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THE RICHMOND PLANET VOL. XXI NO. 37. Judge En Speer's The Fourteenth Colored Ma THE GREAT WRIT OF R BY A JURY--WAS NOT A REMARKAB HENRY JAMISO Judge Emory Speer's Opinion. The Fourteenth Amendment. A Colored Man Released. THE GREAT WRIT OF RIGHT-MUST BE TRIED BY A JURY-WAS NOT DUE PROCESS OF LAW. A REMARKABLE PHILLIPIC. HENRY JAMISON DISCHARGED. A Federal Court's Decree Respected. "For my part, I love my country. I am proud of traditions. I glory in the heroism and manhood people. I know that they despise cruelty and ity to the helpless and oppressed." This was then. It is true now. Though the color-line may so paint it, this is no color-line case. It gro to-day. It may be a white man, aye, a whor or a white woman to-morrow. In this court the equal for all. Judgment absolute will be ordered in favor of titioner and he will be discharged from custo be permitted to go hence. (CONTINUED FROM LAST WEEK.) "For my part, I love my country. I am proud of its traditions. I glory in the heroism and manhood of its people. I know that they despise cruelty and barbarity to the helpless and oppressed." This was true then. It is true now. Though the color-line expert may so paint it, this is no color-line case. It is a Negro to-day. It may be a white man, aye, a white child or a white woman to-morrow. In this court the law is equal for all. Judgment absolute will be ordered in favor of the petitioner and he will be discharged from custody and be permitted to go hence. MAY BE FAIR ON ITS FACE. "Though the law itself be fair on its face and impartial in appearance, yet if it is applied and administered by public authority, with an evil eye and an unequal hand, so practically as to make unjust and illegal discriminations between persons in similar circumstances material to their rights and denial of equal justice, it is still within the prohibition of the Constitution." See also Exe parte Lee Tong, 18. Fed. 253. The Laundry Chinese case 22. Fed. 701. In re Tee Loy, 26. Fed. 511, Expar ta Eh Aw, 29. Fed. 181. In all of these cases persons convicted in the state court without due process of the law are subject to the law, the reason that the conviction was violation of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States. It is moreover true that in the extended examination herein made, no case has been found which approaches that of the petitioner in strong appeal to the court for the urgent, immediate and effective relief of habeas corpus. A respectable man past middle life, accustomed to the physical exertion, is arrested at night on his way home and hurried to the cells of the city prison. THE VICTIM'S SUEFERING PORTRAYED. The next morning, without accusation of any sort, he is sentenced to pay fines impossible of payment, and the alternative punishment, because of its infamy violative of the Constitution, for seven months on the chaingang, is at once imposed. By noon, in stripes and shackles, in easy range of the repeating rifles and shotguns of the guards, this man is toiling on the public roads with the frantic energy of one who works under fear of death, or of punishment, to which, in the mind of a vast majority of men, death itself would be preferable. Before him are two hundred and ten days of agony, two hundred and ten nights in a fetid stockade. That he is unable to give the bond he testifies. Could he appeal? An appeal to the courts of the state would have brought him no relief. His complaint involved the legality of the great majority of the convictions by the Recorder's Court, and in large measures the authority and jurisdiction of the court itself. Opposed to him was a powerful organization with all of its active and potent agencies. APPEAL WOULD HAVE BEEN RESISTED. Well might he and his counsel conclude that had appeal been made to the state courts by certiorari or otherwise it would have been resisted, as it is resisted here, to the court of final appeal. In the meantime, from March until October, through the deadliest months of a semi-tropical climate, with unceasing toiling in the summer sun, his suffering and wretchedness, his danger and infamy would never cease. It seems that he might apply for writ of certiorari to the judge of the superior court (Acts General Assembly 1902, p. 105). Could he have given bond and the costs that judicial officer might discretion have superseded the content of conviction. But the local banker, keenly appreciative of the need of a poor man's labor, stipulates such appeals, if unable to pay to give bond, the prisoner shall be discharged. Then it is true he has cause, with all of its imposition could have been heard, had he survived, the punishment he been suffered, and the judge appeal would have been worth- country. I am proud of its heroism and manhood of its despise cruelty and barbar- pressed." This was true enough the color-line expert color-line case. It is a Neite man, aye, a white child. In this court the law is ordered in favor of the pe- charged from custody and less even had he prevailed. Besides the sentence against him is void Void for want of due process of law. AN OUTBURST OF ELOQUENCE. Void because one man cannot adjudge injury. Like thousands of the oppressed and down-trodden, through all the centuries since that glorious day in the history of human liberty when the Great Charter made forever imperishable the principle that "no free man may be taken or imprisoned, but by the lawful judgment of his peers or by the law of the land," he applies for the great writ of right, the writ of habeas corpus, and he humbly seeks the portals of that court whose judges are sworn to know no difference between the rich and the poor, where justice ever bends the listening ear to catch the plaint of the humble and the lowly, and through all whose generous and benign jurisprudence is heeded the admonition of the Master, "Inasmuch as you have done it to one of the least of these my brethren, we have done it unto me." If the prayer of this man must be denied then the statutes authorizing the United States courts and the judges thereof to issue the writ of habeas corpus to protect the rights of the citizen guaranteed by the national constitution have at last been successfully nullified and hereafter the petitioner in like case must have recourse alone to the courts of the state. PECULIAR REASONING. Not a little has been said in the argument to the effect that the majority of those who are sentenced to this chain gang merit all the punishment they receive. One witness, formerly a road commissioner, who was familiar with the operations on the chaining, testified that in his opinion, while a sentence there would forever ruin a white man previously respectable, it had no such effect on a respectable negro. Such considerations do not appeal to a court charged with the equal enforcement of the law. Nor do I believe that they meet the approbation of the reflecting people of the Southern states. Nor are such sentiments conducive to our welfare or hopeful for our future. Twenty-one years ago, when at the bar, in an argument to a jury, in the great case of Exparte Yarborough, I declared the conviction that: A GREAT PRINCIPLE STATED: "Never in the history of the world has any considerable class of people been debased and degraded by force and lawlessness, but that the entire people suffered because of that degradation. The white people of this country control the government, state and federal. They enjoy every conceivable advantage. They have superiority in wealth, education, social influence, everything. A magnanimous people, a just people, they owe it to themselves to be magnanimous and just to the colored people." It was true then. It is true now. I further declared: "For my part I love my country. I am proud of its traditions. I glory in the nerism and manhood of its people. I know that they despise cruelty and barbidity to the helpless and oppressed." This was true then. It is true now. Though the color-line expert may so paint it, this is no color line case. It is a negro to-day. It may be a white man, aye, a white child or a white woman to-morrow. In this court, the law is equal for all. Judgment absolute will be ordered in favor of the petitioner and he will be discharged from custody and be permitted to go hence. THE END. RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, SATURDAY, AUGUST 27, 1904. KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS AT BLACK STONE. A Court and a Lodge There...Deputy H. L. Jackson Active. Blackstone, Va., Aug. 28, 1964. Evening Star Court, No. 77 was organized here yesterday afternoon at Jackson's Hall, by Grand Worthy Counselor John Mitchell, Jr., Deputy G. W. C. Mrs. Anna Taylor, G. W. R. of D. Miss M. L. Chiles, and Col. E. R. Jefferson. This is the first court in the locality and the members are much pleased. The following are the the officers installed: W. C., H. L. Jackson; W. Inspectrix, Mrs. Ella Fitzgerald; W. Inspector, Mrs. Martha D. Taylor; S. D., Mrs. Anna Bagley, J. D., Miss Penny Smith; O., Mrs. Nellie Winston: Reg. of D., Mrs. Anna Seay, R. of A. Mrs. Bettie G. Stokes; R. of Dep., Ann E. Tucker; E., Mrs. Mary Bowman-C. Mrs. Mary A. Thornton: A.st C. Mrs. Nannie Hite; H., Mrs. Amanda Williams; P., J. D. Clark; Trustees; H. L. Jackson; J. D. Clark, Mrs. Bettie Black. At night Nottaway Lodge, No. 79 was instituted by the Grand Chancellor assisted by Col. E. [R. Jefferson, S. S. Baker, and members of Blackstone Lodge, Deputy H. L. Jackson included. The initiation was completed in one hour and forty minutes. The following officers were installed: C. C. Rev. Samuel Q. Swann; M. of W. Richard Stokes; V. C. Freeman Thomas; P., James Walker; K. of R. and S. Richard L Pollard; M. of F. Joshua Bowman; M. of Ex. Thomas; M. at A. J. M. Brown; I. G. Paul Green; O. G., Eddie Hicks. Attendants: Eddie Greenhill, Manuel Crenshaw, Richard Holman, Mumford Bagley. Trustees: James Walker, Stephen Quarles, Olive Hazle wood. All enjoyed the repast which was served. The Grand Chancellor was much pleased. Deputy H. L. Jackson received the credit for this work and Blackstone is much pleased with the Order. KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS AT STAUNTON. A Lodge and a Court Organized—Deputy Mabrey's Work. Staunton, Va., Aug. 19 1904. Grand Chancellor John Mitchell, Jr., accompanied by Col. Thomas M. Crump, G. K. of R. & S.; Col. E. R. Jefferson, Assistant Surgeon General and Sir S. S. Baker, G. M. at A., arrived here last evening. Miss M. L. Chiles, G. W. R. of D. came also. The organization of Staunton Court, No. 76 took place last night at Bruce's Hall. The following are the officers:—W. C., Mrs. Frances Perkins: W. Inspector, Mrs. Fannie Orawford; W. Inspectrix, Mrs. Sarah Hatcher; S. D., Mrs. Margaret A. Southall; J. D., Mrs. Anna Johnson; E, Miss Daisy Johnson; O, Mrs. Fannie Scott; H., Mrs. L. B. Jones; P., Mrs. Katie Brown; R. of D., Mrs. Fannie J. Moore; R. of A., Miss Rosa Hanson; Mrs. Matilda White; C., Mibred Brans; Asst'c. T., Mrs. Annie J. Rhodes; Quincees, Mrs. Annie J. Stribling, Miss Jennie Dicker son and Mrs. Roena Moore. Grand Chancellor Mitchell then proceeded to institute Brotherly Love Lodge, No. 78. He was assisted in this by members of Staunton Lodge, Prof. G. A. Newman of Harrisonburg, Va., was present. The following are the officers of the new body: C. O., J. Dorsey; V. C., R. H. Taylor; P., Rev. M. Robinson; M. at A., Benjamin Kemper; K. of R. & S., Adam Bates; M. of F., David Lovings; M. of Ex., Andrew Winston; M. of W., Isaac Brooks; I. G., W. Washington; O. G., Sam Moore. A bountiful repast was spread. It was admirably managed and all enjoyed themselves. This court and Lodge were ordained and the suffice of Daryl Grand Unnacollor A. C. Mabrey. Miss Chiles had previously visited the field and given instructions. The party left at 10:30 this morning for Charlottesville. They expressed themselves as being much pleased with their visit here. Charlottesville, Va., Aug. 19, 1904 The Court members of the I. O. Callanthe welcomed Grand Chancellor John Colliell Jr., Col. E. R. Jefferson, Col. M. L. Sisley, S. Bask, and Miss M. L. Chiles here to day of 9 per dinner the party went to Zon Hall where candidates for Mt. Calvary Court were initiated. The visitors left at 3:55 P. M. for Richmond. Work Stands. When you want a good job done, give us a call. We can always guarantee our work, for painting is our living. We make your house look good and it stands. THOMAS J. BLACKWELL. 803 Catherine St., Richmond, Va. Dear Sir:—Please allow us space in your valuable paper to extend our heartfelt thanks to our many friends for their kindness shown us during the illness of our two sons, Andrew and James, also since their deaths. Mr. Cyrus H. Trent of New York City is in the city visiting relatives and friends. MRS. LARREMORE'S HEROIC DEFENSE. A Texas Tragedy. Mob Killed Her Husband. SAD SCENES IN THE NIGHT-TIME-LYNCHERS WOUNDED-NO PROTECTION AFFORDED SIX CHILDREN AS A LEGACY-NOW AT SAN ANTONIO. Office of the PLANET, 311 N. 4th St. Richmond, Va., Aug. 15, 1904. Mrs. JOHN W. LARLEMORE, Lockhart, Texas Dear Madame:— I read with regret of the sensational killing of your husband and your heroic act in firing on the mob. Will you kindly send me an account of the unfortunate tragedy? Very truly yours, JOHN MITCHELL, JR. SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS, Aug. 21, 1904. MR. JOHN MITCHELL, JR. Dear Sir—Yours received and contents noted. In reply will grant your request. On the night of July 26th, my hus band and I retreated at a late hour, and sometime between the hours of 1 and 2 I was aroused by a noise of shuffling feet in the hall where my husband lie asleep on the cot and I was in the east room adjoining the hall. When I became awake, saw a mob hove his shuttle car and ran straight front gate, and when they reached the north-east corner of the fence, why, some one of the mob struck him a fearful blow. SECURED HIS PISTOL. I heard him say, "Lord, have mercy!" and the sight so filled me with anger that I rushed back in the hall where he was sleeping and secured his pistol and returned to the gallery and fired direct at 3 or 4 that were standing at some distance from my husband. One of them seemed to have staggered backward and that gave my husband a chance to run, and just as he had made a motion as if to run, the cut-throats hit him and he gave one awful shriek to me and then. When I run out on the gallery and screamed and called my neighbors to my assistance and fired my pistol straight in front of me. And I suppose I must have fired close to where the mob was hiding as some one of them raised up and said, "If you don't get back in the house, we will kill you" and tried to execute their threat at once, as they began firing at once and it is only a miracle that they did not kill me. They shot all above and under the house, all high up in the house even through three walls. I dropped down on my knees and crawled back in the house and laid down flat on the floor with my six little children. WENT TO HUSBAND'S RESCUE I stayed in the house about 10 minutes and in the meantime my husband began calling us and I stood it as long as I could. So I took my little girl, 13 years old and went to his assistance. Just before I stepped off the gallery I fired my pistol in the air to attract the officers attention. We got him in the house and I took a razor and cut his clothes off myself and bathed his wounds. About this time the officers arrived and sent for a doctor, but it was too late. He was stabbed under the right eye and a large piece was cut of his left leg and foot and he was struck in the back of his head. He was shot in the thigh or groin, the bullet severed an artery. His sufferings were terrible until God relieved him. I am left alone with 6 little children and have almost been insane since his death. My only consolation is that I tried to save him by risking my own life. If I had been a white woman I would have received aid from all over the U. S. to help me. As I am financially embarrassed, I have moved to San Antonio where protection is greater than at Lockhart and I want to purchase me a home at this place. I am in need of finance at present to do so, but maybe the "King of Glory" in his infinite mercy will hearten to the cry of the widow and orphans and make the way easy. I know of no cause for the foul murder, as my husband was a very prominent man and held in esteem by his fellow-man. Respectfully, (Mrs.) MALINDA LARREMORE, 324 Lake View Ave. —Miss Laura Burford of Poughkeepsie, N. Y., is in the city visiting her aunt, Mrs. Robert S. Forrester of 215 E. Leigh St; and other relatives. A REMARKABLE LEITER TO EDITOR MITCHELL. $150.00 Endowment Paid. Cincinnati, O., Aug. 19, 1904. This is to certify that I have received from John Mitchell, Jr., Grand Chancellor of the Grand Lodge of Virginia, Knights of Pythias, N A, S A, E, A, A and A, $150.00) One Hundred and Fifty Dollars in payment of the death claim of Henry Clay, who was a member of Planet Lodge, No. 23 of Richmond, Va. Signed, Mrs. HATTIE E. CLAY, Beneficary. Witnesses: William L. Anderson, Sarah Anderson. $160.00 Endowment Paid. Norfolk, Va., Aug. 11th, 1904. This is to certify that I have received from John Mitchell, Jr., Grand Worthy Counselor of the Grand Court of Virginia, 1. O. Calanthe ($100 000) One Hundred Dollars in payment of the death claim of Sarah Macklin, who was a member of Mary's Court, No. 237 of Norfolk, Va. Signed:— Administrator: JUNIUS MACKLIN, 216 James St., Norfolk, Va. Witnesses:—Susan V. Makley, Eliza Reid, members of Mary's Court, No. 237, Fannie Cooke, D. Deputy, 863 Church St., Norfolk, Va. Lynchburg, V4., Aug. 15th, 1904 Mr. C. C. Ellis departed this life last Thursday Aug. 11, 1994 about 12:30 P.M. He was the only child of Mrs. S. Ellis, and for four years a member of Pioneer Lodge No. 28, K. of P. The funeral took place from the 8th St. Church, Sunday, 4 o'clock. Sir Rev P. F. Morris being out of the city, Sir Rev J. C. Jackson, officiated. The pull-bearers were K. of P. and barbers, as he was a barber. The floral bearers were Mrs. M. Walker, Mrs. M. Marchant, Miss M. L. Butler, and Miss M. P. Knight of the nights of Pythias were out in round houses, it as the largest turnout on a death occasion with the Pythians of this city. Pioneer Lodge, No. 28, New Era Lodge, No. 36, and Golden Star Lodge, 48. The men in line covered two blocks. The church was crowded, every seat being occupied. THE AMERICAN BENEFICIAL IN SURANCE CO. Annual Stock-holders Meeting The Stock-holders of the American Beneficial Insurance Company are hereby notified of the regular Annual Stock holders meeting at Price's Hall, Wednesday, Sept. 7th, at 8 P. M. Let all of the Stock-holders be present. A Handsome Surprise Present. Mrs. Mildred Johnson was presented with a handsome china tea set by members of Verbena Court No. 61 last Thursday, Aug. 18, 1904. Mrs. Johnson organized this Court and the members are devoted to her. The token of appreciation was presented by Mr. Robert T. Kinney, Worthy Counselor. Mrs. Johnson was profuse in her thanks and gratitude to the members. Refreshments were served in abundance. The following were the committee; Mrs. Louise Burke, Lucy A. Meeskins, Bettie Carter, Mary L. Watkins, Isabelle Tyler. —Mrs. Mattie Carr McKenzie and her three children of Bridgeport, Conn., are in the city, the guest of her mother, Mrs. A. R. Carr, 608 N. 3rd St. —Mrs. Alexander Chiles and Miss K. Campbell of Lexington, Ky., in company with Miss M. L. Chiles visited our office this week, Mrs. Chiles and Miss Campbell left for home last Thursday. Mrs. Eliza Hankins, in company with Miss Redd of Farmville, Va., was in the city last week. Mrs. Hankins will reside in Farmville hereafter. Through a misunderstanding, it has been announced that "The S. Coleridge-Taylor Choral Society of Washington, D. C." would appear at the concert at True Reformers' Hall, Monday, August 29th and render Hiawatha. The committee desires to state that the concert will consist of parts of Hiawatha and other choice selections to be rendered by a select chorus of 20 voices with Prof. John T. Layton, conductor. The concert is not given by or under the auspices of the Society, but by the twenty voices who will participate in the programme, all of whom are members of the Society. Miss S. E. Steward of Hampton, Va., is the guest of Mrs. Harriet E. and Miss Bertha Thompson, 104 West Jackson St. PENNSY LPS ON SHORT TIME Altoona, Pa., Aug. 23. The Pennsylvania Railroad company made the most sweeping reduction in the time of the men employed that has taken place since the panic of 1893. The employees of the machine shops were notified that, commencing this morning, they would be divided into shifts, each shift to work every other day, eight hours to constitute a day's work. One shift will work Mondays and Wednesdays and the others Tuesdays and Thursdays. The remainder of the week the shops will be closed down entirely. It is not known how long it will continue in effect. $500,000 AS BIRTHDAY GIFT That Is What P. A. B. Widener Gave His Granddaughter. Newport, R. L., Aug. 24.—Filip Widener, the 3-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Widener, of Philadelphia, celebrated her third birthday here by giving a garden party and a luncheon. Her grandfather, P. A. B. Widener, the millionaire traction magnate of Philadelphia, presented her with a check for $500,000, but she was more interested in the big birthday cake, on which blazed three tiny candles, and the childish gifts she received from Masters Cornellus Vanderbilt, Alfred Vanderbilt, George Widener and other infant swains. Thirty children were present. ALBERT CONSTABLE IS DEAD Maryland Lawyer Shot By Highwayman Dies In Hospital. Baltimore, Md., Aug. 3.—Albert Constable, a well-known lawyer, of Elkton, Md., who was shot and robbed on a highwayman near his home last week, died at the Union Protestant hospital, in this city. The police of Cecil county, reinforced by Baltimore detectives, have thus far been unable to capture the murderer, for whose arrest and conviction a reward of $1250 has been offered by the county and family of Mr. Constable. A WEEK'S NEWS CONDENSED. In a collision between trolley cars at Fort Lee, N. J., 20 persons were injured, two seriously. Clarence Deryder, a cyclist, was killed while attempting to "loop the loop" at Salt Lake City, Utah. The plant of the Standard Powder company, near Hollidaysburg, Pa., was partly destroyed by fire, entailing a loss of $20,000. While preparing for the funeral of her daughter, Mrs. L. A. Larson, of Rush City, Minn., fell down stairs and broke her neck. The farm house of B. A. Dowling, near Perth, Okla., was destroyed by fire, and Mr. Dowling, his wife and two children burned to death. Friday, August 19. Mrs. Annie Miller, of Camden, N. J., was fatally burned by the explosion of a gasoline stove. Because she was scolded by her mother, Ethel Ashby, of Chester, Pa. PRICE, FIVE CENTS S ENSE. er Husband. ECTION AFFORDED IO. ended her life with poison. Allen Heathington, a young white farmer and saw mill owner, near Charleston, S. C., was shot and killed by a negro. An express train on the Rock Island railroad was wrecked at Altamont, Mo., by the spreading of the rails, and 17 persons were injured, two fatally. Charlemagne Tower, United States ambassador to Germany, who is in this country on his vacation, called on President Roosevelt at the White House. Saturday, August 20. Ida E. Warren, of Worcester, Mass., was elected president of the Daughters of Veterans at the Boston convention. Prince Henry of Prussia will represent the German emperor at the christening of the heir to the Russian throne. Ethel M. Hill, a 5-year-old child, of Somerville, N. J., was drowned despite the heroic efforts of an older sister to save her. Fish Rock Camp, said to have been the most beautiful and expensive camp in the Adirondack Mountains, has been destroyed by fire. The Supreme Lodge, Knights of Pythias, will hold their next bi-enclave encampment at New Orleans the third Tuesday in September, 1906. Monday, August 22. At least seven lives are known to have been lost in a flood that swept Globe, Ariz., and the surrounding country. Pennsylvania Day was celebrated Saturday at the St. Louis Exposition, Governor Pennpacker making an historical address. Secret service agents arrested four counterfelters at Atlanta, Ga., charged with making counterfeit $10 bills of the "Buffalo" pattern. Barbara Kready, of Lancaster, Pa. has sued Sallie Geib for $1000 damages for the alleged circulation of reports that she had thrown pepper into her cow's eyes. Tuesday, August 23. D. Lynch Pringle, formerly United States minister to Turkey, died at San Francisco. Because she was disappointed in love Miss Annie Fox, of Philadelphia, committed suicide by swallowing carbolic acid. Elmer Rhoads, a car inspector on the Pennsylvania railroad, was run down and killed by an express train at Harrisburg, Pa. Postmaster General Payne conferred in Chicago with the Republican national committee concerning the political situation in the west. Richard Croker, former leader of Tammany Hall, New York, has arrived in Dublin and says he has no intention of returning to America this year. Wednesday, August 24. George Leander, the American bicyclist, died in Paris from injuries received while racing. Thomas Rehnek, president of the Northampton National Bank, Easton, Pa., died after a long illness. The $80 miners of the Pennsylvania Coal Company at Pittston, Pa., who have been on strike the past two weeks, returned to work. Booker T. Washington, Jr., son of the president of Tuskegee Institute, Alabama, was fined $15 at Quincy, Mass., for speeding his motor bicycle. The governor of Georgia has appointed a commission to investigate the conduct of he militia from which a mob took two negroes at Statesboro, and burned them. Held On C. 138. Copper Shamokin, Pa. A 12, 28.—The boldest hold-up in the annals of this section occurred on a Philadelphia express train at the local station. Lazarus Moyer, of Philadelphia, was held up on the steps of the passenger train in the presence of many spectators and robbed of a wallet containing $126. The robbers escaped by leaping from the train. THE PLANET SATURDAY ..... AUGUST 27, 1904 THE SHADE. ... Under oaks and poplars and elms, because the shadow thereof is good.”—Hosea 4:13 This tree, which stands with arms out- ward, With leaves like fingers tremulous With leaves all coolness overhead And softly waft it down to us, This tree-it means a hundred years Of rain and sun, of drought and dew, Before this shade which rests and cheers Into-to-day's perfection grew. Some kindly one-forgotten now— Might thoughtfully have placed the seed, Preserving that each reaching bough Whoever it aids, a unkown one need. Whoever he was, that unknown one, Who set the seed, or sprouted slim, He knew not that he had begun What stands a monument to him. The trees—the kindly trees—that blaze With spring's green flame or autumn's blush. The sentry fires that line the ways Into the woodland's peaceful hush— Thoughtfully that they slowly grow Until they shield the trees from wind. The trees—the kindly trees—the show The patient thoroughness of God. This tree, which stands with arms out- spread. Beems to pronounce while standing thus, blessing, and to gently shed A benediction over us. Sunlight shuttles through the leaves With threads of gold that flash and play, across the warm of shade it weaves The mingled fabric of the day. W. D. N., in Chicago Daily Tribune. For the Sake of the Flag By MARY C. HERMON (Copyright, 1904, by Daily Story Pub. Co.) THE smattering of fire crackers, the boom of small cannon, and the snouts of the boys awoke the young teacher from her early morning slumber. It wasstill dark, and the moon, near its setting, cast a wan spectral-like light through the open west window of the room. Its white rays fell on the folds of a beautiful silk flag which hung across the back of an invalid's chair revealing in the uncertain flickering light that fell through the leaves of the clustering ivy, a dark field set with stars, and billow folds of stripes—crimson and white—the work of the patriotic teacher's nimble fingers. She sat up in her white cot and smiled, as the recollection of the past day's arduous toil, and the joyful realization of its completion dawned upon her consciousness. "Arnold will carry it at the head of the procession to borrow. Dear flag," she murmured as she stretched out her arms toward the beautiful ensign, "your colors symbolize the characteristics of our young love. True as the azure of the sky overhead, steadfast as a star, and warm as the crimson tide which feeds the patriot's heart. To-day, dear flag, he whom I cherish with an undying affection, will bear the aloft, because in all the village there is none as worthy as he." She lay there thinking, thinking—weaving a beautiful fabric of dreams such as love and youth alone can dream, while the late moon dropped down behind the rim of the western horizon, and the darkness which precedes the dawn, filled the room. Day, rosy and bright, marched triumphantly through the gates of the east. The noises in the street grew more tumultuous. The bonfires died out on the surrounding hill tops, and from the upper windows of stores and factories, long streamers of gay bunting futtered in the morning breeze. In a large, white cottage whose spacious veranda was covered with ivy, and over whose front door hung a torn and soiled flag, that had passed through the battle storms of the rebellion, sat two contented people chatting over the comming attractions of the day. "And they've chosen you for the standard bearer, Arnold," the stately, sweet-faced matron was saying as her eyes rested on the eager face of the young man who sat at the opposite end of the table. "This, I understand, is to be no military parade. Everybody is to march, or didn't you say so, Arnold?" "Yes, mother. That is—" He hesitated and a look of sadness dimmed the glad light in his handsome eyes. Then he added, slowly: "Everybody who can march, of course. Poor Nell! She'll find this day father lonely and dull, I'm afraid." "Dinah has fixed up a couch for her on the front porch of their house where she can see the procession. Their house is just opposite the park. She can hear the music, and almost every word from the speaker's stand." The conversation was interrupted by a rapat the door, and a little girl, dressed in a fresh pink dress, handed Mrs. West a large parcel. "The flag, mother!" exclaimed Arnold, enthusiastically, as his mother removed the wrapping paper. "What a beauty! It's a present to our company, you know, only to-day it's to head the procession and float from the top of the flag pole over the speaker's stand in the park. Just see how beautifully it is made! Poor little Nell, she must have grown weary over the task!" "It is a work of love," said Mrs. West, gently. "Love never wearies of its tasks." "If that scoundrel of a brother of her's hadn't been, Nell would have been as strong and healthy as any girl in town. He frightened her horse, you know, over at Dexter, where she was teaching three years ago. She was just getting up in her carriage, when the animal took right, and her dress caught some way in the wheel. Oh I can't bear to think of the rest! Will never cared, though." "Add it is true that he has joined the army?" "That's what people say. He never writes home. Come to think of it, the story finally leaked out that he stole several hundred dollars of Nell's hard-earned money, when he skipped. She had saved it for the purpose of paying off the mortgage on the home. I think that almost broke her heart. She never said a word to me about it, though." "And the mortgage?" "Was paid." "Yes, I did it." "And Nell never knew?" "I never told her." "They say that old Dinah will soon be too old to care for the home any longer. When she goes who will care for Nell" "I will, mother." "As your wife, Arnold? That can scarcely be. She will be a helpless cripple for life." "The more will she need the support of my strong arms. Yes, mother, as my wife." "And you are to resign your position in the army?" The young man was silent. A brilliant future seemed to open before him. Love and duty had struggled long and hard with ambition, but love won. He was now ready to tear off his military trappings, and cast them without a murmur at the feet of the woman he loved. "He is not a hero who falters when duty demands a costly sacrifice," he murmured. "Nell is my afflianced wife. She was so before that dreadful accident. The promise I then gave her can never be broken. My country does not need my service now. Nell does." He touched the shining folds of the beautiful flag severently. "God, duty, love, home and humanity—these are my watchwards. When my country needs me I am ready!" The early spring blossoms were just opening their pale blue eyes to the light, and the newly-arrived robins and larks were carolling gaily, when the news of our declaration of war with Spain, spread like wild-fire over the country. The fierce hatred of oppression, that is always lurking in the heart of every true American, suddenly burst forth into the stirring cry "Cuba Libre!" And in threatening undertone followed the memorable words "Remember the Maine!" On the hillside near the village, where many a gleaming shaft of marble told of those sleeping underneath, was a newly made grave. Heaped on the brown clods, not yet touched by the spring verdure, was a profusion of hot-house flowers. The froilosome April winds scattered their petals as they swept by, and the glad sunshine and smiling sky all seemed to belong to a world where tombs mark not the end of human endeavor, and where the noisy clang of war's summons never disturb the placid air. In the village below everybody was astir. Farewells were said that wring tears from gentle eyes and brought indiscribable anguish to loving hearts. Only young Capt. Arnold West seemed unmoved by the grief which parting brings. Death had robbed him of his heart's best treasure, and the far qf battelfield welcomed him with bloody, outstretched arms. He responded gladly to humanity's call and the dear flag went with him. In the steaming trenches before Santiago, a young private lay dying. His side had been torn open by a shell, and from the ghastly wound his life oozed away. A HE LOOKED UP IN THE FACE OF THIS GOOD SAMARITAN AND SMILED. He seemed oblivious to his surroundings, and his glassy eyes and vivid paindrawn features told unmistakably of the near approach of death. Around him were the dead and the dying. Groans and curses and prayers mingled with the roar of the battle, and his feeble cries for water were drowned in the fearful din. The noontide sun beat down unmercifully on his bare head. "Oh, for some kind shelter, and for one drop of water!" He dipped a finger in the pool of blood at hisside and pressed it to his lips. "Heaven for just one drop of water!" he groaned. Suddenly some one raised his head and pressed a canteen to his parched lips. The mist of death that was gathering in his eyes, for a moment chared away. He looked up in the face of this good Samaritan and smiled. Then a look of recognition flashed into his eyes. "Arnold," he whispered, "I—I've failed to do my duty as a citizen, but not as a soldier. For the sake of the flag under which we are both fighting, will you—can you forgive. He paused as strength failed him. The beseechung gaze he riveted on Capt. West's face melted the heart of the be-reaved lover, and swept away the bitterness of years. He grasped the hand of the dying soldier and bending down over him with all the tenderness of a woman, he said in a broken voice: "Yes, Will I forgive—for Nell's sweet sake, and for the sake of the flag!" A dispatch from Tientsin states that a plint of Russian beer costs two rubles—or about a dollar—but nothing is said about an egg or a sausage going with it. Dispatches from the seat of war, or even from that vicinity, are very unsatisfactory. The exports of flour from the United States last year were greater than ever before—about 20,000 barrels. THE RICHMOND, PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. Fun For Fun Lovers. Romance Ended Forever. **Patience**—You say they quarreled? **Patrice**—Yes; and she returned all his gifts. And what do you suppose he did? **Patience**—Can't guess. **Patrice**—Sent her half-a-dozen boxes of face powder, with a note explaining that he thought he had taken at least that much home on his coat since he first knew her.—Tit-Bits. A Real Gening Jigsmith-That fellow Piker is certainly a clever, ingenious chap, isn't he? Browning-Why, I never heard of his doing anything remarkable. Jigsmith-That's just it. He manages in some way to get along without doing anything-Cincinnati Enquirer. Knew What He Called'Em Yeast—I see some people call them automobiles, some motor cars, some smoke wagons; what do you call them? Crimsonbeak—I call them—Mrs. Crimsonbeak (breaking in)—Remember, John, there are ladies present—Yonkers Statesman. Happy Event She—You say your brother is engaged to be married? He—Yes, it is just announced. “When is the happy event to come off?” “Oh, it's too early to tell when the engagement will be broken.”—Yonkers Statesman. Turn About Fair Play First Burglar—We might as well light de gas, Bill; dere ain't a soul in de house. Second Burglar—Don't git so beneverent, Kid; we'll do all de robbin' dat's ter be did ter-night an' give de gas comp'ny a night off—Puck. Poor Things. Harold Hantor—Isn't it wonderful what numbers of people there are of whom one has never heard? Gertrude Giltedge—Yes, and yet I have no doubt that many of them are quite happy in their own way.—Brooklyn Life. Identified. Teacher—Now, boys, who was Columbus? No answer. Teacher (promptingly)—The man that—" Class (readlly)—"Broke the bank at Monte Carlo."—Tit-Bits. A Foolish Question "Yes," said the man, "I lead a calm and peaceful life." "Are you married?" asked the woman. "Pardon me," rejoined the man, "but didn't you hear what I just said?"—N. Y. News. As Explained. Brown—Glad to see you looking so well, old man. You appear a hundred per cent, better than you were a month ago. Weeks—Yes; my doctor has been out of town for three weeks.—Chicago Daily News. Sweeping Denial. She—It is said that women are neater and cleaner than men. He—And yet you'll go right out on the street with a long train to your dress and make a sweeping denial of that statement—Yonkers Statesman. Settling Old Scores Now the lecaner the roost, The plumber's reign is o'er, But it's fun to see the lecaner at The haughy plumber's door, -Cincinnati Enquirer. JUST AMONG FRIENDS. JUST AMONG FRIENDS. Young Dramatist (proudly)—So sorry I can't give you a seat for the first performance of my new play, old man. The fact is that every seat is booked. His Friend—Oh, well, I'll just wait until the end of the first act; there will be plenty of room then.—Tit-Bits. Eve's Husband Eve's Husband. The female suffragett's a bore; She'd make us all believe That Adam wasn't any more Than merely "Mr. Eve." - Philadelphia Press. Her Trouble First Boarding Mistress—I've seen it figured out that people can life on 12 cents a day. Second Boarding Mistress—Ah! But you can't get them to do it—Brooklyn Life. Accounting for His Opinion First Artist—Paynter claims that there isn't any such thing as luck. Second Artist—Oh, that's because he's having the right kind.—Brooklyn Life. He Didn't Guess It. He—And so you refuse me? She—I must. "It is because I am poor, I presume?" "No; that is not the reason." "Because my family is less aristocratic than yours, perhaps?" No." "Hum! Very strange! Then why is it you refuse me?" "It's because I can't bear the sight of you."—N. Y. Weekly. Terrible Possibility "Yes" said the man from Michigan, "we are going to appeal to congress to pass more stringent laws against the wasteful destruction of timber-land." "Lumber getting scarce up there?" asked the man from Georgia. "Lumber?" repeated the Michiganander. "What do we care about lumber? We've got to protect the breakfast-food industry, haven't we? And if the sawdust gives out, where will we be?"—Judge. Retrogression "Didn't you husband join a 'Don't Worry club?' " "Yes," said the woman with the sun-bonnet. "Did it benefit him?" "I guess so; but it wasn't much good for the rest of the family. In about a week it was the "Don't Hurry" club an' now it's the "Nothin' doin" club."—Washington Star. Leap-Year Maid. "Uncle John," queried the pretty girl who was seeking information, "would I be justified in writing to a young man who has never written to me?" "Only on very important business, my dear," answered the old man. "Well, this is important business," she explained. "I want him to marry me."—Columbus Dispatch Pat's Conundrum. M'Lubberty—Nora, me jeyel, Ol hove wan for yez. Av a man is born in Lapland, lives in Finland, an' dies in Poland, phwot is he? Mrs. M'Lubberty (promptly)—A car-r-rrpse. M'Lubberty (disgusted?)—Begorra, somebody must hov told yez.—Tit-Bits. Advice "No," she declared. "I will never marry any man who hasn't grit enough to go and ask papa for me." "That's all right, but you ought to remember that your father has a weak heart, and sudden joy has often been known to prove fatal in such cases."—Chicago Record-Herald Science and Health "I see the doctors say it is healthful to take off one's shoe as often as possible in hot weather." "It is. I find it much more healthful to take them off outside the door than to wake up my wife, if I happen to be a little late getting home."—Cincinnati Commercial-Tribune A Precision Miggles—I say, old man, I'd like to have you put me up at your club. Miggles—You don't play! How in the world did you manage to break in?—Cincinnati Enquirer Similarity Some men talk Like brass bands play. For any party That will pay —Washington Star. A The Boss (explaining later)—Why, man, it's as plain as the nose on your face—Ally Sloper. The Hour-Glass Girl. She squeezes in her waist until The other girls seem on the shelf. She thinks she is dressed to kill. While merely dressed to kill herself. —Judge. Wise Ancients. Traveler—The houses in some of the ancient cities and walls ten feet thick. Mr. Brickrow (enviously)—I presume some of the neighbors were musical.—N. Y. Weekly. A Loophole. Lovell—Do you think a man should tell his flaence all the indiscretions of his past life? Cynicus—Yes; then perhaps she wouldn't marry him—Brooklyn Life. About the Size of It. She—Oh, love in a cottage is all well enough in a way. I suppose, but how long could we live on love? He—As long as it lasted, probably. —Chicago Daily News. Arthur Feller Takes Famous Coon Pointer and Lets Brother Marry Pretty Miss Ivy. Wellington Feller has married his brother Arthur's girl, and brother Arthur is now owner of Wellington's prize coon dog. Wellington says he has got the best and prettiest girl in Berkshire county, Mass., and brother Arthur says that if there is any dog in the county that can tree cones than his new dog 'he'd like to it'. Wellington and Arthur both became smitten with pretty Miss Ivy White, Walter White's daughter, last fall and A they began "callin' regular." Arthur is 24 and his brother 26. Soon the big brother began to understand that the little brother was getting more smiles than he was, and the village folk told him he had better be spry. He might have settled it in a fight, but he chose diplomacy. "Arthur, did ye ever see a coon dog that could ketch more coons than my Sport?" Arthur admitted he hadn't. "Arthur, Miss Ivy is a pretty girl, but I guess as how you have seen some one jest as pretty." Arthur thought maybe he had. "Well, Arthur, there ain't another coon dog like Sport, and there may be another girl like Miss Ivy. I am going to give you Sport. He's your n." Arthur was delighted. "And when you get Sport I want you to forget the way to Miss Ivy's house and let me do all the courting alone," said the big brother. Arthur thought it over. Sport certainly was a good dog and Miss Ivy certainly was a fine girl—but there wasn't another dog like Sport. "Being as I am only 24 and pretty young to get married, I guess I will take the coon dog, if ye really mean it," announced Arthur. To show that he meant it Wellington and Miss Ivy White were married in the village church in New Boston, Mass. Arthur has bought a new gun and is impatient to get after the coons SWINDLER MET HIS MATCH Sham Millionaire Is Victimized by a Cook Who "Had Been There Before." The classical confidence trick has been neatly played on a would-be swindler by his intended victim. 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THE STRANGE STORY OF JONATHAN SMALL. A very patient man was the inspector in the cab, for it was a weary time before I rejoined him. His face clouded over when I showed him the empty box. go swimming in the gauges. DURCHY for me, my company sergeant, John Holder, was in the water at the same time, and he was one of the finest swimmers in the service. A crocodile took me, just as I was half way across, and nipped off my right leg just as "There goes the reward," said he, gloomy. "Where there is no money there is no pay. This night's work would have been worth a tenner each to Sam Brown and me if the treasure had been there." "Mr. Thaddeus Sholto is a rich man," I said. "He will see that you are rewarded, treasure or no." The inspector shook his head despondently, however. "It's a bad job," he repeated, "and so Mr. Athelney Jones will think." His forecast proved to be correct, for the detective looked blank enough when I got to Baker street and showed him the empty box. They had only just arrived, Holmes, the prisoner and he, for they had changed their plans so far as to report themselves at a station upon the way. My companion lounged in his armchair with his usual listless expression, while Small sat stolidly opposite to him with his wooden leg cocked over his sound one. As I exhibited the empty box he leaned back in his chair and laughed aloud. "This is your doing, Small," said Athenley Jones, angrily. "Yes, I have put it away where you shall never lay hand upon it," he cried, exultantly. "It is my treasure; and if I can't have the loot I'll take darned good care that no one else does. I tell you that no living man has any right to it, unless it is three men who are in the Andaman convict barracks and myself. I know now that I cannot have the use of it, and I know that they cannot. I have acted all through for them as much as for myself. It's been the sign of four with us always. Well I know that they would have had me do just what I have done, and throw the treasure into the Thames rather than let it go to kith or kin of Sholto or of Morstan. It was not to make them rich that we did for Achmet. You'll find the treasure where the key is, and where little Tonga is. When I saw that your launch must catch us, I put the loot in a safe place. There are no rupees for you this journey." "You are deceiving us, Small," said Athemey Jones, sternly. "If you had wished to throw the treasure into the Thames it would have been easier for you to have thrown box and all." "Easier for me to throw, and easier for you to recover," he answered, with a shrewd, sidelong look. "The man that was clever enough to hunt me down is clever enough to pick an iron box from the bottom of a river. Now that they are scattered over five miles or so, it may be a harder job. It went to my heart to do it, though. I was half mad when you came up with us. However, there's no good grieving over it. I've had ups in my life, and I've had downs, but I've learned not to cry over split milk." "This is a very serious matter, Small," said the detective. "If you had helped justice, instead of thwarting it in this way, you would have had a better chance at your trial." "Justice!" snarled the ex-convict. "A pretty justice! Whose loot is this, if it is not ours? Where is the justice that I should give it up to those who have never earned it? Look how I have earned it! Twenty long years in that fever-ridden swamp, all day at work under the mangrove tree, all night chained up in the filthy convict huts, bitten by mosquitoes, racked with ague, bullied by every cursed black-faced policeman who loved to take it out of a white man. That was how I earned the Agra treasure; and you talk to me of justice because I cannot bear to feel that I have paid this price only that another may enjoy it! I would rather swing a score of times, or have one of Tonga's darts in my hide, than live in a convict cell and feel that another man is at his ease in a palace with the money that should be mine." Small had dropped his mask of stoicism, and all this came out in a wild whirl of words, while his eyes blazed, and the hand-cuffs clanked together with impassioned movement of his hands. I could understand, as I saw the fury and the passion of the man, that it was no groundless or unnatural terror which had possessed Maj. Sholto when he first learned that the injured convict was upon his track. "You forget that we know nothing of all this," said Holmes, quietly. "We not heard your story, and we cannot tell how far justice may originally have been on your side." "Well, sir, you have been very fair spoken to me, though I can see that I have you to thank that I have these bracelets upon my wrists. Still, I bear no grudge for that. It is all fair and above-board. If you want to hear my story I have no wish to hold it back. What I say to you is God's truth, every word of it. Thank you; you can put the glass beside me here, and I'll put my lips to it if I am dry. "I am a Worcestershire man myself—born near Pershore. I dare say you would find a heap of Smalls living there now if you were to look. I have often thought of taking a look round there, but the truth is that I was never much of a credit to the family, and I doubt if they would be so very glad to see me. They were all steady, chapel-going folk, small farmers, well known and respected over the country-side, while I was always a bit of a rover. At last, however, when I was about eighteen, I gave them no more trouble. For I got into a mess over a girl, and could only get out of it again by taking the queen's shilling and joining the Third Baffs which was just starting for India. "I wasn't destined to do much soldiering, however. I had just got past the goose-step and learned to handle my musket, when I was fool enough to go swimming in theanges. Practice for me, my company sergeant, John Holder, was in the water at the same time, and he was one of the finest swimmers in the service. A crocodile took me, just as I was half way across, and nipped off my right leg just as clean as a surgeon could have done it, just above the knee. What with the shock and the loss of blood I fainted, and I should have been drowned if Holder had not caught hold of me and paddled for the bank. I was five months in hospital over it, and when at last I was able to limp out of it with this timber toe strapped to my stump I found myself invalided out of the army and unfitten for any active occupation. "I was, as you can imagine, pretty down on my luck at this time, for I was a useless cripple, though not yet in my twentieth year. However, my misfortune soon proved to be a blessing in disguise. A man named Abel-white, who had come out there as an indigo-planter, wanted an overseer to look after his coolies and keep them up to their work. He happened to be a friend of our colonel's, who had taken an interest in me since the accident. HOW HE LOST HIS LEG. To make a long story short, the colonel recommended me strongly for the post and, as the work was mostly to be done on horseback, my leg was no great obstacle, for I had enough knee left to keep a good grip on the saddle. What I had to do was to ride over the plantation, to keep an eye on the men as they worked, and to report the idlers. The pay was fair, I had comfortable quarters, and altogether I was content to spend the remainder of my life in indigo-planting. Mr. Abelwhite was a kind man, and he would often drop into my little shanty and smoke a pipe with me, for white folk out there feel their hearts warm to each other as they never do here at home. "Well, I was never in luck's way long. Suddenly, without a note of warning, the great mutiny broke upon us. One month India lay as still and peaceful, to all appearance, as Surrey or Kent; the next there were two hundred thousand black devils let loose, and the country was a perfect hell. Of course you know all about it, gentlemen—a deal more than I do, very likely, since reading is not in my line. I only know what I saw with my own eyes. Our plantation was at a place called Muttra, near the border of the northwest provinces. Night after night the whole sky was alight with the burning bungalows, and day after day we had small companies of Europeans passing through our estate with their wives and children, on their way to Agra, where were the nearest troops. Mr. Abelwahle was an obstinate man. He had it in his head that the affair had been exaggerated, and that it would blow over as suddenly as it had sprung up. There he sat on his veranda, drinking whisky pegs and smoking ceroots, while the country was in a blaze about him. Of course we stuck by him. I and Dawson, who, with his wife, used to do the bookwork and the managing Well, one fine day the crash came. I had been away on a distant plantation, and was riding slowly home in the evening, when my eye fell upon something all huddled together at the bottom of a steep nullah. I rode down to see what it was, and the cold struck through my heart when I found it was Dawson's wife, all cut into ribbons, and al-featen by jackals and native dogs. A little further up the road Dawson himself was lying on his face, quite dead, with an empty revolver in his hand and four Sepows lying across each other in front of him. I reined up my horse, wondering which way I should turn, but at that moment I saw thick smoke curling up from Abelwhite's bungalow and the flames beginning to burst through the roof. I knew then that I could do my employer no good, but would only throw my own life away if I meddled in the matter. From where I stood I could see hundreds of the black fiends, with their red coats still on their backs, dancing and howling round the burning house. Some of them pointed at me, and a couple of bullets sang past my head; so I broke away across the paddy-fields, and found myself late at night safe within the walls at Agra. "As it proved, however, there was no great safety there, either. The whole country was up like a swarm of bees. Wherever the English could collect in Little bands they held just the ground that their guns commanded. Everywhere else they were helpless fugitives. It was a fight of the millions against the hundreds; and the cruelest part of it was that these men that we fought against, foot, horse and gunners, were our own picked troops, whom we had taught and trained, handling our own weapons, and blowing our own bugle calls. At Agra there were the Third Bengal Fusiliers, some Sikhs, two troops of horse and a battery of artillery. A volunteer corps of clerks and merchants had been formed, THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. and this I joined, wooden leg and all. We went out to meet the rebels at Shahgunge early in July, and we beat them back for a time, but our powder gave out and we had to fall back upon the city. Nothing but the worst news came to us from every side—which is not to be wondered at, for if you look at the map you will see that we were right in the heart of it. Lucknow is rather better than a hundred miles to the east, and Cawnpore about as far to the south. From every point on the compass there was nothing but torture and murder and outrage. "The city of Agra is a great place, swarming with fanatics and fierce devil-worshipers of all sorts. Our handful of men were lost among the narrow, winding streets. Our leader moved across the river, therefore, and took up his position in the old fort of Agra. I don't know if any of you gentlemen have ever read or heard anything of that old fort. It is a very queer place—the queerest that ever I was in, and I have been in some rum corners, too. First of all, it is enormous in size. I should think that the enclosure must be acres and acres. There is a modern part, which took all our garrison, women, children, stores and everything else, with plenty of room over. But the modern part is nothing like the size of the old quarter, where nobody goes, and which is given over to the scorpions and the centipedes. It is all full of great deserted halls, and winding passages, and long corridors twisting in and out, so that it is easy for folks to get lost in it. For this reason it was seldom that anyone went into it, though now and again a party with torches might go exploring. "The river washes along the front of the old fort, and so protects it, but on the sides and behind there are many doors, and these had to be guarded, of course, in the old quarter as well as in that which was actually held by our troops. We were short-handed, with hardly men enough to man the angles of the building and to serve the guns. It was impossible for us, therefore, to station a strong guard at everyone of the innumerable gates. What we did was to organize a central guardhouse in the middle of the fort, and to leave each gate under the charge of one white man and two or three natives. I was selected to take charge during certain hours of the night of a small isolated door upon the southwest side of the building. Two Silik troopers were placed under my command, and I was instructed if anything went wrong to fire my musket, when I might rely upon help coming at once from the central guard. As the guard was a good two hundred paces away, however, and as the space between was cut up into a labyrinth of passages and corridors, I had great doubts as to whether they could arrive in time to be of any use in case of an actual attack. "Well, I was pretty proud at having this small command given me, since I was a raw recruit, and a game-legged one at that. For two nights I kept the watch with my Punjabuees. They were tall, fierce-looking chaps, Mahomet Singh and Abdullah Khan by name, both old fighting men who had borne arms against us at Chilianwallah. They could talk English pretty well, but I could get little out of them. They preferred to stand together and jabber all night in their queer Silik lingo. For myself, I used to stand outside the gateway, looking down on the broad, winding river and on the twinkling lights of the great city. The beating of drums, the rattle of tomtoms, and the yells and bowls of the rebels, drunk with opium and with bang, were enough to remind us all night of our dangerous neighbors across the stream. Every two hours the officers of the night used to come round to all the posts, to make sure that all was well. "The third night of my watch was dark and dirty, with a small, driving rain. It was dreary work standing in the gateway hour after hour in such weather. I tried again and again to make my Silkis talk, but without much success. At two in the morning the rounds passed, and broke for a moment the weariness of the night. Finding that my companions would not be led into conversation, I took out my pipe, and laid down my musket to strike a match. In an instant the two Silkis were upon me. One of them snatched my firelock up and leveled it at my head, while the other held a great knife to my throat and swore between his teeth that he would plunge it into me if I moved a step. "My first thought was that these fellows were in league with the rebels, and that this was the beginning of an assault. If our door were in the hands of the Sepoys the place must fall, and the women and children be treated as they were in Cawnpore. Maybe you gentlemen think that I am just making out a case for myself, but I give you my word that when I thought of that, though I felt the point of the knife at my throat, I opened my mouth with the intention of giving a scream, if it was my last one, which might alarm the main guard. The man who held me seemed to know my thoughts; for, even as I braced myself to it, he whispered: 'Don't make a noise. The fort is safe enough. There are no rebel dogs on this side of the river.' There was the ring of truth in what he said, and I knew that if I raised my voice I was a dead man. I could read it in the fellow's brown eyes. I waited, therefore, in silence, to see what it was that they wanted from me. "Listen to me, saibh,' said the taller and fiercer of the pair, the one whom they called Abdullah Khan. 'You must either be with us now or you must be silenced forever. The thing is too great a one for us to hesitate. Either you are heart and soul with us I USED TO STAND OUTSIDE THE GATEWAY. on your oath on the cross of the Christians, or your body this night shall be thrown into the ditch and we shall pass over to our brothers in the rebel army. There is no middle way. Which is it to be, death or life? We can only give you three minutes to decide, for the time is passing, and all must be done before the rounds come again. "How can I decide?" said I. 'You have not told me what you want of me. But I tell you now that if it is anything against the safety of the fort I will have no truck with it, so you can drive home your knife and welcome.' "It is nothing against the fort,' said he. 'We only ask you to do that which your countrymen come to this land for. We ask you to be rich. If you will be one of us this night, we will swear to you upon the naked knife, and by the threefold oath which no Silkh was ever known to break, that you shall have your fair share of the foot. A quarter of the treasure shall be yours. We can say no fairer.' "But what is the treasure, then?' I asked. 'I am as ready to be rich as you can be, if you will but show me how it can be done.' "You swear, then,' said he, 'by the bones of your father, by the honor of your mother, by the cross of your faith, to raise no hand and speak no word against us, either now or afterwards?' "I will swear it. 'I answered, 'provided that the fort is not endangered.' "Then my comrade and I will swear that you shall have a quarter of the treasure, which shall be equally divided among the four of us.' "There are but three,' said I. There are but three, said I. "No; Dost Akbar must have his share. We can tell the tale to you while we await them. Do you stand at the gate, Nahomet Singh, and give notice of their coming. The thing stands thus, Sahib, and I tell it to you because I know that an oath is binding upon a Feringhee, and that we may trust you. Had you been a lying Hindo, though you had sworn by all the gods in their false temples, your blood would have been upon the knife, and your body in the water. But the Silk knows the Englishman, and the Englishman knows the Silk. Hearken, then, to what I have to say. "There is a rajah in the northern provinces who has much wealth, though his lands are small. Much has come to him from his father, and more still he has set by himself, for he is of a low nature and hoards his gold rather than spend it. When the troubles broke out he would be friends both with the lion and the tiger—with the Sepoy and with the company's raj. Soon, however, it seemed to him that the white men's day was come, for through all the land he could hear of nothing but their death and their overthrow. Yet, being a carful man, he made such plans that, come what might, half at least of his treasures would be left to him. That which was in gold and silver he kept by him in the vaults of his palace, but the most precious stones and the choicest pearls that he had he put in an iron box and sent it by a trusty servant who, under the guise of a merchant, should take it to the fort at Agra, there to lie until the land is at peace. Thus if the rebels won he would have his money. But if the company conquer his jewels would be saved to him. Having thus divided his hoard he threw himself into the cause of the Sepoys, since they were strong upon his borders. By doing this, mark you, sahib, his property becomes the due of those who have been true to their salt. "This pretended merchant, who travels under the name of Achmet, is now in the city of Agra, and desires to go in his way into the fort. He has with him as travelling companion my foster-brother Dost-Akbar, who knows his secret. Dost-Akbar has promised this sight to lead him to a side-postern of the fort, and has chosen this one for his purpose. Here he will come presently and here he will find Mahothet Singh and myself awaiting him. The place is lonely, and none shall know of his coming. The world shall-know of the merchant Achmet no more, but the great treasure of the rajah shall be divided among us. What say you to it, sahib? "In Worcestershire the life of a man seems a great and a sacred thing; but it is very different when there is fire and blood all round you and you have been used to meeting death at every turn. Whether Achmet the merchant lived or died was a thing as light as air to me, but at the talk about the treasure my heart turned to it, and I thought of what I might do in the old country with it, and how my folks would stare when they saw their ne'er-do-well coming back with his pockets full of gold moldores. I had, therefore, already made up my mind. Abdullah Khan, however, thinking that I hesitated pressed the matter more closely. "Consider, sahib," said he. "that if this man is taken by the commandant he will be hung or shot, and his jewels taken by the government, so that no man will be a rupee the better for them. Now, since we do the taking of him, why should we not do the rest as well? The jewels will be as well with us as in the company's coffers. There will be enough to make every one of us rich men and great chiefs. No one can know about the matter, for here we are cut off from all men. What could be better for the purpose? Say again, then, sahib, whether you are with us, or if we must look upon you as an enemy.' "I am with you heart and soul," said I. "It is well," he answered, handing me back my firelock. "You see that we trust you, for your word, like ours, is not to be broken. We have now only to wait for my brother and the merchant." "Does your brother know, then, of what you will do?" I asked. "The plan is his, He has devised it. We will go to the gate and share the watch with Mahomet Singh." "The rain was still falling steadily, for it was just the beginning of the wet season. Brown, heavy clouds were drifting across the sky, and it was hard to see more than a stone-cast. A deep moat lay in front of our door, but the water was in places nearly dried up, and it could easily be crossed. It was strange to me to be standing there with those two wild Punjabebees waiting for the man who was coming to his death. "Suddenly my eye caught the glint of a shaded lantern at the other side of the moat. It vanished among the mound-heaps, and then appeared again coming slowly in our direction. "Here they are! I exclaimed. "You will challenge him, sahib, as usual," whispered Abdullah. "Give him no cause for fear. Send us in with him, and we shall do the rest while you stay here on guard. Have the lantern ready to uncover, that we may be sure that it is indeed the man." "The light had flickered onwards, now stopping and now advancing, until I could see two dark figures upon the other side of the moat. I let them scramble down the sloping bank, splash through the mire, and climb half-way up to the gate, before I challenged them. "Who goes there? said I in a subdued voice. "Friends," came the answer. I uncovered my lantern and threw a flood of light upon them. The first was an enormous Sikh, with a black beard which swept nearly down to his cumberbund. Outside of a show I have never seen so tall a man. The other was a little fat, round fellow, with a great yellow turban, and a bundle in his hand, done up in a shawl. He seemed to be all in a quiver with fear. "WHAT HAVE YOU IN THE BUNDLE?" I ASKED. for his hands twitched as if he had the argue, and his head kept turning to left and right with two bright little twinkling eyes, like a mouse when he ventures out from his hole. It gave me the chills to think of killing him, but I thought of the treasure, and my heart set as hard as a flint within me. When he saw my white face he gave a little chirrup of joy and came running up towards me. "Your protection, sahib,' he painted—your protection for the unhappy merchant Achmet. I have traveled across Rajpottana that I might seek the shelter of the fort at Agra. I have been robbed and beaten and abused because I have been the friend of the company. It is a blessed night this when I am once more in safety—I and my poor possessions." "What have you in the bundle? I asked." "An iron box,' he answered, 'which contains one or two little family matters which are of no value to others, but which I should be sorry to lose. Yet I am not a beggar; and I shall reward you, young sahib, and your governor also, if he will give me the shelter I ask." "I could not trust myself to speak longer with the man. The more I looked at his fat, frightened face, the harder did it seem that we should slay him in cold blood. It was best to get it over. "Take him to the main guard,' said I. The two Sikhs closed in upon him on each side, and the giant walked behind, while they marched in through the dark gateway. Never was a man so compassed round with death. I remained at the gateway with the lantern. "I could hear the measured trump of their footsteps sounding through the lonely corridors. Suddenly it ceased, and I heard voices, and a souffle, with the sound of blows. A moment later there came, to my horror. a rush of footsteps coming in my direction, with the loud breathing of a running man. I turned my lantern down the long, straight passage, and there was the fat man, running like the wind, with a smear of blood across his face, and close at his heels, bounding like a tiger, the great black-bearded Sikh, with a knife fashing in his hand. I have never seen a man run so fast as that little merchant. He was galling on the Sikh, and I could see that if he once passed me and got to the open air he would save himself yet. My heart softened to him, but again the thought of his treasure turned me hard and bitter. I cast my firelock between his legs as he raced past, and he rolled twice over like a shot rabbit. Ere he could stagger to his feet the Sikh was upon him, and buried his knife twice in his side. The man never uttered man nor moved muscle, but lay where he had fallen. I think myself that he may have broken his neck with the fall. You see, gentlemen, that I am keeping my promise. I am telling you every word of the business just exactly as it happened, whether it is in my favor or not." He stopped and held out his man-aced hands for the whisky and water which Holmes had brewed for him. For myself, I confess that I had now conceived the utmost horror of the man, not only for this cold-blooded business in which he had been concerned, but even more for the somewhat flippant and careless way in which he narrated it. Whatever punishment was in store for him, I felt that he might expect no sympathy from me. Sherlock Holmes and Jones sat with their hands upon their knees, deeply interested in the story, with the same disgust written upon their faces. He may have observed it, for there was a touch of defiance in his voice and manner as he proceeded. "It was all very bad, no doubt," said he. "I should like to know how many fellows in my shoes would have refused a share of this loot when they knew that they would have their throats cut for their pains. Besides, it was my life or his when once he was in the fort. If he had got out, the whole business would have come to light, and I should have been court-martialed and shot as likely as not; for people were not very lenient at a time like that." "Go on with your story," said Holmes, shortly. Subscribe to the PLANET Only $1.50 per year. CHINAMAN GOT LEFT CHINAMAN GOT LEFT SICK MAN SENDS HIS MONEY TO JOHN'S LAUNDRY. Templeton is an unpretenenti- clerk in a downtown Chicago store in Dearborn avenue, north of Super- ior street, he has an ordinarily small, gloomy, chilly back room to which he goes when he has to. Like- wise he leaves it as soon as he can and on the least provocation. Necess- sarily he moved at once last week when it was decided that he must be operated upon for appendicitis. The north side hospital room was a revelation to him—so light, and airy, and clean, and at the same time warm —that the suffering from the disease and from the operation made it all seem like a rest cure from a mere brain fag. The boys were exceptionally solicitious—as were some of their sisters—and at all times there were dainties or flowers at the side of his bed. Ross, a chum who lived only four squares from the hospital, was in every evening, and sometimes in the morning before starting downtown. On one of these mornings near the last of the week Ross called and found that Templeton had some laundry work which he wished left at the Chinese laundry under a store front in Clark street. Ross made it up into a bundle, covering the smaller articles with a big white night shirt, into which he rolled and tied them with the sleeves in true Chinese fashion. "I'll throw them down to John as I go by the place," said Ross, tying a final knot in the string around the newspaper wrapper. But, as a matter of fact, says the Chicago Tribune, Ross did not give to the bundle the airy, fairy toss that he may have had in mind at the hospital. The fact was both front doors were shut, and at the foot of the flight of steps were about five inches of water accumulated from a choked gutter. Ross walked down carefully and knocked, when, after a moment, Jonn, with a heavy face and vacant stare, C. C. TEN DOLLARS IN THE WASH. swashed one of the doors open and took the bundle, without a word or gesture. Ross was busy enough about 11 o'clock that morning when a call came from the telephone, announcing that Templeton wanted to talk with him. The talk was by proxy, however. "Mr. Temple wishes you would hurry over to that Chinese place and get the bundle you left there this morning," called the voice of Templeton's nurse. "He forgot when he gave the things to you, and there's a $10 bill in the pocket of the night shirt. Won't you please hurry over after it?" Ross had to tell her that he would, but he had some difficulty in getting started owing to the red tape of the office needed in getting out nearly an hour ahead of time. When he got to the shop, however, there were the same closed doors, the same silence within, an increase of two inches in the depth of water outside, and an increasing noise in the sloshing door as it swung again in response to Ross' rattling of the latch. "Let me look at Mr. Templeton's bundle I left this morning," said Ross, keeping an even tone. "Mis' Tem'pum'n's bun'—hey?" queried the celestial, with a face that was as obscure as a moon in rebellion. John stepped into deeper water behind the counter and, looking over a row of shelves overhead, reached up and pulled down the identical bundle to which Ross had applied paper and string five hours before. But Ross was suspicious and he thought he saw evidences of an untying of his old knot as he looked. The Chinese had only the stupidest of bored, sodden, unreadable faces as Ross glanced up at him and went for the knot. Carefully he unrolled the shirt until the pocket was under his hand, when with a nervous movement he reached into it and brought out the $10 bill with an ease that a prestidigitator might envy on any stage! "And to tell that story anywhere," insists Ross, "always brings out the most unsympathetic comments I ever heard." "They ought to have been glad to know that Templeton got his money back," is the usual remark in return for this. At which Ross glares back: "You're another! I wouldn't look at the change that came over that Chinaman's face again for two ten dollar bills." After Causing Fire Alarm in New York He Is Arrested and Then Pays His Own Fine. A tow-headed, distorted-limbed, garulous monkey owned by Guiseppi Degitio, not only caused a section of the New York fire department to rush poll mell through the streets, scared French maid and a Swedish dito into fits and roused the volcanic fire of an Irish policeman, but then had himself and his owner arrested on a charge of disorderly conduct. To cap the climax of Jocko's glory, he produced the money required to make up the two dollars fine imposed on his owner in the West side police court. It was this way. Jocko, pursuing the fleesome penny, scaled the walls of THE MUSICAL MAN MR. LYNCH WAS ANNOYED. house at Riverside drive and One Hundred and Eighth street, upsetting rubber plants and other alleged floral delicacies, one of which descended on the dome of thought of Thomas K. Lynch, a policeman. Mr. Lynch was annoyed. He said so in picturesque language, and after failing to capture the monkey, which scared occupants of the house, the policeman summoned a hook and ladder, which got the festive simian. The magistrate fined the music manufacturer two dollars. Giuseppe excavated through his pockets and got $1.99. In despair he said something to the monkey, who solemnly produced one cent from his little pocket. Then the two walked out. SWALLOWED HER HAIR A Connecticut Dansel Has an Exciting Time with a Gander. Nineteen-year-old Rachel Hastings of South Prospect, came to Waterbury, Conn., with her father and a load of berries and a fine gander imprisoned in a slatted crate tied on to the back of their light wagon. On the way to town they encountered some boys engaged in killing a blacksnake six feet two inches long. The snake died hard and Farmer Hastings, Miss Rachel and Dobbin all got excited. Possibly the gander too shared in the excitement, for after it was all over and Farmer Hastings had descended from the wagon at Saxe's greenhouse and Miss Rachel was leaning back in the wagon seat, recovering from the experience, the gander seems to have mistaken her long tress of hair for the defunct snake. Suddenly he thrust his long neck from the crate and, seizing the braid, began to swal- A man in a hat is working on a table. LOW Miss Rachel's back hair with a gurgle of satisfaction. The girl screamed in fright; Dobbin leaped in terror, turned and ran; the wagon upset, and the young woman was thrown out down an embankment. No serious damage was done. Miles Rachel's braid is still intact and the gander is reported to be doing as well as could be expected. Doggie's Sympathy Rejected. A little girl in Iola, Kan., was ill of the measles. Her dog was in great distress because he could not go to her, and one day he was admitted to the bedchamber. Putting his forefeet on the bed, he madly wagged his tall and beamed gladness from every feature. Looking at him a moment, the little girl said, angrily "Oh, you needn't grim; your turn will come next." Woman Gravedigger Dead England's only female gravedigger, Mrs. Elizabeth Geese, died recently at Lewes, at the age of 76. On the death of her husband, in 1879, she was appointed to fill his place as gravedigger in the Lewes cemetery, and since then performed the duties. As Usual "Couldn't find my pipe last night. "That so?" "Nor my cigar, nor my slippers, not this month's magazines, nor—" "A cyclone must have struck house." "Nope; my wife had just been ting my den to rights for me."— ton Post. Another Name for It. "You remember are ill-timed, ties," said the boarding house is "You should remember there is for everything." "Right you are, Mrs. Skimple plied the young man, "and the everything is when you serve hash."—Cincinnati Enquirer. 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THE horrible burning of the two colored men at the stake at Statesboro, Georgia, August 16th, was followed by the shooting of ALBERT ROBERTS and his son, who reside in the neighborhood. He was one of the most respected colored men in that vicinity and the white people who know him best are outspoken in their denunciation of those who thus wantonly shot him. Another colored man was found dead on the roadside, five miles east of Statesboro. He had been shot in two places with a Winchester rifle. Colored people throughout the neighborhood have been flogged unmercifully and ordered to leave. It is openly stated that colored men and women were marked for lynching. One colored man was to be punished because he made a disrespectful protest against white supremacy in Georgia. There is no resistance on the part of the colored people in question. A large consignment of buggy-whips were received. Rev. STUBBS, (white) pastor of the church called a meeting of the elders for the purpose of having expelled all members who participated in the burning of the colored men, REED and CATO. Sheriff KENRICK went to Oliver, Georgia, to bring back a colored man named LONNIE WILLIAMS, presumed to be concerned in the murders. When he reached the place, he found that WILLIAMS had been shot, although it afterwards developed that he was not concerned in the affair at all and was not the man wanted. Yet, with all of this, offers of assistance were made from Brunswick, Valdosta and other Georgia points for the purpose of subduing the colored people, who had been so ignominally slaughtered and the others who were fleeing for their lives. Of course, there has been an almost universal condemnation of the outrage and the southern press has been out, spoken in its condemnation of the lynchers. The question arises, however, as to whether a sheriff has the lawful right to disarm and manacle a prisoner and surrender him to a mob, bent on taking the life of the prisoner. Is a prisoner justified in resisting arrest when he knows that the sheriff arresting him is both unable and unlucky to protect the life of the man trusted to his keeping? each man will answer these questions himself. For our part, we insist it is as well 'to die with the ague with the fever." It is far better to sed while resisting a sheriff than drawn, quartered, hanged and by a mob of white demons, who Christian civilization to the and engage in nameless tortures victims. With a spark of humanity or an iota of sympathy can read the accounts of those moments of agony to which human beings were subjected without a thrill of indignation and a feeling of horror. Colored men of respectability must own repeating rifles and improved shotguns. These are more valuable now to the average colored man than are insurance policies upon their persons. We have wives and children to protect. We have daughters to guard against the lecherous brutes and we are cowards indeed if we do not stand ready and willing to defend them. In all legitimate efforts, we shall have the encouragement and support of the better class of white people of the Southland. Should a black mob attempt to treat a white man in the same way that these white men have treated a colored one, we would stand ready to rally to his defense and to protect his household. It is a sad commentary upon American civilization and embraces a dark chapter in this portion of American history. It is needless to appeal further to the chivalry of South. It is already aroused, but its efforts to protect us seem futile. It is our opinion that we must first protect ourselves before others will protect us. The white men of Georgia have the court-houses, the jails, the penitentiaries, the juries, the judges, the sheriffs and the hangmen, coupled with plenty of white men to do the job. There are some colored men, just as there are some white men, who should be legally hanged and no one on this side of the "potato patch" is objecting to the execution. But when it comes to roasting Negroes and shooting down innocent ones, even though an eight minutes trial has been allotted to the accused, we draw the line, demand our rights, even though we get a pass-port to heaven with a gun in our hands. MOB SHOOTS AND BURNS A NEGRO He Criminally Assaulted a White Girl at Cedartown, Ga. CONFESSED WHEN IDENTIFIED Cedartown, Ga., Aug. 23. — Jim Cluver, a negro, was shot to death near the home of the white girl he had assaulted, and his body dragged a distance of about a mile into this city and burned at the stake on the public square. A mob estimated at 500 composed the shooting and burning party. The crime for which the negro was thus punished was that of committing a criminal assault upon Levia Reeves, the 13-year-old daughter of a well-known farmer. The true story of the crime is the most revolting that had ever been given to the public from this immediate section of the country. After the little girl had protected the negro from the attack of a large dog owned by her father, he followed her to the pasture where she was taking a cow, caught her, choked her into insensibility and left her bleeding and unconscious in a corn field. Bloodhounds had been on the negro's track all day, and he was captured some distance away, carried to the home of the girl, who unhesitatingly identified him as her assailant, and taken by the crowd some distance from the girl's home and shot to death. The negro confessed his guilt. Immediately the crowd took him away from the posse which had captured him, and his body was riddled with bullets. The crowd continued to gather, and when the march back to the town with the dead body in tow began it appeared as if fully 1000 persons had joined the procession. By the time the crowd reached Cedartown several hundred more had been added to the crowd. About 2000 persons witnessed the burning as best they could in the bright moonlight on the most conspicuous place on Main street. The town is in a fever of excitement, but it is thought no trouble will follow. MRS. BOTKIN SENTENCED Murderess of Mrs. John P. Dunning Goes to Prison For Life San Francisco, Aug. 23.—Mrs. Cordella Botkin was sentenced by Judge Carroll Cook to life imprisonment in the state prison at San Quentin for the murder of Mrs. John P. Dunning, in Dover, Del, by means of poisoned candy mailed from this city. In passing sentence Judge Cook expressed regret that he could not impose the death penalty, as the jury in its verdict had fixed the punishment. Mrs. Botkin received the sentence without evidence of emotion. An appeal to the supreme court will be taken by Mrs. Botkin's attorneys. In Superior Judge Dunn's court Attorney Reese Clark asked that information on file there charging Mrs. Botkin with the murder of Ida Henrietta Dean, sister of Mrs. John P. Dunning, be dismissed on the grounds of lack of prosecution. The case was continued until September 10. MINE GAS EXPLODES Four Men Terribly Burned, Two of Whom Will Die. Shamokin, Pa., Aug. 23—In an explosion of gas in a slope of the Rock Ridge Coal Company near here, John Bader, Lincoln Campbell, Harry Whennen and Anthony Toltski were horribly burned. Bader and Campbell will die. A rock falling through a platform caused an opening through which a large body of gas rushed and enveloped the naked lamps of the men. Whennen and Toltski crawled on a car and were hoisted to the surface. As the car passed Bader grasped the rope and was dragged 50 yards up the slope, where he became unconscious. Bader and Campbell were found by a rescuing party later. THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA POLICEMAN'S AWFUL FIND Picked Up Head of His Wife, WH Picked Up Head of His Son, Who Was Cut to Pieces by a Train Cut to Pieces By a Train. Chicago, Aug. 24.—A young man about 22 years of age was killed by a train at 101st street, and a patrol wagon in charge of Police Sergeant Patrick Reilly was sent to convey the remains to the morgue. The body was literally cut in pieces, and the police were forced to gather it up bit by bit. For some time the head could not be found, but it was finally picked up by Sergeant Reilly, who on bringing it to the light of a lantern found that it was the head of his own son, Patrick J. Reilly. Filed Petition In Bankruntox Filed Petition In Bankruptcy. Washington, Aug. 24. — The Second National Bank, the National Bank of Washington and the National Metropolitan Bank, of this city, filed a petition in bankruptcy against Thomas E. Waggaman, a prominent real estate dealer, alleging that a deed of trust filed in favor of the Catholic University for approximately $876,000, was with the intent of making that institution a preferred creditor. Waggaman is treasurer of the Catholic University, and it is said that some investments made on behalf of the university had not been regarded as good, and the deed of trust had been filed as security. Battle in Paraguay. Buenos Ayres, Aug. 24.—There are persistent rumors that a land engagement has been fought between the Paraguayan revolutionists and government troops, resulting in the defeat of the latter and the capture of 400 men. The rumors cannot be confirmed. There is an utter absence of definite news regarding the progress of the revolution. PORT ARTHUR IS ALMOST WON Japanese Capture "Chair Fort" After Desperate Attack STOESSEL'S RESIDENCE SEIZED Mikado's Forces Are Hotly Pressing Russia's Center and Right In Vicinity of Golden Hill—Great Anxiety In St. Petersburg. London, Aug. 24—The Evening News published a dispatch from Chefoo under yesterday's date announcing that the Japanese captured "Chair Fort" of the Port Arthur defenses Monday after a tremendous attack. The Evening News' dispatch from Chefoo is simply a repetition of the announcement of the capture of Ishan or Etueshan, known as "Chair Fort." Etseshan fort, according to the maps of Port Arthur available, is almost in the center of the chain of forts, of which it forms one, defending Port Arthur, from which it is only about a mile and a half distant. It occupies a commanding position and is possibly only second in importance to the Golden Hill forts. It was announced from Chefoo on Monday that the Japanese had swept the Russians from Pigeon Bay and had captured the northernmost fort of the western line of inner defenses, though Antzschen fort, about a mile northeast of Etseshan fort, might also be classed as the northernmost fort of the western line of inner defenses at Port Arthur. Portress All But Taken. Chefoo. Aug. 24—According to advice brought here from Port Arthur by a junk, the Japanese are hotly pressing the Russian center along the railway, and the Russian right in the vicinity of Golden Hill. These advice are brought by Chinese who deported from Tai-Pang-Tse, which is one mile from the city, near Golden Hill, between the city and the forts of the Russian right wing. The Chinese declare that the Japanese occupied Tai-Pang-Tse and penetrated along the railway to General Stoessel's residence on August 21. A junk which left Laiota promontory on the night of August 21 has just arrived here. She reports that the Japanese have succeeded in occupying Antseshan forts, as well as another fort, probably Etseshan, about a mile southwest of Antseshan. They have driven the Russians from the parade grounds (which lie about two miles north of the harbor); they have destroyed two forts at Chaochanko, which is within the eastern fortifications, and they have advanced to a point near Chaochanko. This news confirms information received here previously and which the local Japanese were not inclined to believe. The junk heard fire until midnight of August 22. Scarcely a building in Port Arthur remains undamaged. The town hall, which was used as a magazine, has been destroyed. Four large warships, unable to fight, are at Port Arthur. Only one ship, a vessel with two masts and two funnels, has guns on board. The fire of the forts not captured by the Japanese, together with the effect of land mines, is given as the reason why the Japanese have not yet conquered the Russian stronghold. As this report would indicate that Port Arthur had all but fallen. **Russian Battleship Strikes a Mine.** Tokio, Aug. 24.—Admiral Kataoka reports that as the Russian battleship Sevasatopol was emerging from Port Arthur yesterday she struck a mine, after which she was seen to be listed to starboard. She was towed back into the harbor. Port Arthur to Be Stoessel's Tomb. London, Aug. 23.—According to the Moscow correspondent of the Morning Post, Lieutenant General Stoessel concluded a telegram to an intimate friend there with the words: "Farewell forever. Port Arthur will be my tomb." The Situation at Shanghai. Shanghai. Aug. 24. -The final time limit allowed by the taotl of Shanghai for the Russian cruiser Askold and the torpedo boat destroyer Grozovol to disarm has passed without compliance with his order. A meeting of the foreign consuls was held, but the Russian consul general, M. Kleinmenoff, was absent and no definite course of action was decided upon. The taoti has requested Sir Pelham Warren, the British consul general to order that the repairs to the Astkold be stopped. The British consul general has taken no action as yet. There is a Japanese fleet outside the harbor awaiting developments. A visit to the Astkold shows that her hull is not in condition to go to sea. The repairs on the Russian cruiser's boilers and funnels has been rushed, but the replacing of damaged plates in her hull has been pursued in a desultory manner. RUSSIA LOSES ANOTHER CRUISER Japs Forced Novik Ashore After Severe Engagement Tokio, Aug. 22.—After a severe engagement with the protected cruisers Chitose and Tsushima, the greyhounds of the Japanese navy, the fleet Russian cruiser Novik has been vanquished. The fight occurred yesterday After it the Novik, in a shaking condition, was run ashore in Korsakovsk harbor, on the Island of Sakhalen. The details of the fight are not yet known here, but it is evident that the Chitose and Tsushima caught up with the Novik Saturday, and that a running fight ensued. The contest was resumed and terminated yesterday morning, Captain Sukeichiro Takahashi, who is in command of the Chitose, reported the engagement in a brief telegram to the navy department. He says he first attacked the Russian cruiser Saturday afternoon, and that on Sunday morning he inflicted heavy damage upon her. The Novik nearly sank, but she was beached at Korsakovsk. A shell from the Novik struck the Tsushima in a bunker. Temporary repairs, however, rendered the Japanese cruiser seaworthy, and she continued to fight. The Japanese suffered no casualties. The Novik was one of the Russian fleet that steamed out from Port Arthur on the morning of August 10 to force its way through the Japanese lines. She entered Tsingtau the night of August 11, but got away there the night of August 12, having remained less than 24 hours. She was then erroneously reported to have been sunk 40 miles from Tsingtau. [Korsakovsk is a port on the southern coast of Sakhalien, off the coast of Siberia and about 550 miles northeast of Vladivostok.] CZAR'S MANIFESTO Corporal Punishment Abolished and Ambency For Political Offence Amnesty For Political Offenses. St. Petersburg, Aug. 24. — Emperor Nicholas' manifesto on the birth of an heir to the throne abolishes corporal punishment among the rural classes and for first offenses among the sea and land forces, remits greases owing to the state for the purchases of land and other direct imposts, sets apart $1,500,000 from the state funds for the purpose of forming an indemnable fund for the landless people of Finland, grants amnesty to those Finlanders who have emigrated without authorization, remits the fines imposed upon the rural and urban communities of Finland which refused to submit to military conscription in 1902 and 1903, and also remits the fines imposed on the Jewish communities in the cases of Jews avoiding military service. The manifesto provides for a general reduction in sentences for common law offenses, while a general amnesty is accorded in the case of all political offenses with the exception of those in which murder has been done. "JIM CROW" RULE AT ATLANTIC? Guards Prevent Colored Bathers From Using Upper Beach. Atlantic City, N. J., Aug. 24. "Jim Crow" law has been established in Atlantic City besides forbidden spooning and the wearing of abbreviated bathing suits. Going from the cottage in 5 St. Katherine place, where she is employed by Mrs. Gasney, of Philadelphia, Martha Waller, colored, went to the beach for a bath. A life guard employed by the city informed the girl that orders had been issued to keep all colored bathers from the upper section of the beach while there were white people in the water. At police headquarters, where she went to investigate, she was told that nothing to that effect has been ordered, and it was supposed the beach was still free to all. But later on a party of seven colored bathers was ordered from the water between Young's and the Auditorium pier, and they were the only bathers of that hue in sight. With the coming of the "Jim Crow" order officers have been detailed to pace up and down the strand to arrest all "spooners" and to warn all those who may look as though they are liable to spoon. The order is being received with indignation by the colored bathers, and many of them have decided to ignore the warning of the guards in order that a test may be made of the case. DROWNED AT ATLANTIC Richland, Pa., Man Lost Despite Life Guards' Battle. Atlantic City, N. J., Aug. 23—Charles Hollenbach, aged 20, was drowned in the surf while bathing, in spite of the heroic efforts of Fritz Haesler, of Philadelphia, who was bathing with him, and Life Guards Allen and Penny, who leaped from Young's Pier fully attired and went out to the drowning man. Hollenbach's body was recovered and will be sent to his former home in Richland, Pa. Hollenbach was swimming well out near Young's Pier, when he became exhausted and screamed for help. Haesler and the two guards were unable to reach the drowning man before he sank. Girl Shot Drunker Father New Bedford, Mass. Aug. 23.—Mary Alice Botham was arrested, charged with shooting her father, Joseph Botham, at their home in this city. Botham was seriously wounded. It is calmed that Botham went home in an intoxicated condition and created a disturbance. His daughter seized a revolver and fired one shot. It appears that the weapon was loaded with six blank cartridges and one ball cartridge. The girl asserts that she intended to discharge one of the blank shells to frighten her father. She was placed under arrest. Train Kills Man and Boy. Williamsport, Pa. Aug. 23—A Northern Central passenger train struck a milk wagon near Canton, killing D. G. Lindley, the driver, and Jacob Miller, a boy who was riding with him. Willis Weary, another boy, was fatally hurt. Both horses were killed. MRS. MAYBRICK IN NEW YORK Thanks Americans For Fight Made For Her Release. SHE WILL TRAVEL INCOGNITO New York, Aug. 24.—Mrs. Florence C. Maybrick, recently released from prison in England, who arrived in New York from Antwerp on the steamer Vaderland, travelled under the name of Mrs. Rose Ingraham, and was accompanied by Mr. and Mrs. Samuel V. Hayden, Mr. Hayden being her attorney. The immigration authorities made no attempt to question Mrs. Maybrick, and the customs officers did all in their power to expedite the taking of her declaration and the passing of her baggage. Deputy Surveyor Bishop had met the ship down the bay and took charge of things, and a special inspector was detailed to examine her baggage in her stateroom. She left the pier on the arm of Mr. Hayden. What the curious crowd saw was a slight, short woman, with a thin, worn face and a mass of brown hair. The simple gown of a small black and white pattern of silk fitted her closely, and was fastened at the waist with a wide black belt. The only bit of color in her costume was heliotrope ribbon and a flower of the same hue as her hat. She was unveiled, and smiled at the staring crowd. During the voyage across Mrs. Maybrick appeared a few times at meals and in the cabin, but remained most of the time in her cabin. She was met at the dock by a few close friends, and was driven directly to a hotel, and after a brief rest will make a trip to the Catskills before her contemplated journey south. Mr. Hayden acknowledged that Mrs. Maybrick was about to proceed in her suit for lands in Virginia and other states, which are said to be valuable, but declined to refer to the answer to the suit in which it is alleged that Mrs. Maybrick has no claim to the property, and that the bringing of the suit was a trick to hasten the woman's release. Mrs. Maybrick refused to be interviewed, but gave out the following statement: "I regret that the state of my health as well as business reasons prevent my talking to my friends of the American press at this time as I should like. To them and to my fellow countrymen and women I am deeply indebted for their effort in my behalf, and I take this means of expressing my everlasting gratitude as well as words can, and also to thank them for their congratulations on my release, which regret I have not been able, personally, to acknowledge." "As my mother was not able to accompany me, I came over under the protection of Mr. Hayden, my attorney, and his wife. "I am assured by my English physician and by Dr. Wilmer, of Washington, D. C., who prescribed for me during the voyage, that quiet and mental rest will in time restore my health. "It is on the advice of my counsel and my physician that I have traveled incognito. I cannot express the feelings of deep joy and thankfulness with which I return to my native land. At the earliest opportunity I shall visit my birthplace, Mobile, Ala., and also Norfolk, Va., my home during my married life. "I now believe, as I have always, that God will in his own time right the great wrong that I have suffered." JOHN LOWBER WELSH IS DEAD Well-Known Financier Succumbs to Complication of Diseases Complication of Diseases. Philadelphia, Aug. 23—John Lowber Welsh, financier and railway organizer, is dead. He passed away peacefully at his country residence, "Hillbrow," Chestnut Hill, surrounded by his wife and two sons. Death was due to a complication of diseases, following a complete physical breakdown in October last. Doctors William Moss, James Tyson and Alfred Stengel, who attended Mr. Welsh, assign Bright's disease as the immediate cause of his death. Mr. Welsh's wealth is estimated at $10,000,000. He was a director of the Reading Railway company and all the important branch lines controlled by the Reading. At his death he was president of the Penn Traffic company, which operates the company stores at Johnstown of the Cambria Steel company; president Keystone Watch Case company, director in Cambria Steel and chairman of the finance board of the Reading. He organized the Edison Electric company of Philadelphia, and was president of the Union Traction during the great strike of 1895. Customs Violations Unearthed San Francisco, Aug. 24.—Extensive violations of the customs laws have been mecarthed here by customs inspectors who searched the United States naval transport Solace, which arrived last Friday from Manila, Guam and Honolulu. Forty-one seizures were made, amounting in value to several thousand dollars, including cigars, silks, embroideries, decorated porcelain and Japanese curios. The goods have been sent to the appraisers' store. Among the persons to whom dutiful goods were addressed are a number of United States naval officers. Senator Hoar's End Near Worcester, Mass, Aug. 24.—Senator George F. Hoar continued to grow weaker, and it is thought the end is not far off. He slept part of the time during the night and appeared to be free from pain. Case Against Chauncey Depew. Chicago, Aug. 24—Postmaster General Henry C. Payne was served with a summons to appear in a justice court in this city on August 26 as a witness in a case against Chauncey M. Depew. The postmaster general did not receive the summons with pleasure, and informed the constable, John Simmons, that he would ignore it entirely. Last June, when Senator Depew was in Chicago attending the Republican convention, he was sued by S. G. Brabrook, of this city, who declared that he had in some manner been defrauded by a concern called the Penny Publishing Company, with which, he asserted, Senator Depew had been connected in 1892. The case was continued until August 26, and ever since the constable has been trying to serve a summons on Postmaster General Payne. He located Mr. Payne in the Chicago Club after a long search. "I have a subpoena for your appearance in court August 26," said the constable, Mr. Payne made no reply. "It is the case of S. G. Brabrook vs. Chaucey M. Depew," said the constable. Still no reply. "Here is 50 cents witness fee," said the constable, and still there was no reply. "Here is 10 cents carfare," added the constable, and then he received a reply. "I will ignore the summons and will not appear in that court under any circumstances," said the postmaster general, and then, according to Constable Simmons, Mr. Payne tossed the money toward him and walked away. School Board Held For Court. Pottsville, Pa., Aug. 24.—The members of the Frackville school board were held for court by Squire McCool, on the charge of misdemeanor in office. 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Last night when I'd smoothed your wee pillow down And had been long in bed, With your limbs in childish abandon toes And the curls of your tousled head Spread far and tumbled like shimmering gold Away from your brow so white, I stooed to kiss you, you didn't know. And I whispered again: "Good-night!" Then I went and sat by the casement wide, Alone in a darkened room. And gazed on the night while I planned for you, And breathed in the rare perfume That seems to breathe when the night awakes And touches each bloom with dew; Twas wonderful, wonderful, wonderful night, And I watched it and planned for you. And I knew through all of the things I planned In the perfumed night and still, That only such things will come to you As happen to be God's will; But I who love you so much may help, And you—you may help some, too— And perhaps with all of us, fear, at work, The world may be bright for you. -J M. Lewis, in Houston Post. The Kidnaping of Kate By J. C. PLUMMER (Copyright, 1904, by Daily Story Pub. Co.) F THE steamship Falcon had not come in five hours ahead of her time—But she did come in whistling imperiously and lashing the water with her propeller as if proud of her feat and, as a consequence, the schooner Amoe Buzzy, which was moored at the steamer's pier, where she had no business, was obliged to pull out, which she did, sulkily, like an evicted squatter, and was a berth in the rear of the schooner Young Eagle, thus exactly reversing the former position of the two vessels. Capt. Hornby knew nothing of this, he being uptown, secondly, to clear his schooner, primarily to arrange for an act of piracy. While pretty Kate Bowers had blushingly acknowledged that her heart was Hornby's, she refused to hearken to his suggestions for an elopement. Most unreasonably, from Hornby's standpoint, did Mrs. Bowers oppose her daughter's union with the man of his choice. Mrs. Bowers averred that she had made a mistake herself in her choice, which was hard on the late Mr. Bowers, and she was resolved that her daughter should not do similarly. Kate's husband must not be a Yankee, and Hornby was from New England. She also insisted that her daughter's husband should be a Baptist. "I'm liberal to a fault," said Mrs. Bowers, "but if anyone save a Baptist born and bred gets to Heaven he'll get there by accident, and he'll never feel at home." Hornby was not, as he expressed it, anchored to any church, and was willing to become either Baptist or Mohammedan, but Mrs. Bowers disdained any such offer. A Baptist born and bred was what she desired. No man had ever beaten Mrs. Bowers in an argument, or woman, either. Abortive efforts in that direction were said to have caused the untimely death of Mr. Bowers, and Hornby failed most miserably. Then he resolved on piracy. If he could get Kate away from her mother, he was confident she would consent to marry him without the maternal blessing, and this he must effect in some way. The inspiration came to him as he was navigating his schooner up the bay, and he directly set about carrying it into effect. He Invited Mrs. Bowers and Kate to make a voyage to Norfolk on the Amos Buzby, and, the city being hot and dusty, Mrs. Bowers accepted the Invitation. With her watchfulness she was sure Hornby would have no chance of persuading Kate to do anything rash or disobedient, besides she had a sister in Norfolk whom she would be glad to visit. Hornby laughed to himself and already eyed Kate with the glance of ownership. The procession to the schooner on the evening of departure was in this wise—Kate under the escort of Mr. Beavens, a friend of the family, and Mrs. Bowers with Hornby. "You go aboard the schooner furtherest down the wharf," said Hornby to Beavens. "Mrs. Bowers and I'll walk slowly and catch up with you." The night was moonless, and the smoke of the many factories about the wharves, settling in the heavy air, made it quite dark. As they strolled along the street Hornby showed a most remarkable interest in the various saloons they passed, and when in one of them, near the wharf, he noted Capt. Suggs, of the Young Eagle, energetically laying in cargo at the bar, he muttered to himself: "He's good for a whole night's stay." Hornby assisted Mrs. Bowers over the rail of the first schooner they reached, and escorted her into the cabin. "Where's Kate and Mr. Beavings?" asked Mrs. Bowers. "Oh," replied Hornby, carelessly, "I guess they're walking up and down the wharf. I'll go out and call 'em in. You sit down in this chair." He sprang over the rail and ran almost Mr. Beavens on the wharf. "Where's Mrs. Bowers, Kate's waiter her?" asked Beavens. He's aboard now," lied Hornby. I came the other way." ens bade him good-night and town, while Hornby, putting his his mouth shouted the name of Diggs, his mate. On that functionary answering from the darkness, he ordered the Amos Buzby to be cast loose and made ready for the tugboat; then he ran down to the end of the steamer's pier where, by previous arrangement, a tug was in waiting. Hornby climbed on the tug and in a short while a hawser was attached to the Amos Buzby, which had warped herself ahead of the Young Eagle, and the voyage was begun. When the river was cleared and the schooner was in the bay the tug slackened speed, drew alongside the Amos Buzby and, Capt. Hornby having leaped aboard, the hawser was cast off and the schooner spread her sails to the increasing breeze. Hornby cautiously approached the cabin door. Sounds emanating there from made it evident that the occupant was asleep, and Hornby felt a qualm of disappointment at the idea of pretty Kate sleeping so sinorously. It was past midnight and the schooner was making fine headway when Hornby and the mate who had remained on deck, were petrified to hear a harsh, rasping voice calling from the after part of the schooner: "Where's my daughter?" Hornby's knees smote each other. "It's Mrs. Bowers," he gasped. "What on earth's the matter with things?" "I guess, mum," said the mate, to whom Hornby had confided his project, "there's been a mistake. The schooners were changed as to position, owing to that blasted steamer coming in, and praps your daughter is on the Young Eagle." "Let me off!" exclaimed Mrs. Bowers. The mate fatuously plunged into argument as to the impossibility of Mrs. Bowers getting off in 40 feet of water, while Hornby, sitting on the thatch tore his hair with rage. "Take this boat here ashore and tie her to a tree so I can get on land," commanded Mrs. Bowers. "It's impossible, mum," cried the mate, reduced to a state of shuddering nervousness by Mrs. Bowers' demands. In fact, in after years, Mr. Diggs used to refer darkly to a night's experience on the Chesapeake as far exceeding in terror any storm he had ever encountered. During the whole night Mrs. Bowers stormed at the unfortunate Hornby and his mate alternately, and was just shak- A man in a coat and hat talks on a phone. He is standing on a dock with a rainy city skyline in the background. SHOUTED THE NAME OF DIGGS, HIS MATE. Ing her fist under Hornby's nose and denouncing him as a pirate when a hall boomed over the waters. "Buzby, ahoy. Lay to." "It's the Young Eagle," sighed the mate, relieved, and he hurriedly ordered sails hauled down. A quarter of an hour later Kate was in her mother's arms and Capt. Suggs was talking earnestly to Hornby. "was a mistake," said Suggs to Mrs. Bowers. "The schooners were changed without Hornby's knowledge." "You've been drinking," said Mrs. Bowers, severely. "I'm a lone man," replied Suggs, "and temptation gets the better of me." "You should go to church instead of to a saloon." snapped Mrs. Bowers. "Evry Sunday I goes to the Baptist church," averred Capt. Suggs. "It's my being a lone man that makes me drink." Mrs. Bowers led him to the rail, and they talked earnestly for a half hour, then Capt. Suggs departed and the Buzby resumed her voyage. The two schoners reached Norfolk the same day, and Hornby, who was not allowed to speak to Kate, was in the last stages of despair when Capt. Suggs came on board in Sunday toggerly. "I want you to lay alongside o' me, my boy," said Suggs. "I'm going to be married to-day." "Who are you going to marry?" asked Hornby, without interest. "Mrs. Bowers," replied Suggs. Hornby sprang up so suddenly as nearly to knock down the groom to be, and leaping over the rail rushed towards the house where Mrs. Bowers and Kate were visiting. 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He was up before dawn, chattering of cows, pigs, bears, alligators and other animals he expected to see in the country. The time at last arrived and the big wagon and its load of laughing children. Such a bunch! Big and little girls and boys of all shades, from the African black to the light hue of the mulatto, combed and curled and kinked. Frizes of impossible kinkiness. Washington had been watching at the window and when the wagon drew up to the door he was ready with his bucket and shovel and toy gun (for a Long Island buffalo, probably). But Washington overheard a conversation between the sisters and the driver about a poor little negro girl who was dying of consumption. She could not go, and it was probably her last chance. There was no room—no, they could get another one in—poor little girl, she had cried so. The flags were waving for him and his chum in the street was calling to him, but Washington would not go—no, he did not feel well enough—but could he speak to the sisters? 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"I think so," said Alan, as he looked about him on the unaccustomed sights of the bustling city of which he had heard so much. The two weeks came swiftly to a close every hour filled with enjoyment, writes Mary Hopkins Billingsa, in the Union Signal. The night before returning home, a dinner party was given in his honor. "A cousin whom you have not met is coming," Hal announced. "He is Uncle George's son, and a college boy, but he never snubs his younger relatives, and he tells jolly good stories. You can't help liking him." "The college boy" proved to be all and more than Hal had promised, and in the half hour before dinner was announced Alan's admiration had gone out to him in the impulsive manner of a boy always ready for hero worship. The table, dazzling with silver, rare china, and cut glass and glowing with A ALAN QUITTLEY REACHED FOR WARD AND TURNED DOWN HIS GLASS. bright flowers, was a beautiful as well as a novel sight to eyes accustomed only to plain living. Alan found himself wishing that his family could afford such lavish living, when suddenly his eyes fell upon a slender-scened, bright colored glass beside the goblet of water at his place. It was as if a deadly serpent had appeared, and his mind, well stored with fact and precept as becomes the loyal crusader, with a mighty effort shook itself free from the environment of the hour. His clear eye darkened as he tried to thins of the right thing to do. He had no desire to create a scene and surely not to embarrass his uncle's family who had showed him so much kindness, but he was determined to be true to his colors. Conversation was flowing freely, and the waiter was pouring wine for his neighbor. Alan quietly reached forward and turned down his glittering glass. The waiter hovered over him a moment and then passed on, while no one seemed to have noticed the small incident. Alan's flushed face, however, indicated what it had cost him to do the unusual thing, and the modest boy felt for a moment that the eyes of all the company were turned upon him. It was difficult to partake of the delicacies before him. He gradually relaxed into ease, but as he turned to reply to Hal, who seated next to him, had whispered: "You ought to taste this wine—it's so sweet," he was startled to hear the clear tones of his admired cousin, the college boy, ring out: "Well, do you know, I have been hating between two opinions for a long time—whether to take the pledge of total abstinence or not. I know it is best for a boy at college to have a strong anchor, but I had not made my decision until I saw my new-found cousin over there turn down his glass just now. When I witnessed his courage and it is great, the little shaver!—excuse me, Alan—why, I knew instantly what was the right thing for me to do. I enroll beside him." "And I!"—"And I!"—"And I!"—heartily called out other youthful voices. Alan's eyes, sparkling, though misty, betrayed his gratitude and happiness, and though the tactful youth said no more, and the gay company passed it. Lightly over, it was the happiest hour the country boy had ever known. PROGRESS OF REFORM He who rent his buildings for evil purposes is betraying his Lord for thirty pieces of silver—United Presbyterian. Mrs. Margaree Sherman, of Menominee, Mich., has brought suit for $5,000 damages against Joseph Scholz, saloonlat, and his bachelor, Ferdinand C. Nowack and Joseph Erdiland, for selling liquor to her husband after being warned not to do so. The great breweries of Rochester, N. Y., have prohibited beer drinking during working hours. The bosses say the workingmen have averaged about ten barrels of beer each per year, and have become "disobedient, careless, inlifferent and incompetent." TOBACCO DEAFNESS Views of Wyatt Winggrave, M.D., Physician and Pathologist to London Throat and Ear Hospital. We cannot fail to have observed the rapidly increasing consumption of to baco, which is not only beyond all proportion to the increase of population, but promises to extend to a still greater degree and, further, that its over-indulgence (especially by youths) is likely to be responsible for serious morbid changes, some of which are of immediate interest to us in one department of our work. Its responsibility for serious morbid visual changes has been fully established, and observing the frequent occurrences of deafness in those suffering with tobacco amblopia, it occurred to me that the association might be more than coincidental. This prompted a careful examination of such cases. Deafness, due to tobacco smoking may be conveniently classified in three groups according to their etiology: (1) Mechanical or pneumatic; (2) irritative or catarrhal; (3) toxic or nerve deafness. (1) Mechanical. This has its origin in the habit of smoking a tightly packed pipe, cigar or cigarette, especially in those suffering with nasal obstruction. A violent minus or negative nasopharyngeal pressure is exerted with each inspiration, not only upon the Eustachian tubes, but also upon the blood and lymph vessels of the parts, sc leading to hyperaemia, upon whose symptoms and treatment we need not dwell. (2) Irritative or Catarrhal. This form is very familiar in the early morning cough and expectoration of habitual smokers. It is caused by the chemical and mechanical irritation of the smoke on the mucous membrane-extending along the Eustachian tube, and inquiring also hypertrophic changes. (3) Toxic or Nerve Deafness. This is due to the gradual accumulation of certain toxins of tobacco in the system. Whatever the actual poison may be, whether picro toxin, nicotine, or any other, it is found, as a rule, in largest amounts in the darkest, strongest and cheapest tobacco, e. g., cut plug, cut cavendish, shag, etc., also in cigars of the maduro strength, oriental as well as occidental. This poison is undoubtedly cumulative, since complete abstinence is essential to effecting any permanent improvement; mere reduction in the quantity consumed or of its strength generally proves unsatisfactory. The effect of tobacco toxin upon the cardio-vascular system is familiar to all of us. Also its influence upon the gastro-intestinal tract, which may be responsible for the production of further toxins. But its most striking effect is upon the nervous system as exemplified in "tobacco amblyopia," a disease characterized by degeneration of certain bundles of the optic nerve, known as the papillomacular fibers—scotoma—characterized prominently by the loss of appreciation of the visual red waves. Does the auditory nerve present a similar degeneration? Although at present we have no definite histological evidence, the fact that there was marked deficiency in the appreciation of low tones in 50 per cent, of the cases recorded is presumptive evidence in favor of there being some selective degeneration at work in the auditory as in the optic nerve. The effects of the toxins may possibly be terminal and central, but these are questions which also demand careful and extensive observations, both histological and clinical. The cases which I have examined are 17 in number. They are those of typical "nerve deafness," for which no cause other than tobacco abuse could be found. To save time I give you a brief abstract of their chief features. Ages. With regard to age, eight occurred between 24 and 40, and nine occurred between 48 and 64. Tobacco. They all smoked very strong tobacco or cigars or cigarettes, and in large quantities. Deafness. They were all subjects of symmetrical nerve deafness; an appreciation of low tones was deficient in eight; tinnitus and vertigo being generally well marked. Vision—There was marked impairment of color sense—red. In 12, of which four had well-defined scotoma. Treatment. Treatment consisted of complete abstinence from tobacco, in every form, with the administration of strychnia, quinine or bromides. Results. Quinine, bromides, separately or combined, afforded no appreciable effect, but strychnia pushed to full doses proved more successful; three severe cases were completely cured in eight, nine and twelve months, respectively; nine showed marked improvement; two improved only slowly, and two refused to continue treatment. That the improvement was in a great measure due to arrest of smoking was shown in several cases, which always elapsed on resuming the habit, although strychnia was persisted with. Improvement was again marked on abstaining from tobacco. In conclusion, allow me to emphasize the following points: 1. That they were well marked cases of nerve deafness (unattributable to other causes) occurring in heavy smokers. 2. That the lqss of low tones in 50 per cent suggests an auditory equivalent to a recognized ocular lesion. 3. That there was definite scotoma in four cases, and impaired sensation of vision in eight of them. 4. That the disease was symmetrical. 5. That 80 per cent, showed marked improvement on abstinence from tobacco, and, supplemented by drug treatment, three were cured. But the habit was so strong and the will so weak that the forecast was not always encouraging. He—Why did you go on encouraging me? Why didn't you tell me you were already engaged? She—I wanted to test my love for Jack—Puck THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. 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AUGUST 27, 1904 —_—_— Ee “COUNTRIFIED” Be they cail you “countrifiea™ Lat it be your joy aud pride, ou, who love the virdstand bees, Gnd the whispers of the trees! st me, friend of flowers and grasm, Little brown-faced lad or lass, Feuene in ail the world beside wails being “countrilied.” iP of mornings when the licht dens on the mountain beight; Hearing how the bird-throats swell Beerien the Joy they cannot tell; ‘fous that the morning sings Like a harp with unseen strings, Over which the breezes glide; This is being “countrified.”” Roaming far, on summer days, ‘Or when autumn woodiands blaze; ‘Learning how to catch and tell Nature's precious secrets well: Filed wich sunshine, heart and face, ‘Or, where branches interiace, Dappies itke (he shy troucs sides ‘This ts being “cquntritied.”” What thous tittle At te pose An the cits = ways and clothes? ‘There is vastly more two love In the brown of Nature's giove, Health aud happiness and tan ‘Are best fashions for a man, AI who near to God abide * Ate, in some way, “countrified.*t Janics Buckhum, in Journal of Agricul ‘ture. A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE By HATTIE PRESTON RIDER INA leaned back in her chair and surveyed the clearly-written sheet her hand with dimpled amusement. “You'll answer it, of course?” ques- Qioned Mabel, half-enviously. 5 “Indeed 1’ shall," Lina responded. “What's more, since he is kind enough to presume I have a husband, I shall tell him that worthy gentleman never Aictates my correspondence. It is a Jong way the most intersting tribute, ‘Mab, that my genius has ever received.’ “There's always a certain risk in friendly correspondence with a stran- ser,” ventured Mabel, oracularly. ‘Lina’s eyes danced. “No doubt it will wreck my domestic Peace,” she agreed. Then she shook her head. “This Dwight Hillman is a gen- Weman, Mab. I lise him, on paper, at least. You people who see me eating steak and potatoes every day never fealize how delicious it is to be regarded, once in awhile, as a creatureall intellect nd ‘magination.” She stood up and stretéied out her strong young arms, ‘with a wholesome, ringing laugh. “Suppose his interest should become too personal?” Mabel suggested. “It couldn't,” Lina declared. “There's the suppositious husband, you know.” “Even an actual husband isn’t always rs 5 '@ Ca Sas i A Mead ty, ir | _—— = — — Ey = RYT 2 aE ANSWERED IT AS THE WHITER HAD Genet HE, @ safeguard,” insisted the pessimist; but Lina laughed again. “Don't croak, cara mia. It’s only a Barmtess lark, anyway.” So she penned her reply to. the un known admirer of her literary handi- craft, her eyes sparkling over her naive allusion to the imaginary husband, and her corroborative full signature, “Lina Watts Radtoré.” Clever as she was in sharacter-sketching, she did not realize how much of her own warm, shy, mirth- loving personality went into that let- ter. Hiliman’s second came with amazing Promptness, so manly and respeetful, with its undercurrent of ardent interest, that Lina had two minds to put It in her private drawer, iustead of filing {t prim- ly with her business correspondence. Rememberng Mabel's dismal propheeles, She sternly denied the leaning. But she answered it, as the writer had earnestly begged sie shonid. ‘That was the beainning. Before many Weeks Lina found herself watching for the white messengers with a feverish ex- Pectancy even the crisp business mis- Btves of the publishers had never excited within her, Hiliman had told her that he was 37, @nd an architect by profession. For her- Self, She avoided anything relating to her private affairs, partly from real shy- Bess, partly in a spirt of mischlef, re- Membering his former allusion to her Supposed marriixe. They wrote mainly ©f current titerary ‘matters, her_ own methods, plots, or proposed work. Often, Wo, she found his frank eriticism invalue able. ‘The correspondence ran on for six Months with bijssfu! emocthness. ‘Then change crept 1:13 'iiman’s letters. te ae Tee Ne eae eee rN her life. And this was her reckoning. | Mer fingers were like ice asshe slipped the letter into its envelope, and laid it away. A white line grew around her lips, at sisht of its fellows, with their lear, bold superscription, lying in the little drawer; for Lina had long since ceased to ile taem with the business correspondence. A sob rose in het throat, but she choked it back. ‘The truth of her heart had grown very ap- parent to her in that half hour, Dull days followed, wherein her work dragged. She grew thin and pale, despite her whipped-up interest in the healthful pursuits that had hitherto been a delight and inspiration. No one but Mabel Rogers guessed the se- cret;-and, at the end of a miserable haif year, Lina’s people sent her, a Gispirited ghost of herself, to reeuper- ate at the summer home of a friend. ‘There, Lina protested in vain that rest and quiet were all she needed. “I don't want to be entertained,” she berxed; but the lady turned ‘a deaf ear. “You're a living demonstration of my theory thet thinking is injurious,” she declared, fippantly. “Now, the corrective principle is stirring up, ex- citement, pleasure.” So she issued in- Vitations for a lawn party, “There's a friend of Fred’s coming, to whom you should be particularly nice,” said Mrs. Mayfield, teasingly, on the evening in question. “He doesn’t dream I know it, but he purloined a eut of you ont of my Writers” Journal once when he was here.” Lina flushed scarlet, remembering other things. She laughed a litte, but with an internal sickening sen.- of Joss, and heartily iwyeu xne unknown Pilferer of he. picture might have a ‘toothache “ad stay at home. He had ‘slipped “er mind entirely, when, three ‘Pours later, sweet and bewitching in ‘her pink organdie, she stood among her friend’s guests. Oh! It was. all very dear of Maud. But she would have given every pretty dress she owned to be out of it and away. Past a fluffy crepe-de-chine shoul- der, presently, she saw Mrs. Mayfield piloting a tall, dark-haired, fine-look: ing man directly toward her. Even then she did not recall her hostess’ warning. A moment later, the group about her fell back, and Mrs. Mayfield Presented her companion, — whose name, however, Lina failed to catch, “Fred's friend, dear. Don't be too long getting acquainted. I want you both on the ices” said the lady as she slipped away. ‘The stranger offered his arm, and Lina moved mechanically with | him across the grass. She had caught one hasty glimpse of glowing eyes and compressed lips that half-frightened her; a trite speech died in her throat, and she dumply suffered herself to be lea. “Id like to know!” burst forth the Stranger, impulsively, at safe distance from the others, “what is your opin- fon of a man who jumps at conelu- sions, and then rushes madly off with- out even testing them? Miss Radford —Lina”—his voice softened with sud- den, shaken gentieness—“Can you con- celve of a greater blunderer than I have been?” A swift terror took possession of Lina. Who was this—a well-dressed lunatic? or— She paused and drew away, facing him in the light of the overhanging lanterns. With a deep breath, he reached out, taking forcible possession of her hands. “God knows what ['ve suffered all these wretched months,” he went on, unsteadily. “For it was only this morning I learned from Mayfield what & monstrous mistake I'd made. ‘Tell me, dear, that I shall not wake in a few minutes and find it only a mock- ing dream, after all.” With a smothered, hysterical ery, Lina snatched away her hands as he would have lifted them to his lips. A quick change, that cut her to the heart fm spite of herself, passed over his face, leaving it white, “How dare yout" she quavered, “What are you Saying to me, an utter stranger?” He stood quite still, bewildered. “When a man has written a woman such letters as mine to you, he hardly merits that title, does, he, dear?” he asked, a trifle huskily. ‘The lighted lawn surged round Lina, She put out one hand, grasping noth- ing. “Your—letters?" she gusped; and tho next instant the audacious ‘stranger had his arm around her, drawing her back into the frinedly shadow of the maples, “My letters, of course,” he was as- suring her, with a suspicious break in his laughing voice. “Why, Lina, did you not realize it was I—Dwight Hill- man’s self? Oh, darling! I have not hoped in vain, have I?—though you ‘were so cruel as to let me go on be- Ueving all those months that you were the wife of another!" “Go and fetch Lina and Mr. Hillman, will you, Fred?” said -Mrs. Mayfeid haif an hour Inter. Her eves daneed when her husband returned, with a Morgan got a foot of water in bis launch the other day He insists, howe ever, that he never had water in anything else. ‘A Soporific Tie. “Do you know my friend from Phfla- dolphin?” “I have a nodding acquaintance with bhim."—Lite THE RICHMOND PLANED, RICHMOND VIRGINIA. —- oo * . z ting on an election?" Norfolk and V VALUABLE STONE IN HASH. “Yes,” said young Mrs. Torkins, “but LEAVE RICHMON a it’s better than betcing on a horse race. STREET Diamond “Weighing Four Carita‘end| Tis i. ar toast the Satisfaction of $00 4.m. NORFOLK of Pure Tucter Lost by Chef | knowing that your candidate lant go. Weve aAA, ME in Unique Way. ing to Fan sixth o* seventh."—Wash- 0742 CHICAGO ington Stat imam Sony er Ros Thomas Milligay, a Phitadetpnia| ™® eee uae Romar ae liquor dealer, had for his gueste a: Those Loving Girls. Srocilie, and Khoxy Solu zarde el, Jefferson Memphas Sakae nabla Gesaeit Hata. Seiteesoa | los iig 1 Ga lal yaad Bite et meee market, New York city, P. &. Garrity, Lynehbur. aid Komn : 4 aoe Wouldn't stare at me so every time we VX MRUE: And an Harry ‘Hess, the “new pluager,” for-|-Tete Is dreadfuily embarrassing. folk £30 P-31- Stops nier Sergeant of Police Norton of New} ™& : ferly and Sattolk Cox Yori doth bus df the’ dlahel Sibyl—Yes, poor fellow. 1 feel sorry Boston, Providence. 3 pork chilies Gach ce tn Ok Oars meres eee Wratthewa Seeder eae served: Ins, chat: | ocinwalt Bnqairee: of Peterburg, ing dish, a la France. unre ett ake ont Norton took his portion humbly and Wndonbteds man Sleeper Heinen said nothing till he fished out a four] .. . Undoubtedly. Bee Besper Rokwon if Por || ee |! BV \ire pe 5 ¢\\| NAS | ~Y on ah i po nN | iy! i N | it } i! WY : Nims i carat diamond of purest white-blue luster. Then he said things that made the others sit up. “Whose diamond?" the question arose at once. bs Norton claimed it because—well, be- cause he had it and possession is nine- tenths. * Milligan allowed it was his dinner, and ali the extras were his, of course. Sammy, the waiter, broke in to ex- Press the hope the gentlemen would not forget that he, Sammy, served the hash—and the diamond. Luke O'Connor, proprietor of the ho- tel, pointed out that the gentlemen had ordered bash, not diamonds, and if any diamonds turned up in the hash they naturally belonged to the house. They had agreed to leave it to a referee, and were debating who it should be when there came a heart- Piercing cry from the kitchen, and Presently the white-capped chef ap- peared at the door. “My diamond; my diamond!” he shrilled. “‘Ave the gentlemen found ate” It is true, "Sammy the waiter had told the chef of the find in the hash, but the chef was able to produce the setting from which the stone had been dislodged. Besides, his emotion was convincing in itself. They gave him the stone. BEES GOT IN THEIR WORK. German Boy Tries Cure for Rheuma- tism and Then Gives a Belated Explanation. ‘The Cleveland Plain Dealer tells this ‘unique story of an innocent looking German boy who walked into a drug Store in that city the other day and faced the proprietor. “Haf you got some bees’ stings for theumatisms?” he shyly inquired. “Bees’ stings for rheumatism,” the Proprietor repeated. “Where did you hear of that?" “Why, muther vas reating it by de newsbapers,” replied the lad. The proprietor laughed. “I've seen something of that kind In the papers,” he said, “but I won't at- gary | \-1-t-t 1 4 ra! SS Dt gOS tt iy = “te AVA wy 7 [7 i— A he c \ | (ae BY i : “IT'S FOR MY BRUDER.” tempt to offer you anything just as Good. Where is the rheumatism?” “In de handt und in de arm,” the doy replied. “Well, see here,” sald the proprl- etor, with a sudden smile, “I haven't got the cure on my shelves, but J keep it in my back yard. You go out through this door and walk around my flower beds. When you see four or fivs bees resting on a flower just try to pick them up.” ‘The boy nodded and went out. He was gone at least ten minutes. ‘When he came back his face was red and bis nose—where an angry bee had allghted—was beginning to swell. He held out his hand. “T picked me some of dose bees oop,” he placidly remarked. “Did you?” said the amused propri- etor. “And does your soni ‘aa sey better?” The boy looked. “It ain't for me,” he placidly said. “It's for my bruder.” Among the Very Prectiest. Clara—Do you know, Maud, Mr. Bmithers paid me a great compliment last night? “No; what did he say?" “He said 1 was among the prettiest girls at the pariy.” “Yes; I noticed you were among ken pie One Slight Advantage. “Do you object to your husband bet- aE hate biel ‘Seana. ting on an election?” “Yes,"" said young Mrs. Torkins, “but it’s better than betting om a horse race. There is at least the satisfaction of knowing that your candidate isn't go- ing to ran sixth or seventh.”—Wash- ington Star. ‘Those Loving Girls, Phyllis—1 do wish young Softielgh Wouldn't stare at me so every time we meet. it's dreadfu'ly embarrassing. Sibyl—Yes, poor {ellow. I feel sorey for him. He never did have much sense. Cincinnati Enquirer, . Undoubtedly. |g diizsins—Man, according to Darwin, descended from the monkey. Wiggins—And trom what did the monkey descend? Muggins—From a tree, suppose. — Cincinnati Enquirer. Relentless, Mildred—Kate never bas any trouble in getting rid of callers when she wants them to go. Ethei—How does she manage it? Mildred—She sits down at the plano and piays to them—Somerville Journal. Sis Cale Gene, ‘There are dopes and salves and plas- ters For the cure of ail disasters, There are cures for everything from love to sin; ‘There are formulas compounded For almost anyway you're wounded; But the only cure for trouble is a grin, Houston Post. Neighborly Kindness. Mr. So-So--Where did Baby Marga- ret go with her new little broom? Mrs. So-So—Oh, horrors! Look at her over there sweeping off Mrs, High- Toller’s front steps.—Cincinnati Com- mercial Tribune. Horrors of War. A scont who was named Jack McLean Tried to capture an army PeTrean, But # mule kievor Mim tend, ‘And his camraten «!) sead Ambition bau i odcVean, Chicago Trivine Lucky Lion Hunter. “Did Bibbs have any luck hunting Hons in Africa?” “Yes. 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It does not ofter Bappen, he says, that a man is callec pon to sue for breach of promise o marriage the man he once hoped t @ake his father-in-law. Yet that i: What the action taken in the superios @ourt by Jerome Internoscia, advocate @f Montreal, against Vinceut Bonelli ef Vicksburg. Miss.. amounts to. Mr. Internoscia is not repining. Al Mbough he is not to marry the young “Woman who occupied bis time an¢ @houghts for two years, he will never- theless takea wife on August25. Indeed 2 Internoscia says that the young ly whom he now hopes to make his aie Was highly incensed when his for- matrimonial intentions became pub- ec property, but Mr. Internoscia, having (weathered that storm, will now prose- ate the action to the end. | “Lam not calied upon to educate oth- jer people's children,” says Mr. Inter- Woscia, and I want to recover from her “ether the amount of money I spent f@pon Miss Bonelli.” ‘That amount Mr. Internoscia sets at 102,325.49. Discussing the case, Mr. Inter @oscia observed that it might look fool- eh for him to sue for the odd cents, but expects to be agked for a bill of Beaters. war eons rn to put down all the items he could re- member. Notwithstanding a good mem- y, Mr. Internoscia is of the opinion {he stands to lose money, even. it wins his case In Mr. Internoscia’s account there are many minor items, but the main one, aside from the monies spent upon tni- fllon, is thus stated: “The sixth part fef the account gives the amount. of Wime which the plaintiff can prove he spent for the defendant's daughter id for such time. taking into consider- ation the plaintiff's position as a pre- essional man, two dollars per hour js e least that can be charged, and Ree ree Sint canbe cared, ann a: # 7 Sr. I ad |! Ny XS WZ, Yel ee tf, iB f 4) alee feu MM is HIN Y/ f i A a me 7) 17) ~~ NN) Og four when engaged as in the case it muestion Mr. Bonelli, the defendant has been @ resident of Vicksburg, Miss., for $5 years, where it is said he has mceumulated miich wealth ‘The sum- Puck season the familly was et pend ai St. Aart, © fashionable ye- port near Montreal, Lp Was heft that Mr. Intenoscia first met Miss Annie Bonelli, on July 18, 1802. Three days dater Mr. Internoscia returned to Mon- tral and his third letter having been janewered by the young woman he {Promptly proposed matrimony. Evidently Mr. Internoscla is a very Methodica! man in his love affairs, for Ais statement of the case contains ex- tracts not alone from the letters which Miss Bonelli wrote to him, but also from those which he wrote to Miss Bonelli Miss Bonelli, It would appear, did not think—this in response to his offer of marriage— that her love was as great for him as bis love for her, “but Tam very grateful,” she adds, “for the great love you show me, and trust that Z will be able toreturn love as great.” Mr, Internoscia did not look upon that as discouraxing. He continued to press Bis ault with such good results that on August 22, 1902, he became formally be- trothed. At that time it was under. Stood that the marriage would take place in July, 1904 Having become, as he thought, satis- factorily engazed. Mr. Internoscia says that he did not think any more of fooking for some suitable lady who would marry him shortly, as piain- Mf would have wished, but kept him- elf away from society, deeming himself engaged, and continued to spend his ie and his money for defendant's ter, as he {clt practically bound Jo it, in view of all that had hap- a." ¢ breaking wp of the engagement, ternoscia aeerts, was due to re- }. Miss Bone!li was, like her father, glican. Mr. Internoscia was & terian. Pat Mr. Tnternosels, against Mr, Bonelli's wish, as- that he vas perfectly willing fe should entertain whatever re Pinions ©he chose. The whole the fina! tsruption, which took # Janus. y, he blames on Mr. “own «aduct and stubborn. @ asseri» that “the plaintiff has "a Tesal Claim fo recover Trom defena- ant all damages which the former suf- fered throngh the fault of defendant's minor child, as well as through defend- ots own fault.” EVENTING EVERITE mane ance CLIMBS POLE TO SAVE CAT Plucky Philadelphia Girl Rescues An- imal That Had Taken Refuge from a Dog. | When a bfhck and white fox terrier chased a Maltese cat @ a telegrapa pole at Germantown and Stenton ave- Bues, at Philadelphia, and kept her there for neariy an hour the street be- came as dense with people as if the United States mint had begun to dis- tribute samples of gold coinage. More than 1,00 persons stood in the street and on the sidewalks, craned thelr necks watching the trembling pussy Yok down from the top of the pole to the excited crowd below, Nobody seemed to know how to bring the cat down. One man suggest- ed that the feline be lassced with 2 Jong rope and then hauled down, but vat es fe amy = = <7, f Zi a this suggestion didn't meet with favor Somebody else suggested that tne pole be ‘chopped down, another declared that the fire department ought to be called out to dislodge the cat with, a good, heavy stream from a hose. An elderly woman wanted to "phone to the 8. P. CA. Matters were in thi strait when Miss Ethel Sibler, a pretty young girl of 417 Woodisz2 avenue, arrived “Why, what's the trouble?” she asked in a surprised voice. “Pussy up @ telegraph pole?) Well, I'll get him.” She bezan to scramble up the pole while the crowd looked on in amaze- ment. Straight toward the top she went. “Here, pussy, pussy, kere, puss,” she said in a soothing volce, as she reached the frightened animal. ‘The young woman kept up her gentle pur- Ting, and the cat stopped trembling As she reached the top of the pole the cat made a spring aud landed on Miss Sibler's shoulder. Then” the young woman slowly descended while the crowd looked on. When she reaches the ground the cat sprung from her shoulder and scurried off. And. the crowd that had been watching for nearly an hour walked foolishly away. GIRL RESCUED BY PORKER. After a Hard Battle Hog Kills Rattler Which Was Just About to Strike at Child. Mattie Dodson is a Red Rock (Pa.) girl, aged 12, and on Thursday she wa: sent to the spring-house for a pan o! milk. She got the pan and on her"wa; home set it in the grass to pick som derries. When she turned again sh¢ saw a rattlesnake six feet away, drink ing the milk. The snake saw her, too and coiled as if to strike. The ttle girl was paralyzed with fear and hac not the power even to call for help She simply clasped her hands anc fazed at the reptile in helpless. ter. Por, AGT A fat hog, sauntering sroaat 4 seareh of food, came in sight, aad {t ‘& moment made for the shake, and Mattie, now at a gafe distance, watched the battle with wonder. The OP) Sate sr ; se Fy Wt Gay ean ¥ | nee n & DSY <I OKA hy DD) YW oo y et i oo \ | I \ \ ti} \ Pe GAN eT at guile Hoa TO THE RESCUE. snake more than once bit the hog, but each time the beast received the bite in the jaw, where the great layers of fat made the poison harmless. Wher the snake had exhausted the venom ‘t decided to retreat, but the hog ther took the innings. Jumping on ha ear cass be pénned it to the earth, and with his teeth tore it to pieces and ate It. Mattie carried home the milk and told her story to sympathetic ears. Oven Heated by Electricity. A baker's oven heated by electricity fs a novelty at Montabaun, France. ‘The heat is quickly applied, and may be cut off at once, with a considerable saving in time. No Neat is lost up the chimney, as the only opening is the door through which the bread i passed. - : Charitably Inclined, She—Did you ever hear of such im- Pertinence! He wanted to kiss me! He—Oh, that wasn’t impertinence; that was charity— Yonkers Statesman. THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. The Most Attractive Route to the World's Fair, St, Louis, Mo., is vis the Southert | Radway, _tiirough “The Land of the Sky"'—From Richmond to St. Louis without Change of Train. ‘The Southern Railway has on sale at Richmond and all stations on its lines very low rate excursion tickets to. St Louis, Mo., account the 4Vorld’s Fair. These tickets embrace stop over privi leges between Salisbury and Morris- town, which includes the fantous moun- tain section of Western North Carolina, Asheville, Hot Springs and “The Land of the Sky.” Elegant day coaches, through Palimans and Dining Car Ser- vice of the highest standard of excel lence. For detailed information, apply fo your nearest Southern Railway Ticket Agent. aud St Special Excursion Rates to Los Angeles and San Francisco via Southern Railway 365.25 for the Roand Trip, Returning via St. Louis if desired. Beginning with August 15th and con- tinuing daily to Septewber 7th, South- ern Railway will sell special tickets from Richmond and all points on its lines to Los Angeles or San Francisco and return at the rate of $65.25 round trip, fins! return limit October 23, 1904. ‘The Southern offers the choice of sev- ‘eral routes, rate open to the public—zo ‘one route and return another if desired, taking in at the same time the St. Louis Exposition, tickets via this route ‘allow. ing stop over of as much as ten days at St.Louis. For details, apply to any Agent of Southern Railway, or C. W, Westeury, D. P. A. OLD DOMINION STEAM. SHIP COMPANY, Night Line for Norfolk. Leave Richmond daily at 7 p. m., stopping at Newport News in both directions. Fare, $2.50 one way, $4.50 round trip, includes stateroom, berth; meals, 50cts. Street cars to Steamer’s Wharf: For New York by 0, & O. Railway, 9:00 a m., 4p. me 9 &. mm. Rnd 8 p. mm by Ni & W. "Railway; also by Old Dominion night line steamer. All lines connect at Norfolk with direst steamer for New York, sailing daily except Sunday, 7 p.m. K, F, OHALKLER, City Ticket Agt.. 808 E. Main St, JOHN F. MAYER, Agt. Wharf Foot of Ash St., Richmond, Va. HB. WALKER, VP. &T. M., New Yor! ATLANTIC “OAST-LINE. TRAINS LEAVE 31CHMOND DAILY BYRD STREKT STATION, 2:00 a. m. Petersburg and Norfolk. 9:05 a.m, A.C. L. Expres to all points south 12:0 p.m, Petersburg and N.& W. Woes, §:40 p. m’ Petersburg and Norfolk HED m Goldaniore' iocal 45 p.m. Petersborg ioral 7225 pom. “Florin and Weet Indian Limited! ‘To points Bout, 9:20 p.m. Petersburg and N. & W. West 11:53 p.m. Peteraburg. local TRAINS ARRIVE RICHMOND. 4:07 n. m0. 7:85 9. m. 8:25 a. wm, except Sunday 1043 am. Senday only. WOR oe] pms 20 De Mes 80D. na TAG D. May B05 Pm. Fitkoept Sanday: “8. CANBELL, Div. Pass. Agt W.3. CRAIG, Gen Pas Agt. | BUY THE ae ny LO MN o Ep Batted 41am of ae Ses AN os Conae- ha CHINE At: ‘THE NEW HOME SEWING MACHINE COMPANY J. MP. COOKE F. H. Jackson. Chas. T, Williams. JACKSON & WILLIAMS GHE 8GAK BEERS PROVISION COMP'Y DEALERS IN CHOICE Beef, Pork, Veal and Lamb, 101 W. Jackson St., Richmond, Va, Fresh Country Eggs and Butter. Ws=Fine Butter a Specialty. Fell From Steamer and Drowned. Baltimore. Md., Aug. 24.—Leo Wink- ler, $ years old, fell from the hurricane deck of the steamer Louise while en route to Tolchester Beach, an eastern shore family resort, and was drowned before the steamer could be stdpped and assistance rendered him. ‘The lit tle fellow essayed to catch a cord at tached toa kite which some one on a lower deck was flying, lost his balance and fell into the Chesapeake Bay. His body was recovered and brought to his parents’ home in this city during the day. Bian. Wife and Child Baund Gena. New York, Aug. 24.—George Boyce, his wife Ida and thelr 6-months-old baby were found dead in apartments in a tenement house in West 624 steeet The police found that all three had beech shot to death. A revolver lay on the floor near the body of ‘the man From this the police believe that the man killed his wife and child and they himself, —-—-< nt — «+ Evading the Issue. Biuff—You dare tocail me a rogue? Gruff—Not exactly. But 1'll give ten dollars to anybody who witl prove to me that you are not oue.—N. Y. Times. Those Unnecessary Questions. “she's worth a million.” “Is, she beautiful?” “I said she was worth a million, dida't {?"—Houston Post. | “ SL Le THE——— ae eee Tn order to promote circulation and ( & to create additional interest, we have all decided to make the a LIBERAL OFFERS: To any person sending ys a yearly subscription of $1.s0 and the name ofa friend or relative as a subscriber on the basis stated, w+ will send them, postage prepaid, a handsome gold-plated breast pin, with their photograph colored and placed therein. _ A handsome chromo, size 22x28 inches of the Battle of Shiloh, the Battle of Fort Wagner, Fort Pillow Massacre, F»4 of Petersburg, Battle of El Caney Battle ¢ Manila, Land Battle of Seas, showing charge of gth and 1): Cavalry, charge of the 2qth and 2st Infantr- im rescue of the Rosgh Riders at San Juan Hill. We will furnish pictures of the following: Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Dou lass, Prof. Booker T. Washi President Theodore 1 osevelt, Gen. U.S. Grant, Family Record for colored people, containing space for photographs of parents and ten chil’: :n, Autograph copy of the Declaration of Independence, with portraits of all the signers thereof, President McKinley aud his Cabinet, Explosion of the U. S. Battleship Maine, Admiral Dew ey’s Great Naval Battle off Cavite, Spanish anc .\merican Peace Commissioners, Anyone send: ':: two yearly subscribers will be entitled to two of any oue of these offers, Saeaa PP Tee .. We will send St. Louis, Gronr-DEMocrat, semi-weekly edition, one of the leading Republican papers inthe United States to any « se sending two yearly subscribers. We will send this great Republican journal to any subser'ber who will pay the ad: \ ce rate of $2.00. This will give the PLANET for one year and the St. Louis Giose-DEMocRAtT for one year. * To any one s ing 25 yearly subscribers we will send a Sewing.Machine. To iny onefsending Seventy- Sub: seribers, we will giv « free trip to the World's Fair at St. Louis, p getesging Seventy: Svesica caine These Offersare made in good faith and will be carried out to the letter. ‘The Cosmopolitan will be sent oneffyear and the PLANET ont year for $2.00 for both culmea e Good, Live, Active Agents Wanted IN E\ Y PART OF THE COUNTRY. WRITE TO US FOR TERMS. ADDRESS: JOHN MITCHELL, JR., Proprietor, 311 North Fourth St, Richmond, Va. Fr yr —KRnigbts o thias | y N. A., S. A., E., A., A. AND A. “OF SN This organization is one of the most powerful in the country and ite f = \ progress has been phenomenal. The Grand Lodge of Virginia has jur- _ A\ isdiction over all of the cities and counties in this state. Thirty males < ¥\ are required to organize a new lodge. The benefits paid constitute ope ~~ SS of its strongest features, but the principles are greater than cay this Le J | else. Founded on Friendship, based on Charity and established on BISAH ef = -uevolence, the respectable, upright people of the state will find it an’order Xe Sey worthy of their heartiest support. S ae 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 jouly absolutely necessary regalia. For information concerning the organization of lodges, | apply at the main office. : f | 2 ‘| The Courts of Calanthe 4 2m Isthe Female Lepartment of the Order. It requires a membership’ of 2 ? thirty persons to organize a court. Its members are pledged to emhibit “>, “g Fidelity, exercise Harmony and prove Love one for the other. It pays h aS an endowment and burial benefit of gr50.00. It pays $3.00 per week =i < \\ iues. The only expense for regalia is the cost of the badge, 50 cents ‘Ne \* a rosette, -ostine 25 cents for funeral occasions. 2 THE BANDS OF CALANTHE or Children’s Department also constitutes ja feature and persons cannot do better than to enter the little ones in this mystic circle, | The expense is nominal and tne benefits all ha c ald be expected. It pays from $r.00 to $1.50 sick dues and death benefits of from .22.00 to $40.00. If you have no Pythian Ledge or Court or Band ia your ueighborhood, or sani ze one. ‘or all informastion eomperting the Childen’s Department, address, 3 { ‘ Mrs. ANNA Taytor, W.M., i et es Soe 120 W. Hill St., Richmond, Va. Wor att Takornxthon comcerwtieg wpectal rates of JOHN MITCHELL, JR. _ | ialcsaipansoaemcamenenesmee ae 31x N. 4th St., Richmond, V 1.3] of the Circuit Court of the County of Henrico “in vacation’, August 6th, 1904: Liny A. Euty, Plaintiff, vs. Onantrs ©. Euiy, Defendant, IN CHANCERY. ‘The object of this suit is to obtain for the Plaintifl against the Defendant a divorce a vineulo matrimonii. And an affidavit having teen made and filed that the Defendant is non- resident of the State of Virginia, it is ordered that he do appear here within fifteen days after the due_ publication of this order, and do whatever may be necessary to protect his interest here in. ‘Teste: Saver. P, Wappen, Olerk. Jackson, Attorney. To Onaries ©. Euty. Please take notice that I shall on the Sth, day of October, 104, at tae oftice of Giles B. Jackson, No. 528 E. Broad St. in the city of Richmond, Va.,_ between the hours of 9A. M. and 6 P. M., ov that day proceed to take the depositions of John Johnson and others to be read in my bebalf in a suit in equity depend: ing in the Cirenit Court of the County of Henrico wherein I am the Plaintit ‘and you are the defendant; and_ if from any ‘cause the taking of the said depo: sitions be not commenced on that day or if commenced and not concluded on that day the taking of the same will be ad. journed and continued from day to day or from time to time at the same place land between the same hours until the same shail be_ completed. ‘Very Respectfully, Liwy A. ELvy, ‘By Counsel, Gites B. Jacnsox ae Pa Meeting of Grand Fountain Order True Reformers, Richmond, Va., Sept. 6—13, 1904, _ For the above occasion, the Southorn Railway announces raté of one first class fare, plus 25¢ for the round trip, from all points on its lines to Richmond and retarn, tickets on sale September {th Sek, ovb and Teh, with nal wearn, limit September 15th i904. For in- formation apply to Agouts. ssa