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THE RICHMO VOL. XXII NO 3. PLANET PRICE, FIVE CENTS MAS THE MECHANICS' SAVINGS BANK. Buys Broad St. Property Remarkable Progress—A Sketch of the Directors. The Board of Directors of the Mechanics Savings Bank of Richmond, Virginia and the Cashier constitute the most remarkable combination of effort for the care and investment of money ever formed in any city of this country by citizens of color. The idea was conceived by the President and principal execution by him after having with some of the most conservative business men of Richmond and after having been assured of their hearty cooperation and support. ORTAINED A CHARTER. The charter was obtained, Nov. 20, 1901 and the Bank threw open its doors for business at 511 N. 3d St., Jan. 1st, 1902, although this was the holiday. The handsome and costly furniture had not arrived from Keokuk, Iowa and the burglar-proof safe had not been received, a new one being loaned temporarily by the local salesman. The sum of $1600 was in fitting in seven chairs, within ten days ($$000.00) eight thousand dollars had been deposited in this institution. George W. Lewis, Esq. an attorney at law of this city was the first cashier. REMARKABLE PROGRESS. The progress since that time has been steady, until the aggregate bank clearings up to the present have amounted to as follows: 1902. $ 122,915 04 1903. $ 186,796 61 1904. $ 248,075 23 Total. $ 557,786 88 to date, and the cash balance on deposit to the time of writing this article, (Dec. 20, 1904) is ($70,528.39) seventy-thousand, five-hundred and twenty-eight dollars and thirty-nine cents. The total valuation of the property owned by the Mechanics Savings Bank is ($29,813.03) twenty-nine thousand, eight hundred and thirteen dollars and three cents, not including the Broad Street property recently purchased for thirteen thousand, five hundred dollars, all of which was paid for in cash. PURCHASED BROAD STREET PROPERTY The institution has just purchased a valuable piece of improved property at No. 4 W. Broad Street for ($13,500); thirteen thousand, five-hundred dollars. This purchase price has been paid in cash. The building is the second one from the large and commodious whitebrick clothing store at 00 Broad St. and within three doors of the three large new palatial white brick stores erected byMr. Dusch. The property purchased by the Bank is a brick structure, three stories high and extends back 121 feet to an alley sixteen feet wide. It is within a stone's throw of the $125,000 Masonic Temple Building and ciagonally opposite the magnificent establishment of the Cohen Company. A WORD ABOUT THE PRESIDENT. Mr. John Mitchell, Jr., President of the Mechanics' Savings Bank is editor of the Richmond, Va., PLANET and is too well known throughout the country to require further attention here. He is a graduate of the Richmond Normal School. H. F. JONATHAN. Mr. H. F. Jonathan, the Vice-President is a wholesale and retail merchant of this city, doing a large fish, oyster, game and produce business. He has made wonderful progress in the face of many handicaps. He ranks among the leading business men of the city. (CONTINUED ON PAGE EIGHT.) THE PLANET SATURDAY... DECEMBER 24, 1904 AROUND THE CAMP FIRE Singular and Amusing Relations Which Existed Between Armies at Chattanooga. "The Russians and the Japs on the Shakhe," said the doctor, "seemed for a few days to be getting quite sociable. At least, they were close enough to each other last week to be sociable, if such felows ever are sociable. Close as they were, however, they couldn't have the fun we had in the old time, because they don't speak the same language or read the same papers. And then it is a mistake to say that no two great armies ever remained in such proximity before for so many days without fighting. The Army of the Cumberland and Bragg's army remained, after the battle of Chickamauga, in easy speaking distance for several weeks. "After the heavy fighting at Chickamauga Rosecrens' army, as everybody B. C. B. BLAZING AWAY AT EVERY YANKEE WHO SHOWED HIS HEAD. knows, withdrew to Chattanooga, while the confederate army closed up around it on three sides. But only the old soldiers know the incidents of our withdrawal to Chattanooga. I left Gen. Thomas late in the afternoon of September 20 to carry a message to the medical officer in charge of Chattanooga, and to Gen. Seeracrans, if I could find him. I rode from the turmoil of battle across Missionary Ridge into the quiet of the plain between the ridge and Chattanooga. It was so quiet there and so noisy beyond the ridge that I could hardly believe my ears. As I rode toward the town I met no one, and no guard or outpost challenged me. As I jogged along I came upon a strange group, posing, it seemed to me, for a picture. "There were probably a dozen men on horseback, and all except one were quiet as statues, the low sun in the west lighted them up in a way to make them look like figures in a tableau. One of the figures was pointing here and there, and this man was Rosecrans. As I came nearer, I saw that he was marking out positions for the divisions of his army. In a few minutes the group moved to another point and the marking out process was repeated. Then I rode on to Chattanooga and across the river to find my man and came upon another surprise. Here were parked long wagon trains with hundreds of horses munching corn, and teamsters going unconcernedly about like men at home doing their evening chores. And yet not ten miles away two armies were fighting one of the fiercest battles of the civil war to a standstill. "North of the river there was no confusion or disorder. The scene was quite pastoral, and nobody seemed under a strain or greatly concerned about the battle, except a chaplain holding services in a forest glade, who prayed that the God of Battles might give victory to our arms. Even the chaplain didn't seem to understand that a crisis was at hand. Perplexed and indignant, I rode back toward the front and met our division going quietly into position in Rossville Gap. I told the boys what I had seen in town and beyond, but they didn't believe me except as to Rosecrans, and they didn't believe he meant to give up Missionary Ridge. They knew better the next day when the army retired to Missionary Ridge and our division began to build Fort Palmer just where Rosecrans sat on his horse when I first saw him on Sunday. We expected the confederates to occupy the ridge at once and charge down on our lines, and we worked with feverish haste. After a day or two, when the fortifications began to assume shape, we knew the rebels wouldn't charge, and we began to feel at home. "W agreed, in the talk about the camp fires, that Rosecrane might be right about giving up Missionary Ridge, but we bet all our money that he wouldn't give up Lookout mountain, only a few miles to the west, imagine our surprise when one afternoon the confederates opened on us from batteries well up on our slope of Lookout. This put a heavy load on a good many hearts, because, with the confederates on Lookout, we were cut off from the road down the river to Bridgeport. But as shot after shot was fired, and not a shell or cannon tail came near us, we felt better. The bombardment was a spectacular affair, and we didn't care for it as we did for the sharpshooters on our front pushing the confederate picket line under our noses. At last we were permitted to give these sharpshooters serious attention, and we established our picket line under their noses. They kept creeping forward, and we kept doing the same, until we were in conversational range. "Our pickets were in little holes in the tall grass, and a few yards away the rebs were curled up in holes, blazing away at every Yankee who showed his head. It was very exciting and devilish uncomfortable for several days, but one night a Johnny in our front suggested conversationally that we were keeping one another on the jump without doing any good, and asked why in thunder we couldn't be decent and quit shooting every time a fellow sneezed. One of our fellows sang out: 'Shake on that!' and the outcome of the talk was that the snipers on both sides kept on their own ground, and there was no more shooting on the picket lines, except when a Johnny or a Yank intruded on forbidden territory, or when one side or the other moved forward on a reconnoissance. "As a rule, however, the lines were quiet by an arrangement among the pickets themselves. In a few days they went further, and, meeting half-way between the lines, delegates from outposts on either side exchanged papers and traded coffee for tobacco. The pickets were becoming quite sociable and friendly when Gen. Rosecrans learned of the amazing condition on his front and put a stop to the whole business. But there were occasions when the outpost guards stood up and looked each other over, watchful, but inclined to peace. We had the advantage of the Russians and Japs, because the rebs and ourselves used the same language, ate the same things, and were interested in the same things. In addition to this, northerners and southerners had the same ideas of honor and fair play, and, no matter how tacit an agreement was made, it was kept until one side or the other called it off. Gens. Rosecrans, Thomas and Bragg would have been scandalized had they known of all the unwritten laws of picket service in vogue at that time; but there never was the slightest departure rfom strictest military recude. "Gen. Grant, when he came to Chattanooga, was greatly amused at the conditions on the picket line, but he accepted them after he rode almost into a confederate picket post one day, and was warned off in friendly spirit. On the day that Gen. Thomas moved in force there was an end to a truce on outposts the like of which probably was never before, an das not been seen since. In the Chattanooga case the armies faced each other for eight weeks, their main camps so close that cheers in one could be heard in the other; so close that bands played in one camp could be heard in both. This seems incredible in this age of long-range guns, but it is true."—Chicago Inter Ocean. OUTCENERALED HIS SON. In Clinton county, Missouri, there resided an old Mexican war colonel, who was extremely loyal to the southern confederacy. He was well-to-do, owning a large body of land, and as hospitable as was usual with southernners at that time. But he could not see why his sympathies should not be against the government, which he thought had a mission to "free the niggers." The idea of Mr. Lincoln, to save the union, had not entered his mind. This old colonel was named Swearinger. He was thoroughly "business" in those days, and was an oracle in his way, all the phases of the moon were familiar to him, and his crops brought him large returns. But the old colonel had a boy who was colonel in the Missouri militia. His family were all for the union. It trans- A THE OLD COLONEL STEERED THE FORAGERS TO HIS SON'S FARM. pired, when the young colonel was in command of the district rear his home and was short of forage, he sent some "six-mule teams" out to his father's place to load up with corn, and report to him when they returned. The old colonel treated the boys in a pleasant way, and suggested that he had little corn on his "home" place, but there was "lots of corn" on his other farm. So the old colonel steered the foragers to the farm of the young colonel. Next day a file of soldiers went after the old colonel, who was taken to headquarters. The younger man called his father "Daddy." After some talk, the old man was sent home and told his wife how he outgeneraled the boy. Years after he would tell the story, with much satisfaction to himself—Robert Tracy, First Kansas, in National Tribune. Accommodating: He (fervently)—I would go through anything for you. She (sweetly)—Well—er—let's begin your bank account—Puck. THE RICHMOND PLAN DARING PERFORMANCE OF A FRENCH WOMAN. Loops the Loop in an "Automobile"—Machine Leaps 44 Feet After Making Swift Descent. Paris.—Of all the daring women Paris has seen in recent years now can compare with Mme. Mauricia De Thiers, who is the first person ever to attempt a "loop-the-loop" in an automobile. But in this case it is not called an automobile. The devil wagon in this case is known as the "autoblade." The plunge taken by Mme. De Thiers at the Folies-Bergere nightly is a hairraiser, if ever there was one. The machine in which she takes it runs down a steep incline, turns a half-somersault forward, dashes bottom up along a curve under the toboggan slide, shoots out into space, making a clear leap of 44 feet, and then lands on a U SHOOTS OUT INTO SPACE. reverse curve that finally brings the machine rightside up and launches it upon another inclined plane, on which the autobolide runs off into the wings. The trip occupies exactly four seconds. Spectators first hold their breath, then gasp as Mme. De Thlers shoots off into the wings like a comet. The young woman knows nothing about driving an automobile, has never ridden a bicycle. The man who invented the machine happened to be an acquaintance and she volunteered to take the first perilous ride. It was successful and she continued to loop-the-loop in the machine for the entertainment of the public. "Oh, no. it does not frighten me—much," said Mme. De Thiers, when asked to describe the lightning-like trip. "But just as the autobolide is turning the first curve, and is about to shoot out into space I have a highly disagreeable sensation. The fraction of a second at that point seems like a whole minute or more. My head feels like it would burst, it is so heavy. It seems, too, as if some terrific force is dragging me down toward the ground. I cannot get my breath and a violent pain shoots through my head that leaves me dizzy for hours afterward. I hope in time that this disagreeable feature of the performance may wear off." Mme. De Thiers says she means to go to America next year and give the performance there. Knew the Dodge. The story is told of a plumber who presented a bill of £10 to a retired millionaire for repairing a pipe. The millionaire glanced at it, and handed out a sovereign, saying: "Receipt that bill." "But, sir—" "Don't but me," interrupted the rich man. "I know what I'm about. I used to be a plumber myself." Plumber smiles, receipts bill and returns 10s. change—Smith's Weekly. No Depravity Gentleman—Permit me, Miss Smith, to offer you my seat. Miss S—Thank you, sir; but don't deprive yourself. Gentleman—No depravity, ma'am, no depravity, at all, I assure you—Ally Sloper. Col. Blunt—And whose picture is this? Miss Manyyears—That was painted for me when I was a little girl. Col. Blunt—Is it a Rubens or a Rembrandt?—Tit-Bits. Man's Wants. Man wants but little here below. Wants just one little speck! But he's not satisfied to get That little in the neck. —Yonkers Statesman. He—I can't stand it any longer! I must go in here and get refreshment. She—But I don't want to go in there, and I don't like waiting here in the hot sun. He—Oh, you can walk back and forth in the shadow of that telegraph pole.—Fliegende Blaetter. Not in Good Standing. "Have you any reference from your last place, Katie?" "What wages did they pay you?" "Just half what they promised me ma'am!"—Yonkers Statesman. A Good Jumper Man (buying horse)—Are you shure he's a good jumper? Horse Dealer—Jumper? Why, bless you, sir, if you put that 'oss in a 20-acre field you'll need to put a lid on it if you want to keep him in.—Tit-its. "But. sir—" FOR AND ABOUT WOM A A BEAUTIFUL NEGLIGEE. An Attracti Ine> Negligee c white crepe de chine felled in with a girdle of pale green silk. The lille ruffles which border the collar ar frontes are also of the green silk, and the jacket is finished at the bottom with a ruffle of the material. The plain yoke is bordered with insertion and a deep ruffle of lace, the latter also forming sleeve caps. The 1 full sleeves are finished at the elbows with lace ruffles ornamented with knots of the green silk. The puffed undersleeves are of the crepe de chine encircled with bands of the green. The long cavat ends are of lace, and the little tucked plastron is of the crepe de chine or mousseline de soie trimmed with lace. HISTORY OF THE MUFF. A Decree of the French King Once Determined the Colors and the Furs. "Do you know that the color of a muff once betekened the rank of the wearer?" said Errier the other day as he strove beautiful sealskin muff. "When the muff first came to us from France, of Charles XIV, my lady could have worn this fur, for black was decreed by the king to be the badge of the common people, and the court followers were restricted to the colors. Muffs have gone through more styles than it would seem possible to invent for such a simple article of convenience. They have been long and narrow and, again, large and round. One of the most curious styles was that of Louis XIV., called the 'chiens mauchons,' because they were made to convey little dogs in. "The muff when first introduced was the exclusive property of the nobility. These muffs were very small and consisted of a single piece of velvet, brocade or silk lined with fur and the openings fastened with rich jewels. Such arrangements came in during the early part of the seventeenth century. "We now associate the muff only with cold weather, but in the old days it was a regular part of woman's dress and was carried at all times." NEW RIBBONS FOR WINTER They Combine the Softness and Sheerness of the Broad Silk Weaves. The new ribbons have taken to themselves all the softness and sheerness that characterize the broad silk weaves, and the printings in the dull and faded tones that are seen on the expensive crepes, gauzes and chiffons are all reproduced in the ribbons. In fact, some houses are making a special feature of broad silks and ribbons in the very same designs, and a delightful note of color contrast is introduced in the latter in the way of borderings. Ribbons broad and ribbons narrow, as well as those of medium width, all find novel applications upon the dressy gowns. With printed centers the borders are often in two shades of a contrasting color, and these borders are in green, rose, blue, brown and violet, according to the color scheme of the gown. Some exquisite ribbons are shown with a metallic gold border, just the same weave as appears on the military uniforms of those of high rank, and a beautiful effect is thus given to a one color gown. Hand-painted beits in different colored leathers will represent a very important item among the autumn schemes. A very pretty example in deep cream, with a leather buckle to correspond, was painted in the palest greens, mauves and pinks in a design of Louis XV. bows and trails of flowers. A brown leather belt with a dull gold buckle was adorned with embroidered sprays of mauve lilac, the leaves and stems being hand-painted. A Deep and Lasting Sorrow. Mr. Sayles—Why, my dear, why are you crying? Mrs. Sayles (with sobs)—Oh, John, don't you remember my new crepon skirt I got at such a bargain last week for £3? Mr. Sayles—Yes; what then? Mrs. Sayles (weeping afresh)—I p-passed Lacey's t-to-day, and they were all m-m-marked down to £2 19s. 11%d. Boo-hoo!—Smith's Weekly. "Yes." groan should all be b "Why so?" as "Why, I pait rican jungle wi keys." "Yes" "And my lit sketched organ Said monkeys' ways went toge RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. OUT WOMEN FOR AND ABOUT WOMEN THE STYLE IN PERFUMES. To Be Up-to-Date You Must Be Very Careful in Their Selection. With respect to perfumes, as in most other things, Dame Fashion's particular whim just now is consistency. In England, where most American fashions have their birth—tor Paris fashions usually come to us by way of London, their earlier market—"Royal Shamrock" is the rage just now. But whatever your particular fancy may be, having made your choice, you must abide by it, at any rate for the day, which, in this fickle age, is quite a long time. Everything about you, your toilet water and soap, your bouoir, your gowns, your notepaper and envelopes, even your lap dog, must be perfumed accordingly. Indeed, if you want to display your complete subservience to Fashion's autocratic decrees, you will hang a locket containing the selected perfume on your chain. The only consolation you have is that to-morrow you may change your policy, and shed a delicate perfume of, say, attar of roses, around you. To some this fashion may seem rather irksome, says the New York World. Many women like to change their scents with their frocks, but they must take heart of grace in the thought that things might be much worse, and probably will be some day. Consistency has at least one merit—it is easy. For instance, you decide that to-morrow shall be a "Shamrock" day; there is, at any rate, the satisfaction of having only one perfume to think about at a time. Many women like to be known by a peculiar scent, just as the countess was in "Diplomacy," though it was thoughtless of her to leave such distinct proof of her fair fingers having handled a stolen dispatch. Queen Victoria favored lavender water, almost the only celebrated scent in which England is preeminent. Nowadays it is unfashionable, and we draw all our most fragrant essences from Italy, the south of France, and even India. Ex-Empress Eugene, again, has all a Spaniard's love for strong perfumes, her favorites being lemon, verbena and sandalwood. Princess Christian has succumbed to the fascination of "Shamrock," and likewise Mme. Rejane and Mme. Calve; but Mme. Sarah Bernhardt clings persistently to her beloved Violettes de Parme. The empress of Russia is said to spend $10,000 a year on perfumes, paste, soaps and toilet waters, which she has sent to her exclusively from the French capital. Violet is her majesty's favorite scent to her taste in perfumes is so catholic and general that every day she vaporizes the royal apartments with the concentrated essences of iliac, jasmine, narcissus, jonquil, tuberose and white violets. A PRETTY MORNING GOWN It May Be Made of Either Cashmere, Flannel, Mollette Flannellet In the accompanying illustration we show an attractive gown for morning wear that is easily made by any woman who is handy with a needle. It is suitable to be made in cashmere, flannel, molleton or flannelette. Our model is in a pretty blue fancy flannel, unlined; it is slightly open at 1 the throat, and turns back with a wide collar or cape of the same material edged with a strap of silk; the fronts slightly overwrap, and are fastened at the top by a large fancy button. A thick woolen and silk girdle draws the gown in at the waist. The bell-shape sleeves are held in at wrists by cuffs of silk. Materials required: Ten yarns of finannel, 30 inches wide, and three-quarters of a yard of silk. "Yes." groaned the artist, "painter should all be bachelors." "Why so?" asked the friend. "Why, I painted a picture of an African jungle with the trees full of monkeys." "Yes" "And my little son went in and sketched organ grinders all over it. Said monkeys and organ grinders always went together."—Chicago News. harment That May Be sively Made by A FRENCH NEGLIGE The New Belts. A PRETTY MORNING GOWN Tommy's Idea. Money received on deposit amounts above $1.00 which re Money Loaned on Satisfaction Business Accounts Handling Amounts of ten cents and This establishment is fitted up in the white vault, burlar-proof steel chest, enclosure for safety and the accommodation. For all information concerning Stock Cashier. Banking Hours have been arranged people as follows: 9 A. M. to 4 P. on Saturday at 1 P. M. and open again P. M. Call by as some from work. OFFICE JOHN BROCKLE, JR., President. THOS. H. W. BOARD OF REV. W. F. GRAHAM, D. D., JR. E. R. JEFFERSON H. F. JONATHAN J. O. FARLEY E. A. WASHINGTON, R. W. WHITING JOHN MITCHELL, JR., FRES. W. I. JOY FUNERAL DIRECTOR Office & Warerooms, 207 N. HACKS R Calls by Telephone or Telex pers and Entertainment Old Phone, 686. Residence received on deposit and interest paid on a $1.00 which remains 60 days and over. aned on Satisfactory Security. Accounts Handled Promptly. if ten cents and upwards received on deposit. it is fitted up in the most improved style, having a large roof steel chest, electric lights and every modern conven- tion accommodation of the public. on concerning Stocks, Deposits, Loans, etc., apply to the have been arranged for the special convenience of the work: 9 A.M. to 4 P.M. Saturdays, 9 A.M. to 3 P. . We M. and open again at 5 P. M., remaining open until some from work. Money received on deposit and interest paid on a amounts above $1.00 which remains 60 days and over. Money Loaned on Satisfactory Security. Business Accounts Handled Promptly. Amounts of ten cents and upwards received on deposit. This establishment is fitted up in the most improval style, having a large white vault, burlar-proof steel chest, electric lights and every modern convenience for safety and the accommodation of the public. For all information concerning Stocks, Deposits, Loans, etc., apply to the Cashier. Banking Hours have been arranged for the special convenience of the working people as follows: 9 A.M. to 4 P.M. Saturdays, 9 A.M. to 3 P.M. We close Saturday at 1 P.M. and open again at 5 P.M., remaining open until 9 P. E. Call by as soon as some from work. OFFICERS: RICK ELLICKLE, JR., President, THOS. H. WYATT, Cashier, BOARD OF DIRECTORS: REV. W. F. GRAHAM, D. D., JNO. R. HLES, B. P. VANDERVALL, E. R. JEFFERSON, H. F. JONATHAN, O. OAS Smith, D. J. CHAVERS, J. O. FARLEY, JNO. C. TAYLOR, E. A. WATINGTON JOHN BECKLEE, JR., President. H. F. JONATHAN, Vice-President. THOS. H. WYATT, Cashier. BOARD OF DIRECTORS: I. JOHNSON, DIRECTOR AND EMBALMER. rooms, 207 N. Foushee St. Corner Broad HACKS FOR HIRE: Telephone or Telegraph filled. Wedding, Sup l Entertainments promptly attended. 6. Residence in Building, New Phone, 18 W. I. JOHNSON FUNERAL DIRECTOR AND EMBALMER Office & Warerooms, 207 N. Foushee St. Corner Broad HACKS FOR HIRE: Owner by Telephone or Telegraph filled. Wedding, Suppers and Entertainments promptly attended. Old Phone, 686. Residence in Building, New Phone, 14. KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS OF T TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: This organization has been chartered and legally stituted under the laws and statute of the state of New York, for the purpose of nitting together all acceptable men on the Broad Bases of Charity—Beneficial as note the Social and Moral condition of humanity. military and uniform ranks will secure for this organization sk of all sacred institutions of modern events, a grand oppo- nent. Deputies wanted in all sections of the country to organ- kindly address. W. ALLEN Supreme voyager. This organization has been chartered and legally situated under the laws and statute of the state of New York, for the purpose of uniting together all acceptable men on the Broad Bases of Charity—Beneficial External and to promote the Social and Its two distinct military and uniform place in the front ranks of all sacred in tunity for active men. Deputies want lodges Kindly address, G. W. ALLENS It is two distinct military and uniform ranks will secure for this organization a place in the front ranks of all sacred institutions of modern events a grand opportunity for active men. Deputies wanted in all sections of the country to organize lodges. Kindly address, G. W. ALLEN Supreme voyager, 846 W. 37th Street, New York City. Out of Town Orders Solicited and will Receive Prompt and Careful Attention. Isaac Straus and Co. Family Wine, Liquor and Cigar Store, East Broad St, St. Richmond, VA. WE MAKE A SPECIAL OFFER to Mt. Vernon, Gibson, Old Jeep, Pembrook Bry, Wilson, Old Henry, Old North Wilshire, Whiskey and Mountain Apple Brand IMPORTED AND DOMESTIC WINES, BRAN- DIES, GINS AND RUMS. Best and most popular brands of CIGARS Goods Delivered Free to 'Phone 2234 all parts of the Cigars BUFFET IN REAR Restaurant. Restaurant. Barber Shop, Pool Room, Boarding House and Employment Office. CHARLES H. BAILEY, Proprietor and Manager. Center Ave., opposite R. R. Station. Lock, 13. mos Atlantic Highland, N. J. WINSTON'S ICE-CREAM Is in Every Style, Wholesale and Retail. Parlors Open Day and Night Special Attention to Picnics, Festi- vals, etc. Estimates given. All the latest and most popular drinks of the fountain, fresh on hand. TOBACCO AND CIGARS. Phone, 2253. WINSTON'S, 537 Brook Avenue. FRANK WALLER, JR PRACTICAL HOUSE 14 W. Baker St., Richmond, Va Readence, E. I. Orange St. Prompt attention given to all mail orders. Satisfaction guaranteed All Kinds of Painting Done Cheap Give me a call before going elsewhere "THE ECONOMY," 303 and 305 N.3rd St., CLEANING, DYEING, AND REPAIRING TURNER & WHITE, PROPRIETORS. SINCE 1900 ```markdown ``` FIRST CLASS PAINTER. Mechanics' Savings Bank OF RICHMOND, VA 511 North Third Street. Capital, $25,000. OFFICERS: WILL AM CUSTALO, J. J. CARTER THOMAS M. CRUMP, SECX. F. H. Jackson. Chas: T. Williams. JACKSON & WILLIAMS. THE STAR BEEF & PROVISION COMP'Y DEALERS IN CHOICE Beef, Pork, Veal and Lamb, 101 W. Jackson St., Richmond, Va. Fresh Country Eggs and Butter. Fine Butter a Specialty. DENTISTRY PAINLESS EXTRACTION.... For beautiful Teeth, Comfort, Pleasure and Health. OFFICE HOURS:—From 8 A. M. to 6 P M. Old Phone, 816. DR. P. B. RAMSEY, 102 W. Leigh St., Richmond, Va. SYDNOR AND HUNDLEY, LEADERS IN Quality Furniture PARLOR SUITS. We have some twenty-five or thirty suits bought, most of which will be in stock in a few days. "Don't do a thing" until you see this line. 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RIDER GETS A SHOCK. “And you expect me to believe all this yarn? “I tell you it’s all straight. There's the letter. It's a chance that comes only once in a lifetime. I give you the ehance because you have lent'a hand while I was used up. It will make us both rich men.” With their foreheads nearly touch- 4g, Obed Rider and a stranger were conversing in low tones in the former's tent. They were not a handsome pair, The eeaman's weather-stained, brutal countenance was a fitting mate for its companion, where the deep-set, color less eves, protruding cheek benes acd shapeless mouth, together with a vul- pine chin and fiendish eyebrows, de- scending to the nose in sharp arches, ‘Were nature's warning to his fellows. Obed Rider's hurts had proved more serious than he had at first imagined. ‘The broken ribs pained him whenever he moved, and he was almost helpless, This man, who was known as Hank Bowers, was a desperate character who had lost his last ounce at the gaming table, He attached himself to the mate with a view to robbing him atthe first opportunity, but the latter, find- Ziirsp Po (AD re , is He ERaSs <2 liga: Sega ing him to be utterly unscrupulous, had decided to enlist his services in his own schemes. On the very night Tom landed at Dyea he was making the offer. He first informed his new friend that his name was Avery, then showed the let- ter from the old miner's partner, also ‘the will drawn up on shipboard. ‘The other laughed insolently in his face as he went on and sneered: “Come off! Do yer take me for a fool? If you was digging gold in '49 You was at it blasted young!” Rider shrank before his look, and he continued: “See here, now, old man. Give us a straight deal. Them papers aint none of yourn. You've pinched 'em some- whar. Of course, that’s your business, ‘an’ yer ain't obliged ter split on yerself, ain't a man ter stick at trifles, but I don't go in with yer blind. Now, in the fust place, what's yer right name?” Having obtained this information, he continued: “All right, Now, the next thing is, how did yer git them papers?” Rider dared not refuse to tell, but he said, sullenly: “I took them from a young fellow in "Frisco." “Oh, you did! Now we are coming down to biz, He give 'em up fer the askin’, I dare say?" “No.” growled Rider, “I knocked bim ‘over and took ‘em. “Good! And did yer make a clean job ofit? Did yer kill him?" “I don't know, He was alive thenext morning.” “Know who hit him?” “No.” “Then you're all right, and I'l join yer. But, see here, Rider, if that is your hame, there's one more to this than yer think. You say there is one man up to the place now besides the one that was to come in after grab in the spring. Now, why can't we run across this chap on his way, and—well, he must be taken care o& Then we cap go to the place ‘ACs wuth a million apiece to us, man!” “But what about these men?” whis pered Rider. “Bah! Yer chicken! ‘They'll never be missed!” “You mean to murder them?” “See here,” said Bowers, “don't you be a fool. ‘This thing has got to be managed right, an’ it’s lucky yer took me in. You'd spoiled the whole racket. I'd like ter see yer work it alone.” Rider's heart failed him for an {n- stant, but a pull ot the whisky bottle revived his courage, and for another hour the two conspirators continued to plot against the lives and wealth of their fellows. ‘They had decided to start at once on their villainous errand. and the follow- ing morning they were astir before day- light. They wistied to avoid observation as much as possible, and but few peo- ple saw them as they loaded their horses. Bowers was attending to this, when Obed Rider, who had been bringing the goods to him, remembered that he bad left some articles to dry on a small bush not fag away, and hurried after them. By this time it was broad daylight, and fires were being started in the Stoves here and there. He was passing close behind one of these when sudden- ly his heart seemed to leap into his throat, for a voice he could not mistake sounded clearly: “Hello. Green! You're up early! My! Ain't I sleepy!" It was Tom Scott's voice, and the uate stopped as though he had been shot. Glancing furtively over his shoul- der he saw the second mate in the act of kindling a fire. Eveu as the guilty man looked his shipmate turned suddenly toward him and started toward the entrance of the tent, while Rider turned his head away, but could not lift his feet from the spot. “Hold on!” said Green. Rider dared not look up. Hehad been taken so completely by surprise that he could do nothing but. stand still. Each ‘econd he expected to feel Green's hand on bis shoulder, and he was too con fused to think of any plausible story. “Do they suspect me?" — an ‘This was the one thought that flashed through his brain as he waited. “Hold on!” repeated Green, thrusting his head into the tent. “Take it easy till I get the fire going. Doesn't need but one of us.” With a gasp of relief the mate slouched his hat over his eyes and hur- ried away from the spot as though a ghost were pursuing him. He did not stop until he had joined Bowers, who at once noticed his disordered appearance, and exclaimed: “What's up, pard? You look like yer was seaved ter death.” “He's here! I saw them just now—" “What's that? Saw who?” “Scott! And Green is with him!" “And who the devil is Scott and Green? Can't yer talk plain an’ not stan’ thar splutterin’ like yer was goin’ ter flop? What's the row, that's what I want ter know?” By this time the mate had found his tongue, and he said, hurriedly: “Scott is the young chap I got the Papers from, and the other was second mate of the vessel with me. We must get out of this quick!” “Right ye are. ‘They must her come ‘over from Skaguay on the boat yester- day. "Twouldn't do fer them ter see yer roun’ here. They'd be on ter yer racket. Chuck them clothes on that hoss, un’ let's light out. We've got ter gita big start on ‘em. anyhow. ‘Tain't likely they'll start to-day.” “don’t see how they got here,” safd Rider, as they started off through the tents, leading their horses. “I took every cent he had. and 1 don't believe the second mate had much." “Wall, they're here,” replied his com- panion, philosophieally, “an’ of course they're bound for that mine. He's raised the stuff somehow. We've got ter git thar first.” Half an hour later they had left Pyra- mid harbor behind them, and were rid- ing along'the trail as fast as they could urge the pack horses. while Tom and Green were discussing their rude break- fast, in blissful ignorance of how nar- rowly they had missed the man who they fully believed to have already reached the writer of the lost letter. Although they were eager to be off at once, it was impossible to start till the horses had fully recovered from the se 1 voyage. They were too valuable to tal.e any chances with and one of them was slightly lame from a fall in his eramped quarters on the steamer. To replacean animal was also impossible, for fabu- lous prices were being offered for any- thing that could by any possibility bear a burden. ‘Then again, it was necessary to make a careful search about the camp to see if the man Tarbox, mentioned in the letter, had arrived yet. If they couid find trim all would be plain sailing. and he could pilot them back. There was also a chance that the dead miner's brother might be even then on the spot. But they found it a difficult task to get any information. ‘The population of the camp was changing daily. No one paused longer than was absolute- ly necessary, and each was too busy ‘with his own affairs to take notice of j others. THE RICHMOND PLANS age MO Une. Green. We migat sa well be off and trust to Inck. We can't ask what we want to know without arous- ing suspicion and we'd better give it up. The horses seem to be in pretty good shape now and I move we start off in the morning.” Before bis friend had time to reply ‘4 woman's voice sounded clear and dis tinet through the darkness: “Help! Help!" ‘The two men sprang to their feety Tom was a little in advance as they dashed off in the direction of the cries and was first to arrive at a little open- ing, where a red-shirted figure was holding a struggling form in his arma. As he was nearly within striking dis- tance the female managed to free her self, but instead of running away she dealt the man a resounding slap on the cheek and panted: “You big brute! You—you—" What she wouid have added was lost. for the ruffian, maddened by the sting- ing blow, raised his hand to strike her He was too late, however, for just as his fist was raised Tom dealt him a straight right-hander that stretched him on the ground at full length. He made an effort and scrambled to his feet, but it was apparent that he was half dazed by the blow and the liquor he had ban drinking. He at- tempted to draw a revolver from his belt, but by this time he was surround- ed by angry men who had been at- tracted to ihe spot by the outery. He was seized by a dozen pairs of hands and his weapons removed. At first he attempted to struggle, but the muzzle of a revolver pressed close to his temple and a few cries of “Lynch him!" completely sobered him, and he sow looked fearfully about him at the stern faces which beset him on every side. “What'll we do with him, boys? shouted a broad-shouldered giant who appeared to be a leading spirit. “Hang the scamp!” cried a voice near by. “Nonsense!” returned the big fellow. “What tenderfoot is talking now! It's no hanging matter to kissa girl. Let's duck him in the salt water!” A wild yell of detight greeted this Proposition, and the trembling wretch was dragged off toward the beach with- out ceremony. ‘Tom and his friend were about to re- turn to their tent when a hand was laid timidly on his arm, and he turned to find himself confronted by the inno- vent cause of the trouble, who said, frankly: “I thank you, sir, for your help. ‘The man seized me from behind so suddenly that I screamed before I knew what ] was doing. My father's tent is close by, and I just came out after some water.” ‘Tom gazed with admiration at the girl before him. Some one had thrown an armful of wood on a fire a shortdis. tance away, and by the flickering light ‘he could see her distinctly. She was ap- parently about 18 years old, with alow, broad forehead, large blue eyes, which met his freely, cheeks flushed with the ‘excitement and 2 month which, whils too large perhaps for classic beauty, looked none the less bewitching. She was dressed in a tight-fitting waist and short skirt, her ankles protected by leggings, while a pair of stout shoes covered her feet. ‘The young man took all this in ata glance as he replied: “That's nothing. I happened to get here first. Would yon like to have me ace you safe to your tent?” ‘The girl laughed and said, quickly: “Oh, there's no danger! I was care- less. T've got @ revolver, and I know how to use it. I shall look out after this. The man was drunk, anyway. I'm safe here.” As she spoke she nodded brightly at Tom and turned to go, but at thai in- stant a middle-aged man hurried for- ward and exclaimed: “Clara! What is this I hear? Who has—" “It's all right, father,” interrupted the young girl, laying her hand affec- tionately on his arm. “There's nothing the matter at all. A man had been drinking and tried to interfere with me, but this gentleman knocked him down. Then the rest came and took the rascal off to duck him; that’s all.” “That's enough, I should say,” was the reply, and turning toTom, the man extended his hand, saying: “I thank you, young man. It's the first time I've known a woman to be in- sulted here, and I'm glad you came to my girl's aid so promptly. I'm obliged to you. Perhaps I can do you a good turn some day. I'm an old miner, and you are probably new at this sort of life. Where are you from?” “I'm from New Hampshire,” replied ‘Tom, who could not keep his eyes from the girl's face. “My name is Scott, and this is my partner, Mr. Green.” “My name is Avery,” said the strang- er, “and I'm from the east, too. Drop in and see me to-morrow. That's my tent over there. Good night. Come, Clara.” ‘There had been something strangely familiar in the man’s tones to Tom, and when he annouzced his name thetruth burst upon the young man all at once. “Wait!” he cried. “Avery! Surely You must be John Avery's brother!” ‘The elder man turned with an excla- mation of amazement, while the girl eried: RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. Jemen, tocome | feller; an‘ you can te y tent. I must] right. Any darned foo Poor John! To] a salt water chap, an’ b taken away in| part of it.” CHAPTE VII onthe DAY STRAT ‘The two young m followed him tn silence. When they sached the tent Tom repeated the sto of his acquaint- ance with the old nm .er, touching as lightly as possible ¢ “the two ceca sions In which he b risked his own Mfe, but a pair of bl eyes were fixed upon him all the wl and the girl's face showed that sh: lly appreciated and admired hisdarix a) 4 ‘> ae A OSE PP aE FLYER Sh ¢ RYN DSP / Cou aK K beg) eG “PVP, S Oo r) \ "2 ce U ge J = f s “4 re si Ge) -S ae i yy mS —_ “*Oh, father! he knows Oncle Johai’® Her father made but few interrup- tions until Tom deseribed the deathbed scene, and then he said “Have you the papersnow?” “No,” replied Tom, “but I know them by heart. I was waylaid and robbed in San Francisco. See, here is the scar.” As he spoke he bent his head, and then went on: “We have reason to beliave the mate of the vessel, a man named Rider, heard what your brother said to me when he was dying and that he was the rascal who nearly killed me and took the papers. He disappeared, and we think he came here and started up the trail to pass himself off as the rightful own- er of the will. He has bad a long start, and may be there before this.” Avery was silent for a moment, and then he said, frankly: “I don’t want to doubt your word, Scott, but I must take every precau- tion. Before I admit anything, tell me what the letter to John said, and what it was signed.” ‘Tom promptly complied, and appar- ently convinced the other, for he ex- tended his hand, exclaiming: “It’s all right, and you shall have John’s share if Ican helpyou. Shall we gO on together? I have been waiting here a week in hopes to run across Tar- box. He was coming down after sup- plies this month.” “I think we'd better st rt at once,” said Tom. “We may mee im, and be- sides I feel sure the mate . there some. armpits ; ould you know thir man Tarbox if you saw him?” added Tom. “No,” was the reply. “He's a new partner Taylor has picked up out here.” “Do you know Taylor?” “O, yes. We were all out together in the California mines in the ‘50s. Poor Jobn was one of us. Dick Taylor loved him as though he'd been his brother, too. It'll be sad news for him to hear your story.” It was late that night when Tom and Green returned to their tent. It had been decided to make sure that the man had not arrived from the mine, and, should they be unable to hear of him, they were to start on the day fol- lowing. ‘The sailor threw himself down on his bed of boughs and was asleep almost in- etantly, but Tom Scott could see a pair of blue eyes when his own were tightly shut, His dreams that night were a sad Jumble of gold mines and fair dam- sels in distress, and he awoke but little refreshed, ‘The day was spent in quiet but fruitless inquiries for the man they sought, and the following morning a little caravan filed away from the bar- bor toward the wild northern country. ‘Tom led the way on his horse, the pack horses came next, Avery and his daugh- ter followed and Green brought up the rear, ‘The Dalton trail is over an undulat- ing country all the way to Fort Selkirk, and can easily be traveled on horseback the entire distance of some 375 miles, which relieved our travelers of the hard- ships attendant upon the other trails, and it was with a light heart that Tom looked back over the well-fitted string of animals and exclaimed: “If we can only meet the man from the mine we shall be in luck! We have Provisions enough for all hands!" He would not have felt so happy could he have known that at that moment the man he mentioned was seated by a campfire with Rider and his companion reading John Avery's will and the letter written by Dick Taylor. | Leaving Tom and his party fairly on their way, we must return to Obed ‘Rider and his new friend, who were ‘pushing forward as fast as possible. ‘Their undue haste the first day had proved disastrous, for one of their pack horses had gone lame, and they were obliged to abandon it or go into camp. ‘They chose the former, dividing its bur den among the others as best they could. ‘The second night found them many miles on their journey, but as night came on the weary beasts could hardly be forced ahead, and Hank Bowers cursed the delay roundly. “We might as well stop here,” he growled at last, after helping one of the horses to regain its feet after stum- bling. “Get them packs off, will yer, while I see about the fire. I'm as hun- gry as a shark.” The tent was soon set up, and after supper was disposed of and pipes light- ed he said: “See here, Rider, let’s have a sort o° understanding "bout this job. "Spose we meet this man Tarbox, then what? We've got ter have our yarns so they'll agree. I guess now is a good time ter fix it up. You don't want ter forget that yer name is Scott. I'll call you ‘Tom all right enuff. Yousee the young ehs> Jump overboard and save the ol “Thisis sad news. g 80 sudden. Come to know the particulars. think that he should the prime of his life! The two young m silence. When they Tom repeated the sto ance with the old n lightly as possible « sions In which he b Mfe, but @ pair of bl upon him all the wl face showed that sh: and admired his dar ‘Teller; an* you can tell that yarn all right. Any darted fool can see you are a salt water chap, an’ he'll swallow that ‘part of it.” | Rider nodded, and the other went on: “'ve been thinkin’ this out an’ I've ‘come ter the conclusion that we must ‘pump him about how ter get ter the ‘place where the gold is an’ let him go on ter Dyea after his grub. He won't hev enough stuff with him to make it wuth our while to stop him. See?” After a pause he continued: “Well keep on and find this other feller what sent the letter. They've got a big pile all dug by this time, and we must hev it. He'll drop out o' sight,” Rider's face showed that he did not understand the other’s meaning, and ‘the miner repeated: |_ “He'll git off the earth! Understand? ‘Then when we her the place all ter our- ‘selves, Mr. Tarbox will come back with a lot of grub. We'll tell him his pard got starved out afore we reached the place an’ took their stuff with him. He'll never know the odds, and if he does ‘make any trouble, there’s a mighty quick way of stopping his mouth.” As he spoke he dropped his hand sig- nificantly to the butt of the heavy re- volver at his hip and his face took to feel decidedly uneasy in this man’s company. What assurance had he that this unscrupulous ruffian would not treathim in the same manner after his ends were served? As if reading his thoughts Bowers laughed hoarsely, and exclaimed: “What's the matter, Rider? "Fraid I'll go back on yer? Don’t worry as long as yer use me on the square. I'll Stick ter yer, but yer too chicken heart- ed for a job like this.” ‘The day had been very warm and sunny, for summer comes all at once in this part of the country. They hud built a small fire to make their coffee, and were lying in their tent where they could command quite a view of the trail ahead. It was still light, and as the speaker glanced carelessly over the val- ley in which they had halted heuttered ‘a sharp exclamation and sprang to his feet. “Thar’s something movin’ over thar!” he said quickly, shading his eyes with his hand as if to aid his vision. “It'sa man an’ he’s afoot, headin’ fer our fire, jest as sure’s yer born! Ten dollars ter one it’sour man! Remember you're Mister Tom Scott, and don't make a mess of it!” Rider soon saw a dark figure drawing near them, and when it was but afew rods away a man’s voice shouted: “Hello, there!” “Hello!” responded Bowers, stepping from the tent. ‘The stranger came rapidly toward ‘him, and there was light enough to re- veal a powerfully-built man of middle age, who. wore a small pack on his back and carried a serviceable looking revolver at bis belt. His beard was long and unkempt, but he walked with a long, swinging step, which told of unimpaired vigor. When he reached the tent he looked shorply 2} che twomen As his eves rested upon Rider's companion a puz- led look came into them for an instant, but he said, heartily: “Hello, mates, which way are you bound?” “Up this way,” replied Bowers, jerk- ing his thumb in the direction from which the stranger had appeared. “Going up the Yukon way?” “Not quite.” The man looked a bit uneasy, but Bowers, who had been watching his face closely, now said: “Dump yer load, pardner, an’ camp Nong with us. We've got some prime coffee an’ bacon, an’ them coals is jest right ter cook on. We've fed, but yer welcome. If yer jest in from a long tramp I dare say as yer kinder lowon grub.” Without waiting for a reply he seized the coffee pot. and set to work in a way which showed he was no novice. ‘The stranger laid aside his pack, and was soon eating with a relish, which did justice to his host's supposition. When he could eat no more Bowers said: “Got any tobacco?” “Haven't had a smoke fora month,” was the reply. “That's tough! Here’s a pipe. Join us” | His manner was so cordial and frank that Rider looked at him in wonder. The stranger eagerly accepted the pipe, and for a few moments sat in silence, drawing huge puffs of the fragrant weed with an enjoyment which fairly, spoke for itself. Suddenly Rider's companion slapped his thigh as though he had just thought of something wonderful, and, turning to the mate with a look of warning, exclaimed: “By thunder, Scott, you don't sup- pose this is—" He stopped in the middle of the sen- tence and looked searchingly at the stranger, then continued: “It would be funny, wouldn't it, Scott, if we had met him out here! You know the letter said he was comin’ down this month fer grub.” ‘The stranger looked wonderingly at the two men and Bowers hastened to say: “Exeuse me, stranger, but might your name be Tarbox?” ‘The man took his pipe from his lips and stared at the speaker for full a see- ond before replying, then he replied: “It might be and it is. How did you know me?” “An? yer pardner’s name is Taylor?” ‘This time the man was too astonished to reply, and Howers went on: “You're goin’ ter Dyea after grub,an’ he’s back in the hills. Ain't that all straight?” Joe Tarbox rose to his feet and laid bis hand on his weapon, saying in a quiet tone: “That is correct, but it's my turn to ask questions now. How did you find all this out?” Bowers turned to the mate and said, promptly: “Tom, old man, you tell bim our yarn an’ let him see the documents. That'll soon put things straight.” “My name is Scott,” said Rider, “I was an officer on the ship where a man named John Avery died. He was eom- ing out here on account of a letter from in old chum of his named Dick Taylor. Him aboard after a hard tussle. We come nigh going to Davy Jones, both of us, ard he never got over it. We buried bim out to sea and he drawed up a writing to make me his heir. He give me a letter he'd got from this Taylor, telling how to get to a gold mine he'd been working. “He told me to take what money was In his belt and I'did. He said he'd no family, The letter said for him to bring jjome one with him if be needed any help, and as I diz"t know nothing about horseo und shore rigging, 1 brought Bowers here along with me. That's the whole yarn as well as a rough sailor man ean spin it.” Bowers’ face showed his approval of the mate's efforts and Tarbox was ap- parently convinced, for he shook hands varmly with the speaker and ex- tlaimed: “It’s a lucky thing I met you, Dick told me he had written to both the Averys. ‘They were old friends of his. He told me to look out for them in Dyea. Have you got the papers with you “That's what I have. Here they are, all shipshape and above board,” replied Rider as he proceeded to extract them trom his belt. “That's Dick Taylor's fist the world over,” assented Tarbox as he examined the letter. “I remember the day he wrote that in our tent. We had just found the first big nug—" He coughed to ie his confusion and then added: “It’s all right, of course, but a man has to be careful, Once let the mob know where we are and what we've found and we'd be overrun in no time.” As luck would have it Hank Bowers chose this instant, when Tarbox was examining the papers, to throw a look ‘of ferocious triumph on the mate. Al- though neither of them noticed the fact, Joe Tarbox raised his eyes just then, and to a man of his training nothing more was needed to put him on his guanl. He cast a keen look at Bowers. and as if his scrutiny had been satisfactory, he dropped his eyes again, but there was a little hardening of the muscles about his jaw, and with a careless twist of his body he brought his weapon nearer bis hand. He was too old a hand, however, tc make any outward sign of alarm, and said, coolly: “It's a pity you didn't pick up the oth- er Avery at Dyea. He ought to be there by this time.” “And how can we find your pardner?” asked Bowers. “Do just as the letter says,” replied Tarbox. “Build a fire and he'll see the smoke and come. The route is toc crooked to describe.” “How long afore you'll be back with the grub? We've got a good lot here but you can’t hey too much.” “It take me three days to get in and two or three more to get what 1 want. If I can't find horses I shal have to go to Skaguay. I shan't be back under a fortnight or three week: at the best.” After finishing hispipe, Tarbox plead. ed fatigue, and rolled himself up in hi: blanket. But there was no sleep fo1 him that night. ‘The sinister look on Bowers’ face had given him the clew he wanted, and as he waited patiently for daylight he muttered to himself: “That was a close shave! There is something wrong about that sailor, if his company is anything to go by. “If this Bowers isn't the man I saw driven out of Joe Ladue’s station for stealing. then I'm mistaken, Dick will be all right. ‘They may make all the fires they want to, and that’s all the good it'll do"them. T'll just bring back two or three men of the right sort with me. There's no other way.” At the first sign of daylight he was astir. A hasty meal was soon eaten, and, shaking hands cordially with both men, he said: “Tell Dick Il be back as soon as 1 can, You can't iniss the trail.” Then he struck out manfully on the back track to Dyes, leaving the plotters standing in frout of their tent, exult- ing. er SS INDIANA MAID WARDS OFF CON- SUMPTION IN Woops. NATURE RESTORES HEALTH Foils Dread Disease by Sleeping in the Fresh Earth in Colorado Woods. and Is Now on the Road ‘i: aeenene.. Indianapolis, Ind.—By sleeping naked in the woods, her body covered with loose earth, and nothing overhead but the canopy of the starry heavens, Miss Charlotte Dunnington, of Waterford, Ind., 18 maning u desperate effort to ward of that much-dreaded disease, con- sumption, which tor the last year and more has threatened to cut down her young life when she was just entering the full bloom of young womanhood. It is @ slight and trail, yet a pretty and attractive young woman who is tak- ing this Hellenic road toward health and strength by putting Lucity to a test as the cure for consumption. And for all the summer months just Past, since early spring, this trail girl has pursued this strange cure. For more tnan a year previous to the early spring, Miss Dunnington's pa- rents and her physician have hoped against hope tha: the dreaatul rubereu- losis of the lungs, with which she was at- tacked, would not develop into that great white plague, consumption. But they hoped in vain. And then from her physician came the old cry: “Hither death or the west.” The physician then advised that stie go to Colorado, where she had an uncle liv- ing, and take the new cure for consump- tion—the “nature cure"—the idea of which is to get right down to old mother earth and let the everlasting hills a. sorb into thelr strength all of the tuber- culosis germs that infest the human sys- tem. Miss Dunnington, following the advice £ of her physictan and followed by the fervent prayers of her parents for her recovery, went to the little town of Grenada, Col., near which her uncle lived. She was accompanied only by her faithful St. Bernard deg, which kept her constant company, watched over her during her sleep and warned her when anyone happened to be approaching. Since early in May Miss Dunnington has thus slept naked in the woods, like a modern Diana, with her body covered only with loose earth, which she gently iv ee | — ae \ | = Ws a SY hy LEN | sth.2's| (aa PB 1) eet : a 2P A if » Tay Tis Appi 4,6 Cara : = Swe ROA, i WT) Gee 2 A ik Dees ME ap Nek EPMO LG BiG © 1 Wad Nate «aes NUDE IN Mei COLORADO wanna: raked over her nude body as she re tired each night to sleep. So within the shelter of a small grove near which her uncle's home nestles and where there were no passersby, Miss Dunnington nightly buried herself be- neath her blanket of soft, warm earth. During all the summer months just passed this modern Diana has slept thus, while her faithful dog Neroand the stars twinkling in the clear heavens thus kept vigil during the long hours of the night. Bach morning during the last five months, as Miss Dunnington awoke, dawn has seen her—no one else has, however, in her usual bathroom costume as she bas taken regularly her early ‘morning roll in a dewey clover bank in ‘what she calls the bath of the gods. After she had shaken off her strange coverlet and had taken her roll in the ‘morning dew, she would then run half a mile through the woods, likesome pace Sine gee ebeee by. ‘Then she would take her early morn- ing plunge into the cold clear water. Her swim over, she would emerge into the early morning sunshine again, which would serve for all the drying purposes of a towel. ‘Then, draped in a thin white cloth tunic, like a girl of old Greece—only more so—Miss Dunnington would spend the day with her dog Nero out in the woods among the Colorado hills just growing young and taking unto herselt all the eternal youth which complete outdoor life alone can bring. « Whenever intrusion would compel her to do so, Miss Dunnington has thrown over her shapely form a simple tunic, and this has been all the clothing she has allowed herself to wear during the entire summer. ‘Emeralds Prove Bogus. New York.—Supposedly high-grade, emeralds which have been {mported from Paris have been discovered by sev- eral wholesale Jewelers to be merely doublets of quartz, cleverly colored. 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I am quite sure you were not thinking slowly when you wrote that Starks' position is a good one; and when he was appointed, fifty white men were applying for it. This is no criticism, just a brain jogging. Sincerely yours, Roscoe C. SIMMONS. Mr. JOHN MITCHELL, JR. Richmond, Va. Geographically speaking, "the point is well taken," but down here, Maryland and West Virginia are not regarded as southern states, for the reason that both cast their lots with the Union during the late civil war. Our reference was to the rock-ribbed "Jeff, Davis," Confederate States who swore by the "bonny blue flag" and died by it until Appomattox came. West Virginia is a republic can state and Afro-American appointees are to be just as much expected as they are to be, in New York city when Tammany controls. Northern Democracy and the Republicans agree on the Ne, gro appointment question. We presume that you stand corrected and so do we. We said what we meant, and we meant what we said. REV. DR. JOHNSON ANSWERED. OUR great and good friend, Rev. HARVEY JOHNSON, D. D., of Baltimore, Md., takes issue with us in another column of this journal, on account of our comment upon Mr. THOMAS NELSON PAGE's article on "The Old Time Negro," and our tribute to Judge WILKINSON of MISSISSIPPI in his charge to the Lincoln county grand jury. Dr. Johnson asks many questions. The good white people of the South are those who realize as does Judge Wilkinson that brutal exhibitions and outlandish murders whether practiced up on Negroes or Indians tend to injure the Southland by driving away capital damage the individual, by searing the conscience and multiplying crime. To this end, they are making legitimate efforts to check lawlessness of every description, stamp out lynching and encourage the better class of colored people to traverse those avenues of industry which lead to the temple of finance and material prosperity. To those of us who are worthy, they lend a helping hand, giving us advice, encouraging us in business and doing all in their power to guarantee the safety of our lives and the security of our property. The white hoodlums are those who stand out in opposition to all of this. The South of to-day is not the South of thirty years ago. There are liberal minded white men who have decided views on this race question and they do not hesitate to express them. It is to avoid the estrangement of this element that our conservative articles are written for without their help, we see only an abyss of despair beyond. We are of the opinion that Rev. Dr. Johnson does himself and the Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia a great in justice when he speaks lightly of its decrees. Certainly it has been more favorably disposed towards us in the matter of individual rights than has the august tribunal, known as the United States Supreme Court at Washington. It was by its decrees that MARY ABERNATHY and POKEY BARNES were saved from the lynchers and ultimately from the gallows, and to-dav the colored man convicted and sentenced to death for killing a white brakeman is in the jail at COVINGTON, VA., having been granted a new trial by this tribunal of Virginia, composed of white men who saw no color, but adhered strictly to reason and to law. The men who composed the unconstitutional "Constitutional" Convention were elected by the "poor whites" and were directly their agents. Dr. Johnson evidently over-looks the fact that there was a strong white Democratic opposition to the calling of even a constitutional convention to revise the suffrage. This element fought the proposition to the bitter end, carrying their fight to the floor of the unconstitutional "Constitutional" Convention itself. A glance at the record of that remarkable body will show that these people "spoke out in the meeting"? Is it right then, is it proper, is it just to class this liberal element of Virginians with those who oppose and oppress us? Would not this be practicing the same injustice upon them that has been visited upon us, that of classing all colored people together as a bad element and assailing them accordingly? We do not think, Doctor that the Good Book, the e precepts of the Saviour teach any such lessons. We do not think that it would be the part of wisdom for us to do otherwise than encourage this liberal white element, with a hope that their numbers may multiply. It is but fair to say that the colored people have some friends among the lowly classes of whites. But as a rule they visit upon us their opposition. Dr. Johnson peremptorily demands that the best white people shall put down the White Caps and Red Shirts and Farmers Leagues and yet proceeds to criticize Judge WILKINSON of Lincoln County, Mississippi, who is attempting to do this very thing. The newspapers report that one hundred lynchers and "white-cappers" are under indictments in his Court. It is not for us to condemn him for having no use for a Negro. We rather admire him for having the 'courage' to say sc, divesting himself of hypocrisy while at the same time according us protection and justice. We ask only a man's chance caring nothing for special favors. What matters it to us if the Devil brings relief, provided the Lord sent it? We desire equal opportunity with any other citizen and a removal of the handicaps to our advancement along all lines, religious, industrial and political. We hardly see the need of the better class of the white people petitioning the national government for aid to assist in putting down the mob. Such a petition was sent from COLORADO to the authorities at Washington and was flatly refused by the officials there. Such a petition was made to the President of the United States by the exiled Negroes of Wilmington, North Carolina. The writer was the spokesman of one of the delegations that made the plea to the late President WILLIAM MCKINLEY in the White House at Washington. The world knows the result. Such a plea was made by the white citizens of KENTUCKY when lawlessness was rampant and even a former Governor was made an exile within the confines of the state of INDIANA, where he resides today. Every child of a school age, who reads the newspapers knows the result of these efforts. If then, the national government turned a deaf ear to the white men of COLORADO and KENTUCKY and the Negroes of NORTH CAROLINA, why should it be expected to heed the cries of the liberal minded white men of the southern states? Is it not evidence that we have the leaven here within our own borders? Is it not apparent that we must look to the state governments for relief and to our own arms for protection, dying if need be in our own defense. Certainly Dr. JOHNSON must have forgotten that it was Gov. FIRZHUHG LEE, of Virginia who saved the fifteen year old SIMON WALKER from the gallows. It was Gov. CHARLES T. O'FERRALL who with the troops of the state protected the Lunenburg risoners. It was the Virginia Supreme Court that gave them a new trial. It was Attorney General SCOTT, whose son is now a Circuit Judge in this state who enunciated the principle that human life was paramount and in its protection all lawful expedients were justifiable. It was Hon. ASA D. WATKINS of Prince Edward who entered a noelle proxqui in the face of a jury virtually howling for POKKE BARNES' blood. It was Judge J M. CRUTE who granted him permission so to do. It was Mayor HARRY WOODING of Danville and his corp of officers, backed up by Judge A. M. AIKEN of Danville, Va., who recently not only protected an innocent Negro from a mob, but jailed some of THE RICHMOND It was Governor Aycock of North Carolina who has taken high ground upon the lynching question. It was Gov. A. J. MONTAGUE who detailed a regiment of soldiers to guard HENRY WILLIAMS, (colored) the confessed assailant of a white woman at Roanoke, Va. Think you that Gov. MONTAGUE had any sympathy for WILLIAMS? Think you that he learned otherwise than with satisfaction of his execution upon the gallows? He was doing his duty, executing the mandates of the law and preserving those institutions, without which, government is a parody and liberty a play-thing in the hands of the lawless. The time is at hand when men deserve credit for doing their duty. God forbid that at any time during the coming years that we should be otherwise than just in our advocacy of great principles or that we should withhold from any of the liberal-minded white men of the South-land any of the honor, credit or commendation to which they are justly entitled. All of these cases cited involved colored people and their alleged victims were white ones. It is the Governor of Alabama who has ferreted out the "lawless organized bands which have for their purposes the injury of Negroes. These are the people who constitute the best class of white people and we shall add the name of Judge EMORY SPEER of Macon, Georgia to the number. Our fights in the defense of colored people and our success along these lines have been with the active support and encouragement of the liberal minded white people and the opposition of those of the Negro-hating kind. These white people are not Negro-lovers, but they see in the spread of lawlessness and the degradation of the masses, the destruction of the republic. They love the South-land and its people and they know that its true advancement and prosperity can never be secured save by the observance of great principles, and a strict adherence to its laws. If commending this element of white people is treason to the Negro race, we say to the colored people of this country,—make the most of it. The words of the Saviour come thundering through the ages, as potent to day as when they were first uttered to the wondering multitudes upon the mount or voiced, with mellifluent grandeur by the silvery eloquence of St. Luke: "Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them." MR. THOMAS NELSON PAGE'S narrative on "The Old Time Negro" in SCRIBNER'S MAGAZINE for November grows more interesting as he proceeds. He says: When the war closed and the Negroes were set free, the feeling between them and their old masters was never warmer, the bonds of friendship were never more close. The devotion which the Negro had shown during the long struggle had created a profound impression on the minds of the Southern whites. Even between the Negroes and poorer whites who had always been rather at enmity, a better feeling had grown up. The close of the war had accomplished what all the Emancipation Proclamations could not effect. The masters universally informed their servants that they were free. This was literally true among the slave-owners of the better class, but among many others, LINCOLN was cursed and SUMNER abused. Mr. PAGE came from the kind-hearted Virginia stock, where servants were treated as human beings and conscience figured conspicuously in all earthly affairs. The old time Negro has almost quite passed from the earth, as have his old master and his old mistress. A few still remain, like the last leaves on the tree, but in no long time they, too, will have disappeared. But so long as he survives the old family feeling of affection will remain in the hearts of those who knew him. Every week or two the newspapers contain the mention of the passing from the stage of one or more of those whose place in some old family has made them notable in their lives and has caused them to be followed to the grave by as sincere mourners among the whites as among the blacks. But how many of them pass without any other notice than the unfeigned mourning of them they loved and served so faithfully. No Southerner, whatever his feelings of antagonism may be to the Negro race, ever meets an old Negro man or woman without that feeling rising in his breast which one experiences when he meets some old friend of his youth on whom time has laid his chastening hand. Nor has the old feeling by any means died out in the breast of the old Negro himself. Only as the whites look on the young blacks with some disapproval, the old Negro regards the younger generation of whites as inferior to the generation he knew. Mr. PAGE could not have stated the condition better. He tells the following amusing story: Not long since a friend in Richmond told me the following story: He said a friend of his in that city invited him in the tae shoot season to go down to his father's place to shoot parridges. The house had been burned down, but he said Robin was still living there, and had told him not long before that there were a good many birds on the place. Accordingly, the two gentlemen one morning took their guns and dogs and drove down to the old Ball plantation where they arrived about sunrise. Old Robin was cutting wood in front of his cabin, and my friend began to shout for him: "On, Robin! Oh, Robin!" The old fellow stopped, and coming to the brow of the hill above them, called, "Who dat know me so much bettuh den I know him?" "Come down here!" called his master. When the old fellow discovered who it was he delighted. "Yes, suh," said he; "dyah's plenty of buds down heron de branch. I sees 'em ev' even' most when I comes MR. THOMAS NELSON NABRATIVE. ANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. You go 'long and keeer of yo horse Mandy to hev some twelve o'clock." leaving, he stopped, of the road. him off the wagon, said: "Marse Gus, do you 'yo' shoot any old hyda down here, take my down, wid me when I sit down after my cow. Dem buds, too far' for me, but I can manage a shoot an old hyda if I ketch one so快' in debaid. The promise we given and was kept by the hunters up in the Marse Gus, and gave him up a fair sirt. In his ardor he fired at it and knotted it over. At that moment old Robot was heard calling to them to come 'up to the house as 'snack was read "There," said crus. as he picked up the hare, "now I have gone and killed this, and that old man will never forgive me. "Take it and give it to him for his wife," said his friend. "Oh, no," he said; "you don't know old Robin, he will never forgive me" "Well put it down in the bottom of your game big; he will never know the difference," said his friend. And this was shamelessly done. They were greeted by the old man cheerfully, with "You must have got plenty of buds, I heard you shoot so much." "Oh, yes, we had very good luck," said the huntsman. "You didn't shoot any old hyahs?" he said confidently. The silence around his suspicion, and, turning he shot a keen glance at his master, which look in the well-filled game bag. "What you got dem game pockets to make 'em look big? You certainy ain' shoot as many buds as dat in dis time?" Gus, convicted, poked his hand into his bag and drew out the rabbit. "Here, Uncle Robin," he said in some confusion, "this is the only one I shot. I want you to take it and give it to Mandy." But the old man declined. "Nor I don' want it and Mandy don't want it," he said; "you done shoot it and now yo' bettuh keep it." He stalked on up the hill in silence. Suddenly, stopping, he turned back. "Well, well," he said, "times certainly is changed! Marse Mus, yo' pa wouldn't 'a' taut me a lie for a mule, let 'lone a' ole hyah." 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JOHN MITCHELL, JR., Dear Sir: The PLANET is here, and I have just read it, as I have been doing ever since it was a PLANET. But there is a matter that I have had a strong temptation to call your attention to, an illustration of which occurs in to-day's issue. I have refrained until now, for two reasons. 1st, the very high esteem I have for Editor Mitchell as a man,—bold and courageous, and as an Editor that has few equals, if any. But sir, allow me to say, that Editor Mitchell has a wrong conception of the Southern character,—indeed of the white man's character, as such, everywhere. He holds and believes that it is not the good people of the South;—and, by the way, if sometimes made to ask: "Who are they?" That it is not the good people of the South who are against the colored people, but the lower order who are commonly styled, "poor trash." WAS MUCH ASTONISHED. Now, sir, my astonishment is, that Editor Mitchell with his long experience, up-hill, down dale, and through valleys, quagmires and swamps of trials and tribulations brought to him for the stand he has taken from time to time, not by the "poor trash," but the very highest tribunals of Virginia and the F. F. V's. Take The Richmond News-LEADER, I think it is, if I am not right you will know what I mean—that you so often quote from, that is always saying hard things against us. Is the Editor of that paper among the "low trash?" Take the status of our affairs in Virginia with reference to what you have been pleased to style—and properly so the "unconsti- tious" one, that passed that ungodly, unholy and unrighteous disfranchisement, grand-fathers law: were they the "low trash" and the "poor whites"? A POINTED QUESTION Again I ask Editor Mitchell; how can he, with these things in view, continue to tell the white people through his editorials that it is not their best order that do these things but the lower? Again I would ask, "Who is at the head of affairs in the South, the lower order or the best order?" and since they have tolerated this state of affairs all these years, there is one of two things that must be admitted, either the mob and "low trash" have charge of affairs, or the higher order and officials have. If it is the first, then the higher order and therefore that they have no government of the lower order, and ought to yield it up to the lower order, or they must admit that they can control them but have no disposition or desire to do so, and thus continue to use them for their own designs and ends which they are doing right along. DEMAND THE PUNISHMENT. I here now and peremptorily demand that your best white people shall arise and put down the "white cappers", ":ed shirts" and "Farmer's Leaguers" etc., etc., or else acknowledge that they have not in the South a Republican form of government which the constitution demands that they shall have; and that it is your duty henceforth, I declare, to plead for them to petition the government to help them to manage the mob that is in control. Now I want to call your attention to the decision of Judge Wilkinson of Mississippi. His charge is the grand jury, your editorial on that. Won't you read them together again? Won't you see that you are apologizing for those people in the South who have no real respect for the colored people? Take Judge Wilkinson's decision. What is it? What of humanity is there in it. None whatever. THE PLEA TO THE GRAND JURY He tells the grand jury from start to finish that he is seeking the honor of Mississippi and his county. Not that it is wrong to take the colored man vulgarly styled "Negro" out, "lay him across a log and wear him into frazzles with a buggy trace" because he was a man, but because they disgrace their country and they never get over it, but the stripes on the Negro "would soon heal up and he would pay no attention to them" which shows that there was no humanity in his statement. And again he says "I have no more use for the Negro than you have." Now Editor Mitchell, this is one of your goody, goody, high class men of the South, not a Negro hater as you style them; and yet he says he has no more use for the "Negro" than the "white cappers" than the Ku Klux, or Farmers Leagues or any of the class that take him out and whip him with a "buggy trace." Won't you be kind enough to put this in your paper? Knowing as I do, your sharp sword and trenchant pen, I am trembling now, but venture the danger I risk, in thus presuming to write such an article to your paper. You know that I am as ever Your friend, HARVEY JOHNSON, Baltimore, Md., Dec. 10th, 1904. [Our reply to this letter may be found on page 4 of this issue.—John Mitchell, Jr.] PYTHIANS ENTER FRANKLIN. A New Lodge There—Grand Times Candidates Jubilant. FRANKLIN, VA., Dec., 9th, 1904. Dr. Wn E. Atkins, of Hampton, Va. Grand Medical Register and Major J. J. Booker, D. Deputy, Tuncellor arrived here this morning. The same to assist in the initiation of the first Lodge of Knights of Pythias ever orga ized in this town. At 8:17 last night Mr. W. W. Urquhart and associates met the other visitors. They were Grand Chancellor, John Mitchell, Jr; Assistant Surgeon General E. R. Jefferson, and Capt. John G. Smith from Richmond and D. Deputy Grand Chancellor John M. Bootue, Past Grand Chancellor, N. A. Twitty and Past Chancellor Lemuel Bynum from Suffolk, Va. The party repaired to the residence of Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Urquhart where a bounteous repast was served. Dr. Wm. Troy is located here. Later the party went to the Odd Fellows Hall where the initiation took place. Twenty-five candidates were made to see the beauties of Pythianism in one hour and thirty-six minutes. The following are the officers of the new organization which will be known as Franklin Lodge, No. 85. C. C., Allen Johnston, M. of W., W. W. Urquhart; V. C., Soloman Outlaw; P. M. C. Holland; M. at A., Henry Jones; R. of R. and S., E. R. Artist; M. of F. R. Short; M. of Exchequer, London Post Office; John Walden; O. G. W. G. Edwards; Trustees; Joseph Webb, Thomas Catten, W. W. Urquhart. The affair was most enjoyable. Addresses were delivered by the visitors who were enthusiastic over the treatmentaccorded them. Grand Chancellor Mitchell left this morning for Snuff, Va. in company with his associates where they will be the guests of Mr. and Mrs. N. A. Twitty. They were most royally entertained upon their arrival there from Richmond and spoke in the highest terms of Madame Twitty and her two interesting children. An Appeal in Behalf of Many of our Fathers and Mothers who are in the Almshouse. A committee from the woman's auxiliary of the Y. M. C. A. kindly asks all who wish to remember the inmates of the almshouse this Christmas will please send or bring what you may feel that they will enjoy, candies, cakes, fruits and other things. The committee will be at the rooms of the Y. M. C. A., Monday Jan. 2nd, 1905, from 9 A. M. to 2 P. M. At 2 P. M. all that may be sent to the rooms will be taken to the almshouse by the women. This is an opportunity for all to do some good. Help. R. T. HILL, President. S. C. BURKELL, Gen. Sec. Personals and Briefs —Mr. Joseph Evans of Pittsburgh, Pa. desires all who owe for the PLANET to pay the amount at once in order that he may continue to make prompt reports to this office. —Mr. George W. Rison of Danville, Va. called on us looking a little jaded, but he seems all right. He has been quite ill and his friends here were glad to note his improvement. Mr. M. L. Mitchell of Keystone, W. Va. in the city undergone treatment at the Memorial Hospital. He can be found at 1506 E. Broad St. THRILLING EXPERIENCE WITH A RATTLENAKE. Farm Band Takes Nap in a Haymow and Wakes Up to Find Repite on His Breast. Salamanca, N. Y.-John Rauber, a farm hand at Bath, had an unpleasant experience a few days ago. He had his dinner and while waiting for the expiration of the noon hour went into the barn. Feeling drowsy he lay down upon the haymow and in a few minutes was asleep. He was awakened by feeling a heavy weight upon his breast. He looked and was horrified to see lying there a huge rattlesnake, coiled with its head in the opposite direction from him face. He was afraid to attempt to rise for fear that the snake would bite him, so in agony of fear and suspense he awaited developments. In a short time another workman approached the barn from the house. He was whistling a tune, and this attracted the attention of the snake which raised WAS HORRIFIED its head, turned from side to side, then uncoiled itself and glided from Rauber's breast into the hay. This awoke Rauber from his trancelike state and he began calling wildly for help. Other farm hands rushed into the barn, to whom he excitedly told his adventure, and a thorough search was made in the hay for the snake, but it could not be found. It is thought the snake was brought into the barn in a load of hay, as the country in that district is alive with reptiles. SAYS GOD ANSWERS ALL OF HIS PRAYERS. Founder of Bethel, Once Poor, Has Farms, Horses, Furniture and Money as a Result. Spencer, Mass.—Farms, buildings, horses, furniture, farming tools, live stock and money have been given to the Rev. Essek W. Kenyon, of Hillsville, founder of the Bible students' community known as Bethel. The young evangelist started a few years ago penniless, and now has thousands of dollars worth of property. He said that it all came to him in direct answer to prayer. "The divine gospel of St. Matthew says: 'Ask and it shall be given unto you.' I interpreted it literally as the whole Bible should be interpreted, for it is all reality. I prayed for a farm, and it was given to me by Deacon John M. Marble, of Sutton. I wanted more buildings in which to loge my Bible THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. WE DO NOT INTEND TO CARRY OVER ANY REGULAR HOLIDAY GOODS. We will cut the prices that will force you to buy while there is ample time for them to do you the most good Bargains in Toys. Bargains in Dolls. Bargains in Ornaments. Bargains in Books. Bargains in Calendars. students and in which to locate my Bible school, and these, too, were given me. Once I needed $50. I prayed for it, for I had no money, and in less than an hour a woman came to me and gave me a check for that amount. Again I wanted $100 to pay expenses. I was just starting my community of Bethel. I asked God to send the money. It was no more than an hour before another woman sent me an envelope containing exactly $100. "I would not pray vaguely for help, but if I wanted a farm or a horse or a building or a sum of money I would say so in my prayer, and all these things would be given me. We take no collections. We do not present our needs to the public, nor even to the church. We have lived by faith in God alone." One of the many rules and regulations of Bethel reads: "No familiarities, love-making or going out together between men and women." SEES END OF WAR IN THE NEAR FUTURE Oscar S. Straus, Former Minister to Turkey, Believes Hostilities in Far East Will Soon Cease. New York.—Former Minister to Turkey Oscar S. Strauss, a member of The Hague Tribunal, expresses the belief that a sudden termination of hostilities in the far east is possible in the near future. "I have long had the impression," he said, "that we will wake up some morning and find that through the good offices of Great Britain, with the tacit consent of the signatory powers to the treaty of Berlin, an arrangement has been agreed upon by which the near eastern and the far eastern questions have been settled by one stroke That is to say, Russia will have come to an agreement with Great Britain, and secondarily with the signatory powers, for having free access to the sea through the Dardanelles, in return for which a permanent adjustment of the Afghan boundary and Great Britain's domination of the Persian gulf will be granted, and that in the far east Japan's sphere of influence will be recognized in Korea, while Manchuria, with certain rights to Japan secured, will revert to China. This done the peace of the world will be insured certainly for our generation, and by the end of that time the nations will have become so accustomed to availing themselves of The Hague Tribunal that wars will be largely eliminated." Theory and Practice Singleon—Yes, sir, I feel I ought to have married 20 years ago, as I might have done. Ah! had I the sense then I have now I'd be a happier man to-day! Quiverful—Sir, I married 20 years ago, and had I the cents now that I had then I'd be a happier man to-day. Ally Sloper. Righteous Indignation. "Do you remember that five dollars you borrowed of me last June?" "Well, I should say I did; I lent two dollars of it to Jones and the shuns hasn't paid me yet!"—Puck. The Groom—What are you thinking of, dearest? The Bride—I was thinking if your father and mother had never met, or mine had never met, or we had never been born, or hadn't loved each other, or-or-something, how dreadful everything would have been—Tit-Bits. A Simple Problem. "How do you account for the fact," asked the doctor, "as shown by actual investigation, that 32 out of every 100 criminals in the country are left-handed?" "That's easily accounted for," said the professor; "the other 68 are right-landed." "Tit-Bits." You can come as near getting something for nothing—or next to it—as you ever did in your life. ns in Toys ns in Dolls ns in Orna ns in Book ns in Cale NS IN FURS. IN HANDK BARGAINS, NG THAT YOU NEED AT T oys. olls. ornaments. ooks. calendars. URS. NDKERCHIEFS INS, BARGAINS EED AT THIS SEASON. One of the Greatest Negro Enterprises of the Day. The Grand United Order of Seven Rising Sons of America, organized in the city of Danville, in the year of our Lord 1894, under the laws and rules of the State of Va., to care for the sick, bury the dead, to care for the widows and orphans, as long as the widows remain respectable. The fundamental principles of this our order, are based upon love, truth and charity, which are grand and devoting as any ever promulgated by any secret organization in the United States. Yes, it is grand, and the plans and works are as good as any other, and the joining fees in a club are so small that the poorest of the laboring class of our race can join. Yes, it has been so fixed by the help of God, that any man or women of good moral character, honest and sound in body and mind can join this grand and noble order. Dear friend, will you not start now to begin to burn the light of wisdom? Let us have more love for each other, as Christ has commanded of us, and let us be more truthful to our fellow men, yes, let our words to all men be yea, yea, and nay, nay. And let us be more charitable to each other. These are the principles of the grand and noble order of the Seven Rising Sons of America. Then why not join us and be men and women, and stand together as a race and lay down plans for our chilien yet unborn? Knowing dear friends, we are just what we make ourselves. We as a colored race should make ourselves as creditable as any race, considering our chances, and if you will join this Grand United Order of the Seven Rising Sons of America, and live up to the three principles named and be true to your obligations, to stand firm, to help us carry the banner and let it float in the air until it reaches from the Atlantic to the Pacific, then we will be men and women who are working for the progress of our race, to lead them to as much as possible, to afford, yes, not only will we be men and women, but in the time of sickness, we will be with you and take care of you and pay your dues promptly as long as you are sick, let it be twelve months or more. 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This grand and noble order of Seven Rising Sons of America stands firm and cannot be denied that it pays to the sick and buries the dead and pays all endowments promptly, according to law, and you cannot become non-beneficial when sick, for it never stops paying the members when they are sick. This order also has a department for children to join. They have had a charter granted by the Supreme Grand Lodge together with by laws, rules and regulations for the government of their lodge. You can advance to higher degrees after joining this order at a small amount of cost. You can be a master worker if you will. be you a man or woman. Wait no longer, but join now, and help hold up the banner of justice and right. Twenty members compose a club, but there can be less by corresponding with the Supreme Board of Directors or a law ful Deputy. 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Oh, may He hear our prayer! May it increase a thousandfold! May the old, the young, the fair, The high, the low, the rich, the poor, Wherever the wine cup flows, To join our land To free our land From drink's ten thousand woes. Our cause is Heaven's; the war is God! And angels watch the fight. It may be beyond strong, But on our side is Right. Then onward! hopeful, earnest hearts; We cannot fall to win; On, on to save From early grave Our drink-enfettered kin. What though the arch to victory seem A slow, a weary one, Still let our war cry ever be! "On, temperance workers, on!" Oh further than work is worth That Heaven we would gain; What's well begun Is half way wone, Now join my last refrain. -L. P. Penny, in National Advocate. SELLING TO THE SOBER. The Plea of Respectability Which Is Made by Some Saloons Is But a Trick of the Devil. Perhaps they would tell us that they sell only to the sober, never have drunkards in their places. So much the greater curse for which they will have to answer in the great by and by. How often it is said of some liquor seller: "He never sells to the drunkard, he sells to the sober only." But is he who kindles the fire of hell in the sober man, until a maddening, burning appetite is created within him, then turns his victim into the street, a ruined specimen of humanity, a fit louder for the low groggy because he sells to the sober only? Are not his sins trifold to those of the low dive? asks Dr. D. H. Mann. He shows the seeds of destruction in the softer man and when beyond control the man in the low dive finishes up the job of making a drunkard of him. The boastful dealer congratulates himself that he never sold him anything when he was intoxicated. Yet both these establishments are licensed as public necessities. Is it not a stain upon the fair name of our boasted country that such a desolating curse should be tolerated, legalized and protected? The dealer who sells to the sober must be constantly gathering in new recruits, and boys and young lads must be drawn into the snakes to keep the hopper full while the mill grinds them out, slowly but surely. Turn off the old bummers and take in new recruits, for he never sells to the drunkard. DRINK AND CRIME. The Very Striking Connection Between the Two as Noted at Cleveland, O. None who has observed or thought upon the matter will question that drink has been the chief element in filling the workhouse, not only in Cleveland, but everywhere. The connection between drink and crime is far more than a sentimental one. A very large proportion of the unfortunate were "plain drunks." Many have been sent up repeatedly for drunkenness. Aside from these it may be said that few workhouse offences are committed without the aid of whiskey or beer. A life of low crime is all but impossible except for the debasing and deadening influence of drink. The almost unfailing connection between drink and crime is not accidental, says the Cleveland Press. It is not the criminal propensity that leads to drink, but it is the drink that creates or develops the criminal propensity. Drink leads to crime because it aneshetizes the moral sense, distorts the spiritual perspective and dethrones reason. FACT AND COMMENT He who rents his buildings for evil purposes is betraying his Lord for 30 pieces of silver.—United Presbyterian. Of 700 $10 marked bills paid on a Saturday night by a Massachusetts factory to its hands 400 were deposited in the bank on saloonkeepers by the following Tuesday. Take cheer, your work is holy, God's errands never fail! Sweep on through storm and darkness, The thunder and the hall. Work on! sail on! the morning comes, J. G. Whittier. The saloonkeepers of pennsylvania are preparing to resist an attack expected this winter upon the liquor traffic by temperance interests. It is expected that the main assault upon the liquor traffic will be made through a local option bill to be introduced in the legislature at the next session. William Strong for Temperance William Strong for Temperance. It looks as though the German emperor proposes to settle with the whole matter of temperance throughout the empire. It is stated that the kaiser intends to return the German army into a strict temperance organization. The sale of all the lands will be abol- ished at all canteens. The issue of brandy and beer as part of the army ration will be abolished throughout the whole empire in the near future. An appeal to the German people to stop their drinking is to be made on the basis of "patriotism." PHYSICIAN AND ALCOHOL. Cases in Which Patients Have Been Wrecked Through the Prescribing of Alcoholic Liquors. The Literary Digest, in a recent issue, asks the important question: Do physicians prescribe alcohol unduly? All thoughtful people are, I think, asking themselves the same question. It has recently been charged in the London Graphic, by a woman, that doctors have brought many of her sex to ruin through drink, by constantly recommending to them the medicinal use of spirits. Commenting on this, the Hospital says: "Adults of sane mind are accountable for their own actions, and we protest against the growing habit of saddling other persons with responsibility for their misdeeds on the slightest possible pretext. Women who drink whisky to excess cannot for a moment be permitted to excuse themselves by advancing the utterly absurd and futile plea, "the doctor recommended its use." Is this plea utterly absurd? I myself believe that many women acquire the deadly habit in that way, says Hattie Tygri Gwrsold, in Unity. Let me state but one case, although it is not an isolated one. It came under my own observation, but the details were given me by close friends of the woman. A girl was married at 17 years of age, innocent, ignorant, rather delicate, but healthy, and had a child the first year, which she was unable to nourish sufficiently in the regular manner. Her doctor prescribed beer for her, and she began taking it, vainly hoping to increase the flow of milk. She was ill for a long time and was told to continue the beer, and other stimulants were given her. In the most natural way in the world she began to like it, and grew to depend upon it for a false strength. No harm was thought of it by her, as friends of them had tried the same prescription. This young woman gave birth to seven children in ten years, and nursed them all, or tried to, on beer, egg nog with whisky, and such things as nurses as well as doctors are fond of recommending to young mothers. All but one of the children died in early childhood, and the mother became an invalid who had acquired a love for strong drink. She alone was regarded as blameworthy, was divorced and disgraced, and died of a broken heart. Now, was the doctor or the young woman to be blamed? She had no experience of the world, did not dream that the passion for stimulants could be created by innocently drinking beer under a doctor's directoin, and met with no remonstrance from husband or mother. The doctor knew the facts, and had dealt with uncontrollable appetites many times, and seen many men and women ruined by the medicine he prescribed. He was a man of mature judgment; she was a child. Which one was to blame? In England, far more women are intemperate than in America, and hospitals for their cure are common there, and I more than suspect that the doctors do prescribe it unduly. In America, I am sure they do, and I could narrate many instances of deadly harm which came to ignorant or thoughtless patients through their prescriptions. I will ask space for but one. A young man during an attack of typhoid fever was cared for by his sister, away from home, among strangers. When the patient was convalescing, the doctor directed her to give him a certain amount of whisky every day, and she complied. The illness was a long one; there was a relapse and a very slow return to health. The man was well at last, but with a taste for stimulants which has been the curse of his life and that of his family. The sister has been almost as unhappy as the man himself, and laments her ignorance to this day. Was the young man to blame, or the sister? Or was the doctor, who knew all about the ease with which the mad desire for alcohol may be acquired by either a man or a woman? The writer in The Hospital says, further: "Even if, however, it were the practice of the profession to constantly recommend women to take a small quantity of whisky with their food for the benefit of their health, we deny that anyone would be justified in ascribing to them the ruin of their patients." It seems that in England doctors are accused of prescribing alcohol unduly, and it is a well-known fact that intemperance is already a great evil there among women, and that it is said to be increasing rapidly. It is my opinion that one might be justified in placing blame upon physicians if they do constantly recommend alcohol, in however small quantities, to be taken by their patients with their food. Drink among women is comparatively a new problem in America. The great influx of foreigners has brought the problem, and no thoughtful person can ignore it. Already, in Chicago, the mayor has been forced to forbid their drinking at public bars, and to make radical orders about women's entrances to saloons. Of course from time immemorial a certain class of disreputable women have sustained themselves by hard drinking; but the evil now is threatening all classes, and insidiously undermining the foundations of morality and religion in our land. In certain districts in France, drinking among women has become so common and so excessive that one grave scientist expresses the fear that alcohol will in time destroy the race. Is it not time that a very strong and united protest should go up in this country against this new departure of women, and the doctor who takes the risks of freely prescribing alcohol for them ought to be held to great responsibility? A young gentleman having called in his physician, said: "Now, sir, I wish no more trifling; my desire is that you at once strike the root of my disease!" 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As I had no children—indeed, was not married—holidays, especially Christmas, bored me. I wished the season were over and the new year begun. The train pulled out of the station, and I took up a newspaper. Suddenly my paper was crushed back on my face, a pair of small arms were thrown around my neck and the round face of a boy about four years old was thrust within an inch of my nose. By what right he assumed to treat a perfect stranger in this demonstrative fashion I could not conceive. "You little scamp, what do you mean?" "I'm goin' home to spend Christmas." At that moment the conductor came along for tickets and told me that the boy had been put in his charge. He was to meet his father at St. Louis. The little imp unclasped his hands as suddenly as he had clasped them and made a dash for the door. I dashed after him, reviling the parent who would put a child his age in the care of a conductor, and dragged him back. This I did a dozen times during the day. When not trying to get on the platform he was trying to sell an old knife (no blades) to the passengers to raise Christmas money. At first they put him away, some of them impatiently, others gently, but he was so persistent and got up such remarkable financial schemes that at last every one in the car was laughing at him. There was something in this irresponsible naturalness that won my heart. At nightfall, since there was no one to pay any attention to him, I called the porter, fed him and told him to make up the child's berth, which happened to be directly opposite my own. Then the boy got sleepy, and I told him the sandman was coming around to weight his lids, and if he didn't keep awake till he was undressed he wouldn't see the old fellow. I wished to keep him awake till the A A PAIR OF SMALL ARMS WERE THROWN AROUND MY NECK. porter could undress him. Nevertheless he fell asleep in my arms, and as the porter was busy I concluded to undress him myself. "Wake up!" I said, shaking him. He opened his eyes. "Has the sandman been around?" was his first question. "I should think so; long ago. It's bedtime." It was a hard hunt I had all over his little body for buttons, but I found them. His shoe laces were in a knot, but I untied them and put him to bed in his undergarments. Giving me a hug like a bear cub he fell back on the pillow and was asleep before I could cover him up. Before turning in myself I took a look at him to assure myself he was all right. Drawing the curtains, the lamplight fell on his face. What a picture of innocence! Where was he going? He didn't know. Who took care of him? He didn't care. Perhaps the parent who had sent for him was at that moment anxious about him and regretted letting him come in such a way. I had a dread that he would wake up in the middle of the night with colic. But if his parent worried, if I worried, there was one who was not in the least troubled about him. It was himself. In the night I dreamed that I was being garroted. I awoke and found myself tightly clasped around the neck. I put my hand up to discover what was choking me and felt a tiny arm with a hand on it no bigger than my watch and five soft little fingers. A stream of lamplight came in where the curtains hung loose. It revealed the boy sound asleep. How he got there I didn't know, and I doubt if he knew himself. The next morning he resumed his negotiations with the passengers to raise Christmas money, but the most impudent thing he did was to ask me if he had not lent me 3 cents the night before. This to me, who had spent money for him and had taken such care of him! I felt a touch on my shoulder and turned my head. A gentleman in the seat behind me, with a benevolent face and a twinkle in his eye, was looking at me "One can admire even impudence," he said, "if it amounts to genius. This boy is certainly a genius of effrontery. He ought to be encouraged. What do you say to a collection for him for Christmas?" By way of reply I dropped a silver dollar in my hat and gave it to the speaker, who duplicated the coin and sent the hat through the car, the passengers passing it from hand to hand. When it came back it contained $6.50. I let the child handle it, then took care of it for him till his arrival at his destination. When we stopped at a station on the outskirts of St. Louis a man boarded the car and, coming up to the boy, took him in his arms and kissed him. But the one who can become familiar on short acquaintance is not likely to permit familiarities in others. The child planted his fist right between the eyes of his captor. The man explained to us that he was the boy's father and his child had been away long enough to forget him. I took the father's address and during the day (Christmas) went to the house. I found very nice people in impoverished circumstances. Their boy had taken home with him the wherewithal to buy a Christmas dinner. QUEER CHRISTMAS GIFTS Small Particles of Radium Presented by London Women. There is this to be said of the latest fad of London society women—the giving of small particles of radium as Christmas presents—that none of the recipients can complain of having received a cheap gift. To give radium in this way costs from $10 to $50, the outfit necessary therefor consisting of a "spinthariscope" and a speck of the new metal hardly big enough to be seen with the naked eye. Sir William Crookes, the English scientist, invented the spinthariscope, which is a kind of microscope through which small quantities of the precious stuff can be examined to better advantage. The spinthariscope sold by a London chemist who has the radium monopoly is about the size of a finger ring case and has an opening for the eye something like that in a child's kaleidoscope. By taking the apparatus into a darkened room and squinting through the eyelobe one can see flashes of constantly varying light shooting in all directions, like miniature fireworks. The idea of making Christmas gifts of radium has proved uncommonly infectious, and the run on the chemist's stock necessitated hasty communication with the firms in Bavaria and Austria who supply most of the radium that reaches England. — Washington Post Christmas Hints A simple and tasteful homemade picture frame may be constructed from common gas pipe cut into suitable length and tied together at the corners with shoe strings. A neat paperweight may be made by wrapping half a brick in paper such as butchers use and tying it with red tape. A dainty towel rack may be fabricated from a baseball bat and two cigar boxes. Shellac the boxes and sandpaper the bat. An ordinary cobblestone hand painted with lampblack and household ammonia makes an excellent door weight. A novel pipe rack for fastidious smokers may be made from a small strip of one inch plank. Bore holes in it for the stems of the pipes to pass through. A dried muskmelon shell makes an attractive tobacco jar. Christmas Superstitions. There are many Christmas superstitions long held as articles of faith that are to be recalled—how that oxen kneel in their stalls at midnight on Christmas eve in adoration of the Nativity and for one hour have the power of speech; for that one hour, too, the lost spirits have rest. Judas sleeps, Herod ceases to clank his chains, the daughter of Herodias may pause in the dance in which she is condemned to spin forever, and Pilate's ghost ceases its wanderings on Mount Pilatus. It was believed, too, that the sound of church bells could be heard wherever a church had stood, though no trace remain, and that on that pregnant night one sleeping in a manger would see his future in a vision.—Country Life In America. Bringing In the Yule Log. The Yule log is a remnant of the Juil, when the Scandinavians used to kindle huge fires in honor of their god Thor. In some parts of old England bringing in the Yule log was the principal ceremony of Christmas eve. Part of the log was carefully preserved to light the Yule log of the succeeding year. It was believed that a piece of the log in the house was a security against fire, and if a squinting person entered the room while it was burning all sorts of ill luck would come to the family. Even as late as 1753 there was some doubt as to the exact date of Christmas, the old count bringing it to the 5th of January, the new count giving us the 25th of December, which is "the day we celebrate." In Devonshire, England, it is believed that if the sun shines at noon on Christmas day a plentiful apple crop may be looked for in the following year—National Illustrated Magazine. The Sheriff's Christmas Dinner. Deacon Johnson gib a dinner At he cabin Christmas day; Ax de preacher, all de deacons— Nary deacon stay away! An' hit shely did look scrumptious When dey got de table sgt— Chickin, possum meat an' turkey, All so brown an' smokin' hot! Den de preacher ax de blessin', An' dey lath hust got de When de sheriff do do' in, An' Ercer Johnson tuck an' run! THE CHRIST CHILD'S CRADLE Part of It Preserved as a Holy Relle 'a Rome. La saline creche—the holy cradle—or the portion of it which is preserved, is in fact only a part of the grating that was placed across the stable trough in It consists of five worn bars. These are of wood, worm eaten and gray, that looks as though it might be oak powdered with flour. The bars average about a yard in length, and the entire grating is suspended in a crystal case by silver ribbons. This case is supported on carved gold and silver feet, and its full length is a meter, its height half a meter. It is surmounted by a beautiful enameled statue of the infant Jesus. During the year this magnificent reliquary is inclosed in a golden case and disposed on one of the altars of the church. At Christmas time it is exposed to view, and the festival of the nativity terminates with an imposing procession in which the relic is carried, the solemn occasion being presided over by a cardinal—New York Tribune. Christmas Cards. The first Christmas card ever published was issued in 1846 by a Londoner named Joseph Crandall. Crandall was indebted for his idea to Sir Henry Cole and employed the famous artist J. C. Horsley to make the design. It was lithographed by Jobbins of Warwick court and colored by hand. About 1,000 cards were sold. Such was the small beginning of what has grown to be a gigantic industry. Every Christmas after 1846 cards of some sort were put upon the market, but it was not until 1862 that they came into general favor. Then Goodall & Son of London began to publish cards inscribed simply with the words "A Merry Christmas" and "A Happy New Year" and in illuminated form, and the following year robins, holly branches, embossed figures and landscapes were added. With the succeeding years the popularity of the holiday cards increased, and the cards grew more elaborate until they have attained their present gorgeousness. The Teacher's Present. The old schoolmaster was deeply affected. His scholars, noticing the dilapidated appearance of his chair, had presented him with a new one for Christmas. "My dear boys," said the kindly old man, with tears in his eyes, "I can never hope to tell you how you have made me feel by this token of your love for me. All I can do is to thank you for the sacrifices you have made of your little purses for the sake of my comfort. If you have found me severe at times I trust you realize that it has always been for your own good." As the old schoolmaster prepared to sit down in his new chair he unconsciously ran his hand over the seat in search of bent pins.—Philadelphia Ledger. Christmas In Canada Far away in Canada the Christmas is very like our own. The turkey, well stuffed with savory herbs, occupies the place of honor on the dining table, only there are hot pumpkin pies, prepared and served with a great deal of cream to keep it company. It is the Christ Child himself who is supposed to come down the wide chimneys to bring toys to good little children who are really asleep, not shamming. The gifts are generally wrapped up with huge packets of maple candy, and "doughnut dolls" are as usual as gingerbread figures used to be in old English fairs.—Cleveland Plain Dealer. Four Facts About Christmas Spanish children have no Father Christmas. They think it is the three wise men of the east who bring them their gifts. It is said to be unlucky to leave Christmas decorations up after Twelfth Night. There is an island called Christmas island in the Pacific ocean, so called because Captain Cook discovered it on Christmas day, 1777. Plum pudding was originally plum porridge and eaten for breakfast, not for dinner.—Philadelphia Ledger. Taking Time by the Forelock. Magazine Editor—It is time to arrange for our Christmas stories. Assistant—I have seen to that. “Are the authors at work?” “Yes; they clubbed together, hired a room in an icehouse, and I send the office boy round twice a day to jingle sleighbells under the window.” Gax Yuletide **All hail the genial time of year** When every heart is kind. When far and near there is good cheer, And care is left behind. Old feuds forgot, old hates aside, Now hearty clasps of hand. While far and wide at Christmastide Love reigns throughout the land. **Forgive, forget, a truce to pride;** Healed are all friendship's riffs. At gay Yuletide on every side. We're "worked" — New Christmas gifts. —New York Journal. A Confession That Failed A Confession That Failed. "So you concluded to dispel the Santa Claus myth from the mind of your youngest son?" "Yes," said the thoughtful citizen. "You see, I thought that it would be better to hurt his feelings than to countenance deception in any form." "And were his feelings hurt?" "Not at all. He looked at me pityingly and said he guessed I had been one of the bad boys to whom Santa Claus did not pay any attention."—Washington Star. A Discount For Cash Miss Saintly—Now, children, I will give a silver dollar at Christmas to every boy who has a perfect mark in conduct. Billy McGinnis—Say, teacher, I'll take a quarter now 'n' call it square! Life. Saint Nicholas The Good At this season of the year it is easy to guess who it is that holds the first place in the hearts of the children of America. Today dear old Santa Claus may be out of sight, but he is undoubtedly not out of mind. He is probably receiving hundreds of letters daily—via the fireplace or through the register routes—telling of the fond hopes that are fixed upon some especial toy, and in the meantime, as if to bring the thought of this genial old saint ever freshly to us, on the streets and in the shops we can see men dressed like Santa Claus. In the midst of all this holiday turmoil how many children ever stop to ask who Santa Claus really is, or A SLEEPING GIRL LEANS OUT OF THE DOOR OF A STORE. A SLEEPING GIRL LEANS OUT OF THE DOOR OF A STORE. A SLEEPING GIRL LEANS OUT OF THE DOOR OF A STORE. HE THREW THREE PURSES FILLED WITH GOLD. who he was, for he died centuries ago? I know that some little girls and boys are longing to say now: "Oh, we're too old for that sort of thing. We know there is no such person as Santa Claus. Our presents are given us by our fathers and mothers. We know all about it." So far as the presents are concerned, perhaps they are right, but when they push dear old Santa Claus out of the way as a myth they are quite wrong, for Santa Claus was a as much alive as any little boy who reads this. St. Nicholas lived about the year 300 A.D. and he was a bishop of the early Christian church in Asia Minor. The name Santa Claus is merely a different form of his real name, just as Carl and Carlos are varying forms of the name Charles, and Maria and Marle are of Mary. During his holy and useful life St. Nicholas was very good to all the little children he met, giving them presents and making them happy in every possible way. He is, therefore, to be remembered at this season because it is especially the children's feast day, and his memory should be kept more green in our hearts than the greenest leaves of the mistletoe that decorate our homes. One story told of St. Nicholas relates how he found three lovely maidens who were very unhappy because there was no one to take care of them, and they were so poor they feared they might starve to death. The good old saint, hearing of their grief, went and tapped softly on the window of their home. When it was opened he threw three purses filled with gold into the window and hid before the girls could see who it was that sent this unexpected gift. The next night he did not go, but the night following he tapped softly again and threw three more purses into the window. He waited a like time and then threw them a thinal present, but did not hide quickly enough, for they saw who it was—the kind old bishop who loved children so tenderly. Of course, they were very grateful for helping them out of their trouble this way. Some people think that the custom of giving presents originated from this old legend. In Germany they keep the feast of St. Nicholas on Dec. 6. At this time some one dresses in the traditional costume worn by Santa Claus, gives presents to the children who have been good and sorrowfully says "I have nothing for you" to the naughty ones. - Philadelphia Ledger. WHITE HOUSE GIFTS How Santa Claus Comes to the President's Family. Wagon loads of gifts are received at the White House at Christmas time. They come from all parts of the country, the majority of them from persons unknown to the president and his wife. These miscellaneous articles are the private property of the recipients, and the numerous parcels are placed in one of the family rooms for examination. They generally contain the names of the donors, and to all these notes of thanks are sent. On Christmas eve all the employees of the house—the clerical staff, the ushers and the domestic servants—are given, through the established mum-fidence of the president, a fine fat turkey. Fifty fowls, selected from the best in the market, are purchased for this event, so that everybody about the famous mansion has reason for rejoicing. No one expresses his happiness with a more beaming countenance than does Jerry Smith, the old colored man who has been a member of the presidential household since the beginning of Grant's first term. Jerry was Presi- dent Grant's cook, but in these days he dusts the offices of the White House and keeps things tidy there as the traditional pin. The presidents and their advisers are usually men of advanced years, and it is to be second generation from them that the White House looks for the frolics of childhood on Christmas day.—Woman's Home Companion. A Quintil Christmas Custom. The burning of the ashen fagot is a curious custom observed in Devon and Somerset on Christmas eve. The fagot consists of green ash sticks cut lengthways and neatly fastened into a bundle with wity bands. At 8 o'clock in the evening this is placed on the fire with much ceremony, when the family and invited guests are gathered round the hearth. The flames lick round the bundle, and, when the first green wite holding the fagots bursts, glasses are raised and emptied to "A Merry Christmas!" The breaking of each bond is the signal for a fresh toast. Legend accounts for this custom by the story that a fire of ash wood warmed the stable at Bethlehem, while local tradition tells of a greenwood fire kindled by Alfred the Great during his lonely wanderingings in Somerset. Russia's Belated Christmas. There are two Christmasses at the Russian embassy, but the real celebration, comes on Jan. 6. The fact that the joyous festival is, by reason of the use of the Russian calendar, somewhat belated does not, however, affect the enthusiasm with which the celebration is carried out. At a time when most of her American friends are removing the Christmas greens from their homes Countess Marguerite Cassini, the mistress of the Russian embassy, is superintending the decoration of a monster Christmas tree, generously laden with presents, and the distribution of these remembrances is followed by a grand dinner which is thoroughly Russian in its menu and appointments and as protracted as some of the celebrated all night feasts in the land of the czar.—Washington Times. Holiday Customs. At the saturnalia, the heathen prototype of Christmas, it was the Roman custom to decorate the house with evergreens. This was done to give the woodland spirits refuge from the cold. In Atlanta, Ga., it is the Christmas custom to let free all prisoners whose only offense has been against the city ordinances. The holly and mistletoe that we use for Christmas decorations show the survival of the customs of the Druids. In Russia branches of fir trees are used for decoration. In most parts of southern Europe evergreen trees are used, while in India the English churches are decorated at Christmas-tide with all kinds of flowers, palms and berries. Mistletoe. The eastern mistletoe is parasite on deciduous trees as far north as New Jersey. It grows in great bunches from one to three feet across and soon disfigures a tree. The people of Atlanta, Ga., have free mistletoe. The city authorities cut it out of the shade trees that line the streets, and any one may take it away by the wagon load. The plant is in no danger of extermination, as we are satisfied with a comparatively small amount, despite its unique associations, which ought to make it in universal demand. The trade is supposed to handle about 10,000 pounds.—Country Life In America. Christmas Eye In England The Little Ladybug (dejectedly)—I do hope Santa Claus will be able to distinguish between hogs and ordinary bugs! Mamma Ladybug—Why, Gladys! What a strange remark! What is troubling you, dear? The Little Ladybug—Why, Cissie Centiped told me she was going to hang up one whole set of her stockings!—Town Topics. A Country Named For Christmas. South Africa was discovered by the Portuguese, who were searching for an ocean road to India. Bartholomew Dlaz was the commander of the two little ships that formed the expedition in 1480. Eleven years later Da Gama took another Portuguese fleet south. He discovered Natal on Christmas day and thus named it in consequence. Christmas Decorations In Arizona. Lariat Larry-Git out yer lassoes, boys. Here comes a bunch of dudes, just what we need to decorate our Christmas tree. The Mistletoe's Story AM only a sprig of old mistletoe. My leaves are quite shriveled and frozen. And my sap all dried up such a long time ago That my berries they never get fed. But I'll tell you a tale of a trick that I That a lovesick young man and a wealthy young maid Should contrive to get happily wed. It was Christmas eve, and from where I hung. Tied up with a piece of string. I caught many a couple, both old and young. Kissing like anything. But fairest of all the young people I saw Was pretty Miss Eveline Marjory Daw, Who was fit for the bride of a king. Now, Marjory Daw, as you'll readily guess, Was embired by a dozen or more. Each of whom for a kiss of the hem of her dress. Would have given much treasure galore. But the only young man she pretended to see (To whose offer her father would never agree) Was a pennifess fellow named Shaw. Now, Shaw tipped the butler-I saw the coin pass- To turn down the gas in the hall (I was hung from a bracket quite close to a glass No more than a yard from the wall). Then he waited beneath me, his senses alert. Till he heard the "swish swish" of a rua- A BUT FAIREST OF ALL WAS MARJORY DAW. tting sin skirt. They were having a Christmas eve ball. In a moment his arms were about the fair waist. What cared he for the wrath of papa? But she, with a cry, reached and turned up the gas. When he saw, to his horror, alas and alas, Henry kissed his sweetheart's mammal! Then up came the guests in response to her call, While papa was quite purple with rage, And that Shaw was a cad they agreed, one and all. And quite unaware of the error, insisted That the maid should be gallantry's girl. Ferns and Autumn Leaves Ferns and Autumn Leaves. Ferns and autumn leaves as Christmas decorations add greatly to the effectiveness of the conventional holly, mistletoe and evergreens. Ferns grown in hothouses are easily obtained at the holiday season, but are rather expensive. Autumn leaves are at the command of whoever has the time to gather them in the fall, for they can be preserved in all their pristine glory with little trouble. Autumn leaves pressed in books, while retaining their glorious colors, lose some of their liveliness and their natural shape, but whole branches of them may be kept intact by placing them in dry sand in any cellar where there is no dampness. Individuality In Gifts. The personality of the giver expressed in the wrappings about the Christmas gift adds value to the simplest offering. After all, it is the spirit of the giver rather than the gift itself which gives the greatest pleasure. The favorite ribbon, the slip of mistletoe, the color of the tissue paper covering, the card which bears the Christmas greeting, all express love and well-wishing. Mrs. Torkins' Bright Iden. "What are you going to give your husband for Christmas?" "A whole lot of poker chips," said young Mrs. Torkins, "so that he can have all he wants without having to sit up all night trying to win them."—Washington Star. A Christmas Menu. BREAKFAST. Oranges. Cereal. Cream. Ham. Eggs on Toast. Hot Rolls. Pancakes. "Oh." DINNER. Celery Consomme. Roast Turkey. Glabber. Ice Croquettes. Sweet Potatoes. Baked Onions. Parsnips. Egg Salad. Pickles. Salted Almonds. Mince Pie. Plum Pudding. Nuts. Candles. Raisins. Orange Ice. Coffee. SUPPER. Olives. Cold Perk. Escaloped Oysters. Cold Slaw. Raisin Brown Bread. Cranberry Jelly. Pineapple Ice. Assorted Cakes. Coffee. REGISTERED IN PATON OFFICE U.S. BEFORE AFTER A WONDERFUL FACE BLEACH ...AND HAIR TONIC... CRANE'S HAIR TONIC that goes in your one-on-one box is enough to make anyone's job easier. You can send a high-quality, highly perfumed and makes the mail soft and easy to comb. Any person sending us one dollar in a letter or Office Postcards is welcome. You can send it through the mail postal prepaid, or if you want it sent directly to your recipient. In any case where it fails to do what we claim, we will reiterate that the agreement is accepted except when the CHANGE & CO. Warranty, Blochman, Aa SEABOARD AIR LINE RAILWAY Short Line to Principal Cities of the South and Southwest, Florida, Cuba, Texas and Mexico. Schedule in Effect April 17th, 1904. TRAINS LEAVE RICHMOND-MAST STATION-DAILY. 20 p. m. "SEABOARD MAIL," composed of latest improved day coaches, Pulman Sleeper, Pulman Parior Car and Cafe Car, to Henderson, Raleigh, Southern Car, to Henderson, Atlanta, Camden, Columbia, Savannah Jacksonville, St. Augustine and Tampa. 10:35 p. m. "SEABOARD EXPRESS," composed of day coaches, Pullman Cars to Atlanta, Jacksonville, and Cars South of Hamlet. -To Henderson, Raleigh, Southern Pines, Hamlet, Pinehurst, Hunters Creek, Camden, Columbia, San Bernardino, Jacksonville, Augustine, Tampa, and New Orleans. 9:10 a. m.-Local for Norlina, Hamlet and TRAINS RIVER RICHMOND-DAILY. 6:35 a. m.-No. 34 from Florida, Atlanta, and the Southwest. 4:55 a. m.-No. 36 from Florida, Atlantas and the Southwest. 5:30 p. m.-No. 36, from Norlina and Local Points. W. M. TAYLOR, City Ticket Agent. H. S. LEARD, Dis. Pass. Agt. 'No. 380 E Main St., Richmond, Va 'Phone 405 7 C & O ROUTE SCENIC ROUTE TO THE WEST 7:25 a.m.-Week days-Local to Newport and way stations. 7:30 a.m.-Newport arrives Williams burg 9:55 a.m.-Newport 10:30 a.m. Old Point 11:00 a.m.-Norfolk 11:25 a.m. 7:30 a.m.-Newport arrives Williams burg 4:6 p.m.-Newport 5:00 a.m. Old Point 6:30 p.m.-Norfolk 6:25 a.m. 5:00 p.m.-Newport Locales to Old Point MAIN LINE LOCALES to Old Point 8:20 a.m.-Except Sunday to Clifton Forg. 8:00 p.m.-Daily-Special to Cincinnati, Louis 5:15 p.m.-Week days-Chicago to Gordonville. 10:45 p.m.-Daily-Limited to Cincinnati, Louisville and Louis and Chicago. JAMES LOCALES 10:20 a.m.-Daily-Express to Lynchburg, Lexington, Clifton Forg and principal station. 6:15 p.m.-Week days-Local to Emmont TRAINS ARRIVE RICHMOND FROM 11:54 a.m.-Week day Old Point 10:55 a.m. week days 11:54 a.m., daily 11:54 a.m., daily, Newport locales 8:00 p.m. daily from Cincinnati and West 7:30 a.m. daily and Newport local from Cincinnati and West 7:30 a.m. daily Staunton 7:40 a.m. Ex. Exp. to Gordonville Gordonsville Accommodation 8:20 a.m. except Sunday. 6:25 p.m. daily Emmont Accom. 8:40 a.m. except Sunday. 6:25 p.m. daily Emmont Accom. 8:40 a.m. except Sunday. E. DOYLE W. O. WARTHEN Gen'l Manager. Dist. Pass Ag't Norfolk and Western R. R. LEAVE RICHMOND (DAILY), BYRD STREET STATION. 9:00 A. m. NORFOLK LIMITED. Arrives at Norfolk 11:30 A. M. Shops only at Peersburg, Waverly and Suffolk. 9:00 A.m. CHICAGO EXPRESS Buffet Parlor Car Petersburg to Lynchburg and Routake, Buffalo to Knoxville to Columbus and Bluffou to Cintma to Roose to Knoxville, and Knoxville to Chattanooga, and Memphas. Car Roose Express for Farmville, Lynchburg, and Roose. 8:00 P.m. Ocean Shores. Jetted Arrives Nor folk 5:20 P.M. M. Stops col. Petersburg Wav- lock. Census with Steamers to Boston, Providence, N. W.ork, Baltimore and Washington. 6:56 P.m., for Norwalk all stations east of Petersburg. 9:35 P.M. M. NEW ORLEANS SHORT LINE. Pull man sleeper Richmond to Lynchburg, Poters burg to Roanoke; Lynchburg to Chattanooga. Roanoke to Seans. Cafe Dining Car. Trans arrives from New York. m. f. p. m and 8:36 p. m. from Norfolk 11:30 a. 11:33 a. m-a. m. and 6:50 p. m. W. B. BEVILI 838 East Main Street. W. B. BEVILI C. H. BREW. Gen. Pass. Agt. Oly. Pass. Agent. R. F. & P. Richmond, Fredericksburg, and Poto- 7:10 a.m., week days, Eiba. Ashland accommodation. daily, daly, Band. 6:20 p.m., week days. Elba. Ashland accommodation. 6:20 p.m., daily, Byrd St. Through. Trans Arrive Richmond—Southward. 6:23 a.m., week days. Elba Ashland accommodation. 6:20 a.m., week days. Byrd St. Fredericksburg accommodation. 6:20 a.m., daily, Byrd St. Through. 11:20 a.m., week days. Byrd St. Through. Local steps. 11:20 a.m., daily Main St. Through. 5:23 p.m., week days. Elba Ashland accommodations. 5:23 p.m., daily, Byrd St. Through. 9:00 p.m., daily, Byrd St. Through.: Loca stops. 9:30 p. m. daily, MainSt Through Pulmonary Sleeping or Parior Gars or al above, ms except train arriving Richmond 11:50 a. m. week days and local accommodations. Time of arrivals and departures and con- nections not guaranteed. W. D. DUKE. C. W.CULP. W. P. TAYLOR, Gen'l Man'r. Aas't Gen'l Man'. Traf. Man. ALPHEUS SCOTT, CHURCH HILL Open Day and Night. Office and Ware rooms 3006 P St. Church Hill phone 3183620000 telephone promptly attended to. All business confidential. Old Phone No. 3183. SOUTHERN RAILWAY Effective Nov. 6th, 1904. 11:30 p.m. m.-Daily, limited; fullman ready 9:30 p.m. m, for his South Southern VOLINE the favorite to route Baltimore and eastern penalties Richmond 4:20 p.m. Dally also except Sunday. 4:35 a. m.-Except Sunday. Local mixed for West Point. Broadway. West Point. $15.00 Daily except Sunday. Local for West Point. 4:30 p. m.—Except Sunday. For West Point, connecting with steamers for Baltimore and New York. Steamers call at Clay Bank and Yorktown, Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, and at Saturday and Saturdays, Blinnwood, Tuesday, Thursday and Saturdays. **TEAINS ABRIEY RICHMOND.** 0:38 p.m. From all the South. 0:38 p.m. From Charlotte and Durham. 4:0 a.m. - From Keysville. 4:0 a.m. - From West Point. 0:48 p.m. - From West Point. 10:1 p.m. - From West Point. M. G. - From Myr. H. C. ACKERT, G.M. H. W. TATLOE, G.P.A. C. W. WESTBURY, D. P.A., Richmond. V. ATLANTIC COAST-LINE TRAINS LEAVE JICHMOND DAILY BYRD STREET STATION. 9:00 a. m. Petersburg and Norfolk; 9:05 a. m. A.C.L. Express to all points south 12:10 p. m. Petersburg and N. & W. West. 12:15 p. m. Goldsboro and Norfolk. 14:10 p. m. Goldsboro local. 5:45 p. m. Petersburg local. 7:25 p. m. West Indian Limited' To point South. 9:30 p. m. Petersburg and N. & W. West. 11:30 p. m. Petersburg local. **TRAINS ARRIVE RICHMOND.** 4:07 a. m. 7:35 a. m. 8:35 a. m. except Sunday 10:45 a. m. Sunday only. 11:40 a. m. 1 p. m. 12:45 a. m. 7:45 p. m. 9:05 p. m. 14:05 p. m. Except Sunday. C. S. CARBELL, Div. Pass. Agt. W. J. CRAIG, Gen. Pass. Agt. OLD DOMINION STEAMSHIP COMPANY. Night Line for Norfolk Fare, $3.50 one way, $4.50 round trip, includes stateroom, berth; meals, 50tots. Street cars to Steamer's Wharf. For New York by O, & O. Railway, 9:00 a. m., 4 p. m. 9 a. m. and 8 p. m. by N. & W. Railway; also by Old Domination night line steamer. All lines connect at Norfolk with direct steamer for New York, sailing daily except Sunday. 7 p. m. of Ash St. Richmond, Va. H. WALKER, V. P. & T. M., New York. ..THE MECHANICS' SAVINGS BANK.. Cohen's Great Xmas Announcement--See Page 5. 8 NCORPORATED UNDER the Laws of the State of Virginia and subject strictly to the Corporation Commission. MONEY Received on deposit in sums of (10) ten cents and upwards. Interest allowed on all sums over $1.00 that remain on deposit for sixty days and over. Persons desiring a safe depository cannot find a better place for the keeping of their money. 🎧🎧🎧 TIME CERTIFICATES of Deposit Issued. They serve to place your funds out of harm's way and for a specified time save them from even yourself. You can deposit your money and draw it at your pleasure or you can adopt the other course. You are the one to decide. ```markdown ``` OUR INSTITUTION is fitted up with burglar-proof appliances and our money is under the watch-dog control of an expensive time-lock. In addition to this, we carry a Burglary Insurance which guarantees the safety of our depositors money. We lose nothing and our depositors lose nothing. AND SAFE are in addition to all of this fire-proof. Coher THE MECHANICS' SAVINGS BANK. CONTINUED FROM FIRST PAGE [THOMAS M. CRUMP Mr. Thomas M. Crump, is Manager of the Southern Aid Society and has been the most potent agent in bringing about the prosperity that it enjoys to day. He is prompt, vigilant and reliable, and as a member of the directors has made a most enviable record. AN HONEST AND EFFICIENT CASHIER. Mr. Thomas H. Wyatt was formerly employed at the True Reformer's Bank and taught school in Henrico county. He succeeded Mr. George W. Lewis as Cashier and has proven a most capable official enjoying the absolute confidence of all of the officials. He is a graduate of the Richmond Normal School. BENJAMIN P. VANDERVALL Mr. Benjamin P. Vandervall is the proprietor of the leading dining-room in the city, 702 E. Broad St. and is also clerk of the First Baptist Church. He is a graduate of the Richmond Normal School. Ill health has been his portion during the last few years, but he is slowly improving. J. C. FARLBY. Mr. J. O. Farley is one of the best photographers in the country. He is proprietor of the Jefferson fine art gallery, 523 E. Broad Street and ranks among the leading white photographers in the city. His patronage is largely of the F. E. V. variety. JOHN B. CHILES. Mr. John R. Chiles is a mail carrier, but very well off in this world's goods. He owns much property at Phoobus and Newport News, and also valuable pieces in Richmond. He is very successful in finance. W. F. GRAHAM. Rev. W. F. Graham, D. D. is President of the American Beneficial Insurance Company and is admitted to be a most successful financier. His effort to raise about $0,000 in stock money for his company when it was first organized directed attention to his organizing abilities. R. B. JEFFERSON. E. R. Jefferson. M. D. is a very successful practitioner. He is a graduate of Leonard Medical College at Raleigh. He is a property owner and is thoroughly imbued with the success of the Mechanics' Savings Bank. His advice is usually conservative and his attitude convincing R. A. WASHINGTON. Mr. E, A. Washington is Cashier of the Nickel Savings Bank of Richmond. An Institution Run Strictly on Banking Principles. JNO. R. CHILES, E. R. JEFFERSON, THOS. M. CRUMP, THOS. H. WYATT, J. J. CARTER, JNO. T. TAYLOR, J. C. FARLEY, THOS. SMITH, Secretary. B. P. VANDERVALL, E. A. WASHINGTON, W. F. GRAHAM, JOHN MITCHELL, Jr., H. F. JONATHAN, D. J. CHAVERS, WM. CUSTALO, President. Vice-President. R. W. WHITING. His keen insight and business tact make him a valuable addition to the Board of Directors. His progress has been rapid and enjoys the esteem of his associates. THOMAS SMITH. Mr. Thomas Smith is a well known dealer in fish, oysters, game, freshments and produce. He is successful as a business man and has accumulated some property. He is popular with his associates. D. J. CHAVERS. Mr. D. J. Chavers is superintendent of Greenwood Cemetery. He has the knack of knowing how to get a dollar and better how to keepit. He is cautious and conservative, while being very positive in his opinions. His ill health has somewhat handicapped him but his intellect is as bright as ever. JOHN T. TAYLOR. Mr. John T. Taylor is General Manager of the Richmond Beneficial Insurance Company and enjoys the esteem of all who know him. He is one of the most energetic members of the board of the firm which often form the nucleus for future action. J. J. CARTER. Mr. J. J. Carter, Cashier of the Richmond Beneficial Insurance Company is also well known. He is slow to speak, but after a matter has been thoroughly discussed does not hesitate to advise in the matter in a manner for the benefit of the institution. R. W. WHITING. Mr. R. W. Whiting is also a very conservative member. He resides in Fulton and is a brick-maker by trade. He is a man of few words, but his wise suggestions always merit attention and carry weight. WILLIAM CUSTALO. No man on the board is more respected than is Mr. William Custalo, the proprietor of the Custalo House, a most popular hostelry at 703 E. Broad St. He was the last member to be added to this body by the stock-holders, and the wisdom of the choice has been more than once demonstrated. With these gentlemen as managers, great success has come to the institution. MODERN METHODS. The Mechanics Savings Bank now issues Bankers' Money Orders under the auspices of the American Bankers'. Association and they are guaranteed by the American Surety Company of New York. Its New York correspondent is the National Park Bank whose deposits aggregate ninety eight million dollars. By special arrangement made by President John Mitchell, Jr., while in THE RICHMOND PL NET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. New York, the Mechanics' Savings Bank is able to issue Letters of Credit to travellers, good anywhere in the world. EASY WAY TO PAY MONEY. It can pay money to any of its deposits by telegraph, or telephone, a signal code having been arranged for that purpose. The Richmond correspondent of the Mechanics' Savings Bank is the American National Bank. Either of these great banking institutions will testify to the reliability of the Mechanics' Savings Bank as a wise, conservative, safe institution for the depositing of money either for individuals, lodges, societies, benevolent institutions or estates. Christmas Holiday Excursion Rates via Southern Railway. For the Christmas and New Year Holidays, Southern Railway will sell tickets between all stations on its lines, and to stations on lines of its connections south of Potomac and east of Mississippi Rivers at rate of one and one-third first class fares for round trip. Minimum rate 50 cts. Tickets to be sold Dec. 23rd, 24th, 25th and 31st, and January 1st, with final return limit January 4th, 1905. TO STUDENTS AND TEACHERS OF SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES. Tickets will be sold on presentation and surrender of certificates signed by President or Principal, December 17th to 24th inclusive, with final return limit January 5th, 1905, rate one and one-third first class fare. For full information apply to Ticket Agents. C. W. WESTBURY, D. . A. Richmond, Va. These beautiful imitation of genuine DIAMOND drop earrings having 1 karat size stones in each earring. The stones are full of life and fire, and will fool experts. 35 Cents, by mail post. DIAMOND drop earrings having 1 karat size stones in each earring. The stones are full of life and fire, and will fool experts. 35 Cents, by mail post paid. Ask for our big Jewelry Catalogue free. Dept. B. Edmondson and Company, Lewis Block Buffalo, N. 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All goods strictly guaranteed or money cheerfully refunded. Money orders must follow all orders. Country produce exchanged for groceries or higher market prices paid for them. THE AUGUST GROCERY COMPANY. Five Largest and Most Up-to-Date Stores in the South. 611 E. Marshall; Phone 1232; 1731 E. Main; Phone 1997 722 W. Cary; Phone 354. Brook Avenue and Clay; Phone 1055. 114 North Eighteenth Street; Phone 332. Call any of those 'phones and you shall receive prompt attention and the quickest delivery. Read Our ADV'S. Turkeys, Fruits, Just received a large shipment market and, our prices will spee Dressed Turkeys 20c lb Fresh Mixed Nuts.....13½c Candy and Bonbons pound.....7c Seeded Raisins, package.....7½c Large Cocoa nuts.....5c Chocolate Drops.....12½c 3 packages of the Finest Cocoa.....25c Three lbs. Finest London Best Mince Meat.....12½c Pure Albemarle Cider, quart.....10c Albemarle Pippin Apple, peck.....25c Finest Country Butter.....23c Large Cake Baker Chocolate.....15c Best Flgin Butter, 25c P Best Irish Potatoes, peck..... 20c Best Danish Cabbage, pound..... 2c 6 ibs. Best Virginia Buckwheat..... 25c 15c Pkg. Pillsbury Vitos Food..... 10c 15c Pkg. Rice or Beans Flake..... 10c Regular 25c Can Imported P 17c All kinds of Sugars, Flour Cakes and Nuts equipment and are the finest in the speak for themselves. b, Dressed Chickens 15c ib %c 3 pounds Nice Figs.....25c %c Fruit Cakes per pound.....15c %c Nice Pound Cake.....121c %c 4 pounds Finest Dates.....25c %c Plum Pudding, per can.....15c %c Nabisco Wafers, per package.....20c don Layer Raisins for 25c %c Fresh Country Eggs, dozen.....29c %c Finest Country Sausage.....121c %c Smithfield Ham.....21c %c Best Shredded Cocoanut.....15c %c Spare Ribs and Chine.....10c c Pound. Roll Butter, 15c Switzer Cheese, pound ..... 20c Sour Krout, quart ..... 5c 7 pounds Large Prunes ..... 25c 3 dozen New Herrings for ..... 25c Best Shoulders, per pound ..... 9c Red French Mushrooms and Peas 7c Can. Bankers' Money Orders May be obtained. They may be used in place of United States Postal or Express Money Orders and they are as good as gold everywhere. ```markdown ``` THROUGH OUR New York correspondent, THE NATIONAL PARK BANK, we will issue Letters of Credit that are good in any foreign country in the world. ```markdown ``` WE WILL ISSUE Domestic Letters of Credit good any where in the United States. THE RELIABILITY of the Mechanics' Savings Bank ```markdown ``` Is guaranteed both in New York and Richmond. We politely invite you to open an account with us. All business matters treated as strictly confidential. All deposits of money are treated the same way. For further information, apply to MR. THOS. H. WYATT. Cashier, 511 North Third Street, Richmond, Va. age 5. One piece of CHINA WARE given to each customer who purchases a package of our California Hams . . 9c pound Best Hams . . . . 12½“ Breakfast Bacon . . 12½“ Corned Hams . . . 13“ Corned California . 9“ Rib Pork . . . 10“ Granulated Sugar . 5½“ Dunlop Flour . . . 39 bag Obelisk . . . . 39“ Large Tomatoes 3 cans . . 24c Malaga Grapes . 15 pound Seeded Raisins 3 boxes . 25 Currants, “” . 25 London Layer Raisins 3 lb 25 Fine Citron . . . 15 lb Shelled Almonds . 38“ Figs . . . . 10“ Best Mince Meat . 10“ Jello . . . . 10 box Chalmers Gelatine 3 boxes . . 25 Large Juicy Lemons 15c doz Apricots 3 cans . . 25 Sliced Pears 3“ . . 25 Salmon . . 3“ . . 25 Apple Butter 3“ . . 25 Peach Butter 3“ . . 25 Cocoa . . . 3 boxes 25 Pocahontas Corn 3 c's 25 Fidelity Peas 3“ 25 Westminister Corn 3 25 Mustard Sardines 3 boxes . 25 Imported 3 boxes 25 Xmas Mixed Candy, 3 lb 25 Best French “ 3“ 25 Mixed Nuts 2“ 25 Large Cocoanuts, each 6 3 lb Stone Jar Preserves, 30] Phone. 1299 REFORMERS' STORE, 6th & Clay Sts All orders promptly filled at short notice by telegraph or telephone. Hake rented for meetings and nice entertainments Plenty of room with all necessary conveniences. Large picnic or band wagons for hire at reasonable rates and notting but first-class carriage, buggies, etc. Keeps constantly on hand fine Furniture Supplies. 212 EAST LEIGH STREET. OPEN ALL DAY & NIGHT--Man on Duty All Night