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THE RICHMOND PLANET VOL. XXI NO. 27. A Recept Tende He is a Doctor o LEXINGTON PLEASED REV. P. S. LEWIS IS G OF HIS C A Reception Tendered Him. He is a Doctor of Divinity Now. LEXINGTON PLEASED WITH THE HONORS—REV. P. S. LEWIS IS GRATIFIED—A SKETCH OF HIS CAREER. The subject whose cut appears in this issue is a native of North Carolina. His parents are Ottoway and Jane Lewis, who reside at Oxford, N. C. He was converted in the fall of 1880, and at the same time was impressed with a divine call to the Gospel Ministry. He joined the First Baptist Church, Winston, N. C., of which the able Rev. G. W. Holland is pastor, and was licensed to preach the same year. Mental in view of his Christian character, scholarship, and work, the Virginia Union University at its last commencement May 18, 1904, conferred upon his the honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity. Loved and respected by all who know him, he enjoys the full confidence of both races in the community where he resides. The members of his church generally feel proud of the honor con [Name] M. preparation was the next great requisite which pressed itself upon his mind and heart. Accordingly he entered Richmond Institute, Richmond, Va., in the fall of 1883, and sat under the transforming and mellowing touch of such great lights as Doctors Corey, Jones, Hovey, Vassar, Hines and others. He completed the four years course in this Institute and graduated in May. Subsequently he entered Richmond Theological Seminary, (now Virginia Union University) and Virginia the three years' course within two years with credit to himself and teachers and received the degree of Bachelor of Divinity. He was ordained to the Gospi Ministry in 1889, and the same year accepted a call to the pastorate of the first (Dixonville) Baptist Church, Salisbury, N. C., one of the oldest and best churches in that state. erred upon their situation. As a勋位 a grand' so honor, June 9th. A Gr The regular minor National Baptist was held on last 1904, at the Mt. Atter devotion Banks of the Mt. school in an execl Union. 3rd don responded. called and all res propriate and in which well please. The restitutions be solos by the large Here he labored with brilliant success during eight years. During his pastorate at Salisbury, he fillea many positions of trust and honor among his brethren, which are too numerous to mention here. In 1883 he was wedded to the accomplished Miss Mary E. Reese, who was for several years an efficient teacher in the public schools of Richmond, Va. She is a veritable helpmeet to her hus band, affable, kind hearted, and sociable. She enters most heartily into his work. In 1887, he resigned his charge at Salisbury, and accepted the position of Superintendent of Missions for the Colored Baptists of Virginia, under the plan of co-operation. He came, and with the arm of a mighty Titan laid hold on the arduous task. It is generally conceded that under his administration and that during the most trying period of our state work when dissention, race riot and denominational discord rent the state in twain in these most trying circumstances, Home Missions received an uplift unparalleled in all the history of our missionery endeavor. In 1901 he resigned the mission field and accepted a call to the pastorate of the First Baptist Church, Lexington, Va. Here he is a most worthy successor of the bright array of good preachers who have graced this pulpit from the early seventies, and a worthy compere of the best pulpit talent in our state. Under his pastorate the work of this church moves steadily toward the front. In view of his Christian character, scholarship, and work the Virginia Union University at its last commencement May 18, 1904, conferred upon him the honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity. Loved and respected by all who know him, he enjoys the full confidence of both races in the community where he resides. The members of his church generally feel proud of the honor con- A. terred upon their pastor by a great institution. As a mark of their appreciation a grand' social was held in his honor, June 9th. The regular monthly meeting of the National Baptist Sunday School Union was held on last Sunday, June 12th, 1904, at the Mt. Olive Baptist Church, After devotional exercises Mr. Elam Banks of the Mt. Oltet Baptist Sunday school in an excellent speech welcomed the Union. 3rd Vice-President Crittenden responded. The roll of schools was called and all responded with very appropriate and interesting programme, which well pleased the large attendance. The re sitations by the little ones, the solos by the larger ones, and the papers were well written and delivered. Special comment and praise were given the papers on "Gifts" by Miss A. Thornton and "The Eyes of the World are upon us," by Miss M. E. Coleman of Zion Baptist Sunday School, also "Word or Words" by Miss Pretty Jasper of the 5th Baptist and "Summer" by Miss Luberta B. Walker of the 5th St. Bapt. S. S. Short addresses were made by Col. E. A. Washington and James H. Stephens. President B. H. Peyton spoke on the worth of the Sunday school convention and urged that the Union and School get in readiness to meet the Convention at Danville in August. Handsome collection was raised. Next Union is expected to meet with the 5th St. Baptist Church. If you want to have a beautiful complexion and a smooth, nice skin get a box of Bell of Virginia Toilet Powder. The grandest face powder ever prepared. 250 per box at W. F. EANES, Phone 1815. Cor. 25th and Loigh Sts. Mr. John Scheer, expert jeweler and optician, has moved from East Man street to his handsome new store, 6 North Ninth, opposite News Leader, where he will be glad to meet his many friends and patrons. Everything in jewelry, etc. Expert repairing. SUBSCRIBE TO THE PLANET A Great Union. Look Ladies. RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, SATURDAY, JUNE 18, 1904. $41,463.86 RAISED IN 12 YEARS. Bright Prospects Ahead for the Fifth St. Baptist Church. THE STREET-CAR SITATION NOW let down one or two more bars, to extricate themselves from a barrassing predicament. No color of this. The Fifth Street Baptist Church feels in herself a great future life. We are like a forest which has been more than once cut down. The new shoots are stronger and livelier than ever. We are rising, I know, toward the sky. The sunshine is on our heads. The earth gives us its general sap, but Heaven lights us with the reflection of unknown worlds. Winter is on some of our heads, but eternal spring is in all of our hearts, on account of our freedom of that enormous church debt. Then we breathe, at this hour, the sweet fragrance of the blacs, the violets, and the roses, which our good fathers, Wilkerson, Miles and all of us prayed for years ago. Our success has been most phenomenal. It is marvelous yet simple. We have made a great history as the figures below well indicate. For twenty-four years we have endeavored to perform our duties of love and obedience to the command of God. Under the leadership of our present beloved pastor God has blessed Fifth St. Bapt. Church most wonderfully. Two we years ago our pastor began his work as pastor of our church, we wore at that time burdened with a debt of $11,000, but, tonight we are happy to state, that by the skill, ingenuity, hard work and perseverance of our pastor, deacon Faithful members we are free of that burden. The following is the summary of the 12 years work accomplished during our pastor's 12 years pastorate. From June 1, 1892 to June 1, 1904. Members received by Baptism including those to be baptised June 26th. 1032 Members received by letter. 115 " " " experience. 18 " " as watch care. 53 Total increase in membership since Donated asylums, churches, Preachers, Hospitals, Virginia Seminary, Home and Foreign Mission and Charity in general $3,416.71. Paid on account of debt on church building, repairs on church and incidental expenses$^{1}$ ..... $19,684.94 Total expenses for 12 years$ ..... $40,96.91 Total amount collected$ ..... 41,463.80 Total amount expenses$ ..... 40,963.91 Balance cash in band and on hand$ ..... 550.95 We feel that we have not said the thousandth part of what is in us. When we go down to the grave we can say, like so many others. "We have finished our day's work," but we cannot say we have finished life. Our day's work will begin again the next morning. The tomb is not a blind alley, it is a thorough fare. It closes in the twilight and opens with the dawn. MOSSELEY—BURKE—Miss Martha B. Dodson respectfully request the presence of friends to the marriage of her niece, Amy B. Moseley to Mr. Emmitt C. Burke, Wednesday, June 29, 1904, 7 p. m., at the Ebenezer Baptist Church Reception after the marriage at 1200 St. John St. No cards. STEWARD—CHATMAN—A handsome marriage took place Friday, June 10, at 9 p. m., at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Branch. Miss Carrie Stewart to Mr. James Chatman. Those present were Miss Ida Jenkins, Mr. G. A. Eaton, Mr. W. Allen, Mr. C. Clark, Miss L. Steward, Mr. B Jackson, Mrs. L. Dandridge, Mrs. W. Dawson and many others. --- Little Judia S. Nelumn the niece of Miss Laura Nelumn who is well known in the Westmoreland hotel, Danville, Va., had a successful term in the Industrial High School of this city has returned to her home in Ewington, Va., and it is not known whether she will return in the fall or not. She was also the guest of Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Spragins of N. Union St., Danville, Va. Childrens' Day, the Bands of Calanthe will celebrate their 3rd anniversary at Fountain Baptist Church, 31st and O Sts., Church hill, Sunday, June 19th, 1904 at 3:30 p. m. Children will meet at 1:30 p. m., at the Pythian Castle Hall, 511 N. 3rd St., Richmond, Va. Parents see that your children turn out in due time, knowing they have to go over on the other hill, and not wanting the exercises to be so late. Courts and lodges are cordially invited to attend. Done by order of MRS. A. E. TAYLOR, G. W. M. Childrens' Dep't THE STREET-CAR SITUATION NOW. THE STREET-CAR SITUATION NOW. TROUBLE IN EVIDENCE The street-car situation in this city is as yet unchanged. Three months will have expired on the 15th of next month and it remains to be seen whether the prediction of the company officials that within that time, the colored people will get tired walking and accept the rules laid down by the corporation. The separate street-car system is only in force in the cities of Richmond, Manchester, and Petersburg, where the lines are owned by the Virginia Passenger and Power Company, and the experiment is being watched with interest. If the independent, property-owning colored people of Richmond submit, this will be used to force into subjection the color of other localities of the commonwealth. The conductors are having a difficult time to tell what is white and what is colored. The following explains itself: Conductor Thought Her White Woman This forenoon as Passenger and Power car, No.255, reached Seventh and Main streets on its uptown trip; to all appearances what was a white woman, neatly attired in a black skirt, white shirt-waist and black hat, carrying a white sun parasol with black ribbons and a black shopping bag, started to board the car, which was an open one. In a flash the conductor was down from the step and at her elbow to assist her in boarding. This way, madam, "he said as he came her by the arm and started toward the seats, but the woman persistently attracted her get on one of the rear seats which were occupied. With the conductor holding on to her arm, she turned and said politely. "No thank you, sir, I am colored." The astonished conductor let go her arm. After seating herself the woman said, "I guess I know my place." The kind of material employed on the street-cars is plainly shown too in the case of the colored mail carrier, Powell Williams. The United States regulations require all letter carriers to use the street cars morder to facilitate their arrival at their routes. They are 10 subject to arrest while on duty and to attempt to hold anyone of them would make the sheriff, conductor, constable, or policeman liable to prosecution in the United States Courts upon the charge of obstructing the United States mails. If the conductor could place the responsibility upon the Virginia Passenger and Power Company's officials, then they would be liable under the same charge. They purged themselves of this responsibility by promptly discharging the conductor. The following extract from the Richmond, Va., News-Leader explains itself. LETTER CARRIER WOULD NT MOVE. Trouble on Trolly Over New Seating Laws—U. S. Authorities Investigating Negro's Case. Powell Williams, a colored mail-carrier, was placed under arrest yesterday by a Passenger and Power conductor for refusing to move back when told to do so. Williams boarded the car and took the third seat from the rear, and when asked to move, he said the law gave him a right to occupy the third seat and he declined to obey the conductor's order. After going two squares further the mail-carrier started to get off the car, but was told by the conductor that he was under arrest and was compelled to stay on the car until a policeman could be found. An officer could not be seen in Williams was told that he could go if he wished to. This the colored carrier refused to do. He insisted that he was under arrest and did not intend to resist. After some further delay Williams was made to leave the car and deliver his mail. The matter was reported to both the Passenger and Power and the postoffice authorities. The colored man could not remember the number of the car or conductor and of course, there was much delay and trouble in investigating the case. The right man was finally found and promptly dismissed from the service.—Richmond, VA., NEWS-LEADER. It will be seen that the troubles are multiplying. The street-car company has changed its rules on the summer cars, by giving the colored people the third seat from the inside. The rear seat which faces the platform is reserved for the smokers of both races, and there the white and colored ride together, with no evidence of friction whatever. This has tended to make the new regulations all the more ridiculous, emphasizing the fact that the change was not demanded by the body of white people who got on with their colored associates on terms of noticeable friendship. If the colored people continue to walk the officials will find a way to let down one or two more bars, in order to extricate themselves from a most embarrassing predicament. No colored person of this city has been arrested for violating the streetcar regulations. Walking is good now. Stay off the street cars. Josh and Bro'. Joe. Dare saint no use of talking 'bout de color of yer skin. De God of all creation done sed all mankine is kin. An' dats for hyar it matters not ef it is brown er black. Cause ef de Debble gits you he's gwine to treat all a lack. Dis am a funny place to lib fer some folks to be sho. Dare aint no difference how dey ac; dey's all de same to Joe. Dey may be jis as humble as a possum in de cage. Come a bowin an'a scrapin same as Sambo in his age. Dey may pray from arly evenin until almos break ob day Dey may watch lack good ol' Dane'l monngst de lions far away; Dey may go to school an' studdy until' ev ry hair is grey Dey may hab de bes' ob trainin', be a Washington today. Dey may go to ev'ry battle, bare dere breast' to shot an' shell Meet de feo in bloody conflict eben on the verge of hell. Dey may owe of constitution an' O'l Glory from disgrace. But when Joe takes a notion to fetch de paper out, Er when a mighty talker's done come up from de South Deys done forgit our virtue an' our courage fer de right, Den day makes out to de public dat "all coons is bad at sight." Ef we ebber wants to travel, ride in car upon de rail Eat a bit when we gits hongry whar dar's dinner ferr to sale An' as far Christianitee, it seems dat its got mixed So far as Judge an' Jury goes an' also politics. Ef some folks is suspected any whar in dis heah lan'. De Juice he gits a cart-rope an' de Jury jines de ban' ; Wle ile de preacher in de pulpit an' his eye is fry red. An' dey drags him to a co'ner, Holy Horrors' see de Saints. "Cut him down" de leader crieth, "Fetch oil by de nail Soon dare muthin lef but ashes, finger bones and bits ob toes, Den you'll see a mighty scrambling fer de reies by de foes; See dem hurry back to business, secrets each one keeps his own Dis is what de Jury renders, "Met his death by hands unknown." Oh ye sons of Ham's descendants, dis Would dere be so much talkin' 'bout de cowards ou de crew? I would sooner be a monkee hangin' on de bamboo tree. Dan to lib in base subjechon makin' out dat I is free. I would sooner die a hero wid my musket in my han'. Dan to bow to imposition lack dey gibs in dis heah lan'. I wunder, when de Master, on de gene'i Judgment Day Comes a hunt'n up de people—Oh he's comin so dey say. I wunder when all my lyns from de from de sea. Is he gwine to look us ober, wid de greatest kine ob care? Jis to larn our tint an' color an' de texture ob our haar? I wunder will de train of Jesus when it moves off fer de sky Is dey gwine hab se'rate coach es fer de folks ob deeper dye? Will dar be a se'rate temple in de lan' to which we flee, When de big bell tolls in Zion on de day ob jubilee? Now ef dem's de kine ob 'rangements dey's a makin off per me, I'd sooner take my chances wid de men below de sea. If you have Dysphasia in any form I can cure you. Call up 'phone 1845 and get a box of Eanes Indigestion tablets, only 25c per box. Guaranteed to cure. W. J. Browne. Pharmacist, Cor. 23th and Leigh. Rev. Dr. Graham, A Great Leader. Preparing for a Great Rally. THE AMERICAN BENEFICIAL CAPITAL STOCK INCREASED—TO LEAD IN FINANCE—TO COVER THE COUNTRY—WILL COMPLY WITH ALL LEGAL REQUIREMENTS. If anyone doubts the ability of the Negro to win and make success in the business world, he has only to learn of the history of the American Beneficial Insurance Company, over which pre-sides the Rev. W. F. Graham, D. D., pastor of the 5th St. Baptist Church, Richmond, Va. Not quite two years ago, this Business Institution was organized and set afloat under the keen the State of Virginia and the District of Columbia. Dr. Graham declares that in the near future thousands of young people will be engaged in conducting the work of this Company. The Company conducts both a Sick Benefit work and a Straight Life Department on the Industrial feature. CAPABLE OFFICIALS. With Dr. Graham are associated off- M. REV. W. F. GRAHAM D. business eye and organizing power of its President, and the growth of the Company has been, to say the least, most remarkable, if not pneumonia'. In so short a time the Company has written up in its Straight Life and Sick and Accident Department over Thirty thousand policy ho ders and with Richmond as headquarters, it has sixteen Branch Offices including every city in the State of Virginia, except Fredericks-burg, a flourishing office in the District of Columbia. cars of merit and aba Peyton fills his point and credit, the Ge Mr. John W. Hittited for the position traveling and regu m. J. Harris is Gen and in that position markable history for Sick Inspector is M and he has reduced work to such system the position become A HEALTHY START. From its very beginning the Company had a healthy start, in that within six weeks time after it had been organized over $800,000 in cash was paid in by the Stock-holders with which to begin business. This of itself demonstrates the implicit confidence the citizens of Richmond, the District of Columbia, Philadelphia, Detroit, Mich., and other places had in the business integrity of Dr. Graham; but the Company is not satisfied with its territory and Dr. Graham is anxious as he states it to see. A sure enough Negro Insurance Company, which shall stand equal with the Great White Insurers, "and therefore they have increased their Capital Stock from $20,000 to $100,000, knowing that the different states require Insurance Companies to have large Capital behind them be're they can operate in the different states. WANT TO SUBSCRIBE NOW This Capital Stock will not be long being taken up, for already the present Stock-holders are arranging and have begun to subscribe larger amounts in the increase of their stock and it is a question as to whether they will let much of the stock escape the bounds of the present membership. It is the policy of the President however to place stock, at least some, in the different communities where the Company operates, in order that somebody may be there to represent the Company in a legal way. The American Beneficial Insurance Company will soon open in every Southern State and also in Maryland, Penn., and New Jersey. The people are calling for this Company. The leading men of the race are constantly writing to Dr. Graham asking him to come to their States just as soon as possible. ARKANSAS' INVITATION The State of Arkansas stands with open arms ready for him to begin operation. Already over two hundred young men and women are engaged giving all of their time to the work of the American Beneficial Insurance Company in PRICE,FIVE CENTS Graham, at Leader. a Great Rally. OFFICIAL CAPITAL STOCK D IN FINANCE—TO COV- WILL COMPLY WITH REQUIREMENTS. the State of Virginia and the District of Columbia. Dr. Graham declares that in the near future thousands of young people will be engaged in conducting the work of this Company. The Company conducts both a Sick Benefit work and a Straight Life Department on the Industrial feature. CAPABLE OFFICIALS. With Dr. Graham are associated off- Christopher and Co. cars of merit and ability. Prof E. H. Peyton fils his position with high honor and credit, the Gen'l Superintendent. Mr. John W. Howard, is especially fitted for the position he holds, that of traveling and organizing the work. Mr. M. J. Harris is General Route Inspector and in that position, has made a remarkable history for him. The Gen'l Sick Inspector is Mr. R. H. Fauntleroy and he has reduced the duties of his work to such system and order until the position becomes one of scientific principles. "Economy, push and honesty is the motto of the American, and with such leaders and workers as are speeching it throughout the country, notting but success can come to it. Persons desiring to take stock in the Company should write President W. F. Graham, No. 613 N. 2nd, Richmond, Va. Norfolk, Va., June 5th, 1904. — Whereas, it has pleased Almighty God, May 31, 1904, to remove from our mids of our beloved brother and his wife, Sir Knight H. Willis Wright, had been a member of Pythias Lodge, No. 21, Knight of Pythias for several years, and whereas we deeply mourn the loss of our beloved brother therefore be it Resolved, that in the death of our brother, H. Willis Wright, we have lost a Christian brother, a good worker and a faithful Sir Knight. Resolved farther, that we extend our sympathy and condolence to the bereaved family, and that a copy of these resolutions be forwarded to them and that the same be pub ished in our newspapers. Done by order of Pythias Lodge, No. 21, K. of P. Committee: J. L. ROYAL, E. V. HAWTHORNE, JOHN H. DAGNER. Mr. John Mitchell, Jr., the talented editor of the Rishmond PLANET, and who is Grand Chancellor of the Virginia Grand Lodge of Knights of Pythias, (colored) was in our town on Monday, June 6, and instituted a lodge here that night, with a charter membership of thirty in addition to his editorship of the PLANET he is also president of the Mechanics' Bank of Riverside, with deposits amounting to upwards of $400,000. He is a man of force and possesses great influence with his race.—Harrisburg, Va., SPIRIT OF THE VALLEY. Resolutions. BET PLANET SATURDAY ..... JUNE 18, 1904 WAR REMINISCENCES INDEPENDENT FIGHTING. When the Boys Became Separated and Had to Take Care of Themselves. "Things happened queerly in the army," said Sergt. Sam Grimshaw, according to the Chicago Inter Ocean. "When Carlin's division was driven back at Bentonville, N. C., our brigade (the Third of the Second division) was thrown out to check the confederates' advance. The underbrush being heavy, we ran into the confederates unawares and got in the first volley to our advantage. We had fired six or eight valleys when the brigade commander ordered us to cease firing. This gave the rebels a chance to notice that both our wings were in the air and they proceeded to take advantage of the situation. "When the brigade fell back, I took to a tree, and Comrade Giles took another to my right. We felt pretty secure, as we had seen confederates only in front, but I had fired only once and had reloaded and was putting on the cap when a Johnny who had gotten in my left flank took a shot at me, tearing 13 big holes in my folded or rolled blanket. This convinced me that he had my range and that I was out-danked, and I hiked for a more congenial clue. I came across Col. Clancey and we traveled together to where the regiment was in line along a fence. I had been with my company only a few minutes when I received a musket ball that put me out of the fight for the day. "In the same fight the Fourteenth Michigan and a confederate regiment both got lost from their brigades and had an independent fight of their own, in which the Fourteenth whipped the rebels and captured their flag. One of the boys of company G was sent back after a box of ammunition, and, the lines changing, he walked on his return into the confederate lines. The confederates thought it was a great joke, relieved him of his ammunition and gun, and started him to their rear without a guard. He made a flank movement, got around their line, and came back to the company in three hours. "That is one illustration of the resourcefulness of the American soldier. Here is another. When our regiment, the Fifty-second Ohio, made the march to Knoxville after the battle of Missionary Ridge, we camped for one night near Cleveland. Our quarters were in the timber, and for tenting purposes McLaughlin, Hastings, Roe and myself had joined forces, so that we might splice pup tents to the best advantage. There being plenty of leaves, we made a fine bed, ate our supper, smoked our pipes, and retired to what the boys called our 'downy' in great contentment. "We were just going off to dream of what a fine feast we would have the next morning, as Sergt. Wihrow was cooking a 20-pound turkey which McLaughlin had confiscated, when I was A HIKED FOR A MORE CONGENIAL CLIME. awakened by a cry of fire and other cries which suggested that I was an interested party. We had, like others, built a fire in front of our tent. The leaves between our tent and the fire were in flames, and we were asleep. McLaughlin was a good soldier, but inclined to be a little slow. On this occasion, however, he went into action so promptly that we saved our tent and bedding, and we had our feast of turkey the next morning." Story of "Old Tecump" The following story is told of Gen. Sherman, the time being just after his falling to break Joe Johnston's front at Kenesaw Mountain: "It was plain that more flanking must be done, and so the 'Great Flanker' ordered Gen. Cox's division of the Twenty-third corps to make a detour and threaten the enemy's left. This involved a long march, and Gen. Sherman made his way to the top of a high hill, where we were lying, to enable him to overlook the country and see operations better. He sat on a stump with a map spread out on his knees, and was giving Gen. Cox directions as to his line of march. After doing this he mounted his horses and started away, but, after having gone a little distance, he shouted back: 'See here, Cox, burn a few barns occasionally as you go along. I can't understand those signal signs, but I know what smoke means.' —Chicago Mall. STORY ABOUT GEN. GRANT A Butcher's Gray Horse Beat His "Cincinnatus" and He Had to Have That Animal. This little story about Gen. Grant is told by Col. H. A. Chadwick, says the American Tribune: "In 1864 Gen. Grant was a good deal at headquarters in Washington. He loved a fast horse, and he thought the big chestnut Cinchnatus he then drove would take the dust from no other horse in Washington. One day he was spinning along the road on the outskirts of the town, when he noticed a rough-looking gray horse trotting along to a two-wheeled butcher wagon filled with meat. The general flew past the wagon, but the gray just set back his ears and the way he made the mud fly along that road was just astonishing. He got his nose to the rear of Grant's buggy, he pulled his head up to the hind wheels, and his forequarters were soon patterning along in a swift, never-breaking trot near the heels of the great Cinchnatus. Grant got mad and used his whip, the butcher driver laughed wickedly, and held the reins taut on the gray, and the meat THE CAFE THE GENERAL DROVE HIM OUT NEXT DAY. wagon, jolting and jumping, showered the dirt from its wheels over the general and into the nose of the horse he thought could not be heat. "Next morning early, little Webster of Grant's staff, came over to me and said: 'Chad, the old man is mad as sheol this morning. He was out on the road yesterday, and got beat by a gray horse dragging a load of beef. Now he wants that horse, and you are to buy him. Here's his check signed in blank, and you must not lose that animal for $5,000.' Well, to make a long story short, I found who owned the horse, and, as luck would have it, got him into my stable for $350, and ten minutes after he was at headquarters in Grant's possession. When the general drove him out the next day the butcher saw him, and in half an hour the man of meat was at our hotel, making the air blue for having sold the horse at so low a figure. But I threw a couple of bottles of wine into him and sent him away satisfied. Grant drove the gray horse for ten years, and it was his favorite animal during all that time. It finally died on the general's farm in Missouri." MAINE PORK AND BEANS. They Were "Just Splendid," Said the Johnnies Who Drove the Yankees from Them. In the early part of the Shenandoah Valley campaign Gen. N. P. Banks was in command of the column that "Stonewall" Jackson drove out of Winchester. Among the union soldiers was a member of the Tenth Maline infantry, who recently recalled an interesting incident of that time, and related it to a correspondent of the Boston Herald. It is quoted below in the veteran's own words: "I shall never forget how Gen. Banks looked after our safety when we were driven out of Winchester. Our regiment, owing to our position in the column, was among the very last to leave, and the Johnnies were nearly on us when we began our retreat. But Banks himself was one of the very last men out of the way of the thomys advance guard. He rode this way and that way, looking out for the wagons and horses and camp equpage, as well as the men, and by the time the last were moving he was so close to the Johnnies that I wonder to this day why he didn't get picked off by some sharp-shooter. "But although, thanks to our general, we all saved our bacon, we fellows of the Tenth didn't save our baked beans. Just as we were sitting down to the hot, delicious-smelling, down-east dish we had to get up and get, and leave them to the enemy! I tell you it was exasperating. "A little later, when Banks led us back to Winchester, one of the very first things we saw was a thank you from the Johnnies written with white chalk on an old building: "Compliments of the Georgia Tigers to the Maine Tenth! Those baked beans were just splendid!" Retort Courteous. Mrs. Bizey—I notice you're cleaning house, Mrs. Newcome, and I was afraid you might be tempted to throw your rubbish out on the back lot. I just wanted to say that we don't do that sort of thing here. Mrs. Newcome—I burned all our rubbish in the furnace this morning, Mrs. Bizey, including an old book on "Elquette" which I might have saved for you—Philadelphia Press. Under Due Restraint. THE RICHMOND, PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. Fun For Fun Lovers. The Practical Boy. "How much does Sis weigh?" asked the boy. "I'm sure I don't know," replied the young man. "Huh!" exclaimed the boy disgustedly. "I'll bet after I'd held anything on my knee for an hour I could make a pretty good guess."—Chicago Post. The Reason Why. "What is that big iron thing?" asked Laura. "Locomotive boiler," said Tom. Laura looked thoughtful. After a moment's silence she asked: "Why do they boil locomotives?" "To make 'em tender," he said, slowly,—Brooklyn Citizen. Truthful Childhood "I hope, Johnny," said the visitor, "that I haven't disturbed your pa and ma at dinner." "No," replied Johnny; "we was just goin' to sit down, but pa seen you from the window, an' he told ma not to have dinner till you went."—Catholic Standard and Times. Not to Be Caught. Buxom Widow—Do you understand the language of flowers, Dr. Crusty? Dr. Crusty (an old bachelor)—No, ma'am. Widow—You don't know if yellow means jealousy? Dr. Crusty—No, ma'am; yellow means billiousness. Tit-Bits. A Word to the Wise Newcomer (in desperation)—Since I nailed that "beware-of-the-dog" sign on a tree we've had more tramps than ever before. Old Suburbanite—Certainly! They know that if you actually had a dog you wouldn't waste the time nailing up the sign—Judge. Suspicious. Mr. Smith—The new cook comes with fine recommendations. Mrs. Smith—Yes; they sound as if the people she was with thought a great deal of her, or else that they were willing to do or say almost anything in the hope of getting rid of her. -Buffalo Times. The Fly in the Ointment An old lady has lost three husbands, and is just going to marry a fourth. When she was being congratulated on the happy event she said, deprecatingly: "Oh, the weddings are very well, but what I object to is the funerals." —TitBits. A. Subtle Question "Do you think that a man ought to speak de truth under all circumstances?" said Flooding Pete. "Of course not," replied Meandering Mike. "It u'd sound foolish fer a man to keep sayin' guilty as indicted every time he was brought into court."—Washington Star. A Tired Brother. Don't want ter blow no trumpet— Ter wear no heavy crown, Wen I gits up dar in glory Whar de saints is loanf roun'； But, ef dey'll only let me Say what fer me is bes'. I'll creep in some cool corner! Eat ene cor res'! -Atlanta Constitution. HEAD BEEN THERE. J. L. H. "A ticket for the United States."—Chicago Chronicle. Improvidence Though he hasn't a cent to his name, He could still face his equals in life. 'Tis this adds the sting to his shame— He has naught in the name of his wife Short on Fact. Bates—That nephew of yours called me a blackguard. Yates—Just like Ben; no tact about the boy. I've always told him that the truth was not to be spoken on all occasions.—Tit-Bits. Only. "What's the matter with you. You're losing all your manners. Why didn't you tip your hat to that woman you just left on the corner?" Stag Party. Harker—Was there much wine down at Bender's dinner party? From the Old Sod Patience—Miss Patrick says her ancestors came over in the Mayflower. Patrice—Indeed! I didn't know the Mayflower sailed from Ireland?—Yonkers Statesman. Plans "I have an ambition to be rich." "Good! Going to invent a new breakfast food?" "No—a new religion."—Cincinnati Commercial-Tribune. Bankruptey. "Well, that dear old lady who kept the boarding house around the corner has quit. She lost from the start." "I knew she. would when I discovered that she put real meat in her hash and used fruit that actually grew on trees and bushes. I presume that honesty continues to be the best policy, but it calls for surplus funds in these days."-Detroit Free Press. Compensation. "Marriage is a lottery," said the melanchoch person. "Well," answered Miss Cayenne, "it seems to be a pretty even game at that. I never saw a married man or woman who thought he had drawn a blank who didn't believe in his heart that the partner of his joys and sorrows had secured the capital prize."—Washington Star. An Example from Life. Wise Pa—Tact, Johnny, is knowing how to do things without appearing to be doing them. For instance, I asked Mr. Aridman to dinner this evening, and incidentally I remarked that your mother would entertain us on the piano. Mr. Aridman said he was so sorry he couldn't come—Tit-Bits. A Politician's End. Now let this be his epitaph. The reader's heart to touch. He needed cash and grafted Not wisely, but too much. HER CHOICE OF EVILS. A Sappy—Miss Chaffins is a jolly fine girl, don'tyerkanw. Right up-to-date. Never minds my smoking even in her drawing-room. Miss Pertleigh—So she was telling me the other day. She says you don't talk so much when you're smoking.—Ally Sloper. A Change. She was a phantom of delight When first she dawned upon my sight, But since then I am sorry that The phantom has become too fat! (The Phantom) The Last Word. "So her husband made a will forbidding her to marry again." "Yes," answered Miss Cayenne. "I didn't know he had so much sentiment." "It wasn't sentiment. It was merely another form of expression in their old-time struggle for the last word."—Washington Star. A Definite Policy "Look here, Mary," said Mr. Spudkins, "where's the ten dollars Harkaway says he sent in this letter? I see the envelope's been cut." "Oh, I expected you'd say something about it. Well, I've made up my mind to regard it as contraband of war."—Chicago Record-Herald. His Complaint. "Yes," she mused gloomily, "it may be as the poet says, that 'in the spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love,' but it also lightly turns away from them just as soon as the baseball season is well under way."—Chicago Post. The Dictator. He—Is it the fashion for a woman to walk all humped up on a pair of stilt-heeled shoes? She—Well, for what other earthly reason would one wish to make oneself so horribly uncomfortable?—Detroit Free Press. Fate of the Coquette. "What became of the pretty coquette that lived in this town? She was a daisy ten years ago." "Oh, she's still in the botany class." "Indeed! What flower is she now?" "A wall flower."—Chicago Daily News "My teacher, Signor Thumpaninl, says that Paderewski is the second greatest pianist living." "And who is the greatest?" "Oh! he says that modesty forbids him to mention his name."—Brooklyn Life. Why of It. Husband (reading)—I wonder why they say a woman bestows her hand when she marries? Wife—Oh, she doesn't realize until a few weeks after that she has put her foot in it.—Chicago Daily News. Power of Imagination. Upgardson—Did you ever itch at a certain place in your back that you couldn't reach with your hand? Atom (squirming)—I never did till now, confound you!"—Chicago Tribune. The Gentle Knock "But mother said I mustn't go out unchaperoned with a gentleman, so I refused Mr. Black's invitation." "Huh! I don't see where that applies. He's no gentleman."—The Sobinx. Fair Warning. Miss 'Llzbeth—He asked me to be his, an' he said if I didn't be his an marry him his heart wud be broke. Her Dearest Friend—I doan' know much erobut his heart bein' broke ef yo' doan' marry him, but I do know, ef yo' do marry him, yo' will be broke all yo' life.—Judge. Goodley. When he was at school, you remember, he used to talk so much about uplifting mankind. Entered the ministry, perhaps." "Oh, no! He's manufacturing explosive shells and torpedoes."—Philadelphia Ledger. It Would Last Longer. "Say, mamma," queried five-year-old Harry, "are you going to give me another piece of pie?" "Why do you ask, dear?" inquired his mother. "Cause," he explained, "if you ain't 'I'll eat this piece and nati Enquiler." Preferable "Women always look for a chance to spend money," he observed irritably. "Whenever they open a newspaper they begin to study the advertisements." "Well, Charley, dear," answered young Mrs. Torkins, "that is much safer than studying the horse race entries."—Washington Star. Pure Charity. "You must admit," remarked the pessimist, "that old Richley never gave a cent's worth to help the poor." Smiling in Chicago. Yeast—I see a fellow in Chicago entered a saloon, and made the bartender give him a drink at the point of a pistol. What do you say to that? Crimsonbeak—Well, I should say that was without doubt a forced smile. —Yonkers Statesmen. A. Package Short His Wife—I'm sure you've forgotten something. The Suburbanite—And you can't remember what it was? His Wife—I'll think of it presently. It was awfully careless of you to forget it.—Brooklyn Life. So Sudden. Impatient Young Man—Nellie, how is our romance—yours and mine—going to end? Nellie (suddenly apprehensive)—Why, Geoffrey, you don't want to skip to the last chapter yet, do you?—Chicago Tribune. Too Heavy. He—Did you make this bread, dearie? She—Yes, love. "Well. I'd rather you wouldn't do any more work like this, dearest." "Why not, sweetheart?" "It's too heavy, angel."—Yonkers Statesman. Conscious Merit "That's Mr. Pompus, the bokey-pokey magnate. He belongs to our church." "Ah, indeed! How interesting! I had inferred from his attitude that the church belonged to him."—Brooklyn Life. **A Practical Connoisseur.** Mrs. Cobwigger—What a beautiful collection of antiques you have, my dear!" Mrs. Parvenue—It should be. My husband knows all about such things, and had them made to order.—Judge. Polly—Pleased! I came pretty near giving him our college yell—Puck. The Contrariness of Names. We named our son George Washington. His falsehoods sorely tried us; If we should have another one to tell him, we can. —Washington Star. The Mopk—Don't you ever get into a fight? The Giraffe—No; I've quit scrapping. Whenever I did I always got it in the neck.—Chicago American. Hope On. A hope fulfilled of perfect bliss Has furnished many a novel's text, such hope in this life's purpose; it is the hope of the world." — Philadelphia Public Ledger. Her Shoes. Mrs. Buggins—I don't feel at all com fortable in these new shoes. Mr. Buggins—What's the matter; don't they hurt?—Philadelphia Record. Irreconcilable. "He's quite a distinguished person—member of the 400." "Impossible! One can't be both.—Brooklyn Life." They Were the Things. They were the things "Really, y' know, you're the belle of the ball," chattered the silly dudes who surrounded her, "paws'tively charming! perfect in every way—" "Nonsense: protested Miss Pechls, wearily, "there are some things about me that are utterly disgusting."—Philadelphia Post. Not in Her Set. American Girl—We haven't been over long, you know. I suppose your people always lived here? Augustus—We came to England with the Normans, don't you know. American Girl—Oh, indeed, the Normans! I'm afraid I don't know them—Tit-Bits. Merely a Suggestion "I dream of you every night," he said. "A dreamless sleep is the most refreshing." she replied. "Don't you think, if you cloaked dreaming of you call?"—Brooklyn Eagle. L. W. H. Wood and Coal, Cigars AT THE LOWEST M YOU CAN SAVE MONEY I ALL GOODS DELIVER TELEPHONE A. C. BOOKER 18 W. BAKER ST. W. I. 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We have some twenty-five or thirty suits bought, most of which will be in stock in a few days. "Don't do a thing" until you see this line. MORRIS CHAIRS. This always popular chair of rest will be in as much demand this fall as ever. Part of our stock has already arrived and $10 values vie with $15 values of a year ago. Sydnor & Hundley, GAMBLING WITH FATE Author of "The Gold Glenner; A Story of the Cranlea Tanks," *The Rogers of Butte*, Etc. Etc. DARREL UNMASKED. Darrel's amazement equaled the marshal's and the doctor's. So firm was his belief in Murgatroyd's guilt that he had heretofore left McCloud entirely out of his calculations. Before Lenyard could follow up his startling announcement with an explanation, the sallow-faced clerk pushed into the room, paused, and locked around him, aghast at the disorder. "Where's—where's Murgatroyd?" he asked. "We don't want Murgatroyd now," said Lenyard and drew close to the clerk and whispered to him. The clerk whispered a reply, five words of which Darrel happened to overhear—"down the hall—tuckered out." Who was down the hall and tuckered out? Darrel roused himself with freshened interest. "This is most astounding, young man," said he to Lenyard, with jeering incredulity. "The truth comes that way, sometimes," returned Lenyard. "But your accusation is arrant nonsense," persisted Darrel, feigning angry impatience. "These gentlemen"—he waved his hand toward Payton and Merrick—"will not believe you. I have already proved my case against Murgatryd." "Not exactly proved it," qualified the doctor. "The revolver has yet to be found and examined. In this country five loads don't often remain in a gun for a month. I'm not very hopeful about your end of it, although Darrel's ruse was a clever one." "What was the ruse?" asked Lenyard. The doctor told him, with now and then a word from Merrick. When the recital was finished, expressive looks flashed between the clerk and Lenyard. "The marking of those bullets," declared Lenyard, "proves that McCloud killed Sturgis." "Why in the fiend's name should McCloud kill Sturgis?" asked Merrick. "It wasn't McCloud that quarreled with Sturgis in Hawkbill's." "There couldn't have been any motive," spoke up the doctor, who seemed to be a stickler on that phase of the question. "You'll not find Murgatroyd's revolver in Murgatroyd's possession," insisted Lenyard doggedly. "If you find it anywhere you'll find it in McCloud's pocket. Look and see." "Come on, Merrick," said Darrel, getting up and raising his hands above his head. "You'll not find it," remarked Lenyard while the marshal was making his search; "he wouldn't be so willing to let you look, if he had it. He's got rid of it somewhere." "Any one would know the old man's gun," observed the clerk; "there ain't another like it in the hull of Montana." "I've seen it a dozen times," said the marshal as he returned to his chair without finding the weapon. "You've opened this up, Lenyard, and it's up to you to make good." "Yes," said the doctor, "and be very careful, Roy. It's a very serious matter." "It was serious for Darrel," answered the young man warmly, "to have his good name taken away from him." "Good name!" echoed Darrel derisively. "A gambler, gentleman," he went on, turning to the doctor and the marshal, "a man who follows the cards for a living. This boy has a peculiar way of looking at things." Lenyard grew angry. "McCloud," said he, "I told you in Hawkbill's that I wasn't done with you." "Give us your proofs," said Darrel, shortly. "Dr. Payton," continued the young man, "you know how hard I have worked to clear Darrel's name during the last month because I felt sure of his innocence. I did not go to you with what I had discovered because I was waiting to find this man McCloud. "On the night Sturgis was murdered, McCloud was in that private room, there, with Murgatroyd. Murgatroyd had been very late in getting back from the hills and he had found a letter from Darrel that made him savage and desperate. He looked out of the street window and saw Darrel returning to Hawkbill's after having gone with me to the hotel. "Telling McCloud to remain where he was, Murgatroyd rushed out of the room, but did not take his revolver with him. Don't forget that point, gentlemen. Strange as it may seem to you, Murgatroyd was so excited he did not take his revolver. "McCloud picked up the weapon and stepped to the open window. He leaned out, and down the street, in the glare of light from the dance-hall opposite, he saw Darrel confronted by Sturgis. He raised the revolver, sighted carefully, and fired. Then he rushed away, pushing the weapon into his pocket; rushed out through this very room, I'm telling you, and failed to see Jim Glenn who was standing here, a foot from the door leading into that other room. Isn't that so, Glenn?" Lenyard appealed to the sallow-faced clerk who was leaning against the wall picking nervously at the sleeve of his coat. "That's so," said Jim Glenn, "but it will cost me my job, and maybe a whole lot of trouble besides, when the old man hears what I've told." Merrick hitched his chair alongside of Darrel's and the doctor turned a piercing look on the clerk. "Why did you keep this information to yourself, Glenn?" he demanded. "Don't you know that it caused us to fix the crime on an innocent man? It drove him to his death, that is just what it did. Why didn't you come to me, or to Mr. Merrick, and tell of this?" "The old man gave me $100 to keep my mouth shut." "Ah!" cried the doctor; "and why did he do that?" "Because he wanted Darrel hung." "Accessory after the fact!" exclaimed Payton triumphantly. "It means the penitentiary, anyhow." "That's what," assented the marshal. "Blamed tough on Darrel, though. I recken I'd better put these on you, McCloud." Merrick drew a pair of handeuffs from his pocket and leaned toward Darrel. At that juncture a faint rattling was heard from the vault. "What's that?" came in startled tones from Payton as every eye was turned on the vault door. "It's Murgatroyd," said Darrel. "It's getting close in there and he must want to get out." "How long has he been in there?" queried Glenn. "Ever since the doctor and the marshal came." "It's a wonder he ain't smothered to death!" exclaimed the marshal. "He plays in too much luck for that," returned Darrel grimly. "In our struggle here in the room we knocked over that cabinet of minerals and that piece A man running out of a door. MURGATROYD CAME CHARGING OUT, REVOLVER IN HAND. of galena fell on Murgatroyd's head. The safe happened to be open and I hauled him into it, closed the doors and turned off the combination. I heard you gentlemen coming, you know, and thought it might be some of Murgatroyd's friends. I didn't want the fellow to get away until the marshal had a chance at him. I may have been wrong in some of my surmises, but Mr. Lenyard has made it plain that Murgatroyd will have to share in the punishment even as he has shared in the taking off of poor Sturgis. Don't put those on me just yet. Merrick. I'm unarmed and you can sit close. I can't escape. Open the vault, Jim Glenn, you know the combination, don't you?" "Dr. Payton," pursued Darrel as Glenn moved to the vault door and began rattling the knob, "you and Lenyard stand ready to catch Murgatroyd as he comes out. Have a care, for he is armed. He has probably heard nothing of our conversation out here. Brick and mortar and two thicknesses of steel would prevent that." The marshal put his arm through Darrel's and Payton and Lenyard ranged themselves close to the vault door when Glenn swung it open. As the knob of the inner doors were turned, Murgatroyd came charging out, revolver in hand. He was caught by Payton, Lenyard and Glenn and, for a space, struggled furiously but fruitlessly, dazed by resistance and blinded by the light. "Hands off!" he shouted, quieting a little when he saw the uselessness of his efforts. "Let me at that man! I'll kill him!" "No, you won't!" cried Merrick. "I've got charge of this man, Murgatroyd, and there'll be no gun-play. Take the weapon away from him, Doc." The weapon was wrenched from Murgatroyd's clutch. "Is that you, Merrick?" asked Murgatroyd, ceasing all attempts to get away and brushing a hand across his eyes. "Big as life," answered the marshal. "How is it that you and all these others are here?" "We heard the row and rushed up to see what was going on." "You came in time. Merrick, Nate Darrel wasn't killed by that explosion!" "Hey?" "I say," declared Murgatroyd, "that Nate Darrel wasn't killed by that explosion on the War Eagle trail. Take charge of him, for there he sits beside you. He's not McCloud but has shaved off his beard and is masquerading in McCloud's clothes. I know McCloud and I know Darrel, and I swear to you that man is Darrel!" The marshal, too far gone for words, dropped back in his chair. CHAPTER XVIII A bomb, suddenly exploded in the midst of those in the office, could not have caused greater consternation than the furious words of Murgatroyd. The case had been proved against Murgatroyd, then shifted to McCloud, and now McCloud was said to be Darrel and Darrel was known to be inno- THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. Merrick, as soon as he had recovered himself a little, gave vent to a hollow groan. Lenyard stared at Darrel like one in a trance. "Gentlemen," said Darrel, who was the first to speak, "if Mr. Merrick will put the irons on Murgatroyd, we will make him prove what he says." Merrick would not leave Darrel's side, but tossed the handglove to Glone. side, but tossed the handcuffs to Glenn. "Snap 'em onto him, Glenn," said he, "I'll stay right here until we can get head and tail to this Chinese puzzle. Different things have been happening so quick that I'm blamed if I know whether I'm afoot or horseback. Mebby Sturgis wasn't killed at all; and if he was, here's Doc and me left yet. I'm expecting some one to blow in and prove that we did it." In some trepidation, Jim Glenn snapped the bracelets about his employer's wrists. Murgatroyd was then seated near the light and Merrick handed one of his revolvers to Len-yard. "Get close to him," said the marshal, "and if he makes a move to bolt, shoot him." Like one in a dream Lenyard took the revolver and placed himself at Murgatroyd's side. Murgatroyd was deeply perplexed. Darrel himself seemed to be the only one in the office who had kept his head. "You say I am Nate Darrel, Murgatroyd," said he. "How can you prove it?" "Hold up your left hand," said Murgatroyd, "there in the lights." Darrel did so. "Anyone who knows Darrel," went on Murgatroyd, "will know that ring. There isn't another like it in the United States." "It's—it's Darrel's ring," gasped Lenyard. "I saw it that night in Hawkbill's when Darrel played that game for me." He took a half-step towards Darrel, his face bloodless and his eyes bright. "Watch your man, Lenyard," said the marshal gruffly. "Keep back, Roy," said Dr. Payton. "This man may be McCloud, after all. The testimony of the ring is not sufficient. It may have been stolen." "Then," said Darrel calmly, "let me shield McCloud's reputation to the extent of saying the ring was not stolen. It is, perhaps, the only ring of its kind in the United States, and it has not been out of my possession during the last six years." "Then you are Nate Darrel?" asked Lenyard huskily. "Yes." This avowal sent the marshal off on another tack. "Sure he says he's Darrel. Why not? As McCloud he stands convicted of the murder of Sturgis. Under those circumstances most anyone would rather be Darrel than McCloud. We'll have to have better proof than the ring. Murgatroyd knows the ring, and Lenyard seems to; but the balance of us don't." "Supposing you are Darrel," said Payton, "why did you assume that disguise?" "It was convenient," answered Darrel; "and besides, directly after that explosion, it was hardly safe for me to go anywhere as my true self." "How did you escape the giant powder?" Darrel eased their minds in this respect. "Jupiter!" muttered the marshal, wagging his head. "That's too mirac- lous to be true." "Now tell us how you came to pose as McCloud," said Payton. Darrel did so, at length, and on his auditors the wonder grew. The marshal was derisive in his unbelief. "Now, look," said he, expatiating. "Here goes off a powder explosion, out of which Mr. Man, there, is snaked by the lines and bits of the runaway bronks. That's a hard one to take down, but it ain't the hardest. He's in pretty bad shape, you see, with people hunting after him to lynch him, but pursuing themselves that he was ground into powder and scattered over about all outdoors. "It's a pretty hard row of stumps for this man Darrel, but he walks from the powder explosion right into an old shanty where there's a dead man—a complete stranger, mind you, but lookin' enough like that same Darrel to be the other half of a twin combination. Not only is Darrel's double in the shanty, but they's letters to show who he is, and shaving things for Darrel to fix himself up with, and clothes for him to wear, and a cayuse for him to ride. The whole lay-out couldn't have been made to order any better, could it, now? It was altogether too neat, and things don't happen that way." "Don't you think I'm Nate Darrel?" asked Darrel. "If you are," and the marshal snapped his lean jaws, "it's dollars to dimes you never found no dead man in no shanty." "Then, how did I get this outfit?" "How, you say? Why, pilgrim, it's just possible you bushwhacked the stranger as he was coming along the trail; laid him out for reasons specified and which anyone can understand." Payton had been examining the ebony-handled revolver taken from Murgatroyd. Seemingly he paid little attention to the line of argument pursued by Merrick. "I didn't expect to find it so," said the doctor, "but the bullets in this gun are marked." He turned to the marshal. "How would that man know about the marked bullets, Merrick, unless he was Darrel, and did the marking himself?" Merrick squirmed uneasily. Murgatroyd, suddenly brought back to his own situation, paled a little and shook his manacled hands. "What's this for?" he asked. "What have I done to be treated like this?" This from the doctor, with a hard look. Glenn raised a trembling hand to his forehead and began to whimper out an excuse. "It's false," cried M you know It's false. Sturgis was a friend of mine—why, he dealt faro for me in Hawkbill's!" Lenyard caught Glenn's eye and nodded towards the hall. The gesture was understood and the clerk left the room with alacrity. "If we can prove Glenn's story," said Lenyard, "we make it plain that Darrel did not shoot Sturgis." "And if you can prove this man's story," put in the doctor, nodding at Darrel, "you make it plain that he is not McCloud and, therefore, an innocent and injured man." "I think we can do so," returned Lenyard briefly. A silent anticipation of some momentous event fell over the group in the office, heightened by the gradual approach along the hall of shuffling, painful steps. Then the stroke fell and brought every man up, standing. Glenn came in supporting a drooping, disheveled form—a piteous spectacle, truly, unshaven, unkempt, ragged and dust-covered. With his month's growth of beard, the tottering man resembled Darrel, and Darrel's clothing heightened the deception. But the bearded cheeks were hollow and the eyes bloodshot. "A chair!" said Glenn, for the form had pitched forward as though about to fall. The clerk held the swaying man while Darrel pushed a chair forward and helped, with strange gentleness, to lower the man easily into the seat. A racking sob burst from the man and his head drooped forward into his shaking hands. "Who are you?" asked Lenyard in a pitying tone. "Please tell us who you are? "Junius McCloud," came the almost inarticulate response. "I—I have come to—to give myself up, I am the one who killed Sturgis." CHAPTER XIX DARKEL'S INNOCENCE PROVED. There followed a long pause during which the wild music and hilarious shouts from the dance-hall were wafted to the group in the gambler's office. In the presence of suffering like McCloud's the festive sounds were incongruous and brutal. "I did not know he was McCloud," answered the young man. "He was in M. M. B. "IT'S FALSE," CRIED MURGATROYD; "AND YOU KNOW IT'S FALSE." a stupor, apparently, and we could get little out of him. We thought he was Nate Darrel. Lenyard ran to Darrel and took him by the hands. "How wonderfully this has come about, Mr. Darrel," he went on, in a voice full of emotion. "I believed in you all the time and did what I could to establish your innocence, but it was not until this afternoon that the cards were placed in my hands that helped me win this game for you. McCloud walked into camp and Glenn was among the first to see him. Glenn thought he was you, and took him to his own lodgings and made him as comfortable as possible, then came to me, knowing I was about the only friend Nate Darrel had in the camp. "We could get nothing out of McCloud and I also thought he was yourself. Your arrival on the Anaconda stage—you, whom I thought to be McCloud—all but carried me off my feet. I followed you covertly and arranged for Dr. Payton and the marshal to wait in front of Kaliper's after you and Murgatroyd had come up here. "Glenn had told me—spurred to remorse at sight of the man we thought to be you—of his discoveries here on the night of the murder. It was our intention to confront you and Murgatroyd with Darrel and do what we could to get the whole truth. God knows, Darrel, how much this moment means to me." A mist was in the young man's eyes. He averted his face and would have withdrawn his hands had not Darrel clung to them. "And I know, for the first time," returned Darrel with feeling, "the worth of a true friendship." He shook the young man's hands and released them. Turning to the doctor and the marshal he added: "Gentlemen, you have doubted my words—" "Confine that remark to Merrick," broke in the doctor; "I was more than half convinced all the time." "Thank you," said Darrel. "There is an opportunity, now, to prove everything I have said. As to the explosion on the War Eagle trail, the mere fact that I am here is evidence that that part of it is true." Darrel sat down and all eyes were fixed on McCloud. Murgatroyd leaned limply back in his chair and gazed vacantly at the ceiling. Merrick paid little attention to Darrel. Passing over to McCloud he raised his head and endeavored to press a flask of liquor to his lips. "I don't want that," he said huskily. "Whisky and cards have been the ruin of me—whisky, and cards and—and Murgatroyd." Murgatroyd dropped his eyes from the ceiling and fixed them on McCloud with a sneering smile. "Keep your devilish looks off of met" muttered McCloud, in a passion. "Take that man away," he went on, addressing the others, his voice quivering with excitement. Murgatroyd was not taken away but Payton drew his chair in front if him. "You say that you are Junius McCloud?" said the doctor. "Yes." "Do you know Jack Sturgis?" "No." "You know he was murdered?" "It's that that has haunted me and made life a hell for the last month," was the sighing, helpless response. "You were in those rooms, the "You were in these rooms on the night the murder was committed?" "I was in that private room, there, with Murgatroyd, the night Sturgis was shot." He fluttered one hand toward the other apartment. "Are you willing to tell us everything, here and now, Mr. McCloud, or would you like to consult a lawyer first?" "I want no lawyers," said McCloud, decisively, "and if everything is not told now it may never be." "Get pen and paper, Lenyard," said Merrick, "and sit at the desk." "That's right," said Payton. "Take down everything, Roy." In a few moments Lenyard was ready and had jotted down the substance of what had already been said. "You were talking with Murgatroyd, you say, Mr. McCloud?" resumed Dr. Payton. "You came here by appointment?" "I was in Sandy Bar and Murgatroyd sent for me; told the stage driver to tell me that I was to come here at once." "What was Murgatroyd doing when you entered the room?" "Walking up and down like a caged animal. He had a letter in his hand." "Did he tell you anything about the letter?" "He read it to me. It was from Nate Darrel and said that he—Darrel—was in town awaiting Murgatroyd's pleasure, and could be found at Hawkbill's." McCloud seemed to gather strength as he proceeded. Excitement was buoying him up for the ordeal. "You knew there was a feud between Murgatroyd and Darrel?" "Murgatroyd told me. He said that Darrel was in Sandy Bar and must not get out of the camp alive. He said that I was to help him put Darrel out of the way." A mild sensation was caused by this announcement. "Why should Murgatroyd ask you to help him in such a criminal proceeding?" went on Payton. "Because I had helped in other criminal proceedings, I suppose," was the bitter reply. "Don't go outside of the Sturgis matter, McCloud," said the doctor, by way of warning. "We only care to know about this." "I am a wreck and will soon be beyond the pale of any earthly law. What I am I owe to Murgatroyd and I would like to have everything known." "Where did you first meet Murgatroyd?" "In Denver. Physicians sent me there for my health. I am the victim of a strange malady and physicians were puzzled and could give me little except advice and suggestions. They sent me to Denver." Professional curiosity manifested itself in Dr. Payton's manner. "What sort of a malady, McCloud?" he asked. "It is nervous, they tell me. Undue excitement throws me into a condition that resembles death—but it is not death, although it has led me close to it. I can see and hear all that goes on around me, but there is no noticeable beating of the heart and all the evidences of death, even to rigor mortis, may be detected." "Rare, but not unique," muttered the doctor. "The attacks come on at intervals?" "Excitement brings them on. They have been more frequent of late than formerly." McCloud turned to Darrel. "When I fled from Sandy Bar, that night, I was beside myself with apprehension and remorse. I took refuge in that deserted cabin, and feeling that an attack was upon me, and not knowing it would be the last, I made a few preparations and stretched myself out in the bunk, covering myself with blankets I carried with me. "Then you came, Nate Darrel. Up to the time you closed my eyes every move you made inside the cabin was seen by me; every word you spoke i heard." "What did Darrel do?" asked Payton, bent on proving Darrel's story. McCloud recited Darrel's actions in detail, substantially as Darrel had already set them forth. "What were your feelings, McCloud?" continued Payton. The utter silence of the room was broken only by the low tones of the speakers and an occasional burst of music from the dance hall. "I was glad," said McCloud, "glad that Darrel could save himself by impersonating me. My hope was that I might die and be found, after a time, and mistaken for Darrel—just as he intended. But fate spared me for this final act of reparation. I recovered and, for the last four weeks, have been living with a prospector in the hills." Again he addressed Darrel. "I have what you wrote and placed over me," said he. Taking a Morocco purse from his pocket, he brought from it a ragged slip of brown paper. "Read it, doctor," he added. "It will prove that Nate Darrel is a man of fine feeling." Payton took the slip and read it. "Is there another paper in the pocket-book?" he asked. "This." It was the writing which told of the marked bullet and a deep breath escaped the listeners when its contents were made known to them. "Let us come back to your relations with Muratroyd," proceeded Payton. "You say they began in Denver" "Yes; in a gambling house in Denver. I played there night after night, forging checks to cover my losses. Murgatroyd took the stolen money and, finding me an apt pupil, taught me how to play with him and help him fleece others. I went from bad to worse. Friends paid the amount of the forged paper, hushing the matter up. From that hour, however, I was lost. The fetters of Murgatroyd's devilish influence were things from which I could not free myself. I did not understand his power then and I do not understand it now—but it was an invincible weapon and he used it mercilessly. For that monster I have renounced everything I hold dear in life and see how I am repaid!" In the brief, hovering stillness that followed there was not one but looked upon McCloud in pity and upon Murgatroyd with horror and loathing. "So," said Payton, sofly, "you came to Sandy Bar, met Murgatroyd in that private room, heard him read the note from Darlre and was asked to help him commit a murder!" "Not asked," returned McCloud, hoarsely, "commanded! Perhaps I should have obeyed him but for what happened. Murgatroyd stood at the office window, looking down into the street. He saw Darrel walking slowly in the direction of Hawkbill's. Spinning around, Murgatroyd said to me: "There is my man now; he is going to Hawkbill's, but he shall never reach there alive. I will spring out into his path suddenly, from between the buildings. When I leave you take that revolver on the desk, McCloud, step to this window and shoot from it in case I need you. Darrel's back will be toward you and it will be an easy shot.'" "Then Murgatroyd hurried away. I picked up the revolver from the desk and stepped to the window as directed. I could see Darrel plainly and recognized him as a man I had met earlier in the day at the Half Way house, on the trail from Anaconda. "While I stood watching a form leaped from the buildings and confronted Darrel. I could not make out the form distinctly, owing to the shadow of the buildings, but a revolver gleamed in the man's hand. I could not kill Darrel, but the thought struck me that I could kill Murgatroyd and sweep the incarnate devil forever from my path. I sighted the gun carefully and fired. My God, gentlemen! when I found out later that Darrel had been imprisoned, accused of the murder of Sturgis—when I learned that I had slain the wrong man with such terrible consequences to another, the earth slipped away beneath me and I thought I should die! I thought—" The words trembled on his lips and faded away to silence. With a wild tossing of the arms McCloud stood up, reeling, his eyes gazing on a point above Pavon's head. "That's a lie, McCloud, and you know it," came the cutting words of Murgatroyd. He had risen behind the doctor and stood like a statue, his manacled hands stretched toward McCloud and his burning gaze fixed on his face. "Tell these men that you have spoken a lie! Tell them you are trying to revenge yourself against me and have—" A deep oath and a sudden rush of feet interrupted the speaker; then a brawny fist leaped out like lightning and struck him down. "It's the act of a coward to strike a man in irons," said Merrick, turning blackly from his work, "but that cur deserved it. There, Darlre—McCloud—quick!" McCloud, with a feeble moan, pitched forward, but Darlre caught him and eased him to the floor. His form became rigid, his eyes staring, and he was again as Darlre had seen him in Kansas Joe's old but, just off the War Eagle trail. (TO BE CONTINUED.) A battered old green and red plaid garter caused first much amusement and later great excitement in the city hall the other morning. The garter was dropped by a woman as she stepped from the elevator, and her loss was not discovered until two hours later, when her son rushed into the city hall corridor and wildly demanded the article of apparel, stating that a wad of bills amounting to $25 was concealed in its folds. A search was made for the garter and it was found in the desk of a clerk in one of the departments. Policeman Robert E. Lee, stationed in the city hall corridor, was the first to discover the garter, as the woman SUSPICIOUS OF THE THING and her son were leaving the building. "Lady, you've dropped your glove," he cried, but the old lady paid no heed. Lee turned the thing over with the end of his club and discovered its true nature. Lifting it up gingerly, he tendered it to Frank Matouschek, "King of the Bohemians," with the remark that he appeared to be the most appropriate person to possess it. "Honi soft qui mal y pense," murmured Mr. Matouschek. "Nit! I have enough troubles now." Some of the department clerks rescued the garter from oblivion and in turn presented it to several heads of departments, who gently but firmly refused it. One of the clerks then put it in his desk to keep it until Thursday, when it was to be presented to a high official with an appropriate address. The noon whistle had just blown when an excited young man burst upon Policeman Lee. "Where's my mother's garter?" he cried. "Search me," replied Lee, indifferently. "But it's got $25 sewed up in it, cried the youth. "That's different," said the police man, "but it doesn't look the part." A search was made for the garter and it was found, but the policeman refused to turn it over to the youth, and the owner must apply for it in person. PIG AS A RABBIT POINTER Smart Pennsylvania Animal Raises Its Foot as It Runs Bunnie to Ground. Lewis D. Hollenbach, of Jordan, Pa. has a little pig that he is willing to pit against the foxiest hound in eastern Pennsylvania as a rabbit hunter. Knowing that there was a rabbit hidden in a thorn bush in the meadow the other day Hollenbach released piggy from the sty and, leading the way to the meadow, the little grunter followed A man in a suit and hat stands on a rock, holding a book in his hands. He is looking down at the rock. The background features a tree and a field. GRUNTED WITH SATISFACTION as closely and attentively as a dog would have done. Near the bush the pig stopped, pointed like a hound and grunted as if he were greatly excited, when out of a bush darted a rabbit and made a dash for a ledge of rocks half a mile away. Then came the oddest chase ever wit- nessed in that vicinity. Piggy, with snout close to the ground, took up the trail and closely followed the scent, now leading his master across the meadow at a lively gait. Imagine Hollenbach's surprise when, at a large pile of rocks, the pig halted, raised one of his fors paws and grunted with satisfaction, ex- actly in front of the hole in which Mr. Rabbit had taken refuge. Hollenbach now says: "I'll train that little porker for an all-around hunter yet, if only I can keep down his weight, and by careful feeding curb his appetite. If a pig can hunt rabbits successfully, why can he not also take up the trail of the deer in Pocono mountains and lead me to the spot where a good shot will bring down the finest of game? I'll try him at it, sure's you're born." Plausible Theory Teacher—Can you tell me why Alexander the Great wegt? Bright Boy—'Cause he couldn't find any more worlds to conquer. Teacher—And why could he find no more? Bright Boy—I guess it was'cause there wasn't any newspapers to advertise in then—Cincinnati Enquirer. Rather Queer: Another Queen. "Time is money," so they say, Tattered robes runneth That man should runneth of time Hustling for a little money, —Cincinnati Enquirer. WILLING TO DO HER BEST. A Husband—We shall really have to economize, dear. Don't you think you could try and make your own dresses? Wife—I'm sure I need 'dear; but I'll tell you what I will do, if you like—I'll try and make you a suit of clothes. Ally Sloper. A. Difference. When I beg to stay up late at night They say it will not do. They say: "Come, Mildred, you can help. Such a great big girl as you!" —Cincinnati Enquirer. The Wife's Chance. Whipper—I see that there has been a reduction in the price of theater seats. Snapper—Yes; Colite says that he can afford to take his wife now. A Forgotten Factor. Cook—I wonder where the missus goes so often? Second Girl—She's 'attendin' the Emaginated Women's league. Emancipated Women's league. Cook—Huh! If she thinks she's goin to gift herself emancipated from me she'll find herself mistaken.—N. Y. 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Tuomas Netsox Pacr in bis very remarkable article in the Mas number of McCLvne's MAGAZivE under the caption of “The Negro: The South exner's Problem" makes the following rstounding admission: Unquestionably, a certain propor. tion of the Negro race has risen notably since the era of emancipation. Inthe cities and towns, a proportion of the colored population—hat is, the upper fraction—have not only accumulated property but have attained a higher standing, based partly on property, partly on character, and partly on in tellectusl advance “Put, unless the uni versal testimony of the white people of the Sonth is unreliable, this rise is con- fined largely to the towns or to those regions where the Negroes have had the aid, sympathy, and encouragment of the Whites. And it appears to the ‘writer that this element is not as large &s is generally assamod, and that this Yery advance has separated them all the more widely from the great body of the colored race." Wot us grant the above to be trae for it virteally embraces or can be made to embrace the most prosperous portions ofthe Southland. It shows too that when the Negroes have the aid, symps thy and encouregement of the Whites his value as a unit of the community in which he lives is materially increased. He continued: “Stady of the question, moreover, Giscover that almost all of the intel- Jectual advance in the Negro race is confined to this upper fraction of the race; that Perhaps, nine-tenths of the property accumulated has been accumu jated by this class ana by the other fraction that belongs to the second class who were trained in slavery, and_ that, measured by the ordinary standards of character, intellect, and <ivie standing, the other nine-tenths of the race, so far from advancing in any way, have eith- er stood stagnant or have retrograded.” We fail tosee where this statement of the case unfavorably affects the Ne- groes of the Southland. He admits that the eighteen million dollars worth of property owned by the Negroes of ‘Virginia was accumulated by only one tenth of the Negro population of this state and that the seven hundred mil- Mon dellars worth of property in the United States was accumela ed an owned by one-tenth of the Negro popu ation of this country. He admits that this ownership, fra- gality and progress is due to the favcr- able environments of the Negroes in question, and th-reby admits that if the other nine-tenths had been subjected to similar influences, their improvement wWouki have been similarly noticeable, No involuutary tnbate terdered the Nogre could be a more lasting. testimo- nial to bis energy, skill and ability asa woalth-producer and a saver of his earn- ings. Ganged by this method of measure- ment or figuring, the pro-rata per cap ita wealth of this “upper fraction” of Negroes would bo something astound. ing to the Negro-haters everywhere, ee eee WO ances ar. Paor’s statements. ‘He said further: According to the United States Con- sus of 1890, the native white criminals in the United States numbered AOATIES the native Whites whoeo parents, ware also native born numbered 2',037; the Negro crimina's (whose parents ‘were native) numbered 24,277. Mr. Pace shrewdly fails to state the actual number of white criminals in the United States by specifying only those native born. The actual number of white criminals in the United States, according to the Census of 1890 is 57,310 or 16,839 more white criminals than he states it to be. ‘This additional number was foreign born, tut thoy belong on Your side of the controversy, Mr. Pace: and we are now seeing to it that you place them there. See World Almanac 1908, Page 331, from whieh source you plainly state that you secared your sta- tistics. Mr. Pace states that the Negro crim. ‘nals’ parents were native, but we fail ‘to find anywhere in these statistics one line to support this view of the matt r. ‘Whether any of these Negroes came from Cuba, San Domingo, St. Thomas ‘or Africa is not stated, and Mr. Pace has bat to consult his authority again in order to be convinced of the correct ness of our position in this discussion. _ But there are some other statistics, ‘They relate to the number of paapers in the United States, according to the Oen- sus of 1890. Mr. PaGE seems to have ‘studiously avoided any reference to these figures. ‘They show that the number of white paupers in the United States were 66, 578 and the number of Negro paupers in this country were only 6,418. In ‘plain words, there were about eleven times as many white people in the alms. houses of the United States as there were Negroes. Why was it that this distinguished Virginian ‘‘went blind” on taese fig- ures, which were ¢irectly before his eyes while he was reading the others? ‘The rate of peuperism among the Whites was 91 per cent and among the Negroes, 8 per cent. ‘The Columbus, Ohio, Srate Jourwat has this to say in n recent issue of that journal: “The juvenile court record shows that, of the 7000 children erraigned in the juvenile courts of New York in a given time, only 13 were of Negro blocd, The population of the city of Greoter New York is approximately 4,000,900, of whom 66,000 are colored people. | ‘That is to say, 1.65 er cont of the population is colored, while, of the children charged with crime in the pe- |r0 covered Leen statistics, only .185 per cent were Negroes. These figores do not support the statement sometimes made by’ preju- ‘diced men that the Negro is a natural criminal. On the ens if accepted | at their face value, they show that the | Caucasians of New York, including, of course, the great mass of’ ignorant. im- | migrants, are nearly ten times as likely as the Negro to have criminal tenden- ‘cies. __ No fair and accurate deduction can be drawp from the court record's report which covers only a limited period of time. To form any exact est:mate of the ratio of crime between thefwhite race and the black, exhaustive stady and comparison would be necessary. But it may be taken tor granted that, if the juvenile ‘court's figures had showed a very large percentage of Negro crimirals, the fact would have been widely exploited. Common justice to the colored race de mands that attention be called to its xood records, when its bad ones never fail to excite comment."* Mr. Pace continued: “A comparison of the rural colored Fopulation will show that possibly over uiety per cent. of the property Bow owned by the Negroes has been accuma a by these who were either trained up in Slavery or grew up immediately shor the War, so that they recerved the beneficial effects of the habits of indus- try in which their race was at that time trained." What this statement bas to do with the subject under discussion, so far as i affects the progress.of the Negro is a mystery, He remarked: “* It will show in the next place that the proportion of convicts in the state pemtentiaries in the Southern stares from the Negroes 1s from 85 to 93 per cent. of the total number of convicts enfined. In Lovisdana the. proportion is 85 per cent. of ail state ciininals, In Alubama it is 85 4 per cent. In Florida, S64 per cent. In Mississ ppi it is v1 percent. In Georgia it is 90 per cenr., aud in South Carolina it is 9%.2-per cent. In the District of Columbia where the Negroes are assumed to have had exceptional advuntage and where possibly a certain elementof them are . 8 well off as anywhere in the countre, ‘mystery, He remarked: + It will show in the next place that the proportion of convicts in the state penitentiaries in the Southern stares from the Negroes 1s from 85 to 93 per ‘cent. of the total number of convicts confined. In Lovidana the proportion is 85 per cent. of ail state c:ininals, In Alubama it is 85 4 per cent. In Florida, S64 per cent, In Mississ ppt it is 91 percent. In Georgia it is 90 per cenr., ‘aud in South Carolina it is 93,2 per ‘cent. In the District of Columbia “where the Negroes ara assumed to have had exseprional advantage and where “possibly a certain elementof them are . 8 well off as anywhere in the country, they furnished a year or two ago, Sé ber cent. of the criminals. Of these convicts) more than nine:tenths have grown up since slavery was abolisiicu.” ‘The article previously cited is a reply ‘to the sweeping assertions of our friend from Virginia. The peonage .system, starvation wages, antagonism to educa- tion, unjast laws and the scandalous enforcement of them have caused nam- bers of Negroes to become desperate and care but little for the fatare. It 's ‘too a'very unfortunate fact that num. bers and very large numbers of the low, Aegraded, cray-shooting Negroes have Arifted North with the honest, intelli- gent, industrious ones, living from “hand to mouth,” and constitating a constant source of annoyance to the community in which they live as well asan ‘“‘eye-sore” and a hindrance to the hardworking colored people there, who are held responsible for their lawless conduct. The jails and penitentiaries were built for their kind and you cannot be too prompt in sending them there. But in the South-land, the innocent are often sentenced with the gailty and the failure tohave some prominent or well-known white man to speak for a prisoner means 9 long term in prison. But why should not the Negro be a criminal? Why shoul he not steal in view of his past training and cruel ap- prenticeship? a ‘The “Whites” worked him asa slave THE RICH VMOND*PLANET. RICHMOND vrreaormra for his victuals aud clothes. Hy ate the coarsest food and accepted the ronghest fare. Corn bread and fat moat were his daily mena, while shoat, pork-stealk, mutton, beef-steak and spring-chicken camic to the field-hand only when hecould raige courage to goon a scont aud es. ‘cape detection at the hands of the over seer or his trusty black man, Friday. If caught, the lash and a reprimand was his portion. If not caught, a good time anda full stomache belonged to him. It was a well understood rale among the slaves, clossly akin to the law that a wife cannot legally steal from her husband, that a master’s slave ‘could not wrongfully steal from his owner. Asa result, many a hen-roost has suffered and many a sheep-fold left in misery, while many a hog-pen shows an absentee that has not as yet been forgotten by the owner. It wasa long time before the Negro realized that the ownership of himself had been trans- ferred from his former master to him- ‘self, and asa result, he must quit steal ing or face the Jaw’s decrees. To er:- ‘phasize this phase of the discussion we have but to call attention to the ‘Tidionlous charges against the Negroes. ‘Someare charged with stealing her- ‘rings, valued at ten cents;a ham, yval- ‘ned at one dollar; a bag of flour, valued |at thirty-five cents; a poand of butter, \valued at thirty-cents and soon to the end of the chapter. But what do some of the Whites ‘steal? Let us see. Read the following ‘extracts from the Associated Press dis- patches and appearing in the daily [newspapers of June 8d, 1904: |_“New Haven, Conn., June 2.—A loss ‘of from $30,(00 to $60,000. through the ‘embezzlement of its funds by a trasted ‘employe, Douglass M. Smich, is_admit- ted by ‘the officers of the National | Cradesmen’s Bank, of this city. The | eaet loss is not yet known. Smith, who was paying and rweving teller of the b nk, has acknowledged voluntarily that he embezzled abont $30,000, and the greatest part of it, if not all, within the past eight or nine months.”” | “Baltimore, June 2.—Jesse B. Baker, a book-keeper formerly employed by the [National Howard Bank, of tais city, | was arrested at his home here to-day, ‘charged wich embezzlement. He ad- mitted that there was a shortage in his | accounts of between $10 000 and $12,000, | Baker disappeared two weeks ago and [went to St. Louis. He returned to Bal- “timore a few days ago and was arrested ‘and turned over to the United States authorities to-day. Commssioner Rog ers committed him in default of $10,000 boud."” “Washington, June 2,—Willard H. Myers, general book-keeper in the bank= ing department of the National vate Deposit, Savings and Trust Company, of this city, has disappeared. — He is al- leged to have appropriated to his own “use the proceeds of forty shares of a cer- tain stock valued at $7,000. Sixty ad jditional shares of the sume stock are | missing. Myers has been trusted ex _ploye of the insticution for twenty-three years. The market value of all the |stock he is alleged to have taken is about $17,500. Myers was uuder bond for $25,000."" __ Here are three white men, Mr. Pac, ‘the average peculations of whom as alleged amount to (359,500) fifty-nine ‘thousand, five hundred dollars, which amount exceeds the amount stolen by any twenty thousand Negroes set ,forch ‘in your criminal statistics. If three “white men stole this amount of money ‘what would twenty thousand of them st al? | Well might a fear be expressed, les: ‘they walk off with the National Capi- tal at Washington, the Treasury of the ‘United States and all of the surround. img values m the garden-spot of the Re- ‘public. That an effort bas been made to do ‘this very thing seems evident, if we are to believe the report of Mr. Bristow ‘and the ringing denunciation of former ‘dishonest officials by President Roose -vecr himself. Tt should be remembered that we have made no reference to the boodlers ‘of St Louis or to the official corruption which has been s0 often exposed in the sity of New York where money and its “worth ere thoroaghlv appreciated by the dishonest gentry of that locality. Bat enongh for this week. We shall take another whack at Mr. THowas Nrusox Pace’s theories in our next issue. Dying From Brutal Assault. Wilkesberre, Pa., Jone M4, — Hoary Ortwine, an wed former of Glen Lyon, near here, wos bratally a. ulted hy Martin Green and Is dying. He is stabbed In four places, his skull is fractured and one eye and a portion of his tongne cut out. The assanlt was in- spired by a quarrel. Green held the po- Nice at bay with a shot gun for some time, and the officers then had great difficulty in saving him from a mon which threatened him, Pennsy Lays Off More Men. Altoona, Pa., June 15.—Pour hun- dred more men were suspended by tre Pennsylvania railroad from thelr shops here. This brings the total laid of in the past month to 2700. The shovs were ordered to work but four days a week and cight hours a day, 5000 men being affected by the reduction In thme, All overtime is strictly prohibited. Widow Returns $1247 Pension Money. Washington, June 15.—Mrs. Martha M. Gray, of Marshall, Okla., has re- turned to the government $1247, which she illegally drew as a widow's pen- sion. Though divorced from her hus- band. Miles B. Gray, after his death she applied for and received a widow's pension, which she continued to draw for eight years. Restitution was made when the case was brought to the at. tention of the United States district at torney and she will not be prosecuted. ‘Two Workmen Buried Alive. Allentown, Pa., June 15. — Lewis Rothrock, aged 34 years, and Joseph Groman, aged 74 years, were instantly killed while at work in the sand pits owned by Jacob Frankenfields, at Rit tersville, Lehigh county, Pa. An em: bankment collapsed, and the men were suffocated under six feet of earth. Bach leaves a widow and five chil dren. BIG BATTLE - Japs Repelled in Desperate Attempt to Dislodge the Enemy. RUSSIAN LOSSES ARE REAVY St. Petersburg Believes Japanese Ad- vance North Has Received a Severe Check — Nineteen of Togo's Men Killed By Mine Off Port Arthur. St. Petersburg, June 15. — Emperor Nicholas has received the following telegram from Lieutenant General Baron Stakelberg, bearing yesterday's date: “A battle began at noon around the Russian position, 4% miles south of the, station of Wafanhoon (Vafan- gow?), the enemy making repeated at- tempts to dislodge our left flank. ‘The attack was repelled, and we retained our position. . “The first regiment, occupying the left flank of our position, sustained s2- Yere losses. Its commander, Colonel Khavastounoff, and adjutant, Sub- Lieutenant Dragoslaft_ Nadochinsky, were killed. General Gerngross was wounded, a shrapnel bullet. shattering the right side of his lower jaw, but he remained on the field.” ‘The general staff remained in session until almost 2 o'clock this morning to translate and give out Licutenant Gen- eral Baron Stakelberg's message an- nouncing the fight at Vafangow. This unusually Inte hour indicates that the authorities attach considerable im- Portance to the Jispatch. It is thought here that the Vafangow affair may prove to have been quite a heavy fight. The fact that the Rus- sians held their position In the face of heavy losses also supports this theory, and it is believed that it may turn out to be a severe check to the Japanese northern advance. ‘The movement of 3000 Japanese north of Kuan Dian Sian only adds to the blindness of the situation in the northeastern field of operations. It is unquestionable that the Cossacks have been worrying the Japanese north of Feng Wang Cheng, and the movement may be merely an effort to clear the country. At the same time this move- ment holds the possibility of a demon- stration against Mukden, one of the main roads leading directly east from Mukden toward the region to which the Japanese are now advancing. The consensus of opinion, however, fs that the advance is more in the na- ture of a demonstration than a pre- Mminary to an actual attack A special dispatch from Liao Yang, dated June 14, says: “Yesterday (Monday) at the battle of Vafangow Japanese troops numbor- ing 20,000 tried to pass our flank, but wore discovered. We changed our posl- tion, flanking the Japanese, and opened @ heavy fire, The result is unknown.” ‘The same correspondent in a later Aispateh says: “Today (Tuesday) the battle con- tines. ‘The Japanese have opened a heavy fire on our center, “On the night of June 12, southwest of Vafandian, the Cossacks came in contact with the Japanese and drove them from their position. We lost two men, The Japanese losses wore 18 men and 20 horses.” The date of the first dispatch does not agree with the Associated Press dispateh from Liao Yang or with Liew- tenant General Baron Stakelbera's message to the emperor, both of which indicate that the battle took place yes- terday (Tuesday). It ix thought Lu Probable that there have been two mainte” NINETEEN JAPS KILLED SY MINE Lost Their Lives Laying Deadly Ma- chine Off Port Arthur. Tokio, June 15.—While the Tathoku was engaged in laying mines at the entrance to Port Arthur Monday night a mine exploded, killing one officer and 18 men and wounding two officers and seve nmen, The ‘Taihoku, which is a naral transport, was not seriously damaged. ‘The officer killed was Lieutenant Commander Oda. He was the inventor of the Japanese mine, and by his great activity and skill thronghout the oper- ations before Port Artuur had added greatly to his reputation. The Tathoku at the time of the accident was under a heavy fire from the Russian forts and torpedo boats. Provisions For Pert Arthur Selaed. Chefoo, June 15.—A fleet of junks loaded with flour and rice for Port Ar- thur was sefzed off this port by the Japanese. ‘The Japanese have complained to the taoti of Chefoo that foreign mer- chants here are shipping goods to Port Arthur, and that the Russians have established at Chefoo a station for re- ceiving from Port Arthur wireless mes- sages. Evidences of the existence of this wireless station are lacking. SUBMARINE BOAT FOR RUSSIA It Is Now Said the Czar Has Purchased the Protector. Bridgeport, Conn., June 15. — The presence here of Commander Alexan- der Boutakof, naval attache of the Russian embassy, and Colonel Ras- popow, military attache of the Russian embassy at Washington, led to the Tumor that they were in Bridgeport for the purpose of consulting with the submarine boat company representa tives In regard to submarine boats. When the rumor wad followed up the statement was made by a stockholder ‘of the Lake company that the news- Paper articles concerning the shipping of the submarine boat Protector to Japan were wrong, and he intimated that the boat had really been pur- chased by the Russian government. He sald that the Lake company would ts. sue a statement In regard to the ship ping of the Protector later, and added: “You fellows (referring to the newspa. per men) have all been fooled." It became known here that the above mentioned Russian attaches have been nere for the past three weeks, and almost “every day they have been in communication with St. Petersburg. Cablegrams addressed to the Russian admiralty have been seen in this city and have been signed “Boutakoff.” RUSSIANS CAUGHT IN JAP TRAP — we Faee meres, They Are | Flanked at Pulantien. Newehwang, June 14.—Information “was received here through heretofore ‘reliable channels that part of the Japa- “nese force left at Pulantien to check- mate the Russians’ southward move- ment to relieve Port Arthur was at- tacked southeast of Shungnmao. After slight fighting the Japanese made false retreat, the Russians hotly fol- lowing them, when the Japanese made € flank movement, catching the Rus- sians in a trap. The Russian losses are placed at $00 men. ‘They then fell back on Gaichou and began to retreat along the Baimatgu Tsaichou road. About 2000 Russian infantry. from Kaluchon passed through Newchwang, accompanied by a large supply and hos- pital train. Several carts contained bandaged men. The troops appeared to be fagged out, and showed every in- ication of a long and forced march. The officers refused to furnish any in- formation, but a non-commissioned of- ficer told a correspondent of the Asso- elated Press that all the troops wore etreating from Tsafchou. Before he could say anything further he was rep rimanded by a captain. Stragglers are closely watched by non-commissioned officers to prevent them from talking. The fissians have abandoned the ground mines eight miles south of this place. A native messenger just In from the Russian camp east of here reports that there are many wounded men there. HITCH IN NEGOTIATIONS Release of Moorish Bandits’ Captives Delayed. Tangier, June 15.—A courier from Raisuli, the bandit chief who kidnappo ‘Messrs. Perdicaris and Varley, arrives here during the night. United States Consul General Gummere and the Bri- tish minister subsequently visited Mo- hammed El Torres, the representative of the sultan of Morocco, to discuss the contents of Raisuli's message. It is now thought possible that the captives will not be released this week. ‘The British minister says there is a hitch in the negotiations which will probably delay the release of the pris- oners, but he refuses to state the na- ture of the difficulty. It is reported that great uneasiness Is felt at Fez, on account of an offer made by one Kald, who is some 2¢ miles distant from Fez, of $2000 for the capture of any Christian tn order that he may exchange him for tis brother, who is a prisoner, CALLS DECLARATION FALSE Chicagoan Says It Is the Work of In: aie Minnick: Chicago, June 14. — Dr. Frank W. Gunsauins has delivered the bacca- laureate address at the Auditorium te the graduating class of Armour Instt- inte, “There was never a more interesting falsehood that ‘all men are created free and equal,’ sald he, “The Declaration of Independence was the work of Intense exettement, and on every national anniversary this phrase is misquoted, because when It is taker from its context it is false, “Freedom Is something to be won Men are not born free. Every power in to whose control a man comes isa con- quered freedom. There are no equals In this universe of God's. God fs nc Socialist.” Elected President of U. of V. Charlottesville, Va. June 15,—Ra- “win A. Alderman, prestdent of Tulane University, the leading educational i:- stitation of the Guif states, was unani- mously elected the first president of the University of Virginia by the board of visitors, the governing body of Une Institution. While no notice of ac- ceptance has been as yet received from Dr. Alderman in answer to the notit- -eation of election, it is not believed ae will decline. His official duties wit begin in September, at the opening of the university. MOODY TO SUCCEED KNOX Resignation of Attorney General Will ‘Dion Ger Banded th. Washington, June 15.—Although At- torney General Knox refuses cither to leny or amirm the statement, {tts learned from a bigh source that it fs his intention to retire from the cabinet eae ESAS x “ f ae fae ee A 1 Gates “# i Sea nett F | fi i See i ge MI be eee ANG - ge Fe. as Sa a) ph EN wy " A AR // , GENES \ ONY “ay ate 7 Wrintiat m. qoopy, SECRETARY oF Tm DY, ox within the next few days, or as soon as his appointment as a United States senator is received from Governor Pennypacker. He will be succeeded by Mr. Moody, the present secretary of the Davy. 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Montreal, June 12-—The Richelieu and Ontario Navigation company’s steamer Canada, bound from Quebec for Montrealc, came into collision with the Dominion coal company’s colller Cape Breton six miles below Sorel. ‘Twenty minutes later the Canada went to the bottom. At the ume of the colll- sion there were 110 people on board the Canada, Five were lost; the others were rescued. Tho shock of the collision aroused the sleeping passengers, The Canada at once hezan to settle, and as the Cape Breton did not appear to be seriously damaged, the passengers were hurried- ly transferred to that steamer. In the excitement some of the passengers Jumped overboard: and were picked 1p by the boats from. the Canada and the Cape Breton, but a great majority of those on board did’not become excited, while the discipline shown by the crew of the Canada was excellent. Twenty minutes later, when the Can- ada went down alongside the Cape Bre- ton, resting on her side in the mud, all the passengers who could be found had been transferred. ‘Thibault and his two sons occupied a stateroom near whrre the Cape Breton’s bow entered the Can- ada, and it is supposed that they were Killed in their berths. The body of the father was recovered later in the day, but the remains of the two sons have not been found, GOT A $1,100,000 VERDICT Jury Awards Big Gum As Commission For Selling a Railroad. New York, June 15.—A verdict for $1,000,000, with interest for one year and 11 months, making a total of $1,- 100,000, was returned by a jury in the suit of Morris Menges against General Louis Fitzgerald for services rendered in bringing about the sale of the West- ern Maryland railroad to a syndicate, ‘The case has been on trial for several days, George Gould and other promi- nent capitalists appearing as wit- nesses, ‘The ease will be appealed and the Judgment will be contested through all the higher courts. Immediately after the announcement of the verdict coun- sel made a motion for a new trial and a stay of i) days. Justice Spencer de- nied the motion for a new trial, but granted the stay. BIG FIGHT POSTPONED Owing to Injuries to Jeffries’ Knee Bout Is Put Off Until June 30. San Francisco, June 14.—Owing to, the injury to Jeffries’ knee, the Jeffries and Munro fight will be postponed, Delaney, wired from Harbin Sprinss that the champion would not be ready until June 24. Manager Coffroth, of the Yosemite Club, announced that the fight would take place June 30, Double Tragedy at Lewistown, Pa. Lewistown, Pa., June 15.— William A. Sheaffer, aged 34 years, shot and killed his mistress, Flora Wagner, for- merly of Harrisburg, and then blew out his own brains. Inmates of the house say that the cause of the tragedy was Jealousy on the part of Sheaffer. The latter, who was fogmerly a saloon- keeper in Slingsville, ©., came here six months ago with the woman to open a house of ill-repute. The Wagner wom- an had been corresponding with a man living in Three Springs, Huntingdon county, Pa., to which Sheaffer objected. Last night she received another lett»r, and a quarrel followed, which ended in the shooting. Cape May Editor Drowned. Cape, May, N. J, June 13—B. A. Streavig, aged about 30 years, editor of the Cape May Wave, was drowned in the ocean here. He was bathing with three friends. He got beyond his depth, and while trying to sim was taken with cramps. His home was ia Hanover, Pa Keroline THE GREAT HAIR RESTORER, It is the only thing in the world that will grow straight hair on colored peo- ples head, not straighten it bet grow it and then it will stay so. For it contains the ingredients to do it. It is- superior to any other hair remedy known. The prescription came from East India, un- known to the American people ‘alto- gether. Did you ever see an East India man, regardless of his color with any- thing but straight hair? Its what they use and that’s KEROLENE. Price $1.00 for 12 oz. box. Address: Wittam RusskELL, 18 Winchester St., Winchester, Mass, ARRESTED THE WRONG MAN Stout Mechanic Makes Vigor cust igh# Bofore Béiry Contined in | Almshouse Cell. Battered, half smothered, fighting Angry, with energetic fists and heer, Jobn Kalaher, a well-to-do mechani of Waterbury, Conn., was put into the padded cell at the almshouse by Poe licemen Michael and. John Sulilvam who, being stout and not so active as they once were, are on the reserve force. Their task done, they sat down and breathed heavily in unison. “Poor fellow,” said Policeman Mi« chael, “he's plum daffy.” “You're a Hart” howled Kalaher from behind the padded bars, “Only sane in little streaks," said Policeman John. "Gee, don’t’ these crazy fellows fight, though?" “I ain't crazy,” howled raging Kala her, “and you're @ lot of fools.” “They always carry on like that,” commented the Suilivans. A moment later Keeper Moran, whe had arrived, was apologizing to the re- a oN iy | is = 4 4) z - LIRA es 6/4 OY er wk HIS ! a mn ys ai ee WL ig TH Tent ih A we Vi Ue VE Na, Feased Kalaber and enthusiastically confirming that centl'man's opinion of the astonished poile-men. It seme that John Kalaher, Jr, had been met Ing strangely, and his physicians tele phoned to che police to take him to the almshouse, The Sullivans went to his home and asked for Kalaher, “That's him,” answered a little girl pointing to her father, and the Sule livans effected a gallant capture. “We took him up like a genteman fn a hack, but he smashed all the glass and knocked out John's” best front teeth,” said Michael Sullivan, “anyway, We got.the right man the second time we tried, and you can’t expect detective werk out of bounced patrolmen, anyway.” 1 Agreed. : His Mother (io Willie, who came from schoo! crying) —What ts the mate ter with mamma's poor little lamb? Willie—Teacher called me a muttone head. —Clevelund Leader, j It All Depends.” t “Do you consider two heads better than one?” asi.ed the Ludlow youth, “Not in the same Tumily,” answered the Camminsvilie sage—Cincinmaty Wacutver, THE PLANET SATURDAY ..... JUNE 18, 1904 LITTLE CHIEF LAUGH-A-HEAP Behind the chair there links a brave— But that is not a chair! I want to be a chair. And he is watching me. He waits, the cunning, wily foe, And sings a war song deep While craftily he crouches low— Bold little Laugh-a-Heap. A feather duster on his head— Hiss! Would you meet your doom? Would you meet your bounds of red Are Laugh-a-Heap's war plume. The wooden dagger in his hand— Ah, no. A gleaming knife With which he means to make his stance And leap into the strife. And yonder is a hobby horse— A hobby horse, indeed! You would have with remorse Not to have known that steed. It is the faithful thoroughbred On which our chieftain rides. Observe the proudness of its head And note its well-groomed sides. Why, here's a boy upon the floor— Hush! Wearied with the fight The warrior could strive no more rest. The smiles still linger round his eyes And laugh dreams fill his sleep; War weary, battle worn, he lies, Brave little Laugh-a-Heap. -W. D. N., in Chicago Daily Tribune. A SCHEME THAT FAILED By HATTIE PRESTON RIDER (Copyright, 1904, by Daily Story Pub. Co.) YOU wish a loan of $5,000, then! What security can you give? The pale eyes of the visitor shifted uneasily. "A mortgage on a farm in Kent county; as fine a quarter section as ever lay out doors." Burdick looked him over keenly. "A first mortgage, of course. I know Kent county. What is your name?" "Bummett Warren." The visitor pronounced the words almost brazenly, it seemed to Burdick. He started slightly, flushing under his clear brown skin. "Not the Warrens of Orton township? You are not—John Warren's son?" "His only child," the young man nodded eager affirmation. "My father died four years ago. The farm was willed to me." Burdick's pen clattered to the floor. He stooped to recover it. When he straightened up there was a queer, drawn look on his face. "Your mother—" he paused. Young Warren set the tips of his slim, unfarmerly fingers together. "Mother has—ahem—no control of the property," he said, smoothly. "I attend to everything. The farm is in my name." Burdick's face cleared. Then he frowned. "Do you mean that your father left his wife dependent?" he asked, sternly. The confirmed bachelor had ideas of his own concerning such matters. "Are you married?" He looked his client over with cold, critical dislike. The latter ST. MARGARET'S HOUSE "HE WENT UP THE FLAGGED WALK, LOOKING KEENLY AROUND HIM." flinched under the disconcerting gaze. He had sought the money-lender as an absolute stranger; yet the man evidently knew his people—more than that, was catechizing him like a Sunday school teacher. "I have a wife and two children," he answered, with smooth irony. "I am of legal age, and, I believe, of a sound mind; therefore qualified to transact business. However, if you decide to loan me the money, I can probably get my mother's signature to whatever is necessary." "The place is good for it," said Willard Burdick, passing his visitor's rudeness unheedingly. "I must see the title, though, and an abstract, if you have it, also the original of your father's will. Your mother lives with you, I suppose?" A dull flush stained young Warren's face. "She is in Ridgetown, just at present," he evaded, stiffly. The lawyer raised his brows; but he only asked: "Her address, please?" Bimnett Warren turned a dozen colors, cursing vigorously under his breath, as his questioner wrote down from his dictation: "No. 156 Collins street," and folded the paper inside a corpulent pocket book. Gad! What danger was this he had run his head into so neatly? Burdick was leaving him not a loop-hole of retreat. The friends take Homes, that he should have dropped off just at this juncture! Well! At least the dead claim no share in any spoils! Luck had stood by him so far. There was a chance he might still bluff his game through. The money once safe in his hands—yes, there were better places of residence, even, than Kent county. “Bring the papers to-morrow, at this hour, if it suits you,” he heard Burdick saying. Then he got up, and almost without a word took his departure. Under the long line of maples in front of 156 Collins street, two days later, Burdick hitched his span of bays. Emmett Warren had come and gone, but the interview had not progressed exactly as the young worthy hoped. Burdick smiled grimly as he thought of it, and then frowned with pain. It was Marcia's son; and his own task to tell her the story. He went up the flagged walk, looking keenly about him. Over the door of the plain brick building was cut the leg: The rich money lender drew down the corners of his mouth. A retreat for old ladies! On a poplar tree in his father's pasture his own name and Marcia Barber's were cut, and their birth dates. She was his junior by three years; and he was 54. A faded little woman showed him to the neat reception room. Yes, Mrs. Warren was in. He walked back and forth restlessly, while the gentle waitress took his message. A few moments later, when the door opened softly, his heart beats were so thick he could not have spoken to save his life. Thin and worn, with frost touches on her brown hair, she stood there; but it was his lost sweetheart of 30 years ago that looked at him out of her hazel eyes. As she paused an instant in puzzled unrecognition, Burdick took long strides toward her. "Martial!" he cried, holding out both hands. "Great Heavens! If I had imagined—why on earth didn't you come to see me?" She stepped back with a surprised exclamation; then a girlish color suffused her face. She put out her hands impulsively, instantly withdrawing them again. But it was too late. Burdick had them both securely in his. He led her to the sofa, and sat down beside her. "Do you mean to tell me you live here?" he asked, sternly. Sensitive tears sprang to her eyes. "Yes, Willard. It seemed—better." she faltered. "Everything went to Emmet; and I could not be a burden." He restrained some forceful words. "Your son came to me two days ago, to obtain a loan of $5,000 on the farm. He is very unlike you, Marcia. Do you mean to tell me that your husband left him absolutely everything?" He was watching her narrowly, for a clew to put his news with gentleness. "Everything," she answered, quietly. "Emmett is not my child, though, Willard; he is a relative of John's first wife. He was not even adopted; but he lived with us, and uses our name. I never knew of the will, till Emmett's lawyer brought it. I signed the papers because they insisted upon it. I did not know. I never had any head for business," smiling tremulously. "I supposed there was at least a living for me. But Emmett and his wife understood differently. So I took the two hundred I had in the bank, and came here." Burdick leaned back, almost giddy with relief. No son of hers! Thank God! "What if I were to tell you, Marcia," he said, at last, slowly, "that your signatures under compulsion are not worth a straw, that the will itself was forged, and that I have Emmett Warren's sworn abdication of every claim on your husband's property, while you live?" White as a ghost, she shared at him in dumb unbelief. "It is not true, Willard?" "It is true," he answered. "Your home is your own again. There will be no scandal; the rascal was glad enough to capitulate, when he was faced with proofs—and I had them. But—" he leaned over, a great light leaping into his eyes—"that was not the real business that brought me to see you, Marcia. Do you remember the old poplar down in the pasture? I saw it last summer. The two names I cut in the bark have grown into one. Was it an omen? Dear, the place you left vacant waits for you still. Will you take it again?" Once more the soft color flooded her thin cheek. "Oh, Willard!" she began; but Burdick's big arm was around her, and he had drawn her close to his shoulder. "We must never quarrel again, sweet-heart. Great Heavens! Was it all a wretched dream, I wonder. It's never 30 years since I held you—and kissed you—this way!" NEW SPLINT IN SURGERY. Invention Enables Person with Broken Leg to Go About Business a Few Days After Accident. A series of interesting experiments have recently been made at the London hospital with new splints which enable a person with a broken leg or thigh to go about his business within a few days of his accident. The invention hails from the continent, where it has been in use for some years. The principle of the splint is that round the seat of the fracture is fastened a hardened leather case, which fits the leg closely everywhere and prevents any movement of the fractured bone. 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Nashville, Tenn., June 14—Nashville is crowded with visitors, veterans and delegates to the 14th annual reunion of the United Confederate Veterans, which opened officially today. There are delegates present from as far north as Montana. The convention was called to order in the Tabernacle by General G. W. Gordon, of Memphis, as department commander, and after several welcoming speeches the acting commander-in-chief, Lieutenant General Stephen D Lee, delivered his address. The battle abbey committee submitted its report to the convention for its action. The report shows that the treasurer has in hand nearly $106,000 in cash. In addition thereto there is the gift of the city of Richmond, $50,000; subscriptions collectable, $10,000; balance due from Charles Broadway Rouss, $40,000. This latter amount is payable any time. This makes the total money available for the erection of the abbey $206,000. The committee is trying to raise $300,000, but the work can begin any time now with the money on hand. The exact date for beginning the work, however, has not been decided. The suit against J. W. Underwood, the report says, is still pending. The difference between Mr. Underwood and the abbey trustees arises as to the amount due the abbey committee from the amount collected by Mr. Underwood. Mr. Underwood was removed as chairman two years ago and was succeeded by Dr. J. William Jones of Richmond. The committee says that more funds will be raised as soon as possible to establish a complete library of American, and especially southern, history, which will become a part of the abbey, and Dr. Jones, superintendent of the abbey, will make trips through the south to raise money. The historical committee submitted a report to the camp, setting forth the congratulations of the committee to the south on the reforms made in histories, in which the south, it is declared, is now much more fairly treated by authors than formerly. This committee also reported on the battleflag matter, holding that the battleflag is square, with cross-lines from corner to corner. The contention of many has been that the flag was oblong instead of square. The report of the committee on the treatment of prisoners during the war shows that in all instances humane treatment was given federal prisoners. A large amount of data on this subject has been collected, and it is probable that the committee will continue its investigations another year, when a final report will be made. Tomorrow there will be another business session, and on Thursday the veterans will have their parade. It seems to be the general impression that General Lee will be elected unanimously to succeed General John B. 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Wanamaker, one of the best known clothing dealers in Philadelphia, died suddenly of heart failure. He was a brother of ex-Postmaster General John Wanamaker. The home of Henry Suthern, Maggard, Ky., was destroyed by fire and all the occupants perished, the charred remains of Mr. and Mrs. Suthern and their daughter being found by neighbors. Saturday, June 11. Eighteen buildings were destroyed by fire at Nahma, Mich., entailing a loss of $75,000. Lawrence Hutton, the well-known author and essayist, died at Princeton, N. J., aged 61 years. The Standard Oil company has reduced the price of all grades of refined oil one-half cent a gallon. John Mitchell, president of the Mine Workers' Union, sailed for Europe to study the labor and industrial situation there. Miss Lena Morton, daughter of Levi P, Morton, of New York, died in Paris of blood poisoning, following an operation for appendicitis. Monday, June 13. Paid admissions to the World's Fair at St. Louis for May totaled 542,028. The New Jersey Editorial Association enjoyed an outing to Mount Pocono, Pa. Mrs. Maria Cooper, colored, born a slave at Winchester, Va., died at Washington, Pa., aged 110 years. While whipping his wife at Norton, Kan., A. C. Jenkins was shot to death by his 11-year-old daughter. By the explosion of a dyeing machine, two Chicago workmen who were bending over it were literally torn to atoms. E. J. Robinson, of Scranton, Pa., former city treasurer and controller MAKES MEN VIGOROUS. Valuable Prescription by Which Any Man Can Make His Own Remedy to Cure Himself at Home Sent Free to All. Write for it. WILL MAKE A MAN OF YOU. For the return of that youthful feeling of manhood a prominent Detroit physician and savant is in possession of a receipt which he has America's Greatest Specialist. himself used in his own extensive private practice with the most startling success. 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A. 1108 East Main St. Richmond, Va. 6 AG 2 Se 7 | ee IC ALN a i EN ie Hepa ER: 4 ed Sy SS 3 = We BATURDAY, .... .... JUNE 18, 1903 —SeL FAR Makzaitel encase AND IGARDEN LITTLE YALK ON SCIENCE. iabed [taputaing caaducscca tei, he Obtained Without Spending be Much Money. | 2. Good connection of a lightning tod to ground is a prime necessity in lightning rod construction, \ 2. The experimental and theoreti- cal study of the transmission of rapid electrical oscillations, and of abrupt electrical pulses along wires or rods has led to the reevgnition of the fol- lowing facts: (a) Straightness and directness of path to earth is the most important condition in so far as the arrangement or the rod is concerned. (») A given weight of metal is a more effective carrier of rapid electri. cal cscillations and of abrupt electri- \ ‘ree See a a8 | owe | ———— = oa! bie ae tal pulses when it is in the form of ribbon, thin-walled tube, or cable than when it ts in the form of a solid rod. % If the path along the rod to round is roundabout, ten the more direct through the protected (2) struc ture is apt to be chosen by the elec trical discharge notwithstanding the poor electrical conductivity of this di- rect path, and in spite of any or inary degree of insulation of the rod. 4. ‘The arrangement shown in the sccompanying sketch affords very dj- rect communication to earth from the regions pp pp, which regions there: fore are to be considered as well pro: tected. On the other hand the ground com. Tunication from the region dd is un necessarily roundabout and this region aa is therefore unnecessarily exposed to danger. Given a good ground con: nection, then directness of path to ground from the region which Is to be protected is so important that the mat- ter of insulating the rod from the building either by air spaces or by glass Is of no importance whatever in comparison. Tf the path is direct ‘there fs no need of insulotion and if the path {s roundabout etective insu Jatlon is not practically feasible.—W. & Franklin, in Rural New Yorker, Boil for Growing Apples. A good fertile roil, porous, loamy, with plenty of humus, potash and Lime, 20 as to give fair to Food crops of grain or grass, is the most to be desired, while the nearest approach to these requirements would be my next cholce—a soil that dries out quickly, so that itcan be plgwed soon after a rain, one that Works easily, so as to get the dest results with the least labor; a foil that will give a good crop of corn while ‘we are growing the trees; a soil that will not bake too easily, is the one that is always desirable. Now comes a rocky or gravelly soll, which is nearly always good, the only drawback being that it takes more work to get results. These soils are found in abundance In all our mountain districts, and nearly always they are good fruit soils—L. A. Good- man, In Farmers’ Review, Provide for Good Drainage. ‘The past two seasons have been wet ones. A large amount of snow fell the past winter. This spring the ground will be thoroughly soaked. What the stmmer weather will be is of course a guess, but it Is safe to provide for thorough drainage, as this work will result in better crops in either a wet or a dry season. If wet, the best of vilng and surface drainage will be nec- essary, Plars should be made early. ‘The Idea that thorough drainage is. un- necessary has been pretty effectually dissipated. If the season is very dry, the land will stand the drouth better for having been well drained. For best results any searon. plan to drain your farm as thoromghly as possible — Orange Judd Farmer. Study in Wheat Culture, Mr. A.D. Hall, of England, who has experimented extensively in wheat cul- ture, has come to the corelusion that a great deal depends upon the time of cutting, When green wheat begins to swell the first thing that comes Into it ts albumen, and the last pact ing fs al- ‘most pure starch. If, therefore, it is possible to shorten the ripening period and prevent the starch element from entering the grain. the grain must of necessity be much stronger. Mr. Hall 4s inclined to the opinion that tarmers would do weil to cut wheat white it fe Yet In a creen state, as by so Coing they will get the grain richer in nitrogenous elements and richer in gliten—a stronger wheat in fact. Plenty of Work Promised. No man in the United States nece sto be without work cutie the coming sum- mer if he is able hocled and willing to Isbor. The harvest firles of Nebrasta. Missouri, Kansas, lowa, Minnesota, Ok- lahoma and South Dakots will need at Teast 45,000 hands, The Western Asso- ciation of Free Employment bureaus ‘ives out this information. The sever states coverad have a grain area of 37.~ 997,722 acres, and a total grain produc ton of 692,088,444 bushels. WHAT FARMERS NEED MOST Sensible, Practical Education, to Be Continued Through Life by Constant Study. The farmer's greatest need is educa- tion. He should have as good educa- flon as our public schools can give as 4 foundation for the special knowledge of the different branches of farming which he pursues. The farmer needs to read and study more than he does. It is not uncommon to hear farmers so discuss matters pertaining to their hus- bandry that (it is clearly evident that they are uninformedabout things which ‘they should understatid in order to get ‘the best returns for money and labor expended. In the United States there is no ex- cuse for farmers to be without consid- erable knowledge of farming in its dif- ferent branches. Our federal govern- ment does # great amount of investiga- tion, the result of which is given gratis to every one. The different states have agricultural colleges and experiment Stations, where investigations and ex- periments are constantly carried on, and in different ways do those insti- tutions seek to interest the farmers in ‘their work that they may learn the truths which science has revealed. The farmer must be able to see which-erops ‘Will, as a rule, be most beneficial for him to raise. “He must understand what different crops require in order to yield the most, and he should know how to so work his land that it grad- ually will come to be in the best con- dition, and he neees to understand how to maintain it so. ‘The farmer also needs to Know how to feed and care for his animals: krow the:value of the different feeds he uses and their effects on the different animals In the differ- ent stages of the’r lives, so as to get the best returns for what he expends Knowing these things; 1t will not be diMeult to produce in abundance. There heed not be such a thing as an aban- doned farm because it Is exhausted ‘The farmer also needs to know how to market his nrodnce. Having ace uired the Fnowledee and wor'ed dili- Sently and proés-ed in abundance, the farmer still stands hopeless: he cannot market his prodvee at any time, when the markets harnen to be the hest the roads are often imnnssable. One of the Ereatest needs of the farmer is good roads. The lose to the nation from having bad oats $s incommntadte. Good roads benefit every class of peo. ple, directly or indirectly. We are werlthy enough to bnild good ‘roads: the farmer atone should not build them: With better knowledze of farming and good roads we won!d have a far better country than we have. Our pe- cuniary.cirevmstances would be greatly tmrroved. There wonld he ereater so- sind!" and more contentment among the formers. lee: coneestion In the cities and Sioher jnteltacta: this wont Very materi-"» help to eni@e the na- Hon sovely thesseh natiticalcamnstena, Only the wnizformed can be misted Let vx aconire nowledge and work Faithtuny. With erod roads. produc, tive soll and abuntont resnveces we can prosver as ro other nation on earth —N © Jorrensen, in N.Y. Trl bune-Farmer. EXCELLENT CLOD CRUSHER. ‘The One Here Described Is Much More Effective Than the Type Now in General Use. Tn many sections the preparing of ground fer plantinz fs a difieult prob Tem. If a clod cracker Is used do not have it with a flat crushing surface. The one in the Lluctration, with sev- oO ae —S— CLOD CAUSHER. eral crushing edges, is much more ef- fective, It is made of two inch hard lumber eight Inches wide, and about even feet long. The boards are held in place by three strips Of iron one half inch thick and three inches wide, Dent Into notches two Inches deep and six inches long, excort the Inst one be hind, which is to be eight inches long Any blacksmith can do this work. The boards are bolte} fa-t to the ron trips with the head anterneath, As the boards ere whtor than the notches they will ovetan two inches, Twe pieces of fron wit rings in the end Are bolted to the front hoard three or four feet apart, for the purpose ot hitching with a eba'n. Comfort may be added by attaching a seat from some old machinery.—A. Franklin Bhull, In Orange Judd Parmer. ‘How to Handle Barb Wire, Wire fence is the fence of the present day, and Ilely to be for some years to come. A farmer often wishes to move a string of barb wire fence to some other place. To do so is 2 job that tries the Patience and cuts thehands, Let metel! you how to handie it and have no more trouble, Take the spool on which the wire was originally rolled, run a good, ftrong, smooth stick through it and drive a wedge in firmly at one end to keep the spool from turning on stick; now fix a crank firmly to one end of your stick and fasten one end of wire to the spool. Two men take old of the stick, the right-hand man holding the stick with his left hand, aud turning the crank with his right hand. Walk right along and ‘you will be suprised how easily and rap- idly youcan take up wire. A little differ- ent form of spool and a crank on each end will take up woven wire the same as barb.—Farm Journal. Many otherwise good poultry folks fail to recognize the value of plenty of pure water for fewls. = Did His Worst. ‘Now do your worst!” the hero cried Unto the villain bold ‘They saw-him act, and then they sighed, “He did as he was tod!” —Washington Star. THE RIGHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND. VIRGINTA. OO _ _—_—uwvmmmn= WE INVITE THE ATTENTION OF THE PUBLIC TO ouR——————_———____. it is thoroughl i jel i int Wi ; 1. "opes Note and Enos eee is ighly equipped Cards, Policies, both straight We print Wedding Invita- opes, Note a to do all kinds of printing on life and benevolent, Physi- tions, and High Class Sta- Bill-heads, eerie oe short notice. 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She ix morely an audience.” Washington Star. Rather Hard on Him. He—Do you believe, Miss Sweetlips, that we men desended from apes? She—I think perhaps some of you did, but a great number don’t seem to have moved at all.—Ally Sloper The Modern Answer. She—If I should die, would you soon forget me? He—What a foolish question! Have I not taken the full course of the “Memory - tanght - by-covrespon-dence schoo! ?*—Puck Proud of Bake. | Mother Sniie-—t feel very proud, papa. Father Snale—Why, my dear? “Oh, baby wizeled across the floor for the first time to-day!"—Yonkers Statesman, A Natural Understanding. He was nsec up ix polities,” “Yes?” “Yes; but he's out now.” “Indeed? Did he escape, or was he pardoned ?”—Catholle . Standard and Times. ‘The Same Thing. Dashaway—You don't mem to say that Clinker called you an ass? Cleverton—Well, it amounted to the same thing. H® said you and I were tarred with the same stick—Brooklyn Eagle. ‘Two Methods. First Office Boy—So yer thrown up yer job, did yer? Before or after? Second Office Boy—Before or after what? First Office Boy—Getting fired. — Puck. : Tiny Farms. In the province of Samara, Russia, 495,000 persons get their substance from lec. ‘han three acres of land per capita, wits, Bieiek Wasenve.: The government has already taken one-fourth of all (he land in Oregon aud turned it into a forest reservation. Rank: An inordinate fondness for titles may be correctly characterized 28 rank fool- ishness.—N. O. Times-Democrat. Agree with Him. Any man will have a good opinion of you if you will alwsys agree with him.—Chicago Daily News. BRS. P. 6. EASLBY 615 N. Second St. ICE CREAM, CONPECTIONARIES —— CAKES, Ere, ; — OF Lawn ava Pinto Parnes, Fee vals, Weddings ete. furnished wi the best high rade toe Oream « the Shortest Notice, Satistcation Gearanteed Tamoe, COCTOOR ONTOS SSRN SESS IEO ISRO TERK. 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ROBINSOK, ~ ‘NO. 23 NORTH 18TH ST, FINE WINES, LIQUORS, | CIGARS, &c. 8@F"All Stock Sold as Guaranteed.“ *PROMPT ATTENTION. Your patronage is respecttully solicited. JOHN M. HIGGINS, CHOICE GROCERIES, WINES LIQUORS, AND CIGARS. PURE GOODS, FULL VALUE FOR THE MONEY. 4640 East Franklin Street, . [Near Old Market] 6 RicuMORD, - - = Vrrconma Se oma ~ Iw ROEaUlR NES a ANG) iP STS S a =) . ee es BATURDAY .... .... JUNE 18, 190/ D) OULTR \y7 Gag oP ay AND “gs 7 ee Fis CY OBEES ‘EDING SMALL CHICKENS, food Placed in the Trough Here De- scribed Will Be Kept Clean Un- til It Is Consumed. Chicks do not require food for the st 24 to 36 hours after hatching. One ‘of the best foods that can be fed the iret few days is stale bread slightly oistened With milk. This should be rumbled fine and placed where the hicks have free access to it, so they ot step on it. If placed on the floor r on a board, the larger part of the food fee! be trampled upon, and soon becomes fit to eat. A simple and efficient feeding trough SS —— : &— SS SS eenuGit BOK EE SEG ae. ‘may be made by tacking a piece of tin or galvanized iron about three and one- pialf inches wide, and of any length de- sired along the edge of a half-inch board, so that the tin projects about one and ‘one-half inches on each side. Bend this Up so as to form a shallow trough, and fasten the board to blocks which raise it an inch above the floor, as shown in the accompanying figure. This trough may be from one to three feet long. Itis within easy reach of the chickens, and £0 narrow that they cannot stand upon the edges. The food placed in such troughs will be kept clean until con- sumed, Granulated oats with the hulls re- moved make an excellent food for young chicks. There is perhaps no better grain food for them than oats prepared in this manner. Ti may be fed to good ad- vantage after the second and third day in connection with the bread. The chicks should have free access to some kind -of grit after the first day.—Walter Kin- ney, in Farm and Home, BEES HONOR THEIR QUEEN. Every Insect in the Hive Pays Hom- age and Obedience to Its Stately Sovereign. ‘The queen is a fair and stately deo, 4iffering from workers In shape and color; she is longer than a honey-bee by one-third, and somewhat longer than a drone, but not quite so big around. The queen Is treated with the greatest respect and aftnction by the dees. A circle of her offspring often surround her, testifying in various ways their dutiful regard, offering her food from time to time, and all of them politely backing out of her way to give her a clear path when she moves over the combs, So strong is the feeling of the workers for the queen, that if for any reason she is removed, the whole colony Is filled with consternation and dismay. Her death, when it is too late in the season to raise another queen, means the final extinction of the col- ony. A good queen will sometimes lay from 2,000 to 3,000 eggs a day, or nearly the weight of her own body, and continue doing it for weeks in succes- sion, Beginning the season, the queen lays eggs in the worker cells. She walks over the combs, puts her head {nto each open cell as she somes to it, as though to discover whether it is oc- cupied, or in fit condition to receive an egg. She will only sting other queens, and may be handled to any ex- tent without fear of being stung.—Mid- land Farmer. ‘Wesdine Meat to Poultry. ‘We have raised poultry for years, and have fed meat in various ways; have tried many experiments; and after all our work we really cannot Say that meat food is a valuable egg Producer, or that it increases the fer- Ullty of the eggs. Where fowls are con- fined in pens, meat food is more necessary than where they have a large range; and we think crushed green bone is the best form of meat food. Where fowls have range they do not suffer for meat food. Pure water in abundance, grain and green food are needed to make pouliry pay. A variety of grains and green or succulent foods are far more more important than meat.— Farmers’ Review. Good Word for the Duck. It is passing strange that people in the west do not give more attention to ducks, both for market and for the fancy. The duck is much more easily raised than the chick and is not near- ly as liable to be carried off by dis- ease. Then again, there is always @ Good market for ducks, and that, too, near the home of almost any one who Falses poultry. If it is not desirable to raise them exclusively they ean be with much less care. Once a duek Faised as a side line to chickens, and Gets a siart in life he will make his own way and no thanks to anyone.—In- Jand Poultry Journal. Old Combs in New Frames, In putting old comb in new frames, gee that you get them right edge ‘up, Just as they hung in the old hive. ‘The threads used for winding the frames should be taken out in a day or two; the bees will then have fastened the old ‘comb to the bars, Comb too small to fill a whole frame can be put in in pioces, and it is wonderful how tlie bees ‘will fit them together so nicely, that It ts hardly possible to detect that you ever had your clumsy hands on them.— Prairie Farmer. HOW TO PACK AWAY EGGS. Preservation in Water Glass Is a Method Highly Favored by {| Reliable Authorities. . The most simple and efficient method of preserving eggs for several months 4s by covering them with a solution of ‘water glass. This preparation has been tested by various experiment stations and has proved to be the best of any ‘methods yet discovered, except artifi- {clal cdid storage. It is being used to some extent in a commercial way, as well as by many farmers and house- ‘keepers who wish to pack away egg in spring when they are cheap and plenty for use during the fall and winter months. Strictly fresh, clean eggs are neces- sary to put down. Stale or dirty eggs ‘Will not keep well. Eggs chould not be washed. They should bo packed, pref- erably small end down, in a stone jar or other suitable vessel, which should de placed in a cool, dark place. To ten or 15 quarts of water, which has been dolled and cooled, add one quart water glass (sodium silicate), which may be obtained of most druggists. A good grade of water glass should be used. ‘The vessel should be kept tightly cov- ered to prevent evaporation. if the eggs are kept in too warm a place the silicate is deposited and the eggs are not properly protected. The solution may be prepared, placed Ia the Jar and fresh exes added from time to time un- til the Jar is full, but be sure that there is fully two inches of the solution cov- ering the ezss. ‘The eggs may be taken out from time to time as needed. They may be covered with a jelly-itke solution, which is easily washed off. All packed exes contain a little gas, and in boiling the shell will crack. This may be pre- vented by making a pinhole in_ the large end of the egg before cooking. One farmer in Maine reporis preserv- ing 6,000 dozen exes last season by this method. He sold them in Decem- ber and January and received the same price that strictly fresh eggs sold for. While eggs preserved In this way arc not as good as new-laid eggs, they are Detter than the usual tun of fresh stock to be had at the stores.—Orange Joad Farmer. re PREVENT BUMBLE FOOT. Place the Roosts of the Hens Low and | Have the Floor Covered ) with Litter. | Bumble foot is an enlargement of ‘the feet of fowls, and is generally caused by bruises due to the fowls ‘alighting heavily when they fly down from their perches. The trouble oc- curs most frequently with heavy birds ‘which generally have poor powers ot flight, when their weight is compared to that of their wing power. The light- er fowls, having more fying power, light easily, and their feet are not bruised. When heavy fowls are per mitted to perch high, it 18 a commor thing to see them come down from their roosts light on their feet and tumble over. ‘The allgiting is often accompanied by a hard thump. ‘This fs the prevailing cause cf bumble foot. ‘The results of such bruises ere swell- ings In which pus develops. If these swellings are lanced and the pus escapes the fect regain their normal ‘size, If the pus Is not permitted to escape it ultimately forms a cheesy mass and the enlargement is perma- ‘nent. The way to provent bumble foot Is to place the roosts low and have the floor covered with litter. ‘This makes it possible for the fowis to come down off the roosts without ‘eustaining bruises. HOUSE FOR WARM CLIMATE. Just the Thing for Farms Where the Poultry Is Moved Around in Hot Weather. One of the houses which I use has a shed attached to one side, in which the chicks are placed after taken from the small coops. The house proper is 7x12 feet and six feet to the caves. It has ALIS fe eet ee eo sxe Sr CHEAP POULTRY HOUSE, a south door with drop curtain and an east window. The roosts are on the east side and two rows of nests ou west side. It holds 18 pullets and one Tooster. The house is built of redwood lumber and the roof of shakes, with a lath-covered window.—Mrs. | Helene Hough, in Orange Judd Farmer. BaUeRy, YARD POINTERS. ‘Wood ashes in the dusting box makes plumage dingy. Better use road dust and coal! ashes. . Don’t fail to provide grit for your fowls. If nothing else is to be had pound up broken crockery. | Dry tobacco will not kill lice on hens. We have seen fowls driven by lice from nests made of pure atrong tobacco. While it is some trouble to white- wash the houses twice a year, it pays, and It pays to use carbolic acid in the wash. If you have no spray pump to white- wash with, the tinner will make you a tin squirt gun for 25 cents that will throw the wash into every crack. If the roosts are suspended by rods from the rafters and not allowed to touch the sides of the house, you will have much less trouble with lice, To the writer's mind the ideal poultry house is one with plastered walls and ceiling, and with a cement floor. In such & house {:migation is a success, Not Fresh. ¢ Despite her age sue is still a peach.” “Yes, of the canned variety.”—Cleve Jand Plain De-'or, THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND VIRGINIA. Pee. MAU ee ee a eee RAT HAS NARROW ESCAPE.|~ “You perceived its merit, then?”]OLD DOMIN ——_ ald the young man with sad eyes and SHIP cc | Steals Food from Grizzly Bear in New 4 pe. Syitee “ar adign ‘cal Niv at Line i "es, indeed. The co 2 3 I eee ant one of the most original I ever saw.”| Leave Fichmo: z Washington Star, m., stopping A family of rats have recently made Didn't Stay Long. f News in bot their home in the rocks above the den ‘Mrs. D’Avnoo—I advertised for a ' of the grizzly bear in the Central Park | French nurse. mane Seen menagerie at New York, and have|* Applicant—Oi hov been in France,|pm. by No & W grown bold and fat on food stolen] mum. connect at Norfolk from the bear. “Not very long, I guess.” for New York, sa A number of visitors on the ledge “No, mum; Ol only shtayed long | Sunday, 7 p. m. above the den were throwing peanuts] enough to get the accint."—N. ¥. eeeaeen frox and other things down to bruin. A! Weekly. ss ‘ co Geaheet) cookie lodged on the edge of a rock aoe and a big rat ran from the rocks to} —________ J saan weave get it, He miscalculated his speed of Ash St., Richmo: and went over the edge, falling 15 feet H.B. WALKER, and landing on the head of Rocky, the Nov. ist, 1903, ‘York. old grizly, who was standing at the entrance to the cave ( j & O = ‘The blow startled his bearship, and R as the rat bounded to the floor and ran R R 3 D i ls sy SS “AKG tne h HIS ENEMY APPROACHED. {nto the eave Rocky started after it in considerable anger. The rat made & dash to pass the big animal and get out of the cave, but the bear with a swing of his paw sent him to the fur- ther end. ‘The rat lay breathless for awhile, meditating a way of escape. As his enemy approached he seemed to have hit upon a plan. He made another dash as if to pass on the right side of the foe, and the bear again raised his paw to strike, ‘The rat with a squeak dodged to the left. and safely passed before bruin could shift his weight to the other paw. After getting out into the open the rat was unable to make.its escape over the four-foot wall, and as its enemy was slill in close pursuit it jumped into the tank of water and swam into the inclosure of the polar bear, When it climbed oat of the tank ft found that it was not yet out of danger, for the polar bear caught sight of it’and gave chase. After another lively scramble about the inclosure that rat succeeded in climbing up the stone wall and escap- ing. AN ENTERPRISING MAIDEN. Homesteads Land in North Dakota, Drives Away a Burglar and ; Wins a Husband. A Sycamore (IIL) young woman got @ school, a quarter section of land, a burglar and a husband in North Da- kota in record-breaking time. Not long ago Miss Bertha Edessa Nilson, who was born, raised and educated in Sycamore, was induced to homestead a quarter section of land near Harvey, N.D. She built a cabin on the claim and then applied for a place as teacher of @ school within reach of her claim, She lived alone most of the time, teaching during the school year and ee HTT Coansaane'" mn el Ila Sr mri | te ne ONG Pe epee Shaina making an occasional visit to Syca- more. ‘On one of these visits she took young woman friend to share her homestead cabin, and while alone one dark night an intruder attempted to enter the abode. Miss Nilson promptly ‘opened fire from a revolver with which she had had such practice as to make her a clever shot. When the Mlinois girl got through shooting the door was badly splintered, but the prowler had made tracks out of the locality. During the time in which the plucky IMinois girl was a North Dakota squa‘- ter she met a prominent banker and member of the North Dakota legisla- ture, The culmination of this ac- quaintance took place in Sycamore, where Miss Nilson became the bride a August Peterson. 3 Investigating for Himself, Johnny was entertaining the young Man in the parlor. ‘Mfr. Spoonamore,” he asked, “how Jong you been comin’ to see my sister? Ys it two years or three?” “Two, I think,” replied young Spoon- amére. “Why, Johnny?” “Cause that’s what sis says, but paw, he gays it seems to him like it was 40 years."—Chicago Tribune. aT “How nonsensical it was for them to say there was nothing origina about your book,” said Miss Cayenne —*¥ou perceived its merit, then?” eald the young man with sad eyes and inky fingers. . “Yes, indeed. The cover design was one of the most original I ever saw.” Washington Star. Didn't Stay Lone. ‘Mrs. D’Avnoo—I advertised for a French nurse. Applicant—Oi hoy been in France, mum. “Not very long, I guess.” “No, mum; Ol only shtayed_long enough to get the accint"—N. ¥. “Weekly. Peery i Nov. 1st, 1903. ROUTE. CHESAPEAKE & OHIO RAILWAY. 2 Hours and 25 Minutes to Norfolk. LEAVE RICHMOND -RASBOUND. 120m mcdaliytaal te Newport em bratuaten 1° Se iter oe are rey td Point isi ee, Noro Tek ay 410 f Bi Wor dare Spetl—arivee Wi Ragin Seetuire Te PE OPAL cu me toa 62 120 Bete tocan ts oa Sia pglesase ou hs "250 pam" Duliy special fa Cinvisona estin ie Rear SB EE Se ear tag vil . Louis and Chicag r JAI RIVER LINES 100 BA a ar ey Sunn hae Foss oa ey See tiiva Simsriticor cuppa ees eae SEAT nnitY TACHNOME da xepakint Out ee gO eee cea ay Se Pee ae abe aoe ee thee Re wi eae pe iederick's Hail aScommodation. 6320.8 m James River Line Local from Clifton Fos serena alesis eae CB DOYLE, W. 0. 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Duet’ Gloves Bg thon ibe Voterare cme Reni) Sey White Wistahe Monies Ae Si SS Whrut mmcwnchr —welanale |S Why do Summer Roses Fadm harkes te «hops Aoieee* nna 2 22. micareoke pay for th sect ele ie ety thie'y-va PMoa'slene, mot ones that it went 2 any Eoube' tains, Ineiudlng colored tities ths pat the tnstrarsenial piece give. tne 6a many publi Aled don't target’ 'o 4 > Any Published: Also deat forget to ‘Write your name, full addrees, anc ‘Yt 2 pleces wanted by the mumberey «3. Gsyeithetampe ot allverandwalle | |g tondrese given below, and Uhe mii. =.) ‘desent direct from Boston, postage prepaid. THE PLANET SATURDAY ... JUNE 18, 1904 KILLED HIS SON FOR A ROBBER Boy, as a Joke, Tried to Scare His Father On a Lonely Road. WAS STABBED IN THE HEART Mount Holly, N. J., June 14.—Frank Reineck, aged 16 years, was killed by his father while trying to play a joke on his parent. Young Reineck hid in the bushes along the public highway near Riverside, and as his father approached the boy jumped out hoping to scare him. The elder Reineck drew a knife and plunged it into the dad's heart, killing him almost instantly. Mr. Reineck thought he was about to be attacked by a highwayman, and when he learned of his mistake he became almost insane from grief. The father is an insurance collector, and because he is in the habit of carrying around quite large sums of money taken in during a day, he goes about armed with a knife at nights. It was with this knife that he killed the boy. The two had gone out to the street together and had then made a short cut across the dots, as was their habit. The father went to a meeting of the Riverside Fire Company, of which he is a member. Neither saw the other again until just before the tragedy. Reineck, before entering the lane, had drawn his knife from his pocket and had opened it. He said he was afraid of being held up by some colored men he had frequently seen loitering there. They knew his business and the fact that he carried money about him. The father was, therefore, fully prepared for a surprise. With the drawn knife in his hand he came hurriedly down the lane, keeping a sharp watch right and left and with his nerves considerably unstrung and on the tipsoe of expectancy. Suddenly as he approached the bushes a dark figure sprang out at him. "I thought it was a colored man who was going to hold me up," he said, between his moans. "He came at me quick and grabbed me by the shoulders. It was dark and I couldn't see. He cried: 'Now I've got you,' I did not wait any longer, but plunged the knife straight into his breast. He sank like a log, and as he went down I heard him whisper, "Oh, papa, it's me." Those were the last words he spoke. Then the father broke down again in a paroysm of grief. His body swayed to and fro on the wooden beach on which he sat under a tree on the lawn. It was impossible to get a more coherent explanation out of him. After the boy had been stabbed and the father had recognized his son, he gried loudly for help. At the same time he picked up the unconscious form and ran with him in his arms to the house of Randolph Evans, who lives at the head of the lane. The anguished father could hardly be dragged from the side of his son's body. When it had been taken home to a heart-broken mother the father's grief became so great that he wanted to kill himself also. The doctor was again called and the man was given an opiate that kept him under control. Refineck has not been placed under arrest, nor will he be, unless the prosecutor demands it. There is no fear that he will attempt to escape, and the only danger is that in his demised condition he will inflict some injury upon himself. BLOWN UP BY NATURAL GAS One Killed, One Fatally Injured and Property Loss $75,000. Bradford, Pa., June 14.—In a natural gas explosion one man was killed another fatally injured, the home in H. R. Sheckles was wrecked and property valued at $75,000 was destroyed. Several persons had narrow escapes from death. The dead man is E. Lawrence, instantly killed, body crushed beyond recognition. The fatally wounded man is Levant Nutting, upper part of body crushed; arms broken; cannot live. Lawrence and Nutting, both carpenters, had been employed to repair the interior of the Sheckles house. One was under the building, and it is supposed that he accidentally broke the gas pipe connections. A volume of gas accumulated, and becoming ignited, exploded with a terrific force. The shock was felt over a considerable portion of the city. The house immediately collapsed, and flames sprang up in the debris, communicating with the storage plant of J. J. Cole, adjoining. Mr. Cole found Nutting lying some distance from where the explosion had occurred. He had been blown through the two walls by the exploding gas. The flames soon completely destroyed the Sheckles establishment, entailing a loss of $5000. The Coles storage house, in which 200 families had their goods stored, was completely destroyed, entailing a loss of $70,000. Train Strikes Auto New York, June 13—Rounding a curve at Van Cortlandt park, a train on the Yonkers division of the New York and Putnam railroad crashed into an automobile owned by George Noakes, a restaurant keeper, who lives on the Riverdale drive. Frank B. Read, a paper manufacturer, of this city, was killed; the 16-year-old daughter of Mr. Noakes, had her left foot cut off by the train, and John Spencer, the chaf- our, was so badly injured that it is believed he cannot recover. Mr. and Mrs. Noakes and their 6-year-old son escaped with a few bruises. ILLINOIS FOR HEARST Delegates to St. Louis Convention to Vote As Unit For Him. Springfield, Ill., June 15.—The Democratic state convention nominated Lawrence B. Stringer, of Lincoln, for governor, and instructed the delegates to the St. Louis convention to vote as a unit for William R. Hearst for the presidential nomination. The convention was controlled by John P. Hopkins, former mayor of Chicago, and now chairman of the state central committee. Mr. Hearst's campaign managers, who attempted to ride into power by the aid of his name, received no consideration whatever from the convention. The Harrison party, which came solely from Chicago, and was pledged to the support of Congressman James R. Williams, was routed completely. Mayor Carter H. Harrison was unseated as a delegate, and took a train for home without going near the convention. Both his faction and the Hearst party were as nothing compared to the strength and skillful management of the convention exhibited by Hopkins. The delegates-at-large to the St. Louis convention are: John P. Hopkins and Andrew M. Lawrence, of Chicago; Ben T. Cable, of Rock Island, and Samuel Alschuler, of Aurora. John P. Hopkins will succeed himself as chairman of the state central committee. ANOTHER NEW LODGE HERE Knights of Pythias Active—Lively Times at the Castle. Grand Chancellor John Mitchell, Jr. assisted by Col. T. M. Crump, G. K. of R. & S., Sir S. S. Baker, Grand Master at Arms, Sir Wm. E. Mitchell, Col. E. R. Jefferson, Capt. W. Henry Jones, Sir Isaac Bray, Sir R. D. Granderson, and others instituted Valley Lodge, No. 73 Knights of Dethias at the new Pythian Castle, 127 N. 3rd St., Wednesday night, 15th inst. The following are the officers: C. C., Robt. H. Fox; M. of W., John G. Smith; V. C., John H. Brown; P., Frank Pemberton; M. of Exchequer, John T. Cooper; M. of F., Royal Brown; K of R. & S., David Cottrell; M at A. Rufus Williams; I. G., Eugene Howard; O. G., Geo. Thomas. Trustees; G. G. Smith, Philip T. Jones, James Timbe-lake. After the initiation, refreshments were served in the dining hall. This Lodge was instituted through the efforts of Capt. John G. Smith, and as a result he receives his Grand Lodge honors. The candidates were well and duly formally congratulated by the members present. I. J. Miller was one of the candidates. --- Mr. A. D. McCoy of Pittsburg, Pa. who is a solicitor for the Life of Book- er T. Washington, called on us. He will be in the city several weeks. Atlantic City, N. J., June 17, 1904.—REED—MIMMS—One of the most brilliant events of the season in Atlantic City was the wedding of Mr. Harrison Reed and Mr. Matte Alexander Mimmus at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. George W. Lewis, 116 North York avenue on Thursday evening, June 16, 1904. Foth of the contracting parties are from Richmond, Va. The ceremony was performed by Rev. Elijah Jenkins, pastor of the Second Baptist Church of Atlantic City. Mr. Cary Lawrence acted as best man, while the bride was unattended. As all gathering of the immediate friends of the contracting parties witnessed the tying of the nuptial knot. The bride was handsomely gowned in a beautiful creation of the dressmaker's art in white crepe de chine, artistically set off with Dachace dress and Pearl trimmings. The groom is well known in local hotel circles being cook at Doyle's Hotel. After a short honeymoon the couple will take up their residence in Atlantic City for the season, after which they will reside in Richmond, Va. --- WANTED—Colored men and women of good address to sell an easy selling article in the city. Good money easily earned. No security required. Call 307 N. 7th St., and ask for Alburine. Bus Line to Hicks' Pool On last Thursday night quite a crowd went out to Hick's Pool and had a most enjoyable time. Everything has been nicely cleaned up and the grounds put in thorough repair. 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THOMAS HEWIN, Notary Public My Commission expires 11th day of April. $150.00 Endowment Paid. Richmond, Va., June 11th, 1904.—This is to certify that I have received tr in John Mitchell, Jr., Grand Chancellor of the Grand Lodge of Virginia, Knights of Pythias, N. A., S. A., E. A., A. & A., ($150.00) One Hundred and Fifty Dollars in payment of the deathchair of Alexander Jonathan, Jr., who was a member of Maceo Lodge, No. 35. Signed:— JOSEPHINE JONATHAN. Guardian. $100.00 Endowment Paid. Lynchburg, Va., June 4th, 1904. — This is to certify that I have received from John Mitchell, Jr., Grand Worthy Counselor of the Grand Court of Virginia, I. O. of Calanthe, ($ 00.00) One Hundred Dollars in payment of the death claim of Mrs. Dolly A. Moore, who was a member of Benelah Court, No. 49. I. O. of Calanthe. MRS. FRANCES X BROWN, W. I. mark. HALL MEMORIAL I HALL MEMORIAL INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL. MASSILLON, OHIO. 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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, or canize one. For all information concerning the Children's Department, address. For all information concerning special rates of membership for new lodges and courts address. KNICHTS OF PYTHIAAS. F.C.B. A 311 North Fourth St., Richmond, Va. N. A., S. A., E., A., A. AND A. 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