Richmond Planet

THE RICHMOND PLANET REV. DR. JOHNSON SPEAKS AGAIN. Still After Southern White Folks. Makes Some Concessions—Argues Points of Law—Much Disturbed Over Existing Conditions. HON. JOHN MITCHELL, JR., Dear Sir: You are aware that I anticipated that I was up against a sharp two-edged sword when venturing to take issue with the regularity with which you seem to apologize, for the white people of the South continuing to allow this carriage, blood-shed, anarchy, and even general lawlessness. I declare to you, there is absolutely no real, true republican, form of government in the South, for five States have, in the face of the Consti- titution disfranchised hundreds of thousands of its citizens, simply and solely on the account of their color. THE FEDERAL AMENDMENT. The 14th amendment to the Constitution says, "all persons born or naturalized in the United States are citizens of the United States and of the states wherein they reside; and that no state shall make or enforce any law that will abridge the privileges or immunities of the citizens of the United States." You see by this article that they are citizens of the United States before they are of the States, because it says that "born or naturalized in the United States" they are "citizens of the United States," thus the amendment and amendments make them citizens of the States, because they are citi- of the United States. THE POINT HE EMPHASIZED It was on this ground that I made the point that the States, if they could not control the mobs, should appeal to the United States authorities. That the United States authorities had been derelict in the cases you cite, is no argument against the point that, in the duty of the States, if they cannot con- trol a mob in the States, to appeal to the United States government. You cite incident where appeals have been made and a leaf car turned. I give you two incidents where the government has taken authority to interfere where the mob reigned: THE RIGHTS OF STATES. In Mr. Hayes' administration, regardless of that heartless and non-statesman like declaration of his, that if a state could not sustain itself—or words to that effect—it must go down; he, himself, when the labor riots occurred in Baltimore and Pittsburgh, called out the militia to put the mob down. And you haven't forgotten President Cleveland's attitude toward the mob, when there was a labor strike on in Chicago which stopped the United States' Mail and the progress of commerce, that President Cleveland, against the governor's protest, sent troops to Chicago, and put the mob down? The point I am trying to make is, that we have a central government, that central government is the United States; and that the United States is the supreme power regardless of the declaration of the independence of the States. The States are only independent when they do not conflict with the Constitution of the United States; when they do, the United States Constitution takes precedence; AGAIN DEMANDS ACTION. Now sir, we are citizens of the United States before we are citizens of the States; and sir, the Southern States have proven themselves incompetent to manage the mob. I hold that it is the moral duty of the governors of such States, to either acknowledge inability to control the mob, or confess indisposition to do so. Doing that I hold it is the duty of the National government to step in, in order to preserve a republican form of government, and say to these states; "You must keep order, or take marital rule." And I think it very unbecoming in any one of our race to apologize for the looseness of government in the South, simply on the face of the fact that in certain individual cases the state governors have stood out for the preservation of the laws within their society. You quote a great moral president in your closing words, "Whatsoever ye would men should do to you, do ye even so to them." SPECIFIC QUESTIONS Why not apply that to the Mayors of cities; to the judges of courts; so the Governors of States; to the white pulpits and churches and Sunday Schools that dismiss and go by tens of thousands so lynchage? Why not apply that to the ministers in the pulpit in Wilmington. Del., where colored men coming home from the factories found their homes on fire and a mob in the streets with loaded guns, and the hardware stores where guns and ammunition might be procured to them. Why not apply to such a mob? I repeat why not apply is to the ministers of Wilmington, and especially to one Presbyterian minister who said in effect that he was only sorry that he was not the leader of the mob and had not opportunity to "shoot a nigger down." THINKS EYES ARE CLOSED I ask again, Editor Mitchell, how can you close your eyes to the fact that it is the best people of the South that are in control, and that it is the best people of the South that are allowing this law- lessness and mob rule to continue? You refer to certain persons constituting that "Unconstitutional institutional convention" as protesting against it. Yes, and I have not a word of condemnation of them, but rather of praise; but are you aware Editor Mitchell, that there were not enough of them to stay its passage? And are you aware that it was the Supreme Court of Virginia that declared that it was constitutional to pass it without carrying it to the people? MUCH WORRIED ABOUT IT. Editor Mitchell! Editor Mitchell! I ask you again, how can you in the face of the looseness of this administration of government in the South for these many, many years past, and at the present time, stand in the breach in its defense? Suppose all of these decisions and efforts that you say were put forth by these governors, these judges, these juries, what then, have you but the bad moral state of government that makes such a thing necessary as the taking of eighteen companies of the troops of Virginia to see that that man Williams in Roanoke should be executed according to law? Here are a people who are disfri- chising the colored people of Virginia and the South because they say they are not self-governing, and yet it takes eighteen companies of the militia of Virginia to make the little town of Roanoke obey the law. Such sham and pretence? SCATHING DENUNCIATIONS And let me ask was it the low down, the worst class of whites that put into operation the "Jim Crow" car law in Richmond that is the cause of the colored people walking now? Shame! Shame! I say, Editor Mitchell on such a form of government and such self-governing people. And I expect to lift my voice, and ory aloud, until those people acknowledge that they cannot rule the mob or have no dispensation to do so, and to contend that apologies for such government should not be made. Dr. W. F. Graham and Family Made Happy. Last Monday night a large number of the members of the Fifth St. Baptist Church and other friends crowded the spacious parlor, hall-way and dining room of the Rev. W. F. Graham, D. D., pastor of the Fifth St. Baptist Church. Baptist Church was happy along with his family. After everything and became quiet Dr. Graham was escorted to a center chair where he was made to take his seat and awaits results. Prof. B. H. Peyton was Master of Ceremonies and he arose and in a delightful speech made known the fact that Macedonia Club, which had been reorganized in consolidation with the Young Reapers' Club, had come do him honor. After the speech was over, in the name of Macedonia Club, Prof. Feyton presented Dr. Graham with a large purse of money and ordered him in the name of the club to go to the store and fit himself out with an overcoat, hat, shoes and other necessaries. Rev. Graham responded in a happy strain. Mrs. Graham's store room was also filled and many other tokens of respect and honor were brought to her and the children. The members of the Fifth St. Baptist Church rejoiced because Dr. Graham had to so accept the flattering call to the great Union Baptist Church of Philadelphia. They say that he must stay in Richmond and so say his thousands of friends. The Fifth Street Church is now undergoing beautiful repairs at a cost of about seven thousand dollars. A two-thousand dollar organ will be in. Speeches were made by Brothers Virgil Hawkins, James West, J. A. Moss and Mrs. Jennie Cheatham. Music was rendered on the piano by Mise Ry, Graham, and little seven year old Otie B. Graham sang two solos which gave pleasure to all who were present. Macedonia Club has now for its President, M. Gallie Brown, Seoey Mrs. Josephine Baker, Treasurer, Mrs. Jenie Cheatham. This is a happy combination of two clubs and great work is expected of them. The names of the following are those who visited and contributed Sisters, Martina Taliaferro, Martha E. Price, Nellie King, Sarah Powell, Caroline Glenmains, Alice Robinson, Calle D. Brown, Jane Reed, Corn Sheppard, Addie Lemna, Lizzie Brown, Mildred Judah, Gracie Green, Bather Anthony, Alice Peps, Sade Finney, Jermini Moss, Barbara Lewis, Carrie Jeannings, Alice Pearson, Julia Austin, Mary mayhaw, Sallie Lewis, Rom Lewis, Jeanie Hawkins, Jeanie Cheatham, Hya Jonatham, Ella Hill, Josephine Baker, Sallie Jonatham, Henriette Brown, Mary A. Bpps, Nancy West, Sallie Rawlings, Emma V. Parkar, Harriet Roman, Sarah Cook. Bresthren; R. H. Fauntleroy, B. H. Peyton, Mat Pearson, Samuel P. Brown, Edward Roman, J. A. Moss, John R Holmes, William Fitzgerald, V. L. Hawkins, James West, William Harris, Spencer Henry, James Page, Lewis Cheatham, Edward Coleman, Richard Beverley, Alexander Jonathan, James Easley, Paul Easley, O. C. Williams, Dr. J. A. Lewis. --- —Miss Gertrude W. Johnson of Emporia, Va. in company with Mrs. C. W. Campbell and Mrs. Archie O. Knox visited our office this week. JUDGE WILKINSON MEANS BUSINESS. Many Lynchers Convicted—One Receives Life Sentence and Five Get Fifty Years—Others Convicted. Brookhaven, Miss., Dec. 20.—(Special.)—Judge Wilkinson passed sentence on the Lincoln County white-cappers to-day, sending one man to prison for life, five others were given 50 years each, and another 25 years. Other offenders were given lighter punishment. The action is the most drastic ever applied in this section in the punishment of race rioters and has created consternation among the whites accused of harassing Negroes. Judge Wilkinson says he proposes to punish an end to the reign of terror in this State. Those convicted are members of the Farmers' League. DEPLORABLE CONDITIONS The "Farmers' League" some months ago inaugurated a reign of terror throughout the county. Negro homes were burned, many were shot into from the darkness, many Negroes were killed or wounded or whipped. Notices were posted in many places throughout the county warning the Negroesto leave. Judge M. A Wilkinson ordered a grand jury to take up the case and as a result the grand jury at the present term of court returned 62 true bills of indictment. Seven of these were for murder, 21 for other felonies, and the rest for various other forms of misdemeanor. Three-hundred other men [were] accused of conspiracy. In announcing to the 800 men accused of conspiracy that they would not have to stand trial. MUST QUIT NOW Judge Wilkinson said: "As a representative of the law, and not with an intent, in threaten, not with any braggadocio, but as a fact, I say to you who have been concerned in this thing that you have got to quit. Not 'Will you quit?' " Please quit," but "you have got to quit!" This experience is just a little chastisement as you would correct a refractory child with a strong next time we are going to "bust the hide" to get the full penalty of the law, even if everyone man in Lincoln County and make every woman a widow. The law must be enforced; it's your law. THE FOULEST OF CRIMES "Here are 2 boys who out of the goodness of heart of the people who have stood cheek by jowl and shoulder to shoulder with the court in ferreting out crime, are to be given their liberty. Over there are seven boys who are going to the penitentiary for one of the foulest crimes that ever blackened the name of your country. How do you know whose would be the man not to be shot into if some people had not organized to put down lawlessness. Instead of telling lies about them, you ought to sing to the men of the men of Bookhaven who had backbone enough and grit enough to organize for the purpose. SHOULD THANK WITNESSES You ought to thank the witnesses for testifying before the grand jury, who have sought to be better to you than you have to you realselves. If asked to join anything, investigate it first. If not satisfied, take the matter to your preacher, your family physician, the country officers, or other good citizens. "To you colored people, let me say that you are entitled to the protection of the law. But don't mistake! This does not mean anything but that you must be Negroes. Work, pay your debts, do not be sacy or impudent, mind your own business, and then you will merit the respect of your neighbors. OTHER ADVICE GIVEN Do not get bigoty because we are sending some white men to the penitentiary for killing a Negro. "The bad effect of this whitecap business on the lives of those who join. If you should take a Negro out, and shoot or hang him; if you should take a white man out and hang him, it would not make much difference if it stepped there. The Negro who is hung or shot is in a heap better fix than the man who does the deed. Death is soon over, so far as the mortal part is concerned: but the penetrator goes along with a black conscience and a scared heart to eke out a miserable existence. There is no way on earth to remove the scar. SCHOOL TRACHERS LECTURED "I want you school teachers to stop coming up here to draw your salaries unless you can mold for good the characters of the children in your charge. There is in this room an old school teacher of thirty years ago. Two of his boys were led into a bull-dosing scrape. He called them to him and gave them such earnest admonition that they heeded his advice, and their lives have been those of upright citizens. Those two boys—men now—were approached and asked to join the whitecap organization. Did they do it? No! "Quit your foolishness. The Lord help you to quit it." Mrs. J. H. Roye will open her restaurant for the season 1905 at the same old stand, S. E. corner Arctic and Kentucky Aves, Monday, Dec. 19, 1904 Atlantic City, N. J. 6 mos. THE AMERICAN BENEFICIAL INSURANCE COMPANY STILL IN THE LEAD. Large and Euthusiastic Stock-Holders Meeting...Pres. Graham, Adolphus Humbles, Esq. and Prof. Winston Bell Make Speeches. Thursday night, December 29th at Price's Hall on Leigh Street more than two hundred stock-holders of the American Beneficial Insurance Company met to hear the condition of the Company from its officers. President W. F. Graham made an address which showed the company in a most healthy condition, and when he told the stock-holders that the American had purchased ten thousand dollars worth of bonds to deposit with the state there was a general expression of approval and delight. He assured the stock-holders that the American would not commit, consolidate or merge with any other company, since she is fully able to take care of herself. The Hon. Adolphus Humbles and Prof. Winston Bell of Lynchburg were presens and made most excellent speeches, in fact they carried the house by storm. Mr. Humbles assured the stock-holders that he was first and last and always for his race, and that he was willing to spend and be spent for their advancement. Prof. Bell made a speech that will be long remembered by those who heard him. Dr. H. L. Harris was the third and last speaker, and so delighted were the stockholders with his able address that they did not want him to stop. Secy. Peyton was on hand with his books to satisfy all present that the company was doing business on high business grounds. Mr. A. D. Price was present along with many others too numerous to name, showing to the people that the American is the greatest Negro insurance company in the world. It is the strongest because of its large number of substantial stockholders, its great membership, universal prestige. This is the company to join. Respectfully, THE AMERICAN BENEFICIAL INS. CO. Resolutions. Whereas there has been a great deal of controversy, regarding the granting of a cafe license to William Miller at the new colored hotel, and Whereas, we believe the establishment of an up-to-date Hotel, with all modern attachments, cafe and etc. is a long felt want in our city, and Whereas, we know the sald, William Mill r to be a man of highest integrity and the possessor of unusual business qualifications. Therefore be it Resolved that this club oppose any action that will be a detriment to said Hotel, and be it further Resolved that we extend to William Miller our assurance of heartiest support. Independent Beneficial Club, Chas. W. Campbell, Pres. Claude C. Brown, Sec'y. $100.00 Endowment Paid. This is to certify that I have received from John Mitchell, Jr., G. W. Counsellor of the Grand Court of Va. I. O. C. ($100.00) One Hundred Dollars in payment of the death claim of Pearl Waddill, who was a member of Unity Icourt, No. 133 of Bichmond, Va. Jno. W. Robinson. A Very Complimentary Reference We note with pleasure the fact that The PLANET Richmond, Va., one of our exhouses has just passed its twenty-first male post with flying colors. It is the true representative of the best elements of the colored people in the South. Its editor is a man of much ability and richly deserves the success which is crowni g his efforts. Mr. Arthur Pryor a very prominent young man departed this lifi on the 29th of November, 1804 as his father's residence, 503 Meadow Street. He was a member of the Sharon Baptist Church. He leaves a father, five sisters and a host of friends to mourn their loss. Personalals and Briefs Mr. and Mrs. Thomas W. Coleman of New London, Coon, are in the city the guests of Mr. and Mrs. A. B Hawkins, 217 H. Leigh Street. Mr. S. G. Wooldridge the well-known baritone vocalist, comedian and trombone soloist spent Christmas and the Holidays wish his parents, Mr. and Mrs. B. P. Wooldridge, 1215 W. Chaffin Street. Miss Tossie P. F. Whiting who teaches at the V. N. & I. J., Petersburg, Va. spent the holidays in the city. Sir A. B. Ellis of Newport News, Va was in the city last week. Sir G. C. Johnson of Atlantic City, N. J. visited our office this week. The members of Planet Lodge, No. 23 were pleased to have him present at their last meeting. He will return to Atlantic City about the 20th of Mr. Clement Selden of Bedford City, Va. has been the guest of Mrs. E. B. Briggs. Mr. Hommer T. Chewy of Hampton School, Messrs. A. B. Lee and Tyme of Va. Union University were the guests of Mr. R. W. Whiting during the holidays. Friends' Orphan Asylum Remembered. At the Christmas tree exercises of Mt. Olivet Baptist Church Sunday School, Rev. J. Andrew Bowler, pastor, on Wednesday Night, 28th, nlt., $11.17 was raised for the Friends' Orphan Asylum. CHADWICK MET WIFE IN JAIL Both Broke Down and Wept For Several Minutes. TRUST ME. TRUST ME. SHE GRIED Cleveland, O., Jan. 2.—Unheralded and unembarrassed by the crowds at the depot, the coming of Dr. Leroy Chadwick was in striking contrast with the arrival here of his wife a few weeks ago. Scarcely any of the few at the station knew of the party, and the sheriff and Dr. Chadwick were quickly driven to the county jail, where Dr. Chadwick was registered as a man against whom the law has suspicion, but the record was not made a part of the records at once. A bond provided Saturday evening by Attorney Virgil P. Cline and Attorney Dawley was ready at the jail on the arrival of Dr. Chadwick, and he was soon released. After the preliminaries in the sheriff's office, Dr. Chadwick was seized by Sheriff Barry to the fourth floor of the woman's ward, where his wife is held a prisoner. The meeting between the two was pathetic in the extreme. Mrs. Chadwick arose when she heard the steps in the corridor and fell into her husband's arms when she recognized him. Beth broke down and wept convulsively for several minutes, while clinging to each other, the sheriff attempting meanwhile to console them. Dr. Chadwick has lost his all in the operations of his wife, and the large independent fortune of his only child has been swept away. Sufficient reason, it would seem, for some show of hardness on his part. Mrs. Chadwick tried to imbue him with the thought of her innocence of any wrong-doing. His only response to these pleas was "I hope so." The troubles into which both have been plunged were thoroughly discussed. The wife told the story, interspersed by violent fits of weeping, in which at times Dr. Chadwick joined. There were no apparent evasions, but there was a constant cry of "Trust me! trust me!" on the part of the woman. "Don't believe these stories which the newspapers have been printing about me," she said. "They are all lies; every one of them. I have done nothing wrong. Believe me; trust me; everything will come out all right in the end, and it will be seen that I have been guilty of none of these things the public charge me with. Don't think I deceive you. I will tell you the truth, and I tell you that all these reports are lies—lies." "I can only hope so," was the husband's answer. "I have trusted you, and it is hard to believe anything; my mind is so confused. This has all been such a terrible shack, and I don't understand any of it. I want time to think of it. I do not say I won't trust you; only give me time to collect my thoughts. Ever since I heard of this trouble in Paris I have been bothered, and my life has been made almost unbearable. I have been followed and bounded until I can think of nothing else. I am not the judge. I can only hope that everything will come out all right as you say." Sixty Bales Go Up in Flames As Result of Joke. Shawnee, Okla, Jan. 3. — Several thousand dollars worth of cotton, estimated at 69 bales, gathered together in a huge pile in the little town of Asher, in the southern part of Potomac wattleme county, furnished a huge bonfire with which to greet the New Year. The fire was the result of a buttering joke, which spread rapidly throughout the community. The joke soon became a reality, and nearly every farmer around Asher contributed of his surplus cotton to add to the bonfire. One man gave two bales, many others a bale each, while load after load of seed cotton went to swell the pile. "Dad" Coleman, after delivering a short speech, applied the torch, and the assembled hundreds cheered the clouds of smoke as they ascended. So large is the pile that it will probably require a couple of days for all of the cotton to be consumed. PORT ARTHUR SURRENDERS Greatest Stronghold in the World Subdued by Jags. TERMS OF CAPITULATION Captured Officers to Be Returned to Russia On Parole and With Their Side Arms, But 20,000 Others Become Prisoners of War—Awful Conditions Unveiled Within Fallen Fortress. Port Arthur, whose hills have for months run red with the blood of the bravest of two warlike nations, has at last succumbed to the fierce tenacity of the Japanese attack. General Stoessel, most stubborn in carrying out the will of his sovereign, has seen the advance of the besieging army gain in momentum and energy until to hold out longer would have been a crime against humanity. GENERAL NOGI Japanese Commander Who Made Final Assault on Port Arthur. Tokio was the scene of rejoicing. people of all ranks finding in the outcome compensation for all the sacrifice of life and money that was entailed in the ten months siege. To what extent the fall of Port Arthur will make for a restoration of peace is an open question. The besieging army will now be free to go north where it will be an offset to the reinforcements General Kuropatkin has been receiving from Russia since the battle of Shakhe. The spirit of the Russians may be judged by the statement of the secretary of the embassy at London that the campaign will be renewed with fresh vigor in the spring and that the nation will not be content to permit Port Arthur to remain in the hands of the Japanese. Both in Paris and in London the opinion is that the squadron under Vice Admiral Rojestvensky, which started from Libau for the Far East three months ago, will have to retrace its way home, as adherence to the original plans would invite disaster without probability of effecting a junction with the warships at present in the harbor of Vladivostok. In addition to the inestimable less of prestige, the fall of Port Arthur means to Russia these, estimated figures of treasure and men: In Treasure. Invested in Port Arthur and Delay buildings fortifications. items, etc. ..... $247,000,000 Ammunition and guns. ..... 6,000,000 Fleet destroyed ..... 160,000,000 Total ..... $373,000,000 in Men. Original garrison ..... 35,000 President garrison (say) ..... 2,000 Sick and wounded new in hospitals ..... 16,000 Killed and died of wounds ..... 11,000 Naval lesions ..... 4,000 Total dead, sick and wounded, 31,000 What it Has Cost Japan. ships, large and small... 15,000,000 Total ..... $20,000,000 In men killed and wound out of the 200,000 engaged.....75,000 Naval losses—men.....5,000 Total men.....80,000 Headquarters of the Japanese Third Army. Jan. 3, via Fusan. Jan. 4—At the conference held between the com- misioners of General Stoessel and General Nogi Monday afternoon the terms of surrender were agreed upon, under which the Russian officers, both civil and military, will be allowed to march out, the military with arms. The officers will be granted full liberty after giving promises not to take further part in the war. The privates and non-commissioned officers of the garrison, to the number of 20,000, will be taken prisoners of war. The surrendered fortress was formally handed over to the Japanese on Tuesday. The prisoners will march out today. The opposing troops are fraternizing. The text of the capitulation is as follows: All Russian soldiers, marines and civil officials of the garrison and harbor are made prisoners; all forts, batteries, vessels, munitions, etc., are transferred to the Japanese in the condition in which they existed at noon of January 3, violation of this clause to operate as an annulment of the negotiations, giving the Japanese army warrant to take free action; the Russian military and naval authorities are to furnish to the Japanese army an exhibit of all fortifications, underground and submarine mines, a list O of military officers, of ships and the numbers of their crews, and of civilians of both sexes, with their race and occupation, and all public property, as buildings, munitions of war, etc., to be left in the present position pending arrangement for their transference. Officers of the army and navy are permitted to retain their swords and such of their personal property as is directly necessary for the maintenance of life, and with one servant each may, upon signing their parole not to take arms during the continuance of the war, return to Russia. Non-commissioned officers and privates will be held as prisoners. For the benefit of the sick and wounded Russians the sanitary crops and the accountants belonging to the Russian army and navy will be required to serve under the Japanese sanitary corps and accountants for such period of time as may be deemed necessary. Blew Up Ships and Forts. London, Jan. 3.—The Daily Mall's correspondent with General Nogi says the capture of Wanted involved six hours of the fiercest fighting, while the attacks on the forts to the southeast were carried on simultaneously. Describing the final scenes, the correspondent says: "The slaked fire at points in northern and eastern forts seemed to show that Russian ammunition was falling. The position was now desperate. Great explosions around the forts proclaimed that the Russians were exploding their magazines. Flames and smoke in the harbor were followed by explosion after explosion, which revealed the destruction of the Russian ships. The Russians also apparently blew up two of their own forts. The battleship Sevastopol was blown up and the other warships were destroyed as thoroughly as possible. The battleships Retvili and Poltava and the protected cruiser Pallada caught fire." "SO THE WHITE FLAG WENT UP" Russian Officer Tella of Awful Horror at Fortress. Chefco, Jan. 3.—This morning three Russian torpede launches from Port Arthur arrived here. There are seven Japanese torpede boat destroyers in the harbor. Besides the six vessels here, it is learned that the torpede boat destroyers Smiril and Boiki and a transport left Port Arthur Sunday nightfifth the latter carrying 800 wounded soldiers, and, according to a dispatch from Tsingtau, succeeded in reaching that port. It is now believed that there will be no trouble, as the Russians are seemingly sincere in the disarmament of their destroyers. The Russian officers have a single word for what the fortress has been for the past five days, during which the Japanese have bombarded and assaulted it ceaselessly night and day. They use the word profanely and com- ee py! ESS AV? WIFE SUES POET; | HE SHIES AT SOAP HE BARS BEDS "AND BATHS Says That He Sleeps in His Clothes in the Cellar—He Does Not Appreciate Her Fash- fonable Friends. Chicago.—A rich Lake View womar ‘wants a divorce from her tramp husband Decause she says: He sleeps in his clothes. | He sieeps in the basement. ‘He washes his face in a bucket. He refuses to take a bath. ‘He eats in the kitchen. | qhe husband replies: ' Silver plate, cut glass, feather beds elegant toilet facilities, arm chairs an¢ fireplaces re too good for me. Mrs, Lilly Hintz is the wealth ; wife Adolph G. Hintz is the tramp husband. ‘They are still living together in elegan: apartments at 608 Evanston avenue, ‘This is the gist of the story Mrs. Hintz tells: Hiniz wrote a love poem for aGerman newspaper. She read it, and sought him out. He accepted her heart, hand, home and fortune. She to6k him into her home and of- fered him every luxury. She tried for ten years in vain to get him to enter the parlor. She could only get as his excuse that the place was “too good for him.” He sat for hours, days, weeks in a corner of the cellar gazing into space, thinking, dreo ning. She came te suifer from neighbor- hocd oxiracism, out loved him still and admired his great inteliect He kept up a constant output of en- trancing poetry which was never pub- dished. Finally, her beautiful stepdaughter eft home and elie sued fo dlvorce. ‘The woman is 61 rears old and stil handsome. The man is 51, too. They pS. ig 1 | Nk cain ee. || ITY, a wy jj yt SRT ete \ ‘) _ t have lived since their marriage at 608 Evanston avenue. Their flat is palatial. Mrs. Hintz owns the big apartment building, besides other large properties in Lake View. ‘The two are still on the best of terms, “He is wonderful,” she said, a great sigh accompanying her tribute, “but I cannot understand him.” “Thad always lived the life of a tramp Before I met her,” said the husband. “1 love it still. I must rove.” In the ten years that the wife has lived in splendor while her husband dwelt in the cellar Mrs. Hintz says she has been able to ‘get but one reason from Mr. Hintz for his conduct: “it is too good for me.” Every day for ten years she has in- vited. bezged, implored him to come into the parlor, eat in the dining-room, lounge in the library, but there always came the same answer: “No, it is too good for me.” ‘Mrs. Lilly Von Arendt was an attrac- tive German widow, cbout the “perfect age of 35,” with a nice fortune, at the opening of the story. She was heart- free and care-free, and somewhat senti- mental in her loneliness. ‘One day her eye accidentally fell on a little poem in her German newspa- per. “If Only I Had Thee” was the title of the half dozen verses, and they breathed the ‘passionate longing of a true heart for the kindred soul of 3 feminine mate, which Mrs. Von Arendt thought de- seribed her. She was much impressed by the yearn- ing verses. She read and reread then until she began to feel a new interest in life. The widow was so fascinated by the poem that she determined to seek out the writer. Going to the office of the Paper she induced the editor to tell who his contributor was and give her an én- troduction ‘Mrs. Von Arendt, thinking of hercom. fortable fortune ‘and still further charmed by his soulful conversation ‘was not daunted by her hero's rather ‘discouraging appearance and thought to ‘rehabilitate him. | "They were married. The wedding took place February 8, 1894. ‘What followed Mrs. Hintz tells best in her complaint for asking a divorce. BABY ATTRACTED BY ITS MOTHER'S CRIES. Parent Fell Into Well, But Stopped Screaming to Save ‘Her Chia. Edwardsville, U1l.—Mrs. Frank Delda, of New Douglas, through a misstep fell into a well at her home. She plunged down 30 feet, and on coming to the surface of the water she clung to the chain and screamed for help. ‘To her horror, her cries brought her eee to the well curb, and it peered ee? 2 rs = a Sees ee Ss eae E Se A Te eas j re Soe Sa =A He Sa See es eas = ed Hea ee Es ae he cm = se p= oe DH e @ a LI ie wy LOOKED OVER THE CURBING, down the hole to see what was the matter, creeping perilously over the edge. Fearful that the child might slip and fail into the well, the moth- er was compelled to cease her «es for assistance. She hung on the chain for an hour and a quarter betore her husband discovered her predicament. ee, 36 HE HAS CARRIED A MILLION LOVE NOTES. The Bearer of Sweet-Scented Billets to the Girls at Bryn-Mawr College. Bryn Mawr, Pa—William Armitage, chief herald and bearer of billets amour, sweet-scented notes and bon- bons for Bryn Mawr college, has round- ed the twentieth year in that service. Probably no wail carrier in America has delivered as many love letters as Armitage. In honor of his anniversary, the girls congratulated him when he made his trip to the college—an errand that has made many a gurlish heart leap with joy In the past. Happy as was the veteran carrier over this tribute from the students, the day brought one sad remembrance. He missed his faithful horse, “Bill,” the big bay, who began his trips to the college the day he entered upon his duties, Worn by the years of service, “Bill” recently began to fail. His legs lost that pristine sprightliness that had made his gait the admiration of the countryside; he began to totter and show other signs of ebbing vitality. To end “Bill's” mis- ery, Armitage chloroformed him to death, In Armitage’s six trips a day in the delivery of letters to the 50 students and professors at the college, the two “Bills” had become a traditional feature of the institution. Lumps of sugar and sweet- meats were often fed from dainty hands to the old horse as Armitage would drive up with his precious burden of letters. Armitage has another horse. ¢. But he is not “Bill,” the Idol of tne col- lege girl. Sweet glances greeted the carrier, but there were no swestineats for the new horse. ‘More Prudent. He—Is it true that you are engaged to the angel? The Actress—No, indeed, If 1 were you can bet your last dollar ! wouldn't allow him to waste his money on this old show.—Puck. ALAS, TOO TRUE. RASS TESS a IN } ‘ ; HS aL S3oyk x \ SN (oa \ \ Teache:—Johnnie, name a bird that is now extinct Jobnnie—Our canary. ‘The eat ex tincted him.—St. Louis Republic. aoe ae In the old Engiish castieof Beivotr A kitchen matd loved thé coul-he.vole; But she found to her woe ‘What he hadn't the dce, And besides only meant to decelvolr, Cincinnati Commercial Tribune, ae FeEMOND, VIRGINIA. WANTS 10 REVIVE GR OLD GRACEFULLY PUFF F No Woman Can Do This Who Has|A Home-Mad Permitted Her Mirror to Be- Pretty Ch: WHIPPING-POST| -msri= : To o great many women the time| Sometimes 1 wee they devote before the mirror be-| walking wants SOUTHINGTON, CONN., SELECT-| comes in 4 way a period of supreme nothing heavie | MAN WANTS NEW Law. tortufe. Whether long or short, this| but very seldor time spen? im peering into ner glass} abroad unatter | ones and searching there for signs of age,| powder-puff. I ‘TO PUNISH WIFE -BEATERS | care ur worry in her face is not only | cannot carry o time wasted, but put to the worst| puffs in the | aca possible use. purse, s0 ah He Says He Has Received Assurances| I have ju mind, says a writer in the| here comes int of Support for Legislation He | San Francisco Chronicle, a woman of | ed suggestion 1 Will Ask For from Next 30 oda, im the heyday of her beauty,| Models for the temineare, who dafly Scans her mirror for traces |. Bridgeport. — Selectman Augustine Martin Lewis, of the town of Southing- ‘ton, favors the whipping post for wife beaters. At a recent meeting of the managers of charity boards and select- ‘men, held in Hartford, Mr. Lewis advo- cated the advisability of having a whip- ping port bill introduced at the coming session of the general assembly. He ‘said: “If a bill Is introduced I will not be the only one who will support it. From all over the state I have received as- surances of support. Still, [ meet a few persons who hold up thelr hands in horror and declare that to return to the whipping post would be going back to the days of barbarism. ‘Then, too, there are politicians who admit that a whipping post would be a g00d thing, yet they fear it would cause trouble for the party passing the meas- ure, and it would Jose votes in conse- quence. “A wife beater is too lazy to work for his family. When he is arrested and placed in prison he is comfortable, and gets three square meals a day. I have several times asked men arrested in Southington what would become of their families when they are in all, and invariably their answer has been: ‘What do I care for my family!” Iam of the opinion that a dose of the whip- ping post for such men would have a good effect, not only on the ones whipped, but on others who have a leaning toward wife beating and neg- lecting their families, “I should be very conservative if I had the framing of a whipping post law. I have never advocated a whip- ping post for thieves and other crim- rh = aS = eo fa alfa ia la / El BS\S & See HT Np oF Nes td | Nay AAG ei a | 7 ut AW Ger I | RO) SU lh Cea hil | ane \ A rae ANON Ya ha Ms Pj, Ay WAS Wiig A SS 1, Wes, , FONE. | Se Me ee, A Good WiIPPINa woULD HURT eae inals of that class, but something ought to be done to meet the cases of these ‘ite beaters. I would not advocate whipping every man arrested for as- ‘sault upon his wife; but such a man ‘should be given to understand that re- peated offenses will bring him under the lash. A good whipping will hurt ‘the brutes themselves. ‘The Jail sen- ‘tences only temporarily disarrange their plans, and they do not at all mind the Ute discomforts ‘of prison ie But whip them just once, and 1 warrant they never will return to the post. “The whipping should neyer be pub- Hicly administered. Let the judge of the court have all to say in regard to that matter. The selectmen and char- ities board officials could give the judge the history of the offenders, so that he would know just what to do witb them.” A GIRL DIVER WILL EXPLORE EAST RIVER. To Seorch for Box of Valuable Papers Lost in General Slocum Disantex. New York.—Miss Frances L. Baker, of Detroit, has come to this city In search of a box of valuable legal pa- pers which she hopes ‘o find at the bottom of the East river, off North Brother island, where the General Sol- cum went down. Miss Baker's uncle, A. P. Baker, of Port Huron, Mich., who died a short time ago, Was one of the survivors of the Slocum disaster. Just before his death he told his niece that at the time the flames were raging, when he had despaired of getting ashore alive, he threw the small box contalning the pa pers into the river. The papers are of such value that Miss Baker is going to make an effort to find them. She says that she has certain directions given her by her uncle, which she thinks will enable her to locate the box. Arrangements haye een made with the Merritt & Chapman Wrecking com- pony to furnish a tug and a diving crew, with which Miss Baker wil prosecute the search. Miss Baker. whose father was a diver on the great lakes, will hersel wear a diving costume, working with the other divers and directing the searen in person. ‘Chink the Graake Farm buildings should be given @ “going over belore the cold of the winter comes. Too many cracks fn the barn may give abundant ventila tion, but they give more—too many drafts. Ventilation is health, but drafts are the opposite. It does not cost much to stop up’ cracks, and if one kind of material cainot be secured fos this work another can, WINTER MODELS IN PRETTY HOUSE GOWNS. . CS ec Ue i H aa | WY ee a) [\Wb yard om aN Of all ‘he approved winter modes, none are more attractive than the house gowns, of which there is an almost endless variety, and made from a great variety of materials. A recent issue of the American Dressmaher Mlustrated three of the most charming models, and we give both the pic- ‘ares and descriptions here. Fig. 1—House gown of reseda green cachemire veloute, trimmed with nun’s folds of the cachemere bordered with taieta tuckiug, and embroidery on thy cachemire, Fig. 2—House gown of tan Yolle, trimmed ‘with satin ribbon fluted, between folds of the volle. Fig. 3—House gown of taffeta chemeleon in medium shades trimmed with @ braidfng design and with embroidered revers. ~ GROWING OLD GRACEFULLY No Woman Can Do This Who Has Permitted Her Mirror to Be- Séome Her Tyrant. Toa many women the time they 3 before the mirror be- comes in @ period of supreme tortales, Whstier long or short, this time sper im peering into ner glass and searching there for signs of age, care ur worry in her face is not only time wasted, but put to the worst possible use. T have fo mind, says a writer in the San Francisco Chronicle, a woman of 30 oda, im the heyday of her beauty, who dafly Scans her mirror for traces of the first wrinkle or the first gray hair. Tho day when she makes the discover and it wil) be long before anyon s8@ does—will be a day of mise ¢ ker, for she firmly believes that . bh, beauty and happiness are bound + im the preservation of an unline tow and raven hair. Her prehension is so great that she we les so that age should take her vna ares that she is really incapa- ble of fully enjoying her youth and good lgey No one can get the best out of life who lives im constant dread of what the mirrc- will reflect. Every woman wants fo de as pretty as possible, and every Wouan should do all in her power te preserve her charms. But to make @ tyrant of the mirror is to give it a power and influence which does not rightly belong to it. ‘We «se2 in others what we wish to see in them, and this is particularly true of the reflections in the locking glass, If we sean it for traces of oncoming years, for wrinkles and lusterless eyes, we see, or think we see, the signs of age appioaching. If one looks at it convinced that it will reflect the vigor and splendid maturity which one feels there will be no disappointment. A wrinkle, a xray hair does not mean age. The handsomest woman I know is @ grandmother, and the years may possibly point to 49, but when she looks into the giass she does so fear- lessly, Knowing that she will see there the image of a face full of charm, good cheer and sympathy, and she is never disappointed. She Uses many outward means of preserving her looks and attends to her hair and complexion persistently, but she has learned the secret that it is hetesp:rit and not the lotion that keeps her looking and feeling young. She Woes not think of herself as old, nor speak of the approaching years with dfad. Her mind is filled with interes for all thines, her heart with sympitfiy for all peopic, and she has found the secret of youth. SUGGESTIONS FOR HOUSEWIVES. "To Fhmove rust from knitting needle: rub tligt up and down with a cinder. Mi: ing with cold tea rather A water, for thus a better polish -#adon. the boots. | To AR wtratt or-mwaeake cu Place ft in an air-tleht tin with a good sound apple, renewing the apple if it becomes ¥m the least decayed. Match ‘inarks on a polished or tar- nished surface may be removed by being first rubbed with a cut lemon and then ‘with a rag dipped in clean water. Do not invariably throw away the oll from the can of sardines. It is a very good substitute for butter when codfish balls or made-over dishes of fish are on hand. Lime sprinkled on the sWelves will keep pickles and jams in the storeroom from becoming moldy. The lime must be renewed occasionally, as it loses its power. Senttnent Against Saivon. A genuine revival of temperance fentiment. «is reported from Green county, Arkansas. A®ny persons who heretofore have favored the licensing $f saloons are now throwing their in- uence against it. Loss of revenue accounts for much douthing of —righteousness—Ram's liorm, PUFF FOR A PURSE. A Home-Made Trifle That Makes a ‘Pretty Christmas Present for 2 Wena, Sometimes the busy woman when walking wants *o be burdened with nothing heavier than a small purse, but very seldom does she want to su abroad unattended by the ubiquitous Powder-puff. It stands to reason she cannot carry one of the bulky bougat puffs in the limited compass of a purse, so a home-made contrivancs fare coma ints peta Sf ed suggestion for a Christmas novelty, Models for these are not humerous, yy wy aes a gi IB A if Nay | Bs DS te Pt a XY ] but mention will be made of two that have proven good ones. ‘The first is «node of two crocheted mats of soft wool about three inches in diameter. A loosely-sewn, circular flat case of white material holding ths Powder, is placed between the wool mats, the latter then fastened together around the edges by a crocheted bor- der having open-work through which aribbon is run. The loose case al- lows the powder to sift out at the slightest pressure, and the soft wool is more pleasant to the face than the ordinary chamois skin. ‘The second purse puff ts made of a circular bit of thin silk, three or four inches across, and about an inch from the pinked edge a baby ribbon is shirred in. A tiny lamb's wool bag is put in the center, the lamb’s wool holding the powder, and also acting as puff. The draw-strings pulls a pro- tecting case about the white puff. ‘HEALTH AND BEAUTY NOTES. fone ateernoan isp ts. benedcial. tc those who would gain flesh. | After the shampoo, if the hair is sti ‘and dry, rub olive oll into the roots. Highly scented soaps are often in. surtons, ex the sowst tw sdded to conceal Tancid ingredients. In dieting to reduce flesh drink no Mquids at meals and no water until an hour at least after the meal. A glass of warm or hot milk taken Just before or immediately efter arising ‘will prove a flesh producer. | For enlarged pores the camel's hatr brush and constant scrubbing with pure soap is the quickest and surest cure, ‘Thin people who wfsh to gain flesh should eat a light luncheon before retir- ing; an empty stomach feeds upon the flesh of the body. If the finger nails are filed dally, little cutting 1s needed. ‘This is an excellent wplan to follow hen the nails are britti and break in viseutiibs.” = ‘A bad figure and a poor carriage are often due to laziness. Walk with the shoulders back, the chest-elevated and the hips back if agood carriage is de- sired. To help remove dandruff from the calp rub or massage every night with the tips of the fingers; this stimulates the scalp and helps to loosen the dan- druff—Chicago Daily News. ‘Rie Sikaken Maawchen: | If anything hot has been accidentally placed upon polished wood it may be removed by first painting the spot care- fully with spirits of nite: and then rubbed immediately with sweet oll. Rappy scunion. John §, and Martha Gentry, hus- band and wife, quarreled over the Siavery question at St. Joseph, Mo, Just before the war. He enlisted in the confederate army, she went to California, and in 1874 she obtained a divorce. The other day they met by chance on # ferrs boat on San Francisco bay, aad on Septersder 30 they were remarried. Both are over 70 years old. | Mechanics’ Savings Bank OF RICHMOND, VA ——511 North Third Street. — Capital, $25,000. Momey 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 improved style, having a large white vault, burlar-proof steel chest, electric lights and every modern conver:- fence for safety and the accommodation of the public, ; ce all inforzaation concerning Stocks, Deposits, Loans, eto., apply to the (Onshier. Banking Hours have been arranj for the special convenience of the work- hog mentee oars 9A. M. eater Saturdays, oA M. to 8 P. a. We lon Saturder wi 3} andopen again at 56 P. M., remaining open ratil ¥ 'B. EE. Oall by aa por ae sumx MMUUMELL, JR., President. n F- JONATHAN, Vice-President. THOS. H. WYATT, Cashier. BOARD OF DIRECTORS: Rey. W. F. Granam, D. D., Jwo.R. 4 ims, B. P. Vaspervatn, E.R. Jarrexsow. H. F. Joxatuan, + 09.48 Sarre D. J. Oxavers, J. 0. Faruey, Jno. t. Tayior, E. A, Wasmnotox, R. W. Wartise, Wit am Cusrao, J. J. Oanrxn, JOHN MITCHELL, JR., Fres. THOMAS M. ORUMP, Sxo’x. . W. I. JOHNSON, FUNERAL DIRECTOR AND BMBALMER. . Olitee & Warerooms, 207 N. Foushee St. Corner Broad. HACKS FOR HIRE: Guitars by Telephone or Telegraph filled. Wedding, Sup pers and Entertainments promptly attended. - Ot "Phone, 656, Residence in Building, New Phone, 48. Garp bar KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS OF T € aA x ee a eee od V.P. & F. K. of W. 1 uf al ‘TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: Eas ba ce i.) ‘This organization has been chartered and lepally >. stituted uncer the jaws and statute of the state of@ier ee eee, York, for the purpose of uniting together all acceptadl oan men on the broad Bases of Charity Beneficial a Fraternal and to promote the Social and Mora: condition of human! ty. Its two distinct military and uniform ranks will secure for this organization place in the front ranks of all sacred institutions of mcdern events, a grand oppe: tunity for active men. Deputies wanted in allsections of the conatry to ocgenie lodges - Kindly address, G. W. ALLEN Sspreme voyager, __ - 846 W. 87th Street, New York City. » A. a Re Out of Town Orders Solicited and will Keoeive Prompt and Careful Attention. # Isaac Strans and Co., Family Wine, Liquor and Cigar ¥ "Store, 422’ East Broad, St. Richmond. Va, GUWe sae 4 spectanry SrearMe._ Gia garpes, Peers sor Wien a ents Gk | Bese IMPORTED ANS DOMEATIC WINES, BRAN Soo Dest and met popeiar brands of CIGARS ORES Eig "Phove 2234 BUFFET IN REAR. torecnesoncceosoonorsuacenreneetttees FIRST CLASS . ‘Restaurant, | Barber Shop, Pool Room, Boarding House and Employment Office. Cures i Battery, Proprietor and Manager. Center Ave., opposite R. R. Station, Lock, 13. mos Atlantic Highland, N. J. So WINSTONS Is in E y Style, IGE-GREAM wWnotesatc ana neva Parlors Open Day and Night Special Attention to Picnics, Festi- @ vals.etc, Estimates given. ee thy Retest and most popular Wigs of de Seeniain, fresh on hand. TOBAOUO AND CIGARS. Phone. 2953. WINSTON’S, 587 Brook Avenve. FRANK WALLER, JR PRACTICAL HOUSE PAINTER, 14 W. Baker St., Richmond, Ve, Residence, 1 E. Orange St. Prompt attention given to all mai} orders, Satisfaction guaranteed, Al! Kinds of Painting Done Cheap Give me acail before going elsewhere “THE ECONOMY,” 803 and 305 N. 3rd St., Fine Tailoring, CLEANING, DYEING, AND REPAIRING TURNER & WHITE, “pROPRIETORS. |F. H. Tnokwom. Chas. 7, Williams. JACKSON & “VIDELAMS; GHE §2AR BEER & PROVISION COMPrY | DRALERS 1x cHolcR Beef, Pork, Veal and La 101 W. Jackson St., Richmond, Vas Fresh Country Eggs and Butter. Wg>Fine Butter a Specialty, sseleebebais kee DENTISTRY A .... PAINLESS. “EXTRACTION soos! For beautiful Teeth, Comfort, Pleasure and Health, Orrice Hours:—From 8 A, M. to 6P M. Old Phone, 816. | DR. P. B. RAMSEY, 102 W. Leigh St., Richmond, Va, | AND HUNDLEY, LEADERS IN F it Urniiure PARLOR SUITS, | We have some twenty-fi or thirty suits bought, “m of which will be in stock in few days. “Don’t do a thing’ until you see this line, MORRIS ee This always popular of rest will be in as much mand this fall as ever. P, of our stock has already afl rived and $ro values vie wit $15 values of a year ago. Call, see our stock of Bed Room Fa) aitare and save time nnd money, Passenger elevator. ! 709-11-18 E. Broad St. & 4 ARACE FOR GOLD A NEW ENGLANDER'S ADVENTURES IN ALASKA BY CAPT J.H.B. ROBINSON [Copyright, 1988, by 8. 8. McClure Co.] Hank Bowers did not for a moment imagine that the big bowler had fallen by accident. On the contrary he realized it had been purposely rolled there to prevent his ingress. It followed, then, that he had been seen approaching the cliff. "There must be some sort of a valley behind this 'ere cliff," he concluded, as he stood measuring the distance to the top of the obstructing stone with his eye, "an' that feller won't keep me out of it long." With a confident air he retraced his steps to the opening and removed the packs from his horses. Then he took a coil of rope on his arm and entered the cleft once more. Bowers had been a cowboy once and was an expert with the lasso. He had noticed a sharp spur on the upper side of the barrier, and with a dexterous cast he looped his rope around it at the first attempt. Then with an agility really remarkable in so large a man he crew himself up about 20 feet, until he was able to secure a foothold and clamber over the top. To his surprise he saw no one, and without the least sign of fear he climbed up the short distance remaining to be traversed and appeared before the astonished eyes of the little group, who were even then discussing the noise they had heard a few moments before. "Hello, pards," he said, boldly approaching our friends. "Yer don't seem over'n above glad ter see me, but I'm here. Now, what's glad ter be done? Jain't a very revengeful sort o' a cuss or I'd ask yer what yer meant by trying ter squash me with a couple o' ton o' rock jest now." His impudence kept the others quiet for a moment, and then Tarbox stepped forward and said, sternly: "You are not wanted here. You were kicked out of Ladue's for stealing, and your present partner is a thief and would-be murderer. Where is he?" "I've parted company with the low-down skunk," was the ready reply, as Bowers threw into his voice an excellent assumption of indignation. "He owned up this mornin' that he'd stole them papers and dessert show his head here far fear the man what owned 'em might he pass us while we was off the trail. I told him ter git out an 'leave my company, and he's gone back ter Dyea. That's straight!" His manner was so carnest that he made an impression and was quick to notice it. Before anyone had time to reply he went on: "It's true I was kicked out o' Joe Ladue's, but I was drunk an' took some dust from a chap what was drunken'n I was. I had the craze fer licker on me an' didn't more n' half know what I was doin'. "Besides that," he continued, seeing that he was gaining ground, "I've got a good outfit down below here an' I don't ask no grub. I know you've struck it rich here an' here's the papers ter prove it. I took 'em from that Rider afore he started off. All I want is ter stay here an' make my pile. This is tree ground anyway, an' yer can' drive me off if I want ter stay. Even if yer did clean me out I could bring hundreds o' miners here in no time by telling what I know. What is it, pards, stay or light out for Dyea and fetch the crowd?" As he paused for a reply the others looked blankly at each other. He had spoken the truth. He had a perfect right to stay. They could not murder him, and to drive him away would be to give the news of their mine to the world. Both Tarbox and Taylor realized that they had but one course to pursue. The pay streak was so crooked and shallow that it would be necessary to go over a large piece of ground to follow it, and should their discovery leak out they would be confined to a claim apiece, where they now could pick and choose over the entire valley. Bowers watched them with an easy air as they spoke in low tones for a moment, for he knew well they could but decide one way. Presently Dick Taylor said, bluntly: "What you say is true in regard to this place. We don't want you, but we are obliged to have you. Get your stuff up out of sight. We will help you do that for our own sake. After that you will keep away from our camp and dig all you please." An hour later his outfit was in the valley, and as he busied himself putting up his tent he wore a self-satisfied expression that boded ill for the peace of the new upon whom he had forced himself so cleverly. But if Hank Bowers could have been present at a little conference that night he would not have congratulated himself so suddenly. He was a deep rascal, but he had different material to deal with than the sailor in whose company he had recently been. Dick Taylor was a very shrewd sort of a person, and while he had been forced to receive the stranger into his camp he was determined he should not remain there after they were ready to have him go. To get rid of him in a way that would keep his tongue sealed in regard to the gold they had found was the problem and he had thought of a way which he hoped might answer their purpose. That night he detailed his scheme to the others, and all agreed that it was the wisest course under the circumstances. What it was will develop later. "I don't believe a word about his breaking with that Rider," he added, when the whole ground had been gone over. "There's no doubt in my mind that they've put up some job between them. There's five of us, anyhow, and while he's in camp we must keep an eye open nights. We'll divide the time up, and it won't come hard. We will stay in this tent, of course, and we won't let him know but what we're all asleep. He won't do anything until we have a bigger pile than we've got now. Their plans being arranged, the little party separated for the night, but Avery shared the cave with his daughter, as he thought it safer. This was also the repository of some $10,000 worth of gold, which the two men had already taken from the spot. On the following morning work was commenced in earnest, and the plies of dirt began to melt away before the vigorous attacks of the men, while Hank Bowers dug manfully by himself as short distance away, apparently satisfied to take them at their word. He was an experienced miner, and his little pile of dust grew steadily. That night the result of their combined efforts was nearly $1,000, and from Scott could hardly be content to take the necessary time for sleep. It seemed to him that his fortune was already made. Three days of unremitting toil followed, the average being a little less than the first day. Then Avery said, as they were starting out the fourth morning: "Taylor, we are digging in the wrong place altogether." "The wrong place?" "Yes, that's what I said. I've waited to see how rich this dirt is and I am not satisfied. Don't you see, Dick, you have been digging here by a stream that runs now, but it isn't the stream that cut that big hole through the face of the cliff. That goes off in another direction altogether, you see. "Perhaps a hundred or a thousand years ago this stream wasn't running at all. Now, where must the bed of the stream have been that did cut its way through that rock? You can see it must have been over there on the other side of the ridge. I'll bet that old stream ran thousands of years before it dried up. It must have." "How do you know?" asked Tom, in wonder. "Because it would take that long to wear through the rock as it did. It was a bigger stream than this by a good deal. See those big stones scattered all around in its bed. It must have been a powerful stream to start them, and there they are everywhere." "By thunder, I believe you're right!" cried Taylor, excited. "I can see it now. I ought to have known it at first, but we struck good paying dirt on this side, and didn't prospect any further. Come on, let's try over there!" "Hold on a bit," replied Avery. "You're not headed for the best place." The others looked at him to see if he was joking, but his face was very earnest, and he went on: "It makes lots of difference where we dig. We may be surprised here any day and can't hope to keep this place to ourselves a great while. We don't want to waste a day. Just look at that bend where the round pebbles are collected. There was a strong eddy just there. Under the ridge of such a place is apt to be more gold than anywhere else. Let's try there first, and if we don't find gold I'm no prophet." His words carried conviction, and the party seized their shovels and hurried to the spot at once. They found it covered with shingle, the debris of centuries. Below was a little dirt, and then they struck a layer of gravel. Tom Scott was working with all his might. He had taken about a foot of gravel from the place about a yard square, when, as he drove his shovel down, it struck something which felt like a rock. A moment later he had laid bare a few inches of rough, shaly surface, just as the others also struck the same obstruction. "I guess I've struck bottom," he said ruefully. "We can't dig here." As he spoke he scrapped the surface of the rock under his feet carelessly with his shovel. Something yellow caught his eye, and, with a little exclamation of surprise, he dropped on his knees and brushed away the dirt about it. His heart seemed fairly to stand still as he grasped an oblong lump of dirt on the side of which his shovel had left a yellow scratch. As he lifted it its great weight told him the truth, and he sprang erect, shouting: "It's a nugget! It's a nugget!" "Let me see!" Avery's voice trembled as he held out his hand. "It's heavy as lead!" cried Tom, as he laid a jump of virgin gold, weighing nearly a pound, in the old miner's extended palm. "It's gold, my lad," said Avery, after one glance. "I knew I was making no mistake. We must take no more chances. Let each man stake out a claim along this old river bed before anyone arrives. We are all rich man." It seemed impossible to leave at that time, but the old miner's advice was good and they followed it, while Hank Bowers, who had not been aware of their discovery, soon understood that they were staking out claims formally, and proceeded to do likewise on his side of the ridge. When this had been accomplished, Avery said: "Now, we must each work on his own claim to hold it. A claim can't go idle 72 hours on Canadian soil without forfeiting it. Of course as long as we are alone here it doesn't matter, but at any moment some one may come. That chap over there might jump a claim if we didn't work it, and he would have the law behind him." THE RICHMOND PLANET. RICHMOND. VIRGINIA. As Tom had made the first discovery, he was given the claim nearest the cave, and including the hole he had started. Avery took the next, while Taylor, Tarbox and the second mate followed in the order named, and their combined holdings reached nearly to the woods. They found the gravel next the bedrock rich with the precious metal, and how they worked! They were saturated with perspiration, and their clothes plastered with dirt, but what cared they? It was like a grand tussle with Nature to wrest from her her choiceest treasure. They felt injured when the sun went down and they were forced to desist. At the earliest daylight they were up and at it again and day by day the golden store increased in the little cave. In this region the summer days are very long, and darkness lasts but a few hours, but it seemed to Tom that the days fairly flew. They ate their food on their claims, Clara Avery bringing it to each laborer, but spent much of her time near Tom, assisting him in washing when she had time to spare, and taking a woman's delight in watching his confusion when she was near. For she had long ago read his secret, and, while he had never uttered a word of love to her, his eyes told her far better than words that he would not always remain silent. And she? This is not a love story, but we may spare space to say that many little dainties found their way to the broad-shouldered young farmer which did not appear in the bill of fare for the others. The gold hunters had struck a bonanza in good truth, for they found that the old river must have run over a bed of solid rock which was only covered with a few feet of deposit. In some places the bed rock had been too smooth to hold the gold, and the labor was wasted, but in others they found it far beyond their wildest anticipations. Where the surface of the rock was rough they found little pockets filled with a coarse, free gold, interspersed with nuggets, some of them as large as a walnut. Tom was particularly fortunate in this regard, but they all kept their findings together and agreed to divide the sum total evenly. In this manner two weeks passed. They were not troubled by Bowers. Many little dainties found their way to the broad-shouldered farmer. who was apparently satisfied to wash away at the other side of the ridge. Whether he was doing well or not they had no means of telling. He was brought to their mind, however, by an accident. They had gone to their work as usual one morning, when Clara Avery suddenly appeared on her father's claim and said: "That man Bowers has just been up on the cliff. I never saw him there before, and I thought I'd tell you." "What was he doing?" asked her father, straightening up. "He seemed to be watching down on the plain," she replied. "After a minute or two he went back to his digging, and I heard him talking to himself." "All right," said her father. "Keep your eye on him. I guess we sized him up about right. We'll attend to him." The girl returned to the cave, but although she watched Bowers all day he appeared to be very intent upon his work, washing away as long as he could see that night. Supper was the only meal they all ate together, and when it was finished the friends held a short consultation, and made certain arrangements in the cave. When they were completed the tired men threw themselves on their beds of boughs and were soon sleep, with the exception of Avery, who, however, was stretched on his rude couch in the cave apparently in the same condition. CHAPTER XIII ROBBING THE CAVE. Hank Bowers had been keenly aware of what was going on about him. He had worked steadily at his elkim, and would have considered himself a lucky dog had he not seen the men opposite him carrying their findings to the cave each night in a heavy canvas bag, of which they had a large supply. "They're diggin' for me." This was his secret consolation and apparently it satisfied him. His plans bade fair to come out well if the sailor kept his word and returned. This was the only disturbing thought. It was the fear that his associate might fail him that induced him to delve with all his might in order that he might have gold of his own honestly if he could get it no other way. On the morning of the twelfth day he saw the others were all at their work before he made his way to the top of the cliff. Although he knew the young girl would see him, he did not suppose she would attach any particular importance to the matter. The sun was just showing above the horizon as he glanced sharply toward the distant bowler, where a man's figure stood out in plain sight. Even as he looked it disappeared. "He's got more sand than I thought," muttered Bowers as he made his way back to his claim and worked away with feverish energy. "I must risk it to-might or never!" He retired to his text as usual that night, but not to sleep. He had other work to do. As soon as he was satisfied the rest were asleep he made his way cautiously to the cleft in the rock which led to the plain below. On one shoulder he carried the results of his two weeks' labor in the shape of a weighty bag of gold, while in his hand was a rope ladder which he had fashioned at his leisure. To fasten the last to the top of the obstructing bowler was an easy task, aided by the light of a match, which could not be seen outside. Down the ladder he felt his way, and after some trouble reached the plain, where the starlight made the rest of the way comparatively easy. As he approached the rock he saw a dark figure hastening to meet him and a moment later Obed Rider stood before him, saying: "Is it you. Bowers?" "Yes, Rider, it's me an' yer a brick! Right on time!" "I got here yesterday. Sold the horses for $150 apiece and put the coin in a safe place there. Got three horses with me back here. What are you going to do?" "Git the hosses an' foiler me!" said Bowers, hurriedly. "I'll explain later en." Rider obeyed, and as they made their way across the plain he asked again what his companion intended to do. "All you've got ter do is ter wait where I put yer an' do as I tell yer, an' to-morrer you'll be a rich man," replied Bowers, mysteriously. When they reached the base of the cliff he fastened the animals securely and led the way into the narrow passage, saying: "Hold on to my coat. I isn't far." When they came to the rope ladder he struck a match and whispered: "Stay here till I come an' pass some thin' down ter yer. Take it out an' fasten it on the hoss an' come back. If yer hear eny shootin' come up an' gimme a hand!" Without waiting for Rider to reply he ascended the ladder, leaving the latter in the dark passage and in no enviable frame of mind. "Now for the gold," he muttered, as he crept silently toward the cave. It was a perfect night, and the stars overhead gave sufficient light to enable Bowers to see objects quite a distance away. He was obliged to move very carefully over the broken ground to avoid a fall, but he seemed entirely at home at this sort of work, avoiding rolling stones as if by instinct. In order to reach the cave he must pass close to the tents, and as he drew near them he redoubled his caution, for his only hope he of success lay in stealth. Nearer and nearer he crept until he could hear the heavy breathing of the occupants, and for fully five minutes he stood motionless, every sense on the alert. Apparently the entire party was asleep, and with noiseless step he stole past the two tents and fixed his eyes on the opening to the cave. Twice since his arrival he had managed to peep inside unobserved, and only that morning he had seen the pile of furious bags on the ground to the left. had also noticed that the bough blankets upon which Avery's daughter slept were on the opp. side. Now he was with feet of the entrance, and after a last swift glance at the tents behind him he dropped to his knees and crawled deliberately up to it. Again he paused. Yes, they were both asleep. He could hear the long-drawn breathing at the right, and plainly distinguish that of the father from his daughter. Then, like some huge black spider, he crawled into the inky darkness, and was lost to view. Inch by inch he advanced, guiding himself by the glimpses he had fixed in his mind of the place, until his hand rested on the treasure. The bags were heavy, and he moved them with difficulty in his recumbent position, but he had come prepared. Thrusting his hand into his bosom, he produced a short, thick thong, with which he fastened two of the largest together pausing often to be certain he had not disturbed the sleepers. When this was done he hung them over his neck in such a manner that they swung clear from the floor. His next move was to stuff two small bags into his shirt. Then, with infinite patience, he worked his way back to the door and through it. His breath came hard as he reached the open air, for the strain had been tremendous. Detection meant almost certain death, and even his iron nerve had not been proof against the situation. When he had some what recovered, he crept slowly by the tents, until satisfied that all immediate danger was past. Then he rose to his feet, and hurried down the bed of the old brook until he reached the top of the bowler. It was the work of a moment to fasten his plunder to a rope and lower it down, atthe same time whispering loudly to his confederate: "Are you there, Rider?" "Yes," came the answer. "What is all this?" "Gold, you fool!" hissed Bowers. "Lash it on one of the critters, quick!" For a moment he hesitated. Should he join his partner and make good his escape? Apparently cupidity won the day, for he began to retrace his steps toward the cave. His first success had made him more confident, and he was well aware that he had not secured half the bags he had just touched. Again he reached the entrance without noise and crawled to the spot where the gold was piled against the wall. This time he could only stuff two or three small bags inside his buckskin shirt and grip one in his teeth. He reached the open air safely and was just rising to his feet when Avery appeared in the mouth of the cave, revolver in hand, shouting: "Thieves! Thieves! Take that, you robber!" But before the words were fairly out of his mouth Bowers had dropped the bag which he had brought out in his teeth like a retriever and sprang away in full flight. Crack! Crack! He heard the bullets sing over his head. As he dashed by the tents a man darted out with suspicious promptitude and fired apparently pointblank at his back, but missed him. A few seconds more and he had reached the rocky cleft and darted out of sight. Down the rope ladder he screamed, then with great presence of mind he stopped long enough to jerk it free from the spur above so that it fell at his feet. Rider had not yet returned from his errand and Bowers felt his way rapidly along the passage until he emerged upon the plain. Running quickly to the horse, where Rider was at work, he cried: "Jump up! Jump lively an' let's git out o' this! Vamose!" He set the example by throwing himself on one of the horses and seizing the bridle of the one upon which Rider had been carefully securing the stolen gold. The latter needed no second invitation and a moment later they were hurrying the beasts along the back trail as rapid- ly as the poor light and the nature of the ground would permit. For fully two hours they made their way in silence except for an occasional oath from Bowers at the unevenness of the route, then, apparently reassured that they had made good their escape, he exclaimed: "This is the biggest night's work one man ever done in this 'cre country, Rider. I took long chances an' I won out! It was a great plant!" "How did you manage it?" asked Rider, eagerly. "Is it all gold in them bags?" "It ain't nothin' else!" With great pride he now narrated to his companion the whole villainous scheme, and then added, complacently: "All they've got ter do is ter dig out some more gold. There's plenty of it what they are. They hogged all the best claims, but I'm up ter them now!" "But they'll be after us, won't they?" asked Rider, fearfully. "They hain't got no hosses, hew they?" retorted Bowers. "Besides that, they dassent leave their claims fear some chap might jump 'em. It's a wonder nobody's struck that place afore." The two thieves did not draw rein until daylight. When the sun was fairly up they paused on the top of a hill commanding a view for a long distance of the route they had traversed, but there was no sign of pursuit. "I told yer so," said Bowers, triumphantly. "They can't chase us. Let's get some grub an' rest the hosses a bit. If we take 'em into Dyea in any kind o' shape they'll sell for a tidy figger." Their meal dispatched, they once more assured themselves that no one was in sight behind them, their mounted and headed for civilization, the bags of gold strapped securely on the spare animal's back and hidden from view by a blanket tied over them. That night they went into camp just before dark, and Bowers proceeded to unload their ill-gotten gains. The first bag he removed chanced to be the one he had himself filled in his two weeks of toil. As he lifted the second he noticed a very perceptible difference in the weight, although the two bags were of the same size. "That's d—n strange!" he growled. "They couldn't he washed their gold very clean." As he spoke he untied the second bag and thrust his hand within, then with a yell of rage and disappointment he dashed the bag to the ground and stamped upon it like an infuriated animal, when Rider stood agast, fearing the man had suddenly gone mad. With a bound Bowers sprang to the pack horse and seized another bag. One fierce slash of his knife rent it its entire length; and then Rider comprehended. Out of it dropped a mass of damp clay and gravel. Hank Bowers was silent while he laid open the rest of the bags. When he was certain that his own was the only one containing a particle of gold he burst forth in a torrent of blasphemy so terrible that even Rider trembled lest some retribution might instantly follow and include him in its wrath. "Sold! Took in like a tenderfoot!" raved his companion, kicking one of the bags in his fury. "What's that?" As he spoke he picked up a folded paper which had dropped from the bag. Tearing it open he read the following lines: "We were too smart for you. Remember that if we find you have given away our secret we will give an account of you to the Canadian police and have you driven out of the country. If you show yourself here we will fill you full of lead." As the reader is aware, there was no pursuit made after Rider and his companion. The whole matter had been arranged by Avery, who had seen a would-be robber deceived in a similar manner in his younger days. He had been awake through it all, and there had been no intention to shoot the thief. They had purposely aimed wide of the mark. When he had disappeared they all indulged in a hearty laugh at his discomfure when he should discover the fraud, then retired to rest with a feeling of relief at the success of their counter-plot. Freed from the necessity of watching Bowers, they now redoubled their labor, and for another fortnight they took only barely sufficient time ti sleep. They were constantly in dread lest some prospector should appear, but day after day passed and left them undisturbed. The unusual labor, however, began to tell on the older men, and one evening Dick Taylor declared, as he threw himself wearily down on his couch: "I'm about ready to quit. Let's reckon up how we stand." They had a very indefinite idea of their wealth, as they had made no calculation up to that time, devoting every moment to work. Now they watched eagerly as he produced his scales and began to estimate the weight of the numerous bags containing the result of their arduous toil. Bag after bag was laid aside in silence until the last had been weighed. Then after a rapid mental calculation the miner said: "Well, I make it that we've got about $150,000 worth now. That's about $300,000 apiece, and a very tidy month's work. But I'm tired. I haven't got a great many years to live and I confess I want to enjoy the rest of my days. We can sell our claims for a big pile any time, and I move that we do it "But who is to buy them?" asked Tom, while Avery merely nodded his approval of his friend's sentiments. Tom, while Avery merely nodded his approval of his friend's sentiments. "There'll be dozens of capitalists and speculators in Dyea by this time," replied Taylor. "We've got a good deal more here now than we want to carry out on our backs. I move that the rest of you keep on digging here and that I go to Dyea, and find out what kind of a trade I can make. Besides that, these claims must be registered before we can sell them." "I agree that is the right thing to do," agreed Avery. "We shall be rich enough, and I confess I am anxious to see these claims registered before we have any trouble over them. I think you'd better start right off, Dick. The season is very short, and it'll take some time to settle the whole thing up, even if you find some one right off who wants to buy." The others were of the same opinion, and it was soon decided that Dick Taylor should start the following morning for Dyea on his important mission, the rest delegating to him full power to dispose of their interests to the best advantage and to bring the would-be buyers back with him. Accordingly he started bright and early the next day, the little party watching him from the top of the cliff until he waved his hand at a turn in the trail and disappeared from view. With listless steps the party turned to their work, but the labor of the past few weeks seemed to make itself left all at once, now that their thoughts had been even temporarily turned toward civilization. They had been slaving like madmen each day, their minds intent on adding to their golden store, while at night they slept that sleep of utter exhaustion. Now that Taylor had diverted their minds for awhile from the incasent labor they returned to it almost unwillingly against the protest of their aching limbs. As they neared the claims Avery suddenly exclaimed: "I wonder if ridge is worth anything? I've been thinking lately that it may be where all this gold comes from. All these pieces of quartz we find in the bed of the river must have been washed from it thousands of years ago. Suppose we break up a few of the smaller pieces? If we find gold there we shall have something to sell and no mistake." They had no implements heavier than axes and found it slow work, but after an hour's disappointing labor, but after an hour's disappointing labor, the old miner gave a shout of triumph and stood erect, holding in his hand a piece of quartz about the size of an egg, the side of which was a bright yellow. It had the appearance of a honeycomb, the cells being filled to overflowing with gold. As the others gathered about him he exclaimed: "We've struck it! It's the richest vein I ever saw!" The heavy lump was passed from hand to hand for examination, and Avery said excitedly: "If Dick had only known this! This ledge is full of gold!" "Then I guess we'd better locate here," said a strange voice near the little group. With a start of surprise they turned to see two rough-looking miners who had approached them from the wooded side of the valley, their packs on their backs, and who were gazing at the treasure in Avery's hand with greedy eyes. For a moment our friends were too astonished to speak; then Tarbox H The old man gave a shout of triumph. stepped forward with extended hand, saying: "Hello, Mitchell! Where did you come from?" "Why, it's Joe Tarbox!" One of the strangers shook his hand warmly and then asked, eagerly: "What's the show here, Joe? That's a beauty nugget you have there?" "Are there any more of you?" said Tarbox. "No; Bill and I are all." "How did you happen to find us?" "Saw your smoke last night before dark. We thought it must be somebody out prospecting, and so we took a look over this way this morning. Struck it rich?" "Yes; we've been here all winter. You see where our claims are staked out. Dick Taylor has gone to register them. Better stake out before anyone else comes. I guess you'll find plenty of room above us. I don't mind telling you we've made our pile here, Bill. We've just found that this quartz ledge is a nine of wealth. See that your claims take in a slice of it." Before the words were fairly out of his mouth the two men were tearing up the valley like madmen, and before long they had staked out their claims, and were hard at work, bent on the one all-absorbing quest for which they had braved the rigors of an artic winter, thus far without success. Half an hour later they had scraped away the soil and moss, and sampled the rich gravel just above the lightly covered bed rock. The first pan of gravel was washed out, and a moment later the man Tarbox had accosted as Bill came running up, with a beaming face, crying: "God bless you, Tarbox, for giving us a straight tip! Look at this! We'll be rich in no time! Look!" The perspiration was dripping from his face, his clothes were torn and full of mud, but what reckoned he of such things? In the pan he held joyously forth was a little heap of coarse gold, which was worth fully $200. Then, as if remembering that he was wasting time, he turned on his heel and dashed back again like a schoolboy, throwing his arms about his partner and hugging him in the excess of his joy. Then, actuated by one common impulse, the two men gave a wolfish yell of exultation, and fell to work once more, tearing out the moss and soil with desperate energy. They had reached the goal for which they had left home and dear ones, and, with superhuman strength, they went at the work of digging and washing, unmindful of all else. Meanwhile Tom and his friends had returned to their digging. With their crude implements it would be a waste of time to attack the ledge, and they determined to stick to the gravel until Taylor returned. They had only dug up a very small part of their claims as yet. The following day Tarbox saw a thin column of smoke several miles away, and said to Avery: "There's more of them coming." "They may not be coming here," replied the old miner. "Yes, they are," was the confident rejoinder. "These two men saw our fire and followed it up. That party off there probably has been following their smoke, and so it goes. When one crow finds anything to eat, you know, others soon follow. The only wonder is that we have kept the place to ourselves so long. There'll be a hundred men here in a fortnight and a thousand in a month." About sundown that night a party of four miners appeared from the woods, and after a few words with the latest comers staked off claims and went into camp. Day by day they continued to arrive, but as yet there was room for all. There was no rush, because all who came found gold so plenty that they remained, and at the end of three weeks there were not over threescore men on the ground. It was now time for Dick Taylor to return, and our friends began to be anxious about him. Their fears were groundless, however, for one afternoon he made his appearance, mounted on a horse and leading half a dozen others. With him were two well-dressed strangers, who looked keenly about them as they rode down the valley. After greeting his friends, he introduced the strangers to the party and said: "I have brought these gentlemen out to look at our claims. They represent a syndicate of rich capitalists." He then pointed out the exact location of the claims, after which he took the men to the cave and showed them the bags of gold. "We want to sell out the whole business," he said, bluntly. "There's what we have taken out. We haven't begun to dig one-quarter of the claims. Take a look round and make us an offer." "Wait a moment," said Avery, stepping forward with the piece of quartz they had split open. "See here, Dick, we took this out of that ledge the day you went away. Let them look at it before they make any offer." "Let me see that!" exclaimed one of the men, quickly, extending his hand. "You found that here?" "Come and I'll show you the spot." They followed him in silence and the younger man produced a small hammer with which he chipped off a piece of the rock and examined it closely. Then he gave the other a look which was not lost on our friends and said, with an affectation of carelessness: "There may be paying quartz here and may not. It would cost a fortune to get machinery here and find out." But he was not dealing with ignorant men, as he soon found out, for Taylor remarked, quietly: "That specimen doesn't lie. That ledge of quartz is where all this gold we've been digging came from. It's worth a million to-day. Now, gentlemen, I have no time to waste haggling over the matter. We are no hogs, but you mustn't take us for greenhorns. We've done well here and want to get out. Make us an offer to-morrow. We will give you until to-morrow night to look around and see what you are buying." His friends gave a prompt assent to this proposition, and the two capitalists had no choice but to acquiesce as gracefully as possible. The following noon they came to Dick Tayor and offered him $50,000 for the five claims. He laughed and replied: "Do you think we are foolish? They are worth five times that amount." An hour later they offered $75,000 and An hour later they offered $75,000 and were refused. Seeing that he was determined, the elder man said: "We are only authorized to expend $100,000. Will you take that?" After a short consultation the offer was accepted and preparations were at once commenced for the journey to Dycea, where the formal transfer was to be made. The younger of the buyers was to remain at the spot to look after; the claims while the other would go to Dycea with them. The following morning they loaded their wealth on the horses and started for civilization. (TO BE CONTINUED.) The little girl was describing a football game. "There was a lot of men fightin' over a yeller squash," she said, "but I don't know which of 'em got it"—Chicago Tribune. Through the Eyes of a Child. Harry was visiting in the country and, seeing some feathers scattered in the poultry yard, he said: "Grandma, can't you do something to keep your hens from unraveling?"—Chicago News. Fansy-But't ink how it'll swell de boards in de fence--Judge. THE PLANET Opened every Saturday by JOHN S. KENNEDY at 311 North 4th Street Richmond, Va. 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He labors under the impression that we have been apologizing for the lynchers, the "white cappers," "white leagons" etc., when as a matter of fact, we have bitterly opposed them and their sympathizers. On the other hand, we have commended the liberal minded white men who were opposed to such lawless organizations and who were using their best efforts to wipe out such outrageous practices as have disgraced this section for nearly half a century. No one can cite an utterance, or specify a line emanating from the writer that gave the shadow of an excuse for the charge that we have been condoning crime or apologizing for the murderers who committed it. We are looking for results and it matters little to us whether the white man who saves a Negro's life is an adjurer of the race or simply an advocate of justice. If we are to expect the majority of white people of the Southland to suddenly become humanitarians and Negro-lovers, we deceive ourselves. They may be willing to deal out fair-play and mete justice to a Negro while on the other hand, they would be equally desirous of placing the length of aside-walk between themselves and the beneficiary of their efforts. The question then is, should we condemn all of the white people in the southern states because the majority of thera either commit or condone outrages upon colored people? Rev. Dr. Johnson in his previous communication virtually answers, "Yes," asking who are the good white people of this section, and where may he expect to find them? We answered, No and cited the fact that this was the very policy that the Negro-haters had adopted in dealing with us. Should those white people who condemn crime in all of its forms, including those outrages against the Negroes be commended for their efforts? Should they be encouraged when they adopt drastic measures to punish the lynchers, "white cappers" and "white leaguers" and be encouraged in their crusades against them? We answer, Yes. Rev. Dr. JOHNSON answers, "No." Rev. Dr. JOHNSON calls upon the good white people of the South to put down the lawless practices in their section, and when they do so, he criticizes the man who commends them for so doing. He then proceeds to argue in a circle with the point of discussion in the centre of the same. The result is that he is no nearer a conclusion at the finish than he was at the start. In plain words, the matter lugged in by him is not germane to the question at issue. As examples of this, What has the assertion that there is no real, true Republican form of government in the South to do with the question of the propriety of commending southern white men, who condemn outrage upon the Negroes and are taking steps to punish the white Negro haters engaged in such unholly practices? What has the question of a Negro being a citizen of the United States and accordingly a citizen of a state to do with the question of commending southern white men, who condemn outrages upon Negroes and are taking steps to punish the white Negro haters who are engaged in such unholly practices? What has the sending of troops by President HAYES and President CLEVELAND to Baltimore and Pittsburgh and to Chicago to do with the question of commending southern white men, who condemn outrages upon Negroes and are taking steps to punish the white Negro haters, who engage in such unholly practices? What has the moral duty of the governors of "such states" and "the duty of the national government to step in" to do with the question of commending southern white men, who condemn outrages upon Negroes and are taking steps to punish the white Negro haters who are engaged in such unlawful practices? What has the application of the great moral precedent of St. Luke—"Whatsoever ye would men should do to you, do ye even so to them," to the mayors of cities, judges of the courts, Governors of states, the white pulpits and churches and Sunday-Schools that dismiss and attend lynchings to do with the question of commending southern white men, who condemn outrages upon the Negroes and are taking steps to punish the white Negro-haters, engaged in such unlawful practices? Rev. Dr. Johnson gives his case away when he says: "You refer to certain persons constituting that 'unconstitutional Constitutional Convention' as protesting against it. Yes, and I have not a word of condemnation of them, but rather of praise. ****" Is it possible that this distinguished Church-man cannot see that he is here doing the very thing for which he condemned us? If then he concedes this point; namely—the right to commend those white Southerners, who oppose outrages upon Negroes and are taking steps to punish the guilty parties,—the discussion is at an end. The utterances concerning Gov. A. J. MONTAGUE in his protection of HENRY WILLIAMS at Roanoke, Va., by the use of a regiment of soldiers is past our comprehension. In one portion of his communication, he demands that the Governors put down the mob, and in this portion of it withholds commendation from a Governor, who did put down the mob. Such inconsistencies, my dear Doctor would tend to injure the cause of any people and make a race practicing them the Laughing stock of the civilized world. But in the words of Speaker CANNON and in keeping with the communications o' Dr. JOHNSON, "Let as ramble for awhile." The learned Doctor cities the law and gives us a dissertation upon. the Constitution of the United States, apparently oblivious of the fact that the Supreme Court of the United States, located in Washington, not in Virginia, has without an act of Congress, virtually nullified both the 14th and 15th Amendments. It is as absolutely impossible to get it to render a decision with reference to the merits of the unconstitutional constitution of a southern state as it is to make a horse drunk when he doesn't want to do so. The sections of the law quoted are so far as their enforcement is concerned as "sounding brass and tinkling cymbals." Dr. Johnson says that he made the point that if the states could not control the mobs, they should appeal to the United States authorities. No one denies that. But certain southern states are controlling the mobs when they get the notices in time to do so. Because we commend the Governors and officials for doing these things, Rev. Dr. Johnson criticizes us and says harsh things about our attitude upon this question. He condenns the officials for not protecting Negroes from the lynchers, and then condemns us for commending those officials who are protecting Negroes from the lynchers. JUDGE WILKINSON of Lincoln county, Mississippi has just passed sentences on the following white Negro haters and here is the record: "Franklin, Oscar, life imprisonment for the murder of Eli Wilson, a Negro, Franklin, William, 50 years in prison for manslaughter, for killing Henry List, a Negro. Gill, Elbert, 50 years in prison, for killing Helen List, a Negro. McNulty, John, Negro, convicted of murder; life sentence. Posey, David, found guilty of killing Ben Bayless, a Negro; 25 years in prison. Posey, Sam, 10 years for highway robbery and 5 years each on two white-capping charges—a total of 20 years in prison. Smith, D W., 50 years in prison for manslaughter in killing Henry List, a Negro. Smith, Elias, 50 years in prison for killing Henry List, a Negro. Smith, R. L., 50 years in prison for killing Helen Lista. Negro. first Negro. Smith, John, Negro, convicted of murder; life sentence. Troy, J. A. P., Negro, convicted of burglary; 1 year in prison." Rev. Dr Johnson thinks we should not commend him for so doing. We cannot understand the logic in such reasoning. As to the national government, we cited case after case, where the appeals made THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA to it had been either ignored or flatly refused. Rev. Dr. Johnson cannot name an instance during a period of thirty years where a President of the United States either Democratic or Republican has ever sent troops into a southern state to uphold the law, although he names two instances, where it was done in northern ones. President CLEVELAND's excuse was that troops were sent into Illinois to protect inter-state commerce and to prevent an interference with the United States mails. According to this ruling, he would only have sent troops into a southern state provided similar conditions existed there. Rev. Dr. Johnson holds one thing and President McKinley held another, noticeably so in the case of North Carolina. Dr. Johnson holds one thing and President Roosevelt holds another, noticeably so in the case of Colorado. We do not disagree with the distinguished church-man with reference to the duty of the national government to protect its citizens at home as well as abroad, but we call attention to the fact that it has signally failed to do so. The moral precedent we quote applies to all, the North as well as South, the East as well as West, the oppressed as well as the oppressor. In our opinion Dr. Johnson loses sight of the question at issue; namely, the propriety of commending those white men of the Southland, who are opposed to all of the horrors that we abhor and are taking radical steps to suppress them. We concede that the "best people" of the South are in the minority, but we are told that the Good Book teaches that God and one in the right, constitute a majority. If this be true, Rev. Dr. Johnson then, the time indeed is at hand to be hopeful for in the mist of the morning we see the day breaking and in but a little while its full effulgence and splendor will be seen in the heavens. We are opposed to the Negro-hating, lawless white elements of the Southland. We are in favor of the justice-loving, law abiding white elements of this same section, Dr. Johnson errs greatly when he presumes, that the "Jim Crow Car" law was a measure unanimously concurred in. It was opposed by the liberal minded white men. Sitting in the rooms of a railroad, which has adopted the innovation, we were told by the President of the corporation that he had always doubted the wisdom of the division and opposed its adoption by the company. In the case of the Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia with reference to the Virginia unconstitutional Constitution, it learned a lesson from the United States Supreme Court at Washington, refusing to assume jurisdiction and thus ridding itself of the trouble of passing upon the case upon its merits. Rev. Dr. Johnson must know that a creature is not presumed to be equal to, much less greater than its creator. The Constitutional Convention is the Creator of the Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia, and is accordingly not subject to its decrees, or a review of its procedures. There are but two powers greater than a Constitutional Convention. One is the people of this state, who created it, and the other is the Federal or National Government as represented by the Supreme Court of the United States at Washington. The former cannot act save by the convening of another Constitutional Convention or by revolution. The case was made up by the citizens of color of this state and an appeal made to that august tribunal at Washington as provided for by our laws. It was dismissed virtually by a wave of the hand. In conclusion, we beg Rev. Dr. Johnson to note the following facts: The Federal Government failed to punish the lynchers of Postmaster RAKER at Lake City, South Carolina ar.² finally placed a white postmaster in charge of the mails there. It failed to protect the Negroes of Wilmington, N. C. It failed to declare unconstitutional the unconstitutional constitutions of Mississippi, Louisiana, Alabama and Virginia. It failed to accord aid to the white Republicans of Kentucky. It failed to respond to an official order for troops when made by the Governor of Colorado, when he declared that the state troops under his charge were inadequate. It declared the Sunner Civil Rights Bill unconstitutional. It legalized the "Jim Crow" Car law in the southern states, noticeably so in the Kentucky case. It made it possible for colored people of respectability and money to be barred from the Pallman Palace Cars throughout the Southland. It has played "fast and loose" rendering a decision in one case, specifying what should be done, and when this was done, it proceeded to either ignore the case altogether or to "put it to sleep" for such a length of time that both plaintiff and counsel grew gray from waiting and became incapacitated from such a long season of sitting down. The Supreme Court would send us to Congress and Congress would send us back to the Supreme Court. Even now the referee system is in vogue throughout the Southland and the President has ignored party organizations, appointing outright Democrats to office without consulting either the white or colored leaders in the Southern states. Mr. J. E. B. STUART, son of the great Confederate cavalry general of the same name, whose fame rests upon his ability to kill Yankees has just been appointed to the position of United States Marshall, vice Mr. MORGAN TREAT, a Repub lican of northern birth, but whose residence here has been of many years standing. With no disrespect to him we beg leave to state that Mr. Stuart hasn't been in the Republican Party long enough, and the seat of his political breches are as yet in front. It is stated that he has managed to cast just two Republican ballots and one of these was in a municipal election. In the meantime, there is Mr. Otis H. Russell and young Mr. EDGAR ALLAN, Republicans of life long standing whose mouths may have been watering for the same job. His appointment will not affect us. He comes of, the old F. F. V. stock and was no doubt nursed by a Negro mammy. We paused to remark that there is also an inside history to the Dr. CRUM case. If then the Supreme Court of the United States, the Congress of the United States and lastly the Republican President of the United States have shown their adoration and affection for the white southowners, why should we not be permitted to throw a few bouquets upon the deserving ones of the same persuasion? If then he assumes to himself to honor Democrats with the emoluments of office, certainly we have the right to shower upon them the "emoluments" of praise. But sir, "The day will yet break; the shadows will yet flee away." In the ornushing of coming years, we shall have the satisfaction of knowing that we have pursued a course permeated with ardor, tinged with conservatism, but made up of justice, equal and exact to all men. We recognize the difficulties with which the justice-loving, liberal minded southerner has to contend and in the exercise of our common sense and display of good judgment shall do nothing to handicap him in his efforts to attain the ideal that his heart proclaims. From the catacombs of the past and the sweep of the ages come the words of the Master told with touching simplicity and heavenly sweetness by the silvery toned prophet, St. Matthew, now dead and gone, as electrifying now and as applicable to day as when they were first uttered, though treasured within the pages of the Good Book admitted to be the greatest in all the world. "When it is evening, ye say, it will be fair weather; for the sky is red. And in the morning, it will be foul weather to-day; for the sky is red and lowrining. * * * * * , ye can discern the face of the sky, but can ye not discern the signs of the times?" CHARGES AGAINST TALI COLLAPSE Presentment Will be Withdrawn Owing to Denial of Signers. MAY MAKE NEW CHARGES Philadelphia, Jan. 3.—The developments in the controversy between the Rev. Dr. I. N. W. Irvine, the deposed priest of the Episcopal church, and Bishop Talbot, of the diocese of Central Pennsylvania, indicate that the case of Dr. Irvine against the bishop has entirely collapsed. J. Frederick Jenkinson, of Philadelphia, associate counsel with Herbert Noble, of New York, for the presenters, is said to be on his way to St. Louis with a statement for Bishop Tuttle, presiding bishop of the Episcopal church, asking leave to withdraw the presentment against Bishop Talbot and requesting permission to make a new presentment. The vestrymen of Huntingdon, Pa., whose names appear on the presentment, announced their intention of forwarding a formal statement to Dr. W. B. Bodine, chairman of the board of inquiry appointed by Bishop Tuttle, demanding the withdrawal of their signatures from the presentment on the ground that the signatures were procured through irregular methods. Attorney Noble returned here from New York and was closed with Dr. Irvine, Attorney Jackson, the Rev. Benjamin I. Odell, the Rev. Dr. W. F. Noble a brother of the senior counsel, and other presenters. Later a messenger was sent to the Pennsylvania Railroad station, and he returned with a ticket for St. Louis, which was sent to the room occupied by the conferences. When the conference came to an end the first man to leave the room was Dr. Irvine. He was immediately surrounded by a group of newspaper reporters, who had been in waiting during the greater part of the day, but he begged them to refrain from asking any questions. Finding it impossible to secure any information from the deposed priest regarding the proceedings at the conference, the reporters endeavored to prevail upon him to make a statement concerning the published letter he is said to have written to a clergyman in Hartford, Conn., in which he said that he is in straightened circumstances. "For God's sake, gentlemen, do not ask me any questions," was his only reply. When Attorney Jenkinson came out he went directly to the Peansylvania Railroad station, where it is presumed he took a train for St. Louis. He would not answer questions. It was the same with Herbert Noble and his brother, the Rev. Dr. Noble. It is understood that Herbert Noble intends to remain here until the return of Mr. Jenkinson. Mrs. Edwards' Last Hope Gone. Reading, Pa., Dec. 31.—The board of prison inspectors at its meeting unanimously refused to join in a petition to the board of pardons to reopen the case of Mrs. Kate Edwards, with a view of securing life imprisonment for her. Yesterday the sheriff received the death warrants of Samuel Greason, colored, and Mrs. Edwards, and they were read to the con- CA BOPP A NEW BOOK! PIANO PLAYING SELF-TAUGHT BY THEODORE DRUBY Simple and easy method. How to use the Fingers, Wrists and Arms. How to phrase. How to play accompaniments. 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Dr. Carlos Martyn, of New York, has been arrested on a charge of grand larceny in connection with the tangled affairs of the defunct Abbey Press. THE PLANET SATURDAY...JANUARY 7.1905 I'm a very handsome fellow, I would have you understand. For I’m tall and have a chest of ample girth. For I’m stalwart are my shoulders and in general I’m planned. With all the more qualities of worth. I am brave and bold and daring; my honor is as gold; As a lover, no one ever undertook To suggest the least improvement in my making, for behold. I'm the hero in the modern story book! Still this business, like most others, has its hardships more or less. For many things I’d differently do. If I had my way about it; and the heroine, I is troubled by the same restrictions, too. When I offer her my heart and, on page one twenty-three, She spurns me and such treatment I must brook. For she’d like right well to take me if she could, but where would be The story in the modern story book? There are dangers all about me, of the most appalling kind; But not the least degree of fear have I; For, thrilling deeds of valor to effect, I am And, by the merest chance, omit to die. If you should do such things as I, don't count upon success. This bit of truth you must not overlook. It's never safe to be so fearless and so brave unless You're the hero in the modern story book! ROBERT B. BEACH, in Chicago Record-Herald. IN A FOOL'S PARADISE BY EDITH WILSON WHISTLE blew. The train pulled out. A man arranged his golf clubs and his glasses to his satisfaction, and then glanced at the passenger at the other end of the carriage. He hesitated for the brief space of one second, and then rushed on to tamper with fate. "Miss Bruce! Why, how do you do?" "How do you do, Lord Lughton?" "This is jolly enough, to be sure! How do you come to be here?" "How do I come to be in this particular compartment—is that what you mean?" "Clever, aren't you?" "No, not clever. Remember, I'm traveling first class! They say that only lords and fools do that! You're the lord in this case. Perhaps I'm the fool!" "What's wrong now?" "Everything!" "Well, please refrain from calling yourself unpleasant names, at any rate!" "Unpleasant names! Think of the name I carry about with me from one year's end to another! Rebecca Bruce! Can you imagine anything more trying than that?" "Trying? For my part, I think Rebecca charming. Excuse me—nothing personal, really! As for Bruce, that name appeals to me. Whenever I hear it, I think of the gentleman of history who toyed with the spider, don't you know! He, I believe, had a bald head. So have I and—" "Lord Lupton, you're making fun of me! It isn't my fault that my name's Rebecca Bruce." "It is!" "Oh, you surely—" "Exactly! I don't forget that you've refused me twice already. If you don't like your name, why don't you Janner "IT ISN'T MY FAULT." change it? Change it for mine!" "Let us talk of something else—please!" "Very well. But think it over. I see your ticket's for Ascot. I'm going on to the links. Let me know your answer, for the last time, before you get off. I shall never ask you for one again." "Give me a week to consider it." "No. You've had plenty of time to consider it. Now, what shall we talk about? We've just 17 minutes left." "How's your sister?" "Flourishing, thanks. By the way, she and Todd have just straightened things up." "What—are they—engaged?" What are they engaged? "Yes. The announcement's to be made soon. He's an awful decent chap. Don't know of anyone else I'd rather see Madge marry." The girl leaned back in her upholstered chair. A guard sang lustily: "Next station, Ascot! Lord Lugton sat gazing out at the scenery, and in an off-hand questioning way said: "Well?" The magazine that Rebecca Bruce had been reading when he entered the carriage tumbled from her dainty-gloved hand to the floor. . . Half an hour later a man picked up, and discovered between its pages a bunch of withered violets. He glanced about to see that no one was looking, and then he placed the flowers in an inside pocket. His name was Todd. He was leaving the golf club for Ascot. As the train moved out he saw his future brother-in-law speding toward the links as if gliding on air. He was thinking of Lord Lugton's reply when he, Todd, had wished the other "juck in the afternoon's match." Lugton had said: "Thanks, old boy! See you later. I'm in a paradise 6ft for the gods!" Todd wondered what he meant. He was soon to know. Afterwards he wondered how it was that he had not understood. The races had commenced when he reached his destination. He was just in time to get a lift on a friend's drag. The friend happened to be a cousin of Miss Rebecca Bruce. The first thing he said, after they had settled in their respective places, was: "Heard the news, Todd? Becky's engaged to Lughenton!" Todd had not heard. He smiled half ironically as Becky's cousin went on: "Lughenton's an awful good sort! I'm tickled to death about it! You know Becky's life hasn't been a bed of roses, and she is such a little trump! I'm awfully fond of Becky!" The man understood the young fellow's enthusiasm. No, life had certainly not been a bed of roses for the girl who was to make the most brilliant match of the season. Todd knew that. The poverty-stricken man smothered a sigh as he turned to his companion and asked: "Is she here, now?" "Yes, she's with my mother, over there. I promised to take her for a turn and get her away from the crowd. She's tired. By the way, Todd, she has to go back to town to night—on that 'Special.' You're taking it, too, aren't you?" "Yes." "Will you look after her on the way up?" "With pleasure." "Thanks, old man. I don't believe she's well, but she says she's all right, and—I suppose she ought to know." "Yes, she ought to know." Todd thought of the violets, and put his hand in his pocket to assure himself of their safety. They were there. The Ascot "Special" was nearing Waterloo as a girl tossed a bunch of withered violets to the winds, and then turned to the man sitting opposite her. "It is better that they should go with all the rest, Rex!" "Yes, perhaps so, Becky. Strange that I should have found them. I recognized them at once as being those I had sent you." "Should you have sent them, Rex?" "Why not? It was for the last time, Becky! Do you remember how we used to build castles in the air, and talk of the violets and roses we should have when—" "Don't, Rex. It was not to be. We are both poor. We have nothing. I am grateful to the man who has been loyal to me through everything. I mean to be loyal to him from this time forth for evermore!" "You think that I might have given up my profession, given up everything—oh, Becky, I'll do that now, if you say the word!" But the girl was not listening. She was thinking of the woman Rex Todd was going to marry. The wait on: "Becky, we nearly there. For the ast half hour, we have talked of what night have it?" "We have, I am sorry. Let us talk now what is to be!" "Becky, I can't give you up!" "Stop, Rex! Will you make me regret that my cousin sent me back—your are?" "I see. It's all over. Becky, for the sake of Auld Lang Syne, tell me, is there anything I can do to please you after this?" "Yes. Be good to Madge. You're lucky to have won her." Some one met them on the platform and called out: "Hello, good people, where've you seen—to the races?" The girl smiled and answered: "Yes." The man touched his hat, glanced back at an empty railway carriage, and muttered: "Been in a fool's paradise!"—Lady's Realm. A Royal Treasure House. The plate-room at Mariborough house contains what is probably the most valuable collection of treasures in any private house in England. The room is underground and is lighted by electricity, the walls being lined by bookcases containing many rare volumes presented to King Edward and the prince of Wales from time to time, forming a very valuable library. In big iron safes in the center of the room is stared away a wonderful collection of gold and silver plate, including two enormous silver pilgrim bottles presented by Alexander III. of Russia to King Edward, and a priceless solid gold embosed shield, which was a present to the sovereign from a number of Indian princes. Freckle-Minded Was Frank John G. Carlisle has discovered in Setauket, L. I., a man with a new attribute. Mr. Carlisle spends his summers there and takes a more or less active interest in the farming operations, "No," said the head farm hand to Mr. Carlisle, in discussing the hiring of a new man. "I wouldn't bother to take on Frank. He wouldn't suit." "Why not?" "Well, because you couldn't place no dependence on his stickin' to the job. He's such a freckle-minded cuss he never stays at any one string." Judge John N. Dalby has been teacher of the juvenile class at the Sunday school of the First Christian church at Sedalla, Mo., for 30 years. THE RICHMOND PLANET. MARIA,THE BUXOM HOTEL RUNNER WOMAN WHO HUSTLES FOR HOSTELRY IN WESTERN TOWN. MASCULINE-FEMININE ATTIRE Does a Man's Work Because She Likes It, and Is Respected by Other Women of the Place. Des Moines, Ia.—Travelers alighting from trains at the station in the little town of Baldwin are approached by a person of huge bulk wearing a man's hair or cap, stout cowhide boots or shoes such as are commonly worn by a working man, and a dress of cheap material falling scarce to the ankle and belted at the waist with a bit of rope or leather. They are promptly relieved of their grips, hustled into an omnibus and driven to the hotel up on the main street. On their arrival they are as unceremoniously hurried out of the omnibus and into the hotel by the person of the huge bulk and asked to pay their fares Maria is the Christian name of the hotel runner and omnibus driver. Perhaps not elsewhere in the wide world is to be met another person resembling her in physical aspect, dress and habits. She weighs about 450 pounds, has the strength of a half dozen woman, and has no unexercised herself by dress, habits and associations that the stranger at first glance gets the impression that he be holds a man and has difficulty in getting rid of his first impression. Maria has a strange history. Her parents when she was a child lived near Cilatien, Ia., and were in comfortable circumstances. Her mother was a woman of large frame, and her father was very small. In time the mother took on flesh until she weighed 500 pounds or thereabouts, while the father lost flesh until he weighed less than 100 pounds. P. T. Barnum heard of the couple and engaged their services. They were exhibited in his "greatest show on earth" as the fat woman and the lean man, and attracted much attention. While her parents were with the show Maria, the daughter, was left to shift for herself. She had a dislike for the work of a woman and liked the work of a man. In time the young woman drifted to Baldwin, and there obtained work as hostler in a livery stable. She loved horses passionately, and handled them with skill as well as kindness. When she went to work in the stable she made up her mind that it was impracticable to wear feminine attire, and CITY HOTEL BUS MARIA HUSTLES FOR BUSINESS. declared that she was going to wear masculine dress. Her employer argued that it would excite scandal, so she compromised by wearing a man's headgear and footwear and a woman's dress, and these she has worn ever since. For a time Maria curried, fed and took care of the horses in the stable, but by and by her work broadened to include the driving of traveling salesmen to neighboring towns with their samples. Every drummer who went to Baldwin came to know her. Later she began to drive the omnibus to and from the railway station. During the years Maria has worked in the stable and driven the omnibus she has been regarded as a man rather than a woman and treated as such. She smokes a pipe and cigars, chews plug tobacco, plays cards, pool and billiards, and takes a drink when a male friend asks her to. She looks like a man, or would if she did not wear a dress. She wears her brown hair cropped close, her hands are broad and work worn, and her voice is decidedly masculine. Every traveling man who goes to Baldwin likes and respects Maria, and so do the people of the town. The women often invite her to their homes. Occasionally she goes, but she prefers the stable, the hotel office or the billiard room to a parlor. London. Among the hundreds of mayors who have been elected in England is one who attracted considerable attention by a singular offer. The mayor of Huddersfield in returning thanks for his election said his desire was especially to have babies in the community. He would give the parents of every baby born in his native place, Longswood, during his year of office a promissory note for one pound sterling, to be paid when the baby reached the age of one year, together with a card bearing simple, homely directions for the welfare of the chid. He hoped that the offer would arouse in a certain measure attention to the question of infantile mortality, upon which the public conscience is now well nigh dead. Pittsburg, Pa.—Wilhelmina Masur, aged 50 years, wife of John Masur, one of the oldest newspaper men of Pittsburg, has been stamped to death by a bull in the stable of their home in Allegheny. The animal was raised by Mrs. Masur. It had been kept in the barn and she was about to replace the chain on its neck when she was trampled down and killed. Benus for Every Baby Bull Kills Woman ICHMOND, VIRGINIA. RATTLER A MESSENGER TO SEMINOLE TRIBE. Indians Say the Reptile Has Figured Prominently in Their History. Muskogee, I. T.—Consternation was created among the members of the Seminole council at Wewoka when a large ratlesnake glided into the tent where the assemblage was being addressed by the attorney of the nation, Capt. A. J. McKennon. Capt. McKennon was about to kill the snake, when one of the councilmen stopped him, explaining in broken English: "Him rattlesnake; he come to Seminole Council; no other snake do that. He sent by Great Spirit. He go south; that mean Mexico. We must all go Mexico soon." The captain was told that the rattlesnake had long been a messenger to the Seminole tribe from the Great Spirit. They told him that just before their fight with Jackson in the south, many moons ago, a great rattlesnake crawled from the bank of a lake and came into camp. The medicine men assembled and told the members of the tribe that great trouble was about to come upon them. They would have a great fight, and, as the snake went west, they said a part of the tribe would be driven west. The Indians said that the rattlesnake had been looked upon as a messenger ever since. Capt. McKennon apologized for attempting to kill the messenger from the Great Spirit, and appeased the anger of the council by giving the members a box of cigars. Holden, Mass.—Residents of this quiet little town, startled by smoke pouring through the ground from the top of a tomb in the old cemetery, found Pennyman Damon seated beside a small fire in the center of the receptacle for the dead. Citizens remonstrated with him, only to be politely told to mind their own business. Damon said the tomb belonged to his family and he had a right to it, "seeing as how they rest'er my kin's dead and laid away," as he expressed it. He insisted that it was warm, comfortable, and large enough, and saved paying rent. He is credited with being wealthy. Sour Lake, Tex.—A seven-year-old boy was bitten by a fierce dog while he was at play. A neighbor applied caustic to the lacerations, but the mother is fearful that the dog was suffering from hydrophobia. The same dog has bitten three other children and several dumb animals in the past three days. Those who claim to know this particular dog tell it as a fact that it is a drunkard. It is said that the canine gets beer from kegs and that he watches his chances at first one saloon and then another with as much precision as would a Bowery drunkard. Popleigh—My wife has a book in which she records all the bright things our baby gets off. Smithkins—Why, I had no idea the little fellow was old enough for that sort of thing. Popleigh—Oh, yes. He repeats everything he hears me say.—Chicago News. And He Rapped for Order. "Oh," sneered the self-important lawyer who was cross-examining. "You think you know it all, don't you?" "Not quite," replied the witness. "For instance, I don't know how you manage to secure an occasional client."—Kansas City Star. A FEW MINUTES TALK TO INVESTORS. UNITED AID INSURANCE COMPANY. Incorporated Under the Laws of the State of Virginia 1894. In order to place our business in OTHER cities and towns, we will make a special offer to those who WANT to invest and will write us. 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The corporation has paid dividends of 10 per-cent. It has declared within the last few days a dividend of the same percentage. The corporation has no bonded debts, and its stock when fully paid is not assessable. All shares become dividend bearing from date of final payment. Dividends are payable July in each year. We want reliable agents to handle our stock. Write us to-day for stock. GOOD FOR SHOES The purchaser of each Pair of Shoes from $1.00 upwards entitles you to a Coupon. 25 Coupons will get you a Pair of our BEST $1.50 SHOES. One of the Greatest. agro Enterprises of the Jay. DANVILLE, VA. ovember, 1904. 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 fundamentale principles of this our order, are based upon love, truth and charity, which are grand and elevating 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 toble 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 ye, ye, 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 children yet onborn? 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 high a stand-point as life will afford, yes, not only will we be men and women, but the time taken by the women will be with you, the time taken by the women your dues promptly as long as you are slack, let it be twelve months or more. We will not cease to pay or leave you until your recovery or should you die, will bury you and leave our sympathizing bury with the bereaved. Is this all that we do? We. We also pay a handsome endowment, you will receive on becoming a member of this organization a policy good for one-half of its face value, and at the expiration of six months the policy is good for its full face value. Look and live, club fees are $1.00 to join this Grand United Order of Seven Rising Sons of America, where we can lwell together and love each other as God so loved the world. Remember your monthly dues are from 25 to 50 cts. per month and the taxes you pay will not amount to 50 cents per year. Remember each lodge has full control of its money after it has been set apart. Though we have hundreds and hundreds of members, yet there is room for more; though we have thousands of dollars including real estate, yet there is room for more. order of Seven winds firm and ways to the pays all en- ing to law, i-beneficial paying the This grand and noble Rising Sons of America cannot be denied that sick and buries the dead downmants promptly, as and you cannot be when sick, for it never members, when they are 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. 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Include $ address and your life will be sent to us. ADDRESS:— W. ROBERTSON, THE MAYOR OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK IS READY TO SAVE THE WORLD. 202 Fairmount St., Dallas, Tex. Memorial Industrial School, Massillon Ohio. MEMORIAL DOMESTIC SCIENCE NORMAL NING SCHOOL FOR TEACHERS. SUMMER COURSE NOW IN SESSION. rm Opens Sept. 12th, 1904 Industrial School, in Ohio. ATIC SCIENCE NORMAL FOR TEACHERS. LOW IN SESSION. Sept. 12th, 1904 Hall Memorial Industrial School, To receive prompt attention kindly mention the name of thispaper. THE PLANET SATURDAY, JANUARY 7, 1905 LIVE STOCK A GOOD BARN FRAME. Here Is a Plan by Which All Posts Are Kept from the Floor Space. The following excellent plan for a barn frame was recently submitted by Mr. Adam Roth, of Ontario, to the Canadian Farmers' Advocate: "Because of its slanting purline posts, this plan is commonly called the bridge beam. In most of the barns the posts are vertical. Too many upright posts in a barn floor are a hindrance, especially in small barns built when timber is plentiful. According to the proposed plan not a single post is on the barn PLAN OF BARN FRAME. Door. A team and wagon is able to be turned at any spot. "Not only is a barn constructed in this way more convenient, but also stronger. A frame made on the square basis is more apt to give to one side. Supposing we wanted to prop up something heavy, say a sawlog, we would not put a square under it, but a triangle. The slant purline posts serve the same purpose as do the slant ends of a bridge. We read a great deal of barns blowing down or being broken down by snow. The storms are becoming more and more severe as the forests are cut down, and the thinner the forests the weaker the timber used; thus we want to give each foot of lumber its proper place, where it has the greatest opportunity to resist pressure, and also place timber where it is most needed. The times are past when oak, pine and beach logs two feet in diameter and 30 or 40 feet long were used. "The timber used in this plan is 10x10 throughout the whole frame. The end posts A B are 18 feet long; the bottoms of these are framed into the ends of C D E; the purline posts are 33 feet long, and are slightly grooved in C to prevent them from slipping at the bottom. It is necessary that C be one long log, or if in two pieces they must be well joined, so as to hold the bottoms of D and E firm. F, the cross beam, is 33 feet six inches long. This beam is kept firm by double braces at the bottom; these braces should be about eight feet long. G A are two plank draw braces, inlaid in D and E F; then two bolts put through at each end. By having G G fastened in this way they have a double purpose, both as braces and drawbraces. The rafters are two feet apart and 16 feet long. The rafters only reach to the top of the plate marked H. Short rafters, 18 inches long, are nailed against the others, with a four-inch rise at the bottom. After the sheeting and shingles are put on the end roof has a bell shape appearance. "The three or four inner beams of the barn should be made on the above plan, while the outside ones have to be made with upright purlines in order to nail on the sheeting." STOCK SUGGESTIONS. When fed dry, shelled corn is more economical than corn meal to feed to fattening hogs. Desirable breeding qualities in a herd are fixed by a long line of careful selection and breeding. A sheep adapted to every section and to every breeder's surroundings cannot be grown in the same animal. When an all-corn ration is fed to growing pigs the muscles of the body do not develop to their normal size. To secure the best results care should be taken to feed the hogs according to age, conditions and time of marketing. In selecting breeding stock it is an item to know whether they are from a family noted for fertility, as this is an inherited quality. Do not think that rough usage will cure a horse of the shying habit. He soon associates the one with the other and becomes hard to control. House the Sheep Early I begin feeding early as a shrinkage in the fall is double loss. A little feed in the early winter will produce substantial gains, while the lack of it will result in a decided loss. There is no time in the year that you get more for your grain than in the early winter. Keep the flock sheltered from all storms at this season, putting them in the barn merely to shelter them from the wind and storms and not to keep them warm. Keep all doors open, yet avoid drafts. This keeps the barn at nearly the same temperature as the outdoor air. Keep the sheep dry and prevent drafts and you need not worry about the cold.—D. D. Deeds, in Farm and Home. Linseed-Meal for Horses. When horses are not thrifty it may be due to Inseed-meal three times a week will "loosen the hide," and the animal will soon show the effects of such an addition to the food. If the bowels are affected by the inseed-meal reduce the supply. Midland Farmer. RAISING CALVES. Method of Feeding Which Has Been Adopted by Many Successful Stockmen. Some of the most painstaking and successful calf raisers begin by giving the calf only a pint of the first milk that comes every few hours for several days. After the first week skim milk for half ration is mixed with new milk, increasing each time the amount of whole milk. The milk should always be fed warm, at 100 degrees, that being blood heat, and then there is no checking in the process of digestion. By the time the calf is a month old it is allowed to eat some very nice, fine hay or rowen. The hay has a tendency to regulate the bowels and prevents scours, a disease dreaded by calf raisers. If the bowels are constipated, give the milk at a lower temperature; if too loose, give the milk as hot as the calf will drink it. If diarrhoea is troublesome, diminish the amount of milk, feed it very warm and give two raw eggs at each feeding. If the eggs fall, which they rarely do, give a teaspoonful of castor oil, and the same of olive oil, with a teaspoonful of paragoric mixed in a pint of hot milk. Follow the oils with a teaspoonful of pulverized chalf in each feed of milk until the symptoms disappear.—Farm Star. HANDY HOG SCALDER Vat Containing Two Compartments Will Prove the Most Convenient. Those who follow the old-fashioned practice of slaughtering hogs will find a scalding tank on the following plan very convenient, says B. F. Sutherland, in Orange Judd Farmer. If a vat is used, make it large enough so that it may be divided into two compartments. Near the bottom of the partition wall bore a two-inch auger hole, fit it with a plug slotted at the end to admit of the hinging of a wooden bar to it by means of a pin or bolt. The wooden bar should be long enough to reach from the bottom of the vat a few inches above the top of the tank Hinge the bar to the slotted of the vat, pin it into the slotted plug, and open or close the vent by simply working the lever. Two barrels may be connected by a short pipe and operated in the same way. Then, if there is no water heater, the rocks or old iron sometimes used may all be placed in one compartment, and the hot water drawn off in the desired quantity. It saves removing the irons from the scalding compartment and cooling the water unnecessarily. Keep the heating compartment full and draw off water as needed. CATCHING A HOG. Simple Device Which Makes the Task a Comparatively Easy Cne. A hog is one of the hardest animals to catch, secure and work with. The device shown in cut saves me much trouble and the hog much excitement. Take a piece of round wood about 3 ft. long and bore two 3-8-in. holes through at a and b, so that they will be about DEVICE FOR CATCHING HOGS 6 in. apart. Fasten one end of a piece of No. 14 or 15 bale wire in the hole at a, and pass the other end through the hole at b. Make a loop in the end at c and the holder is complete. To operate, get the wire loop in hog's mouth, resting the stick on top of the snut, and quickly pull up tight on the loop. After a few struggles the largest hog will simply stand and squeal and you can put in rings, take the tusks off of boars and handle them as you wish. I have rung hog weighing 300 lbs, without any help, by using this holder.—Farm and Home. BAD TRICK IN COLTS The Habit of Straddling the Halter Strap and How It May Be Overcome. It is very annoying to find a colt or horse with one of his forefeet over the rope or halter strap when he goes to the manger to eat his food. Yet he must have a good long strap allowance made or he cannot lie down without danger of choking or hanging himself. Of course one must know just what condition the horses are in before leaving them for the night—give them comfortable beds and a good feed at night. If the animal shows a tendency to, throw a foot over the hitching strap, procure a block of wood—oak or something substantial enough to be heavy. Make it about one foot long by six or seven inches square. Bore a hole through one end and put the halter strap through an auger hole in the manger, securing it to the block, after passing it through the hole at the end of the block. Then when the colt raises his foot he will strike it against the block and will eventually learn not to raise his feet unnecessarily.—Agricultural Epitomist. Breaking the Cribber It is claimed that by nailing a strip of sheepskin about eight inches in width the entire length of the manger, selecting a skin covered with long wool and sprinkling it freely with cayenne pepper and renewing it occasionally, the worst cribbler may be cured of the habit. Many Gardens in Vienna More than five-eighths of the area of Vienna is covered by woods, vineyards, parks and gardens. Melancholy Days The melancholy days are here; Of joy they're totally bereft. Or choose your winter clothes appear, And make sure the moths have left. -Washington Star THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA JOB DEPARTMENT VISION WORK Quarter-Sheets, Half and Whole Placards, Society Cards, Mini- ing Stationery. WE AN EN WHICH WE WILL Stock Ro THE LATEST STYLE BOND, I AS SMALL AS A DODGER Sheet Poster AS A FRONT DOOR. OUR PRESENT CORP OF EM IS WITHIN EASY REACH O retired and has no objectionable to enter without embarrassment. E, 2213. 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Some have found that barley meal and corn meal, mixed half and half, is a most excellent ration for fattening fowls, especially if it be fed fresh at each meal, with no more given than the turkeys will eat up clean. It is the opinion of the writer, however, that more variety is better. Accordingly, he would suggest that boiled potatoes, mashed and mixed with meal, with some skimmed milk added, be fed moderately warm and to substitute for the lack of insects, have some kind of animal food, of which nothing is cheaper or more desirable than butchers' scraps, stirred into it. At least once a day good sound corn one year old, should also be given; new corn is too loosening to be used. No more of this than of the mash, however, should be thrown out than the birds can be induced to eat up clean and that their flesh may look bright and present a neat appearance, they should have all the water they want to drink. Turkeys that have got their growth and are in fair condition, may be fattened for market in a few weeks if they are confined and well fed and watered every day.—Agricultural Epitomist. Leaves in the Hen House If you do not think the chickens enjoy a scratch among leaves in the winter just throw some leaves into the poultry house, then scatter some whole grains of corn, oats or wheat among these leaves and you will see some lively scratching and hear some cheerful chattering going on in a little while—Inland Poultry Journal. Feather-Eating Chickens The feather-eating chicken can only be cured of this pernicious habit by isolating it until this morbid desire for such fluffy delicacies has been forgotten. Of course such treatment can only be considered where a bird is a specimen of rare value. Common stock had better be sacrificed to the block.—Inland Poultry Journal. Distantly Related. 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My entire orchard looks like that, and last summer many trees turned yellow and died." The twigs are badly infested with the common pest, scurfy bark louse, Chionaspis furfurus Fitch, a species which is sometimes quite abundant upon trees, though rarely numerous enough to kill those of any size. There is no sign of the San Jose scale, Aspidiotus perniciosus Comst., and the turning yellow of the foliage and death of the trees would indicate some other cause for the trouble. We observed conditions somewhat similar to this at the latter end of the season in western New York, and there it was due in all probability to excessively wet weather. The scurfy bark louse may easily be recognized by its elongated, somewhat pear-shaped form, the smaller end bearing a minute yellow particle, the cast skin of an early stage. The male scales are elongated, with a small yellowish pellicle at one end of a much larger, three-ridged white scale. They are frequently crowded together in masses and give an almost snowy-white appearance to infested twigs. The female scales, when recent, are almost pure white, but as they age dust and dirt collect upon them and they soon become grayish. The common name of scurfy bark louse is bestowed on this species because of the scurfy, scale-like masses it forms upon infested trees. The insect passes the winter as purplish eggs under the protecting mother scale, the young appearing in this latitude the latter part of May or early in June, and in Pennyl- Scurvy Bark Louse—Females shewn at a, c; males at b, d; a, b, natural size; c, d, enlarged. Ecurvy Bark Louse-Females shown at a; c; males at b; d; a; b, natural size; c, d, enlarged. vania probably about the middle of May. Thorough spraying at the time the young appear with a whale-oil soap solution or kerosene emulsion, using one pound of the formor to four gallons of water, or one part of the standard emulsion to about seven gallons of water, should destroy most of the insects. The San Jose scale is very different, and may be at once distinguished from the bark louse by its circular outline, and also smaller size. The full-grown female scale of the scurfy bark louse is about one-tenth of an inch in length, whereas that of the San Jose scale is only one-sixteenth of an inch in diameter. The young scales of the latter species are dark gray, sometimes almost black, with a distinct central nipple and a grayish ring. A most characteristic feature of this latter species, and one which distinguishes it from other bark lice having a circular scale, is that the green tissues of fruit, foliage and twigs are usually stained a deep red or purple in the immediate vicinity of the insect. This species, unlike the scurfy bark louse, passes the winter in a partly-grown condition, and does not begin breeding until about the middle or latter part of June, and continues producing young throughout the remainder of the growing season. It is most successfully controlled therefore by the application of winter sprays—materials which are strong enough to kill the insects while still under the protecting scales. Lime-sulphur washes appear to be the most effectual of anything hitherto used for the destruction of this pest. Well Is Best Parameter Edward Bohn, who lives at Round Prairie, has a well which serves as a bacomster, says an Eldora (I.A.) special to the New York World. It has been making weather forecasts for more than a year and has never been known to fail to give the storm of the approach of a storm. The well is about 88 feet deep. The water is as clear as crystal up to within 12 hours of a storm, when, without any apparent reason, it becomes roly, the more or less muddy condition being indicative of the violence of the storm that may be expected. The well was dug over a year ago, and the conditions which prevail at the present time have been present from the start. Change Radish Into Potato. Experts of the Pasteur institute, at Paris, have just accomplished the seeming miracle of transmitting a radish into a petato. Their report, which has just been made to the Academy of Sciences, says this was done by cultigrating the humble radish in a special solution of glucose, a quasi radish at first flourishing, and then later when submitted to chemical tests was found to be distin guishable in no way from a potato Just what use can be made of this roundabout method of potato culture is not set forth. TREE PLANTING IN WEST. How the Deficiency of Natural Forests May Be in Large Measure Overcome. Planted trees can be made to supply the deficiency of natural forests on the great plains, if well arranged. According to the United States bureau of forestry, in bulletin No. 52, just published, the results to be obtained are sufficient to justify the expenditure of time and labor. An intelligent selection of species, followed by good care, is essential. Whether for windbreaks or for the commercial products the planting should be carefully done, cedars and pines requiring particular care. For ordinary plantations the best practice is to use small trees and home-grown seedlings so far as possible. In many WOODLOT 5 ACRES LAWN RESIDENCE BARN DRIVEWAY YARDS AND SHEES PUBLIC ROAD SHELTERSECT 1 ACRES ORCHARD AND GARDEN 2 ACRES LANE WOODLOT 2 ACRES PUBLIC ROAD DIAGRAM, SHOWING PLAN OF CONSTRUCTION. of the treeless districts of western Kansas the plantings may be made to serve a dual purpose if well managed, both as windbreaks and wood lots. The sketch shows a farmstead on the southwest corner of a section, says Orange Judd Farmer. It contains 15 acres, 8 acres of which are planted to trees. On the north side a five-acre wood lot extends across the grounds and one of a little more than two acres across the south end. The west side is protected by a belt of trees five rods wide. The lanes and driveways are two rods wide and lined with trees two rods apart. The rows of trees in the windbreak should be planted four by eight feet, and thinned to eight by eight when they get larger. Cottonwood mixed with cedars are very hardy, give quick growth, and when older the cottonwood may be removed, leaving a belt of cedar. The rows in wood lots run east and west eight feet apart, with trees four feet apart in the rows. In these are used mulberry, osage, orange, black locust, green ash, or sometimes hardy catalpa. Catalpa and osage orange do well. This arrangement assures protection for farm buildings, and at the same time affords a considerable wood let and convenient grounds. PROTECTING YOUNG TREES Method by Which Ravages of Mice and Borers May Be Best Avoided. To those who have suffered the loss of all or part of their orchard from mice or borers, the little device shown in the illustration will appeal very strongly. Remove the earth from the tree and wrap the lower part of the little device shown in the illustration will appeal very strongly. Remove the earth from the tree and wrap the lower part of the trunk with tarred paper. This should be done as shown in the illustration. The pieces must be joined together after the fashion of the lap in a stove pipe, only it is better to make several rather than one lap to allow for expansion during growth of tree. This prevents the intrusion of insects to lay eggs under the bark and fully closes and protects the tree from the outside.—Farm and Home. THE ORCHARD The ideal soil for a peach orchard is either a heavy sandy loam or a light clay loam. Every farm should have an orchard and a vineyard, and these should be regarded as among its permanent improvements. Where possible, the buyer of trees for the family orchard should select them from a near-by nursery, and should visit the nursery himself to make sure of what he is getting. Most farmers cannot afford to take time from their other work to grow fruit for market, but enough should be grown so that the farmer's family may have an abundance of each kind in its season. That is one of the complements of farm life. Cross shipped long distances will do as well as any other trees if they are properly packed and delivered. It sometimes occurs that the moss around the roots is allowed to get dry and the roots are therefore not in a good condition at time of planting.—Farmers' Review. Rabbit Pits in Orahard Every orchard should have what is called rabbit pits. Dig a small well in the middle of your orchard about five feet deep, either square or round, then cover the top with boards with a man-hole left so the boys can get down into the pit; then make a six-inch square box about 12 feet long; leave an open space in the floor of your box over the pit with the open space just over the well, and when the rabbits run into the box they drop into the well. This answers two purposes: it destroys the rabbits and keeps the table in meat. Another Fool. "I was a fool to hope," he cried. And drove a sob to smother. "It isn't that the maid repiled; " "I simply love another." -Philadelphia Press. THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA FATTENED FOR CANNIBAL FEAST SHIPWRECKED SAILORS ALMOST GO ON SAVAGES' GRIDIRON. RESCUED IN NICK OF TIME Story of Terrible Experience Related by Thomas Ellis, One of the Men Who Almost Was Eaten. To be captured by a horde of wild cannibals, fed until he presented a most appetizing spectacle to his captors, and to have a dangerously near view of a large, rough gridiron, where he was to be toasted until properly browned, was the recent experience of Thomas Ellis, a member of the crew of the steamer Astrakan, which has arrived at this port. The story of how Ellis escaped this fate and thus disappoint the expectant palates of the savages was told by him. At the time of his experience Ellis was a member of the crew of the sailing ship Algurbith. Under the command of Capt John H. Reed and with a crew of seven men, the ship left New South Wales for Java, where it was to take a cargo of sugar for Philadelphia. On July 10, when off the northeast coast of New Guinea, the ship met a storm. The sails were carried away first, and the mast soon followed. The second day land was sighted, and it was determined to make a trial at reaching shore. When still some distance away the boat was swamped, and the eight men, already exhausted, had to swim to shore. One of the men had brought a rifle with him, and he managed to keep this dry, knowing it to be their only hope of getting food. Wet and weakened, the party made their way inland for several hundred yards, when they were attacked by a band of naked savages. With the aid of the rifle, which kept their pursuers at bay, Capt. Reed and three of his men succeeded in escaping, but Ellis and the others were captured. To the wonder of the men, the savages took great trouble to capture them alive, and seemed to express glee rather than hatred in their glances. Still more surprised were they when they were placed in a warm, dry hut and given plenty of vegetable food. No meat was given them, and this omission was due, they afterward found A LYING BOUND BESIDE A HUGE FIRE, out, to the prevalence of tetse, a fly pest, which had exterminated most of the animals in that section of the country. It was not until the end of this time that they began to realize the fate in store for them. Good living and little work had its usual effect, and they began to fatten. It was when they noticed that this increase of flesh was appreciated by their captors that they realized that, having been long without animal food or flesh of any kind, the savages intended to have a gala feast with them as the principal dish. In the meantime, the other sailors had also been captured, but by another and more friendly tribe. This tribe had many dealings with traders. When they learned that the rest of the party had been captured by the cannibals, they offered to rescue them, as it gave them a chance to wreak vengeance on a tribe with which, they had several scores to settle. When they reached the enemy's country they attacked the cannibals on the day that had been set for the feast. The captors were taken by surprise, and soon gave way, running in all directions. The captives were forgotten in the general route. Hills and his three companions were found lying, bound, beside a huge fire, on which had been placed a crude grid-fren. With the aid of friendly natives a port was soon reached, and the men were able to set sail for Java. Peaceooks Act as Guard. New Martinsville, W. Va.—Burglaries attempted to effect an entrance to the home of Joseph Byne, at Little, W. Va., last night, and in prying into the window alarmed a flock of peacocks in the rear yard. Immediately the night was filled with a concert of wild cries from the flock. The four marauders, in fright, fled to the woods. Byne fired on them, but failed to bring say of them down. Maisy—"Have you and Tom quarreled?" Daisy—"I should say not. My birthday is next week."—St. Paul Pioneer Press. "Hans, how long have you been married?" "Vell, dis is a ting that I seldom don't like to talk about, but ven I does, it seems so long as never vus."—Cincinnati Commercial Tribune. The Prevention of Lice. The Prevention of Lice. To keep chickens free from lice and diseases, wash the roosts with coal oil and whitewash the house inside and out every month. Sweep the droppings from under the roost every morning, and sprinkle slaked lime over the ground. Always keep a piece of red cedar under the nests to keep vermin away from setting hens. Have the nests so you can clean them well. Never have straw for them, but fill with nice, fine dry dirt and shape it like a straw nest. Empty every time a hen sets and hatches, and you can set hens all summer on these dirt nests. I have always done this, and have never seen a lause or had a young or old chicken to die from that cause—Fanny Billingsley, in Epitomist. LOVE LAUGHS AT ALLEGED JOKERS A To-Be Bride Found a Surplus of Would-Be Grooms When She Arrived. Wilkesbarre, Pa—Anna Wilt, coming all the way from the western part of the state to loved Joseph Custman, the sweetheart of her girlhood, whom she had not seen for many years, found when she arrived at the station at Audenried in group of men each holding a hat in one hand and a handkerchief in the other. They bowed and smiled and waited for her to descend the steps of the car, where she she stood irresolute. The girl surveyed them with embarrassment, but presently sprang with a glad cry into the arms of a man who was frowning, and the next minute he was laughing with her. He was Custman. It appears that when he finally induced his sweetheart to come on and marry him he told her that he would stand at the station with a hat in one hand and a handkerchief in the other, so that she would recognize him. Then, in his happiness, he told a couple of friends. They spread the news, and practical jokers couldn't resist the opportunity. PORT ARTHUR SURRENDERS Vincingly, declaring that the horrors witnessed were beyond description. There was not a single spot in the town which was safe from shrapnel. Many of the hospitals were hit, and the wounded refused to stay in them. Some lay in the streets on heaps of wreckage, exposed to the bitterly cold weather, and some staggered back to the front, defying the Japanese till taken prisoners or death; came mercifully to end their sufferings. There were five days and nights of this state of affairs. "Our plight Surrey night," said Captain Kartzow, commander of the corpede boat destroyer Vlasni, "looked like the last. There was no stopping the Japanese who died in droves and fought with the last instinctive twitness of the nerves, with eyes fixed on the Liaoti Mountain. Stoessel had killed a Japanese army and exhausted his ammunition. They became more furious and fatetive than ever. So the white flag went up." Continuing, Captain Kartzow said: "Port Arthur falls of exhaustion—exhaustion not only of ammunition, but of men. The remnant of the garrison left had been doing the work of heroes for five days and five nights, but Sunday they reached the limit of human endurance. "In the casemates of the forts one saw everywhere faces black with starvation, exhaustion and nerve strain. You spoke to them, but they did not give answer, only staring dumbly. "The lack of ammunition alone would not have suggested the asking of terms. Scant ammunition had long been common in the fortress during the past month, and many of the forts had nothing with which to return the fire of the enemy. "The Russians sat in the casemates firing not more than once to the 200 shots sent by the Japanese. When the assault came they repulsed the enemy with bayonets. But the men themselves, having existed for three months on reduced rations, were so worn that it is marvelous they stood the final strain so long. "Sunday night General Stoessel would still fight. His wound, which was received early in the siege, had been bothering him, but his determination to fight while one man stood had not been diminished. "But we cannot fight," said his generals. Our men cannont move. They sleep standing. They cannot see the bayonets at their breasts. We can order, but they cannot eyebel. "Then you generals fight," said Stoessel, clenching his fists. "He seemed fanatical on the subject, but finally he was brought to see reason by the insistence of his subordinates. Admirals Lochinsky and Wiren, Generals Smyrnoff and Fock and many others, sometimes with broken votes, urged the step which all dreaded so long. "I am sure Port Arthur would have sought terms a month age had it not been for General Stoessel, who with bulldog tenacity steadily refused to permit such action to be taken. He had told his emperor that he would never surrender, and he meant to keep his werd. "The greatest loss suffered by Port Arthur occurred a fortnight ago, when Major General Kondratenko was killed. Officers and men alike regarded him as the brightest star in Port Arthur's armament. When his death became known the fall in the spirits of the soldiers was plainly visible. "General Kondratenko was seated in the casemate of a certain fort discussing with seven other officers the best way of countermining against the Japanese, when an 11-inch shell burst, killing everybody in the casemate. "General Nogi has taken Port Arthur with his artillery and his tunnels. His rifle bullets were seldom found to be of any use. "We constantly endured a bombard- The Greatest Offer Yet JUST WHAT THE LADIES WANT. Send A Good Photograph. 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Publisher, THE PLANET: Please find enclosed $1.50 for the Planet for one year, which you will send to the following address: NAME..... ♥ STREET..... CITY OR TOWN..... COUNTY, STATE..... closed photograph which I desire inserted in medallion or button. ment fiercer than any in history. The Japanese perennially assaulted, and then, if repulsed, they calmly resumed their bombardments. "So severe was the shell fire that few of the hospitals escaped injury, and many men were killed in their cots. Some doctors and nurses were also killed. Hundreds of the garrison are suffering from sores of the mouth, from the result of eating diseased horseflesh. The sisters of charity and the volunteer nurses worked night and day. Many of them fainted at their posts. "According to the registration of the hospitals, 65 per cent. of the officers were killed or wounded. Only 20 of the 207 naval officers remain uninjured. My father was in Sevastopol during the siege, but he never saw what I witnessed in the hospitals of Port Arthur. "The shrieks and moaning of the wounded and the agonies of the dying combined to make these places veritable hells. "It is a simple story. Had the ammunition held out the fortress would have held out indefinitely. For many months we held Port Arthur by bayonets alone, until flesh and blood could do no more. When a man fell there was none other to replace him. Thus the garrison was gradually worn down. Two Hundred and Three-Meter Hill alone cost us 5000 men. The capture of that hill was the beginning of the end. The Japanese artillery was excellently served. They had 400 guns bearing on 203-Metre Hill. They advanced their trenches while the artillery was shelling the Russians out with a shower of metal and then occupied the Russian positions. "In personal combat the Japanese were greatly inferior to the Muscovites. One Russian could take care of three Japanese in a bayonet fight, and some of our soldiers have records vastly higher than that. The Japanese are good, brave soldiers, although I have little liking for them. "It cost the Japanese 80,000 men to take the fortress, while some say they have lost over 100,000. The number of our own dead is not known, even to the high officers. "The fighting since August has been merciless. When Rihlung Mountain was taken 500 men occupying a casemate were not able to emerge, so quickly came the rush of the Japanese. The Russians tried to emerge by the use of their bayonets in the face of machine gun fire. Thus every man died—trying to resist machine guns with bayonets alone. The Japanese did not give them a chance to become prisoners, but the men would have preferred death anyway. "Realize this end! Picture a fort strewn with shells, and you have a picture of the end of Port Arthur." RESENT TALK OF PEACE Russians Declare Emphatically Against Cessation of Hostilities St. Petersburg, Jan. 4.—The flood of telegrams from abroad bringing talk of peace arouses only recruitment in official circles here, and even many liberals who are urgently pressing the government for reforms, aroused by the dreadful story of heroism and suffering of the Port Arthur garrison, declare emphatically against any cessation of hostilities until Russia's honor is vindicated by a victory in Manchuria. Equal recruitment is aroused by foreign criticism of General Stoessel for blowing up the ships in the harbor and destroying the town of Port Arthur when he could no longer defend them. Admiration here for the heroic defense is mingled with wonder how General Stoessel continued to hide the true condition from the world. 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