to halt, and the burglar pointed the gun at him. He shot him. The watchman said he did not know he had been until he pointed it at him and he said he was. GRANVILLE BOOKER'S STATEMENT Granville Booker was sworn and deposed. "I live at 1113 Saint Paul Street. I was coming out 2nd St., between Clay and Leigh. I heard the gun fire. I went where the man was lying in the street, having gone there to see what it was. He was lying out a little ways ATTEMPTED BURGLARY from the gatter in front of the True Reformers' Bank. When I got there some men were standing there. I was not the first one there. When I saw the gun some one else EMMETT STEWARD. had it. I saw him lying there and the watchman said he shot him. " JOSEPH WARD'S STATEMENT. Joseph Ward, night watchman, was sworn and deposed. "I live at 617 N. 2nd St. I am the private watchman at the Savings Bank, Grand Fountain, U. O., of True Reformers. I was sitting in the Finance Department last night, 608 N. 2nd St., down stairs at 20 minutes to 2 o'clock when I heard a noise towards the Bank. I crept out into the hallway. It seems that the man was moving about. Then I came back into the Finance Department. I had seen that the light in the Bank was tucked down dim, I raised the window and saw a man crossing between me and the dim light. There was a window there through which I could see a man going towards the front door of the Bank. I ran and got the riot gun which was in the corner of the room in which I was sitting and went around to the front door which leads into 2nd St. I saw a man coming out of the Bank window into 2nd St. I hollowed, halt! He then threw up gun and pointed the gun at me. We were about 30 feet apart. He never got closer. I fired one time. He went about two or three feet and fell. When I fired he was crossing the gutter. He had his gun up when he shot him. He was bearing off sideways to me when I shot him. He did not speak. I went up the street and called a young man and told him to tell Mr. Ellis to come down there. He got his gun out of the Bank in the corner. The gun stays there all of the time. The gun sets up side the hat-rack near the vault. His hat was laying on a shelf in the Bank. His hat was laying where it seems he attempted to go through a door and he went back and went through the wicket. The door was evidently locked. I did not hear the 'breaking of the glass.' " The coroner's jury decided that Emmett Steward was killed by Joseph Ward while Steward was attempting to rob the True Reformers' Bank. FOR SALE, $5.00 TO $10. PER FT. Nice Building Lots. Both sides 6th and 7th streets, near Cronch and Hospital Sts. Terms 50 00 cash, balance monthly. Get a lot before they are all sold. J. THOMPSON BROWN & Co. 1t 1113 Main Street. Our People Buying Lots Last week J. Thompson Brown & Co. advertised in our columns a large auction sale of lots on 6th and 7th Sts. on what is better known by our older citizens as Navy Hill.—The day was cold and unfavorable, but in spite of unfavorable weather a fair crowd was in attendance, and as advertised, every lot put up was sold to the highest bidder. A number of lots were bought by Walter Jackson, John O. Lewis, Fitzhugh Chalmers, G. W. Edwards, and others. The prices were not sufficient to justify a continuance of the sale and the rest of the lots are held by Brown & Co. at private sale on easy terms. RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, SATURDAY, APRIL 23, 1904. Many Viewed the Remains: The remains of the colored man, Emmett Steward, who was shot by watchman Joseph Ward were conveyed to Mr. Price's undertaking establishment, 214 E. Leigh St., where crowds viewed his remains. He had nothing in his possession with which to commit a burglary. In his pockets was found ateen cents, a few matches and a piece of watch chain. There were no cuts or bruises on his body. It is reported that soon after the shooting two other men were seen running away. MANY RECOGNIZED HIM. Many men recognized Steward. He was said to be all right save when he frank too much liquor, but it was the universal verdict that he was the last man that would be suspected of committing or attempting to commit a burglary. He had never been before the company he employed, who is a member of the Corporation Commission speaks of him in the highest terms. TRUE REFORMERS BURIED HIM. He was unmarried and his mother has not been heard from. The True Reformers decided to bear the expense of his burial. Joseph Ward was bailed by Judge Witt Sunday evening in the sum of $500.00 and on Monday morning Police Justice Crutchfield, after hearing the evidence dismissed the case. —See Reformers' ad. and circular. They lead in prices. WANTED—10 Cappers, 10 Rollers and 50 Stemmers for Hannibal, Canada. Apply to Rison & Reynolds, 119 Market St., Danyville, Va. PYTHIANS ENTER BLACKSTONE Mr. H. L. Jackson is Deputy. Blackstone, Va., April 12th, 1904.—A new lodge, Knights of Pythias, N. A., S. A., E., A., A. & A., was instituted there last night at Jackson's Hall by Grand Chancellor John Mitchell, Jr., assisted by Col E. R. Jefferson, P. C. James S. Forrester and Sir William Custalo of Richmond and Capt. H. S. Keen of Danville. The party arrived early in the evening and Grand Chancellor Mitchell and Sir Wm. Custalo were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Jackson, where they were royally entertained. Miss Alice G. Johnson of Boston, the accomplished pianist played selection after selection to the entire satisfaction of the visitors. The entire party were outspoken in their praise of the enterprise of Mr. H. L. Jackson. His spacious hall, located in the stately park dwelling of two stories is lighted by electricity. It was here that the initiation took place. Mr. Jackson is one of the wealthiest colored men in this section and his appointment as Deputy Grand Chancellor will serve to popularize the order in this section. At the close of the initiation refreshments were served and speech making was inculged in. The new lodge will be known as Blackstone Lodge, No. 70. The following are the officers: C. C. A. A. Fitzgerald; V. C. Charles Taylor; P., Eddie Winston; M of W, H.L. Jackson; K of R. and S., W. H. Fitzgerald; M of F., R. M. Bagnall; M of Exchequer, G. M. Jackson, M at A. Frank Tucker, I. G., J. D. Clarke; O.G., Charles Coleman. Trustees; H. L. Jackson, Washington Wilson, Eddie Black. LEWIS—The funeral of Master Robert Stantley Lewis, son of Mr. and Mrs. Chas. H. Lewis of 8111' N 7th St., who departed this life Sunday, April 17th at 11:05 a.m., took place from the Ebenezer Baptist Church Tuesday at 4:00 p.m. As the body was borne up the aisle of the church, the choir sang, "Go bury thy sorrow." Hymn. "When blooming youth is snatched away" was lined by Rev. W. H. White. Scripture lesson by Rev. S. C. Burrell. Prayer by Rev. Nelson Brown. Solo, "Christian Good-night" by Miss Margaret Tinsley. Rev. W. H. Stokes delivered a most pathetic sermon and advised the young people of the necessity of accepting the Savior while they are young. The Pythian Cadets under command of Captain Roscoe C. Mitchell and Violet Band, I. O. of St. Luke escorted the remains to the church. The floral designs were numerous, Undertaker A. D. Price officiated. THE JIM CROW STREET-CAR. Colored People Walk—Few Person on the Cars—White Passenger Arrested. The "Jim Crow" Street-car law went into effect Wednesday, April 20th, 1904, and the absence of the colored people is a most noticeable feature. The colored people are showing the company that they have no desire to intrude themselves, even upon public carriers when they are not wanted. A large number of white people are objecting to the law and numbers of white persons have assured colored ones that they regard it as a wanton and unnecessary discrimination against them. Some wagons carrying colored people were seen on the streets Wednesday. A colored woman walked from Fulton up to 2d and Leigh streets and then went back again. A white man, named Mr. John Myers, contractor and builder of Fulton was arrested for violating the regulations of the company, but no colored person at this writing has been arrested for similar conduct. The Richmond, Va., Times-Dispatch in its issue of the 21st inst. says: "The law worked rather stiffly yesterday, as most new things do. The hard working conductors, endeavoring with courtesy to keep things running smoothly, had to make voluminous explanations to many. The majority of those who rode good-naturedly obeyed the directions given. Not a few were angry, and some permitted their anger to express itself in words. One man refused absolutely to move when told, and rather than to do so alighted from the car and walked the remainder of the distance." Colored people now walk to work. Others "get a lift" on drays, teamsters and furniture wagons, etc., and the trip costs them nothing. Another Court in Norfolk. Norfolk, Va., April 14th, 1904.—Grand Worthy Counsellor John Mitchell Jr., reached here last night over the C. & O. route. He met Deputy Grand Chancellor, T. J. Pree, who met him at Newport News and accompanied him to Norfolk. He instituted a Court of Calanthe here, but assisted Lily of the Valley Court in the initiation of some candid dates. In the Court initiation, he was assisted by Deputy Grand Worthy Counsellor Emma Cherry, Mrs. Sylvia Mitchell and others. The following sisters are the officers of the new court which will be known as Norfolk Court: W. C., Sarah Stiflin fw. Inspectrix, Jane Connaway, S.D., Mary Miller, J. D., Sarah Dixon; O. Emma L. Johnson, R of D, Annie J. Jackson, R of A, Mary E. Cordon, R of D., Margaret Pinner; E., Maggie Skinner; Conductress; Pinkie Chappell, Asst. Conductress, Henrietta Miles, H., Mary Lee P., N. Nancy Chappell; Trustees: Rosa Rose, Celia Walker. Refreshments were served in abundance. This Court was organized through the efforts of Mrs. Fannie Cook, the Special Deputy Grand Worthy Counselor. Gary N. Gray was also present and rendered assistance, Grand Worthy Counselor Mitchell left this morning for Richmond. The forty-third anniversary sermon of the G. G. A. O. B. and S. of Love and Charity will be held at the Mt Carmel 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: Bro. Willis Wyatt, W. S.; Sister Lucy Cross, W. V. S.; Bro. Thomas Minor, Sec'y; Sister Celia Grey, W. Treas.; Bro. Green Robinson, Chaplain; Sister Lucy Perkins, R. H. Conductress; Sister Sidney Toles, L. H. Conductress; Bro. David Anderson, I. S.; Bro. Henry Wilson, O. S.; Bro. J. R. Robinson, Marshall. | Committee: Bro. Robert Howard, Thos. Minor, Sister H. L. Richard. | 698. CITIZENS PROTEST. Will Not Ride on the Street-Cars. Peace and Harmony Between the Races. OUTSPOKEN, BUT CONSERVATIVE—WANT NO TROUBLE HERE AN UNNECESSARY INNOVATION-COLORED PEOPLE OF The True Reformers' Hall was packed last Tuesday night with colored people, who even lined the aisles and stairways to attend the mass-meeting of citizens held for the purpose of making a dignified and conservative protest against the action of the Virginia Passenger and Power Company in making racial discrimination upon its lines in Richmond, Manchester and Petersburg. It was 9 o'clock when Editor John Mitchell, Jr., of the PLANET called the meeting to order. Prayer was offered by Rev. L. A. Carter. Editor Mitchell stated the object of the meeting and announced that the first business would be the election of a chairman. Mr. George St. Julien Stephens nominated the present encumbent. Dr. R. E Jones assumed the chair and put the question with the result that John Mitchell, Jr., was unanimously elected. Dr. Charles E. Wilder was elected secretary. THE OBJECT STATED: Mr. Mitchell related the circumstances leading up to the recent conference of citizens at Price's Hall, Thursday, April 14th and its decision to call this mass meeting, and announced that it would be in order to approve or ratify the action of the conference. This was carried. He then reviewed the situation, declaring that the law passed by the recent legislature with reference to the street-cars did not require that the separation be made. It was left to the street-car companies entirely. They could put it into effect or they could decline to do so. The law was not in operation in any city in the state. He counselled peace and declared that the primary motive for the mass-meeting was to promote harmony between the races and to avert any trouble which might arise as the result of the enforcer's unnecessary legislation. The colored people of Richmond were peaceable, law-abiding and self respecting. NO DEMAND FOR THE CHANGE There was no general demand on the part of the white people for this law. If there had been, our own city council would have passed the measure. It was the arbitrary act of the Virginia Passenger and Power Company. General Manager Huff could suspend the operation of the law on a moment's notice or he could enforce it. This showed that the company on its own public health effect this humiliating regulation. He warned those who would ride to obey the law, but the safest and best place for the colored people was the side-walk and he advised all of them to walk and avoid t.ouble. COULD KEEP HIM MOVING. He then discussed the rules and regulations of the company as published in the Richmond, Va., Times-Dispatch of Sunday morning, declaring that if a conductor had a grudge against a colored man, he could keep him moving in a trip from the West End to the Post Office to such an extent that when he arrived at his destination, he would be as tired as though he had walked the colonnade. He steted that the evident intention of the regulation was to goad the colored people into resistance, and to cause them to commit some overt act which would be construed into a disposition on their part to over-ride the law. CAN CARRY REVOLVERS. He showed that under the provisions of the law that the white boys and ill-mannered men, many of whom since the strike were now in charge of the street-cars were empowered to carry revolvers and if they shot down colored men, they could not be punished for so doing. He showed that under the law, a man could be made to assist a conductor in the arrest of his own wife, the lad whom he might be accompanying, provided the conductor was of the opinion that she had violated the rules of the company. STAY OFF THE CARS. He declared that the only safe plan was to stay off the cars and avoid trouble. It was never possible to tell when some thoughtless colored man might become involved in an altercation and it would be the same as touching a match to a powder magazine with its consequent slaughter. He claimed that the colored people were noted for their obedience to the orders of police-officers. This rule gave the irresponsible conductors more pow- RICHMOND ORDERLY er than that possessed by the policemen and train conductors. The latter were well paid and on this account well-trained Virginia gentlemen could be obtained for the service, where as in the case of the street canvassers company secured anyone it could at the low rate of wages it was paying. LAW NOT COMPULSORY The speaker was repeatedly applauded. Many had been of the opinion that the law was similar to the steam car law but Eitor Mitchell declared and challenged a contradiction that the legislature had passed no law compelling the street-car company to separate the white and colored passengers. COLORED BANKER PLEDGE SUPPORT A sensation was caused when Chairman Mitchell announced that the Presidents and Cashiers of the four colored Bans, and representing an aggregate capital of $180,000 had met Friday, April 15th, 1904 and pledged their personal support to any movement having for them the most of the colored people who must ride from one section of the city to the other. The following are the resolutions: We, the undersigned, officials of the four regularly incorporated Negro Banks of the city of Richmond, viz The Savings Bank, Grand Fountain, U. O. of T. R., Nickel Savings Bank, Mechanics' Savings Bank and the St. Luke Penny Savings Bank, having viewed with alarm the promulgation of the legalized order, clothing the conductors on our street railway system with the power to arbitrarily separate the passengers according to their race and color which power is liable to create ill feeling between the races and precipitate trouble between citizens, other wise peaceable and orderly, we desire to emphasize the fact that we stand for law and order and advise our people who on the cars of said corporation to obey the regulations as may have been announced. We realize, however, that to ride on these cars is liable to produce friction and some thoughtless member of the race may in a moment of aggravation commit some overt act that may cause trouble and to place us in the light of attempting to over ride the laws of the commonwealth. For this reason alone, if no other, we see a source of trouble in street car travel and we note that some of our citizens seem to believe it necessary that some mode of locomotion should be provided in order to minimize friction and avoid trouble. We, therefore, pledge our personal and official influence to the support of any movement looking to the transit of any and all persons who may ride and have no other means of reaching their respective destinations; provided that any such movement shall have for its sole purpose a desire to promote harmony between the races and peace and good will among the white and colored citizens of this community in which we live. Provided further that no such movement shall have for its purpose the injury of the Virginia Passenger and Power Co., or the interference with the traffic on any of its lines. President, Nickel Savings Bank, E. A. WASHINGTON, Cashier. JOHN MITCHELL, JR. President, Mechanics' Savings Bank, THOMAS K. WYATT, Cashier. MAGGIE L. WALKER. President, St. Luke Penny Savings Bank, EMMETT C. BURKE, Cashier. A COMMITTEE ON RESOLUTIONS. Lawyer J. R. Pollard moved that a committee on resolutions be appointed. This was carried and the following persons were named: R. E. Jones, M. D., chairman, J. R. Pollard, H. F. Jonathan, R. T. Hill, Thomas H. Wyatt, E. A. Washington and H. L. Harris, M.D. The committee retired. Mr. Hill, was unable to be present being in attendance at the section owners meeting. Mr. W. W. Fields arose and made a characteristic address urged the cooled people to stay off the cars. He made many good points and was applauded from time to time. He advised conservatism and recommended salt water baths for the feet as providing a convenient and satisfactory means of. 6. adapting them to the return to the hab of walking. Mr. Evangelist Jackson spoke in favor of walking and in behalf of the plans and purposes of the Young Man's Civic League. A LADY'S VOICE. Mrs. Patsie K. Anderson's advice given in tense, explicit language was to do no talking, but walk, walk, walk. She carried the house by storm and sa'd amidst great applause. Mr. A. J. Smith, r., spoke. Mr. James Patterson was accorded further explanation of the measure. Mr. Geo. St. Julien Stephens called attention to the representative character of the meeting, declaring that there were present: Bankers, lawyers, business men, College professors, in fact people from every walk of life. He was thoroughly aroused and as he made point after point he was enthusiastically applauded. He advised all to walk. RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED The meeting was one of the most orderly and conservative ever held in this city. A recess of five minutes was taken and later the committee on resolutions made the following report: "Whereas, the legislature of Virginia has enacted a law permitting the street railway companies to separate the passengers on the basis of their color, the enforcement of which enactment is not compulsory, but is left to the action o the company, and, Whereas, we deem the enactment of such a law in order upon our race and calculated to do irreparable harm by making it possible to provoke unnecessary clashes between the races, and, Whereas, we deem the enactment of such a law as unnecessary and unwarranted in view of the relation which exists between the races in this State; therefore, be it "Resolved, That we, the citizens of Richmond, in mass-meeting assembled, enter our solemn protest against the enforcement of this law by any and all public service corporations, recognizing as we do that the enforcement of the law in question is left to the option of such companies." Read ad. of, Reformers' store in this issue, will be of much profit to house ANOTHER NEW LODGE IN PETERS BURG. A Jolly Party From Richmond. Petersburg, Va., April 19th, 1904. Grand Chancellor, John Mitchell, Jr., arrived here last evening at about 5 o'clock accompanied by Col. Thomas M. Crump, Past Chancellors James S. Forrester, W. E. Mitchell, Capt. Thomas H Wyatt, Capt. W. Henry Jones, Capt John G. Smith, Sir William Caskett, Col. D. A. Ferguson, Col. E. R. Jefferson came over earlier. They instituted a lodge of Knights of Pythias, N. A. S. A. E., A. A. & A., at Brown's Hall. The following are the officers of the new lodge which will be known as Imperial Lodge No.71: C. C., Jesse McLin; M. of W. William Alexander; V. C. Walter Stokes; K. of R. and S. John T. Worrell; M. of F. F. G. Rawlings; M. of Exchequer, James M. Wilkerson; P., Madison Lowry; M. at A. Thomas Taylor; I. G., John Bland; O. G., John McLin; Attendants; James E. Smith Robert Spurlock; Walter Creth; Green T. Briggs. Trustees; Geo. Lundy, Stephen Tatum, Thos. Day, Mr. A. Fowlks of Richmond was present. At the conclusion of the initiation ceremonies, the party repaired to Wilkerson's Hall, where a bounteous repast was spread and amenable and entertaining ladies served the delicacies of the season. The Richmond visitors were outspoken in their commendation of the Grand Chancellor was equally jubilant. The new lodge was gotten up under the management of District Deputy Grand Chancellor Royward Wood. The banquet hall was decorated with palms and the Grand Chancellor spoke to the ladies expressing a desire to come to Petersburg again under similar conditions. RE PLANET TEMPERANCE NOTES WE ARE WINNING BIT BY BIT. A Recitation by John Anderson. Why should our feet grow weary or our hands refuse to toll? We know, and that should cheer us on, we're winning bit by bit. Never d'look those lessons that are written for our good. They are printed on the paths we tread, and published on the wood. The spring from bud to blossom moves before the fruits are fit: We know, and that should cheer us on, we're winning bit by bit. How the sun comes slipping out along the eastern sky— An instantaneous blaze of light would blast the strongest eye. Bo streak and beam come sailing forth, each bright and bright yet; We know, and that should cheer us on, we're winning bit by bit. We grandly art from age to age unfolds that loving lore— From hieroglyphics to talking leaves and telegrams we soar; From pack-steed on to royal mall and iron horse we fill: We know, and that should cheer us on, we're winning bit by bit. The tyrant Drink still keeps the field, and leads a mighty host; But here and there his ancient guards are flying from their post; flying from their post; And while his friends diminish fast, his foes we know it, that should cheer us on, we're winning bit by bit. When right and might in battle meet, the conflict may be long; John Anderson, in National Advocate. HE KNEW HOW TO SAY NO. Five boys were together on the play ground of a schoolhouse. They had grown tired of the game in which they had been engaged and were seated on the grass near the schoolhouse door. "Let's go to the fishing pond," said Joe Hartman. "We can be back before books." "So we can," said Billy Benson, rising. "I'm with you—I'm always ready for a swim. I know we can be back before books, but it won't hurt much if we do lose a little time. I don't care for losing a little time." "May we the teacher will whip us if we are not back by one o'clock." This SALOON "BUT IT WON'T HURT YOU TO TAKE A SOFT DRINK." same from John Jennings. "He doesn't like it when we're past one clock coming in. And he punished Ralph Rankin for being too late one day." "Oh, you're a scary boy—you're always afraid of getting whipped. Come along and don't be a baby. We can be back in time for books." "Yes, I'll go," said John. He didn't have firmness to say no. Another boy, Edwin Harris, was asked if he would go and he readily assented. Then Joe Hartman asked the fifth boy if he would go with them to "the swimming place," as it was often called. "No," promptly replied Henry Dale. "I'll not go." "And why not, Mr. Dale?" asked Joe somewhat imperiously. "Because I promised my mother I would not." This was Henry's answer and it was followed by a live burst of laughter from the other boys. Joe, however, was the first to lead in the laughter. "Then you must be tied to your mother's apron string," said Joe, derisively. "I thought you could be a man in spite of your mother." "We need not stop now to discuss the matter of manhood," said Henry. "I have told my mother that I would not go again from school to that place, and I intend to be as good as my word. I you all intend to go you can go right along. You need not wait for me." "But," added one of the boys in derision, "we'd like to have you along to take care of us." "Yes," added another, "and we'd feel safer if we had a real good mother's boy along." These derisive remarks, however, were lost on Henry. He turned away and went to another part of the play ground. The boys were absent when "books" was called by the teacher and they were punished. Nine years had passed and Henry was engaged in a mercantile house in the city. He had been in this position for three months. He liked the business and his employer was beginning to feel that he had employed a young man of integrity—a young man who could be trusted. No great temptation, however, had appeared to turn the young man from his course. He had made the acquaintance of some young men who were somewhat reckless and these young men whom we shall designate as Tom, Dick and Harry, came to him one evening at his boarding place with the intention of "breaking him in," as they called it. "We want you to go with us and see the sights," said Tom. "And," added Dick, "we'll not let you get into any trouble. We merely want to show you city life as it is." "And," continued Harry, "you can then walk understandingly. You don't want to be called a greenhorn. We want you to be smart. We want you to see some of the wickedness of the world so that you can understand where you are at. We want to 'break you in,' so to speak. We don't want you to be considered a greeny. You have been here long enough to learn something about city life and we want you now to commence to learn. We'll show you around and we'll see that you don't get into any trouble." Henry was willing to go. He didn't know just how these young men stood. They had been friendly, had treated him well, and those who had spoken of them said nothing derogatory to their character. Henry went with them, and when they had walked and talked for awhile Dick proposed that they go into a saloon and have a drink. "I don't drink," said Henry. "But it won't hurt you to take a soft drink." "I don't drink," said Henry, "neither hard nor soft." "Oh," said Harry, "don't be a dune; come and take a drink. We want you to be like other people." "Now," said Henry, as he straightened himself manfully, "you have my answer. I don't drink. If you want to drink I will not detain you. I know the way to my boarding house. You can go your way. I can go mine. I would not take a drink of intoxicating liquor if by doing so I could gain the whole world. I'm what you might dominate a sot fellow. I promised my mother that I would never taste intoxicating liquor, and I will not." A loud laugh from the pretended friends was the answer to this. "But," said Tom, returning to the attack, "We don't ask you to drink anything intoxicating. It was soft drinks we were talking about." "I class them all as intoxicating drinks," said Henry. "Good night. I am going home." Another shout of laughter followed him, but he cared not. He had unexpectedly found out the kind of friends they were and he was thankful. Ten years have gone into the cycles of the past. Henry has a prominent position in a large mercantile house in the city of N—. Tom went into the by-paths of the wicked and was accidentally killed while under the influence of intoxicating liquor. Dick is an outcast and Harry is considered a cipher. "As ye sow so shall ye also reap."—H. Elliott McBride, in United Presbyterian. T EMPERANCE NOTES. When drink comes in at the door prosperity files out of the window.—National Advocate. Let us have faith that right makes might; and in that faith, let us to the end dare to do our duty as we understand it.—Lincoln. The perpetuity of this government will depend upon the moral and religious training of the youth.—George Washington's farewell address. A movement is being started among the liquor men for a great building at Washington that shall be headquarters for the trade. A charter has been secured and the stock in the company has been fixed at a par value of $100 a share. Notice was recently served on 70 saloonkeepers of Appleton, Wils., by the Sunday reform committee consisting of clergymen and laymen, that evidence will be collected against all saloons found to be open on Sunday. Many of the saloons heeded the warning, but it is believed that some of the more objectionable ones will fight.—Union Signal. The papers tell of a soldier in the Philippines who discourses upon a new cure for drunkenness among soldiers. "We have," he says, "a lot of native soldiers enlisted here. When one of the white boys gets drunk the captain puts a native soldier over him, and the native puts on lots of airs while marching him around. It grinds the boys so they wouldn't get drunk if they could. Different Classes of Inebriates. Among the ordinary inebriates which come under treatment in the institutions there are several quite distinct classes: One the imbecile and delusional class; another the occasional inebriates, who seem to be both imbecile and paretic in their mental conditions; the third, the habitual and constant drinkers, who are, like the first class, egotistical and delusional about their own strength. Another class may be properly called criminal inebriates, who when under the influence of spirits have all the instincts and impulses of a criminal. They are clearly insane. The accidental inebriates is a class by themselves, and seem to depend entirely on the surroundings. The recurrent inebriates, in which the paroxysm of drink returns at stated intervals, are allied to the epileptoid family of diseases. Nearly all of these classes are neurotics from heredity; some direct from inebriate parents, others indirect from other forms of neurosis.—Journal of Inebriety. Friends. Friends seldom desert a man while his money holds out. THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. CUPID'S GAY PRANKS. CUPID'S GAY PRANKS. STILL TRYING TO MAKE THE WORLD GO ROUND SWIFTLY. A Batch of Love Stories Found in One Week's Exchange List—Woman Gives Fortune to Former Sweetheart. It has been said that lightning never strikes twice in the same place. In this Cupid has the advantage of Ajax, for he can send his arrows twice in the same heart if need be. This was so in the case of William Gregory and Mrs. Dethena Gregory. Sixteen years ago they were divorced. When they were married Gregory was 20 years old and his wife 17. "We were really too young at the time to be married," said Mr. Gregory, "and we did not get along smoothly, so by mutual agreement we separated. I went to Chicago to live, and returned to Mount Vernon five years later, but we did not make up. Sixteen years ago we were divorced. "Our son, Henry, was four months old when I left, and I had not seen him from that time until I met him the day my wife and I were remarried." Both mother and father said that their son had been trying for years to bring about a reconciliation, and his efforts had finally been successful. Grace Whittaker, a graduate of Wellesley college, with $100,000 in her own name and heiress to an estate worth $1,000,000, fell in love with Kendrick Harrison Tribuon and now they are married. Modern magazine romance would have it that Kendrick Tribuon was a Yale man, or a Harvard man at least. He would have rich parents, be a big, husky fellow, slow in his studies, but the greatest half back known to the fotball world. But he wasn't. He had three names, just like a college catalogue, but he was only a farm hand, a farmer's hired man. He worked on 'Miss Whittaker's stepfather's farm, and when she fell in love with him he wore faded blue overalls and had a sunburst face. Both F. FELL IN LOVE WITH TRIBOU. are happy, for she is only 20 and he 25. But her family hasn't forgiven her yet. Cupid sometimes finds a difficult task to reach the hearts of some men. Now, there's the mail clerk. He is jolted back and forth across the country in a railroad train day and night, with little chance of seeing a pretty girl, to say nothing of becoming acquainted with one. But Charles Roach, of Laporte, Ind., somehow found time. He met Jane Broughton in Paw Paw, Mich. She liked him, but her parents did not. So it happened one day Miss Broughton went to Laporte to visit friends. When she got off the train it was to get on to another with Charles Roach, and they were married the same day in Chicago. J. Alonzo See, a clerk at Yonkers, has been left a fortune of about $200,000 through the death of Mrs. Helen Jennett, of Detroit, to whom he was at one time engaged to be married. The engagement was, it is understood, broken off through some misunderstanding, and since both have married. Mrs. Jennett's husband died a couple of months ago, and, so far as is known, she had no living relatives. Mr. See was completely surprised when told of the legacy. The news came to him with the announcement of Mrs. Jennett's death. Since her marriage he had seen Mrs. Jennett only occasionally, and she had told him nothing of her intentions. Mrs. Jennett inherited the estate, the bulk of which will go to See, from her father, a Mr. Kline, and from her sister. Besides a quantity of real estate there are a steam yacht, horses and carriages, jewelry, and other personal property. Margaret Fitzpatrick, daughter of James Fitzpatrick, a Southern railroad engineer, and Joseph Lynch, a boilermaker, both of Ludlow, came to Covington on Monday and were married by Squire Thomas Dunn. The bride's parents objected to the marriage, and instead of returning to Ludlow to celebrate the event they went to the home of John Terry, of West Covington. After the daughter's departure from home the parents withdrew their objections and started a boy in search of the runaway couple with a letter forgiving them and requesting them to return to Ludlow. They were found in West Covington while the wedding supper was in progress. Later they returned to Ludlow. HE ATE HIMSELF TO DEATH Canny Paris Restauranter's Widow Wins Unique Suit for Customer's Insurance. If Maxe Groult had not had a great appetite the Paris courts' would not have had to decide a particularly knotty point of law recently. The New York World says that Groult was a frequenter of the Madrid restaurant, In the Bois de Boulogne. restaurant, in the Bois de Boulogne. The proprietor gave him credit until one day he found that Groult had run up a staggering bill. Groult, when duned, frankly confessed his inability to pay. The dismayed restaurant man, starring blankly at the other man, was suddenly struck with an idea. A life devoted to the pleasures of the table was beginning to tell on Groult. "I'll tell you what to do," said his creditor. "Insure your life in my favor TABLE SHOT MURT TAY S. FRANCES "JUST INSURE YOUR LIFE." for $10,000. Then come here and eat all you want. No one will ask you for money." Possibly the restaurant man had heard the American story of the gamester who had just lost $1,000 at the faro table. As he was leaving the place a servant offered him some ham from the lunch-table. "All right, but I can't eat $1,000 worth of ham," said the loser. Groult, as was expected of him, ate himself to death quickly, and there was a good profit for the Madrid restaurant in the bargain. Unluckily, the proprietor died, too. Kinsmen of Groult sued to enjoin payment of the life insurance policy on the ground that by encouraging him to eat extravagantly the restaurant man was responsible for his death. The court, however, decided that the insurance must be paid to the proprietor's widow. FRIGHTENED BY ARC LIGHT. Ohio Man Said to Terrorize Timid Neighbors by Shooting at Imaginary Burglars. Nathan Knaus and family, of Fostoria, O., have been disturbed quite frequently of late by the flashing of lights in their windows. They took it for granted that some one was trying to break into their house, and it became such a nightmare to them that the members of the family took turns in standing guard. On Wednesday night the light shone on Mr. Knaus! Pablo Picasso FIRED AT THE LIGHT. bed, and he took a shot at the man who was supposed to be behind it from under the bedding, not taking his revolver out, for fear the light on the barrel would reveal him to the burglar. The powder set fire to the bed clothing and the shot struck the wall, rebounding onto the bed. The neighbors have been as badly scared as Knaus for fear some of the aimed-at-nothing shots which have been disturbing their slumbers should take a notion to enter their houses. After demonstrating with Mr. Knaus and the members of the family without success and trying to convince them that the lights seen were not from a burglar's lantern, but were caused by the swinging of the arc light on the corner, near by, caused by the high winds which have been prevailing so much of the time, they called on the police. An officer visited the house the other night and remained until he found to his own satisfaction that the startling illumination did come from the street light, and succeeded in convincing most of the family. 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Which do you want?—Mid- land Farmer. Cow manure is a valuable fertilizer, but adds no richness to the milk. Only a Beginning. Job showed the little, round, sore spot on his arm to his physician. "What is that, doctor?" he asked. "That is a boll," pronounced the medical man, after a brief examination. "A-boil?" echoed Job. "Well, that's a new one on me!" Later, however, there were others on him.—Chicago Tribune. Rivalry. Mrs. Von Blumer—You know that horrid Mrs. Skinny, whom I dislike so? Well, she was at the auction this morning. Von Blumer (turning pale)—Did she buy anything? Mrs. Von Blumer—I should say not! I simply wouldn't let her outbid me.—Town Topics. Youthful Grafter. "I'm afraid your sister doesn't like me much, Tommy," sighed Mr. Spooner to his charmer's little brother. "I think she would if you was to give me a shillin'," suggested Tommy. "She's awful fond of me, and always likes people wot's good to me!"—Tit-Bits. A. 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Price low on everything this week. Hard and soft coal. Hay and Grain. The Gentleman From Indiana By BOOTH TARKINGTON CHAPTER XI R. ROSS SCHOFIELD was engaged in decorating the battered chairs in the Herald editorial room with blue satin ribbon. the purchase of which at the Dry Goods Emporium had been directed by a sudden inspiration of his superior. Mr. Parker of the composing force. It was Ross' intention to garnish each chair with an elaborately tied bow, but as he was no sailor and understood only the intricacies of a hard knot he confined himself to that species of ornamentation, leaving, however, very long ends of ribbon hanging down after the manner of the pendants of rosettes. Mr. Schofield was alone at his labor, his two confreeres having be-taken themselves to the station to meet the train from Rouen. It was a wet, gray day. The wide country lay dripping under formless wraps of thin mist, and the warm, drizzling rain blackened the weather beaten en shingles of the station, made clear reflecting puddles on the unevenly worn planks of the platform and dampened the packing cases too thoroughly for occupation by the station lounger. The bus driver, Mr. Bennett, and the proprietors of two attendant "cut undens" and three or four other worthies whom business or the lack of it called to that locality availed themselves of the shelter of the waiting room, but the gentlemen of the Herald were too agitated to be confined save by the limits of the horizon. They had reached the station half an hour before train time and consumed the interval in pacing the platform under a big cotton umbrella, addressing each other only in monosyllables. Those in the waiting room gossiped eagerly and for the thousandth time about the late events and particularly about the tremendous news of Fisbee. Judd Bennett looked out through the rainy doorway at the latter with reverence and a fine pride of townmanship. He declared it to be his belief that Fisbee and Parker were waiting for her now. For all Carlow knew why Fisbee had gone to meet the strange lady at the station when she had come to visit the Briscoes, why he had come with her to the lecture, why he had taken supper at the Briscoes' three times and dinner twice when she was there. Fisbee had told the story to Parker on a meancheoly afternoon as they sat together in the Herald office, and Parker had told the town. It was simple enough indeed, and Fisbee's past was a mystery no longer. It might have been revealed years before had there been anything in particular to reveal and if it had ever occurred to Fisbee to talk of himself and his affairs. Things had a habit of not occurring to Fisbee. Mr. Parker, very nervous himself, felt his companion's elbow trembling against his own as the great engine, reeking in the mist and sending great clouds of white vapor up to the sky, swooped down the track, rushed by them and came to a standstill beyond the platform. Fisbee and the foreman made haste to the nearest vestibule and were gazing blankly at its barred approaches when they heard a silvery laugh behind them and an exclamation. "Upstairs and downstairs and in my lady's chamber! Just behind you, dear!" Turning quickly, the foreman beheld a blushing and smiling little vision, a vision with light brown hair, a vision enveloped in a light brown rain coat and with brown gloves from which the handles of a big brown traveling bag were let fall as the vision disappeared under the cotton umbrella, while the smitten Judd Bennett reeled gasping against the station. "Dearest," the girl cried to the old man, "you should have been looking for me between the devil and the deep sea, the parlor car and the smoker! I've given up cigars, and I've begun to study economy, so I didn't come on either!" The drizzle and mist blew in under the top of the "cut under" as they drove rapidly into town, and bright little drops sparkled on the fair hair above the new editor's forehead and on the long lashes above the new editor's cheeks. She shook these transient gems off lightly as she paused in the doorway of the office at the top of the rickety stairway. Mr. Schofield had just added the last touch to his decorations and managed to slide into his coat as the party came up the stairs, and now, perspiring, proud, embarrassed, he assumed an attitude at once deprecatory of his endeavors and pointedly expectant of commendations for the results. (He was a modest youth and a conscious. After his first sight of her as she stood in the doorway it was several days before he could lift his distressed eyes under the new editor's glance or, indeed, dare to avail himself of more than a hasty and fluttering stare at her when her back was turned.) As she entered the room he sided along the wall and laughed sheepishly at nothing. Every chair in the room was ornamented with one of his blue rosettes, tied carefully and firmly to the middle slat of each chair back. There had been several yards of ribbon left over, and there was a hard knot of glossy satin on each of the inkstands and on the doorknobs. A blue band passing around the stovepipe lent it an antique rakishness suggestive of the charlottee, and a number of streamers suspended from a book in the ceiling encouraged a supposition that the employees of the Herald were contemplating the intricate festivities of May day. It needed no ghost to infer that these garments had not embellished the editorial chamber during Mr. Harkless' activity, but, on the contrary, had been put in place that very morning. Mr. Fisbee had not known of the decorations, and as his eye fell upon them a faint look of pain passed over his brow. But the girl examined the room with a dancing eye, and there were both tears and laughter in her heart. "How beautiful!" she cried. "How beautiful!" She crossed the room and gave her hand to Ross. "It is Mr. Schofield, isn't it? The ribbons are delightful. I didn't know Mr. Harkless' room was so pretty." Ross looked out of the window now laughed as he took her hand, which he shook with a long up and down motion, but he was set at better ease by her apparent unconsciousness of the fact that the decorations were for her. "Oh, it ain't much, I reckon," he replied, and continued to look out of the window and laugh. She went to the desk and removed her gloves and laid her rain cloak over a chair near by. "Is this Mr. Harkless' chair?" she asked, and, Fisbee answering that it was, she looked gravely at it for a moment, passed her hand gently over the back of it and then, throwing the rain cloak over another chair, said cheerly: "Do you know, I think the first thing for us to do will be to dust everything very carefully." "You remember, I was confident she would know precisely where to begin," was Fisbee's carnest whisper in the willing ear of the long foreman. "Not an instant's indecision, was there?" "No, snee," replied the other, and as he went down to the pressroom to hunt for a feather duster which he thought might be found there he collared Bud Tipworthy, the devil, who not admitted to the conclave of his superiors, was whistling on the rainy stairway. "You hustle and find that dustbrush we used to have, Bud," said Parker. And presently as they rummaged in the nooks and crannies about the machinery he melted to his small assistant. "The paper is saved, Buddie—saved by an angel in light brown. You can tell it by the look of her." "Geel!" said Bud. Mr. Schofeld had come, blushing, to join them. "Say, Cale, did you notice the color of her eyes?" "Yes. They're gray." "I thought so, too, show day and at Kedge Halloway's lecture. But say, Cale, they're kind of changeable. When she come in upstairs with you and Fisbee they were jest as blue—near matched the color of our ribbons." "Gee!" repeated Mr. Tipworthy. When the editorial chamber had been made so neat that it almost glowed, though it could never be expected to shine as did Fisbee and Caleb Parker and Ross Schofeld that morning, the lady took her seat at the desk and looked over the few items the gentlemen had already compiled for her perusal. Mr. Parker explained many technicalities peculiar to the Carlow Herald, translated some phrases of the printing room and enabled her to grasp the amount of matter needed to fill an issue. When Parker finished the three incompetents sat watching the little figure with the expression of hopeful and trusting terriers. She knit her brow for a second, but she did not betray an instant's indecision. "I think we should have regular market reports," she announced earnestly. "I am sure Mr. Harkless would approve. Don't you think he would?" She turned to Parker. "Market reports!" Mr. Fisbee exclaimed. "I should never have thought of market reports, nor do I imagine would either of my—my associates. A woman to conceive the idea of market reports!" The editor blushed. "Why, who would, dear, if not a woman or a speculator, and I'm not a speculator, and neither are you, and that's the reason you didn't think of them. So, Mr. Parker, as there is so much pressure, and if you don't mind continuing to act as reporter as well as composter until after tomorrow, and if it isn't too wet—you must have an umbrella—would it be too much bother if you went around to all the shops—stores, I mean—to all the grocers and the butchers and the leather place we passed, the tannery, and if there's one of those places where they bring cattle, would it be too much to ask you to stop there—and at the flour mill, if it isn't too far, and at the dry goods store—and you must take a blank book and a sharpened pencil, and will you price everything, please, and jot down how much things are?" Orders received, the impetuous Parker was departing on the instant when she stopped him with a little cry, "But you haven't any umbrella!" And she forced her own, a slender wand, upon him. It bore a cunningly wrought handle, and its fabric was of glistening silk. The foreman, unable to decline it, thanked her awkwardly, and as she turned to speak to Fisbee he bolted out of the door and ran down the steps without unfolding the umbrella, and then as he made for Mr. Martin's emporium he buttoned it securely under his long Prince Albert, determined that not a drop of water should touch and ruin so delicate a thing. Thus he carried it, triumphantly dry, through the course of his reportings of that day. When he had gone the editor laid her hand on Fibes's arm. "Dear," she said, "do you think you'd take cold if you went over to the hotel and made a note of all the arrivals for the last week and the departures too? I noticed that Mr. Harkleass always filled two or three-sticks, isn't it?—with them and things about them, and somehow it 'read' very nicely. You must ask the landlord all THE RICHMOND PLANE RICHMOND, VIRGINIA about them, and if there aren't any, we can take up the same amount of space to you see. I've read the Herald faithfully. Isn't it a good thing I always subscribed for it?" She patted Fisbee's cheek with her soft hand and laughed garly into his mild, vague old eyes. "It won't be this scramble to 'fill up' much longer. I have plans, gent men, and before long we will paint, news, and we must buy 'plate matter' instead of patent insides; and I had a talk with the Associated Press people in Rouen, but that's for afterwhile. And I went to the hospital this morning before I left. They wouldn't let me see him again, but they told me al about him, and he's better, and I got Tom to go to the jail, and he saw some of those beasts, and I can do a column of description besides an editorial about them, and I will be fierce enough to suit Carlow, you may believe that. And I've been talking to Senator Burns—that is, listening to Senator Burns, which is much stupider—and I think I can do an article on national politics. I'm not very well up on local issues yet, and I—" She broke off suddenly. "There. I think we can get out tomor- you have got back from the note, farmer. I'll have half my—music written—written up," I mean. Take your big umbrella and go, dear, and please ask at the express office if a typewriter has come for me." She laughed again with sheer delight, like a child, and ran to a corner and got the cotton umbrella and placed it in the old man's hand. As he reached the door she called after him. "Walt!" and went to him and knelt before him, and with the humbleest, proudest grace in the world, turned up his trousers to keep them from the mud. Ross Schofield had never considered Mr. Fisbee a particularly sacred sort of person, but he did from that moment. The old man made some timid protest at the girl's action, but she answered: "The great ladies used to buckle the Chevallier Bayard's spurs for him, and you're a great deal nicer than the Chev—You haven't any rubbers! I don't believe any of you have any rubbers!" And not until both Fisbee and Mr. Schofield had promised to purchase overshoes at once and in the meantime not to step in any puddles would she let the former depart upon his errand. He crossed the square with the strangest, jauntiest step ever seen in Plattville. Solomon Tibbs had a warm argument with Miss Selina as to his identity. Miss Selina maintaining that the figure under the big umbrella—only the legs and coat tails were visible to them—was that of a stranger, probably an Englishman. In the Herald office the editor turned, smiling, to the paper's remaining vassal. "Mr. Schofield, I heard some talk in Rouen of an oil company that had been formed, to prospect for kerosene in Carlow county. Do you know anything about it?" Ross, surfeited with honor, terror, and possessed by a sweet distress at finding himself tete-a-tete with the lady, looked at the wall and replied, "Oh, it's that Eph Watts' foolishness." "Do you know if they have begun to dig for it yet?" "Ma'am?" said Ross. "Have they begun the diggings yet?" "No, ma'am. I think not. They've got a contrapshun fixed up about three mile south. I don't reckon they've begun yet, hardly. They're gittin' the machinery in place. I heard Eph say they'd begin to bore-dig. I mean, ma'am; I meant to say dig" He stopped, utterly confused and unhappy, and she understood his manly purpose and knew him for a gentleman whom she liked. "You mustn't be too much surprised," she said, "but in spite of my ignorance about such things I mean to devote a good deal of space to the oil company. It may come to be of great importance to Carlow. We won't go into it in tomorrow's paper beyond an item or so, but do you think you could possibly find Mr. Watts and ask him for some information as to their progress and if it would be too much trouble for him to call here tomorrow afternoon or the day after? I want him to give me an interview if he will. Tell him, please, he will very greatly oblige us." "Oh, he'll come all right," answered her companion quickly. "I'll take Tibbs' buggy and go down there right off. Eph won't lose no time gittin' here." And with this encouraging assurance he was flying forth when he, like the others, was detained by her sollicious care. She was a born mother. He protested that in the buggie he would be perfectly sheltered. Besides, there wasn't another umbrella about the place. He liked to get wet anyway; had always loved rain. The end of it was that he went away in a sort of tremor wearing her rain cloak over his shoulders, which garment, as it covered its owner completely when she wore it, hung almost to his knees. He darted around a corner, and there, breathing deeply, tenderly removed it, then borrowing paper and cord at a neighboring store wrapped it neatly and stole back to the printing office, on the ground floor of the Herald building, and left the package in the hands of Bud Tipworthy, charging him to care for it as for his own life and not to open it, but if the lady so much as set one foot out of doors before his return to hand it to her with the message, "He borrowed another off J. Hankins." Left alone, the lady went to the desk and stood for a time looking gravely at Harkless' chair. She touched it gently, as she had touched it once before that morning, and then she spoke to it as if he were sitting there and as she would not have spoken had he been sitting there. "You didn't want gratitude, did you?" she whispered, with sad lips. Soon she smiled at the blue ribbon, patted the chair gayly on the back and, seizing upon pencil and pad, dashed into her work with rare energy. She bent low over the desk, her pencil moving rapidly. She seemed loath to pause for breath. She had covered many sheets when Fishee returned, and as he came in softly in order not to disturb her she was so deeply engrossed that she did not hear him, nor did she look up when Parker entered, but pursued the formulation of her fast flying ideas with the same single purpose and abandon. So the two men sat and waited while their cheftainess wrote absorbedly. At last she glanced up and made a little startled exclamation at seeing them there and then gay A man in a hat is kneeling on the floor, holding a pair of shoes in his hands. A woman is kneeling on the floor, wearing a dress and holding a pair of shoes. They are in a room with a window and a shelf of newspapers. With the hambest, proudest grace in the world. them cheery greeting. Each placed several scribbled sheets before her, and she, having first assured herself that Fisbee had bought his overshoes, and having expressed a fear that Mr. Parker had found her umbrella too small, as he looked damp (and indeed he was damp), cried praises on their notes and offered the reporters great applause. "It is all so splendid!" she cried. "How could you do it so quickly? And in the rain too! It is just what we need. I've done most of the things I mentioned. I think, and made a draft of some plans for hereafter. Doesn't it seem to you that it would be a good notion to have a woman's page—For Feminine Readers' or 'Of Interest to Women'—once a week? "A woman's page!" exclaimed Fisbee. "I could never have thought of that. Could you, Mr. Parker?" Before that day was over system had been introduced, and the Herald was running on it, and all that warm rainy afternoon the editor and Fisbee worked in the editorial rooms. Parker and Bud and Mr. Schofeld (after his return with the items and a courteous message from Ephraim Watts) bent over the forms downstairs, and Uncle Xenophon was cleaning the storeroom and scrubbing the floor. An extraordinary number of errands took the various members of the printing force up to see the editor in chief, literally to see the editor in chief. It was hard to believe that the presence had not flown, hard to keep believing without the repeated testimony of sight that the dingy room upstairs was actually the setting for their jewel, and a jewel they swore she was. The printers came down chuckling and gurgling after each interview. It was partly the thought that she belonged to the Herald, their paper. Once Ross, chuckling, looked up and caught the foreman gigling to himself. "What in the name of common sense you laughin' at, Cate?" he asked. "What are you laughing at?" rejoined the other. "I dumno!" The day wore on, wet and dreary outside, but all within the Herald's bosom was snug and busy and murmurous with the healthy thrum of life and prosperity renewed. Toward O'clock system accomplished, the new guiding spirit was deliberating on a policy, as Harkless would conceive a policy were he there, when Minnie Briscoe ran joyously up the stairs, plunged into the room waterproofed and radiant and caught her friend in her eager arms and put an end to policy for that day. But policy and labor did not end at twilight every day. There were evenings, as in the time of Harkless, when lamps shone from the upper windows of the Herald building; for the little editor worked hard, and sometimes she worked late; she always worked early. She made some mistakes at first and one or two blunders which she took much more seriously than any one else did. But she found a remedy for all such results of her inexperience, and she developed experience. She set at her task with the energy of her youthfulness and no limit to her ambition, and she felt that Harkless had prepared the way for a wide expansion of the paper's interests, wider then he knew. She brought a fresh point of view to operate in a situation where he had fallen perhaps too much in the rut, and she watched every chance with a keen eye and looked ahead of her with clear foresight. What she waited and yearned for and dreaded was the time when a copy of the new Herald should be placed in the trembling hands of the man who lay in the Rouen hospital. Then she felt if he, unaware of her identity as he was and as he was to be kept, should place everything in her hands unreservedly, that would be a tribute to her work. And how hard she would labor to deserve it! After a time she began to see that as his representative and editor of the Herald she had become a factor in district politics. It took her breath, but with a gasp of delight, for there was something she wanted to do. Rodney McCune had lifted his head, and the friends of his stricken enemy felt that they and the cause that Harkless had labored for were lost without the leader, for the old ring that the Herald had beaten rallied around McCune. "The boys were in line again." Every one knew that Halloway, a dull but honest man, the most available material that Harkless had been able to find, was already beaten. If John Harkless had been "on the ground to work for him," it was said, Halloway could have received the nomination again, but as matters stood he was beaten and beaten badly, and Rodney McCune would sit in congress, for nomination meant election. But one afternoon the Harkless forces, demoralized, broken, hopeless, woke up to find that they had a leader. There was a political conference at Judge Briscoe's. The politicians descended sadly at the gate from the omnibus that had met the afternoon train—Boswell and Keating, two gentlemen of Amo, and Bence and Shannon, two others of Gaines county, to confer with Warren Smith, Tom Martin, Briscoe and Harkless' represents tives, Fisbee and the editor of the Herald. They entered the house gloomily, and the conference began in dejected monosyllables. But presently Minnie Briscoe, sitting on the porch pretending to sew, heard Helen's voice, clear, soft and trembling a little with excitement. She talked for only two or three minutes, but what she said seemed to stir up great commotion among the others. All the voices burst forth at once in exclamations, almost shouts. Then Minnie saw her father, seated near the window, rise and strike the table a great blow with his clinched fist. "Will I make the nominating speech?" he cried. "I'd walk from here to Rouen and back again to do it!" "We'll swim out" exclaimed Mr. Keating of Amo. "The wonderful thing is that nobody thought of this before. There are just two difficulties—Halloway and our man himself. He wouldn't let his name be used against Kedge. Therefore we've got to work it quietly and keep it from him." "It's not too difficult," said the speaker's colleague, Mr. Boswell. "All we've got to do is to spring it as a surprise on the convention. Some of the old crowd themselves will be swept along with us when we make our nomination, and you want to stuff your ears with cotton. You see, all we need to do is to pass the word quietly among the Halloway people and the shaky McCune people. Rod may get wind of it, but you can't fix men in this district against us when they know what we mean to do now. On the first ballot we'll give Halloway every vote he'd have got if he'd run against McCune alone. It will help him to understand how things were afterward. On the second ballot—why, we nominate. Of course it can't be helped that Halloway has to be kept in the dark, too, but he's got to be." "There's one danger," said Warren Smith. "Kedge Halloway is honest, but I believe he's selfish enough to disturb his best friend's debedted for his own ends. It isn't unlikely that he will get nervous toward the last and be telegraphing Harkless to have himself carried on a cot to the convention to save him. That wouldn't do at all, of course. And Miss Sherwood thinks maybe there'd be less danger if we set the convention a little ahead of the day appointed. It's dangerous, because it shortens our time, but we can fix it for three days before the day we'd settled on, and that will bring it to Sept. 7." "It's a great plan," said Mr. Bence, who was an oratorical gentleman. He thrust one hand in his breast, raised the other toward heaven and continued. "For the name of Harkless shall"— "Wait a minute," said Keating. "I'd like to hear from the Herald about its policy, if Miss Sherwood will tell us." "Yes, indeed," she answered. "It will be very simple. Don't you think there THE BIRTH OF THE WEDDING "Here's to our candidate!" is only one course to pursue? We will advocate no one very energetically, but we will print as much of the truth about Mr. McCune as we can, with delicacy and honor, in this case; but as I understand it the work is almost all to be done among the delegates. We shall not mention our plan at all, and we will contrive that Mr. Harkless shall not receive his copy of the paper containing the notice of the change of date, and I think the chance of his seeing it in any Rouen paper may be avoided. That is all, I think." "Thank you," said Keating. "That is certainly the course to follow." Every one nodded or acquiesced in words, and Keating and Bence came over to Helen and engaged her in conversation. The others began to look about for their hats, vaguely preparing to leave. "Walt a minute," said the judge, "There's no train due just now." And Minnie appeared in the doorway with a big pitcher of crab apple cider, rich and amber hued, sparkling, cold and redolent of the sweet smelling orchard where it was born. Behind Miss Briscoe came Milly Upton with glasses and a fat, shaking, four storied jelly cake on a second tray. The judge passed his cigars around, and the gentlemen took them blithely, then nestitatingly held them in their fingers and glanced at the ladies, uncertain of permission. "Let me get you some matches," Helen said quickly, and found a box on the table and handed them to Keating. Every one sat beaming, and fragrant veils of smoke soon draped the room. "Why do you call her 'Miss Sherwood'?" Boswell whispered in Keating's ear. "That's her name." "Ain't she the daughter of that old fellow over there by the window? Ain't her name Fishee?" "No; she's his daughter, but her legal name's Sherwood. She's an adop"— "Great Scott! I know all about that. I'd like to know if there's a man, woman or child in this part of the country that doesn't. I guess it won't be Fishee or Sherwood either very long. She can easy get a new name, that lady. And if she took a fancy to Boswell, why, why, a bach"— "I expect she won't take a fancy to Boswell very early," said Keating. "Go way," returned Mr. Boswell. "What do you want to say that for? Can't you bear for anybody to be happy a minute or two and then?" Warren Smith approached Helen and inquired if it would be asking too much if they petitioned her for some music, and she went to the piano and sang some darky songs for them, with a quaint suggestion of the dialect. Two or three old fashioned negro melodies of Foster, followed by some rollicking modern infilations, with the movement and spirit of a tin shop falling down a flight of stairs. Her audience listened in delight from the first. But the latter songs quite overcame them with pleasure and admiration, and before she finished every head in the room was jogging from side to side and forward and back in time to the music, while every foot shuffled the measures on the carpet. When the gentlemen from out of town discovered that it was time to leave if they meant to catch their train Helen called to them to wait, and they gathered around her. "Just one second," she said. And she poured all the glasses full to the brim. Then, as she stood in the center of the circle they made around her, she said: "Before you go shalt we pledge each other to our success in this good home grown Indiana cider that leaves our heads clear and our arms strong! If you will—then"—She began to blush furiously, and her voice trembled, but she lifted the glass high over her head and grilled bravely, "Here's to our candidate!" The big men, towering over her, threw back their heads and quaffed the gentle liquor to the last drop. Then they sent up the first shout of the campaign and cheered till the rafters rang. "My friends," said Mr. Keating as he and Boswell and the men from Gaines drove away from the brick house—"my friends, here is where I begin the warmest hustling I ever did. Now, I guess we all think this is a great plan—" "It is a glorious idea," said Mr. Bence. "The name of Harkless"—Keating drowned the oratory: "But that isn't all. That little girl wants it to succeed, and that settles it. He goes." That night Mr. Parker, at work in the printing office, perceived the figure of Mr. Tipworthy beckoning him mysteriously from the pavement. What's the matter, Buddle? "Listen. She's singin' over her work." Parker stepped outside. On the pavement people had stopped to listen. They stood in the shadow, looking up with parted lips at the open, lighted windows whence came a clear, soft, reaching voice, lifted ineffably in song. Now it swelled louder unconcealsily; now its volume was more slender, and it melted liquidly into the night; again it trembled and rose and dwelt in the ear, strong and pure, and hearing it you sighed with unknown longings. It was the "Angels' Serenade." Bud Tipworthy's sister, Cynthia, was with him, and Parker saw that she turned from the window and that she was crying quietly. She put her hand on the boy's shoulder and patted it with a forlorn gesture which to the foreman's eye was as graceful as it was sad. He moved closer to Bud, and his big hand fell on Cynthia's brother's other shoulder as he realized that red hair could look pretty sometimes, and he wondered why the editor's singing made Cynthia cry, and at the same time he decided to be mighty good to Bud henceforth. The spell of night and song was on him; that and something more, for it is a strange, inexplicable fact that the most practical chief ever known to the Herald had a singularly sentimental influence over her subordinates from the moment of her arrival. Under Harkloss' domination there had been no more steadfast bachelors in Carlow than Ross Schofield and Caleb Parker, and, like timorous youths in a graveyard, daring and mocking the ghosts in order to assuage their own fears, they had so gibed and jeered at the married state that there was talk of urging the minister to preach at them, but now let it be recorded that at the moment Caleb laid his hand on Bud's other shoulder his associate, Mr. Schofield, was enjoying a walk in the far end of town with a widow, and it is not to be doubted that Mr. Tipworthy's heart also was no longer in his possession, though, as it was after 8 o'clock the damself of his desire had probably long since retired to her couch. For a faint light on the cause of these spells we must turn to a comment made by the invaluable Mr. Martin some time afterward. Referring to the lady to whose voice he was now listening in silence, which shows how great the enthralling of her voice was, he said, "When you saw her or heard her or managed to be around anywhere she was, why, if you couldn't git up no hope of marryin' her you wanted to marry somebody." Mr. Lige Willetts, riding idly by, drew rein in front of the lighted windows and listened with the others. Presently he leaned from his horse and whispered to a man near him, "I know that song." "Do you?" whispered the other. "Yes. He and I heard her sing it the night he was shot. We stood outside Briscoe's and listened." "So!" "It's a seraphic song," he said," continued Lige. "No!" exclaimed his friend. Then, shaking his head, he sighed, "Well, it's mighty sweet." The song was suddenly woven into laughter in the unseen chamber, and the lights in the windows went out, and a small lady and a tail lady and a thin old man, all three laughing and talking happily, came down and drove off in the Briscoe buckboard. William Todd took his courage between his teeth and, the song ringing in his ears, made a desperate resolve to call upon Miss Bardlock that evening in spite of its being a week day, and Caleb Parker gently and stammeringly asked Cynthia if she would wait till he shut up the shop and let him walk home with her and Bud. Soon the square was quiet as before, and there was naught but peace under the big stars of July. That day the news had come that Harkless, after weeks of alternate improvement and relapse, hazardously lingering in the borderland of shadows, had passed the crucial point and was convalescent. His recovery was assured. But from their first word of him, from the message that he was found and was alive, none of the people of Carlow had really doubled. They are simple country people, and they know that God is good. TREAD POWER FOR CHURN A light tread power for churning turning grindstone, etc., is made mounting a disk wheel nearly horizontally, the axle being inclined so one portion will be higher than the other. The dog, sheep or calf used for motive power is tied at one side, headed toward the higher part. As the animal walks, the wheel turns because of the animal's weight, and communicates motion to the pulley or small friction. wheel beneath. There are no belts, no cogs. The weight of the animal bears the part of the large inclined wheel upon the smaller wheel beneath and causes it to revolve. A discarded wagon wheel might be used as the framework of the large wheel, nailing boards on the upper surface for the animal to walk on, or a frame is easily made, and if somewhat larger than a wagon wheel—say six feet or seven feet in diameter—the circle will be larger and the animal will find the walking more direct. The under wheel may be six or eight inches in diameter. The power is increased by giving the large wheel more pitch and diminished by setting it more nearly level.—Orange Judd Farmer. RULES FOR RUNNING DAIRY. If You Follow Them You Will Avoid Many Annoyances That Now Reset You. The rules of the Vermont Dairy association contains the following: The milker should be clean, and his clothes likewise. Brush the udder just before milking and wipe with a clean cloth or sponge. Milk quietly, quickly and thoroughly. Throw away into the gutters the first few streams from each teat. This milk is very watery, of very little value and is quite apt to injure the remainder of the milk. Remove the milk promptly from the stable to a clean, dry room, where the air is pure and sweet. Drain the milk through a clean flannel cloth, or through two or three thicknesses of cheesecloth. Aerate and cool the milk as soon as it is strained. The cooler it is the more souring is retarded. If covers are left off the cans, cover with cloths or mosquito netting. Never mix fresh milk with that which has been cooled, nor close a can containing warm milk, nor allow it to freeze. Under no circumstances should anything be added to milk to prevent it souring. Such doilies violate the laws of both God and man. The chemicals which are used for this purpose are slow poisons. Cleanliness and cold are the only preservatives needed. In hot weather jacket the cans with it clean, wet kettle or canvas when moved in a wagon. Musty, sour food, dusty litter or fodders should be out of the way at milking time. TIMELY DAIRY NOTES. Bitter milk is generally caused by bacteria. Keep the stable free from dust and remove the milk as soon as it is drawn from the cow. Unwashed butter, if the buttermilk is well worked out, will keep as well as better than butter washed in impure water. If butter is worked too much spoils the grain, hence the value of washing out the buttermilk when good water can be obtained. The ideal cow of the Holland breeders is of wedge shape, with shoulders moderately thick, the chest full, the barrel long, ribs spreading, abdomen strongly held up, the hips broad, the rump long, broad and carried out high, the quarters straight, wide and full, and last but not least, a broad and strong spinal column. Farm and Home. This Is Worth Thinking About. How does little Denmark, where land is worth $500 an acre, manage to capture the English market from the big United States? The answer is simply this. They send men over to study the English markets and find out the kind of butter that England wants. These men then go home and make that kind instead of going as the Yankees did—try to educate the Englishman's appetite to the kind Americans make. In Denmark dairymen cooperate and help each other in every possible manner; they have cooperative creameries, cooperative eggs sale houses and cooperative slaughter houses. They simply go about doing honest hard work and always produce a uniform product—Rural World. Bacterial Content of Cheese In a report from the Ontario Experiment station on a study of the bacterial content of cheese are presented figures that indicate the amount of work these little organisms do in the predigesting of this food product. According to this report the number of bacteria present are usually largest when the cheese is but a day or two old. The products developed by the germs, being detrimental to their own existence, cause them gradually to demain in number. The number of germs found in one sample only two days old was 17,854,447,500 per ounce of cheese. Not Out Yet. An English-barber who has been fined 102 times for shaving on Sunday has stuck up in his window, "102, not out." Four Boxes. Some one has said four boxes rule the world-cartridge box, ballot box, jury box and band box. -Farm Journal. An electrical boothblack, which is more rapid and effective than the street grab, is in use to C'villego. HEET PANET Baked every Saturday by JOHN & C. at 911 North 4th Street Richmond, Va All communications intended for publica- should be sent to us as to reach us by Wednesd- ay. Copy, one year. The Copy, eight months, One Copy, six months. One Copy, four months. One Copy, three months. Single Copy. 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COMMUNICA—When writing to it to renew your subscription or to discount our paper, you should give your name and address, and otherwise we can provide you with CHANGE OF ADDRESS - In order to cease address of a subscriber, we must be sce the former as well as the present address Entered in the Post Office at Richmond second class postmaster. SATURDAY . . . APRIL 23, 1904 The colored people of this city are now walking. If you doubt it, look at the street-cars. WHITE men who mixed the races and gave us our crop of white Negroes didn't do it on the street-cars. We move that the Negro-haters be sent in search of the North Pole, where there are no Negroes and very few white folks. ALWAYS be polite and obliging. Some of the Negro-hating white folks are always after us, but there are thousands of the other kind. We have received by the courtesy of United States Senator J. H. GALLINGER Moral Legislation in Congress passed and pending. THE NEWS-LEADER wants the colored people sent to Africa. It would be much easier for the NEWS-LEADER's force to go over there, because one ship would carry them. COLORED men, we should be polite, obliging and friendly with the white people. This does not imply any surrender of the rights for which we are contending. We return thanks for an invitation to attend the anniversary exercises of the Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute at Hampton, Va., Thursday, April 21, 1904 at 2 o'clock. Prof. H. B. Frissell, Principal. --- THE NEWS-LEADER thinks that for a colored man and a white woman to ride on the street-cars together will result in the amalgamation of the races. We do not believe anything of the sort and have never made any such intimation in the columns of this journal. The writer of the article, "Negroes and Street-cars" in its issue of April 20th has made a great blunder and the blindest white man should not fail to see it. Gave Employees $10,000 In Stock. Toledo, O., April 18.—Mayor S. M. Jones, in a talk to the employees of his fishing rod factory on the value of the laboring man to society, told the men that he had made a gift of $10,000 worth of stock in his company to, and that they could do with it as they liked. It is worth its face value. Last Christmas this stock was turned over to the trustees of the Golden Rule Trust, the income to be distributed equally among the Jones employees. Now the stock itself has been turned over to the employees. ALEXIEFF ASKS TO BE RELIEVED Re is Opposed to Admiral Skrydloff as Commander of Russian Navy. Makaroff's Successor As Commander of the Navy Is One of Alexieff's Strongest Enemies and Sharpest Critics—Request Will Probably Be Granted—Fresh Battle Ragging at Port Arthur — Makaroff's Body Washed Ashore. St. Petersburg, April 20.—Viceroy Alexieff has applied by telegraph to the emperor to be relieved of his position of viceroy in the Far East. It is expected that the request will be immediately granted. While no official announcement has yet been made, there is reason to believe that the above statement is correct. It is not expected that a successor to Viceroy Alexieff will be appointed, as the importance of the post of viceroy has disappeared, owing to the result of the war. The immediate cause of the viceroy's application is reported to be the appointment of Vice Admiral Skryd- VICE-ADMIRAL ALEXEIEEF. loff, one of Admiral Alexieff's strongest enemies and sharpest critics, as successor to the late Vice Admiral Makaroff in command of the Russian navy in the Far East. Vice Admiral Skrydloff had an interview with the emperor and discussed with his majesty the question of his (Skrydloff's) relations with Admiral Alexieff. The relieving from command of Vicerol Alexieff would not surprise intelligent observers of the Far Eastern situation who are familiar with the gradual change In the emperor's attitude toward the viceroy and M. Bezobrazoff, who represented the militant, or advanced, element which was anxious that Russia should remain in Manchuria. It was to these two men that the Anglo-Japanese entente first lost its-terrors. They believed that Great Britain would not go to war and that Japan could not do so. To the indignation of Japan, they succeeded in turning the policy of the empire from carrying out the treaty for the entire evacuation of Manchuria, pending further demands on China, on August 12 last, after Japan had submitted an inquiry as to whether Russia was disposed to reopen the negotiations respecting Manchuria and Korea, a viciously in the Far East, a special secretary of state and an advisory committee were created, Alexieff being appointed viceroy and Bezobrazoff secretary of state. Seventeen days after these appointments were made, M. Witte, who had been opposed to the policy of Alexieff and Bezobrazoff, was relieved of his portfolio as minister of finance. It was through hfs new official advisors that the emperor conducted ne VICE ADMIRAL SKRYDLOFF. [Successor of Admiral Makaroff.] gottations with Japan, and it is claimed that they misjudged the temper and purpose of the Japanese and left the emperor in ignorance of the preparations for war which Japan was making and the rising war spirit of that empire. The enemies of Alexieff have persistently asserted that as the man on the spot, he should have kept the emperor informed concerning these vital points. Viceroy Alexieff recommended the appointment of either Vice Admiral Deubassow or Vice Admiral Makaroff to command the fleet in succession to Vice Admiral Stark. The emperor selected Makaroff, and at the same time issued a special ukase making him absolutely independent. This was the first blow publicly given to Alexleff. The second was the appointment of General Kuropatkin as commander-in-chief of the army in Manchuria. Kuropatkin sided with Count Lamsdorff, the foreign minister, and M. Witte against the policy of Manchurian annexation, and stated to the Chinese minister to Russia, Mr. Hoo Wei Teh, that the whole trouble originated with Alexleff. That there might be no doubt of Kuropatkin's exact jurisdiction, the emperor issued another ukase defining it, and gave the former minister of war complete con- THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA trol of military operations in the Far East. It is said that Vice Admiral Skrydloff in his interview let his majesty understand that he does not care to assume command of the fleet until Alexieff has withdrawn. Therefore the two men will not meet at Port Arthur. Viceroy Alexieff is expected to come directly to St. Petersburg, and his friends hope that he will be elevated to the council of the empire. By his withdrawal from the Far East he will not only lose the dignified position of direct representative of the emperor, but the salary of $56,000 and an allowance of $25,000 per annum. When Alexieff severs his connection with the Far Eastern question, none of the men responsible for the policy pursued before the war will be in power, M. Bezobrazoff having already lost the confidence of his majesty, and the advisory committee's duties at present being purely perfunctory. BATTLE RAGING AT PORT ARTHUR Admiral Makareoff's Mutilated Body Washed Ashore. Parls, April 20.—The Journal prints a dispatch from its correspondent at Yin Kow, dated yesterday at 5 p. m., which says it is affirmed that a fresh battle is raging at Port Arthur. According to the St. Petersburg correspondent of the Petit Parisien, a dispatch received from Port Arthur says that many mutilated corpses have been cast ashore, and it is affirmed that fragments of uniform enabled the authorities to identify one of the bodies as that of Vice Admiral Makaroff. Chinese Anxious to Attack Russians. Shanghai, April 20.—General Ma-Yu-Kun, commander of the Chinese army on the Manchurian border, reports that the Russian troops are moving west of the Liao river. He says it is difficult to control his troops, as they are anxious to attack the Russians. Russians Advancing In East Korea. Seoul, April 19.—The commissioner of customs at Gensan reports that a strong Russian force, the number of which is not known, is advancing on the great south road, following the inland coast of the province of South Hamgyong. The Russians passed to the rear of Sungjin, which was occupied by a scouting party. The main body occupied Penk Chong, 80 miles north of Gensan, on the 17th instant. The flanks and rear were exposed, with the evident intention of drawing a Japanese attack from the Yalu. Believe U. S. Will Intervene Paris, April 19.—The Tokio correspondent of the Matin says that "the actice participation of the United States minister (Lloyd C. Griscom) in the fetes given by Japanese associations, being a fragrant contradiction of President Roosevelt's declarations causes a belief that the ulterior intervention of the United States is probable." STATEHOOD BILL PASSED Measure Goes Through the House By Strict Party Vote. Washington, April 20.—After a debate extending through the entire session, the house passed the bill, by a strict party vote, providing for joint statehood of Oklahoma and Indian Territory, under the name of Oklahoma, and of Arizona and New Mexico, under the name of Arizona. In discussing the rule which had been reported by the committee on rules, providing for immediate consideration of the bill, Mr. Williams, the minority leader, declared that no Republican had any idea that the bill would become a law at this session. Delegate Wilson, of Arizona, opposed the bill. It was favored by Delegates Rodey, of New Mexico, and McGuire, of Oklahoma. Salonica, European Turkey, April 19.—Serious fighting has taken place between Turks and Bulgarians as Lipa, near Demir Kapu (a valley of the Vardar, 62 miles from Salonica). Many were killed on both sides. Governor Murphy Going to Europe. Trenton, N. J., April 20.—Governor Murphy expects to sail on Saturday for Europe. He will be gone about four or five weeks. His expectation is to return in time to attend the Republican national convention, to which he will be elected a delegate-at-large at the state convention to be held in this city May 19. During the governor's absence Edmund W. Wakelee, president of the senate, will be acting governor. Mr. Wakelee may not take the oath of office as acting governor unless matters may arise during Governor Murphy's absence which will require executive action. World's Sunday School Convention. Jerusalem, April 20. The world's fourth Sunday school convention opened in a huge tent outside Herod's Gate. Arch Deacon Sinclair delivered the opening sermon, taking for his text Matthew, chapter 21, verse 15. The attendance included 800 Americans and 500 British. Many other delegates from all quarters of the globe were present. ENORMOUS GOLD COINAGE Since February 6 Philadelphia Mint Coined $60,180,390 in $20 Pieces. Philadelphia, April 19.—The enormous output of gold coinage at the Philadelphia mint continues at a rate which surpasses all previous records. Since February 6 up to April 16 there has been coined $60,180,390 in $20 gold pieces. The coinage during the week beginning Monday, April 11, and ending Saturday, April 16, inclusive, aggregated $1,130,600 in gold, an average of nearly $2,000,000 per day. On the last day of this record-breaking week the coinage was $2,500,000, also a record-breaker. The weight of the gold required to produce this one week's coinage was over 42 tons. This vast coinage of gold in so short a time, it was announced at the mint, has never been equalled by the mints of any other nation, nor by any mint in this country. SIX PERISHED IN INCENDIARY FIRE Miner's Home Burned During Strike Trouble at Garrett, Pa. ARMED MEN PARADE STREETS Somerset, Pa., April 20.—An outbreak even more disastrous than the riot at Boswell in January last has been expected hourly at the town of Garrett, the scene of the mining operations of the Garrett Coal company, the Somerset Coal company and other lesser operations. Trouble has been brewing there ever since the inauguration of the miners' strike there five months ago. A number of the striking miners at Garrett own homes there, but recently the Garrett Coal company erected a number of houses, and the bringing in of new men to occupy these houses and take the places of the strikers in the mines, has worked the latter up to a high state of excitement and resentment, and for the last few days the town has been a veritable mine of indignation that might easily be exploded. The strikers have been parading the streets openly armed, and they have prevented the moving of the household goods of incoming miners from the railroad station to the new company houses. A horror that may or may not be connected with the strike situation at Garrett was the burning to death of two women and four children in their homes at that place. The victims were: Rosanna Meyers, her two daughters, Lucinda and Annie, aged 30 and 8 years respectively, and her son Richard, aged 5 years. The two other victims were young children of Lucinda. The house was a one and a half story log building, and the women and children were sleeping in the upper story. Mr. Meyers and Jonas Sullivan, a boarder, were asleep on the first floor. They were awakened by the smoke and the noise made by the fire and had barely time to save their lives by rushing from the building. The victims in the upper story perished without help, and their bodies were all reduced to ashes. The origin of the fire is unknown. It may never be known, but rumor connects it with the troubles growing out of the miners' strike. One story is that evidence of the fire was discovered on the exterior of the building while it was burning. Meyers, the head of the household, was a miner, and until recently worked for the Somerset Coal company. Lately he has not been working, and it is said he has been supported by the miners' union. The strikers lay the origin of the fire to a number of Italians who are working for the Garrett Coal company, but what motive the foreigners could have for such a crime has not developed. Strikers armed with Winchester paraded the streets. They say this demonstration is to prevent the Italians from leaving the community before the coroner's inquiry has been completed. They say that in doing this they are acting under the instruction of the township constable. When Sheriff Coleman reached Garrett with his deputies, he found no alarming condition of affairs, though the people gathered in large numbers about the station, having learned that he was coming. The Sheriff's first work was to arrest two Italians who were charged with setting fire to the Meyers house. The only evidence thus far against the two Italians was a statement made by Meyers, in which he alleges that they called at his house several days ago to buy some butter, and that when told that Meyers would not sell butter to "scabs," they left, swearing vengeance. Three months ago the Garrett Coal company secured an injunction restraining the strikers and all other persons from interfering with the company employees. This injunction is still in force, and the present condition of affairs is in open violation of it. It was to enforce the requirements of this injunction that Sheriff Coleman went to Garrett. AMERICAN PRESS 200 YEARS OLD First Newspaper Established In Bos- ton In 1704; Second In Philadelphia. Boston, April 18.—The present week marks the 200th anniversary of the American Press and the bi-centennial is commented upon generally by today's papers, the first American newspaper having been published in this city. The first newspaper to establish itself in the colonies was the Boston News-Letter, which issued its first number in the week of April 17-24 1704. It consisted of a sheet 7 by 10½ inches, printed on both sides, two columns to the page. Its editor was John Campbell, postmaster of Boston. For 15 years the News-Letter was the only newspaper in the colonies of Great Britain in America. Philadelphia was the second American city to establish a newspaper, in 1719, and New York third, in 1725. At the present time there are more than 21,000 newspapers in the United States. Faced Murder Charge to Shield Son. Stebenbenville, O., April 19—Affidavits filed in court are expected to free Mrs. Jennie Owens, who was recently convicted of killing her husband at Dungeon Hollow last October. The affidavits set forth the confession of 12-year-old Melvin Owens that the father was killed by the accidental discharge of a revolver in the son's hands while the boy was struggling with his sister. Mrs. Owens withheld this information from her attorneys, it is said, to shield her son, and only reluctantly admitted the facts when they were disclosed. A WEEK'S NEWS CONDENSED. Thursday, April 14 The Cadillac Automobile Works, at Detroit, Mich., were destroyed by a fire caused by a gasoline explosion. Loss, $200,000. President Roosevelt has signed the bill appropriating $475,000 for the Lewis and Clarke Exposition to be held next year at Portland, Ore. The large flour mill of the Miner Hillard company, at Miner's Mills, near Wilkesbarre, Pa., was destroyed by fire, entailing a loss of $160,000. The $50,000 fund raised by the Knights of Columbus to endow a chair of secular American history at the Catholic University at Washington has been presented to the institution. Friday, April 15. Secretary of War Taft has returned to Washington from his trip in the west. Mrs. Louis E. McComas, wife of United States Senator McComas, of Maryland, died at Washington from Bright's disease, aged 53 years. Prince Amar Nath, of Lahore, India, g student at Purdue University, Lafayette, Ind., was knocked from his bicycle and fatally injured in that city. The senate committee on military affairs acted favorably on the nomination of Colonel Albert L. Mills, superintendent of the Military Academy at West Point, to be bradier general. After being idle since December, the 225 coke ovens at Dorothy, Pa., resumed operations, giving employment to 5000 men. Preston McCarthy, of Philadelphia, has been offered the chair of secular history at the Catholic University at Washington, D.C. A collection of 800 animals, the largest ever brought to this country in a single ship, arrived at New York, en route to the St. Louis fair. By the explosion of naphtha in a Brooklyn dyeing establishment, Engineer Troller was killed and five other employees seriously injured. Burton R. Mattoon, formerly treasurer of the Watertown, Conn., Savings Bank, was sentenced to eight years' imprisonment for making false entries in the books of the bank. Monday, April 18. The candidacy of Judge William H. Mann for the governorship of Virginia has been announced. By a five to one vote the Socialist Party's headquarters were ordered moved from Omaha, Neb., to Chicago. Edward Bullman, aged 40 years, a Lehigh Valley brakeman, fell from his train at Easton, Pa., and was cut in two. President John Mitchell, of the United Mine Workers, is in Pueblo, Colo., to help straighten out the tangle in the coal strike. Frank Shear and Frank Graham, West Shore brakemen, were burned to death in the wreckage of a rear-end collision at Albany, N. Y. Tuesday, April 19. Senator Allee has been appointed a member of the Republican congressional campaign committee from Delaware. The coal operators and miners of Iowa signed an agreement for two years, which provides a 5.55 per cent. reduction in wages. The barn of ex-Judge Paxson, of Philadelphia, located near Doylestown, was destroyed by fire and 11 cows and six horses perished. Loss, $30,000. At a benefit performance at the Lafayette theatre, Washington, for the sufferers by the accident on the battleship Missouri, over $2000 was realized. Wednesday, April 20. Lleutenant General Chaffee reviewed the First Regiment, National Guard of Pennsylvania, at Philadelphia. President Roosevelt has declined an invitation to attend the annual reunion of the Army of the Potomac at Hartford, Conn., May 18. John Oliver, one of the best known cotton mill experts in the south, dropped dead at his home at Atlanta, Ga. He leaves $400,000 life insurance. The library of the late John Sherman, 5000 volumes, was delivered to the Ohio state library at olumbus, and will be preserved as a memorial to the statesman. H. E. Wilson, a conductor on a Fort Wayne, Ind., trolley car, was instantly killed by an electric shock while at tempting to use the portable telephone carried on the car. GENERAL MARKETS Philadelphia, Pa., April 20. — 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, new, $4.00@4.00; corn was firm; No. yellow local, 56c. Oats local, 56c. No. 2 white, clipped, 46c;47c; lower grades, 45c. Hay was steady; No. 1 timothy, large bales, $17@17.50. Pork was firm; family, $17.50@18. Beef was steady; beef hams, $20.50@21. Live poultry, 13½c. for hens, 9½c. for old roosters. Dressed poultry, 14½c. for choice fowls, and 10c. for old roosters. Butter, creamery, 25c. per cup. Eggs were steamed, 10c. and Penna, 17½c. doz. Potatoes were steady, at $12@1.25 per bushel. Baltimore, Md., April 20. — Wheat was dull; spot, contract, $1.01@1.01%; spot No. 2 red western, $1.01@1.01%; steamer No. 2 red, 96@16%c;; southern, by sample, 45c@1.02 do, on spot, 50@16%c; steamer mixed, 47@47%c; southern white corn, 45%c; do yellow corn, 45%c; Oats were steady, No. 2 white, 46%@47c; No. 2 mixed, 44%44c. Rye was dull; No. 2 uptown, 80@81c; No. 2 western, 82; Hay higher; No. timothy, $1.750; ter firm; fancy imitation, 19@20; ter firm; fancy imitation, 19@20; do cream, 25@26c; do, ladle, 17@18c; store packed, 12@13c; Eggs were firm; per dozen, 17c. Live Stock Markets. Union Stock Yards, Pittsburgh, Pa. April 20.—Cattle were steady; choice, $5.35@5.50; prime, $5@5.25; fair, $4 @4.50. Hogs were steady; prime heavy, $5.50@5.55; mediums and heavy $5.55@5.50; light Yorkers, $5.30@5.40 $5.30@4.75; light Yorkers, $3.50@4.75. Sheep were steady; sheep, wethers, $4.90@5; common sheep, $2.50@3.50; choice lambs, $5.75@5.90; veal calves, $5.25@5.75. Three Killed By Train. Allentown, Pa., April 18. — George Clauser, aged 40; Edith M. Metzler, aged 15, and Stella Knauss, aged 17, were struck and instantly killed by a Reading Railway passenger train near their home near Macungle. Miss Metzler's sister, Annie, saved her life by jumping aside. The party had attended a church service in Macungle, and were taking a short cut home by walking on the railroad track. The noise of a passing freight train prevented them hearing the approaching passenger train. The latter's crew did not know of the accident until the train reached Allentown, when they saw blood on the engine. Clauser was wilder with three children. Lost $1350 at Atlantic City Atlantic City, N. J., April 20—C. K. Eagle, a business man of Shamokin, Pa., who has just taken up his resi dence in a cottage here, is mourning the loss of a pocketbook containing $1350 in money and checks. He believes that the wallet fell from his pocket, but the police blame pick-pockets. FIRE RAGING IN TORONTO Business Section of City in Flames and Fire Beyond Control. LOSS ESTIMATED AT $10,000,000 Toronto, Ont., April 20.—Fire swept through a section of Toronto's wholesale business district last night, causing a loss estimated at $10,000,000. The fire started in a factory in Wellington street about 9 o'clock. In less than an hour the flames had spread from building to building on both sides of the street, until the whole block was a mass of flames and the fire was utterly beyond control of the local department. Appeals were sent to every surrounding city where fire apparatus could be obtained, asking for assistance. Montreal, London, Hamilton and Buffalo at once responded. It was believed at 11 o'clock that the fire was under control, but a sudden shift in the wind again fanned the flames into a roar, and clouds of sparks and burning brands were carried down side streets until three entire blocks were doomed. The entire lower portion of Bay street to the lake front now seems doomed. The wholesale houses of Wild, Darling & Co., Gordon, McKay & Co. and other large buildings have been destroyed. The firemen were making a gallant fight amid the falling buildings and a mass of tangled wires, but their efforts seemed to be fruitless. Chief Thompson, of the fire department, and George Dowkes, of Montreal, were cut off by the flames while directing the work of the firemen from a roof. Thompson jumped six stories to the ground and miraculously escaped with a broken leg. A mass of tangled wires broke his fall to the ground. Dowkes has not been seen since, and it is believed that he perished. The following places have been destroyed: Gillespie, Anley & Co., hats and furs; Dignum & Moneypenny, importers; Comfort Soap Works; Davis & Henderson, wholesale stationers; Joseph Steel company's building, occupied by R. B. Hutchinson & Co., wholesale woollens; Alcott, Sargent & Westwood, fishing tackle; Dodd's Medicine company; Western Steamship company, Richard L. Baker company, agents; E. T. Corset company; C. H. Westwood & Co., fishing tackle; Garland Manufacturing company, F. H. Cragg, agent; Rothschild Bros. & Co., manufacturers; C. W. Bangard & Co., brokers; Richle & Ramsay company, paper manufacturers; Thomas Hoskin, manufacturers' agents; Kinleith Paper company; Andrew Muirhead, wholesale paints; E. W. Gilmour & Bro., silverware; W. H. Payne & Co., commission agents; R. M. Slater & Co., wholesale dry goods; International Brokers, Limited; Gale Manufacturing company; Whiteman & Brown Bros., wholesale stationers; Ralph Smith & Co., lithographers; George H. Hess, Son & Co., window shades; Menzies Manufacturing company, window shades; H. F. Sharpe & Co., photograph supplies; Crown Hotel; Office Specialty company. MINE CHIEFS HELD FOR MURDER Coroner's Jury Holds Them Responsible for Harwick Disaster Pittsburg, Pa., April 18.—The coroner's jury in the investigation into the Harwick mine disaster, in which 178 men lost their lives on January 25 last, returned a verdict holding State Mine Inspector F. M. Cunningham and Superintendent of Mine Milfred Sowden responsible for the explosion. Warrants have been issued for their arrest charging murder. The finding of the jury is to the effect that the explosion was caused by blown-out shot, igniting gas and coal dust; that there was insufficient ventilation due to the accumulation of ice at the bottom of the air shaft; that Mine Foreman Brown and Fire Boss Gordon were negligent and did not comply with the mining laws; that Mine Inspector Cunningham violated the mining laws by allowing longer time to elapse than the law required in making his official inspection; that Superintendent Sowden violated the mining laws in not signing mine foreman and fire boss report books. The jury recommends that Inspector Cunningham and Superintendent Sowden be held for the action of the grand jury on the charge of murder, and censures the Allegheny Company for not attending to the Harwick mine according to law. DELEGATION UNINSTRUCTED Pennsylvania Democrats Make No Representation For Democrats Lecaration for Presidency. Harrisburg, Pa., April 19. — The Democrats of Pennsylvania, at their annual convention in this city, made no declaration for any of the aspirants for president. The 68 delegates from this state to the St. Louis convention will, however, be bound by the unit rule. The following delegates-at-large were elected: Colonel James M. Guffey, of Allegheny county; State Chairman James P. K. Hall, of Elk county; Robert E. Wright, of Lehigh county, and ex-Governor Robert E. Pattison, of Philadelphia. Justice Samuel G. Thompson, of Philadelphia, was nominated for supreme court justice without opposition. The platform favors tariff revision; condemns secret treaties between this and other nations, with special reference to the Panama canal, and denounces President Roosevelt's "ostentious display at the White House," comparing his administration with the Jeffersonian simplicity of the Democracy. The platform also favors a new ballot law and personal registration; endorses labor unions, recognizing their necessity and the good they do when their acts are within the provis- ions of the law, and criticises the methods employed by the recent Republican state convention in the nomination of a candidate for a supreme court justice. DELEWARE REPUBLICANS Regulars at Dover Elect Delegates to National Convention. Wilmington, Del., April 20. — The regular Republican state convention, in session at Dover, elected the following delegates to the Republican national convention: New Castle county—U. S. Senator L. Heisler Ball, T. Coleman Dupont and William Lobdell; alternates, Geo. A. Ellott and Thomas J. Stirling. Kent county—Colonel Henry A. Dupont, of Wilmington, and Manlove Hayes, of Dover; alternates, George Massey Jones, of Dover, and Postmaster A. J. Kenney, of Harrington. Sussex county—Dr. William P. Orr, of Lewes; alternates, C. P. Swayne, of Bridgeville, and Daniel Burton, of Millsboro. NEW YORK FOR PARKER By a Vote of 301 to 149 Delegates Were Instructed For Him. Albany, N. Y., April 13.—The Democratic state convention for the election of delegates to the national convention selected the following delegates at large: David B. Hill, of Albany; Edward Murphy, Jr., of Troy; George Ehret, of New York city, and James W. Ridgway, of Brooklyn. As alten ALTON B. PARKER nates it selected C. N. Bulger, of Oswego; W. Caryl Ely, of Buffalo; C. H. Ackerman, of Broome, and Francis Burton Harrison, of New York. The delegates were instructed by vote of 301 to 149 for Alton B. Parker as the state's candidate for president. Tammany was not treated as badly as had been predicted, being allowed to name a delegate-at-large, Mr. Ehret, and an alternate and one of the two electors-at-large, Harry Payne Whitney, the other being John T. Woodford. The platform adopted is brief, and in addition to instructing for Parker compels the delegation to vote as a unit. A Set-To. "We had an awful fight at our boarding house this morning." "What about?" "The star boarder kicked on having pulverized sugar for his coffee." What did the handy dad do to him? "She told him if he didn't like it, he could lump it."—Cincinnati Commercial Tribune. Absent-Minded Papa. "I want to get a camera," said Mrs. Nupop, "one that will do good work quickly." "Yes, sir," said the clerk, "what size?" "Oh, six-months size. I guess. He's only two months old, but big for his age."—Philadelphia Press. Before and After Taking. No courteed youth should this forget. While yet on the defensive— A maid who's pensive ere she weds More wriddled, be ex-pensive. —Chicago Press. Just Out! If you have read the Pilgrims Progress by John Bunyan, you ought to be sure and read the SEVEN SEALS by Mrs. Lucinda Young. 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They stand like gods or giants— The grand old winter trees! Wild roars the blast around them, Dry plies the drifting snow, O'er hiltop and in valley The long nights come and go. But first to greet each morning The seas break branches rise, Grand in majesty outlining Against the cold gray skies. And when the frost king crowns them With seas the makes of white, Or wraps them in armor Of rainbow-colored light, No master painter ever lived, No artist e'er had birth, Whose brush could match that glory On canvas, or on earth. Deep down in old earth mother Her gnarled roots safely rest, Bright with spring to spring again In living, verdant trees. So still and strong and patient, Waiting their crown of leaves, They stand like gods or giants, The grand old winter trees. -Sarah DeWolf Gamwell, in Springfield (Mass.) Republican. Yours Truly, Cupid By DOLORES DENT MISS ELIZABETH MOORE had received two letters. Little Pat Ryan, who lived next door, had brought them. Miss Moore and Pat were sworn friends, and usually he would have liked nothing better than to have accepted the hearty invitation to come in and have some ginger cakes. To-day, however, he shook his head and ran off rapidly. Miss Moore looked after him in astonishment, but he was out of hearing before she could call, so she shut the door and returned to the cosy little sitting room. A visitor was present, and she laid the letters on the table unopened, wondering vaguely who they were from. The visitor, Mrs. Jonas Winterbottom, was wondering also. In fact, she was much disappointed when she saw they were not to be opened. Conversation lagged. "Don't let me hinder you from read'in your mail, Miss Moore," she said at last, stiffly. "Oh, no," returned her hostess, taking up her knitting. "I always like to "FOLKS DON'T WRITE COMMON LETTERS IN BIG, SQUARE ENVELOPES." save my letters until the light is lit, and read them before the fire; it seems so much nicer then, I think. Besides, that gives me a longer time to guess what is inside." "My land! I never could wait a minute! I'm that anxious to read 'em. Why I shouldn't dare to wait, Miss Moore! I pose'n somebody was sick or drunk!" Miss Moore kept on knitting, declaring that even if she had to be impolite her visitor should not know the contents of those envelopes. For Mrs. Winterbottom was the biggest gossip in the little village. That lady herself claimed that her memory was poor. It was, on some things—on others remarkably good. She could take the most trivial subject, enlarge, distort, and spread everything that happened to be bad about it, in a way to make the angels weep. If she heard anything good of any one her poor memory caused her to forget it. Remembering these things Miss Moore stood firm. "That is a pretty waist you have on, Mrs. Winterbottom," she said, trying to change the subject. "I wonder if you would lend me the pattern?" "It wouldn't look good on you, Miss Moore, you're so slim. It needs somebody plump like me. Mr. Winterbottom never could abide skinny women—and then again, you wouldn't like the feelin' of it, anyway. It draws so under the arms. Besides, I don't know where the pattern's gone to—my memory's so poor, you know. Did you say one of those letters was from Mrs. Cotton, who used to live up on the hill?" "Mrs. Cotton? No, she does not write to me." "That big one there looks like a valentine," persisted the visitor, craning her neck toward the table. "Why, it is! Elizabeth Moore, this is the 14th of February—and you've got a valentine, sure!" she exclaimed, her eyes brightening visibly. Here was something at last that she could carry on to the next house for news. "Nonsense—at my age!" retorted Miss Moore, almost out of temper, well knowing that the old lady would repeat the remark, true or false, everywhere. "Nobody would send me such a thing!" she demonstrated. "Oh, I don't know!" remarked Mrs. Winterbottom, looking at what was them that said—for the lands sake! Is that wilder Barnes with Sam Smith? Goin' into the parson's house, too! What in the world—guess I'll be goin'! I owe Mrs. Parson Hicks a call." She reached for her bonnet and shawl and noticed the letters again. "That's a valentine sure, Elizabeth Moore!" she exclaimed. "Folks don't write common letters in big, square, embossed envelopes—leastways my friends don't. Good afternoon to you! I'll run in to-morrow, and see what news come in your letters." she called with emphasis as she went out. When she was at last alone Miss Moore took the large white envelope in her hand and turned it over and over. It certainly did look like a valentine, but of course that could not be. She never had but one in her life, and that was as much as ten years ago. David Stone, whom she was to marry, had sent it. She remembered how surprised and pleased she had been—then came the quarrel over that girl from the city—which ended in sharp words on both sides and a mutual vow never to meet again the other had asked forgiveness. Ten years ago! That was a long time to live alone! Then she thought of David, also alone, in the house he had built—for her! Just for a few foolish words! That valentine of long ago was still precious to her. She kept it hidden away, but she could see it now as plainly as if she held it in her hands. She remembered every word of the verses, too, she thought proudly. Then she came back to the present with a start, and opened the smaller envelope; a letter from her sister, full of commonplace news. There was a postscript, however, that she read several times, with a little more color in her cheeks than usual. "David Stone was here yesterday. It was the first time we had seen him since you quarreled. He lives in the house he built for you—all alone. He has never married, nor been half civil to any woman for years. I sometimes wish we had not so much Moore pride' in our make up. Of course it is all right enough in its place, but there are other things that are worth more. David asked many questions about you—the only subject that seemed to interest him." Miss Moore laid the letter down with a sigh. Could it be David ever thought of her now—now, when she was no longer young? Absent-mindedly she cut open the other envelope—and then gasped in astonishment. There lay a handsome valentine—one mass of flowers, birds, gold lace and filigree, hearts and cupids. There were so many that they swam before her eyes. Who on earth could have sent it! She turned to the verses. The same words had been on that other valentine of ten years ago, that David had sent! David! It must have been David! Breathlessly she hurried to find the old valentine, to be sure that her memory had not played her false. Comparison showed the new valentine to be far handsomer and more elaborate than the old—but the verses were the ones she had remembered all through those long years: "This valentine to thee I send, To prove my love, my dearest friend. My valentine, Oh! wilt thou be, My love, my life, I'll give to thee." For a long time she gazed at the lines, and the burden of years seemed to roll away. With eyes very bright she walked across the room to the old fashioned desk in the corner. David had done his part; she must do hers. "Dear David," she wrote. "Yours received. Please forgive me. ELIZABETH MOORE. She sealed it with trembling hands and called little Pat Ryan to go to the other end of the town and deliver it into Mr. Stone's own hands. He started, as it seemed, reluctantly. "What alls the child to-day?" she said to herself. "He doesn't act natural. Surely he knows I'll pay him for going! I wonder if David will come tonight?" At the thought she flew from room to room trying to make the immaculate little cottage even cleaner. It was early in the evening when David came. They greeted each other rather bashtuffly and there was an awkward silence. David shuffled his feet uneasily, then burst out. "I came, Beth, soon's I got your note. But I want you should know that I was coming to night anyway. I'd made up my mind before I heard from you. I don't know what you mean by 'yours received,' for I decided not to write, but to just come and surprise you." "You didn't send this!" gasped Miss Moore in consternation, bringing out the valentine. "Why you must have! Nobody else would!" "I wish I could say 'yes,' but I didn't know, or didn't think, what day it was! Now, Beth, I want to talk to you." An hour later a knock was heard and little Pat Ryan's mother stood shivering on the doorstep. "Ah, no, Miss Moore, I'll not come in, see'n' yer hev company. I'll jest be after sayin' that Patsy's feelin' that had 'cause yer did not say nothin' at all about the valentine he bought yert wid his own money, that I—" "Patsy! Was it Patsy?" demanded Miss Moore, grasping both of the woman's hands. "Oh, I didn't know—indeed, I didn't! Poor child! Mrs. Ryan, that valentine has brought me the greatest happiness of my life! And now you send Patsy right over here. We—we want to thank him." Soon after Patsy Ryan sat in the little clean kitchen munching ginger cakes with great satisfaction, and watching the big man that was holding Miss Moore's hand. Although this time "Cupid" was red-headed and covered with freckles and dirt, he had played his part well. Physicians claim that appendicitis may be prevented by walking on all fours 20 minutes a day. New York's smart set need worry no longer. Danger of a Wreck "We are told to 'cast our bread upon the waters,'" said a young wife. "But don't you do it," said her husband. "A vessel might run against it and get wrecked." What to Eat. THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. QUEER DENVER WILL Only Condition Is That She Does Not Wed a Hated Rival—A Rare In- stance of Masculine Const- stancy in Love. His love spurned in life, his devotion extended even beyond the grave, for Martin H. V. Young, of Denver, Col., in his last illness did not forget Florence Westfall, who had repeatedly refused his hand and fortune. Now she may have his money without his hand, although on the condition that she does not marry another—John Foster by name. Woman's mad infaturation for the man she loves is a common occurrence, but seldom is such true and lasting devotion in the opposite sex heard of. In 1898 Martin H. V. Young opened a cigar store at No. 1138 Sixteenth street. One bright day in June of the same year a girl just out of school came to Young and asked him for a position as clerk in his store. The name of the girl was Florence and attractive form of the applicant, and in need of a clerk, he told her to come back the following Monday morning and he would give her a position, asking her first to leave her address. This the young woman did, and as she turned and walked from the place, the proprietor felt a strange sensation, and his eyes followed her to the door and then across the street. All afternoon the vision of the handsome girl lingered in his mind, and he determined to employ her at once. Accordingly he sent a messenger to her home telling her to come to work the next morning. The girl was there promptly at 7:30 o'clock the next day, and she was instructed as to what her duties would be, and began work. Cupid's dart had pierced the heart of the big fellow, and hard though he tried, he could not keep from loving his little clerk more and more each day. At the end of a month, unable to longer refrain, he proposed to Miss Westfall. Startled at first, and blushing deeply. LA BELLE FLVER 5* STRAIGHT CHEW PLUM PROPOSED TO HIS CLERK. the girl made no reply. Young's heart was filled with love, and at the delay in answering he gave event to his feelings by breathing out honeyed words to the confused girl. Tears came into her eyes. At length she calmed herself and with a haughty smile she reproached her lover for what he had said to her. Nothing was said by either to the other for several days, but in a short time Young again proposed. He was a second time refused, and Miss Westfall told him that the next time he mentioned words of love to her she would leave his employ. For two months he refrained, and at the end of this period he retold the story of his devotion and begged the girl to marry him. This she flatly refused to do, and she immediately left the store. She secured employment at the Chesapeake restaurant as cashier. Here she remained for one month. A gloomy came over Young, and he grew quite despondent. He was naturally a very peculiar man, and he had no intimate acquaintances. He was of massive frame, being six feet two inches tall and weighing 196 pounds. Miss Westfall, on the other hand, is very small in stature. Young was quite persistent in begging his former clerk to return, and at the end of a month she promised to do so, with the proviso that at the first proposal she would quit his employ for good. Young promised, and tried hard to keep it. But he could not, and it was but a short time until Miss Westfall again left his employ. Shortly afterward he sold out his store at No. 1138 Sixteenth street, because for some reason he was unable to renew his lease. He bought out a cigar store in the California building, but he did not remain there long, and, selling out, he went away from the city. This was in 1900, and he is said to have taken about $6,000 with him. Young had once a fortune, but he lost it in coal mines in Indiana, his native state. This was before he came to Denver. The John Foster mentioned in the will has not been found. He paid some attention to Miss Wattfall while she was in the employ of Young, and it is said that Young was insanely fealous of him. Although separated for all of these intervening years, love remained in the man's heart, and his dying wish was that the object of his affections should receive the bulk of his earthly goods. The will of Mr. Young was probated in Fort Wayne, Ind. Young was buried under the auspices of the Grand Army, in Akron, O., as he requested in his will. He was about 59 years of age. Aged Bride. Young Groom. A bride who was married at St. Peter's church, Norbiton, England, recently, had reached the age of 72 years. Her husband is only 32. The lady was dressed in a bright blue gown, and wore a white toque trimmed with a white plume. After the ceremony she tripped from the church and seemed quite pleased to see so many spectators. The bridegroom looked less self-possessed. 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Beneath it were these lines: "The rose are red. On the inside, beneath a quaint picture of a pair of lovers, were these words: "If you love me As I love you, No knife can cut Our love in two." With a sigh she laid away this relic of her unfinished romance, and turning to the open fire plied on more wood. Her neighbors used air-tight stoves, but she clung to the open fires, such as her mother and grandmother had used before her. Musing before the bright flame, she recalled what she had heard her niece saying recently to her lover: "No, auntie never had an affair of the heart, so I think considering it she is very indulgent to me." As lonely Miss Tabitha sat there and watched the burning hickory logs, an idea came to her. "I suppose," she said, "that Dorothy thinks me an old maid. Well, I suppose I am, but I would like to make them think I have a romance. Yes, I will do it. I'll send myself a valentine, and when she brings up the mall tomorrow she'll think that I have a lover as well as herself." Here her training asserted itself, and asked, "Would it be strictly truthful?" For there is no more rigorous accuser than the conscience of a New England woman. "Only this once," she said to her invisible monitor, "I don't like the young folks to look upon me as a well preserved fossil." She hastily put on her beaver coat, and a bonnet much too large for her, which she drew down close over the soft, brown hair, which as yet showed no trace of gray. Dorothy often wished auntie would not wear such old-time garments. Locking the door behind her she went down to the village. The assortment of valentines was much larger than in the olden days, and she could find none with the rhymes of her carefully preserved treasure; but she chose a very pretty one, and hurried home with it. Old Mrs. Wiggins, who sold the valentine had looked very curiously over her glasses, until Miss Tabitha felt so guilty that she fairly blushed. When once home she hastened to direct it, her hand trembling as she wrote; for her thoughts were back in her younger days when she had supposed her name would be "Mrs. Daniel Upton." She heard a noise and hastily finishing her work, she put away the pen and ink, and started for the post office. She dropped the missive into the letter box and returned home. As soon as she was seated before the fire, the foolishness of the little force which she had intended to enact before her niece seemed vivid, apparent. "What shall I say if she asks who sent it to me?" she cuigured, almost in agony. She even ought of going back to the office and asking for it, but what excuse could she make to the costmaster for having directed a let- ter to herself? There seemed no way out of the dilemma. Valentine's day passed slowly by. Dorothy brought up the mail during the morning. It consisted of "The Dexeter News Letter" and "The Christian Herald." Miss Tabitha felt uneasy. Where could her letter be? Could the postmaster have seen through her silly ruse, and refused to deliver it? The more she thought of it the more worried she became. * * * * * * Daniel Upton, or the squire, as he was called, sat before his cozy Franklin stove in the library. He was a comfortable old bachelor of 50 years or more. He wore a flowered dressing-gown, and as he read his paper, he warmed his slipper feet on the fender. "The Boston Journal" had some verses on St. Valentine's day, and as they caught his eye his mind reverted to a period of 25 years ago. "I wonder why Tabby never answered my proposal?" he thought. "Possibly I ought to have spoken right out, but of course she knew what I meant when I sent that valentine." A tap at the door roused him from his reverie, and his man John appeared with the mail. There were the usual letters and papers that comprise a law-year's correspondence, but one envelope caught his eye, embossed flowers adorned the corners, and on the plain circle left for the address he read: "Mrs. Daniel Upton." He knew the writing, for he had transacted business for Miss Tabitha several times after her father's death. He opened it and held in his hand the long delayed answer to his proposal of 25 years ago—a modern valentine! "It too! her all this time to make up her mind," he exclaimed aloud, as he read some lines beginning: "Oh "I come with me and be my love." He rose and go to the pier glass surveyed himself. His mustache was decidedly gray, and his hair quite so. "Woman's folly!" he elaculated. "Why did she need to wait until we were both past middle age before being willing to marry?" It never occurred to this bachelor that he had never given Miss Tabitha the opportunity to accept or refuse him. He hurried through his routine busi- THE VERSES CAUGHT HIS EYE. ness for the day, and that afternoon ordered an early tea, for he was determined to go down there at once and settle matters. As the evening drew on and the second mail was brought up to Miss Crane's, and yet the missing valentine did not materialize, she began to feel almost reckless. Dorothy was to have a few friends in that night, and Miss Tabitha said defiantly to herself: "I'll dress to-night to look as young as any of them." Instead of wearing her hair plainly parted, and done in a hard knob at the back of her head, she brushed her hair up, and made a massive coil on the top, arranging it in front in a graceful pompadour, low on the forehead, as Dorothy wore hers. The improvement was startling even to herself. She put on her one black, silk, the waist of which her niece had insisted on remodeling that winter, by adding black velvet and a little white chiffon. Remembering that Dorothy had said that coral was in vogue, she dived into the depths of a cedar-wood chest, and brought, out an exquisite pin and bracelet. She then went down to the living room, and going to her table of plants, cut off some scarlet geraniums and fastened them in her hair and belt. Half an hour before the guests were expected there was a knock at the door and Miss Tabitha opened it herself. There stood Squire Upton in a long, heavy ulster, his throat being well wrapped up in a silk muffler, for he had arrived at an age when twinges of rheumatism warned him to be careful of the night air. "Tabby," he said tremulously, as he booked at her with admiration, "you knew that I'd come at once, after waiting 25 years for an answer to my valentine." "I'm very glad to see you, Dan," she said, wonderingly, as it dawned upon her that she must have directed the tender missive to him instead of herself. The two faithful lovers seated themselves on the haircloth sofa in the parlor, and seemed to lose sight of the quarter of a century which had elapsed since that period when they had popped corn, roasted chestnuts and gone to the singing school together. A Bad Break. "Is de boss in?" asked the tramp at the front door. "Oh, gee!" muttered Weary, backing away with his hat in his hand; I begs your parding!"—Yonkers Statesman. An Apology. "Ah, good morning, Mr. Chesterfield," said the M. D. "How are you this morning? "I'm sorry to say," rejoined the polite Chesterfield, "that I'm feeling remarkably well this morning."—Chicago Daily News. Motto for Boodlers. Motto for official boodlers: Be sure of your technicality; then go ahead.— Butte Inter-Mountain. 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HIGGINS, DEALER IN CHOICE GROCERIES, WINES LIQUORS, AND CIGARS. 1610 East Franklin Street, [Near Old Market.] RICHMOND, VIRGINIA BETTY CANG FOR SUNDAY READING SILENT PRAYER. Oft corroding cress oppress us, Crushing 'neath a weight of wrong, Would we ease, the anxious sighing— Would we change it to a song? Dust is remedy unfailing, The strife rests true; Close the eyes and in the turmoll Pray for patience to endure. In the conflict taint and weary, Pause, look up and ask for light, Bring the saintly prayer grow stronger, Walking bravely his saintly face. Neath the worldly trials laden, Stop and whisper soft and low, God will hear, and we may trust Him, He will help us. He will know. When the cross would press us downward, With its cruel weight of care, Heavenward walt a simple message, On the wings of silent prayer; Gladly then resume life's duties, For His presence draweth nigh, And we find each burden lighter, White to Him for strength we cry Mrs Margaret Scott Hall, in N. Y. Observer. BEN FRANKLIN ON PRAYER Told the Federal Convention of 1757 That "God Governs in the Affairs of Men." There is an exceedingly interesting document preserved in the department of state, at Washington, in Franklin's own handwriting, and consisting of his draft of a motion which he submitted to the federal convention of 1787. Some there thought it not necessary to have prayers; it must have been a surprise when Franklin presented the following. After alluding to their failure to come to any agreement, he says: "In the situation of this assembly, groping, as it were, in the dark to find political truth, and scarce able to distinguish it when presented to us, how has it happened, sir, that we have not hitherto once thought of applying to the Father of Lights to illuminate our understandings? In the beginning of the contest with Great Britain, when we were sensible of danger, we had daily prayers in this room for the Divine protection! Our prayers, sir, were heard, and they were graciously answered. All of us who were engaged in the struggle must have observed frequent instances of a Superintending Providence in our succor. To this kind Providence we owe this happy opportunity of consulting in peace on the means of establishing our future national felicity. And have we now forgotten that powerful Friend, or do we imagine we no longer need its assistance? I have lived, sir, a long time and the longer I live the more convincing proofs I see in this truth: That God governs in the affairs of men. And, if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without His notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without His aid? "I therefore beg leave to move that henceforth prayers imploring the assistance of Heaven and its blessing on our deliberations be held in this assembly every morning before we proceed to business. . . ." NOT WORDS, BUT CONDUCT The Best Proof of the Christian Religion Is the Daily Life of the Christian. The best proof of the divinity of the Christian religion, says John H. Vincent, is the daily life of the Christian himself; not his words and professions, but his conduct and spirit; not his Sunday garb and service, but his everyday tone; not his church ways, but his home walk. In the first third of the first century the world saw the incarnate God—the Word of God made flesh and dwelling in human form among men. The nineteenth and twentieth centuries need no less than this. They must see God manifest in the flesh, that human eyes may now behold, and human hands now handle the word of life; that the supernatural may be brought within our easy reach; that to all inquirers the church may now say as Jesus said to the disciples of John, "Go tell the things which ye do hear and see," not deeds of healing wrought in the flesh, but "greater works than these"—works of healing in the spirit, evil passions subdued, bad habits broken, burdens of sin removed, blessings of spiritual life bestowed, steadiness of purpose and experience through all outward vicissitudes made clear to a witnessing world. A life thus setting forth the power of Christ in this present time is worth more than all the books of argument and all the sermons and lecture courses of a century in favor of Christianity. It is another word of God, a living epistle read and known of all. It is a silent, present, unshadowed, unanswerable demonstration. It makes doubt impossible. Men simply feel its force and are silent—then turn to pray. Making the Gift Good. A good receiver is rarer than a good giver. Though not a whole truth, the sentiment of a German poet is suggestive indeed: "What the gods give is nother good nor bad; the receiver first makes the gift." He makes it when he accepts it, and in the spirit in which he accepts it. God gives us free air, water, light, food, and the products and forces and beauties of nature, with infinite bounty. How often do we take them to our own de- struction! We live by these things, then turn a large part of our lives into the devil's service. Thus we make the divine gift an evil thing. Wonderful power this, that God's love has put into our perverse hands! Shall we make the gift good?-S. S. Times. THE SEED THAT WE SOW. No Sower Can Tell What His Beaping Will Be in the Eternal Harvest Fields. "A sower went forth to sow," and he has been sowing ever since. The seed, says the United Presbyterian, is self-perpetuating. It grows, it blooms, it ripens and the seeds fall back to earth, and herein lies the multiplying and the reduplication or the first sowing, for each seed will continue to yield after its kind. The third and fourth generations will reproduce the characteristics of the fathers and mothers, at least the influence they have exerted on their children will reappear in the lives and characters of children yet unborn. Someone has said that a word once spoken goes on repeating itself forever. There is a sense in which our influence never dies. It may not face the world in the same form, but it will face it in some form. Our words, our smiles, our loves and hates touch other characters and mould other destinies. The seed of the brain, the life germs of thought, fall into the soil of a child's heart. It grows there; it blooms and ripens there and fills that soul with efflorescence and fruit. The mental characteristics of the parent have character to the child, and through the child these are transmitted to the children's children and through them these influences branch out into lives and spheres that are indefinable. So that no sower can tell—and all men are sowers—what his reaping will be in the eternal harvest fields. May not one of the joys of the immortal life be the coming back to us from many generations, and from lives which we have never known, of the happy influences which have sprung immortal from our own unconscious and laid at our feet from generations of the redeemed? Who can tell? shall not the good come back to us? Shall we plant, consciously or unconsciously, and neither in this world nor in the next see the reward of our planting? Shall the good seed go on bearing fruit after we have passed into glory and we remain forever unconscious of the influence we have thus exerted? But what if, in the eternal world, our evil deeds should come back to curse us and fill our souls with the blackness of remorse! May not the memory of wrongs once done, and unforgiven, be one source of punishment to the ungodly. Surely there is food here for thought. Meanwhile the sower is sowing and the seed is talking root and the harvests are surely coming. Let us be thoughtful, for God shall direct the reaping, and it will be "as we sow." INCREDULITY OF IGNORANCE Keep an Open, Receptive Mind That You May Know the Truth— Faith in God. "I have known an explosion to follow the dropping of an idea into an empty head." "Nonsense," cries one when news comes that a telegram has been sent through space without the aid of wires. "How can people be so credulous? What fools these mortals be!" But lo, the folloishness lies not in the ones inveighed against, but in the invigher. "Carriages without horses or steam! Impossible! I shall not believe it till I see it," said one in the not very long ago. "A personal God! Incomprehensible! I cannot understand it, and I will not believe anything I cannot understand." And so, says the Philadelphia Young People, incredulity and skepticism run riot. Instead of open, receptive minds, ready to try all things, prove all things, we too often mind minds resolutely shut to whatever is new to them, to whatever is outside their own little orbit. The punishment is great. Ignorance and bigotry follow in their wake. Expansion is impossible. The only hope for such is to face about. "You are not responsible for the one-sidedness you are born to," says someone, "but you are accountable for the one-sidedness you die in." HELPFUL AND TRUE Prayer is a reaching out toward God.—Amos R. Wells. No man is a failure who does his best.—United Presbyterian. No life overflows with joy that has room only for its own cares.—Ram's Horn. Put Christ's love to the trial, and put upon it our burdens, and then it will appear love indeed; we employ not His love and, therefore, we know it not.—Samuel Rutnerford. It is not His death, as an incident in the remote past, however significant it may be; it is the Lord Himself, appealing to us in the virtue of His death, who assures us of pardon and restores our souls—James Denney. Let, then, our prayers be "the key that opens the day, and the lock that shuts the night," and also from morning to night our staff and stay in all our labors, enabling us to go cheerfully up to the mount of God.—Canon Farrar. Dr. Alexander MacLaren, speaking of the attributes of the Christian, says: "Giving is essential to the completeness of Christian character. It is the crowning grace, because it is the manifestation of the highest excellence. It is the result of sympathy, unselfishness, of contact with Christ, of drinking in of his spirit." There is no mystery whatever about happiness. Put in the right ingredients, and it must come out. "He that abideth in me . . . bringeth forth much fruit;" and bringing forth much fruit is happiness. The infallible recipe for happiness, then, is to do good; and the infallible recipe for doing good is to abide in Christ—Drummond. Japan's History. Japan has a written history extending over 2,500 years. THE RICHMOND PLANET. RICHMOND VIRGINIA TORNADO NOT IN 1T. ELECTRIC ROAD THAT PROMISES TO BE A HUMMER. Passengers Can Eat Breakfast in New York, Take Luncheon at Denver and Enjoy Dinner at San Francisco. Driving a loaded passenger car which weighs nothing upon the rails of the elevated structure, which shall serve only to guide it, Charles E. Reeve, with a law office at Chicago, is looking forward to a transcontinental electric line which shall enable the New Yorker to eat an early breakfast at home, a luncheon in Denver, and a late dinner in San Francisco, all on a summer's day. Two hundred and forty miles an hour, with absolute safety to the passenger or to the transcontinental fast mail, is one of the claims for the car. An elevated structure that shall weigh only one-fifth that of the ordinary elevated structures in the cities is another feature of the patents, dependent upon the elimination of weight upon the rails. Lack of friction upon the journals, due to this disposition of weight, is to make ball bearings possible, and with these the inventor sees the elimination of distance. The invention of Mr. Reeve is an outgrowth of a design for an airship in which the aeroplane figured. The original design contemplated the drawing of a floating car through the air, with the motors traveling upon parallel cables on each side of the right of way. But from this Mr. Reeve decided to suspend a car from two rails set the width of an ordinary passenger coach apart, and elevated according to the topography of the country and the obstacles which cities and towns might have left in his way. With the car suspended from these rails, using drive wheels of cog gearing, interlacing with a track of like pattern, two aeroplanes, each of three times the width and length of the car, are placed above the rails and anchored to the top of the car and to four other cogged drive wheels inter- SUSPENDED FROM TWO RAILS locking with the rail on the lower surface. Thus, with the electric energy carried through the medium of the rails, the inventor proposes to tip his aeroplanes just enough to cause the rush of air to light the weight of the car, keeping it somewhere balanced between the upper and lower drivers, with the result that from above or below his machine will receive the force of the driving wheels at all times. The lower aeroplan in the pair is to be five and a half feet above the top of the car, and the upper plane will be four feet above the other. The pair will be tipped as the needs of the car require. The faster the speed the less weight Mr. Reeve proposes to have upon the rails, but in the main he wishes to get his speed from the force of the upper rather than the lower drivers. No matter what the speed, he hopes to have acquired absolute safety through putting double flanges upon each of the eight drivers in the car, making it impossible for the machine to leave the rails. These wheels are nearly four feet in diameter, and, figuring upon the speed acquired by the German aerial railway, the inventor explains that these big drivers will make eight miles a minute as easily and with more safety than the one-foot drivers under the German car make their 200 miles an hour. "It is friction only that has prevented the German cars from making the 200 miles an hour that were credited to them in the beginning," said Mr. Reeve to a Chicago Tribune man. "In my car the aeroplanes will do away with the weight, and, consequently, with the friction on the journals, such as the Germans have had to contend with, and I see scarcely a limit to the speed that may be attained on an air line, with a rotary motion rather than a piston stroke in the motors." Dog Causes Thief's Arrest A striking instance of the services rendered by a man's best friend occurred at a Paris morgue, where a pickpocket, taking advantage of a crowd gathered around an unidentified corpse, endeavored to secure a purse from a reticule carried by an elderly dame. In the reticule, however, was a tiny pet dog, which gripped the pickpocket's fingers and caused him to yell with pain, attracting the attention of the police and leading to his arrest. Never Occupied by Foreign Foe. The only two great European capitals that never have been occupied by a foreign foe are London and St. Petersburg. Center of Cotton Growing. The center of the country's cotton growing is near Jackson, Miss. Occasionally germs get on a man's mind and worry him to death. European Russia. Of the population of European Russia 86 per cent, are farmers. OLD DOMINION STEAM- SHIP COMPANY. Nitr line for Norfolk. Leave Richmond daily at 7 p. m., stopping at Newport News in both directions. Daily except Sunday by O. & O. Rail- way, 9:00 a. m., 4 p. m. 9 a. m. and 3 p. m. by N. & W. Railway; all lines 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. Nov. 1st, 1903. C & O ROUTE. CHESAPEAKE & OHIO RAILWAY. 2 Hours and 25 Minutes to Norfolk. 9:00 o'clock Only - Limited - Arrives Williamsburg burg 9:00 o'clock m. Old Point 11:00 a. m., Norfolk ibex m. Old Point 11:00 a. m., Norfolk ibex 4:00 p. m.-Week days -Special-Arrives Wilmington 4:35 p. m.-356 p. m., Newport News 5:30 p. m., Old Point 6:00 p. w., Norfolk 6:25 p. m. p. m.-Daily -Locals to Old Point. p. m.-Daily -Locals to Newport News 5:30 10:10 a. m.-Except Sunday to Clifton Forge. 2:00 p. m.-Special to Cincinnati, Louis- 5:15 p. m.-Week days -Located to Forks' Hall 10:30 p. m.-Daily -Limited to Cincinnati, Louisville and Chicago. 10:30 a. m.-Daily -Limited to Cincinnati, Louisville and Chicago. JAMES RIVENE HOME 10:30 a. m.-Express to Lynchburg, New Castle, Clifton Forge and principal sta- 5:15 p. m.-Week days -Located to Reagan From Choicinan and West 7:45 a.m. m. daily Amp. m. daily. Main Line Local from Clifton 9:30 a.m. m. Ex. Sun. Frederick's Hall Accommodation. 8:10 a.m. Ex. Sun. James River Line Local from Clifton Forge 6:25 a.m. daily. Bremon. Accom. 8:30 a.m. Ex. Sun. C.E. DOYLE. W.O. WARTHEN. G.E. Manager. DIST. Pass. Art SOUTHERN RAILWAY SOUTHERN RAILWAY Effective Jan. 10th, 1904. TRAINS LEAVE RICHMOND. 7:00 a.m.-Daily. Local for Charlotte. 12:30 p.m.-Daily. Limited. Brent Pullman to Atlanta and Ft. ringham, New Orleans, Memphis, Charleston, 4 yrs and all South. 6:00 p.m.-Exx us 4 yrs. Keysville. 10:00 p.m.-Daily. limited; Pullman ready 9:30 p.m. for all South. NORTH KYKE LINE The favorite to route. Baltimore and western points Leave Richmond 4:30 p.m. Daily except Sunday. 1:25 p.m.-Except Sunday. Local mixed for West Point. 2:15 p.m. Mon. Wed. Fri.Local for West Point. 4:20 p.m.-Except Sunday. For West Point, excursion to Baltimore and river landings. Mon. Wed. and Fri. TRAINS AFEVIVE RICHMOND. 5:55 a.m. and 6:42 p.m. - From all the South. 8:28 p.m. 6:4 a.m.-From Keysville. 9:25 a.m.-Baltimore and West Point. 10:25 a.m.-New York. H. C. ACKERST, G.M., S.H. BARDWICK, G.P.A. C. W. WESTBURY, D. P.A., Richmond, Va. ATLANTIC OAST-LINE. TRAINS LEAVE JICHMOND DAILY BYRD STREET STATION. 8:30 a. m. To all points South. 9:30 a. m. Petersburg and Norfolk. 12:30 p. m. Petersburg and N. & W. West. 14:30 p. m. Norfolk. 14:10 p. m. Goldsboro local. 5:56 p. m. Petersburg local. 6:56 p. m. points South. 9:38 p. m. Petersburg local. 11:30 p. m. Petersburg local. TRAINS ARRIVE RICHMOND. 4:07 a. m. 7:35 a. m. 8:25 a. m. except Sunday 11:10 a. m. 11:43 a. m. 2:00 p. m. 6:50 p. m. 7:20 p. m. †Except Sunday. C. S. CAMBELL, Div. Pass. Agt. W. J. CRAIG, Gen. Pass. Agt. Norfolk and Western R. R. LEAVE RICHMOND (DAILY), BYRD STREET STATION. 9:00 a. m. Stops only at Petersburg, Waverly and Suffolk. 9:30 a. m. CHICAGO EXPRESS Buffet Parlor C. Petersburg to Lynchburg and Pullman Sleeper Boatoke to Columbus and Bluefield to Cincinnati; also Roanoke to Kentucky and Chattanooga and Memphis. 12-20 p. m. Roanoke Express for Farmville, Lynchburg, and Roanoke. 8:00 P.M., Ocean Shorts Limited Arrives Norfolk 5:20 P.M. Stops only to Petersburg Way, early and Suffolk. Conneceth with Steamers to Boston, Providence, New York, Baltimore and Washington. 6:56 P.m., for Norfolk's all stations east of Petersburg. 9:25 P.M. NEW ORLEANS SHORT LINE Pullman Sleeper Richmond to Lynchburg, Petersburg to Roanoke; Lynchburg to Chattanooga, Memphis and New Orleans. Cafe Dining Car Trains arrives from the west 7:35 a.m., 2 p.m. and 8:56 p.m., from Norfolk 11:10 a.m. 11:20 a.m. and 6:50 p.m. Office Ng88 East Main Street. W. B. BEVILI. C. H. BOSLEX Gen. Pass. Art Div. Pass Agent SEABOARD AIR LINE RAILWAY Short Line to Principal Cities of the South and South west, Florida, Cuba, Texas and Mexico Schedule in Effect Jan. 10th, 1904. TRAINS LEAVE RICHMOND-MAIN ST. STATION-DAILY 10.25 p. m. 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The clerk sold his customer a com- plete outfit of clothing and fine linen, the bill for which amounted to $172. PLEASED WITH HIS SPOILS. He was instructed to send the goods to the lodging house C. O. D. Another alerk took the package a little later and went to the house to deliver it. He went to the apartment occupied by Fisher, who met him at the door. "Come right in," said the desperado, and "I will give you the money." No sooner had the clerk stepped inside the door than he found himself looking into the muzzle of a big six-hooter. "Now, drop that package and do just as I tell you, if you want to get out of here with a whole skin." commanded Fisher. "Sit down in that chair and make yourself quite at home." The clerk obeyed, and in about a minute he found himself securely bound in the chair with a piece of rawhide hat and a gag in his mouth. Then Fisher proceeded to change his clothing and don the new outfit. "I look rather swell in these togs, don't you think?" quoth the desperate. "Think I'll make something of an impression on my bride. Good-by, old chap," he added, as he started out of the house. Outside a runabout and horse was waiting for him. He had hired it an hour before. He drove away and got an hour's start of the police before the clerk could give the alarm. CORPSE CLARES IN PULPIT. body of Old Indiana Pastor Placed Upright During Funeral Service at Church. The request of Rev. James Hart, for 15 years minister of the General Baptist church at Folsomville, Warwick coun- ty. Ind., to be stood up in his pulpit during his funeral was compiled with the other day. The glassy eyes of the old preacher looked out over the im- mense audience that came to pay hom- age to him. But the eyes never moved from one point. They were set in death. This was the strangest funeral ever M. STOOD BEHIND THE DESK. known in that section. While ministers endowed with life and animation spoke the rites, the services were practically conducted by the dead, for every eye was fastened upon the body that occupied the pulpit. Dr. Billup, the Tennyson (Ind.) undertaker, who had charge of the funeral, followed the last wishes of the aged minister as well as he was able. The coffin containing the body was stood behind the desk, tilted back just enough to prevent the lifeless form from falling forward against the pedestal on which rested the Bible whose pages had for 55 years furnished texts for the minister. Throughout the service of more than an hour the body was in plain view of the congregation. "Reformers" 6th and Clay. BUY OF US AND SAVE MONEY. COPIPARE OUR PRICES WITH OTHERS THIS WEEK. 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Let me have you check for that old account that has been standing so long."—Philadelphia Press. More Thrilling. Ruyter—I'm writing a sequel to my book "How to Live on Five Hundred a Year." Scribbler—What do you call the sequel? Ruyter—"How to Get the Five Hundred."—Indianapolis Journal. —Dr. R. E. Jones has purchased a new style spider phaeton. It is rubber tired and one of the most up-to-date outfits in the city. —Rev. R. C. Judkins has been called to the pastorate of the Shiloh Baptist Church of Frederickburg, Va., vice-Rev. W. M. Robinson, removed. —Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Peyton desire to thank their many friends for the numerous and costly presents received upon the occasion of their recent marriage. —A special meeting of the Bon de Von K. of P. Club is called for next Sunday at 1 o'clock P. M. at its rooms. As this is the last meeting, it is hoped that all the members will be present. Henry Mallory, Chairman; Joe Woolfolk, Secretary. —Col. W. Henry Stokes has returned to the city from Farmville, Va.; where he has been recuperating. — Sir C. K. Robinson and wife, accompanied by Mrs. R. C. Carter, all of St. Louis, Missouri, were in the city last Wednesday enroute to Hampton, Va. They enjoyed a drive around the city and were much pleased with what they saw here. Mr. Robinson is Supreme Keeper of Records and Seal of the Knights of Pythias. — Rev. S. A. Anderson of Belona, Va., called on us this week. — The annual commencement of the Agricultural & Mechanical College at Normal, Ala., will commence May 29th, at 11 a.m., and end May 31st. Reduced rates on all railroads. Thirty-Ninth Anniversary. Petersburg, Va., April 15th, 1904.—The Giffield Baptist Sabbath School will celebrate the 39th anniversary of its reorganization in the auditorium of the Giffield Baptist Church on Sunday, 24th inst., at 3 p. m. Friends are welcome. Entered into Rest ANDERSON—Mr. Lee Anderson died at his residence, 903 St. John St., Thursday morning, April 14, 1904. His funeral took place from the Sixth Mt. Zion Baptist Church of which he had been a member for 19 years. The funeral services were conducted by Rev. W. H. White assisted by Revs. S. C. Burrell, S. P. Robinson and R. V. Peyton. The beautiful solo "Some Sweet Day" was sung by Mr. W. H. Woodson. Funeral director A. D. Price officiated. His wife, MARY A. ANDERSON. From Philadelphia Philadelphia, Pa., April 14th, 1904.—Editor John Mitchell, Jr.,Richmond, Va. My Dear Sir:—I hasten to congratulate you for your timely editorial in a recent issue of your paper, the PLANET under the caption of "Jim-Crow Street Cars." It is full of good sense and if Richmond's colored contingent follow your suggestions,(travel by the foot route), they will gain in the long or short run—The PLANET has been a potent factor for the Virginia Negro during these troubles times. Hoping that you may live long to help pilot the race's precious craft of journalism. I am sir, Yours very truly, MILTON L. DAVIS. Special Press Correspondent. "Refor 6th an BUY OF SAVEN THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA A Little Girl Had a Papa Who Was an Awful Drunkard. While reading one day the little girl noticed the words Drunkards Cured with Dr. Haines. Golden Specific without the patient's knowledge, the patient can get a trial package and see if it works. We did it cure him. He added to J. W. Haines, 254 Glenn Building, Cincinnati, Ohio, for a trial package like the little girl did. This remedy is tea, coffee or any kind of food. Southern Women Wanted Young women to do plain cooking, washing and ironing for families in and around New York. Nice homes and good wages. Any woman that is willing to learn will be sent for. We send you tickets. Address; HUNTER 321 West 59th St., New York 4t Agents wanted. Stamp for reply. 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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 nations are founded and sustained by prayers to God. "Be with me, O Lord at all times, For abandoned to myself I shall surely fall." Address all Communications to the PIEDMONT MUTUAL ASSOCIATION, Temporary office, 705 W. Leigh St., Richmond, Va. WANTED—SEVERAL INDUSTRIous persons in each state to travel for house established eleven years and with a large capital, to call upon merchants and agents for successful and profitable line. Permanent engagement. Weekly cash salary of $24 and all traveling expenses and hotel bills advanced in cash each week. Experience not essential. Mention reference and enclose self-addressed envelope. THE NATIONAL, 13t 332 Dearborn St., Chicago In order to promote circulation and to create additional interest, we have decided to make the knights of Pythias, It pays an endowment and burial benefit of $200.00 for all ages. It pays $4.00 per week sick dues. The badge, costing 75 cents each is the only absolutely necessary regalia. For information concerning the organization of lodges, apply 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 the could be expected. It pays from $1.00 to $1.50 sick dues and death benefits or from 0.00 to $40.00. If you have no Pythian Lodge or Court or Band in your neighborhood, organize one. For all information concerning the Children's Department, address. For all information concerning special rates of membership for new lodges and courts address. KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAAS. F.C.B. ```markdown ``` OFFERS: A friend or relative as a subscriber must pin, with their photograph colored, the Battle of Fort Wagner, Fort Land Battle of Quasimas, showing one of the Rough Riders at San Juan glass, Prof. Booker T. Washington, containing space for photographs of portraits of all the signers thereof, Miral Dewey's Great Naval Battle off these offers. The leading Republican papers in the Republican journal to any subscriber of the St. Louis Globe-Democrat for any one sending Seventy-five Subscription Cosmopolitan will be sent one year. ITS WANTED TERMS. ADDRESS: Brietor, St., Richmond, Va. Pythias, AND A. Most powerful in the country and its The Grand Lodge of Virginia has juracounties in this state. Thirty males age. The benefits paid constitute one principle are greater than anything used on Charity and established on Beer people of the state will find it an order of benefit of $200.00 for all ages. It the badge, costing 75 cents each is the concerning the organization of lodges. Of Calanthe Order. It requires a membership of Its members are pledged to exhibit Love one for the other. It pays if $150.00. It pays $3.00 per week sickia is the cost of the badge, 50 cents and several occasions. Children's Department also constitutes the little ones in this mystic circle. It be expected. It pays from $1.00 to $40.00. If you have no Pythian size one. department, address, 311 North Fourth St., Richmond, Va. N. A., S. A., E., A., A. AND A. This organization is one of the most powerful in the country and its progress has been phenomenal. The Grand Lodge of Virginia has jurisdiction over all of the cities and counties in this state. Thirty males are required to organize a new lodge. The benefits paid constitute one of its strongest features, but the principles are greater than anything else. Founded on Friendship, based on Charity and established on Benevolence, the respectable, upright people of the state will find it an order worthy of their heartiest support. 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 notes. The only expense for regalia is the cost of the badge, 50 cents and a rosette, costing 25 cents for funeral occasions. THE BANDS OF CALANTHE or Children's Department also constitutes MRS. ANNA TAYLOR, W. M., 120 W. Hill St., Richmond, Va. ```markdown ``` JOHN MITCHELL, JR., 311 N. 4th St., Richmond, Va.