Richmond Planet

THE RICHMOND PLANET The Apple Tree. In my garden an apple tree To'ard heaven reared its head, In praise of God, as all could see, Its arm-like boughs it spread. A silent sermon preached that tree, As plain as e'er I heard, And as it seemed addressed to me, I drank in every word. The God of nature I proclaim: The tree went on to say— The Sole Creator is His name, The universe owns His sway; He made the worlds as now they stand: Obedient to His will, He holds them in His mighty hand, His law they all fulfill. In me His law's exemplified, As all who will may know. Each year I've lived I've also died, So far as outward show; Each winter finds me stiff and stark, To all intents I'm dead. The streams of life beneath my bark Doth there no longer spread. But spring-time comes and by His power I from the dead arise, My fruit is latent in each flower Which breaks forth from my eyes; The birds sing in my boughs again, 'Tis resurrection morn! And I rejoice in teaching men Of resurrection's dawn. —— O. M. STEWARD. A WHITE MAN SACRIFICES HIS LIFE To Save That of a Negro—His Co- laborer and Friend. (Shreveport, La. News Enterprise). Mr. W. J. Walker, a white man, who was employed by the Shreveport, Gas Electric Light, and Power Co., and whose business it was to keep the arc lights in the city in good order, in company with (Mr. Emanuel Sherman—a Negro—on making their daily round, came to the light on Hamilton Terrace. Mr. Emanuel Sherman went to the pole to let down the lamp for the purpose of trimming it. As he took hold of the suspension wire, his body was jerked from the ground and while he was hanging by the electric charged wire, Mr. Walker, who was in his buggy, ran and grabbed the wire with one hand and Sherman with the other, thus forming a complete circuit and causing deadly volts to pass through his body which produced death almost instantly. Mr. Sherman was badly burned about the hands and it was sometime before he could use his muscles. Everything was done by physicians and friends to resuscitate Mr. Walker, but all in vain. The colored man, while in agony, looked and saw the fate of his white friend asked those present to try and save Mr. Walker. The colored man is doing fairly well and will recover, but the white man has ended his career in life, and has gone to appear before his Maker. A great crowd of both colored and white assembled on the scene and every one showed that they sorrowed for the young white man who had performed such a heroic deed. While the unfortunate occurrence cannot be remedied now, we might say a word, for the benefit of others: Don't get too careless with your job The man who had everything with him to prevent just such happening, but, being careless, and on to the job, allowed himself to venture without them. What is the use of companies furnishing their employees with the necessary preventives, and they not use them? Don't get too old with your job. He done as directed by the company, the white man would, no doubt, be living, and he would not have been shocked, almost to death. The Negroes of this city ought to erect a monument over this young white man; if allowed to do so. Let us show to the white people, that we appreciate heroic deeds performed by them for any member of our race. Mr. Johnson's Trip Mr. J. W. Johnson, the "Navy-Hill financier" will leave this week for a trip through the South-land. He will be absent about sixty days, visiting Raleigh, N. C., Charleston, S. C., Atlanta, Ga., Tuskegee, Ala., Jacksonville, Fla. and other southern cities. Mr. Johnson has made remarkable progress in this city by his large dealings in real estate. He is one of the wealthiest colored men in the state and is most favorably known among the financial institutions of this city. We cordially recommend him to the favorable, consideration of those influential people with whom he may come in contact during his travels. ATLANTIC CITY HAS A MYSTERY Attempts to Wreck Pennsylvania Flyer May Bring Arrests. GOODRICH'S STORY DOUBTED Atlantic City, Nov. 21.—Two attempts to wreck a Pennsylvania railroad train and what may have been an attempt to murder the man who says he frustrated the first effort are the salient features of one of the most baffling mysteries that has ever come to the attention of the police of this city. As the scene of the would-be crime is out of the jurisdiction, the police here are not bound to make an investigation, but they are, nevertheless, paying great attention to the case and Captain of Detectives Maxwell says that the developments promise a sensational climax. Captain Maxwell freely admits that he has some startling evidence in his possession which to divulge now would defeat the ends of his examination, which will probably result in an arrest. In the tangle of peculiar circumstances only one thing is certain and that is that the train for Philadelphia was saved from a disastrous and unquestionably fatal wreck by the merest chance. The remainder of the case hinges on the truthfulness of Lloyd Goodrich, a young man 22 years old, who is staying with Dr. W. H. Walling, at 1209 Pacific avenue. Goodrich tells in detail a narrative of a remarkable experience when he was bound to a pile of railroad ties and left on the tracks to be killed. He says he escaped by cutting the ropes with his pocket knife. Certain discrepancies in his statements have led the police to be skeptical of their entire truth and they mean to question him more closely. When seen at Dr. Walling's residence the young man exhibited both wrists, which were chafed as though by cords, and a long red welt on the back of his neck was just such a mark as would have been made by a rope. On his forehead there were marks of a severe blow. Goodrich has not yet been catechised by the police, but will be closely questioned after they have secured what other evidence they can and it will then be seen how closely his version fits the known facts. The second attempt was made at exactly the same spot where Goodrich says he had his battle. The position was so chosen that had the ties not been removed they would have plunged the locomotive into the stream and there would have been a fearful wreck. It was Charles Adams, a bay fisherman, and William Hackett, an employee of the railroad, who averted the disaster. Adams was on his way to visit his stoop when he saw what looked like a man lying across the tracks. On investigation he saw that five ties had been laid there, one across both rails and the other four across the outside rail. Ag he was wondering who could have attempted such a crime he heard the whistle of the train and calling for help to a man who was approaching he set to work to clear the tracks. The other, who was Hackett, assisted in the work. The two had not removed the obstructions a minute before the train dashed by. While the young man's account by no means explains the case satisfactorily, it is nevertheless the only plausible explanation thus far advanced which accounts for everything. AIMS OLD GUN—KILLS SISTER Pathetic End of Childish Prank On Patching Form School Returning From School. Carlisle, Pa. Nov. 22—Beautiful Agnes Best, the 17-year-old daughter of Samuel Best, a farmer, was shot and killed by her 14-year-old brother, Samuel, who in a boyish prank took aim at her head with an old shotgun he had found hidden away in a cupboard. The boy found the gun after they had returned from district school, and immediately conceived the idea of making a target of Agnes, who stood in the doorway. The girl was killed. Russian Refugees Arrive. Philadelphia, Nov. 21.—Among the 671 passengers who arrived here on the British steamship Marion from Liverpool and Queenstown were a number of the sailors of the Russian battleship Potemkine, whose crew was in mutiny in the Black Sea last summer. The men were met by friends and taken to New York. About 200 Jews from various parts of Russia were also passengers on the Merion. Some of them were refugees from cities where outrages against the Jews had been committed. RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, SATURDAY NOVEMBER 25, 1905. Alabama Penny Savings Bank Build- ing Destroyed. The fine-new three story brick building of the Alabama Penny Savings Bank at Birmingham, Ala., one of the leading colored banking institutions in the South, was destroyed by fire shortly after midnight. Monday morning. About a half-block of buildings, entailing a loss estimated at $150,000 was wiped out. The amount of insurance is not stated. Rev. W. H. Brooks, D. D. Here. Rev. W. H. Brooks, D. D. of Washington, D. C., will conduct services at the Sharon Baptist Church, Sunday Nov. 26th, 1905 at 8 o'clock C The Lott Carey Convention. The Lott Carey Convention of the United States has been absorbed by the National Baptist Convention and will hereafter recognize it as the supreme head. For the present it will maintain its autonomy in the shape of a District Convention. The compact recommends the union of the two state bodies, the Virginia Baptist State Convention and the General Association. It is a far off cry to the time of the consummation of this hope and recommendation. Here is the agreement: At the recent session of the National Baptist Convention the following compact was entered into between the National Baptist Convention and the Lott Carey Baptist Foreign Missionary Convention of the United States, of America. "For a more perfect unification of the Negro Baptist forces of the United States of America, and for the better promotion of missions at home and abroad, the following agreement was entered into between the National Baptist and the Lott Carey Foreign Mission Conventions respectively: (1) For the present fiscal year we favor the Lott Carey Convention maintaining its organic identity in the capacity of a District Convention under the following provisions, to which your Foreign Mission Board and the Commissioners of the Lott Carey Convention have agreed, viz: (a) The Lott Carey Convention Missionaries are to be enrolled as missionaries of the National Baptist Convention for this present fiscal year. (b) Receipts and expenditures of monies by its officers should be regularly reported to the Foreign Mission Board of the National Baptist Convention. (c) While we do not interfere with local organizations in the several states, yet we venture to express the hope that the day will soon come when there will be only one state organization in each state, and it working in harmony with the National Baptist Convention. (d) And as to the territory now occupied by the recently organized first District Convention and the Lott Carey Convention, as a District or any other organization that may now be occupying the same territory, we leave any matter of difficulty to be adjusted by them. And we re spectfully suggest and recommend that all Baptist churches cordially and generously receive representatives of our National and District or organizations who come with a view of advancing denominational growth, both at home and abroad. (e) If at any time during the pres- ent conventional year representatives of either the Foreign Mission Board of the National Baptist Convention or the Lott Carey District Convention shall be in need of immediate funds for the maintenance of their respective financial obligations, mutual helpfulness shall obtain, and so far as possible the wish es of both organizations shall be respected. (f) Upon the adoption of this preamble and agreement between the National Baptist Convention and the Lott Carey Convention herein effected a consolidation between the two bodies is formed and we pray that the great head of the church may bless them both, in this happy consummation. (Signed) John H. Frank, Chairman Foreign Mission Board P. F. Morris. J. A. Whitted, W. T. Johnson, A. W. Pegues, C. S. Brown, Representing the Lott Carey Foreign Mission District Convention of the United States of America. FOR SALE. 1003 & 1005 St. John St. Rent $16 a month.. Price $1500. 935 & 935½ Hickory St. Rent $21 a month. Price $1800. POLLARD & BAGBY, 5 N. 11th St. REV. DR. WILLIAM TROY LAID TO REST DIED AT CAMDEN, N. J. Imposing Ceremonies Here. Large Crowd at Funeral. Rev. William Troy, D. D. died Friday night 10:55 at Camden, N. J. in the 77th year of his age. He was a great sufferer. He had been struck en with paralysis for some time and this with Bright's disease of the kidneys and other complications hastened the end. Camden is across the river from Philadelphia, Pa. He lived with his daughter, Mrs. Annie Walker. Services were held in Philadelphia and the Ministers' Conference of which he was a member he'dologistic services over the remains. Mr. John B. Harris, the Funeral Director had charge of the remains and prepared them for burial. THE REMAINS REACH HERE On this end of the line Funeral Director A. D. Price had charge of them. Mrs. Oliver (his daughter) and her daughter, Zenobia left Saturday evening for Philadelphia. The funeral party reached this city last Wednesday morning at 8:20 and consisted of the widow, Mrs. Annie Walker. Mrs. Fannie E. Oliver and Miss Zenobia Oliver. The remains were conveyed to the Sharon Baptist Church, where they laid in state until 2 P. M. They were then conveyed to the Second Baptist Church where the services took place. Rev. Z. D. Lewis, D. D. officiating. BORN IN VIRGINIA. Rev. William Troy was born in Essex county, Va. March 10th, 1829. His mother was free, her mother being of English parentage. He married Miss Sidney Blackburn, October 24th,1848. He professed religion at the age of twelve years and joined the Baptist Church. In 1848 he located in Cincinnati, O., where he joined the Zion Baptist Church. He was at one time pastor of the church at Amherstburg, Canada, remaining there three years, after which time he went to Windsor, Canada. He travelled in Europe, Cana- and the United States. He visited the islands of Jamaica, Hayti. CALLED TO THE SECOND BAP TIST CHURCH He came to Richmond in 1866 and for nine months lectured and preached to the people. In 1867 he accepted the call to the pastorate of the Second Baptist Church of this city. In 1874, he resigned the pastorate and organized the Industrial School and Church known as the Moore St. Industrial and Mission School. In 1880, he was recalled to the pastorate of the Second Baptist Church. He subsequently again resigned the pastorate of the Second Baptist Church and organized the Sharon Baptist Church of which Rev. A. S. Thomas is now pas tor. He later removed to Pennsylvania and finally located at Camden, N. J., the place of his death. He is survived by his children as follows: Fannie E. (Mrs. Oliver), Dr. William Troy of Franklin, Va., Joshua W., Nannie (Mrs. Walker), and one other son located at Newport News, Va. A Plea for Colored Orphans The season of Thanksgiving is nearing, and that the orphans of the Friends Asylum for Colored may, like others, join in the good cheer; we apply to the generous public for donations of what ever kind can be given to us—of money, clothing, food, fuel, etc. Any donations will be thankfully received. Grand Chancellor Creswell Here. Grand Chancellor C. D. Creswell of Georgia was in the city for a short while last Sunday. He was shown the property of the Order and he visited the Mechanics' Savings Bank and the residence of Grand Chancellor Mitchell. He was accompanied also by Grand Master of Exchequer H. F. Jonathan and Sir S. S. Baker. He was met by Grand Keeper of Records and Seals Thomas M. Crump. Dinner was arranged for the party at the residence of Fast Chancellor William Custalo, 729 N. 9th St. Sir Creswell was scheduled to leave however earlier and accordingly his fare was eaten by those who accompanied him. A most enjoyable time was spent at Sir Custalo's residence HORRIBLY BURNED. A Colored Woman Loses Her Life On last Sunday morning flames destroyed a shanty on Church Hill and caused the death of a colored woman and the serious, if not fatal injury of a colored man, and burned up the house watch-dog, which is supposed to have caused the blaze by upsetting an oil lamp which had been left to burn through the night. The fire was discovered shortly after 5 o'clock Sunday morning. The shanty, consisting of two rooms, was located in the rear of No. 115 North Twenty-ninth Street, and was occupied by Lena Price, who is about 24 years old, and Louis Archer. The lamp had been burning during the night, and no other origin can be assigned for the blaze. CHARGED THE TROUBLE TO THE DOG. It is supposed that the lamp exploded, or, more likely, was knocked over by the dog, who was a famous rat-catcher, and spent the quiet hours prowling about the rooms in search of prey. The flames were discovered by white residents nearby, and an alarm was turned in. The little hut was practically destroyed. The man and woman were asleep, and were aroused by the fire. The Price woman was burned to a crisp, the body being horribly charred. After making a vain attempt to rescue her. Archer escaped, seriously injured. His arms, hands, face and back were badly burned, and his recovery is doubtful. The dog was killed by the fire. Archer was taken to the Colored Almshouse, where his condition is as yet very serious. Dr. Still Weds Here. A quiet home wedding took place at the home of Mr. and Mrs. E. R. Giles, on Wednesday Evening, Nov. 15th, 1905. At prompt 7 o'clock Miss Caroline E. Cole, daughter of Hamilton D. Cole a caterer, of Philadelphia and Dr. I. Thomas Still were married. The groom is a Dermatologist, having practised in the states of Pennsylvania and New Jersey and is now practicing in Richmond. The house was handsomely decorated with palms, growing plants and chrysanthemums. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. Charles Somers, Rector of St. Phillips Protestant Episcopal Church. The bride was attired in a blue broadcloth trimmed with lace and silk. The bride is a native of Philadelphia and a graduate trained nurse from the Lincoln Home and Hospital, New York. The couple will reside with Mr. and Mrs. E. R. Giles, No. 742 N. 3rd St. City. The guests were Mrs. L. Cole, of Philadelphia, mother of the bride; Miss Desdemona Phylisoque, aunt of the bride, of Philadelphia, Miss. M. E. Conway of Philadelphia; Mr. and Mrs. E. R. Giles and Mr. Walter West. Dr. Still is a native of Boston, Mass, and nephew of William Still of Philadelphia, of underground railroad fame. —Mrs. Callie D. Brown has been indisposed this week. —Mrs. W. F. Graham has been confined to her room but is now much improved. —Mrs. Claude Brown has been seriously indisposed, but is now much improved. —Mr. Royall Davis is in the city. He will return to Hot Springs, Va. shortly. —Mr. J. F. Smith, who has been ill for several months is out again attending to business. —Cadet Willie Thomas, of Pythian Cadet Co. No. I, is indisposed at his home No. 813 N. St. James St. —Rev. W. H. Brooks, D. D. will preach at Ebonezer Baptist Church Sunday Nov. 26th, at 11 A. M. —The St. Luke Emporium will open for business on the 27th inst. at 112 E. Broad St. The Bank has been placed in the dry-goods department and the office railing from the former bank headquarters reset at the new quarters. The old vault will be used principally for the safety of the books of the organization and for such branch banking business as may come from that section of the city President G. W. Hayes of Virginia, Theological Seminary and College was in the city this week. He came on account of the death of his aunt's husband, Mr. D. W. Branch, who departed this life Thursday, Nov. 16th, at his residence, 624 N. 9th St. Mr. Hayes reports his school in a most prosperous condition. $150.00 Endowment Paid. Newport News, Va., Nov. 16, 1905. This is to certify that I have received from John Mitchell, Jr., Grand Chancellor of the Grand Lodge of Virginia, Knights of Pythias, N. A., S. A., E., A., A. and A. ($150.00) One Hundred and Fifty Dollars in payment of the death- claim of William McNealy of Rose of Sharon Lodge, No. 63 of Newport News, Va. Signed:—C. H. Warden. Administrator. Witnesses:— C. H. Brown. C. J. Gray, C. C. Rose of Sharon Lodge, J. J. Booker, D. D. G. C. $150.00 Endowment Paid Newport News, Va., Nov. 16, 1905. This is to certify that I have received from John Mitchell, Jr. Grand Chancellor of the Grand Lodge of Virginia, Knights of Pythias, N. A., S. A., E., A. and A. ($150.00) One Hundred and Fifty Dollars in payment of the death-claim of Charles Hughes, who was a member of Daton Lodge, No. 12 of Newport News, W. W. G. Bell, C. C. J. E. Byrd, P. C. W. S. Hobson, K. of R. and S. J. J. Booker, D. D. G. C. $150.00 Endowment Paid. Norfolk, Va., Nov. 16th, 1905. This is to certify that I have received from John Mitchell, Jr., Grand Chancellor of the Grand Lodge of Virginia, Knights of Pythias, N. A., S. A., E., A., A. and A. ($150.00) One Hundred and Fifty Dollars in payment of the death- claim of Sir Bruce Black, who was a member of Pythias Lodge, No. 21 of Richmond, Va. Signed:—Indiana Black Administratrix. Witnesses:— J. J. Corprew. F. E. Puryear. W. H. Mills, Deputy. $150.00 Endowment Paid. Norfolk, Va., Nov. 16th, 1905. This is to certify that I have received from John Mitchell, Jr. Grand Chancellor of the Grand Lodge of Virginia, Knights of Pythias, N. A., S. A., E., A., A. and A. ($150.00) One Hundred and Fifty Dollars in payment of the death-claim of the late Sir Wm. B. Durham who was a member of Friendship Lodge, No. 3 of Norfolk, Va. Signed:—Carrie Durham Witnesses:— J. C. Wilson. F. E. Puryear. W. H. Mills, Deputy. $150.00 Endowment Paid. Richmond, Va., Nov. 20, 1905. This is to certify that I have received from John Mitchell, Jr., Grand Chancellor of the Grand Lodge of Virginia, Knights of Pythias, N. A., S. A., E., A. A. and A. ($150.00) One Hundred and Fifty Dollars in payment of the deathclaim of Sir Anderson Johnson, who was a member of Virginia Lodge, No 6 of Richmond, Va. Signed:—Emma Johnson, Administratrix. Witnesses:— A. Hayes. Eva G. Davis. $100.00 Endowment Paid. Richmond, Va., Nov. 17, 1905. This is to certify that I have received from John Mitchell, Jr., Grand Worthy Counsellor of the Grand Court of Virginia, I. O. Calan the ($100.00) One Hundred Dollars in payment of the death-claim of Sister Alice Grammar, who was a member of Rosetta's Court, No. 173 of Richmond, Va. his Signed:— Dennis X Grammar, mark Beneficiary Witness:— Eva G. Davis. :0: The Court of Calanthe gave a grand banquet and anniversary at Martinsville, Va. Friday night, Nov. 17th at the High St. Hall. A most entertaining programme had been arranged. Committee; Miss Bertha A. Hamlin and Miss Vina Hairston. Ushers; Mary A. Cahill, Sallie Jones, Lucy Hickman. On Reception: E-Lizabeth Flood, Winnie Dandridge, Alice Bowe. Mistress of Ceremonies, Mrs. V. M. Early. Organist, Miss Vina A. Flood. Property For Sale. The Peoples Real Estate and Investment Co. is certainly forging to the front. The following is a list of some of their property listed with items and any of which can be obtained on reasonable terms. 608 N. 6th St. $ 3500. 610 N. 6th St. 3500. 612 N. 6th St. 3500. 614 N. 6th St. 3500. 1400 N. 1st St. 1750. 1402 N. 1st St. 1350. 737 N. 9th St. 1250. 1003 St. John St. 1500. 1005 St. John St. 1500. 506 N. 3rd St. 2000. 508 N. 3rd St. 2000. 514 N. 3rd St. 2000. 5 W. Duval St. 1500. 3 W. Duval St. 1150. 919 N. 7th St. 1100. 206 E. Duval St. 1100. 824 St. Paul St. 1050. 707 St. James St. 1400. 1212½ St. James St. 1100. 1204 St. Paul St. 1500. 720 Munford St. 900. 808 Williams St. 900. 601 Crouch St. 900. 923 N. Buchanan St. 850. 731 N. 3rd St. 850. 33 W. Jackson St. 800. 210 E. Duval St. 750. 1010 St. James St. 1250. 202 W. Federal St. 700. 610 James St. Maddox Hill. 700. 612 James St. Maddox Hill. 700. 614 James St. Maddox Hill. 700. 616 James St. Maddox Hill. 700. 400 Cabell St. 625. 402 Cabell St. 625. 806 Graham St. 400. VACANT LOTS 25ft by 117 ft, Oak St. near Moore St. ..... 375. 31ft by 90ft, Jackson between 4th and 5th Sts. ..... 700. 75ft by 100ft, 5th St. between Jackson and Baker 36 acres on 9 Mile road near Varina P. O. ..... 1800. Rev. F. L. Hall Hongred—The Degree of la D. Conferred. The second Sunday, Nov. 12th, 1905, was a great day with St. Michael Baptist Church, Drakes Branch, Va. Rev. S. A. Moses, A. B., Field Sec. of Virginia Baptist State Convention was present and preached an able sermon from the text, Gen. 1st Chapter: "And God said let there be light." The sermon was delivered with pathos and power, deeply impressing the audience. After the sermon, Rev. F. L. Hall was presented a diploma from Guadalupe College, Segiun, Texas by Rev. Moses, which conferred the degree of Doctor of Divinity. The following churches were represented by delegates and members, viz: Forest Church of Prince Edward, Va. Henry Watkins and J. B. Doswell; Morrisson Grove, Wm. Shepherdson and A. Harris; Shiloh, Grief Elam; Mossingford, Harrod Johnson and Pleasant Lee; Organ Hill, Thaddeus Daniel and Landon Hicks; Beautiful Plain, Thomas Rend and Samuel Hamlet. The deacons were asked to say a word in reference to Rev. Hall's work among the people for 31 years. J. B. Doswell said that Rev. Hall has been our pastor for 20 years and we as a church think that he is as worthy of honor as any minister in the United States. A. Harris said, "Bro, Hall is worthy of the confidence of the Baptists of America. Grief Elam said our church was the first to call Bro. Hall when he was a mera lid. He served us seven years and resigned for a larger field. We would like to have him serve us again. Harrod Johnson said "He has spent the greater portion of his time as a teacher and preacher in our community and we would not like to be without him. Thaddeus Daniel reported that he had known Rev. Hall from a boy having lived at one time in his family and that there was none such as a worker for the good of the people. Thomas Rend said that Rev. Hall was a fighter for the right of no mean quality, having been tested on many occasions. Rev. S. A. Moses made a touching speech and presented the diploma. Mrs. Fannie Smith presented Rev. Hall with a bouquet just as he was about to respond. Bro. Hall said in part "I shall try to bloom in my work just as these flowers and go on from least to more and strive to make the world better. I had no idea that the Baptists of Virginia were noticing my work among the people at all. Will try to wear the honor with dignity. "I am pressing on the upward way," was sung by the audience and a collection of $21.11 was taken. Rev. Moses preached also at s o'clock from the text, Matt. 27-63, "Saying sir, we remember that that deceiver said while he was yet alive." Bro. Moses handled the subject well. The choir sang several selections and collection of $5.24 was taken. Total collection for the day was $26.35. The Church gave Rev. S. A. Moses for State Missions, $17.38. F. L. HALL, D. D. Pastor. A. H. KEYTON, Clerk. WRITTEN IN RED By CHAS. HOWARD MONTAGUE AND C. W. DYAR At eight o'clock in the evening of this same Friday, Medical Examiner Jarrett sat at his desk in the office at his house busily writing. "Upon making a careful and complete examination of the body of the man named Paul North, I find that a ball, probably from a revolver of 32 caliber, at an angle of probably 20 degrees, and from a distance not exceeding three feet, entered his back near the spinal column at the seventh intercostal space on the right side, and passed in an inward and upward direction, going through the upper portion of the liver and completely through the lower lobe of the right lung. "The path of the ball was not arrested, showing that it was fired in the direction indicated. It pierced the lung nearly opposite the third rib and left the body on the front side, just above the rib named. "I do not find that the said Paul North could have committed suicide. The position of the entrance of the ball, and its direction, seemed to deny this possibility. "There was ample external hemorrhage to have permitted the man to have written the words on the wall of the room in which he was found. If so, immediately the writing was concluded, he no doubt died. "Death was painless, and resulted from internal hemorrhage, caused by the opening of an artery in the right lung." The ringing of the office bell suspended the report of the autopsy over Paul North's body at this point. Dr. Jarrett rose to meet his caller, recognizing him at once as the reporter whom he had met a few hours previously at the house in Mariboro street. "Ah, Thomas," he said, "still on the case, eh? A very good story, that of yours in the afternoon paper—very judicious indeed." "Thanks," the reporter answered, "And now I want you to help me get out an equally good story, or a better one, for the morning. The autopsy was per- formed at the City Hospital morgue of course. Can't you give me the report?" Dr. Jarrett shook his head and rubbed his chin. "There isn't a man I would sooner give out the report to than you, Thomas, but it wouldn't do to have it published before it's submitted. All I can say at this point really is that I have no doubt whatever that murder has been committed." Mr. Thomas fingered his watch chain, "Not a word more?" he queried. "I'll tell you what I'll do, Thomas," the medical examiner answered, after a meditative turn up and down the hall. "You have kept a good many important secrets when the work of the authorities couldn't have been done without your silence. I'll tell you who assisted in the autopsy. You could interview him without mentioning my name in the matter." A broad smile illumined the reporter's face, and he presented the medical examiner with a very comprehensive wink. "Dr. Francis Huntress is the man," continued the examiner, confidentially. "He has an office where he lives, at No. — Greenwich Park." "I know him well," said Mr. Thomas, as he parted from the doctor; and there was full justification for the words in the friendly greeting accorded to him at the surgeon's door. Two minutes after he had pulled at the bell handle, Thomas was comfortably ensconced in an easy-chair in the doctor's study, the physician sitting opposite to him at his desk, where a drop light burned. "You are the most extraordinary fellow," the surgeon exclaimed, admiringly, after Thomas had stated his mission. "Some of the morgue people must have told you I was called in. No? Well, never mind—we'll assume you divined it, as you have a hundred other matters supposed to be the most profound of secrets. But I'll tell you one thing, my black-haired friend. This is one of the most curious and remarkable cases that ever came to my attention!" "You have no doubt it was a case of murder?" questioned Mr. Thomas, busy with his watch charm. "I can find no other explanation. You saw the wound; you noticed how the man lay? Now the bullet was a 32 caliber pistol ball. It entered at an angle of certainly no less than 20 degrees, and went upwards and inwards in that direction. I don't know whether you observed any traces of powder on the man's clothing?" "No." "They were there, nevertheless. And that means that the pistol from which the fatal shot was fired couldn't have been held more than three feet away. At the same time we concluded it must have been more than two. And this, you see, effectually disposes of the theory of suicide." "And now, doctor, I want to ask you two or three questions. In the first place, isn't it within the possibilities of medical science to determine just how long a man has been dead?" "Anywhere within 24 or 36 hours, probably yes." "With how much accuracy?" "As close as that?" "I believe that most surgeons and physicians accept the proposition of an eminent surgeon and chemist who stated a few years ago that the day will come when we may first determine the general health of the subject by examination of the other organs, and then submit the clotted blood in the heart to microscopic tests. The blood, you know, is made up of three parts—the serum, and the red and white corpuscles. The red corpuscles contain the life. That life remains for several days after death if the body is without disease to induce overrapid decomposition. The length of time which has elapsed since the heart ceased to beat may be determined by the amount of life in the red corpuscles. The same test is also applied to the contents of the other vessels." "Have those tests been applied in this case, doctor?" "Yes; but merely as an experiment to compare with the other tests applied. I am happy to say they showed, in a measure, the probable reliability of the theory." "And what were those other tests?" "Most bodies have quite cold in from eight to twelve hours after death. In the cases of bodies which present certain signs that I need not detail, we know that death has not been present more than 12 hours. In from 12 to 18 hours, however, the eyeballs become soft and inelastic and feel facoid. The last sign of the earliest stage of death is the rigor mortis. This is, perhaps, the most dependable of the signs we have to guide us at present. Of course, the rigidity of the body may continue beyond a week, but the circumstances which would occasion this would be too extraordinary to be unnoticed. Considering all these things, I should repeat that the length of time which Mr. North has been dead is tolerably certain." "And from this, when did you determine that Mr. North had died?" "Perhaps Dr. Jarrett would object to my giving that information to the press," said the surgeon, hesitatingly. "Then don't give it to the press. Give it to me." Thomas smiled insinuatingly. "And you—what will you do with it?" "Compare it with such other information as I already possess, to see if my suspicions are correct." "You suspect somebody?" "Everybody." "Then I understand that this communication is confidential?" he asked. "Decidedly, for the present." "In that case, I don't mind telling you that we came to the conclusion that Mr. North was shot between eight and nine o'clock last night." "Of course, you know about that strange writing on the wall?" "Yes," was the answer; "Dr. Jarrett said there was no doubt that a name was scrawled there, and that the writing was in blood." "Do you think Mr. North could have written it himself?" "Well, that's a leading question," answered the surgeon, as he leaned back in his chair. "I did not see the writing." "No?" said Thomas. He unrolled the photographer's proof. "Well, there it is—natural size, just as it looks." The surgeon scrutinized the scrawl with great interest. "Well, this is most extraordinary," he said. "Why, you can plainly mark how many times he was obliged to dip his finger by the corresponding heaviness of outline. Observe the S, the a, the h, and finally the letter following the u, where his strength seems suddenly to have deserted him and the finger dragged downwards. That makes four times." "Yes, if he wrote it," said Thomas. "But how about that, doctor?" "There is, at least, no conclusive reason why he might not have written it himself. It was certainly done with his A THE SURGEON SCRUTINIZED THE SCRAWL WITH GREAT INTEREST. forefinger. A careful examination of the end of that finger convinces me that it had not only been dipped in blood, but thereafter drawn over a surface while wet. The difference in the degree of the stain at different parts of the finger indicates that. How far above the floor is this writing? "Just about a foot and a half. It is a tinted wall, and the writing is immediately above the footboard." "Was the writing horizontal? Did it run just parallel with the footboard?" "Just about." "If a man had directed this writing from a higher point, Thomas, he would have written back handed. How was the slope of the letters?" "Natural." "And have you seen any specimens of North's handwriting? Does he form his letters that way?" "Yes; as nearly as could be expected under the circumstances." "Then it should say," said the surgeon, rising, "that it is more than probable that North wrote it." "But with a wound like that," suggested the reporter, "death must have been instantaneous." "Ah, there you have failed to distinguish between speedy death and instantaneous death. What is commonly called instantaneous death—from a shot in the heart, for instance—is by no means such. A second is an hour to a dying man. On the other hand, the severing of the spinal column by a bullet would actually cut a thought in two. THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. Man goes into the presence of his Maker under such circumstances without an instant to prepare himself. But in a case like North's we must take into consideration the power of the human will to prolong life." "But this writing on the wall was not an act of memory." "No. But with thought in a man of strong purpose would come quick determination and the power to act, even at that moment. You must bear in mind that Mr. North's death was caused by the filling of his lungs with blood instead of air. It was a painless death, and Mr. North's will power would have enabled him to prolong his 60 seconds—perhaps even 180 seconds—ample time for the writing of this name on the wall, as you can see. Take the name Paul North; trace it slowly, as if you had to dip your finger in the writing fluid four times. There. Now time yourself. How long did it take you?" "Just 20 seconds," said Mr. Thomas. "Exactly. Now you understand the possibilities in this matter of the writing; and I tell you, Thomas, this talk with you only confirms and emphasizes my belief that here you have a great case—one of the most extraordinary in my experience. If you can put what I've told you to good use, I shall be glad; but mind, I shall not look to see it in the morning papers." The surgeon had arisen and was accompanying the reporter to the door. Thomas stopped him oy a restraining gesture. "By the way, doctor, stand just as you are. Now will you put your finger on that part of your body corresponding to that where Paul North was shot." The surgeon obliged him. Thomas, standing behind him, made several rapid measurements and calculations with his eye and hand. "There is something decidedly curious here, doctor," he said. "Stand behind me, please. Suppose me my intended victim, if it isn't too great a strain on your imagination. Now see where you must hold your pistol to comply with all conditions—within three feet, pointed upward at an angle of 20 degrees!" The surgeon, who hastened to attempt the experiment, uttered an exclamation of surprise. "Curious how much a man may miss when he thinks he has observed the whole, sometimes," he said. "Why, I never thought of this before." "What, doctor?" "The man who fired that ball must have been upon his knees." "Precisely! Precisely!" excimated Thomas. "Just my thoughts exactly. What sane person would fire a pistol at a man in any such direction in an erect attitude? It would be almost equally absurd if the assassin had been seated." "You are right," returned the surgeon, thoughtfully. "He might have been crouching behind some article of furniture—" "Or been previously knocked down!" Thomas interposed, turning a very meaning look upon the gurgon's face. "So, indeed! That would indicate, then, a struggle to your mind." "It would indicate that the murderer fired in self-defense, or from momentary passion induced by North's treatment of him." When Thomas found himself in the cool air of the June night again, he hastened at a round pace in the direction of Newspaper Row. He was near the door of his own office when a man jumped from a horse car and tapped him upon the shoulder. It was Detective John Lamm, direct from Swampscott. "What's your hurry, Kingman?" he inquired, with the easy assurance of a familiar acquaintance. "Come up into my office a few minutes. I want to talk with you." Reporter Thomas consulted his watch. "The fact is, old man," he said, with a frank smile, "I'm rather driven to-night. It's that North mystery, you understand." "How do you know that isn't the very matter I wanted to talk with you about?" returned Mr. Lamm, taking the reporter's arm with good-humored insistence, and escorting him, half-reliantly, to his own private den, as he called it. "Kingman, I know you, and you know me," said the detective, after they were fairly settled in their chairs. "It came to me when I saw you just now that we might work this case together. It wouldn't be the first case we have handled together, eh?" "You're right," said Thomas. "Now, I'm interested in this North mystery very particularly, you understand." pursued Mr. Lamm, quite warming to his subject, now that he was closeted with a tried friend, and at an hour when he was reasonably secure from interruption. "Not for the government, of course." Private parties. And my opinion, gathered from all I have been able to ascertain about the case, is that it is very mysterious, very complicated, and may baffle even the most thorough investigation." Thomas pursed up his lips, and regarded the gas jet doubtfully. "You don't think so, eh?" "When I hear what Thornton Stackhouse's alibi is, I can answer you better." "Alibi, eh? So you have the medical examiner's report? Good! Just what I was after. When did North die?" The reporter laughingly parried this query with another. "Do you suppose I have the doctor's report on the autopsy in my coat pocket?" Mr. Lamm ventured to express a shrewd suspicion that his friend did possess, by some fortunate chance or other, the essential facts of that report, and Mr. Thomas quite justified that suspicion by letting him know in strict confidence, the outcome of his interview with the surgeon. The detective uttered a long, low whistle. "Curious! Mighty curious!" he commented. "If you'll be so good as to give me an opportunity," suggested Thomas, "I'll be pleased to ejaculate with you." "Um—ha! You said a moment ago, Thomas, that your opinion of the case would depend upon the alibi of Thornton Stackhouse. What would you say if I told you that the said gentleman's elsewhere has one weak spot in it, involving the precise period of time that you have mentioned." "I should say nothing, but remain in hourly expectation of Thornton Stackhouse's arrest." "Very well. See that you do say nothing, for the secret is yours and mine at present. And so you have already convicted the poor fellow?" John Lamm took one of the cigars which stood upright in the upper pocket of his vest, and drew a match against the under side of his chair, which was tipped back against the wall. "I must confess," Thomas replied, that it looks to me something that way. "Oh, indeed, yes. The evidence is strong—even stronger, probably, than you know—against him. But then—" In lieu of continuing, Lamm lighted his cigar. "Thomas, what is your definition of a good theory of a mystery?" he suddenly inquired, as he threw the match from him. "I don't know that I ever thought of defining it." "Well, I'll tell you what mine is. A good theory is one which thoroughly explains all the facts in the case." "Short and comprehensive," said Thomas. "I subscribe to it. That's my idea. Now, is there any fact in the case, so far known, inconsistent with Thornton Stackhouse being the man?" "None at all." "Ahl and yet I can see plainly enough that you don't subscribe to my opinion. Is there any fact which the supposition of his guilt leaves unexplained?" "There is one fact which the supposition of his guilt does not explain." "Well, now we are coming to the point. What is it?" "It doesn't explain to my mind why a certain individual of my acquaintance should be so anxious to convict him." "Name the man." "It would be a breach of professional etiquette. But as you and I are old friends, Thomas, and never betray each other's confidences. I don't mind saying to you that, if you can get hold of any facts tending to explain Mr. Richard Fetridge's strong interest in this case, I shall be exceedingly obliged if you will bring them to me." "Jupiter!" exclaimed Thomas, opening his eyes; "there is more in this case, then, than I thought!" And when he lett the room after a half-hour's further conversation, it was with the conviction that, unless some unexpected thing happened to determine otherwise, the North mystery would turn out to be a complication worthy of his best thought and his most skillful treatment. CHAPTER VII THE INSPECTOR DISCOVERS NEW EXDENDS THE Friday when the body of Paul North was discovered, and the day following, were two exceedingly busy days for the police department, under the active superintendence and guidance of Inspector Applebee. Again and again he had examined every nook and corner, turning his bull's-eye upon the recesses of every trunk and box, sounding every cask and receptacle, making sure that nowhere within the four walls of Paul North's home was hidden the weapon which had caused Paul North's death. It was with "father a puzzled countenance and a mind unsettled and ill at ease that about noon on Saturday he sought a conference with his chief at headquarters; for even Inspector Applebee had his superior officer. "Well, Applebee!" said the chief inspector, as the door was closed, and the two men found themselves alone in the little office; "are you prepared to make any arrests? What's on your mind? Have you found out anything?" "Found out anything? I've found out too much. There's just the trouble. When I woke up this morning my mind was settled. Four hours' work and it's all at sea again. Fully prepared to make an arrest to-day. I've now reached a point where I don't know whom to suspect, or what to think." "Well, take this morning for a starting point. When we separated last night, you were sure the partner was our man." "I was. In the first place, North seemed to have written his name on the wall in his own blood. Now, it strikes me that an accusation made at the moment of death is a very solemn one. A man isn't likely at such a time to indulge in feelings of petty spite or practical joking, is he, now? "I should say not, decidedly. But why were you so sure that he wrote it?" why were you so sure that he wrote it? "Because the doctors say he could have done it, and that there are few circumstances of death like that under which such a thing could happen. And it strikes me that to assume somebody else did it in face of such a report, is taking too much advantage of what must be in that case a remarkable coincidence." "Coincidences happen," said the chief, shortly. "So they do. But in nine hundred and ninety-nine chances out of a thousand, if a murderer endeavored to throw us off such a ruse, the medical examiner would discover the trick at a glance, and denounce the writing as a fraud." "Even so. How do you know what North had in his mind to write? He might have started in to declare 'Stackhouse is my executor,' or 'Stackhouse inherits my property,' or 'Stackhouse is-' anything else you may please to imagine." "True," said Applebee, doubtfully. "And then, again, we are not unquestionably sure that the writing is intended for Stackhouse, are we?" "After two hours of inspection and experiment, I am fully persuaded that it cannot be anything else." "And how does Stackhouse himself impress you?" "Confound the man! He puzzles me. I had a long talk with him this morning. He carries a 32 caliber pistol. There are no signs of its having been recently discharged." "I presume he knows how to clean it," said the chief inspector, dryly. "No doubt and how to fire it, too. But what good does that do us? I put the case to him plainly. I said: 'Stackhouse, this is no time for conventionalities. People are beginning to talk. Better clear it up at once by giving me an alter.' Shoot me, if he didn't say that between eight and nine, when Jarrett says North was shot, he was walking in the Public Garden alone, smoking a cigar." "Looks bad." "So it does. But the queerest thing is that he is not living at nome. Where did Thoraton Stackhouse spend last night? At his house at the beach, where the women folk would certainly be expected to need him at such a time as this, of all times? No, sir. At the Adams house." "That means trouble in the family." "And very serious trouble. Men quarrel with their wives often enough; but not often under such circumstances as these." "How did you find the family?" "Frightened to death. Stupid. Idiotic. Stackhouse's wife alone preserves her senses, and she is a tartar. She seemed to take my visit as a personal affront, and read me a lecture on propriety. I confess I lost my temper. 'Do you intend to hinder justice all you can, or to help it?' said I. 'It's not in my province to do either,' she said, with a defiant look in her eye. 'I shall let justice take its course.' I can forgive a young woman with plenty of money for doing a great deal, but there's such a thing as overdoing the high and mighty. I couldn't imagine what made her seem so unmoved by her father's death till I learned that she's not his daughter after all." "No?" "An adopted child." "Adopted at what age?" "Took her out of the Temporary Home in Charles street when she was a year old." "Watch that woman." "You may be sure I shall." "She's his own daughter, but I didn't see her. I was given to understand she was completely prostrated by her father's death. She is between 17 and 78 years old, and I doubt if she could help us at all." "But all this doesn't explain what has unsettled your ideas about Stackhouse. So far you have only confirmed your own suspicions." "Ah, but there have been several new facts. At an early hour this morning, I deputed two men to make a thorough canvass of the neighborhood for the purpose of ascertaining whether anybody had been seen going in or coming out of the North house on the night of the murder. Unfortunately the people who live directly opposite, who would be more likely to have observed than anybody else, left for Newport yesterday morning. Still, we have found a servant girl, Hannah Doyle, who lives several houses further down. This woman positively declares that when she was returning home after dark about half-past nine on Thursday night, she saw a woman—a young woman, she believes—come down the steps of the North house and walk away." "The deuce she did! Can she not be mistaken in the house?" "She says not. What made her notice the woman and remember the circumstance was the peculiar fact that anybody should be coming out of a house boarded up for the summer. And no other house for several doors except the North house is boarded up." "This is important, Applebee." "I think so." "Half-past nine must have been later than the murder. Consequently the woman must have been the criminal or an accomplice." "She could not have failed to know that North had been killed even if she had no part in the deed. The fact that she gave no alarm—has not spoken a word since—declares her complicity." "Another fact, if you please. I have discovered that North had somewhere in his possession a 32 caliber pistol. That pistol was presumably in the Marlboro street house on the night of the murder. I have searched the premises from top to bottom without finding a trace of it." "That has an odd look, too." "But," continued Applebee, with a meaning emphasis, "I did find the box of cartridges—nearly filled—in a drawer of the writing desk in the library where the man was shot. The drawer was closed, but the box was open." "Important," said the chief inspector, quickly. "Important. Now, how thorough has been your search of the premises?" "I did not take any chances. I took two men with me. We even visited the coal bins and examined the ash barrels in detail. Stackhouse has been eager to afford us any help. He has even given us every key we asked for. The search has been thorough. The pistol is not there." "So then it only remains to discover who that woman was." "So it seems." "Have you no clew?" "Just one." "Of what nature?" "A perfume. To be sure, there is a handkerchief, but it is unmarked and I have inquired at the stores where they sell such things, to no purpose. I told you where and when I found that bit of lace. It was upon the stairs, between the second and third floors, not a great many steps from the door of the library, and it had not been lying there any fifteen days, which is the length of time the family have been away." "How do you know?" "Bless you, I took it to a chemist. He assured me that to be as fresh as that the perfume must have been applied within two days at the longest. It is one of those volatile preparations that soon lose their strength." "I don't see but your chain is complete, then, so far it goes. No man ever carried that handkerchief. It must have been dropped by a woman. The woman was seen coming away after the hour at which the crime was committed. You haven't forgotten that perfume, I trust." "Assuredly not. If I ever get near enough to the woman who uses it—but that's the trouble. I'm afraid she's not apt to pay me a visit." "You must visit her, then. Meanwhile, what about the threatening letter which was written to North a week or two previous to the crimes?" "Bless me! I had nearly forgotten it. But what are we to do? The decoy letter is still unclaimed at the post office." "Put an expert on to the handwriting. Get samples of the chirography of everybody who is likely to have suffered by the operation of the firm." "The idea was so feasible that Inspector Applebee determined to put it in effect at once. He left headquarters and hurried to the office of North & Stackhouse, where he hoped to find the junior partner. Disregarding the crape on the door, which kept away less important visitors, Inspector Applebee rattled at the handle, and was quietly admitted by old Jobson, who seemed to have the outer office all to himself. "Mr. Stackhouse?" said the inspector. The old clerk covered his eyes with his left hand and pointed to the door of the inner office. Applebee understood the unspoken premonition of the old man. "Poor old fool!" he thought; "he thinks, the hour of the firm's disgrace has come, and that I am here to arrest his employer. Well, may be I shall, some day. But not yet—not yet." He pushed open the door and went in without ceremony. Thornton Stackhouse started up from the desk at which he had been writing, his face flushed, his manner agitated. The inspector expected some word of greeting—a grunt or a nod, if nothing more. But Stackhouse drew a full A man in a uniform is kneeling on a rug, holding a tray with a plate of food. Behind him is a wooden shelf with various items. HE HASTILY TRANSFERRED THE CONTENTS OF THE WASTE BASKET TO HIS HAT. breath, set his teeth, and seemed to be waiting. "Bless me," thought the inspector. "He expects it too." "Well, Stackhouse," he said, with a reassuring smile; "is there anything new in the case?" Stackhouse sighed and shook his head wearily. His dry lips murmured: "Nothing." He evidently understood that there was still a respute, but it did not seem to comfort him. His eye suddenly fell upon the paper on which he had been recently writing. He furtively seized it in his hand and crumpled it. The inspector, who observed this, immediately began to appear indifferent to Stackhouse's actions, and, pretending to turn toward Jobson, stated his purpose in calling. Stackhouse, falling into the trap, seized the opportunity to tear the writing paper into strips, and cast it into the waste basket. "May I be shot!" was the inspector's inward ejaculation, "if that basket goes out of my sight till I have gathered up those bits of torn paper." Meanwhile he continued to talk about the threatening letter to North, which he held in his hand. "It's altogether probable, Mr. Stackhouse," said the inspector, "that we have a very important piece of evidence here. It will require a most careful examination. Plainly, this is largely a matter of handwriting that we have to deal with. You have your stock books and so on available? I supposed as much. Be good enough to have the books, with all the correspondence of the firm that you can secure, brought here. I will have an expert in handwriting secured at once. Of course, until after the funeral, your office will be closed? Very good; we shall be able to work uninterruptedly for a day or two." Gradually all traces of Stackhouse's acitation disappeared. He accompanied the inspector into the outer office. The books were got out, Johnson was sent after by the writing expert, and Stackhouse seemed to be eager and absorbed in the new quest. Applebee's opportunity came at last. Going into the inner office upon the first reasonable pretext, he hastily transferred the contents of the waste basket to his hat. Fortunately he had a large head and his hat was capacious. After the arrival of the writing expert the inspector did not linger long at the office. He suddenly discovered an errand. In five minutes he was locked in a private office alone, excitedly comparing, arranging, searching and pasting. As the writing was only on one side of the sheet, patience and a little mucilage soon effected a restoration of the whole. And this was the inspector's reward: "Oh, Marion! Oh, my beautiful and cruel wife! I will not ask you to have pity on me, for I know you hate and despise me. I will not ask you to think of my suffering and despair, for I know you have made up your mind that I deserve the worst misfortune that a guilty conscience can inflict. But, oh, for your own sake, I beg of you to tell me what that wicked and unscrupulous woman, whose name was upon your lips when we parted, has told you! If you knew what her purpose is, how she exists by blackmail and crime, you would be careful how you put faith in her. Perhaps she presented what seemed to be proofs. Remember proofs can be manufactured." "Pshaw!" grumbled the inspector, hugely disappointed; "it's not better but a wheedling love letter to his wife!" TO BE CONTINUED. PORTSMOUTH LIBERTY POLE One in New Hampshire Town Has Had The city of Portsmouth is the only one in New England, it is believed, that still maintains a liberty pole. At that place, once known as Swing Bridge, on January 9, 1766, the first "ostamp" flag was raised in what is now the United States. In 1731 the town gave certain persons permission to build across the mouth of the cove, which in later years was known as Puddle dock, a bridge which it was specified should be provided with a hoist or draw to allow the passage of vessels into and out of the cove, Judging by the name given to the bridge, the draw must have been put in to swing sideways. There is no record, so far as known, as to when Swing bridge ceased to be a drawbridge. Swing bridge came into prominence on January 9, 1766, and on that date the name was changed to Liberty bridge. On that day a large number of the people of the town, headed by Capt. Thomas Manning, John Davenport, George Gaina and others went to the house of George Meserve, on Vaughan street, and demanded his commission as stamp agent for New Hampshire, just received by him from England. Mr. Meserve, who had some time previously declined to accept the position, gave up the document, which was borne aloft on the point of a sword at the head of a procession of townspeople to Swing bridge. Accounts as to what was done there with the document differ, one being that it was burned amid tumultuous reloc- 图 EAGLE AND CAP, AND SHIELD OF LIBERTY POLE AT PORTSMOUTH. ing and defiant shouts, another story being that it was torn to fragments and the pieces cast on the surface of the Piscataqua river at ebb tide, so that they might be carried to the ocean and wafted across to England to let the king see how the people of Portsmouth regarded his scheme for taxing the colonies. Another and later account of the disposition made of the document is that the leaders on this occasion, after mature deliberation, decided that their action would be more impressive on the crown, if, instead of destroying it, they should return it to the power that issued it, which later was done, through the mediumship of a shipmaster who was sworn as a special messenger to deliver it to the ministers of King George. In the procession to the bridge was carried a flag bearing the motto, "Liberty, Property and No Stamp." After a lofty liberty pole had been erected near the bridge, the work of but a short time by these hardy men, many of whom were experts in the handling of heavy spars, the flag was hoisted to its top, and Swing bridge was renamed Liberty bridge, a name it still retains. It has been claimed, and never disputed as far as known, that this was the first erected of the many liberty poles that were set up in different New England towns between that time and the breaking out of the revolutionary war. A new pole bearing a shield with the motto of the first flag, "Erected July 4, 1824, in Commemoration of July 4, 1776, that Declared Our Emancipation from Tyranny and Gave Us the Privileges of Freemen," stands on the same spot as the original one, having been erected in 1899 and formally dedicated with an invocation, music and an address by Hon. Calvin Page, the mayor of the city. The pole took the place of one that was dedicated July 4, 1824, and which though taken down and repaired as effectively as possible in 1872 had become so weakened by age and decay as to be regarded as unsafe. The original pole was removed to make room for this one of 1824 and the latter to make room for the one of 1899. That the spot has been occupied by a liberty pole since the first one was put there by the "sots of liberty," long before the revolution, seems an assured fact. The subscription list for the pole of 1824, the repairs of 1872, the pole of 1899, and the flags that have at different times been provided are in possession of the "custodian of the flag," who, on the day of the funeral of any subscriber to the funds, displays the flag at half-mast. On all holidays and special occasions worthy of the honor, he flies the same at the lofty masthead. That a liberty pole has had a continuous existence in this town and city for nearly 140 years is something that the citizens point to with pride. Charity in Real Life "Now," said the kind woman, "I have procured some nice stockings for your two daughters. Won't they be glad to get them?" "Well, I don't know, mum," replied the poor lady. "Mag an' Liz is purty particular. Is they openwork stockings, mum?"—Chicago Sun. Art Note Mrs. Syllie—My husband takes a deep interest in art. Mrs. Oldar—You surprise me. Mrs. Syllie—Well, it was a surprise to me. But I heard him telling Jack Rownder last night that it was a good thing to study your hand before you draw.—Cleveland Leader. Right But Left Miss Bute-Oh, yes, I feel pretty sure of him. I rejected him when he first proposed because I was positive he would try again. Miss Koy-You were right; he did try again and I accepted him last night-Philadelphia Press. "You seem always to be hard up since you are married?" "Yes; that's so." "But you have the same income you used to have, haven’t you?" "Yes, but not the same outgo."—Houston Daily Post THE PLANET SATURDAY.....NOV. 25TH, 1905. LIVESTOCK PLAN FOR A HOG HOUSE. Two-Story Structure Comparatively Easy to Construct—Second-Story Used for Corn Storage. The accompanying illustration shows the ground plan of a hog house, 24x50 feet. in use on the farm of J. G. Palmer. 12 x 18" CEMENT FLOOR BROOD SOWS & PIGS 12 x 18" CEMENT FLOOR BROOD SOWS & PIGS CEMENT TROUGH CEMENT TROUGH 8 x 24" FEED ROOM CEMENT FLOOR 24 x 24" CEMENT FLOOR FATTENING. HOGS GROUND PLAN FOR HOG HOUSE. GROUND PLAN FOR HOG HOUSE. Jackson county, Mich. The plan as submitted in a late issue of the Michigan Farmer needs no further description. The hog house forms the basement of a two-story building. The upper portion is used for storage of corn. CARE OF MANES AND TAILS Some Valuable Suggestions for the Improvement in Appearance of the Horse. In response to an inquiry as to what to do to improve rough, uneven and unsightly manes and tails, a leading horse authority gives its readers the following suggestions: "Cleanliness is the first thing to be looked after. If dirt is suffered to accumulate at the roots of the long hair the horse will rub and destroy it. Therefore, good, honest soap and water is a mighty aid to keep manes and tails looking well. A little sheep dipzenoleum is excellent, used periodically at the roots of the long hair will stimulate growth measurably and kill or repel vermin that may have found or seek a lodgment. When a horse is rubbing his tail, which he always is when anything is wrong, the first thing to be done is to discover the cause. Then apply plentifully soap and water and the solution described. One part of the dip in 50 parts of warm water is right as to strength. Then the mane and tail should be kept clean by the use of comb and brush and more or less frequent washing. The long hair should be dried as well as possible after each scouring, and when the dip solution is applied there is no need to stop it over so that it runs down or away from the skin where it is needed. It should be rubbed in briskly for a few moments. The mane and tail should be handled gently. It is very easy to tear out great quantities of the long hair with a common currycomb, and in that very way much damage is done. A currycomb should never be used on a mane or tail. Use the comb specially designed for the purpose. The tail should never be plaited to make it look crinkly. To plait it is to break off the hair and in time to spoil the looks of the tail." THE LIVE STOCK Whatever you may feed your horse, feed judiciously and regularly. Use system. While it is always an item to feed well, young pigs may easily be stunted by overfeeding. Keep breeding sows by themselves, and feed them according to the demands of the condition. Hogs furnish one of the best mediums for marketing the bulky products of the farm in a concentrated shape. When stabled for the neon feed, it is comforting and cooling to the tired, sweating horse to be relieved of all harness. It is the hogs that make the best growth in the shortest time and upon the smallest amount of food that return the best profit. A tablespoonful of copper sulphate dissolved in hot water and given with a gallon of milk to the brood sow will stop scours in little pigs. Owners of waste, brushy land would find a flock of Angora goats a very valuable acquisition. They are money makers as well as land clearers. In selecting a young animal for breeding purposes one with a gentle and tractable disposition should be chosen as nearly as can be judged. Feeding of Brood Sow. If the sow is fed on a cooling or succulent ration before farrowing with a predominance of protein, the pigs should be strong and healthy, and reach the teats without becoming chilled.—Farm Journal. FEEDING WESTERN LAMBS. Suggestions by an Eastern Stockman for Profitable Rearing of Lambs for Meat. I wish to give some facts about the insue of an industry new to this country and in which are the least possible risks, with the hope of interesting capitalists. I believe, writes W. I. Armstrong, of New Jersey, in the Country Gentleman, I may claim to be the original advocate of the English system of sheep farming as suited to the American soil and climate. My views in this branch of farming have been supported by the foremost authorities in this country. My remarks refer to a system of feeding, etc., which will result in the development of a thick, lean, juicy mutton carcass of finest quality and digestibility, having a peculiar turnip flavor, pleasing to the palate, the epicure's delight. The questions may be asked: what are the requirements? Will the cost exceed present western systems of feeding? How can the sheep be procured? Ordinary farm land; about one-third of the farm or farms, should be planted with turnips, yielding 10 to 20 tons per acre, according to quality of the soil, costing about 50 cents per ton to grow. Roots are the mainstay, about 15 pounds each day per head being led, with a very small quantity of hay, alsoran, peas, linsseed and cotton cake, oats, etc., all or part mixed in bulk—estimating one pint or so each day per head, with about two quarts of hay chaff, possibly a little water and rock salt. Movable fences are necessary to enclose the flock in a new patch of roots each day, passing over the field bit by bit, leaving the land richly buttered with humus. The corn in the west is cisearable than the above-named mixed feeds corn, but the turnips, which play so important a part, will fully make good on the side of economy. Feeding sheep on arable land affords an additional item of return equal to many tons of city manure per acre, enriching the depleted soil and saving expensive fertilizer bills. The English grow their fine quality malting barley after sheep, and it may yet be discovered that a finer quality of tobacco can be grown in this country after such a preparation. Western lambs can be bought in the Buffalo market or shipped direct from the costing about three dollars per head. The feeding period may range over two to three months, during which time the animal will thicken and grow. LAMB'S CARCASS, SHOWING PARTS. The wool or pelt is an item of return. The butchers who cater to fancy trade will be compelled to fill orders for the special goods, whatever the price may be. A slaughter house on the farm and a method of crating the whole or part of a sheep to each of the thousands of rich families in and around New York city should be easily arranged. Advertising is unnecessary to make known such a commodity; once established, the only difficulty will be to supply the demand. In this billion-dollar age in the most extravagant country under the sun, a duplicate English saddle flap and juicy leg of mutton should command a handsome return, easily doubling present prices. The English-fed mutton continues always to hold up a high price against all imports. The best informed can show no reason adverse to the production of equally good mutton in close proximity to New York city, and this branch of farming will work favorably in conjunction with the usual routine of the farm; once started even in a small way. It can be developed to enormous proportions. It must not be supposed that the uninitiated can make a success by following the above statements, neither do the American stockmen grasp the possibilities that await them. The numerous details necessary to conduct successfully this special branch of farming are understood by the best English sheep feeders only, who often have cold or wet to contend with during the winter months, necessitating shed-covering as protection. It is not generally known that a succulent turnip is heating to the system of a western lamb, in the absence of duly preparing the animal. The question of fencing and protection from dogs should be fully understood; the cost of attendance is a small item of expense. In support of my right to speak with authority in sheep husbandry, I beg to say that my father was occupier of several farms, about 2,000 acres, near the county town of Bedford, England, for over 50 years, and for 20 years I have taken an active part in the business and in the management of large flocks of sheep, supplying the London market with No. 1 mutton and lamb. On these farms, the first iron plow was used, and with it we took first premiums at plowing matches throughout the country. We were also designers and inventors and makers of numerous agricultural implements still in use. The most prominent sheep farmer in the whole country, Charles Howard, whose name in the past often appeared in the press of this country, received his farming education with my father. It was on this large holding that the leading farmers and stockmen congregated to see our progressive methods. "I should say was. He couldn't have been kinder if he had been an insurance president."—Cleveland Piair Dealer THE RICHMOND PLANE1. RICHMOND. VIRGINIA ABOUT WINTERING BEES. Hlves, If Packed Warm Enough, Will Winter the Beas as Well as the Cellar. The beekeeper who has kept himself within the safe beaten paths of his own experience, and who has avoided the many new forms and fancies that spring up and seem to flourish for a day, may congratulate himself that he is not thrown off his base or led into temporary disaster by following some line of manipulation or some plan of management that is not practical or progressive. I would not discourage experiment nor lay a straw in the way of progress. Thought, theory, experiment, each is a key that unlocks the door to hidden truth. We may fall into error at times, but the success attained is the reward of investigation and experience; and this leads me to say, in regard to wintering bees in this northern climate, that a plan or a practice that has proved itself true for a period of years without a failure is a safe plan to follow for the one making the trial, if not for others. In this locality, writes a Hillsdale (Mich.) correspondent of Gleanings in Bee Culture, the temperature often goes down from zero to 20 below; and one great reason, and perhaps the chief reason, why some have failed in outdoor wintering of bees is that they are not packed warm. I formerly wintered my bees in the cellar, and lost them in the spring by the score. I then tried an outside repository with about the same percentage of loss. I have also packed them in chaff, and still lost a large number; but for the past several years I have lost no bees of any account. I now place them in winter cases, three hives in a case. These cases are made of good lumber, and papered with thick building-paper all around the sides and bottom. I placed 91 colonies in these winter boxes last fall, and every one of them is in fine condition except one in a single box that I overlooked in packing. Since I have adopted my present plan I have not been troubled with spring dwindling. What I wish to emphasize in this connection is, that bees must be packed warm, and here is where the secret lies. The chaff hives made by the different firms are all right provided there is sufficient packing of the right material on the top. My argument is that they must be packed so warm that the moisture will not condense—so warm that the bees can move to any part of the hive without any danger of being caught in a "bizzard," so warm that they just laugh when they hear the winds blow with the temperature going down below zero. But some will say: "Pack your bees so very close, and there will be no upward ventilation, and the hives will become damp, and the combs will become moldy, and the bees diseased; and, as a result, they will come out in bad condition in the spring." It occurs to me that this bad state of things which some seem to fear is not the result of close packing and warm hives, but the result of loose packing, too much cold, and too much upward ventilation. Absorbents are all right if warm. However, the only absorbent that I use is the propolized canvas, flat on the frames, and then two thicknesses of heavy building paper, and then a large chaff cushion, loose chaff or forest leaves, as the case may be, then the three hive-covers on top with the tight cover to the winter box, which completes the job. The most of my hives are seven- eighths of an inch deeper than the standard L., making the frame just ten inches from top to bottom. I think it is true that this deeper hive will generate more heat than a more shallow one. I run my bees for comb honey, and I like this deeper frame. It gives me more depth of brood and more bees, and it is bees that make honey. The whole surplus energy and warmth and odor from this deeper and more populous hive flows up into the super above, warming the sections and the foundation, so that I have very little trouble in forcing bees into the sections. There is such an up ward push that they must go above. EXTRACTING BEESWAX Simple Apparatus Which Will Enable the Apiarist to Separate Comb from the Honey. Wax, as produced by the bees and worked into comb, is almost pure white, but on being melted and cooled is yei. SOLAR WAX EXTRACTOR AND COVER low. I advise every bee keeper to use the solar wax extractor. All that is necessary is to have a box with glass to fill over it, as shown in cut. To melt combs, put in the box an old dripping pan, having a chole at one corner, and that corner the lowest, with some kind of a dish set under to catch the wax. To get the most out, says the Farm and Home, break up the combs into fine pieces, then soak in water for a day or two longer before rendering. Extra Combs Now arrange to have the bees fil and seal several extra combs, to have on hand when any colony runs short of stores during winter or early spring. FIRED ON BY JAP CRVISER Steamers recently in the port of New York were concerned directly or indirectly in the battle of the sea of Japan. The German steamer Pisa, Captain Fendt, of the Sloman line, took the part of a Japanese transport, and the British steamer Erroil, Captain Graham, had a night adventure with the Japanese cruiser Takachino in Tusshma strait. The Erroil was on her way from Shanghai to Kobe or Moji with a carriage of contraband cotton. Only because she got stuck in the Shanghai river just above Woosang bar for two days she escaped capture by the Russian volunteer steamer Smolensk. About 9:45 Sunday night, after sliding over the Woosang bar, Acting Chief Officer MacKenzie saw a steamer's light right ahead. He ported and altered his course five degrees, expecting the stranger to do the same, and the light still headed for the Erroil. When the stranger was about half a mile away she ported slightly, so as to pass about 300 yards off, and turned an electric searchlight on the Erroll. The man-of-war, for such she evidently was, was still invisible. The chief officer called the captain, who put on his uniform cap and coat and took the bridge. The electric light was kept on for eight minutes, and then the warship stood on his course. His hull was now visible, and close behind him, trailing like a couple of bloodhounds, were two torpedo boats showing no lights except astern. The captain went below again. At 11:45 o'clock a single white light came up on the starboard quarter, flashing the Morse code signal "M. N," which means "Stop instantly." Before the captain came up again two searchlights were playing on the Erroll, one full on the bridge and the other flashed all over the ship and her deck cargo of cotton. The chief officer drank his coffee with perhaps hundreds of eyes upon him, the second officer coming to relieve at midnight. Captain Graham paid no heed to the signals, keeping steadily on at full speed. At 2 o'clock the stranger fired a gun, but the Erroll still held on. At 3:45 o'clock, daylight fast coming on, the war vessel was on the port quarter. She was seen to be a Jap cruiser flying the signal "D. V." (Show your distinguishing signal). Captain Graham complied. Then appeared again the "M. N." and the Erroll stopped. A MARIE THE STRANGER FIRED A GUN. lieutenant, a middy, several other officers and two signalers boarded the Erroll. Captain Graham showed them his manifest. The lieutenant then asked Captain Graham why he had not stoped, saying Captain Mori was very angry. Captain Graham replied: "We don't understand Morse signals. Why didn't you fire a gun?" "We did," said the Jap. "Didn't hear it; must have been a popgun," said Captain Graham. "I thought you were a Russian, and I kept on, hoping you would put about and leave us alone." The Japs returned to their own ship, the cruiser Takachino, and the Erroll was compelled to follow the cruiser back on the road for more than half an hour, when she was allowed to proceed. The Goto islands were passed that afternoon, and when Mr. Mackenzie came on the bridge at midnight Tsushima light was just beam. The first object to attract attention was a warship, playing constantly a searchlight upon the cotton ship and running rings around the Erroll. The man-of-war was shouting something indistinctly, and the Erroll hoisted her signal. Shouting again, the unknown cruiser disappeared in the dark. The Erroll went on at half speed, but in two minutes there were several vessels signaling to her to stop instantly, which she did. She remained motionless until 4:30 a. m. A chain of warships was stretched clear across Tsushima strait during the darkness, but when daylight broke there wasn't one to be seen. So the cotton laden steamer pushed on, entering the harbor of Moll at noon. ANALYZING MILK The Process Is Neither Difficult Nor Complicated. The chemical analysis of milk is not complicated nor difficult. First the chemist weighs a small dish, cup or saucer and carefully notes down the results in ounces, grains and fractions of grains. Next he pours in some milk to be analyzed and again carefully notes down the result. By subtracting the weight of the dish from that of both the weight of the milk is found and recorded. Next the receptacle is placed over a steam jet, which evaporates the water of the milk, leaving only the residue or "solids." Again the dish and its contents are weighed, and by a simple calculation the percentage of solids is ascertained. The "solids" of the milk have been found by numerable analyses to average about 13 per cent, and while the fat varies in milk from different cows the solids left after extracting the fat are found to be a very constant quantity, seldom falling below 10 per cent or over 14. This gives the chemist a positive basis for his calculations and enables him to state with great certainty whether or not the milk has been watered. The fat or oil in milk is determined by dissolving it by means of ether, the residue remaining after such test being termed "soldies other than fat." The average fat or oil found in milk from cows is 3 per cent, and any amount less than 3 per cent indicates almost to a certainty that the milk has been skimmed. If analysis shows a decrease of fat it indicates that the milk has been watered, while if fats and other solids together are low you may infer that the skimmer has done its worst. ANCIENT SEA WALLS Punishment That Was Inflicted For Neglecting Their Repair, W. H. Wheeler in his "History of the Fens of South Lincolnshire" quotes Harrison as saying, in his preface to Holinshel's "Chronicle," that "such as, having walls or banks near unto the sea, do suffer the same to decay, after convenient admonition, whereby the water entereth and drowneth up the country, are by a certain ancient custom apprehended, condemned and staked in the breach, where they remain forever a parcel of the new wall that is to be made upon them, as I have heard reported."—P. 40. Harrison, so far as I am at present able to make out, is the earliest authority for this, and he only speaks of it as a report. In a paper by the Rev, F, C, J. Spurrell in "The Archaeologia Cantiana" relating to Dartford, I find the following, which, though it is by no means a proof of what Harrison had heard, tends to make the statement less improbable than it otherwise would be: "In early times the Roman way crossed the marsh untroubled by the tide. Afterward, the tide having advanced further inland, the road was raised, becoming a causeway. In mediaeval times this bank was heightened against the tide, the road running inside, as at present. During a section made a few years ago through this road, near Stidolph's house, I saw a human skeleton extended across the bank about two feet below the present surface. This is, of course, a strange situation; but, looking to the fact that it was a tide wall, it is possible that the once owner of the skeleton had the duty of repairing the bank and, having let the tide through by his neglect, was placed in the breach, thus helping to repair it while suffering punishment. S. Smiles has mentioned that such a mode of dealing was a mediaeval custom. However, I know not how far the ancient graveyard extended hereabout, so that the body, which showed no signs of burial, might yet have been buried in sacred ground."—London Notes and Queries. EARLY BOOKMAKERS THE FINE ART OF THE MONKS OF THE MIDDLE AGES. Written and Illuminated Works That Were Marvels of Skill and Industry-Anglo-Saxon Monks Origi- nated the Roman Letter. There is scarcely any error so popu- lar, yet so unfounded, as that which invertely attributes unbounded indol- ence to the monastic orders of former days. To them we owe the preservation of literature, both in the pains they took to perpetuate history by their labors in transcribing and by their diligence in the education of youth. In the large monasteries a chamber was always set apart for writing, allowing space in the same apartment for other quiet employments also. The transcribers were superintended by the abbot, prior, subprincipal and precentor of the convent and were distinguished by the name of "antiquariol." These industrious persons were continually occupied in making new copies of old manuscript books for the use of other monasteries, and by the means many were educated and our most valuable historical records were preserved. The Anglo-Saxon monks were most celebrated as writers and were the originators of the small roman letter used in modern times. The greatest delicacy and nicety were deemed essential in the transcribing of books, whether for the purpose of general instruction or for the use of the convents. Careless and illegible writing is therefore but seldom to be met with among the remains of monastic industry, and when erasures were made they appear to have been done with the utmost care and skill. For this purpose the monks used pumice stone, and they were also provided with a puncturum, or awl, to make the dots and with metal pens for writing until after the seventh century, when quills were brought into use, they being far better than the metal pens then in use. The inks were composed of lamp-black soot mixed with water and gum for use upon the vellum, paper not being introduced until the fourth century; hence the beautiful distinctness, as well as durability, of very ancient manuscript books. So important was the art of writing in those days that it is conceded as many as 100 different styles were in vogue among the learned. With so many impediments to the multiplication of books as were attendant upon their slow production in this manner, it is not a matter of surprise that the monks enjoyed almost a monopoly of this kind of labor, as in truth they were the only body of men who could properly conduct it. The A Poem for Today By Susn Coolidge F youth could know what age knows without teaching, Here's instability and Love's dear folly, The difference between practicing and preaching, The quiet charm that urks in melancholy, The after bitterness of tasted pleasure; That temperance of feeling and of words Is health of mind, and the calm fruits of teisure Have sweeter taste than feverish zeal affords; That reason has a joy beyond unreason; That nothing satisfies the soul like truth; That kindness conquers in and out of season-- If youth could know—why, youth would not be youth. Is health of mind, Have sweeter taste than That reason has a joy bee That nothing satisfies the That kindness conquers it If youth could know—w If age could feel the unease The pulse of life that be And with its swift, resist Make light of difficulties Could once, just once, ret That lovely, foolish zeal Which bids defiance to al And flashes in quick eye Which, counting dress for And, reckoning moons n And, having naught, has If age could do all this, If age could feel the uncalculating urgence, The pulse of life that beats in youthful veins, And with its swift, resistless ebb and surgence Make light of difficulties, sport and pains; Could once, just once, retrace the path and find it, That lovely, foolish zeal, so crude, so young, Which bids defiance to all laws to bind it And flashes in quick eye and limb and tongue, Which, counting dross for gold, is rich in dreaming, And, reckoning moons as suns, is never cold, And, having naught, has everything in seeming— If age could do all this, age were not old expense of preparing books was provisorily great, and large estates were frequently set apart for the purpose of purchasing them. In addition to the cost of transcribing, the materials of which books were composed were sources of great expense. The leaves in many instances were composed of purple vellum for the purpose of showing off to more advantage letters of gold and silver. The binding was often very gorgeous, although of rude construction. The prevailing covering for books was a rough white sheepskin pasted on a wooden board, with immense bosses of brass, but the exterior of those intended for church service was inlaid with gold relics or silver embossed on ivory plates. Some books had leaden covers and some had wooden leaves, but even as early as this bindings in velvet with silver clasps and studs were made as presents for exalted personages. Illuminating manuscripts was also another occupation of the monks of the middle ages, although not confined to them, for the greatest painters of the day disdaind not to contribute to these cumbrous and sometimes confused decorations. The art of correct drawing and a knowledge of perspective cannot, however, be ascribed to the generality of the fantastic pictures by which illuminated books are adorned. Coloring and gilding appear to have been the chief points to which the attention of the illuminations was directed. The neutral tint was first laid on somewhat in the same mode as in the present day, some portions being left untouched in order to be afterward imbedded in gold and silver. The pictures represented different subjects, according to the nature of the book which they were intended to embellish. The title on the pages was formed of capital letters of gold and azure mixed. Illuminated pictures are of a dazzling brightness, the white predominating, which, not being an oil color, reflects the rays of light and does not absorb them. So much custom had the monks in their labora of transcribing and illuminating that they were sometimes obliged to introduce hired limners, although contrary to the monastic rule in general, but such aids were seldom resorted to, the monks being usually the only laborers. The invention of printing diminishes the importance and annihilated the profits of writing, and in 1400 that of engraving superseded the art of illuminating.—New York Herald. THE PUEBLO INDIANS Their Religion Is In a Way in a Species of Water Worship. Eagle feathers are much used in the ceremonials of the Pueblo Indians, and in order to make sure of a supply the Zuni keep the birds in cages, plucking a few feathers whenever they happen to want them. On the other hand, the Moki have eagles' nests located at various spots within thirty or forty miles of their towns, which are considered the property of different clans among them. The eagle lays its eggs in the same nest year after year, and the clans inherit rights to certain nests from generation to generation. The eagles are not killed, but the new fledged young ones are taken from the nest—that is to say, all but one or two, which must be left. To remind the eagle god to encourage the laying of more eggs by the birds an egg carved out of wood is placed where the divinity will be sure to see it; also, after being plucked, the eaglets are carefully buried in a certain cleft in the rocks, which is the eagle cemetery. Here the eagles have been interred for centuries, and the place is very sacred. The Pueblo Indians have a tradition of the flood, and they say that the turkey is marked in commemoration of that event, its tail being black at the end where it was dragged through the mud after the water had subsided. The duck is another sacred bird, being associated with water. From the Pueblo point of view, anything that is related to the all precious water in any way is an object of worship. Their religion is made up to a great extent of aquatic divinities and might be called a species of water worship. How to Clean Old Book Plates. To restore old book plates that have been injured by age and damp proceed as follows: Place upon a flat surface a sheet of white paper somewhat larger than the print to be cleaned. Carefully dampen the print on both sides with a soft, wet sponge and then saturate it with a mixture of chloride of time and oxalic acid dissolved in about equal proportions in a pint of cold water. You can tell when the mixture is right by its turning magenta color. Continue to apply it until every stain or spot has disappeared and then with a clean sponge wash the print freely with cold water. I The Enemy Was the Sea, and the Colored Troops Won. No engagement of the civil war was carried on with more heroism and endurance than that fought by the Fortyninth United States colored troops after hostilities were over. The Magazine of American History contains an account of the tussle in which the black soldiers bore themselves so bravely. The steamer Merrimac, loaded with cotton, left New Orleans for New York carrying, besides her regular passengers, thirty officers and 900 colored privates. For several days all went well. Then the vessel sprung sleak, fires were dampened and the alarm spread. It was found that the iron supply pipe through which the water for the condenser was taken from the sea was broken, and the place of leakage could not be reached. The passengers were panic stricken. One small, fat German went about wringing his hands and crying: "Ach, we are at the bottom of the seal! If we gets pack to New Orleans will dey gif me pack my monish?" The water gained fast. The only hope lay in keeping about until a vessel could be sighted. The colored troops were pressed into service and proved themselves the heres of the occasion. A line of men was established from the hold to the deck, and buckets were passed as rapidly as hands could move. On deck another line stepped back and forth with well trained military tread. The work below was most exhausting. The men at the bottom could not hold their position more than three minutes at a time. They were blinded and half strangled by the washing sea water and bruised by the lumps of coal which dashed about. But no one faltered, and high above the noise rose the clear, sweet voices of the workers, now singing an army song, now a cheery negro melody. The music brought new hope to the hearts of the passengers. Hour after hour the men worked and sang, and the sea did not gain on them. Two days passed, and the drinking water gave out. Then they could no longer sing, and their parched throats were eased only by a scanty supply of oranges and lemons, but still they worked. On the third day the lights of a steamer were seen only half a mile away. Rockets were sent up, and with great difficulty, on account of her wet ammunition, a gun was fired. To the dismay of all, the steamer passed on. Quickly the soldiers formed a line once more, and the wearisome lubor began again. After sixty-five hours of bucket passing a steamer was sighted which responded to the call for help, and the waterlogged Merrinrina was towed into harbor. The men who had sung so cheerly in the midst of hard labor and in the face of death were thoroughly exhausted, but they had not lost their light hearted gayety. Gladstone's Early Joys When Mr. Gladstone was quite an old man it chanced that he and Mr. Chaplin were staying at the same country house together on a visit. One night after dinner the Grand Old Man asked Mr. Chaplin whether his grandmother had not lived in a certain street in Mayfair. Mr. Chaplin replied that she had done so. "Well," said Mr. Gladstone, "I remember it distinctly. I lived next door to her for awhile when I was a child. She used to give evening parties. When the carriages were assembled to take up, my brother and I used to creep out of bed—it was in the summer time—softly open the window, get out our squirts and discreetly fire away at the coachmen on the boxes. I remember the intense delight with which we used to see them look up to the sky and call out to ask each other whether it wasn't beginning to rain." When a young man on a small salary and with the future very uncertain gets married we claim he is as reckless as if he jumped into water and couldn't swim. The romantic may call it courage, but it is pure recklessness.—Atchison Globe. All Broke Up. "She was very much affected, was she not, at the bad news?" 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It contains much information and the advice given is on the highest order. We are persuaded to give a few extracts from this most interesting document. It tends to bridge the chasm and it is a powerful plea for mutual helpfulness between the races. Sometimes, Dr. Council goes so far on the other side that he leaves us on the opposite bank of the stream wondering, but in this case, we can keep step with him and applaud vigorously all that he is kind enough to say. All fair and intelligent discussion of the emancipated life of the Negro, divides the race, in the South, into two distinct classes—as distinct as the currents of the ocean and air. * * * The more than one or a hundred thousand educated and trained Negroes, forming the post-bellum class of mechanics, farm and home owners, doctors, lawyers, preachers, teachers, make a separate and distinct citizenship, as does a like class among other peoples in all lands, and in all times. Unfortunately and unfairly, prejudice knows but one class of Negroes. Therefore this superior class of a few hundred thousands has to overcome the severest hardships that have ever come against a race in the history of the human family—prejudice, biting, withering, blasting in its tendency. A prejudice which helps to create, but does not excuse or extenuate crime in the ignorant masses; a prejudice that helps to make weak, and curses the weakness which it makes in the weak and would undervalue and depreciate the strength which comes in spite of itself—that strength of human character which looks to the stars, instead of to dark, black, mismatic, deadly swamps; that strength which seeks life in life-giving atmosphere. And again: That class of Negroes by their labor and influence cultivate thirty-two fortieths of the cotton of the South, own nearly 400,000 homes and farms, maintain the Negro churches, schools, Negro newspapers authors, inventors, banking institutions, insurance companies, (although many of these enterprises are young, as those of the whites were less than two hundred years ago) still are forging their way to the top dragging the entire Negro race upward. There is a good Negro element, and this element should be studied. If men go round looking for bad Negroes, they will find them; if they look for good Negroes, they will find them. It depends upon what a man wants to see. It is unkind to take the small criminal --- element in the race as representing the whole race. Who will not agree with him when he says? At this point I wish to say that we must be as fair toward the white South as we want it to be toward us. We must not put all white men in the same class, for there are ministers of the Gospel, lawyers, farmers, doctors, merchants, bankers, writers and even some politicians who advocate and maintain in private and in public that friendship for the Negro, amicable relations between the races, and who have assisted in producing that material and spiritual prosperity, of which I have just boasted. The following definition of prejudice will be appreciated by all who take the time to think or admire those who think for them: Prejudice is but the cylinder or steam trunk which confines the expanding water, until the particles of steam have accumulated power to drive forward the mighty engine with its load to civilization and to God. Industrial intelligence plus intelligent industry must be the lever by which all of this shall be done; upon a foundation of racial respect, for no race can rise in this world which does not maintain its racial identity. The man who does not emphasize the importance of this soon becomes insane and recognizes himself as anybody else but himself. Dr. Councill sounds a warning that is as true as Holy Writ when he says: To say that all of this and more must be done for the young of our race, or they will go down in the general crash of races who do not meet the requirements of higher civilization, is the expression of no pessimistic prophecy. History repeats itself. All people who do not come up to the general requirements of mankind, fall behind and out of the onward march of the human race. It is not a matter of race or color, but an inexorable law of God. Progress is the law of the world and all things go on to life, or fall back to death. Usefulness is the mark of adaptation to this inalterable law of nature. Only that race which is useful in the world has continued existence. Regardless of our views about this or that people, if that people in its development comes within the scope of the "fore-ordained" plans of a good God for the development of the human family, then that race continues to live. If any member of the human body ceases to be of use, it dies. So with every racial member of the human family. As I have just said, usefulness is the standard of measurement. Men often measure by power, wealth, col or but the great God who sees the growth of the human family from Adam to the present, and on, shows that use alone is His crierion in the selection of material for the everlasting building of humanity. It is related that a city preacher who was very much wrought up over the liquor question although somewhat of an exhorter, had aroused a country congregation up to a point of great religious fervor and excitement. Suddenly he launched out against the whiskey traffic and condemned all who even took a drink of whiskey. An old gray-headed deacon who was better acquainted with the proclivities of not only the deacon-board, but the congregation as well, blurted out, "Be keerful! Mind how you ride that horse, sah, for he'll certainly throw you!" While recognizing the wisdom and truthfulness of all that Dr. Councill says, we felt like that open-hearted but nervous deacon, when we noticed all of these straight-haired, nappy-headed folks, who quietly patronized the straightening remedies now placed upon the market. But here is what Dr. Councill says: Some of our Southern Journals complain that Negroes are deluded by white fakirs and swindlers from the time of the "forty acres and a mule," on through other damnable swindles, and shrewd devices such as "Black Skin Removers," "Hair Straighteners," "Pensions," and the like. These swindles are unblushingly advertised and sold throughout the South. I submit in all canard, if the South had the right which it did have and exercised before the war to prohibit, suppress, and abate the sale of obnoxious literature and such things among the white population of the South as well as Negroes, it has even a greater moral right now, to abate nulsance, if it would see its real interests now as then. Politicians find tenable grounds on which to base "jim crow" laws and other Legislation. Why not prohibit these hellish practices and the criminal intermingling of races, by day and night, off the cars and on, in the public places and out; which are not only injurious to the Negro but a sapping the very foundation of Southern institutions and are a blot upon the civilization of mankind? The white South owes it to the ex-slaves and their descendants as well as to its civilization to drive out these swindlers. Dr. Councill speaks the whole truth when he says: You may reasonably and accurately conclude that the white man who is most extreme and cruel in his denunciation of the Negro, is like all other extremes. There is a meeting place somewhere. But the white man who is cool, quiet, but determined in advocacy of racial social separation can always be counted upon as honest, fair, just, and an advocate in word and practice of racial social separation and the supremacy of the law of the land. He is the superior—the man who obeys the criminal laws of the state in regard to saloons, gambling hells, dens of RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA crime, and all lawless acts—an example for the inferior—the Negro. The best white people of the South, from the governor down, except the little politician, are overpowered by the mob spirit. Many of these best white people no more dare to speak their true sentiments than the weakest Negro, but the little politician is with the mob, because it gives him temporary prosperity but he is sure to go down when truth and justice get a hearing. You cannot afford to notice every "low flung" expression, articles in public print, breathing maledictions nor give any heed to discouraging prophesies; but go forward, make yourself the best citizen in the land, buy property, own homes, have bank accounts and in all ways possible be counted on the side of industry and the law; so that the best white man and the best black man will be ready to stand sponsor for your recitude, when wicked men rise up against you in the serious hours and the serious days which must come into every man's life. This distinguished writer speaks truly when he says: American prejudice, which draws a line on Negro patronage, is a blessing in disguise. The refusal of a meal at a restaurant, or the entrance into a theatre is nothing but the voice of God calling the Negro to establish these concerns for his own good and amusement; patronize himself, put his own girls and boys into positions, and make himself rich. No glass of soda water shall stand between me and mankind. The refusal of the right to vote can not keep me from being a man. I have the right to hold a deed for land, to have a bank account, build up a good character and a good name, and stand as high as any other man for right and truth in the community. We have realized this during all of these years and every colored business man will bear eloquent testimony to the facts herein contained. This pamphlet may be read with profit by every Negro in the United States. Dr. Councill has struck the key note and it is with pleasure that we are able to present extracts from his eloquent remarks to the public. The following extract from the Richmond, Va. Times-Dispatch of Nov. 17th, 1805 will explain itself and give a slight idea as to the treatment of some of our people on the "Jim Crow" street-car of this city: George Strickland, a negro laborer employed at Stumpf's brewery, was arrested last night by Officer C. J. Stockmar for creating a disturbance and using bad language on Clay Street car, No. 214. Strickland boarded the car, and after riding for some distance refused to pay his fare, saying he would leave the car. Conductor J. Long placed him un der arrest, but the negro attempted to bolt. Conductor Long, a small man, jumped on his back and called upon Mr. E. M. Eppes for assistance. The negro was held a prisoner on the platform. Another negro stand ing by opened the iron gate of the platform and yelled to the prisoner to run. This he did, but Mr. Eppes pursued, knocked him down and sat upon him until Officer Stockmar ap peared. The case will come up in the Police Court this morning. We do not know of a railroad in the country that does otherwise than put off a passenger when he refuses to pay his fare and that is usually the end of the matter. Just for five cents two white men sit on top of a colored one, knock him down and then place him in the station-house for the night simply because he tried to leave the street-car. If the Receivers of the Virginia Passenger and Power Company continue to employ these kind of white men as conductors to the delay and embarrassment of other passengers who desire to get to their destination, the time is not far distant when white and colored citizens will unite to cause a cessation of the outrages. With the running down and killing of white and colored citizens and the beating and persecution of others who patronize the street-car service, the record of this corporation is not an enviable one and it calls for an investigation at the hands of our City Fathers. The man treated in this manner was a laborer and not a loafer and it seems to us was entitled to some consideration at the hands of that conductor and the citizen whom he called to assist him. Walking is good for us and we stay off the street-cars. FAVOR SEA LEVEL CANAL Work to Take 20 Years and Cost Over $100,000,000 More. Tireless Sound $100,000,000 More than Lock Canal. Washington, Nov. 20.—Another crisis in the history of the Panama canal undertaking was reached, when the board of consulting engineers by a vote of 9 to 5 reached the momentous decision that the great waterway should be of the sea level type. If this action of the board is approved by the president, as it is condently expected to be, it will precipitate a new and probably prolonged and acrimonious debate on the whole question of the canal in congress where the report embodying the action of the engineers goes to that body. This may be looked for, because the digging of a sea level canal will take from 15 to 20 years and perhaps longer, while conservative estimates of the difference in cost between a lock and sea level canal run from $105,000,000 to $200,000,000. STEAMER WRECKED OVER 100 LOST The Hilda Foundered on North Coast of France in a Fog. ONLY SIX PERSONS WERE SAVED London, Nov. 21.—One hundred and twenty-eight persons lost their lives in the wreck of the London and Southwester Railway company's steamer Hilda off the northern coast of France Saturday night, according to an official estimate given out by the officers of the company. This death roll includes 21 saloon passengers, 80 French onion sellers and 27 of the crew. The Hilda left Southampton on Friday night for St. Malo. Her passage was greatly delayed by a fog in the channel, and when nearing St. Malo she ran into a severe snow storm, apparently missed her course and foundered on the rocks off Jardin lighthouse, three miles from St. Malo. The company's steamer Ada, outward from St. Malo, rescued five of the passengers and one of the crew. They are the only survivors. A telegram from St. Severn, all joining the town of St. Malo, gives the few particulars yet available. The Hilda was near St. Malo Saturday morning. She struck the rocks yesterday morning in the roadstead off the island of Czezebre, having missed the tide owing to bad weather and the fog. The majority of the crew and passengers were asleep at the time of the accident. A lifeboat was picked up empty at St. Cast, where 13 bodies were washed ashore. The top of the Hilda's funnel and her mast are visible at low tide, according to the telegram from St. Servan. The disaster was first suspected through the washing ashore of a body, and the port authorities immediately sent out a tug. It was then learned that the Hilda was wrecked on a treacherous reef close to the Island of Cezembre, called Les Portes. She had apparently struck, broken her back and immediately sunk, leaving no time to launch the boats. The Jardin light is quite close to the spot. It cannot be explained as yet at what time or how the disaster occurred. The entrance to St. Malo is dangerous, the currents and rocks needing the exercise of considerable caution at all times, but more especially in bad weather. Many bodies have been washed ashore at different points, some wearing life belts. Six of the survivors, according to a report in circulation here, were rescued by the Ada from the rigging. [The Hilda was built at Glasgow in 1882, and registered 848 tons. She was a screw steamer, of iron construction, and was 235 feet in length.] STEAMER WRECKED, CREW LOST The Turbin Dashed to Pieces On Rocks Off Nova Scotia Coast. Clarks Harbor, N. S., Nov. 21.—The Norwegian steamer Turbin, with her captain and crew of about 16 men, is thought to have foundered in a terrific gale which swept over Nova Scotia last Friday. The coasting steamer Edaa R., which arrived here from Mud Island, brought news that on Friday a large steamer, supposed to be the Turbin, struck Black Rock Ledge, off the south coast of the province, backed off in a few minutes and then disappeared in the raging sea. Persons on the island who saw the steamer strike on the ledge were a considerable distance away, and owing to the tremendous sea running it was impossible to launch a boat. No person could be discerned aboard the craft, and so quickly did the steamer go down that no opportunity was given the crew to fight for their lives. No boat could have lived an instant in the sea that was running. While the craft hung on the rocks the seas made a clean breach over her. Suddenly a giant camel lifted her from her resting place, and the next instant she took the fatal plunge, carrying. it is believed, all on board down with her. VICTIM OF AUTO CRASH DIES ies Received at Atlantic City. Atlantic City, N. J., Nov. 22.—C. W. Greenwaid, who was injured in the wreck of the Everard automobile on the eVntmor speedway, died at the city hospital, without regaining consciousness. William Williams and Isaac Bennett, who were hurt in the crash, are recovering. The automobile, containing the three men and the chauffeur, was speeding along the speedway, and in trying to avoid a collision with a wagon the auto collided with a trolley pole, throwing the men out. Friedrich Mies Wilmington, Del, Nov. 22.—C. Preston Hering, who shot and killed Moses Bullock last month, was freed of guilt when the grand jury ignored the bill against him. Hering and his wife were proceeding along a lonely road, on their way to the house where Mrs. Hering lived, and were followed by Bullock. The latter pursued Mrs. Hering as she fled, and Hering fired at him, killing him instantly. Died After Eleven Operations New York. Nov 21. — Charles H. Lease, a son of Mary Ellen Lease, the well-known Populist advocate, died at his mother's home here. His death was the result of 11 operations, which commenced with an operation for appendicitis. Mr. Lease, who was a customs house inspector, was first operated on 11 months ago. Succeeds Dr. Salmon. Washington, Nov. 22. — Secretary Wilson appointed Dr. A. D. Melvin, of Illinois, as chief of the bureau of animal industry, to succeed Dr. Salmon, who resigned some time ago. Clam Produced $100 Gem Bridgeton. N. J., Nov. 20.—While opening clams, William R. Shaw, a local business man, found a pearl as largs as a pea and in perfect form. He refused $100 for it. BURIED IN 40-TON STEEL INGOT Ddd Funeral of Workmen Who Were Overwhelmed In Molten Steel Overwhelmed in Molten Steel. Philadelphia, Nov. 20. — A funeral without a parallel in this city took place at the Midvale Steel works, where a 40-ton ingot of steel, permeated with the flesh, blood and bones of two workmen, was buried with the solemn rites of the Roman Catholic church. The workmen who were so strangely laid away were John Forkin and Joseph Gazda, two foreign-speaking laborers, who met a horrible death a week ago. They were in a pit near a cupola containing many tons of molten steel. A plug gave way and 80,000 pounds of the flery fluid poured from the cupola and overhemlmed them. The men were completely incinerated and not a trace of themselves nor their clothing was left. The Midvale Steel company was averse to selling the steel or using it for the purpose it was intended, and it was decided to bury it with the rites of the church to which the unfortunate men belonged. Accordingly the 40-ton ingot, oval in shape, 28 feet long, 6 feet wide and 5 feet thick, was moved by a travelling crane to the rear of the machine shop, where a grave 10 feet deep had been made. Heads were bared and flags lowered to half staff while two priests conducted the services. After the sisters of Gazda had been led away the great ingot was covered with earth and the funeral party dispersed. The grave of the men will be appropriately marked by the company. SHOT WHILE LYING ON COUCH Cooper Fired Four Bullets Into Father in-law and Then Killed Himself. Philadelphia, Nov. 22.—Lying on a couch at his home in West Philadelphia, helpless from paralysis, David F. Rowe, an elderly man, was shot four times by Casper Cooper, his son-in-law, who then fled from the house and killed himself by sending a bullet through his head. The father-in-law's wounds are so serious that he had to be removed to a hospital. It is believed he will recover. Cooper had been married to Rowe's daughter for three years, but the wife left him about eight months ago because of ill-treatment. The husband returned to his father-in-law's house and asked to see his wife. Rowe gald she was out earning her living. The father-in-law reproached the son-in-law for ill-treating his daughter, and a quarrel followed, which ended by Cooper shooting his wife's father while he lay on the couch. Before anyone could interfere Cooper ran from the house and, entering a building two blocks from the scene of the shooting, sent a bullet crashing into his brain. He was dead when picked up. GRANGERS FAVOR TEMPERANCE ered to Vote Saloon From Its Midst." Atlantic City, N. J., Nov. 21. The National Grange, Patrons of Husbandry, went on record in favor of temperance and the curtailing of saloons, declaring "that they should be abridged until they are abolished." A resolution says: "Every community should be empowered by law to vote every saloon from its midst or its borders." The grange strongly condemned all influences brought to win legislation by lobbyists or others, and deplored the use of money in campaigns. "The recent agitation," says a resolution, "and investigations in regard to extravagance in the management of our great financial institutions, the exposure of graft in high places and the enormous power exercised by great transportation companies through combined arrangements have aroused the people to a realization of the necessities of vigorous action if they would protect themselves against the inordinate desires of wealth." FOUR MEN BLOWN TO PIECE Explosion In Laboratory of Smokeless Powder Company South River, N. J., Nov. 22. — Four men were blown to pieces by an explosion at the laboratory of the International Smokeless Powder and Chemical company, at Parlin. They were: John Pierce, Frank Spratford, John Applegate and J. W. Redpath, superintendent of the laboratory. What caused the explosion will never be known, as only the four men were in the building at the time. The building was a one-story frame structure, and because of the liability to explosions was separated from all others in the plant, except on- by a space of several hundred feet. The next building was a store house, in which supplies used in the other were stored. This caught fire and was burned. Favor Larger Battleships. Washington, Nov. 22—The board of construction of the navy department held an important meeting, at which the recommendations of the general board of the navy on new construction were carefully considered. The general board is in favor of ships of much larger tonnage, 18,000 tons displacement being regarded as minimum for battleships. The board on construction inclines to the belief that there are other important factors which should be considered along with increased tonnage, and its report to the secretary, although not yet prepared, will contain some important modifications of the general board's program. TO PURIFY NEW JERSEY Governor Stokes Determined to Put An End to Election Frauds Trenton, Nov. 22—It was authoritatively stated at the state house that Governor Stokes in his message to the next legislature would treat exhaustively the question of corrupt practices in connection with elections, and that he would make radical and in some respects original recommendations in an endeavor to put an end to vote buying. The governor has made a complete study of the laws of other states on the subject. Held For Conspiracy Philadelphia, Nov. 22—W. D. Elliott, alias Count Du Lanley, who was taken into custody here a few days ago, was given a hearing by United States Commissioner Craig and held in $2500 bail to await his removal to Baltimore, where he is wanted to answer a charge of conspiracy with Edwin L. Parker and Samuel J. Long to use the mails in a scheme to defraud. Parker is under arrest in Baltimore. Postal inspectors at the hearing testified that the men had been operating an illegal stock brokerage concern. ROUSING THE LEGANTS Russian Revolutionists Inciting Rebellion in the Villages. St. Petersburg, Nov. 22.—It develops that revolutionary agents are traveling from village to village dressed in the uniforms of army generals instructing the peasants to rise against their landlords, such actions being declared to be the wish of the czar. The Poles have carried their case to the Moscow congress. The situation in Finland is still a source of danger. There are signs that the Hebrews are preparing for an enormous emigration to America. Private advices received from Gomel, in the government of that name, say that a battalion of reservists, 1000 strong, mutinied, following a demand for better food. Peasants Looting Estates. Borisoglyebsk, Russia, Nov. 22. — Many panic-stricken persons are seeking refuge here from the peasants, who are taking possession of the estates, removing the grain, burning the buildings and ordering the proprietors to relinquish their rights and depart, under penalty of death. The excitement has assumed such dimensions that the vice governor has ordered the troops to desist from making arrests. In encounters with marching bands of peasants the troops have killed 100 and have wounded many more. The residents of Borisoglyebsk are afraid that the peasants will attack the town, but their fears appear to be unwarranted. HOLOCAUST IN GLASGOW Thirty-nine Dead and Thirty-two Hurt In Fire In Lodging House In Fire In Lodging House. Glasgow. Nov. 20.—The most terrible fire that has occurred in Great Britain for many years broke out here in a cheap lodging house for men in Watson street and resulted in the loss of 32 lives and the severe injury of 32 others. The flames were first noticed on the fourth floor of the building, which was occupied by 330 men. An alarm was raised, and the firemen responded quickly, but flames and smoke were then issuing from most of the windows on the fourth floor. An extraordinary scene was created by a procession of almost naked men rushing out of the entrance to the building, and against their frantic efforts to escape the firemen had actually to fight for admission. The deed men were mostly workmen in the prime of life. They presented a horrible spectacle, their blackened faces bearing evidence of the terrible struggle to escape. BAN ON PLURAL MARRIAGES President of Mormon Church Refused Sanction and Caused Couple's Arrest Sanction and Caused Couple's Arrest. El Paso, Tex., Nov. 22—The arrest here of E. H. Conger and Pearl Gurrin, of Utah brings out the fact that President Smith, of the Mormon church, absolutely refuses to sanction plural marriages. Conger declares he fell in love with Miss Gurrin, and being refused a license in Utah, he went to the Mormon colonies in Mexico, expecting to marry there, send for his first wife and make a home there with both. He says President Smith was visiting the colony and flatly refused to permit the marriage, and the couple started back home and were arrested here. Conger being charged with abduction of the girl. Conger says both have been expelled from the church by President Smith. Dowle Denles He Is Ill. El Paso, Tex., Nov. 22—John Alexander Dowie and Zion party have reached Tampaco after inspecting the offerings for a proposed Zion colony, and are ready to take the steamer for Chicago, via New York and Havana. Dowie has wired Zion City denying that he is ill. He says 20,000,000 acres of land have been offered for his colony. Accidentally Killed Box Wilmington, Del., Nov. 20—At the Fairview club, where there were a number of boys, George Kelly in handling a gun accidentally shot and killed William Fisher, a 17-year-old Polish boy. Kelly surrendered to the police. They believe the shooting was accidental. Oldest Yale Graduate Dead Lansing, Mich., Nov. 21—Rev. J. S. Lord, aged 97, said to have been for many years the oldest living alumnus of Yale University, died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. W. J. Tillotson, of Lalingsburg. Rev. Mr. Lord graduated from Yale in the class of 1831. A WEEK'S NEWS CONDENSED. THURSDAY, November 16. Mrs. Ann Bumbolow, aged 108 years, the oldest white woman in the south, died at Greenville, S. C. The 71st annual communication of the Grand Lodge of Delaware, I. O. O. F., was held at Wilmington. Harry C. Campion, a wholesale drug-gist of Philadelphia, fell under a trolley car and received injuries from which he died. While temporarily deranged by illness, H. Frank Weed, a New York cotton merchant, committed suicide at his home at Norotton, Conn. While playing around fodder stacks with matches, on her father's farm, near Dover, Del., Eliza Seeney, aged 7 years, set them on fire and was burned to death. Friday, November 17. Albert J. Pitkin, president of the American Locomotive Works, died at his home in New York. Samuel M. Schellenger, a well-known Delaware river pilot, died at his home in Cape May, N. J., of typhoid fever. Harry B. Thomas, business manager of the Wilkes-Barre, Pa., Evening Times, died of tuberculosis, aged 37 years. While gunning for rabbits near Smyrna, Del., Clifton Turner, aged 19 years, ran against a companion's gun and was fatally shot. While starting a fire with kerosene oil, Mrs. August Scalise, of Warren; Pa., was burned to death and her husband seriously injured in an explosion. Saturday, November 18. Mrs. Ida E. Fernsworth, of Harrisburg, Pa., was found dead in her home, with the gas turned on. The population of Rhode Island is 480,082, according to a census taken by the state board of statistics. President Roosevelt will re-appoint William Henkel as United States marshal for the southern district of New York. The Riverside Bridge Works, at Martin's Ferry, O., was completely destroyed by fire, entailing a loss of $200,000. James Artiman was killed and Martin Kyle and Steven Carlo were fatally injured by being run down by a freight train at West Leechburg, Pa. Monday, November 20. On a charge of criminal libel, preferred by Clarence W. Barron, Thomas W. Lawson has been released in $2000 ball at Boston. The accidental discharge of a gun in a hunting party near Knoxville, Tenn., killed James Maloney and wounded Wallis Carter. Miscreants at night scratched and disfigured over 20 large plate glass windows of leading business houses in Allentown, Pa., causing over $1200 damage. After coming from a Turkish bath, Fred Secord, a wealthy merchant of Kanakek, Ill., found that he had been robbed in Chicago of $5000 in drafts and $25 in cesh. Tuesday, November 21. The British cruiser squadron, under command of Prince Louis of Battenberg, sailed from New York for Glbaltar. J. Preston Thomas, aged 63 years, one of the best known men in financial circles in Eastern Pennsylvania, died at his residence near West Chester, Pa. After kissing her mother good-bye, Mrs. Floy Anderson, while mentally deranged, ran from the house at Des Moines, Ia., jumped into a well and was drowned. Ira N. Terill, a life convict for murder at Guthrie, Okla., is suing Theore dore Roosevelt, Attorney General Moody et al., for $800,000 damages for conspiracy to deprive him of his libe- ry. Wednesday, November 22. Theodore S. Mohr has been appointed postmaster at Stockton, N. J. George Van L. Meyer, American ambassador at St. Petersburg, sailed from New York for Russia. Dr. W. A. Bickers, 69 years old, of Madison, Va., died suddenly from a paralytic stroke in the Astor House, New York. Mrs. Betty Green, of New York, said to be the wealthiest woman in the United States, celebrated her 70th birthday Tuesday. A. S. Rushby, former assistant financial agent of the state of Texas, was sent to prison for three years for misappropriating state funds. PRODUCE QUOTATIONS The Latest Closing Prices In the Principal Markets PHILADELPHIA — FLOUR firm; winter extr s., $3.10@3.25; Pennsylvania roller, clear, $3.60@3.75; city mills, fancy, $5@5.10; RYE FLOUR steady; per 2 Perlman; $3.90 WHEAT steady; per 2 Perlman; new 82$2@2; $22@2; CORN firm; No. 2 yellow local, 50@51%2; OATS steady; No. 2 white, clipped, 63%@37%; lower grades, 35% HAY firm; No. 1 timothy, large bales, 63%@15; PORK firm; beams, 63%@15; BEAM beefs, 63%@24; POULTRY Live fish, 12%@13%; old rooster, 8@9; Dressed firm; choice fowl, 13%@1; old rooster, 9%2c BUTTER steady; creamery 28c. EGGs steady; New York TAOES steady; per bushel, 70%@TAO- TES steady; per bushel, 70%@TAO- TES steady; WHEAT firm; No. 2 red, 85c; steamer No. 2 spot, 76%c; southern, 71@72% CORN firm; mixed spot, 60c; steamer mixed, 55c; OATS @36c; No. 3 44%@24; No. 3 55%@36c; No. 4 34%@24; No. 2 31%@5c; No. 3 34%@24; No. 4 32%@33c BUTTER firm; creamery separator extras, 22%@24c; held, 2c; prints, 24@25c; Maryland and Eggs steady; fancy Maryland, Penn- sylvania, Virginia and West, Virginia, 28%c; southern, 25@26c Live Stock Markets. PITTSBURG (Union Stock Yards)— CATTLE slow; choice, $5.25@5.55; prime, $4.90@5.15. HOGS active; prime heavy, $5.10@5.15; mediums, $5.10; heavy Yorker, $5.10@6.10; light York- er, $5.10@6.10; roughs, $4@4.00; SHEEP steary; common, $4.25@ 5.50; common, $2@2.60; lambs, $5.25 7.50; veal calves, $7@7.75. The smallest bound book in the great collection of miniature books owned by the New York Library society is a campaign document issued in 1852. It bears not only the distinction of being the smallest volume in the great collection referred to, but has been pronounced by experts in bookstore to be one of the tiniest books in existence. It contains but fourteen leaves, each of which is closely printed on both sides in microscopic type. Each leaf is one and one-half inches in length and seven-eighths of an inch in width. The title page bears the following inscription: "Life and Public Services of General Pierce. Respectfully Dedicated to General Lewis Cass. Concord Press, 1852." A Cheerful View Walter's mamma was very sick with rheumatism, and he was rubbing her arms when she said, "Walter, it is too bad that mamma is such a trouble to you." Walter repiled cheerfully: "Never mind, mamma. If you are only just alive we don't care how much you suffer." How to Serve Apple Sense If a roast big graces your Christmas table, a very pretty way to serve the necessary apple sauce is as follows: Select a number of smooth roos, well flavored Baldwin pipkins, polish them to the last stage of ruddiness cut a slice off the top and scoop out the inside, leaving a wall of perhaps half an inch, enough to keep the apple in shape. Make a nice apple sauce seasoning, flavoring it appetizingly and fill the hollowed apples with it. Insert the stem of an apple or any bit of twig by way of a stem, and serve one to each person on a pretty dish or like a sorbet on a dolly laid on a pretty plate. Very finely minced orange rind is a delightful flavoring for apple sauce HE PLANET SATURDAY.....NOV. 25TH, 1905. WOMAN'S WORLD MISS MILLED HOWELLS. The Very Clever Daughter of the Famous American Writer. Few artists achieve fame at the tender age of eleven years, but such was the good fortune of Miss Mildred Howells, the only daughter of William Dean Howells, the famous American novelist. A decade ago Mr. Howells wrote a charming book called "A Little Girl Among the Old Masters." The little girl was Miss Mildred, and the book was illustrated by sketches she made of the famous pictures her father took her to see in the old world's galleries and churches. When the tiny artist was busy with her pencil her father MISS MILDRED HOWELLS. had no idea of using her sketches, and, in fact, the book was an afterthought. Miss Mildred loved the works of art she saw and in her childish zeal endeavored to make copies of them. She had quaint opinions of her own concerning them, and her bright comments form one of the pleasing features of the book. She even went so far as to originate a Madonna of her own—"the Madonna of the orphans," because there were "so many other kinds of Madonnas." Miss Mildred is now a young lady, but she is still devoted to her art and has done a number of very clever things. She is a slender, spirituelle girl, very much interested in art and literature and with little love for "society" in the fashionable sense of the word. She is not pretty, but has an interesting face and charming manners. When Baby Cries Most young mothers, says a specialist, need to learn that more babies cry because of thirst than because they are hungry. Milk does not serve to quench thirst in the body. It is a solid, virtually, and many infants suffer keenly from thirst, especially in warm weather. For the small infant, who should spend most of the time sleeping, the specialist has classified the causes for crying in the order of their likelihood. Colic is first of these, due to the disposition of so many parents to overfeed the baby. Thirst is next in rank, and after this in their order come hunger, tight bands, pins, need of changing garments, change of position and perhaps the need of more "mothering." When the baby is older there are teething and earache, both of which have marked symptoms. When a baby has a well developed case of colic it devolves upon almost everybody in the house to be up and doing. There are agonized intonations in the cries, and the child's legs draw up convulsively, as if its knees would point out the seat of the pain. Not all the arts of the nurse will distract it. Bouncing it up and down and walking the door with it are useless. The face of the child may appear blanched and the sound of gaseous rumblings in the abdomen may be heard or the movements may be even felt. It is always a safe and sensible thing to strip the baby to the skin when it is crying and will not stop. In the first place an infant's clothing is all about as unnatural as it could be made, and it offers many opportunities at the best for torturing the little ones. Tight bands are especially likely to give pain to the baby, and one of the best ways for determining whether a band is too tight is to strip the babe. The Children's Hour With Mother The Children's Hour With Mother. "One of the happiest memories of my little girlhood," said a mature woman, "is of that hour between the dusk and the daylight, when the night was beginning to lower, when we all sat around my mother in the sitting room waiting for lamplight time and telling stories. Sometimes mother told them to us; often we children look turns and told them to each other. Sometimes we had contests in making original conundrums and little verses. This was lots of fun. But the nicest 'hours' were when mother told us tales of her girlhood. We looked forward to that dusky hour before supper—for we called it supper then—when school was over and lessons, too; for in those days we somehow knew our lessons without having to spend half the night over them. Ah, then a mother could get close to her children. Neither school nor social duties nor fashionable dinner hours came between them. I think the youngsters of this generation who have no children's hour with mother are to be vastly pitted." Furnishings and the Light. Don't buy furnishings that will not stand the light. There are plenty that will, and they are quite as pretty as more perishable articles. We do not seem to be able to distinguish between good things of small cost and cheap things that are expensive at any price. There are the prettiest homes imaginable without an expensive article in them, but everything has been chosen with care. An inexpensive copy of a famous picture, says the Philadelphia Bulletin, is better than a crude painting from unskilled hands, but you cannot make some women believe it. Cheap silk and velvet have more virtue in their eyes than the finest cotton, and it is the cause for so much bad dressing, so many tawdry homes. Excluding the sunshine to preserve these monstrosities is a crowning piece of folly. Making a Wardrobe. A good wardrobe may be improvised by taking two strips of wood, as long as desired, four inches wide and one inch thick, and screw them in the angle of the wall, six feet from the floor. Cut boards to fit in the corner, and rest them on the strips to form the top or roof of the closet. If preferred, a heavy piece of goods may be drawn across from the top, tacking it to the strips. A wooden pole is put across in front, resting the ends from wall to wall on the strips. This is for curtains. Creatone, chintz or any such material will serve the purpose. Now screw upon the strips as many hooks as wanted, and if the top is wood put hooks into it also. A shelf may also be put in. Measuring Medicine It is useful to know how to give medicine in drops, half drops and even smaller quantities, because sometimes one is nervous less the hand should shake and an overdose be given. The plan is simplicity itself. Suppose that you wish to give a half drop. You place one dram of the medicine in a marked sixteen ounce bottle, and fill up with water or other fluid to fifteen ounces. This will contain 120 teaspoonfuls, and each of these will hold half a drop of the drug. If one uses a measuring glass, it is quite easy to pour fifteen drops correctly, and in such case one may mix one-fourth of the quantities stated above. Women Navy Nurser. Surgeon General Rixey of the navy has made a strong plea for the employment of women nurses in the naval medical service. "Women nurses are by natural endowment and aptitude," he says, "superior to male nurses for much of the duty required in the care of the sick and injured men." He calls attention to the fact that trained women nurses are in the army, and declares that their services would be more useful in the navy, securing for the sailors the same care that is given to the soldiers. Loose Picture Nails. As soon as a nail driven in the wall gets loose and the plaster begins to break around it, it can be made solid and firm by the following process: Saturate a bit of wadding with thick glue, wrap as much of it around the nail, possible and reinsert the latter in the hole, pressing it home as strongly as possible. Remove the excess of glue, wiping it cleanly off with a rag dipped in water, then leave to dry, says Woman's Life. The nail will thus be firmly fastened in its place. Tinware. Acids should never be employed to clean tinware, because they attack the metal coating and remove it. This refers to articles made of tin plate, which consists of iron covered with tin. Rub the article first with rotten stone and sweet oil, then finish with whiting and a piece of soft leather. Articles made wholly of tin should be cleaned in the same manner. In a dry atmosphere planished tinware will remain bright for a long period, but will soon become tarnished in moist air. "Simmered" Eggs Eggs which are to be hard boiled should be simmered for at least half an hour. This insures a yolk which is mealy instead of soggy. After boiling and shelling they are often quartered and served in a hot cream sauce or sliced, placed in layers in a dish, covered with cream sauce and buttered crumbs and baked in a quick oven. Grated cheese is sometimes added. Unstarched Linen. The French have a way of making even an inferior quality of table linen look well without the aid of starch. When the napkins are washed and ready to be ironed they are dipped into boiling water and partially wrung out between cloths. They are then rapidly ironed with as hot a flat iron as possible without burning them. Face. Creams. In using face creams remember that whatever nourishes skin nourishes hair. To that rule there is no possible exception. But skin foods may be confidently below the eyes, at the eye corners and upon the brow, for here superfluous hairs do not grow. Belgian women take a pride in doing their own work. If asked why they engage no help they are very apt to reply that servants are kept only by lazy, incompetent, extravagant or sick persons. The tidy girl will make a tidy wife and a tidy mother, and her influence goes far, like the ripples that spread in water after a stone has been thrown into it. For the flower holder in the center of the table a plain goldfish globe is attractive, showing the stems through the clear glass. As patent leather does not stretch readily, never try too small a shoe of that leather. How to Wash Currents When washing the currants for mince meat and the Christmas pudding, bear in mind that if left at all damp they cause heaviness, and if they are dried in a hurry before a quick fire their flavor is spoiled. THE RICHMOND PLANET. RICEMOND VIRGINIA The SPORTING WORLD "Russian Lion" Again Wins. Hackenschmidt, the "Russian Lion," and Alexander Munro, the champion British wrestler, met at Glasgow recently in a catch-a-catch-can match. S GEORGE HACKENSKIMIDT. best two out of three falls, for $500 a side and the championship of the world at that style of wrestling. Hackenschmidt won the first fall in twenty-two minutes and forty seconds and the second in eleven minutes and fifty seconds, his strength wearing Munro out despite the latter's cleverness. The Once Great Caprara. The famous brood mare Capraara. Daniel Lambert, dam Fanny, registered as untraced, but believed to have been by a horse called Stevens' Caribaldi, died nearly near Louisville, Ky. aged twenty-six. As the dam of Dandy Jim, $2.09\%$, by Young Jim, and John Mc, $2.09\%$, by Rex Americus, she ranked as one of the very greatest brood mares in the stud book, as the mares that have produced two trotters with race records below 2:10 can be counted upon the fingers of one hand. There are, in fact, but three others—namely, Nell, by Estill Eric, dam of Tom Axworthy, 2:97, and Belle Vara, $2.08\%$; Lucy Homer, by Homer, dam of Authress, $2.04\%$, and Lecco, $2.06\%$; and Emma T., $2.17\%$; dam of Miss Adbell, $2.09\%$, and Emma Book, $2.09\%$. Besides her 2:10 trotters, Capraara also produced Captain Wade, $2.24\%$, and Capliea, 2:25. Two Classes In Basket Ball. At a meeting of the basket ball committee of the Metropolitan association of the A. A. U. held at the New York office of Dr. Luther Halsey Gulick, chairman of the committee, it was practically decided, though no formal arrangements have been made, to hold two classes in the basket ball championships, a senior and a junior. The senior is to be men of unlimited weight and the junior men under 120 pounds. The weighing in shall take place immediately before each game. The championship is to be decided in February. Not In These Days. Professor Charles S. Schlecter, the University of Wisconsin's faculty supervisor of athletics, has resigned, to the unfeigned satisfaction of many students. It was Professor Schlecter who procured evidence that Schreiber, a star football man, had coached for money and secured his disqualification. Such eagerness in pursuit of duty appears not to be relished by the Badger undergraduates. Captor In Shape Again. Charles Marvin has been devoting a good deal of time and care to Captor, 2,009%, the fast gelling that he won so well with several seasons past and sold to Mr. Billings, soon after which he broke down. Mr. Billings presented Captor to Marvin a year ago, and the latter now has the son of Electric Bell sound and hopes to get him to the races next season. Lou Dillon's Retirement. The news that Lou Dillon, $1.58\%$ the trotting queen, is to be retired from the turf and bred to John A. McKeron, $2.05\%$ is not much of a surprise to horsemen. Her owner, C. K. G. Billings, is to be abroad for two years and as he has stated that he should never sell the mare it is no surprise that he should have decided to breed her. Murphy Still After McGovern Murphy Still After McGovern Tommy Murphy still believes he can defeat Terry McGovern and wants another match with him. Murphy will have a hard time getting one with McGovern, as the latter is now seeking matches with Nelson and Britt, which would bring him more money. Manager Jack Dunn There is some talk that Jack Dunn, who managed the Providence club, which won the pennant in the Eastern league, will be in one of the big leagues next season as a manager. And Johnny would just about make good. Russ and Jap Worked Together Levine, one of the University of Pennsylvania's football subs, is a Russian. Recently when he made a run for the scrub team another candidate, a Japanese, Takaki, interfered for him, to the delight of the crowd. A Sullivan-Lowe Bout. Manager Sam Solomon is anxious to arrange a go between Kid Sullivan and Tommy Lowe. He will back the latter with a big bet. Umpires to Leave Game Umpires O'Day, Bauswine and Klem it is said, are ready to quit the Nation al league staff. Boys' Stockings. A mother whose family of boys made the darning of stockings a terror avoided part of the trouble when the knees of the stockings wore out by cutting the feet off at the ankle and turning them front to back. Thus the worn place was in the bend of the knee, and with careful sewing there was no discomfort from the seam at the ankle. Good Housekeeping. --- Baby Betty's Benefit WHEN mamma asked who would keep house while she went to see Aunt Maria, three voices called out "I'll all at once—Polly's, Benny's and Bob's." "Who'll amuse Betty?" asked mamma. There was a pause. Betty was the baby, and babies were sometimes hard to please. "I'll answer the telephone," said Benny, as if he had not heard mamma. "I'll mind the doorbell," said Bob. "I'll take care of Betty, mamma," said Polly. "We'll help," said Benny and Bob together. "Well, you must be very careful and not let her hurt herself—but I am sure I can trust you. I'll come back as soon as I can. Goodby!" number of persons above four. One of the players is styled the "huntsman" and the others must be called after the different parts of the dress or accouterments of a sportsman. Thus one is the coat, another the hat, while the shot, shot belt, powder, powder flask, dog and gun and every other appurtenance belonging to a huntsman has its representative. As many chairs as the players, excluding the huntsman, should next be ranged in two rows, back to back, and all the players must seat themselves, and, being thus prepared, the huntsman walks round the sitters and calls out the assumed name of one of them—for instance, "Gun"—when that player immediately gets up and takes hold of the coat skirts of the huntsman, who continues his walk and calls out the How very exciting and important it was to be left at home to keep the baby and the house without any grownup people to tell them how and when to do things! And the children were very SCHUEDER GERUNAM OF VIOLIN AND PIANO CHURCH SERENADE VIOLIN AND PIANO POLLY STOOD UP AND SANG proud and happy. Even Baby Betty seemed to feel that something very unusual was going on. Benny took down the messages that came for papa on the telephone with a very businesslike air, and Bob took the vegetables from the greengrocer's boy when he came and answered the door, but there were not many messages, and nobody rang the doorbell except the man who meeded broken umbrellas, and after awhile the house began to seem a little lonely. Polly played "William-Come-Trippleton was a fisherman" with Betty and picking nosegays out of the flowers in the carpet for a long time, but Baby Betty always wanted a new game. Of course she was the dearest, sweetest, cunningest baby in the whole world, but—well, babies are unreasonable—and mother did stay. Suddenly a bright thought came to Polly. "Benny and Bob, come here!" she called. "I'm going to give a musicale. I'll sing, and you can play, and Bob can make the pedals go, so it'll sound loud, and it'll be Betty's benefit! Bob, you play with Betty while I dress up and bring the audience. Benny, put the chairs in a row of preserved seats." Polly liked to use nice, big words, and she turned red when Benny laughed very loud and said, "You mean reserved seats." "Very well," said Polly stiffly, "but it's most the same." And then she went upstairs. When she came down she had mamma's longest housekeeping apron tied on so that it made a long train in the back, and in her hair a trailing plume that used to be on one of mamma's old hats, and in her arms a dozen dolls. "Here's the audience!" she said breathlessly. She seated the dolls in the chair quite primly, all facing the piano. "Now let's begin the concert." Benny sat down on the piano stool and pounded the keys with quite a professional bang, and Polly stood up and made a little bow and sang: "Captain Ding Was a pirate king; He sailed the broad seas o-ver." while Rob worked the nails over. while Bob worked the pedals very fast. Really, it was quite a concert. The dog sat in a chair and howled loudly. Baby Betty said, "Goo, goo, goo!" and Benny said that was an encore and meant Polly must sing another song, and then they all sang: "Did you ever see a rabbit climb a tree?" And all the time the audience was as staid and proper as an audience should be and sat very still and gazed earnestly at the singers. Baby Betty shrieked with delight and enne creeping to where the polite "audience" sat, and nobody knows what would have happened to the pink silk dolly if in the midst of it all the door had not suddenly opened and mamma walked in, laughing. "Here is something Aunt Maria sent my little housekeepers." she said, emptying out a paper bag of sugar sprinkled cookies. "Hurrah!" cried Benny and Bob. "Hurrah for Polly and Betty and the concert and Aunt Marial!" And everybody agreed that Betty's benefit had been in every way a tremendous success.—Youth's Companion. The Game of Huntsman. This game is one of the liveliest winter evening's pastimes that can be imagined. It may be played by any "Captain Eing number of persons above four. One of the players is styled the "huntsman" and the others must be called after the different parts of the dress or accouterments of a sportsman. Thus one is the coat, another the hat, while the shot, shot belt, powder, powder flask, dog and gun and every other appurtenance belonging to a huntsman has its representative. As many chairs as there are players, excluding the huntsman, should next be ranged in two rows, back to back, and all the players must seat themselves, and, being thus prepared, the huntsman walks round the sitters and calls out the assumed name of one of them—for instance, "Gun"—when that player immediately gets up and takes hold of the coat skirts of the huntsman, who continues his walk and calls out the other players one by one. Each must take hold of the skirts of the player before him and when they are all summoned the huntsman sets off running round the chairs as fast as he can, the other players holding on and running A boy plays the piano while a dog watches. Two children play with a doll on the floor. after him. When he has run round two or three times he shouts out "Bang" and immediately sits down on one of the chairs, leaving his followers to scramble to the other seats as they best can. Of course one must be left standing, there being one chair less than the number of players, and the player so left must pay a forfeit. The huntsman is not changed throughout the game unless he gets tired of his post. The Inquisitive Little Kitten. There was once a cat named Queenie. She had three kittens who were very young. They lived happily with Mrs. Holmes in a pretty house in the city. They were very inquisitive little fellows, and they went on journeys through the house sniffing around and peeping into rooms that were new to their eyes. One day the youngest kitten was nosing around in the cellar when he heard a sound that made his fur stand out like a porcupine's quills. He was so frightened. A little animal jumped out of a hole in the wall and ran across the cellar and disappeared into another hole. The kitten dashed upstairs as quick as he could and told his mother of the adventure. The mother cat explained that the little animal was a mouse. She said it was great fun to go hunting for mice. She said she would teach them to catch mice, so she took them to the cellar and gave them their first lesson. Marion McCormick, Aged Eleven. Which Is Greater? Are they similar, or which is the most-six dozen dozen or half a dozen dozen? Be quick. The Boy That Blews the Bugle. I hardly know exactly just what I'd like to be— A soldier in the army or a sailor boy at it I love the noise the drum makes, the horse the colonel rides. The flag the sergeant carries and the soldier's ferry strides. But when the tide turns seaward and up the anchors come I forget the flying banners and the bugle and the drum. Oh then I'd be a sailor with rough and army hands. Bound out for Yokohama or "India's coral strands." And yet, although I'm fairly brave and not afraid to roam. I shouldn't like to find myself too far away from home. So, if I get the chance, some day I'll give the folks the slip How to Prepare a Christmas Ham. A Christmas ham should be prepared as follows: Let the ham soak in tepid water over night, allowing at least twelve hours, then wipe it dry and trim away any rust places underneath. Make a flour and water crust and cover the ham evenly with it, wetting the edges so as to secure them tightly and keep in the gravity. Place in a moderately heated oven and bake for nearly four hours. Then take off the crust and skin the ham. Cover thickly with dark brown raspings and serve as required. In cooking beets they should be trimmed as little as possible before boiling, great care being taken not to cut off the little rootlets or fibers in order that they may not be "cut" and so lose a great deal of moisture and brilliant coloring in many vinegar intensifies, though not for medicinal purposes the rootlets are omitted. To Cook E-ets. CURL-I-CURE COURTS FOR COURS When you meet a person your first impression is good, you are largely by his or her appearance. The same applies. 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Do not fail to at least success—both socially and commercially. Positively nothing detracts so much from your appearance as short, matted unattractive curly hair. A. B. Richmond, Va BUILDS SCENIC RAILWAY. David Beattie, 13 Years Old, of St. Louis, Displays Remarkable Inventive Genius. "David Beattie is just a natural born inventor," declared a score of Webster Groves boys, who were enthusiastic in their praise of their playmate's talent. David, who is 13 years old, is the son of William J. Beattie, No. 429 Maple avenue, Webster Groves, a suburb of St. Louis. He has built a scenic railway 200 feet long at his father's home, and by virtue of this railway the boys of Webster Groves declare they have the larger scenic railways beaten. David is a manly lad, small for his age, but with a quick and well-developed brain and a fertile imagination. Last summer, says the St. Louis Republic, he spent all of his spare time at SCENIC RAILWAY IN OPERATION the world's fair and most of that time was spent in the Machinery hall, the Palace of Electricity, Transportation building and on the scenic railway. He spent most of his dimes for rides on the scenic railway, and while riding he evolved the plan of building a scenic railway of his own. He selected a location on the side lawn, which has considerable slope, thus taking advantage of the natural gravitation. Then with the assistance of his two cousins he dug post holes in two rows for 200 feet. Into these holes he put posts, the first set standing ten feet above the ground, the next set a little lower and so on until the posts extend only about three feet above the ground. Then they begin to ascend until they reach the ten-foot mark, and then to descend. Two parallel beams are placed upon the tops of the posts, and ties are then fitted to the beams. Two parallel strips o weather boards form the rails. "I built the railway out of an old fence," explained the young inventor. "I was going to build a loop so we could turn the car and come back. As it is, we can ride down, but have to push the car back. But papa stopped me. You see my car does not have the right kind of axles to make a turn, and papa was afraid we would meet with an accident. "Some day I am going to reconstruct the car and put on the right sort of axles, and then I will make a loop. I have the stiff axles now. It took a long time to build the railway, but it was MAKING A BU MAKING A BUBBLE WHEEL Here is a soap bubble experiment trick that is not very easy to perform, but it can be done with patience, and the result is worth the trouble. The wheel and its frame may be made of straws or fine wire, or of a combination of both. As shown in the picture it is made of straws. First, explains the Cincinnati Com- BILLIARD A THE BUBBLE WHEEL IN FULL OPERATION. mercial Tribune, take a long straw and bend it twice at right angles to form the two uprights and the brace over the top. Fasten the ends of the straw with sealing wax to the board and stiffen it by four diagonal braces, two on each side, which are also fastened with wax to the board and uprights. Now make three rectangles, or oblong figures, by bending long straws four times at right angles. The oblongs should be equal in length, but should differ very slightly in breadth. Put the narrowest one inside and the widest one outside of the third one. Arrange them so that they make equal angles with each other, like spokes of a wheel, and fasten them together with sealing wax, at the same time laying a fine but rathertiff wire across the junctions and you do not need the d for the ends of the of stouter wire than be driven firmly into board. Now cut out six little board. Hang one of the hook from each of the oblongs, and attach a tie. This is the difficult trick. You must use the soap solution that gives long-lived bubbles, and the cardboard disk will before you try to make here to it. But with car you can succeed, and the bubbles, which should be in size, have a very which becomes still pre-turn the wheel by mea crank. This Flirting Age. Perte—Do you know, love reminds me of radium. Flirte—Why? Perte—There's so little of it. Flirte—It reminds me of the old stage-coach. Perte—How's that? Flirte—There is always room for one more.—Judge. 6 more difficult to construct the car. I had trouble with the brake. This is the second car I have built. "We have lots of fun with the railway. All the boys and girls like to ride on it, and even the grown folks enjoy it." David was graduated from the Webster Groves school last spring and received his certificate admitting him to the Central high school in St. Louis, but he is going to the manual training school of Washington university. When he finishes the manual training course he expects to take up mechanical and civil engineering. He inherits his inventive genius from his father, who is an inventor of considerable skill. "I don't know what I will be when I am grown," said David. "I am a boy now and I am going to have a good time and when I am grown I will do whatever I think is best. "I don't like to study spelling or grammar, but I like history and arithmetic. I like history the best, and I like to read boys' books, the kind that tell about adventure and travel." WHAT A PENNY CAN DO. Most of the talk is about "millions" these days, and I notice that young people, like older ones, are beginning to look down on the pennies and to imagine that saving pennies is too slow altogether for this age. Let me tell you a true story about a recent, big engineering contract that shows the value of pennies. A great firm, well known through the country, figured on an engineering contract a few years ago. They had everything calculated to the last cent, except the cost of some dredging. On this they couldn't quite figure within half of one cent per cubic foot without getting more facts. "We'd better investigate," said the elder partner, "and find out just how much we'll have to dredge." "Nonsense," said the younger and more active partner. "It is only half a cent, and it's not worth bothering about." So they signed the contract. After they had worked six months it developed that the firm would have to dredge away 10,000,000 cubic feet of material. It also turned out that it would cost them exactly "only half a cent" per cubic foot more to do it than they were getting for it. Ten million cubic feet, at that half a cent each, which the younger partner had said was "not worth bothering about," amounted to just $50,000. The firm has been working three years now to fulfill a contract at a heavy loss simply because a man didn't consider that half a cent was worth bothering about. In a Safe Beatrice's papa had gone to the country on business. Each night when she said her prayers her mamma taught her to say: "God bless papa and send him home safe." Beatrice misunderstood her mamma, and, instead of saying that she would say: "God bless papa, and send him home in a safe." One day as the bottom feil out of an old safe down in the cellar Beatrice came to her mamma and said: "Mamma, I wonder what God will send papa home in now." UBBLE WHEEL making that fast, also, with the sealing wax. Now you have the wheel and axle. Next slip a perforated bit of card or thin wood over each end of the wire axle, fasten three cards to the uprights about half way up, and bend one end of the wire into the form of a crank. If you make the whole thing of wire MATHEMATIC you do not need the diagonal braces, for the ends of the uprights, made of stouter wire than the rest, may be driven firmly into holes in the board. Now cut out six little disks of cardboard. Hang one of them by a wire hook from each of the ends of the oblongs, and attach a soap bubble to it. This is the difficult part of the trick. You must use the glycerin and soap solution that gives tough and long-lived bubbles, and you must wet the cardboard disk with the solution before you try to make the bubble adhere to it. But with care and patience you can succeed, and the six hanging bubbles, which should be nearly equal in size, have a very pretty effect, which becomes still prettier when you turn the wheel by means of the little crank. Rare Prize. Rare Prize. "Is he not a cute little boy baby? He was raised in an incubator." "Yes; and when he grows up all the girls will be fighting to become his wife." "Why so?" "Because he can never brag about the pies that mother made."—Chicago Daily News. THE RICHMOND PLANET RICHMOND. VIRGINIA. JOB DEPARTMENT EXCURSION We print Handbills, Quarter-Shirt Sheet posters, Tags, Tickets, Placards, Notes, Visiting Cards, Mourning Stations WE HAVE Our St OF THE LATE WE CAN PRINT A BILL AS SMALL A Three-Sheet AS LARGE AS A FRO Our street-entrance is retired and fastidious lady being able to enter w EXCURSION WORK OF ALL DESCRIPTIONS We print Handbills, Quarter-Sheets, Half and Whole Sheet posters, Tags, Tickets, Placards, Society Cards, Minutes, Visiting Cards, Mourning Stationery. OUR AIM is to please our patrons and to give them the best service at the lowest prices, consistent with satisfactory work. We furnish "cuts" when desired and we will arrange to complete special work in our line. When in need of any work in our line, call and see us and estimates will be furnished. WE CAN PRINT A BILL AS SMALL AS A DODGER. A Three-Sheet Poster AS LARGE AS A FRONT DOOR. WE HAVE ONE OF THE LARGEST OF WOOD- Of Any Job Printing Establishme Our street-entrance is retired and has no objectionable features, the most fastidious lady being able to enter without embarrassment or annoyance. LONG DISTANCE TELEPHONE, 2213. It is thoroughly equipped to do all kinds of printing on short notice. We make a specialty of Society printing and work for Insurance Companies, such as Financial Beyond Doubt. "You sign this deed of your own free will, do you, madam?" asked the lawyer, merely as a precaution. "What do you mean by that?" demanded the large, red-faced woman. "I mean there has been no compulsion on the part of your husband, as there." "Him?" she ejaculated, turning to look at the meek little man sitting behind her. "I'd like to see him try to compulse me."—Cassell's. "I see that scientists have unearthed the skeleton of a preh. orcic hog ten feet high in Oregon." "That's pretty high; I saw a living one six feet high when I was away on my vacation." "You're foking." "No. I'm not; he occupied two seats in a crowded coach I was on."—Houston Post. Why He Walks. Bacon—Don't you remember when he had his coach and horses? Egbert—Why, certainly I do. "Well, he has to get out and walk now." "You don't mean to say he's lost all his money." "No; but he's bought an automobile."—Yonkers Statesman. Boasting. "Didn't Bragley speak at the meeting?" "Yes, and he gave a good account of himself." "Why, I heard he was very tiresome." "Of course. What else would you expect an account of himself to be?"—Philadelphia Press. "So you have decided not to apply your millions to the establishment of libraries?" "Yes," answered Mr. Dustin Stax; "the chances are that if I did a lot of people would go to them and read books about the danger of concentrated wealth."—Washington Star. Mnemonics "How is the new memory system you are studying?" "It's like all the rest," said the man who struggles to improve his mind. "It goes on the theory that it is easier to remember a whole lot of things you are not interested in than one that you are." —Washington Star. A Delay. Parke—I hear your boy is a great athlete. Which colleges are you going to send him to? Lane—Can't tell yet. We are waiting to see which college offers him the most. Life. Whistler—Naw, empty. I'll have it filled to suit myself.—Cleveland Leader. Not for Her Health. Ella—There are microbes in kisses. Stella—Well. I don't have callers just for my health. 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One fact my wife for men a little cools; Another fact, though, dearly makes me love them. The first fact is that men are mostly fools The second is I am one of them. -Life. A Condensed Proposal. "Blinks has a perfect mania for condensing everything. Did you hear how he proposed?" "No." He held up a engagement ring before the girl's eyes and said: "Eh?" "And what did she say?" The raven was sitting on the pallid bust of Pallas. "If Poe wasn't so frightfully fone of alliteration I could sit in a much more comfortable place," he croaked. Thus, indeed, do we see that genius claims her martyrs even from the lowly—Judge. Joshua's Service to the Summer Girl. Joshua had just commanded the moon to stand still in Ajalon. "How perfectly sweet of him," exclaimed 210,864 young couples on hotel plazas. Thus indeed did he prove himself a benefactor to the race.—N. Y. Sun Merely a Suggestion. 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PURE GOODS, FULL VALUE FOR THE MONEY. 1610 East Franklin Street [Near Old Market.] RICHMOND, VIRGINIA THE PLANET AROUND THE FIRE THEY SAVED THEIR SCALPS Thrilling Experience of Capt. Benham and One of His Men at Hands of Indians. Modern methods of locomotion offer many risks, but at least the traveler of to-day does not know what it is to journey in dread of the tomahawk. The danger of a misplaced switch cannot present itself with such insistent horror as did the ever-present possibility of the lurking enemy of the forest. The Magazine of American History gives an account of a thrilling experience which occurred in 1779. In the fall of that year about 70 men, in two large boats, endeavored to make their way up the Mississippi from New Orleans toward Fort Pitt with stores of provisions. At the mouth of the Little Miami the Indians attacked them, the white men noiselessly landed and tried to elude the enemy, but the savages seemed to spring out of the very ground. Nearly all the party were killed, although a few escaped into the forest. During the slaughter Capt. Benham, second in command, fell, pierced by a bullet. Although he felt confident his scalp was doomed, he lay perfectly still, putting off the evil moment as long as possible. In their eager pursuit the Indians passed him by. When he was sure they had gone, the captain painfully raised his head to see if he could better his hiding, for he knew the savages would be back for trophies. Near by was a newly fallen tree with unwithered foliage. With much anguish the wounded man managed to crawl into this shelter. The next day, according to their custom, the Indians returned to strip and scalp their victims. The captain lay, expecting every moment to feel the cold edge of the tomahawk. The prospect of death by slow starvation did not seem half so terrible as that at the Indians' hands. When the savages had accomplished their task, they went of, leaving Benham undiscovered. The captain's chance of life was poor. He had nothing to eat, nothing to drink, and the slightest movement caused him exruciating pain from his wound. On the evening of the second day he heard a slight movement in the tree near him. He managed to reach his gun and shoot a raccoon. But it was of no good to him; he could not even reach it. Soon after this the captain heard a cry in the forest. He thought it must be an Indian device to discover his whereabouts, and lay still. But the call came nearer, and was unmistakably that of a white man. Capt. Benham answered it, and John Watson appeared, one of the company's men who had eluded the Indians. Both of Watson's arms were broken by bullets. A partnership was immediately formed, one providing hands, the other feet. When game appeared the captain would load and fire, while Watson would secure the prize by kicking it to his comrade. The captain cooked the food and fed Watson. The greatest difficulty was to get water. At last Benham took his skin cap and placed it in Watson's teeth. The latter then walked into the river deep enough to fill the receptacle, and brought it back to the captain, who drank, and held the cap for Watson to satisfy his thirst. Thus the two wounded men helped each other until they were able to travel a little. They reached a fork in the river, where they built a little hut and waited for a possible boat. One whole month they waited, and then a flatboat appeared. At first the party in the boat would not respond to the frantic appeals of the men, because they feared some trick of the Indians. Finally they cautiously approached, and discovering the plight of the two almost helpless men, took them on board and cared for them. Capt. Benham lived to a good age, and his granddaughter married George Prentice, the well-known writer and journalist. RECOVERS LOST CANTEEN Indiana Man Given Memento of Dead Brother by the Latter's Comrade. To have the old and battered canteen which he gave to his brother in the last year of the war returned to him 40 years afterward, by a comrade who took the canteen from the dead body of the soldier, was the experience of J. H. Bock. of the Eighth Indiana Infantry, who attended the G. A. R. encampment, at Denver, col. During the last month of the war William Bock was sent with a detain and the elder brother, who is now alive, gave him his canteen. He never saw his brother again, and the canteen unexpectedly came to him recently, having been picked up by a comrade of the dead soldier. A Predicament A British army officer in India was awakened one morning by feeling the native servant of a brother officer pulling at his foot. "Sahib," whispered the man, "sahib, what am I to do? My master told me to wake him at 6:30, but he did not go to bed till 7." STORIES OF THE FAKIRS By J. P. JOHNSTON Author of "Twenty Years of Hus'ling." "What Happened to Johnston," Etc. HAIR DRESSING AND OTHER "GRAFTS." New York Establishment Fleeces Lady Patron—Impostor Advertises Free Patent Medicine Formulas—One Ingredient Obtainable Thro' Him Only—Magazine Canvassen Endeavors to Outwit Subscribers—Breaks Down and Confesses. (Copyright, 1905, by Joseph B. Bowles). Among my acquaintances is a government official, who travels all over the United States with his wife. A short A BAK BATCH "Oh! Yah! Das Ist Allerecht." time ago this lady told me of her experience with a hair dressing graft. It was as follows: She had called at a New York hair-dressing establishment. Being ushered into a booth, she was placed in the hands A J. J. "Let's See; What Is Your Name?" of a German, whose wretched English she could not understand, nor apparently could she make him comprehend a word she uttered. While washing and cleaning her hair, he kept chattering in broken English and German, apparently making this suggestion and that, while working like a trooper. She explained to him, or tried to, that all she wanted was a shampoo and a plain, ordinary hair dressing. "Oh! Yah, yah; Ich versteh," was his ready reply. switches or portie hair." In his disappointment, er forgot himself, ously, in as good care to hear. One morning, s graft stories, the m man was at the s to see the lady of taking orders for Before Mrs. John said: "Show him FOOLING GENERAL SHERMAN How the Georgia Farmer Brought Bitter Disappointment to the Union Officer. About six miles out of Savannah I came across a farmer who accepted a plug of tobacco, and was ready to all down on a log and answer all questions, says a correspondent of the Detroit Free Press. When I asked bin Having finished the shampoo, he turned on the electric fan, a necessary adjunct for drying the hair, at the same time getting it tangled in such a manner that it would be necessary to drag out a fair portion of it to straighten it out. He then began combing it, and, she observed, that unlike other hair dressers, each time he pulled the comb through her hair he managed to add a few more tangles, until at last he was raking it out by the combful. Finally she protested. "Oh! Yah, yah; das it all recht," he said, and kept raking it out, and piling it in a bunch on the stand in front of her. She pointed to the hair on the stand, and again protested, but he affected to understand that she referred to the quality of the hair. Finally, although all she wanted was a plain hair dressing with a shampoo, to cost possibly 75 cents, he managed to give her a "marmelline wave" (whatever that is), a German hair dressing, with tonics and other extras. Upon completing the job, he was able to write, in very good English, a bill for $5.50. Of course, she was indignant, and made no effort to conceal her displeasure at such outrageous treatment, whereupon the German, as if still misunderstanding her, rubbed his hands with enthusiasm, and said, with a broad smile: "Es ist schr gut: es ist reizend." BATH When ready to leave the booth, she noticed the bunch of hair lying on the stand, and instantly picking it up she placed it in her hand satchel. "You have robbed me," she exclaimed, "and you shall not manufacture any A switches or portions of them from my hair." In his disappointment, the hair dresser forgot himself, and protested vigorously, in as good English as one would care to hear. One morning, since beginning these graft stories, the maid announced that a man was at the side door, and wished to see the lady of the house. He was taking orders for a weekly magazine. Before Mrs. Johnston could refuse, I said: "Show him in." As I was in the about sheman, the maid in the back sat in a loud laugh and slapped his leg, and was so tickled that he did not calm down for two minutes. "Excuse me, stranger," he finally said "but whenever I think of how I fooled General Sherman it tickles me all over." "Did you feel him?" "Wail, you see, that's my place in thar on the rise. When the war broke shaded the shampoo, he electric fan, a necessary ring the hair, at the same tangled in such a man-uld be necessary to dragion of it to straighten it gan combing it, and, she unlike other hair dress- he he pulled the comb air he managed to add a tles, until at last he was by the combful. protested. yah; das ist all recht," he raking it out, and piling on the stand in front of the hair on the stand, tested, but he affected to library, and Mrs. Johnston was in the sitting-room, I partially closed the sliding door between us, and said: "Let him canvass you, while I listen, and see what kind of a worker he is." He made a proposition to send the magazine for a year at ten cents a week, 50 cents of which must be paid to him, cash in advance. After making a rapid canvass on the magazine, he produced a Haviland china plate, and said: "As a special inducement to get subscribers, we send as a premium, within three days from the time you subscribe, an 88-piece set of this limoges." "How can your firm afford to send a $50 set of dishes with a $5.50 subscription?" He explained that the publishers had received $200,000 worth of advertising contracts, and had indiscretely given a sworn statement to the advertisers that the paper had a paid-up circulation of over 350,000 copies per week, whereas, in reality, it only had a paid circulation of about 250,000, and in order to increase its circulation and avoid exposure, was making this wonderful offer. "But," said Mrs. Johnson, "what security have I for my money? What evidence have I that the dishes, or even the magazine will ever be delivered to me?" "Why," said he, "I will give you a receipt for your 50 cents." "Signed by whom?" asked Mrs. Johnston. "By me," he replied. "But, how do I know you are responsible?" was the next query. "Let me see your blank form of receipt." On looking it over carefully, she said: "How does it happen that the name of your publishing house doesn't appear on this receipt? It seems very strange that you should be out collecting money for a large concern, and giving your personal receipt for moneys paid in. How does this happen, and how would I know who to address in case the dishes failed to arrive? Not ever your home address is given here." "But," said he, "every one knows this firm." "No, not everyone," said Mrs. Johnston. "I am a constant reader of magazines and newspapers, yet I never heard of such a firm, and I dare say there are many others who are ignorant of its existence." At this juncture I pushed open the library door and appeared on the scene. "Let's see, what is your name?" I said. "Mr. —," he replied. "And where is your home, Mr. —?" "Pittsburg," he answered. "Well, now, Mr. —," said I, "you evidently have a pretty smooth little graft here, and I guess it's all your own, too, isn't it?" "It depends," he coolly replied, "what you call a graft, sir." "What I call a graft," I answered, "is anything where a man resorts to trickery to invigile people into patronizing him, and then gives them nothing for their money." "How can this be a graft, if we send them the magazine and the dishes?" "If," I put in, "but you don't, and you know it; you have already admitted that the publishers of your magazine are perjurers; that they swore to a falsehood, and therefore committed a penitentiary offense, in an effort to swindle advertisers." At this he began to "hedge" a little, and after clearing his throat a moment said: "Well, I didn't mean that they had sworn to it. I meant that they had merely made false statements." "Young man." I said, "make a clean breast of this, or I shall instantly'phone for the police patrol, and have you locked up." He became flurried at once, and began talking at random. "How long have you been in this business?" I interrupted, "and what were you previously engaged in?" "This is my first week in this work." "You mean this 'graft.' I put in." "Well, yes, graft," he continued, "and it has been paying so well that I have stuck to it, although I am in constant fear of getting into trouble." He had confined his canvassing to both the middle and better class of citizens, and had experienced no trouble in finding plenty of victims among them. He had been in college for some time, and being anxious to go through, and possessing no funds, had hit upon this scheme to make money rapidly. He said it didn't matter what magazine he introduced, that the "suckers" always bit on the china proposition, and that Mrs. Johnston was the first person in the city to critically investigate his proposition. I let him go, with a warning, on his promise that he would at once seek honest employment. UNKINDNESS REWARDED Baby Thrown Out Found Later to Have $10,000 Pinned to Clothing. A smart motor car with a young man and a pretty woman in it drove up to a tiny fishing village on the Brittany coast this week and stopped at a road mender's cottage, which was empty for the time being. The young man sprang out with a large bundle, left it in the house, jumped into the car again and drove off rapidly in the direction of Brest. The road mender's wife, on reaching home, opened the bundle and found therein a healthy baby about eight days old. Having babies enough of her own, she put the unwelcome infant out of doors and calmly left it there. A peasant woman passing by, hearing the child cry, took pity on it and carried it to her home. Undressing, the baby, she found $10,000 in bank notes pinned to its clothes, but not the slightest indication as to its identity. She is going to be a devoted second mother to the child, while the road mender's wife bitterly repens her uncharitableness. out I was the most cantankerous rebel you ever saw. I swore I'd fight and fout and fout till we lick the Yankis if it took a hundred years. I reckon General Sherman heard of it." "Probably he did." "And after he took Atlanta he made up his mind to gobble me. He knew I'd swore to die before I'd surrender, and he came along down from Atlanta 1720 Money received on deposit amounts above $1.00 which re- Money Loaned on Satisfaction Business Accounts Handled Amounts of ten cents and This establishment is fitted up in the white vault, burlar-proof steel chest, ele- lence for safety and the accommodation. For all information concerning Stock Cashier. Banking Hours have been arranged in people as follows: 9 A. M to 4 P. M close Saturday at 8 P. M. and open again P. M. Call by as you come from work. OFFICE JOHN MITCHELL, JR., President. THON. M. W. BOARD OF REV. W. F. 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Beneficial External and to promote the Social and Moral condition of humanity Its two distinct military and uniform ranks will secure for this organization place in the front ranks of all sacred institutions of modern events a grand oppor- tunity for active men. Deputies wanted in all sections of the conspiracy to orgrave lodges Kindly address. G. W. ALLEN Supreme voyager. 346 W. 870 with over 70,000 men, to surround me. Mighty cute old man, that General Sherman." "Yes." "Wall, they got here one night about ten o'clock. I reckon that nigh on to 30,000 of them surrounded my house up thar and called for me to come out and surrender and end the war." "And of course I didn't! That's what the fun comes in. I wasn't home at all but was down in Virginia with Lee. They entered the house and sarcened and sarcened and went to the barn and called and called, and when the old woman finally told 'em I wasn't home they was the maddest crowd you ever sot eyes on. They had hoofed it all the way from Atlanta to get their paws on me, and had had their long march for nothing. I expect Sherman was ready to burst with madness, and I reckon he won't never quite forgive me. It tickles the old woman wuss than it tickles me, and you'd better come up to the house and hear her tell what them 70,000 Yankees said when they got here and found me gone." PRIZED AS RELIC. The Original Document That Resulted in the Organization of the Ninety- Third New York Reciment. Hanging in the office of Col. R. S. Robertson, in Berry street, Fort Wayne, Ind., is a "call to arms" that has a history. It is printed on a sheet of white paper about the size of a page of the Indianapolis News. It was published in Whitehall, ... Y., during the civil war, and was a call for the organization of a regiment to come exclusively from Washington county, of that state. Gen. J. S. Croker, who organized the regiment, which was known as the Ninety-third New York, rose from the rank of colonel to brevet major general and after the war was made warden of the federal prison at Washington. As warden he conducted the hanging of Charles Gulteau, the murderer of President Garfield. Gen. Croker has been dead only a few years. Col. Robertson came into possession of the call to arms in a singular way. When he enlisted his mother took a copy of the call and folded it, then tucked it away in a drawer containing precious mementoes. Years passed, the war ended and the call to arms was forgotten. Not long ago Col. Robertson happened to be rummaging through the relic drawer and saw a folded sheet lying among the other keepsakes. He unfolded it. Imagine his surprise when his old regiment's call unfolded before him. The folds were broken by age, but he carefully pasted the old call on a piece of muslin and then framed it. It now occupies a conspicuous place in his office, and money will not buy it. BRANDED WITH A HOT IRON The Fate of Evansville Soldier of Civil War—Marked for Deserting the Army. Robert McReynolds, formerly of Evansville, Ind., in writing from Colorado Springs, Colo., to the Amakieg I SAVING BANK OF RICHMOND, VA — 511 North Third Street. — WIL. AM CUSTALO, J J. CARTM THOMAS M. CRUMP SPC. V. P. & F. K. of W. Tribune, recently, tells of the fate of an Evansville soldier during the civil war that has never before appeared in print. Alex Jordan was a young man living near that city, the son of Jerry Jordan, a well-known plasterer. The young man enlisted in the union army and after remaining in service a short time became sick, deserted and came home. The news of Jordan's desertion was sent to his regiment, then stationed at Murfreesboro, Tenn., and he was immediately arrested and sent there to be tried by court-martial. He was branded, according to the story of McReynolds. A hot iron, made in the shape of the letter D was used in branding the deserter and he bore the scar until his death, which soon followed. Jordan came home and pined away in shame for the terrible way in which he had been punished, avoiding everybody and dying in a few months of a broken heart. The branding of deserters never went any further. It was stopped a short time after this on an order from Gen. Grant, as he contended the punishment was too brutal. It is said Jordan was the first deserter in the army to be branded. Jordan's grave is a few miles from Evansville and no soldier's slab marks the last reeling place of the man who died from grief and shame. A Newport Tragedy. "Terrible about Gladys Astorbilt's marriage." "What did she do? Marry her coach-man?" "Something nearly as bad—married a man right in her own set."—Chicago Sun. I WILL SEND you this wounded book absolutely Free. 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DAILY. 6:25 a. m. --From Florida, Atlanta and the Southwest. 4:55 p. m. --Fresh, Florida, Atlanta and the Southwest. 5:00 p. m. --From local painter. For all information as to rates, schedule and connections apply to any SEABOAR Agent, or to H. S. LEARD W. M. TAYLOR, District Passenger Agt City Ticket Agt 608 East Main St. Richmond, Va. THE PLANET STORIES OF CAMP AND WAR IN FLORENCE PRISON. Some Soulful Memories of the Most Wretched of War's Ex- experiences I surrender to the contagion affecting us old vets of fighting our battles or again, and the spirit moves me to make public, by the editor's kind permission, some reminiscences of my Florence (S. C.) prison experience in 1864, and to depict to the best of my ability my emotions upon finding myself again beneath the old flag in Charleston harbor on the 11th day of December, 1864, after more than seven months' experience in several southern military prisons, including Andersonville, Ga., during the summer of 1864, writes a correspondent of the National Tribune. At Florence one of my most hairraising adventures occurred during September, my first month there. On the day the stockade was completed and the prisoners marched into it from the outside camp, four of us, including myself, had an excavation prepared of four-man capacity, into which we packed ourselves, our friends above covering the opening with rails and earth and removing all suspicious traces. The rebel guards have unearthier a similar outfit, were not long in resurrecting us. We could hear their approaching tramp, which presently stopped above. They stepped upon the cover, and the sound was suspicious. Then a sword point came working through, and 'then the covering was torn way and a confederate officer, peering down, exclaimed: "Why, here's a whole nest of them." A vallant son of chivalry thrust the muzzle of his cocked musket amongst us, but was prevented from firing by his superior. Being the last man in, I had wedged into the outfit "WHY, HERE'S A WHOLE NEST OF THEM." like the keystone of an arch, and necessarily I must be the first man out. "Give me a hand," I requested, extending my arms toward the guard of the cocked gun. "No, I'll be hanged if I do." Get out the way you got in," he replied. My three comrades were able to furnish some assistance, and being more of a gazelle in 64 than I am now, at 61, I managed to reach the exit, and in extricate myself quadruped fashion. This same fellow delivered a volley of rapid-fire kicks from an inch shoe sole, and being an unprotected cruiser, as it were, bless me if the impact did not shiver my anatomy from stem to gudgeon, and the full extent of the disaster did not develop for a couple of days, from which time for nearly three months I was unabashed to maintain an even keel in sitting, but was forced to list heavily to either port or starboard. Jollying me along with his cocked rifle and a couple of bayonet prods in my back, be commanded: "Now run, you Yankee _____," run or I'll blow a hole through yo," and I said here's where I get my finish, and I ran the gauntlet in jig time between two lines of guards, extending to the stockade gate, a distance of 100 yards, perhaps, ench man who chose taking a swipe at me as "I passed by," but none was as fierce as this fellow, and I saw him no more. I am wind-broken to-day, which I attribute to the effect of that sprint. A Relic of the War Mrs. M. W. Fogarty, of Yankton, S. D., writes to the National Tribune as follows: I have a Bible which was given to my husband while he was sick in hospital at Annapolis, Md. It has the family record of Thomas Randolph Harrison and Julia Leigh. Thomas Randolph Harrison was a son of Thomas R. Harrison and Eliza Cunningham. Julia Leigh was daughter of Benjamin Watkins-Leigh and Julia Wickham. I have long cherished this precious war relic in behalf of my husband's memory, but according to the Golden Rule, and having no children to hand it down to, I have felt for some time past that it was my duty to return it to the owners or their heirs. This Bible has been in my possession since July 10, 1884, the year after we were married. It was taken from a library at White House Landing after the battle of Seven Pines, and was among the lot that fell to my husband. Kent, England, is the epitaph: "Sacred to the memory of MaJ. James Brush, Royal artillery, who was killed by the accidental discharge of a pistol by his orderly, 14th April, 1831. Well done, good and faithful servant." LIGHTNING INSTEAD OF LEAD One of the Elements Which Helped to Reduce the Fighting Force—The Major's Reminiscence. "I wonder," said the major, "if any of the Seventy-sixth Ohio men living in Chicago can tell what became of the boys of Company B. struck by lightning at or near Young's Point, l.a. in February, 1863. The story was told me 30 or more years ago, and I have forgotten the details. I remember, however, that a member of Company B said that on the night of February 14, 1863, the tent of the noncommissioned officers was struck by lightning. "Two of the men in the tent were killed by the bolt and' four others were disabled. The lightning in fact, caused as much commotion in camp as an attack by the enemy, and there were all sorts of rumors as to the sensations of those who recovered from the shock. The question of interest now is, were any of those struck by lightning permanently disabled, and if so, did they have as many queer experiences as men disabled by wounds? The records show that a good many soldiers were injured by lightning during the war. What became of them?" "Twenty years ago a Twenty-third Illinois man told me the story of a man severely wounded at the battle of Lexington, Mo., which that story of the 'Checkess battery' reminded me of. This comrade of the Twenty-third Illinois was severely wounded early in the day. He remained in the works, however, and fired as he had strength and opportunity. In the afternoon the confederates opened a furious fire on the union works and the men on the firing line were ordered to move out of the way so that the little six-pounder on the advance line could open on the enemy. "All got out of the way except the wounded man, who was not able to move far enough to escape the suction of the wind after each discharge. The result was that before the other men realized what was going on the muscles were shredded from the wounded man's arm above 'he elbow. The poor fellow made no protest or complaint and was not rescued from his trying situation until the gun had been discharged several times. Now I would like to know what became of that man." "One of the regiments in that battle of Lexington," said the captain, "had been in service not more than a hundred days, but the men fought like veterans. It is true they were informal and irregular at times, but they stood by their guns. For example, there was a little Dutchman of company A. First Illinois cavalry, who on the third day, after all the men who had manned the six-pounder had been shot, swabbed, loaded and fired the gun himself. He was precision itself and as unexcited as if on drill. "After the white flag had been ordered up for the third time by the commander of the home guards, and had been taken down as often by indignant men, most of the boys in our part of the works in front of the hospital cut out for the main works around the college. E. A. Jellison, however, remained with the little Dutchman and his six-pounder, firing his old musket as rapidly as circumstances would permit. After firing all his own cartridges and all that he could fine in the cartridge boxes of the dead within his reach, Jellison tied a handkerchief to his ramrod and went over to the movable hemp bale breastworks of Gen. Rains, confederate commander of the investing force. "Jellison was received by Gen. Rains himself, who asked eagerly if Col. Mulligan had surrendered or was ready to surrender. Jellison replied that he didn't know, he didn't come from Col. Mulligan, and couldn't speak for him. He represented only himself, and as he was out of ammunition and was occupying an exposed position he was ready to surrender. Scarcely noticing the explanation, Rains wrote out a formal demand for the surrender of the union forces and sent it to Col. Mulligan by Jellison. "The latter delivered the message to Mulligan, secured another gun and more ammunition, and again opened on the johnies. In later days Jellison admitted this was very irregular, but he contended that Gen. Rains did not formally accept his surrender, did not take his parole, did not even ask him to return. So he felt free, after he had delivered Rains' message to Mulligan, to resume business at the old stand. He always insisted that Rains didn't know any more about the etiquette of the occasion than the little Dutchman did, or than Jellison himself did. "Those movable breastworks of hemp bales used by the confederates at Lexington seemed very formidable to most of our men. The confederates pushed them forward, throwing water on them to prevent them taking fire when struck by shells, and there was a belief in the ranks that nothing could stop such an advance. Mulligan himself was depressed by the wet hemp bales more than he was by the enemy's guns. Therefore the coolness of the 30 or 40 men who had charged over the hemp bales and had been driven back was the more remarkable. I have often asked for the name of the little Dutchman who stuck to the six-pounder to the last. Can any of the survivors of Col. Marshall's regiment of 1861 give it?"—Chicago Inter Ocean. New Machine Gun The French war department is experimenting with a machine gun which is to fire 200 bullets in less than a second. Sequoia Luscious "Why do they can be a Sunny day?" "Persuase they can be a large propor- tion of the payoff." is occupied in dis- pensing shame."—C. Colorado Sun THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. PIGEONS FOR PROFIT. The Ins and Outs of Squab Raising for Market of Special Interest to Women. There is a growing demand for squabs. Keep plenty of fine sand on the floor. "Any old building" may be made to answer for a pigeon loft, and yet be far from suitable. The pigeon loft must be free from crevices, and substantially windproof. Mice in the loft disturb the birds when hatching, doing considerable damage in that way. The pigeon house should be perfectly dry. Pigeons cannot stand dampness. Buy young birds in preference to old ones. Bear in mind that the large, vigorous hen pigeons produce the fine, large squabs, and that the undersized ones must necessarily produce squabs of small size and inferior quality. Lack of experience and sufficient energy to succeed, is quite too often the cause of failure. When too neligent to keep your plant in a clean condition, never look for hope of success. Supply salt to pigeons by laying a small bag on the floor. With a knife cut a hole in the side of the bag and the pigeons help themselves. Every market wants plump, fat, well-filled-out squabs. The demand for good squabs is practically unlimited. It will not pay to breed from common pigeons that are only capable of raising a squab weighing half a pound, and poorly fed at that. A lack of vigor offers an inducement for all the diseases of pigeons. Do not buy pigeons until you have permanent quarters for them, urges the Farm Journal. Moving them from a temporary to a permanent place is apt to give them a setback in their work. A well-known pigeon fancier says he used more millet in his lofts this year than ever before, and with the best results. He says it keeps the birds busy and contented; and the youngsters come out of the nest in a better condition. Young birds, while fed by the parent, and confined to the nest, are "squabs," after they leave it and begin to pick up food and flutter about, they are "squeakers," when six months of age, they become pigeons. After that they will mate and breed until about four years old. Pigeons prefer to roost upon shelves rather than on regular perches. The difference in price between dark and white squabs, in market, is about 15 to 25 cents a pair. PLATFORM FOR ROOSTS. It Is Set Up on Four Legs and Stands About Eighteen Inches Above Ground. In those poultry houses where a platform for roosts is desirable the accompanying plan will doubtless be suggestive of a scheme that will be valuable A DESIRABLE ROOST PLATFORM. to many. It consists of a platform set up on four legs raised so that it is about 18 inches from the ground. This is high enough for the heavy breeds, though the lighter fowls may be made to use a higher platform without trouble. On two 2x4's are placed the roosts. The rear of the 2x4's, explains the Prairie Farmer are attached to the platform by hinges so that the roost may easily be raised to clean the platform. BEE AND HEN LORE Skim milk is excellent for laying hens. Ducks should not be kept longer than two seasons. The young geese should have one meal daily, even though they are on grass. Extracted honey has this advantage over comb, there is less risk in shipping and it is not troubled with moth. Neatness is a characteristic of the poultry equipment of the successful poultry raiser. Carelessness seldom wins. A few drops of gasoline will remove propols from the hands. Kerosene is as good, cutting all waxy substance instantly. "If small details are not strictly attended to," once said the late William Cook, of England, "poultry farming will be an utter failure." The pullets will lay earlier and do much better if the cockerels are sorted out and yarded by themselves. The cockerels will also fatten quicker. Hens like hay in the nest boxes much better than they do sand, and all fowls are more comfortable in ho. weather when they have plenty of shade. Kerosene on the Smoker When your bee-smoker becomes in crusted all over the inside with a thick carbonaceous deposit, pour a little kerosene over it and set it on fire with the top of the smoker tilted back. This will soften the deposit so that it can be easily scraped off; or if you wait until it has burned out it will shrink into a scale that will readily come loose from the tin. @st Buck at Kim. Algernon—I heath that you and Claw- rence had an altatachment lawst night, and he called you evahything. Percival—Yaws; but I got even with him, deah boy. I called him nothing, dencher know.—Chicago Daily News. Mere Trifla "What is alimony, mamma?" asked the little boy of his grass-widow mother. "Alimony, my son, is the pln money a woman gets after she leaves her husband." - Yorkers Statesman. Difference Snowch—isn't that a Beethoven sonata which that young lady is playing? Growch—it would be if some one else played it—Cleveland Leader. CATERERS. JOSHUA BANKS & SONS Every Facility Consistent With Fine Catering. Special Attention Faid to Suppers, Balls, Installations and Smokers *ON THE SHORTEST NOTICE.* Address all communications to ELAM L. BANKS, 511 N. Third St. Third St. Residence, 1812 N. 26th St. Richmond, Va. Thought It Fitted Him. "Woman!" he cried—"woman! do you thus spurn my heart after leading me on?" "When did I lead you on, as you call it?" asked the girl. "Did you not tell me that fortune-teller had told you that you were to wed a handsome, blonde young man, with the grace of a Greek god and the voice of an Aeolian harp?"—Tit-Bit. Vaulting Ambition. "I suppose, Willie, when you are a man you are going to be an auctioneer, like you papa," remarked the caller. "I expect to be an auctioneer," said the little boy with the large head, "but not one like father. He has neither the vocabulary, nor the faculty of unique and original expression that a man of his vocation should possess." —Chicago Tribune. Bluffed the Bluff. And old man with a puff. Once made a great bluff. At tying a mule in a stall. But when he had tied her. He wasn't beside her. Oh, 'twas rough on the ruff, that is all. —Cincinnati Enquirer. WHY BE REJECTED HIM A Miss Caustique—Kidnaping is a crime that you punish very heavily in this state. Cholly Youngleigh—What of that? Miss Caustique—If I married you your relatives might cause trouble.—Philadelphia Press. St. Car Skp'd Jno. A person whose first name was Jno. Said he must a street car get upno. But it sidipust his st. With a notion so sift That before he half saw it 'twas gno. —Judge. A Mean Man. "These are my first biscuits, dear." said the young married woman. "Are they indeed?" he answered, looking critically at one. "Go get me my pistol, love." "What do you want your pistol for?" "I'm going to see if they are bullet proof!"—Yonkers Statesman. Friend—so you've been away in the country for a week. Did you enjoy your self? Penhecker—Immensely! Friend—They make you feel at home, eh? Penhecker—Lor', no, man! Didn't I tell you that I enjoyed myself? The Only One. "When I marry, I want a woman who is not all the time looking for a husband, and who does not consider marriage the only object in life." "But you can't marry a married woman, you know."—Cleveland Leader. Couldn't Be Prejudiced The Father—I want you to understand, sir, that my daughter is one of the ornaments of the smart set. The Sultor—Don't try to disparage her, sir. I'm willing to take her just as she is.—Cleveland Plain Dealer. Proved. Parke—By the way, whatever be came of our old friend Griggsby? Lane—Why, he's gone into the grave stone business. "Well, I always knew he was a monumental liar." —Line Accounted For. He—Five years ago, when I married you, I believe you claimed you were 18. She—That is quite correct. "And now I find you are 38." "Yes, I have aged very much since I married you." —Yorkers Statesman. Weres Than a Snub "You say you think your girl is going back on you? What leads you to such a supposition; did she anub you?" "No; but she called her little sister into the parlor last night and had her recite for me."—Houston Post. E. Pluribus Hum "Who is that tall chap so whom everybody is paying so much attention? What has he done?" "Nothing. His distinction lies in the fact that no university has ever offered him a degree."-Puck. Locating the Strong Arm patience-is she observing? Patrice—Oh, very; why, when she meets a man she always does something to find out whether he is right or left handed. "What for?" "So she'll know which side of him to sit on."—Yonkara statement GO TO Reformers This week for Groceries N. WIN Confec ICE-CREAM, any shape private receptions, enter- vals, furnished or Fruits and Delicacies. OYSTERS IN EVEN and SP to Tabl Etc., Etc. Open Until On 'PHONE, 2253. WINSTO THE PEOPLE'S REAL INVESTMENT COMP WHY NOT CALL ON US? J. J. CARTER, President. W. F. DENNY, Secretary. Knights N.A., Knights of Pythias. N. A., S. A., E. A., A. AND A. Organization is one of the most powerful has been phenominal. The Grand over all of the cities and counties in need to organize a new lodge. The longest features, but the principles founded on Friendship, based on Charity, the respectable, upright people of their heartiest support. An endowment and burial benefit of no week sick dues. The badge of galla. For information concerning This organization is one of the most powerful in the country and its progress has been phenominal. The Grand Lodge of Virginia has jurisdiction over all of the cities and counties in this state. Thirty males are required to organize a new lodge. The benefits paid constitute one of its strongest features, but the principles are greater than anything else. Founded on Friendship, based on Charity and established on Benevolence, the respectable, upright people of the state will find it an order worthy of their heartiest support. It pays an endowment and burial benefit of of $200.00 for all ages. It pays $4.00 per week sick dues. The badge costing 75 cents each is the only absolutely necessary regalia. For information concerning the organization of lodges, apply at the main office. pays $4.00 per week only absolutely necessary regalla. F apply at the main office. The Courts Is the Female Department of the Order thirty persons to organize a court. Its Fidelity, exercise Harmony and prove an endowment and builal benefit of $ dues. The only expense for regalia is a rosette costing 25 cents for funeral of THE BANDS OF CALANTHE distutes a feature and persons cannot do circle. The expense is nominal and t $1.00 to $1.50 sick dues and death be The Courts of Calanthe Is the Female Department of the Order. It requires a membership of thirty persons to organize a court. Its members are pledged to exhibit Fidelity, exercise Harmony and prove Love one for the other. It pays an endowment and builal benefit of $150.00. It pays $3.00 per week sick dues. The only expense for regalia is the cost of the badge, 50 cents and a rosette costing 25 cents for funeral occasions. THE BANDS OF CALANTHE or Children's Department also con- stitutes a feature and persons cannot do better than to enter the little ones into this mystic circle. The expense is nominal and the benefits all that could be expected. It pays from $1.00 to $1.50 sick dues and death benefits of from $30.09 to $40.co. If you have no Pythian Lodge or Court or Band in your neighborhood, orgrnize one. For all information concerning special rates of JOHN MITCHELL, JR. membership in the lodges and courts, address 311 N. 4th St., Richmond, Va. LOW RATE HOLIDAY EXCURSIONS VIA "SOUTHERN RAIL WAY." 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Thirty males the benefits paid constitute one s are greater than anything narity and established on Be- of the state will find it an order t of of $2c0.00 for all ages. It the costing 75 cents each is the ing the organization of lodges, ment also con- the little ones into this mystic did be expected. It pays from $40.co. If you have no Pythian address, TAYLOR, W. M., Hill St., Richmond, Va. N MITCHELL, JR., 311 N. 4th St., Richmond, Va.